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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.