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"Heels n lueett i n n ft acMse-ir-irg nnn r "i r n n r.o i (Q I I I ! 1 ti on ro j ii Jl by Mark Whicker Asst Sports Editor UNC accepted a bit to the National Invitational Tournament (NTT) in New York Monday and will meet Massachusetts Saturday at 11 a.m. in Madison Square Garden. Duke will also be in the New York tournament, playing Dayton in a rematch of a December game the Blue Devils won 70-64. Louisville, runner-up in the Missouri Valley Conference, will meet Providence Saturday afternoon. Saturday night games include Tennessee-St. John's and La Salle-Georgia Tech. On Sunday afternoon, St. Bonaventure plays Purdue and Syracuse faces Michigan. Hawaii meets Oklahoma Monday night. Both Carolina and Duke received NTT bids after State won the ACC tournament last year, but they lost in first round games. The Tar Heels finished the regular season 22-6 after losing the ACC tournament final 52-51 to South Carolina Saturday night. Amid the depression in the losing locker room, George Karl said he told the Gamecocks Bob Carver "both yearns should be going to the NCAA. Karl expressed the hope the Tar Heels could regroup to win the NTT. Massachusetts best player is 6-6 forward Julius Erving, who averaged better than 20 points a game this season and received several AU-American nominations. The winner of the Carolina-Massachusetts game meets the winner of the Louisville-Providence game Monday night. The Duke-Dayton winner plays the Tennessee-St. John's winner the same night. Duke finished 18-8 after losing an ACC first round game to State 68-61 Thursday night. Duke has played in the NTT three times before, winning one of four games. "- mil jTZj ON TTTH Tteifo i - - jh ok Vol. 79, No. 19 ' 1? mm .I 'J w 79 Years Of Editorial Freedom Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday, March 16, 1971 I if Founded February 23, 1893 to siyi "Q)llL (D) ii p. ueu an 10 CCUollLiio by Lou Bonds Staff Writer Students go to the polls today to elect new Student Government officers, a new editor of The Daily Tar Heel, a new chairman of the Residence College Federation and a myriad of other officials. The polls will open at 10 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. as voters try their hand at a new computer voting system being used on the top six campus offices. There will be 1 5 polling places with ballot boxes located at Y Court, the Scuttlebutt, the Carolina Union, the Naval Armory, Granville Towers, Mangum, Everett, Parker, Ehringhaiis, Craige, Morrison, James, Mclver, Cobb and Connor. A temporary polling box was granted for Craige dormitory this year only. The formation of the Graduate and Professional Students Association and its anticipated split from Student Government will make this the last election in which graduate students will vote for undergraduate candidates. When a student arrives at the poll he will be handed both a computer card and a conventional paper ballot listing the candidates names. The computer card will contain the names of presidential, vice presidential and Daily Tar Heel editor candidates on one side. On the back will be candidates ';' for president of The Carolina Athletic Association, chairman of the Association of Women Students and chairman of the Residence College Federation Each name will be accompanied by a perforated square. Voters will indicate . their choice by punching out the square next to a candidate's name. Only one square per office may be punched. Names of the presidential can didates appearing on the computer card are Jim . Flynt, Jim Geddie, Joe Stallings, Richard Stoner and Pete Tripodi. On activities fees Traste by Harry Smith Staff Writer Student Government officials, along with legal counsel John C. Brooks of Raleigh, presented a 90-page report on student fees to the Board of Trustees Executive Committee in Raleigh last week. The report, prepared by Brooks with assistance from student leaders, focuses on the current controversy over control of student activities fees. It includes a summary of the fee dispute which began January 28 when Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson informed Student Body president Tom Bello that the University would retain control over the disbursement of all student activity fees. The report also contains a summary of last year's Adams Committee Report which concluded that the University had 'the right to levy the activities fees and to delegate the allocation of the fees to the student legislature. "In a prepared statement released to the Executive Committee along with the report, Student Body president Tom Bello said, "I wish I could be as confident of the future of Student Government as 1 am proud of the past. "The student community has changed even since my days as a freshman," he said. "Students are not optimistic about change through the system; they realize that Student Government does not have much power, they are tired of student 'politicos' only out for their own gain; and they have a rather curious philosophy of nothing being better than something." The report presented eight questions to the committee: What is the authority of the Student Government of the University? - What dignity has been obtained by the Student Constitution of the Student Government of the University? . " What provisions are there for the maintenance of a self-governing Student Government at the University? Why is it necessary, after 39 years experience with the Student Activity Fund office, to negate the authority and powers of Student Government to allocate and account for themselves the student activities fee? IE :" " ": St n ge u ir point " If there is reason for a change in the policy of the Board of Trustees of the University with