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Friday. January 29, 1982
The Krd and Black
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UGA’s not alone in losing class time
CPS — Colleges that were supposed to begin classes weeks
ago are only now getting back into the academic routine
following heavy bouts with Mother Nature during the first
few weeks of 1982
From Illinois to Texas to California, campuses cancelled
classes and postponed the beginning of spring term because
of severe weather that wreaked havoc and disaster in many
parts of the country. Many are still feeling the effects of
weather-related problems.
In California, where dozens died in floods and mudslides
caused by torrential rains, the University of California at
Santa Cruz is still rationing water as a result of ruptured
water mains in the area.
"The weather delayed our opening by about six days," said
campus spokeswoman Joan Ward. "The campus itself had no
significant damage, but we lost electrical power and the
water shortage in the area affected us very seriously The
chancellor asked students to leave the area if they possibly
could to avoid depleting the water supply ."
Only about 500 out of 6.700 students remained on campus
during the water shortage. Ward said, and campus water
consumption was cut from 400.000 to 160.000 gallons per day.
"We were even eating off of paper plates to conserve water.”
she said. "Everyone was very cooperative. "
San Francisco State, the College of Marin. UC-Davis, and
Berkeley also experienced water shortages and flooded
buildings from the downpour Kai-yu Hsu. a professor at San
Francisco State, was killed when his home in Marin County
was crushed by a mudslide
But the West Coast wasn’t the only area of the country
assaulted by foul weather. Northeastern schools were
besieged by record low temperatures and snowstorms,
forcing many colleges to shut down for days at a time
In the Midwest, the University of Illinois at Champaign-
Urbana cancelled classes for several days to save students
from blizzard conditions and wind-chill temperatures as low
as 80 degrees below zero. Snow removal equipment couldn’t
keep up with record snowfalls, and university maintenance
crews were kept busy around the clock repairing frozen and
broken pipes
A University of Wisconsin at Madison experimental
greenhouse was destroyed when pipes exploded and shat
tered the walls and roof
Colleges throughout Illinois. Wisconsin. Michigan and New
York suffered similar problems
A week after the worst weather seemed to ease in other
areas, a vicious blizzard forced closure of the University of
Minnesota for two days.
Southern colleges, usually exempt from blizzards and ice
storms, were also hit by frigid weather that extended as far
south as the University of Florida at Tampa, where tem
peratures dropped to the low 20’s.
"It caught us completely off guard,” said Charles Johnson,
Block foresees US
economic recovery
director of the physical plant at Georgia Tech in Atlanta "It
came so fast that we simply were not able to handle it Lots of
pipes were bursting because our buildings simply aren't
designed to withstand sub-freezing temperatures.’’
Louisiana State University postpontni registration for three
days because freezing weather cut off campus water sup
plies.
"The northern schools were much better prepared for the
weather.” said Paul Knapp, director of the Association of
Physical Plant Administrators of Universities and Colleges
"In the northern climates they plan for cold weather, but in
the south you get a few inches of snow and things just shut
down.”
Overall, students seem to be coping with the weather better
than administrators. University health centers report that
illnesses and emergency room visits are running well below
normal
Talmadge's raises to go to colleges
ATLANTA (UPI) - Former Sen.
Herman Talmadge has asked that funds
for a pay raise given him as governor
back in the 1950's — more than $11,000 —
be given to Morris Brown College in
Atlanta and Tift College in Forsyth
In a letter sent to Gov. George Busbee
this week. Talmadge explained that he
never wanted the pay raise.
"In the early 1950's, the General
Assembly of Georgia raised the
governor's salary. I never did accept
this additional compensation,"
Talmadge wrote.
The former Democratic stalwart
asked Busbee to have the money given
to the two colleges, adding that if his
request posed any legal problems he
would like the money released to him so
he could make the contributions
lirectly.
Fop floor of hotel evacuated in fire
ATLANTA (UPI) - A
blaze Thursday forced
firefighters to evacuate the
top floor of the 22-story Hyatt
Regency Hotel in downtown
Atlanta, and police arrested
a man carrying a "flam
mable liquid" at the scene.
