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Volume 77, Number 97
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F u Iter 9s Charges- Dropped
Judge: No Violence Involved
By HENRY HINKLE
DTH Staff Writer
H I LLSBORO UG H-Charges
against Howard Fuller, director
of Malcolm X Liberation
University in Durham, were
dropped in Orange County
district court here Tuesday.
Charges against two
Malcolm X students, growing
out of picketline activities in
November's food service strike, .
were also dropped.
Fuller and the two students,
Anthony Belcher and Thomas
Greyson, had been charged
with disorderly conduct,
failure to disperse and engaging
in a riot Nov. 25 after
disturbances at Lenoir
Cafeteria during the food
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By BILL MILLER
DTH Staff Writer
Morrison Dormitory will become
coeducational next year when women
from ; Nurse's Dorm move into the
residence hall.
Nurses' Dorm is being closed by the
University and will be available for sale
to N.C. Memorial Hospital June 1. The
move will make Morrison the
University's first permanent,
undergraduate coed dorm.
The decision caps off months of work
, by the president of the Nurse's dorm,
Gwen Hightower, the governor of
Morrison Residence College, Johnson
Harris, the Nurse's Dorm housemother, a
special study committee of the
Association of Women Students (AWS)
and a study panel from the Dean of
WomenDean of Men offices.
Information concerning the Morrison
has been published in the housing
bulletins to be sent to incoming students
for fall semester, according to Fred
Culbreth, of the office of the Dean of
Men. The pamphlets state the dorm
houses 550 men and 400 women.
Culbreth said the exact lay-out of the
SAGA Lays
The UNC manager of SAGA
Food Service, Ted Young, said
Tuesday another lay-off of
cafeteria workers will be
officially announced this
morning.
Today's lay-offs will come
only hours before cafeteria
workers and other
non-academic employees on
campus have scheduled a strike
vote.
Young said seven full-time
employees would be laid off
due to a decrease in business.
SAGA laid off four full-time
workers last Wednesday citing
the same reason.
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service workers' strike.
Presiding Judge Harry
Hopkins said in his decision
that "evidence did not show
Fuller or Greyson "committing
any act of violence."
After that decision District
Attorney Chaise Raiford did
not prosecute the charges
against Belcher who was
appearing before his draftboard
in Albany, N.Y.
Defense attorney W.G.
Pearson made a motion that
the charges be dropped after
Raiford concluded the case for .
the state. He said, "I think
they (the charges) were
mischarges. There is not
sufficient evidence on any of
the charges."
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dormitory has not been determined. The
administration personnel working on the
project are reportedly leaning towards a
"verticle layout" in which both men and
women students would be located on the
same floors.
"Panic doors," doors locked and
opened only from the inside, might be
used to separate the women's wings from
the men's, according to Miss Hightower.
Culbreth explained that a period of at
least one and one half weeks would be
necessary before the living plans had
been completed. He said the dorm would
probably be verticle but stressed that
this was only a probability at this time.
Miss Hightower indicated she and
Harris were working with the students of
each dorm to determine what they
wanted in the living system. She termed
the new project "an optimal chance to
save the residence college system.
"Its my opinion that this, or
something like this type of dorm, will be
the only thing to save University
housing," she said.
. Miss Hightower added that some
problems might arise in getting students
to live in the dorm, since the trend is to
live in off -campus housing.
Young said business had
fallen 50 percent since the
period before the month-long
strike of cafeteria workers in
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November. He noted meal
ticket sales had decreased from
over 1200 for the fall semester
to less than 600 for spring
semester.
The strike vote today has
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Pearson added the
testimony by state witnesses
had not been able to indicate
any wrongdoing on the part of
the defendents, only that they
were present.
The proceedings were
interrupted with numerous'
objections by Pearce, usually
on the grounds that witnesses
could not distinguish actions of
the defendents from the rest of
the .40 or 50 picketers who
were present at Lenoir.
Lt. .Herman Stone of the
Chapel Hill Police Department
testified that Greyson "squared
off" to fight him, but during
cross-examination Stone said
Greyson had neither
threatened him or advanced
toward him.
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been scheduled to include
cafeteria workers, porters,
maids and hospital employees.
If the non-academic
employees decide to strike at
their 7:30 p.m. meeting at the
Robeson Street Center, it
would be the first such mass
walk-out in the University's
history.
A special investigating group
of the American Federation of
State, County and Municipal
Employees Union (AFSCME)
held meetings and surveyed
records during the last two
days and are scheduled to
present their recommendation
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By MIKE PARNELL
DTH Staff Writer
Compulsory student
funding is the best method of
financing the Daily Tar Heel,
according to a Student
Legislature committee studying
the paper.
