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VOLUME S3, NUMBERW UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS, GEORGIA 30602 L TUESDAY. NOVEMBER 23. 1976
WEATHER
Today’s forecast calls for
sunny weather with a high
in the low 50’s. Have a
happy Thanksgiving!
Salary raises
may be cut
By HANDY LOFT1S
News editor
STATESBORO-U Gov Zell Miller
said here Saturday that unless Georgia's
revenue estimate for 1977 exceeds
current speculations, raises for univer
sity system employes may once again
have to be pushed aside
Speaking to the November meeting of
the Board of Regents’ Student Advisory
Council (SAC) at Georgia Southern
College. Miller said low university
system salaries are just one of many
problems which must be dealt with using
the state’s limited financial resources.
Miller said the governor’s Office of
Budget and Planning has put preliminary
1977 at $250 million, but the legislature
may be looking at a more conservative
$160 million
Even if the higher figure is accepted,
Miller said, all the extra money could
not be applied to new programs and
salaries. ”
The estimate will have to exceed $200
million if the state is to “stay where we
are right now, according to current
requests," Miller said.
About $50 million of that money would
have to go for current salaries, he added.
“THE REVENUE picture is very, very
gloomy. We don’t know yet how much
new money we will have to spend just to
maintain current levels." he said.
"Just to continue state government
where it is now . with no new programs,
the estimate will have to be close to $200
million." Miller said
"It looks like there’s not going to be
that much new money," he added
"We can’t divide the money among all
the groups that want raises," he said. "A
raise ol five per cent to everybody would
amount to $65 million.”
The official estimate should come
during the first month of December, but
the legislature usually waits until
January in order to include December
figures, he added
MILLER INCLUDED higher education
in a long list of "crying, critical
problems’ facing Georgia, and urged the
state to face a few facts” about where
salaries fit in the upcoming budget.
The list included prisons, diet
deficiencies among the very old and very
young^ind lagging expenditures per pupil
in elementary and secondary education.
Georgia has more prisoners in city and
county jails than any other state, and
only one state has more state prisoners
per KHM) population than Georgia, he said.
"In addition, four out of every ten
preschool children in Georgia have
inadequate diets, and four out of ten
persons over 65 live below the poverty
level,” Miller said.
"WE HAVE NO more black medical
doctors in Georgia now than we had 100
years ago, and two thirds of these are in
Atlanta." he said.
"Three thousand babies each year are
born with physical or mental handicaps,
so education is not our only problem ."
In addition. Miller cited declining per
pupil expenditures for public education,
as well as Georgia’s rapidly diminishing
momentum in higher education.
"We are losing our goal of academic
excellence in the state. It’s like the man
trying to climb out of a well, who fell two
feet for every foot he climbed." he said.
"We re going to drown if we don’t do
something real soon," he added.
IMmlw by GEORGE SICAY
Holl and Oates
Darryl Hall (above) and John Oates performed to a crowd of 3800 in the Coliseum
Saturday night. Starbuck started off the concert on time, warming up the audience
for the big act. Hall and Oates Playing favorites such as "She's Gone," "Sara
Smile," and "Back Together Again," Hall and Oates provided a level performance.
For more on the concert, see page 7.
Capsule news
Setting it straight
It was incorrectly reported in the chart comparing prices of 35 qim. cameras in
Thursday's Red and Black, that the price of a Minolta 20, with f-1 7 lens at World
Wide Camera Fair is $299.95. Actually, the camera costs $229.95
Final issue
This is the final issue of The Red and Black for fall quarter Regular publication
will resume at the beginning of winter quarter.
Parking regulations
Parking zone restrictions for the duration of the exam period will be relaxed in
most areas except zones A, D, F and M Faculty spaces, faculty-staff reserve lots,
key card lots, patient parking and 20 minute parking will be enforced during the
exam period.
Photo by BOB NICHOLS
I.T. GOV. ZELL MILLER
Addressed members of SAC in Statesboro Saturday
Health fee
could increase
By MATT PRICHARD
As«tant news editor
University Health Serivces plans to ask
for an increase in student health fees to
take effect on July 1. according to
Director Dr. John R. Curtis.
"Supplies have skyrocketed like crazy,
but our last increase was four years
ago." Curtis said.
The amount of the increase, which
will be requested this spring has not yet
been determined
Operation of Health Services this year
has depended on utilization of reserve
money, according to Curtis.
"This year the students have really
been getting a bargain," Curtis said.
"Since housing had a raise last year, we
thought that it would not be appropriate
to ask for one. so we have delayed it.”
THE PROPOSED raise must be ap
proved by the University administration
and then by the state Board of Regents.
"Practically our whole operation is
financed by the students, since only about
five per cent of our total operating cost is
not paid for by student fees," Curtis said.
"We feel responsible to the students."
Curtis added "We have talked with the
student minister to health, the SGA
(Student Government Association) and
other student representatives to make
them aware of what we re doing, and to
make them aware of the drastic cutbacks
in services we would have to make if we
don't get the increase." he said.
"We hope that it is something they’ll
back The students have been very
helpful to us in the past." Curtis said
FROM JULY 1 to Oct. 31. Health
Services had 27.192 students visits, com
pared with 21,517 during the same period
last year
During September of this year, there
were 6000 student visits, compared to
4000 during last September. An average
of 492 student visits per day was recorded
for October. 1976. yet there were only 447
student visits per day during October.
