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ool not odequot .n or o i vi no a mm By TRACY YOUNG When Bowman-Gray pool was built 40 years ago, it was considered a na tional caliber pool. Today, at least for the UNC diving team, it has become somewhat of a farce. . "The pool is only ten feet deep, and that's being optimistic," diving coach Ben Aycock said. "It's not that deep under the high board. Nobody can stretch their entries." Diver John Dameron spoke of hit ting his elbows, wrist and chin on the bottom of the pool. Teammate Sue Perfater also spoke of such injuries. "The 3-meter board sits between the 8 and 10 feet," Perfater said. "When I came here, I was used to diving into 16 feet. It's scary. You can't stretch any thing. "It's a problem especially for the guys because they are a lot taller. They hit their heads and arms." The danger of diving from a 3-meter board into 8Vj feet of water is not easi ly visualized by a non-diver. A fully ex tended diver averages about six to 6V2 ". ". .as long as we get second rate poof time, we'll be a second rate diving team," Thomas said. feet in length. That leaves approxi mately two feet of leeway before he crashes into the bottom of the pool. Because of the danger of hitting bottom, UNC divers have been forced to react quickly by curling their bodies once they hit the water, making for a rougher dive. This style hurts the BARGAIN MATINEES $2.00 'TILL ft PM MON.-FRI. ALL SCREENS 2:30 4:50 7:10 9:30 t BASED CM A TRUE STORY I eiy.6LrBEPRSAL LAST DAY 3:15 5:10 7:05 9:00 Heartland (PG) STARTS FRI. 326 ONE WEEK ONLY: 12 ACADEMY AWARD NOMINATIONS WARREN BEATTY DIANE KEATON 1 L last --y - w-ttv I MON-FRI TILL 6 PM ADULTS 3:15 5:15 7:15 9:15 Sorry, No passes or special adm. tickets Fri.-Sat.-Midnight-AI! Seats $2.00 Rocky Horror Picture Show (R) sa RICHARD PRY0R UVX ON THE SUNSET STRIP A COLUMBIA PICTURE HI S lit m Libby Tucker hitchhiked from Brooklyn to take HoUywood by storm. And her father by surprise. 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' "If you don't let the facility mess with your head, it won't," Barry Thomas said. "If you do, it will, and you won't be able to dive well. But as long as we get second rate pool time, we'll be a second rate diving team." "It is utterly ridiculous we can't practice both boards every day," Dameron said. "We're a major college. Ifs not like we don't want to. Not enough effort is being made. People aren't really fighting." A third major problem for the divers has been access to a. trampoline, a vital tool in the training of divers. Thomas, a junior, said the divers could not work with the tramp at all his first two years here due to conflicts with intramural basketball. This year, the divers have been challenged for their tramp space and time by the bad minton club. "We do have access to the trampo line on a more or less regular basis right before our pool time," Aycock said. "But the tramp is not enough. We need more board time. The IM people have control before we have control." "We're treated like a recreational thing rather than a varsity sport," Thomas said. "When we go to com pete with varsity teams we're at a dis advantage because we're treated like a recreational sport at Carolina." With all of these problems to cope with, it's not surprising that the Carolina finishes in the recent NCAA Zone Qualifying meet were consis tently around 20th place. In fact, while the divers had ex pected to finish better, many said they had not put 100 percent effort into the zone championship because they real ized their efforts would be futile. "You look around at the other pools, the coaches and the other divers," Dameron said. "You compare your selves to them, and what can you do?" Dameron even said he considered transferring to a school stronger in div ing after this year. Although he looked at such schools as Indiana and Iowa, he has decided to stick it out at UNC. So what is it that draws divers to Carolina and keeps them here? It is the same thing that is keeping "We're treated like a recrea tional thing rather than a varsity sport," Thomas said. John Dameron here the academic prestige of UNC. And few of them re gret not having gone to a stronger div ing school. Janice Dalrymple, a Canadian, be came interested in UNC at the sugges tion of a friend in school here and she openly admits her foremost goal here is a good education. "Traditionally, we've had the prob lem of people coming in and getting disillusioned and leaving the program, some for studies," Aycock said. "We haven't consistently had people here that want to do well. I think now we have people that want to do well." Soon, though, UNC will have more (See diving on page 11.) Support the arch of Dimes WMuTL I Flitt Reduced ' AdZssIoTTickets Available at ' unon" CAROLINA THEATRE WEEKEND LATE SHOWS He's a little worried about his future. TIE Held Over! FrL & atmsGIlADUATE 1 It's turn of the century New Orleans. 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