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rising cost coal, the University will not have a power shortage. See page 2 for story.
Highway patrol no
by Vernon Loeb
Staff Vrlter
"Virtually "' every.C." Highway Talfbt car",
on the highways today has either radar or a
mechanical speed computer called
VASCAR. Some have both.
With them, moving patrol cars can track
drivers coming or going, with a minimum of
effort.
The patrol utilizes almost 800 electronic
devices to stop speeding vehicles. During a
five month period in 1975, those devices were
largely responsible for 103,511 speeding
citations an average of 676 per day.
Radar traps, however, are nothing new.
The Highway Patrol has had radar since
1954, but not until last year did it have a
system that worked while patrol cars were
moving.
"It's a valuable asset," Highway Patrol
Sgt. Donald V. McLean said of moving
radar. "You don't have to sit paralyzed in
one spot while other violations are going
on."
Sitting paralyzed has other disadvantages
Presidential hopeful
Jimmy Carter gives
long-distance speech
by Tim Pittman
Staff Writer
Democratic presidential candidate Jimmy
Carter spoke to approximately 20 potential
Carter workers here Sunday night by way of
a telephone hook-up from his Atlanta, Ga.
office.
Although the group, each of whom had
paid $10 to attend the meeting, had prepared
numerous questions for Carter, the former
Georgia governor said he would only have
time to answer two questions. After
answering them, he spoke briefly about his
campaign.
The meeting, organized by Jane Sharp, an
unsuccessful candidate for Chapel Hill
alderman last November, was designed to
raise money for Carter's campaign by 2nd
Congressional District Democrats.
Carter, who was speaking to groups of
supporters in 20 states Sunday night through
similar telephone hook-ups, promised to cut
defense spending and trim the Pentagon
budget and urged a conservationist
approach to land use planning.
Sharp, a member of the four-person
Carter Steering Committee in the 2nd
District, said the meeting had raised $250 so
far, and she expected at least $ 100 more from
contributors who did not attend the meeting.
Responding to a question concerning his
proposed, budget cuts for the defense
department, Carter said, "The President and
the siate department should have more
control over the defense spending than they
have now, and the defense department's
control over the budget planning should be
lessened.
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as well. "The first five minutes you park on
the side of the road, every truck between here
and the Virginia line knows it because of
"".your "CBrtciti2en" bahdradros), McLearr.
said. "That's another advantage of moving
radar. They (the drivers) can't keep you
pinpointed."
Currently, 323 moving radar units are in
use on North Carolina highways. Last year,
through the Governor's Highway Safety
Program, the patrol obtained $289,825 in
federal funds to purchase 200 moving units.
State funds financed the remaining 123.
Used to track oncoming traffic, the
moving radar unit has two components: a
digital display panel mounted on the
dashboard, and a conical antenna placed
either inside or outside the patrol car. The
antenna" emits a radar beam, which is
reflected back to the patrol car by a moving
vehicle.
The display panel can be set for a
maximum permissable speed legally 55
mph. Any car in excess of that entering the
unit's range (close to one half mile) will
trigger a tone from the display panel, which
Carter attacked the bureaucracy of the
Pentagon and the large number of troops,
officers and military bases overseas.
"The Pentagon is the most wasteful
bureaucracy in government at this time,"
Carter said. "We could trim the budget by
lowering the number of big shot generals,
admirals and military bases which are now
overlapping and in many cases, useless."
Carter, a former naval officer himself, said
there is now one admiral for every 1.7 ships
in the Navy.
Favoring local decisions in land use
planning whenever possible and the
implementation of long-range planning.
Carter endorsed environmental protection
of marshes, rivers and undeveloped natural
areas.
Carter, who was recently called the
"surprise of 1976" by the New York Times,
predicted "pleasing results" from the
delegate selection caucus which took place in
Iowa Monday night.
Sharp said she was pleased with the
meeting's results. She said the people who
attended are local opinion leaders who could
generate support for Carter's candidacy.
