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By DIANE NORMAN
Staff Writer
While the Educational Policy
Committee is mulling the proposal to
extend the current four-week drop period
to six weeks, some professors say the
.integral question in the issue actually is,
"What is the purpose of a drop period?
"Honest mistakes (in registration)
ought to be rectified without an act of
Congress, said Thomas Isenhour,
chairperson of the chemistry department.
"I assume that's what a drop period is for,
and I'm for that.
"I have no sympathy for a student
because he doesn't know how his grade's
going to come out at the end "of four
weeks, Isenhour said. "The drop period
should have the sole purpose ef
correcting mistakes in registration, not of
guaranteeing the maintenance of the
(student's) grade-point average.
"I think we ought to give people
educations, not just degrees, Isenhour
said. I don't like the shopping around
attitude.
Students As and Bs are meaningless if
no one is making Ds and Fs, he said.
Student Body President Jim Phillips
advocated the proposed six-week drop
period at the last Faculty Council
meeting, saying four weeks do not allow
students enough- time to determine
whether they can meet course
requirements successfully. Students need
more time to make informed decisions
about courses, Phillips said.
"I'm opposed to lengthening the drop
period for the purpose of allowing
students to find out if they're passing,
said James Leutze, associate professor of
history. "1 would like to see the question
of drop-add removed from how a student
is doing in a course. I would like to see
students be more cautious in signing up
for courses in the first place.
A university campus is probably the
most informed organism there is,"
Isenhour said. Students can obtain prior
information about courses and
professors from catalogs, other students
and the professors themselves, he said. It
should take a student an extremely short
time to determine if he has made a
mistake in registration, he said, and four
weeks should provide a more than ample
opportunity to make that evaluation.
"The critical point. ..is that a course
should not be dropped simply to avoid
receiving an F grade," said Donald J icha,
associate dean of the General College. "It
is human to err. and it still should be
human to fail."
It is vital that professors give students
complete course syllabi and explanations
xA their grading procedures at the
beginning of the course, J icha said. The
problem, he said, is not one of four or six
weeks but one of information.
"It is critical that freshmen receive
some sort of graded assignment very early
on in the course," J icha said. "Once a
student has been here a year or two, he
knows how to find out about a course and
he is accustomed to doing college work. .
Four weeks should be ample for these
students (upperclassmen)."
An appeals process does exist for
students who have reasonable grounds
for dropping a course after the four-week
drop period, Jicha said. Both the General
College and the College of Arts and
Sciences have committees that meet
weekly to review students drop requests.
Students who are dissatisfied with the
decisions on their original appeals may
re-appeal to the University appeals
committee.
"A student who has a really legitimate
reason.. .(for dropping a course) is not
boxed in," said Frederick W. Vogler,
associate 'dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, who- is chairperson of the
college's appeals committee.
Wo men 9s b ball season
opens with high hopes
The preseason speculation, all the
what ifs and those last practice jitters are
finally over for the Carolina women's
basketball team. Now, when the Tar
Heels play host to Lenoir Rhyne at 7:30
tonight in Carmichael Auditorium, when
they blow the whistle, it will be for real.
"The team is eager to play," said '
second-year coach Jennifer AlleyButas
a coach I'd like to have another month of
practice."
Lenoir Rhyne provides a good opening
challenge to the Tar Heels who have
scrimmaged Old Dominion, Duke and
others this fall in preparation for their
season. And Alley sees things going much
better now than they were in her first
year, which found UNC 16-13 at the end
of the season.
" I've seen considerable improvement in
our play. We're well ahead of where we
were at this time last year," she said.
The Heels are truly a mixture of youth
and experience with seven freshmen on
the squad and eight veterans from last
year.
Senior Cathy Shoemaker has been
hitting her left-handed turn-arounds for
three years and returns as UNC's top
scorer after averaging 13.8 points a game
last year. Sophomore forward Kelly
Roche averaged 9.1 points last year and
grabbed 182 rebounds. Guards Linda
Matthews and Aprille Shaffer are
returning starters as is junior center
Bernie McGlade, a 6-footer who
averaged 10 points a game last year while
leading Tar Heel rebounders.
