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Once again we'll see the sun
this afternoon with the
temperature rising to the
upper 60s. Tonight's low will
be in the 40s. No chance of
precipitation today.
Bowl team
Playing on the College Bowl
team is like 'academic
basketball' according to one
team member. See story on
page 3.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 87, Issue No
Tuesday, March 25, 1830, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By KERRY DEROCHI
Staff Writer
The UNC Student Health Service pharmacy
officially opened its doors for students M onday ,
and SHS pharmacists say they will be able to
offer prescription drugs to students at lower
prices.
"We will provide top quality pharmaceutical
services to the UNC students," staff pharmacist
Judith Ludy said. "We are a part of the state
purchasing system and can therefore offer
cheaper prices."
As a part of the new Student Health Services,
the pharmacy is paid for through student
funding and will be open only to UNC students
who are filling perscriptions from Student
Health Service physicians. Ludy said the
pharmacy has private consultation rooms and
will in the future provide an in-patient service
for those students that are hospitalized. Staffed
by pharmacists Ludy and Carolyn Welch,
assistant professor Wayne Pittman and
technician Gale Halloway, the pharmacy will be
open 9 a.m.-5:30 p.m. on weekdays and 9 a.m.
12:30 p.m. on Saturdays. Ludy said these hours
probably would be changed within the next
week to extend later into the evening. Pharmacy
graduate students will be working during these
hours.
Student pharmacies are not unique to this
area; both Duke and North Carolina State
Universities have them. But local drug store
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managers still are uneasy about their new
competition.
"It's the state competing against the people
trying to make a living," said John Woodard,
manager of Sutton's Drug Store on Franklin
Street. "It's good for the students but not for the
drug stores."
Ed Lowdermilk, manager of Revco Discount
Drug Center on Franklin Street, agreed with
Woodard on the good points of the pharmacy
but added that he is anxious to see the outcome
of the opening. "I'm somewhat familiar with
their set up," Lowdermilk said. "Certainly it will
have a bad effect, but to what extent, 1 don't
know.
"Prescriptions are not our only business and I
have nothing bad to say; some people will still
get their prescriptions filled when they get their
other health care items," he said. Al Whorley,
manager of Kerr Drugs in University Mall, said
he would have to wait and see what the effect
would have on the business. "I don't think it will
affect us that much," Whorley said. "But I'm
basically not looking forward to it."
Dispute clouds financial aid issue
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Staff Writer
Due to an almost 50 percent increase in the
number of business majors since 1968, the UNC
School of Business Administration now has a
student-faculty ratio 30 percent greater than that
allowed by accreditation agencies.
Business school officials say it"vould be unlikely
that the school, would lose its
accreditation due to an inflated student-
faculty ratio. But the high ratio many
times results in classes of more than 400
people, and some students say they are
displeased with being known only as
numbers to their professors.
The maximum student-faculty ratio
allowed by the American Assembly of
Collegiate Schools of Business, the
school's accreditation agency, is 400
students to one professor per year for
undergraduates. Its limit for graduate
students is 300 students to one professor
per year.
, Professor Douglas Elvers, director of the business
school's undergraduate program, estimated that
UNC's business school is 30-40 percent over tha
limit overall.
Ronald Sloane, AACSB accreditation director,
said that a number of business schools have
experienced a sustained increase in enrollment in the
past few years.
"It's a very serious problem and is one that we
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would definitely make a note of." he said. But he
added that a school's student-faculty ratio is only one
of many factors that the AACSB examines.
The business school is preparing for a revaluation
of its programs by the AACSB in 1982, and is
exploring several possible remedies to bring its
student-faculty ratio down. One solution would be to
cut back on the number of students allowed to
declare business as a major.
. . , "We did something like that about
iour years ago wnen we had lu more
majors than we do now," School of
Business Administration Dean John
Evans said.
"We simply cut the number of junior
transfers we allowed into the school of
business from around 150 to around 50.
If we hadn't done that we could still have
1,400 or so majors," Evans said.
Currently, the school of business has
1.254 majors, a 47 percent increase from
the approximately 850 majors it had in
1968. In 1976. it had apnroximatclv
1,400 majors. The School of Business
Administration is the largest professional school on
campus. It accounts for 20 percent of all degrees
awarded at UNC each year.
Many students don't like the idea of a quota on
business majors. But they don't like classes of more
than 400 students either.
"Anything that could reduce the number of
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C '-route riders
By GARY TERPENING
Staff Writer
Controversy over a report presented to the
Faculty Council Friday may obscure the
report's real purpose to point out a need for
an explanation of the disparity between male
and female financial aid at UNC.
