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Chapel Hill's Morning Newspaper
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Friday, March 29, 1974
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by Robert McDonald
Staff Writer
Residence Hall Association (RHA)
President Mike O'Neal may be ineligible to
continue as president after this semester due
to a Housing Department decision not to
allow graduate students to live in
undergraduate dorms.
O'Neal was elected RHA president in a
runoff election March 6.
O'Neal, a first-year graduate student, lived
in Avery dorm this year. When he tried to
sign-up this week to return to Avery next
semester, the residence director would not
allow him to, O'Neal said.
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The RHA constitution states that "all
executive officers . . . while in office . . .
shall live in a University owned or approved
undergraduate residence hall.
If O'Neal lived in Craige, which is
considered a graduate dorm, or off-campus,
he would be ineligible, to continue next
"semester as RHA president.
If he lived in Granville, O'Neal would be
eligible to continue as president since
Granville is a member of RHA. Granville is
currently filled up with a waiting list, and it is
uncertain whether there will be openings
next fall, Mel Rinfret, the general manager
of Granville, said. s
The policy to bar graduate students from
undergraduate housing was a policy of
former Housing Director Robert Kepner
and was re-affirmed last semester by Dr.
James Condie, current housing director,
according to Connie Nelson, assistant to the
director for housing contracts.
Nelson said that, in the past, exceptions to
the policy had been made because there was
space available in the undergraduate dorms.
In a memo this week to residence directors,
Condie said space requirements for
undergraduate students will be "as tight next
year as any year in the past.
"The objective of eliminating over
occupancy emphasizes the need for as many
undergraduate spaces as possible," the
New.BSM chairman sets goals
Hartley plans changes
by Gary Dorsey
Staff Writer
Algenon Marbley, a sophomore political
science major elected Black Student
Movement chairman Wednesday, is already
talking about new programs.
"I want to place a special emphasis on
providing more services for the black
students," Marbley said. "I would like to
establish a book co-op, quiz files, carpools, a
working tutorial service . . . whatever the
students may need from time to time."
Marbley said he hopes concrete programs
like these will bring more active support
from the black community at UNC.
Such concrete community programs may
seem to be a change of direction from the
political emphasis Willie Mebane, outgoing
chairman, set for the BSM.
"Willie and I disagreed last year on many
things. There were some things I thought
were important that he didn't and there were
some things he thought were important that
I didn't.
"As for me being as radical as Willie, well,
let me just paraphrase something that Ron
Dellums once said. 'Anyone who has ever
been oppressed is radical or militant to some
extent.' So, I guess I'm a militant to a
degree."
Marbley said the BSM has picked up some
strength under Mebane's chairmanship
because they became involved with campus
politics and took stands on some important
issues.
Marbley is not going to de-emphasize
politics, though. "It's still on the upswing,"
he said.
"For example, the University has been lax
in carrying out the Affirmative Action
programs. We plan to Carry this out to its end
until it's rectified."
The pressure will also be continued to
establish an Afro-American Department at
the University, to bring in more black
professors and to get more money from the
CGC for black student activities.
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by Robert Petersen
Staff Writer
That the first-come, first-serve, .careful-for-your-quotas
signup process which has
resulted in long lines, occupation of lobbies
and free-for-alls in women's dorms is
nothing new, according to Sandy Ward,
assistant housing director.
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Ward said, "We've had the quota system
for a few years now but in the past it has not
been adhered to. Because of this, we've had
overcrowding of dorms."
The quota system was enforced this year
instead of allowing tripling, Ward explained,
because studies have shown that tripling has
a detrimental effect on student adjustment
and study habits.
memo said.
The Housing Department expects Craige
dorm to have vacant spaces, so the policy
will not have the effect of throwing graduate
students off-campus. Condie's memo stated
that Craige has had vacancies in the past
because graduates have been allowed to live
in undergraduate buildings or off-campus.
Undergraduate students currently living
in Craige have been permitted to sign up to
live there next semester.
O'Neal said after he was not allowed to
sign up for Avery, he appealed to Condie to
make an exception and Condie refused. He
then appealed to Dean of Student Affairs
Donald A. Boulton who "dropped the case
like a hot potato and handed it back to
Condie," O'Neal said.
O'Neal maintains that there are two
ramifications to the policy. First is that the
decision may deprive him of the job to which
the student body elected him several weeks
ago.
"They've just un-elected the RHA
president by a simple piece of paper," O'Neal
said. He said the first time he heard of the
policy was during the elections.
"It caused political pressure' on me
because if the students thought I couldn't be
president, I'd be hurt in the election," he said..
