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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Go. Vol. 90 No. 109 Thursday, May 19, 1983 News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Despite protests, parking fees set
Broadhurst defended the parking plan Wednesday
By JIMMAS8ARA
Krd and Black Senior Reporter
A new University parking-tee system — which will
make it more expensive tor faculty and employees to
park on campus next year — will not be changed
despite resistance trom some ot those attected by the
tee hike
Speaking at the law school auditorium Wednesday,
Business Services Director Joe Broadhurst told a
group of about 60 faculty members and employees
the new parking fees were needed to increase
campus parking facilities and would not be changed
next year
Under the new parking-fee system, all faculty and
employees w ill be forced to pay at least $38 to park on
campus each quarter Several people attending
Wednesday's meeting told Broadhurst they were
concerned about the fee hike, and at least two
University employees began gathering petition
signatures earlier this week to protest the fees
“I welcome any petitions, ' Broadhurst said. "It
will not change the system for this year, but they will
be given our full consideration."
The fees sparked two petition drives from em
ployees, but one was dropped Wednesday because of
Broadhurst’s response.
Mary Evans, administrative secretary for the
director of research in the College of Business Ad
ministration, said she decided not to turn in her
protest petition containing 100 signatures because she
didn’t think it would do arty good.
Evans said many of those who had signed the
petition expressed fear for their jobs because of their
signatures, and she didn't feel turning in the petition
was worth the possible risk
But another petition, drafted by Lauren Drake, an
accounting assistant in the law school, will be turned
in next week to Broadhurst.
Drake said Wednesday she had about 200
signatures with only a third of the petition sheets
turned in to her.
The petitions, however, will be too late to stop the
fee system from taking effect this fall. Broadhurst
told the audience the fees were past the planning
stage, and that decals and key-card machines had
already been ordered for it.
"We can't wait any longer, because if we don't do it
now, we may not be able to do it at all," Broadhurst
said
But one audience member said administrators
could at least have waited long enough to ask for
input on the plan from faculty and employees.
"We’re told, ‘Take it or leave it, like it or not,' and
that’s what I find the most objectionable part of this
plan,” law Professor Mack Player told Broadhurst to
the applause of the audience
Broadhurst said the plan had been checked with
deans, vice presidents and department iheads — but
not with the lower-echelon faculty and employees.
Others in the audience protested what they thought
was an unfair distribution of the fees, with students
paying considerably less than faculty for similar
parking privileges in peripheral campus lots
Please See PARKING, Page 2
Art Kuril#/Th# K#d and Black
SGA ghost revived?
When Students for Student Representation set out to draft a
student-government constitution six months ago, its members
knew the previous government had been plagued with
problems. Rut they didn't know some student complaints had
been ignored for more than 10 years. Today, in the first of a
two-part series, staff writer Laura Otto looks at the old
Student Government Association and the problems that
plagued the group.
Friday, part two will examine the question of the current
controversy over adopting The Assocation of Georgia
Students, which faces a student referendum Tuesday.
Opposition to the SSR-inspired TAGS comes from a group
called Students Against Misrepresentation. SAM Chairman
Dan Mitchell and member Robbie Owen will debate SSR
President Scott Klosinski and member David Wynett at
Memorial Hall Plaza today at noon.
The full text of the bylaws and constitution of TAGS appear
on Page 2.
Desegregation too costly?
We cannot agree with the Review
Committee*• recommendation that
12.400 designated for partial funding
of a Black Cultural Center be deleted
from the allocations budget In
fact, much of the di//iculty now faced
by the Board of Regents concerning
court orders to desegregate the
University System stems from long
neglect for programs and facilities
which would encourage greater
black enrollment
—from an SGA report to Prenident
F red Davison, June 1973
By I.AL'RA OTTO
Krd and Black Mall HrH#r
T he Coalition Party was a strong
force in 1972 when it lobbied for
University students' rights
Its members were considered
radicals, liberals and the only party
on campus that did not have active
Greek members
But that description was wrong,
said some members of the abolished
Student Government Association
"We drew such a mix of people.”
recalled then-SGA president Steve
Patrick .
Providing free legal advice for
students, abolishing freshman and
sophomore residence requirements
and funding women's athletics were
some of the issues introduced by the
Coalition Party of SGA Although the
administration initially vetoed all the
proposals, they were eventually
adopted
Long before the current federal
ultimatum issued to increase black
enrollment here, black students had
complained to the SGA They didn't
have a meeting place or a black
cultural program, they said
So the government voted 63-0 to
allocate money for a black-cultural
center in 1972 The money was chop
ped from the budget by the ad
ministration
SGA tried again the next year, in
creasing the allocation and even sug
gestmg an inexpensive location
Again, the proposal was vetoed.
"History is repeating itself and it
doesn't have to," Patrick said "We
had the money and the alumni sup
port."
Student Affairs officials said in a
letter to University President Fred
Davison in 1973, "The committee
cojild not accept the philosophical no
tion of establishing such a potentially
segregated facility on the campus "
The reaction demonstrated just
how poor relations have been bet
ween administrators and student
government members since Dif
ferences of opinion would continue to
eat at the organization until its
demise in 1979
Patrick, now a doctoral student in
business, said the student govern
ment of the '70s was a “united front”
that provided a democratic process
for students
' People voted along political lines
instead of for personal choices," he
said
Communication between the two
became so bad that, in his resigna
tion speech, senate Vice President
Steve Saunders told SGA: "We have
an administration which supports the
senate only when the senate does
what they want; the rest of the time
they, at best, tolerate us "
Saunders urged senators to rebuild
their relationships or "you don't
deserve to say anything about stu
dent government going to hell "
A disgruntled SGA took its issues to
the Board of Regents in 1973
"We actually went to every regents
member in the state and presented
our case," Patrick said “We even
went, at that point, to (then- gover-
nori Jimmy Carter "
Patrick said SGA and Carter
discussed how decision-making was
being taken away from the students
But public opposition stirred fire in
the hearts of administrators, Patrick
said, and SGA lost the fight
"I feel like if this commitment to
having student control of the activity
fees had been maintained through
three, four or five years, we would
have won." he said.
