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present Media Board Chairman Dick Pope (left), and George Bacso (right), board treasurer, at Tuesday's meeting, during which the board
voted no confidence in Pope.
Bates: no comment on dismissal
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by Art Eisenstadt
Staff Writer
Student Body President Bill Bates refused
to say late Tuesday afternoon whether he
carried out his intended firing of Student
Body Treasurer Mike O'Neal.
Bates' refusal to comment followed a
meeting with O'Neal which ended at 6 p.m.
had earlier set for the treasurer's dismissal.
Bates said he may have a statement on the
matter this morning.
A constitutional crisis may develop
concerning the right of the student body
president to fire a constitutionally
designated official, such as the treasurer.
Saying O'Neal exceeded his authority as
treasurer, Bates first suggested O'Neal's
resignation Sept. 11 and demanded the
resignation the following day.
When O'Neal refused to resign, Bates fired
Besse answers misrepresentation charges
"by Chris Fuller
Staff Writer
Campus Governing Council Speaker Dan
Besse answered charges of misrepresenting
his district's constituents in CGC votes at a
grievance meeting Monday night in Cobb
dormitory.
Ten representatives from Besse's district
said he misrepresented his district by voting
last year to include the Carolina Gay
Association (CGA) in the student budget
and more recently to release Black Student
WCAR may get FM permit soon
by Nancy Gooch
Staff Writer
A construction permit for a proposed
campus FM radio station may be granted
within a month to Student Educational
Broadcasting Corp., a Federal
Communications Commission attorney said
Tuesday.
The attorney, who asked to remain
unidentified, however, said the corporation
must clarify several points on its permit
application, before the permit will be
granted. He said the FCC has not notified
the corporation of the application's
problems but will do so soon.
The attorney said the corporation's
application does not name the UNC student
body president or members of the Campus
Governing Council and the Graduate and
Professional Federation, all of whom will
select the station's board of directors.
There also is no evidence that Student
Government will finance the station or that
campus facilities will be available for the
station's antenna and broadcast office in the
application, the attorney said.
Jim Bond, manager of campus AM
station WCAR, said Monday the University
is cooperating with the corporation to find a
Wolfe celebration.
The 75th anniversary of the birth of Thomas
Wolfe begins Thursday in Asheville.
Sponsored by the Civic Arts Council of
Asheville and the U niversity of North Carolina
at Asheville, the celebration includes exhibits,
speakers, theatre performances and music on
Oct. 2 through 5.
Thomas Wolfe, noted American novelist,
graduated from UNC in 1 920.
UNC Enclish professors C. Hugh'Holman
and Louis D. Rubin Jr. -will be among the:
keynote speakers. Holman s dramatization ot
Wolfe's 37 Octobers will be performed Friday,
Saturday and Sunday.
Other features of the festival include
exhibits of Wolfe editions, memorabilia,
papers and photographs, a sound-and-light
presentation at the Thomas Wolfe Memorial
and repeated showings of the CBS-TV
production of Look Homeward Angel,
. starring Timothy Bottoms.
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O'Neal, with the dismissal scheduled to take
effect at 5 p.m. Tuesday.
O'Neal said Monday he did not think
Bates has the power to fire him, and said he
would not leave office unless impeached by
the Campus Governing Council.
The student government constitution
gives CGC the right to remove any student
official except the Daily Tar Heel editor. The
council must impeach and bring the official
to trial by a majority vote before removing
by a two-thirds vote.
A 1957 Student Government law simply
states, "Charges may be entered against any
student official for non-performance of
duty," without further explaining the phrase.
However, Bates said, "He (O'Neal) will
not be treasurer after five o'clock."
After Tuesday's 5 p.m. deadline had
passed. Bates would not say if he still
considered O'Neal to be student body
treasurer. "Nothing will be effective until
Movement funds.
Besse's district contains Cobb, Avery,
Aycock, Graham, Lewis and Stacy
dormitories.
Stacy resident Guillermo Penalosa, .
supported by representatives from the other
four dormitories, said the majority of the
students in the dormitories opposed giving
Student Government funds to the CGA and
the release of BSM funds.
Because Besse voted to fund CGA and to
release BSM funds, he was misrepresenting
his district, Cobb resident Ginger Douglas
site on campus for the station's antenna.
