6060 60 percent chance of showers or thunderstorms this morning, followed by partial clearing during the afternoon. Highs in the mid to upper 60s, lows in the up per 30s. Copyright The Daily Tar Heel 1983 Party with CGC CGC final budget hearings will be Saturday at 8 a.m. in 224 Union: Everyone should come see how their money is spent. r I ; n rt Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume reissue $f ffi Friday, April 15,. 1983 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 .1 raiiy leigii raiiy N.C. Legislature f " MM.JHI.HmMMWIWjH 'I WIJKHII. Ml 'llll.;'W'rlVl'''t'U'l"'''M:!yfgJy- WIIW V .i.v-K .V . ' & .... " S AH i tr i xiiiiiiii.il Students n ii iw ' tin y-: i : jl p v l i J I - I I " I 8. :r By KATE COOPER Staff Writer Approximately 200 college students descended upon the N.C. Legislature Thursday afternoon to rally against cuts in education and tuition hikes throughout the 16-campus UNC system. Before an applauding and enthusiastic crowd, students from UNC-Charlotte, North Carolina State University and UNC-Chapel Hill listened to nine repre sentatives from the academic, legislative and student communities speak for public higher education in North Carolina. The rally was sponsored by the UNC Coali tion for Education, which sent 90 UNC students to the rally. While legislators watched the rally through their office windows Jn the Legislative Building, Rep. John Jordan, D-Alamance, told the crowd that he sup ported their efforts. "You need to con tinue making sure that the Legislature knows that you are concerned about education," he said. Mary Turner Lane, UNC director of women's studies and professor of educa tion, also spoke to the crowd. "Make it possible for all of us as well as those of us just being accepted into the system - either as professor or student to be able to stay there,". Lane said. She also said she was happy to see students turn out in support of education. "I Sim so pleased that students are making this commitment to education in this way," Lane said. "Many adults criticize students today for being apatheticand this is just not true." William T. Tuck, a member of the N.C. Association of Black Educators, told the crowd that cuts in faculty posi tions would eliminate black faculty. "Blacks are usually the last to be hired and the first to be fired," he said. Tuck, also said he would like to see a strong ef fort made to upgrade the programs at predominantly black institutions to "bring them into parity with comparable white institutions." ... ;., ;r; :. . J UHC . student and Public interest Research Group member Ted Johnson told the crowd that education is like love, peace and justice. "Everyone says they are for it, but who really means it?" he said. Johnson said the military budget should be cut in order to fund human needs. Representing the University of North Carolina Association of Student Govern ment, NCSU Student Body President Jim Yocum said students need to talk to their legislators and tell them they support higher education. UNC senior Steve Langman told the crowd that education is an investment in the intellectual development of youths and is fundamental to the economic pro sperity of the nation. "Our University should remain the chief concern and business of North Carolina," Langman said. Langman is also a member of the board of directors of the United States Student Association. Though the students present at the ral ly were enthusiastic, Coalition for Educa tion member Kevin Jones said he had hoped more students would attend. Of the six buses the Coalition had planned to send to Raleigh, only three were filled.- "The rally does not reflect the number that needs to be out here," Jones said. "This problem affects all 20,000 students at UNC. I wish more people would have come out today." Coalition coordinator Jon Reckford said he was "very pleased with the speeches and the outcome of the rally." "You have taken the first step," Reckford said in winding up the rally. "Now take the second. Find out who your representatives and senators are and let them know now how you feel about education." UNC-C Student Body President Rick DeRhodes was one of the students who attended the rally. DeRhodes said the education issue was one which would af fect all students. "I don't want to sit in any classes any larger than I already do," he said. Pricillia Lyons also attended the rally from UNC-C. She said students at UNC , .C fpund.outlboutjhe sally through Jet-. Twsistributed on campus by the UNC-C Student Government. Handful of legist ators attend education rally By JAMES STEPHENS Staff Writer With a predicted $ 100 million deficit in the state budget sitting in their laps, legislators looked up Thursday afternoon to see about 200 UNC students protesting against rumored reductions in the Uni-' versity budget and proposed increases in out-of-state tuition. But only 10 to 15 of the 170 legislators came to the Coalition for Education's rally. "I don't think many (legislators) knew about this," said Sen. Marvin Ward, D-Forsyth. Rep. Parks "Helms, D-Mecklenberg, chidrman of the committee deciding the fate of the non-resident tuition bills, was apparently uninformed of the rally, said Carolyn Joslin, his secretary. Joslin said she had heard rumors that students were demonstrating for the nuclear arms freeze. The legislators' reaction to the students attending the rally on the front steps of the General Assembly varied. Rep. Malcolm Fulcher Jr., D-Carteret, said he was pleased to see the support for education. "I just hope they carry it across the length and the breadth of the state," he said. Fulcher, the chairman of the Base Budget Committee on Education, said he feels there is a strong sentiment in the Legislature to avoid cutting the UNC ap propriations. . "People keep talking about cutting the fat out of the budget," Fulcher said, "but there is no more, damn fat left in the budget. We're down to muscle and bone." Fulcher said .the requirement placed on the budget committees to identify 1 per cent to 3 percent reductions in appropria tions has had positive effects. The com mittees have been able to identify some extraneous programs, said Fulcher, but in the process they are showing to the state that there aren't many places in the budget the state can afford to reduce. "I didn't get an invitation to speak like the rest of the (legislators) here, but I came anyway," said Rep. John Jordan, D-Alamance. Jordan is responsible for two bills cur rently in the house to raise non-resident tuition, one of which, if passed, would in crease tuition by over $3,400. Asked if the demonstration would be effective, Jordan said: "I think it's going to give my bill good exposure. I think it's