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It comes as no surprise that University officials at a recent UNC Board
of Trustees meeting did everything but completely rule out the possibility
of building student apartments on the Couch property near Kroger Plaza.
Given the dismal economic situation rising construction costs and
high interest rates the apartments, which must generate enough reve
nue to be self-sufficient, would be priced out of even the private market.
Students simply wouldn't pay the high rents necessary to keep the apart
ments afloat.
A report submitted by Vice Chancellor for Business and Finance
John Temple and Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Donald Boulton
states that not only is the proposed apartment complex too costly, it
no longer is needed: There is no housing crunch, now, it said.
Despite the report's pessimism about the new apartments, which
would cost students roughly $510 a month if built today, the board
delayed action to give Student Government a chance to study the lengthy
and thorough report.
Yet, we doubt Student Government will find anything arguable in
the report. Temple and Boulton did their homework.
Still, it might be bad news for students who most certainly Will be
closed out of on-campus housing this Thursday when lottery results
come in. The report states, quite accurately, that finding housing is
not as much a problem as finding low-rent housing near campus. As a
recent Student Consumer Action Union survey indicates, rents have
climbed by 52 percent in the past five years and 17 percent in dorms in
the past two years.
But, despite the report's contention, the housing market is tight these
days tight and expensive. While we won't argue with the recommen
dation made by Boulton and Temple, we would like to hold them to
their word that their decision is not irrevocable. Chapel Hill housing
crunches are as common as the flu these days and come next fall or the
next fall, tripling will be the norm again, and, again, students will bear
the brunt of it in the way of higher costs, fewer rooms and incredible
inconvenience.
Through the lens
The Bottom Lina
Zocalm .
A Springfield, Ohio, couple has
learned that you really can't judge a
book by its cover. A set of encyclo
pedias was delivered to the home of
Dave and Olga Kinscy, but the last
volume contained more than infor
mation on zinkenitc and zymogen.
Inside the hollowed out final volume
was $50,000 worth of cocaine w hich
buys lots of encyclopedias. t '
The scheme unraveled on Jar 19
when a mail carrier went to the Kin
sey's home and told them they owed
$4.84 in postal handling fees for a
package that was returned from
Miami, Ha. The package had been
sent to someone at a Miami hotel,
but the person was not there and the
package was sent back to the post
oliice.
The Kinscy's said they didn't send
a package to Honda, but somehow
their name was listed cn the return
address. The po'A of fur said the
package was kally their's.
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By ELAINE McCLA TCHEY .
Bobby Seale, organizer of the Black Panther Party,
has not given up the struggle to change the status of
blacks in America. But he has changed his tactics.
Seale first became a national figure in 1966 when he
. and Huey P. Newton co-founded the Black Panther
Party, a political organization that became involved in
- many confrontations with the police during the turbu
' lent period of the civil rights movement.
In 1969, Seale and seven other members of the Black
Panther Party were tried in Chicago for conspiracy to
incite a riot. Seale was bound, gagged and chained to
his chair in the courtroom after he spoke out in court
for the right to choose his own defense. He was sentenced
to four years in jail for contempt of court.
Seale again had to stand trial when he was accused of
conspiracy to commit murder in New Haven Prison.
The judge in that case later dismissed the charges.
He ran for mayor of Oakland, Calif., in 1973, run
ning on a platform of community organization. He was
defeated by the incumbent in a runoff election. .
When the Attica prison riots erupted, Seale was one
of the negotiators called in to work with the prisoners.
Since that time, Seale has become involved in a new
kind of revolutionary activity. Seale says that trying to
bring about a change through organizations like the
Black Panther Party won't work in the 1980s. He is
now working with Advocates Scene, a lobby network
. designed to help communities get organized economic
ally and politically.
"We cannot look at the messiah leaders anymore,"
Seale said. "If you talk about black liberation, remem
ber it's got to be black economic liberation.
Because many people had misconceptions about its
" purpose, Seale explained the origins of the Black Panthers.
"A lot of people see the Black Panther Party as some
group of guys that used to carry guns and shoot it out
with the police and that's all it was about. It was about
a heck of a lot more.
