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THE DAILY TAR HEEL
Friday. March 7, 1969
Letters (even Spanish ones)
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76 Years of Editorial Freedom
Wayne Hurder, Editor
Dill Staton, Business Manager
Workers'
The demands of the University
food Service employees arc
reprinted below. Some of them
have been met, according to first
reports to come out of the
negotiations. Others have not been
met. We encourage you to read
those grievances and think about
them.
If you agree with the workers'
right to expect certain actions from
the administration on the
administration we encourage you to
do something. We don't want you
to seek a confrontation with the
police or raise as much hell as you
can or use other presently useless
tactics. For the time being what
needs to be done is boycott Lenoir
Hall, help support the workers who
are refusing to work and in dire
financial straits, and picket when
picketing is done. If you are
reluctant to do these things at least
speak up for the workers among
your friends. Explain to them the
need for the workers to have these
minimal changes made in their
working conditions.
Don't just limit your talk to the
1. That the pay raises promised
by January 15 by Mr. Prillaman
(Director of University Food
Services) and by Mr. Coffer (of the
University Personnel Office) be
granted. That there be merit raises
and yearly raises.
The promised pay raise (5) has
not yet' materialized. A grievance
over "-ay" ; raises (although ' not
presently being contested) also
dates back to last fall, when the
basic pay was increased to $ 1 .60 an
hour. Because of a payroll
confusion, new employees hired in
October began receiving $1.60 an
hour several paychecks before
permanent employees were raised
to the same level.
2. Immediate appointment of
black supervisors and managers
from within the ranks of the
present workers.
There are presently no black
supervisors or managers, although
experienced ' black employees are
often relied upon by the
management to train the white
supcrvisers.
3. All workers must get
time-and-a-half for overtime.
A full work period is 80 hours
for a two-week period. Employees
have continually worked more
hours, one woman once totalling
108 hours. Instead of paying
time-and-a-half for overtime, the
management has cut off the extra
hours and added them on to the
next two-week period, thus
avoiding overtime pay.
4. All employees should get a
base pay of $1.80.
To indicate why this increase has
been asked: The present annual
salary of a worker earning $ 1 .60 an
hour is $3300, gross pay. This is the
figure prior to withholding tax,
social security, retirement, etc., and
does not include mandatory
deductions for each meal.
5. Each employee should be paid
according to his or her job category
instead of having the same starting
salary for each job.
Cafeteria employees are
consistently paid according to job
categories that rank below the jobs
they are actually doing. In the Pine
Room, a woman was given a
two-week trial period as a cook,
wliile she was paid only the
minimum wage-with the
understanding that her pay would
be raised if she could do the job.
After five years as a cook, she
discovered that she was still
classified as a dishwasher. Now, two"
years later, her classification is
Cook II (Assistant Cook), although
she is second only to the manager
and was expected to train him in
his job.
Rebel Good, Managing Editor
Joe Sanders, News Editor
Harvey Elliott, Features Editor
Owen Davis, Sports Editor
Scott Goodfellow, Associate Editor
Kermit Buckner, Jr., Advertising Manager
Grievances
dorm room. Bring up the subject
for discussion in your classes. You
arc in school to learn. There is a lot
to be learned from the workers'
problems and from Governor Bob
Scott's reactions about the nature
of our state and our society.
Discuss them in your classes.
As BSM co-chairman Preston
Dobbins explained, it is going to be
a long struggle. We hope that you
will not be too timid to accept the
challenge of that struggle. We hope
you will make the effort to improve
the workers' conditions. As Howard
Fuller explained on Wednesday, the
struggle is also yours. This is
obviously clear from the response
of the governor, from his
intervention in the affairs of the
University in order to win votes,
and not in order to bring about
justice in the Universtiy
community. Students, as well as
workers, are refused participation
in decision making in the Universtiy
to a degree that is directly
proportional to the importance of
the decision to be made. It is your
struggle. Become a part of it.
