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O If I Graduation Invitations Friday will be the last day senior graduation announcements and invitations can be ordered. Union lobby 9 am .-4 p.m. Sponsored by the order of the Grail. i Econ 31 Makeup r i I j I ft i ihL! II VII f Ill ! ? 1 lLJ I V i f Eeoncrucs 31 maXfuD exam (Dr. Dr.a-. k-js be Pn Thursday from 7-10 p.m. in Ihr.fs FalL 1 78 Years Of Editorial Freedom Volume 78, Number 4 CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA. FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1970 Founded February 23. 1S93 I ! I l ft i .All Urn 1 ? 5 ' i 1 EI .fl ections . JDoarci Slates Meeti JL'U?JL HjOUUlUailGS By STEVE PLAISANCE DTH Staff Writer Elections Board Chairman Margo Fletcher announced Thursday all candidates running for elective offices must attend a meeting iWednesday, March 4, at 7:30 'tp.m. in 207-209 Student Union. Miss Fletcher emphasized the importance of attending this meeting and noted any candidate not attending the meeting "would be ruled ineligible to run." ' "If someone can't attend the meeting, then his absence must be excused by me," she explained. Miss Fletcher indicated the meeting would deal with ' campaigning rules and expense account procedures. v Group Studies Flower Ladies "We're not trying to do in the flowers ladies," commented. Ross E. Scroggs with a laugh. Scroggs was named by Mayor Howard Lee to head the ' committee investigating vending on the streets of Chapel Hill. ScroggJsr- three-member committee has the task of investigating' sales made on Franklin Street and making recommendations to the Board of Aldermen at the March 9 meeting. Scroggs termed the city ordinance concerning street vending - "over restrictive." Scroggs - said his committee nppes to review the situation and make the ordinance fairer. 7T7T onor interviews Will; Begin Friday Interviews for Honor Court elections will be held Friday, M'ondayand Tuesday in Suite Bof the Union. Anyone interested in running for the Honor Court must be interviewed by members of the Honor Systems Commission in order to get his name on the March 17th ballot. - Eight seats are up for election to the Men's Honor Court. These seats are: WD I (Apartment and sorority district, two seats), WD II j! CAFETERIA IsNACIC BAR CLOSED ST. TTh .m "Wft TS "1 -TH -ft She also reminds candidates petitioning for inclusion on ballots their petitions must be submitted before March 1. Thejse petitions can be turned in either to Miss Fletcher or to the Elections Board mailbox in suite C of the Student Union. Major Student Body offices to be filled include president, vice-president and secretary of Student Government and editor of the Daily Tar Heel. Other electoral positions are: Senior Class Officers; the presidencies of the Carolina Athletic assocation, the Women's Athletic association and the association of Women Students; and memberships in Student Legislature and Men and Women's courts. In district voting, all legislative seats are to be contested. There is one vacancy in each of the following Men's Court Districts: District I (off-campus, outside Chapel Hill), District III (east of Columbia street and . airport road and within town limits on the north, south and Jwest), District IV (west of Columbia street and airport road within town limits on the north, east and south), District VI (upper quad), District VIII (Avery and Teague), District IX "( Ehringhaus) rD istrictlX. (Craig), District XI (Morrison) and District XII (James). i Women's court has two empty seats in District I (off-campus). The following districts have one empty seat each: District II (Kenan, Alderman and Mclver), District V (EastCobb and West Cobb), District ' VI (Joyner, Conner and Winston) and District VIII . (Parker and" James). (Kenan, Alderman, Mclver, one seat), WD V (Cobb, one seat),: WD VI -(Connor, Joyner, Winston, one seat), WD VIII (Parker, James, one seat). If any student is unable to sign up tor an interview, but wishes to have his name placed on the ballot, he should contact Honor Systems Commission Chairman Bill Garrett (933-4337), Women's Court Chairman Sherry Greene (968-9189), or Men's Court Chairman Bob Manekin (929-4051). SAGA for the Birds? y - ( (- t : . I ' f t ! i -:" I ' - , '- -- A i " : if. - - - -f f f i - I I Symposium Will-Define Pollution By PETER BROWN Special to the DTH (second in a series) The Carolina Symposium will seek td successfully define the problems created by American technology and the present c o n f u s i on o( "priorities-Hhe substitution of quantity for quality and the confusion of "growth" -with "progress." .. Throughout the past year the press - has informed the American " public about' the pollution "calamities.'' While such obvious .difficulties as pesticides and industrial smog in our cities- have attracted considerable .attention, the lecturers will attempt to illustrate that pollution is quite often unnoticeable; ' indirect and unsensations. ' The effects of pollution are still to a large: degree undetected on an international scale. Pollution is a complicated process which must be studied and dealt with in an ecological context. . In New York City each day there are 8.2 million pounds of carbon monoxide released by automobiles. Property damage from pollutants is estimated at thirteen billion dollars a year. And five hundred million pounds of solid waste pour into UJ5. waterways each