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The independent TUESDAY AUGUST 5 1975 I Florida Alligator VOL.67, NO. 164 Published by Campus Comnuncohoos Inc Goin.sv.lI. Florido Nol otthcbOlly ossocoted with ffi. Un'vers'y oF rlordo agger reiU gns s uprem e By SHEILA DRAPER Alligator Staff Write, Some came at dawn, at least one from as Car as Michigan. to sit all day in the sweltering florid, sun waiting for the stars. A sprinkle of rain doused the 7OS~ faithful who packed Jacksonville's Cator Bowl. Then an orchestrated fanfare from huge speakers and the wait was over. Some had waited for neatly a decade. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, The Rolling Stones. Suddenly everyone sprang up. clamoring to move in closer. Out sauntered Keith Richard. Charlie Watts, Ron Wood, Bill Wyman, Bill Preston and Ollie E. Brown. FINALLY in a bunt of energy. Mid Jagger leaped on the 'tage mid inmniediately gyrated to the sound of Honky Tonk Women.'~ All thoughts of the day-long wait were forgotten as all ears and eyes focused on the show. And what a show. While the band pounded out the familiar, driving music. lagger pranced back and forth an. tinmidating the audience with his humping and grimacing. LIKE a true quail of the Silver Dollar Saloon, he enticed. teased, and taunted the audience with a shake of his finger or a bump of his hip. The multitude was pleased as it followed suit in a mass vibration of bodies. (see page Mx) If STONS' LEAVE by .W- aAoom - Intimidating it. audience .ohuriofenrgy ~.g. 2 The Ind.p.nd.n~~odidMIigoor Tu.sdy August 5 11Y5 LEWIS Saiflml0 MIKE'~ B j.weirvCOrtlpOn~ p. CLASS RiNGS of LondOC owAC~OS Try co( NO-S1 6,ig~*h ?.&.c se. 9 Quality of UF education WATCH REPAIRS iI4SLI.i 2~W Univ.r.*W Ave 377~543 suffers from I udget cuts V2 d~O6 By LINDA WISNIEWSKI positions soil can pay its operating expenses. Alilgab. Staff WuItn Brysn said, adding the reduction means TI~DAY!! higher student -faculty ratios and overcrowded ORDER It may come as no surprise to most students, but at Inst one adniinisttator classrooms for students admits the quality of education at UF is Approximately 50 to 75 fewer faculty suffering because of budget cutbacks. memberswill be teaching in the general 'One inescapable conclusion is that the education colleges this year, according to quality of instructional programs Cat UF) will Bryan MAY NOW ORDER sufler some deterioration (this year). because General education colleges include all UF of a reduction in faculty and career service colleges except those that are agrtculttiial or positions, UF Vice President for Academic health-related. yOUR CLASS RING Affairs Robert Bryan said at an Academic THIS FALL approximately 700 more Deans nietting last week. studentsthsn last year will be admitted to UF 1W MUST REDUCE the number of such - excluding University College. These AT THE students must face reductions in UP employcs and operating funds. Bryan said, adding he was heanbroken at the poor quality of SHOP &300KSTORE Charges dropped education this fall. Although Bryan did not know the number in Howard case of career service employes that would be reduced this year, he did s.y the anployes The latherof a 16-year-old youth paralyzed were important to a studelit's education. 1St TUESDAY when he was shot by a Gainesville policeman, Career service employes include people who reacted bitterly Sunday to the ne~ the work as computer progrvntn, Bryan said. OF EACH MONTH robbery charge against his son has been adding a reduction in computer programers dropped. means a decrease in computer activity per- He's not guilty, Ralph Howard of North Coned an instructional resource programs Miami said. Wh~ 2oultit the state at- that use computers to teach students. torney drop the chargeV LAST FALL University College enrolled an HOWARD SAID he will continue to press additional 600 students. Bryan said, adding if the lawsuit he filed against the City of UF 'had had the proper resources FOR YOUR CONVENIENCE, Gainesville to recover damages for the (educational facilities and faculty) we could shooting have handled then, (the additional 600 fresh- A IIERFE-JONES REPRESENTATIVE State Attorney Fugene T. Whuworth men,) Friday dismissed the charge against Edward Upper division colleges will be hit hardest Mark Howard, who was accused of the Nov. because they must contend with some of the 29, 1Q74 robbery of a Gainesville convenience 600 students enrolled last year, and the 7~ WILL BE AT OUR MAIN STORE 'tore additional students admitted this year. Bryan Young Howard was shot in the Gainesville said. Shopping Center parking lot two hours after UF could get hurt by scaring away students who would otherwise enroll at UF by 5 he fled police. AUG. the robbery, as TUEL THE YOUTH is a permanent paraplegic as failing to attract financial support from a result of the shooting. varlo.u. areas he nid. In a written statement, Whitworth ex- However, some good news looms on the -4:30MB plauned. 