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by William March
Staff Writer
Editor's Note: This is the last in a
series of four articles on the collection,
appropriation and philosophy of student
fees on the UNC-CH campus.
300,000 one dollar bills, lined up end
to end. would go from Suite in the Union
to Fuquay-Varina and back nearly four
times.
If you had S300.000. how far could
you make it go? How would you decide
what to spend it on?
In 1969, the Adams Committee,
known then as the Tar Heel committee,
examined the way SG spends its nearly
$300,000 a year. The committee, headed
by Dean of the UNC Journalism School
John B. Adams, presented its conclusions
in the "Adams Report" on the Student
Activities Fee. If you are interested in
how SG spends your money, you should
see this report.
The report states as one of its basic
conclusions that "we are praising the
Student Legislature for the demonstrated
breadth and depth of its support of
student activities, and criticizing the
University (and the state) for making it
necessary for so many projects and
agencies of worth to the whole University
(not just the students) to be funded in
whole or in part by the Student Activities
Fee.
In Carrboro
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by Ken Allen
Staff Writer
Carrboro water rates will go from 50
cents per 1,000 gallons of water to $1.20
per 1,000 gallons, and sewer rates have
doubled, going from 40 cents to 80 cents
per 1,000 gallons, according to Carrboro
Town Manager Frank Chamberlain.
These increases were made necessary r
by an increase in the wholesale water rate
charged Carrboro by the University.
Carrboro will issue revenue bonds to
raise money to pay approximately
$133,000 it owes the University in back
water charges.
The University actually raised their
wholesale rate to Carrboro in August of
1970. At that time, the cost of water to
Carrboro went up over 1 60 per cent.
Carrboro refused to pay the increase,
since they had had no voice in the
decision, had not been consulted on the
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"There should be some clarification of
the various types of activities worthy of
.support and. ultimately, there should be
an effort by the University to provide
funding of some activities from sources
more appropriate than the Activities
ee.
Those activities that the committee felt
should continue to be funded by SL
constitute close to 60 per cent of its
budget. Among these are the Dili, the
Carolina Union, all the organs of SG
itself, the Carolina Quarterly, the
Yackety-Yack and the GPSF, so long as it
remains a part of SG.
Of these, the DTH and the Yack could
conceivably become financially
independent in the near future.
The Adams Committee noted a second
group of activities also useful to all
students, but which it still felt should
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matter and considered it illegal.
The University kept charging the new
rate and Carrboro kept paying the old
rate, which resulted in between a $5,000
and $7,000 deficit each month,
Chamberlain said.
The matter went to court, during
time the University kept charging the new
rate, Carrboro kept paying the old rate,
and the deficit kept mounting up.
In the final decision, it was determined
that the University could charge whatever
it wished for water. So Carrboro started
paying the higher rate in October of 1972
and raised their rates to individual
consumers accordingly.
But that left Carrboro $133,000 in
debt. Issuing the bonds was the action
considered most beneficial to all, giving
the University its money in one lump
sum, while allowing Carrboro to spread
out the debt.
The new consumer rates will make it
possible for Carrboro to pay not only the
current wholesale water rate and
administer the water and sewer systems,
but will give the town a 10 per cent
capital reserve.
This reserve will make it possible for
the town to perform future
improvements as they are needed without
borrowing the money.
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ultimately be funded through other
sources. Some examples are the Carolina
Forum and the Carolina Symposium, the
Student Transportation Committee, the
debating team, and various choirs, giee
clubs and bands.
Flimination of these activities from
this year's SG budget would have saved
the students around S25.000. Flimination
of other activities which fit into this
category, but were not funded in 1 969
and so were not mentioned in the report,
would have saved thousands more.
A third category, for which the
Committee said "future alternative
funding should be sought." included the
International Student Center, the
Carolina Talent Search, the Black Student
Movement, the Residence College
Federation and several more. Activities in
Chapel Hill, North Carolina,
What if you had gotten up for your 8:00
find that it had been called off. The easiest
Changes under
.Better
by Amy O'Neal
Staff Writer
Changes that are being considered in
the Office of Residence Life and Physical
Plant for next year are an attempt to
provide smoother and better-controlled
operations through complete separation
of the two departments.
