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VOLUME H4, NUMBER 2
UNIVERSITY Ol GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA 30602
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23. 1977
Most profs
oppose
A&S revamp
By BRYANT STEELE
Campus editor
An overwhelming majority of the Arts
and Sciences Faculty Senate is still
opposed to major restructuring of the
Franklin College of Arts and Sciences,
according to an informal survey
conducted by The Red and Black.
The survey also indicated support for
former Arts and Sciences Dean John C.
Stephens in his actions as dean and
showed approval of the appointment of
William J. Paine as acting dean.
Thirty-one of the senate’s 39 members
were reached by telephone in the survey.
Tw.o declined comment. Of the eight who
were not contacted, two were out of town
and deadline pressures prevented contin
ued attempts to reach the remaining six.
On the question of restructuring Arts
and Sciences, no one favored a division of
the college, an action many felt President
Fred C. Davison intended to take during
the 1977 spring quarter
Opposition was also voiced to the plans
proposed by then Vice President for
Academic Affairs Merle Prunty during
he 1977 spring quarter Those plans have
would have placed budget and personnel
power over Arts and Sciences in his
office.
See A&S p. 6
Lance returns home,
gets hero’s welcome
Jazzing it up
Jazz pianist Hervie Hancock appeared along with several other jazz •names" this
past summer in Atlanta, but even though Hancock did not make an Athens
appearance, the Athens jazz scene was quite active. For more information on
Hancock and his friends and a recap of summer jazz activity in Athens, see Jazz
notes on page H
From staff and UP1 wire reports
CALHOUN—A day after resigning
under fire as federal budget director.
Bert Lance came home to a hero’s
welcome Thursday and told cheering
north Georgia supporters.“I can't tell you
how much this means to us.” The tall
country banker and his wife were
whisked in a police motorcade from the
little Gordon County airport to the steps
of the county courthouse, where a red.
white and blue banner proclaiming
“Welcome Bert and LaBelle" hung from
the white columns.
More than 1200 residents turned out to
cheer Lance, many waving signs that
said “We back Bert.” and criticizing
both the news media and the Senate
committee which investigated Lance’s
past banking practices The budget
directors resignation was announced by
Carter Wednesday.
“I know you’ve been standing here a
long time in this hot. beautiful Georgia
sun,” Lance told the crowd, which had
been gathering for more than two hours.
“It’s sometimes so polluted in Washing
ton. you don't get to see the sun very
often.
“LaBelle and I can’t tell you how much
this means to us today..to be welcomed
back home like this,” said Lance. “Our
eight months in Washington have been
fine ones, extremely fine ones ”
Lance was mobbed by wellwishers and
QUESTIONS OF ORDER
Regents struggle with race rules
By GREGG STEINLE
State editor
Action at the Board of Regents of the
University System of Georgia was
troubled this summer as the board tried
to devise a plan which complied with new
federal desegregation guidelines.
During the controversy it was revealed
six of the board members belong to
all-white clubs
The board did submit a new
desegregation plan to the Department of
Health. Education and Welfare (HEW)
by the Sept. 1 deadline, but that action
followed a slowly-building disagreement
climated by a confrontation variously
described as "pushing and shoving
match” or a "fistfight,” at the July 28
meeting.
Representatives of Committees United
for Open Education, a coalition of
organizations at University System
schools pushing for immediate desegre
gation, attended the meeting and at one
point were involved in a confrontation
with state security officers.
Members of the coalition have charged
the plan proposed by the regents did not
go far enough toward total desegregation.