The five-student committee,
which released the report
Tuesday, also said in referring
to the DTH, "There exists on
our campus a basic need for a
student -oriented newspaper
existing completely free from
any administrative control."
The DTH has been the
campus newspaper for UNC
since 1893. A controversy
arose last fall concerning the
paper after . nine students
appealed to the Board of
Trustees to eliminate
Lt. Earl Green, a state
highway patrolman who led
two divisions of highway
patrolmen to the scene,
claimed he saw Greyson carry a
rock around to the front of
Lenoir but could not say that
Greyson had thrown the brick.
Arthur Beaumont, head of
campus security, said Fuller
provoked the alleged disorders.
He also claimed Fuller took a
brick from one Malcolm X'
student, dropped it on the
ground and said (to
Beaumont), "Pick it up, boy."
Horton later
alleged action
"actually did help'
to maintain order.
ruled the
by Fuller
the police
Pearson made a motion
before testimony began that all
charges be dropped. He
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Pub Board
Interviews
A meeting of the
Publications Board is scheduled
for Tuesday night, Feb. 17, to
endorse candidates for
editorship of the Daily Tar
Heel, according to Gunnar
Fro men, -chairman of the
Board.
Students will vote for the
new editor of the Tar Heel in
spring elections, tentatively
scheduled for Tuesday, March
17.
Endorsement by the
Publication Board is one of
two ways in which a
prospective candidate for
editor can have his name
placed on the elections ballet,
explained Fromen. The other
way is to gather signatures of
at least 145 members of the
student body to be approved
by the Election Committee
Commission of Student
Government a minimum of 12
days before the election.
Qualifications for
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on whether to strike at
tonight's meeting.
Mrs. Mary Smith, a cafeteria
worker and one of the leaders
of the local union, said
Tuesday the union sent a letter
to Chancellor J. Carlyle
Sitterson earlier in the day but
would not disclose the
contents.
Mrs. Smith said the
Chancellor's reply would
"figure heavily into whether
we decide to vote. We're also
planning to meet tonight
(Tuesday) to figure how much
support we have with the
porters, maids and hospital
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compulsory student funding.
In November Student
Legislature authorized a
committee to study the
financing of the DTH and to
explore alternative methods.
The legislature will act on
the report's recommendations
at its regularly scheduled
meeting Thursday night. The
recommendations include
reorganization of the
Publications Board,
improvement in the handling
of business and advertising
affairs concerning the DTH and
more harmony between the
paper and School of
Journalism.
The most important
recommendation of the report
concerns the issue of allocating
funds from student activities
fees. The report states this
method is not only "a
legitimate means for financing
student publications, most
notably the DTH, but
is . . . the only proactical
method." The DTH xuld not
exist without the funds,
according to the report, but
"there are measures which can
be taken toward a decrease in
the dependency of the
newspaper on the student
fees."
Bill Blue, chairman of the
committee, said the group did
a great deal of research before
arriving at a decision. Answers
to the questions were gained
after consultation with
members of the DTH business
and writing staffs and the
Publications Board, thorough
research ot business records
dating" back to 1945, study of
the methods used at other
campuses in the nation and
discussion of the opinions
presented by students at an
open meeting last fall.
Aside from the funding
decision, the report presented
position that the DTH should
remain a student-run campus
newspaper and that Student
Legislature should reaffirm this
position. Other specific
posititions concerning the DTH
were: A profit-sharing plan in
Schedules
For Editor
Publication Board endorsement
include 2 letters of
recommendation from faculty
members attesting to character,
plus a personal essay on one's
journalistic experience and
proposed policies and
ambitions for the UNC student
newspaper.
Fromen stated that the
recently proposed institution
of a required essay on the
candidate's political stand was
a "misunderstanding between
reporter and interviewee."
Nonetheless, a resolution to
prohibit the Publication Board
from requiring such an essay is
being brought on the floor of
Student Legislature Thursday
night.
"If anyone is disatisfied
with the present state of their
newspaper, this is the time to
seriously look into the
candidates' platforms,"
Fromen emphasized.
orkers
employees. Without their
support we probably won't
strike."
Cafeteria workers have been
organized since November. The
union has been organizing
other non-academic employees
for the past month.
Besides too many lay-offs,
union officials have charged
SAGA with replacing the
blacks laid off with part-time
white students.
Young, however, denied the
charges.
The recent lay-offs have
been in addition to the 62
agreed to be laid off following
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the advertising department
should be studied; The
importance of the office of
editor should be impressed
upon the student body because
few students realize the
editor's influence;
Future editors should make
better use of the School of
Journalism's facilities and the
knowledge there although no
department of the University
should have power over the
paper;
Efforts should be made to
attract underclassmen into the
business area of the paper and
allow them to move up in the
department as their experience
and ability grows.
