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Getting bombed at school
Expedite Title IX probe
The news that the Department of Education
has begun an investigation into possible
procedural violations by the University marks
a development that should be watched closely
by those in or near the University.
The University has been investigated for
federal guideline violations before, but this
investigation marks the first by the newly
created federal Department of Education. We
can only hope DOE is better at meeting
deadlines than its parent department, the old
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare. We further hope the University will
cooperate so that the investigation can
proceed as quickly as possible.
The investigation comes in the case of
geology professor R. David Dallmeyer, who
was charged with sexual harassment and
plagiarism in a strange series of events which
led to dismissal proceedings against
Dallmeyer and a lawsuit against the
University.
Specifically, the DOE is checking to see if
the University violated federally mandated
procedures for the handling of sexual
harassment charges. The rules are required
under Title IX, part of the Educational
Amendments passed by Congress in 1972, to
prohibit sexual discrimination in education
programs. The wording of the law is vague,
which gives the law considerable scope.
The last investigation of possible Title IX
violations at the University left a bad taste in
the mouths of University administrators, and
gave President Fred Davison welcome
ammunition for his charges that the federal
government is both meddling and inefficient.
That probe stemmed from complaints about
the athletic program in 1973 and 1976 by
female students. The charge: that the
University discriminated against women in its
athletic programs.
The charges were not investigated until
September 1978, and the feds and the
University are still haggling over the results.
Although blame is hard to pinpoint in such
situations, there is no excuse for the
foot-dragging which has characterized that
investigation. The University claimed that it
was following federal guidelines, but
University officials were less than enthusias
tic in helping the investigators do their work.
Those familiar with the University were not
surprised when, after spending a week on
campus, HEW officials accused the University
of interfering with the investigation.
The feds, meanwhile, kept changing the
rules for enforcement of the sex discrimina
tion guidelines, and interpretation of Title IX
is still a matter for debate.
The education department has set deadlines
for the investigation, and promises to decide
by Jan. 15 if the guidelines were violated.
We hope they stick to this schedule, and we
hope the University cooperates with them.
Timeliness is perhaps more important in this
probe than in the last one, because of at least
one professional reputation at stake. The last
probe questioned the practices of an
institution, but this probe has to do with a
professor whose reputation has been
damaged, perhaps permanently, by the
charges brought against him. Until the matter
is settled, David Dallmeyer’s personal life will
remain in upheaval, and his professional work
will be impeded by the shadow of doubt.
The procedures and guidelines required by
the federal government under Title IX do not
exist for the glory and honor of the
government. They exist, just as the law
exists, to minimize damage to people. They
exist to protect those who might be
discriminated against and those who are
charged with discrimination.
When the rules are not followed and such
probes are not expedited, the harm spreads,
and the law ceases to serve its function.
The challenge to the new Department of
Education is clear.
Edward Thomas
l promised to give a brief biogra
phy of Konald Reagan's first run
ning mate I speak of Bonzo, the
lovable chimpanzee with whom Rea
gan costarred in that cinematic
triumph "Bonzo Goes to College.”
Bonzo deserves more credit for
Ronnie's "climb" to fame than he is
given After all, Bonzo performed a
unique feat. Anyone can make a
monkey out of a man, but Bonzo
made a man out of a monkey.
In the future. I intend to give
Bonzo the attention he deserves. But
not now Last Friday, an event
occurred which JRL 260 (Basic
Newswriting and Reporting) terms a
breaking tton " And, true to Wal
ter Cronkite, I was on top of it. I
WAS THERE when Scott Cutlip,
Dean of the School of Journalism
strode into the Reading Room and
announced, "The Journalism Build
ing will be closed until 1.00."
Edward Thomas is a senior in the
School of Journalism.
As much as I was tempted to say,
"What’s the poop, pop 0 ” 1 restrained
myself Instead. I asked, "Why?”
"There’s a bomb-threat," he an
swered calmly
"A BOMB-THREAT?!" I thought
"This is 1980, not 1968, the Universi
ty of Georgia, not East Cobb Junior
High. And we’re not in Vietnam or
Cambodia ... or are we?"
A carnival atmosphere came over
the surrounding area as the evacu
ees, student and faculty, laughed
about the incident. I admit my own
whimsical attitude toward it all . . .
until I remembered my permanent
computer records in the office. (With
20 hours left, I can’t afford to lose
them!) I considered dashing back
inside to retrieve them, but was
discouraged by the University pol
icemen (who looked like they all
blocked for Earl Campbell at Texas)
guarding all entrances to the struc
ture.
