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5 Kearj 0 Editorial Freedom
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Wednesday, September 19, 1973
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An outdoor class at Carolina can be a study In moods and
expressions. While the instructor tries everything she can to
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keep the students' interest, most of them are busy thinking
more interesting thoughts.
(Staff photo by Gary Lobraico)
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by Diane King
Staff Writer
Winding and narrow N.C. 86 that leads
into Chapel Hill from 1-85 and can be
treacherous for late-night drivers and soaked
UNC students, may be improved in the
future.
At the Chapel L Hjll Board of Aldermen
meeting last night, Mayor Howard Lee
announced plans to seek improvements on
N.C. 54 east and N.C. 86 north between
Chapel Hill and Hillsborough, as the board
voted to oppose the construction of
Interstate 40 Alternate I.
The interstate alternate route would run
from 1-85 west of Durham and cross 15-501
to the Research Triangle Park. The
aldermen voted unanimously to oppose the
route that would cut through a rural area.
Mayor Lee said he would ask to go before
N.C. Transportation Secretary Bruce Lentz
and the full Board of Transportation to
request improvements on the two state
highways leading into Chapel Hill N.C. 54 is
presently closed and all traffic is being
rerouted to 86.
In other action, the board voted to accept
a flood plain ordinance authorized at the last
meeting that sets the minimum size for lots
on a flood plain at 6 acres."
The Planning Board had recommended
earlier this month that the board allow no
construction in flood plains, saying that this
is the only way the environmental function
of flood plains can be maintained.
In the event that the aldermen were not
ready to accept an ordinance allowing no
construction, the board suggested that an
ordinance be drawn up to restrict building in
glood plains to single family dwellings on
six-acre lots.
Building on flood plains is being restricted
in some cities on the grounds that pavements
increase the natural runoff and buildings
inhibit water flow. The interest in flood plain
zoning reached a height last year during
floods in the Research Triangle area."
The main discussion of the ordinance at
last night's meeting was between Aldermen
Ross Scroggs and Joseph Nassif, who are on
opposite sides of the fence on the issue
Alderman Nassif said that he favored no
building at all, but that the six-acTe
restriction was a start in the right direction.
"If we build it all like we did through
Eastgate and University Mall, then we won't
need an ordinance. We'll need buckets to bail
the water out," Nassif said.
"Or good straight channels," Scroggs
added. The final vote was 4-2 with Aldermen
Scroggs and R.D. Smith dissenting.
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Tis the season?
Agnew ready to resign?
United Press International
WASHINGTON An unidentified
Republican leader was quoted by the
Washington Post Tuesday as saying Vice
President Spiro T. Agnew was considering
resigning, possibly this week. A spokesman
for Agnew said I am quite sure" he has no
such plan.
The Post quoted a "senior Republican
figure" as saying he was "99 'i per cent
certain he will resign and probably this
week."
David S. Broder, Post political writer,
said Agnew "has held lengthy discussions in
the past two days on the advisability of
resigning voluntarily from his position." The
article added: "At least one Republican
party leader who conferred with Agnew
came away convinced he will resign "
Agnew was notified early last month by
the U.S. attorney in Baltimore
Weather
TODAY: Variable cloudiness with a
twenty per cent chance of
precipitation. The high Is expected to
reach the mid to upper 70's and the
low tonight Is expected in the mid
50's. Outlook: cloudy and warmer.
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by Bill Welch
Staff Writer
Students go to the polls today to elect six
Campus Governing Council (CGC)
representatives, vote on six constitutional
changes and make the final decisions on the
establishment of a student-run stereo FM
broadcast station.
On the ballot will be a resolution which, if
approved, will release 535,000 of Student
Government (SG) funds for the
establishment of such a radio station if a
federal license is obtained.
The FM station will be operated through
the studios of WCAR in the basement of the
Carolina Union. WCAR would continue it
AM broadcasting in addition to the new FM
programming.
The special election for the CGC seats are
necessary because of six vacancies which
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have occurred on the council. Three of the
seats are contested. The candidates are as
follows:
Off-Campus District V: Ken Jarvis, Jim
Shaw, Janice Mills and Robert Ripley.
