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The Red and Black
Athens, Ga. Friday, March 12, 1982 Vol.89, No."78
An independent student newspaper servinn the University of Georgia community
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Dooley, Davison to meet with black leaders
Will Dooley hire black coach?
By SYLVIA COLWELL
and JAN HULLINGS
Red and Black Stafl Writers
Black leaders from Atlanta and
Athens will meet with University Presi
dent Fred Davison and Athletic Direc
tor Vince Dooley next week to urge
Dooley to hire a black to fill a vacancy
on the University football coaching
staff.
The group will not discuss anything
"formal in nature,” at the meeting to
be held Wednesday at 11 a m. in
Davison's office, said Athens attorney
Michael Thurmond.
“ We’U be discussing the overall situa
tion of black coaches at the Universi
ty,” he said
Thurmond said he was not sure who
would attend the meeting, but hoped
that State Sen. Julian Bond, D-Atlanta,
Rep. Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta, Fulton
County Commissioner Reginald Eaves
and someone from Atlanta Mayor An
drew Young’s office would be there.
The Atlanta Branch of the NAACP re
quested the meeting in a letter it sent
March 5 to Davison Several black
leaders had already written Dooley to
express their concern about the lack of
blacks on his coaching staff. University
student Marvin Nunnally, who is intern
ing at the NAACP Atlanta chapter, had
asked that they write the letters
"Our efforts are merely to encourage
black coaches to apply for the vacan
cy,” Nunnally said in a NAACP press
release.
Rep. Billy McKinney, D-Atlanta,
Marvin Arrington, president of the
Atlanta City Council and NAACP Atlan
ta Chairman Jondell Johnson all sent
letters to Dooley urging him to consider
qualified black applicants for the posi
tion left vacant by offensive line coach
Wayne McDuffie's resignation.
Georgia and Mississippi State are the
only schools in the Southeastern Con
ference that have never hired a black
assistant football coach. The only black
member of Dooley's staff is Curt Fludd,
N.J. Sen. Williams
WASHINGTON (UPI) - New Jersey
Democrat Harrison Williams resigned
from the Senate Thursday — declaring
“time, history and almighty God will
vindicate” his conduct in the Abscam
scandal.
Williams' historic announcement
spared his 99 colleagues, sitting
solemnly in judgment during a six-day
Senate trial, from the anguish of voting
to expel him.
In an orchestrated drama that
spelled the end of Williams’ 23-year
Senate career, his self-appointed
defender, Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-
Hawaii, rose and solemnly yielded to
"the senior senator from the state of
New Jersey, Harrison Arlington
Williams Jr."
The once-powerful Democrat spoke
from the Senate floor for nearly half an
hour, reading parts of the speech —
blaming the Justice Department for
"excess zeal" in the Abscam scheme —
that he had planned to deliver if his trial
had continued.
At 2 p.m., Williams concluded: “I
thank the Senate as I announce my
intention to resign. I have made that
decision, and I leave in good spirit and
good heart and a strong resolve.
“I feel no stain. I feel strengthened. I
thank you all,” he said, and took his
seat in a silent chamber.
Then the rustling of papers began and
the galleries started to empty.
Inouye went to Williams’ second row
center desk, took a manila folder and
handed it to a page to deliver to Vice
President George Bush, who was
presiding
The resignation was effective "at the
close of business today.”
The drama ended a six-day trial and
avoided a seemingly certain vote to
make Williams the first senator ousted
quits
since the Civil War.
His wife Jeanette, who some
associates feel was the driving force
behind his ferocious fight fur survival
long after the odds had turned against
him, was in her customary seat in the
members’ gallery.
When Republican leader Howard
Baker called a recess, she blew her
husband a kiss.
