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HI THE RED AND BL
VOLUME 79. NUMBER 94
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, 30602
Weather
Th«* forecast for today calls
for a hit'll in the upper 60’s and
a low tonight in the mid 50’*.
There is a 50 percent chance of
rain today, rising to 70 percent
tonight. The high tomorrow
should be near 70.
TUESDAY. APRILS, 1973
TALK TO CGE
Candidates give
views on issues
By MIKE CLARK
Assistant news editor
Student Government Association pres
idcntial candidates Steve Patrick of
Coalition and Danny Hughes of
Progressive Student Alliance discussed
major issues in this year's campaign
Thursday before a meeting of the
Committee on Gay Education.
At the meeting Patrick said Coalition
would, if necessary, initiate court action
to regain control of student senate
allocations. He also said David Bell,
Coalition’s executive vice presidential
candidate, has begun work to form a
lobbying group in the state legislature
to "put pressure on the Regents" to aid
students in this respect.
PSA would, according to Hughes, first
attempt "local action with the
administration" to control allocations,
but would also revert to court action if
necessary. Hughes said he supports an
investigation to insure fair allocation of
student money.
PATRICK CHARGED that PSA
senators, whom he claimed are the
same people that constituted Action
Union, "contradicted student wishes”
by failing to censure student body
President Joe Fowler for sending a
letter concerning student allocations to
state legislators that allegedly "under
cut” student influence.
Hughes said he supported Fowler
because “all campus elements have a
right to dissent." But according to
Patrick, Fowler dissented not as a
campus clement but as student body
president.
Patrick and Hughes agreed on
supporting the incorporation of gays
onto the exiting health services
counseling board, although Hughes said
he would not work to remove Reserve
Officers Training Corps or U S. military
recruiters from campus because of
their alleged discrimination against
gays.
THE TWO PRESIDENTIAL hopefuls
also concurred on the repealing of
mandatory athletic fees if discrimina
tion against women athletes continues.
According to Patrick, women students
contribute 40 per cent of the total
athletic fees but SEC regulations do not
p<-mit funding of women's athletics.
Patrick said he favored court action if
the University administration refused to
discuss the matter. However, Hughes
said PSA favored the minister of
athletics taking a “stronger stand” in
this area
Coalition charges PSA only
A-U under a different name
By ARNOLD PUNARO
News editor
Political party Coalition recently
leveled charges against Progressive
Student Alliance claiming, among other
allegations, that PSA is nothing more
than Action Union under another name
In recent media releases. Coalition
Chairman Buck Pennington said. “PSA is
guilty of suitcase politics (running under
one party one year and another party the
next year); PSA candidates have voted
toomhol^h^owle^dministratioiKand
PSA did not allow fair representation at a
recent Ag Hill Council meeting "
Pennington said that the present
candidates on the PSA ticket are actually
Action Union members who don't want to
be associated with A-U's record
DANNY HUGHES, PSA's presidential
candidate, said in reply to Pennington's
charges that “PSA is not Action Union.
A-U was an executive administration run
by a handful of people. None are involved
with PSA. A look at a list of who’s
running with PSA will show only three
are former AU members,” Hughes said.
Hughes claimed that the term
"suitcase politics" should be applied to
Steve Patrick, Coalition's presidential
candidate. "Patrick has completely
reversed his stands and parties from
year to year,” Hughes said.
PENNINGTON also claimed that, as
senators. Hughes and Bobby Tankersley,
PSA's executive vice-presidential candi
date, "voted to uphold the Fowler
administration's efforts to undercut
student attempts to control student
funds "
Tankersley replied that, as a senator,
he represented the Ag school and voted
as he felt his constituents wished.
Tankersley also claimed Pennington
“oversimplified a complex problem, as
the vote was not about an effort to
undercut student attempts to control
student funds."
