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Heel, while signed columns and letters represent the viewpoints of the
individual contributors. Monday, April 14, 1975
ERA: votes shouldn't
be trusted to chance
M Equality of rights under the law
shall not be denied or abridged by
the United States or by any state on
account of sex."
Tomorrow the General Assembly is
scheduled to consider passage of the
Equal Rights Amendment, reported
favorably ..last week by the House
Constitutional Amendments
Committee. There are, according to
state Representative Trish Hunt(D
Orange), 58 votes for the
amendment. Sixty-one are needed
lor passage by the House.
Thex votes of three of the 20
representatives who are undecided
should not be trusted to chance.
Active lobbying efforts have secured
the current support ERA enjoys.
Active lobbying can secure passage
of the amendment.
The amendment is an extension of
principles long affirmed by
American history. One's status
before the law and one's
opportunities for growth and
advancement should not be
determined by arbitrary factors
beyond one's control and irrelevant
to one's abilities.
The thrust of the amendment is
the reaffirmation and the uniform
application of this value. Where
benefits are made available fo one
sex, . they must (under the
amendment) be made available to
the other. Where rights are denied
on the basis of sex, those rights must
be made available to both sexes.
The effect of the amendment,
alter its two year phase-in period,
would be to eradicate pockets of
discrimination regarding
employment, pay, eligibility for
college, service within the military,
jury duty, death and retirement
benelits, and responsibility for
Parole reform
Under present practices, inmates
serving sentences in the state's penal .
system are eligible for parole after
having served one-fourth of their
minimum sentence.
All inmates are legally entitled to a
hearing when they become eligible for
parole consideration but the state
reserves the final authority to grant a
parole and in many instances decides
not to parole certain types of inmates
who in all likelihood will fail to
successfully re-integrate themselves
with society.
Though the state parole commission
can refuse to parole offenders who are
considered as being psychologically
unbalanced and risks to the community,
these same offenders will mandatorily
be released at the expiration of their
sentences, whatever the implications.
Inmates who are repeatedly refused
parole invariably become angry,
resentful men. When they complete
their full sentences and are escorted to
the prison gate with an oversized suit
hung over them and a few dollars pocket
money to "make it" with, one ponders
the chances of survival for the ex
inmate. More fundamentally, one
questions the wisdom of a practice that
releases an offender back to society
under circumstances by which the,
individual has no resources to help
himself.
Legislation has been introduced in the
General Assembly, which, if passed,
would require the state parole
commission to release under
supervision inmates with at least 90 days
remaining on their sentence.
This "mandatory parole" legislation
would put the offender on parole for
approximately three months before
expiration of his sentence, and in doing
this would provide him with some
standard of assistance from his parole j
officer and the parole department's pre
release and after-care office which helps!
of Editorial Freedom
Cola C. Ccmpbsll
Jim Grimslsy
Associate Editor
Rslph J. Iracs
Contributing Editor
Jim Roberts
' News Editor
Gens Johnson '
Jf7re Editor
Aisn Murray ,
Features Editor
Joyce Fitzpstilck
Graphic Arts Editor
f.!srion Merritt
Editor
children and alimony in cases of
divorce.
It would replace sex with criteria
such as ability to support spouse and
children, state powers to regulate
cohabitation of the unmarried, the
right of privacy, and individual
ability. Thus alimony and child
support would continue (according
to ability to pay), separate sleeping
and bathroom facilities would be
maintained, rape laws would still
stand and individual advancement
would depend on individual ability.
The Young Democrats Club and
the Association of Women Students
have lobbied for passage of ERA.
Now it's your turn. Call, write or
drive over to Raleigh this afternoon
and see one of the representatives
below. Tell him or her that you think
he should vote for passage.
We need to get three votes, but we
won't get them by staying silent.
Undecided on ERA
(According to ERA United and N.C.
