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Chapel Hill. North Carolina, Friday, March 30. 1973
Vol. 81, No. 127
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by Linda Livengood
Staff Writer
Initial action for the fall room sign-up
procedure will take place from 12 noon
to 4 p.m., Tuesday, April 3 in rooms 213
and 215 of the Student Union.
A $25 deposit is required of all
students who reserve a room. The deposit
is refundable until July 1.
A lottery will begin on Tuesday and
will continue through Thursday for those
students interested in changing dorms.
The numbers, selected at random, will be
used later to determine the. order in
which students who are changing dorms
will be assigned rooms.
According to Robert Kepner, director
of Residence Life, "By holding the
lottery early, the students who want to
change dorms will know their chances of
getting into the dorm they want."
In order to participate in the lottery,
students must pay a $25 deposit. They
must have their housing cards with them
when they select a number.
A schedule of dorms will be
announced today to determine the order
of selection of lottery numbers. Dorm
order will be selected randomly. "Because
the lottery numbers are randomly
distributed, the order of the appearance
of the student doesn't affect a person's
chance for a good number," stated
Kepner.
On Wednesday, April 4, preference
sheets will be distributed in the residence
halls. These will give the dorm resident
the opportunity to voice his preference of
remaining in the same room, changing
rooms within the dorm or changing
dorms. Kepner has emphasized that the
preference sheets are not binding.
The preference sheets must be
returned to members of the residence hall
staff by Sunday, April 8.
On Wednesday, April 11, those
students who live in University housing
and desire to retain their same room for
next year will sign up within the
residence halls. This phase of the sign-up
process will continue until Friday, April
13. ,
Those students who want to remain in
the same building, but would like to
change rooms, can sign up Monday and
Tuesday, April 16 and 17 in their
residence halls.
Students who want to change dorms
can go to the University housing office in
Bynum Hall Wednesday through Friday,
April 25-27. At this time the lottery
numbers chosen earlier will be used to
determine the order of sign-up for the
students desiring to change buildings.
Students who are not presently living
in University housing can reserve a room
for the fall semester on April 30.
Facility
by Cherin Chewning
Staff Writer
The Faculty Council will discuss the
Faculty Report on the Role and Status of
Women in the University at 4 p.m. this
afternoon in Hamilton Hall.
The report was to be discussed March
23 by the council, but was tabled due to
lack of time. It will be the only item on
today's agenda.
The report said discrepancies exist
between men and women in University
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A few years ago Jewish u.eologian Dr.
Richard Rubenstein and his wife attended
the Paris Opera to hear Igor Stravinsky's
"Rites of Spring." Mrs. Rubenstein said
that when it was first played, no one
understood the strange music. There were
riots in the aisles after the performance.
Fifty years later, Stravinsky became a
hero, Mrs. Rubenstein said.
"Now she wasn't predicting that I'll be
a hero," said Rubenstein, "but she was
saying that I mustn't expect people to
take in what I'm saying too quickly."
And what the man is saying is:
"This life is all there is. We mustn't
have the illusion that there's more than
the living and the sharing. That's enough
for me. It's not enough for everybody.
"I find that I'm the kind of person
who must mean what he says,"
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With room rent on the rise, Leslie Wickham and Steve
Evans appear to be preparing for another alternative to campus
housing with the pitching of a tent near McCorkle Place
Court test of legality possible
WGU faculty seeks AFT
by William March
Staff Writer
A group of faculty members at
Western Carolina University are forming a
local chapter of the American Federation
of Teachers (AFT), a teacher's union
affiliated with the AFL-CIO.
The group's temporary chairman,
Allen Grant of the WCU English
Department, predicts that they will have
the 20 per cent of the teaching faculty
needed to become charter members of
the local "within a day or two," and that
the group will probably test in the courts
North Carolina's laws against collective
bargaining by public employees.
The AFT has required that about 20
per cent of those engaged in teaching at
the University, or about 60 people,
become charter members before it will
"sanction a local. The actual number in the
group now is being kept secret because of
a union rule, but Grant labeled reports
that about 35 people have joined the
group so far as "conservative."
If successful, the group will become
the first teachers' union to be established
at any four-year school in North Carolina.
The move began after a speech by
AFT organizer Howard Hursey on the
WCU campus Wednesday night, attended
by about 50 to 60 faculty members.
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hiring, promotion, tenure and salaries,
It also made several recommendations
for reconciling the discrepancies,
including immediate establishment of -a
standing committee on the status of
women, active recruitment of women by
individual departments and preparation
of an action program to employ and
compensate women on an equal basis
with men.
University Women for Affirmative
Action (UWAA) will present a statement
to the faculty voicing its support of the
Rubenstein said.