Sites being considered included: South
Campus water tower or on the Pre-clinical
Building.
Student Educational Broadcasting
applied for the construction permit last May.
The corporation is composed of the campus
Media Board, Chapel Hill Mayor Howard
N. Lee, Alderman Gerry Cohen, Raieigh
radio newsman Randy Wolfe and Student
Union Director Howard Henry.
The current application is the second
attempt to obtain a construction permit for a
student FM station. Although a permit was
granted in February 1974, it was rescinded
27 days later, when the University retracted
Nuclear
Utility companies and conservation groups still fighting over dangers
by Tim Pittman
Staff Writer
Although the controversy surrounding the
construction of nuclear power plants in
North Carolina is snowballing into a major
public issue, the utility companies argue that
environmentalists have not made major
steps toward halting nuclear plant
construction or operation.
Conservation groups, however, believe
that public discussion and concern reflect
their progress, and they say that intervention
programs have been successful in slowing
nuclear power plant construction.
The utility companies admit that the
environmentalists are raising questions
concerning power plant construction, but
representatives from Carolina Power and'
Light and Duke Power said
environmentalists' concerns are causing
changes resulting in increased construction J
costs, without making any significant
improvements.
President of corporate communications
for CP&L, Al Morris, said the greatest
impact of the conservation groups has been
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Chcpcl Hill, North Carolina, Wednesday, October 1, 1975
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tomorrow morning." But he said the
statement did not mean he had postponed
his deadline.
The student constitution gives Bates the
power to appoint the treasurer with the two
thirds approval of CGC, but it does not
mention any type of presidential dismissal
power.
Both Bates and Student Attorney General
Andromeda Monroe have said they feel the
power to appoint implies the power to fire.
O'Neal, however, has said he serves at the
pleasure of CGC and only CGC can remove
him from office.
Bates has nominated Graham Bullard, a
junior chemistry major from Wilson and
currently O'Neal's assistant to be the new
treasurer. But the CGC Administration
Committee tabled the appointment Sunday,
"saying the president's firing powers must be
clarified before action can be taken on the
appointment.
said.
Besse contended that as a CGC
representative and legislator, he must follow
his conscience to decide what is best for his
district. He said he could not determine what
the majority of his constituents want without
an organized poll.
But Douglas said Besse's moral feelings
should not be concerned when he represents
a majority.
Although several of his constituents had
told him last year that they believed CGA
should receive student fees, they would not
two letters written by Dean of Student
Affairs Donald Boulton,accepting"ultimate
responsibility" for the station.
The FCC requires that student
organizations have university support,
before it will grant a radio station
construction permit. But UNC
administrators contended that if the
University assumed ultimate responsibility
for the station, it would also have to assume
control.
Student Educational Broadcasting
Corporation was then established because of
an FCC provision which allows non-profit
corporations to be granted non-commercial
educational frequencies.
the increased construction costs due to
changes in design.
"The conservationists have raised
questions about the safety of particular
features of the plants," Morris said, "and
therefore we have been forced by regulatory
agencies to change those specific features."
But M orris said such changes are rare, and
are not representative of the
conservationists' progress. The delays in
scheduling nuclear power plant construction
are primarily economic, M orris said, and are
not related directly to the conservation
groups' efforts.
"When you begin analyzing schedule
changes for the nuclear plants you are
talking about an accumulation of factors,
not just economics or conservation groups,
but federal and state licensing as well,
Morris said.
. Dick Pierce, Duke Power's assistant vice
president for corporate communications,
said Duke Power had met some opposition
in determining the plant locations but he
added that the protests were not successful.
Pierce, however, would not speculate on the
environmentalists effect in future
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by Nancy Mattox
Staff Writer
The Media Board passed a vote of no
confidence which called for the
resignation of board Chairperson Dick
Pope Tuesday night. The move was
made immediately after Pope
announced his plans to step down as
soon as a suitable replacement for his
position is found.
The no-confidence vote marked the
culmination of some two weeks of
controversy rising from Pope's writing
of new Media Board bylaws without the
advice or counsel of the entire Board.
Board members Bill Moss and Rob
-Price introduced the motion of no
confidence, contending that Pope was
trying "to run the Media Board on his
own."
