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Student Body President Bill Bates held a press conference Wednesday at which he
eancuncsd a retreat of students, faculty and administration.
In Bill Bates' 'war'
a retreat is announced
by Bruce Henderson
Staff Writer
Student Body President Bill, Bates
softened his "war on bureaucracy" at a
Wednesday press conference and announced
an October weekend retreat for faculty,
students and administrators to solve
University problems.
Bates called the University administration
a large and unyielding bureaucracy at an
Aug. 29 press conference
The retreat, tentatively scheduled to begin
Oct. 25, will involve between 15 and 30
faculty members, administrators and
student leaders. Bates said. It will be held off
campus, possibly at Camp New Hope.
The conference is the first in a series of
proposals to improve the University, Bates
said in a prepared statement. He said the
conference will attempt to find solutions to
issues that come up year after year and are
never resolved.
Bates said the retreat may develop into a
consortium which will meet on a regular,
ongoing basis. The consortium would be
"the largest decision-making or
recommending power on campus, below the
Chancellor," he said.
The weekend conference will focus on
looking closely at the University's present
position and goals, with the intent of
developing a program for. guiding, the
direction that the University is taking, Bates'
statement said.
Student conferees will be chosen on an
appointment-interview basis. Bates said.
Criteria for the jobs include interest and
involvement in campus affairs and
willingness to work once the conference is
Wallace still uncertain
A News Analysis
by Richard Whittle
Staff Writer
Two weeks ago there were three
candidates nearing the starting gate for this
year's Chapel hill mayoral race. Now odd
as it may sound there are one and a half
candidates.
The potential candidates were Gerry
Cohen, a current member of the Board of
Aldermen; James C. "Jimmy" Wallace, a
former board member who teaches at N.C.
State; and Joe Nassif, a local architect.
Nassif, who had not made any public
statements, ended hs informal candidacy
last week, citing personal and business
reasons.
Cohen is off and running, having formally
announced his candidacy at a Sept. 3 press
conference.
Wallace, who was named by the Durham
Morning Herald as a near-certain contestant
for the mayor's post, is having his doubts but
can't be excluded yet.
"I have it under consideration," Wallace
said last Sunday. "I have not decided against
it, and 1 have not decided whether or not to
announce." .
The 52-year-old N.C. State professor said
one important factor in his final decision will
be his numerous commitments. Wallace is a
member of the N.C. Environmental
Management Commission and owner of
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Administration and faculty members will
be selected by either Dean of Student Affairs
Donald Boulton or Chancellor N. Ferebee
Taylor, Bates said.
Pressing problems in the University's
operation listed by Bates include student
legal aid, academic policy, faculty evaluation
procedures and budget decisions, especially
those requiring joint funding by Student
Government and the University.
Bates said he feels the students are not
apathetic but believe their voice makes no
difference in decision-making.
"1 voice a strong sentiment that it is time
that the faculty, students and administrators
get together on an ongoing basis, to confront
problems affecting the University
community before they occur and not after,"
Bates' statement read.
Although Bates considerably softened his
assault on the bureaucracy, he said this does
not mean he is shifting his attitudes.
"It's not a shift. It's more of a clarification,
I guess, of what 1 was trying to say two weeks
ago," Bates said. "In that, there are
unresponsive people in the University. And
from some of those people that 1 have talked
to, (I could tell) they have shifted some to the
other side and are neutral and are listening."
Bates' statement said a misconception
may have arisen from his using the terms
"activism" and "war on bureaucracy." He
said all his proposals were to "insure the
betterment of the University community."
Bates declined to name the three
"unresponsive administrators" mentioned at
his last press conference because he said
discussing personalities causes unneeded
criticism.
both the Continental Travel Agency in
Chapel Hill and the Meridian Travel
Service, which is based in Raleigh and the
Research Triangle Park.
In addition, he is married and the father of
five children.
"I have a lot of commitments," he said.
"On the other hand there are a lot of positive
features (about the possibility of being
Chapel Hill's mayor)."
