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off the wire I Boy’s lawsuit against University dropped
World
Congressman discourages limits
ATLANTA (APi—U S Rep Richard Ray, D-Ga ,
returning from a trip to Lebanon, said he has changed his
mmd about limiting U S troop involvement there
. ■ a freshman Democrat from Perry, was a member
ot a House Armed Services Committee delegation that
letui ned to Washington Mondav He said he now believed
mere should be no time limit on how long U S Marines re
main in the war-torn country
Key votes are expected in Congress this week on a com
promise that would enable President Reagan to keep the
Marines in Lebanon for 18 more months
Kay said he and other delegation members would
recommend against the 18-month limitation because an
immediate pullout of Marines would lead to a collapse of
the Lebanese government
By giving the Lebanese ' a blank check for 18 months,
they might not be nearly as aggressive in building their
fighting force up with speed. " he added
(J.S. and China discuss arms
PEKING iAPi — Detense Secretary Caspar Wein
berger said Wednesday that China and the United States
have started talks that could result in the sale of U S
arms, and that President Reagan and Premier Zhao
Ziyang will exchange visits next year
After discussions with top leader Deng Xiaoping. Zhao
and Defense Minister Zhang Aiping. Weinberger told
reporters in Peking "On the basis of the work here, I am
really confident that we have secured the basis for a
continuing relationship that will add greatly to the ability
of both countries to deter war and thereby increase the
chances of peace
Weinberger told the news conference in Peking
discussions have begun on cooperation in military
technology, including specific weapons systems for China,
and will continue "with my personal participation."
Nation
Reagan doesn't want Watt's job
WASHINGTON (APi - On Capitol Hill. Senate Majori
ty Leader Howard Baker said Wednesday that sentiment
against Interior Secretary James Watt may have crested
But leaders of minority Democrats, unwilling to lay the
interior secretary's gaffe to rest, maneuvered to force a
vote on whether Watt should quit That vote, which even
some Republicans concede could go against Watt, may
come within the next few days
White House spokesman Larry Speakes said that public
sentiment, as measured by calls and telegrams to the
White House, had been running heavily against Watt last
week, although Speakes had declined to reveal specific
figures While continuing to refuse to reveal any specifics,
Speakes said Wednesday. "It's kind of evening up now "
Speakes' statement, at a noon press briefing,
represented a shift of position from earlier in the day,
when he had played down the significance of White House
counselor Edwin Meese's assurance on Tuesday that
President Reagan considers this a closed issue" and
would not accept Watt's resignation even if it were of
fered
Drug improves heart treatment
BOSTON (AP) — An experimental drug dramatically
improves the condition of people with severe congestive
heart failure, and doctors say it could revolutionize heart
care by replacing digitalis as the standard treatment for
: this illness
The drug, called milrinone, strengthens the failing
hearts of people who are not helped by any other drugs So
far it has not caused any serious side effects
"If its lack of side effects is borne out in studies of larger
numbers of patients, including the less acutely ill. then I
. think it would revolutionize the treatment of heart
: failure." said Dr Donalds Baim. whodirected the study
State
Turner won't trade TBS stock
ATLANTA ' AP) - Turner Broadcasting System Inc
I suspended trading of its stock Wednesday until a set
: tlement is announced in a lawsuit filed by TBS against
i three other companies
Steven Korn, assistant vice president and deputy
/ general counsel (or TBS. said he hoped the settlement
? would be announced today
He said trading was suspended because of rumors about
/TBS' negotiations toward a settlement of its suit against
• Satellite News Channel. Group W Cable and Westinghouse
' Broadcasting and Cable
A $1 million lawsuit filed
against a student teacher
from the University has been
dropped, but an eighth grade
student's battle with the
Gwinnett County School
Board isn't over yet
William Craig, an eighth
grade student at Shiloh
Middle School, had raised
complaints about the
authority given to student
teacher Marie Hutchens
after she had given him a
failing grade in eighth grade
English
But Macklyn Smith.
Craig's lawyer, said the
issue wasn't the grade, but
w hether the regular certified
teacher had been in the
classroom long enough to
legitimize the failing grade
Hutchens gave Craig a
failing grade over a six week
period, but it was the
responsibility of the certified
teacher to issue the actual
grade report
“After discussions with
the Gwinnett School Board
attorney, we decided to take
the particular issue I con
cerning the grade) to the
school board instead of the
Gwinnett County State
Court, "Smithsaid
"We decided to drop that
particular issue regarding
whether she (the regular
teacher) really gave the
grade a few days before a
scheduled school board
meeting September 14,"
Smith said
However, one issue still
pending regards a violation
of William Craig's con
stitutional rights allowing
free speech
In discussions with Craig
and his parents. Shiloh
Middle School principal
Uiwell Ensey threatened to
suspend the boy if he
discussed the case around
school
“The principal refusing to
allow the child to speak is
what brought it all about,”
Smith said
The Craig's have since
moved to Florida and could
not be reached for comment
— ELIZABETH VAETH
Conservatory will blossom in spring
California students
battle tuition hikes
i CPS l — One of the largest
statewide student
associations in the United
States has had to quell a
rebellion of restless student
government presidents by
promising to adopt more
radical tactics to fight
tuition and fee increases
"There are a lot of mad
students in this state," said
Ed Van Ginkel. head of the
giant California State
Student Association, which
represents the student
presidents of 19 California
State University campus
presidents
Some were so mad about
the huge new tuition and fee
increases in the state and
about CSSA's apparent
inability to stop them that
they threatened to withhold
financial support of the
group statewide
Van Ginkel and the CSSA
board last week managed to
retain the funding by
promising to drop its "work-
from-within" tactics in favor
of organizing "mass ac
tions" among students to
protest the tuition increases
Specifically. California
State-Hayward's student
government resolved not to
pay 846V) in dues to CSSA
until CSSA dropped its
"conservative" tactics,
stopped running meetings
"like a social get together”
and "got out and mobilized
the students in this state.”
says Hayward student
President Jay Adler
California, strapped by the
recession and now left
chronically short of money
by 1978's Proposition 13 tax
revolt, has been trying to
balance its higher education
budgets by imposing larger
fees on students
Fees at the nine-campus
University of California
system went up 75 percent,
from $80(1 to $1400, in two
years
The California State
campuses are also imposing
big hikes San Diego State,
for example, pushed fees up
from $440 to $700 only three
weeks before classes started
this fall
California community
college students are paying
tuition (called "registration
fees") for the first time ever.
