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1 f i Deau Gusts Sunny skies and breezy condi tions today with high in the low 60s. Tonight's low will dip into the upper 30s with only a slight chance of rain. ! ? v t 1 : s Topic of excellence Come hear former U.S. Rep. Richardson Preyer speak at 7 tonight in Memorial Hall. Story on page 3. urn' i'n IS ... Serving the students and the University comnmnity since 1893 Volume 89, Issue W 2aj A - ' YYadnasday, April 15, 1901 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 933-0245 Busmess, Advertising 933-1163 o 77 77 777 777) T&7) TV? 1 ' 1 I n. u i 'a m . 1 1 i v y i i i j i i By MARK SCIIOEN Staff Writer 77i5 is the first article in a three-part series on University housing. Today The Daily Tax Heel takes a look at the history of housing at UNC. Thursday's story will focus on the lottery system and the Friday conclusion will discuss possible solutions to the on-campus housing shortages. One Connor Dormitory resident runs out of the lounge, tears streaming down her cheeks. A resident of Winston Dormitory responds in characteristic Carolina fashion. ' 'Let 's get drunk! ' ' Others wander around the room dazed, searching for an explanation that is neither soothing nor satisfying. Another tearful female walks out clutching a man who has tried to calm her down, but failed. She re peats to herself, "It's not fair, it's not fair." Much has been said and written about spring in Chapel Hill the sunshine, baseball, concerts on Connor Beach. . UNC's housing shortage, painfully brought home to the students by the annual spring lottery, becomes an anomaly something to be forgotten after the housing contract and prepayment are submitted. Suddenly the morning after lottery day gives the unlucky Carolina student an other activity to squeeze into an already crowded schedule apartment hunting. He or she is forced into the world of landlords, leases, utilities and security deposits. It is a world the student did not ask for and is probably woe fully unprepared for. The on-campus housing shortage is readily recognized by University officials. As Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Donald A..Boulton said, "Wedo have a demon strated need. Given the tightness of the financial situa tion, solutions are difficult. We've been working on this for a long time." But UNC does not advertise the fact that it cannot house every student who wants to live on campus. The June 1980 Undergraduate Bulletin states only that "the University maintains residence hall space for more than 6,600 single students." There is no mention of the fact that an average of more than 1 ,000 students were closed out the past three years, not knowing where they would live the next year. It seems as if UNC has always had an on-campus housing shortage. An article in the Raleigh News and Observer on Sept. 10, 1967, written by then housing director James E. Wadsworth, said that the University never did recover adequately from the housing crunch of 1795. The rapid increase in students enrolled prompted the construction of Main (now South) Building, which then served as a dormitory and classroom building. Prior to its completion in 1814, students frequently built small huts in the roofless shell when the weather permitted. About 50 years later, enrollment increased to a point where less than half of the students could be housed in University buildings. The construction of New East and New West, both completed in 1 859, alleviated the prob lem, if only temporarily. The conclusions of this century's two world wars saw similar sharp increases in enrollment and in housing shortages. By the end of, World War I, both students and faculty were searching for limited dwellings. An in crease in dormitory construction resulted, with the Upper See HOUSING on page 2 Si rn: i i s, ; ' i : v 1 TrmnMe brin MS 77 but iliG crime By DEAN LOWMAN and RACHEL PERRY Staff Writers Third in a five-part series. The emergence of North Carolina's Research Triangle Park as a regional center for scientific, technological and industrial research has played a major role in a 64 percent increase in the triangle area's population since 1960, a year after the Park began. While the rapid growth of the park has enabled the area to maintain low unemployment levels and a. higher standard of living, it has also presented the area with increased demands for scarce resources, and a dramatic rise in crime. Problems have arisen in providing adequate water and sewer facilities, housing, transportation and police protection to meet the growing demands of both the Park and its surrounding com-. 