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By KATHRYNETOVO
Staff Writer
Despite the rumors of voter apathy
nationwide, area officials are predict
ing good voter turnout for the
election today.
Pat Sanes of the Orange County
Board of Elections said the number
of registered voters has increased
since the 1984 presidential election.
This year, more than 50,000
members of the Democratic and
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By DANIEL CONOVER
Staff Writer
A member of the board of
directors of the Chapel Hill
Carrboro Chamber of Commerce
said Monday that the findings of
a chamber of commerce study on
the economic impact of UNC
basketball are "ridiculous" and a
disservice to the community.
Herb Jacob, the general man
ager of the Chapel Hill Holiday Inn
and a director of the chamber,
described the results of the survey
of out-of-town season ticket
holders as unscientific and
misleading.
The study, which was released
by the chamber of commerce in
cooperation with the Educational
Foundation, estimated that a UNC
basketball season generates more
than $3 million in revenue for the
University and the town.
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Republican parties have registered to
vote, in comparison to the 40,703
registered in 1984.
David Lineberger, acting chairman
of the Orange County Republican
Party, said he expects a large number
of the registered voters to vote in
today's election.
"I keep reading about voter apathy
in this year's election, but IVe seen
more excitement around the head
The chamber's press release that
accompanies the survey results also
said, "It is significant that the
responses showed an average of
two nights stay was spent by each
party. The average spent on the
hotel rooms ($149) was divided by
nights equals $75 per night spent
on hotel motel accommodations."
Jacob, who has been general
manager of the Holiday Inn for 14
years, challenged the accuracy of
the study, which he said inflates the
amount of profit realized by bus
inessmen and hotels and motels in
particular.
"We don't say we don't do any
business, but the numbers they
came up with are absolutely rid
iculous," he said.
"It's a disservice to our industry.
It distorts what the reality is," he
said. "We have a study in town that
says, 'Why don't you build more
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quarters this year than IVe ever seen,"
Lineberger said. "I think the number
of voters will be a lot higher than
people expect."
Orange County Democratic Party
Chairman Richard Helwig attributed
some of the increase in registration
to the population growth in the
county.
Helwig also said he expects a
strong turnout tomorrow.
hotels see how lucrative it is?' "
Jacob, who by Monday still had
not seen the actual survey, said he
called the chamber of commerce to
clarify a report that he had read
about it, but was told there were
no copies of the report available.
The press release, which is
undated and unsigned, listed L.
Sherri Powell as the person who
compiled the statistics. A chamber
of commerce representative said
Powell was out of town and could
not be reached until Wednesday,
and the representative declined to
comment on possible inaccuracies
in the survey results.
Also mentioned in the press
release was Moyer Smith of the
Educational Foundation. A source
at the chamber of commerce said
Smith had seen the report before
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By HELEN JONES
Staff Writer
The percentage of black students
in UNC-Chapel Hill's freshman class
has increased 2.8 percent since last
fall, to 13 percent in 1988 from 10.2
percent in 1987, according to a
November report prepared by UNC's
Affirmative Action Office.
The 1988 freshman figure exceeds
the University's goal to increase the
number of minorities to 10 percent
of the student body, but the percen
tage of blacks among all undergrad
uates in 1988 remains below the goal,
at 8.8 percent.
The number of blacks among
graduate and professional students
has declined. Black enrollment in the
law, medical and dental schools
dropped by 10 students from 1987 to
1988, from 154 to 144, according to
the report.
Anthony Strickland, assistant
director of undergraduate admis
sions, said Monday that while the 13
percent figure for black freshmen is
encouraging, figures for freshmen
tend to be higher than at any other
level.
"People tend to look at it (minority
recruitment) solely in terms of fresh
men enrollment," Strickland said. "I
think that's rather simplistic."
The results of minority recruitment
efforts are positive for this year's
freshman class, and the efforts will
continue, he said. But the minority
enrollment in graduate and profes
sional schools is also an important
, part of the picture,, he. said.. -
The addition of an assistant direc
tor to the admissions staff, whose
primary job is to recruit minorities
from N.C. high schools with high
minority populations, has . helped
increase the number of blacks at
UNC, Strickland said.
"It takes the whole campus to
improve the situation," he said.
