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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 20, 1976
Volums No. S3
Issue No. 134
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by Mary Ann Rhyne
Staff Writer
The Campus Governing Council added
$4,010 to the Finance Committee's budget
recommendations for eight organizations
and created one new position last Thursday
night.
Only one category was cut from the
proposed budget. The Elections Board $150
scholarship for the chairman was eliminated.
The $24,631 Unappropriated Balance now
stands at $20,771 as a result.
All but one of the organizations which
received larger allocations were represented
at the CGC meeting. Those receiving
increases were the Yackety Yack (increased
$500), the Individual Events Team ($500),
the Black Student Movement (BSM) ($100),
the Fine Arts Festival ( $ 1 ,500), the G raduate
and Professional Students Federation
($500), the National Achievement Weekend
($150), the Odum Village Board of
Aldermen ($60) and the Toronto Exchange
($200).
The position of a Student Health Advocate
was created and given a $500 salary.
The Council voted to allow the Finance
Committee to consider allowing the BSM
and the Student Consumer Action Union to
retain unspent funds in the publications
categories for the 1975-76 year.
These stipulations apply to the Alchemist,
Black Ink and SHE magazine,
j One of the most controversial discussions
during the five hour meeting concerned
cutting the student body president's salary
by $400 making it $ 1 ,200. The vote was split
and the motion failed.
A proposal was made by CGC,
representative Dick Pope to set aside $750
by Tom Watkins
Staff Writer
Editor's note: This story is the first of a
two part series on last summer's uprising at
the North Carolina Correctional Center in
Raleigh and the affects of those
demonstrations upon the center.
RALEIGH It could easily be mistaken
for a college campus. Women walk freely
from building to building, pausing
occasionally to enjoy the pleasant April
afternoon, the big shady trees and the newly
planted rose garden. Some of them work on
maintaining the green lawns, others go about
assigned tasks.
But things haven't always been peaceful at
the North Carolina Correctional Center for
Women (NCCCW), the state's only such
facility. Last June, a peaceful demonstration
for changes in prison operations turned into
five days of disturbances that left over 25
inmates and 19 guards injured, none
seriously.
The controversy centered around four
major issues: I) poor conditions at the prison
SUcH photo by Howard Shepherd
Nope, Kessing Pool, where sun
worshippers of every description
gathered Monday during "prime ray time
to bask in the unseasonably hot April
sun. Temperatures are expected to
remain warm, and skies clear, through
Wednesday.
ew budget
for a Speakers Commission. The
commission was first established by the CGC
last year but was eliminated this year because
of a shortage of funds. The Council decided
to postpone action.
The 36 remaining budgets were approved
as proposed. They include the Executive
Branch of Student Government, $29,185;
Legislative Branch, $1,145; Judicial Branch,
$2,385; Resident University Grant and Loan
Fund, $7,000; Student Transportation
Commission, $150; and Central Purchasing
and Disbursing, $500.
The Alchemist was allocated $500; the
Media Board, $544; the Carolina Quarterly,
$2,500; the Cellar Door, $1,700; the Daily
Tar Heel, $43,544; and WCARWXYZ,
$5,525.
The summer YMY WC A received $2,352;
the Academic Action Group, $8,670; the
Association of International Students, $500;
the AIS Exchange Program, $3,374; the
Orientation Commission, $750; and the
UNC Debate Team, $3,475.
The Sports Club Council received $537;
jthe Carolina Godiva Track Club, $255; the
Crew Club, $340; the Football Club, $498;
the Ice Hockey Club, $305; the Outing Club,
$230; the Sailing Club, $190; the Scuba'
Club, $161; the Surf Club, $300; and the
Volleyball Club $200.
The Association for Women Students
received $3,150; the Assertive Leadership
Training Program, $170; the Carolina Gay
Association, $650; the Carolina Indian
Circle, $150; the Human Sexuality and
Information Counseling Service, $1,950;
North Carolina Student Legislature, $1,050;
Resident Housing Association, $2,500; and
the Victory Village Day Care Center, $2, 1 75.
laundry and dining hall in which inmates
work, including allegations that the women
work in temperatures up to 120 degrees and
have to lift heavy sacks of clothing in the
laundry; 2) a lack of adequate medical care
and medical facilities; 3) a need for
improvements in the handling of prisoner
grievances; and 4) that Morris A. Kea,
temporary superintendent of Women's
Prison, be named permanent
superintendent.
During the prison's uprisings, State
Director of Prisons Ralph. Edwards issued
several contradictory statements which
sparked controversy during and after the
disturbance. In response to laundry
complaints, Edwards said the facility would
be closed within 90 days after the riots. Two
days later he said the laundry would not be
shut down, but the work load would be
diminished to 75 per cent.
Now, ten months 'after the incident, the
laundry is still operating but for only three
hours per day instead of a full day (as was the
case prior the riots.)
"'We now only do the laundry for
by Vernon Loeb
Staff Writer
For the first time in its 181-year history,
the student body of the University of North
Carolina 'at Chapel Hill has a free-of-charge
legal services counselor.