Young Democrats Legislative Lobby
Committee)
Vernon James Pasquotank
Chris S. Barker Jr. Craven
Joe L. Bright Craven
Ronald E. Mason Carteret
J. Guy Revelle Northhampton
B.D. Schwartz New Hanover
S. Thomas Rhodes New Hanover
T.W. Ellis - Vance
Jack M. Gardner Johnston
Barney Woodard Johnston
Jimmy Love Lee
Robert C. Soles Columbus
Richard Wright Columbus
David Parnell Robeson .
J.T. Pugh Randolph
Gilbert Davis Randolph
A. Neal Smith Rowan
Aaron Plyler Union
William McMillan Iredell
John Gamble Lincoln
Jeff Enloe Macon
the parolee locate a job, place of
residence, etc.
There can never be any absolute
guarantees of success in the sphere of
correctional rehabilitation. In fact, the
unintended consequences of "reform"
have at times been mischievous,
producing in many instances as many
difficulties as the conditions they were
intended to ameliorate.
This bill, however, which has already
been passed by the House, imports into
the criminal justice system a new
stratagem for resocializing the more
difficult-to-handle inmates who have
been denied regular parole. In view of .
. our doctrine of rehabilitation rather
than retribution for the offender, this,
bill should be enacted to give offenders
the assistance and hoped for incentives
that they otherwise would not receive
under terminal discharge.
,Although it is called "mandatory
parole," the bill contains a provision
which would give the parole
commission the authority to deny the
special parole from being granted to
inmates who are homicidal,
psychopathic or of such a mental state,
of mind that their parole would
represent a danger to society. This
category of offenders would be the only
exception to the proposed three-month
aftercare parole plan. Tragically, these
same psychologically disturbed inmates
will: be released months later upon
expiration of their sentences and will be
discharged without any supervision at
all. This is one of the more critical
problems in corrections today and its
dilemma urges recognition and
exploration of new, unfound
rehabilitation models. . ;
The three-month aftercare parole bill
represents progressivism in criminal
justice policy making and ideology. We
appalud its arrival and hope that the
Senate will expedite its enactment into
"" RJJ.
A reply to
I am not a particular friend of Bill Bates or
Mike O'Neal. I voted for Tim Dugan the first
time around. But I must respond, in all
lairness, to the groundless mnuendos and
blatant inaccuracies Lloyd Scher repeated in
his April 1 1 column.
All Bales' appointments are from
Granville or Avery. False. Of the 35
positions Bates has filled so far, only five
appointees came from Granville and only
two from Avery. Half the people Lloyd listed
in his article have never lived in Granville or
Avery at all. 1 know. I checked the phone
book and the Locater Service.
All Bates appointees are former
campaign workers. False. The only offices
Bates has filled so far are his personal staff,
the unfilled Honor Court seats, and two
seats on the Media Board. Obviously, Bates'
closest assistants would be people he already
knows and can work with. But, by my
personal count, the overwhelming majority
of the Honor Court appointees endorsed
either Tim Dugan or Joe Knight.
One of the Media Board appointees,
George Bacso (who lives in James, not
Granville), voted for Tim, as far as 1 can tell.
The other. Bill Moss, was apparently
neutral, even though he lived in Granville. At
least he wasn't a Bates worker.
Bates has appointed no minority
students to office. Yes and no. Admittedly,
none of the five staff workers and neither of
the Media Board representatives are black.
However, every black who applied for an
H onor Court position was appointed, and 15
women (seven more than the required
minimum) were named. Two of Bates' staff
workers are women, and more arecojrnng.
Bates has assured CGC that more minority
students will be tapped within the next two
weeks, and we have no reason to doubt his
word.
All of Marcus Williams' former staff
has been sacked. False. At least one Williams
staffer, Ellen Frisbee, has already been,
reappointed and confirmed. Several others,
most notably Chris Lowe, Gary Thomas and
J.R. Steigerwald, are sticking on during the
transition, and most of these, except
graduating seniors, will probably stay on
permanently if they want to.
Mike O'Neal is de Jacto Student Body
President. He writes Bates' .speeches, paws
through students' jiles and makes all the
decisions.
