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The minimum wage bill is almost a
reality. President Nixon vetoed a similar
biSi in September and, since then, the
poor have had to pay for an inflation
they had no hand in creating.
Inflation was almost 10 per cent for
the 1 2-month period ending in January,
the cost of an average market basket has
risen even more, not to mention the
terrific increase in fuel costs. Millions of
workers have no way to combat such
price hikes, and the administration
should not leave them defenseless. They
should be allowed to live with the
increases and live comfortably.
On May 1, the minimum wage will
rise to 52 an hour, or $4,160 a year,
hardly an adequate liv ing for a family of
any size. A minimum is just that: no one
should be allowed to sink below the
poverty line; savings and cut-backs must
be taken from the well-to-do. They are
the ones who can afford to struggle with
inflation, not the workers who have
already been exploited.
Most fears about the minimum wage
stem from its "dangerous side-effect,"
unemployment. Rep. Dominick
Daniels, D-N.J., of the House
Education and Labor Committee
contends that "traditional prophecies
which accompany each minimum wage
Recycling project makes sense
One of the cheaper, more practical proposals to go before
the CGC Finance Committee is the ECOS recycling project.
Tl statewide group, which was founded in Chapel Hill, is
requesting $715 for the construction of 17 wooden
dumpsters to be placed near most of the campus dormitories.
A limited recycling project is in effect right now, and ECOS
predicts that an estimated three tons of waste paper will be
collected weekly.
The paper that is collected during the year may be sold for
about $1,800 in Durham, thus providing about $1,230 for
Paul Price
Marcus Williams and I were on the
proverbial road; headed for a meeting with
the State Attorney General in Raleigh. And
like all good roads, Highway 54 played its
part: steaming up images of what the past
road had been cluttered with me and the rest
of the Student Legal Assistance Committee.
Debris. The damndest kind of
frustrations.
Telling the distraught woman that, no, we
can't tell you how to go about getting a
divorce because we're not lawyers and can't
give legal advice (and yet knowing divorce
proceedings well).
Telling the guy that, sure we're sorry
you've been ripped off by your landlord and,
yeah, we know you'll lose money if you take
him to court, but we've no funds to help you
with (and the hundred others like him).
Telling pissed off students that, yep, we
could probably take the town government to
court for letting gas stations do the
preferential customer trick, but how we
Header responds
For love
To the editors:
I am writing this letter as a result of David
Wall's article, "Carolina Football: What
Price Glory?", to try to show a more
unbiased opinion of Carolina football.
Carolina football has been a part of my life
for over six years now. I first started when
my oldest brother Johnnie signed a grant-in-aid
to U.N.C. He and his fellow teammates
had many many hours of sweat, pain,
mental, emotional and psychological strain
and stress. But they did it for the LOVE of
the game and their own self-satisfaction.
1 feel that Mr. Wall's signing of a grant-in-aid
was not because of his love and desire to
play college football but because it was
expected of him. Since his oldest two
brothers had both received football
scholarships, naturally he could not
disappoint everyone and not follow their
footsteps. Plus, as he stated, "it was a chance
to attend a major college for free."
Everyone has heard the old saying, "that
there's nothing worth having unless you have
to work for it." This Is as true in sports as it is
in every other aspect of life. Everything has
its pros and cons but to be a winner or one of
the best takes hard work, dedication, pain
and a true interest and love to endure the
hard times until at last you achieve your goal
and all your efforts are paid off with self
satisfaction. I don't see how anyone can possibly say
that they've never regretted quitting
something that was at one time a pleasurable
part of their life. A person always misses the
pleasures they have had, even though many
facets of the experience they didn't like.
Mr. Wall brought up the sad death of Bill
Arnold, but hundreds of people die every
year as a result of injury in athletic activities
and competition for unexplainable reasons.'
My 18 year old brother, Jeff, had the love
and desire to play college football. It was one
exploited
increase have been successfully refuted
by studies of minimum wage effects
made by the Department of Labor. If
an employer needs an employe, he still
has that need no matter what the price.
And any reputable employer should be
willing to pay a fair living wage to his
workers.
Actually very few workers are
covered by the law and only those in the
most dire straits, as it should be. In
North Carolina, for example, most of
1 .3 million workers already receive
more than the new minimum wage or at
least close to it. About 60.000 domestic
and agricultural workers are the ones
directly affected, and these are the ones
who have been ignored for too long.
