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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 85, Issue No. $4 -jj
Wednesday, February 15, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Please call us: S33-C245
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Winter sun ...
...slips slowly into the west, casting such bright rays on University Lake that a
passerby might be tempted to take a plunge or push off in one of these canoes. But
lest we forget, the lake is still very much in the grips of a cold winter. Staff photo by
Allen Jernigan.
Renwick report states UNC needs
central of fiee for minority problems
By RACHEL BROWN
Staff Writer
UNC needs a centralized coordinating office to
deal with the problems of minority and
disadvantaged students, Dean H. B. Renwick,
special assistant to the chancellor, said in a report
released last week.
The report made several recommendations
designed to improve the recruitment of minority
students to UNC.
A committee appointed by Chancellor N.
Ferebee Taylor will study the report to determine
what, if any, action will be taken on the
recommendations.
Dean Renwick reached these conclusions in his
report after visiting several universities in other
states during the 1977 fall semester.
Every campus he visited, he said, agreed that a
centralized office is the only way to solve the
problems of program duplication and to ease the
sociological and psychological adjustments of
minority students to the large university.
In the report, Renwick recommended that all
minority students with a grade point average of 3.0
or better be honored for their achievement by a
special reception this spring. "This would and
should be an annual event," he said.
The reception, according to the report, would
publicize the students' academic achievements and
thus instill in them a sense of self-worth. It also
would encourage others to strive for academic
excellence.
About 135 black and American Indian students
at UNC would be honored at such a reception.
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Renwick also said that publicizing the reception
would counter the beliefs that minority students
are admitted without proper credentials and are
not performing at the same academic level as
others.
Minority counselors, according to the report,
are needed badly in the University Counseling
Center,' which is one of the best counseling
facilities in the country.
Only a small number of minority students
receive help at the center, the report said. These
students feel that none of the individuals
employed there will understand their problems,
according to the report.
The report recommended that an hour of
required laboratory work be added to the three
hour lecture course English W. The lab would be
supervised by reading and writing personnel on
campus now.
English W is a first-semester requirement for all
entering freshmen who scored less than 400 on the
verbal portion of the Scholastic Aptitude Test. It
is designed to improve the reading and writing
skills of students before they enroll in English 1
and 2.
The report also said a re-evaluation of the entire
National Achievement and Project Uplift
programs is necessary. These programs bring
outstanding minority students to campus to show
them around and to encourage them to attend
UNC.
Other recommendations made by the report
include: ,
UNC graduate students could be used to visit
Phencyclidine in
this sugar-like form
often is sold on the
street for THC, the
active ingredient in
marijuana. THC,
however, seldom is
found in this pure
form. Staff photo by
Billy Newman.
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By AMY McRARY
BERNIE RANSBOTTOM
and HOWARD TROXLER
Staff Writer
Widely circulated rumors implicating
presidential candidate Gordon Cureton in a
Student Government payroll controversy are
unsubstantiated, according to Student
Government officials.
Several students contacted by telephone told
the Daily Tar Heel that they had heard rumors
that Cureton is involved in a controversy over
wages paid to former Campus Governing Council
clerk DeVetta Holman.
The DTH telephone inquiries were prompted
by a letter from a James resident who asked about
the rumors.
The rumors allege that Holman, while clerk for
former CGC speaker Cureton, exaggerated the
number of hours she worked during her last two
week pay period as CGC clerk. Cureton, as
speaker, signed Holman's employment records.
Cureton had recommended Holman to the
CGC, and the council approved her as clerk
unanimously.
Cureton said Tuesday that persons hoping to
hurt his campaign might be circulating the
rumors.
Holman said she agreed to resign as clerk and
keep the matter quiet "so that people wouldn't
invent rumors that would hurt Gordon. But they
have anyway."
Student Attorney General Elson Floyd said
Tuesday that his office is not investigating the
matter and has not previously investigated it.
Floyd said no one has filed a complaint
concerning Holman or Cureton.
Holman reported 10 hours worked as clerk
during a CGC meeting on the same night that she
participated in a fraternity-sponsored fashion
show. Holman said that she participated in the
fashion show and that she listed the hours for that
day to be able to reimburse the person who took
her place as clerk at the meeting.
