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FRIDAY, APRIL 21, 1989 « ATHENS, GEORGIA « VOLUME 96, ISSUE 92
Ga. per-pupil spending third in region
By ROBERT TODD
Staff Writer
Georgia ranks third in the
Southeastern region in the money
it spends for each pupil at the uni
versity level, but eighth in the ratio
of state-to-student contributions.
Roger Mosshart, University
System vice chancellor for Fiscal
Affairs, said that unless the state
legislature gives education greater
priority, it’s unlikely the figures
will change.
According to fiscal 1988 South
eastern Regional Education Board
figures, Georgia averaged $5,569 a
year in general operating appro
priations for full-time students at
state university-level institutions.
North Carolina led the 15-state
region with an average of $6,819 a
upil followed by Florida with a
6,542 per-pupil average. Loui
siana’s $3,300 average was the
lowest in 1988 and the regional av
erage was $4,730.
Joe Marks, Regional Data Serv
ices associate, said the SREB’s
data is based on appropriations to
state-funded university-level insti
tutions and the full-time under
graduate enrollment at these
institutions.
The rest of the region’s per -pupil
expenditures include Maryland,
$5,478; Tennessee, $5,250; South
Carolina, $5,179; West Virginia,
$4,635; Arkansas, $4,484; Virginia,
$4,439; Kentucky, $4,156; Texas,
$3,935; Oklahoma, $3,729; Missis
sippi, $3,671; and Alabama,
$3,650.
By comparing the per-pupil ex-
peditures to student tuition, Marks
said one can determine a ratio for
input into education costs.
In Georgia, the state contributes
$3.15 for everv $1 a student con
tributes. This figure places Georgia
eighth in the region behind North
Carolina, which contributes $7.83
per student dollar; Florida, con
tributing $5.90 per student dollar;
Texas, $4.37 per student dollar;
Tennessee, $3.74 per dollar; Ar
kansas, $3.65; Oklahoma, $3.62;
West Virginia, $3.40; and the re
gional average of $3.50 per student
dollar.
Mosshart said states like North
Carolina and Texas emphasize
their higher education programs
and try to keep the costs to stu
dents low.
The lowest state-to-student ra
tios belonged to Virginia and Loui
siana which contributed $1.90 and
$1.91, respectively, for each stu
dent dollar. Maryland matched
Georgia’s $3.15 ratio, while Ken
tucky contributed $2.94 for each
student dollar; Alabama, $2.59;
South Carolina, $2.53; and Missis
sippi, $2.06.
Mossart said that unless the
state changes its policy of three-to-
one funding, the ratio will remain
constant. The policy is for students
to fund 25 percent of higher educa
tion costs and the state to fund 75
percent.
Other than a policy change, he
said, only the creation of an addi
tional revenue source, such as a
lottery, could increase the state’s
funding without increasing fees.
Most states are increasing their
fees at greater rates than Georgia
Florida, for example, projects a 15
percent fee increase next year
Mossart said that under this trend,
the state-to-student contrbution
ratios will stabilize.
He also said that in the past,
states including Texas and Okla
homa funded a large portion of
higher education through vast pe
troleum revenues. The status of
the oil business is forcing those
states to increase the students’
share of the funding.
Marks said adding the states’
per-pupil expenditures to the stu
dents’ tuition doesn’t give an accu
rate estimate of the total per-pupil
expenditures, because most insti
tutions maintain several funding
sources.
He said the total usually varies
between 50 to 70 percent of the
funding-
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Playtime
It’s recess at Winterville Elementary School and stu
dent teacher Natalie Black plays with Shameika
Walton, Erik Saunders and a friend. Black, a senior
early childhood education major, teaches 40 hours
a week in pursuit of her education degree. She gets
15 credit hours for teaching at Winterville.
U.S. ag economists concerned
with European trade competition
By SONJA COX
Staff Writer
One of the most controversial in
ternational trade issues these days
is agriculture.
