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Chgpsl HSI, North Carolina, Thursday, February 6, 1975
Vol. 83, No. G3
Founded February 23, 1S33
Undergrad
education
examined
by Greg Nye
Staff Writer
The value oT undergraduate education a
UNC was questioned Tuesday night when
the established, tenured professors got their
chance to meet with the faculty Committee
on University Priorities.
Junior faculty members met with the
committee last Thursday. The Committee on
Priorities will make recommendations on
the direction of education at UNC to the
University's Planning Council May I.
Dr. Stirling Haig. professor of Romance
languages, told the committee the .
intellectual atmosphere on this campus is
poor. "Students are dismayed at what we are
teaching here I felt it when I was an
undergraduate at UNC and 1 can see it in my
own classes now."
Other professors expressed concern about
a .different aspect of the undergraduate
program. Dr. Charles Jenner, professor of
Zoology, echoed Assistant Professor of
Political Science Dr. Richard Clinton's
complaint last Thursday before the
committee that students are not being
educated to current world problems.
"Society hasn't organized its problems the
way the University has chosen to arrange
itself." Jenner said. "There is a growing
interrelation of world problems, but our
fields of study remain isolated. This is the
most urgent problem facing the University."
Dr. Daniel Okun, professor of
environmental science and a member of the
Committee on Priorities, agreed that
University departments are not as
interrelated as they should be. "Our awards
system is designed to study in a specialized
field," Okun explained. "Changes will come
slow the faculty has a stake in the way
things are now. r
"What we can do now to cope with these
world problems," Okun said, "is to continue
our interdisciplinary programs, such as the
population studies. And students should
take it - upon themselves to- iategrate
departments by choosing relevant courses
from several areas of study."
Okun said he is unable to predict whether
the proposals for more interdisciplinary
studies in world crisis situations will be
accepted by his committee.
"It's hard to say if the Committee on
Priorities will recommend action," Okun
said. "The younger professors who met last
week were a little more concerned than those
here tonight seem to be. There are a lot of
different things we have to be concerned
with."
Faculty members also questioned the
committee about whether the quality of
education here might go down if the
University continues to expand. Current
administration plans, however, anticipate an
extremely small growth rate over the next
five years, the student population probably
not rising over 20.000.
Professors also expressed concern about
their jobs, now that resources are limited
because the University has ceased growing.
"The point is," Okun said after the
meeting, "that we don't have the answers.
We are just bringing up questions for
consideration."
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Tom Wright, a junior journalism major
and WCAR news staff member, announced
his, candidacy for DTH editor Wednesday.
"The Tar Heel is no longer a newspaper,"
he said. "It's an organ for the expression of
the views of a select group of people." '
His proposals, outlined in a 13-point
platform, include opening the editorial page
to everyone, decreasing national wire news
coverage and eliminating staff politics.
Since students at this university pay part
of their Ices for the DTH, Wright said, they
should get something for their money.
"Only in the event of not receiving enough
copy to fill the page would the editor or staff
write for the editorial page," he said.
Wright said the advertising department
should be headed by a professional and'
should serve as a laboratory for advertising
and business majors. Wright also advocated
. decreasing space devoted to ads, while
maintaining present advertising revenue.
He said it was unrealistic to expect the
DTH to become financially independent
from student funds during a period of
economic decline.
"I'm addressing myself tospecific, realistic
changes that can be made, rather than to
broad promises."
Wright's platform also calls for more
objective reporting and more articles written .
by people outside the staff.
"Any student, regardless of their major or
who they know or don't know, should be
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Work is nearing completion on
Jr oFd renews
by Richard E. Lerner
United Press International
WASHINGTON The White House
said Wednesday President Ford intends to
seek election to a full term next year even if
his economic strategy fails to lift the country
out of recession.
Press Secretary Ron Nessen said Ford
"does expect the economy to be considerably
better then than it is now but the President's
decision to seek re-election in 1 976 is
unrelated to the state of the economy."
NesserTs comments Wednesday were seen
as a public signal from Ford to any potential
GOP challengers.
Sen. Howard Baker, R-Tenn., is known to
be considering a presidential bid, along with
former California Gov. Ronald Reagan.
Political observers expect Vice President
Nelson A. Rockefeller as well as former
Attorney General Elliot L. Richardson to be
ready to campaign if Ford declines to run.
In other action. Ford began a campaign to
assure enough votes to sustain a veto of a
House bill passed Wednesday that would
block for 90 days his $3-per-barrel fee on
imported oil.
The delay legislation now goes to the
Senate where Finance Committee Chairman
Russell Long, D-La., is opposed to it and
where a filibuster against it is probable.
