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The Red and Black
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UNIVERSITY SYSTEM OF GEORGIA
Capital Expenditure for New Construction
1978-79 to 1982-83
Low funds slow construction
78-79 79-80 80-81 81-82 82-83
*81-82 includes $5 million in bonds that remain unsold due to high interest rates
*82-83 figure is Gov George Busbee s recommendation, now before the General Assembly
Includes $5 million in authorized buf unsold bonds carried over from 81 82
Source: Vice Chancellor for Facilities
Graphics by Justin Gillis
By JUSTIN (ill.LIS
Krd and Hlark Staff Writer
Throughout the 1960s and much of the
'70s, construction cranes waved their
steel necks over Georgia’s campuses.
Concrete was poured, bricks were
laid, nails were hammered and wires
were strung in a furious effort to keep
pace with the swelling programs and
burgeoning enrollments of the state’s
colleges and universities.
Now — well, things are different.
“We've stopped,” said Frank
Dunham, the Board of Regents vice
chancellor for facilities. “We aren’t
designing anything.”
The slowdown coincided roughly with
the end of the decade, for 1979 was the
last year the regents had what Dunham
calls “real money” for construction.
Among the projects authorized that
year were three that have changed the
face of the University campus - the
$3.7 million Caldwell academic
building, a $1.7 million law library addi
tion, and the new student center, whose
first phase will cost about $5.8 million.
No major University projects have
been funded from state money since
then And the University isn’t alone, as
projects at many of the system’s 33 in
stitutions have gone begging.
“That’s the facts of life,” Dunham
said, citing the stabilization of college
enrollments and new social priorities as
reasons for the General Assembly’s
growing reluctance to fund vast
building programs.
This year is likely to be no exception.
Gov. George Busbee has recommended
a $25 million bond issue for new Univer
sity System construction, which would
be the highest level since 1978-79. But it
wouldn’t come close to meeting the
regents’ September request for more
than $60 million, which they say they
need to fund a wish list of 21 projects
throughout the system.
The legislature could up Busbee’s
figure, but members of House and
Senate higher education committees
say that is unlikely due to the budget
crunch. The state will lose $241 million
in federal funds in 1982 and ’83, Busbee
said in his Jan. 14 budget message. The
resulting shortfall, coupled with weak
recession-year tax receipts, makes it
impractical to undertake ambitious
programs.
Busbee recommended an overall in
crease in the regents’ allocation of
about 8.8 percent, said Nellie Hoenes,
director of the education division of the
Office of Planning and Budget That
contrasts sharply with the board's
September request for a 28 percent in
crease in its allocation.
There is a district relationship bet
ween the amount of money the
legislature allocates for construction
and the number of projects the system
can begin designing for the future,
Dunham said. Most of the projects on
the $60 million wish list are in the late
stages of design. But design money has
run out and no more will be available
until this fall, Dunham said
If the legislature authorizes $25
million worth of construction, the
regents can begin $25 million worth of
new design Once a project that has
been designed is funded, the regents
use part of the money to reimburse a
revolving fund that pays for more
design.
“There are real needs in every
system institution I’ve visited.” said
Rep. Tom Buck, D-Columbus and chair
man of the House University System of
Georgia Committee But he said the
regents wouldn’t get their $60 million
list, much less any new projects, any
time soon — "if they get it at all.”
Several major University projects, in
various stages of planning and design,
could be imperiled or affected by the
construction slowdown:
• The top priority for design funds at
the University is a $15-20 million
biological sciences huilding to house
two University departments and a
science museum But the price tag will
18 charged
with theft,
face penalty
By MARIA HURT
Krd and Rlack Stall Wrltrr
Eighteen University students
charged with criminal trespass in
connection with the theft of a 30-foot
cedar tree from University property
last month are now facing a variety of
penalties for their prank
The 18 pleaded no contest to the
charges in Athens-Clarke County
Magistrate's Court Friday and were
slapped with monetary penalties
totaling almost $100 each
Each of the students will have to pay
a $66.66 restitution fee for actual loss of
the tree, a $25 fine and $5 for court
costs.
Magistrate's Court Judge Pierre
Boulogne also sentenced the 18 to seven
hours of community service — five of
which will be spent washing police cars
and the other two in work at the
forestry school.
Boulogne also gave the students
‘‘shock probation" which requires that
they spend a day at the public works
camp to see how inmates live
The cedar, a focal point on the front
lawn of the forestry school’s Whitehall
Mansion headquarters, disappeared on
Dec. 1. It was later discovered by police
at the Sigma Nu fraternity house on
River Road, where it had been
decorated for use as a Christmas tree.
Police asked those responsible for the
theft to come forward, but only one
person. Floyd Huszagh, chose to do so
"Our intention was not to single out
this one boy," said University Police
Sgt. David Brown “We knew it took
more than one boy to take that tree. His
honesty was hurting him His fraternity
brothers' failure to show up was almost
pretty scary for him. "
However, when eight students turned
themselves in Jan 18 and nine more
were arrested the following day,
Huszagh's charges were dropped and
he, along with the other 17, was charged
with criminal trespass, a
misdemeanor
The names of all those arrested were
forwarded to the University's office of
Judicial Programs, Brown said
Judicial programs director Bill
Bracewell could not be reached for
comment on the case
Those sentenced were: Floyd
Huszagh. 18; Richard King Austin. 18;
Alex D. Gramling, 18; James
Gyselinck, 19; William S. Sehroth, 21;
Thomas Reagin. 20; Mark Dennis Ford,
18; Bruce P Lagravinese, 20; and
Ricky Lane, 19.
