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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thursday, February 12, 1976
Vol. 83, No. 97
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by Greg Nye and Nancy Mattox'
DTH Contributors
Second of a three-part series
Editor's note: Credit to Gladys Hall
Coates of Chapel Hill was unintentionally
omitted in Wednesday's article on the
history of UNC women. Mrs. Coates'
extensive research was the source for much
of the information in the article. The DTH
regrets the omission.
UNC women through the years have
complained of discrimination in various
phases of University life few admissions,'
lack, of women faculty members, unsuitable,
facilities, too little involvement of women in
campus organizations. .
Two programs resulting from federal
directives have been established on campus
to deal with this kind of discrimination. Title
IX and Affirmative Action.
The U niversity of North Carolina is trying .
by Susan Shackelford
Sports Editor
COLLEGE PARK - The third-ranked
University of; North Carolina! basketball
team may have wished that the 1975-76
season could have ended Wednesday night.
UNC Head Coach Dean Smith called the
regionally televised game, an 8 1-69 blistering
of Maryland, "the best game of the season,
especially with the opposition, place (14,500
in Cole Field House) and the revenge for
Maryland." The score tottered during the
first half, but the last 20 minutes belonged to
Carolina.
Led in the game by Mitch Kurjchak's six
blocks, 12 rebounds and 21 points, Carolina
never trailed in the second half. The Tar
Heels, now 8-1 (19-2 overall) and on top in
the ACC, opened the second half with six
straight points for a 47-40 lead.
Fourth-ranked Maryland, which needed
the win to challenge for the regular season
championship, then hit two straight buckets
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Maryland, which shot only 35 per cent in
the final half, pulled within three on five
more occasions, but most of those came
midway in the period when the arch-rivals
exchanged baskets in a flurry preceeding
Carolina's4 spread offensive tactics.
, Carolina went into the four-corner spread
with 8:45 left and boosted its lead from seven
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Staff photo by Margaret Kirk
Waverly Akins
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by Mary Anne Rhyne
Staff Writer '
In two weeks, students will vote on a
referendum to increase activity fees for the
first time in 22 years.
The referendum, which will appear on
election ballots Feb. 25, concerns a $2 JO
increase in student fees per semester. If
approved the increase could bring in an extra
$48,000 per semester for Student
Government organizations, an increase of 1 5
per cent over current revenues.
Since May 1954, student fees have
remained at $106.50 per undergraduate
student each semester and $104.50 per
graduate student. During the 1975-76 school
year, the total amount of fees collected was
$320,000. ;
For the referendum to pass, 20 per cent of
the student body must vote, and two-thirds
of those voting must approve the increase.
Even if students approve the referendum,,
the fee increase will not go into effect until if
is approved by Vice Chancellor in charge of
Business and Finance Claiborne S. Jones,
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, President
William C. Friday and the UNC board of:
Governors.
Although the board meets every February
to discuss possible fee changes, it will not
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to find out where it stands in the post-Title
IX era. A Title IX Grievance Committee is
now evaluating the University's performance
in eliminating discrimination on the basis of
sex, and will make recommendations for
improvements to Chancellor N. Ferebee
Taylor by March I.
Title IX, part of the Education.
Amendments of 1 972, simply states that no
person may be excluded or denied the
benefits of any education program receiving
federal assistance.
Interpreting just what this law means has
been a major problem for universities across
the country. ; The U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare in charge
of implementing Title IX attempted to
clarify the law last July when it issued revised
regulations. -
Susan Ehringhaus, assistant to the
chancellor and coordinator of the
University's efforts to comply with Title IX,
believes HEW's regulations were poorly
points at 63-56 to 13 points at 69-56.
Maryland went scoreless for 5XA minutes.
Maryland's last threat came when reserve -Brian
Magid came off the bench for two
straight buckets and a free throw, lifting the
Terps to within six at 65-71 with 1:28 left. In
the last minute, however, Carolina sealed the
victory with four free throws.
Kupchak, however, who got 19 points
from teammate Walter Davis, 20 points
from Phil Ford, and 13 points from John
Kuester, said the double-vision he has had
since a poke in the eye last weekend "had
bothered me before the game, but I forgot
about it when the game started. It was kind '
of like a pulled muscle. Once you get going,
you don't notice it."
