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Vpl. 83, No. 12 " Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday, September 16, 1975
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by Johnny Oliver
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill may be faced with a water
shortage if adequate rain doesn't fall
before Oct. 10, University Utilities
Director Grey Culbreth said Monday.
Culbreth said the University has
already made arrangements to buy
water from Durham, if the level in
University Lake, the town's water
source, falls too much.
""The level in the lake is at about 75per
cent of its capacity or about 30 inches
below the spillway," Culbreth said. "We
think we have 150 million gallons to
work with during the next 25 days
before supplementing our supply with
water from Durham.
"Over the last seven days, Chapel Hill
has had an average usage of about 5.85
million gallons per day. At the moment
we have roughly 550 million gallons of
water in the lake."
The lake's water level would have to
drop to approximately 57 per cent or
400 million galons before water would
be bought from Durham, Culbreth said.
He estimated the lake's watershed
would have to receive about four inches
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by Richard Whittle
Staff Writer
An informal political pressure group has
surfaced in Carrboro and will be attempting
to make its presence felt in this fall's Nov. 4
elections.
The Carrboro Community Coalition,
though founded last winter, has until now
remained a quiet group of liberals who want
to change the trend of Carrboro politics.
Last week the coalition stepped into
public view, announcing its three main goals: ,
To formulate and pass a public
transportation referendum which would
allow the organization of a Carrboro bus
system;
To push for long-range planning in
Carrboro, based on considerations other
than economic conditions;
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of rain in the next 25 days in order to
prevent a water shortage.
But Chapel Hill's usual rainfall does
not significantly raise the lake level, he
said.
"What we need is a good, fast rain,"
Culbreth said. "A slow rain is soaked up
by the ground and by plant life
surrounding the watershed. A hard rain
of about four inches could raise the lake
level about 1 1 inches."
With the cooler weather coming,
Culbreth said he hopes Chapel Hill's
water needs will decrease slightly,
because fewer people will water their
grass and shubbery or wash their cars.
Although an 11-inch rainfall during
the next 25 days could delay the
necessity of buying water, Chapel Hill
does not have adequate water resources,
Culbreth stressed.
"We have a source of water that will
reliably deliver 4 million gallons a day,"
he said. "But we're calling on it to
provide almost 6 million gallons a day."
Culbreth said the town is in no danger
of having a water shortage like the one
in 1968, when the lake level dropped to
28 per cent. During the last water
shortage in 1973, Culbreth said the
University spent roughly $40,000
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To build a slate of liberal candidates for
three aldermanic seats and the mayor's post,
to be used in the municipal elections.
"We have organized mainly around an
interest in looking at the public
transportation issue," member Douglas
Sharer said in explaining the organization's
evolution.
Sharer, a research assistant at the Institute
for Environmental Studies, said the group's
list of interested persons contains nearly 50
names, but approximately 25 people attend
the meetings. The coalition has held no
publicly announced meetings.
Another concern of the coalition is the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen. Members
have become dissatisfied with the board
because they feel it has been dominated by
conservatives who have considered only
economic factors in planning for the town,
Sharer said.
buying water from Durham.
"Water is very expensive," Culbreth
said. "We have to pay double the
customer rate of Durham or $438 per
million gallons. In . a contingency
category of our budget, we have $40 to
$50 thousand dollars set aside
specifically for the purchase of water
should the need arise."
Culbreth noted that Chapel Hill does
not pay the University anything for the
water it uses. "They (the town) are
getting a real deal," he said, "For
instance, we rent them fire hydrants at a
rate of $1 per hydrant per month. Most
towns would pay between $3 and $5 per
hydrant per month."
He added, "Very little has been done
to correct the town's water needs since
the big shortage back in 1968. Not much
will probably be done until the
University sells the water utility next
March."
The most promising way to increase
the lake's water supply, Culbreth said, is
by building a dam on Cane Creek,
approximately six miles west of the lake.
He said the creek is clean and has a
potential yield of about 10 million
gallons per day. According to Culbreth,
the.; University has already researched
the possibility of a Cane Creek reservoir
covering about 1,200 acres.
