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Carwash, anyone?
Betsy Dobson, Penthouse magazine's Miss November 1980, lends a
hand in the lnterfratemity Council-Penthouse Pet carwash at
O’Malley’s Thursday Dobson, who turned 20 Saturday, was one of five
former Penthouse models on hand to help the IFC raise money for its
philanthropy, the Georgia chapter of the Leukemia Society. The IFC
raised about $1,000 in the event.
Luminous plant given new deadline;
must submit decontamination plan
By WENDELL BROCK
Krd and Black Staff Writer
Attorneys for Luminous Processes have until May
14 to submit a detailed plan for decontamination of
the company’s abandoned Clarke County site as the
result of an order issued Thursday in Clarke County
Superior Court.
Judge Joseph J. Gaines also converted his April 20
temporary restraining order against Luminous into
an interlocutory injunction which will extend the pro
visions of the restraining order indefinitely.
The Thursday order requires that Luminous sub
mit a detailed decontamination plan, including a pro
posed contrator. his qualifications, a scheduled com
pletion date and a proposed disposal site for the con
taminated materials.
Luminous attorney Kirby Turnage said Luminous
might not be able to meet the stipulations of the order
by May 14 and might have to ask for an extension.
“I am not sure that we can do that in seven days,”
Turnage said, but he indicated he would make every
effort to meet the deadline.
The company has already failed to meet two court
deadlines issued in April instructing it to erect a new
fence around the contaminated site and submit final
plans to the state for decontaminating the plant
Assistant Attorney General Barry Allen told Tur
nage he expects any Luminous proposal to conform to
a decontamination plan drawn up May 5 by the state
Department of Human Resources and the Depart
ment of Natural Resources Turnage would not com
ment on the plan because the case is still pending
Gaines said that if Luminous does not meet its new
deadline, the state will decontaminate the site at
Luminous’ expense
Allen said a state investigation had determined
that the decontamination process could take as long
as 35 to 60 working days and that bids have ranged
from $350,000 to $640,000
In addition, Allen said the process will involve
‘‘some 40 truckloads of dirt” amounting to 15.000
cubic feet of earth. The process will also entail the ex
cavation of up to 36 inches of earth, he said
Turnage said he feels the state’s request to reduce
the level of decontamination down to 0.5 picocuries
per gram of soil is unreasonable
However. Allen said the level is not unreasonable
but represents a standard as “low as reasonably ac
ceptable” compared to national standards
Gaines expressed concern over the amount of
radioactivity at the site and the dangers it might
pose, but Allen said, ”We don’t think it represents a
threat.”
Some areas are more radioactive than others.
Allen said, but the “hot spots" present no danger
because the whole area has been fenced and is not
easily accessible
Allen also said he thinks there is no danger from
possible air borne radiation
Luminous, a Delaware-based company, operated
from 1963 to 1978 at a site now across from Georgia
Square, manufacturing glow-in-the-dark watch and
instrument dials Radium-226, and later tritium,
were used to paint the dials
The Department of Human Resources closed the
company by refusing to renew its license after fin
ding radioactive contamination both inside and out
side the plant
Debate concerning 10-hour rule still not resolved
By BOB KEYES
Krdand Black Staff Writrr
The half-year debate between the
University’s graduate students and the
administration over high tuition, low
stipends and the 10-hour rule is no
closer to resolution now than it was last
October when the debate began
It was in October that graduate
school Dean John Dowling announced
that graduate students with
assistantships using staff facilities
would have to enroll for 10 class hours
per quarter. Dowling said many
students were taking too long to finish
their work and that “it is too expensive
on the University’s part to support
students participating in only 15 hours
of classes yearly .”
The students claimed that this rule
would only raise their tuition, and that
most departments offer too few classes
per quarter for them to take 10 hours.
A major part of the student complaint
would have been resolved three weeks
ago had the Board of Regents passsed a
University request that would have
allowed graduate assistants who carry
a 10-hour class load, and who work in
their assistantships less than 20 hours
per week, to pay only $50 tuition per
quarter.
The tuition scale for which graduate
students are charged is the same scale
used for undergraduates, whether they
have an assistantship or not.
The regents finance committee,
chaired by Shealy McCoy, recom
mended to Chancellor Vernon Crawford
that he deny the request because the
system would have suffered an annual
revenue loss of more than $1 million.
The request was a combined effort of
graduate school administrators and
personnel from ihe academic affairs
office. The Graduate Student
Organization, the primary organization
on campus that represents graduate
students, had nothing to do with
opening the proposal, said President
RonOkagaki.
Okagaki added that if the proposal
had passed it would have solved a
major problem the graduate students
face — high tuition.
Some students concerned with the
plight of the graduate school conducted
a survey of 50 other graduate schools
comparable to that of the University,
and found that the University’s stipends
rank in the bottom third of the nation.
The surveyors found that 60 perent of
the schools waive tuition and fees for
graduate assistants
Fees were waived at 75 percent of the
universities with ’’active” graduate
programs. Steve Stewart one of t’,.c
surveyors, characterized a program as
active if it offered doctorates in several
areas Stewart added that many of the
schools had programs inferior to the
University’s
The survey found that the average
stipend at the schools studied were very-
close to the University's. The average
of all schools was about $4,000 per year
These figures were from school
bulletins two or three years old
Presently, the University awards a
student who teaches one five-hour
assistantship for three quarters around
$4,200 for his efforts over a nine-month
period, Dowling said
Please See GRADUATE STUDENTS.
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Mamatey reinstated; gets promotion, pay raise
University history professor Victor Mamatey has
been reinstated as a research professor and given a
pay raise.
