Sunny
More sunny weather today,
with the high near 45 and the
low near 32. Tuesday will be
cloudier, with the high in the
upper 40s and a chance of
rain Tuesday afternoon.
Dean of coaches
Tar heel coach Dean Smith,
like all basketball coaches,
makes an interesting subject
for photographers during
games as he coordinates the
efforts of his team. See
photo essay on page 5.
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Phil Ford's 34-point scoring effort wasn't his only contribution
to UNC's 87-83 win over Duke Saturday as he also handed out
five assists. In photo at left he's passing around Duke's John
Harrell. It wasn't all Ford, however. Dunks like the one at right
Upperclassmen await fall
Freshman housing requirement
raises annual 'axe' over students
By TONY MACE
Staff Writer
With the deadline for submitting contracts
for University housing only a day away,
UNC upperclassmen are not the only college
students in the state wondering if they will
have a place to live next year, a survey shows.
UNC is one of the few schools in the state
that guarantees on-campus housing for
freshmen, but it is one of many whose
housing officials complain of having to evict
Deadline is this Tuesday
for fall housing contracts
By ELIZABETH MESSIC K
Staff Writer
Students wishing to live in U niversity
housing next fall must submit housing
applications to their residence directors
by 3 p.m. Tuesday to be eligible to
participate in the housing lottery.
Before an application can be accepted
by an RD, a completed housing
application, accompanied by a $75
prepayment or waiver card, must be
presented to the University cashier. If a
student has no debts, the cashier will
stamp the contract application to verify
that prepayment has been made and
return it to the student. Contracts
should then be submitted to the
appropriate RD.
A full refund of $75 will be made to
Student voting challenged in court
Ten citizens want to stop students from
registering to vote in Orange County.
Superior Court Judge James H. Pou Bailey
will hear their complaints this morning in the
Graham courthouse.
The Orange Committee, a group of
politically active Orange County
Democrats, filed the suit Feb. 16. Lucius
Cheshire is head of the committee asking
Bailey to consider a temporary injunction
halting such registration.
I he suit s.is th.it MUX) to 10.000 ol the
34.402 ci'untv oteis ate not legal icmJcM
upperclassmen who have contributed to
dorm activities in favor of freshmen who
may not feel enough at home to participate
in residence hall activities.
"It's something we've been working on for
years," said Louise Mixon, residence hall
director for Cobb and Joyner dorms. "There
just doesn't seem to be a solution. We have
had several dorm officers closed out."
"With 1,000 people in a dorm like on
students who cancel their contract
before being assigned a space by the
housing department. A student who has
been issued a space but cancels his
contract before June 15 will receive a
$50 refund. A student canceling his
contract on or after June 15 will receive
a $25 refund.
Peggy Gibbs, assistant director for
housing contracts, said that the refund
policy should provide incentive for
students to cancel their contracts early
so that students on the waiting list can
be assured of a space by the contract
office as soon as possible.
Contract deadlines and drawings are
two weeks earlier this year than last.
Gibbs said that deadlines were moved
up to decrease deadline pressure on the
contracts office staff.
of Orange County.
Chapel H ill Alderman Gerry Cohen wants
the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen to
discuss the suit at its regular meeting tonight
at 7:30 p.m. Cohen could not be reached for
comment, but Alderman Bev K aw alec said
the board wants to intervene on behalf of the
defendants.
'This would mean supplying some money
lor an attorney to present arguments on
behalf of the registrars and the hoard of
elections to delend the wa the hae been
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by Mike O'Koren, the rebounding and defense of Jeff Wolf and
the scoring of Al Wood also aided the Heels' cause. Staff
photos by Allen Jernigan.
South Campus, your percentages are a little
better,'' Allen Reep, residence hall director
for Morrison said. "It's just a chance people
take getting info the dorm."
N.C. State University in Raleigh dropped
its on-campus freshman residency
requirement because of chronic growth
pains in each successive freshman class.
"We just couldn't accommodate all of
them any longer," said James Fulghum an
administrator at NCSU's housing contracts
office.
Fulghum said his school reserves 2.000
spaces for freshmen on a first-come, first
served basis. Only returning dorm residents
may apply for the remaining 3.500 spaces.
When more than the maximum of 3,500
residents apply to keep their dorm rooms.
Fulghum said a random lottery determines
who gets a room and who gets on the waiting
list.
Like N.C. State, many UNC students are
closed out of their dorms every year. Almost
400 UNC students were forced to look for
another place to live after being closed out in
the lottery last spring.
The figure represents 10 percent of the
dormitory residents who applied to return to
their rooms, according to Peggy Gibbs,
assistant director of the UNC Department of
University Housing.
Methodist-supported Duke University
sets aside up to 25 percent of its dormitory
space for freshmen each year, said Barbara
Buschman, student, housing coordinator at
the Durham school. She said demand for on
campus housing leads to an annual
scramble, but housing officials have been
able to place all students who applied.
"Sometimes it's been by hook or by crook,
but eventually we get everyone in,"
Buschman said.
Kawalec said she felt that board members
agree on the issue, and that they would act
unless the suit is dismissed.
Since the suit was filed, several persons
have challenged the number of student
voters. Dr. Frederick Russ of the UNC
business school said a survey he conducted
showed only 3,000 students registered to
vote in Orange County.
Cohen has argued that students should be
allowed to vole because they pay the city S2
million in property, sales and franchise
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All-America guard nets career high
as Heels nip Duke, spear ACC title
B (.LNE l PC III R( H
Staff Writer
Phil Ford turned his Saturday swan song
toCarmichael Auditorium into a war chant,
as the senior went on a one-man rampage to
pull Carolina from behind to slip by Duke
87-83 and give the Tar Heels the ACC
regular season championship.
