4 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Vol. 83, No. 60 Chspel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, November 14. 1975 Weather: fair and cold I f j Gosniotro r ossss , . i' . : j i . U - 5 kU Bill passes CGC x ; 1 v - bv 11-8-1 vote c ' WNN ' K'' by Chris Fuller ;KnvYa l C W i ---.- W w. Staff Writer Mf J " V x V . ' ' X ' 7 ''V J The position of student body comptroller , ' ' , j ( -V' ...-."TV ry. - .Ji2L- -"-'!! was established by an 11-8-1 vote of the re ' M f' - ' ' tC ' . " ,V ' 7 y Campus Governing Council Wednesday W-- lZ A-;iW ? 1feL5: i " ' ' night. The vote followed a month of debate A.-VV V v 7 ; ,r4 . , on the proposal. h...r- Zi: N. -V. i r w ' IfTI - Before passing the comptroller bill, the vfe X--' a. -..Y-i-l f . -rk- y$sfi&lUt ' ' r - i council defeated a substitute motion made -- 1 f- , 1 l2 1a; - ' by Student Body President Bill Bates to : i'M - I ir-UrL ?'r ?72T?ACtM 5 - establish a department of the treasury. yaSSZr - - LVA"4 VM'- iiSn K- J Although Bates had previously threatened 1 n3 J 'H: i Ut:C C0 A 41SZ - I to veto the comptroller bill, he said Thursday At Carolina, athletics means pageantry in one baton twirlers or pom-pom shakers. The North Hillsborough to m by Merton Vance Staff Writer Several months ago, officials from Orange, Durham and Wake counties hammered out a plan to share $318,000 in funds from the U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). But the town of Hillsborough made an independent application for the money and has now walked away with the lion's share of it. Supporters of the three-county plan are upset, but Hillsborough's mayor thinks HUD made a wise decision. HUD announced Wednesday that Hillsborough will receive $287,988. Orange County will receive $30,012, less than half the sum it requested; and Durham and Wake counties will hot receive any money at all. Under the three-county arrangement, Durham County applied for $50,060; Wake News Bureau head dies Alfred Guy "Pete" Ivey, director of the UNC News Bureau for 20 years, died at his home here Wednesday. He was 62. A native of Rocky Mount, Ivey was recuperating from a heart attack suffered in early October. Funeral services for Ivey will be held at 10 a.m. Saturday at University Methodist Church and burial will be at 3 p.m. at Pineview Cemetery in Rocky Mount. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor said of Ivey, "He gave two decades of loyal and dedicated service to this institution. He loved this University as" he loved this state and its press." Although Ivey never graduated from the University, he is considered an alumnus of Carolina. He entered the University in 1931 to study journalism, but family financial problems and the Great Depression forced Ivey to earn his way through the University. He did freelance writing for North Carolina papers, worked in the Bulls Head Bookshop at nights, was a stenographer in the office of the dean of students. As an undergraduate here, Ivey boxed on the freshman and varsity teams, worked for the Daily Tar Heel, edited the Carolina Buccaneer, (a campus humor magazine), and was a member of the Golden Fleece honorary society. Following his three years as a UNC student, he became the managing editor of the Alumni Review for two years. In June 1936 he was named director of the Graham Memorial Student Union, serving for two years. Ivey later became a reporter for the Sentinel, until 1942 when he was drafted into the Army. Following his military career, he became managing editor of the Shelby Daily Star in 1954. In 1955, he became News Bureau director where he served until his death. Ivey was the "world's authority" on persimmons, Lefler said. "Mr. Ivey got letters, telephone calls regularly on how to prepare various persimmon recipes," Lefler said. Ivey chose to be a persimmon authority over North Carolina history, journalism history and Shakespeare because no one else was an authority on the fruit. "One night while drinking a glass of persimmon beer, I was struck by a happy inspiration of thought. Why not be an authority on the persimmon?" he once said. Consolidated University President William C. Friday said, "Pete Ivey served the University with total devotion and great skill throughout his professional career. Those of us privileged to be his friends have lost a respected and much loved colleague." , ' John B. Adams, Dean of the School of Journalism, said he could not measure the help Ivey gave to the department. "We,. of form or another, be it Carolina football Tar get $287,988 County requested $203,000; and Orange County would have received $60,420. The money, part of the Community Development Act funds for this area of the state, is earmarked for rehabilitation of low income housing and for providing city water and sewer services to low-income areas. Wake County Commissioner J.T. Knott objected to HUD's decision. "The governments of three counties were working together as governments should," Knott said. "We represented 400,000 people, and then some little municipality of 1,500 people comes to us and walks away with the lion's share." - The Community Development fund applications are rated by HUD on a point system to rank the relative merits of each application. Hillsborough's application apparently ranked first and Qrange Counjty second. 