Lana Starnes
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Harry Bryan. Editor
Thursday, February 17, 1972
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PIRG referendum
should be allowed.
The North Carolina Public
Interest Research Group
(NC-PJRG) will again go to Student
Legislature tonight, requesting
validation of its petition for a
student body referendum on the
question of students funding the
consumer project.
Though PIRG petitions have
been circulating on campus for the
past few weeks, it was recently
discovered that they xlo not
technically comply with Student
Government elections laws
concerning what information a
student gives for identification
purposes when he signs his name.
Though the legislature turned
down a request for validation of the
petitions last week by a 19-17 vote,
legislators might well reconsider
their actions when the bill is again
brought before the body.
At present, the referendum
would determine whether or not
students want S 1 .50 added to then
student fees every semester in order
to finance a staff of
environmentalists, scientists and
lawyers that would study and
attempt to correct consumer
problems in the Research Triangle
area.
If the referendum was passed by
the student body and the fee
increase okayed by the Board of
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To the editor:
I have been pleased to see that so many
people are concerned about the
appearance of our campus. But manv
have shown this concern through
complaints about the Physical Plant and
their upkeep of the grounds. As chairman
of the Coalition for Grass I would like to
see these complaints rechannelled
through our committee, so that we might
see what could be done. We might help
explain Physical Plant's actions.
After talking to Mr. Larry Trammol,
campus superintendent of the Physical
Plant, I realized how willing he is to work
with the students on our committee and
how much he cares for the beauty of our
campus. So many times when we are so
quick to criticize the Physical Plant for a s
brick walk being laid or a wall being
constructed, it is simply a matter of not
understanding why it had to be done. Mr.
Trammel's job is to make this campus
beautiful, and he, who will probably live
here most of his life, cares more than any
student who is here for three or four
years.
During my meeting with Mr. Trammel
I discovered that many walks have been
broadened simply because the existing
width could not accomodate the
increased foot traffic. It was also
interesting to find out that the original
plan for the pit area was a bed of grass on
the lower level of the pit. Many of us
have not understood the new bricking
Governors, the money would
automatically go to the NC-PIRG
staff, which would investigate
problem areas pointed out to them
by students. If a student did not
believe the PIRG project to be a
worthy cause, he would only have
to ask that his money be refunded.
One legislator opposing the
referendum, Rep. John Molen,
argued that individual students
should determine whether they
wanted their money to go to PIRG
prior to payment of fees in order to
avoid the hassle of requesting a
refund. And Molen's idea might
make things a bit easier for the
student who does not wish to
contribute.
However, according to Bob
Beason, PIRG campus coordinator,
the University Cashier's Office has
already said that such a plan would
be financially prohibitive due to the
added administrative burden
Molen's proposal would bring
about.
So it seems that the method of
payment proposed by the local
PIRG chapter the same method
that has been accepted by students
at Duke University is the only way
the money can be collected.
Molen also said he felt students
had a right to decide how they
would be billed, and again he is
correct.
But at the time the proposal was
brought before Student Legislature,
PIRG had already collected
approximately 6,000 signatures
from UNC students in favor of the
fee increase.
And now, according to Beason,
that figure has risen to more than
7,000.
It seems fairly apparent that an
extraordinarily large number of
students are in favor of the
referendum since the number of
signatures required for a petition to
initiate a campuswide vote is less
than 2,000.
And since so many students have
signed the petitions, the vote
should not be blocked by Student
Legislature merely because of a
technicality in the way in which the
signatures were placed on the
petitions.
It is the student body that has
the right to decide if the UNC
campus will become a part of the
regional PIRG staff, and Student
Legislature should not stop them
from exercising that right.
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that has been done around the trees in
the pit area. Mr. Trammel remarked
about the many different types of filler
that have been tried. Brick seemed the
only alternative when students used the
aesthetic white stone to break windows in
the surrounding buildings!
To sum up, I was overcome by Mr.
Trammel's willingness to cooperate. We
hope to establish a working
communication between our committee
and the Physical Plant. So we urge all
who have gripes andor interest to come
and work through our committee to help
make UNC the most beautiful campus in
the country.
Nancy W. Elliott
Chairman- Coalition for Grass
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Parking plan
affects budget
To fne editor:
The allocation of resources in higher
education is certainly puzzling. On one
hand students are correctly complaining
about the absence of individualized
instruction. Enormous classes and
electronic gadgetry are employed with
increasing intensity.
On the other hand there is the tragic
PhD glut. Candidates who have the
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Holy Gloria Steinem! If it wasn't
for the weaker sex, the United
States may be walking away from
the Winter Olympics in Sapporo,
Japan, with nary an honor.
As it is, the U.S. team will bring
home at least Five medals. But look
at the list of winners. It reads like
Ms., the women's lib magazine:
Anne Henning, gold medal for
speed skating. Diane Holum, gold
medal for speed skating. Barbara
Cochran, gold media for the giant
slalom. Susan Corrack, bronze
medal for downhill skiing. Janet
Lynn, bronze medal for figure
skating.
