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Staff Writer
Room-by-room coeding on second floor
Winston will be discontinued next fall,
Donald A. Boulton, dean of Student Affairs,
told the Daily Tar Heel Wednesday.
The official announcement of the decision
was released by Boulton Wednesday night.
Seth Effron, residence assistant on second
floor Winston, told residents of Boulton's
decision.
Winston reside
upset with decision
by Lu Ann Jones
Start Writer
Second floor Winston residents strongly disapproved of Dean Donald Boulton's
decision to abolish room-by-room coed living next year. They were informed of the
decision at a hall meeting Wednesday night.
Mary Hall Rodman, a second floor resident, said, "1 feel really sad. I feel like a
really beautiful thing will be lost."
Another resident, Nan Grubbs, commented, "Having lived on both fourth and
second floors, I much prefer second. The second floor atmosphere is warmer, and
the feeling of a unified group is much stronger."
Fourth floor is 50 per cent male and 50 per cent female and is divided into two
sections. .
Allan Medearis, a Winston resident for two years, said, "I've lived here before and.
after the coed living and I think they'll be making a big mistake."
Janet Strauss said, "The Hall has many more assets the pros are stronger than
the cons. It's a little world in itself, like one big group."
Winston residents are eager to hear Boulton's reasons for the decision.
During the meeting, Boulton called Residence Assistant Seth Effron and said his
(Boulton's) personal statement to each second floor resident would be sent soon.
Boulton's letter was received within a few minutes.
According to Boulton, next year's living arrangements are up to the second floor
residents. Room-by-room coeding will not be considered s . . ,
When one student asked if anyone was displeased "with the present living
arrangement, no one responded negatively. .
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by Chuck Csbbington
Stiff Writer
An informal meetjp between
University personnel offices and
campus police scheduled for Tuesday
was postponed until Friday.
Police officer Eunice Sparrow said
about 17 officers showed up Tuesday to
discuss their opposition to proposed
changes in the police work shift
arrangement.
However, at 1:40 p.m., 20 minutes
before the meeting was to begin, the
Personnel Office called to say the
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Boulton based his decision to end the
second floor coeding on two factors. He said
the facilities in Winston were inadequate for
a room-by-room coed living situation and
suggested that a suite-by-suite arrangement
might have provided a better living
arrangement for. the experiment. ;
Boulton also said the second floor!
situation has the potential to breed adverse
publicity.
He said, however, no adverse publicity
had occurred to date, "but one never knows
meeting would not be held, Sparrow
said.
The call was made by the secretary of
Dan A. Burleson, assistant director of
personnel.
Burleson said Wednesday that due to
the absence of a personnel officer
Tuesday there was an overload of work
and the meeting with the policemen had
to be postponed. This decision was
made around 12 noon on Tuesday, he
said.
The proposals,, which many
policemen oppose, call for changes in
the fixed shift arrangement now in use.
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what might happen due to such publicity."
What is good and beneficial about
Henderson Residence College (HRC) might
be risked if the second floor arrangement is
kept, he said.
He said he made his decision for positive
reasons: "1 want to keep the rest of
Henderson .Residence College running
smoothly, making sure that no one pulls the
rug out of the entire program."
Boulton said his decision in no way
reflected on the character of the second floor
or any individual resident.
, "The residents have done a good job and
should be congratualted," Boulton said. He
added, however, that the matters of the
inadequate facilities and the possibility of
adverse publicity were highly important in
Staff photo by Tom Randolph
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meeting
Under the current -fixed shift new
officers work the night shift until there is
an opening in the afternoon shift.
Officers with the most seniority work
the day shift.
Ted W. Marvin, director of security
services said that beginning Feb. 4 an
"exchange program" will begin in which
one officer at a time will rotate shifts,
serving two weeks on each of the two
shifts he does not work regularly.
Most of the policemen are opposed to
this, Sparrow said.
The changes were approved by Vice
Chancellor of Business John L. Temple
and Director of the University
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by Seth Effron
Associate Editor
The presence of several people protesting
Duke Power's position in a Kentucky coal
mine strike forced a Duke Power spokesman
to stray from his prepared talk Monday
night in an address before the American
Association of University Women(AAUW).
