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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday, November 14, 1972-
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by Greg Turosak
Staff Writer
Students will go to the polls again
today amid the tightest security ever
afforded a UNC campus election,
according to one member of the Elections
Board.
"This promises to be the most legal
election the state has ever seen," graduate
student Jarvis Sinclair of the board said
Monday. "Unlike several elections during
the 19th Century in the South, there will
be no possibility of mules eating the
contents of the ballot boxes."
"All necessary means have been taken
to correct any mistake that might have
Involves 'secret' codes
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allot security elaborate
by William March
Staff Writer
"Some rather elaborate security precautions have been
taken to guard against the possibility, or even suspicion, of
irregularity in the re-elections," said Leo Gordon, Elections
Board chairman.
To hear Gordon describe it, the precautions sound like
something out of the Pentagon or the Hoover Building,
complete with armed "heavies" guarding doors, color- and
number-coded ballots, sealed envelopes to be opened only in
case of emergency, secret codes, locks and keys, signed
statements and mysterious secrets known only to a few.
"To begin with," said Gordon, "each ballot in each election.,
will be coded. We know by the code which polling place each
ballot will go to, and it must be cast there and nowhere else.
Copies of the code are in the hands of only five people: David
Crump, Chief Justice of the Student Supreme Court; DTH
Editor Evans Witt; Francis Sparrow, head of the Student
Activities Fund Office; Dick Baker, a member of the Elections
Board; and myself.
"No one else will know where any referendum ballot is
supposed to be cast. Each of the five copies of the code is in a
sealed envelope to be opened only in case of a challenge to the
election. If there is no challenge within the allotted time, the
envelopes must be returned to me still sealed, and with my
signature intact," Gordon continued.
Each ballot is numbered, and ballots for different polling
places are colored differently. "Stuffed ballots or improperly
cast ballots will not fit in with the code and will be
invalidated," Gordon said with an air of self-satisfaction.
Since their printing, the ballots and the ballot boxes have
been held under lock and key in an undisclosed location.
In order for the ballots to be distributed, Gordon explained
a member of the student Attorney General's staff will have to
sign a receipt for a specified number of ballots, a ballot box,
the signup sheets (each of which will be coded to match the
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been made last time," said Board
Chairman Leo Gordon.
The result of the Oct. 17 Student
Government reform referendum was
thrown out by the Student Supreme
Court Nov. 5 because a law requiring the
entire proposal to be printed on the
ballot was not followed.
Two legislative races were also voided
due to voting irregularities found by the
court.
"There will be a standard procedure
for voting, or you don't vote. You go to
the poll, you present your ID, the code
will be stamped on the ID, and you sign
the register sheet with your name, adress,
class and district," Gordon said.
John Williams, left, discusses
Phil Whitesell.
"Until these steps are taken, the poll
tender will not give the potential voter
the ballot. After the voter examines the
ballot, he must return the ballot to the
ballot box whether it is completed or
not," he added.
Gordon's elaborate security system
calls for each of the 16 polling places to
be scrutinized by a member of the
Attorney General's staff throughout the
day.
The votes will be counted behind
closed doors by six members of the
Elections Board under the supervision of
Sparrow.
The total expense, in man hours and
other costs, for staging the election again
ballots to be used at its polling place) and a copy of the
Student Constitution.
"A copy of the constitution isn't required," said Gordon,
"but there was a lot of noise in the last election about students
not knowing what they were voting for. So we decided a copy
should be allotted to each polling place so we could prove by
signed statements that there was one present all day on each
voting table."
The poll tenders, each of whom must sign in and out, are
required also to sign release slips when they receive the voting
material and when they return it for counting at night.
"Of course, if anyone violates any of the conditions for the
signatures or fails to follow my instructions regarding the
codes or anything else, it's an honor offense," Gordon
explained. "So, we'll know who's responsible for everything,
and anyone who charges an irregularity will have to prove
these people violated their signatures and lied under oath,"
Gordon explained.
At the end of the day, Gordon said, a member of the
Attorney General's staff will pick up the boxes and ballots.
They will be taken to. a room guarded by a hired policeman
who has instructions to allow entry to only certain people, on
the condition they surrender their student ID cards and sign
into the room. This is where the counting will be done.
"The people who count the ballots won't know the totals,"
Gordon said. "They will just mark tally sheets. Mrs. Sparrow
and myself will do the totals later with an adding machine."
Gordon said he planned to receive a court order from
Crump with instructions as to where the ballots were to be
stored under lock and key after the elections.
"We will be able to prove by using our codes and signed
statements, the location of every ballot, every ballot box,
every copy of the constitution, every signup sheet, every
ballot -counter and every polltender at any moment during the
election day," Gordon said. "Anything that doesn't fit into
our system will be invalidated or an honor violation will be
charged against the violator.
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Students report violations at
by Phil Whitesell
Staff Writer
Two UNC pharmacy students
discovered Monday that Kroger's Family
Center was selling prescription drugs
illegally. Kroger's, located on South
Elliott Road, was also selling various
brands of non-prescription drugs whose
"potency dates" had expired.
The drugs involved were: 'Tyzine"
brand pediatric nasal drops, which are
legally dispensed only with a prescription;
"ABDEC" vitamin drops; 'Taladac"
vitamins; and "Geriplex" vitamins. The
latter three were all stamped with expired
potency dates. Some had lost their
legality more than one year prior to
Monday's purchase.
The selling of "legend" or prescription
drugs without permission from a doctor is
a misdemeanor under the federal Food,
Drug and Cosmetic Act of 1938, which
has since been amended several times.
