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81 Years Of Editorial Freedom
Chapel HUI, North Carolina, k'snday, January 14, 1S74
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by Janet Langtton
Staff Writer
Debate has intensified over the
establishment of a two-year medical school
at East Carolina University as the N.C.
General Assembly opening date nears.
The clash will involve the UNC Board of
Governors versus the General Assembly -which
board has the authority to channel
funds for University development.
The Board of Governors authorized its
chairman. William A. Dees Jr.. on Friday to
speak out on the board's stand on medical
education and the ECU medical school
program.
The board's action stemmed from what
several board members called
"misinterpretation, misrepresentation and
maligning" of the board's medical education
stance by the press and the public.
Dees said he welcomed the chance to set
persons straight on the board's position. He
emphatically denied reports that the panel of
five medical consultants was biased against
an expanded medical program at ECU when
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The Wolfpack is coming
Today is the big day, basketball fans. Student tickets for the
tl.C. State game set for Jan. 22 will be distributed today
beginning at 5 p.m. in Carmlchael. Several students are
keeping an old Carolina tradition alive by camping out the
night before, proving that some people will do anything to sit
near Norman and the boys.
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by David Kiinger
Staff Writer
Unplanned land development and urban
growth may be a thing of the past in Chapel
Hill with the recent support given to the
PITCH program by the Board of Aldermen.
PITCH, an umbrella organization of city
planners, government officials, -town
merchants and individual citizens,
transmitted its final report to the Board of
Aldermen last June.
The report summarized the six months of
study given to problems of urban growth,
transportation and traffic, open space,
recreation and housing by the citizens'
group.
Approval by the aldermen in June gave
the green light to the formulation of the
Chapel Hill Long Range Development Plan
through investigation by an implementation
team of approximately 50 townspeople.
Citizens' complaints and recommendations
voiced during the series of PITCH open
meetings last spring will serve as guidelines
for the committee.
An important part of the PITCH final
report was the recommendation for creation
of the Department of Urban Development
(DUD) and the hiring of a permanent
director to oversee all city planning
functions of the city administration..
In December of 1973, Kurt Jenne became
the department director and created the
implementation team and a work schedule
for planning efforts as his major task.
Organization of the department and
support of the Long Range Development
Plan have indicated that comprehensive
citywide planning is finally becoming a
reality in Chapel Hill.
- Margaret Parker, a member of the Chapel
Hill Planning Board and an organizer of the
PITCH concept during the fall of 1972,
praised the efforts that have been made to
date in support of a more structured and
planned method of growth.
"With adoption of the plan, there will be
more guidelines, particularly for developers.
Right now, we have no specific guidelines
and you really can't prevent rampant
development," Parker said.
Although Jenne and Parker are reluctant
to estimate the time that will be required for
the implementation team to produce the
master plan, both look for some guidelines
to be on the books in the near future.
"I would hope that we would have
something definite sooner than the next 18
months," said Jenne. He said the department
will support the implementation team and
gather technical material pertaining to
growth.
Pending adoption of the master plan, the
Board of Aldermen announced the following
policies in June:
Permits for uses permitted under the
Zoning Ordinance will continue to be
processed under normal guidelines.
Subdivision plans meeting town
regulations will continue to be processed
under normal guidelines.
Proposed zoning ordinance and map
amendments will be given immediate
consideration only if they pose no adverse
impact on the Long Range Development
Plan.
Special use permits for fraternity and
sorority houses and courts, mobile home
courts, and unified business and housing
developments will also be given immediate
consideration only if they will not contradict
the master plan.
Other special use permits will continue
to be processed under normal guidelines.
"Really the PITCH program is no longer
in existence. It was only a part of the overall
plan of implementing a development
program. This program was an attempt to
reach all the different sectors of the
community and to see if there was any major
thrust in terms of the way in which people
wished to see Chapel Hill go," said Jenne.
Parker praised the PITCH concept and its
track record of reaching over 30 community
organizations through formal audio-vision
programs. "I think PITCH has been a great
success. I really think we got a wide range of
representation and input, all the way from
church groups, the Junior League, and the
PTA to the Men's Garden Club," she said.
