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University of Georgia Tuesday, January 23,1979 Volume Bj, Number 48
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Senator’s actions questioned
By MIKE ROBERTS
Staff writer
The Student Senate Elections Committee is requesting
explanation from two student-body office candidates in
connection with possible violation of campaign codes, said
Murray Garnick committee co-chairman
Garnick said letters were mailed Monday to Billy Key. Senate
president and student body presidential candidate, and Bryan
Finch, vice-presidential hopeful The letters asked for each
•man s version of what happened at last Wednesday s political
rally held at Memorial Hall
Key and Finch announced their candidacies at the rally,
which took place one week before campaigns for Student
Government AssociaHon office were to open
Also. Key used $21 of SGA money to rent a 50-watt speaker
system, a microphone and stand and a cassette recorder.
Secretary for Clubs and Organizations Dani Nicholson said
The SGA’s Election Code states candidates may spend money
on campaigns only during the campaign period, which is slated
to open Wednesday
Nicholson said Key filled out a requisition for the student
activities equipment last Tuesday and credited the rental
against the SGA’s treasury
But Key paid the rental fee out of his pocket Friday and
stopped SGA payment of the rental. Nicholson said She added
debits toward student-group accounts are held until the end of
every month
Key submitted a personal check for the rental about noon
Friday, according to Jerry Anthony. Memorial Hall Business
Office manager
As for the early announcement of candidacy and the money
spent on the rally. Garnick said some questions remain to be
answered.
One is whether announcing a candidacy is the same as
campaigning. Garnick said If the decision to that is yes. Key
may face senate or student judiciary action
•Offhand. I would agree that announcing is not part of
campaigning.’’ Garnick said
Another question is whether money spent to announce a
candidacy is the same as money spent on campaigning.
Garnick said.
"If it turns out that (Key) goofed, the Elections Committee
has power to warn, reprimand or kick him out (of the
elections) ”
"Legally, we could disqualify a candidate for the slightest
infraction." Garnick said
In his own defense. Key said. "I have not done anything to
harm the interest of the student body... 1 have not done anything
wrong ! have merely taken a new initiative (by announcing
early)."
Some persons are irritated because they haven’t taken the
same initiative. Key added
The senate president said he used SGA funds to pay the
equipment rental and planned to repay the money with his
bi-weekly check from student government
"I was using a check 1 get from student activity fees and
(was to) put it back in student activity fees," Key said
"For some reason, the check wasn’t a full two-weeks check."
Key added He said he wrote a personal check to cover the full
amount of the rental
Memorial Hall Business Office personnel confirmed that
Key’s paycheck was only about half what it regularly should be.
Community Development Committee
requests citizen input at public hearing
By MARY THURSTON
Assistant city editor
Better housing, child care facilities and
flood control were the major suggestions
to the Community Development Com
mittee at its public hearing last week.
Committee chairman Bob Carson
called the hearing to get citizen input
and suggestions for use of a federally
funded small city grant
The grant is a project of the National
Department of Housing and Urban
Development. Each city picks out a
"target area tor rehabilitation. Accord
ing to Bob Carson, the money will be
used in the target area to “implement
corrections of health hazardous housing
and expand employment opportunities
The city may receive up to $3 million
and usage guidelines are strict. "For
instance, we couldn't build a school or
something like that." Carson said.
The hearing was held at the Hillside
Recreation Center on Berlin Street. One
resident of the area said the biggest
problem was child care. "People want to
be self-sufficient, but they can’t because
UGA Today
What’s going on?
See Items on page 2 for the information you need about meetings, lectures,
and general announcements. Items runs each Tuesday
Fiction lectures
A series of lectures titled "Modern
Fiction. Reality and The Critics” will
be given by University faculty
members each Tuesday through
February 27. The lectures, at 4:30
p m . in room 101 of Meigs Hall, are
free and are open to the public
Today Dr. William Free, assistant
professor of English, will talk on
"Reality and Realism as Critical
Concepts.”
< S ! S S
Summer jobs
There’s a chance you can line up a
summer job Wednesday January 24
Representatives from 30 summer
camps throughout the southeast will
he interviewing students for possible
summer employment between 9 a in.
and 6 p.m on the second floor of the
Georgia Center for Continuing Educa
tion
Agribusiness night
Dean Rusk will give the keynote
address at the Agribusiness Careers
Night in the Pharmacy auditorium
tonight at 7 o'clock
Following Rusk's address, and a
panel discussion, students will be able
to talk with representatives of several
companies about the requirements
and opportunities in agribusiness
Students interested in a formal
interview on Janury 24 should sign up
at the Placement Office in room 103 in
Clark Howell Hall Call 542-3375 for
more information
Tuba or not tuba
The UGA department of music presents Donald L.
