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Newspaper Page TextThe Red and Black Athens, Georgia Wednesday, April 22, 1961 Volume 88, Number n An independent student newspaper serving the University oj Georgia community News 543 1809 Advertising 543 1791 Dominique Wilkins will stay unless Pistons increase offer By ED LEGGE Red and Black Suit Weller Though the Detroit Pistons have of fered to make him instantly wealthy Dominique Wilkins said Tuesday he will return to Georgia for at least another season of basketball unless the Pistons increase their already-large of fer. "Detroit offered me above $1 million for four years - about $300,000 a year,” Wilkins said. “If they leave it at that, 1’U stay in school.” That's not to say that Wilkins is greedy for dollars, however It’s just that it will take a lot to lure him away from Georgia, at least this year, as he says he still has several goals he would like to accomplish before leaving the University. Wilkins said he will decide by Friday whether to enter the National Basket ball Associations’s “undergraduate eligibility" draft, for which the deadline is Saturday at midnight. “It will probably be Friday before I make it (the decision)" Wilkins said. According to Wilkins, the Dallas Mavericks who will flip a coin with Detroit to determine who picks first, "are in the picture, too,” but the team has not contacted him yet. Even if the Mavericks do get in touch with him, he said the main factor influencing his decision was money. “It depends on how much money I’m offered — it really depends on the con tract. (If the contract's good), I can't turn it down." But if his current offer doesn't change, Wilkins will suit up for the Bulldogs next season. Wilkins said there were plenty of reasons influencing him to stay at Georgia another year. "The guys on the team, the coach, the guys we recruited this year make me want to stay,” Wilkins said. "I think I have a couple more goals to accomplish — that's another reason I wouldn't go pro.” Wilkins’ goals include "making first team All-America, getting a bid to the NCAA tournament, and hopefully we could win the SEC.” Though he is leaning toward Georgia. Wilkins doesn't doubt that he could compete on the professional level. "I'm pretty confident that I could play pro ball," Wilkins said. “There's always going to be adjustments, but Seniors will take exit exam while schools seek new tests By JACK THREADG1LI. Krd and Black Suit Writer Most University seniors graduating this spring will still be required to take the University System exit examina tion, while the University’s schools and colleges consider evaluation pro cedures for their students, according to Dwight Douglas, vice president for stu dent affairs At their quarterly meeting April 10, presidents of the system’s 33 institu tions decided to make the exam op tional for each institution. University President Fred Davison then left the decision up to the Universi ty’s schools and colleges. The exam will be required for students of each school until the school changes its policy, Douglas said. The journalism school has exempted spring quarter graduates from taking the exam. Spring and summer graduates will not have to take the test, and a commit tee will be appointed fall quarter to study evaluation procedures for the school, said Thomas Russell, associate dean of journalism The issure may come up at the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate meeting Thursday, but the exam has not been widely discussed in the school, said Charles James, associate dean of arts and sciences. College of Education Dean Joseph Williams said the school "has made no firm decision yet on the exam, and the issue would probably come up at the school's faculty senate meeting in three weeks. The college will continue to require its students to take the National Teacher's Exam in order to graduate Williams said. William Flewellen, dean of the Col lege of Business Administration, said that in the long run the school will rely on a strandardized test now being develpoped to compare students in business schools across the country. "In the short run, we will do what we used to do; that is, to depend on course work and not the exit exam," Flewellen said. The School of Forest Resources has not considered evaluation procedures to replace the exit exam, said Peter Dyson, associate forest resources pro- Police add 2 5-year-old to murder list ATLANTA (UPI) — Authorities an nounced Tuesday that a young, slightly- built biack man was suffocated before his body was dumped in the Chat tahoochee River, the 25th victim of Atlanta’s child killers Atlanta Public Safety Commissioner Lee P. Brown said the death of Michael Cameron McIntosh, 23, described as mentally "slow,” was being listed as the 25th in the 2l-month-long string of murders of young blacks because it fit the pattern of more than half of them "After consulation with Fulton Coun ty Chief of Police Clinton Chafin, the case of Michael McIntosh is being assigned for investigation to the Atlan ta Metropolitan Task Force on Missing and Murdered Children,” Brown an nounced Tuesday Thus the killings appeared definitely into a new trend - young adults rather than children, the two victims prior to , McIntosh were both retarded 21-year- olds The oldest previous victim was 18. fessor. “We already have an oral exam (re quired) for every senior which is as good as an exit exam," Dyson said. The School of Social Work has not originated any evaluation plans, but they will be formulated at a meeting of faculty and students, said Herb Jarrett, director of undergraduate programs of the school. "We are not rushing to make a deci sion," Jarrett said. No officials in the College of Agriculture could be reached to discover if students in the school will still have to take the exit exams. But Richard Noles, associate dean of academic affairs in the college, said his school already requires many tests for professional status and licensing, like graduate record exams and standard tests for agricultural education and engineering degrees. Officials in the schools of home economics and environmental design could not be reached for comment after a while the player picks it up,” Detroit General Manager Jack Mc- Closkey, who met with Wilkins, his mother and his lawyer Monday night, is apparently also confident of Wilkins' ability to play in the NBA McCloskey was unavailable for com ment. but Detroit publicity director Bill Kreifeldt said the Piston GM "has great interest in Wilkins." “We’ve seen him play, and we've had good reports on him from our scouts," Kreifeldt said. “Wilkins' name has come up among four or five undergraduates we have heard may be coming out for hardship.” Another talented Bulldog basketball player — forward Jacky Dorsey — opted for the pro ranks after his sophomore year with the Bulldogs in 1976, and had little success in the NBA. This