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WASHINGTON Federal Judge Gerhard
A. Gesell ruled Wednesday that Acting
Attorney General Robert H. Bork acted
illegally in firing Archibald Cox as special
Watergate prosecutor on Oct. 20.
But almost simultaneously. Federal Judge
John J. Sirica gave President Nixon the go
ahead to make public any Watergate
evidence he pleases a tack Nixon
reportedly is anxious to take to prove his
innocence in the scandal.
Gessell ruled in a suit brought by Ralph
Nader and three, members of Congress that
Cox had been "illegally discharged by
Acting Attorney General Robert H. Bork.
But Gesell took no action to reinstate Cox
because Cox did not ask for his job back and
another special prosecutor. Jean Jaworski,
has been named.
In his ruling on the Cox case Gesell said
Bork had no authority to fire Cox or to
abolish the special prosecutor's office both
of which Bork did on Nixon's orders.
"The firing of Archibald Cox in the
South Building as General College advisers see it
SUIt pticrto by BO Wrm
Faculty women ask
Morehead bias end
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by Ethel Johnson
Staff Writer
Vie Daily Tar Heel was one of 85
college and university newspapers to
call upon the House of Representatives
to impeach President Richard Nixon.
Newspapers representing more than
one million students from 29 states with
a combined circulation of 700,000
signed the joint editorial mailed to
Congress on Monday.
The editorial was originally drafted
by the editors of the Amherst Student.
the newspaper of Amherst College in
Massachusetts and circulated to campus
newspapers across the country.
Almost all the newspapers which
endorsed the editorial printed it.
The decision to launch a national
student impeachment campaign
followed the firing of special prosecutor
Archibald Cox and resignations of
Attorney General Eliot Richardson and
his deputy, William Ruckelshaus.
"The impeachment of Richard Nixon
is prerequisite to the restoration of
confidence in- our system of
government, the newspapers stated.
They called on members of Congress to
"overcome political timidity and put
aside partisan considerations.
"Many papers had already called for
impeachment themselves, but there was
a need for a single national statement of
student sentiment to reinforce and
amplify these individual statements,
the Ameherst Student editors said.
Most of. the signatory newspapers
said that pro-impeachment sentiment
on their campuses was widespread.
"Only limitations of time and monetary
considerations have kept this list from
being significantly longer, the
newspapers declared.
Newspapers included on the list of
signatories were representative of liberal
arts colleges, multi-universities,- elite
private institutions and broadly-based
state schools.
by Bunky Flagler
Staff Writer
A number of UNC faculty women recently
urged the Morehead foundation to end its
sexually discriminatory practices in
bestowing the undergraduate fellowship.
Thirty-four women from 22 departments
sent the request last week to Mebane
Pritchett, executive director of the
foundation.
The undersigned members of the Faculty
of UNC wish to express their hope that the
Trustees of the Morehead Foundation will
reconsider their practice of excluding
women from consideration for
undergraduate fellowships,' the letter
stated.
This letter is the first attempt by faculty
women to support an undergraduate
women's movement. The letter came out of a
Holidays
The Wolfe that roared I ? heTi?ht
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by Gary Dorsey
Staff Writer
"Grrawgh-grrah, Tom Wolfe,
craftsman, clown, exponent of the
New Journalism, speak!!! Some of
the people in the audience barked as
he was being introduced.
"C'mon, Wolfe, grrowll!!!, they
seemed to be saying. "Review us (as
you are now being reviewed) on older
collections about Ken Kesey, The
Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, your
spaceman Carpenter, from the
Rolling Stone and your older essays.
The Kandy Kolored Tangerine Flake
Streamline Baby. Grrawgh-grrah,
SPEAK.
A. P. (over-the-wire) Tom Wolfe
Speaks:
Tom Wolfe, author, essayist,
journalist, spoke Tuesday night in
Page Auditorium at Duke, to an
enthusiastic crowd of students about
the new counter culture, the old
counter culture and debutantes who
wear blue jeans.
The dry-witted "voyeur" of
American civilization spoke for over
an hour, often interrupted by the
audience's laughter and applause.
He didn't look like a wolf. He wore
blue suede shoes, real bright and
white-striped blue blazing socks that
probably went up to his knees. And a
white suit. Grawgh-grrah? But when
he spoke . . .
He told those blue-jeaned baby
boys from Duke about their fathers
"tentative sideburns, the kind that
grow just down to the "notch but no
further.
"If they grew ihem any longer they
would be considered mutton chops
and they would then belong to the
'movement, he exclaimed.
The blue-jeaned baby boys from
Duke howled with laughter.
Then he told those garrulous
denim-gluttoned girls from Duke
about the "debutante in blue jeans
with the blouse unbuttoned down to
her sternum.
