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THE RED AND BLACK
An independent student newspaper serving the University of Georgia community
Athens, Ga., Vol. 92, No. 45 Thursday, January 17,1985 News 543-1809 Advertising 543-1791
Athens may
deny request
for sidewalk
By SUZANNE WOOD
Red and Rlark Senior Reporter
Concerned over potential liability, an
Athens City Council committee has
recommended denying a University
request for a sidewalk near the new
Thomas Street parking lot
David Lunde. director of Campus
Planning, said the sidewalk would
help alleviate a safety problem caused
by people walking out of the Visual Arts
faculty office building toward Thomas
Street He said the problem increased
when the new 400-space parking lot
opened this quarter
The sidewalk would run along the
railroad tracks from Mitchell Street to
the entrance of the Visual Arts building,
and would continue down the tracks to
within 50 feet of Baldwin Street, said
Joe Broadhurst, director of University
Business Services,
Broadhurst said denial of the
sidewalk request wouldn't affect the
construction plans for either the
parking lot or the overhead bridge
Broadhurst said the University
originally requested the sidewalk from
Southern Railways, which owns the
area where it would be constructed He
said the railroad owners refused to
allow the strip between the tracks to be
paved and used as a walkway, because
they feared they would be held
responsible if a student were injured
using it.
‘The University carries liability
insurance for certain areas of the
campus," Broadhurst said “We will
carry liability for the parking lot itself
and for the overhead bridge when it is
built, but we re not leasing the train
tracks, and therefore wouldn't be held
liable."
He said the University next ap
proached the city council to ask that the
city build the sidewalk and take the
responsibility
Dwain Chambers, chairman of the
council's public works committee, said
The University wants a sidewalk near the new Thomas Street lot
‘As it stands now, the sidewalk
won't be allowed. We’ll definitely
keep trying.’
—- Joe Broadhurst
his committee is not prepared to take
on that liability He also said the
sidewalk would cost too much to justify
building it
"Just that small stretch of land
across the street from the Visual Arts
building would cost about $5,000,"
Chambers said "And the liability
would be a continual problem "
Broadhurst said the committee's
decision was not the final word from the
city, but he added that the council
usually follows its committee's
decisions. If the council denies the
request, the University will not be able
to use the land until the railroad
abandons it, a process that could take
years, he said
Ken Jordan, director of the Physical
Plant, said there is no room on the east
side of the street, because that side
borders the Jackson Street cemetary.
Broadhurst said he doesn't know
what route the University will take next
to try to get the sidewalk
"I don’t know right now,” he said. “I
guess we’ll try to talk further with the
railroad, but as it stands now, the
sidewalk won’t be allowed. We’ll
definitely keep trying.”
Harris reemphasizes
stress on education
By BETH PATE
Red and Black Srntor Reporter
ATLANTA — Gov. Joe Frank Harris
delivered his precedent-setting state of
education address here Wednesday,
outlining his plan for excellence in
education to the Georgia General
Assembly
"Education in Georgia is the best it
has ever been, and it is going to be even
better," Harris said. "But the truth of
the matter is, education in Georgia is
not good enough "
The governor based his education
program and budget proposals on
recommendations of the Educational
Review Commission's October report
"The full recommendations of the
Educational Review Commission are
going to be considered and they must,
they must be enacted," he said.
Though most of his $231 million
program concentrates on improving
elementary and secondary schools,
Harris has included $90 million for
Georgia's colleges.
These funds will go to research
funding, equipment purchases, an
addition to the Continuing Education
Center, the eminent scholars program
and construction projects.
. “Equally significant, this recom
mendation fulfills the state’s current
desegregation commitment for capital
construction on the campuses of Albany
State, Fort Valley State and Savannah
State," Harris said.
Harris said the state's education
problems stem from a lack of ac
countability of educators and by the
state’s policy of endorsing minimum
and adequate programs. But 1985
signals a new emphasis on education,
he added
"The days of less than the best are
‘I will use every
element of per
suasion, every bit of
authority...to see that
this plan is funded...’
— Gov. Joe Frank
Harris
gone," he said.
One of the most fundamental changes
in Harris' program involves teacher
salaries.
“We are going to monitor per
formance rigorously, and we are going
to reward performance and
achievements, and we are going to
demand accountability in return.”
Harris proposed an increase of 10
percent in teacher salaries next year
and the approval of a new salary
schedule.
The schedule would allow teachers a
2.5 percent raise each year based on
their previous salaries. The current pay
schedule allows a 2.5 percent raise
based on salary of a beginning teacher.
