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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Go. Vol. 90 No. 100 Thursday, May 5, 1983 News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Jlmim HuMri The Kfd and Black
Jobs still tight for ’83 grads,
but recovery has helped out
By JACK THKEADGILL
Hrd and Hla. k SMfl Writer
While (he class of 1983 will still have a difficult time
finding jobs, it should have a slight advantage over
its 1982 predecessor because of a recent upswing in
the national economy
Around the first of March, only nine companies had
committed to on-campus interviews with graduating
University students, but by the end of the month the
number had grown to more than 30
"Some companies are interviewing now because
they see the economy picking up, and in the fall they
didn't foresee the need," said Ken Hansing, an ad
viser in the University’s placement office.
Mansing said that, while the increasing number of
job openings made the job outlook brighter, "it is still
not great.”
"Last spring and summer was very, very difficult
for college graduates who could not find many
positions open at the time," Hansing said "It was
extremely rough last fall; they knew it would be
tough and the competition would be keen. It just
started turning around the last part of last quarter "
A recent nationwide survey conducted by the
College Placement Council found that job offers to
college graduates fell off 50 percent from Sept 1,1982
to March 4, 1983 compared to the same period of the
previous year The figures dropped to 10,831 from
20,608
Although similar statistics have yet to be compiled
for offers to University job hunters, Hansing said,
“The University has not been hurt too bad from
companies not coming "
A random Red and Black sampling of company
recruiters who have interviewed on campus over the
past year showed four companies hired roughly as
many as or fewer college graduates than they did last
year, with two companies hiring more
The companies that reported hiring the same
number or fewer graduates — Main Hurdman CPA
firm of Atlanta, Citizens and Southern National Bank
of Atlanta, the Monsanto Co. of St. Louis and the
Kroger Co. district office in Nashville — attributed
the low number of job openings both to the recession
and to low turnover rates
"We’re hiring fewer students due to the continued
poor economy, its primary sluggishness," said Buck
Fetters, the professional employment coordinator for
Monsanto, an industrial products manufacturer.
“We’ve seen a decline in sales and profits and have to
staff accordingly."
Abbott Laboratories, a pharmaceutical company in
North Chicago, reported increasing hiring because of
rapid company growth, and the J.C. Penney Co.
Systems and Programming Division based in Atlanta
attributed its increased hiring to the rapid growth of
the computer-science and data-processing fields
"These fields are totally unlimited as so few fields
are," said Dave Mansour, recruiting and training
director of the J.C Penney Systems and Program
ming Division "There’s not any way for them to be
saturated before the year 2000, they’re growing so
doggoned fast."
Hansing said students should begin their job
searches three quarters before they graduated
because approximately 80 percent of the companies
that interviewed on campus came during fall and
winter quarters.
Hansing said students "should expand their job
search as much as possible" and be willing to
relocate to different parts of the country.
Please See JOBS, Page 3
City plans
crackdown
on crowded
dwellings
By BRAD WOODARI)
Red and Mark Kratar Reporter
University students living in
households with more than four
unrelated people may be forced to
reduce the number of their roommates,
thanks to the Athens City Council
Because of increasing complaints
from local residents, the City Council
decided Tuesday night to enforce more
diligently the definition of "family" as
contained in the city’s zoning or
dinance The ordinance states that,
unless it is a family, the number of
residents living in an Athens household
may not exceed four
"We ll need the help of the communi
ty to prove there is an excessive
number of occupants." Athens Chief
Building Official Brice Bishop said "If
it is brought to our attention, it will be
enforced "
Bishop said the council wasn't trying
to give students a hard time
"The students are obviously not the
only ones affected." he said
The council a Iso decided to revoke the
insurance requirements for downtown
activities
City Personnel Director Lea Smith
said the insurance requirement was
orginally instituted to prevent the city
government from being liable for any
damages to private property during
public demonstrations or parades
The insurance requirement was
revoked because certain groups that
wanted to hold outdoor activities
downtown couldn't afford the cost of the
insurance. Smith said
In other business, the city council
also revoked the recommendation to
amend the city charter to allow an
elected city official to run for another
public office without having to resign
until the day he assumed his new posi
tion
Councilman Calvin Bridges said the
council’s failure to accept this recom
mendation would result in unnecessary
special elections
"I think it is wrong to require our peo
pie to go back to vote so many times,"
he said But, he said, "It's the price we
pay for democracy "
The council also approved an amend
ment to the Athens alcoholic beverage
ordinance to allow elected officials to
hold alcoholic bev erage licenses
Councilman Dwain Chambers and
Bridges were strongly opposed to the
amendment
"I think it would be a mistake to let
anyone sitting on the council have a
license. " Chambers said
"The ordinance has served us well for
years," he said
Bridges said the possession of such a
license would present a conflict of in
terest to a council member
House gives OK
to nuclear freeze
after concessions
Final passage came shortly after
freeze advocates suffered a major
setback with the House's 221-203 ap
proval of the administration-supported
amendment by Reps. Henry Hyde, R-
111., and Elliot Levitas, DGa, making
arms reductions and a freeze a package
deal
"It takes the guts out of it," said
freeze supporter Rep. Tony Coelho, D-
Calif
Both sides sought to claim victory
over the wording, with opponents
saying it was a major step away from
the straightforward freeze first ad
vocated and sponsors claiming the
modification at least retained the
central principle of having a weapons
freeze
"It retains, as its first priority, a
freeze,” said Rep Clement Zablocki, R-
Wis , chairman of the House Foreign
Affairs Committee and key sponsor of
the freeze measure.
And Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill, D-
Mass , told the House: "The freeze
comes first. Priorities have not been
altered."
Minority leader Robert Michel, R-Ill.,
argued the modification made the
freeze resolution "infinitely better now
than when we first started Make no
mistake about it, the pure freeze has
lost. Nothing anyone can say will
change that "
The Reagan administration has in
sisted that reductions in weapons be
negotiated before a freeze Until
Wednesday’s vote, the freeze proposal
would have encouraged reductions —
but only after the freeze was in place
The change enabled the proposal to
pick up widespread bipartisan support,
propelling it to passage after a debate
that had stretched over two months.
Republicans, seizing the momentum,
withdrew more than 30 pending amend
ments to allow a prompt vote on the
overall measure
The resolution urges that an im
mediate freeze on the production and
deployment of all nuclear weapons be a
major objective of arms talks now
under way between the two super
powers in Geneva
Nude dancing moves out of club, into court today
By BRIAN BRASWEU.
Hrd a 1*4 Rlark Hrsisf Hrpnrirt
Dave Gunter, owner of the Athens nightclub Bour
bon Street, is back in court today for round two in his
battle with the city over the issue of nude dancing
Athens police cited Gunter April I5and 16 for allow
ing nude dancing in his downtown bar In 1981, he was
also cited for allowing topless dancing — a case still
pending in Clarke County Superior Court
Athens-Clarke County Magistrate's Court Judge
Pierre Boulogne will decide today whether to send
the nude dancing case to a jury or dismiss the
charges altogther
Despite continuing legal problems with the city,
Gunter said he would continue the nude dancing to re
main competitive with other forms of entertainment
"There is definitely a market for nude dancing in
Athens," Gunter said. “It was my original intention
to bring nude dancing to Athens The switch to nude
dancing was made strictly from a business point of
view
"I need nude dancing in order to compete with
cable TV," he said "People can stay at home and see
more on cable TV than they could here "
During a Tuesday afternoon hearing, Gunter’s at
torney, Ernest DePascale. asked Boulogne to dismiss
the charges against Bourbon Street, 247 E,
Washington Street
DePascale said the city ordinance under which
Gunter was cited was unconstitutional because it prfr
hibited activity protected by the First Amendment
DePascale also said the ordinance was based on a
New York state statute that had since been declared
unconstitutional
"The ordinance is over broad in that it prohibits ac
tivity which is not obscene," DePascale said “The
Supreme Court has ruled that nude dancing, in itself,
is not obscene ."
DePascale also contended the ordinance violated
the Georgia constitution's guarantees of free speech
for the same reasons One of DePascale's major com
plaints against the city ordinance was that it made no
connection between the activity it prohibited — nude
dancing — and the health of the community.
"There has to be a legislative finding of a relation
ship between the dancing and the community
health," DePascale said “We are making the same
argument that was made in the Balanca (New York)
case "
Athens City Attorney Denny Galis disagreed with
DePascale's argument on that point
"I don’t think there is a need for a written state
ment of need for every action," Galis said. “I don’t
think there is a need for a legislative connection in
every case ."