Among the freshmen; walk-on Cathy
Allred scored 12 points against Duke in
an exhibition match last Friday and
should see quite a bit of action at guard.
In fact. Alley says, "Most every
position is still open," which means
seniors Fran Hardison and Debbie
Richardson, sophomore Charlene
Boykin and freshmen Meredith White,
Vangie Whitley, Judy Wolf, Yvonne
Burch, Tina Rudolph and Jamee Houk
also should see action.
"Lenoir Rhyne has one qf the best
athletic programs in North Carolina,"
Alley warned.. "The basketball team
features good height and is well balanced.
It should be a good game."
After tonight's game. Carolina goes on
the road to Appalachian State and Old
Dominion before returning home Dec. 5
to play host to nationally ranked N.C.
State.
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Jiminy! 1,000 crickets
leave Morrison buggy
By LISA GOODWIN
Special to the l)ail I ar Heel
It wasn't quite cricket.
But all's fair in love, war and
collegiate antics, right? Well, tell that
to the girls in suite 703-06 at Morrison
Dorm who woke up one night to a
loud clicking noise. Crickets had
invaded their suite- 1 .000 to be exact.
Amy Smithson tucked the bed.
covers up to her neck as tears rolled
down her face. "1 hate bugs, 1 hate
bugs," she cried., Diane DiGisi stayed
curled up in bed too, afraid to put on
the shoes that chirped suspiciously.
It all may sound like the makings of
an Irwin Allen movie, but it belongs
more in Animal House than in a
disaster film. For dow n in suite 735
738, there were a lot of Cheshire grins
and one empty box where $9.50 worth
of crickets had been stashed before
being released.
"We let the crickets out of the box
and loose in their suite about 4 a.m.
Then we went back to our rooms and
watched. First a light went on and
then we could hear them start to
scream," said Mickey Spivey. "We
bought the crickets from a" man in
Durham who grows them to sell to
stores."
But why did they bug the girls? It all
started when the girls suite crumpled
sheets of newspaper and stuffed them
into Spivey's bathroom.
"We collected papers for a while
then carried them down to the guys'
suite about 3 in the morning. We filled
the showers and most all the
bathroom, then papered their doors."
Kristal Manning said.
The girls expected a prank in return
and kept their eyes open. But nothing
happened. "They didn't .even mention
us papering their suite. They just
smiled a lot. and we knew we were in
trouble," Manning said.
They had almost forgotten to keep
up their guard when the crickets
refreshed their memory. The air
reeked of sweet revenge. "1 knew, just
as soon as I realized it was crickets
making the noise. who had put them
there." .Manning, said. . : - ;
A cricket clean-up began at 5 a.m:
and continued all day. The guys came
to help us clean.' They swept some
crickets off the balcony and put others
in bags and dropped them over the
side. We flushed some down the toilet
and stepped on a lot of them. But we
couldn't get them all." Pam Byrd said.
Capturing 1,000 crickets isn't easy:
so an exterminator was called to put
an end to the chirping to the tune of
$20. "We had to take all our clothes
out of the room and anything else that
might pick up the smell of the spray. It
seems to have worked pretty well.
though." Byrd said.
But across the dorm, a few crickets
who had survived the death plunge
from the seventh-floor balcony have
found new homes in other suites. "A
lot of the ones we dropped off the side
crawled onto the first floor, and some
fell onto other balconies. Every once
in a while, we get a call about crickets
in pipes or something, and we go spray
for them." Spivey said.
Spivey and his suitemates also left
20 crickets in another seventh-floor
suite. The girls in that suite still
haven't found all their Jimmies, and
they didn't call an exterminator,
either. They can't see the crickets, but
they sure can hear them.
Since the night of the crickets, a
truce has been made on the seventh
floor at Morrison. Fnough is enough.
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) Mayor
George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the
city's first self-proclaimed homosexual
supervisor, were shot to death M onday in
City Hall, and a former city supervisor
who had wanted his job back was arrested
45 minutes later.
