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59 Years Of Editorial Freedom
Chapel HSU, North Carolina, Thursday, September 27, 1973
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(Staff photo by John Locher)
Debate team funds
released by CGC
by Bill Veich
Staff Writer
The Campus Governing Council
approved a bill Tuesday night allowing the
debate team immediate access to a portion of
their Student Government (SG) funds and
passed a resolution calling for an extention
. of the drop-add period next spring.
The bill allows the student body treasurer
to give the debate team up to $500 of their
Student Government appropriation
immediately. -
The appropriation for the debate team,
like that of 1 1 other campus organizations,
has been frozen by the SG budget. The
budget stipulates that none of the SG
appropriation is to be released until the
University Administration funds the groups.
Council member Bill Snodgrass said the
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The Daily Tar Heel is back in the rumor
breaking business.
The rumor making the rounds is about
quarterback Nick Vidnovic and has. several
variations. They range from "I hear he's got a
broken rib" to "He'll never play again this
year."
Well, folks, sorry to spoil all the fun and
games but he only has a bruised rib that at
the very most might keep him from starting
the game against Missouri this Saturday.
The rib is reportedly causing him enough
discomfort that he missed practice Monday
and Tuesday..
immediate release of part of the debate
team's budget was necessary because the
team has several tournaments to attend this
mo.nthj. and they, must have their money
soon.
He said the stipulation in the budget that
freezes the funds is an attempt by the CGC to
make the administration assume some of the
financial burden for many narrow-interest
campus organizations.
The resolution passed by the CGC calls
the University's registration system "grossly
inadequate" and says the drop-add period
should be extended by two days next spring,
"for students to assess their academic needs."
Steve Coggins, an administrative assistant
to the speaker of the CGC, said the extension
is intended as a temporary relief measure. He
said he is currently negotiating with
University officials for a reform of the entire
registration process.
"We are aiming towards wholesale reform
of the system, but right now, we'll be lucky to
get two more days for next spring," Coggins
said.
Coggins said that 500 drop-add
transactions took place on the day after
drop-add this semester, and cited as evidence
that the administration might be receptive to
such an extension.
The council also approved three minor
changes in the SG budget. Two were changes
.to make bookkeeping easier, and one
provides for the new Residence Unit Grant
and Loan Fund which was set up at the last
CGC meeting.
In other action, the CGC appointed
Geoffrey Mitchell and Peter Gilmore to the
North Carolina Student Legislature
selection committee and swore in three
newly elected council members.
The new members are Marilyn
Harrington,' Dennis Horn and Janice Mills.
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by Cherln Chewnlng
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Janet Langston
Staff Writers
The University's Affirmative Action Plan
has not been accepted by the Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW).
In a letter to an official of the University
Women for Affirmative Action (UWAA)
dated Sept. 21, Louis O. Bryson of HEW
said that the plan has "been deemed
unacceptable" by his office.
In a statement released Wednesday,
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor said, "I have
received no official comment from HEW
concerning the Affirmative Action Plan for
the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill. Accordingly, I have no way of knowing
HEWs assessment of our plan whether
they consider it any better or any worse than
the ones submitted by other institutions."
"I do know that a lot of time and effort
went into the development of plan, and I
believe it is a good one," Taylor commented.
Richard H. Robinson Jr., assistant to
President William Friday of the General
Administration, has been the "point of
contact" with the five representaties of
HEW. said Taylor.
A five-member delegation of three men
and two women, three of whom were black,
met with UWAA members Tuesday night
and discussed UWAA's critique of the plan
which was sent to HEW Aug. 14.
A HEW spokesman said that the group
had come to Chapel Hill to work with the
University to make the plan more
acceptable.
HEW officials indicated that they would
like to use the UNC-CH plan as a model for
other UNC campuses.
In a telephone interview Wednesday
afternoon, Robinson implied that if UNCs
plan did not pass the first inspection, it
would not be as serious as others would like
to think.
"My understanding is that no first draft
ever submitted by an educational institution
to HEW has been accepted in the United
States," he asserted.
"There is no such thing as a final stamp of
approval as most people expect," Robinson
Conference 'helpful'
JUL
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by Cherin Chewnlng
Staff Writer
University Women for Affirmative Action (UWAA)
coordinator Barbara Schnorrenberg Wednesday termed
Tuesday night's meeting with HEW officials as "interesting
and helpful one."
"The HEW officials couldn't be as specific with us as we
would have liked them to be," Schnorrenberg said.
"However it was clear to us that some things that HEW
ojected to in the Affirmative Action Plan were the same that
we in UWAA had objected to."
Schnorrenberg said that HEW gave UWAA "sketchy"
ideas of areas they objected to.
