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12AThe Daily Tar HeelMonday, August 23, 1982 Salaries State pay freeze By UZ LUCAS Staff Writer The state salary freeze recently passed by the North Carolina General Assembly has induced several UNC faculty members to resign, according to University officials. "Some key faculty members have left," said UNC Chancellor Christopher C. Ford ham III. "This is distressing because the school has the finest faculty in the Southeast. It hurts because this is a na tionally and internationally competitive in stitution, unlike other state agencies af fected by the freeze." No figures have been calculated on the number of faculty leaving due to the freeze, Fordham said, adding that he hopes the turnover to be only "minimal to modest." 'Some key faculty hurts because this is a nationally and inter nationally competitive institution." Christopher C. Fordham III UNC Chancellor Passed in June, the salary-freeze bill states that no state employee shall receive "any performance salary increases, effi ciency salary increments, merit salary in crements, or annual increments." The bill was passed because the projec tion of state revenue didn't support the tion ot state revenue aian t support tne Altnougn new racuiry win oe nireai to usual salary increase, said Wayne Jones, replace the leaving members, to preserve July death of UNC junior called The July death of a UNC student has ing to Deborah Radison, Orange County been declared accidental due to inhalation of freon, said a spokesman for the Carr boro Police Department. Michael Timothy O'Brien, 21, was found dead July 30 at his residence at 1-10 Old Well apartments in Carrboro. Accord of Satisfied Customers. leads key faculty to other posts acting associate vice chancellor of finance at UNC. "It's a definite reflection on the economy." , UNC is now "certainly not in as good a position in hiring new f acuity as other institu tions." Wayne Jones acting associate vice chancellor of finance This is the first year in several years that there hasn't been a salary increase during the fiscal year, said. Felix Joyner, vice president of finance for UNC General Ad ministration. The state didn't even have the budgetary finances to fulfill January's sakry increase, at first, he said, so it is not unusual for them to not have the finances to grant an additional increase. "The January increase has not been affected, though," he said. members have left It In some instances, the University would have had nonappropriated funds, such as private grants, that could serve until an in crease was given, Joyner said, but at this time the University doesn't have the funds either. Altnougn new racuity win be hired i to Medical Examiner, O'Brien had been dead since July 24. An article in the August 5 issue of The Tar Heel quoted Dr. John Wolfe, a staff pathologist at the N.C. Chief Medical Ex aminer's Office, as saying, "There was no TO fc Hcrc'o Just A Few of The Many Unsolicited Letters That We've Received From Our Large Family i if "7 i 1 fir & Tweeter I ijh JuSt I cartboto 'ir4S, Gentlemen: ro you e i 2 WTrea dMl Te" had not heard tho W 1 1 civing us a 8re records that we hat your 1 1 'o b e tj typ k ttste0 f pctt,at , "erf tentative aanged - Since 3. OU'Z&:i: MAY-WE HELP YOU WITH YOUR NEXT HI-FI PURCHASE? l ... . . 1 m ' i i ii i i - i j ni r O Q ff O ftt the student-teacher ratio, UNC is now "certainly not in as good a position in hir ing new faculty as other institutions," Jones said. The bill also required a reduction, of more than $8.5 million in the elimination of vacant positions across the state. Because of this, several already, vacant SPA, or non-faculty, positions were abolished at the University, Jones said. . On campus, non-faculty jobs totaling some $1 million were eliminated, Fordham said. "This cut impairs the support staff and could possibly affect the University's effectiveness," he said. The University has petitioned UNC President William C. Friday to help plead its case, Fordham said. Friday plans to take the matter back to the General Assembly in January. Although there has been no great outcry other than the resignations, the bill has hurt the campus. "No one likes to see in flation hit their pay it really hurts morale," Jones said. Although the faculty is concerned about the effect of the salary freeze on their per sonal lives, their greatest concern is for the implications the freeze may have on the University's competitiveness, Fordham said. accidental indication of physical violence" in O'Brien's death. O'Brien, who was taking two summer school classes at the University last session, was listed as a junior at UNC last year. His home town was listed as Pinehurst. Pi neirw lk7 , . 'r WEST END OF FRANKLIN ST. Beside Tar Heel Car Wash CI1APEL HILL 9 65-4695 .OOG Proposed regulations reduce services to mildly handicapped By ROSEMARY OSBORN Staff Writer Federal law 94-142 guarantees all handicapped children the right to an education. However, recently pro posed regulations before Congress may weaken educational programs for the handicapped. Mary Ann Born, respite care coor dinator for the Association for Retard ed Gtizens of Orange County, said the proposed Department of Education regulations were a type of deregulation resulting from the Reagan Administra tion's inability to reduce funding. "They have a sort of laissez faire at titude, so they are going to take the meat out of the present bill," she said. . "The proposed deregulations have ' the potential to have adverse effects on the delivery of services to handicapped people," she added. "The proposed regulations are reducing the amount of services available to the less severely handicap Groups: KKK no longer The Associated Press RALEIGH Ku Klux Klan member ship nationwide and in North Carolina has peaked after a spurt in the