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The Red and Black
Athens, Ga. Friday, April H, 1982 Vol.BO, No.83 An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
A&S faculty will vote on bylaws changes
By JACK THREADGILI.
Kr'd and Black SUII Writer
The Arts and Sciences senate steering com
mittee will design the ballot for a faculty-wide
vote on six Arts and Sciences bylaws amend
ments discussed at the college's annual faculty
meeting, including two that would make it
easier for faculty to express displeasure with
their department heads.
The college’s bylaws specify that the vote
must occur at least one week after the amend
ments are debated
A sparse crowd of about 80 faculty members
met Wednesday to discuss the bylaws amend
ments, three of which received no discussion.
The two most-discussed amendments were
those proposed by Homer Cooper, associate pro
fessor of sociology, that passed the A&S faculty
senate last May.
Cooper’s first amendment calls for the faculty
of each department to meet once every three
years to vote on whether they favor the reap
pointment of their department head. If more
than one-third of the faculty cast ' disapprove’’
ballots, the dean would be required to review
the department head.
His second amendment allows for as few as
five members or 20 percent of a department's
faculty, whichever is smaller, to petition the
dean as often as once a year to hold a faculty
meeting to vote on whether the faculty favors
removing their department head. If a majority
votes “approve," the dean would be required to
review the department head.
The voting called for in both amendments
would be by secret ballot The amendments
would not bind either A&S Dean Jack Payne or
University President Fred Davison to the facul
ty vote, so Davison and Payne would retain the
right to hire and fire department heads.
Payne reiterated his opposition to the
department-head amendments at Wednesday’s
meeting. He said the proposed amendments
would be too time-consuming, and that “the pre
sent procedure has worked quite well for some
time."
Payne’s staff already spends much of its time
reviewing department heads, with 18 having
been replaced in Payne's four-and-one-half
years as dean
Darwin Smith, associate professor of
chemistry, expressed his approval of the first
amendment, saying it wguld "provide a relief
valve for resentments that build up in depart
ments.”
But mathematics Professor Tom Brahana
spoke against the amendment because of the
clause calling for a secret ballot
"Secrecy is bad: to solicit letters, secret opi
nions and secret votes is harmful to the general
climate," Brahana said.
Physics Professor John Hives read a resolu
tion at the meeting against Cooper's second
amendment that the physics and astronomy
department faculty passed unanimously.
The resolution said the proposed change was
not in the best interest of the college and would
allow a small minority of a department to call
for a censure vote without due process or writ
ten justification for the action.
Cooper said a written list was not necessary
since "if the faculty votes not to support
removal at that time, no written list of par
ticulars is necessary."
The other proposed amendment discussed at
the meeting was one which would eliminate the
budgetary committee provided for in the
bylaws Payne said the committee existed, but
was never called to meet.
Refugees flee war and hunger to find home
'It's hard to understand
they've been through hell’
Huff ptuMn/SimHiltim
Finding a friend: Coordinator Don Mosley and Taroath Phuong
By MARK RALSTON
Krd and Hlark Contributing Writer
The sounds of battle — sounds
which had torn the spring air of
Phnom Penh for weeks — stopped.
Soum Sirk’s family, like many in the
city of two million, had been
celebrating the Cambodian New Year
when the city's defenses fell and the
dreaded Khmer Rouge stormed into
the streets.
“As soon as we saw the anger on
their faces we knew there would be
much suffering,” said Soum's oldest
son, Pharmarith Uong, of the April 15,
1975 insurgence of the Khmer Rouge.
The first act of the new Pol Pot
regime was to immediately evacuate
Phnom Penh, sending its residents to
labor in rice paddies all across the
bomb-cratered countryside. Families
were divided as the city was cleared.
Anyone associated with the fallen
government was executed.
The husband of Soum’s oldest
daughter, a military engineer who
also directed a training program for
maimed soldiers, was one of those
killed.
As Soum’s family prepared to be
driven out of the city, the oldest
daughter, Kary Uong, told them she
could not travel. She was pregnant,
and her baby was due soon. Soum and
her family took Kary’s 2-year-old
daugher, Srey, with them when they
left the conquered city. They have not
heard from Kary since.
In America, reports of cruelty and
bloodshed in Cambodia filled the front
pages of newspapers across the coun
try. For a small group of people living
in a Christian community called
Koinonia Partners near Americus,
Ga , these reports were the seeds of
an idea. They started thinking about
setting up a kind of community where
refugees from overseas could come to
learn to speak English and adjust to
American ways of life.
