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Vol. 81, No. 63
Chapel Hill. North Carolina, Thursday, November 16, 1972
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by Susan Spence
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
refused for a second time Tuesday to
place the proposed Chapel Hill-C'arrboro
bus system on a Jan. 23 referendum.
The proposal for the bond election
was also rejected at the October meeting
of the aldermen.
A petition in favor of holding the
referendum was presented at the meeting
by Dave Griffiths, assistant UNC history
professor, causing a heated debate on the
floor.
The petition, containing 361
signatures, stated that while the
undersigned did not necessarily endorse
the referendum, they simply asked that it
be brought before the citizens to enable
New committees
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by Greg Turosak
Staff Writer
With repeated Student Legislature
(SL) elections over and done with, and
with no challenges in sight due to
Elections Board's tight security at the
polls Tuesday, SL tonight will get down
to the business of choosing new
committees and committee chairmen.
Although SL's liberal coalition lost a
net of one seat in Tuesday's repeat
elections, the makeup of the new
legislature will include a large ' liberal
majority.
According to Rep. Dave Gephart, the
number of liberals in this session of the
53-member legislature should approach
35. In the old legislature, the
conservatives had the majority with close
to 3,0 seats.
SL presently has five committees:
Finance, Ethics, Rules, Ways and Means,
and Judicial.
Gephart said at the meeting, there will
be a move to increase the number of
persons on each of the five committees
from seven to nine persons, thereby
allowing more SL members to participate
on committees.
He said that with a large liberal
majority, the liberal strategy will be to
capture six out of the nine seats on each
committee, and to control the
chairmanships with either five liberals or
one moderate and four liberals.
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The 'good life'
A rock, a sidewalk and a chain fence can be plenty of entertainment for an
imaginative child. One has to wonder what fantasy world this child turned Franklin
Street into recently. (Staff photo by Scott Stewart)
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an informal democratic decision to be
made.
Griffiths noted that the petition had
been drawn up in less than 48 hours and
was representative of Carrboro
homeowners as well as renters.
Board member Donald Peninger was
concerned over the number of property
owners represented by the petition,
which Griffiths estimated at 50 per cent.
Peninger contested the figure, saying
he did not "recognize a single name on
the list."
Mayor R.J. Wells told Griffiths he had
placed him "in a very awkward position,"
since matters of this type were usually
presented at a public meeting. "When I
don't know about it in advance, it doesn't
sit too well."
Wells protested the January
enda
In selecting the committees, SL will
deal with one committee at a time,
accepting nominations and voting on the
members of one committee before going
on to the next.
After the members have been selected
to each committee, SL will go back and
proceed to choose a chairman for each
committee.
The seats that changed hands in
Tuesday's re-election occurred in Men's
Districts (MD) II and III! The
conservatives picked up two seats in
Granville (MD II) with Hunter Dalton and
Mike Boner winning out over Dave
Gaynor and Bob Carter, who had won in
the first election. Steve Coggins retained
one of the three seats for the liberals.
The liberals picked up one seat and
won all five places in MD III with Craig
Stewart winning over Chris Callahan.
Robert Griffin, Nick Jones, Dave Kohl
and Ralph Pitts made it through the
second election again for the liberals.
Besides elections for committees and
chairmen, SL will also choose a speaker
pro-tem, who conducts SL sessions when
the student body vice president is not
present, and a clerk.
The only legislation up before the
body will be two resolutions for
immediate consideration: one a statement
showing thanks and appreciation to the
Elections Board for its handling of the
Nov. 14 elections, and the other a
welcome to the Toronto Exchange.
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referendum, saying it was too early. He
favored placing the referendum on next
November's ballot when Carrboro will
elect a new mayor and aldermen.
The mayor also complained of the fact
that he had heard nothing before the
meeting about any support for the bus
system.
"I think the thing that excites this
board," Wells said, "is the words 'to levy
taxes,' " He said he felt the system should
be self-supporting.
Wells said he would not object to a
special public hearing on the proposal if
the citizens requested one.
The rejection will have multiple
impact, one of the greatest being to place
a 50 per cent grant from the Department
of Transportation (DOT) in jeopardy.
The grant would represent about 547,000
toward funding of the public
transportation system.
