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by Mary Newsom
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen
voted Thursday afternoon to delay a
community-wide referendum on a
proposed public bus system until further
public discussion could be held.
The next earliest possible date for the
referendum, which was tentatively set for
November, would be mid-January.
The board also discussed but took no
action on a state study commission
recommendation that UNC sell its
utilities.
In a 4 to 2 decision, the aldermen
decided to place the proposed $440,000
bus system referendum on the agenda for
the first board meeting in September in
order to allow public opinion to be heard.
The town and campus Public
Transportation Commission had proposed
Questions filed
Four UNC students have filed 70
questions to be answered by UNC
officials in the latest move to halt student
fee support of The Daily Tar Heel
through federal court action.
The questions are designed to
determine the support received by the
newspaper and editor-in-chief by stu
dent fees, as well as the political
endorsements made by the staff on local
and national levels.
Other questions asked include which
building and how much space is used by
the DTH on campus and the procedure
by which a student can take issue with an
editorial or reportorial position with
which he disagrees and cut off payment
of his fees.
UNC officials who were asked for then
party affiliation are N. Ferebee Taylor,
UNC chancellor; Joseph C. Eagles, Jr.,
vice chancellor of finance; and William
Friday, UNC president.
All three are parties in the suit, along
with the UNC-CH trustees and UNC
Board of Governors.
Two other questions are whether any
member of the UNC Board of Governors
or Board of Trustees has been a candidate
for political office and whether he has
received DTH support, and the names of
those other than the editor-in-chief who
have exerted editorial control over the
DTH.
Filed in U.S. Middle District Court at
Greensboro, University officials have
until September 16 to file an answer. As
of Thursday, no University official had
received the questions, which were to be
sent through the mail.
The main issue of the suit, filed during
the summer, is whether the University has
the right to collect fees to support a
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the public bus system in its August
report. The system would be subsidized
by a community tax levy, federal funds
and a $5-a-semester fee from UNC
students.
A student referendum must approve
the fee increase and a community
referendum must approve the ad valorem
tax levy for local citizens before the
system could be put into effect.
The proposed public bus system would
operate alternate figure-eight loops
continuously covering the UNC campus
and Franklin Street. Fares would be 15
cents, with student-type passes available
to the public at an undetermined charge.
Although the referendum will not be
on the November ballot, several aldermen
indicated their desire to see such a
referendum in the near future, possibly
January, 1973. -
Lee Corum, student member of the
student newspaper whose opinions are
not compatible with some students. The
student plaintiffs contend that being
forced to support views with which they
do not agree violates their constitutional
rights.
By their questions, the students are
trying to determine whether the
newspaper and its editor are agents of the
state.
In another case similar to the DTH suit
involving the campus newspaper at North
Carolina Central University in Durham,
Chief Judge Eugene Gordon in
cGovern
to feature
Wilbur Hobby, chairman of the North
Carolina AFL-CIO, and Chapel Hill
Mayor Howard Lee will each be a
keynote speaker at McGovern-For-Presi-dent
rallies to be held today and Saturday
in Chapel Hill.
Hobby, an unsuccessful candidate for
the Democratic gubernatorial nomination
last spring, will speak at a campus rally at
noon today in The Pit.
Other speakers at today's rally will be
UNC senior Lucy Hancock, a North
Carolina McGovern delegate to Miami
Beach this summer. Local folksinger
Decatur Jones will entertain at the rally.
Charlie Dean, youth chairman for
McGovern, will also get canvassing and
fund-raising efforts underway on campus.
Volunteers will be sought to help in
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Traffic Commission, said Student
Government must go ahead and consider
the question even though the Board of
Aldermen had put off the referendum.
Student Government must consider
that even if the students pass the
referendum, it must also be approved by
the administration and the Board of
Governors, he said.
Corum said he plans to ask for a
student referendum on the plan by
election in October.
"It's going to take the students, the
administration and the town working
together to get it together," he said.
