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VOLUME 82. NUMBER 3
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
UNIVERSITY <>E GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA 30602
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER I*. 1*75
Sardine city
But officials say crowded situation is only temporary
By STEVE BILLS
University Housing is not as crowded this year as it was last year, according to
Housing Department officials and most student in overflow housing are expected to be
moved to regular housing within a few weeks.
Overflow housing refers to students living in dorm study rooms, etc.
Firm figures on the exact number of students housed on campus will not be
available until next Tuesday, according to housing officials, but a spot check
conducted earlier this week indicated relatively few people are now living in overflow
housing, compared to last year.
Russell, according to the check, is currently housing approximately 30 people in
overflow areas; Brumby, 13; Reed community, 8; and Creswell, none. Figures from
other communities were not available.
ACCORDING TO an assistant area coordinator at Russell, Ron Sasse, Russell has
been overassigned more than other dorms because "we have more room.”
"We overassign Russell a lot more because not all the people who were signed into
Russell obviously go into Russell. They go all over."
The general economic condition of the nation has had an effect on the overcrowding
situation according to Jerry Studdard of the housing office. More people have been in
University Housing because of its economy and convenience, he said.
Dr. Daniel Hallenbeek. new director of housing, agreed. "Up until the last couple of
years, you could count on a certain percentage of no-shows, walk-ins and so forth. But
in the last two years, all our projections have gone out the window.’’
NO SHOWS are students, who signed contracts but never arrived to occupy their
rooms Walk-ins are students who did not sign contracts but requested places in
University Housing at the beginning of fall quarter.
According to Studdard, walk-ins are down considerably this year, especially among
Photo by KIRK DUCKWOmr
STUDENTS IN RUSSELL OVERFLOW HOUSING
10 people rooming in a kitchen
Price named chief
Everett E. Price, Statesboro Public
Safety Commissioner, was named by the
Athens City Council to replace departing
Police Chief Tom McGahee at a called
meeting Thursday.
Earlier this month, McGahee resigned
the post, requesting the position of
assistant chief of police.
According to Mayor Julius Bishop, the
41-year-old Commissioner, who is a
former major with the Savannah police
department, will assume the position Oct.
15 at the earliest and “no later than Nov.
1."
In other action, the council approved a
$300,000 contract in local match funds for
the Athens Transit Department.
The Model Cities contract for the
transit system will match $2.2 million in
funds from the state of Georgia and the
Urban Mass Transit Administration, ac
cording to Cuyler Adams, director of
Athens Housing and Community Devel
opment.
Th? transit system should go into
operation around June, 1976, Adams said.
Developer to sue
commissioners
commission meeting and received strong
criticism for the idea from commission
ers and those attending the meeting
Petitions signed by more than 700
people opposing the rezoning of the land
were presented to the commissioners and
more than 100 people were present at the
meeting to voice their opinion.
Much of the opposition centered around
the location of the proposed site (which is
near four schools) and the use of the land
if it were rezoned.
Commissioner Jewel John warned that
the owner of the land could build
anything commercial on the property if it
were rezoned B-l.
KINDERGARTEN SYSTEM
The National Development Corporation
plans to file suit against the Clarke
County Board of Commissioners after the
commissioners denied rezoning for a
proposed $10 million shopping mall --
condominium complex.
The corporation was denied a rezoning
request from R-15 (residential) to B-l
(local business) for the property at the
corner of Gaines School Road and Cedar
Shoals Drive.
The developers made a presentation on
the proposed mall at last week's county
Photo by GARY JORDAN
N ASSAU CLEMENTS PERFORMS AT COLISEUM
See concert review, page two
women. And freshmen walk-ins, who must receive dorm space because of the
residency requirement, have numbered fewer than 50 this year.
No-shows are also down to under one per cent. Studdard said. Previous to 1974,
officials could count on a four to five per cent no-show rate, he said.
Despite all this, Hallenbeek expressed confidence that all the women currently in
overflow housing could be moved to regular rooms by the end of the room-change
period Moving the men could take longer, he added.
On the third floor of Russell, there is a kitchen (the only one in the dorm) which
contains three stoves, two sinks and five bunk beds. It is an overflow housing area and
10 people call it home.