Pennington also alleged that Tankers
ley used his position as President of the
Ag Hill Council to garner their
endorsement without inviting representa
tives from Coalition to be present.
indicates
believable
HUGHES AND PATRICK ADDRESS CGE
Presidential hopefuls discussed campaign issues last week
Kellam resigns position as
head of University library
d.. r't tui/ • . .•
By MIKE CLARK
Assistant news editor
Current University Library Director
Porter Kellam will resign his post at the
end of this fiscal year in compliance with
a state law that requires faculty and
administrators to retire by June 30
following their 67th birthday.
No one has been chosen to succeed
Kellam. All eligible persons have been
interviewed for the position, according to
Kellam
Kellam came to the University in 1950
following an assistant directorship of
libraries at the University of North
Tornado ruins
home of UGA
P.E. insfructor
By FRAN FULTON
and ANN HUTCHINSON
When the tornado hit. Alita Robnak, a
physical education professor, was at the
P E department's dance concert. The
lights flickered momentarily during the
thunderstorm, she said, but the show
went on
She returned to her mobile home at
Wonderland Estates to find that, like
other Athens residents, she had become
homeless. "It looked like a bomb had hit
the entire trailer park." she said. "To
say that it (her trailer) had been
flattened would be giving it a
compliment ”
ROBNAK IS now housed in the
Oglethorpe House, and is one of five
residents who were taken in there until
they can relocate Tom Sangster,
manager of the Tivoli Apartments,
reported that 84 homeless Athenians had
accepted an offer of temporary housing
at the apartments
Many of these are families, he said.
"We've got folks here who borrowed
clothing to come over here That's how
much they don't have And others are
planning to move back into their houses
in two weeks. They're all‘welcome to
stay for however long it takes to settle
their claim," he said.
Carolina at Chapel Hill
Kellam received his B.A degree from
Duke University in 1926 and an H A. in
1929 He undertook further graduate work
at the University of Illinois and was
awarded a degree in library science in
1931 from Emory University.
AT DUKE Kellam worked as a student
library assistant and was in charge ol
circulation at the University of North
Carolina from 1932 until 1934. He has
served as librarian at North Carolina
Stale University at Raleigh and at West
Virginia University. Kellam was a
librarv staff member at the University of
South Carolina from 1946 until 1947.
Kellam stated that it had been a
"gratifying experience" to see the
University library system develop “from
average to one that ranks among the best
research libraries of the country."
The University has also risen in
excellence along with the library, said
Kellam It has been a "great satisfaction
to see the library and the school grow
together,” he stated.
The University library had 254,340
volumes and a staff of 38 in 1950 when
Kellam took over as director Last fiscal
year volumes numbered 1,244,501. Uni
versity libraries also now house 700,000
mtcroformi of various kinds
By ANTHONY HEALY
Assistant news editor
Most University students rate campus
media performance as good, a survey
conducted by a journalism 410 research
class has revealed.
Done winter quarter under Dr. Stuart
H. Surlin, the survey questioned 276
students in a random sample. The 79
questions dwelt on various aspects of The
Red and Black and the campus radio
station WUOG.
The results of the survey show most
students said that they read The Red and
Black (97 per cent), and that they listen
to the campus radio station (63 per cent),
and that almost all students have access
to a FM radio.
ACCORDING TO the results, about 72
per cent of the students sampled read the
paper three to four times per week,
spending about twenty minutes or less
reading each time.
About 60 per cent of the student body
questioned found the paper believeahle
most of the time, though many felt that
"unique ideas” are presented only some
of the time. A majority said the paper
covered a variety of topics, was
informative and was well written most of
the time.
Students were split almost equally on
whether The Red and Black reported the
news in depth. Most said they thought
that both sides of the issue were
reported, and that the paper presented
facts as they happened A small majority
did not find the editorials expressing
their point of view.
LESS THEN four per cent were
offended by the Georgia-Georgia Tech
cartoon, and 52 per cent thought
obscenities should appear in student
newspapers. The answers indicated they
did not feel obscene words should appear
in community newspapers, however.
Also, the answers said student morals
should be used as standards for the
paper
TANKERSLEY REPLIED that neither
he nor any PSA members appeared as
candidates before the council. Tankersley
said. “The motion to endorse PSA came
from the floor and all I did was answer
some questions on the platform."