New SGA members, impatient
with slow progress, wanted to
restructure the SGA The power to
allocate a half-million dollars of
student-activity money was taken
from SGA in 1976 because of what the
administration called “financial ir
responsible" and fighting
Not all the government’s actions
were well-planned, either In the late
70s, committees often couldn’t get
quorums and members argued over
parliamentary procedures, ac
cording to one former senator who
asked not to be identified
Please See GOVERNMENT, Page 2
Harris says
regents’plan
just may be
From ftlaft and wlr# report!
Board of Regents staff members will
meet with Gov Joe Frank Harris this
week to revise the regents'
desegregation plan described by Harris
as too costly
University System Vice Chancellor
Dean Propst said the regents staff
would meet with Harris this week to
work out a compromise to ensure
funding for the desegregation plan
The regents are seeking funding of
the plan to fulfill a court order, imposed
by U S District Judge John Pratt,
threatening the University System with
a loss of federal funding unless the
system meets its desegregation goals
by 1985
"There are alternatives to all the
funding proposals in the plan," Propst
said "We will be working closely with
the governor's staff. I don't think this
will retard our efforts In
desegregation.”
Harris said at a press conference
Wednesday he would request an ex
tension on submitting a plan because
the regents' plan contained elements
that might be too costly
Without criticizing the regents or
citing specific items in their plan,
Harris told reporters he asked for the
extension in order to work with system
officials “to put a price tag on their
proposals and then to realistically
assess what we can attain.”
"I’m not going to be a party to sen
ding to Washington a plan that's a
hypothetical one with a lot of window
dressing and saying, 'Well, Georgia's
going to do this or that,’ and
realistically knowing that we can't
attain it," Harris said.
The plan approved by the regents last
week includes tuition waivers for first-
year minority students and promised
improvements of traditionally black
institutions.
In recent weeks, black student
leaders have criticized the University's
efforts to recruit minority students.
Harris has asked the U S Depart
ment of Education's Office of Civil
Rights for an extension of the deadline
so he can study the board's plan and
make changes in the funding proposals
Several area legislators have said
they would be reluctant to fund all
recruitment. Rep. Bob Argo, D Athens,
called the tuition-waiver proposal
ineffective, and Rep Hugh l-ogan, D-
Athens, said additional funds for
recruitment might not be available
Roger Mosshart, system assistant
vice chancellor for Fiscal Affairs, said
the funding was entirely up to the
legislature and Harris.
By BOB KEYES
Hr4 and Mark H#ntor H#port#r
Beginning fall quarter, University
graduate students will find it more
difficult to get course grades changed,
thanks to a new rule passed by the
Graduate Council.
To reduce the number of grade
change requests, the council last week
unanimously adopted a policy change
requiring both the course instructor
and his department head to write let
ters to the Graduate School justifying
the change request.
“We wanted to cut down on grades
that were turned in and then nine
months later changed," said John
Wodarski, member of the Graduate
Council’s administrative committee,
which recommended the change after a
year of study.
“It's between the governor and the
legislature as to how difficult the
funding will be,” Mosshart said.
"That's their decision to make "
Harris must approve any
desegregation plan that is submitted
Harris Wednesday declined to cite any
portion of the plan in particular but said
the dollar figure for the entire plan was
most important
“I don’t think I should pick out any
particular part and try to identify it and
say that we re studying it more than
any other proposal," Harris soul 1
guess the bottom line is the dollar
requirement for the whole proposal
That is something that I think is very
important.
"If you're going to make a com
mitment to anyone, then you ought to be
able to know you're going to fulfill It."
"We had many students who received
‘C's, and then nine months later those
‘C’s were turned into ‘A’s with ex
planations that were not adequate,"
said Wodarski, a professor in the School
of Social Work
The change also affects students
wishing to remove an "F" that resulted
from failing to clear up an "in
complete" within nine months or to
change an assigned grade
The administrative committee,
which approves or rejects all grade-
change rquests, has, for the past year,
asked that explanations accompany the
request forms, but until now ex
planations were never formally
required, said Graduate Dean John
Dowling
Please See GRADES. Page 2
After you.... No, after you
It took only 90 minutes for Georgia's No. I doubles team of
Allen Miller, front, and (Ha Malmqviat to dispose of Its first
round opponent in the NCAA tennis championships at Henry
Feild Stadium Wednesday (See story Page I). The boys took
care of business, and Utah team John Tsumas and Greg
Holmes, by a 6-2. 6-4 tally. Miller and Malmqvist get bsCV in
action today at 6. when they face the team of Kelly
Evrrrnden and Jose Lambert of Arkansas at Henry Feild
SUdlum. Georgia's duo. which is unseeded this year, hopes
to justify the promise it showed last year, when it lost in the
tournament finals. Singles action also begins today at 8 a.m.
Staff photo by Bobby Haven.
Grad students to find
grade changes tougher