respect to the handling of student activities fees, why was it deemed unnecessary for the initiative to arise in the administration to seek Trustee approval for a change in the policy, thus forcing Student Government to affirmatively appeal to the Board of Trustees for a re-affirmation of the historic policy? If there is reason for a change in the policy of the Board of Trustees of the University with respect to the handling of student activities fees, why was the action precipitous and why was it deemed unnecessary that adequate preparations be made for an orderly transfer of the historic responsibility from the Student Activities Fund Office to the Business Office of the University? The report also includes an "Historic Philosophy of Student Government" which quotes past student body presidents on their ideas of what Student Government at UNC is about. Brooks and his assistants also included a complete history of student fees and student government dating from the reopening of the University after the Civil War in their report. The report also presents the committee with a step-by-step account of the switch in the disbursing system for the funds from the Student Activities Fund Office to the University operated system now in effect. The report concludes with a requested remedy to the situation: "The Student Government of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill requests of the Executive Committee of the Board of Trustees of the Consolidated University of North Carolina that it reaffirm its recognition of an independent, self-governing Student Government on the campus . . . Furthermore, we would ask that the Executive Committee explicitly delegate the Student Government as the University's administrative agent for the allocation of and accountability for the Student Activities Fee collected on the campus by the administration ..." Bello said the Executive Committee members were given copies of the report to study and that they will discuss the situation at the next meeting of the Committee. Vice presidential candidates are Chris Daggett, Ray Moretz and Jim Parker. Candidates for editor of The Daily Tar Heel are HarryBryan and Joe Waldo. On the reverse side of the ballot, candidates for Residence College Federation are Steve Saunders and Robert Wilson. Candidates for president of the Carolina Athletic Association are Tom Pope and Bart Menser. Cathey Cauthorne is the only candidate for chairman of the Association of Women Students. Votes for chairman of the Residence College Federation may be cast only by students residing within the dormitory system. Write-in votes may be cast by selecting the "write-in" square, punching it out and then writing the name of the choice beside the square. Special paper ballots 'will be provided for write-ins for student body secretary arid chairman of the Women's At hletic Association . No candidates filed for these offices. In addition to the six offices on computer cards, students will choose 55 student legislators, 12 Honor Court members and 15 class officers by paper ballots. These will be chosen by marking an "X" in a box beside the candidate's name. Chairman of the Elections Board David Ruffin estimated more than 4,000 students will turn out to vote in today's election. Some speculation on a lower voter turn-out due to the reduced number of polls was offered at the time the Elections Reforms Bill was passed by Student Legislature. "It is going to depend on how well the candidates get the students out to vote," Ruffin said. "Some students have complained the candidates are running low key campaigns and there is a lack of interest in the races." Ruffin estimated the heaviest voter turn-out will occur in Granville, South Campus and off-campus polling areas. According to Ruffin, the computer voting system was instituted primarily to reduce the possibilities of cheating in elections. "Of course, there is always a possibility students who are interested in doing this will find a way to cheat," Ruffin said. "But this is the fairest way we have come up with to hold elections." Poll tenders will be stationed at each ballot box to direct the voters. Following the 7 p.m. voting deadline, the ballot boxes and ballots will be collected and taken to a computer for counting. Paper ballots will be counted by hand. Ruffin said the entire counting procedure should be finished by 9 p.m. when the winners will be declared. The Daily Tar Heel will publish names of the winners Wednesday. The Blue Devils lost to Southern Illinois in 1967, beat Oklahoma City before losing to St. Peter's in 196S and dropped their first-round game to Utah List season. The other quarter-final gimes will be played Wednesday night, March 24. The serni-finals are scheduled for Thursday, March 25 with the finals on national television Sunday afternoon, March 27. Louisville is playing in the NTT for the ninth time and won the classic in 1956. All the Cardinal starters average in double figures. Louisville lost a Missouri Valley Conference playoff game to Drake S6-71 Saturday night. Providence lost to South Carolina in the semi-finals of the Holiday Festival during Christmas. The Friars top scorer is sophomore Ernie DiGregorio. This will be the first NIT appearance for both Purdue and Michigan, since the Big Ten previously refused to let runners-up compete in any post-season competition except the NCAA tournament. Dennis Wuycik is Carolina's scoring Iz&dct with an average of 1S.7. B2 Chamberlain, Lee Dedmon and George Karl follow with avenges of 13 J, 12.6 and 12.1. Dedmon, who tied with South Carolina's John Roche for most valuable player in the ACC tournament, has 234 rebounds to lead the team in that department. Chamberlain had 1S9 and Wuycik 176. The Tar Heels