Dig Four Tickets
Approximately '100 ticket
books for both nights of the
Big Four Basketball
Tournament Dec. 1-2 in
Greensboro will go on sale to
students for $24 at 8:30 a.m.
today in the ticket office in
Carmichael Auditorium.
tt will be cloudy and coot
today with showers likely
throughout the day. The high
will be around 60 and the low
will be in the low 40s. Chance
of rain is 70 percent through
tonight.
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Friday, November 17, 1978, Chapel Hill North Carolina
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By MARK MURRELL
St if r Writer
Activist attorney William Kunstler
cited the Wilmington 10 case as a typical
example of "justice according to an
arrogant system" in a speech Thursday at
the UNC law school.
"The Wilmington 10 case is unusual
only because so many people know about
it," said Kunstler, who has tried 25 cases
in North Carolina as an out-of-state
attorney. He called such cases dirty little
trials, but no dirtier than a lot in North
Carolina.
"1 guess I am what is known as an
itinerant lawyer, and it is these out-of-state
attorneys that predominate in the
controversial cases," he said. Kunstler,
who is known for his participation in the
Chicago Seven, Joan Little and Attica
State Prison revolt cases, said as the
"itinerant lawyers prove more and more
effective, there is an effort being made to
cut them down to size.
"Qn- the state leveK - you have the
spectacle of me being refused admission
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here for Joan Little in her escape case as
well as her murder case," he said. "And on
the escape case, significantly enough,
exclusion came on the very day that
.President Carter was promoting the fate
of the Soviet dissidents in Moscow, and
one of three points he raised was that they
had been dinied the attorney of their
choice, whereas the same thing was
happening in Raleigh to Joan Little."
Kunstler, a graduate of Columbia law
school, said he has become disenchanted
with the system of justice in the United
States. "My perspective has changed
radically "h said. "When J was at
Columbia, I was told, and indeed I think
believed, that our law was the best
humankind had been able to create, and
that its ultimate objectives were fairness,
squareness and quality. Now that I'm
pushing on 60, and have spent 35 years in
law, I realize that that was all total
bullshit."
Kunstler cited faults of the justice
system in the United States, and his main
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WASHINGTON (A P) Disappointed with the slow
pace of negotiations. President Carter said Thursday it
may be necessary, "in a few cases," to modify the Camp
David agreements in order to wrap up a peace, treaty
between Egypt and Israel.
In a meeting with reporters, Carter said the two sides
did not trust each other and each was interpreting the
September agreements to its own best advantage.
The negotiations, now in their sixth week, are snagged
over the Palestinian issue and several other disputes. In a
move to regain lost momentum, the United States has
proposed that within a year of the treaty's ratification,
elections be held to set up a Palestinian authority on the
West Bank of the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip.
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's response was
delivered to Carter at the White House by Hosni
Mubarak, the Egyptian vice president. A spokesperson
said Mubarak "explained precisely the Egyptian view of
the interrelationship" between the peace treaty and
future negotiations for an overall settlement, including
the status of the Palestinians.
No details of Sadat's message were disclosed,
including whether he had insisted on a timetable for
setting up Palestinian autonomy on the West Bank of
the Jordan River and in the Gaza Strip.
Over the past few days, a number of reports from the
Middle East indicated Sadat was proposing another
formula for linking a treaty with Israel to the Palestinian
question. This was said to be centered on immediate
negotiations between Israel and Egypt over the Israeli
occupied Gaza Strip, an enclave of 400,000 Palestinian
Arabs that Egypt lost in the 1967 Six-Day war after 18
years of control.
. The spokesperson. George Sherman of the State
Department, said M ubarak had presented some new
ideas to flesh out the Camp David agreements.
According to Sherman, the Egyptian emissary affirmed
that Cairo wants to "deal with the West Bank and Gaza
together."
But the spokesperson refused to say whether this
meant Egypt wanted to negotiate over Gaza first.
Israel has postponed considering changes in the treaty
package conveyed by Secretary of State Cyrus R. Vance
to Prime Minister Menachem Begin in New York late
Sunday. The delay was requested by the administration
until Mubarak could deliver Sadat's message.
The Israeli Cabinet will consider the proposals
Defense Minister Ezer Weizman met with
Mubarak after the Egyptian saw Carter, and said he had
a fruitful meeting with Mobarak, adding he hopes and
believes the new Egyptian proposals will not be a
stumbling block in concluding a treaty.