Senators lined up to shake the hand of
their veteran colleague — an aloof man,
a reformed alcoholic, who effectively
led legislative battles on behalf of
organized labor, minorities and the
poor
Democratic leader Robert Byrd
described the painful episode as "a
tragedy that has no heroes ' Ethics
Committee Chairman Malcolm Wallop,
R-Wyo., said, “Nothing anyone can say
now will increase the Senate's outrage
or decrease its sense of anguish ”
an academic counselor.
"I think that all qualified applicants
should be considered for the job
regardless of race,” Fludd said.“If
there are qualified black applicants,
I’m sure they will be considered. I
definitely don't feel it’s an issue of
discrimination — not from the associa
tion I've had with Coach Dooley," he
said
“It is really sad to think that Georgia
can recruit black athletes, but not ae
tively recruit black coaches," Nunnally
said in a press release Thursday. “It
should be noted that 20 out of the 30 1982
Georgia recruits are black Further,
the black football players at Georgia
make up over 40 percent of the roster,"
he said
However, Ronnie Stewart, a senior
fullback last season, said, “Coach
Dooley's going to hire the most
qualified person for the job whether
they're white or black."
Stewart said he discussed the matter
with Dooley last week. “I don't know if
there's been anybody (black) who's ap
plied for the job," he said.
Although Dooley has never hired a
black assistant coach, he offered jobs to
both Willie McClendon and Horace
King, Stewart said. McClendon and
King turned down the offers in order to
play the National Football League.
"They weren’t ready to coach yet,”
Stewart said
Stewart said he thought the reason
there is no black assistant coach at the
University is that qualified black ap
plicants are hard to find “There's just
not that many black offensive line
coaches across the United States," he
said.
Vet school seeks state design funds
for unique disease research center
By SYLVIA COLWELL
Krd and Black AvdMant News Kditor
The state budget bill now pending in the Georgia Senate in
cludes a $250,000 appropriation for the planning and design of
a large animal disease control center for University
research.
The appropriation was not part of Gov. George Busbee s
budget recommendation to the legislature but was added by
the House Appropriations Committee and passed the House
intact this week
The building, which will cost about $5 million to construct,
would be used to research highly contagious large-animal
diseases and would be the only such facility in the Southeast.
It would be equipped to prevent any disease from spreading
outside the center and to protect employees from contact
with contaminative substances. Based on current plans, the
center would be built on five acres of land at College Station
and Research roads
John Bowen, director of the University’s Veterinary
Medicine Experiment Station, said the funding request was
made through the Experiment Station
The station is funded separately from the rest of the
University, which receives funds from a lump sum distribu
tion by the regents. The regents did not include the large-
animal disease center in their budget because of the scarcity
of state funds.
The appropriation comes at a time when many University
projects may have to be postponed due to money shortages
Frank Dunham, regents vice chancellor for fiscal affairs.
said, “The University first of all ought to set its own priorities
and tell us, and when they do, we’ll back their priorities
But Regent O. Torbitt Ivey, the newly elected chairman of
the regents, said, “1 think we're all on the same bus We re
headed generally in the same direction."
Said Bowen: "I have to push my particular area and my
particular need." Veterinary Dean David Anderson said the
disease control center would, in the long run. be very impor
tant to the health of livestock in the Southeast
Bowen said he anticipated future problems in getting state
money to complete the project, but said the vet school might
look to private foundations as funding sources Once the
design plans are completed, he said, it will be easier to get
support for the project because there will be something con
crete to show prospective funders.
“The really important thing is that we'd get enough state
funding to get started, and then we can look for more from
other sources," Bowen said
If the disease center's appropriations is included m the
Senate’s version of the budget, the next step would be to
determine which architecture firm would design the
building. This should happen before the first of July, Ander
son said.
If the vet school does not get enough money to eventually
complete the project, Anderson said, the project will remain
on the shelf until enough money is available
Debate lingers on deflated salaries’ effects
The Professor’s
Shrinking Salary:
A crisis in
education?
Last of a series
By JUSTIN GILLIS
Red and Slack Staff Writer
University President Fred Davison
was worried.
