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Sir Post Break Blues Occasional rain today. High, upper 40s. Low, low 40s. Unprecedented finish The UNC wrestling team placed fifth in the NCAAs in Iowa. See story on page 3. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 The Daily Tar Heel 1982 Volume SO, Issue 107 Tuesday, March 16, 1932 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 Business Advertising 962-1163 CGC passes bil that prevents Food service committee votes to surest change groups 'funding By ALISON DAVIS Staff Writer The Campus Governing Council passed a bill Monday night that prevents political or religious groups from requesting fund ing from Student Activities Fees. The bill, which was presented by CGC members Garth Dunklin (District 1 1) and Susan Sparks (District 9), reinstates a clause which states "programs, services or events of a religious or political nature are nonfundable." The last CGC removed the clause. The case on which the former CGC based its ruling is ten years old, Dunklin told the council. "We haven't been sued yet." "If we leave it out and we fund a political or religious group, we'd be violating the Bill of Rights," Dunklin said. "We have to remember that these are student funds." David McKinnon (District 1) was the only CGC member who voted against the bill. "I just thought we would get an opinion from the state Attorney General's Office in time for the current budget process." McKinnon said he did not think re-establishing the clause would increase the danger of CGC's being sued. Several CGC members questioned reinstating the word "political" because funding a political group is not explicity un constitutional. Finance Committee Chairperson. Charlie Madison (District 23) said people did fund political groups by checking a box on tax forms stating whether or not they want money to go to presidential candidates' campaigns. But Madison voted in favor of the bill. :;;,..Tv 1 J Suzanne Convert K) "Political views are as touchy as religious (views),'. he4said. Returning CGC member Lori Dostal (District 5) agreed that the issue was touchy. The former council's idea (in removing the clause) was that the CGC would decide on its own not to fund political or religious groups, she said. Returning CGC member Phil Painter (District 19), chairper son of the Rules and Judiciary Committee, said future councils might forget the outgoing CGC's intentions. "Five or six years down the road it is forseeable that religious or political groups could be funded," he said. CGC Speaker Bobby Vogler (District 14), who abstained from voting, declined to give his opinion on the bill. "I haven't had a chance to research it myself." In other business, the CGC passed a resolution opposing President Ronald Reagan's cuts of financial aid in higher educa tion. CGC member Chris Bishop (District 4) said the bill would give added support to UNC graduate students involved in cam paigns opposing cuts to student loans. The council also defeated a bill to allocate $1,000 to Hender son Residence College for Springfest, and annual concert held on the lawn of Connor Residence Hall. By DEAN FOUST Staff Writer The Food Service Advisory Committee has recommended a new campus food service' plan that would change the pre sent system of operation at UNC, and students have voiced dissatisfaction with the lack of student input. The FSAC, comprised of students, ad ministration and faculty members, voted ovemhelmingly Monday afternoon to recommend changes in food service that includes making major renovations to Chase Cafeteria and the Pine. Room, ultimately closing the Fast Break restaurant and establishing mandatory student fees for food service. The com mittee also recommended establishing a mandatory meal plan for selected residence halls or dormitory floors on South Campus as a method of saving the financially-clistraught Chase Cafeteria, and also eventually implementing the meal plan in parts of North Campus. The proposals will go before the Chancellor's Administrative Council tomorrow. Barring complications, the proposals will be presented to the Board of Trustees on April 9, and if passed will go to the Board of Governors. Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Donald Boulton said at Monday's meeting that the present situation war ranted drastic measures. "We felt it was time to make a major decision. Either we go up and make a major comprehensive commitment to food service or we go down and out," he said. James Cansler, associate vice chancellor and associate dean for Student Affairs agreed that these dramatic measures had to be taken with the food service. Student Body President Mike Vandenbergh said Student Government felt the proposals were too drastic. "We agree that major changes need to be made if the food service is to survive on this campus. However, we can't endorse a proposal to this magnitude," he said. Vandenbergh was also concerned with part of the plan that transfers the control of all campus vending operations, video games (except Student union), snack bars, and the Pit Stop to food service. FSAC has estimated that the $80,000 in revenue from this that goes to student financial aid will be retained by student employ ment in the redesigned cafeterias. Vandenbergh expressed doubts, in the figures supporting this report, saying the report was too vague. Student leaders