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Chapel Hlii, North Carolina, Thursday, February 5, 1976
Vol, 83, No. 92
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by Chris Fuller
Staff Writer
Three members of the Elections
Board Executive Committee have
resigned, leaving only three members to
run the Feb. 25 spring elections.
Brooke Bynum, Lisa Bradley and
Kathy Moore have resigned from the
committee citing lack of time and
politics as reasons.
Bradley, who resigned Tuesday, said
she did so in order to campaign for a
candidate for the Daily Tar Heel
editorship.
Moore resigned three weeks ago. She
said that due to her commitments as
chairperson of the Student Consumer
Action Union (SCAU), she could not
take time out to work on the elections.
Moore emphasized that her
resignation had nothing to do with the
Campus Governing Council's rejection
of Nancy Mattox as elections board
chairperson Tuesday night.
Bynum, former Elections Board
chairperson, said she also did not have
the time to work on- the executive
committee.
Secondly, she said she was too biased
to be on the elections board because she
had signed several petitions of several
candidates in the upcoming spring
elections.
"I'm also too political," Bynum said,
adding that she was considering
working for an election candidate.
In addition, Janie Clark, a student
'who has worked, closely with, the
Elections Board since 1974, though not
an executive committee member, has
Shaw scholar opens
Black Liberation Month
by Sam Fulwood
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement begins its
celebration of Black Liberation Month
tonight with an address by a Shaw
University scholar.
Wayne Watson, a Shaw history professor
will speak on "Oral Tradition and the Afro
American," at 7:30 p.m. in the Upendo
Lounge.
Black Liberation Month is a special
observance of Black History Week, J.
Rupert Picott, executive director of the
Association for the Study of Afro-American
Life and History said Wednesday. Normally
Black History Week is celebrated during the
second week of February.
Picott said the observance of Black
History Week was lengthened to a month
. long celebration for three reasons.
" 1 976 marks the 50th anniversary of Black
History Week, the man who started the
Association (Carter G. Woodson) would
have been 100 years old this year and this is
the 200th year of our nation," Picott said.
Prof. Sonya Stone, director of Afro
American Studies at UNC, said Woodson
Local groups voice support
Sci e n t i sts p rotest ato
by Laura Toler
Staff Writer
Several North Carolina anti-nuclear
power groups may use the resignations of
three California nuclear scientists as the
basis for a protest gathering in Raleigh this
week. Drew Diehl, executive director of the
Conservation Council of North Carolina
said Tuesday.
The engineers, who designed and built
nuclear reactors at a San Jose General
Electric plant and worked on the managerial
level, quit their jobs Monday, saying the
risks of nuclear power were too substantial
to warrant its further development.
They will begin assisting anti-nuclear
power groups in California, Diehl said.
He added several local anti-nuclear
groups would ask for "extensive hearings on
the future of nuclear power in North
Carolina in light of safety questions which
have "been furthered by controversy in the
scientific community."
Statewide groups opposed to nuclear
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Nancy Mattox
Presidential nominee for
elections board chair watches . . .
said she will not help run elections this
year unless the board is up to full
capacity and has a chairperson.
Clark also cited lack of time, due to
student teaching duties, as the reason
she would have to quit.
With the resignation of Bynum,
Bradley and Moore, only three
members remain on the executive
committee, Bynum said, adding that the
remaining members have been virtually
inactive.
According to Student Government
Election Laws, the executive committee
of the Elections Board must consist of
11-21 presidentially appointed and
CGC-approved members.
This means that a minimum of eight
people must be appointed by Student
Body President Bill Bates and approved
by CGC by the time of the Feb. 25
election.
Bates said he is doing his best to fill
the board and find a chairperson. He
said five or six students have applied for
positions on the executive committee
and six or seven people, including one
unidentified CGC member, were being
considered for chairperson.
Bates said he hoped to have an
appointment for the chair by Friday but
said If may not come until after the
weekend.
founded the Association in 1915 as part of a
larger movement to recognize the
achievements of black Americans. In 1926,
Woodson started the week-long Black (then
Negro) History Week observance.
"Negro History Week was Woodson's
effort to have schools, and in particular, in
schools where black children were, to
observe one week out of the year for their
accomplishments," Stone said, adding that it
was "an immediate success."
