Sunny and cold
It will be sunny today with
the high near 30 and the low
in the low teens. Wednesday
will be cloudy with the high
in. the mid-30s. Chance of
precipitation is near zero.
Costell dies
Donald Paul Costell, Kenan
professor emeritus and
former chairperson of the
zoology department, died
Monday at his home in
Woods Hole, Mass. He was
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Serving the students and the University community since IUVJ.
Volume 85, Issue No. BAf 6
Tuesday, February 7, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Please call us: 933-0245
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But be cn your guard
Service sells high quality
low cost items to students
By EVELYN SAIIR
Staff Writer
The Buying Service (TBS), a consumer buying
corporation, recently has been soliciting juniors,
seniors and graduate students to join its
organization by offeringthem free accomodations
at Florida resort hotels.
Dorothy Bernholtz, an attorney in Student
Legal Services said Monday, however, that these
types of free offers should be regarded with
suspicion. She cited a case one and a half years ago
in which students who accepted gift certificates of
this type had no room accommodations when they
arrived in Florida because the company which had
given out the certificates had gone bankrupt.
"While that company one and a half years ago is
totally different from The Buying Service which is
here now, I still feel it is my responsibility to warn
students to bring enough money to cover paying .
for a room just in case the hotel won't honor the
certificate," Bernholtz said.
TBS which has set up headquarters in the
Holiday Inn on the I5-50I bypass, is offeringfree
hotel accommodations to induce students tocome
for a 45-minute sales talk.
"The Buying Service," TBS representative
Frank Panzer says in his talk, "is composed of a
staff of professional buyers who buy products at
lower prices than the consumer normally would."
The products which TBS offers, Panzer says,
include cars, furniture, major appliances, stereos,
televisions, jewelry and clothing and include such
name brands as La-Z-Boy, Electrophonic, Van
Heusen and Westinghouse.
"Depending on the person's income and how
much that individual spends on the type of
products which TBS offers," Panzer said, "we can
save him, conservatively, between 20 and 30
percent a year."
To open a student membership with TBS, which
costs $550 for an initial enrollment fee (instead of
the normal $1,000 enrollment fee) and $26 a year
for annual dues, the student must sign the
membership contract immediately after the
salesman's talk. Also, the student must promise to
write a letter to TBS within one year telling TBS
what he thinks of the service, and he must give
TBS the right to use the letter for promotional
purposes.
Lax local enforcement lets
tokers go to pot in smoke
By STEVE HUETTEL
Staff Writer
As two UNC students light up a joint in their
dorm room, police officers kick in the door with
guns drawn. "I'm afraid you'll have to come with
us," one officer says. ,
Such a situation would be unimaginable in
Chapel Hill, where community attitudes, police
law enforcement priorities and the North Carolina
decriminalization law make enforcement against
pot smokers lax.
"We aren't actively pursuing the individual
user," says Lt. Arthur Summey of the Chapel Hill
Police Department's detective division. "That's
not to say that we couldn't if we wanted to, but if
we did, that's all we'd be doing. There wouldn't be
anybody to tow those cars."
The Chapel Hill police concentrate their efforts
on dealers of marijuana, Summey says. "We're
interested in the selling of almost any amount of
marijuana.
"We haven't had many big hauls recently.
Usually when we catch someone it's with five to 10
pounds when we go into their house with a
warrant."
The UNC Department of Housing says it
informs students of University policy against
marijuana use but does not take action against the
individual smoker unless complaints are reported,
says James Osteen, associate director of Housing
for resident life.
"We don't go around trying to sniff it out,"
Osteen says. "It's not complementary to our role.
To the extent that the resident assistants are aware
of it, we expect them to communicate to students
that University policy prohibits the use or
possession of illicit drugs.
"There have been several complaints when
you aet one roommate who smokes and another
Student surveys to tell campus housing need, availability
By ELIZABETH MESSICK
Staff Writer
Approximately 2,000 randomly-selected UNC
undergraduate, graduate and professional
students will receive a housing survey through the
mail soon.