Currently then, Gerry Cohen is
unopposed. And while it is possible he will
remain so as the Sept. 1 2-Oct. 3 filing period
for municipal elections passes by, it is
extremely unlikely that he will be the sole
candidate on the Nov. 4 ballot.
The guarantee that Cohen will have
competition, though it may be late to
materialize, comes from a new town political
caucus called Citizens for Chapel Hill
(CCH).
This newly formed pressure group, which
considers itself a "political consumers'
union," according to CCH Chairperson
Charles G. "Chuck" Beemer, has been the
subject of various news stories recently and
has been labeled "conservative" in most of
those stories.
Beemer and other CCH members wince at
the conservative label, saying that in any
other town they" would be considered
relatively liberal. But in Chapel Hill, they are
relatively conservative; conservative enough
to emphatically oppose Cohen, who calls
himself a socialist.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Chspel Hi!!, North Carolina, Thursday, September 11, 1975
Council defeats
SG lawyer from
by Vernon Loeb
Staff Writer
Student legal aid ran into a roadblock
Tuesday, not from the University
administration, but from the student
Campus Governing Council (CGC).
The council rejected a bill which
would have prohibited a proposed
student body attorney from bringing
suit against the University or any agency
of the state of North Carolina.
Student Body President Bill Bates
introduced the bill, rejected by a 10-7
vote, in the hope that it would facilitate
approval of the student legal aid concept
by N.C. Atty. Gen. Rufus Edmisten.
Bates called CGC's rejection of his bill
an irresponsible act, and said it blocked
the most efficient way of obtaining a
legal aid counselor.
Three previous opinions by the
attorney general considered the UNC
Student Government an extension of a
state agency. Thus, the attorney general
himself is technically the student body's
counsel.
Bates' proposed restriction on the
legal aid attorney's power was necessary
before the attorney general's office
would consider reversing its previous
legal opinions, according to Andrew A.
Vanore, senior deputy attorney general.
CGC Rep. Ben Steelman said
Tuesday that prohibiting the attorney
from suing the University was a severe
- restriction, but added "some legal aid is
better than none."
Steelman intends to lobby for the bill
and said it might pass if reintroduced at
the next CGC meeting. The timing of
the bill's introduction hurt its chance of
passage, Steelman said, because CGC
representatives were not familiar with
the technicalities of the legal aid
question.
Billy Richardson, executive assistant
to Bates, said Wednesday, "I think those
opposed to the bill didn't even know
what they were voting against."
He also said that a lobbying effort
could increase the bill's chances of
Wanted
The Daily Tar Heel still has several
openings for copy editors. Copy
editors work from 5:30 to 9 p.m. on
the news desk, and may work any
number of days from Sunday through
Thursday. Applicants should see Jim
Grimsley.
"There have been some facetious remarks
but every facetious remark probably
contains a kernel of truth that our slogan
should be 'ABC: Anybody But Cohen,"
Beemer said.
He quickly added, however, that he does
not want people to get the impression that
CCH is strictly a group formed to keep
Cohen out of the mayor's office.
He said the group has positive goals for
Chapel. Hill government, which he said
include efficiency, economy, responsibility
and accountability of town officials.
Beemer also said the group will probably
make an effort soon to incorporate as a non
profit organization, a move which he said
should prove CCH is not just an ad hoc
group to oppose Cohen.
Beemer has said previously that CCH
won't run a slate of candidates for mayor and
the five Board of Aldermen seats to be filled
in the non-partisan November elections.
Members of the. group plan simply to
endorse candidates they can identify with.
Citizens for Chapel Hill might endorse
Jimmy Wallace as their candidate for mayor
if he were to announce, but only after "we
can sit down with him and talk about the
issues," Beemer said.
Despite Beemer's pledge against running
candidates, if Jimmy Wallace decides
against running and Gerry Cohen is still the
lone candidate as of Oct. 1, voters here can
expect to see Citizens for Chapel Hill find
themselves a candidate in short order.
bill prohibiting
suing the state
passage if introduced again.
