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University ot Georgia Thursday, September 28, 1978 Volume 8;, Number 4 “Georgia 1 * only collegiate daily newspaper’
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Feds check
athletic sex
bias charges
By BILL KRUEGER
Assistant campus editor
Officials from the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare are on
the University campus this week to
investigate complaints against the
University concerning possible violations
of Title IX regulations.
Three officials from HEW's Civil
Rights Office, which handles Title IX
complaints, are investigating two com
plaints filed against the University made
in 1973 and in 1976.
The deadline for schools to get their
women’s athletic programs on an even
keel with the men's program was July 21
1978.
Title IX
investigation
Title IX of the Educations Amendment
of 1972 requires that federally-funded
schools provide equal opportunities for
women in athletics, including coaching,
facilities, travel allowances and partici
pation opportunities.
THE GOVERNMENT gave colleges
and universities a three year grace
period to comply with the law, effective
in 1975.
The complaint filed in 1973 was a
general complaint claiming discrimina
tion in the athletic program at the
University.
The second complaint, filed in 1976 was
more specific, citing discrimination in
the athletic scholarship program, accord
ing to ^r. Louise McBee, associate
vice-president for academic affairs and
Title IX coordinator for the University. 76
students signed the latest complaint
"They (the HEW officials) are looking
at athletics generally, and looking at
scholarships specifically." McBee said.
The three man team, headed by Mr.
Lamar Daniel, is meeting with coaches,
trainers, managers, student represents
tives-scholarship and non-scholarship this
week, according to McBee.
THEY HAVE met with University
President Fred Davison and with McBee
Tuesday, they took a tour of the
University's facilities.
Before leaving Friday, the HEW team
will conduct an exit interview with
University officials to report their
findings and any further action,
according to McBee.
The University is one of 41 colleges
around the nation that have had
complaints filed against them Only one
other school in Georgia, North Georgia
College in Dahlonaga, has had a
complaint filed against it.
The investigation at the University is
part of a nationwide crackdown against
schools that have had complaints filed
against them.
Some of the major Universities which
have had complaints filed against them
are the University of Kentucky,
University of Michigan, University of
Washington, and the University of
Virginia.
TITLE IX, passed by Congress in 1972,
bans discrimination against women in
academics as well as athletics. The
deadline for complying with the
academic portion of the law was earlier
than that of the athletic portion.
Photo by DONNA MINCEY
The trains stopped...and the grass grew
FEDERAL ORDER
RR strik
WASHINGTON (UPIj—The government Wednesday gave negotiators 24 hours to
settle a crippling rail strike that threatens food and auto prod".non Union officials
expanded the walkout to 73 railroads
Officials said the strike has snarled two-thirds of the nation’s rail traffic, left the
Midwest grain harvest in jeopardy and forced auto makers to consider large scale
layoffs 6
Labor Secretary Ray Marshall called negotiators from the rail industry and striking
rail clerks into round-the-clock bargaining at the Labor Department
He said the administration was prepared to move—possibly with a back-to-work
order or legislation—at 12 noon EDT Thursday if a settlement is not reached.
A department spokesman said the two sides met separately with a special mediator
from 12:30 p m. to 4:30 p.m and then began a joint session
The Brotherhood of Railway, Airline and Steam.* v Clerk struck the Norfolk &
Western Railway Co., July 10 after two years of inclusive talks aimed at protecting
clerks' jobs against automation. On Tuesday, pickets spread the strike to more than
40 other railroad.
Wednesday afternoon BRAC officials said they were expanding their strike to
include all 73 railroads that had been helping finance the N4W through a mutual aid
fund.
Athens picket
lines drop as
negotiations run
Some railroad workers returned to
work Wednesday and others remained on
strike as negotiations resumed to end the
strike which has paralyzed most of the
nation's railways.
Picket lines fell in the day-old strike
only to be resumed a few hours later
according to W M Mitchem, spokesman
for seaboard Coast Line in Jacksonville
Florida.