The survey will provide information to the
Office of Student Affairs, Department of
University Housing and the University Planning
WQDR: Raleigh station alive, doing well
after five years of innovative progranrming
By CAROL HANNER
Staff Writer
"Some people thought WQDR would go the
way of the great white buffalo just disappear,"
says Station Manager David Berry.
But WQDR hasn't disappeared. The Raleigh
FM station, which made a broadcasting
breakthrough with its album-oriented format,
celebrated its fifth anniversary last week.
WQDR now rates second among Triangle radio
stations. First place belongs to its sister station
WPTF-AM. Both are owned by Durham Life
Broadcasting Service.
Five years ago, Berry explains, when Carl
Venter Jr. became president of Durham Life and
general manager of WPTF, he realized that the
FM counterpart was largely unsuccesstul.
"Our FM station wasn't making money, had
few listeners and had no direction in
programming." Berry says. "Carl hired me (in
September 1972) to rearrange the station and
Throughout the sales talk. Panzer explains the
background of TBS and some of the services
which it offers, and notes that because of some of
these services TBS has coined the slogan "loo
Good To Be True."
Panzer says that TBS has been in existence for
nearly 25 years and is rated l-A by Dunn and
Broadstreet, a service which rates the credit and
stability of businesses throughout the country. He
went on to list some of the services which TBS
offers:
A double-the-difference-back-in-cash
guarantee should the buying service price not be
lower than all other discount or regular retail store
prices.
Prompt, efficient and fully insured deliveries
to the member's front door.
Guaranteed factory service and warranties.
While Panzer claims he has signed almost 100
new members in the one week that he has been
soliciting in Chapel Hill, Bernholtz said that
several students already have come to her seeking
advice on how to get out of their contracts and get
their money back.
"I've also been in contact with the brother of a
student who signed a contract with the service last
year and who is now trying to rescind it,"
Bernholtz said. "According to the student, the
salesman last year induced him to sign the contract
through false representations in his sales talk."
Bernholtz explained that according to the N.C.
Uniform Commercial Code, "where there has
been a falsity or misrepresentation that has caused
the buyer to make the purchase an irrevocation of
acceptance can be had by the buyer."
Bernholtz said, however, that it is very difficult
to prove, in many instances, that a
misrepresentation has occurred. As a result, the
student's private attorney has advised him to stop
payment on his contract, and the student now is
waiting to see what TBS will do.
"While we do try to collect on all our past-due
accounts," Panzer said recently, "we have never
sued anybody or taken them to court. We have in
the past just dropped those accounts, although we
don't like to do it and it's not something we want to
advertise."
Panzer noted, t hough, that when a member fails
to pay his account, that usually puts a minus on his
credit record.
who doesn't. We like to take the individual rights
standpoint, but when it comes down to a decision,
the non-smoker is in the legal right."
Osteen says the department receives occasional
reports of dealing in dorms. But "they've all been
unspecific or not panned out to be true," he says.
"If there was a specific complaint I'd check it out
with the RAs, but there haven't been any since 1
began this job last August."
Chapel Hill attorney Steven Bernholtz
estimates that the number of marijuana possession
arrests has dropped 70 percent in the last two years
in Orange County. "I've only had about a half
dozen (marijuana) cases since last August that
gives you an idea of how few marijuana arrests are
being made," he says.
Those who are arrested for possession of one
ounce of marijuana face no more than a $100 fine
for the first offense under the state's
decriminalization law, which has been in effect
since July 1. Previously, the misdemeanor was
punishable by a jail term of no more than six
months or a fine of not more than $500 or both.
Possession of more than an ounce of the drug, .
however, remains to be punishable just as its
manufacture, sale or delivery as a felony with a
jail term of not more than five years or a fine of not
more than $5,000 or both.
A provision in the law, however, does not
classify the transferral of less than five grams as a
felony, provided that no money is given in return.
