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2 TSvi Daily Tar Heel Thursday, December 6, 1979 Town may gel $2 -million federal bus rant By SHANNON BRENNAN Staff Writer Chapel Hill and state officials say the town bus system probably will be receiving a boost of more than $2 million in federal grant funds because of the way, the U.S. Census Bureau sees the town. Bill Callahan, assistant town transportation director, said Chapel Hill requested $400,000 for operating costs , and more than $2 million for capital improvements to its buses under a section of the Urban Mass Transit Act which funnels money to non-urbanized areas of less than 50,000 people. And since North Carolina ranks as one of the most rural states in the nation according to the census bureau, and Chapel Hill is one of the largest areas in the state falling in that category, the town stands a good chance of receiving most of the about $2.5 million it has requested out of a total of about $3 million available for the state. Callahan said they expected to receive the $400,000 for operating assistance, which was approved in July, sometime this month. The $2 million for capital improvements already has been guaranteed, he said, but Communists get year sentence probably won't be received until December 1980. The problem with the program is that there is a year between request and receipt of funds, Callahan said. "This delay causes problems in planning for requests , because they can't tell how much costs will be and what ' services will be necessary, especially since the fiscal years are different," Callahan said. The town's fiscal year runs from July 1 through June 3 1, while the fiscal year for the federal program is Oct. 1 to Sept. 30. "For the last three quarters of the fiscal year we won't know whether we have operating assistance," Callahan said. Under the program, funds may be used for up to 50 percent of the operating costs, he said. In addition to operating costs, the funds may be used for up to 80 percent of the cost of improvements in the system, including purchases of buses, other vehicles, radios and equipment. For Oct 1, 1979 to Sept. 30, 1980, Chapel Hill has submitted an application for $470,000 in operating costs which should cover tip to 50 percent of those costs, Callahan said. "We will be applying for a capital grant for buses and support equipment like radios," he said. for disruption A Guilford County judge on Tuesday sentenced three Revolutionary Communist Party members to one year m prison after convicting them of trespassing and disrupting a class on the University of North Carolina at Greensboro campus. A fourth defendant was convicted only on a trespassing charge and sentenced to six months in prison.-. Defense attorney Allen Mason of Durham said each of the misdemeanor charges carries a six-month maximum sentence. Mason appealed to superior court, and the defendants were freed on bond. Judge Frank Campbell said defendants convicted of two charges would serve their two six-month sentences consecutively. The defendants, all from out of state, were arrested by campus police after several people entered a business class Oct. 10. A lecture just had begun when the disruption occured. UNC-G Professor Allen Maynard testified that three men and a woman broke into his lecture, handing out leaflets and shouting political slogans. The case stemmed from efforts by the RCP to promote an appearance in Greensboro by their national leader, Bob Avakian. Defendant Kevin Moore, 21, of Tampa, Fla., told the court the communist group decided to enter the classrooms "to let people know he - 1 ' m i i tew. -ivm--K ...1 . J"? Bob Sheldon DTHFUfl pnoto the pigs From page 1 Carter said. "It is difficult to meet that goal, but we have so far this year." The pigs are tested for von Willebrand's disease at approximately eight weeks of age. "Only about 25 percent of our pigs actually have the disease. The rest are control pigs," Griggs said. The colony is accredited by the American Association for Accreditation of Laboratory Animal Care and has been approved by the FDA, USDA, and the North Carolina Animal Welfare Act, Carter said. Vd ten etferd to vcsfo it (Avakian) was coming and what government was doing to him " Bob Sheldon, spokesman for the UNC Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade, a division of the RCP, said the conviction is an attempt to "harass, intimidate, and eventually crush" the RCP. "Over 400 supporters of the RCP have . been arrested in the last year for doing revolutionary political work," Sheldon sard. "By building broad support nationwide, we were able to expose and defeat, at least temporality, attempts by government to railroad RCP Chairman Bob Avakian and the Mao defendants." Ten other RCP members are scheduled for trial Friday. They were arrested