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Athena, Qa. Tuesday, March 30, 19B2 Voi.89, No.79 An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
A&S dean fighting proposed bylaws changes
By JUSTIN GILLIS
Red and Black stall Writer
With a vote approaching on new Arts and
Sciences procedures that would make it easier
for faculty members to express displeasure
with department heads. A&S dean Jack Payne
is marshaling forces in an effort to defeat the
new rules.
In a confidential memorandum to A&S depart
ment heads, Payne urged them to lobby their
faculty members to vote against proposed
changes to the college’s bylaws “The projected
alterations are not needed nor do they represent
any improvement,’’ Payne's memo said. “I
hope you will have the opportunity to speak with
members of your departmental faculties about
our concerns ”
In the March 19 memo, Payne also urged the
department heads to attend a meeting of the full
A&S faculty scheduled for Wednesday afternoon
so they could argue against the changes The
meeting, which begins at 3:30 in the law-school
auditorium, was called so faculty could discuss
several amendments to the bylaws, including
the two relating to department heads.
The department-head proposals cleared the
college's faculty senate last May, but have been
on hold awaiting Wednesday's meeting. The col
lege’s procedures call for a mail ballot after the
meeting.
One of the new rules would require Payne to
conduct a formal review of department heads
every three years instead of every six. The pro
posal would require a meeting of each depart
ment’s faculty at the beginning of the review, at
which the faculty members would be asked to
cast secret ballots saying whether they wished
to keep the head.
The other proposed amendment would pro
vide a mechanism for unhappy faculty
members to call departmental meetings as fre
quently as once a year so all the department's
faculty could express an opinion on whether the
head should stay The voting would again be by
secret ballot.
In neither case would Payne or University
President Fred Davison be bound by the faculty
vote. They would retain the right to hire and fire
department heads.
Payne told the faculty senate last June that he
opposed the proposed rules, adding that head
ships were turning over frequently enough
without new procedures He said the procedure
for replacing department heads was already
elaborate and expensive. Payne said the
amendments would unnecessarily require addi
tional time from his office.
He reiterated his opposition last month.
“I think the current system works very well,"
he said.
In his secret memorandum to department
heads, Payne said the A&S bylaws already
“provide adequately for the conduct of affairs in
this office." He said the proposed changes
“represent potential for serious difficulty.”
Payne said Monday he would probably ad
dress the faculty members at the meeting to
urge them to vote down the proposed changes.
He said he made his memo to department heads
confidential “to be certain they read it, to call
attention to it.”
The sponsor of the proposed new rules,
sociology Professor Homer Cooper, this week
accused Payne of being vague about his reasons
for opposing the changes In a memo mailed to
A&S faculty members, Cooper said the current
bylaws don’t provide a mechanism for "deter
mining how faculty in a given department really
feel about reappointment of their head."
The bylaws now require Payne to conduct a
department-head review involving “full con
sultation" with the faculty at least every six
years.
The bylaws don't define "full consultation."
Cooper argued in his memo that the secret
ballot would permit even untenured faculty
members to vote their conscience about their
department head without being intimidated.
Legislature cuts
system y s request
By SUSAN BRANDT
Red and Black Staff Writer
The Board of Regents will likely have
to do some fancy planning and
reorganizing in its 1982-83 budget after
the state legislature cut its original
request by more than $139 million.
Gov. George Busbee's budget
recommendations, which passed the
House last month and the Senate last
week, allocated $548 million to the
regents and the University System. The
regents had originally requested $687
million.
The regents are expected to study
and revise their budget at the next
board meeting scheduled for April 13
and 14, said Shealy E. McCoy, vice
chancellor for fiscal affairs.
McCoy would make no predictions on
where possible cuts in the budget would
come or what effects they would have
on the University, but said, "It’s going
to be mighty tight for all the in
stitutions. All areas will be hard hit."
Construction funds are expected to
suffer at all the institutions.
In their original budget request, the
regents asked for $60 million in bonds
for construction. The legislature’s
amended budget provides only $13.5
million in bonds with an additional $3
million for building renovation. This
leaves a total of $16.5 million in con
struction funds for the entire system.
When the regents first drew up their
budget, they had $65 million in
buildings ready to go. McCoy said.