An amendment pertaining to legend
drugs is the Durham-Humphrey
Amendment of 1951.
An individual convicted of breaking
this law can be "imprisoned for not more
than one year or fined not more than
SI ,000, or both," for the first offense.
One of the students, Sherri Whitesell,.
noticed that the four drugs were on sale
at Kroger's on Sunday. She informed two
employees of Kroger's about the situation
and they said they would inform then-
day
will le in the vicinity of S300, according
to Gordon.
All the security is being taken to
insure fairness in new elections for the
Student Government Reorganization
referendum, which is on the ballot for the
third time after having been approved by
72 per cent last Oct. 17, and for places in
Student Legislature (SL), Honor Court
and freshman class offices.
In this election, the entire text of the
reorganization referendum is being
printed; each ballot will be three pages
long. Copies of the present Student
Government (SG) constitution will also
be available at each polling place,
although it is not required by SG law.
The proposal calls for amending the
Student Constitution by abolishing the
5 5 -member Student Legislature and
replacing it with a 20-member Campus
Governing Council. Representation would
be guaranteed to both sexes and to
minority students. In addition, graduate
students would be guaranteed
proportional representation.
Other features of the amendment
include abolishing the position of student
body vice president and election of
speaker of the legislature from within the
body. Presently, the vice president serves
as speaker.
Several changes in the executive
branch of SG are also included.
Candidates for these elections are as
follows: For three SL seats from Men's
District (MD) II - Mike Boner, Robert W.
Carter, Steve Coggins, Hunter Dalton,
David Gaynor, George Wood and Steve
Yelverton;
For five SL seats from MD III - Chris
Callahan, Rocker Channell, Tom Daniels,
John M. Davis, Robert Eve, Robert
Griffin, Ed Hawes, Ralph Hill, James
. Hutton, Nick Jones, Dave Kohl, Jim
Lyman, Douglas Martin, Ralph Pitts,
Richard Robertson, Peter Romans,
Michael Stephens, Craig" Stewart, Robert
Weaver and Jim Wilcox;
For two Honor Court seats from
Women's District VII Denise Baddour,
Mary Virginia Currie, Sue Dixon, Marcia
Lamm, Alice Martin and Susan Strafford;
For freshman class president Chuck
Babington and Barry Schneider; for
freshman class social chairman Hank
Birdsong, Blake Dean and Lawrence Lilly.
Weather
TODAY: Rain ending later this
evening; high in the low 60's, low in
the 40's; probability of precipitation
40 percent today, 10 percent tonight.
manager. On Monday the drugs were still
on sale at a 20 per cent off discount.
Whitesell and Debby Averette
questioned Dr. David R. Work, assistant
dean of the School of Pharmacy, to make
sure 'Tyzine" was still a legend drug.
Work provided the two with the
necessary information. .
When personally informed of the
situation, store manager John Williams
took the drugs off the counter and took
them out to be destroyed. He did not say
what he planned to do about informing
customers who may have already
purchased the drugs, but he said he would
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The aftermath
Most campaign tables in town and on campus vanished soon after election day. But
at least one remains in front of the downtown post office. As the sign notes, losing
elections costs money. (Staff Photo by Tad Stewart)
IRS investigatiix
area rent hikes
by Mary Ellis Gibson
Staff Writer
Several violations of. rent controls by
Chapel Hill landlords are being
investigated by the Internal Revenue
Service district office in Greensboro, an
IRS official said Monday.
Five or six Chapel Hill tenants have
complained that their landlords have
raised rents in violation of Phase II of
President Nixon's Economic Stabilization
Program, IRS official Bob Cooper said.
Eight more possible violations
indicated in a recent statewide survey of
landlords are being investigated in Chapel
Hill, Cooper said.
In the recently completed survey of
1,071 landlords, IRS officials uncovered
200 possible violations of federal rent
controls. Of the potential violators, 61
were selected for investigation.
The names of landlords who are under
investigation are not released by the IRS,
Cooper said.
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talk to his supervisor.
Harmon C. McAlisfer,
secretary-treasurer of the Board of
Pharmacy of North Carolina, said such
dispensing was a clear violation of the
Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act. He also
stated, however, the state was so
understaffed that such violations were
rarely pursued.
McAlister said Dr. W.Y. Cobb, state
chemist at the Department of Agriculture
in Raleigh, would have jurisdiction over
such cases but that body of investigators
was also understaffed.
McAlister felt the incident will
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"Sometimes, information on violator?
is released on a national scale by the Cost
of Living Council of the Price Board," he
said.
The investigations of violations by
Chapel Hill landlords are in various stages
of completion, the official reported.
Federal regulations on rent control
allow a 2.5 per cent annual increase in
rent. Additional increases resulting from
higher property taxes or capital
improvements are provided for under the
controls.
In the year that Phase II rent controls
have been in effect, the IRS district office
has received 384 complaints from
tenants, according to District IRS
Director J.E. Wall.
Eighty-one of these complaints were
confirmed as violations in subsequen(
investigations, Wall said.
Landlords who were in violation in
each case agreed to reduce their rents and
to refund charges in excess of amounts
allowed by federal regulations, Wall said.
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probably not be investigated by federal
authorities since they are more concerned
with more flagrant violations or situations
involving more dangerous drugs.
Kroger's had a pharmaceutical
department at one time, but the service
was discontinued for unknown reasons.
Williams said the mistake probably
occurred when old stocks of
non-prescription drugs were taken out of
storage to be sold during the sale now
going on at the store.
Williams said anyone who had
purchased these drugs should bring them
back to the store for a full refund.
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