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by Julie Knight
Staff Writer
According to a Daty Tar Heel survey,
School Kids Records on Franklin Street
generally offers the lowest record prices in
town, but the Record Bar on Henderson
Street and Buffalo Records offer special
sales on major new releases.
Two weeks after release, a major album
that is list priced $6.98 will sell for $3.75 at
the Record Bar and $3.99 at Buffalo. The
Record Bar at University Mall and School
Kids have no special new release policies.
Both Record Bars have weekly sales
determined by their main office and Buffalo
is now having an overstock sale which will
last until May 5.
Buffalo's overstock sale offers one dollar
voff the marked price of about 20 per cent cf
-their rock and soul albums which are -
Dorm life cheaper than frats, sororities
by Laura Seism
Staff Writer
Although the room rent of a fraternity or
sorority house is cheaper than that of a
dorm, there are other expenses that can
make the actual cost of Greek life higher
than rushees anticipate."
Room rent in most fraternity houses,
ranging from $130-240 a semester, is below
that of a double room in an all-male
University residence hall, which rents for
$225-235 a semester.
Sorority room rates range frorr $180-275
a semester, also below the cost of rooms in
women's dormitories.
"Our rates don't go up every year, either,"
one fraternity treasurer noted, adding that if
rent did go up next year it would only
increase by $5 a, semester.
by Linda Rosenfield
Staff Writer
The Student Bar Association (SB A) and
six UNC law students plan to file suit against
the UNC School of Law for violation of the
North Carolina open meetings law, Carolyn
McAllaster, one of the plaintiffs, said
Tuesday.
The plaintiffs will ask for a preliminary
injunction which will order faculty meetings
to open immediately, added Tom Loflin,
N.C. Civil Liberties Union lawyer
representing the law students.
Under the open meetings law, all meetings
concerning public business must be open to
the public. The Board of Governors, of the
consolidated university is covered by this
law, as is the Chapel Hill campus Board of
Trustees.
"The faculty claims they are not covered
by this law, but if the Board of Governors is
covered, all component parts of the
University are also covered," McAllaster
continued.
Loflin said, "The suit effects more than
just the law school, because if we're right, the
departments of history, English, math and
all the others will have to open their faculty
meetings to the public. We're not just picking
on the law school."
Students want to be allowed to attend
faculty meetings because many of the
decisions directly affect students and some
decisions use North Carolina tax payers'
money, McAllaster explained.
As it stands now, law school faculty!
meetings are open only to faculty members'
of the law school and two student
representatives. McAllaster said, however,.
fnds ow prices
marked with green stickers). For example,
the Grateful Dead three-record set, "Europe
72," is now $7.61.
Prices on major releases at the uptown
Record Bar and Buffalo rise to $4.66 after
two weeks.
School Kids offers the lowest prices on
albums which have been released for two
weeks.
Such $6.98 list price albums as Phoebe
Snow's "Second Childhood," Bruce
Springsteen's "Born to Run" and "Eagles
Greatest Hits" are now priced $3.99 at
School Kids, $4.66 at uptown Record Bar
and Buffalo and $5.99 at the University Mall
Record Bar.
At the Record Bars, a popular album
usually stays on the front racks for three to
four months and then moves to the bins. If
an album remains popular, selling 10-200
copies a months it retains the regular rack
Meal plans at fraternities and sororities
usually including two to three meals a day,
five days a week and one or two meals on
weekends for members living in the house
range from $200-380 a semester in
fraternities and from $380-450 in sororities.
The cost of a Servomation meal ticket for
three meals a day, five days a week is
approximately $400 a semester. A two meals
per day, five days a week ticket costs
approximately $340 a semester.
"I know I save on food," one sorority
member said. "1 used to eat out four or five
times a week." She added that she no longer
throws out uneaten leftover food or saves
unused meal tickets.
But for Greeks not living in the house,
meals can end up increasing food
expenditures. Most houses require members
to eat a minimum number of meals there,
that Dean Robert Byrd "may close any
meeting at any time. We feel that any
interested person should be able to come and
that meetings can't be closed except within
the guidelines set by the law."
Loflin said that these exceptions include
decisions concerning personnel matters,
contracts, and the buying and selling of real
estate. Meetings may go into closed
executive sessions to discuss these matters,
he said.
Loflin said that Byrd feels that the open
Lowenstein
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by Jim Oule
DTH Contributor
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little weight and his
hairline has reced
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perennial student advocate, is still the
intense, idealistic and liberal activist he's
always been.
' Lowenstein, 47, gave a rambling but;
entertaining talk on the "Overhaul of the
Overall: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of
Happiness in the Future" as part of the
Carolina Symposium Tuesday night.
The speech touched on everything from
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price.
However, if an album is purchased only a
few times every two months it becomes a
catalogue album and only one copy is kept in
the store.
