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UnlVaraity el Georgia Tuesday, November 27, 1979 Volume 86, Number 37 Georgia'* only colleglale daily n*wtpap*r" News 547.-3441 Advertising $42-3414
New genetics
department
to strive for
cohesiveness
By CAROL CLINE
Staff writer
The new University department of mole
cular and population genetics will "provide
a focus for research and teaching gene
tics,” said Wyatt Anderson, zoology
professor and the department's acting
head.
The department, approved by the Board
of Regents at their November meeting, will
begin operation in January 1980. according
to Jack Payne, arts and sciences dean.
The departments faculty will include 11
professors who currently teach in various
bioscience divisions at the University.
Robert lvarie. a molecular geneticist from
the University of California at San Francis
co, will join the faculty in January.
All faculty' members are "actively
engaged in research.” Anderson said.
"We are one of the most heavily grant-
supported programs in the University,” he
added. These grants cover the costs for
personnel, overhead, and projects.
The genetics program began in 1972
when Anderson and four other professors
came to the University from Yale,
sponsored by the National Science Founda
tion as part of the Center of Excellence in
Biosciences. Anderson said.
Since that time the group has grown to
11 members working in four science
departments: microbiology, zoology, bot
any. and biochemistry.
Norman Giles. Callaway professor of
genetics and a member of the National
Academy of Sciences primarily formed the
genetics group.
"1 feel that it will provide a cohesive and
more organized group of faculty" so past
problems of departmental division can be
avoided. Giles said. One major advantage
of "having the group identified as a
department” is “we will be in control of
our own destiny so to speak." Giles added.
The new department will allow the
Change in regents’ test
requires earlier passage
SUM photo • Larry unman
Wyatt Anderson, acting head of new genetics department
By STAC I KRAMER
Staff writer
any students who have taken the test since the program began
in winter 1974
University officials will meet Thursday morning to decide
how the newly revised regents’ test policy will affect the
University’s undergraduate students
The policy as revised by the Board of Regents at its
November meeting requires students who have not passed the
test by the middle of their sophomore year to register for
remedial courses while taking credit courses
The procedure for implementing the policy will be left to the
individual institutions
Students who have not pa>sed the regents' test by the time
they have earned 75 hours of degree credit must enroll in the
appropriate remedial course (or courses) each quarter until
they pass both parts of the test
"YOU ‘THE STUDENT) would take* a full load of degree
courses in addition to the remedial, non-credit courses.’ said
Dwight Douglas, vice-president for student affairs and regents'
test coordinator for the University.
"Whay they really did was throw out the rule that you have to
take only remedial courses." he added
Remedial courses will be offered in the reading and writing
areas of the test, according to Douglas
A relrocative policy allowing students to pass the test in parts
will be the most difficult for the University to implement.
Douglas said
If a student fails one part of the test and passes the other, he
only needs to retake the part he fails, something that was not
possible before the revision. This section of the policy applies to
ONE OE the major changes in the policy establishes an
appeals system to begin at the campus level A student who
successfully completed the required English composition
courses and who received at least one passing grade on his
essay will be able to request a formal review.
Although this part of the policy is not retroactive, the
University plans to allow students to took the exam this quarter
to be included in the appeal program A student is not relieved
from taking remedial courses while his appeal is being
considered
The review process will be handled on two levels. The
on-campus review will be conducted by three faculty members
who will either sustain the essay’s failing score or recommend
the re-scoring of the essay
If re-scoring is recommended, the recommendation and the
essay will be forwarded to the regents testing office in Atlanta
The essay will then be re-graded by three essay scorers who
were not involved in the original grading process The decision
of this panel will be final
Procedural matters will be decided by the individual
institutions Some of the matters to be decided at Thursday's
meeting are the term of the review panel, the length of the
review process and the deadline for making an appeal
Students who want to know which part or parts of the test
they failed will have to take the initiative since this information
is not readily available, and will not be for some time. Douglas
said The student must ask his advisor to contact the regents
office, where the infomration can be obtained, he added
WAGON TRAIN ARRIVES AT CAPITOL
geneticists "to better serve their common
interests and function more effectively in
research and training.” Payne said.
A graduate program offering master’s
and doctoral degrees already exists, and an
undergraduate program will he developed
in the next few years. Payne said. The
National Institute of Health provides
training grants for 12 doctoral candidates
annually. Anderson said.