Chapel Hill Alderman Gerry Cohen
agreed with Sharp that the meeting could be
the beginning of a grassroots Carter
organization in Chapel Hill, but he warned
that many politically uncommitted people
came to hear Carter in the hope that the
meeting would help make up their minds.
"I came for two reasons," Cohen said.
"First, to see who was supporting Carter,
and secondly, to help me make up my own
mind about the candidate."
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Serving fie students and the University community since 1893
Chepel Hill, North Carolina, Tuesday, January 20, 1976
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by Dan Fesperman
Staff Writer
. All major allegations of a lawsuit
charging UNC with discriminating
against out-of-state students in
admissions policies have been denied in
an answer filed last week by the
defendants.
The suit, which could substantially
affect undergraduate admissions
policies of state-supported universities,
was filed in November by Jane Cheryl
Rosenstock, a University of Maryland
freshman and resident of Ellenville,
N.Y.
Defendents in the suit include UNC
CH Director of Admissions Richard
Cashwell, consolidated university
President William. C. Friday,
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, the UNC
Board of Governors and the UNC-CH
Board of Trustees.
Rosenstock's major contention is that
out-of-state children of alumni are at an
unconstitutional advantage by being
exempt from a 1 5 per cent quota for out-of-state
admissions.
The defendants' answer flatly denies
longer parks to clock speeders
automatically records the vehicle's speed.
The trooper never has to touch it.
With moving radar, an oncoming speeder
canbc,;detected'whilc;far enpugh away to
allow a highway patrol officer to cross the
median and await the vehicle. This capability
cuts down on the number of high-speed
pursuits, which is another advantage of
moving radar, McLean said.
It is up to the individual trooper to
determine the maximum permissible speed
at which each unit is set, McLean said. The
amount of leeway received by a driver,
exceeding the speed limit will vary.
"The speed limit is 55. Technically,
actually, you can stop a driver for going 57 or
56," he said. "Fifty-six is in violation of the
law."
But anytime a motorist is "a mile or two
above the speed limit," McLean said, the
policy is to pull abreast of the car, have the.
trooper identify himself through a
loudspeaker system and tell the driver to
either "slow down and adhere to the speed
limit, or you'll be given a citation."
Patrol records indicate that 89 per cent of
all speeding tickets issued between July and
November 1975 were given to drivers
travelling between 65 and 70 miles per hour.
Those tickets cost drivers a $10 fine for
speeding and a $25 court fee, whether or not
a court appearance was made. Fines and fees
collected between July and November
totalled approximately $4 million.
Unlike mobile radar equipment,
conventional stationary radar units are
parked at roadside and clock vehicles
coming from behind the patrol car. Their
range varies from unit to unit, but it is
considerably less than that of moving radar.
When operating stationary units, McLean
said, "People know you're sitting with radar,
and they slow down. Then they go on up the
road and take off again."
Despite this drawback, stationary radar is
still widely used. The Highway Patrol
operates 100 units, while many local police
forces also employ stationary radar devices.
The Chapel Hill police, for example, have
four stationary units.
Local police forces, McLean said, get
Temperatures
cripple bus service
Chapel Hill buses were running late
Monday morning after temperatures
dropped into the low teens, freezing engines
and air lines connected to brake and
suspension systems in the buses.
Chapel Hill Transit Director John Pappas
sai(f that similar problems may be
encountered today.
He urged bus travelers to telephone transit
information, 942-5174, to make sure the
buses are running on schedule.
Pappas said it was difficult to thaw the
buses Monday because the town's
transportation department lacks adequate
shop facilities and equipment to deal with
the problem.-
He said the transit department workers
would keep buses motor's running all
Monday night to try to avoid similar
problems today.
any such preference, and Richard
Cashwell, UNC director of
undergraduate admissions, publicly
denied the charge in November.
Yet, a pamphlet published this
academic year by the Office of
Undergraduate Admissions supports
the contention of the lawsuit.
