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By JACK THREADGILL
Krd iind Black Staff Hrilrr
While rising costs will force several
fee increases next fall for University
students. Vice President for Student Af
fairs Dwight Douglas said that which
ones would increase remained to be
determined
Douglas, speaking Tuesday before
the Student Affairs Advisory Commit
tee, said that transportation, athletic
and activity fees and food and housing
costs would need to increase about 10
percent, but increases 'may be defer
red or halved” to prevent them all from
increasing next fall.
He said that the University tradi
tionally tried to stagger increases so
that students did not face them all at
once.
The current transportation fee is
$14.50 a quarter, with the athletic fee at
$10 and the health fee at $35. Meal plan
prices are $303 a quarter for a 15-meal
plan, while housing costs range from
the $223 a quarter to $323 a quarter
The health services budget showed an
approximate loss of $175,000 this year,
and will have to have a fee increase
next fall or resort to cutting back staff
or eliminating programs
Proposals considered for cutting
back on health services include charg
ing full rates for prescriptions, cutting
programs recently added, cutting per
sonnel or relaxing its accreditation
standards, Douglas said
The Health Services fee should show
a "substantial increase" because if the
fee was increased $10 a quarter,
another increase would probably be
needed in a couple of years, he said
As for the student activities fee,
"there is a double problem there,”
Douglas said, since the present $10.50 a
quarter fee "has been spread thin for a
mightly long time" and the University
needs "a substantial sum for the
upkeep" of the Tate student center
under construction.
Students at Georgia Tech have been
paying $10 a quarter for the upkeep of
their student center for the past several
years, and the University is considering
imposing a similiar upkeep charge as a
supplement to the student activities fee,
Douglas said.
Housing costs have increased approx
imately $45 per person through in
creases made the previous two fall
quarters, and meal-plan fees have in
creased yearly since 1977 to a cost ap
proximately 50 percent higher than four
years ago.
The activities fee has been at the
same level since 1974, while the health
services fee had its last increase three
years ago. Douglas said
According to a University System
student activity fee survey taken last
year, only Kennesaw College and nine
junior colleges in the state had student
activities fees lower than the Universi
ty’s.
Douglas told the committee of Gov.
George Busbee s proposal to increase
tuitions of University System institu
tions an average of 8 percent next fall
The governor had endorsed the state
Study Committee on Public Educa
tion’s proposal to require University
System students to pay 25 percent of
their educational costs, with yearly in
creases to be no larger than 15 percent
Tuition is based on an enrollent for
mula where funds are distributed to
University System institutions based on
the institution’s number of credit hours,
Douglas said
He said that when enrollment in
creases, institutions get more funds,
but during times of stable enrollment,
as has been the case in past years, the
formula "works toward our disad
vantage because nothing has been built
in for inflation."
Regents recommend
University center for
delinquency study
Demosthenians will welcome back
Phi Kappa adversaries in debate
By JACK THREADGILL
Ht-4 and Rial'll Stall Writer
Back when the University was young
and Athens was a frontier town, the
students of Franklin College enjoyed
Saturday debates as much as today’s
students enjoy Saturday football
games.
The University’s first two campus
organizations, the Phi Kappa and
Demosthenian literary debating
societies, began a rivalry then which
continued through the early 1970 s,
when the Phi Kappas disbanded The
rivalry lasted despite the coming of
social fraternities after the Civil War
and football around the turn of the
century
Now a group is trying to resurrect the
Phi Kappa society, a move that
Demosthenians say they would
welcome, if the new society survives
Two recent efforts to resurrect Phi
Kappa in 1976 and in 1980 were short
lived. but this has not discouraged the
members of the newly-reorganized
society
After being granted use of Phi Kappa
Hall on north campus by the Univer
sity's Student Affairs office, the new
Phi Kappas held their first meeting
Oct. 28 Buddy Laing, the society's
secretary, said discussion centered on
the order of meetings and on a con
stitution that was drawn up and then
debated at the second meeting last
Wednesday night.
