The Carolinian [December 9, 1980]

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Gary
Brady
Guilty
By TERESA BRITTAIN
Newt Editor
Gary Brady, the former super-visor
of housekeeping operations at
UNC-G, pleaded guilty to a charge
of embezzlement on Nov. 20. He
received a Tine of $750 and a two- to
four-year prison sentence, which
was suspended for five years. Brady
was placed on supervised probation,
and must make restitution to UNC-G
in the amount of $800.
According to chief of campus
police, Jerry Williamson, the case
began in Aug. when an officer,
Leon Searcy, "received information
that it was suspected that state
property was being used in private
business." After some investigating
Searcy found "probable cause" for
this accusation and the campus
police enlisted tha aid of the State
Bureau of Investigation.
The investigation, which lasted
for six to eight weeks, concluded in
mid-October. At that time,
Williamson said, the officers deter-mined
that they had sufficient
evidence. The men prepared their
report and presented it to the district
attorney in Nov. Frbm there, the
case was taken before the grand
jury and a true bill of indictment
was returned. Then a warrant was
issued for Brady's arrest, who ap-peared
in court and entered his plea
two weeks ago.
The charges centered on the fact
that Brady had started his own
business called Gate City Cleaners
with state property. He used equip-ment
such as carpet shampooers,
vacuum cleaners, and industrial
cleaners which he was in charge of
here in his business. This is "misuse
of state property" according to
Williamson, but it falls under state
embezzlement statutes, so the of-ficial
charge was for embezzlement.
Stories and Poetry Published
Photo by Cria Muoin
The first in a series of three Annual Christmas Lovefeast and Candle Services was held last night in Cone Ballroom.
Frats May Help Study Habits
(CPS)- Fraternity life may not be
like "Animal House" after all.
In fact, joining a fraternity just
may be the best way to study and in-sure
graduation, according to
Morris Lemay, director of Oregon
State University's Counseling and
Testing Center.
Lemay recently completed a study
at that campus which shows that 54
percent of the freshmen who joined
fraternities in 1974 graduated, while
only 44 percent of non-fraternity
freshmen received their degrees.
Lemay is not"" quite "sure what
causes the discrepancy, but
speculates it may be the close per-sonal
ties usually developed between
students at fraternities.
"Students pledging to fraternities
tend to begin having good frien-dships
earlier than most people,"
Lemay says. "These friends they
quickly make help them get over
early rough spots as far as studying
is concerned."
Lemay's report comes as no sur-prise
to Jack Anson, executive
director of the National Intrafrater-nity
Council in Washington. Anson
says he's been telling people for
years that fraternities are the best
places on campus to get work done.
"Unlike many other things on
campus, fraternities have goals,
ideals and principles which
discipline students to study," Anson
insists. "There's a brotherhood
there, a real concern for the
progress and advancement of each
student that carries over into the
classrooms."
Most important, Anson says, is
that this report may encourage
students reluctant to pledge frater-nities
because of its "party image"
to make the final step. "They can
learn and have fun at the same
time," he adds.
Housing
Payment
Raised
For the past few years students
who wish to live on campus have
been required to make a $50.00 Par-tial
Housing Payment in order to
reserve a room space in a residence
hall. After making a reservation
students always have been given a
period of time in which their com-mitment
for a room space may be
broken, and their Partial Housing
Payment refunded.
In past years, however, many
students who have paid the Partial
Housing Payment of $50.00 and
have reserved a room space on cam-pus
have not kept their commit-ment,
nor have they advised the
housing office that they would not
be in residence during the time for
which they had reserved a room
space and, thereby, have forfeited
the $50.00 Partial Housing
Payment. The Residence Life Of-fice,
in the meantime, unaware of
the actions of these students, has
been unable to offer housing to
students whose applications have
been received after the residence
halls have been filled.
In order to encourage bona fide
reservations only, beginning with
the reservation of room spaces for
the 1981 Fall term, students will be
required to make a Partial Housing
Payment of $150.00 in order to
reserve a room space.