An analysis
Director of Student Aid William M. Geer,
who has asserted that the report, which was
presented by the Committee on the Status of
Women, charges his office with
discrimination, correctly identified the cause
for the controversy in his remarks to the
Faculty Council Friday: "The confusion is
about what the report does and does not say
with regard to the operations of the student aid
office."
Members of the Committee on the Status of
Women deny any charge of discrimination and
say the report, which is based on a University
report to the Office of Civil Rights supplied by
the Student Aid office suggests that the Office
of Student Aid is the logical place to start a
study of financial aid disparities.
But in the drafting of the report, one fact was
not made clear: The Office of Student Aid
controls only 22.5 percent of the total financial
aid at UNC. .
, For example, the report states, "Whether a
student may borrow from or through the
University and in what amounts are decisions
of the University's financial aid office."
The report also states, "As with loans, a
student may ask for University employment,
but whether he or she obtains it and in what
amount are decisions of the financial aid
office."
But Associate Director of Student Aid
Kathy F. Wright said Monday there is
approximately $2.5 million in loan funds
available at the University over which the
Office of Student Aid has no control.
And Mary W. Garren, employment
coordinator for the student aid office, said
Monday there are 5,560 students employed in
the University's institutional work program,
over which the Office of Student Aid also has
no control.
There are two types of financial aid
employment at UNC: institutional, which is
administered through the department
employing the student; and the College Work
Study Program, which is administered directly
by the Office of Student Aid. The report by the
Committee on the Status of Women recognizes
this distinction but attributes both types of
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Tar Heel paraphernalia abounds at store
...state's largest seller of momentoes
By KIMBERLY KLEMAN
Staff Writer
You know the type. Clad in his Tar Heel T-shirt which is
under his blue and white sweater covered by the Carolina jacket
with his UNC socks, sweatpants and cap, he climbs into his car
plastered with a Carolina license plate, decals and bumper
stickers. Once in his dorm room, he turns on his Tar Heel lamp
and, after glancing at the UNC pennant above his bed, he
proceeds to write a letter using his Carolina desk set and his
official University of North Carolina stationary. Bored, he
decides to take a break, and after reaching for a. UNC napkin
and gulping some beer from a Carolina Cup, he takes a Carolina
ashtray and lights a cigarette with you guessed it UNC
matches.
But don't laugh. Although few of us are that school spirited,
we certainly share at least some of this individual's taste in the
latest collegiate paraphernalia. The above items, and scores of
other UNC supplies, are being bought and sold in the Student
Stores in ever increasing quantities.
"Sales are up unexpectedly this year," said Martin Freed,
assistant manager of UNC Student Stores, the largest seller of
collegiate merchandise in the state. Freed estimated that 35
percent of the store's income results from the sale of collegiate
items. According to Student Stores Manager Tom Shetley,
there is annual sale of "about $125,000 plus or minus ten
percent."
Shetley said collegiate items have been sold at UNC since the
early 1930s. "There are much different items now than the blue
beanies and pennants of before," he said. Present additions to
this initial stock include towels, plaques, earrings, stuffed
animals, toilet seat covers, trivets, and a whole assortment of
toddler clothing.
"Just about everything we sell is unusual," Freed said. "I'd say
the most unusual item is the big foam finger 'which points
'number one.'"
Freed discussed the process by which the store orders its
insignia items. "There's a whole industry which sells nothing but
collegiate items," he said. "We order our merchandise from the
three hundred to four hundred different places that sell such
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By CINDY BOWERS
Staff W riter
Although one bus driver on the C-route said it did not equal
the record of 121 passengers, 108 riders crammed into one bus on
the crowded Carrboro route Monday morning.
One University student said he had trouble getting on a
campus-bound bus Monday morning but finally was picked up
by the already jam-packed bus.
Some students and other Carrboro residents waiting for buses
on the C-route were unable to make their appointments,
including some 9 a.m. classes, he said.
Buses on the C-route especially were overcrowded Monday
because one of the route's four extra buses that usually run
during peak ridership hours in the morning was broken. Bill
Callahan, Chapel Hill's assistant director of transportation, said.
Callahan said the problems on the C-route that plagued
Carrboro residents will not be solved until August. In August.
Chapel Hill plans to split the C-route into two roucs that will
serve the apartment complexes along N.C. 54 by-pass and Jones
Ferry Road.
"We hope the split will do something to manage the route a
little better, to make more seats," Callahan said.
"Under ideal conditions we don't like tocarry more than 65 on
a (45 seat) bus. but we've had trouble all year with overcrowding
on the C-route," he said. "Right now we don't have any more
buses to put out there."
