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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Monday, April 2, 1973
Vol. 81, No. 128
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by Bill Welch
Staff Writer
Arguments and proposals from various
campus organizations requesting more
money than has been allocated in the
proposed Student Government budget
were heard by the Finance Committee of
the Campus Governing Council (CGC) in
an open meeting Thursday night.
The committee took no final action on
the proposed budget in the meeting
which adjourned after midnight, before
all groups present were heard.
Requests for larger allocations were
made by representatives of the Debate
Team, Individual Events Team, Carolina
Quarterly, the Attorney General's Office
and the Residence Hall Association
(RHA).
An amendment was presented by the
clubs listed in the proposed budget as
Joint Student Government-University
Administration projects requesting a
guarantee that the Student Government
will provide the money they need to
operate in the event the administration
does not fund them as specified in the
budget.
In what developed into a lively
controversy, the Debate Team requested
that their allocation be restored to the
1972-1973 level in the new budget. The
team's allocation of $7,000 has been cut
to $700 in the proposed budget.
When asked if the proposed budget
reflected his opinion of what the
allocations should be, committee
chairman Dick Baker said, "No, it is
much more generous than I intended it to
be."
Several '"merh'bers'ctf ffie'Carfirhftfee" Sard
that they had not seen the budget before
Wednesday night, and disagreed with
portions of it.
With faculty revisions
by Cherin Chewning
Staff Writer
The Committee Report on the Role
and Status of Women in the University
was revised and adopted by the Faculty
Council at its meeting Friday afternoon
in Hamilton Hall.
The report found discrepancies
between men and women in the areas of
hiring, promotion and salary, and made
several recommendations.
The faculty voted to revise two areas
.Neo-Black Society funds
restored at Greensboro
Funds for the Neo-Black Society, a
black student group at UNC-G, were
restored by a faculty committee Saturday
after they had been revoked earlier last
week by the Student Senate.
The Student Senate had voted to cut
off $3,750 in student activity fees on the
grounds that the society allegedly denied
membership to white students.
According to UNC-G Chancellor James
F. Ferguson, a faculty committee found
that the evidence did not establish the
validity of the charges "involved such
improprieties as to limit the rights of the
society under the rules of due process and
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by Calvin Mercer
Staff Writer
Radical Jewish theologian Richard L.
Rubenstein said Thursday night in
Memorial Hall that the traditional way of
looking at God "will not do in the 20th
century."
Speaking to a near capacity crowd,
Rubenstein stressed that Jews look at
their suffering as being "pregnant with
hope," always trusting, ultimately to be
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According to Baker, the proposed
budget was written by eight members of
the CGC. He said he was certain that at
least 10 members of the council
supported the budget in its present form
and only one more vote was required for
adoption.
Spokesmen for the amendment
proposed by the clubs supported by both
the Student Government and the
University Administration expressed
concern that necessary funding can be
obtained from the administration.
The amendment calls for the
$14,322.73 in the reserve and
unappropriated balance categories of the
SG budget to be divided among the 1 1
projects if the University does not
provide the funds they will need to
operate.
Baker said the administration "has
numerous slush funds" and predicted no
problem for these clubs to obtain their
necessary funds. He said that alumni
donations were another possible source of
money for the groups.
A representative of the Carolina
Quarterly told the committee that the
organization wants to eventually become
independent of Student Government, but
needs at least $3,000 to begin publishing.
The proposed budget allocates $1,700 in
student fees to the Quarterly.
Attorney General Reid James
requested $800 more for his office in
secretarial fees. He also asked that a
salary be budgeted for the attorney
general next year.
A request was also made for $5,900
more by RHA. A spokesman for RHA
'said " the J money was ' heeded for the
Resident Unit Grant and Loan Fund to
be used for improvements in residence
living.
ex bia report adopted.
of the report: University policy
concerning hiring and promotion of
relatives, and pregnancy leave.
The report suggested that the
University not promote any employe into
a supervisory position over a relative. This
clause was amended to read that any
person shall disqualify himself from
decisions concerning hiring or promotion
of a relative.
The report recommended that
pregnancy leave be equated with any
other short-term paid leave, but that
there be a limit of two such instances.
fairness."
The five-member committee was
formed after black students appealed to
the Chancellor's office that evidence to
indicate discrimination against whites was
insufficient and that improper procedures
had been followed to gain information.
Issuing his ruling Saturday, Ferguson
reiterated that the school has a policy of
nondiscrimination with regard to race,
color, sex, religion or national origin.
The Neo-Black Society has an all-black
membership of approximately 145. Out
of 7,000 students at UNC-G, 300 are
reconciled to God.
"Pain became an assurance of God's
love just as children invite parents to
spank them for the same assurance," he
said. "So Jews believe that disaster, such
as Auschwitz, is a sign of God's punitive
chastisement of his people."
Rubenstein responded to the idea of
this being a part of God's plan by saying,
"I'd rather be an atheist than believe in
such a God."
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This limitation was eliminated on the
grounds that there is no limit to any
other type of paid short-term leave.
The report on the status of women will
serve as a guildeline for the Affirmative
Action Committee, established recently
by Chancellor Ferebee Taylor to study
hiring and employment practices
concerning women on the UNC-CH
campus.
