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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday, October 16, 1973
Vcl. 2, No. 33
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Former Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
"flatly and categorically denied any illegal
actions on his part in a nationally televised
speech Monday night.
"My plea of nolo contendere to income
tax invasion does not represent a confession
of guilt for any other purpose." he said.
Agnew accused the news media of
infringing on his personal rights by
"publishing every leaflet they could get their
hands on" about his court case.
He also said that the media had taken the
accusations and testimonies of "criminals
and crooks" and published them as truth
against him.
"Those accusations have been published
as fact and they have not been proven yet."
Agnew said he resigned as vice president
last Wednesday in the public interest.
He said it would be selfish for him to put
the public and his family through the
anguish of a drawn-out court case involving
the vice president of the country in such a
critical time.
Agnew also said that the decision to resign
was his alone to make. He paid tribute to
President Nixon for his compassion to him
in the matter.
He urged support for Gerald Ford, the
vice president-designate and said Nixon
made a wise nomination of a man who was
clearly qualified for the office.
Agnew concluded that he could only see
that good could come out of recent events
since "America thrives on adversity."
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The Student Stores turned their attention to culture last week as a slew of artistic
reprints went on sale in the Pit. Students turned away from the more flamboyant
posters inside the store to find some aesthetic stuff for their dorm room walls.
(Staff photo by Tom Randolph)
Women have difficulty
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by Gall Dromon"
Staff Writer
It is extremely difficult for a married
woman in Durham or Raleigh to establish
her own credit record, according to
information collected by the Durham
chapter of the National Organization for
Women (NOW).
According to the report, women need their
own credit because "having a good line of
credit in advance of disruptions of family life
may make it possible for women to provide
not only for herself but for her children and,
in the case of illness, for her husband as
well."
When a woman in Durham or Raleigh
marries, the credit record she established as a
sing!e woman is merged with that of her
husband.
If she is widowed, separated or divorced.
Room rent due
today at Bynum
Today is the last day for students presently
living in dorms and planning to stay in the
same room to pay the required $25 room
deposit to the University Cashier in Bynum
Hall, to obtain a housing card. The cashier's
office is open from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
The card should be presented to the
person in charge of room sign-up for the
area.
shTmust apply for credit as a new applicant,
although she may have in fact managed and
contributed her earnings to the family credit
account for years.
The concensus of opinion among Durham
merchants and at local credit bureaus is that
a married woman is not responsible for her
own debts and therefore cannot be granted
credit even if she is gainfully employed and
has good references.
In the Raleigh Credit Bureau separate files
may be kept for married women and their
husbands, but married women may have to
pay a fee. However, there is no assurance
that the files will remain separate.
Penney's. a department store in Raleigh,
will give separate credit to a married woman
but is reluctant to do so if she is of child
bearing age.
NOW found that only Sears will issue a
credit card to a married woman in her name
based on her credit references and earnings.
Under certain circumstances. Scars will also
issue a credit card to an unemployed married
woman in her own name.
NOW found some sex-related differences
in the policies of the various lending
institutions in Durham.
It was found that institutional policies
differed with respect to loans to separated
couples, in sources of income of the wife, in
the weight of the wife's income and in the
type of information required from
applicants.
One bank that considered the wife's
income in making loans required her to sign
a statement which says: "This is to certify
that I am not pregnant and do not plan to
become pregnant in the near future. If I
should become pregnant. I will return to
work."
Another woman reported that she and her
husband applied for a loan while her
husband attended school. Their income
consisted of her salary and her husband's
savings account.
When their application was considered,
she asked the bank representative why he
had not included her salary as part of the
application. He replied. "Women's salaries
don't count."When she asked the reason for
this, he said. "They just don't count."
In response to their findings. NOW
advocates that "creditors should adopt
standard minimal requirements as to
employment, residence at a current address,
income, and age and that these requirements
be disclosed to an applicant on request and
applied uniformly regardless of the
applicant's sex or marital status.
