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The Rad and Black. Friday. March 12. l»7«
Editorials
The Red and Black
MIRIAM PACE
We refuse
Fditor's note: The following is
a letter sent yesterday by the
editors of The Red and Black
to Williams L. Hays, vice
president for instruction, and
I'niversity President Fred C.
Davison concerning editorial
policy regarding the publi
cizing of the recently instituted
exit exams.
We received the press re
lease from your (the vice
president for instruction) of
fice yesterday concerning the
exit exams We also noted with
interest the sentence which
stated, “They (students) will
be notifies generally of the
details through The Red and
Black.”
As an independent, profes
sional. student oriented publi
cation, we feel it is our duty to
pring information useful to
students, for example, the
final exam schedule. However,
we feel it is our right to pring
only those items which we feel
to be public service announce
ments.
As our editorial of March 11
states, we believe the exit
exam to be a waste of both
student time and University
money. Therefore, as a matter
of editorial policy and protest,
we refuse to print information
on the administration of the
exit exam.
We hope this will not incon
venience you too much. There
are other means by which the
vice president for instruction's
office can disseminate infor
mation on the administration
of the exam (class announce
ments, letters, space in the
Timetable of Classes and the
University Bulletin, WUOG-
FM, posters and leaflets on
campus, etc.) Aiso, you may
buy advertising space in our
paper since the editorial office
generally has no control over
that department in most cases.
We are not obligated to print
any information or announce
ment which we receive from
any organization: editorial
judgement is exercised in each
case and we reserve right of
final judgement in each case.
We feel it is our duty and
perogative to protest in the
best manner we know how an
exam we feel to be quite
unnecessary.
-^SINCERELY,
STEVE BURNS. Editor
LYNN PLANKENHORN,
Executive editor
Hope for more
~ ■ It has not been a very good
.quarter It definitely has had a
winter mood.
Faculty unrest at the Universi
ty, which had become almost as
much a trademark as the Arch
or the Chapel bell, rose to an
unprecedented level of criticism
and eventually precipitated the
ouster of the school's second
ranking official.
Immediate waves of negative
publicity followed. Newspaper
stories of dissension, declining
test scores in several colleges,
declining promotions of faculty
members and unreasonably
tough promotion criteria caused
many taxpaying Georgians to
lose confidence in their state
university.
letlers^iJelteis
'Buses
TO THE EDITOR:
The University buses cannot be used
(or any excursions except those that have
an "academic orientation." according to
James Farmer, the University official
who holds the final authority in these
matters.
Presumable, this is opposed to those
excursions with a social orientation. It is
against University policy to use Univer
sity buses for social excursions Sound
good' 1 Most naive theories do. In prac
tice. the University buses come with
factory equipped, neon-lit PANHELLE-
NIC signs They regularly shuttle stu
dents not only to Greek "rush" parties,
but to other Greek functions as well.
Cramp neither your wrist nor your
tongue. Mr Farmer, trying to construe
Greek organizations as academically
oriented. They are, by definition, social
organizations You have endorsed and
actively supported either a double stan
dard or a blatant, neon-lit hypocrisy.
Now the regular Milledge bus route is
being threatened by the new city bus
service. A March 3rd article in The Red
and Black asserted that it was a popular
misconception that the Milledge bus was
run mostly for the Greeks, because
"dozens" of student who aren't Greeks
ride the bus By comparison, how many
Greeks live or Milledge and ride the bus?
"Dozens" would certainly be a ludicrous
estimate The article also noted that it
would be unfair to leave the Milledge
students "stranded." because they pay a
quarterly fee Would they be any more
stranded than the students who live at
busses. Tivoli, etc., who pay the same
fees, but receive no off-campus service
The only semblance of justice here is that
First to suffer the tube
Of the many qualities unique to the
United States, one of the most peculiar,
yet least publicized, is our tremendous
preoccupation with being "first.”
“First in freedom." "first on the moon,”
and "first place"
are a few American
slogans that are
drilled into our
minds day in and
out When someone
is first with some
thing. he is auto
matically viewed
with an awesome
kind of respect from people who usually
credit him as an innovater or pioneer,
and he secures a place for himself in
American minds and history books
It suddenly dawned on me that I. along
with my entire generation of children
born in the late 40's and early 50‘s, am
such a pioneer, yet my “first" has gone
quite unnoticed, probably for good rea
son You see. my generation is the first
in the history of the world to have grown
up with television.
Think about it a minute. We were the
first people since the creation to be
plopped down in front of a 23 inch tube as
babies to watch people and places foreign
to us appear unquestionably in our own
homes
What then of our innovating spirit?
