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Wht lailg Wax Ifei Doug Clark 83 rd Year of Editorial Freedom Elliott VVemock Managing Editor Bsm! IC Day Projects Editor Sutsn Shackelford Sports Editor Cola C. Csmpbstt Editor Jim Grimsby Associate Editor Jim Roberts News Editor Gene Johnson Wire Editor Rslph J. Irsce Contributing Editor Alan Murrey Features Editor Joyce Fltzpstrick Graphic Arts Editor Msrtha Stevens Head photographer Msrion Merritt Night Editor The Daily Tar Heel, the UNC student newspaper since 1893, has its editorial, news and business offices in the Carolina Union on campus. All unsigned editorials represent the opinion of the Daily Tar Heel, while signed columns and letters represent the viewpoints of the individual contributors. Tuesday, April 22, 1975 mm J n ?i i ii MDUfloe-eniice raiiiiv do your part mow o e Today students across North Carolina will rally in protest of the proposed budget cut and tuition hike presently before the North Carolina Senate subcommittee on appropriations. Planned rallies are to occur on most of the 16 campuses of the Consolidated University. The goal of this mass rally is to demonstrate to state legislators the combined opposition of students and other citizens to the tuition hike. Your participation can increase the impact of this protest. While many of us may live off of the tat of our parents' larders, many of us do. not. For the self-supporting student, the student on a fixed income, and the student on financial aid, the proposed jump in tuition threatens participation in university affairs. Some students may have to decrease the amount of participation in classes or worthy extracurricular activities; others may simply have to withdraw from the university. All of this might be acceptable if students could fincl fulfillment in any other available pursuits. But the clenched job market cannot meet the needs of the non-student. It cannot be expected to absorb those sloughed off by the university system. All ol this might be tolerable or forgivable if the state of the economy were such that it became impossible to sustain an academic community of the. size of the Consolidated University. But the proposed budget cuts and tuition increases are being considered before other parts of the state budget have been examined for possible savings. The proposal affects Chapel Hill in a number of ways. The medical school may not be able to absorb fifty students at a time when North Carolina confronts a physician shortage. ' As Student Body President Bill Bates has pointed out, 75 per cent of UNC graduate students are on fixed incomes and 9,000 students are working their way through school. UNC-Chapel Hill is expected to absorb 26 per cent of the Consolidated University budget cut. Even so, other member campuses such as N.C. Central and Fayetteville State may suffer even more because of the number of financially vulnerable students at those institutions. It is up to all of us to unite in protest of the proposed appropriations and tuition for the Consolidated University. Those of us in Chapel H ill ought to make use of numbers and our penchant for expression to help ourselves and to help others. The rally is scheduled for 12:30 in the Pit (in the Great Hall should it rain). Please be there. Elliott War nock O'Neal vote is important "This is politics as usual, and I just think that's regrettable Mike O'Neal, nominated for CGC tracnrr hu QtnHnt RnXi; PrsciHont Rill Bates, has had a long, varied career with student government. He has been treasurer of the Residence Hall Association, the Campus Porgramming Council and Avery Dorm. O'Neal wrote the . normal performance of his duties? -Mike O'Neal is no doubt that O'Neal holds certain prejudices; there is also no doubt that his critics hold certain prejudices. The manner in which the members of CGC should judge this issue is apparent: will bias on O'Neal's part be a block in the first comprehensive requisition procedure for the Student Activities Fund Office as a member of the RH A, and has worked on the CGC Finance Committee and Media Board. During his years with these organizations, he has said many things, but he has never been as succinct and accurate as when he stated "this is politics as usual." Immediately following his nomination for treasurer, he came under fire by a few members of the CGC for actions he made as lar back as 1972. All specific charges against him have been successfully refuted to this date, but one charge still remains tonight as the CGC prepares to vote his approval or rejection as treasurer. It has been said that O'Neal is biased, because of his tenure as RHA treasurer and president, and that this prejudice will hinder his proper execution of duties as CGC treasurer. The charge of bias rests directly in the personalities of O'Neal and his critics. There Jim Grimsley We must suggest that O'Neal, though he has made no direct reply to this charge, has effectively answered it through his' recent action with the CGC. He is the only nominee who has attended all the finance committee hearings as the members have battled to balance the CGC budget; he has not tried to interfere with the committee in its actions, and has even offered suggestions on how to economize the budget requests, particularly those of organizations which he has had former interest. It seems to us that O'Neal's confirmation or rejection will be an indicator of how the CGC members plan to act for the 1975-76 academic year. They can choose to either put biases aside and work together, or continue to let personalities block the students interests. 