The Carolinian [March 25, 1974]

              The Carolinian
Volume LIII The University of North Carolina Greensboro, N.C.
March 25, 1974 Number 38
Panels discuss women today
Career problems thrashed out
Sue Ellen Brown
Staff Writer
In keeping with the
expanding Women's Studies
program at UNC-G,
'Traditions in Transition,"
the theme of an all-day
program dedicated to
examinging what is happening
with women today, was held
here on Saturday.
With a variety of programs
held in Elliott Hall, the event
sponsored by the UNC-G
Committee of Women's women fit into them.
Studies was highlighted by Jean O'Barr and Susan
noted professional women Carr, both of Duke
both in and outside the University, spoke on women
University community. seeking new directions in
The agenda offered panel their careers. A prevailing
discussions, workshops, and a problem seen by O'Barr is the
slide lecture. woman's attitude that "she
Covering the topic of must be invited" in order to
"Changing Career Patterns," penetrate a new career
in a panel discussion, ten
women in different
"non-traditional" careers
briefly discussed the nature
of their professions and how
opportunity. She encouraged
women to investigate and
make it known that they are
interested in their fields.
Another problem she
Political women think system
can effect own future redux
Joan Little
Staff Writer
Political decision-making
was the topic of a "Traditions
UNC-G senior and North
Carolina Women's Political
Caucus member Roxie
Hobson opened the program
by defining political
in Transition" panel featuring decision-making as a
Professional women and volunteers discuss child care at afternoon session of "Traditions
in Transition." For more stories, see page 3. staff Photo by Paul Braxton
leading North Carolina
women political figures at
both local and state levels. Comedian-actionist Gregory
to speak at UNC-G Tuesday
Dick Gregory, desctibed as
"the world's foremost
free-lance humanitarian," will
speak on Tuesday, March 26,
at UNC-G.
His talk, co-sponsored by
SGA and the Neo-Black
Society, will be at 8:15 pjn.
in Avcock Auditorium. His
appearance is part of the
University Concert and
Lecture Series.
Best known for his
activities on behalf of civil
rights and the peace
movement, Gregory first
came to public attention in
Webb picked for
Bo Williams award
Barry Lee Webb of Eden his work as a composer, he is
has been selected as the first an accomplished guitarist.
recipient of the newly, performing in both classical
established Bo Williams and popular styles.
the early sixties as a
comedian and social satirist.
He became increasingly
involved with civil rights
causes in the last decade. As
one form of protest, Gregory
has fasted extensively. Jailed
in 1965 because of his daily
demonstrations protesting de
factor segregation in the
Chicago public schools, he
refused food and drank only
distilled water during his
45-day sentence.
Gregory ran as a write-in
candidate for mayor of
Chicago in 1967, and in the
following year he conducted
a write-in campaign as an
independent candidate for
U.S. President.
Gregory is the author of
six books, including his
autobiography, "Nigger," and
"Dick gregory's Political
Primer." He has recorded
many albums.
For the last Several years,
he has spent most of his time
speaking on college campuses,
lecturing at more than 300
schools each year.
two-sided process, involving
both input from the political
system and output of public
policy.
"Decisions are choices
among alternative courses of
action that shape the ouputs
of the urban system," she
said. "Policy makers are not
free to make whatever
decisions suit their fancies,
for they are confronted with
numerous demands and have
only limited resources of
time, information, money,
and authority with which to
meet them."
Ms. Hobson stressed that
although political
decision-making was a
rational process in theory, in
practice it fell far short.
Reasons she cited for this gap
included time pressures, costs
of obtaining adequate
information about acceptable
goals and policies, constraints
of political feasibility,
constituency pressures, and
the party vs. policy conflict.
N.C. State Representatives
Charles Webb and Margaret
Keesee agreed with Ms.
Hobson's thoughts as to
obstacles confronting the
politician in the
decision-making process, but
emphasized that the process
was nevertheless for the most
part a fair one. Both Webb
and Keesee stated that they
avoided partisan politics and
bills whenever possible and
did not vote in terms of an
issue's popularity or how it
would affect their re-election
possibilities.
"Most of the elected
offficials in Raleigh are
genuinely concerned about
the people's interests and not
those of selected groups,"
stated Keesee. "I try to
always support what issues I
See OLDER, page 3
Scholarship Award for
musicians at UNC-G.
Webb, the son of Mr. and
Mrs. Carl Webb of Eden, will
graduate in May from the
School of Music. He will
receive a Bachelor of Music
degree.
He was chosen for the new
award on the basis of
outstanding achievement in
composition. In addition to
The scholarship, to be
presented each year to an
outstanding student in the
School of Music, was
established by Bill Kennedy,
manager, and the members of
the group Kallabash. The
award is a tribute to Bo
Williams, former member of
the group, who died
accidently during the
Christmas holidays.
NSL thinks Helms, Nixon care
too little about students
recognized, "Women often
express that they feel they
are not being appreciated in
their jobs." O'Barr felt that
women often "misread the
clues." "Appreciation is
shown differently in
employment." Instead of
verbalization of praise, she
said that, employers will
express their approval by
awarding extra respon-sibilities
or asking for
opinion.