If the offender is not over 21 years old, the court
may act to remove any criminal record of the
sentence or arrest. The court establishes a period
of probation, and as long as the offender does not
commit any crime during that time all records of
the criminal proceedings are erased or expunged.
"Expunsion is used all the time in the court in
Chapel Hill," Bernholtz says.
Oiuce on the need and availability of housing for
students in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area,
explained James Condie, director of university
housing.
Student responses will be combined with
responses gathered from apartment managers and
owners in a telephone survey and the results of a
study made during fall 1977 by two city and
regional planning students. Chancellor N. Ferebee
Taylor will receive the report March 15.
orient toward the young adult market of IS to 34
years old."
Berry questioned persons on the street and in
record stores in the Triangle area to find out "w hat
people liked and didn't like and what their favorite
songs and albums were.
"What we found was that young adults were
listening to Top 40 but buying albums.
Approximately 80 to 90 percent of contemporary
record sales were albums, but something like 95
percent of radio songs were singles."
With the research and concepts of Lee Abrams
in Detroit, the station was renamed WQDR and
began its system of combining Top 40 singles w ith
top-selling albums.
Since then. 40 other stations around the country
have adopted Abrams' syndicated formula for
programming, and other stalions hae imitated
the style.
"Historically, album stations had tailed because
they had no direction." Berry said "It you
happened to hke mic announcer's tatc. it could he
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Winter's icy fingers continue to decorate the landscape as they cling tightly to area
telephone lines. Winter keeps a firm grip on Chapel Hill, too, with sub-freezing
temperatures forecast. Staff photo by Mike Sneed.
Actively solicit liberal
Peace Corps
By MELINDA STOVALl
Staff Writer
"In the 1960s everyone knew about the
Peace Corps," says Teri Wiggans, a recruiter
with the Peace Corps VISTA who was here
last week. "Now when I go to college
campuses, they ask if it is still around.
"Chapel Hill has been a good experience
for me," Wiggans says. "It is the best school
as far as interest goes. We hardly need to
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one of many who will not be actively pursued by the Chapel Hill Police Department
for using pot at UNC, Staff photo by Mike Sneed.
On the survey each student is asked where he
lives, why he lives there, his housing preferences
and the amount of rent and utility expenses he
pays each month if he lives off campus.
Condie said the report will recommend how to
deal with housing availability and need, but he
indicated that no more dormitories would be built
on campus because of location and building
permit problems.
Condie said 6.620 single students are housed on
the greatest station in the world. If vou didn't, too
bad."
WQDR uses weekly record sales and trade
magazines in addition to Top 40 charts to
determine w hat listeners want to hear.
Berry also said the Triangle area, with its high
education level and universitv communities, is
ideal for WQDR's style.
The trend toward FM radios is helpful, too. he
says. FM-AM radios outsold AM-onlv radios for
the first time in 1977.
Chris Miller. WQDR's program director and an
announcer, says AM stations could profit bv
playing album music, but "they have a
preconceived idea that only singles sell. They are
at raid to change."
Miller, who has been with WQDR all five years,
says people want to hear albums because "albums
are the natural outgrowth of the singles people
listened to back in the '50s and (().
"Alter all. some 6.000 alliums were teleased last
veal." Miller said.
arts majors
Vista recruiters on campus
advertise; the placement office is usually
flooded."
Recruiters will be in I lanes Hall Feb. 7
and 8, and they also will have a table set up in
the Carolina Union Feb. 7 through 9.
Wiggans says the Peace Corps, established
in 1961, peaked in 1966 with the number of
volunteers reaching 15,000. Since then, the
number has dropped to 6,000. She cites a
lack of administrative support from 1970 to
campus and 1.410 in Granville I owers. privately
owned residence halls. Four hundred married
students live in University-owned apartments, and
about 900 students live in fraternity or sorority
houses.
