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Ho study iio increase .
More than a year ago, the Board of Trustees asked the University to
complete a study of the costs and efficiency of the Student Health
Service. That was after a $35 increase in student health fees the
previous year and before a $20 increase this year. The University,
specifically the Office of Student Affairs, still has not begun that
study, much less completed it, yet students are now being asked to pay
another $4 increase for next year.
This situation may prompt some students to wonder if this is just
another breakdown in the relationship between Student Affairs and
Student Government, yet another example of the lack of concern on
the part of the administration for the opinions and concerns of
students. We, however, remain optimistic, certain that Student Affairs
will have that report ready before the Trustees meet to discuss the
increase.
The $130 health fee students now pay for medical care here is the
highest in the 16-campus UNC system, and administrators have not
shown enough wisdom in dealing with numbers to justify a further
hike in health fees. For the fiscal year 1979-1950, adminstrators
predicted a final deficit in the student health services budget of
$76,000 actually the final deficit was only $6,703. For this year the
health services expected a surplus of $92,000 actually the surplus was
$172,000. In other words, in the last two years, the health services have
done a whole lot better than they ever thought they would $150,000
better.
Now, these same health service administrators are predicting a
$70,000 deficit for next year and are asking us to pump an additional
$80,000 into the health service program to compensate for this loss.
Editors of the Tar Heel are generally not business or statistics
majors difficult math problems tend to be as easy for us to
comprehend as the Oklahoma wishbone. But even we can see that if
after each of the last two years, the student health service has finished,
roughly $0,000 better than their earlier pessimistic predictions, there
is good reason to assume that next year they will fare as well. Thus, we
ask the health service to have a little confidence in itself precedent,
has shown that the health service will probably live up to its reputation
for beating the odds. A smart bettor would scoff at the predicted
$70,000 deficit for next year; if the health service maintains its trend of
underestimating itself by $80,000, then no doubt it will finish with a
$10,000 surplus next year, even without the additional money of
struggling students.
This year we have faith in our Board of Trustees there is a good
chance that they will take one look at the proposed increase and tell
Student Affairs to compile its report on the health services first. They
will 'remember asking for the program and cost assessment of the
services and, like us, wonder what became of the needed study.
Inflation is an overwhelming problem these days and health care
across the country has been hit hard by rising costs. Indeed, in the
final analysis, the fee increase might be justified, but certainly not
until a careful study of the health service has been completed and
administrators have proven themselves reliable financial seers.
Hello, Toronto
To the editor:
1 generally agree with your
endorsement of Gov. Jim Hunt for
re-election, and plan to vote
accordingly. But how, in one paragraph,
can you couple Hunt's decision to
reduce the sentences of the Wilmington
10 with his refusal to offer "politically
expedient solutions to difficult
problems"? At the time of his decision
Hunt faced, just such a problem; not
only had the co-e divided North
Carolina citizens, but it had also
attracted national, even worldwide
attention. What better way to avoid
alienating a segment of the state's voters
than to take such a middle-of-the-road,
non-commital stance?
By refusing to yield to the pressures
from those people supporting a pardon,
as well as from those who opposed any
change in the sentences, Hunt effectively
removed the issue from this election's
polemics and closed potential political
watershed.
Hunt indeed " has many strengths
which establish him as the superior
candidate, but refusal to resort to
political expediency is not one of them.
Mac D. Bishop
1802 S. Lakeshore Dr.
For Cobsy
To the editor:
As a staunch Democrat, and an
informed supporter of President Carter,
I would like to urge UNC students to
vote on Tuesday.
You often hear politicians say vote for
the man and not the party. Believing in
the two party system, I never take that
very seriously, but, in the case of the
race for Lt. Governor in North
Carolina, I must sway. Former UNC
Athletic Director Bill Cobey, who has
for the most part been abandoned by the
Jesse Helms Congressional Club, has
waged an un-Republican-like positive
campaign. Because of his administrative
success at UNC, his sensitivity to the
needs of black and white, male and
female student-athletes and because of
his positive campaign tactics, he has
convinced this straight-party voter to
vote for the man Bill Cobey.
Bert Woodard
615 E. Rosemary St.
Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514
Bus referendum
To the editor:
1 couldn't agree more with the last
paragraph of Ray Warren's column,
"Carrboro should avoid more tax
increases," (DTH, Oct. 30), concerning
the Carrboro public transportation
referendum. It is necessary that we say
"yes" to a more stable method of
budgeting our public transportation
system than federal revenue sharing can
provide.
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I also agree with his admonition to the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen that we
should not " equate the power to use
money for public transportation as an
approval to raise taxes. I certainly don't.
In spite of my agreement with his
conclusions, there were some statements
in the article that may be misleading.
Carrboro's present tax rate may be high
when compared to North Carolina as a
whole, which Warren did state, but it is
low when compared with taxes in our
geographic area. Carrboro's present tax
rate is only $1.10 per $100 valuation.
The Chapel Hill rate is $1.31, city of
Durham is $ 1 .25, and Durham County and
Orange County are approximately $1.17
and $1,095 respectively.
The county rates vary somewhat
depending upon the particular fire
district. City residents do not pay the
fire district tax. While Chapel Hill and
Orange County have raised their tax
fates, Carrboro has maintained the same
tax rate for the past five years. This kind
of fiscal responsibility merits the voters'
trust.
Public transportation is a necessity for
many segments of our town. Some
routes serve predominately University of
North Carolina students, who are a very
important source of tax and other
revenues to our town. Other routes,
however, serve predominately working
people. Even those people who drive a
car or bicycle on Carrboro's streets
benefit by the reduction of traffic
because others use public
transportation.