Waivers of the Partial Housing
Payment will continue to be granted
only to students who arc on full
Financial Aid or who have World
War Veterans' Scholarships. (Full
Financial Aid is $950.00 per
semester for in-state students and
$1,850.00 per semester for out-of
state students.)
The deadline date for requesting a
refund of the Partial Housing
Payment also has been changed.
The deadline date will be June I of
each year, beginning June, 1981.
Returning students who want to live
on campus for the 1981-82 academic
year will need to be ready to pay the
increased deposit before the spring
room reservation period.
Chappell Wins Literary Award
Special to The Carolinian
Greensboro author and professor
of English at UNC-G, Fred Chap-pell
added three feathers to his
literary cap last month. -
During November, his first book
of short stories, entitled, "Moments
of Light." was published. "Earth
*icep, ' the final volume of a four-part
series of poetry came out; and
he was presented the North Carolina
Award for Literature.
The Award for Literature,
recognized as the state's highest
honor for individual achievement
and service, was presented by Gov.
James Hunt for Chappell's accom-plishments
as a novelist, short story
writer, poet and teacher.
Chappell earlier had received the
Oscar Arnold Young Memorial
Award from the Poetry Council of
North Carolina for "Wind Moun-tain,"
the third installment of his
tetralogy (a four-part series) entitled
"Midquest," which was judged the
best book of poetry published in
1979.
"Earthsleep," a 44-page book of
verse written in II sections and
published by Louisiana State
University Press, completes the
"Midquest" tetralogy in which
Chappell uses the four element* of
earth, air, water and fire to describe
a man's memories of the journey to
middle-age of life.
The first volume was entitled
"River." followed by "Bloodflre"
and "Wind Mountain."
As in the first three books of the
tetralogy, "Earthsleep" opens with
the poet-narrator waking up oo the
I of his 35th birthday and his
> of his past life.
A native of the a astern North
Carolina mountains, Chappell'i
recollecttorn in "Earthalecp.'
on his boyhood oa a
County farm and the hard tknss aad
good times of farming the earth.
Among the memories in the four-th
volume are "My Mother's Hard
Row to Hoe," in which Chappell
wries of his labor on the farm. He
wrote: "We hoed till dark. I was
hoeing toward/ A plan that would
preserve my mental health,/
Because that world was so almighty
hard."
In another section of "Ear-thsleep."
entitled "At the Grave of
Virgil Campbell." Chappell
eulogizes a Tarheel moonshiner
with, "EarthMan. what o' the
night? What ruinous jukes/ Are
you fermenting here six feet un-der?"
Chappell even offers his old
friend a few epitaphs for his tom-bstone:
"Here bos Virgil Campbell
One more time." "siste.
Viator./Virgil Campbell's quiet
here./Who never was before." Or.
playing oa his earth theme. "Earth.
receive/Your playful lover/To his
one sleep/With no hangover."
"The overriding theme of all four
books in the 'Midquest' tetralogy is
a kind of rebirth of the narrator,"
Quypou1 commented.
"In each of the books, the
narrator resolves to make a new
beginning and have a better life
during the second half of his life,"
he added.
Published almost simultaneously
with the last of the "Midquest"
series was Chappell's first book of
short stories. "Moments of Light,"
a 166-page volume printed by The
New South Company in Los
Angeles, Calif.
The book contains a collection of
II stories which first appeared in
such periodicals as American
Review, Carolina Quarterly nd
North Carolina Review as wen as
other literary magazines.
In "Moments of Light," Chap-pell
has arranged the 11 short stories
in a chronological order to provide a
moral history of man including
man's occasional "moments of
enlightenment."
For instance, the first story,
called "The Three Boxes." is a
parable which takes place at the
origin of human culture.
In this story, three men of in-determinate
color come to a river
and on the other side are three
boxes. As each man in his turn
swims the river to collect a box, the
skin of the first is washed to ■
pinkish-gray color, the second to a
yellow hue and the third comes out
of the water black.
They each choose one box after
swimming the river and the white
man's box contained gold, books
and industrial technology; the
second, for the yellow man, con-tained
items such as hoes, spades.
brooms, hammers, fine silks, linens
and a game of chess.