The expected arrival of 16 new buses ordered by Chapel Hilt
will make the C-route split possible before students return for the
fall semester. Callahan said. The next routing of the split has not
been decided yet. he said.
Carrboro officals have been working with the Chapel Hill
Transportation Department to arrange the split. "Being the
person who designed the C-route, I'm the first person to admit it's
outlived its usefulness," Carrboro Mayor Robert Drakeford
said.
Carrboro Alderman Steve Rose agreed that the split badly
needed. "We're very well aware how bad (crowded condition on
the C-route) are." he said. "The split is a priority item with me."
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Eastern North Carolina community may lose financial support
By CHARLES HERNDON
Staff Writer
Despite the threat of acutoff of federal aid and
the denial of a $4 million Department of Housing
and Urban Development loan guarantee, the
experimental Warren County community of
Soul City will survive, founder Floyd McKissick
said in a . telephone interview last week.
The community, begun in 1974 as an effort to
spur growth in the poorer regions of central
northeastern North Carolina, has been marked
as an unacceptable financial risk by HUD, and
attempts have been made to cut funding to the
beleaguered development, which already has
received approximately $29 million in federal aid
since 1974.
A trial date of July 17 was set in Washington
last week to hear a suit brought against HUD by
the Soul City Co., developers of the project. The
suit claims the federal government owes $4
million in promised aid to Soul City and seeks
damages for the company and for some of the
citizens of the community. The suit charges
HUD with acting illegally in witholding the
funds.
"We have a right to that $4 million,"
McKissick said. "Under the law, certain funds
are to be given to us, some of which is that
money," he said. McKissick said HUD promised
a loan to the development when the project was
initiated, and he charged the department with
discrimination against Soul City and its
developers.
"They are discriminating against us,"
McKissick said. "They are just not treating all
developers equally. We just don't have the
amount of federal support we once had." he said.
Soul City attorney Brian W. Shaughnessy
agreed with McKissick about HUD's actions.
"We feel (HUD) did not comply with the law in
the termination of grants." he said, referring to
project agreements made between HUD and
Soul City Co. in 1974 and 1976 which he said the
federal agency violated. "Obviously they acted
illegally. They arbitrarily and capriciously cut off
funds." he said.
In addition to the $4 million loan,
Shaughnessy said Soul City would press for
other damages as well. "We want to compel
HUD to continue funds or some lesser form of
funding, and we are asking for damages to
citizens whose property value has diminished."
he said. Shaughnessy said property values at
Soul City had plummeted because of HUD's
actions.
Shaughnessy also said part of Soul City's
claim objected to "the arbitrary and precipitous
manner in which HUD shut down funding" for
the community. The suit claims Soul City Co.'s
reputation was hurt by HUD's actions. "We will
be able to show successfully, I think that
potential buyers (of Soul City property) were
scared away (as a result of the cutoff of funds)."
he said.
HUD spokesman Albert Diehl said
department funding was being cut because of the
project's inability to pay back its loans. "In
February of 1 979. (then-H U D Secretary Patricia
Harris) created a task force to deal with Soul
City." Diehl said. "1 his task force decided that
the project was financially unfeasible. The
project would never generate enough money to
pay back loans." he said.
"The project could not sell enough land; they
could not generate enough revenue." Diehl said.
"Of course, that's not to say that HUD doesn't
believe regional development would occur." he
said. McKissick refuted these charges, saying
HUD had not adhered to development
timetables set up by the department and Soul
City.
"In fact, since HUD stopped its funding, we
have sold 500 acres of land to the Perdue Poultry
Co.." he said. He also said that with the
construction of a Perdue plant at Soul City, the
company was considering bringing 1 .200 jobs to
the community.
Diehl said at least seven similar programs
around the country which were started in the
early 1970s also have faileid. "The majority of
these programs have bectj unsuccessful. I here
has been a lot of development, but it has not been
at the rate or pace of the requirements of the
program. Diehl said.
"As with the other developments. (HUD) will
acquire or foreclose, on the deeds of Soul City."
1 he Soul City Co. would give its land assets to
HUD. Diehl said. Diehl added that HUD will
negotiate w ith Soul City to try to reach an out-of-court
settlement before July.
Shaughnessy would not comment on what
Soul City will do if it loses the case, and he did
not say whether an appeal might be lodged. "We
do not expect to lose and if we do. we will decide
then about our options" he said.
McKissick also wa optimistic about the uit.
" I he project could go on in a variety ol ua." he
said. "If we don't get the $4 milium, we will have
to get money from other places, pnmunlv from
the private sector." he said
McKissick said Soul C'hv had borrowed $5
million lor construction which i now undcrwav
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