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SURPLUS OF VETS BY ’85
Dean reacts to reports
By KRIS YOUNG
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The dean of the College of Veterinary Medicine disagrees with
reports that the nation’s 22 veterinary schools will produce an
oversupply of veterinarians by 1985.
• Dr. David Anderson's comments came in response to three
reports on veterinary medical education released recently by
separate groups.
,r Two of the three reports were released by the Southern
Regional Education Board and the third was prepared for the
American Veterinary Medical Association by Arthur D. Little,
Inc., a consulting firm in Cambridge, Mass.
• According to the report prepared for the AVMA, there will be a
surplus of 3,000 veterinarians by 1985 and an oversupply of 8,300
by 1990, based on the number ol students graduating from
existing schools The report also shows these figures will
• increase if proposed veterinary schools are established
. "There is a very real possibility that there
will be a surplus in the future but I don’t predict
^tr.is to nappen,” Anderson said.
“The Terry Report prepared for the Surgeon General in the
early ’70’s predicted there would be a shortage of veterinarians
, through the 1990's. I never completely believed that report and !
don’t completely believe this one. I think the truth lies
somewhere in the middle."
Anderson said the predicted figures and conclusions in the
reports were based on the assumption that graduates from
veterinary schools begin their own practices after graduation.
However, there are many other areas in which graduates may
work. They may begin graduate study, enter the teaching
/ profession, begin internships and residencies, specialize in a
particular area of animal disorders or do research, he said.
There is currently a demand for veterinarian pathologists to
work with commercial drug companies, he added.
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According to the AVMA student, "political decisions and
various other non-economic factors" are responsible for the
establishment of new veterinary schools and increases the
, number of students," Anderson emphasized. "They
These are two of the factors which will result in the predicted
oversupply of veterinarians, the study suggests.
ANDERSON agrees that political influences do affect decisions
to build veterinary schools in states where there are no existing
schools.
"Veterinary schools do a lot more for the state than just
educate the veterinary students," Anderson emphasized, “Tliey
have diagnostic facilities and research programs and work with
diseases that exist in that particular state. They give added
expertise in their area to solve animal problem there.”
The southeast has parasite problems common only to this area
which professors at the College of Veterinary Medicine study.
Veterinarians from all parts of the state refer cases which they
cannot handle to this school
Political pressure for establishing veterinary schools comes
from livestock and kennel clubs, humane societies and other
organizations who wish to benefit from services provided by a
state's veterinary school. Anderson said.
“There is also pressure from an applicant’s parents who want
junior to have a school in his state to attend, but that is not a
justification for starting a school," Anderson said.
THROUGH AN interstate compact, a limited number of
students from states without veterinary schools are allowed to
a'tend an out-of-state school. Georgia's veterinary school
accepts 86 students each year
Sixty of th«-se students are from Georgia and the remainder
come from states participating in the SREB agreement The
University is paid $5,500 each year for each out-of-state
veterinarv student.
The SREB and Arthur D. Little Inc., reports recommend that
expansion of veterinary medical education must be curtailed if a
large oversupply of veterinarians is to be prevented. If the four
schools now being proposed are built, by 1990 there will be an
excess of 9,500 veterinarians, according to the Little report.
Many of the proposed schools will not be established because
thev are too expensive to build and operate. Anderson said. The
population, income base and amount of animal agriculture must
be large enough to support a state school before it can be built,
Anderson said.
In many of the states considering building veterinary schools,
•hese factors are not at a high enough level to support a school
Photo by HAL BROOKS
Squirrel days
Even the squirrels on the University campus are gathering their supply of
winter’s nourishment As freshmen rush home to Mom for sweaters and
longjohns to knock the chill off our first cool spell, take note of our little
friend He probably remembers last winter
Authorities
investigate
air disaster
SAN DIEGO (UPIi—Federal authori
ties Tuesday were investigating a report
that a small plane failed to respond to a
second warning that it was on a collision
course with a commercial jetliner
seconds before the two collided in the
worst aviation disaster in U.S. history.
The death toll stood at 151 in the
collision and crash of a Pacific Southwest
Airlines Boeing 727 and a single-engine
private plane on a training flight.
According to one FAA official, pilots
of the PSA jetliner and the Cessna 172
were advised of the other’s position
"within minutes" of the crash and both
acknowledged the advisory which is
given routinely
But according to another FAA official.
Bruce Chambers, public affairs officer
for the FAA western region based in Los
Angeles, only the PSA pilot acknow
ledged the second of two warnings He
said there was no followup response from
the smaller plane, which continued on the
collision course.
The planes collided 3,000 feet over the
quiet North Park residential district, five
miles from Lindbergh Field Monday
morning, raining debris and bodies onto
the neighborhood in America's worst air
disaster
Police officials said the 151 Dersons
killed-136 on the jetliner, two in the
Cessna and 13 on the ground—could go
higher as authorities sifted through the
rubble of more than a dozen homes
destroyed by fire in the crash.