"You see, we knew where Martin Luther King was
coming from in those days. He was coming from a non
antagonistic position and rightfully so.
The non-antagonistic way wasn't working, in Scale's
opinion. Three years before the Black Panther Party
was started Seale watched peaceful civil rights demon
strators get attacked by police.
"Suddenly the camera swung and we saw a couple of
hundred policemen mounted on horses with steel hel
mets on and baseball bat-!ength clubs. And those 203
policemen charged those peaceful demonstrators.
Horses hooves and billy clubs cracking skulls and
blood splattering all over and the news media showed it
over and over.
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Bobby Seale, former Black Panther
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"That's what affected Huey and me first.
"Obviously, the political racist social order of this
country was not going to accept the plain, practical hu
manism of where Martin Luther King was coming from."
Seale and Newton decided to attempt another kind
of organization three years later. They wanted to get to
the issues, Seale said, and they felt they could do it
through the development of a black political party.
"We weren't talking about killing nobody, we were
talking about running for political offices and running
political campaigns and taking over the legislative body.
"Yes, we would have demonstrations but they would be
non-violent demonstrations. The only difference was that
if they came up attacking us, we were going to shoot back!
"The police had riot shotguns, we got us some riot
shotguns. The police had .357 Magnums and howitzers;
we went and got the same thing.
"I was there to perpetrate violence? No, the violence
had already been perpetrated upon us in our black com
munities. We had to defend putselves from it."
Scale does not see the solution for blacks as a return to
the 60s civil rights movement.
"The 1930s are going to have to be about community
based, programatic, political and economic issue-oriented
organizing.
"A lot of people are wondering why, what happened to
our 60s movement. Our black brothers and sisters are
saying, 'we've got to get back to the 60s movement.' No.
It is not about having in the 80s the exact same thing.
" We've got to go to a higher level."
Seale explained that now that he had gotten a chance
to look over all that had happened, he saw that the changes
needed to start at the community level. He also said that
he saw how closely the world was inter-connected and that
racial problems went beyond the blacks of this country.
Seale is now actively working for Advocates Scene, a
lobby network that tries to help small community groups
to organize. The community organizations focus on gain
ing control of the economic framework of their commun
ity through political activism.
Seale says he is against capitalism. He would like to see
communities in control of their own production of goods
and services.
"Those people who are starving are starving because
they don't own the land anymore because the capitalists
came in and bought the land. Then the people don't have
the money to grow their own food. They also don't have
the dollars to buy food for the capitalists to even market
food in there."
The problems of the poor are similar all over the world,
says Seale.
"First class citizenship was supposed to be part of our
fight for the 60s. We have to re-evaluate and put another
value on another level. It's survival on the face of the
earth. -,
' "I'm an Earth citizen. First-class humanism as opposed
to first-class citizenship in America. If we can't grasp what
first class humanism is about we're going to miss the
whole point.
Elaine McClatchey, a junior journalism and English major
from Fort Myers, Flo., is a staff writer for The Daily Tar
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The acquittal of the six Ku Klux Klansmen and Nazis accused of
shooting five Communist Workers Party members in November 1979 in
Greensboro was difficult for many North Carolinians to accept. They
had seen the "evidence played and replayed on their television screens;
cameramen covering the CWP demonstration had filmed the scuffle
that broke out when the Klansmen arrived and the burst of shooting
that left the demonstrators dead.
Under North Carolina law, however, that footage could not be intro
duced as substantive evidence. Film and photographs can only be used
to illustrate the testimony of a witness. Judge James M. Long did
admit some tapes and photographs as substantive evidence it might
have been grounds for appeal had the defendants been convicted. '
This week Rep. Ben Tison, D-Charlotte, introduced a bill in the
General Assembly which would bring state law in line with federal laws
allowing photographs as substantive evidence in civil and criminal cases.
The bill requires that lawyers provide "a proper foundation" for
such evidence, establishing who handled the photographs or film before
its introduction as evidence.
Tison's proposal has the support of most of the state's district attor
neys, and it would rectify a frustrating flaw in the existing law. Once
the validity of photographic evidence has been established, it can be
considered more reliable than the testimony of an ordinary witness.
