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Tryouts for the Marching
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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 87, Issue No. Ifff 2f
Monday, April 14, 1980 Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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CGC criticised for ambiguities in elections laws
By LYNN CASEY
Staff Writer
Although the Campus Governing Council was
not involved in the Student Supreme Court case
which ended last week, it was the CGC that
received the brunt of criticism from the chief
justice and the counsels for both the defense and
the plaintiffs.
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This case pointed to serious, in fact egregious,
contradictions and ambiguities in the laws
governing elections on the UNC campus," said
Wayne Rackoff, counsel for the defense. "In the
past the CGC has been put on notice of these
matters, and they have failed to act. The CGC
must act with all due speed not later, but now -to
resolve the many conflicting and ambiguous
provisions in the Student Government Code."
The case which ended last week and became the
longest in the history of the court involved the
validity of a Feb. 5 referendum which guarantees
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the Graduate and Professional Student
Federation 15 percent of the activities fees paid by
the graduate students. The courts decided to
uphold the results of the election, which passed by
a required iwo-imras
margin.
Five UNC students,
represented by UNC law
student Craig Brown,
charged the results of the
Feb. 5 election should have
been voided because of
election inequities and
violations.
The majority of the
testimony and oral
arguments, which lasted
almost 25 hours, involved
ambiguous legislation passed by previous campus
governing councils.
The plaintiffs charged the Elections Board
chairman misinterpreted the intent of a CGC act
establishing three new polling sites at Rosenau
Hall. Hamilton Hall and Kenan laboratories when
Rackoff
he refused to let off-campus undergraduates vole
at these polling sites. Only graduate students were
allowed to vote at these polls.
Former CGC members testified the intent of the
bill was to allow both graduate students and
undergraduates to vote at the three additional
polls. However, the CGC failed to specify intent in
the bill even though there was much discussion
when the bill was presented that the act would not
be fair unless all off-campus students could vote at
the polls, CGC members testified.
But if the CGC was at fault, so was the Elections
Board chairman for failing to attend the meeting at
which the bill wasdiscussed last November. Brown
contended throughout the hearing.ln an interview
Friday, Brown said all Elections Board chairmen
should be required to attend CGC meetings when
bills concerning elections laws are before the
council.
Another discrepancy in the intent of CGC
legislation concerned the 1 1 a.m.-4 p.m. polling
hours on Feb. 5. The plaintiffs charged the hours
were unconstitutional and did not allow on
campus residents an equal opportunity to vote, in
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comparison to students who were allowed to ote
on central campus.
Brown charged that a 1977 amendment to the
elections laws required the
polls to be open from II
a.m. -5 p.m. However, the
intent of the amendment is
ambiguous since the
elections laws also state the
polls must be open between
the hours of 1 0 a.m. -7 p.m.
for at least five hours. I he
CGC did not delete the live
hour minimum
requirement law, and
Elections Board chairman
Scott Simpson testified he
believed the polling hours on Feb. 5 were
constitutional.
The speaker for the CGC w hen the 1 1 a.m. -5
p.m. clause was added testified that the intention
of the amendment was to guarantee that the polls
would be open until 5 p.m., thus allowing on
campus residents who had afternoon classes an
. Brown
equal opportunity to vote in their dorms.
Unfortunately, the polling hour discrepancy is
not the only ambiguous provision in the elections
laws.
"The present election laws need to be throw n out
and new laws written," Brown said.
Brown's major complaint with the election laws
concerns the appeals process. The laws are
ambiguous as to what election violations can be
contested and w hat the statute of limitations is for
filing, an election complaint.
Besides the 25-hour-long trial, the court spent
several hours in pretrial hearings trying to
interpret the elections laws and decide what the
court had jurisdiction to hear.
Brow n said it was ev ident the present laws were
inoperable since elections have been contested for
the past two years.
Last year Allen Jernigan. a candidate for editor
of The Daily Tar Heel, charged election violations
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Rainy weather did not drench the enthusiasm of the
crowd this weekend at Springfest. Hundreds of people
gathered to partake in the celebration of spring.
Keyboard player for the local group Nightflyer warms
up the crowd for a perfect groupmusic reaction in the
chemistry of the season.
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Crowd parties to Springfest music
By TOM WEBER
Surf Writer
Although skies turned cloudy, the party
mood remained bright through the weekend of
rock V roll at Henderson Residence College's
Springfest.
The scene on Connor beach Friday
afternoon changed from the usual assortment
of sultry springtime sunbathers to a crowd of
several hundred beer-drinking, foot-stomping
partygoers who were entertained by three
bands.
The concert started as the crowd settled
down to listen to Spectrum, a student trio that
played soft rock. A high point of their set was
"Khomeini (ayatollah that 1 love you) Blues."
Hard-rock group Asphalt took the stage as
evening drew on and satisfied the crowd,
despite technical problems.
The Digits finished the evening's
entertainment with what one student called
"unbutton-your-shirt-and-show-your-chest-
hair" rock. Another student observed that the
leather-clad, blw-dried Digits were "going for
the Rod Stewart look."
The crowd reassembled Saturday afternoon
under cloudy skies to listen to Nightflyer, a
student group that played more popular slow
rock.
