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The Red and Black
Athens, Ga. Tuesday, Febuary a, 19BS Voi.Bs, No.55 An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
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Campus parking tickets rise
By LAI RIE ALLEN
Ked iind Black < unlribulinK Writer
Operating with a beefed-up force of ticket writers,
the University issued more than twice as many park
ing tickets last quarter as it did during fall quarter
1980
In fact, the 29,751 tickets issued last quarter came
close to eclipsing the mark of 32,766 — the total for the
previous school year. The University handed out
12,873 tickets fall quarter 1980
Director of Parking Services James Tardy said his
department collected $163,577 from tickets in the 1981
fiscal year that ended June 30, 1981. He said $70,422
was collected between July 1 and Dec. 31,1981,
In addition to tickets, the University towed 501 cars
last quarter, a sharp increase over the 1980-81 school
year, when 846 were towed during the entire year
More cars were towed fall quarter because the
University changed its towing service. The new com
pany has five trucks, while the old company only had
one, Tardy said.
Tardy attributed the increase in the number of
tickets to a greater number of ticket writers, more
students with cars and the loss of parking spaces in
the parking lot, rather than to any policy changes in
parking services
When Tardy joined the University's Public Safety
Division in 1978, the University held him to a strict
budget. His budget did not allow him to hire more
than 12 part-time ticket writers at a time. "In an
eight hour day only three or four ticket writers could
work at one time," Tardy said. "This was vastly in
adequate for a campus as large as this."
In July 1981, the University increased Tardy's
budget, enabling him to hire 30 ticket writers. With
this many ticket writers, Tardy is able to have them
concentrate on specific areas of the campus.
"It is not necessarily that there are more traffic
violators, but that there are more ticket writers,"
Tardy said.
In addition, the student center construction in
Stegeman parking lot has taken away about 1,000
parking spaces for off-campus students, he said.
Students now have to hunt for another place to park.
Although more than 2,000 parking ticket appeals
were filed fall quarter, the student judicial court has
felt no time pressure to hear all of the appeals, said
Bill Bracewell, director of Judicial Programs There
is a backlog in the hearings, but that is normal at the
beginning and end of a quarter since that is when
most students lend to get tickets, he said.
Tim Hamil, clerk for the Judicial Council, said the
slight backlog is not due simply to the large number
of tickets written, but also because new justices are
being trained. Training justices, he said, slows the
court down.
Tardy admits parking is a serious problem for off-
campus students, but said there is a solution "If
students would recognize the situation the University
is in as far as available parking spaces and adjust
their personal schedule to accommodate their needs,
the problem would be lessened.
"At least half of the off-campus students are in
class between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., thus causing a peak
in parking problems," Tardy said "If students could
schedule their classes before 10 a m. and 2 p.m. they
wouldn't have much trouble finding a parking
space.”
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Increase in ticket writers means more tickets
Athenians rally for Solidarity
Saturday in Athens was a day of solidarity with the people of Poland. The
day was highlighted by a rally in C ollege Square sponsored by the ( ollegiate
Association for the Research of Principles. Jim (garland, C'ARP’s Southeast
regional coordinator, spoke to a sparse crowd of between 20 and 25 at the ral
ly. The rest of the rally's five or six speakers were Polish citiiens, most of
whom had been in the United States for less than a year. And the guitar? It
was used to provide music for the folk song interludes between the many
speeches.
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City council to debate water policy
By LAURA OTTO
Hrd and IIlack Stall Writer
The adoption of a new city water
policy that will financially aid residents
whose pipes freeze and burst during
cold weather will be discussed at the
monthly Athens City Council meeting
tonight.
The council is also expected to ap
prove cost of living salary increases
recommended by Mayor Lauren Coile
for city department heads
Because of the hundreds of pipes that
froze and burst during the cold weather
almost three weeks ago, the council's
Finance Committee recommended a
permanent policy that would give a rate
adjustment to residents whose water
consumption rose by at least 50 percent
over their average bill because of
weather-related accidents. Under this
policy, citizens would receive one-half
of the excess bill as credit on their next
month's bill.
