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Reagan urges passage of plan,
says U.S. economy is a ‘mess’
By HELEN THOMAS
CPI Whilr lloutr Reporter
WASHINGTON — President Reagan, mak
ing his first public appearance since an
assassination attempt, told Congress Tuesday
his health has improved in the past month but
"the economic mess" in the country has not
changed
Reagan urged passage of his econommic
package, saying “'isn’t it time we tried
something new , ”
He began the nationally televised address of
a joint session of Congress by thanking
Americans for the love and outpouring of
friendship since a gunman s bullet hit him in
the lung on a Washington street March 30.
“The warmth of your words, the expression
of friendship and, yes, love, meant more to us
than you can ever know,” Reagan said in
remarks prepared for delivery. “You have
given us a memory we’ll treasure forever.
"And you’ve provided the answer to those
few voices that were raised saying that what
happened was evidence that ours is a sick
society.”
Reagan spoke on the eve of his 100 days in of
fice. His appearance also was designed to
demonstrate to the nation that he has made a
quick comeback from the gunshot wound and to
push for his economic package working its way
through Congress.
"Thanks to some very fine people, my health
has much improved," Reagan said. "I'd like to
be able to say that with regard to the health of
our economy But he said the fundamental
nature of our economic mess has not changed "
“I believe it is essential that the Congress ap
prove this package which I believe will lift the
crushing burden of inflation off of our citizens
and restore the vitality to our industrial
machine," he said.
Reagan timed his speech to the upcoming
crucial votes on a series of budget proposals.
He strongly endorsed a budget plan which cuts
$6 billion more from federal spending than he
proposed
The Senate Budget Committee Tuesday ap
proved Reagan's proposals but there were in
dications Democrats were regrouping to pro
vide major opposition in the House.
Reagan said the House Budget Committee
measure, proposed by the Demoerats“quite
simply falls far too short of the essential ac
tions that we must take."
He said the plan would increase taxes by
more than a third and cut more than $14 billion
in "essential defense spending" and projects
$141 billion more in spending than the Reagan
endorsed plan proposed by Reps Phil Gramm,
D-Texas, and Delbert Latta, R-Ohio.
"High taxes and excess spending growth
created our present economic mess; more of
the same will not cure the hardship, anxiety
and discouragement it has imposed on the
American people,” he said.
The president told the joint session, meeting
in the House of Representatives, the old ways
of approaching the economy are "no longer ac
ceptable."
“The one sure way to continue the infla
tionary spiral is to fall back into the predictable
patterns of old economic practices,” he said,
adding: ,
“Isn’t it time we tried something new? "
Reagan said, "Who among us wants to be
first to say wc no longer have those qualities"
of courage, determination, fearlessness and
boldness “that we must limp along doing the
same things that have brought us our present
misery."
Once and future king
How Bout THIS Dawg' At the tender age of 8 weeks, UGA IV. direct descendant of Univer
sity mascot UGA III, lets the Florida gator know who's boss UGA IV will officially
assume the role of "top dog” at the Sept. 5 coronation ceremony, when the silver britches
meet the Tennesee Volunteers between the hedges On that day, the 9-year-old UGA III
will retire and turn the honor of representing the 1980 National Champions to his son
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Drinking is
big at UGA,
survey shows
By RON KING
Rrd and RUct suit ttrttrr
Almost nine out of every 10 un
dergraduate students drink alcohol,
70.5 percent of the drinkers drink at
least once a week, and about half drink
at least three to four cans of beer or
three to four glasses of liquor each time
they drink, according to a recent
survey by the University alcohol-
awareness committee.
The 89-question survey indicated that
at least 1,500 undergraduate students
drink enough once a week to get drunk
About 45 of the drinkers (67.4 percent)
reported drinking more than five 12-
ounce cans or glasses of beer and 61.8
percent of them reported drinking six
or more glasses of liquor in one sitting
at least occasionally.