The union started at 2:30 p.m. in each time zone to picket on the railroads that are
part of the mutual aid pact,” said the BRAC spokesman BRAC also said it had filed a
$350 million antitrust suit against the Association of American Railroads and four
major rail lines.
There were reports of immediate resumption of picketing at the Seaboard Coastline
Railroad. Union Pacific, the Burlington Northern and Illinois Central-Gulf Railroads
where strike action had ceased earlier in the day following court orders
A spokesman for Seaboard in Athens
reported picket lines fell and "around 90
percent" of the workers had returned to
work at the Athens railyard.
Southern Railways officials in Athens
could not be reached, but the line's
Atlanta office said picket lines had
resumed there
Amtrak announced that it was forced to curtail service on two additional routes as a
result of new picketing—the National Limited between New York and Indianapolis
and the Sunset Limited between New Orleans and Los Angeles
“Our economic health is imperiled by a continuation of this strike," the secretary told a
Washington news conference. Two-thirds of hte nation's rail traffic is affected by the
walkout, he said, layoffs have begun in the automobile industry and food supplies “will
soon begin to rot if the stiike is not settled."
There is no passenger rail service in
Athens, however freight service has
slowed drastically The Seaboard spokes
man said the Athens yard had been
operating at less than 40 percent of
normal capacity since the strike began
Non-union officials have remained on
the job, attempting to maintain some
degree of operation, he said.
Schools may get $242,181
Cancer Institute to use
Laetrile on patients
By MATT PRICHARD
Staff writer
A decision by the Department of
Health, Education and Welfare that
holds $242,181 in the balance for the
Clarke County School System is expected
by Friday or Monday, according to
Joseph Taylor, the director of federal
programs for the system.
The decsion involves a reply to a
request made by the local school board
for a waiver of charges made by HEW of
racial discrimination. The funds are
currently being withheld from two shcool
programs, after a recommendation for
denial made by the Civil Rights Office of
HEW
The waiver request to obtain the funds
was filed Sept. 7, but no reply has yet
been given.
Taylor said if no reply is received by
the 30th. the funds would not be available
to the >.hools. This would result in
cancellation of the system’s reading
program, with an enrollment of 700
children, and the drop-out program, with
an enrollment of 90. The programs
employ 16 people.
SOME OF the employees have not yet
been rehired due to uncertainty over
availability of the funds, according to
Lagrange DuPree, chairman of the
county board of education.
“If we don’t get the money it will hurt
the people that need it the most, the
children that are behind with their
Foster funeral
Graveside services for Daniel Foster
wil be held at 3 p.m. Friday in Park Hill
Cemetary. Columbus, with the Rev Don
Dehr officiating.
Foster, a senior majoring in speech
communications and economics, died
Tuesday A native of Salem, Ore. Foster
had lived in Athens for three years.
Bernstein Funeral Home is in charge of
arrangements.
work,’’ DuPree said. "The middle school
rending program is vital to their future,”
she said
DuPree added that she is very
optimistic about the chances for approval
of the waiver and that there are no
alternate plans for the students if the
funds are cancelled.
‘If we don’t get the
money it will hurt
the people that need
it the most, the
children that are
behind with their
work’ DuPree
The charges of discrimination resulted
from a 1977 complaint, in which the
NAACP was a party, in local schools’
hiring practices. The complaint led to an
HEW investigation. In July, the district
was told it would lose the funding, which
is under the Emergency School Aid Act,
unless it could show that the hiring of
more white than black principals and the
alleged racial grouping of classrooms
were ended
A hearing attended by local school
officials was held in Washington, D.C.,
but HEW officials upheld their findings of
racial discrimination
AFTER THE hearing, a letter was
written by the board of education to
David Tatel, director of the Civil Rights
Office in Atlanta, expressing extreme
disappointment with the outcome of the
hearing, according to DuPree She added
that the letter also contained a quote
from Dr. Herman Goldberg, associate
commissioner of the Equal Education
Opportunity program, which read, “The
steps the district has already taken to
correct the ineligibility are considera
ble.”