1 With the impending financial crunch lacing CGC and all campus organizations, tonight's vote will be crucial. A Fndla y EMglM It was Friday night and I was out on the town, as I am sometimes wont to do, with some of my buddies. We were getting around alright, Bacchae, Morrison party, back to the Bacchae, and having a good time, when my friend and favorite drinking companion Will Roseman got a hankering for some good country music. Now Rose is a born and bred country boy while I'm still shaking off the effects of a New Jersey upbringing, but for the sake of my new hometown, 1 decided to go along to Clarence's, sight of the reddest juke-box in town. So, accompanied by two fellow frosty foam freaks, Dave and Dave, we arrived at said establishment around 12:15 or so. Between us Rose and I came up with 50 cents for the box and selected some Merle Haggard and Linda Ronstadt doing Hank Williams, and such like. Well, the time passed and, much to our dismay, when the box was shut down at 1 2:45 our songs still hadn't been played, apparently due to a large backlog of records before ours. Anyway, since closing time wasn't until 1:00, we complained and the box was turned back on. Meanwhile, we asked one of the bartenders, Greg Smith one with blond hair and mustache, who was not at the time actually behind the bar, if we could get our money back if our songs didn't come up by 1:00. He said yes. One o'clock came and the juke-box was shut down, without having played our songs. Rose and I then asked the bartender behind the bar, the dark-haired one, if we could have our 50 cents back. When he said no we told him that the other bartender said we could. He said that the other guy wasn't behind the bar when he told us that, and that he was the boss and he said no. He said if we wanted to. hear our songs we'd have to come back in the morning. Now, we'd been drinking some sure enough, but we were in control, so we stayed cool and said OK, fine, we understand, we just thought we'd try to get our money back. At that point Rose said to me, "Come on Doug, let's go, this is just a f ratty bar anyhow." Well, the bartender seemed pretty sensitive to that remark, as he shouted, lf you're gonna be rude you can just get your ass out of here, there are plenty of other bars to go to." I then said to the guy, "Take it easy, we're not being rude", to which he replied. nut owe "No, you're not, but your friend is." Walking towards the door Rose, who ocassionally finds himself a target for trouble, said, "No sir, if I was being rude you'd know it." That set the bartender off. He ran out Irom under the bar, grabbed Rose and threw him against the pin-ball machines, shouting. "Get your ass out of here." He then threw him out the door. Once outside Rose said to him, "There, I'm out, there's nothing you can do to me now." This further excited the guy, who again started pushing Rose, shouting, "Get your ass down the street." Then 1 grabbed the guy and yelled, "You can't do that to him, leave him alone." My mistake. He came after me, swinging like a wildman. If I'd had time to think I might have thought to swing back, but he only connected once, a very glancing blow, before we were pulled apart by several people. He then re-entered the bar, followed by shouts of "You goddamn Nazi!" Right then a police car pulled intoDunkin Donuts next door. 1 went over to the officer and told him what happened. He told us that unless we took out a warrant against the guy there was nothing he could do except talk to him. If we did try to take out a warrant, he said, the Magistrate, since we had been drinking, would tell us to come back in the morning. We said OK, talk to him. The officer went in and we waited outside. Meanwhile, another bartender came out and gave us our 50 cents back, and said to us that the guy wasn't the regular bartender, that he had a short fuse, and that people sometimes get a little excited. Then the officer came out with the other side to our story, we were unruly and had refused to leave. But even if that was true, and he didn't believe that it was, the guy had no right to touch us, inside or outside the place. He told us that we had two years to decide whether we wanted to press charges. Since then we have been advised by one who knows the law to forget the whole thing, that the courts generally assume that the ones thrown out of a place were the instigators of the trouble. But I know one thing: that was the last time (and ironically the first) for me in Clarences Bar and Grill. Doug Clark is a sophomore journalism major Jrom Hickory. Prophecy no matter of statistics There is an increasing interest in prophecy in this country, at least open and unhidden interest. Many people would be surprised at the extent to which businessmen and others in positions of power have always consulted non-traditional prophetic help. The educated, of course, will smile and say, "Its all statistics. If you make enough predictions, some are bound to come true." (But no one can really deny that these men are very rich, and sometimes their wealth appears by means of very strange series of so called 'lucky' breaks). One other point needs to