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Rags to Riches
The red-headed moppet An
nie and the bald-headed
Daddy Warbucks will appear
at UNC this weekend in the
musical 'Annie.' See a pre
view on page 4.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 3, Issue 118
Thursday, January 21, 1982
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By DEAN FOUST
DTII Surf Writer
Many area apartments are inadequately
protected by fire hydrants because they
are too far away and could then present a
serious problem to firefighters, a Carr
boro town official said recently.
When Carrboro firefighters answered
the Dec. 18 call at University Lake Apart
ments, they discovered that the nearest
hydrant to the burning building was
several hundred feet away, Carrboro Fire
Chief Robert Swiger said last week.
Because the nearest fire hydrant for
University Lake Apartments is located at
the neighboring Carolina Apartments
complex, water tanker trucks from six
different departments had to be called in
to drop water for the ladder trucks.
Swiger said the scarcity of hydrants
near apartment buildings was a problem
in Carrboro.
Although every complex.has access to a
hydrant, he named Tar Heel Manor and
The Villages apartments as the only two
complexes his department felt had a suf
ficient number of hydrants appropriately
located.
Despite the present lack of hydrants,
Swiger said the apartments appeared to
have complied with existing codes when
they were built in the late 60s and early
70s. "Grandfather clauses," which pre
vent retroactive action on subsequently
passed laws, grant immunity to the apart
ments from meeting the more rigid stan
dards enforced today, he said.
With the present situation, firefighters
will have to continue relying on the assis
tance of water tankers from other depart
ments, Swiger said.
Chapel Hill Fire Chief Everett Lloyd
said that although every complex in his
jurisdiction had access to at least one
hydrant, there were several complexes
without hydrants located within 500 feet. ;
Durham firefighters . encountered, the.
same problem Jan. 1 1 at Colonial Apart
ments, a complex owned by Triangle
Communities. Durham Fire Chief J. A.
Letzing said the time devoted to laying
the hose lines to the nearest hydrant,
which was located about 1 ,000 feet away
at the street entrance to the complex was
the main cause for the extensive damage
to the building.
The laws concerning location of fire
hydrants in cities are established by state
agencies, said George High, an insurance
consultant for High Insurance Agency in
Chapel Hill. State law carries no require
ments for the location of hydrants within
city limits. For those suburbs officially
serviced by city fire departments, the law
requires hydrants to be located within
1 ,000 feet of apartment complexes.
Swiger cited the common, open attic of
the building as another reason the fire at
University .Lake Apartments spread as
quickly as it did.
Without necessary fire partitions, the
attic can become a "wind tunnel," allow
ing the fire and smoke to sweep from one
end to the other almost instantly, he said.
Other cities have also recently been ex
posed to the open attic problem. Five of
ficials discovered thta the Colonial Apart
ments complex building in Durham that
caught fire did not have any fire partitions.
Raleigh city officials discovered that
building inspectors may never have .in
spected for fire partitions in the Country
wood Village Apartments, a Raleigh
apartment building, that was gutted by
fire last November. A city report released
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Student Spotlight
ElChino Martin looks
By KERRY DEROACII
DTH Staff Writer
For ElChino Martin, reciting stilted parliamentary
procedure, pounding a wooden gavel and squinting over
stacks of campus legal bills are part of his daily routine.
As speaker of the Campus Governing Council, Martin
wears a ready-made smile while he listens to last-minute
questions by council members and final budget requests
by treasurers of student organizations. During council
meetings, casually he leans back in his chair monitoring
the debate among the 27 other people all cryng for a
chance to speak.
"1 try to not be too difficult to get along with," Mar
tin says. He grins as he describes the antics of past CGC
meetings: "1 might become a bit obnoxious, but I try not
to."
The 20-year-old junior political science major from
Charlotte is a Morehead Scholar and a member of the
N.C. Fellows program. He has worked in Student
Government since he arrived at the University in
1979 one year in the Executive Branch and the next
two years on the CGC.