These cuts in capital outlay could
delay many plans for construction at
the University. A biological sciences
building that had been included in the
regent's original budget was not
carried over in the final budget.
The building was intended to house
two University departments and a
science museum. According to
University estimates, $15-20 million is
needed to complete the project.
Other projects that may suffer
because of the funding crisis include
two campus parking decks totalling $5
million, a $1 million agricultural ser
vices laboratory, a $5 million forestry
building and a $10 million health
physical education and recreation
building.
These plans will go before the board
for consideration at their meeting in
April.
Tarheels’ win
breaks coach’s
tournament jinx
It took him seven tries, but North
Carolina basketball coach Dean Smith
finally captured a national champion
ship Smith’s Tarheels defeated the
Georgetown Hoyas 63-62 In the final of
the NCAA national tournament in New
Orleans Monday night to end a drought
which saw the North Carolina mentor
reach the final four six times only to
come up short of the championship.
The Tarheels were led by James Wor
thy's 28 points and freshman Michael
Jordan’s nine rebounds. Worthy had 18
of his points in the first half, but the
Hoyas still managed to hold a 32-31 lead
at the break
The lead changed hands constantly
throughout the second half, however,
until North Carolina went into its
slowdown game with five minutes re
maining and a 59-58 lead The Tarheels
held the ball for over three minutes un
til Jordan scored to stretch the lead to
three.
The Hoyas fought back, and a missed
free throw by North Carolina’s Matt
Dougherty gave Georgetown a chance
to take the lead Eric Floyd put the
Hoyas ahead at 62-61 with 56 seconds
left, thus setting the stage for Jordan’s
game-winning 18-foot jumper with 15
seconds remaining.
— John Childers
Another big cut in the budget came in
the form of salary increases for
University employees. The original
request by the regents was for a 7.5
percent cost of living increase with a 2.5
percent automatic yearly increase.
The final budget, as amended,
provides for only a 4.75 percent cost of
living increase. The cutbacks in the
total budget are also causing a shortage
for the automatic increase, bringing it
down from 2.5 percent to 1.5 percent.
"There will be only enough money for a
6.25 percent (total) increase in teacher
salaries,” McCoy said.
University employees received an 11
percent pay raise in 1981 and an 11.5
percent raise in 1980.
The budget cuts could also cause
problems for University students. The
regents had predicted a tuition increase
of only 8 to 10 percent for 1982-83. The
estimates for that increase are much
higher since the passage of the budget.
“If we are going to have enough
money to do anything at all, the in
crease will have to be at least 15 per
cent," McCoy said.
This increase is due, in part, to the
many cuts in the budget and also to an
attempt to raise the total percentage
students pay toward the cost of their
educations to 25 percent.
Tuition for University students now
covers about 19 percent, McCoy said.
The proposed increases would bring the
total to 21 percent by 1983, he added.
High strung
Mill pho(o/( hurllr Rrgltlrr
March may not exactly be going out as the lamb the old saw
says It is supposed to be. but to this determined kite flier the
unseasonably brisk weather posed no major deterrent to a
good time. Six-year-old Asha Kays, daughter of University
associate professor of horticulture Stanley J. Kays, took top
honors in her age group for the highest-flying, largest and
most-unusual kite in last weekend's spring kite contest. Kite
flying enthusiasts of all ages participated in the Bishop Park
event, which was sponsored by the Athens Recreation and
Parks department as part of their annual spring program.
Sandstorm delays shuttle landing
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (UPI) - A blinding
sandstorm in New Mexico delayed the space shuttle’s
return Monday, and officials watched the weather to
decide between a second try Tuesday at White Sands
or a transcontinental dash to this spaceport.
Mission directors said White Sands remained the
prime site for astronauts Jack Lousma and Gordon
Fullerton to end their marathon spaceflight, with the
3-mile concrete runway at Cape Canaveral as the
backup.
A final decision was to be made early Tuesday, and
if the shuttle comes back at the Cape it would mark
the first time a spacecraft has landed at its launch
site.
A landing at either place would be a first for
Columbia.
“Well, I guess we kind of agree with the decision for
today," command astronaut Lousma commented
dryly after he and Fullerton flew over White Sands,
and looked down on the wind-driven dust clouding the
desert strip and blocking their landing.