Carr pointed to the need
for realistic consideration of
goals. For example, she
believes that it is foolish to
plan for a career if the area in
which a woman will live holds
no opportunities in her
chosen field.
She emphasized the
amount of long, hard work
and experience necessary to
advance to high positions
with a profession.
This was reinforced by
Linda McGee, graduate from
the UNC-CH Law School,
who told of the difficulties
found through heavy
competition in being a lawer.
Careers in modern
economics, technology,
chemical research, and
computer science are being
avoided by many women,
according to O'Barr.
Offering encouragement
for women seeking a career in
engineering, Janet O'Brien
mentioned that she had not
entered the field herself until
she was 39 years old. She was
particularly enthusiastic
about the opportunities
offered, claiming, "It gives a
great chance for personal
growth!"
Equally excited about her
career. Ann Garrison, UNC-G
alumna with her B.A. in
Brown to lecture
on future nursing
Dr. Ester Lucile Brown, a
prominent author, lecturer
and consultant in the health
care field, will speak on
"Nursing Toward the
Twenty-First Century" on
Tuesday, March 26 at
UNC-G.
Dr. Brown's talk, to be
given at 8:15 p.m. in Cone
Ballroom of Elliott Hall is
part of the Harriet Elliott
Lecture Series in Social
Science. The general theme of
the series is "The
Transformation of American
Society."
Dr. Brown has been a
Social Science Research
Fellow in France and a
consultant to the World
Health Organization in
Geneva. She has lectured
extensively in this country,
Australia. New Zealand.
Israel, and Japan.
She is the author of 10
books and monographs,
including "Nursing for the
Future." "Phsicians and
Medical Care." and "Nursing
Reconsidered: A Study of
Change." and numerous
journal articles.
The speech is open to the
public without charge.
Joan Little
Staff Writer
The National Student
Lobby recently held its
annual meeting in Washington
and two UNC-G students
were there to speak with
senators and congressmen on
issues of concern to students
as citizens. UNC-G students
Karen Buckle and CArleen
Sims were tow of some 1,000
undergraduates from across
the nation who attended the
event to lobby for the passage
of educational legislation
concerning students.
. This year's main issues
included the money crunch
due to general inflation as
well as rising tuition costs,
the need for more sork-study
programs for juniors and
seniors, and the problems
created for mildly
disadvantaged students by the system and said that more
1972 Education Amendment student concern could help
means test. institute positive action to
The means test is now change this situation,
required of all students "With over ten million
seeking to obtain Guaranteed students enrolled in colleges
Student Loans. and universities across the
Also discussed were
efforts to reinstate discout
student transportation fares
and a "Youth Differential" or
subminimum wage
amendment to this year's
Minimum Wage legislation.
The latter proposal would put
students at a subminimum of
80 to 85 per cent of the full
minimum wage, in the hope
of creating new jobs.
According ro UNC-G
representative Karen Buckle,
North Carolina Senator Sam
Ervin and Representatives
Richardson Preyer (D-N.C.)
and Roy A. Taylor (D.-N.C.)
were receptive to NSL's
demands, but N.C. Senator
Jesse Helms was not.
She further stated that
many senators and
congressmen seemed to be
naively unaware of problems
in the higher education
United States we have the
potential for being the
strongest lobby group in the
nation if students would just
organize." said Buckle.
Referring specifically to
Senator Helms, Buckle cited
the fact that the North
Carolinian had put a damper
on any new higher education
programs by refusing to
support all educational
legislation that arose during
the last session of Congress.
"Helms says he can't
support anything for students
as the national budget is
already overextended. In
other words, education is not
one of his priorities!" she
said. According to Buckle,
Senator Helms "supports
Nixon's view that Federal
funds should go only to
needy freshmen and
sophomores, ignoring the fact
that juniors and seniors need
money too."
According to the National
Student Lobby bulletin, the
needs or "means" test, which
was implemented in March
1973 after the passage of the
1972 Education
Amendments, has forced
families, regardless of income
to demonstrate a need for a
Guaranteed Student Loan
from banks.
Before the implemen-tation
of the needs test
Congress had determined that
a family with an adjusted
income of under SI 5.000 was
enough of a demonstration of
need. "In these times of
inflation even the $15,000
ceiling has come into
question." said Buckle.
'This has caused large
numbers of families to turn
away from this source of
bank loans and the program is
dow 32 per cent from 1972."
she said.
The National Student
Lobby headquarters and core
staff are located in
Washington D.C. It organizes
all the group's activities.
Representatives from
different schools vote every
year to decide what issues
will be stressed at the annual
national meeting.
History, is
saleswoman,
described the
a travelling
Though she
profession as
"trying," she said that it was
much easier that the hard sell
one always sees in the
magazine ads. "This industry
is really opening up to
women. It takes a special sort
of woman to be in sales,
though."
Of a v iat ion , Page
Shamburger said, "There are
women in every part of
aviation that I know of." She
holds a Commercial Pilot's
license for airplanes and
helicopters. Career
possibilities in her field that
she suggested include: tower
traffic control, teaching,
mechanics, and pooling for a
major airline.