GEORGIA AND five other states were
ordered months ago to submit new
desegregation plans bv a federal court as
a result of a suit filed by the NAACP and
the Legal Defense Fund against HEW
The court ruled HEW requirements were
insufficient and ordered HEW to
negotiate new guidelines with NAACP
and the Legal Defense Fund The plan
submitted by Georgia is an effort to meet
those guidelines
Demands for student input in formula
ting the plan sparked the confrontation at
the July 28 meeting and the regents
responded by scheduling three public
hearings to allow student views to be
hear
University graduate student Steve
Patrick was one of three coalition
members selected to speak at the July 28
meeting. He also attended the hearings
Patrick is a member of the University
campus organization Idea Production I
dea Processing < IP). a group which has
opposed other policies of the regents in
the past and is now loosely aligned with
the Committees United for Open
Education coalition
“THE NEW plan is about 200 pages
long and is full of statistics about racial
balances in the past and the present but
contains very little about what they plan
to do in the future.” Patrick said. “It
could probably lie cut to about 12 pages.
They seem to think the longer it is the
better it looks.”
Patrick also said he knew of no
significant changes made by the regents
in the desegregation plan after the three
hearings were held
"I feel we forced the regents to hold
the hearings but the only reason they did
it was to release the political pressure
that had built up.” Patrick said.
Milton Jones, a regent from Columbus
and a member of the hearing committee,
said he could not recall "any specific
recommendations,” but said some of the
recommendations were worthwhile and
worth considering in the future
Jones said the $750,000 requested for
special desegregation in next year’s $400
million budget request would not be
enough to accomplish total desegregation
of the system.
• NO AMOUNT is ever a sufficient
amount, but that is our request and we
he greeted many old men in the
courthouse square on a first-name basis,
asking about friends and relatives The
local high school band, standing behind a
banner that said “Calhoun loves and
supports Bert" played "You'll Never
W r alk Alone” and “I Did It My Way.”
Mayor Billy Burdette said President
Carter’s election was “an act of God,”
and Lance's appointment and resignation
also were divinely ordained.
“We should not be sorry,” Burdette
said "I’ve been very depressed,
especially since yesterday, but we should
make this a celebration.”
Among the hundreds of signs bobbing
above the heads of spectators at the
courthouse was one that asked "News
Media—who's next?" Another said
"Welcome home Bert—stay where you
are wanted—you don’t need Washing
ton.”
In Athens Dean Emeritus William late,
a native of Calhoun, said he has known
Lane' 4 and his family for years
“He is a very honest and very capable
person.” Tate said “In my mind he has
done what looks sort of bad when
investigated but on the other hand he is
not personally dishonest "
Dr. Albert Saye, professor in the
political science department at the
University, said he was concerned about
due process
See LANCE, p 6
GCC may sue
Georgia Power
} r I
hope to get b, Jones said.
Regent Erwin S. Friedman of
Savannah said the budgets of the
individual institutions have to include
funds representing the desegregation
process in their budgets.
Friedman said speakers at the
hearings addressed themselves primarily
to the concept of an open admissions
policy that would eliminate objective
testing.
“I think they raised some serious
questions about the testing process,
particularly the SAT (Scholastic
Aptitude Test) testing, and whether or
not we should re-examine testing
procedures on a continuing basis with the
possibility ol looking for other means,”
Friedman said
Friedman also said a call by the
members of the coalition for more
special, remedial type education didn’t
make it into the proposed guidelines in
any "definable way.”
He said the plan was altered to include
the concept of taking advantage of an
institution's already existing attributes,
especially at predominantly black
institutions.
See HEW. p. 7
By YVONNE WILLIAMS
Assistant state editor
The Georgia Consumer Center has
vowed to take Georgia Power Co. to court
in an effort to slice “$40-160 million” off
the electric utility's annual rate increase.
Larry Thomason, a Decatur attorney
who v$V s he will represent the GCC in
the pending lawsuit, labeled the $97 6
million rate hike, approved by the state
Public Service Commission <PSC> earlier
this month. “ totally unjustified and
inflationary ”
The Atlanta-based consumer advocacy
group will attempt to trim “at least 50
per cent off that gravy given to the
Georgia Power," Thomason said, while
seeking to have the utility company’s
recently instituted inverted rate schedule
declared unconstitutional.
The rate schedule, proposed by PSC
Commissioner Bobby Pafford and im
plemented this week statewide, is
designed to place the financial burden of
generating electricity upon the backs of
heavy consumers, while rewarding those
who conserve energy.
