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VOLUME 83. NUMBER 99
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30601
THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1977
Library questioned
on Affirmative Action
By PATRICIA TEMPLETON
News editor
University library employes have been
mailed an Affirmative Action question
naire this week in an attempt to measure
the library’s compliance with Affirmative
Action guidelines.
University Affirmative Action officer
Dr. Myrtle Keul sent the questionnaires
after a report by the library’s grievance
committee showed that 46 per cent of the
employes responding to an earlier survey
did not feel the library followed Affirma
tive Action guidelines.
Reul is a member of a special
committee which has been formed at the
request of University President Fred C.
Davison to investigate problems within
the library
Reul said her interest in the libraries’
Affirmative Action compliance was also
sparked by complaints she received
about a recent article in The Library
Journal, a nationwide magazine, written
by Rea Christofferson, assistant to the
director of the University libraries.
THE ARTICLE, which dealt with
problems in hiring employes, quoted
Executive Assistant Director of the
Libraries Donald Petty as saying that
rigid job description requirements mean
“we can’t take a chance on a black or a
female when we would like to.’’
The complaints Reul received about
that article, plus the fact that almost half
of the respondents to the library’s
grievance committee survey saw prob
lems with the library’s following of
Affirmative Action policy, prompted her
to send the questionnaire.
“Naturally, I was very concerned
about the results of the grievance
committee report,” Reul said. "Normally
people would not answer a question of
that sort. That is the sort of question a
person would either have a very strong
opinion on, or no opinion at all.
“To have a percentage that high
respond negatively indicates that the
question should be explored and looked
into more fully. That is what I intend to
do. That is my obligation." Reul said.
REUL ALSO HAS sent a similar
questionnaire to former library em
ployes, asking why they had left the
library and asking them to compare the
University library to other libraries they
have worked in.
In a letter sent with the questionnaire,
Reul asks for "a frank appraisal as to
how you as a present employe in the
library see Equal Employment Opportun
ity and Affirmative Action procedures
being carried out,” and for “the docu
mentation on which you based your
answers."
Library employes have reacted favor
ably to getting the questionnaire, accord
ing to sources within the library. “At
long last we are going to have our say,”
one library employe said.
Another library employe said she
expected to see “a lot of militancy
coming to the surface, and from people I
was very surprised to see it from.”
However, the employe added, the first
thing most peoole asked upon receiving
the questionnaire was, “Are they going to
know who answered it?”
WARREN HOES, director of libraries,
apparently was not pleased with Reul’s
questionnaire. He categoiized the ques
tions as "are you still beating your wife”
type
Local man charged
with attempted rape
screaming and the police were notified.
She was reportedly not hospitalized.
The spokesman added that the sorority
house did have a night watchman but the
incident occuned before he went on duty.
She added that as far as she knew they
had never encountered an incident of that
type before but she said that the parking
lot had a great deal of traffic (even
though it was fenced) with people cutting
through it lo go to the Varsity She said
Athens City Police usually patrolled the
area when they can and check for holes
in the fences.
The suspect is being held in the Clarke
County Jail.
In other University news, the Univer
sity police report another case of stolen
hubcaps stolen from the Aderhold D zone
parking lot Tuesday night. Hie hubcaps
were valued at $200 Police have the
matter under investigation
By SWANN SEILER
City editor
An Athens man was arrested early
Wednesday morning and charged with
the attempted rape of a University
student at her residence late Tuesday
night.
According to Athens Police Detective
Major David Holland the suspect appre
hended was identified as Larry Johnston,
26, or 130 Zebulon Dr.
Holland said the alleged attempt occur
red at approximately 10 p.m. behind the
Alpha Delta Pi Sororoity house at 150 S.
Milledge.
A spokesman for Alpha Delta Pi said
the alleged victim had left her car in the
back parking lot and was coming into the
house when she was confronted by a
man.
The spokesman said a neighbor heard
the woman screaming and came out and
scared the man away The alleged victim
then reportedly ran into the house
I
Photo by RUSSELL SHELDON
'Princess of black poetry * 1
Nikki Giovanni- poet, author, recording artist and lecturer—appeared before an
enthusiastic audience Monday r.ight at Memorial, capturing the essence of the
creative human spirit A University student's review of her reading and lecture,
sponsored by the Committee for Minority Programs, is on page 2.
Boes also said he had been pleased
with the results of the grievance commit
tee report which covered a wide range of
library affairs. “I thought the results
were encouraging and for the most Dart
positive," Boes said.
He also said he felt the grievance
committee's questionnaire was more
neutral than Reul’s. The basic question
naire sent by the grievance committee
was taken from a standard questionnaire
prepared by the Civil Service Commis
sion.
