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The following is a short round-up
of some of the accomplishments and
failings of the 1974 General
Assembly.
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Coastal Area Management Act
to be aimed at controlling
development of the Carolina coast
was passed. Though considerably
weakened in passage it should be
effective, given strong membership
on the 15 person committee.
Campaign Spending Bill was
approved and will insure accurate
record-keeping, periodic disclosure,
general limits on advertising, and
criminal penalties for violations,
o Death Penalty was limited by
eliminating burglary and arson as
capital offenses. Still one of the
tougher laws in the nation.
Equal Credit Rights for women
whose financial standing equals that
of men with good credit ratings.
Right to Reply Bill defeated. It
would have forced newspapers to
publish the responses of any person
"assailed" in print.
Low Income Housing will be aided
by the establishment of a Housing
Finance Agency which will grant'
Jcne Plotkin
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Listen.
Don't spread it around or anything,
but I've heard that those women are
bitching again. You know, Miriam
Slifkin of the National Organization for
Women (NOW) and that Barbara
Schnorrenberg of University Women
for Affirmative Action and those crazed
subversives in Up the University.
They're talking about SPA (Subject
of the Personnel Act) employes. They
say that women employes of UNC are
discriminated against because of sex.
Now don't tell anybody, but here are a
few definitive examples of sex
discrimination which are taken from
actual cases of female SPA employes.
Sex discrimination is when 68 per!
cent of all female SPA employes are in
clerical positions.
Sex discrimination is not being
promoted because you happen to be
married to a student and are regarded as
temporary help.
Sex discrimination is having eight
years experience in your field and doing
all the typing. Meanwhile, your male
counterpart with no experience types'
nothing while seated at his executive
desk.
Sex discrimination is always
answering the phone because you're a
woman, and women are supposed to
answer office phones.
Sex discrimination is applying for a
job and being told that you don't have
proper qualifications. When your
husband calls the personnel office on
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Michael Davis
iom&ded on tine way to RDU
Earlier in the century, the Wright Brothers took their
rickety airplane down a sandy strip in Kitty Hawk, N.C.
Aviation has made tremendous strides since that initial
shuttle from one end of a sanddune to the other. .
Great strides everywhere but in the Triangle Area, that is.
Flying into and out of the Raleigh-Durham region is not
what one would call easy. It's what a Frenchman would call
tres difficile if he were disposed to fly into the Paris of the
Piedmont.
To make things worse, it's impossible to even arrive at the
RDU airport from Chapel Hill at a reasonable price unless
you hitch-hike, and who would be crazy enough to walk on
the shoulder of Route 54.
There's always the bus, you say. Forget it.
Try calling up the grouch at the Trailways station down on
Franklin.
"Haillo."
"Hello Trailways person. Where and when do the buses
depart for RDU?"
"Ain't none."
"How about from Raleigh?'
"Nope."
"Durham?"
' "Ncpe."
"Nowhere?' '
"Yep."
"How come?'
"Lookit boa. If n you kin ford to flah, you kin ford a taxi."
Slarnmo. Dialtone.
So ycu punt and take a limousine from the Carolina Inn.
riht, brother (a cheap pun at your expense). Wrong,
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Eve r take a look at those limo drivers? They've always got
a est-' ho-ats-the-condor look on their faces. The reason for
t'idr r'ceful appearance is that once you're trapped in their
the score
mortgage loans to the poor at two
per cent below the market rate.
ECU Medical School Expansion
was allowed to pass over the
objections of the UNC Board of
Governors (which had been created
by the legislature to decide such
matters), due to immense political
pressure.
Energy Policy in the state will be
determined by a weak branch of the
Department of Military and
Veterans Affairs.
No-Fault Insurance was defeated
by the House.
Unlimited Mortgage Interest
Rates will be legal until July, 1975.
They will rise well above the current
eight per cent limit.
Mountain Management Act was
defeated, similar to the coastal
management act which was passed.
Evidently one scenic edge of the
state needs protection and not the
other.
Salaries for legislators were
doubled on the last day of the
session, while a seven and one-half
per cent increase for the governor
was defeated.
ose crazy women .
your behalf, however, you are hired
immediately.
Anyway, that's what they call sex
discrimination. But I don't believe it.
Not for a minute. And besides, any
woman who feels she has been treated
unfairly has recourse. So for the sake of
all the doubting plebians, here are the.
alternatives:
a) She can contact Miriam Slifkin of
NOW who will aid her in filing a
complaint with the Equal Employment
Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Then, if her employer does not fire her
first, an EEOC inspector might appear
within a few months.
b) She can contact UWAA which
will help make their case considerably
stronger.
c) She can call Sherri Shepherd of
UTU who will lend moral support.
d) She can have a chat with Jack
Gunnells, personnel director, who will
treat her kindly, pat her on the head and
send her merrily back to her problems.
e) She can contact Dan Burleson,
Assistant Personnel Director on Staff
Relations and Benefits, who will call her
supervisor and possibly reconcile the"
situation. Possibly not.
f) She can call Robert Gwyn of the
Faculty Committee on Staff Personnel
who will call Jack Gunnells (see d). If
there is adequate evidence, Gwyn might
use the influence of his committee to
pressure her department.
g) She can visit the office of
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The games
The legislature is over, and
sometimes you wonder about our
home-grown statesmen.