DuPree* said that the board disagrees
with the ruling, which covers violations
from June 23, 1972.
"I don’t think there is any validity to
the charges that more black principals
than white principals have been demoted.
They (administrators of equal opportun
ity laws) operate under a certain
percentage and it was almost impossible
to meet the guidelines That took place in
1971 and we are in 1978. We have done a
lot in the meantime and we have a whole
lot of black administrators now,’’ DuPree
said.
However, while disagreeing with the
ruling, board members have said they
felt the money was needed so badly that
the waiver was needed. Their letter to
Tatel added that the district would
continue to correct the disparities that
apparently existed, according to DuPree
“IT SAID that the district would
continue to select the best minority
candidates, expand its visitation schedule
to minority colleges and specifically
contact those and others by mail, offering
applications and requesting interested
students to apply for positions,’’ she said.
She added that all employees would be
given notice of vacancies so they could
apply for the positions. One NAACP
complaint was that the district sought
administrators in other localities, while
overlooking people within the system,
according to Ed Turner, president of the
Clarke County NAACP chapter.
Turner has requested a merit system
for promotion as part of a requirement
before the waiver request is grantetj
“We don t exactly have a merit
system People apply for jobs, and some
within the county are promoted and
sometimes someone outside the county
gets the job. It just depends,’’ DuPree
said.
WASHINGTON UPI-After refusing for
15 years to test Laetrile in people the
National Cancer Institute announced
Wednesday it will try the controversial
drug in cancer patients who have not
responded to conventional anti-cancer
therapy.
Dr. Arthur Upton, head of the
government’s anti-cancer research cen
ter, said the testing should determine
“once and for all’’ whether the substance
made from apricot pits is effective
against cancer as its proponents claim.
The NCI, Food and Drug Administra
tion and the American Cancer Society
have contended over the years that there
is no sound evidence that Laetrile works
and a recent NCI report said many
doctors view Laetrile treatment as
quackery The FDA prohibits interstate
shipment of Laetrile
Nevertheless, an estimated 70,000
Americans have used Laetrile to fight
cancer, 17 states have legalized its use
and a federal appeals court has ruled
that terminally ill patients can legally
procure it for their use.
The next step is for the NCI to ask the
FDA to approve the use of Laetrile in the
clinical tests to be conducted at several
medical centers with NCI support FDA
commissioner Donald Kennedy said the
agency would review the NCI’s applica
tion as soon as possible.
Upton said the testing could begin early
next year and involve a minimum of 3<K)
cancer patients with various kinds of
tumors He said the first results could be
available next spring.
Although numerous animal tests have
not demonstrated that Laetrile is
effective against cancer, Upton said he
decided to proceed with the government
tests after an NCI committee voted 14-11
Monday to recommend the testing
program
That recommendation was based on a
study finished earlier this month which
evaluated the records of 22 cancer
patients who claimed to have benefitted
from Laetrile.
The study, conducted by an independ
ent committee, found that six of those
patients had improved although it could
not be proven that Laetrile was
responsible.
The NCI said in a statement the results
of that analysis “would normally not be
sufficient to suggest that a drug merit a
lest in the clinic over other candidate
drugs that are available
“However, because of widespread
public use and intrest in Laetrile, the NCI
will proceed with plans to evaluate the
drug ’’
Robert Bradford, head of the pro-Lae
trile Committee for Freedom of Choice in
Cancer Therapy. Los Altos, Calif, said
he was pleased with the decision.
