CGA
lairts
Faces Budget Cuts
After six years as an officially
recognized student group, the CGA has for
the first time obtained office space. Stu
dent Body President Scott Norberg and
Executive Assistant Summey Orr announc
ed their decision on April 29, to allocate
Room 211-B in the Carolina Union to CGA.
According to Howard Henry, director of
the Union, the office will be available for
occupancy in late July.
Other organizations to also obtain
space include the Carolina Athletic
Association, the Senior Class, the new stu
dent weekly newspaper The Phoenix, and
the Association for Women Students’ She
Magazine.
This new allocation of space w'as made
po.ssible with the completion of a new an
nex to the Carolina Union. Norberg and
Orr took the opportunity to evaluate the
space needs of organizations presently in
the Union as well as those requesting
assignments.
Norberg said of the proces.s, “We tried
to make the criteria completely objective.
We looked at the history of each organiza
tion -- how long it has existed and the
variety of its programs. And we assigned
offices to those that seemed stable and
would continue to .serve the largest number
of students.”
CGA formally applied for space in
mid-January, but campaigning for an of
fice began much earlier. Lee Mullis,
former chairperson of CG.A, said, “W'e
have requested an office several times over
the years, but we began actively campaign
ing for it during the 1980 student elections.
We were very emphatic with (President)
Bob Saunders.
“And when the decision was passed to
Scott Norberg this year, we pursued the
issue energetically. I felt our record of pro
viding educational and support services
--not only to the gay community, but to the
non-gay communiry -- for more than six
years spoke for itself.
“We deserved more than two rented
lockers in the Union ba.sement."
Newly electged CGA chairperson
Mark Evans says the office will provide
more than small meeting, storage, and
, work space. He said, “k will give lesbian
and gay students a reference point -■ a
placed where we can get information as
well as work on whatever project may be in
progress.
“i think the office will mean that CGA
will be much more healthy.”
Mullis reports that the new office has
no telephone and that presently there are
no CGA funds for one. Until a telephone
can be funded, the CGA contact number
will remain 929-4997. However, regular
office hours will be established soon after
the office is opened.
Mullis and treasurer Randy
Woodland report that the Campus Gover
ning Council (CGC) hat finalized the
1981-82 student activities budget, with
CGA’s appropriation declining for the se
cond successive year. The final appropria
tion of $675 represents an 11 percent
decrease from this year’.s funding.
During the month-lorg budgetary
process, CGA’s activities were rated highly
by the subcommittee reviewing programs.
The Outreach Program {sp?al;ers bureau)
and an educational pamphlet on homosex
uality, produced for ntv^ Carohna
students, were given highest latings.
The repon from the finance subcom
mittee was less favorable. Charged with
balancing the student government budget,
the subcommittee had to trim total re
quests of $311,000 by 34 percert. CGA’s
total budget request of $2402 -■ .ip from
this year’s budget of $10:)3 - was rut to
$11.50.
During the full CGC meeting on April
25, CGA withstood attempts to cut its
budget further. Representative Phil
Painter (District 19) moved to cut CGA’s
budget entirely; his motion died for hok of
a second. Later he said, “This (CGA> is a
controversial organization. The University
could face a suit for funding its activities.”
During the day-long session, CGA’s
total budget was raised to $1190. The stu
dent government appropriation to this
budget was raised to $675, leaving $515 to
be raised by CGA through Lambda
subscriptions, speakers’ honoria, and other
fundraising.
This budget funds traditional CGA
programs such as the Outreach Program
and Gay A*wareness Week. Lambda was
funded for five issues, and money was in
cluded to reprint the educational pam
phlet for only freshman orientation
packets. Money tvas not included for the
Triangle Area Resource I.i.st nor for a pro
posed gay cultural week cbservance in the
spring.
NPR Airs Hofocaust Stcry
National Public Radio will aid “The
Men With the Pink Triangle” during the
last week of June to its member stations
throughout the country. WUNC-P'M in
Chapel Hill has not made a final decision
to carry the program.
The program, taped “on location,” is
adapted from the book by the same name
written by Heinz Hcger. It is the story of
Heger’s six years of imprisonment and tor
ture at the hands of the Nazis for
“homosexual behavior.”
Wesley Horner, the Boston re.sident
who produced and directed the program,
says. “Heinz Heger’.s personal journal is an
opening to a part of history that is not well
known. His experience and that of the
thousands of gays w-hase experiences were
similar tells us not o.vy about human suf
fering. but also about compassion and
dignity. His survival Jtory is the stom of the
capacity in each of i> for resilience^ adap
tation. the will toihe and, of com-se, terri
ble eval and great grod.”
Tim Wamer, me program director of
WLINC-PTVI, .said, ‘NPR has told us t.icre
may be language advisories. And they will
probably give us a preview of the oregram
about a week be ere the air date.* A; that
time we 11 make 3 decision about air. no the
entire program. ’
He said >MJNC-FM might record it
for later brcad(Si locxliy. “We recoid a
lot of special tMa;;s on speculation, li.sim
to them, and ihr-i make a deci-sion as to
whether to air i* later,” he said.
(NP:, cont« p. 4)
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