"Julie Fritts (the previous CGC clerk) had told
me that if 1 could not attend a meeting, I was
responsible for finding someone to sit in for me."
institutions across the state to recruit black
students for graduate work at Carolina.
Minority undergraduate admissions
recruiters should make two or three visits in the
fall to areas yielding the largest number of black
student applicants.
. Black students living in surrounding
communities, such as Sanford and Hillsborough,
should be encouraged to enroll in the UNC
Evening College.
Black students should be notified of
acceptance to UNC as quickly as possible.
Dean Renwick recently recommended to the
admissions committee that all in-state and out-of-state
blacks who meet the minimum UNC
admissions requirements be accepted
automatically. The request was turned down.
Dean Samuel R. Williamson, Jr., the committee
chairperson said the UNC Board of Trustees must
approve the recommendation first.
Taylor declined comment on Renwick's report,
saying he will study the matter further after the
committee he appointed has made its
recommendations.
Taylor will meet on Friday with the committee.
This probably will be the first of several meetings
to discuss the report, Renwick said.
Members of the committee are Renwick,
Williamson, Donald A. Boulton, vice chancellor
for student affairs; Richard Cashwell, director of
undergraduate admissions; Christopher C.
Fordham III, vice chancellor for health affairs;
Douglas Hunt, vice chancellor for administration;
Lyle V. Jones, dean of the graduate school; and J.
Charles Morrow, provost of academic affairs.
UNC physician proposes research
Illicit phencyclidine
By ELLIOTT POTTER
Associate Editor
Drugs and personality disorders mark the life of
Daniel Tidmore Brown, a 19-year-old Greensboro
native who is serving a life sentence for the brutal
murder of a 19-year-old college coed.
Descriptions of Brown, a former Greensboro
Grimsley High School football player, vary
among those who knew him when he was free.
Some say he was a quiet, shy person with few
friends. Others say he was a pleasant, interesting
fellow who dated frequenUy.
A Greensboro psychiatrist who examined
Brown testified at his murder trial that Brown
suffered from delusions of being followed. Other
testimony contended that he used marijuana and
alcohol frequently and occasionally experimented
with phencyclidine, a potent drug commonly
referred to as PCP.
Brown said he took PCP the night of a 1976
Christmas party where he met Joanne Bomar, a
liNC-Greensboro student. Though they were
strangers before the party, Brown and Bomar left
together shortly after midnight.
ayroli r
stance, official
Holman said. "1 would then list those hours on my
time sheet and reimburse my replacement from
that money.
"The question arose that maybe someone had
seen me at the fashion show and also knew that 1
had listed working those hours. I figured that
everyone knew what the procedure was, so I didn't
report it to anyone in particular."
Cureton said he had no reason to question the
validity of Holman's time sheets.
"When she gave me her time sheet, I knew she
was putting in the time she had worked, and 1 was
not looking behind her back because 1 respected
and trusted her. I felt she was the type of person
that didn't need anyone looking over her shoulder
making sure she actually worked the hours she
said."
"I don't know whether there was anything
illegal," present CGC Speaker Chip Cox said.
Some housing pacts non-renewable
By ELIZABETH MESSICK
Staff Writer
Nearly half of the men and women currently
living in University housing will not be able to
renew their housing contracts for the 1978-79
academic year, a U niversity official said recently.
Peggy Gibbs, assistant to the director for
housing contracts, said only 1,586 spaces have
been reserved for non-graduating men. That
means that 48 percent of the men currently living
on campus will have to find housing elsewhere
next year.
Gibbs said that 1 ,896 spaces have been reserved
for women returning to UNC next fall, leaving
about 45" percent of the women currently living in
University housing without campus
accomodations next year.
Gibbs said 157 more women and 103 fewer men
than last fall are being readmitted to the dorms
this fall because of efforts by the housing
department to house the same percentages of men
and woman as are "being admitted to the
University as undergraduates.
