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i Bill Snodgrass SG priorities What is the purpose of the Student Activities Fee? t sically, to fund two kinds of student interests: either those which involve more than a few students, or those which benefit a large segment of the student body. The controversy over the proposed Student Government Budget for 1973-74 concerns the implementation of this purpose. When the 1957 student referendum set the present Student Activities Fee, there were approximately 5000 students on campus-90 percent of which were male undergraduates, living on campus. The campus was fraternity-oriented, there were few women, few graduate students, and no blacks. The student body was small and homogenous. Activities could be funded for very narrow interest groups and it was perceived that they benefited a large range of people. Today, this University is a multiversity of wide and diverse interests-the drama major, the professional student, the generalist, and the biochemist are all under the same University and Student Government structure. The students living on-campus, the students living off-campus, the jock, the freak, the egghead, and the frat man are all here at Carolina. Allocation of student fees today must either benefit as wide a range of students as possible, or be decentralized on a uniform basis, or perhaps involve a combination of these two possibilities. Narrow, special interest groups cannot expect to be funded at a very high level from student fees in the future, and perhaps not at all. What kinds of activities benefit a wide range of students? Human Sexuality, the Daily Tar Heel, the Transportation Commission are the principle ones that come to mind. Others such as the Association of Women Students, the Black Student Movement, the International Student Center, the Graduate and Professional Student Federation, and the Residence Hall Association, as well as . the various branches of Student Government cater to specific, groups of large numbers of students. All other organizations funded in the past are essentially narrow interest groups. What organizations, for example, benefit graduate students? Graduate students are characterized as follows: Their average age is 27.1, median age is 26. Their age range is 22-60 years, and 21 percent are older than 30. Professional students such as those in Public Health, have an average age of 28.9, median age of 27.5, and an age range of 22-59, with. 33 percent over 30 years of age. Nearly one-half of all graduate students are Winston Cavin The NCAA race: Pete Hankins had waited for the moment. He had waited for the moment when he could drop his envelope in the slot at the post office. Pete, like so many other basketball-crazy North Carolineans, was more than anxious to order his tickets to the 1974 NCAA finals. Pete had literally jumped for joy when he heard the news in the summer of 1971. The NCAA brass had been meeting in Kansas City, and one of the matters on the agenda had been the selection of a site for the '74 finals. That little bit of information had not even stirred people like Hankins. They were too accustomed to having the finals somewhere very far away. For Pete, the finals had always been strictly a television event. Even if his favorite team, the Tar Letters to the Paper used as toilet tissue To the Editor: We have, out of necessity, found a new use for your publication. It scratches, but it works. You would think that for a total of SI 600 per semester per suite we could have all the downy soft toilet tissue we require. No way. O.K., U.N.C., you control our courses, our living arrangements and even our social life, but really fellas, it's not nice to fool around with Mother Nature! R.L. Brown M.J. Blick L.M. Barbre Attempt made c ' on Sage's life To the Editor: An attempt was made on Sage's life last night by a mob of adolescents who had drunk more than their little brains could handle. This carefree group of destructive cretins are the inmates of the PiKa house. After an evening out drinking, at the Tavern or possibly the A&P parking lot, these delightful children returned home full of the spirit of the evening. One mischievous lad. Paul Piker, married. Graduate students feel that they get almost zero benefit from their student activities fee-witness the heavy vote for Pitt Dickey in graduate districts. A few graduate students are mentally oriented towards specialized activities funded by Student Government in the past -but they are few and far between. The graduate student is almost solely committed to her (his) academic or professional studies, to family needs, and has a different psychological orientation from undergraduates. They represent over 30 percent of the student body, and more than 40 percent of tiie summer school student body. They are potential chemists, language specialists, physiologists, environmentalists, historians, and lawyers, dedicated to their work! A reallocation of fiscal priorities must occur this year, the f;rst year of