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The UNC Board of Governors
took three important actions
Friday morning in relation to that
subject dear to many students'
hearts money.
The board voted to raise tuition
for in-state students over the next
two years, and to ask the General
Assembly to abolish tuition
deposits and to give the board the
power to define residency for
tuition purposes.
The rise in in-state tuition is
actually , a minor one especially
when compared to the almost 100
per cent jump out-of-state tuition
has taken in the past two years.
In-state rates will rise $ 1 7 next year
and $14 more for 1974-75. This
rise is an effort by the board to
bring tuition rates for state
institutions with similar programs
into rough equality. Chapel Hill's
tuition rates will be the same as
N.C. State and UNC-G by 1974-75.
The Board's request to the
General Assembly on tuition
deposits is a most welcome one.
The legislature arbitrarily
imposed the requirement that
entering students deposit $100
toward tuition upon acceptance
and that returning students deposit
$50. Designed to help schools
project their enrollments, all the
deposits accomplished was
increased red tape u and actually
poorer enrollment projections. It
imposed a burden on students to
come up with the cash that was
totally unnecessary.
The legislators will, we hope, see
cornoration
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Early? last fall, the University had
us all believing it was going to sell
the utilities. The governor's study
Commission recommended it and
the Board of Trustees and Board of
Governors apparently agreed.
But in Friday's UNC-CH Board
of Trustees' meeting, the decision
was made to look into the
? possibility that a University-owned
corporation might own and operate
the electric, water, and telephone
services. This means that
commercial companies, a
Windy March
What's a politico?
Whatever it is, it gets a lot of bad
press.
It was the subject of the following
conversation, overheard in the Union:
"DjoHTVote 'nat shit?"
"Oh fielyeh. Every concerned student
should vote."
"Wtioodja vote for?"
x "Johnson. I think he's in my psych
class. Or "some dude who looks like him
is."
"Yeah, I saw him at the Golden West
one night. Long as you didn't vote for
one of those dam politico crazies."
Whoever they were, they had about
the standard opinion of the "politicos,"
whoever they are. It is, of course,
difficult to pin down a politico and get
him to adroit what he is.
He .will deny it, even if you use
thumbscrews. Still, we all know they are
there4 somewhere if not, who fouls up
SG so bad? Ask Pitt. He will tell you they
- are there, just like the goldfish who said
to the bther goldfish, "OK, if there is no
God, who changes the water?"
One should obviously vote for a
non-politico, or someone much like you
and me and our friends, who are not, and
never would be, politicos. Natch.
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Evans Witt, Editor
Monday, February 12, 1973
taiuions
the absurdity in th ir action two
years ago and repeal the tuition
deposit requirement.
But about 'domicile'
The single most significant
action on tuition, however, was the
board's request that they be given
the power to determine the
regulations regarding in-state and
out-of-state residency for tuition
purposes. In the past, the General
Assembly has jealously guarded this
power to try to keep "outside
agitators" out of the universities.
In recent years, the legal tangle
of residency has become
complicated with various courts
ruling variously on different cases.
That many students are registered
to vote in the state and yet pay
out-of-state tuition is one of the
injustices that demands solution.
With the rapidly developing area
of case law on residency for tuition,
the UNC system needs to be more
flexible in setting its regulations
than rules set by legislation will
permit. UNC also must be able to
recognize that students often
choose to become residents of this
state while still in school.
While the board would be able
to recognize this fine point of law,
the legislature probably lacks
appreciation of the situation so to
do.
In short, the board would
probably relax the residency
regulations. The legislature is not
likely ever to take such a step.
utilities!
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corporation set up by area
governments and this University
corporation might all be bidding for
the right to "serve" the people of
Chapel Hill.
Last fall we applauded the
University's decision to get out of
the utilities business.
The situation how is the same:
the University should stick to
education and stay out of the
utilities business, whether directly
or through a dummy
"corporation."
We may accept as a definition of
"politico" the phrase "one who is
involved in student politics."
There are, however, a couple of
objections. One is that some of us have
friends who are involved in SG, and all
the saints may witness that none of us
would ever be friends with a politico.
Another objection is that, if we accept
this definition, the only way to get rid of
the politicos is to abolish student
government.
Where have I heard that before?
Unfortunately, to abolish it, you'd
have to get involved in it a little bit, at
least, and with our definition, that's like
getting sort of involved with leprosy, or
getting a little bit pregnant.
Our definition, therefore, is
inadequate. Let us augment it. A
"politico" is one who is involved in
student politics, and who is bad. Now
we're getting somewhere.
The next question, obviously, is "bad
how?"
Well, bad because they act dumb.
They get all excited over things that are
thoroughly unimportant. But that's only
the outward sign, it doesn't really tell
what they are. We all get excited over
"things some people think aren't
polMeos
by Lana S tames
and
Dr. Takey Crist
Question: Is it possible for a woman to
have a satisfactory sex life after having a
hysterectomy? What changes, if any,
occur in a woman's response? Signed,
Curious.