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Dorm or Stuctent Group Polling Place
Districts 1-6 Graduate students Y-Court, Carolina Union,
Wilson Library
District 7 Granville West, Granville South' Granville Cafeteria
District 8 Granville East Granville Cafeteria
Carr, Spencer, Old East, Old West Y-Court
District 9 Ehringhaus Ehringhaus lobby
Alderman, Kenan, Mclver Mclver
Craige undergraduate students Craige
District 10 Hinton James Hinton James
District II Morrison Morrison
District 12 Avery, Parker, Teague Parker
Whitehead Whitehead
Joyner Joyner
District 13 Alexander, Connor, Winston Connor
Ruffin, Grimes, Manly, Mangum. Ruffin
District 14 Cobb Cobb ,
Stacy, Everett, Lewis, Aycock,
Graham Everett
Districts 15-20 Off campus Scuttlebutt, Wilson Library, Y-
Court, Carolina Union.
Hours later, police found Bomar's battered
body in a thicket in a Greensboro suburb. She had
been bludgeoned 23 times around the head and
face. There was evidence of an unsuccessful
attempt to burn her body.
Authorities arrested Brown Dec. 26 in Danville,
Va., where he was seen hitchhiking nude in below
freezing weather. They found his bloodstained car
near a river several miles away in Caswell County.
Brown pleaded guilty to second-degree murder
on June 27, 1977, At the sentencing hearing, he
told the judge: "I'm extremely sorry about what's
happened. My being sorry won't bring her back. I
don't know why it happened."
One clue to his violent behavior came at the
hearing during the testimony of Dr. Mario Perez
Reyes, a UNC-Chapel Hill psychiatrist who has
studied the effects of drugs on behavior. Perez
Reyes said phencylidine can induce aggressive,
irrational behavior,
The defense's contention that Brown was under
the influence of PCP was challenged by the
prosecution. A test given four days after the
umors have
"That's not my decision. As far as 1 know, DeVetta
did not do anything wrong nor did Gordon. I
think the entire thing is one big
misunderstanding."
Holman was asked to resign as CGC clerk early
this semester by Cox and CGC member Darius
Moss. Cox and Moss contended that Holman was
too expensive to continue as clerk.
"We frankly could not afford DeVetta," Moss
said Monday. "That was my only rationale in
asking for her resignation."
According to Moss and Cox, Holman received
more than S470 for her services as clerk in the fall
semester out of $600 allotted for the position for
the year.
But Todd Albert, student body treasurer, said
he has researched records for 1975 and 1976 and
found no indication that Holman's hours were out
of line with those of previous workers. "DeVetta's
The Office of Undergraduate Admissions
expects between 3,150 and 3,200 freshmen to
enroll for the 1978 fall semester. They expected
2,575 freshmen to enroll in fall 1977, but 3,056
actually enrolled.
Gibbs said 2,585 spaces in University housing
and 500 spaces in Granville Towers are being held
for freshmen. Approximately 150 additional
spaces in University housing and 42 spaces in
Granville Towers are reserved for junior transfer
students.
Gibbs said 300 women and 80 men were closed
out of U niversity dorms at the time of the housing
lottery last year. Six dorms with women's spaces
and 15 dorms with men's spaces did not have
enough returning residents to necessitate a lottery
last year.
Gibbs speculated that fewer residents were
closed out of dorms last year than in earlier years
because more students were afraid of being closed
out by the lottery and found off-camapus
accommodations rather than entering the lottery.
Gibbs explained the process students go
through when they enter the lottery to renew their
'downer not a 'high'
murder snoweu no luces 01 phencycuume u;
Brown's blood.
In an interview six months after the trial, Perez
Reyes said the test was administered too late to be
effective.
Because of his drug-induced actions, Daniel
Tidmore Brown faces a life behind bars. He has
joined the expanding list of victims of PCP, a drug
affectionately known to some as Angel Dust. And
so has Joanne Bomar.
Though no deaths from. PCP have been
reported in North Carolina, the growing populari
ty of the drug has caught the eyes of state law
enforcement officials. Attorney General Rufus
Edmisten.who calls PCP "the king beast of drugs,"
has placed it high in drug-enforcement priorities,
second only to heroin.
