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Athens, Georgia Friday, April 24, 1981 Volume 88, Number 95
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
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Communication and safety problems
add to ventilation-hood difficulties
By PEGGY MOODY
Red and Black Sul! Writer
A lack of communication, a need for a
system to enforce safety regulations,
and the logistical difficulties of
repairing fume hoods all compound the
serious problem of faulty hoods and
inadequate ventilation in south-campus
labs, say sources involved in the
operation and repair of the hoods.
On April 14, some undergraduate
chemistry-lab classes were evacuated
due to fumes coming back through a
hood, said several chemistry graduate
students last week.
The fumes came from the lab of a
post-doctoral chemist working under a
fume hood in another lab, they said.
The return of the fumes was due to a
change of wind direction outside the
building, theorized Nick Takach, a post
doctoral chemist. When the wind shifts
a certain way, it sends fumes that
should come out of the stacks back into
the ventilation system, Takach said.
The staff safety officer for the
chemistry building, Mike Jones, said
Davison’s
set to open
Though it has been operating on a
limited-time basis for the past three
days, Davison's officially opens its
doors today at Georgia Square in a
store that contrasts markedly with its
former home downtown.
Gone are the stairwells, the side
doors and the elevator complete with an
operator, replaced by escalators,
spacious entrance ways and self-
service elevators. Gone too are the
parquet floors, replaced by hardwoods,
rustic-colored carpets and peach
marble that would look more at home in
the Biltmore House than a small
department store.
In short, where downtown was
nostalgic, the mall store is elegant
And while the mall store is "one of the
smaller of the new ones (in the
Davison's chain),” according to
Davison’s manager John Brinkley, it is
nonetheless more than twice the size of
the downtown location, with 123,000
square feet of retail space.
The Georgia Square store also lacks
two departments usually found in the
larger Atlanta stores: a furniture
department and a budget shop. While
the downtown store did not have a
furniture department, the exclusion of
the budget department does reflect a
change in thinking by Davison’s
management.
“It is kind of standard procedure to
have a budget shop," said Davison s
special project Director Catherine
Maxwell.
The decision to eliminate the budget
department and expand some of the
others, such as misses sportswear,
caused the two-month delay in opening
the store. Brinkley said the decision
came from Macy’s executives
sometime last summer and by the time
new floor plans had been designed and
approved, the project was two months
behind. Davison’s is a subsidiary of
Macy’s.
the reversal occurs when the wind
blows from the northeast. Most of the
time the wind blows from the southeast,
he said, so the reverse flow doesn’t
happen very often.
As the situation stands now, "the
potential is there for someone to get
seriously hurt," he said. “We are
worried about it,”
Earlier in the school year, En-
viromental Safety Services personnel
were inspecting the fume hoods, Jones
said, and he put a smoke bomb in a
hood. "Smoke came out where it wasn’t
supposed to,” he said.
"We do an assesment of the hoods,
and identify ones that have certain
problems," said Darryl Rowe, head of
Safety Services. “We then provide a
priority listing to Physical Plant. But
many times we don't receive the
communication about problems from
people who have a complaint.”
ESS found out about the evacuated
labs from an article in The Red and
Black, said Franella Wimberly, a lab
safety officer. The department did not
begin an investigation until April 21,
one week after the incident.
The faculty safety officer for the
chemistry building, John Ruff, learned
of the lab evacuation April 16 from a
Red and Black reporter.
Ruff said he advises two or three
students monthly about how to handle
certain chemicals. He can’t monitor all
the hoods in building, he said, because
there are so many.
Ruff tries to make inspections once a
quarter, he-said If he sees something
wrong. Ruff said he notifies the
professor in charge of the lab con
cerned
The head of the chemistry depart
ment, Bruce King, was out of town
Thursday and unavailable for com
ment.
A graduate chemistry student said
the department has a lot of safety
problems, and many times dangerous
chemicals are left outside the hoods.
The fume hoods are inspected every
year, Wimberly said Signs are posted
that tell how to use the fume hoods
according to standards set by the Board
of Regents, she said.
The safety rules come from the
regents because the state has no oc
cupational safety laws. Rowe said.
