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Volume 85, Issue No. 94
Phillips takes presidency;
Heneghan new CAA chief
By HOWARD TROXLER
' Staff Writer
Jim Phillips defeated Gordon
Cureton in a dramatic finish to the I978
student body presidential elections
Wednesday..
Phillips captured 2,314 votes
compared to Cureton's 2,210, a victory
margin of only 104 votes.
Dan Heneghan is the new president of
the Carolina Athletic Association after
having beaten Pete Mitchell in a runoff.
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Anti-war movement caused
Viet defeat- Westmoreland
By KATHA TREANOR
Staff Writer
U.S. Gen. William Westmoreland urged a UNC.
audience Tuesday night in a speech not to "sweep
the Vietnam War under the rug."
Saying that the American people were their own
worst enemies during the war, Westmoreland
charged that they gave into fear, complacency and
self-indulgence.
Westmoreland's speech, titled "Vietnam in
Perspective As Viewed by the American
Commander, 1964-1968," was part of the Tet
Offensive Symposium sponsored by the
curriculum in peace, war and defense.
Westmoreland received a better welcome at
UNC than in Tallahassee, Fla., last week where
hecklers, opposed to his actions as a U.S.
commander in Vietnam, stopped him from giving
a speech in support of the new Panama Canal
Treaty.
In the speech Tuesday in Hamilton Hall,
Westmoreland focused on the role the American
public played in the outcome of the war and its
aftermath.
His condemnation of anti-war groups who
burned flags, evaded the draft and destroyed
ROTC buildings brought a burst of applause from
the audience of approximately 500 persons.
Westmoreland said the glorified anti-war
movement provided encouragement to the enemy
and was picked up by the North Vietnamese for
propaganda. It contributed nothing, he said, to
bringing an end to the war.
Westmoreland criticized the wartime policy of
exempting college men from the draft. Raising his
voice to drown out the sound of hisses,
Westmoreland termed the exemption
"discrimination" and called the Vietnam War "a
war of the poor."
His face reddening as the heckling continued,
Westmoreland said the army was denied college
educated men and thus had to lower its standards.
The Vietnam war was a "shameful national
blunder," Westmoreland said, adding that the
military, although blamed for the war, was in no
way responsible for United State participation in
it. He said the military was dedicated by
professional oath to uphold presidential
commitments to South Vietnam.
The Vietnam War encompassed six presidents
Officials cite upkeep, utility costs
Dormitory
By ELIZABETH MESSICK
' Staff Writer
Flom falll8 until spring 1972a woman could
live in a single dorm room on a women's hall for
$285 a semester. This year she could live in the
same dorm for $290 but in a double room.
Between 1968 and 1977, room rent in University
housing has been raised six times. Each hike has
been between $10 and $33.
Housing officials expect another rate hike in the
fall this one of about $oO to V5 for the year. I he
system has yet to agree on the definite amouni ol
the increase, said Alan Ward, University housing
business manager.
The first in the series of rent increases came in
1972-73, when the Department of University
Housing was organized as a separate department
with its own operating budget. It was the first time
rent had increased since 1968.
Before 1972. all rents were determined by
whether a hall was a women's, men's or co-ed
dorm.
Rent fur a double room in a women's hall in
19f8 was $190. Kents lor men's and eo-ed halls
were $ 150 per semester lor a double room. Rent in
women's halls was signiluantK higher because
those halls lequued more adinniislialiu' Malt and
security peisonncl.
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Dan Heneghan soundly defeated Pete
Mitchell in the race for Carolina
Athletic Association president.
Heneghan received 2,471 votes to
Mitchell's 1,597.
"I'm just ecstatic," Phillips said after
the votes were counted. "I want to thank
everyone tremendously my campaign
manager, Tom Terrell, who did a super
job, all my friends for their hard work
and long hours and especially all the
people who voted for me."
The lead changed hands several times
as totals for the 20 ballot boxes from
around campus were written on the
blackboard in 209 Manning, where
election results traditionally are
counted.
Cureton led Phillips by 79 votes as
votes were recorded from the final ballot
box Carmichael Auditorium, where
more than 3,000 students waited for
Duke basketball tickets.
