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VOLUME so. NUMBER 47
TIIK UNIVERSITY OE GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA 30602
WEDNESDAY. NOVEMBER 28, 1973
Board asks vote
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on Pandora funding
By MIKE CLARK
Assistant news editor
The Board of Student Communications
unanimously passed a motion Tuesday
authorizing a referendum to determine
student opinion concerning future funding
of the Pandora
The referendum will provide students
three alternatives. The first would conti
nue the present form of financial aid
through allocation of student activities
fees. According to Ellen Pinckney, chair
person of the board s Pandora committee,
a yearly allocation of $25,000 to $30,000 is
needed to insure 10 to 12 thousand books
will be available on a first come first
serve basis to full time students.
The second alternative would place the
yearbook on a total subscription basis
with a rate of $5 to $7 The present
activity fee would subsequently be re
duced by 50 cents per student per
quarter.
A TI1IKI) CHOICE would also place the
Pandora on a total subscription basis
with a rate of $5 to $7 However, the
present student activities fee would not
be reduced but made available for other
activities as allocated by the Student
Senate.
Pinckney said that any action which
might result from the referendum would
have to be approved by the Board of
Regents.
The request from the policy committee
stated that it was “entirely feasible” for
the yearbook to be funded on a total
subscription basis However, contradicto
ry opinions from various campus groups
on the issue said the request questions
the desirability of the Pandora moving to
the subscription basis
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Photo by DAVID BRESLAUER
LIKE THIS’LL BE ATHENS’ AIRPORT FOR QLTTI OME TIME
Bond issue to build new facility defeated yesterday
Senate considers
student center
Airport referendum
loses overwhelmingly
A $2 million bond issue necessary for
relocating the present Athens Municipal
Airport met flat rejection yesterday when
Clarke County voters gave thumbs down
by a 4,300 vote margin
In the polling that saw a relatively light
turn out. plans to relocate Athens' airport
to a location northeast of the city to meet
future transportation and industrial needs
were set back for the present by a
negative vote of 77 per cent.
funding Federal money would have
come from an air transportation trust
created by taxing airline services.
In the unofficial results. Clarke resi
dents voted 5,784 to 1,302 to defeat the
proposal, with no voting districts favor
ing the airport in their voting.
Athens' First Ward voted against 256 to
H, With Second Ward 1,083 to 238. Third
Ward 534 to 191, Fourth Ward 591 to 109,
and Fifth Ward 856 to 141.
County voters also followed the pattern
set by city residents, knocking down the
bond issue 43 to 6 in the 217th militia
district. 223 to 49 in the 219th, 307 to 77 in
the 220th. 264 to 51 in 241th. 273 to 55 in
1347th. 198 to 54
1899th. 914 to 222.
in 1467th and in the
A motion supporting the construction of
a new student center at the University is
expected to be considered at tonight's
Student Senate meeting
According to senate President Bill
Condon, the new facility should be one of
the major priorities in a recommendation
that will soon be presented to the Board
of Regents by the Department of Campus
Planning and Development.
“A good deal of student support will
help get the measure passed," said
Condon. “Other campus organizations
are working on similar proposals "
The senate will also discuss further
revisions in the Judicial Council's hand
book for justices.
“The Judicial Council has gone beyond
its powers," said Condon. “And, we are
making recommendations for revisions
Technically, the senate has no power to
enforce the revisions We are asking the
council to make the changes."
The senate passed three recommenda
tions to the handbook at its last meeting
The first recommendation to the Judici
al Council denies administrative officials
the prerogative of attending certain
Student Judiciary hearings
The second recommendation prohibits
the chief justice from switching justices
to various courts for which they were not
confirmed by the student senate.
The third recommendation allows the
defendant to determine whether a hearing
should be open to the public.
Student Government Association Presi
dent Steve Patrick is expected to present
several appointees to the executive
cabinet for senate confirmation
A SECOND MOTION was also unani
mously approved that alters paragraphs
within the board’s policy recommenda
tions for The Red and Black.
According to the new passage. “The
editor is encouraged to consult the
director of student communications or
some other knowledgeable person if the
editor is uncertain about advisability or
appropriateness of including a particular
piece of material in The Red and Black
This material includes, but is not limited
to. potentially libelous statements
Previously, the editor was required to
consult the director of student communi
cations on questions of “appropriateness
and-or decency."
The board also deleted the sentence
stating “the editor may disregard any
advice he receives in this respect, but the
editor does so at his own risk."
Members of the board said the passage
is no longer necessary since the editor is
now only encouraged to consult with the
director of student communications
However, according to Lester Crawford,
a member of the board's policy commit
tee. the sentence was omitted because of
redundancy Crawford said it is under
stood that the editor may continue to
disregard advice from the director but he
still does so at his own risk
Capsule News
DESPITE A light voter turnout, the
airport issue had built up considerable
steam in the last two weeks with even the
Clarke County Board of Commissioners
throwing their weight in support of
relocation. One commissioner. Homer
Cooper, indicated he did not support the
plans, however.
