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9 n n Vol. 84, No. 8 T 6 3 i u u by Art Eisenstadt Staff Writer Student Body Treasurer Mike O'Neal agreed late Monday night to release the remainder of the Daily Tar Heel's fall semester Student Government appropriation. O'Neal personally delivered a Student Government check for $7,379.47 to the Tar Heel offices at 10 p.m. Monday, ending for the immediate future a cash flow crisis which caused the paper to cancel two issues and reduce the size of . several others. Following a two-week deadlock between Student Government and the DTH, the action topped off a climactic day in which the N.C. State Technician was distributed on campus in place of the cancelled Tar Heel, a recall movement was started against Student Body President Bill Bates, and several students visited Bates offices demanding O'Neal's resignation. "Nothing that happened (Monday) affected this decision (to release the funds)," O'Neal said Tuesday. "This is what we've been working for the entire fall Recall move slows after funds release by Bruce Henderson Staff Writer The petition to recall Student Body President Bill Bates, drafted Monday, ceased circulation Tuesday after receiving over 1,000 signatures. But its originator said the petition is still available to anyone who wants to continue it. David Flagler, the petition's originator, said Tuesday "the issue is resolved" as far as he was concerned. Flagler, a senior chemistry religion major from Winston-Salem, said the petition's purpose was to free the Daily Tar Heel's remaining Student Government appropriation which had been withheld by Student Body Treasurer Mike O'Neal to be distributed on a monthly allocation system. O'Neal released $7,379.47, the remainder of the Tar HeeFs semester appropriation late Monday night. Flagler said he thinks the petition, which collected 1,000 names by Tuesday, was instrumental in O'Neal's release of the funds. "There is no doubt in my mind, and no doubt in (Student Body President) Bill Bates' mind, that if O'Neal hadn't released the funds, the signatures could have been gathered easily today," Flagler said. The Student Constitution requires 3,000 signatures for a presidential recall election to be held. Bates said Tuesday the petition did influence the decision to release the funds, but that he would have reacted in the same way if a group of students had come to talk to him, without petitioning. Flagler talked with Bates Tuesday morning. Bates admitted then, Flagler said, that his administration was wrong to have withheld the funds. Flagler contended the administration overextended its powers in withholding the funds. "1 feel the students (the 1 ,000) showed they are not going to sit by and let the Bates administration strangle the Tar Heel. It was an issue of freedom of the press." Bates said the funds were released because, first, the Media Board will more closely supervise the Tar Heel through the Standard Operating Procedures and second, because the students were concerned. Standard Operating Procedures, once simply guidelines for the Daily Tar Heers operations, became enforceable legislation last week. He said he had concluded to release the funds by the time O'Neal released them. He said he did not ask O'Neal to release the funds, but that they had discussed it and reached the conclusion. Bates said the crisis helped him judgmentally. "I learned quite a bit," he o" 0 0 0 IT i 21 C i 0 length of time." In a letter sent to D TH Editor Cole C. Campbell Monday night, O'Neal explained that he decided to release the funds because an investigation conducted by Media Board Chairperson Dick Pope indicated that steps were being taken to remedy problems with the newspaper's business procedures. "It is my opinion that Mr. Pope has taken action to move the Daily Tar Heel into a sounder business position in the days and weeks ahead until a more professional panel can make further business recommendations." Actually, the Tar Heel had made profits on its first issues of the year but was in financial trouble because it did not have enough cash on hand to pay its printing bills. Student Government treasury laws require organizations within its budget to cash funds-on-hand before entering into business transactions. DTH Business Manager Reynolds Bailey had originally requested $13,000 of the newspaper's $29,500 Student Government appropriation in order to . Staff phots by Met Beyte David Flagler, who initiated the recall petition said. Flagler said students who want copies of the petition to continue its circulation and persons who want to strike their names from the petition may see him from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today in the Pit. Flagler said he has "1,000 signatures and 1 don't feel it is my right to destroy those signatures." He said he does not personally like the Bates administration, but those reasons are not enough to keep him personally involved in a recall effort. Flagler said he is from a journalistic family and thinks government shouldn't tamper with the press. "I'm glad 83 years of editorial freedom didn't end while 1 was a student here," he said. bven Rates of student marriage, divorce may be higher than in non by Linda Lowe Staff Writer Marriage and divorce might be different phenomena in Chapel Hill as opposed to a non-college town, according to UNC sociology instructor Rachel