According to initial information on
smaller plane, the Cessna piloted by
flight instructor Martin Kazy Jr took off
from Montgomery Field at 8:15 a m. on
an instrument training flight with his
student, David Lee Boswell, bound for
Lindbergh Field.
Library audit uncovers no misappropriations
By SKIP HLLETT
• Assistant campus editor
An internal audit begun last March has
found no evidence to support allegations
. that the library’s operations are
f characterized by fraud or misappropria
tion of funds.
However, the auditors' report com-
( pleted Aug. 28 did list several
weaknesses, primarily in the areas of
major book purchases and control of rare
books and manuscripts.
The audit concentrated on three areas
which the bulk of allegations had
mentioned: book purchasing, special
collections and the Georgia Room.
According to the report, the library
policy governing approval of book
purchases was informal and not clearly
understood This resulted in some
purchases being completed without the
'proper written approval.
INTERIM DIRECTOR OF University
Libraries Dr Ralph McCoy said this
UGA Today
Work-study
All students approved to participate
in the College Work-Study Program
for 1978-79 should report to the
financial aid office, Room 220
Acacemic building, for assignments
Crime prevention
Tips on crime prevention will be the
topic from noon-3 p.m. at Memorial
Plaza. An officer from the Athens
Police will discuss security measures
for dorm and apartment dwellers
Whale lecture
The Athens Sierra Club will present
two of the country’s leading experts on
the plight of the world's great whales
at its September meeting this
Thursday at 7:30p.m. in the Ecology
auditorium on campus
policy has snce been formalized and
written down, as recommended by the
report
The auditors recommended library
management give special attention to the
purchasing procedure in the special
collections area since many of that area's
purchases are monetarily significant
An instance about which the auditors
expressed special concern was the
library's purchase of the A.L. Rowse
collection.
In early 1974, the Rowse collection was
brought to the attention of the library by
Richard Harwell, then Director of the
Georgia Southern library Harwell had
become aware the collection of Dr
Rowse—a noted English scholar—was for
sale and he recommended the collection
highly to the library.
IN APRIL 1974, former associate
director of the library Donald Petty
traveled to England to negotiate a deal
with Rowse
Petty worked out a deal with Rowse
whereby the library would pay Rowse
$200,001), to be paid in $25,000 annual
increments The auditors were concerned
with the fact tha t the library enlisted no
outside consultation prior to completing
the purchase agreement.
After the deal was agreed to, the
aixlitors found, there was a great deal of
confusion among library officials as to
exactly what the sire of the collection
was.
In a letter dated May 7, 1974, the
former director of libraries Warren Boes.
Petty estimated the size of Rowse's
working collection, volumes he would
temporarily retain for personal use, as
numbering "some 500 to 1,000 volumes.”
Later that year. Boes referred to the
working collection as containing “a
thousand volumes or so" in a letter to
Rowse
In a letter from Rowse to Boes dated
January 13, 1976, Rowse said, “1 should
have thought at least 5.000...” volumes
would be retained for his working
collection
The auditors criticized the library's
account of the collection's size
"We see no reason why an experienced
book person could not have made a
relatively accurate estimate in a
reasonable amount of time, especially in
anticipation of a purchase approaching a
quarter million dollars," the report
stated
The report continued, "we cannot
characterize the difference between
15,000 and 20.000 volumes as immater
ial.”
In another area, the auditors found that
the suspension of cataloging special
collections rare books and manuscripts
had made it a difficult procedure for the
staff to verify the area’s holdings.
The auditors acknowledged special
collections' gradual resumption of the
cataloging process as a step in the
correct direction.
The report reached no conclusion on
allegations that copies of manuscripts
from the Margaret Mitchell collection
have been given to employees as
souveniers According to the report, the
accusation could not be proved or
disproved leaving the matter to be "the
word of one employee against another-at
present."
As for the Georgia Room, the auditors
found "considerable friction" between
that unit and special collections
“Some Georgia Room personnel feel
that special collections' holdings have
been increased or enhanced at the
expense of the Georgia Room that the
Georgia Room has not been accorded the
support required to make it a
comprehensive state collection," the
report said
The auditors attributed the problem
between the two units, formerly one area
which was spearated, to an absence of
clear definition of the authority and
responsibility of the two units ”
Boswell, wearing a special plastic
helmet to restrict his vision to the
instrument panel, was to make his
approach with the aid of a transponder,
an instrument that monitors his glide
path and altitude The Instrument at the
same time gave a coded signal to the
approach control center at nearby
Miramar Naval Air Station
According to one unidentified FAA
official, controllers at either Miramar or
Lindbergh warned each aircraft of the
other's position But, he said, only the
PSA pilot acknowledged the warning
"We've lost the light plane from radar
contact," controllers warned Capt
James McFeron, pilot of the PSA airliner
a 17-year-veteran, the official said
At 9:02 a m., radar screens lost track
of both the Cessna and the 727.
