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Chance of rain There is a 20 per cent chance of rain on Friday, with highs in the 60s. Today will be sunny with highs in the mid to upper 60s; the low tonight will be in the mid 40s. Deposit deadline To obtain campus housing for next year, students must pay the $75 deposit to the University Cashier no later than 3:30 p.m. today. Contract and submission cards must be turned in before 6 p.m. today. Please call us: 933-0245 V6 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Thursday, March 17, 1977, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Volume No. 84, Issue No. 113 MIAN - 9T! -I Department to enforce prerequisites By BARRY SMITH Staff Writer The UNC business school may begin enforcing course prerequisite requirements in order to hold down enrollment in business courses, according to Harvey Wagnor, dean of . the school. A prerequisite-enforcement proposal will be presented to the business-school faculty at their next meeting March 23. If approved by the faculty, the policy would take effect in the fall. Wagnor said existing prerequisite requirements would be enforced under the proposal. No changes in existing, policies are planned, he said. "We haven't been enforcing prerequisites that exist now," said Gary Armstrong, chairperson of the school's undergraduate program committee. There is a need to enforce the prerequisite requirements because business classes are crowded, Armstrong said. Business school resources are stretched so thin now, he said, that if restrictions are not enforced, the quality of education will suffer. "We aren't closing the doors to nonbusiness students," Armstrong said. Students planning to enter the business school must take Math 22, Statistics 23, Political Science 41, Business Administration 24, 71 and either 72 or 73 and Economics 3 1 and 32 during General College, in addition to other General College requirements. Any restrictions added will not be applied to the students currently taking business courses in order to complete requirements in the industrial-relations program and the advertising sequence of the journalism school, Armstrong said. Wagnor said there is no direct way to restrict enrollment in the business school, but that by enforcing the prerequisite policy, some students may not be able to enroll in the business school. Approximately 60 professors teach in the business school. Approximately 1,400 undergraduate students are majoring in business administration. Major changes in the undergraduate business administration program may occur next fall. "Next year we're going to undertake a complete review of the undergraduate program," Wagnor said. r- - v - I I z f - ; y ' " t ?-7 ' ' - ' J " - ' - - I T ;,7 4 U X I' 7 i r4 7721- y Sr ' - : " ---7 . 5 I A, A ' , "," " ' f" ' - ,4H', Z, i "'Zf Taking someone's blood pressure may seem easy, but it's only a small part of the knowledge needed by those pursuing a medical career. Years of intense study needed for a sound Staff photo by Rouse Wilson . medical background are coupled with tough pressures and numerous demands. Potential physicians dissuaded by rigors of fierce competition By VERNON MAYS Staff Writer The fierce academic competition that follows most pre-med students through their undergraduate careers convinces many that a medical career just isn't worth the trouble. But for those who can make the grade and get into a reputable med school, the prospect of pursuing such a career can still be bleak. Despite the high salaries that generally come with being a doctor, the profession carries with it a number of discouraging features. Take, for example, the case of the 20-year-old UNC junior who has had his eye on med school ever since his high school days. For his protection from admissions officials who may read this and hold his statements against him, let us call him Joel. Joel is a Johnston scholar, carries a 3.8 grade average and does volunteer work that would most likely impress admissions boards enough to win him a spot in a good med school. But he is not sure he wants to be accepted. Joel has been talking to doctors, interns and med school students about what might be in store for him as a physician. "1 haven't talked to anyone who said it was a good field to go into," he said. "Nobody offers encouragement." Joel said one third-year med student warned him, "Even if you get accepted, sit down first and make sure you're willing to sacrifice for it." Another student complained that he will have invested $40,000 in his education by the end of med school and will have to invest another substantial amount to set up a practice. "The fact of having borrowed money puts a lot of pressure on you to stay in medicine, even if you want to get out, just so you can make enough money to pay off your debts," Joel said. "In my situation, I don't know if 1 can handle the pressure." Joel has worked part-time in the emergency room of North Carolina Memorial Hospital and admits that "seeing the pain still bothers me." As an alternative, he is considering dental school. "The dental students are not as disillusioned," he said. A UNC med school admissions official, who asked not to be named, said he would advise potential med school students that their "social life and family life may indeed suffer." "The suicide rate among physicians is higher than among the general population," he added. Figures in the June 1975 Southern Medical Journal support his statement. From 1967 through 1972, white men in the U.S. over age 25 had a suicide rate of 34 per 100,000 population; male physicians of the same age had a rate of approximately 38 per 100,000. The suicide rate for female physicians over 25 was reported as 41 per 1 00,000, more than four times the rate for U.S. females of the same age. "The current rate of suicide among American physicians