Tayar. Tayar, instructor in Sociology 62, "Family and Society," said the marriage rate in Chapel Hill might be higher than in a non-college town because of the larger percentage of young people here. She attributed the town's high divorce rate to the transient population and to the absence of social sanctions against the divorce. "There's a lot more social support here for people who want to get divorced than in a conventional, small town," she said. Those considering divorce in Chapel Hill can see other persons who have Serving the students and University community since 1893 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Wednesday, September 10, 1975 n r pay the paper's expenses before advertising revenue started coming in . Campbell said Tuesday, "Hopefully, Student Government officials will lay off the Tar Heel and promote those programs of theirs designed to aid the students." Bates said Tuesday, "Our concept was that Student Government's role was absolved if the Media Board does its job. I'd much rather have the Tar Heel answer for itself than my having to do it." O'Neal's release of Student Government funds gives the Tar Heel a total of $13,900 for this semester. He said he would release the remaining $9,600 in the Tar Heel's account on Jan. 1. Bailey said, "I'm grateful for what they've given us. We'll make it now. The funds he gave us enhances our chances of making it." But Bailey said the paper may encounter cash flow problems in December because its income from advertising was diminished during the recent crisis. Traditionally, the December issues of the paper are slightly larger than those during the remainder of the semester. O'Neal originally charged that the paper's accounts receivable, or uncollected bills, level was unacceptably high, and that the paper was in danger of operating under a deficit. .- Richard Levin, owner of Poor Richard's Camping and Surplus Store, said he is still considering filing a court injunction ordering O'Neal to immediately release the entire Student Government appropriation at once. "I still don't have any assurance that the Tar Heel will publish every day," Levin said. He charged Student Government with diminishing 'his ability to reach the student community with advertising by making the Tar Heel's publication more difficult. Another conflict that remains to be resolved is a recommendation by O'Neal and Pope that the Tar Heel charge the Technician $ 160 for the use of the DTH distribution system Monday. "I'm sure the Tar Heel, in its financial condition, would not let the fact that the Technician editorially agreed with them deter them from charging (for use of the boxes), like they wanted to do with Summer Life (a Student Government newspaper)," O'Neal said. However, both Bailey and Campbell said they did not plan to bill the Technician. Bailey said the newspaper's policy is to warn other publications after they first use the boxes that they may be charged for subsequent use. Campbell said,"It is my duty as editor to ensure that the students of this University get a newspaper every day. If we can't provide them with the DTH, we'll do our darndest to provide them with some paper." been divorced and have not "shriveled up and died," Tayar, herself divorced, explained. She noted that a high divorce rate can be interpreted as a healthy situation, "a measure of the freedom of the individual ... an advantage that people are being allowed that choice." In Orange County, however, unofficial divorce and marriage rates are actually lower than national and state levels. The county divorce rate is 4.1 divorces per 1,000 persons, compared to 4.4 nationally and 3.3 statewide. The marriage rate is eight per 1,000 persons in the county, 10.9 in the nation and 9.4 in the state. Tayar cautioned that these figures do not mean that one out of two Orange County marriages fail. The 464 couples who were married in Orange County from August 1974 to July 1975 are probably not included in the 236 couples Basement moisture has caused Warped floors close three by William C. Roberts Staff Writer Three first floor Bingham Hall rooms were declared unsafe Tuesday by Donald Willhoit, director of Campus Health and Safety. Alternative classrooms are being sought for history, English, philosophy and speech courses that were meeting in Rooms 102, 103 and 108. For the past two years, Bingham Hall has suffered from continually warping floors due to basement moisture, especially on the first level, James W. Pence Jr., director of the Speech Division, said. Regular maintenance checks of the building have been carried out, the most recent occurring at the end of August, Pence said. Minor, temporary repairs have often been made and most have been effective, he said. Warping accelerated last week and Pence asked Maintenance Superintendent Ed Sanders on Sept. 5 to investigate the problem. R.D. Smith Mayor Pro Tern R.D. Smith announced Monday night he will be a candidate for reelection to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen in this fall's elections. Smith declared his intentions near the end of a regular meeting of the board, of which he has been a member for the past 10 years. Board members Alice Welsh and Sid Rancer are the two other members of the six member board whose terms will expire this year. Neither have publicly announced whether or not they will run for reelection. In addition to the