6. That the management stop
overworking present employees to
keep from hiring more.
7. That each employee be paid
for all past overtime.
The employees had been told by
the Director of Food Services that
they would be paid time-and-a-half
for- overtime-work. .However,. .this .
extra pay has not shown up in
thychecks, although the extra hours
are clearly recorded on employees'
check stubs. These hours are
evidently cut off and added onto
the subsequent two-week period to
avoid overtime wages.
8. That the management adhere
to the provision that an employee
shall be classified as permanent
after 90 days' employment.
9. That a schedule be drawn up
which would allow each employee
at least two full weekends off per
month.
Most Food Service employees
work six days a week, and
sometimes seven. The woman who
does the job of chief cook in the
Pine Room had, until last Sunday,
worked every Sunday for eight
years. Once, on a special occasion,
she asked if she could have a
substitute, but permission was not
granted.
10. That a complete description
of duties and jobs be given each
employee so that he will know
what he's supposed to do.
No written job descriptions now
exist, and sometimes verbal job
institutions are not given. Last
December was the first time the
cafeteria employees ever received
an Employee Handbook from the
Personnel Office.
11. That the management show
respect to the employee by
referring to Mm or her as Mr. or
Mrs.
This practice does not presently
exist.
12. That Doris Stevens, who was
laid off for no reason, and who was
given no excuse, be rehired
immediately.
Doris Stevens, a Pine Room
employee, was dismissed without
any attempt by the management at
. communication.
13. That all employees get at
least two days off per week, and
that there be a five-day, 40-hour
work week.
Most cafeteria employees work
six days a week, and sometimes
seven. Many employees have to
work a . split (both daytime and
evening) shift, and are forced to
stay on campus during their
. afternoon break because they have
neither adequate time nor the
transportation to go home.
Erica V
To the Editor:
Struggling to avoid the word
"provincialism," which might be
construed to be another character
assassination, I would like to reply to the
letters of some angry young men.
My first point is that my original
scorching letter to Eric Meyer was not
printed accurately. The editor cut out the
main point: that Miss Meyer's reasons for
eliminating the language requirement are
absurd. If she has trouble with and has
decided never to make use of Spanish,
others have the same reaction to
chemistry, history, or any other course.
The logical (?) conclusion is that nobody
should have to take any course which is
hard, not instantaneously practica, o r
which they deliberately plan to forget.
This conclusion is contrary to the
percepts of a liberal arts education.
Point two, in response to Robert
Hamer's letter, is my utter bewilderment.
His letter proves that one need not know
a foregin language to read its literature. In
the first place I never gave that as a
reason for learning a language. I said yo u
could possibly get a tenth of foreign
poetry in adequate translation. But to go
on to Mr. Hamer's proof, A.) Mr. Hamer
indeed has read Basho and feels he has
not lost much in translation though he
knows no Japanese; B.) "in order to gst
t he full meaning of a poem one must
know the language effortlessly."
Overlooking that slight contradiction, we
happily conclude that C.) since one can
get by with no foreign language, and one
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Now Archaic
Women students participating in
self -limiting hours have been told that the
self-limiting hours policy would take
p recidence over any previously existing
rules. It is time to make the same
a llowances for visitation.
According to certain signs posted in a
women's dorm on Tuesday night, any
woman student campused during an
evening of visitation must stay out of
areas in the dorm where there are
visitation guests. This means a campused
woman could be forced to stay out of her
own room if her roommate is entertaining
a guest!
Or, a girl could be forced to give up her
visitation privilege if her roommate is ,
campused.
The sign continued to say; "It is a
personal problem of the campused girl to
work out with her roommate visitation in
her room."
This involves the denial of certain
rights given to the individual: the right to
occupancy of her own room, and the
right to participate in visitation.