Photographs are simply not prone to bias or forgetfulness. Prosecutors
and defense attorneys now are denied a valuable tool for establishing
the truth, and it is time North Carolina law was amended to provide it.
To the editor:
The Student Consumer Action Union
at an executive council meeting in January
of this year made the decision not to en
dorse any candidates in the upcoming
campus elections. Keeping to that deci
sion, SCAU did not sponsor a candidates'
forum, did not interview any of the candi
dates, and did not desire to have its name
associated with any candidate.
Furthermore, we were very careful to state
SCAU's position to all the candidates who
asked for endorsements. To this day, the
Student Consumer Action Union has not
endorsed any candidate.
I wanted to clarify SCAU's position on
endorsements because recent campaign lit
erature distributed by Joe Buckner's staff
identified me with my past position as
SCAU Chairperson on brochures and in
The Daily Tar Heel advertisements sup
porting Joe Buckner.
I did not approve of this wording in the
literature and I want to make it evident
that my personal support for Joe Buckner
is in no way an organizational endorsement
by the Student Consumer Action Union.
Raaponso
Sharon Parker
SCAU
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should provide them with a lot of
useful information. But volume 15
proved that you can get a lot more
out of books than just knowled
Hcppy hour
In Clifton Park, N.Y., a couple
has gone through a sobering experi
ence with their II -month-old cat,
which awakened them in the middle
of the night with a frightening cry.
Sheri and Bill Estcp found their
cat Jake suffering an apparent h:zrt
attack his body flopping ar.d
mouth frothing.
They rushed him to a local veteri
narian, who placed the animal cn
the floor to observe it. Jake stumbled
into a wall and keeled over.
MIs he dead?" the owners asked.
MYcah," said the vet. "Dead
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bon fell and broke cn the kitchen
floor and Jake ju:t couldn't resist
c!:::r.!r.g it up.
The incident cc:t the F.tcp's 577
for transportation to the animal hos
pital and the vet's ft:s.
Out Jake paid a pretty touch price
too: one dandy handover.
And that's th: teueni line.
To the editor:
Yesterday's letter from Morrison resi
dents asked several questions. Here are
the answers:
, o The Elections Board unanimously
approved Joe Buckner's use of campaign
materials with no market value.
o The Fraternity and Sorority Trans
port Service made 80 calls in the last five
and one-half weeks classes were in session.
o Buckner's campaign pamphlet says
he "coordinated a widespread effort of
students, administrators, physical plant
personnel and Chapel Hill residents ..."
in assembling the obstacle course.
o "Motivating people" may or may
not be ambiguous, but the fact is 300
people involve themselves in R.A.P.E.,
and 250 involve themselves in S.T.A.R.
These people are hot merely motivated,
they are involved.
Elaine Agapion
Fraternity and Sorority
Transport Service
Assistant Coordinator
Harkov defended
To the editor:
Ray Warren's letter in Monday's Daily
Tar Heel concerning Andy I larkov's can
didacy for CPSF President ("Mann in
GPSF," DTIf, Feb. 16) simply does not
tell the truth. Andy Haxkov has not
"openly promised to 'politicize the
office. He has promised to continue
contributing politically as he did when
' we were undergraduates at State Univer
sity of New York-Binghamtoh.
While executive vice president of SUNY
Bs Student Association, Andy did not
impose his allied "kftht" views cn the
student tody. If anything he gave the
students a greater chance to be heard.
He resurrected the Student Ccurze end
Teacher Evaluation Guide which v. as
sercly r::i:J and missed at a Ure uni
versity such as Cinghamtcn.
Aniy Harkov listened to the studsnl
voice. In the face of adm'.-.i-trauvc pres
sure to ch:r the frad: sy.:m( Ar.dy
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the plan the administration wanted to
cram down their throats wholesale.
One certainly wonders why Ray Warren
has decided to speak out in such an un
. informed manner at this point.
Chari Anhouse
Jeffrey Scharff
Paul Wyckoff
School of Law
Chapel Thrill
To the editor:
It seems that the Campus Governing
Council is again setting itself up with the
ideal conditions which made Chapel Thrill
last year the financial disaster which it
turned out to be. With the appropriation
of an additional $30,000 and a standing
budget of $147,090, we are again facing
the problem of overt budget mismanage
ment. It seems the money has been justi
fied because of the expected added attrac-
. tion of the "ole hometown boy," James
'Taylor.
