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Jazz Lab Band's 'Big Daddy'
Director Bob Haas congratulates Alvin Kellogg on a fine appears to have something else on his mind,
trumpet solo as lead alto saxophone player Arthur Fogartie (Staff photo by Tom Lassiter)
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by Stella Morgan
Staff Writer
A proposal making the Residence Hall
Association (RHA) part of a
decision-making governing board in
residence life areas affecting students was
in effect denied Thursday by the
administration.
In a meeting with the RHA Executive
Board, Donald Boulton, dean of student '
affairs, said, "I agree completely with
working together. This group showed its
power by directly influencing the
reduction of the rate of room rent
increase from 15 to 10 percent.
At the Apple Chill Fair
For fun and festivities
by Ken Allen
Staff Writer
O' April and love and a place called
Chapel Hill. Once again, the Apple Chill
Fair prepares to take over Chapel Hill as
the people of the community get to know
one another during a week of fun and
festivities.
' Apple Chill began over a year ago
somewhere deep within the Chapel Hill
APO charity drive
nets near '$9,000
by Melinda Hickman
Staff Writer
After three weeks of blood, sweat, toil
and even tears, the Alpha Phi Omega
Campus Chest charity drive is finally over
and all the totals are in.
The final total, as compared with last
year's, was " disappointing, but not
disastrous. This year's drive brought in
just under $9,000, while last year's total
was more than $14,000.
The approximate breakdown for the
chest's individual events were as follows:
Road Rallye, $2,500; auction, $1,500;
Campus Carnival, $4,500; and ZBT Mile
of Pennies, $675.
APO president Tom Seitz noted a
number of reasons for the lower results.
"The first factor that comes to my mind
is the people in charge. The people who
ran last year's chest are either inactive
members or are gone this year. Before
this, the heads from the previous year's
chest were around to help out.
"Also, our overall chairman this year
was a senior, with a lot of extra worries
about grades and finding a job. Usually
the chairman is a junior or sophomore,"
Seitz said.
Seitz also pointed out that this year
was a transition year. APO felt that the
fraternities and sororities were probably
tired of doing the same old thing and
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"However," he continued, "there are
certain areas that students cannot control
and to that extent RHA cannot be a
governing board."
Boulton's statement came two weeks
after the proposal was originally delivered
to him.
In reaction to Boulton's decision, Janet
Stephens, president of RHA, said, "We're
asking for some amount of trust, not
complete control."
It was agreed that more specific details
of a cooperative working relationship '
between RHA and the administration will
be established once a new director of
Residence Life is chosen.
Recreation Department. In his capacity as
Recreation Director, Henry Anderson was
trying to make recreation in Chapel Hill a
sort of preventive medicine.
Something was needed to counteract
what many considered apathy in the
community. People weren't aware of
their neighbors.
In casting around for some solution to
the problems, Teen Co-ordinator Harper
Peterson and the teenagers of the area
would look forward to something
different.
"To me, the main thing is that the
fraternities and sororities didn't get
excited. We gambled on the change, but
we felt that they wanted something
new," said Seitz. Road Rallye replaced
the Ugliest Man on Campus to offer more
chance for active participation, rather
than just solicitation. ,
Seitz emphasized that APO is open to
suggestions on what activities to use for
Campus Chest.
Seitz complained about some Greeks'
unwillingness to donate their total
earnings, particularly from the carnival
booths. He said ' that fraternities and
sororities would take out expenses and
even profit, in some cases. "What they
don't realize is how much we put out to
make some money for the chest."
He noted that APO has an overhead of
around S4,000 each year on Campus
Chest events. "For instance, this year for
the carnival, some of our expenses were
$500 for door prizes, S400 for beer and
$600 for the Physical Plant to put two
Dempsey Dumpsters on the field and set
up the plywood fence around the field."
APO is looking for ways to cut
expenses for next year, as well as new
ideas for Campus Chest events. Seitz said,
"Campus Chest as it was was beginning to
get old."