The signs were taken down on
Wednesday morning. However, how can
the person(s) responsible for these signs
consider the denial of either of these
privileges? There are other alternatives
open to solve the conflict of campusment
vs. visitation.
1) change the campusment to a night
which does not have visitation.
2) change the penalty for any
infractions currently requiring a
campusment. This can be in the form of a
night's telephone duty or hostess duty at
the lobby's desk. The possibilities are
numerous.
3) abolish campusments altogether.
This would take more than a simple rule
change by the WRC, but it is feasible for
the near future. This University has
granted visitation for all women and has
Letters
To The Editor
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Antagonist Rebuts Letter
cannot master all languages, he should
not ever attempt one. I have been
thumbing through the catalogue and
don't seem to find any course or even
major which guarantees the student an
absolute mastery of any subject. Why
don't we chuck them all. Just read
newspapers.
It seems in this age of attack on the
responsibility of good educators a few
have ignored the qualities of good v
students. Wrhen any dissenters can present
a reason for abolishing any required fields
of study, any reason which is not in
effect, "Although I chose to come to a
liberal arts college I really have no belief
in a liberal arts education when it gets
hard and does not pay instant money," or
"I, in my infinite self satisfaction, refuse
to spend any time at all studying the
basic way any other persons, not superior
enough to be born speaking English, have
come to express themselves," then come
grieve at me.
Sincerely,
Arden Stevens
Box 126
Dey Hall
Floor-Splitting
James9 Wish
To the Editor:
Members of the ninth and tenth floors
of Hinton-James appreciate very much
Erica Meyer's article in Friday's
DTH-"South Campus Men Protest."
However, we feel that the article
inadvertently conveyed the wrong ids a.
We most enthusiasitcally desire that coeds
become a part of Hinton-James and
South Campus. But we feel that a better
plan for housing them could be worked
out.
Since the main social interaction is on
the floor and not between floors, we feel
that having coeds on two wings of the
upper floors and letting men remain on
the other two wings would be of much
more value in the Residence College than
the present plan of housing them on the
entire top two floors.
The present plan includes the
scheduling of regular activities between
the coeds and a special group of "Project
Hinton" men on the seventh and eighth
' floors, such as the eating of meals
together five nights a week. This is great,
but we feel that the activities would not
be of such an "artificial" nature if the
members of both groups were housed on
given self-limiting hours to
upperclassmen. The movement is toward
equal treatment of men and women
students. Freshman and sophomore men
are not hindered by campusments.
A large chunk of the campusments
doled out to women in the past have been
given for late minutes. With self-limiting
hours, campusments for this reason have
been greatly decreased. Therefore, the
major reason for campusments has
disappeared.
House meetings, held irregularly in the
women's dorms, have a policy of required
attendance. These lengthy meetings are
an inconvenience to the students. If a
woman cuts the meeting, she is given a
Friday night campusment. All this could
be avoided if the girls were given printed
sheets of important announcements.
Voting could be done through ballot
boxes in the lobbies.
The forementioned signs also said,
"Since the campused girl is on her honor
(not to entertain socially any guests
during her campusment), this is
considered an honor code offense and
will be tried as such by the appropriate
council.
This is not an honor code offense.
Again, the author of the signs should have
checked with the appropriate authorities
on the validity of this statement.
Is it lying, cheating or stealing to be in
the same room (your own, perhaps) with
visitation guests?
If a girl had followed the sign's advice,
the only place in the dorm she could
safely be without meeting these quests is
the john stall. This is a disagreeable
thought, but it is the only decision a girl
can make if she doesn't want to throw
her roommate and guest , out of their
room.
The girl who is campused during
visitation faces the problem of abiding by
the campusment rules and at the same
time remain in the section of the dorm
where there are guests. A girl can not be
restricted concerning the rooms she rra y
enter in her dorm. She is only a victim of
conflicting circumstances : campusment
regulations and visitation.
