Thursday June 5, 1975
the tar heel
'Student Life' hits the big time
at Carolina with record budget
by Carotin Bakewell
Staff Writer
The most extensive Summer Life program
ever inaugurated at UNC was budgeted
$3,500 last week to provide a variety of
student services.
Among the programs planned are
weekend check cashing, a ride coordinating
service, a centralized quiz file and a Friday
night movie series.
Dormitories and, for the first time,
fraternities, sororities and married student
housing, all qualify for Summer Life funds
to be used primarily for social activities.
Dorm presidents and Greek representatives
should see Student Body Treasurer Mike
O'Neal about requests.
Off-campus students can make
requisitions for other organizations through
specific professors or department heads,
who will relay the requests to O'Neal.
Graduate students, who are also eligible to
receive activity money, should see the
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation about funds.
"Summer is the only time Student
Government funds can be used for social
purposes," O'Neal said last week. "That's
why it's being set up."
"There's been very good response to the
activity fund," Student Body President Bill
Bates said Tuesday. "So far, requests have
come primarily from dorms that want to
sponsor small parties."
Approximately 86 cents per student is
available for social activities, part of which
will probably be used for a campus-wide
party later this summer. Bates said.
In past summers, funds were allocated on
a lump sum basis, with most groups
receiving about $50. Because money is now
handled on a per-capita basis, some
residence halls may get up to twice as much
money as last summer, O'Neal said.
Desegregation plan questioned
HEW
probes vet schoo
by Grant Hamill
Staff Writer
The UNC Board of Governors' decision to
place a proposed veterinary school at N.C.
State University has caused the U.S.
Department of Health Education and
Welfare ( H E W) to question the acceptability
of the Consolidated University's
desegregation plan, an HEW official said
Friday.
William H. Thomas, director of HEW's
Atlanta Regional Office for Civil Rights,
recently said the decision to locate the school
at N.C. State against the recommendation
of HEW means that HEW officials and
Consolidated University officials have
interpreted the desegregation plan
differently, forcing the department to
reexamine the plan.
If the plan is found unacceptable, the
University stands to lose its estimated $70
million of federal funding.
Thomas said he will recommend that the
Washington office of HEW begin
proceedings against the Consolidated
University.
The Consolidated University had received
no new word from HEW as of Wednesday
morning, John L. Sanders, University vice
president for planning said.
Sanders said the issue is whether or not the
decision to locate the veterinary school at
N.C. State is in violation of the
desegregation plan. -
He also said the whole plan is not being
reviewed, just the decision concerning the
veterinary school.44 1 have no reason to think,
on the basis of any communication we have
had with HEW, that HEW is considering
withdrawing approval of the 1974 plan."
Nothing in the 1974 plan would allow
either party to back out of the agreement, he
said.
The controversy was stirred by the
decision in November of 1974 to locate the
proposed veterinary school at
predominantly white N.C. State rather than
predominantly black North Carolina A&T.
Thomas said he thinks locating the school
would aid in desegregating the system. But
Sanders said members of the Board of
Governors believe that putting the school at
North Carolina A&T would further
segregate the system by duplicating facilities
at A&T which already exist at N.C. State.
According to earlier newspaper articles.
Thomas said the decision to locate the school
at NCSU affects the desegregation plan as a
whole because it suggests that the Board of
Governors interpreted the plan differently
from HEW officials.
Thomas said, "We've been told now the
plan doesn't mean what we thought it did. so
we have to examine the plan in light of this
interpretation that has been given to us."
Bates and O'Neal hope the per capita
system will prove a more efficient and fair
method of distributing the funds.
The weekend check cashing service,
operating in Suite C of the Union, starts
Saturday from 1 1-3 p.m. Students can also
cash checks on Sundays from 12-2 p.m.
The Friday night film series will feature
"Gone With the Wind" (25c admission, June
13), "High Plains Drifter", "Midnight
Cowboy", "The Misfits", "Butch Cassidy
and the Sundance Kid", and "Elmer
Gantry." Tomorrow night's film is"Brewster
McCIoud," a Robert Altman black comedy.
Admission to all films except "Gone With
the Wind" is free with a UNC Identification.
For persons without UNC identification, the
charge is 50 cents.
"Weekends here at UNC are doubly dead
in the summer," O'Neal said, "so the free
films are to provide extra entertainment."
