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r Coming Saturday: special l'BE AT 1.D00K issue Look for it at Carmichael and dorms Maybe snow Possible snow or freezing rain. High today in the mid 30s. Low tonight in the low 30s. ill i o 6 r rr Copyright The Daily Tar Heel 1983 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Fix-it Recession has boosted business for local shoe and clothing repair shops. Re lated story on page 4. Volume 6, Issue ffl b 1 1 Friday, January 21, 1983 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NwsSportsArts 962-0245 Business Advertising 862-1163 em lized ab or Hon survives first deca de By ROSEMARY OSBORN Staff Writer Demonstrations, vigils, newspaper ads and other activities are being used by pro- and anti abortion groups across North Carolina to com memorate the 10th anniversary on Saturday of the Supreme Court ruling that legalized abortion. Although Roe vs. Wade, the decision legalizing abortion, will be 10 years old tomorrow, the issue remains emotionally and politically volatile. Pro-abortion groups want to stop at an early stage any attempt to overrule Roe vs. Wade in Congress. The groups are also working to protect state funds for abortions for the poor. Anti-abortion groups seek a constitutional amendment banning abortions. Because such an amendment doesn't seem possible for 1983, the groups have decided to lobby in the N.C. General Assembly in an effort to end state funding of abortions. The N.C. Coalition for Choice, a Raleigh based group with 46 member organizations, began 10 days of activities last Thursday with a community luncheon in Charlotte and a news conference in Greensboro. Seeking to give its im age an all-American flavor, the group adopted the logo of an apple pie surrounded by the words: "Choice: American as Apple Pie." The coalition plans to deliver an apple pie to each itate legis- lator when lobbying for the abortion fund. The Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights, an affiliate of the Coalition for Choice, along with the National Organization for Women, bought a full-page newspaper ad in the Raleigh News and Observer. The ad contained a simple ( wording of the Roe vs. Wade decision and about 700 signatures. The N.C. Right to Life Chapter is organizing bus and van loads of North Carolinians who will travel to Washington, D.C. for a Friday night vigil and a Saturday "March for Life" down Pennsylvania Avenue, followed by congressional lobbying. The Greensboro chapter plans a vigil outside an abortion clinic and is planning an ad for a local newspaper. Greensboro Mayor John Forbis has declared Jan. 16-23 "Right to Life Week." Pro-abortion groups have planned a silent vigil and procession to be held at noon Saturday at the Franklin Streets post office. The vigil will be followed by speeches by Robert Seamore, pastor of Olin T. Binkley Memorial Baptist Church, and State Representative Anne Barnes, of Chapel Hill. While many state-wide activities are planned Saturday, Chapel Hill's Carolina Students for Life can be seen picketing in front of North Carolina Memorial Hospital almost every Wed nesday morning a they protest the hospital's weekly abortion clinic. UNC student Chris Kremer, president of the group, said that although the group has never persuaded a woman to leave the hospital without having an abortion, protests would continue in hopes that legislators will take notice and help to bring legalized abortions to an end. "By picketing the hospital, we hope that we will be able to get doctors and nurses to refuse to perform abortions," Kremer added. Kremer said his group's efforts have drawn mixed reactions. "Nurses have said unkind things to us, but one family life doctor congratulated us on our work," said Kremer. "I got one threat over the phone earlier this school year." Members of Carolina Students for Life are part of a nationwide movement to abolish legalized abortions. While Carolina Students for Life is a very small campus anti-abortion group of about 100 members, national organizations who share their concerns boast very large memberships. The American Life Lobby of Stafford, Va., is one such organization. The group has amassed 108,000 members since its inception three and one-half years ago. Operating with a budget of $1.5 million, the group is working to develop its programs at the grass-roots level in all states. The group's primary goal for 1983 is to have legislation passed re moving government funding for abortions. While members of the American Life Lobby would like legislation banning abortion, Judy Brown, a spokesperson for the group said they did not expect such legislation in 1983. Brown added that her group was interested in changing America's moral outlook. "We're stressing chastity education in the schools," said Brown. "Our group is also involved in sidewalk coun seling outside abortion centers." Less vocal groups such as the North Carolina Religious Coalition for Abortion Rights are working to maintain a woman's freedom to See ABORTION oh page 4 Track teams host Hilton Invitational A By EDDIE WOOTEN Staff Writer Tennessee and Villanova, two of the na tion's perennial