For the past three years, Martin has trudged several
times a day up and down the path to his room in Mor
rison. A self-proclaimed morning-hater, Martin says he
tumbles out of bed with just enough time to roll into
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Worker removes snow from sidewalk near Lenior Hall
...the cost of removal could rise quite a bit
torm cleanup costly
to N.C., Chapel HiU
By PVJKR JUDGE
l II Slafr Writer
The costs of removing snow and ice
from the roads during the winter storms
of the past week could mean a reduction
of other road services, state and local
officials said recently.
Gary Pearce, : press secretary for Gov.
Jim Hunt, "said any cost overruns for
snowplowing would be handled within
the maintenance budget. "The money
has to come from somewhere," Pearce
said. "This would not be the first time .
snow has caused a reduction of other
maintenance services."
"Several years ago there was a real
bad snow up in the mountains," he
said. "The costs for removing that snow
meant we had to cut back on other road
services across the state."
"It is going to be several weeks before
we can determine the extent of the costs
for that storm," said J.H. Medlin,
maintenance director for the N.C. De
partment of Transportation. "We are
just in the first part of January," he
said. "We still have a lot of winter
weather ahead of us."
Medlin said that later in the year,
"We may find that we cannot fill in
some of the potholes that we would like
to."
Harold Harris, public works director
for Chapel Hill, said the recent storm,
was "worse than most."
Harris said up to $16,000 may have
been spent to clear the roads. Chapel
Hill has seven snowplows, three sand
spreaders and several tractors which are
used for snow removal, he said. He said
there was an average of 15 men working
around the clock. '
There were 10 to 12 men working to
remove snow from the UNC campus all
the time, said Claude Swecker, director
of the UNC Physical Plant. Swecker
said overtime salaries could raise the
cost of snow removal quite a bit.
Swecker said 20 tons of sand and salt
class. Each morning, as he rubs his eyes and tries to wake
up, he grabs a copy of The Daily Tar Heel. "Just so I
can see who's in the paper and what I did," he says.
By early afternoon, Martin is sitting in his small office
in Suite C of the Carolina Union. On his desk, files,
phone books and memos are bundled together. Black
headlines from newspaper clippings glare off of the large
bulletin board beside him. "I think this office was clean
once," he said, glancing to the shelves behind him.
At work, Martin has to concentrate on new budget
: procedures, old committee bills and conflicting meeting
schedules. Throughout the day informal meetings begin
and his phone rings with messages from administration
officials, the student body president and members of dif
ferent student organizations.
At each interruption he smiles.
"I've enjoyed it; it's been a challenge," Martin .said
"1 feel once you take a job, even though you might g"t ipe
about it, you do it the best way you can."
Any spare time Martin catches between eating, sleep
ing and CGC meetings, he spends trying to be a student.
( "You just have to squeeze (studying) in. That's the bot
tom line; academics are the priority," he says. "I enjoy
being with friends, waiting in line for tickets, just doing
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already have been spread around the
UNC campus.
"It remains to be seen whether this is
a particularly harsh or expensive
winter," he said. He said there had been
Up to a toot of snow some years. "Right .
now it is about average," he said, but
added iLwas still early in the season.
Michael Davis, special assistant for
the N.C. Department of Administra
tion, said it was too early to determine
just how the utility costs for the state
would be affected by the cold tempera
tures. "1 am sure there was considerably
more fuel oil and natural gas burned
during that period," Davis said.
Davis said the storm could not com
pare with the snow storm of 1978.
"That was quite a blizzard," he said.
Despite the extra cost of heating
buildings during those exceptionally
cold days, Davis said the state's utility
bills would not be as great as in previous
years.
"The conservation efforts of the state
government have greatly reduced our
utility bills," he said. Davis said govern
ment buildings used "quite a bit less
electricity."
"Several government office buildings
in Raleigh which had been heated by
electricity have been switched to steam
heat," Davis said. "Overall, our con
sumption of utilities is down while the
price is up."
Pearce said it would take a much
more severe winter than what the state
has experienced so far to justify a re
' quest by the governor for federal aid.
"States like Alabama, Mississippi
and Louisiana were really caught off
guard by that last storm," he said. "In
those states federal aid could be jus
tified' "North Carolina is more prepared
for this sort of weather," he said. "It
would take a much larger storm to inun
date us the way those other states were."
