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Vol. 83, No. 42 Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, October 24, 1975
Friday,
Betts win
awards
by Tim Pittman
Staff Writer
President of the consolidated University
of North Carolina William C. Friday and
Doris Betts, UNCs director of freshman and
sophomore English, received the state's
highest honor from Gov. Jim Holshouser
during ceremonies Tuesday night in Raleigh.
Friday and Betts were among four
recipients of the North Carolina Award,
given annually for distinction in the fine arts,
literature, public- service and science and
technology.
The awards have been given for 12 years.
Friday received the North Carolina
Award for Public Service for "the strong,
forthright leadership that he, as president for
19 years, has given the University of North
Carolina," the award citation stated.
Betts was presented the North Carolina
Award in Literature "for her sustained
contribution to the literary life of the
nation."
"One can only be grateful for that kind of
award," Friday said Thursday, "but the
recognition belongs to a lot of people I've
been associated with in my years with the
University. That includes student leaders,
No ban on smoking
until faculty action
by Dan Fesperman
Staff Writer
The referendum banning classroom
smoking, approved by approximately 80 per
cent of the student vote, will not be enforced
at least until the Faculty Council takes
action on it, several UNC department heads
said Thursday.
Since students approved it last
Wednesday, the referendum has been
referred to the Faculty Council by
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor.
Taylor also sent a memorandum to all
University deans and department heads
stating "faculty members individually or
through such collective measures as they
deem appropriate should decide the question
of whether . . . smoking is to be prohibited
in their classes."
The Faculty Council and chancellor must
approve a smoking ban before it has any real
power in University schools and
departments.
Norton Beach, dean of the School of
Education, said he personally favors
May be used for
Carrboro
by Sue Cobb
Staff Writer
Carrboro has received from the state an
unexpected $20,000 increase in street
improvement funds for this year, town
officials learned recently.
Although the town expected to receive
approximately S70,000 in the street
improvement funds, it received a check for
approximately 590,000, Alderman George
Beswick said Thursday.
The increase in funds is due to an increase
in the town's population, which determines
the allotment, he said.
The funds, Powell Bill funds, received
annually from the state, are allotted on the
basis of the previous years allotment to the
by John Hopkins
Staff Writer
The phone rings. "I'll bet that's Janice,"
Karen says to herself. She gets up from the
couch but stops halfway to the phone. "Or it
might be him. "
She hesitates. The phone is in its fourth
ring when she picks it up.
After a hopeful "Hello, "she grimaces. She
listens to the obscenities and sexually
suggestive remarks for a few seconds, then
slams the receiver down.
Karen (not her real name), a University of
North Carolina student, lives alone in a local
apartment complex. The same man has been
making obscene calls to her for
approximately a week and a half.
She aid recently she is not terrified by the
calls, but they do bother her; she said she
feels uneasy when she is alone.
"Sometimes i hear a soft tapping at my
door," she said. "But I never hear a car or
footsteps on the stairs outside."
She has notified neighbors of the tapping,
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Doris Betts (left) and Pres. William Friday won North Carolina awards for their
contribution to North Carolina
chancellors and, of course, Mrs. Friday."
Friday's citation for the award reads,
"Disregarding his own career, he (Friday)
has taken unpopular stands and in so doing
has established the University as a force to be
reckoned with academically and
intellectually."
Friday said intercollegiate athletics
controversies, University expansion and
name changes have been the major issues in
his career as president.
"But these things are expected in a large,
and what I think is a quality, institution
where growth is constant," he said.
Betts said of her award, "It's quite an
honor; I was delighted and all those other
things that people say after an award.
"I only wish the award was in a different
banning classroom smoking, but that he is
going to wait to see what the Faculty Council
does before he takes any action.
English department Chairperson Williim
Harmon also said he will wait on action by
the Faculty Council, and added that he will
follow whatever ruling the council makes.
But Beach said, "If they don't take any
actioh,-then we (the School of Education)
will take action of our own, and if they take
action that we don't like, then I have the
understanding that we are still free to take
action on our own."
Harmon said a ban on classroom smoking
"should depend on what kind of classrooms
you're in and how large the classes are." He
also asked, "And what are you going to do
about a class where all of the students and
the teacher are smokers?"
Both John B. Adams, dean of the
journalism school, and Maurice Lee, dean of
the School of Business Administration, said
their schools already had rules prohibiting
smoking in class.
Lee also said he could not guarantee that
his school's rule was strictly enforced.
bus system
receives $20,000
town. The town administration budgets the .
money before the check is actually received,
Beswick said.
Carrboro alderman candidate Ernie
Patterson said Thursday he is concerned that
the money will be spent before the new
administration takes office.
Patterson said he thinks the money should
not be spent until after the elections, and that
it should be used to fund the initial stages of a
bus system for the town.
"1 personally would use that extra $20,000
for a bus system," Patterson said, adding
that if the town is to have bus service by next
year, action must be taken immediately after
the election.
