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UO A Today
Pandora ready
by November
For those who bought a yearbook I
Blast year and wondered when you’d I
■have the thing in your hands, the |
■ Pandora staff has comforting words
■ You should hopefully have your copy I
lof the 1977-7R Pandora by mid-No-1
lvember
If you haven’t yet plunked down I
I your $10 for a chance to see you and I
1 yours in glossy color and black-and)
[white, fear not. The Pandora will be |
|on sale today from 11:30 a m to 2:301
[p.m. in Memorial Plaza and every!
[class day until yearbook distribution)
| in the Pandora office, Memorial Hall
Bradlee tickets
Plenty of tickets are still available I
Ifor the Ben Bradlee lecture slated for |
18p.m.Tuesday Only 1 figeneraladmis-
Ision tickets have been snapped up |
■from the Memorial Hal) Business]
■Office and the information booth still I
lhas many rubber-banded stacks of |
|student tickets
As a reminder, Ben Bradlee is the I
■executive editor of The Washington)
■ Post and oversax the work of I
Ipresident-topplers Woodward and Bern |
■ «tein Student tickets are free with)
■ valid I D. and general admission)
| tickets are $1.
Body cravers and
CB radio fans
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PG -By
A UNIVf HSAi Pu luff lechnicolof *
All girls who crave Burt Reynolds’I
■body or any one w ho enjoys CB radios I
(should make time in their schedules to I
Isee Smokey and the Bandit The!
(surprise box-office success of this year I
I will be shown at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m.)
■ today and Saturday
Check-up
If you’re a member of any student!
Iclub or organization, it might be a I
■ good idea to check with your president!
Ito make sure he has or is planning to I
Ire-register your group with the!
■ Department of Student Activities. All)
(groups MUST re-register no later than)
| today
New registration forms are avail-1
I able and may be turned in to room 2041
| Memorial Hall
OK baseball fans Be in front of your |
|TV with your beer, popcorn and '
[pretzels tonight at 8. Channel 11, for I
I game three in the National League |
| Championship series.
Folk music buffs have a treat in I
[store at to p.m on Channel 30 Pete
[Seeger (no, he’s not Bob’s brother) j
I and Arlo Guthrie perform in concert
I tunes of nostalgia: “Where Have All
I the Flowers Gone,’’ “This Land is
I Your Land." “City of New Orleans," |
[“If I Had a Hammer' and ‘ Midnight"
1 Special.”
HEW waivers
charges against
county schools
By CATHY M. LEWIS
The Department of Health, Education
and Welfare has waived a discrimination
charge against the Clarke County School
system which would have resulted in
cancellation of $242,181 in federal funding
for two local programs.
The official notification of the waiver
came Monday, according to Joseph
Taylor, director of Clarke County’s
federal programs. The waiver was the
result of Clarke County’s administrative
efforts to correct offenses discovered by
HEW’s Office of Civil Rights during an
investigation conducted in February,
1978.
According to Lamar Clements, regional
director of OCR, the investigation, which
originally concerned a 1977 complaint
against the system claiming discrimina
tory employment practices, revealed
disparities in three areas of the Clarke
County educational program.
The report charged the system with
discrimination in promotional practices,
racial isolation by grouping and
mismanagement of the special education
program.
On Julv 1. 1978. HEW notified Taylor’s
office that the $242,181 requested for
Clarke County’s federaliy-tunaea ie«un. ft
and dropout programs would be withheld
unless the system took immediate action
to correct infractions of Title VI and the
Emergency Aid Act, under which the
funds are administered.
On September 7, Taylor sent HEW a
waiver request and a report on the
system’s efforts to cooperate with
the department.