The remaining 1 1,000 students who must find
alternate housing compete with professionals
working at Research Triangle Park, University
personnel, graduates who remain in the Chapel
Hill area and persons who retire in this area.
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Seven candidates vie
for SG presidency
Two to campaign for VTH' editor;
ballots for other races decided
Seven candidates w ill compete for student
body president and two for Daily Tar Heel
editor in the campus election Feb. 15.
Of the 10 announced candidates for
student body president. Bruce Border, Craig
Brown, Gordon Cureton. Jeff Ellington,
Sonya Lewis, Robert Lyman and Jim
Phillips qualified to have their names placed
on the ballot.
Lou Bilionis will lace Jim Holleman in the
editor's race.
Three presidential candidates failed to
qualify. Ken F.dahl, who competed with
Lyman for the Blue Sky Party nomination,
was unsuccessful in that bid and expressed
support for the party's candidate.
Dan Coleman, another candidate for the
presidency, is not eligible to have his name
on the ballot because he did not file his
petition by the 5 p.m. Monday deadline.
The Uncandidate w ill not be on the ballot
because he tailed to file a petition, according
to Bob Saunders, Elections Board
chairperson.
There are four candidates for president of
the Carolina Athletic Association: Thomas
Cunningham, Daniel Heneghan, Pete
1976, adding that the Nixon administration
wanted to phase out the VISTA program.
Because Congress has allocated the
agency more money and because there are
new plans of expansion, she says the agency
plans to step up its national program.
But it is great to find a kid who had heard
about the Peace Corps in the '60s, had it
brewing in the back of his head, and says this
is the time. It is like a seed growing,"
Wiggans says.
Many of the volunteers come to the Peace '
Corps straight out of college or with one or
two years of experience, she says. She says a
good time for college students to apply is
during their senior year, three to nine
months before actual availability.
Wiggans says that in the beginning the
Peace Corps was more technically oriented
and many of the volunteers already had
specific training. "But persons skilled in
specific areas were not the most flexible or
always the best volunteers to fit in the host
country.
"Now we're taking more liberal-arts
majors, and then skill-training them in
specific areas, such as ones with a general
health background who are trained to go
into disease control." She says the corps'
main areas of concern are in education,
home economics, nutrition, mathematics,
science and civil engineering,
As for VISTA (Volunteers in Service to
America), Wiggans says the agency looks
mostly for people who have graduated with
degrees in the social sciences such as history
or sociology. But, she adds, the program,
which has approximately 4.500 volunteers,
needs more nurses and lawyers.
"VISTA is work of a social-service type
where volunteers are sent to low-income
communities," she says. "Volunteers can
become involved in alcohol rehabilitation,
andlord-tenant rights, help lor senior
citizens and legal aid. They are there to guide
the people."
Wiggans, originally from Indiana, was in
the Peace Corps in Zaire from 1973 to 1975.
She taught English as a foreign language at a
secondary girls' school.
"I thought I would be living in a hut
situation with no electricity," she says. "I was
soexcitedthat I would be living in something
different.
"But when I was assigned to my post, 1 was
surprised. It was a gorgeous town with a
sewage system and electricity." A copper
industry located nearby accounted for the
higher standards of living, she says.
In her role as a recruiter, Wiggans sees
herself as a type of counselor. "Not everyone
would be interested in becoming a Peace
Corps or VISTA volunteer," she says. "1
have interviews geared to the program, but 1
didn't try to recruit everyone that stops by."
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Mitchell and David Walters.
In the race for president of the Residence
Hall Association, Don Fox w ill run against
Don Honbarrier.
Mark Adams will run unopposed for
president of the Graduate and Professional
Student Federation.
Three tickets will compete for senior class
officers. Seeking the presidential and vice
presidential positions are, respectively, John
Totten and Michael Kennedy, John De
Vetteand Ernie Nolen, and JoanTempleton
and Linda Love.
