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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thursday, March 22, 1973
Founded February 23, 1893
Vol. 81, No. 121
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by Mary Newsom
Staff Writer
Carrboro will hold a referendum May 5
on the proposed public bus system, the
Board of Aldermen decided Tuesday
night.
The board agreed February 13 to hold
such a referendum, but delayed setting
the date.
The ballot will contain two items. The
first item would, if approved, allow the
town to issue bonds for the purpose of
funding a public transportation system.
The second item would let the public
show approval or disapproval of a tax
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Discrimination against women exists in
the University and should be eliminated,
according to the Committee Report on
the Role and Status of Women to be
presented Friday to the Faculty Council.
The report revealed descrepancies
reported between men and women in
hiring, promotion, tenure and salaries and
made several recommendations:
Immediate distribution to all deans,
department heads, faculty and staff of a
notice barring discrimination on the basis
of sex within the University.
Preparation of an action program to
recruit, employ and compensate women
on a basis equal with men. A director and
staff sensitive to women's problems were
recommended for the program.
Establishment of a standing
committee on the status of women,
concerned with the needs of all
University women.
Active recruitment of women by
individual departments for all faculty
positions.
Revision of the current University
policy which forbids the employment of
close relatives within the same
department. (The report suggests that
individuals only be barred from holding
supervisory positions in which they
would oversee the activities of close
relatives.)
Review of the salary rank, work
load and department opportunities of
every woman faculty and staff member to
assure that they are not suffering
discrimination, with adjustments where
discrepancies are found.
Elimination of pregnancy leave as a
special category, and creation of a
personal leave without pay, for men or
women, to care for children.
A change in policy to permit
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levy to support such a system.
The bond issue, if approved, would be
legally binding on the board, but the tax
levy would not.
However, according to Carrboro Town
Manager Frank Chamberlain, a new law
which takes effect July 1 would
effectively invalidate the public vote
taken in May.
The present law, according to Lee
Corum, a student representative on the
Chapel H ill-Carrboro Joint
Transportation Commission, specifies
certain items, like public transportation,
as non-necessities. Any tax levy for
non-necessities must be approved by a
women
appointment of regular faculty members
at any rank on a part-time basis of half
the normal load or more. (The report
recommends that teaching loads for such
appointments not exceed half the normal
load for full-time appointments.)
That appointments for lecturers and
visiting professors not be made for more
than two consecutive years until a report
is filed with the director of the action
program to explain why appointment as a
full faculty member has not been made.
The report found that the proportion
of women is highest in the non-voting,
one-year appointment categories of
lecturer and instructor.
University Women for Affirmative
Action (UWAA) Tuesday night voiced
support for the report, but recommended
several additions and revisions.
UWAA recommended that the
University publish the text of its
negotiations with HEW, and that a list of
steps being taken to create an Equal
Employment Opportunity Committee be
published as well.
The group also recommended that the
Chancellor send notice of the end of
discriminatory practices to all
departments within a three-month time
limit; that a woman be appointed to head
the proposed action program; that the
proposed standing committee be
composed of at least 50 per cent women;
that there be a further investigation of
fringe benefits for women employes; and
that the University provide adequate
day-care facilities.
UWAA concluded its statement with
the assertion that if significant progress
toward equal opportunities for women in
the University has not been achieved
within six months, the group will take
legal action.
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vote of the people, Corum said.
The new law reclassifies public
transportation as a necessity. Therefore,
after July 1, any budget item or tax levy
for public transportation can be budgeted
through normal procedures no
referendum is needed.
Chamberlain said that in the opinion of
Carrboro Town Attorney William Staton,
the referendum on the tax levy May 5
would have to be considered only a straw
vote, since it would not be legally binding
on the Board of Aldermen after July 1.
"By having it May 5," Chamberlain
said, "we're having it as soon as is
practically possible."
Aldermen Fred Chamblee and Mary
Riggsbee voted against the May 5 date.
Chamblee said he voted against the issue
because he had wanted a referendum on
levying taxes for a recreation system in
Carrboro on the same ballot. Pre-election
requirements for the recreation
referendum could not be met by the May
5 date.
A similar bus referendum was approved
by Chapel Hill voters February 20.
Corum said he had been pushing for an
earlier date. "My preference would have
been the middle of April," he said.
"Action should have been taken earlier.
But, it was a difficult problem for the
Board of Aldermen. I'm glad they're
cooperating with the commission."
He said the commission would be
working before the referendum, trying to
provide information on the bus system to
the citizens.
Voter registration books will be open
until April 6, Chamberlain said.
Any registered voter in Carrboro who
has moved to a new precinct, or any
qualified person not yet registered,
should contact the Orange County Board
of Elections in the Orange County
Courthouse in Hillsborough. The office is
open from 9 a.m. until noon and from 1
p.m. until 5 p.m. Monday through
Friday.
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Special to the DTH
A tentative plan to increase Chapel
Hill's election precincts from 1 0 to 15 has
been prepared by the Orange County
Board of Elections.
The plan, released at a public hearing
Tuesday night, would mainly affect
precincts where large numbers of students
have swelled the voter rolls since the
lowering of the voting age.
Country Club precinct (Woollen Gym)
would be split into three districts.
Precincts to be divided in half are Estes
Hills, East Franklin and Westwood.
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Many students living off-campus would
find shorter trips to the polls under the
plan, but those in some dorms would find
the polls much further away.