On 260-acres of rolling farmland
and forest just outside Comer, Ga., a
spot in the road some 20 miles north
east of Athens, the group opened
Jubilee Partners in 1979
Soum's family — those who escaped
from Cambodia — are some of the
refugees Jubilee Partners has helped
Three members of her family did not
escape: Kary’s husband they know to
be dead; Soum's husband, who was
taken from the labor camp for
“special training,” is feared dead.
The family hopes Kary, who they had
to leave behind, is still alive.
Though some in Soum's family are
missing, a surprisingly large number
managed to escape. The Khmer
Rouge divided the family into three
groups, driving them to different
labor camps. They were not reunited
until 1979, when the Vietnamese took
control of Cambodia.
The labor in the camps was hard;
the new rulers, merciless; and food
was in short supply. Everyone work
ed. Even 2-year-old Srey had to spend
most of the day gathering dung to be
used as fertilizer. If someone lost the
will to work — as did Soum’s husband
— he was taken away for “special
training."
One day, before the Vietnamese
came. Phamarith was working with a
crew dismantling the town of Bat-
tambang and moving the materials so
a new camp could be built. Weak with
hunger and heat, he fell from a roof
top. His back was broken in the fall,
leaving him unable to work. He was
carried to a medical shelter and left to
survive if he could.
Finally, after they were reunited in
1979, the family managed to escape to
Thailand. They divided themselves in
to four groups and weaved their way
through mined jungle trails to the
Thai border, some 50 miles from
their labor camp. They traveled at
night, hiding in the thick jungle during
the day. Phamarith, because of his
broken back, had to bicycle, and went
alone.
Unlike thousands of Cambodians
who were caught trying to escape, the
family made it. Two years later, after
a sponsor was found for them in Ring-
gold, Ga., they began arriving, a few
at a time, at Jubilee Partners
Today, the family has finished
Jubilee Partners’ six-week, English-
language training program and is ad
justing to American life. Phamarith,
recovering from recent back surgery,
reports he is now walking a mile a day
and no longer needs a cane. All are
employed by a Ringgold blueberry
farm.
“These people are so gentle, so
lovable, that it's hard to understand
they’ve been through hell," said Don
Mosley, coordinator of Jubilee Part
ners.
About 30 Cambodians are now living
at the refugee center. Since the
organization was formed three years
ago. it has helped groups of refugees
from Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and Haiti
— as well as Cambodia.
Jubilee Partners, which is funded
by Church World Service, a branch of
the National Council of Churches,
works with about 200 refugees each
year before sending them off to live
and work with sponsors across the
country. Donations from private
groups, individuals, and churches
also help keep the organization run
ning, Mosley said.
"We're not taking people who are
coming to the States to get rich,"
Mosley said. “We're dealing with peo
ple who have barely escaped with
their lives.” Most of the refugees,
many of whom are sent to Jubilee
Partners by CWS, are destitute when
they arrive, possessing only a few ar
ticles of clothing brought from the
refugee camps and a pair of shoes
given them by CWS, Mosley said
Jubilee Partners receives no
federal or state aid beyond its
classification as a non-profit, tax- ex
empt. charitable organization,
Mosley said.
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Building planned
to help relieve
waste overflow
By MELISSA JORDAN
Krd und Muck Staff Writer
Inadequate storage and sorting
facilities for hazardous waste disposal
at the University have prompted public
safety officials to make plans m ob
struct a new builoing to store chemical
wastes.
"Right now we are using one building
for both radiation waste and chemical
waste," Assistant Director of Public
Safety Arthur Stringfellow said
"We have generated so much more
waste in the past few years that we’ve
just outgrown the present facility,” he
said “That building is so full you can
hardly walk through it. Also, we need
the other building to be able to separate
the wastes.”
The present facility is located on Will
Hunter Road just inside the city limits
of Athens. The new building will be built
next to the old one
"Contractors are now bidding on the
project. The final bid is due in early
April, and work should begin after
that," he said.
The University will continue to store
waste in the old facility, and will con
tract to have it shipped out as
necessary.
"We get rid of as much of it as we
can,” Stringfellow said.
The Board of Regents allocated
$85,000 for the project from its 1982
capital fund. The funding is good only
through the 1982 fiscal year, which ends
in June
The $85,000 allocation may not be
enough to complete the entire project,
which includes office and ad
ministrative space, said Physical Plant
Director Ken Jordan.
