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Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
the IMVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA 30602
WEDNESDAY. MARCH 21. 1974
High rates
protested
by council
Reul will become
acting EEO officer
UAP accuses SC A
of mismanaging funds
Capsule news
Rising Junior Exam time
Bert Lance, a candidate for governor, will be in the Bulldog Room Thursday
morning from 9 to 10 for an informal meeting with students.
Lance here tomorrow
The Rising Junior Exam will be given April 1-4 at 3:25 p.m. in the North and
South P-J Auditoriums. Passing this exam is required of students before they can
be certified for graduation.
By LAURIE GREGORY
Associate city editor
The Apartment Council of Clarke
County, a group of apartment owners and
managers, continued their fight to lower
water rates for apartment complexes last
week when their attorney, Denny Galis
presented figures to the Athens City
Council’s Finance Committee showing
that apartment water rates for Clarke
County were higher than rates for any
area in the state surveyed.
Galis claimed that charges in the
county for a 241-unit complex were 50 per
cent higher than charges in Atlanta.
The appeal to city officials was
initiated by the owners of Tara, Tivoli
and Sussex Club apartments last Decem
ber. according to Galis. Currently, the
matter is under study in the Finance
Committee and will be brought before the
council as a whole at a yet to be
determined time, Galis said.
ALTHOUGH T1IE appeal was initiated
by a loosely organized group of apart
ment owners, Galis continued, the group
has since organized into the Apartment
Council of Clarkd County.
Residents of the county using the city’s
water system are assessed two-and-a-half
times as much as city residents who pay
taxes to support the water system, Galis
noted.
Claiming that city water ordinances
discriminate against apartment com
plexes, Galis pointed out that office
complexes are allowed a bulk rate which
decreases the price of water per gallon
because of the larger amount of water
used.
Apartment complexes" “bulk rate”
requires that the volume of water used
by the complex be divided by the number
of units in the complex, lessening the
advantage of the bulk rate discount.
SINCE APARTMENT complexes use
more water than office buildings. Galis
said, apartment owners should get more
of a discount than office building owners.
By WILLIAM STEELE
Assistant news editor
The Union of the American People, a
campus political party, accused the
Student Government Association of “fis
cal irresponsibility’’ and “blatant disre
gard of student handbook regulations” in
a press conference Tuesday.
Citing the Student Activities Business
Office as his source, John McEachern,
presidential candidate of the UAP, ac
cused SGA of misallocating funds to
campus organizations for speakers’ ex
penses and travel expenses.
SGA President Steve Patrick labeled
the press conference “an attempt to get
publicity by leveling charges that are
totally untrue.”
IN THE AREA of speakers' expenses,
the SGA violated the student handbook
regulation prohibiting honorariums and
allocations of more than $150 for speak
ers, McEachern said.
For example, the SGA appropriated
$250 to the Committee on Gay Education,
he said, to pay the honorarium for
lesbian activist Barbara Gittings.
However, this money was allocated
before the present SGA administration
took office, said Steve Letzsch, SGA
treasurer.
Also, the SGA violated handbook regu
lations, McEachern charged, by provid
ing CGE with $105.32 for a dance for
which a $1 admission charge was
advertised.
McEachern cited the appropriation of a
$600 honorarium for Maynard Jackson,
during his campaign for mayor of
Atlanta, “to speak before 35-40 people at
a Black Student Union meeting" as a
violation of student regulations
SGA appropriation of travel expenses
for various organizations indicated mis
use of students’ money. McEachern said.
By BUDDY WALLER
and FELICIA BOWENS
Dr Myrtle Reul. assistant dean and
professor of social work, has been named
the University’s acting Equal Employ
ment Opportunity (EEO) officer effective
April 1.
University President Fred C. Davison
recommended Reul to the Board of
Regents in early March and the Regents
THE PEOPLES’ OBSERVER, a UAP
publication which was distributed at the
press conference, said, “Student Body
President Steve Patrick and his girl
friend, Nancy Cline, had no trouble
getting allotted $105.27 and $87.27 each to
fly down to the Playboy Hotel in Miami
Beach” to a Circle K convention.
