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Student Government may seem to
most students to be a worthless
bureaucracy, but tonight the
Campus Governing Council will
decide the fate of an important part
of both Student Government and
students lives here at Carolina.
The judicial reform bill
prepared through many meetings
and compromises over several
years will have its chance tonight
to be passed by the council to be
placed before the student body in a
referendum.
The proposed bill is certainly not
perfect but it is so much better than
the present system that it would be
foolish for the council to delay
placing court reforms before the
student body for approval.
If the council delays passage of the
bill, it is in effect responsible for the
continuing inequities of the present
system.
The bill would eliminate the
"automatic Fs" given students
convicted of academic violations
under the current system. It also
would end the expelling of graduate
students convicted of academic
violations.
The proposed bill is also better
than the present system because all
penalties and punishments are
defined.
The document has a statement on
student rights of privacy and
expression.
As for procedure, the bill changes
the elective districts so that they are
the same as the CTC districts. This
change will provide for a much more
manageable election as well as take
away some of the confusion from the
races for office.
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Letters to the editor
To the editor:
The Mac Frampton Triumvirate may' be
good enough to make "The Lawrence Welk
Show." I knew something was going to be
wrong when they walked on stage in color
coordinated velvet suits. Frampton himself,
had a voice like Dick Clark, and when he
spoke of Gilbert O'Sullivan as one of today's
musical geniuses, it's no" wonder there was
laughter in the audience. I'll never forget
how he introduced his bass player: "Here's a
guy who's been a lot of places and done a lot
of things. But the thing he does best is play
that bass. Meet Doug Smith!" In an orange
glitter suit nonetheless. Their muzak was the
most unoriginal, trite, television-styled crap
I've ever heard. I'd rather listen to the King
Family. The sights and sounds so roused me
that I was forced to leave Memorial Hall
with tears in my eyes and hysterical laughs in
my throat.
Stuart Troutman
2512 Granville South
Save America;
get involved now
To the editor:
Many people prophesize doom for the
American way of life. Others assert its
righteousness and pray for its longevity.
Many of the above and many others have
come to believe that we in America face a
grave crisis or series of crises, unprecedented
Oisssn Miller, Editor.
'Winston Csvin, Managing Editor."
-CKI Vcfch, Navs Editor .
Devld Eskrisfst, Assoclsfa Editor
Czlh Effron, As:oclst9 Editor .
Kevin f.'sCcrthy, Features Editor
Clllzlt Vsrnock, Gporta Editor
Ted Cisv.'irt, Photo Editor
Em!3 FItt, fCIht Editor
expressed ca its editorial pae. All
cf the editor. Letters find columns
individual contributors.
January 24, 1974
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One of the most significant
changes made in the bill is the
provision that includes students on
the appeals board. The present
board is composed of three faculty
members, allowing no student
representation in final decisions on
automatic Fs and other penalties
that affect students lives vitally. The
appeals board proposed in the bill
before the CGC would have 50 per
cent student composition.
One of the hardest decisions in
writing the. bill was whether a
provision fox minority courts should
be made and if so what form these
should take. Through many, many
meetings with representatives of
minorities, a compromise was
worked out that provides for
nminority courts.
Although many criticisms have
been made of this bill by various
people in and out of Student
Government, they are not worth the
time it would take to deliberate,
compromise and have meetings to
come up with a totally acceptable
document.
There is no need for a Student Bill
of Rights, as suggested by CGC
member Bill Snodgrass, because
students are protected, like every
other citizen, by the Constitution's
Bill of Rights.
More deliberation to perfect the
court system at UNC is deterrent to
the real goal to get rid of the
present unfair, inefficient and
outdated court system and in its
stead set up a system that will serve
the students. Any further delay is
not serving the students interests.
The CGC should pass the judicial
reform bill tonight.
mptoi left
in our history.
It would seem probable that such a
situation does exist, expecially in view of the
current economic situation, the effect it may
have on the confidence of. the American
people in their government, the rising rate of
crime and so on. That much in our country
needs changing is obvious, but what is
possibly the most depressing aspect of
American government is that it is not
changing, that it is largely unresponsive from
the local level to the federal. The important
question to ask is: How can we change the
nature of our governmental agencies and
political institutions? One means is to seek
total socio-political revolution. But very few
people are doing that any more. Another is
to "work through the system." This
immediately brings to mind the image of a
coat and tie, 8-5, five days a week. Would it
not be better to combine a little of both of
these concepts?
The possibility to effect such a
combination is quite available to many
people, and especially to students. How?
One specific way is to attend meeting of the
Chapel Hill and Carrboro town councils
regularly. Why? Because the local,
community-oriented political process is
precisely what has been neglected by the
members of thousands of communities all
over the nation, and it is imperative that the
instruments of local government be made
responsive to and accountable to the people
whom they serve.
It is foolish to expect that any organ of
government can act in the interest of its
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(Editor's note: Ford Runge is student
body president.)
Student government, like all supposedly
democratic forms, has difficulty doing
exactly what it is supposed to do represent
students. The reasons for these difficulties
are of no particular interest to those who
rarely come into contact with student
government's functions.
