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The Red and Black
Athens, Ga. Wednesday, April 21,19S2 Voi.89, No.93 An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
University complying with Title IX
Krom Staff Reports
The University is in "full compliance” with
the Title IX federal anti-sex discrimination act,
according to University Public Relations
Director Barry Wood.
William Thomas, regional director of the U.S.
Department of Education’s Office of Civil
Rights, sent a letter in late March to President
Fred Davison informing him of the results of a
four-year investigation into University policies
toward female athletes.
Title IX forbids sex discrimination in all
educational institutions receiving federal funds.
University Athletic Director Vince Dooley,
who has a copy of the Office of Civil Rights'
report on the investigation, said, “It (the
report) did mention some things that are still
not in compliance." The report said the
University has inadequate office space for
women coaches, Dooley said, but he added, “I
knew that.
“1 think we've come a long way,” Dooley said,
citing a women's training room, better
promotion of women’s sports through sports
information, a better scholarship program and
more full-time coaches as areas of im
provement.
“All complaints against the University have
been dismissed," Wood said.
After two women athletes complained in 1973
and 1976 that University women had poor locker
rooms, medical facilities, athletic equipment,
insufficient funding, and that their coaches
were subjected to undue pressures, a team of
Health, Education and Welfare investigators
arrived in Athens in 1978 to look into the
allegations.
The investigators claimed at the time that
University officials were preventing HEW from
conducting a "free and open investigation ”
An attorney from the regional HEW office
claimed at the time that the University had
contacted all athletic coaches prior to the HEW
interviews to tell them University counsel was
available Before the investigation began, HEW
and the University agreed that University
counsel could be present during the interviews,
but that HEW would inform the interviewees.
University officials denied pressuring sub
jects to use University counsel
“We think HEW has learned some things
about how to handle their investigations. That
was their first one, and they probably made
some mistakes," Dooley said of HEW’s in
vestigation.
Following the investigation, HEW sent its
findings to Washington. In October 1981, the
investigators returned to campus to check on
the University’s progress.
What they found was that in 1981 the women's
athletic budget was $566,036, as compared to a
$19,000 budget in 1973. In 1981, 74 women
athletes received some sort of financial aid.
while only a handful received aid in 1973
In addition, they found that women’s coaches
were working on a full-time basis, rather than
part-time as they did earlier.
Although Title IX became law in 1972, the
HEW did not investigate until 1978 because
federally funded institutions were given a five-
year grace period to implement the new policy.
Failure to comply would result in a complete
loss of federal funds for the institutions in
volved. The University was the first major
university to be investigated for Title IX
violations.
Dooley said he did not think improvements
will stop hecause the investigation is over. "The
decisions I made were not because of Title IX,
but what I thought was right,” Dooley said. "If I
was that kind of athletic director, I shouldn't be
here in the first place."
The full results of the investigation will be
revealed by Affirmative Action Officer Len
Davis at the spring quarter faculty meeting
May 12 in the Law School Auditorium, Wood
said.
Wood said University officials did not want to
release the report until they had a chance to
review and analyze the Civil Rights Office's
findings.
Red and Black staff writers Dana Dycus, Mark
Fleming, Bill Krueger, Bob Keyes and Sylvia
Colwell assisted In preparing this story.
Anti-Klan group
hopes to prevent
local organization
Staff pholo/Charlir ItrUlster
Staff photo/t"harlie Kfghilrr
VGA loves their bodies
Students turned out in droves Tuesday for all sorts of check-ups at the "UGA Loves My Body"
health fair in Memorial llall. "We’ve been mobbed all day — there were lines at all the
booths," said University Health Educator Nancy McNair. Health care workers were on hand to
check students' heights, weights, blood pressures and vision, as well as distribute information
on everything from stress to cardiopulmonary resuscitation. Especially popular were the
Runner’s Clinic, where students had their feet and knees examined by the same specialists who
treat the Bulldogs' athletic injuries, and the birth control information booth, where one worker
showed students what not to do with certain contraceptives.
Stalemate continues over Falklands
By United Press International
British Prime Minister Margaret
Thatcher rejected Argentina’s latest
proposals to settle the Falkland Islands
crisis Tuesday but said she was sending
Foreign Secretary Francis Pym to
Washington with a set of counter- pro
posals.
In Washington, President Reagan
urged restraint by both sides after a
briefing from Secretary of State Alex
ander Haig on his "arduous" — and so
far unsuccessful — attempt to avert a
war between Britain and Argentina
over the Falkland Islands.
With a British war fleet now only a
few days from the Falklands, the pro
spect of war loomed larger as each side
continued to insist publicly on demands
the other side said it could not accept.