Also sentenced were: Richard Alan
Brown, 20; John L Cleveland, 18;
Phillip R Wise, 20; William D
Lawrence, 19. Robert Daniel. 21;
George Henderson Hall, Jr., 19; Glenn
K. Goulding. 18; William D. Lay, 23;
and Frank H Hiley, 19
Nightclub loses liquor license
By C.E. REINEKE
Krd and Black Staff W rltrr
Although attorney Ernest
DePascale has laid the groundwork
for an appeal of a decision revoking
the liquor license of Athens’ night
club Bourbon Street for 60 days, the
club remained closed Wednesday
Athens-Clarke County
Magistrate’s Court Judge Pierre
Boulogne upheld an Athens or
dinance prohibiting topless dancing
in establishments serving alcohol in
a ruling Tuesday against Bourbon
Street, a club with topless dancers.
Boulogne cited two violations of the
ordinance last September as cause
for the license suspension
Bourbon Street owner Dave Gunter
is confident the club will be allowed
to reopen, possibly as early as
tonight, upon receipt of appeal
paperwork in Clarke County Superior
Court.
“As far as I know, once the
paperwork is received at the
Superior Court level, the club will be
allowed to reopen,” he said.
DePascale is expected to appeal
the ruling on the grounds the city
ordinance is unconstitutional,
because it deprives Gunter of his
property without due process of law.
DePascale also contends that the
Magistrate's court does not have
jurisdiction over the case.
Gunter had originally hoped to
open Wednesday night, but a
problem with the "transfer of
paperwork” to the higher court
forced the club to remain closed.
There is no city ordinance against
topless dancing per se, but if the
establishment also sells liquor, it
falls under the city licensing
restrictions, DePascale said.
Gunter said he had no complaint
about the way the city was handling
the matter.
“I don’t have any animosity
toward the city,” he said. "Nobody
has taken advantage of the situation,
it’s been just a gentlemanly fight.”
Gunter does have some reser
vations about the timing of the or
dinance itself, however.
"The ordinance was written after
the fact," he said. “I was in operation
already.’’
Staff phuto/l.arrt ( ulrhali
Despite sign, nightclub remained closed
make it difficult for the regents to fund
the design, much less construction, of
the project as long as capital budgets
remain small. (See related story.)
• The top priority for construction
funds on the campus is two parking
decks, with a budget of $5 million,
which are still in the design stage The
project will come before the regents for
funding this April, and whether funds
are authorized depends largely on how
much the regents gel from the
legislature
• Also high on the list of needs is a $1
million agricultural services
laboratory, which would house 34
employees of the University's
Cooperative Extension Service. A deci
sion on funding will be made in April
• Two other campus projects await
design funds They include a $5 million
forestry huilding and a $10 million
health, physical education and recrea
tion building.
Biological sciences building
on hold because of crunch
By TOM MATHER
l<r«l and Hlark Staff Wrltrr
Although the University critically
needs a new biological sciences
building, tight state finances — and the
building's $15 million price tag — have
indefinitely delayed the project.
"The put-off is not of our making —
it’s due to the economy,” said Eugene
Younts, University vice president for
services.
At least one University department,
biochemistry, that was expected to set
up shop in the new building faces the
loss of faculty members due to a severe
shortage of space.
The bio-sciences project, listed with
the Board of Regents as President Fred
Davison’s top priority for design funds,
is one of several University buildings
whose design and construction may be
hampered by a statewide squeeze on
construction money.
"I understand the fiscal problems
involved, but that doesn't stop me — or
the faculty — from being disap
pointed,” said Harry Peck, head of
biochemistry.
The genetics department and the
Museum of Natural History are also
expected to move into the new building
when it is completed
Said Younts, when asked when design
and construction money might become
available: "Your guess is as good as
mine ” The building’s price tag makes
it unlikely that the regents, who will
probably get around $25 million in
construction funds (for the entire
University System), will fund the
project this year. "The amount of
money is so large that I expect $15 or
$16 million will be needed for the whole
thing,” Younts said.
Even that figure may be a low
estimate, said Dave Lunde, associate
director of campus planning
“We came up with about a $20 million
building," Lunde said of cost projec
tions by the Campus Planning office.
Neither preliminary design plans nor
site selection studies have been done,
Lunde said "We haven’t even come up
with a preliminary name for the
building.”
Proposed residents of the building
say their need for additional space is
critical. Biochemistry faculty mem
bers are housed in seven different
buildings around campus, and Peck
said the delay in getting a new building
means “we will have trouble retaining
faculty members." Some members of
the department are seriously con
sidering positions at other institutions
because of the space shortage, Peck
said. The problems are ironic, he ad
ded, because the department attracts
more in research grants than any other
University department.