Strand, a band scholarship student, in recital tonight at „
8:30. in the Chapel v
Strand, a tuba student, will be accompanied on the piano *
by Peggy Randolph The program is free and open to the ,y ,,
public '”*•
Honor society scholarships
National Phi Eta Sigma Honor Society is offering fourteen 1500 scholarships
nationwide. Seniors who plan to work for graduate or professional degrees and
who are members of Phi Eta Sigma Freshman Honor Society should contact
William R Bracewell. 210 Academic Building, for additional information
The local deadline for submitting applications is February 12, 1979
State of the Union
President Carter s Stale of the Union
Address is "tentatively scheduled" for 9
o'clock
The White House had no comment on
the speech, but it will probably include
such domestic issues as inflation, and
global issues such as SALT II. the
normalization of relations with China,
and the turmoil in Iran
Watch and you can do your own
analysis of the state we’re in.
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their children aren’t cared for,” she said
Another concern was flooding in the
Brooklyn Branch area, which is one of
the nine target areas. Another suggestion
was alloting money to clean up around
houses in some of the areas. Carson said,
"Cleaning is a big problem, but we also
need help from the community to
maintain the areas." He told about 25
citizens that the choice of a target area
was "an enormous dilemma."
Athens-Clarke County Planning Dir*
odor Ron Neislar told the citizens that
criteria for the decision include housing
conditions, ownership patterns, concen
tration of senior citizens, income,
employment and the problem with child
care
Several residents told the committee
that renovation of present housing alone
would not solve the problem "There has
to be a comprehensive plan,” one
resident said. "We must renovate, as
well as build."
Several people suggested acquiring
more grants and loans to have more
money available for renovation and
building of low rent housing "Just this
OM grant won't be enough." one person
said "We have to have a total plan and
residents must be allowed to get in on the
planning." ,
The committee will meet tonight with
the city council for a work session to
decide on a target area and prepare a
pre-application.
The target areas under consideration
include Brooklyn Creek. Kalima Street,
Reese Street. Peter Street. Bethel
Homes. East Broad Street. Arch Street,
the Brooklyn area and Fourth Street.
Regent’s exam changes explained
By BILL KRUEGER
and BRIAN O’SHEA
An official with the Board of
Regents spoke to the Student
Advisory Council here this weekend
in an effort to explain recent
changes in the Regent’s test
Dr Robert Rentz, director of
testing for the Board of Regents
spoke before the student body
Saturday to explain recent changes
and the possible effects of the
Regent's exam and to get some
student opinion on the changes
The Board of Regents passed a
resolution at the November meet
ing to require that students pass
the test before they have accumu
lated 105 credit hours
Students who have not passed the
test by the time they have
accumulated 105 hours will only be
allowed to enroll in remedial
courses until they can pass the test
The new guidelines go into effect
July 1
students who take the test before
they have completed 105 hours and
fail will be urged to give "priority"
to remedial programs
"Students can no longer go
through college without passing the
Regent’s test. There must be a
stopping point. It is presently 105
hours," Rentz said.
Rentz stressed the impact the
new policy would have on students
currently enrolled in Georgia
colleges "This effects all students,
even those currently enrolled The
change will take place summer
quarter so if you have 105 hours fall
quarter and haven’t passed the
Regent’s test you can’t enroll,”
Rentz said.
"You’re going to get socked with
it. It's going to cause a lot of
problems,” Rentz said. He also
pointed out that some schools have
already felt the effects of the new
policy.
He indicated that this winter
quarter would be highest quarter
ever for testing. "The number of
Staff photo Hal
Dr. Robert Rentz director of testing Board of Regents
students signed up tor the test
jumped from 200 to 800 at one
institution." Rentz said
Rentz said the new policy was an
attempt to set up a minimum
competence level that students
must achieve to graduate from a
Georgia college
"Unless students can do this we
won’t give them a degree We are
one of the few states to do so."
Rentz said.
We re not going to have an open
admissions state We're going to
havesomeminimum requirements."
Rentz said
Rentz also emphasized a new aim
for the Regent's testing program
Presently "we're emphasizing
mediocrity almost We would like to
emphasize excellence We need to
get the emphasis away from just
See SAC p.3
Georgia Power project creates new
recreational area in Lake Oconee
By SETH COHEN
Lake Oconee, a new recreational area
just outside of Eatonton, will open
sometime this summer as a result of
Georgia Power’s construction of Wallace
Dam The dam will be used as a source
of hydroelectric power
The dam's two sluice gates were closed
Sunday, allowing water from the Oconee
and Apalachee Rivers to flood lands
bought by Georgia Power, creating the 30
square mile lake. The lake will be located
off Georgia Highway 16.
