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The Krd and Hlark
Tuftday, March 30,1982
Established 1893 — Incorporated 1980
Charles H. Russell, General Manager
Mack Browning, Editor-in-chief Tim Bonner, Managing Editor
An independent student newspaper not affiliated with the University of Georgia
Offsetting the cutbacks
A House panel recently voted to limit cut
backs in President Reagan’s budget that would
affect student loans. The addition of $322 million
more than Reagan’s request reflects that con
gressmen don't want to turn back the clock as
much as the president would like.
Reagan’s cutbacks would mean that only the
wealthy could afford the education they wanted
and not everyone would be given a chance at a
college education.
But there will be cuts, and what Agnes Scott
: College in Decatur has proposed to offset the
■ cuts is a novel concept indeed.
Agnes Scott will loan students some of its own
money so qualified applicants would be able to
attend school. Agnes Scott is a pioneer in that in-
; stead of whining about its loss of faculty or
: students or resources, the college is taking
positive steps to offset the president’s cuts.
Of course, many institutions must raise tui-
: lion to pay costs. The University may raise tui
tion this fall by 15 percent. Others, like the
University of Hartford, are scraping the bottom
of the barrel, looking for ways to put together at
tractive financial aid packages for its students.
“We’ve made student aid the highest priority
in our budget this year,’’ said Hartford presi
dent Stephen J. Trachtenberg.
Bravo.
With the loss of some forms of financial aid,
students at the University will be affected as
well. Is student financial aid the most important
item in the Unviersity’s budget? No, not as long
as we hear President Davison tell us how the
budget cutbacks will mean cutbacks in new
equipment for research facilities at the Univer
sity.
But, as Davison said, the University will con
tinue to be one of the nation’s leaders in
research.
Too bad if no one’s around to see it.
Here & Now: Nluxwell (i/en and Cody Shearer
Dooley fills void on staff
The University has one of the lowest
numbers of black faculty members
than any university in the nation. The
University, by its own admission,
couldn't possibly reach goals it has set
for itself to remedy the problem.
And now we find that the low number
of black instructors even reaches the
football field where, until recenUy, not
one black man had ever coached at
Georgia
Black leaders, including State Rep.
Tyrone Brooks, D-Atlanta, State Sen.
Julian Bond, D-Atlanta, and University
student Marvin Nunnally, an intern
with the NAACP Atlanta chapter, met
with Georgia athletic director and head
football coach Vince Dooley and
University President Fred Davison
recently to urge Dooley to hire a black
to fill the vacancy on the football
coaching staff.
More to-do was made about Dooley’s
next appointment than has ever been
made when one of the 13 deans of this
University goes about filling a faculty
position. The contingent that met with
Dooley and Davison may have had a
point, since Georgia was the last school
in the Southeastern Conference to hire a
black football coach. At least in other
positions at the University some blacks
are hired to fill the positions, though not
many.
It’s probable that Dooley had his eye
on a successor to out-going offensive
line coach Wayne McDuffie before Nun
nally and Brooks, et al ever showed up.
Dooley’s pick, Auburn assistant Alex
Gibbs, has excellent credentials, in
cluding a stay under Woody Hayes at
Ohio State as line coach before moving
on.
So when Dooley preceded that move
with the appointment of Hornsby
“In Howell, Georgia
gets an experienced
man willing to do a
thankless job in handl
ing the scout team.’’
Howell, a black man who has been head
football coach and athletic director at
North Carolina A&T, the Georgia coach
made a wise decision
Howell will coach the scout team and
the junior varsity next season.
One wonders what Nunnally really
had in mind. Did he want the best man
for the job? Or did he want anybody —
so long as he was black? Nunnally's
suggestion tHIt Pittsburgh Steeler wide
receiver Lynn Swann would be
available was a ridiculous one. And
Dooley must have been humoring Nun
nally by apparently going after former
Georgia players Willie McClendon and
Horace King about jobs at Georgia.
