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It’s a miracle
Kinko's downtown office cleans up
and plans to reopen soon
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A bone of contention
Ruptured disc has Georgia linebacker
Tommy I'hurson facing the possibilities of
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The Red and Black
Athens, C3a. Tuesday, April ao, 1902 Vol.89, No.92 An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Students face higher housing, meal costs
By PAM ROSEMAN
Red and Black ContributinK Writer
In addition to paying higher tuition fees next
year, University students can expect to pay
more for sleeping and eating on campus.
The Board of Regents last week approved
increases in most mandatory fees — student
activity, health and transportation — but in
creases in housing and Food Services, non
mandatory fees, have not yet been decided.
Although University System Chancellor
Vernon Crawford has riot okayed any housing
fee increase, Dan Hallenbeck, director of
University Housing, said he expects an increase
to be approved.
Housing costs are expected to rise 12 percent
and the meal plan packages will rise 3 percent.
If Crawford approves the housing fee in
crease, fees will escalate between $26 and $40,
depending on the dormitory, for the 1982-83
year. Housing fees now range between $220 and
$320 per quarter.
Crawford said in a recent letter to University
President Fred Davison that he preferred to
wait until the entire budget picture became
clear before deciding if housing fees would
increase.
University Food Servics Director Glen
Gerrett said his department decides on their
own how much to increase prices from year to
year. Neither Crawford nor the regents vote on
the increases.
“We look at what it's cost us to operate in the
previous year and look at the rising cost of
operations,” Gerrett said. “If we feel like we
can hold our own for another year, then we keep
increases at the very minimum."
With the 3 percent increase, the 15-meal plan
will rise to $312 and the 20-meal plan will rise to
$371 per quarter. Presently, the 15-meal plan is
$303, and the 20-meal plan is $360 for a quarter.
The offices of housing and Food Services are
auxiliary services which receive no state-
appropriated funds for their operations. Both
are non-profit organizations operating on a
surplus-reserve budget designed to save money
from a profitable year as protection against the
possibility of a loss the following year.
Officials in both departments said rising
labor, supply and utilities costs may force fee
increases.
“We justify our existence by generating
enough money to offset our operating ex
penses,” Gerrett said.
Before 1979, housing fees were increasing
about every two years. Since then, however,
they have risen annually.
“We got into the position that the inflation was
moving so rapidly that we needed to go ahead
and raise fees on an annual basis because we
just couldn't predict what was going to happen
two years in advance," Hallenbeck said.
Skyrocketing food prices resulting from in
flation caused Food Services to raise their fees
20 percent in 1978, and they have continued to
rise on a yearly basis, Gerrett said.
Utility costs are also a major cause for the
increases. Energy Users News, a business
newspaper, reported in December 1981 that
electricity costs had increased 13 percent
nationally during the year and were expected to
increase another 15 percent during the following
12 months.
The increased utility costs are reflected in the
housing office's montnly bills. The February
utility bill for Russell Hall increased to $57,333
in 1982 from $48,973 in February 1981, an in
crease of almost 15 percent.
But the housing office has not raised fees to
match the increase in utility costs The housing
fee increase for 1980-81 was 11.5 percent, and the
increase for 1981-82 was 8.5 percent.
Although Food Services fees have also in
creased to keep up with rising costs, the 3
percent increase approved for 1982-83 is less
than previous increases. Fees increased 9.6
percent for 1981-82, raising the cost of the 15-
meal plan from $273 to the current $303 per
quarter. The 20-meal plan increased from $323
to the current $360 per quarter
In 1980-81, the meal plan prices rose 7 percent.
How great thou, art
No, these whirling dervishes < right) are not members
of the Bizarre Arte Ensemble, but just one of a
host of performers who entertained the crowds of
Athens residents w ho attended the Athens Arts
Festival. After almost a week of steady rain.
Sunday’s near-perfect weather served as a magnet to
the art and sun lovers that were drawn to Memorial
Park for the exhibition of arts and crafts, clogging,
square dancing, bagpiping, band groups and other
native arts. The day’s events, sponsored by the
City of Athens Parks and Recreation Department and
the Clarke County Office of Cultural Affairs also
included a Children’s Art Festival that allowed
the younger set to try their hands at sidewalk
painting, doll-making and other crafts. Above,
Matthew llawley, 7, gets his face painted like a clown.
