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Serving the students and University community since 1893
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thursday, Sept. 4, 1975
Vol. 84, No. 5
Weather: clear
Bouncing
by Johnny Oliver
Staff Writer
Although imprisonment and loss of
credit rating are possible consequences
of overdrawing a checking account,
approximately $25,000 in bad checks
are written in Chapel Hill each year,
according to the director of the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Merchants Association
Chech Recovery Department.
"Writing bad checks is a
misdemeanor in North Carolina,"
recovery department director Andy
Landes said. "1 would say 99 per cent of
those charged are convicted, and
roughly one-third of those are repeat
offenders."
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Not visions of futuristic architecture, these photos
catch two views of the covered walkway leading from
the new South Campus parking deck. The walkway
provides access from the parking deck across Manning
Drive to North Carolina Memorial Hospital. The
parking deck itself is four stories tall and is reserved for
hospital patients and visitors. .
San ford
Must beat Wallace to be taken seriously
A News Analysis
by Richard Whittle
Staff Writer
"The scenario goes like this," says one
Democratic Party worker. "Sanford enters
the New Hampshire primary and gets
between 10 and 15 per cent of the vote. He
sits out the Florida primary.
"Then, having shown people here he can
get votes in other parts of the country,
Sanford beats Wallace in the North Carolina
primary, gets his 'giant-killer' name-tag and
becomes a serious contender for the
nomination."
Whether or not this suggested scenario
follows exactly the route mapped by former
North Carolina Gov. Terry Sanford and his
supporters in his try for the 1976 Democratic
presidential nomination is hard to say.
Sanford campaign workers don't claim it
outright. But neither do they categorically
deny it.
However, many political observers do
agree that to become a leading candidate for
the nomination, the former N.C. governor
must beat George Wallace in the N.C.
primary next March.
Sanford must win here for two reasons.
First, the campaign is his second attempt at
the Democratic nomination. He sought the
nomination in 1972, when students urged
him into a hasty campaign which lasted only
a few weeks and ended with his defeat by
Wallace in that year's N.C. primary.
That defeat, coming by a margin of
approximately 15 per cent of the vote, was
and remains an embarassment to Sanford
supporters here. As a rule-of-thumb, a
candidate who can't carry his home state
can't be considered serious, so if Sanford
wants to be taken seriously elsewhere, he has
to beat Wallace here.
Second, Sanford must win the nomination
in North Carolina because he is suffering a
malady common among many Democratic
presidential hopefuls lack of name
identification across the nation.
George Wallace, however, is known
throughout the United States. What's more,
he has emerged as a real cloud over the heads
of those members of the Democratic Party
who dislike the things he stands for but
would very much like to get some of the
widespread support he has shown he can
deliver.
A win in the N.C. primary could thus put
Sanford's name in headlines all over the U.S.
and simultaneously win new friends among
liberal Democrats.
Since the number of delegates chosen in
North Carolina is relatively small, the
checks: Chapel Hill merchants' $25,000 a year liability
"A conviction involves more than a
criminal record," he said, "because the
bad check stays on the person's credit
record for seven years."
If a person is convicted in Chapel
Hill's criminal court, he must cover the
check, pay court costs of $25 and pay a
subpoena charge of approximately $2 if
witnesses are called to testify.
A conviction in civil court involves
the check cost, court costs, legal costs
for the plaintiff and a $5 service charge
for the merchant.
Landes noted that only about a dozen
cases have gone to court since the
recovery department started five
months ago. "When called to court.
Staff photo by Kovfci Ryan
primary has received little attention in the
past.
However, next year, the primary will
assume added significance, since the date has
been moved from May to March. Early
primaries are often looked to as gauges of the
political inclinations, and this year the N.C.
primary will be the fourth in the nation.
Sanford campaign officials are optimistic,
at least outwardly. "This is Terry Sanford's
time," said William R. Henderson, a former
member of Sanford's gubernatorial
administration who is now coordinating
Sanford fund-raising efforts in North
Carolina.
