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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspoper serving the University of Geoigia community
Athens, Go. Vol. 90, No. 46
Thursdoy, Jon. 13, 1983
News 543 1809 Advertising o43 1791
Registration to be moved on campus
By SUSAN LACCETTI
Krd and Black Senior Reporter
The University plans to move OpSTAR
registration from the Chicopee building to an
on-campus location as soon as the Tate Student
Center is completed, Registrar Bruce Shutt said
at the Student Adairs Advisory Board meeting
Wednesday.
“The immediate plan is to move Chicopee to
the Bulldog Room," Shutt said.
The SAAB, representatives of the 30 Universi
ty student organizations, met with many top ad
ministrators to discuss issues of growing con
cern among students, including moving
registration back onto campus
Student Activities Director Bob Nettles said
he had been told the Tate Center would be com
pleted by May but said he doubts that.
“This may or may not become a reality,” Net
ties said. “Realistically a starting date will be
in August.”
Shutt told the board that moving registration
to an on-campus location would make the pro
cess more easily accessible to students.
Shutt said the University would also save on
transportation costs by keeping two additional
buses on campus instead of being used for a
route to Chicopee, which is off Mulberry Street
Shutt also discussed the problems of the
OpSTAR registration system including last
week's breakdown that delayed more than 2,000
students for an hour and a half
Shutt said it was OpSTAR’s critically impor
tant Information Management System that
caused the breakdow n
The board anounced transportation fees for
students would increase next year, two campus
parking lots will eventually be decks, and,
hopefully, certain class sections will be larger
next quarter
Vice President for Student Affairs Dwight
Douglas said there will be an administrative
meeting next week to discuss recent drop/add
scheduling problems
Douglas said more students were trying to
add classes than there were open spaces
available.
"We hope to moderately increase section
sizes," Douglas said “We need to determine
whether closed courses decreased appreciably
during drop/add"
Joe Broadhurst, Administrative Director of
Business Services, told the board transportation
fees would increase 55 cents per quarter beginn
ing in the 1983-84 academic year.
Broadhurst also said parking decks are pro
bable for the visual arts parking lot and near the
Baptist Student Union.
“Plans are to have the first structure in the
next two to three years," he said.
Students discuss
revisions of new
SG A constitution
By EVE MAJOR
Krd and Black Senior Reporter
In a closed meeting Wednesday night,
members of Students for Student
Representation discussed final
revisions for a new student-government
constitution which, if approved by SSR
and Student Activities officials, would
include significant changes from the
former student-government con
stitution.
The document, which in its unrevised
form envisions a student association
rather than a traditional student
government, calls for a two-branch
organization based on a committee
system, said Associate Director of
Student Activities and SSR Adviser Phil
Weast. The document provides for a
president as an executive and a
"senate-type” organization for
meetings of representatives. The
senate would appoint five or six com
mittees to work in such areas as
academic affairs, student services,
financial aid and public relations,
Weast said.
The system would include elected
officials as well as “interested people
who want to help and get involved,"
said SSR spokesman Scott Klosinski
It was not known Wednesday night
whether the document included
provisions for the government to
determine how student activity fees are
spent, an issue that has sunk not only
the original Student Government
Association, but also subsequent at
tempts to revive the institution.
"I think it will work with or without it
(allocation powers)," said Bill Men
denhall, the University's associate vice
president for Student Affairs. He said
previous attempts to revive SGA, in
cluding an attempt two years ago by the
Committee on Student Involvement, a
now-defunct coalition of more than 30
campus clubs and organizations, never
proceeded far enough to submit a
formal proposal. The cornerstone of
CSI’s philosophy was any government
had to have allocation powers in order
to be successful.
"A lot of people have talked, but
they've never really proposed
anything,” Mendenhall said Wed
nesday night.
Klosinski said he had hoped to
present the final revised constitution to
the entire SSR organization sometime
this week, but the committee drafting
the document decided to make ad
ditional revisions.
"The constitution is “something we
just don't want to hurry," he said. “It
may take two more revisions, maybe
three.” The revisions are “little
details” such as the wording of bylaws,
he added.
Klosinski said he did not know when
the constitution would be presented to
SSR for approval. "It depends on how
this draft comes back," he said
If SSR approves the document, it will
be sent to Dwight Douglas, vice
president for Student Affairs, for ap
proval. Douglas said he had not read
any of the "proposed documents," but
“if this is a workable way to increase
(representation), then it's probably a
gowlidea."