McFeron's last words were. "Were
going down "
The second version was given by
Chambers He said two warnings were
given to the planes, the last of which was
ignored or not heard by the Cessna pilot
"Within minutes of the crash both
pilots were given traffic advisories and
both pilots acknowledged having the
other craft in sight," Chambers said
Such alerts are common, he said, being
issued "a thousand times a day "
Photos by C. TALBOT NUNNALLY
Sophisticated disco finds its way to Athens
Student dies
A University senior died Tuesday
afternoon after having beer hospitalized
for nearly a week and a half for
treatment of injuries sustained in a Sept
IS motorcycle accident.
Dan Foster, a speech communications
major, was pronounced dead by Clarke
County Coroner Charlie Owens. The
exact cause of death has not yet been
determined, Owens said
The accident occurred on College
Station Road next to the Georgia
Retardation Center after the Georgia
Baylor football game
By RUSS GREER
Features editor
She stood cooly by the mirror waiting
for the music to begin, dressed in white
pants split up the side of her leg to the
thigh
He was in black, standing by a small
stereo as about a dozen people moved
into the dance studio.
The people were rowdy and alcohol
pumped through their veins like tap
water It was a football Saturday and
Georgia had just whipped Clemson
properly and they were ready to
celebrate.
But first they were going to watch an
18year-old University freshman and her
partner put on an exhibition of a dance
style that has put touching back on the
dance floor
DISCO. The hustle. Saturday Night
Fever.
The late afternoon sun shot strange,
slanting shadows through the Dance Loft
studio in the Old Mill as Ginger Snow and
her 25-year-old dance partner. Francisco
Ptino, stepped to the center of the
wooden floor
Ginger whipped a string of hair from
her eyes and smiled at Francisco who
smiled back as the music began
Their bodies moved quickly to a music
that gave only a handful of beats before
it pulled the pin on a grenade of rhythm.
Suddenly Francisco was twisting
Ginger in tight, quick circles. Then she
was off the ground, fiying around a
spinning Francisco supported only by his
arm Their movements were smooth and
the crowd, mostly in their 20s, ate it up,
moving their hips from side to side with
the beat
IN THE NEARBY River Mill
apartment complex, couples strained
over their balconies to see into the
studio s windows and catch a glimpse of
Francisco swinging Ginger inches from
the floor
"We love to dance. " Ginger said, a
little out of breath during a break from
the exhibition designed to advertise their
disco classes
With her partner, Ginger has won
several major disco contests including a
competition in Atlanta that put the team
on The Merv Griffin Show in a recent
national disco contest
They placed third and were suddenly in
demand all over the South to put on
exhibitions
Success is a sudden thing for Ginger,
who only began dancing with Francisco
last March She graduated from high
school in Monroe last year and needed a
job
SHE HAD been involved with ballet
since she was seven and an Atlanta
dance studio hired her to teach
There, she met Francisco, another
instructor at the same studio It was
some time, however, before the two
teamed up, she said
“We were eyeing each other," she said
lifting her eyebrow and laughing
Ginger moved to Athens this summer
to attend the University and met Marcy
Miller, owner of the Dance Loft, who
invited her and Francisco to teach a
series of disco classes fall quarter
Francisco drives from Atlanta each
weekend, where he has a studio, to teach
and practice with Ginger, she said
DANCING is a pleasure as well as a
job, she said, and the pair often hits
Atlanta and Athens night spots In July
they won $105 at the B4I. Warehouse in a
dance contest
"I think it idisco) is here to stay a
while It has had an effect on a lot of
things Now everybody 's dressing up ”
"Partners and closeness is back Until
now it has all been freestyle Touch
dancing is back,” she said
She paused as Francisco joined her
during the break He smiled at the
students who leaned over their apartment
balconies to see into the studio
"Dancing is everything," he said. Both
he and Ginger have been dancing most of
their lives and are totally involved with
it. In their spare time the usually listen
to nothing but disco music, he said
"AND WHENEVER I want to unwind,"
he added. "I'll go dancing
"The girls are always coming over to
me and trying to get me to dance with
them It's knowing how to dance." he
said
It takes rhythm, uming and style to
dance to disco, a combination of
Latin American music and rock and roll
Disco began in the big cities and is
filtering down into the smaller towns
where some dance studios find teaching
disco extremely profitable.
"At the University we want to make
dancing available to all the students
without the hassle of a contract,' he said
Ginger will teach most of the classes at
the Dance Loft where the first le.-tsons
began Sunday Ginger, who hopes to
major in public relations or drama, said
she won't work on a degree in dance
because she does that everyday anyway
During the exibition Francisco demon
strated a simple hustle for “guys who are
going to be around girls that don't know
how to dance."
“Now, this is the fancy one." he said
leading Ginger in a series of lifts and
quick steps in which he never lost contact
with her eyes. Francisco held Ginger
from behind and watched as she did a
sexy wiggle down to the floor and back
up again
"Hey!" one woman against the wall
said with a laugh “I can do that", and as
everybody watched, she slipped halfway
to the floor with a little wiggle of her
hips
“Disco!," another bystander said.