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A change in wind direction could force fumes down hoods
University could gain from funding revision
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The University’s "beyond the
classroom" programs like these have
been denied state funds, complain
University officials. The present for
mula is tied to enrollment, and does not
accurately take into account the costs
involved in running a modern research
institution, or a junior college for that
matter, the officials say. Programs like
these could fare much better under a
new formula, which may soon be taken
up for a study by a system-wide special
committee (Staff photos — Jay
Heavilon).
Campus programs could use more state money
By BOB KEYES
K«l and Black Stall Writer
Many programs on this campus not funded by
the present University System funding formula
need additional funds to run at maximum
capacity, according to Gene Younts, vice
president for services
The Botanical Garden is one program affected
by the formula The 293-acre garden is staffed by
four people: Director Michael Dirr (who is
resigning in June partly due. he says, to the
garden's financial problems), his secretary, a
horticulturist and a grounds-maintenance
person Dirr has asked for nine additional full
time employees, and five to 10 student workers
as well
The garden receives funds through state and
other channels, but needs more money to do a
complete job of maintaining the garden
The money for those employees must be raised
through state grants, private gifts and the
fundraising efforts of the University.
Younts said the University is “going to have to
raise a sizable endowment" to accommodate the
new visitors center planned for the garden
The Instructional Resources Center in the
journalism building also needs additional funds.
Said John Stephens, director of the center: "We
are not getting what we really need ... in ap
propriated funds" from the state.
Stephens said a good deal of new money, if it
were received, would go to “invest more media
to go in classrooms,” meaning the IRC would
bring more equipment i films, slides, televisions,
etc.) to the classrooms
"We support the people who teach," he said.
Stephens said the IRC received $9,000 in ap
propriated funds last year, which was used to
replace and purchase new equipment. Much of
the equipment now in use is more than 10 years
old, he said.
IRC now relies on its own fundraising efforts to
supplement state funds, Stephens said
The College of Veterinary Medicine is also
faced with money problems When the college
moved into a new, larger hospital in 1978, it took
with it the same-size staff employed at the
smaller hospital.
Dean David Anderson said 15 to 20 percent of
the new hospital is now unused. Anderson said
the staff "could increase quite a bit with ad
ditional funding," because it costs more to teach
a hospital course than it does to teach a regular
classroom course
Said Richard Schneiderman, director of the
Georgia Museum of Art: "There's always a
need" for additional funds The museum's first
priority for spending additional money is a
major exhibition coming to the museum from
Britain next year.
Please See NEED, Page 3
By BOB KEYES
Ktd and Black Sufi Writer
The system used to distribute funds among
Georgia's colleges and universities may be up
for revision in the wake of complaints that the
University and other large schools have been
treated unfairly in the past years
A committee designed to review the University
System’s existing funding formula should have a
chairman within a few days. Bob Joiner, public
relations director with the Board of Regents,
said last week.
The formula was designed in the 1960s and has
harmed the University in recent years because
of insufficient adjustment for high inflation and
because the formula denies funds to many
University programs, according to Gene Younts,
vice president for services at the University.
Other schools are complaining, too Both
Georgia Tech and Georgia State University face
overcrowding and staffing problems, and of
ficials at junior colleges, senior colleges and
universities are upset at the money pinch
If a chairman is named, the committee will
have its first meeting within a month, said
committee member and state legislator Bill
Fincher, D-Chatsworth.
The 16-member committee, consisting of
legislators from the state House and Senate,
Board of Regents staff members, businessmen
from throughout the state, and University
System employees, was formed seven months
ago to study the problems with the formula, but
has yet to meet because the governor's office
wanted to wait until after the state legislature
recessed, Fincher said. The legislature recessed
on March 25.
For a program at a college or university to
receive state money under the current funding
formula, it must have a student enrollment and
generate quarter credit hours that count toward
degrees
Many University programs, though, are ex
cluded from consideration for funds because
their work goes beyond the classroom.
University officials say
The programs excluded from the formula
constitute an essential part of the University and
are the "part of the University the people outside
see," Younts said
Please See FUNDING, Page 3
Erk Russell: ‘Spring practice has been disappointing'
Questions still unanswered as G-Day approaches
By TOM LEE
Had and Black AaabUnl sport. Kdiloc
The Georgia Bulldog football team
always knew this spring would be full of
questions.
Graduation fairly riddled last year’s
national champions, and two important
players — one an All-America and one
an All-SEC performer - never showed
for a day of practice because they were
occupied with other sports.
