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The Red and Black Athens, Ga. Thursday, November 12, 1981 Vol. 89, No. 31 \n MihihinJim siuthni thus/w/ht vt-nz/fj* tin l nncmix of (mni>iu mnimumu > 043 1809 AcJvartiamg 043-1781 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 Please See GAYS, PaRej 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. Please See SHUTTLE, Page 5 No progress in Mideast negotiations H> l nil Ml PrfH International Slatl photo l arrv < utrhall 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