going to help my bill." Sen. Elton Edwards, D-Guilford, co chairman of the Senate Base Budget Committee said that he was not invited to the coalition, whereas his twpcounter parts, Rep. Allen Adams, D-Wake, and Rep. Fulcher (both chairmen on the joint budget committee) were. Edwards did not attend the rally. "Demonstrations of this kind usually don't have much effect," said Edwards. "We recognize that the students in Chapel Hill have a concern, but they have to understand that we haven't cut any thing from the UNC budget." According to many legislators, any decision on the. identified 1 percent to 3 percent reductions will be made only after the projections for state revenue for the coming year are finalized. Currently the state is faced with a possible $100 million deficit in 1983-84. This figure may change by the time taxes are received, said Doug Carter, senior fiscal analyst for the Legislature, but the $100 million figure has remained steady in budgetary forecasts since it was first cited shortly after Gov. Jim Hunt pre sented it to the Legislature. Legislators began identifying possible areas to be cut as a precautionary measuie, so that in the event of a deficit late in the legislative session they would not have to make decisions hastily, said Carter. Acting under a legislative mandate, the Joint Appropriations Committee on Higher Education drew up guidelines ear ly in the year that identify areas from which to cut up to $36 million from UNC's budget over the next two years. But the resolution of the committee far from favored the reductions. The conclusion of the committee's resolution says, "such reductions could result in irreparable harm to the educa tional system of North Carolina." The resolution further urges the joint budget committee to seek additional sources of revenue rather than to decrease educa tional funds. Edwards called the current economic problems the worst in many years but said that some parts of the budget need increases. Edwards cited the state prison system as an area vastly needing state funds to avoid complications with the .federal government. The state must come up with $60 million this coming year to avoid losing four times that much in matching federal funds over the next two years. Addi tionally, Edwards said that money has not been identified to raise the state employee salary freeze ' the top priority of Hunt's 1983-84 budget. See RALLY on page 4 r. L r r IN V v k i .' - If til - . ' 7' I " f.,.f .:: i K it I ?j I ir ..I -I T i IS if i f ? .1 i i n it i ii 1 ,,, - s I I v- 4 ii J V" ' A r " .S ' .? - ( s y I ff& f I IS 1 45f ' foes. - r Vs j ' CI ii F -..4 M u ft x A " C: y. n v . : :-:-:-:-vNv.-: y " I I 4 i A VV - - f ? f i - A Ijj The Coalition for Education sponsored a rally against hiKes in tuition and proposed cuts in the UNC system budget on Thursday at the Legislative Building. Students, administrators and legislators (top) gathered to hear a number of speakers. Jon Reckford (bottom right) of UNC coordinated the coalition and the rally. Rep. John Jordan, D-Ala-mance, (bottom left) is responsible for two bills, currently in the House, to raise out-of-state tuition. Photos by Charles W. Ledford. lenate confirms Adelman as arms control director The Associated Press . ' WASHINGTON Kenneth L. Adelman was con firmed, 57-42, as the nation's arms control director on Thursday after a long Senate fight over President Reagan's strategic policies as well as the young ambas sador's competence and credibility. Reagan pronounced himself "deeply gratified" and declared, "It's my earnest hope that this positive step will mark the beginning of a new bipartisan consensus on the vital issue of nuclear arms reductions." The president, at an informal news conference, said Adelman would head a "reinvigorated" Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. And, "If we are met with reciprocal seriousness of purpose from the Soviet Union, 1983 can be a year of historic importance in securing a more solid and stable peace through arms reductions," Reagan said. Adelman, in New York, said he would contact all members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee which voted against his confirmation in an effort to meet "with each one next week to seek their continued counsel on arms control issues." He said that when the panel first began examining him, "I believed in an energetic bipartisan congressional role in foreign policy, and I still do now more than Sen. Gary Hart, D-Colo., said Adelman "appears to be more dedicated to an arms buildup than to reducing the hazards of unrestricted competition." His nomina tion by Reagan, said Hart, "signifies a serious lack of concern for the efficacy of arms control negotiations." Sen. Emest F. Hollings, D-S.C, did not take part in the floor debate but voted against the nomination. Cranston and Hart are announced candidates for the .1984 Democratic presidential nomination. Glenn and Hollings are expected to enter the race shortly. Sen. Charles H. Percy, R-Ill., chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee who led the fight for the nomination, saying Adelman's confirmation would "vigorously move the Reagan administration toward arms control agreements that can win the approval of the Senate." Vice President George Bush, who as president of the Senate was empowered to cast a tie-breaking vote, presided over Thursday's climactic roll call, but his vote was not needed. Assistant GOP Leader Ted Stevens of Alaska said he had asked Bush to be present "just in case." ever.' Only Sen. Bob Packwood, who was in his home state of Oregon attending a Republican conference, did not vote on the nomination. Forty-nine Republicans and 8 Democrats supported Adelman; 3& Democrats and 4 Republicans, Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland, Larry Pressler of South Dakota, Mark Andrews of North Dakota and Slade Gorton of Washington, voted against him. Four Democratic senators with presidential ambitions spoke against Adelman in the last hours of a three-day debate over the nomination that capped several months of deliberations. Senate Democratic Whip Alan Cranston of California argued that Adelman's confirmation "would be a betrayal of the hopes of tens of millions of Americans for swift progress toward a mutual, balanced, verifiable end to the U.S.- Soviet nuclear arms race." Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, said, "We should be put ting forward ... not someone who can just get by. but the very finest negotiating team we can possibly assem ble. Unless we put forward our best effort, our best team, this may be our last hor ?f r-..'m-l" See ARMS on page 4

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