One function of student government
which affects students more directly than
any other is the campus judiciary system
the Honor Court. This system affects
students' welfare, their academic standing,
and even whether or not they will remain in
school. Because the judiciary system affects
so many students, often adversely, it is
worthy of our attention.
The honor code is hypocritical, selectively
enforced, and unrealistic. Too many aspects
of a judiciary system which should he
controlled by students now lie in the hands of
faculty and administrative agencies. Vie
present judiciary system is outmoded,
disorganized, and inefficient.
The Judicial Reform Bill (49 pages in its
entirety) outlines a system which specifies
offenses under the honor code. This
specification would help to take much of the
hypocrisy, selective enforcement, and lack of
realism out of present procedures. In
addition, the bill places more responsibility
in the hands of students where it belongs.
I lilt aims
Stop
The furor is dying down. Just like all
the experts said it would, it's dying
down. Some real groovy smut was
unearthed and' slung; editorialists,
cartoonists, news commentators, the
various Senate committees, John Dean
(whose own backyard got a little
unearthed), and Seth Effron (who
doesn't have a backyard) have all
tirelessly kept up various kinds of
pressure.
Students demonstrated, motorists
honked, petitions were signed, people
from serious to silly held forth at
cocktail parties, intellectually effete
snobs in the dark corners of the Pine
Room sneered into their coffee and
belched forth inanities through their
cigarette smoke. ,
But friends. Come now. He's -still
there. He's climbing in the charts once
more, he's even working on some
important legislation which some of you
have been wanting. Environmental
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constituents if those constituents do not
make their voices heard individually and
collectively. With the problems that we face
today it is absurd to remain inactive in the
affairs of local government.
One final point: there are countless local,
regional and national issues with which to
dear. But at present the issue and concept of
perhaps the most fundamental concern to
every American may be the struggle to come
to grips with the true meaning, original and
present, of the American revolution, the
Declaration of Independence and the
Constitution.
Gerry Chapman
C-9 Carolina Apartments
Punishment used
against the poor
To the editor.
The Norwood Car Center Exxon station
at 136 W. Franklin Street has effectively
decided that they will no longer sell gasoline
to students.
This fact emerged Monday when I pulled
into the station to get gas. Signs on the
pumps indicated that gas would be sold to
"long-term customers only."
Since I have often patronized their now
inoperative self-service pumps, I felt justified
in asking for service. I was refused. The
manager said that "long-term" meant 5 years
or more. Since very few students remain in
Chapel Hill for that length of time, the
implication is that no students will be sold
gas here.
1 feel that this policy is flagrantly
discriminatory and urge all students, faculty
and staff to boycott this station until their
policies change. It is the few retailers like this
who alienate the students toward all Chape'
Hill merchants.
Daniel R. Kocnigshofer
3 Wyrick St.
Reader urges
student boycott
To the editor:
I would like to applaud Joan
Hockenbury's letter of Jan. 21 concerning
capital punishment in North Carolina. This
is. a matter of great concern to me.
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The Judicial Reform Bill has other
significant advantages over the present
system:
1. It eliminates the automatic "F." Last
year 80 of the cases coming before the
honor court were academic violations. If a
verdict of guilty was given, the student
received an automatic "F" in the course.
Graduate students similarly charged and
convicted are expelled. The judicial reform
bill eliminates these provisions.
2. A change in the records policy. Under
the present system, all violations of the
honor code go on the back of the permanent
academic record, and may be viewed by
State and Federal investigative agencies. The
proposed bill provides that after the active
e wagon;
protection, energy conservation,
campaign financing (get that one?), and
so on.
Are you getting tired of wanting him
out so bad it drives you to Alka-Seltzer?
Does the futility of your rallies, your
petitions, and your talk become
wearisome to you?
Ah, youth. How soon they forget
their high ideals and their lofty
convictions. Students, you see,
according to the charts, have dropped
off drastically in their efforts to move
for impeachment.
Does it get to you that you're just
another predictable element on the
charts of those who make charts? When
they graph your whims in black and
white does it make you mad?
Am 1 making you made by sneering at
you from this column? 1 hope like hell I
am. Because after you get over it, 1 want
you to read the rest of this article. It goes
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Capital punishment in North Carolina
throughout North Carolina's history has
been used almost exclusively against the
poor, the black, and the uneducated. How
does a state have the right to sit in judgement
upon someone and sentence him to death
when premeditated killing is a crime whether
it is done by a citizen or by the state?
If Jesse Helms could express as much
concern over the taking of a mature citizen's
life as he has over the abortion of an unborn
fetus. I would have some hope for our state.
As it is now. North Carolina is known has
the "Hangman State" becuase of our crudely
enforced use of Capital Punishment.
I. too, urge all people to voice their
opposition to capital punishment to their
legislators and to Gov. Holshouser. Do it
now before it is too late for one of the twenty
one people on Death Row in North
Carolina.
Diane Spaugh
656 Ehringhaus
Plenty of good
music in area
To the editor:
David Jamison wrote a letter to the editor
concerning the lack of good music here on
campus. 1 am of the opinion that Mr.
