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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens. Go. Vol. 90 Ho. 106 Friday, Moy 10, 1983 News 540-1809 Advertising 543-1791
UGA position upheld in NCAA case
Ruling would let colleges set up TV deals for football on their own
From surf and wire reports
DENVER — A federal appeals court Thurs
day upheld the University’s side in a lawsuit
that would allow colleges to negotiate TV
contracts for their own football games
The loth U S Circuit Court of Appeals voted 2-
1 in support of U S District Judge Juan Bur
ciaga's September ruling in favor of a lawsuit
filed by the universities of Georgia and
Oklahoma, but remanded an injunction of the
ruling back to Burciaga s court.
The two schools filed the lawsuit on behalf of
the College Football Association, a loose
coalition of major college football powers who
felt the National Collegiate Athletic
Association’s TV contracts violated federal
anti trust statutes The CFA. under then-
President Fred Davison, said individual schools
should be free to negotiate their own contracts.
The NCAA, which argued its contracts did not
violate the statutes, limits TV coverage of live
football games to ABC, CBS and Atlanta cable
station WTBS
The appeals court ruling voids those con
tracts, which netted the NCAA $281 million
University Associate Athletic Director Lee
Hayley said the University expected further
legal action
“It's a little premature to say what action we
might take in case of further legal action, which
we are anticipating." Hayley said Thursday
night
While the appeals court ruling means all
contracts would immediately become void,
including the televising of Georgia's Sept 3
game against UCLA, the NCAA-won injunction
the panel remanded to Burciaga puts all official
action on hold William Powell, chairman of the
University's faculty-advisory committee for
athletics, said proclamations of victory might
be premature
"If the injunction is continued, the current
NCAA television football plan would be con
tinued." Powell said. "We have tried to look
down the road as much as possible
“We don’t know what the final victim will be.”
he said. "I would think there won't he any action
forthcoming until all the legal action is ironed
out "
The ruling also gives WTBS license to pursue
its own contracts, but a source at the Atlanta
superstation. who didn’t want to be identified,
said the station's management had not decided
yet what to do.
"This is the first we’ve heard of it, and we'll
discuss what our course of action will be," Ihe
source said
Davison, the University's president, and
Athletic Director Vince Dooley were out of town
and unavailable for comment
Shortly after Burciaga’s ruling, Oklahoma
and the University of Southern California sold
telecast rights to their early-season game for
$250,000 to Norman, Okla station KOCO, but the
appeals court intervened with its temporary
injunction
Burciaga said in his September decision the
NCAA's contracts were an illegal restraint of
trade in violation of anti trust laws, which
outlaw monopolies But the NCAA countered by
saying trade practices that didn't limit access to
TV viewers didn't fall under the laws.
The CFA, arguing against the stay, pointed to
NCAA bylaws restricting the number of times a
team may appear on TV over a certain length of
time, usually to three national appearances
every two years plus two regional appearances.
The U S Department of Justice filed a friend-
of the-court brief in the case supporting the
CFA, which includes all NCAA Division I
schools except those in the Big Ten and Pacific
10 conferences.
Leaders of
SSR, SAM
have at it in
formal debate
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The University needs a student
government to inject student opinion in
to administrative decisions. Students
for Student Representation vice presi
dent Sam Harben said Thursday night
But Students Against Misrepresenta
lion leader Dan Mitchell said single
issue groups can serve that need more
effectively
In a debate over the need for a new
student government on campus.
