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mm- . m c? Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Wednesday, March 29, 1972 Founded February 23. 1833 Vol. 80, No. 138 r r r" vp3 V D - 7 ? T i -? vlfa't . - "' S I - i Ladi Kvvali, a native potter from Abuja, Nigeria, demonstrates her skills before an attentive audience in the Great Hall. Her demonstration was preceded by a slide show and film, all sponsored by the UNC YM-YWCA and the Black Student Movement. (Staff Photo by Leslie Todd ) Symposium panel ew politics discn by Doug Hall and Mike Fogler The busing issue brought talk of "extremes" and "quality education" Monday night from three of four members of a panel of Southern politicians while the panel's sole black member voiced unequivocal support of busing. "I am very much for forced busing to achieve racial balance." said Georgia state legislator Julian Bond. He said as long as the distance wasn't so far as to be detrimental, busing can be an effective means to "equalize education." The panel - also including Virginia Governor Linwood Holton, U.S. Senator Ernest Hollings (D-S.C.) and former N.C. governor and Duke University President Terry Sanford - spoke before a packed crowd of about 1 ,800 in Memorial Hall as part of the Carolina Symposium's program, "The Mind of the South." "I can remember sitting on a bus going to school in Pennsylvania and riding past the white school to attend the black school to achieve racial balance," Bond said. He added that President Nixon's proposals to curb busing "frighten me." The other three politicians cautiously condoned busing as one means for achieving quality education but said alternatives should be investigated. "I would not propose to do away with busing," Hollings said, "if it would erase efforts for desegregation, to end the dual school systems and to achieve quality education. "But busing should be for education, not for social repairs." Sanford, a candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, said busing should not be the number one issue in this year's presidential campaigns. "We ought not to select our President on the basis of who can draw the best busing plan." Today's Symposium 4 p.m. Robert Coles Memorial Hall 8 p.m. James Dickey Memorial Hall Sanford added that busing "is one of the many tools" to obtain quality education but there should be some guidelines. "We should refine our approach to busing," he said, adding: "No matter what we say. the schools are not equal. The only hope for underprivileged children is education." Holton called for a national policy on busing and said the "objections to busing are very real. But quality education is essential no matter what you use." Former editor of the Wall Street Journal Vermont Royster, who moderated the panel, opened the program with a brief discussion of recent Southern history. He said the South is a "multi-faced and changing nation." Each of the panelists then talked briefly on various aspects of Southern politics. Bond, quipping that "race has colored most of my life," called for black political organization at the local level and elimination of "Nixon and other architects of the Southern strategy." "Richard Nixon has just got to go," Bond said at a reception at Parker Dorm following the panel discussion. "The real issue in this campaign is whether or not Nixon will be President for four more years. Describing the Southern political situation, he said, "The Southern white voters will be upset if anyone four feet to Bond: by Doug Hall Associate Editor Southern blacks can be more effective in obtaining social change if they organize politically, especially at the local level, Georgia state legislator Julian Bond said Monday night. The controversial black politician said there is "very little place for violence" in the present civil rights movement although violence has been somewhat effective in the past. "Many blacks in the South now have the power to take over their communities through the political process," Bond said in an interview after a panel discussion with four other Southern politicians in Memorial Hall. He said 150 Southern counties are now predominately black and the proportion of blacks is steadily increasing in large Southern urban areas - blacks already outnumber whites in Atlanta. Former editor of the Wall Street Journal Vermont Royster, who moderated the panel, part of the Carolina Symposium's investigation into the "Mind of the South," called Bond a "voice to be heard in the politics of the new South." Bond said in the interview black political activity should be aimed at local endlersoii Senate conn by Winston Cavin Stat Writer The senate of Henderson Re:der.e College in a special sesion Monday night passed a resolution instructing the .o!!ege governor to fight the use of SI 3.000 from a special fund to finance the Residential Counseling Program. Governor John I'egg said TueJay he will attend a meeting of the Residence College Federation (RCF tonight. "The resolution instructed me to try to get RCF to rescind