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The Red and Black
Athens, Ga. Thursday, November 12, 1981 Vol. 89, No. 31
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State may fund 10-percent teacher pay hike
By CHUCK REECE
Bed and Black Staff Writer
University faculty and employees may get the
10-percent pay hike the Board of Regents re
quested from the legislature if state revenues
continue to run ahead of projections, said state
Sen Jim Tysinger, R Atlanta.
Several members of the regents' central staff
have expressed fear that the board's $696-
million request for the board's fiscal year 1983
budget may not pass the state legislature, but
Tysinger, a member of the Senate higher educa
tion committee which met with the regents
Tuesday, said Wednesday that the regents "are
going to get well taken care of "
Tysinger cited state revenues currently runn
ing 13.5 percent ahead of projections as a reason
for his optimistic prediction.
University faculty will get the 10-percent in
crease, 25 percent of which is an annual built-in
increase, if the budget request weathers both a
review by Gov. George Busbee and the state
legislature this winter
The oiher 75 percent of the increase will be
broken down, after the budget request is review
ed by the governor, into cost-of-living and merit
increases, said Robert Joiner, vice chancellor
for public relations.
The University chapter of the American
Association of University Professors in the past
has complained of inequitable distribution of
merit increases, which are distributed at the
discretion of the University administration
But AAUP President Walter O’Briant said
Wednesday he is most concerned with getting
an adequate cost-of-living increase. "I don't
have any reason to think that the merit-increase
money will he given out in an unreasonable way.
But inevitably, when the money is broken down
that way, you're going to have problems,"
O'Briant said.
"The failure to provide a minimum cost-of-
living increase will drop faculty members more
precipitously back,” he said.
Tysinger said that if state revenues remain
high, any trimming from the University System
budget will come from an additional $60 million
the regents requested for capital construction,
$5 million of which is pegged for a University
multi-level parking deck
But Tysinger added the state wants to fund
the deck through a revenue-bond plan. “There's
a good possibility we’ll get that done,” he said
The 1983 budget request also asks for a 7 8-
percent increase in student tuition, which would
make students pay for approximately 20 per
cent of the total cost of their education
The fairness of that increase "depends on how
you measure fair," said Allan Barber, Universi
ty vice president for business and finance “The
tuition in Georgia is very low" compared to the
percentage of the full cost of education students
in other states pay," Barber said
Shealy McCoy, system vice chancellor for
fiscal affairs said Wednesday the regents
meeting with the House and Senate higher
education commitees "went fine." He said he
thought the budget request was a reasonable
one, partly because of the scaling down of the
faculty and employee pay hikes, which have, in
past years, hovered around 11 percent
“You don t want your request to be
unreasonable," McCoy said when asked why the
pay hikes were scaled down in this request
Athens gays still searching for acceptance
By MARTY BISSET
Bed and Mark Siaff W ritrr
"It’s funny. Sometimes people act so
paranoid I think they're afraid if they
even see a gay, they’ll turn into one,"
said Carol < not her real name I, a leader
in the local Lesbian Support Group
For gays in Athens and elsewhere,
paranoia is the greatest single obstacle
between themselves and the public. It
makes the difference between “staying
in the closet" — keeping one’s
homosexuality a secret — and "coming
out,” and is evidenced by Carol s
request that she remain anonymous
Still, there are degrees of anonymity.
Bruce Hamerslaw. a local merchant,
came out several years ago, but finds
that he must practice discretion in
some circumstances
"I was on jury duty once and they
asked me, 'Are you married'’' Well,
I've lived with my lover for seven
years, and if that's not marriage, I
don't know what is,” he said "But I had
to say no, because if I didn't, they would
have asked, ‘Well, does your wife work
outside the home?’ and I'd have to say,
'Yes, he does.'And then I wouldn't have
had any more jury duty. It’s kind of
funny.”
Yet serious consequences do result,
some of them from resistance to
homosexuality among public officials.
An Elberton schoolteacher who was
arrested in Peabody Hall on charges of
public indecency was fired only hours
after charges against him were
dismissed
Athens-Clarke County Magistrate's
Court Judge Pierre Boulogne dismissed
the charge after the teacher submitted
letters from physicians which Boulogne
felt justified the behavior for which the
teacher was arrested.
The arrest was one of several made in
a Peabody Hall restroom during a
police crackdown on such activity last
month.
There are no laws in Georgia that
prevent — or protect — the homosexual
as teacher. “It's a morality thing,"
Hamerslaw said. "Schools have the
right to fire anyone for reasons of
morality.'”
David Dunham, attorney for the
‘Homosexuality
is not sex.
It's love.’
Georgia Association of Educators, said
teachers may be fired if they have been
charged with moral offenses
According to Alfred C. Kinsey,
founder of the Institute of Sex
Research, gays make up 10 percent of
the U.S population, but many gays say
this is a conservative number.
Kinsey defines a homosexual as
anyone who has had more than six
sexual experiences with a member of
the same sex.