field goal percenters is now 52.1, with Wuycik shx)tir.g 60.3 from the field and 85.5 from the line. Dave Chadwick has a 59.2 percentage and Chamberlain is shooting 553. Student tickets for the opening session of the NTT will be available for $2.50 beginning this morning at Carrnichael Auditorium ticket outlets. Students may place orders this morning. It is hoped that tickets will be in hand this afternoon. No tickets for games in laid rounds are available here now. General admission tickets for the first round, with three games scheduled, are priced at SS.50. l! O : t V . j- X " - ; t i - a I " viV ""p. , j Z - 1 "T. r w - J; . . - g 1 - . .. ; v. . v - .: Workmen clear the debris left when the ceiling in this classroom in Howell Hall collapsed Monday afternoon. Journalism School officials said the false ceiling and light fixtures in the room were sagging and fell while being repaired by the Physical Plant. No one was injured in the incident. (Staff photo by John Geliman) Glass col Meggyesy9. Eomem oo'eini Jlaos ii by Pam Phillips Staff Writer The ceiling caved in inside a classroom in Howell Hall, which houses the journalism school, Monday at 3:45 p.m. Room 201 is customarily used as an advertising lab with classes meeting on Tuesdays and Thursday. At the time of the collapse, University workman were in the room. They were uninjured. According to Dean John B. Adams of the journalism school, the building was renovated in 1960 when many of the ceilings were lowered and equipped with accoustical tile and flourescent lighting fixtures. From time to time during the past, the flourescent fixtures had been known to sag from their fastenings but were fixed promptly by the Physical Plant employes. Last weekend the fixtures in 201 were n room ceilfiov r e to Howe noticed to be sagging. The Physical Plant was notified and came over to correct the matter. The workmen had taken down the lighting fixtures and were shoring up the ceiling when the weight of the structure caused the supports to buckle. The false ceiling crumpled from its moorings and fell to the floor. The extent of the damage cannot be determined until the debris is cleared out. The room houses 20 desks and typewrters. The office across the hall from the classroom was being fixed for the same problem when the ceiling collapsed. Adams commended the Physical Plant employes for their promptness in correcting the situations. He said the Physical Plant had been very cooperative in the past. n. n by Evans Witt Staff Writer . Dave Meggyesy and Marcia Rothenberg will be the speakers for the opening session of the Socialist Liberation Festival scheduled to begin at 8 p.m. today in Memorial Hall. Plans for a street dance on Franklin Street Thursday evening have been cancelled due to action by the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen Monday denying the New University Conference's (NUC) request for the use of the street. "We'll be trying to seek another place to have it," NUC member Ben Blakewood said Monday. "We'll definitely have something Thursday night." 'Meggyesy, a former college and professi6nal football player and author or the expose "Out of Their League," will speak on "Culture and Politics the Pivotal Generation." He will be followed by Miss Rothenberg who will talk on "Women and the Paris Commune." Miss Rothenberg has been active in women's liberation activities in Chicago. After the talks by Meggyesy and Miss Rothenberg, the Low Rent District will present a rock concert in Memorial Hall. There will be no admission fee for these activities nor for the other activities of the festival which are scheduled today through Friday. An information and assistance center will open tonight at 6 p.m. in 206 of the Carolina Union to help any of those who participate in the festival with any problems which might arise, according to the organizers, members of NUC. The action by the Board of Alderman came as the first item on the agenda of the regular weekly session. NUC member Larry Kessler presented the petition requesting Franklin Street be closed from approximately 10 p.m. Thursday until 1 p.m Friday to allow the participants in the activities all week a chance "for a really festive occasion. The reception which the Aldermen gave Kessler's presentation was decidedly cool. Several of the Alderman asked questions oi messier. The questions ranged from those concerning the political intent of the festival and the street dance to those on the timing of the request. Alderman George Coxhead asked if "any of the speakers are to advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government by socialism." Kessler replied he could not speak for the personalities invited for the festival but the festival and the street dance were not intended to be a protest. Several other questions concerning the fact the request for the street was made only two days before the event. The Aldermen referred to the Christmas street party held on Franklin Street this past December which caused some anger among people affected by it. The central issue in the dispute was not enough time had been given for planning. The Aldermen turned down the petition by a vote of 6-0. The Socialist Liberation Festival is being held to commemorate the beginning of the Paris Commune which opened its short existence on March 15, 1871. On that day, the Parisian National Guard declared the Italian Revolutionary Garibaldi its commander-in-chief. Later the head of the conservative Paris government decided to disarm the National Guard. The plan was thwarted as the cannon of the guard were hot removed by daylight of March 16 when the citizens awoke and prevented the gendarmes from removing the cannon.
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