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VOLUME 02, NUMBER hi
UNIVERSITY OK GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA :i(Hi02
FRIDAY, MARCH 12, 1076
Budget slashed twice
in
'year of the axe'
By JOYIA ANTHONY
and DEBORAH BLl’M
Money, honey
Photo by BOB LYON
The year 1975 may come to be known
at the University as the year of the axe
In that year the University’s budget was
sliced on two separate occasions, reach
ing a combined total of $5 2 million in
cuts.
In mid-summer, while University facul
ty and administrators were counting on
another year of healthy educational
progress. Gov. George Busbee announced
that the state would have to cut back on
spending.
Busbee explained that state revenues
had fallen below their projected increases
and the entire state would have to cut
back or engage in deficit spending. The
result was a $18 million cut from the
University budget
The University was saddled with an
additional $3.4 million cut in December
which went towards funding contracted
faculty pay raises as ordered by the
Georgia Supreme Court
here, " according to Vice President for
Business and Finance Allan Barber
Funding cuts were so severe that no
department at the University was left
untouched Each department was asked
by administrators to come up with a sum
equaling the amount of faculty raises
within its department.
“We’ve tried to come up with financial
cuts that folks can bear, we tried to
low pay- has been the growing loss of
faculty to other institutions, a problem
which has also interfered with the smooth
running of the University
"WE’RE CONCERNED about our abi-,
lity to retain good faculty , it’s a serious
problem," one department head said.
Because of the cutbacks, the University
has been in a "holding position " during
With the end of the quarter not quite here, but the quarter's
money completely gone, students began trying to get rid of
their textbooks in order to get enough money to eat dinner It
was not always easy, though. One student reportedly
wandered away from the counter with a glazed look on her
face, saying repeatedly, "not even enough for McDonalds!"
THE RESULT of the cuts despite the
attempted optimism of administrators,
was to plunge the University into "the
worst financial crisis since I’ve been
Capsule news
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resume on the first day of spring quarter, March 24.
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magazine is 25 cents.
Allocations forms
If your campus organization has not yet received forms for spring line item
allocations, the appropriate forms may be picked up in the Student Government
Association iSGAl office. In order to be eligible for Student Activities money for
fiscal year 1976-77 these forms must be completed and returned to SGA by April 1.
Mangione sold out
Tickets for tonight’s Chuck Mangione concert in Memorial ballroom have been
sold out
Bank chartered,
awaits approval
make as many uniform cuts as possible.
We want to do what’s in the interest of
education," Barber said.
Education has been thwarted by the
cutbacks, administrators admit. “I’d be
sticking my head in the sand if I said that
anytime there is a cut back it doesn't cut
into the quality of education," Dean of
the College of Education Joseph Williams
said.
A department-by-department survey of
the University determined that the ef
fects of the cutbacks on the educational
process were more extensive and far
reaching than was immediately appar
ent
this crisis year However, extending the
budget cuts into the future would be
detrimental to education, according to
administrators.
"If this continues for another year the
situation will be rather desperate—it
'cutbacks) eventually catches up with
you," a department head emphasized.
Educators predict that allocations for
the future will be "austere" and that
Georgia will have to make "hard
decisions" concerning its allocation of
resources to education
By JULIE Kl'HR
The Athens Bank and Trust Company
was chartered Wednesday and his sub
mitted an application for approval to the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
IFDIC).
State Department of Banking and
Finance Commissioner A T. West said
examiners are sent simultaneously from
the FDIC and the Department of Banking
and Finance to investigate institutions
which have applied for a state charter.
The Banking and Finance commission
er must them act upon "a detailed
report" submitted by the examiners
Charter applications are filed with the
Georgia Secretary of State and approved
by the Commissioner of the State
Department of Banking and Finance
Since the Department of Banking and
Finance approved the Athens Bank and
Trust's charter application, the FDIC will
consider it for approval
WHEN THE FDIC considers the
application, adjustments often must be
made in the bank's plans, causing delays,
West said.
“The time element varies widely, but
three or four weeks is the shortest
amount of time the FDIC will take in its
consideration of the application." he said
The FDIC insures individual accounts
in approved banks for up to $40,000 All
state and national banks are insured by
the FDIC, while savings and loan
institutions are insured by the Federal
Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation
(FSLICi.
