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VOLUME 80, NUMBER II
THE RED A ND BLACK
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
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WEATHER
The forecast for today
calls for suiinv skies and
mild temperatures. To
day's high will be in the
upper 70's, while tonight's
low should be in the fill's.
Tomorrow's high should
again lie in the upper 70's.
TIH RSDAY. SEPTEMBER 2U. 1973
J school report
expected soon
By RON GRIZZLE
Assistant news editor
The results of a summer long series of
meetings between administration offici
als, students and faculty members of the
University's School of Journalism will be
made public Friday, but the released
report is expected to differ with the one
which will be given to University
President Fred Davison.
The committee met on a bi-weekly
basis in an attempt to iron out numerous
problems which surfaced dramatcially
last spring, when the journalism faculty
passed a vote of "no confidence" in Dean
Warren K. Agee.
According to one source, two separate
reports will be issued and will represent
two entirely different viewpoints
The same source said that Vice-Presi
dent for Services S. E. Younts and
Vice-President for Instruction William
Hays who co-chaired the meetings
expressed understanding of the faculty's
positions, but added "their report to the
President will not reflect such."
The faculty's position has usually been
one of general discontent with Dean
Agee’s handling of the journalism
faculty.
AGEE TOLD The Red and Black that
he was present at the meetings, but
declined to comment about the proceed
ings.
“We agreed not to say anything about
the meetings until Vice-Presidents Hays
and Younts release the report," Agee
said. Younts and Hays described the
meetings as “very fruitful."
“We felt that this was the time for
candor and the time for total honesty,"
commented Younts.
He added that the spirit of the meetings
was always "very candid.”
Younts said. "It is in the interest of the
committee to make known its workings."
"There is no intention to make our
deliberations secret," he added.
Members of the journalism faculty who
served on the committee have been silent
about the proceedings, too.
DR. EMERY L. Sasser, who has since
the dispute last spring resigned his
position as head of the school's
news-editorial sequence to accept a
position in Florida, said that he was
unable to attend the last couple of
meetings.
However, Sasser did describe the
meetings he attended as being “lively.”
Dr. Wallace B. Eberhard, another
member of the committee, stated that he
preferred to remain silent until the report
is released.
STUDENT INPUT was permitted on
the committee as journalism majors
Anne Bennefield and William Wolpin
were asked to be members of the
committee.
One of the students introduced a
six-point plan to the committee, but it
was not warmly received by the
administration officials.
Summing up his reaction to efforts to
communicate with the administration,
one faculty member said, "The whole
thing is a damn farce.”
Sunshine' suit
fails in Ga. court
Bv RON GRIZZLE
Assistant news editor
A University student's attempt to have
the proceedings of the Activities Fund
Review Committee included in the
provisions of the "Government in
Sunshine Law" has failed
Scott McLarty and his attorney,
Edward A Augustine, of Athens filed a
20-page brief with the Supreme Court of
Georgia in order to reverse a decision
handed down by the Clarke County
Superior Court.
TIIE PREVIOUS COURT'S ruling had
been that the Activities Fund Review
Committee, appointed by former Dean of
Student Affairs O. Suthern Sims, "did not
come within the purview of the Sunshine
Law ' ”
The Georgia Supreme Court agreed
with the trial court decision
The Supreme Court ruling, which,
according to Augustine cannot be
contested any further, concluded that the
Activities Fund Review Committee is not
empowered to "act officially for the
State."
The decision further stated, "official
action is action which is taken by virtue
of power granted by law , or by virtue of
the office held, to act for and in behalf of
the State. The 'Sunshine Law' does not
encompass the innumerable groups
which are organized and meet for the
purpose of collecting information, mak
ing recommendations, and rendering
advice but which have no authority to
make governmental decisions and act for
the State .”
THE DECISION was delivered with all
justices concurring.
According to Augustine, the thrust of
the suit had been to argue that the
Activities Fund Review Committee did
have the power to make decisions, and as
such would be included under the
so-called "Sunshine Law.”
The case was finally decided Thursday,
Sept 6.
"I feel the Georgia Supreme Court
made « correct and accurate ruling on
the law as it is presently written," said
McLarty
"I do not intend to take the matter to
the federal courts," McLarty said. "I am
presently working on forming a citizens'
More asphalt
Photo by BOB NELLANS
The favorite football and Frisbee-throwing field between
Ilussell and Brumby has fallen in the wake of the concrete and
asphalt designers. The area apparently was so popular with
students for recreational purposes that the people at the
campus planning office thought they would improve the field
with a surfacing job. Unfortunately, the action pretty well does
SIX CONSIDERED
away with football playing since asphalt has been known to hurt
persons who fall on it while running at full pace. Basketball has
been added to the available activities in the area but the swap
may not have been worth it all. the surface looks strangely like
the beginnings of a parking lot.