The council will also vote on the
mayor’s adjusted salary increases for
city employees who are not covered by
the merit system, such as the mayor’s
executive assistant, the city attorney
and the clerk-treasurer
Coile’s plan calls for a 13 percent in
crease for department heads, an
average of $3,000 a year more. This is
an increase of more than $50,000 over
last year’s salary costs for non-merit
system employees.
The council and city personnel board
approved a compromise 11.3 percent
overall increase for merit system
employees earlier this year Both pay
hikes are based on the personnel
Board’s wage survey which studied
wages of muicipal employees in other
cities.
In 1979, the council directed the per
sonnel board to conduct a wage survey
every two years to ensure that city
employees' salaries remained com
parable to the salaries paid for the
same jobs in other cities.
A public hearing will precede the
council meeting to consider a proposal
for an addition to the city zoning or
dinance The amendment will include a
Planned Office Institutional Develop
ment (GD-POIDi category which has
the same basic provisions as the Office
Institutional, but allows office develop
ment when the O-I zone is inadequate.
The public hearing will also be the
last before the planning commission
decides whether or not to approve the
rezoning at 225 N. Lumpkin St. re-
ATLANTA (UPI) — The FBI's fiber
expert testified Monday that fibers
from Wayne Williams’ old violet
bedspread and his green bedroom
carpel were found on ID more of Atlan
ta's abducted and murdered young
blacks.
Agent Hal Deadman told the jury at
the start of the sixth week of Williams'
murder trial that the same fibers that
linked the black defendant to the
murders of Nathaniel Cater and Jimmy
Ray Payne also tie him to the other 10
victims
Williams, 23, a photographer and
aspiring talent scout, is on trial for the
murders of Cater and Payne only But
the prosecution has spent more than a
week offering evidence from 10 more of
the 28 murders that terrorized black
Atlantans in hopes of showing Williams'
"pattern, plan, scheme and bent of
mind."
It was Deadman s third appearance
on the witness stand. He previously
testified on fiber evidence in general,
and after identifying the multiplicity of
fibers on Cater and Payne, said it was
"virtually impossible" that the victims
quested by Milner and June Ball, who
want to renovate the top floor of the
building next to the Georgia Theater for
a residence.
They must acquire a change iroin
Central Business District (CBD) to
Planned Shopping Center (GD-300) to
allow the change.
If approved, the rezoning may set a
precedent for people who want to live
downtown
had not had some contact with
Williams' home or car
Deadman said fibers from three
different cars owned by the Williams
family at various times, from gloves, a
jacket, a blanket, a bedspread found on
the family carport, from a toilet cover,
a kitchen carpet and from loose
sweepings in the family vacuum
matched fibers found on one or more of
the 10 bodies.
But the main theme of his testimony
consisted of the bedspread and the
bedroom carpet Fibers matching those
items were found on all 10 of the vic
tims, he said — and the violet acetate
fillers were frequently in abunda nee
Using a pointer to discuss
microphotographs mounted on
posterboards in front of the jury,
Deadman said the fibers were found on
the bodies of Alfred Evans, 13, Eric
Middlebrook, 14, Charles Stephens, 12,
Lubie Geter, 14, Terry Puc, 15, Patrick
Baltazar, 11, Larry Rogers, 21. John
Porter, 28, Joseph Bell, 16, and William
Barrett, 17.
New fiber evidence given;
ties Williams to 10 victims
ERA supporters remain busy as Florida awaits vote
By JOAN LAMIA
Bed and Rlark .Staff Writer
Section 1: Equality of rights under
the law shall not be denied or
abridged by the United States or by
any state on account of sex.
Section 2: The Congress shall have
the power to enforce, by appropriate
legislation, the provisions of this
article.
Section 3: This amendment shall
take effect two years after the day of
ratification.