Genetics is the study of heredity, of all
processes involved in the inheritance of
characteristics. Molecular genetics con
cerns the "chemical basis of gene
organization and gene action, and applying
it to problems of normal and abnormal
Busbee commends ‘gold’ volunteers
development." Anderson said.
Population genetics is the "study of the
genetic makeup of a population and the
forces that bring them about."
"Since the basic mechanisms of heredity
genetics is the core science of biology." he
said.
ATLANTA (UPI)—A rustic wagon train
that had plodded from the southeastern
seashore to the northwestern Georgia
mountains circled the State Capitol Mon
day and brought Gov. George Busbee 43
ounces of gold to replate the capitol dome.
"I've walked beside the wagon with my
gun. all the way from Dahlonega." said
UG A Today Career day will bring in
A S.M.A.S.H.ing idea
Once filled with mule-powered wagons, the north Georgia mountains are
becoming a labyrinth of paved trials for high speed motorists In an at'empt to
slow down, and even stop the concrete madness, the Athens Sierra Club has come
up with S M A S H.—stop mountain area super highways The target, stopping
Ga 400, will be discussed at the monthly Sierra Club meeting Tues . Nov 27 at
7:30 in the Ecology Building
Only 23 shopping
days left
It looks like you'll have to do
your shopping elsewhere The
University Union has cancelled its
Gift Bazaar scheduled for Nov
26-29 Remember, there are only 23
shopping days left.
Expecting more than the afternoon mail?
Push. baby, push' Breath deeply
now! Expecting more than the
afternoon mair St Mary's Hospi
tal is conducting a class for
expectant parents. Tues . Nov 27
at 7:30 p m in the conference
room There is no charge for the
class, but call 54&7SA1. ext 239 to
register
The toughest job
“The toughest job you'll ever
love" is the Peace Corps Sound
interesting'’ A film will be shown
tonight at 7:30 pm in Room 414 of
Memorial Peace Corps representa
lives will be available lo answer
your questions
Taking an inward look
The University is required once
every 10 years to take a look at
itself by the Southern Association
for accreditation purposes. Stu
dents and faculty are invited to
participate in Ihe study of the
student record system The forum
will be held in room 109 of
Graduate Sludies. Nov 28. 2-5 p m
A Thousand Clowns...for the price of one
A Thousand Clown*, starring Jason
Robards. Martin Balsam and Barbara
Harris is playing at the SPJ and it's a
"don’t miss” if you've never seen it or
the Broadway play by the same name
Robards stars as a former comedy writer
for a kiddie TV show trying to rear his
quite precocious nephew Nick. Robards
and the 12-year-old terror encounter the
usual problems: Robard's unemploy
ment. Nick’s dissatisfaction with school
and a social worker’s attempt to take Nick
away.
Don't miss thla one!
58 government agencies
By TOM LEE
Staff writer
The Office of Career Planning and Placement will hold a federal government Careers
Day at Clark Howell Hall this Wednesday from 10 a m. to 3 p.m
Fifty-eight government agencies will be represented, ranging from the State
Department to the Secret Service Officials of these agencies will be available to speak
with students on "career opportunities, job descriptions and qualifications for different
jobs." said Irene Ulmer, government advisor to the placement office
“Can you imagine 58 employers in one place on one day?” Ulmer said "It would cost
an awful lot of money if a student were to try to contact all of these agencies
individually
"Each agency will have a room on either the second or first floor (of Clark Howell).
It will be an open house, where students can talk to as many different people as they
like,” Ulmer said
This will be the fifth annual government careers day. and according to Ulmer,
"definitely the largest we’ve ever had " Last year, some 50 agencies took part,
compared with 20 when the program first began in 1975.
"Last year, we had about 700 students come by and talk to the people here." Ulmer
said "Hopefully, there will be more this time to take advantage of this We want all the
students here we can get "
Representatives will be present from the Office of Personnel Management, the
Legislative Branch (GAO), the Department of Agriculture; Department of Commerce.
Department of Defense. Department of Health. Education, and Welfare; Department
of Housing and Urban Development ; Department of Interior Justice Department
Department of Labor. State Department; Department of Transportation. Department
of Treasury; and other independent agencies
The Office of Personnel Management and the Career Planning and Placement Office
at the University co-sponsor the careers day.