The girls from Duke howled with
laughter, too, and buttoned up once
or twice.
Growling, groveling, motioning,
summoning, tossing gestures with his
words and grinning quietly as if he
were putting something over on his
audience, he called the American
college "the new finishing school."
He said the Bachelor's degree is
nothing but a "union card and a
"charmed passport.
And the college students tittered
and laughed and slapped each other
on the back, calling Wolfe "far out
and "incredible and many counter
culture adjectives.
He rambled about the sixties and
rambled about the clothes of the
counter culture and clean cuts and
"rednecks and "grits and the
combination "hippie grit - "a
redneck grit who has the gross
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Staff photo by Gary Doraay
Tom Wolfe
afrontery to rise above his station
and turn freak. He smokes some
dope, chants a few mantras and goes :
bopping around."
He tumbled, trounced and rolled
in and out of stories about Kesey and &:
Chanamen and scores of stereotypes
which all seemed to combine into a :
comedy of sorts, or errors, of
America. &:
In fact he ended, "In this country
of ours the human comedy has not :
yet stopped spinning. j-j:
Summed up, "nuff said, Har, har, :
haaaaa, ha www w, haaaa!!!! ::
Seven times as bright as the moon, bigger
than Watergate and bolder than Nixon
himself, the Kohoutek Comet is, coming to a
sky near you, just in time for the holidays.
Last March, Lubos Kohoutek, a Czech
astronomer, gazing reflectively at Jupiter,
noticed that something wasn't quite right in
that corner of the sky. Further observation
revealed a comet that no one had even
dreamed existed.
In addition, the little nipper was headed
straight for the earth, which possibly caused
Kohoutek moments of uneasiness over his
morning coffee.
However, the story now is that the comet
will only pass close to the earth, possibly
producing some weird tides and one hell of a
light show during the last of December.
But the basis for speculation has been laid.
Moses David, in an article copyrighted by
the Children of God, a religious group out of
Dallas, Texas, set forth 42 statements and
opinions concerning, as he calls it, "The
Christmas Monster."
David's article says that comets have
preceeded earthshaking events of the past;
governments are notorious for not telling
people when economic or political collapse is
near.
The whole idea is that something BIG's
gonna happen, and David means soon.
He's right, you know. There are only 31
more shopping days until Christmas.
Weather
TODAY: Mostly clear and coot. The
high Is expected In the upper GO'S end
the low tonight Is expected In the lower
40's. There Is near zero per cent chrnce
of precipitation. Outlook: variable
recent meeting to discuss the University's
Affirmative Action program. Dr. Margaret
Anne O'Connor, assistant professor of
English said.
The Morehead Foundation is the most
striking example of discrimination at the
University, she said. "It would be in the best
interests of the University if the foundation
would change its policy."
Dr. Berthe M. Marti, professor of classical
and medieval Latin, agreed with O'Connor.
"My statement is simply that as a former
Bryn Mawr faculty member for 25 years, 1
have, in the course of all these years, seen
most of our students become very active in
all kinds of professional fields.
The UNC faculty women demonstrate
that a woman can have an education, be a
professor and manage a family, she said.
"I was very much exercized by the case of
this young girl (Anne Hollander) in Chapel
Hill, being demed a hearing for the
Morehead Grant."
Chapel Hill High School nominated
Hollander for the undergraduate award, but
George Coxhead, Orange County selection
committee chairman, refused to interview
her along with the other nominees because
she is female.
"This has nothing to do with any
belligerent women's lib," Marti said. "It is a
statement for equal opportunity for equally
gifted youngsters."
The letter to Pritchett said, in part:
"Women students who excel as
undergraduates generally go on to graduate
or other professional schools. The
assumption that they will not apply their
skills is unjustified.
"This is proved by the ever-growing
number of outstanding women engaged in
full-time research, medicine, nursirg,
librarianship, teaching politics and the arts
and sciences," the letter stated.
absence of a finding of extraordinary
impropriety was in clear violation of tin
existing Justice Department rcgulaticn
having the force of law and was therefore
illegal." Gesell said.
Sirica, chief judge of the U.S. District
Court here who has been handling the case,
filed a "memorandum" saying Nixon need
. not seek his approval before submitting any
evidence to the grand jury or the public if he
chooses.
In the three-page "memorandum" on
Nixon's secret tapes, he rejected Nixon's
pledge made Monday to surrender to the
court a number of other tapes and
documents not required under an existing
subpoena.
Sirica said he "will not receive extraneous
material of testimony" nor become "a
despository of non-subpoenaed matter."
Other developments in the Watergate
affair include:
U.S. District Judges John J. Sirica and
Gerhard Gesell and Acting Attorney
General Robert H. Bork criticized a move in
Congress to have the courts name a special
Watergate prosecutor independent of the
Justice Department.
