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Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Thursday, March 4. 1976
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by Chris Fuller
and Mary Anne Rhyne
Staff Writers
Billy Richardson became UN C's next
student body president Wednesday night,
defeating his opponent, David Williams, by
less than 100 votes out of more than 3,100
cast.
Richardson won, 1,571-1,485.
Morrison was the last major polling place
to be counted and Richardson defeated
opponent David Williams there 254-230.
The close vote in Morrison was
representative of the entire election.
Of the registered 3, 1 86 voters, Richardson
received 5 1 .5 per cent and Williams had 48.5
per cent of the vote.
Student government:
up and down year
a News Analysis
by Chris Fuller
Staff Writer
During the recent campaign for student
body president and Campus Governing
Council seats, several candidates have
directed criticisms at the present Student
Government administration.
' But not everything that came out of Suite
C this year has been negative.
Outgoing Student Body President Bill
Bates said Wednesday thatthe"groundwork
has been laid for everything I wanted (to do
this past year.)" He added that there was
"not enough time in one year to get
everything accomplished."
Bates said he believes "students are aware
of Student Government," but he conceded
that they did not necessarily have positive
opinions of it.
He pointed to the Student-Faculty-
Administration Conference at Camp New
Hope as a major program of his
administration. He added that the
establishment of a student legal attorney, an
action which has been supported by the State
Attorney General and is awaiting approval
by the North Carolina Bar Association, is
another major accomplishment.
CGC Rules and Judiciary Chairperson
Ben Steelman said he believes"the single and
most far-reaching thing (to come from
Student Government this year) was the
smoking ban referendum, not so much for
what it actually did as lor what it could imply
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Steelman said that the overwhelming vote
for a smoking ban was used by skillful
proponents of the measure to force the
University administration to adopt a policy
to which it was initially hostile.
"If the student leaders, particularly the
student body president, can use decent
tactics I predict this referendum process
could develop into the single-most powerful
weapon available to students for affecting
change on this campus," he continued.
Former CGC Speaker Dan Besse said, "1
would judge three events as being of
comparable importance."
Student .Government's biggest triumph,
he said, was the successful lobbying of the
Bates administration last spring to halt
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Campus campaigners
by Tim Pittman
Staff Writer
As the campaigning for North Carolina's
presidential primary enters its final weeks,
campus political organizations are gearing
up for a final push.
Five of the seven candidates entering the
state's primary have supportive student
organizations at UNC-CH.
Both Republican candidates, President
Gerald Ford and former California Gov.
Ronald Reagan, have student organizations
on campus. For the Democrats, former
Georgia Gov. Jimmy Carter, former
Oklahoma Sen. Fred Harris, and Arizona
Rep. Morris Udall, have organizational
support at UNC.
Neither Sen. Henry Jackson, D-Wash.,
nor Alabama Gov. George Wallace have
campus organizations here. '
The Reagan organization involves more
students than Ford's group. Wayne Hold, a
sophomore from King, N. C, who is head of
the Reagan group here, said the Reagan
effort has enlisted the support of 90-100
students. Of that number, 25-30 are involved
in a canvassing effort in dormitories to gauge
Reagan's support and encourage supporters
to volunteer to assist the campaign.
The Ford group has only recently been
organized and presently has registered only
15 students. But Karne Hite, a senior from
Fayetteville, said the group would make a
major recruitment effort after spring break.
The Ford group is also planning a "boiler
room," which is a telephone bank to reach
voters, and they will start mailing campaign
leaflets in the next two weeks.
The Ford organization has 'a
representative in each of the county's
precincts to dispense leaflets and materials to
When the Morrison vote came through,
Richardson hugged a female campaign
worker and exclaimed, "We won, we won!"
Richardson carried 11 polling places,
primarily the on-campus districts. Williams
carried six polling places including all off
campus polls and graduate polls. The only
on-campus precincts that Williams won were
Connor and Ruffin.
"I don't feel like anybody really won,"
Richardson said. "We competed with a very,
very fine man."
Richardson campaign worker Barbara
Boughman said "We're glad it's over. Billy
has a big staff and everyone was behind him
pushing. It was a joint effort.
"A close vote is the result when two good
men run," Boughman said.
we could successfully lobby against the state
legislature," he added.
The two other achievements he cited were
the creation of a student attorney and the
successful effort against grade redefinition.
The campaign against the redefinition of
grades showed "that Student Government
can lobby successfully with the Faculty
Council that students can have impact on
academic policies, and that Student
Government can work with individual
students to win common goals."
But while some tangible good resulted
from the efforts of the past year's
administration, Student Government did
have its shortcomings especially in affairs
relating directly to the student body.
