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Legislators approve new state budget
MIDNIGHT SATURDAY
Car tag deadline draws near
By SETH COHEN
Assistant city editor
Georgia residents and University students have until midnight Saturday to purchase
their new license decals and pay taxes on their vehicles Actually the deadline is
midnight Sunday. April 1. but the decals will not be sold on Sunday
Students have the option of purchasing decals from their home counties or from
Clarke County, according to Clarke County Tax Commissioner Homer G. Hale
However, this does not apply to Clarke County residents who must purchase their
decals from the Clarke County license department located on Lexington Rd The office
is open from 8 30 a m to 5 p m.
Hale said the lines of people buying decals have not been very long so far. However,
he suggested that students try to purchase their decals in the midmorning or
midafternoon, as the early morning and late afternoon are the busiest times
According to Hale, decal sales last Friday were about 8000 behind the final number
received in 1978 l^ist year's total was around 35.000 As of last Friday. 27,000 decals
had been sold
Persons who do not purchase the decals before the April 2 deadline will be fined.
Hale said The fine is determined by adding 25 percent of the tag fee. 10 percent of the
vehicle tax plus one dollar. On most cars this comes to about $5 or $6. Hale said.
Most decals, according to Hale, cost $8 In the past the price was determined by the
weight of the vehicle A new system being used this year, reduces the number of
vehicle groupings
There are now two main vehicle categories The first category covers all cars and
vehicles up through pickup trucks This decal costs $8 The second category includes
pickup trucks and similar vehicles In addition there are other categories for very
larger vehicles, such as 18-wheelers
Hale said the average tax on cars is $20 or $25 This tax must be paid at the same
time the new decal is purchased
Ross Wescott. supervisor of the Clarke County tax department said a decal can be
purchased by mail, if the person has received a pre printed application in the mail
If a pre printed application has been received, a $ 50 postage fee is required A
pre printed application from another county will not be processed, according to
Wescott. as the car tax is included on the application and varies from one county to
the next
Similarly, if a person has moved since last April 1. the pre printed application
cannot be processed, as the amount of taxes may have changed
Wescott mentioned that those paying by pre printed applications should be sure to
include their date of birth, insurance company, and policy number, or the application
will not be processed.
LEE SMIT TO BEGIN IN APRIL
Albany personnel director takes position in Athens
By SETH COHEN
Assistant city editor
Athens' new personnel director plans to keep his post for about four years—long
enough to complete an undergraduate business degree and earn a master's in public
administration.
Lee Smit of Albany has been hired for the post effective April 2 Smit comes to the
$24,000 post with eight years of experience as chief personnel director in Albany
Smit replaces James Alford, who has served as acting personnel director since
Robert Leyda resigned the post last October to join an Atlanta law firm
The opportunity to continue his education and a pay increase are two main reasons
he opted to take the job here. Smit said in a phone interview from his Albany office
Tuesday
Smit said he is •somewhere in his junior year'' and hopes to pursue a career in city
management upon completion of his master's degree Smit and Mayor Upshaw
Bentley nave an understanding that he will keep the job about four years, Smit
said, just long enough to complete his education
Smit’s wife. Fay. will pursue an art degree at the University and his daughter will
enroll here in two years, he said
The personnel job in Athens will give Smit a chance to see a different type of
government than he worked for in Albany While Athens is run by a city council and
mayor. Albany has a council and city manager
Asked if he anticipated any problems in his new job. Smit replied ‘not at this
point It is too early to say what his first actions as personnel director will be. Smil
said, adding there is "nothing in particular that he will work on first
Smit came to the United States with his family from the Netherlands when he was
10 years old He served in the United States Air Force for 10 years, the first five as a
medical technician He also spent two years active duty in Vietnam He left the Air
Force as a captain
A&S dean may be affected by faculty senate vote
ATLANTA il l’ll The Georgia Gener
al Assembly , working swiftly through the
final day of its bitter 1979 session, sent
Gov George Busbee a $2 7 billion state
budget Tuesday and narrowly approved a
tri-state river treaty sought by Alabama
and opposed by Florida
’ * Busbee indicated he might veto 9 5
percent teacher pay raises or other parts
of the budget he decides are inflationary
in the 30 days he has to consider the
bulky document that won final approval
in the House and Senate during the
closing hours of the session
lawmakers also sent him a bill vastly
’* increasing arson penalties, junking a
maze of old laws dealing with burning
railroad bridges and outhouses. The new
act replaces them with a streamlined
• • system of first through third-degree
arson with penalties ranging from five
years for burning a home to 20 years for
hiring someone to torch a business
In one of Busbee s major budget
setbacks, the legislators voted another
year's extension of the effective date of
the Uniform Alcoholism Act. which
"decriminalizes" public drunkenness and
provides for common drunks to be put in
treatment centers rather than holding
cells. Busbee sought funding in the
budget for the act. now delayed five
straight years, but the lawmakers put the
money into teacher salaries and
postponed the effective date of the
alcoholism act one more year.