"I am quite pessimistic about
obtaining the grant from the federal
government if all the towns in the area
are not represented on the report," said
George T. Lathrop, transportation
commissioner.
Lee Corum, student representative to
the Transportation Commission, said
DOT would look more favorably upon a
project representing a cooperative effort
between communities trying to solve a
common problem.
The commission's aim is to have the
system on the street by August 1973. If
the grant does not come through, it is
unlikely this will be feasible.
Lathrop said he was not exactly sure
as to what steps will be taken at this
point.
The system could possibly be
supported by Chapel Hill alone, but "the
question is whether they're willing to
bear the extra cost," Lathrop said.
A referendum had been planned for
this month by Student Government to
determine whether to assess UNC
students $5 per semester for the bus
service. This would provide funds of
nearly 5200,000.
However, 40 per cent of the student
population resides in Carrboro, meaning
that without Carrborq's support they
would be paying for a service they could
not use.
Consideration is also being given to
selling passes at a rate of 525 annually, 59
quarterly and 51 weekly. Passes sold in
groups of 100 or more would be sold at a
reduced rate.
Corum said he felt the main problem
with the Carrboro aldermen is that they
are "out of touch." He feels they do not
recognize the needs of a majority of
Carrboro's population, namely UNC
students and faculty and blacks.
He is confident that if the referendum
is delayed until next November everyone
will be well informed as to its purposes.
"They will know what it's about," Corum
said.
Weather
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Anticipation
Thirty students from the University of Toronto will be arriving this afternoon for
the. annual Toronto Exchange. In preparation, students painted a welcome sign on the
campus graffiti box. (Staff photo by George Brown)
Work starts on SG
by William March
Staff Writer
The reorganization of Student
Government (SG) at UNC, endorsed
Tuesday in referendum by a 78.5 per cent
to 21.5 per cent vote of the student
body, will begin almost immediately and
be complete by Feb. 19 when the new
Campus Governing Council takes office.
According to the referendum proposal,
the date of the spring elections will be
changed to Feb. 6. At this time, the 20
elected members of the Council will be
determined, along with the other student
body elections.
Under the terms of the constitutional
amendments passed by the referendum,
the student body will be separated into
20 voting districts, some graduate and
some undergraduate, for the election of
the Councilors.
The proposal states that all districts
should be reasonably equal in population,
"deviating not more than 10 per cent
from population average" for each
district.
In response to charges from Student
Legislator Mike O'Neal that this
requirement could lead to
gerrymandering of the districts and loss
of voting power in small dorms,
Davenport said, "It is not the case that
this must necessarily happen. And
anyway, there is very little point in this
objection, because legislative votes almost
never involved particular district benefits
and constituent interest. And under the
new system, this will be even less likely to
happen."
In order to insure representation of
by Adrian Scott
Assistant Feature Editor
"I can fly
Like a bird in the sky.'
Nikki Giovanni's poetry is a very positive expression of life.
She writes about her Blackness, her individuality and her
womanhood.
But somehow she manages to relate her intensely personal
self-expression to the larger context of love, interpersonal
relationships and being Black in America.
Nikki is not a strident, angry, militant person. She doesn't
dominate her audience with rhetoric and volume. Her attack is
far more subtle than that.
She arrived on the stage of Memorial Hall and immediately
started to talk about her. flight, which led her onto the subject
of hijackers.
"Radicals," she said, "do not hijack planes. Ain't got
nowhere to go, for one thing."
Nikki says she is not as radical as she used to be, and the
first few poems that she read illustrated that rather effectively.
'They'll never understand
That Black love is Black wealth ... "
And, in a tender and expressive poem about her mother:
"We must learn to bear the pleasures
-As we have borne the pains."
Militancy was seduced by love in the third poem that she
read.
" 'What we NEED . . . . you said.
And I took off your shirt
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minority races and women on the
Council, the student body president is
required by the amendments to make
appointments.to the Council if necessary.
The president must appoint up to two
women and up to two members of
minority races to the Council, if that
many are not elected in the Council
elections. Since the president is an ex
officio member of the council, the body
can have a minimum of 21 and a
maximum of 25 members.