Oh, come on, Lloyd! When I was in the
office on committee business Monday, I saw
Bates writing the thing out in longhand. All
Letters to the editor
A clarification of the j ournalism review
To the editor:
As a participant in the Carolina Course
Review, 1 feel it is my responsibility to clarify
some very serious misconceptions and
assumptions about the review of the School
of Journalism. .
The review 1 submitted was severely
edited. The first 1 5 lines of the overview were
not mine. I do not feel the j-school is "caught
somewhere between a vocational school and
a day-care center on the one hand, and that
pinnacle of j-school excellence, Columbia
University, on the other." Columbia
University's undergraduate journalism
program is not as extensive as Carolina's;
most of the graduate students there have had
experience in the field.
A survey taken by the j-school last year
indicated that over 60 per cent of those
enrolled expect to enter the newspaper
profession; most of the others plan careers in
public relations, broadcasting or
advertising.
Several UNC Journalism School
graduates have made it to the Washington
Lost and the New York Times. Both Clifton
Daniels and Tom Wicker, for example, are
limes editors.
My comments on Jim Shumaker were
taken out of context. He did receive a degree
Irom UNC in 1971 when the University
waived a hygiene requirement in recognition
ol his journalistic accomplishment.
I singled out Walter Spearman, Richard
Cole and Shumaker not because they are
Thoughts on
D
Isms
Dr. Robert E. Daniels is an assistant
professor of anthropology and earned his
Ph.D. in 1970 at the University of Chicago.
Tomorrow, Dr. Thomas J. Meyer, an
assoicate projessor in the chemistry
department, will give his predictions for the
Juture of "spaceship Earth."
We seem to be obsessed with the future,
though increasingly our mood is fearful
rather than hopeful. Still, one can find the
occasional full-page magazine ad depicting
futuristic (and privately owned) cars
whirring along a few inches above some
wonderful electronic interstate, or herds of
automatically watered cattle grazing amid
endless acres of solar panels. Advertisers are
becoming aware that fewer and fewer people
get turned on to such visions, but there still
seem to be some of them who have not seen
R. Crumb's devastating and definitive City
of the Future (Zap Comix) in which
"Everybody will have all of everything."
The problem is we are now living in
yesterday's future, and rather than being the
glass and stainless steel heaven that was
71
O'Neal, or whoever, did was type it up for the
D1H. And what files? The only "students'
tiles" 1 know of in Suite C, the Attorney
General's files, are locked up. Nobody can
get to them. The rest is just ongoing, public
SG business, that anybody can have access
to.
Nobody complained last year when Lloyd
sat around Suite C almost daily from 1:00 to
5:00, pawed through files, and made Tel-pax
calls all over the state on student phones.
Unless someone can prove actual
malfeasance of office, and as long as he's
willing to work, I see no reason why O'Neal
shouldn't have the right to do the same.
All the Bates appointments so far have
Bill Strickland
Budget deserves students attention
Does anyone really take an interest in
Student Government? Apparently not,
because although over one quarter of the
student body voted in the recent elections,
very few have shown any interest in an item
which lies close to a student's heart: his fees.
At the present time, the budget hearings
are in full swing. This is the best time to
speak out for what you feel, while the
consideration is before the finance
committee, not after it reaches the floor of,
the entire CampuTGoverning Council. Very
little was done with the budget after it
reached the floor last year, and probably not
much will happen to it this year once it gets
out of committee. Sure, there will be a lot of
speeches and debate, but most of the work i
will already have been done, and the CGC as
a whole will probably accept the
recommendations of the finance committee
lor the most part.
Although the hearings have been
publicized in the Daily Tar Heel and through
the mail to organizations submitting
requests for funds, the only people who have
shown up for any of the hearings have been
the ones asking for funds (the only exception
has been a student who wanted to tape a
meeting for a journalism class).;
Organizations have been assigned time to
make any presentations they felt necessary
necessarily the most qualified, brilliant or
eccective members of the j-school staff.