The money will probably cover the
basic construction of the storage
building and its loading dock, he said
The existing building will handle the
disposal and storage of radioactive
waste, while the new building will
dispose of chemical waste, Stringfellow
said.
"The veterinary school uses radioac
tive isotopes as tracing elements in
plants and animals We bury the car
casses of the animals since you can’t
send dead animals off very easily The
plant waste, on the other hand, is taken
to the hazardous waste disposal
building — this is classified as radiation
waste, " Stringfellow said.
Stringfellow said the new building
will be a special-purpose building to
handle chemical waste. A hazardous
waste officer will pick up the chemical
waste as needed from the University’s
research facilities, take it to the
building, and sort and store it in bins
until a sufficient quantity has ac
cumulated to be picked up by a contrac
tor, Stringfellow said.
Reagan ailment minor
WASHINGTON (UPI) - President
Reagan underwent tests for urinary
discomfort Thursday and emerged
from Bethesda Naval Hospital with a
clean bill of health, grinning and
hungry for a tuna fish sandwich.
"Everything is perfectly normal and
fine,” Reagan told reporters as he
crossed the South Lawn on his return to
the White House. "There are no
problems .”
The president said he decided to
move up his regular physical
examination because of “the slight
discomfort that followed one of those
fly-around-the-country trips that I was
doing a few weeks ago
"It was just a few days of discomfort,
so we took advantage of it, had the
examination and everything is per
fectly normal," Reagan said. He said
he is taking "no medicine of any kind.”
White House spokesman Larry
Speakcs issued a statement saying the
president underwent a "routine
urological examination" lasting 90
minutes, "the results of all tests were
normal" and “no further evaluation is
anticipated.” Speakes said
Speakes said when the problem
flared up several weeks ago. Reagan
was given antibiotics to counter what
the preliminary diagnosis found to be
an “inflammation of the urinary tract."
“After a few days, the symptoms
were no longer evident and have not
recurred," Speakes said.
He said the tests included a urine
culture, urine cytology, intravenous
pyelography, and cysto-urethroscopic
examination In layman's terms, these
are an examination for a possible in
fection of the urinary tract, a kidney x-
ray, an evaluation of the cellular
makeup of the urinary tract and an
examination of the bladder.
The president, who was given local
anesthesia before the examination, told
reporters it was “not very painful” and,
“I feel great.”
Reagan devoured a tuna fish sand
wich on the brief helicopter ride back to
the White House, Speakes said.
Knowing that the president was
required to fast before the tests and
would be ravenous by the time he left
the hospital in late afternoon, White
House physician Daniel Ruge had the
sandwich squirreled away in his
briefcase.
Ruge participated in the examination
along with Capt. John P Smith,
chairman of the Department of
Radiology
They’ll be chuting the bulls at the Coliseum
Cowboys come to town
for 8th annual rodeo
By TERRI BLACKWELL
Krd and Mark Staff Writer
If you are in the mood for some calf
roping, steer wrestling or bull riding
and don't want to do it at home, then
saddle up and head for the Coliseum
tonight, Saturday night or Sunday for
the Block and Bridle Club's 8th annual
Great Southland Stampede
This year's rodeo features 11 of the
top 15 cowboys in the country The
Friday and Saturday night per
formances will begin at 8 pm, and the
Sunday performance will begin at 2
pm
There are three other rodeos in the
Southeast this weekend, but "there is
more interest in the Athens rodeo than
in the other three," said stock con
tractor Matt Drydan
Rodeo organizers attribute the large
turnout of top cowboys to the increased
prize money being offered this year.
Prizes were increased by $1,100 per
event. Total prize money for the six
events is about $22,000, Drydan said.
There will be a parade through the
downtown area starting at 3:30 this
afternoon ir. -the Federal Building to
kick off the weekend
Fraternities and sororities, as well as
the Block and bridle Club, will have
floats in the parade, and several
marching bands w ill p; rticipate State
Commissioner ol .’. . ulture Tommy
Irvin .will be the parade's grand
marshall
A lot of work and planning have gone
into putting on the rodeo. "We started
planning this rodeo the day after the
last one," said Block and Bridle Club
member Joe Gotti. "And we ll start on
next year's rodeo on Monday."
Block and Bridle club members work
year-round preparing for the rodeo, and
every detail is handled by students,
from working out the budget to setting
up the livestock stalls. The members
had to spread 200 truckloads of dirt,
clean up the little arena, and unload
and feed the stock They set up the
animal chutes Wednesday, and
Thursday the cowboys arrived.
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