"The political overtones (of the policy) on
the face of it are obvious."
Another aspect of the policy, O'Neal said,
is that the decision to restrict graduate
students to one dorm is unfair to all graduate
students.
"It's like saying we built you a center down
there and you can't live anywhere else," he
said. Graduate students, like undergraduate
students, should' have the right to live in
better -quality dorms or closer to campus,
O'Neal said.
He likened the Housing Department
policy towards graduate students to a policy
in which blacks were all made to live in one
dorm. The difference, he said, is that if the
latter' -policy were adopted, "the ACLU
would have a lawsuit in 10 seconds."
O'Neal said he sees no reason the Housing
Department couldn't set small quotas for
graduate students in all dorms on campus.
"However," she continued, "University
regulations require freshmen to live in
dorms. So there are three options, if we do
not enforce the quotas."
The options, Ward said, are to rescind the
freshmen on-campus housing requirement,
to change admittance procedures or to build
more housing.
"Studies have established that freshmen
Union Board ponders Servomation;
current contract may be terminated
by Henry Farber
Staff Writer
The Carolina Union Board of Directors
spent an hour Thursday tossing around ideas
about improving the Union Snack bar.
Suggestions ranged from an end to the
present "fast-food" service in favor of better
quality food and a more pleasant
atmosphere, to the installation of quality
vending machines, but no decisions were
made.
The overriding theme of the meeting
concerned the possible termination of the
contract of Servomation-Mathias, the
national corporation which runs the snack
bar, the Pine Room and Chase Cafeteria.
The contract comes up for renewal May 31.
The board planned to invite John Temple,
assistant vice-chancellor of business, to
attend next Tnurs"day'sHiscussion on the
snack bar. Temple has overall responsibility
for the operation of campus food services,
.according to Union Director Howard
Henry.
The concensus of the board was that the
present snack bar leaves much to be desired.
Several board members complained about
inadequate food preparation in both the
snack bar and the cafeterias, citing the snack
bar's hamburgers, which were said to have
been cold, too rare, or overly shrunken.
Board member Dr. Edwin Brooks said his
observations had led him to believe
incompetent management was the main
reason for the inadequate food preparation.
Harvey Zelon said the board should either
terminate Servomation's contract or include
specific recommendations within a renewed
contract that would improve the snackbar.
However, Union President Gary Phillips
said some of Servomation's inadequacies,
such as rude and insufficient service, could
not be corrected by contract stipulations.
need on-campus housing to make the proper
adjustment to large schools," Ward said.
"Any decision to drop the requirement
would have to come from the Board of
Trustees, and because of these studies, they
are reluctant to make that decision."
Changing admittance procedures is not
feasible, Ward said, because the North
Carolina Legislature allocates University
funds on the basis of estimated enrollment.
"If we overenroll," she said, "we aren't
allocated any more funds, but if we
underenroll, we have to return the extra
money."
"We could accept more transfers and less
freshmen," she continued, "but the present
trend is for transfers to request on-campus
housing too, so it wouldn't really help the
situation."
Ward said that building more housing is
also not feasible because the University is
currently paying for seven dorms on a debt
that won't be settled until 2006.
"The present system," Ward admitted, "is
not completely fair, but it is the best we have.
Students closed out of their dorms will most
likely find housing somewhere else on
campus. The problem will be to house junior
transfers."
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Staff photo by Martha Stcvana
Council to consider
judicial reform plan
by David Ennls
Staff Writer
The Faculty Council will meet Friday to
consider the Judicial Reform document and
hear reports from the committees on Student
Discipline and Recruitment of Black
Faculty.
The meeting was scheduled to complete
business on the agenda that was not finished
in the Council's March 22 meeting.
Dr. James O. Cansler, associate dean of
Student Affairs, said he foresees no
opposition to passage of the proposed
Judicial Reform instrument by the council.
. Cansler said he will point out the major
differences between the proposed judicial
system and the one presently in effect when
he introduces the document for the Council's "
consideration.
The proposed document lists a new set of
sanctions which may be used against
students found guilty of Honor Code
violations.
Cansler said these new sanctions will offer
some middle ground between mild sanctions
and suspension which he considers to be
"the academic equivalent of capital
punishment."
The proposed document articulates
students' rights of privacy and expression.
Weather
Kite-flying weather. Partly cloudy
and warm with southerly breezes.
Highs today, Saturday and Sunday in
the upper 70's and low 80's. Lows at
night in the SO's. Chance of rain, 30
per cent ail weekend.
Structural changes made by the document
would include the consolidation of the Men's
Honor Court, Women's Honor Court and
Honor Court into an Undergraduate Court.