Staff photo'Sum WalltNi
FBI steps up activities at colleges
By ALEX JOHNSON
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AUGUSTA, Ga. (UPI) - A U.S.
magistrate refused to set bond Monday
for an unemployed Hungarian-born
man accused of paying a Fort Gordon
soldier for classified defense in
formation he planned to give the
Hungarian intelligence service.
Otto Attilla Gilbert, who received his
American citizenship in 1962, was
arrested at the Confederate monument
in downtown Augusta Saturday after he
allegedly handed Army warrant officer
Janos Szmolka $4,000 for several
classified documents and film
cassettes.
The complaint against Gilbert
charged that Szmolka, who was
stationed in West Germany at the time,
was first contacted by a Hungarian
intelligence agent during a family visit
to Budapest Szmolka, who was
allegedly told he would be paid up to
$100,000 for classified documents,
immediately informed his Army
superiors of the contact.
The government did not reveal the
nature of the documents Szmolka had
access to while stationed in West
Germany.
The complaint said Szmolka was
contacted by other alleged Hungarian
agents, but no one else was charged.
Officials refused to comment on the
possibility of other arrests.
U.S. Magistrate John Dunsmore told
Gilbert that the espionage charges
against him represented "the most
serious crime a person can be charged
with besides murder” and refused to
set bail.
If convicted of the charges, Gilbert
could be sentenced to life in prison or
death
Gilbert, a slender, 50-year-old man,
stood with stooped shoulders and his
hands behind his back while Dunsmore
questioned him about his background.
Gilbert told Dunsmore in a thick
accent he gets “my mail" at a Forrest
Hills, N.Y., address Gilbert, who said
he had a sister who also lived near New
York, said he was an unemployed
“businessman" who last worked for a
business supply company in Manhattan
in 1980
In Washington, FBI director William
Webster said Gilbert was not able to
relay any of the classified documents
he received to a foreign government.
He said no classified material was
furnished to Gilbert before his arrest
"However," Webster added, "during
the arrest we seized some documents
(that) if relayed to a foreign govern
ment could jeopardize the United
States.”
It was not immediately clear if those
documents had been provided by the
government through Szmolka or if
Gilbert could have obtained them
through another source.
"Cases like this which occasionally
come to the public's attention are
merely the tip of the iceberg," Webster
said. "These cases clearly demon
strate, however, that our military and
industrial technology is spy target No. 1
for foreign intelligence operations."
William Hamilton, FBI agent in
charge of the Savannah office, said
nearby Fort Gordon was probably
involved in the case, but refused to
comment when asked about a possible
connection with the Savannah River
Plant, a Pentagon-run nuclear weapons
facility just across the border in South
Carolina.
Hamilton said Szmolka first became
“the target of espionage recruitment by
the Hungarian Military Intelligence
service" while he was based in West
Germany in 1977.
The complaint said Szmolka was first
contacted by a man who identified
himself as Lajos Perlaki during a visit
to Budapest. Szmolka was allegedly
told he could make up to $100,000 for
obtaining classified material.
The complaint also said that during a
second trip to Budapest, Szmolka said
he was given 1,000 deutsch marks and
4,000 Austrian shillings.
During a later meeting in Vienna,
Austria, the complaint said, Szmolka
was given $3,000 for unclassified in
formation that had been given the
warrant officer by investigators
The complaint said Perlaki in
structed Szmolka to refer to any
classified documents in future
correspondences as "1964 Kennedy half
dollars.” The number of half dollars
would indicate the number of
documents he had obtained; he would
describe as "mint sets" any documents
he had from a list of U.S. Army
publications.
In letters between Szmolka and
Gilbert, their upcoming meeting was
referred to as a wedding of a "female”
according to the complaint
The complaint said Gilbert would
recognize Szmolka, because he would
be wearing a multi-colored camera
strap on his right shoulder and be
carrying an Augusta newspaper
Perhaps the most visible effect of the
Reagan administration's policies
toward education is the reduction of
federal funds being doled out to colleges
and scholarship programs Budget cuts
have become a prime concern of
educators around the nation.
But there is more than one way for a
conservative president to make his
presence known on the country's cam
puses. It is called the Federal Bureau of
Investigation.