Country Club, the main dormitory
precinct, is proposed to be split as
follows: Morrison, Ehringhaus, Parker,
Teague, Avery, and the Chapel Hill
Country Club area will continue to vote
at Woollen Gym in the old Country Club
Precinct.
James, Craige, Od urn-Victory Village
and Purefoy Road would become Mason
Farm precinct and vote at the
Community Church on Purefoy Road.
Winston, Connor, Joyner, Cobb,
Alexander, Carr, the Upper and Lower
Quads, Ghimgoul area and Greenwood
Road area would become Greenwood
precinct, and would vote at the new
Consolidated University Office on the
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by William March
Staff Writer
The Department of Health, Education
and Welfare has filed an appeal against
the recent district court desegregation
ruling which would have forced UNC to
file a desegregation plan.
William Friday, president of the
University system, said Wednesday that
he was informed in a conversation with
Peter Holmes, director of HEW's Civil
Rights Office, that a motion had been
filed to stay the judgment by District
Court Judge John Pratt of the District of
Columbia.
A three-judge panel sat on the motion
Wednesday. Friday said, but as yet their
decision is not' Jinown. A motion asking
permission to appeal Pratt's ruling has
also been filed, according to Friday.
If the judgment is stayed, ttre 120-day
deadline set by Pratt for the filing of
desegregation plans by several higher
education systems in southern-states will
not remain in effect.
The ruling handed down by Pratt on
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Raleigh Road nearly one mile from
campus.
Alderman, Kenan, Mclver, Old East,
Old West, Spencer, Northampton Plaza,
Brookside and Towne House would
continue voting at the East Franklin
precinct in the public library.
Camelot, Shepherd Lane and Davie and
Tenney Circles would become the Strowd
Hill precinct and would vote at the
Masonic Temple near the Villa Teo
Restaurant.
Granville Towers, Whitehead, Cameron
Avenue and Big and Little Frat Courts
would continue voting at Lincoln School,
but the precinct name would be changed
to Lincoln.
Kingswood Apartments and Westwood
would become the Westwood precinct
and vote at Frank Porter Graham
Elementary School, next to Kingswood.
Friday, March 2, dealt mainly with
elementary and secondary public schools,
but also concerns public higher education
systems. Earlier news leaks from HEW
indicated that the portions of the ruling
dealing with elementary and secondary
schools would be appealed.
The UNC administration has
maintained that it has taken steps to
comply with the 1964 Civil Rights Act,
which Pratt's ruling is designed to
enforce. Title VI of that act prevents
federal funds from going to segregated
school systems.
"The time has long since passed,"
stated Pratt's ruling, "for this act to be
enforced.'" The ruling named UNC as one
system which had failed to comply by
filing a plan for desegregation.
Such a plan has been formulated in the
past, according to Dr. Cameron West, vice
president of planning for UNC, Friday
and others. At the lime of Pratt's ruling,
they said, the plan was in the form of a
60-page draft. Since Pratt's ruling, UNC
officials have announced that work on
the plan was being renewed.
N ith t'dins looming large on the
horizon, assignments made at the
beginning of the semester quickly
coming due and life bad in general
now that spring break is over, all
l:NC students needed was for the
weather to screw them up.
And the weather diJ it to us
right in the ear Wednesday
afternoon. Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning had been
obnoxious enough with this
horrible, drizzling rain falling from
the skies. Well, it couldn't last
forever.
Frank Deal and Frank Field
predicted a change. The crack
meteorologists were right, but the
change wasn't 3 clearing trend. The
precipitation merely changed
colors. Snow, snow, snow.
Flurries began at 4:30 p.m. They
came without the traditional "Oh
boy! It's snowing!" Chapel Hill
greeting, though. Response was
muttered curses of unprintable
profanity.
Students arrived home with their
yellow safety raincoats powdered
white, their faces angered red and
their bodies verging on frostbite
because they were wearing
short-sleeved shirts, rolled-up jeans
and summer sandals.
Those incredible pink and white
dogwood trees between Murphey
and Saunders are probably ruined
for the season. All those green
sprouts on the trees are probably
brown now.
Suffice it to say, you really
messed things up, Winter.
Thanks a lot.
Stratford Hills would continue in the
Estes Hills precinct, voting at Guy B.
Phillips Junior High.
According to Election Board Chairman
Marshall Cates, a final decision on the
precinct changes will be made in about
two weeks, after there is more public
reaction to the proposals.
The proposal envisions all precincts
having between 800 and 1 ,200 voters, to
cut delays on election day.
Weather
TODAY: Mostly sunny with a high
in the low 50's. Low expected tonight
in the middle to upper 30's. Near zero
per cent chance of precipitation.
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The plan was expected to be reviewed
by the chancellors of the various
campuses, the UNC Board of Governors
and the offices of Governor Holshouser
and the North Carolina attorney general
in time for submission to HhW before the
deadline.
As evidence that UNC has been
complying with the law, West has also
cited increasing integration of
predominantly black and predominantly
white campuses of UNC.
The reasons for delay in the submission
of the plan, according to Friday and
West, were that restructuring of the
University last year made previous work
obsolete. Unofficial sources have also
cited confusion on the part of federal
representatives as to whether
enforcement of the Civil Rights Act
would go forward.
"After initial visits and directives from
HhW representatives from 1969 to
1971," said West, "HEW did not
communicate with individual universities
or state agencies here."