in October when they tried to make speeches and hand out leaflets at a public housing complex in Greensboro. They were charged with inciting to riot, resisting arrest and related offenses. JOHN DUSENBURY Awards off ered to study abroad The Chapel Hill Rotary Club is seeking candidates for Rotary Foundation educational awards for study abroad in 1981-82. The awards provide round-trip transportation, educational and living expenses for one academic year and funds, for language training if necessary. The awards are open to all undergraduate and graduate students, teachers of the handicapped, students in technical training programs and journalists. The deadline for application is March 1. For more information or applications contact George R. Holcomb, 01 South BuUding, 933-1383. MON-FRI SUNDAY ------ 4 p W. FRANKLIN ST. ONLY I LUNCHEON BUFFETS - Pizza, Soup, Salad Bar ALL YOU CAN EAT $2 3g 11-2 208 W. FRANKLIN ST. 12-2 942-5149 December 31, 1979 J good food-anytime Itadt-mtrfcQ Durham Coca-Cola Bottling Company Code is available at your stt(1Q(3got ooe snack bars zoning Eight buses will cost approximately $ 1 .2 million, he said. Callahan said he predicted Chapel Hill would have a total request for about $2.5 million of the $3.1 million. .Whether Chapel Hill receives that much depends on the level of requests throughout the state, he said. The 1 1 largest cities in North Carolina and possibly Mecklenburg County are the only areas not eligible for Section 18 grants, said Cy K. Lynn, a special assistant for public affairs with the state Department of Transportation. North Carolina has the fifth-largest rural population in the nation and because of this, the state is eligible for a large part of the federal funds, Lynn said. But other areas in the state that qualify have a much smaller transportation system, Callahan said. Other small urban areas include Greenville, Wilson and Salisbury, which will probably request about $50,000 $60,000 each, he said. "But there are 100 counties in North Carolina and even if they need only small amounts, that adds up," Callahan said. "In terms of long-term prospects for funds, we're very uncertain." From page 1 would give families an advantage over students, who now pool resources to pay rent. Other changes in the proposed rewrite already have provoked opposition from the University administration, and several other proposals are expected to be controversial. The rewrite will be reviewed and voted on by the Town Council in 1980. In keeping with the town's Comprehensive Plan which encourages denser development, the proposed zoning ordinance would make no distinction between parking lots and parking decks, Jennings said University officials on the zoning of the University's Mason Farm tract. The rewrite originally identified this land as an environmentally critical area which should be zoned residential. Temple criticized the proposal saying it would prohibit the University from using the land. Jennings said he now is willing to zone the N.C. Botantical Gardens and the land surrounding Morgan Creek as residential, but will agree to zoning the rest of the land as suitable for office and institutional use. But the town olanning stall and the Parking decks would be permitted in any," . University arc still at odds over the zoning of Pile 1Vr narViniT Irttc lin rritntftaX" ' " r..1 nt, (, nf tkntrmwrciol IIVP to areas where parking lots were permitted. including the central business district and the UNC campus. Under the present ordinance, the Town Council must grant a special use permit before parking decks can be built. Jennings said that with the change the town would review the design of decks; but would not have the power to block their construction." . A parkins deck is a more compact, fafrdUse than a surface lot he said, and added that concentrating the town parking in decks may actually add to, rather than detract from, 'the town s atmosphere. "There would be more land to devote businesses, and maybe even some- for open' space." - Jennings said the town planning staff has resolved some of the differences between the " town and the University which surfaced during . the October public hearing on the proposed rewrite. But he said some t disagreement remains. ' . Jennings said he met with John Temple, UNCs vice chancellor for business and finance, shortly after. Temple expressed -objections to certain zoning changes- which . would affect the University. : Jennings said he reached a compromise with Title IX Battle Park, the site of the controversial UNC Press Building. Jennings said he still believes the park area should be zoned residential even though Temple has argued it should be zoned for office and institutional use. If the area is zoned residential, the Press Building and the Park Place parking lot would .be