'munities of Raleigh, Durham and Chapel -::.:;-?': However, local planners said precautions were being taken to ensure the demands would not overload the area's capabilities. The population of Orange, Wake and Durham counties has risen from 324,047 in 1960 to 530,673 in the 1980 census, a 63.8 percent increase. The Research Trianq!e into the future Of the three counties, Orange has grown the fastest with a 79.3 percent increase (42,970 in 1960 to 77,055 in 1980). Mean while Wake County increased by 77.9 percent (169,082 to 300,833); and Durham County has increased by 36.4 percent (111,995 to 152,785). During the same period, the Park increased its number of businesses from two in 1960 to 35 by the end of 1980, an increase of 1,750 percent. Its employment increased by 3,500 percent, from 500 people in 19.C0 to 17,500 in 1980. "By the end of the year, we're expecting to have around 40 businesses operating with a total employment of about 20,000," said Ned E. Huffman, executive vice president of the Research Triangle Foundation. It is the tremendous growth rate that has presented local gov ernments with problems in providing adequate services. The ever-increasing interdependence between Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill have led some to believe the Triangle area may become a mcgacity, by essentially merging the three cities into one large metropolis. , I "Studies as long ago as 1955 indicated this area could be one big mcgacity from Richmond, Va., to Spartanburg, S.C., even tually," Huffman said. , - , 4 ! "By the year 2000, it's entirely possible that the Triangle area will essentially be one big city with the utilities, governments and special districts (such as police, fire and school districts) all ex tending into the Research Triangle Park," Huffman said. The Research Triangle's population boom over the past 20 years has corresponded with a dramatic increase in crime. The crime rate for the Triangle area is growing twice as fast as the nation's crime rate, and about 25 percent faster than that of North Carolina's, said David Jones, an analyst for the Gover nor's Crime Commission. "Whenever you have an economic development like the Tri angle, you have increasing crime," Jones said. "Higher crime rates are the price you pay for the increased economic growth and standards of living." Jones cited the Triangle's hlh net in-mir.ration of the youth population (ajc 15 16 24) as the key factor in rising crime rates. "The migration to the' sunbelt, along with co'leje and military influxes, arc all pouring into this area," he &aid. "As the popu lation raws, there are more items to rip off and more people around to steal these items." The Triangle's moit recurrent crime is property theft, includ ing burglaries, larceny and motor vehicle theft. Jones said vio lent crimes (murder, rzpe, robbery and eravatc-J assault) arc not as frequent in the Triangle as in other urban centers. "Dur ham is the center of most of the io!ent crimes," he said. From I960 to 1970, the Research Triar.-!e area population ex perienced a 33.5 percent increase, and a 69 percent increase in crime. But from IV,') to 191), the areas crime rate increased 5S5 percent uhile the population cr.ly ton 50 to 60 percent, "Although the TnarrJe area'i crime rate started out about even with the Rational crime rate, it has more or Ir.s snowballed since then. "It's trowing more than twice as f 4 as the nation's is had a positive effect in crime rate," Jone Otmously. K ex-arch Tiianle h tun-in;? in pcefle, money and indu-.try, but it has ;,!u indirectly ifttlucna-d the tWu citme rule," he said. "AnvihiAa that con tnbutev to economic devijopnwm i fain 3 to tunif-ufe to the crime lute." 1'ivdivtioiH on the juanrfe's i.ipidSy incrv.i'vin vfime fate do 2 4 ai- v-r -H 4 Sailing away i I f M t II tt U.'C's housing crunch of 1795 has never been remedied ... each spring students dread the idea of the lottery no p 1, c C? o T The Associated Press EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. Space shuttle Columbia wound up her first flight Tuesday, sailing through re-entry heat to a perfect wheels-down landing on a desert runway. The landing operations were