4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday. February 23. 1982'
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John Driscmer. iuUu
Ann Petkrs. a.w.v:i, i'J,ur
Kerry DeRax:hi. Asm-uu-ndiw
Rachel Perry, i 'mivrsuy Mtu
Alan Chapple. CiiyLJiu
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Linda Robertson, sws tidier
AL STEELE. Pkvraphy Editor
Audit control
The establishment of a student Audit Board in 1932 underscored the
desire for a student-run financial system free of administration control.
That same desire for students to oversee the spending of student money
still exists today.
But in the last two years political haggling and absence of cooperation
had rendered the student function ineffective.
Addressing these problems Wednesday night, the Campus Governing
Council approved by-law changes that provide fair compromise and should
put an end to the board's problems.
Fifty years ago, when the idea for the Audit Board originated, the goal
was to inform students of how their money was spent. The Audit Board
oversees the operations of the Student Activities Fund Office, the bank for
all organizations using student fees. The accounts include everything from
the operations of Student Government to the social expenditures of cam
pus dormitories. '
In the past two years, however, the student-run system has been a victim
of feuds between board members, Student Government officials and the
administration. Because board members were appointed by the president,
members began questioning the right of political appointees to have access
to check the books of organizations. Last year Audit Board members in
effect broke from Student Government by writing their own by-laws and
claiming they had the right to appoint their members.
The result was a mess: the Norberg administration was battling an un
cooperative S AFO office, the Audit Board was refusing to meet with newly
appointed members and questions arose as to whom was in control. Presi
dent Scott Norberg said he repeatedly tried to get information from SAFO
under the Audit Board laws but was repeatedly turned down. The board
did not publicly meet from April to November 1981, Norberg said.
The lack of an effective policy in the overseeing of student fees only in
creased the possibility of the administration taking over the operation. At
issue was whether students could handle their own fees; the problems in
dicated perhaps they could not. Both Audit Board members and adminis
tration officials then proposed the entire student finance system under the
administration. '
Student Government officials rejected these proposals and began to
work to improve the system. The new by-laws provide for Audit Board
members to recommend three candidates for every open position on the
Audit Board. The student body president then chooses one of these to
recommend to the CGC for approval, helping to eliminate the political ap
pointments. In the future any changes in Audit Board by-laws would first
have to come from the Audit Board members themselves.
Wednesday's changes in the audit board by-laws help continue the spirit
benind the "establishment of a student-run finance system. Deari of Men
Fred H. Weaver wrote in 1946, "My idea is to do everything possible to
strengthen student self-governance and to awaken in our student leaders
an awareness of the duties and responsibilities as well as the privileges and
freedom of self government."
The new agreement is a fair compromise, giving the Audit Board, the
president and the CGC a voice in the auditing process. Most important,
the agreement assures that students will continue to control student money.
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As the old
By KEN MINGIS
Almost . one year has passed since
Scott Norberg was sworn in as Student
Body President, winning office by a
mere 28 votes. His victory was small,
but it now is apparent that his admini
stration has gone further than most in
enabling students to play a more active
role in the affairs and decisions that af
fect them at UNC. While policy has
been the Norberg administration's
strong point, service has been it's
Achille's heel. Programs such as the
tutorial service and academic advising
have been allowed to drift into ob
scurity, a fact noted repeatedly during
the recent presidential campaign.
It is this service side of Student
Government that most directly affects
students, and it is here that Norberg's
successor, Mike Vandenbergh, will have
to rebuild Student Government credibi-
lity. Today, when students are asked,
"what has Student Government done
for you?" the most common reply is
some vague reference to Chapel Thrill
or calendar changes. Missing are pro
grams that students can list as having
had a direct affect on them.
In dealing with policy issues, Nor
berg's administration accomplished a
lot for students. The theme running
through his term of office that stu
dents should be allowed more responsi
bility has become a reality in several
important areas: the passage of a ref
erendum that effectively puts the Audit
Board under student control, the crea
tion of a course by students dealing with
race relations and the complex planning
that has made this year's Chapel Thrill
concert a reality. In each case Norberg
was able to convince either the admin-
Scott Norberg
istration or the student body that an in
creased student voice was needed in university-related
decisions.
Reviewing the Audit Board referen
dum, which was passed overwhelmingly
by the student body, it is obvious that
Norberg felt a strong need to clarify the
board's duties and composition. At the
time, some students and administrators
complained that it was a "power grab"
by Student Government. In a way, they
were right.
Norberg himself admits that his goal
was to make the Audit Board, charged
with overseeing the appropriation of
student fees, more responsive to student
needs. It was a move that, while con
troversial, gave students the responsi
bility to regularly audit the operations
of tine Student Activities Fee Office. At
very few universities do students have
similar power.
