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CAKKY SMITH
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Furniture
President Ward Pafford
issued a statement this week
which demonstrated his con
cern in dealing with the alleged
theft of college furniture for use
in private housing
We consider private use of
college furniture as taking
unfair advantage of the tax
payers who paid for it.
We are pleased that Dr.
Pafford has instructed acting
director of public safety Jody
Hicks to be especially alert to
this problem
Campus Beer
The recent passing of the
SCI A-sponsored alcoholic beer
proposal by the Faculty Senate
indicates a strong step forward
in relations between the faculty
and students.
The controversial issue,
which has been a sore spot
between the two groups for the
past four months, was resolved
only after much work and
consideration on the part of
lH)th This, in and of itself, is u
very good step forward.
The proposal was modified
somewhat from the original
SCI A bill While some parts,
such as the consumption of
alcohol at indoor intercollegiate
athletics events, were con
servatively eliminated, other
new and more liberal clauses
were added to the final bill.
We realize that there are
some problems in this final
Say
'Hello'
Does the campus switchboard
operator have the right to listen
in on people’s telephone calls?
Eavesdropping, an illegal
practice, has become the habit
of the campus operator Her
favorite time to listen is when a
call is being placed on the
Georgia Interactive Statewide
Telecommunications system, a
service where administration
and faci Ity can make business
calls anywhere free of charge.
She determines if a personal
call is being placed, and if found
guilty, the naughty person loses
lhe i r aforementioned
privileges There have been
several complaints in the past
of people feeling as though an
intruder was listening.
Seemingly dead for a while, the
practice has been revived.
So, if you experience the
sensation of a third party
listening to your phone call, just
smile and say hello to the
campus operator.
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Managing
Editor
Perhaps it is not feasable to
halt a crime that has possibly
already been committed, but it
should be possible to prevent
this type of thing from hap
pening in the future
“The college,’’ Dr. Pafford
said, “naturally will not
tolerate any clearly demon
stratable and proved violation
of the law in this fashion.”
We encourage Dr Pafford to
stick by his word, regardless of
who the case may involve.
draft which must be worked out
before the new regulations can
be effective. But, if the relations
between stuudents and faculty
continue on the current up
swing, this should not be a
major stumbling block.
President Pafford must weigh
this issue heavily, looking at
every possible angle. The major
problem, as we see it, is the
public relations questions. If the
president approves the
measure, he stands to catch a
lot of criticism from several
areas, particularly since he is a
lame duck administrator. And.
on the other side of the com, if
he rejects it, he will probably
catch a lot of flack and abuse
from the students.
The pitfall facing the proposal
now is one of approval or
rejection by President Pafford.
The president has said this issue
deserves his utmost attention, a
point we w hole hearteciiy agree
on As of yet, he has not publicly
said that he intends to do with
the proposal. He must, though,
act on the bill one way or the
other within 30 days.
Ultimately, the final decision
rests with President Pafford,
decision which will be un
pleasant at best. Positive input
from students in this matter
might be of great value.
Gauging the feeling and
opinions of those most affected
by the bill will provide a
valuable insight into this most
difficult question.
This new proposal will have
far-reaching effects in many
areas. For one, if the measure is
adopted, students will have to
show they can maturely handle
the responsiblity carried with it.
One good change the proposal
has already brought about is the
increased trust on a working
level between faculty and
students
Perhaps the same can be
accomplished between the
administration and the student
body.
Psychology Dept. Viewpoint
BY DR. MYRON M. ARONS
Chairman, Psychology Department
Permit me to offer some
perspective, and above all
proportion to the round of ar
ticles, editorials and letters on
the subject of the psychology
moratorium. It has never been
psychology's attempt to grow
for growing’s sake. When I
mentioned the fact that
psychology could probably have
enrolled 500 additional students
per year about half the
college’s decline this
statement was made in
reference to an imaginative
proposal of the Ad Hoc com
mittee of the AAUP to use
psychology as a gateway to
bring in students for in
terdepartmental programs and
for other programs and courses
to be developed to attract these
students’ interest. This was one
of a series of proposals made in
the interest of saving faculty by
increasing the school’s
enrollment. That proposal was
rejected because “the tail
might come to wag the dog ”
Next there was nothing
“mature” about the psychology
department’s decision to call a
moratorium on graduate
students. It was a regrettable
Jack Anderson
by Jack Anderson
with Joe Spear
WASHINGTON - Despite the
shah of Iran’s recent pledge not
to go along with another Arab
oil embargo, the State Depart
ment is quietly preparing for
such an emergency.