Patterson said that technically, the street
improvement funds cannot be used for a bus
and they have searched the area. But nothing
unusual has been found. Lately, Karen has
entertained more overnight guests than
usual.
She refused to tell the exact words the
caller uses but said, "They're horrible."
B.ut not all women react to obscene
telephone calls like Karen. Another local
woman related an obscene call she received
at work. "I was working at this dress shop.
This guy calls and says he wants to get my
leg! It flipped me out at first, but it got funny
later. 1 handed the phone to another girl, and
she gave him a hard time for quite a while."
A grop of coeds at a Raleigh junior college
said they had a good time with an obscene
caller. They kept him on the telephone for
some time with lines such as, "Where the hell
have you been? You were supposed to call
me last night."
Although eight of 12 women questioned
reported having received at least one obscene
call, Chapel Hill Police Lt. Lucas Lloyd said
obscene calls are not a serious local problem.
"We get only three to five complaints a
month," he said. Lloyd said he has not
noticed any prime month for the complaints.
form than a medallion," Betts said. "I know
that sounds like I'm being ungrateful, and it
was a nice gesture, but somehow I feel that
the medal is already a dead end." She said a
scholarship fund or a similar program would
be a better award.
Betts said she was informed of her
selection weeks before the award ceremony.
Holshouser had sent her a letter and asked
that she keep the award a secret.
Another North Carolina award was
presented to John L. Etchellsfor his research
and 1 development of the fresh-pack
processing of pickles. Etchells is a food
science and microbiology professor at North
Carolina State University.
Robert E. Ward, composer and former
administrator of the North Carolina School
of Arts, received the fine arts award.
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UNC fraternities and sororities are
currently- participating in a Miller
sponsored beer can and bottle
collection contest.
system because they are designated for street
improvements.
He recommended that the town replace
$20,000 worth of town funds already allotted
for street repairs with the extra money from
the Powell fund, thus freeing the town funds
for use in acquiring bus service.
Beswick said Patterson's worry is not a
realistic one because it is improbable that the
money could actually be spent before the
elections. He added that the money could
only be committed.
He said he would also like to have the
surplus spent for a bus system, providing
there are no other, overriding priorities. He
mentioned, however, that the money may be
needed for other purposes.
He said women who receive such calls
should say nothing and hang up
immediately. "That's because of the nature
of the caller," Lloyd said. "He's a guy
looking for a reaction. He'll just call random
numbers trying to get one. If he does, he'll
likely call back."
If tht calls continue, Lloyd advised
women to authorize the telephone company
to install a phone trap.
Paul Sexton, acting manager of the
Chapel Hill Telephone Plant, explained,
"The trap is an electronic device that will not
allow the calling party to break the
connection. By holding the connection, we
can determine where the call originated.
"We provide this information to the
police. Unless we are called on to give
technical testimony, we do nothing more in
the case."
Lt. Arthur Summey of the Chapel Hill
police said once this information is obtained,
the caller can be caught 90 per cent of the
time. "The problem comes when the caller
uses a public telephone," Summey says.
"That doesn't happen too often, though."
Summey said that in approximately half
A member of the organization sponsoring
Delmar Williams as a Homecoming Queen
candidate has threatened to file suit in
Student Supreme Court to prove the
illegality of a Homecoming candidate
screening committee.
Chip Cox, a staff member of Carolina, the
campus publication which paid Williams'
filing fee, said Wednesday he may also seek
an injunction halting the election if Williams'
name is not placed on the Homecoming
ballot.
Williams is the first male in UNC history
to try to run for Homecoming Queen.
A screening committee, composed of three
women and two men, will hold interviews for
the 14 homecoming candidates today. The
committee will then select six individuals
who will comprise the Homecoming'Court
at the game.
Last November the Campus Governing
Council passed a bill which standardized the
procedure for the election of a Homecoming
Queen, but there is no mention of a screening
committee in the eight articles of the bill.
Student Attorney General Andromeda
Monroe said that because there is no
provision for a Homecoming screening
RHA criticizes lottery system
Opinion questionnaires distributed next week
by Bob King
Staff Writer
The Department of University Housing's
new proposed lottery system for dormitory
room sign-up encountered criticism of its
provisions and Aiming by students and RH A
members Wednesday night.
Because freshmen are required to live in
dorms, only 60 per cent of upperclassmen
dorm residents can return to their rooms
from year to year.
By the persistence method used last year,
students had to wait in line to try to reserve
dorm space. This year, the housing
department has proposed a lottery system to
remove the need tor lines.
At the RHA meeting Wednesday night
James dorm CGC Rep Brad Lamb said most
students would prefer the persistence
method because it "gives them a feeling of
security and the idea that they have some
control about getting back in the dorm."
"I don't want to see housing come out with
a worse image, which I think will happen if
they adopt this lottery without listening to
the students," Lamb said.
