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Bus to Concert Phi Eta Sigma will provide bus service to the Oct. 18 Friends of the College Concert in Raleigh. The bus will leave from the South Parking Lot of the Union and will return immediately after the concert. Tickets for the ride are SI. 00 and may be obtained at the Union Desk. Moratorium Meeting A Moratorium planning meeting will be held at 8:00 tonight in Gerrard Hall. Final plans for the mass march as well as other activities on Oct. 15 will be discussed. j I! Sljip K IK ISV- 77 Years of Editorial Freedom Volume 77, Number 21 CHAPEL HILL. NORTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY. OCTOBER 9 1969 Founded February 23. 1893 ndmaent Stirs C xam; ( I M It h Ms lyt AS I I i I V 1 I 1 E ible By BILL MILLER DTH Staff Writer Passage of the double jeopardy amendment by. the student body Oct. 14 could result in a confrontation between students and the administration, according to . separate statements by Student Attorney General Bob Mosteller and Dean of Men J;: mes O. Cansler. "The administration is going to do what it has to do to insure its own interests," Cansler said Wednesday. "Even if students say they will not look at certain cases, they must still be adjudicated; so the administration must do it. "The administration is not bound by what the students think in added. these cases," Cansler Mosteller stated Tuesday, ''The double jeopardy amendment is the establishment of the rights the students favor and think just. "The real issue is not how the faculty and administration will look on this but that this is the establishment of the students' limits. "We have established that we have some concerns in certain cases and in others we do not. Here we have established how far off and ' how far out we are concerned," he added. Cansler has been working closely with Mosteller's office concerning student court trials. When the present double jeopardy amendment was passed last spring, the two offices combined to create case pending files on cases the administration felt should be tried on campus but were in violation of the double jeopardy amendment. None of these case pendings have been tried. AWS Circulates New Rule Book The Association of Women Students' rules questionnaire will be distributed to all women students today, according to AWS Chairman Joyce Davis. AWS representatives will circulate questionnaires in residence halls and copies will be available to off-campus students at the Carolina Union information desk at noon, she noted. Subjects of the questionnaire include apartment privileges, self-limiting and closing hours, required house meetings, fire drills and guest rules. "The AWS urges 100 per cent participation in the questionnaire by all women students," Miss Davis said. "It will be used as a basis for all rules changes this year." n r in 1 O By .November 1 Dead Bv AL THOMAS DTH Staff Writer The Committee for a Free Press may bring suit against the University if student funds are not voluntarily withheld from the Daily Tar Heel. Paul King, a member of the committee and a second year graduate student in the School of Library Science, said Wednesday the University has until Nov. 1 to come to a decision. The Committee for a Free Press is trying to cut student fees automatically channelled to the DTH with subscriptions put on a voluntary basis. Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitter son has established an investigating committee in response to the Free Press group. The committee's first meeting is scheduled the week. ."We thanked the Chancellor Fight If the double jeopardy amendment is passed next week, the administration will be faced with a question of what to do with pending cases -students will not hear, Mosteller said. According to statements attributed to Cansler by Jon Graham, a student arrested in September for possession of marijuana, Cansler said "the faculty-administration must enforce its regulations regardless of what the double jeopardy amendment resolves." Mosteller said, "If the administration-faculty tries a case, there will be a confrontation." Mosteller said any negotiations on the issue would have to be on students' terms, which would mean administrative recognition of the double jeopardy amendment if passed. By LENOX RAWLINGS DTH Staff Writer Sen. Birch Bayh labeled the Electoral College System ' undemocratic, inequitable and dangerous" before some 500 students in Memorial Hall last night. The Indiana Democrat called the direct popular election of the President "the only equitable system open , to American voters." A bill proposing this constitutional change passed the House of Representatives three weeks ago and now is waiting for Senate Judiciary Subcommittee approval. He also said student participation in the Oct. 15 Vietnam Moratorium is "an honest appeal to the nation's problems." Bayh's visit was sponsored by the Carolina Forum. Mike Almond and John McDowell are co-chairmen. In blasting the present election system as .Bayh Bl College Judicial Shutdown Is Offered IfDou By RIP COHEN Special to the DTH Student legislator Alan Hirsch has prepared a bill calling for the withdrawal of all appointments to the attorney general's staff in the event that the administration should "bring any student to trial outside of student judicial Face for establishing committee," King said, the "but we feel the issue of the Tar Heel in particular bears constitutional significance. "The Tar Heel is a state that supports newspaper political candidates on and off campus," he said. "This violates Article 1, sections 10 and 20 of the North Carolina Constitution." King added that his group will not abide by the ruling of Sitterson's special committee if the decision does not call for withdrawal of funds. "Our next move will be with the assistance of legal counsel," King continued, with a very definite possibility being we'll suit against the University bring King also commented on criticism as to why his group did not take their grievance through the traditional Leg i iC Vf) 3 )' I i'li Yi I - ' i - ' i " . 