Claude Terry, president of the new
organization, said the society would
consider holding debates with its
traditional rivals, and Demosthenians
contacted said they would welcome the
opportunity
"The competition will be good for the
Demosthenians," said Demosthenian
President Mike Smith. The
Demosthenian constitution calls for
annual debates with Phi Kappa
"Most everybody thinks it’s real good
to see them start hack," said Jim
Ellington. the Demosthenians’
secretary-treasurer. "It will do both
societies good to have more publicity
and competition for membership." he
said.
The societies have been rivals since
they began, and they have kept secrets,
held debates, named honorary mem
bers and played pranks on one another
throughout the years.
One of those good-natured pranks
occurred in October 1942 during a Phi
Kappa intramural freshman debate,
when the lights suddenly went out The
Demosthenians had stolen a fuse, and
when the Phi Kappas found out what
had happened, they went over to
Demosthenian Hall and “engaged in
fisticuffs" with the Demosthenians,
according to The Red and Black report
of the incident In retaliation, the Phi
Kappas smashed two window panes in
Demosthenian Hall, but the "damage
was slight." the report said.
Albert Saye, a University political
science professor who served as
Demosthenian adviser for 35 years,
said the societies competed in debates
each spring, with the winner getting a
silver cup from the University
The societies also competed in
naming honorary members from
among University professors,
regionally and nationally prominent
politicians and people prominent in
other fields, Saye said.
“There was a custom that you didn’t
mention the Phi Kappa society” if you
were a Demosthenian, and you were
fined a dollar if you did not refer to Phi
Kappa as "the brick-heap across the
way," he said
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By CHUCK REECE and C.E.
HEINEKE
Krd and Black Mali Writer*
The Board of Regents' Committee on
Education Tuesday recommended
passage of a resolution establishing a
University Research Center on Crime
and Delinquency.
The proposed center is a recom
mendation of a criminal justice study
committee appointed by University
President Fred Davison and chaired by
Delmcr Dunn, head of the University's
Institute of Government
The center will be under the direction
of Terry Thornberry, an associate
professor in the sociology department
Several regents questioned whether
the Center's programs could conflict
with a proposed criminal justice in
stitute at Albany State College, which
the Committee Tuesday also recom
mended be established The full board
will vote on both proposals when it
meets at Georgia Tech today.
H. Dean Propst, vice chancellor, said
there was "some feeling" among ad
ministrators at both institutions that
the programs would overlap To avoid
such conflict, the committee recom
mended the director of the Albany State
institute be offered an adjunct ap
pointment to the University’s research-
center staff.
"It is anticipated that the center
director and the institute director w ill
meet periodically to facilitate a free
flow of information between the two
organizations." the committee wrote in
its recommendation
"I think they will compliment each
other," Propst said after the meeting.
Overlap will be minimal, he said,
because the University's center will
conduct the behavioral research while
the Albany State institute will conduct
applied research
"There’s a pretty clear-cut division"
between the programs, Propst said
The University’s center, which will
have only a director and a four-member
faculty staff, will have no instructional
component, while Albany State's
program will include academic
programs and in-service education in
addition to applied research.
"They (Albany Statel aren't going to
have a staff to get into highly
sophisticated behavioral research,"
Propst told the education committee.
"That kind of research (which the
University will conduct" depends on a
w hole complex of resources
Funding for the University's center
will be "totally internal," Propst said
The Regents Committee on Finance
and Business Tuesday approved for
consideration by the legislature a
resolution asking that Georgia
residents living close to state boun
daries be allowed to attend colleges in
adjacent states at in state tuition rates
The resolution applies specifically to
North Georgia residents who seek in
state tuition rates while attending the
University of Tennessee at Chat
tanooga The regents would pick up the
students' additional fees.
Erwin Friedman, regent from
Savannah and chairman of the com
mittee, said that he supports passing
the resolution as information to the
legislature, but that he does not think
the plan is a good one
"If we do this, we will come out $6
million in the red," Friedman said
Solidarity to share Polish rule
WARSAW, Poland (UPI) — Poland's Communist Party
Politburo Tuesday endorsed the plan by party leader Gen
Wojciech Jaruzelski to include the Solidarity union in a new
coalition government
The 14-member Politburo, the ruling council of the party,
said there is a place in Poland's government "for all citizens
who are governed by the good of the socialist motherland,
irrespective of the party, union or religious affiliation, ' the
official news agency PAP reported
Jaruzelski. who is premier and defense minister as well as
party leader, plans to replace the current National Unity
Front with a new group including Solidarity The Com
munist-led Unity Front is a coalition that controls all elec
tions in Poland and runs the government
Such a coalition would mark the first time the Polish
communist government shared power with such a powerful
and independent group
The 9Vmillicn-member union has its own aspirations to
share power in Poland's government, probably on different
terms than Jaruzelski's ministers will offer But Tuesday's
announcement by the Politburo was a major spur toward
negotiations between the union and the government.
