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by Leura Seism
Staff Writer
The University will discontinue any
contract with Blue. Cross-Blue Shield for
married student insurance policies next year,
Director of Student Health Services James
A. Taylor said Tuesday.
"This is simply because it (the present Blue
Cross-Blue Shield married student policy
endorsed by the University) has gotten
prohibitively expensive," Taylor said.
Blue Cross-Blue Shield offers insurance
policies to UNC students at reduced group
rates. There are different policies for single
and married students.
Taylor added that the Student Health
Service Insurance Committee will take more
Enrol! ment too h ig h
in University system
by Russell Gardner
Staff Writer
A resolution approved last week by the
UNC B6ard of Governors to limit
enrollment for the consolidated university
has had no effect on Chapel Hill, Richard
Cashwell, director of undergraduate
admissions, said Tuesday.
"We have always tried to hold enrollment
to a level commensurate with our financial
resources," Cashwell said.
Overall, the University system is over
enrolled by 6.8 per cent, with approximately
92,400 full time students compared with its
budgeted enrollment of 86,575.
The Board of Governors voted to hold
enrollment to between 92,250 and 95,919 for
the 1976-77 fiscal year.
Afterwards, UNC President William C...
Friday warned he might ask the Board of
Governors , to set enrollment limits on
campuses which admit a substantially higher
number of students than their budgets allow.
All UNC campuses except the N.C.
School of the Arts in Winston-Salem are
over-enrolled.
Each institution has a projected
enrollment, done at least two years in
advance. This projected enrollment is the
basis on which the state allocates funds,
Cashwell said.
"It's been the philosophy of this institution
not to enroll students we don't have budget
funds for," Cashwell said. "We look at all the
requirements needed for a quality
education." ;
Cashwell said too much enrollment causes
a shortage of teachers, a lack of dormitory
and library space and other resources needed
for quality education.
Cashwell said that unlike some other state
institutions, there are no set academic
requirements for admission.
"Generally speaking, a high school
graduate applying to this campus should be
in the top 10 per cent of his class and have a
minimum 1 100 on the college boards, but
other factors such as the overall high school
record are considered," Cashwell said.
Although the ideal enrollment is 2,900
freshmen, Cashwell said his office has
already accepted 3,000 applications for the
Presidential, CGC runoff today
Campus runoff elections will be held from
10 a.m.-7 p.m. today to elect a student body
president and to fill nine seats on the
Campus Governing Council.
Candidates for president are David
Williams and Billy Richardson.
Three on-campus and sixoff-campus CGC
district representatives will also be elected
today. .
On-campus districts and their candidates
arc: District 9 (Ehringhaus, Women's Triad)
Susan Davenport and Patricia Peek;
District 10 (James) Dwayne Hayes and
Gordon Curcton; and District 1 1 (Morrison)
Barry Smith and Dale Fussel.
Candidates for the off-campus districts
arc; District 15 - David Swansonand Dave
Rogers; District 16 Peter Schneider and
Bob Lawrence; District 17 David Tate
arid Jim Ashburn; District 18 Graham
Bullard and Bruce Tindall; District 19
Douglas Henderson and Marc Sandman
and District 20 Johnathan Bender and
K im Jenkins. (See map for district location.)
Polling places for the runoff elections are
as follows:
Residents of Scott College vote in Parker,
Women's Triad votes in M elver; Lower
Quad votes in Everett; Upper Quad votes in
Ruffin; Henderson College votes in Connor.
Students living in Cobb, Joyner,
Whitehead, Granville, Spencer, Mcrrison,
James and Ehringhaus dormitories vote in
their respective dormitories.
Residents of Old East, Old West and
Carrboro vote in Y-Court.
Off campus residents can vote in the
Union or Y-Court except for Odum Village
residents, who can vote in the Health
Sciences Library.
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definitive action concerning the cancellation,
at a later date, and that letters explaining the
decision will be sent to all UNC married'
students.
He said the committee will not endorse
any particular policy but hopes to spell out
the options for married students. '
UNC Student Health Adovcate Katie
Campbell, a member of the committee, said
she was happy with the committee's decision
to discontinue the current policy for married
students.
Tm concerned that we couldn't . poll
students before reaching this decision, but
I'm sure we made the right decision, the only
decision," Campbell said.
