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New student liaison to city council
says he’ll have power without vote
By GEORGE DEMAS
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Beginning Feb 1 at the
monthly meeting of the
Athens City Council, junior
history major Jack
Crawford will take his seat
as University liaison to the
council, a position he says is
very important to “getting a
students view of issues
before the city govern
ment ."
But the lack of voting
power on the council and the
absence of a student govern
tnent that the liaison can
work through bring the ef
fectiveness of the position in
to question, says outgoing
liaison Stephanie Johnson
“It's very hard to function
without your creator (stu
dent government),” Johnson
said "It's like trying to func
lion with one of your hands
tied behind your back "
Crawford, though, said the
lack of voting rights will not
hinder him from making
sure the students' point-of-
view is taken into considera
tion
"As liaison I have all the
powers of a city council
member except the voting
power, but l can call up pern
pie to testify and can make
the students' views known,"
Crawford said
Crawford s job is to give
"feedback from a student
point of view" on issues
before the council, said Vice
President for Student Affairs
Dwight Douglas
“I think it s quite helpful."
said Council Member Dwain
Chambers "The liaison
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The position's weakness
was stressed last year when
the city council began en
forcing housing codes which
limited how many people
can live in one house or
apartment. Johnson said
"I saw the long-range
dangers of it (housing
code)," Johnson said, "but
because I couldn't com
municate quickly with the
entire student body, and
general student apathy. I
couldn't do anything about
it."
A more "representative
organization” for students is
needed to make the position
more effective, Johnson
said.
"This campus is so big,
and the student body is so
factionalized, it's very hard
to get everyone to work
together on one issue of
general interest." she said.
City Council members are
aware of how important the
University and the students
are to Athens, according to
Johnson, but "unless the
students get behind the
liaison and make sure he or
she knows how they feel on
certain issues, the council
will do whatever it feels is
best "
Crawford said he can do an
effective job without a stu
dent government
“I would hope in the future
that students will have more
direct involvement with who
Susan f.reene
Crawford: “even with things the way they are I
can do a good job”
represents them, but I think
that even with things the
way they are I can do a good
job representing the Univer
sity,” he said
Public utility rates, hous
ing codes and police regula
tions are the issues Crawford
will pay special attention to,
he said
The liaison position was
set up about six years ago by
the now defunct Student
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During the 1982 guber
natorial campaign, the
state’s nursing-home in
terests contributed $55,617 in
cash, in-kind contributions
and guarantees to candidate
Joe Frank Harris of Car-
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Harris has said he sup
ported increased reim
bursement rates not because
of his interest in the nursing-
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but because of his concern
for the elderly residents of
those homes Marietta
Suhart, head of the (Georgia
Center for Continuing
(education's gerontology
program, isn't so sure,
however.
“If he’s so concerned
about the patients, he could
require at least 20 hours on-
the-job training for nurse’s
aides,” Suhart said.
Hunt disagrees, and he
denied any connection
between campaign con
tributions and the proposed
reimbursement rate hikes
'Quite trankly, we voted
for Joe Frank Harris not
because of what he promised
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Government Association,
and when the SGA broke up
in 1979, the Office of Student
Affairs wanted to continue
the position on an informal
basis, according to Student
Affairs Director Phil Weast.
The liaison is chosen by a
committee consisting of
Weast, Douglas and two
students from the University
Council on Student Affairs.
to do for us in the future," he
said, “but because of what
he's done for us in the past."
Despite the financial
problems and accusations
that face members of the
GHCA, though, most nur
sing-home operators are
confident they, can care for
their patients, no matter
what happens.
"It's a tremendous burden
on everyone," said Betty
Brown Williamson. Grand
view's assistant ad
ministrator "But we feel
like we have to keep a
positive outlook
“My husband (Coy
Williamson) has always had
the attitude, that with good
management and everyone
working together, we can
survive the hard times,” she
said.
Coy Williamson echoed his
wife's sentiments.
"Medicaid isn't perfect, by
any means," he said. "But in
spite of its flaws it's a good
system."
It will be up to the
legislators to decide if
Medicaid merits a $5.4
million increase in
payments.
“Nursing homes can save
the state a lot of money,”
Williamson said. "Other
wise, these services would
have to be performed in a
hospital.
"Someone has to take care
of these people "
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Video game is not amusing
SEATTLE, Wash (CPS) — A few
nights before holiday break, some
100 students filed into an auditorium
at the University of Washington to
wait for Stuart Keston
Keston was due to call the
auditorium from California to talk
about his latest invention, a video
game called “Custer's Revenge. ”
In the game, the player becomes
Gen George Armstrong Custer, who
must dodge cacti and arrows to
reach an American Indian woman
seemingly bound to a pole. When he
reaches her, he scores by having
intercourse with her She smiles and
picks up her heels.
A lot of people came to the
Washington auditorium to say
unkind things to Keston about his
game.
Many more would probably like
the opportunity The game has
provoked angry protests and threats
of boycotts from scores of groups, as
well as from Washington, New
Mexico, Oklahoma, Minnesota and
other schools.
In some places, it has even helped
video games momentarily replace
textbooks as censors' targets Soon
after the "Custer’s Revenge”
controversy began, for example,
some students succeeded in getting
a video game called "Jungle King"
kicked off Loyola of New Orleans’
campus.