Dear Curious: Women who have
hysterectomies do indeed have full and
satisfactory sexual relations.
After a hysterectomy there is a period
of imposed abstinence during which the
wall of the vagina, where it was
connected to the uterus, must heal. This
usually takes about six weeks. After the
healing is complete intercourse can be
resumed without fear of harm or pain.
The removal of the uterus may mean a
slight difference in sensation at the time
of orgasm and, if the ovaries are removed,
there may be a need for replacement
hormone medication which can be taken
Gerry Cohen
B
us system is vital
Chapel Hill voters will go to the polls a
week from tomorrow to decide the fate
of a proposed public bus system for the ,
town.
Why should the ref erendum pass? Why
should people who have reservations
about the solution to the parking
problem cast a vote yes?
The reasons, I think, are very
important. Unless the proposal is
approved, there will be no bus system. As "
one commentator has said, we will be
back to the beginning in the traffic
situation, but with two more years of
increasd traffic.
Unless voters approve the referendum,
the town will not be able to obtain the 66
per cent grant from the Federal
Government for purchase of the buses to
be . used in the system. Without this
funding, the system will be doomed.
To run the system without the federal
money would mean an additional cost of
about $40,000 per year to pay off the
involved for sake o
important, like setting fire to ping-pong
balls and counting the number of times
the letters "u," "c," and "k" appear in
that order on the wall in the can on
fourth floor Wilson.
What they do is, these politicos, they
get on an odd sort of power trip
connected with being where "it" is at,
"it" being the decision process of the
student government.
Boy, I mean, if that's your idea of a
power trip, boy, yugotta be really a
weird, hyuk, hyuk, gimme that "Oui,"
that this month's?
I think we have it now. The politico
likes to be in groups where some sort of
"big" decision is being made, and likes to
throw his opinion into the group. This
constitutes being where "it" is at, and
"it" is in some places more than in
others. " '
Unfortunately, unless there is a lot of
work done beforehand, "it" never gets to
be anywhere. And work is a thing the
politico is not wild about.
Suppose, for example, that the UNC
tree-climbing club wants money from
student government. Not only does
somebody have to listen for hours to
some avid arborean extol the comparative
merits of pine and dutch elm, but they
daily and which can completely make up
for the absent hormone.
Perhaps more importantly, the source
of aggravation is gone. The uterus can be
the source of heavy bleeding, pain,
tumors and infections. These are reasons
that a hysterectomy is performed. After
the operation is over the irregular
bleeding is stopped. The pain is gone.
Pregnancy and contraception are no
longer a hassle. All these changes tend to
bring about a sense of relief and freedom
which in itself can lead to greater
realization of sexual satisfaction.
Question: Is the tcondom really
effective as a birth control method? What
are the pros and cons for this method?
Signed, Male.
Dear Male: The condom ranks third in
efficiency after birth control pills and
IUD's. Pregnancy rates vary from five
percent to 20 percent.
Of course, the condom must be
properly used,' which means in the
buses-which averages to about $4 nu
per car permit, if the system is run b
parking fees, or a property tax averaging
about $2 for every person in town.
What will the bus system mean? The
bus system means a way of increased
mobility for the poor and the elderly, and
a corresponding decrease in traffic to
work. Many poor people, unable to
afford their own cars, are forced to take ,
taxis to work and to friends houses.
The buses will also allow increased
mobility for those with and without cars.
It will enable students without cars to
escape the Franklin Street rip-off. With
Eastgate and University Mall shopping
centers, Franklin Street won't have its
captive freshman and sophomore
audience.
An increased use of buses will help
solve the traffic and parking problems. It
is no cure-all, but for each person riding
the bus to work, there is one less car
driving to campus. This will make it safer
have to be fitted into a budget, which has
to balance, etc., etc.
If the tree-climbing club request gets
to be controversial, then the politico
wants to be around when the decision is
made, and get his name in the DTH. But
he doesn't want to do the work.
Well, there are some people in SG who
are. willing to do the work and are
relatively unconcerned about the perverse
ego trip aspects. And some do both.
So the problem is insoluble. It's
impossible to weed out the bads from the
-goods by voting, because nobody votes.
So the only way is to abolish student
government
We're back to that again. The guys
who want to do this make a virtue of not
taking student government seriously
they think it's stupid to get involved with
the work. But they dig running for
president. Who are they beginning to
sound like?
At any rate, you agree with them
you voted for them, most of you. They
don't even take it seriously enough to
abolish it, despite what they say, and
neither do you. If you did, it would have
been abolished long ago.
If you think you had to wait
around for Pitt Dickey to do that, you're
egg from which the Siamese twins
originated divided into two parts quite
absence of satisfactory lubrication the
outside should be lubricated and it must
be withdrawn from the vagina very
cautiously, being careful that it does not
break and that no sperm are allowed to
escape.
One advantage of the method is that
condoms are readily available in
drugstores without prescription. The cost
is low and it can be useful as a "back-up"
method to provide extra protection (Le.
when a woman forgets to take her pill).