the Campus Governing Council's existence. This must be coupled with the implementation of new services and programs-programs which speak to improving the educational modus i v y 1 1973 Heels, were in the final round, he was resigned to watching from his armchair. But in the summer of '71' something unbelievable happened. The NCAA announced that Greensboro, N.C., had been selected as the cite for the '74 finals. When he heard about it on Woody Durham's late sports show that night, he couldn't believe it. After all, the NCAA finals had always been something North Carolineans couldn't reach. They were never held anywhere east of the Mississippi River, much less in the South. The finals would visit places like Chicago, Los Angeles, Kansas City, Los Angeles, St. Louis, Houston and Los Angeles. But the very idea of holding them in North Carolina was almost incomprehensible. "Well, I guess they figured they owed Editor was seized by an idea, no doubt the first time he had ever experienced such a sensation. Piker roused his sodden brothers into several choruses of clever insults shouted at the Pi Lam house across from them. While the PiKa's enjoy listening to themselves shriek obscenities at 2 a.m.. Sage does not. Sage was roused from a sound sleep, by the PiKas screaming and slobbering all over themselves. Becoming somewhat annoyed. Sage decided to voice his displeasure by barking out a few choice insults of his own. Piker who was beginning to tire of yelling at a house, now had a better target for his clever mind to spew out insults at - a dog. When it comes to the ability to argue with a dog, the PiKas have no equal. However it was only six PiKas to one dog. so the PiKas Avere at an intellectual disadvantage. Finding themselves losing the argument with Sage. Paul decided to take things into his own hands, the first thing being handy was a Sundrop bottle. All along Sage had remained oh his front porch answering insult for insult. Paul then decided to charge the Pi Lam house, not trusting his drunken aim to hit Sage from all the way across the court. So Paul & several of his more sadistic brothers ran up about 30 feet from Sage. Sage thought they just wanted to aigue some more so he stood his ground. Paul took aim. thivw 16 t1 5 need reorderin operandi of this multiversity. This reallocation must speak to the original purpose of student fees past Student Legislature funding priorities and budgetary processes were erroneous, dehabilitating, and self-destructive. Past Student Legislature funding priorities and budgetary processes were random and without clear goals. Fven organizations which planned to get up to 75 percent of their funding from the University administration consistently obtained nothing, while other organizations and activities became totally dependent on the annual Student Government dole. In last year's budget hearings, for example, the Association of Women Students, the Residence College Federation (now the RHA), and the GPSF were drastically slashed from the level of their funding for the previous year. Other organizations were greatly increased. All of this was without plan or structure. The budget being considered by the CGC Finance Committee is a proposed, working document. It is a compromise budget which in its entirety satisfies nobody. For example, some council ft i '. Mi 1 one loser's story the state something after all these years," Pete reasoned over a beer. "I mean, jeez we've had six teams from North Carolina go to the finals in the last 1 0 years. That's more than any other state except for California." So the NCAA had finally decided to return a favor to the Tar Heel state. Fantastic. All we had to do now was to wait three years. Pete didn't waste any time making his plans. Even though he had three years to go and there was no way to tell which teams would be playing in Greensboro that weekend, he knew there was no time to waste. He also knew that Greensboro's 1 5,500 seats would not be nearly enough. And only 8,800 would be sold to the public. Pete finally settled on his plan for the bottle, breaking it against the porch next to Sage, showering him with broken glass. This feat was met by cheers of approval from the PiKas-"Haw, Haw, You hit the dawg!". Sage reacted with a yelp of pain and a good deal of blood, since he was cut on his leg in three places. Then suddenly Paul and his helpers turned and ran back into the PiKa house to the cheers of their drunken brothers. Sage just bled and hurt. There's a moral to this little episode, if you're an immature sadistic creep who likes to hurt animals, the PiKa house is for you. For the PiKas. Sage & I feel pity as well as contempt. For the brainless asshole Who hit Sage with the bottle. I invite you to throw your next bottle at me. I can throw back. Pitt Dickev Santa wouldn't write to paper Io The Editor: Even if someone put a gun up to my head. I wouldn't write a letter to the editor. John Santa 213 Alexander c members would like lo cut entirely the funding for such programs