ri Warming Trend Again, it will be sunny today with highs around 78. Food for thought Vote today on meal plan referendums Copyright 1985 The Daily Tar Heel Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 93, Issue 38 Thursday, April 18, 1985 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 Meal plain ireffeireiMiiMini V vote to. lb Bueld. f . rT J I today Morehead Confederation residents also to vote for their 1985 governor By TOM CONLON Staff Writer Students will go to the polls today to vote on three referendums concerning the mandatory meal plan that is scheduled to take effect next fall. Polling sites will be open from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m., and students will need their student I.D.s to vote. Additionally, members of Morehead Confederation Residence College will vote for their 1985 governor. The race had been postponed since February because of a Student Supreme Court challenge between candidates Leslie Nesbit and David Venable over possible campaign violations. Elections Board Chairman Bruce Lillie said he expected about 5,000 students to turn out in today's vote and predicted students would overwhelmingly vote against the mandatory meal plan. "I would hope we would have an even greater turnout, but looking at past elections, I'm not sure it will be," he said. "I'm having 8,000 ballots run off and will run off more if necessary." Paper ballots are being used because there were not enough funds nor time to obtain computerized ballots and counting, Lillie said. Finding polltenders is another problem, and the current elections board is very small because of the short notice of the referendum election, he said. The elections board is generally formed throughout the fall and operates until the February student body elections. Students will vote on three issues concerning the mandatory meal plan, although the results are nonbinding. The Board of Trustees in 1982 decided to implement a $100 per-semester meal plan for dormitory students next fall. Recently, a report by students Tom Terrell, Fetzer Mills and Sherrod Banks on the mandatory meal plan stated that little student input was considered when the BOT approved the plan. Today's referendums are intended to send a message to the BOT as to how students feel about the issue. "I'd be surprised if the students didn't massively turn out against the meal plan by an overwhelming majority and that's not an endorsement, but a general consensus IVe gotten from talking to several students," Lillie said. Student Body President Patricia Wallace agreed that students who get out to vote would probably oppose the meal plan, but she said she was not sure how many would vote. Although no minimum number of votes is needed, a low turnout would send a weak signal to the BOT on the issue, she said. Wallace, who as student body president has a vote on the BOT, said she has talked with various board members on the issue but would not predict if the vote would change their minds. "I can say the trustees will be open to talk about the issue after the vote, but my feelings before and after I talked to them were that they weren't willing to change it. It was a financial decision and not a popular decision." Wallace said that after the election, regardless of the outcome, she would meet with members of Committee Against the Meal Plan and the BOT's Student Affairs Committee to discuss the meal plan election results and the drafting of a resolution to the entire BOT. The three ballot referendums read: "I support the Board of Trustees decision to impose a $100.00 per student per semester fee for the purchase of food tickets for food services offered at any campus facilities." "I support the Board of Trustees decision to raise the $100.00 per student per semester for the purchase of food tickets in stages of $125,000, $150.00, $175.00 and $200.00 at intervals of not less than one year, if revenues are inadequate to operate Chase Hall as a cost center." "I support the Board of Trustees decision that if Chase Hall cannnot be funded through the per student per semester fees, a room and board plan for South Campus similiar to, but not identical to, the Granville Towers plan, will be developed for a sufficient number of students from South Campus to assure adequate revenues for the proper amortization of the project and operation of the services." All three referendums also state, "I do not support the aforementioned decision by the Board of Trustees." Comirt date scHiectalleci for Evsmis By LEIGH WILLIAMS City Editor UNC graduate student Michael Boyd Evans is scheduled to make his first appearance Friday in Orange County District Court on charges of second-", degree kidnapping and having a weapon on campus, a spokeswoman for the Orange County District Attorney said Wednesday. Evans was taken into police custody on April 10 after he barricaded himself in a second floor room in Ruffin dormitory. Evans, 25, entered the room of Kelly Grady, a junior from Danville, Va., around 7:05 p.m. and was report edly armed with a .32-caliber handgun. Grady had taken out a warrant for Evans' arrest on March 13, charging him with assault in an incident that occurred near Ruffin. With the help of Frederic W. Schroeder Jr., dean of students, Uni versity police escorted Evans from the building around 9:20 p.m. Most Ruffin residents, including Grady, were elcTiated at the beginning of the incident. University police would not comment on why Evans had gone to Grady's room or on what he had planned to do once he got there. University