Entitled, "Profile of the Freshman
Class Entering in the Fall of 1975," the
pamphlet lists three categories of
freshmen: North Carolina residents,
non-residents and non-in-quota. The
non-in-quota category is defined later in
the pamphlet as containing "children of
out-of-state alumni and foreigners."
The pamphlet also shows that the
non-in-quota applicants are at a definite
advantage relative to non-residents.
Of the non-in-quota applicants to this
year's freshman class 46 per cent were
accepted, while only 19 per cent of the
non-resident applicants were accepted.
The answer also denies the suit's
allegation that Rosenstock's right of
interstate travel was violated. N.C.
Deputy Atty. Gen. Andrew Vanore,
representing UNC in the suit, earlier
said that this contention "won't hold
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Mobil radar (above dashboard) matched
with VASCAR (below) accounts for many
speeding citations.
almost all of their radar units with funds
from the Governor's Highway Safety
Program. Last year, an additional $77, 1 87 in
federal funds purchased 126 stationary radar
devices for North Carolina's local police
forces.
All four of Chapel Hill's devices were
I ranscribers stay in business
by Jan Hodges
Staff Writer
Triangle Transcribers, Inc. is preparing to
enter the second semester of its freshman
year. It is no longer in danger of flunking out
of business, Crawford Gilligan, its new
owner, said last week.
Because of threats of law suits from some
professors last semester, Transcribers now .
record only classes for which they have the.
instructor's permission to do so, Gilligan
explained.
Transcribers records and transcribes
course lectures and then sells the transcripts
to students.
Eleven sections covering six different
courses are being recorded and transcribed
this semester, Gilligan said. Each class has
water."
But Rosenstock's attorney, Lawrence
Young of Chapel Hill, said that the
plaintiffs right of interstate travel had
been restricted because "she- was
considered differently from others and
was not allowed to enter the University,
so now she will not go to North
Carolina."
Young said Monday that it would be
at least a year before the case came out
of the courts, and that then any ruling
would probably be appealed.
A ruling in Rosenstock's favof could
force UNC to reconsider her application
against all other accepted applicants of
the UNC class of 1979, he said, but
admitted that a final ruling on the suit
might come too late to personally
benefit Rosenstock.
"It (the suit) is one of outrage with
admissions policies," he said. "It mostly
concerns future applicants."
"The possibilities of this case are
unlimited," he said, adding that it could
force UNC to eliminate the 15 per cent
quota and preferential treatment for
children of alumni or change the
percentage for the quota.
federally financed, because they were too
expensive for the town to afford, Lt. H.
Lloyd Lucas said. The 126 stationary units
. purchased last year-for local police forces
cost approximately $450 each.
VASCAR, which stands for Visual
Average Speed Computer and Recorder, is
still widely used, but it has one major
disadvantage, McLean said. By the time it
has computed the speed of a vehicle, the
patrol car can be as far away from the
speeder as one mile.
VASCAR enables a trooper to measure
the distance between any two points along a
highway and time another vehicle as it
travels between those two points.
Typically, a patrolman will turn on
VASCAR's timing device when he sees an
oncoming vehicle pass a certain point, such
as a bridge or tree, and turn it off when the
vehicle has passed another predetermined
point on the road.
But while the clocked vehicle continues to
head in the opposite direction, the patrol car
must drive past the two landmarks to
measure their distance, taking him further
away from the speeder before he can cross
the median and pursue.
VASCAR units are mobile, however, and
can be used to time cars going in either'
direction. The Highway Patrol utilizes 360
VASCARS.
Both Lloyd and McLean said radar and
VASCAR units are used predominantly in
problem areas. "Radar is a selective
enforcement, not general enforcement tool,"
Lloyd said. "When you have a specific
problem in a specific area, you use radar."
The patrol, McLean said, assigns radar
units to accident and high speed areas. "You
find your trouble spots," he said. "If a man
works an area long enough, he'll know where
to go with the radar."