Patrick acknowledged that he and
Cline went to Miami, but he said, “I was
president of Circle K at the time and
Nancy was an officer. We were delegated
to be representatives to the international
convention for Circle K.”
The student regulations permit SGA
payment of travel expenses to any
campus organization which is a member
of an organization on a state, national or
international level, he said.
All decisions of the Allocations Com
mittee have been referred to Student
Senate for revision, Letzsch said, “and
there were no objections or requests by
any party.
approved the nomination on March 13
As acting EEO officer, Reul will have
primary responsibility for the Universi
ty’s affirmative action plan
Designed to eliminate discriminatory
employment practices, the plan is now in
the possession of the Southern Regional
Office of the U S Department of Health,
Education and Welfare HEW has not yet
given it final approval.
SINCE FEBRUARY. Reul has served a
chairperson of the Search and Screening
Committee which is evaluating the 111
applicants for the permanent EEO officer
position
She will continue in that role, but said
that she is not a candidate for permanent
appointment.
“There has never been as thorough a
search as is going on at present,” Reul
said while staling that the University is
not likely to have a permanent EEO
officer before July 1.
Reul said that her committee has
received applications from all parts of
the country and has had to extend its
deadline for selection to allow time for
anyone interested in the job to apply.
“It is terribly important to have
someone who is sensitively aware of the
needs of people at all levels” as EEO
officer, she said
REUL SAII) she will soon begin
meeting with deans, department heads,
faculty and maintainance personnel to
discuss the University’s plan.
“It is assumed in our society that there
is no institution that does not discrimi
nate. We must determine who is being
victimized," said Reul
Explaining that the University’s plan
does not exclusively apply to any
particular group. Reul listed women and
racial minorities as possible victims of
employment discrimination.
She added, however, that “if you turn
around and discriminate against others
'by hiring a disproportionate number of
women dormitories) than you are also
out of compliance" with HEW regula
tions.
WHEN A position at the University
becomes open, the employer must make
DR. MYRTLE REUL
special efforts to insure that word of the
vacancy reaches arsons who might not
know of it under normal conditions.
Then, the employer must compile a
complete record of everyone who has
applied for the job
Among the techniques which Reul has
suggested to facilitate enactment of the
University’s plan is a system of EEO
“counsellors" assigned to each group of
employes
These counsellors, similar in concept to
trade union representatives, would in
form the EEO officer of allegations of
discrimination from within their consti
tuencies and work with the officer to
redress their groups' grievances.
MEMORIAL TO CAREER
University becomes the collection's offi
cial owner.
"Some of the material will be of
immense interest to historians," said
Babs Kaesley, Russell's personal secre
tary for 16 years until his death in
January, 1971.
SHE EXPLAINED that during his 38
years in Congress. Russell served as
chairperson of the combined Foreign
Relations and Armed Services commit
tees which conducted hearings on Presi
dent Harry S. Truman's controversial
dismissal of Gen. Douglas MacArthur
over a disagreement about the US.
objective in Korea.
"No report was ever issued by that
committee,” Raesley said. "In the Rus
sell material we have not only the
personal notes he made as he conducted
the hearings but also the bound volume of
the hearings themselves
“At this point I can't describe the exact
nature of the documents." she added,
"but historians are really going to be
delighted with some of the material."
released through the Richard B Russell
Foundation
Approved by Russell and chartered by
the state in June, 1970, the foundation’s
three-fold purpose includes the establish
ment of a library to hold his papers (for
which the Russell heirs received no tax
write-offs), a University chair of history
bearing his name and scholarships for
students of history and constitutional
government
Dr William J. Thompson, a University
art professor, is nearing completion of a
seven-foot statue of Russell which will
eventually stand on the State Capita)
grounds Thompson received his commis
sion for the work from the Richard B
Russell Memorial Sculpture Commission,
a group formed for the express purpose
of selecting an artist to build the $100,000
statue.
