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The Red and Black
Athens, Ga. Wednesday, March 10,19B2 Vol.89, No.76 An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Davison praises UGA in speech to regents
By SUSAN BHANDT
Hrd and Black Staff Writer
ATLANTA — The nation's oldest chartered state
University is in excellent condition as it nears its 1985
bicentennial celebration, University President Fred
Davison told the Board of Regents Tuesday.
Davison said the University has three basic
missions: teaching, research and public service.
"The purpose of our teaching, research and public
service programs is learning," Davison said. “To
provide a climate for learning, to advance the cause
of learning — is why the University of Georgia
exists.”
Research is vital to society, Davison said. "The
knowledge discovered by University faculty mem
bers is applied to our economy, our agricultural in
dustry, our water supply, to health problems and to
every imaginable area of life," he said.
In addition, research generates money for the
University System For each dollar of state money
spent on research at the University, more than a
dollar is generated by outside research funds, con
tracts and grants, Davison said.
Davison expressed concern about the impact that
changes in federal priorities will have on research in
higher education. "In the next budget, increases in
specific areas are likely to be balanced by decreases
in others," he said.
"But when one considers examples of research
productivity at the University, it is easily seen that
there are few investments that generate a better
return for the dollar.”
Due to its performance in research, the University
is ranked as one of the top 50 reserach schools in the
country.
But Davison cautioned that the yearly increases in
funds awarded to faculty are based on research being
done with aging equipment.
“We have had no allocated funds for equipment
replacement for several years," he said.
Funding for equipment is essential to continue
attracting quality faculty members, Davison said.
Previously, funding for new equipment came from
research contracts.
“We simply can't do it that way anymore,” he said.
The second major mission of the University is in
the area of public service, Davison said. This is the
system for delivery of knowledge and information to
society. It includes such programs as the Cooperative
Extension Service and the Georgia Center for Con
tinuing Education at the University.
"The performance of the University of Georgia in
research and public service is the major reason the
institution is able to generate almost half its
operating budget," Davison sid.
Teaching is the fundamental mission of the
University where students are concerned, he said.
“The University's faculty and students represent the
greatest critical mass of talent ever assembled in the
state of Georgia," he told the board
This appears to be holding steady despite rapid
increases in enrollment and cutbacks in financial aid
to students, he said, and, is due to students searching
for the best possible educational value for the dollar
The enrollment increase, which amounted to 48
percent of the total University system increase in
full-time enrollment, is putting a strain on the
University.
“The University cannot accommodate this level of
increase year after year without additional operating
funds and faculty positions," Davison said.
House budget bill grants
teachers a small pay hike
By SYLVIA COLWELL
Krd and Black Staff Writrr
ATLANTA — The Georgia House of
Representatives Tuesday passed a
state budget bill that, if approved by the
Senate, would give the Board of
Regents substantially less than the $678
million it requested for the 1982-82 fiscal
year.
The bill, which passed the House by a
151 to 21 vote, would mean that school
teachers and University system em
ployees will get only a 4.75 percent pay
raise.
Employees got an average 11 percent
pay raise in 1981 and 11.5 percent in
The bill earmarks $3 million to
renovate state college buildings. In his
budget message in January, Gov
George Busbee recommended that
amount, but reduced it to $2 million
when he amended his budget recom
mendation in February. The recession
and a shortage in state revenues caused
Busbee to trim $45 million from his
original budget proposal
After passing the House, the bill was
immediately transmitted to the Senate
The bill was introduced, then sent to the
Senate Appropriations committee. The
Senate will try to pass the budget bill by
Tuesday, a Senate spokesman said.
Head lawman
in Atlanta quits
for Houston job
ATLANTA (UPII — The man who led
Atlanta's investigation of the slaying of
28 young blacks resigned Tuesday to
become police chief in Houston.
The resignation of Public Safety
Commissioner Lee P. Brown, confirm
ed by sources at City Hall, came just
two weeks after Wayne B. Williams was
convicted in two of the grisly slayings
that terrorized Atlanta for almost two
years.
Mayor Andrew Young, who formally
announced Brown’s resignation at an
afternoon news conference Tuesday,
said he had learned of Brown's decision
to leave Atlanta Monday afternoon.