Everyone, says Van
Ginkel, is "getting fed up
with students having to bear
the brunt of the state's
budget problem ."
Adler, for one, blamed
CSSA lobbyists (or letting
state legislators do it. "They
claim to be lobbyists, but
they don’t deliver votes and
everyone knows it."
But CSSA was unwilling to
change at first, he says
It was run by “a group of
self-proclaimed realists who
think that organizing
students is too tough," Adler
said “It is. It's a bitch.
There's a lot of apathy out
there "
Adler wanted to go over
their heads to voters
Hayward's withholding of
dues "really got people
talking" about changing
tactics
Student presidents at
Fresno State, Los Angeles
State and San Francisco
State joined Adler in the
demand to change tactics
At a peacemaking con
ference last week, CSSA did
agree to adopt a more
"progressive" list of goals
that included lobbying for
new corporate taxes to
balance the state budget and
for an ambitious drive to
register students to vote
“I'm really happy now
with CSSA," Adler says.
"Things can always
change," Van Ginkel adds,
"but right now I'm pleased
with how unified we are."
By TOM MCLAUGHLIN
Special tu the Krd and Black
The University's new Botanical
Garden's visitor center/conservatory is
now under construction and should
open as part of the University bicenten
nial celebration next spring, according
to a University botany research techni
cian.
The building, which was made possi
ble by a $3 million grant from the
Callaway Foundation of LaGrange,
Ga., features a three-story conser
vatory that will be used to grow tropical
plants too sensitive to be grown out
doors, said Usher Thomason, research
technician in the School of Botany and
Plant Sciences The conservatory will
also be used for observation and study
of these plants.
The center will house a large lecture
hall capable of holding between 300 and
400 people and will contain meeting
rooms, a tea room, a gift shop and
various small laboratory and
classroom areas, Thomason said
Also featured will be a parking lot
aesthetically designed by David
Childers, the man who designed Kenny
Rogers' Athens estate, he said "The
lot will be terraced and utilize plantings
around and within the parking area,"
he added.
University Vice President of Services
S Eugene Younts allocated funding to
allow work to begin on the lot,
Thomason said
The building will have many varied
functions, most importantlv a research
area where plant science and land
scape Architecture students can
observe live tropical plants rather than
those in books, he said.
Thomason said the center is also ex
pected to draw nearly 160,000 visitors
annually—nearly twice the number the
garden draws now. Signs posted on the
major interstates will invite tourists
from all over the southeast
David Lunde, director of Campus
Planning, said one interesting aspect of
the center/conservatory will be an ex
perimental solar heating system, which
will supplement the gas heating
system The solar system will feature
large tanks which will store and heat
water that will help warm the building.
Lunde said.
The new addition will not put the
Callaway Building-the old botanical
building—out of service, Thomason
said It will still contain administrative
offices and smaller displays.
Michigan professor fired for trying to
‘get his students’ attention’ in ROTC class
(CPSI — A Northern Michigan University military science
instructor has been fired from his teaching past [nr biting the
head off a live chicken during class and then drinking the
blood of the slaughtered fowl, all in an effort "to get students'
attention ”
The incident occurred Sept. 1 asSgt Maj. Jimmy A Powell
was lecturing his leadership training class for new ROTC
recruits
"Apparently (Powell) had the whole thing planned out in
advance as a way to get students' attention during their first
day of class," said Col. Donald Taylor, head of the military
science department
After introducing himself and lecturing students for
several minutes, Powell left the room and came back
carrying a live chicken
"According to the students, he was just walking around
with the chicken, explaining things like what happens if you
attend class out of uniform, when all of a sudden he extended
the neck of the chicken and bit it off," Taylor said.
Then, as horrified students looked on, Powell held the
chicken up over his head and let the blood run into his mouth.
"I was shocked and disgusted when I heard about it later
that afternoon," Taylor said. "I checked all the facts and
concluded that there was absolutely no justification for what
had been done, and that it simply could not be tolerated "
The following morning Taylor met with university oflicials
and decided to relieve Powell of his teaching post and
reassign him to nearby K I. Sawyer Air Force Base
Deseg plan put on hold once again ?
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The regents themselves
came under criticism from
the fund, too
"In the University System
you have a governing body of
15 regents." Fairfax said
"Currently, two of the 15
members are black in a state
where there is currently a 25
to 30 percent black
population We wanted some
indication of what the
governor is going to do to
correct this. In recent
months, there have been two
vacancies on the board and
the governor has replaced
two white males with two
white males
"Out major concern is the
failure of this response to
meet the judge's court or
der." Fairfax said. "There
are several measures that
were left out of the gover
nor's spending plans that we
feel should be included, and
if the governor doesn't
submit those to the
legislature this year, there is
no way the system can be in
compliance by the (allot
1985 "
The NAACP's Legal
Defense Fund's comments
will be sent to the Office of
Civil Rights, and then on to
U.S. District Judge John
Pratt
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