"I have been up and down and across this
state and I am completely convinced that we
will decisively defeat the candidate w ho took
our primary in 1972," Henderson added.
James R. Turner, former Democratic
Party chairperson of Guilford County and
another Sanford fund-raiser, also said his
candidate will win the state's primary.
"Sanford is going to come in second in New
Hampshire. And I think he's going to sweep
the N.C. primary, and then North Carolina
is going to be a much better place to live in,"
Turner said, explaining that he thinks the
Wallace victory here in 1972 has given the
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Taylor answers Bates' charges
by Vernon Loeb
Staff Writer
In a letter sent to Student Body President
Bill Bates on Tuesday, UNC Chancellor N.
Ferebee Taylor expressed the desire to keep
open lines of communication between his
office and Student Government and "to be
informed of the problems and concerns of
students."
The letter came in response to statements
made by Bates at a Friday press conference,
which charged that the U NC administration
is a large and unyielding bureaucracy.
Taylor criticized Bates handling of the
allegations against the administration,
saying, . . problems do not get resolved
by the rhetoric of press conferences.
"Rather," Taylor continued, "problems
get resolved when men and women of good
will try, first of all, to identify them as
precisely as possible and, then, to resolve
them as constructively and responsibly as
possible through an application of clear
thinking, rational discussion, and
purposeful effort.
"If you wish to engage seriously in this
kind of endeavor to the end that this be a
most people plead guilty and pay the
magistrate," he said.
Since its establishment, the
department has been asked to collect
money for approximately 750 checks
from its 75-member businesses. Most of
the checks were passed at retail stores,
many having been written two years
ago, Landes said.
When a merchant received a bad
check he will probably attempt to
redeposit it, Landes said. If the bank
returns the check to the merchant again,
he will then send the bad check writer a
returned check notice, provided by the
recovery department.
The notice informs the check writer
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state a "backward" image.
The confidence shown by Sanford
workers seems genuine, but it is not totally
shared by those outside the official campaign
ranks.
Jane Patterson, Guilford County
Democratic Party chairperson, gave a more
conservative estimate of Sanford's chances
in next year's showdown with Wallace.
"1 think he (Sanford) has a chance of
either beating Wallace by one point or
coming within two or three points in North
Carolina," Patterson said. Two potential
roadblocks to a Sanford sweep of the state
are his well-publicized fund-raising
problems and the former governor's recent
absences, she said.
Sanford has been in at least 2 1 states in the
past three months, and recently visited the
Soviet Union for talks with leaders there.
Another political observer recently noted
that the candidacy of former Georgia Gov.
Jimmy Carter could also present problems
for Sanford.
New Hampshire holds the nation's earliest
presidential primary, followed close by
Florida, the earliest Southern primary.
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learn, to achieve and accomplish 1 will be
pleased to see you join in this worthy
enterprise."
Bates said Wednesday, "It remains to be
seen how much thrit letter meant just as it
remains to be seen how much my press
conference meant."
He also said he never declared war on the
administration but on the bureaucracy
which students are forced to live under.
The administration is made up of
individuals while the bureaucracy is a body
of policies, many of which are now
antiquated, created by those individuals,
Bates said.
Bates said he declared war on the
bureaucracy with the hopes of working with
the administration to change it.
H is press release read in part, "It is time we
waged war on this stultifying bureaucracy
and that includes taking on every
administrator, faculty member, or student
who stands in the Way of increasing the
responsiveness of this University."
Bates said he was very pleased with the
attitude of Dean of Student Affairs Donald
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that he has 72 hours to cover the check
before it is turned over to the check
recovery department.
"Students react to the notice at a
better rate than others," Landes said.
"About 50 per cent of the students
notified respond to the first notice."
"Some students don't get notified
within the 72-hour period because they
fail to have the correct address listed on
the check."
Upon receiving a bad check, the
recovery department sends its own
notice giving the check writer another 72
hours to pay for the check and the
penalty.
When the recovery department
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by Art Eisenstadt
Staff Writer
The Campus Governing Council (CGC)
Finance Committee voted Tuesday to
endorse the actions of Student Body
Treasurer Mike O'Neal in determining how
much of the Daily Tar Heel's Student
Government fund appropriation should be
released at this time.
