10 The Q-Jy Tat M&f Friday. September 21. 1979
David Stacks. Editor
John Hoke, Managing Editor
George Shadroui, Associate Editor
Allen Jernigan, Associate Editor
Cynthia Prairie, ,Viw Editor
Eddie Marks, University Editor
Michael Wade, City Editor
Kathy Curry, State and National Editor
Reid Tuvim, Sports Editor
Michele Mecke, Features Editor
Ann Smallwood, Arts Editor
Andy James, Photography Editor
Dinita James, Weekender Editor
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The challenges ahead
The selection of a chancellor: certainly a crucial decision rriade by a
university's governing board. For when the chancellorship becomes
vacant, the institution's goals as a keeper of the public trust should bear
close examination, and the person chosen to fill the vacancy should be
prepared to strive toward the goals set for that institution.
At Carolina, a committee of students, faculty and alumni is beginning
the task of selecting a successor to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, who
leaves office in January. Members of the search committee and others
who will have a hand in the decision later on should look at several
important issues when they decide who the new chancellor will be.
Probably the most pressing issue facing the next chancellor is the
matter of race relations on campus. In a state with a population that is
almost 25 percent black, less than 10 percent of the University's student
body is black. Prominent members of the University community, led by
Associate Dean Hayden B. Renwick, continue to charge that the
administration has been less than faithful to its decade-old commitment
to increase the minority presence at Carolina. And further complicating
the matter is the belief that a dual society a dichotomy of blacks and
whites is developing in the study body. The person who assumes the
chancellorship under these conditions must be prepared to diffuse a
potentially explosive situation and quickly lead the University toward a
more stable and positive attitude on the race problem.
Also challenging the next chancellor is the question of what academic
path the University should take. Scholastic leaders on campus are
debating whether the University should continue to move into the role
of a research institution and emphasize less the value of classroom
instruction, whether faculty members should be monitored in such a
way as to restrict their non-University professional activities, and
whether students in the College of Arts and Sciences and the General
College should be required to enroll in classes considered to be
characteristic of a more fundamental course of study. Much of the
debate on these and other issues is In a holding pattern, waiting for
direction from the next chancellor.
The next chancellor in South Building also will have to set the pace for
Carolina Challenge a drive to raise $67 million in private
endowments and other fiscal programs that could be the key to how
much leeway the University has in offering experimental academic
programs, providing additional financial aid to needy students, and
continuing with campus expansion and other building programs. In
addition, the whole matter of building new facilities at a time when the
size of the student body is stabilizing calls into question the rationale of
why Carolina needs a new $23 million central library only 10 years after
the last massive library expansion project. The next chancellor will have
to justify the campus building program in a way that the present
administration has not and provide a sense of direction that hasbeen
absent from South Building in recent years.
The 13-member chancellor search committee has set Nov. 1 as the
deadline for receiving applications for a successor to Chancellor Taylor.
After the committee narrows the field of candidates to a manageable
number, the University Board of Trustees will recommend candidates to
UNC President William C. Friday, who will then present his choices to
the UNC Board of Governors. We hope that the candidate who emerges
possesses a quality of leadership equal to the challenges ahead.
A second chance
Hayden B. Renwick, associate dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, presented a proposal to the University administration in 1977
suggesting the formation of an Office for Minority and Disadvantaged
Student Affairs. His recommendation was considered and refused by
the University. Renwick recently has submitted a similar plan. We hope
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and other administrators will be more
prudent when rendering the next decision.
There are several strong reasons why a minority affairs officers a
necessity on this campus, and only lame excuses why one should not be
established. The administration's arguments that needs which the office
would meet would be better served by the present University structure
may well be founded in sincere convictions, but such a belief certainly
lacks factual justification.
The proposed office would provide minority students with a program
that would coordinate various campus academic tutoring programs, a
referral service' that would give needed information to minority
students, a means of organizing minority student groups on campus,
and an opportunity to set up a summer program whereby minority and
disadvantaged students could come to the University six or seven weeks
prior to their freshman year to learn communication skills. Renwick
says the attrition rate of black, students could be reduced at least
partially if a minority affairs department were initiated.