1 Hillsborough Mayor Fred Cates said he re ease heart illness Pete Ivey .xsv : V V always counted on Pete when we had special programs such as the 50th anniversary of the journalism school," he said. Ladd Baucom, managing editor of the Chapel Hill Newspaper in which Ivey had a weekly column, "Town and Gown" on the Sunday editorial page, said, "Key's death is a loss for the newspaper business in North Carolina-" Ivey is survived by two daughters, Ms. David DeRamus of Winston-Salem and Ms. Ed Schell of Washington, D. C; four sisters, Ms. Herman Wellons of Kinston, Ms. W. F. Thigpen of Rocky Mount, Ms. William L. Foy of Asokie, Mary Ivey Hammond of Rocky Mount; two brothers, M. W. Ivey of Rocky Mount and W.A. Ivey of Kinston; and two grandchildren. by Art Eisenstadt Associate News Editor Last of a three-part series Unlike UNC at Chapel Hill, the University of California at Berkeley has had its Affirmative Action Plan approved by the U.S. Department of Health, Education and Welfare. Berkeley has determined it needs to add 95.71 women, 2.79 Orientals and 1.38 blacks to its faculty. Affirmative Action refers to a set of programs designed to give minorities and women equal employment opportunities. Since 1971, when the U.S. Department of Labor issued Revised Order No. 4, all firms with more than 50 employees receiving more than $50,000 annually in contracts or grants from the federal government must file a written Affirmative Action statement with the federal government. These firms must also plan to increase the number of minorities and women on their staff. The goal of UNC's Affirmative Action u'w,,ra Staff photo by Martha Stevens Heels face the Green Wave at Tulane this weekend, and the basketball Tar Heels face the Russian basketball team. Related stories pages 3 and 5. LJ Fli thinks Hillsborough had the best plan for use of the money. "We can serve more people more effectively," he said. The town plans to use the money to improve sewer service to approximately 510 houses just outside the town, Cates said. He added that inadequate sewer service has turned the area into a health hazard. If the three-county plan had been adopted, Carrboro would have received a sizeable sum of money. Since Orange County's requested sum was cut in half, Carrboro's allotment will be greatly reduced. "I am very disturbed," Carrboro Mayor Robert Wells said, "when one man (Cates) can go to Washington and hold out his hand and get all the money with no consideration given to three counties." Wells said that the federal government should consider the overall situation instead of "treating one town specially. HUD, which has discretion on which applicant gets the funds, could have given all the money to one applicant or to any combination of the four applicants, Jim Rhodes, spokesperson for the HUD office in Greensboro, said. Orange County Commissioner Norman Gustaveson said Thursday the decision to give most of the money to only one town destroys the sense of cooperation between local governments. "I would have hoped that the (three county) program proposal would have been adopted," Gustaveson said. He said that although Hillsborough has problems, the town's plans could have been incorporated into the county's plans over the next several years. The Community Development Act is a five-year program, and communities will be able to apply for funds again next year. This is the first year that the funds have been distributed by HUD. Knott said he anticipates that Wake County will apply for funds next year. Sharp skeptical of court offer North Carolina Supreme Court Justice Susie Sharp attaches no significance to rumors mentioning her as a possible nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court position vacated by Justice William O. Douglas, she said Thursday. Sharp has been listed by the Washington Post and New York Times as one of several women being nominated for the position by President Ford. An important factor in Ford's consideration of nominating a woman has been the urging he has received from his wife, Betty, the Times reported. "The point is to set goals and do your dead-level best to reach them, rather thanset quotas. What it takes is dogged determination, patience, perseverance and conscience. Plan is to give women and minorities an equal chance at being hired, getting promotions and receiving a good salary in faculty and non-faculty staff positions. But the major impediment to fulfilling the plans, particularly in the faculty sector, is finding qualified people to fill the positions. "It is a source of frustration and concern to us, and to women and blacks that this discrimination wasn't eliminated sooner," Douglass Hunt, UNCs vice-chancellor for administration and Affirmative Action Officer, said recently. "We know