His book, "After Auschwitz," is "not
a happy book," he said. But that's one
reason he is happy himself. He has no
illusions about his religion, he said.
"At all costs I want to mean what I
say." The intense brown eyes emphasized,
what he said. "Having lived in the
Western world of the 20th Century and
having been old enough to experience
some of World War II, Korea and
Vietnam, I've seen enough of humanity's
hopes and enthusiasms smashed rather
cruelly."
He holds that there is no way a Jew
can believe in the God of History's
purposeful wrath. After the death camps
of Germany, the Jewish person has proof
that there is not a God of History, he
said.
Rubenstein, 49-year-old professor of
religion at Florida State University, was
at UNC as Carolina Forum guest speaker.
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New canvas at Old West
Wilbur Hobby, N.C. AFL-CIO
chairman, currently has legislation before
the General Assembly to revise North
Carolina statutes against unionization by
public employees.
"We are not entirely happy with this
legislation," said Grant, "because, for one
thing, we feel we should get the right to
strike. But we do not ask a union shop."
Grant said he thought the group would
probably go to court and challenge the
North Carolina law, which is in conflict
with federal regulations.
Andrew Baggs, president of the WCU
chapter of the American Association of
University Professors, predicted two days
ago that "there will be plenty of support
for AFT to come here." Baggs said he
would prefer that the faculty use the
A A UP as its collective bargaining
mechanism, however.
"I see no philosophic conflicts
between the two groups," said Grant. "I
am president-elect of the AAUP here, and
there is every likelihood that Professor
Baggs will join our group. We chose AFT
because the AFL-CIO has national power
and prestige, and can offer a local many
advantages, such as strike support."
The move to unionization is in
response to problems of governance of
the University by the administration of
Chancellor Jack Carlton. The action
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study and making some additional
recommendations.
UWAA recommends that the
Chancellor send written notice of the end
of all discriminatory practices to all
departments within three months, that a
woman be appointed head of the action
program and that the standing committee
be at least 50 percent women.
: The Faculty Committee on the Role
and Status of Women was formed after
the Department of Health, Education and
Welfare (HKW) found that the University-
female
Rather short and muscular with a
shock of striking black hair with graying
temples, he says he is deeply committed
to his school.
He thinks the South can understand
his philosophy better than the North
because "there is a tragic note in the
South which the North has never
experienced." He became nationally
known after his speeches at a theology
conference at Emory University in
Atlanta, Ga.
"The middle of the '60's was a very
optimistic time," Rubenstein said. But
that is the time when his tragic realism
philosophy took book form with "After
Auschwitz."
Why would someone born of
American-born parents, tucked safely in
Cincinnati during World War II, become
so involved in the issue of the Jewish
death camps in Germany?
"Perhaps it was because of the
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Thursday. Actually, they were just checking their tent before a
weekend of camping.
(Staff photo by Tom Lassiter)
comes in the wake of recent flare-ups of
faculty discontent over the
administration's proposed method for
choosing a committee to name a new
dean for the College of Arts and Sciences.
Members of the College almost
unanimously rejected a proposal made by
J. Stuart Wilson, vice-chancellor for
academic affairs at WCU for choosing this
committee.
Fair Kedos celebrates
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by Ken Allen
and Carol Wilson
Fair Kedos.
It's digging holes and planting trees.
It's arranging for 'dempsty' dumpsters
and setting up newspaper recycling
depots. It's street fairs and auctions,
dances and parties. But most of all, it's
caring. About yourself. About your
neighbors. And about the interaction of
the two to form a community.
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did not meet national standards on hiring
and employment of women.
HEW ordered the University to present
a plan of affirmative action by April
1973. . .
In 1970, the National Organization for
Women (NOW) and the Women's Equity
Action League brought suit against the
University charging discrimination against
women.
The Faculty Committee on the Status
of Women began work on its report in
December 1972.
distance from the thing," he said. "My
children are very aware that their mother
was the age of Anne Frank when she was
killed. They think it's a miracle that she
was alive, and that, consequently, they
were ever born.
"I was forced to ask 'what does this
mean?' in terms of the historic Jewish
faith ahd what does all this mean?' in
terms of modern man?"
He is sad that he cannot say to
sorrowful Jewish people that they can
bind up wounds in the light of religion
but "the historical framework just does
not make sense anymore."
"It's fair to say that I have been more
completely rejected by my own
community than any other religious
figure in modern times," Rubenstein said.
Still an ordained rabbi, Rubenstein
said he is not a political radical. Rather,
he is a religious radical.
