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Harry Bryan, Editor
Thursday, April 15. 1971
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Student Legislature dealt the
student body a heavy blow Tuesday
night in defeating the 515,000
appropriation for a full-time
lawyer.
Instead of allocating the funds
to hire a lawyer on a full-time basis,
the legislature reduced the budget
request to S9,000 for the hiring of
a lawyer on a retainer.
Student Legislature might just as
well have cut the $15,000 out
completely rather than reducing the
appropriation to $9,000.
A lawyer on a retainer basis will
not be a tenth as valuable as a
full-time lawyer who would be
spending all his time working for
the students. -
As it stands now, Student
Goverment will be able to have
legal counsel whenever it desires
until that $9,000 runs out. But if
only half the issues that need to be
answered are looked into by a
lawyer on a retainer, the $9,000
will go quickly.
For $I5,000-Only $6,000 more
than was finally appropriated
Student Government could have
had a full-time lawyer who would
have spent all his time working for
the students, rather than just a few
weeks out of the year.
Another problem with hiring a
lawyer on a retainer basis is that he
would not be as familiar with the
workings of the UNC Student
Government, faculty and
administration as a' lawyer working
full-time with students, faculty
members and administrators.
In order to effectively work for
the rights of the student body, a
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Ken Daly
A few weeks ago, listening to the radio
late-at night, I heard a report on WCBS
from New York which confirmed my
pessimism about the job market for
college graduates and professionals. Every
year in New York about this time they
usually have a job-fair where college,,
seniors can meet with prospective
employers. This year it's been cancelled.
A similar fair for high-school graduates,
however, will still be held. In , fact,
according the WCBS story, you're better
off this year if you DID NT go to college.
Most of the jobs require only a
hith-SL"hrol education . ;inl tnmlnvr
would rather not hire someone who's
been "over-educated."
We are in the midst of a two-year
downturn in job opportunities for college
graduates.! Here are some of the dismal
facts about the situation. According to a
story in The New York Times on March
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lawyer must have the time to sit
down and talk to the students, to
listen and try to understand their
problems.
A full-time lawyer would have
had this extra time. The part-time
lawyer will not.
As yet the budget passed by the
outgoing Student Legislature has
not been signed by Student Body
President Joe Stallings. Stallings has
until April 28 to either approve it
or veto it.
If Stallings does choose to use
his veto power, Student Legislature
must either override that veto with
a , two-thirds vote, or it must
reconsider the budget.
If he approves the budget, the
new legislature would immediately
take over and then could possibly
reconsider various allocations itself.
However, no matter what
Stallings chooses to do, the
$ 1 5,000 for a lawyer should be
passed. The student body needs and
deserves it.
Mini-Union
should he
, Campus
For once, studens forced to live
on South Campus are getting a
break.
The Mini-Union, a smaller
version of the Student Union, is
expected to open soon in Chase
Cafeteria.
Included in the Mini-Union will
be five pool tables, a snack bar, a
color television, pinball machines
and a pin-pong table.
If run properly the Mini-Union
should benefit students living in
James, Morrison, Ehringhaus and
Craige dormitories, especially
freshmen and upperclassmen
vyithout cars. -
Ever since the high rise dorms on
South Campus were first built,
students living in them without cars
have been practically stranded with
nothing to do.
: If a student living in James
wanted to shoot a game of pool,
grab a hamburger or just "mess
around,' hea had to walk all the
way to the Student Union or
downtown.
Now his plight has been
somewhat alleviated.
And if the Mini-Union proves
successful,' more changes should be
made to help the students on South
Campus.
8. companies have cut down their
recruiting visits to college campuses by
ten to 50 per cent from last year. Visits
were already cut that much last year.
Over the last two years, ther has been a
40 to 45 per cent cutback in hiring of
college seniors 25 per cent this year, 20
-per cent the year before. Many of last
year's graduates are still without " jobs.
And we've all heard about, or know
personally, experienced people who have
been laid-off recently. Dr. Frank S.
Endicott, director of the Placement
Office at Northwestern, was quoted as
saying. "You'd have to go back to the
middle-thirties to find such a sharp
decline in the jobs available for college
graduates." The College Placement
Council in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania,
estimates starting salaries for people with
bachelor's degrees are up only three per
cent from last year, hardly enough to
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Spring in Chapel Hill means blooming
dogwoods, green grass, bicycles and bare
feet, and protest.
Wednesday was no exception. The
People's Peace Treaty Celebration got
underway during mid-morning, and by
noon McCorkle Place had a pitched tent,
a rock band, posters galore and flags
waving.
