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(Tl Red and *Blac UNivehiitv or ofouow MAY 0 4 1979 LIBRARIES I University of Georgia Friday, May 4,1979 Volume 85, Number 99 Georgia's only collegiate daily newspaper" News 542-3441 Advertising 542-3414 Arabs offered West Bank in first round of peace talks 31st Anniversary About 50 people joined The Friends of Israel organization Wednesday to celebrate the 31st anniversary of Israeli indepen dence. The group marched from five points to Memorial Hall where they listened to a speech by Israeli Consul from Atlanta, Yuval Metser. The organization is striving to make the march an annual event of campus. Staff phnio Jack Waterman JERUSALEM (L’PD— Israel today offered a formal proposal for Arab self-rule in the occupied West Bank and Gaza strip in the first step in the Palestinian round of negotiations on the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Prime Minister Menachem Begin submitted his plan for Palestinian autonomy to an 11-member ministerial committee that is to start talks with Egypt in a month The committee met for 90 minutes and details of the discussion were kept secret But government sources said the primary thrust of the plan was to give autonomy to the 1.1 million Palestinian residents of the occupied areas and for Israel to retain control over the land for purposes of national security and Jewish settlement The committee met against a backdrop of renewed tension in the West Bank because of a shooting Wednesday in which a 20-year-old Arab student was wounded in the chest The shot allegedly was fired by an Israeli civilian in a passing \ ?r«cle. A second Israeli was injured by a rock thrown by Arab students Youths in Bethlehem today hurled stones at passing vehicles in a brief recurrence of disturbances in the West Bank but military authorities said they caused neither injuries nor damage Troops did not interfere and there were no arrests, the authorities said Begin has promised to publish the final Israeli plan for self government before negotiations with Egypt start The plan first will be shown to the parliamentary Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee The issue of resolving the Palestinian problem is not officially linked to the treaty in writing, at Israeli insistence, but is part of an overall settlement of the Middle East conflict outlined in the Camp David peace accords of September 1978 Begin has defined his plan as giving administrative but not legislative authority to the Palestinians, meaning the Palestinians would be governed by a local council that would not be permitted to make its own laws The military government now overseeing the two territories would move to Tel Aviv but still would retain control over public land and its uses, including the establishment of Jewish settlements. There are 56 settlements in the West Bank alone today, with more in the planning stages The plan is expected to be approved, perhaps with only minor changes, in two weeks It then will go before the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament In West Bank violence Wednesday. Arab-Israeli clashes sent two persons to the hospital in opposing demonstrations on Israel's Independence Day over the future status of the occupied territory Irregularities force new BSU election FRANKLIN HOUSE By DENISE NEALY The Black Student Union has an nounced it will hold new elections for all its offices on Thursday. May 17 due to irregularities in procedure during the last election. BSU members elected officers at the first of April, giving Alfred King a second term as president of the black students’ organization Some members of the group protested the elections procedure, however, and a new election was called The decision to hold new elections was made at the April 25, BSU meeting because some elements of parliamentary- procedure used during the election period were overlooked, according to BSU member Davida Jones. As a result a new elections committee has been formed with Jones as its head “The reason we’re having another election is because of weaknesses in parliamentary procedure. In order to insure that we don’t have those problems again, we thought it best to start again.’’ Jones said According to Jones, the irregularities that caused the need for a new election wer(T not the fault of any person or group of people, and the situation should be looked upon as a helpful lesson for the future. The main consequence could be facing the same problems or similar ones next year, Jones said The BSU does not want the same things to go wrong with it that plagued the Student Government Association, she added Jones claimed apathy was another factor that sparked the move for new elections. “As in any student govern ment. there has been a lack of interest in BSU,” Jones said “But there has been a new interest sparked.” She cited the recent availability of the old SGA offices to the BSU as an additional boost to interest. Another problem with the elections arose because no freshmen are eligible to run for any BSU office. Jones said It seemed most of the candidates for the offices of president, vice-president, secretary, and treasurer were freshmen, and the interest of first-year black students in the BSU has been great. Jones said. The decision to go along with a new electoral process may serve as an added help to spark interest in the upper classmen members of the BSU The elections committee will start the proceedings with nominations for all offices, and students will be able to pick up petitions to run for a position at the BSU offices in Creswell or at Memorial starting Monday. May 7 The petitions must be turned in by Wednesday. May 9 BSU is planning a forum in Creswell on Tuesday May 15. where students can meet and question the candidates See BSt p. 10 UGA Today Group seeks second restoration grant By JEFFREY JOWDY The Athens Clarke Heritage Foundation recently applied for a second federal grant to continue efforts to finance the second phase restoration on the historic Franklin House According to foundation President John Waljrs, the grant could range as high as 170,000 and would require the foundation to supply matching funds for restoration of the one-time hotel Phase two would begin the restoration type activities while phase one concentrated on stabilizing the structure of the old Broad Street building, according to Waters. The present work on the Franklin House is being funded by a $30,000 federal grant from the Department of the Interior and is being administered by the Georgia Department of Natural Resources This work includes the stabilization of the upper building, some roof repair, and repointing and replacement of bricks. Waters said, noting that “a majority of the work has been interior work" and is not noticeable. This work follows structural repairs such as the raising of sagging floors that was completed last fall All work was