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PERMANENT POSITION
TEAR GAS ON HILL
Vigil held at Kent St.
If you don't sign now...
If you have any inkling that you might live in a dorin next year. Assistant Housing
Director Jerry Studdard suggests signing up for a room early next week New
applications seem to be running about 20 percent ahead of last year, and warnings are
coming in that if you wait until late May. the space may not be there Students that
decide to live in a dorm after the sign up period will be required to apply with no
priority for a hall or room assignment For all the women that want to live in Payne
Hall next vear. room sign-ups will Ik* Monday or Tuesda\ L or more information, see
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Congress reveals
outside earnings
WASHINGTON <UPI»—The House had dozens of wealthy member* with hefty
outside earnings and investments but many others evidently rely on their official
$57,500 salary, according to financial statements released Thursda>
The records, the first required by a new House code of ethics, showed that some
congressmen hold corporate stock or real estate valued in the hundreds of thousands
of dollars, others draw thousands of dollars a month from their law firms, and still
others earn substantial fees for making speeches
The bulk of the 435 memlH*rs listed at least some outside financial interests, but a
number of them gave only their congressional salary
The financial statements for the last three month* of 1977 were filed with the House
Ethics Committee They were designed to point up any potential conflicts of interest
and were not net worth statements
No reports were released for Robert Nix. I) Pa Jame> scheuer. I) N 'i William
Armstrong. R-Colo , and Dawson Mathis. I)-Ga
The quarterly statements indicated alxnit 30 congressmen had outside earnings of
more than $25,000 a year that did not come from investments About halt were
lawyers, led by Reps Morgan Murphy. I) III . $30,000; (Maude Pepper. I) Fla . $20,000.
Mario Piaggi D-N Y . $13,000; and William W ydler It N V $10 non
‘I’m ticking
For all of you students that (eel confident about leaving your
Xzune sticker car in a key-card area while it’s raining, here's
a good reason to shake your faith Yea. our friend the ticker is
out there dutifully performing his job. come rain, sleet
Photos by WINGATE DOWNS
in the rain’
or sometimes even dark of night Yet. the ' ckei m-viii , to be
anxiously looking around to make sure .... *wn*r of the
vehicle is not a University wrestler
By SKIP III LETT
Assistant campus editor
KENT. Ohio—Observance of the eighth anniversary of the
famous May 4 incident remained mostly peaceful at Kent
State University Wednesday and Thursday
The commemorative event continued from Wednesday
afternoon through Thursday evening as students and
observers from throughout the U S turned out for rallies and
marches on the Kent campus
Between 2000 and 3000 marchers participated Wednesday
night in the traditional candlelight vigil in a dorm parking lot
near where 13 studens were shot, four of them fatally, by Ohio
national guardsmen in 1970
THE VIGIL, in which students, faculty and families of the
slain and wounded students took turns silently holding candles
at spots where the dead students fell, lasted from midnight
Wednesday until Thursday noon
Thursday afternoon, onlookers listened to speeches from
students wounded in 1970. authorities from the Kent Legal
Defense Fund and others active in American civil rights
movements. Two noted activists who had been scheduled to
speak. Attorney William Kunspler and Daniel Ellsberg. were
unable to attend
Sponsors for the rally explained Kunspler is presently giving
summations in the trial of Joan Little Ellsberg has chained
himself to railroad tracks in Rocky Plant. Colo . in a protest
against nuclear proliferation
David Enddahl. an attorney for the Kent defense read a
note from Ellsberg condemning nuclear weapons and pledging
his support for the Kent rallies
THE EVENTS at Kent took place in the shadow of a
partially-constructed gym, the object of controversy and
national attention last year
Construction of the gym began last summer amid scores of
protest against the chosen site. Blanket Hill, where the 1970
shootings occurred
Some trouble did erupt late Thursday afternoon when
deputy sheriffs tear gassed several marchers The deputies
were standing inside a ten-foot high fence which surrounds the
newly constructed gym when approximately 1000 marchers
filed past Several marchers attempted to tear down the fence
when the tear gas was used There were no serious injuries
and the crowd did not disperse
Steve Conliff. a member of the Youth International Party
(Yippies), who is challenging Ohio C.ov James A Rhodes in
the June primary, told the audience Thursday the 1970
shootings were an act of premeditated murder of unarmed
dissident citizens” planned by Rhodes and FBI Director J
Edgar Hoover
• THERE IS no statute of limitations on first-degree
homicide.” Cunliff told the crowd
The May 4 commemoration took on a special meaning to
groups involved, in light of the upcoming civil suit against
Rhodes, former KSU President Robert White and members of
the Ohio National Guard by families of the slain and wounded
students
Signs held by students, some who were in high school when
the shooting* occurred, voiced slogans such as ”Tfuth
demands justice” and ”lt's right to rebel against
imperialism
Two indirectly related protest rallies took place here
Wednesday as students voiced support for a May 4 Task Force
member expelled from school
Payne considered for dean
IN ADDITION to the national
advertising. “a letter was circulated to
every faculty member of the college of
A&S inviting them to nominate
candidates by letter." Prunty said
“In addition, every member of the
faculty of the whole university was
invited to nominate Also a notice
appeared in Columns. ' Prunty added
Prunty refused to say how many
candidates the committee is currently
considering saying that* the ' committee
is going to remain elastic ”
“The number is going to lx* larger than
a breadbox and smaller than an
elephant.” Prunty said
Prunty also refused to reveal the
number of candidates that the committee
is planning to bring to campus saving the
committee wanted to lx* “flexible.”
