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Minority vote crucial for Carter
By BILL KRUEGER
Staff writer
If President Jimmy Carter is
re-elected Nov 4 it will be primarily
due to women, minorities and
southerners, despite their differences
with Carter, according to one of
Carter's special advisers on women.
"Southerners, blacks and women
have all come into the mainstream.
They are the three most important
groups," said Mary King, who is also
deputy director of ACTION. "The
fourth group ought to be college
students. I would like to see the
college students come out in favor of
PrutiMiit Carter Nov. 4.”
Her remarks were made during a
recent conference call interview with
newspapers from the University of
Gerogia, the University of Arkansas,
Purdue University, the University of
Illinois, Texas Christian University
and the University of Iowa.
"Women in particular are going to
show their muscle Nov. 4 and Cartel
is ahead with women." King said,
despite criticism of the president by
many feminist leaders and his
failure to get the Equal Rights
Amendment ratified
King cited two reasons for the
disenchantment some feminist lead
ers feel with Carter. "First there is
the cultural reason The fact that he
is white and Southern hurts him He
is from a part of the country that has
always elevated women to a
pedestal So there is a level of
discomfort with him But I think it
is cultural, rather than substantive."
The second reason is. "There is
always a tendency to expect and
demand more from someone who
they think is sympathetic to their
cause, rather than hostile They
know he is committed to ERA," she
said.
"There has never been a president
who has done what Carter has done
for women But there is still a
feeling that he has not done enough.
There never really will be satisfac
tion," the former civil rights activist
said.
King cited Carter’s appointments
of 41 women federal judges, 17
women ambassadors and over 500
women in senior policy positions as
examples of Carter’s efforts on
behalf of women.
She expressed frustration over
Carter’s efforts to get the ERA
ratified. "I frankly don't know how
much more the president could do.
If he was to do much more he would
be subjected to such harsh criticism
it wouldn’t be worth it."
But she still feels better about
ERA’S chances with Carter in the
White House than she would if
Republican nominee Ronald Reagan
were elected "The Republican
Party, the party of Abraham
Lincoln, the Grand Old Party, for the
first time rejected the Equal Rights
Amendment I think there will be a
regression of civil rights if he is
elected."
King feels blacks will vote for
Carter because of his record with
minorities and because of the
alternative of Reagan "He 'Carter)
has very strong support in the black
community, although it is not
without criticism President Car
ter's record is so outstanding among
minorities Reagan s record is not
strong at all."
"Any black audiences who listen to
Reagan's promises know that there
won't be anything left for them."
King said, discounting the possibility
that the recent endorsements of
Reagan by former black rights
leaders Rev Ralph Abernathy and
Rev Hosea Williams will have any
effect on the black vote
Jury dismissed in fire truck accident court case
Staff photo- Mitzi Warn*
Hay Day!
The University Block and Bridle Club sponsored a hay Agriculture s farms on Whitehall Road, showing the
ride Tuesday for children of the Georgia Retardation children the different kinds of animals housed at the farms
Center The club took 40 children to the College of •
V /
Student center and grievance procedures
head up agenda of A & S Faculty Senate
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Patricia Cooper at the Jackson Street cemetery
Coalition for cemetery
opposes parking deck
By MICHELLE ( LARK
Staff writer
The Old Athens Cemetery Coalition
plans to send a letter to the Univer
sity expressing "absolute opposition"
to the building of a parking deck on
the site of the Jackson Street ceme-
tary. according to the group's chair
man Patricia Cooper.
The letter, to be sent to Campus
Planning Director William E. Hud
son. was signed by 23 members of
various Athens historical groups.
lhr group formed Oct. 15 after it
was learned the University adminis
tration had suggested the cemetary
as a possible site for a parking deck.
Hudson has said it is unlikely the
site will be used. He cited legal
problems and the expense of moving
the graves as reasons for ruling out
the cemetery's use.
The letter said the group opposes
“the building of a parking lot.
parking structure or any other build
ing" on the Jackson Street site.
"It is our conviction that the old
cemetary should be maintained as a
park and the remaining graves,
monuments and tombstones left
there," the letter said
The coalition is worried about
more than the now-scrapped sugges
tion, though, according to Cooper.