removes from society each year a number equal to that of an average medical school graduating class," the article states. The author of an article in the January 1976 Journal of Nervous and Mental Disorders, however, wrote: "1 fail to see any Please turn to page 2. Bill passes to forbid concert ticket scalping By JEFF COLLINS Staff Writer North Carolina's prohibition of ticket scalping used to apply only to athletic events, but the General Assembly passed a bill in February which broadened the prohibition to include concerts. The bill was initiated by Sen. James Doyle McDuffie, D-Charlotte, and was passed by the Senate on Feb. 15. McDuffie explained that the old scalping laws, which were directed only at athletic events have been on the books since the 1940s. "The rise in popularity of musical events in recent years made the new legislation necessary," he said. "If we didn't have the law, we would have people acquiring tickets for the sole purpose of resale," he added. According to McDuffie, there are at least three reasons, other than consumer protection, for the ban against ticket scalping. First, the building rent paid by promoters for use of public buildings such as the Greensboro Coliseum is based on a percentage of total gate sales. Profits made by scalpers go unreported, and the state loses its share of this illicit revenue. "None of these buildings are self sufficient," McDuffie added. "Taxpayers make up the deficits." A second reason for the scalping ban is that scalpers do not possess licenses to sell tickets and do not report this source of income for tax purposes. "Also, organized crime does get into ticket scalping," McDuffie said. He cited a study by Sen. Henson Barnes, D-Goldsboro, which showed that scalping is a multi million dollar business for organized crime in New York. "A criminal organization can afford to pay off the building manager, who then makes a little on the side for the extra tickets," McDuffie said. He said criticism of the scalping ban concerning the new bill's obstruction of free enterprise is ill conceived. "If it snowed in your hometown, and your corner store all of a sudden doubled the price of snow tires, you could put them out of business if everyone went to another store," McDuffie said. "That's free enterprise. The ticket scalper is a fast-buck operator who destroys the free enterprise system because there is no one else to buy from." Local ticket sales for two upcoming concerts do not indicate that scalping will be a problem this weekend, according to downtown Record Bar manager Joe Deese. Fleetwood Mac will perform in Greensboro Saturday night, and Santana is slated to appear in Durham Friday evening. "I haven't had anyone buy a large number of tickets for the Fleetwood Mac concert," Deese said. "For the Santana concert, I had one large sale for 20 tickets." open meetingj or law racu ty By JEFF COHEN Staff Writer The N.C. Court of Appeals Wednesday upheld a lower court ruling that required UNC law school faculty meetings to be open to the public. The original suit, filed in April, 1976, stemmed from a Feb. 27, 1976 meeting of the law school faculty where the public was turned away by Robert G. Byrd, law school dean. The suit was filed by a group of UNC law students who argued that the school was covered by a N.C. statute prohibiting governmental bodies from meeting in private. According to the statute, the law will "allow the public to view the decision making process at all stages. Byrd said he did not believe the statute applied to faculty meetings. He explained that the faculty needs the right to meet privately in order to discuss confidential matters. "When the faculty meets to discuss students who have petitioned the law school for admission, such a discussion need not be aired in front of those students," he said. Byrd also said that the decision would cause problems when the faculty had to decide whether a professor should be rehired. "The faculty should not have to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of a professor in front of that particular professor." He further argued that problems would arise when students who were having trouble in law school for personal reasons had to come before a committee of faculty members to explain, the problem. "It is demeaning to have to do that publicly," Byrd said. "Also, it may violate the Educational Privacy Act." The law school may now appeal the decision to the N.C. Supreme Court. t Byrd said he did not know whether the decision would be appealed, explaining that he would have a better idea after reading the court's opinion and conferring with both the faculty and Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor. On June 4, 1976, Superior Court Judge Edwin S. Preston Jr. ruled that the N.C. statute in question was applicable to the UNC law school faculty. Judge Preston reasoned that the law school faculty was a governing body, citing its authority to make a number of governmental policy decisions, including the establishment of curriculum, scholastic standards, admission requirements and law school size. "The faculty of the school of law of UNC almost fully controls the education of prospective and future attorneys who attend the school of law as law students," the court said in its June decision. Local residents plan corporation to open quarry By LINDA MORRIS Staff Writer A group of UNC students and local townspeople are working on plans to form a nonprofit corporation to reopen the swimming and diving area at the American Stone Co. quarry near Pittsboro. Spearheaded by UNC law students Larry Epstein and Dennis Lorance, the groupVof approximately 10 people has run into some financial and organizational problems. Lorance said they were having difficulty finding persons who would serve as lifeguards and security or clean-up workers. "People are interested in seeing