In announcing the gate closing at the
$190 million facility. Georgia Power
President Robert Scherer said. "Our
hydroelectric dams are all money savers
for our customers since the use of falling
water holds down fuel costs With the
price of OPEC oil scheduled to increase
14.5 percent by the end of the year, we’re
especially eager to begin the generation
of electricity at Wallace Dam
Scherer said that the new facility will
almost double the output of the
company’s hydroelectric generating sys
tern
The entire 321.300 kilowatt facility is not
expected to be completed until June 19«o
But the first of the six turbines is
scheduled to be tested by late summer
Rev. King appeals for racial harmony
By JUSTIN G1LLIS
Assistant campus editor
The Rev Martin Luther King, Sr.,
addressing a largely-black audience
Friday night in North PJ. called for an
end to racial division and urged black
students to "get on out there and tell the
white students they’re a part of it too."
King, a guest of the Committee for
Black Programs, accepted a donation of
one thousand dollars on behalf of the
Martin Luther King. Jr. Center for Social
Change in Atlanta
The donation and King s address were
part of a memorial program honoring the
late Rev Martin Luther King. Jr., the
slain civil-rights leader
"We re going to teach a philosophy of
kindness making brotherhood work,"
King said when asked how the money
would be used "We are going to teach
continual non-violence We are going
after jobs for people, more jobs "
The Center for Social Change has plans
for a large new headquarters building on
Auburn Avenue in Atlanta, according to
King Henry Ford II. chairman of the
board of Ford Motor Company, is
spearheading the national campaign to
raise money for the building Ford
himself contributed $1 million to the
project. King said
“You're living to see segregation die,”
King told the capacity crowd of 300 "It's
dead No matter who tries to set this
clock back, we aren't going back ”
King drew tears from many in the
audience with his appeal for racial
harmony "Let me say you’ve got whites
on this campus who’ll fight for your
rights when you aren’t there." he said
i know when you couldn't sit in here,"
King said to black students "I know
when you couldn't come on this campus
to be u student i know a time when you
couliin t go up here to the Varsity and get
a hat dog You were black
The fight again** segregation has been
won. King said. bu. the fight for racial
integration is not over yet "It's all right
to have blackness, honor blackness, but
be sure you include people "
King reiterated his support for
President Carter, telling students that
Carter is their friend "I know the man I
know what he's had to face to get things
straightened out
"One day a black man is going to be
president of this university,” King
predicted. "One day a black man is going
to be governor of this state One day a
black man is going to be President of the
United States How long** Not long
President Carter has promised his best
efforts in the move to declare Martin
Luther King. Jr.’s birthday of January 15
a national holiday. King said He took a
stab at state legislators who refused to
See KING p.3
Scherer said that heavy rains this
weekend triggered Sunday's gate closing,
two days earlier than scheduled With
above average rainfall the reservoir
could fill up in two and a half months,
but if 1979 is a drought year, the process
could take up to nine months
While the half mile long dam is almost
complete, the integral powerhouse where
the electricity will be generated is still
underway
Six turbines and generators for
production of electricity will be installed
by early next year Four will be
reversible so the water that flows
through during the day can be pumped
back up to the reservoir during off peak
hours in the middle of the night The
water can then be re-used the next day
when demand for electricity is at its
height
This "pumped storage feature" is a
first for Georgia Power and will increase
the amount of electricity generated by
the project each year from about 128
million to 341 million Kilowatt hours
Upon completion, the Wallace Dam will
become part of the Central Georgia
Hydro Group which will be responsible
for operating Wallace. Sinclair. Barnett
Shoals and Lloyd Shoals dams
The recreational area surrounding the
lake created by closing the dam will
include 12 boat ramps, marinas, beaches,
picnic tables, camping grounds. 1450
acres of wildlife preserve and 50
five-acre fishing plots
Under a Federal Energy Administra
non <FEA» regulation, the recreational
area must be built by Georgia Power
The construction of the dam was
announced March 31. 1966, but. according
to a Georgia Power public relations
spokesperson Barbara Washington, pro
gress has been slow The slow progress
can partially be attributed to FEA's
regulations concerning recreational
areas
Some local groups have claimed that
Ga Power did not pay fair prices for the
land to be flooded Ninety-six percent of
the land was acquired through negotia
tion while (our percent was condemned
by Ga Power Only one family was
displaced as a result of the condemna
tion
There have also been claims that
adequate investigation was not made
concerning the environmental effects of
clearing the land
Washington said decision has not been
made concerning the management of the
recreational area Georgia Power could
operate the area itself or sell the
recreational lands to private investors If
the power company retains control, all
profits from fees charged would go to
offset construction costs
The economic effects the new lake will
have on surrounding counties have not
yet been determined, but businesses are
expecting a boost
