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The Randall Bramble!! Band concerl in the Memorial ballroom Wednesday was an
exciting evening for those who endured the conditions Bramblett's optimistic
lyrics and the band's tight performance made the show a memorable one Which is
nice, since the group is disbanding A review is on page 3.
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UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA 30602
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FRIDAY, MAY 27. 1877
Davison to restructure A&S;
declares intent in memo
Photo by DAVID CROSBY
By RANDY I.OFTIS
University President Fred C. Davison
said last night he has no immediate
timetable for implementing his announ
ced restructuring of the Franklin College
of Arts and Sciences t A&S).
Davison told The Red and Black he was
not prepared to discuss any possible
details of the restructuring, which he
announced yesterday in a 176-page memo
to the University faculty in apparent
response to a no-confidence vote form the
A&S faculty
The vote was part of the results of the
1977 A&S fauclty poll conducted in April
and released this week to some faculty
members.
It showed, among other things, that 86
per cent of the A&S faculty who
responded to the poll did not believe
Davison deserved an overall favorable
rating.
IN ADDITION, 95 per cent of those who
voice an opinion said Davison does not
communicate well with the faeuly.
The communication issue was at the
heart of Davison's announcement. He
blamed a lack of leadership in the
college, and the structure of the college
itself, for any breakdown in communica
tion.
"It is reather strange when one
considers that of the 12 schools and
colleges with separate faculties on our
campus, only one seems to have a
continuing, unresolved communications
problem,” Davison said in the memo.
He apparently was referring to last
year’s A&S poll, in which both he and
then-Provost S. William Pelletier were
rated very low in overall ratings.
Pelletier announced his resignation
shortly after the poll results were
released.
Arts and Sciences Dean John C.
Two arrested for theft
By TOM BARTON
City editor
University police have always urged
students to engrave their valuable
belongings with their ID numbers to
prevent them from being stolen But
when someone tries to engrave allegedly
"hot” merchandise, the police draw the
line
University police arrested Richard F.
Tedesco. 18. or Myers Wednesday, and
charged him with burglary and arrested
Dawn Cabey. 19, of Mell, charged with
theft by receiving Both were arrested in
connection with the theft of $1300 stereo
system from John Jette of Myers, during
last Christmas holidavs
Tedesco was arrested by University
police Tuesday evening, when detectives
using a search warrant, found two CB
radios in his dorm room that were
allegedly stolen from Russell and
Brumby parking lots over the weekend
He was charged with two counts of
felony theft by taking, was held by the
county sheriff's office on $10,000 bond,
and was released after a night in jail
According to a spokesman for the
University police. Tedesco came to the
police station the next day to get an
engraver to mark some of his valuables
After he left, an officer remembered a case
of a stolen stereo (hat occured in Myers
during Christmas holidays, and called
Jette, getting his stereo serial numbers
Jette also said he knew Tedesco, who had
at one time tried to buy the stereo
system.
Detectives said their suspicions were
aroused, and they decided to pay a call
on Cabey, a friend of Tedesco s in Mell
When detectives arrived, they saw the
stereo in open view, and said they asked
Cabey (or her permission to search the
room With the consent search, detectives
were able to match up the serial numbers
from Jette s missing stereo to the one in
Cabey's room.
Cabey was taken down to the police
station, and was charged with theft by
receiving Tedesco later confessed that
he stole the stereo, and was charged with
burglary
Stephens and Graduate Dean Hardy
Edwards fared considerably better in
both polls than did Davison This year’s
survey asked the facutly to rate all three
men on 20 aspects of their abilities.
STEPHENS HAD no immediate com
ment on the Thursday memo He said he
had knowledge of reports that Davison
will apply pressure to force his resigna
tion.
Edwards also declined comment, but
he did acknowledge he has refused
earlied this week to sign a letter
commending Davison. Barry Wood, Uni
versity director of public relations and
the author of the Thursday memo, asked
him to sign the letter. Edwards said.
“I was phoned by Mr. Wood, and he
told me about it (the letter). I don't even
know that he read the whole thing to me
But he said a letter had been signed by
a number of deans and vice presidents,
and he asked me if I would like to sign
it,” Edwards said.