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Proposal or reyii(0)ini
receives
By KEN MINGIS
V DTH Staff Wrilw
Student Body President Scott Norberg's proposal to revise
the function of the Student Audit Board by requiring the Cam
pus Governing Council to rewrite the board's by-laws has drawn
mixed reactions from administrators and students.
The CGC voted 13-2 Tuesday to put the issue to a vote by the
student body, Feb. 9.
"It (the proposed revision) has my support," said John Tem
ple, vice-chancellor for business and finance. "We need to
clarify the role of the Audit Board as the overseer of SAFO (the
Student Activity Fees Office)."
The Audit Board is responsible for looking into any com
plaints organizations have about SAFO, which handles the ac
counts of student organizations, and for conduc
ting a yearly audit of SAFO.
"1 have been at work (with other administration
members) for months, and 1 feel where we came
out (in drawing up the Audit Board revison) is a
good place," said Donald Boulton, vice
chancellor of student affairs. "I think it is wor
thy of passage (by the student body)."
But SAFO Director Frances Sparrow said she
felt the proposal might make the board more
political.
"The SAFO cannot operate with a political
Audit Board," Sparrow said. "Any time the presi
dent of the student body has the power to appoint
Audit Board members, it becomes political."
One change in the board by-laws, which may or
may not be adopted by the CGC if the bill is pass
ed Feb. 9, would be to add to the board one
member appointed by the president, and one ex of
ficio member from the office of student affairs,
Temple said.
"For any vacancy on the board, the remaining members
would present the student body president with three names,"
Temple said. "From those three, the president would choose
one."
The bill was passed by the CGC amid some confusion and
much discussion about who would have ultimate authority over
the Audit Board and about the urgency with which the bill was
presented.
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DTH Staff Writer
, North Carolina's legal drinking age has
once again been brought under considera
tion with the recent recommendation by
the Governor's Crime Commission staff
to raise the age from 18 to 21 years.
The action was proposed last month to
a committee to study the advantages and
disadvantages of the increase. This com
mittee will report its findings back to the
Crime Commission, which will consider
the proposal and decide whether or not to
pass it on to Gov. Jim Hunt for approval.
North Carolina is now one of nine states
which have a split drinking age, allowing
the sale of beer and wine to those 1 8-years
and older but barring the sale of liquors
until age 21.
Gov. Hunt's assistant press secretary,
Brent Hackney, said this week that the
governor had not yet taken a stand on the
issue. He did, however, quote Hunt as
saying the proposal "was something to
take a look at." Hackney said the main
reason for considering the age increase
was that it might deter the growing
amount of drunken driving.
If accepted by the governor, the propo
sal would not be up for adoption until the
next full session of the General Assembly
in 1983. '
David Jones, director of analysis for
the Governor's Crime Commission, said
officials of the state's traffic schools had
noticed many misconceptions among
young people about the effects of beer
compared to the effects of liquor. He said
all those stupid things you do in college like staying up
late." ,
When he can, Martin tries to spend time at his favorite
hobbies. These include amateur photography which he
discovered while traveling through the Wyoming moun
tains one summer. "I think pictures are part of a way of
capturing memories," Martin says. He grimaces. "That
sounded like a Kodak commercial."
' Martin says he also enjoys playing tennis. But he will
not hit the courts until the weather warms, he quickly
adds.
In February for the first time in two years Mar
tin's name will not be on the ballot for CGC office. In
stead, he says he hopes to be chosen as a resident assis
tant. He eventually hopes to go to law school outside of
North Carolina. But for now, he will be content with try
ing to find out if he has a social life. He cannot
remember.
"Knowing me, I'll probably still come up here (Suite
Q," he says. "I'd like to go back and find some old
friends. It's getting to the point now where you realize
that after UNC, everyone is going to go their different
ways.
"I guess I'll go out and have a little fun."
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teenagers did not seem to think beer
would affect their driving skills.