Klosinski said SSR had received
more support in its attempts to re
establish a student government than
attempts by CSI two years ago,
probably because CSI tried to revise the
old constitution, whereas “we have a
new approach.” Also, he said, most
students who were here when student
government was abolished four years
ago have already graduated.
“Nobody's really against it and
nobody really remembers how bad it
was," he said, adding that he thought
the old student government had lost
touch with student concerns.
Douglas said he thought SSR had
received more support than the
previous CSI effort because "it is not an
attempt to revise student government
constitution, nor is it an attempt among
just a few people Anytime you have
many students putting in a lot of work,
then the end product is probably going
to be pretty good."
The University's last student
government was abolished by a student
referendum in spring 1979
Jimmy lloldrr/Thr Red and Black
Argo will oppose drinking age bill
By JIM HAKKKIt
Hr A and Black Senior Reporter
While most Athens-area legislators haven’t made
up their minds on legislation introduced in Mon
day's opening day session to raise the state's legal
drinking age from 19 to 21, Rep. Bob Argo <D-
Athens) says he will vote against the bill.
Argo said he did not feel a higher drinking age
would solve the problem of driving under the in
fluence, which is what the bill purports to do
“I oppose the bill, and I'll vote 'red' ’on it,” he
said. A “red" vote is a "no" vote.
"Raising the age from 19 to 21 will only add to
their (students') grief,” he added “You are not go
ing to withdraw alcohol from this age group by rais
ing the drinking age. "
Although it seems University students would be
interested in the legislation, it appears no Universi
ty or Athens-area groups are planning lobbying ef
forts either for or against the measure
Student Activities Director Bob Nettles said he
knew of no campus organizations planning to send
groups to argue for the failure or passage of the bill
Panhellenic Adviser Julie Burkhard and In
trafraternity Council Adviser John Opper confirm
ed that neither Panhellenic nor IFC would send
groups to Atlanta
Marcy Ullom, University Alcohol Awareness
Committee chairwoman, also said her group would
not send a lobbying group to the General Assembly.
"It hasn't even come up in committee meeting,"
she said
"It's fair to say that we're not certain whether
raising the drinking age will solve the problems
alcohol causes," Ullom said
Rep. Hugh l.ogan, D-Athens, echoed Ullom's
reservations. “I don't know if making the legal
drinking age 21 will stop anyone from drinking," he
said.
Argo, 1-ogan and Sen Paul Broun (D-Athens I said
they knew of no community groups planning lobby
ing campaigns
Prince Avenue Baptist Church, which lobbied in
1980 for General Assembly's bill to raise the drink
ing age from 18 to 19, has no plans to repeal its ef
forts this lime though it favors the idea
"We support the change," said Louis Satterwhite,
church administrator. "It just slipped up on us ”
The controversial bill was introduced by Sen Joe
I,ce Thompson (D-Smyrnal as a way to solve the
state's teenage drinking problem Thompson
spearheaded a drive in 1980 which resulted in the
General Assembly raising the legal drinking age
from 18 to 19.
Thompson is strongly supported by Sen. Julian
Bond (D-Atlantai Bond said he supported raising
the drinking age because "the accident rate is so ap
palling."
Thirty-two states already have drinking ages of 20
or 21, Thompson said.
Broun said he would be surprised if the bill passed
the Senate, but he added he felt his colleagues would
approve tougher DUI laws
"What we arc going to do is make a lot of
lawbreakers out of 19- and 20-year-olds who drink
and drive," he said.
A joint House-Senate committee has proposed
legislation setting minimum fines for driving under
the influence at J300 for first offenders, Siam for se
cond offenders and $1,000 for third offenders
Thompson and Bond both said they felt the bill
would be passed by the Senate
The argument in 1980 against raising the age from
18 to 19 was that if a person was old enough to be
drafted, then he was old enough to drinx, Bond said.
