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by Joe Patton
Staff Writer
With the potential of breaking the barrier
between students and alumni, the sophomore and
senior class External Affairs committees have
begun the Student-Alumni Awareness Program
(SAAP), a project whose direct aim is to inform
new students about the Carolina way of life. Yet
its indirect purpose may hold a key to bringing to
alumni a greater understanding of the current
Carolina student.
Jan Bickett, organizational program chairman
for the project, says a successful trial run of SAAP
in Goldsboro January, at which a group of
UNC affiliated people introduced high school
seniors to the University, alerted the sponsoring
classes to the possibilities of the project executed
on a wider basis.
The process of "informing the new" rests on
cooperation between the various groups involved.
To reach interested high school seniors, the
Admission Office supplies lists of applicants. The
Financial Aid Office gives the SAAP people forms
and information to distribute to the applicants.
The Alumni Association takes the lead in
arranging dates and locations for the meetings in
cities across the state, working as go-betweens for
the applicants and current UNC students. As well
as attending the meetings, the alumni aJso handle
local publicity details.
The final result of this long-term planning is an
informal meet between the applicants and a
r
CTOSssection of UNC people. At the January
Goldsboro meet, eight students and eight alumni
represented the University. Out of 45 invited high
school applicants, a good turnout cf 30 arrived.
Informal talk between the two groups enabled the
applicants to become aware of what Lies before
them at Chapel Hill. The informality leads to a
purposeful dialogue and eliminates the need for a
' liard-sell" approach.
Success of the Goldsboro program has resulted
in a widening of the program's scope this spring.
Students and Alumni wili travel to Rockingham
and Reidsville, March 6: Asheville, March 23:
Durham, March 26; Kinston, March 29; and
Laurinburg, April 7. Program chairman Steve
Hines is now at work to arrange for applicants to
visit lecture classes on carr.pus to give th;
of future academic procedure.
According to Senior Class President Lee Hood
Capps. the Student-Alumni Awareness Program
fulfills a campaign goal made by senior class
officers last spring. He sees the Awareness Pregram
as a service project with the desired aim of
bringing together all groups associated with the
University.
Capps says the Student Government -funded
SAAP seeks to "educate students as to what's
available at Carolina" Filling the vacuum between
the applicant's concept of the University between
the time of acceptance and the time of arrival on
campus, the project serves as a useful supplement
to the official College Night programs at various
aids
h:eh schools. Carrs sa.s the rrocram a;
recruitment of such academically extreme groups
as National Merit Scholars and rrr.ontes.
As a project of 1
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enlarged program a continuing success.
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According to sophomore
class president Ford
Coley. seniors are useful in affording the applicant
an overall, encompassing view of life at Carolina.
Sophomores are valuable m giving th? prospective
student a close look at the process of adjustment
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Street vending in Chapel Hill, a
dormant issue for the past two months,
has been revived again by the Chapel Hill
Appearance Commission.
In a special meeting last week the
Commission recommended approval of a
proposed public market on the south side
of East Franklin Street from Varley's
Men's Shop to the crosswalk in front of
the Post Office.
Emphasizing the need for a complete
landscape plan for Franklin Street, the
commission commended town planner
Art Berger for the design.
The public market plan for the south
side of Franklin Street was first presented
December 6 by Aldermen Alice Welsh
and Joe Nassif, in an attempt to find an
area for street vendors and flower ladies
who have been prevented from selling on
the street.
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Plans for the market place presented
by Berger and design students from N.C.
State include bricking in the brassy pods
between the curb and sidewalk to create
regulated vending areas.
Vending pods accomodating between
one and four vendors each would be
separated by existing trees. Vendors
would be required to provide their own
stalls according to town specifications.
The stalls would be removed at the end of
each day.
Creation of a market on the south side
of Franklin Street has been protested by
the University Methodist Church.
Officials of the church said the sidewalk
in front of a church would be
inappropriate for such an operation. They
have indicated legal action would be
sought to block the market.