1975.
In addition to the increased use of
Health Service facilities, Curtis noted
that he cost of both personnel and drugs
has gone up
"The spiral of inflation in the area of
health care has gone up by nine per cent,
compared to six to seven per cent in
other areas." he said.
"For example, the price to stay in a
particular Atlanta hospital for one day
was $95 two years ago Today it is $135.
which doesn't include a physician’s fee.”
Curtis noted
”It would cost a patient at least $20 for
a visit to a hospital emergency room,
plus the cost of drugs or other supplies.”
he said
"However, we plan to make a survey of
the students to ask them questions such
as: Which services should be provided?
How should they be paid for? Should
there be cerain charges for specific
services, or should it all be prepaid? If
we aren’t able to finance all of the
services, what should be cut out before
we request the increaseCurtis said
AT NEXT REGENTS' MEETING
Student group plans confrontation
By BANDY LOFTIS
News editor
Rob Hancock stared at the floor and
peeled paint chips from an old radiator.
By the meeting’s end. there was a
considerable pile of paint chips on the
Memorial meeting room floor
Hancock, four other students and a
faculty member had gathered at the
request of student Carl Mabb-zeno for a
meeting of "persons interested in con
fronting the Board of Regents" at its
December meeting, to be held on campus
Dec 74.
Mabbzeno called the meeting to decide
what the regents should be confronted
about, and how- to go about it. Topics of
conversation ranged from facultv salar
ies to the fact that some campus police
who are also students live in dormitories
THE GROUP reached a consensus on
confronting the regents on a number of
issues, including:
—The "faculty-worker problems and
how they relate to the administration,
particularly (University President
Fredi Davison's role in it;"
—the regents’ exit exam, and how to
eliminate it.
—defeating the reappointments of Dav
ison and University System Chancellor
George L. Simpson;
—PLACING A student on the Board of
Regents.
—student activities fees and a new
Changes suggested in
Arts and Sciences form
Bv JERRY MASON
Assistant news editor
An exploratory paper by the Commit
tee to study the Organization of the
Franklin college of Arts and Sciences has
recommended the college be realigned
and the delegation of authority in the new
divisons be decentralized
"Many faculty members now suspect
that the college has grown too large for
optimal administration in the traditional
manner," the report stated "The dean's
regular duties leave insufficient time for
him to exert his full potential for
academic leadership, and to consider and
respond to departmental needs as rapidly
as desired ”
The report recommends that the speci
fic line of authority be delegated to the
heads of the different divisions of the
college, who would be titled associate
dean, division chairman or director
“Instead of interposing a layer of
administration between departments and
the decision-makino authority of the
dean," the repor! says, "our recommen
dations are designed to transfer this
authority from the dean’s office to a level
that is physically and professionally
closer and more accessible to departmen
tal facilities."
IN A SPECIFIC realignment recom
mendation. the establishment of a Divi
sion of Interdisciplinary Studies is sug
gested Ttiis division would encompass all
freshmen and sophomores, who would be
admitted to upper-division status only
upon completion of the English usage
test, appropriate grade-point average and
credit hour requirements, and satisfac
tory progress towards completion of the
general education requirement
The report recommends that the 26
existing departments in Arts and Sci
ences be realigned into three disciplinary
divisions: Arts and Humanities. Nalural
Sciences and Social Sciences These new
divisions would have divisona! faculties
of approximately equal length
Upon satisfying the lower division
requirements, a student would then have
the choice of entering one of the three
disciplinary divisions or remaining in the
interdisciplinary area.
According to the report. th« possibility
of establishing associate of arts and
associate of sciences degrees for students
not meeting the minimal requirements
for entrance to the upper division is
currently under construction
THE ESTABLISHMENT of a college
budget committee is also recommended
by the report This committee would
consist of the associate deans along with
one elected faculty member from each
disciplinary division
"In addition to the formulation of
budgetary recommendations to the dean,
an important function of this budget
committee would be to promote a wider
faculty understanding of and contribution
to resource allocation decisions in the
Franklin College," the report said
In addition, the report raises the
question of the Honors Program. "It
might be appropriate to consider the
possiblity of some formal status in the
Franklin College for the Honors Prog
ram,” the report said
student union building:
—and the recent series of drug busts in
University dorms The next order of
business was procedures for the confron
tation whether by picketing individual
petitioning of board members, or formal
presentation before the meeting
Hancock, who has been vocal in the
past in opposition to the exit exam. said he
is "in the process of being put on the
agenda” for the December meeting
Picketing seemed next to impossible,
since the meeting is scheduled after final
exams end, and former student Sen
Nelson Koss (Journalism) acknowledged
that only a few "marginal persons" could
be counted on to show up for such an
effort
ROSS ADVOCATED the agenda ap
proach. noting the regents would
probably be more receptive to ideas
“under the pressure of the meeting
situation "
Those at the gathering also discussed
Davison's chances for reappointment,
and the desirability of opposing the
incumbent president's extended say.
Photo by GEORGE SICAY
Personality plus
Tired of dormitories that have all the personality and character of a hospital or
menial institution? The residents of six North Russell decided to add a little
personality to their hall by painting vivid stripes along the walls The stripes
■definitely add a distinctive flavor to the hall. And the residents of six North can
certainly say that to them there la "no place like home ”