Hamerslaw and other gays in Athens
estimate the gay population here to be
between 15 and 20 percent of the area
population, with perhaps a half of one
percent of that number out of the closet.
Gay leaders in the United States
estimate that only one percent of the
national gay population is out of the
closet
With secrecy still a necessity - "It's
just much easier to start a career
without that social stigma attached,"
said one campus gay — they find ac
ceptance and understanding in quietly
publicized support groups
In Athens, of four groups that have
been formed in the past ten years, two
are still active: Gays in Faith Together
Supporting and the Lesbian Support
Group Of these two, only the Lesbian
Support Group is registered with
Student Activities, which allows the
group to meet in Memorial Hall GIFTS
meets off campus Both groups assure
their members confidentiality
An interdenominational religious
support group for gays and their
friends, GIFTS was formed in part as
an alternative to the bar scene.
Modeled after DIGNITY Atlanta, an
organization of gay Catholic men and
women, GIFTS was formed last
January.
Accepting both gays and straights,
students and Athens residents, GIFTS
serves Christians. Jews and members
of other religions It meets the first and
third Tuesdays of every month, with
attendance ranging from 15 to 30
persons
Sharing and interaction in small
groups is the primary focus of GIFTS.
"Since we are a support group, we feel
we must get to know one another in
order to support each other,” said Pat,
a co-founder of GIFTS who asked that
his last name be omitted
"We’re an informal group We don't
set rules; we just promote acceptance
of others We provide a place where you
can come for a hug and hear someone
say, 'You're a good person What you're
doing is OK,"' Pat said.
Pat and other gays say they feel that
the atmosphere of love exemplified by
the GIFTS community is something
most heterosexuals overlook
"Homosexuality is not just sex,” Pat
said. "It's love Sex plays a part, but
there s something deeper than that: the
love,"
John J. McNiell, a Jesuit priest and
author of "The Church and the
Homosexual," calls it a "psychic
condition ... Homosexuality is not. as
commonly supposed, a kind of conduct,
but a psychological condition. It is
important to understand that the
genuine homosexual condition — or
inversion, as it is often termed — is
something for which the subject can in
no way be held responsible In itself it is
morally neutral. Like the condition of
heterosexuality, however, it tends to
find expression in specific acts; and
such acts are subject to moral
judgment "
Arab territories captured in the 1967
war. the creation of a Palestinian state
after a transition period and
recognition "of the right of all countries
of the region to live in peace "
Ironically, the two countries waginR
the most intensive campaigns against
the plan were Israel and Libya The
Libyans charged the plan was an
American ploy and said they would
oppose its discussion at the Morocco
summit
Against this still evolving
controversy, American, Israeli and
Egyptian delegations gathered in the
shadow of the Great Pyramids for a
two-day round of talks called two
months ahead of schedule in an effort to
speed up negotiations for Palestinian
autonomy in the occupied West Band
and Gaza Strip
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Poles celebrate first independence
day since 1947 Communist takeover
WARSAW, Poland (UPI) — Poles celebrated their
traditional independence day Wednesday with a massive
outpouring of rallies, parades and ceremonies across the
nation, with those in Warsaw marching behind banners
proclaiming "God, Country, Motherland "
Most of the people ignored the official Communist
celebrations and joined those organized by the independent
Solidarity union and other activist groups
It was the first time the government celebrated the
holiday. Poland's independence day marking the nation's
rebirth after World War I, since the Communists took power
in 1947. At Warsaw's Victory Square, where both the
government and a Solidarity-led committee arranged rallies,
the unofficial celebration outdrew the regime's by at least 10
tol.
An estimated 15,000 people marching under the red and
white banners of Solidarity, the Confederation for an In
dependent Poland and other groups, walked in freezing
weather from St John's Cathedral in Warsaw to the square.
where they left scores of floral wreaths at the tomb of
Poland's unknown soldier
A second major rally was held earlier in Gdansk, where
10,000 Solidarity members and supporters re-named one of
the city’s shipyards in honor of Marshal Jozef Pilsudski, the
hero of a dramatic Polish defeat of Soviet invading armies 60
years ago
More than 5,000 people attended a Roman Catholic Mass in
Lodz, reports from the area said Thousands more crammed
into the Wawel Cathedral in Krakow , burial place of Polish
kings of the past
Pilsudski, who died in 1935, is buried in the crypt of the
Krakow cathedral
Participants in the Warsaw rally carried banners praising
Pilsudski and his devotion to "God, Country, Motherland "
In addition, dozens of other cities were the sites of parades,
rallies and ceremonies Solidarity did not issue an estimate
of the numbers involved
Shuttle liftoff
delayed after
processor fails
CAFE CANAVERAL. Fla <UPI) -
The second blastoff Thursday of the
space shuttle was delayed at least 2> 2
hours while a cross-country rescue mis
sion from a sister spaceship tried to get
Columbia ready for flight
Officials made a decision Wednesday
evening to delay the second attempt to
return a manned spacecraft to orbit
from 7:30 a m. EST Thursday until 10
a m. at the earliest.