The other recommendations
of the committee concerned
restructuring of the Publication
Board, which is responsible for
the financing of all student
publications, and defining its
relationship with the DTH.
If the proposals are
accepted by legislature (and a
constitutional Amendment
may be necessary for some
proposals), the Board will
consist of 16 members plus
two ex-officio members who
would not vote. The 16
members would include three
student legislators appointed
by the vice-president, two
students appointed by the
president of the sudent body,
one member of the Residence
College Federation, one
graduate student appointed by
the dean of the Graduate
School, and four members
chosen by the student body in
a campus election.
It would also include one
faculty member each from the
College of Arts and Sciences,
the School of Journalism, the
School of Busi ness
Administration, the School of
Law, and the School of Health
Sciences.
The ex-officio members
would be the treasurer of the
student body and a
representative from the
Student Activities Office.
The chairman of the Baord,
which controls the financing of
the Yackety Yack, DTH, and
Carolina Quarterly, would be a
student member elected by the
Board. He would be
responsible for choosing
, members of sub-committees to
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the November strike. The
number of full-time workers
prior to the strike was 150.
Young said further lay-offs
may be necessary if business
remains slack.
Citing high labor costs and
low patronage, SAGA
informed the University Jan.
30 it would not renew its
contract after May 27. The
University then announced
that even if SAGA changed its
mind and asked to stay, the
University would not consider
it.
The eventual form of a food
service on campus after
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regulate the three main
publications.
There would be seven
members on the DTH
sub-committee: two of the
elected student members of the
Board, two of the appointed
student members, the graduate
student, and the faculty
members from the Law School
and School of Journalism.
The sub-committee would
be responsible for interviewing
applicant for editor of the
paper and approving or
rejecting the candidates as it
sees fit.
The concluding statement
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Utilities Company
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By ROD WALDORF
Special to the DTH
Three members of the
Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
were appointed Monday night
by Mayor Howard Lee to study
the feasibility of purchasing
the utilities company now
owned by the University. The
company serves Chapel Hill
and Carrboro.
The committee will work
-jointly 'with ar similar
committee from the Carrboro
town board which has not yet
been appointed.
Lee acted on a
recommendation by Mayor Pro
Temp Joe Nassif which was
approved by the Board of
Aldermen. Appointed to the
utilities study committee were
Nassif and Aldermen Ross
Scroggs and Steve Bernholz
with Mayor Lee as an ex offico
member.
A second committee was
appointed by Lee to study
problems of mutual concern to
both towns. This
committee which will also
work with a committee from
Carrboro will consist of Lee,
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SAGA's departure is under
investigation by University
officials.
Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks, a
cafeteria worker and one of the
leaders of the union local, said
workers were afraid they
would all eventually be laid off
if nothing were done to
combat SAGA shrinking its
work force.
"If we don't do something."
Mrs. Brooks said, "SAGA will
get everything it wanted in the
first place."
Mrs. Brooks said she could
not think of any options the
workers had except strike or
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of lie report err.?h.ii:od the
tmpracticality of an
independera newspaper in this
area and restated the
importance of the DTH
retaining iLs present statu.. The
report, hoveer, ca"od for
imporvementi and more
efficiency in both the
budgetary handling of the
paper and the quality of its
writing.
The cost of the paper, about
eight cents a week, was called
infinitesimal when compared
with the benefits reaped" by
students.
N'asif and Chapt-1 II ill Town
Manager Robert Peek.
N a s s i f ' s r eeo rn mendation
was prompted by a Carrboro
study of the utilities situation.
At present, the University
owns and operates the
University Service Plants. This
company furnishes water,
electricity and telephone
service to the adjoining towns
as well as the entire University
community.
Both Chapel Hill and
Carrboro presently hold part
interest in the sewage facilities
they both use.
A spokesman for Lee's
office said the utilities study
had never before been pursued
by the board.
Nassif told the town board
that the people of the
community now use more
utilities than the University
and this movement "will not
reverse."
Other cities using
municipally owned utilities
have proven the concept
successful, Nassif said.
No one from the University
plants or the Carrboro Board
of Aldermen was available for
comment.
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slowly be laid off.
Problems of striking are
many, and cafeteria workers
have been forced to endure
them twice in the past year.
Despite picketing and
chanting that accompanies
most strikes, children still need
to he fed and clothed. These
non-academic workers do not
make such great amounts of
money that they could easily
withstand a long, drawn out
strike.
The workers went on strike
one year for six weeks and
then again in November for a
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