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University of Georgia Thursday, August 2, 1979 Volume 85, Number 121 "Georgia's only colleeiate daily newspaper"
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Regents approve search committee
UGA’s Beaird, Rusk
and Daniel selected
By SKIP HU LETT
Campus editor
'’’he Board of Regents Wednesday
approved the naming of an 18-member
Search and Screen Committee to select
candidates for the position of university
system chancellor.
Also, Acting Chancellor Vernon Craw
ford recommended the board consider
asking the state legislature for $123
million in budget increases next year,
including $40 million for a 10 percent pay
hike for all system employes
In approving the Search and Screen
Committee members, the board named
University law school dean J Ralph
Beaird. international law professor Dean
Rusk and cooperative extension service
professor Dr. O’Dell G Daniel to serve
on the committee.
The committee will advertise national
ly for a permanent chancellor, screen
applicants and, at the end of its
six-month term, submit a list of 4-8
acceptable candidates to the full board
which will make the final selection,
according to Chairman Erwin Friedman
He said the board asked each
institution in the system for ‘something
in the order of 12-14 names" of senior
administrators, faculty, students and
distinguished citizens who could serve on
the Search and Screen Committee.
We asked for and received many
many outstanding recommendations."
Friedman said in announcing the
appointments. The selection procedure
represents a departure from previous
methods used to name a chancellor
because the committee is made up
almost entirely from persons represent
ing the system s institutions, Friedman
said.
Other committee members include
committee Chairman Dr Joseph M
| Petit, Georgia Tech president.
William B Strong. Medical College of
Georgia; Dr Harding B Young. Georgia
State University.
Dr Henry L Ashmore. Armstrong
State College president. Dr Cleveland W.
Pettigrew. Fort Valley State College
president; Dr John W Teel. Brunswick
Junior College president. Dr Hugh M.
Mills. Gainesville Junior College presi
dent
Dr Hazel E Hall. Columbus Collge;
I)r Kenneth E Martin. Valdosta State
College. Barbara S Morgan. Atlanta
Junior College; students Kirn Adamson of
Georgia State University. Hal Irvin of
Georgia College and Renee Dollar of
Middle Georgia College
The board rounded out the committee
membership with the selection of two
citizens form the state at large. Delta Air
Lines President David C Garrett and
Atlanta surgeon Dr John E. Skandalakis
In addition, the board made available
$25,000 from the board's residual funds to
cover the committee’s operating ex
penses.
Crawford’s recommendation to the
board regarding the University system's
budget request for fiscal year 1981
indicated a special need for increases in
four categories; salaries, fringe benefits,
operating expenses and desegregation
projects.
"Salaries in the University System are
not competitive nationally," Crawford
said, adding, "If we don’t increase ours
we will fall even further behind" the
national average.
"Salary increases are also needed to
fight inflation. With inflation running
about 10 per cent a year, an average
raise of 10 percent will result in no
average gain in standard of living."
Crawford said in a statement to the
board
The 10 percent raise, the third increase
in as many years for system employees if
it goes through, would be in addition to
the 2.5 percent hike included in employes
salary schedules annually
The recommendation is only prelimin
ary, Crawford said, and it must he
reviewed by the board before it is sent to
the state Office of Planning and Budget
and Gov George Busbee on September 1
The governor will review the request
before submitting it, along with the state
budget package, to the Georgia
legislature in January.
In addition. Crawford called for
increases of $2 million for fringe benefits,
$9 million for operating expenses and $4.3
million for programs which the system
agreed to implement in compliance with
the US. Department of Health.
Education and Welfare desegregation
plan
The board also;
Elected William Divine, 51, an
Albany attorney, to replace resigning
Regent Charles T. Oxford. Divine will
serve at least until the end of the
upcoming legislative session, at which
time Gov. Busbee can nominate a
permanent appointee for Senate con
firmation.