three positions opened by expiring terms, two new board seats, who filed for divorce in 1974. The lower marriage rate in Orange County may be related to the increasing number of students who postpone marriage. A survey by sociologist Robert Whitehurst found that 73 per cent of students interviewed said they would stay single longer than their parents had. Some students are postponing marriage indefinitely, Tayar said. "The marriage rate is falling due to the other alternatives people are trying, but 1 don't think legal marriage will fall by the wayside." The Rev. F. Joseph Clontz, a premarital counselor with Baptist Campus Ministry, said most of the people he counseled were getting married eventually, sometimes after trying alternatives to marriage. In student marriages, Tayar said time spent away from one's spouse while SUN photo by Mowtrd Shtphrd several floors In Bingham Hall to warp, making them unsafe for students Sanders first said the warping could be repaired without interrupting classes. However, Tuesday morning he reassessed the situation with Willhoit, who is reponsible for assuring that University buildings adhere to federal safety codes. After inspecting Bingham, Willhoit declared it unsafe and asked the departments using the three rooms to relocate their courses. Sanders said he has reported the damage to the Physical Plant Division, which will outline specifications for temporary repairs. Sanders said he hopes a contractor will be hired within 10 days. A cost estimate will be completed today. According to Sanders, the warping resulted from a steam build-up in the Bingham Hall basement, caused by a leak from Murphey Hall next door. Murphey Hall is currently being remodeled, and workers there had capped a leaking steam pipe they discovered last week. After the leak was capped, the steam a mayoral created recently by the new town charter, will be filled in the Nov. 4 contests. Smith has been on the board longer than any other current member and is its only black. Currently the assistant principal of Chapel Hill High School, he spent six years on the town Planning Board before taking his seat as an alderman. Reading from a prepared text, Smith said, "As I look to the future 1 see a great need for the development of the many areas of open space owned by the town into parks, the development of procedures and the provision of manpower to efficiently handle studying can cause difficulties. "Often there is just not time to work on a relationship when you need to." A former UNC student who recently married a law student said, "It really is severe the amount of time anyone has to spend studying. I was just bored to tears with my husband in the library this 'weekend, while everyone else was on vacation." Tayar said she had read several years ago that married students' grades were supposed to be higher than single students grades. "But a lot of married students drop out. The ones who stay are the super-dedicated ones who would have made good grades regardless." Financial pressures may also trouble student marriages, whether or not the marriage .depends on parental help, Clontz said. "The problems created in student itt i nt Weather clear, cooler classrooms escaped into the basement of Bingham through a tunnel connecting it with Murphey, instead of through a manhole, as the workers expected. The original top layer, a tongue-and-groove oak floor, now covered with tiles, buckled with the steam build up and subsequent condensation. When it was discovered that the steam was--accelerating the --warping -in Bingham, the cap was removed from the pipe in Murphey, allowing the steam to accumulate under Murphey Hall where it was causing no apparent damage. Sanders said the steam leak was caused by a malfunction of the steamtrap in a manhole. Sanders said the leak has subsequently been repaired. Bingham Hall, completed in 1929, is scheduled for renovation sometime during the next two years. At that time, it will be remodeled to accommodate handicapped students. Plans include the construction of inclined ramps into the building, larger restrooms and an elevator. Please see page 2 for a list of relocated classrooms. candidate peak hour traffic and the provision of meaningful job opportunities for the summer employment of the youth in this community."' He also said, "Since the bicycle is seemingly here to stay and is an excellent way to conserve energy, there is a great need to begin developing bikeways that are separated from automobile traffic." Smith added he will work for a responsive, efficient bus sytem and would like to see more blacks in responsible positions. Richard Whittle - college town marriages are not terribly unique," he said. "The circumstances may be unique, but the larger problems are the same, problems of honesty, making decisions... and working toward one set of understanding." The young age of most student couples may cause difficulties, Tayar said. "The older a couple is, generally the more stable." Student couples tend to postpone having children, she added. "In my classes, students wonder why anybody would want to have children. In my generation, everybody knew they were going to have children. Now people are only thinking about them. "I don't see how some student wi -do it, trying to go to school, wor1 with a baby. You must need 36 ho day to get it done."
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