Bates said, "We want to give people
something to do . . . and to get away from the
summer weekend-departure rut."
Summer Life has also revived the rider
coordination program to help students find
rides or riders. Students who want
passengers or a ride should call the student
government office a few days in advance of
their trip.
The campus quiz file has been
rejuvenated, updated and relocated in Suite
C. The 34-volume file includes old tests
covering over 200 subjects and is open
Monday through Thursday, from 6:30-8:30
P Tn response to the surge of summer
activities, the Union has expanded its hours
on a trial basis. For the first time the Union .
will be open on Saturdays from 10 a.m. till 1 1
p.m. and from noon to 1 1 p.m. on Sundays.
Union Director Frank Henry said in past
summers, the Union had to be closed on
weekends because students never used it.
The Union has also announced a new
$1.75 hourly bowling rate for use of a single
lane by up to five persons.
Soft
drink legislation goes 11 a
by Richard Cowperthwait
and Marion Merritt
Staff Writers
RALEIGH Legislation that would have
required a minimum 5-cent deposit on all
soft drink and beer containers is apparently
dead in the General Assembly this session.
The bill was introduced in an attempt to
substantially reduce container litter and
induce state bottlers to use returnable bottles
and cans.
The Beverage Container Litter Act fell
victim to an intensive lobbying effort by
representatives of the state bottling industry
who contended that enactment of the bill
would result in a loss of over 1 000 jobs in the
state's can and glass manufacturing industry.
The bill's sponsor. Rep. Charlie Webb, D
Guilford, said that only about 350 jobs
would be lost in the can and glass
manufacturing industry. He also said
enactment of the bill would have meant an
increase of about 600 jobs to the state's
economy because of the need for more
dishwashers, truck drivers, bottle handlers
and inspectors.
In a surprise move on the House floor
Tuesday when a vote was expected on the
bill, Webb moved that the bill be re-referred
to the House Water and Air Resources
Committee. The bill will probably not
receive consideration by the full House this
session as it is rapidly coming to a close.
Earlier, the House Water and Air
Resources Committee, of which Webb is a
member, had sent the measure "without
prejudice" to the House floor by a 1 0-4 vote.
In an interview after Tuesday's session.
Webb said he "felt it was better io send the
bill back to a committee where I have some
control than for it to have the stigma of
having been defeated on the House floor.
"Next session, people can't look back and
say we killed this thing,'" he said.
Webb, who maintained that he had been
"in control of the bill all the way," said it
"undoubtedly" would have been defeated
Tuesday had he permitted the House vote on
it.
Support for the bill has eroded in recent
weeks as lobbyists intensified their efforts to
defeat the bill. Under pressure from union
bottlers, state AFL-CIO President Wilbur
Hobbycame out against the bill.
Explained Rep. David Diamont. D
Surry, another of the bill's backers. "The
lobbyists worked real, real hard, extremely
hard to defeat the bill."
The apparent death of the bill comes
despite a recent statewide survey by the
North Carolina Public Interest Research
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the Legislature crushed the soft drink bill
Group (NC PIRG) which concluded that
most North Carolinians favor greater use of
returnable beverage containers.
Of the 700 North Carolina residents
surveyed by PIRG, 62 per cent preferred
buying returnable bottles and cans to non
returnable containers.
PIRG Research Associate Peter Brown
said "Spokesmen for the N.C. Bottlers
Association claim that consumers prefer
throwaway containers over returnables and
that this preference is behind the increase in
throwaway containers. This survey shows
that this is not the case at all."
Eighty eight per cent of those surveyed
said they would be willing to pay a 5-cent
minimum deposit on all beverage containers
if they know they can get the deposit back by
returning the container.
According to PI RG, there has been a large
increase over the last two decades in the
number of beverage containers used per
year. The consumption of beer and soft
drinks increased 29 per cent in the decade
from 1959 to 1969, while the use of beer and
soft drink containers increased by 164 per
cent.
Brown, however said the increase in the
use of containers has not been the result of
consumer demand for non-returnable
containers. "In light of the survey results, the
container manufacturers claim that the
public has demanded increased use of
throwaways seems to be hogwash." he said.
"The citizens of North Carolina prefer
returnable bottles by a sieable majority, and
thev want to see their use increase."