One idea for change is to hold the
Residence Life budget separate from that
of Physical Plant. Physical Plant would be
contracted to perform all jobs for
Residence Life in-the area of student
housing and would be paid after
completing the jobs.
Another plan would leave Physical
Plant in charge of classroom and office
building maintenance and would
formulate a contract whereby Physical
Plant workers would perform major
renovations for Residence Life in
dormitories.
Under the present system, Physical
Plant services dormitories as well as
classroom and office buildings. The
matter of priorities often arises when
South Building needs to be thoroughly
Earaka
by Nancy Kocnuk
Staff Writer
"America needs revolution. No reform
can reform anything as degenerate as
America," Imamu Amira Baraka
announced in a speech to UNC students
Wednesday night in Memorial Hall.
Baraka, formerly LeRoi Jones, is a
leading black poet, essayist, novelist and
short story writer. He denounced racial
degradation in the United States.
He spoke on his three criteria for a
revolutionary movement: nationalism,
Pan-Africanism and socialism.
Black nationalism, his first
revolutionary objective, began to take
shape in the 160s. particularly through
the efforts of Martin Luther King and
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ear.
Many other agencies which fit into the
Committee's categories for future
elimination or immediate elimination
from the SG budget have taken a large
chunk of the nearly S300.000 which SG
has spent this year.
Student Legislature's decision to spend
into its surplus this year, rather than stick
to its projected income of S275.000, has
resulted in an increase of the number of
activities and the kinds of activities which
it funds.
From the point of view of the Adams
Report, SG has gone significantly farther
this year in funding categories of
activities which it should not be
supporting.
"When word got around that we were
going to spend over the budget," said
Friday, January 26, 1973
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dorm services?
cleaned the same day as a dormitory.
Residence Life would operate on a
separate budget and would hire its own
housing assistants, plumbers, electricians,
carpenters and maintenance assistants.
This would hopefully provide better
service for dorm residents, as well as
stabilize the room rent figures because
Residence Life will have control of its
entire budget.
Another problem is that housing
assistants who work in dormitories are
supervised by Physical Plant. There is no
type of controlled supervision of the
housing assistants by the resident
directors of dorms.
Another change being considered in
Residence Life is the establishment of a
surety deposit on an experimental basis in
a few dorms to try to solve two problems.
Residence Life has been swamped with
student complaints concerning the
bareness of social lounges on South
campus and in men's dorms. When money
has been used for furnishings there has
previously been no way to prevent
vandalism.
A surety deposit would be collected by
advocates revolution
Malcolm X, he said. Baraka sees this new
black consciousness as a step toward
overcoming the white nationalism that
has always dominated American society
Baraka said the movement toward
black nationalism had become corrupted
by white people by the end of the 1960s.
"Whatever we thought black was, white
people took that image and perverted it,"
he said.
The black spokesman thinks that
blacks need institutions to serve their
special needs. "Black and white values are
entirely different," he said. "There has
never been integration, but only
manipulation of black people, by
whites."
For black nationalism to be effective.
Student body i reasurer 'Aanc 1 nomas,
"money requests began to pour m. Many
were from obviously worthwhile groups
who said that the administration or other
funding sources had dried up.
"Then the question of philosophy
comes up. Should we allow a worthy
cause to die, or should we spend student
money on something that the students
have never had to support before? We
cannot continue to spread student fee
money over a wider and wider are3.
"The Finance Committee normally
tries to decide on the basis of precedent
and common sense.
"But sometimes there is no precedent.
And when we decided to spend over the
budget, we eliminated most precedents.
There is no rule as to how much of the
surplus should be spent in any one year "
At any rate, precedents can only arise
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charging each student an additional $2
along with the room rent. The money
could be deposited in a savings account
with the interest used to pay damage
costs to common areas when there is
considerable doubt as to who should be
charged.