Did we say weaker sex? Forgive
us, you brutes, you.
The Charlotte Observer
Women made a magnificent showing at
the 1972 Winter Games held in Sapporo,
Japan. Sapporo, a metropolis of 1.03
million people, was the first Asian city to
host the Winter Games. In attendance
were 1,128 athletes from 35 countries.
Susan Corrack, a 20-year-old athlete
from Ketchum, Idaho, won the bronze
medal in the women's downhill in
1 :37.68. It was the first alpine medal won
by an American since 1964.
Barbara Cochran, described by her
coach as quiet and reserved with a petite
5'1" figure, won the gold medal for the
giant slalom. Barbara grew up on Mt.
Ascutney near Brownsville, Vt. with her
sister Marilyn and her brother Bobo who
were also contestants. ;
In the skating category Janet Lynn, an
18-year-old from Rockford, 111., took the
bronze medal for figure skating, Anne
Henning, the gold medal for speed skating
and Diane Holum, the gold medal , for
speed skating.
According to an Associated Press
release Tuesday, Duke University has
expanded a policy to make it easier for
women to enter job categories where men
predominate.
The revision of the two-year-old
"affirmative action plan" installed . by
Duke President Terry Sanford, states that
no vacancies in the classifications of
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education and desire to teach cannot
because' of budgetary restrictions. There
are not enough funds left to hire
additional faculty. What monies
institutions have in these lean years seem
more likely to be spent on capital
spending binges than providing a more
personal learning experience.
The University here at Chapel Hill may
be less culpable of this misallocation than
others in the state and nation, but the
tendency is still present. Which brings us
to the parking situation. Certainly most
of us have experienced the frustration of
the predatory search for the empty space
(1 can go one-oh-one with anybody in
the race for the car with newly activated
back-up lights). The commitment of
millions to alleviate this problem should
be considered not only with alternative
approaches to the whole transportation
system but also the other budgetary
priorities of the University.
"Self-liquidating" does not imply the
financing of a massive parking plan would
be without budgetary effect on the
University. Funds diverted to parking
may be returned (perhaps with interest)
at some future time. But in the interim,
alternative (and perhaps more productive)
expenditures would have been postponed.
If the money for the lot construction
were borrowed, this would imply that
debt capacity would be diverted from
other opportunities.
From the outside, it seems as if the
excel in
officials and managers, professional or
craftsmen may be filled until:
-The vacancy is listed with the
appropriate employment office.
-A diligent effort has been made to
recruit female candidates for the vacancy.
The policy further stipulates that
should a male be hired, the department
head must certify his attempt to recruit a
female and give his reasons for hiring a
male.
A note to Mr. Sanford: Women want
equal opportunity in hiring, equal pay for
equal work and equal opportunity for
advancement. They do not want special
preference.
Gubernatorial candidate Lt. Governor
Pat Taylor has named Ms. Kay Miller to
the key campaign post of press secretary
for his gubernatorial campaign. Taylor
made the announcement Tuesday at a
press conference at the Sir Walter Hotel
in Raleigh.
Ms. Miller is the first woman to hold
such a post in any major Democratic
gubernatorial campaign in North
Carolina.
The post involves coordination
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Judaism
(Editor's note: the following column
was written by a collective of Jewish
students.)
There is a strange silence around me, a
large gulf of time and space between my
recent thoughts and their distant objects.
My thoughts, my mind, my being has
been wandering through my
four-thousand year history . . . what little
I remember, what little I know.
How can I explain it to you?
The knowledge affects me. Why these
feelings of sadness, joy, anger, pride? A
sense of nationalism? Perhaps.
parking proposal has been formulated in
isolation both from the general campus
transportation problem as well as the
other budgetary priorities of this
University. I hope this is not the case.
William E. A vera
Rt. 7, Durham
Source of self
the crux of all
To the editor:
If nothing were, then nothing would be
possible. Thought would be impossible.
Yet I am aware that I do in fact think, so
my thinking must be possible; I must
exist. As Rene Descartes put it: "I think,
therefore I am."
This is man's first assumption, that he
himself exists. He thinks therefore he is.
Man assumes that he exists. Once he
accepts this, the next question is: Yes, I
exist, but what is "I"? Man can observe
he has emotions, desires, goals, etc.. He
assumes these are just as real as "I" is. AD
this accepted, the question "What is "I"
is still unanswered.
Such a question asks of a source-the
source of who man is: Where did I begin?
How did I come to be what I am?
One must ask oneself: Is an absolute,
definite answer now possible? Is there
any way, at present, we can observe the
world outside of ourselves and discover
Olympic events
between Taylor and the N.C. news media.
Her duties include writing r.ews releases,
phoning reports to broadcasting stations,
organizing news conferences and fielding
inquiries of the press.
Ms. Miller, a former newswoman, has
worked with WTVD-TV, Raleigh,
Durham, WFMY-TV, Greensboro, WPTF
Radio, Raleigh and the Raleigh Times.