Bill Burton, vice president for Public
Relations of Duke Power Company, spoke
to the AAUW at UNCs Morehead
Planetarium about the energy crisis and
what Duke Power was doing to see that
consumers were getting the energy they need.
Burton charged that the United Mine
Workers of America (UMWA) were not
bargaining in good faith with a Duke
subsidary, Eastover Mining Company of
Harlan. County, Ky.
The UMWA miners in Harlan have been
on strike since last July.
Following his introductory . remarks,
Burton answered questions about the
striking miners in Harlan. He said there were
two main points of conflict holding up
negotiations. ',
First, the UMWA national contract,
which all UMWA miners in the nation work
under, calls for "portal to portal" pay. This
means UMWA miners are payed from the
time they set foot in the mines rather than
from the time they reach the work site.
Burton said Duke, through Eastover,
basically agreed to this, but they wanted a no
strike clause included in the contract. The
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the decision he had been considering for
several months.
Boulton emphasized that the decision to
discontinue the second floor Winston
arrangement was his decision and his alone.
He said he received no outside pressure from
alumni, parents or UNC President William
Friday.
Boulton said he did not talk with second
floor residents or Residence Hall
Association (RHA) officials before making
his decision.
Boulton said he hoped students would not
consider the decision a step backwards in
coeducational living.
"I've talked with enough residents from
second floor to know that they've had a good
experience there," Boulton said, "and I know
N.C. General Assembly
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by Greg Turo&ak
Staff Writer
RALEIGH The North Carolina House
of Representatives passed an amended tax
reduction package Wednesday by a vote of
77 to 35 after an afternoon of debate.
The bill is similar to one sent back to the
Finance Committee by the House last week
by a 59-49 vote, except that a $2000 tax
exemption for those whose net income does
not exceed $4000 is included in the bill as an
amendment.
This amendment replaces the original
provision of reducing the tax rate from three
per cent to two per cent on the first $20C0 of
taxable income. This provision would have
meant roughly a $20 tax break per year for
Engineer's Office Alien S. Waters in a
letter to Marvin on Tuesday.
Temple said the new arrangement will
also give all officers the same number of
days off. Presently, officers with more
seniority get more days off, he said.
' Marvin said he announced the
proposed changes to the policemen last
week. Sparrow said the men were
concerned because Marvin "left the
door open" to later involve more than
one man at a time in the shift exchange.
Sparrow said several of the policemen
who showed up for the meeting which
was postponed were on their day off and
that some had come from out of town.
clause would mean miners must agree not to
go on strike during the contract period, but
could go on strike once the contract ran out.
The United Mine Workers cannot agree to
this, UMWA lawyer Bernard Aronson said
in a telephone interview Tuesday. The no
strike clause would not allow the workers to
leave the mines if they felt working
conditions were unsafe, he said.
Eastover also refuses to agree to the
UMWA clause calling for a miners safety
committee. Burton said the state and federal
government both have inspection groups
and there would be no sense in adding
another.
According to the UMWA contract, the
miners would have the power to close the
mine if the miners safety committee
determined that conditions were unsafe.
In Burton's prepared talk on the energy
crisis he said Duke power is currently
operating at 85 percent capacity and has a IS
per cent reserve. "The reserve of 1 5 per cent is
greater than we've had in the two years
before (the energy crisis), when it was 10 per
cent."
He said the New England power company
had made a request to buy electricity from
the Duke Power system because of the
current oil shortage. New England produces
. most of its power by burning oil, which is
currently in short supply, while coal, which is
Duke's primary source of energy, is plentiful.
Burton said.
Burton defended the strip mining of coal.
He said Duke Power was willing to patch up
the scars it created.
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they're going to be upset.
"But I've always felt that Henderson
Residence College could be successful
with or without the second floor. It's not
built on just that foundation."
Boulton said he personally had never been
against the second floor living arrangements
and had always given the impression that he
was in favor of experimentation and variety
in life styles for the campus.
He said, however, his credibility with
R HA and H RC residents would probably be
damaged due to his decision.
"We're not regressing," Boulton said.
"We've had a good experience on second
floor Winston and we've learned a lot."
He added that no more speculation was
needed to know that a room-by-room coed
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all North Carolina taxpayers, rich or poor.
Two other provisions of the bill remained
intact. These call for a maximum $3,000
income tax break for those over 65, and a
gradual end over a five year period of the
inventory tax which retailers, wholesalers,
and manufacturers must pay to local
governments.