But Phillips outdistanced Cureton by
179 votes at the Carmichael box, giving
him the victory.
Cureton called for a recount, but it
showed no significant change in the
totals. ,
Cureton expressed disappointment
with the election results but said that, in
a sense, he won.
"1 thought maybe in the long run I
and nine Congresses, Westmoreland said. The
United States people were enthusiastic about the
war at the start, he said, with President John
Kennedy's inaugural address "still ringing in their
ears."
Kennedy and Johnson increased the nation's
effort in the war, he said. Johnson's strategy, he
said, was to "bomb the enemy until they get the
message that they can't win," and to "hold the
enemy in the South and defeat him."
Westmoreland said the United States could
have gotten out of the war during the Kennedy
administration if the United States and South
Vietnam had shown more unity.
Instead of unity and determination, he said, the
"enemy got a message of political insecurity and
weakness" an attitude on which Hanoi
capitalized.
Charles M. MacDonald, the U.S. Army's
official historian of the war and one of the
respondents to Westmoreland, agreed with the
general's comments. It was unlikely that the
United States could have won the war,
MacDonald said, with the restrictions imposed on
the military by the government and the strong
anti-war movement.
Morton Halperin, former White House and
Defense Department staff member and another
Football players may relocate
to several South Campus dorms
Tar Heel football players will no longer be,
required to live in Ehringhaus Dormitory if a
proposal being studied by athletic and
housing department officials is approved.
UNC Head Football Coach Dick Crum
initiated the effort to allow football players
to live in James, Morrison, Avery and
Teague dormitories, as well as Ehringhaus.
Crum, who left Wednesday afternoon on a
recruiting trip, was not available for
comment.
James O. Cansler, associate vice
chancellor for student affairs, said Crum's
intentions are primarily to make the athletes
more like other students living on South
Campus. Cansler said the proposal is now
being discussed and negotiated and that he
rents increase six times
Men's dorms of the pre-1973 era are
comparable to present Classification I dorms,
which have the fewest amenities and lowest rents.
Co-ed dorm residents paid rent in the middle price
range and are now in Class II. Women's halls in
earlier years paid the highest rents, as do present
Class III dorms.
Rent for a double room in Kenan, which has
always been a women's (Class 111) dorm, has
increased from $190 to $290 per semester in six
years, a 34 percent jump. A single room increased
from $285 to $410.
Double-room rent in Everett, always a men's
dorm, increased from $150 to $250 between 1971
and 1976, a 40 percent increase. Single rooms rose
from $225 to $370.
' Kenan and Everett are cited as examples
because they are representative of women's and
men's dorms respectively. Both dorms have
remained in the same rent and class categories
over the years.
Double-room rent inco-cd dorms climbed from
$150 to S26V an increase ol 43 percent, the largest
ever. Single rooms increased tiom $225 to $385
per semester
lo slow the steady rent lul.es. the Housing
Department has cut Ku k its maintenance and
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Thursday, February 23, 1978,
won, in that it helped make me a better
person," Cureton said. "In some small
way I touched some people and made
them think about themselves and the
direction this campus is headed."
Cureton quoted Theodore Roosevelt
in reacting to his loss: " 'It is not the
critic who counts not the man who
points out where the strong man
stumbled, or where the doer of good
deeds could have done things better.
The credit belongs to the man who was
actually in the arena, who knows the
great enthusiasms, the great defeats;
who spends his time doing things
worthwhile.' "
Cureton said, "I think I was that type
person who was actually in the arena.
So, in the long run, I won."
Phillips praised Cureton after the
final tally and said he-would begin work
in Student Government right away.
"In the next couple of days, we're
going to go out and get people top
notch people to show that Student
Government is more than just an end in
itself that it can represent the students
and do it well," Phillips said.
Tom Terrell, Phillips' campaign
manager, credited the victory to the
soundness'of Phillips' organization and
platform.
William Westmoreland
respondent agreed with Westmoreland that the
United States made a blunder with the Vietnam
War. The South Vietnamese, he said, were not
.willing to fight off the North Vietnamese by
themselves for what they believed was right.
Amid enthusiastic cheering, Halperin objected
to Westmoreland's criticism of the anti-war
movement. The right to dissent, he said, is
expressed in the U.S. Constitution. America must
learn to tolerate political dissent, he said.
hopes an agreement can be reached within a
few days.
