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Studsnts form strsnga habits during their formative years, and sometimes they
bring those habits to college. Ail of which causes problems for the other seven
residents of this suite In Ehrincjhaus dorm, where plant life abounds.
(Staff photo by Gary Lobraico)
by Greg Turosak
Staff Writer 1
RALEIGH The N.C. House of
Representatives sent back to the Finance
Committee a $51 million tax reduction
package less than two hours after Gov. Jim.
Holshouser's warning in a message to ajoint
session of the General Assembly that tax cuts
would be risky until the full extent of the
energy crisis is known.
The tax reduction package, reported out
favorably by Finance Committee and
backed by House Speaker Jim Ramsey, was
sent back to committee by a roll call vote of
59-49.
The package would have phased out over
the next five years the inventory tax that
manufacturers, wholesalers and retailers
must pay to local governments; reduced the
state income tax rate from 3 percent to 2
percent on the first $2,000 of income; and
created a $3,000 tax exemption for those
over 65 years earning less than $10,000.
Rep. Art Thomas, R-Cabarrus and
sponsor of the bill, said that while the state
Weather
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. UNC handicapped tour
by Gary Dorsey
Staff Writer
Worlds collided Thursday in a cross campus
excursion.
Officially, it was a handicapped tour designed to
acquaint town and university officials with the
problems of the handicapped.
There was a cane-tapping blind man who
complained that he could be cut and even seriously
injured by such things as low-hanging metallic bus stop
signs.
There was also a University planning official in the
group assuring everyone that the University was doing
everything it could.
There were wheelchairs and crutches and green
handled canes and prescription lenses intermingled
with coats and ties and official sounding voices.
And more handicapped people and more officials.
The tour was the product of an alliance between the
Graduate and Professional Students Federation
(GPSF) and a University committee on minority and
disadvantaged students.
The tour began at Craige dorm and in two hours was
on Franklin Street, after stopping at several places
along the way.
The students explained and demonstrated the
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would initially lose revenue, the loss would
more than be made up in future years by the
increased tax base of industries and firms
which would be encouraged to expand into
North Carolina after the inventory tax was
phased out.
Thomas estimated the state could have
increased revenue by $300 million and
created 13,000 more jobs over the past two
years had there been no inventory tax.
The bill was sent back to committee after
Rep. Sneed High, D-Cumberland, moved
that more time was needed to consider the
bill after an amendment was introduced.
In his opening address to the Assembly,
Holshouser also reiterated his firm backing
of the authority of the Board of Governors,
who have opposed the building of a four
year medical school at East Carolina
University.
Holshouser also pointed out the items he
felt most important in the $2.9 billion state
budget for 1974-75, which was presented
formally to the legislators Thursday.
Aside from medical education,
Holshouser concentrated on health and
medical care in his speech.
He stressed the need for expanding Area
Health Education Centers, saying they
would become a major part of doctors'
training and would ensure dispersal of
doctors into rural areas.
He also mentioned mental health, prison
reform, increasing the state parole board
from three to five members, revision of the
state criminal code, land use planning and
executive reorganization as major concerns.
problems they have getting around the campus and in
the downtown area. The officials listened.
Gordon Rutherford, director of Facilities Planning
and a member of the group, said the University has
been aware of the problems of the handicapped for a
long time. '
"We have studied these problems for the past two
years and in the last three months extensive plans have
been made to renovate dorms, buildings, sidewalks
and the like," he said.
At great expense, however. It will cost about half a
million dollars to make the needed changes.
Running the gamut of renovations, the money
would be used to build special showers, bathrooms,
rooms, ramps and signs. Curbs have to be built to serve
the blind and curbs destroyed to aid those in
wheelchairs.
Every entrance way, every stairway, every door stop
accessible to the student population has to be studied.
The University has already asked the 1974 General
Assembly for $150,000 and will ask the 1975 General
Assembly for the same.
It may seem like a lot of expense and difficulty for
just a handful of students. There are only about 10
physically handicapped persons on campus, plus a few
who are blind or suffer from visual disabilities.
Rutherford said he didn't think that renovations
81 Years Of Editorial Freedom
Chspcl H:n, North Csrc"n3f Friday, January 10, 1S74
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Israel and Egypt, in a triumph for the
personal diplomacy of Secretary of State
Henry A. Kissinger, announced an
agreement Thursday on the separation of
their forces along the Suez Canal.
