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THE RED AND BLACK
VOLUME HI. NUMBER 29
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA. ATHENS. GEORGIA 30602
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TUESDAY. NOVEMBER I. 1977
Library resignation gets mixed reaction
By PATRICIA TEMPLETON
Editor
Last week’s announcement of the
resignation of Donald Petty, the man who
had been second in command of the
University's libraries, has brought mixed
reaction from library employes.
Petty, executive assistant to the
director of libraries, resigned from his
position on Oct. 17 However, his
resignation was not officially announced
by Director of Libraries Warren N Boos
until a week later.
The departure of the controversial
adminsitrator has made many library
employes happy, but these employes feel
that Petty’s departure alone will not
solve the library’s problems.
“We were throwing confetti when we
heard he was leaving.’’ one employe said.
“Everyone I know was very happy, but
that’s not enough." she added.
TIIE EMPLOYE described the atmos
phere among those who work at the Mam
Library a$ similar to that of a “sinking
ship.” "We hear rumors all the time that
Boes is leaving, and that the other
assistant directors are leaving. I think
there is a real power struggle going on.
People are trying to decide which
direction to go," the employe said.
"Petty was only part of the problem at
the library," another library employe
said. “If his resignation is the beginning
of changes then 1 think it is a very
positive move, but I am afraid he may
just be the scapegoat.”
“We have done just about all we can
do. If Boes doesn't go after all this, then
we're stuck with him There’s nothing
else to do Always before there was one
more thing we could do. now there’s
nothing,” another employe said.
We’ve been thiough the channels until
we've drowned in the channels." the
employe added
•MOST OF the people I talked to
thought it was great that he’s gone, but if
he is only the sacrificial lamb that's not
going to be enough." another employe
said.
Boes said last week if he were to leave
the library "it wouldn't be until the end
of the school year "
"I am planning to be here until the
automation of the library is implemen
ted. That’s why I came here," he said
Automation of the library is expected
to be implemented this spring. Boes said
after that he would “study the
opportunities available.” “I'm not a
native Georgian, so I’m not stuck here
I’m no different from any other scholar. I
will just have to look at the opportunities
which are available," he said
Not all library employes were pleased
at the news of Petty’s departure "I am
sorry to see him go. beyond that I have
no comment." said John Christofferson.
the assistant director for the systems and
services division of the library
”1 THINK that would be best under the
circumstances, seeing I will be taking
over many of his responsibilities. I
worked very closely with him."
Christofferson said.
“I am personally disappointed in this
decision." Russell Pease, assistant
See LIBRARY, p.2
CHANGING LIFESTYLES
Corps seeks volunteers
By GERALDINE ROMANO
The average American is confronted
with numerous choices in his lifetime.
Rarely, though, does one take the option
ol totally changing his way of life, at least
for the next two years
Peace Corps volunteers are not too
common, but very much in demand.
That's why there are people like Michael
Buchholz working to recruit them.
Although the organizaion includes
volunteers with many different areas of
knowledge. Buchholtz. Peace Corps
Scarce Skills Coordinator at the
University Career Planning and-
Placement Center, is specifically con
cerned with attracting agriculture and
health nutrition students to his office.
They're wanted to fill the over-abun
dance of open positions in those fields.
They're needed to help underdeveloped
countries around the world become not so
underdeveloped.
THE DEGREE of need and the type of
help desired of volunteers varies
depending on their placement. Buchholz
explained
Some are sent to work with people
who have just a little farm in their
yard." he said. “Others may go out to
villages centering around cattle to teach
the people how to raise and sell them for
a better profit
“Volunteers are there to teach, not do
the farmers' work.' he said. “Their
whole philosophy is to replace them
selves."
There are advisory positions within the
government structures besides the ones
on actual farms Speaking as a former
volunteer who held an advisory position
in Botswana. Africa. Buchholz pointed
out that these especially must be handled
with care.
"SOME COUNTRIES are less devel
oped and need more help than others,"
he said. “But none of the countries think
of themselves as being underdeveloped.
You have to go in there with the intention
of advising, not overtaking them with
change. You can’t exactly tell a farmer
that everything he’s been doing all his
life is wrong."