At almost the exact moment they were to have
touched down at White Sands — 1:27 p.m EST —
Lousma radioed: "We’re looking at Northrup Strip
right now and it is dusty-looking down there "
"It sure Is," replied ground communicator
Brewster Shaw
"The visibility on the surface is about zero" — a
reference to the sandstorm kicked up by wind gusts
reaching 55 mph.
"That’s the breaks, " Lousma said.
“It was a good drill and we ought to be ready for
tomorrow and we’U be looking forward to the weather
forecast for tomorrow."
Lousma and Fullerton were instructed to retire
early and be ready for a touchdown attempt at White
Sands at 11:07 a m EST or at 11:13 a m. at Cape
Canaveral
A second landing opportunity would be at 12:41
p m EST at White Sands and at 12:47 p.m. EST at the
Cape
Fritz Widick, manager of orbiter ground services
at the spaceport, said: "We are ready We really
didn't expect to land here but we re ready ."
Earlier Monday, mission control spokesman Jack
Riley said in Houston: “The possibility is high that
Columbia will land at the Kennedy Space Center,
which is forecast to have the best weather for
tomorrow.”
"Here in the control center,” he said, "flight
planning is under way to support a KSC landing We
will continue to watch the weather at Northrup
because we prefer to land at Northrup.
"KSC weather for Wednesday is forecast to be
bad."
The outlook for Tuesday at the Cape was for
scattered clouds, southeast winds gusting to a little
target for Columbia's third flight that was abandoned
because of torrential rains, remained too wet to use.
There is a concrete strip at Edwards that Columbia
could use — but all the necessary landing support
equipment is now at White Sands, rushed there by
rail from California following the first change in
signals
And potentially risky crcsswind landing conditions
that project managers had wanted to try first on the
unpaved runways at Edwards or White Sands could
well prevail at the Cape.
At White Sands, a traffic jam in the morning was
reversed as thousands of people who had poured in to
watch the show that never came off poured back out
again, headlights glowing eerily in the brownish-red
dust.
The Florida spaceport, all but deserted since last
Monday's beautiful blastoff, sprang back to life in
preparation for what would be the first landing of a
spacecraft back at the launch site.
The 15,000-foot concrete landing strip, completed in
June 1978, is Just 3 miles from the mammoth Vehicle
Assembly Building where the shuttle is refitted
between flights and 5 miles from the oceanside
launch pad.
A landing there would significantly shorten the
time required to get Columbia ready for Its fourth
flight now scheduled in late June or early July.
The decision to tack more time onto Columbia's
record weeklong mission came after astronaut John
Young, the commander on Columbia's maiden
voyage, flew an airplane rigged to handle like the
winged spacecraft and reported high winds and very
poor visibility at White Sands.
Television shots of the strip showed sand blowing
all over the place, and Young reported the prime
runway there, which had been scraped smooth, was
"covered up with sand."
"I think we ought to knock this off," Young radioed
mission control, and officials wasted no time In
following his advice
"It's not a good day and we're going to wave off for
24 hours," ground communicator Steve Nagel told the
astronauts moments later.
Supreme Court
unlikely to hear
Dinnan’s appeal
By SYLVIA COLWELL
Hrd and Hlack Aaaialant Nrwa Kdltor
The attorney for University
education professor James Dinnan,
who petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court
to hear Dinnan’s contempt of court
case, said Monday he is not optimistic
the high court will hear the case
Athens attorney John Larkins said
the chances of any certiorari petitions
being granted by the court are small.
But he added, “Somewhere down the
line, the Supreme Court is going to have
to take a look at this whole question of
how we preserve academic privilege,
yet continue our efforts to eliminate
illegal discrimination."
The key question Larkins presented
the court in the petition is whether a
university faculty member has a
qualified privilege not to reveal a
confidential vote on a promotion-tenure
decision.
In June 1980 Dinnan was convicted of
contempt of court by U.S. District Court
Judge Wilbur Owens for refusing to
reveal his vote on the promotion of a
female faculty member. Dinnan is the
only member on a tenure committee
who has not revealed his vote.
On June 3, 1980, Dinnan was ordered
to pay $100 a day for 30 days or until he
revealed his vote on the promotion
case.
Dinnan maintained his silence, paid
the fines and was sentenced by Owens
to 90 days in a federal penitentiary.