Questions pertaining to specific areas
of the library were added by the staff.
BOES SAID the results of the grievance
committee’s questionnaire were compar
able to the results any large corporation
or business would get using the basic
Civil Service questionnaire. "They cite
averages, we fared above average," Boes
said.
One question on Reul's questionnaire of
which Boes was particularly critical was
one asking if library employes were
made aware of job openings or opportun
ities for promotion within the library.
"She’s asking if staff positions are
advertised. Positions have to be advertis
ed. If an individual on the staff says no to
that, is it because we are guilty or
because the person does not bother to
read the advertisements?” Boes asked
1 FORTY-THREE per cent of the
library’s classified employes responding
to the grievance committee’s question
naire responded negatively to a similar
question asking if employes were able to
find out the things they needed to know
about promotions and job openings within
the library.
Thirty per cent of those responding
answered favorably to the question, and
27 per cent had no opinion. Of the
professional employes answering the
questionnaire, 46 per cent said they were
made aware of promotion opportunities.
Twenty-nine per cent answered no and 26
per cent had no opinion.
The second major controversy about
which Reul is concerned is the article
which appeared in the March 15 issue of
The Library Journal
The article listed the 26 steps which
must be followed when the University
hires employes, and laid out the prob
lems the guidelines pose for employers.
See LIBRARY, p.2
A thinking man's trade
One’s thoughts tend to flourish in the lush environment of
natural plant-life, and it has been postulated that when a
person goes back to nature, he is really attempting to get back
to the purity and simplicity of his own beginnings Although it
is the student that is usually pictured outside in the sunshine
and flowers, a Red and Black photographer was able to find
instead an older University worker who. in the midst of spring
planting, is apparently engrossed in the deeper thought,
oblivious to evervone but himself
Senate says won'
funding for small
t handle
clubs
By BRYANT STEELE
Staff writer
The Student Senate last night passed a
motion stating it would not review
allocations for small organizations unless
Dean of Student Affairs Dwight Douglas
returns to the senate its former alloca
tions powers.
Allocating tunds lor small organizations
is "shitwork the senate was willing to do
when we had major allocations.” Robert
Crout (Graduate), said
“If we re not competent to deal with 80
Job shifts expected
if Saturday mail ends
By JOHN W. HARMON
The proposed cut of Saturday postal
deliveries would not result in any local
job layoffs, according to a regional
Postal Service official. However, some
employes may have to change to another
craft or job location within the Postal
Service.
H.D Bailey, Postal Service director of
finance, employment and labor relations
for the Northeast Georgia district, said
only “part-time flexible" mail carriers
would be affected by the elimination of
Saturday deliveries.
These part-time carriers usually handle
Saturday deliveries and substitute for
regular carriers when they are ill or on
vacation, and they have no guaranteed
hours or regular schedule, according to
Bailey.
Part-time carriers normally are able to
put in 40 hours during the week, but their
hours could be cut down to a very low
level, Bailey said.
THE ATHENS district of the Postal
Service contains 108 post offices, incor
porating Northeast Georgia and part of
southwestern North Carolina Bailey said
he feels sure that if layoffs or drastic
cuts in the hours of part-time carriers
occur, work will be located for them
somewhere in the local district
Bailey added that he thought the Postal
Service would devise some plan to take
care of any surplus employes that would
result from the termination of Saturday
service.
"We’ll still have the same volume of
mail, and this mail will have to be cased
and handled,” he said
The President of the Athens Chapter of
the National Association of Letter Car-
rie-s (NALC), H H Hardy, speculates
mat the NALC will fight proposal,
because, he feels, some jobs will be lost
“And of course the local people will back
up the national union,” he said
Even if Saturday delivei> ended.
Hardy thinks it will not happen until the
present contract expires "We have a
no-layoff clause in our contract, which
expires July 21, 1978,” he said
The proposal to end Saturday mail
delivery was made by a special lederal
study commission in its April 18 report to
President Jimmy Carter and Congress
The seven-memher panel was established
last year to find some possible means of
solving the growing financial problems of
the Postal Service
Besides cutting out Saturday services,
the commission recommended that first
class postage rates be raised to 16 cents
sometime in 1978 and that federal
subsidies be increased. If these measures
are not adopted, the commission warned,
the cost of mailing a letter could be 28
cents by 1985
per cent (of allocations), how can we be
competent for 20 per cent?” Crout asked,
referring to the action taken earlier by
Douglas in which he formed a committee
to take over some allocations processes
that had been the responsibility of the
Student Senate.
