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Problems linger with ATS
but $3 still goes a long way
By JIM GANNAM
and BETT NORC ROSS
Know a good way to travel 1000 miles for three bucks? You
might beat that rate if you have a bicycle, but can you study
and pedal at the same time? Can you study and pedal in the
rain?
If you rode Athens Transit System's No 6 West Broad bus to
the front of Old Campus from Epps Bridge Road and back
every day of the school year, you would rack up a little over
1000 miles
And all it would coat you is the dollar automatically taken out
of your student activities fee every quarter. You show the
driver your student I D and you can ride any ATS bus in the
city.
According to an ATS survey, students used their city bus
privileges 9795 times in February of this year, accounting for
35.2 percent of all ATS ridership
Marlene Bryan, a University student who lives in Forest
Heights, takes ATS No. 7 Tallassee Road to avoid the campus
parking scramble ‘‘I study on the way in to school and on the
way back The buses are very punctual and convenient,” she
said
Todd Bonanza lives in Calloway Garden Apartments and says
ATS provides "excellent service". He would like to see ATS
begin night service, but realizes the number of night riders
would not justify the extra cost
Jan Lane says she would use the bus if it ran up Timothy
Road to Kinswood "They (ATS) could probably pick up a lot of
people if they added Kingswood to the No 6 bus to Sussex, she
said
In a way, Jan Lane's complaint epitomizes student
grievances about citv bus service "It isn’t coordinated with mv
class schedule,” "It doesn’t run late enough for me." "I have to
wait too long to get a bus.”
Chances are these will be lingering problems. According to
ATS director Jerry Mooney. ATS potentially serves 90 percent
of Athens residents In other words. ATS routes run within a
quarter mile of 90 percent of Athens' homes Mooney says a
quarter mile is considered walking distance
But the transit system, which ran at a $300,000 deficit last
year, is trimming expenses where it can to keep down this
year's deficit No small part of the trimming is done in bus
operating hours, which means reduced schedules and no route
expansion
"We are aware that a large part of our ridership is students."
Mooney said, "and we want to do what we can to serve them.
But we have had to cut back to save money.”
A Texas consulting firm told the city last October it could
save $100,000 with a 20 percent reduction in bus hours and a 30
percent reduction in mileage Those cuts went into effect a
month later.
see related story p. 3
‘We want to do what we can
to serve them (the students). But we
have had to cut back to save money. ’ —
Illustration by B PETTITT
ATS director Jerry Mooney
Faculty senate passes bylaws in dispute with A&S dean
By NELSON d. ROSS
A new set of bylaws adopted Monday by the Arts and Sciences Faculty Senate could
re-establish the role of the faculty in selecting new department head search
committees, if adopted by the whole faculty of the college
The proposed bylaws must be discussed at a May meeting of all A&S faculty and
approved in a subsequent written ballot before they can take effect.
Monday’s meeting concluded senate debate on the controversy over who would select
the members of department head search committees-the dean of A&S or the faculty of
the individual departments.
The new bylaws state "the faculty of the department at the rank of assistant
professor and above shall elect a search committee consisting of no less than five
members, providing for appropriate minority representation and representation from
the professional ranks in the department."
Homer Cooper (Sociology) made the motion in apparent reaction to a recent
interpretation by A&S Dean Jack Payne under which he appointed members to at least
five departmental search committees
Payne has said his appointments were necessary to conform to procedure and
represent the college in a protective role with regard to regulations from the
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Another aspect of the faculty's dispute with Payne concerned the dean's appointment
of chairmen to search committees from outside the department in question
According to Payne, the advantage of having a committee chairman from outside the
department is to "have someone who is not emotionally involved" in the selection
process
On a tie vote, the senate rejected a motion by Dr. Jean Pierre Piriou (Romance
Languages) which would have had "the chair of search committees be selected from
outside the department and appointed by the dean."
The chairman would have to be approved by the full department doing the search, if
Piriou’s motion had passed.
Senators from several departments spoke in favor of the motion, indicating their
departments' search committees had done a "good jot> with chairmen Irom outside
the departments
However, the motion failed to pass on an 18-18 vote, with a majority vote needed for
the amendment to pass
A&S Dean Payne, who votes only in case of a tie. declined to break the tie vote on the
motion
Instead the representatives adopted a resolution by Dr Ted Emigh (Statistics) which
established that "members of the search committee shall choose a chairman from
among the members" of each committee
The senate adopted a motion by Dr. Richard Bouldin (Mathematics) which would
allow members from outside the department conducting the search to be on the
committee
"Giving consideration to candidates suggested by the dean, the faculty of the
department can. if it chooses, elect members to the committee from outside the
department." the motion read
See Faculty Senate p.L*
UGA Today
Travel for credit
How would you like to see romantic
Europe for academic credit? That’s
exactly what awaits students partici
pating in the University’s study-tour of
Europe, scheduled June 25-July 18
Students may earn up to 10 quarter
hours of academic credit through the
cooperation of various departments in
the College of Education. For more
information about the cost, application
deadline and course credit policies of
tl ? trip, contact Dr Warren Umansky
in 548 Aderhold Hall, or call 542-1685
Voice your opinion The bowl returns
VOICE, a campus organization for
expressing opinions in community
ethics, will be holding a membership
drive today and tomorrow . May 1 and
2. from II a m until 3 p m. Interested
students should drop by and talk with
members at Memorial Hall Plaza
either day. and enjoy refreshments
The College Bowl is back! Any
campus group or organization car.
register a group of four people with
two alternates to compete in an
intramural college bowl competition in
the Memorial Hall Ballroom on May 8
Entry forms, which may be picked up
in the Memorial Hall Business Office,
must be in by May 3.
