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Editorial Frat Block Sc Block seating at football games is convenient, fun and unfair as some 56 organizations discovered last week. * ?-!- i- ? ?l- it * i f ll is not uniair 10 everyone, uiuugu. 11 is nui uiutiu iu uic iu fraternities, with a total membership of about 1,000, that received a total of 1,838 tickets per game to disperse to fraternity members and their dates. But it is unfair to the 56 organizations, with a total membership of 9,000 students, that were allotted a total of 1,498 tickets for block seating. All campus organizations, excluding the fraternities, must apply for block seating through the Block Seating Commission of Student Government. Last week, more organizations applied than ever before, but the number of tickets available was the same amount available for the past two vears. The commission handled the unexpectedly high demand by drastically cutting allocations to individual organizations, organizations that last year received 100 tickets were cut to 44 tickets or less, spurring complaints from many groups. The Student Bar Association has gone as far as threatening to sue the commission for more tickets. ml ' m f ?n 1/W\lri r?rf i ne COinrillSSlUIl is bcaitiuug iur Ct auiuuuu, uui u ia luuiviiig in the wrong direction. One answer the commission is considering is to do nothing. It is hoping organizations will become frustrated with the present system and stop applying for block seating. This is no answer; just an acknowledgement on the part of the commission that there is something wrong with the present system. Waiting for the problem to solve itself will only (?npourace resentment among those organizations that felt forced to give up their chance for block seating. A second option for solving the problem was nipped in the bud by the athletic department. The department refused to allocate anymore of the 11,000 student tickets for block seating. TKo n/imtniccinn ic alert pnnQirfprino a rhanffp in plicihilitv requirements (currently all licensed organizations are eligible). This kind of judgment by the commission would cause those clubs ruled ineligible to complain about discrimination. And anyhow what is a fair basis for judging eligibility for football tickets? More tickets for the larger groups? Or the older groups? Or maybe the most spirited groups? fiAAfi Mon The students put them there ? they should work for the students. This basic yet most important Student Government function is one carelessly executed by past adI ministrations. In the past Student Government has been criticized as a "circus" or as "people playing government," but the 198182 Student Government is achieving credibility early in the semester by working more for the students and less for themselves. The Student Government book exchange was implemented this year just as the new officers elected last semester promised it would be. And last Wednesday, Student Government President John Boswell initiated a project that may become a valuable service to Carolina students. Boswell proposed publishing student evaluations of 1 courses and faculty members. The survey "could include questions on the types of exams given in the course and I the amount of work required in the course along with other questions arrived at in conjunction with the faculty/' As Boswell stressed during his proposal, the program would be set up to help students and not to pass judgment I on faculty members or their teaching methods. A catalogue of student course evaluations would be a valuable guide during pre-registration and registration. Such an exchange of information would save time and effort during drop-add. Although the university catalogue provides course descriptions, published evaluations from r l a i I J I I / ' ' 1 lormer ctass participants wouiu ue more ueneiiciai iu une planning to take the class. It might be argued that such a publication would promote "crip courses" ? easy courses. But this argument implies students cannot think or choose for themselves. "Crip" courses are an accepted part of college curriculum. After years of enduring registration ' witnout sucn a manual, siuaenis searcning ior easy classes have always been able to find them through drop add. A publication like the one proposed would also list evaluations of the better courses and instructors for those students who take school seriously. The guide would simply be a tool for both students and pretend-students. Publishing student evaluations of course is a good idea. If the Student Government accepts the proposal and begins soliciting faculty and student support, the cataloguecould be in print by 1982 8:* mating ( M/\ Y C f ?o f/\ Ka Kl/wilr nn nu. 11 uici c to tu IA; UIIA^IV OC should be done on an equal l including the fraternities. By looking at the proportic members for Greek and non-G is evident. To < distributed fairly among < fraternities, along with their l,f the control of the Block Seating Let the commission take the < and divide them fairly among the 16 fraternities) in proportio unlikely that every organizatio tickets it requests. However, discrepancy should not be as e: evened out between Greek and \ The Greeks will argue that tt tickets longer than any other necessarily equal special privi time justify an obvious bias example ? slavery). The fraternities should be t organization in this matter. II have to tolerate a cut in ticket i fraternities. Greeks do not hav< Other sectors of the campus we the company of friends. With a limited number of tick campus organizations should commission to ensure that ea 1' I A. A.1 * 1 ucKeis proportionate 10 iu? men The commission is supposed to find a way out of the block make plans now to give each fr; commission and to divvy up tl terested campus groups. Glen&Sh< Actor