police obtained warrants on April 1 1 for Evans' arrest while he was being held at North Carolina Memorial Hospital undergoing psychi atric evaluation. The warrants were not served until April 15 because Evans had been transferred to Charter Hill Hos pital in Greensboro for evaluation, Greensboro police said. Greensboro police arrested Evans when he was released from the hospital. Evans was released April 16 from the Guilford County Jail on $500 bond, Greensboro police said. . David Spano, area director of Olde Campus, said that additional security measures had been taken at Ruffin to prevent any similar incidents after Evans' release, but he would not elaborate on what specific types of security measures had been taken. , University police contacted Spano on Monday, immediately after Evans had been released from the hospital, he said. On Tuesday they contacted him again when Evans was released on bail, he said. Spano added that he was confident that the residents of Ruffin were safe. X'J V 1 : . I maw a ' f 7 ; j i: '. -.-..aw.... A-.-.v.wnf-,-lY,ririr'"-'-J a-, r- i r Shevchenko speaking in Memorial Hall in Union Forum Lecture Series DTHLarry Childress Shevchenko lectures on Soviets, warns U.S. of regime paranoia By ANDY TRINCIA Assistant State and National Editor The United States must never back the Soviet Union into a corner or the "paranoid" superpower could respond with severe consequences, Arkady Shevchenko told 1,500 people in Memorial Hall Wednesday night. "We have to understand the Soviet regime and the people," said Shevchenko, the highest-ranking Soviet official ever to defect to the West. "We also should never push them into a corner or they could respond irrationally with consequences which could be unpredictable." Shevchenko defected to the United States in April 1978, and had served as Soviet ambassador and under-secretary general to the United Nations. His lecture, "A View From The Kremlin," was the last of the Union Forum Committee's lectures this semester. Shevchenko said current Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev is one of the country's youngest leaders in many years, a factor in his favor. "Gorbachev is a leader who is much younger," Shevchenko said. "Now at least the Soviet Union has a person who is relatively young. I would say the man has what can be called an 'intriguing charisma.' He presents himself very well and is intellectual." Shevchenko drew laughs from the crowd with a remark about the ages of several recent Soviet leaders who died within a short time. "But of course, the President of the United States is in his seventies. But he's in much better shape than the Soviet leaders were," Shevchenko said, noting the heavy drinking habits of Soviet leaders. Shevchenko said the ruling Soviet Politburo is currently a small group of 10 who have no division of power or elections. "The Politburo is a small group at the top," he said. "They have no procedure as to how they operate. They let themselves decide who will be the new members of the Politburo." There is an intense desire for power in the high levels of the Soviet regime, Shevchenko said. "There's a greed for power over there," he said. "Whether Gorbachev will become a new (type of) leader remains to be seen. It will take time." Shevchenko said Gromyko would continue to be instrumental in Soviet politics, despite differences with Gorbachev. "Gromyko, my former boss, will continue to be the man behind Gorbachev," Shevchenko said. "However, Gorbachev is interested in domestic affairs and Gromyko is interested in shaping the foreign policy of the Soviet Union." Shevchenko, who has personally known all the Soviet leaders from Kruschev through Gorbachev, published his first book in the West, Breaking With Moscow, in February. See SHEVCHENKO page 2 A work of art r 0 1 &4P 2 ::' f .... V.:- W ' ' . . ,L' K Mji It 4 4. jA"i2. MM lit- - I --...jo : m ... .-j. v M. : 7 HZ J J ... JjSSaS,n-'WW"iiiiw'w ...Jnftn'fnT y air.. 3fc 1 V -,; -A t , t vTJ DTH Jamie Moncnef 1 Sophomore Elizabeth Dick works on an Art 49 project by streaming red yarn from a tree. The tree's vertical plane motivated her to create. Tar Heels gelt wake-nap call, pomumd Duals 15-2 By KURT ROSENBERG Staff Writer ATLANTA Just the thought of awakening at 6:30 in the morning usually is enough to make anyone shudder. And perhaps the North Carolina baseball team viewed its early-morning game on Wednesday as something less than humane. But if that was the case, the Tar Heels clearly did not show any signs of it in their ACC tournament opener against Duke. The 10 a.m. start may not have seemed humane, but it was far more humane than the way UNC treated the Blue Devils. After rising just as daylight was breaking, the Tar Heels proceeded to beat the daylights out of Duke, 15-2. The team arrived at its hotel after a long bus ride Tuesday night, had a meeting, then quickly went to bed. And when the Tar Heels arrived at Rose Bowl Field the next morning, they looked as refreshed as if they had been playing a lazy afternoon game back home at Boshamer Stadium. It was the Blue Devils who appeared dead tired, and UNC put them out of their misery in a hurry, scoring four times in the first, twice in the second, three more in the fourth and pounding out 19 hits overall, nine of which went for extra bases. Greg Karpuk's pitching was as sharp as it's ever looked, as he went seven innings and allowed no runs and just three hits. Duke could not advance a runner past second base until the ninth inning, by which time the game had long since been decided. The Blue Devils' pitching was horrendous, and their fielding not much better as they committed five errors. Duke coach Larry Smith offered a concise synopsis: "We'd like to put this one behind us as quickly as possible." North Carolina coach Mike Roberts had every right to be pleased, although he expressed his feelings with typical modesty. "It's definitely a good game for us," he said, making sure to emphasize that the tournament still has a ways to go. "I do feel that we played today the way we are capable of playing at times." The Tar Heels play their second-round game at 7:30 p.m. today against Clemson, a 17-12 winner over Maryland Wednesday night. For the few who woke up in time to catch the beginning of the game, they soon found that their early-morning yawns gave way to even more yawns. There really was no doubt about the outcome after two innings. In the bottom of the first, Jim Stone led off with a walk, Walt Weiss singled him to second and B.J. Surhoff (four RBIs on the day) doubled Stone home. One out later, Devy Bell's towering drive to right barely landed inside the park, going for a double and scoring two more runs. Then Brian Chandler singled, scoring Bell and giving UNC a quick 4-0 lead. In the second, Stone doubled down the right-field line, Weiss laid down a perfect bunt single and Surhoff followed with a double to right to score both of them. Karpuk, now 7-2, used his fastball almost exclusively and baffled the Duke hitters as he moved the ball around the strike zone at will. "Until they could proved they could hit the fastball, I was just gonna going keep throwing it," he said. "They never proved they could hit it consistently." The UNC senior struck out five and walked three, and he appreciated the support provided by the North Carolina bats. "I knew all I had to do was keep the runs down," he said. "It (the early lead) was nice, but waiting between innings for so long kind of breaks your momentum. But I wouldn't mind getting 15 runs every game." UNC refused to let up after its initial onslaught, scoring three in the fourth on an RBI triple by Mike Jedziniak, another double by Stone, a single by Weiss and a fielder's choice that Surhoff hit. Duke starter Scott Bromby (8-4) lasted just three innings, giving up nine runs (seven of them earned) and 10 hits. In the sixth, Bell singled home Scott Johnson to make the score 10-0. As if that wasn't enough, the Tar Heels scored five more times in the eighth when Johnson hit a two-run homer (his 21st of the season), Matt Merullo singled Bell home and freshman Bobby Larrabee tripled down the left-field line to score Chris Lauria and Merullo. Bill Robinson pitched the eighth inning for North Carolina and freshman David Trautwein came in to pitch the ninth, when Duke score its only runs. Mark Carlozzi led off with a single and Rich Beviglia followed with a homer to right field. Bell led UNC with four hits and three RBIs, Surhoff and Stone each had two doubles, and Stone scored four runs. The feeling afterward was that rising at the crack of dawn may have worked to the Tar Heels' advantage. See BASEBALL page 8 Finance committee proposes $1,000 cut in CGLA funds By GUY LUCAS Staff Writer The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association was cut by almost $1,000 in a proposal by the Campus Governing Council's Finance Committee during budget hearings Wednesday night. The committee recommended that the CGC allocate $672 of the proposed $1,600 CGLA budget, but the CGLA will fight to obtain more funding. The CGLA had been named by CGC conservatives earlier this year as a major target for budget cuts. Robert Pharr, CGLA co-chair, said, "We have every intention of using every means at our disposal to reverse what we feel was a bad decision by the Council." He declined to hiention any specific steps the CGLA might take, but he said the group would wait to see what happens at the final budget meeting Saturday. Four of the eight CGLA programs were eliminated entirely, including the newsletter Lambda and Gay Awareness Week. Voting almost strictly followed ideological lines, with the conservatives forming a solid block vote. Opposition to the CGLA started when the committee discussed the outreach program, which Pharr said would answer questions about homo sexuality from both gays and straights. Bill Peaslee (Dist. 9) quoted N.C. law, which makes "sexual intercourse coun ter to nature" including oral and anal intercourse a felony. "We don't have outreach programs for other people who commit crimes, and I don't think we should have this one," Peaslee said. But Pharr said, "If you believe only homosexuals engage in anal or oral sex you need desperately to be educated." He also quoted three court cases that made it illegal not to recognize gay See CGC page 4 CGC finds Critz Snnoceeil: of C GL A discrfminatiioiHi By GUY LUCAS Staff Writer Campus Governing Council repre sentative Anna Critz (Dist. 12) did not discriminate against the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Associaiion solely on the basis of sexual preference, the CGC's Ethics Committee decided Wednesday night in a 90 minute meeting. No charges had been brought against Critz and the meeting was informal. Critz had been brought before the committee by Tom Vlcek (Dist. 16) because of a statement she made after budget hearings , last week, when she gave the CGLA very low See CRITZ page 4 My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young . Robert M. Hutchins

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