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Page 2 The Rea and Black. Tuesday, November 29. 1977
Transfer policy
tabled by EAC
By SHEILA ELDER
Transfer policy, senior exam
exemption and the apparent
overlap of the duties of the
University Council and the
Academic Affairs Advisory
Committee (AAAC) were is
sues dealt with during the Nov.
22 meeting of the Educational
Affairs Committee (EAC).
The issues took the form of
resolutions to be presented to
the University Council.
A proposal before the Uni
versity Council to present a
new policy concerning school
transfers was tabled by the
committee until further study
could be made. The proposal
would name specific courses in
each college which would not
transfer A student who has
been doing poorly in the field
of study he had originally
chosen could be given a better
opportunity to pull up his
cumulative grade point aver
age by losing some bad grades
in courses he may not have
been suited for
Many of the committee
members were against com
pletely wiping out courses
Professor Cameron Fincher
suggested that two grade point
averages be placed on the
student's final record, one
including all courses a student
had taken and the other
consisting only of those courses
clearly identified as being
necessary for the degree
granted The professors de
layed making a decision on the
proposal until they could
discern the opinions of the
deans of all the schools
Dr. Robert Seerly, Agricul
ture. presented his faculty's
dislike of recent decisions
concerning the removal of
incomplete grades, the short
ening of the drop add period
and the withdrawal policy.
“I’ve never felt that the
University Council is as strong
as it needs to be as a policy
making body. We need to
establish a consistency of
policy-making Who makes
decisions, the AAAC or the
University Council ". he said
Seerly questioned the com
mittee about its previous
action concerning the new
withdrawal policy before it
was passed by AAAC. Action
on the resolution for the new
withdrawal policy was delayed
in the EAC and then taken
over and quickly passed by the
AAAC. according to Seerly.
Dr Ira Aaron pointed out
Seerly s resolution would ‘pre
sent a problem because it
(withdrawal policy and drop-
ad) has already been voted on
by the other body.' Aaron
suggested that the matter be
looked into unofficially by
acting chairman of the com
mittee, James Buck.
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NIXON LEGACY
Policies evident in court
By MIKE VIRTANEN
Assistant state editor
Richard Nixon may have left the country with more than
the Watergate scandal. Vietnamization and Chinese relations
as a public legacy.
In 1968. Nixon was elected on a strong “law and order”
platform The effects of those get tough promises are
apparent in today’s courts, according to a University law
professor
According to Professor Donald E Wilkes Jr., the current
trend in criminal law is toward a reduction in the scope of
defendants' rights And this constriction. Wilkes said, “is
directly attributable to the Court by the Nixon appointments.”
Nixon appointed four Supreme Court justices from 1969 until
he left office in 1974. They are Chief Justice Warren Burger
appointed in 1969. Justice Harry A Blackman in 1970. and
Justices William H. Rehnquist and Lewis F Powell in 1972.
THE FOUR WERE appointed to replace retired members of
the Warren Court And the shift in emphasis from the court
headed by Chief Justice Earl Warren, consisting of Roosevelt,
Truman. Eisenhower. Kennedy and Johnson appointees, to the
current Burger court is significant, Wilkes said.
“ The Warren Court has been described by many attorneys
and in the law books as a ‘criminal procedure revolution.’ It
expanded the scope of protective procedures by the Bill of
Rights,” Wilkes said. ‘ The principal way the Warren Court
increased rights was by expanding the requirements of
government procedure by prosecutors.”
Wilkes said that before the 1960s most of the guarantees of
the Bill of Rights were not applied to the state courts, where
90 per cent of all criminal cases are tried. They were
incorporated into the state court procedures, supplementing
state constitutions, by the Warren Court, he added. But the
Burger Court has reversed the trend due to its Nixon
appointments. Wilkes explained.
"They have not disincorporated any of the rights, but
they’ve weakened it,” Wilkes said. “They’ve eroded the
vitality of the Warren Court decisions
“They’ve heard similar cases and found different results
with many isoteric. refined decisions The Burger Court is
actually a criminal procedure counter-revolution by
interpretation of the Bill of Rights to increase the power of the
federal government.
“To say you have a right means the government can’t do
anything to you There’s a renewed emphasis on criminal
requirements for defendants. They’ve created more
procedural obstacles for defendants who claim their rights
have been violated and consequently don't hear many cases.”
WILKES CITED THE example of the Apodaca v. Oregon
case decided May 22, 1972 This was the first criminal
procedure case decided after the confirmation of Rehnquist,
the last Nixon appointment.
By a 5-4 decision, with all Nixon appointments voting in the
majority joined by Justice Byron R. White, the court upheld
an Oregon statute that does not require a unanimous jury vote
to convict a defendant of non-capital crime.
Writing the majority decision, White said: “The Sixth
Amendment guarantee to a jury trial made applicable to the
states by the Fourteenth Amendment does not require that the
jury’s vote be unanimous.”
JUSTICE POWELL, HOWEVER, voted with the majority in
the application of non-unanimous juries in state courts. But in
a separate decision he concluded that unanimous juries are
required in federal convictions.
His decision made the vote 5-4 against non-unanimous juries
in federal courts, joining Warren Court Justices
Potter Stewart, William J. Brennan and Thurgood
Marshall, who dissented against the procedure on both levels.
“You can be convicted under circumstances under which
you could not be convicted before,’’ Wilkes said, indicating the
Burger Court trend.
