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Ill THE red and black
VOLUME 82, NUMBER 82
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
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WEATHER
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WEDNESDAY. MARCH 2f. 1978
t Exams funded
from reserves
By SANDI MARTIN
News editor
Funding for the upcoming major area
'examinations to be given to graduating
seniors will come from a reserve fund of
the resident instruction budget, according
to Shealy McCoy, vice chancellor for
* fiscal affairs of the Board of Regents
The tests will cost an average of $15
each and will be administered for the
first time this quarter to graduation
'candidates. “We have a small amount of
money left ovei” and will use it on the
exit exams, McCoy said.
The money is being used for the exit
* exams rather than to restore some
services lost during the recent budget
crisis "because of the amount of money
available,” John Hooper, associate vice
* chancellor, said.
“We are using the money where it will
have the greatest amount of beneficial
effect," Hooper said. "It is worth the
1 expenditure.”
There will not be any money left in the
reserve fund after paying for the tests, he
said.
* THE UNIVERSITY System of Georgia
will spend approximately $102,000 on the
tests system-wide, and almost $30,000 on
tests for seniors graduating from this
* University, he said. Both Hooper and
McCoy said they did not anticipate
students having to pay for the tests in the
future.
The purpose of the test is to. evaluate
how effective different departments of
institutions within the University System
have been, Hooper said. "The test is not
aimed at individual students but is
intended to assist the institution.
“The results will be extremely valua
ble," he continued If the test results
indicate that students within a particular
field of study are not learning skills
necessary for that field, the department
teaching them will be improved, Hooper
said.
The test is necessary due to the
tremendous growth of the university
system in recent years, he added. "Ten
years ago there were 35,000 students in
the system, but presently there are
approximately 128,000 In this very rapid
growth i we must ask l what has happen
ed to the academic program. Is it still
meeting students’ needs? Are you (stu
dents) getting what you paid for?” he
said.
When he was a member of the faculty
at Georgia Tech, Hooper said a test was
instituted for students doing graduate
work in electrical engineering. He said
the test helped determine the level of
knowledge of the graduate students, and
aided faculty in finding out what consti
tuted a good undergraduate program.
The major area exams will perform a
similar function. Hooper added
Photo by BOB LYON
Pay up
Some students probably thought they could avoid depleting their checkbooks by not
paying fees this quarter, but they were only postponing the inevitable Late
registration was held yesterday, and checks were eagerly accepted from unwilling
students. It hurt a little bit more this quarter to pay because fees were a little bit
higher.
Union offers 'freebies' for spring
By CHRIS GUIDE
Assistant news editor
The Union calendar for spring quarter,
* with the exception of movies, can be
described with one phrase: everything is
free.
Planned activities range from the
« traditional movies at SPJ and concerts to
such strictly springtime activities as
skateboard and kite-flying contests.
The Shakespeare Theater productions
will highlight the cultural events this
quarter Hamlet and The Tempest will be
presented by the National Shakespeare
Company in the Ballroom March 28 and
29
The Alard String Quartet will hold a
workshop in Fine Arts on March 29 and a
concert on the 30th, the Nancy Hauser
• Dance Company will perform at the PE
Building the first half of the week of
April 12, and the Rising Fawn Craft
Exhibit will open at noon on March 31 at
Memorial.
mentator William F. Buckley, Jr. will
speak in the Quadrangle on April 29th.
Other speakers will include Lewis
Harlan lecturing on Booker T. Washing
ton. William O'Neal on Radicalism in the
30’s and flu's, and Malcom Stern on the
history of Judaism in Georgia
Georgia Senator Herman Talmadge
will also speak on April 20 in Memorial.
JOHN PRINE and Colors plus Gamble
Rogers are the biggest attractions on the
Union's list of concerts for the quarter
Prine will perform at Legion Field on
April 10. Singer Henry Gross, appearing
April 3. and the Mission Mountain Wood
Band, appearing at Legion Field for the
third year in a row on the 16th, will also
be good concerts, according to Cindy
Moxley, public relations officer for the
Union.
The Augusta College Choir, April 2,
Keith Berger, on April 21, and guitarist
Tom Waits, performing May 5, round out
the series
Various sections of the Redcoat Band
will be presenting jazz concerts at
different places around the campus
throughout Ihe quarter, and will offer a
springtime evening of music on May 17 in
the Reed Quadrangle.
The Union has planned several activ
ities which could only take place in the
spring, such as the kite-flying contest at
the Intramural Fields April 11 and the
opening of Legion Pool on Easter Sunday.
On the 19 of April the Ace 5, a
professional frisbee team, will hold a
demonstration, lecture and clinic, to be
followed by a frisbee throwing contest
April 22.