"I'm also pleased with the support that the
Board of Aldermen gave to PITCH. We are
finally going to get some specific guidelines
down on paper governing growth and
. development," Parker said.
by Chuck Babington
Staff Writer
Proposed changes in the work shifts for
campus police aie being opposed by many of
the police officers.
Officer Eunice Sparrow said he met with
Ted Marvin, director of Security Services,
on Thursday to bargain on behalf of about
18 policemen who were opposed to changes
in the fixed shift under which the officers
now work.
Sparrow said he had planned to meet later
Pack, Fins
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Today is Super Monday. The
football season is over.
Sunday was a big day for sports
fanatics. From noon until sometime
after six, they sat transfixed in front of
television tubes all over the nation
watching two big games.
First it was basketball. Third
ranked Maryland and fourth-ranked
N.C. State clashed in Raleigh in an
ACC showdown. Before a national
TV audience, David Thompson
soared for 41 points to send the
Wolfpack to an 80-74 victory over the
Tcrps. The loss was the first of the
season for Maryland against ACC
competition.
In the second ' half of the
doubleheader, Miami's Dolphins
clobbered the Minnesota Vikings, 24
7, in the Super Bowl. It was the second
Super Bowl championship in a row for
the Dolphins, winning their most
impressive victory ever. Minnesota is
now 0-2 in Super games, having lost to
the Kansas City Chiefs four years ago.
Chapel Hill a liberal oasis
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by Gail Bronson
Staff Writer
The recent Supreme Court decision on obscenity has
been called "a call to arms to every crazy vigilante
group in this country," by one national publisher, but
the ruling does not seem to be seriously affecting
Chapel Hill.
Since the June 21, 1973, court ruling which
established new guidelines enabling states and
municipalities to ban works which are offensive to
local standards, books by such established authors as
Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Ernest Hemingway and William
Faulkner have been burned or banned by school
boards.
In Chapel Hill, however, no one seems to be raising
any fuss.
Captain Amos Home, of the Chapel Hill Police
Department, said he has known of no complaints of
obscenity to the department since he joined the force 20
years ago.
According to Home, if a complaint was filed with
the department, the police would investigate the charge
to determine if it was in violation of state obscenity
laws.
If it were found to be in violation, the magistrate
would issue a warrant for the offending party and the
case would be tried in court, he said.
"I don't foresee anything like that happening here
Chapel Hill is pretty liberal," Home said.
Mary Scroggs, chairman of the Chapel Hill
Carrboro School Board, said there have been no
complaints to the board from parents that books their
children are required to read in school are obscene.
She said the board probably would not ban a book if
a parent considered it obscene, but might give the
student the option to read another book instead.
"I don't think we have a book-burning school
board," Scroggs said.
Jeffs Campus Confectionary located on E. Franklin
St., where one can buy literature ranging from
"Turner's Carolina Almanac" to "Fetishes and
Fantasies," has also received no complaints.
Reluctant to comment about the literature, Jeff
Mousmoules, the owner and operator said, "I only
have a few magazines, and I sell them because there's a
demand.
"Women buy them more than men," he said. "I have
them because people don't want to go out of town to
buy them."
The only theater in town that shows X-rated
movies the Varsity Theater on E. Franklin Street
foresees no problems with the ruling.
All other theatres have received no complaints
concerning their R-rated shows and expect none in the
future.
Three local clergymen, representing the Jewish,
Roman Catholic and Protestant faiths, had differing
opinions on obscenity.
Father Ray Donohue, pastor of the Catholic Church
of St. Thomas More, said he objected to the selling of
hard core pornography and the showing of X-rated
movies.
He approved of the Supreme Court ruling, saying,
"It's probably the closest kind of control you can get,
withput being offensive toward people's rights."
Rev. J.R. Manley, pastor of the First Baptist
Church, said he disapproved of the public display of
pornography, but doesn't think it is as blatant in
Chapel Hill as in other cities.
Rabbi Robert A. Seigel, of the Hillel Foundation,
held a different opinion.
He said the sale of pornographic literature and the
showing of explicit sexual movies should not be
controlled. He defined obscenity as violence, war and
racism.
Concerning the affect of the rulings on local
journalism. Dr. John B. Adams, dean of the School of
Journalism, said, "No currently operating news media
in this area is in any danger whatsoever."