Harben and Mitchell squared off at
Demastheman Hall before a live au
dience and WUOG listening audience
"The administration does not want to
be our father," Harben told the au
dience during his opening remarks
"They can only make adequate deci
sions if they have adequate information
from students Therefore a government
is a necessity "
Harben said The Association of
Georgia Students, if approved in a stu
dent referendum May 24. would be able
to pinpoint student needs on campus
and work in cooperation with the ad
ministration to serve student needs
But. Mitchell, who officially organiz
ed SAM Wednesday to prevent the
return of "farce" government like the
one abolished in 1979, said any new
government would not have the power
to do anything of worth on campus
"Time has changed i since the last
student government), but the issues
have remained the same," Mitchell
said "There is nothing (or a govern
ment to do that can 't already be done by
single-issue special interest groups "
Both debators pointed to Students for
an Asbestos Free Environment, formed
last fall to lobby for the removal of
asbestos from University dorms, as
support for their respective arguments
Harben said if a government such as
TAGS had existed, the asbestos situa
lion could have been effectively handl
ed through government administra
tion dialogue without individual
students having to bear all the burden
"A student government would pro
vide a central means of addressing an
issue." Harben said
Yet, Mitchell contended that SAFE
was an excellent example for why
students don't need a government He
said that if individual students perceiv
ed a problem or need on campus, they
could effectively vocalize their
grievances and prompt administration
just as SAFE had done
"TAGS would have been another
layer of bureaucracy between the
students and the administration
University President Fred Davison
wouldn t go and talk to TAGS The sole
purpose of the organization would be to
function in and of itself. ”
Crawford will talk desegrega
tion with the governor
Harris, Crawford meet today
By BOB KEYES
Krd and Mark Settlor Reporter
University System Chancellor Vernon Crawford
will meet with Gov Joe Frank Harris today in Allan
ta to discuss additions to the 1977 system desegrega
tion plan approved by the regents earlier this week
The 23-page addendum calls for increased
recruiting of black students and faculty in the
system's 33 institutions The implementation of many
key aspects of the plan hinges on funding from the
General Assembly, and regents staff and board
members have expressed concern that legislators
might not give them the money
One program, which will cost about $1 million an
nually, would give tuition waivers for first-year
students attending colleges where they were the
minority Another proposal, costing about $500,OCX),
would provide blacks who hold doctorates but who
have no administrative experience with one year of
training for administrative posts
State Kep Bob Argo. I) Athens, who serves on the
University System Committee, said Thursday he
opposed the tuition waiver proposal, but added he
didn't think the General Assembly would deliberate
on the regents plan
“I don't think the ball has quite gotten to our court
yet It 'll lie up to the governor to recommend it to the
legislature I don't speak for the governor, but I don’t
think we'll see it in the form it's been presented to
him," he said. ”1 have too much confidence in the
governor."
Argo said providing free education for a year was
only a temporary cure "What happens at the end of a
year? They'll all float back to other institutions. I
don’t think it's a workable plan because it's not long-
range in nature," he said
Argo suggested that improved training at the high
school level would solve problems better than pro
viding a free education
"We're working in the wrong direction. We need to
start in the grammar and high schools and bring
those standards up,” he said. “We need to adjust it at
the bottom and bring it up through The bottom can
take care of the lop."
By improving at the high school level, students
might also find themselves performing better on the
Scholastic Aptitude Test, Argo said
University System Committee Vice Chairman
Hugh Logan, D-Athens, also said Harris would play a
key role in determining whether the legislature would
approve the needed funds
"He's the one who received the letter (from the
U S. Justice Department saying the state had to im
prove on its desegregation record by fall 1985 or lose
federal money)."
lie said that, if Harris exerted his leadership, the
legislature would likely give the regents the needed
money
"I think the legislature always has been very
receptive once it’s been justified and if the regents
make an issue out of it," Logan said.
The legislature will give the regents money based
on the funding formula. Logan said, but additional
money aimed specifically at the recruitment pro
gram might not be available
"It might be that they have to alter some pro
grams The money goes over unrestricted and the
regents distribute it,” he said. "When the funds go to
the regents, they break them down as they see fit.”
Although 1-ogan said he hadn't read the plan in
detail, "it seems like a plan that ought to be tried, at
least part of it."
The recruitment of qualified black students and
faculty is a serious problem, Logan said.
"One of the biggest problems has been finding
qualified black people. I know from touring around
that a black female will bring a higher salary
because everyone’s trying to meet quotas," he said.
"I hope this new plan will offer some incentives
It'll just have to be tried and we'll see," he said.
"There's no known solution becasue you've got at
titudes and other things that enter into it. If there
were a known solution, billions of dollars would be
saved,"
Officials: Upgrading academics to take time
By KI STYC AHTMII.L
Hr4 and Mark Mall Hrtler
A federal report on education issued
last month recommended sweeping
reforms in college admissions and
academic standards nationwide but.
University officials say. although
changes in Georgia have begun,
results could be years away
"A Nation at Risk The Imperative
for Educational Reform,” an 18
month study by The National Com
mission on Excellence in Education,
criticized American colleges and
universities for lowering admissions
standards to maintain enrollments
and secondary schools for de-
emphasizing academic courses in
favor of easier "general track"
courses
Dubbing these trends "a tide of
mediocrity" and "unilateral
educational disarmament," the
commission recommended renewed
emphasis on basic courses such as
English, mathematics, science, social
studies and computer science
Noting also that the quality of
teaching in public schools had
dropped, the report recommended
greater salary incentives for
teachers, especially in math and
science, and cuts in college-level
remediation courses
University and University System
officials said last week problems with
education in Georgia started before
the col lege level
M O Phelps, University director of
Admissions, said he agreed with the
report's teacher-incentive recom
mendation However, he said the
University wouldn't raise its ad
missions standards in the near future.
as recommended by the federal
report
"I think it's a generational
problem." said Associate Director of
Admissions John Albright "You can't
immediately take a 17-year-old and
make up for poor education he's had
for the last 11 years."
Although the University will con
sider the study when deciding 1984
admissions standards this fall,
Albright said no major changes were
currently planned in admissions The
University currently uses a sliding
scale based on a 900 Scholastic Ap
titude Test score and a 3 0 high school
average, weighted toward Ihe
"basics,” to predict C level work
Normally, SAT scores or grade-
point averages lower than the norm
must be counterbalanced by a higher
average or higher score for a student
to be admitted. Albright said
Tough admissions standards at the
University and other four-year in
stitutions in Georgia have saved these
.schools from some of the mediocrity
problems found in other states,
University System officials said But.
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs
Ray Clecre said academic standards
in Georgia should be increased in the
next few years to keep abreast of a
nationwide trend
"I think we'll see a definite trend
toward higher expectations for
students in high schools and
colleges," he said. "Schools have
been reaching out and trying to serve
too many weak students.”
Although he said the University was
in better shape than other institutions
in the state, Cleere blamed educators
for not adopting better teaching
methods and the public for deman
ding a large number of graduates
"I think we'll see a great deal of
interest in reviewing admissions for
college and in high school graduation
requirements in the next few years,”
he said
Louise McBee, associate vice
president for Academic Affairs, said
admissions standards would have to
be raised to improve the quality of
University graduates
"I think it's alarming that we have
spent as much money as we have and
we have not gotten the results that we
thought we would get." McBee said.
“I think I would have to say that we
need to look at the admission stan
dards," she said. "We are a state
institution and we have to be
responsive to the students in the
state; however, I think if admission
standards would go up, the quality of
the students would go up In other
words, if students knew they had to
produce to get in, I think they would
doit."
McBee noted that the University
had recommended that college-bound
students in Georgia have a minimum
lour years of English, three years of
math, and some foreign language
instruction
"The things that we are talking
about right now are not going to
change overnight," she said. "It's
going to take a few years but there's
no time to get started like the
present "
Campus political groups tackle TAGS issue
By HANS-OIRISTLVN VAD8ETH
IM a ad Mark Sratar Rfpartar
With just two weeks remaining until University students
vote whether to establish a new student government. College
Republicans and Young Democrats are starting to get in on
the act
Despite passing two previous resolutions endorsing “in
principle " the idea of a student government. College
Republicans voted 14-10 Wednesday night not to formally
campaign for The Association of Georgia Students proposed
constitution
Also Wednesday night. Young Democrats voted 5-1 to
support the re-establishment of student government as
outlined in the TAGS constitution.
College Republicans President Vic Bancroft, who is a
member of Students for Student Representation, which
drafted the TAGS constitution, said Thursday he was
disappointed the organization opted to remain neutral during
the campaign
"I had hoped the College Republicans would have come out
with an opinion either for or against it. but it didn't happen."
Bancroft said
Doug Craig, who was presiding at the College Republicans
meeting when the resolution was presented, said it wasn’t
approved because some members felt it wouldn't be ap
propriate for the group to involved itself in the debate over a
student government
"We decided we didn't want to get our name attached to
TAGS The purpose of our group is to get Republicans elected
when they run for office We want to remain that way," Craig
said
Craig said the College Republicans would remain neutral
in the referendum However, Bancroft said the group was
endorsing TAGS even though it wouldn't be campaigning in
favor of it
"We still endorse it in principal and have approved the
constitution." Bancroft said
Young Democrats President Jim Ellington said the
resolution concerning TAGS was up for vote Wednesday after
representatives for SSR and Students Against
Misrepresentation had presented their points of view
Only SIX of the Young Democrats' 28 members voted, but
Ellington said the members present represented the "active,
hard core of the group '
SAM leader Dan Mitchell said he thought neither the
Young Democrats' nor the College Republicans’ resolutions
would have any effect on the referendum's outcome
"My opinion is that these are small groups, and I doubt
they 'll affect the outcome of the referendum." he said.
SSR Vice President Sam Harben. also a member of College
Republicans submitted the resolution He said the result
didn't mean the group was opposed to a student government
Earlier resolutions have supported TAGS and SSR,"
Harben said "What happened yesterday was simply a
majority saying they were not willing to campaign for it.”