A golf tournament will be held April 24
and 25, professional billiards player Jack
White will hold an exhibition May 3, and
the skate board contest will take place
May 9 at the Intramural Fields. The hike
race for professionals amatuers and
students will he run May 16, starting at
Memorial Plaza.
Spring quarter also features three
special weeks—Greek Week. May 2-8,
Black Awareness Week, May 9-15, and
Freak Week. May 23-29
While the first two are more or less
traditional, Freak Week isn’t. "It’s kind
of our answer to Greek Week.' Moxley
explained. “We haven’t planned much of
it right now, but last year we had stuff
like a joint rolling contest, a frisbee
contest—whatever we could afford at the
end of the quarter '
Bus trips to the Atlanta Flames-Minne-
sota North Stars hockey game April 2
and the Atlanta Braves-Cineinnatti Reds
baseball game on April 13, will be
sponsored by the Union Other special
events include the student art show and
sale May 24
THE CINEMATIC Arts Division of the
Union has managed to schedule a number
of movies which have been box-office
successes for spring quarter.
Mel Brook's Young Frankenstein and
llln/.ing Saddles are scheduled, as are the
comedies Shampoo, starring Warren
Beatty, and Return of the Pink Panter.
Robert Redford fans will want to watch
for Jeremiah Johnson and The Great
Waldo Pepper, and fans of Roger Daltry
and The Who will do likewise for the rock
opera Tommy.
For nostaiigia buffs. Summer of '42 and
Class of '44 will be a double feature one
night, and a whole scries of 1940's movies
will be featured.
Included in the latter arc such master
pieces as Grand Hotel, starring Greta
Garbo, Swing Time and Shall We Dance
with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers,
and On the Town, one of Gene Kelly's
best
Woody Allen's Love and Death, Roller-
hall. and Smile! are some of the newest
movies being scheduled by the Union for
spring.
DAVE BRUBECK will return to the
University for one performance of “The
Gates of Justice" on March 29
Truman Capote will headline the
planned roster of speakers scheduled at
the University, appearing at Reed Quad
rangle on April 7th Conservative com-
Regents immune
to lawsuits now
By ROBERT ALEXANDER
State editor
The Board of Regents is now immune
to lawsuits, according to legislation Gov.
George Busbee signed into law last week
Busbee also approved legislation allow
ing 18 year olds to hold elective office,
providing the particular city or county
approves the ordinance He launched his
Governor's Task Force on Education,
thereby fulfilling his promise to the
General Assembly in January to attempt
to upgrade Georgia's sagging educational
status.
In order to align the Board of Regents
under the same protection as other state
agencies, including the state legislature,
last Thursday Busbee signed a bill which
grants sovereign immunity to the board
As a result, university system faculty
cannot sue again for pay raises as they
did last fall when Fulton County Superior
Court Judge Charles Wofford ruled the
board was in violation for breach of
contract The state legislature had res
cinded the pay raises as pari of a
budget-cutting move to ward off the
expected state deficit.
THE AMERICAN Association of Uni
versity Professors (AAUP), which ini
tiated the suit along with the Georgia
Association of Educators (GAE), sent
Busbee a telegram urging him to veto
the legislation
Rolf Bargmann. president of the Uni
versity chapter of AAUP, said Monday
that the legislature's action in passing
the bill would decrease the university
system’s autonomy.
“To put a university system on an
equivalent standing with a state govern
ment office is highly unusual," he said
Bargmann said his office has not
researched the matter to see if this is the
first time a state has taken “complete
control of the University," but he said he
did not think other states in the Southeast
have reduced their university systems to
“just another sub-division of the state,''
he said.
THERE HAVE been no particular
plans by the AAUP to fight the law, but
the group might consider testing its
constitutionality in federal court, Barg
mann said
Thursday Busbee also signed a bill
which would allow 18 year olds to run for
elective office, except judgeships How
ever, the bill was amended for "local
option." which means a locality (city or
county) must approve an ordinance
allowing the locality to lower the age
requirement
A law providing local option is already
on the books However. Tim Bently.
president of the Georgia chapter of the
Young Democrats, which lobbied for the
bill in its original form, said the new bill
does clarify the existing law.
"Our position was in favoring it as it
was Now our job is to work so localities
will indeed pass an ordinance." he said.
BENTLY ADDED that the Young
Democrats will continue lobbying for the
bill in its original form
Busbee talked at length during the
press conference about his plans for the
Governor's Task Force on Education and
his signing of a resolution by Rep
Nathan Knight (D-Newnan) that would
create a Curriculum Study Committee.