The coaches and players must have
hoped spring practice would hold some
of the answers However, with the Dogs
making finai preperations for Satur
day's G-Day intrasquad game, there
are only questions and more questions
waiting to be answered.
"As far as finding answers, we’re still
up In the air," said offensive coor
dinator George Haffner Haffner did
say however, that he thought some
positive things had come from the four-
week long practice session
“I think our attitude to improve was
the biggest thing we had," he said.
Assistant head coach and defensive
coordinator Erk Russell said he thought
the offense had performed well during
practice, or at least better than his
defense “They’ve dominated us all
spring,” Russell said.
Russell said the spring practice had
been, "in a nutshell disappointing,”
becuase of so many injuries to first- and
second-string players. Linebackers
Will Forts and Nate Taylor, both
starters last year, missed most of the
practice time with leg injuries. Russell
said. At the end of practice only Tommy
Thurson was left among the
linebackers on scholarship
"One of our biggest disappointments
is that we had so many people hurt."
Russell said. “It’s hard for us to
evaluate ourselves.”
Dooley added that this year's defense
had been hurt by spring injuries more
than any other in his tenure at Georgia
Haffner said the absence of two
noteworthy players — Herschel Walker
and Buck Belue — did not affect his
offense's practice. "Individually, I
think that affects them," he said. "I
think it's gonna hurt both Buck and
Herschel."
Walker and Belue will have to
"double-up" and work extra hard this
fall. Haffner said, adding that he
thought they were capable of making
up lost time if they worked hard
enough
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Trendiness may ruin new wave’s fun
This is the final installment of a two-part series in which
Red and Black staff writers Kevin Bichnell, Jared H Bailey
and J. Greg Clark examine Athens’ growing reputation as a
modern music center.
Today’s installment looks at the forces behind and what the
future holds for Athens music.
After the success of the B-52’s in New York, Athens' new-
wave crowd came into its own. There had existed for years
an enlightened group of people hanging around thrift shops,
listening to records and starting bands at each others' par
ties.
But when the initial success of the B-52’s and the publicity
about Athens music gone to New York started to trickle down
to the city, club owners in town sensed a market in local
bands and began booking them into the clubs
At the forefront was Tyrone's O.C., a traditional rock club
that started featuring the emerging Athens bands
Tyrone’s booking agent and sound man, Mike Hobbs, said
recently that he wasn't trying to get Tyrone's a reputation as
a club for new-wave bands, but that he was just booking
bands for which there was a market "There just seems to be
more new-wave bands in Athens that people are interested
in."
That interest grew out of a party scene exemplified by the
40 Watt Club, which, in its first incarnation in late 1978, was
Pylon drummer Curtis Crowe's rehearsal studio
"My studio's this great big empty building," Crowe
recalled. “A friend of mine and I moved up there into the
studio, and we just said. We re gonna live here ' We just
basically camped up there for about a year And it was really
nasty and trashy; it didn't have any electricity, and it didn't
have any water Our electricity, at times, consisted of one
150-foot extension cord that led downstairs to an outlet
“And Bill Taylor, my partner at the time, jokingly called it
the '40 Watt Club ' And I thought that was just hilarious
"And then, we had these parties up at the old 40 Watt Club,
the studio, that is We had some really knock-down, drag-out
parties, really good ones
"They became known as the 40-Watt parties We had
posters up It was kind of an in-the-know sort of thing "
Without the encouraging atmosphere offered by such
places as Paul Scales' and Curtis Crowe's 40 Watt Club, some
bands may not have dared to be different Scales' and
Crowe's adventurous policy of booking almost any band once
helped bring about the formation of newer bands, such as the
Drastics and the Side Effects
"The 40 Watt Club was an idea more than anything else.
Scales said. "Curtis and I had been talking about having a
rock-and-roll club for some time I was playing some music
with these guys and I was looking for a practice room I found
this room above the Sub and Steak downtown, and I took
Curtis up there to show it off So he comes up and says. Hey,
let's turn this into a rock club!’
"So Curtis came up with $25, and I came up with $25 and we
went out and bought a bunch of lumber and built a stage
"We just kind of assumed that all of our friends would
come the first night, and that would be it But people just kept
coming And by the time we moved out, we didn't know about
75 percent ol the people who were coming in.”
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