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81 Years Of Editorial Freedom
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, September 28, 1973
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by Janet Langston
Staff Writer
The UNC Board of Governors Thursday
authorized President William Friday of the
University system to "outline a program
consistent with" the recommendations
offered by an out-of-state team of medical
consultants.
The report deals with medical education in
North Carolina, but also addressed itself to a
wide-ranging program of improved health
care for North Carolina.
A recommendation against expansion of
East Carolina University's present one-year
medical school has been the most widely
publicized of the eleven recommendations.
The report recommends that no
expansion of the ECU Medical School be
conducted at this time.
The Board members recommendation
does not preclude any possible future action
to expand ECU into another four-year
degree-granting institution.
William A. Johnson of Lillington advised
the members to "take first things first, with
all "priorities in order. He advocated the
steps proscribed in the consultants' report as
being in a logical order.
President Friday said his first
responsibility in the Board's action is to
"sharpen up and make specific" the "very
SG asks 7 credit hours
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by Chuck Babington
Stat! Writer
The Executive Office of Student
Government (SG) is proposing to the
Faculty Council that students be alowed
to take seven hours pass-fail per
semester beginning in 1974-75 with the
freshmen and sophomore classes.
Last spring the faculty voted to limit
the number of hours a student may take
pass-fail to four per semester. However,
the. council decided to reconsider the
matter this fall before enacting the new
plan.
According to Richard Letchworth,
executive assistant to the Student Body
president, the Executive Office hopes to
compromise with the council, and use
evidence of student support in their
argument.
In order to gauge student opinion on
pass-fail procedures, 4,500 copies of a
questionnaire will be distributed on
Tuesday, Oct. 2, in various dorms,
fraternities, sororities and Granville
Towers, by members of the Student
Information Network (SIN).
The questionnaire, similar to one
distributed last spring, includes 13
yes no questions concerning opinions
on pass-fail policy.
Letchworth and Student Body
President Ford Runge hope to use the
results of the survey when they present
their case to the Faculty Council on Oct.
19.
If the council accepts the proposed
compromise, freshmen and sophomores
will be limited to taking seven hours
pass-fail per semester beginning in the
fall of 1974.
Letchworth said that rising juniors
and seniors would be excluded from the
plan because a change in policy so late in
their schooling could be detrimental to
their academic plans.
Thus, under the Runge-Letchworth
proposal, juniors and seniors would be
exempt from the seven hours limitation
in 75-76, with no exemptions starting
in the fall of 1976.
If the compromise is rejected,
however, all students will be limited to
taking four hours pass-fail per semester
beginning next fall.
The present pass-fail policy states that
no student may take more than a total of
24 hours pass-fail. The following
courses cannot be taken pass-fail:
English 1 and 2, the foreign language or
mathematical science requirement.
General College divisional electives,'
Hun-off results told
Two students were elected to the
Campus Governing Council (CGC) in
Wednesday's run-off election, but the
winner of the third seat remains
undecided.
The election in Off-Campus
Undergraduate District III resulted in a
tie between Robert Woodard and
Richard Davidson, with each candidate
receiving four votes.
Candidates in the two other districts
both won by decisive margins.
In Graduate District I, Larry Misner
received all 10 votes cast, while in
Graduate District VI, Rad Kivette
received 43 votes to Frank Kessler's 14.
Elections Board Chairman Tom Goss
said yesterday that after talking to the
two candidates today, he will determine
if a third election will be held for the
undecided seat.
If another run-off is needed, it will be
held next Wednesday, Goss said.
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complicated" cost recommendations of the
panel.
The Board's annual budget is due Oct. 22
for approval by the Board. Friday said he
would insert whatever appropriations were
possible in the limited time given to him and
the budget staff before the annual budget
deadline.
President Friday said he would be meeting
with people in medical education in North
Carolina to look at the problem of funding.
He named among them representatives from
Fayetteville and Duke, Bowman-Gray and
East Carolina medical schools.
When the financial costs are clarified, said
Friday, they will also consider non-financial
recommendations. In his opinion, Friday
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continued, he is required to concentrate first
on the budget requests.
Dr. Wallace Hyde from Asheville termed
the two issues of an ECU medical school and
the authority of the consolidated university
system as "so interwoven" that the report of
an out-of-state team of medical consultants
could not be considered without first
remembering North Carolina's "political
climate" which, he said, "favors another
medical school."
The ECU question did not. however,
monopolize the Board members criticisms.
Other major issues debated were panel
provisions for recruiting out-of-state
medical graduates, relaxing foreign medical
graduate licensure, the common target date
of 1980, and an overlap in the Board's
authority for higher education and the N.C.
Legislature' role in health care for North
Carolina.
A substitute motion offered by Reginald
McCoy of Laurinburg attempted to
postpone Board action. The motion moved
to reconstitute the defunct R. Jordan
medical study committee, to enable it to
review the panel's report as evidence, and
incorporate its own evidence made from
earlier studies. The committee would seek
new information, if desired, and report back
to the committee at a later date.
The motion directing President Friday to
proceed with budget recommendations was
approved 22 to 8.
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This week was "ring week" In the Student Union as juniors and seniors battled
lines and rising gold prices to place orders for Carolina class rings. The biggest part
of the process was the choosing of stones and sizes . . . and prices.
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courses required for the student's major,
and curriculum and summer school
courses.
A failure in a pass-fail course is
computed in the student's grade point
average, while a pass does not. In order
to make Dean's list, a student must be
taking a least 15 hours of credit for a
grade.
A failure in a pass-fail course is
computed in the student's grade point
average, while a pass does not. In order
to make Dean's list, a student must be
taking a least 15 hours of credit for a
grade.