Coach Smith said, "The entire second half
was the best defense this season. But in all
fairness to Maryland, they'missed a lot of
easy shots right under the basket at the start
of the second half. We weren't (even) playing
our best defense."
Defense and a.75 per cent field goal mark
4r-the second .halfwerelhcdecisiyje factorfoxu.
" the Heels. Maryland H cad Coach Lefty-"
Driesell said "they wore tails out. They are
by far the best team in the Acc. We're way
behind. I'm not sure they're not the best team
in the nation."
Maryland had four players in double
figures, led by John Lucas' 17 points. Steve
Sheppard and Boston each had 12. Maurice
Howard had 15 points, all in the first half.
e should 'get house in order'
by Tim Pittman
Staff Writer
Democratic lieutenant gubernatorial
candidate Waverly Akins said Tuesday that
North Carolina needs to "get its house in
order," and that industrial development and
improved educational opportunities are keys
to strengthening the state.
In an interview before his speech to the
UNC Young Democrats, Akins a Wake
County commissioner, cited facts which
showed that North Carolina is among the
lowest states in the nation in industrial wages
earned and among the highest in crime
increases. ;
In the race for the Democratic nomination
for lieutenant governor, Akins is running
against state Rep. Herbert Hyde, D
Buncombe; former Chapel Hill Mayor
Howard Lee; House Speaker James Green,
D-Bladen; Rep. John Jordan, D-Alamance;
former state Sen. George Wood, D-Camden,
and Frank Stephenson, admissions director
of Chowan College. The primary election
will be held Aug. 17.
Akins said he has recently completed a
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discuss any student-approved increase this
year until February 1 977., Thus, the increase
would not be implemented untit the 1977-78
school year. ;
The $106.50 paid by students this year as
fees is currently divided into five categories.
Each semester, $9 goes to the Student
Government for allocation to student
organizations, $10 for for the repayment of
loans made to build the Union and $37.50 to
the Student Health Service.
The remainder of the payment goes for a
$13.50 fee for UNC athletic programs and
facilities and a $37.50 academic fee. This fee
supports general services provided to ail
students such as the library and instructional
facilities.
Student groups which receive funds from
the CGC must fill out a two-page application
explaining their budget and expenditures.
The applications are due before CGC each
year by March I.
This year for the first time, CGC is asking
for a description and history of each
organization along with the fund request.
This is to better acquaint the council with the
monetary needs of the group and to aid in
preparing' a handbook on Student
Government organizations.
The CGC Finance Committee
individually reviews each budget with the
UNO's efforts
drafted.
"We are left to interpret how Title IX will
affect men and women on campus," she said.
Ehringhaus will compile the report of the
Title IX Committee and submit it to Taylor
by the end of February.
Ehringhaus said the committee's
information to date are not discriminating
on the basis of sex in the awarding of
scholarships," she said. She said she believes
the University is not discriminating in
academic areas. Other areas, however, may
have problems.
Kenan Professor of History J. Carlyle
Sitterson, chancellor from 1 966-1972, recalls
that the housing situation was a
controversial area in his administration.
"Women's dormitory regulations were
pretty strict back then," recalled Sitterson.
"The girls had to be in their dormitories by a
certain time. And women were required to
live in the dorms through all four years of
college, except by special permission.
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Maryland's Mo Howard defends against Carolina's Phil Ford Wednesday,
night in Cole Field House. Ford and the Tar Heels were unstoppable in the
four corners and went on to win the game, 81-69.
poll of North Carolinians to determine if his
proposals were matching the desires of the
citizenry.
"We didn't need a poll, but we wanted to
see if we were speaking to the direct needs of
the people. The results were very pleasing,"
Akins said.
"The people like what we are saying and
they seem to be willing to lend support to
my campaign," he added.
North Carolina has attracted too many
low paying industries in the past, Akins said.
He added that the state's policy of
advertising cheap labor as a means of
attracting industry is detrimental to realistic
industrial development.