She also said that UWAA would cooperate with HEW in
compiling a list of area women's minority groups for use in
publicizing job vacancies.
According to Schnorrenberg, HEW asked UWAA why
they thought the goals of the proposed plan were too modest.
"We told them that we thought every body had been too
conservative in their estimates of turnover, hiring, etc.' she
said.
"We also felt that the goals and timetables were too
arbitrary they weren't based on statistics," Schnorrenberg
said.
Association of Women Students (AWS) chairperson
Amelia Bellows said that she talked with the HEW officials
about a complaint recently filed by AWS concerning the
UNC athletic department.
"They already knew about our intramural program here
through other sources, whatever that means," Bellows said,
"and they wanted more information on athletics."
"They are certainly interested in student's complaints,"
Bellows said.
CAU cites plhoinie tripes
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by Linda Uvengood
Staff Writer
Ted Claghorn, president of the Student
Consumer Action Union (SCAU), said
Tuesday that SCAU has received complaints
similar to those charged in the suit against
the Chapel Hill Telephone Company filed by
Howard T. Chatterton.
The SCAU president said, "We urge all
students to save their telephone bills and
check their calls. If you feel that calls you
have not made have been billed to your
account, please call SCAU at 9338313."
The $100,000 class action suit brought
against the Chapel Hill Telephone Company
was filed by Howard T. Chatterton, a UNC
medical student. He is not a law student at
UNC as was erroneously reported
Wednesday in The Daily Tar Heel.
Chatterton is represented by Chapel Hill
attorney Robert Epting.
Runge charges delay
Student Body President Ford Runge
charged the Carrboro Board of Aldermen
with purposely delaying the town's bus
regerendum last spring to exclude students
from voting.
In his press release, Runge urged persons
representing student needs and supporting
the establishment of public transportation to
run for the Carrboro board this November.
"Students and other apartment dwellers
do not seem to be considered true citizens by
the people of Carrboro," Runge stated. He
claimed the Board of Aldermen enforced this
attitude by holding the transportation
regerendum "supported by students" after
U NC classes had ended, to lessen support for
the transportation system.
Runge questioned the cooperation among
Carrboro, Chapel Hill and UNC in solving
common problems. He said mutual support
of students' needs would come only through
the efforts of all three.
"The Carrboro town government must
exhibit a greater willingness to work with
others to solve the joint problems of the
greater University community," Runge said.
Carrboro Mayor Robert J. Wells Jr. could
not be contacted at home for comment.
Chatterton's suit alleges that Robert Peak
of the Chapel Hill Telephone Company
informed Chattert on that the. company has
"at the end of each month a substantial pool
of long distance calls w ith no subscriber to be
billed because of mechanical error or human
error or contrivance."
According to Chatterton's account. Peak
explained that "these calls were assigned at
random to various subscribers' accounts
solely on the basis cf their previous long
distance calling patterns."
Chatterton filed a class action suit because
. he feels that others "have been mislead by
Defendant's (telephone company) billing
practices and or coerced by Defendant's
bureaucratic inefficiency and have paid
charges for which they were under no legal
obligation."
According to Chatterton's complaint, the
action was filed on behlaf of those who are
now subscribing or who have suscribed as
customers to the telephone services of the
Chapel Hill Telephone Company at any time
since Sept. 10, 1970.
Claghorn said, "If you think that you have
paid charges for calls you did not make in the
past, you are entitled to see the Telephone
company's microfilmed records of past
bills."
said. "We were led to understand that the
Affirmative Action Plan is an involving,
continuing document."
"As we experience the matter, apply the
p'.an and see the results," he continued,
officials will make changes as needed.
The five-member group said they had not
been previously informed by the University
of Douglass Hunt's appointment as
Affirmative Action officer and indicated
that they were dissatisfied with the
appointment.
Bryson said he had no comment on
HEWs indicated disapproval of Hunt's
appointment. He also said that
HEW knew Chancellor Taylor would be
a ppointing an Affirmative Action officer but
that they had not been previously informed
of the specific individual.
According to reliable sources, the HEW
officials felt that the Affirmative Action
officer should be a full-time post and that the
person holding that post should not have any
other responsibilities.
HEW officials indicated dissatisfaction
with several areas of the University's plan
including:
Lack of student involvement on the
Affirmative Action Committee;
Lack of availability of data on which the
report was based;
Lack of documentation for certain tables
and statistics presented in the plan.
HEW officials requested that UWAA
compile a list of area women's and minority
groups. Area groups could be more
effectively publicize vacancies in the
University system, HEW said.
Bryson said that the group met with
administration offcials yesterday, but
declined to comment on the meeting.