Alderman Shirley Marshall and mayor
pro tern R.D. Smith voted against the
motion to delay the referendum. They
agreed that more Chapel Hillians would
be at the polls November 7, which would
give a more accurate picture of local
opinion on the issue.
Greensboro ruled the University could
not dictate opinion by financial support
of a newspaper.
That decision now on appeal in U.S.
4th Circuit Court will be heard no earlier
than mid-September, and probably closer
to the first of October, according to
Burley B. Mitchell, Jr., assistant state
attorney general.
Students who, filed the suit against
' DTH fees - are Robert Arrington
Haywood County, David Boone of Iredell
County, Rob Grady of Onslow County
and Gray Miller of Buncombe County.
rally
Hobby
door-to-door canvassing of the Chapel
Hill area and surrounding counties.
The "Buck Nixon Club" will also be
initiated at The Pit rally. This "club" is
for students who give $10 donations (a
"buck a week") to the McGovern
campaign fund.
Saturday's rally, sponsored by the
Orange County McGovern presidential
campaign, will be held in front of the
University Methodist Church on East
Franklin Street from 3 to 5:30 p.m.
Besides keynote speaker Lee, state
McGovern campaign organizer Amanda
Smith will also address the rally. Smith
has worked on McGovern 's Senate staff in
" Washington.
Free refreshments will be given and the
folk-blues group, South Wing, will
provide entertainment.
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Mayor Howard Lee said the question
was not one of the need for such a system
or whether it had priority over other
needs but of the timing of putting the
question before the public.
"November is not the crucial date,"
Lee said, adding he would like to see it in
November to allow more planning time
before the proposed date of August,
1973.
Alderman Joe Nassif opposed the
November referendum, referring to the
Traffic Commission's report.
"I see nothing here that indicates an
attitude of the public," he said, "whether
they would like to have it, whether they .
would use it." The commission's report -j
concentrated upon the traffic patterns
and needs of the local residents.
Nassif added that he thought the
referendum would pass if put on the
November ballot.
Alderman George Coxhead praised the
commission's study but said there were
too many other pressing needs for tax '
money.
"The cost-benefit ratio is too high for
this item," he said, adding he would not
vote for a referendum at this time.
- - - All the aldermen agreed the public
needed more information on the subject
and more time for discussion. Smith and
Marshall felt the two months before the
November elections are sufficient, but the
other board members wanted more time.
"I don't see how we can be ready by
November," Alderman Alice Welsh said.
The report of the State Utilities Study
Commission, presented this summer,
recommended that the University sell its
water, telephone and electrical utilities to
the town of Chapel Hill and private
enterprise.
The University has owned Chapel Hill's
utilities since the 1 800's.
Although the aldermen took no action
on the issue, they generally favor a closer
study of the possibility of a utilities
commission to run the utilities.
A committee appointed by the UNC
Board of Governors is presently
considering the recommendation and will
probably announce its decision at the
board meeting September 8, Mayor
Howard Lee said.
Alderman Alice Welsh said she saw no
point in making a decision until the
Board of Governors made its decision.
She later stated her public support for
town ownership of all utilities.
Weather
TODAY: Mostly cloudy with
chance of showers and
thundershowers; highs in the mid
80s, lows in the mid 60's;
probability of precipitation 30
percent.
Thurmond visits
Helms
Raleigh, N.C. (UPI) - Cutbacks in
federal spending will be the top priority
in the U.S. Senate if the Republicans gain
a majority in the fall elections, Senator
lSlromJThujmond JR-SC) predicted
Thursday. "
Thurmond made the statement at a
Raleigh news conference which
concluded his day-long trip in North
Carolina made to endorse GOP senatorial
candidate Jesse Helms.
"If we can get people such as Mr.
Helms in the Senate, we can stop
spending over the budget as we've been
doing so many years," Thurmond told
newsmen.
He said other . Republican priorities
would be to ''strengthen the government
on military lines" and enact tax reform
measures. . .