Record Bars raise the price of albums
when they become classified as catalogue
albums. For example, a $6.98 list price
album which has been $4.66 at the uptown
Record Bar will rise to $5.99 when
catalogued.
Neither School Kids nor Buffalo classify
albums as catalogue albums. All four record
stores will take special orders if a customer
wants an album which is not in stock.
Although School Kids generally offers the
lowest prices, the store's stock is dominated
by rock and soul albums. A large selection of
classical and jazz albums is available at
Buffalo. . The "Orange Room" in Buffalo is
.devoted entirely.to classical music. ...
and although exceptions are usually made
for conflicting schedules, Greeks who live in
Granville Towers (where a meal ticket is
included with room rent) may end up paying
for two dinners one at the house and one at
Granville Cafeteria.
Pledges learn about sorority or fraternity
finances during rush. All sororities distribute
finance cards containing figures for dues,
which range from $22-100 a semester; pledge
fees (paid once) of $18-35; initiation fees
which go to the national office (also paid
once), $60-125; and other fees which vary
from house to house, as well as costs for
room and board.
Fraternities tell rushees about finances by
word of mouth, by showing them house bills
of brothers or by using a cost fact sheet.
However, unlike sororities, where all houses
distribute the financial cards during a
meetings law does not extend to University
governing bodies below the Board of
Trustees level.
"1 don't think we are violating the open
meetings law. It is my opinion that it does
not apply (to us)," Byrd remarked.
However, he said that the students are not
being unreasonable by taking the matter to
court. Byrd noted that the issue should be
determined by a court of law.
"We've been thinking about doing this all
year," McAllaster said. Last years SBA
favors pollution control, notes apathy
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control to his experinces in the 91st
Congress.
A great believer in the power of
individuals to change society, Lowenstein
now admits that his understanding of what
was needed to change society was "incredibly
naive."
"If I was more understanding of the
realities of power, I'd be in Congress today,"
he said.
Despite this, he can legitimately claim
credit for almost singlehandedly organizing
the anti-war movement which led to Lyndon
Johnson's defeat in 1968. He was also a
leader in the movement to impeach Richard .
Nixon in 1974.
UsuaUy a favorite among UNC political
activists, Lowenstein drew an audience of
less than 100, about average for the
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Both Record Bars stock a large selection
of classical albums and offer a wide range of
categories. The University Mall Record Bar
has a "Classical Connoisseur Club" (CCC)
which includes a newsletter and special
prices on classical labels for members.
Defective policies at all four stores are
technically the same. If a customer returns a
defective album then the store will exchange
it for another copy of the same album.
The difference is that both Record Bars
will exchange an album on the customer's
word that the album is defective. School
Kids and Buffalo reserve the right to verify
the defect and require proof of purchase.
Record Bars also offer a one year
guarantee on all tapes and a prorated return.
During the first month after purchase, a
defective tape will be replaced for free.
The value of the purchase depreciates 50
cents each month thereafter.
specified round of rush, a fraternity rushee
sometimes has to ask for the information.
"They don't tell you about it unless you
ask," a freshman pledge said recently.
"Parents pay most of the bill. They (the
fraternities) know nobody really worries
about the money." He added that he asked
about finances because he pays most of his
bill himself.
Another fraternity pledge, also a
freshman, said "When you're trying to get
members, you don't want to sit there and talk
about costs and if is vital that you get new
members."
Fraternity expenditures, in addition to
room and board include pledge fees, ranging
from $20-$25 (paid once); initiation fees
(also paid once), ranging from $40-110;
national dues from $5-90 a semester, local
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passed a resolution stating that faculty
meetings come under the open meetings law.
This resolution was given to the faculty and
dean.
Despite that resolution, faculty meetings
remained closed to students. However, the
dean set up a committee of three faculty
members to study the SBA resolution,
McAllaster said, adding that there were no
student members on the committee.
"The committee, said the (open meetings)
law is ambiguous and that the dean's
.crowds at his previous appearances.
"The apathy on campus is a symptom of a
larger problem in the country," he said.
"After the assassinations, Vietnam and the
disillusioning effect of Watergate, it's easy to
understand the reluctance of people to get
involved."
But he added that the attitude is self
destructive. "The general mood in this country, not
only, among students, is that things will
either right themselves without effort that
God somehow looks over the U.S. or
alternatively, that what we do doesn't make
any difference. .
"The rhetoric of contemporary politics is
so steeped in myth that it isjsasy to see how
people can be discouraged."
Lowenstein criticized the national
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by Laura Seism
Staff Writer
Thirteen dormitories will not participate
in random selection drawings for room sign
up Friday, the housing department
announced Wednesday.
The four women's dormitories not
included in Friday's drawing are Alderman,
Joyner, Parker and Ruffin. Men's
dormitories excluded are Carr, Conner,
Graham, Everett and Old West.
. Coed dorms excluded are Alexander,
Aycock, James and Morrison. Women
living in Morrison will have a random
drawing, however.