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Boulton added that a whole new
system with a maintenance staff would be
set up under the new director who will
replace resigning director Robert Kepner.
RHA will meet with the prospective
candidates for director at the time of
their interviews.
In other action, dorm requests from
the Residence Life Special Enhancement
Trust Fund were approved by the board.
The fund is maintained from room rent
payments which average about $2 a
semester per resident. It is set up so that
any dorm can request monetary
appropriations from it for dorm
enhancement.
came upon the idea of an old-time,
week-long, town-wide get together.
In the tradition of the long gone
Fourth of July picnic, the idea was to get
everyone in the town together to meet
each other and discover the immense
wealth of talent in Chapel Hill.
So Mayor Howard Lee proclaimed the
last week in April to be Apple Chill Week.
A street fair was organized, displays were
set up, transportation arranged, T-shirts
designed and produced, a street dance
planned and, suddenly, it happened.
Apple Chill Fair.
The people came and had a good time.
They met new people and made new.
friends. There were problems, of course.
Any first time venture has its hitches. But
by and large it was a success.
Such a success, in fact, that this year it
was enlarged to a month, with a focus on
ecology. The over-all month of A: :1 has
been termed Fair Kedos and spent in
cleaning up the town. But the last week
will still be Apple Chill.
Events of the fair will include an art
show and bus tour on Sunday, April 22,
and an Easter Monday Easter Egg Hunt,
bird display, and open-air concert series
on Monday. Tuesday will feature more
concerts and a community youth revival.
On Wednesday and Thursday there
will be still more open air concerts and
the revival will continue. Friday will have
a tour of the N.C. Botanical Garden, an
international buffet and a community
costume square dance ball in the
municipal parking 'ot behind Huggins
Hardware.
Saturday's activities will include a bike
day, soul food dinner, sidewalk art show,
folk rock festival, ping pong tournament
and street fair.
Apple Chill will end on Sunday with a
family field day and picnic, volleyball
tournament, land use bus tour and
nutrition forum.
Today's weather
Partly cloudy with a high expected
to reach the 80's. The low tonight is
expected in the upper 50's and there is
a twenty percent chance of
precipitation. Outlook: rain.
DoJiacie
by William March
Staff Writer
Policies of the Personnel Office at UNC
may be at variance with North Carolina
law.
During recent investigations by the
DTH of personnel changes in the
University's Traffic and Safety Office,
questions were asked of the Personnel
Office concerning the job descriptions
and salaries of certain administrators in
the Traffic Office.
The employes concerned were all
"SPA" employes, meaning that, like all
low-level administrators and
non-administrative staff personnel here,
their salaries, promotions, hiring and
firing are regulated by the N.C. State
Personnel Act. "EPA" employes,
high-level administrators and faculty, are
exempt from control of this act.
John Temple, assistant vice-chancellor
for business, who is responsible for the
'status
The allocated funds were distributed as
follows:
Teague $1,200 for furniture for
the social lounge and lobby, basketball
goal, volleyball and volleyball supports.
Whitehead $1 15 for cabinet and
Jrawer locks in the basement.
Parker $240 for a vacuum cleaner.
Morrison $1,500 for furniture in
the lounges.
Avery $300 for an exhaust fan or
small air conditioner to be placed in the
library area.
Upper Quad-$75 for volleyball
supports.
The board discussed the possibility of
transferring the $25,000 Special
Enhancement Trust Fund from Residence
Life to the office of Frances Sparrow,
director of the Student Activities Fund.
All requests from the fund would be sent
to this office and approved according to
guidelines established by RHA.
"The guidelines will be set up with a
certain amount of flexibility. If
something requested is out of the
ordinary and not in the guidelines, the
request will come before RHA," Stephens
said.
