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The Red and Black • Friday, April 20, 1990 • 3
‘Southeast corridor’ grows nearer day by day
By DELBERT ELLERTON
Contributing Writer
Imagine a city chain beginning
in Birmingham stretching
eastward through Atlanta, Athens,
Greenville, Spartanburg and
ending in Charlotte.
Very unlikely, right?
Not so, according to Everett Lee,
n University research scientist and
census demographer, who said a
“Southeast corridor" may one day
exist.
“Because of the interstate
highway system and commuter
patterns, these cities grow closer
and closer each day,” he said.
Monitoring such trends has been
a part of Lee’s job since 1952.
Without his extensive 38-year
census experience, Lee’s demogra
phic insight would probably be an
interesting prediction at best.
Since 1790, the U. S. Census has
assessed the population for the
purposes of allocating economic re
sources, apportioning representa
tive seats and meeting critical
national data needs.
Like its predecessors, the 1990
Census has experienced some
problems collecting the survey
questionnaires that were mailed in
mid-March.
According to Ken Baldowski, re
gional census information director,
the Census Bureau based its
staffing on the assumption that 70
percent of the 106 million survey
questionnaires mailed to American
households would be returned by
mail.
Presently, 60 percent have been
mailed in. “We are receiving many
forms daily and people are begin
ning to realize the importance of
getting their forms in,” Baldowski
said.
If the predicted mail return rate
of 70 percent isn’t attained, the bu
reau will incur extra costs. ‘Tor
each percentage point below 70
percent, taxpayers will pay an ad
ditional $10 million for additional
staffing,” Baldowski said.
Bureau officials attribute the
low rate of return to the rise in two-
career families and the increased
traffic of junk mail in recent years.
“Maybe the census response rate
is tied in with the public’s overall
withdrawal from government af
fairs. There seems to be a decline
in the public’s concern for civic re
sponsibility," said Aaron Benavot,
an assistant professor of sociology.
Despite the present return rate
being below predictions, Baldowski
maintains that there is no need to
get alarmed. “We are very pleased
with the return rates we are get
ting,” he said.
Of the more than $50 billion to
be distributed annually, Lee esti
mates that the federal government
will allocate $150 a year per person
counted by the census in each
state.
“If someone is not included,
valuable funds will be lost,” he
said.
Georgia, according to 1988
census statistics, ranks as the 11th
largest state in the country with an
estimated 6.4 million people. The
suite’s population grew by 17.2
percent from 1980 to 1988.
Of the state’s areas, the metro
politan Atlanta area may be most
affected by the 1990 Census.
‘The city of Atlanta should lose
representatives because it has lost
people. However, the metro area
has grown u great deal and the sur
rounding counties should gain rep
resentatives," he said.
“Seventy-five percent of
Georgia’s growth has occurred in
seven metro Atlanta counties and
one Augusta area county,” Lee
said.
“A large amount of power and in
fluence is found in suburban areas.
People in the suburbs are better off
than the poor left in the declining
central city and rural areas,” he
added.
Unlike census surveys of the
past, this year’s survey will at
tempt to assess America’s home
less population, which is currently
estimated to be between 350,000
and 2 million people.
However, an accurate assess
ment of the homeless is virtually
impossible to obtain. “It’s impos
sible to count the homeless. A large
number are afraid of what might
happen to them,” Lee said.
IFC recycling program off to slow start
By ELIZABETH AZAR
Contributing Writer
As University fraternities con
tinue a recycling crusade for the
homeless, the program’s director
hopes to see an increase in collec
tions.
In March, the Interfratemity
Council implemented a recycling
program for fraternity houses, pro
viding one $12 barrel to each fra
ternity for the collection of glass
bottles and aluminum cans.
Jim McGown, Gilend Ministries
volunteer, collects the recyclable
material with the help of homeless
volunteers from the Athens Home
less Shelter. The program creates
jobs for unskilled labor.
McGown said he recieves only
$28 for about half a ton of glass and
20 pounds of aluminum each week,
but he hopes for an eventual in
crease once.the program catches on
with the fraternities.
Ron Binder, fraternity adviser,
said, he thought the program has
been tremendously successful.
“Environmentalism is catching
on at the University, in the city of
Athens and in the homes," he said.
McGown said, “Lambda Chi
Alpha fraternity has done an ex
ceptional job."
Cole Thomason, Lambda Chi
Alpha president, urges members of
the fraternity to use the con
tainers. They have borrowed four
additional barrels for green, brown
and clear glass.
“I would encourage fraternities
to do their part and get involved
because it takes such little effort
and a lot of g<x>d comes out of it,”
Thomason, a junior political sci
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defining time and lessening the
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he said
Boynton said the orrurre r.oe of
repeat offenders who di; regarded
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Boynton said the warnings,
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lowered the accident rate on
Baldwin. Heavy traffic, pedes
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caused the previously high acci
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“It used to be like a combat
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Mary Ricks, a publications
specialist who has worked in
Park Hall for the last seven
years, echoed his sentiments.
“It was the Indianapolis 500,”
she said. “I used to do whatever I
could to avoid Baldwin.”
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