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' Ol I MF. HI, NUMBER 12
THE RED AND BLACK
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA J0S02
WEATHER
The forecast lor today
calls for partly cloudy
skies, with highs in the
HO’s. The nights should be
cooler, with lows in the
upper 50's.
TUESDAY. SEPTEMBER 24. 1914
Questionable future seen
for several publications
Ticket soles
Students line up to buy then season loot lull I tickets at the Coliseum. The $5 coupon
Ixnik will he on sale until Sept id: alter that, an additional S3 late fee is added to
the cost The ticket booths are open Monday through Friday. 8:30 to 12 and 1 to 4.
Affirmative Action
plan distributed
By FELICIA BOWENS
Assistant city editor
The University's Affirmative Action
Plan, which is designed to meet federal
guidelines for non-discrimination in em
ployment and in other University activi
ties. has been distributed campus wide
for public inspection.
' Administrative approval" to imple
ment the plan was received from the
Board of Regents and the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare last
spring, however, the plan in its entirety
has not yet received official approval.
"A number of details have to be
worked out before the plan receives final
approval." said Dr My rtle Reul. Employ
ment officer for the University
Reul added that many of the steps
outlined in the plan have already been
started and steps to meet final approval
will bo taken this fall
FOR EXAMPLE, she said 63 EEO
counselors have been named and are now
being prepared for their counseling
duties
The University is already moving
beyond steps outlines in the plan. Reul
said, adding that posting of signs about
job opportunities is already underway in
a “big way.”
Work on the plan began last spring and
it was completed last December The
regents and HEW were sent the plan in
December but a backlog of plans from
other institutions kept them from acting
on the University’s plan immediately.
THREE MAJOR STEPS connected
with the plan will be taken this fall,
according to Reul They are the goals
and timetables for departments, the
counterpart study and the implementa
tion of the Affirmative Action grievance
procedure
Although the plan outlines goals and
timetables for*the University as a whole,
each department at the University is to
design its own goals and timetables
concerning how it will deal with employ
ment of women and minorities'
A report on these goals and timetables
is to be made to the regents by Nov 1
The counterpart study is to be made in
an effort to determine the extent, if any.
of discrimination of women and minority
employees by comparing them with other
employees in their areas
For instance, a woman employee is to
be compared with a male employee that
is closest to her in background, job and
educational experience
CORRECTIVE measures are to be
taken in accordance with the findings of
the study. Reul said.
The grievance procedure will premit
any University employee to air griev
ances about his or her working conditions
The selection of the EEO Counselors
was one of the first steps in beginning to
set up the procedure, according to Reul
Under the plan, an employee may file a
complaint about working conditions to
the EEO Counselor connected with his or
her working area The counselor and
parties involved either reach an informal
settlement of the complaint or take it to
the Intermediate Grievance Hearing
Committee connected with his or her
employment area
TIIE IIE \RIXG committee, after study
ing the information presented, presents
its report to the dean or director for his
or her review Within five days, the dean
or director notifies the EEO officer about
his or her recommendations concerning
the complaint If either of the parties
disagrees with the recommendations,
that party may take further action and
go to the next step, the University
Hearing Committee, in the grievance
procedure.
Appeal of the recommendations must
he made in writing to the appropriate
University Grievance Hearing Commit
tee. The parties are notified about the
committee s decision after the decision
has been reviewed by the president.
Decisions of the committee are filed with
the EEO officer.
By THOM \S It FRANKLIN
Assistant news editor
A decision to ask for a complete audit
of all student government financial
accounts was made by Coalition party
members Sunday, as a precautionary
move in the event that a Coalition
senator is selected to fill the vacant
senate treasurer position
The motion was introduced by James
Cornish, a graduate school senator, in
order to get "a certification of what there
is to start with." said Cornish, and to
keep Coalition from being branded by
mistakes" made by ONWARD senators
and former treasurer Bobby Tankersley.
according to Paula Cheatham, party
co-chairperson
"Because of the current vacancy in the
position of treasurer of the student senate
and the likelihood that according to the
SGA constitution a member of Coalition
will be called upon to fill this vacancy ,
we resolve that a full and complete audit
of all SGA accounts be performed prior
to any Coalition member assuming the
duties of that position." read the motion
IN ADDITION TO calling for the audit,
party members unanimously decided to
prepare to take judicial action in the
event that a person not meeting constitu
tional qualifications is elected by the
ONWARD dominated senate to fill the
treasurer’s post
The student constitution requires that
the treasurer must have served at least
one term in the senate and defines a term
as the period from election to election
ONWARD, the senate’s majority party,
does not have a senator meeting those
qualifications although they do have
personnel who have served about a year
in the senate, according to Coalition
By NANCY BLACK
Assistant news editor
The future of the Impression, the
Pamoja, and the Agriculturist has be
come uncertain due to a motion passed
Monday, by the Board of Student Com
munications.
All three campus publications have
suddenly been faced with the necessity of
finding a sponsor to oversee their
production.