"I wanted to see very heavy emphasis on
housing issues and a broader emphasis on
academic issues," Besse said. But such efforts
were "thwarted by a preoccupation by many
council members with internal politics," he
continued.
Besse cited the attempt to establish a
student body comptroller as an example of
such preoccupation. He called the four
month -comptroller 'controversy- "nothing
more than a power play by some CGC
members and some former Student
Government officials. It consumed the lion's
share of the Council's effort for months."
Bates said he thought the comptroller bill
was a vindictive effort directed at him for
dismissing Mike O'Neal from the office of
student body treasurer.
Steelman, however, said the comptroller
issue was the result of a different problem.
He felt that the egos of those involved in
Student Government precluded the
emergence of more constructive legislation.
The comptroller issue was exacerbated
because individuals were not willing to
compromise, Steelman said.
This unwillingness to compromise led to
factionalization, which became evident
primarily in financial issues, CGC Rep. Dick
Pope said. The council split on issues such as
the appointment of a treasurer and what the
treasurer's powers should include.
Pope said the council was particularly
inconsistent in levying penalties against
organizations found violating treasury laws.
"If we'd take a stand, we wouldn't stick to it
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precinct members.
Among the three Democratic
organizations, the Carter and Harris groups
have the largest membership lists.
Chapel Hill Alderman Gerry Cohen,
Harris's local organizer, said the group has
75-100 members of which approximately 40
have been distributing leaflets. The Harris
group is stressing voter registration and
absentee balloting.
"I think we have achieved an excellent
Powers, Reagan to compete
UNC will enter law competition
by Joni Peters
Staff Writer
A team of two second-year law students
will represent UNC in the Client Counseling
Competiton regional rounds Saturday in
Chapel Hill.
Team members Valerie Powers and
Walker Reagan will compete against eight
other law school teams on the topic
"Contract Litigation and its Alternatives."
The competition, sponsored by the
American Bar Association, is structured to
give law students practical experience in
advising clients. During the contest, law
student interview -and counsel a person
acting the role of a client needing legal advice
on some matter concerning contracts.
Competitors receive a brief description of
the client and his problem 10 days before the
competition and interviews begin. Team
members then prepare preinterview
memoranda explaining possible legal
"What can 1 sayr Williams said. "I just
wish Billy a lot of luck. I'd like to thank all
my campaign workers and the people who
voted for me." .
Winners in on-campus CGC races were
District 9 (Ehringhaus, Women's Triad),
Susan Davenport, District 10 (James),
Gordon Cureton, and District II (Morrison),
Barry Smith.
In off-campus races winners were District
15, David Swanson; District 16, Bob
Lawreence; District 17, David Tate; District
18, Bruce Tindall; District 19, Douglas
Henderson and District 20, Kim Jenkins.
Elections board chairperson Craig Brown
said there were several irregularities, in the
election.
One problem was that the polling place in
the Health Sciences Library had to open late
and close early due to a problem in finding
poll tenders.
"We just didn't have enough (poll tenders)
to go around. 1 think there was a big enough
turn out that it won't make any difference,"
Brown said.
A second problem was that the ballot box
in Ehringhaus dormitory was moved to
M orrison. There were no votes cast while the
box was in Morrison.
"It leads me to conclude that the box just
sat there," said Brown.
There was also a delay in counting because
the ballot box from the Law School was
locked in an office.
"The elections have gone a lot better than I
anticipated. I certainly hope that people
don't go to court just because they lost,"
Brown said.
Dorm
by Laura Seism
Staff Writer
Student Body President-elect Billy
Richardson and his election opponent David
Williams were unable to combine the results
of their individual ' housing surveys
Wednesday night because of election
excitement, but both agreed that student
opinion is against the random-selection
"method-of dormitory sign-up - -
Results of the combined surveys,
conducted separately by members of the two
candidates' staffs, will be forwarded to the
housing department as soon as possible,
Williams said.
Richardson said he would work for
implementation of Williams proposed
combination random selection-persistance
method.
Richardson and outgoing Student Body
Bernhardt predicts Heels
by Laura Toler
Staff Writer
California psychic Clarisa Bernhardt, who
predicted the Wilmington earthquake that
never happened, made two more quake
forecasts here Wednesday and said she feels
strongly that UNC's Tar Heels will win the
Atlantic Coast Conference basketball
tournament.
Speaking as part of the UNC Geology
Department's weekly colloquium before
gear for primary
name recognition for Fred Harris," Cohen
said. "Our efforts have included a lot of
knocking on doors and mailing." The
organization has distributed approximately
5,000 leaflets, 10,000 voter registration
forms and 3,500-4,000 absentee balloting
leaflets, Cohen said.
Randy Perkins, a junior from Asheville, is
the Carter campus organizer. He said the
group has 1 00 people on the membership list,
approaches that might be taken, depending
upon additional facts that might be received
during the interview.