as the Debate Team. WCAR. the Yack, the Quarterly, the Symposium, SAAP. the Bands and Choirs, and Club Sports. Including the Union, the budget reflects requests for S370.000 out of an income of S 200,000. This budget is a full-employment, non-deficit, non-inflationary document. It balances, i.e. revenues equal expenditures. For the first time in the history of UNC, graduate students helped plan a budget. More undergraduates were involved than graduates. Still, graduate students are unconvinced they are a part of CGC-suspicions are aroused every time a graduate student does anything in Student Government. Yet we like to feel we are part of all SG processes. Are we? Only examination of the biases of all UNC students can answer that question. The proposed budget moves toward implementation of major parts of the 1969 Adams Committee report. The final budget must do likewise. SG fiscal priorities must undergo a major reordering. getting himself the tickets. He contacted the Coliseum officials a few months after the announcement had been made. They seemed somewhat surprised at his early interest, but they were polite. He was told to wait a little while, maybe a year or so, and then call again. By then maybe they would know the proper procedure . for getting tickets. So Pete Hankins, like thousands of other eager Tar Heel-Wolfpack-Blue Devil - Deacon-etc. fans, had to wait, while watching the Heels go all the way to L.A. to compete in the finals. Tickets were on sale at the door. The fall of '72 rolled around, and, while everyone was absorbed in following the burgeoning success of local football teams, Pete figured he'd better do some work on those b-ball finals. He called the Coliseum again. Pete found that the policy for ordering tickets would be like this: tickets would be available by mail only, S20 apiece. You could order no more than four, and a certified check or money order had to accompany orders. Orders could not be mailed any earlier than April 1 , 1 973. So Pete waited some more. The big weekend finally arrived, and he was at the main Chapel Hill post office on Estes Drive promptly at 12:05 a.m. Sunday morning-along with about 50 or 60 other locals. The race was on. On Tuesday, April 3, all the state newspapers carried horror stories about the deluge on the coliseum. No less than 20.000 letters had been mailed between midnight and noon Sunday. An estimated 80.000 tickets had been ordered, giving poor Pete one chance out of 10. This summer, when everyone will have given up hope "on getting the priceless tickets, something great will happen to Pete and 8.799 other happy fans. He will receive his ticket to the once-in-a-Iifetime event. For Pete and the other lucky ones, it will be a long winter. The Heelsand the Pack will battle it out for the coveted ACC championship, with more emphasis placed on this particular championship than on any other, if that is possible. Then, the harried fan will take a 25-mile ride to Raleigh for the Eastern Regionals. where the ACC champ will slide past two Eastern teams, possibly Penn and St. John's. And then they'll head for Greensboro and that long-awaited confrontation with Bill Walton. And on March 23. Pete will probably have a wreck on the way to work. He'll watch all his dreams go dow n the drain m one minute. He'll watch the finals from the comfort of a hospital bed. And he'll curse the madness that caused it all. ullfpiatly Wat furl .SH Years of Editorial I 'm-Join Susan Miller. Editor April 10. 1973 .DTH legal .rone needs snroort The survival of The Daily Tar Heel is facing a great test in the current suit to end funding of the paper through student activities fees. The plaintiffs in the suit claim the use of student fees for the paper is an unfair practice. Making students pay for a paper unrepresentative of their views is unjust, they say. However, every student does have a voice in the paper through the election of the editor. And through student representatives in the legislative body of Student Government, eachstudent has a voice in whether money goes to the DTH and how much money will fund the DTH from fees. The lawsuit, some believe, is an attempt to force the paper to become independent of the student fees. , The DTH has increased its advertising revenue more than 50 percent in the past two years. Consequently, we need less money from student fees to produce this M. Darley Small nations hindering peace A peace agreement for South Viet Nam, American-Soviet-Chinese detente, increased unity in. Europe all encouraging steps toward Richard Nixon's long-sought "generation of peace." Yet it does not take a particularly sharp observer to see that there is no real peace in the world of 1973. On the contrary, in almost every corner of the globe men are armed, territory is coveted, and human beings are bloodied with unfortunate regularity. The irony of the . situation is that, for the first time in centuries, it is not the Great Powers but the small nations and would-be "nations" of the world which are