Neither McClendon nor King are
starters on their professional teams,
but neither is going to give up a
lucrative pro contract for a minor
coaching assignment at the University
And to think Swann, an All-Pro
player, would quit to pursue a coaching
career at Georgia is equally insulting.
By suggesting Swann, Nunnally
points out, really, why there aren't
more black coaches. There aren’t that
many. White players dominated college
athletics until only recently, relatively
speaking. Blacks have only begun play
ing college ball in the past 20 years
Therefore, blacks have 50 years of cat
ching up to do. It will take time for the
number of qualified black applicants to
reach that of whites; however unfair, it
is a fact.
It isn’t fair that blacks have been
discriminated against, but it also isn’t
fair to pressure someone to correct 50
years of injustice — which is what Nun
nally would have Dooley do.
Most coaches would hire the best man
available, regardless of color. After all,
in college athletics the bottom line is to
win and make money. Now that’s sad.
And coaches will get the best people to
help him do that, black or white.
So Dooley makes Howell a pioneer at
Georgia. In Howell, Georgia gets an ex
perienced man willing to do a thankless
job in handling the scout team. They
are lucky. In Gibbs, Georgia gets
another asset. Gibbs may not be who
Marvin Nunnally had in mind. He may
not can make diving catches like Lynn
Swann, but I’ll bet he can show Georgia
offensive linemen Jimmy Harper or
Wayne Radloff how to knock a Clemson
lineman on his butt.
Mack Browning is editor-in-chief of The
Red and Black.
Computers alone can’t
solve education problem
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‘Muddled thinking on energy issues ’
WASHINGTON - Steven Jobs is
again grabbing headlines, this time
with an offer to put a personal com
puter — free of charge — in each of
America's 75,000 public elementary and
secondary schools.
The 27-year-old co-founder of Apple
. Computer, Inc says he wants to help
, schools address a nagging "computer
• illiteracy" problem among young
; Americans He’s even willing to give up
• $200 300 million worth of new "Apple
- II’*," each with a retail value of about
1 $2,495
There’s a small catch, of course. Jobs
wants Congress to give his company —
: or any other so interested — a
; charitable tax deduction of up to 30
; percent for the donation of high-tech
equipment to public schools. With the
Inevitable promotional gain, Apple
twhich had $39 4 million in net earnings
last year cn sales of $335 million) would
probably end up ahead
Though congressmen clamor about
deficits, many aren’t distracted by the
$20-30 million in potential Treasury
losses resulting from the so-called
Technology Act of 1982 " At last count,
43 House members had signed their
names to the legislation Given
reductions in federal aid to education
and scientific research, some sponsors
believe Apple's apparent altruism is
the sort of corporate behavior that
needs to be encouraged
Others will simply endorse any
measure designed to counter the threat
from America’s high-technology
competitors. As "Zero Sum” economist
Lester C. Thurow of the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology suggests.
Japanese products are better
engineered than our own because
Japan’s schools churn out twice as
many engineers as their U.S. coun
terparts
We're having a big problem getting
kids to study math and science,"
contends Rep Fortney H Stark iD-
“On Mar. 11 the Na
tional Science
Teachers' Association
reported that over half
the nation’s high
school math and
science teachers are
unqualified to teach
their subjects.”
Calif ), a leading co-sponsor of the
“Apple bill.” If a tax break helps to
stimulate interest in technology and
technical education, then it's a good
investment.”
Indeed, relatively few school districts
have made much effort to integrate
high technology into their curricula.
According to a survey published last
year by the National Center for
Educational Statistics, only one in four
public schools keeps a micro-computer
for instructional use by students;
nearly one in five lacks access to
computers of any sort.
Meanwhile, says Andrew R Molnar, a
program director at the National
Science Foundation here. Great Britain
plans to have equipped each of its
schools with a micro-computer by the
end of this year The Japanese and
French, among others, have also made
a national policy of computer
education.
