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Staff Writers
Fcrebec Taylor
a judicial reform
I7 Farebso Taylor
Chancellor N.
approved Monday
document making significant changes in
the student judicial system, including
provisions for a minority court.
The reform document, begun in 1 969,
will be presented to the Campus
Governing Council tonight. If approved
by CGC, the document would next be
voted on by the student body.
Student Body President Ford Rungc
said he will request a special meeting of
the CGC forThursdaytosetadatefora
campus referendum.
The document's minority court
provision establishes special procedures
for trial courts when requested by
women and minority defendants in SG
courts.
Another major change in the reform
document creates an Undergraduate
Court, which consolidates the present
women's, men's and honor courts.
WCAR
malfunctions produce
reactions from CGC, Pub Board
by BUI Welch
Staff Writer
Two campus governing bodies are
planning action in the wake of an equipment
malfunction that has caused campus radio
station WCAR to go off the air indefinitely.
The Publications Board, which oversees
all student media operations, has instructed
Gary Rendsburg, station, manager, to
establish new procedures for WCAR in the
event future problems arise. Pub Board
Chairman Richard Robertson said Monday.
The Campus Governing Council also will
consider tonight a bill to freeze all
station funds until its managers show the;
council what they are doing to resume
operations to fix several of the transmitters.
WCAR went off the air on Nov. 25, when
a fuse of too high a voltage was inserted in
the station's control board, burning out the
board and several other pieces of equipment,
Robertson said.
Rendsburg said Monday, however, that
only the board's power supply was affected.
Robertson said the broadcasting has not
resumed because no replacement parts are
available.
"None of the parts damaged were
expensive. That's not the problem,"
Robertson said. The problem is getting the
parts."
He said the station has been contacting
several out of town suppliers to get
replacements, but added that operations
probably will not resume until next January.
According to Robertson, the Association
for Women Students was airing a show when
the board burned out. He said the AWS "had
full run of the station" and had a qualified
and experienced person present.
Robertson refused to blame the problem
on anyone, but said the Pub Board has
instructed the station to post new and more
specific procedures for -future problems.
The board is considering hiring a day time
operations manager, he said, "because the
station manager can't be physically present
all the time."
They are also working on standard
operating procedures, including a policy to
cover the station's use by outside
organizations, Robertson said.
The action which the CGC will consider
tonight is intended to make WCAR report to
the council on the steps they are taking to get
back on the air.
The station, which operates by carrier
.lines in the campus dormitories, has
'transmitters in several dorms which are not
working. CGC member Amelia Bellows said
the station has delayed repairs, and she
would like to know the reason.
But Bellows, head of AWS, said the most
recent station malfunction was not due to
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gas Fmnoinininig -nun snruy 4
by Nancy Kochuk
and Stella Shelton
Staff Writers
Federal gas rationing will become a reality
early next year in the opinion of nine Chapel
Hill service station managers in a survey
conducted by the DTH.
Etna Oil manager Jack Douglas said
business has been hectic in the past week
because people have started to panic.
"People who normally buy a dollar's
worth are now filling up and even bringing
their gas cans," he said. Douglas said he
wished the government would ration gas to
ease the pressure on him.
Robert Sumney of Franklin Street
Sunoco and Eddie Crain of Walker's Gulf
said they expect government rationing by
Weather
TODAY: Partly cloudy and warm.
The high is expected In the low 70's.
The low tonight is expected in the mid
to upper 40's. There is twenty percent
chance of precipitation. Outlook:
remaining warm-
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February or March of 1974.
George Barclay of Barclay's University
Service (Texaco) said rationing is the only
solution because customers will continue
buying the same or larger amounts of gas no
matter how many hours the stations are
open. He said if stations close early, people
will buy before closing hours.
Some local service stations are already
rationing gas. Ralph Suttle's Village Service
Station (Texaco) limits its customers to four
dollar's worth of gas said manager Suttle.
Obie Davis of Exxon Servicenter said his
maximum is eight gallons per customer.
Manager Eddie Crain of Walker's Gulf
said he was forced to limit non-regular
customers to a two dollar gas purchase on
Saturday. "My biggest concern is keeping
my regular customers happy." he said.
Instead of rationing, some stations have
shortened their hours, depending on the
amount of gas they have left to sell. Suttle
said his station closed at noon on Saturday.