preceded by comprehensive research carried out by Group Five, an Atlanta firm acting as consultant on the project Some professional services have been donated to the Foundation by the local firm of Heery and Heery. Occupational Staff illustration - Frank Lw Get out the umbrellas The weekend forecast calls for rain and fairly warm temperatures over the weekend, according to a spokesman for the National Wea ther Service in Athens The extended NWS forecast for Satur day thorugh Monday calls for showers and thundershowers Satur- day. with fair skies and cooler temperatures Sunday There is a chance of more showers Monday. NWS projects afternoon highs in the 70 s throughout the period, with overnight lows in the upper 40's Sunday The Monday morning forecast calls for lows in the 90's documentation, a structural report, and research on the origins of the building and how it has grown and developed were all carried out ACHF. which saved the ante-bellum hotel from demolition in 1974. obtained the grant two years ago. At that time the Foundation owned the building which has since been sold to local businessman Hugh Fowler. Both the federal government, by virtue of the grant, and the ACHF maintain a facade easement on the building The easement remains for a period of 30 years, and, according to Waters "it's just like we own the outside skin of the building." Waters, an associate professor of Environmental Design at the University, explained that the easement is a collection of rights to work on the exterior of a building, given to someone other than the owner of the building After the easement terminates in 30 years, the owner may do as he pleases with the building, although deed restrictions guarantee the preservation of the building for 75 years The ACHF has maintained an interest in the building, according to Waters, and on the basis of the facade easement, has applied for the grants, with the intentions of making the restoration project more financially feasible to the present owner See FRANKLIN p. to Concert cuts to bring changes; ‘ shows that pay for themselves ’ By BOBBY BYRD Assistant campus editor The $20,000 cut in next year’s Contemporary Concerts' budget will necessitate some “changes in perspective,” but will not adversely affect programming, according to representatives of the division “The perspective of Contemporary is going to have to be geared to shows that pay for themselves." said Tom Dover, student activities advisor to the division The decision to reduce the Contemporary Concerts budget from $60,000 to $40,000 was “not just an arbitrarv cut.’’ according to Dover, but a decision to spend the money on other divisions of the Union that needed it more “The money stays within house It’s going in places where it’s really needed,” said Ed Shallcross. coordinator of the division A large portion of the $20,000 will go to the Entertainment (smaller concerts) division, according to Shallcross The cut will apparently not result in poorer quality programming Shows that the division feels will lo«e money will no longer be booked, according to Dover The effect of the reduced budget will be a shift toward shows that will not lose money. Dover said "In the past, we had a certain amount of money that we had to spend.’’ he said As a result, some shows (such as the Ozark Mountain Daredevils and Tracy Nelson) were booked, even though they were certain not to break even “The thinking process is going to have to be changed We won’t do shows like that anymore," Dover said Next year, according to Dover, the division will probably be able to retain generated income (ticket sales money) from one year to the next, a procedure not allowed before Dover said the division had booked shows with the idea of spending its total revenue over the nine month school year There’s no way we would have brought in those shows otherwise." he said, referring to the Daredevils and Nelson shows The losses to the division on those two shows were approximately equal to the $20,000 allocation reduction, according to Dover By contrast, the Jimmy Buffett show, with a popular major act. cost only $2000 in Union money, making up the difference by ticket sales Approval is expected soon on the plan to allow the division to hold generated income from year to year The allocations committee's formal report to Dean of Student Services Dwight Douglas recommended that such a plan be enacted, and the division has been advised to hold any remaining funds, according to Dover See CONCERTS p. in Tennis match today Come on out and watch the tennis match today between Sth-ranked Tennessee and 12th-ranked Georgia at 2 pm. in Henry Feild Stadium Tennessee features the number-one ranked player in the country. Andy Kohlberg The winner of this important match will receive a bid to the NCAA Championships to be held in Athens May 21 28 In case of rain, the match will be played in the Coliseum at 1 pm A flying performance Press profession Franklin Ajaye. comedian, record ing artist, and comic actor, will be performing tonight in the Memorial Hall Ballroom at 8 30 p m A pre-show dance is scheduled for 7 pm Some may remember Ajaye as “The Fly" in the movie Car Wash The program is being presented by the Committee for Black Programs and admission is free Approximately 1500 junior high and high school students will be on campus today to attend the 52nd annual Georgia Scholastic Press Association meeting In an awards session, publications of "general excellence" will be recognized The main goal of GSPA is to educate students in general about the media as well as to encourage some to consider it as a profession Disc of the future College Students in Broadcasting will be hosting a demonstration of MAGNAVISION. the new videodisc player manufactured by Magnavox, today at 2 p m in Studio 2 in the basement of the Journalism School Today's demonstration, open to everyone, is a rare opportunity to see for yourself the future of home entertainment Two-headed gorilla? Women in Science is sponsoring a seminar by Dr Lilli Homig. titled “A Gorilla with Two Heads” on Monday. May 7, at noon in the Institute of Ecology Auditorium Dr Hornig is a chemist and the executive director of Higher Education Resource Services There will be a brown bag lunch in the Institute of Ecology courtyard with Dr Homig following the seminar, and a reception at O'Malley's Sunroom at 4 p m The seminar is open to the public. If you missed the wild and crazy guy's special the first time around, you’ve got your second chance to see Steve Martin tonight at 8:30 p m on channel 2 Steve's guests include Bot Hope. Milton Berle, and George Burns Martin will perform several different roles, includiiig his famous “Disco Tut.” For more excellent comedy, tune in to The Best of Saturday Night Live at 10 p m on channel 2 Highlights from the series’ past four seasons will be shown, featuring the show’s regulars and various celebrities
