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recommends widespread use of parking meters a A
an increase in most parking ticket fines from one
to five dollars or two dollars for meter violations.
The proposal, authored by UNC Director of
Security and the Traffic Office Gerald Warren, and
Assistant Director of the Institute of Government
Joseph Ferrell, could be implemented as early as
January 1 , if the bus system is running by then.
"But," said Warren, "this is an optimistic date."
A working committee, established by
Chancellor Ferebee Taylor to write a proposal for
submission by Taylor to the Board of Trustees, has
hit several snags in its work, according to
committee member John Temple, assistant
vice-chancellor for business here.
The committee consists of students Lee Co rum
and Fred Davenport, Dean of Student Affairs
Donald Boulton, Temple, Warren and others.
The committee, which Temple said
"encountered extremely knotty problems of policy
at its last meeting," has been adjourned for three
weeks. Temple said subcommittees were
attempting to work out snags.
The draft written by Warren and Ferrell lacks
provisions for such policies as allocating types of
stickers and labeling available parking spaces for
specific stickers. "We are simply trying to get
down how many spaces will be where, where
meters should be, what fines to charge, and so
on," said Warren.
"The ordinance proposal by Warren and Ferrell
is fairly close to completion," said Temple, "but
the committee is eventually responsible for this
proposal and for much other work which is yet to
be done before a definite proposal can be
submitted to the Chancellor and from him to the
trustees."
The draft of Warren and FerrelTs proposal,
which is subject to change or approval by the
committee, Taylor or the trustees, recommends
use of meters on most street parking areas now
used for free parking, parallel to the curb, for
C-sticker cars and some fraternities. The meters are
based on a fee of five cents per half hour, and
those streets closest to the, center of campus will
have 10-hour meters.
The fine for any? meter violation is
recommended at two dollars, and for most other
normal violations, five dollars.
Discussing possible recommendations of the
committee, Temple said, "We will have to become
stricter on campus parking when the bus system
starts. The idea is to keep the cars off campus."
The draft proposal recommends the use of
automatic, coin-activated gates for various
restricted parking areas near the University
medical center. "It would be prohibitively
expensive to put automatic gates into widespread
use," Temple commented.
The proposal would give the Chancellor, or his
representative, the power to suspend the parking
permit, without refund of the permit fee, of any
person who accumulates more than eight
violations in any 12-month period, or more than
two in 30 days. If further violations occur, the
Chancellor would be given the power to suspend
the violator from enrollment or employment.
The proposal recommends a hearing officer to
serve as a primary appeal level for appeals of
tickets and towing charges, and a board of traffic
appeals for those who wish to appeal the officer's
decision.
Temple said there had been speculation that
Alonzo Squires, parking regulation advisor in the
Traffic Office, might fill the role of the hearing
officer for the primary appeal of tickets and
towing charges.
Before the Board of Trustees may enact the
ordinance recommended by Taylor's committee,
an enabling ordinance must pass through the NC
General Assembly. This ordinance has been filed
and is awaiting action.
The town of Chapel Hill is currently advertising
for a man to fill the post of coordinator of the bus
system. Said Taylor, "An extremely important
part of this is the Carrboro referendum on the bus
proposal. If that doesn't pass, it will create grave
difficulties for the bus system. I woukl urge all
students who live in Carrboro to stay in town until
the referendum and vote for passage."
Taylor said he could make no predictions on
the fate of the enabling ordinance in the General
Assembly, and added, "There are a lot of things
here we have to tie together before we can make
the proposals go. Almost nothing is definite yet."
The final proposals will not be made public
before the trustees have acted on them, Taylor
said.
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Vol. 81, No. 141
80 Years Of Editorial Freedom
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thursday, April 19, 1973
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by William March
Staff Writer
A U.S. House of Representatives bill
to extend for one year the National
Direct Student Loan (NDSL) and
Educational Opportunity Grant (EOG)
programs, and to reverse President
Nixon's recommendations on the Basic
Opportunity Grant (BOG) program,
passed the Senate late yesterday
afternoon.
The bill will now face the possibility
of a presidential veto. Though the student
aid appropriations it makes are.no more
than the amounts recommended by
Nixon, the bill is tied to another measure
offering federal education aid to areas
impacted by government employes,
which appropriates more money than
Nixon requested.
The House bill at first was amended in
the Senate to give more money for the
BOG program, and less for the other
three programs included. The bill went to
conference Tuesday night. .The
conference report reversed the Senate
decision and used the appropriation
figures established in the House.
Yesterday morning the conference report
was accepted by the House, and the
Senate action confirming the conference
Cuts create crise
for health
by Jim Taylor
Special to the DTH
The UNC School of Public Health
stands to lose 1.5 to two million dollars
in student and faculty support through
the curtailment of federal fundings for
training and research grants. This could
mean the loss of 30 or 40 of its 150
faculty members this year.
