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TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 24. 1976
Bill to limit tuition increases
not challenged by regents
Bv ROBERT ALEXANDER
f Associate slate editor
CARROLLTON—The Board of Regents
docs not oppose the bill recently passed
in the Georgia House which would limit
future'tuition increases to one hike per 12
month period, according to University
System Chancellor George Simpson.
( In an address before the Student
Advisory Council’s (SAC) monthly meet
ing at West Georgia College in Carrollton
Saturday, Simpson said, "We aren’t
fighting the bill. It’s no big deal."
’ The hill also provides that the regents
notify the president and student govern
ment associations of each of the system’s
member schools 60 days before the
tuition hike is called for a vote.
“We already notify the presidents
We’re not formal about it," he said.
( Simpson added however, that the bill
' would put University System presidents
"on the spot” because "they’ve got to
stand up and say we’re for it or against it
(tuition hike)," he said
• .
SAC, THE only official student input
body to the regents, passed a resolution
supporting the House bill.
' Simpson also defended the board’s
tuition hike He told the group which
represents student government associa
tions throughout the University System,
' the tuition increase was "unfortunate,
unanticipated and unwanted."
When asked following his address if the
House bill will reduce the flexibility of
the board in establishing its budget,
Simpson said, “1 don’t know 1 would
think that reasonable people could solve
a given problem which would come up
The state deficit was an unusual situation
which none of us anticipated."
“My opinion is if we do get into an
extreme situation there would be an
'opportunity to sit down and work it out. I
I would not iook to see that happen I think
everybody concerned will sit down to
gether and find a way," he said.
In his opening remarks Simpson said
enrollment has increased in the universi
ty system 100.000 to 128.000 since last fall
In addition the board expects a five to
seven per cent increase for the next five to
seven years.
Most of the chancellor's address was
taken up by questions from SAC mem
bers on the tuition hike.
MARY MITCHELL, representing the
Student Government Association (SGA)
of Georgia State Universtiy, asked Simp
son if some of the money used for the
university system's special studies pro
gram in upgrading the educational level
of incoming freshmen could not instead
be used elsewhere.
"This should not be a university
problem," she said
"The board feels some responsibility to
everyone that wants to try to be given an
opportunity," the Chancellor said. "Every
year we take in 5,000 to 10,000 freshmen
with high school diplomas Do we say no
we won’t give you a chance" People think
if we slam the door we’ll get rid of the
problem. You're going to lose 50,000 in
the process It's not their fault,” he said.
Simpson also said he does not have the
answer as far as improving the education
in public schools.
“We had hoped that the special studies
program would have some effect. The
fact is under the pressure of the past 10
to 15 years public education has slipped
badly throughout the country and there’s
no single reason for it,’ he said.
In responding to a question concerning
the tuition hike, Simpson gave the council
some background in the Board’s deci
sions involving tuition.
"THE UNIVERSITY’ system is owned
by the people of Georgia We have no
right that is not voted in by the people of
the state. There has to be some decision
on the part of the people of the state on
how much tax funds they pay and how
much you pay.
"The Board of Regents had a policy for
students to pay twenty cents of the dollar
and taxes to pay for seventy-five cents of
the dollar needed to run the university
system This is a fair and reasonable
proposition. Since they (the State legisla
ture! are giving us seventy-five cents out
of a dollar they got the big stick.
“When the board raised tuition last
ytar (before fall quarter, 1975) the ratio
had gotten to where 20 to 21 per cent of
the cost was funded by the student and 70
to 78 per cent was funded by the state,
looking ahead with the fee increase and
state money accepted, the ratio was
going to drop down the where the student
part was less than 20 per cent.
"Then the board decided it was time to
raise tuition to the 25 per cent level,"
Simpson said.
"You can argue with the principle, but
don’t argue with the Board's responsibili
ty to have a principle. The second fee
increase was unfortunate, unanticipated
and unwanted We got into a situation
where we couldn't even operate.
"We had two options: we could lay
people off or we could find some money
to get by. One way was to raise tuition by
$16 million and we got back $2 6 million
from the legislature Those two decisions
saved our neck," Simpson said.
IN RESPONSE to other questions, the
chancellor said there were "no formal
barriers" to a student having access ta
the board’s fiscal procedures, but he
cautioned the council that it was a time
consuming process. Students also could
not expect special treatment if they went
before the legislature for more money.
"I’m for it, but I’m not going to kid you.
it’s work. They play for keeps,” he said.
Regarding a student position on the
hoard. Simpson said a student cannot
accept responsibility for his actions on
the board
"You’re on there one year Nobody is
going to say the student voted this way.
Capsule news
Players arrested
Three University football players were arrested early Sunday morning in
connection with the theft of 78 hubcaps on and off-campus, according to Sergeant
Julian Hall of the University Police
Bradley Steven Cescutti and Michael Keith Raber. both 20. and John Phillip
Aaron, 18, were arrested at 4:25 a m. by University Police Officer Lanny
Cawthome.
Cescutti and Raber are both varsity football players. Aaron, a freshman, played
junior varsity football this fall
They were charged with theft by taking, according to Hall. Depending on the
value of the hubcaps, which has not been estimated yet, the suspects will be
charged with a misdemeanor or a felony, he said.
