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VOLUME HO, NUMBER 114
THE RED AND BLACK
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA ATHENS, GEORGIA 3060*
THURSDAY. MAY 9, 1974
Photo by DAVID BRESLAUER
TUCKER CHANGE OVER POSSIBLE NEXT YEAR
Dorin may be used for academic space
Housing may
convert dorm
Regents urged by Simpson
to start GSU law school
By LEN PAGANO
State editor
By STEVE FOX
Assistant news editor
The University’s Department of Hous
ing has notified residents of Tucker that
their dorm may be utilized for academic
space next year
The final decision will be made no later
than the first week in June, according to
Allan Barber, vice-president for business
and finance
Tucker residents have been given first
priority for Center and South Myers or
West Reed next year.
Some of the residents plan to move as a
group to cither Myers or Reed, according
to Glendon Rogers, president of the
Tucker Hall Council.
"We were all shocked when first told of
this development," Rogers said. "Now
that the initial shock is over, we’re
planning to make the best of the
situation," he added.
THE CONVERSION of Tucker is being
considered because of a shortage of
space for academic areas, Douglas said.
The University now rents space off
campus for academic purposes, accord
ing to Barber
"We will make the decision based on
Douglas' assessment of his needs and an
overall view of the University’s needs,”
Barber said
Barber said it was "very likely” that
Tucker would be converted to an acade
mic facility. "The size of the rooms
makes Tucker suitable for use as an
academic facility and it should require a
minimum of expense," he said
Rogers said that Tucker’s residents
like their dorm and consider it "unique."
Randy Stevens, hall council vice-presi
dent. said that a lot of Tucker's residents
have classes on South Campus and like
living there for that reason
“Also, it’s one of the quieter dorms on
campus,” Stevens added. “The group
here seems closer than in most dorms,
partly because we are isolated,” he
added
An interdisciplinary studies program
was approved in principle by the Faculty
Senate of the College of Arts and
Sciences Tuesday.
The senate also passed an implemen
ting proposal whereby experimental cour
ses can be approved for a one year trial
period Both proposals passed unanimous
ly-
Dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences John C. Stephens called the
proposals "two fine steps with respect to
undergraduate edcuation.”
A faculty committee will develop a
detailed plan for implementing the inter
disciplinary studies program The Facul
ty Senate will then have to approve the
plan, Stephens said.
The proposal states that the program
staff will have the authority to “approve
a non-departmental major in Specific
interdisciplinary study programs" and to
"propose and offer some upper and lower
division non-departmental interdisciplin-
BARBER ALSO noted Tucker's isola
tion from other dorms, saying, “It blends
in more with the academic facilities over
there than with housing facilities.
"Student-oriented activities, such as
tennis courts, etcetera, are centered, as I
understand it, in the dorm areas,” he
added "Tucker is in a classroom area,"
he added
Both Barber and Vice-President for
Instruction William L. Hays predicted a
continuing need for space at the Univer
sity.
"It’s going to take a lot more than
Tucker to solve our space problems,"
Hays said.
ON JULY 1
By LAURIE GREGORY
City editor
First in a four-part series
When the controversial county police
force begins operation on July 1. Clarke
County law enforcement will be handled
by two separate bodies having the same
jurisdiction.
Although both Sheriff Tommy Huff and
County Police Chief Kent Lawrence have
shown some willingness to work together,
law enforcement may be disorganized
unless one body is restricted in its law
enforcement powers The County Com
missioners have indicated that Huff will
be the man to have his power in law
enforcement compromised.
The County Police Department was
conceived in August 1973 by the County
Commission, which felt that a "profes
sional” force was needed by Clarke
County. To make the new force possible,
ary courses.'
The proposal adds, however, that the
program will "work largely within the
framework of the existing College (of
Arts and Sciences) curriculum and
operate largely with voluntary participa
tion of existing College faculty."
The Faculty Senate also approved the
implementation of a new policy on
student withdrawals from classes which
was adopted at the February meeting
Under the new policy (which will apply
only to students in the College of Arts and
Sciences), a student who wants to
withdraw after mid-term for health or
emergency reasons will have to go to the
Dean of Student Affairs for confirmation
of those reasons
Previously, a student could go directly
to his instructor at any time during the
quarter to be assigned a grade of “W" or
"WF," and no requirement for an
emergency was involved, according to
Dr. Calvin Logue, chairperson of the
Committee on Academic Standards
ATLANTA — Chancellor George Simp
son yesterday urged the Board of
Regents to lay the groundwork for a law
school at Georgia State University in
Atlanta at the regents’ monthly meeting.
Simpson said his proposal was "not
based on any one factor." However, he
argued that Atlanta’s metropolitan popu
lation along with the 40,000 government
workers and other interested persons in
the area justify a law facility.