the chief obstacles to the peace and safety of mankind. Look, for example, at the new imperialists: Britain and France have long since retreated to their own borders, Imperial Germany, if not "Germany" itself, is a thing of the past, and the Soviet Union is now relatively quiescent, yet the capture and control of one people by another goes on. North Viet Nam, though . a third-rate power at most, continues to practice imperialism in the best classical tradition. Despite a cease-fire agreement, that country has dispatched thousands of troops and tons of military hardware into South Viet Nam with a disdain reminiscent . of the Third Reich. North Viet Nam, of course, is not the only small nation which practices a blatant and arrogant imperialism. The state of Israel, too, carries on the tradition established by Great Powers of the past. Her occupation of Arab territories in the name of "defensible borders," for instance, brings to mind the past-World War II tactics of Stalinist Russia, while her recent, surreptitious occupation of a Yemeni island in the Red Sea some 1200 miles from her own borders (not to mention her occupation of Suez) recalls Great Britain's efforts to control the Mediterranean pipeline to her Indian Empire. It is not only the new imperialists who disrupt world peace, however, but also those small, fanatical groups who seek to carve their own Lilliputs out of larger, allegedly oppressive states. Though national borders in Europe are stable for Wirt SatUj Susan 80 Years -of Editorial Freedom The Daily Tat Heel strives to provide meaningful news interpretations and opinions on its editorial page. Unsigned editorials are the opinions of the editor, while letters and columns represent .only the views of individual contributors. paper. The 1973-74 budget asks for a S 7,000 reduction in fees allocation and will probably be cut more before the Campus Governine Council approves the appropriation. The DTH cannot survive sudden financial independence, as would be forced upon us should we lose the suit. The paper would drastically decrease in size and quality. Gradual independence is needed and we are moving toward that goal. In the meantime, we cannot afford, nor can the student body afford, to lose student funding of the DTH in one blow. We need your help. The DTH Legal Defense Fund has received more than S2,000 in contributions from students and alumni. But much more is needed to pay for our defense in the suit. Please aid the defense fund by sending whatever you can to: DTH Legal Defense Fund Box 49, Carolina Union Chapel Hill, N.C. 27514 Help! the first time in centuries, there are, as "Time" magazine recently noted, chronic "wars within the states" which threaten to nullify the progress made by legitimate governments there. Hundreds have died in Northern Ireland due to the violent fanaticism of a minority within a minority, for instance, and while Spanish Basques and French Bretons have not yet reached that stage of zealotry, such a possibility is not inconceivable. In other areas, too, true peace suffers from the inane violence of esoteric crusades. It has been only recently that French-speaking Canadians have quieted their madcap campaign to "free" Quebec, while in the Middle East fedayeen groups continue to operate with an incredible and unpardonable arrogance. E.ven the United States is not immune: recently a small group of American Indians armed with assault rifles and machine guns seized the town of Wounded Knee, kidnapped innocent citizens, gunned down at least one federal marshall, and demanded that the United States " surrender" to the "Oglala Nation." The contrast between that group of wild-eyed, self-indulgent crazies and Richard Nixon working methodically for peace at the highest level was startling indeed. At this point in time it would seem that the Great Powers of the world have finally come to learn a few lessons from history-World War II, the Cuban missile crisis, and Vict Nam were all sobering reminders of the sanctity and the fragility of human life. Yet these lessons appear to have been lost on smaller, self-serving nations and groups who would willingly see their region or even the entire globe plunged into chaos if it would further their own causes. Those lessons, ironically enough, seem lost also on those sanctimonious souls in this country who would support such groups, be it gun-toting savages in South Dakota or bomb-throwing Provos in Ulster, khaki-clad infantrymen in occupied Sinai or black-clad guerrillas in Indochina. Today it is not at the great but at the lesser nations and deminations that the so-called "peace movement" should direct its attention that is. if it truly believed its own rhetoric. (Far Wmi Miller,' Editor Rod Waldorf, Managing Editor David Eskridge. News Editor Lynn Lloyd, Associate Editor Seth Effron, Associate Editor Winston Cavin. Sports Editor Adrian Scott. Feature Editor Dean Gerdes, Night Editor Scott Stewart. Head Photographer
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