Coach Erskine Russell, defensive coordinator of the football team, posted bonds
of $500 each for the suspects, according to Larry Reynolds, chief jailer at the
Clarke County Jail
Russell would not comment on the arrest Head Football Coach Vince Dooley was
not available for comment.
University police are asking anyone who lost hubcaps Saturday night to contact
them concerning recovery of their property.
Senior seminar
A senior seminar on employment opportunities will be held tonight at 7:30 in the
law school auditorium Guest speakers will include Jasper Dorsey, vice president
of Southern Bell. Emily Calhoun. University assistant law professor. Emanual Hall
of WAGA-TV in Atlanta and Nathan Nolan of the Department of Natural
Resources
Matthews concert
Classical guitarist William Matthews will appear in concert tonight at 8 in the
chapel
If you have the authority, then you have
the responsibility for action with that
authority. I’d like to have a student
member because in my opinion, the
student would’ve voted for it 'the tuition
increase)," he said
The University’s representative at the
SAC meeting was Mark Forsling, execu
tive vice president of the Student Govern
ment Association. Forsling said he was
disappointed most with Simpson’s speech
for his response to a student on the
board.
FORSLING SAID a student could be
responsible, "students don’t have any
input besides SAC. SAC is good as far as
representation, but it doesn't meet when
the board meets We pass a lot of
recommendations but nobody takes them
to the board."
“Different students keep coming before
the board If we had some consistency
with one person representing the stu
dents. we would represent someauthority
before the board ."
Forsling also said that SAC was not
ever told that there was going to be a
vote on a tuition increase
"I feel we ought to be kept informed if
we are to advise. They spring a lot ol
surprises ori us." he said
At Sunday's General Session, the
council passed a resolution supporting a
proposal to create a "State Assembly lor
Student Action" which would serve as a
student lobby and a liaison between state
legislators and students according to
proposal s author Bren 1-etsnn ol Georgia
State University.
In addition the council agreed to study
a suggestion for a "mini-woodstock rock
concert for students in the university
system The admission charge would bi
split between operating money for SAC
and for the schools through out the state
"Without any finances we have no
power," Letson said
Photo by fVA NICHOLS
Safe deposit
The annual Red Cross blood drive on campus began yesterday in Memorial
Donors may give blood any time between 11:30 a m abd 5 p m. Although the Red
Cross collected 18.000 pints of blood on campus last year, this year's goal is 16.000
pints.
IN NEW HAMPSHIRE
Kilpatrick sees Carter win
By BUDDY W ALLER
Staff writer
Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter
will win today’s New Hampshire pri
mary, but probably will not capture the
Democratic presidential nomination this
summer, syndicated political columnist
james J. Kilpatrick said in a recent
interview here.
"My guess is that Jimmy Carter will
lead in the (New Hampshire i Democratic
primary fairly comfortably He’s a very
impressive campaigner He’s the hardest
worker I can remember on the cam
paign trail," Kilpatrick said Friday,
prior to an address to the 48th Georgia
Press Institute
Although Kilpatrick said "it's entirely
conceivable" that Carter could win the
party's nomination, he added, "that
seems so wildly improbable that my
guess is that if Carter begins to pile up
800, 900, 1000 delegates there will be a
gang attack against him There will be a
great rallying behind the stop-Carter
movement."
. At that point, a candidate such as U S.
Sen Hubert Humphrey or New York
Gov Hugh Carey will emerge to lead the
anti-Carter forces, according to Kilpat
rick.
HE ADDED. "I have absolutely no idea
who the Democratic nominee will be. It’s
a very weak field (of candidates), on the
whole. Anything could happen there "
Commenting on Alabama Gov George
Wallace’s presidential bid, Kilpatrick
said, “It may be that Gov. Wallace has
talked himself into believing that he has
a chance at this (Democratic) nomina
tion In mv own view, he has no chance
whatever of any spot on the ticket.”
Wallace's nomination to either position
on the Democratic slate "would split the
party right squarely in two. They’d
adjourn the convention and rump off in
different directions." Kilpatrick said
Photo by KIRK DUCKWORTH
SYNDICATED COLUMNIST JAMES J. KILPATRICK
Predirts Carter vlrtory in New Hampshire
On the Republican side. President
Gerald R Ford should win his intra-party
battle with former California Gov Ron
ald Reagan, Kilpatrick said.
"This is a conservative view based on
the tradition and experience that a
political party virtually never repudi
ates its own sitting president; also, that
President Ford, as an experienced politi
cian. should be able to pile up 51 per cent
of the delegates, and thus assure his
nomination," he added
OF FORD'S PERFORMANCE in of
fice, Kilpatrick said. “I'd give Ford
pretty good marks all the way around on
his administration ’
Pointing to declining unemployment
and inflation, Kilpatrick said. “Ford's
economic policies worked a heap better
than some of his critics thought Ford's
idea all along has been to let the
economy heal itself Y’ou let a patient
recover at his own speed
"Ford has resisted all along these
economic quick fixes — radical measures
— and I think he’s going to be proved to
be right," Kilpatrick added
In foreign affairs. Ford won plaudits
from Kilpatrick for achieving a "fairly
stable situation" in the Middle East and
for his handling of the final American
withdrawal from Indochina
"The relations with Russia seem to be
going along reasonably well We haven’t
compromised ourselves much worse
He's taken a shellacking in Angola, but
given the mood of the country, and
especially the mood of the Congress, I
don’t know that any President could have
done much more to prevent that devel
opment." according to Kilpatrick.