Graduate District V: Stephen Foreman
and Dennis Horn.
Graduate District VI: Frank Kessler
and Richard Lael.
Marilyn Harrington is unopposed in
Graduate District II, and two seats. Off
Campus District II and Graduate District I,
have no candidates running.
Voters may write-in candidates for any of
the CGC seats, or any of the 22 Honor Court
seats also on the ballot.
A light voter turnout is expected in today's
election. A special election was also held last
spring, in which only 2,8090 student s voted.
Also on the ballot will be six
constitutional amendments passed by the
CGC and needing a majority vote approval
Union president
issue faces vote
by Greg Turosak
Staff Writer
Whether the President of the Carolina
Union should be elected or appointed will be
one ol the major issues decided
rcierenaum m today's general
election.
by
campus
Some Campus Governing Council (CGC)
members, however, said they have doubts as
to whether or not the referendum on this
bsue is binding.
Some of the rcuglations concerning the
Union are set by the Board of Trustees,
creating the possibility that the chancellor's
office would not recognize a student
referendum dealing with a change in the way
the Union president gets into office.
There are two basic arguments to the
question:
The Union president should not be
elected, but should continue to be appointed
after review by the Union Board of
Directors, since the president's position
should not be one of partisanship and
politics, and since the best wav to assure
quality in the Union leadership is through
careful review of applications and
interviews.
The Union president should be elected
since presently he is not accountable to the
students, and election of the president w ould
make the Union more visible, more open,
and more accountable. The editor of the Tar
Heel, which uses a large amount of student
fees, is held accountable to students, and the
Union should be in a similar situation.
Gary Phillips, present President of the
Union, is opposed to the election of the
Union President.
"It would really cripple the function of the
Union if it was an elective office." said
Philips. "We are not invovled in a political
' process.
"If you go through interviews and
applications, you can tell a lot better who is
really willing to spend the time than you
could by an election," he said.
Campus Governing Council member Bill
Snodgrass say he is dissatisfied with the
present organization of the Union, and said
there is general discontent among the
students toward Union activities.
Although he said that electing the Union
president may not be the best solution to
Union problems, Snodgrass said there is a
definite need to make the organization more
visible and accountable to the students.
from the student body.
The only controversial question is an
amendment which would make the
presidency of the Carolina Union an elected
office. The president is currently selected by
the Union Board of Directors after
interviews with the candidates.
Another amendment would establish a
procedure for a future referendum to decide
whether to keep the CGC or re-establish the
Student Legislature.
The CGC was begun last spring as a two
year experimental alternative to the Student
Legislature. Theamcndment sets the date for
a 1975 referendum to decide the CGCs fate.
A third amendment would change the
procedure for the recall of elected student
officials. It would require any recall petition
to ahve the signatures of 15 per cent of the
incumbent's constituency. The figure is
currently 25 per cent for some offices.
Another amendment would have seats on
the Graduate Court appointed by the
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation instead of the Student Body
President, who presently makes the
appointments.
Two other amendments would clarify the
constitution and make no substantive
changes in it. One deals with the distribution
of graduate student fees and the other with
the executive branch of Student
Government.
The polls will be open from 10 a.m. until
6:30 p.m. and students can vote at the
following places:
Graduate students: the Y-Court. the
School of Public Health. Craige or the
Union.
Off-Campus undergraduates: the Naval
Armory. Y-Court, or the Union.
Residents of Granville Towers: the
Granville Cafeteria.
Old East. Old West. Carr and Spencer
at the Y-Court.
Whitehead at the Naval Armory.
Law students at the Law SChool.
Teague. Parker and Avery at Parker.
Connor. Winston. Alexander and
Joyner at Connor.
Everett, Lewis, Aycock. Graham. Stacy
and Cobb at Everett.
Mangum, Manlcy. Grimes. Ruffin.
Mclver. Kenan and Alderman at Ruffin.
Residents of James, Ehringhaus and
Morrison vote in their own dorms.
ABC Board warns
of 5e whiskey hike
The price of your favorite brand of
whiskey may go up five cents a bottle on
Nov. 1 as the result of action taken by the
State ABC Board.