She explained that under the present Blue
fall semester.
"We know that a certain percentage of the
applicants have a first choice of other
institutions. We call these 'ghosts,' "
Cashwell said.
Because these "ghosts" will attend other
institutions and others admitted simply will
not show up in August, Cashwell expects 75
students out of every 100 applicants who are
accepted to attend.
Friday last week praised UNC-CH
Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor and his
associates for keeping Chapel Hill's
enrollment within the budget.
However, N.C. State University in
Raleigh is over-enrolled by more than 1,500
students, or approximately 1 1.8 per cent.
NCSU admissions officials announced
Monday that all applications received since
Feb. 15 have been put on a waiting list.
Anna Keller, director of admission at
Ts'CSU.'jtaid'iTuesday- the school began
taking steps last fall to cut freshmen
enrollment by 300 and transfer enrollment
by 300 for the 1976-77 school year.
"We decided to cut enrollment before the
edict from the board (of governors)," Keller
said.
She said the admissions office is working
towards an enrollment of 2,500 freshmen for
next fall.
Already, 3,900 applications have been
accepted. An additional 1,200 applications
are pending and approximately 200 have
been placed on waiting lists, Keller said.
She said 1,800 of those accepted have
notified NCSU that they will attend, but it is
uncertain exactly how many will eventually
enroll.
In addition to limiting enrollment, NCSU
has also raised the academic requirements
for acceptance.
An applicant's high school average and
college boards are used to project a NCSU
student's average for the freshman year. This
average has been raised to 2.0 for freshmen
and 2.5 for transfer students.
Keller said the admissions office is in the
process of notifying the applicants placed on
the waiting list.
Applicants were to have until May 1 to
apply for admission.
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Map of off-campus undergraduate CGC districts
Graduate students can vote in the Union,
Y-Court, Rosenau Hall, Craige dormitory
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contracts
Cross-Blue Shield group policy for married
UNC students insurance premiums would go
up from $90 per quarter this year to $ 1 52 per
quarter next year, based on the claims
experience this year.
Campbell also said that it is a
disadvantage to offer the UNC group plan to
married students because Blue Cross-Blue
Shield also offers insurance plans to any
college student in North Carolina, and one
of these plans, Plan 50, would be cheaper for
UNC's married students.
The only disadvantage with this plan is
that is is not available to married students
over 26 years of age, she said.
"There is no statistical information on the
number of 26-year old married students here,
but I'm sure there are more under 26 than
over," Campbell said. .
She noted that married students will have
to find an insurance policy on their own next
year.
Campbell said she hopes that either the
Student Health Advocate or the Student
Consumer Action Union will write incoming
married students over the summer to inform
them of available insurance plans and
suggest a good one.
"Right now, 1 think Plan 50 will be the best
because it offers fairly good benefits at a low
cost, but I'll have to wait and see," she said."
Campbell noted that the Blue Cross-Blue
Shield group plan for single students at the
University is an excellent plan.
Voters to decide on amendment
May establish bond-issuing authorities
by Merlon Vance
Staff Writer
In addition to the $43.2 million UNC bond
proposal and the presidential preference
primaries,. North Carolina, .yotejrj jvjllcast
ballots March 23 on a proposed state
constitutional amendment to help attract
more industry to the state.
, If passed, the amendment would allow the
state's 100 counties to establish bond-issuing
authorities that could build industrial plants
and then rent them to industrial firms
moving into that county.
Pit pep rally at noon
In honor of UNC's Atlantic Coast
Conference champion basketball team, a
Student Government-sponsored pep rally
will be held today at noon in the Pit.
Coordinated by Student Government, the
UNC Pep Band and the cheerleaders, the
event will be "one last organized wish of
good luck to the team," according to Student
B ody President Bill Bates. The Tar H eels will
be leaving Thursday to take part in the ACC
Tournament at Landover, Md.
The rally will feature cheers and songs to
be led by the cheerleaders and Pep Band.
Bates also said that there would be an
attempt to have as many varsity players as
possible present, particularly seniors.
"With so many students with ACC
Tournament spring fever, we're expecting a
good turnout," he added.
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Chris Fuittr
Monday's fair weather brought out the
function. The campus police seemed to
Hamilton instead of on it.