Renwick's proposal would add an assistant dean and several graduate
students to the College of Arts and Sciences staff presently working for
Renwick, as well as a separate staff for the minority affairs office. Duke
University, which has about 415 black students, has a minority affairs
office with 15 employees. But on this campus, with roughly 1,500 black
students, there are only seven such employees. It seems that a university
committed to increasing black enrollment would be adamant about
providing blacks as well as disadvantaged students with the
necessary facilities to help them adjust to the University environment.
Some critics maintain that a minority affairs office is but another
form of segregation because it would encourage further separation of
blacks and whites. While this potential polarization is a valid concern,
the present system does not rectify the problems of minority students
who already detect the existence of such a situation.
Minority and disadvantaged students at Carolina must deal with
problems intrinsic to their circumstances. An administration that
refuses to aid or deal with these problems does more than a disservice to
the University community: it perpetuates the problems that minorities
have faced too long, and preserves a status quo that should be alien to a
fair and progressive educational system.
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By GARY TERPEN IN G
When J.B. Kelly became student body
president last February, the most
pressing issue facing his new
administration was a proposed increase
in Student Health Service fees.
Throughout the spring and summer,
Kelly and other concerned students
most notably SCAU member Brad
Lamb doggedly opposed the increase.
On Wednesday afternoon, their efforts
seem to have paid off.
The Student Affairs Committee of
UNC Board of Trustees approved the
controversial $20 increase, but also
recommended that a study be made of
new services and personnel provided by
the increase. The fate of the $20 has been
decided the full board of. trustees is
certain to follow the lead of the
committee when it puts the increase to a
final vote in October but the future of
the health service itself is still in question.
The study requested by the Student
Affairs Committee has no clear structure
at this time, but it will determine if new
services and personnel are really needed.
Kelly recommended to the committee
that the evaluation be conducted by the
School of Public Health.
Questions to be addressed include:
Is the requested level of new staffing
appropriate for the number of students
using the health service? The original
projection for the health service building
scheduled to open in November was
100,000 annual ambulatory visits; during
the last four years,, however, the number
has risen by only 8 percent (from
approximately 74,000 to 80,000).
How will a 25 percent decrease in the
use of the mental health division affect
new personnel plans?
Could personnel costs be reduced
through more efficient use of overlapping
functions originally designed to expedite
student treatment?
Does the Health Service
Administrative Board have adequate
technical competency to make complex
health planning decisions in the future?
Do five students provide adequate
representation on the administrative
board?
Locally
Are original plans for services and
personnel made in 1974 too ambitious in
light of current economic conditions? The
North Carolina Hospital Association has
recommended that cost increases be held
to 1 1.6 percent. .
Despite the fee approval, Kelly seemed
optimistic. "While we lost out on the
$20," he said, "there is also a lot we
gained."
And the gains do seem significant.
Perhaps most important is the formation
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of the Student Affairs Committee. It will
meet regularly to discuss not just problem
areas, but all matters affecting students.
Wednesday's hearings indicate that there
is a growing improvement in relations
between students and the University
administration. The committee
expressed concern over the lack of trustee
input into the fee determination, and it is
likely in the future that the trustees will be
informed of all matters ihey should have
a voice in. And the decision to evaluate
the expanded health service offers an
assurance that current levels of quality
will be maintained.
But despite the optimism Kelly
expressed after the four-hour hearing he
was still slightly disappointed. "It was a
backward move,' Kelly said, as he
considered the committee's decision to
initiate the study. "We passed up a golden
opportunity to study the increase before
it was implemented. If we analyze the new
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services and find that some are not
needed, what can we do? Everything will
already be paid for."
Although discussion of the S20
increase is now finished, it is unlikely that
the health service will soon fade as a
major University issue. Kelly said
Wednesday night he would continue to
vigorously pursue the study
recommended by the Student Affairs
Committee. But more importantly, it
should be remembered that one
unanswered question may soon confront
the University: Is the increase in
compliance with federal wage and price
guidelines? The answer will require more
than one four-hour session on a
Wednesday afternoon.
