The Carolinian [April 19, 1979]

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Spring Fling Expanded; Beer-A-Plenty;
Music and Carnival in Store
By ELIZABETH HOUSE
Staff Writer
The 1979 version of Spring Fling
suited off with a bang Wednesday
as popular folk singer Tom Chapin
performed for nearly 1,000 people
in front of Elliott University Center.
Chapin, whose performance was
well-received to say the least, is one
of only manv performers who will
appear at UNC-G by Sunday after-noon
for the annual Spring Fling
celebration. Other highlights of the
weekend include a "get-leied" party
Friday night, a carnival in the quad
Saturday afternoon, and 30 kegs of
beer in the quad on Sunday after-noon.
"Spring Fling is the big weekend
at UNC-G," said Jeff Vance,
chairman of the EUC Special Events
Committee. "There has been a lot
of work put into this weekend, and
I'm looking forward to a great
Spring Fling."
Laverne Totten, outgoing
President of EUC and Chairman of
tne Spring Fling Committee, ex-plained
how Spring Ring was star-ted:
"Spring Fling used to be
"spring Charleses" four or five
years ago. But it got bigger and
bigger, and became recognized as a
campus event, and the committee
wanted more input," she said. "So
the heads of interested campus
organizations, along with the
executive board members of EUC
and the Special Events Committee
formed the Spring Fling Committee.
There was some controversy
during the planning stages of Spring
Fling, but Totten stressed the fact
that the committee managed to
work those problems out. "A lot of
people think that it was EUC vs. SG
thing. But it was really just a dif-ference
of opinion, specifically
about ho* much beer there should
be," she said. "But we were able to
work out the problems; we were
able to reach a compromise as
students."
Mark Newton, a representative
Chairman of the SG Publicity
Committee, remarked, "Student
Government worked especially hard
to fill in the spaces in Spring Fling
Programming. When National
Lampoon cancelled, SG organized
the "Get Leied" party in order to
give town and dorm students a
major event for Friday."
Both Vance and Totten stressed
the fact that the 1979 Spring Fling is
the biggest and longest festival ever.
Last year, Spring Fling lasted four
days, and in the previous years only
three. "We stretched it out to Wed-nesday
so we could include Senior
Day and Tom Chapin," said Tot-ten.
Chapin, who appeared at UNC-G
last year, soon had the crowd in
front of EUC clapping their hands
and singing along. He played, sang,
and joked with the crowd for over
an hour, leaving to a standing
ovation.
There are a variety of activities
sponsored by the Spring Fling
Committee that will be held today,
Friday, Saturday, and Sunday.
Tonight there will be a Nightowl
at 8 p.m. in Benbow in EUC, along
with the movie "Saturday Night
Fever" in Cone Ballroom, also at 8
p.m.
Friday will see Movie Day in Ben-bow,
starting at 11:30 as well as
"Rosemary's Baby" in Jarrell Lec-ture
Hall at 8 p.m. The Emergency
Medical Association will hold its
annual "Operation Rescue" on the
golf course. During this time, staged
"accidents" will occur on the golf
course, and a helicopter crew from
the 57th Medical Detachment, U.S.
Army Military Assistance to Safety
and Traffic, along with the Guilford
County emergency transportation
service, Greensboro Fire Depar-tment,
Greensboro City and Univer-sity
police will transport and
demonstrate emergency medical
techniques. The EMA will sponsor a
display of emergency medical
equipment from 2-3:30 on the golf
course, and the medical demon-stration
will begin at 3:30.
The annual spring semi-formal
will be held Friday night n Cone
Ballroom. The Spontanes will be
performing at the dance, which
begins at 9 p.m. and ends at 1 a.m.
The first annual "Get Leied" party
and barbeque pig pickin' along with
music on the quad is another Friday
acitivity. This event will run 5-9
p.m.