Deferred action on a request by
University President Fred C. Davison to
change the name of the department of
real estate and urban development to the
department of real estate and legal
studies
Action making Rising
Junior ‘count’ delayed
By SKIP 111 LETT
Campus editor
The day of reckoning has been delayed
for university system students who face
exclusion from credit courses because
they have not passed the Rising Junior
Exam
In a memo to the system’s 32
institutions last week. Acting Chancellor
Vernon Crawford announced postpone
ment of a new regents policy adopted
last fall which would require students
with 105 hours to pass the exam or be
restricted to remedial courses until they
pass
Implementation of the policy, which
was to take effect July 1. has been
rescheduled for January 1, 1980,
Crawford said
In an interview Wednesday. Crawford
said he and the board decided to postpone
the policy change "to give the schools in
the system an opportunity to notify
everyone who might be affected,"
particularly at institutions which hgave
not received catalogues with the revision
included
Also, the system's academic deans
have asked Crawford and his staff to
clarify certain gray areas that the policy
adopted last fall does not explain
adequately
University Dean of Student Services
Dwight Douglas said several questions
have been raised by the system's deans
but, "No one has offered any argument
that the test was not valid."
The dean's' main concern was directed
toward "side effects of the policy that
many people thought were not intended."
he said
As an example. Douglas said most
scholarships or loans require recipients
to be "in good standing (academically)
and making normal progress " But if a
student is restricted to remedial courses,
due to failing the exam, then the school
can no longer say the student is making
normal progress. Douglas said
Crawford said there was a question
also about how the poliev will be applied
to transfer students, regarding how much
time they would be given to take and
pass the exam before the restriction to
remedial courses would be imposed
Crawford said he expected the
necessary clarificaitons will be made
before the end of fall quarter
"The presidents are going to consider it
in their meeting August 7 and the deans
have already considered it. .From that,
the staff and I will make the necessary
changes or,” he added, "let it stand as
is."
78°IN SUMMER
Campus might not comply
By RANDY SOUTHERLAND
Staff writer
Few University buildings will have
their thermostats set at 78 degrees this
summer, despite President Carter’s
orders to the contrary, according to
Physical Plant Director Ken Jordan.
, “There may not be a building that has
an absolute setting at 78 degrees." he
said last week "Some buildings don't
have thermostats and some of those that
do aren’t very accurate."
Many exceptions are provided and
some buildings are not covered by the
requirements issued by the U.S.
Department of Energy, according to
Jordan.
"All the dormitories are automatically
excluded from these temperature restric-
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Memorial pinball machines no longer "illegal"
Pinball comes to Athens — legally
By SETH C OIIEN
City editor
If you are a "pinball wizard or a novice who enjoys playing
the game. Athens can now legally afford you the opportunity,
because of a ruling by Athens Mayor and City Council which
Tuesday night repealed a 1960 city ordinance outlawing the
machines in the city
By a 7-2 vote, wiih one abstention, council decided to repeal
the law. and thus follow state law concerning pinball
According to the state, the machines are neither legal nor
illegal Citv Attorney Denny Galis told council members What
the state law does exempt is pinball machines from gambling,
legislation, as long as no more than 15 games can be won on
quarter
Some local bar owners are already installing the machines
and others are planning to do so in the near future
"We put one in an hour after the law went into effect." said
Harry Downs, owner of Papa Joe's Downs said he expects to
have two machines in his bar at least for the time being
Barry Fleming, owner of the B&L Warehouse said
Wednesday "we are putting them in now Fleming said he is
planning to get two machines
The owner of the Fifth Quarter. Ronnv Dinunzio. said he will
have pinball machines in his night club either this week or next
The request for council to study the law concerning pinball
was made last January by the Russell Hall Council The request
was held by the Public Safety Committee for three months, and
in April it recommended the matter be taken up by the
committee of the whole
During the meeting of the committee of the whole councilman
\S Calvin Bridges, who voted against changing the ordinance
said "we 'council* are breaking down the moral fiber of the
community by allowing the machines in the city
Councilman Edward L Turner answered Bridges by saying
"we can t legislate morality " It is up to the individual. Turner
said, to decide for himself whether or not to play pinball
Memorial Hall has had pinball machines for >ome time but
according to Galis. these machines have been illegal
"This shows disrespect and disregard for the law
Councilman Dwain Chambers said, referring to the machines in
Memorial The University is "teaching students disrespect" by
allowing illegal machines on campus he added
Chambers voted against the ordinance, saving the law does
curtail gambling tc a degree
After council members met as a "committee of the whole. "
they held an official council meeting at which the law was
formally repealed
Council also decided to have a study made to determine the
number of machines in Athens that can be used as gambling
devices, and the incidents of crime related to the machines
Bridges suggested all these machines, not just pinball, should
be banned from the city Other council members wanted to see
the study before discussing Bridges prcp^al
lions. Gilbert Health Center is excluded
Married Housing, of course, is excluded
The Georgia Center (for Continuing
Education) is excluded Exceptions are
provided for the library," Jordan said
Exceptions are also provided for
laboratories, special equipment and
industrial processes which require
specific temperature settings. In addi
tion, the 78-degree thermostat setting will
be reduced if maintaining the setting
causes room temperatures to exceed the
president's guidelines
Jordan said he is in the process of
formulating proposals which will be
submitted to Vice President for Finance
Allan W Barber, the University’s Energy
Conservation Officer. When it is decided
how best to implement the program these
proposals will be transmitted to
University President Fred Davison for
consideration.