Eventual passage is likely, however.
There is every indication Ford considers
this issue one of the most important
showdowns of his presidency.
Nessen acknowledged that "somehow it
has gotten around" that Ford might bow out
of the 1 976 race if the economy showed no
major improvement. "That is not true," he
said.
In his annual economic report to Congress
declares
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given a fair chance to be published in the
DTHT he said.
Wright, whose newspaper experience
includes work on the Birmingham News and
an underground newspaper in Atlanta, said
all articles should be judged in terms of form,
content and general interst.
He also advocates a better system of
distributing the newspapers. "Not enough
copies are being put out at key points," he
said, "while hundreds are being left to gather
dust in out-of-the-way places."
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Hard times in '76 won't stop him
Tuesday, the President predicted a
continuation of the recession well into 1975,
with high inflation and unemployment. For
1 976, he forecast only a small drop in
joblessness from 8. 1 per cent and
inflation of better than 7 per cent.
Ford said Tuesday he was personally
optimistic, but offered little evidence to
justify expectations for a more favorable
trend. Nessen was similarly vague
Wednesday in restating the President's
grounds for hope.
Ford spent Monday and Tuesday in
Atlanta trying to gather public support for
- his 'peiaS "4o- revive the economy and
conserve energy.
Nessen said the President would continue
that campaign next Monday by flying to
Houston, where he will meet with a group of
eight to 10 southwestern governors. On
Anaito rates defeated
by Vernon Loeb and Tim Pittman
Staff Writers
RALEIGH Public and legislative
debate coincided yesterday as college
students met with members of the state
Senate and House Insurance committees to
discuss a possible end to age discrimination
in insurance rates.
Supporters of the Auto Insurance Age
Discrimination Bill joined the bill's
opponents in a two-hour public hearing
before the legislators.
The college students including UNC
student Gary Thomas, chairman of the state
affairs commission of Student Government;
and Mark Hutchinson made brief appeals
to the committees in support of the bill's
passage. Chief among the bill's proponents
was state Insurance Commissioner John
Ingram who based his 1 972 campaign on the
need to abolish discriminatory insurance
rates.
An audience of more than 200 listened
while insurance executives and legislators
presented their opinions. The speakers
included Senate President Pro Tern John T.
Henley and N. C. AFL-CIO President
Wilbur Hobby.
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Tuesday, Nessen said Ford would travel on
to Topeka, Kan., for a similar session with
midwestern governors.
Ford also conferred for 70 minutes with
Pakistan Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto
and met with congressmen to lobby for his
energy program.
Nessen said Ford told Bhutto that the
United States would provide as much food
aid as possible to Pakistan, where
production had slipped due to a continuing
drought.
Ford also pledged "continuing American
support" for Pakistan, Nessen said, but was
--not - ready ' to.-, announce ' 'whether; he Vwas
removing a 1 0-year embargo on the sale of
"lethal" weapons to Pakistan and India.
Nessen said only that Ford told Bhutto "the
matter . . . would receive active
consideration."
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The companion bills (Senate Bill 55 and
House Bill 28) were introduced by Sen.
George W. Marion Jr., D-Surry, and Rep.
Foyle Hightower, Jr., D-Anson and
proposed to end age discrimination in
automobile insurance classifications and
impose standards according to driver safety
records.
"Young people and student governments
do not have the money to put up as big a
lobbying effort as the insurance companies
do ," Thomas said. "But we are the ones who
are being ripped off by paying high
discriminatory insurance rates."
The bills would enable I ngram to establish
rate differentials based on driving records
instead of on the current system of nine
rating categories that determine liability
insurance rates. .
Defeated in the legislature in 1973 and
1 974, the age discrimination bill would
. benefit males between the ages of 16 and 25
and citizens over 65 who must pay the
highest insurance rates regardless of their
safety records.
Ingram insisted insurance special-interest
groups are "going around and around in a
revolving door disguising the age
discrimination."
Pledging to make the Daily Tar Heel an
advocate of student concerns, Don Baer,
former DTH administration and state
legislature reporter, and Harriet Sugar,
former features editor, announced
Wednesday their candidacy for co
editorship of the DTH.
"The student newspaper's power lies in its
ability to explore intelligently through
coordinated news stories and editorials
important campus issues," they said.
They cited the recent administrative
reaction to High Noon as "one of many
incidents requiring more righteous
indignation and positive alternatives from
the student paper."
Sugar, a journalism major, worked as an
intern last summer for the Washington
bureau of the Boston Globe. Baer, a
journalism and political science major, was a
congressional intern for U.S. Rep. Charles
Rose last summer. The Fayetteville juniors
have both worked summers for the
Fayetteville Observer.