performed by astro nauts John Young and Robert Crippen, who inau gurated the space transportation system with a flight lasting 2 days, 6Vi hours. "What a way to come to California," said Crippen. "Do we have to take it to the hangar, Joe?" asked Young after the ship came to a stop. . "We have to dust it off first," replied shuttle con trol's Joe Allen. , ' The astronauts came out of a 15-minute communi cations blackout, the flight's most dangerous time, . with a message forthe shuttle tearrtr'HcuO Houston, Columbia here." ' ' v The ship rolled to a stop on the Rogers Dry Lake runway on the Mojave Desert at 1:22 p.m. EST, right on the runway centerline. It had been aloft exactly 2 days, 6 hours, 20 minutes and 52 seconds. "Welcome home Columbia," said Allen. "Beau tiful. Beautiful." From President Ronald Reagan came a message which read "Congratulations on a job well done." The astronauts had to remain inside the ship for about 45 minutes while the ship's remaining toxic and volatile fuels were cleared out and the hatch opened. The first recovery crew came away with 3 problemless report. Enormous crowds, estimated at 170,000, came in cars and campers to watch the completion of the trial flight. Chase planes were aloft to escort the shuttle in and to photograph the moment. Columbia went aloft Sunday and performed nearly, flawlessly during its maiden cruise. Over the Indian Ocean, an hour before touchdown. Young and Crippen fired the engine to start the ship on its descent. All communication between spacecraft and ground stopped for 15 minutes as an ion fence formed around Columbia. The fall through the atmosphere was the biggest source of worry since it had never been tried with a winged craft. Instead of one-time-use materials to burn off hf-tj. the :shuttle -lud been covered wiih. heat-deriectiWg silicon tiles over nearly every milli meter of its surface. - Columbia came into the atmosphere nose up to ' shift the brunt of the 2,750 degree heat to the tiles on its belly. Free and weightless in space, Columbia now became an 80-ton glider the biggest ever flown. After the Columbia's landing, it was towed to the Drydan Space Flight Center alongside the dry lake. Mel Burke, Drydcn's shuttle project manager, said the craft would be precisely weighed and balanced for a careful analysis of its landing, and cameras would examine the 3 1 ,000 insulating tiles that form its heat shield. Jackson tir eimotioii&, ca lis met maoire Mack ''g ractuate By BETSY RUSSELL SUff Writer The Rev. Jesse Jackson, a nationally known civic leader and black spokesman, spoke to an emotional audience in UNC's Memorial Hall Tuesday night and stressed the need for blacks to have equal access to opportunity and education. Jackson delivered the fourth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture, which was established in 1977. A Baptist minister and civic leader, Jackson was King's protege during the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s: King appointed him director of Operation Breadbasket, an organ ization of black businessmen and clergy in Chicago to promote black employment at businesses operating in black communities. In 1971, Jackson founded Operation PUSH (People United to Save Humanity). Since that time, he has devoted his time to its devel opment, focusing on improving the quality of life of underprivileged and minority groups. He ako worked to develop the PUSI 1 for Excellence in Education (PUSH-EXCEL) program. "American history is black history and bbek history is American history, and unless it is put in that context, the people (who teach) must go back to school and study the facts of America in search of an ideology of equity 3 and parity," Jackson said. The ratio between blacks in sports to blacks in the classroom is a concern, Jackson said. He asked if "it is really progress that 100 years ago we measured our progress on how much cotton we could pick and bale, and that 100 years- later we've exchanged cottonballs for footballs, baseballs and basketballs." Professional football and basketball leagues are full of black players, Jackson said. "But then, the coaches and the athletic directors those who build their careers and make their profits are whites." Jackson said blacks must raise questions as to why the situation existed. "If you don't ever raise the right questions, you'll never get the right answers," Jackson said. Jackson stressed