Area legislators optimistic about session
by Stephanie Bo lick
Staff Writer
Legislators represent.. Chapel Hill in
the 1973 session of the North Carolina
General Assembly express optimism that
the Democratic-controlled legislature will
work well with the state's first
Republican governor in 72 years.
In telephone interviews with the area's
two state representatives and two
senators, all agreed that the legislature
wants to do what is best for North
Carolina.
In describing the General Assembly
which convened last Wednesday,
freshman Sen. A.C. Coleman said, "I
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"Student Government is the worst
bargain in town."
With this statement, Ford Runge,
organizer and chairman of the Student
Consumer Action Union (SCAU)
announced his candiday for student body
president.
Organized as a research organization
in the fall, SCAU has grown to 50
members and expanded to an organizing
body. SCAU is concerned with what it
feels are high prices for low quality goods
and services in the Chapel Hill area.
With its resources of manpower and
money, Runge feels that the student
government (SG) is in an excellent
position to gather and re-distribute
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think that on major issues everyone is in
agreement."
"For example, Gov. Jim Holshouser
wants to reform the State Highway
Commission, Coleman said, "and last
week there was a resolution introduced
by Democrats in both houses of the
General Assembly to study the
commission."
Later in this session, Coleman plans to
introduce a bill to reduce out-of-state
tuition at UNC from $1800 to $1300.
(Out-of-state tuition was increased in a
controversial move by the General
Assembly in the summer of 1971).
Coleman said the only thing that
could change his plans would be
information from the Legislative
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information pertinent to the student as a
consumer, as well as organize students
into a consumer body.
Runge emphasized that the SCAU was
not an organization formed to further his
personal political future. "Win or lose,
the Union will stand," he said.
"But," he continued, "everyone
complains that Student Government
takes our money but gives us nothing in
return. I would change that by doing such
things as making the Union (SCAU) an
arm of Student Government.
"Student Government could then be
responsible for printing up pamphlets
that explain a student's rights as a tenant,
how to make an effective "complaint to a
landlord, and other issues that concern
students as consumers."
Runge, however, feels that the most
important job SG could do would be
organizing the students into a consumer
body.
"The Chapel Hill merchants have a
captive consumer audience at this
University," Runge explained. He thinks -that
if the students unite, they can
protect themselves from incidents of
consumer fraud, and SG is in the best
position to carry out this unification.
Runge explained that this issue is
different from any other in the young
campaign for SG president.
Runger is a junior from Middleton.
Wis. majoring in American Studies,
working for his Certificate of Honors in
Urban and Regional Planning. He is a
N.C l-ellow and has worked with Sen.
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Research Commission concerning the
amount of revenue which might be lost
by the reduction in tuition.
The Hillsborough attorney was
appointed by Lt. Gov. Jim Hunt to the
following Senate committees:
Conservation and Development,
Correctional Institutions and Law
Enforcement, Finance, Judiciary Two,
Public Roads, Public Utilities and State
Policies.
He is also vice-chairman of the Higher
Education Committee. "If a bill is
introduced to establish a second-year
medical school at East Carolina
University," Coleman said, "it would
come through the Higher Education
Committee."
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Governors veto expansion
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The UNC Board of Governors has
decided against the immediate expansion
of the East Carolina University medical
program.
The decision, which was reached at
the board's Friday session, concurred
with the recommendations of a
committee specially appointed to study
the feasibility of a two-year medical
program at ECU.
Currently, ECU operates a one-year
medical program in which 20 students are
enrolled. Under the present system, the
UNC Medical School accepts all students
promoted by ECU from its first-year
Switchboard, local problem-solving
clearinghouse, starts the new year with a
new director, new programs and new
furnishings.
At an open house Sunday to show off
their freshly -painted yellow, orange and
green walls and their custom-designed
furnishings, director Vickie Green
discussed Switchboard's new programs.
Green takes over the position of
director from Meyer Dworsky, who will
enter medical school in the fall. Green is a
psychology major from Guilford College
who has worked with Switchboard since
last summer.
"Switchboard is an exciting idea and
I'm really pleased with the jobs it already
does and the potential it has for new
programs," Green said.
"Our purpose is to serve the whole
town of Chapel Hill with the funds we
receive from Community Chest, the
Board of Aldermen and personal
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"I feel that the legislature should
abide by the Board of Governors
decisions in such matters." Coleman said.
(The Board of Governors denied ECU's
request for immediate expansion of their
one year medical school in a meeting
Friday).
Veteran Sen. William P. Saunders,
D-Moore, is on the Alcoholic Beverage
Control committee. Regarding
controversy over the state's having either
a local option vote or a state-wide
referendum to decide the fate of
liquor-by-the-drink, Saunders said, "I
have an open mind at themomenL"
Saunders said he would favor
Ikjuor-by-the-drink in Chapel Hill if the
''people wanted it.
