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Staff hUter
Joe Stallings, student body president,
and Richard Epps, president-elect, jointly
criticized the Office of the Dean of
Student Affairs Tuesday for not
consulting with students on decisions to
end the funding of residence college
counseling teams.
Both agreed on the need for
continuing the counseling program.
The Office of Student Affairs funded
counseling teams in Morehead and
Morrison Residence Colleges this year
with $15,000. James Residence College
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by Gerry Cohen
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Mike Parnell
A long distance telephone rate increase
put into effect by the Chapel Hill
Telephone Company may have run afoul
of state law and federal government
regulations.
The rate increase, which became
effective Dec. 13, 1971, concerns
intra-state long distance calls and was
reflected on Chapel Hill residents' recent
phone bill.
The rate increase may not be in
accordance with a state law which
apparently requires the UNC Board of
Trustees to approve all telephone rate
increases. It also may be illegal according
to federal regulations which require the
Price Commission to approve all rate
increases by utilities.
The increase came about due to a N.C.
Untilites Commission decision to approve
SG will sponsor
cJholars
by Lynn Lloyd
Staff Writer
Student Body President Joe Stallings
announced yesterday that the Frank
Porter Graham Conscience Loan and
Scholarship, set up for the UNC students
with suspended scholarships, will
continue on a permanent basis.
"The scholarship was essentially set up
when the Morehead Foundation
suspended Frank Alexander's scholarship
in December," Stallings said.
"I and others were amazed that a
person who acted his own conscience
penalized monetarily. The scholarship is
set up for anyone. I persist in my belief
that it should exist and plan to inform
to take
oath toda
Richard Epps will be sworn in as
president of the student body at UNC
today at 3 p.m. in 202-204 Student
Union.
Acting cruef Justice ot tne student
Supreme Court David Crump will
administer the oath of office to Epps.
tlpps will present a short inauguration
speech immediately after the oath.
A press conference with a question
and answer session will follow the
ceremony.
Epps, elected February 29, has
extended invitations to administration
and faculty members and the student
body to attend the ceremony.
pps
too- , - n the program with a counselor
from the Morrison team.
The office announced last week, the
program could not be funded next year
because of the unavailability of funds.
"One of our primary concerns is that
the Office of Student Affairs never
confronted us with the idea of cutting off
funds for the program," Epps said. "The
decision was done arbitrarily without
finding out our ideas, the whys or looking
into any other channels. The funds were
arbitrarily cut off without our input."
"It is ridiculous that the process of
decision-making went so far before any of
the proper groups were conferred,"
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a rate increase for Southern Bell
Telephone and Telegraph Company in
June, 1971. Southern Bell was granted a
5.4 percent increase at that time.
In October, the Utilities Commission
granted a similar rate increase to all other
regulated telephone companies,
dependent on approval by the Price
Commission.
The Price Commission approved the
rate increase in December, and shortly
thereafter the rate increases took effect.
However, North Carolina state law
exempts the Chapel Hill Telephone
Company from regulation by the Utilities
Commission, giving that regulation
instead to the Board of Trustees.
But the phone company, whose toll
charges are processed by Southern Bell,
increased its rates to continue the policy
of coordinated book-keeping with
Southern Bell.
John Temple, assistant vice chancellor
for business at UNC, said Tuesday the
the Student Activities Fund Office that
we want to continue it."
The Student Government (SG) set up
the scholarship with funds given by
individuals and an anonymous
contribution from a foundation.
Alexander's funds were suspended
after he was charged with violating a Pitt
County parade ordinance, and on the
grounds that he did not meet the
minimum standards required of Morehead
scholars.
Stallings said enough money has been
promised to pay for the education of one
person for four years and others are being
contacted to raise more money.
"When the money was received about
a month ago, there was a question as to
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Stallings said.
The counseling team, officers and
residents of the residence colleges
involved, Student Government officials,
the Residence College Federation, and
"apparently even some people in the
Office of Student Affairs" were not
notified until after the decision was
made, according to Stallings.
"The counseling team should never
have become a hot issue," S tailings said.
"But because the decision was apparently
made by one or two individuals, everyone
concerned is upset because they did not
know the reasons for the cut-off. given
the ereat need for counseling.
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Wednesday,
University had raised telephone rates on
long distance calls in accordance with
Utilities Commission decisions for the
past 10 years.
"Our rates on long distance calls are
the same as every other telephone
company in North Carolina," Temple
said. "We've always kept our rates in
accordance with Utilities Commission
decisions. Only our local rate changes
have been approved by the trustees."
But the telephone company policy
apparently does not comply with the law
that exempts it from regulation by the
Utilities Commission. That law (GS
116-41.2(3)) says the Board of Trustees
shall "establish, set, revise, charge, and
collect such service charges ... as will
provide sufficient revenues . . . ."
The law defines service charges as
"rates, fees, rentals, or other charges for .
. . the right to use . . . any service ... of
the University Enterprises."
The law defines University Enterprises
continue
whether the scholarship should be
established in the Student Government or
Student Aid Office," he continued.
"It seemed unclear that the Student
Aid Committee would approve the
establishment of the scholarship. It was
much less trouble to set it up in the
Student Government."