why (it has not been done sooner). It is the supply as much as anything else." Supply is one key dimension in the concept of underutilization, defined in by Chris Fuller Staff Writer The position of student body comptroller was established by an 11-8-1 vote of the Campus Governing Council Wednesday night. The vote followed a month of debate on the proposal. Before passing the comptroller bill, the council defeated a substitute motion made by Student Body President Bill Bates to establish a department of the treasury. Although Bates had previously threatened to veto the comptroller bill, he said Thursday he was still undecided and would reach a decision within the 10-school-day limit allowed for a presidential veto by CGC law. The comptroller bill, proposed Oct. 19 by CGC Reps. Dick Pope and Ben Steelman, provides for a CGC-elected comptroller to act as an administrative aide to the council and its Finance Committee. The comptroller would be accountable to the entire council since only CGC has the power to dismiss him or her. Critics of the bill have said it would strip powers from the student body treasurer. The controversial comptroller bill has been brought to the CGC floor on three previous occasions and has been postponed each time. It has also been discussed at two public hearings and has been the subject of several columns and editorials in the Daily Tar Heel. A major objection to the comptroller, voiced frequently by Bates, was that it combines the legislative and executive branches of government which Bates said should be separated. The duties of the comptroller include overseeing all non-executive Student Government organizations and making monthly reports on all Student Government funded organizations. ' Ta r H e e by Chris Fuller Staff Writer The Daily Tar Heel Emergency Loan Fund was reactivated by the Campus Governing Council Wednesday night, releasing to the newspaper $10,000. The loan is to be repaid within 30 days or else be taken from the DTHs second semester Student Government allocation. The decision was made after Student Body President Bill Bates read two letters from DTH Business Manager Reynolds Bailey and editor Cole C. Campbell requesting the loan. Campbell said at the meeting that the paper needs money to operate until second semester when the paper's major advertiser, National Accounts, would pay its advertising bill. Less advertising money is taken in just before Christmas because advertisers invest their money into Christmas inventory, Campbell explained. Then at the first of the "I don't attach any significance at all to the fact that I've been mentioned by the New York Times" Sharp said. "I've been mentioned before, even when we had Democratic presidents, but it will take more than being nominated to get me excited about it." Sharp added that she would like to see a qualified woman nominated for the vacant post, but she refused to say whether she would accept the nomination if it were offered her. Revised Order No. 4 as "having fewer minorities or women in a particular job classification than would reasonably be expected by their availability." Roughly, this means that the racial and sexual composition of a particular institution's employees should approximate the population mix of the area where it is located. But in the words of Richard A. Lester, an economics professor from Princeton University who published last year a monograph on Affirmative Action and universities, "While this might make sense in the case of typists, bricklayers or punch press operators, it is hardly applicable when it AH members of the Campus Governing bill establishing a student government In addition, the comptroller would be an investigative arm of the Finance Committee and CGC and would assist in preparing the annual budget. The comptroller could not hold any appointed or elected office in Student Government or any Student Government funded organization. Also under the comptroller bill, the treasurer would oversee the executive . branch budget and programs, as well as being the investigative arm of the executive branch. A financial aide to the executive branch, the treasurer would be directly accountable to the president. The treasurer would also disburse all CGC funds, be a voting member of the Media Board and assist in preparing the CGC and executive budgets. At the CGC meeting, Rep. Tal Lassiter criticized the alternate bill to establish a treasury department, saying that under the bill, neither the assistant treasurer nor the comptroller could make any decisions, and I-loan fun dre activated year as the inventory is sold, advertisers pay their bills, he said. Several CGC representatives opposed the extension of the loan because of cash flow problems encountered by the Tar Heel earlier this year. Rep. Ben Steelman said Thursday that although he could not foresee any alternative to granting the loan since the CGC Media Board representative Tal Lassiter said there was a pressing short term need for the loan, he is concerned over whether the loan would solve the