Asked whether the proposals include a specific
timetable for the assumption of Arab self-rule in the
West Bank and the Gaza Strip, Weizman said they retain
the principle of "knowing a little bit more about when,
what and how certain things are going to happen."
By DIANE NORMAN
StafT Writer
" The Faculty Council will hear a
proposal from Student Body President
Jim Phillips to extend the current four
week drop period to six weeks at 3 p.m.
today in 100 Hamilton Hall.
Phillips said the four-week drop period
has not. accomplished its stated goal of
curbing grade inflation.
"It (the four-week drop period) does
not affect grade inflation, and it doesn't
meet the needs of students," Phillips said.
"It has not met their educational needs.
There is no advantage to having students
drop courses out of fear.
"All we're asking is that they (Faculty
Council) be reasonable give the
students an opportunity to make
an. ..informed decision. The first three or
four weeks of the course may be spent
covering introductory material. If you
don't give students enough information
(about a course), they can't make an
intelligent decision. . '
"Six weeks would give students enough
time to determine what they are going to
gain from the course and whether they're
going to enjoy it or not." Phillips said.
He pointed out that 66 percent of the
more than 5,000 students surveyed by
Student Government this fall said they
wanted a longer drop period. The
majority of students favoring an
extended drop period said they would
prefer a six to eight week period over any
other, Phillips said.
"1 think that (selecting a median drop
.period) shows that students are acting
very responsibly in this matter," Phillips
said. Students could indicate a preference
for a drop period of nine weeks or more
on the questionnaire.
Phillips urged all students to come to
the Faculty Council meeting to express
their opinions on the issue, despite the
meeting's conflict with the homecoming
parade.
"After, before or during the parade 1
encourage all students to come (to the
meeting)," Phillips said. "Don't feel bad
about coming late." ,
The drop period proposal is the last
item appearing on the council's agenda.
Craig Brown, Phillips' executive
assistant working on the drop extension
proposal, said he is hopeful the Faculty
Council will reconsider the drop policy
and direct the Educational Policy
Committee (EPC) to give it further study.
Mark Appelbaum, associate professor
of psychology and a member of EPC, said
if the Faculty Council directs the matter
to the committee, it will duly consider any
of Phillips additional information
concerning the drop period.
"I think all of us are going to try to go in
there with an open mind," Appelbaum
said. The committee will weight any hew
information provided by Student
Government, he said.
Phillips' contention that the two-year-old
four-week withdrawal period has no
correlation to grade inflation and that a
number of the nation's finest universities
have drop period longer than four weeks
are considered by Student Government
to be new evidence in the controversy.
Phillips and his staff will circulate
copies of their new arguments for
extending the drop period to all members
of the Faculty Council before the meeting
today.
The 1977-78 EPC voted unanimously
to retain the four-week drop. Two-thirds
of those' committee members remain on
EPC this year.
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By CAROL CARNEVALE
Staff Writer
Panting and gasping, I try to keep up with
my guide as we hike through the woods by
Cane Creek.
"Are you making it okay?" he keeps asking.
"I know you're tired, 'cause there's sweat on
your nose."
"Fine," I gasp, wondering where this 64-year-old
man gets his energy.
"People say I'm just the walkingest man
they ever did see," my guide, Coy Armstrong,
says laughingly. He says he led large groups
on hourly tours of the creek last spring for the
Cane Creek Conservation Authority's Farm
City Day.
If anyone should know Cane Creek, it's
Armstrong. He has lived on the creek since he
was 8. His father farmed the land, and then he
did. Now he rents part of his 23 acres to a
neighbor to grow soybeans.
Armstrong himself does little farming now.
He spends some time gardening and each
Sunday he takes a long walk around the
creek. "I'm supposed to be retired, but I
ain't."
The creek water is lower today .than it
should be, he tells me. "We ain't had no rain
in over two months. The way Chapel Hill is
expanding they'd better get on a stream they
can depend on. We had a drought here in '25,
and we had to carry water a mile and a half
from a mountain spring."
Armstrong leads me to a small spring
where he mercifully lets me sit and rest. As we
talk a bee comes and buzzes around us. There
must be a bee tree close, Armstrong says.
We continue on a arrive at an bid stone
dam that collapsed into the creek years ago.
This dam once provided the water to run a
grain mill where a younger Armstrong and
his father had worked.
We cross the creek, balancing on rocks,
and climb up the dam's skeleton to flat land.
I've survived the dangerous part of the
excursion; then 1 find parts of the field we
must cross are dense with weeds as tall as 1
am.