Before these signs are replaced b y
permanent rules, the appropriate student
organization must give this problem of
campusment vs. visitation serious
thought. If not, some unsuspecting girl is
going to be raped by blind interpretation
of the honor code.
the same floor. As well, there would be a
greater number of functions they could
undertake together.
We understand that one of the main
reasons the Chancellor's Advisory
Committee is apprehensive about this
alternate plan is the problem of use of the
floor lounge and study room after closing
hours. Since men and women inhabit the
floor, how are you going to keep them
separate if both want to use the lounge?
We suggest that they designate tenth and
eighth floors as men's lounges and ninth
and seventh as lounge areas for the
women.
In presenting this plan, we have no
desire to impede the development of the
Residence College. We sincerely think
that the Chancellor's Advisory
Committee understands this. Hopefully,
when it is time to make a decision, they
will understand and see the far greater
scoff
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Out Of The Blue Kamikazes!
This winter has seen an exciting
new political group come into
existence on campus-Thc
Kamikaze Society.
The Society is named after the
late president of S.F. (South
Florida) State, Dr. S.I. Kamikaze.
S.F. State burned to the ground last
week in the wake of student unrest.
Dr. Kamidaze, a noted semanticist,
is remembered for his dying quote,
"Youse Commie-Fascists '11 never
get away wit dis."
As stated in its listing of
principles, the Kamikaze Society
has established itself on campus as a
new, dynamic force to oppose any
other dynamic forces that may be
running around.
At the throbbing heart of the
new group is the basic tenet that
the- Society wants change, without -:
violence. This may sound a little
like a quote from Stevenson's
Child's Garden of Verses, but it is a
strongly held belief by Kamikazes.
To implement this lofty goal, the
Society has developed an
extraordinary idea in administrative
streamlining. A number of persons
who are interested in a particular
change get together, hopefully on a
regular basis, to discuss means of
bringing it about. The length of
time involved is unimportant, and
usually extensive.
The Kamikazes call this
innovative technique, a
"Committee."
As their chief method of
accomplishing goals, the
"Committee" technique has proved
highly successful in the past. A
university-wide check by this
reporter revealed that each
department here averages 30
committees. The administration has
about 45 committees,
faculty-administration relations
have about 25, and students have
potential for a better Residence College
with this plan.
Sincerely,
David Petty
1056 James
Strauch Decision
Patted On Bach
To The Editor:
I think you did exactly right i n
refusing to print Strauch's anti-BSM
cartoon.
Congratulatioons,
Jean Edgerton
Graduate Student
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about 250. Thus there are
approximately 1 250 committees on
the UNC campus.
It is the truly magnificent
number of daily accomplishments
of this host of committees that led
the Kamikazes to turn to this
method.
The main opponent of the
Kamikazes -the one in fact that the
group formed to combat is called
PPOW (Perennial Peace Often
Works), pronounced "pow." PPOW
members often result to extrc
violence to accomplish their goals.
In fact, they have been known to
use "stall" techniques in cafeteria
lines, and have held meetings in the
hallways of South Building.
The PPOW members counter the
sudden presence of the Kamikazes
with charges of setting up another
Student Government, resplendent
with wads of red tape and gummed
up administrative machinery. The
chairman of the Society, however,
usually rebuts these charges with
juicy readings from the Christian
Science Monitor ("The lack of
reporting of violence and activism
in this fine journal is more
representative of the world the way
it really is, except in New York;
Chicago, Washington, Boston,
Calcutta, Paris. . . ").
The Society's chairman is also
fond of criticizing the Daily Tar
Heel (the campus newspaper here,
remember?). "I am against the
coverage given to PPOW," he said.
"I think there should be more
photographs of dogs, grass, and
close-ups of construction work to
give the DTH a more rounded
outlook."
When asked the purpose of his
group, he replied, "The apathetic
masses can be defined as those who
don't want to get involved in
anything. The Kamikaze Society
was designed for them."
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