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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Geoigia community
Athens, Go. Vol. 90, No. 49 Thursday, Jon. 20, 1980 News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
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Student group approves charter
By EVK MAJOR
Hrd and Black Senior Reporter
Students for Student Representation
Wednesday night unanimously ap
proved the proposed constitution and
bylaws for a new student government,
to be called The Association of Georgia
Students.
SSR President Scott Klosinski said
approval of the constitution was
unanimous but refused to say how
many people atended the meeting,
which the group closed.
The proposed constitution, which was
finalized and signed Tuesday night by
SSR constitution committee members,
probably will be sent to University
officials Friday for approval, Klosinski
said.
Though the group won’t release the
document to the general public, a copy
of it obtained by The Red and Black
states that the proposed new govern
ment would have the power to allocate
Student Activity fees.
Klosinski said last week the con
stitution would not ask for allocation
power because administration officials
had told the group it was "out of
reach."
The proposed constitution gives
TAGS an executive branch and a
legislative branch, with the chief
executive to be a president elected at-
large by University students, A 65-
member senate will be elected by
students from 13 separate sections of
campus.
The sections are divided into the
University's 12 schools and colleges,
with an extra section for incoming
freshmen. There is no section for the
Graduate School.
Each section would be represented on
the basis of its total enrollment ac
cording to population figures listed in
the current edition of the University of
Georgia Fact Book Annual elections
would be held the second week of spring
quarter except those for incoming
freshmen, which would be the fourth
week of fall quarter
The constitution also provides for a
seven-member cabinet Cabinet
members would include an executive
vice president, who would preside over
the senate and would be appointed by
the president with the senate's ap
proval, and five vice presidents, ap
pointed by the senate with presidential
approval
The five vice presidents, who would
also be senators, would coordinate and
oversee five departments: academic
affairs, external affairs, finance, rules
and regulations and student services.
The seventh cabinet member would
be chairman of the Constitution Review
Board Set up to handle "all matter of
constitutional interpretation,” the CRB
would consist of two presidential ap
pointees and two senate appointees as
well as the chairman, who, like the
president, would be elected at-large by
University students. The chairman is
the only CRB member who is also a
cabinet member
Should the need arise, the president
could create executive officials and ad
hoc committees, although they are not
a standard part of the government.
The abolished student government’s
structure included three branches:
executive, legislative and judicial.
Under the old SGA, the three branches
were considered equal and had no
system of checks and balances. The
student judiciary remained after
student government was abolished and
now functions independently.
Sister Gndy gives 'em
hell-fire and brimstone
By WARREN SMITH
Krd and Black (ontributinK Writer
“Lake — of — fiiirel” the crowd, 200 strong,
yelled in unison with the young lady preaching
from the Free Speech Platform in Memorial
Plaza It was noon — between classes — and
Sister Cindy was going strong.
Sister Cindy is Cindy Lasseter, a 24-year-old
self-professed disco queen turned gospel
preacher. She hit Athens this week and last on
her annual tour of college campuses.
Blue-eyed Sister Cindy, who has spoken at 74
colleges and universities in 24 states over the
past three years, says she likes to preach "the
law."
“Most people," she says between preaching
bouts, "give the cure before they point out the
disease I concentrate a lot on the law because
most of (the students) don’t know they are not
Christians."
But Lasseter, with her dramatic manner and
incendiary comments about many aspects of
campus life, leaves little doubt as to where she
stands. Her style gives rise to spirited,
sometimes tense, often entertaining debate.
Lasseter, though, defends her controversial
style, which includes calling sorority members
"whores" and fraternity members “potheads"
and "whoremongers."
“People have a short attention span," she
says. "You've got to get their attention
somehow.”
According to Lasseter, however, students here
are mild-mannered compared with some she has
encountered. She has had two pies thrown in her
face since starting the college circuit and, at
Bowling Green State University in Ohio, "They
threw me into a pond."
“I just came out of the water preaching,” she
says. "Later, one of the boys who threw me in
was saved."