Volunteers are only stationed in
countries they’ve been invited to, so they
usually don’t come across resentment
instead of gratitude on the part of the
people they’re helping. Buchholz said He
explained that it's hard for a farmer to
admit that it's his fault for failing
Having a college degree is not a
requirement for being a volunteer, but it
is preferable. Buchholz said. Although
there are people equipped with the
necessary skills for helping others,
acquired from their past experiences, the
diploma establishes more credibility with
foreign officials.
It is advantageous for prospective
applicants in the agriculture division to
have worked on farms, he said.
WII \T IS required is that the applicant
be a U S. citizen and be at least 20 years
of age. However, the average age of a
volunteer is 27. and less than 2 per cent
are under 20. That is due to the fact that
usually people under 20 lack the
experience and-or maturity to work in
the corps, Buchholz said.
Applications are reviewed by the corps
and those volunteers chosen are sent to
one of the developing countries in South
America. Africa, East Asia, Indonesia
and the Pacific Islands. They can state
their preference of location, but Buchholz
feels “if you really want to help other
people it shouldn’t matter where you go."
Housing arrangements provided for
volunteers vary, depending on the
country, and sometimes volunteers are
offered the option of renting rooms Most
are encouraged to live on the same level
as the people they’re working with, which
may mean utilizing a mud hut. according
to Buchholz.
In addition to the ticket for traveling to
and from their countries, volunteers are
paid $125 per month, which is often saved
for resettling after the two years are up.
They are also given an allowance to live
on the middle class level of the country
they’re stationed in and receive medical
coverage.
The Peace Corps was started in 1961 by
President John F. Kennedy with the goal
of providing manpower service to foreign
countries. Buchholz feels that the actual
material rewards gained by volunteers in
achieving that goal are few. but the
amount of self-satisfaction felt is
tremendous
“It feels good to know that you’re
needed and you can really see how your
influence is helping others, and they
appreciate it,’’ Buchholz said. “If
something you’re working on fails,.you
just keep trying, not because someone’s
paying you. but because it will give you
satisfaction to see it done. By
volunteering you can change your whole
way of looking at the rewards system.”
Some volunteers arrive at the country
and get cold feet. They find it’s not
exactly what they thought it would be
and they can’t adjust, so they return
home. Buchholz said
Presently there are 6000 volunteers in
64 different countries. There’s a
tremendous amount of interest at the
University, according to Buchholz.
“We aren’t looking for a certain
number," he said. "We just want more."
Photo by LAUkA GLOVER
Red Cross trucks parked outside Memorial
University fall blood drive begins
with light first-day donor turnout
The University Fall Blood Drive slowly
pushed itself into first gear Monday as
Red Cross and student volunteers
reported a light turnout for the three day
drive.
The drive, which is being coordinated
by University Union and is stationed in
the Memorial Ballroom, will continue
from 11 a m. to 5 pm. through
Wednesday.
According to Union officials, a goal of
1050 pints has been set for the first fall
drive to be held at the University.
The winter drives at the University
have been the largest in the Southeast
and some of the largest collegiate drives
in the nation, according to Claire Hamby,
director of special events at the Union.
“The University will be supplying the
blood needs of over 90 northeast Georgia
hospitals this week," Hamby said
The 2300 pints donated in 1976 at the
University is an all-time record for the
state.
Union officials claim they would have
eclipsed that mark last winter when 2068
were collected, but 307 people were
deferred from giving blood because of a
major flu epidemic at the time.
A student's blood pressuie and type is
checked after he is registered. Hamby
said. A student becomes eligible for
lifetime blood benefits for himself and his
family, she added
“The college student is the ideal blood
donor." Fred Brown, assistant director of
Student Activities said ‘Most are first
time donors and are likely to become
donors for the rest of their life."
Fear shrouds Columbus in killings’wake
By YVONNE WILLIAMS
Assistant state editor
COLUMBUS—An air of fear, suspicion
and dread shrouds this Southwest
Georgia metropolitan city.