"We have no problem with private
individuals or organizations
promoting a boycott, but the
government (through state schools)
has no business telling people what
to believe, say or promote,” said
Kathleen Taylor, head ot
Washingtn's state American Civil
Liberties Union (ACLU).
The ACLU threatened to sue a
Seattle agency that was going to
organize a boycott of "Custer’s
Revenge."
“I agree that it’s a sickening
game," Taylor added "But the
government should not restrain free
trade,"
On the other hand, the game
“promotes the idea that rape is
funny, easy and entertaining," said
Donna Stringer-Moore, director of
the Seattle Office for Women's
Rights. "It portrays rape as an
erotic act, which any rape victim
can tell you is a lie."
As in Seattle, the protest was
supported by a coalition of groups
ranging from the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People to the University of
New Mexico's Chicano Studies
Department.
“I'm tired of accepting these
images that come out," said Beverly
Mathews, director of Native
American Student Services at New
Mexico. "It's simple to let silly
things like this go by, but it has to
cease at some point.''
Mathes, an Indian herself, said
further protests — including a
proposed boycott - will come from
campus. “The Indian community is
upset, but they think it's a stupid,
passing thing. They lead a simpler
iife than those of us at the university,
who say 'That's enough.”'
Few admit liking the game at all.
“It's a piece of trash," said Tim
Houser, the publisher of Video
Adviser, a Seattle-based monthly
that tracks content and sales of the
games for retail outlets.
Entrepreneur Keston said it’s all a
misunderstanding. "Most people
have never seen the video game," he
told College Press Service. “There is
no rape scene, and the Indian girl is
not tied up in the game. We just took
artistic license on the cover.”
Keston, a 41-year-old native of
Astoria, N.Y., who used to market
cosmetics and whose company —
which employs 24 people and also
produces game called "Bachelor
Party" and “Beat 'Em and Eat
'Em” — has already sold 150,000
copies of "Custer's Revenge,” does
draw the line when it comes to
selling the game
He said a lawyer wanted to buy too
copies of the game to sell at a rifle
association — he declined to name
which association — convention.
"The lawyer told me they would
sell like hotcakes because this group
•doesn't like Indians,'” Keston said.
"He offended me, and I did not sell
the games to him."
"There are," he observed, “a lot
of sick people out there ."
Games sales analyst Houser
doesn't "think it would have sold at
all if not for the free publicity.
"I think (Keston) is sick,” said Jo
Ann Kauffman, head of the Seattle
Indian Health Board and a member
of the panel that gathered to discuss
the game over telephone with
Keston at Washington.
The one person who didn't gather,
in person or by phone, was Keston.
“He was scared," Houser said.
Keston said he didn't call the
meeting as promised because he
was “unavailable that evening."
It was just as well. Houser, the
lone male on the panel, reported
catching "a lot of flak" and hearing
much “name-calling" from
audience members as the discussion
went on without Keston anyway.
It's been rougher elsewhere The
Colorado chapter of the National
Organization for Women has
pledged to picket any store selling
the game. Suffolk County in New
York is considering banning the
game altogether Keston has sued
the county, adding he'll “sue any
jurisdiction that tries to ban
Custer's Revenge.’”
Low income rise still beats inflation
By ROBERT FURI.OU
AMorliled Prexx Writer
WASHINGTON — In a year of recession and layoffs, per
sonal income rose just 6.4 percent in 1982, the smallest gain in
nearly two decades but still enough to keep slightly ahead of
inflation, government figures showed Tuesday.
Discounting for the rise in prices and nudges into higher
tax brackets, take-home incomes increased 1.1 percent, less
than half the 2.5 percent gain of 1981 but still better than the
0.2 percent of recession-weakened 1980, according to the
Commerce Department report. A separate report, also
released Tuesday by Commerce officials, showed how badly
Ihe housing industry had done last year, mostly because of
high interest rates It said builders began work on just 1.061
million new housing units, the least for any year since 1946.
December's housing starts were also down 13 percent from
November's, it said.
But starts for those two months were at annual rates of
about 1.4 million and 1.2 million units — much higher than the
total for all of 1982 And industry officials say lower interest
rates should allow the recent revival to continue through this
year.
Personal income rose 0 6 percent in December, pushed up
ward by government payments to grain farmers, (he income
report said Meanwhile, personal consumption spending rose
0.3 percent over November, a small gain but one that had
been expected in light of earlier reports of slow retail sales.
Government officials and private analysts said both in
come and spending should continue rising moderately, help
ing push recovery from the long recession but hardly
stimulating a robust rebound. For all of 1982, the report said,
personal income rose to a total of $2.57 trillion. The 6.4 per
cent gain, only a little more than half the 11.8 percent of 1981,
was the smallest since the 5.1 percent of 1963
The small size of the new increase "certainly reflects the
recession ad the drop in employment that the economy suf
fered in 1982,” said Robert Ortner, Commerce's chief
economist.
"But even that is not a disastrous number because of the
lower inflation," Ortner said.
Layoffs throughout the year brought the national
unemployment rate to 10.8 percent in December, the highest
ever in 42 years. But wages lost to layoffs were at least slight
ly balanced by a big increase in government payments for
unemployment compensation
In addition to such benefits, wages and salaries, the total
income figure includes money received from sources such as
interest payments on savings accounts and Social Security
checks.
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"Low power is going kind
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“One of the purposes of
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broadcasting interests,”
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