• • •
With Florida expected to vote on the
Equal Rights Amendment in
February, pro-ERA groups are doing
all they can to overcome their
powerful opposition Yet the amend
ment remains a frustrating three
states short of national passage Ten
years after Congress passed the bill,
the ERA is still being tossed like a hot
potato from one state legislature to
the next, awaiting ratification When
the Georgia House of Representatives
overw helmingly defeated the bill Jan
20, ERA opponents said legislators
had voted against a badly-worded
amendment Proponents said the
representatives had just voted down
equality
Martha Kristin, head of the Georgia
Legislative Information Network, a
local anti-ERA organization, ex
plained one of the opposition's main
objections to the amendment
"The word 'sex' is not defined in the
amendment,” she said "There is the
sex you are and the sex you do."
Kristin said homosexuals, many of
whom support the bill, could secure
all the rights they seek should the
ERA become law
But Gail Cowie, student coordinator
for ERAthens, said that idea is
another example of the “myths and
misinformation" spread about ERA
since 1972 "There is no factual basis
to support this," she said.
Rarely has any bill given rise to so
many premature interpretations as
the ERA has. But few bills have such
a long, unusual history, either. The
proposed 27th amendment was first
introduced before Congress in 1923 It
was subsequently brought up before
every session until it passed the
House, 354-23, and the Senate, 84-4, in
1972. In the next five years, 35 state
legislatures ratified the bill, leaving it
only three states short of passage It
has stayed in a holding pattern at 35
since 1977 In fact, as the bill’s seven-
year deadline for passage neared in
1979, Congress voted to extend the
deadline to June 30,1982
With the bill recently defeated in
Georgia and Oklahoma, six states
remain to consider ERA: Virginia,
Florida, Missouri, North Carolina,
South Carolina and Illinois Most of
these states won’t vote on ERA until
May or June Meanwhile, the
Supreme Court is considering a
proposal to overturn U S. District
Court Judge Marion Callister's
December ruling that the deadline
extension was unconstitutional.
At least one vote in the Georgia
House was swayed by the question of
constitutionality. Rep Hugh Logan,
D-Athens, said he felt his com
mitment to ERA ended after the
original seven-year deadline expired
Logan voted for passage of ERA the
last time it came before the House in
1974. That, he said, was before all the
"many, many” interpretations had
been made. Though he favors the
amendment in principle, Logan had
reservations about the wording and
believes other legislators did, too.
"I don't think equity (sic) was the
issue for those who voted," he said.
“It’s a question of mechanics. The
amendment is too ambiguous I would
vote the same way for any other bill.”
Logan said he was surprised the
pro-ERA vote was smaller than in
1974, but said it confirmed his belief
that the movement had died.
“If and when the bill comes out
again, I think the wording can and
should be improved," Logan said. “It
could diffuse the opposition and better
relay what the amendment really is."
Logan said he might possibly vote
for ERA again should the issue be
reintroduced
Kristin said a more acceptable
equal rights amendment would define
"sex” as being “male or female” and,
in section 2, would give the power to
enforce ERA to "Congress and the
several states," as in the 1923 version
of ERA
But Sharron Hannon, program vice-
president for ERA Georgia, disagrees
that language was an issue in the
House vote.
“Most people who are proponents
don't see it as a matter of wording
You can't be for equal rights and not
for ERA,” she said
Hannon said the amendment was
defeated in the Georgia House
because "most of Georgia’s
legislators voted against equality."
Most ERA opponents don’t publicly
advocate inequality In fact, one of the
main arguments put forth by anti-
ERA groups is that there is no need
for the amendment, that it could hurt
women more than help them
Kristin said ERA could raise
women’s insurance rates Under
ERA, Kristin said, lower rates for
women based on better driving
records would be illegal.
But Maxine Thomas, assistant
professor of law at the University,
said the amendment would probably
require that insurers base their rates
on individual driving records instead
of sex classification.
"They 're not going to be able to use
sex as a shorthand, " Thomas said.
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