have expressed dissatisfaction with the manner the meetings were handled by the ad ministrators. Vandenbergh said he only found out about the extent of the proposals and Monday's 'meeting last week from Boulton. Student Government Treasurer Brent Clark, also a FSAC representative, said he was informed about the meeting an hour after it had adjourned. Clark said this was the third meeting in recent weeks - he had not been informed about. A special meeting was held after the FSAC meeting to gain input from student leaders. The lack of communication was a reason that of the 14 people present, eight were administrators and six were students. Chairman of the Food Services and Health Affairs Committee Kevin Monroe said he was informed of the meeting Sunday night. Because of the lack of communication with student leaders, Vandenbergh called a Student Government executive level meeting Sun day night to discuss the proposals. The Inter-Fraternity Council and The Daily Tar Heel did not receive the formal invitations to the student meeting. Also absent was Panhellenic Council President Bonnie Fass. As representatives of the campus Greek organizations, the IFC and Panhellenic Council represent 25 percent of the student enrollment. -News Briefs Haig says Nicaraguan aid possible NEW YORK (AP) As President Ronald Reagan welcomed Mexican efforts to "open some doors" toward easing tensions in Central America, Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. revealed Monday that the United States is prepared to resume aid to Nicaragua if it stays out of FJ Salvador and makes other concessions. Mexican intermediaries will ask Nicaragua to reconsider the U.S. proposals, which received a cool reception when they were first made last summer. Haig approved the Mexican efforts Sunday during a meeting with Mexican Foreign Secretary Jorge Castaneda, who said there is "great interest" in Nicaragua in a restoration of U.S. foreign assistance and in a normalization of relations. N.C. crime rate dropped in 1981 RALEIGH (AP) The number of major crimes'reported in 1981 in North Carolina dropped 2 percent over the year before, marking the first decrease in eight or nine years, state officials reported Monday. The figures were compiled by the FBI and released Monday by the state Depart ment of Crime Control and Public Safety. Department Secretary Heman Clark said the latest figures show the seven major categories of crime declined 2 percent in 1981 and murders declined 12 percent statewide. Reagan: Tax cut was not enough MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) President Ronald Reagan revealed Monday he has his own second thoughts about the three-year tax cut for which he applauded Congress last year. But while his critics claim it was too much, too soon, Reagan declared it was too slow and not enough. With that, the president again denied any responsibility for economic decline and the massive red ink, approaching $100 billion or more, in his 1983 budget. Instead, he said, Congress is to blame for a tax bill that "aggravated the recession, causing more unemployment spending and a bigger deficit." Money supply increase suggested WASHINGTON (AP) The chairman of the Joint Economic Committee said Monday that Congress should order the independent Federal Reserve Board to loosen its grip on the nation's money supply to produce lower interest rates. "This step could bring the Federal Reserve back to its senses on monetary policy before it is too late," said Rep. Henry Reuss, D-Wis. "We in Congress are the Federal Reserve's masters." Reuss, appearing before the Senate Budget Committee, coupled his suggestion with a renewed call for repeal of the 10 percent income tax cut scheduled to take ef fect in July 1983. He said those two changes, combined with a reduction in President Ronald Reagan's defense build-up and a freeze in domestic spending, would hasten economic recovery and lower the budget deficits contained in Reagan's 1983 spen ding plan. Paratroopers leave for Sinai FORT BRAGG (AP) Paratroopers from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg will leave for the Mideast on Tuesday to observe the last phase of Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. The 808 soldiers " represent the main U.S. contingent in the il-nation, 2,500-member Multinational Peacekeeping Force which is monitoring the Israeli withdrawal. The peacekeeping mission was agreed upon in the March 1979 Camp David accords. Symposium speakers and dates set By SCOTT BOLEJACK Staff Writer The 1982 Carolina Symposium, to be held from Wed nesday, March 17 to Monday, April 5 at UNC, will ex amine fragmentation within present U.S. culture. The three-week event, titled "America in Pieces," will feature well-known speakers from around the country who will disctiss various parts of society: religion and the rise of fundamentalism, special interest groups, ethnicity and education. The symposium, a biennial, student-run event, is com prised of lectures, workshops, panel discussions, films and photo exhibits. All events are free and open to the public. Speakers scheduled for the symposium include Tom Wolfe, Frances Fitzgerald, Sam Hill, Pat Robertson, Frank Church, Sarah Evans, Dwayne Powell, Doug Marlette, John Conyers, Maynard Jackson, and David Halberstam. Wolfe, best-selling author of , The Right Stuff and From Our House to Bauhaus, will deliver the keynote address on the relation of the American artist to Ameri can society. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17 in Memorial Hall. Fitzgerald, who won the Pulitzer Prize and the Na tional Book award for Fire in the Lake, will discuss new forms of community, particularly the new right and evangelism. She will speak at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 19 in Memorial Hall. Hill, a Southern religion historian from the University of Florida, will examine Southern religion and evangelism. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. Sunday; March 21 in Hamilton Hall. Robertson, founder of the Christian Broadcasting Network and host of "The 700 Club," will examine contemporary America from the evangelical perspective. Robertson will speak at 3 p.m. Monday, March 22 in Memorial Hall. , Church, a former U.S. senator from.Idaho, will talk about special interest groups and their effect on govern ment. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 23 in Memorial HsU. r. AMERICA IN PIECES : Evans, a historian from the University of Minnesota and author of Personal Politics, will discuss the history of the women's movement and the status of the move ment today. She will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 24 in Hill Hall. Powell and Marlette, cartoonists for The News and Observer and The Charlotte Observer respectively, will discuss the role of the cartoonist to the newspaper. They will speak at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 26 in Hamilton Hall. v Conyers, a congressman from Detroit, will examine the future of civil rights. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 29 in Memorial Hall. Jackson, former mayor of Atlanta, Ga., will talk about the effects of government policies on minorities. Jackson will speak at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 31 in ' Memorial Hall. Halberstam, Pulitzer prize winner and author of The Powers That Be and The Best and the Brightest will "de liver theijostnote address on the media and how it in fluences public opinion. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. Mon day, April 5 in Memorial Hall. Organization for this year's symposium began in the fall of 1980 with the selection of the topic, said Murphy Evans, chairperson of the symposium committee. Once the topic was selected committee members began research to determine what speakers were best qualified to participate in the symposium. Evans said that the committee solicited suggestions for possible speakers from faculty members but added that committee mem bers did do research on their own and also welcome sug gestions from other students. The student body as a whole has no voice in the selec tion of speakers; the 1980 symposium had been criticized because it lacked input from the student body as a whole. But Evans said that such criticism is unfounded. "The Carolina Symposium is just like any other cam pus organization," Evans said. "We all work from with in. We have a job that has to be done and we go and do the best we can." CGC Speaker Vogler learns workings of council By ALISON DAVIS Staff Writer Editor's note: This is the second in a five part series on the Campus Governing Council. During the two weeks following his election as speaker of the Campus Gover ning Council, Bobby Vogler has been spending most of his time learning about the workings of the CGC. "I've had to learn a lot of things and learn them fast," he said. "ElChino Mar tin (former CGC speaker) has been a big help. "The budget procedure is the biggest thing. I've had to try to learn that upside down and backwards." Vogler, a sophomore math major from Raleigh, said he saw the role of speaker as being instrumental to an effectively-run legislative branch of Student Govern ment. "The speaker is somebody to make sure everything's done and that things are flowing as they should," he said. As speaker, Vogler presides over all meetings of the full CGC. He also serves as a non-voting member of the CGC stan ding committes: Finance, Student Affairs and Rules and Judiciary. If Vogler is unable to preside at a CGC meeting, speaker pro tern James Exum takes his place. The position of speaker pro tern is one "that I can expand from," said Exum, a freshman business administration major from Charlotte. "The position gives me direct, constant contact with the speaker and what's going on." Many people see the speaker pro tern as a mere substitute for the speaker, Exum said. "I hope to change that." "I hope that when people think speaker pro tem at the end of this session they'll be able to say who it was and what he did," he said. Exum said he hoped to start a newslet ter that would present current issues the CGC is working on and what the council is doing with those issues. Vogler and Exum said they wanted to increase CGC's contact with students. Both cited working with the student liaison service and getting council members to tell their constituents what the CGC is doing as examples of improv ing relations with students. . "Constitutionally, they're required to report to their constituents every month," Vogler said. "That's been a problem in the past." See CGC on page 3 Alternate recommendations under consideration Lenoir Hall renovation suggestion to so to council and chancellor Second of three parts By ELAINE McCLATCHEY Projects Editor