The local bond authorities could also
finance pollution control equipment for
utility firms, although the bonds could not
be used to pay for construction of new power
A similar proposalwas defeated last year
but supporters of , the new proposal,
including most of the state's top government
and business leaders, say that the loopholes
and problems of the earlier proposal have
been worked out.
No organized opposition has developed to
challenge the constitutional amendment
proposal.
Bonds sold by a public authority would
qualify for lower interest rates and serve as
an incentive for industry to build in the state.
Responsibility for paying off the bonds
would rest with the industry.
, The money earned by persons buying
these bonds would be tax exempt.
North Carolina is the only state that does
not allow the sale of tax-free revenue bonds
to attract new industry, and business leaders
in the state say this places North Carolina at
a disadvantage in trying to persuade
industries to locate here.
, "It puts us at a distince disadvantage and
we know of many industries that have
looked a us but they have just had to move
on and locate elsewhere," said Craig
Kennedyj Jr., a Goldsboro resident who is
leading a private campaign to promote the
proposal.
Proponents of the proposal are trying to
link the bond amendment proposal with
economic prosperity for the state.
We're not doing something for industry.
This is for the people. It's to get more jobs for
the people of North Carolina," Kennedy
said.
He added that many industrial developers
look at North Carolina but locate elsewhere
because bond programs in other states make
it cheaper for firms to build there because of
the lower interest rates and special tax
considerations.
State treasurer Edwin Gill has endorsed
the proposal. Gill was reluctant to talk about
his endorsement in a telephone interview
Tuesday, fearing that his endorsement
Jail remains
by Julie Knight
Staff Writer
Almost one year after the J oan Little trial,
conditions for women in the Orange County
jail are still less than ideal '
Orange County Shenff CD. "Buck
Knight has attributed the inadequate
conditions to a lack of funds for new
facilities. . . Iivr,
Cricket Ussery, Chairperson of the UNC
Association for Women Students, and Jean
Wagoner of the Women's International
League for Peace and Freedom, have
changed that in addition to financial
problems, there seems to be some lack of
concern on the part of the sheriffs
Ussery and Wagoner recently visited the
jail and spoke with Knight as part of
preliminary investigations conducted for the
county's newly established Council on the
Status of Women. :-
Their strongest reaction to the visit
concerned the lack of an official matron at
the jail. - . ,
North Carolina law does not require
Staff photo by Bud Fawcatt
sunbathers and gave Hamilton Hall a new
prefer, however, the old Order of students in
would be misinterpreted. The details of his
decision will be spelled out in a written
statement, he said.
Both Gov. James Holshouser and Lt.
GpV.amesHunt have also endorsed the
amendment proposal.
This is the fourth attempt to allow this
type of bond program in the state.
In 1967, the N.C. General Assembly
approved a bill to allow the state to issue
industrial revenue bonds, but a 1968 State
Supreme Court decision declared it
uncorfsitutional.
Bond supporters drafted another proposal
in 1971 that would have allowed bond issues
to finance antipollution devices and was also
aimed at attracting industry to economically
poor counties. The N.C. Supreme Court
overruled the law, saying it was
unconstitutional for the state to subsidize
private industrial firms.
In 1974, bond supporters proposed a
constitutional amendment to allow the bond
sales, but the timing was bad and voters
turned it down. The proposal was placed on
the ballot hurriedly after Duke Power Co.
announced two weeks prior to the elections
that it sought tax-free industrial bonds to
finance about half the cost of its McGuire
Nuclear Station near Charlotte.
Environmental groups filed an
unsuccessful lawsuit to block the proposal,
fearing that Duke would take advantage of
the bond proposal by labeling most of the
nuclear power plant as environmental
equipment.
The Conservation Council of North
Carolina, one of the groups that opposed the
1974 proposal, gave its endorsement
Monday to this year's proposal.
M ost opponents of the earlier attempts are
now apparently convinced that the
loopholes in the previous proposals have
been corrected.
In order to qualify for the bonds, an
industry must be big enough to be financially
beneficial to the county, must pay higher
than average wages and the company must
be in good financial standing. It would also
have to meet pollution control standards in
order to qualify.
inadequate for women
county jails to employ matrons and Knight
said he sees no reason to hire one, since one
of the jail's three full-time female secretaries
serves as matron when necessary.'
"It is very seldom you need a matron. The
person who is matron would not have
anything to do." Knight said.