"This state advertises in the Wall Street
Journal that we can offer cheap labor,"
Akins said. "But what we are really saying is
inferior labor"
Akins said the state needs to pass the
industrial revenue bond referendum (which
will be on the March 23 ballot) in order to
provide financing to attract higher paying
industries. : .
He said North Carolina is the only state
which has not passed an industrial bond, and
fees
heads of the organization. It takes until the
beginning of April for the Council to prepare,
its budget for the fiscal year which begins the
following May 16.
Besides helping fund student interest
groups. Student Government operates three
loan funds-the Instant Student Loan
Service, a housing improvement fund and an
emergency loan fund for The Daily Tar Heel.
The instant loan service administered by
the student body treasurer, grants interest
free loans of $15 to student for. a 10-day
period.
The improvement fund grants money to
dormitories, fraternities, and sororities for
physical improvements in housing. The
$15,000 in this fund comes from interest paid
on last year's loans and CGC
appropriations. The Finance Committee
and student body treasurer decide who
receives the loans.
The DTH emergency loan fund used to
meet cash flow shortfalls contains $10,000.
The loan is subject to approval by the
treasurer, the Finance Committee
Chairperson and the media board
chairperson.
Editor's note: this is one of a series of articles
on student fees that will appear in the DTH
periodically during the next two weeks.
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Susan Ward, assistant director of
residence life, believes there has been a
complete change of tradition in her
department, without prodding from the
government.
"Five years ago we were locking women
up in their dorms floor-by-floor," Ward said
last week. "But now the security system is
essentially the same for both men and
women."
But some problems remain. The
University may have to renovate some men's
dorms to compare with women's in order to
comply with Title IX.
"We won't be required to overhaul all
male housing, but we will have to make
accomodations for those men who wish to
' live in better furnished dorms," he explained.
Men will have increased rents, however, to
match the women.
Sexual discrimination was perhaps most'
apparent five years ago in the physical'
education department. PE 41, in which
that this has. inhibited "positive industrial
development."
The state's $45 million revenue shortfall
could be eliminated if there was more
industry here, Akins said.
"As it stands now, we need 40,000 new
jobs every year for the next 10 years just to
stay even. Industry the kind of industry we
want to attract to this state - could provide
those new jobs."
In emphasizing the need for educational
improvement, Akins said that 25 per cent of
North Carolina's residents are functionally
illiterate.
"One fourth of this state's population
cannot read above a fourth-grade level and
cannot fill out a basic job application,"
Akins said. "We need to ask why this is
happening and then remedy the situation."
Akins said that North Carolina's higher
education facilities are improving, but he
urged a new emphasis on primary education
and its objectives.
He said the lieutenant governor could
work with the governor in giving direction tcr
the state's programs and services.
"The lieutenant governor sits on the state
Board of Education and the state Land
Policy Council," Akins said, "and through
those offices he could make needed
improvements in educational policy as well
as direct the state's use of land toward a more
conservationist approach."
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UNC student Cynthia Davis uses Lhs hydraulically
controlled ramp on a new Chapel Hill bus designed
specifically for the handicapped and aged. The bus will begin
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drugs and sex are discussed, was open to
women in 1971. Strong faculty objections,
however, were silenced.
In 1974, the entire physical education
department became open to women. All gym
classes, including contact sports, became
coeducational for those women vho wanted
to participate.
But Women's Gymnasium remains a
problem. "The women have inadequate
dressing and shower facilities," said Prof.
Carl Blyth, director of the physical
education program. "Today's 8.195 women
students must use a facility built 34 yearsago
when there were only 728 women students.
"We have been trying for ten years to get a
new gymnasium," Blyth said." "We. didn't
need Title IX to make us aware of our
obligations to women on campus." (A state
bond referendum to finance construction of
a new women's gymnasium will be held
March 23.)
The University's athletic department must
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by Sam Fulwood III
Staff Writer
The reallocation of an unused $1,000 in
the Association for Women Students'
budget has caused an apparent rift within the
organization, according to separate
interviews held recently with AWS
chairperson Cricket Ussery and SHE editor
Sandy Lett. SHE is the AWS-sponsored
magazine.
