4 Mux ft?? Vol.80, No. 123 79 jri of Editorial Freedom Wednesday, March 1, 1972 i 1 Founded February 23, 1893 do O ) xfl- i E ID TO) it ancs 5 o v - - -1 i r V 1 v.- v7 V.i: ,,;:t. - f i A, 1 1 . . ;r !l A heavy turnout for student elections Tuesday produced long lines at some polling places. The students found a short Committee takes no action wait was necessary to vote at Y Court. (Staff Photo by Leslie Toddj 6TT 9 neeis niciiieci by Mary Ellis Gibson Staff Writer The Traffic and Safety Committee took no official action on the "Heels Wheels" mass transit proposal presented by James Bedrick and Steve Coggins at their Tuesday meeting. According to the proposal, 20 buses would be purchased through the North Crrolina school bus contract to provide transportation to students living in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The system would be supported by a S10 increase in student fees. Students who live on campus or students who live in areas not covered by the bus routes could purchase parking stickers. Those who purchased stickers would be guaranteed parking spaces on campus. The price of stickers would be raised to $22.50 for C stickers and to $25 for G, H and J stickers. Faculty members who purchased stickers would also be guaranteed spaces. Faculty and staff stickers would cost $27.50 without a bus pass and $32.50 with a bus pass. Le8 Wl on caeiBi s today During the first year of the bus system, faculty members would be discouraged from riding buses. Most residential areas where faculty live would not be covered by the system during the first year. The system would provide transportation from North to South Campus, to Franklin Street, to various apartment complexes and to shopping centers. Bedrick estimated the cost of the system as $295,500 for the first year of operation. He predicted a surplus of $98,000 after the first year. The surplus would allow for expansion of the system to include faculty and to further serve students, Bedrick said. The "Heels Wheels" plan would alleviate traffic congestion during its first year of operation, Bedrick said. The plan would have the added advantage of reducing air and noise pollution, he said. Bedrick said he plans to present his proposal to the meeting of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Joint Commission on Transportation and to the Faculty Council. The Traffic and Safety Committee postponed action on the plan until they receive further information. Chapel Hill Mayor Howard Lee, a candidate for Congress from the Second Congressional District, will speak here tonight at 8 in Hill Hall. Lee, who has been doing an extensive amount of traveling around the 12-county district, will officially open his campaign on campus with the speech. L.H. Fountain, the incumbent congressman, has served 10 consecutive terms in Congress without serious challenge. In 1968, a black woman, Eva Clayton, pulled 35 percent of the vote against Fountain. Lee, who has been elected mayor of Chapel Hill twice, was appointed vice president of the state Democratic Party in 1971. Lee has baid his platform will inciuue: The need for more and better housing. - Health care programs and services. "We have the most advanced medicine in the world, but the average North Carolinian can find little cure in a system that can provide a new heart or kidney for the few, but cannot provide adequate health care for the many." Increased employment. "Lvery American worker has a right to a job. We have too many important jobs to do here in the Second District to have so nuny Americans unemployed." - Improved educational opportunities. "North Carolina ranks 43rd in expenditures per pupil and 35th in teachers salaries. More than one-fourth of our children do not complete high school." Lee has also been an outspoken opponent of the Vietnam War. "As long as human beings continue to die in a war that had no honor in its beginnings and even less honor in its continuance, there is a need for a change." There will be a question and answer session after the speech. In order to win, Lee will need a large voter turnout from both blacks and students in the district. Approximately 35 percent of the people in the district are black. There are about 25,000 college students in the district. The Second District is composed of Edgecombe, Franklin, Granville, Vance, Warren, Halifax, Nash, Northampton, Wilson, Person, Caswell and Orange counties. Lee's campaign headquarters is at the Chapel Hill Holiday Inn. The speech is being sponsored by "Students for Howard Lee," a group of UNC students working to build student support for the Chapel Hill mayor on campus. The group has a headquarters in the New Foundation building behind the Carolina Inn. TODAY: sunny and warm; highs in the upper 60s, lows in the upper 30s; zero chance of precipitation today, 20 percent tonight. o 1M Tvon oiirio -it? No results availa due to com nutei ills Pitt Dickey and Richard Epps "unofficially" entered into a runoff campaign for student body president Tuesday night following one of the largest turnouts for a campus election in UNC history. Official returns were unavailable when The Daily Tar Heel went to press at 1 :30 a.m. Wednesday morning. Results could be based only estimates made while the computer vallots were being sorted before being fed into the computer. At press time the results of the referendums to reorganize Student Government and to add an extra SI. 50 on each student's fees every semester to Finance a portion of the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group were still up in the air. The NC-PIRG