Special Watergate Prosecutor Leon
Jaworski said Egil Krough Jr.. indicted in
connection with activities of the White
House "plumbers," will be granted access to
some of President Nixon's secret documents.
Several Republican congressmen, after
meeting with Nixon in the morning, said he
is eager to make his story public and would
release information from his private tapes
and papers if Sirica approved.
Sen. Sam J. Ervin, D-N.C. chairman of
the Senate Watergate committee, turned
down a reported offer from Nixon to meet
with him and the committee vice chairman.
Howard H. Baker Jr.. R-Tenn. "I'm not
going to the White House without the entire
committee," Ervin said.
Officials of Ashland and Gulf Oil
companies told the Ervin Committee how
they had bowed to pressures from Nixon
campaign officials and illegally contributed
$100,000 each from corporate funds to
Nixon's re-election effort. Both said former
Commerce Secretary Maurice H. Stans.
later Nixon campaign finance chief, had
solicited the gifts.
Minority court
interviews scheduled
Interviews will be held today and
tomorrow for positions on the nine-member
panel from which the minority court
members will be appointed. The interviews
will be held in Suite C of the Union from 3 to
6 p.m. and all students are encouraged to
seek one of the positions.
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The members of the 1973 homecoming court will be competing In campus voting
for the title of homecoming queen. They are (l-r) Cherrle Gunther, Becky Branch,
Nita Vaughsn and Lorie Dillon. (Staff photo by Gary Lobraico)
C ommt
by David Kllnger
Staff Writer
Proposed reform changes in the Student Court
system have drawn the fire of Bill Snod grass, president
of the Graduate and Professional Student Federation
(GPSF).
Snodgrass has urged that the official reform
proposal, formally entitled "The Instrument of
Student Judicial Governance for the University of
North Carolina at Chapel Hill," be returned to its
study committee for major revision and rewording.
The 40-page report, currently in its seventh draft,
has been debated ever since Student Government
decided to revamp the Honor Court system in 1969.
Reform proposals include combination of the Men's,
Women's, and Honor courts into one court for all
honor violations, abolition of the Men's Residence
Court, establishment of a new appeals system, and use
of the new system to review campus drug violation
cases.
Approval of the proposed changes would require
the support of Chancellor N. Ferebce Taylor and the .
Campus Governing Council (CGC) before the
program would be put before the student body in a
campus referendum next spring.
"What started out as a reform may turn out to be a
document protecting the University administration
rights, but not protecting student needs and interests.
Students initiated the reform program and students
have to see it through," Snodgrass commented..
As a solution to what he feels is administration
domination of a student court system, Snodgrass
suggests the addition of a defendant's bill of rights
similar to what is presently contained in the UNC
Student Constitution in order to guarantee the
protection of individual liberties.
Snodgrass has also criticized the proposal that the
new court judge drug violations, a function that is now
the duty of the Administration Judicial Board.
Student Body Attorney General Reid James has
stated that no student will be prosecuted for a drug
violation if he is not first convicted in a state criminal
court. This provision has led some critics to charge
that trial by both state and university courts
constitute the double jeopardy of judging a person
twice for the same crime.
"Since the student court system is not strictly
considered an official court by the government, this
would not be double jeopardy. Conceptually, from a
student's point of view though, it is double jeopardy,"
said Snodgrass. He suggests that committee members
avoid .this dispute by eliminating the section of the
report on drugs and leaving punitive decisions up to
the state.
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Snodgrass cited the results of an informal GPSF
poll of 32 graduate students representing 1 1 academic
departments as an indication of the unpopularity of
the student court handling drug violations. In that
poll. 87.5 per cent felt that drug cases should not be
handled by the new system and 100 per cent responded
that the student court should not impose penalties
beyond those imposed by a criminal court when a
conviction is obtained.
"What it comes down to is either an internalization
or an externalization of offenses. We must begin to
decide which way we're going to go. Basically, the drug
proposal is a continuation of the in loco parentis (in
place of parents), mentality of the past," Snodgrass
said.
The section of thereport concerning administration
policy on permanent student records has also been
accused of insensitivity toward the individual student
by Snodgrass.
The report states. "Any student may make request
in writing . . . that except under court order no
inquiry other than an appropriate, identified
University officer or faculty member or the student
himself shall have access to his permanent record card
without his written consent." The report continues
that unless this prohibition has been requested, the
face of the record will be open to state and federal
investigative agencies.
"Why not change this to the policy that unless the
student has specifically authorized the record to be
open to these agencies, it will remain closed? This is
where administration easiness must stop," said
, Snodgrass.
Snodgrass accused the administration of continuing
restrictive policies of records classification for reasons
of ease and efficency. "This has got to change. The
University must be concerned with the protection of
individual rights," he added.