“Commissioner Brown talked with
me about the fact the he had been of
fered the job of police chief in Houston,
Texas," Young said. "They'd made
him an offer he did not feel as though he
could refuse."
Young described Brown as "one of
the outstanding law enforcement of
ficers in the nation" and said there was
no pressure on the commissioner to
resign.
“This was Lee Brown's decision on
his own,” Young said, “he didn't
discuss his decision with me until he
had made it.”
Brown was in Houston at the time
Young was making the announcement
Young also announced that Police Chief
George Napper would become acting
public safety commissioner and said
Deputy Police Chief Morris Redding
had been elevated to acting chief.
Young added that he hoped the city
cuncil would name both men to the posi
tions permanently.
Brown publicly linked Williams a
week ago to 21 other killings, including
one never added to the list of 28 in
vestigated by a special police task
force.
The 44-year-old commissioner, the
first black American to receive a doc
torate in criminology, said he was clos
ing the books on the 23 cases linked to
Williams and announced he was
dismantling the task force, which once
numbered more than 100 officers.
In Houston, Brown will head a police
department that is overwhelmingly
white. Only 256 of Houston's 3,130 of
ficers are black.
Brown’s appointment in Houston
came after that city’s acting police
chief, John Bales, suddenly withdrew
his name from the list of candidates for
the permanent position. Bales said his
decision had nothing to do with Mayor
Kathy Whitmire’s charges of comimp-
tion in the department.
Bales said he was surprised Mayor
Whitmire made the allegations.
Brown came to Atlanta from Oregon
in 1978 with solid credentials
He rose from the ranks of a San Jose,
Calif., street policeman in 1960 to
sheriff of Oregon's most populous coun
ty in 1975 — the same year Atlanta’s
Bureau of Police Services was rocked
by a cheating scandal on tests given to
officers.
Brown wrote a National Urban
League anti-crime proposal for Presi
dent Carter in 1977 and was reportedly
offered a job as deputy director of the
Federal Law Enforcement Administra
tion when he decided, instead, to accept
an offer from Atlanta
But Brown had a tough rookie year
in Atlanta.
The city’s crime rate climbed to
record levels during 1979 — his first full
year The statistics included 231
homicides — a 60 percent increase over
1978
Atlanta's overall crime rate improv
ed in 1980, but the growing number of
slain and missing young blacks put in
tense pressure directly on Brwon's
shoulders
The child slaying investigation was
Brown's responsibility As the months
dragged on with no sign of progress,
there were complaints Brown wasn't up
to the task
1980.
The bill passed the House despite the
lobbying efforts of over 100 members of
the Georgia Association of Educators.
GAE Executive Secretary Jim
Williams said over 400 members of the
organization plan to lobby the Senate
today.
“We're going to stay here until we get
some kind of increase,” Williams said
The budget bill also included a
reduction in the amount of bonds that
can be issued to provide revenue for
University system construction. The
bill authorizes the sale of $13.5 million
worth of bonds, down from the regents
original $60 million request
When the board formulates its
budget, it outlines how much money it
would like to allocate for each program.
The legislature, in turn, appropriates
the money in a lump sum, leaving the
regents free to decide how to spend the
funds.
But the regents are not likely to take
money from other areas of the budget
to grant a higher pay raise, said Shealy
McCoy, vice chancellor for fiscal af
fairs.
"If it (the teacher pay raise) goes
through the budget at 4.75, that's the
way it will have to stay," McCoy said.
Students attack apathy
in gubernatorial forum
Stuff pho(n/Tamm> TkompM
Everything but the kitchen sink
Some bicycles are built for speed, some for endurance —
this one was apparently built for habitation. It is equipped
with all the necessities of life, and It's considerably
cheaper than a Winnebago. Rut don’t rush to Dixon's
Bicycling C enter for this model — it’s custom made. The
bike’s owner declined to be photographed, and offered no
clues as the how he manages to keep his balance on this
rather unusual vehicle.
By (AKSIIKARIN
Kfd and Black Staff Writer
Students supporting six of the nine
Georgia gubernatorial candidates man
ned booths at Memorial Plaza Tuesday,
answering questions and handing out
information about the candidates they
represent.