At the beginning of the Media Board
meeting, Pope announced that he had
been planning since he took the position
in early September to resign before Nov.
15. But he said he would not resign until
that time, if the Media Board nominated
an unacceptable replacement.
The board later established a four
member committee, chaired by Julie
Naumoff, the non-voting representative
from Student Graphics, to consider
nominations for the chairperson.
The committee, whose first meeting is
today, will report their nominations to
the full board in two weeks.
After the nominating committee was
established, Price ' introduced the
motion of no-confidence which read,
say it in public for fear of peer disapproval,
Besse said. He added that at a meeting held
in Stacy to discuss CGA funding, he heard
no rational arguments against CGA being
given money.
The real issue is the interpretation of
representative government, Besse said.
While the dorm members believe a
representative should act strictly as a
delegate, Besse said he believes a
representative should devote more time to
understanding CGC issues than the ordinary
student. The representative should then act
according to his own judgment, he said.
Because of the representative's
information and analysis, he sometimes
must take an unpopular stand on an issue,
Besse said.
Penalosa also charged Besse with lack of
organization and interest in getting
constituents' opinions. He said few students
in the district even know who Besse is.
Besse said he posts reports of his actions,
his name, telephone number and requests for
students to contact him for information or to
give their opinions.
He said he opposes being recalled, because
he is working on the two major issues he
campaigned on, academic affairs and
housing problems. If he were recalled, he
would be forced to take time from his work
to campaign.
A recall election could .be called if 15 per
cent of his constituency petitions for one.
negotiations.
"You never know what the future will
bring." Pierce said, "there are various
political aspects which will have to be ironed
out as they show up. Generally, the points
that environmentalists bring up come up in
every instance, so it is a matter of the same
arguments."
However, Drew Diehl, executive director
of Chapel Hill ECOS chapter, said the
public's growing awareness of nuclear power
dangers is the result of anti-nuclear efforts.
As the public awareness grows, we hope
more people will decide that nuclear power
should not develop in the same manner in
which it is handled now," Diehl said.
"We want the decision on nuclear power
to be made democratically, and therefore we
have to' publicize our side of the story."
Diehl said power companies hire public
relations personnel to speak to clubs and
schools emphasizing the positive side of
nuclear power. He said such persons are
providing the public only one side of the
situation and therefore only one choice
concerning nuclear power.
Tom Erwin, president of the Southeastern
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"Due to recent unacceptable actions by
Chairman Richard Pope, the Media
Board expresses a loss of confidence in
his ability to effectively chair the board.
Because of this loss of confidence, the
Media Board requests his immediate
resignation." The motion passed 5-4.
In Price's opening statement, he said
that while he felt Pope had performed
his duties well, he had overstepped his
bounds by writing new Media Board
bylaws without consulting the board.
Pope's new bylaws dissolved the
original Media Board and named Pope
and Media Board Treasurer George
Bacso as an interim board until a new
board was established.
Although Pope contended at the time
that the old bylaws could not be found
in a complete form that had been passed
by the Campus Governing Council
Wallace, Cohen vie
for Mayor's office;
filing deadline Friday
A News Analysts
by Richard Whittle
Staff Writer
.Mayor Howard N. Lee will leave office
this year and both Gerry Cohen, a Chapel
Hill alderman, and James C, Wallace, a N.C.
State University professor, want to succeed
him.
Unless a surprise candidate emerges
before the municipal election filing period
ends Friday, Chapel Hill voters will have a
subtle choice to make when they pick a new
mayor Nov. 4.
If elected, neither Cohen nor Wallace
would totally change the tone of Chapel Hill
Government, which under Mayor Lee has
seen an increase in governmental services
and increased action within the mayor's
office.
Both Wallace and Cohen are self
described liberals and both approve, perhaps
to a varying degree, of most of Lee's actions.
So what Chapel Hill voters must decide on
election day is how much liberalism they
want.
Wallace, a well-known environmentalist
who sits on the N.C. Environmental
Management Commission, says he thinks
Chapel Hill should slow down after the rapid
change during Lee's administration.