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Pub Board9
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by Bill Welch
Staff Writer
More flexibility in spending was given
to the UNC Publications Board by the
Campus Governing Council during a
special session Wednesday.
The action came with the approval of
the revised Pub Board by-laws by the
CGC which gives the board direct control
of spending by campus publications.
Under a controversial block grant
provision, the CGC will specify the
amount of money appropriated to each
ofuthe five campus publications ' and to
radio station WCAR, but the Publications
Board will authorize how each
organization actually spends it.
Under the old by-laws, each
publication had to obtain authorization
from the council for spending in
individual categories within its
organization.
aid.
"From the point of view of the
General Administration, Wilson's actions
in this matter are completely within his
authority," said UNC President William
Friday.
Wilson's proposal would allow the
college members to elect from among
themselves six of the 1 1 members of the
committee. Wilson himself would appoint
two more college members, two students
and a person from outside the college.
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Fair Kedos is the natural outgrowth of
last year's Apple Chill Fair, according to
Carroll Kyser and Daryll Powell, two of
the many people that are 'working with
the Chapel Hill Recreation Department
on this venture.
Last year's Apple Chill Fair, a
week-long celebration of life, made
people aware of the diversity of life in
Chapel Hill. It brought townspeople
together with the students, the
professional people together with the
merchants.
This year, as Harper Peterson, teen
coordinator - for the Recreation
Department, was getting ideas about
Apple Chill, the idea for a month-long
fair with ecological overtones evolved.
"So they gave it the name "Kedos,'
which is Greek for caring, and set it for
April.
The festivities start Sunday, with the
April Fool's Sports Festival.
A marathon volleyball game, jogging
tours set up by Boyd Newman of the
Physical Education Department, a bike
rally and frisbee games are some of the
activities planned for Sunday between I
p.m. and dark.
In addition to these athletic endeavors,
the Black Arts Cultural Center will be
selling crafts, ECOS will be handing out
information, and people from Fair Kedos
persuade young Rubenstein to change his
name. A less Jewish-sounding name
would make him more successful, others
said.
But even though he wasn't brought up
in a traditionally Jewish home, the
suggestion of falsifying himself and
pretending he wasn't Jewish was the
point at which he delved deeply into
Jewish life by becoming a rabbL
The stand he made as a young boy still
holds:
"I just want to be who I am."
Rubenstein said. "I don't need some
special myth that God looks favorably on
me and not favorably on others. And
that's what got me into trouble when I
saw things not adding up right."
The trouble that started when he
plunged into the Jewish community and
saw that it could no longer stand deep
inspection has not ceased.
Rubenstein sticks by what he says.
laws
The newly approved by-laws also
provide for one voting member on the
Publications Board from The Daily Tar
Heel and one non-voting member from
each of the other publications and
WCAR.
The Pub Board will also include two
faculty members, each without a vote.
In other actions, the CGC approved
the proposed Student Consumer Action
Union (SCAU) budget for the remainder
of this fiscal year. The budget includes an
appropriation to employ three persons to
research consumer issues this summer.
Action was postponed on the
proposed Student Government budget for
1973-74. The council will consider the
budget at its next session.
A resolution wishing success and
offering assistance to Henderson
Residence College for its proposed
living-learning center was passed by the
CGC.
Student Body Treasurer Wayne
Thomas told the council that 15
electronic pocket calculators have been
purchased at a cost of nearly $2,000. The
calculators will be made available to
students.
President Ford Runge nominated
Steve Jones as the new treasurer of the
student body and Micky Wilson as
assistant treasurer.
Weather
TODAY: Partly doudy with an
expected high in the mid 60s. The low
tonight is expected in the 40s. There is
thirty per cent chance of precipitation.
another
will be selling balloons. At the close of
the day's activities will be a
bring-your-own community dinner.
The day-long celebration which kicks
off Fair Kedos is being sponsored by a
new community program called Sports
for People.
Already in progress is the Daybreak
Sports program, a Saturday morning
gathering which each week offers a
different type of activity, ranging from
square dancing to gymnastics to yoga.
Later in the month there will be
stash-the-trash days, bike trips, tours of
the N.C. Botanical Gardens, film series on
ecology, forums on nutrition, hikes,
clean-ups of various public places and
other activities.
Fraternities on campus are working,
planting small shade trees in the
downtown area. Boy Scouts are reviving
the glass recycling plant on Plant Road,
schools are cleaning up their grounds,
and garden clubs are selling.
To finish off the Fair, Apple Chill will
roll once more, introducing the people of
the community to each other. There will
be an Easter egg hunt, sidewalk art shows
and dancing in the street.
Fair Kedos. It's a month-long
celebration of life, celebration of living in
a community where people care.
Enjoy yourself.