The students represented
Republicans Bob Bell and Ben
Blackburn and Democrats Bo Ginn,
Norman Underwood, Buck Melton and
Joe Frank Harris.
Five University students sponsored
the forum as a project for their speech
class.
“Our assignment was to do a socially
significant project," said Marc Porter,
BSU to protest handling of pageant
By KEVIN SHARPS
Red und Black Staff Writer
Black Student Union President J.J. Frazier said
Tuesday he would send a letter to the coordinators of
the recent Miss UGA Pageant, complaining that the
sponsors supplied insufficient information to black
organizations about the event
No blacks were entered in the pageant, which was
sponsored by the Interfraternity Council.
Frazier claims that black organizations were
denied "substantial time to get prepared for the
pageant ”
Frazier said the BSU never received newsletters
from the IFC containing specifics about the pageant
Frazier said he received no replies to messages he
left for IFC Adviser John Opper or his staff
“I did call Opper's office to ask him about the
pageant, but he was never there," Frazier said. "But
I did leave messages ”
Opper acknowledged the BSU may not have
received the newsletter, claiming "that is a common
occurrence,” but said he received no messages from
Frazier
"Nobody ever told me that they (black
organizations) were going to enter a candidate,”
Opper said. "If they did want to enter a candidate
late and I was informed about it. that would have
been fine," he said
IFC secretary Janice Hynes sent a preliminary
letter to all student organizations listed in the student
activity and organization handbook Jan. 11, Opper
said. "My secretary personally stuffed the envelopes
in the office across from me," he said
However, after receiving numerous complaints
that some organizations did not receive the letter, a
second letter was sent Feb. 2
Frazier said “the newsletter was not received by
the BSU."
Frazier said he then spoke with IFC President
Eddie Ausband who relayed Frazier’s complaints to
pageant director Lee Smith
After receiving several complaints about the
registration period. Opper, along with Ausband and
Smith, extended the application deadline from Feb 5
to Feb 10. Opper said students wanting to participate
could have taken their applications to the pageant’s
organizational meeting Feb 10.
Frazier said he attended the meeting, but added.
"We found out about the extension the day of the
extension ”
Frazier said that after repeated attempts to obtain
information from the IFC secretary, “black
organizations were still left in the dark about a lot of
things."
“The secretary kept giving insufficient in
formation, or none at all sometimes," Frazier said
"She kept claiming that she didn't know anything
Hynes said she gave applications and information
to BSU Adviser Eddie Daniels
Daniels confirmed that Hynes gave him "verbal
information about the pageant and applications three
or four days before the actual deadline. "
“We did receive a newsletter a month to six weeks
prior to the pageant, stating that the pageant was
coming, but there were no guidelines or specific
information about the pageant given in the letter," he
said.
Opper said he tried to get in touch with Frazier
after hearing of his complaints, but was unable to
locate him. Opper said he left messages at the BSU
office for Frazier to call him back, but Frazier never
returned his calls
Frazier said he never received Opper’s messages,
and added, “If he had called. I'm sure I would have
gotten them "
Frazier said he thinks some black organizations on
campus "would take it as discrimination." but he
hopes that will not be the case. "It was a real nice
program," he said. "I was just sorry that there
weren't any black participants.”
Red and Black staffer Eve Major assisted in
preparing this story.
IFC Adviser John Opper
16 face court on alcohol charges
By SUSAN LACCKTTI
lira and Black Stall Writer
Nine people arrested for selling alcohol to minors
and seven others cited for the same offense will
appear before Athens-Clarke County Magistrates
Court Judge Pierre Boulogne on April 6
Seven persons were arrested Friday and Saturday
nights while two others were taken into custody
Monday
Eight of the nine people arrested worked in the
establishments of those who received the citations.