The board specified in their motion that
EXPLOSIVE’
Hazard
By BETSY NEAL
State editor
A potential hazard was avoided this
weekend as chemical engineers removed
an allegedly explosive fume hood from
the Livestock Poultry building on East
Campus Road
The chemical fume hood was thought to
contain perchloric acid crystals, a “high
ly violent explosive," according to Lowell
Muse, the chief service officer for the
University's Department of Public Safe
ty
Perchloric acid had been used in the
facility and after a recent accidental fire
in the room, conditions necessary for the
formation of explosive perchloric acid
crystals were set up, according to Muse
"WE HAD TO take the necessary
precautions, even though we were not
sure arty danger existed,” said Muse
Representatives from the chemical
engineering firm. Parker Engineered
Chemicals, tore the fume hood out of the
laboratory Saturday and buried the
contents resulting from cleaning the
hood.
"If perchloric acid crystals were
contained in the hood, the safest thing to
do would be to bury them." said Muse.
He added however, that the engineers
found no evidence of perchloric acid
crystals
The destruction of the hood leaves
several graduate students in the depart
ment of animal science without a
laboratory to conduct their required
experiements in. and a possible time
lapse of four months before the facility
can be repaired sufficiently, said one
members.
IN OTHER business. Coalition estab
lished a committee which will investigate
the conduct of the search committee
which is interviewing candidates for the
associate dean of student affairs post
which was vacated by Charles Kozoll this
summer. The committee, which will be
chaired by Cheatham, will also look into
recent statements made by Dean of
Student Affairs Louise McBee and Uni
versity Affirmative Action Plan officer
Myrtle Reul
Last week McBee said that given
equally qualified male and female candi
dates she would prefer the male to be
hired as associate dean of student affairs
"to provide a male role model" for male
students McBee. stressed, however, that
the position would be filled solely on the
basis of qualifications.
Reul. however, explained that the
University cannot "recruit with regard to
male-female, black-white and so on we
hire the best person qualified "
I would like to see Coalition take a
stand on behalf ol affirmative action
which necessarily is a stand against
Dean McBee's statement and also against
Myrtle Reul's statement that the Univer
sity can't recruit according to male-fe
male black-white when, in fact, the
Affirmative Action Plan requires that
recruitment be made of minorities and
women." said Cheatham
In other action the party established
another committee which will investigate
funding for a new day care center and
discussed the possibility of holding a
retreat winter quarter
Coalition will meet the second and
fourth Sundays of each month New
chairpersons will be elected at the next
meeting. .
sponsorship must come from an acade
mic department, the Department of
Student Affairs or the Board of Student
Communications, according to Board
chairperson Dr. Richard K Noles. who
introduced the motion
The student publications in question
had been in "limbo land with no
accountabilitv to anyone," said Noles,
THE MOTION WILL not affect WUOG,
The Red and Black or the Pandora which
already fall under the Board's sponsor
ship nor will it affect several smaller
caught
professor.
CLASSES WERE NOT held in the
building last week, but faculty members
and their staff continued work as usual
According to public safety officers,
most of the chemical fume hoods on
campus do not meet the required
specifications set by the Board of
Regents, because they are old and have
not yet been replaced
The regents require, however, that any
new fume hoods installed on campus
include apparatus to automatically elimi
nate dangerous chemical build-up from
the hoods
“It will take years, and thousands of
dollars to completely phase out the old
hoods." Muse said.
By ED KIMBLE
City editor
When the Clarke County Commission
ers meet tonight they may be considering
a $4.2 million proposition, a new airport
for Athens and Clarke County by 1978
The proposition is part of a long range
Georgia Airport System Plan, the result
of a statewide study conducted by the
Georgia Department of Transportation
The proposed Athens Clarke County
Airport would be one of four such new
facilities in the northeastern area of the
state.
Athens Airport Manager J B Giles told
the commissioners Friday that he thought
the $4 2 million estimate was too low
That estimate, he said, does not account
for the excavation costs and it is based
on a much smaller land acquisition rate
per acre than possible
Giles added that if a new airport were
not constructed, repair and expansion
would be necessary in order to prepare
for Southern Airways' conversion from
propeller-driven craft to commercial jets
SOUTHERN SERVICE currently uses
the Martin 404. a 40-passenger airplane
It offers four regularly scheduled flights
connecting with major airlines in Atlanta
and one flight to Greenville. SC . each
day
Southern s eventual changeover to jet
service will require much longer runways
than that at Ben Epps Field now
A proposal to extend the present
runway by 1200 feet, from 4.000 to 6.200
feet, is also under consideration by the
Board of Commissioners
The extension would also include the
widening and resurfacing of the old
runway The total cost of excavation,
paving, lighting and the construction of a
new taxiway would be approximately $3 8
million Giles said
Giles added that the proposed expan
sion would be the maximum possible and
that any future need for further expan
sion would necessitate the construction of
a new airport
\ REFERENDUM to allow a $2 4
million bonded indebtedness for airport
relocation failed in the fall of 1973
Since that time, the airport has been
under a waiver by the Federal Aviation
Authority «FAA>. The waiver will expire
Jan 1. 1975. unless the FAA's require
ments are met
"We should be able to be a fully
certificated airport by or before the
publications already sponsored, accord
ing to Noles
Noles denied that the motion, “which
passed unanimously, was introduced
because to the board's displeasure with
last springs "Sex at GTOrgia issue of the
Impression the campus literary maga
zine.