Unfortunately, Steven Jobs' offer to
put an "Apple’’ in every U.S.
elementary and secondary school
doesn’t begin to address two peculiarly
American problems: a shortage of
competent math and science teachers
at every educational level and the
outdated nature of math and science
curricula
On March 11 the National Science
Teacher’s Association reported that
over half the nation's high school math
and science teachers are unqualified to
teach their subjects. At least 69 per
cent, the organization discovered, had
apparently never even attended a
computer workshop.
Moreover, as computers are
promoted at the pre-college level,
machines will effectively eliminate
much of the basic addition and sub
traction drudgery, forcing teachers to
devote more time to the meaning and
practical uses of numbers Problem
solving, concedes Richard Anderson of
the Council of Scientific Society
Presidents, has been woefully
neglected over the years.
Stark and his fellow congressional
computer buffs may require Apple — If
the company doesn’t volunteer — to
provide teacher training in return for
any favors on the tax side. According to
a House Ways and Means Committee
aide, there's also a chance that
provisions may be included in the Apple
bill for donations to high-tech teacher
training at the college level.
Without adequate preparation,
however, we re fooling ourselves to
think computers alone are the simple
answer to more high-minded foreign
competitors Jobs' "Apple giveaway”
smells of a pork barrel as long as the
U.S. lacks a coherent education policy
programmed for the computer age
And remember, Steve: There’s no
point in "putting a chicken in every
pot" when no one knows how to cook it.
Copyright )M2
Field Newspaper Syndicate
TO THE EDITOR:
The George H Cowden letter of
March 3 entitled “Coal could be clean
and safe, but profit hunger gets in the
way" is typical of the muddled thinking
that is befuddling the American public
on energy issues. The crucial point be
ing overlooked is that it takes lots of
electricity to make and run scrubbers
and even more electricity to make
photovoltaic panels.
For example, very roughly for every
ton of coal used to deliver electricity to
customers, another half of ton is burned
to make and to run scrubbers and other
pollution control equipment. By burn
ing another half ton of coal, more
pollutants can indeed be removed, but
because of the law of diminishing
returns, the additional amount of
pollutants removed will be very small.
Likewise it takes "gobs" of electrici
ty to make solar photovoltaic panels, so
that their use will only accelerate the
consumption of coal and aggravate the
problem of pollution control.
The utilities, then, are not profit
mongers but actually advocates of non
renewable resource conservation. They
are in effect asking the question:
Should we be extravagant in the use of
the natural resource, coal? Isn't there
another energy alternative that is more
economical in terms of natural
resource consumption?
CHIHIKO KIKUCIH
Visiting Professor of Physics
Piedmont College
'No justice in University system ’
COMFORTABLE IGNORANCE
ART ROCHE
" DAVID THEALL
J*.**
TO THE EDITOR:
Being a freshman at the University is
a real learning experience Besides fur
thering my education, I am also learn
ing what a mockery the University can
be
After receiving a couple of parking
tickets I felt were unjustified I did as
the student handbook advised — I filed
an appeal with Public Safety. Both my
appeals being turned down, I forked
over $20 and that was that.
Now, after an incident which sent me
to the Student Judiciary and although
the incident occurred outside my dor
mitory, I, as part of my punishment,
am being forced to move my place of
residence to that of an adjoining dorm.
The reason given: to give me a chance
to have a new beginning with new
friends, and get me away from existing
forces. These "forces" are people who
have become friends, and I don’t care
to move away from.
I feel that the Student Judiciary has
the right ideas about letting students
govern students, but it sounds like the
Judiciary are overexerting their
powers, or trying to be armchair
psychologists. Now the question. Should
I file an appeal? I came to the Universi
ty to get an education, but I am quickly
becoming discouraged with the entire
University system. What is next in line’’
A transfer to a new school?
DUANE NOBLE
Freshman, Arts and Sciences
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