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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 83, Issue Uo.fifl J
Friday, November. 10, 1978, Chapel Hill North Carolina
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Party time
If you've found there's not a
lot of action this weekend,
check the story on dorm
parties on page 4 and the
partying guide in
'Weekender for suggestions.
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Please call us: 933-0245
hall
Basket
tickets to go
on sale soon
Sign-up sheets for Atlantic Coast
Conference Basketball Tournament
tickets will be available beginning
Tuesday, Nov. 14. Sign-ups will run
through Thursday, Nov. 16.
Sign-up locations are: Tuesday,
1 1 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the Law School
and 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Carolina
Union; Wednesday, 11 a.m. to 3
p.m., at the Medical School cafeteria
and, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Carolina
Union and Thursday, 9 a.m. to 5
p.m., at the Campus Y Court and the
Carolina Union.
Students must have their athletic
passes and IDs to sign up for tickets.
Students wishing to sit together must
sign up together.
A drawing will be held at the Wake
Forest basketball game Jan. 25 to
determine those students eligible to
purchase tickets. Students must sign
up to be eligible -for the drawing.
For further information, contact
Van Vogel, coordinator for ACC
ticket distribution, at 967-1260.
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Veterans Day
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Members Lof Air Force and: Navy. ROTC units on Day was . formerly called Armistice . Day, and
campus stand at attention during Veterans Day celebrated the end of World War I. The day,
ceremonies Thursday at Polk Place. Townsend traditionally celebrated on Nov. 11, was later
Ludington, associate professor of English, gave a changed to Veterans Day and so named to honor
short speech commemorating the event. Veterans veterans of all wars.
Carter signs bill to ease U.S. tax burden
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) President Carter,
explaining publicly for the first time why he signed the
$18.7 billion tax cut bill, said Thursday he wanted to
make sure Americans will not be saddled with huge tax
increases at the beginning of next year.
"We did the best we could in the last few days, the last
few hours" of the 95th Congress, the president said at a
nationally broadcast news conference. Carter signed the
bill Monday night.
On another matter. Carter said any peace agreement
between Egypt and Israel should be linked to overall
negotiations for a Middle East peace, particularly the
status of Palestinians on the West Bank of the Jordan
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And he said that although the Democrats lost some
key races in Tuesday's elections, he believes the party did
fairly well across the nation.
Later, in a speech before the Future Farmers of
America, Carter avoided any mention of administration
farm policy. Instead, he lectured the young people on
their role as future leaders and told them that "fear of
failure is one of the greatest obstacles to progress."
At his news conference, the president was asked why
he signed the tax bill, which did not include many of the
proposals the administration had sought earlier.
"In balance, it was acceptable. It was necessary,"
Julian Mond
Carter said of the measure, which differed substantially
from that initially proposed by the administration.
The president said the measure would actually save
$13 billion in increased taxes that would have been
imposed with expiration of previously enacted tax-cut
legislation.
Carter said he wanted to make sure that "people will
not be saddled wittr$20 billion to $30 billion in increased
taxes at the beginning of next year."
Speaking to reporters in the heart of the nation's farm
belt, Carter also said he has no intention of seeking a
change in legislation that will raise Social Security taxes
: by more than $300 a person in some cases next year.
"I have no present plans to advocate a substantial
change in the present legislation," the president said,
even though some of his advisers have said publicly they
would like to see a deferral of some of the hikes now
scheduled to take effect Jan. 1.
If the Social Security payroll taxes were reduced,
some of the money for payments to retired persons
would have to come from general Treasury revenues.
Carter said.
Carter was asked whether, despite his drive to cut
federal spending, he will recommend increases in defense
spending while cutting back on social programs in the
fiscal 1980 budget under preparation.
Without mentioning specific figures, the president
said final decisions will not be made until next month
but added that he is committed to increasing NATO's
portion of the defense budget by 3 percent.
"There is no way I can cut down on the ability of our
nation to defend itself," Carter said. "Our security
obviously comes first."
He said the nation would meet its commitments to
increased financing for NATO, but at the same time
would meet the goal he outlined in his anti-inflation
program of reducing the federal budget deficit to below
$30 billion.
Turning to the Mideast negotiations. Carter said the
question of linkingthe Israeli-Egyptian peace agreement
to a treaty on the future of the West Bank and the Gaza
Strip is a matter for negotiation.
The president said the neither he, Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin nor Egyptian President
Anwar Sadat ever doubted that the Egyptian-Israeli
peace talks were intended to lead to a solution of the
West Bank and Gaza questions.
The statement placed Carter in agreement with
Sadat's position. Begin has sought to separate the
agreement being negotiated in Washington from other
Middle East issues.
By TONY MACE
Staff Writer
The Committee .on Educational
Planning, Policies and Programs of the
UNC Board of Governors unanimously
rejected Thursday a request from the
state's private colleges for a $200 increase
in state aid to North Carolina residents
attending private schools.
William Johnson, chairperson of the
Board of Governors, said he expects the
full board to agree with the committee's
recommendation to maintain state
assistance at current levels of $600 per
student.