The music of Southern Crescent
echoed across Memorial Plaza as the
Bomb Squad entered the scene and
began searching for explosives. I
salute the University Bomb Squad.
They do a job I would not do, even
for a da»e with Scottie Johnston.
(Well, then again, maybe I would.)
But for all the job’s danger, it
wasn't that difficult The Journalism
Building has to be the easiest place
on campus to locate a timing mech
anism for a bomb. A word to the
wise: If you ever find a CLOCK in
the J-Building, you’ve found a bomb.
(Except for the Reading Room, there
are no clocks in the place. *
If you missed the weekend paper, I
will tell you that no bomb was found
The J-Building still stands, and all is
right at the intersection of Sanford
and Hooper. But the unanswered
question remains: Who would
threaten to bomb the J-Building,
especially when the elevator is so
near completion? And why?
In my mental search for a culprit,
I immediately considered those tech
nological wizards from Georgia
Tech. Surely out of the 10,000 odd
(and I do mean odd) students there,
one possesses the knowledge to con
struct a bomb. If not the students,
then perhaps the Tech Athletic De
partment They are quite experi
enced at assembling "bombs ” This
theory "blew up" in my face when I
considered the old adage: "If brains
were dynamite, a Tech boy wouldn’t
have enough to blow up a balloon
(much less a building)." And it
couldn’t be the Tech Athletic Dept.
Their bombs always turn out to be
duds. Therefore, I concluded that the
guilty party was not from the North
Avenue Trade School.
Could the Iranians be responsible,
then? As we evacuated the building,
I noticed a car of suspicious-looking
Iranians circling the area But when
someone told me that the Grad
Studies building had its own bomb-
scare. 1 dismissed this notion as
well. After all. why would the Irani
ans blow up their own dorm?
I finally reached a conclusion. No
one seriously intended to demolish
my beloved J School The key was
the warning received. Planting a
bomb and then telling everyone
about it would have been like the
Japanese Task Force radioing their
position to Pearl Harbor on Dec. 6
So destruction was not the motive
What was the purpose, then? This
is my theory: Some unidentified
individual) s) had a mid-term sched
uled for 4th or 5th period in one of
the two structures and chose a novel
way to avoid it. Novel, but damned
inconvenient for the rest of us.
I have heard many outlandish
excuses for missing exams, but all of
them were harmless While no one
was hurt last Friday, the bomb scare
was NOT harmless. (By the way.
“Most Creative Excuse for Missing
an Exam" definitely is a category in
my upcoming UGA record book.
Sorry, but infantile acts like bomb
scares do not qualify, though. >
If my theory is true. I have one
thing to say to the "mystery bomb
er": Your mother can tell you how
stupid you are I will only tell you
that, had I your name. I would
immediately submit it the University
policemen who look like they blocked
for Earl Campbell. And that’s a
promise.
Before 1 surrender the typewriter.
I must hoist the mug to the Myers
Homecoming Committee Congratu
lations on winning the Homecoming
Competition from a 4th floor center
alumnus. One question though: I
surveyed the float after the game.
Was it a mistake, or was the
bulldog's grossly enlarged head a
monument to five year resident Mike
Warren? At any rate, the Myers
tradition of excellence continues
NEXT: The dateline will read
Lexington. Ky as, after five consec
utive home games, the Dogs go on
the road again. See you there!
Reagan sabre won’t cut it
Letters
‘Seating a back-of-the-bus phenomenon?’
TO THE EDITOR:
It has come to our attention during
the last three football games of this
season that a large number of black
students have been conspicously
allocated the worst seats in Sanford
Stadium. That this should happen in
three consecutive weeks by the
process of random seat assignment
is quite improbable.
Certainly, in the name of justice,
we should all spend at least one
autumn Saturday positioned in the
first 20 rows of north aisle 12; but
when we observe the same group
suffering this misfortune three weeks
running we are apt to suspect that
this random process could be more
accurately described as a back-of-
the-bus phenomenon Could the
athletic department be biting the
hand that feeds it?
PAT DILLON
Graduate student, geographv
JOE PECHMANN
Graduate Student, ecology
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‘Tax cut article
persuasive’
TO THE EDITOR:
I would like to comment briefly on
Rick Stevens’ article entitled "GOP
Tax Cut Makes Sense," of Tuesday,
(kt 14.
this article was a well written, well
researched and highly informative-
persuasive, if you will, piece It was
a very well organized and effective
one as well.