mid-1970s, groups that monitor the white-supremacist organization say. Klan leaders in North Carolina, how ever, say membership is again on the rise, but in keeping with Klan policy they won't disclose figures. "We're in the phase of trying to re cruit," said F. Glenn Miller of Angier, leader of the Carolina Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, one of the newer branches. Stephen S. Miller, a Carolina Knights on Main St. NC 27510 Dear Sir: handled toda" TdTLtV """Plaints .but he heardy-m 1 J know the salesman's "nit in my arraZ.d ? ' looke" at the (new) unlt he 2 I repla""t of hassle arA ai ... WJ-cnin 2 hours. t ,..y and. am pleased t experienced Mrs. s.g. Quality Stereo Componcnto Rated the Triangle' leading HW i Center in a national magazine. ped," said Carey Fendley, senior ex ecutive director for the North Carolina Association for Retarded Citizens. The reduction could mean that mildly retarded students would be returned to the regular classrooms. In response to the situation, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution on Aug. 10 expressing displeasure with the propos ed regulations and urging the Depart . ment of Education to keep the present regulation intact. . ' . , Nevertheless, Tom I. Davis, special assistant for communications for the DOE, said, "It's too early to say if we (DOE) would favor or oppose the changes." He said there is some con cern that less stringent monitoring of the program may allow some children to "slip through the cracks" of the educational system. But, Davis said the bottom line for the DOE is "we don't think a lot will happen." The retarded citizens association said a lot will happen. Three key changes concern them Parent narticirwtirm in member from Cumberland County, says hard economic times are causing more people to join. "The media can only say the economy is getting better for so long," he said. "Eventually people are going to start looking elsewhere for answers." The Anti-Defamation League of the B'nai B'rith, which monitors Klan acti vity, says there are about 750 hard-core Klan members in North Carolina up by about 500 from 10 years ago, although recruiting has reached a plateau in the past three years. Another 250 North Carolinians belong to other right-wing, racist groups such as "p?cted 1603 GUESS RD. Across from Northgate Mall DURHAM 286-1233 the evaluation and placement in special education would be curtailed, evalua tion requirements of educational pro grams would be changed, and the definitions of services the school systems must provide would be remov ed. Members of the association say. that these regulation changes could jeopar dize the educational access of retarded children. Because of great citizen response, a 90Hday comment period has been granted. : The proposed regulations will be discussed at nine regional hearings dur ing September. The Southeast hearing will be held in Atlanta on Sept. 15 and 16. Fendley said she will represent the North Carolina position. A Sept. 13 symposium at the Sheraton Crabtree in Raleigh will ex plain the content of the proposed regulations and the possible impact of the proposals. The presentations will be bound and sent to Washington as will the presentations at other hearings. growing the Nazis and the National States' Right Party, the Anti-Defamation League says. Those figures make North Carolina one of the top 10 states in Klan mem bership, estimated by the league at 1 1 ,000 nationwide. "It's tapered off at this point, though," said Normal Olshansky, di rector of the league's regional office in Richmond, Va. "North Carolina's been blighted with a perception of something that doesn't exist that these groups are prominent and influential." - Infighting among Klan factions has re stricted growth, says John P. Furman, a staff member of Klanwatch in Mont gomery, Ala. "They have a lot of organizational problems, and it keeps them from grow ing faster," said Furman, who estimates North Carolina's Klan membership at no more than 300. The State Bureau of Investigation keeps files on right-wingers involved in criminal activities. Gary R. Griffith, su pervising agent for the SBI, said there's been no dramatic increase in North Carolina Klan membership. Observers say the two biggest Klan groups in North Carolina are the Carolina Knights and the United Klans of America. The Nazi-leaning Carolina Knights, led by Glenn Miller, may have as many as 300 members in North Carolina and South Carolina. The United Klans of America, affiliated with the national group based in Alabama, is said to be the largest Klan operation in the state. It re putedly is centered near Goldsboro and has about 400 members. Two other extreme right-wing groups compete for members in central and western North Carolina. They are the White Knights of Liberty and a group or ganized by Virgil Griffin of Gastonia. The White Knights, with an estimated membership of about 50, split off from the Federated Knights of the Ku Klux Klan after Joe Grady of Winston-Salem objected to the group's relations with the Nazi Party. "I took an oath of allegiance to the U.S. government, and I won't deviate from it," Grady said, explaining his op position to Nazis. Griffin's group is similar in size and is not opposed to the Nazi Party. The Na tional Socialist Party of America has suf fered a reverse since its leader, Harold A. Covington, left North Carolina after Nazi members said he was a federal informer. Covington is reported to have gone un derground. J. Gorrell Pierce of Belews Creek, a Nazi and former Klansman, said his group is growing although it has no leader. Sharp Automatic Pencil .....$4.00 Sliding Sleeve . Pencil ............ .$7.95 Roll'n Glue Liquid Adhesive 30 "Slim" Rolling . .Writer $5.00 Utra Fine Sharp Point . 790 i mm t mm ti STUSGENT STOrtG!
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