First there was the amendment to
the right-to-reply bill which required
replies not to be written in "any
language of foreign import, pidgin,
broken English, Portuguese, vulgar
Latin, pig Latin, French (or other
language of obscenity), hippie talk,
Brooklynese, officialese,
bureaucratic jargon, code language,
or any , other un American or
sophisticated vernacular."
Then, Sen. Mike Mullins, not
wanting to be outdone by his
counterparts in Texas, who a couple
of years ago unknowingly passed a
Affirmative Action Officer Douglass
Hunt who will recommend that she try
the grievance procedure.
h) She can enter the grievance
procedure which requires 30-45 days
and during which she will meet a
number of nice white men.
i) She can have a sex change
operation.
So you see, there really is no sex
discrimination. And even if there is,
there are plenty of ways to take care of
it.
Letters to the
VdMirafteers imeedec
To the editors:
Whenever anyone brings up the subject of
student government around here, the
immediate reply is, "Oh, what a crock of
shit!" the Carolina equivalent of "Bah,
humbug!" Well, contrary to popular belief,
student government is undertaking a project
which hopefully will improve the quality of
teaching on campus. This project is course
teacher evaluation.
It was begun in the fall by Ford Runge and
is now being pushed by Marcus Williams.
This semester, a pilot study is being
undertaken, evaluating undergraduate
courses in the departments of English,
vehicle, you owe them a tenspot, three quarts of Ripple and
your first born male son if you want to make it intact to the
airport.
So, you punt again (beginning to sound like the
Redskins?) and you cajole your roommate into driving you
to the airport (I promise not to snore for the rest of my life
and I'll even use foot deodorant).
While zipping along at 28 m.p.h. on Raleigh Road you get
stuck behind Father Time in his 1961 Chevy pickup who still
confuses the accelerator pedal with the brake (It's on the lef
on muh tractor).
If you're lucky, within thirty minutes you will have found
the cutoff for Interstate 50. The Indy 500.
If you are on 40 and it's Sunday, it's all over. Five million
race car fans are cluttering the highway and they're all
listening to the action on the radio (Ahm gonna kick ass and
take names, jes lahk Richard Petty).
After a few minutes on the interstate an imposing, green,
luminous sign appears out of the pines. RDU AIRPORT
Vi MILE, it reads.
Impressive. The sign. Not the airport.
RDU is not going to be remembered in the annals of
aviation history as one of the most elegant structures. In fact,
'if it were not for the occasional takeoff and landing of planes,
one might confuse RDU with an undersized K&W cafeteria.
Parking at the airport is a trip. Thirty-five cents for the
first hour and a bodily appendage for each subsequent sweep
of Mickey's hand on your watch.
Don't park in the taxi spaces or in the loading zone. I tried
that number once and it cost half a week salary to get my car
back. They've got a patrol of little men eating Moon Pies in a
.corner who are ready at moment's notice to slap the chains
on and tow your car away.
Certainly, no way to run an airline.
Monday, April 15, 1974
people play
resolution praising the life and good
works of the Boston Strangler,
snuck through an amendment
allowing liquor-by-the-drink, which
was Finally discovered and reversed.
One conservative Republican said
that he had been told to watch out
for the Democrats. Only thing is,
Mullins is a Republican.
To top it all off, the session closed
with the dropping of the traditional
handkerchief at 3:26 p.m., although
all clocks in the building had been
stopped at 2 p.m. so that the
legislators could officially adjourn
on time. And then what . . . maybe
aft around the mulberry bush at the
capitol?
editors
psychology, chemistry. political science and
math.
The Board of Trustees recently passed a
resolution that some sort of student input be
required in all faculty decisions concerning
promotion and tenure. A permanent student
evaluation of teaching would .increase
student power in the decision-making
process, and it would give the faculty a
rational basis for making their decision. In
short, it is a good thing for all concerned.
The Course-Teacher Evaluation
Commission has five active members and a
$15,000 grant. The amount of money is
sufficient; the number of volunteers is not.
Last week we implored the DTH to publish
our appeal for additional student help. It was
published on page three, somewhere
between Hank Aaron and the Adam and Eve
ad. Needless to say, the response has been
meager. I refuse to believe that students are
this apathetic about something as central to
their lives as the quality of teaching.
We need volunteers immediately. We
begin work this week. The time commitment
is not great and the work is certainly not
hard. If you are interested, please call me,
Mike Johnson, at 929-9304 or leave your
name and phone number with the secretary
in Suite C. The number there is 933-5201.
Mike Johnson
Chairman, Course-Teacher
Evaluation Commission
Reader admires
amnesty stories
To the editors:
I wish to thank The Daily Tar Heel Tor its
excellent series of articles on amnesty. While
I appreciate Rick Brown's stand and his guts
to follow through with what he felt was right,
I also feel that he was unfair to those.who
decided to leave this country and had the
guts to stand behind their decision. To deny
war resisters the opportunity to express their
morality in a legal fashion is hypocritical in
the extreme.