Rather, 1 was giving my own judgment of
their popularity among the students. I think
the statistical evaluations will confirm that
these teachers receive less negative comment
from their students than anyone else in the
department, with the possible exception of
Dean Adams, who teaches only one course.
I did not participate in any review of an
individual course. 1 accepted the
chairmanship of the j-school review from
Harriet Sugar, who gave it up to run for co
editor of the DTH. With a little over a week
left before the course review deadline, 1
solicited evaluations from approximately 15
students. Perhaps I misunderstood the
assignment, but I did not see my role as that
of censor. 1 did encourage reviewers to make
their evaluations as representatives of each
class as possible.
As a whole, I believe the j-school reviews
were most accurate and fair. Unfortunately,
the good reviews were somewhat
overshadowed by the unfair, imbalanced
and overly personal reviews of Mac Secrest's
J 1 1 1, Ed Mullins' J57 and J 164, Donald
Shaw's J 165 and Stuart Sechriest's J80. Part
of this was also due to additions and
subtractions by the editors, i.e. the
observation that Donald Shaw "has an
immense knowledge of his subject through
his own research" was ommitted.
As far as I am concerned, those professors
2050 A.D.
promised, we see the glitter already peeling
lrom amusement parks and motelsjustafew
years old while the very real problem of the
long-term degradation of our planet is
matched, naturally, , by the increasing
deterioration in the living conditions of a
vast number, perhaps the majority, of our
own kind.
Clearly we can't go on in the same way. If
anyone is not yet convinced of this let them
read The Limits to Growth. The projection
of twentieth century trends into the future
implies the catastrophic collapse of our
world-wide, industrialized and fossil-fueled
strategy of adaptation. And there are
compelling arguments against putting faith
in the "technological fix" breakthroughs
that will always open up new realms for
exploitation just as the old ones are played
out. Comforting as this science-in-the-foref
ront view may be, the truth is that our
environmental impact has already far
outstripped our understanding of what is
happening. The first study of air pollution in
the U.S. generated its samples by pumping
for
the
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been confirmed by unanimous consent in
CGC, including O'Neal. Several CGC
members, such as Dan Besse and John
Sawyer, have raised important questions
concerning minority representation and a
unanimity among the office staff, not so
much in residence, as in shared opinion and
outlook.
Bates, however, has shown a willingness to
bend and compromise. Any charges of an
elitist, "closed" administration are pretty
much disproved after the long, agonizing
discussions between Suite C, Human
Sexuality and the BSM.
Furthermore, Bates' most important
appointments Treasurer, Attorney
and to answer any questions which the
committee might have.
Even so, not all the groups have appeared
before the. committee when they were
scheduled, and only one, the consolidating
academic affairs groups, has bothered to
give a reason for not attending or asked for
another time. This apparent lack of interest
can only serve to hurt their position when the
, final figures are deliberated by the finance
committee. v ,
This Wednesday night at 7:30 (in the
Union) will be the last night of hearings for
any groups which have not been assigned a
time to present themselves and for the
groups which have missed their scheduled
times for any various reasons. It will be the
last night for anyone to openly address the
committee, for this has been the purpose of
the hearings: to gather all the information
which people have to offer and which the
committee feels it needs to work out a budget
in as smooth and continuous fashion as is
possible.
This Thursday night (and continuing
through Friday afternoon and Sunday and
Monday nights as needed) will mark the
commencement of piecing the budget
together. No one will be allowed to speak
except at the request of committee members
so that as much work can be done in an
are vindicated by the lack of reinforcement
their reviews receive from the statistical
evaluations.
Jim Buie
407 East Rosemary St.
Course review called
unsystematic, arbitrary
To the editor
The "Carolina Course Review" is an
atrocity in that subjective opinions about
a course collected by a single individual are
not necessarily representative and may
unfairly damage the reputations and
academic standings of the instructors
involved. Such unsystematic and arbitrary
impressions as you have published can only
be counter-productive in terms of your
stated objective of improving course content
because they threaten faculty morale and
undermine student-faculty rapport.