House and Senate conferees also
agreed to a one-year extension of the
State Consumer Utility Counsel's office
vesting it in Bushee's staff rather than
UG A Today
Financial aid director Phillips to leave
By CINDY JACKSON
Assistant campus editor
A decision by the dean of student services not to rehire Director of Financial Aid
Ken Phillips has left Phillips ‘frustrated" and "unhappy." since the University
refused to give him any reason for the dismissal
Phillips was notified last July that his contract would not be renewed after this
year, although no explanation was offered, he said.
Since he ranks as a faculty member. Phillips’ contract must be renewed annually.
Dean of Student Services Dwight Douglas, who made the decision not to rehire
Phillips, refused to comment.
Phillips has appealed the decision to Vice President for Academic Affairs Virginia
Trotter and Universitv President Fred C Davison, on the grounds that the procedure
used to notify him was incorrect
Trotter and Davison could see nothing wrong with the procedure used to notify him.
Phillips said
"Actually I feel the appeal was ignored. " he said
Phillips said he feels he has done much to build up the financial aid program in the
past ten years and thinks he should have an explanation for not being rehired
Advertisments for a new financial aid director have been posted since February.
Phillips said
There have been 50 to 60 applicants for the position, according to Registrar Bruce
Shut!, chairman of the search committee for a new financial aid director
Applications for the position will be open until May 1 The search committee will
then screen applicants and reduce the selection to a reasonable number. Shutt said
By NELSON d ROSS
Staff writer
Controversy over the role of Arts and
Sciences Dean Jack Payne in selecting
new department heads in the college
could be partially resolved at a meeting
of the A4S Faculty Senate toda>
Meeting at 3:30 in 101 Meigs, the senate
will consider a new set of bylaws for the
school which, if passed, would limit the
dean's authority to add members to
department head search committees
Dr William O Chittick. chairman of
the ad hoc committee on bylaws, will
present a set of proposed changes which
attempt, among other things, to
re-establish the former role of the
individual department members in
determining both the chairman and
membership of search committees for
new department heads
"The Senate felt that it was necessary
to provide clearer, more explicit
procedures for the department s role in
identifying candidates for department
headship." Chittick said According to
Chit tick, the present bylaws were passed
six years ago and there have been no
amendments in four years
Dean Jack Payne
Where the current bylaws simply state
"the faculty of the department con
cerned shall prepare a slate of
nominees for presentation to the dean.”
the proposed rules are more specific
"The faculty of the department shall
elect a search committee, consisting of
no less than five faculty members In
consultation with the dean, faculty
outside the department concerned may
he elected to the search committee by the
faculty in the department "
The change is apparently a reaction to
recent action by Payne, who appointed
outside members to at least five search
committees
In all cases the additional members
came from outside the respective
departments
With current Department of Health.
Education and Welfare and other
government requirements. Payne feels
his chairmanship appointments were
necessary to conform to procedure and
represent the college in a protective
role
According to Payne, the advantage of
having a committee chairman come from
outside the department is to "have
someone who is not emotionally
involved in the selection process In
some cases, the additions were made “to
see that we had female and minority
representation on the committees."