"It feels super." Ford said after directing
rallies which ultimately gave Carolina the
win in which Ford scored a career-high 34
points.
Carolina now has the bye in the ACC
Basketball Tournament which begins
Wednesday in the Greensboro Coliseum.
Thursday at 7 p.m. the Tar Heels will face the
winner of the first-round Wake Forest
Virginia game. The Tar Heels probably will
receive a NCAA at-large playoff bid as a
result of finishing first in the regular season
even if they don't win the tournament this
week.
"Anytime you're ACC champs, it feels
good." Ford said nearly an hour after the
game while drying off from a shower as
several hundred fans waited outside the
locker room for him to appear.
Ford played a spectacular game despite all
the frenzied emotion and pressure of the
game. Not only was the game for the regular
season title (Carolina and Duke had
identical ACC records going into the game)
but the seniors on the team were honored
with a thunderous ovation prior to tipoff.
Ford. Tom Zaliagiris and Geff Crompton
accepted the cheers at midcourt as their
teammates stopped warmups and stood at
the foul line facing the seniors.
Spirits
Sigma
It would have been hard to find a better night for partying than
Saturday night. . ,-
What with the big win over Duke and the sun coming on strong
for the first time in months, it just sent the juices flowing, both
bodily and spiritual.
And the Sigma Chis were lying in wait. The ambush had been set
for weeks with the house's tenth (there is no permanent record)
annual "Sawdust" party scheduled for a post-game bash.
Early Saturday morning the pledges went to work. Some five
truckloads of fire-retardant sawdust were imported to the basement
and piled six to eight inches deep on the floor.
And come 9 p.m. the party was rolling. The brothers were dressed
in boxer shorts and beach shirts and their dates in bikini bottoms
and tee-shirts, many with the inscription "Little Sigma." An
appropriate selection ol dance music beach and disco filled
the basement with the same intensity as the sawdust.
Color, when you could see in the dimly lighted basement, was
plentiful. Jack Sussman. a senior, was a portrait in red. A sombrero
capped an outfit of red-heart boxers and a terrycloth top. all
designed to hide a matching white cast on his arm. A little
misplaced for a beach party were Jim Holland and Margaret
Fulton, who wore matching tuxedo tops.
David Cribbs, former president of the Alpha Tau chapter of
Sigma Chi. did it in the dust for the fourth time Saturday night and
said it was the best Sawdust Party he has witnessed.
As he spoke, his date for the past three parties, Lucia Thomason,
was trying to avoid a bystander's attempt to untie the back of her
tropical sarong. She claimed only the fraternity's "Sweetheart"
party tops this one.
By the end of the night, which came around '3 a.m., several
couples appeared very satisfied nestled down in the sawdust, while
some estranged brothers, feeling the effects of too much potent
Everclom mix, slept soundly in locations scattered around the
house.
But the pledges, with jackhammers pounding away in their,
heads, were up early Sunday morning to clean out the sawdust
and the remaining couples.
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"My friends all told me I'd be crying
before the game, but 1 said 'No way." " Ford
said. "I wanted to feel happy. But when we
walked out there and our teammates just
stood there and everybody was clapping for
us guys, an apple came into my throat and I
couldn't hold it in."
Ford hit two free throws with six seconds
left to cap his performance and ice the win.
The two points put him over his previous
high-point game of 32 points at N.C. State
last year.
"I just wanted to knock them in." Ford
said of the free throws. "I knew ill did, it was
over."
The game was an uphill struggle for
Carolina as it tangled with Duke's very
talented lineup. The Tar Heels fought back
from deficits of 10 points in the first half and
seven points in the second period. Carolina
led briefly at the opening of the second half
but soon dropped to the seven-point deficit
with 12:39 left. The Tar Heels pulled back
behind Ford to tie the game at 5K two
minutes later on a dunk by Mike O'Koren.
who played 34 minutes and scored 14 points
despite an injured ankle which kept him out
of three games. O'Koren was called for a
technical foul (hanging on the rim) and
Duke's Kenny Dennard was called for a foul
after the basket on the same play. O'Koren
hit his free throws and Blue Devil Jim
Spanarkel hit the technical free shots and the
game remained tied. Carolina took the lead
for good with 8:40 to go.
Carolina built six-point leads twice before
going to its four-corner stall but the Blue
Devils cut the lead and could have tied it
again with 26 seconds left, but Spanarkel hit
high, chips fly
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only one free throw in a one-and-one
situation to bring Duke within one point at
X4-83 and Carolina maintained possession
and was fouled down the stretch.
"Duke has improved so much since the
last time we played them," I INC coach Dean
Smith said of his team's 94-82 loss in
Durham.
Smith praised his team, which finished the
league season w ith a 9-3 record, for holding
up under the adversity of injuries and a
tough conference. Ford and O'Koren did not
play Thursday in a loss to N.C. State because
of injuries.
"These guys have really done something."
he said. " I o w in the regular season title this
year was particularly difficult, as hard as any
year 1 can remember. Some people say there
isn't a great team in the league, but there are
seven great teams. F very one keeps beating
each other. The great teams in the past I'm
talking about the David Thompson teams,
our great teams, the Duke teams of the mid
60s they didn't have this kind of
competition. To have w on the regular season
demands a bid to the NCAA if ever one has
been demanded."
The Duke threesome of Spanarkel,
forward Gene Banks and center Mike
Gminski put on a devastating show,
combining for 69 points. Carolina center Jeff
Wolf, forced into the starting spot when
Rich Yonakor went out w ith injuries earlier
in the season, was charged with shutting
down Duke's inside game, particularly that
of Gminski, a candidate for all-conference
honors at center. Wolf blocked three Duke
shot attempts and got an important basket
late in the game when Gminski left him open.
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