From an academic perspective, it was
during Norberg's year in office that
members of the University relations
committee were able to design and im-
Letters to the editor
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mended by the Governor's Crime Com
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concerned with public safety. The Com
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plement a course on race relations.
Again, few universities provide students
with the opportunity to design their
own courses. The committee did so in a
responsible manner and the course
stands a real chance of being expanded
into a full three-hour credit class in the
near future. .
In addition to increasing student re-
Mike Vandenbergh will be formally inaugurated as Student
Body President at 7:30 tonight in the Great Hall of the
Carolina Union.
sponsibilities, Norberg has opposed ad
ministrative decisions such as the pro
posed calendar changes. In late Novem
ber, administration officials announced
that next year's calendar would be
changed, slicing a week off of Christmas
break. Justifiably, students were in
censed. When he heard the news, Nor
berg said he called a hasty executive
council meeting, discussed the problem
and began making phone calls first
to calendar committee members and
then to Chancellor Christopher C.
Fordham III. He constantly voiced his
opposition in The Daily Tar Heel, in ef
fect, whipping student opinion. The ad
ministration backed down. :
This type of reactive approach to Stu
dent Government made up a large part
of Norberg's success! Other examples
included his work with the town of.
Chapel Hill over the noise ordinance
and the alcohol classes arranged for stu
dents arrested for public consumption
of alcohol. These issues alone leave
Vandenbergh on better terms with the .
town than past presidents.
Several issues have been left un
resolved during Norberg's term, most
notably food service and textbook
prices. To be realistic, Norberg cannot
shoulder the entire blame for the lack of
a coherent policy on food service. He
has had little cooperation from the ad
ministration other than the completion
of a report drawn up by outside consul
tants. Norberg himself says the problem
may not be solved by Vandenbergh or
even after his term is completed. Still,
an emphasis on food service, similar to
that placed on the Audit Board revi
sions, might have made further progress
possible. -Much
the same can be said about the
textbook issue. No real solution has
been found by Norberg's administra
tion, other than trying to persuade pro
fessors to get book orders in on time.
One proposal would book orders to
be in on time. If not,, the professor
would be forced to use the same tex
tbooks the following semester. A
stronger push by Norberg for just such
a plan, though unpopular with faculty,
might have gone a long way toward
eliminating the problem earlier.
Perhaps the most obvious failure of
Norberg's administration has been his
Executive Liaison program, begun last
fall. It was originally envisioned as a
way for Student Government to'inform
students of its plans and to receive input
from them. It is just this type of service
oriented program that students need. In
most areas of campus, the student
liaison simply put up a Student Govern
ment pamphlet and did little else. No in
formation was exchanged, no concerns
voiced. Though Student Government
now has the structure of the program in
place, it remains to be seen whether
Vandenbergh can stop it from simply
fading away.
Looking back on Norberg's admin
istration, it is clear that some of the
policy changes he pushed for will be of
long-term benefit to students. By ad
vocating student responsibility, Norberg
has given students a chance to prove
themselves both to the acbninistration
and to themselves. -
Ken Mingis, a junior journalism and
political science major from Raleigh, is
associate editor of The Daily Tar Heel.
aising drinking
mission, however, typical of most bureau
cracies, sees only the immediate advan
tages, not the long haul.
Alcohol is simply a substance that can
be used or abused. Our society allows the
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By JONA THAN TALCOTT
Mike Vandenbergh has begun to
mold his administration with a fair
though imperfect personnel selection
process and with a solid idea of what he
would like to do once he assembles his
cabinet.
During the last week, Vandenbergh
has appointed six executive assistants
and begun to interview and choose
students for various committee posi
tions. By selecting executive assistants
without using an application process,
Vandenbergh has partially ignored the
call for a more open Student Govern
ment. Vandenbergh has said that he did not
use applications because he felt he need
ed someone to begin the process of ac
cepting applications for other executive
branch positions.
He said that the way he chose his ex
ecutive assistants would not hurt Stu
dent Government's reputation because
he and his staff had made other efforts
to ensure that all other positions were
filled fairly.
Vandenbergh explained how he at
tempted to recruit a diverse group of
students. "We bought ads in The Daily
Tar Heel, we printed up flyers; we put a
notice in the campus calendar. "I need
a core of people to get that message
across to people on campus. I feel that
we have gone a step further than Scott
(Norberg)."
Both former student body presidents
Scott Norberg and Bob Saunders used
selection processes slightly different
from Vandenbergh's. ' .
"We used an informal application
process," Norberg said." I think that
an (official) application process is a bet
ter way to do it. (But) the feeling of my
transition team, my executive assistants
and I was that it's practically impossible
to choose someone to do work and to
handle a large amount of responsibility
when you have never worked with them
before."