“I told him I wouldn’t care to sign
anything right now,” he said.
DAVISON HAS apparently attmepted
to muster support against the A&S poll
results, gathering commendations from
other schools of the University
“Over the past several months I have
been publicly thanked by faculty and
alumni organizations of other colleges
and schools for being sensitive to their
needs and communicating with them
regarding their purposes,” Davison said
in the memo.
“Apparently in only one of the schools
does communication stop at the level of
its administrative group," he continued.
“We are a house with 12 windows, light
shines through all but one.”
Dr William A Owens, the director of
the Institute for Behavior Research, once
Davison’s acting provost and now senior
faculty adviser, echoed the theme Mon
day when he told the A&S faculty senate,
“With the other schools commending the
president, it looks a little different" in
A&S.
DAVISON SAID in the memo he found
it "incredible that people dealing with
knowledge and facts in the classroom
know so few of the fact about their own
institution, and apparently have made so
little effort to gain information readily
available about the University
"I have therefore decided that the
current Arts and Sciences program must
be restructured along more functional
lines," he continued. “This will be done
in the immediate future."
Davison restated the point—"this will
be done"—at the end of his statement
The A&S faculty bad said in the poll
that it would not favor splitting the
college into two or more schools, a move
that has been discussed for some time
And on Monday, the A&S senate got a
report on a nine-month, in-depth study
headed by Dr. C. Henry Edwards that
recommended against a split or any
other major change in the college's
structure
Asked what study Davison used in
reaching his decision. Wood said. "Dr
Davison studies it all the time "
FACULTY REACTION to the an
nouncement was divided. There were
widespread expressions of shock and
surprise, and confusion on what the
change would mean in concrete terms
Some faculty leaders said they were
unsure whether Davison was announcing
a split in the college or an administrative
shakeup
Department heads expressed negative
attitudes towards the announcement, but
many said they had not yet read the
memo
Dr Albert Speer, head of the Depart
ment of Germanic and Slavic Languages,
was one who took exception to the
change.
"The Arts and Sciences faculty i3 one
the record through two or three commit
tees are being opposed to this I think
he’s flying straight in the face of a large
majority of faculty opinion, he said
A regularly scheduled A&S faculty
meeting Thursday afternoon failed to
produce any statement or debate on the
announcement
Removal stalled;
VP not censured
BvBRYANT STEELE
Campus editor
The question of whether the Student
Senate would remove Mark Segura
(A&S) from office became a moot issue
yesterday when the Judicial Council
granted Segura an injunction against
such action
The other major issue facing the
senate, the censure of Executive Vice
President Nancy Neal, was taken up at
the senate’s meeting last night The
senate failed to gather the necessary
votes for censure
The Judicial Council granted the injun
ction because the senate, in its original
impeachment vote, did not have a
two-thirds vote as requred by the Student
Body Constitution, according to Associate
Justice Chuck Graham
The senate needed 36 votes to impeach
and had gotten only 33. Graham said
Segura had been impeached at Wed
nesday night’s meeting as the result of
throwing a pie in thr fact of Chril
Garner < Journalism I.
There was question after the impeach
ment vote whether the two-thirds re
quirement had been met Senate Presi
dent Steve Newton < Agriculture > ruled at
that time that two thirds of the
must be present to impeach, but that it
was not necessary for two-thirds of the
senate to vote in favor of impeachment
According to Graham, however, the
constitution requires a two-thirds vote of
the entire senate to impeach
Last night's meeting was called after
the impeachment issue arose Wednesday
night Considering Sedura impeached, the
senate needed a subsequent meeting to
vote on removing him from office
After stating that the senate could not
consider the Segura issue. Newton asked
that they consider themselves in regular
session for the purpose of conducting
some unfinished business
One of the first items discussed was- the
censure of Neal
The attempted censure was the result
of Neal’s actions at a Student Advisory
Council »SAC) conference May 20-22 At
the conference she voted against student
body President Rob Hancock in his
attempt to become a member of the
Board of Regents Buildings and Grounds
Committee
Neal also allegedly made disparating
remarks about Hancock at a party the
night before the vote
Tricia Working 'Education), who spon
sored the ^ensure, worded to the
effect that Neal had not acted in the best
interest of University students, that she
had affected the ability of Hacock to
function in SAC and that she had
degraded the University in the eves of
SA<
After some debate, rules were suspen
ded to allow Neal to address the senate
Neal accused Working of not defining
the alleged misdeeds She also said she
voted for the most qualified person even
though that person was from another
institution, that she spoke only against
Hancock's qualifications and not against
him personally and that she did not
degrade Hancock or the University.