THE ONLY person to have scanned the
still unsorted Russell papers completely,
Raesley has sifted through the material
twice. She produced a lengthy inventory
It took her three days to type the
inventory — and three years to complete
the scannings
Moving to Athens in March, 1971,
("specifically to stay with the papers").
Raesley became the Russell Foundation's
first full-time employe last year
Dr Uoyce McCrary, a University
graduate specializing in Georgia history,
has been added to the staff of John
Bonner, University special collections
librarian, to help process the Russell
legacy.
"One of the preliminary things we re
doing now, using my memory and Dr.
McCrary's methods, is putting the papers
hack the way they were arranged in Sen
Russell's office," Raesley said.
"When the papers were transferred
here they were extremely disorganized,"
McCrary explained. "When it's organized
the collection will make the library a
great resource center for modern Ameri
can history." (The material was trucked
to Athens in 1971, assembled from
government warehouses in Virginia and
the attic and offices of the Old Senate
Office Building, renamed the Russell
Building.)
When fully declassifed, the Russell
papers will also provide information on
President John Kennedy's assassination
and the following Warren Commission
investigation. Russell served on the
commission, although he at first refused
the position because of responsibilities on
the Senate Armed Services and Appropri
ations committees.
All material made available in raw
form to the Warren Commission was
classified Raesley explained that until
Russell's papers were examined after his
death they had thought all material
pertinent to the investigation had been
returned to the government.
As it turns out, some of the documents
donated to the library relate to his
service on the commission and contain
notes and "questions the senator would
think of as he reread the hearings,"
Raesley said.
McCRARY EXPLAINED that Univer
sity archivists will follow security recom
mendations and noted that, by agreement
with executors and the Russell founda
tion. none of the material will be
discarded for 20 years
On his birthday in November. 1921, a
23-year-old Russell was elected state
representative from Barrow County. He
held the office for 10 years, the last four
as speaker of the house
In 1930 he was elected governor, she
continued, and in 1932 announced his
candidacy for the Senate office left
vacant by the death of Georgia senior
Senator William J Harris and interim
Senator John S. Cohen Russell won and.
at 35, began a 38-year career in Congress
as "The Baby Senator”.
RAESLEY EXPLAINED that with
McCrary she is planning an exhibit high
lighting the senator's career, to be
completed in time for the dedication of
the Russell library addition June 23 (the
day ol the Russell family reunion 1
The library dedication display • ill
By MERYL NASH
Associate feature editor
Historical material — 45 tons of it,
accumulated during the late Senator
Richard B Russell's 50-year career in
Georgia and national politics — is
waiting in an undisclosed location in
Clarke County for processing and event
ual installation in the University's new
Russell library annex.
Containing an estimated 1.5 million
pieces of paper, filling 1,147 boxes, and
including documents still classified for
reasons of discretion or national security,
the Russell collection may provide the
information scholars need to interpret
some perplexing historical facts once the
Photo by JOHN BASSETT
SCULPTOR THOMPSON PAUSES DURING ARTISTIC LABORS
Statue of late Sen. Richard B. Russell nears completion
focus on the senator's involvement in the
1952 election, the MacArthur and Warren
Commission hearings, the Armed Ser
vices and Appropriations committees,
and on his work as chairman of the
Agriculture Appropriations subcommit
tee, McCrary said.
"Georgia went through an agricultural
disaster period in the late 1920’s,"
observed University library director
Warren Boes. "Richard Russell devel
oped some of the main conservation
legislation of the 1930's ”
The only tiling that hurt him was his
position on civil rights," Boes added.
Rl SM I 1 IM AGE STRIKES DRAMATIC POSE
C11111 mission budgeted $I00,|»0« for art work
Photo by JOHN BASSETT
Sen. Russell's papers will help historians