Course evaluations provided standard
questions are systematically asked of
representative samples of students and
provided the results are appropriately
analyzed and reported can be of
instructive value to students as well as
faculty. The "Carolina Course Review,"
however, violates such standards and
borders upon being libelous. Any further
publications of the "Review" which are being
uture arro
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Dr.
Robert
Daniels
air in off the streets of Los Angeles. Our
massive programs to rationally redesign
nature, from the Aswan High Dam to the
Green Revolution, have turned out to be
massive snafus, and our problems would
only be worse if they were working as
planned.
At this point a lot of us fall into the error of
"Chrono-centrism" thinking that this must
be the critical moment in the history of our
species. If we are not about to step through
the wonderwall into Utopia, then let's at least
General and the student representatives on
Chancellor's committees haven't been
announced yet. No charges can really be
substantiated until then.
I don't say that Bates, O'Neal and the
other executive office people can't or
shouldn't be criticized. But if there is going to
be opposition, it should rest on concrete,
.significant issues, not petty personal
squabbles such as Lloyd's with M ike O'Neal.
ben Steelman is a member of CGC.
Doug Markham, governor of Granville
Residence College, and Joe Elkins, a former
governor, also submitted a statement on the
April 11 column, essentially repeating the
same points as above.
uninterrupted manner as possible; however,
everyone is urged to attend the meetings to
observe the operations of the committee and
the distribution of fees. After all, the mere
presence of people can speak as loudly as
their voices, and should any questions arise
in spite of the hearings, the answers will be as
readily available as the people who attend,
therefore it is to everyone's benefit to be
present.
In short, come Wednesday night if you
want to voice yourself, and attend the budget
sessions to watch where your fees go. Don't
wait until the budget is in front of the entire
Campus Governing Council to show
disapproval of the proposed allotments, for
then it may well be too late; work while it is
still early.
Finally, and above all, if you are too
apatethic to come, then don't complain
about where your student Jees went, for you
have missed your opportunity and you must
live with it. You just cannot beat a dead
horse and expect him to perform.
Bill Strickland
Finance Committee Chairman
Bill Strickland is chairman of the finance
committee.
planned should be abandoned.
Joyce Kramer
Graduate Student
Department of Sociology
Stores committee
to meet today at 4
To the editor
Many students who live on south or
middle campus have voiced various opinions
concerning the recent decision to close down
or cut back on operating hours of our snaclc
bars.
Today, at 4:00 p.m. in room 213 of the
Union there will be an open meeting of the
Chancellor's Advisory Committee on
Student Stores. Mr. Thomas Shetley,
director of Student Stores along with Mr.
J.A. Branch, executive director of
enterprises and services will be present to
present detailed information about this
change in operating procedure for the snack
bars. They will also call for student opinion
in this matter and hopefully entertain
questions from those present.
I am urging all students affected by these
changes to attend this very important
meeting and be heard before it's too late!
Jack Sussman
Governor, Ehringhaus Dormitory
1975-76
get a thrill out of a dead-end crash. It's a
natural reaction in times which are critical
and in which each of us individually has so
little command of the total situation. But if
we succeed in pulling out of our current
problems, then 1975 or 2050 A.D. may some
day be as remote as 2050 B.C. or 20,500 B.C.
or... I hope so.
If we are to have descendants in the year
2050, we must trust them to take care of
themselves. I have no doubt they will have
the ability, provided we don't constrain their
situation, or as Gregory Bateson would say,
compromise their flexibility to adapt, by
burdening them with our arrogant plans for
what their world would look like, or leaving
them to choke on the social and
environmental "trade-offs" of our own
elf orts to deny present realities.
1 don't know how much will change by
2050, but hopefully enough for people to
have fun. With luck, I'll still be recycling.
Sufficient unto the day are the evils
thereof. '
gant