1 if ! II m -t rir "-f ft DTH Photo by Kolovson Senator Birch Bayh asts 1 As Undemocratic "dangerous," Bayh stated that "a shift of 42,000 votes in the 1968 election could have left the U.S. without a President. "Gov. George Wallace would have directed his electors to open bids between the two major parties with the idea of selling the office to the highest bidder." The Indiana lawmaker claimed the Electoral College system was "undemocratic" because a voter never votes for a Presidential candidate but for an elector who is not bound by law to support his party's candidate. Bayh cited the case of a Rocky Mount, N.C. elector on the Republican slate in 1968 who cast his electoral vote for Wallace. "This shows that the voter in that district who supported Nixon was cheated by the law," he said. "That elector was not the culprit, the system itself was." According to Bayh, the system is inequitable because processes. Hirsch intends to submit the bill, which if invoked would effectively dissolve the student judiciary, to the Student Legislature Thursday. Hirsch feels the threat of dissolution would be sufficient to deter the administration from trying any student and al Action channels of Student Government. "The Student Government is play-acting," King contended. "Student Government exists at the sufferance of the General Assembly, the trustees and the administration. "Student Government is not sovereign and has no real power to tax students for anything." King said the principle his group is operating under includes student fees for the yearbook, athletics and other programs. But, he noted, there is no legal case against any of these. "Even if 99 per cent of the campus is against us,' he continued, "we'll continue to fight it. "The whole world is falling apart because people are ignoring encroachments like this." ble Jeopurdy Is Enacted line? 1 1- f i ? JL ectora. "one man does not equal one vote." An electoral vote in Alaska equals 75,000 persons while an electoral vote in California equals 400,000 persons." He said the proposed direct election system is "our most plausible alternative because 1) every vote is equal, 2) it removes the danger of electing a candidate with fewer votes and 3) it is the system used to elect every other public official in the country." The direct election movement began four years ago when Bayh asked the American Bar Association to study the Electoral College System. Their report called the system "outmoded" and asked an alternate system be proposed. Several alternatives were released, but the Bayh recommendation gained more support among lawmakers. thereby forcing tacit administration acceptance of the controversial double jeopardy amendment passed by a student reierenaum i&m. spring. ' "The administration simply isn't capable of trying all the cases that come up," the Granville Representative said, referring to the bill as "the only effective weapon we have." "Double Jeopardy is the place where we have to draw the line on compromise," Hirsch asserted and called for "real Student Government, instead of the game we're playing now." The double jeopardy amendment, which stated that "a student who is prosecuted in civil or criminal courts shall be immune from prosecution and punishment by the student judiciary for the same act," has been under fire since last spring when Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson and the then Chairman of the Faculty Committee on Student Discipline Howard L. Pennager stated that if student courts refused to try any students, faculty and administration courts would. Hirsch said that the bill had the backing of "a number of other student legislators," but that passage would depend "on the events of this week." He also stated that beyond the double jeopardy issue, the bill is intended to "force the administration to give us the opportunity to make our own rules." i f i i x. e Coiideniiiie By LAURA W HITE DTH Staff Writer The executive officesof Student Government will be closed in observance of the Vietnam Moratorium Oct. 15, Student Body President Alan Albright announced Wednesday. In a statement to the Daily Tar HeeL Albright also said "I understand some professors are intentionally scheduling quizzes to coincide with the day of the moratorium and that others are refusing to allow students to take an excused or unexcused 'cut' on that day. I find such action deplorable and intolerable," Albright continued, "and ask that students report the names of such professors to the Daily Tar Heel." He requested the Daily Tar Heel publish a list of these names. Tod Cohen, DTH editor, announced he would comply with Albright's request. Albright's statement read in part, "Recognizing that October 15th has been designated as the date for a nationwide observance of the Vietnam Moratorium, I feel an obligation to communicate to the students of this campus my plans for that day." Albright urged each student to consider carefully his personal position on the Vietnam Moratorium and act accordingly. Albright noted he felt the "conduct of the Vietnam war has had . . . and will continue to have a severe effect on the life of every student at this University."