day By one estimate there are four hundred acres of California land being . paved over every day of the year. But the focus of the symposium speakers will not be on "shock" statistics so much as Uni Staff Photo by Tom Sdinsbel rr - x, DTH Staff no to by Woody Clark Small but tough By Proa to deliniate controls for such abuses. '- We must determine if" modern man overstresses the necessity of change for change's sake. Is an uncontrollable technology synonymous with natural destruction? Technological adminjstrators have been accused of seizing the: environment for personal gain, yet the world has benefited from the comforts of industrialization. The speakers oriented toward technology wilt attempt to show how a) compatibility might be achieved, whereby land and . factory can peacefully co-exist. What will conceivably emerge is a synthesis illuminating the means whereby progress may ECOS Asking . n For Volunteer ; k ECOS, a campus organization concerned with: improving the environment needs volunteers to do a study on the possibility of collecting empty beer cans from the Chapel Hill community for sale. 5 The volunteers would go to taverns and restaurants in the area to determine how many aluminum beer cans they could get each week. Anyone interested should1 go by the ECOS office in Suite C of the Student Union and see Watson Morris. Editorial By GLENN BRANK DTH Staff Writer (fourth in a series) TODAY'S QUESTION: WThat is your opinion of the University's Disruption Policy? DOUGLAS CAMPBELL: The University, as any institution, should provide rules for the smooth functioning of the educational process. If a professor chooses to disregard these rules with the express purpose of calling attention to his actions, then he should be man enough to bear the consequences of his action which would probably be termination of h?s employment. If for religious or mor;, reasons a professor must tn'.t public action to protes' draw attention to what ht perceives are public mju: let him do it as an individual while fulfilling thu'e obligations to the University which gave him the time ?.r.d money to carry out his private action. BRYAN CUMMING: I believe that political s I il MEM rjn ji o By BOB CHAPMAN , DTH Staff Writer A meeting with SAGA manager Ted Young and members of the AFSCME (American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees) fell apart Thursday after three hours with no definite settlement. The Union charged SAGA with violating the agreement made after the second workers' strike by firing full-time employees and maintaining part-time workers. Morton Shapiro, regional manager of the union, said his was in direct conflict with the agreement. : Since Jan. 26, some 31 full-time workers have been laid off by SAGA, while over 90 part-time employees remain fress continue and man may simultaneously relieve environmental strain. .There will be an examination of technology's potential to solve its self -destructive urge. .The purpose of the Carolina Symposium 1970 is not to expound upon scientific theory, but to promote practical solutions for the present and future of a burdened planet. Man's persistent determination to control the elements should serve him well to rectify his mismanagement of the earth, if only he is lead out into a fuller awareness of the situation at hand. The symposium has invited the most eminent speakers available in the social sciences, physical sciences, biological sciences and government to present their opinions from a popular viewpoint. By means of panel discussions, audience questioning; and various informal gatherings the intent is that a dissention of viewpoints will take place' in order that protective action will be effected as quickly as possible. For the environmental issue is one that nature will not let man tire of. i" , The University is the most suitable arena to commence a fight against decomposition. In the end the Carolina Symposium 1970 hopes to present a rational appraisal of "Man and Environment." Candidates View inyolvement is a personal decision, not an activity that the University should pursue. Any political commitment of a student or instructor should not interfere with his academic obligations. By refusing to hold his class, Mr. Blevins violated the rights of his tuition-paying students. STEVE ENFIELD-DENNIS BENFIELD E nfield ) : I think what happened to David Blevins is a tragedy. Blevins should not have been found guilty. (Benfield): The disruption policy has served a constructive purpose in that it stopped such nonsense as occupation of buildings. It is, however, an unnecessary albatross around the necks of our faculty. I ihink it hasn't really abridged freedom on expression on this campus as some people would iead us to believe witness the many rallies that have been held in the Pit since the disruption policy has been enacted. Many strong things have been said without i triggering the administration bureaucracy. WQ with SAGA. According to Shapiro, full-time workers presently are averaging a 16-hour work week. Part-time workers, he said, are now putting in about 1450 hours, which represents 210 more hours than the laved off workers would be working full-time in a 40-hour work week. With the part-time workers putting in less than 30 hours each week, Shapiro noted, SAGA is not having to give fringe benefits. The meeting began at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and