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l'he Krd and Black. Tuesday, May I. 1979
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A good job overall
The allocations committee
strove to meet the needs of the
students in most of this year’s
hearings and generally did a
good job in distributing the
funds.
The committee generally did
not give funds or cut back on the
present funding to groups who
did not fulfill their purpose or
failed to serve the students in
some other way.
The Student Bar Association
had their funding cut $200 to give
them a total of $1000 This was
because the association did not
publish all six issues of their
newsletter as promised. The
allocations committee also
tightened up salaries by cutting
the pay for president of the
Black Student Union, refusing an
increase for WUOG staffers, and
recommending a 10 percent
decrease in student judiciary
salaries.
The move to restore the
Impression magazine funding is
to be commended. There is a
definite need on campus for a
literary magazine and the
Impression deserved the funds.
The committee also kept a
promise made to the Impression
last week when the present
editors were told that they could
receive funding next year if they
improved the format.
Very few budgets went through
the committee with ease. Most
organizations had to offer good
justification for the funds re
quested. In most cases, the
questioning was legitimate and
was heavily centered around the
use of funds regarding the
student.
The meetings were open to any
A four day school week? It’s
not likely to become a reality at
the University. In a poll taken
last week by The Red and Black,
professors were split just about
evenly on the idea of students
having an extra day off each
week to do outside classroom
work.
While the idea may have some
merit the University isn’t ready
to start having a three day
weekend. Most work is done
within the classroom or in
relatively short study periods
outside the classroom at the
University as opposed to classes
interested observer and most
negotiations held out in the open.
William Mendenhall, chairman
of the committee, pushed for the
open meetings last year and held
to the same policy this year
Even though we still have
serious reservations about the
makeup of the committee we do
think that this year’s committee
members did a good job.
at Emory where the student is
expected to do the bulk of the
work outside the classroom.
As the University grows more
sophisticated in its teaching
techniques the concept may
become desirable. The structure
of a classroom setting can be
confining to many people. More
outside work allows for more
creativeness on the part of the
student and less boredom in the
classroom.
It would take a strong show of
support for the idea to catch on
here but it’s still a little early to
seriously discuss the idea.
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Four day week?
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Windfall profits
tax is necessary
Seth Cohen
Whether or not the decision to decon
trol the price of crude oil was wise, the
fact is that starting June 1. 1979. the
price of American crude oil will begin to
rise
Seth Cohen is assistant city editor of The
Bed and Black
Congress had no say in this matter as
President Carter used his executive
authority to decontrol But Congress will
have a say about the windfall profits tax
the President has proposed.
Between June 1. 1979 and Oct. 1. 1981.
an estimated $13 billion will be generated
as a result of American crude oil rising
in price from today’s average of $9 45 per
bbl to the current world level of $14.55
per bbl. Decontrol will be gradual, ending
Od l 1981, the date the controls applied
by President Nixon in 1973. would have
expired
The windfall profits tax would leave the
oil companies with 45 percent of the $13
billion which will result from decontrol,
the rest of the unearned profits" will be
used to create the Energy Securities
Fund, which in turn will use the money
for several programs.
By far the largest part of the money, 41
percent, will be used for the research and
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development of alternative energy
sources, such as solar energy. (In his
speech to the nation Carter made no
mention of using part of the money for
nuclear energy research or develop
ment.
Nine percent of the $13 billion will go to
aid low-income families, who will be hit
the hardest by decontrol. Gasoline prices
are expected to rise five cents to seven
cents by 1982, according to the
administration, and estimates by private
concern are much higher
Thus, low-income families will be hard
pressed to put gasoline in their cars.
Also, heating oil prices will be rising,
which will probably affect more low-
income families than the rise in gasoline
prices, since, since many poor people
have not been able to afford much gas for
quite some time.
We must not let those who can least
afford it be hit the hardest by decontrol.
Oil companies should not be allowed to
reap great profits while American
citizens suffer as a result.
Three percent of the windfall profits
tax would go towards tax credits for
energy savings, and two percent would
go towards the development of energy -
saving mass transit, such as rail and bus
service.
However, there are many members of
the House of Representatives and of the
Senate who oppose the tax. They say that
all of the profits resulting from decontrol
should be turned over to the oil
companies The oil companies could then
increase production and could also
increase research and development.
