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f 4 7 I . f The weather turns colder today with a high near 40. The low will be near 20. There is a 20 percent chance of rain today end 10 percent tonight. WW 'M ... r Wl N. 7 aj i .A A i f ! Serving the students end the University community since 1893 Confused by the myriad election? and the numerous candidates running? See page 3 for en update of severe! of the campus races. Friday, January 30. 1031 Chape! Rill, fcrth Carolina KswiSportsArts 333-C245 Bu &srs A d v en i s in j 333-1 163 T ' T rv ) i I I I ! H '('J j ;J i jy Kjjs j , f A A 77 - - :77 -' 77- " sn . in v f '1: 'i ' 1. . . ' ( : f 5 1 i'1 . Cy TED AVEHY . surr writer :." In testimony before the N.C. Utilities Commission Tuesday and Wednesday, the UNC utilities director said Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co.'s request to increase its rates by 128 percent was unjustified. Utilities Director Robert Peake told the commission that the basis for Southern Dell's proposal of a 239 percent increase in the charge for central office work was exorbitant and inconsis tent with comparable services. RHA President Peggy Leight also will go before the com mission next week with petitions signed by 4,000 students protesting Southern Bell's proposed increases. . "The petitions are a way to say that there are students who are upset about the proposals)," Leight said. Similar petitions with 5,000 signatures were presented to the utilities commission when Southern Bell proposed an increase in 1979. The company's initial request was denied, but later a request for 56 percent of the original amount was approved. Southern Bell requested that charges for central office work wiring work involved in phone connections be increased from $5.85 to $23.25. In addition, it recommended that the current rate of $11.35 for primary service be raised to $16.85 and the current rebate of $3.00 be increased to $5.35. That would bring the proposed total bill for installation to $34 75. Peake contended that central office work was essentially the same as reconnecting a phone which previously had been in operation (a restoration fee) and therefore neither the $6.85 charge nor the $23.25 proposed fee were acceptable. He sug gested $3.85 which is the amount now charged for restoration. He agreed with the $16.85 charge for primary service and the $5.35 rebate, which would bring his proposed total to $15.35. In an interview Thursday, Peake said the University should receive special consideration since the same number assign ments were given to the same phones year after year. Because of this situation, "wiring work within the central office is somewhat less than it would be if (Southern Bell) were making different number assignments and having to make wiring changes required for that," Peake said. He said the commission would not decide on the proposed increases until March. "The commission will likely approve something less than what Southern Bell asked for," Peake said. The commission's public staff, which advises the commis sion, has recommended that, the primary service charge be raised to $13.00 and the central office charge to $7.90. Their ..recommended ';charge;-isv-$15J5,t lifter J"siibtracting.X;5..35 rebate for on-campus students. v nv; . . ' . In September, Student Government and RHA representa tives toured Southern Bell's Chapel Hill offices so that the company's representative could better explain its reasons for the proposed rate hike. The student representatives, however, said after the tour they still were not convinced that the rate hike was justified, and would continue protesting it. ., i i 9 1 1 r i I I'. I 5 ( t" ' 1 'k 4 to t - 'i ... - . . .... X L2cn against machine DIM Stun SIi.Mm.- By DEAN LOWMAN Staff Writer ' More than 4,000 UNC students may be affected severely by the Reagan administration's proposed cuts in loan and grant programs to reduce federal spending in education, said Eleanor Morris, director of the Student Aid Office at UNC. Secretary of Education Terrel H. Bell said Wed nesday that the Reagan administration was going to propose cutting back on both the Basic Educational Opportunity Grants and other loan programs for college.students. "We don't yet know how we're going to do it, but . we're going to have to reduce the dollar demands," he said. "Cutting back on the grant program will hurt the students who can least afford to go to college," Morris said. "On the other hand, cutbacks in the loan program may not make money any less avail able, but students would have to pay dearly in terms of interest rates. "Whereas students who obtain governmental loans now do not have to pay the interest on the loans until they finish with school, they may, in the future, have to pay the interest while they are still . students. 