The Spring Fling Carnival starts
at 1 p.m. on Saturday. Several even-ts
compromise the carnival. First,
there is the actual carnival, where
students can play games and win
prizes. One student organization
will be sponsoring other events in
the quad. Alpha Phi Omega will be
holding its first annual "Big Screw"
contest, where students will vote for
their favorite professor of faculty
staff member. There will be five
nominees for the award, and accor-ding
to an APO spokesman the
nominees will be announced at the
"Get Leied" party Friday night.
Circle K will sponsor a doughnut
eating contest.
Music in the quad will be
provided by WUAG Saturday af-ternoon,
and "Locomotion Cir-cus,"
an acrobatic mime troupe, as
well as the Kaleidoscope Mime
Troupe, will perform during the af-ternoon.
Saturday night there will
be a Good Night Charles Disco in
Benbow at 8:30 and "The Plaids"
will playing on the quad Saturday
night for "Beach Nile."
Thirty kegs of beer have been
bought for Sunday afternoon (there
will be beer at some of the Get Leied
Party, the Carnival, and Beach
Nite). Four bands will be playing in
the quad Sunday afternoon, and
Residence Life will sponsor "new
Games" from 12-3. The School of
Music will hold a lawn concert at 4
p.m. and EUC will show "Annie
Hall" in Cone Ballroom at 7 p.m.
and again at 9:30.
With such a great variety of even-ts
and performances, the only thing
needed will be good weather. But as
Laverne Totten noted Wednesday
afternoon while listening to Tom
Chapin perform outside, "A good
spring fling is almost like the
opening of spring."
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Tom Chapin delights EUC crowd Wednesday afternoon.
Signs Point to Reefer as Moonshiners Switch;Not Fight
HUMBOLDT COUNTV, CA
(CPS)—This is redwood country.
The hashmarks left by loggers are
still visible as is the depression that
came to these sleepy towns with
names like Weott, Pepperwood and
Gargerville when the logging in-dustry
moved north. An economic
desert of unparalleled beauty,
Humboldt County is now experien-cing
a renaissance, an organic El
Dorado sparked by a new cash crop:
marijuana.
Last year, the local constabulary
harvested 15 tons of pot and
estimated they missed another 50
tons-a figure local growers amend
upwards to 150 tons. What is being
grown is 'sinsemilla,' literally
Spanish for "without seeds."
Produced by practicing a form of
botanical victorianism-all male
plants are removed and the unfer-tilized
females sublimate their
State
Could
Tax-Cut Proposals
be Ditched Until'80
By WILLIAM HOLDEN
News Editor
Governor Jim Hunt is considering
dropping his proposed tax-cut
uistlations for 1979 in order to use
i lie estimated 40 million dollars to
upgrade the state's five
predominately black universities in
an attempt to settle the UNC
systems disagreement with the
Federal Government over
desegregation.
Hunt made the new proposal
within several days of an announ-cement
that HEW would settle the
News Briefs
WASHINGTON, D.C.-Barry
Levine. attorney for former NC
Representative Nick Galifanakis,
has asked that the trial date be post-poned
due to the complexity of the
case. Galifanakis is accused of
recieving a $10,000 bribe from
South Korean businessman
Tongsun Park.
Park has allegedly paid 30 mem-bers
of congress a total of over
$800,000 in exchange for political
favors.
Ironically, recieving the money
was not itself illegal, but
rOalifanaku reportedly purjured
himself before a House Committee
which was investigating the issue.
He remains free on bond, though
the former representative faces up
to five years in prison and fines of
$2000 if convicted on this charge.
WATERBURY, CONN.-Two
couples were arrested in connection
with last week's Purolator rob-bery/
murder which left three
security guards dead and 1.5 million
dollars unaccounted for. Charges
of first degree robbery and capital
murder were filed against the four
defendants. Two of the four face
additional charges of possession of
marijuana and illegal weapons.
Money and valuables were found
in the home of two of those accused
of the crime early one morning,
while the police were investigating)
leads on the case. None of those in-volved
in the crime were connected
with the Parolator Company.
HARRISBURG. PA.Owners of
the Three Mile Island facility
said Tuesday that their company
Metropolitan-Edison, must have a
33 million dollar rate increase to
stave off bankruptcy.