non-conforming uses which could not be '.significantly changed or replaced if destroyed. Zoning requirements for parking on campus was another concern of University officials. The rewrite would require the University to provide parking spaces for each building as would another business. Jennings said he will present three options to the council to exempt the University from such requirements, to exempt the University from the parking requirement for the central campus only or to require the University to prepare a parking plan which would be reviewed by the town. Jennings said the parking requirements for the University exist in the present zoning ordinance. "The University is required to provide parking just like anyone else. It just hasn't been enforced. I don't know why, but we just haven't enforced it strictly." From page 1 said. "You wuld have the possibility that all of your scholarship money for men would go into football and basketball, leaving nothing for the non-revenue sports." Last December, former HEW Secretary Joseph Califano proposed that major college 'i - .faptbalLeamswhich have, to split, a good, 'gtiQ9i:cjbeir revenuekomtn'ji programs on campus, be exempt "Trom the equal spending clause. "The interpretation recognizes that intercollegiate football, in particular, is unique among sports at some institutions because of the size of its teams, the support staffs and facilities it requires and the volume of its revenues," Califano said at the time. But now Harris says football should be included. The secretary said in a Tuesday press conference: "It is important to note that HEW is not requiring that benefits such as locker facilities or coaching staffs be identical." It is the scholarship money that has been the center of the dispute. Officials at HEW , declined to comment Wednesday on the new guidelines, saying a more thorough explanation would be issued soon. "If you take it to its logical extension, you would have to go back to all aid based on need," Cobey said. "I'm sure there are some people who would applaud that and say it should have been done all along, but you run into problems." Cobey said before full grant-in-aid awards were given in athletics, there were many under-the-table, payments, to athletes. Full scholarships helped the situation, he said. fThe fear is that if we go back to aid based on need it could lead to unethical conduct." Since the guidelines were issued last December, HEW set up a program to take suggestions in an effort to help the department finalize its interpretation. The deadline for comment was last May, and HEW has been working on the guidelines since then. According to an HEW spokesman, the agency received more than 800 responses from across the nation. A Title IX committee, which Cobey serves on, sent its recommendations to HEW after the guidelines were issued a year ago. "Overall, I feel we should question whether HEW should be involved at all," Cobey said. "The people at HEW know absolutely nothing about college athletics. The people sit up there in Washington and have no idea about what goes on down on the front lines." If it's a diamond . . It's T. L. Kemp Jewelry University Square Chapel Hill W. Franklin St. RALEIGH WOMEN'S HEALTH ORGANIZATION ABORTIONS $175 (All Inclusive) Pregnancy Tests Birth Control Problem Pregnancy Counseling For Further Information Call 832-0535 or 1-800-221-2568 917 West Morgan St. Raleigh, N.C. 27605 STUDENT COURT ACTIVITY OCTOBER 1-31 NEW CASES COURT CHARGE COURSE REFERRED PLEA VERDICT SANCTION UMd unauthorized mt- Gol 11L UC Not Guilty Guilty Suspension for on rid on exam wnwlir, F in court Forgtry of tignaturr; AHO Guilty Guilty Indaflnita suspension attempted to dacalva Uni versity officials Plagiarized a paper Engl 2 UC Guilty Guilty Suspension tor one semester, F In course Plagiarized a paper Engl 2 UC Guilty Guilty Suspension for one semester, F m course Plagiarized a paper Span 4 UC Guilty Guilty Suspension for one semester, F In course Cheated on teat Chem 11 UC Guilty Guilty Suspension for one semester, F in course Furnlahed false Information UC Guilty Guilty Indefinite Probation and lose of student Identifica tion card APPEALS PRIOR ACTION CCURT COURSE GROUNDS FOR APPEAL ACTION COURT F In course for plagiarizing a paper UC Indefinite suspension for theft Severity of sanction and forgery of checks One semester auspenaion and Engl 2 Severity of sanction F in course for plagiarizing a paper UC severity of sanction sanction sustained UH3 Sanction sustained Chancellor Sanction sustained UH8 Caae pending as of November 1, 1979: 14 UC-Undergraduate Court AHOAdminittration Hearingt Officer; UMBUniver.ty Hearings Board Mes Don loieii U.S. Embassy to be closed in Libya WASHINGTON (AP) The United States is closing its embassy in Tripoli until the Libyan government