The Carolinian [November 20, 1975]

              Hunt promotes new traffic crossings
BY KURT BERON
Amoci.t. Edit Of
Pedestrian safety and traffic
control have long been an issue on this
campus with over 60 percent of its
students commuting from off-campus.
One student, fed up with the apparent
inaction on any person's part in the
past, has successfully started a change
on her own.
Jean Hunt, a senior, is personally
responsible for two new crosswalks
which have already been put in on
Mclver St.,four crosswalks to be put in
on campus by January, and the two
campus security officers who are
temporarily patrolling crosswalks until
January when, if the money is
approved, the light at Graham building
will be sychronized and the guard
removed.
During her past three years here,
Ms. Hunt became increasingly
disheartened with the traffic situation
around campus. "I was very concerned
that a student would someday be
injured," Ms. Hunt said. "Last year
there was a girl hit in front of Graham.
She was carried away by fellow
students, but she wasn't hurt badly so
it wasn't reported to the police.
Students should understand that just
because you haven't been hit before
doesn't mean you won't be hit
tomorrow," Ms. Hunt further said.
Assuming this attitude, Ms. Hunt
went to talk to Newton Beck, the new
Director of Security, Oct. 9. "Mr.
Beck was aware of the traffice
problems and was quite cooperative. I
feel we finally have a director of
security who is for the safety of the
students," Ms. Hunt remarked.
After several meetings between
Beck and Ms. Hunt, it was established
that two different strategies would
have to be taken. Any change in
existing streets on campus property
could be done with the Chancellor's
approval. Any change initiated on a
city street (i.e. Spring Garden or
Mclver) would have to be approved by
the city's Traffic Engineer, Mike
Dankins.
Dankins, Beck, Ms. Hunt and Eddie
Pickard, captain of patrol, spent three
hours on campus surveying the
situation Oct. 27. Ms. Hunt's original
idea with the city streets was to put
pedestrian right-of-ways in front of
Graham, Curry, Nursing, and the Life
Science buildings-simialr to a plan
used in Chapel Hill. Dankins told
Picard to conduct a speed check of
Spring Garden in front of Graham and
Curry. It is now 25 mph, but the city
may put a speed trap in.
"One last study during the summer
of 1975 revealed that Spring Garden
with only two lanes has 12,300 cars
per day passing in front of the two
buildings. In the entire city of
Greensboro, this is only second to
West Market Street on which 15,000
cars travel on four lanes," Ms. Hunt
said. "Also," Ms. Hunt continued,
"Spring Garden has the heaviest
pedestrian flow in the city."
Dankins agreed to putting
crosswalks on Mclver at the Nursing
and Life Science buildings, as traffic is
relatively light on this street. "He said
he would try to have the work done in
a week, but the very next day they
were there," Ms. Hunt said
Spring Garden was another matter.
In front of Curry there already existed
a pedestrian yield, where if a
pedestrian put one foot inside the
crosswalk, traffic was supposed to
yield. The problem there is that
vehicles were not obeying the city
ordinance. This was rectified by the
city giving the campus security partial
jurisdiction to enforce the city law at
Curry and stop all traffic when a
pedestrian enters the crosswalk.
fhe Graham crossing presented an
entirely different type of problem.
The situation there was not the fault
of vehicles but of pedestrians mainly
consisting of students going to classes.
"The city would never agree to a
pedestrian yield at Graham because it
would interfere with the heavy traffic
flow," Ms. Hunt said. "Though I am
concerned with the rights of
pedestrians, I am also concerned with
the rights of vehicles, and want to find
some median between the two," she
further remarked.
Two solutions considered were the
Dober plan which called for the
construction of a bridge from the old
Administration building to cross over
the trees in the park and then to cross
Spring Garden Street, and a plan
designed to tunnel through the same
locations. Both were multi-million
dollar plans, and were discarded as
being too expensive for any practical
immediate solution.
The obvious problem at Graham is
that "they presently have a confused
light," Ms. Hunt said. "It is totally
unsynchronized with the traffic flow,
and the city didn't realize this. It may
take 20 seconds or three minutes to
turn now, when it should take only 20
or 30 seconds," she continued.
The city has agreed to synchronize
the light in January if it is
appropriated the $7,000 it needs to do
the job. It has already relocated the
pedestrian light-change button to a
more convenient location for students
onto the other side of Highland Street.
"A campus security officer has
been put in at Graham as the only
immediate solution," Ms. Huni said.
"Their only job there is to educate the
students to use the light now-when
they cross against the light it is
illegal," she explained.
Responding to the criticism of
campus security officers by students,
Ms. Hunt saia, "Many students object
simply because they are security
officers. There is a tension between
many students and anybody wearing a
uniform." Ms. Hunt also believes
students are taking a "very selfish
attitude" in thinking only of
themselves and not the traffic. While
students are trying to get to class on
time, "people are driving to work, and
it's not fair to make them late also,"
Ms. Hunt said.
