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A LI.KIN GUNTER
Editor
Student Regent Bill
Recent efforts by the Student Advisory Council (SAC) to
put a student representative on the state Board of Kegents
is a proposal that has varied between pending possibility
and hopeless proposition for nearly a year.
The measure which would put a student on the Board was
introduced last January in the Georgia General Assembly
by State Senator Bobby Rowan who proposed it as an
amendment to the state constitution. Since then the
measure known as the “Student Regent Bill, has been
shuffled under by the Senate University System Committee
as well as meeting with stiff opposition from the Board ol
Regents
Attempting to revitalize the measure, the SAC will solicit
a helping hand to the cause next week by circulating a
petition calling for student support of the bill. Those cir
culating the petition hope to demonstrate to members of the
Senate University Committee that students are interested
in the progress of the bill. . .
Essentially the bill, if passed, would place one student on
the Georgia Board of Regents. That student would have the
power of one vote in policy making decisions by the Board.
On the surface, it sounds like a good deal. But we think a
closer examination of the idea will reveal that the
placement of one student representative is less than
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It helps to know here that SAC, which is strongly pushing
tiie student regent bill, is an organization of student leaders
from 33 state colleges which supposedly acts as a link
between students and educational officials. Through
SAC students have more than 30 representatives, albeit ex
officio to state education higher-ups. Now SAC is pushing to
reduce that number to one. To be sure, that one student
would have a legitmate vote on the Board of Regents and, in
name at least, be a true representative to the students.
But that student would be responsible for representing
weil over 100,000 students scattered across the state. He or
she would have one vote and would have to match wits with
15 professional administrators. Those criteria would make
any student representative a mouse among men.
Regents presently live with the possibility of dissent from
more than 100,000 students. Should we remove that pressure
and consolidate it into one squeaky voice? This measure
will reduce the student tide to a drop in the bucket. Under
the circumstances we think that putting one, and only one,
voice in the fore is not the way to be heard
Even well intended attempts by the SAC to placate
students with token representation is nothing less than an
insult.
If the Regents really want to reduce potential student
power they’ll readily agree to put one student on the Board.
In so doing they’ll dismiss, in one fell stroke, worries of
student activism, pay proper and democratic tribute to
student input and hear one man lip service to student rights.
That should be a deal not even the Board of Regents can
refuse. .
Will it be one properly ordered vote or 100,000 voices.
Paula Dyan
Getting The Movement Together
A real people’s liberation is not a bloody
revolution nor a cause elaborated by demon
stration A people’s liberation is neither a
nationalistic uprising of a race, ethnic group or
religion. Rather, a people’s liberation is a
questioning of one’s needs and a means of ob
taining them.
Now it just so happens that as human
organisms our needs are similar. The question
is, what are our means of obtaining those needs?
There are governmental, political and social
organizations to theoretically meet our physical
needs but what of our psychological needs?
We think of the family as the center of
psychological growth and attachments, but even
that dissipates.
The rapid pace of future shock separates the
generations and unless a compromise is made
there is isolation.
If there is no compromise, how does one deal
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CAHKY SMITH
Manoj'irijf
Editor
with the problem of personal growth? Other
possible alternatives are conformity or
dissension. If one conforms, is one comfortable
in that predesignated role? If one dissents, what
agony and frustration must one endure?
There are also the questions of personal
growth. “Who am I? Why am I here? Is there a
reason? Does it matter? Am I who I wish to be?
How do I find myself? When I make that break
from the conformed me, where do I go? What
changes do I make? How? And, am I alone?”
People’s liberation does not propose to answer
any questions, for change must come within a
person at it’s own pace. But people’s liberation is
group interaction and support toward personal
growth. We are neither therapists or
philospophers but as innocents we must
rediscover our being. We must find ourselves,
and support one another. The first gathering will
be 8 p.m., tonight Student Center, conference
rm. No. 1.