But according to Thomason, the system
will actually "discriminate against
consumers whose homes or businesses
are totally electric.
"The people who have total electric
heating and cooling systems will be eaten
alive by the inverted rate schedule,”
Thomason contended.
The rate schedule provides for an
across the-board increase for all classes
of customers—residential, commercial
and industrial—which will average about
9.5 per cent. Georgia Power Co. officials,
including Athens Marketing Manager
Jim Koen, have maintained that the
average customer will not be greatly-
affected by the hike.
For the average student consuming
around 900 kilowatt-hours monthly, the
rate increase will mean a $3 maximum
jump in his electrical bill each month,
Koen said
However. Thomason charged the
average student or homeowner consumes
many more Kilowatt-hours than power
officials are estimating.
“On 900 kilowatt-hours a month, you
could have a light bulb, a small
refrigerator and possibly a small stove.”
he said
You would be just barely surviving, in
other words You couldn't have any air
conditioning, no television and no
appliances,” Thomason said
Studnet consumers in Athens may
expect their bills to be about the same, if
the previous electrical b»lls have been
about $30 or less, Koen said
“There will be very little, if any,
increase in that range of bills,” Koen
said.
Yet Thomason, a former state
legislator and the author of the Georgia
Open Meetings Law. charged that Koen
is “either not speaking the truth or he is
totally incompetent ”
“Students who live in dorms might not
notice much of a rate increase But a
student living in an apartment or a
mobile home can expect a minimum
increase of 9.5 per cent In fact, it would
more likely be three or four times that
amount.”
Both men agreed that aside from the
increase in customers individual power
bills, consumers will most likely be
See UTILITY, p C
Rape attempts reported
in two neighborhoods
By TOM BARTON
City editor
Two cases of attempted rape have
occurred in the city within the past 48
hours, one in the Oglethope Ave area
and another in the Broad St area, police
said.
An Athens woman escaped a rape
attempt early Thursday morning near
Oglethorpe Ave. when she reportedly
kicked and screamed and eventually
drove the would be rapist away. Athens
police are investigating the incident and
are releasing no more details at this
time
Another Athens woman was the target
of an attempted rape Wednesday night
when two men allegedly forced her into
their car on Broad St and then drove into
the Barber St. area
According to police reports, the woman
began screaming and was struck by one
of the men The captors soon released
her nearby on Grady
The victim declined to prosecute.
Athens police are also investigating a
shooting incident that took place
Wednesday night on 194 Third St
Gregory Davis was taken to Athens
General Hospital for gunshot wounds he
reportedly received from his wife during
an argument Davis' condition was not
available
University police are investigating two
thefts which occurred this week in two
University parking lots.
Mary S. Royal of Brumby Hall
reports the theft of a set of hubcaps
valued at $250 from a Chevrolet Monte
Carlo, parked in the Brumby lot.
sometime- between 11pm Sept 19 and
8:45 a m. Sept 20.
Bernard Katall of Oglethorpe House
repotted the theft of a CB radio and
H track tape player from his car parked
in the Boggs Hail lot last Saturday night
The items were valued at $IR9
Capsule news
Senate date announced
The first meeting of the Student Senate will ue held Sept 28 in the small
ballroom of Memorial at 6:30 p.m., according to senate President Steve Newton
All interested students are invited to attend, Newton said.
Setting it straight
The correct Tel-Med library tape number is 2-8910 and the correct student
services library tape number is 2 8912. The numbers were incorrectly reported In
yesterday's Red and Black.
R&B meeting set
The Red and Black will have a meeting (or new staffers on Sunday at 7 .10 p m
in 309 Journalism Anyone interested in reporting, photography, or production is
urged to attend.
Photo by GROlUiK SICAY
The maddening crowd
As hordes of University students
rushing to their classes do you eve
such as What the heck am 1 soing
“d you. eagerly
-self questions
watch out
that kind of thinking is dangerous Remember, "Ours is not to
question why .”