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VOLUME HI. NUMBER 106
WEDNESDAY. MAY 3. I97H
RED AND BLACK
Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
1979
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Married housing
explained.
See p. 2.
NEWS 542*3441
ADVERTISING 542-3414
Rising Junior
to be required
for entrance?
By STEVE BILLS
Staff writer
Prospective students will be required to
take the Rising Junior exam to be
admitted to the University, if the
admissions office accepts a suggestion by
the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate.
The Rising Junior, or Regent’s
Examination, is a system-wide English
test given to sophomores. Under the
present system, a student must pass the
exam to graduate.
The faculty senate Tuesday recom
mended using the test “as a required
part of the admissions process.”
In a related matter, the senate
discussed the possibility of establishing a
Divison of General Studies for freshmen
and sophomores enrolled in A&S.
Under a proposal from the General
Studies Committee, a student would have
to attain a 2.5 grade point average and
complete certain fundamental courses
before he would be allowed to enter
upper-divison courses.
A student who didn’t have the 2.5 GPA
would be expelled after taking 120 hours,
according to a committee statement.
The Division of General Studies would
serve as a "quality control device,”
according to committee chairman Joseph
Berrigan <History ». It would be a “paper
division used to establish minimum
academic standards for juniors and
seniors. Berrigan said.
The senate delayed a decision on the
proposal until statistics can be gathered
on how many students will be affected by
the 2.5 GPA cutoff Some faculty
members at the meeting indicated they
would prefer a 2.0 requirement.
Photo by WINGATE DOWNS
A&S Faculty Senate Chairman Joseph Berrigan
CD FUNDS AT STAKE
Housing action
By KATHERYN HAYES
City editor
In the face of community opposition to
a proposed rent subsidized housing
project on Will Hunter Road, the Athens
Mayor and Council voted Tuesday night
to delay action on the project for 30 days
Mayor Upshaw Bentley noted denial of
the housing project, proposed by the
Department of Housing and Urban
Development, could cut off the city’s
allocation of federal Community Develop
ment funds.
young children because the site is near
both the well-traveled Macon highway
and the Oconee River.
“Nothing can be compared to a child's
life.” he said.
Councilman Jerry Nicholson said the 30
day extension on the decision is
necessary to clear up misunderstanding
on the project One serious problem with
the plan is the only playground area
provided is on the right of way of the
Macon Highway. Nicholson added.
In other action, the council approved a
stalled
one year contract with McDonald
Associates as consultants for the Athens
Transit System. The firm had previously
been contracted on a six month basis.
Council also voted to close the
Rocksprings Pool at the end of 1978
unless attendance to the pool improves.
Council approved a request from the
Residence Hall Association to close
Findley Street between (’reswell and
Russell for a blue grass festival the night
of May 5.
The council also voted to enforce the
Georgia Obscenity Code rather than
develop a new city obscenity ordinance,
and to tear down the old Gandy’s pool
hall on Broad Street to construct 22
parking spaces
The proposed HUD project for Will
Hunter Road drew opposition from
citizens at the meeting who said the
project would devalue their property,
reduce the city’s tax base and increase
the crime rate.
Residents also said the 70 unit complex
with its 140 parking spaces would
increase traffic and add to the area’s
already significant sewer problems
Bentley told the council, “The project
is of serious consequence to the area and
to the city. HUD is promoting this
housing project. Other cities that have
arbitrarily turned down this project have
had their CD funds cut off,” he said.
Bentley added Athens will receive $4
million in federal CD funds this year and
received $3 million in each of the past
three years
Another citizens questioned HUD’s
location for the project. He contended the
location would be unsafe for families with
Cutlip law suit appealed
By NELSON d ROSS
Staff writer
Journalism professor Vernon A. Stone filed suit Tuesday in the U S Fifth Circuit
Court of Appeals asking that his $200,000 civil suit against University officials brought
to trial.