Their program to make the DTH more
interested in the students and students more
interested in the newspaper includes:
Recruiting special interest reporters and
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by Bruce Henderson
Staff Writer
An increased number of in-coming
undergraduate women next fall will
cause a housing shift that will touch
several dormitories including Ruffin
dorm, Dr. James D. Condie, director of
University housing, said Wednesday.
Condie presented tentative plans for
the shift Tuesday night to Ruffin
residents, who may be affected the most
by the proposals.
"The basic reason for a (housing
.change) is to get more rooms for
women," Condie said Wednesday.
Proposed housing plans include
converting the first floor of Ruffin to
handicapped, female student quarters
and moving the International Student
Center (ISC) from Carr dormitory to
the top three floors of Ruffin.
Current figures were unavailable
Wednesday, but Condie estimated last
week that approximately 326 more
spaces will be needed next fall.
Condie emphasized that no final
decisions have been made by the
housing department.
"The Ruffin residents asked if they
could present an alternative plan, and I
told them they could," he said. The plan
will be presented to Condie Friday.
Condie said the alternative plan will
be given "serious consideration" in
devising a final proposal, which he said
will be presented to Donald A. Boulton,
dean of student affairs, by the end of
next week.
Association (RHA) representative for
the Upper Quad men's dorms, said
Wednesday that Ruffin residents were
concerned, but not alarmed by the
before legislators
He charged the insurance representatives
with throwing up "smokescreens" to
complicate the issue.
"The time is now to abolish age
discrimination," Ingram said. "We have to
reject insurance special-interest tactics."
Marion said, "It is a simple little bill which
does exactly what the name of the bill says
it ends discrimination for people under 25
and over 65." "
ine arts
estival
Schedule for Thursday, Feb. 6:
Matting and Framing Workshop with Bill Holloman
The Artist as Filmmaker Series Red Grooms,
Robert Morris, Bruce Nauman. Edward Ruscha,
Claes Oldenburg and Richard 'Serra & Joan Jonas
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Playmakers)
Konrad Oberhuber a lecture: "The Iconography of
Raphael's School of Athens"
departmental and organizational contacts to
broaden campus coverage and to open the
paper to more students;
Emphasizing more comprehensive
campus news and the local impact of state
and national events, such as the effect of the
economy on student job openings;
Staffing a monthly, problem-oriented
news feature magazine to delve into topics
such as student housing, campus racial
friction, consumerism and the arts;
Creating an editorial research board to
study complicated University issues such as
hiring policies and financial aid;
. Printing 20.000 instead of 1 7,500 copies
on most days.
"The DTH is too often viewed as simply a
toy for journalism students. By actively
recruiting previously unsought talent, we
hope to convince students in all disciplines of
the paper's important role at UNC," they
said.
"Our journalism backgrounds combined
with extensive involvement in student
activities, such as Student Government, the
YMCA and Orientation, give us an essential
understanding of the dynamics of the
University."
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change.
"We don't like being moved," Wallace
said, but he added that several
alternative proposals are already being
discussed by the residents.
One suggestion is for the
international students to move in as
graduating residents of Ruffin vacate
.their rooms. The process would take
two or three years, he said. Other
residents have suggested moving one
floor of international students to
a nother dormitory,
Wallace said he felt Ruffin residents
"I lave a specialty unity," and said that if
some residents do have to leave the
dormitory, they may go as a group.
"We have thought about getting a
group of guys and trying to move in
another dorm," he said. A large group of
a s many as 25 could all be placed on the
same floor of a dorm, and thus preserve
some of their ties, he said.
Other proposals, as Condie related
them at an RHA meeting last week,
include making Carr dorm an all
women's dorm; converting the first floor
of Gr imes dorm to handicapped male
housing; providing a wing in Craige for
gradua te international students; and
adding coed wings to Morrison and
James dormitories. Granville Towers
may also be asked to accept 200 more
women than men residents next fall.
"This ( proposal)," Condie said last
week, "would gain housing in Ruffin
and Carr, it would satisfy the
internation al situation and we could
.guarantee the men places on North
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handicapped students will be forced to
live in camp us housing reserved for
them, he adde d.
William Sut tie, vice president of the
southeastern rej 5'ional office of the American
Insurance Ass( ciat ion, said the loss per
insured vehicle for young drivers was more
than double lfor ;adult operators. The
accident report records of the North
Carolina Departmemt of Motor Vehicle-v
regularly show t hat yo uthful operators cause
a disproportionate share of the total
reported accidents, Suttle said.
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