In order to get Ms. Hunt's
on-campus crosswalks. Beck acted as a
mediator between the Chancellor and
Director of Physical Plant N.H.
Gurley, who would do the actual
construction of the crosswalks asked
for. Of the eight crosswalks asked for,
the Chancellor approved four. The
crosswalks will most likely consist of a
speed bump immediately before the
walkways with a "yield-to-pedestrian"
sign.
The cost of the crosswalks will be
about $100 each, or $400 for all. As
Reynold's student Senator, Ms. Hunt
plans to ask Senate for half of the
total cost, $200. "1 hope they will put
aside personal animosities and think of
student safety when they consider
this," Ms. Hunt said. The other half of
the cost will be supplied from security
funds, if they are allocated.
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Partly cloudy with a chance of showers Friday
Highs Friday near 70
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More about the male dorm protests
November 20,1975 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Volume LV Number 19
SGA top dogs get salary
BY EDDIE "SCOOP" BOWEN
Staff Wrrtar
The Senate Tuesday night passed a
resolution of intent to appropriate
$1800.00 to pay the Presient, Vice
President and Attorney General of
SGA each $100 per month. The body
also voted to allow The Carolinian to
use its ad revenues to pay $100 a
month to The Carolinian editor, $100
a month to the Pine Needles editor,
and $35 a month to each of 77ie
Coraddi co-editors.
Senate also passed by acclamation a
resolution of support for the residents
of Hinshaw Hall, which calls "upon
the adminiil.ation to take prompt
action to rectify the situation,"
referring to growing unrest in Hinshaw
concerning the counselor and special
counselor's assistant. Last week, 90
residents of Hinshaw signed a petition
asking for the removal of the
counselors.
UNC-G student lectures
on JFK assassination
BY EDDIE "SCOOP" BOWEN
Staff Writer
On Saturday night at 7:30 in the
Alexander Room on the third floor of
Elliott Hall. Robin Robertson, a
UNC-G student, will present a lecture
on the assassination of John Fitzgerald
Kennedy, which will include a showing
of the famous Zapruder film. The film
is considered to be the most important
piece of evidence in proving the
Warren Commission report wrong in
its finding that there was no
conspiracy in the assassination.
Robertson, who has studied the
assassination for three years and is
connected with the Assassination
Information Bureau, a clearing house
for information on the assassination
located in Boston, told The Carolinian
that "after seeing the Zapruder film
for the first time, I realized then and
there that Oswald was framed." Since
that time he has lectured at high
schools and churches in his home
town. He obtained a copy of the
Zapruder film, but was not willing to
disclose where he had procured it.
In his studies, Robertson has read
most every book available to him on
the subject. He has also aquired slides
and is in the process of receiving a
copy of the Zapruder film clearer than
his 8mm copy. 'This film," Robertson
said referring to the copy he hopes to
show at his lecture, "is a copy of the
Zapruder film shown on national
television."
When asked why he began giving
lectures of this type, Robertson
replied, "I believe the American public
was told many falsehoods concerning
the assassination. In other words, the
persons in charge covered it up. I
believe it's time America knew. I'm
afraid when the truth does come out,
people will find out that some
individuals still in power today are
involved." Robertson added that he is
very distressed that Gerald Ford was
on the Warren Commission and that
"this might be the reason that no
Presidential action has been taken
concerning the reopening of the
investigation." In addition, Robertson
suggested that another reason no
Presidential action has come forth
could be "that Ford is continuing the
cover-up." "A man who is President
and has seen all of the evidence
brought forward to support the theory
of a conspiracy, and has taken no
action to correct a mistake that is
partially his, has in all actuality no
right to hold that office," Robertson
said.
When asked who he believed was
involved, Robertson declined to
answer. He did say, however, that he is
still contemplating sharing his opinions
with the Saturday night audience as to
whom he believes was involved.
There is no doubt in my mind
that someone other than Oswald
pulled the fatal trigger," Robertson
said. "I believe Oswald was indirectly
involved but unaware he was being
used as a scapegoat."
Robertson concluded that he feels
that the Zapruder film proves Oswald
innocent, but did not wish to
elaborate. "I would rather let the
students here at UNC-G see it and
believe it rather than hear about it."
Following the lecture, students will
be asked to sign a petition asking for
the reopening of the case. This
petition will be sent to as many
government officials, "possibly the
President," as the UNC-G Social
Concerns Committee feels necessary.
Robertson wished to thank the
Social Concerns t ommittee for their
invaluable help in arranging this
lecture.
In addition, Senate passed by
acclamation three resolutions
sponsored by the Academic Concerns
Committee. One recommended that
the faculty retain the papers and
exams not returned to the students for
at least one year. Another
recommended that "professors be
available during all test and exam
periods in their classes for
consultation." Finally, a third
recommended "that the final exam
policy be extended throughout the
semester."