"In an age when 44 per cent of all women
are gainfully employed, it is unreasonable to
deny separate credit records to the great
number of them who are married."
Weather
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by Greg Turosak
Staff Writer
Students favor a maximum of seven pass
fail hours per semester instead of four hours
by a margin of 77 per cent to 16 per cent
according to a recent survey conducted by
Student Government (SG).
The results of the survey were presented to
the Faculty Council Monday by Richard
Letchworth. an executive assistant to the
student body president. The Faculty Council
will meet Oct. 19 to consider the four-hour
per semester pass-fail limitation it
recommended last spring.
The survey, in the form of a I3-point
questionnaire, was the same survey
distributed last spring by SG. This time, over
2.100 students were polled, whereas last
spring's effort obtained results from only
about 800 students.
Letchworth said the increased number of
respondents to this survey, with results
similar to last spring's, makes this survey
have even greater importance.
"I think we're on pretty solid ground now
when we say 'This is what the students
think." said Letchworth.
Thirty-five per cent of those participating
in the survey were freshmen; 32 percent were
sophomores; 19 percent werejuniors:and 15
per cent were seniors. Students taking the
questionnaire reported having previously
taken 436 courses pass-fail and were
Locator service
ends operations
Beginning today, the Carolina Union will
no longer provide student phone numbers
and addresses at the information desk.The
action follows a Sept. 26 decision made by
the Union Board of Directors to end the
service.
Union Director Howard Henry said the
locator cards and a computer print-out
listing students phone numbers and
addresses will be available for general use in
the lobby.
Assistant Union Director Jon Thomas is
advising desk employes to refer calls to the
Chapel Hill Telephone Company.
University Records or to the Office of
Residence Life.
Robert Cornwall, assistant director of
Records and Registration, foresees difficult"
if a number of calls are referred to his office.
"If calls are infrequent, we're willing, but
we're not staffed to give out phone
numbers." he said.
Sandy Ward, assistant director of
Residence Life, expressed surprise that calls
would be referred to that office. "We expect
to feel the pinch." she commented. She said
their policy is not to release addresses and
phone numbers and added that most of
Residence Life staff members do not have
ready access to that information.
"The service was in no terms a good
service. Henry commented. He
acknowledged that the service had
deteriorated as the Union "refused to put
more into it."
The Union Board of Directors
unanimously voted last month to put into
effect an earlier. decision .to. dissolve the
service. At that time. Henry said the boarcTs
decision was the result of an attempt to
stretch each student's $3 programming fee.
which finances all Union programming.
presently taking 367 courses pass-fail.
When asked whether the pass-fail system
would be abolished, students responded 4
per cent yes. 92 per cent no. Twelve per cent
of students felt the maximum pass-fail hours
should be limited to four per semester, while
81 per cent said they should not.
Thirty-seven per cent of students polled
were in favor of no limit being placed on the
number of hours or courses a student takes
during his four years at the University, while
59 per cent were against unlimited pass-fail
hours.
Students favored by 79 per cent to 16 per
cent cxtendingthe pass-fail system to include
summer school courses. However, students
were in favor of excluding courses in the
student's major department from the pass
fail option by 62 per cent to 33 per cent.
Those polled responded by 72 per cent to
20 per cent that pass-fail policies and
procedures were not clearly defined and well
publicized. Students agreed by 85 per cent to
8 per cent that the sign-up period for pas
fail courses should be extended from the
present two weeks to four weeks.
The survey also showed students favored
by 67 per cent to 25 per cent exempting next
v ear's juniors and seniors from limits on the
number of pass-fail courses that can be taken
each semester.
Eighty per cent of students said mo-st ot
their peers choose to take pass-tail courses in
order to make the semstcr course load more
manageable.
However, when students were asked
whether most of their peers took pass-tail
courses in order to explore unfamiliar
subjects, they responded affirmatively by a
smaller margin. 42 per cent to 32 per cent.
Student opinion was split almost evenly
on issues involving pass-fail and quality
point averages (QPA).