fell apart with no agreement between SAGA and the union. Major disputes of the union were that part-time employees were used to replace full-time workers and that workers were not being layed off according to seniority as stated in their settlement. The layoffs were to be taken from a list of 153 names of workers at the time of the strike in inverse order of seniority. Shapiro said part of the disagreement came about because records of full and part-time workers were supplied by the University. Our quarrel is with the University," Shapiro said. The union official said that the University had previously used unfair practices to keep some workers on part-time status Charlie Scott's wife TOM GOODING: This issue is currently being contested in federal court. Any definite statement on this must obviously wait the decisions of the court. However, it should be noted the DTH has taken a decisive stand on questions of this matter in the past. . For instance, Ernie McGrary, who was editor of the DTH in 1965, was one of the plantiffs in he suit against the speaker ban law. The DTH should strive to uphold this tradition and will oppose any limitation placed on the academic integrity of the students and professors in this community. It must be remembered that- the Blevins case did not involve acts of violence or major disruption of the University, areas which are of justifiable concern to the leaders of the University and which are already regulated by state law, BOBBY NO WELL: The University disruptions policy is an obvious attempt by the Trustees to stifle ; legitimate dissent, especially among the" i. v 1 1L JiVLyJj. Q I I . I i when in fact thev were full-time workers. Morton added that even with the list of workers supplied by the University, SAGA was not laying off according to seniority. Morton said that some of the layoffs by SAGA were not really necessary. He displayed a notice taken from one of the cafeterias that asked for overtime help. The notice read, "Any regular employee who would like to work this weekend and be paid overtime please let me know." The notice was signed by Bob McMurry, a SAGA official. Po inting out more disagreements with SAGA, Morton said SAGA was placing full-time workers on split shifts in order to classify them as part-time. Work schedules were also changed without prior agreement with the workers. SAGA justified their actions by terming its present situation an emergency since they were losing money. An emergency situation would allow SAGA to make sudden schedule changes, according to the settlement. Mrs. Elizabeth Brooks, a local union leader, made a plea to students to support the union by not working for SAGA and displacing full-time i and parents view his 1 V - Disraptiom Policy faculty. The University evaded its moral responsibility in the Blevins case by refusing to consider whether the disruptions policy is constitutional. It is my hope that federal court will find the policy unconstitutional and that Blevins will be exonerated. ANDY SCHORR-RUSTY CARTER (Schorr): Since I have not already been in the position of writing editorials for the DTH, especially since this controversial issue, I still have not completely decided how I feel about this issue. I have not felt obligated to make a definite conclusion (on the disruption policy)- However, I" think , that an editor of a campus newspaper should be informed of the Important facts on campus issues and understand the implications of those facts, and then advise the students how he feels on the issues in a responsible manner. In regard to the Blevins .case, it is hard for- me at ' this' time to decide r o i 1 1 I I 1 J ! I i i U H workers. I would like to call upon the students to talk with ftwow students and not to help brrak our union by becomi; employed with SAGA a scabs." A scab is a non-union worker who replaces a union worker. The union also claimed that SAGA was trying to suppress black workers by replacing them with student help. Shapiro said. Another meeting of SAGA and union officials is expected sometime Friday to determine the correct order of the seniority list since the 31 workers layed off should have come off the bottom of the list. eDracnIa9 Carolina Pktymakers has added an 11:30 p.m. performance of DRACULA on Friday, March 6. Tickets for the late showing as well as the other performances are available at Graham Memorial and downtown at Ledbetter-Pickard. 4 DTH Staff Photo by Tom Schnabel final home game whether it was right for him not to hold class because I u-e valid arguments on both sdeks of the issue. I am firmly committed to the idea of academic freedom, not only for students but for everyone. This freedom may include participating in a campus demonstration; surely this can be viewed as an educational experience. On the other hand, since this is a' state-support, d university, and the professors are state-employed, shouldn't they be in class teaching their courses if some paying student is there to learn? At this time, there is r.;j easy answer. Perhaps a future class will arise to more clearly define the actual implications of the disruption policy. (Carter): If such a situation arose while we were co-editors, I feel our personal thoughts on the issue should not be lie entire editorial policy. There souki be extersive discussion with students and faculty on their opinions.
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