Robert Blake and rock star Jackson Browne 1 pallprl n nrocc cnnforon^o in Ix)s Angeles the other day to promote a "human blockade" of the controversial Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The two celebrities urged local citizens to perform acts of civil disobedience when the Nuclear Regulatory Commission soon grants Diablo a start-up license. j wniie tsrowne ana me siar of television's "Bare.tta" are involved in a worthy cause ? sitting atop the Hosgri fault near the central California coast, the Diablo Canyon plant is a catastrophe waiting to happen ? their hapless performance here only symbolized an antinuclear movement in limbo. Wearing a faded jean I jacket and open collar, antinnko fund raisor Rrnwnr* urged his fans to under-take a non-violent blockade of Diablo Canyon by land and sea. Those sympathizers who couldn't make the demonstration were asked to mind the homes of those who could. We asked Browne whether he was prepared to be arrested with the trespassers. No, he declared in a defensive tone: "I'm involved in support activities. I raise money and stuff like that to feed the demonstrators ....I can play a more useful role from the outside." It seemed hypocritical that, despite his sugar daddy role, Browne would not submit himself to arrest with hio \A//n I si Ilir> 1C11UW pi UlUOlU.f O. VVI/U1U the civil rights movement have progressed so far, we asked him, if Martin Luther Kintf had also refused to be Infair ating at all on this campus it >asis for every organization, in of tickets to organization reek groups, a bias enable block tickets to be campus organizations, the 138 tickets, should come under Commission. combined total of 3,336 tickets the 72 organizations (56 plus n to the size of the group. It is n will get the exact amount of the degree of the allocation Ktreme if ticket distribution is non-Greeks groups. ley have been receiving block organization. Time does not lege. Nor does the passing of (as evident in an extreme reated as any other campus other campus organizations allocations, so then should the i a monopoly on block seating, int to watch football games in lets allocated for students, all work together through the ich organization is receiving ibership. to meet this week in an effort seating crunch. They should aternity representation on the tie ticket kitty among all in surer: Ad arrested with his followers? The blank-faced Browne seemed dazed at the conjecture. But before he could reply, Blake seized the microphone and demanded to know whether we were questioning Browne's integrity. "This man has traveled all uic uuuuiiy idling money and doing concerts to stop nuclear power," Blake declared, patting Browne's back. "We're not crazies," he said, waving one hand in the air while adjusting his straw hat with the other. "We're not out to cause a revolution... If we stopped the Vietnam war, we sure as hell can stop Diablo Canyon." But when asked if he'd be willing to risk arrest, Blake dodged the question. "That's my strongest card," he admitted. According to the Abalone Alliance, a statewide coalition of some 70 antinuclear groups, protesters are expected to surround the nearly completed Diablo site for at least 30days. 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Bu.y I Huri+ir.q Licence We Sell Haudr These TW fhere Om +hmov; f |l5 UJill be Sp feyjch more ftnd r M vice ror m The press conference received little attention n outside Southern California, g This "local action," like t others which have met with r varied success around the c nation and in Europe, was I planned to direct the c energies of surrounding communities on nearby nuclear installations. t But without any national 1 focus, local groups won't be < able to counter the ac- < ceierauon 01 nuciear policies < in Washington. The Reagan i administration is speeding up licensing procedures at home and abroad, has increased tax benefits for the industry and is slowly reestablishing nuclear power's ' place in the nation's energy ' future. 1 i Unfortunately, with the on- , nlni./lUt ~ C 1 1 diijuj^i11 ui [ji u-iiucit'ar policies in Washington, neither movie-star glamour nor free concerts will lx? sufficient to sustain the antinuclear movement. Having alerted the nation to the dangers of nuclear power, the activists must now prepare for the president's new policies by mastering ; more sophisticated political i techniques they've only begun to consider. l a t\rrtvnr\n I miicrstu irt Sotilli < jroluu ( oIikdIm.i I ? "UMlfl lt I ?*>? Null IM?? n^Mv KUOUM 1 I l.?>m (I In o to nut mil lit < ( lj?ini.?nv ? ?l hi th? I till * oi |ht* ?-<1iln' 1 I ! < ?? ili, i.jiMi tiuW *? l? Icllri ?4?i ?\ "Mi ?> lli|?U \11j? il i N i - I ill* x.k.u-.? W .t*> Ih. ?f.|? ii I iiHt |i> \41 i 4<i|l nt, t * itjnit niii Ii* Milhhrlil It ll< <. VI k\. mx,,.. ?Kh, *? ? I t..x , . | \ < /'? /it* LaD?eS Ano jour UU6.C. ' . Oorlt 6? S hv, tdiS more of . fire Spaces/, or S are: Voar y >ea-V oji Anu4V\iAQ . Betier- Parttfng 1 n.nnlrorc While there are several ational environmental [roups which oppose nuclear ower, only one strictly anti- luclear political action J; ommitttee ? the Safe Cnergy PAC ? is in iperation. As unpleasant as it sounds, he successful tactics of the 1980 campaign, such as direct mail, hard-hitting onH famnniun wV/li til 4\^1 C1U IO UllVi IJ/M ? O" contributaions, should be the | next step for the movement 41 Money after all, is what frightens congressmen. What people who consider themselves anti-nuclear don't realize is that they're Lip against the millions of dollars raised by oil com- I panies, electrical utilities %| and reactor manufacturers^! who are lobbying law ma iters, wiiim^ newspaper columns and waging a massive, pronuclear public-relations campaign. 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