In other action, the regents called for
an extended June meeting in order to
study closely requests for new construc
tion throughout the University System.
FORMER STUDENT Advisory Council
President Hugh Twiggs presented the
Regents with a series of recommenda
tions which culminated the group's year
long efforts. Among the proposals pre
sented were a minimum health care plan,
and a study of the Georgia Intern
program, SAC officers delayed until June
presentation before the Regents of a
"Student Bill of Rights.”
Simpson's memorandum calling for a
law school at Georgia State drew opposi
tion. Regent Margaret Peterson, the lone
female on the board, said that no new
law school should be constructed in the
stale until the University's law school is
“tops" all over the South.
Peterson urged the regents to consider
offering extension law courses through
the school. Simpson, however, argued
that this would not be sufficient to meet
the state's growing needs. “What the
matter comes down to primarily is that
Atlanta is large enough to use and
support a new law school,” he said.
Simpson assured the regents that any
facility built at Georgia State would not
affect the funding for the University’s
law requirements
"In our scheme of things a law school
in Athens is not competitive with a law
school in Atlanta," Simpson said.
the Commission shifted funding from the
Sheriff's Department to the fledgling
county police force. Huff, who had re
quested an allocation of $300,000, received
a budget of $150,000 and a cut in
manpower from 33 to 14 deputies in the
preliminary 1974 budget
News analysis
The county police force, headed by
former University policeman Lawrence,
received an allocation of $229,969 to hire
33 men. The new force is to be divided
into a detective and a uniform division
each headed by a lieutenant with an
administrator to coordinate the divisions.
HUFF FILED suit in the State Superior
Court to block formation of the new
county force in October. The court
decided to allow the Sheriff and the
county police joint jurisdiction over
Clarke County. The court said that the
Commission had a right to set up a
separate force but could not deprive Huff
of his law enforcement powers
The Commission gave Kent the go-
ahead to begin hiring in April and so far,
20 of Huff's deputies have applied to the
county force Kent said that he is "not
going to let the Sheriff be short of
manpower" and has rejected the applica
tions of four of Huff's men According to
informed sources, however, the Sheriff's
present force of 28 may be cut in half
The question of whether to give Huff or
Kent the law enforcement powers has yet
to be put before the citizens of Clarke
County through a referendum Further
more. a majority of the commissioners
are against such a referendum
Commission Chairperson Jim Holland
said that a referendum would not be
necessary because the Commissioners
were elected by the people and therefore
could decide the peoples' best interests
Commissioner J. Smiley Wolfe said
that there was "no controversy" since
the State Supreme Court gave the
commissioners the right to set up a
separate law enforcement agency.
Citing "favorable response" from citi
zens about the new county force, Com
missioner George Bullock also felt that
there was no need for a referendum
Commissioner Jim De La Perriere said
that there should not be a referendum
since the decision to begin the new force
had already been made
SIMPSON ADDED that the question of
a law school to serve Atlanta's growing
needs represents a much broader issue
"Many other states, including those
around Georgia, face the dilemma of
supporting a University which lies out
side the urban growth pattern," Simpson
said "While we need very much what's
going on in Athens, we must view the size
and numbers we are dealing with here in
(providing education to) Atlantans."
Simpson would not comment on when a
graduating class could be expected if
Georgia State builds a law school He
predicted, however, the classes could
begin as early as spring. 1975.
IN OTHER action, the regents moved
not to decide until next month on
proposals calling for new building ex
penditures. Milton Jones of Columbus
called for an extra session to consider
physical needs of each institution in the
University System.
"We need to go down the list of
construction requests in a planned man
ner to bring some parity to all our
institutions." Jones said
He added that he did not understand
how out of 31 institutions, only six are
getting consideration from major new
building proposals
Twiggs, outgoing SAC president, intro
duced the board's 1974-75 slate of officers
and presented the group’s year end
report. Chairperson for the new year will
be Larry Abbot, a Georgia Southern
College student Dewayne Hamilton of
Armstrong State College is vice-chairper
son, with Lennie Thomas of the Southern
Institute of Technology serving as secre
tary.
SAC ENDORSED the regents policy
toward involuntary faculty transfers in a
memorandum presented to the regents
The proposal said "SAC unanimously
endorsing the regents policy which re
fuses faculty transfers on ihe basis of
desegregation guidelines
The University Systems' desegregation
COMMISSIONER llomer Cooper said
that he was in favor of a referendum if
the other commissioners wanted one.