Dan White, 32, was booked for
investigation of the murders. Which
stunned a city still numbed by the suicide
massacre in Guyana of more than 900
.members of the Peoples Temple, based in
San Francisco.
The former supervisor surrendered to
police at a station eight blocks from the
scene of the San Francisco slayings.
Police and city- officials said White,
who resigned from the Board of
Supervisors on Nov. 10 and then asked
for his seat back, was meeting with
Moscone in a back room of the mayor's
office, presumably begging to be
reappointed, when the 1 1 a.m. shooting
occurred. Moscone had scheduled-an
1 1:30 a.m. news conference to announce
White's successor. Don Horanzy, who
was waiting in an outer office at the
ornate, domed City Hall when the shots
rang out.
"We heard shots but we were unaware
at the time that the shots came from the
room," said Mel Wax. Moscone's press
secretary. One of the mayor's secretaries
walked to a window, thinking the noise
was a car backfiring.
Moscone's bloody body was found
lying on the floor when the mayor's fiscal
adviser, Rudy Nothenberg. walked in for
an 1 1 a.m. appointment. Police said
Moscone had been shot three times, twice
in the head and once in the left arm. i
Wax said White had appeared at the
mayor's door about 10:40 a.m., asking to
see Moscone without an appointment.
He added, "I didn't want them to see each
other. 1 thought that would be a bad
scene."
The press secretary said that although
it was normal procedure for a Moscone
aide to sit in on every meeting, this time
"George said there was no need for that."
Police said that after the shooting.
White left Moscone's office through a.
back door and ran about 100 yards down
the hall and into the supervisors' offices,
where he allegedly shot and killed Milk,
48, in what had been his own office before
his resignation.
Moscone turned 49 Friday. A liberal,
he and White had been .at political odds
for some time.
The mayor had been supported by the
Rev. Jim Jones, leader of the Peoples
Temple and one of those who died in
Guyana. He once appointed Jones to the
city's Housing Authority. Police said,
however, that the killings apparently
were not connected to the Peoples
Temple.
Dianne Feinstein, who as president of
the Board of Supervisors will become
acting mayor, tearfully announced the
slayings outside Mocone's office to a
crowd of reporters and city employees,
who gasped and screamed, "Oh God!"
drowning out her statement.
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By C AROL HANNER
Staff V riter
Chapel Hill aldermen last week
directed the town's zoning rewrite
committee to prepare specific restrictions
on the University-A one.
The town also turned down a proposed
pedestrian traffic signal on Franklin
Street.
The aldermen made the decision to
tighten zoning restrictions following
objections from John Temple, UNC's
vice chancellor for business and finance.
The board's recommended changes
include establishing transitional areas
around University property and possibly
prohibiting certain property uses within
the University districts.
The town staff will stiffen regulations
on the area, height and placement of
buildings in the transitional areas.
The town also will consider bringing
certain permitted uses under the special
use permit process. This would give the
town control over what use is made of
property in transition areas.
The board will hold a public hearing on
the zoning changes Jan. 15.
The University-A revamping is part of
an overall redesign of the town's zoning
map to bring it in line with the town's
comprehensive land-use system.
The town is dealing with the
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citizen concern with University uses in
residential areas. Planning Director Mike
Jennings told the board.
The proposed University Press
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By KATHY CURRY
Staff Writer
"Between the sheets." Care to join me?
No? Well maybe "Skip and Go Naked" is more
your style.
Still apprehensive? Would you be suspicious of a
"Tootsie Roll?"
You can now choose your poison from countless
concoctions offered since Spanky's bartenders eased
a 70-year dry spell for Chapel Hill liquor-lovers last
wesk.
"I'm so eager to make something I pounce on
whoever comes in," Spanky's bartender Lisa Reid
laughed. "But that first day (Wednesday) was the
worst. People were five deep around the bar. We just
couldn't serve them fast enough."
Well-dressed participants lined up Wednesday
morning in front of l the restaurant in hopes-of
catching the eye or ear jof one of many media
representatives milling arbund as owner Mickey
Ewell poured the first drinks in Orange County since
1908.