Recent advances in genetic
engineering and bio-technology have
led to rapid growth in the genetics
department, which was formed only
two years ago, said department head
Wyatt Anderson. A new building would
allow the department to continue
growing and would bring long-term
practical benefits, he said.
The Natural History Museum also
needs more room, said director Joshua
I^aerm, an associate professor of
zoology. "We lack space now for the
collection to grow, or to provide ser
vices to the school,” he added. The
museum, whose exhibits are "scattered
all over the place,” would occupy about
one-fourth of the new 200,000-square-
foot building, Laerm said.
Housing applications
exceed 1981 figures
By ANN DEACON
KrX and Hlark staff Writ*,
The number of paid University hous
ing applications for fall quarter 1982 is
running nearly 16 percent ahead of last
year and the cut-off date for guaranteed
new housing applicants has been moved
up to March I, Dan Hallenbeck, direc
tor of University housing, said Wednes
day
The housing office has received 1,423
paid applications as of Wednesday, 194
more than the 1,229 applications receiv
ed as of Jan 30,1981. This new figure in
cludes all people who have applied for
new housing in fall 1982, most of whom
arc freshmen.
Hallenbeck said the March I deadline
was decided on early last fall by the
housing and admissions offices and was
moved up from the previous year's
March 31 deadline because of the in
creased number of applicants for on-
campus housing received for last fall
“It's a little early to tell if there will
be a problem," Hallenbeck said "Both
our office and the admissions office are
ahead of last year's schedule and are
running about even ”
He said the housing situation will also
depend on the number of returning
students desiring housing, which is
usually about 50 percent Current
residents have first priority and are
guaranteed space
The housing office, when accepting
applications, not only takes into con
sideration the actual number of spaces
available but plans also on a 12 to 13
percent cancellation rate among both
new and returning students. In addi
tion, the department houses 200 ap
plicants in overflow
The housing department began ac
cepting last September, but the number
of applications is now "really beginning
to pick up,” Hallenbeck said. He
estimated that about 80 to 100 aplica-
tions are now coming in each day.
Students who apply for on-campus
housing after all space has been filled
will have their applications returned,
Hallenbeck said, but added that the
housing office would assist them in fin
ding off campus housing
Witnesses link Williams with more victims
ATLANTA <UPD - Three young witnesses
linked accused killer Wayne Williams to one of
Atlanta's 28 slain young blacks Wednesday, and
one said Williams used three different cars in his
work as a talent scout
Police were never able to pin down a specific
suspect vehicle in their search for Atlanta's child
killer bill F BI records show that a blue vehicle
and a green vehicle figured in the investigation
When Williams was first taken into custody in the
case, he was driving a white station wagon
Those colors green, blue and white were
the* colors of the cars that witness Kent Hindsman
claimed Williams had
The 24-year-old Hindsman testified he had seen
W illiams w ith Jo Jo Bell, one of the 20 victims, at a
recording studio in suburban Buckhead Two
brothers, John lister, 15. and Lugene lister, 21.
also testified Wednesday they had seen Williams
with Bell
Lugene leister testified he saw Bell get into a
"sky blue" station wagon with Williams one day
early last year
Williams, a 23-year old freelance photographer
and self-styled talent scout, is charged only with
the* slayings of 21 year old Jimmy Kay Payne and
27 year-old Nathaniel Cater, but he is a suspect in
at least 10 other of the killings, including Bell's
Williams passed out leaflets in black neigh
borhoods. offering auditions and promising jobs
for those with musical talent
Hindsman said on one occasion he was at a
recording studio with Williams and a young
woman named Carla Bailey when the woman
handed him a note, which he assumed had been
penned by Williams
He said it read: "I could be a president. I could
be a mayor, or I could be a killer."
"I asked him who would write something like
this and they just laughed ”
Defense attorney Al Binder tried during an
intease cross-examination to portray Hindsman
as an aspiring music writer who was jealous of
Williams' dealings as a talent scout and wanted to
"get him."
"Haven’t you made it known to everybody that
you were going to get him today 0 ” Binder asked
The witness denied that charge, but added. "I
think I was far more advanced in music than
Williams was."
John lister testified that he and his U-year^ld
niece auditioned for Williams and Bailey at the
studio, then left without incident
l-ater. he said, he was discussing it with Bell, 16.
who vanished in April 1981. and Bell said, "Yeah. I
know him (Williams)." Bell, lister said, told him
that he. too. had called the number and had an
audition.
"Did Mr Williams call you to go back?"
prosecutor Jack Mallard asked
"Yes," lister replied "He say he gonna send a
letter ”
"And did you go back?”
"No.”
Earlier, Henry Starr, then a Rockdale County
sheriff's investigator, identified Williams as the
man who showed up at the spot where the body of
15-year-old Terry Pue was found on Jan 23, 1981,
identified himself as a professional photographer
and "asked if he could be of any help taking pic
tures."
Starr said he told the man his help was not
needed, and Michael leathers, also an in
vestigator at the time, said he was nearby, and
confirmed the conversation