Final action will have to be made by next
Tuesday as room contracts for next fall are
due that day.
UNC Director of Athletics Bill Cobey said
that Miami of Ohio, the school that Crum
coached before replacing Bill Dooley last
month, does not have an athletic dorm.
"He has never been around an athletic
dorm," Cobey said. "He took a very close
look at the situation here during his first
month, and he would be more comfortable
without the athletic wing. It's a reflection on
his background. Different people have
different ways of doing things."
- LEE PACE
Perry, University housing operations director.
"We stopped cleaning individual rooms around
1972. Now we only clean public areas. We've
found that hiring students to do some
maintenance jobs is an extremely good program,
but we can't find enough students to fill all the
custodial positions to supply all our needs,"Perry
said.
Business manager Ward said that students who
work part-time for the Housing Department
receive only minimum wage, but that other staff
members receive regular raises.
"Our permanent full-time people are all state
employees on the state salary plan," Ward said.
"If the costs of services and maintenance
remained the same, rents would go up because
we're putting in things like study rooms that
w eren't there before."
Rents in some dorms have increased because of
improvements. Graham and Stacy, men's halls on
Lower Quad, each have benefited from
approximately $70,000 in improvements, which
brought them up to the Classification 111 level.
" 1 itle IX specified that we have to provide equal
facilities for both men and women," Perry said.
" y cock and Rull'in (Classification 1 dorms) were
changed into women's dorms because the make
up of the students that we house haschaneed from
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Jim Phillips (center) and Gordon Cureton (right) congratulate each other Wednesday night on a race well-fought. Phillips
defeated Cureton by 104 votes in the runoff election for student body president. He will assume the post from Bill Moss
(left) after a four-week transition period. Photo by Sheri Parks.
"I think the students listened to the The uncontested winners in theCGC
issues and respected the things Jim had races were: District 5, Del Kiniaw;
to say," Terrell said. District 15, Steve Jacobson; District 17,
Students also voted for Campus Greg Underwood; District 18, Lyndon
Governing Council representatives in Fuller.
seven districts. There was still no majority reached in
With professional productions
WUNC gives experience in TV
By TRACIE CONE
Staff Writer
"Ready cameras on your opening shots,
ready to Q talent, ready to fade in on'camera
one.. ."
Each of the past 10 years the department
of radio, television and motion pictures
(RTVMP) had produced approximately the
same number of television shows on the
UNC campus.
From early productions such as The Boys
in the Band and The Lion in Winter, to the
production last fall of Paul Green's Quare
Medecine, many RTVMP students have
earned their first professional television
experience by serving as the studio crew for
the taping of these productions.
Professor Paul Nickell of the RTVMP
department said the department started
having the productions the second year he
was at UNC because students in the
department wanted more production
experience than what they were getting in the
classroom.
"Working on one of these productions
while still a student gives an idea of what life
is like in a professional studio," Nickell said.
"The crew is working against time and
problems just like in the real world, and
during taping we treat them like
professionals instead of students."
WUNC-TV donates their color facilities
for taping the shows which are seen
statewide on the UNC Television Network.
Richard Settle, lecturer and associate
director of operations in the department,
produced the last three shows. Settle said
that the productions are designed "to extend
the student experience into an actual
production so they can begin to see
differences between the classroom and real
life situations."
Settle said that it is hard for the student to
understand the production process until he
or she has been a part of it.
"There are those who feel that too much
production work makes our department too
much of a trade school," Settle said. "Our
work here is not just hardware, we are
since 1968
predominantly male to predominantly female."
Ward said surplus money from each yearly
budget is used to cover the major repairs and
improvements on residence halls instead of
charging each student for all repairs made during
the summer.
"We are able to work within our budget and
must work within our budget because we get no
money from the state," Perry said. (The Housing
Department is self-supporting.) "We've got a lot of
problems that need to be corrected that we
inherited, like roofs that must be replaced and
vents that need to be placed in bathrooms, as well
as standards that must be met.