Campaign picks up steam
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by Jim Minor
Staff Writer
"Rurban development" will be a major
issue in Howard Lee's campaign for a
Second District Congressional seat, the
mayor of Chapel Hill told The Daily Tar
Heel last week.
"It's a phrase I invented to summarize
what I want to achieve," Lee said, "but
the staff thought it was too much of a
tongue twister to use as a campaign
slogan.
"Ill strive for both rural and urban
development, but the stress will be put on
the rural aspect since the district is
concerned mainly with farming," he said.
Lee officially entered the
Congressional race Tuesday by paying his
$425 filing fee. He announced January 10
that he would run against incumbant L.H.
Fountain of Tarboro.
The Second District is composed of
Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Greene,
Halifax, Nash, Northhampton, Orange,
Person, Vance, Warren and Wilson
counties.
Lee said his campaign planks would
include:
- A look at the "whole agricultural
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program. Farm policies need changing in
both local areas and in the nation's trade
policies with other countries.
"I'm particularly concerned with
dying farms and the fate of the small
farmer."
The need for more and better
housing. "This is one of the outstanding
needs of the district. I have especially
noticed this after my campaign trips
throughout the area."
Health care programs and services.
The "whole area of the exodus
epidemic" from rural North Carolina.
"This is particularly a problem with
young people. Something must be done
to keep these young minds from leaving.
We must provide jobs or just whatever
it will take to stop this.".
Lee stressed the importance of
Congressmen representing the concerns of
their districts.
"Congress needs to affect the national
policies and programs," he said. "A
Congressman should be a person who can
go forth and work for his district and
make life a little better there. We have to
make sure North Carolina gets in on the
money for housing and health care
programs.
Vol.80, No. 116
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by Susan Spence
Staff Writer
A parking plan which would require
both resident and commuter students to
use a fringe parking lot system is gaining
favor with the University Traffic and
Safety Committee.
'The committee considered the plan,
which is based on a plan devised by Lee
Corum, assistant to Student Body
President Joe Stallings, at its meeting last
week.
The Stallings plan calls for the location
of 1 ,000-space fringe lots at Airport Road
and Mason Farm Road.
The committee apparently favors this
plan over one devised by the University
but would include resident students'
parking at the fringe lots. The resident
students would be required to park their
cars at the lots overnight, using a
shuttle-bus system to obtain their cars for
daytime or weekend use.
The lots would also include parking
for commuter students, who also would
use the shuttle-bus system to get to and
from capus.
The buses would run every 10 minutes
from the fringe lots into campus.
"For almost anything we do we will
have to increase fees," Allen Waters,
director of Operations and Engineering
said Friday. "Consideration would have
to be taken for the cost of the
shuttle-buses, fencing, lighting and
security involved in a fringe lot system."
Student feedback will be an important
consideration in determining the
feasibility of this proposal, Waters said.
Students should contact Bailey Cobb
(933 -5361) or Robert Wilson
(9335202), student representatives to
the Traffic and Safety Committee, to
express their opinions about this plan.
The shuttle-bus schedule would be the
main consideration if the lots were to be
used by resident students. "They most
.ikely would have to run 24 hours-a-day
or have a cut-off time such as 3 a.m.,"
Wilson said. "The stipulations which
would go along with a lot for students are
all tied up with money."
There was general opposition to the use
of the fringe lots by the faculty and staff
members. Some committee members
believe the system would double the time
of getting to and from work. It was also
felt there would be complications with
the Fair Labor Standard Act on the
question of when an employe's time
would begin when he got on the bus or
when he got to the office?
One of
situations
the
is in
most crucial parking
the Medical Center
garage which i
complex. The 500-car
planned will apparently be insufficient to
meet the needs of the hospital, which will
double its patient bed sie and increase its
staff size by one-third within the next six
years.
Staff members are presently using
patient and visitor lots, and parking for
patients and visitors, especially at peak
times, is an increasing problem.
Possibilities for an additional lot in
Victory Village and several other sites arc
being considered.
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TODAY: fair and warmer; high
in the low 50s; low in the low 30s;
probability of precipitation near
zero through tonight.