By doing so, the committee rejected a
Media Board recommendation made earlier
in the day that half of the newspaper's
remaining appropriation for this year be
released immediately.
The committee also voted to establish a
four-member task force to examine the
newspaper's operating procedures and
financial condition.
Before the Finance Committee took
action, chairperson Bill Strickland withdrew
a bill he had introduced earlier in the meeting
which would have immediately released the
newspaper's entire Student Government
appropriation.
A second provision of the bill would have
barred the Daily Tar Heel from ever again
receiving Student Government funds.
Strickland charged that the DTH had
been uncooperative in its dealings with
Student Government law and with O'Neal in
particular.
The committee's action to endorse O'Neal
was not in the form of a bill, which would
have been subject to CGC approval and
amendments. Rather, the committee voted
to recommend O'Neal's plan to release the
paper's Student Government funds in
monthly installments.
O'Neal said he will determine the amount
of each installment following a monthly
meeting with DTH Business Manager
Reynolds Bailey based on the Tar Heel's
estimated incoming revenue from other
sources for the coming month.
"This is the only sensible, businesslike way
to handle the problem," O'Neal said.
Unless the DTH funds question is raised
again at next Tuesday's full CGC meeting,
the committee's action closes the issue of
how the paper's allocation should be
released this year.
A bill directing any or all of the funds to be
released immediately could still be
Wanted
The Daily Tar Heel needs
photographers. Any student interested in
becoming a staff photographer should
come by the Tar Heel office between 4-6
today, Thursday or next week and ask to
speak to Martha Stevens, head
photographer, or Joyce Fitzpatrick,
graphic arts editor.
Boulton after meeting with him Tuesday.
At that meeting, Boulton, like Taylor, said
press conferences were not the place for such
allegations to be made. He also regretted the
fact that personalities, namely Director of
University Housing James Condie, became
involved.
Bates said Boulton was not one of the
three UNC administrators he labeled
"totally insensitive" but refused to name at
the Friday press conference.
Bates met with Boulton again Wednesday
to discuss the reinitiation of the Consultative
Forum, a committee Bates said he feels
students desperately need.
The forum, which went out of existence
four years ago, was created to discuss
University problems. It consisted of 60
members, 15 each from the student body,
faculty, administration and alumni.
Billy Richardson, executive assistant to
Bates, said the forum ceased to function
because it was too large with no real power
or purposes.
Bates wants to redefine the forum and
make it smaller while maintaining its
representation, Richardson said.
collects on a bad check, a S9 penalty
charge is added, payable with the check
to the recovery department. Also, most
banks have an additional charge of $5 or
$6.
"In most circumstances, if the
department is not notified in four to
seven days, a collecter will be sent to the
person responsible for the check,"
Landes explained. "If they don't
respond to the merchant's notice, only
about five per cent respond to the
department's notice."
Landes said persons who are not
caught are registered with national
credit bureau associations.
If a check remains unpaid after a v isit
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introduced on the CGC floor, but only if
two-thirds of the members approve.
The Tar Heel receives $29,500 of its
$219,000 budget from Student Government.
In order to pay for hs first several issues of
the semester, before advertising and
subscription revenue was collected. Bailey
requested $13,000 of the paper's Student
Government allocation.
O'Neal originally agreed to release $3,900
of the paper's allocation. He subsequently
agreed to release an additional $2,500 after
the paper encountered cash flow problems.
The Media Board resolution, passed
earlier in the day, would have immediately
released about $10,000 for the paper's use.
Student Government treasury laws
require organizations within its budget to
requisition funds against a cash balance
before entering into business transactions.
O'Neal said the Daily Tar Heel was
depending too much on its accounts
receivable (uncollected bills), and warned
that some of the accounts could turn out to
be bad debts.
"In raw numerical terms, the accounts
receivable may not be undesirably high,"
O'Neal said Tuesday. "What I'm concerned
about is what kind of accounts receivable
they are."