.One must also remember that public
transportation also means
transportation for handicapped people.
We have a moral and legal obligation to
make our town accessible to everyone.
Remember that the effect of this
referendum is to authorize the town to
budget its public transportation
expenses from tax revenue rather than
uncertain general revenue sharing funds,
as it is done now. This does not mean an
automatic increase in taxes.
For a stable public transportation
system in Carrboro, I urge a "yes" vote
for the Carrboro referendum on
Tuesday, Nov. 4.
Steven J. Rose
Carrboro Alderman
Rcagsn tha chcrlstan
To the editor:
In the short space of some 10 weeks,
Ronald Reagan has:
said pollution was substantially
under control.
said he never said such a thing (a
few hours later).
led the Republican Party away from
a two-decade commitment to the Equal
" Rights Amendment that would help
American women achieve equality under
the law.
called the Vietnam War "a noble
cause." ...
'" made tons of political hay by
castigating President Carter for Carter's
refusal to take part in a three-way
debate!
shifted his economic game plans
and projections so often that few people
can now say what he does stand for.
sent George Bush to Peking and
seized . the occasion to promote an
undoing of a China policy painstakingly
engineered by President Nixon and Ford
(and acutely embarrassing Bush).
sallied forth recklessly with
public statements about U.S. policy
toward Iran, which could have
jeopardized the lives of the 52 American
hostages.
indulged in saber-rattling with the
Soviets by talking favorably about an
arms buildup and questioning the value
of the SALT talks, then cried "foul"
when President Carter suggested that
Reagan's attitudes could trigger a war.
Obviously, the man is an actor still,
not a statesman or a serious political
thinker. He is glibly going through the
motions of playing the role of
presidential candidate, while utterly
failing to come to terms with the worlds
of economics, realpolitik or
statesmanship in which he expects to
maneuver. Reagan is a charlatan of the
most dangerous sort.
If we think he will behave less
erratically or less mindlessly in the White
House than he has behaved on the
campaign trails, we delude ourselves,
sadly.
John Patrick Grace
Chapel Hill
ERA
Spring
The 39 University of Toronto exchange students who arrived in
Chapel Hill Friday could hardly have picked a better weekend to visit.
Given the goings-on associated with Halloween, the Oklahoma game
and the presidential election, they should be steeped in American
culture by the time they leave, which is the point of the whole
exchange.
The Toronto-UNC exchange began in 1959 as a sort of junket for
Student Government types. Now groups of 40 or so make the annual
pilgrimage down to Chapel Hill and up to Toronto, and this weekend
it was the Canadians' turn to visit. Their UNC counterparts threw a
Halloween, party Friday and planned activities through Monday
including a banquet at the home of Chancellor Christopher Fordham
and seminars on American culture and politics given by UNC
professors.
The Toronto students have already formed some impressions of
North Carolina and Chapel Hill, however. They were amazed that a
single football game could elicit so much interest from so many for so
long; UT games generally draw about 5,000 .of a student body of
55,000. They are also eager to see an American Election Day, although
the possibility of a Ronald Reagan presidency has some of them
worried.
This kind of cultural empathy, again, is what the Toronto
Exchange is'out to foster. We welcome the Toronto students warmly,
certain that their next few days here will prove educational to
Canadians and Carolinians alike.
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A Iccsoa in humility
of 1932 is the deadline for
passage of the Equal Rights
Amendment. Because the North
Carolina General Assembly's 1932
session will be a budget session and held
during the summer months. Its 1531
session will be the last opportunity we
have to gain passage.
In the last several years, the ERA has
fared well in the House but not in the
Senate. A solid majority of votes in the
Senate is essential for passage of the
Amendment in North Carolina,
A vote for Charles Vickery for state
Senate is a vole for ERA.
A vote for Russell Walker for state
Senate is a vote for ERA.
Vote Nov. 4.
Joe Hackney
candidate, state House
VctLa Insko
first vice chair,
Orange County Democratic Party
Car la House
former UNC professor
H eprcsentative Tmh I lur.t
April Hart
Ch2pHi;:i
Brvcrly Kaw:!:c
Chapel Hill Town Council
Bcbctte Eel land
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They're everywhere, 1 tell you, everywhere.
They sit in my classes, they work where I eat, they
a! a ays stand in front of me in line cr sit behind rr.e at
football games.
They arc the masters masters of the obvious.
Masters of the obvious are the peop!e who pipe up in
class and enswer the perfectly obvious answers to
questions everyone knew the answer to anyway.
Their mastery of their subject is antsxin. I sat in a
class ence and lhtene-4 for 15 minutes to a uy t:U a
po'Uijil science p'cTcsscr that the t'rJtrJ l.:.'.z
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police! prcc-.u And he thought that he was the fcst
r-ervon In the v.crU who ever thov;ht that.
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wca:!.;-r by saln;. "it's r.at the heat, it's the
one with the score tied hie in the came, he proclaimed
that this would be a ley play. He w as simply amaze.-2.
knowledge cf the obvious, so they ask questions which.
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and dump it there."
I walked to the 077 office on: day a few weeks r:.o
thrcu-h a drizzling rain. My shirt was spotted by the
raindrops and I knew someone was f-air.j to a sk me if it
was ralnh-3 outside. Srr.:or.e dIJ. "Na," 1 c-s.' ;rei,
hi have a new tally. 1 ;i: up into the t'.t and run
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