The group wants to clear up the
question of the cemetery’s owner
ship. one upon which Cooper said the
city of Athens and the University are
hazy
"The question of ownership was
blurry in the past," Cooper said.
"The town had maintained it 400
years and burials had continued
after 1856 when Oconee 'Hill Ceme
tery* opened up .’’
Cooper said the group also wants
permanent protection for the ceme
tery and wants an outside group to
maintain the cemetery, now infested
by weeds.
Cooper called the cemetary "hal
lowed land" with "intangible import
ance" and said teh earliest burial in
the Jackson Street cemetery may
date back to the 1790s with burials
continuing until late in the 19th
century.
Cooper said the University should
think on a broader basis concerning
its parking problems. She suggested
parking lots be built on the outskirts
of the University with shuttle buses
used to transport students into cam
pus or building decks on presently
existing University parking lots.
Curriculum changes? It’s a long process
but necessary, A & S senate head says
By LAURNE S( HAD
If your adviser told you this fall
that a bachelor of arts degree now
requires to hours ol underwater
basketweaving, it might have
seemed like an arbitrary decision to
you.
But Richard H Bouldin, last year's
head of the Franklin College of Arts
and Sciences Faculty Senate curricu
lum committee, said changes are an
evolutionary process occurring only
after undergoing careful faculty
consideration and a lot of paperwork
to insure the changes keep up with
the times and are in the students
best interests
"We (the committee) met 16 times
and considered 297 course applica
tions for this year’s curriculum. A
high percentage of the courses we
passed got through the University
curriculum committee to become
courses for this year," Bouldin said.
Bouldin said he feels constant
change is necessary in college level
education "Most people believe
knowledge in college is static and
wrapped up. Such is not the case; as
people mature intellectually, the
curriculum needs to change," he
said
Bouldin lists these steps as: the
professor, who usually initiates the
idea; the curriculum committee of
the faculty senate; the dean, the
university curriculum committee
comprised of a subcommittee and a
full committee; and the vice
president of academic affairs
"If any of these people are not
satisfied with the course application,
they can send it back to the previous
person for revision," he said.
Boi.idin said the process is not just
a "sequence of obstacles ”
"It’s important to get as many
diferent points of view as possible
The main reporsibility of our
committee was to see the ideas
thoroughly thought out," he said.
Bouldin said there are "lots and
lots of different reasons" for
changing or adding a course. The
main reason is the fulfillment of
students’ needs, and Bouldin used
the new astronomy lab course as his
example "We have taken Astron
omy 291 which was very popular and
expanded it into a two-hour lab to
meet the requirement for the College
of Arts and Sciences "
Another reason for a change in the
curriculum is "an academic com
munity will make a breakthrough,
and the courses will need to be
restructured," Bouldin said A new
department of genetics had to be
built, Bouldin said
"This year history, philosophy and
religion courses needed to be
restructured," he said
The Dean of Instruction Robert
John agreed with Bouldin. "A school
should not be suspect of teaching the
same courses year after year, he
said.
Several departments in the Frank
lin College of Arts and Sciences have
added new courses for winter
quarter.
The department of philosophy and
religion has expanded its undergra
duate program after creating a
master's degree in religion
Religion 115 has been split into two
courses. The new Religion 115
course will only cover Western
religious traditions while Religion
116 will cover far eastern religions
A student can take either course or
both to fulfill part of the basic A & S
requirement
The department of comparative
literature will be offering Classical
Mythology in Modern Literature
The course will explore how modern
authors use classical myths in their
writing
The department of art had added
another survey course on art history
to the basic requirements in the core
curriculum. The new course. Art
289. will deal with 19th and 20th
century art The professors found
that students want to concentrate
more on modern art, so the new
course was created.
The department of Germanic and
Slavic Languages has created
German and Russian courses for
business students German 206. an
elective, emphasizes conversation
and business terms Russian 400-600
provides students with the terms and
phrases for understanding protocol
of East West trade relations
see CURRICULUM, p. 2
By KARLEEN CHALKER
and VIRGINIA ANDERSON
A three-day trial in which the
mother of a University woman killed
in an automobile accident sought
$750,000 in damages from the Athens
mayor and city council for her
daughter's death Jan. 14, 1979. ended
in a dismissal Wednesday in Clarke
County Superior Court.