Larkins said he planned to use in
formation from a similar New York
case in Dinnan's appeal. In Gray v.
Board of Education, City of New York,
the U.S. District Court upheld the right
of two professors to keep their
promotion votes secret.
S. Slmpaon Gray, then an instructor
at La Guardia Community College,
brought charges of racial
discrimination against the college after
he was denied tenure He sought the
professors' votes on his promotion to
use In the trial.
The District Court said in Its decision
that the secret ballot was "essential to
any voting process which is to be free of
Influence and pressure from those with
power and/or Influence over those
voting."
On Feb. 18, the 2nd Circuit Court of
Appeals granted Gray's request to
appeal the District Court's decision
Several cases across the nation
dealing with the academic issues
presented in the Dinnan case have had
conflicting outcomes, Larkins said.
"I simply tried to put this Into a
context of an ongoing national
problem," Larkins said.
Black leaders pleased with coach choice
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Alex Glbba joins Hornsby Howell as newest
members of Dooley's coachfng staff. See Story
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By SYLVIA COLWELL
Rrd and Black Aaalatanl Sum Kdltor
Some of the black leaders who conducted a
letter-writing campaign urging Athletic Director
Vince Dooley to hire a black coach say they are
satisfied with Dooley’s hiring of Hornsby Howeli
as scout team coach However, the leaders say
they will keep their eyes on Dooley's staff in the
future, and will work to get the University to hire
more black faculty members as well.
“1 think they're off on the right track," said
state Rep Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta, who was
among several black leaders who met with
Dooley and University President Fred Davison
March 17 to discuss the lack of a black coach on
Dooley's staff But Brooks added, “We've got to
go beyond just coaching positions I’m more con
cerned abut academics.”
Black leaders were concerned because
Georgia has never hired a black assistant foot
ball coach, although more than 40 percent of the
team is black Curt Fludd, an academic
counselor, was the only black on Dooley's staff
before Howell was hired last week
After Offensive line Coach Wayne McDuffie’s
resignation left a vacancy on the coaching staff,
black leaders began writing letters to Dooley
The letter-writing campaign was spearheaded
by University student Marvin Nunnally, senior,
political science, who was interning at the
NAACP's Atlanta chapter, State Rep Billy
McKinney, Atlanta City Council President Mar
vin Arrington and NAACP Chairman Jondel
Johnson were among those who wrote Dooley
On March 5, the NAACP requested the meetings
with Dooley
After the meeting, Dooley announced that
although he hired Alex Gibbs, who is white, as of
fensive line coach, he had hired Howell, who is
black, as scout team coach The scout team posi
tion had been open for over a year, according to
Sports Information Director Claude Felton.
Nunnally said it didn't matter to him that
Dooley hired a black as scout team coach rather
than offensive line coach. “I'm not concerned
about just one position," he said, adding that he
had expected Dooley to fill the offensive line
position with someone already on his staff, and
wanted him to hire a black for the position that
would have been left open.
Felker Ward, president of the Atlanta Business
League, said, “I think it's fair to say that to hire
a black coach is a step in the right direction.
Whether or not it will go far enough remains to
be seen " Ward said he wrote Dooley “a fairly
strong letter" asking him to consider a black for
the coaching position
"I'm content. I trust In Dooley's judgement,"
Nunnally said.
Nunnally said that he did not feel Dooley's
failure to include a black assistant coach on his
staff was an issue of discrimination, but merely
one of negligence "He didn’t think about II,"
Nunnally said
Nunnally said he hoped the actions of the
NAACP and the black leaders would result in ac
tive recruitment of black applicants. Nunnally
said he contacted the head coaches and athletic
directors of 30 predominantly black colleges, and
none of them had heard from Dooley about the
coaching position He also said that 30 publishers
of newspapers and magazines aimed at blacks
said the University did not advertise the position
in their pages.
“I think that Coach Dooley made a good choice
of coaches,” said Athens attorney Michael Thur
mond, who attended the March 17 meeting. “I
think he hired, as h- said he would, the most
qualified candidate."
Thurmond said Dooley's actions should serve
as an example to University administrators.
Thurmond said he told Davison at the meeting
that he would be Just as happy to see the Univer
sity hire a black chemistry professor as a black
football coach