DTH's problem. "It seems to me that the Tar Heel's cash flow situation seems to be a chronic problem, and I haven't heard any solutions yet," he said. "I've seen very little initiative from the Tar Heel office in bringing forth solutions to this cash flow problem." Rep. Dick Pope said he believes the question of the loan should have been referred to the Finance Committee. "I want to make sure we (CGC) are not giving bad "You don't talk about something like that cavalierly," Sharp said. "It would be presumptuous of me to even assume that I was being considered." Others listed by the Post and Times were Carla Hills, secretary of Housing and Urban Development; Rita E. Hauser, a New York lawyer and adviser to former President Nixon; Soia Mentschikoff, dean of the University of Miami (Florida) law school; and Shirley Mount Hufstedler, a federal judge in Los Angeles. comes to choosing a medieval historian." Except for the field of education, Hunt said there is a shortage of blacks in just about every discipline. There is a greater percentage of women with Ph.D's than blacks, he said, but that number still does not match white males. An institution with UNCs reputation has both expediting and restraining effects on Affirmative Action, Hunt said. "We're ranked among the top 20 to 25 universities in the nation," Hunt said. "That means we have some attraction powers. We don't attract people by not being good." On the other hand, said Hunt, "The people who come here ought to be able to perform in this environment. We're trying to come up with a University that will be better." Revised Order jS'o. 4 was originally designed in 1971 for industries; but it was not applied to a university until 1972. Trying to adapt it to a university setting has been one of Hunt's biggest frustrations, and it is a major reason why UNCs plan is administered as much as possible on thet departmental level. Staff photo by Margaret Kirtt Council were in attendance last night as the comptroller passed therefore the workload of the treasurer would not be decreased. Rep. Jay Tannen disagreed, saying the treasury department bill stated that both the assistant treasurer and the comptroller would perform duties assigned by the treasurer which would reduce his work. Student Body Treasurer Graham Bullard also said the comptroller bill would split the treasurer's workload, which he said is too much for one person. "From experience, handling the funds of the administrative branch is a full-time job," he said. "The comptroller bill will get the treasury out from the political arena," Bullard added. In other action, CGC voted 14-2-4 to override a presidential veto on a bill which allows Finance Committee vice-chairperson to sign for the treasurer if the treasurer's office became vacant. Bates said he opposed the bill because it gave a legislator executive duties. During the CGC meeting, Bates said that with the passage of the comptroller bill a vice-chairperson is not needed. money over bad money, or a bad loan over a bad loan, I should say." If the DTH follows the same financial patterns as last year, the paper will be short $20,000, he said. Pope also said the business staff is excellent in advertising but that it takes more than advertising to operate a business. The newspaper asked for the loan because it was faced with a decision on whether to continue publishing. Bailey said, explaining that money from advertisers is not coming in fast enough to insure publication. Bailey said he tried all alternatives before requesting the loan, including asking the Media Board to allow the paper to publish without requisitions and asking the treasurer, to release the remainder of the Tar Heel's Student Government allocation. The business staff can use all of December to collect money from advertisers without having to expend any cash since the paper does not publish during that month, he said. Chief Justice Susie Sharp and former Chief Justice William Bobbitt "We want to keep this plan and this university as devoid of red tape as possible," Hunt said. "That is our tradition and that is what we want to pursue. Mainly, we're trying to cling to the things that make it a warm and friendly place." UNC sets percentage and numeric goals for. employees in six broad categories. The goals are set three' years in advance and revised every year. A brief scan of the goals set three years ago show mixed results in the plan. In Affirmative Action update issued by Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor last month, progress in areas such as female Academic Affairs faculty members is termed good, where the 13.8 percentage (as of Sept. 30, 1975) exactly matches the goal set in 1972. But the percentage of females on the Health Affairs faculty has decreased since 1972, from 23 per cent to 22.4 per cent. This year's hiring goal was 23.9 per cent. The University of California at Berkeley arrived at its figures through a statistical availability analysis for each of its departments.

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