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by Cherin Chewning
Staff Writer
A speech by feminist Gloria Steinem will
highlight activities of the 1974 Women's
Festival to be held Feb. 4-15.
The festival, an Association of Women
Students (AWS) project, will feature panel
discussions, films, exhibits and workshops
focusing on women in modern society.
According to Amelia Bellows, head of
NOW
by Gail Bronson
Staff Writer
A complaint of sex discrimination by the University was recently filed by the local
chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) with the Equal
Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Filed on behalf of all women faculty, staff and employed students, the complaint
charges discrimination in salaries, staff assignments, and promotions, and accuses
UNC officials of nepotism and harassment.
According to Miriam Slifkin, president of the local chapter of NOW, the action
was taken as a result of dissatisfaction with the progress made by Affirmative
Action Officer Douglas Hunt.
Slifken said the complaint was drawn after Hunt addressed the Oct. 16 general
meeting of University Women for Affirmative Action (UWAA) and showed that
the University has exhibited "no evidence of good faith toward elimination of sex
discrimination.
The complaint includes 10 signed affadavits from University-employed
individuals reporting specific incidents of discrimination and quotations from the
Shopler Report, compiled last spring by the Committee on the Role and Status of
Women at UNC.
One affadavit reported that a female research technician with laboratory
experience, employed by the University for three years, has received a salary not
exceeding $8,500. A male counterpart, working for the same person, had no
laboratory experience, yet his beginning salary was more than $9,000.
The plaintiff said she complained to her immediate employer about the situation,
but received a harassing reply. She took her complaint to the University grievance
committee, but they ruled against her.
The plaintiff said her employer tried to retaliate by having her transferred and
finally terminated her contract.
Another plaintiff charged that during working hours her employer exposed his
genitals and demanded that she engage in sexual activity. She refused his advances
and her employer eventually asked for her resignation.
Statistics cited in the complaint from the Schopler Report show the distribution
of the faculty by academic division and sex, and median salaries and years of service
of full-time faculty members.
The statistics show that only 4.1 of all full professors in health and academic
affairs are women. Male full professors in health affairs, with 12 years as the median
number of years since first UNC employment, receive the median salary of $27,000.
Female full professors in health affairs with 13 years as the median years of
employment, receive the median salary of $19,554.
Slifken urges all University employes who feel they have been sexually
discriminated against to submit their complaints to NOW immediately.
According to the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1 972, EEOC must serve
a notice of the charge to the University within 10 days and investigate the complaint.
If EEOC determines after investigation that there is reasonable cause to believe
that the charge is true, it will endeavor to eliminate any unlawful employment
practice by informal methods of conference, conciliation and persuasion.
If efforts to conciliate fail, the case will be referred to the Department of Justice
and a civil suit can be filed against the University.
If the University should lose the case, it could be forced to pay compensatory
wages to those who have been discriminated against, as well as all court costs and
legal fees.
The process could take from two to three years to complete.
Jane Stein, UWAA member, feels that a more direct legal action should be taken
against the University.
"An immediate law suit is one alternative, but that would take a lot of
organization and commitment, Stein said.
Stein said she would be willing to investigate and organize such an action if
interest is shown.
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor was contacted for comment, but said he had not
been informed of the action taken by. NOW.
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AWS, the festival's theme is human
liberation. She said it will give women an '
opportunity to see what other women are
doing with their lives and will provide men
with a chance to learn the dilemmas and
advantages of being female.
"It is definitely not a one sex thing, she
said.
The festival's main purpose is to acquaint
women with all the possible roles open to.
them in society, Vinton Taylor, publicity
people try to park their fancy ones In the same spot, they
might be in for a hassle. Good luck, friends.
(Staff photo by Bill Wrenn)
chairman, said.
In addition to Steinem, whose Feb. 7
speech will be co-sponsored by the Carolina
Forum, AWS has invited black
Congresswoman Barbara Jordan, authors
Germain Greer and Sheila Tobias and
politician Sissy Farenthold to attend the
festival. Responses from these women are
still pending, Bellows said.
Panel discussions have been scheduled on
women in politics, with state and local
women in elective office participating, and
on women in communications. The UNC
School of Journalism has contributed $500
towards the communications panel. Jeanne
Taylor, women's editor of The Los Angeles
Times, will be on this panel.
During the festival AWS, in cooperation
with the Carolina Union Film Committee,
will offer at least 1 2 films directed, produced,
written by or directly concerned with women
during the festival.