season, Dorsey signed a one year contract with the Seattle Supersonics, for whom he has seen limited action. Dorsey’s lack of success does not discourage Wilkins, however “It depends on who the person is He went as a sophomore, but it just depends on the person" Wilkins said. According to Matt Winick, director of media information for the NBA, the guidelines for "undergraduate eligibili ty” formerly called hardship eligibility, are that a player must apply for the NBA draft by April 25 by sending a let ter to NBA commissioner Larry O’Brien postmarked no later than that date. The draft for players not finished with their college eligibility was formerly called the hardship draft because players who had economic hardships could skip their remaining college eligibility and be drafted by an NBA team. Staff photo — Larry Cutchall W ilkins will decide by Friday whether he'll stav or leave Old Mill’s future still uncertain as insurance claims delay restoration These Old Mill shops are headed for restoration By SYLVIA COLWELL Hrd and Black Staff Writer The future of the Old Mill complex on Williams Street remains uncertain as pending fire insurance claims delay the restoration planned by its new owners. Although O’Malley s Tavern reopened shortly after the Dec 4 fire, the rest of the complex stands empty and unrestored. Federal officials are still investigating the Dec. 4 blaze for possible arson. The complex was sold March 3 at public auction for $416,000 to the Phenix Federal Savings and Loan Association of Phenix City, Ala Phenix Federal bought the Old Mill from former owner William Laird, who sold the complex to pay debts that he owed to the bank, according to sale documents on file in the Clarke County Courthouse Bob DeGrange, a representative of Phenix Federal, said the association is looking for a purchaser, but will probably not be able to find one until fire insurance claims are settled “We have had a few inquiries, but nothing we would con sider serious," he said. “It's very difficult to get it sold in its present condition." Phenix Federal would like to put the Old Mill back into operating condition before it is resold. DeGrange said, but has decided to wait until it receives the insurance settlement Said Ray Nicholson, part-owner of O'Malley's: “They've got to do something with it. They've got too much money in it.” The fire, which caused extensive damage to the complex, is being investigated as arson since the state crime lab con tinued that gasoline was used The fire was made to look as though it had spread through an abandoned elevator shaft, said Athens Fire Marshall Johnny Pritchett Pritchett turned the case over to the Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, which is now conducting the investigation James Strickland, special agent with ATF, said the case is at a standstill. "Were still right where we were in the middle of January," he said. A suspect was questioned on a polygraph about the case, Strickland said, but the results were negative. President of local professors ’ group questions regents ’ letter By FRANK REISS Ited and Black Staff Writer The president of the local chapter of an organization representing University professors said she is upset at terms of a Board of Regents letter clarifying the role of the Arts and Sciences faculty-relations committee Ellen Mattingly, associate professor of zoology and president of the local chapter of the American Association of University Professors, said the matter was one of "uncommon seriousness,” and she plans to take it up with the national president of AAUP before speaking on the subject at this month’s Faculty Senate on Thursday. Mattingly would give no further details of her complaints with the letter The regents, through Executive Secretary Henry Neal, wrote a letter defining the committee's role in Presenting ‘Pippin’ \ \ Bawdy and uproarious, the Tony-award-winning musical "Pippin” comes rollicking its way into the Memorial Hall ballroom Thursday for a single, sold-out performance at 8 p.m "Pippin" is the story of the emperor Charlemagne's youngest son Pippin, played by David Anderson, and his search for individuality and happiness During his pursuit of his own "comei ol the sky. he learns oI tleshier pleasures and has a close — and harrowing — experience with the leather bonds of matrimony response to a request for clarification that the senate made in March The request followed a statement by A and S Dean Jack Payne that deans and department heads were not required to give reasons for salary-adjustment information to grievance committees Payne said he sent copies of the regents' letter from the board to all faculty members and department heads within the school earlier this week The letter defines the types of complaints in which the committee has no jurisdiction and what information should be made available to the com mittee when it is considering a faculty grievance All documents considered necessary by most of the committee members are to be made available to the committee, with several exceptions Included in the exceptions are medical records, as well as documents specifically required by law to be kept confidential Cases involving salary only are outside the juiisdiction of the relations committee, according to the letter, "unless it is reasonably alleged that the action complained of was the result of discrimination " Neal said the reason for that restriction was common sense If salaries were decided by a committee that was unfamiliar with the money available. Neal said, administrators would be "undermined” and their ef fectiveness weakened Local police investigate rape of UGA student University police and the Jackson County sheriff's office are investigating the Monday night rape of a University student, who was abducted at knifepoint from the Physics Building bus stop on Sanford Drive. The student was waiting at the bus stop at about 8pm when a man driving a car stopped to ask her a question When she approached the car, the man forced her into the vehicle with a knife, University police said "My understanding is that he stopped there and asked her a question, very innocent, and when she got into range, he abducted her,” said Sgt David Brown, administrative assistant to the University police chief. The student was driven into neigh boring Jackson County, where she was sexually assaulted She was then returned to Athens and released on College Avenue, police said The suspect is described as a white male in his early 20 s, approximately 6 feet tall, with curly reddish-blond hair He was reportedly driving a yellow, late-model American-made car with a black roof, possibly a Chevrolet Nova or Pontiac Ventura A set of karate numchuks was hanging from the rearview mirror, police said The rape was the second in a week involving a University student — Sylvia Colwell.

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