Even as Secretary- of State
Henry Kissinger was exchang
ing toasts with Arab leaders on
his recent nine-nation tour, his
aides w-ere meeting behind
closed doors with oil company
representatives. They were
working on an oil-sharing plan
for the Western world
The scheme calls for the
Western nations to share energy
resources in case of another em
bargo, but in reality this means
the United States would provide
most of the fuel.
Yet Kissinger may have more
trouble negotiating with our own
allies than he has with the
Arabs. Several key points of his
worldwide energy- blueprint
have raised hackles in France
and England.
The peripatetic Kissinger
may also have trouble with the
U.S. Justice Department. His oil
sharing proposal would require
the major oil companies to swap
vital information. This, the
Justice Department’s antitrust
lawyers fear, would lessen com
petition between the oil giants
and give them even more domi
nance over the American
market.
So if there is another oil em
bargo, the consumer may be
picking up three tabs -one for
himself, one for the European
nations and one for even higher
act of last resort Out of over 500
letters of inquiry and about 300
application files, the depart
ment has only been admitting
about 65 graduate students per
year Even this degree of
selectivity has been grossly
insufficient to keep down with
ihe pace of the new faculty
positions we have been given
over the past five years If we
do as Dr Wells suggests and by
the moratorium bring our
students down to formula level
with our existing faculty, we
will end up rejecting about 10
out of every 11 applicants. Are
these the standards which the
college wishes to impose on one
single department? Of course,
this would certainly reduce the
chance that the “tail might wag
the dog.”
I wish the dog end of the
campus would take a look at
itself first and then see if it can
bend over far enough around
the fat to see its stub of a tail.
Psychology has fewer faculty
members than other depart
ments on campus, though
psychology might be serving
from 14 -two times the student
load. It has never been a
question of psychology ex
panding to its outer possible
limits, overpowering the school,
Kissinger Oil Plan
oil company profits.
Executive Ego: President
Ford is beginning to feel his oats.
In his private conversations with
aides, he now- talks confidently of
winning the economic showdown
with the Democrats.
He believes one-third of the
populace supports his economic
program and another third op
poses it. The battle, he has told
aides, is for the undecided third.
He has been encouraged by
the response he has received on
the road. He believes his eeo-
it has been a question of
psychology trying to get within
reasonable range of other
departments on campus in
terms of work load. The
students and faculty in
psychology are simply getting
cheated and it is bad enough to
be chronically cheated but
much worse to perpetually hear
such utter nonsense to justify
this cheating as the story of the
dog and its tail.
Let’s put that “Fairytail” to
rest once and for all and if the
school insists on keeping
psychology in its current
condition then at least let
everybody be aware of what
they are doing The psychology
department proposed in writing
that it set an optimal size
somewhere between the
number of faculty it currently
has and the number it has
already earned This size limit
would have put the department
at its maximum at around the
size of four other departments
at their peak enrollment. The
department asked only that the
school commit itself over the
next few years to bringing our
faculty to that level. This is a
fact which the dog-wagging
theorists really should confront.
nomic arguments are beginning
to catch on. He has an advantage
over the Democrats, he has sug
gested, in being able to concen
trate on a single program. There
are too many disparate Demo
crats in Congress, he believes,
ever to unite behind an economic
policy.
The President has
acknowledged to aides, however,
that he can’t completely control
the economic forces His re-elec
tion will depend, in his opinion,
on whether the economic outlook
is brighter in 1976