Lasseter is a native Georgian, born in Albany.
She was raised in Florida and studied journalism
until becoming a Christian in 1978 as a result of
the campus preaching of George "Brother Jed"
Smock, another regular on campuses nationwide
and a widely recognized University evangelist.
Smock — and his followers and preachers —
has lately added rock ‘n’ roll to his litany of sin-
causing influences.
Smock's latest target is the song “Another One
Bites the Dust" by Queen, which, preachers
charge, actually says "Satan must have no
limit" when portions of it are played in reverse
through a procedure known as "backward
masking."
With Lasseter at the time of her conversion in
the parking lot of a Gainesville Krystal was Max
Lynch, who has been spelling her on the Free
Speech Platform from time to time this week.
“Mad Max," as he has been called by some of his
hecklers, taught mathematics at Indiana State
University before he began preaching in 1975
Lasseter, Lynch, Smock and another widely
known preacher, "Holy Hubert" Lindsay,
receive financial support from private in
dividuals who believe in their work
“Sometimes I preach in churches,” Lasseter
says. From these engagements she receives
congregational collections she calls "love of
ferings.”
Sister Cindy heads for Auburn University after
this week, and no Athens return date has yet
been scheduled
Material from the College Press Service was
used in preparing this story.
Economy at post-World War low
By ROBERTFURLOW
AiurlaKd Pm* Writer
WASHINGTON — In a stark new measure
of the recession's severity, the government
said Wednesday the economy sank further
in 1982 than in any year since the aftermath
of World War II. But Commerce Secretary
Malcolm Baldrige said the steepest drop, at
year’s end, was the last gasp of the long
downturn.
“We’re in a recession, there’s no question
about that," said Baldrige “But the
recovery is beginning this quarter "
Administration officials also had
predicted recovery a full year ago, but their
hopes were dashed when interest rates re
mained high through early summer, slow
ing sales and stifling business investment.
“There's a big, big difference now
because interest rates are down," Baldrige
said.
He spoke with reporters after his depart
ment released figures showing the U.S.
economy — measured by real, or inflation-
adjusted, gross national product — fell 1.8
percent last year.
That small-sounding number represented
the biggest one-year decline since the 14.7
percent of 1946 when U.S. industry was gear
ing down from its huge war effort
Real GNP, which measures all the goods
and services the nation produces, was fall
ing at an even faster 2 5 percent annual rate
in the final quarter of 1982 after rising slight
ly in the previous six months, the report
said.
But Baldrige said that was due to
businesses temporarily holding back pro
duction, selling inventories of long-unsold
goods, thereby making room for new gains
in output The auto industry, which sharply
reduced its inventories in the fourth
quarter, already has stepped up production,
he noted
Still, Baldrige conceded the recovery will
hardly be robust, with real GNP rising in the
fourth quarter of 1983 to a rate only 3 per
cent to 4 percent higher than the fourth
quarter of 1982 — about half the usual rate in
the first year after a recession.
In a more direct comparison with the 18
percent 1982 decline — which measures
average output for an entire year against
the average for another year - the Reagan
administration is expecting 1983 growth of
just 1.4 percent. Most private economists
expect at least slightly more.
Baldrige also said that although
unemployment would decline from the cur
rent 10.8 percent — a 4-year high — anyone
predicting unemployment would fall below
10 percent by year’s end would be “sticking
his neck out ."
Meanwhile, six former Cabinet members
Democrats and Republicans — urged Presi
dent Reagan Wednesday to sharply slash
federal spending over the next two years
The group, including former Commerce
Secretary Peter Peterson, who organized
the appeal, and five former Treasury
secretaries, said it was prompted by the
“unprecedented, unending and growing
deficits.”
The panel called for a $175 billion reduc
lion in the projected 1985 federal deficit to
cut the anticipated red-ink figure to $75
billion.
To do that, the group calls for slashing
defense spending by $25 billion, cutting the
non-defense budget by $60 billion and rais
ing taxes, mostly on consumption, by $60
billion.