Silas Talbert of East Franklin Union 76 also
said he closed early Saturday afternoon.
On the other hand, three stations close
only when they run out of gas. Sumney's
Franklin Street Sunoco. Barclay's
University Service and Davis. Exxon
Servicenter close when their pumps run dry.
Service station gasoline allocations are.
based on the amount they sold one year ago.
By federal government regulation, oil
distributors have been forced to reduce
supplies to dealers by 15 per cent.
Barclay said his station has suffered a 40
per cent cutback in gas allotments. Davis
said he received 7 1 ,000 gallons in November;
he only got 49,000 gallons for December.
The shortage has caused an increase in gas
prices across the city. Prices for premium
range from 43 to 48.9 cents per gallon, while
regular sells for 40.5 to 44 cents per gallon at
the nine stations surveyed.
Steve O'Daniel of Chapel Hill Union 76
Service said many people believe the energy
crisis is a hoax begun by the oil companies to
raise prices. Charles Billings of Elmer
Pendergraft American said. "Only within the
last week have people begun to realize that
there is a real crisis."
Etna Oil's Douglas said he thinks the only
solution to the shortage is for everyone to be
conservative in their gas usage.
Billings of the Pendergraft station said he
sees the answer from an ecological
perspective. "Banning big cars and using
mass transit systems is the only way out of
the fuel shortage."
action by any of the association's members
present at the time.
Rendsburg said the problem was
unavoidable. 'It's just one of those things
that happens in broadcasting." he said. He
added that most stations would have been
able to continue broadcasting, "but we don't
have a secondary studio yet."
Robertson said he opposed consideration
of the bill to halt WCAR's funding. He said
the station has been having special problems,
and the action would be a usurpation of the
powers given the Pub Board by the student
constitution.
The problem is not with the outside
organizations. It's a problem of precedures
and making clear to the person behind the
mike who is responsible. Gary has made it
clear that the new procedures will be carried
out. and we hope that will be an adequate
remedy," Robertson said.
. Healso saidthe current halt in WCAR.
broadcasting will cause a small loss in
revenue for the station, but, "given the
current flow of advertising, not that much."
At least 12 of the total 42
undergraduate court judges must be
members of a minority race, an increase
from earlier drafts providing for four
minority judges.
If approved, the judicial reform
document would separate student
academic records from any student
court record they may have
accumulated and tighten access
restrictions to student records.
Rungc called the reform document a
"complete overhaul which is more
coherent and protective of student
rights."
He also stressed that the document
should not be judged solely on the
matter of racial and sexual
representation. "The entire document
should be our concern," he added.
Under the minority court provisions,
defendants may request special
consideration for either race or sex. If so
requested, at least four of the seven
member trial court shall be of a minority
race or of the same sex as the defendant.
A similar version of the minority
court had been used in UNC honor
courts in the past, but was discontinued
last spring. Rungc recently reinstated
the minority courts.
One male and one female must be
elected to the Undergraduate Court
from each of the 14 legislative districts.
The rest of the 42 judges will be
appointed by the student body
president, subject to approval by CGC.
Taylor reserved the right to withdraw
his support of the judicial reform if the
document is not approved by the
Student Body and Faculty Council by
the end of spring semester 1974.
"I am convinced that the proposed
judicial reform is a great improvement
over our present judiciary system,"
Runge said, urging swift action by the
CGC.
Runge said he anticipates criticism
from some people concerned with the
reform document's minor points.
qmirrel pulls pta
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and the University
campus were briefly blacked out late
Monday afternoon due to an inquisitive
squirrel.
According to Edward Mc Knight, chief
engineer at the University power plant, the
loss of power occurred when a misguided
squirrel crawled onto a 12.500 volt electrical
disconnect at the plant, frazzling himself,
and grounding out the equipment.
The approximately 13-minutc-lonj
bi .ck.Cilt. causcd some confusion since it
"occurred" arffidst rumors of a possible strikr1"
for higher wages by control employes at the
power plant. University officials contacted
by the DTH knew nothing about such a
strike.
Both Dean of Student Affairs Donald
Boulton and Director of Housing Dr. James
Condie said they had not heard of an
impending strike. Boulton added that he
would expect prior warning of a strike so
negotiations could take place.
"If an unannounced strike occurred it
would not mean we'd lose all our services."
Condie stated. "Our supervisory personnel
"would continue to run the operations."