Students will be exempt if they work
in a part-time capacity, thus assuring the
availability of summer jobs. And most
people who are prosperous enough to be
students aren't vitally dependent on
employment anyway.
The government is responsible for
inflation, and they must pay for it
without getting the poor to do it for
them, without using the poor as the
cutting-edge. It is about time that some
of Washington's programs and reforms
got turned into dollars and cents at the
local level.
gonna pay the lawyer?
Trying to get research done but
infrequently finding the requisite time for an
over-worlced, small (7 members) committee
that mans a desk 25-30 hours a week.
Reading a letter to the Editor from the
Legal Services Coordinator chiding
S.L.A.C. for negligence, when in fact. the
negligence was his own (for failing to check
out his "facts" which were erroneous
assumptions).
Writing a point by point rebuttal to the
letter and submitting it to the old DTH only
to be given in return, weeks later, "what
letter? I never saw a letter. Hey, X, you seen a
letter?"
Debris. Frustrations. But that lurked in
the rearview mirror. Marcus and I were
driving forward to a rendezvous with the
Head Honcho Lawman. To have that
mystifying web of legalities torn apart. To
know it nice and clear: how to expand legal
of game
of his goals in life. He loved to eat but partly
for the reason to gain weight so he would be
big enough to play football. Every afternoon
or night, he was on the porch lifting weights
to get in shape and become strong enough to
play football. He attended a year of post
grad at Ford Union Military Academy in an
attempt to earn a full grant-in-aid. After
participating in an undefeated season and
the Virginia Military Championship title,
Jeff was offered a football scholarship to
Carolina, and one of his many goals in life
had been accomplished. He was one of the
happiest people I've ever seen when he told
me about his scholarship and how he was
going to be one of the best, not just a holder
of a scholarship: Unfortunately, a freak
sailing accident last July in which Jeff was
killed, put an end to his Carolina football
career but not to pleasure and joy he got
from working to build himself up to his.6'3",
230-pound physique and the self-fulfillment
he got from earning his football scholarship.
In hopes that other young men might have
the chance to find the love and self
fulfillment Jeff found through football, my
parents set up a memorial scholarship to go
to the outstanding freshman player each
year.
I don't see how David Wall can possibly
accept the money every semester from the
football program if he hates It as much as it
seems.
The football program has slacked from
what it was when Johnnie was a freshman.
I'm not saying that that's all bad, but to be
one of the best there has to be stringent rules
and hard work, as is true in everything in life.
Not everyone was made to play college
football and evidently it was not that David
Wall could not afford the price.. but rather
that he lacked the real love and desire it takes
to play college football.
Pat Cowell
A.D. Pi House
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Most people who work for a
minimum wage, like it. Most
economists don't.
The current wage bill was passed
easily by Congress last week and
Nixon's approval is taken for
granted. The bill will raise the
minimum wage from SI. 60 to $2.30
an hour by 1976. Coverage will be
extended for the first time to
domestic workers, an estimated
50,000 people in North Carolina
according to the Raleigh News and
Observer. Students who work less
than 20 hours a week are not covered
by the bill.
The following quotation from
Representative Albert Quie, R
Minn, is an example of the calibre of
background
recycling salaries and for future ECOS activities. The $715
that is being requested today will thus establish a continuing,
self-sufficient business which is for the benefit of the entire
community.
The D TH naturally supports recycling projects in general
since we print 15,000 copies of this newspaper daily, all of
which can be re-used. We especially support this particular
project because of its efficiency and common sense. Every
week that three tons of paper is collected, 51 trees will be
saved.
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aid without stepping on the giant juridical
toe.
The two-hour meeting produced many
how-not-to's. Direct fundings from C.G.C.
for the hiring of lawyers was out. Through a
curious twist of semantfes, C.G.C. is
considered part of the state government
apparatus. N.C. statute 147-17 reads
"No ...institution... of the state shall
employ any counsel."
Moreover, even if C.G.C. is not involved,
student fees cannot be applied toward the
hiring of lawyers. Student fees, through an
extremely odd use of logic, are considered
"public funds"; and public funds cannot be
used for individual or "class" legal problems.
So even if we students choose through a
referendum to give a portion of our fees to a
legal aid program, it can't be done.
Quandaries. And S.L.A.C. is back where
it started. No way to give legal advice on a
day to day basis. No way to hire lawyers to
take student related cases to court.