Two electronic parts were flown from
the second space shuttle Challenger,
under construction at Palmdale. Calif.
to the Kennedy Space Center where one
was to be installed in the problem-
plagued Columbia.
They were designed to fix a malfunc
tion in a vital data processing link bet
ween the shuttle, its onboard com
puters and ground control.
Astronauts Joe Engle and Richard
Truly were kept up past their scheduled
5pm bedtime so they could be briefed
on the problem that once again was
stalling their first trip into orbit.
Officials said they hoped to have the
new part installed and checked out by 1
am Thursday They planned to
resume the launch countdown at 12:40
a m If rescue efforts were going
smoothly with a final decision having to
be made by 3:40a m
launch could be delayed as late as
12:10 p m. EST, but an official said it
was doubtful an attempt would go much
past 10 a.m.
The electronic problem first cropped
up Tuesday night and early efforts to
fix it isolated the fault to a 36-pound
“black box” data processor that
translates signals for shipment to the
command computers
That box. which was working only in
termittently. contains a main unit and a
backup. Officials first replaced it with
another unit which had been at the Ken
nedy Space Center since March. Its
backup system failed entirely.
That was when the replacements
were sent from the Challenger, built
like the Columbia and planned for
space flight in late 1982
Officials said the problems appeared
to be “random failures" that coin-
cindentally affected the same sections,
and did not necessarily mean the whole
system was in disrepair.
The astronauts, who were being given
extra time to sleep Thursday moring.
had been optmistic all day long that
they would fly this time
"Make sure you get film in those
cameras tomorrow,” Engle told
photographers early in the day.
"You’re going to need it.”
The attempt to launch Columbia as
the first manned spacecraft to return to
orbit has been delayed three times. The
most recent delay came just 31 seconds
before blastoff last Wednesday — an
eight-day postponement space officials
said cost $1.5 million to $2 million.
The cause of that trouble, contamina
tion in the gearboxes of two of three
hydraulic system turbines, was cleared
up last weekend.
The Air Force weather forecast for
Thursday morning was good with
ground fog being the major concern.
Fog is important only if the mission is
canceled right after launch and the
shuttle has to return immediately to
Cape Canaveral.
In addition to trying to prove repeat
space flight is a reality, the shuttle car
ries a series of scientific experiments
designed to find Earth minerals from
space and a 50-foot mechanical arm
which will put future satellites in orbit.
The data processing problem
developed late Tuesday night when one
of two units called pulse code
modulators seemed to have failed The
units receive information aboard the
shuttle such as pressure and
temperature, analyze it and ship it to
computers for use by ground con
trollers.
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in Mideast
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I want you ...
... to dig this ditch. Is this the new army? Not on your life,
soldier. This is (“apt. John Smith of the Athens Fire Depart
ment giving instructions to city construction workers at the
corner of Broad and Jackson streets.
Rumors that the ditch is actually a moat around the
University to be filled with pumas have proved to be false.
The ditch will merel) contain new wiring for traffic control
devices, a fancy word for stop lights.
Over shadowed by American-Israeli
differences over a Saudi Arabian peace
plan, the Palestinian autonomy talks
resumed Wednesday but apparently
made no progress despite Egyptian
hopes of a breakthrough
In the Saudi capital of Riyadh, six
Arab oil-producing states ended a two-
day summit by endorsing the peace
plan and voicing fears of foreign
intervention in the Gulf
A communique said the Gulf states —
Saudi Arabia. Kuwait, Bahrain. Qatar.
Oman and the United Arab Emirates —
would seek wider support for the peace
plan at an Arab League meeting in
Morocco Nov. 25
The communique denounced
"attempts by other powers aiming at
setting up bases in the Gulf area which
threaten its security and sovereignty.”
but seemed deliberately vague on a
summit goal to agree on joint defense
plans for the Gulf. It said that issue
would be left to a subsequent meeting of
defense ministers
Speculation that Israel might offer a
significant concession to speed up the
autonomy talks with Egypt was
dampened when both sides emerged
from an initial 2> 2 hour session at
Cairo's Mena House Hotel to report no
progress
"We never promised to present new
ideas,” Israeli spokesman Eli Laniadu
told reporters "No new proposals were
submitted.” said Egyptian spokesman
Raouf Ghoneim
“There are still areas of
differences." the Israeli spokesman
added
The talks were overshadowed by a
strain in U.S -Israeli relations over the
eight-point Saudi peace plan, which
Reagan cautiously praised on Tuesday
Israeli Foreign Minister Yitzmak
Shamir called Reagan s remarks
"regrettable” and "not acceptable” to
Israel, which contends the Saudi plan
would imperil its existence and
sabotage the Camp David process
PLO leader Yasser Arafat has also
voiced support for the Saudi plan,
which calls for Israeli withdrawal from