"There weren't a lot of people here at noon,"
group member Keith Macdonald noted, "but
the crowd listened to the quiet songs and really
seemed to enjoy the rock 'n' roll."
The mood of the crowd got better because of
the beer as things went along," drummer Khalil
Jaber observed.
As the sky darkened, Springfest officials
contemplated moving the festival to the Tin
Can, where sound equipment would be safe
from the rain.
Meanwhile, the rowdy Nick Fear group took
the stage, at one point getting the crowd
stomping to "The Time Warp" from The
Rocky Horror Picture Show. A highlight to
this show was the cameo performance by
Stephen Kershaw, the energetic old-timer who
momentarily stole the show from Mike Cross
last year. Kershaw danced, flirted with the girls
and even toasted the crowd with a glass of wine.
"I'm as old as Methuselah, but I live it up,"
Kershaw said. The key to his vitality? "I live
right," Kershaw grinned, raising a beer.
Late in the Nick Fear show officials
announced that the nighttime concert would be
held in the Tin Can. A light rain began to fall as
the crowd dispersed, leaving a muddy sea of
pop tops and paper cups behind. Junior Kathy
Houtz looked disappointed.
"I've had a good time, but 1 wish they could
hold it on the lawn," she said. "It's not as
spontaneous in the Tin Can because not as
many people just happen by."
"Brice Street has tens of thousands of dollars
worth of equipment and they didn't want to
play in the rain," festival chairperson, Susan
Strayhorn said.
"This is the first time Springfest has been
See SPRINGFEST on page 2
F rom Staff and wire reports
The Olympic Games in Moscow will be canceled if
the United States can get enough important
countries to go along with its boycott, a member of
the International Olympic Committee predicted
Sunday.
"The IOC doesn't want to see any half-baked
Games," said Douglas F. Roby, w ho has represented
the United States on the international committee
since 1952.
The United States would have to obtain a boycott
pledge from such nations as Great Britain. France.
West Germany, Australia, New Zealand and Canada
for the games to be canceled, Roby said.
At the urging of the Carter administration, the
U.S. Olympic Committee voted Saturday in a
meeting at Colorado Springs, Colo., to boycott the
July games. The boycott is a protest against the
Soviet military presence in Afghanistan.
The Carter administration has predicted that 50 of
the 142 nations slated to go to Moscow will go along
with the boycott.
UNC basketball player Mike O'Koren, who has
been invited to the Olympic trials in Raleigh May IK
22, said he supported the decision made by Carter
and the U.S. Olympic Committee.
"We're gonna do whatever the president says,"
O'Koren said Sunday. "I'd like to play, but they have
made a decision because of a threat to our country,
and we should stand behind that.
"I know it's a big disappointment to some athletes
because it's one chance in a lifetime, but it looks like
the Russians are going to be stubborn in
Afghanistan."
O'Koren said he had talked with 1980 Olympic
basketball coach Dave Gavitt, who told him despite
Carter's decision a team will be picked at Raleigh in
May. O'Koren said, on the advice of his coaches, he
would not attend the trials.
UNC fencing coach Ron Miller, who is involved
with Olympic training sessions, said he and other
coaches will continue to hold the sessions despite the
USOC's decision.
"The only way the decision affects me is that a
good number of athletes have stopped training and
wouldn't go if we did go to the Olympics," Miller
said.
Miller said the decision by Carter and the USOC
would not mean much to the Sov iets."The thing that
is going to hurt (the Soviets) is the companies and
corporations that were pouring money in and are
now pulling out."
Both O'Koren and M iller said they disapproved of
an attempt by some athletes to file a lawsuit against
the USOC for preventing them from attending the
games.
"1 don't believe in that." O'Koren said."l respect
the president and his decision."
"I think it's stupid," Miller said. "It won't serve any
purpose except to divide the athletes. We have been
united in purpose up until now.
Thus far. Carter has received limited support from
Western allies in his attempt to boycott the games,
(ireat Britain's Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
has backed the boycott, but British athletes, apart
from equestrians and hockey players, have vowed to
go to Moscow.
Sir Denis Fellows, chairman of the British
Olympic Association, called the U.S. decision a
disappointment.
The list of nations officially boycotting the
Olympics remains small. China has joined, as have
Egypt, Saudi Arabia and Iran. Several European
nations, including France and Ireland, have said they
will await a joint European position.
West Germany will decide May 15 on the boycott.
Over the weekend Chancellor Helmut Schmidt
reiterated that a continued Soviet presence in
Afghanistan virtually would rule out West German
participation in the games.
The president of Japan's Olympic Committee said
the U.S. decision would "gravely affect" Japan's own
decision, while a Norwegian official said the USOC's
action would make it easier for Norway to join the
boycott.
Greek women
do not mind
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By BETSI SIMMONS
Staff Writer
Imagine a female senior at this University who is
not allowed to invite her date to her room for a beer
on a Thursday night.
Though this situation may sound like a scene from
the 19th century, strongly enforced alcohol and
visitation policies in most University sorority houses
make it a reality today, and most sorority members
say they don't mind.