Students favored by 49 per cent to 43 per
cent not computing a failing grade in a pass
fail course into the QPA: they felt by a 49 per
cent to 42 per cent margin that the pass-fail
option should be available only to those
students with a 2.0 QPA or better.
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Staff poo by Tom Randolph
MIT plan approved, but UNC still waiting
by Janet Langston
Start Writer
Although the UNC Affirmative Action plan
has encountered difficulties in approval this is
not unusual, said Douglass Hunt, UNCs'
Affirmative Action officer.
Hunt has heard that the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology ( M IT) affirmative action
plan is finally acceptable to Health. Education
and Welfare officials.
Although details are still sketchy. Hunt
learned in a telephone interview that MIT
affirmative action officers believe their plan is to
be approved by HEW.
The MIT plan is the first and only plan Hunt
knows to be approved in the United States. He
learned that several other institutions had
acceptable plans, but when guidelines were,
updated, these plans had to be rewritten.
Hunt said he contacted HEWS Washington
office in September to determine if any plans are
currently acceptable. No one there knew, but
suggested the Atlanta office might know of an
approved plan.
Hunt received no definite answer from the
Atlanta representatives, either.
M ITs plan was approved under the old order.
News Analysis
and was successfully rewritten for the new
specifications. Officials are to send Hunt an
outline of their plan to help in drafting UNCs
revised plan.
UNCs first Affirmative Action plan,
submitted July I, was unacceptable to HEW.
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor received a letter
from HEW Sept. 27, indicating individual
deficiencies in UNCs plan.
HEW representatives came to Chapel Hill in
September to discuss individual plan deficiencies
with University and UNC officials.
A recent report issued by the American
Council on Education rated UNC "average in
the national percentage of females and blacks on
higher education faculties. ,
The report, according to a Am- York Times
article, revealed a slow, but upward, trend on
campuses to hire more females and blacks. The
figures were based on the 1972-73 school year.
UNC female percentages were 16.31 percent
July I, 1973; the national average of universities
is 16.5 per cent. The UNC black faculty average
as stated in the Affirmative Action plan in July,
1973, was 0.87 per cent; the national average in
the report was 0.9 per cent.
Although UNC responded enthusiastically to
achieve the national standards, difficulties have
cropped up.
Students have objected that no provision was
made for student input or representation on the
Affirmative Action Advisory Committee. No
official decision has been made yet, but several
committee members reported a favorable
attitude towards students at the committee's last
meeting.
Another problem is that universities have
traditionally been separatist, with all-male or all
black campuses. In demanding racially and
sexually unbiased employment practices from a
university. HEW is already wary of a college's
actions.
HEW admits UNCs intentions are in "good
faith, but still requires documentation of all
data to prove it. UNC is to formulate rules for
promoting and maintaining equal employment
on its campus. If HEW believes they have not
met these standards, said Hunt. UNC must have
proof available to explain its failure.
Richard H. Robinson Jr.. the University
system's representative for Affirmative Action,
thinks the University community does not fully
understand the principles of Affirmative Action.
The plans are not given a "final seal of
approval. he said, but rather are "involving,
continuing documents." They are based on
current national goals and will require
continuous supervision and revision as these
goals move upward.
If and when the UNC plan is approved. HEW
representatives will make periodic checks on
UNCs progress in implementing the proposals
of the plan. The plan w ill be used as a pproved for
three years, with continual revision to meet
changing needs.
The goals will be re-established each three
years. As one goal is met. standards will be
raised, and contractor requirements will also be
increased.
The existing University methods ot" hiring will
also create problems in administering the plan.
Hiring a faculty member can be a two-year
process, said Hunt.
To suddenly impose the plan and scrap the
present candidate for not meeting all HEW
standards would be unfair to faculty members
and the candidate, he said.
Availability is another problem at UNC. Most
faculty members are recruited from an
international market, the plan stated. It added
that most figures are only from the U.S., making
the task more difficult.