The painful conflict involved in the
amnesty question hinges on responsibility.
Should a person bow to the demands of his
society irregardless of his personal
convictions or should his personal moral
.convictions guide his actions? To many
people (myself included) personal
convictions must take precedence ov:r
responsibility to a government that has
repeatedly demonstrated not only its
inability to govern itself, (i.e. Watergate) but
foK summed) ifr so&r ppm5
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For all the criticism which has
been heaped on the 1974 North
Carolina General Assembly, the
group of honorables did do
something. They didn't convene for
64 days and discuss 3,700 bills for
nothing.
But whether the legislature did
more good than evil is a matter of
debate. Claude Sitton, editor of the
Raleigh News and Observer, claims
that the state would be better off if
every measure were repealed and a
new legislature could begin afresh.
Certainly it is questionable whether
there, were more achievements or
failures in the legislature's first
attempt at annual sessions.
Such hypothetical questions are
morbidly interesting, but largely
miss the point. North Carolina used
to be one of the more progressive
southern states, and the current
legislature did neither the citizens
nor the traditions of this state much
credit, if any at all. Factionalism,
special-interests, petty bickering,
mindless reaction, and plain tom
foolery contributed to the failures of
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also its inability-to fulfill its obligation to the
people by governing in an egocentric and
non-compassionate manner.
Certainly there are persons in Canada that
went because of cowardice, but there are
those that left out of a sincere conviction that
the country's involvement in Vietnam was
wrong. If this country cannot tolerate
differences in moral stances, America is sick
indeed. The government's refusal to" grant
amnesty is another example of its
intolerance.
James Hutton
321 West Cameron Avenue
Cashion's class
refreshing, good
To the editors:
I have read with interest the debate of
history instructor, Jerry Cashion.
May I say a few words in response to the
author of a letter on April 10th who
requested hisher name be withheld?
1 am not a typical undergraduate student.
As a free-lance writer, mother of one
teenager and one elementary school child, I
still found Jerry Cashion quite frankly one of
the best and most provocatively interesting
instructors I have ever had a class under,
anywhere.
His attitude in class is refreshing; his
demands on his students thought-provoking
and his lessons quite simplistic.
I say 'simplistic because Jerry Cashion
does not find it necessary or worthwhile to
drag highly sophisticated ego-gratifying
statements or terms through his lectures he
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this year's session.
The May 7 primaries and the fall
elections will provide an excellent
opportunity for citizens to improve
next year's legislature since every
representative is up for re-election,
'or defeat as the case may be. Of
course many are unopposed,
especially among the conservative
ranks, but a conscientious effort on
the part of the electorate could
provide an entirely new tone for next
year's general assembly.
The people of this state must look
at the records of their
representatives and discover for
themselves and for the community
where the problems of this year's
legislature originated. Good
legislatures, like democracy, begin
at home.
What the general assembly did
this year is briefly noted in the
editorial On the opposite side of this
page. It is difficult to determine
whether the plusses outweight the
minuses, and with a legislature of
any calibre, it shouldn't even be
close.
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paints pictures instead.
And I think of him more as a history artist,
illustrating with anecdotes, to awaken his
students to a sense of history and the current
and future lessons we can learn from it.
I am not ashamed, nor sly enough, to hide
my name from my statements. To this date,
and in the future (which will someday be
history), I remember Jerry Cashion's class
and lectures and the learning I
accomplished with pleasure. It was a
highlight of my classes at UNC.
Let's pick on some of the instructors who
have tenure and very much more deserve our
ire!
One more comment, please. I hope The
Daily Tar Heel is not planning to make it a
practice to print anonymous attacks, either
in the letters to the editor section or
elsewhere in the paper. No reputable
newspaper does so!
Ms. Robin Mays
38-E Stratford Hills Apts.
Editor's note: On the contrary, Ms. Mays,
most reputable newspapers do occasionally
print letters to the editor and withhold the
names.
Cashion belongs
here at UNC
To the editors:
To the anonymous Cashion Hater:
First of all, I will have enough guts to sign
my name to this letter. I feel if you are not
willing to face the consequences of
something you write, DONT write it.
You are correct that Jerry Cashion is a
very friendly person and shows a genuine
concern for his students, but let me ask you if
you have had a class under him? I doubt it, or
you would not demean his two history
courses as you did. After four years at UNC
as a history major, I can honestly say that I'
have not had a teacher that recreates a real
fe sling for the past as well as Mr. Cashion.
Like all courses, there is some trivia to learn,
but who are you to say whether or not this
trivia played an important part in the
development of North Carolina?
The rapport between Mr. Cashion and his
cl.isses is very strong for a large class
situation. Therefore, I wonder if you really
are one of his students.
Mr. Cashion plans to finish his degree this
August. This was agreed upon by the
administration and supposedly has no
bearing on his contract not being renewed. I
therefore wish Mr. Cashion luck here at
'UNC where he belongs!
H.R. Culp