track and field teams, are the top names in the second annual Joe . Hilton Invitational, Saturday in the New Tin Can. North Carolina will give the two powers a good run for the team championship, which Tennessee won last year. ACC co- -champions N.C. State and Clemson will compete, as will Florida State of the Metro Conference. The meet is in honor of the former UNC track coach who retired in 1981. Hilton served in the UNC Athletic Depart ment for 37 years. From 1963 to 1981, he headed the track program and established it as one of the best in the nation. During his 19 years, Hilton coached 77 individual ACC champions, two individual NCAA champions, and five All-Americans. Though it is only in its second year of existence, the Hilton meet has attracted one of the best fields in the area. Ten nessee finished second in the NCAA Out door Championships last spring, while Villanova was third in the indoor cham- See TRACK on page 4 CGC approval forced i I I w;ym?c.A..v : : .: :v.-.v.v.v v.s:-y.-:w. " S;.:-:.;.:-: -x iw."-..-.-:.:-:-:-:.:-:':-;'-- :. .s . : : v.s iX ' v" 1 - x iJ i.irmr ,-, .if,!.,,,!.!,!,.., mm firnr,-.iriylinnBn.ii Mr ninnnillnrrrn r nr Til"T-r-M--r-1 1 1 -m- -n-r-T -irn- - "- .ivrf".. -K aytotioaawwwewflMaM Winter's here! DTMiCharlesW Ledlofd Joe Thompson, a sophomore from Winston-Saleirvreadies his skis for weekend fun. Thompson is heading for Snowshoe, W.Va. ; Concert referendum killed f X Phil Pclntcr Dy CHARLES ELLMAKER, Staff Writer On Tuesday, the Campus Governing Council approved funding for the $100,000 Student Government Spring Concert. The decision came one week after the CGC Finance Committee gave its fiscal approval to the concert, a decision which Finance Committee Chairperson Charlie Madison (District 23) called "a policy reversal." The one good thing that can be said of the outcome is that UNC students got what they wanted a concert. But the CGC probably never would have approved the concert if the student referendum issue had not been pro posed. If the Student Constitution, which governs the CGC's actions, had been followed, the referendum would have been held. The students probably would have approved the concert, and the inconsistent decision-making exhi bited by the CGC could have been avoided. Reconsidering approval for the concert "wouldn't even have come up again" if the petition to initiate a student referendum had not received such an overwhelming re sponse, said Finance Committee member Mark Martin (District 15) last week. And Finance Committee member "Doc" Droze (Dis trict 22), who had originally voted against the bill, said the students' response to the. petition made him change his mind about voting for the spring concert. Elections Board Chairperson Stan Evans said Wednes day that "there will be no referendum." Last semester, the Finance Committee chose not to fund the spring concert, and then blocked passage of a CGC bill that would have forced the Finance Committee to reconsider funding the concert. , . . V . AN ANALYSIS But when Martin announced that he would start a peti tion to force a student referendum on the issue, the com mittee decided to meet again this semester to review the proposal. The Finance Committee then told Student Body Presi dent Mike Vandenbergh that they would meet, a signal to him not to proceed with the referendum petition until after the committee had come to a decision. But before the Finance committee could meet this semester, Vandenbergh and Chapel Thrill Committee Chairperson Ben Lee had already organized the pecition, which received about 2,900 signatures on Jan. 10. Vandenbergh determined that both the petition and bill were in good order with the Constitution, but instead of calling for the referendum, he stalled the referendum and asked Madison to call a special meeting of the Finance Committee to consider the bill. But according to the Constitution, Vandenbergh had no right to stop a ballot on the bill. And by issuing the petition before the Finance Committee had a chance to take action on its own, he placed a smear on any decision which they might reach. Vandenbergh's action was not only unconstitutional but also improper, because it gave the Finance Committee almost no leeway in its decision. If the committee did not pass the bill, Vandenbergh said he would approve the referendum, in effect, forcing the committee to pass some version of the bill. There is no clause in the Constitution allowing for a retraction of a student referendum, but Vandenbergh took the liberty of stopping the referendum for his own advantage. Vandenbergh has said the referendum was not being used as a pressure tactic. But this logic seems faulty if he had intended to let the Finance Committee decide whether the new bill should be approved, he should have asked that the committee meet before the petition was dis tributed. The bill was passed, but with the stipulation that the CGC Jiad the right to cancel the concert at a later date if it did not think the bands selected would draw enough stu dents to make the concert a financial success. Vandenbergh admitted that the constitutionality of 'his action to stop the referendum was "an interesting ques tion," but no one not even Phil Painter (District 19) who chairs the Rules and Judiciary Committee has seen fit to formally challenge his mover When the bill was presented to the CGC, Painter con fronted Vandenbergh about the constitutionality of his postponement. Vandenbergh defended the action, saying he thought two separate but nearly identical bills up for passage by two different bodies was unconstitutional. But he said again that the student referendum would be held if the CGC did not pass its own version of the fund ing bill. ' . The CGC, like the Finance Committee, had little choice in voting on the spring concert. Either they passed their own bill,, with the right to can cel the concert later, or they let it go to the students, with the strong possibility that it would pass without the protective clause. Committee member Lori Dostal (District 5) summed up the CGCs position: the CGC entity wanted the concert because the students wanted the concert, even though she still opposed using student funds for social events'. See THRILL on page 3 4 5 ond enators rmk . By KYLE MARSHALL Staff Writer With growing support for raising the legal drinking age in North Carolina, state legislators from Orange County said Thursday they favored proposed legisla tion setting the age at 19. But the legislators said they would also have to study a proposal from the Gover nor's Crime Commission, which suggested raising the age to 21. ' - deb log Barnes, D-24th District, could not be reached for comment Thursday. Several witnesses at a public hearing in Raleigh Wednesday advocated increasing the age to 21. But Gov. Jim Hunt's Task Force on Drunken Driving has recom mended 19. Brent Hackney, Hunt's deputy press secretary, said Thursday the governor would continue to push for 19, despite in creased support from certain legislators and interest groups for 21. . "I'm inclined to think that the residents of Chatham and Orange counties feel very strongly that raising the age is appropriate," Rep. Joe Hackney, D-24th District, said. While many legislators have spoken out in support of raising the minimum age, Hackney and Sen. Wanda Hunt, D-16th District, said they have not yet received enough information to support either the 19 or 21 age level. "I've considered 19, but the legislation needs to be debated," Hunt said. "What I'd like to see is more enforcement of the current laws." Orange County legislators Sen. Russell Walker, D-16th District, and Rep. Anne The governor believes 19 is the logical age for the legislation," Hackney said. "If you raise it to 19, you make an impact in the high schools. But once you get past 19, it's much more difficult to enforce. "It appears there might be a good deal of support for 19 (in the State Legislature)," he said. The bill's sponsor, Sen. Henson Barnes, D-8th District, said Thursday he was cer tain there would be an increase in the drinking age. The biggest battle would be in holding it to 19, he said. "We're getting more pressure to raise it to 21 than we are to keep it (the current legislation) at 19," Barnes said. "There See AGE on page 4 Miles declares plans for RHA candidacy By JOSEPH BERRYHILL Staff Writer Henry Miles, a junior industrial relations major from Hartville, Ohio, announced his candidacy for the Residence Hall Association presidency Thursday. Miles said the theme of his cam paign was "working together," and he said he planned to establish closer ties with Student Government. "I want to have a meeting at least once a week with the student body president and sit in on his cabinet meetings," he said. Miles emphasized the role of the RHA president in establishing rela tions with Student Government. "I think the RHA president should be the liaison between Student Government and RHA," he said. RHA also needs to work closely with the UNC housing department, "for the betterment of the student population," Miles said. "We represent the same people so we should have pretty much the same ideas," Miles said. Miles also said that he supported switching control of enhancement funds from University Housing to RHA. RHA would work closely with the housing department to ensure that the funds were distributed properly, he added. "We'll work with them to make sure we don't duplicate anything they want to do," he said. Miles said that if RHA controlled the distribution of enhancement funds, then the funds could not be frozen. Henry ftiles Miles said that, if elected, he would try to establish more all-campus events, but not at the expense of in dividual area events. "I don't want to drop anything they're doing just add a - few things," he said. "I want to get North Campus working with South Campus and Granville." In response to the upcoming mandatory meal plan of $100 for on campus students, Miles said he would help students by setting up RHA as an intermediary between students. "RHA will set up a list of people who want to sell and buy (meal plans), so they can give each other phone numbers. We'll let them negotiate it." Miles is the governor of Henderson Residence College and a member of Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity.