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The Bed and Black
Frida), May 13. 1*83
THE RED AND BLACK
Established 1893 — Incorporated 1980
Charles II. Kussell, General Manager
Chuck lleece, Editor-in-chief
Alex Johnson, Managing Editor
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Accountability
Call the Board of Regents' new plans to speed the desegregation
of the University System a day late and a dollar short. Make that
$60 million short — the amount of federal money the system will
lose if it fails to show more rapid progress toward desegregation.
The regents unveiled their addendum to the 1978 desegregation
document, “A Plan for the Further Desegregation of the Universi
ty System of Georgia,” on Wednesday in Columbus. The new
recommendations — tuition waivers and full scholarships for any
student, black or white, to attend a state college where his race is
a minority, among others — for the most part are complete and
sufficient to meet the system's desegregation goals.
If funded by the state legislature — at a cost that could break $20
million over five years — the recommendations could work.
But a gaping hole in the new plan could find the University
System without a desperately need $60 million of federal money in
1985
The problem: The regents' new plan fails to make any specific
persons or groups accountable for the plan's execution Good
recommendations mean nothing if no one is made directly respon
sible for their carrying out.
The University System — and the University in particular —
has been found lacking in its goals for desgregating both faculty
and students. University System and University administrators —
many of them — have been confronted with this failure and have
responded with excuses — the economy, low availability of
qualified black students and teachers, etc.
But not one of those administrators has said, “Go see so-and-so.
The buck on this thing stops at his desk " That’s because no one
knows where the desegregation buck really stops.
Excuses made by school administrators are just routinely ac
cepted by system officials. No one who is truly determined to get
the necessary answers ever asks why the University’s and the
system's performances in desegregation are so dismal.
The pattern continued with the latest desegregation plan, which
was required after U S. District Judge John Pratt ruled in March
that the system must show progress toward desegregation or lose
federal money.
Chancellor Vernon Crawford offered these pity-grabbing
words: "Certain of the numerical commitments in the Plan' (the
original 1978 desegregation plan) are stated in terms of goals. A
goal is not a quota. A goal may or may not be fully achieved; it is
an aim, an end that one strives to attain. A quota, on the other
hand, is a definite number or amount fixed with the expectation of
full achievement.”
Crawford fails to note that when a federal judge says,
"Desegregate the system or lose $60 million." dabbling in seman
tics doesn't make for a valid excuse. Goals, quotas — call them
w hat you will, but if the University System doesn’t get a lot closer
to achieveing them, 1985 might find it with a monstrous hole in its
pocket.
Larry Blount, general counsel for the Georgia Black Coalition
on Higher Education and the University's lone black law pro
fessor, said Wednesday that commitment to Affirmative Action
and desgregation-plan goals should be one of the criteria used for
evaluating the performances of system-college presidents and ad
ministrators
"They should have to meet the goals or have to look for jobs
themselves," Blout said
Firing administrators, one might think at first, is going a little
too far Perhaps, however, it is not Certainly, the competition for
the best black students and teachers is vigorous; centuries of pre
judice that left black Americans about 50 years behind whites in
nccupitional attainment have caused today’s problems.
But a review committee could take into account the hinderanccs
the administrators charged with desegration face, and then
evaluate their performances If found lax, they get their walking
papers That's accountability, w ithout which the system will drop
$60 million. That's bad news for all students — black, white,
yellow or chartreuse.
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‘Entire University is a white cultural center ’
TOTIIK KIIITOH:
I am amazed al the uninformed,
knee-jerk statements made by some
University officials, editorialists and
several students regarding the status of
blacks on this campus I use the adjec
tive uninformed" when I am dying to
use "dumb." "stupid." ignorant" or
"asinine.”
Apparently a major bone of conten
tion surrounding this issue has Ix-en the
belief that black students are deman
ding that admissions standards be
lowered In allow more of us to attend
the University If all the concerned peo
pie I lad taken more tune lo read
carefully and less time to be appalled,
they would have noticed that not one
black student had advocated the lower
ing of admissions standards This gem
came from one of the many diplomats
in the admissions office Just look for
the man with the egg on his face He'll
be sitting next to two other people with
their feet in their mouths
We are not asking that the University
lower its standards Head that sentence
again What we are asking is that those
standards mil be designed to keep us
out We are not ashamed to admit that
some of our scores and GPAs are lower
than some whites. Unlike some races
we know , we can admit to our short
comings Most of as come from large
overcrowded schools where the
teachers were little more than babysit
ters As a result some of us have been
educationally limited Bui. that doesn't
mean that our desire to succeed is any
less driving than the student who
could afford to gel out of the public
school So. you cover Jefferson Davis'
eyes and you admit these students on a
limited basis within the remedial
proved their averages, you admit them
to a regular program of studies And lo
and behold, the University survives
But one more point on this subject,
when you look around to see all those
shining black smiles you expect to see
in special studies, take note of how
many shining white smiles you en
counter as well
Are the things that we are asking for
so outlandish, so difficult to grant, so
threatening' 1 One of this paper's col
umns look great exception to our re
quests for a cultural center declaring
that it would be discriminatory And I
quote. "I don't see any white cultural
centers " This entire University is a
white cultural center We learn about
your history, your languages, your
writers We re taught your English,
your politics, listen to your speakers,
which is fine But we pay the same tui
tion and deserve the right to study our
m^
GnafiTntant.
history with somebody who knows
about iti. our writers and languages
along with the rest This same colum
mst alluded to how distasteful it would
be if you people had to learn Swahili, so
we shall bite our tongues and refrain
from requesting that Swahili be made a
part of (he business school's core cur
riculum A cultural center would do for
us exactly what your antebellum
houses do for you I challenge one of you
to go to a predominantly black school
for any length of time and not look for
something to remind you of your
heritage
I don't know how I can make it any
clearer that we aren't asking whites at
this University or beyond to give us a
thing All we want is what we have a
right to and I don't think we've asked
for anything earth-shattering In clos
mg. I must quote that same columnist
again He has asked that we stop
segregating ourselves by continually
thinking of ourselves as "blacks ' To
this I can only reply, "We'll stop think
ing ol ourselves as blacks when white
people stop thinking ol themselves as
superior We'll be gracious You go
first."
CAKOtE K SIMMONS
Senior. Journalism
'End animal suffering'
roTIIF FDITOK
That's right, he's here and hes
waiting anxiously (or the day when he
can poke puppies with needles and give
them X rays — the same puppies that
play with our children!
Well. I 'm just glad that it's all coming
lo an end Finally, no more redundant
and inhumane experiments to titilate
these murderers in white jackets
And so I w holeheartedlv support Peo
pie for Animal Rights in its efforts to br
mg an end to animal suffering here at
the University and throughout the
world And I urge each and every one o(
you to join me in the cry: "Let one
hamster live so millions may die!!!”
CHRISTINA DELZINGARO
Class of a s4
College of Veterinary Medicine
Edu ard Ihimas
Motorcycle permits will cost $18 if you attend
classes, and $24 if you teach ttiem I have no argu
ment with this policy Motorcycles are vile and
disgusting and the people who ride them can:
taj Takea hike, son
<b) Get plucked
(ci Rev this baby
Faculty, staff and employees will have to pay $18 to
$20 depending on whether your lot is located inside
the Athens perimeter This will cause me to withdraw
one of my main gripes against Traffic Safely
All this year I have taught a Speech 108 class I am
paid as a "teaching asistant." but there is no
assisting involved I do everything a real professor
does for a class — I help no one and no one helps me
The only "assisting " I've done is to provide someone
the University can pay less for the same amount of
work to teach a class, and free the bona fide pro
fessors in my department to teach more upper level
courses
If you look under my class's call-number in the
registration guide. I am called "staff " Therefore. I
have contended all year that I should he granted a
"staff' parking permit
No dice As far as Traffic Safety is concerned. I and
my "staff" status can:
lai Takea hike, son
(b i Get plucked
(c i Park this baby i in the lot with all the other grad
students).
But now that they can worm twice as much cash out
of me for on-campus parking, how long do you think it
When I discovered in Wednesday's edition of The
Red and Black that on-campus students would be
forced to pay to pari, their cars on campus next year,
my reactions were varied:
(a) Take a hike, son
tbi Get plucked
(ci Park tfii* baby. Traffic Safety.