Back at his house Armstrong offers me" a
cold drink. A big box in the middle of his
kitchen catches my eye. It is a wood stove, he
explains. There is one in every room,
Armstrong says, and sometimes he closes off
the other rooms and heats and uses the
kitchen alone.
He has a small plot behind his house where
he raises okra, potatoes, beans, corn,
soybeans and tomatoes. He has a chicken
coop that is as crowded as Grand Central
Station. Every day he rises at 5 to feed the
chickens.
The farmland around Cane Creek is very
fertile, Armstrong says. "You don't see any of
us on welfare yet, do you?" he demands.
Armstrong says according to a map
published in the Cane Creek project
Environmental Impact Assessment, he will
lose about 22'$ out of his 23 acres, and his
house will be inundated unless it is moved.
He says he attended the meeting two years
ago when Orange Water and Sewer
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Farmer Coy Armstrong on tour
...'the walkingest man
Authority representatives first told Cane
Creek area residents they wanted to build the
reservoir. "The way they talked they was
ready to go to work the" next morning. They
hadn't been to see us through here yet."
Armstrong doesn't want to see the
reservoir built. "It's going to spread our
community all to pieces." he says.
I asked Armstrong where he would go if he
lost his land to the reservoir. "Now you can
answer that question just as well as 1 can. 1
don't know," he says. "When you get to be an
old man you hate to be drug out." -
Short course begins
ESP amases Diake stademitfs
By CAROL MANNER
Staff Writer
"Sir, my 1 have permission to enter your body
psychically?" Noreen said as she tossed back her dark
hair and waved her arms animately.
"That's what I used to ask people when I first
started doing psychic readings in a hotel lounge in
Orlando, Fla.," she told 25 members of a
parapsychology class. .
The eight-week class, sponsored by the Psychical
Research Foundation at Duke University, explores
psychic phenomena such as ESP, haunting and life-after-death.
Noreen, a professional psychic and medium who
goes only by her first name, and Julia Hardy, a
psychic and managing editor of PRF's magazine
Theta, lectured and demonstrated their powers
recently for the class. The topic-tor the night was
psychic readings.
N oreen, tall and dramatic, stood up to do a psychic
reading on a middle-aged man in the class. The faces
of the other members were intent and amazed.
"My specialty is feelings and pain," she said,
closing her eyes and waving her hands in front of her
face.
t "I'm inside your body. 1 feel a pain in my lower leg,
and the left side of my face hurts." she said as she
maintained a constant stream of conversation.
The man replied that he had sprained his leg
recently, but he had never hurt his face.
"Are you sure it wasn't long ago?" Noreen
continued. "I'm not giving up. I don't have pain like
this for nothing."
Finally it occrred to the man that his wife's face
was in terrible pain after a visit to the dentist that day.
The class oohed and aahed.
In contrast to Noreen's theatrical stvle. Julia's
psychic readings were carried out quietly as she sat
with the group and closed her eyes, waiting for an
image to appear to her.
"I see a child on a tricycle," she said.
The elderly woman she was reading answered,
"Well, 1 used to ride a tricycle up and down the
kitchen, all day long when I was little."
Morevoohs and ahhs.
After their demonstrations, . Noreen and Julia
gave helpful pointers to class members on how to
increase their psychic ability. They stressed the need
to relax and forget logic.
"It's difficult to throw your logic out, because you
use it to survive, and you can go too far," Noreen
said. "I've seen some psychics who get so far into that
other reality they forget this reality."
Joan' Krieger, the class instructor and full time
paid PRF research associate, said most of the class
joined the group because they have had some psychic
experiences of their own.
But she said the primary purpose of the course is to
introduce members to various ways of examining
psychic phenomena. J
- Krieger said Noreen and Julia represent two other
ways of exploring the psychic world besides the
scientific approach used by PRF.
Noreen quit her job with an advertising agency two
years ago to earn her living through lectures,
performances and psychic readings, (at S35 an hour).
Julia, who never charges for her psychic readings,
said she mainly uses her abilities to help herself and
her friends in day-to-day situations?
Both Noreen and Julia explore another area of
parapsychology besides psychic readings
mediumship, or communication with deceased
spirits, or entities.
See ESP on page 3
Leutze challe
By DINITA JAMES
Staff Writer
Efforts on the part of faculty members and administrators to
categorize UNC as a research university may damage the quality
of undergraduate education as well as endanger UNO's position
as the leading educational institution in the state, James Leutze,
professor of history, said Wednesday.
