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Vol. 63. No. 1131
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Governors
consider
tuition aid
by Greg Nye
Staff Writer
RALEIGH A new state financial aid
program for North Carolina students
attending private colleges is being developed
by the Board of Governors of the
consolidated University of North Carolina.
Robert Dawson, vice-president of
academic affairs for the consolidated
University, told the board at its meeting
Friday that "the educational quality in the
state depends on both public and private
education." North Carolina's 39 private
colleges are in trouble because many
students can no longer meet the rising tuition
costs, Dawson said.
The tuition assistance program is
scheduled to begin in 1976, and will offer
more than $5 million in aid.
Currently, 24, 188 of the students enrolled
in private colleges and universities in North
Carolina are in-state residents.
William C. Friday, board president, said
. the program would help many North
Carolina students. "The median income in
the state is $12,000," Friday said. "This
means there are large numbers of needy
young people who could benefit from the
program."
The tuition assistance would be given on a
first-come, first-served basis to the most
needy students.
The formula for establishing the need of a
student has not yet been agreed on by the
board's planning committee, but Dawson
said that the parents' income and the number
of children in the family will be major
considerations.
Students . attending two-year private
colleges will be eligible for a maximum of -$1,100
in tuition assistance. Students
attending four-year schools may receive up
to $1,300 in aid. The minimum scholarship
will be $100.
w irr other actions, board member William
B. . Rankin - told - the meeting . that .
Appalachian State University is at the '
bottom ofNorth Carolina's 16-member
university system in the amount of money
received from the state per student.
"There has been a lack of progress towards
equalization in the consolidated system,"
Rankin said.
Appalachian, along with UNC and N.C.
State, fills its entering student quota rapidly
long before its deadline, Rankin said. But
private funding is decreasing and many
students' parents are being laid off from their
jobs. Rankin said more than 300
Appalachian students have parents who are
out of work.
Rankin told the Board the average-family
income in the Appalachian area is only
$7,000.
The proposal for more state funding was
referred to the Committee on Budget and
Finance. But President Friday told the
board, "As long as the Board makes such
diverse decisions and the budget is limited,
there will continue to be differences in the
amounts schools in the system receive."
Students
Starvathon a collective effort by
UNC students to draw attention to the
problem of hunger in North Carolina
and the world begins today and its
sponsors hope to raise $10,000 to fight
it.
Although malnutrition and hunger is
commonly thought of as a national or
foreign problem, recent statistics reveal
that North Carolina has:
30 counties designated by the
federal government as "hunger
counties," while South Carolina has one
and West Virginia has none;
over one million malnourished
citizens;
500,000 of its citizens below the
poverty line but not receiving any food
assistance. .
Hoping to draw student attention to
the immediate needs of starving people
Starvathon
Today, Chase Cafeteria has agreed
to send the cost of a meal towards
Starvathon's $10,000 goal for any
meal ticket holder who requests
; having his meal ticket checked off
i without getting a meal.
Also, Marvi Saltzman's
lithographs will beon sale in the Y
Court from 1:00 to 4:30 p.m.
in fight against
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Over 1, CC0 Duke students protested
Phase-out
Tjxmike tadeiiiit hold rallv
by George Bacso
Staff Writer
DURHAM An estimated 1,000
Duke University students participated
in a four-hour demonstration Friday in
response to the Duke' administration's
recent decision to phase out the School
of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
: As30 to 40 forestry-students picketed ;
Allen Building, which houses the
university's administrative offices, a
general student rally was held on Duke's
Main Quad. After almost four hours of
speeches and entertainment, the
protestors "marched over to Allen
Building and chanted until Duke
President Terry Sanford addressed
them.
Duke Provost Frederic Cleveland
announced two weeks ago that the
forestry program and the Duke Primate
Center would be terminated within the
next three-to-five years because of a'
large deficit in the University's budget.
Although he admitted that the(
Forestry School "has a good, solid
program now" and "a very distinctive
record," Cleveland said he thought the' ,
school would be unable to compete with
state schools which have begun
receiving federal and state funds.