"Of course, last spring's issue of the
Impression is an agony, but if these
publications had direct University spon
sorship we might not have to deal with
such situations." said Noles
Noles pointed to the existing University
regulations as the reason for the motion
"The law says that an agent of the
University, such as a faculty member
must co-sign ali checks written by a
student organizations, therefore these
student publications need sponsors."
Noles said
HOWEVER. STEVE ONEY, editor of
the Impression said that the board’s
action was "in direct response to the sex
issue of the Impression '
"A good institution should let divergent
opinions be heard." Oney said. “I don't
quite understand the board's reluctance
to be more broad minded "
Noles denied that the motion was a
move to censor the student publications
"Of course the situation with the
Impression has made an impact on my
way of thinking." Noles said "but the
action was taken because these publica
tions need the advice of some department
of faculty member."
Student board member Ellen Pinckney,
confirmed that the recommendation was
not made in response to the Impression,
adding, however, that the spring issue
was "one example of the problems we
encounter with student publications "
“We were, of course, disappointed with
last spring’s Impression, but the board
waiver expiration date." said Giles.
The FAA is requiring the Athens
Airport to build a fence around the
facility, to make a number of electrical
changes and to purchase a firetruck
Giles said the fencing project is nearly
half finished and the electrical work is
more than half finished. He said the
firetruck will be delivered within the next
few days
According to Athens Airport figures,
9.069 passengers embarked from the
never has and never will take any action
to stop the expression of divergent
opinions." said Pinckney
P1CKNEY DESCRIBED the motion as
undramatic. pointing out that "every
student organization is required to have a
sponsor
"Last spring's problems with Impres
sion just pointed out that there needed to
be some University department responsi
ble for the publications action," she said.
Although. Oney is unhappy with the
board's action he believes that the
Impression will continue
" This won't mean the death of the
Impression," he said "We re not sure
from where, but we 11 get the sponsor
ship ”
Oney said that the magazine will
petition the board for sponsorship, al
though "I expect we’ll be turned down."
Noles said the board would consider
requests for sponsorship by the three
publications, however, "right now. we’re
reluctant to take on any additional
chores We have our hands full with The
Red and Black, the Pandora and WUOG,”
he said.
TIIE IMPRESSION also plans to talk
with Louise McBee. dean of Student
Affairs, about possible sponsorship of
the student affairs department, according
to Oney
Editors of the Agriculturalist and the
Pamoja could not be contacted regarding
future plans for their publications
The beard has not planned any definite
action against the publications if they
fail to comply with the motion, according
to Ada Beth Pirkle. a student member of
the board
if these publications are unable to
find sponsors, we ll have to decide then
what action we should take.” Pirkle said.
Athens Airport in 1973 and 9.346 arrived
here According to the passenger sampl
ing conducted by Dixon Speas Associates
of Atlanta for the Georgia Department of
Transportation. 53 4 percent of those
departing from Athens were residents of
the Athens area
In addition to passengers, Southern
Airways also handled 48.385 pounds of air
mail coming into Athens last year, along
with 63,445 pounds of air express and
82.961 pounds of freight
Capsule news
Nader's Raider
One ol consumer-advocate Ralph Nader's Raiders. Rob Bildner, will speak to the
organizational meeting lor a University chapter of the Public Interest Research
Group 'PIRGi tonight at H in Room 404. Memorial
Students burned
A University student is listed in serious in the intensive care unit of Athens
General Hospital alter being admitted with extensive second degree burns
following an accident in a University biolog> lab Friday Celia Duvovoy was
working in the lab when alcohol spilled on her clothes and a bunsen burner set the
liquid on fire Dr James Jacobson, the class instructor, beat out the flames with
his hands He was treated and released for second-degree burns on his hands
Arrests made
I'rm ersit; Police arrested nine persons Friday on charges of possession of II
marijuana Scott Campbell Hall. 21. Sussex Dr.. Walter Anbrey Page, 21, Norfolk II
Va Worth Victor Owenby III. 20. Milledge Ext ; Philip W Hayes. 20. and Billy II
Allen Whitley. 21, both of a Sussex Dr address were stopped for speeding and
running a red light on East Campus Road The five were arrested and charged
with possession ol marijuana In a separate incident four Athens juveniles parked
in the Legion Field parking lot were arrested and charged with possession of
marijuana
SGA open house
The Student government Association will hold open house Thursday morning
from 9 to noon Student government officials will be on hand to meet and speak
with Mudents
Audit of SGA finances
asked for by Coalition
County Commissioners plan
to discuss airport proposal