The chairman of the Council will be
elected by the Council from among its
members. He will be ex officio the vice
president of the student body.
The Council will become the "supreme
legislative power" in the student body,
replacing the Student Legislature. Its
lawmaking powers will be roughly the
same as those of SL. It will have the
power to override a presidential veto by a
majority vote, instead of the present two
thirds vote requirement.
Its functions with regard to levying
and appropriating student fees will be the
same as those of the SL.
A further provision of the
Inside today
"Wiretap," a new regular feature of The Daily Tar Heel will be beginning
operation soon. This new answer line service will be a weekly feature in the DTH.
See page 3 today for further details and watch for the first DTH "Wiretap."
The DTH also offers another special feature today on pages 4 and 5.
The DTH sports staff has taken an in-depth look at the Tar Heel basketball team
for the upcoming season and reports on the prospects this year. The individual
players and the entire outlook for the Atlantic Coast Conference are included in
this DTH special season preview.
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by Robert Donnao
Feature Writer
Late this afternoon a bus will roll up
in front of the MorehejJ PbneUnuns jt.J
deposit its cargo of Canadians a!! eager
to discover if Chapel Hill is indeed "the
Southern Part of Heaven."
The Canadians are participants in this
year's Toronto Lxthange. During their
five-day stay in Chapel Hsll. the students
from the University of Toronto live
with UNC students, attend classes and
special seminars, and generally explore
this area's special brand of American
culture.
If the enthusiasm of Judy Carter, one
of the UNC Hxchange chairmen, is any
indication, the visitors won't be
disappointed. According to Carter, the 30
members of the UNC Lxchange have been
working since the end of September to
insure that the Canadians stay will be a
memorable one.
They will also participate in the Duke
parade, attend a Saturday evening square
dance highlighted by The Country Hoys,
attend an Lxchange talent show in Deep
Jonah and go to the New Riders of the
Purple Sage concert and the
Duke-Carolina game.
The Exchange is funded through
Student Legislature and by the
participants themselves. Members of this
year's program sold programs at home
football games to raise funds.
The UNC contingent will visit Toronto
at the beginning of next semester.
reform
amendments regarding representation of
graduate students is that all committees
and boards not established in the SG
constitution whose members are
appointed by the student body president
shall contain a proportional number of
graduate students.
The unal provisions of the
amendments establishes a trial period for
the new government. "In 1975 on the
Tuesday of the second full week after
Christmas vacation," states the proposal,
"a referendum shall be conducted to
determine the success of the Governing
Council." At that time, the student body
by a two thirds vote may overturn the
reorganization and return to the present
form of government on March I, 1975.
Other results of the Tuesday elections
are as follows: freshman class president,
Barry Schneider; freshman class social
chairman, Hank Birdsong; Men's District
II SL seats, Mike Boner, Steve Coggins,
Hunter Dalton; MD III seats, Robert
Griffin, Nick Jones, Dave Kohl, Raiph
Pitts, Craig Stewart; Women's District VII
Honor Court seats, Mary Virginia Currie,
Alice Martin.
ooems are about childhood and old age.
She loves both children and old people, and the relationship
between the two seems to be very important to her.
When she is forceful, it is a positive and constructive
forcefulness. "My House," the title-poem of her latest book, is
a vital and compelling poem, and a full-blooded exhortation to
pride and individuality. She celebrates the fact that she is in
Her House, where she can do as she wants when she wants.
The house becomes a foundation on which her pride, and that
of others, can grow.
Nikki is a sensual person too; in one of her most famous
poems, she talks of "Your hands ... fluttering like Black
butterflies . . . across my body."
In between reading her poems, she talked of many things.
She voiced fears about Richard Nixon's "indifferent evil "
saying that she could relate to evil if there was passion behind
it.
She spoke of life:
"Life is really a' bitch, you know?"
of love:
"Love is really a funny thing ... it can be a terrific
problem."
of people:
"We don't seem to look at each other any more. We have
got to begin to relate to each other."
She touched on many things, and touched many people.
Her reading was unpretentious and intimate, and the sense of
communication between artist and audience was very, very
high.
In one poern Nikki Giovanni quoted from Aretha Franklin
when talking of a "sweet inspiration."
Nikki is a sweet inspiration herself.