1 feel that a good many of the students on 9 - rr-n .Oil 77 the program would be hard-pressed to do this." . More than 3,500 students receiving financial aid at UNC are assisted by the DEOG program,;whi!e about 4,000 are helped by loan programs. "Some of the recipients are aided by both loans and grants," Morris said. During the current school year, the Department of Education is spending $2.6 billion on need-based grants to college students and another $2.2 billion on loans to low-income, middle-income and even upper-income families. Projections are that the J3EOG program will require an additional $311 million for 1931. "We'll have to wait and see what the specific terms of the cut are, but any cut will inevitably . cause hardships on those who are least able to pay," said UNC President WUiiam C. Friday. "I can foresee no greater loss for a state than to reduce its capability to provide adequate educational oppor tunities for its people." Morris advised students to apply for financial aid early to lessen the chance of being told that no more . funds were available. "I'd also like to urge students to keep on top of this situation and be prepared to write their congressmen to kt them know how seriously this cut would affect students' ability to obtain an education,'.' she said.. By DAVID JARRETT Staff Writer The trial and conviction of China's "Gang of Four" including Mao Tse-tung's widow reveals that a fundamental change has taken place in Chinese politics in recent years, UNC political science professor Hsi Cheng Chi said Wednesday. "The trial of the 'Gang of Four' is itself a very clear indication that after 30 years of silence the Chinese people said they were fed ; up witlv the kind of government they livedo under until three years ago," Chi said. Mao Tse-tung, ruler -of China from 1949 until his death in 1976, was an ideological purist, Chi said. "Mao tended to regard the greatest threat to the Chinese revolutionary movement as the revival of capitalism." But the current Chinese leader communist party Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, insisted for many years that economic development should take precedence over ideology, he said. "The government has now been paying much greater attention to the quality of life. "Future leaders would find it very difficult to go back to the old way of ruling," he said. Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, and former Vice Premier Zhang Chunqiao were sentenced to death Saturday in the celebrated "Gang of Four", trial but will be given sentences ranging from 16 years to life, - - All - faced possible death sentences-on charges of frame-ups, persecutions and armed rebellion plots. J- Chi said that two-year suspended death sentences, like those given in this case, have been a part of Chinese tradition for centuries. The force of Jiang's convictions and the nature of the repentance expected of her will make her death nearly certain, he said. "In the Chinese culture, repentance means you have to make an explicit demonstration that you acknowledged that you did the wrong thing." However, the sentences were not really given for the usual and reported reason of allowing the guilty parties to repent but because of political necessity, he said. A fear-that "ultra-radicals" still in power on the local and provincial levels might be galvanized into action by an immediate death . ..sentences is. -one. reason . for, the two-year suspended sentence, Chi said. Present Chinese leadership also fears that young people with scientific and technical knowledge who were educated during the Cultural Revolution might engage in acts of sabotage. "They don't have a lot of power, but you can't afford to ignore them," Chi said. He added that there was also an ideological problem with an immediate death s'entence. "To kill Jiang Qing is a direct slap in the face of Mao." But ideological differences between Mao and Deng were not at the heart of the trial. "You cannot say the "Gang of Four" trial is a statement about (ideological) spiritualism and materialism," Chi said. Instead, the force with which the "Gang of Four" Insisted upon policies "clearly radical .and.,c! early f-sfhfuL.to-,the- Maoist-line" "created a bluer power struggle, he said.tThis . ' strusle for power led to the trial. Chi rated the chances of Deng's government's survival as "fair." The survival of his government will depend on the Sea TRIAL on pago 2 f I i M By DIANE LUPTON Staff Writer :1a dlesi .'to no Although the deadline for listing personal property to calculate payment for Orange County taxes is Satur day, most students interviewed said they had not listed their taxable property and did not plan to. "I think my parents are taking care of it," one said. All residents of Orange County who own personal property which includes such items as cars, clothing, bicycles, furniture and jewelry are required to list possessions at the county tax office in Carr Mill Mall during January, county Tax Supervisor Bill Laws said. After everyone has listed, countyofficials will deter mine the tax rate. ; ' Laws said freshmen, transfer students or other first ; year residents of the county would not have to list taxes for this year but would be required to list next year, if. they lived here most of the year. Although students may claim residency somewhere else, they are required to list in the county where they live most of the year, Laws said. According to one tax lister, several students have listed their taxes already. "Students knew more about it this year," said Nancy Lloyd at the Carr Mill tax office. "I've had several come in and list." Lloyd added that some students fail to list because they think their parents claim many of their personal belongings in their listings. Laws said