its approval of the funding." Regg said. "The endorsement was hurried through RCF at last week's meeting." Pegg explained. "The governors ot the residence colleges didn't have a chance to talk to their senates about the resolution. We think it needs reconsideration." The Committee on University Residence Life (CURL) has proposed that SI 3.000 he taken from a new Special Projects Fund to finance the counseling program next year. The Department ot Residence Life is now considering the proposal. RCF passed a resolution supporting the funding last Wednesday. Pegg said the amount of money to be used is a disproportionate amount. "I ach student will pay four dollars a year for the fund, of which over half may go to the counseling program' Pegg said. "Only a few students use the counseling service. the left of George Wallace is nominated. "There is a nymphomania among white voters." Bond added, "who now have two political beds in which to lie." Most of the Democratic candidates, lie said, are "running away from a school bus on the loose." Bond called for blacks to organize and take control of Southern counties where they are in the majority and to work for increased power in state and national politics. Hollings spoke of "national frustrations" and criticized the Washington bureaucrats and politicians for their policy on national defense and foreign aid. The domestic problems, such as poverty and education, are being ignored, he said. "The U.S. is trying to be the world's policeman. Santa Clans and banker all at once," Hollings said. A different approach should be taken toward solving the U.S. problems. Hollings said. "We know you can't solve problems by throwing money at them." he said. "You have to have local participation." Holton, a Republican, said the revival of the two-party system in the South has developed a more effective "machinery to obtain goals." He said Republican victories in Southern states have "jarred the establishment." 'organize noiv' economic organization what he called "com m unity socialism ." "Whites are beginning to turn grocery stores in black communities over to blacks." he said, "but instead of turning a grocery store over to one of two blacks. they should co mm unity." Bond, a Nonviolent (SN( C'). said turn it over to the entire founder of the Student Coordinating Committee he feels he is in the best position possible at the promote social change. present time to 'I have a lot of ambitions," he added. "I would like a seat in the U.S. House, but I'm not going to run this year because I don't think I could win." He said he hasn't seriously considered moving from Georgia. "I think you ought to put roots down," Bond said, "and not carpetbag around like Bohhv Kennedv did." Bond first gained national altention when the Georgia House denied him his seat in Jamuary I1) 06 alter he voiced approval of draft card burners and opposition to the Vietnam war. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in December U66 that Ihe Georgia legislature had violated Bond's First Amendment guarantee of freedom of speech, and he was reinstated to the legislature with back pay. team "This would be unfair to the majority of the ;tudens. The counseling program doesn't help enough students to justify such a large amount of money " Pegg pointed out at least one woman student was denied counseling because she did not live in Morrison. "And the locations of next year's services haven't been named yet. A majority of the students viii he paving for a service thev can't use." Henderson College is not opposed to the counseling service as such, according to Pegg. The counseling team wjs informed 1-ehruarv 22 that its funds from the Office of Residence Life would not be Swilcliboard project ssanlt by Mary Ellis Gibson Stuff Writer The Women's Assualt Line, j counseling service for women who have been raped or assaulted, is now operating through Switchboard, the drug counseling serv ice. Women who have been assaulted can call the Switchboard number. l2l-71 77. to he put in tough with one of 10 trained counselors who can help them get medical and legal assistance. If a woman who is in immediate danger calls the Switchboard number, she can be directly assisted and a counselor can contact her prompllv, a counselor for the service said Thursday. "A car will be available to counselors at all times so we can come to the person who has been assualted." the counselor said. The counselors have access to medical, legal and psychiatric help for women who request it. "Women who have been assaulted might want psychiatric help if thev have internalized society's feeling ace The Carolina Symposium was informed Tuesday Alabama Gov. George Wallace will be unable to speak on the UNC campus Friday at 2 p.m. because of a scheduling conflict. George Butler, chairman of the Carolina Symposium, said he had been negotiating with Wallace's publicity people in Montgomery. Alabama, for more than two and a half months attempting to get confirmation of the governor's scheduled speech. "We were told