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Monday, September 6. 1971
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Vol. 80, No. 5
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Sunday afternoons in Chapel Hill are nice times for finding a nice quiet spot on
campus and maybe to attempt a little studying. This student found a perfect spot in
Forest Theatre to enjoy the peace and quiet. (Staff photo by Cliff Kolovson )
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by Woody Doster
Staff Writer
The drug information booklet of the
UNC Student Drug Information
Coordinating Committee will be
distributed beginning today, according to
committeewoman Debbi Potter.
"On Either Side of the Mushroom,"
will be given free to students in
dormitories, fraternities, and sororities
Monday and Tuesday, and to off-campus
Labor Day quiet for town,
hut students go to classes
Chapel Hill's Labor Day will be a quiet one for town
residents, but not for students and faculty.
With the University already in session, today will be a full
day of classes for students and professors. All University
offices will be closed, however, with the exception of Wilson
and House libraries.
All town and county offices will be closed today, with no
garbage pickups planned.
The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen will hold their regularly
scheduled meeting, in an effort to clear the backlog of work
accumulated during the summer.
There will be no residential or rural mail delivery, but mail
box pickups will be made. Service windows will be closed, but
box service at the post offices will continue.
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by Al Thomas
Staff Writer
The by-word is participation.
The reward is seeing a small part of the
world in just a little better shape.
The place is the "Y".
Carolina's YMCA-YWCA has become
something of a legend here, a legend built
on helping the helpless, on caring for the
unwanted, and on instilling a sense of
hope in the hopeless. The opportunity to
help others, and in the process be helped,
is there for the asking, and has been for
most of the Y's 1 1 1-year history.
The Y, with its myriad of activities,
programs and efforts, has long defied a
simple, neat definition. '
Anne Queen, energetic director of the
Y since l')55, described the Y as "a
center which has on-going programs to
keep the institution itself alive, but which
has enough flexibility to allow for new
ideas."
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booklet dlstribiilted
students in the Student Union
Wednesday, she said.
The 30-page pamphlet is the work of
the 17-member committee which began
meeting last fall. Dean of Men Fred
Schroeder, whose office brought the
people together to form a committee,
said the University felt there was a "need
to provide drug information to UNC
students."
"The committee began its meetings
unsure of how to present the drug
information," said Miss Potter. "The first
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Bill Brieger. YMCA vice president last
year, said in his annual report. "It is the
nature of the Y to be in the forefront of
issues that concern the betterment of the
human condition."
A pamphlet distributed by the Y itself
has another definition: "The Y is a very
loosely-organized group with committees
that appear and disappear as people,
events, and outlooks change with
everything unified by certain basic
committees and at times result in specific
committees.
"New ideas are welcomed;" the
pamphlet continues, "new ways of
dealing with problems are
encouraged . . ."
The Y has always depended on student
volunteers to carry out its wor1 . with the
many and varied programs leaving
avenue., of participation open to almost
any interested Carolina student who
cares about others and the future.
The list of activities is long and
includes:
by Norman Bbck
Stiff Writer
Chapel Hill's street vending
controversy goes before the Board of
Aldermen again today. The board meets
at 4 p.m. in the Municipal Building.
Vendors have been absent from the
Franklin Street Sidewalks since July 1,
when the board voted to retain an
ordinance which bans selling on public
property.
The aldermen's action came after a
clause exempting the sale of flowers was
Recent poll shoivs
.Restrnictarinff dilikec
North Carolina taxpayers oppose by a
3 to l margin deccnsolidatoin of the
Consolidated University of North
Carolina, according to a recent poll.
The poll, conducted by pollster Joe
Napolitan of Washington, indicated 42.4
per cent of those questioned favor the
present state higher education system
over that proposed by Gov. Robert Scott
and a special study commission.
Only 17.7 per cent said they favor
Scott's plans to replace the present higher
education system, which includes the
Consolidated University and regional
university campuses, with a central
powerful board of regents, the poll said.