There are no clothes closets The residents use kitchen tables for desks. Textbooks
are piled on other tables There is no window.
Robet Norman, one of the residents, told The Red and Black, “I’ve got rings under
my eyes from no sleep.” He complained of people coming into his room to use the
stoves or to sharpen pencils. “You pay $162, you figure you can get something better
than that," he said.
He also complained of the dirty condition of the room. "No one is willing to clean up
anybody else’s mess,” he said, concluding, "there’s no way you can stay in there for
any amount of time and stay sane.”
Norman and his friends have hopes of being moved soon. High-rise Area
Coordinator Harlow Dickey explained. Normally those are the people we move first."
Since overflow residents are moved in the order in which their contracts are
received. Dickey explained, the kitchen was the first overflow area to be filled and so
should be the first to be emptied
What happens to those students in the meantime? “As long as there are overflow
people in there, it’s considered a room," Dickey said.
CAPSULE NEUS
Staffers wanted
Students interested in working on The Red and Black fall quarter are invited to
attend a staff meeting at 8 p.m Sunday in Rm. 309 Journalism.
BSU reception
'The Black Student Union will sponsor a freshman orientation and reception
Friday night at 7:30 in North PJ Dr Charles Colbert of the provost's office and
Dr. David Foley, director of the Afro-American Studies Program will address the
gathering.
Pandora number
The phone number of the Pandora yearbook office is 542-2185. The Red and Black
erroneously reported the number in Wednesday’s issue.
Cabinet meeting
There will be a meeting of the Student Government Association cabinet today at
3 p.m. in the small auditorium in Memorial
Impression meeting
All students interested in working for the Impression, the campus wide general
interest magazine, should attend a staff meeting at 4:30 p.m Tuesday in the
activities center of Memorial.
Senate vacancy
There is a vacancy in the business school delegation of the Student Senate
Students interested in filling the vacancy can pick up applications at the (Student
Government Association) SGA offices in Memorial. Completed forms can be
placed in Dianne Wooten's mailbox in the SGA offices
Just a campaign promise?
By PAUL CURTIS
State editor
Despite the many campaign promises
heard around the state a year ago when
Gov. George Busbee was elected, the new
school season has started and the
majority of the state's five-year-olds are
still sitting at home.
The $15 million was appropriated for a
state wide kindergarten system in the
past session of the legislature only to be
slashed to $7 million in a special session
The economic situation simply would not
allow the state to begin the kindergarten
program in full force.
Now with the state legislature set to
reconvene in three months, the economic
situation remains almost unchanged,
News analysis
leaving the state's five-year-olds and the
teachers hoping to be hired to teach
them, in a likewise unchanged situation.
Recently, the Comprehensive Employ
ment and Training Agency (CETA)
added $2 million to the state's kindergar
ten funds, but the money only can be
used for hiring teachers.
DR. ALLEN Gurley, Director of the
division of early childhood and special
education for the State Department of
Education, feels the added federal money
could bring the program back to its
original levels
"The $2 million plus will buy a lot of
teachers," he said. "We are also using
some other federal funds and it's concei
vable that we eould serve 25 per cent of
our target population, which was our
original goal."
Others in the state government are
doubtful, though, if the federal funds can
rescue the kindergarten program.
"Because all this (federal) money
could be used for was salaries, a lot of
counties would be reluctant to take the
money without having money for opera
tional expenses,” Nealie Hoenes, a bud
get anatysist for the governor, said
THE STATE Board of Education has
allotted a certain amount for kindergar
ten programs to each school system in
the state, but the figures are not yet in
showing how many counties will elect to
use the funds, Hoenes said
Meanwhile, teachers in the state with a
degree specializing in early childhood
education are wondering if they can find
work.
Dr. Gilbert F. Shearron, professor and
chairmen of the department of early
childhood education at the University,
thinks early childhood education teachers
are still needed
"There are jobs available. The jobs are
in the rural areas, with positions mainly
in South Georgia and some in North
Georgia,” he said, “we are trying to
make them (early childhood education
majors) aware that the job market is
bleak if they are committed to an urban
area."
OF THE University's approximately
250 undergraduate and 75 graduate
students in the field of early childhood
education. Shearron said there is little
bitterness at the lack of a comprehensive
kindergarten program.