The board voted Monday to increase the
bailment fee by five cents per case. The
bailment fee is the charge put on all liquor to
cover the costs of transportation and
warehousing.
The State of North Carolina docs not own
any liquor. Board Administrator Wiley
Ruth said. Each county pays the distributors
for the liquor it orders.
The ABC system leases a warehouse in
Durham County for central storage and
distribution. Ruth said that the warehouse
operation is $7000 in the red each month and
the nickel increase will help defray the rising
costs of operation.
Board member George Coxhead of
Chapel Hill made the motion to add a nickel
to each case sold.
"The increase we are talking about will
bring in about $150,000." he said.
Coxhead said that only 21 per cent of the
brands will be affected by a price increase to
the consumer. "The bailment increase will be
on each case." he said, "not on each bottle."
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'Breathing Earth Dance'
A way to free yoer spirit
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by Libby Lewis
Feature Writer
Mimeographed signs announce the "Breathing
F.arth Dance Technique " leaving you with all sorts of
strange notions. Not classical, not jazz, not even
modern dance, it is a whole new concept of the art
originated and taught by Joan Trias.
"In all other forms of dance, you are trapped inside
your body I knew I wanted to find my own
technique," Trias explained.
Originally from London, Trias has studied ballet,
jazz, modern and Tai Chi, a Chinese form of peaceful
movement. The instructor has also studied eurythmy, a
type of dance of the etheric or spiritual body.
"Eurythmy involves putting sounds and words
into movement," Trias stated. "It uses robes and veils
and it has a sort of mysterious quality."
But none of the forms Trias studied let her ideas and
feelings be fully expressed. The main principle of her
technique originated after practicing Tai Chi one day,
when "a strong realization came to me that the earth
really breathes that all things in nature are not static
They flow. I saw rhythm in the trees and mountains
that I had not seen before," Trias said.
An image that strongly influenced her was a picture '
she saw of an African man sitting alongside the beach.
"He was tall and thin, and I realized, looking at him,
that he was the First human 1 had ever seen that was in
harmony with his surroundings," the teacher said. "He
looked simple and peaceful completely in place with
nature."
Trias strives to capture that quality with her
students. She explained that the breath inside humans
is the same as the air outside and the spirit of motion is
related to the breath. The key, then, to freeing this
spirit, and realizing people's unity with the earth, is
through the breath.
In classes, the first thing is locating the center of the
body. This is also done in modern dance, but in the
Breathing Earth Dance Technique, the considered
center is placed lower.
"The empty space in the pelvic girdle is the center of
the body in my technique," the instructor defined. "I
teach my students to breathe from this center, bringing
the breath up into the stomach, through the spine,
lungs, throat, and finally out through the top of the
head."
To help emphasize this feeling, Trias concentrates
on working froifr under the feet, up through the body
and into the top of the head.
"It is an upright force," Trias explained. "This makes
you feel, for example, when you leap, that you are one
piece leaving the earth momentarily not a jumbled
set of pieces thrown together. This type of dance has an
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open, flowing technique. It's more sensual than other
forms."
The method also focuses on training the dancers
imaginations. According to Trias. "There is a
technique to training the imagination for dance, and to
learn it, I feel, is as important as learning to dance. I
make the dancers picture themselves inside their heads
and then dance what they see. Without using the
imagination, how can a dancer express himselfr
"I don't agree that just anyone can get on a stage and
improvise and call himself a good dancer." she said.
"He should be well-trained and disciplined."
Trias has taught the Breathing Earth Dance
Technique since this March. Sessions, $16 each, last
four weeks long. The next sessions are being held at the
Community Church.
There will be a beginners session meeting Mondays
and Wednesdays from, 7:30 until nine o'clock. This
class learns Trias tpchniqijc and the basis of
choreography.
An intermediate group will meet Mondays and
Wednesdays from 6 to 7:30 p.m. Members of this
session learn dances choreographed by Trias and
perform a three-minute solo at the session's end.
This isn't just another dance class.
Trias is looking for serious students who are there to
"free their spirit of motion." Those interested can
contact her at 929-5674.
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Joan Trias: new concepts of art