"I'm disappointed," said James Oliver,
executive" director of the North Carolina
'Association of Independent Colleges and
Universities. "I don't mean to prejudge
the decision of the full board. But
obviously we're going to need to go to the
legislature with this request.
"1 think there's a good deal of support
for the assistance programs in the
legislature," Oliver said. "Our requests
have been minimal. Historically the
"Board of- Governors "has ; "taken "the
position of rejecting our requests or
recommending lower levels of assistance,
but the legislature has accepted the
request of the . private colleges for
increasing aid."
Planning committee members charged
a lack of accountability on the part of the
private schools in the use of state monies.
"I don't think we can increase our levels
of support without insisting on increased
accountability for the use of those funds,"
said committee member Mrs. George
Wilson.
Oliver countered Wilson's claim
saying approbated funds are accounted
for. "Every dollar that is not spent for the
explicit, purpose of student assistance is
returned to state coffers," he said. "
The association of private colleges
also requested adoption of a principle
whereby the state would support
undergraduates attending private
colleges at up to half the average amount
the state spends per undergraduate
attending one of the 16 schools in the
University system.
State law requires all requests for
increases in state aid to private
institutions of higher education be
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William Johnson
submitted to the Board of Governors for
review and recommendation before
presentation Tofne General-Assembly.
The legislature is not bound by the
board's recommendation.
In other action, the planning
committee heard length testimony from"
Nova University witnesses on a request
by the. Florida-based school for licenses
to grant graduate-level degrees in North
Carolina. . -
On the basis of a report submitted by
an independent team of investigators,
UNC President William C. Friday
requested that Nova be denied such a
license.
Nova officials agreed Thursday not to
institute any new programs in North
Carolina pending a decision by the
committee within 90 days on the school's
license requestV " "
Andrew. Vanore, senior deputy state
attorney general, agreed last year to
permit Nova to continue offering two
degree programs pending action on the
license request by the Board of
Governors.
Following Vanore's decision, the UNC
General Administration learned that
Nova had instituted a third doctoral
program without license in Lincolnton,
enrolling 16 students.
to deliver
Weil lecture
By MARTHA WAGGONER
Staff Writer
Julian Bond, civil rights activist and
Georgia state senator, will speak at 8 p.m.
Monday in Memorial Hall.
Bond, who was elected to the Georgia
House of Representatives in 1965, and
was barred from his seat until 1967, will
speak on "A View of American
Citizenship."
The speech is the 1978-79 Weil Lecture
on American Citizenship. The lecture was
first presented in 1915 and sponsored by
the Weil family of Goldsboro. Past Weil
lecturers have included President
William Howard Taft, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Commerce Secretary Juanita
Kreps and former CBS correspondent
Daniel Schorr. The Bond lecture was,
arranged by the Chancellor's Committee
on Established Lectures.
Bond was barred from his seat in the
Georgia House of Representatives by
legislators who objected to his stand on
the Vietnam War. He won two special
elections in 1966, but did not take his seat
until 1967 when the U.S. Supreme Court
ruled he was to be seated. He served four
terms in the House and was elected to the
state Senate in" 1974.
Bond was active in the civil rights
movement of the 1 960s and was one of the
founders of the Student Non-Violent
Coordinating Committee. In 1968 he was
nominated for vice president by Senator
Eugene McCarthy, but withdrew his
name from the ticket because, at 28, he
was too young to run.
Bond is considered a leader of new
politics, a movement that began in the
1960s with the purpose of bringing new
people and new ideas into politics.
"The new politics is suddenly in
vogue," Bond has said. "With an aroused
and cynical electorate sweeping old faces
out and new faces in during the post
Watergate elections of 1974 and 1976, it
became expedient for campaigners to ally
themselves with the fresh faces and new
ideas of a movement that has been
gaining credibility since the 1960s."
The lecture is free and will be followed ,
by a public reception in the Old Well
Room of the Carolina Inn.
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Diverse programming
By SUDIE TAYLOR
Staff Writer
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Beula Collins has been making people laugh for more
than 20 years. It's her job.
Collins, a resident of Chapel Hill, is the syndicated
writer of "Today's Chuckle" one-liners which appear
daily in more than 300 newspapers across the country.
Collins says her late husband Thomas began the
chuckle column after World War II while a reporter at
the Chicago Daily News. "The war news was so bad, the
editors thought they needed a bright spot to counteract
the grim," she recalls.
"He was a good storyteller," Collins says about her
husband, "but he never laughed. 1 had to laugh. 1 was
constantly running up the stairs to show him the latest
chuckle I'd come across."
Collins took over as chief chuckler in 1955 and has
continued pecking out the column ever since on a near-
antique Underwood typewriter. She admits, though,
that she borrows a good deal of her material. "1 don't
make it all up. Everyone used to think I did, but 1 do
have my sources." She declined to reveal them but did
say that little of her joke material comes from friends,
relatives or readers.
"It's hard for a reader to make me laugh," she says.