Asked if her actions had hurt the
University’s chances for a new student
center. Neal said they had not Hancock
lost the seat, in fact. Neal said, because
he had spoken about wanting a student
center for the University
Working then read remarks Neal had
supposedly made at a party during the
conference. The remarks, in various
degrees, were negative toward Hancock
Neal denied making the remarks.
Economics root of 'Sunbelt-Snowbelt' issue
By ROBERT ALEXANDER
Concressman Michael J. Harrington
(D-Mass.) in an address before a
regional conference of the National
League of Cities a week ago in Atlanta
said he did not want to be characterized
as a later day Charles Sumner
Sumner was a Massachusetts Con
gressman who advocated harsh and
punitive measures against the South in
the early days of Reconstruction.
Harrington, chairman of a congres
sional coalition seeking to stabilize the
deteriorating economy of the Northeast,
participated in a "debate with state Sent.
Wilis P. Whichard (N.C.) on "Fiscal
Regional Disparities,” or the Snowbelt
vs. the Sunbelt controv ersy
Harrington’s remarks underscored a
growing conflict between Northern politi
cians who believe a disproportionate
share of Northern federal taxes have
been spent in the economically expanding
South and Southwest while the Northern'
economy experiences industrial decay
"The long ride of a generation and a
half is fundamentally over,” he said,
referring to the industrial growth of the
Northeast
THE ECONOMIC growth in this region
has stalled, he said, because of the high
costs of energy and transportation and
political and economic decisions to move
industries and military bases to other
parts of the country.
Harrington is chairman of the Midwest-
Northeast Economic Advancement Coali
tion. a group of over 200 congressmen
supporting a new economic development
policy for the ailing Northeast and
Midw est
Harrington said in his speech that he is
in no way responsible "for the descrip
tion of my efforts as a second war
between the states."
Rather, he said, "the last thing we
are really interested in is any kind of
exacerbation of sectional sensitivity."
These unfavorable federal policies he
termed the result of a "growing vocaliza
tion of the congressional experience "
Congressmen knew they could stay in
office as long as they served the needs of
a particular community, district or state,
he said.
THE PURPOSE of his coalition, liar
rington said, was "to recognize that we
had problems that transcended states,
districts and regions This is no part of a
conspiracy, but rather the result of
demographic patterns, social influences
and high energy costs,” he said
Whichard, the vice chairman of the
Southern Growth Policies Board, dis
agreed with the date used to support the
claim that the South’s expanding eeonmy
was the result of Northern decline
About half of the South's population
growth, excluding Florida, is indigenous,
and form 1970-75 for the first time since
the Civil War, there was a net in-
migration of M.oou blacks, he said
In addition, a joint study by Harvard
University and the Massachusetts Institute
of Technology showed that the migration
of businesses occur within the regions, he
said
"Only 1.5 per cent of the jobs losi in the
North were from out migration f >"rmi.
Only 1 2 per cent of the job gams ,i. the
Sunbelt were from in-migration of cm
pames Ironically, the North actually
gained a few more jobs by in-migration
of firms during that particular period
"Thus the facts simply do not support
the notion of Northern decline caused by
Southern larceny of Snowbelt industries
Yet simple images, however erroneous,
are often hard to dispel,” he said.
WHICHARD expressed concern that in
accurate date will be used to slight the
South under federal grants-in-aid pro
grams. such as the proposed Housing and
Community Development Act of 197.