referendum, which needed only a majority of the vote to be approved, was expected to win overwhelmingly. The Campus Governing Council needed a two-thirds vote since the referendum had not been approved by Student Legislature, and at press time the referendum had a 50-50 chance of passing. Other projected winners in the races for campuswide offices were Evans Witt, an unopposed candidate for editor of The Daily Tar Heel: Steve Saunders, an incumbent running for re-election to the chairmanship of the Residence College Federation; and Fred Davenport, the projected victor over Chris Callahan for student body vice president. No estimates were made on results of elections for the head of the Association of Women Students, the chairman of the Carolina Athletic Association and seni class president, though a runoff was expected in the race for president of the class of 1973. Estimates on the number of students voting ran between 6.000 and 7.000, making the turnout the largest in recent years and possibly the biggest turnout ever, though official records were unavailable. Elections Board Chairman Larry Eggert told The Daily Tar Heel Sunday that official tabulations would be in by midnight Tuesday at the latest. However, due to errors in computer programming, several attempts at compilation of the computer ballots showed errors. The estimates made on campuswide offices were expected to be correct, however, due to polls taken prior to the election and guesses made while the ballots were being sorted before being fed into the computer. ate ft ram by Howie Carr Assistant Sports Editor RALEIGH - Paul Coder, playing in his final game in Reynolds Coliseum, scored his team's final seven points and hit a foul shot with seven seconds left to give North Carolina State an 85-84 victory over second-ranked Carolina Tuesday night. The Tar Heels, who trailed by I 1 a halftime, had fashioned an 82-78 lead with " 1:19 remaining behind Dennis Wuycik's 21 second-half points. With 1:19 left. State's 7-4 sophomore center. Tommy Burleson, drew his fifth personal foul, and Robert McAdoo converted two free throws to give Carolina a seemingly secure six-point lead. But then Coder took charge. After he scored his first basket with 1:06 left, Carolina tried desperately to get into its four-corner offense, but lost the bail with less than a minute to go. Coder went inside for two more points to cut the Tar Heel margin to 84-82, but when the Wolfpack's Joe Cafferky fouled George Karl, the ACC's second leading free-throw shooter, with 20 seconds to go, Carolina again looked like a sure thing. Karl, however, missed the shot, and when State brought the ball down court, they went straight to their big man. Coder scored inside to lie the game and drew a foul on Karl with seven seconds left. Tar Heel coach Dean Smith called Ballots for Student Legislature and Honor Court were being counted by hand, and no results could be expected until early Wednesday morning. Official election results will be printed in The Daily Tar Heel Thursday. Early estimates showed Dickey, a law student from Fayetteville running far ahead of the other four candidates after ballots from boxes in Craige Dormitory and the Student Union had been sorted. However, later estimates showed Epps. a junior from Wilmington and the first black ever to run for student body president, gaining quickly. No estimates were available on which of the two garnered a plurality of the vote, though it was virtually certain that neither had gained the majoritv iiecesar for victory. Other candidates for the office were Robert Grady, a first semester senior from Jacksonville; Bob Slaughter, a junior from Fuquay-Varma; and Dan Lewis, j junior from Westport. Connecticut . A junior from Pensaeolj, Florida. Saunders was running as an incumbent for the chairmanship of the Residence College Federation against Gary Kesselman, a freshman from Short Hills. New Jersey. Davenport, a junior from Mackevs. N.C., running for vice-president on the same ticket with Epps. was opposed by Chris Callahan, a junior from Rutherfordton running with Grady. If n iUi fi y-55&! -V-; - r-V:-r: -sC ..: ' -i . 4 The warm weather brought art students out Tuesday. The cool air made painting on the canvas a pleasant chore. (Staff Photo by Tad Stewart) He time-out, but Coder returned to the line to score the winning point. " State's last minute comeback erased Carolina's own second half rally in which the Tar Heels overcame an 1 1 point half time deficit to take a 68-67 lead with 9:16 left on a Bill Chamberlain jumper. The Wolfpack fought back to tie the score three more times before Wuvcik scored on a field goal and two foul shots to stake Carolina to a 78-74 lead with 4:12 left. "Once vou get the lead like that after being behind." a glum Smith said afterward, "it tenses vou up." Wuvcik lead ail oreri with 30 points, connecting on seven of eight second-half shots from the floor. McAdoo finished with 21 while Bill Chamberlain added 14. Scoring 24 points, Burleson paced the Wolfpack while Cafferky totaled 21. Coder, who was billed before the game as the most accurate shooter in Wolfpack history, hit eight of nine and added three foul shots to finish with 19 points. The State Victory, which dropped Carolina's season record to 20 I, was the Wolfpack's first regular season victory over the Heels. Carolina had jumped off to a 4-0 lead in the first minute of play on baskets b Chamberlain .ind McAdoo. but the Wolfpack took the lejd at 15:5b vhen Burleson sank two foul shots to give State the 10-S advantage.

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