Coalition also released a position paper
that claims Tankersley and Hughes voted
against efforts to expand services of the
day care center
Hughes said, "Bobby (Tankersley) and
I voted against an absurd request for an
increase of funds amounting to $20,000
which included a $1,000 salary increase
for the director. The salary increase
would have been illegal under Nixon's
wage freeze anyway "
Coalition also contends that they were
the first campus political party to
propose expanded health services for
dependents.
DEBBIE CURRIER, current minister
to Health Services and PSA administra
tive vice presidential candidate said,
"Coalition has never actually worked for
expanded health services. Coalition is
trying to take vocal credit for other
people's year long hard work "
Coalition also claims that Tankersley
claims credit for a Senate proposal to
provide two seats for small schools which
was initiated by Coalition Senators David
Alonso and Steve Letzsch.
Hughes said that on the first roll call
vote Alonzo and Letzsch voted to have
just one Senate seat. "Tankersley
originated the two seat proposal and then
organized the support under which his
two seat proposal passed,” Hughes said
It'*
TORNADO DEVASTATES LOCAL HOME
Extensive cleanup efforts have begun after weekend damages
by STEPHEN JACKSON
Capsule news
King memorial rally tomorrow
The gravesite of Martin Luther King will be the starting point of a
commemorative rally in Atlanta tomorrow
the rally and march will commemorate the fifth anniversary of King's
assassination and will protest several problems of Blacks, according to Carol
Kitchens of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Atlanta
Kitchens said the march will feature the Rev Jesse Jackson of People United to
Save Humanity, Beulah Sanders of National Welfare Rights, and the Rev Ralph
Abernathy of SCLC
Locally, the Rev J E Boone, executive director of the Metropolitan Atlanta
Summit Leadership Conference, will address a rally of the Black Student Union at
noon in Memorial plaza
WUOG on air during disaster
WUOG-FM, the student radio station, was the sole source of radio news in Athens
for a period of time last Saturday in the aftermath of the tornado
According to Alan Johnson, public relations director for WUOG, the station
provided continuous news coverage from 7:05 until 9:45 p m
Johnson said WUOG coordinated information from stations that couldn’t broadcast
and broadcasted official assistance requests from the Red Cross and other civil
assistance groups
Johnson attributed WUOG s ability to stay on tne air to the special power source
the University utilizes
Local bar owner arrested
Martin Walter Nichols, owner of the Last Resort, has been arrested for failing to
obtain a state license to sell beer and wine
The 25-year-old nightclub owner had the necessary city license, but had allegedly
not purchased the state license required by law
Inside the paper today
NEW MOTEL? — There is controversy between two Athens councilmen over the
proposed motel which will be next to Brumby. Set* page two
BRl BEC K - A mini-review on Sunday s concert See page three
BEER TAX — The new tax will hurt the Arcade beer business but help the one in
Clarke County. See page five.
University press wins honors
A 961,522 grant has been awarded Dr John Ayers and Dr Philip E Koehler of the
Food Services Department for a continuing project in cancer related research
The National Institute of Health has funded the professors for a years work on
toxigenic fungi in food products and feed* The grant doesn t involve studying
cancer directly.” Dr Koehler said The project is to investigate the health haMr <“
of food products But one of the molds does produce compounds that are associated
with cancer in animals ” . ..
The researchers will attempt to connect the mold, which appears on agricultural
products geared for human consumption, with cancer in humans. Dr Koehler said.
Stills in Coliseum tonight
Stephen Stills and Manassas will be in the Coliseum at 8 tonight bringing to the
University audience their special brand of country and folk rock.
Featured in the group are leader Stephen Stills, who was earlier a member of
Buffalo Springfield and Crosby. Stills, Nash and Young, and Chris Hillman, earlier
of the Byrds
Stills and Manassas had originally been scheduled for Feb 20, however the concert
was rescheduled because Stills was to record an album with Graham Nash and
David Crosby around that time.
Tickets for tonight's concert are free with student I D and can be picked up at the
information booth in Memorial Hall
(See TORNADO, pages)