Students reacted to the
hope to raise $10,000
world
and long-range solutions to the question
of man's' survival on a finite planet,
sponsors of the Starvathon plan four
days of lectures and panel discussions,
ending with a one-day fast.
Participants in the fast, which will
continue from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 5
p.m. Thursday, will be asked to donate
the money that would have been spent
on meals to the Starvathon.
Today, students on the Servomation
meal plan who intend to participate in
the fast should go by Chase Cafeteria
and have their meal tickets stamped so
that this money can be contributed in
their behalf.
Thirty per cent of the contributions
will go to the United Church Women for
alleviation of hunger in North Carolina.
The remainder will be donated to a
UNICEF project to prevent blindness in
malnourished children in Bangladesh.
At 7:30 rxm. Tuesday in Howell Hall
auditorium, UNC graduate Mary King
Rose will present a PBS documentary
on world hunger which she produced,
followed by commentary by Richard
Clinton, assistant professor of political
science, and Howard Schneider of the
Institute of Nutrition.
At 4 p.m. Wednesday at the School of
Public Health, a panel including Joseph
C. Edozien, chairman of the
Department of Nutrition, Dougald
MacMillan III, assistant professor of
English, and David Burgess, senior
officer of UNICEF, will discuss the
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Friday the planned closing of School of Forestry end Environments) Sciences
of forestry school opposed
administration's decision by organizing
a group called the M ovement f or S hared
Authority (MSA).
"There are larger issues at stake here,"
Chan Smith, a third year forestry
student and former president of
Associated Students of Duke University
(ASDU - Duke's form of student
government), said Friday. "We are also
questioning the way in ...which this
decision was arrived at that is, the
absence and neglect of student or faculty
consultation or input."
He said MSA's three demands are:
That the Duke administration
share with all the people affected its
authority in the University's decision
making processes;
That the Duke administration
share with all the people affected its
authority in the determination of
University priorities;
That the Duke administration
any budget cuts until the entire
community can come to a mutual
agreement on University priorities.
The rally featured speeches by ASDU
and MSA members and students and
faculty of the Forestry School, and
music by several local bands.
Singer environmentalist Pete Seeger
was scheduled to participate, but sent a
telegram saying he could not attend and
starvation
technological aspects of hunger.
At 6 p.m. the fast begins, followed by
a speech on "Hunger and the Emerging
World Community," by William Sloan
Coffin, chaplain of Yale University, at 8
p.m. in the Wesley Foundation.
The fast will end at 5 p.m. Thursday
with a rice and tea communion led by
Rev. Robert Johnson and David
Burgess.
'Pei'se'
by Janet Frye
Staff Writer
If you plan to drink and drive, beware of North Carolina's
per se law, now two months old and apparently changing law
enforcement approaches to the problem of drunken driving.
Under the law, a person convicted of driving while
intoxicated will lose his license for one year. And a
breathalyzer test showing a driver has 0. 10 per cent or more
alcohol in his blood is considered sufficient (per se) evidence
that he is intoxicated.
. .
A person weighing 1 60 pounds who drinks six beers within
two hours would have a blood alcohol percentage of
approximately .13, according to statistics supplied by the
Center for Alcohol Studies at UNC.
Under North Carolina's old law, which expired Jan. 1,'
1 975, a blood alcohol level of . 1 0 per cent or more was only a
presumption of intoxication and was not sufficient evidence
for a conviction. Virginia and South Carolina, along with
most of the states, still have similar laws.
A few states have stricter laws. In Utah and Idaho, for
urging support for MSA.
Smith delivered the concluding
speech, and then urged everyone to
"make as much noise as possible" and
march over to Allen Building.
As Sanford talked to the Daily Tar
Heel and the Duke Chronicle in his
office, the protestors outside chanted
"MSA," "Action now," and M We want
Sanford." : -
"1 don't have a closed mind, and I'm
open to these channels," Sanford said.
"Anything done should be done through
the organized student government. I've!
come, to rely on ASDU and I will'
continue to look to them for student
communication," Sanford said.