acknowledges responsibility for a mob attack in which the building was ransacked and burned, the State Department said Wednesday. U.S. officials said the action did not amount to severing relations with the government of Col. Moammar Khadafy. The U.S. mission, which now numbers 10 members, will be scaled down to a handful and will move to another embassy or building elsewhere in Tripoli to look after the affairs to the 2,500 to 3,000 Americans in the oil-rich Arab country. Secretaries and dependents of Americans stationed at the embassy were evacuated from the country after the Sunday morning attack by a mob of some 2,000 Moslems demonstrating their support for Iranian militants holding 50 American hostages in Tehran. Senate stands by tax break for oil industry WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate, which has indicated it wants a suffer windfall profits tax than recommended by its Finance Committee, drew the line Wednesday and refused to slash a lucrative tax break enjoyed by the oil industry. By a 57-37 vote, the Senate rejected an amendment by Sen. Patrick Leahy, D Vt., that would have cost the industry an additional $14.6 billion in the 1980s. The amendment would have denied the oil depletion allowance a cherished 22 percent income tax deduction on future prices that are subject to the windfall tax. The Senate then turned to a Republican proposal aimed at forcing income tax cuts for individuals and business by $186 billion in 1981 through 1984 by limiting the percentage of national wealth that the federal government can take in any kind of tax. The GOP plan would require a tax cut of about $39 billion in 1981, but Congress would have to decide later just how taxes would be reduced. Mormons excommunicate feminist . STERLING, Va. (AP) Feminist Sonia Johnson, who campaigned for the Equal Rights Amendment, was excommunicated Wednesday by the Mormon Church. Johnson said her bishop urged her to repent and be rebaptized, but she said, "I haven't got anything to repent of. I wish I did so I could repent. How can I repent of something that's not wrong? "He doesn't want me to repent," she said. "He wants me to stop my ERA activities." The 43-year-old mother of four and her husband, a college professor and researcher, had expected the decision which came by registered mail Wednesday after a three-hour trial last Saturday night. Johnson, whose family has been in the church for five generations, said she expected to appeal the decision to the church hierarchy. Federal court reverses pornography ruling RICHMOND, Va. (AP) A federal appeals court reversed two lower courts Wednesday and upheld the constitutionality of North Carolina's anti pornography law, saying the state may act to limit the spread of sex-oriented "supermarkets." "North Carolina certainly has a substantial interest in maintaining a stable, healthful environment in its cities," the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals wrote. It said the law was clearly within the police powers of the state to prevent neighborhood deterioration and crime. The 1977 law prohibits the location of more than one adult establishment in the same building. It was challenged by a variety of owners and operators of such establishments,throughoutthe state. Federal :ourtsHn Jlaleigh and Charlotte-had ruled that the law abridged the- right to privacy and violated freedoms of speech and press. office From page,1 have some authority to see that the programs of an office of minority affairs were carried out, Norberg said. The proposal stated that creation of an administrative assistant position could reduce program duplication, enhance communication between, different departments of the University and lead to the sharing of ideas, programs and experiences. The proposal also stated that such a system would not "impinge on the authority of the various schools, academic departments, or administrative divisions and agencies. It is not intended to replace the efforts made by individual divisions, departments, committees or administrative divisions and agencies. "Dean (Hayden B.) Renwick's office in the College of Arts and Sciences, the services provided by the Office of the Assistant to the Provost, and the Black-White Dialogue Committee are notable examples of attempts to address minority problems. Such efforts should exist in all segments of the University," the proposal stated. Norberg said a letter would be sent to the Committee on the Status of Minorities and the Disadvantaged to clarify the intent of the proposal. The committee will present a report to the Faculty Council next spring on the enhancement of minorities presence on campus. MILTON'S IS LOADED WITH GIFTADLES ALL AT HALF THE GOING PRICE Enrico Cepuccl ecrylic (J g turtle necks ? 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