"Most of them understood that there
probably would not be state wide kinder
garten for at least awhile,” he said. ,
Despite the lack of disappointment,
however, Shearron did admit that enroll
ment in the department of early child
hood education was unofficially down by
10 per cent
If state administrators are unsure of
the chances for funding state wide kin
dergarten in the next legislative sission.
they are equallv unsure of the reasons it
was not fully funded after the last
session.
GURLEY LAYS the blame squarely on
the economy. "1 think it was pure
economics," he said. “Had it not been for
the recession, we would have the money
for state wide kindergarten, and I think
the job market in this field will be very
lucrative as the economy recovers and
the program expands ”
Busbee’s office shares Gurley’s feel
ings, but at least one high state
administrator, who wished to remain
unidentified, disagrees
“I think that if the legislature had
wanted to keep the kindergarten program
fully funded, it would have found the
money," he said. "But because most of
the legislators never went to kindergar
ten themselves, they view it as a luxury
or an added expense "
And what priority will the Governor
assign to state wide kindergarten when
he goes to the legislature next January
seeking funds' 1
Larry Shealy, a member of Bus bee's
press staff, said simply. “Whatever
priorities the Governor has is whatever
the revenues will allow."
Misunderstanding causes
headache over GIST bill
By MARK PREVAIL
Assistant news editor
A misunderstanding by the University administration
caused a telephone bill $177,000 over expected cost for the first
five months of 1975.
The confusion occurred over the billing system used by the
nation wide telephone access line GIST (Georgia Interactive
Synoptic Telecommunications).
Both the University administration and employes who used
the line believed billing would be set on a flat rate when
actually a per call system had been in use since January.
According to Jim Pennington, director of the system, the
flat rate was used until 1975. However, he said, when the
change to a per cal) rate was made, a misunderstanding
occurred
"AFTER A briefing with University officials on the GIST
program a point about adjusting the rate was missed," he
said "However, this misunderstanding was almost universal
among our clients.”
As a result of this "misunderstanding” the University and
numerous other state agencies believing GIST to be a nation
wide access line at a flat rate ran up enormous phone bills
and were suddenly forced to scramble for funds
Pennington held a meeting with University officials and Jim
Roberts, deputy commissioner of the Department of Adminis
trative Services DOAS) to explain the new billing system
Under the new system the bills (to individual University
departments , are calculated from a 20 per cent sample of all
calls; the bill lists every fifth call, so the total sum of the bill
is multiplied by five to ascertain the actual amount to be paid,
according to Pennington
ALLAN BARBER, vice president for business and finance
at the University, said of the June 9 meeting. "We (the
University administration and DOASi mutually agreed that
the way in which the service was being provided and paid for
was not suitable.
"Originally, the University had thought it (GIST) was on a
flat rate, but DOAS incurred more cost than was anticipated,
which accounted for the large catch up charges," he added.
Tom Harvill, consultant in the Department of Administra
tion Services for the University handles the GIST program
here
"There is a 65 per cent saving (on the GIST network) as
opposed to regular Southern Bell charges for long distance
calls
SET UP last Dec 29, the GIST network ties <A state
agencies into a system with 52 central points around the state.
Calls made anywhere in the state cost 35 per cent of the cost
of the calls without the service and calls made to other states
are on a reduced rate based on time talked and distance (to
specific zones i
Southern Bell sells this service to DOAS and DOAS in turn
sells it to the University.
“The individual departments within the Uniersity have the
option to have the GIST system or not have it and they can
drop off the program at any time they desire, but they will
still be billed for local service and regular long distance
calls,” Harvill said
MANY OF the departments in the School of Veterinary
medicine dropped off the program as of June, according to
Harold Snyder, business manager and assistant to the dean of
the veterinary school
"The GIST line was sold to us as a line with unlimited use,"
he said "We couldn't get adequate use and some of the
professors got frustrated and made toll calls, so we ended up
paying the cost of GIST plus the toll calls,” he added
Snyder said the vet school was watching to see how the
costs ran now and will make a decision on whether to
participate in the program again in December
Barber said there was a substantial decrease in the amount
of the bills during the summer, but he added, “the summer is
not really a fair test of what is to come, because it is not
representative of the regular school year."