RHA, at the direction of Secretary Bernie
Zimmerman, will attempt to survey student
opinion on the issue by distributing
questionnaires this week or early next week.
The questionnaires will ask residents
whether they prefer a lottery or waiting in
line.
RHA Executive Assistant Lee Wallace
questioned the timing of the housing
department's announcement Thursday,
saying "We've had two and a half month's
input, but housing has only now offered us a
plan to act on."
James D. Condie of the housing
department said earlier in the week that the
plan had not really been worked out until
late last week, which was the earliest time he
could make it public.
At the meeting, Condie likened his
position after last year's sign-up to that of
"the last animal in the bottom of Noah's ark
after the fortieth day."
In defending the lottery system, Condie
said this week that many people had
the cases, the woman declines to press
charges. "If she has been assured that the
caller's phone has been taken out, or if he
promises to stop calling, she will usually
drop it."
When the case does go to court, the result
is almost always the same. "The judge will let
him go if he promises to obtain or continue
psychiatric treatment," Summey said. The
maximum punishment of six months in jail
andor a $500 fine is given rarely.
He said the problem of obscene telephone
calls is not perceived as serious at police
headquarters. "It's more of a nuisance than a
threat," he said.
Lloyd said the caller is usually male and
young to middle-aged. He is seldom
dangerous and will very seldom make
threats. The calls consist mainly of sexually
suggestive and offensive language, he said.
"The reactions vary. Most women are not
really scared, just annoyed. Today's liberal,
aggressive women just don't seem to get
frightened. Only in rare cases will the woman
panic."
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committee the selection process has no legal
basis.
"It is not for me to judge the legality of the
committee," she said. "That will be up to the
Supreme Court."
According to Cox, any committee which
has the power to remove candidates
arbitrarily from the court is illegal by the
constitution bylaws for Homecoming.
Calling the screening process "an obvious
act of discrimination against Delmar
Williams and another obstacle which has
been thrown up to prevent his candidacy."
Cox said his major concern is Williams' right
to be placed on the ballot.
Cox charged that Rob Friedman,
chairperson of the Carolina Athletic
Association (CAA), has attempted to keep
Williams' name off the Homecoming Queen
ballot bv questioning the validity of Carolina
as Homecoming sponsor and by urging
Williams to withdraw.
"If a committee can determine which
sponsored candidates will be on the court,"
Cox said, "then why have an election for the
queen?"
Because the queen's election is determined
by plurality vote and not majority, Cox said
he sees no need for limiting the number of
candidates.
Williams said, "I definitely think this is
forgotten the problems of last spring's sign
up. Some students missed classes and other
activities to which they were previously
committed, Condie said. "1 received a
numberof calls from people complaining
about having to miss church, also from -a
number of professors about their empty
classes."
Monitoring lines was also a problem, as
some students cut in already-full lines. "One
students who knew he had made the quota
when he got in line was closed out a couple of
hours later when he got to the front because
somebody had cut in line," he said. '
The third major problem, Condie said,
was accomodating students who were away
from campus on legitimate University'
activities. "Should we give them their choice,'
discriminating against these who waited in
line?" he asked.
Condie said he was unsuccessful last year
in attempting to have the University
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discrimination against me. There arc no
bylaws allowing such a committee."
If Williams is not on the ballot after the
screening process today. Cox said he would
file suit immediately. Student Supreme
Court could hold a hearing this weekend and
issue an injunction against the election.
Friedman said the CAA may have its own
rules which allow the existence of a screening
committee. "1 can't say yes or no as to the
legality of the committee." he said. "The
CAA might have law regulations permitting
such a selection process.
"1 can't see why it would be prejudicial to
Delmar or any other candidate. The girls
knew about the process before and they are
not complaining."
Friedman said tradition held that the
Homecoming court be limited to five or six
candidates. "With a lot of candidates you get
lost looking for a name." he said
He said the committee would not be
prejudiced against Williams in their
selection. He added that the committee
would determine their own criteria for
selecting the court.
UNC wrestling coach and member of the
screening committee Bill Lam said the large
number of candidates would be impractical
in an election.
designate a weekend when all outside
activities would be cancelled.
However. Lamb said the problems
encountered last year can be solved by a
system he proposed, combining lottery and
persistence.
:-; 'Larrib' said details for the plan have not
been worked out. but he said he thinks the
three major problems can be solved without
resorting to the lottery system.
In Lamb's system, students would not be
allowed to wait in line until a certain number
of hours before the scheduled sign-up. "Dr.
Condie said himself that the average wait last
year was 6 hours." Lamb said. "People who
: missed classes were the exceptions."
To prevent cutting in lines Lamb
suggested increased monitoring of lines.
- Whatever the new system will be. it must
be approved by the beginning of November,
when the Room to Live booklets containing
the housing department contract application
are sent to print.
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