Gary Terpening. a graduate student in
journalism from Biloxi. Mississippi, is an
editorial assistant or The Daily Tar Heel.
PC3B poses long, range da nger to state
By ALLEN JERNIGAN
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Dove season opened as usual at noon, Sept. I across
North Carolina. And while stalking the swift, gray
mourning dove in corn rows and along the edges of pine
thickets retains its traditional flavpr, this year's season is
not the same. Many hunters. With good reason, are
afraid to eat their game. The state's doves have been
ingesting a toxic chemical.
"We simply don't know the public health implications
of consuming contaminated wjldlife," said Robert
Hazel, executive director of the N.C. Wildlife
Commission.
But the issue is more serious than that. The chemical is
polychlorinated biphenyl, or PC. Over 210 miles of
tNorth Carolina's roadsides are contaminated with PCB
laced oil, dumped there last year by three New York
men. Game animals, particularly doves and rabbits,
taken from near those areas have been found to contain
up to 19 times the level of PCB judged safe for human
consumption.
"We can't tell sportsmen that it is safe or unsafe to eat
(game) from these areas," Hazel said.
: PCB is bad news. Not only can it cause cancer and
letters to the editor
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To the editor:
It was bound to happen sooner or later.
But, here, on the campus of tolerant,
liberal UNC?Ttey're joking aren't they?
Hell no! Disco must go!
Well now, children do grow up and
rock and roll does release frustrations
and anxieties; it provides a medium for
political dissent, resistance to authority,
and damn good music to raise hell by now
and again.
Since I enjoy all types of music,
classical is great to study by, bluegrass is
fun to clog and square dance to (when I'm
in the mood), jazz for my more
intellectual and social development, and
yes, boys and girls, disco is for when I get
happy feet. .
Now there forms an organization on
campus called ACID (Association to
Counteract the I nfluence of Disco) and to
tell you the truth, I'm quite appalled.
Consider this: Exactly who was calling
whom fascists when Beatlemania struck
deep in Middle America and church
groups were denouncing and burning
Beatle albums? Somehow people,
surprisingly young people this time, have
to blame the nation's ills on something.
Direct your energies into changing the
attitudes of the nation instead of disco for
the simple reason that concentrating your
hatred on a musical trend is down-right
self-defeating.
Rock n Roll will endure. But, you
aren't even listening to your own musical
leaders. Pete Townsend should clearly
change your mind by listening to "The
Music Must Change" off The' Who's
latest album.
Long live rock. I need it every night,
but not at the expense of some ACID
freaks who would smugly take away the
freedom and enjoyment ot tne individual
right to choose the type of music I want to
hear. If in a disco, no one can hear you
scream, my suggestion to you ACID
maniacs is stay at home and crank up the
Stones (with your headphones glued on)
and don't tread on me and my desire, or
others, to dance away the night to disco
music.
various illnesses in animals, but the toxic chemical has
been held responsible for liver disease, birth defects and
possibly cancer and a host of ailments in humans.
PCB is also not biodegradeable. Although it is not as
deadly as mercury or plutonium, it is none the less a
poison that does not go away by itself. And like the
outlawed pesticide DDT, PCfrhas shown a remarkable
propensity for working its way into the bioshpere.
Once used as a coolant in electrical equipment, the
chemical was banned five years ago. But there are many
PCB-cooled transformers still operating across the
country, not to mention those forgotten in scattered
junkyards, landfills and dumps. ,
The State
Outlawing the chemical has caused special disposal
problems. Only licensed waste repositories are allowed
to take in PCB, and the rising expense of hauling oil or
dirt contaminated by the substance has opened the door
to fly-by-night operators who dispose of PCB wastes at
bargain-basement prices. Often in the past the PCB ends
up spilled along a rural roadside or in subtler locations,
such as abandoned drainage systems.
North Carolina is not the onlv state affected by PCB
contamination. The Federal Food and Drug
Administration " recently discovered that poultry
products from an Idaho farm contained dangerously
high levels of PCB. The cause of the mishap was traced
to a ruptured transformer at a Montana animal feed
packing house. But contaminated foodstuffs since have
been found in Montana, Utah, Minnesota and Iowa.
