The Carolinian [September 23, 1977]

              The Carolinian
September 23,1977 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Volume LVII Number 3
Race Used As Criteria
Padgett was last seen heading East with 2 sixpacks and a fifth of Rum. Staff Photo by Rlc Marahall
BY RICH INNES
Editor
The Carter administration came
out in support of using race as a
criteria in "affirmative action
programs" in a brief released on
Monday by the Justice Department
concerning the controversial
University of California reverse
discrimination case.
The brief has asked the Supreme
Court to overturn a ruling by the
California Supreme Court which
stated that the University of
California Medical School at Davis
may not consider race for the pur-pose
of operating an affirmative ac-tion
program.
Conspicuously missing from the
brief, however, is a clear-cut
recommendation concerning quotas
and the constitutionality of reser-ving
a specified number of places
for minority group students. The
statement, issued through the
Justice Department has only asked
that the Supreme Court not consider
the question.
Governors Survey Teachers Education
BY TERESA KEIGER
Staff Writer
A study of the Teacher Education
and the Health Science programs at
UNC-G is in the final stages of
completion, according to Dr.
Stanley Jones, Vice Chancellor for
Academic Affairs. The studies are
part of a 5-year plan drawn up by
the University of North Carolina
Board of Governors.
Before 1972, only 6 of the 16 state
supported 4-year schools had a
common Board of Governors.
UNC-G was included in these six
schools. The remaining ten had
individual Boards of Trustees. In
1972, the State Legislature united all
of these schools under one Board of
Governors. This Board of Gover-nors
was given power over the struc-ture
of these institutions and was
told to develop a long range plan.
Last year, after gathering infor-mation
on all of the programs in the
Car Pool Proposed
BYERICRIES
Copy Editor
A plan for a computerized car-pooling
system was the main topic
interest at a meeting of the Energy
Conservation Commission Monday,
Sept. 12 in downtown Greensboro's
Governmental Plaza.
The plan was presented to the
commission in the form of a report
by Jim Laumann, City Transpor-tation
Planner. The basic idea is an
appeal to the city's major employers
(companies employing 230 or more
people) to use the city's computer
resources in order to match up car-pooling
teams.
Under the plan the city intends to
send area companies questionnaires
which will seek to find out where
employees live and how many of
their fellow workers live- nearby.
City-run computers would then
match all employees interested in
carpooUng.
The city plans to test out the
computer system this week by enac-ting
a small-scale trial among the
downtown area's municiple office
building employees. Laumann ex-pressed
hopes that with the city
taking the initiative in starting the
program, an example will be set for
area employers. Laumann added
that if the initial test works efficien-tly,
the plan will be to send out
questionnaires city-wide within the
next month-and-a-half.
The computerization program
derives most of its funding from a
S 10.000 grant by the Urban Mass
Transit Administration. Ten percent
of the system's fees are being paid
for by state funds, with an equal
amount coining out of the city's
budget.
Another topic of interest during
the meeting was discussion of the
"energy audit" program in Green-sboro.
The plan, whereby fire
fighters visit area homes and
businesses to advise citizens on
energy consevation methods, has
met with a poor response by
citizens. Assistant City Manager
Dan Weaver reported that only 25
percent of citizens who are absent
when the auditors come by ever ac-tually
call the city back to set up an
audit. This occurs, added Weaver,
despite the fact that auditors always
leave a message urging the absent
citizen to call the city.
In an effort to spark interest in
the audit programs the city has ap-plied
to the state for $8,909, this
money to be used in public relations
geared towards promoting citizens'
cooperation.
Also discussed at the meeting
were plans for a Small Business
Energy Conference, tentatively to
be held November 16-18. During
this conference smaller Greensboro
businesses will exchange ideas and
methods of conserving energy.
Dan Weaver mentioned towards
the end of the meeting that the U.S.
Conference of Mayors' recently
ranked Greensboro one of the coun-try's
35 leading cities in regards to
taking positive steps for energy
conservation.
4 ARRESTED IN BIKE THEFTS
■Y JOHN Met ANN
Stan Writer
After receiving a number of com-plaints
from irate students about the
theft of their bicycles, pumps and
assorted parts, the Campus Security
office iniated procedures which led
to the arrest of four Greensboro
juveniles.
The first arrest came Monday
night shortly after nine thirty behind
the Brown Musk Building. Officers
J.C. Silvers, with the assistance of
Officer Washington arrested two
Greensboro youth* and charged
both with larceny of bicycles.
Lass than twenty four hours later
the other two arrests were made. At
six twenty, Tuesday evening, on the
green adjacent to the Foust Ad-ministration
Building Officers
Whitman, Jones and Kennedy ap-prehended
two more suspects and
charged them with larceny.