At the end of each semester, the total
amount of charges to each dorm would
be substracted from the dorm's fund. Any
surplus would be deposited in the Trust
Fund account of each dorm to be used as
the residents see fit.
Election errors
Due to an error in the Wednesday ulition of the DTH, the names of
candidates for two Campus Governing Council seats were omitted from the story
on the Feb. 6 elections.
The candidates are: Undergraduate off-campus district V, Robert Hackney;
Undergraduate off-campus district VI,- Richard Robertson.
The story also neglected to mention that Dan Suhart, candidate for senior
class president, is running under the nickname "Papoon."
Baraka said blacks must maximize their
political and economic control over the
community.
Pan-Africanism is Baraka's second
revolutionary objective. He stressed the
oneness of all black people. "We can
never be ultimately liberated until Africa
is unified and governed by a socialist
form of government."
Baraka foresees Pan-Africanism in the
1970s paralleling the rise of nationalism
in the 1960s. "Black people have not
totally evolved to the consciousness of
the fact that we are Africans," he said.
Baraka's third objective in the rise of a
revolutionary party is socialism. He
defined the term as "control of the means
of production by the masses of people."
He described America's capitalistic
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consider question of fiscal policy heft. re
passing the b:!!. Larger requests a--e rve
seriously examined.
"We end up funding activities that
benefit only a few students.' Davenport
said. "I personally fjor consistently
considering the number of students
benefited by an activity. We should fund
only activities that do a seruce for a large
portion of the student body
'The Campus Ciocrr,ne Council will
have failed significantly it" it does not
establish some sort of policy.'"
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The Adams Committee was formed
partially as a response to controversy,
surrounding the use of Activities lee
money to support the DTH. Many of its
conclusions concern the DTH; these
conclusions are based on the stated
opinion that "the Dili serves (or could
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Nighttime bicyclists who ride in Chapel
Hill with no lights and reflectors will be
subject to arrest after Feb. 1. The action
was taken by the Mayor's Task Force
Committee to Study Bicycling
Wednesday night.
A local ordinance requires that bicycles
must have a white light in front and a rear
red reflector if they are to be ridden at
night. The committee recommended that
strict enforcement of the ordinance was
necessitated by the large number of close
calls reported by Chapel Hill motorists.
Watson Morris, director of tCOS and a
committee member, said that the police
department receives at least one call per
day from motorists who have had near
collisions with cyclists who wear dark
clothing and have no lights.
"It's time to bear down on those
cyclists and punish them," Morris said,
"or eventually someone is going to get
killed."
First offenders, according to Morris,
will receive a warning from the police and
be requested to install the necessary
equipment within 24 hours. Further
offenses would result in fines.
The committee, chaired by
Alderwoman Alice Welsh, is composed of
cyclists and was formed by the Board of
Aldermen to study ways of improving
bicycle safety in Chapel Hill.
Morris said that most of the bicycle
safety problems result from the mixing of
cycles and cars on town streets. Partly as
a consequence of this, the committee is
considering changing the green "Bike
Route" signs on several town streets to
read "Bicycles Keep Right."
The committee is also conducting a
study of Chapel Hill's streets to locate
and remove bike hazards such as storm
grates. Grates with slots running parallel
to the traffic flow may throw the rider
from the bike and into the path of
oncoming traffic
Morris said the committee would
recommend that those grate3 be replaced
with grates having diagonal siots.
system as a greedy one, a prirrtive and
reactionary philosophy. It is a
"degenerate social institution th3t will
not endure much longer," he said.
"The world's majority will not allow it
to exist. If society is not transformed so
there is an equitable distribution of
wealth, it will cease to exist.
"Socialism is essential to the
revolutionary movement," Baraka
continued, "because there must be a
transformation of the material as well as
spiritual reality." He said this will evolve
by political meaas.
Baraka said the political structure is
dependent on a black national
consciousness, which he feels is presently
beina aroused.
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