."When a secretary serves overtime as a
matron she is paid the same hourly rate as
she cams for her normal duties. Knight
added. He could not state the cost to his
department for the secretaries' extra salaries.
State Sen. Charles Vickery, D-Orange,
estimated that to employ full-time matrons
in all of the North Carolina county jails
would require 400 additional employees.
Assuming a base salary of around $9,000 a
year plus benefits, the total expense per
matron would be approximately $20,000 a
year, Vickery said.
Ussery said, "Regardless of how much it
costs, I still feel like there should be a state
regulation requiring matrons."
Wagoner said she concluded several
things from Knight's inability to give even an
estimate of the cost of the extra hours put in
by the secretaries, as matron.
Candidates,
Bates meet
on lottery
by Colette Chabbott
Staff Writer
In a nonpartisan effort to challenge the
random selection dormitory room sign-up
system proposed for this spring, student
body presidential candidates uill meet
tonight to formulate a combination lottery
persistence system to present to the
administration before spring break.
Student body president Bill Bates and
presidential candidates Billy Richardson
and David Williams each said Tuesday they
believe there is still time to change from the
random selection to the combination sign-up
system this spring.
Williams is scheduled to meet with
Housing Director James Condic this
morning. Williams, Bates and Richardson
said they hope to meet jointly with Condic
and Dean of Student Affairs Donald
Boulton tomorrow.
The three student leaders are basing their
protest on a survey conducted by the
Residence Hall Association last fall
indicating students favored a persistence or
combination system by a three-to-onc
margin over a lottery- system.
In a random phone survey of 190 students
conducted by Bate's staff Monday, 116
respondents (63.7 per cent) said they
opposed the random selection system.
Written polls and surveys selection system.
Written polls and surveys conducted this
week will be tabulated tonight and presented
with the phone survey results to Condie and
Boulton.
Richardson and Williams said they hope
to present what they consider an acceptable
combination system to the administrators
with the survey results. Williams has
prepared a general outline of a combination
persistance-lottery system which could serve
as the foundation for the system developed
' Williams' program proposes mcrwuing
available dorm space by not requiring
freshmen to live in dorms and by abolishing
guaranteed singles.
A random selection system, Williams says,
should be used prior to regular room sign up
for students wishing to change residence
halls.
According to Williams, a persistence
program, to be monitored by volunteers who
sign students waiting in line in and out to
attend classes, should be used for actual
room sign up.
Former candidate Dan Bessc. who has
acted as a go-between to coordinate the
efforts of Bates, Richardson and Williams,
said Tuesday opposition to making Aycock
a women's dorm will also be presented at the
meeting with Condie and Boulton.
Besse said the main issue with both the
room sign up and Aycock decisions was that
there had been little "open general student
discussion" with the administration prior to
the announcement of the policy changes.
"In the future we hope to see the opening
up of general student discussions on these
type decisions." Besse said. "The
information they (the administration) used
to make their decisions, such as increases in
female enrollment, should be released."
Both increases in female enrollment and
Title IX regulations prohibiting
discrimination on the basis of sex led to the
Housing Department decision to creak
another women's dorm. Condic said
recently.
Besse said many Lower Quad residents felt
Aycock was the wrong dorm to turn over to
women because it is the only dorm in the
quad with a lounge-size basement.
"It's my opinion the housing department
has misinterpreted a general demand for
North Campus housing as a demand for
single-sex housing." Besse said, adding he
though coed dorms would be a better
alternative for Lower Quad.
These women are not being paid an
overtime rate, and "they are not being paid
for extra work, or they are not doing it."
Wagoner said.
She added that she did not see how the
secretaries could be working overtime and
yet not be paid an ov ertime rate considering
the strict state regulations on overtime pay,
"If they are not going to have a full-time
matron, then those secretaries who stay there
are matrons part time should get a
substantial compensation in their pay."
Ussery said.
Four other county jails, two rural and two
metropolitan, were contacted and officials at
each said they employ matrons.
Mecklenburg County employs a full-time
matron who is also a nurse. Guilford County
has one matron on each of three eight-hour
shifts plus three substitute matrons.
Beaufort County employs five full-time
matrons and Chatham County employs one.
The present jail in Orange County has
only one cell containing two cots for women
inmates. Thus, the maximum capacity for
women is two.
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