The suspects, three fifteen year
olds and one sixteen year old were
all charged with larceny by the
Campus Security Office. In addition
the sixteen year old was charged by
the Greensboro City Pohce. One of
the four had outstanding warrants
steming from charges of Burglary
and larceny some months ago.
The three younger arresteci will
be turned over to the tfustody of
their parents, while the sixteen year
old wiO turned over to the jurisdic-tion
of the District Court. Hearing
Caatiea.4
schools, the Board of Governors
established a 5-year overall plan,
which it will update every year.
Part of this plan includes a survey
of different programs in the
schools. This survey looks at the
quality of the faculty and the
program offerings, the adequacy of
lab, classroom, and library of-ferings
and equipment, the students'
satisfaction with the program, how
students' test scores compare with
regional and national scores, and
how students are placed in the job
market. Special consultants were
brought in for this survey.
The areas surveyed were the
Teacher Education program and the
Health Science program, which con-sists
of the Health Education,
Community Health Education,
Medical Technology, and Speech
Pathology and Audiology
programs. The Nursing program
was excluded because it had conduc-ted
its own survey a few years ago.
These areas were studied because
there is the feeling in North
Carolina and in American society
that there are crucial problems and
questions in the training of
educators and of professionals in
health science.
The Teacher Education studies
are in the final phases and the
preliminary findings are still under
discussion. The findings will be
presented to the Board of Gover-nors
in mid-October.
The Health Science program
study has been completed and
presented to the Board of Gover-nors.
The program received strong
ratings and was said to be operating
effectively. It also had the best
record of any school in the state for
moving black students in these
Cont to p. 6
Buchwald at Large
(UNC-G NEWS BUREAU)
—Political humorist and
syndicated newspaper columnist Art
Buchwald will appear Saturday,
Sept. 24, in Aycock Auditoruim on
the UNC-G campus.
In addition to his popularity as a
syndicated columnist, Art Buchwald
is also the author of many rib-tickling
books, the latest being
"Washington Is Leaking" (1976).
Others were " Irving's Delight"
(1975), "I Am Not A Crook"
(1974), "I Never Danced At The
White House" (1973), "Getting
High in Government Circles" and
"The Establishment is Alive and
Well in Washington."
During 1969 he tried his hand at
playwriting and in January of
1970 his play "Sheep on the Run-way"
opened on Broadway to very
fine reviews from some of the coun-try's
leading critics, and in the
Spring of that year it opened in
Washington.
As a performer, he is heard on
records, on television, and, of cour-se,
before audiences all across the
nation. His life, it would seem, is a
continual "happening," although
you might not gather that from the
introduction to one of his books:
"Art Buchwald works in a small,
airless room .on the top of
Washington Monument. Subsisting
on nothing but orange juke and
Mack coffee, Mr. Buchwald writes
his column in longhand on the backs
of old White House press releases.
They are then attached to the legs of
speedy pigeons and delivered to the
300 newspapers that carry Us
column to every part of the civilized
and uncivilized world.
"Shy, introspective and terribly
aloof, Mr. Buchwald rarely leaves
hit room except to buy TIME
Magazine to see if they've put him
on the cover.
"Despite his loaf years hi
Washington. Mr. Buchwald is still a
mystery to fellow newspapermen.
Some sav that Art Buchwald if a
pasadonym and the column is writ-ten
by the Joint Chiefs of
Staff—each service taking the duty
for one month.
"Another theory is that Art
Buchwald is really Howard Hughes,
which, if true, would make him the
richest columnist in the world
today."
Early in 1949, he took a trial
column to the editorial offices of the
European edition of The New York
Herald Tribune. Entitle "Paris Af-ter
Dark," it was filled with off-beat
tidbits about Parisian night life. The
editors liked it. He was hired.
By 19S2, his column, by then
called "Europe's Lighter Side," was
syndicated in the American press.
Ten years later, he moved his
typewriter to Washington, where
things have been getting livelier and
livelier. He is now syndicated in
over 400 newspapers throughout the
U.S. and the world.
One fact remains indisputable.
Art Buchwald is, in the words of
Walter Lippmann, "one of the best
satirists of our time."
Tickets for Buchwald's lecture
are available at the Aycock box of-fice,
379-3546, on the UNC-G cam-pus
between 1 p.m. and 3:30 p.m.
weekdays and one hour before per-formance
time
Solicitor General Wade McRee
Jr., who presented the brief along
with Attorney General Griffin Bell,
said they didn't want anything the
Supreme Court might say to "un-dercut"
the affirmative action
programs. He said the ad-ministration
was taking a narrow
position on the issue of numerical
quotas in order to "preserve and
protect" the well-being of the af-firmative
action programs.