the importance of predom inantly black schools such as North Carolina Agricultural and Technical and North Carolina Central. "The primary mission (of a black school) is to teach the so-called unteachablc. It's mission is to reach the unreachable," he said. "The black schools breed black leadership. And leadership tends to emerge in a majority experience, so we must fight for this university arrangement," he said. Jackson led an emotional audience in prayer for "two giants who died this past week." Dr. Howard Thurmond, a spiritual theologian in 0 V. 1 , , . v X, L A OIHJury Hfmmt Rov. Jcssa Jackson (right) spoko ct tha King Memorial Lecture ... Jackson prayed with Dr. Harold Wallace last night before the speech this country and the author of 22 books, died Friday, and former champion boxcT Joe Louis died Sunday. "We are in a system that requires a strong resistance movement," Jackson said, referring to the present political and economic situation. "There must be tension between the system you're in and the system that's in you. The right wing is too strong for us to be lets human than our captors." Jackson said blacks have been blamed for the present "white economic crisis. We must not let the community use us as the cause of the crisis." Jackson blamed the current crisis on inferior management. At the speech's end, he led the audience in chanting: "I am somebody. Respect me. Pro tect me. Never neglect me. No one will save us but us. 1 am somebody. My mind is a pearl. 1 can learn anything in the orid ." Robort'o triple Icada victory 71 "7? ,4 i 11 li &u 0& jmery thrift TRIANGLE on p: By CLIFTON BARNES Sporti 114itr The North Carolina baseba'J team jumped out in front of Wake Forest early, fell back Into a 3-3 tie and won 4-3 when, in the seventh, Drex Rolens tripled ar.d Scott Bradley drove him home on a sacrifice fly Tuesday at Bo-shamcr "He just threw mea fastball, the first pitch," Roberts said of his towering triple to center field. "1 knew it wasn't out because 1 hit it straight aw ay." The center field fence at Bch feiner h 392 feet a ay. Wake forest threatened in the ninth when B.ll Rulfncr stirred and er.t to eeoaJ on 3 aerilke hunt by John Martin, ihit UNC pit t hes 4sel)mLii came 0:1 in fd.cfcf itaner Chris Kahlar and retired the side by forcing a gioundout and striking out catcher David Couch. In the first inning, Carolina scored hcn Hnt baieman Joe Reto doubled home Roberts and Bradley for a quick 2-0 lead. The Deacons cut the lead in half in the second inning when Ruffner tilled a clo heme run to ri;J,t field, tut in the Carolina half of the tra-ans the Tar I leds mrned back to a tvcMun advantage. With en; oat Shawn D-ein sir.-'ed arj stele second bae. After a pop ci, M.teh McCeney irled in Dean (ct a 3-1 lead. 1 he Tar t iczU could hae urorcd more b the swi.C. J. f . "CT l u--'- .,4i..4 Uiiw lv.,.i i.iC ttctntm tried t .;or? ?,!.CcT.ey ; the ay from f.rst ta-e. He was cacht dead in his tracks at he "I made un my rr.lr.J to tend McOeney too early," Coach Rctj-erti said, "it waiju.! a bad coaching mistake. 1 made it closer than it should ha-.e been." Wale dew closer b the third. Couch doubled and short it cp Crej ixkhs -:-Jl him In to male the iccre UNC 3, Wale for ret 2. ICahler, now 3-1. t reeved t hr o-.;s;h ih: r.ctt 2'i ir.r.ir.z Utott Deaecn fCrin La ran hd off the sixth wuh his I2ih hern tun cf the teuton 10 tie Ha serte ar.J let fp the Better ti triple. "It's r Kdl for ui 13 wb t! t; e of tJJ dxx,h Bc--lcm al.L "Ve'j feel p3o4 nn in! a the toarr.a.n-nt." TTse AtLr.tie Coast Cor.fcftrt.ee 1 . l t.' .r- erstnt terass ApU 22 a! B.f..Ve:;t Mi.:.ua The Tar Hreb ourhit WUle 12 ta scc- t naa Bunn and Ruffner combined for four of the Deacon' hits. Rcto Has the leadir.j finer for Carolina m he went 3 of 4 with two ItBI'i. Ktherti had two extra base hits a double arid ll; triple. K!eCknry, De-i arid Badley each collected to iin!e$. The Tar HetU moved to $ 6 in the ACC and 27-11 ouralJ nhi Wale forr.t dropped lo 2'f in the conference and 17-1 - o trill. Although Carolina canned b the confe rence b its f o rcrruinir ACCfamev Cttuh Robert i iiid hi think it h Ur.;nur,i to n them. U.NC coo ta Wii;4u,'vSalern Ibursday to face W.4le l4til zrsitt txUxz con.irj tv.t to tin, .h tr- ACCiUte heitufday aainst N C, Uiit. 11 e T-r lleS f'ay n.-notilaaw? l Carrtrt':'! I tUf at S p.m. ii lanhjnvcr.
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