this confusion was always a problem for his office. Many students list their taxes to avoid problems if their voter registration ever is challenged, Lloyd said. There are penalties for those who fail to list or who list late, Laws said. A ten percent fine is assessed on total personal property for persons not listing. Laws said the tax office had checked both motor vehicle registration and apartment complex rosters in past years to find persons not listing and probably would follow that procedure again. A property tax is assessed directly on goods such as cars, golf clubs, unit air-conditioners, chain saws and other types of tools and equipment. For clothes, furni ture and other items, persons can estimate values or list a value calculated as six times their monthly rent. Persons who are "mrx.uuning a household," which could include student rpartmcnt dwellers, have a $300 exemption on personal property values, Laws said. He said he did not think dorm residents or persons renting rooms would qualify as householders. Students wishing to list their taxes can go to Suite ll 5 in Carr Mill MaU from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and from 9 to coon Saturday. G0 21 jT.'t tWr M FIda v.Cl forfeit h!3 frccdsm ca tha first of February ... Chapel Hill dog owners object to tho new ordinance m i r f 5 11 -Cm" Si 7 V,y ANNE IT.OKSni Many Chapel Hill dej owners do not phn to glide by the town's new manda tory ordinance scheduled to go into effect Sunday. "I'm not soins to put my dog on a lea,?, except for when we're up on . Frsr.lt;.-! Street," cr.e feslder.t izlS. "I did that before anyway, lhouh." "Th:re v. Ill t: two city sni.r.l pttrcl officers enforcing the new ordinance," .fJ ie-n :r..oa, cr.; of the two officers. "No new ttaffhss litn hired," she u'J. We'll rrotvhly surt out by j.rt warning a Jot ?f pcepts in t cinr.irj, unhw t!:cySc I'.rJ ?cftl frcujus i:ffc:v.e under the rhJ ordinance," li .-nviJ. UnJcr ih? ill ouhn-rve, tesJ-:v.u ! 1 lo l:y.c their d v" a ir.'.-.h in the d.'AUUv I f.-.Uin hfrcrl l;ut could use voice restraint to control their dejs in ether areas cf the town. Voice restraint was defined as having the dog near its owner and being able to control the animal and make it return using voice commands, Denson explained. There w ill be no clement of v oice con trol included in the new ordinance, passed by the Town Council in early Dccerr.t r. A l;: :h now rr.u,t be ueJ in c!l cres cf town, except cn the ds ov.Cr's ovn property. "1 think it i pretty stupid to luc your dog cut on a street such as Glmchoul cr Laurel Hi!! !;oad and not te fit!: to Ut it tun a round, one resi dent i-ii. "I never talc up on "f ar.U in fit rect, though, without a did i. :-:t l-A her i-ucficr -'i they l p!.;n ti p;:!rc! v; hc pf.nind- vi Dy TERESA CURRY, i Sfaff Writer 'Hey, what's going on?" was the re peated cry heard Wednesday night from 24 freshmen girls in Winston dorm as blindfolds were yanked over tlTelr eyes. "Quiet everybody," yelled one of the captors. "You have just been taken hostage. Line up single Hie. Hold on to the person in front of you and follow me." However, the hoste-es didn't readily , comply with their captors. They noisily asked one another, "Where are we? What are we doing? Who's behind all this?: . - After beins led through a maze of stairways and hallways, the irls were informed they would be freed as lens as they sjrecd to certain demands. The demands: obtain a signature from?neof the men cn the first, second cr fourth fber cf Winsjon for the si;n$ attached to their tacks which said, "Hc: r.r, I'm a fie .i.rr-in. The entire meek ho-'eiliuctlan was carried out all in fun by the f.ih cf third Hoor .'in!cn around 13:30. re!.!;? In? the the vrTC-.mttx p.'oi.:.-J icffr.hn-rts. Aha, they th:c crated th? tin Ay-room wi:h steamers. po- lies for a Mv had been called by their R.A., Linda Drury. 'We wanted to make it a mandatory floor meeting so no one would end up feeling left out. Also, we didn't want anyone to think this was just another dull dorm meeting, Drury explained. Lindsay I lolmes, president of Winston dorm, explained that she, along with third-floor sophomores Orclyn Fellows - and Tracy Wiren, came up with the idea for taking the girls hostage. "We are net trying to poke ft:n at the Iranian hosta-es," Holmes said. "We just wanted the fjrb to know they are .now' free of the stigma of being first We had the trust walk' to let th frcthmen know the upperclaasmea are there antime they need us." Holmes "Last year w:e had secret pals with the :r!$ cn cpps'.ite ends cf the halls so we could t'.t to know ens another. This year we didn't, sa we f;-cftd Uklng the frethmen hostile would be & way for us to :! to know each ether." Drury was pleased with Holmes, rcl!,VA-s -.4 Wiren for crrr,;-g up witn t id. i cn t!' :'r nn. "II. r f pprcac!.ei r.ju.th the idea. I tea n't r ecr v ho p'ar.ned it. Tfce Idea ; a'i t ' - t-'i Ti, . ( pi. If ''t fl; ' A- 'n .: y , f. i 1 ! Iz i H I, Twcnty-l'our fir.h.ro.cn lfo-.tr prty. ir. I' re ir . .... f . t 0 11 ; In : . :n iho l; n.:s j a r.isn ?y lioor so-s, that Cc3 FH-cPih.Efi cnp'i4 ln::crs tfrrrrs fra:h;rr.?n ere cT?,vjtcJ Ly tc; ... cn 3 mJ3 t::natuf2 vt CI that wars rv. amara fea'dants :ircl for frt oiam
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