"It is my hope that this group—along
with the Curriculum Study Committee-
will take a close look at what is being
offered in grades eight through 12 in
order to find out if we are teaching the
subjects that are relevant and meaning
ful to students going on to college and to
those who plan to begin their careers
upon graduation from high school,"
Busbee said
He hopes to appoint to his task force,
consisting of 20 members or less, people
who are recommended by a broad
spectrum of groups including the Parent
Teachers Association (PTA), League of
Women Voters, school boards, principals
associations, and the Georgia Chamber of
Commerce
Capsule news
New staff meeting
All persons interested in working for The Red and Black spring quarter are
asked to meet in 309 Journalism at 7 p.m. Sunday Staff openings include news and
feature writers, editorial columnists, artists, photographers, and proofreaders
Thermos Greenwood tonight
The University Union is sponsoring Thermos Greenwood and the Colored People
in concert Wednesday at 8 p.m. in Legion Field The concert will be held in
Memorial if there is rain ID and fee card will be required for admission to
Memorial
Photo by LYNN PLANKENHORN
SPECIAL COLLECTIONS BEING PROCESSED
But much room left for expansion on seventh floor
Rotting away?
Preservation of library's special collections
restricted by continuing budget cutbacks
By LYNN PLANKENHORN
Executive editor
Recent reports that the top floor of the
library annex, once designated as quar
ters for the library's extensive special
collections, are lying idle while valuable
manuscripts rot downstairs are unfound
ed. according to Library Director W arren
Boes.
A story in the March 16 edition of The
Atlanta Journal stated that Boes had
dismantled listening laboratory equip
ment and stored it in the seventh floor of
the annex, a space the story said was
“built specifically to store, in strictly
controlled conditions." the University's
special collection
However. Boes said "There are no
differences in the quarters" which cur
rently house the collection and the
seventh floor area.
Boes said the special collections are in
a space designed to house them when the
old section of the library was built in
1952 "We have the same equipment and
controls the annex has." Boes said
THE SEVENTH floor was going to
contain the Richard B Russell collection
until the administrators of that valuable
group of papers objected on the grounds
that the seventh floor was too inaccessi
ble to the general public. The Russell
collection is now on the ground floor with
a separate entrance
The listening room equipment was
outdated, according to Boes. and he took
the initiative' of storing some of the
unneeded equipment on the top floor
However, some of the equipment current
ly is being used to make »'.*«*e*te tapes
for the present equipment.
"The dial-access equipment was bought
before the library was constructed.”
Boes said "It was outdated when we got
it and hard to use We have a more
flexible system now "
In answer to charges that he had
illegally moved the equipment. Boes said
he had been given license to move
movable equipment, as long as he doesn't
take it oul of the building
THE LIBRARY has recently doubled
the space allotted to its special collec
tions and is working to process manu
scripts still in storage. "The special
collections are very important to people
interested in the history of the state, and
we treat them (the collections) with that
in mind." Boes said
However. Boes later said he would like
to do what is best for the campus "The
best that we have ought to be accessible
to students ana the public,” he added
Boes said the annex is best suited to
student use and he therefore prefers to
keep the special collections and staff
operations in the old building
The ideal situation for valuable docu
ments such as those in the special
collections does not exist, he said
‘However, temperature control, rigid se
curity, no flourescent lighting, humidity
control and dust control are important
"WE HAVE most of the above," Boes
added.
The University has one of the finest
facilities in the state, excluding Emory.
Boes said. "We re just as good and we re
bigger than Emory." he added
There is a restoration laboratory in the
new building for the manuscripts. How
ever, it takes five people to staff it
adequately, which is difficult to do in
light of the recent budget cutbacks. Boes
said
“It's hard to find qualified personnel.”
he said ’Td rather wait and make sure
we have good people doing the right thing
for the manuscripts rather than find out
in five years we've ruined them.”
THE SPECIAL collections include such
artifacts as Confederate President-
Jefferson Davis whiskers, documents
dating from the Revolutionary and civil
wars and the Constitution of the Confed
erate States
The latter document is stored in a
lead-lined copper cylinder and is valued
at over a million dollars by Boes "In the
1880 s over a quarter of a million dollars
was offered for the constitution," Boes
said. "It's unique and worth a fortune '
He said a special display case with
alarms which would allow people to view
the document would cost as much as
$25,000 or $30,000 However, he said he
hoped such a case would be bought in the
future
Boes said he would like to see the
second floor of the old building housing a
large display where memorablia and
choice documents could be viewed by the
public He would like to devote the third
floor to a special reading room for
scholars and students The rest of the
third and fourth floor would ideally house
manuscripts other than the Richard B
Russel! library
However, due to current financial
problems. Boes said the above expansion
does not seem possible without private
donations or grants