When the black man arrived aad
opened the remaining boa he found
nothing bat misery and terror,
patience aad endurance, a loaf cot-loo
sack, a mult harness aad i
In the man's despair. God
to him and informs him that he has
been favored to receive these gifts
for out of them he will create
justice.
Other stories in "Moments of
Light" include "Judas," which
concerns his motives for betraying
Jesus; "Mrs. Franklin Ascends,"
which fiocuses on Deborah
Franklin's life with Benjamin
Franklin; "Thatch Retaliates,"
about Edward Thatch, more com-monly
known as Blackbeard.
The short story from which the
book takes its name concerns com-poser
Franz Joseph Haydn and his
vision of light through a telescope
which shows him the true order and
beauty of the universe.
"Moments of Light" completes
the 18th century and the first half of
man's moral evolution to the
present. Stories in the second half
include titles such as "The
Thousand Ways," "January,"
"The Weather,' "Broden Blossoms
"Children of Strikers." and "Blue
Dive."
Chappell, who has been a mem-ber
of the UNC-G English Depar-tment
faculty since 1964, is the
author of four novels, including "It
Is Time. Lord," "The Inkling,"
"Dagon," and "The Gaudy
Place." He also has written one
other book of poetry in addition to
■the "Midquest" series, entitled
"The World Between the Eyes."
Along with his two recent awards,
Chappell received the Sir Walter
Award. North Carolina's highest
literary award for fiction, in 1973
from the N. C. Literary and
Historical Association, and that
organization's Roanoke-Chowan
Poetry Award in 1972 and 1976. la
addition, he has been recognized for
his work by the National Institute of
Arts and Letters, and he is a past
recipient of the Prix de Mmnaur of
the Academic Fri
John Lennon Dead
New York Police say former
Beetle John Lennon was shot and
killed in front of his home on
Manhattan's upper '.vest side
tonight. Lennon was taken to
Roosevelt Hospital in critical
condition after being shot seven
times. He died there at ap-
When I cannot sing my heart
proximately 11:40 p.m.
A police spokesman said "a
suspect is in custody..." but he
would give no other details. The
spokesman did say it wasn't a
robbery...and that Lennon was
killed most likely by a deranged
person.
/ can only speak my mind.
— John Lennon
Student Fund
Holds Conference
Special to The CaroUaiaa
The National Student
Educational Fund (NSEF) will hold
the first student-secretary con-ference
in Washington, D.C. on
February 19-21. 1981. This con-ference
was formerly known as the
Student-Commissioner Conference
on Financial Aid. The name was
changed this year with the creation
of the new Department of
Education and the Secretary
position.
Dr. Michael Bakalis. Deputy Un-der
Secretary for Intergovernmental
Affairs for the Department of
Education, suggested an expansion
of the conference theme from
financial aid issues to "Students As
Peer Counselors."
"The Department of Education
supports the Student-Secretary
Conference," said Bakalis. "The
theme 'Students As Peer Coun-selors'
includes all types of students;
secondary, postsecondary.
traditional, aoatraditioaal.
minority, women, handicapped, etc.
working in al facets of campus life:
administration, orientation.
i, financial aid aad sti
We are pleased to <
this important coafcrencc m
ced by the involvement of staff aad
support aaaong offices throughout
the I
85
from various geographic
different areas of
service wsl be seiected from
a nationwide group of applicants in
early December to participate in the
conference. Selection qualifications
include past experience in peer
counseling services, original pUm
for future programs and knowledge
of student-consumer needs.
The conference program includes
panel and roundtable discussions
with Department of Education
policymakers about the federal
government's role in postsecondary
education and workshops to assist
conferees to design or improve ef-fective
peer counseling programs oa
their own campuses.
Sponsoring the conference along
with NSEF arc the United Stales
Student Association and the
Coalition of ladsjiaarlenl College
and University Students as well as
national minority, women, nan
dkapptd and nontraditioaal student
groups and several state studem
"Student and professional
aducntioa organizations have lear-ned
that students have been
producing information material for
other students end coaiucling peer
cooeaehng programs for years."
said NSEF President Kathleca
Downey. "Among the programs
developed by studenti art safer-in
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