Women consider that one distinct
advantage of this method is that it places
the main responsibility for contraception
on the male. On the other hand many
find this method inconvenient and
unaesthetic. And some men find a
condom unpleasant to use and an
interence with satisfaction.
Question: What happens after
fertilization that causes the formation of
Siamese twins? Signed, B.C.
Dear B.G.: It is believed that the single
for Chapel Hi
for pedestrians and bicyclists. The
one-car one-driver syndrome is a mistake.
There will be two questions on the
referendum ballot for the 14,000 voters
of . Chapel Hill to decide -on. The first
authorizes the city to buy the buses
(bond issue), and the second authorizes a
tax levy to pay for an operating subsidy,
estimated at about $80,000 per year.
Many citizens have complained about
a system that is designed to run at a loss.
Yet, if we are to avoid coercive measures
that these same people oppose (such as
banning driving during certain hours), it is
economically necessary to make the act
of bus riding as cheap as possible
(through low fares and cheap bus passes)
and make up the difference through a tax
levy at the end of the year. If our goal is
to encourage non-use of cars, we must
provide an alternative that is not paid
fully at the fare box.
No one worries that the police and fire
departments run at a deficit-yet if we
incredibly naive.
And if you don't really want to
abolish it, you just voted for a
"non-politico" so as to "show the
politicos what we think of them," then
apparently your ego-perversity knows no
bounds.
I got news for you. They already know
what - you think of them, and they
couldn't care less. They only care about
their ego-trip,, be it running for president
or whatever. Otherwise, they wouldn't
scream that they're not politicos. j
SJJj laug
Evans Witt, Editor
79 Years
of
Editorial Freedom
The Daily Tar Heel strives
opinions on its editorial page.
wrtile letters and columns
represent only
egcD
Late, perhaps as late as 1 0 to 1 3 days after
fertilization. By this relatively late date,
the cells which are to form the embryo
have grown into a sizeable dump, and
when division occurs, itis just too much
to cut through, as it were, and division is
incomplete. Siamese twins are united by
the common tissue which fails to divide
completely.
Question: Does the menstrual cycle
affect a woman's capacity for orgasmic
response? Signed, Curious Male.
Dear Curious Male: The phase of her
menstrual cycle does influence a woman's
orgasmic capacity. Studies indicate that
women go through regular phases of
being "turned on" and other phases when
they are "turned off," The time of
ovulation is a period when women are
very "turned on."
(Questions should be addressed to The
Daily Tar Heel, Student Union, Chapel
HiU, N.C. 27514.) r f
COPYRIGHT (C)' 1973 by Lana
S tames and Dr. Takey Crist. All rights
reserved.
look closely, we can put some sort of
value on the property and lives protected
by these municipal services, and show a
net plus on a social ledger book.
While taxpayers immediately see red
about a $60,000 subsidy, I am sure that
the amount of gas, oil, tire wear,
aggravation, and car depreciation saved
by the bus system will be well in excess
of this figure.
So you don't like the parking plan that
will require a hefty; increase in parking
fees? A vote no on; the referendum will
not affect parking " restrictions. The
University is going to put these into
effect although the exact nature remains
to be seen. But we will wind up paying
even more if the referendum fails.
Public transportation has to be seen as
a vital and necessary public function in
any large city and in towns such as
Chapel Hill with one central employer.
It is one thing to talk about the
environment, but it is another to take
action to help. We must realize that there
is no absolute freedom to drive a car, and
that those who do drive bear the
responsibility for helping solve the
problem. If this is through Increased
parking fees, then it b a cost we must
bear.
The fringe lot proposal sounds absurd,
but it is quite obvious that there are more
cars than parking spaces. There are two,
and only two solutions to the problem.
One is to extend the freshman ban on
cars to sophomores. The other is to
provide fringe parking with rapid shuttles
so that all who want to have cars will be
allowed to do so, while paying the true
cost of traffic control and parking lots.
Shuttles could also be used on football
and basketball afternoons and evenings,
to cut down on the incredible traffic jams
that develop as 20,000 fans try to occupy
the same parking space at the same time.
A vote yes on February 20 is vitally
necessary. There are 5,000 students
registered in Chapel Hill, about 35 per
cent of the electorate we should express
our voice for a sane solution to the
transportation problem.'
The polls will be open from 6:30 a.m.
to 7:30 p.m., at the same place you voted
on November 7. n
Ford Runge offers serious solutions to
economic problems (e.g. business ripoffs)
in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. Only by
consumer and tenant information and
organizing can tha weight of the
consumer be brought to bear. Don't just
complain.
So who are the politicos? The ones
who, like you, don't take it seriously; the
ones who, like you, think it's stupid to
get involved with the work; the ones who,
like you, involved with it only for the
sake of a perverse ego trip; you still want
to get rid of the politicos?
So slash your wrists. They are you.
And what about - the guys who
promised you they'd, get rid of the
politicos? Pitt? Boone? :
Put them in office and give them a
little time.
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