The Carolinian [February 8, 1979]

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February 8, 1979 Volume LVIII Number 33 The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Please Call Oar HoUine:379-5041
Snow Falls; Campus Closes l
staffphoto by Craig Rubin
'Surfin' ARA:' One-of-a-thousand stolen trays put to good use.
By ANDREW LING
Associate Editor
A severe winter storm swept through the Triad Tuesday night, depositing
from six to eight inches of snow and obliging a rare cancellation of classes
by Chancellor James Ferguson.
The decision was made at about six o'clock Wednesday morning when
the Chancellor awakened, took one look at Spring Garden Street from his
campus residence and realized that the ice covered blanket of snow posed a
near insurmountable obstacle for faculty members and the nearly 6S00 town
students. Ferguson could only recall one other instance in his 14 year ad-ministration
here that he had to cancel classes during the day due to in-clement
weather. That was last year when a crippling ice storm downed
power lines, causeing an electrical blackout on campus for nearly two days.
He added, "We hope to return to full schedule by Thursday ... that is, if
the weather permits."
Charles Bell, Grounds Superintendent for the campus termed the
situation "incredible and near hopeless. We have all the possible man power
we can out there now," he commented at midday Wednesday. "And the
weather service is calling for more snow or sleet this afternoon." Mean-while,
Physical Plant Director H.S. Odom was "darting in and out of his
office," according to his secretary, directing his grounds' crews efforts in
shoveling walkways and piloting the three snow plows clearing major roads.
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staffphoto by Craig Rubin
Hundreds converge on the golf course for fraying.
Supreme Court Could Hear Chapel
Hill Anti-Discrimination Suit
ByJOHNMcCANN
Editor
An appeal to the Supreme Court
could be the next step for the
University of North Carolina at
Chanel Hill to contest the con-stitutionality
of a lower court ruling
regarding minority representation in
theschool'sstudent government.
Susan Aringhouse, legal assistant
to the Chancellor at Chapel Hill,
said the University has the right to
file a writ of certioria. "This would
lead us to the Supreme Court" she
stated. "But only if we find that the
lower court has erred, and since we
have not read their opinion yet, we
cannot say for sure if we will
petition."Aringhouse added that the
Chancellor's office should be getting
the opinion through the mail within
a few days."
Jim Phillips, SG President at
UNC-CH described the UNC-CH
student council as "a 21 member
committee including the president."
Under the current student gover-nment
constitution if no minorities
are elected to the council then the
president can appoint "up to two"
minority representatives. Phillips
added that at least one minority
student must be appointed if none
are elected. "The rule has been in
effect for couple of years," Phillips
said, "and I am not sure how the
ruling will effect us, but we have
elections coming up in a couple of
weeks and 1 am sure it will make a
difference." UNC-G President.
David Payne, had no comment.
"As far as 1 know this is the only
case where the quota system is in ef-fect,"
commented James Allen,
UNC-G Vice Chancellor of Student
Affairs. "We ought to encourage
people to run for office as we do
here without the establishment of
quotas. Throughout the years we
(UNC-G) have seen minorities run
in appropriate numbers." Allen ad-ded
that he would be sympathetic
with the decision of the court.
Contacted at his home in Eden,
former UNC-G SG president
Ralph Wilkerson, who left school
after failing to meet academic
requirements said that he believed
"that the opportunity is there and if
no one ran they should not appoint
women or blacks or whatever."
Wilkerson added that this was "a
good example of tokenism and I'm
glad UNC-G doesn't have it."
An interesting parallel was drawn
by Chancellor James Ferguson.
"We have nothing here that smacks
of quotas... but an. interesting
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Crumbley to Resign??
Spring Elections Set
for March 21-22
Chancellor Ferguson
A&T's Dowdy, Other Black
Chancellors Meet With HEW
Officials feel that the meeting
held Tuesday between Chancellors
representing the UNC systems black
universities and HEW officials
made some progress in resolving the
duplication difficulty which faces
their schools. Dr. Lewis Dowdy of
A&T University termed the meeting
"fruitful."
"We just wanted to share our
views on this question," said
Dowdy. "Which of these would be
the best in obtaining the goal of in-tegration
and we pressed home the
point of enhancement..."
The major issues discussed were
advantages and disadvantages of
duplication between black and white
schools and improvements to be
made to the traditionally black
universities.