Even if the faculty council plan for a
four hour per semester restriction is
enacted, any student taking more than
15 hours will be allowed to take any
course pass-fail above 12 hours.
All students will be required to take at
least four courses for a grade.
Weather
TODAY: Increasing cloudiness
with showers likely. The high is
expected in the low 80's and the low
tonight Is expected In the low 60's.
There Is thirty per cent chance of.
precipitation. Outlook: rain.
by Rick Studer
Staff Writer
An association to secure across-the-board
discounts on merchandise and services
purchased for dormitory social functions
was formed Wednesday afternoon. Bill
Bates, governor of Morrison Residence
College said.
The Dormitory Trade Association
(DTA), organized by dormitory and
residence college heads and floor co-
chairmen in the high-rise dorms, will try to
get its members up to 1 5 per cent discounts at
area stores by entering into a unique
contractural agreement with them, said
Bates, also the DTA president.
Under the terms of the contract, a
merchant will agree to sell his goods to a
DTA member at certain discount. In return,
the member will agree to buy that good or a
similar one only from that merchant.
"We're in effect offering that merchant a
monopoly on that item." Bates said. "A
WUNC news broadcast
ended due to low funds
by David Ennls
Staff Writer
Tonight's news broadcast on WUNC-TV
will be the last, George Doyle, news director
for the sation said.
"We couldn't continue because we just
didn't have enough money to do a show with
enough impact." he added. The $60,000
annual budget for the news show will revert
to the general administrative budget for
Educational television.
The news show, first aired in 1955, has
been telecast at 6 p.m. for about one year.
Doyle said that the program time was
changed from 7 p.m. to 6 p.m. and
contributed to the show's demise.
"We considered the show an alternative
service in terms of locally broadcast news,"
Doyle said. "When it was moved to six, it
killed the alternative idea because if
conflicted with the regular local news," he
said.
Due to a lack of funds, the news shows had
few film inserts and relied mainly on wire
services as a basis for news."Wc were
accused of being radio w ith pictures." Doyle
said, and it's an accusation which 1
feel was justified.
However, his opinion of the decision to
cancel the broadcasts is mixed.
"For some areas, we were the only North
Carolina news," Doyle said, citing the
Elizabeth City area, where the only news
broadcast comes from Virginia.
"People in that area told me that WUNC
TV brought them into the mainstream and at
least kept them informed of North Carolina
news." Doyle said.
"One of the most ironic things about this,"
Doyle said, "is that I didn't realize that
agreeing to cancel the news show meant the
end of may job."
member will buy from him or he won't buy
it."
The association is now in the process of
recruiting members. Any university-owned
or approved resident unit hav ing a social fee
account with the Student Activities Fund
office is eligible for membership. Bates said.
This includes Craige.
The bargaining, as well as the recruitment,
has already begun.
"Form letters are being sent to merchants
now." Bates said. "We're asking for bids on
discounts and hope to get somewhere
between 10 and 15 per cent."
"We see no reason why it wouldn't work."
Bates continued. "If a dorm was having a
picnic and we had a contract with Fowler's,
why would someone go somewhere else and
pay more money?"
Policing methods have been planned if
someone should go somewhere else,
however.
Mrs. Frances Sparrow in the Student
Activities Fund office will have a list of DTA
members and will supply us with a list of
member violators.
A violator will be expelled and the
merchants informed." Bates said. The
violator's standardized charge card, by
which the merchant identifies a DTA
member, will be revoked.
"The DTA is a social and economic
coalition and not political." Bates said. We
hope to get a 100 per cent response from the
presidents of dorms and residence colleges
and floor co-chairmen. We also hope to get a
good store response, especially from the
stores not usually in line for University
traffic."
"There are 8.000 dormitory residents
here." Bates said. "We want to help them get
more for their money."
Ervin speaks on Watergate
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by Laura Yandell
and Nancy Pate
Staff Writers
President Richard Nixon's refusal to surrender the
Watergate tapes obstructs the Senate Select
Committee's task and makes multitudes of people
believe that the contents of the tapes are adverse to the
Presidency, said Sen. Sam Ervin Wednesday night.
Speaking in Carmichacl Auditorium to an estimated
crowd of 5,000, Ervin said he "deeply deplored the
President's recent actions.
Ervin, from Morganton, pledged, As long as I have
a mind to think, a tongue to speak and a heart to love
my country, 1 shall deny that our Constitution grants
the President any right to convert George
Washington's America to Caesar's Rome."
Ervin, a staunch, constitutionalist, said he would
make no prediction as to the outcome of the present
conflict between the Watergate committee and the
President.
He made it clear he was speaking personally and not
for the committee as a whole nor as its chairman.
"I submit," Ervin said, "that the President's stand is
incompatible with the Constitution's doctrine on the
separation of powers.
The Constitution is a law for rulers and people alike,
Ervin said, adding that the President is not above the
law.
He went on to say that there were some people
involved in the Watergate affair who entertained this
notion or arbitrary authority and divine right.
The majority of Ervins speech centered on the
history of Watergate and the necessity of the tapes as
evidence.
"The tapes will clearly reveal. Ervin said. "whether
John Dean testified correctly before the committee
that he informed Nixon of the cover-up details and was
congratulated."
Ervin noted that Watergate is not the first time that
presidents have been called on to cooperate with
congressional committees.
The Constitutiondid not collapse, the powers of the
Presidency were not impaired, and the heavens did not
fall, Ervin said, "when Thomas Jefferson. Abraham
Lincoln and others voluntarily cooperated with courts
and congressional committees in search for truth."
Ervin said he was sure drastic consequences would
not ensue if President Nixon exercised good judgment
and surrendered the tapes.
Ervin was the first guest speaker in the 1973-74
Carolina Forum Scries, sponsored by the Carolina
Union.