Dr. Perez-Reyes, a I'NC associate professor of
psychiatry, came to Chapel Hill from Mexico City
in 1958. He has been conducting extensive ex
periments with marijuana since 1975. testing the
s say
pay checks in the past six months have all been in
line and aroused no questions," Albert said.
Albert said he concluded there was no
wrongdoing on the part of Cureton or Holman.
"That was my conclusion, and that's why I wrote
the check (Holman's final pay check)," Albert
said.
Cox said other CGC members wanted Holman
to resign because they were not satisfied with her
work.
Following Holman's resignation, the CGC
appropriated an additional $175 to the
approximately $80 in the secretarial category Jan.
31. Cox also said he transferred $70 from
his office supply account to the secretarial
account.
The council then hired two new clerks to take
Holman's place.
housing contract or to change dormi.
When a student submits his contract to his.
residence director (by Feb, 28) he receives halfofa
proof-of-submission card signed by his RD. On
the half of the card retained by the RD, the student
lists three dorms, residence colleges Or areas of
campus where he would like to live if he wants to
change dorms.
A lottery for residence hall changes will be held
on March 14. Cards not drawn will be returned to
the student's current residence hall for the general
sign-up drawing on March 17.
If a student is closed out of his dorm in the
general sign-up drawing, his name will be placed
on a central waiting list if he so desirts. On his
contract, he should list up to five "accommodation
preferences" so that if his name is reached on the
waiting list and if a space is available in one of the
areas he has listed, he can be assigned a space.
Gibbs said a student may be as specific or as
general as he prefers when filling out the
preference list. "He can name a hall, a residence
See HOUSING on page 2.
Students to pick
president,editor
in election today
By JACI HUGHES
Staff Writer
Students go to the polls today to chose among
seven presidential candidates, two Daily Tar Heel
editorial candidates and a host of candidates for
other positions.
Bob Saunders, Election Board chairperson,
said he expects a low voter turnout. "Last year
about 5,600 turned out," Saunders said. "I expect
at least 1,000 less this year."
The polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m.
In the race for student body president, students
will chose among Bruce Border, Craig Brown,
Gordon Cureton, Jeff Ellington, Sonya Lewis,
Robert Lyman and Jim Phillips,
U nless one of the candidates receives a majority
of the votes cast, the two leading contenders will
face each other in a run-off election Feb. 22.
"The way things look today I definitely feel
there is a distinct possibility for a run-off election
for student body president," Saunders said.
Lou Bilionis will face Jim Holleman in the DTH
editorship race.
Four candidates will vie for the presidency of
the Carolina Athletic Association; Thomas "Fizz"
Cunningham, Dan Heneghan, Pete Mitchell and
David Watteri.
Two candidates, Don Fox and Don
Honbarrier, are running for president of the
Residence Hall Association.
The 1979 senior class presidency and vice
presidency will also be decided. Three pairs are
running. Seeking the presidency and vice
presidency respectively are, John Totten and
Michael Kennedy, John DeVette and Ernie
Nolan, and Joan Templeton and Linda Love.
See ELECTION on page 2.
effect of pot on the rate of metabolism m human
beings.
Perez-Reyes also is planning a series of ex
periments with PCP. The proposed experiments,
which must be approved by two N.C. Memorial
Hospital committees, will test the effects of PCP
on metabolism and absorption rate.
Perez-Reyes will study the physical effects of the
drugs according to different types of intake, sveh
as snorting, smoking and eating. The
pheycyclidine dosages that will be used in his
proposed experiments will have no psychological
effects on the subjects.
Perez-Reyes says phencyclidine is the most
dangerous drug: "With heroin and LSD, the
problem is usually an overdose, Not so with PCP.
The problems can start with normal quantities."
The problems usually are related to the un
predictable behavior of PCP users. They can
become paranoid or hostile. PCP, a centra!
nervous-system depressant, can induce con
vulsions and cause blood pressure to rise to i level
resulting in a coma 'or, in extreme cases, death.
Stfa PCP on pa;3 g.