The Undergraduate Court would consist
of 42 members 28 elected by the student
body and 14 appointed by the student body
president.
The document stipulates that 12 of the
appointed members "shall not be of the
majority race." This is the mechanism that
makes the minority court possible, Cansler
said.
The document would also abolish the
current Faculty Review Board and replace it
with a University Hearings Board made up
of students, faculty and administration
representatives.
Cansler noted this is the first time students
have been given appellate court
responsibility.
The document would replace the Faculty
Committee on Student Discipline with a
Committee on Student Conduct.
This committee, consisting of six students,
three faculty and three chancellor's a
appointees, would oversee the entire judicial
system.
The position of court administrator would
be created by the document to relieve the
chairman of the Undergraduate Court of
administrative responsibilities, Cansler said.
The report of the Faculty Committee on
Student Discipline notes the committee's
participation in drafting he Judicial reform
document. The committee will cease to exist
if and when the document goes into a effect
next fall.
The report of the Faculty Committee on
Recruitment of Black Faculty will
recommend that the committee be continued
for two years rather than dissolved at the end
this year as planned.
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TODAY "Tales From Four Lands," a multi-media show that explores f
the spirit oj Asian peoples. Shows continuously in 08 Peabody at 7. 8, 9 and 10
p.m. ;
Movie. ' Fire on the Plains," shows at 6:30 and 9 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
SATURDAY Chinese dinner, prepared with skill and served with grace,
5:30 and 6:30 p. ml in the Newman Center. $2.
The 5, 000 years of Chinese cultural tradition comes to Memorial Hall in the
Peking Opera, 8 p.m. Tickets at the Union desk for $1.50.
SUNDAY The Masters of Martial Arts will present a demonstration of
Kung Fu and Karate at 8 p.m. in Carmichael Auditorium.
by David Klinger
Staff Writer
If you have survived the Franklin Street rip-off, the
University Housing rip-off and the drop-add rip-off
and think there's no other way you can be conned in the
Southern Part of Heaven, think again.
Several Chapel Hill apartment dwellers have
discovered a problem that is fast becoming the town's
number one crime statistic: the personal property rip
off, better known as breaking and entering.
A resident of Kingswood Apartments was the most
recent victim, having $1,520 in stereo and
photographic equipment stolen early Wednesday
morning. The incident was the second at the student's
apartment in less than six months.
Although statistics for the current year are not
available, figures over the past several years reveal the
growing threat that break-ins pose.
Burglary increased more than 21 per cent between
1972 and 1973, according to Lt. Arnold Gold,
communications officer for the Chapel Hill Police
Department. During fiscal year 1973, the value of
property stolen in break-ins and bicycle thefts
amounted to $26,000.
Although Gold saw no pattern developing out of
recent apartment burglaries, he did say that type of
crime is high, compared to other North Carolina
communities. Gold attributed the high break-in rate in
part to the poor apartment construction practices in
some Chapel Hill complexes.
"Increased police patrol of apartment areas and
fraternity and sorority houses is a deterrent to crime,
but it's only a small part of the solution. Better lighting,
removal of overgrown shrubbery, and other
precautions by residents will help," Gold said.
The Student Consumer Action Union's guide to
apartment living in Chapel Hill, "Southern Part of
Heaven?", revealed a wide variation in the amount and
variety of security services offered to tenants.
The variation ranged from on e complex in
Carrboro which listed no security provisions to others
which advertise special security officers and resident
managers for protection.
Most frequent among students complaints has been
the inability to install special security door locks in
several major apartment developments. ,
"We don't allow our tenants to install their own
locks, although we are considefingdoing so. When you
have as many apartments as we do, the problem of
installation and maintenance of the locks is very
great," Brent Bobbin, office manager of Roberts
Associates said.
"There is no big rash of apartment break-ins that I
know of. Over the past years, however, there has been a
general rise in all of Chapel Hill," Bobbin said.
Bobbitt suggested that students always lock their
apartments and leave lights on during vacation periods
and other times when the apartment is vacant. He also
suggested personal property insurance for tenants with
expensive personal possessions.
A check with Stratford Hills, Northampton Plaza
and Bolinwood Apartments revealed no trend in
break-ins developing, although Northampton
reported recent vandalism of its laundry facilities.
Another source that is available to Chapel Hill
residents for personal property protection has been
promoted by the town of Chapel Hill for over one year.
At no charge to residents, the Chapel Hill Fire
Department will lend special engraving pens for
marking perssnal possessions. The service, which has
met with some success in retrieving stolen property, is
operation at all three fire stations.