“The Senate has elected to let loose of
any allocations power they had It seems
ironic after using this to recall students,
they (the Senate) say we don’t want any
allocations power.” Grant Raeside, ad
ministrative vice president of the Student
Government Association <SGA), said
RAESIDE was referring to a motion
raised in last week’s senate meeting that
would have recalled Chris Garner 'Jour
nalism) and Tim Lunceford (A&S> from
the senate allocations committee because
they were also serving on Douglas'
allocations committee
"If ever the senate showed a vote of no
confidence, tonight was the night,’’
Raeside said He called the motion an
irrational stand, and also said the fault
did not lie with the majority of the
senate, noting that there was barely a
quorum present at the meeting
The motion will not abolish the senate
allocations committee, however, accord
ing to Anderson Frazer Graduate
Frazer said the senate was only
refusing to allocate funds for small
organizations, giving Douglas that res
ponsibility
The motion called for the senate to
refuse to make the allocations only for
the 1977 78 academic year
IN OTHER ACTION the sev i? ap
proved a recommenot)*ion by the r
relations committee to hold a *. in
referendum May 10.
One item on the .eferendum will give
students the chance to vote on wb*the r
they th»e!; the SGA should be dissolved
There was some question dunni debate
on the item whether the rc'ere.»dtim
could dissolve SGA
"A referendum is not binding, it’s just
opinion.’’ Frazer said “Twenty-two thou
sand students could vote to dissolve SGA.
and we wouldn't have to do it.”
The referendum might "get some of
these senators to do something besides
come to these meetings and vote to
adjourn," Frazer added
Mark Young 'Business) said the refer
endum would not serve a purpose. “If the
students vote against (SGA). the admin
istration will use it against us. If they
vote for it (in a small turnout), the
administration will say it's not a true
indication,” Young said
“IF WE VOTE not to let bus on t'
referendum, the students will be s^u.g
What does the sena*- have to fear’’’
l,ee Woodward (Graduate) said
After other debate, the senate Voted *•>
allow the item on the referendum
Students will also be able to vote on the
referendum whether SGA should be a
member ol Student Advisory Council
8A4
See SENATE, p 2
A LOOK AT OTHER COLLEGES
Allocations plan unique
GREGG STEINLK
Assistant state editor
During the controversy ever the new
allocations system for student activities
fees, some student government represen
tatives suggested that the University
administration's actions could perhaps be
representative of a state-wide effort to
eliminate the existence of Student Go
vernment Associations (SGA).
It was inferred that there might be
collusion between the Board of Regents
and university officials throughout the
state, to effectively eliminate the very
existence of student governments on all
University System campuses by the early
1980's
However, after an investigation of
conditions on other campuses in the
state, this conjecture seems to have no
basis in fact
In fact, if there is any statewide trend
concerning the power and effectiveness
of student government associations, ap
parently it is to increase student input
rather than to decrease it.
ACCORDING TO sources on the cam
pus of Georgia Tech, major student
organizations chartered by the Student
Council submit their budget requests to
the Student Council Finance Committee
The finance committee then preoares a
total budget, which is submitted to the
council as a whole Once the Student
Council approves the budget, it is
“virtually rubber-stamped" by the ad
ministration, sources saia
The same sources indicated that while
there are some minor differences of
News analysis
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opinion between the administration and
the council, none of the differences
indicates any fundamental change in the
power structure
There has been a slight shift of power
on the campus of Georgia State Univer
sity. The shift, however, is one of
increased student input into the process
of activities fees allocations, campus
sources said.
I he current system employed at Geor
gia State is somewhat similar to the
system that had been employed here
until »his year Budget requests for major
campus organizations are submitted to a
finance committee of SGA The SGA
approves a budget and sends it to an
administration official, who turns it over
to a finance committee
Until last year, the finance committee
consisted of five faculty and administra
tion members and three students, wit!,
the Dean of Students acting as chairman
and voting only in the case of a tie.
HOWEVER, the Georgia State SGA
pushed for a two-vote increase in
students, and after negotiations with the
administration, gained a single seat on
the committee, with a conditional prom
ise to add another studem next year, “if
things work out.”
This change at Geoigia State is th;
only significant alteration in the strut,
ture of the allocations process at any
Otbar larft school in the state The only
major school to suffer a weakening of
student input is the University of Geor
gia
Numerous smaller schools wer:. a*'j
contacted, and while they revealed a
wide variation in the degree of student
input into the allocations process, none
had suffered any major upheaval or
decrease in student power this year
These facts lend themselves to the
conclusion that the controversy currently
underway at this University is a singular
problem and in no way reflective of a