Sims replacement sought
lobby group to get the Georgia legislature
to pass a more stringent sunshine law.”
Augustine stated. "We are naturally
unhappy. We had hoped that the Supreme
Court would see that the Review
Committee would be included in the
provisions of the Sunshine Law.’ ”
THE "SUNSHINE LAW", passed by
the Georgia General Assembly last year,
specifies that all meetings where official
acts are going to be taken by government
one bodies are open to the public
The Activities Funds Review Commit
tee. named as defendant in the suit, is
composed of students, faculty, and
administrators who met last May to allot
student activities fees to various campus
organizations.
McLarty was contesting the commit
tee’s closed sessions.
By SUSAN WELLS
Executive editor
The list of candidates being considered
to fill the dean of student affairs position
has been narrowed to six names,
according to Vice President for
Instruction, William L. Hays who chairs
the Search and Screen Committee formed
to find a replacement for Dean 0.
Suthern Sims.
Dean Sims resigned Aug. 31 to become
vice-president of student affairs at
Furman University in Greenville, South
Carolina. Sims held the deanship here for
si\ ymn
TIIK SEARCH AND SCREEN Commit
tee chose the six remaining candidates
from 60 to 70 applicants, according to
Student Government Association presi
dent Steve Patrick, who is a member of
the committee.
The six names have been turned over
to President Davison for consideration,
and the candidates are now being
brought to campus for interviews,
according to Hays.
Hays said he hopes the preliminary
stages will be over by the end of
September. "Then it will be up to
President Davison to make a decision.”
Hay> said
Patrick said the six candidates include
two applicants from the University and
four from outside the University.
DEAN CHARLES KOZOLL. one of two
associate deans of student affairs, said
that he had "been invited to send in my
papers in July, but I haven't heard
anything since then." It has not been
released whether Dean Kozoll is one of
the six final candidates.
Local film speculation
termed premature'
By Kil l. KING
City editor
Allen Stephenson, executive director of
the Athens Chamber of Commerce, has
labeled speculation about a major motion
picture which apparently will be filmed
in this area as "premature '
Speculation on what the film is about
and where il will be shot followed
published reports Tuesday that Stephen
son had received "verbal notice" that
Athens was to be the site of a film to be
made by an independent producer for one
of the nation's major film studios.
Stephenson said that although one of
the producers of the film was in Athens
Monday, and the producers have been
talking about and looking at a number of
filming locations, nothing has been
finalized.
A local radio station had been reporting
that an area off Whitehall was under
consideration, but Stephenson said he has
not received any such information,
though he understands that the Univer
sity campus will not be involved.
the rumored stars of the film include
Shelley Winters. Leslie Uggams and Slim
Pickens Stephenson said that his
understanding is that the film has been
cast, but he has received no confirmation
ol the actors, nor has he heard whether
any local talent will be used
Stephenson said he has not read the
script, but understands that the film will
lie of the "mystery typeHe declined to
talk further about the film, saying until
they lie things down and give us official
confirmation. I feel I would be doing both
them and us a disservice by talking about
it." He did say. however, that the
company making the film is based in
California.
Stephenson expects some formal
announcement on the film to be made in
the next week Filming reportedly will
begin in mid-October
The Athens Chamber of Commerce,
which was informed about the possibility
of the film being made here by the
Georgia Department of Community
Development, will serve as the coordinat
ing body between the producers and
Clarke County
The state of Georgia has been making
a big push in the last two years to get
major motion picture producers to use
the state as a site for their films Some of
the films which have been made in
Georgia as a result of this campaign
include the big hit "Deliverance" and the
as-of-yet unreleased "Conrack", starring
Jon Voight, which was filmed this
summer on St Simons Island
Dean Louise McBee, the other
associate dean is being considered by the
cummittee although she stated that she
had not applied for the position. She said
"I would not accept the position as it
presently exists ." She mentioned that the
logical change which might be made in
the position is to make it a
vice-presidential position rather than a
deanship, as that is what the position is
called in most other major schools.
Whether the deanship would become a
vice-presidential position depends on the
person filling the position, according to
Hays.
He feels that the position could
fluctuate; that is. by making the dean of
student affairs a position which could
become either a vice presidency or
deanship according to the person
appointed
Patrick said he felt the traditional role
of dean of student affairs needed
revision. "In the past the position has
been one of student control rather than
student affairs."’ Patrick said
Football
blocks are
available
The Student Government Association
and the Georgia Athletic Association
have worked out a method by which any
organization can acquire block seating
tor home football games
"Before the organizations apparently
thought that only the Greeks were
eligible for block seating." said Jim
Williamson, coordinator for collegiate
athletics.