Bernard G. Greenberg, dean of the
health school, said that the fund cuts
could force up to five or six of the
nation's 18 schools of public health to
close.
Current funding from federal sources
includes general and special purpose
traineeships, the Hill-Rhodes Grants to
schools of public health and research
grants from the National Institute of
Health and National Institute of Mental
Health.
Greenberg said that these cuts will
mean the loss of over half the funds
available for the teaching faculty.
The University administration is asking
for emergency funds for all of the health
professional schools. The decision must
be made by the General Assembly.
Greenberg indicated ' that, in the
meantime, some actions are being
considered to economize within the
school itself.
"We are considering reorganizing the
school so as to cluster certain
departments together in order to save
some money on the administration and
clerical positions. Secondly, we are
considering dropping one of our
departments in order to save money,"
Greenberg said.
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version dame yesterday afternoon.
This urgent action by Congress on
student aid began Thursday when the
house agreed to the requests of financial
aid officers across the country by voting
unanimously to extend for one more year
the NDSL and EOG programs at
approximately the same level of funding
as this year.
Controversy between Congress and the
administration over whether to fund the
BOG program had delayed appropriation
of any funds for student financial aid for
this summer and next year. According to
statutory requirements, the
administration's BOG and Federally
Insured College Loan proposals are not
supposed to be funded until NDSL and
EOG have been fully funded.
Nixon requested a total of $872
million for aid to students, including
$622 million for the BOG and no money
for NDSL and EOG. The insured loan
program was designed to replace the
NDSL's.
The House bill, now confirmed by the
Senate, appropriates the same total, $872
million, but delegates only $122 million
for the BOG.
It provides $210 million for EOG, the
same amount as this year. It provides a
slight drop in NDSL funds to $269
: million and a slight rise to $270 million
for the College Work-Study Program.
"The BOG program would have done
nothing but give us and the students a
headache," said William Geer, UNC
director of financial aid. "I hope that
with, this small appropriation, the Office
of Education of HEW won't even bother
with it. The mechanics of that program
are so far from being straightened out at
the national level that it would have been
at least August or September before any
money actually started going to the
students."
Legislative assistants to several
senators, contacted by . Geer, said they
could make no predictions as to the
possibility of a veto of the bill by Nixon.
They mentioned as significant, Geer said,
the fact that the bill appropriates the
same total amount of money
recommended by the administration.
"But," said Mike Spencer, an assistant
to William Proxmire (D-Wisc), "the bill is
tied to another appropriation for aid to
impacted areas that appropriates more
than Nixon requested. This raises the
chances of a veto."
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Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor (at left) presents awards to outstanding fraternity
seniors in the annual awards ceremony Wednesday afternoon in Morehead faculty
lounge. Dean Catherine Carmichael (right) assisted the Chancellor.
(Staff photo by Cliff Kolovson)
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Dr. Bernard G. Greenberg
Greenberg said it is impossible to
determine the impact of the curtailment
on the number of students enrolled for
next year. Student aid will have to be
revised.
He added that the cuts in federal
funding of health, sciences schools,
coupled with decreases in funds for HEW
and other public health-related agencies,
points toward increasing inadequacy in
the nation's public health situation.
by Jody Meacham
Staff Writer
A bill which would allow absentee
voting in primaries and simplify absentee
voting procedures was tentatively
approved by the N.C. House Wednesday.
The House also passed a bill to raise the
state minimum wage from $1.60 to $1.80
an hour beginning July 1 .
The absentee voting bill was a
committee substitute combining three
bills which had .been introduced earlier.
Rep. Henry Frye, D-Guilford County,
chairman of the subcommittee which
wrote the bill, said that the measure
would greatly simplify absentee voting
procedures.
If passed by the Senate, the bill would
allow a voter to apply for and. receive a
ballot from the county board of elections
in one trip. The existing law requires a
voter to apply in writing within 45 days
of an election and then receive his ballot
by mail.
. The proposed law would also allow
ballots to be returned until 3 p.m. on
election day instead of the Saturday
before the election.
Rep. List on Ramsey,- D-Madison
County, said that the present law was too
. complicated. "Everybody in this House
knows that it takes a lawyer to vote
under the present law. This bill does not
create loopholes but makes it easier for
the people of this state to vote an
absentee ballot." .
Rep. Foyle Hightower, D-Anson
County, noted that the present law makes
it particularly hard for students to vote.
The House split along party lines on
: the roll call vote. All 1 1 "no" votes were
. cast by Republicans.
In other action, the Senate approved a
bill, already passed : by the House,
lowering nonresident tuition at the UNC
medical and dental schools to $2,300 per
year.
Sen. Michael Mullins, R-Mecklenburg
County, introduced 51 bills on women's
rights. Sen.' Mullins was one of the two
senators who changed their minds at the
last minute to help defeat the Equal
Rights Amendment (ERA).