Gov. Jim Hunt's main advisor,
John Williams, Jr., says the issue
really centers around "enhan-cement"
or the initiation of
programs at traditionally black
schools which would appeal to both
black and white students. Williams
feels that "I think Tatel's going to
pay a lot of attention to what
they've said." He added that he was
convinced that "he (Tatel) was con-vinced
that considerable steps
toward desegregation are being
made." The advisor felt that though
"UNC may not have the totally
comprehensive approach to
desegregation" that he believes that
chancellors were sincere in their
convictions about enhancement.
Williams said that it is now clearer
to the Chancellors what HEW ex-pects
of them.
UNC General Administration
spokesman Jean Thompson was op-timistic,
saying "both sides were en-couraged
by the communications
that took place," though Tatel still
refused to believe that there was no
unnecessary duplication between
universities. According to Thom-pson,
Tatel feels that'a campus has
not been sufficiently "enhanced"
until a program from a basically
white school was transferred to the
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By TERESA BRITTAIN
Staff Writer
Elections Board Issues and the
transfer of Senate funds to the EUC
account for a possible concert in
Aycock topped the business
discussed by the Senate at its regular
meeting Tuesday night.
The main issue concerning the
Elections Board was the proposal
that would allow the Senate to
decide whether or not to hold a
special election in the event of a
vacancy. The policy stating that a
special election must be held within
15 days of the vacancy was suspen-ded
in January so that David Payne
and John Cecil could assume office
after Ralph Wilkerson was forced to
resign.
Senate President, John Cecil,
commented that "I feel there should
be a special election, but in certain
cases the Senate should act as it did
in January. I believe that the policy
should stay in, in the event that an
office is vacated early in the year."
Cecil also informed the Senate that
he had been trying to contact Elec-tions
Board Chairman, Ken Crum-bly
about his resignation from the
Special Elections Committee.
Citing Crumbley's failure lo assume
his duties Cecil said "I believe he's
been slack in his job. Ken's been
chairman for 3 weeks now and
hasn't yet called a meeting."
Dates were set for Spring
semesters Presidential elections at
the meeting Tuesday evening.
February 26 - March 6 are set for
nominations. March 12 -19 for
compaigning and March 21 and 22
were set as election dates.
In other matters, the Senate set
February 23, as the date for a
student referendum concerning
judicial policy changes, conflict of
interest legislation, and the duties of
Senators. The Social Concerns
Committee made a movement that
the Senate approve a transfer of
$7,000 from their budget to EUC's
account to help sponsor a concert by
England John and Dan Ford Coley
on March 25. The concert is still
tentative and is expected to cost
about SI0,000 if the duo appears. The
concert is to be held in the 2,300 seat
Aycock Auditorium. The Senate
approved funding with the
stipulation that tickets be made
available to students one week
before they go on sale to the public.
Projected ticket prices are $4.00 for
students and $6.00 for general
Mixed Drinks Favored by Restaurateurs
News Briefs
N.Y.C.-According to
physicians, the late Nelson A.
Rockefeller suffered his fatal
heart attack at 10:15 p.m., not at
11:15 p.m. as previously reported
by a family spokesman. This in-formation
raises the question of
why the ambulance was not
summoned until an hour after
Mr. Rockefeller's death.
An aide, Ms. Megan Marshak,
was working with Rockefeller
when he was striken, but for
some reason failed to call an am-bulance
until an hour later.
The sources who reported the
time of death chose to remain
anonymous said that they
brought this new information to
light "in the interest of truth."
PASDXMA, CAUFAamnomm
reported they have discovered a
strange process occurring in the
milky way galaxy, possibly the
creation of a so called "black
hole" or collapsed star. Accor-ding
to Einstein's Theory of
Relativity a black hole can
become so dense that its
gravitational pull becomes strong
enough to retain light, thus giving
them their name.
No black hole has ever been
absolutely identified, though
scientists and astronomers believe
they could exist.
Stray radio waves which
emanated from an unknown
source caught the attention of
two scientists at Hale Obser-vatory.
BUFFALO, NY -ACancer
Vaccine tested here has yielded
"very encouraging results" a
physician said today. A related
study in Ottawa showed that 85
percent of the patients who
received the vaccine survived at
least 4 years after surgery, com-pared
to 40 percent for those who
did not receive the experimental
drug.
In yet another development a
University of Michigan doctor
said that using chemicals he com-pletely
cured a 47 year old man of
large cell cancer, which is harder
to treat than small cell type. This
cure is an unprecedented
development, according to
medical science.