If the bill fails again, Bates said one
possible course of action would be to
hire the attorney and have him contest
the prohibitive legal opinions in court.
Vanore said Wednesday, however, it
would not be advisable for Student
Government to hire an attorney to
dispute the adverse opinions.
In case of a legal suit, Vanore said, the
attorney general's office may seek to
enjoin Student Government's action.
Vanore called Bates' bill the most
preferable way to proceed, saying that if
it had passed, he personally felt the
possibility of changing his office's legal
opinions would have been enhanced.
Media Board rejects
by Dan Fesperman
and Chris Fuller
Staff Writers
A six-member task force to study the
Daily Tar Heel's financial situation was
established by the Media Board Wednesday
despite a Campus Governing Council (CGC)
recommendation to accept the Finance
Committee's proposed five-member
investigative board.
The CGC passed a resolution Tuesday
recommending the Media Board accept the
Finance Committee plan.
At the Media Board meeting, member
Rob Price charged, the CGC with trying to
usurp the power of the Media Board through
its resolution.
CGC members George Bacso and Jay
Tannen argued at the CGC meeting in favor
of the Media Board's task force for the same
reason. Bacso and Tannen maintained that
to allow the CGC Finance Committee's task
force to replace the Media Board's force
would circumvent the purpose of the Media
Board.
But Media Board Chairperson Dick Pope
defended the Finance Committee's task
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rech' distribution unendorsed
by Jim Roberts
News Editor
A resolution endorsing the distribution of
20,000 issues of the N.C. State Technician on
the UNC campus Monday was rejected by a
5-4 vote of the NCSU Publications
Authority Wednesday. However, the board
took no formal action against Technician
Editor Kevin Fisher, who authorized the
distribution.
The proposed resolution followed a
complaint made by N.C. State Student Body
President Mary Beth Spina that Fisher did
not consult with the Pub Authority prior to
the distribution.
The Technician printed 33,000 copies
Monday, with the State campus receiving its
normal 13,000. The Technician paid for
10,000 of the extra issues while Hmton Press,
Inc., printer of the Technician and the Daily
Tar Heel, absorbed the cost of the other
10,000.
Fisher said he authorized the printing and
distribution of the newspaper because the
Daily Tar Heel was unable to publish due to
cash flow problems. He said he felt that M ike
O'Neal's actions allocating the D TH Student
Government appropriation on a monthly
basis instead of as a lump sum constituted a
"threat to freedom of the press for collegiate
newspapers."
Following the distribution of the
Technician here and the circulation of a
recall petition against Student Body
President Bill Bates, O'Neal gave the DTH
the remainder of its first semester allocation.
Spina contended that Fisher should have
received "some sort of approval from some
members of the Pub Authority" before
printing the extra copies with student funds.
Fisher, however, listed two reasons he did
not consult with the publications board.
First, he said, the cost of the extra 10,000
copies, $400.30, constituted only three
eighths of one per cent of the Technician's
total operating budget.
Second, he said, his decision to distribute
on the UNC campus was made Sunday
evening, and he did not think he could
contact enough publications board members
to hold a meeting.
"I don't think it is correct to say that it is
right for the editor to do what he pleases with
the money," Fisher said. "But also 1 do not
think it is correct to say that the money is all
1
Last night's three-and-a-half hour CGC
force, saying it would provide a more
unbiased panel. "1 am not saying that the
Media Board committee won't be unbiased,
but the Finance Committee's proposal
would have assured it (wouldn't be)," Pope
said.
Another critic of the Media Board
committee was CGC member Ben Steelman.
"The Media Board is, in fact, the Board of
Directors for the Daily Tar ?e," he said.
He maintained that the Media Board was in
part responsible for the financial crisis of the
DTH.
"Having the Media Board investigate is
like having the CIA investigate the CIA,"
Steelman said.
The differences between the two plans are
in the composition of the committee's
membership and the confidentiality of the
information gathered by it.