The University began researching the
possibility of another water source in
1970. In that year the University
doubled its customer water rates from
50 cents to $1.20 per 1,000 gallons to
provide a financial base for the reservoir
at Cane Creek.
Since that rate increase, the
University has not lost money on its
water system and has collected roughly
$3 million to go toward building the new
reservoir.
He estimated that the University has
probably spent $1 million of the $3
million in maintaining its present water
system.
In 1970, Culbreth said the University
expected the proposed Cane Creek
reservoir to cost approximately $7.5
million, with $5 million to $6 million of
that to be paid for with water bonds.
But, Culbreth added that the delay of
the project has increased the cost of the
reservoir because of increased
construction and land costs.
'DTH' holds
open house
There will be an open meeting at 7 p.m.
Thursday, Sept. 18, "in room 217 of the
Union for all students and campus
organizations interested in the procedures
and policies of the Daily Tar Heel. Everyone
is cordially invited to attend and participate.
"They're very much interested in just
letting private developers have their way,"
Sharer said. "That's ot to say that we're
against private enterprise; that would be
silly."
But Sharer said coalition members feel
that proposals for economic development in
the town have not been thoroughly
evaluated in the past for their total impact.
The Carrboro coalition wants to change
these and other aspects of Carrboro
government which they see as too
conservative, by finding and supporting
"like-minded people" who are willing to run
in the aldermanic race, Sharer said.
He said the group has been talking with
several people who are interested in running
for the aldermanic and mayoral seats but he
refused to release any names for fear of
scaring away potential candidates.
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An unusual perspective on the
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by Vernon Loeb
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement (BSM)
Gospel Choir may be separated from the
BSM and thus Student Government, if a
Campus Governing Council Finance
Committee bill is approved by the council at
its meeting tonight. - -.
If the bill passes, the choir will also lose its
$600 Student Government appropriation
and its $220 checking account.
The Finance Committee bill was proposed
after the Gospel Choir was charged with
violating student treasury laws.
Treasury laws prohibit any organization
from receiving student funds to maintain a
checking account with a commercial bank.
The Gospel Choir allegedly maintained such
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by Laura Seism
Staff Writer
UNC women's interest in the nine Chapel
Hill sororities is apparently up, and
Panhellenic Council President Robin Levine
said a tenth sorority may be founded here.
National officers from Alpha Gamma
Delta and Alpha Chi Omega sororities are
on campus this week petitioning for
Panhellenic membership.
Representatives of sororities visited the
campus last spring and expressed an interest
in starting chapters here, Levine said.
Each sorority will outline its history and
housing plans in a session with the Faculty
Committee on Sororities. The committee
will then evaluate each sorority's
presentation and approve one of the
applications.
The committee's decision to accept a new
sorority depends on whether it feels there is
enough interest to support a tenth sorority at
UNC.
Levine said she feels record turnout for
last week's formal sorority rush proved UNC
women are interested enough to warrant
another Greek house on campus. Formal
rush, which ended last week, had 650
participants, an increase of 132 over last
year, and 294 women pledged.
Because of the conservative tone of the
Carrboro government over the past few
years, we have a hard time getting people to
run," he said.
Last week the coalition released a voter
registration information sheet which
contains an appeal to persons interested in
community issues and activities to seek open
positions in the town government.
The coalition has no officers, Sharer said
recently. But the voter registration sheet
distributed by the coalition lists Sharer and
seven others as the core of the coalition. The
eight core members listed are: Sharer; Sara
Carter, a UNC graduate student; Charles
Jeffress, a 1971 UNC graduate; Ernie
Patterson; Frances Shetley, a real estate
salesperson; Faye Sugg; Janifer Thompson,
a UNC library employee; and Dixie Walser,
a part-time employee of the Carrboro
Elementary School library.
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Staff photo by Howard Shepherd
construction currently underway behind Louis Round Wilson Library
decide BSM choir status
an account with the North Carolina
National Bank.
Article I of the Finance Committee bill
states, "The BSM Gospel Choir is
immediately considered an autonomous
group and shall receive no financial
compensation or gratuitous goods and
services from the BSM, nor be considered a
part of the BSM organization."