"With a rent increase of $60 to $75 a year, some
projects will have to be cut back. There have been
drastic reductions in the amount of furniture we
want to buy. We can't control the cost of utilities
.until a monitoring system is begun for the whole
campus." Perry said that utilities for 1973-74 were less
than $400,000. but that $900,000 has been
budgeted for next year.
"Now maintenance supplies cost as much as
four times as much as they cost in 1973.
Everything that we buy has gone up tremendously.
Anything that relates to petroleum has
quadrupled in puce since I973."
concerned with technique and aesthetics.
You can get monkeys to sit in the studio and
just punch buttons, but to understand why
things are gfJone is what we are concerned
with.
"But we believe that there can be too little
contact with equipment also," Settle,
continued. "And that's one of the reasons we
do these shows."
Working on a production allows students
to apply their classroom knowledge to the
Complications may delay
finish ofOWASA pipeline
By EVELYN SAHR
Staff Writer
Several complications may delay completion
of the Hillsborough pipeline for as long as two
months, Everett Billingsley, executive director of
OWASA, said Wednesday.
According to Billingsley, OWASA received a
request from T.A. Loving, the contractor for the
project, for an extension of the contract period.
The request cited such complications as soil and
weather conditions and the availability of a site for
a booster station as the main reasons for the delay.
"The $1 .2-miIlion pipeline originally was
scheduled to be completed by Feb. 28," Billingsley
said. "Now we are just anxious to get the line
completed by April 30, or else we will have to get
an extension on the grant we are receiving from
the federal government's Emergency Drought
Relief Fund."
Billingsley said that 52,000 feet of the 55,000
foot line have been completed.
The. contract between OWASA and T.A.
Loving contractors includes a $100-per-day
liquidated damages clause to assure that both
parties uphold' their part of the agreement.
Billingsley is presently researching the matter and
has asked T.A. Loving for further justification of
the delay before he decides to recommend that
OWASA invoke the penalty.
"1 want to evaluate all the evidence and see to
what extent the delay was caused by the contractor
and to what extent it was caused by extenuating
circumstances," he said. "After I've looked over all
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Attempt fails
UNC students waiting for Duke basketball tickets Wednesday succeeded in
forming a continuous chain of persons on the floor of Carmichael Auditorium, but
only 3,078 persons were in the chain, and UNC fell short of the Guinness world
record of 3,333 set recently by the Air Force Academy.
"We needed people who weren't waiting for tickets to get in the chain," Bob
Montgomery, a student coordinator said. According to Montgomery, the UNC
effort was also hurt by the fact that around 200 students waited for tickets but
didn't come down and join the chain. Staff photo by Andy James.
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Districts 4, 6 and 19 because there were
three candidates on those ballots.
Elections Board chairperson Bob
Saunders said these districts would have
another runoff to determine the
winners.
professional studio situation.
Janet Clayton, a junior from Timbei lake,
has worked on the last two productions.
"I've become more aware of problems that
can arise in the studio," Clayton said. "1
found out how many months of planning
..and preparation go into a 30-minute TV
show. It's tedious work, but you find out
whether you want to do it for the rest of your
life."
See RTVMP on page 2.
the evidence I'll make a recommendation to the
OWASA Board of Directors, and they'll decide
whether we will hold T.A. Loving to the contract
or not.
"Our primary concern is to get the project
completed. We plan to be reasonable, however, it
is the obligation of both parties to fulfill their side
of the agreement."
The pipeline, which will have a four-million-gallon-a-day
capacity, is being built to supplement
University Lake, previously Chapel Hill's only
source of water. According to OWASA figures,
Chapel Hill consumes about five million gallons of
water per day at peak periods, and University
Lake can supply only about three million gallons a
day.
Billingsley said however, that Chapel Hill will
not use the pipeline when University Lake is full.
"We would not use it (the pipeline) when we
have water flowing over the dam. However, we
know by experience that that is not the case all the
time.
"We have a standing contract with
Hillsborough and can purchase water from them
at any time."
Billingsley also noted that even though the
pipeline has a four-million-gallon-a-day capacity,
the town of Hillsborough will be able to provide
no more than two million gallons a day.
"While the pipeline will provide assistance, it
alone might not be sufficient if we are faced with a
severe drought such as the one we had last
summer," Billingsley said.