TS Senator Kurt Beron, sponsor of
the resolution of intent to appropriate,
speaking for his motion, explained
that this would be "compensation for
the responsibility of the office"
instead of compensation for specific
amounts of time at work. He
explained that, as mentioned in the
resolution, the system of pay would be
evaluated at the end of the spring
semester. "I feel very strongly that this
needs to go through," Beron said.
Phillips Senator Jack Gardner
moved to formally amend the
resolution to include the Chairman of
the UNC-G delegation to the North
Carolina Student Legislature. An
objection to the consideration of the
motion carried.
TS Senator Mike Coleman told the
body that The Carolinian could
possibly go independent if the salaries
were not paid from its ad revenues.
Speaking against the motion, he
suggested that the body should be
consistent within itself and vote down
the salaries. He pointed out an "escape
clause" in the resolution, whereby
SGA would "fork over money for two
months" to pay the media editors if
The Carolinian ad revenue was not
sufficient.
A friendly amendment by TS
Senator Harvey Bailey to split the
resolution into two parts, one dealing
with media editors, the other with
SGA officials, was accepted by Beron.
The salaries to media editors passed by
consent.
In speaking for salaries for the
three top SGA officials, Beron said he
felt there was "no difference" between
the SGA officials and the media
editors. "They have the same type of
responsibilities," he said.
"Quite contrary to what Mr. Beron
says," Bailey argued, "there it a
difference here. Paying media heads
comes out of advertising, nothing
comes out of student activity fees.."
He went on to explain that the salaries
for SGA officials would come out of
student activity fees.
The resolution passed
overwhelmingly.
STINKS
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Staff photo by Tom Malton
Scantily-clad Bailey residents roam through campus streets with their protest signs.
Dirty group protests numbers of
washers — cleans away money
BY JANE PATRICK
Naws Editor
A group of approximately 20
Bailey Hall residents converged on the
offices of Dottie Boiling, Director of
Resident Life, and Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs James Allen
Wednesday afternoon in an attempt to
make their desires for industrial
washers and dryers known.
The group, complaining that their
laundry has been unwashed for long
periods of time, came clad in bath
robes and towels. The group protested
that the two washers and dryers are
not adequate to serve the 116
residents of Bailey Hall. Therefore,
they are requesting industrial washers
and dryers to deal with the problem.
When the students went to Mrs.
Bollings's office, she told them that
her office did not handle the
distribution of washers and dryers,
only the maintenance of them. She
refused to comment about the possible
distribution of more washers and
dryers. She did tell the delegation that
washers and dryers are handled by the
business office.
After leaving Mrs. Bollings's office,
the men regrouped and went to Vice
Chancellor Allen's office. Allen
promised to meet with the Bailey
representatives and E.S. Wilkinson
from the business office Monday to
discuss the problem.
The Bailey delegation told the
Carolinian after their meetins with
administration personnel that the
serious laundry problems have been
going on all semester. One resident,
Billy McBride, said that the two
washers and dryers could accomodate
a family's wash, but not that of the
dormitory. Joey McLaurin, another
resident, said that the group
represented the sentiments of all
Bailey residents. "This IS Bailey
Dorm," he said.
The group decided to talk with
administrators and stage their colorful
protest during a house meeting
Monday night. Residence hall
coordinator for Bailey, Tom Strowd,
was instrumental in talking with the
administration representatives in
Wednesday's protest.
Part of the complaint was that
there aren't enough washers and dryers
to accommodate the laundry excesses.
Not only that, but residents said that
washing a large lead cost about fifty
cents, an amount which they feel is
unreasonable. They said that washing
in an industrial washing machine and
dryer, which they are requesting,
would probably cost only twenty or
thirty cents.
The group also said that washers
and dryers were hard to get when
needed. Some commented that they
have to do their laundry all night.
The group said that, if their
protests are not answered with action
for the administration, they plan to
stage more ex'.avagant protests until
they have acquired their industrial
washers and dryers.
One resident summed up the
laundry conditions by simply saying,
"It's frustrating."
The petition written for Mrs.
Boiling contained the reasons for their
protest. It stated, "Having the laundry
service last year... made it possible
for the residents of Bailey Hall and
other dorms to maintain clean clothes
when necessary. Because this service is
no longer a part of the
UNC-Greensboro campus, we (Bailey
Men) are having problems. The
washers and dryers in Bailey are for
household usage. They will easily
accommodate a family of six with
regular washing. But for 116 men,
they will not work! We need to have
the industrial washers and dryers in
order to have a reliable system of
keeping our clothes cleaj)."
Mrs. Boiling refused her copy of
the letter and petition. Vice
Chancellor Allen, however, accepted
it.