Appealing to the Pennsylvania
Utilities Omission, a spokesman
arid "If this comission does not
want to sac the company in
bankruptcy, it will permit the cost
of the aeddant to be shared by in-vaster
and customer alike."
A report by a PUC staff member
suggested that since the plant would
not be opataihsg in the probable
future that the proposal to grant the
k. man-inaaailrlaaaiasrl
BEIRUT, LEBANON -PLO
Leader Yassir Arafat attacked the
United States and the Carter ad-ministration
for "pushing us into a
corner." Arafat is upset about the
Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement
and places the blame on the U.S. as
well as the two mid-eastern coun
tries.
The PLO has stepped up its
Juerilla tactics in the weeks
ollowing the signing of the peace
treaty. The organization has staged
two raids on Israel, bombed the J.F.
Kennedy Cultural Center in Beirut
and attacked a Brussels Airport.
Arafat made it clear that
American interests in the Middle
East could be the target of
retaliatory action by the radical
Psasstenian Organization.
issue if North Carolina agreed to in-vest
50 million dollars into the five
universities over the next five years.
This amount is significantly less
than HEW's original investment
figure of 90 million dollars.
The Governor met Tuesday with
both legislative leaders and HEW
officials to discuss the desegregation
matter, although the proposed tax-cut
plan was not discussed at either
meeting. The tax-cut proposal may
be deferred until next year, as Hunt
has reportedly discussed holding off
on the plan until 1980.
Though HEW seems willing to
concede its position and allow the
UNC system five additional years to
rid itself of the vestiges of
discriminations, the issue is far from
being settled.
UNC President William Friday
reiterated Tuesday that money is not
the sole matter in the dispute, and
said if HEW still insists on
eliminating duplicated courses at
neighboring universities that pursuit
of this plan would be pointless.
HEW has asserted for the duration
is a major issue in the dispute, but
now seems willing to capitulate this
position.
HEW said last month that if
measure to integrate the UNC
system were not successful, it would
accept a promise from North
Carolina to do' away with
duplication over the next five years.
An HEW spokesman said that his
office considers the duplication
issue resolved. His comment on the
issue was "When lawyers say they
are going to put something aside for
four or five years, you know it's
finished. In four or five years, none
of us will be here."
A spokesman for the governor's
office said that Hunt was seriously
considering the proposed to post-pone
the rebate if it would help
resolve the dilemma with HEW.
"If they said 30 million instead of
21 million, we would have settled."
said an HEW spokesman. He fur-thered
that HEW did not tell the
UNC system that it would settle for
that figure for fear it would be
regarded as an attempt to dictate an
acceptable plan.
sexual energy into THC-sinsemilla
is olupotent and sells for about
$150-5250 an ounce. A healthy plant
yields a pound. A farmer with 50
plants can bank close to $50,000.
With figure* like, that, it's not
surprising that reefer madness is
now retail madness. Southwestern
Oregon estimated marijuana
revenues at $70 million. Farther
south, Santa Barbara harvested six
tons of sinsemilla last year.
"Local economies are already
being propped up by marijuana
cultivation," says NORML's Frank
Fioramonti. "They're places of
marginal agricultural importance,
like Humboldt County, (or) an area
in Ohio where five years ago people
were shooting hippies."
Marijuana is a multi-billion dollar
shado industry, and a tax-free one,
too. The National Institute of Drug
Abuse estimates that 15 million
Americans smoke the weed
regularly. The FDA ranks
marijuana behind General Motors
and Exxon in terms of profit. And
apparently, if the Mercedes Benzes
and pick-ups parked along the main
street of Garberville are to be
believed, not all the funny money is
disappearing into the attache cases
of the mob. Marijuana has created a
industry in paraphernalia. The
proof of the potent mix is found jn_
the glossy pages of High Times.
Head, and Dealer magazines. Even
the staid Forbes recognizes the
profitability of pot. Last year it
reported that the rolling paper in-dustry
had topped $200 million, and
that the reason for the record was
that "fat joints are out."