"Some people say student bodies are
lethargic, so I'm prettv oleased to, hear
that noise," Sanford said, looking out
his window as the chanting grew louder. -"You
can say I've got the message."
Rob Turner, MSA co-ordinator and
an applicant to the Forestry and
Environmental Studies School for next
year, entered Sanford's office to present
him with petitions signed by almost
5,000 students and faculty members
criticizing the phase-out decision.
"I'll give these careful consideration,
and you'll have a response sometime
next week," Sanford said.
Sanford then walked outside to
confront the group.
Often interrupted or drowned out by!
hecklers, he stood on the shrubbery
surrounded steps and reiterated his
remarks made earlier to the press.
"I appreciate this great show of
confidence . . . but I'm not going to
give you an answer off the top of this
bush," he said.
Sanford then went back to his office
and the crowd chanted "Bullshit!",
before dispersing. .!
Smith said afterwards he had talked
to Sanford earlier in the day. "Sanford:
agrees with us, I think, and he knows the
decisions were handled imperfectly," he
said.
hw founglhees breathalyzer- 4e4
example, a person driving with a blood alcohol level of .08
per cent is presumed under the influence of "intoxicating
liquor." However, in New York, impaired driving ability is
presumed at .08 per cent, but driving under the influence is
not illegal per se until the level is .12 per cent or more.
Experts in the area of alcohol research here at UNC have
varying opinions about the effectiveness of the new law.
Dr. Fred Ellis professor of pharmacology at the UNC
School of Medicine, would like to see a stiff er law enacted.
"1 would advocate .05 per cent as the legal limit Adequate
mental faculties and required functions to operate a motor
vehicle safely begin to be impaired at levels from .04 to .07 per
cent," he said.
He said research data almost unanimously show that
driving ability usually begins to deteriorate at blood alcohol
levels of about .05 per cent One study he cited reported that
drivers with a . 10 per cent blood alcohol level are more than
six times as likely to cause an accident as drivers with no
alcohol.
A federal study reported that alcoholism cost the people of
North Carolina S161 million in motor vehicle accidents in
1974.
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by Art Elsenstadt
end Jim Roberts
Staff Writers
Runoff elections for the positions of
student body president, editor of the Daily
Tar Heel and Campus Governing Council
seats have been postponed until afterSpring
Break, Elections Board Chairman Rick
Bryant said late Sunday.
The delay was brought about when
Student Supreme Court Chief Justice
Darrell Hancock issued an injunction
against holding a presidential runoff election
on Wednesday as previously scheduled.
This would have caused elections for
editor of the DTH and CGC seats to be held
Wednesday while the presidential runoff
would be held at a later date.
Bryant and Hancock later agreed that the
presidential and other runoffs should be held
at the same time. The date for the runoffs will
probably be Monday, March 24.
Hancock's injunction against the
presidential runoff came as a result of a
complaint filed Sunday by three
unsuccessful presidential candidates, Tim
Dugan, Jerry Askew and Keith "Bozo"
Edwards, to prevent Wednesday's election
from being held.
Bryant authorized last Friday a runoff
between Bill Bates and Jamie Ellis, the top
two finishers in the eight-way race, after
validating the election results.
The action came after the board denied a
complaint filed by Lloyd Scher charging that
Johnny Kaleel, a Bates campaign worker,
used the campus mail to send ISO campaign
letters.
George Blackburn, a counsel to Dugan,
wrote - the new complaint. Besides "the
injunction, it also calls for a trial to
determine whether Bates should be
disqualified as a candidate.
Bates is charged with violations of the
Code of Student Conduct and the election
laws.
The complaint includes the allegation that
Kaleel sent 150 letters supporting Bates
through campus mail.
Since the campus mail is normally
restricted to official University use, Dugan,
Askew and Edwards are charging the
incident violated a Code of Student Conduct
clause against misuse of University property.
In a statement Sunday, Kaleel said he had
Jones 'dissatisfied'
with housing inaction
Residence Hall Association (RHA)
President Betsey Jones announced
Thursday she was "immensely
dissatisfied with Housing Department
inaction on three major changes in
housing policy.