-Dial-a-union
Want to know more about campus
exhibits, lectures, ticket information,
shows and movies’’ Then all you have
to do is pick up the phone and dial
S4U-N10N. a 24 hour service of
information about weekly programs
sponsored by the University Union
It’s a small world
William H Whvte. author, conservationist, and urban space expert, will
speak on the "Social Life of Small Spaces" at 8 p m tonight in the
Georgia Center Auditorium Whyte is the author of the bestseller The
Organiiational Man and The Last Landscape The talk, which is
sponsored by the School of Environmental Design, is open to the public
CBS special report
Tonight on CBS Reports find out the
chronological facts of the Three Mile
Island nuclear disaster The special
report will show the causes which
triggered the radioactive leakage and
review the implications of this nuclear
accident The show airs at 8 pm on
‘^Following the CBS report.
Fraternity Bow will be shown at 9
pm on channel 5 The 1977 drama
ioncerns Iraternity hating on an
Eastern college campus in the 1950 s
and is narrated by Clill Robertson
Red and Black
first in bed race
By IRISH OLIVER
Pajama-bedecked people pulling beds mounted on wheels appeared downtown
Saturday morning to participate in Athens’ First Annual Downtown Bedrace
Enthusiastic crews manned the eight beds sponsored by area merchants and other
groups and competed good-naturedly against each other in an attempt to win the title
Each entrant donated a $50 entry fee in order to participate, and the proceeds went to
the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
The Red and Black won the prize for first place after beating Headline, a beauty
salon, in the third heat The Athens Banner Herald won the "Best decorated bed
award They made their bed look like a train, and called it the "Press Express "
The Red and Black victory was especially surprising since the friction from the
pavement melted their plastic caster wheels in each of the three heats Ed Stamper,
general manager of The Red and Black, said he absolutely did not think they had a
chance of winning the race.
"We had a parade before the actual race when the judges came around and inspected
the beds, and one judge wanted to bet me $10 that our bed wouldn't even make it
through the parade,” Stamper said The Red and Black’s bed looked the "worst by far"
according to Stamper
He added that The Red and Black team didn’t have time to practice "In fact, we
didn’t even build the bed until late Friday afternoon." Stamper said
The first place winners of the race won dinners for two at the Peddler, and the
winners of the "Best decorated bed" award won five dinners at the Cobb House All
participants received a Bedrace T-shirt
Debbie Lowe, a University student and promotions director for the Athens Downtown
Council, said she felt the bed race was successful for its first year and that it would
probably be three times more successful next year Joe Burnett, director of the Athens
Downtown Development Authority, agreed that the bed race was a successful effort and
said they plan to make it bigger and bigger each year He added that it was "fantastic"
and the fourth in a series of promotions.
The teams created their own beds, and the final products reflected their imagination
and. in some cases, their deviation. The styles of the beds ranged from sleek models
like the Fifth Quarter’s which was spray-painted red and firmly bolted together to
models which looked as though whatever materials were near at hand had been
imaginatively incorporated into its construction such as The Red and Black's bed which
teetered on spindly legs and rested on caster wheels
Before the race. Tina Norris, the owner of Headline, said the "light, all-metal,
four-inch caster wheels" they had secured to their bed would guarantee Headline’s
victory. Hank Johnson from the Athens Banner Herald team said "wheels with ball
bearings" were the most important feature of a fast bed
See Bed Race p.2
Psyching up...
...for the win
Photos by WINGATE DOWNS
A POTPOURRI OF TALENT
Festival of Arts—‘something for everyone’
A review by INGRID SCHORR
Staff writer
The Athens Festival of the Arts, held from April 22 to April 29. was a potpourri of
music, drama, art and community events that spotlighted both area and traveling
talent The week-long festival kicked off with the Athens Creative Theater's production
of "Godspell" and concluded with a weekend of "Art in the Park at Memorial Park
Under the direction of Thomas Kidd and Bobby Pless. "Godspell" was performed by
18 members of the ACT. All costuming and set design was done by the cast aged 13
through 18.
Downtown shoppers and merchants were entertained all week by various performing
groups The Cedar Shoals and Clarke Central jazz ensembles played at the Show mobile
in the center of town Both bands diverted and delighted passerby with an excellent
selection of jazz and popular tunes
Athenians were treated to a variety of musical styles such as bagpipes, barbershop
and the always undefineable Phil and the Blanks The Bizarre Arte Ensemble, with
Athens musicians David Boardman Jeff Hulsey and Barbara Klein played to a small
but captivated audience at the Sheraton History Village
The Ensemble is a percussion tno. all of them trained musicians of considerable skill,
but their type of music is a little unnerving for non-percussionists
Such pieces as "Witchdoctor’s Lunch music \ "Field Spores and "Cowboy SwiftFit"
were performed on an array of instruments rarely found on the same stage at the same
time Prayer stones, bird whistles, sleigh bells and auto horns were all used as well as
the standard percussion instruments.
Forty instruments were listed on the program, most of which were used in "Duel " In
this piece by Alain Louvier, ensemble member Boardman zigzagged about the stage,
hitting every instrument he passed The piece closed with Boardman chasing Jeff
Hulsey through the audience and shooting him with a cap gun
While the ensemble s style is unusual and maybe a bit hard to appreciate, the talent
of all the members was apparent and their serious and innovative work was expressed
See ARTS, p 3
Correction
A headline in Friday’* Red and Black incorrectly stated that a former Bogart clerk
had been charged with the theft of $5000 from the Oconee County Probate Court The
headline should have said a former Oconee County Probate Court Clerk was charged
with the theft The Red and Black regrets this error
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