The BSM sponsored activities this month
are designed to include all of Orange
County, according to Winnona Swayze,
BSM Afro-American affairs co-chairperson.
Swayze said one goal of the celebration is to
use available community talents and
resources. For example, an arts and crafts
exhibit by elderly people of Orange County
will be displayed in the Union Feb. 19.
Nationally, the Association is planning
localized programs, assemblies and
discussions to commemorate Black
Liberation Month, Picott said. "Our theme
for the month is 'America for All
Americans'. We are working for an America
that can be called home for all Americans."
Picott said his organization plans to erect
100 markers to note where famous blacks
were born or committed a historic event.
power include CCNC, the Southeastern
Confederation for Safe Power, Ecos, Inc.
and the Carolina Environmental Study
Group.
The only operating nuclear power facility
in North Carolina, the Carolina Power and
Light Company's (CP&L) Brunswick plant
near Southport, uses reactors manufactured
by General Electric.
Albert Morris, CP&L public relations
officer, said Tuesday that CP&L is not yet
familiar with the basis for the engineers'
decision to quit.
"Unless they have some new scientific
information to submit as the basis for their
concerns, we have no reaction," Morris said.
CP&L and Duke Power Company have
either proposed or begun construction on 11
more nuclear reactors in the state, in
addition to the one now operating near
Southport. All of the reactors are slated to
begin operation in the 1980's.
Of these, only the Brunswick plant will
definitely use GE reactors.
by Mary Anne Rhyne
Staff Writer
The Campus Governing Council rejected
the nomination of Nancy Mattox as
Elections Board chairperson, 7-9-2, Tuesday
night during a special session.
Administration Committee Chairperson
Dave Rittenhouse questioned Mattox's
impartiality because she had given money to
a campaign fund prior to her nomination,
her experience because she is a freshman and
the degree to which she has been involved in
student politics as a Student Government
reporter for the Daily Tar Heel.
Mike Grissom, Administration
Committee member, said these three
misgivings "were expressed by only one of
four persons on the administration
committee (Rittenhouse). "it is a false
impression that that was the sentiment of the
committee," he said.
Elections Board member Lisa Bradley
defended Mattox's capabilities, saying "She
knows elections laws better than I do, and
you need someone to run elections who
by Bob King
Staff Writer
first of a two-part series
Besides the glory of representing UNC in
the heat of athletic competition, the Carolina
varsity athlete enjoys a number of small
benefits which make his life a bit easier.
Although the degree of benefits vary
among sports, both scholarship and non
scholarship athletes enjoy some or all of the
following:
An easing of traditional admission
policies if some non-academic talent is seen
as outstanding;
A: preferential place in the order of pre
registration when coaches sign a petition for
exemption from classes at certain hours;
The right to eat at the Ehringhaus
training table.
The right to one preference ticket to each
home basketball game if the athlete has
earned a letter.
The first two privileges are available to all
students under certain circumstances. Any
student, for example, may submit to his dean
or advisor a petition for exemption from
classes at certain hours, if he has a job, Ben
Perry, assistant director of records and
registration said.
Perry said the registration office will put a
student's accepted form at the beginning of
his class' forms, so that his will be processed
first. For example, a rising sophomore who
needed to be exempt from certain hours of
classes would be among the first sophomores
to have his class cards pulled. The student
whose hour-exemption petition is accepted
is given in effect, first choice of courses in his
class.
Admissions to the University for athletes
proceed on the same basis as that used for all
students, Frederick S. Stevens, assistant
director of undergraduate -admissions, said
last week.
Between 90 and 95 per cent of
undergraduates are accepted or rejected on
the basis of what Stevens called "paper
credentials," grades, test scores and
activities.
The remaining undergraduates receive a
special judgement because of certain special
factors. Examples of these factors are
financial or other disadvantages, a
prolonged absence from any school or any
special talent beyond academic
considerations. "Almost all schools, from
Harvard on down, have this practice,"
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Diehl said that although the engineers'
resignations indicated dissent in GE and not
the whole industry,, "this shouldn't convey
. the false impression that only the GE reactor
could have a meltdown."
The possibility of a meltdown, a failure of
the reactor cooling systems, which would
cause melting of the reactor core and release
of radioactivity, has long been one of the
major criticisms of nuclear power.