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program.
Although the committee report and
the board discouraged the immediate
expansion of the ECU program into a
two-year curriculum, they did not deny
the need for another state-supported
degree-granting medical school in future
years.
The committee recommended instead
that a special study commission,
composed of experienced and qualified
national consultants be appointed to
study the feasibility of establishing such
an institution.
Reasons for the lack of feasibility of a
A new face and a new format,
but with the same old heart
donations," she said "We get about
700 calls a month on every subject from
suicide to bad drug experiences to how
long to bake a potato."
The Women's Health and Pregnancy
Counseling Service is housed in
Switchboard. Questions on pregnancy,
abortion referral and other aspects of
women's health can be answered on the
phone or in person.
Switchboard has five full-time staff
members and 5 volunteers to answer calls
on the three telephone lines.
According to Green more volunteers
are needed. Volunteers should call
Switchboard and leave name and phone
number in order to be contacted for a
new training program to begin the end of
this month.
Training consists of 1 5 hours of talk
about how to counsel, and answering the
telephone with an experienced
Switchboard staffer nearby to evaluate
how well the volunteer handles different
situations.
Legal counseling for drug offenders,,
draftees or others with legal problems is
an area that will be expanding.
Switchboard has a lawyer to whom
problems can be referred and an
expanded system is being set up.
A parent counseling service is being
set up to answer questions about drugs,
runaways and simply how to get along
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As a member of the House Health
Committee, freshman Rep. "Trish"
Stanford Hunt, D-Orange, will be
concerned with any bill dealing with
abortion.
"I support less stringent abortion
laws," Hunt said. "I think the matter of
an abortion should be between a woman
and her doctor."
A meum ol the Appropriations
Committee, Hunt hopes that salaries can
be raised for employes in prisons and in
jobs connected with mental health.
She is a member of these additional
committees: Appropriation
subcommittee on Personnel and Long
Range Planning, Mental Health, Higher
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two-year medical program at ECU
contained in the report cited the
disappearance of the two-year
autonomous school throughout the
nation.
Another reason emphasized the
impracticability of relying upon two
other state medical education
institutions, Bowman Gray and Duke, to
accept third-year transfer students from
ECU. Both schools reported that they do
not currently enroll third-year transfer
students.
In the . light of such policies, the
committee concluded that there "is no
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Crafts will be taught starting this year.
Sewing, shoe repair, guitar
playing anything that a teacher can be
found for-will be taught to anyone who
is interested. in coming to learn.
Recently, Switchboard's house was
completely redecorated by staff
members. Special furniture created by
design students at N.C. State University
includes brightly colored room partitions,
lounging chairs constructed out of
cardboard and couches that can be
changed into bunk beds.
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Correctional Institution".
Freshman Rep. Edward S. Holmes.
D-Outham, wants a total reorganization
of the State Highway Commission. As a
member of the House Pubhc Road
Committee, he hopes that politics can be
taken out of the state's road-builJmg
policies.
"It looks like a good ide3 to have
county commissioners take charge of
secondary roads," Holmes said.
His other committee assignments
include: Finance, Conservation 3nd
Development, Insurance. Corporations.
Judiciary Two, and Correctional
Institutions.
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clear pathway to the M.D. degree within
the state at the present time for students
entering into a two-year program at East
Carolina" who might have to transfer out
of state to find a place.
The raison d'etre for an ECU medical
school has been, from the beginning, its
function as a necessary instrument in
meeting the doctor shortages in particular
regions in the state, particularly in the
East. The committee found that transfers
to out-of-state institutions from ECU
would tend to diminish the chances of
such students returning to North Carolina
to practice.
The committee concluded that the
problem of health care delivery "is not
simply one of producing additional
doctors." The primary problem lies also
in the distribution of doctors and in
getting a sufficient number of these to go
into primary care fields (internal
medicine, pediatrics, general practice,
family medicine and
obstetrics-gynecology).
The General Assembly authorized the
creation of a two-year school of medicine
at ECU as early as 1965. However, ECU
officials then were advised to delay
establishment of the medical school and
institute a program in life sciences and
community health.
In 1969, ECU requested a basic
medical science curriculum-equivalent to
the first two years of medical school, and
the General Assembly appropriated funds
for its planning and development.
The State Board of Higher Education
interceded, recommending that a
one-year program be initiated, beginning
in 1972 and in cooperation with the UNC
Medical School.
Att. Gen. Robert Morgan, chairman of
the ECU Board of Trustees, is expected
to make a statement Monday concerning
the board's decision.
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