It has been nearly a week since the
body of the fourth elderly woman to be
brutally tortured and slain in seven
weeks was found, and local lawmen are
apparently no closer to tracking down the
killer
An attitude of hopeless desperation
seems to have settled in among police
and citizenry alike Local homicide
investigators admit that the trail to the
killer seems only to have grown colder
with each subsequent slaying.
Local residents have responded by
purchasing more locks and other home
security devices than ever.
BUT THESE devices seem to be no
deterrent to the unknown killer The last
woman to be killed, Martha Bradford
Thurmond, 69. of SH4 Marion St., had
equipped her home with every possible
safety device—floodlights, burglar bars,
securely shut windows and dead bolt
locks.
According to local police, the killer
apparently had no problem entering
through Thurmond's dead-bolt locked
front door
Thurmond was killed last Tuesday in
her home in the same manner as the
other elderly women previously Each
was struck hard across the face, sexually
tortured while a pillow was pressed
across her face to muffle the screams,
and then strangled with a nylon stocking
“The motive is torture, and murder.”
Columbus coroner J. Donald Kilgore
said.
According to Kilgore, an inflexible
object of some type was used to sexually
violate the wcmen, but whether rape
accompanied the torture is undeter
mined.
SIMILARITIES in the killings, accor
ding to Kilgore, include:
—All were found lying on their backs in
bed with pillows over their faces
—All appeared to have been struck on
the left side of the face.
—All were strangled with a stocking
The first and second victims were found
with the stockings wrapped three times
around their necks. The last two victims
had the stocking wrapped around their
necks twice
—All were similarly sexually assaulted
—All four women were either spinsters
or widows living alone
—All four women lived in the same
southeast section of the city, with each
killing being less than a mile away from
the others
In fact, the sites of the slayings form a
geographical pattern -three straight in a
row and one perpendicular below the
others
One Columbus Police Department
homicide detective speculated, "If we
have one more murder, this one to the
north and in line with the one at the
bottom of the map, the murder sites will
form the shape of a cross."
ALTHOUGH police had arrested a
suspect in the killings shortly after the
second slaying last month, the suspect
was in custody when the third and fourth
slayings took place
The suspect, identified as Jerome
"Duck" Livas. a 25-year-old construction
worker, had been arrested on Oct. 2 and
charged with murder in connection
with the fatal beating and rape of his
girlfriend, Beatrice Brier, 58
However, most lawmen now believe
that the murder of Brier was unrelated to
the slayings of the other four women
Brier was attacked and beaten on the
street by Livas, police said, totally unlike
the circumstances of the other slayings
Following his arrest for the Brier
murder. Livas reportedly signed a
confession to the first two murders and.
according to lawmen at that time, told
the police facts of the slayings only the
killer would have known
LOCAL POLICE later revealed that
Livas is what they termed “a borderline
idiot," both mentally slow and illiterate
Police said that the killer is probably
quite intelligent because he was able to
enter and leave the victims’ homes
without leaving incriminating evidence
behind
Local lawmen say they have been
unable to find any identifiable finger
prints which could pinpoint the killer, and
they speculate that the strangler wore
gloves
Livas has not been charged with any of
the other four murders, police said
Columbus police have joined hands
with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation
and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
in an effort to solve the crimes, but
.awmen have apparently come no closer
to discovering the* identity of the
strangler
INVESTIGATORS have beefed up their
detective divisions and patrol units since
the pattern of slayings began, according
to CPI) Homicide Chief R.A Jones
‘ We are working 12 to 16 hour shifts,
seven days a week." Jones said “None
of our officers have had off days in more
than five weeks
"Our patrols have been tripled, and
none of our 52 detectives have had any
time off." he said.
Hindering law enforcement eftorts is
the apparent mass hysteria sparked
among Columbus residents by the
killings
“We’re going out on a call every time a
dog runs across somebody's yard." said
one patrol officer. “Everybody's scared.”
FOLLOWING the slaying of the fourth
victim last week. Gov. George Busbee
offered $5000 in state money last
Wednesday as a reward for information
leading to the arrest of the killer
Photo by YVONNE WILLIAMS
Door forced by killer at home of the most recent Columbus victim
See COLUMBUS, p.2
CarM>n I
All the killings took place within this area