It is important to realize now that
Chapel Hill "hometown boy" has made
out quite well in his day and the fee is re
flecting this fact. I am sure it is just
another financial proposition to him and
profit is profit in the big world of eco
nomics. Hometown memories and old
pals must be a thing of the past. Someone
once told me that he used to play in front
of his house for free. But those days are
all part of the past. So because of the
popularity of James Taylor music and
the lazy summer days the "Jewel of the
South" enjoys, $50,000 of an allotted
$65,000 goes to J.T.. I only hope that
.the new Council will benefit from the
shared experience which the CGC of
1980 enjoyed when they realize that bills
are bills and all bills must be paid.
So when the new Council realizes
again that the "profit making" venture
of Chapel Thrill 19S0 turned up in the
red, they can do what we are now doing
making more mistakes.
Joseph S. Kowalczyk
CGC Representative
District 5
Idea spre2dlng
To the editor:
1 am writing in response to the letter
of Professor Thomas ("Majority mis
guided, not moral, reader says," DTH,
"Feb. 10), criticizing the Moral Majority
and "other like-minded folk." Surely
Professor Thomas is correct in pointing
out that the Bible does not encourage
believers to force others to accept their
beliefs. But since when did participation
in the American political process become
equivalent to forcing one's beliefs on
others?
I was under the impression that the
constitutional provisions for democratic
liberty were intended to prevent just
such a totalitarian domination of one
group over others, and to provide for
the free dissemination of ideas.
How is it, then, that certain of those
who take advantage of their constitu
tional rights to vote, to work on behalf
of candidates they support, and to speak
,out in favor of what they believe, are
now criticized for forcing their beliefs on
others? Or is it that these rights are guar
anteed to all except religious believers?
Surely not even the Moral Majority
advocates a return to the days of the In
' quisition. They would appear only to be
making use of what was meant to be a
fair and free market for the exchange of
ideas. To bar them from participating in
what is supposed to be a free and open
political system, purely on the grounds
that their ideas are religiously derived, is
the kind of discrimination absolutely un
conscionable in a society which holds
freedom of speech to be a fundamental
liberty of all.
By all means, disagree with the Moral
Majority if you must. Speak joutjjinst.
what they say, argue with thsm, dispute"
their assertions about what b right and
wrong. But please do not deny them the
right to expound their ideas, to partici
pate fully and freely in the political pro
cess, lest you become guilty of the intol
erance you so loudly decry, and our
society become another of those where
freedom of speech is only for those who
hold certain views.
Russell Board
UNC Department of Philosophy
Equal opportunity
To the editor:
"Discovery," the cultural program
presented by the Black Student Move
ment last weekend, was characterized by
insightful selection of program topics,
hospitality to the many guests, and at
the Friday evening reception, even ele
gance. Unfortunately, almost all the par
ticipants were black.
At the few events I attended, there
were no white students other than my
self. That fact alone implied some truth
in the statement I heard in a seminar on
, blackwhite relations, that "this campus
is, for practical purposes, segregated."
The event would have served a greater
purpose had it done more to bring white
and black students together, Thus, it
would have been a statement of opposi
tion to the forces of separatism on
campus examples of which range from
discussion of "black entertainment"
'and "white entertainment" at "Chapel
Thrill" to the Rev. Ben Chavis calling
for a black political party.
Programs presented on the campus by
the black students must not be only for
the black students. Rather, the sensitive
social and political issues must be dis
cussed by whites and blacks together.
Blackwhite relations is not a black
issue.
I do hope that the hosts of future
events will make a greater effort to
attract ell students, and that a broader
part of the studentry will take advantage
of these occasions.
It takes self-confidence and a sense of
, humor to represent one's race as well as
one's self in any situation, particularly
'when race itself is the matter at hand. I
was courteously welcomed, and I enjoyed
myself, but "Discovery" would have
been enhanced by a greater number of
white participants.
Joe Reck ford
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