"I believe that this attempted designation and the commitment
of resources it portends threatens the time-honored mission of
this University," Leutze said.
Leutze, a recipient of the 1978 Tanner Award for teaching, was
one of the speakers in the Campus Y form "What Makes an
Excellent Undergraduate Education?" Joining Leutze in the
forum were Samuel Williamson, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences; Weldon Thornton. English professor and chairperson
of the committee on curnculum planning; IT. Maynard Adams,
chairperson of the faculty; and William R. Strickland, associate
vice chancellor for student development. "
"Until approximately 15 years ago," Leutze said, "this
University was devoted to, and built its reputation upon, the dual
foundation of undergraduate teaching and research. In my view,
this was the correct foundation. Many changes occurred in the
years between 1963 and 1978. During that time there has been a
subtle change in both philosophy and emphasis. The result is that
tpday we stand in peril not of debating the issue of research vs.
"teaching, but rather of enshrining the concept of ourselves as a
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research institution and formally turning our back on our
teaching role."
ADAMS RESPONDED to Leutze in the first part of his
speech. "I confess, or acknowledge or announce I am one of the
prime movers in promoting the University as a research
institution,' he said. "He (Leutze) totally misunderstood,
however, what the term 'research university' means. It (research)
is a qualifier to the word 'university,' without taking anything
away that it (university) actually means. The shift is society
toward research institutions apart from the universities is wrong.
We should not separate those who prepare researchers from
those doing the research."
Adams said the ideal liberal arts university would involve
students with prominent researchers in all fields of study. He said
this involvement would increase the cultural and scientific
knowledge of the community and better prepare students to be ,
the leaders of the future.
Leutze said he feels faculty members should be both
researchers and teachers, but said he is afraid the categorization
of UNC primarily as a research university will damage its
reputation in the state.
"MORE THAN IDEALISM motivates many who urge that ;
we emphasize our role as a research institution," he said. There is
a great fear, since the establishment of the Consolidated
University, that UNC was going to lose its favored position
within the system in a rush of egalitarianism.
"There is a leveling urge motivating our sister institutions, but
the real danger comes not from without but from within.
Categorizing, ourselves as a research institution hands our
neighbors the dagger to plunge in our back."
Taxpayers also may be disillusioned by the categorization of
UNC as a research university, Leutze said. "The taxpayers of
North Carolina value and support this institution because they
hope to sendtheir sons and daughters here as undergraduates," he
said. f ; . -
' "If they discover that undergraduate education is not a priority
at this institution, or is being euphemistically subordinated by
calling this a research institution, their support will flag, the
funds will slow and the entire institution will go into decline.
Proposing we protect ourselves by claiming research status in not
only politically naive but utlimately self-destructive."
Leutze said he questions the attempt to prove that research
status is beneficial to undergraduates. He said far too many
freshmen and sophomores do not have contact with professors
actually conducting research. Instead, he said, they are taught by
graduate students who fill in for the researchers.
"A CAREFUL STUDY of faculty teaching loads would reveal
that many faculty teach inordinately small classes, take a
disproportionate amount of leave time and have little exposure
to undergraduates." Leutze said. "1 recommend departments
return to a three-course load for all faculty."
Thornton said in the English department, all tenured faculty
teach undergraduates. "I do not know of a single full professor
colleague designated as not teaching undergraduates in a cycle of
a year to a year and a half," he said. "We have struggled
purposely to keep our faculty in undergraduate instruction and
do not have a specifically designated research or graduate
faculty."
Williamson said he disagreed with Leutze's recommendation
for a three-course load. "Three courses per term per professor is
self-enforced flagellation," he said. "Basi courses need to be
taught by labor-intensive means, but the senior faculty ought to
be teaching these courses part of the time."
ADAMS STRESSED the University's rote as a teacher of
teachers. "Part of the mission of this institution is training people
to teach in college," he said. "They all have to teach for the first
time with some students."
Strickland said he favors having graduate students teaching
undergraduates to having a separate faculty of persons with
PhDs hired for one-year terms. "The problem is not that TAs are
inherently evil. We just have to teach these people to teach
instead of throwing facts to the wolves."
The financial rewards given to researchers over teachers also
should be evaluated. Leutze said. "When incentive funds are
portioned out at the end of each year, the teachers get a minimum
raise while the researchers take home the lion's share," he said. "It
doesn't take young faculty members long to get the picture and
conduct themselves accordingly.
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