Argentine Air Force Commander
Basilio Lami Dozo, before boarding a
military flight to the Falklands, said
Britain's air force would "be at a disad
vantage" with Argentina's if fighting
breaks out in the South Atlantic.
“I'm not worried," he said about Bri
tain’s military. Asked if the situation
was now closer to war or peace, he said,
“We are midway in between. ”
There were unconfirmed reports part
of the 40-ship fleet was bearing down on
South Georgia Island, a Flakland
dependency about a day’s sailing time
closer than the rest of the islands invad
ed by Argentina April 2.
Argentina, meanwhile, invoked the
1947 Rio Treaty and asked the
Organization of American States in
Washington for collective security
measures against Britain.
Over U.S. objections, the OAS voted
18-0 to convene a foreign ministers
meeting next Monday to consider the
Argentine request.
Haig briefed Reagan on Argentina's
latest peace proposals, which he called
“a compilation of Argentina's attitudes
on the crisis by the British government
"We had very arduous discussions in
Argentina and I have further defined
and delineated the position of that
government (and) transferred those
views to London where they are now be
ing considered,” Haig said.
Speaking to reporters after his
meeting with Haig. Reagan said the
secretary had "done a magnificent
job” of trying to work out a peace set
tlement "I just hope we can keep this
process going, that there will be
restraint by both countries,” he said.
In London, however, Thatcher said
the Argentine proposals were not ac
ceptable to Britain, which is insisting
on the withdrawal of a!) Argentine
troops from the Falklands before talks
begin.
“We have to be true to our objec
tives," Thatcher told Parliament, “and
I cannot disguise from the House that
the Argentine proposals at present
before us fall short in some important
respects of the objectives and re
quirements expressed by this House.
She did not detail Britain's objec
tions, except to say the proposals “fail
to provide that the Falkland islanders
should be able to decide their own
destiny."
Though the Argentine proposals were
not announced, reports said they in
cluded a formula under which the
disputed islands would be jointly ad
ministered by Argentina, Britain and
the United States while the issue of
sovereignty was negotiated. But the
proposals apparently did not provide
for the withdrawal of all Argentine
forces and continued to insist that the
Falklands, a British colony for 149
years, belong to Argentina by historical
right.
Thatcher said Pym would leave for
Washington Thursday to present Haig
“with our own proposaIs.''
She declined to elaborate except to
say the Argentine proposals, while in
adequate in Britain's view, "will be
studied carefully."
Haig, after two trips to Buenos Aires
and London, said he was neither
"hopeful or unhopeful" about the
chances of averting the war both sides
have said they are prepared to fight.
"We are continuing to talk so we'U
see where it leads,” he said. Before
leaving Buenos Aires Monday, Haig
warned “time indeed is running out”
and “war in the South Atlantic would be
the greatest of tragedies."
In Buenos Aires, the government
briefed political leaders on the crisis
amid open speculation the Argentine
junta had backed itself into a corner
where further compromise could lead
to its downfall
The question of sovereignty over the
Falklands was still the major stumbl
ing block The newspaper La Nacion
said the junta could fall if it compromis
ed on the issue.
Federal Party Leader Francisco
Manrique, one of the politicians briefed
by the government, said, “We received
absolute assurances that the Argentine
sovereignty in the islands will not be the
subject of any concessions ''
Interior Minister Alfredo Saint Jean
told a meetingof governors "the flag
that was placed on the Malvinas Islands
will never be withdrawn from there by
Argentines " Malvinas is the Argentine
name for the Falklands chain, 450 miles
off Argentina's southern coast.
Argentina maintains it inherited a
Spanish claim to the Falklands, a
British colony since 1833, and invaded
only after 15 years of negotiations failed
to resolve the sovereignty dispute.
Britain charged the junta was trying
to divert attention from the nation's
economic crisis, which appeared to be
on the verge of toppling the government
when it ordered the invasion of the
Falklands.
ByC.E.REINEKF.
H«t and Black Stall Writer
If the Ku Klux Klan resisters as a stu
dent organization at the University, it
would lead to a higher incidence of
racism and anti-Semetism on campus,
said Peter Farber of the Coalition
Against Prejudice Racism, Anti-
Semitism and Discrimination.
The Monday night meeting was the
first for CAPRAD, a coalition formed to
"respond to incidence of racism and
anti-Semitism on campus" and "to pre
vent a Klan chapter from being
registered among student organiza
tions at the University," according to
Farber.
The coalition was first conceived
winter quarter by Farber and Tonya
Allen of the committee for Black Pro
grams to educate students about Klan
activities. The group was spurred to life
however, by Georgia’s Grand Dragon
Ed Fields' announcement that the Klan
would seek to form a University
chapter during spring quarter
“We are responding to the threat of a
Klan chapter here at the University,”
Farber told the crowd of 150 gathered at
the Hillel House on Milledge Avenue.