TEHRAN. IRAN— The U.S.
government said yesterday that it
would support an Iranian gover-nment
lead by acting President
Bahhtiar. Whether or not
Bahhtiar's regime will remain in
power will be determined by the
amount of support that religious
leader. Ayatollah Khomeini can
muster.
A lop aide lo Khomeini said
that the threat of a civil war had
passed but warned that more
viotance is expected before Iran
haaa new government.
By ANDREW LING
Associate Editor
On the eve of Greensboro's liquor
referendum, local restaurant owners
expressed 'optimism on the vote
while pro-liquor forces leader Jerry
Lawson was admittedly "scared,"
andwarned that "complacency could
lose us the vote."
Most restaurant proprietors, in-cluding
those from Across the
Street, Ham's, and Darryl's, admit-ted
that the passing of the legislation
would mean a "boom" for
business, while the owner of the
Dock seafood restaurant Hal Mc-
Closkey expressed opposition to the
vote, claiming that "it would not be
in the best interest of Greensboro."
Lawson, leader of Citizens For a
Better Way, although a novice at
managing a political campaign, felt
confident that his organization
"had done all the right things."
Along with contracting UNC-G
political science professor James
Thompson to conduct professional
demographic survey on the city's
opinion and multiple media ex-posure,
the 34-year old Chapel Hill
graduate formed a telephone bank
that has since contacted over 18,000
city residents.
According to Lawson the figures
his telephone solicitors obtained
have correlated with Thompson's
findings of late November that in-dicated
51 percent of favor of mixed
drinks. 31 percent opposed and IS
undecided. The Rev William Claf-fey.
leader of Citizens United for a
Better Greensboro released figures
that claimed to have narrowed that
gap significantly in the past few
weeks-findings that Lawson seems
to be unsure of, "I don't know if he
was calling people right off the
rosters of the Baptist Church, but I
am just not sure how he arrived at
those results." Those findings claim
that the gap has tightened to 45 per-cent
in favor and 41 percent op-posed.
Lawson's campaign strategy has
not relied on a last hour media blitz
designed to change peoples' minds
but instead hoped to improve voter
registration. "The people have
already made up their minds. We
geared our attack at voter
registration," Lawson said. "I
think we can overcome the 817 vote
deficit in 1973."
Looking to the future, Dan Miller
owner of Across the Street
restaurant on Tate Street said Wed-nesday
that he had already designed
the modifications necessary for ser-ving
mixing drinks. "They're down on
paper...we will probably spend bet-ween
$3,000 and $5,000 on the
modifications."
Ham's owner Marc Freiberg was
also in favor of alcohol, but was un-sure
whether he would serve it at his
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Alumni Hoping for $400,000
in Month-Long Phone-A-Thon
By WILLIAM HOLDEN
News Editor
The UNC-G Development Center
is sponsoring a National Phone-a-
Thon in hope of raising $400,000.00
to supplement funds that the school
receives from federal and state sour-ces.
Mr. Dave McDonald from the
Development Center says the
Phone-a-Thon is being held because
each year the school's submitted
budget is cut by several hundred
thousand dollars, by the N. C.
General Assembly as a matter of
course. The major advantage to this
means of soliciting contributions are
two-fold, according to McDonald.
Fust, he states "funding from
government sources is earmarked
for a specific purpose, where money
taken in by this project can be used
for several different purposes,
whatever the Chancellor sees fit "
The secood advantage to this type of
fund-raising is that it u so much
more effective than sending form
letters, which ahaaini can throw
away. The personal contact and the
"renewal of ties with the school can
induce more people to contribute."
De*ffMcDoaaM
The program, begun in 1962. has
raised dose to 2.5 million dollars for
school projects. The first Phone-a-
Thon was held in the Baltimore
area, and raised $1.900.00 in one
night of calling. Alumni and studen-ts
will make the calls to 20.000 of
the 33.000 registered alumni
nationwide. A committee of 6
alumni are in charge of recruiting
the 4,000 Greensboro area
event, which is the largest lun-draising
project the Office of
Development has undertaken.
Students are asked to participate,
the incentive to help being a cash
prize to the dorm which raises the
most money. There will also be cash
prizes each night to the individual
whose calls bring in the greatest
amount of contributions Mr. Mc-
Donald stressed that this i» really an
easy, direct way to solicit funds and
hopes that students will participate
out of a feeling of loyalty to the
school as well as the cash prizes.
There wtU be 30 phones set up in
the Commons Area of Mo—man
Administration Bunding for the
proKct. and McDonald hopes to
have 10 alumni and 30 student
night of the Phone-a-Thon.
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