And of course there were seminars and
workshops and treaty signings. But the
real show wasjeople. A wide assortment
were on display with flowing hair,
sunburst tie-dyed t-shirts, well-worn bell
bottoms, and sandals.
This, of course, is standard apparel.
What set this particular group apart on
this particular day was their size -or
perhaps it would be more appropriate to
say lack of size.
All in all, as Chapel Hill peace
demonstrations go, it was rather
disappointing. Not even worth the time
for a Jesse Helms editorial. A far cry from
last spring, when thousands of students
walked down a dark Franklin Street,
candles in hand, with a massive silence so
heavy even the second story bar was quiet
for five minutes.
Now only memories remain. Students
keep their melted candles and black
Bob Chapman
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Since the Carolina Symposium last
spring, UNC students have concerned
themselves with the issue of pollution. To
display their distaste for the nation's
major pollutors, Student Legislature
voted in January to purchase two shares
of General Motors stock and use the votes
to support Campaign GM, a project to
seek corporate responsibility in the area
of the environment.
The measure passed Legislature by a
wide margin. In addition, members
sought social responsibility from the
University, owner of 5,000 shares of GM
stock, by asking support of Campaign
GM.
Last year, the University opposed the
-campaign by voting with General Motors
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keep up with inflation, and down from
the five to six per cent, yearly jumps
during the last ' decade. In business,
marketing, chemistry, mathematics, and
physics, average monthly salaries are
below last year's. If you're an engineer or
a teacher, forget it. After the defeat of
SST. the country is full of "superfluous"
engineers-not that Amercia doesn't seem
to be able to find better uses for human
skill than make-work projects like SST.
What's even more ludicrous .is that the
press is now talking of an "over-supply"
of teachers! Teachers around the country
are up in arms about over-crowded
classrooms, to name-just one grievance.
The authorities response has been to cut
back on the hiring of teachers, and to
seek to introduce the so-called contract
performance system. Anyone who's
worked or lived around the mills of North
Carolina will recognize this as the
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armbands stowed away in cardboard
boxes with high school yearbooks and
last semester's term paper. There are no
spring strikes or crises or mass meetings.
As a result, student leaders, news
magazines, and administrators have taken
to their respective stumps and soap boxes
to explain the phenomena. The gist of
their volumes of rhetoric amounts to
"students are tired of fighting because
they have become completely
disillusioned with the political system."
(An immediate postscript for an
administrationstudent explanation is
"we stood up against student disorderwe
backed the administration down."
Thus, both sides have explained the
quiet on campus and modestly taken
credit for the current situation.
That leaves only one group out. The
people who made it all happen. What do
they think? .
The answer to that, truthfully, can go
no farther than the individual
himself you or me. Since the only
person I am sure of is me, I can only give
my own opinion.
Most importantly, I have noticed all
demonstrations have begun to look
alike in fahion, for instance. Give me a
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management. Even after a student
referendum showed overwhelming
support of Campaign GM by a vote of
about 2,400 to 1,100, the University
ignored the students' desire to help bring
responsibility of large industries.
The Finance Committee of the Board
of Trustees was delegated the power to
make the final decision. The committee
heard Gerry Cohen, SL ruler committee
chairman, and a student from N.C. State
University speak in favor of the
campaign. Some members of the
committee responded favorably, but .the
body voted again to support the General
Motors management.
The Committee members did go so far
as to make a token effort by sending a
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"speed-up" under another name, in
another industry.
Dr. Endicott pointed out the analogy
of this situation to that of the thirties. We
can learn from that comparison. The
response of many workers during the
Depression to losing their jobs was to
blame themselves. In this country, having
a job is very important for one's
self-esteem as well as social standing.
Losing that job, especially if one
subscribes to the ethic of individual;
achievement through work, means to.
many people that they are failures, that
there is something wrong with them.
Very many workers responded to the
Depression . by seeking individual
solutions to their problems, by trying to
prove that they were still worth
something. In practice, this means
competing harder and better against one's
fellow workers for fewer and fewer jobs.
pair of faded jeans, my favorite old denim
work shirt and a pair of well-worn
comfortable shoes and I am happy.
Not because I am representing a
disdain for middle class values. Not to
show contempt for capitalism. Just
because I feel at ease in such clothing.
Looks-wise, of course, I would be right
at home in the People's Celebration.
People wear coats and ties to church, and
they wear denims to protest.
There there is the matter of dialogue.
President Nixon will "make this perfectly
clear." Rennie Davis has "right on's" to
spare. George Wallace copyrighted every
"rights of the individual" phrase several
years ago. Jane Fonda will put you "up
against the wall."