Dorothy Bernholz, a Chapel Hill resident
and 1975 graduate of North Carolina
Central University Law School, was told
Friday by the N.C. State Bar Council that a
legal services program she designed this
semester in conjunction with Student
Government had been approved.
Tuesday, her Suite C Legal Services office
opened for a one-year trial period, and
Bernholz immediately sent word of the
program to UNC administrators and
community leaders.
Five universities, all outside North
Carolina, have legal services programs
comparable to Student Government's, and
some 30 others have established varying
legal programs, Bernholz said Monday.
UNCs legal services program provides
legal assistance, including courtroom
representation, in cases involving:
Landlord-tenant problems affecting a
student's living arrangements in the
community.
Consumer problems confronting
individual students.
Race and sex discrimination problems
encountered by students in securing housing'
Financing of system dominant issue in past year
by Art Elsenstadt
and Russell Gardner
Staff Writers
The issue that has dominated Carrboro
ojjticsfor over a year -will be put before
the people today,1as Carrbofo citizens'
vote on whether to authorize the Board of
Aldermen to impose a new tax which
would partly finance a bus system for the
town.
Polls will be open from 6:30 a. m. until
7:30 p. m. in the five Carrboro precincts:
North Carrboro (Lebet, Estes Park, Sue
Ann Court, Pine Knoll and Cedar'
Court), voting in Carrboro Elementary
School; South Carrboro (Berkshire
Manor, Chateau, Northampton West,
Fidelity Court and Greenbelt
Community), voting in Carrboro Town
Hall; University Lake (Old Well, Yum
Y urn. Royal Park and Carolina), voting
in the UNC Filter Plant; Plantation
Acres, voting in Burch's Cabinet Shop;
and Dogwood Acres voting in Culbreth
Junior High School.
If the referendum passes, the Carrboro
Board of Aldermen would have the
power to raise town taxes up to 10 cents
per $100 property valuation to finance
the bus system's operating costs during its
first year.
Alderman Bob Drakeford, who as a
former member of the town's
transportation committee helped draw
up the referendum proposal, said the tax
increase could produce approximately
$52,000, if fully enacted. Drakeford said
that such enactment was likely, if the
referendum passes, and that buses could
be on Carrboro streets as early as Augnst
15.
This referendum will be the third in the
past five years on a possible Carrboro bus
system. The first two, in 1971 and 1973,
were both defeated.
Whether or not to have a bus system,
how to finance and operate it and the
NCCCW, whereas before last summer we
did the laundry for the whole itate prison
system," present NCCCW Correctional
Administrator Louis Powell said last week.
Powell said that he did not see the laund ry
grievance as a valid issue in the disturbances.
"All laundries are hot," he said, but I'm
certain the temperature doesn't get to 120
degrees; we. also had the noise level of the
laundry checked and it proved acceptable."
Powell said he felt it was quite ironic that,
when he became head of Women's Prison,
there were more volunteers for work in the
laundry than could be accomodated.
Responding to inmate complaints about
medical treatment, Edwards said during the
disturbances that an impartial medical team
would be selected to look at the medical
facilities. But duringN.C.lnmateGrievance
Commission hearings held one month after
the uprising, Ann Willett. inmate
spokesman, termed the investigation team
"very biased."
During the hearings, A.C. Broughton,
medical director at the prison, said that
inmate complaints of poor and insensitive
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or employment in the community.
The program provides only legal advice in
cases involving: ,
Criminal matters', including traffic
violations.
Domestic relations problems.
Tax filing, will drafting and business
ventures.
Civil law suits, where an attorney
charges no fee but agrees on a percentage of
damages rewarded his client for payment.
Neither legal advice nor representation
will be offered in cases involving:
Legal disputes between two students.
Legal disputes where any state agency,
including UNC, is involved.
The program outline states, "Given the
size of the student population and the limited
one-year funding of the program, such a plan
can most efficiently handle problems which
do not appear likely to terminate in actual
court litigation but rather require advice and
negotiation by an attorney.
"The goal of the Student Government
plan is to provide students with assistance in
understanding the factors that should be
considered when one seeks legal advice, to
determine if a lawyer's services are or are not
necessary, and to provide appropriate
referral to agencies and or attorneys."
Student Government has allocated
$20,850 from its general surplus to fund the
legal services program, which was conceived
and designed by former Student Body
level of cooperation with Chapel Hill
were dominant issues in the
administration of former Mayor Robert
Wells, a bus system opponent, and the
town's .election . campaigns -last,
November;' in which Ruth West was
elected as mayor.
Generally, older, home-owning
residents have been against the tax
increase, while students and apartment
dwellers have supported it.
The arguments continued into this
year. The board voted February 4 not to
hold the referendum, then changed its
mind a week later.
Discussions between Carrboro and .
Chapel Hill officials on ownership and
capital financing of the system were
prolonged and often confusing.
The two towns eventually agreed to
joint ownership of the system with a
common transportation board, although
the system will still be called the "Chapel
Hill Community Transit System."
Carrboro is also obligated to
contribute $64,301 for capital costs (new
buses, drivers, etc.). This money would be
raised by the sale of general obligation
bonds, if a second referendum is
approved next fall.