The following will seek Campus
Governing Council seats: District I, Bruce
Tindall; 2, Michael Freeman; 3, Melissa
Walker; 4, 5 and 6, no candidates (write in);
7, Joseph Newton; 8, R. Glenn Cutler; 9,
Rhonda Black; 10. At Godwin; 11, Jimmy
Evcrhart, Gary Mason; 12, Mark Mann; 13,
Tom Buske, Michael Davis, Meg Milroy; 14,
Dob Long, Clay Shugart; 15, Chris Capel;'
16, Debbie Weston, Walter Shroeder; 17,
Steve Jacobs; 18. Charles Carpenter,
Lyndon Fuller; 19, no candidates (write in);
20, Randall Williams.
- JACT HUGHES
COUNTDOWN
Physics department invites potential majors
to 242 Phillips where Dr. Dee will answer
questions.
American studies open house in 221
Greenlaw from 2 to 4 p.m. American
studies faculty and advisers will be present.
History department presentation, "Why
major in history?" at 8 p.m. in the Dialectic
Chamber in New West. Speakers are
Samuel R. Williamson, dean of thcCollegc
of Arts and Sciences; Jane Kendall of
Career Planning and Placement; Edward S.
Orgain, junior vice president of Allenton
. . Realty Co. in Durham; Brent Glass of the
State Division of Archives and History;
and Leah Bartgiss and Marshall Bullock,
UNC history majors.
Botany department tour at 4 p.m. Meet at
the mailboxes in front of Coker Hall.
Students also arc invited to visit the
undergraduate botany adviser from noon
to 5 p.m. in 309 Coker. Botany 10 classes
are open to visitors at 9:30 a.m. in 201
Coker,
Biology department curriculum adviser
invites prospective majors to visit in 312
Coker. Students should consult individual
professors about attending classes.
Geology department movie at 7:30 p.m.
Refreshments will be served. For more
details, call 933-1211.
ChemlBtry department speeches on options.
possibilities and prospects in the field. Dr.
Jamigan will speak on AB-BS options at 8
a.m. in 100 Hamilton Hall during Dr.
Jicha's Chem 21 class. Dr. Eliel will speak
at 9:30 a.m. during his Chem 62 class.
Math department advisers available to
answer questions at the following times:
Gross from 10:45 to 1 1:30 a.m. in PH 376;
Karel from 2 to 3 p.m. in PH 388; Peterson
from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in PH 300A; and Mann
from 2 to 3 p.m. in PH 388.
Air Force ROTC open house at 7:30 p.m. in
Lenoir Hall for anyone interested in Air
Force opportunities.
Career Planning and Placement drop-in
career counseling from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
weekdays through Feb. 13 in Hanes Hall.
University Counseling Center walk-in
hours from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. weekdays
through Feb. 13 in Nash Hall.
Dorm rents expected
to increase next fall
at least $60 a year
By ELIZABETH MESSICK
Staff Writer
University housing officials expect a rent
increase of at least $60 per year beginning in the
fall, 1978, but they are unable to predict the exact
rate hike yet.
"I hope we will have something definite to say
pretty soon," said Alan Ward, assistant director
for business affairs. "But right now we're talking
about ballpark figures of $60 to $75 a year. We
would like to have an official announcement
soon."
Ward said he didn't know whether the rent
increase would be uniform or based on a
percentage of the present rent for dorms.
University-owned dorms are divided into three
rent classifications with rents ranging from $245 to
$285 per semester.
'There is a need to balance the difference
between halls," Ward said. "If there is a uniform
rent increase, there would be a smaller increase
percentagew ise for upper class (Classification 111)
halls but a greater increase for lower class halls,"
Ward said a rent increase is necessary because of
the rising cost ol supplies and materials used for
dorm maintenance, increasing utility costs and
rising salaries of full- and pan-time stall members.
Rent collected bv the housing department pavs
lor most housing expenses. "We're considered an
au.viliarv service and are selt-suppotting," Ward
said.
Vv.ud said the increase in rents will be
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