Under the Carter plan, research and-
development w«uld be increased by the
government, and probably by the oil
companies as well. And the oil companies
should still have money to increase
production
However, if the tax measure does not
go through, low-income families will be
facing serious times, as I can’t imagine
the oil companies voluntarily subsidizing
the poor
Thus, it is imperative that the House
and Senate approve the windfall profits
tax Without it. the rich will get richer
and the poor will get poorer, a trend I
had hoped was dying out
Students should control
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the allocations process
Nelson d. Ross
The time has come for elected students
at the University to determine how the
approximately $500,000 in student activi
ties fees are to be spent each year.
We must not sit back any longer and
allow the $10 per student per quarter to
Nelson d. Boss is a staff writer for The
Bed and Black
be doled out according to the whims of
administrators, faculty, and handpicked
students. No matter how much time they
spend in drawing up the budget, their
presence in the process is simply not
acceptable.
Elected students could and should he
putting in those hours Who better know
the priorities for student fees than
students? Why shouldn't students be
getting the experience of preparing a
$500,000 budget ?
As it stands now. the bulk of the
$500,000 is divided up by a committee
selected by Dean of Student Services
Dwight Douglas with a portion of the
money dispensed by a smattering of
school councils. The larger budget must
be approved by Douglas himself.
President Davison and the Board of
Regents.
Neither aspect of the process is as it
should be.
The concept of allowing student
councils from the thirteen schools at the
University to allocate a certain percent
age of the activity fee from each enrolled
member in the respective schools is a
sound one. But those students should be
elected and thus accountable to the
students in the particular school.
As it stands now, in a large number of
schools the council members are chosen
by the dean of that school It is not
desirable to have local student allocating
positions become plums for deans to hand
out to favored sludents Nor is it
desirable to have deans with virtual
control over doling out the student funds
But the most odious part of the
allocations process is the hand picked
committee which holds hearings and does
the major share of the budget work each
year.
Until 1976 the major part of the process
was handled by the Student Senate (led
by the Senate Allocations Committee)
True, there were some problems Any
time you're talking about money—
whether it be $500,000 or $50O-there is
going to be some politics involved This
will be true whether the committee is
handpicked or elected
But there was nothing illegal or fiscally
irresponsible that was done by students
that vear or any other.
Ultimately the problem between
Douglas and the senate boiled down to
priorities Elected student priorities
versus administration priorities became
the conflict.
Budgets drawn up by elected students
began to be changed by Douglas or his
committee. And naturally the Board of
Regents passed the budgets in their
altered form.
This, understandably, made some
students who had been involved in
preparing the student budget angry.
Trips to the Regents meetings were made
but they were unsuccessful attempts to
save the original student budgets.
All of which was bothersome to the
part time policy makers in Atlanta,
which in turn was embarrassing to our
local father figures. Fred Davison and
Douglas.
This scenario was acted out for several
years until 1976, when the Senate
Allocations Committee attempted to use
Robert's Rules of Order to force its will
on the full senate. A struggle ensued on
tin* floor of the 60 person senate and
when the dust cleared the budget was
passed by only 12-10.
It was the perfect opportunity for
Douglas to step in and claim irresponsi
bility on the part of the senate. But when
the budget passed through Douglas’
hands it was not substantially different
from what the senate passed. There were
very few revisions other than in the area
of student salaries
Which brings us to 1979.
The key to the success of a student
elected allocations committee would be in
who we as a student body elected I feel
sure that seats for such a committee
would be hotly contested. And at the
bottom line, the student voter would be
responsible for electing responsible
people.
Perhaps some safeguards would be
necessary. For example, it might be
desirable to guarantee organizations with
proven campus-wide impact (the Union.
WUOG. etc • at least a set percentage of
the funds each year The specifics could
be worked out long before next year's
budget time.
But the process by which $500,000 in
student activity fees is divided up should
be decided upon and conducted by
students A group must come forward
and get the process started.
Even though we are legal adults and
subject to the laws of our society, we are
given very little sayso in the decisions
that affect us dailty here at the
University. But the issue of determining
how our money is spent is fundamental
Until we are making that decision we are
only playing in the sandbox.
Letters
‘ Military service draft is inexcusable ’
TO THE EDITOR.