For instance, at the Zeta Tau Alpha house, as at
most sorority houses on campus, no alcohol is
allowed on the premises and no males are allowed
upstairs at any time, Zeta Tau Alpha President
Harrison Suppler said.
"Annually we are required to send a copy of the
North Carolina state law on alcohol to our national
chapter and also a copy of University regulations on
alcoholic beverages," Suppler said.
XlvJc want to serve alcohol at a function we must
send in a request form that states three-fourths of the
chapter and pledges have voted in fav or of serv ing it,
that we have liability insurance, and a description of
the occasion including date, time and place," she
added.
The Kappa Delta sorority also must send to its
national organization forms requesting permission
to serve alcohol, and only a specific number of
requests are granted per school year, President Mary
Bess Jarrard said.
The women at the house do not resent the strict
alcohol and visitation policies, though, Jarrard
added. "Everyone understands the rules and why
they are there."
Molly Martin, vice president of the Alpha Delta Pi
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house, said, "It's kind of like at your ow n home. It is
respect for each other and the house itself."
While the Phi Mu house has a strict visitation
policy no males allowed in the upstairs living
area - it has no alcohol policy.
"We are allowed to have alcohol on the premises
anytime. We don't have to report to anyone." Laura
Borton, secretary of the Phi Mu house, said.
"National has never tried to regulate us, as far as 1
know."
Members of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority are
allowed to drink beer or w ine (but no liquor) inside
the house in paper cups, only during specified hours,
said Lee Clements, first vice president of the house. If
members want to serve alcohol at a function,
however, they must request permission from
national headquarters.
Kappa Kappa Gamma also has a visitation policy
See RULES on page 2
By BILL FIELDS
Spurts Editor
Yawns, applause and screams. They tell the
sequence of events in Saturday's Blue-White
Carolina football scrimmage.
The day isn't filled with bright sunshine. It's
warm and cloudy, a chance of rain. Yawn.
Perhaps the Tar Heels' best player, tailback
Amos Law rence, is not even suited up. Ditto for
Darrell Nicholson, Wayne Tucker, Tyress
Bratton and a few more players. Yawn.
It's a game among friends, with teams
coached by friends and overseen by the friends'
boss, Dick Crum, head coach. Why, would
anyone really get ready to play? Yawn.
But, there are some fine football players on
the field. There's Kelvin Bryant, running at
tailback for the White team. And one of his
teammates, linebacker Lawrence Taylor. These
fellows can play. Applause.
On the Blue team might be the Tar Heels' best
offensive lineman, Ron Woolen. And tight end
Mike Chatham. Boy. can he catch the ball in a
crowd. Applause.
Then, there's the battle to be the team's
starting quarterback. Will it be Chuck Sharpe.
the more experienced one, or Rod Elkins, a
younger player who also knows what to do
behind center. Applause.
But best of all. this is the only public showing
the team gives until it opens the new season in
the fall. 1 he only chance. Scream.
The game starts off slowly. Whites lead 7-6 at
halftime. Nothing exciting's happening.
Taylor's making some nice tackles. For that
matter, both the defenses arc doing all right. But
exciting? No. Ho-hum. Yawn.
Chuck Sharpe. qua rterbac king the Blues,
leads the team downfield. Burrus goes over
from the I-yard line. Then. Sharpe, because the
first-string place-kicker is on the White team,
attempts the conversion. Chuckle. The ball
flutters harmlessly to the left of the goalposts.
But, he tried. Applause.
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Kelvin Dryent runs for yardage In Saturday's Blue-Vhits gams
...rising sophomore picked up 90 yards. White team won, 23-20
Bryant's running well lor the Whites, and
Billy Johnson isn't doing too badly lor the
opposition. Both are hoping for big )ear in
1980. Applause.
A reserve delcnsivc back. Greg Poole, snares
an interception. He trots 2H yard with ti alter
the catch. With the ball deep in Blue territory,
the Whites march in for their first-half store.
Applause.
But that third quarter turnovers and stalled
drives. Where is the No-Do? Yawn.
Wait a minute. "I he fourth quarter begins.
What's so magical about No 4. Hut something
obviously is. Or mavhe none of the p!ac
wants to lose and.thetclorc. has to cat hot does.
These are growing bo who like to cat.
Applause.
Hayes boots a SJ-yard field goal. It's IlW.
Whites. Applause.
I irsi play from scrimma. Sharpe scamper
70 yards untouched for a touchdown. People
sav hu a good runner. First screams.
IIkt Whites won't quit. Defensive tackle
Harry Stanback grabs a tipped pas. g 25
yards for the score. 17-14, Whites. Second
screams.
On third-and'10, Sharpe connects with
Chatham for an 18-yard scorr. He catches the
ball, not in a crowd, but in a mob. I he people
were right. 20-17, Blues. Ihird scream.
I imc is running out. Ltktns and Bryant can
taste those hot dogs. And they'll get only one
serving, too. But so what. They cat well all the
time. Yawn
Ball is snapped I Ikins fakes a reverse right,
goes left. Sees Hryaru streaking down field.
Connects. Touchdown. Whites win, 23-20.
Biggesi streams.