A 1965 study by the now-defunct Atomic
Energy Commission (AEC) estimated that a
meltdown could kill 45,000 people, injure
100,000 and cause $17 billion in property
damage.
But a 1974 AEC study indicates that
nuclear power plants are about 10,000 times
less likely to produce fatal accidents than
many non-nuclear activities such as fires,
airplane crashes, earthquakes and
hurricanes.
The summary also stated that non-nuclear
accidents arc about 1,000 times more likely
to result in large amounts of property
damage.
knows the law."
Rep. Jan Tannen spoke in favor of
Mattox, saying "she'll probably bend over
backwards to indicate she has no prejudice."
A third question was raised about the
nomination by Rep. Tal Lassiter, who
questioned Mattox's political involvement.
"My only objection was that she has been
involved in politics so much. We need
someone that comes in with a clean slate,"
Lassiter said after the meeting.
Brooke Bynum, who resigned as Elections
Board chairperson last week, said that out of
the four applications received for the
position, "every one was a politico."
Rittenhouse said Wednesday, "Someone
who hasn't demonstrated their bias and who -hasn't
been so closely involved with CGC
would help make a smoother transition into
the next council." ,
He added that "Many people, including
some of those who applied, would be less
emotional in that position."
Mattox, who has covered Student
Government for the Daily Tar Heel since
September, recently wrote a critical analysis
Stevens said.
Outstanding athletic talent is one
qualification which fits the last category. An
athlete (or talented artist or musician) may
be accepted even though he doesn't have the
normal paper credentials.
"I don't think they (the coaches) ever bring
in anybody who they don't feel can do the
work, though," Dick Baddour, another
assistant admissions director, said. "If they
did, it wouldn't be in their best interests
because when the student flunked out. the
team would lose a scholarship."
Though citing no statistics, Baddour said,
"1 feel sure that more athletes are admitted
on their good academic record than on their
" talentand alesserTccrrd.-We do try always
to look at the total person, though."
Baddour and General College advisor
James R. Caldwell are quick to add that
academic requirements are the same for
athletes and non-athletes alike. For
example, an athlete who becomes ineligible
must regain his eligibility by making up
HEW okays
Federal officials have found no major
problems with a UNC system desegregation
progress report presented to the U.S.
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare Monday.
Cleon Thompson, acting UNC vice
president for student services, said that
HEW did ask for clarification of several
points in the report, however. He said he
requested a formal reply from HEW
concerning its evaluation of the University's
compliance with the desegregation plan.
Caro I i n a rolls o ve r Det
by Susan Shackelford
Sports Editor
DETROIT A snow-covered campus
and chilly reception inside University of
Detroit's University Building could not cool
third-ranked University of North Carolina
Wednesday night.
Carolina defeated Detroit 91-76, after
jumping out to a lead in the first half and
never giving it up, though the Titans pulled
within two on a pair of occasions in the
second half.
Mitch Kupchak's 30 points, his top
scoring totals for the season, led the Tar
Heels, who had four others in double figures.
Tommy LaGarde, a little tense in the
opening moments in front of hometown
friends, tallied 21 points, while Walter Davis
had 18, Phil Ford 12, and JohnKuester 10.
UNC Head Coach Dean Smith said he
thought the Heels "played with a lot of
poise" especially as Detroit put a box-and-one
defense on Ford, trying to limit his ball
handling as the Heels went into the four
corner controlled offense with 6:16
remaining.
Carolina led by 1 1 at that point, 74-63, but
the Heels got layups repeatedly from
Kupchak and LaGarde.
After the Tar Heels dominated the first
half, the Titans made a run at them, by
hitting five straight points to pull within two
at 40-38. Kupchak, who had 17 rebounds,
and Kuester each put in a bucket, however,
as the Titans tried to pressure UNC with a
man-to-man defense.
At this point, Carolina, which now holds a
16-2 record going into the North-South
Doubleheader this weekend, surged
convincingly ahead on three straight inside
baskets to go up by 10 points, at 56-46 with
l3!2 minutes remaining.
The UNC lead stayed at eight, nine or 10
points, as LaGarde. who added 10 rebounds
for the game, and Kupchak continued
pounding the Titans inside. Detroit was
hampered by Terry Tyler's having three
fouls. UNC got its biggest lead after going to
of the election laws and another story
implicating Rittenhouse in a plot to file a
bogus Student Supreme Court suit against
the student body comptroller bill.