Wine drinkers, however, reported
that only 36.1 percent of them drink
more than two glasses of wine at one
time, and 62.3 percent said they would
never drink a full bottle
In one hour, the body can usually
metabolize one ounce of liquor, six
ounces of wine or 12 ounces of beer, said
the survey report
The study surveyed 713 un
dergraduate students in various classes
in schools and colleges throughout the
University The survey was an attempt
to accurately determine drinking
habits, frequencies and motives for the
entire undergraduate population, based
on a 5-percent sample Males made up
45 2 percent and females made up 54 8
percent of the sample surveyed
The three most-reported reasons for
drinking were "to celebrate special
occasions," to feel good-get high," and
taste. Of the 14.1 percent of the students
who reported that they did not drink,
the most prevalent reason for their
abstention was religious beliefs (43.3
percent of non-drinkers gave this
reason)
The largest group of drinkers (39.7
percent) reported no preference in
their choice of beverage, while 24 4
percent preferred beer, 8.4 percent
preferred wine, and 12.8 percent
preferred liquor More than half (63.2
percent) of the drinkers reported
drinking beer at least once a week
The survey indicated that most
student drinkers prefer to drink with
small groups in night clubs or bars
Most of the drinkers began drinking
before college, with only 7.4 percent of
them saying they began drinking in
college. Of the male drinkers, 55.4
percent said they began drinking before
reaching high school, while 54.7 percent
of the female drinkers began in high
school.
The drinkers reported that because of
their drinking, 26 6 percent of them had
been taken advantage of physically,
30.1 percent had been taken advantage
of verbally and 18.4 percent of them had
been taken advantage of financially.
Men reported being taken advantage of
financially and taking advantage of
others more often than women. About
W of the drinkers said they liked
themselves more when they drank The
survey did not ask the students whether
they liked themselves less when they
drank.
Some of the most-reported con
sequences of drinking were hangovers,
feelings of increased happiness guilt
from spending money on drinking that
could have been spent on other things
and more ease in talking with members
of the opposite sex.
Most students who cheat
are punished, officials say
outline the material for the next exam on his desktop He
would leave the room and come back for the second class,
making sure he came in and sat in the same desk
One day a girl in the second class came in and sat in the
wrong desk She saw the answers to one of the tests written
on her desk and told the professor
He noted who sat in the desks and after seeing the answers
to a later test written on the desktop, he called the office on
judicial programs. The student received a six-quarter
suspension
These examples are a few of the cheating instances that
have occurred at the University over the past five years In
light of the outcomes of these incidents and the ap
proximately 75 others that have made it to the office of
judicial programs in those five years, officials believe the
University provides adequate deterrence to cheating
“There is no evidence on this campus to suggest cheating is
any more prevalent here now than in the past.” says Bill
Bracewell. director of the office of judicial programs. "If so,
people who report incidents regularly would have stepped up
their reports " Bracewell said the judicial office handles 10 to
20 cases a year, most of which involve plagiarism and
cheating or copying on exams
“We have never had a cheating scandal at Georgia,"
Bracewell said. “We have a good set of rules and a good
judicial system that's been tested We have everything we
need to respond to cheating on campus "
Anytime a student represents as his own work that came
from another source, he is cheating
Dwight Douglas, vice president tor student affairs, said he
thought students at the University were aware that their
w ork had to be their own
"We probably have about what you would expect on a
campus of this size," Douglas said. “It hits peaks and
valleys,"
Even though officials are optimistic about the state of
academic honesty on this campus, students indicate that
cheating occurs to varying degrees more often than judicial
cases suggest
"I would say cheating does exist," said Russell Jones, a
senior in business “I’ve been in a lot of tests where
everybody's crammed next to each other and some people do
cheat If it's going to be easy to cheat, I think a lot of people
would cheat."
Mary Jane Appleby, an associate professor of English,
says she suspects most of the faculty members are observant
enough to keep cheating down She says she "just doesn't
walk off and assume everyone is so honest that they won't
cheat."
"A lot of people don't care," says Mike Berry, a senior in
math "You don't really know what's going on with
everybody else Nobody is going to care if you chea^
Nobody’s going to go tell the professor." ™
Please See CHEATING, Page 3
Second of a three-part series.
By DENISE NEALEY
Kfd and Black Staff Writer
Three years ago. a student turned in a term paper that was
a verbatim copy of an article in “National Geographic " The
case went to the office of judical programs, and the student
received a one-quarter suspension.
In another incident, two students who did not know each
other obtained a copy of the same term paper from different
people They both signed their names to the paper and turned
it in for credit in different levels of the same course. The
professor recognized the paper as one that had been done
earlier Both students went before the student judiciary and
received one-quarter suspensions
Several years ago, a student put in his shirt jacket a small
scrap of paper that contained information on how to solve
problems on an exam The professor saw him reaching into
his pocket, and confiscated the scrap of paper The student
was charged with receiving unauthorized assistance in
preparing for an exam. He got a one-quarter suspension
Five years ago, a student had back-to-back classes in the
same room. At test-time, he would attend the first class and
Georgia All-America defensive back Scott Woerner was
chosen in the third round of Tuesday's National Football
League draft by the Atlanta Falcons
Woerner was the only Georgia player taken in the first
three rounds, and he was the Falcons' third pick overall in
the draft, following Atlanta's first- and second-round choices
— Florida State defensive back Bobby Butler and Louisiana
State lineback Lyman White.