Other recommendations include a
career ladder for teachers, a leader
ship/incentive program, a training
program for local school board
members, a sharper focus on the role of
vocational education, a professional
development center for educators,
student writing tests in grades six and
eight, kindergarten assessment
programs and a statewide information
network.
Many of these programs will have to
be phased in or tested on a pilot basis,
Harris said. “I am fully aware that if
we demand excellence, we are going to
have to pay for it."
Harris’ budget report for fiscal 1986
will recommend a $231 million increase
to support the new education program.
“Over 50 percent of the total state
budget once again is education spen
ding," Harris said.
If approved, this recommendation
will bring the education budget to more
than $1 billion in new funds in the three
years of Harris’ administration.
“The significance of this figure is that
it has been achieved without a tax in
crease," he said
Harris stressed the importance of
kindergarten in determining a child's
development and learning potential.
“The recommendation of mandatory
kindergarten has stirred the most
controversy, controversy which is
based on total misconception,” Harris
said.
Harris said individual commitment is
the key to the education program's
success, and he added he will do
everything within his power to improve
Georgia education.
"I would like to make one thing
clear,” Harris said. "All the new
dollars and all the new programs won’t
make an ounce of difference without
one simple but fundamental ingredient
— and that ingredient is commitment.
“1 pledge to the people of Georgia
that I will use every element of per
suasion, every bit of authority, and, if it
takes it, every ounce of strength in my
body to see that this plan is funded and
implemented."
BGC, IFC
again fail
to merge
By BETH OVERTON
Hrd and Mark Senior Reporter
Because of the absence of
representation from one of the Black
Greek Council fraternities, the
proposed black-white Greek merger
wasn't finalized at the Interfraternity
Council meeting Wednesday night
"All of us are going to join at the
same time," said Irving Dawson,
president of Alpha Phi Alpha frater
nity.
Dawson said the merger should be
finalized during the next IFC meeting
tenatively scheduled for Jan 30
IFC president Joe Fleming said he
was unable to contact members of two
BGC fraternities Tuesday
Despite affirmation from both BGC
and IFC officials that the merger is
almost completed, some BGC
represenatives had reservations
"We don't want to rush into
anything.” Douglas Walker, vice
president of Phi Beta Sigma, said "It’s
a good idea, but we don't want to rush
into it.”
Craig Potts, IFC vice president for
public relations, said he didn't know of
any problems with the merger
"They're here, they're attending and
they seem to have joined us," Potts
said
A BGC representative announced the
BGC will sponsor an All-Greek Step
Show at Memorial Hall on Feb 23
A step show is a type of performance
done when all Greeks get together to
step and chant, a BGC representative
said
Also at the meeting. John Opper
discussed the fraternities that violated
IFC's dry-rush policy.
IFC dry-rush days have been on
Sundays and Mondays of this quarter
Some fraternities have evaded the
policy by having parties at 12:01 a m
Tuesday to have alcohol, Opper said
He said IFC has the dry-rush policy to
prepare fraternities for the drinking
age being raised to 21.
"You have to plan intensively to run a
dry-rush system," Opper said. “I think
it's to our advantage to do it ahead of
time ”
The fraternities have to think in long
terms because dry rush is on the table
now in the legislature. Opper said
Opper, in the past, has said he ad
vocates dry rush for fraternities,
saying that they can emphasize
programs other than drinking, ensure
that non-pledges do not enjoy the
"fruits of the fraternities’ labor" and
avoid law suits stemming from injuries
incurred after large keg parties
Yippie
vs.
Yuppie
Rubin, Hoffman
pit 60s ’ idealism
against challenge
of the 1980s
A Review
By LEE SMITH
Krf and HUrk Sufi WrHer
Jerry Rubin walked on stage dressed in a suit and tie with
a bottle of Perrier water Abbie Hoffman, wearing old
brown pants and a blue shirt, entered and dropped his coat
on the stage With Hoffman on the left and Rubin on the
right, the premise was set up
The University Union’s Ideas and Issues division billed
the affair as "Yippie vs. Yuppie," while University
professor and debate moderator Loch Johnson described it
as "the challenge of the 19S0s vs. the idealism of the 1960s "
A more appropriate name, however, would have been
"The Abbie and Jerry Show,” with Rubin playing straight
man to practical joker Hoffman. As Hoffman once wrote in
Revolution for the Hell of It, ' Drama is anything you can
getaway with."
The two ex-radicals put on quite a show Tuesday night in
the Tate Student Center’s Georgia Room, entertaining
about 400 people They discussed all of today's burning
issues, ranging from Central America to the Super Bowl.