There were no injuries
reported. Officials said the
fire was called in at 12:48
p.m. and was under control
12 minutes later
Intense pressure created
by the fire blew out several
windows of one room on the
22nd floor and also forced out
several flaming objects that
fell to a construction site
below, briefly setting afire
some debris in the area
Police immediately
arrested Robert Rawlings, a
27-year-old Atlanta resident
Reagan speech ‘significant ’
ATLANTA (UPI) — State Republican
Chairman Fred Cooper said Thursday he had
been “overwhelmed" by the favorable
response in Georgia to President Reagan's
State of the Union speech.
' 'Frankly, we've been overwhelmed by the
strength of the reaction his message
evoked," said Cooper, calling Reagan's
address “the most significant speech by an
American president in one-half century ."
Education chief
asks 12 percent
teacher pay hike
ATLANTA (UPI) — The head of the Department of
Education told state budget committees Thursday
Georgia teachers need an average 12 percent pay raise
— which would hike starting classroom salaries to
$13,000 a year.
Dr. Charles McDaniel, the State Superintendent of
Education, said all the rest of the state’s education
spending — $1.3 billion proposed by Gov George
Busbee — would do little good unless Georgia can
reverse a trend of teachers leaving the profession He
said low pay was the biggest single cause of teacher
unhappiness.
McDaniel has requested a $1.7 billion education
budget, including a pay scale establishing the $13,000
starting salary for teachers. Georgia teachers now
start at $11.815 a year
In his appearance before the budget committees,
McDaniel said the public schools are having particular
difficulty retaining mathematics and science teachers.
He said students with degrees in those areas can
usually find better-paying jobs in private industry.
Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Paul
Broun, D-Athens, suggested that the state pay a bounty
to science educators. McDaniel said, however,
teachers of other subjects resent supplements being
paid to their scientific colleagues
McDaniel also told the committee Georgia colleges
are not producing teachers fast enough to offset the
defections caused by salary and other considerations.
ATLANTA (UPI) -
Declining inflation and in
terest rates and an increase
in American savings signal
an economic recovery in the
second half of this year,
Agriculture Secretary John
Block said Thursday.
Addressing the In
ternational Poultry Trade
Show and Conference, Block
said the indicators are
“quite positive" for an
economic upswing.
"For example, inflation
has already dropped into the
single digits since last
January. It’s still too high,
but it 's on a good course And
interest rates, though on a
temporary upswing, will
continue dropping as many
of the financial incentives
begin to take hold. "
Block said the All Savers
certificates generated about
$8 7 billion in deposits during
last October alone “And the
rate of savings in this nation,
the key to long-term
economic growth, began an
impressive climb last
January from 4.3 percent to
about 6.5 percent in early
December.”
Block took note of the
growing debt of the
American farmer, but said,
"The basic underlying
strength of agriculture
continues to be quite
strong.” The total value of
the industry has passed the
trillion-dollar mark, while
outstanding debt approaches
$200 billion, he said
Ray loses second
malpractice case
CINCINNATI (UPI) — A federal appeals court Thursday
rejected a second attempt by James Earl Ray, convicted of
assassinating civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., to
sue his attorney for malpractice.
The three-judge appellate court panel ruled the suit was
barred because the matter had already been decided in 1971,
as a result of a similar suit filed against attorney Percy
Foreman by Ray The court also said the one-year Tennessee
statute of limitations governing legal malpractice suits had
expired in the case
Ray, sentenced to a 99-year prison sentence, claimed
“rapacious and deceitful acts" by his attorney indirectly led
to his conviction in the King murder Ray is being held in the
Tennessee Ctate Prison in Nashville, where he was tran
sferred after bei ig attacked by a prisoner in Brushy
Mountain Prison n Petros, Tenn
The appeals com* said the same issues raised by Ray in his
second suit against Fceman, filed in January 1980, had
already been considered and found to be without merit by the
court in 1971.
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