"Even though nobody with a sense of decency makes
a good case for hard core pornography, you can be sure
that with the Court's reversal, some areas of the
country will define National Geographic as obscene,"
Adams said.
Writer Doris Betts, chairman of the Freshman
Sophomore English department and author of "The
Southern Exposure," doesn't think the ruling will keep
.authors from writing what they want to write.
"Writers being as cantankerous as they are, it's not
likely to have an affect on them," she said. "However,
the effect on what can be published troubles me a
great deal."
Betts said she preferred allowing everything to be
printed with no restrictions, forcing parents to
supervise their children's reading.
Although Time Magazine said the Supreme Court
decision "could drastically clamp down on the so
called sexual explosion in U.S. art and entertainment,"
the situation here was summed up by a student recently
interviewed who said, "It's not likely to affect Chapel
Hill."
with Chancellor Ferebee Taylor, but decided
not to when Marvin assured him that there
would be no major changes in the shift
arrangement.
Marvin declined to say what changes were
being considered, but said that under the
present system new officers are placed on the
night shift and are kept there until there is an
opening in the afternoon shift. Officers with
the most seniority are placed on the day shift,
he said.
John Temple, assistant vice-chancellor of
business said that he has held two meetings
with Marvin and some of the officers to
discuss changes in the work shifts. Temple
said he saw no problems with the present
shift arrangements.
One proposal under consideration, he
said, is a rotating shift in which officers
would work about a month on one shift and
then move to another.
Temple said the majority of campus
policemen were opposed to this and that
Other alternatives may have to be found.
Many of the officers are reportedly
fighting rotating shifts because they also
hold other regular jobs.
Marvin said he plans to meet with Captain
of Police Elbert Riggsbee and the force's
four lieutenants today to reach a decision on
the situation.
He said he is considering several
alternatives.
Temple said that one problem with the
present arrangement is that the most
inexperienced officers are concentrated in
the night shift.
Officer Sparrow said that he had spent
nine years on the night shift before moving to
day work and noted that most of the older
officers did not want to go back to working
the night shift.
Marvin said that he asked policemen not
to talk with reporters until after the meeting
on Monday.
Marvin was employed by Duke University
before he came to the UNC police
department last August. He has authority
over the 28 men on the campus police force.
it first met to prepare recommendations to
the board.
The panel, as selected, included three
people suggested by East Carolina medical
officials, said Decs. If anything, he
continued, the panel was stacked in favor of
ECU at first. He added that the other two
medical consultants were also approved by
ECU officials.
A report issued by the panel and accepted
by the board made 1 1 recommendations to
improve primary health care in North
Carolina. The panel advised strengthening
the present one-year program at ECU.
before expanding it sometime in the future.
Some proponents of a two and four-vear
medical school have claimed in press reports
that the recommendations try to
permanently close the door on further ECU'
expansion.
The General Assembly, which convenes
this month, will review UNCs budget
requests, one of which asks S50.000 for u
planning study to investigate the feasibility
of an expanded program at ECU.
In directing Dees to speak out on the
board's position. Mrs. George D. Wilson of
Fayetteville said. "I have long felt we were
remaining too silent or not speaking loud
enough. I hope the board and its chairman
will take the gloves off on this issue.
"We have leaned over backward not to
step on toes and that is a courtesy which has
not been afforded the Board." she added.
UNC-CH's medical school received only
two years of the seven-year accreditation
from the AM A-AAMC liason committee in
a 1971 accreditation study.
ECU was partly responsible for the
decrease, but the burden of accreditation
was given to the UNC-CH School of
Medicine by the national accrediting
committee.
The liason committee made a follow-up
report in April 1973, and granted UNC the
full seven-year accreditation.
It also directed President William C.
Friday to submit a progress report by Jan. I ,
of steps taken to strengthen the quality of the
one-year program at ECU.
"Full authority" of the ECU medical
school was granted to the UNC-CH School
of Medicine in spring of 1973. Since that
time, Friday continued. Dr. William J.
Cromartie was named director of ECU's
program.
Cromartie has arranged for more
administrative liason and teaching
involvement by UNC faculty members with
the ECU program.
Weather
TODAY: Clear end cold. The high is
expected in the 40'$. The low is
expected in the low to mid 3Q's. The
chance of precipitation is 10 percent.
Tuesday: Warming end clear.
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