More than 350 women from 12
southern states met in Nashville, Term,
over the weekend to make plans to
challenge the rules and procedures under
which delegates to the presidential
nominating convention are being chosen.
Republican women present discussed
ways to make sure that the 1972
Republican convention adopts new rules
that would make the convention more
broadly representative.
The Democratic Party is operating
under such rules now, effective for this
year's convention. Women, along with
blacks, young people and other
minorities, will be able to contest the
seating of any delegation that does not
comply with the new rules.
- the self
Chauvinism? I think not. The feelings
aren't unique; they are common to any
whole person, to anyone who can find
continuity with the world, to anyone
who can unite with humanity and
discover his sense of identity and self.
The experience of such emotions would
hardly be remarkable if I were an Indian,
a Black, or a woman. You and I see and
hear such expressions daily. As for me? I
am a Jew.
Why a Jewish campaign for a Vietnam
peace? Trees for Vietnam?
Why Jewish Communcal living?
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absolutely, How did I come to be what I
am.
I think the answer is no. Certainly the
most successful of methods based on -observation,
that of science, can not do
this.
At present, we can not absolutely
answer Who am I? by observing the world
outside. This means we must make
assumptions: each individual must decide
his own answer to this question. What
assumptions can be made?
The source of our beginnings could be
based in mechanism-causalism, or in
vitalism-teleologicalism. If in
mechanism -causalism, there can be no
forces governing nature other than those
cold, lifeless laws themselves. We are, in
this framework, the chance product of
cold, dead laws. That means we are, in
our life forms of meaning and purpose,
nothing but the chance products of
chance chemicals: We are big complex
machines; we are, in our "beings,"
nothing of any greater significance than
that which we make for ourselves. We are
a complex collection of cold, dead matter
which takes on the freak form of warm,
"alive" matter. In the essence, we are
dead.
Opposed to this is vitalism: natural
law in an open system, in which a greater
lifegiver gives life. One of these lifegivers
is God, and His Son Jesus Christ.
We have no choice but to come to our
own beliefs as children, because we can
Based on what has occurred i:
that have already completed the;:
'delegate-selection process, it appear
probable that women will constitute
more than 40 percent of all the delegates
to the Democratic convention, cer-.pire J
with 13 percent in 196S. According to
the reform rales, women
constitute half of all state delegates
"A Woman in Communications
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It Is Like" will be discussed by Tr
area newspaper, TV and public re la
personalities at S tonight in Howell
The program is sponsored by
Triangle Club of Theta Sigma
professional women in communis
and will feature six five-minute
followed by a question and an
session.
Speakers include Barbara Short, v;e
president. Inform, Inc.; Mary Da,
Mordecai, women's dept., Raleigh Ne
and Observer; Marty Johnson, WTYD.
Cornelia Olive, staff writer. Durh.;r.
Morning Herald; and Fran Dresvman
Mary Leaver, audience services assign:
Promotion Dept., WUNC-TV.
discovery
Why are Free Jewish Universities
springing up all over the cour.tr .
including here at UNC?
Why are there over 35 Jewish lJeni
newspapers being published regularly ir.
the U.S. alone?
Why a "Student Struggle for Soviet
Jewry"? Whv a "Youth Mobilization for
Israel"?
Why a "Jewish Whole larth
Catalogue"?
The cries for action present in other
struggles have not gone unnoticed by
those involved in the current Jewish
movement. College youth, particularly,
are finding that existence as a Jew cannot
be separated from humanitarian, political,
and social concerns.
Many Jews, once thinking that Hebrew
school offered no guidance for living
today, are now changing their minds. To
their surprise these individuals are
discovering their humanistic principles to
be rooted in their Jewish heritege. A
Jewish campaign for Peace in Vietnam?
Many college students are finding that
Judaism can only be experienced to its
fullest extent as a total life style. The
university situation offers an unparalleled
opportunity to create a Jewish communal
environment. Thus, numerous Jewish
communes have begun around the
country. Next fall a group of UNC
students will be living in their bayit, their
home.
What these individuals are saying is
that Judaism needs to be experienced at
all levels. It involves the search for
identity, the search for self. Former
Chapel Hill novelist, Herbert Gold,
expressed the essence of this search in
saying that man discovers meaning in life
by finding himself as one with a history
that continues; to be able to say "we"
even when referring to the ancient past or
the distant future.
Have I explained it to you? Maybe.
There is a lot left for me to learn. But
responding to today's problems, seeking
my place in a vast history, I can begin to
express my purpose.
Can a communal Sabbath dinner give
life to 4000 years of history?
not absolutely prove or disprove the
Origin of our "manishness," at least nzt
at this time.
To those who say not to worry about a
source, that no matter what the source
may be, we are still the same, I answer
that the source is the crux of every thing.
If the source is dead, we are insignilicart
outside our selfish lives. But if the source
is alive, we are more than just complex
emotions we are significant beycnJ
ourselves.
-Phil J.McDavid
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