ACC Hems fi 77 2umM mdmr c by Chris Cobbs Sports Editor GREENSBORO-Notbing that has happened so far means anything. The source of these words is not a freak, an existentialist or a philosopher. The source is none other than Dean Smith. Carolina's coach speaks candidly at times. "The new season begins today," he says. Smith's Tar Heels take on Clemson at 1:30 pjn. in the first game of the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament. At stake, of course, is a bid to the Eastern Regionals, first step to the NCAA championship. r ' . ; 'i '4 i r Smith's "team without a chance "-the Tar Heels were consigned to the lower echelon of the conference by most preseason guessers goes into the tourney with the top seed. Matched in the opening game of the 18th annual ACC spectacle are the club with the league's best offensive mark and the team with the top defensive figure. Carolina carries an 86.7 scoring average into the tournament while Clemson has permitted opponents but 65.5 points a game. The Tar Heels have not had trouble with Clemson this year. In two meetings Carolina prevailed 92-72 and 86-48. UNC swept aside 1 1 league foes, losing to but three in winning the regular season ACC championship. The Tar Heels compiled a 20-5 overall record and are ranked among the nation's top 1 5 squads. The Tar Heels whipped seventh-ranked South Carolina by 15 and dropped a six-point decision to the Gamecocks in the course of the season. A third meeting, in the tournament finals, is considered a strong possibility. The Gamecocks faltered in mid-season, losing four conference games, but ended the year at 20-4 and with All-America guard John Roche going strong. They play Maryland at 3:30. Many figure the Gamecocks have the momentum to triumph in the do-or-die tournament, but Smith isn't among their ranks. "I don't think momentum has much to do with it," he has said several times in the last two weeks. He points to conference history, marked by upsets, like last year's tournament. South Carolina had a 14-0 ACC record but was nearly knocked off by Clemson in the first round and was upset by N.C. State m the finals. State hid lost four of its last six conference games in 1970. In any event, the victor in this afternoon's opening match will meet either Virginia or Wake Forest in the second round Friday night. One interesting note about today's first 2 me -Clemson had the league's best defense and its worst offense while Carolina ranked seventh and first in those departments. Not a single league member finished among the top four in all six categories of team pby. Carolina was one of three teams in the first division in five departments. The Tar Heels were the only team to lead in more than one department. Ia addition to leading in scoring they also set the pace in field goal percentage 3nd average victory margin over opponents. Their field goal percentage stands at S2S while their avenge scoring marpn is 11.7. Tar Heel snorters ar.d scorirgj avenjss iachide forwards Denris Wuycik, 19.8 and BI3 Chamberlain, 13.7; center Lee Dedmon, 123; and fjards George Karl, 1 2 J, and Steve Frevis, 7.5. Wuycik was named this week to the AS-ACC firs! team, Karl to the second. Clemson's probable sUrtirg lineup has forwards Dickie Foster and Dave Thomas, center Dave Angel and Bo Hawkins and John Coakky. C.u two. Angel (14) and Thomas (12.S) are among the league's top 25 scorers. - ""-."..." ...,." ." """"""""' ACC Tourney Heels Second Season See Paes 4 And 5 un TN l"" "7 nils. Vol. 79, No. 14 79 Years of Editorial Freedom Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thursday, March 11, 1971 M O- Founded February 23, 1893 Cdheix A winner's smile . SL to act on student trustee bill by Woody Doster Staff Writer Student Legislature (SL) will consider tonight a resolution supporting a bill in the N.C. Legislature to give the student body presidents of each of the Consolidated University campuses a vote on the Board of Trustees. "Thy presidents of Duke, Wake Forest and Davidson already have voting privileges on their boards of trustees," said the bill's author, Lee Hood Capps. "I believe that this student input is necessary." Capps said the input is necessary because of the "lack of rapport" between students and the Board of Trustees. "The presidents of the student bodies should reflect the general attitudes of the students better than a board member who has no day-to-day contact with students," Capps said. If the resolution passes, copies will be sent to the chairman of the N.C. Committee on Education, where the bill now rests, to the state senators , who introduced the bill, Gov. Robert Scott and the chancellors and student body presidents of each campus. The SL Finance Committee is Currently holding budget hearings. "We are wrestling with the questions of what basis should we use to decide how much money each group gets and whether we have to fund them," said Finance Committee Chairman Robert Grady Wednesday. He noted the Adams Committee, composed of students and faculty, last year recommended that functions such as the Debate Team and the Glee Club See SL, page 6 t'-- , , -if ?. ..... i i ' - rri: i - . V J i . . . v i i : .. Z - i . ( - . J ? ' by Evans Witt Staff Writer Student Legislator Gerry Cohen has raised questions on the amount of Student Activities fees . which the University has collected this year in a Til f' f recent letter to Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson. University officials dispute Cohen's figures. Cohen quoted the official enrollment figures of the University to total a figure of $272,924.82 for the amount which should have been collected rather than O rt 71 (dim iter i i i - . r- , - ... " j ' fr . J . . I j st . v . ,- y ....,... m . , .