be made before listing the prophecies. As evidenced by the preceding predictions in this paper's series (2050 A.D.), there is an almost fanatical insistence in America that logic, extrapolation, judgment, experience, etc., are the cornerstones for real knowledge of the future. The truth of the matter is that no one really has a corner on the future, not from deduction, anyway. Logic has been around for a long time, and yet, 1 haven't seen any books (copyright 1850) detailing atomic physics or men on the moon. Remember that a logician can only extrapolate logically on the postulate that his information completely describes the system. The requirements for psychic prediction, however, are much different. The essential requirement is that the prediction coincides with and tends to generate more of the underlying harmony in the universe. 1 don't intend to outline the . exact procedure because it's too complicated. Psychic prediction is possible, however. It has a long history which includes many successes. Also, the sceptic need not frighten anyone who is interested, because there are simple, easily The Daily Tar Heel welcomes the expression of all points of view through the letters to the editors. Opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors. This newspaper reserves the right to edit all letters for libelous statements and good taste. Letters should be limited to 300 words and must include the name, address and phone number of the writer. Type letters on a 60-space line, double spaced, and address them to Editor, The Daily Tar Heel, in care of the Student Union, or drop them by the office. Another presidential directive Tonight, the CGC meets in what might prove the most important and interesting session of the year, when it will consider, among other things, a bill which would greatly increase the powers of the Student Body President. In the furor over the budget and the appointment of this student to that office, the presidential powers bill has slipped through committee largely unnoticed. The bill, introduced to the CGC by organizations to the policy level. All provisions of the bill would be effective upon passage, except the clause dealing with the selections of chairpersons, which would become effective in the spring of 1976. The bill in effect makes these committee positions political prizes, to be doled out much as the president pleases after the elections. To organizations like the Media Board and the Academic Affairs Committee, this means a kind of death these organizations should Student Body President Bill Bates, and passed without prejudice by be insulated from politics in so far as is possible, in order that they the Administration Committee purports to be a simple redefinition may function efficiently. There is nothing political about Academic of the executive branch, bringing order to various executive Affairs, and while there is admittedlv much politicking amone committees and organizations where only chaos presently exists. What the bill actually does is bring most executive organizations under the thumb of the president. The entire bill is outrageous, from its definition of the executive branch to its specific provisions as to the president's powers, and should never have passed committee. The bill defines the executive branch as all organizations which receive financial support from the CGC and stautory authority from the CGC or the president. While this is rather like calling UNC a part of the federal bureaucracy because it receives funds from Congress, it is not the most outrageous part of the bill. The most outrageous provisions of the bill come campus media, there is at least autonomy now. Should this bill pass. the parent organization of all campus media becomes tied virtually hand and foot to presidential whim and decree. But the Policy Council isn't all either. The bill also creates another level of the executive branch: autonomous agencies, which receive student , fees. These groups, including the Association of Women Students, the Black Student Movement and, ex officio, the Daily Tar Heel, comprise Bates much-vaunted Cabinet. While the idea of a cabinet is sound, the idea of making these organizations part of the executive branch is not. It- is all well and good to seek input from the Black Student Movement or the under the heading of Policy Council. That councU, which this bill Association of Women Students, but it is another matter entirely to would create, would be composed of such committees and personages as the Media Board, and the Academic Affairs Committee, along with old standards like the Attorney General and the Elections Board. Some of the committees named have constitutions of their own, which conflict with the provisions of this bill. These constitutions, which deal with matters like the selection of chairpersons, would be swept aside. The chairpersons of each committee and organization would instead be selected by the president. The president would also be empowered to call meetings of the Policy Council, to issue executive, orders to the members of the Council and to elevate other define them as part of the executive branch. Bates, in his drive to make student government deliver, has written a bill which in effect makes of student fees a tax appropriated to the student body president in the hope, perhaps, that the president can thus cut waste in