Mullins' first bill would add the word
"sex" to Article I, Section 19 of the
-North Carolina constitution. If approved
by the General Assembly and the voters
of the state, the section would read:
"No person shall be denied the equal
protection of the laws; nor shall any
person be subjected to discrimination by
the State because of sex, race, color,
religion, or national origin."
The measure differs from other state
ERA bills which have been introduced in
that it also repeals all laws presently in
conflict with the act. The other state
ERA bills all had provisions which would
retain certain state laws such as labor
protection laws which favor women.
The additional 50 bills would repeal a
number of existing state laws dealing with
women ranging from prohibiting a man
from impersonating a woman's husband
for the purpose of seducing her to
requiring separate toilets for each sex.
UNC bucks trend
in application dip
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wants
Union
head elected
by Bill Welch
Staff Writer
The Campus Governing Council (CGC)
approved a constitutional amendment
Tuesday that would make the office of
president of the Carolina Union an
elective office. The president is currently
chosen by the Union's Board of
Directors.
The amendment, passed by a vote of
12 to four with four abstaining, will be
subject to a campus-wide referendum in
September.
CGC member Bill Putnam, who
introduced the amendment, told the
council he had heard numerous
complaints from students about the
Union's functions.
"The Union is not meeting the
demands and needs of the students, and
this would make the Union more
responsive to them," Putnam said.
Council member Robert Hackney,
who opposed the amendment, said, "I
seriously fear that a campaign- for this
office would consist of enough grandiose
promises to boggle even Pitt Dickey's
mind." .
Student Body President Ford Runge
questioned the idea that electing the
Union president would make the Union
more responsive to the students. 1
"I think the first step toward making
the Union more open would be to
approach the Board of Directors itself."
Runge said.
' Union President Gary Phillips arrived
at . the - meeting after debate on the
amendment had ended, but spoke to the
council after the vote had been taken.
"The Student Union should be
responsive to the needs of students, but
this is a working . position, not a
representative one," Phillips said.
Phillips argued that the Board of.
Directors was" in a better position to
select the president than the students,
and saidr "If you put it before the people,
it's just going to be another ego thing."
"This will not open up the Union, but
will make it less efficient," he said.
The council also passed a bill requiring
the Union to submit regular financial and
program reports to the CGC.
- "The intent of this bill is simply to
make an orderly mechanism for the
Student Union and Student Government
to work together," CGC member Jim
Lecker said.
In other action, the council passed
bills allowing the DTH to use money in
its general surplus to purchase an
. Addressograph machine and an electric
typewriter. The DTH Business Manager
will also receive a S 500 bonus.
The CGC confirmed the appointments
of Doug Pitts as chairman of the
Elections Board, Warren Carson as
chairman of the Office of Minority and
Community Affairs, and Don Baer as
chairman of the Office of Internal
Affairs.
Richard Letchworth and Jack Knight
were confirmed as assistants to the
student body president. "
The 1973-74 SG budget was not
considered at the meeting.
by Nancy Kochuk
Staff Writer
Colleges and universities across the
nation are facing the problem of rising
educational costs and a corresponding
decline in applications for admission,
according to a recent national survey.
UNC appears to be an exception to
this trend.
The overall number of freshman
applications has remained constant over
the past few years, according to Tony
Strickland, assistant director of
undergraduate admissions. Although the
number of male applications has
decreased, this drop has been offset by an
increase in female applications.
This year 5,080 North Carolina male
residents applied to UNC and 3,848
females applied. The admissions office
will accept approximately 1 ,650 men and
1 ,250 women for the freshman class.
Surprisingly, the number of
out-of-state applications has risen this
year, Strickland said, even with the
tuition increase. This year's rise, however,
follows a sharp decline in last year's
Today's weather
: Cloudy with thirty percent chance
of precipitation. The expected high is
in the 70's and the expected low
tonight is in the 50's. Outlook: warm
with showers.
applications. . According to University
policy, up to 15 percent of the freshman
class may be out-of-state students.
"Last year, for the first time, there
was equalized competition between men
and women," Strickland said. :
The number of junior transfer
applications has decreased slightly since
last year. Many more junior women
applied than did their male counterparts.
Strickland said this could be due to what
he describes as the "North Carolina
Syndrome."
"Until 10 years ago," he said, "no
freshman women were even accepted at
UNC. As a reflection of this, many
parents still send their daughters to junior
colleges with the hope of their
transferring here after two years, even
though they may- be qualified as
freshmen."
This year's junior transfer quota is
about 300 men and 600 women. The
difference is an attempt to balance the
junior class, since women were
discriminated against until 1971.
Strickland said the University tries to
recruit as many minority students as
possible. He said that a minority student
who receives a predicted grade average of
1.6 is virtually assured of acceptance,
which is not true for North Carolina
residents in general.
Minorities account for about . 10
percent of the total number of
acceptances.