The other 39.9 per cent questioned
three weeks were very frustrating. We had
to decide the best way to approach the
information."
"It's especially hard when you are
talking about something as controversial
as drug use to know how to approach the
subject," she continued.
Various methods were evaluated for
presenting the information, including
radio shows, a newspaper campaign and a
booklet. The idea of putting the
committee's work into a pamphlet was
not well received at first, Miss Potter said,
Banks and most large stores will be closed, along with most
professional offices.
Joe Augustine, Merchants Association executive, secretary,
estimated about 75 per cent of the merchants would close for
the holiday, although "the specialty houses are going to be
open."
With the exception of emergency and screening services, all
clinics and departments at N.C. Memorial Hospital will be
closed.
According to Utilities Director Grey Culbreth, the
University Service Plant offices will be closed, but a large crew
of workmen will be on hand to continue hooking up phones
and electricity for new subscribers.
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- service at Umstead Psychiatric
Hospital and the Murdoch Center for
mentally retarded children, involving
approximately 150 student volunteers;
- a tutorial program in area
elementary and high schools, involving
approximately 200 student volunteers;
- freshman camp, where eager
incoming freshmen are introduced into
the increasingly complex arena of college
hfe;
- an International Handicraft Bazaar,
where handicrafts from around the world
are sold, partially to help the Y's financial
situation and partially as an educational
and cultural exchange;
- service at N.C. Memorial Hospital,
where approximately SO students help
with non-medical care of patients; and
- the Walk Against Hunger, which
included 500 marching University and
community students last year and
collected more than SI 2.000.
The list continues, including trustee
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ruled discriminatory in Orange County
Superior Court.
They hope to create a new ordmar.ee
which allows restricted vending on public
property. Two proposals have been
suggested, 3nd they will be discussed at
today's meeting.
One involves construction of a
downtown plaza to preserve vending
without overcrowding Franklin Street
sidewalks.
Such a plaza would have a parking
deck with trees, fountains an." a public
market. It would be under city control.
did not have opinions on restructuring of
N.C. higher education, according to the
poll.
Under restructuring proposals, the
powerful central board would oversee all
state-supported campuses. The N.C.
General Assembly will convene in special
session Oct. 26 to act on the proposals.
The poll was conducted for Hugh
Morton of Linville, who is eyeing the
Democratic nomination for governor, and
appeared in Sunday's editions of The
Greensboro Daily News.
More than 800 N.C. families, including
persons of all income and educational
levels from all sections of the state, were
today
but eventually it was chosen as the most
effective.
Dean Schroeder, who also served on
the committee, said the group next
approached the University to fund the
production of the booklet. Two thousand
dollars was secured from the University
for the production of 10,000 copies of
"On Either Side of the Mushroom." The
booklet was published by the Student
Health Service.
The booklet consists of an explanation
of drugs in eight categories: marijuana,
hallucinogens, opiates, cocaine,
amphetamines, barbituates, ethyl alcohol
and other substances of abuse.
In addition, Schroeder said there are
chapters on the medical hazards of
mainlining, psychological and social
hazards of drug use, drugs and the law,
general procedures for emergencies and
services available to drug users in the
Chapel Hill area.
A first draft of the booklet was
prepared and submitted to 150 persons in
the Chapel Hill and University
communities including doctors, lawyers
and pharmacists, for their opinions.
"The comments we got back were
most helpful," Schroeder said. "And it
was interesting to note about an equal
number of people felt the booklet was
pro-drug and anti-drug.
"We hope readers will come away
from this booklet with a better
knowledge of the phenomenon of drug
use."
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dinners, campus tours and programs and
intellectual exchanges regarding war and
peace, racial justice, foreign affairs and
just about anything else a student may
feel is of vital importance.
The Y is not static in its approach and
programs.
The Y helped coordinate local
participation in Washington Witness II,
which protested the South Vietnamese
and American incursion into Laos last
spring, and, through the Scholarship
Information Center, publishes a guide to
scholarship opportunities for black
students.