After her rejection. Mattox said "I really
didn't expect to get the approval of CGC. 1
was just a little appalled at the way the
meeting ran, and wonder, when the council
was discussing all my prejudices so in depth,
why I was never asked about my prejudices.
A lot of illogical and erroneous assumptions
about my character were made." Student
Body President Bill Bates who nominated
Mattox, said that "When she extricated
herself (withdrew her campaign
contribution) she satisfied my
requirements."
Rep. Ben Steelman, who spoke the longest
against the nomination, of Mattox said "1
really didn't see how the council could act
any other way, considering the facts that
were available. I'm sorry the appointment
was introduced and sorry that people seemed
to have been hurt as a result of this'."
The council also voted to release all but
$220 of the Black Student Movement Gospel
courses or raising grades in summer school
or through correspondence.
Associate Law School Dean Morris R.
Gelblum said that if a law school applicant is
a borderline case, an outside job, student
political post or membership on an athletic
team might help him get accepted. "This is
only for that small percentage of borderline
cases," he said.
Bill Brafford, a UNC law student who
received All-ACC football honors as a
defensive end in 1971, said that he thought
many employers and law firms considered
athletic participation a plus in job
applications.
"They feel that an applicant who played
college athleiics is more of a well-rounded-person,"
he said. I J
The varsity athlete is well off
gastronomically too, if he takes advantage of
the protein-rich cuisine served at the
Ehringhaus training table. i
Any athlete whose coach verifies his
membership on a team can eat three meals a
desegregation
Thompson and Charles R. Coble, UNC
associate vice president for planning,
presented a draft of the semiannual report to
Martin Gerry, acting director of HEW's
Office of Civil Rights, at a meeting in
Washington.
The main purpose of the meeting was to
discuss UNCs progress in achieving the
goals outlined in the University's 1974
HEW-approved desegregation plan.
HEW officials may visit the University
within the next month to discuss UNCs
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Tommy LaGarde returned to his hometown of Detroit Wednesday night to score 21 points
and grab 1 0 rebounds in a 91 -76 win over the University of Detroit Titans. Mitch Kupchak
led the Tar Heels with a game high 30 points and 1 7 rebounds.
the four corners. The. final i5-point UNC
margin was its biggest of the game.
Detroit Head Coach Dick Vitale said
Tyler's foul trouble and falling behind early
sealed the Titan's fate. "The worst thing is
that you can't pressure North Carolina. We
had to come out and pressure, but that's
what they want us to do. We're a player or
two away from being a great basketball
team. We're a Kupchak or LaGarde a way."
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his objections to the nomination
Choirs' funds, which had been at least
partially frozen since last fall due to an
alleged illegal checking account. The S220.
which corresponded to the amount in the
account, was kept by CGC as a fine.
Another bill was passed encouraging
endorsement of eight academic proposals.
The proposals included the elimination of
extra hours required for double majors,
lifting of requirements for final exams and
establishment of a student advising
internship program.
day for a little over four dollars. Non
scholarship athletes pay for the food
themselves.
One less line in which many varsity
athletes must wait is the basketball ticket
line once an athlete receives a varsity letter,
or monogram, he is eligible to receive a free
ticket.
In addition to the above privileges,
scholarship athletes get free room, board,
tuition and fees, and:
An allowance for books and supplies
and a S15 a week laundry allotment;
Free tutoring service if they desire or
need it;
Free tickets to road games.
In the case of some varsity teams, players
""receive a number of complimentary tickets
for their own games with which they can do
as they please.
Tomorrow: The DTH takes a look at the
other" not-so-beneficial side of collegiate
sports at UNC - the costs of playing
athletics.
report
compliance status. Thompson said.
He noted that University officials
acknowledged to HEW that there are three
areas that need more attention -a racial
impact study process, the long-range
desegregation plan and a report on the
predominantly black institutions of the
University system.
No mention of the veterinary school
proposed for N.C. State University was
made at the meeting, Thompson said.
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Carolina's height advantage aided its
rebounding effort, which topped the Titan's
47-34. Coach Smith, however, said he was
not pleased with the Tar Heels floor play.
"We didn't do very well, it'll show on the
stats that we outrebounded them, but they
killed us on possession. We improved in the
second half, but we're not used to that
aggressive rebounding, it was probably good
for us."
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