Or is that so? It was not at all clear that
the A.G. office's opinion on public funding
was anything more than an opinion. Our
view is that money merely being transferred
by the University from willing students to a
student non profit Legal Aid Corporation
does not merit the label "public funds." The
point can and will be contested. So there is a
good chance to do something about the legal
plights of students. But there is a lot of work
to be done. If you want students to get some
teeth in this legal system of ours, or even if
you just wish there was somewhere you
could go to get quick, free, authoritative
legal advice on your traffic ticket, or the
terms of your contract, or your divorce
then come help us. Short of that, give us your
support when the issue becomes a subject of
campus discussion.
Justice, ostensibly is for everyone; and we,
students, are just going to have to d ig out our
share. That's where S.L.A.C.'s and Student
Government's road leads.
Call 933-5101 or come by Suite C if you
want an appoinment to be interviewed for
S.L.A.C. membership.
The Daily Tar Heel
Jim Cooper, Grog Turosak
Editors
Kevin McCarthy, Managing Editor
Michael Davis, Associate Editor
Jean Swallow, Associate Editor
Ken Allen, flaws Editor
Harriet Sugar, Feature Editor
Elliott Warnock, Sports Editor
Tom Randolph, Photo Editor
Bob Jasinkiawicz, Night Editor
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discussion concerning the issue.
"There is no question that this bill is
not inflationary because inflation
has already occurred," Mr. Quie
said. Aside from the double
negative, the statement is logically
inconsistent and creates the
impression that inflation happens all
at once and then stops for a while.
We wish it did. To add insult to
injury, the statement was used as
supporting evidence in a News and
Observer editorial.
The following pro-con editorials
are designed to shed some light on
the subject, something which
everyone from the average student,
to President Nixon, to Mr. Quie
himself could see more clearly.
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Letters to the editor
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To the editors:
I noticed the new "B" sanitation rating in
the Granville Towers cafeteria last Friday,
before a visiting friend and myself ate supper
there. This meal was the only one we had
together before the weekend, which we spent
listening to "Frog Serenade" with the
windows open, never venturing out of
sprinting distance from the bathroom.
After two gruelling days I decided to raise
a stink about it. The city health inspector
wouldn't say why exactly Granville rated
only 87 per cent sanitation. I talked with
Granville food services manager Mark
Moldenhauer, who expressed his
dissatisfaction with the new rating, and
attributed it to a dishwashing machine that
broke down the day of the inspection
(Friday). He couldn't specify when the
replacement parts would arrive, but until
they do I suggest that Granville residents
watch what they eat with a microscope. .
Lewis Tager
1 102 Granville
Aspiring artists
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To the editors:
God, the childishness of it all.
Last Tuesday evening, I was walking
through the pit when I noticed a friend
painting one side of the cube. She was
publicizing a Symposium event that was
taking place the following night, i.e.
Wednesday. I picked up a brush and began
to help her.
Suddenly a shadow fell on my shoulder,
an I noticed a fairly pissed-off individual,
looking at me, who said words to the effect of
"Hey man, you jiainted over my sign." It
turned out that my friend and I had indeed
painted over a sign publicizing a . United
Farm Workers Lettuce Rally which was to
take place Friday.
Now I admit that it is usually not the done
thing to paint over someone's cube art if the
event has not taken place. But the lettuce
people's sign had been up for seven days,
Tuesday to Tuesday, before we painted it
over. They had already had seven days
publicity, and would have occupied one
quarter of the cube for ten whole days if they
had had their way.
I argued this point with several different
lettuce people during the course of my labor.
They all had a self-righteous gleam of inj ured
pride in their eyes.
Now, they may well have had a point, and
their anger was, to some extent, justified. 1
Oely temporary relief
Instead of helping workers, raising
the minimum wage can only provide
temporary relief from economic
pressures. The pay increase will
reinforce inflationary trends and, in
some cases, not give workers more
money, or even the same amount, but
none at all because of unemployment.
The government can legislate
whatever wages it wishes to (or would
like to think it could), but some
employes aren't worth the extra 70 cents
per hour required by law. Businesses
don't hire people for their health and, if
an employe's time is too expensive, they
simply won't buy it.
Earlier wage bills excluded such low
salary occupations as farm labor,
domestic servants, part-time and
student jobs in order to maintain
maximum employment. The present bill
will let students have the eight-year-old
minimum wage, a SI. 60 an hour, a goal
both in the interest of students and of
the McDonald's Hamburger lobby. But
domestics and farm labor will be
affected by the bill. Their employers,
housewives and farmers, will be forced
to do without, rather than retain the
services of people they simply can't
afford.