spending. While the philosophy behind the move might be admirable, the results certainly would not be. The office of the president is powerful enough. When the CGC considers the bill tonight, it is certainly to be hoped that they defeat it, and defeat it soundly. Jim Grimsley, a sophomore English major, is associate editor of the Daily lar Heel. learned procedures whereby anyone can establish his own prophetic ability. (Hopefully, I can outline these procedures in another column). My final suggestion is that you cut this column out, and keep it somewhere safe. As tomorrow's events begin to unfold, I suspect you will have an interesting surprise. Probably the greatest recent prophet is Edgar Cayce. As you read about this man you will find he really is unmatched for a long time back into our past. He says that 1998 or 2000 A.D. will be the end of this civilization, specifically due to a reversal of the Earth's rotational axis (the North pole will be the South). He is unclear at this point, but he seems to imply this shift will generate a new ice age, or at least a great cooling. Before this will be a pattern of activity following geometric scaling, with initially gradual activity peaking to a maximum during the last 8 years. The period of this activity will be 1958 1998, and will include tremendous earthquakes beginning with activity at Mt. Etna, followed by quakes in the Pacific. The order being: sharp shock in Calif, with inrushing waters ending in the ocean about halfway into Calif, and the land under 100 ft. of water. Settling with no sharp big shocks, but noise and cracks in Japan, until one half of the island is in 100-200 ft. of water. Definite activity in North and South Carolina until the ocean reaches Durham or Chapel Hill (no further). He is unclear about whether the N.C. quakes preceed the Calif, quakes. Tremendous noise and waves in the Atlantic, followed by a quick sinking of the Boston, New York City, Washington, D.C. coastline, with the ocean reaching the. piedmont land. A continent-sized land mass rising from the Atlantic and then drying out. This will raise the ocean levels 60 ft. The Canadian shield land mass being protected from quakes, but tilting and the Mississippi river valley then draining the Great Lakes. Edgar Cayce's psychic output resulted in 10,000 pages of verbatim transcripts. Not one of his prophecies have ever been wrong. Nostrademus (1503-66) is another important prophet. He wrote in verse which is universally accepted as cryptic, but interpretable, and very specific. He chronicled before it happened, the major 1 9th century history of Europe, including the wars, kings, and the specific patterns of the developments. He ended his predictions in the year 1998 because at that point, he felt a major war would break out, the Earth would be in dark and dwindling times, and this civilization would end. I note that the wrote enough prophecy to fill a book, and none of it has yet been incorrect. Now out of the major league and into the minor. Following is the consensus of some living psychics, all of whom have had enough major success to be in print across the U.S. 1975 will be a bad year economically. For those with money to invest, stay away from stocks absolutely. The only safe 1975 investment is land. The collection of coins and metals will increase, but no comments on whether their value will increase. Something dark is over Patty Hearst. Some feel this means capture and jail, others say she's already dead. They all say this is the year for a big quake in Calif. All feel that UFO activity will be important or big in '75, and about half say this year we will have contact, with the others not so sure. Definite food shortages with hoarding of food and inner city food riots in U.S. (Cayce also predicted that we will be forced to grow our own food again). Finally there is a consensus on unpredictable weather, much rain, and then, strangely, a very bad drought, with water rationing. One other psychic, handling metal found in a depression made by a U FO, said that the quake in Calif, will result from pumping oil there. Further, he said that soon before the quake, UFO's will appear. Finally, from prophetic dreams, confirmation of food riots in the U.S. and some form of (conventional) armed warfare between China and the USSR. The last paragraph is hard to write without offending anyone. We must use this prophecy, for it was given to us as a warning. Man is a creative force in the Universe. The order in man's domain, which is the Earth, is determined completely by the reins he holds on that order. Each individual can mobilize positive effects if he cares and wants to. The disorder predicted has been a long time coming and is a rebellion which reflects Man neglecting his spirit. If you care, then determine what is your sphere, and put it in order. Briefly, each day, consciously radiate peace to those who are your responsibility. And listen each day to the radiations which are coming to you from many sources. If we can do all this, then the pain will slowly go away and not return. 