"Most of the readers jokes sound like ones from Bob
Hope or Steve Martin." She also receives anecdotes
from boasting grandmothers. "Most of them are in baby
talk and usually end with the line, 'you'd havelo have
been there.' "
Her own taste in comedy includes Erma Bombeck,
Steve Martin "sometimes" and Saturday - Night
Live "when its not too crude."
The chuckles, hundreds of them, are filed away in the
writer's Chapel Hill home and are aimed at the post
college age group. "They're filed away by dates, but
occasionally one turns up again that I didn't mean to,"
she explains.
Each week Collins sends out a copy sheet of eight
chuckles to the Los Angeles Times for syndication. The
copy sheet is usually five weeks ahead of the release date.
"I try to keep it as routine as possible. It's very important
to stay on schedule," she says.
Collins arranges the chuckles to appear on certain
days. "Office jokes are always better on Mondays,
paychecks jokes are better on Fridays, and golf and
tennis jokes are for Saturdays." But holidays have posed
"a problem" for "The "columnist: ""I could ' never decide
whether to make chuckles go with holidays or without
them."
Besides "Today's Chuckle" and "Weekend Chuckles,"
which are longer anecdotes, Collins writes serious
columns aimed at older adults, "Golden Years," a
weekly essay on retirement, and "Senior Forum," a
question and answer column. "I try to translate the
Social Security laws to a personal level," she comments.
Campus radio tries to draw audience
By MELANIE SILL
Staff Writer
A Christian rock show. A progressive country
music show. Two jazz programs every week.
Syndicated and local news reports. And no
commercials. Can any radio station put together all
of this and survive?
WXYC (FM-89), Carolina's student radio station,
does it every day. The only problem, says station
manager Gary Davis, is that many students are
unaware that WXYC even exists.
"We don't have the money to run big ads or
promotions," Davis says. "That's one reason people
don't know about us." Because of a virtually
nonexistent promotions budget, the station relies on
announcements in the DTH and on the cube to
advertise, Davis says.
What students may remember about the station
often is tied to controversy, both internal and
external, which led to what Davis terms "bad
publicity" last fall. Conflict within the staff and a
two-hour sign-off made the station front-page news
for several days.
"The important thing to remember is that through
all of that we were still on the air except for those
two hours," Davis says. "We had squabbles, but they
were handled in a professional manner."
.By the--time he took over as the manager in
January, the station and staff relations were
"running smoothly" again, Davis said. And since
then, WXYC has undergone significant changes in
format and programming.
"The problem in the past was that we were just too
obscure," says music director Bob Walton. "Now
we're trying to work with more familiar artists while
still providing a musical alternative."
"We're a progressive station for new music," Davis
says. "Whereas top-40, AM-type stations will play
something because it's popular, we play things
because they're good."
The station receives new albums through major
record companies, usually at no charge but
occasionally by paying a yearly subscription fee. A
member of Walton's seven-person music staff then
reviews the album, after which it is designated
"heavy," "medium" or "light" play or discarded
altogether. -
"Sometimes we want to give exposure-to new
groups, but the album is just not good enough for
heavy play," Walton says. "If an album is really
good, we ask the jocks to play it a lot."
After the Campus Governing Council
appropriated funds for a UP1 wire-service machine
last spring, news format changed. The old method of
obtaining news from daily newspapers grew into the
present 35-member news staff, which produces six
separate five-minute news casts daily.
"The wire machine allows us to update as things
happen," Davis says. "We still try to make at least
half of our news local in nature, though."
The station also broadcasts "Mother Earth News,"
a syndicated report put out by the magazine of the
same name, three times daily. The reports deal with
do-it-yourself projects, alternative lifestyles and
environmental reports.
"Ebony Spotlight," a 10-minute show at 7 p.m.
Mondays and Thursdays, is produced by the Black
Student Movement and centers on issues concerning
blacks. A CG A report at 5:30 p.m. Wednesdays deals
with - issues and events relevant to the gay
community. And "Zodiac" news reports, adapted
from newsletters the station receives in the mail,
provide "lighter news features" at 10 p.m. Monday
through Friday.
"We try to provide variety withfrr"Dur news
format," Davis says. Another project still in the
works is a program in conjuction with the Student
Consumer Action Union that will center on SCAU
publications and consumer information. Davis also
mentioned past reports done in cooperation with
Human Sexuality and Student Legal' Services
groups, which he hopes to repeat this year.
Special music showsalso cover a broad range of
tastes. "Phoenix," a Christian music show put
together by WXYC disc jockey and chief engineer
Don Moore, airs from 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays.
"Orange Coungy Special," arranged by David
Weaver, is a progressive country music show
broadcast from 4 to 7 p.m. Sundays.
Two jazz shows are produced each week, one from
9 p.m. to midnight Wednesdays and the other from
noon to 4 p.m. Sundays. "Inside Track," which
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And "Off the Wall," a comedy-style show that
Walton says is "based on looniness," gives listeners a
chance to call in and talk about anything they want.
See WXYC on page 3