Univ. Council approves
Athens Bank and Trust Company-
Board Chairman James Moore an
nounced that Paul S. Penn. Jr. has been
named bank president A native of
New-nan. Penn has been a bank executive
for 12 years
Moore said the bank is expected to
open in about six to eight months
CONSIDERABLE damage has been
done to a wide variety of programs and
services at the University. Major cut
backs have included loss of travel money
for faculty travel and recruiting, loss of
funding for many graduate assistant-
ships. cancellation of classes, inability to
fill vacant positions, a freeze on repairs
and replacement of equipment and a
general shortage of office and instruc
tional supplies.
Each department cut its budget in
various places according to the number
of vacant positions' monies it could
turnback to fill its quota. Some depart
ments were hit harder than others
because they had no vacant positions and
had to come up with their quotas from
operational expenses.
"Frankly, I don’t know how we’re
going to make it until July 1," one
department head said Other depart
ments reported writing exams on black
boards and using the backs of used
envelopes as note paper in order to cut
back in spending
Reduction of supplies and the loss of
travel funds along with low pay have
caused administration and faculty mor
ale to drop to a record low. Faculty
discontent has increased because of the
cuts
change in pre-registration
Don't forget
to check page 5
By BEVERI.Y THOMAS
Staff writer
The University Council approved a
recommendation Thursday, submitted by
the Educational Affairs Committee,
which would limit the number of hours
for which students can pre-register
The motion, effective summer quarter
1976, states that "no students except
those in the College of Veterinary
Medicine will be permitted to pre-regis
ter for more than 21 hours.”
The recommendation states further
“Students who elect more than this
number (21 hours) during pre-registra
tion will automatically have their regis
trations cancelled.” It adds that students
who need a larger course load may elect
additional courses during the drop-add
period
According to Bruce Shutt, registrar,
the motion's Intent is "to provide more
spaces for students who have been closed
out of classes ”
would receive one-twelfth of their salary-
each month September through Decem
ber and one-ninth January through June
FACULTY MEMBERS, under the cur
rent plan, receive one-twelfth of their
salary each month September through
May and three-twelfths in June
The dual program however, would have
to be aproved by the Board of Regents
and adopted for all University System
institutions before taking effect, accord
ing to Allan Barber, vice-president for
business services.
The University Council is an advisory
board made up of 90 faculty members, 30
administrators and eight students The
faculty and students are elected to their
positions by their constituents and the
administrators are included by virtue of
the office they hold, according to Barry
Wood, director of the Public Relations
Office.
The council has only recommendation
powers. It votes on matters of admission
requirements, degree programs and
changes to these programs and expulsion
policies Its decisions are given to
University President Fred C Davison for
his approval or disapproval and if they
are approved, they are sent on to the
Board of Regents
for the
exam schedule
"ANXIETY AND tension here is worse
than I have ever seen it before,"
according to Robert McPherson, head of
the history department
Faculty members have complained
because frozen travel has forced them to
finance their own trips to professional
conventions, where they must present
research papers as part of research
requirements at the University.
Discontent and low morale was begin
ning to "interfere with the normal opera
lions of the University," according to ad
ministrators.
An additional affect of low morale-and
THE INUREASE in allocations for
higher education will increase in the
future because "the economy will pick up
and state income will expand." Egan
said
An increase in the amount of property
taxes collected from Georgia citizens
would also increase allocations for higher
education, but "taxes won’t be increased
any time soon." Egan said
While students at institutions of higher
education cannot expect a major increase
in financial support from legislators,
students do have legislator's moral
support
Egan said. "I think it is essential that
we appropriate more money We qeed to
keep good professors and a good O0ca
tional program for our young people in
Georgia
"The University will get its share of
the expanding state income in the
future." he said
HE ADDED, “Some students have pre
registered for up to 40 quarter hours We
think 40 is an excessive number of
quarter hours We can always have some
kind of exceptions, but I don't think we
should build the rule around the ex
ceptions.”
