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The Red and Black
Wednesday, April 14,1982
Checkout ready by summer
By JCJLIETT DINKINS
Hed and Black I nelrlbutlKR Writer
Despite several delays,
implementation of a com
puterized checkout system
in the main library should be
completed "in or before this
summer,” according to
director of libraries David
Bishop
The computer checkout
system in the science library
became operational in Oc
tober Though no specific
date was set for implemen
ting the main library's
system, Bishop said that
substantial hardware pro
blems have plagued the pro
ject.
One problem was a defect
in the light pens ordered for
checkout in the main library.
Designed to instantly read
information from bar-code
labels on books and patches
on IDs, then transfer it to the
computer, officials
discovered that the
manufacturer had put a
seven-second lapse in the
light pens Since the lapse
slowed down checkout time,
the pens had to be sent back
to the manufacturer in
December to have the pro
blem corrected
Another reason for the
delay was unstable elec
trical wiring in the science
library, which houses the
system's main computer and
mini computer. The wiring
problem has been corrected,
Bishop said
The checkout system in
the science library is now
fully operational, but addi
tional materials are still on
order for the main library.
Bishop expects the checkout
systems in the main library
to be fully operational before
the beginning of fall quarter
When the computerized
system is fully implemented
in the main library, Bishop
said it will prove to be more
efficient than the manual
system in a number of ways.
Patrons will save time
because they will no longer
have to fill out information
cards for every book The
system will also
automatically recognize
overdue books and generate
bills for them.
Bishop said the startup
delays have not added to the
overall expense of the com
puterized system. The
University hired four full
time analysis and program
mers to develop and main
tain the system. Because
they could not correct the
problems with the system,
the programmers and
analysts worked on other
projects when the delays oc
curred.
“Although the problems
with the light pens were un
fortunate, they didn’t cost
anything because no pro
gram time was being spent
on the system,'' Bishop said
The main library is also
now testing an electronic
theft detection system Iden
tical to the one now being us
ed in the science library, the
system alerts a security
guard when items that are
not allowed to circulate out
side the library are remov
ed. These non-circulating
items are being treated with
a substance Bishop declined
to identify because "telling
everybody what the
substance is would defeat
the whole purpose of the
detection system.”
Although the system is
turned on now, it will be six
months to a year before it is
fully operational Until then,
patrons will go through elec
tronic and manual checkout
by security guards A securi
ty guard will remain at the
checkout station when the
electronic system is im
plemented.
Manager of Paris Adult
faces obscenity charge
By SUSAN LACCETTI
Krd and Hlack Staff Writer
A second Paris Adult
Theater employee arrested
Monday by Athens police on
charges of distributing por
nographic materials will ap
pear in Athens-Clarke Coun
ty Magistrates Court May 12.
Gerald Kendall Warren,
26, 421 Hancock Ave.,
manager of the Paris Adult
Theater, was released on
$2,300 bond from the Clarke
County Jail.
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Detective Alan Brown of
the city's drug|vice unit said
a warrant was issued for
Warren's arrest as a result
of an incident on April 5.
Warren is charged with sell
ing two films and two
magazines that Athens-
Clarke County Magistrate’s
Court Judge Pierre
Boulogne ruled as being
obscene.
The arrest comes just six
days after a raid by the
Athens police in which over
200 films and magazines
were confiscated and
employee Freddie Howell
was arrested on an obscenity
charge.
Each count of distributing
obscene material carries a
possible prison sentence of
up to 12 months or up to a
$1,000 fine.
Six Dekalb County
residents were arrested in
connection with the case last
week on charges of conspir
ing to distribute obscene
materials.
The two arrests in Athens
are the result of a six-month
joint investigation by the
Athens Police Department
drug | vice unit and the
Dekalb County Department
of Public Safety vice and
permits unit.
The investigation began
after the Houston Police
Department and the Fulton
County solicitor’s office
revealed that Ibron In
dustries Inc., based in
Chamblee, had been
distributing books, films,
videotapes, magazines and
other allegedly por
nographic items, said Lt.
R E. Wilson Jr., commander
of the special investigative
division of the Dekalb Coun
ty Department of Public
Safety.
Police say the company is
distributing materials to
stores in Alabama, Califor
nia, Kansas, Mississippi,
North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee and
Texas as well as Georgia.
Dekalb County Police have
a warrant for Linda Ivey of
Atlanta, who is suspected of
being the company’s
ringleader in Georgia,
Wilson said.