One of the most heinous and
inexcusable of all the federal govern
ment’s many transgressions of individual
constitutional rights -a military-national
service draft-is currently making
headway in Congress. It has the support
of the Carter administration, and is being
sponsored by a coalition of militarists,
political opportunists, and “liberal"
do-gooders. Ambitious global interven
tionists favor it as a means of getting
cheap resources with which to force
American foreign policy down the throats
of foreign governments The do-gooders
want a cheap means for carrying out
social policies they favor--such as
cleaning up the environment and building
windmills.
No matter what the end purposes, the
means of conscription to carry them out
is involuntary servitude imposed by the
fiat of government How does this
development square with a government
that fought a horrible war to free a
minority race from a less bad form of
involuntary servitude? No ethical prin
ciple can excuse the act whereby one
man makes a slave out of another. And if
no ethical principle can do that, certainly
none can justify a government that forces
a particular group of society to become
slaves of the state
For what it is worth, no economic
principle justifies slavery by private or
public means, either. States that have
indulged in private slavery, or near-
slavery types of feudalism, have
remained stagnant, subsistence-level
societies And those that have imposed
public conscription have seen their
promising young men either killed off in
unholy wars, or emmigrate to other
countries in order to avoid this unjust
tax.
Both young men and young women
should realize the threat to their lives,
careers, and freedoms that current draft
legislation would pose Let your
congressman, especially Senator Sam
Nunn (one of the worst offenders in the
draft movement), know your dissatisfac
tion with this policy Make May 1 the
day.
RICHARD H. TIMBERLAKE, JR.
Professor
‘Thanks to
Dr. Shutt’
TO THE EDITOR:
We wish to thank Dr Shutt and the
other members of the Registrar’s office
for the forum they gave Wednesday night
in Memorial Hall A small group of
students attended the forum, which was
sponsored by ADVANCE Most left with
the feeling that the proposed registration
system is one that deserves student
support Dr Shutt and his committee
explained that the new system would be
an on-line system providing immediate
feedback to the student attempting to
obtain a schedule of classes
The purpose of the forum was to
provide student input and feedback into
the plan This is an area that will affect
every student on campus With the
absence of student government, such
forums and meetings are now essential
for students to have a hand in
administrative decisions This is one case
where the administration is coming to the
students for information The Registrar
is interested in talking with more
students about the proposed system. We
encourage all students, whether graduate
or undergraduate, to attend one of the
meetings that will be held in the future
After all, it’s your University.
DAVID MONROE
JAMES PARNELL
W. GREGG JOCOY
GRIER HOYT
BOB GREENBERGER
PAUL LEGE VOICE
‘Column sort
of confusing’
fundity of Frank Gregorsky’s editorial,
(Red and Black. April 25), I was quite
amused with his inept grasp of Catholic
doctrine, and somewhat confused as to
the purpose of the editorial.
Where he received his, surely,
creditable information as to the psyche of
the "Catholic personality” is questiona
ble (No doubt from an expert on Catholic
psyches) Since he was raised a
Catholic, nresumably he too, is "typical
ly a philosophical mess " In this matter,
Mr Gregorsky had best speak for
himself Frank Gregorsky states that
there are “50 million Catholics" and
claims that not a one of them can explain
why he-she is a Catholic. I am to assume
that he cast himself as the perfect model
in his article.
As I am not the most devout of
Catholics, I cannot say that I do not
question church doctrine from time to
time However, when 1 am confused or
misunderstand the meanings of some
proceedings, I find it to my advantage to
ask questions, preferably of priests, to
discover pertinent answers. Gregorsky
apparently feels that by criticizing the
Catholic faith, he can best clarify his
confusion Could this instead by a ploy to
bolster his weak position on the issue 7 To
say the least there has been no point
made in the article, that is to say that
one accepts Gregorsky’s admission to
being raised a Catholic Indeed, what was
the point of the article? Stir up a little
controversy? Miscellaneous Ramblings 7
Confessions of a West Georgian?
At any rate, how insinuations as to ihe
credibility of a Christian bureaucrat,
separation of church and state, Mormons,
abortion. Catholics, and counselors for
pregnant teenagers all relate to "Bigness
and Believability" is yet to be revealed
Perhaps a better title to the ‘article might
have been "Pointless and Confused "
TO THE EDITOR:
Upon reading the intellectual pro- MICHAEL F. WILSON
DlRed and *BlacK.
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