The suit dealt with Stone’s involvement on a search committee for a permanent
dean of the journalism school and alleged subsequent harrassment
U.S. District Judge Wilbur Owens in January dismissed Stone's suit against
University President Fred C. Davison. Journalism Dean Scott Cutlip and the Board of
Regents The suit alleged that Cutlip had violated Stone's First Amendment right to
free speech
Owens had also dismissed a countersuit by Davison and Cutlip which accused Stone
of making defamatory statements against them That countersuit asked for $200,002 in
damages from Stone
Davison and Cutlip denied Stone's charges and sought damages from him for
allegedly defamatory remarks made by Stone about them
"We’re going to ask the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to reverse Judge Owens'
summary judgment We believe we clearly alleged and supported a bonified First
Amendment and due process claim." Stone’s lawyer Hue Henry of Athens, said
"Moreover, we are anxious for a reversal so we can have a hearing in order that we
can prove beyond any question that the dean search was a pretext Henry said
Henry mailed the appeal Tuesday
See SUIT. p. 5
Mooney found guilty
By TOM BARTON
Staff writer
On the sixth day of his trial for the murder of T K Harty,
John Henry Mooney was found guilty and sentenced to life
imprisonment.
The guilty verdict was delivered Tuesday at 8:30 p.m. by
a jury of seven men and five women in Clarke County
Superior Court. The sentence was read around 10:30 p.m
Judge Joe Gaines announced that Mooney has 30 days in
which to file an appeal of the decision.
The owner of T K Harty’s Saloon at The Station, Harty,
29. was found shot in his home last Aug. 30.
District Attorney Harry Gordon had asked for the death
penalty for Mooney, stating that no passion or feelings had
been involved in the Harty murder
Defense attoreny Joe Salem, in asking for life
imprisonment, had called in two witnesses that testified
that Mooney is not a dangerous man. They were Father
Franklin Ferguson, the director of the Emmanuel
Episcopal Church, where Mooney is a member , and Eileen
Cohen. Mooney’s oldest sister
The jury had been ushered into a jury room at 3:30 p m.
to decide Mooney's fate. Before that, they heard the closing
arguments from both the prosecution and defense
attorneys
Also charged with Harty’s murder is Elmo Liston
Florence, an Atlanta electrician arrested Sept 23. The
prosecution contends that Mooney had paid Florence to
have Harty killed.
Wearing a light olive green suit, Mooney stood as the
jury walked into the courtroom at 9:30 a m Tuesday The
29 year-old defendant sat quietly through the day, while the
defense gave the first and third arguments. The
prosecution gave the middle and closing arguments.
First to take the floor was defense attorney Salem, who
charged that the prosecution did not show a motive for
Harty’s murder. “A life is not taken without some motive,”
Salem said
The Atlanta lawyer played down the eviction intent
notice, that Harty delivered to Mooney, operator of
Somebody’s Pizza “When T.K Harty was killed, it did not
save him 'Mooney* from his eviction,’’ Salem said.
Mooney still could have been evicted through Harty’s
corporation. Hoyt Street Inc , in spite of his death. Salem
added.
The attorney then attacked the credibility of most of the
witnesses that the prosecution presented. Salem called key
witness. Robert Reinhold, “the Sherlock Holmes of Clarke
County.’’
REINIIOLD HAD testified Friday that Florence had
confessed to him in a bar that he was paid to have Harty
killed Florence also allegedly told Reinhold that Mooney
paid to have the killing done.
During the prosecution’s closing remarks, Gordon
reminded the jury they were considering a conspiracy
charge against Mooney.
"IN A CONSPIRACY, you can have one element lacking
the person who did it,” Gordon said. "But the other
person is as guilty as if he pulled the trigger himself.”
In his closing remarks, defense attorney Ed Tolley
claimed the evidence amounted to a “frame-up" of
Mooney Tolley asked the jury about Mooney’s notes, which
he said were written in Munich. Germany.
“If you had had someone killed, would you have stuck
them in your bag 0 " Tolley inquired. “And would you have
even bothered to come home?”