The student body president, chairman
of the finance committee and the student
body treasurer will act as administrators
of the scholarship. Anyone wishing to
apply for the scholarship should do so
through one of the members of this
board.
Stallings added that no Student
Government funds "were or will be used
for the scholarship."
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"This type of process is exactly why
students look upon the Office of the
Dean of Student Affairs as a roadblock
rather than an avenue for carrying out
'Student ideas," Stallings said. "Students
should have an input into e-.ery program
in that office because it directlv affects
our lives."
He said the administrative board cf the
office, which includes administration
members and the student body president,
met once during former student body
president Tom Bella's term and not once
during Stallings term.
Stallings: Epps: Steve Saunders,
chairman of the RCF: Robert Wilson.
March 8, 1972
as "the telephone, electric, and water
systems."
Temple refused comment on whether
or not the telephone company violated
state law. He did say, however, the
University would "study the situation."
But the issue is further complicated by
the fact that the University did not apply
for Price Commission approval of its rate
increase.
The Price Commission had approved
rate increases for the utilities regulated by
the N.C. Utilities Commission, but this
does not include the University telephone
system.
Carroll Cooper, of the Economic
Stabilization unit of the Internal Revenue
Service in Greensboro, said Tuesday he
was checking with officials in Washington
to determine whether the University is in
violation of federal regulations.
"If the law requires submission, the
University would have to apply to the
Price Commission for an ex post facto
exemption," Cooper said.
Cooper said if the University applied
to the Price Commission for approval, the
federal agency would have three choices:
approve the rate increase without making
it retroactive; approve the rate increse
making it retroactive; or not approve the
increase at all.
If the University does not apply for
approval by the Price Commission, or if
the commission does not approve the
increases retroactively, customers would
be eligible for refund of the money paid
over the amount of the old rates.
If the refunds are not made within 90
days, persons have a right under the
Economic Stabilization Act of 1971 to
sue for triple damages.
Cooper stressed, however, that it is
possible the University did not have to
file for approval from the Price
Commission.
Sample rates include an increase from
35 to 40 cents for daytime calls to
Raleigh, 60 to70 cents for a daytime call
to Charlotte and a hike from 45 to 50
cents for daytime calls to Greensboro.
The increase did not affect direct dial
station-to-station calls made during the
evening. Additionally, calls made between
7 and 8 a.m. Monday through Friday are
cheaper under the new rates.
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student presidential assistant to
Residence Life, and two cf the counselors
met with Chancellor N. Fere bee Taylor
Fnday to discuss the decision-making
process.
"The Chancellor was receptive to ou:
ideas and concerned and cooperative on
the matter," Epps said.
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Residence College Executive Board and
the administrative board cf the Student
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Overlooking such possibilities as coin or matchbook collecting, some UNC
instructors have constructed several towers of styrofoam cups, in their Phillips Hall
office. The collection includes many autographed editions and a number of
hand-colored models. (Staff photo by Leslie Todd)
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on new constitution
Residents of Morehead Residence
College will vote -today on a new
constitution which would decentralize
the college.
Jim Wellons, governor of the college,
said a majority vote will be needed to
pass the new constitution, which would
convert Morehead from a residence
college into a confederation of
dormitories.
Wellons said the most important
provision of the new constitution would
allow for any of the dorms (Aycock,
Graham, Lewis, Everett, Stacy and Cobb)
to leave the confederation at any time
without an entire new constitution having
to be approved.
None of the other residence colleges
on campus have this provision, according
to Wellons.
The new constitution allocates 50
cents of each resident's fees to the college
instead of the current S2 per resident.
The SI. 50 would be allocated to the
individual dorm in which the resident
lives.
The Morehead Senate would also be
abolished in favor of a governing council.'
The council would be composed of the
four college officers, the president, vice
president and six at-large representatives
of Cobb, the only women's dorm in the
college.
Wellons said Cobb was being provided
the six at-large representatives to insure
equal representation; the women's dorm
has 390 residents while each of the men's
dorms has only 100 residents apiece.
Other changes which the new
constitution would provide include
James Residence College circulated a
petition "which a vast majority of the
students signed." according to Stalling.
Morehead Residence College is
presently circulating a petition.
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"I am glad CURL will re-evaluate the
decision." said Stalling. "The real need is
expansion of the funds to include other
residence colleges."
"The teams are an asset to the dorms
and are verv much needed." Fpp said.
Founded February 23, 1893
o vote
having only one lieutenant governor, who
would be in charge of both social and
academic affairs, instead of the current
two lieutenant governors, who handle the
affairs separately.
Wellons said the constitution would
allow any dorm which did not wish to
remain in the college the chance to get
out with a majority vote of the residents
living in the dorm.
"This new constitution will give the
dorms autonomy while retaining the
benefits of centralized government,"
Wellons said Tuesday. "The centralized
government is necessary' to continue
political unity in things such as working
with the Office of Residence Life, the
Physical Plant and the Residence College
Federation.
"It also has several social factors, such
as allowing the officers of the various
dorms to know their counterparts in
other dorms, making social contact much
easier.
"Another major benefit is this
confederation, while giving the individual
dorms autonomy, allows us as a college to
retain control nf the Morehead Cellar."
TODAY: windy with increasing
cloudiness; highs in the low 60s,
lows in the 50s; 20 percent chance
of precipitation.
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