Looking grayer, paunchier and balder than in the late
1960s, Rubin, 46, and Hoffman, 48, barely resembled the
men who once made Richard Nixon and U.S. Attorney
General John Mitchell tremble in their boots
Hoffman, who seemed more sincere in his beliefs, won
the debate by proving his politics closer to Groucho Marx's
than Karl’s. Rubin was no match for his wit How can you
resist a man who says, “The campuses of America have
become hotbeds of social rest They’re about as exciting as
hospital food or televised bowling. Students are more in
terned in pursuing trivia, watching 'General Hospital' and
throwing up on their sweaters.''
Rubin, who once marketed himself as a Yippie and now
as a Young Urban Professional, was dull and stodgv He did
manage to get in one good line, though His solution to the
problems in El Salvador and Nicaragua is to “yuppize
Central America."
Yuppie Jerry Rubin, top, debated yippie Abbie
Hoffman Wednesday at Tate Center
he said "There’s nothing wrong with making money and
being comfortable, ”
Flashing out an American Express card, Rubin extolled
the virtues of Yuppiedom "We’re hard workers. There are
tremendous opportunities now to start your own business,”
he said “The critical Yuppie idea is self-reliance "
He denied having sold out “People who were in the
streets in the 1980s become the establishment of the late
1960s and early 1990s We're taking over ”
So how does he reconcile his current beliefs with those of
the 1960s? He advocates economic growth with a social
conscience
A Yuppie can be socially conscious by "choosing the work
you do Not joining a business that’s corrupt," according to
Rubin
Rubin said he's looking forward while Hoffman's stuck in
the past. Apparently, America can solve its problems by
moving from an industrial society to an information one
"In an information society, knowledge is power," Rubin
said
J«r Mwirti/ The Red an8 black
Rubin, who once urged students to kill their parents, now
tells them to become entrepreneurs “You can have it all," Please See DEB ATE. Page 6
Athens, Atlanta
newspapers file
suit against UGA
By chris mccartkr
Rrd and Black Hr n I or Reporter
Two local newspaper companies will
lake the Board of Regents and
University President Fred Davison to
court today in a suit that could force the
University to release information
concerning National Collegiate Athletic
Association investigations of Univer
sity athletic programs
The plaintiffs, Morris Com
munications Corp. and Cox En
terprises, are suing under the Open
Records Act, a Georgia statute that
makes the records of public agencies
such as the University subject to
disclosure on demand.
Morris Communications, Corp.
publishes daily newspapers in Athens,
Augusta, Savannah and Jacksonville,
Fla Cox Enterprises publishes the
Atlanta Journal/Constitution.
However, state and University of
ficials said Wednesday the University
is not required to release the in
formation until the NCAA's in
vestigations are complete.
“We've been advised by the state
attorney general that we are not
required to-release the information,"
Ralph Beaird, University law school
dean, said Wednesday. "We won’t
release the information until March 1,
when the investigations should be
complete.”
Both attorneys, Larry McCleod for
the plaintiffs and Pat McKee for the
defendants, said they could make no
comment on the pending litigation.
Superior Court Judge James Barrow
will judicate the hearing, which starts
at 11 this morning
The NCAAs investigations put the
University football team on probation
but further investigations found no
violations in the women's basketball
program. The NCAA is still in
vestigating the University's men's
basketball program
The plaintiffs contend that since the
NCAA’s investigations of the Univer
sity football program and women's
basketball program are complete, the
University is no longer immune to the
exception in the statute
But the University men's basketball
program is still under NCAA in
vestigation, and University officials
fear that disclosure of the information
might interfere with the investigation
process
"There is a question as to whether
release of the information during the
investigation affects those sources who
might disprove the allegations, thereby
jeopardizing the investigation,” Beaird
said.
Beaird said the disclosure might
tempt people not to cooperate in the
investigation
But Bob Chambers, general manager
for Athens Newspapers, publishers of
the Athens Daily News and the Athens
Banner Herald and a co-plaintiff in the
suit, said the University must disclose
the materials.
“The University hasn't fully satisfied
us with their response." Chambers said
Wednesday. "Their action is a violation
of the Open Records Act. We want the
information so we can have the ability
to respond to it, so we can clear up
rumors and innuendos that have been
circulating ”
The University maintains that it will
not release the information until the
men’s basketball program in
vestigation is complete, but Chambers
said David Hudson, a corporate lawyer
he sent to the attorney general Jan. 3,
agreed not to ask for that information
until March 1.
Chambers said he asked only for the
release of information pertaining to the
football and women's basketball
program investigations, but that
request was denied
State Attorney General Michael
Bowers said Wednesday he disagreed
with Chambers' statements.
"Until the NCAA’s complete in
vestigation is finishpd, there is no
obligation on the part of public agencies
to disclose the information," Bowers
said