Should today's referendum pass and
the bond referendum fail, Carrboro bus
service could cease unless alternate means
of funding are found.
Within the past month, two citizen's
groups have formed in response to the
referendum.
Students Active for Rational
Transportation (SART) was founded to
promote the system and work in
conjunction with the Carrboro
Community Coalition, a political action
group which has been advocating public
transportation for Carrboro. The
Coalition supported West's and
Drakeford's election bids last fall.
Wells helped found Allied Citizens for
treatment were unfounded and denied
allegations that inmates were forced to
perform medical procedures.
However, Lee F. Wheeler, head of in
patient services, contradicted Broughton in
telling the commission, "We do have some
(inmates)...assisting nurses." Powell said he
does not think the issue of medical treatment
was a crucial factor in the prison
disturbance. . .
Another key issue in the prison
insurrection involved the state's Inmate
Grievance Commission, created by the 1973
General Assembly. The inmates asked for
speedy hearings of a backlog of inmate
grievances submitted to the commission,
particularly those involving the prison staff.
There had been charges that some prison
officials had not been relaying those
complaints to the commission for action.
Edwards' response was that the hearing of
inmate grievances would be expedited, with
the prison staff to be instructed to
immediately relay complaints to the
commission. Edwards also said that records
of unpopular guards and other employees at
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Student attorney Dorothy Bernholz
President Bill Bates. Bernholz's salary is
$12,000 per year.
The program was approved eight months
after Bates called it "the most pressing issue
facing students."
Although the long wait for approval
frustrated Bates, Student Body President
Billy Richardson and Bernholz, who was
selected for the position of student attorney
a Responsive Government, which he said
was created to explore the costs of the
system. However, many of its members
are known to be bus system opponents.
JIl3?i?Ffj" said thearerageT cost, to
homeowners in Carrboro wili be about
$15-$30 per year for the bus system.
For apartment dwellers, rents may rise
by one or two dollars annually because of
the landlords' tax increases.
Carrboro residents vote today on a referendum to extend the Chapel Hill bus
system to 'the other side of the tracks.'
the prison would be reviewed, but Powell
indicated that there have been few turnovers
in the NCCCW staff since the June riot.
One of the most controversial and
puzzling aspects of the prison disturbances
centered around Kea, who was appointed
temporary superintendent of NCCCW in
December, 1974, following the firing of
Juanita Baker. Indeed, Willett stated during
the riots that the prisoners' main concern
was the naming of Kea as permanent
superintendent
At that time. Corrections Secretary David
L. Jones rejected that demand, giving the
reason that Kea already had a higher-paying
state job as director of institutions for the
entire prison system. Jones said Kea would
have to take a $5,000 yearly salary cut to
accept the women's prison job, and he (Kea)
had expressed unwillingness to do so.
'Another reason given by both Jones and
Edwards for not naming Kea as full-time
head was that the system was seeking a
woman director for the facility. Yet, two
days after this statement was made public.
last fall, said the delay allowed her to study
every student legal aid program in operation
and write a law review article on those
programs.
Studies made of similar programs have
shown that only about 45 per cent of the
student population is likely to contact her
office, and only a fraction of them have
actual legal problems, she said.
Limiting the program's emphasis to
consumer and landlord-tenant problems,
where Bernholz said students most often
need assistance, will also keep the program
from becoming too extensive for one
attorney, she added.
Bernholz said caseloads at the University
of Virginia are now too numerous for its
legal program, reaching 550 cases per
semester because the lawyers also represent
students with domestic problems, such as
divorce.
However, if it is apparent that UNC
students frequently need assistance with
domestic problems, for example, the legal
services program's review committee can
suggest a change in emphasis. Bernholz said.
Called the Legal Advisory Committee,
this review panel of administrators,
professors and students will also periodically
review the legal services program's
effectiveness and serve as an appeal board to
any student whose case is turned down by
Bernholz.
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Route configurations for the first year
would put buses on state-maintained
roads 95 per cent of the time, so street
improvements will not be necessary for at
least XVrAPJtths. rak ;
However- -the termen -likely
propose a $1 to $1.4 million dollar bond
referendum for street improvements later
this year because street improvements
would eventually be necessary with or
without a bus system, he added.
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Edwards announced that Powell,
superintendent at Triangle Correctional
Center in Raleigh and a ten-year veteran in
prison work, would be named permanent
superintendent, effective once conditions at
NCCCW returned to normal. No
explanation was given for the sudden change
in position over that issue.
One month later, during the second day of
hearings on the prison disturbances,
Edwards announced that Kea, one of the
highest-ranking blacks in state government
at that time, was being fired from his job as
manager of institutions and would be
demoted to a lesser position in the
department.
Edwards further stated that, "Only the
fact that Kea had no prior experience ir.Se
running a prison prevented his rverance
from the department." Edwards blamed Kea
for a "breakdown in discipline" and for
allowing outside groups to gain influence
over inmates.
Kea refused to comment when asked if he
felt he was being made a scapegoat.
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