“We must leave no question in their
(Klan members’) minds that they are
not wanted."
Acting Student Activities Director
Phil Weast said any group asking to be
registered as a student organization
must submit an application to his office
listing its officers and stating its pur
pose Weast said he would question
Klan registrants "strongly" to deter
mine if they will openly admit plans to
intimidate students and whether they
will advocate segregationist policies.
But, he said, "I see no reason why we
wouldn't register them."
"When the University registers an
organization," Weast added, "it is not
granting recognition."
The Klun announced its intention of
forming a University chapter last week
on the WUOG Evening Exchange pro
gram.
Farber said CAPRAD hopes to pre
vent the formation of the University
chapter by creating "negative publici
ty" about the Klan and said his group
should be ready to protest the expected
Klan rally this quarter.
"We have to make sure that when we
have a rally on the Federal Building
steps," Farber said of the group, "there
will be 10,000 people and T V. cameras
all to make sure the Klan gets the
message.”
CAPRAD appointed a seven-member
steering committee on Monday’s
meeting to draw up a statement of prin
ciples and to draft letters asking the
support of the Athens community
Peabodys get watchful eye
By DEBORAH SHARP
llrd and Black Stall Writer
When the George Foster Peabody
Awards luncheon is held in New York
May 5, it will mark the 42nd year the
University and the journalism school
have granted awards for meritorious
service in broadcasting. Much as the
Pulitzer Prizes are the prestige
awards in the newpaper industry, the
Peabody awards denote the best in
radio and television
But the Pulitzer Prize, once jour
nalism's shiniest honor, has taken on
a decided tarnish since the Janet
Cooke-Washington Post debacle of
1981
Even before the incident, criticism
had been leveled at the Pulitzer Prize
After it, the controversy intensified
Among problems cited by press
critics have been the inadequate time
devoted to evaluating entries, the
make-up of the board that selects the
winners, and the failure to seek in
novative work from papers outside
the Eastern press
Since people frequently compare
the prestige of the Pulitzers to that of
the Peabodys, Peabody officials go to
lengths to see that similar criticisms
are not also levied
When John McCormally served as a
Pulitzer juror in 1971, he was especial
ly critical of the time — or lack of time
— allotted to screening entries In
his article, "Who Cares about the
Pulitzer Prize?” he described his
misgivings:
"In nine hours, five fellow judges
and I were expected to consider a
million words, in 134 separate entries,
and come up with five finalists Later
a board of advisers picked the winner
from the five, without knowing what
we. in our haste, had discarded." A lot
of good work gets lost in the chaff, he
added.
Like the Pulitzer's, Peabody entries
are also pre-screened by committees
Here too, a great many entries must
be evaluated Worth McDougald, a
University journalism professor and
director of the Peabody Awards Pro
gram, said the screening process each
year reduces 700-800 entries to a
"workable 40-50” for the Peabody na
tional advisory board to review
"Obviously a board of this
magnitude can't listen to or look at all
entries," McDougald said.
Instead, nine three- or four-member
committees made up of journalism
faculty, staff and students do it Each
committee screens an average of
35-40 hours of programming,
McDougald said. Five or six top pro
grams are recommended in each
category While the Peabody board
considers the committees' recom
mendations, it is not bound by the
choices. The board makes the final
selections, McDougald said
Not surprisingly, both students and
faculty who have served on commu
tes said that screening the entries —
which range from 60-second public
service announcements to several
programs from a series — consumes a
lot of their time.
“I really enjoyed it,” said Beverly
Bethune, an assistant professor of
journalism "But with the time involv
ed, other things just became more im
portant.” Bethune served for two
yean, but was not on a committee this
year
"We’re paid an honorarium, but it's
strictly an honorarium and it doesn’t
cover how much time we really
spend, " she said
“I had visions that we would be here
until July," said Chris Porter, a
graduate student in media manage
ment. The television public service
category his committee screened had
87 programs entered, he said
Screening lasts between four and
six weeks each year, McDougald said
While that is more time than the
Pulitzer jurors have, it still leaves the
committees with a lot of program
ming to consider
"We try to ask the committee to
look at a program in its entirety, but
sometimes — as with discussion
shows — they don't have to view the
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whole thing," McDougald said.
Indeed, none of the committee
members contacted said they watch
ed or listened to all programs from
beginning to end.
"It’s impossible in human terms to
do it any other wav," said Barbara
Busey, a journalism student in the
advertising sequence Her committee
judged about 60 television entertain
ment programs, she said.
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