"They (the Nixon appointments) were all known to be
philosophicaly opposed to the Warren Court decisions," Wilkes
said. “They were outspoken about it and that’s why Nixon
appointed them.”
Clarke County District Attorney Harry Gordon said that in
practice he sees no difference in criminal procedures since the
Nixon appointments.
“If anything, prosecution has become more difficult since I
started in 1972,” Gordon said. “There are more different
pretrial motions a defendant can file.”
“It’s just getting to trial that’s more difficult.” he added
“It’s harder to bring a case to trial and the longer it takes to
get to trial, the harder it is to prosecute.”
GORDON SAID the non-unanimous jury ruling does not
apply in Georgia since there are no statutes for it. He said he
would “like to see it remain that way.”
Wilkes disagreed that Burger Court decisions could increase
the burden of prosecutors
“Pretrial motions are much weaker than they were in the
era of the Warren Court,” Wilkes said. “I don’t think you’ll
ever find a policeman or prosecutor who will say their jobs
are getting easier.”
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Bulletin Board
TUESDAY, NOV. 29
4 p.m.—The Georgia Agricul
turist will meet in 104 Lumpkin
House.
7—Phi Beta Lambda (Future
Business Leaders of America)
will meet Tuesday in 616
Aderhold. Bill Walsh of
Merrill. Lynch. Pierce. Fenner
and Smith will speak.
7:30 p.m.—A panel discus
sion of current archaeological
research in the Wallace Dam
reservoir will be held in 263
Baldwin.
WEDNESDAY. NOV. 30
H p.m.—CGE will hold a
meeting. For more information
call 353-AGAY.
ANNOUNCEMENTS
The Impression 1978 Student
Graphic Calendar is available
for free at the Information
Booth in Memorial.
The Athens Theater Group
sponsored by the Georgia
Council for the Arts and
Humanities is holding audi
tions for its next production
‘Spoon River Anthology" by
Edgar Lee Masters. Auditions
will be held at the Cedar
Shoals High School auditorium
Nov. 29 . 30 and Dec. 1 at 7:30
p.m. Director Tony Shibona is
looking for three actors, three
actresses and two singers, one
male and one female. Perfor
mances are set for early
January. For more informa
tion call 549-6487.
The Visual Arts Division of
the University Union is pre
senting “Paintings by Joe
Olson” in the Gallery of
Memorial from Nov. 21 to Dec.
2.
Campus Gold, a campus Girl
Scout troop is being reorgan
ized. Any former Girl Scouts
who are interested should call
548-7297.
Ten $2000 fellowships for
graduate studies will be
awarded to Alpha Lambda
Delta seniors who have main
tained a 3.5 cumulative grade
point average. Applications are
available from Katie Board-
man. faculty advisor, Career
Planning and Placement. Ap
plications must be received by
National Headquarters by Jan.
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Israel formally accepts
invitation to conference
JERUSALEM (UPI)—Israel today formally accepted
Egypt’s invitation to attend the Cairo conference on Middle
East peace and announced it will send the director general
of the prime minister’s office to head its delegation.
Prime Minister Menahem Begin told the Knesset—parli
ament—the invitation from Egyptian President Anwar
Sadat was conveyed through the Egyptian and Israeli
ambassadors to the United Nations, a direct move that
eliminated the United States as an intermediary.
The invitation was addressed lo Foreign Minister Moshe
Dayan, who is now in Germany, and was signed by
Egyptian Acting Foreign Minister Butros Ghalli, Begin
said
Mozambique terrorists,
Rhodesian troops battle
SALISBURY. Rhodesia (UPI)—Rhodesian troops have
destroyed two black nationalist guerrilla bases in ground
and air attacks in Mozambique, killing* more than 1200
“armed terrorists” and losing only one of their own, the
military command announced today.
A communique said the Rhodesian attacks ended Sunday,
having successfully achieved their aims.
“Combined Operations Headquarters reports that in the
interest of self-defense. Rhodesian security forces have
attacked and destroyed two terrorist base camps inside
Mozambique,” the communique said.
New Democracy Party
wins election in Greece
ATHENS. Greece (UPI)—Premier Constantine Caraman
lis. whose New Democracy Party won the recent general
election by a slim majority, submitted his cabinet's
resignation yesterday and was instructed by President
Constantine Tsatsos to form a new government.
A government spokesman said the new cabinet will be
sworn in later today.
There were no reports on the composition of the new
cabinet but sources close to the New Democratic Party
said Caramanlis planned to replace several members of
the old cabinet.
The sources said Panayotis Papaligouras, until now
minister of economic coordination, will take over the
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which also will be responsible
for conducting negotiations for Greece’s entry into the
European Common Market.
According to official results, Caramanlis’s New
Democracy party won 173 seats to 92 for the Panhellenic
Socialist Movement, 15 for the Democratic Center Union. 11
for the pro-Mosco Communist party, five for the ultra-right
National Rally and two each for the leftist Alliance and the
New Liberal party.
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In the roost<"g areas, a
potential for disease exists
because of the bird droppings,
Walker said. But he added that
he doubts it is a serious threat
in this area.
”A disease—called histoplas
mosis—can occur in areas
where there is a tremendous
accumulation of bird drop
pings,” Walker said. “The
birds don’t carry the disease,
but it is a fungus which grows
as a result of the mixing of
bird droppings and a soil with
a high nitrogen content.”
The roosts can be broken up,
but it costs money, Walker
said.
“The best solution would be
to thin the vegetation, or to
destroy it completely.”
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