The current meetings between HEW
representatives and Robinson's are to clarify
the role of the University of North Carolina
to determine the exact responsibilities of the
administration. Robinson said. He is
receiving background information to insure
that the General Administration
understands HEWs desires and to enable
Robinson to guide the other 16 universities
in writing their plans to meet HEW
expectations.
Even after preliminary approval,
Robinson acknowledged they "can't say in
advance that the plan does it. We have to
w ait and see."
He explained the process for chancellors
to receive offcial letters of deficiencies from
HEW. The General Administration
"adopted early on that each campus do its
own plan." Therefore, he said, the letters will
be sent to each individual chancellor.
Robinson reported responses to him from
10 of 16 chancellors, stating they have
received communcation from HEW.
After each chancellor receives the letter.
Robinson said, he has a given period of time
to "get his plan in line" for a second
inspection.
The meetings are information sharing
sessions to "achieve a better understanding
of what is required", Robinson said.
Weather
TODAY: Partial cloudiness yet near
zero per cent chance of precipitation.
The high is expected to reach the
upper 70's and the low tonight is
expected in the low 50's. Outlook:
clear end cool.
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by Bill Welch
Staff Writer
Twelve student organizations that were
appropriated funds in this year's Student
Government (SG) budget have found that they,
are unable to receive any of their money now.
The groups have discovered that, because of a
stipulation buried in the back pages of the budget
approved by the Campus Governing Council
(CGC) in the final days of the semester last
spring, their funds have been frozen.
The clause, preventing the release of the funds
and halting the operation of organizations, was
placed in the University budget in an attempt by
the CGC to force the University Administration
into assuming some of the financial burden of
these groups.
The Special Revenue Sharing clause means
that certain organizations cannot receive their
SC funds until first receiving a specified amount
from the University.
The allocation for each organization is listed
in the budget, but Dean of Student Affairs
Donald A. Boulton says they don't have the
money.
So while SC cannot fund the groups until the
University does, 12 campus groups are caught in
the dilemma of having no money with which to
.operate.
CGC member Bill Snodgrass said Tuesday
that the University benefits from the groups, and
they should foot some of the bill. He also said he
expects the administration to come up with the
needed money.
The University currently has a $15,000
donation from the Alumni Association that is
earmarked for cultural affairs, and Snodgrass
said he is meeting with Boulton and other
University officials on Monday to discuss the
possibility of using that money for the 12
organizations.
"This is a form of coercion that I think isn't
going to be very effective," Boulton told the
DTH.
"I feel very strongly that this is not the way to
move ahead. The revenue must come from many
different sources, and it may take several years to
get gifts," he said.
Several of the organizations that cannot get
their money are athletic clubs and Boulton
said he thought the Athletic Association will give
them some money. He also said the
administration could help some of the other
groups with operating expenses, but he did not
know where the rest of the money will come
from.
"I think better cooperation might have
resulted in a better method," Boulton said.
"We had no part in the decision. We were told
what to do. It's funny, because students always
complain that they have no input into the
administration, and now we have none with
them," he added.
Student Body Treasurer Steve Jones said he
has had requests for money from most of the
groups. He said he is unable to give the
organizations any of their appropriations, even
though it means some cannot operate.
He cited the crew team as an example of one
group that needs money immediately. The team's
only boat leaks and it must be fixed before they
can begin fall practice, he said.
"The CGC is making these little groups fight
their own battle for them, and that's unfair," said
Jones.
Jones said that there is a contingency fund in
the budget so that if none df the groups receive
money from the University by Nov. 30, SG will
give them half of the administration's share. But
he added that the end of Nov. is too late for all
the groups.
The contingency fund contains $5,899, the
University budget calls for the University to give
over 51 l,0CO to the 12 groups.
While signing a bill passed by the CGC
releasing funds to the debate team. Student Body
President Ford Runge said yesterday he
disagreed with the use of pressure on the
university.
"The purpose of a student fee is to support
student organizations. These fees were not meant
to be. and never should be, construed as political
tools," Runge said.
"Such use is improper and not in keeping with
a responsible Student Government operation,"
he added.
"Student Government, rather than helping an
organization, has put a road block in our way,"
he said.
"The are trying to put the administration
under pressure to give money, but the clubs are
getting caught in the middle," Cox said.
In explaining why the administration cannot
finance all the clubs, Boulton denied that he has
access to any "slush funds" from which to draw
the money. In the budget hearings last fall, some
CGC members said the administration could
get the money from such resources.
"The biggest slush fund on campus is the
CGC," he said, adding, "All our money is
earmarked we have no slush fund."
Some of the other groups w hich have not been
able to get their funds are: The Concert Band,
the Individual Events Team, the International
Student Center, the Men's Glee Club, and the
Parachute, Rugby and Sailing Clubs.