Jerry Vincent, state vice president of the
Georgia Jaycces. "It’s been wet and
rough, but we’ve enjoyed the trip.”
Vincent, a bushy-bearded electrician
from Robins Air Force Base, said the
Jaycees organized the wagon train in Jekyll
Island last Junb. winding their way though
the state as volunteers collected money to
buy the Dahlonega gold for the Capitol
facelift. The wagon train left Dahlonega
with the gold—and about 100 outriders—
last Friday for the 82-milc trek to Atlanta.
The Forces Command band from Fort
McPherson played martial airs and flop-
eared mules lent an air unknown to
downtown Atlanta since the original
gold-laden wagon train arrived at the
Capitol in 1958. A score of scorching
summers ana frigid winters since then has
left the dome with large grey spots and
cracks.
Men in cowboy hats, some carrying
long-barreled flintlock rifles, guarded the
wooden strongbox containing gold nug
gets. dust and bullion bought with
donations taken up by the Jaycee-
volunteers during their summer and fall
journey.
Women in homespun and gingham rode
in the wagons and a small bluegrass band
played at one side of the Confederate
Avenue doors—generally considered the
Capitol's backdoor—where then Gov.
Marvin Griffin and the late Secretary of
State Ben W. Fortson had accepted the
first told shipment in 1958
Cun Massey, a Dahlonega plumbing
supply salesman and state chairman of the
dome drive, said the Jaycees raised more
than $75,000 toward their goal of $250,000
for replating the dome with a paper-thin
gilt coating. The fund raising campaign
will be continued until all the money is
collected.
Massey said the cost of the gold
itself—which he said would be about the
size of a baseball, if melted into one
lump—has increased from $17,000 to more
than $20,000 since the collection began in
June.
"Dahlonega gold is a little more
expensive than -ther types of gold,” said
Massey, who like Vincent wore a 45-caliber
sixgun at his side. "But we wanted it to be
Georgia's Dahlonega gold.”
Massey said gold was selling for $35
an ounce in 1958. "but we checked today,
and it was somewhere around $400.”
The oldest wagoneer was 80-year-old
Johnny Collins of Dahlonega. who made
the original trip 21 years ago. Massey,
whose w ife was in the original wagon train,
said "I know of 15” volunteers who had
also made that first trip.
Busbee. accepting the gold for the state,
commended the Jaycees for their volunteer
work and said the was particularly pleased
to have the money raised by individual
Georgians, rather than done easily as a
public relations gesture by some corpora
tion.
"The most vivid and heartwarming
example of this attitude and help comes
from our voung children," he said.
"First graders, second graders, third
graders and on up are helping to replace
the gold.
"These kids have been earning nickels
and dimes and quarters just so they can
contribute to the project in some small
way,” said Busbee. "But to me. the nickel
or dime contributed by the child means as
much or more in spirit than any of the
larger donations."
Massey said the dome is tarnished and
threadbare now because the original gold
coating was applied during a winter chill.
He said work on the replating will start
next summer, using a "greenhouse"
process for a more lasting bond.
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Gas supplies run short
but maybe not for long
A heavy demand for gasoline by students traveling home over Thanks
giving break is the likely cause for spot shortages felt by some Athens
stations this week an AAA spokesman said Monday
Maurice Myers, director of special services for the Georgia Motor Club
in Atlanta, said AAA had received reports of some shortages around the
state He speculated that most shortages were due to "heavy demand in
concentrated areas' and did not indicate any immediate problem as far
as supplies for the next several weeks are concerned
"You fellows were playing at Grant Field this weekend and that
probably had something to do with it." Myers said
An employee of the Chevron Self Service Station at 320 Baxter said all
grades of fuel were exhausted and she did not expect a delivers until the
end of the week
Jesse Smith of Alps Texaco said he expected two small shipments this
week but. "It's gonna be close ” Smith said his monthly supply was down
since October and "about 75 percent of what it was last year at this time "
Nationwide Myers said reports of gas lines along the East Coast have
dininished since the end of the summer and motorists should find gas
reasonably plentiful" along the nation s highways
According to AAA's pre Thanksgiving survey, all grades of gas were up
an average of two cents per gallon statewide compared to October prices
American motorists are paying an average of 33.6 cents per gallon more
now than they did last year at this time. Myers said
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