“NOR WILL we say the specific
number of names we will recommend to
the President.” Prunty added
"We will recommend an unranked list
of people each of whom we will
recommend without reservation and.
therefore, each of whom we consider
fully qualified to execute a very complex
and demanding leadership position.”
Prunty said.
President Davison will nominate his
recommendation from the list for
appointment to the University System
Board of Regents for approval.
The University must keep a file on
each candidate for three years under seal
to satisfy the Department of Housing.
Education, and Welfare, have to be able
to demonstrate objectivity” in the
reasons that a candidate is not chosen.
Prunty said.
PRUNTY DENIED the number of
outside candidates for the position was
“THEY (P8C) are suppose to provide
and guarantee a fair. just, equitable and
non-discriminatory rate to the consumers
of Georgia and guarantee utilities a fair
rate of return.” Arrington said
The self-employed Atlantan said he
believes the PSC has gone too far in the
direction favoring utilities and added that
no other enterprise in the state is
guaranteed a profit
Part of the problem. Arrington said, is
that the commission is virtually
untouchable
"The commissioners are paid $38,400 a
year for about 15 hours a week Most of
them were appointed by governors to
finish uncompleted terms and re-elected
because the majority of the voters don’t
know what the Public Service Commis
sion is," he said
"THIS COMMISSION operates on a two
million dollar annual budget to protect
the consumers, and they are not doing
it.” Arrington said
Arrington added he and POOR are in
the process of preparing for the hearings
By NELSON d. ROSS
Staff writer
Acting Dean of Arts and Sciences.
William J. Payne, is one of a group of
candidates for the permanent deanship of
the school
The committee intends to begin
bringing candidates to campus within 10
days, according to search committee
chairman and Senior Faculty Advisor
Merit C. Prunty “We are in the hard
process of deciding who we will bring
in.” Prunty said
The committee “would very much like
to have (their) list of recommendations
to the president (Davison) by mid-June.”
Prunty added
Prunty confirmed Thursday that Payne
was a candidate for the position. “We
had a substantial number of nominations
forwarded to us and in this process Dr
Payne was nominated.” Prunty said
PAYNE HAD stated earlier he was not
interested in the permanent deanship of
Arts and Sciences.
Prunty said there were women
candidates in an earlier list of “firm
candidates which exceeded 1(H)" but "we
have no candidate at this stage, that I
can recall, that is a woman."
The list of over 100 names were people
nominated, according to Prunty.
Nominations for the deanship were
received after an “extended advertising
process” and seeking of nominations
locally.
The committee advertised three times
in The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Journals of American Colleges and
Universities, and circulated through
newsletters of the American Council on
Higher Education, according to Prunty.
affected by past controversies involving
A&S
"Absolutely not The state of this
institution out across the country is such
that we clearly had many candidates who
were delighted to come to the University
of Georgia,” Prunty said
The University is “broadly respected”
and "very attractive to many people.”
according to Prunty.
The search committee, which has been
in operation since the first of November,
is composed of 15 people including
Prunty and student member Rebecca
West who was the A&S student
representative to the University Council
when she was selected.
The other members include two
members from each division of A&S (the
chairmen of the divisions and one elected
representative from each division) and
the three members of the Executive
Committee of the A&S Senate.
Prunty praised the committee’s work
saying “they work together in the finest
sort of way. They do their work very
intelligently, dispassionately and to the
point." Prunty said.
Citizens call PSC
‘people’s enemy’
they go to the hearings in June
This week, the PSC chose six Georgia
cities as locations for the hearings. They
include, Atlanta, the site of the first
hearing. Rome, Augusta, Macon.
Columbus and Brunswick
“Georgia Power is just trying to return
a profit to its stockholders, and they are
doing it,” said Arrington.
“ALL THEY can do is operate with the
rate structure that the PSC outlines for
them,” he said. The PSC sets rates and
approves increases for the utility,
according to Arrington.
Up until September of last year the
rate structure used by Georgia Power
encouraged the use of electricity in
homes, all-electric homes in particular,
by allowing consumers a cheaper rate
wWhi they used*large amounts of power.
Dick Price of the PSC said
The present inverted rate structure
charges a higher rate for higher use.
Price said. The inverted design of rates
was instituted Sept 6 of last year
Arrington and his group say they do not
believe the PSC is fulfilling its
constitutional responsibility to the
citizens of the state by allowing such a
structure to exist
By TOM COTNEY
State editor
The Public Service Commission will be
the enemy of the "people” in June when
order is called in the first of six hearings
on the present rate structure allowed the
Georgia Power Company, according to
Joe Arrington, chairman of POOR of
Georgia Inc.
Arrington, the leader of a group of
private Georgia citizens who call
themselves People Opposing Outrageous
Rates, a soon-to-be-formalized corpora
tion. says his group will focus attention
on the responsibilities of the PSC when