"People aren't as concerned about the draft now
and students today are politically poorly informed,"
he added
Thompson said people understood the drinking
and driving situation beter now "It has a lot more
support than in the past," he added
Please see DRINKING I.AW. Page 3
Crawford says legislature ignoring funding formula
Vernon Crawford
By CINDY GEORGE and
SUSAN LACCETTI
Red and Black Senior Reporter*
ATLANTA — University System
Chancellor Vernon Crawford charged
the state General Assembly Wednesday
with ignoring the Board of Regents'
new funding formula in making its
University System appropriations
proposal for fiscal year 1984
Crawford's comments came at the
closing session of the monthly meeting
of the Board of Regents here
Crawford said the budget the
legislature would like to present to the
regents is not under the terms of the
revised funding formula, which the
regents approved in October
The funding formula is a base from
which the regents appropriate funds to
the different institutions within the
University System
"The budget they recommend for us
is not in those terms (funding for
mula's) at all," Crawford said "It
showed no apparent relationship to the
new formula ”
Crawford and several regents say
they feel it is important to follow the
new funding formula because this is the
first time this formula has been used in
preparing a yearly budget
"Somebody ought to be embarrassed
for ignoring the document on the eve of
its birth," said regents Chairman
Torbett Ivey.
Crawford plans to make an appeal to
the joint session of the legislature Jan
26. asking it to use the new format in
preparing the fiscal 1984 budget
Crawford also clarified earlier
comments attributed to him in the wake
of the General Assembly's slashing of
more than $16 million from the
remainder of the System's current
appropriation.
The money available fell $16 4 million
short of the $550 million budget ap
proved by the Assembly last year
However, Crawford said, the System
would be able to survive the revenue
shortfall
“The University System is not going
under," he said. "We are not in a
desperate situation "
Crawford said he had received
negative publicity because of his
December meeting with the legislature
and his statement on the high budget
cuts to the system
"Our share of cuts is dispropor
tionately high," he said then
Crawford said Wednesday he didn't
want to imply the system should
receive special treatment and not
suffer its fair share of budget cuts, but
the cuts should be more evenly
distributed throughout the state budget
The University System is ap
propriated a considerable portion of the
state's education budget, which is a
little over half of the total state budget
The regents also approved a request
from University President Fred
Davison for the creation of a Master of
Marketing Research Program of the
College of Business
Ray Cleere, vice chancellor for
academic development, said he was
surprised to find this area of training
expanding at such a rapid pace
"The demand for people trained in
this highly specialized field prompted
the action." he said "Employers have
had to resort to hiring statisticians and
psychologists to fill positions where
those with marketing masters are
needed "
Cleere said the program that would
begin spring quarter is the first of its
kind in the Southeast
Fred Reynolds, academic head of
marketing and distribution, began the
move to create a master's degree in
marketing research Reynolds said it
was important from a "symbolic
standpoint" to develop a degree in this
area
The College of Business Ad
ministration has operated an ex
perimental graduate program in
marketing research for the past two-
and-a half years, but there has not been
an official master's degree in this area
"Our graduate (in this experimental
program i are highly sougl.i by com
panies such as Coca-Cola and General
Foods," Reynolds said, adding that the
master's degree would benefit
graduates in the job market
Rostow resigns administration post
By BARKY SCHWE1D
UwIlN Pr«$ H rlter
WASHINGTON — Eugene V. Rostow, director of the
embattled U S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,
resigned Wednesday under pressure from the White House
and a small group of conservative Republican senators
Congressional sources said President Reagan would
nominate Kenneth Adelman, deputy to U N ambassador
Jeane Kirkpatrick, to take Rostow's place
There was no immediate comment from the White House
Roatow, 69, a veteran of Washington power struggles,
issued a sharply worded statement that implied Reagan had
forced his ouster In it, Rostow said "in recent days it has
become clear that the president wished to make changes '
The resignation, third by a major administration official in
two weeks, came amid mounting confusion about Reagan's
objectives in ongoing arms control negotiations with the
Soviet Union and sometimes conflicting stands by Rostow
and other principal officials.
"It has been a privilege to serve as director of ACDA for
the last 20 months,” Rostow said in his brief statement "In
recent days it has become clear that the president wished to
make changes. In response to his request, I have tendered
mv resignation "
At the same time, one of Hostow’s top negotiators, Richard
Starr, also was stepping down, according to the
congressional sources, who asked not to be named Starr,
based in Vienna, was in charge o( negotiations to reduce
NATO and Warsaw Pact ground forces in Europe