After this initial gut reaction. I decided I didn't
care if on-campus residents had to pay I haven't liv
ed on campus since I was bottle-fed. and as far as I'm
concerned, these poor asbestos-contaminated dor-
miescan:
(ai Takea hike, son
lb) Get plucked
(ci Park this baby
As long as I don't have to pay, the University can
charge students to use the toilet
Heading on. however, I found that this matter
would concern me as well The University intends to
charge graduate students, of which I arn a first-year
one in speech communication <as anyone who can
read my signature at the bottom of this tome can at
test i. $9 to park on campus next year I guess they
decided t was having too much fun in my daily search
for a parking spot within 200 nautical miles of the
journalism building between third and fourth
periods, to be allowed to do it for free
Traffic Safety can:
la (Take a hike, son
(b) Get plucked
(ci Park this baby
At least I won't he stuck for as much as everyone
else on campus Faculty, staff and employee lots re
quiring key cards will cost $20 In my undergraduate
days, I would park in these lots freebie, but only dur
ing spring quarter One day. I discovered that a
small, foreign convertible with the top down could
slide under the exit bar just enough to trigger the
pressure sensor on the opposite side, thereby opening
the lot to illicit parking The car wouldn't clear the
bar with the top up. so I could only take advantage of
this procedure during spring quarter on non-rainy
days It was three years before they caught me
Edward Thomas is a graduate student in speech com
munication
will lake them to reclassify my parking permit status
to "staff"’ Especially after they read this glowing
^OLrouree'thVmorev^oltected is going to a worthy
cause badly needed parking decks and lots which
will add a whopping total of around 1,900 new spaces
b> TV?Doints to ponder: How many new cars will we
addtothe University's population by 1985’
And if the construction timetable is similar to the
one origmallv planned for our new. rumored student
center by the time these lots are completed, the
internal-combustion engine will have been obsolete
for a decade
Prediction If these lots were to be employed for
the auxiliary function of housing alumni's cars for
football games, the lots would be finished by next
* Traffic Safety has announced their parking policy
for next year; fm announcing mine:
• If | lived in a dorm (Mell or Lipscomb) whose
parking lot is cleared out for Bulldog Club members
on football weekends (this includes the Coliseum
commuter lot 1.1 would pro-rate the vehicle- registra
tion fee to deduct these (our Saturdays from the bill
• Use the registration fee as a deposit against the
first parking ticket I received
• Borrow one of my best friend's brother s crut
ches and X-rays and memorize the details of his knee
injury that got him a "handicapped" sticker three
years ago
• Hold off registering my car and parking it on
campus as long as possible Let Traffic Safety "eat
cake "
• Stake out reservations on those seven or eight
free parking" places on Lumpkin Street across
from Boggs
• Install a more readily removable convertible
top, to make it easier to slip into those key-card lots
undetected
Traffic Safety
Park this baby,
Surprise Kroger confrontations
It happened again the other afternoon in Kroger
It wasn't a particularly long stare It was really
more of a smiling hello in passing When I got home 1
angrily threw my groceries around my kitchen.
beci?-se as usual I had let the opportunity to start a
conversation pass w ith the moment
Actually, starting a conversation in front of the deli
presents quite a challenge Which luncheon meat
makes the best first impression. Virginia-cured ham
or smoked turkey’
Even if I knew, it couldn't have brought my tongue
out of its state of temporary paralysis She looked
better than any of the models displayed fleshilv on
those trashy magazines lining the checkout counters
Her eyes were the kind that instantly made me quit
wondering whether I had enough butter in the
ret ngeralor to get through next w eek
I immediately began gathering thoughts in the
blankness of my mind so that I could return a "hello"
without sounding like I have a speech impediment
The blurb that finally managed to stumble out of my
mouth had the character of a sheet of Cost Cutter
toilet paper
But that was all I said Why couldn’t I have rattled
on like a roll of Charmm floral prints until I at least
got her name’
I could have begun w ith. "My what a nice head of
lettuce" or. "Have y ou tried the new prune yogurt’"
Anything to just start a conversation
This has happened to me before and I always
promise myself the next time I meet eyes with a
gorgeous stranger. I ll talk
Otherwise. I sit around frustrated by the reality
that I may never see her again
Her smile let me know something wonderful lies
behind that face The quick glimpse, like the Cheddar
samples in the cheese department gave me just
enough of a taste to w ant the whole w heel
In this case, however. I didn't catch the name of the
brand As a matter of fact. I can't recall exactly w hat
she w as w earing
1 think she had on shorts, and maybe a hooded
jersey jacket She carried her groceries in her arms,
but 1 don't recall any particular item If she had a
greek. three-letter classification code on her clothes
that might have enabled me to come up with her
identity . 1 missed it.
I mostly just saw eyes I think her brown hair was
pulled back in a ponytail Her smile could have
melted the entire frozen-food section It warmed me
quicker than my first encourter with jalapeno
'hi. ^ hWk0ut coun,er ' 1 dldn ' t even flinch v
L™. ,< * >swl frozen orange juice on top o
one m r scannin # ,he ‘tore in hopes of catc
one more glimpse of her
“ 1 leav,n * and •«<« convinced mysel
irvinotT'aaT'* 38 eaused bv 'he romantic ir
trying to add life to a grocery store visit, she roc
idis^toT.? a ' Se 11 Acro “ ,,ve checkout lanes
heans. eves fla
anoiner nonverbal heart wrencher
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a grTe^i 'r *' th ,h * ,dea of costing strange
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bond feU as " a dudent reduce
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journalism plaza and start in with a "What's
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frUTlu ihfltL? 1 "P™ 'each me if I do stop a (
feeltnc hk* a I am crazy, and
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