"It’s (the case) disposed of." said
M. Cook Barwick, the Atlanta attor
ney representing the plaintiff, June
Thomas Bailey, whose daughter Lisa
was killed when an Athens Fire
Deparetment pumper truck collided
with the car in which she was riding.
Barwick refused to comment on
whether an out-of-court settlement
had been reached.
Defense attorney Gary Blasingame
was quiet about the outcome also.
"I can t comment." Blasingame
said. “It's inappropriate for me to.
comment."
Blasingame had moved for a mis
trial earlier in the day on the
grounds of Barwick prejudicing the
jury
The accident occurred when the
fire truck collided with the Mustang
of Lisa Bailey's friend, Mary Doro
thy Dasch, who was heading west on
Baxter Street under a green light.
The truck carried the car, the
windows of which were rolled up, 123
feet before both vehicles collided
with a power pole.
Dasch and two other students in the
Mustang, Elizabeth Love Kendrick
and Julie Ann Cooper, were injured.
The fire which prompted the dis
patch of the truck was a toaster fire
in a home in the Five Points area.
The fire truck, a 35.000 pound
standard pumper, was travelling
through the intersection under a red
light at a speed "in excess" of the 30
mph limit on Lumpkin Street, al
though court testimony differed on
the precise speed.
State patrolman Steve Swatsen-
barg testified that from the truck’s
skid marks, he would estimate the
speed to have been "39 or 40" mph
Barwick said that was "hogwash.”
Witnesses gave varying reports of
speeds, ranging from 30 to 60 mph,
Barwick said the various speed
reports simply showed that the truck
was speeding
Mrs. Bailey alleged in her suit that
the truck was "going too fast" for
conditions, and Barwick argued that
“we’ve got to get a message to the
fire department that you don't run a
red light that much in excess of the
limit."
"We are governed by the uniform
rules of the road, which is state law.
We are permitted to go through an
it does not endanger life or proper
ty," he said. "There's also a state
law requiring vehicles to yield the
right of way to vehicles responding
to an emergency situation."
Dasch did not yield the right of
way, he pointed out.
A city ordinance prohibits "emer
gency vehicles within the incorporat
ed city "to proceed " in disregard of
an official traffic signal in excess ot
25 miles per hour. "
Baliley alleged that the driver of
the truck, driver-engineer Pat Shear
er. was going too fast for safety
Schearer said he wasn't watching
the speedometer.
Barwick argued that the fire de
partment should be sent a message
to "be careful, just be careful "
He then asked the jury, composed
of eight women and four men. "What
if your daughter...?"
see COURT, p. 2
Ry JOE KRAKOYIAK
Staff writer
A proposed grievance procedure
and a recommendation on the nam
ing of the new student center are
topics for consideration at the Frank
lin College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty Senatt meeting today.
The senate will consider a resolu
tion endorsing the naming of the
proposed student center after the
late Dean Emeritus of Men William
Tate
The proposal, submitted by history
professor Joseph R Berrigan. reads.
"In the long history of Franklin
College perhaps no other man has so
thoroughly and lastingly identified
himself with the enduring purposes
of our common endeavor as the late
Dean William Tate It is altogether
proper, then, for the Senate of this
College to endorse the suggestion of
state Hep Bob Argo (D-Athensi and
others that the new student center be
named after him."
A proposal to handle all faculty
grievances in that do not deal with
allegations of racial or sexual haras
sment is also on the agenda These
two areas are covered by University-
Council regulations
The proposed procedure would
first advise informal settlement of
complaints in the department Dis
satisfaction of the involved parties at
this point would bring the dean into
the matter He would then turn the
case over to the senate faculty
relations committe if he cannot
effect a settlement within a week
If the committee cannot solve the
problem informally, it would send a
list of 12 prospective pane! members
to the two parties in dispute Four
from that list would be selected
The panel would decide onthecase,
either in conference or in a hearing
if one is requested It would send a
report to the faculty relations com
mittee. which then sends a report to
the dean
A&S Dean Jack Payne was unsure
of the proposal s course if it is
approved by the senate
The senate will also discuss what
action to take regarding material
submitted to the administration re
garding faculty evaluations
Virginia Trotter, vice president for
academic affairs, requested and re
ceived from the senate last spring its
recommendations for improving the
evaluations
The meeting is scheduled for 3:30
p m in Room 115 of Peabody Hall