The ever-increasing activities of the Y
demand more and more students e. ery
year to give of their time, and according
to Anne Queen, students are responding.
"There is definitely an increased sense
of awareness and involvement in today's
student." she said. "Students appear to
be particularly attracted to programs with
institutional ties, such as the work at
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A second prc-p xal ws u-'!:::fd b
Mavor Howard Lee's ador committee,
composed of two f.ower ludie and :
other vendors.
This plan ca'.U for creation of some :o
zones or stalls on Franklin Street which
would be available to vendors. A !:t of
10 rules, including restrictions on selling
space, display size, permits and penalties,
was also included in the plan
The vending committee first prevented
its suggestions to ar. informal meeting of
the Board of Aldermen on Ju! g. But
only one alderman was present.
contacted by the Napolitan interview
team during the last week of July.
The interviewers asked: '"Gov. Scott
has said he wants to abolish the Board of
Trustees of the University of North
Carolina and create a board of regents
responsible for the Consolidated
University and other state colleges.
"Do you think this is a good idea or
do you prefer the present system?"
Napolitan's national polling firm is a
respected organization with about 14
years experience in political polling. The
firm handled polling and campaign work
for both John F. Kennedy and Hubert
Humphrey in the I960 presidential
primary campaign.
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Kaola Allen (I.) and Tom McEIwee rode through Murphey Hall on their bicycles last
week, obviously to the disapproval of a secretary. Chapel Hill has set up bicycle routes
throughout town and campus, but this . . . (Staff photo by John Gellman)
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Murdoch and the tutorial program."
The tutorial project is a prime example
of an innovative Y idea: slow to catch on
because of its newness, but sound and
eventually gaining overwhelming
acceptance in the community.
Jean Luker, YWCA director, recalls.
There was resistance from the schools at
first to our tutoring. It took a while, but
now school administrators are asking for
our help.
"There just isn't any substitute for one
person, giving his or her undivided
attention to one child." she added. "We
have become very pleased with this
project, and particularly with the
increased willingness of students here at
Carolina topartidpate."
Programs, projects, bazaars, all call on
UNC students to give of themselves and
participate. The Y goes even further,
however, catering at times to students
who want to be spectators as well as
activists.
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problem aga.n. e".l "ever b? jhle to treat
it with the ded. cation and determir.it..-,
th.it we e...7J have We ;-u: didn't
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this problem "
Alderman Rons Sroggs thinks the
fundamental question to be answered o
whether puh!:c propert can be ust-J for
private gain.
"To allow vending on the public
streets, in effect, would be to have
citizens pavmg for the vendor's right to
seil." Scroggs said. "I he Hoard of
Aldermen cannot do this if thev continue
to work m the public interest."
In a recent I'NC orientation address.
Mavor Lee indicated the controversy w.i-
rearing a solution.
"Within a very few weeks. I believe
vendors will be back on the streets with
minimal restrictions protecting
pedestrians and traffic How on the
sidewalks." he remarked
TODAY: partly cloudy: warm and
humid; 30 per cent chance of rain;
temperatures ranging in the
mid-SO's.
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"This year." Miss Queen said, "We
hope to have Willy Morris (controversial
former editor of Harper's) and Larry King
(a political writer who quit Harper's when
Morris was forced out) come here and
speak. If we do get them they'll be
here m the fall."
The Y has at least some part in
bringing dozens of speakers to UNC,
ranging from James Reston of the New
York Times to Sisters Beverly Bel! and
Susan Davis, two Catholic nuns who are
members of the East Coast Conspiracy to
Save Lives.
With Judy Dixon and Kevin Dj.neey
sharing the presidency of the Y, Miss
Q-een said she looks to a particularly
active and su. esiful vear.
"ihc Y is projeds, programs a'd
seminars." Miss Queen added. 'But it's
essentially students helping others,
becoming involved, and in the process
enriching their own minds."
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