Hastily trained bartenders and ex-beertenders
served all of the bar's gin, rum and Canadian Mist
whiskey the first day, Ewell said Vodka, the No. 1
liquor in America, has been his overall top seller, too,
he said.
But the most popular drink by far, Ewell said, has
been the house specialty "Skip and Go Naked,"
which caused the bar to run out of gin in a matter of
hours.
The drink itself is a delicately pink-colored
combination of beer, gin, Kirsch, grenadine and
sweet and sour-mix. The real selling point of the
drink, however, is the rather voluptuous three
dimensional representations of naked women that
decorate the sides of the glass.
"We went through 13 cases of those glasses on
Wednesday alone." Reid said in disbelief. "Men
would come in and order sets of six no drinks, just
the glasses."
Don't rush down to Spanky's just yet, however.
Ewell said the restaurant has exhausted its supply of
glasses but expects to receive another shipment this
week.
"What's so funny about the whole thing is we
thought we'd be sitting on those glasses forever, we
ordered so many," he said with a laugh.
Ewell said the crowds were heavy Friday and
Saturday, but seemed to be lessening as some of the
novelty wore off and people settled down.
But the novelty apparently still hasn't worn off for
jovial bartenders and waiters, who still call out for
"ginger ale on the rocks."
"It's still a lot of fun, and 1 love it even if this is one
of the strangest jobs I've ever had," Reid admitted.
"But there are still a lot of things. a professional
bartender should know that I don't know," she said
with a sheepish glance at recipes stashed behind the
remains of an opening-day bouquet.
Reid also said being a woman poses a problem
sometimes in handling comments and occasional
drunks.
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By KATHY MORRILL
Staff Writer
"My stomach was going bananas. I couldn't
concentrate or study at all, but the fast mg was still
too easy because 1 knew I'd have food after it was
over," said Edie Cecil, a member of the Campus Y
Hunger Action Committee.
The fast Cecil referred to was the culmination of
the Food Week activities (Nov. 12-16) sponsored by
the committee. The fast was a 24-hour period set
' aside for a time of concentration on world hunger.
Participants abstained from eating as a symbolic
gesture of support for the world's hungry. Their
tangible goal was to donate the money that would
have been spent on their food that day to provide
direct support for programs to aid hungry and
starving people, especially in the Third World.
" All of the money raised and donated during the
fast is being sent to Oxfam-America, an international
agency that supports self-help development projects
such, as providing agricultural equipment and
supplies to Africa, Asia-and Latin America.
"I'm really pleased with the way Food Week
turned out," said Nancy Foushee, co-chairperson for'
the Hunger Action Committee. "The committee
worked very hard to get everything done. I am
pleased with the interest shown by those who
participated and with the money we received from
the fast. So far, we've received $355 and the money is
still coming in." '
Participants in the fast met at the Wesley
Foundation after the 24-hour period was up and
broke the fast with a simple meal of brown rice and
water.
"The fast really wasn't much of a sacrifice," said
Laura Brown, a UNC student and member of Kappa
Alpha Theta sorority- "The-problem was, I knew I
could get food as soon as the fast was over. Starving
people in the Third World nations go for days and
days without ever knowing where their next meal will
be coming from."
In addition' to the Theta house, the Pi Beta Phi,
Tri-Delta. Alpha Delta Pi and Kappa Delta houses
all participated. The extent of the participation
ranged from 20 women from one house fasting to
closing kitchens completely for the 24-hour period.
The main purpose of the fast was to make people
more aware of hunger and how much Americans
depend on food, Foushee said. "When 1 didn't eat
food for a whole day I spent a lot of time watching
others. eat. It really hit me that Americans eat an
awful iot of food that they really don't need."
Those who participated in the fast said it was
unfortunate that more people didn't share in their
experience. They expressed a desire to have an
annual recognition of world hunger so that more
t people would become aware of the problem and get
involved in a program to help combat it.
"The fast was a sy m bolic act that many people still
aren't aware of," said the Rev. Stan Smith, one of the
participants. "It is important toJiave these symbolic
acts repetitively until more people become aware of
the hunger problem and what can be done about it.
We need to repeat our fasts and our programs every
year.