Jones said most states had already rais
ed drinking ages because of increasing
traffic fatalities. He said since Illinois
raised its legal age to 21 in January 1980,
the state has' seen a 30 percent drop in
fatal crashes among 19- and 20-year-olds.
Jones estimated that an increase in North
Carolina's drinking age would save 20 to
25 lives annually.
In October of 1980, Florida's legal age
to buy or consume beer and wine was in
creased from 18 to 19, but two exceptions
exist in the Florida law. Any person on
active military duty may still purchase
beer and wine at age 18. Also, 18-year-olds
employed in establishments where
alcohol is sold may keep their jobs.
John Harris, spokesman for Florida's
division of alcohol and tobacco in the
Tallahassee district, said complaints of
1 8-year-old high school seniors buying
beer for minors was the main reason for
the drinking age increase there. He said
the youths would go out during lunch
time to buy beer to share with minors.
"Since the age increase, there have
been noticeably less calls concerning this
problem," he said.
Harris said there was also a problem
with drunken driving among high school
students. "They were literally killing
themselves," he said.
Michigan also has raised its legal age to
19 and a recent study conducted by the
University of Michigan showed a 20 per
cent decrease in fatalities since the age
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CGC Speaker ElChino Martin said that the council planned
to revise the by-laws only once. "This would give the CGC just
one chance to deal with those by-laws," he said. "After that,
the CGC would simply vote on proposed changes brought up by
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But Temple said that if the measure were passed, the CGC
could rewite the by-laws aqy way it chose. K . . .
"The CGC can rewrite any document they control," he said.
"(The final make-up of the board) depends on what set of by
laws they decide to adopt." '
Martin said that if the CGC were called on to revise the
board's by-laws, it would do so before the newly-elected council
members take their seats in late February. -
Jennifer Cresimore, District 9, who voted for the issue, said
she was now unsure whether she still supported it.
"I knew that I didn't understand all the aspects .
of the proposal and its possible results," she said.
"We wanted to get the SAFO's. operation
straightened out. Scott (Norberg) told us we had to
do something immediately.
"Scott had been working on it a long time and
knew more about it than we did," Cresimore said.
"I felt it presumptuous to feel we could grasp all
the complexities of the matter. The only thing we
had to go on was Scott's word.
"People were saying, 'we need some time,' "
Cresimore said. "It's not that they were opposed
to it, they were just unclear as to what it all
meant."
A proposal to delay a vote on the issue failed
5-9, Martin said.
"If we come back later to actually establish the
by-laws, I'll have to do some research," Cresimore
said.
Boulton, however, said that he did not feel the
CGC had made any great error in approving a
referendum on the issue.
"What 1 read in the paper is that the CGC, trying to act
responsibly, felt pushed to vote on it," Boulton said. "I'm sorry
for that. It might have been wiser to pose the question (Tuesday)
night and then vote next week."
Boulton said that he wanted the issue to be discussed and
understood by students but that the problem needed to be ad
dressed. .
Martin Hines of the North Carolina
state highway safety program said the law
would be a tough one to pass. "There will
be a lot of opposition to it," he said.
"The situation now is tragic; raising the
legal age would help the situation con
siderably," he said.
John Statuto, owner of Carey Whole
sale, distributors of Schlitz, Old Mil
waukee, Blatz and Heineken beers, said
he expected an age increase to hurt the
distributing industry and said it probably
would reduce consumption by about 5
percent. Campus beer distributors would
be hit the hardest, he said.
Statuto said he thought raising the age
would take beer out of a controlled en
vironment and put it into an uncontrolled
environment. "They (minors) are going to
get the beer one way or another," he said.
"Well see more drinking in cars because
the kids won't be able to buy it in bars,"
he said.
Local bar managers are, pessimistic
about the increase. Larry Brooks,
beverage control manager at Purdy's on
Franklin St., said most of the nightspot's
crowd now was between the ages of 18
and'21.' ,
"I think it would just about kill us," he
said. "It would change our crowd com
pletely." Tommy Daniels, manager of Linda's,
said the increase would have a big effect
on the establishment. "The majority of
our clientele is students. It would hurt us
a lot," he said.
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