Avery dear friend of mine,
Mortemer Pea brain, works at
the library here.
It seems dear Mort, as we
who know him affectionaily call
him, has some trouble with the
library system when a student
does the unheard of and checks
out a book.
The first hurdle dear Mort
must face is getting each
student to fill out a little card
with the name of the book on it.
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One way out of our current
economic fix would be to reduce
our consumption of oil. If
consumption were reduced,
prices would eventually drop
and hel*/ slow down our two
digit rate of inflation. The
problem is, of course, how to
keep up the same level of
economic activity on less fuel.
Carey Smith
Mistakes Make Marvin Mad
the call number of the book, the
number of words the book has,
the number of children the
author has, and the names,
addresses, and telephone
numbers of the last three people
he has seen.
Once this chore is completed
for each and every book the
student has approached the
omnipotent library desk
requesting permission to
Charles Autrey
Traveling Light
Cuts Heavy Cost
Many industrialists have used
this excuse to push for the
repeal of all the enviromental
protection laws, saying that the
older, more polluting models of
cars and industrial transports
were more efficient.
By far the more important
cause of poor mileage is vehicle
weight. For example, a
Mustang II V 6 with a curb
weight of over 3000 pounds gets
at most 16to 18 miles per gallon.
While a Capri with the same
engine but with a curb weight of
around 2000 pounds will get
nearly 30 miles to the gallon.
European versions of the Capri
without the 5 miles per hour
bumpers will do considerably
better.
If heavy bumpers, needless
reenforcement and the maze of
flashing light and buzzers the
government has installed to
keep us from killing ourselves
were removed from the 1975
models, the cars would be half a
ton lighter and a thousand
dollars cheaper. Perhaps then,
U.S. consumers would buy
them.
The most effective lifesaving
device in American cars is still
the seatbelt which is neither
heavy nor expensive. The only
problem is getting people to use
borrow, Mort must take each
card and tatoo it with a funny
little machine.
This portion of the rigamorole
completed, Mort must now
perform the third step of the
checkout procedure.
He grabs each book, and
inconspicuously as possible, he
slides it through the magic
powder box.
You see, the magic powder is
dusted on each book by a friend
of Mort’s, Marvin’s fairy.
Marvin is a tiger that sleeps
by the library door. Each time a
step of the procedure is not done
in the proper manner, Marvin
roars.
Therefore, it is important that
the magic powder is placed on
the books, because Marvin will
not wake up if the powder is
there.
But you see, the main
problem is with my dear friend
Mort.
Although he has the entire
procedure for checking a book
out written down for easy
reference, he still forgets
sometimes. This means that the
student whose book is not
carded in triplicate, tattood,
and sprinkled, will be caught by
Marvin.
There is so much for poor
Mort to remember. Poor Mort
forgets so often and Marvin is
awakened each time.
Thus, the students who do go
to the library are subject to the
sound of a constant roar. And
it’s pretty darn hard to study
with something roaring. Almost
as hard as it is for Mort to help a
student check out a book.
them. There is a way to in
crease seatbelt usage,
eliminate the extra equipment
and reduce insurance costs at
the same time. It may not even
have to go through Congress.
Perhaps some forward
thinking insurance company
will offer a policy something
like this: Liability and
hospitalization charts would be
set up in accordance with 100
percent seatbelt usage and
insurance policies would be
offered at one-third the normal
cost. However, the policy would
,only be enforced if the driver
and the occupants of the car
were wearing seatbelts at the
time of the accident. Otherwise,
there would be no coverage.
This plan would have the
immediate effect on reducing
insurance costs substantially
and highway deaths eventually
since the only thing that truly
motivates most Americans is
the prospect of saving money.
The safety bureaucracy
would soon have no reason for
mandating its “crash-proof
cocoon” theory of automotive
design. The inevitable reduction
in vehicle weight and expense
would have the double-barrelled
benefit of making cars more
efficient and desirable.