The decisions concern the housing of
handicapped and international students
in Ruffin dormitory, and the
consolidation of all single-occupancy
double rooms unless residents pay:
higher rent.
"How long is it going to take (Dean of
Student Affairs Donald) Boulton to
decide?" Jones asked. She said the
recommendations have been on
Boulton's desk for at least two weeks.
, "This is not fair to the several hundred
people involved in these decisions.. .I'm
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(OiecMiie:
met with Sylvester Brooks, campus mail
supervisor, and Clairborne Jones, vice
chancellor for business and finance, and had
been told private use of the campus mail
usually resulted in a warning the mailer not
repeat the action.
Kaleel said he also offered to reimburse
the mail service for the cost of the mailing,
but was told the cost would be negligible.
The complaint also charges that "the
' Avery Advocate (the Avery Dormitory
newspaper) was printed in such a manner as
to constitute . a gratuitous service in
furtherance of Bill Bates' campaign."
Although it is normally distributed only in
Avery, the Advocate published an elections
issue endorsing various candidates,
including Bates, and delivered it to Teague,
Parker, Joyner and Whitehead dorms, the
other buildings in Campus Governing
Council District VI.
Advocate editor Kelly Summey could not
be reached for comment.
As a first option, the suit asked Bates be
disqualified and a new presidential election
be held.
A second alternative listed in the suit asks
a special runoff be held involving "the
remaining two legitimate forerunners of the
campaign (Ellis and Dugan)."
Campus Governing Council
- representative Carl Fox has also filed a
complaint with the Student Supreme Court
contesting the CGC race in on-campus
District IV. In that race, co-candidates
George Bacso and Brad Lamb defeated
Mike Dixon.
Fox said he objects to having two
representatives hold one CGC seat. "There is
no way one district can have co
representatives." ; The General Elections Law states that
"Each (CGC) district shall elect one
representative." The Student Constitution
also states that the CGC "shall be composed
of 20 Councillors..."
Fox said other co-elected officers, such as
the co-editors of the Daily Tar Heel, have
been used as a defense by Lamb and Bacso.
"But the only reason these co-anythings have
been allowed to stay is because no one has
challenged. All co-candidates are in
violation.
Rick Bryant never had the authority
allow them to run as co-candidates in the
first place," Fox said. "He was told by
(Student Attorney General) Nita Mitchell
that they couldn't run together."
tired of
Boulton
Condie
making excuses for Dean
and Dr. Condie." James
is director of University
Housing.
Jones said she would write a letter to
Boulton expressing her dissatisfaction.
The RHA also voted Thursday to
oppose the sale of University utilities to
Duke Power Company. The sale would
force a further increase in room rents,
and students would lose the security of
local control, they said. In other housing
developments, Delmar Williams, leader
of a group of about 65 students
protesting Condie's consolidation
decision, said the James residence
director had told him he had until
March 5 to move in with someone else
or be charged for a single room.
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But Dr. John Ewing, professor of psychiatry and director
of the Center for Alcohol Studies, emphasized that the new
law, with its faults, was still an improvement over the old law.
"We are lucky to have the per se law. We should not try to
lower the legal limit of alcohol in the blood until the present
law is enforced," Ewing said.
Dr. Pat Waller of the UNC Highway Safety Research
Center said that 1973 statistics from the N.C. Highway
Patrol revealed that about 63 per cent of those tried for
driving under the influence of alcohol were convicted.
' Lt. Snipes of the Chapel Hill Police Department reported
that 356 local arrests for driving under the influence were
made in 1974. Although the police department has no record
of the percentage of those arrests leading to convictions,
Snipes said the convictions rate was probably much lower
than most people think.
Snipes also said he did not expect the new law to affect the
number of arrests because "the majority of people are
arrested by the erratic manner in which they drive a car."
Asked whether the law should be stricter, he said,"The law
as it is now would make a big difference if the number of
convictions were higher."
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