the quarry area reopened, but there is no interest in taking any responsibility," Lorance said. The quarry lake was closed to the general public July 26, 1976, when complaints from local residents forced the stone company to begin enforcing trespassing laws at the site. Thirty arrests were made during the first day of enforcement. American Stone Co. President Richard Batum expressed interest at that time in .reopening the quarry if some method could be found to police and maintain the area and insure that the stone company would not be liable for injuries to swimmers. Epstein said Wednesday that an attorney had been contacted who was working on setting up a nonprofit recreational corporation that could negotiate an insurance policy to take responsibility for the swimmers and the quarry area. The group is seeking monetary support through donations from people interested in Please turn to page 3. gf o cousin ?r i r I i zsr " K - I :5I O $6.50 :f'$?s & & f .C . 1977 AC rr TZt'H&l Staff phofo by Rouse Wilson A bill passed by the General Assembly in February may eliminate the existence of ticket scalpers. MP fipe Arts Festival Thursday 10 a.m. Trilogy mime troupe Pit and Y-Court 1:30 p.m. Martha Wilson's Information Desk, performance art Carolina Union 2 p.m. Burroughs, Ginsberg Bull's Head Bookshop and Orlovsky sign books Student Stores 2:30 p.m. Michael Smith's comedy Great Hall, Carolina Union 2:30 p.m. Matt Mullican's workshop 209 Carolina Union 4 p.m. Michael Harvey's films - Great Hall and videotapes Carolina Union 7 p.m. Jim Roche's art lecture Carroll Hall Auditorium 8 p.m. Burroughs, Ginsberg and Memorial Hall Orlovsky poetryprose Friday 11 a.m. William Burroughs' 202-204 Student Union discussion noon Carolina Clowns various sites on campus 1 p.m. Michael Smith's comedy Great Hall, Carolina Union 2 p.m. Allen Ginsberg discussion 202-204 Carolina Union 2:30 p.m. Martha Wilson's . N.C. Memorial performance art Hospital Cafeteria 2:30 p.m. Matt Mullican discussion 207 Carolina Union 3:30 p.m. workshop for artists 202-204 Carolina Union 3:30 p.m. Jim Roche dialogue Great Hall, Carolina Union 4:30 p.m. Michael Harvey's films Room IA, Swain Hall and videotapes 5 p.m. Lee Baxandall lecture Ackland Art Center Auditorium 8 p.m. Concord String Quartet Memorial Hall olloquium speakers: oi politics By MERTON VANCE Staff Writer "The one message I want to get across is that there is no free lunch. There is no easy way out." The speaker was James V. Knight, vice president of the Washington office of the Arab-American Oil Co. (ARAM CO). The subject was oil and its impact on politics. Knight was speaking at a panel discussion of oil politics sponsored by the International Affairs Colloquium.. Joining him on the panel were William Dale, former U.S. Ambassador to Israel, Edward Azar, a UNC political science professor, and Herbert Bodman, a UNC history professor. Last year, Knight said, the United States imported more than half of its oil, and 21 per cent of the country's total oil supplies came from Saudi Arabia, where Knight lived and worked for more than 20 years. "U.S. dependence on foreign oil is growing, and at least for the short term, until alternate sources of energy are developed, dependence on foreign, oil will continue. And Saudi Arabia is the largest foreign supplier," Knight said. Because of these facts. Knight said the United States needs to maintain close ties with Saudia Arabia. Ties between the two countries have been relatively good, largely because of American oil interests there, which began with Saudi oil concessions to the United States beginning in 1933, Knight said. Those oil concessions led to a consortium between four oil companies Chevron, Texaco, Exxon and Mobil which worked with the Saudi government to form ARAMCO. The Saudi government now owns approximately 60 per cent of ARAMCO and is in the process of nationalizing the firm by buying out the holdings of the oil companies. Knight said the United States might jeopardize its access to oil if it enacts punitive antiboycott legislation against the Saudi Arabians and other Arab nations. He doubts that there will be an Arab oil boycott like the one in 1973 unless another another war breaks out in the Middle East. Azar, who formerly worked for ARAMCO, said that the Western world probably is more prepared for an embargo now and would not be so likely to be caught off guard as it was during the 1973 Middle East war. The panel also discussed concerns over possible economic problems which might arise because of oil. Bodman said that many Arab nations have been borrowing money from American banks to finance oil exploration. He said he fears that the United States might have economic problems is the Arabs default on these loans. , Bodman echoed the concerns of Arthur Burns, chairperson of the Federal Reserve Board, who last week said he was worried about the size and number of United States loans to foreign countries. Those loans are increasing at a rate of about 20 per cent per year. Dale said Americans have been reluctant to accept Arab investments in the United States, but he suggested that Arab investments here might be helpful. He argued that the United States historically has accepted foreign money, and he cited examples of 1?, Staff photo by Route WHsofi ARAMCO Vice-President James V. Knight discusses, the relationship between oil and politics at the International Affairs Colloquium. Dutch, French and British money which helped finance development of railroads and industry in the United States in the 19th century. If the Arabs had investments in the United States, Dale said the Arabs would be more reluctant to raise their oil prices exorbitantly or to cut off the oil supply because such actions would hurt the American economy and thus hurt Arab investments here.
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