I Am A Woman, a one-woman
Broadway production, will be offered during
the festival along with performances by the
Eugene O'Neill Theatre and the UNC
Laboratory Theatre.
Another feature of the festival will be
discussions on alternative life-styles (long
distance marriage, communal living,
lesbianism), men's liberation and non-sexist
education.
Summertime . . . and the living Is easy, or so they say. But this Is November so
what's the Idea? Carolina students enjoy the warm Southern weather around here,
and this Mark Twain type seems to be soaking In all 75 of those sunny degrees.
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medical.
by Janet Langston
and David Kllnger
Staff Writers
University System President William C.
Friday presented a report calling for a $30
million budgetary supplement for a
proposed medical education program in
North Carolina Thursday night.
Friday spoke at an informal briefing
session Thursday with the UNC Board of
Governors which today will vote on the plan.
"There is nothing in this report that
significantly varies from the consultant's
report, Friday said. The pressure of
budgetary decisions and the length of time
that proposed medical program changes
UNC
aid in conservation
by Janet Langston
Staff Writer
Steps to cut back University energy
consumption by ten per cent were circulated
Tuesday by Dr. Claiborne Jones, vice
chancellor for business and finance.
"No possibility" exists that UNC will close
'in an effort to reduce fuel consumption,
Jones said. I don't know where or on what
basis this rumor got started, Jones said, in
.reference to a rumor that the University
would extend its Christmas vacation period
to conserve energy.
Other universities across the country are
extending Christmas holidays in an effort to
conserve energy.
Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C.
will close one week early for Christmas
vacation and Pfeiffet. College in
Muscnheimer, N.C. will open for the spring
semester two weeks later than usual.
Jones stressed that UNC could not close
even during vacations. The power plant must
continue to supply N.C. Memorial Hospital,
he said, and "crucially important research
programs' also cannot be interrupted.
Heat must be maintained in the buildings
to avoid costly damage, Jones said. The
University heating engineers have told Jones
that any energy saved by drastically reducing
the temperature would be needed to re-heat
the building.
The State Department of Administration
urged the University to decrease its energy
use with fuel and electricity.
The recommendations to the deans,
directors and department heads include:
Adjustment of heating controls "by
have been pending were listed as reasons why
the Board of Governors has been asked to
review the plan immediately.
A supplemental budget request for 1974
75 will be prepared from the reports
recommendations. Non-budgetary
recommendations were also included in the
proposal.
The major budgetary action
recommended would create a "statewide
medical education network by expanding
present Area Health Education Centers
(AHEC), and by establishing four more
AHEC units in Fayctteville, Greensboro,
Greenville and the Northwest region of
North Carolina.
The AHEC concept was created to
provide more primary health clinics across
energy cuts
Physical Plant to lower the temperatures by
five to six degrees. This adjustment is to
establish a standard temperature in
buildings between 68 and 72 degrees.
Lights should be turned off, if they will
not be in use for over two hours. The extra
electricity necessary to switch lights off and
on would increase electricity usage.
Water temperatures will be reduced
wherever possible to a "feasible minimun."
University personnel are to not drive
state-licensed vehicles over 50 miles per
hour, except in emergencies. According to
the momorandum, "reported violations will
necessitate administrative review of the
vehicle's use.
Persons using University vehicles should
drive only when necessary, and car pool
whenever possible.
- Carl Blyth, chairman of the Physical
Education department, has" rearranged the
intramural schedule to include more
afternoon games, decreasing light use. The
tennis court lighting at night has also been
cut by 50 per cent.
The University is also surveying the
amount of electricity that could be saved by
cutting off lights in class buildings at night.
Lights are presently left on for security
purposes, but Jones said UNC will try to use
one lightbulb in place of two wherever
possible.
Contract dispute
slows mine talks
by Bill Welch
and Greg Turosak
Staff Writers
Divergent interpretations of a key clause
in the national UMW contract has created a
new stumbling block to talks between
striking Brookside miners and the Eastover
M ining Co. Talks will resume in Harlan
County, Ky. on Monday.
The disputed clause states that the
contract shall cover "all the coal lands, coal
producing and coal preparation facilities
owned or held under lease by Eastover.
UMW lawyer Bernie Aronson said
Thursday his union has made it clear to.
Duke Power Company that the clause does
not involve any Eastover mines with the
exception of the Brookside site.