Solidarity has asked for talks beginning Friday on a series
of economic and political reforms The regime has not yet
replied specifically to the union proposal, which on its face
calls for changes that would thoroughly alter the character of
Poland’s socialist system
The report of the Politburo meeting distributed by the
official PAP news agency said all discussions about changes
in Poland’s power-sharing system must be "based on the
socialist rules of our regime ' ’
Solidarity leader Lech Walesa, anxious to end tension with
the government, will travel to the scenes of Poland's stub
born strikes to try to end wildcat walkouts by 200,000 farm
workers, union officials said
In Washington. Poland applied for membership in the
World Bank and International Monetary Fund to gain loans
for its ailing economy burdened by a foreign debt of $27
billion and sagging industrial and agricultural production
Acceptance of Poland in the IMF and World Bank would
open Poland's economy to outside scrutiny and controls as
conditions for loans — a rarity among Soviet bloc nations.
After heroic college
career, Scott Woerner
makes special effort
to succeed in pros
Giving it the old college try
Stuff photo/l.arry
By BILL KRUEGER
Krd and Black Staff Writer
A year ago at this time, Georgia was driving
toward its first national football championship.
One of the main cogs in that drive was senior Scott
Woerner, who in four years at Georgia made big
plays seem commonplace
Scott Woerner is still wearing the Red and Black,
but of a different breed He is a rookie member of
the Atlanta Falcons, a team striving to get into the
playoffs.
But Woerner is not one of the stars in this drama
He is now a supporting actor, and he must learn to
adjust to the differences between college ball and
the pros.
"I started at the bottom in college and I worked
my way up. That's the way I've got to approach it
now. I realize I don’t know everything. It took me
four years at Georgia to become a defensive back
with a lot of confidence," Woerner says. "Now I
sit back and learn and try to help the team
wherever I can contribute. ’ ’
Woerner came out of Jonesboro to establish one
See Page 8 for a story on Tim Morrison, a former
Georgia Bulldog who has yet to make it in the pros.
of the great careers of any Georgia player. His ex
ceptional career was capped by his senior year
when he, with the possible exception of Herschel
Walker, was the star in a drama which saw
Georgia capture the national championship He
was rewarded for his efforts by being named to
several All-America teams.
But there are scores of players who are stars in
college, yet never seem to make it in the pros. They
are either too small or too slow. Woerner was too
slow.
So a lot of people, with the exception of Woerner,
were surprised when the Falcons took him in the
third round of the professional draft
“I think speed is a state of mind with a lot of peo
ple. If you don't get yourself in alignment trouble
and you don't make the wrong decisions, then
you're not going to get in trouble," Woerner says.
Woerner sits in the Atlanta Falcons complex
near Buford as he talks about his transition from
college to pro ball. He insists the transition has not
been as difficult as some might think. The fact that
he didn’t have to leave home helped.
"It was great. My family is right here," he says.
Despite being a high-round draft choice, Woerner
quickly found out that he was now part of a dif
ferent ball game. While in college, Woerner was
known for being an aggressive player, one always
willing to jump into the pile.
But as spring training progressed into pre
season, it became apparent that Woerner had lost
some of that intensity.
“He needs to improve. He doesn't hit like Bob
Glazebrook or Tom Pridemore. But he could
change a lot. He needs to do better next year,"
defensive secondary coach Jerry Glanville says.
“I don't think he's an overly aggressive football
player. But he's aggressive enough to play his posi
tion,” said head coach I-eeman Bennett, somewhat
more diplomatically
But what about Woerner's thoughts? Is he
scared, uptight, nervous?
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University
unsure which
fees to go up