President -Nixon called it "the first
significant step toward a permanent peace in
the Mideast." It was announced
simultaneously in Jerusalem, Washington
and Cairo. In Moscow, Tass carried a brief
report without comment an hour later.
The agreement will be signed at noon (6
a.m. EDT) Friday by the Israeli and
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by Hsnry Ferber
Staff Writer
The Publications Board came to the.
defense of campus radio station WCAR
Thursday in the wake of a pending Campus
Governing Council (CGC) bill that would
force WCAR to discontinue operation.
Pub Board member Bill Snodgrass, also
chairman of the CGC Finance Committee
that is to consider the bill, said the bill, which
would freeze WCAR funds if passed, would
"probably be buried" in his committee.
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Throughout his speech, Holshouser
emphasized the importance of the energy
crisis on the North Carolina economy,
saying, "It threatens the quality and integrity
of our lives as a people."
Holshouser strongly advised against any
immediate tax cut, saying the full extent of
the energy crisis is not yet known.
"Punblnc HesiMIh
by Bob Ripley
Staff Writer
The School of Public Health has agreed to
a major revamping of its curriculum, faculty
appointments and student evaluation
systems as requested by the Black Student
Caucus.
In a memorandum to the school's dean,
Bernard Greenberg, and several other
University officials, the caucus said that the
"policies of the school are racist and
discriminatory."
Greenberg could not be reached for
comment, but Assistant Dean R. B.
Moorhead said there was no discrimination
in the school's practices.
"I am certain that there is no purposeful
racist implication in any of our courses,"
Moorhead said. "However certain cultural
biases may have creeped into the curriculum.
"We are attempting to deal with these
biases, and we have met with the students,
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Egyptian chiefs of staff at the United Nations
checkpoint at Kilometer 101 on the Cairo
Suez highway. Finland's Maj. Gen. Ensio
Siilasvuo, commander of the U.N.
Emergency force, will witness the signing.
The details were not announced but
diplomatic sources in Israel and Egypt
reported that it called for a Israeli pullback
of about 20 miles from the waterway to the
strategic Mitla and Giddi Passes in the Sinai
Peninsula. These passes guard the road to
Israel.
It was also reported to call for a thinning
out of the Egyptian forces which crossed the
waterway in force in the October war and for
Snodgrass, who earlier said the station
managers have proved themselves
incompetent, said Thursday, "They
demonstrated a sufficient interest so that it
wouldn't be appropriate" for him to support
the CGC bill.
The board, described by Snodgrass as "a
watchdog of our organizations," referring to
WCAR, The Daily Tar Heel, the Yackety
Yack and other campus publications, was
not unanimous in its indiciation of support
for the radio station.
A motion was made by Richard
Robertson, Pub Board chairman, to freeze
WC AR's funds unless Pub Board approved.
The motion was defeated after it was
amended to limit WCAR to expenditures of
less than $50 without Pub Board approval.
The motion was defeated 1-2 with Rod
Waldorf and Mark Dearmon, who both
argued for giving WCAR a freer hand,
voting against the proposal. Snodgrass
voted for the measure. Steve Coggins, who
had indicated his desire to stifle the station
management's spending power in his
interrogation of WCAR Business Manager
John Taylor, abstained.
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specifically the Black Student Caucus, twice
in the past month to work out these
problems."
Among the programs agreed to in the two
meetings are:
the chairmen of each department in the
school will submit to the dean in two weeks a
plan for development of faculty from within
the school, to include black faculty
members;
the department chairmen will review and
change the student evaluation procedures to
include reasons for a student's performance;
the dean will explain all grants and
proposals to the Human Subject Review
Committee, and add one black faculty
member to that committee; and
the dean will increase the black student
enrollment from 1 1 per cent to 1 7 per cent by
next year to reflect the proportion of blacks
in the state.
Bob Kelly, president of the Black Student
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were unneccessary expenses and other members
agreed.
"If you have to justify this on the basis of the number
of handicapped students you might as well just not do
it," said Rutherford. "But we're interested in these
people's safety."
At one point on the tour, Dr. James D. Condie,
director of University Housing, hopped into a
wheelchair and tried to wheel himself down a narrow
hallway in Peabody Hall.
Yelling, "Look out, here I come," Condie uncovered
a specific problem when he began colliding and
scraping against the walls. The corridor was designed
with a ramp to help the handicapped but Condie found
it narrow for a wheelchair.