Treasury Secretary Donald T Regan told
reporters separately that the Reagan ad
ministration intends to hold future budget
deficits below $200 billion a year Other ad
ministration officials said the fiscal 1984
deficit will be just shy of that unprecedented
figure
Details of Wednesday's Commerce
Department report said:
• Real GNP dropped to $1 476 trillion for
1982 Before adjusting for inflation - that is,
without discounting increases in output
value due only to higher prices - GNP rose
4 1 percent to $3 058 trillion, the report said.
• Real final sales decreased $9 7 billion
for the year, partly because of the weakness
in exports, and real spending for production
going into inventories declined $17 5 billion
Please See ECONOMY, Page 3
50 percent probability
of snow or sleet today
The Athens office of the National
Weather Service reported late Wednesday
night there was a 50 percent chance of light
snow or sleet today, a chance dropping to
30 percent tonight
Temperatures today will reach a high of
30-33 degrees
Friday will be mostly cloudy with a
chance of freezing rain or rain
Temperatures will be in the middle 30s
It definitely won’t snow this weekend,
the service said Temperatures will be in
the low 40s
UG A still
lagging in
goals to hire
more blacks
By HANS-CHRISTIAN VADSETH
Krd and Black (ontributinK Writer
Thurmon Garner is black, born and raised in the slums of
Detroit. With most odds against him, Garner worked his way
through school and is today, at the age of 40, a University
assistant professor in speech communication with a degree
from Northwestern University.
To he black, and at the same time a faculty member at the
University, is a very unusual combination. Garner and his
black colleagues, according to the University's Affirmative
Action / Equal Employment Opportunity office, make up
less than 1.5 percent of the faculty
And despite a 1981 Affirmative Action office goal of adding
34 minority members to the University faculty by 1984, the
number of black University faculty remains the same as last
year — 23 black faculty members out of 1,766
Two members of other minorities joined the University
faculty in 1982.
Garner is concerned about the low number of blacks and
other minorities on the faculty He says it is important to the
academic environment that minority groups are properly
represented
In addition to blacks, Affirmative Action Specialist Ed
Wilker says American Indians, llispanics and Asians are
counted into the minority group
Still, Wilker says, at this University, where blacks are the
dominant minority, it would be natural to expect the main
part of this minority group to be made up by blacks.
"The University doesn't make the efforts (to recruit black
faculty members) that it says it makes,” Garner says
"They say they can't find qualified blacks. I don't know
what they mean when they say so, but it may mean that what
they want are those blacks that are from the best universities
in this country."
According to Garner, the University, when hiring white
teachers, doesn't look only for people from the top univer
sities. “So they have a two-tiered system of bringing blacks
here,” he said
Still, Garner will not say the University does a poorer job of
recruiting than other Universities.
“I am sure the University tries as much as it can, within
reason, Garner says
The main reason the University has been unable to meet its
goals so far, according to Wilker, is that the number of
faculty openings each year has been less than expected
"The fact that there is no increase in the number of black
faculty members doesn't mean that efforts aren't made,”
Wilker says.
He says vacant teaching positions at the University are
advertised in special publications to reach as many blacks as
possible The University also keeps constant contact with
black individuals and predominantly black schools.
Eddie Daniels Jr., an adviser in the University Office for
Black Student Affairs, says he is not pleased with the
University's Affirmative Action efforts so far.
"The University has not been aggressive enough it its
recruitment efforts of black faculty members,” he says.
Daniels says he feels black teachers are important as a
means of encouraging black students to pursue higher
degrees Daniels says he feels many students get the im
pression that it is almost impossible for blacks to get a
teaching job in the University System.
Daniels, who says he "believes very strongly in Af
firmative Action," regrets that "the University has not made
any significant progress over the last five years."
But the situation is not likely to change in the coming
years According to Wilker. figures from colleges nationwide
show the number of black students pursuing higher degrees,
from which teaching personnel are recruited, is down in
almost all disciplines And with the cuts in scholarships and
economic support to students, he says he foresees no radical
change in this trend.