The UNC-CH committee will present
its report to University President William
Friday by April 20. Reports of similar
committees on the other 15 UNC
black. The society promotes black unity
and culture.
Students at UNC-G had been staging
daily sit-ins since last Tuesday at the
school's administration building to
protest the Student Senate action.
Classes at UNC-G were not disrupted
by the sit-in and Chancellor Ferguson
praised the group for its peaceful
behavior.
Approximately 150 chanting
demonstrators occupied the lawn outside
the administration building. Inside,
demonstrators lined the hallways while
administration officials carried on school
business as usual.
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reconciled with God" theme as a problem
of the whole world.
"Only human beings will walk into a
gas chamber to a 'good death,' "
Rubenstein said. "Man had rather play
the role of victim than lose the dignity,
hope and meaning that God gives."
Concluding that the God of history is
no longer credible, Rubenstein turned to
the role of religion in contemporary
society.
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by Bill Shipman
Staff Writer
The consumer-inspired national meat
boycott that has produced protests and
rallies across the nation is not going
unnoticed in Chapel Hill and on campus.
Although no picketing or rallies have
occurred in Chapel Hill, the boycott is
having its effects on campus in other
ways.
Tau Epsilon Pi fraternity is supporting
the nation's housewives by not serving
meat to its members this week. TEP
members voted to abstain from meat,
following the guidelines of the national
boycott.
"It's kind of a bind, some of the
brothers are upset for themselves, they're
complaining, but they are sacrificing to
support the boycott," said TEP Secretary
Gary Smith.
Servomation-Mathias, the on-campus
food service, will recognize the boycott
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campuses will also be presented .
The 16 separate affirmative action
programs will be given to the Department
of Health, Education and Welfare for
approval by Mayl.
The UNC-CH Affirmative Action
Committee is headed by John L. Sanders,
director of the Institute of Government.
Also serving on the committee are
Professor George Taylor, chairman of the
faculty; Jack Gunnells, University
personnel director; Claiborne S. Jones,
assistant to the Chancellor; Carl W.
Smith, assistant to the provost; Barbara
Kramer of health affairs and Jean H.
Gaulden, assistant University personnel
director.
University Women for Affirmative
Action (UWAA) Friday voiced
disappointment that there are only two
women on the committee. In a list of
recommendations .to the Faculty Council,
UWAA had asked that the committee be
at least 50 per cent women.
"We are disappointed that all the
committee members are in some type of
administrative position," said Barbara
Schnorrenbert, spokeswoman for UWAA.
"We wanted a woman director and
preferably a woman not already in South
Building," she added.
Weather
Partly cloudy and mild with an
expected high in the low to mid 60's.
Low tonight expected in the 4CS. Ten
percent chance of precipitation.
"It's precisely today when God isn't
alive and human hopefulness has
diminished that our religious community
is more important rather than less," he
said.
"Religion can't overcome the
meaningless we find ourselves in, but it is
a way of interpreting reality and sharing
our tragic, fallible existence with each
other."
Rubenstein says the death of God does
by substituting a non-meat main course
for one of the four usual meat entrees,
according to Robert Greer, director of
food service. Pine Room and Chase
Cafeteria sandwich counters will also
offer meatless as well as regular choices.
Greer said that further action to
accommodate the boycott would be
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taken if students showed increasing
support for it.
Although he doesn't feel student
support of the boycott will be great,
Greer said Servomation would welcome
lower meat prices. "Three to three and
one-half of our profits went to pay higher
meat prices last year," Greer said.
One example of the rise in meat prices
is hamburger, which rose from 59 cents a
pound to $1.19 in two months. Butchers
in some areas have already cut meat
orders for next week.
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not mean that we can do without our
churches and synagogues, which he refers
to as our primary communities.
Dealing briefly with the Jewish and
American concept of a masculine God,
Rubenstein said, "My loss of God in a
sense means the loss of a whole masculine
framework."
Rubenstein sees the future as bringing
a manifestation of the goddess of
fertility, even though the Jewish and
Christian institutions will continue.
strife
Consumer unrest caused some action
toward lowering meat prices last week
when President Nixon placed a price
ceiling on meat.
In Chapel flill, a l air Kedos workshop
will concentrate on problems facing local
grocery shoppers and on methods of
counteracting rising food prices.
Supermarkets represented on the
workhsop panel will be By rd's, Fowler's,
Big Star, Kroger's. Winn-Dixie and
Colonial Stores.
Topics include 'The Supermarket
Spiral or Where Have All Our Dollars
Gone?'; 'The Butchershop Blues or Where
Have All the Rib-Roasts Gone??'; 'This
Little Piggy Went To Market but Who
Can Afford To Buy Him???.'
The discussion will be held at 7:30
p.m. Wednesday, April II, in the
downstairs meeting room of the
Municipal Building and is open to the
public.
with Byrds' Chris Hillman.
by George Brown)
Rubenstein is the author of several
books, including 'After Auschwitz,' The
Religious Imagination,' 'Morality and
Eros,' and 'My Brother Paul,' his most
recent book. Currently a professor of
religion at Florida St3te University, he
has served as rabbi at Temple Beth
Emunah and Temple Israel, both in
Massachusetts, and as director and
chaplain of several B'nai B'rith Hillel
Foundations.