He said he was confident the issue
could be resolved by the clinical trial if
Laetrile is administered as part of a
metabolic program emphasizing radical
dietary changer and the use of the proper
vitamins and minerals
Upton said the proposal tests would
cost an estimated $250,000
"I personally don’t think this is a bad
investment," he said in answer to
reporters’ questions at a National
Institutes of Health meeting where he
made the announcement. “If the trial can
settle the issue. I don’t think it would
have been a misallocation of resources ”
The NCI has been asked on numerous
time over the past 15 years to consider
Laetrile for human tests The NCI said on
each occasion a review of animal and
biochemical data showed the evidence
was not sufficient to warrant human
tests
UNANIMOUS VOTE
Marantha Chapel wins variance
By KATHY STANFORD
Assistant city editor
UGA Today
Demosthenian meeting slated
The Demosthenian Literary Society will hold its first meeting of the quarter at 7
p m.tonight in Demosthenian Hall on north campus All those interested in debateand
oratory are invited to attend
SGA cabinet to meet
The Student Government Association Cabinet will meet tonight at 6 p.m. in 414
Memorial Hall, the meeting is open to all students.
Bus route discussion set
Representatives from the Athens Transit system will be in Memorial Plaza from
noon-3 p.m. today to discuss bus routes with interested students
Date ticket lottery deadline today
Today is the last day to sign up for the lottery for date tickets. The tickets will be $8
or $10 depending on the game
Pre paid ticket dealine here
Today is the last day to pick up pre paid tickets for the Florida game Ticket sales
will be held Oct 10 and II.
In a unanimous vote, the Clarke County Board of Zoning Appeals agreed Tuesday to
accept the variance request made by Marantha Chapel and also decided to let Answers
Unlimited and Car Craft keep their business signs, even though the signs violate the
street graphics ordinance.
Maranatha had requested use of the Clarke Central High School parking lot because
a planned addition to the chapel would reduce the parking According to the Board, the
chapel must provide at least half of the required parking on their own facilities
Rust) Ru-i-ell represent..,'..e chapel, said the can facilitate 22 cars in their back
lot, more tl an half of the 35 spaces needed.
A letter frun, the principal of the school was submitted to the board as evidence of
the agr lent between Maienalha and Clarke Central The letter acknowledged joint
use of the parking lot except during athletic or other activities.
MARANATHA DOES have meetings on Friday nights, and according to Raymond
Lester, chairman of the board. "There could be competition, but it's not going to
happen very often "
The board made the motion to go ahead with the request as long as the Board of
Education approved According to Russell, no problem is anticipated as the Board of
Education should have received a letter from Clarke Central explaining the situation
In relation to me street grapnics ordinance, both Answers Unlimited. 985 W Broad
Street, and Car Craft, 2165 W Broad Street, were asked by the city inspector to
remove their business signs Answers Unlimited's signboard was in violation by being
in the right of way and not being five feet from the right of way
Terry Bamhardt from the company told the board. "We need the sign desperately
for advertising The building is on the sidewalk, right on the street, with parking in
the rear If the sign were moved, it would not be visible "
Lester explained the board could not decide on the right of way situation as the sign
was in direct violation and would have to be moved They could, however, let
Bamhardt keep his sign although it was not five feet back by granting permission to
put the sign on the house between the columns of the building
IN THE Car Craft case, the sign located at 2165 West Broad was not 75 feet from the
nearest sign and did not meet the five-feet-right of way setback
Steve Tingle from Car Craft explained. "The sign is about 30 feet from the Waffle
House sign, the closest sign If it were the required 75 feet, the sign would be in the
middle of the C It D parking lot. and If it were 5 feet back instead of four, part of the
driveway would be cut off"
The Appeals Board termed this case "a true hardship" and approved it as
requested, leaving the sign where it now stands
In another request, the board approved an addition to the Princeton Methodist
Church of John Davis Road The church wanted to make an addition to their
sanctuary, but it was in a residential zone
Pastor Ed Kelley said that in spite of the addition there should be no problems in
the future as the property is large enough to accomodate more parking and further