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H the government is not responsive to the
governed, it is incumbent upon the governed
to change the government. But the American
people aren't exercising this individual right.
Americans are too complacent," Rev. Ralph
David Abernathy said Wednesday night.
. Speaking at a less than full Memorial
Hall, the Southern Christian Leadership;
Conference President urged students to take
part in what he called the greatest form of
government in the world.
Abernathy recalled a recent visit to
Congress where he said he noticed a great
number of old congressmen. No wonder the
country won't work," he said. "We have got
to distribute political power with the young,
the blacks and the females. Our individual
rights give us the right to have a voice in our
government."
Abernathy's speech, co-sponsored by '
Student Government and the Carolina
Forum as a part of the Colloquium on
Individual Rights and Liberties, centered
more on the problems of the country and the
state than on individual rights.
"North Carolina has enjoyed the
reputation of being the most liberal southern
state, but North Carolina is not living up to
its reputation," he said. "This state is
repressive. There are more prisoners in
North Carolina than in Alabama,
Mississippi, Georgia, Virginia and
Maryland all lumped together."
, Discussing the inequities of the . penal
system, Abernathy gave forceful readings of
portions of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address
and the United States Constitution. v;
He also said the whole idea for the free
nation began in Boston and for that reason
the recent responses of Bostonians to the
court-ordered busing is "one of the most
shameful and disgraceful acts on the
American scene."
"People in Boston are behaving like the
people of the Deep South because they are as
bad or worse than the people of the Deep
South," he saidThe' ugly head of racism
Hft$ itself in mfvtbf the country."
Former President Nixon and the economy
also brought disdain from Abernathy.
"Nixon kept only one promise while he was
in office and that was taking crime out of the
streets. He took it out of the streets and
brought it into the suites. In fact, he took it
into the White House.
, "Nixon, and T do have one thing in
common," he admitted. "Nixon has phlebitis
and I have phlebitis, but I'm . not going
around trying to die from phlebitis."
The entire country is on welfare,
Abernathy said. But for the big industries
like GM, ITT, Ford and Eastern Airlines, .
welfare is called federal subsidies. There is
free enterprise for the poor but subsidized
socialism for the rich.
The United States space program was a
wasted expense, Abernathy said. "The
President shouldn't be passing out moon
rocks. He should be passing out loaves of ,
bread in the South."
"In order to deal with inflation, what,
you've got to do is to stop prices from going
so high. There has to be jobs in the private
and publi? sector."
Abernathy, who assumed the presidency ;
of SCLC after the assassination of Martin
Luther King, was at times soft spoken as he
told warm anecdotes about his family and
friends, but his voice roared as he spoke of
racism and his fight for racial equality.
Abernathy achieved notoriety in 1968
when he led the, Poor People's March on
Washington and the construction of
shantytown Resurrection City near the
Lincoln Memorial.
"I'm an integrationist. I don't believe in
black supremacy just as I don't believe in
white supremacy. Color is black and white
together," he said. "I want my liberties and I
want my individual rights, but I also want
them for every American."
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United Press International
EL PASO, Tex. Sun Bowl officials Thursday invited the University of North
Carolina to meet Mississippi State in the Dec. 2$ fqotball game.
Sonny Yates, spokesman for the sponsoring Sun Carnival Association, said the
selection committee met Thursday morning, and quickly selected UNC from among
a group including the University of Pittsburgh, Baylor, Texas Tech and Missouri.
We have extended an invitation to the University of North Carolina, and we
have every reason to believe they will accept," Yates said. "They could accept at
anytime, maybe even next week.'
There was no immediate comment from officials here. - x
Mississippi State Wednesday accepted an invitation to play and Yates said
Thursday the Sun Carnival Association "is very pleased. They are a fine team and
we didn't think we could get them."
Yates said Mississippi State should finish no worse than 7-4, and have an
outstanding offensive team. Bulldog Athletic Director Charles N. Shiara confirmed
acceptance of the team's third bowl bid since 1937.
State is 6-2 after a 35-0 loss to 2nd ranked Alabama last weekend. The Bulldogs
meet 9th ranked. Auburn Saturday in Jackson
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The Reverend Ralph Abernathy, suffering from the flu, speaks in Memorial Hall
Labor party files
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by Henry Farber
Staff Writer
The Charlotte Labor Party Committee
filed an official protest with the
Mecklenburg County Board of Elections
Wednesday, charging that Democratic
campaign workers intimidated voters near a
Charlotte polling place Tuesday.
The protest also alleges 1)' there was an
incident near the poll, at St. Mark's
Methodist Church on Clanton Road, where
Labor workers said Rudy Nesmith, North'
Carolina Labor candidate for U.S. Senate,
was assaulted by one of the Democratic
workers, 2) election officials observed the
intimidation and failed to take action; and 3)
there were general election irregularities
throughout the city.