The Paris Adult Theater’s
business license has been in
jeopardy since 1971. Raids in
1973, 1977 and 1981 brought
the theater back to court
where Clarke County
Superior Court Judge James
Barrow is awaiting a
Supreme Court ruling on a
similar South Carolina case
before deciding the theater’s
fate
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STUDENT AFFAIRS
Student Activity Fee Allocations
Applications for student positions on the
Student Activity Fee Allocation Recommen
dations Committee are available in the Office
of Student Affairs, 201 Academic Building, and
at the Information Booth, Memorial Hall. The
committee, composed of faculty, staff, and
students, is responsible for reviewing alloca
tion requests from groups and activities with
campus-wide programs and from any club not
directly related to a school or college.
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GPA may apply. Applications must be return
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5:00 p.m.,Wednesday, April 14,1982.
This irrformation has been prepared and
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and, most of all, to see
the circus. Athenians who
attended either of the two
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AUSTIN, Tex. (CPS) — One of the schools
that led an anarchic nationwide trend toward
abolishing student government has moved
toward reinstituting its student government.
In a recent election, students at the Univer
sity of Texas-Austin approved a constitution
for a new student government.
Texas' life without government wasn’t
altogether unusual. Dozens of colleges
across the country have disbanded their stu
dent assemblies for a variety of reasons, and
several others are considering doing so now.
Besides Texas, Dartmouth, Virginia,
Georgia, Southern Illinois at Edwardsville
and North Colorado, among others, have
disbanded all or part of their student govern
ments since 1978. In addition, Oklahoma,
Eastern Mennonite College, Stanford and
Missouri have recently considered dissolving
their governments, too.
In most cases, the dissolutions were
prompted by student-government bungling
of campus events, seemingly-endless
government haggling and resultant student
apathy.
Texas was the first major university in the
’70s to actually vote for anarchy.
Heller says the university hasn’t been hurt
much by the lack of a student government.
Students serve on the same campus commit
tees that politicians used to, and the more
than 500 student organizations at Austin had
taken up much of the slack for special- in
terest groups. In addition, each college
within the university maintains its own stu
dent council.
But the disappearance of a central govern
ment "has meant that we haven't had a cen
tral representative body to comment on cam
pus issues," Heller observes.
At Georgia, which followed
Texas into anarchy in 1979, "There are a few
people who have expressed an interest in stu
dent government, but there’s nothing for
mulated or concrete in the works," reports
Assistant Vice President for Academic Af
fairs Tom Cochran.
Yet he expects a centralized government
to reappear "within the next couple of
years.”
"There's still a place for a centralized stu
dent voice,” he contends, "and, personally,
I'd like to see student government back on
campus. It provides that focal point of stu
dent interest, and assures everyone that
students have a voice in what’s going on.”
Similarly, “it all started out real, real
negative when the government was first
abolished” at Northern Colorado, says Mary
Beth Gibson, L'NC’s campus activities coor
dinator.
“But it’s turned out to be very positive.
Students themselves admitted that what they
had didn't work, and now we’ve created
something better. The new system is a heck
of a lot more accountable."
The new system, launched last year,
allows for one student president and 11 vice
presidents to help make decisions in various
areas of student concern like student ser
vices, university relations, equal opportunity
and academic and faculty affairs.
Dartmouth, which abolished its
undergraduate council in 1969, two years ago
also reinstituted a student assembly mostly
to help focus student participation in campus
affairs.
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Governor candidates
appear in forum here
All eleven candidates in the 1982 Georgia gubernatorial
race will take part in a forum tonight from 7:06 to 8:30 at
Memorial Hall Campus radio station WUOG, as part of a
statewide broadcast by the Georgia Radio News Service and
the Georgia Network, will broadcast the forum, which is not
open to the public.
Candidates Jack Watson, Joe Frank Harris, Gladys L.
Hunt, Billy Lxjvett, S. Roland Attaway, Buck Melton, Norman
Underwood, Nick Reagan-Belluso, Bo Ginn, Bob Bell and
Ben Blackburn will answer questions concerning campaign
issues.
The forum is the first one of the campaign at which all of
the gubernatorial candidates will be present, according to
WUOG General Manager Mike Henry
WUOG news director Susan Hoover will host the forum,
with Richard Warner, news director of the Georgia Radio
News Service, and Wade Medlock, news director of the
Georgia Network, moderating.
All candidates who registered campaign committees with
the Secretary of State’s office by March 31,1982, were invited
to participate in the forum.
— Ed Legge