Since President Reagan took office,
federal agents at some of the nation’s
universities have been projecting a
higher profile than in the past Their ac
tivities are centered mainly upon keep
ing tabs on foreign educators and
scholars, particularly those from the
Iron Curtain countries
When Soviet robotics expert Nikolai
Umnov toured the United States last
year, he met official resistance that led
to his seminars and lectures being
canceled at Stanford, Michigan State
and Auburn universities
In addition, other foreign scholars
have had many security checks per
formed on them, checks which at
Michigan State led FBI agents to ask
the head librarian to provide them with
reading lists of some Soviet scientists
The librarian refused
At Iowa State University, officials
looked into FBI investigations on cam
pus and found that not only was the
Bureau following visiting Polish pro
fessors, but was also keeping an eye on
most foreign students, campus feminist
groups and the Black Student Associa
tion.
Aerospace engineer Charles Kauff
man of the University of Michigan, who
has hosted many foreign scholars, has
become so disgusted he now refuses to
cooperate with the government
“I'm very angry at what our govern
ment is doing The Reagan administra
tion is paranoid and the FBI has damn
near become a Gestapo." he said.
In accordance with FBI procedure,
Bureau spokesmen in Washington and
Athens refused to comment on “pen
ding investigations ”
Barbara Jorgenson, a spokeswoman
for the National Academy of Sciences,
which sponsors numerous tours by
foreign scholars in the United States,
said the reason for such increased
surveillance is the hard-line policy
toward the Iron Curtain countries taken
by the Reagan Administration.
Such checks are routine, but with the
emphasis upon reduced trade, both
commercial and educational, with the
Soviet Union, the government is allow
ing fewer foreign scholars into the
country and is keeping a closer eye on
whom they do allow in.
"It has become very annoying at
times," Jorgenson said. "We think they
are interfering with basic education
and scholarship as a tool in a political
conflict.”
“It really isn't fair," she said.
The State Department, which in
stigated the activities as a result of the
Reagan administration's tougher
foreign policy, contends the educators
are over-reacting A spokesman said,
“For every Umnov, there are probably
70 or 80 cases approved, and life goes
on."
The premise behind the tougher
restrictions placed on foreign scholars
is a presidential policy that views
educational exchange as a form of
trade rather than a diplomatically
privileged cooperative effort.
The result is that Soviet study of the
United States vastly overshadows
American study of the Soviet Union
(see related story).
Apparently, the University has not
been a recipient of any increased atten
tion, primarily because of the dearth of
foreign professors working on sensitive
projects,
Dari Snyder, the University’s ad
ministrative director for international
development, said, “We have had con
tact from the FBI office when there will
be people visiting from the Iron Curtain
countries." The last such contact was
"at least a couple or three years ago,"
he said.
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Lighting installed to provide safer environment
By SL'ELLEN STOKES
Red and Black < nntribnUng Wril#r
After compiling a list of campus areas with less
than adequate lighting. Physical Plant employees
have installed lights on the roof of Brumby Hall and
in the parking lot to the west of the dormitory.
The Visual Arts-Baldwin Hall area was the top-
priority for lighting, but the Brumby project was
done first because it required less work and because
the Physical Plant had available manpower
Although the Visual Arts parking lot was the site of
a knife assault of a University student in March, the
priority list was compiled “long before that," ac
cording to Dave Lynch, a design engineer at the
Physical Plant
' The visual arts area was going to take an awful lot
of digging up and disruption of the area to do it all at
one time,” Lynch said At Brumby, "the poles were
there, all they had to do was put the lights on them It
was a scheduling, man-hours problem," he said.
Assistant Housing Director Bob Huss said the lights
on the roof were installed during winter quarter and
paid for by University Housing These lights il
luminate the area immediately surrounding the
dorm.
Lynch said the lights in the Brumby parking lot
were installed as part of a program to improve
lighting conditions all over campus
The Public Safety employees determined which
areas needed additional lighting by driving around
campus to look for dark areas
Brown said several factors were used to determine
that lights were needed at Brumby "(It houses) all
females, it was dark, it was on the edge of campus,"
Brown said. Brown said no violence had recently oc
curred in that area, but automobile break-ins are a
recurring problem.
The parking-lot lights were installed over spring
break, and were funded by the Physical Plant, Lynch
said. At the end of each fiscal year, a lump sum of the
Physical Plant's resources is assigned to pay for
lighting The allotment for 1982 was around $20,000,
he said, with the Brumby Hall parking lot job costing
approximately $6,000
Lynch said preliminary work had already begun on
the Visual-Arts-Baldwin project, and he expects work
on the project at the Food Science building to begin
soon The Food Science-dairy research area is
number four on the priority list. Number three is Con
ner Hall, and Lynch said work will begin on that pro
ject as soon as some other, unrelated construction
work is finished there.
Man arrested
on spy charges
held without bond