His black radar antenna, which seems so
ominous to many motorists, has in recent
years become more and more omnipresent
on North Carolina's roads and highways.
"I'd like to see the day when each (patrol)
car has a moving radar unit," McLean said.
"Whenever the funds are available, we'd like
to have them."
approximately 200 or more enrollees, he
added.
Business is up this semester, Gilligan said,
because students weren't really aware of the
service until the middle of last semester.
Arthur Benavie, whose Economics 31
class is being transcribed, said he is in favor
of the service because "if it can possibly help
some students, it ought to be encouraged."
Benavie said the copies of the lectures can be
helpful for some students but can be a
catastrophe if they are used "in lieu of
coming to class or in lieu of taking notes."
Benavie said he has not noticed any drop
in attendance in his classes since Triangle
Transcribers started recording them.
Earle Wallace, professor and associate
chairperson of the political science
department, was quoted as objecting to the
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Homer Rice, UNC athletic director
H. Rice
to coach
Rice U.?
From staff end wire reports
HOUSTON Rice University, which
desperately needs a head football coach to
get on with recruiting, negotiated Monday
terms of an agreement with University of
North Carolina Athletic Director Homer
Rice.
"We are in the last stages of negotiations,"
said Dr. Williams W. Akers, vice president
of external affairs. The negotiations should
be "pretty well wound up today or
tomorrow," he added.
Neither Akers or any other school official
has stated that Rice, now in his seventh year
at UNC, was the choice of a Rice University
alumnus who raised the money to pay off the
contract of resigned head football coach Al
Conover, who resigned Jan. 2.
Rice was not available at his Chapel Hill
office Monday, his secretary said. .
Should he accept a contract to move to
Houston, Rice would likely become head
football coach and athletic director.
. Ric&.s -the lhirdmarv- to ltad the ..UliC.
Athletic Department in more than 50 years.
The late Coach Bob Fetzer was the first
director, serving from 1922 to 1951. Chuck
Erikson succeeded him and held the job until
retirement in 1968. Rice is also a member of
the NCAA executive committee.
Present Rice University athletic director
A.M. "Red" Bale, has for weeks helped
Akers interview prospects for the head
coaching job. But when it came to talking
with Rice, Bale Monday said he was not
asked to take part.
"I wish I could help you as far as where the
thing stands," said Bale. "But I had nothing
to do with contacting or interviewing
Homer."
If Rice accepts the athletic director job,
Bale would likely be moved to another job,
an informed source said.
"Homer has not held a coaching job for-,
the past six years," another person close to
Rice University said. "That's just one thing
that makes his selection dubious. He is 49
years old, and, what's more, he hasn't won
anything."
During 1967 and 1968, Rice coached the
University of Cincinnati football team to
eight wins in 19 games. He was an assistant
coach at the University of Kentucky and
Oklahoma before that, and has held the
athletic director job at North Carolina since
1969. His record as a high school coach was
101-9-7.
"He was one heck of a high school coach,
but does that qualify him to be Rice coach?"
a major Rice University backer said.
Asked who was running the hiring
process, the backer said he preferred not to
mention a name.
"But it's the same old adage. He who puts
up the money can do the last talking," he
said.
Coach Conover, with two years remaining
on his contract, resigned unexpectedly
following acceptance of an agreement to be
paid approximately one year's salary,
$27,000, to step down.
service in a DTH article published Sept. 5,
1975. However, he said Thursday that he
decided to let them record his lectures
anyway and that he noticed no difference in
class grades or attendance.
Transcribers, which employs eight people
including Crawford, is located in the
basement of the N ML-West Building in
University Square. It also has a while-you-wait
binding service for theses and papers
and Gilligan said he would like to include
more student services as the business
expands.
Transcribers is part of a movement called
The New Age, which espouses metaphysical
beliefs, Gilligan said. The people in the
movement who own businesses donate their
excess profits to support community centers
for yoga, meditation and massage
workshops, he explained.