In addition, neither Mc Knight or several
power plant employes had heard of a strike.
So who says It's December?
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by David Kllnger
Staff Writer
Second in a series
James Reston Jr., a 1963 UNC graduate,
worked as a speechwriter for former Secretary of
the Interior Stewart Udall and a reporter for The
Chicago Daily News before enlisting in the Army
in 1965. His experience in Army intelligence
served as background for his first novel, To
Defend, To Destroy. Reston also wrote The
Amnesty of John David Herndon. A leading
national spokesman for amnesty, he teaches
creative writing and contemporary literature in
the UNC English Department.
"Most people agree that the Vietnam war was
a mistake. Yet they can't seem to draw the logical
conclusion that if the war was a mistake, you
shouldn't prosecute those individuals who first
thought it was a mistake," said Reston.
To Reston the issue of amnesty for war
resisters is a step necessary for the reconciliation
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the American people after ten years of war. To
the estimated one million men who would be
affected by a universal and unconditional
'amnesty, it means a chance to put the Vietnam
war behind them.
Derived from the Greek word meaning'
"forgetful ness," amnesty implies an abstention
from legal prosecution of a broad class of law
violators. "Nixon says amnesty is forgiveness. It
is not. For us to provide forgiveness for these
men requires a certain moral standing which 1
don't think this country can provide, said
Reston.
Although Reston is not overly optimistic
about the.chances for an amnesty applying to all
war resisters, he sees the religious community as
providing the strongest support.
Thave become convinced that if anyone is
going to sell thb issue to the public, it is going to
be the churches. The value of the churches in this
question is that they are in every community in
the country and in a position of leadership," he
said.
"In practical terms, I'm afraid support for.
reins
amnesty is going to have to start with the moral
argument, although I don't think it's necessarily
the strongest argument." Reston continued.
Two responses heard most often against
amnesty are the belief that repatriation of draft
dodgers and deserters would defame the
memory of servicemen who served and died in
Vietnam ana the belief that it would weaken
military morale.
"Most Americans want to believe that their
sons died for something very precious. It will
have to be up to the government to define what
precious thing they died for. I think this is simply
an attempt to divert attention away from the real
issue of responsibility for the war," Reston said.
Reston said he believes any weakening in
military morale could be attributed to the impact
of Vietnam and its resulting pressures rather
than any future amnesty. "The only way that his
morale can be reclaimed is for the American
government to reinstill a sense of respect in what
it is doing, he said.
Nixon's impeachment would be the first step
in restoring public confidence in the American
respect -
government, said Reston. "Amnesty is not likely
to happen when the President calls the people up
in Canada criminals. When you have a president
who is vindictive, hateful people tend to come
out of the walls," he said.
Public discussion of anmesty has fluctuated
over the past two years as the Vietnam war began
to wind down. The issue reached a climax on
Jan. 31, 1973, when President Nixon answered
questions in a televised press conference.
"Now, amnesty means forgiveness. We cannot
provide forgiveness for them. Those who served
paid their price. Those who deserted must pay
their price, and the price is not a junket in the
Peace Corps, or something like that, as some
have suggested. The price is a criminal penalty
for disobeying the laws of the United States,"
Nixon stated.
According to Reston, since then, amnesty has
been submerged by several major news events.
"First we had about three months of chauvinistic
breast-beating when the P.O.W.'s returnedThen
we had this simply unbelievable summer with
Watergate. It has forced al. other news off the
est on
front page." said Reston.
Reston views the granting of amnesty as a
means by which Nixon could partially recover
from Watergate and change the tone of his
administration. "Nixon, as a weakened
president, really has an opportunity with the
amnesty issue. He needs to do something
dramatic, and he's shown he can make dramatic
changes like the China and Russia trips," he said.
On Christmas Day, 1868, President Andrew
Johnson granted a universal amnesty without
condition to all Confederates who had engaged
in insurrection against the Union. Reston cited
the upcoming Christmas season as a logical time
to reunite all war resisters with their families.?
"Christmas seems to really combine all of the
strong arguments for an amnesty of Vietnam era
war resisters. It means a great deal in symbolic
terms. After any great conflict in American
hutory, there has always been a sense of family,
generosity, and reconciliation," Reston said.
Tomorrow: Government statistics detailing
how many individuals would be affected by a
universal amnesty are examined.