Labor party officials said D.J. Grier, a
; campaign worker for victorious state house
candidate Fred Alexander, came to the
. polling place with a bullwhip on election day
afternoon, intimidated voters and tried to
take campaign literature from Labor
workers with the assistance of young helpers.
Two hours later, Grier pushed Nesmith
during an argument, a Labor spokesman
said.
William Culp, county board of elections
executive director, with whom the protest
was filed, said none of the allegations could
be verified. But a hearing is scheduled for
Nov. 21 to air the protest, he said.
Culp said the disruptions began when
.Labor workers handed out campaign
literature on church property. According to
reports, the precinct registrar asked them to
leave the property.
Political parties are under a gentleman's
bid
test
agreement which discourages campaigning
on IS church properties used as polling
places at election time, Culp said. He said the
agreement has been honored for the five
years he has been director of the elections
board, and the Labor workers are the first to
take issue.
"They (Labor workers) just wanted to
prove they could break the rules," Culp said.
"They're an irrational bunch. Their whole
purpose seems to be publicity."
Stan Ezrol, Labor party candidate for
Chief Justice of the state Supreme Court, .
said Thursday the church property
agreement is illegal. It was instituted to
prevent the Labor party from politicking, he
said, since the major, parties do not really
conduct politics.
"It's obvious that politics has nothing to
do with the 'Democan' or Republicat'
parties," Ezrol said.
No police charges were filed concerning
the alleged assault by Grier, a Labor
spokesman said because the police filed the
report.
A spokesman for Alexander Funeral
Home, of which Alexander is co-owner and
Grier an employee, said he knew nothing of
Grier's political affiliations. Grier's only
official responsibility to Alexander is as an
employee, he said.
Grier tended polls on election day,
another funeral home representative said
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Grier and-Alexander were unavailable lor ,
comment.
Ezrol said a full report on the matter was
also filed with a federal attorney, but "every
indication is that he doesn't want to take
action.
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by Art Eisenstadt
Staff Writer
After two years, two referendums, one
UNC Board of Trustees ruling and one court
injunction, the efforts to start a North
Carolina Public Interest Research Group
(PIRG) chapter on this campus appear to
have finally failed.
But not by much.
The move to establish a PIRG chapter
here was defeated Wednesday in a campus
wide referendum by a vote of 859 against to
852 for.
Out of a total vote of 1 ,7 1 4, the "no," votes
amounted to 50. 1 per cent of the ballots cast.
Three ballots were turned in blank.
The 1 ,7 14 voters represented nine per cent
of the student body. ,
Campus Governing Council (CGC)
representative Dan Besse, PIRG's strongest
supporter on the council, said Thursday,
"PIRG has no immediate intent to try again
in the near future."
But Besse contends many students
enough to overcome a seven-vote deficit
were influenced by a series 'of anti-PIRG
posters which appeared around campus
starting Monday evening. He said he might
appeal the election because of these posters.
"I think the election was representative of
the student voice to an extent, but that the
reason many students voted as they did is
because of the misinformation on the anti
PIRG posters," Besse said. "Those posters
were very crucial."
Besse also cited a proposed funding
system of PIRG and the concomitant $3
annual fees increase as reasons the
referendum failed.
, N.C. PIRG is a statewide non-profit
corporation which specializes in researching
and lobbying for pro-consumer legislation. .
Had the referendum passed, and the
results been ratified by the UNC Board of
Trustees, PIRG would have absorbed the
programs and resources of the existing
" campus"consumer organization, Student
Consumers Action Union (SCAU).
Pro-PIRG forces and literature
maintained PIRG would have strengthened
SCAU by providing the pooled resources of
five North Carolina- universities,
professional legal advisors and year-round
working capacity.
J-school to hold
speech, panels
The 50th anniversary of the UNC School
of Journalism will be highlighted by , two
panel discussions and a speech by Tom
Wicker, associate editor of the New York
limes.
Nine panelists, all UNC alumni, will
discuss "Journalism and the Real World" 10
a.m. Saturday in 104 Howell Hall. Panelists
will include Bill Woestendiek, Colorado
Springs Sun editor and publisher; Jack
Childs, Gov. Holshouser's press secretary;
Ken Byerly, a Lewistown, Mont., editor and
publisher; Kays Gary, a Charlotte Observer
columnist; Linda Grimsley, a Raleigh
novelist; John L. Green, a Richmond
broadcaster; Roy Thompson, a Winston
Salem reporter; Bob Pittman, a St.
Petersburg editor; and Ivan Hardesty, a
Raleigh advertising executive.
The subject of the second panel discussion
will be "Back When I was in J-School . . . ,"
scheduled at 2 p.m. in 104 -Howell.