These dorms are exempt from the drawing
because their quotas were not filled during
preliminary sign-up or the quota was
exceeded by 10 per cent or less, Peggy Gibbs,
assistant to Housing Director James Condie,
said.
"We figured that attrition will take care of
roughly 10 per cent (of the dorm residents),
so if a dorm was only 10 percent over the
quota we went on and allowed it to be
excluded," Gibbs said.
Housing department figures show that 195
people will be closed out of University
housing this spring. This includes 148
women and 47 men. Last year 295 were
closed out.
Student Body President Billy Richardson,
who was with Condie, Gibbs and Residence
-Halt Association President Bob Loftirwhen
the' decision to exempt the thirteen
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decision is a defensible one," she added.
Before filing suit, the SBA sought
comments from the entire law student body
to see if there was any student opposition.
"We got very little negative response," she
said.
The law suit has not yet been filed. "We're
in the process of preparing the complaint
now. I'm hopeful it will be filed one day next
week," Loflin said.
The suit will be filed in Orange County
Superior Court in Hillsborough.
government which rushes to appropriate
billions for military spending and passes
laws to "prohibit urination in the Detroit
River," but defeats strong pollution controls
and cannot find enough money fC5? hot
school lunches.
"You could line up every citizen in Detroit
along the banks of the river and if they
summoned up all the energy within them,
they could not do one per cent of the damage
industry has done to that river," he said.
A former aide to Calif. Gov. Edmund
(Jerry) Brown, Lowenstein said liberals must
reassess many New Deal and Great Society
programs which have not worked. "It's not a
liberal position to be in favor of mounds and
mounds of paperwork," he said. "There's as
much waste in the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare as. there is in the
Department of Defense."
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room sign-up
dormitiories from the random drawing was
made, said even the people who arc closed
out will probably be able to get in University
housing by Augucst.
"With attrition it looks like chances are
good that everybody will get in University
housing this year and that most people will
get in the dorm they want," Richardson said.
He noted that last year everyone who was
closed out could have gotten a room in
University housing by August.
Gibbs said sat men who are closed out of
North Campus men's housing should see
their residence director about other housing
on North Campus. Thirty spaces in North
. Campus men's housing are still available.
Brownmiller
presents views
on rape history
by Nancy Mattox
Staff Writer
RALEIGH "Rape is a political crime
against women a conscious process of
intimidation by which all men as a class keep
r:;Aihwomen as a class in a state of constant
fear," Susan Brownmiller, author of the
widely-acclaimed study of rape, Against Our
Will, said to a North Carolina State
University symposium Tuesday night.
Brownmiller, whose book has been
acknowledged by critics as a major, but
highly emotional work, spoke to a
predominantly white female crowd in
NCSU's Nelson Auditorium, touching off a
two-day seminar concentrating on the
defense, prevention and legal aspects of rape
in North Carolina.
Describing sexual assault as a cultural
phenomenon which can be traced
historically, Brownmiller told the audience,
"Our lives are profoundly affected by the fact
that men can turn their bodies against us and
use them as weapons." .
Brownmiller elaborated that rape, in times
of war, was expected as a part of the triumph
in battle. "Men in warfare," she said, "were
not only permitted but supposed to rape the
wives of the conquered." Women, she added,
were used to increase the size of the tribe, and
while rape itself is not mentioned in the Ten
Commandments, a man is not permitted to
covet another man's wife or ass, or
household, all of which Brownmiller lumped
under a general category of possession.
"The most remarkable political
phenomenon today is an indigenous
grassroots movement against the crime of
rape," Brownmiller said, attributing the
movement to the emergence of women's
liberation.
Courts are making a conscious effort to
redefine the crime of rape, she said, adding
that as late as 1963, a California judge
instructed the jury in an assault case to
carefully weigh the evidence presented by a
"hysterical, vindictive female." At this time
women themselves were placed on the stand
in their own defense whereupon their past
sexual activity became a major part of the
evidence. Brownmiller drew applause and
laughter when she compared this
prosecution technique to a burglary case.
"It's like asking me if my home had ever been
burglarized in the past, or if I had ever
voluntarily given money to charity," she
said.
Brownmiller said that changing and
enforcing assault laws would be easy, but
cultural changes would be long in coming.
Literature and the modern media have long
glorified the rapist, Brownmiller said. She
cited the popularity of A Clockwork Orange
which features several violent rape scenes. A
Newsweek reviewer said the film audience
identified with Alex (a major character) and
his gang, calling the film "an odyssey of the
human personality, portraying some of the
dark and primal in all of us," and lauding
Alex for the success of his immediate sexual
gratification. "That punk with the Pinnochio
nose and the scissors did not fulfill any need
of mine for sexual gratification,"
Brownmiller said, drawing overwhelming
applause from the audience.
Sex has been viewed in the terms of male
aggression and female passivity," she
concluded, "This dynamic will have to go by
the wayside if we are to effectively deal with
rape."
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