And so it goes. You can take a single
speech by almost anybody and, by
cutting it up a little, apply three-quarters
of their phraseology to any topic they
speak on.
So what we finally wind up with are
very repetitious demonstrations -with a
similar human factor. There are those
who are sincere in their beliefs, and
consequently back up every grape, apple
and watermelon boycott. This is a
hard-core movement, and it is small.
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letter to GM management expressing
disapproval of some of its policies.
When the management proxy is sent
out Friday by General Motors, Student
Government will vote its two shares for
Campaign GM. Despite large student
support for the campaign, the University
will continue to support the GM
management.
One way for the University to avoid
the issue would be to seell the stock. An
Ivy League school, the University of
Pennsylvania, recently unloaded its
33,363 shares of GM stock but not, UP
officials say, to fight pollution. James M.
Skinner, chairman f of the Pennsylvania
trustees investment committee,
confirmed the, sale, saying it was strictly
for business reasons. The profit margins,
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MAN ON CAMPU5?
It's still eoine on today. A friend of mine
described a scene at a recent American
Historical Society convention where over
100 applicants for a single job were
. paired against each other to debate. Only
by eliminating their "professional
colleagues" in actual combat could they
hope to get the job.
If we can learn one thing from the
economic realities many of us are facing,
it is we are workers, that if we can't well
our labor (however skilled) for wages we
can't make it in this society. While we, or
many of us, will probably not have to
fact the dire consequences that
joblessness meant to our parents; while
many of us will be less likely to blame
ourselves for being out of work, will we
take the step which they didn't take? Will
we gel ourselves together, and as a group
work to make a new society which will
On the perimeter, we find a much
more interesting amy of characters. They
are always the hanger-ons who like to see
their pictures in the newspapers or have a
crush on their collective chairman.- And
there are still more who like free, rock
music, drugs cr conversation.
But for the most part, the every day
student is no longer present. He has 'heard
the speeches-over and over ziti. He has
watched the same people spout the same
diches-for any and every cause. Ar.d he
has gone to the library to study for
tomorrow's chemistry test. '
Tomorrow's chemistry test is very real.
It is also very present and very urgent.
The Peace Celebration is not. The human
race wd be in conflict until it
exterminates itself.
It is also man's nature to realize when
he is being taken for a ride. The poor,
discriminated-upon student revolted with
his brothers against the oppressive world.
And then he looked arou.d and saw his
brothers selling tie-dyed ihirts, pre-faded
jeans with pre-fringed cuffs, "power; to
the people" buttons and stickers, lectures
for fat fees, sandals ... ;
And an enterprising West Coast
businessman is even starting to 'rent
people for protests. '.:
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they reasoned, will be cut "by
anti-pollution laws being imposed on the
industry.
Whether or not the University of
Pennsylvania is actually helping ecology,
it did realize a tidy profit of
$1,597,270.70.
It is very doubtful the trustees will
change their minds and vote for corporate
responsibility; it would be like voting
against themselves. Most of the trustees
are rich, white, middle-aged males who
are business executives or attorneys.
There is an obvious conflict of interest.
If the trustees cannot see fit to
support social responsibility, at leasHhey
can follow their natural instincts an4 jain
by selling the General Motors stock.
Letter .
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reader says
To the editor:
I am writing in regard to the
photograph appearing on page four of the
Thursday April 8, 1971, issue of the
Daily Tar Heel. Shown in the photo are
some tree brances covered with flowers,
and in the background, the Bell Tower.
Though no expert on identification of
trees, I do know that the tree pictured is
not a dogwood, as it is named in the
caption. Especially in a paper whose staff
demonstrates an effort to "call a spade a
spade," one would think that just any old
blooming tree would not be called a
dogwood!
Betty Evenbeck
506 North Street
Chapel Hill. N.C.
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not waste human lives and productive
capacity in senseless economic
fluctuations? Will we see that a society'"'0
organized for people rather than profltr
does not have to shut down when 5 the"
investors' dividends slow up or wheh'
we're in between wars? 1' 'A
My hope is that we won't trip out. Our
parents struggled, individually, but they..'
struggled. Instead of taking over society,
they let FDR save the investors. Will we, ,
make the task even easier for the,
powers-that-be, and LSD be our savior?-,.
Even Charles Reich, who wrote 'The
Greening of America," has written, "I do
not see how anyone who seriously
undertakes to look at our present society
can proceed without first addressing
himself (sic) to the problem of advanced
monopoly capitalism . . . with
confronting the consequences of
capitalism within our individual selves."