This will hurt the poor, specifically
the rural poor and those who are
desperate enough to swallow their pride
and become household servants. These
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half expected to see that side of the cube
occupied by United Farm Workers publicity
this morning.
But no. When I came through the pit
Wednesday morning I saw that our
Symposium publicity, telling people of an
event to take place Wednesday night, had
indeed been painted over. But NOTHING
was in its place.
I have absolutely no proof that the lettuce
people were responsible, but if they were,
they are a) a bit childishly vindictive for
painting it over, though possibly justified; we
did paint over their sign: b) a bunch of
PUSSIES for not putting their own publicity
back up.
This way, neither the Symposium nor the
UFW rally gets any benefit.
If the lettuce people were not responsible,
my apologies to them. Maybe the
Symbionese Liberation Army did it.
Adrian Scott
Interest lacking
in Christianity
To the editors:
Last Thursday morning, as a volunteer
participant in Christian Emphasis Week, I
helped hand out copies of an article entitled
"The Resurrection of Jesus Christ." The
reactions I encountered varied. Most people
took the article without comment; some
expressed ridicule; some, even friends, were
repulsed and disgusted. In short, I met an
overwhelming response of disinterest.
It seems completely incongruous to me
that students who will invest $8-10,000 and
four years of their lives to be educated in a
liberal, progressive university, demanding
that this education include exposure to many
wisely varying philosophies and ideas, will
also refuse to spend five minutes of their time
to read a simple presentation of the very crux
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Opinions expressed do not necessarily
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people had rather have a subsistence at a
low wage than no wage at all.
If the minimum is increased, all other
wagc-carncrs could logically demand
pay hikes. When the floor is raised, so is
the ceiling.
Large wage costs will increase the
costs of production. Higher costs mean
higher prices. The wage increase, and its
lew benefits, will soon be consumed by
increases in the cost of living and
acceleration of the inflationary spiral.
Inflation is doubly dangerous because
it provides its own momentum by its
very nature. Mandatory pay hikes will
even increase that momentum, all lor
the sake of phantom goals.
Congress must be clever enough to
avoid such limited, stop-gap measures.
By raising wages they treat only the
symptoms of our economic malaise, not
the cause. In the long run. there will be
even more people out of work, a higher
cost of living and even greater pressure
for more minimum wage bills. People
on fixed incomes will be caught in the
crunch.
More realistic measures must be
devised by Congress. More complicated
solutions like a negative income tax.
eliminating the foreign trade deficit and
reducing congressional spending are
crucial to the welfare of American
workers. They aren't as popular or as
easy, but they are our only remedy.
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of the Christian faith, the resurrection of
Jesus Christ.
To say that Christianity is bunk solely on
the basis of hearsay, subjective opinion and
personal prejudices is to deny the central
process of education-objecttve investigation
of the facts. To take pride in being open
minded, well-read or even educated without
seriously investigating the claims of history s
most controversial personality is merely self
deception. Christianity is not a mystic cult reserved
for those who choose to bury their heads in
the sands of naivete. It is objective,
historical, testable, provable. Consider the
examples of Oxford and Cambridge scholar
C. S. Lewis, poet T. S. Eliot. British
philosopher Cyril Joad, Harvard professor
Clifford Moore, Yale professor William
Phelps men respected for their
scholarship, yet orthodox in their Christian
belief, men who merely examined the facts
and came to their own conclusions.
The rational evidence is there. You can
believe or scoff, procrastinate or
rationalize. But you can't ignore it. The
goals of liberal education demand a hearing
for all alternatives. Anything less is
intellectual dishonesty.
Sandra Millers
. Junior, Journalism
Student advises
letters to D.C.
To the editors:
Including papers, tests, and classroom and
reading notes, the average undergradute
puts about 5,000 words a week on paper. The
purpose of this letter is to suggest that, in the
midst of an extremely serious political crisis
involving presidential impeachment, it
would be appropriate for college students to
divert a few of these words in the d irection of
Washington. D.C.
This is easier to do than is commonly
supposed. Anyone in the White House can
be reached by an address that includes
simply their names, and Washington, D.C.
20500. Any senator can be reached by a letter
or post card that includes the name, and
Washington D.C. 20510. The ZIP Code that
will reach any representative is Washington
D. C, 20515.
20500. 20510. 20515. This is the code for
participating in the democratic process at a
time when every voice should be heard.
Charles Bracelen Flood
1326 Madison Ave.
New York City