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activities of the Traffic Office, said that
the personnel information on the
employes in question could be gotten
from their immediate supervisor, Gerald
Warren, director of security services and
the Traffic Office. Warren said the data
could be gotten from the Personnel
Office.
Jack Gunnells, director of the UNC
Personnel Office, said that as far as he
knew, information of this type about
North Carolina employes was a matter of
public record of the state. But he refused
to release it to the press on his own
authority. "The supervisor of the men
could request the information, and then
release it to you," he said, "or Claiborne
Jones could direct me to release it.
Meanwhile, you could write me a letter
and state why you want the
information." Jones is an assistant to
Chancellor Ferebee Taylor.
Claude Caldwell, director of the North
Carolina State Personnel Office, said
that as far as he knew, statutory
provisions made all official personnel data
on state employes a matter of public
record of the state. "I know of no statute
which would protect the confidentiality
of such information at the University
level," Caldwell said. "That information
is public, and we could give it out, but it
might not be up to date. There is a time
lag involved in getting the information to
us.
"I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me
that anybody who withheld such
information could be guilty of a
misdemeanor."
An unofficial judgment from the N.C.
Attorney General's office confirmed this,
but no official judgment was given.
Jones, whom Gunnells recommended
should be asked for the information, is on
vacation until Tuesday.
Taylor, when asked if he would have
the information released, said, "It is my
personal policy to withhold that
information unless the individual
concerned authorizes it. I consider this a
matter of personal privacy. I back the
decision of Mr. Gunnells.
"I would consider this policy if I were
to receive a directive from an appropriate
state agency requesting that the
information be released. Until then, it
will not be released."
In a case recently involving the
questions concerning EPA employes at
UNC-Charlotte, N.C. Attorney General
Robert Morgan ruled that the ranks of
the employes and the salaries by rank,
but not the individual salaries, should be
released.
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According to Gunnells and Taylor,
even this much information could not be
released, though the questions concerned
employes who are subject to the State
Personnel Act.
A brief investigation did not reveal past
rulings by the North Carolina Attorney
General directly pertinent to the issue of
personnel information concerning SPA
employes.
General Statute 132-1 of North
Carolina states that "Public records
comprise all written or printed books,
papers, letters, documents, and maps
made and received in pursuance of law by
the offices of the state and its counties,
municipalities and other subdivisions of
government in the transaction of public
business."
In a letter to Dr. O. David Garvin dated
February 18, 1958, then N.C. Attorney
General George B. Patton offered the
opinion that records resulting from "the
transaction of public business" were
public records, but did not include
records of medical treatment of patients
in public clinics.
On June 17, 1971, Attorney General
Robert Morgan stated the official opinion
that arrest records and records of
disposition of charges by police were
records of transaction of public business,
and were therefore public.
On January 11, 1971, Morgan ruled
that lists of textbooks sold by the
bookstore at NCSU were public records,
and open to the public.
BSM rally
to protest
school aid
by Bonnie Weyher
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement (BSM)
will sponsor a rally on Tuesday, April 24,
protesting the Nixon administration's
proposed higher education financial
assistance budget.
The rally will begin at noon in the Pit.
In case of rain it will be held in the Great
Hall.
Included in the rally will be a march
from the Pit to South Building to present
a list of grievances to Chancellor Ferebee
Taylor concerning the elimination of the
Afro-American Studies Department and
the cut-back in black student enrollment
at UNC. Members of BSM will confer
with the chancellor at that time.
Featured speakers will include black
leader Osafo McDonald, representatives
from the State Organization of Black
Unity (SOBU), BSM Chairman Willie
Mebane and former BSM Chairman
Warren Carson.
Addresses of senators and congressmen
will be provided in hopes that
participants will write letters of thanks
for passing a "respectable" higher
education financial aid bill for the
upcoming year. Supporters are also
encouraged to write the President urging
him to sign this bill.
The rally will be open to everyone
interested. Students from other schools
across the state facing problems similar to
those of black UNC students are also
invited to take part.