Harold Wallace, vice chancellor of
University affairs, said Monday that
he thought the increase in the
numbers of blacks in the freshman
class reflected a marked improvement
in University efforts to recruit black
students.
But he is also concerned by the
decreases in the numbers of blacks
"I expect the Democrats to turn
out in droves," Helwig said.
"Although some were turned off by
the polls that were conducted and the
negative advertising, I think most
people will say 'I don't care what the
polls say; I know where the negative
advertisements originated from and
I know who was most brutal, and
I'm going to cast my vote for the
candidate of my choice and that's
Michael Dukakis and the Democratic
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By BETH RHEA
Staff, Writer
Chapel Hill police said Monday
they are investigating the threats
against UNC junior Anne Duehring,
but they are saying little about their
progress.
"We're sort of clamming up on it
because of the nature of the com
plaint," said Capt. Ralph Pender
graph. Releasing details about the
case could jeopardize the investiga
tion, he said, but added he was "not
aware of any specific suspects."
Duehring, a member of the Coa
lition for Freedom to Dissent, is the
second CFD member in three weeks
to receive threats. Joel Segal, a UNC
law student and a CFD member, told
The Daily Tar Heel that someone
broke into his house on Oct. 20, wrote
death threats on his walls and left a
loaded shotgun on his couch.
The preliminary police report on
the Duehring case indicated that
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enrolled in UNC's professional
schools, Wallace said, and the Uni
versity cannot stop recruitment
efforts, at the undergraduate leveL
"""You must have a triple focus, if
yoiiVill, on your enrollment," Wal
lace said. The three levels he referred
to are the undergraduate, graduate
and professional divisions of the
University.
Tonya Blanks, a junior from
Clarkton and vice president of the
Black Student Movement, said one
way the University could increase the
number of blacks at UNC would be
to expand the overworked Office of
Student Counseling (OSC) and its
freshman minority adviser program.
The OSC needs a replacement for
Hayden Renwick, former associate
dean of UNC's College of Arts and
Sciences and head of OSC who
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Frank McCloskey, of the East
Chatham County Republican cam
paign committee, said he has seen an
increase in number of high school
and college-age voters in this year's
election.
Alex Brock, supervisor of the N.C.
Board of Elections, said 68.5 percent
of the registered voters in North
Carolina voted in the 1984 election.
This percentage is a few points higher
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breaking and entering and larceny
had taken place, but the report
mentioned no other details, Pender
graph said.
"Any comparison (of the details of
the cases) would show similarities,"
he said.
Frederic Schroeder, dean of stu
dents, said Monday he was not aware
of any official University action being
taken to respond to the death threats,
but said it was appropriate that the
Chapel Hill police were covering the
case. "That's got to be a police
matter," he said.
"I think all of us at the University
students, faculty and staff
deplore these kinds of actions," he
said. "I'm very sympathetic ... I
think somebody who would do that
has got to be kind of sick."
If a student were a suspect in the
case, Schroeder said, "that student
would be susceptible to the Code of
Student Conduct and would, quite
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resigned in January 1988 to become
an assistant to the chancellor at
Fayetteville State University, Blanks
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The OSC's program of providing
each black and Indian freshman with
a sophomore, junior or senior minor
ity adviser needs to be expanded
because each student adviser is now
responsible for eight to 10 freshmen,
she said.
UNC could also make minority
students feel more a part of the
University by establishing a building
for the Black Cultural Center and
expanding the UNITAS cross
cultural program, Blanks said.
A larger BCC building would
provide needed space for displays and
greater black visibility, she said, but
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than the national average, he said.
"Every year we hear the same doom
and gloom, but in 25 years a
presidential-gubernatorial (election)
has not produced under 60 percent
of the registered voters," Brock said.
Brock did not make a guess as to
the percentage this year, however.
"I stopped making predictions
several years ago when I began to lose
friends," he said.
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likely, be referred to the student
attorney general for prosecution."
David Fountain, student attorney
general, said if a student was con
victed of the crime in court, the
student attorney general's office
would conduct a preliminary inves
tigation to determine whether any
further action should be taken against
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Tickets still left for
basketball games
- Tickets are still available for
the UNC vs. Stanford basketball
game on Nov. 28 and the UNC
vs. Vanderbilt game on Dec. 7.
Students can pick up tickets
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. today at
the Smith Center's will call
window.