At last week's Finance Committee
meeting, debate arose over the Gospel
Choir's financial status. BSM
representatives present at the meeting
contended that the choir never actually
received student funds, because their budget
requests were not met by the Campus
Governing Council (CGC). They also said a
category for the choir is not included in
BSM's actual budget.
"Women are abolishing some of the
stereotypes they have about sororities and
are going through rush just to give it a try,"
Levine said.
She also cited spring sign-up and a greater
number of freshmen women as reasons for
this year's increased turnout.
Approximately 70 women are
participating in informal rush, which began
Student Graphics
SG-founded printer
by Vernon Mays
Staff Writer
Located in the basement of the Union,
Student Graphics is a student-owned and
operated organization, created to serve the
printing needs of students, faculty and staff.
Graphics has the facilities to print posters,
handbills, quick-copy materials (such as
papers) and large items requiring
typesetting.
These facilities include three presses and
equipment for paper cutting, stitching and
folding, giving . them a start-to-finish
capacity.
Graphics has a staff of 15 persons,
including nine who work only on
composition of advertisements for the Daily
Tar Heel. The combination of student and
professional employees provides a learning
situation for those who show interest, a
Graphics pamphlet says.
Joe Stokely, business manager for
Student Graphics, said Monday, "The
system we've got is as good as anybody's and
has the output equal to any small shop in
Chapel Hill."
A major part of Graphics' work is done for
campus organizations, but few individuals
take advantage of the services offered,
Stokely said. "We wish we had more
students come in," he said.
A comparison with the prices of
commercial copying centers in Chapel Hill
shows that, in many cases. Student Graphics
already lists prices for printing that are equal
to or lower than prices quoted to the Daily
Tar Heel on Monday by two local copying
firms.
For 50 copies of a single sheet. Student
Graphics charges $1.85. The price for the
same job costs $1.81 at Copy-Quick and
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BSM members said the choir is an
independent organization, not controlled by
Student Government laws.
But Student Body Treasurer Mike O'Neal
said Monday the Gospel Choir, being part of
the BSM, is subject to the treasury laws. He
said BSM Chairperson Lester Diggs' column
in Monday's DTH verifies the choir's
affiliation with the BSM.
Diggs' column read in part, "Years ago,
the organization (BSM) formulated the
Gospel Choir . .
Diggs declined to comment on the issue
Monday, saying only that the BSM would be
represented at the CGC meeting.
CGC member Ben Steelman said Monday
he believes the bill will have enough v otes for
passage. He said he would support the bill.
Sept. 10. Registration for rush continues
through Oct. 9. Interested women may sign
up atthe Panhellenic Office in Suite A of the
Union, or at 01 Steele Building.
The Faculty Committee on Sororities is
composed of three faculty members and four
Panhellenic Council members. ,The
Panhellnic Council president and the adviser
are ex-officio members of the committee.
$2.06 at Carolina Copy Center. Insta-Copy
could not be reached for estimates.
A hundred copies of a single sheet costs
$2.85 at Student Graphics, whereas the
lowest commercial price is $3.27 at Carolina
Copy Center. Copy-Quick charges $3.31.
Copy-Quick undercuts the prices of
Student Graphics for single copies of
multiple-page papers, the only category in
which Graphics is undercut significantly.
For this service, Copy-Quick charges 5 cents
per page. All other copiers, including
Student Graphics, charge 10 cents for each
page and require that at least five copies be
made of each sheet.
Because of new equipment in . use at
Student Graphics, prices will have to be
reduced soon, making Graphics' prices the
lowest prices available for UNC students,
Stokely said.
Student Graphics was founded in 1969 by
Student Government to insure campus
groups a means of having quality low-cost
printing done on campus.
The organization, under the direction of
the Media Board, operates on a non-profit
basis.
DU permit
The Delta Upsilon fraternity's request
for a special use permit modification was
unanimously approved by the Chapel
Hill Board of Aldermen Monday night.
The board approved the permit after
the fraternity revised building plans for
its new house.
Details in Wednesday's DTH.