The United States has experi
enced increasing competition in ag
ricultural trade from the European
Economic Community and has
American farmers and agricultural
economists worried, said a visiting
scientist to the agricultural eco
nomics department.
Claudio D’Alova is a lawyer em
ployed by the EEC to advise its
Council of Ministers on agricul
tural policy. He is a native of Italy,
but lives in Brussels, Belgium,
where the EEC is based.
The EEC sent D’Aloya here be
cause the University is considered
the best agricultural institution in
the Southeast, he said.
Glen Ames, an agricultural eco
nomics professor, Baid the EEC is
sponsoring D’Aloya’s 9tay at the
University for this academic year,
during which he is to evaluate the
United States’ economic adjust
ments to price changes in the agri
cultural trade market.
D’Aloya said he is also here to
gain a better understanding of
American agricultural policy and
to explain the European point of
view.
The newest agricultural trade
agreements between the United
States and the EEC came at the be-
S nning of April during talks at the
eneral Agreement on Tariffs and
Trade Conference in Canada, D’A
loya said.
GATT is an international trade
organization which calls negotia
tion conferences between member
nations as neccessary, he said.
In 1986, GATT members agreed
to add agricultural trade to its list
of topics for negotiation. The cur
rent round of negotiations, began
in Uruguay in 1987, should pro
duce agreements on various issues
of international trade, he said.
In early April, during the GATT
talks, the United States and the
EEC agreed to progressive sub
stantial reduction of government
subsidies of agricultural produc
tion, D’Aloya said.
Please See AG TRADE, Page 3
Fall applications flood law school
By STEVEN M. SEARS
Staff Writer
Students with law school aspirations, brace your
selves.
There’s fierce competition to get in to the Univer
sity School of Law during fall, 1989.
‘The people that got in during the fall of 1985,
wouldn’t stand a chance in the fall of 1989,” said Wil
liam Kennedy, law admissions director.
There are an estimated 1,700 applicants competing
for admission for the fall of 1989 — a class limited to
200 to 215 seatB.
Applicants with grade point averages around 3.1 to
3.2 make up about 85 percent of the applicant pool
competing for admission for the fall of 1989, Kennedy
said.
Law School Admission Test scores range from the
upper 308 to 40s, on a grading scale of 10 to 48.
The higher caliber students that are applying are
raising the admissions standards.
However, because the law school is a state school,
applicants from Georgia are given preference over
out-of-state applicants.
The University law school isn’t the only one experi
encing an increase in applicants. Law schools nation
wide are flooded with applications.
About 90,000 applicants are competing for 40,000
seats in the nation’s law schools, according to the Law
School Admissions Council.
The passion of prime-time television lawyers and
the seductiveness of earning six and seven figure sala
ries shortly after graduation, are some reasons cited
for increased interest in the law profession.
University law school administrators attribute the
deluge of applications to a variety of reasons.
The law profession has suffered since the Water
gate years, Kennedy said, but television shows like
“LA Law” and Terry Mason" might have instilled
some respect for the law profession.
Problems on Wall Street — a barometer of the na
tion’s economy — also have played a decisive role be
cause they influence the decisions of people who, in
the past, might have opted for a masters of business
administration instead of a law degree, he said.
Law school administrators had anticipated a de
cline in applications.
‘The numbers this year are astounding to all of us.
When the balloon bursts it will be to the applicants
advantage," Kennedy said.
Rusty Hippie, a senior advertising major who has
applied to the Universit/s law school for the fall of
1989, said,“A law degree is a valuable asset to have.
No matter what you do, you have to be legal conscious
in any business endeavor.”
The job market for lawyers is relatively secure and
a high percentage of the University’s law school grad
uates are employed immediately after graduation.
Legal Services Director Jill Birch said that al
though all the students in the graduating class of
1989 haven’t yet reported their employment status,
within a month of graduation, 123 of the 199 rising
graduates already have jobs lined up.
The class of 1988 had a job-placement rate of 96
percent and the class of 1987 had a placement rate of
98 percent, which is considerably higher than the na
tional average of 60 percent.