I agree with Stevens’ logic and
that of the economist Arthur Laffer
which entails lowering taxes in order
to lift our economy. This approach
would certainly be sensible and very
refreshing Perhaps a positive
change in the government's attitudes
and personnel this Nov would be
effective.
Thank you for printing Rick Ste
vens' article; it was a pleasant
change.
LAURA EVANS
Senior. Arts and Sciences
Ivan Armstrong
WASHINGTON-Once again,
Ronald Reagan is rattling his sabre
This time, he isn't thrusting attacks
at America’s potential enemies and
taking us to the brink of war as
President Carter would have us
believe. Instead, Reagan is promis
ing to attack arid impale the
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) should he reach the White
House in November
Speaking to coal and steel workers
recently in Youngstown, Ohio, Rea
gan charged that President Car-
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ter’s regulatory policies are re
sponsible for the closed mills in the
area He claimed that the EPA
appointees apparently don’t know
and don’t care about coal. He prom
ised to ask the industry to help draft
reasonable rules and to see to it that
the EPA has leaders who know and
care about the coal industry.
Ivan Armstrong is a University
journalism student on internship in
Washington. D.C.
Now, that’s the kind of talk we’ve
come to expect from presidential
nominees just before a national
election and we seldom get too
excited Yet, Reagan isn’t reading
the script to some Hollywood B
movie but his version of life in these
United States for the next four years.
The fact that his plot calls for the
EPA to bed down with the coal
industry indicates the script needs a
rewrite or even a new director
The EPA’s job is to protect the
environment, not the coal industry.
Past experience has shown that you
don't get clean air, water and recla
mation of our landscape by mixing it
up with these folks
It cannot be denied that environ
mental restrictions on American in
dustry do raise costs. At the same
time, they work to avoid the huge
social costs of unchecked pollution
and environmental damage, i.e. in
creased illness, losses in property
values and a decrease in the quality
of life.
Protecting our environment re
quires an adversary relationship be
tween government and industry that
balances profits and protection. It is
not in the interest of this country to
strangle the coal industry with over
regulation, nor is it desirable to lay
waste to vast areas of our landscape
and make no effort to restore it.
Fortunately for this country, over
120 ships from Japan, West Ger
many, France and other foreign
countries are waiting off Norfolk,
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Virginia to relieve the plight of the
coal industry and mute Reagan's
misguided campaign promise.
On shore. 12.500 railcars filled with
coal from the mines of West Virginia
and western Virginia wait to be
loaded into these ships. This huge
backlog has resulted from a lack of
loading capacity and more impor
tant. an insatiable demand by the
industrialized nations lor U.S. coal.
Coal now provides 25 percent of the
world's energy The World Cotl
Study reports that coal can provide
two-thirds of the energy needed to
fuel the world’s economic growth
over the next 20 years if coal
production triples and exports ex
pand The National Coal Association
says that total U.S. coal production
can be doubled in 10 years. U.S. coal
companies are planning to spend
hundreds of millions of dollars to
build new piers to capture this
promising export market
But meanwhile, the ships wait It
costs an average of $20,(XX) a day to
sit at anchor This means $7(X),IXX)
over the average 35 day wait and
adds $14 a ton to the $60 a ton price
on the pier.
This should tell us one thing. The
countries that want our coal know
it’s a bargain and are wMling to pay
the price, including the costs added
by the EPA to protect our environ
ment Yet, Reagan is telling the
industry that as President, he will
ease EPA controls to help them get
back on their feet America does not
need this kind of leadership
U.S. overseas coal exports in
creased 41 percent to 65 million tons
this year and brought in $3 billion.
Experts are now worried that their
projection of a five fold increase in
coal exports by the year 2000 may be
too low
This phenomenal growth potential
means the free market will save
America's coal industry without eas
ing environmental regulations as
Reagan advocates The increased
demand will put Americans back to
work by creating jobs in the coal
producing states, the ports, the rail
roads, related industries, and even
the EPA
The export demand will encourage
U.S. companies to develop increased
supplies that will help America
switch from imported oil to coal
Reduced dependence on oil imports,
and the money earned on our coals
exports will shrink our balance of
payments deficit and reduce inflation
at home
A viable coal industry is important
to our economy Protecting our en
vironment is important to our sur
vival The two can and must coexist
As voters, we must be careful as
Reagan swings his sabre We don't
want to be cut.
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