Cooper added that he did receive 17
calls from citizens about law enforce
ment. Ten people were in favor of contin
uing the present method of law enforce
ment while seven favored the county
police force, Cooper said.
policy which was recently rejected by
HEW will be the subject of a special
regents meeting later this month
In other proposals SAC urged the
regents to modify Ihe Georgia Intern
program so that "students can have
more voice and input into job assign
ments." The student panel also called for
more academic input into the program
A minimum standards guidelines for
health services was presented to the
regents Among SA("s recommendations
was the establishment of a committee to
endorse minimum health standards SAC
also called for "an adequate medical
referral service to be provided for
students ."
Developments and technical facilities
within the University's journalism school
may be used this fall in the experimenta
tion of a tornado warning system,
according to Dr Worth McDougald
The system, developed by a Georgia
Tech scientist, includes Athens as a
prune vantage point for spotting torna
does before they form Dr Gene Grenek-
er. co-designer of the Tech system, said
they were in a "holding pattern" at
present as far as funding is concerned
"We have indication that we have
one-half of Ihe request forthcoming, but
we won’t know for a couple of days," he
said. Tech has requested $80,(MX) for the
actual setup.
As to whether or not this would affect
Ihe establishment of an Athens outpost
Greneker said. "We can't build a system
without money for part."
THE TECH system works by a radar
direction-finding capability to identify
electrical discharges in the atmosphere
The scientists hope to establish that
tornadoes have a peculiar "signature"
that would make them readily identifia
ble in large masses of storm activity
They estimate this system could give up
to three hours of warning
The system consists of a small three
ounce device with which a person can
page another if they cannot be reached
by any other method McDougald said
this service is being used in the Georgia
Center, University Health Services and
other hospitals.
The proposed Student Bill of Rights
was not introduced Wednesday. Abbot
said it should be presented in June after
some of the points in the proposal are
clarified One modification being consid
ered concerns a proposal that students
compose 25 per cent of the voting
membership on all committees which
affect students. J Rivers Walsh.-
University Student Government Associa
tion President, opposed the measure at
the last SAC meeting Walsh said it was
"unrealistic and unworkable."
Despite Walsh's objections. Abbot said
he expects the regents to approve SACs
bill of rights recommendations. "Once we
have an opportunity to explain our
positions to the board I believe they will
approve our proposal." Abbot - said.
In the event of a tornado McDougald
said all emergency facilities and any
other person with a device could he
informed by the pressing of a single
button which would release a specific
announcement He also stated that this
information could be sent on a predeter
mined frequency.
Director of Civil Defense Horace S.
Carter, has been authorized to seek
matching funds for the devices and a
siren system for Athens. Carter said the
lunds would be matched by the Federal
government with Athens and Clarke
County sharing the other part of the
costs He speculated the cost might be
$150.OIK) but said he really could not tell
until there were bids.
McDOUGAI.il STATED that the jour
nalism school had been trying to devise a
warning system for Athens for six
months The system included a television
camera on the roof of the school and a
teletype machine which would provide
information from the Atlanta Weather
Bureau
"During good weather we’d use the
system for simulated weather broad
casts," McDougald said, "and it the
weather began to deteriorate, we'd shift
to Public Safely to alert the campus "
McDougald said he originally learned
of Ihe Tech system from a newspaper
account and immediately contacted Tech
officials. McDougald said Tech engineers
had studied Athens and decided the
outpost would be set-up where there is
minimal building interference for testing
of the system
Rezoning
study gets
approval
The Athens Mayor and City Council
approved a Prince Avenue West Study
calling for the rezoning of the Western
portion of Prince Avenue and Jefferson
Road to "office-institutional," at its
regular May meeting Tuesday.
The area was rezoned from multi-fami
ly residential and "limited industrial" so
as to allow more commercial develop
ment The area affected by the reclassifi
cation is south of Hawthorne to Buena
Vista Road
THE COUNCIL also voted to withdraw
their offer to construct a water tower for
the Oconee County Schools The proposed
tower would have increased water pres
sure for a fire sprinkler system in a
newly constucted wing of a school in the
county.
The offer was withdrawn after the
Oconee Board of Education had requested
that the system's water rates be reduced
as a condition to the use of the system's
land for the water tower
In other action, the council voted to
deny a discount on water rates for the
Clarke County's large condominium and
apartment complexes
The council also voted to renew the
lease for the Model Neighborhood Health
Center The health center is leased to the
city by Bob Schindel for the nominal fee
of $1 per year.
IT ALSO passed a resolution to utilize
the Georgia Records Act in. the establish
ment of a records management program
The program will be enacted with the
direction of the Georgia Archives System
Photo by BOB NELLANS
Springtime classroom
Warm spring days mean lolling in the crowded poolside sunJor many University
students But this solitary sun bather decided to avoid the people on a quiet piece
of grassy hill to get his pre-summer tan He might not be anti-social though, just
looking over those history dales one more time before the test
Interdisciplinary
studies approved
Agencies share duties
School devising
warning system
By HOB MASSKY