Graduation years of the yf3 participants
range from 1926 to 1975. ,
Tom Wicker will speak at the banquet at 7
Saturday evening.
The panel discussions are open to
everyone. Tickets for the banquet may be
purchased at the journalism school.
SCAU chairman Janie Clark said
Thursday SCAU would simply continue
with its current programs and resources.
Some PIRG proponents have said the
negative vote seemed not as much a vote
against consumerism as it did a protest over
the proposed funding and control of PIRG.
Blake Beam, a spokesman for an anti
PIRG organization called Students for
Better Campus Government, said Thursday,
"We felt there wasn't enough time allowed
for a proper educational campaign."
Beam said his organization, which was
founded only last week, thought students did
not know enough about the controversial
aspects of PIRG.
The organization printed and distributed
the anit-PlRG posters Monday.
Beam said the posters were printed so
close to the election because the Daily Tar
Heel told him it would print no partisan
PIRG material the week of the election.
However, DTH co-editor Greg Turosak
' said Beam was told no pro or con material
would be printed about PI RG the day of the
election. He simply misunderstood us,"
Turosak said. "We were waiting for his
column but he never came back into the
office."
The balloting was close, and five recounts
were required by the Student Government
Elections Board Wednesday night before the
final results were ratified. The first count
showed PIRG winning by eight votes, and
subsequent counts showed it losing by
margins ranging from two votes to 17.
Finally, all ballots were accounted for,
and PIRG advocates Besse and Kay House
said they would accept the results.
Title IX
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by Don Baer
Staff Writer
"HEW has proposed guidelines that
"will simply not work in intercollegiate
athletics," UNC Director of Athletics
Homer Rice said in a recent letter to
North Carolina congressmen.
The letter urged congressmen to alter
portions of the Sex Discrimination Act
(Title IX) calling for equal opportunity
in ifunding and facilities for college
women's sports programs. Rice said
athletic officials throughout the country
are writing similar pleas.
One HEW interpretation, as
explained by Rice, calls for women to be
able to try out for previously all-male
varsity sports. If females do not make
the regular teams, then teams would
have to be provided for them.
Rice said "the big danger is the cutting
back of our football and basketball
programs" so money can be given to
women's sports. Since , football and
basketball are the most profitable
programs, a cutback would result in less
money for all athletics, including
women's.
Rice's department now serves only as
a funding agency for the women's sports
program in the physical education
department. He stressed that UNC is an
advocate of women's sports, but said, "if
we are forced to cut back our own
programs to help them, then both will
suffer in the long run."
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But Besse later said he might appeal "on
the assumption that the student supreme
court can invalidate an election when the
results are apparently affected by an alleged
Honor Code violation."
Besse said he considered several of the
poster's allegations unfair. "I'm upset about
the whole approach they took of making
misleading charges."
Besse would not charge any one statement
with being specifically false, but was upset
about inferences that:
Students would have no direct control
over the money that went to PIRG.
PIRG was a non-student organization.
The referendum had been "railroaded
through CGC by PIRG advocates who
wished to take advantage of the expected low
voter turnout Wednesday."
However, Student Attorney General Nita
.Mitchell, who studied the poster at Besse's
request, said she did not find any Student
Conduct Code violation in the material.
Most of the charges in both the poster, and
the PIRG rebuttal printed on Tuesday, had
much to do with semantics and
interpretation.
A controversial aspect of PIRG one
which seemed to upset many students was
its funding system.
Student Activity Fees would have risen $3
per year if the referendum had passed, but
any student who did not want his money to
go to PIRG could indicate so when
registering.
In those cases, the student would pay S3
anyway, but the money would go to the CGC
General Revenues.
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"HEW just doesn't understand the
funding of most athletic programs," he
said. The athletic department receives
no direct federal financial support. Its
income comes form gate receipts,
student fees and contributions.
Rice said HEW Secretary Caspar W..
Weinberger was vague when he said the
government wanted "not equal, but
comparable dollars" for women's
sports. HEW, he said, has far too much
latitude in the matter.
So far, he has received some support
from congressmen.
Five members of the Chapel Hill Peace
Center held a 30-minute demonstration
at noon Thursday before a U.S. Navy
recruiting table in the Union.
A union information desk employee
said the demonstration had not been
cleared with Union officials, and he was,
prepared to call campus police when the
demonstration ended.
Scott Jackson, leader of the
demonstration, stood on a chair and read
cloud "The War Prayer" by Mark Twain,
a satire of a prayer said before entering
battle. Other group members held
placards denouncing military bombing
and kiting.
Navy recruiter Lt. Gary Hein said that
although he respected and protected the '
demonstrators! rights, he thought the
demonstration was biased. "They didn't
show any pictures of army and navy
medics helping injured civilians," he said.
The recruiters, who have been on
campus all week, said this was the first
demonstration since they arrived.
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