The program they will be implement
ing stems from an executive order issued
by Carter on July 10 under the Energy
Policy and Conservation Act This
measure, which he announced in a
nationally televised address, requires
temperature settings of no lower than 78
degrees in summer and no higher than 65
degrees in winter
The order covers all non-residential
buildings except for medical facilities,
elementary schools, day-care centers and
hotels Penalties for violating the order
reach $10,000 fines.
Building operators are given 30 days
from the order’s July 16 effective date to
bring them into compliance
"1 seee problems with this 30 day-
implementation period There's a lot of
administrative forms that we have yet to
receive.' Jordan said "I think its almost
impossible to implement in that time
period "
The Physical Plant, which received the
order only last week, will be required to
conduct evaluations of each building on
campus These would have to be
submitted to the energy department
along with any applications for exemp
tions
"It's going to be a fairly difficult
program to administer purely from a
manpower standpoint." Jordan said "I
can t have men running around adjusting
thermostats all the time It could be very
difficult even if we had absolute control
over the temperature in each building
Jordan also said despite the difficulties
with the program, it will save much more
in energy than it will cost for
implementation
The regulations don't demand the
owner of a building to make major
capital exenditures to simply comply
with the regulations, he said The
intent is to get reasonable compliance
within limitations
Other provisions of the regulations are
To prohibit the use of individual space
heaters except where necessary to raise
room temperature to 65 degrees
If one room heated or co«»led by a
particular system meets temperature
requirements then it will be assumed
they all do For example if a restaurant
kitchen was 78 degrees then the whole
establishment would be in compliance even
though the dining room was much lower
than that
Even as the University is working to
implement Carter's order other pro
grams. designed to save energy, arc
being carried out
"We re reasonably confident that we’ve
achieved a 20 percent reduction in the
use of electricity over the past few
years." Jordan said.
The University is also using only about
one-third of the fuel oil that it did in past
years, the Physical Plant director added
"We’ve done most of this without much
bontribution on the part of the individuals
(at the University). We’ve been forced to
do this primarily from economic
necessity Our energy bills have
increased tremendously."
The Physical Plant is also looking for
new technology to help conserve energy
"We've just let a purchase contract for
an energy control management system
This will allow us to centrally control the
temperature in eight of our major
buildings "
The system, which operates with a
minicomputer, would control the heating
units in each building It could be
programmed to turn heating on and off
after it checked the outside temperature.
This would eliminate the need for a
human operator to manually set the time
clocks on each one
"We’ll be using it on an experimental
basis to determine how much we might
save campus-wide, but there you're
talking about a couple of million dollars
(for a complete system)."
Jordan said the investment in such a
system could probably be paid off in
seven to eight years through increased
energy savings "But first we've got to
collect some real factual analysis to see
how much they can really save."
The University has also taken steps to
deal with an interruption of its energy
supply In anticipation of a shortage. 12
million gallons of fuel oil and 5000 tons of
coal have been stored in underground
tanks located near Graduate Studies The
supply is sufficient to keep the University
operating during a severe winter for
seven to eight weeks, according to
Jordan
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