1 will let you read Cayce and Nostrademus to find the greatest prophecy of all for 1998 A.D.. which you really ought to know. Greg Smith is a Biological Sciences. graduate student in Letters to the editor Ticket system: '.'Objections? To the editor The student body should think twice before adopting the ticket system proposed by Rob Friedman, chairperson of the Carolina Athletic Association. This absurd plan opens Tarheel basketball to groups which heretofore have been excluded by the old system. The egghead crowd yes those sissy folks who attend classes occasionally will now be able to procure B-ball seats between and after classes. Who can forsee the huge sections of the Carmichael crowd shouting and waving slide rules and copies of The American Scholar at each Phil Ford basket? The eggheads are only a minor threat to the status quo. What about all those people who are so unpopular (B.O., bad breath,...) that they couldn't find friends to hold a place in ticket lines from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.? These obnoxious souls will now be seen at every game. Is it not conceivable that TVS will refuse to broadcast Tarheel games under such conditions? On behalf of Seniors 1 express my appreciation to Mr. Friedman for waiting until we have gone before allowing these undesirables to see basketball. We would never have stood for it while we were here. . Sincerely, Don Kanak President Senior Class Putnam alive and living in law school To the editor Someone claiming the rather unlikely name of "Ken Howell", in a letter recently published in the DTH, has expressed doubt that columnist Rorin Piatt, as well as former columnist Robert N. Putnam 111, exist. I cannot answer for Piatt, although we are told that he does indeed stalk the earth. We can apprise Mr. Howell, however if there is such an absurd person of the truth of the matter about Putnam III. There is no such person. But Robert N. Putnam II, who is a former DTH columnist, is alive and well, asleep in a carrel in the lounge typing room of the UNC Law School. Unbeknownst to most of the campus, Putnam yet lives, drinks beer, eats, sleeps (much of the time) and loves (when he's not sleeping, he says). He manages these feats despite the seemingly insurmountable obstacle of disagreeing with "Ken Howell". Therefore, we the members of the Law School Society for the Preservation of Putnam in All His Folly reply to "Howell's" letter in the manner it deserves. We hereby challenge him to demonstrate his own existence. James Perloff 14-A Estes Park Apts. Release schedule before preregistration To the editor The recent brouhaha over preregistration and dormitory sign-up procedures suggests that greater efforts should be made to provide students with full information well in advance of any decision deadlines. Since so many University procedures deal with events that occur more or less at the same time every year, cases in which students are provided with information at the last minute should be the exception rather than the rule. Unfortunately, the record at Chapel Hill during the past several years indicates that just the opposite is the case. Rather than attempting to allocate the blame for this sorry pattern, I would like to offer a suggestion for improving the . environment in which students make decisions. The University should publish the final exam schedule before preregistration; at the very least, the schedule should be available to students during the regular registration period. In planning one's semester, it would be most helpful to know the dates of each course's exam. Especially when choosing among several sections of the same course, the student would find the exam time of each section to be a relevant factor in his or her decision. Announcement of the exam schedule before the semester would be beneficial to the faculty, too. They would be less vulnerable to requests for special exam times by students who had been assigned "two doubleheaders during the first three days of exams". The responsibility for selecting a sane exam week schedule would rest with the student, where it belongs. Other Universities (e.g. Brown, Harvard) have followed the suggested procedure for years, so it doesn't appear to be an unreasonable burden on administrators. The University should take time during the summer to make up the exam schedule for the Fall 1975 semester, and that schedule should be printed in the Class Schedule that is distributed to all students at registration. Peter F. Allgeier 616- Hibbard Drive BSM members should pay 'club' dues To the editor This past week I have been disturbed several times by articles in the DTH dealing with the budget request by the BSM of initially $41,886 and the revised figure of $27,841. There are many clubs here at Carolina, many of which are inadequately funded. 1 personally belong to the Crew Club, which has limped along on less than $100 this past year from Student Government. Crew programs located elswhere generally operate with a minimum budget of $10,000, and commonly with budgets comparable to the request by BSM. It is understandable that the BSM desires to operate with their proposed funding so would we all. What is not understandable is the lack of internal funding by this organization. Crew Club members are requested to pay dues of $20.00 per year a not uncommon figure. A comparable figure for the BSM, with their alleged membership of 2000 students, would generate $40,000. This organization is no different from many clubs, in being a "special interest group". 1 would like to see the special interest membership of the BSM fund some of their own special interest activities. Derek W. Hargis S-l Kin3wood