Since the Food Service Advisory Committee first began its study of food service conditions on campus, many solutions have been offered. Bring ing McDonald's to campus, renovating Lenoir Hall to accommodate three or four fast food ser vices in the basement and a hot-meal cafeteria on the first floor or building a new cafeteria in the new dormitory near Teague Residence Hall are just a few suggestions that have come up. The FSAC endorsed the renovation of Lenoir Hall for fast-food operations and a hot-meal cafe teria Monday. Today the recommendation goes to the Administrative Council and Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III for consideration. Other approved recommendations for food ser vices included renovating Chase Cafeteria for Carolina Union and Air Force-ROTC activities as well as food service, and transferring the money made from residence hall snack bars, the Pit Stop, vending operations and video games to' food service. Proponents for the renovation of Lenoir Hall cite the centralization of food service and increase in space for fast-food operations as positive as pects. The cost represents a major setback, said Charles Antle, associate vice chancellor for busi ness and finance and ex-officio member of FSAC. The cost to renovate Lenoir Hall would be ap proximately $3.3 million, he said. That cost would have to be absorbed by all students in the form of a student fee until renovations make it possible to establish mandatory meal plans, according to the recommendation. ( . " In a letter to the committee, former Student Body President Scott Norberg questioned whether students should be asked to pay between $10 and $15 for a service that only 15 percent of the student body uses on a given day. Antle said the Adrnmistrative Council and Ford ham also would be considering whether food ser vice renovations should take precedence over of fice and classroom space needed by many acade mic departments. Food service consultants who visited the Univer sity did not support the renovation of Lenoir. Norm Hill of the University of Tennessee, Ronald Inlow of the University of Richmond and Donald Jacobs of the University of Pennsylvania said in the report that they felt the $3.3 million estimate was unrealistic and the debt would be closer to $4 million. Antle said the cost estimations were re-evaluated since the consultants report and the University came up with the same $3.3 million figure. The consultants report also suggested that the. renovation of Lenoir would make a mandatory meal plan necessary and this would hot be popular with students. Another popular suggestion has been to bring a fast-food chain like McDonald's or Hardees onto campus. While Hardees decided against such a move last year, Fordham recently received a letter from Carl Franklin of the McDonald's Corp. that said McDonald's would be interested in an on campus location. Antle said the concept was in teresting but the problem was that McDonald's did not want to take over a full food service contract. No additional food service would be able to sur vive with McDonald's siphoning the profits to be made in fast food, Antle said. "We wouldn't be able to offer, anything else. Parents and students wanted full service," Antle said, referring to a survey conducted by the Office of Business and Finance and Student Affairs. The survey showed 62 percent of the parents and 42 percent of the students said it was very important to have a full-service menu even if a $6 to $12 stu dent fee were enacted, The problem of competing food services on campus was an issue brought out by the consul tants in their report. The consultants said existing competition between Student Stores, vending operations and ARA food services contributed to food service problems. . ' To alleviate this, the consultants proposed that the University consolidate all food services and place it under the direction of a food service con sultant. The FSAC recommended a modified plan which placed the Pit Stop and residence hall snackbars under food services rather than Student' Stores. The loss of money for scholarships would be justified by increased student employment in food services, Antle said. Many members of Student Government support : the recommendation for setting up a food services coordinator but not for placing all programs under one roof. Brent Clark, a student member of the FSAC, said he felt an administrator would be able to alleviate the problems of excessive competition on campus. Antle said he did not think a decision could be made on a food services coordinator until Ford ham and the Administrative Council decided how much money should be invested o improve food services. The question of what to do with Chase is still unanswered. Last week Antle said there has been some discussion of turning Chase into a South Campus student union The FSAC included this idea in its proposal to the Administrative Council at Antle's suggestion. A phase-out of cooking in residence hall rooms was recommended by the consultants but Antle said the administrators realized that cooking in the rooms was a big money-saver for students on a tight budget. He did not think a phase-out would be considered until better food service was avail able on campus. Tommorow: A look at the proposals for fi nancing food service improvements.
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