Where is our historical marker? Where is
our page in the history book’ Obviously,
it is not there, and most likely never will
be Why? Because the "grand creation"
—television—is one "first” that has
turned out to be not particularly noble,
innovative or creative. Television might
have been born with us 25 years ago, but
it hasn't matured along with us one iota
since then
Take a look at last week's TV Guide,
one of the most popular publications in
the country. The pages of the week from
Miriam Pare is a former editor of The
lied and Black
March 6-12. 1976 could have been printed
during any week over the last two
decades with little variation or change
Daytime programming still centers a-
round bland soap operas and game shows
while evening viewing primarily consists
of stale variety, comedy and drama
shows
My mother attentively watched the
screwed up lives of the characters of
Hawkins Falls while she was a young
girl Now I am watching the equally
tormented lives of the Horton family on
Days of Our Lives 30 years later.
Can you even detect any difference in
game shows during your lifetime? I've
witnessed everything from Shenanigans
to Password to High Rollers and none of
them are considerably varied in their
theme or purpose
I first saw Tarzan Finds a Mate when I
was five years old and I’ve seen it seven
times since then Who can distinguish
between Dr, Kildare, Ben Casey, Marcus
Welby or Dr Gannon? Who cares?
They’ve all treated everything from
schizophrenia to venereral disease 50
times each
. Take this plot for an example: A
private investigator or police detective
gets a call from a mysterious young
woman She wants him to find her lost
husband, child, mother and-or father.
During his investigation, he finds one or
two dead bodies, gets roughed up by a
gang of hoods, and finally discovers the
woman who hired him in the first place
(with whom he had been romantically
involved* is the murderer This plot had
to be original once, but since then it has
been aired on television at least 350
times
Right now. there are 23 prime time
shows that deal with policemen and
crime This is an average of at least
three a night, and does not include reruns
of shows such as Mannix. Ironside.
Dragnet. Longstreet.or The Fugitive and
on and on
Perhaps I'm being a bit harsh on the
old tube, but really—I’m bored with
television. Once in a while the networks
will air a quality special or documentary,
but for the most part, the airwaves are
filled with plots and subjects that are so,
old and so used they could insult a person
who hasn’t watched TV since 1955
The evil creature behind all of this
dullness is without a doubt the network
Ratings are everything and if a show
doesn't make it during its first two weeks
of life, it is executed by the network
executives Police shows rated high in,
the 70’s, so what did they do but give us
23 of them They just don’t understand
that just because we like it once doesn’t
mean we will like it 10, 20 or even 30,
times Television is supposed to be a
creative medium, yet the head honchos
are afraid to express any creativity with
it at all.
Have you ever noticed that some of the
best and most creative shows are slotted
into times where they can’t hurt or,
embarrass the networks if they fail?
NBC's Saturday Night is perhaps one of
the most entertaining shows to be aired
in years, yet the network, intimidated by,
its different format, insists on slotting it
from 11:30 to 1 a m.
Marshall McLuhan was partially right.
The medium is not only a message, it is a,
pacifier for a potentially intelligent
audience reduced to the state of infants
by programmers who spoon feed us with
garbage—garbage that is 20 years old. ,
I grew up from television, not with it.
GRANT RAESIDE
Title IX
and women's athletics
The Board of Regents showed
increasingly little concern for the
students of the university system
by raising tuition for the second
time in less than a year and then
about-facing on their tight money
cries by instituting expensive,
useless exit exams for graduat
ing seniors.
The Georgia basketball teams,
with experienced talent and the
addition of Lucius Foster and
Walter Daniels, again finished
with a mediocre record. Also,
there arose the possibility that
Jacky Dorsey would turn pro
before next season.
And students became more
apathetic We hope the coming
spring will be one of optimism,
achievement and conciliation.
In today's society, all women athletes
should be mountain climbers because the
plight of women in sports is clearly an
uphill struggle.
For most people on this campus,
athletics is a sensi
tive issue. Athletics
both reflects and
perpetuates the i-
deas people have a-
bout what is right
for men to do and
what is right for
women to do Men
are supposed to be
strong and aggressive both physically
and emotionally. Women, on the other
hand, are supposed to be weak and
passive, both physically and emotionally.
So the myth goes, and myths die hard.
What it comes down to is the question
of whether or not women's athletics on
Grant Itaeside is a journalism major and
the women's sports information director.
this campus is getting equal opportunity
and being allowed to follow a clear policy
of nondiscrimination.
This is the fear that has existed in the
hearts of athletic directors across the
nation. Another fear is that Title IX will
bring about the demise of men’s intercol
legiate sports programs They could
never be more wrong.
Title IX came about as a part of an
omnibus educational bill passed by
Congress in 1972. It was not developed to
dethrone men’s athletics. Title IX prohi
bits discrimination on the basis of sex in
any educational program that receives
federal aid. Although the law affects
vertually all the nation's 16,000 public
school districts and some 2,700 colleges
and universities and, although it man
dates equal treatment of males and
females in everything from gym classes
to faculty hiring, its enactment four
years ago caused little comment But it
used socially 1
whoever has already bought the Univer
sity administration will now have to buy
the Athens city council so the buses can
continue to run.
Since I am both a student and a bus
driver at the University, please print my
name. Then maybe somebody will buy
me off and I can go to school somewhere
else. This one nauseates me.