"Accuracy is not an abstract goal
Congress is now considering changes in
the way federal allocations are made
But if those changes are made without
the discipline imposed by correct and
complete factual date, they will bo made
without discretion—except, of course, (or
that provided by narrow political goals,"
he said
Fourth District Cong Elliot Levitas
said last week the new formula for
federal allocations represents a "legiti
mate consideration ' for the Northeast
which he said is "going out of business
” I think there is a very obvious
concerted effort on the part of the
Northeast and Midwestern congressmen
to advance their interests that works to
the detriment of the South and West
“I do think it's serious It's something
we've got to be well aware of." he said
Then programs Levitas added, should
lie given the same consideration as in the
1’jKO's when congressmen from all re
gions were asked to help fund legislation
lor '*■•• economically depressed Apin’:)'
chian region
"When i* comes to the decliniM. aos
of the Northeast we have to take into
consideration their need But when the
coalition of the Northeast go out ad say
we're going to get you, they're just
casting bread on the water and it’s going
to come back and sevenfold.” Levitas
said
SOUTHERN politicians in the past
have formed coalitions to advance their
own economic causes In 1971, 12 south
ern states formed the Southern Growth
Policies Board and in the 1930's Georgia
Public Service Commission Chairman
Walter McDonnell helped establish the
Southern Governor’s Conference for the
sole purpose, then, of fighting discrimina
lory freight rates on Northern railroads
Former Georgia Gov Carl Sanders
participated in briefs filed before the U S
Supreme Court which outlawed undue
discriminatory freight rates in 1947
Sanders' law firm is still in court
litigating efforts by Northern railroads to
charge more in their rates because of
regional differences
"We fought for 35 to 40 years now to
eliminate discriminatory freight rates
and other discriminatroy practices that
were put upon the South many years
ago," Sanders said in an interview with
The Red and Black last week, “and we
have been successful so far in perpetu
ating equal divisions in freight rates "
"And we hope to be successful at
preventing parts of the country from
putting our region at an economic
disadvantage We are and have been
representing the last frontier as far as
the great industrial development is
concerned
"WV can’t afford to lose this either just
through a lack of diligence to make sure
Congress doesn't pass unfair legislation,"
Sanders said
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ANALYSIS AND COMMENT
The purpose of this senes was not to
add more fuel to the broiling controversy
over which region is assaulting whom,
but to describe the political effects in the
1970's of the mushrooming Southern
economy
There is no "second war between the
states" as Business Week, The National
Journal. The Washington Post and other
media tend to suggest
As Gov George Busbee's staff aide,
Duane Riner, described the scene. It's
not a pitched battle (because) we don’t
know who the enemy is "
He said Busbee is not "paranoid” about
the efforts of the Northern congressmen
because the growth of the South is
inevitable due to natural factors such as
climate and lowqr energy costs
"They're not trying to thwart the South
and we’re no trying to steal your ithe
North's) industry I don't know who think
who's the greater threat,” Riner said
In the Federalist Papers James Madi
son wrote that "the most common and
durable” source of factions is economics
Economics has always been a subliminal
factor in the sectional conflict between
North and South
However, it should be noted that the
largest industrial expansion is occurring
in the Southwest and Mountain stales But
it is the South which has come the
furthest because of political and econom
ic policies of the federal government
follow ing the devastation of the first War
Between the States
These policies have been both favor
able, such as the development of the
Tennessee Valley Authority, and unfav
orable, such as the discriminatory freight
rates
Nevertheless, the position of being the
economic step-child for the rest of the
country for almost a century is firmly
engrained in "the mind of the South.”
In Whichard’s speech he quoted some
remarks made by Henry Grady in 1889
while publisher of the Atlanta Constitu
tion.
"I attended a funeral once in Pickens
County in my state," Grady said. "This
funeral was particuarly sad It was a
poor fellow like most Southerners
"they buried him in the midst of a
marble quarry, they cut through solid
marble to make his grave: and yet the
tombstone they put above him was from
Vermont They buried him in the heart of
a pine forest, and the pine coffin was
imported from Cincinnati
“They buried him within touch of an
iron mine, and yet the nails in his coffin
and the shovel that dug his grave were
imported from Pittsburgh They
buried him by the side of the best
sheep-grazing country on earth, and yet
the wool in the coffin bands and the
coffin bands themselves were brought
from the North
"They buried him in a New York coat
and a Boston pair of shoes and a pair of
britches from Chicago and a shirt form
Cincinnati.
"Tile South didn't furnish a thing on
earth for that funeral but the corpse and
the hole in the ground," he said