Due to a Student Government legal
technicality, AWS was left with $1,000
which had to be reappropriated before it was
spent. .
IJeryisaj.dJ.H AWS general, membjecship,
votedlo spend the money on a conce'rITo br
given by feminist singer Holly JNear, a
national Intercollegiate AWS Convention
and a proposed study on the status of
women.
However, SHE editor Lett said the money
could better benefit the organization if most
of it were appropriated for the magazine.
"Unless we raise more money SHE will
regress to the newsletter style of last year,
and it's going to be hard to raise money this
late in the year," she said.
The Campus Governing Council voted to
reappropriate $250 apiece for the
commission and the convention and $350 for
the concert. Revenue from concert ticket
sales is to be paid back into the AWS
treasury and given to SHE. The remaining
$150 went directly to SHE.
In addition, $400 from the Student
Government general surplus fund was
loaned to the magazine, to be repaid by May
15 from advertising sales.
The reaction is a result of AWS budgeting
problems which began last fall, Ussery said.'
AWS had placed $1,000 in a productions
category when CGC Bill Strickland, then
Finance Committee chairperson,
determined that no organization was
supposed to have a budget of productions,
Ussery said.
"Strickland said the money would have to
be redistributed through existing AWS
categories or (AWS would) lose the money,
so we just left it as it was and waited because
it didn't seem necessary to redistribute it at
the time," she added.
When Doug Smith replaced Strickland as
Finance Committee chairperson last
November, he ruled that AWS could
transfer the money to other categories with,
the consent of CGC.
Ussery .said the organization had
originally asked for $350 to cosponsor the
concert, $250 for the convention and $400
for a study concerning a proposed
commission for the status of women, with
the added condition that if the Union
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also respond to the Title IX regulations.
Homer C Rice, who left the athletic
director's post this month, believes major
revisions will lake place in order to conform
with Title IX regulations.
"The athletic department is working on a
three-year plan which is designed to retain
the quality of the present men's program,
and to provide an equal number of sports,
facilities, coaching staffs and a proporionate
number of scholarships for women." he said.
Rice said the needed money wilj probably be
raised from outside sources.
Rice said he believes in the spirit of Title
IX providing, equal opportunities for
women students. BuuJie feels, true equality
lies only in the distant future. "The issue w ill
go on and on." he said.
Meanwhile, prominent women faculty
members have cited a lack of
communication among women themselves
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' sponsored the concert, the $350 would go to
SHE.
Lett said she then went to the Finance
Committee to request additional money
from unappropriated student fees. She said
she did not try to obtain any of the unused
$1,000 because it was apparent that the
general AWS body did not want it to go to
the magazine.
CGC apparently assumed that there were
internal problems since two branches of the
same organization were asking for money,
Ussery said. '
Julie Knight, AWS vice-chairperson of
AWS, said she feels 5 WE has received too
much money already. "S has already
receTved 53,400 ofa .$5,000 'budgeTnCRlpf
saiavaaaing mat sne oeneves me magazine
should have tried to work within its total
budget and that AWS should do more than
publish SHE.
"I understand (Lett's) desire to increase,
the magazine, but with the money she has to
work with, she can't expect to do that. Other
things are important too," Knight said.
Lett said SHE should receive funds from
Student Government independently of
AWS.
Although admitting that SHE and AWS
had not been very closely associated this
year, Knight said it was not necessary for the
magazine to receive separate money, and it is
unlikely that it will.
"AWS and SHE should be a combined
effort. I don't think Student Government is
going to take to funding any independent
organization except the DTH," Knight said.
Caucuses set
by Democrats
Democratic Party caucuses will be held
tonight in all individual North Carolina
precincts. Orange County's caucuses begin
at 8 p. m.
Open to all registered Democrats, the
caucuses are the first step in the selection
process for delegates to the National
Democratic presidential nominating
convention.
However, the candidates' strength in the
delegation depends on the results of the
March 23 Democratic presidential
preference primary, according to new state
party rules.
Participants wanting to become delegates
to the national convention must either
declare their presidential preference or
declare themselves uncommitted to any
candidate during the caucus.
The caucuses are being held in the polling
places of the individual precincts.
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