by the governor's publicity staff that he would let the symposium know whether he could attend, but somehow the invitation for him to appear did not reach the proper people in time," said Butler. Butler said the conflict seemed to stem from the fact that the symposium had been dealing with Wallace's public- Terrv Sanford. former N.C. governor candidate, stresses a point on busing at on Southern Politics Monday night. ' " j s '( SX : ' It"- I V . - I :, -.,v..y i . lit continued next year. CURL proposed the use of special funds at a meei:ng March . RCF will also consider the proposed restructuring of the body at its meeting tonight. Chairman Steve Saunders wf;i present a rough draft of an amendment to the RCF constitution. Saunders discussed the proposed changes Tuesdav . The name ot" the bodv would be changed to Residence Hall Association. ( RH A ). The proposed changes also included: - Setting up representation for students not residing in Residence Colleges: - Setting up a Women's Residence aid line oroen that it is a woman's fault if she is assaulted." the counselor said. The counselor said women who have been attacked often need someone to talk to. The Chapel Hill police hae received about 75 reports o! assaults during the past year, but the number ot unreported assaults is considerably higher, the counselor said. Some people estimate four to five time the reported number of assaults occur each year, she continued. Others estimate the actual number of assaults to be 10-20 times the number of reported assaults, she said. The group of women who have started the assault line became aware of the problem of attacks on women through conversations with other women and from a survey by the Association of Women Students in which women students requested better lighting on campus, the counselor said. Attention was called to the problem by the number of women who have signed up for self-defense courses, she added. cancels relations manager. Billie Joe Camp. Camp's position does not allow him to deal with Wallace's presidential campaign, which is managed by other members of the staff. This discrepancy allows the governor's schedule to he made up by his campaign managers and not by his publicity staff in Montgomery. Ala. "We were told by Camp that had Gov. Wallace's campaign people learned of the invitation two weeks prior to the making up of the governor's campaign schedule, he might have been able to attend the symposium." said Butler. The Greensboro Daily News had reported as early as Monday that the governor was not scheduled to visit North Carolina. 1 hey had received this information from Wallace's campaign people, not his publicity staff in Alabama. o and presidential Hollings. VS. Senator the Symposium Panel Looking on is Ernest 0 Hn t TI o Council. cempoNcd o: erica's house P r e s i d e n t s . v-.v'.iwuii,.ji tne tKa: a Academic Lieutenant Govern or and the Beard of Social Lieutenant Governors into a Program Board. Changing the process of amending the RCF constitution. Creating an Executive Ceuncu. made up o: the executive officers of RH A . I t- f ; . V- . ? - . . . I , , u i j i L iicx ;v.ivi..i .;v Association o! Women Students ( A V S i and R H A . a n d Restructuring the legislative hod of RHA. creating .; governing board to ... ' . .,,:- t . t , , u , - I, 1, .. .,..,-..,., J.K2S.C iti:isi.ii;!.!.i .t,cii tliv wcv.;;v 1 ' i i c e rs would ca rrv out . The counselors hope the assault line will help women to prevent assaults j well as to counsel women who have been assaulted. Most women think there is a possibility thev might be assaulted, and so they respond favonng'v to the assault line, the counselor said. She encouraged the growth of courses in self-defense to prevent assaults The counselors have listed several suggestions which women should follow to prevent assaults. Thev include: avoid walking alone in deserted and ill-lit places; when driving at night always lock all car doors; lower shades in the evening; wear clothing in which you can move quickly and easily: never hitch-hike alone and choose rides carefully. The counselor explained that women who are assaulted are often reluctant to report the attack and to press charges because in a rape trial "the woman herself is on trial." If a woman who is attacked has an unconventional lifestyle, her background is often investigated, the counselor said. "However, if a woman does report an assault to the police, she does not have to press charges; but her report may help police apprehend the attacker." she continued. The counselor said an assault line of this type has never been tried before. Groups organized for preventing assaults are active in Detroit and in Bloomington. Ind., she said. T TODAY: Mostly cloudy and cool through Thursday: chance of showers and thundershovvers today, more likely tonight; high in the 50s: low in the 40s: probability of precipitation 50 percent today, 70 percent toniaht. from South Carolina. (Staff Photo by Tad Stewart) K c
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