Thurmond said many GOP-backed
measures "have lost this year by two or
three votes" in the Senate and he
predicted that with the addition of just a
few Republican Senators, "We can save
this country hundreds of millions of
dollars because so many votes go by close
margin." -
Helms has been named as one of the
top "non-incumbents" in the fall races,
meaning Republicans consider him among
those candidates with the best chance of
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The first day of classes often involves buying books for new courses. This student
just stopped in McCorkle Place to check that he had the correct editions.
(Staff Photo by Cliff Kolovson)
Okun commends
reform proposals
' Chairman of the Faculty Council Dan
Okun praised the academic reform
proposals of the Chancellor's Committee
on Undergraduate Degree Requirements
Thursday in comments to The Daily Tar
Heel.
"I think it's an excellent study and has
many things that will commend itself to
the Faculty Council," said Okun about
the academic reform proposals.
The Faculty Council must approve
some of the recommendations of the
Chancellor's Committee.
Some of the major points of the
proposals include making the normal
course load four courses, advancing
proficient students as quickly as possible
in English 1 and 2, doing away with the
current testing procedure in foreign
language for incoming freshmen who have
had at least two years of a foreign
language in high school, doing away with
the physical education requirement and
making courses in that department
available on a passfail basis, and
reforming the current degree programs
leading to the B.A.
Okun added that "the report has a lot
of significance for the future; it
encourages student initiative rather than
: having the instructor look over the
student's shoulder at all times."
He refrained from completely
state
fiatMer's
taking a place previously held by a
Democrat. '
Helms is running against U.S.
Representative Nick Galifianakis (D-NC)
for the seat now held by U.S. Senator B.
Everett Jordan (D-NC).
The Republican candidate, who stood
by Thurmond's side during the news
conference, said he agrees with the need
to cut back on federal spending.
. Helms said he had read that Congress
Fischer near win
REYKJAVIK (UPI) - Bobby Fischer
and Boris Spassky Thursday night
adjourned a "funny, up and down" 21st
game of the world chess championship
with grandmasters predicting a Fischer
victory.
"We'll have a new champion
tomorrow," Yugoslav grandmaster
Svetozar Gligoric said after the
adjournment. "Fischer definitely has a
great chance of winning. His rook pawn is
going to give him the title."
Fischer's second, the Reverend William
Lombard y, on his way to a night of
analyzing the adjourned position, said,
"It's a very interesting situation. Bobby
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endorsing the report, saying he has not
yet read the entire report carefully.
The first meeting of the Faculty
Council for this fall will be Friday,
September 15.
Okun feels certain many members of
the council will recommend affirmative
action. "It is a well thought out. carefully
done report, so the faculty will give it a
lot of consideration."
He said he cannot anticipate exactly
what action the Faculty Council will take
on the report.
The report, which includes 39 specific
recommendations for changes or for
further study, was released to the faculty
earlier this week for their study and
consideration. It is the product of several
months work by a 15-member
student-faculty committee originally
appointed by former Chancellor J.
Carlyle Sitterson. The creation of the
committee was one of the many
suggestions of the Godfrey Committee
report of several years ago.
Various sections of the report will be
acted on by the Faculty Council while
others do not require such approval.
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor may
approve some sections of the report,
while others may be implemented or
rejected by the Dean of Arts .and
Sciences.
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has appropriated $15.8 billion in excess
of President Nixon's requests in the first
two months of the fiscal year alone. ,.
Traveling by airplane, Helms and
Thurmond appeared at Charlotte,
- Greensboro, Statesville,Barium Springs, in
Iredell County and Raleigh Thursday.
Thurmond said he will have to limit his
campaign appearances because of a full
schedule but he said he will make at least
one more appearance on behalf of Helms.
might have a chance to win."
A victory would give Fischer the one
point he needs to take the crown and
become the first American modern world
champion. Only Paul Morphy has claimed
such a title for the United States and that
was before the world championship was
formed in 1866. The Russians have had
the championship since 1948.
Spassky spent only six minutes
thinking over his 4 1st move, then took
his scoresheet under the table to write it
down. He took it to arbiter Lothar
Schmkl, who sealed it with Fischer
watching carefully. Then the American
signed the flap.
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