Under the CGC resolution, the committee
would have included one member of the
Finance Committee (Doug Smith), one .
member of the Media Board and three non
partisan members approved by the finance
committee.
The non-partisan members would have
students' money." The Technician receives
$22,000 of its $125,000 from student fees.
"The editor has to be able to make quick
judgments," he said. "Had it been $10,000, 1
would have consulted the board."
Spina also said she was afraid Fisher's
actions would set a precedent for later
editors wanting to use the Technician's fundi
at their discretion.
She said Fisher could have called a
meeting for Monday night and distributed
the Technicians at UNC on Tuesday.
However, Fisher said the papers were
delivered Monday because the DTH was
by Johnny Oliver
Staff Writer
A franchise for cable television in
Carrboro was tentatively approved Tuesday
night by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen.
In a 5-1 decision, with Alderman Mary
Riggsbee casting the only dissenting vote, a
contract was approved for the franchise
between the town and Alert Cable
Television, Inc., of Miami, Fla.
Hillsborough is currently served by Alert.
Barring any unforseen problems, the cable
system could be operating by July, 1976,
according to James McHugh, regional
manager of Alert Cable Television, Inc.
McHugh said Wednesday the cable
system would cost subscribers $15 for
installation, and $6 monthly for service.
The board is currently investigating
Alert's financial status and operational
success in other communities.
"If the company's references check out,"
said Alderman Fred Chamblee, "the board
could approve the franchise at a second
hearing during its Oct. 14 meeting."
State law requires town boards to approve
all franchises at two separate meetings or
hearings.
Alderman Riggsbee said Wednesday she
voted against the franchise because she
wanted to research the matter of cable
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meeting was the first of the fall semester.
CGC bill
included a non-student from the School of
Business or the business community and a
non-student from the School of Journalism
or a professional journalist.
The Media Board's committee will include
at least three members from the Media
Board and three non-partisan members
approved by the Media Board. The non
partisan members will be selected from the
same areas as in the CGC resolution.
The CGC resolution would have provided
the task force with complete access to DTH
records concerning operations and
publication. All information gathered is to
be confidential, at least until it is reported .to
" the finance committee within 45 days of
completion of the investigation.
Under the Media Board's task force plan,
the Media Board and the Finance
Committee will have access to the Tar Heel's
records.
Pope said he favors the Finance
Committee's access provision because the
task force may feel it is under pressure if the
Finance Committee and the Media Board
have access to the Tar Heel information.
Pope said the CGC may still reverse the
Media Board's decision.
financially unable to publish that day.
He said the only negative response
concerning the extra publication had come
from the N.C. State student government.
"We were overwhelmingly well received by
the students here."
In a letter to the editor of the Technician
published Wednesday, Frank Laney. a
NCSU sophomore, said. ". . . you did a
great service to UNC students by giving them
insight while their voice was being attacked.
To further help them you might consider
kidnapping O'Neal and enrolling him in an
Economics class."
television further.
"I'm not all that opposed to cable TV,"
Riggsbee said. "1 just wanted to get some
information from other towns with cable
systems."
Chamblee expressed concern over the
town's policy for cable television. "The
board has not set any policies for cable TV in
Carrboro, such as how many cable systems
could operate in Carrboro." he said.
In 1973 the Carrboro board adopted an
ordinance requiring all utilities to have
franchises. "In the wording of the
ordinance," Chamblee said. "I think a cable
TV system could be interpreted as a utility."
The proposed system will carry six area
channels; one Washington. D.C., channel;
one Charlotte channel; channels for 24-hour
time, news, weather, local government
access; and access for educational and public
interests.
McHugh said the system's construction
would cost $250,000, which includes
payment for the land, tower, studios and the
first year's operating costs. McHugh said a
site for the cable station had not been
selected.
The town of Carrboro would receive three
per cent of the system's gross subscriber's
revenues annually. The three per cent figure
is the rate suggested by the Federal
Communications Commission.
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