- ica By FRANK STEWART DTH Staff Writer Support for the "GI March" in Fayette v i 1 1 e and a moratorium "rally in support of the solidarity of Vietnamese people" are projects the Chapel Hill Revolutionary Movement planned in a meeting Tuesday night. George Vlasits, a member of CHRM, said "The GI March will involve GI's, students, and community people against the war and the intervention of the U.S. in Vietnam." He added that the march will support the rights of GI's to dissent against the war. The march is being planned by GIs United, an anti-war q . v Peter the Pumpkin Rad The student body president also announced he would not attend classes that day in personal observance of the moratorium. A bill calling for the closing of all Student Government offices during the moratorium was introduced to Student Legislature last Thursday, Howrever, the bill was amended to support the moratorium but not to close offices that day. The amended bill urged tern a W7i rr JI. By LAURA WHITE DTH Staff Writer A' new double jeopardy proposal, this time excluding possession or use of drugs from actions which would seriously disrupt the academic processes of the University, may be voted on in a referendum in the near future, according to Jim Hornstein, an initiator of the new proposal. This proposal will differ significantly from the Student Legislature double jeopardy amendment to be voted on Oct. 14. Student Legislature's double jeopardy bill provides that students accused of "actions which seriously disrupt the academic processes of the University" be tried in both student and civil courts. The amendment would allow for Student Legislature to set up guidelines specifying what constitutes "disruption." The new double jeopardy groupvat Ft. Bragg. Friday Donald Duncan, military editor of Ramparts magazine, will speak at a UNC rally, in Hill Hall at 7:30 p.m. Other speakers will include a student and a GI from GIs United. The march and rally in Fayetteville will begin at 1 p.m. at Quaker Meeting House and end with a rally in Rowan Park. Speakers for the event will be Donald Duncan and Howard Levy, a former Army officer who refused to train Green Berets for service in Vietnam. According to Vlasits, the purpose of the moratorium rally is to introduce people to CHRM and recruit members for the organization. The movement expects to have Al 7fi m ivi is Lay M . j V! .. . , . ' 1 .... '"' t , ' 1 ' .. v 1 " Peddler Pushing Psychedelic Apples On 3 Iain Drag Wednesday students to observe the moratorium and designated that a copy of the bill be sent to the Chancellor. The Vietnam moratorium is an effort by students and others to express to the Nixon administration their demand for an end of the war and for some kind of assurance that such a disaster will not be repeated,"Buck Goldstein, UNC moratorium coordinator explained. te Jeopardy Plan xclude Drug Cases proposal, however, specifically excludes drug use or possession, in an effort to begin delineating what may constitute a disruption, said Hornstein. A petition requesting that a new proposal be presented in a referendum, which would by-pass Student Legislature, will begin circulating today, he added. Hornstein explained he had called a meeting of various legislators and concerned persons Wednesday night because he felt the double jeopardy amendment did not 'define" anything. The new proposal resulted from this meeting. "What student legislature would delineate as guidelines would depend on what the administration says about the Oct. 14 referendum." Hornstein said. "Also what the present amendment sets up," Hornstein continued, "is a arch, Rally speakers for its moratorium rally. Vlasits explained the purposes of the organization is to build a radical movement in Chapel Hill, "to carry out educational programs to this end, to promote the principles of unity stated herein and work for the creation of a socialistic and democratic society in this country." The principles of unity the movement adopted last night were: "support women's liberation, fight imperialism, smash anti-communism and fight for socialism." The fifth principle, "support the struggle of third world people," was sent to committee for work before ratification. f"" i. rigM The moratorium on this campus will include a campus-wide boycott of classes on that day, reading of the war dead in front of the Reserve Officers Training Corps building and speeches by Jack Newfield, assistant editor of the Village Voice, and Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee. The moratorium will be observed by more than 900 colleges and universities across the nation, Goldstein said. political football of guidelines for Student Legislature to play with. "We wanted to take practical action to limit the boundaries of student involvement and to state within the Student Constitution certain student rights which are extremely significant," he noted. He said he felt students should directly determine wrhat they want to include in the "serious disruptions." Hornstein said the group initiating the proposal was not pushing for a drug policy alone but for a clear outline of student rights in the Constitution. The new proposal might never come to a referendum, Hornstein added, if Student Legislature takes action to sufficiently delineate guidelines for specifying what constitutes "serious disruptions of the academic processes of the University." .Plans Vlasits said, "This is a group that believes in socialism. We felt the need for a general radical organization in the area." "Furthermore," he explained, "In SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) we couldn't accomplish the goals we wanted." He charged that SDS is unrealistic and divorced from the environment. "We need to build something locally before going nationally. There is no national affiliation. WTe are a local chapter." Vlasits said he was "cautiously optimistic" of the success of the movement, which includes a core group of between 50 and 100 members. r 9 J DM Stajj thoto by Tom Stwsbe
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