The action represents a settlement of his April ap
peal to the Board of Regents protesting a University
decision to demote him to regular professor status A
research professor is paid on a 12-month basis, while
a regular professor is paid for nine months,
Mamatey was informed of his demotion last June.
Paul Nagel, former head of the history department
and now director of the Virginia Historical Society,
wrote the demotion letter, which gave no reason for
the action, according to Mamatey.
Nagel recommended to the administration that
Mamatey lose the research professorship because he
was not doing a sufficient amount of reserach, and
Mamatey did not discover the reason for his demo
tion until after he appealed the case to the regents
and was allowed to see Nagel's evaluation of his
work, said Mamatey’s lawyer Andrew Marshall
Mamatey and Marshall gave the regents copies of
his work done while a research professor.
The two sides began negotiations after the April
regents meeting and agreed to a settlement this
week.
Mamatey said any embarrassment to the Universi
ty adminstration could have been avoided if he had
been allowed to see Nagel's report before it went to
the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
— Jan Hullings
Between the lines
Tim Bays—past, present and future
By KEVIN BICKNELL
Hfd and Hlick Stall Writer
He is often poignant, just as often
zany. And the folks in Nashville say he
wouldn't know a commerical song if
one bit him.
But the people in Athens can find out
for themselves that Tim Bays is a very
good singer-songwriter — and that
commercial appeal doesn't matter a bit
— when he plays the Speakeasy this
weekend.
For Bays, the show is a short break in
where you want to leave before you’re
kicked out." he said. “Most people take
the song on its surface, but every once
in a while somebody will see through it.
They hear it because they went through
it.”
Bays first started playing guitar
while working as a psychiatric aide in a
mental home in Ann Arbor, Mich.
"That was the advantage of working
the night shift," he said. "There was
plenty of time to practice."
He turned professional when a friend
of his told him to come out to Colorado,
where there was less musical com-
‘ ‘Closing Time’ is an
allegory of a relationship
where you want to leave
\ . . Most people take the
song on its surface but every
once in a while somebody
before you’re kicked out.’
will see through it.’
a vacation from touring he has taken in
the past few months to work on his
writing and playing.
"I can feel Nashville looking over my
shoulder," Bays said, referring to a trip
he made to visit several song
publishers "They all kind of looked at
me and said ’You don’t know what a
commercial song is, do you boy?’ I
went, 'Well, no, but I can learn.' So
that’s what I've been doing."
Bays said he had sent several songs
to publishers in New York, had written
several new songs and was playing two
or three days a month, "to keep my
irons in the fire.”
Bays has become an Athens favorite
in the past few years, owing to his
repertoire consisting of both serious
autobiographical songs, such as "The
Roots Run Deep,” about the failure of
his grandparents' farm, and lyrical
flights of fancy such as "Buffalo Gals,"
in which the old standard is turned into
a story about the reminiscences of a
very old buffalo, complete with
audience participation.
Bays said there is a trade-off between
the "epics" as he calls them and the
more autobiographical songs
“My pleasure is in the writing,” Bays savs
"The set pieces are the most wholly
unique of my songs, the ones that set
me apart from other performers," he
said. “But secretly, I would really like
to get a standing ovation for a ballad ”
The shows are usually divided ac
cordingly, Bays said
“In the first two sets I try to be real
funny and entertaining," he said "In
the third set, I start singing and playing
more serious songs ”
Bays said several of his songs have
more than one meaning " 'Closing
Time' is an allegory of a relationship
petition. That started a period of going
around the United States and Canada
playing wherever he could and getting
his act together In Florida he ran into a
group called the “All-Wenie Revue"
("Everybody thought we were a gay
dance band ) and played scattered
dates solo, with the group and with the
Mountain Mime Troupe, in which he
had also become involved
Bays said the "set pieces" in his act
developed as a consequence of his work
with the mimes
"When I wrote 'Buffalo Gals,’ " he
said, "I was trying to conjure strong
visual images to complement what was
going onstage "
Bays eventually settled in Atlanta,
where he had connections and an
audience He started playing in Athens
at the same time
In addition to the old audience
favorites, Bays will have two new
songs "The bottom line of my pleasure
is in the writing," he said. "That’s what
it's really all about "
Tim Bays plays tonight and Saturday
night at the Speakeasy Cover charge is
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No money for Mom?
‘I love you’ will do
ByTENIYARBOROUGH
Bed and Black Kralum Kdltor
What are you going to do?
You could buy her a diamond or emerald pendant — if she'll lend you
the money
You could take her to dinner at a fancy restaurant — if there’s enough
money left over from your income-tax return
You could even offer to do odd jobs around the house — for free It won’t
kill you.
For the past 66 years, children have sought ways to show their mothers
just how much they're loved, and this year is no exception
Sunday. May 10, is Mother’s Day The tradition began in the heart and
mind of Anna M. Jarvis in 1907 Jarvis believed that the country's
children should set aside one special day for the sole purpose of honoring
mothers Because of her efforts, Congress in 1917 passed a law declaring
the second Sunday in May as Mother's Day, a holiday to be observed an
nually
What does mother’ mean?
In the dictionary, the word is defined as a female parent; a woman ex
ercising control and responsibility like that of a mother , a familiar name
for an old w oman; an origin or source
Do those definitions describe your mother ■* Of course not
If asked, most children would describe their mothers as people who
love, care, understand, console and provide for their every need
A mother is a person who sends an extra $10 with one of the many let
ters she writes while you're away at school without your asking for it
Mom's the lady who brought you into the world, kissed your "boo-boos
when you hurt yourself the first time you tried roller-skating, broke the
news to Dad when you dented the fender on the family car and cried when
you left home for the University
Tell her you love her — it'll make her day And yours