"We’re beginning to get in trouble,"
he said. “It’s reached a point where
we must do something. ’'
The year was 1971, and the subject
was faculty salaries. Inflation was
taking a heavy toll, and the University
was behind many of its sister institu
tions in the South in the salaries it
paid to attract good faculty members
The challenge, as Davison saw it
then, was to catch up.
Less than a year after Davison
made his remarks, the president of
the Southern Regional Education
Board issued a stern warning. “The
deplorable economic condition of the
average college professor during the
1930s, 1940s and 1950s was largely cor
rected during the 1960s," Dr. Winfred
L. Godwin said. “States must guard
against a swing on the pendulum
which cancels out those gains. ”
The warning has gone unheeded
over the past 10 years. The pendulum
swung, and faculty salaries have lost
steady ground to inflation. Prices, as
measured by the Consumer Price In
dex, rose 126 percent in that period,
while the average faculty salary at
the University rose 105 percent.
Yet despite the problem — or
perhaps, in a curious way, because of
it — Davison has succeeded in effec
ting his program A respected na
tional survey published by the
American Association of University
Professors shows that the Universi
ty’s average faculty salary has gained
steady ground on 14 public doctoral-
granting schools in the South. From
near the bottom 10 years ago — and
ninth place as late as 1978-79 — the
University is now in third place,
behind only the University of North
Carolina and the University of
Virginia.
The net effect. University officials
argue, is to make the school far more
attractive to committed teachers and
researchers.
"We think we are competitive
now," says Virginia Trotter, the
University’s vice president for
Academic Affairs.
Interpreting the AAUP figures can
be difficult, for average salaries at a
particular institution can be affected
by the presence of professional
schools, as well as the traditional
balance of junior vs, senior faculty
members. But as long as one keeps
those factors in mind, the year-to-
year comparisons are still valid, says
David Clements, the University’s
director of institutional research
The clear trend is an increase in
overall University salaries relative to
the salaries of other public colleges in
the South. That bodes well for the
University’s ability to compete and
improve academically, Trotter says.
But some professors worry about a
broader issue "Oh, are we ever losing
a generation of bright people!" says
Virginia Meehan, an English pro
fessor at West Georgia College in Car
rollton. "1 can't blame them at all for
wanting to go into something where
there’s some chance to get ahead ”
Meehan and others fear that,
whatever the fate of individual institu
tions, the eroding economic picture
for U S faculty members portends a
general decline in the quality of those
entering academe. The result, they
say, would be a decline in education
itself — and a consequent decrease of
academia to students and to society.
"Clearly, the thrust of American
education is going to be blunted unless
we get a reversal of present trends,"
says Art Waterman, a professor at
Georgia State University who is ac
tive in the AAUP.
To people who share Waterman's
view, the deteriorating financial
situation in academe is not just an
economic problem — too little money
to go around - but it is also a political
The woes of a disenchanted scholar
By JUSTIN GILLIS
RrS and Black SuH Wrllvr
By anybody's standards, Bill Hoffman is a bright
fellow
Hoffman is a philosopher by inclination, but a
lawyer by profession. And therein lies a tale
"I thought it would be a lot better than it was,” he
says, recalling his three years as a philosphy
professor at Ithaca College in New York "Teaching
was definitely a financial dead end There's a good
chance I would have stayed, had I been happy,
despite the financial sacrifice But the students
were not very good, and I found undergraduate
teaching difficult " Strange words from a man who
did distinguished graduate work at the University,
and who rose quickly at Ithaca to become depart
mental chairman and assistant dean of humanities
and sciences
But Hoffman typifies the disaffection that many
faculty members have begun to feel with their
profession, as students have grown less and less
interested in broad social issues and as the financial
rewards of teaching have been swallowed by in
flation
The difference is that Hoffman did something
about it.