'Because of the suffering the budget horizon. ~am defendant has gone througfi and the per- Swnmer etirolhnent figures this year show manent paralysis which he will have. I am aS average student earollinent increase of 22 compdlcd to ewidude that it 'odd be a per cent over the pat five summer quaners. violation of -y san of justice If I did not Bryan said. adding uinoc UP is funded w- * CAMPUS SW &BOOKSTORE exercise nty ~.r, no matter how rolhdaitly. cording to the toni number of snitch to diseiiss the indidnient in the inters of enrolled hi all (our quarta~s. It .111 receive -tct additionS money from the RoaM of Regents - - .~intheHuh Both the grand jury and a police &pmn- for the coming udwol its. maut review bond dewed Peter Pdacr. the THE SUMMER DEROUMENT this year officer .to shot Honed, of -y charges of totaled 3.67? fldaats. oo.np.red with U-F 8-taO ta ~8* jam? last year. bps said. cbs The ind.t.nd.nt Rondo Miigcior ru.doy A.'gu. 5. V?75. Fag. S (iF Chinese groups divided over issues By JOSE SARIECO truly (~roup n~etibers also claim the Alligator Staff Writer 7$ members of the other ~rotip tile regular reports on Chinese students with the Chinese I-or months, a hitter conflict earmarked by consulate in Atlanta. uspiciotl. accusation,, and occasional Both the members of the Study Group and violence. has been raging on campus, invisible the consulate in Atlanta emphatically denied o most students. any reports were being filed. Mo~ of the approximately 150 Nationalist Dr. Norman Markel, a speech professor Chinese catiens attending [IF are struggling and faculty advisor for the Unity Group. said htugh the same identity ct-isis which faces if he receives any more reports of students their island homeland. being spied upon by faculty members such as Two ideologically-opposed Chinese student Li, he would take the matter before UF's groups on campus are the main participants Professional Standards and Relations in the conflict. Conimission. ONE IS THE PRO-NATIONALIST, right- THE COMMISSION IS AN ethics group wing China Study Group. The other is the which supervises teacher conduct China Unity Group, which is left-wing and Li and other members of the StudyGroup lavors reconibination with mainland China. emphatically deny that there is any spying on So, when Camn. Hinton. Peking born the Unity Group. daughter, of American author William that isn't true at all,' Li said. ''Most of Hinton, was to speak at the J. Wayne Reitz my time is spent in my office. We don't have Unionon mainland China where she spent 21 any spying on campus at all." years, apprehension was in the air. Li said the only information which is sent to "We expect trouble today. one student the consulate is a newsletter which is printed said. by the Study Group. The lecture had already been cancelled MARXEL AND OTHERS in the Unity once in a dispute between the two groups over Group also accuse the Study Group of in- the ownership of the name (Thins Study terfrring with the extension of passports. Group. which are necessary for a Chinese student to THE LEFTIST GROUP claimed the other study in this country. group stole the name Chins Study Group One student said because of his in- from them to cancel the program and confuse volvement in the Michael Lindsay incident. Chinese students about their political a his passport renewal was delayed for three orientation. months. The leftist group wa' forced w change their After he was helped by Markel. the student name to the China Unity Group to have the said he finally received hi, renewal, but only program because according to union rules, tor six months. Iwo organizations cannot register the same MARKET SAID THE USUAL extension name. was for three or four years. There had also been incidents of disruption Vtce'consul George Shich in Atlanta said at meetings of each group and they had come there were a lot of regulations concerning to blows once i.hen members of the Unity student's passports and that every student has group tried to crash the nierting of the other different procedures for receiving a renewal. group without paying a SI admission. He also denied that regular reports are THERE WAS ALSO AN INCIDENT at made to the consulates office, but he did the Taiwan exhibit during International admit receiving the Study Group's newsletter. Week, which is a week of activities put on by younger generation." the Encyclopedia AFTER THE INITIAL PROTEST sub- He said he bad learned from that newsletter foreign students at UF.