In order to study the newspaper's finances
and recommend a new operating procedure
to prevent future cash flow problems, the
committee voted to create the independent
study force.
by Richard Whittle
Staff Writer
Gerry Cohen, a Chapel Hill alderman and
1975 graduate of the UNC law school,
announced Wednesday his candidacy for
mayor in this year's municipal elections.
Reading from a prepared text at a
morning press conference in the Chapel Hill
Municipal Building, Cohen said, "Because 1
understand the problems (of Chapel Hill),
and because I think 1 can provide leadership
to deal with them, 1 will be a candidate for
mayor in the November 4 elections."
Cohen said he expects a controversial
campaign, which will bring attention to
problems and proposed solutions. Issues he
said he will focus on include transportation,
recreation and day care.
In a question and answer session following
his formal statement, Cohen said he has not
asked for an endorsement from out-going ,
Mayor Howard N. Lee, but said he would be
pleased if Lee were able to support him.
Lee, who has been mayor of Chapel H ill
since 1969, has announced he w ill not run for
re-election and is considering seeking the
state lieutenant governorship.
Cohen said he hopes to support himself if
elected to the mayor's post, by taking on -part-time
legal work. He recently passed the
state bar examination and expects to be
licensed as an attorney soon.
But he said he would spend the majority of
his time conducting the responsibilities of
the mayor if his campaign is successful.
"The mayor's job has become a full-time
one, even though we pretend it's not," Cohen
said. "The current salary of $5,000 is
obviously not a full-time salary." He added
that he thinks the Board of Aldermen should
give strong consideration to increasing the
mayor's salary.
Cohen said that, although he sees the need
to make the mayor's job a full-salaried
position, he continues to support the town
manager form of government in Chapel H ill.
from the collector, then the recovery
department returns the check to the
merchant for possible court action.
"Our basic overall goal is to reduce
the number of bad check writers."
Landes said, "as I spend a lot of my time
working with merchants on their check
acceptance procedures. I think the
merchants are doing the students a real
favor by using the check recovery
department rather than going to court."
Landes said he thinks people often
w rite bad checks because they are under
stress. "I've checked this out through
actual experience," he said. "A bad
check is one of many ways in which one
can rebel against society."
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The group will consist of CGC member
Doug Smith, Media Board member Bill
Moss, a graduate student or faculty member
from the School of Business Administration
and a second professional member from
either the faculty or the business community.
All the task force's activities w ill be closed
to the press until after it has issued its final
report, due 45 days after its first meeting.
An article in the bill creating the task
force, which must be approved by CGC
before it becomes law, would replace a
similar commission set up by the Media
Board earlier in the day.
However, Media Board member Rob
Price said he is not sure whether the CGC has
the authority to supersede the Media Board
task force, which was to have included three
board members and three faculty members
from the Schools of Business
Administration and Journalism.
"They have set up the Media Board to be
in charge of these publications." Price said.
"For them to step in and make the decisions
for us is to negate the decisions of the board."
Student Body President Bill Bates said he
did not foresee any problem in abolishing the
original task force. "The Media Board is
actually a subsidiary of CGC." he said.
Media Board chairperson Dick Pope
could not be reached for comment
Wednesday, although he appeared to
endorse the Finance Committee's bill
establishing the study group Tuesday.
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Chapel Hill mayoral candidate Gerry
Cohen
- "In Chapel Hill I don't think there's any
way you could have an elected
administrator, nor do 1 think the citizens
desire one," he explained.
The 25-year-old alderman said other
issues he expects to deal with during his
campaign are housing, recycling,
cooperation between various local
governments and increased power of local
neighborhood groups.
Cohen has been a resident of Chapel Hill
since 1968, when he entered UNC as an
undergraduate. He received a B.A. degree in
political science here in 1971 and grad uated
from the law school last May.
Elected to the Board of Aldermen in 1973,
his term will expire in 1977. He is currently
vice-president of the local chapter of the
North Carolina Civil Liberties Union, a
member of the national lobbying
organization Common Cause and of the
Democratic Socialist Organizing
Committee.