AS FOR FORMER President Richard
Nixon's current tour of the People’s
Republic of China, Kilpatrick called the
event "a story that’s been vastly over
blown "
Although Kilpatrick said. “I suppose
that this will be. as they say. an
‘embarrassment’ to President Ford." he
added that the public should simply allow
Nixon to "go walk around the Great Wall
and come back home "
While claiming that American foreign
policy setbacks in Indochina and Angola
will encourage Soviet expansionism, Kil
patrick suggested that the U S. use
diplomatic and economic leverage to
work relations with the Kremlin "if not to
our own positive advantage, at least not
to our own positive disadvantage.
“The Soviets are not nine feet tall.
They are human beings They have
problems — economic problems, social
problems There’s a certain respectibility
in the world that the Soviet Union still
craves We ought to be able to play upon
these factors better than we have been
playing on them," he said
Kilpatrick said that the year-long
congressional investigations into the na
lion’s intelligence community "have done
great damage" to the Central Intelli
gence Agency (CIA).
LABELING INTELLIGENCE gather
ing "a multi-government operation,”
Kilpatrick said Western powers such as
Great Britain and France "will be very,
very careful before they co-operate with
the CIA again," because of the current
exposure of the agency’s formerly secret
operations
"1 think the role of the CIA is
indispensible to the operation of foreign
policy Its role ought to be to carry out
whatever assignments the President of
the United States gives it — chiefly in
developing intelligence.” Kilpatrick said
Nevertheless, he added, "If the top
people in our government agree that
our national interests can be furthered by
a cover* action by the CIA. let them go to
it ”
As one of America's leading conserva
tive spokesmen, Kilpatrick said, “In
general, the contemporary American
liberal tends to look more toward the
public sector — that is, to government for
solution of problems The conservative,
by contrast, tends to look more to the
private sector — to business, industry
and to the individual — for the solution of
problems
"As a general proposition, the liberal
tends to look to innovation, to change As
a general proposition, the conservatives
tend to look backwards toward tradition,
to what has worked before." Kilpatrick
added
Canvassing for Carter
Georgians for Jimmy Carter campaign in Florida
Ity RICK RICKS
State editor
JACKSONVILLE, Fla —Approximately
200 Georgians for Jimmy Carter, exuding
much ebullience and optimism for their
candidate, fanned out across North
Florida last weekend to garner support
for the former-Georgia governor's Flori
da primary candidacy
Meeting in Valdosta Friday morning,
the group led by the candidate's nephew.
Stale Sen Hugh Carter boarded buses
bound for the Ocala area and a rende
vous with Carter supporters in that city
Once in Ocala, the campaigners paired
with area natives to canvass the local
voting precincts, handing out small,
green folders outlining the ('arid plat
form
On Saturday, the Georgians joined
about 220 Jacksonville residents to can
vas voting precincts here
WORKING FROM about III a in to 6
p m on Saturday, the group, composed of
teachers, students, state politicians and
their wives, and a myriad of other
citizens, confronted voters with “I’m a
registered voter from Georgia "
Jacksonville, which is within Duvall
County, gave George Wallace a decisive
two-thirds of the vote in the 1972
presidential primary But this year the
results are expected to he more balanc
ed. with Carter taking a respectable
numlier of delegates
Although! the average respose to the
Carter door to door campaign was one of
polite, but reserved acceptance of the
literature, many tespontlcd favorably to
Carter, recognizing bon immediately
But the Wallace name was reportedly
only sporadically, and then by persons
obviously supporting him
HOWEVER, DUVAL County Democra
tic party Chairman Harold Haimowitz
indicated Monday that although the
Carter campaign had been strong. Wal
lace would still win the primary, slated
for March 9
"Carter should come in second—he’s
got great personal appeal, and he’s a
moderate but this is still Wallace-
country," Haimowitz said
Despite the fact that much of Jack
sonville is white and middle-class ^»ne
campaigner called it "the breadbasket of
America Carter is seemingly making
inroads as an alternative for blacks,
alienated by the Wallace image
One middle aged black man. who
talked to a young campaigner as he
leaned against the adobe-like facade of
his apartment said. "Yeah, Jimmy
Carter is a good man—anything for a
change You know?"
As his young daughter affixed the new
Carter bumper-sticker, the man’s wife
leaned out of the door to yell her
approval.
THE APPARENT preference of Carter
by some blacks negates the impression
that Carter's sharing of the 1970, state
democratic ticket with former Gov
I .ester Maddox has earned him a repu
tation as a "closet racist," one cam
paigner said
Another mused that Maddox's recent
foray into New Hampshire, the site of the
first presidential primary, helped the
Carter candidacy instead of hurting it