- y " . -K , - ' (' - ' ; - "" - j 4 ...with a cheering send-off for Smith's Tar Heels the approximately $256,000 the University says it has collected. A change in the amount of student activities fees from $7.28 to $7.00 a semester which the University charges graduate students came to light in discussions with University Budget Officer Victor Bowles. "The fee is $7.00 a semester now. The University rounded that off beginning last fall, I think," said Bowles. "It just didn't make sense to mess with those odd cents." Student Activities Fund Office Director Mrs. Frances Sparrow had not been informed of this change in the fees. This "rounding . off" reduced the amount of student activities fees for the year by approximately $2,365. Joseph C. Eagles, vice chancellor of business and finance was unavailable for comment on the questions raised in the Cohen letter, but had the matter referred to Bowles. Bowles said the computations done by Cohen were correct in one sense, but failed to take into account a number of dynamic factors. "If everything had stayed the same in the University after the end of the drop-add period, then his figures would be correct," Bowles said. "But there are other factors involved." Bowles mentioned the normal rate of attrition of students dropping out of school, the number of staff and faculty wives who are students but do not pay student fees, and a previously unknown and unexpected change in the graduate school procedures as factors in the lowered fees income. Students who drop out of school are refunded a certain portion of their tuition and fees, Bowles said. Projections for the amount of income for the entire University, not just the student activities .Rsl fees, are based on expected enrollment modified by the expected rate cf attrition. According to the budget officer, the enrollment figures which Cohen used were the number of students at their highest point, which is always followed by a decline caused by dropouts. Bowles also said the Graduate School unexpectedly changed the method of counting the students who are in residence for their theses. This change caused an inflation of the "full-time, equivalent students' figure which Cohen quoted, Bowles said. This change involved approximately 300 students and, -thus, somewhat over . $4,000 per year in fees. Bowles also pointed out that UNC staff, faculty and staff wives, and faculty and their wives from surrounding Universities can enroll here as students without paying student fees. The number of persons registered as students who fall into this category vary from semester to semester, according to University Cashier Marvin Woodard. Approximately 125 students were in1 this category in the fall and did not pay student activities fees. Woodard reported that some 75 students have been exempted from paying the fees thus far this spring with another 25 expected to apply for the exemption before the fees are paid in full. The dispute over the amount of student activities fees arose late in February when Student Body Treasurer Guil Wad dell was informed that the total income for Student Government (SG from the fees would be $256,000 instead of the $265,000-270,000 which was projected last spring and reaffirmed in fhe fall. 11 7! ri 71 n 11 P OH nOTITI ? T ,j9 QieiD&ue sii&ttea ifor- pesaciieimuaaii jnopera by Lou Bonds Staff Writer A rally and debate for presidential hopefuls were scheduled as candidates for the March 16 campus elections received their final briefing from the Elections Board Tuesday night and prepared to launch the final week of campaigning. Presidential nominee Pete Tripodi announced Wednesday plans for 2n elections . rally today in which all candidates attending will be allowed to voice their opinions to students. Candidates for the student body president post have also been extended a debate offer by the YM-YWCA and Campus Issues organizations which would pit office-seekers against each other Sunday night in Gerrard Hall. Checking thy names of a host of candidates, Elections Board Chairman David Ruffin explained new procedures for the coming runoff provided for in the Elections Reform Bill. The reforms bill, passed by Student Legislature. (SL) on March 1 , provided for computer voting, a reduction in the number of polling places, Student Legislature redisricting and named 14 polling spots. Present at the meeting were candidates for student body president, vice president, Daily Tar Heel editor, Residence College Federation (RCF) chairman, Student Legislature representatives, Men and Women's Honor Court positions and class officers. In computer voting, each student casting ballots at thy polls will be