"I took applications in conjunction
with my executive assistants," Saunders
said. However, he only had three ex
ecutive assistants working Vith him.
Neither Saunders nor Norberg bought
ads in the DTH or printed flyers.
If Vandenbergh had opened up the
selection of his executive assistants to
the application process, he would have
truly opened Student Government to
the campus as a whole and eliminated the
consistent complaint that Student
Government is just a club. This is not to
say that Vandenbergh has made poor
selections for his six top aides. The
group is both diverse and qualified. At
least three of the aides, Donald Beeson,
Tony Lathrop and Sally Hadden have
extensive executive branch experience.
Jonathan Reckford has worked in the
legislative branch of Student Govern
ment; and though Leslie Takaheshi and
Melanie Wilson lack experience,
Vandenbergh said they were both very
enthusiastic and hard working. One half
of the group of executive ' assistants
worked on the campaign for
Vandenbergh.
Still, if Vandenbergh had opened even
this level of Student Government up to
applications, students could see . the
merits of all potential applicants for the
job. Politics is supposed to be the art of
dealing with people. The public at large
will never really know what kind of peo
ple Vandenbergh chose to deal with
most closely. The executive assistants in
his administration will be particularly
important because they will be the ones
reporting to Vandenbergh on the opera
tions of the different committees. In the
age no answer
use of it, like so many other privileges, by
responsible adults. Persons aged 18 to 21
are considered legal adults: they can vote,
fight for their country, are totally respon
sible for their own actions, livelihoods,
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previous administration, the cabinet
heads reported directly to Norberg.
Without an application process, the stu
dent reaction to executive assistant
selections comes after the fact. Also,
people who continued to work within
the executive branch during the cam
paign season may be overlooked. Only
Lathrop continued working in Suite C
after the campaigns began.
And without an application process,
Vandenbergh can still be accused of
favoritism or of perpetuating the Chi
Psi "conspiracy" (two of his six ex
ecutive assistants are Chi Psis). It would
be unfortunate if such claims of ex
ecutive favoritism were allowed to hurt
Vandenbergh's efforts to implement
some of his plans.
Vandenbergh . already has set his
sights on the major tasks of his new ad
ministration. "My two highest priorities
will be an Academic Advising program
and an employment service."
Vandenbergh said. The new president
stressed he would like to see his ad
ministration differ from others in recent
years. "I am hoping to spend a lot less
time on current issues and more time on
new problems that need to be address
ed," Vandenbergh said. "I want to
change our focus from one of
maintenance to one of change."
Vandenbergh said that he and his
aides would start working on the
academic advising service and the stu
dent employment service by the end of
this week. His executive assistants will
begin to research the materials collected
in Suite C on both topics. "As soon as
we finish with selecting personnel, we
will start working on academic
advising," said Reckford, who will be
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overseeing academic affairs.
For future goals and tasks not con
sidered current issues, Vandenbergh has
presented several new ideas: a student
member on the Admissions Committee
of the University, a program for helping
students closed out of University hous
ing find an apartment and a review of
the present exam period.
Vandenbergh's personnel selection of
cabinet-level positions shows his will
ingness to stand behind his pledge of
openness in student government though
is method of appointing executive
assistants may leave him open to
criticism. With the help of his newly
selected aides and cabinet heads, he
should be able to tackle some of the
problems that have plagued students in
the past as well as look to future tasks.
Jonathan Talcott, a sophomore history
and English major from Litchfield,
Conn, is an editorial assistant for The
Daily Tar Heel.
etc.; yet, because a few members of their
age group abuse the privilege, the Com
mission wishes to ban the privilege for the
entire group. If this same logic were ap
plied to all of society, then prohibition
would be the obvious answer. If it were
applied to our free enterprise system,
which is abused to the limit by an un
scrupulous few, then Communism would
have every right to flourish.
The idea still seems to exist today, that,
if something doesn't go right, then pass a
law against it. Society doesn't seem to
learn that its problems will never be solved
in the courtroom or jailhouse: slapping
on fines, throwing "evil" people in jail
and discarding the key carryovers
from the middle ages only suppress the
problems for a period of time. Doing so is
analogous to curing cancer with aspirin.
People, of course, must be protected
against violent criminals; but, misde
meanors, especially victimless crimes, can
be handled much more discreetly. Society
must get its problems out in the open and
begin to tackle them from there, not hide
them under books of legalities.
To close, and so I won't be accused of
not contributing a possible solution to the
imminent dilemma: have drinking es
tablishments install breathalyzers at the
exits. While this will not completely solve
the problem, it will at least give unwary
drinkers some idea of their coordinate
ability.
Phillip Carriker
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