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Art by LINDA WEATHERLY
The jury deliberated for five hours before returning a guilty verdict
Olympic star
encourages
track team
G By TAMMY SAVAGE
Assistant feature editor
“I try until I make it work, and
N sometimes it takes patience.”
And Wilma Rudolph has a great deal of
patience In her mere 36 years, Rudolph
has experienced more than many people
*• could ever imagine. Smiling, ever so
slightly, she says that her three gold
medals from the 1960 Olympics are in the
bottom of her mother's cedar chest
probably
The former Olympic champion chatted
with the University track team Tuesday
while on campus as a part of her lecture
i, circuit Rudolph encouraged the team,
saying, "Ya’ll are creating quite a stir
with your relay team Everyone’s saying
that you're back in the running ” The
runners beamed under the unsolicited
praise
“I was the tallest sprinter to come out
• # of the United States." Rudolph said. “I
was too big for indoor track: I felt like an
Amazon with everyone looking down on
me.”
*, Feeling like an Amazon was not
See WII MA, p. 5
Photo by DAVID TULLS
The Irack team met with (/old Medalist Rudolph
Pulitzer winner on campus
By PATRICIA TEMPLETON
Staff writer
The University campus was graced this
week with the presence of one of the most
prominent literary families in America,
the Robert Penn Warrens
Warren, whose writing awards include
the Pulitzer prize in fiction and poetry
and the National Book Award, was joined
in his three-day stay on campus by his
wife Eleanor Clarke, also a National
Book Award winner The Warren’s
daughter. Roseanna. a painter and writer
of poetry and essays, was also on
campus
Both Warren and Clark gave public
readings of their work
Although Warren has not lived in the
South for almost 30 years, many of his
writings concern the South and he is
considered to be one of the most
prominent Southern writers
W ARREN SAID in a press conference
Monday the South has been a fertile
ground for writers in this century
because of a “cultural shock which
brought about bursts of creativity ’’
The First World War brought the South
its first mobility, and with it “a whole
new perspective." Warren said "The
mobility, the war. the contact with new
ideas was there for all Americans, but it
was most important for the South, which
had been isolated from the rest of the
country.”
The culture shock also opened up new
moral problems which were felt more
acutely in the South than in the North.
Warren said
One of these problems is modern-day
man’s isolation, according to Warren It
is generally agreed that modern
civilization has tended to cut man off
from nature and the feeling he is part of
nature." Warren said
THE FAMILY used to give man a
sense of being part of a natural aging
process. Warren said But now “grandma
and grandpa are off in nursing homes
and babies are a nuisance The sense of
man as part of a natural process is not
there." he said
Warren also noted that modem-man
has become “the advertising man's
victim.” "The sense of self is being
destroyed You go to the dentist, to him
you're a tooth You go to a psychiatrist,
to him you're a case Everywhere you go
there is no way a man is ever thought of
as a man. you're either a number or a
specific problem. Warren said
RELATED TO this problem is the
problem of commercialization and
industrialization However, Clark noted,
this problem is not limited to the South
“Ha\e you seen the French Kiveria
lately" And the Italian highways -the
billboards along the Italian highways are
appalling It's a worldwide phenomena,
it's not affecting the South any more than
the rest of the world Clarke said
What is more exciting is how many
people there are who are not having any
part of it We re living in a bad moment
when quickie builders are too free to do
their damages.' she said
Library group formed
A 20-member committee to search for a director of the University libraries has been
appointed by Vice President for Academic Affair? Virginia Trotter
The committee, which includes five members of the library staff, will be chaired by
Dr John C Dowling, head of the department of Romance languages
Members of the library staff named to the search committee are Joe Branin. Claire
Colombo. Anne Land. Arlene Luchsinger and Barbara Rvstrom
Other committee members are Dr. David Anderson, dean of the College of
Veterinary Medicine. Dr Jerry Chesness. associate professor of agricultural
engineering Dr Jerome Clutter, professor of forest resources. Dr James Colvert
professor of English Dr Delmer Dunn, director of the Institute of Government. Dr
See SEARC H, p 3