The bill provides for the payment to local
governments by the state of the revenue
which they would lose during the period in
which the inventory tax is being phased out.
Rep. Jack Hunt (D-Clevelanfl), author of
the amendment, said the amendment
provided a tax break where it was most
needed for. -those with incomes under
$4000 and would save the state $22 million
by giving the tax break only to the poor and
not to those in the middle and upper income
brackets.
Hunt urged passage of his amendment,
which affects 504,000 taxpayers, sayingthis
group of people does not have a lobbyist."
Rep. Sneed High (D-Cumberland) spoke
against the bill saying "It does not give tax
relief to the people in this state who need it
most." High said relief was needed for those
living on pensions and added that it was the
4 sales tax that hurts these people.
Rep. Herbert Hyde (D-Buncombe), who
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by David Kllngsr
Staff Writer
DURHAM Duke University's Page
Auditorium was filled to capacity Tuesday
night as students received a cram course in
broadcast journalism from CBS newsman
Dan Rather.
Invited by the Institute of Policy Sciences
and Public Affairs to discuss "A Reporter's
Perspective: The Shaping of Reality by
Television Network News," Rather offered
suggestions to budding journalists from his
12 years of experience on the CBS news
team.
"Most reporters see themselves as having
been raised in the tradition of objectivity,"
Rather said. "1 was raised that way and still
subscribe to the feeling that, insofar as any
news story, you try to be objective."
Criticism of television newsmen for
alleged liberal political bias was disputed by
Rather, who disagreed with the use of labels
to characterize public figures.
Rather's personal style in covering the
White House for CBS news has itself drawn
criticism. " My work has to stand on its own,"
he said. "When I say something, my name
and face are on it.
"In speaking for CBS, and I believe it to be
true at the other networks, everyone who
touches the finished product is responsible
for that product. We look upon that
responsibility as a public trust and you htve
to judge us on how well we uphold it."
Rather supported frequent references to
President Nixon as a political loner end
offered the examples of former presidential
aides H.R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman
as proof of Nixon's tendency to isolate
himself with relatively few advisers.
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living situation could be successful.
"You might just say that Winston wasn't
the right place and this wasn't the right time
for the expei imcnt," Boulton said, because a
number of journalists were waiting to make
stories out of the experiment.
. "We want to be in charge." Boulton said,
"not on the defensive."
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was in principle in favor of the bill, spoke
and voted against it because he felt that the
clause eliminating inventory taxes was
unconstitutional. He said the bill could not
end the inventory tax, and would only keep
the tax and make the state pay it instead of
the retailers, wholesalers, and
manufacturers.
Other representatives, notably Rep.
Laurence Cobb (R-Mecklenburg), argued
against the bill because of the still unknown
effects of the energy crisis. Cobb said he
feared possible unemployment could result
in reduced revenues.
Rep. Liston Ramsey (D-Madison),
however, did not agree with forecasts of
economic gloom Tor the state, and urged"
passage of the bill, saying "The money is
there."
Although the bill initially will cost the
state money, it will, in the end, increase
revenue by encouraging new businesses to
enter into North Carolina and broadening
the tax base, said Rep. Ben Tison (D
Mecklenburg). From its passage by the House, the bill still
must go to the Senate before it becomes state
law. A tax cut has been opposed all along by
Gov. Jim Holshouser. who has said
repeatedly that it would be risky in light of
the energy crisis.
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Dan Rather
"It's really scary to handle news stories
coming out of the White House. The way
you handle them is important to everyone
and the one thought that runs through my
mind is 'Be careful,'" he added.
On the subject of impeachment. Rather
suggested that people keep an open mind on
the subject and base any opinions on the
facts revealed by the Watergate investigation
and related developments.
"If the President has told the truth, he
ought to stay in the White House, but if he
hasn't, he ought to go," Rather said.
Efforts to check the flow of news leaks
from the White House and administration
sources will have an initial impact on news
but will ultimately fail, Rather said.
The CBS newsman appraised his
employment by the national media as being
free from interference and pressure by his
superiors.
"In betterjhan US years at CBS, no one has
ever suggested to me that 1 change one word
b order to suit an advertiser," he said. "If
there was any attempt to influence me in the
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