According to Shamburger
women are currently involved
in Naval aviation.
The newspaper profession
was represented by Pat
Alspaugh of the Greensboro
Daily News. She believes
there are not enough women
in management. "We need
women who believe in
women."
Health careers were
discussed by Claudia Svara.
who is involved with related
services in Greensboro.
Speaking on this same
area, Bebe Williamson, a
student at the Bowman Gray
School of Medicine, spoke on
the problem of finding a
personal identity not only as
a woman, but as a physician
as well.
"I have found it lonely at
med school." she said, and
added that women are finding
it hard to enter certain special
areas of medicine, like
surgery.
As the first woman
admitted into Amtrak's
training program, Helen
Grace spoke briefly on her
"break" into the business.
RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE ARTS FESTIVAL
"The Idea of Order at Mary Foust"
Schedule of Events for March 25-28:
Monday, March 25 - 7:30 p.m., Mary Fous
Parlor - James Helgeson. Carl Goldstein, Walter
Wehner - "Criticism, Creativity and the Idea of
Order."
Tuesday, March 26 - 4:00 p.m., Mary Foust Parlor - Fred
Chappell reads, "Dangling His Cigarette and His
Dangerous Charm."
Wednesday, March 27 - 3:00 p.m.. Mary Foust
Parlor - Gilbert Carpenter and Robert Gerhart,
"Visual Art." 7:30 pjn., Mary Foust Parlor Linda
Bragg, Poetry Reading: the Black Renaissance
presents the "Compromise."
Thursday, March 28 - 3:40 p.m.. Nursing
Auditorium - Citizen Kane-Orson Welles. 8:00
pjn., Mary Foust Parlor - Open Discussion, "Film and the
Art of Citizen Kane."
Novak would prefer impeachment over resignation for Nixon
Sue Ellen Brown
Staff Writer
"1, too, flinched at the
thought of impeachment
... but now I'm not so sure
it isn't the best to follow the
constitutional process for
impeachment," said noted
political columnist Robert
Co-author with Rowland
Evans of a nationally
syndicated column. Novak,
also recognized a "great need
for scaling down the royalist
Presidency."
As far as who will assume
this power, the columnist
discounted the Congress, of
which he said. "You wouldn't
Novak on Thursday evening. wanl them to run , drug stQre
Speaking at the annual here in Greensboro, much less
dinner meeting of the UNC-G ,he federal government "
Friends of the Library.
Novak, clad in a conservative
grey suit, said that he
opposed resignation because
it "leaves too many
uncertainties.'*
He rejected isolation in
world affairs as a possible
solution, too.
He said he felt that,
'Realistically, no one is going
to size."
Novak spoke out against
"the new constitutional
doctrine that the President is
above the law." He further
felt that many "good people
in this country" feel that
even if a President does
commit a crime, it is more
important to save the
presidency than to punish a
president for what he did.
Regardless of the outcome
of the impeachment process.
Novak thinks the country can
survive.
Novak pointed out that
presidential use o tapes and
to cut the government d o w n telephones today is cutting
down the amount of material
that will be available to the
future historian. 'Today less
is put down on paper . . . the
historian isn't going to find
all that much on paper as he
did with Lincoln or other
presidents."
Novak charged that
Presidents can rewrite history
through this "oral history,"
which he terms an
"abomination."
"How will future
historian know what is right
or wrong with the
inconsistencies he will find?"
In view of this, Novak
called for current historical
documents to be written by subject comes from his own added, "The Democratic
journalists and historians experience co-authoring two party is in the throws of the
"while the bodies are still
warm." He is a former
journalist himself.
This brings up the
lecturer's main focus,
"Writing on Contemporary
Presidents."
"Writing about Presidents
while they are still in office is
different from writing about
them after they are dead." In
reference to Gore Vidal's
recent bestseller "Burr." he
said. "Jefferson can do very
little to Vidal."
Novak's authority on this
books with his colleague,
Evans, on Johnson and
Nixon. He placed the
importance of these
publications as giving the
public in sights and
information they couldn't get
elsewhere due to the
limitations on newspaper and
magazine articles.
Looking at the major
political parties, Novak was
not optimistic about hteir
state. "The Republican party
is like a cancer victim who
doesn't know he's dying." He
longest non-stop nervous
breakdown in the history of
western politics."
He predicted that Ford
would run in 1976. describing
the Vice President as a
"decent" person.
He also suggested that as
Governor Wallace becomes
"more respectable" he is
gaining a "great deal of
strength."
Senator Kennedy will be
attacked with the
Chappaquidick incident it he
runs in 1976. according to
Novak. "Kennedy was never
questioned in detail by the
press." This, he feels, is the
press's fault. He went on to
predict that the press would
probably go hard on Kennedy
since they have been doing so
with Nixon on Watergate.
Taking this into
consideration the columnist
guessed, "Ford would win in
the co n t est against
Kennedy."
With respect to Nixon, the
columnist admitted, "I
worship the quicksand he
walks on."