The Graduate and Professional
Student (GPSF) senate will meet tonight
at 7 to discuss a graduate judicial system
and Student Government reorganization.
According to Jim Becker, presiding
officer of the GPSF senate, a plan for a
graduate judiciary system may be
proposed at the meeting by Sam
Masarachia, chairman of the senate's
judiciary committee. The plan has not yet
been fully developed, but Becker said, "It
will probably be very similar to the
undergraduate honor court."
"If the plan is fully developed when it
is presented tonight," Becker continued,
"the Senate might approve it then. At any
any rate, the issue will be discussed."
Becker mentioned that only four
graduates had been charged with honor
violations in the last four years.
The issue of Student Government
reorganization will also be discussed at
the meeting. The proposed plan has
disadvantages, but it seems to be the most
practical way to resolve existing
difficulties in graduate government,"
Becker said.
Under the reorganization proposal,
graduate students would be given
proportional representation in a smaller
legislative body than the present one.
"The only problem," Becker said, "is that
graduates could end up with only four
out of 20 representatives. This would be
unfair since graduates form over 30
percent of the student body."
Becker said that a formal resolution by
the Senate approving the reorganization
proposal was possible. "All the graduate
members of the committee which wrote
the proposal signed it," he commented.
The problem of graduate polling places
will also be discussed at the meeting.
Becker said the Senate might try to find a
way to make sure that graduates vote in
the upcoming referendum and elections.
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Lee described himself as a "moderate
to liberal," but said he does not think this
will hurt him in the largely rural district.
He said the two "distant points not in
my favor are my race and the labels
attached to me; however, they shouldn't
be a big problem once I talk to voters.
"Labels don't make that much
difference anymore. It's more important
to know what a man can do for the
people."
Lee was elected mayor of Chapel Hill
in 1969 and was re-elected in 1971. He
was the first black to be elected in a
predominantly white southern town since
Reconstruction.
He said he will go to the mayor's
office on Mondays only beginning the
first of March. "Of course, I'll be
available for any special meetings or
business that arises.
"I knew it would be difficult, but not
quite as hard as it is at this point," he said
in reference to the dual duties of mayor
and campaigner. "I've just been drained
at both ends.
"I have to do quite a bit of traveling
since the district covers such a wide area,
so it's good to have a man with the
capabilities of Andy Little (assistant to
the mayor) at the office."
He said he has been combing the
district since October. "I've organized my
campaign and appointed campaign
managers and youth co-ordinators in each
county and established a central office
and staff."
His central campaign headquarters is at
the Chapel Hill Holiday Inn. Dwayne
Walls, former reporter for the Charlotte
Observer and Chapel Hill Weekly, was
named campaign manager last week.
Lee said he has attended several rallies
and made personal appearances. "In
general, I've been trying to stimulate
voters. I've met with several small groups,
particularly with whites.
"My strong point is my ability to have
person-to-person contact with the voters
so I can get my points across to them."
He said he planned a whistle stop tour
of the entire district. "I want to bring the
campaign to the people to show them the
significance of the race. Some of the
small farmers don't even know who's
running. This will be an opportunity for
them to speak directly to someone who
could represent them."
The student vote could be "extremely
important," Lee said, but to what extent
is yet to be seen. "It will depend on how
many students register," he said. 'Their
vote might be a deciding factor. The race
will be that close.
'This is also true in the case of young
voters in general. I'm hoping the young
vote will have a significant role so they
wilJ see the value of voting."
Lee plans to have several rallies on the
UNC campus. "I've got a campus
coordinator and workers canvassing the
University. Ill look to them for guidance
in planning my campaign on campus.
"Carolina students have been working
with me from the very first time I ran for
mayor," Lee said. We're getting an in-put
of new students now and I hope more
will become active as the race gets hotter
and they begin to choose sides."
Lee, 37, is a native of Lithonia,
Georgia. He holds an A.B. from Fort
Valley State College and a Masters Degree
in social work from UNC.
"Students for Howard Lee," a group
organizing to support the Chapel Hill
mayor in his campaign, will meet tonight
at 8 in 1 1 1 Murphey Hall.
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