Another official, Shirley Marshall, a Chapel Hill
alderman, asked the students to come and speak
directly and specifically to town officials and
merchants about their problems.
Bill Snodgrass, GPSF organizer of the tour, felt that
the tour would help give these students the special
attention that they need in solving their problems on
campus.
"On a tour these people can actually see the
problems that these students have in getting ground,"
Snodgrass explained. "It's good to have these people
together."
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a corridor patrolled by the U.N. emergency
force between the two armies.
Thus, both sides made significant
concessions. The Israeli pullback from the
west side of the canal would free the trapped
Egyptian 2nd Army.
In making the announcement of the
agreement in Washington, Nixon said:
"After four wars... this is the first
significant step toward a permanent peace in
the Mideast," Nixon said.
The Middle East peace conference in
Geneva, sponsored jointly by the United
States and Soviet Union, had been recessed
pending a settlement of the troop
held back
If Coggins had voted for the motion, the
vote would have been tied, and Robertson
would have been able to break the tie as
board chairman. Presumably, Robertson
would have passed the measure, since he had
made the "original motion.
Following the defeated motion, another
was approved that requested the WCAR
business manager to report station finances
at Pub Board meetings.
Complaints about the radio station's
management refer to WCAR's cash balance
of $193 left from the $4,473 CGC
appropriation.
Station Manager Gary Rendsburg
explained CGC cut the station budget by
more than half, and that WCAR Business
Manager John Taylor was making cuts in a
number of areas to compensate.
In addition to the $4,473 received from.
CGC, WCAR was to have raised $6,500 in
advertising, none of which had been sold at
the time of the meeting. Taylor said ads
could not be sold when the station was off
the air, but he said, "The sales staff is in the
process of being put together and by this
afternoon they'll be out selling."
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Caucus, said he was encouraged by the
response of the dean and the chairmen of the
departments.
"We will continue to push for review and
participation of all grants and proposals in
the school, and have a fair voice in decision
making," Kelly said.
"Black students will raise issues cf
importance in the School of Public Health,
and continue a monitoring effort to see the
school moves in a positive direction towards
addressing the needs of the black
community."
Kelly also said he felt the School of Public
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disengagement issue.
None of the announcements from Cairo.
Jerusalem or Washington mentioned
Moscow, co-chairman of the Geneva
conference with the United States. Israeli
and Egyptian dispatches indicated earlier
there would be a simultaneous
announcement in Moscow but none w
forthcoming. The fact Russia was not
mentioned emphasized the personal nature
of the Kissinger triumph.
Kissinger is now expected to ttlrn his
efforts to bringing Syria into an agreement
on the separation of its forces and
participation in the Geneva talks.
Nixon pledged to "personally ...see that
all negotiations, any efforts that can lead to
permanent peace... will have the full and
complete support of the United States."
The agreement was believed to include an
Israeli pullback about 20 miles into the Sinai
Peninsula on the eastern bank of the Suez
Canal, freeing the trapped Egyptian Second
Army, and a thinning of Egyptian forces on
the east side of the waterway. A corridor of
United Nations troops would be between
them.
The agreement climaxed a week of
intensive negotiations during which
Kissinger shuttled almost daily by plane
between Egypt and Israel since his arrival in
the Middle East last Friday. He met three
times with Egyptian President Anwar Sadat
and other officials in the upper Nile resort
city of Aswan and three times with Israeli
leaders in Jerusalem.
It came on the 85th day of the latest
Egyptian-Israeli ceasefire and 103 days after
the start of the fourth Middle East war last
Oct. 6.
An Israeli spokesman in Jerusalem said
the cabinet unanimously approved the
disengagement formula earlier in the day,
following a series of meetings between
Kissinger and Israeli leaders in snowbound
Jerusalem.
The disengagement of the two armies was
the only clause in the cease-fire agreement
that had not been implemented.
While no details of the agreement were
disclosed, the Israeli government did say
Prime Minister Golda Meir will address the
Knesset parliament Tuesday.
Health was leading the way in development
of faculty and the rest of the schools of the
University should follow the example.
Bill Smell, the school's minority affairs
coordinator, would not comment, but
Moorhead said the problems previously had
been that school officials had trouble
interpreting what courses the students were
asking for but now there was more of an
understanding.
"There are no courses expressly for black
students, but we need to teach all our
workers to be able to work in the black
community," Moorhead said.
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