Jamison is a bit close-minded. There is an
abundance of good music around Chapel
Hill. What we don't have arc the big Top 40
names and the expensive and noisy light
shows.
There are several very good musicians
who perform every weekend in various
places around town. People like John Santa.
Decatur Jones, Jim Gibbs (and Frank),
Carol Ponder and Mike Cross (and at least a
dozen more very fine musicians) put out a lot
of effort to insure good music for folks to
listen to. We also have a more than
competent music department with many
good musicians performing within the
department.
I realize I can't change Mr. Jamison's
taste, or the lack of it, in music, tut there is
an alternative. He could transfer to Western
Carolina or Appalachian State. I hear they
have some really "neat" and "swell concerts
there which may te just what he's lookinj
for.
Mike Clark
201 Carr
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period of discipline is over, all record of
violation or discipline will be removed from
the student's academic record.
3. Student representation on policy-,
making boards. The judicial reform bill
provides for a Committee on Student
Conduct, which would replace the present
all-faculty committee on Student Discipline.
The Committee on Student Conduct would
be comprised of 50 students.
4. Entire enforcement control of the
University drug policy and the disruptions
policy to the student courts. Under the
present system, these policies are enforced by
an administration-faculty-student hearing
board. Again, the judicial reform bill places
more responsibility in the hands of students.
1 want to
like this:
Jumping on bandwagons may be
your thing. If it is, or if you just do it
because in the emotional high of the
moment you can't control yourself,
you'd better slap yourself hard next
time you see one come by.
Or perhaps you are the type who
examines all the evidence you have
access to, considers carefully upon a
position, then counts the cost of taking a
stand, then takes a stand and has the
moral fortitude to stick it out until the
battle is over.
You sacrifice for what you believe,
you work hard for it it doesn't stay in
your mind or just get aired to your
acquaintances.
If you fall in the second category, I'm
not talking to you. You're alright
solid. Yeah, that's right. I'm judging.
If you did anything less than what was
just described in the second type
individual, you are a bandwagon
hopper, an emotional-high-popper, a
whim on Samuel Grafton's Youth
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To the editor:
This letter concerns the almost unparalled
incompetence and stupidity my roommate
and I have encountered with the Chapel Hill
Telephone Company since October. 1 973.
Although we have only one telephone in our
apartmsnt, we receive two phone bills for
that one phone each month, one listing the
phone in my name, the other in my
roommate's name. So, every month we tr:k
down to the office on Franklin Street and
inform the "service representatives" of our
plight. After we pay the bill listed in my name
ar.d receive assurance that the duplicate till
should be ignored, we return home.
Inevitably, a few days later, we receive
notificx.tion that our telephone will be
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5. Appeal to other students. Under the
present system, a student who appeals his
case beyond the lower court must go before a
board of three faculty members. The bill
provides an all-student appeals board.
The Judicial Reform Eill has its
detractors. It is. however, the work cf several
years of drafting, meetings, and
compromise. Like so many good proposals,
it is now in danger of falling prey to more
drafting, more meetings, and more time
wasted as student government spins its
wheels, and shows its unresponsiveness for
all to see.
Meanwhile the inefficiency and hypocrisy
of the old system continues. The court
continues to decide who will fail a course,
who will be expelled, and who will be
allowed to stay in school.
Tonight the Campus Governing Council
will vote on whether or not to bring this bill
before the student body in referendum. If it
votes to do so. it will be the first time that the
bill has escaped from meetings where a few
tinker with its substance, and placed for
judgment in the hands of all the students
who will be most immediately affected by its
provisions. I believe that it deserves that
chance. I wish every student could examine
the bill, and decide for themselves which
system they would like to see determine
whether or not they will come back to
Chapel Hill in the fall.
get ojj
Information Chart, a kid. be you 18 or
30.
Still mad? Good. Listen: Convictions
are not games you play. They are not
ideas you hold in your head or
conversations you have with your
friends. They are not even overt acts like
signing a petition (which, after all.
doesn't take a whole lot of effort?) or
attending a rally. Convictions are not
things you have, they are the way you
live.
Please. None of this pseudo
psychological crap about learning to be
responsible by struggling with things
too big for you, or, all experiences are
good, etc. You're all big girls and boys
now you don't learn by crawling
through the mazes anymore. Or. if you
do. Skinner have mercy on your souls.
You want. to be a,sporadtc whim on
old Sam Grafton's .chart-all. your, life?
Nah, you don't want to do that. So next
time a bandwagon comes along, be a
thinker, a considerer. a responsible
choice maker. Thanks, and good night.
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disconnected if our phone bill is not paid. Of
course, it has been paid, but not in duplicate.
So once again we go down and tell the
"service representatives" what happened and
our phone is safe unil the next month, when
the whole cycle starts over.
We offer the above as one reason why we
shall celsbrate the day the University sells the
telephone company. We s-ust they sell it
to someone in Antarctica, and start over in
Chapel Hill with a more efficient system, like
carrier pigeons.
Steve Allred
M&rc Davis
E-16 Estes Park
Carrboro
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