JAMES R. EMMONS
'Vetoed matter
needed work 1
TO THE EDITOR:
This letter is about Sandi Martin's
article “O’Connell veto illegal." 1 am not
in any way connected to Student Govern
ment Association but I do realize one
thing about the amendment which would
provide a means for students to recall a
senator The several political parties
here on campus are constantly bickering
at one another trying to gel one more
person than the other in SGA. All the
parties strive for control in the senate
This is where Party vs Party enters It
would take no time for a "good sized”
political party to get 10 per cent of a
school’s enrollment to sign a petition to
oust the other party's representative of
that school who in turn, seeking
revenge starts another petition. The
chain is endless winding up with no one
In long enough to do anything Maybe
O’ConneH's veto was illegal, but maybe
he stopped the measure to say it needed
more work.
STEVE PRUITT
'Concern comes
with complexity 1
TO THE EDITOR:
1) Concern like Pete foley's ("Not Solid
Gold"! is in a lot of places, thank Godl
As a further step in his thinking: the
more complex our world gets the more
we need to talk—and hear.
21 For Sandy Evans' information, (or a
man of 81, Arthur Rubinstein sure played
a mean piano! (Let's think about Old'
Liberation, too.
J II COLLINS
wasn't until last 1974 and early 1975 that
the commotion started.
According to the Department of Health,
education, and Welfare, to comply with
the law, an educational institution is
required to offer women the same oppor
tunities to participate in athletics that it
offers to men. If a school has an
extensive intercollegiate program for
men, for example, it must have a
comparable program for women.
With regard to the provision on
athletics, first let us look at what the
regulations do not require.
1) It does not require equal aggregate
expenditures for members of each sex or
for male and female teams.
2) It does not require two separate and
equal facilities for every (or any) sport.
3) It does not require women to play
football with men.
4i It will not result in the dissolution of
athletic programs for men.
5) It does not require equal monies for
athletic scholarships.
6) It does not require coeducational
showers, locker rooms, and toilet facili
ties.
7) It does not mean the National
Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
will be dissolved and will have to fire all
of its highly vocal staff.
The goal of the final regulation in the
area of athletics is to secure equal oppor
tunity for men and women while allowing
schools and colleges flexibility in deter
mining how best to provide such oppor
tunity. So the question arises again: Why
have the athletic directors used the "lack
of money” excuse in determining the
women's problem which is essentially the
lack of scholarship money?
If the collegiate athletic programs have
ever faced deep financial problems the
root of the trouble started long before
Title XI was implemented. The problem
that faces us today goes back to the lack
of vision and planning of our athletic
directors and highly touted administra
tors of the NCAA These are the same
men who overstaffed their programs,
spent thousands of dollars on feeding and
training athletic talent, who make up
lavish schedules requiring expensive
plane and hotel bills, and who beautifully
carpeted and furnished athletic dorms
made for ex-high school stars who are
now labeled gods.
That problem has been and is in
existence at Georgia.
According to The New York Times, at
least nine out of ten college athletic
departments operate at a deficit. Have
the above statements held true for
Georgia?
During the 1974-75 school year, the
Georgia men's athletic department
granted *137,172 to 72 of 92 total par
ticipants in scholarships for five sports
common to both the men's and women's
programs The women awarded *10,034 to
35 of 70 total participants in the same five
sports (tennis, swimming, gymnastics,
golf and basketball). The men have four
additional sports (football, wrestling,
track and baseball) which total *506,032
to 187 of 264 participants in scholarships.
The women have one additional sport to
the other five: volleyball, which awarded
*1810 to eight of 13 participants.
Though the women's budget was raised
this year from *80,000 to *90,000, scholar
ship funds were not raised at all The
additional (10.000 had to be used for the
salaries for a full time secretary, a gra
duate assistant trainer, and the general
rise in rales and prices of uniforms,
equipment and travel expenditures.
Often the argument used against wo
men's athletics is that they are not
money making propositions. Even at "big
football" schools that claim to make a
profit, one cannot help but ask if the
institutions are truly making a profit
when they subsidize the stadium, provide
"free" (via the student health services)
medical care to the teams, pay the
roaches' salaries and absorb countless
other costs.
And what if there is no profit and the
deficit is present. At most, institutions
hide many of the costs of men’s athletics
and these are concealed in a number of
ways (eg. maintenance on the stadium
picked up bv the maintenance budget,
practice gyms and fields paid for by the*
physical education department, giving
male athletes special consideration for
scholarships or student employment, and
providing male athletes with special*
housing or dining facilities at no extra
charge. Figures show that when athletic
expenses exceed revenues, 48 per cent of
all respondents reported that such defi-*
cits are financed by a transfer from
general operating funds of the institu
tions So why the discrepancy in funding
for women’s athletics? *
Times are changing. There is more
double standard to hold women back
Women have found out that rocking the
boat is better than rocking the cradle.
FRANKLY SPEAKING... .by phil frank
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