"I feel we have entered here into a period
of assessment," he said recently. "With a new
charter and a new town manager and a new
board, there couldn't be a better time to
assess the future." (A revised Chapel Hill
Charter was adopted last summer, and
Interim Town Manager Kurt Jenne was
recently approved by the Board of Aldermen
as the permanent town manager.) However,
Cohen, elected to the Board of Aldermen in
1973 and a recent UNC law school graduate,
Confederation for Safe Power, said that
although the conservationists do not take
credit for most of the plant delays, they try to
keep the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) aware of problems.
Erwin said the nuclear power plants'
licensing process was one of
conservationists' major concerns. According
to Erwin, the utility companies are now
seeking licenses for plants that will not go
into operation for at least a decade.
Giving the licenses to the companies now
could result in outdated plants by the time
they begin operation, he said. "We want to
try to prevent this premature licensing by
keeping the NRC aware of the problem,"
Erwin said.
Erwin cited the Brunswick plant at
Southport as a victory for conservationists.
CP&L met the original NRC requirements
for the plant's construction, but then more
sensitive equipment, which detected a
greater earthquake probability, was
developed.
Erwin said conservationists told the
regulatory commission of the information
and equipment, and the NCR required the
Weather fair
(CGC), Moss said he and several others
had complete copies of the bylaws.
Pope said that at the time he wrote the
new bylaws, he believed that without
CGC-adopted bylaws, the Media Board
and all publications receiving Student
Government aid were operating
illegally.
After the no-confidence vote passed.
Price proposed an amendment to have
Pope resign by Thursday afternoon.
The amendment provided that if Pope
failed to resign, a committee would be
established to begin impeachment
proceedings against him.
The amendment was strongly
opposed by board members John
Sawyer and Tal Lassiter who said such a
proceeding would only add additional
embarrassment to Pope's situation.
The proposal failed 5-4, with Pope
casting the tie-breaking vote.
said he would generally try to continue on
the path Lee has taken during his tenure.
'I "This 'is "no "criticism" of Howard Lee,
because he's a very busy man, but I think the
mayor should perhaps more affirmatively
seek citizen input," Cohen said. However,
Cohen said that, as an alderman,' he has
supported 98 per cent of Lee's programs and
proposals.
Both candidates have nothing but
compliments for the way Lee has conducted
the mayor's office.
"1 think he's done very well," said Cohen.
"He's increased citizen participation and he's
made the mayor more accessible."
Wallace said, "I think Lee has handled it
well. He has a warm personality; he's
certainly intelligent, and he has a sense of
integrity that is very prominent."
. On the issues, Wallace and Cohen differ
only slightly. Both said the bus system is
necessary and should be extended to
Carrboro in the near future. Wallace adde.d
that he would like to see the system modified
so that senior citizens could ride for free at
times other than peak traffic hours.
Both candidates also oppose the state
approved thoroughfare plan, which would
w iden or extend several streets in Chapel H ill
to speed traffic flow.
"The seven or eight recommendations in
the downtown area are just completely
ridiculous," Cohen said. He added that the
town should build bikewaysand increase the
number of buses in town "to show the state
that the thoroughfare plan isn't needed."
Wallace said the plan is just another -chapter
in a long struggle. "By and large,
we've been fighting their (the state's) version
of what's best for Chapel Hill for years." he
said. "The whole point is that the fact that
we're going to have congestion doesn't mean
you have to flatten the landscape."
Brunswich plant to install the more sensitive
monitoring equipment.
"Such a decision by the NRC was
surprising and pleasing, Erwin said,
"although we can't take the credit for delays
of many plants, our work in publicizing the
information and making it available to the
regulatory groups influenced the decision."
Dr. Thomas Ellerman, head of N.C. State
University's nuclear engineering department
and proponent of nuclear power, said many
of the conservationists' concerns were
legitimate. "Clearly the anti-nuclear groups
have delayed nuclear progress eight to 10
years " Ellerman said. "Most of this delay is
due to intervention, and most of their
concerns are valid."
But Ellerman said he did not think the
conservation groups have swayed public
opinion. He said a recent Harris poll which
reported that 65 per cent of the public
favored nuclear power.
"Determining the conservationists
progress is difficult," Ellerman said,
"because it depends on how you measure
progress although they have caused delays
"they have not changed the public's view.
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