Gunter also maintained that any worries about the
safety of the bar were unfounded
"In he two years that I’ve been there, as far as the
lounge itself — the area I'm responsible for — no one
has received one single scratch," Gunter said
Gunter's problems with the city began in fall 1981
Before Gunter purchased the bar, he commissioned
DePascale to research city ordinances for a law
agaiast topless dancing When Galis found no such or
dinance, Gunter said he went ahead with plans to
feature topless dancing
In early September 1981, the Athens City Council
passed an ordinance prohibited topless dancing in
establishments serving alcohol. Gunter said he asked
city council to put in a grandfather clause excluding
businesses already operating from having to comply
with the ordinance
The City Council refused to include such a clause,
and shortly afterward, on September 30. Gunter was
cited for allowing topless dancing in a club that serv
ed alcohol
Gunter originally appeared in Magistrate's Court
Oct 2, 1981 Boulogne turned the case over to Clarke
County Superior Court Judge Wilbur Gaines, who
promptly remanded the case to Boulogne
Boulogne then suspended Gunter's liquor license
for 60 days Gunter appealed that decision in Superior
Court, where C-aines issued a temporary restraining
order allowing the club to continue operating while
the appeals process went on,
Gunter said he intended to fight the new citations
just as he did the previous ones now under appeal
Flat of his grass
l.*rry I'etrkell/Thr Red and Rle, It
One day of rain just isn't enough to dampen anyone’s en
thusiasm for spring. The sun returned to Athens Wednesday
and did more than its share to chase away any blues
lingering from Tuesdas's downpour. At Legion Pool, some
folks took advantage of the warm wealhrr in the water, while
others thought the sloping hills of Brumby Beach worked
better But as first-vear law student Bret Block can attest,
having one's own spot on the north campus grass is Just fine,
thank you.
By TOM RAUM
Svsnr tiled Preit Writer
WASHINGTON - The House Wed
nesday passed the long-debated
resolution calling for a "mutual and
verifiable” nuclear weapons freeze, but
only after President Reagan's forces
won a key concession linking a freeze
with a reduction in weapons
The vote came after GOP leaders
seized on the announcement of a new
Soviet arms-reduction proposal in a
successful effort to water down the
freeze resolution They said the Soviet
offer showed the need for giving the
president more flexibility in
negotiating a halt to the arms race.
The freeze resolution, which is
nonbinding and largely symbolic, now
S oes to the Republican-controled
enate, where its fate is uncertain.
Burnett: Abolishing cafes
would be detrimental
Outlook brighter for downtown sidewalk cafes
By BOB KEYES
Rid and Rlark Hmlar Reporter
With the tide beginning to turn in his
favor. Bob Russo, the embattled leader
of the campaign in favor of continued
downtown development, had reason to
smile Wednesday afternoon
"Things are starting to look better,"
he said
Russo’s optimism steps from
Tuesday night’s Athens City Council
meeting The council followed the
Public Works committee recom
mendation that the Athens-Clarke
County Planning Commission give
further study to the controversy
surrounding sidewalk cafes
Ron Neislar, director of the planning
commission, said he would solicit the
aid of the Athens Downtown Council, a
group of downtown landowners and
merchants, to help with the study
The downtown council has supported
Russo, who operates a sidewalk cafe at
Chow Goldstein's on Clayton Street,
since the controversy started brewing
in April. That was when George Dean
complained to the council that the cafe
cut into the business at his adjacent
clothing store.
Neislar said the planning commission
would probably put the issue off until its
June meeting, and the study, he said,
would probably drag into the summer
Downtown council Secretary Joe
Burnett said Wednesday abolishing
sidewalk cafes would have an adverse
effect on downtown business
The council has sent letters to the
Public Works committee asking
members "not to act hastily" on the
issue "We asked them to take a very
long and hard look at it," Burnett said
The City Council acted properly in
sending the issue to the planning
commission, Burnett said. "They've
wisely gone to a body that can more
easily deal with the issue at hand," he
said
Burnett said the planning com
mission would be able to study the issue
without mixing politics and per
sonalities, something the council was
unable to do
Russo has expressed concern that
some council members might be biased
toward their friends in downtown who
opposed development, but Burnett said
the council had members on both sides
of the issue
"We are all very sympathetic with
the concerns that Mr Dean has
raised." Burnett said "We're not going
to take either one of their sides.
"What is best for downtown? That
should be the merit that decides this,”
Burnett said. "On the other hand, (cafe
operators) are being granted a
privilege If they abuse it, then that
privilege should be taken away."
At the April City Council meeting
Frank Eberhart, the owner of Tucks
Shoe Service on East Broad Street,
presented two petitions with about 45
signatures of downtown merchants and
landowners who opposed the cafes and
any downtown activity that would hurt
their businesses
When the planning commission
completes its work this summer it will
make a recommendation to the Public
Works committee, which will make a
recommendation to the full council