In other business, the council approved
a proposal submitted by the Faculty
Affairs Committee which calls for estab
lishment of a dual pay plan for faculty
members
According to the proposal, those faculty
members on nine-month academic con
tracts will be given the option of
receiving their pay under the current
plan or under the new proposal
Under the new plan, faculty member*
Fake 'uppers' appear
on local drug scene
Defense testimony begins
in hospital negligence suit
By JIM GALLOW AY
Citv editor
Black capsules erroneously being
called amphetamines have been circula
ting in Athens recently, according to
George Garrison, supervisor of the
Athens-Clarke County Metro Drug Squad
The drug squad has recently confis
cated "about six or eight hundred" of the
capsules, which lab reports show to be
nothing but caffeine However, they are
being sold on the street for about $2.25
each. Garrison said
"You could get the same effect from
two or three cups of coffee.” he said "If
they i the pushers I can buy a thousand of
these things for a dollar and sell them for
$2.25, they're really going to make some
money.
Garrison said the pushers use the
profits from such sales for "financing
other drug deals "
The extent of the "rip-off" and amount
of money involved is not known, accord
ing to Garrison "There's not much we
can do unless the people who are being
cheated let us know about it." he said
Garrison said he does have sor.e leads
regarding who is selling the capsules,
adding they can be charged -.-ilh "theft
by deception" if apprehended
"We don't care how we gel pushers."
he said "We ll take them any way we
can get them ."
Ina Mae Lynch's body was not in the
stairwell closet, where it was later found,
on the night she was first discovered
missing, a hospital employe testified
Tuesday in the $1 million damage suit
against the Clarke County Hospital
authority and Athens General Hospital
Roscoe Gerald Stalker, housekeeping
supervisor at Athens General Hospital,
said he could see "well enough to
determine" that Mrs Lynch was not in
the stairwell closet w hen he searched it on
the night of April 5. 1974 Mrs. Lynch was
found dead in the closet five days later A
coroner's inquest later ruled the death
accidental
Edumund Lynch. Mrs Lynch's hus
band. is suing the hospital and county-
hospital authority , charging negligence in
his wife's death Their three- children are
also named as plaintiffs in the suit
In the first dav of defense testimony.
Stalker said he crawled into the first
floor closet area containing "a motor,"
lit a disposable cigarette lighter he had
on his person, and found to be empty the
small cubbyhole in which Mrs. Lynch's
body was later discovered
DEFENDING AGAINST charges of a
"careless” search for Mrs Lynch, the
defense also called to the stand Edward
Hardy, head of the hospital’s security
department, and two nursing personnel
from the floor of the room which Mrs
Lynch had occupied
Hardy, a former Athens police chief,
said he had looked twice on April 5, 1974
into the first floor stairwell closet with
the aid of a flashlight and “didn't see
anything."
Hardy also testified that another hos
pital employe had reported to him that a
woman fitting Mrs Lynch’s description
had walked out of the rear entrance of
the hospital
Hardy said lie drove around the
ALLOCATION OF monies for the
University is funneled through the Uni
versity System Board of Regents which
receives its budget from the Georgia
Legislature
The amount of funds the legislators give
to the University has been criticized by
educators "If the legislaturs continues to
give higher education no more support
than they have in the past, I don't know
where we'll be in five years," Dean of the
pharmacy school Kenneth Waters said.
However, legislators only appropriate
monies from the amount of state reve
nues which are collected Those revenue*
depend upon the condition of Georgia's
economy. "We would like to give them
(the regents) all the money they ask
for," State Representative Michael J.
Egan (R) said.
Although the existing economy did not
allow the entire increase requested by
the regents to be granted, legislators did
appropriate more monies for the Univer
sity system for 1977 than were appro
priated in 1976, according to State
Senator Paul Broun (D).
hospital seraching for Mrs. Lynch, who
was recovering from intestinal surgery,
contacted the Athens police and called •
local taxicab company
LYNCH TOLD Hardy that he knew the
hospital was “doing all it could" during
the search, and "wasn’t holding it
against them,” the security officer told
the jury.
The prosecution has stated that it
intends to prove that Mrs. - Lynch,
suffering from psychological problems,
was “permitted in that condition to do
harm to herself"
It has been implied by Lynch's law
yers. that Mrs Lynch might have “run
away or hid" in reaction to alleged
threats by nursing personnel that she
would be given an enema
In Wednesday's testimony Beverly
Gowder, head shift nurse on the floor
which Mrs Lynch's room occupied,
denied that she had ever threatened Mrs
Lynch with the application of an enema
k