Inside... Former CIA spy, Peter James tells students the U.S. is critically out numbered .. . ...Page? Alpha Delta’s aren’t interested in becom ing a ’typical’ frater nity. . . . Page 9 A local sorority hits problems in attemp ting to locate on campus .. . ...Page? The Student Newspaper of the University of North Carolina at Charlotte Volume XVI, Number 19 Charlotte, North Carolina Monday, October 6, 1980 Board Reverses Oath Ruling By Rick Monroe Carolina Journal Editor The UNCC Board of Trustees voted unanimously to stop requiring non full time employees to sign a loyalty oath. The vote came after a three month boycott by Carolina Journal staff members who refused to sign the oath saying it was a violation of their First Amendment rights. The resolution, passed by the trustees Friday, requires only Watergate Convict Liddy On Campus Tomorrow Convicted Watergate conspiritor, G. Gordon Liddy, will speak in McKnight Lecture Hall on Tuesday, October 7. Liddy, the Watergate “master- mind,” spent 4 J /2 years in prison in cluding 106 days in solitary confine ment. Through all of this Liddy never revealed his co-conspiritors. Liddy served as Special Assistant to the Secretary of the Treasury and its Enforcement Legislative Council before becoming Staff Assistant to the President in the first Nixon ad ministration. Born in New York City in 1930, Lid ¬ PFM Gets “B” Rating For Second Time By Kevin Lyons Carolina Journal News Writer The Residence Hall Cafeteria has r eceived a “B” sanitation rating for the second time in a year. When asked about the problem, Steve Bucko, the new manager of the mod services, explained, “It was not because we were not using the proper sanitation or not instructing our peo ple correctly. This was due to some of the equipment we had.” . He continued, saying he hoped the mspector would be back out here as members of the Board of Trustees, the Chancellor, and full-time faculty and staff members to take the oath. Carolina Journal staff members said the oath had a “chilling effect” on their rights of free press. Accor ding to a brief prepared by the newspaper, the vagueness of the oath would leave a reporter not knowing where he or she stood with the oath. This would cause the writer to “ ‘write with a more restrained pen’ dy, earned a bachelor of science de gree from Fordham College and a doc tor of law from the Fordham Law School. He served two years in the Army and five as a Special Agent of the FBI, where, after six commendations, he became one of the youngest men ever to serve as a Bureau Supervisor on the staff of J. Edgar Hoover. UPB is sponsoring the program and tickets will be on sale at the Can dy Counter today and Tuesday. The cost is $3 for students and $4 for non students. soon as possible, so that they could get their “A” rating back. The problem, he said, was that some of their shelving needed to be replaced, but that the university did not have the money for the work. He added that the university has now decided to appropriate the money. Bucko was adamant in his defense of the cafeteria sanitation, and said he would “welcome any group of stu dents to come by and visit any of our operations unannounced.” to avoid violating the oath. In a memo to William M. Steimer, UNCC Assistant to the Chancellor for Legal Affiars, David Edwards, Special Assistant to UNC President William Friday, said the oath was not unconstitutional and a similar oath had been upheld by the United States Supreme Court in 1969. However, Edwards cited North Carolina law which gives the State the power to require all persons “chosen or appointed to hold any of fice of public trust or profit” to take a loyalty oath and said the Board of Trustees may have gone too far in defining “public officials” to include teachers and other employees. The conflict arose when students employed by the newspaper and other student organizations were placed on state payroll July 1. The move was made to facilitate the computing of income taxes. Prior to July 1, these students were paid by the student organizations directly. Most Carolina Journal staff members have not been paid since Ju ly when they refused to sign the oath. In other action: • The board approved a “swaping” of 248 acres of land owned by the University across Highway 29 for a similar tract of land owned by the PFM is hopeful a re-inspection will change its rating to “A” after work is complete. UNCC Foundation which straddles Mallard Creek Church Road. The transaction must still be approved by the UNC Board of Governors and the State Property Control Commission. According to Vice-Chancellor for Business Affairs Leo Ells, the land will be used for additional parking and for construction of Phase IVB apartments. According to Ells, “Within six months after we aquire the land, we will be using it.” According to Chancellor E. K. Fretwell, the Mallard Creek Road land, which is adjacent to the Univer sity, is much more suitable for University use. ‘Heard a report saying the tower for WFAE had been over-designed and subsiquently over priced. A new tower is being designed which should bring the cost down from $40,000 to $20,000. 'Said the “Metro Mall” which is a self-contained city to be built adjunct to the University and the University Research Park sometime in the future, will be unique in that it will have an employment base long before the city is constructed. The present employment figure for the industries located in the University Research Park is over 2,000.

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