Payne said
The committee bringing the revisions
to the senate has included a provision
which would provide for participation by
women and minorities in future
department head search committees
without having Payne appoint them
"We have expanded the definition of
who the faculty are to include lecturers as
well as instructors. Chittick said There
is a high proportion of women and
minorities in those positions. according to
Chittick
The dean has refused to say whether he
supports the bylaws revision, saying it
was up to the senate and that he will
abide by whatever the senate decides
Meanwhile, according to Payne, all the
search committees are functioning well
and he is holding off on any further
committee appointments to see what the
senate will decide
“1 just want any possible ambiguity
ruled out and for everyone to teel good
with the way we operate in the future. **
Payne said
Annual Pharmacy seijiinar
«• The University School of Pharmacy will mark its 75th anniversary with a
symposium and seminar The symposium is entitled "Perspectives of
Pharmaceutical Care in the 1980s" and will be held from 9 a m-12 noon
today This afternoon's seminar session is entitled “The Legal Aspects of
Pharmacy Practice "
the attorney general's office. Consumer
Counsel Sid Moore, who is leaving in
September to resume private practice,
said the office that represents the general
public before the Public Service
Commission would have been extended
two vears under previous versions of the
bill ’
supporters and opponents of the bill said
Alabama and some west Georgia
counties want the three-state agreement
to boost river trade
After 1980 budget passed. Busbee
issued a statement saying he would not
approve any program or pay increases
ERA workshop
Country comedian Jerry ('lower
will entertain fans during the annual
championship rodeo sponsored by
the Block and Bridle Club, scheduled
for April 6 and 7 in the Colisuem
The rodeo is one of the largest indoor
rodeos in the Southeast Advance
tickets are on sale in Room 224 of the
Livestock Poultry Building, or from
any Block and Bridle member
See his etchings
ERA Georgia. Inc will hold a
workshop this Saturday from 10 a m
until 12 noon at North PJ Included in
this workshop will be talks on the
history of the ERA and its present
system, a film of Mario Thomas
lobbying for the ERA. and a speech by
Joyce Parker The workshop is free
and open to the public, so make plans
now to aMend For more info, call
Dana Jennings at 546 8023
A display of etchings, lithographs,
and screenprmts by American artist
Jasper Johns can be seen in the
Georgia Museum of Art through April
8 These selections are prints Johns
has produced in the past seven years
Also, a film of Johns working on his
famous print Decoy" will be shown
at 3 p m on Wednesdays and Sundays
Walk and run for life
The Northeast Georgia March of Dimes Annual Superwalk and also a
Super-Run will be held this Saturday. March 31 The Superwalk will cover 20
kilometers beginning and ending at the Coliseum The Super Run is a five
kilometer roadrace Both events are open to all age groups and the proceeds
will provide continued support to the March of Dimes An information booth
where walkers must get their pledge sheets will be set up in front of the
University Bookstore from 9 3 pm today.
Shakespeare tonight
The Shakespearean classic Richard
II will air tonight at 8:00 pm on
channel 8 The play concerns
Richard's 22-year rule over England
which ended with desertion by his
followers The film stars Derek Jacobi
and Jon Finch
For adventure fans, James Coburn
stars in In Like Flint on channel 17.
The film co-stars Jean Hale and will
air at 8 p m
Clower 'n rodeo
‘lam not willing to swap cheers in 1979
for jeers in 1981 ’—Busbee
The tri-rivers pact for development and
the Apalachicola. Flint and Chattahoo
chee Rivers was approved by one
vote—getting exactly the 29 it needed in
the Senate—then survived a 26-24
reconsideration effort and went to
Busbee Florida Gov. Bob Graham sent
him a telegram urging him to veto it.
saying barge development would foul
fisheries in Apalachicola Bay. but both
with a "built-in" tax increase for 1981 In
a strongly worded message, the usually
conciliatory governor said he realizes
teachers are under paid and need raises,
but that "1 am not willing to swap cheers
in 1979 for jeers in 1901. and I am certain
I would deserve those jeers in 18 months
if I ignored the long range hnancial
realities of the budget which was
passed."
Stall phnto Mai Hna*»
Boxed in
Dean of Student Services Dwight Douglas is pictured testing out the new Red and
Black distribution box in front of the Academic Building This box. built by
Physical Plant, will be the only one of its kind on campus However. 10 regular
paper boxes without coin mechanisms will be installed around campus later in the
quarter The boxes and 12 indoor paper racks will 1m* installed in areas where there
is high student traffic and in areas where newspaper litter is a problem, according
to Red and Black General Manager Ed Stamper And. yes. the paper is still free