Chancellor James Ferguson of the
University of North Carolina at
Greensboro said, "It is not
necessarily true that the Supreme
Court will accept the position of the
brief." The Chancellor added that
he believes the brief will have "some
bearing" on the HEW mandate on
desegregationrecently handed down
to the UNC consolidated system, as
well as four other southern state
university systems.
William Friday, President of
UNC, regretted that the brief was
"prepared without the par-ticipation
of anybody in the
southern states." He said, "I think
there is a lot we could have of-fered."
The reverse discrimination case
was originally filed by Allan Bakke,
a white medical student at the
University of California at Davis,
who claimed that he was
discriminated against by a special
quota system that preferred
minority groups. By not addressing
itself directly to the issue of quotas,
the Justice Department brief
avoided controversy over the most
heated aspect of the case.
The brief did say however, that in
order to overcome the effects of
past discrimination a "particularly
intensive" search for minority
students is essential. It added that
Buchwald with a grw
the same cut-off point for excluding
white students need not be applied
to minority group students.
Generally civil rights leaders are
pleased with the position the Carter
Administration has taken on the
reverse discrimination case. One
civil rights lawyer, Joseph L. Rauh
Jr. said, "They have moved from
saying you can't use numbers to
avoiding the issue. If you go from a
negative position to a neutral one,
that's a major step in the right direc-tion."
The position of the Justice Depar-tment
has particular importance in
the Bakke case because it is
presumed to reflect the Carter Ad-ministration's
stand on a racial
issue. The President has recently
come under criticism for not
fulfilling his campaign promises to
minority groups.
The brief touched on the topic of
goals and quotas, saying that
flexible goals (as in programs of
desegregation) are distinctly apart
from fixed numerical quotas.
Chancellor Ferguson acknowledged
this distinction but said "when it
comes to determining whether the
goals have been met they usually
apply numerical standards."
The Chancellor referred to a
statement by Secretary Califano
which said, "Failure to meet a goal
will not necessarily be treated as
non-compliance." He added, "You
can see the in-exactness that is
associated with a system like that."
The brief also said the Supreme
Court should be concerned with
whether a state program is designed
to "remedy the effects of past
discrimination." Such a design of-ten
will require use of race rather
than case by case determinations of
discriminations."
News Briefs
LANCE RESIGNS
(WASHINGTON)—Budget Director Bert Lance resigned Wednesday,
telling President Carter in a letter that—in Lance's words, "My con-science
is clear."
Carter read the letter at the beginning of a nationally broadcast news
conference and said that he accepted the resignation with, as Carter put
it, "The greatest sense of regret and sorrow." Said Carter, "He's a good
man."
Lance told Carter, "It is important that my name and reputation be
cleared...and I believe this has been done."
Lance defended himself against criticism of his banking and financial
dealings before the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee on Thur-sday,
Friday, and Saturday of last week.
Carter read Lance's letter at a nationally broadcast news conference,
and said his close friend's appearance on Capitol Hill last week to defend
himself proves that the American System "works."
Said Carter, "Nothing that I have heard or read has shaken my belief
in Bert's ability or his integrity."
Gas Guzzling Tax
WASHINGTON—The Senate
Finance Committee approved
President Carter's proposed tax
credit for home insulation but
rejected his tax on gas-guzzling
autos Tuesday.
The vote against the tax was 11
to 5. Several members of the
committee said they voted against
the tax because the Senate has
already voted to ban the
manufacture of fuel-inefficient
cars by 19S0. vi
Despite the committee's vote,
the tax U not dead. The full
Senate and a House-Senate con-ference
committee will consider it
next month.
MidEon Negotiations
WASHINGTON—The Carter
administration began a round of
talks with Middk East diplomats
Monday to try and open the way
to future peace negotiations.
Israeli Foreign Minister Moahe
Dayaa said they are witting to
talk with the Palestine Liberation
Organiration (PLO) if the group
accepts United Nations
rwoshtjons recogniring Israel.
The plan carried to President
Carter and Secretary of
Cyrus Vance by Dayaa
VW Good on Gas
WASHINGTON—The En-vironmental
Protection Agency
AEPA) announced Monday the
diesel-powered Volkswagen Rab-bit
proved to have the best gas
mileage of 1978-model cars being
sold in the United States.
The RabbiSt averaged 40 miles
per gallon in city driving and 33
miles per gallon in highway driv-ing.
Dtesd-powered cars ranked
first in three of the five different
size classifications tested.
Reverse Discrimtnation
WASHINGTON-In a Justice
Department brief filed with the
Supreme Court Monday the Car-ter
administration strongly en-dorsed
the argument that
minorities be given special con-sideration
la university ad'
miesioas. However, it left open
the quart!oa of whether specific
racial quotas may be used to that
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The brief was filed in connec-tion
with a case pending before
the Sufjriaai Court. The issue hv
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