Proponents claimed the airport would
facilitate needed growth in the future,
providing sufficient transportation facil
ities to make Athens a good place for
industry to locate
But the managers of nine industrial
plants located in the county said airport
facilities only received nominal consider
ation in decisions to locate new busi
nesses
DEAN DECIDES
Douglass reinstated
Affirmative plan available
By I.AI RIE GREGORY
Assistant news editor
TOTAL COSTS for the change would
have hit $7.1 million with federal and
state money paying the buik of the
Katrina Douglass' teaching contract,
which was earlier terminated, will be
renewed pending final approval. Dean
John Stephens of the College of Arts and
Sciences announced yesterday
Douglass, an instructor in the speech
department, was terminated because she
held her highest degree from the Univer
sity Stephens, following the recommen-
daiion from the speech department
personnel committee, recommended that
Douglass be rehired for the 1974-75
academic year.
Senators contend
no quorum rule
By DEBORAH BI.UM
In response to complaints about the
funding of the Jane Fonda-Tom Hayden
speeches by less than half of the Student
Allocations Committee, several commit
tee members have declared that there is
no rule requiring a quorum and that the
funding was both fair and legal
The Oct. 7 meeting of the committee
approved requests by Coalition and the
Committee to Impeach Nixon to use the
$150 allocated quarterly to campus orga
a nizations for the joint sponsoring of
Fonda and Hayden
the senate has a chance to disapprove
any decision we come to "
“A quorum would be necessary if the
senate didn't have the final voice."
Garrison said, “but as it is now things
are entirely fair.”
FUNDING WAS approved with only
three of the seven committee members
present "The funding would have been
approved if the whole committee had
been present," stated Charles Morris,
one of the three members present at the
meeting
“There's a traditional quorum of four
members." Morris continued, “but no
rule about it is in the by-laws of the
committee. The things we covered at that
meeting were so routine that we didn’t
think a quorum was required."
“We discuss our decisions before and
after the meetings with other commit
COMPLAINTS WERE made by people
who just didn't want to see Fonda get any
money, according to Steve Letzsch.
chairperson of the committee.
"If it wasn't Jane Fonda, no one would
*»ver say anything anyway," agreed
Garrison
"I was voting to approve a request by a
club. I wasn't voting to represent the
student body,” Garrison said “Clubs
h.iw the right to have whoever they
choose as a speaker.'
STEPHENS ADDED that his recom
mendation must be approved by a final
authority, although he could not name the
authority “I would hope that it will be
approved." he said.
Douglass said that she is awaiting the
final decision in writing.
The speech department had recom
mended the hiring of Douglass in 1972
under the "exceptional merit" clause of
the University's policy on hiring its own
graduares
When Douglass was notified in October
that her contract would not be renewed,
she appealed to the speech department
committee, who unanimously requested
that her contract be renewed in a letter
to Stephens
Dr. Dwight Fleshley. a member of the
speech department committee, said Mon
day, "We had demonstrated that she had
exceptional merit when we hired her and
she continued to demonstrate her excep
tional ability through student evalua
tions "
According to Stephens, he made the
decision to rehire Douglass when he
received the letter from the speech
department on Nov 13. “I thought she
knew, but apparently she did not,"
Stephens said, adding that he informed
Douglass of his decision in a meeting
yesterday afternoon Fleshley also had no
knowledge of the decision
case, said Monday that the SGA investi
gates all such cases as a matter of
course, and plans to continue investiga
tion of the University’s hiring, firing and
promotion policies
Douglass was pleased with the efforts
of the SGA on her case "The SGA is
fulfilling both political and academic
needs of the student body," she said
"I think the goal of the University is to
provide good teaching and I’m pleased to
know that the SGA is interested in good
teaching," Douglass continued.
A copy of the preliminary draft of the Affirmative Action committee's proposals
will be available today through Friday in 212 New College Anyone who wishes to
see it may do so.
Alumni distribute magazine
The Georgia Alumni Society is distributing complimentary copies of The
Graduate to University seniors The magazine is available at the Alumni House,
across from the Coliseum
THE GRADUATE contains articles on graduate school and job hunting, in
addition to special interest articles
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"It's just political objections," said
ris. "It \
tees," said Ralph Garrison, the PSA
representative on the committee. r 'and
Morris. "It was a bipartisan decision and
there was no objection either at the time
of the meeting or in the senate."
"It would be a disservice to students
not to meet, whether we had a quorum or
not." said Letzsch He said that if the
committee disbanded because of lack of a
quorum that groups requesting funds,
might not get them in time
"There just shouldn't have to be a
quorum." Letzsch continued. "All meet
ings are announced ahead of time and we
just can't afford not to meet.’*
DOUGLASS SAID that she had first
learned of Stephen's decision yesterday.
“1 was very pleased with his willingness
to review my situation." she said, "he’s
taken a good bit of time because I think
he's interested in good teaching "
■It , izahonsfortunate mistake in my
situation," Douglass added. "1 was hired
as an exception and my contract should
not have been terminated with the other
University graduates.”
Douglass said in Tuesday's Red and
Black that she believed that teachers
should be hired on the basis of perfor
mance rather than where their degree
was earned
Ron Kilgore of the Student Government
Association committee that was investi
gating the alleged inflexible guidelines on
hiring, firing and promotion in Douglass’
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Not again!
Photo by DAVID BRESLAUER
Supporters of the Georgia Institute of Technology iTraindri-
versi have started up their silly games in preparation for the
annual Tech-Ga football meet The Red and Black received
eight computer cards yesterday with the standard Tech cry,
"To Hell With Ga." punched on them. The Tech folks
traditionally engage in such frivolities more extensively than
Georgia supporters — we will express ourselves on the field
Saturday At the risk of offending the mother (oops’
mothers of Tech students, we think their pre-game rituals are
a little too much
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