“I want to make it clear that the
county does not feel that it is guilty of
any of these charges,” Taylor said. “At
most, we could be accused of being ‘too
busy*
“But the programs involved are very
important, and for that reason we have
made every effort to meet the
requirements of Title VI as set forth by
HEW
“I feel that the charge of discrimina
tory promotional practices is especially
unfair," he said, “considering that in the
past six years, out of six or seven job
openings, only two were filled by people
outside of the system ”
In compliance with the requirements,
the Board of Education has promised to
hire at least one more black principal when
filling the next three openings. He has
has also taken steps to correct problems
in the special education program and
to correct grouping policies.
“The Office of Civil Rights will
continue to monitor the Clarke County
system, as it does all schools receiving
federal funds," Clements said, “in order
to insure that the regulations are, and
continue to be. met.”
The two programs, which were held up
pending notification of HEW’s decision,
involve 790 students and 16 employees.
Photos by DONNA MINCEY
“Yell like hell!!!”
was the theme Thursday
as Tau Kappa Epsilon
sponsored a contest to
see which of the campus
sororities has the most
spirit. According to a
TKF. member, the
contest was set to built
up spirit for the Georgia
-Ole Miss game the this
Saturday. Kappa Alpha
Theta was the first
place winner.
THE MAD HATTER
Disco ballroom opens in Athens
By KI SS GREER
and
NITA BIRMINGHAM
Dressed in sexy, black dresses, the
waitresses waited in corners of the
nightclub like dark sentinels.
The first customers moved into the
room quietly, looking with wide eyes at
the mirrors, the 36 foot bar and lights
that darted across the dance floor like
colored fish.
It was the night of a special
pre-opening party at Athens' newest and
most expensive discotheque. The Mad
Hatter.
Rising out of the ashes of another
Athens nightclub, the club had been
carved in eight weeks by a staff that
worked feverishly to be ready
TIIE FINISHING along the rails was
still wet as campus and city leaders and
specially invited couples entered a room
flooded with music from “the most
sophisticated and elaborate sound system
in Athens," according to designer Jack
Wright.
The 29-year-old manager and part
owner. Ronnie DiNunzio, took a sip from
his drink and smiled
"Athens needed something like this,"
he said as the D.J. above a mirrored wall
set the dance floor on fire with a strobe
light and patterns of colored lights.
“It’s beautiful We didn't think it would
get done in time," said the manager's
mother, Mrs DiNunzio. about the new
ballroom and discotheque
She said she was proud of her son and
said he has "done a lot for Athens, that it
needed Ronnie has worked very hard.”
THE REACTION of the crowd was
enthusiastic to the 30 by 26 foot dance
floor and a light system one woman
described as "incredible ”
"This is a classy place, not a normal
hangout A lot of people are excited about
it," said 19-year-old University student
and waitress Robin Scott
One person said. "It's different. As far
as Athens is concerned, it’s the only
disco."
MINUTES BEFORE the club opened,
about 30 persons waited in cars and
leaned against telephone poles outside
Hung on the wall was the tattered poster
advertising "The Other Place,” the
preceding nightclub in the building that
was strangled last spring with financial
problems
The crowd seemed hesitant to dance at
first despite the efforts of an enthusiastic
D.J. who stood above a mirrored wall
over the dance floor and played with the
lights like a musician, letting his fingers
dance across the buttons
"It's got possibilities," said one man
who had just returned from the dance
floor It will be a nice place if it keeps a
decent atmosphere and keeps the dress
code up. and doesn’t offer quarter beer
night specials ”
Most of the crowd relaxed in their seats
dressed in their finest silks as the D.J .
journalism student Spencer Thornton,
reached for another record.
"I'm playing what I hope people like.”
he said, sweeping ashes and sawdust off
a table "I just came in half cooked and
I’m just feeling my way around "
AS ONE song ended he hit a series of
buttons and the lights swiveled like
mechanical fingers and flashed
"Look at that, said University junior
Merry Lee Huff when the lights cut in
"That’s going to be wild.’’