"Even some very responsible
members of the Chamber of Com-merce
have asked me whether it
wouldn't make sense to
decriminalize it and use it to diver-sify
the economy, broaden the tax
base and create jobs in this high
unemployment area," says Barry
Keane, state senator for the district
that includes Humboldt County.
Currently, Alaska is the only state
that allows cultivation for personal
consumption.
Surprisingly, observers like
Fioramonti predict that legalized
cultivation will occur first not in
California, but in the moonshine
country of Arkansas or Kentucky.
Sugar increases have cut into the
profitability of liquor and Treasury
department investigators like
Warren McConnell of Tennessee
say moonshiners are switching to
marijuana. They're planting acres
of it, he says.
A government agent in Virginia
relates a similar prophetic tale: "A
while back we put some boys out
who were running the largest still
captured in the county, and they
went right back into marijuana."
Kentucky leaj*kiu<r> concerned
with their convitucnis' standard of
living can ruowsc ihrough a
marijuana feasibility study authored
by one Gatewood Galbraith, who
argues that pot is ideal for tobacco
states. He proposed a growing
allotment of 200 pounds per person.
While recognizing that the debate
over decriminalization has con-tributed
to public acceptance of pot.
Galbraith argues that a far better
reason for cultivation is the
depression facing this country.
"The present media focus on
decriminalization is a waste of
time," he says. "That concept docs
not even acknowledge continued
problems with marijuana
smuggling, adulterated products,
consumer rip-offs, huge profits to
organized crime. inflated
prices...and the continued con-clusion
of our farmers from sup-plying
an already existent multi
billion dollar agricultural market
within the U.S."
There are probably few
marijuana smokers who, in the
daze of an imported high, haven't
fantasized about the form a legal in-dustry
might take: dope super
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UNC-G Student Takes Survey on
Fall Semester Curriculum
By JAME WHITE
Special to the Carolinian
On Saturday, April 20, dorm
students will be given the chance to
evaluate their courses and instruc-tors.
Richard Huizenga, a junior,
plans to circulate over 3200 surveys
for dorm students to fill out and
return to him.
The pupose for the survey is "to
lorovide general information about
courses." Huizenga, working in-dependently
of the student gover-nment
association, feds students
should be able to select courses as
accurately as possible. He sees the
present course offering catalog as a
"mythological" bulletin, often not
providing correct information about
what the course is, not its objec-tives.
Huizenga, recently sworn is as a
town student senator. worked with
the Academic Concerns Committee
tm the student government's survey.
Us reason for working separately
rom SGA is. "because 'he student
government is working at a snail's
Mce." Ralph Wilkersoa. former SG
Resident, gave Huizenga the go
oa his plans to distribute the
. However, Wilkersoa is no
preMden^aadassjeralja^
Ji I
Richard Hafacaan
tcrest nas declined
The results of the survey, unlike
evaluations given out by instructors
at the end of the semester, are to be
made public early next fall in
catalog form. Hui/enga's plan is
modeled after surveys taken at other
cottages such as UNC-CH. Duke
University. Wake Forest University.
Elon. and William and Mary His
form is lisailar to Elon'% survey, la
the student catalog not oaly will
more accurate course descriptions
bepnsued^bsu^alsoinfojmation
about the instructor's format and
subject knowledge Siudenis" names
will not be released. The SGA's type
of survey is similar to Carolina's in
that it is evaluated by a computer,
while Huizenga will compile the
results himself.
The Ad Hoc Committee, chaired
by iohn Formby. head of the
Economics Department, released
their report on teacher evaluation
The committee feels, "student
evaluations by themselves do not
provide sufficient information to
reliably and validly judge instructor
effectiveness." The evaluations
given by instructors are not open to
the public. Huizenga't results ».ll
be open to the uudents However,
the committee believes, "student
can generally judge reliably how
satisfactory an instructor and course!
have been for them " This is the
main goal of Huizenga't survey
"Instructors don't like to befl
evaluated." said Hui/enga,
speaking of evaluations in general
He expects negamc feedback from
instructors as well as ad
minimalors
Additioaal surveys for lownfl
studeau caa picked up at the main
desk in EUC Completed forms aref
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