The Falcons expressed a need for help in the defensive
secondary, and they came away with two prospects (Butler
and Woerner) in the first three rounds
Woerner was not considered one of the top defensive back
prospects for the NFL draft, but he should give help to a weak
Atlanta secondary
The real find the Falcons may have in Woerner is his
special-team play. Woerner is the Bulldogs' all-time punt
return leader, and he is also a hitter on kick-coverage teams.
Woerner led the nation in punt returns in 198C with a 15.7
average He also returned kickoffs for a 25.8 average and in
tercepted five passes last year
As expected. South Carolina's George Rogers was the first
choice in the draft, as the New Orleans Saints picked the 1980
Heisman Trophy winner
— Mack Browning
Falcons draft Scott Woerner in third round
Georgia batdes with UCLA for top female high-school netter
By MIKE CHRISTENSEN
R«4 and Hl»ik (UH W rttr,
Final battle lines have been drawn
It’s the South vs the West Coast; the small col
lege town vs the big, bustling city; the rising star
vs the established power It’s Georgia vs. UCLA
The objective: Win the services of an athlete
who’s generally regarded as the top female high-
school basketball player in the nation this year - 6
foot-3 Janet Harris of Marshall High School in
Chicago
Harris averaged 20 points per game and 13 re
bounds for a 29-2 team her senior year, and made
every All-America squad in sight.
Harris, who made her official visit to Georgia
last weekend and attended the G-Day game, has
been the subject of a major recruiting war this
spring that originally included over 100 schools
“I narrowed them down pretty quickly to
Georgia, UCLA and Long Beach State,” the shy,
soft-spoken Harris said in an interview with the
Red and Black Saturday
Surprisingly, national juggernauts Lousiana
Tech and Old Dominion, the Association of Inter
collegiate Athletics for Women champions the
past two years, were never really in the running
"I crossed Louisiana Tech off the list im
mediately,” Harris said "They were the first one
And 1 crossed Old Dominion off second I just
wasn’t interested in those schools.”
Harris eliminated Long Beach State from the
list last month after visiting the California school,
narrowing the field to just UCLA and Georgia She
admitted that choosing between the two schools
would be ’ a tough decision ’*
Harris said that in picking a school the first
thing she was looking for was one that had a good
academic reputation — she is wavering between
computer science and nursing as a major — and
the second factor was a solid basketball program
Both UCLA and Georgia have long been
respected for their academic and athletic pro
grams
UCLA's Lady Bruin basketball team, coached
by veteran Billie Moore, is indeed an established
power in women's collegiate basketball, having
been a fixture in the national rankings for years
The Lady Bruins were ranked in the Top 10 during
most of the past season and qualified for the AIAW
national tournament, but lost in an early round
UCLA will lose ALL-America forward Denise
Curry and another starting forward. Debbie
Willie, to graduation this year, and signing Hams
would surely ease the pain of those lossess and
keep the Lady Bruins among the nation's elite
In contrast to UCLA, Georgia is just beginning
to emerge as a force in women s basketball The
Lady Bulldogs, under the tutelage of second-year
coach Andy Landers, enjoyed a record-breaking
year, winning the National Women's Invitational
Tournament in Amarillo. Texas, in their first-ever
post-season appearance
The LAady Dogs will return virtually everyone
— with the important exception of All-America
guard Bernadette Locke - next year, and the ad
dition of Harris to the squad would make the Lady
Dogs a genuine threat for the AIAW national
championship
Landers offered this assessment of Hams' skills
on the basketball court "She compares favorably
to (former Old Dominion All-Americai Nancy
Lieberman She can do it all She's a good outside
shooter and a good ball handler
"Her biggest plus may be her attitude She's a
great player, but she may be an even better per
son She’s got a good head on her shoulders."
Harris is realistic, but confident about playing
college basketball "As a freshman. I'm not going
to come in expecting to start." Hams said "1
realize I'm going to have to work my way up. 1
know college ball is different from high school
ball, but I think I can hang with 'em (college
players i. I think I can keep up with 'em,"
Janet Harris could choose Georgia