Wright, who has also designed Poss'.
the Last Resort. Sparkey's and other
places in Athens, said The Mad Hatter
will feature two types of entertainment
It will have a concert hall ballroom with
first name entertainment, such as Sea
Level, and also a discotheque.
The cover charge will be $2 a person
and appropriate dress is required.
DiNunzio said
The nightclub cost about $175,000 .to
build and is part of The Mad Hatter
national chain
Student Senate
meets for first
session of year
By W ALTER JONES
Staff writer
In its first session of the year the
student senate heard presentations on the
plans for the student center and
Oglethorpe House
A motion to endorse the chairman of
the ad hoc committee on the core
curriculum's request to appear before the
Board of Regents in January was tabled
David Shelled) told the senate he wanted
to present his committee’s research and
final comments on a proposed system-
wide core curriculum, but the motion was
tabled after lengthy debate.
Some senators objected to the motion,
claiming that although the motion did not
specifically state the senate was
endorsing Shelledy’s report, the regents
could interpret the authorization as an
implied sanction.
In other action, the senate approved
the appointments of Beth Harding as
minister of transportation and Gregg
Jocoy as minister to consumer affairs
The senate elections committee pre
sented a motion setting dates for student
government elections to be held in the
spring, but it was not voted on due to a
lack of quorum.
Shelledy's committee studying Chan
cellor George Simpson’s recommended
core curriculum met five times since the
last senate meeting spring quarter
During that time they formulated a list of
seven criteria for evaluating core
curriculum proposals which Shelledy
wanted to present before the regents
However, requests to speak channelled
through Dean Douglas and President
Davidson's offices were both turned
down Part of the difficulty stems from a
disturbance at one of the Regents'
meetings by students from Atlanta Junior
College resulting in stiffer screening of
speakers, according to Gregg Jocoy
The debate arose because Shelledy s
final report will not be finalized before
late December when hio interviews are
completed Opponents argued it would
have been impossible for the senators to
approve the contents of the report at
Wednesday ’s meeting
"What David wants is a signed blank
check," Billy Key. senate pr~ ;ident said
after the meeting. “He could have spoken
as an individual if he had wanted to. but
he was not going through the right
channels.”
“We could give him our backing and
then he could go up there and say
anything he wanted." Steve Hathorne
added “My constituency is not best serv
ed by a system-wide core curriculum
Suzanne Peavy replied. “I don't think
he’ll mud-up the name of the senate "
Key has agreed to meet with the
committee next Tuesday to iron out
differences and coordinate senate efforts
During the heated discussion of the
endorsement motion senator Mark Najjar
and others cried for the parliamentarian
As yet though, there is no parliamen
tarian
According to senate vice president
Clare Cornwell, applications for a
parliamentarian will be accepted until
October 11. "We need a parliamentarian
badly to clear up some of these
disputes." she said
Dean of Student Services Dwight
Douglas briefed the senate on the status
of negotiations to purchase Oglethorpe
House and the renovations of Clark
Howell Hall He said Oglethorpe will be
purchased to become added donbitories
with priority going to current residents
when ownership is transferred before
next year
Clark Howell Hall will house expanded
vocational counseling and the regents
testing facilities for the campus when
renovation is completed. Douglas said
Associate Dean William Mendenhall
presented a slide show on the proposed
three phase, $10 million student center
He said Phase One should begin by the
fall of 1979 and the entire project
including the Stegman site and the Fine
Arts complex should be completed within
five years
Student injured,
struck by auto
A female University student was
admitted to Saint Mary’s Hospital
Thursday afternoon after being struck by
a car on campus, according to University
police.
The student. Allison Hemmingway, 20.
of an Athens address, was hit by a car
near the Coliseum X-zone parking lot and
Foley Field
The student was taken by ambulance to
the hospital, where she was admitted in
good condition, hospital authorities said
The accident occured at approximately
4:30 p.m
University Police Sergeant Paul
Stansell said no charges had been made
against the driver of the auto who was
backing up when the accident occured