Four other Western states are under investigation for
fear that the poisoned feed may have been shipped to
them as well. .
PCB contamination is not a localized problem, and
has the potential to become more widespread in North
Carolina. Over 50,000 tons of soil along N.C. roadsides
where PCB-laced oil was dumped last summer has yet to
be cleaned up. And there seems to be no guarantee that it
ever will be.
Warren County residents have opposed vigorously
the state's attempts to purchase land there for
establishing a PCB dump. In a Superior Court case, the
state recently won the right to buy the tract. But the state
must wait 120 days before developing the site. The
interval may allow the Warren Commissioners to block
the project completely.
Allen Jernigan. a senior history and English major from
Raleigh, is associate editor for The Daily Tar Heel.
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To the editor:
We, the undersigned, announce the
formation of WILD (We Insist on Loving
Disco). We were born to be alive and we
will survive the onslaught of ACID. Wc
know the bad girls get the hot stuff when
we dim all the lights. Wc do not stop till
we get enough and there ain't no stopping
us now. We have found the cure for
ACID because disco is the boss; and you
can't change that. So, this time baby, if
you want the good times, you can do it
with WILD. Excuse me, here comes that
sound again and I've got the next dance!
Hugh Williams - Pres.
John Bishop V. Pres.
Pressures are mounting that will severly test President Carter's
commitment to curb inflation, and as the election vcar grows
closer, those pressures are likely to increase.
Galloping inflation, spurred by the dollar's weak showing on
foreign markets, has been of primary concern to the Carter
Administration's economic policy. In a move aimed at
demonstrating the concern to the world maikct. Carier
appointed Paul Volcker. a conservative monetarist with an
excellent international reputation for maintaining a'sirong and
stable dollar, as Chairman of the f ederal Reserve Board
Volcker replaced G. William Miller, who moved to Ircasurv
Secretary.
Volcker has moved quickly to implement his plans to stabilize
the dollar by fighting inflation. Since taking office, he ha
boosted the federal discount rate (the lee the led charges
member banks for borrowing) from 10 5 X percent to II X
percent, which has translated into a rise in the prime interest rate
from the mid-August level of 1 1 34 percent to about 1 pert cist
currently.
But the methods Volcker has used to bepn his fight with
inflation have angered many key liberal groups w it hut the
Democratic Party, including labor and minorities.
The spectre of increased unemployment is what has upset the
Democratic groups. Over the past vcar. unemployment Im
been a serious problem for the Carter Administration stauy
stable at about 5.7 percent. But in August, the Labor I )epar tmenl
announced a rise in the jobless rate to 6 percent.
Economists attribute the rise in unemployment to a general
weakening in the economy and predict a recession for the coming
months. Many fear the conservative tight-money policies being
employed by Volcker will only deepen the recession and increase
already rising unemployment rates.
So far. the administration has maintained a stonyM'ente
regarding Volcker' attempts to slow inflation, and some
t observer speculate tltw ,...ht uiouud the chairman
high reputation abroad. With the dollar haky on foreign
market. Carter' undercutting ot Volcker could cause the dollar
to nosedive, observers say.
Carter, then, is hemmed in between his stated goal ol curbing
inflation and stabilizing the dollar on the world market, and the
political necessities ol keeping poucrtul interest groups vnthin
the Democratic partv pacified.
At Large
A factor determing whether Carter w ill continue to support the
hard-nosed inflation-fighting poUcict of Volcker, or give into the
pressure of labor and other group worried about high
unemployment, could be the candidacies of Sen. Edward
Kennedy and Gov, Jerry Brown,
If either of the two choovc to uve the coming recenlon g an
issue - an obviou likelihood - Ca rtcr' campaign for re-election
could be in trouble. With hi own position a party head already
threatened, and with a eriou recession expected for the election
year, the pressure on Carter to dump iht f'ht against inflation
could be irresistible.
Sfike Coyne, a political science and economics major from
Wallace, is editorial aniuant for The Daily Tar Heel