issued a perforated computer card containing the names of the presidential, vice-presidential, RCF and Daily Tar Heel editor candidates. Students wili then punch a hole beside their choice and drop the ballot into a box which will be transferred to a computer for counting. Ruffin said student legislators, class officers and Honor Court members will be selected by paper ballots that will be hand counted. The number of polling places has been reduced from 32 last fall to 14 for the coming election, according to the reforms bilL Students will vote at either Y-Court, Scuttlebutt, Carolina Union, Naval See Rally, page 3 Poll MUCH majority oft cadets oppose ii mloi resolinitiioini by Bob Chapman Staff Writer (Editor's note: Wiis article is the second in a series con canting a recent poll of Ncn'al ROTC members on three major issues-Vietnam, drugs and the ROTC program. ) More than half of the midshipmen at the UNC Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) unit oppose the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution which empowered the President to send military assistance to Vietnam, according to a survey conducted within the unit. The poll represented the opinions of 197 of the 250-plus midshipmen. No names were required in order to insure truthful comments. One point the survey showed, especially concerning Vietnam, was the tendency for the midshipmen to become more liberal as they progress from freshman to a senior. In the freshman class, for example, 77.6 percent favor the President's program of phased withdrawal and Vietnamization. Other class figures show: sophomore, 72.2 percent; junior, 54.8 percent; and senior, 63.9 percent. The unit average is 68 percent in favor of Nixon's policy. About two-thirds of the students said they consider U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia as the most urgent foreign commitment. Although 36.5 percent said they opposed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, 53.3 percent said they opposed the principle of the resolution. Almost 30 percent feel Americans should withdraw immediately from Vietnam. The junior class had the highest percentage of support for withdrawal with 45.2 percent. Most of the midshipmen, 65 percent, oppose a resumption of the bombing of North Vietnam. Another 28.4 per cent said they favor the bombings, while 6.6 percent expressed no opinion. "Do you think the President is doing all in his power, under the circumstances, for the quickest possible withdrawal,' half said no. the poll asked. More than While 45.6 percent said the President is trying to get out as quickly as possible, 51.8 percent disagreed. About half of the freshmen and sophomores said Nixon is getting out as quickly as possible, less than a third of the juniors (32.3 percent) and only 44.4 percent of the seniors said they thought withdrawal was going fast enough. A big majority of the future naval officers approved of the excursion into North Vietnam to free American prisoners of war, but more than half said it would hinder the Paris peace negotiations. Most, 68 percent, favored continuing the talks, while 27.9 percent voted for scrapping them. The question concerning the reason for America's involvement in Vietnam brought a variety of responses. The largest group, 36 percent, thought the reason is to establish a sphere of influence in the midst of Soviet and Chinese Communist influence and thereby maintain a balance of power. The second largest group, 31 .5 percent, said the U.S. is primarily in Vietnam to fight Communist aggression and to allow the South Vietnamese to protect democratic government. Other opinions included: honor our SEATO tres.ty commitment, 11.7 percent; preserve American economic interests in Southeast Asia, 9.6 percent; commit acts of "imperial aggression," 3 percent; and no opinion, 8.1 percent. A majority of the midshipmen, 56.9 percent, said they approved of the Cambodian excursion in May, 1970. Most of the support of the excursion came from freshmen, 67.2 percent; and from the sophomores, 72.2 percent. In contrast, only 38.7 percent of the juniors supported the Cambodian invasion, and only 48.6 of the seniors said they approved. Even so, 62.9 percent said it hindered negotiations, but 53.3 percent said it helped withdrawal. As students, the midshipmen seemed to support the free speech of other students. A total of 69.5 percent said National Guardsmen at Kent State were not justified for firing on students. Another 19.3 percent said they were justified, possibly in self-defense, and 11.2 percent expressed no opinion. Campuses should remain cool regarding protesting of continued American presence in Southeast Asia, according to 71.1 percent of the middies. While 1 6.2 percent said campuses should turn on the heat, 1 2.7 expressed no opinion. Even before the recent trial and publicity concerning Lt. William Calley's trial over the alleged My Lai killings, 59.9 percent said they felt the officer's actions were unjustified. Only 17.8 percent defended his decision and 22.3 percent expressed no opinion. (The next article in the series concerns the opinion of ROTC students on drugs.)

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