He quit teaching and went to law school, editing
the law review and graduating first in a class of 151
from the College of William and Mary. He joined a
prestigious Atlanta firm as a specialist in ad
ministrative and health-care law, and he also took
an interest in public-interest litigation As an at
torney for the American Civil Liberties Union, he
has taken death-penalty and First Amendment
cases free of charge
Hoffman feels his financial future is assured in a
profession where success is determined by the
quality of one's work, rather than by its quantity or
by one’s longevity
Yet he doesn't worry that the deteriorating
financial picture on American campuses will drain
away the brightest scholars. "I think there are still
more job applicants than there are jobs," he says
“The ones that are willing to stick it out despite the
adverse economic consequences may be the best
teachers anyway."
Chance played an important role in Hoffman's
decision to abandon teaching, for he says he might
have stayed had he landed a job at a college with
better students and better pay
Bruce Swain, a University journalism professor
who left a job as a copy editor with the Louisville
Courier-Journal — considered one of the country’s
best newspapers — to go into teaching, echoes a
similar theme “My career has all been very ac
cidental,” he says "I wasn't very happy with the
editor I worked for, so I thought, 'Well, I’ll try
this.”’
Swain, who holds degrees from Davidson College,
Harvard and Columbia University, became an
assistant professor at the University of Kentucky,
then came to Georgia two years ago to be closer to
his parents
He estimates that he could immediately improve
his salary 1)0,(XX) to $15,000 by taking a job with a
large metropolitan newspaper — though he would
face the higher living costs of towns like New York,
Los Angeles or Washington Above all, he finds the
academic environment challenging "In many
ways, academe is still a refuge of individualists,"
he says “At one time, teaching was viewed as a
calling, and the teacher's status was one of genteel
poverty 1 think more of my colleagues than would
want to admit it still cling to some of that We're
reformers or missionaries at heart "
I'lease See CAREER, I'age S
problem, a severe crisis in public
policy.
In a speech to the Georgia AAUP
five years ago, then president Robert
Green of Georgia Tech argued that
the state had devoted an increasingly
smaller percentage of its overall
education budget to faculty salaries
and a larger and larger share to
buildings, equipment, etc Republican
gubernatorial candidate Bob Bell, a
state legislator from DeKalb County,
has recently echoed the same
criticism.
Trotter says she worries about the
long-term picture for faculty salaries
but also warns that failure to provide
adequate support such as equipment,
buildings and travel funds would do as
much to drive away good faculty
members as would continued low pay
Peter Thompson, a zoology pro
fessor and former department head.
contends that deteriorating salaries
would begin to have an impact on the
quality of professors only if the
economic picture gets substantially
worse. "There's something about
academic life that ge’ts people all
caught up in it,” he says.
“I don’t see any trend toward
deteriorating education — in fact, pro
bably the contrary," Thompson says.
He added that the difficulty of finding
teaching jobs could push bright people
further and further down in the educa
tional system, exercising a beneficial
effect on small colleges and on public
schools.
Thompson also warns against focus
ing too much on declining salaries and
not enough on the economic problems
that give rise to them "I think what’s
wrong is not the salary scale, but in
flationary costs in general,” he said
How UGA Stacks Up:
Average Faculty Salariee
University ot North Caroline $29,600j
University of Virginia $27,900
University of Georgia $26,300’
Loultlene State University
$25,60
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University ot Teses
$25,500
J.
University ot South Carolina
$25,200
University ot Maryland
$25,200
University of Kentucky
$25,100
University of Florida
$25,000
University of Tennessee
$24,100
University ot Alabama
$23,900
University ot Arkansas
$23,8001
University ot Mississippi $22,900
West Virginia University $22,400
Die figures ere average Itcully salaries tor 1961-92, as reported by ine
bulletin of me American Association ot University n-otaasors The Univer
sity figure ts higher then the average published by the school, because it Is
computed dittarentty, but is valid tor comparison with other schools. The
schools listed are malor universities in states that are members of the
Southern Regional Education Board