“Law pervades every aspect of people’s lives," Birch
said,“and a lawyer’s business is always pretty con
stant."
Library to finish reshelving soon
By ANDY ROGERS
Staff Writer
Reshelving in the main li
brary may be a little behind, but
according to library workers,
the process will soon be caught
up, despite a tightening budget.
The library budget won’t
allow for vacated positions in
the circulation department to be
refilled. But Circulation Depart
ment Head Claire Colombo said
the staff will still be able to
handle the job.
She said that at the end of the
year, all of the books checked
out by faculty members will be
due for inventory. This will add
to the extra load at the end of
the quarter, but Colombo said
no new staff will be needed.
Acting Library Director
Bonnie Clemens said all of the
departments are being asked to
cut back on spending as the end
of the fiscal year draws closer.
One way of cutting back is to not
fill vacant positions, she said.
“At the beginning of the year
we make allocations,” she said.
"The circulation department got
their allocations.”
The library goes through this
process every year, Clemens
said.
Colombo said “clearing the
floor" — gathering the books
that have been used and re-
shelving them — is a cycle that
should take no more than a day.
The reshelving is still behind
from the rush at the end of
winter quarter.
There are enough staff mem
bers to get the reshelving job
done if extra iobB are put on
hold, she said.
Another iob put on hold is
shifting books to new shelves on
the fourth floor. A new set of
shelves has been installed on
that floor, since the books are
getting too crowded. But until
the reshelving iB caught up, the
new shelves will remain empty,
Colombo said.
A student worker in the li
brary wrote a letter to The Red
and Black complaining that the
staff was overworked and the
job wasn’t getting done. But Co
lombo said the letter was mis
leading.
Clemens said the letter con
tained misinformation, al
though she wouldn’t comment
on what information was inac
curate.
‘The shelves are a mess right
now," the letter’s author said in
a telephone interview. “Sure,
the books are getting up there,
but they’re not being put back in
order."
The writer refused to give her
name.
Athens police cars change colors
By JIM TEAS
Staff Writer
Motorists violating Athens traffic laws may soon
see a stranger in their rear-view mirror.
Speeding, drinking and otherwise disorderly
drivers alertly scanning the road for the familiar
colors of local police departments’ cars will soon find a
sleek new watchdog in the pack.
The Athens Police Department motor fleet is get
ting a fresh coat of paint. But don’t expect the familiar
blue and red striped white patrol cars to disappear
right away, a police official said Thursday.
There will be a change in the color scheme of the
patrol cars," said Hilda Spratlin, Athens police public
information director. The new cars will be midnight
blue with white doors and roofs," she said.
The police department recently bought six new
1989 Chevrolet Caprices sporting the new colors, and
city technicians have converted two of the old Impalas
to the new look. However, Spratlin said, the entire
fleet won’t be converted instantly.
“Any new cars purchased will be delivered in the
modified version,” Spratlin said. “But we haven’t
made plans to modify the existing fleet. Both models
will be on patrol.”
Color isn’t the only change in the cars. Spratlin said
there also will be a change in the side logo.
The doors will bear a picture of citv hall, with the
slogan 'City of Athens’ to the left of the logo," she
said.The lettering will be done in all white.”
The police garage property technician said the new
cars should be in service and pursuing speeders
within 10 to 14 days.
Raymond Smith said police lights have been or
dered for five of the new cars.
Athens Police Chief Mark Wallace said he made the
recommendation to change the color of the cars.
“In 1976, we developed the old design to commem
orate the bicentennial year and that was twelve years
ago,” Wallace said. “We could not order the car in that
color and we had to contract the painting.”
Wallace said the paint on the old cars wasn’t baked
on in the factory and therefore, faded quickly.
‘We had to repaint them every two years,” he said.
‘The more traditional Los Angeles Police Department
style comes complete from the factory with paint to
last the lifetime of the car.”
Athens police cars: Getting a new look