Those arrested were: Steve Grimes, 24, owner of
Steve's Package Store; Annmarie Kasper, 19, Myma
Court, an employee at the S Milledge Avenue Golden
Pantry; Jiunn Fang Kuad, 30, of Watkinsville, an
employee at Hunan's Restaurant, William Larkin,
21, Atkinson Drive, an employee at Harry’s Pizza;
Lisa Lucks, 20, Pinecrest Drive, an employee at the
Baxter Street Pizza Inn, Garnett McCarty, 67,
Nacoochee Avenue, an employee of the Normal
Package Store; Raymond Nobles, 21, Eaglewood
Court, an employee of Smoke's; Thomas Robertson,
21. Milledge Heights, an employee of Papa Joe's and
William Shirling, 23, Habersham Drive, also an
employee at Papa Joe’s
Those arrested were taken to Clarke County Jail
and released on $1,000 bond, except for Kuad, who
was charged with two counts of furnishing alcohol to
minors and was released on $2,000 bond
Some of the owners of the establishments were
cited for violations of the same ordinance that
prohibits the sale of alcohol to those under 19 years of
age The owners are: Stephen Warner of Harry’s
Pizza, Baxter Street; Harry Downs of Papa Joe's,
Baxter Street; Joseph Zachmann of Pizza Inn,
Baxter Street and Billy Mobley of Normal Package
Store, Prince Avenue
Police will issue a citation to the manager of the
South Milledge Avenue Golden Pantry Beverage
store this week.
Evelyn Linn, clerk of the Athens-Clarke County
Magistrate's Court, said Lucks and Zachmann at
tempted to enter a plea before Boulogne on Tuesday,
but he wanted them to appear in court with the others
on April 6 so the arresting officers could be present to
testify.
The nine arrested are facing misdemeanor
penalties of up to a $1,000 fine or one year in jail for
each count, or a combination of both. Boulogne said
Those who were issued a citation are also facing a
fine.
"There is talk around Boulogne's office of having
some of the establishments who sold alcohol to
minors having their licenses revoked," said Linn.
Athens Police Chief Everett Price has expressed
concern about the number of complaints from
parents and area school officials about those un
derage school children obtaining alcohol, said Athens
Police CpI Mel Hegwood "There have been over 100
cases reported to this department since August 1901.
and 75 of those were juveniles under 17 years of age,"
he said
one of the students who worked on the
project. "We realized that voter apathy
is a big problem. We wanted to in
crease student awareness of the elec
tion, the issues and particularly the
candidates."
Porter said most elections and cam
paigns wind up being competition of the
most advertising. "The candidates
become characters, which makes it
hard for students to recognize the
issues and the stands the candidates
have on the issues," he said.
Julie Ginn Moetz represented her
father, Bo Ginn, who is Georgia’s first
district congressman Ginn sees the
major issues so far in the campaign as
economics, crime and education, she
said Ginn feels that problems with
prison overcrowding, parole and law
enforcement are important and wants
to do something about them He sup
ports the death penalty in extreme
cases, she said.
Ginn also supports development of in
dustry in Georgia to create more jobs,
Moretz said "He really has a good
grasp of the federal level of govern
ment since he has been in Washington
for 20 years, and we feel that this is ex
cellent background experience for him
to have," she said.
State Rep. Joe Frank Harris of
Cartersville is "basing his campaign on
his experience in the legislature and his
business experience," said student
representative Irene Munn
Since Harris chairs the House Ap
propriations Committee, Munn said she
feels he is "a budget man — he knows
how to allocate money." Munn said
Harris is in favor of increasing
teachers' pay "He also wants to go
back to what he calls 'basic educa
tion,’" she said.
Former state appeals court Judge
Norman Underwood is visiting every
county in Georgia in what he calls his
"grassroots get-togethers," listening
to the constituents and trying to decide
what the most important issues are.
Therefore, said Kim Mullis, a student
working in the booth for Underwood,
"he hasn't announced his platform as
such. I know that he advocates a state
wide grand jury to fight the drug pro
blem in Georgia. He is also in favor of
upgrading the conditions of prisons,
and if possible, building more," she
said.
A student representative for former
Macon Mayor Buck Melton said she
feels he is the best bet for governor
because he is the only candidate who
has had the executive experience of
managing a city. Melton is most con
cerned with crime and the expedition of
trials, she said. He also favors increas
ed pay for police officers.
David Blackburn represented his
father, former 4th District U.S. Rep.
Ben Blackburn at the forum.
Blackburn said his father "wants to
ensure a more effective administration
of justice. He also realizes that more
prisons need to be built.”
Blackburn said his father is concern
ed with the way students get out of
school and can't find jobs He said
students should be given skills in high
school so they can go into industry after
they graduate without having to attend
college.
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