Aronson said at a meeting last week in
New York attended by Duke Power
president Carl Horn, UMW president
Arnold Miller and himself, Horn admitted
the clause could not be made to include the
other Eastover mines.
Another UMW official in Harlan County
said recently the clause's purpose is to
prevent the coal operators from opening up
new mines on land they hold in order to
circumvent a UMW contract.
The official said the clause means that any
new mine the company opens would have to
go UMW, but that mines already in
operation would not be forced to dissolve
contracts with other unions, such as the
Southern Labor Union.
In an interview Thursday, Duke Power
spokesman Dick Pierce denied the union's
claim that Horn had agreed with UMWs
interpretation of the clause.
He said the clause is binding and illegal
Weather
TODAY: Variable cloudiness and
cool. The high Is expected In the upper
GO'S. The low tonight Is expected nesr
zero. There Is twenty per cent chince of
precipitation. Outlook: cool and dry.
the state and increase availability of quality
medical care to more residents.
A $277,000 budget request was proposed
to improve the existing one-year medical
program at East Carolina University. In the
original report made by medical panel
consultants, experts advised against
expansion of ECU's medical program.
Dr. Leo Jenkins, ECU chancellor, has
been a proponent of medical facility
expansion in eastern North Carolina.
Dr. Jenkins and I are agreed that with
reference to the program at ECU. we must
first resolve the accreditation issue. Friday
said.
The third budget request would provide 1 5
undergraduate medical scholarships,
sponsored by the board, for "qualified but
financially disadvantaged North Carolina
students."
Other proposals outlined in President
Friday's report, but not requiring budgetary
action are:
Establishment of a continuing census of
medical personnel and a survey of medical
education programs to plan for future
expansion;
Continued State financial assistance to
enroll North Carolina residents in the Duke
University and Bowman-Gray private
medical schools.
President Friday also recommended an
increase to $1,000 for "full-time M.D.
candidate N.C. residents at Bowman-Gray,
but this would not be effective until 1975
1976. A continued "contractual relationship"
with Meharry Medical College. Friday
called this "an important resource in our
efforts to increase the number of minority
physicians."
Accelerated recruitment and counseling
for premedical minority students.
A joint review of the educational
incentive loan program with the State
Department of Human Resources,
concerned with recruiting more physicians
for rural areas.
Continuing recruitment of physicians
completing their residency training in other
states, to encourage practice in North
Carolina.
Friday was directed by the board Sept. 27
to outline a program for medical education
in North Carolina consistent with
recommendations made in the out-of-state
medical experts report. The report,
approved by the board in September, makes
proposals to improve N.C.'s medical health
program, especially in rural areas.
and must be removed from any contract
Eastover would agree to sign.
Pierce said the contract containing the
clause would force Eastover to break its
contracts with the Southern Labor Union at
other Eastern Kentucky mines, and would be
in violation of the Taft-Hartley Act by
forcing miners to be represented by a union
for which they had not voted.
Aronson said, however, that similar
clauses have been in UMW contracts since
1943. and have been ruled legal by the
General Counsel of the National Labor
Relations Board, a federal commission with
jurisdiction in labor disputes.
In a recent letter from UMW general
counsel Joseph "Chip" Yablonski. Jr. to
Horn, Yablonski said "this clause would not
cause you to break contracts with the
Southern Labor Union. The UMWA must
first be recognized as a bargaining agent by
the employes of the other mines."
Despite the National Labor Relations
Board ruling, Eastover attorney Logan
Patterson insists. "This is a violation of the
workers rights to choose their own
bargaining agents. This clause would
contract their rights away. Under the Taft
Hartley Act, workers have a choice to take or
leave a union and which one."
Aronson was in Greensboro Wednesday
with striking miners to protest Duke Power
Company's proposed 17 per cent rate
increase.
Duke Power Company has maintained all
along that the rate increase and the present
energy crisis are separate issues from the
strike and will have little effect on the
negotiations.
In Raleigh Thursday. Sherwood Smith,
vice-president of Carolina Power and Light
Company, said all utility firms were buying
up all the coal they could to meet anticipated
winter needs, adding to the shortage
problems. He predicted a hard battle
between utility firms for coal this winter.
But Pierce told UPI reporters Thursday
'that unless something drastic happens, Duke
Power's coal tupply will hold out this winter.
"Next summer may be another story, added
Pierce.