The deadline for an organization to
turn in its coupons and date tickets has
been placed at noon on Tuesday the week
ol the home game
However. Williamson said, in order for
the organization to be eligible for the
joint seating it must be registered with
the student activities office
Once the organization turns in it
coupons before the deadline they become
eligible for the lottery-type arrangement
to determine which group will receive the
better seats
The priority of the groups will be
rotated after the first lottery to allow the
groups to get different seats for each
game
Williamson explained that this will
allow the group that received the worst of
the block seating a chance for the best
seating in the designated area
The block seating will occupy aisles
five through nine in the stadium
Williamson said that the SGA and the
Athletic Association both feel that seating
groups together at the games will allow
the students to be more responsive to the
games
the arrangement for seating the groups
is on a trial basis and will be altered if it
does not seem to be effective. Williamson
said
He added that the organizations that
turn their coupons late will be placed last
in the eligibility for the better seating at
the games
"We hope to find someone who will not
be a 'yes person' to the few individuals
who run the institution, yet who will
understand the dynamics of the
institution. 1 would like to see someone
who assists students, whose primary
concern is with students, and who would
go to bat for students if he feels they are
right.” Patrick stated.
DEAN SIMS told Red and Black
reporter Bill King at the time of his
resignation that his move to Furman was
not in any way connected with the recent
controversy between UGA faculty mem
bers and the administration
Sims said it would be "most
unfortunate if my move were linked to
the current controversy."
Sims also voiced regret that his
relationship with the Student Government
Association had been antagonistic at
times, saying that such an adversary
relationship could "do nothing but hurt ”
Eligibility
for aid
restored
By KEN ELKINS
Assistant news editor
Eligibility for federal student financial
aid taken from some of the students
arrested in May 1972. on criminal
trespass charges in the offices of
University President Fred Davison, will
be restored, according to W. Ken
Phillips, director of the University's
Financial Aid Office
The students found guilty on the
trespass charges were ruled ineligible for
the federal aid the Student Financial Aid
Hearing Committee during a meeting last
November
The committee had ruled that the aid
would be withheld for two quarters
beginning summer quarter 1973.
However, with a ruling by U.S.
Commissioner of Education John Ottina.
the committee finding is no longer in
effect.
The committee ruling was in line with
a section of the Department of Health.
Education, and Welfare Appropriation
Act which, in effect, denies federal
money appropriated under the act to
individuals who use or threaten force or
seize property of the institution and who
prevent faculty, administration officials
or students from " engaging in their
duties or pursuing their studies at such
institution.”
Twenty-four of the former defendants
were informed of the reinstatement in a
letter from Phillips earlier in the week
The letter said that the University was
advised by Ottina the "student unrest
provisions specified in the federal student
financial aid regulations are no longer
applicable."
The ruling by Ottina comes after a
judgment in a case involving a
University of Illinois student. Jeanne
Rasche Deloff, who had been denied
federal loan money after being convicted
for criminal trespass on stab* property,
which is the same charge to which the
students here pleaded guilty.
The Illinois court found that the student
unrest provisions in the regulations were
illegal.
Phillips said that since he was
informed of the ruling by Ottina. two
applicants involved in the sit-in were
processed for continuation of the federal
aid
He explained that since the ruling
came before the beginning of fall quarter
none of the defendants were deprived of
the aid unless they had planned to make
application during the summer quarter
The University students were arrested
on the criminal trespass charges while
protesting the University’s housing
policies which have since been revised
Capsule news
Yesterday's referendum on the sale of mixed drinks in unincorporated areas of
Clarke County passes 927 to 570
Sale of mixed drinks in the county could go into affect immediately, but that is
dependant upon the decision of the County Commissioners
The total number of voters, 1.497, was less than the number of persons signing the
petition calling for the referendum That total is less than 15 per cent of the
registered voters
Mixed drinks in
Langford resigns
Student Government Association Presi- ti°ns within
dent Sieve Patrick yesterday asked for ( '*'»fgia
the resignation of Jim Langford from the
Student Advisory Council.
the University System of
Langford, a journalism major, has
represented the University on the council
and served as chairman for over two
years The SAC works in conjunction with
the Board of Regents and is composed of
student representatives from all institu-
At press time. SGA leaders had given
no reasons for the request. However.
Langford said he was dismissed because
he disagreed with Patrick on the
approach to be used toward the Regents
A new ruling effective April 1974
stipulates that all SAC representatives
must be officials of their respective
student bodies or chosen through
campus-wide election.
SGA Open house
The Student Government Association is Hours are II a m until 5 p m. On Sept 22
pun soring an Open House today through hours are 10 am until 2 p.m and 5 pm
Sept
25 m the SGA offices at Memorial, until 7 p m Refreshments will be served.
Pandora news
Appointments for pictures for the class section of the Pandora will be made from 9
a m to 5 p m in Memorial Plaza until Wednesday The photographs will be made
Oct 1-19
No special dress is required, although a St fee must be paid at the time the
photograph is taken
Also, Pandora staff applications are now available in Memorial