Law Prof. Walker Blakey, the UNC
team's adviser, said that the law students will
be judged according to "how well they
interview, advise, and handle legal and
practical issues."
Blakey said that students learn io
"combine the analysis of legal problems with
what a client can or cannot do" in the area of
contract disputes and settlements.
Reagan and Powers were chosen, Blakey
said, from among other second and third
year UNC law students who participated in
intraschool competition.
Powers said that she and Reagan will
attempt to"he!p the client recognize what his
problem is and what issues a court would
make up its mind on. This is a before-the-case
angle, as opposed to an after-the-case
angle."
If possible, the lawyers try to find a quick.
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President Bill Bates both attempted and
were unable to schedule appointments with
either Housing Director James Condie or
Dean of Student Affairs Donald Boulton,
former Campus Governing Council Speaker
Dan Besse, who has been acting as
intermediary between Bates, Richardson
and Williams said.
However, Richardson said he will meet
with Sandy Ward, assistant director of
residence-, life, Friday . to , .discuss its
'unpopular decision. '
Williams said he met with Condie for two
hours Wednesday morning to discuss the
dorm sign-up procedure. "I'm not optimistic
that any major change will be made before
sign-up this year," Williams said.
Condie said he told Williams the decision
to implement a random selection method
was not his alone. The decision was made
by administrators in the housing department
approximately 150 spectators, Bernhardt
said there will be a quake of 5.6 magnitude
on the Richter Scale in the southern Atlantic
Ocean on May 13 and a 6.0-7.0 quake
somewhere on "Nov. 6. She said she has not
foreseen a location for the second quake.
Bernhardt said her Jan. 10 forecast that an
8.0 magnitude earthquake would occur in
Wilmington this year, probably- between
Jan. 14-20, was not irresponsible and added
she did not mean to wreak havoc with her
predictions.
with about 50 students actively working in
the campaign.
The group is planning to set up a table in
the Pit and one on Franklin Street, and will
canvass the dorms in the next few weeks.
The Udall organization, headed by junior
Bruce Tindall, has about 50 members, of
which 30 are active members.
Tindall said the group was concentrating
their efforts on the campus.
uncomplicated solution for their client's
problem without going to court, but Powers
pointed out that "tricks ire thrown into the
problem and sometimes (there is) an ethical
side to consider."
Powers and Reagan are preparing for the
contest by doing research and compiling
preinterview memoranda on their own. "But
we will have to put it all together and be able
to question the client as a team," Powers
said.
Other law schools to be represented in
Chapel Hill on March 6 are Northern
Kentucky State College, the University of
Kentucky, the College of William and Mary,
the University of Richmond, the University
of Virginia, Washington and Lee University,
N.C. Central University and Wake Forest
University.
Regional winners will advance to the
national contest on March 27 at Notre Dame
University.
Student Body President-elect Billy Richardson appears to
take a moment to express relief and gratitude following his
close runoff victory over David Williams (inset) Wednesday
night.
and the Office of the Dean of Student
Affairs, Condie said.
When asked whether he would be willing
to change the sign-up policy if a suitable
alternative was developed, Condie said, MNo
comment."
"I think it's too late," Condie said. "1 think
they (Bates, Richardson and Williams) got
concerned too late to make a reasonable
change."
Peggy Gibbs, assistant to Condie, said
Williams" proposed combination method
did not solve the problems of lines forming
early and students unable to wait in line
because of other obligations.
Williams proposal does not set an
arbitrary time for sign-up to begin. Instead,
student would sign a list for a position in line
"So the line would form to sign the list,'
Gibbs said.
But Williams replied, "The line procedure
will win
UNC geologist David M. Stewart, who
introduced Bernhardt and invited her to the
state when she made her January prediction,
said, "Ms. Bernhardt's mistake in this
instance does not invalidate the field of
psychic prediction. To date, most of the
earthquake predictions made by scientists
have also been wrong."
The only conclusions that can be drawn
now, he said, is that both seismology and
psychic phenomena must be studied further
as methods of predicting earthquakes.
He added that the time period Bernhardt
specified for the Wilmington earthquake will
not be over till Jan. 5, 1977. And Bernhardt
noted that during the week she said the
quake would probably happen, "the world
experienced an unusual outburst of seismic
activity" that included a 7.0 magnitude
quake northeast of Tokyo, Japan and a 6.2
tremor north of Iceland.
Bernhardt said her foresight of
earthquakes occurs when she feel vibrations
and senses a change in the air around her.
S he said she has also located faults with these
same sensations.
Stewart said fault-detecting psychics
should be hired by agencies such as the
National Earthquake Service to suggest
where seismographs should be located.
Seismologists can only predict quakes at
places where these instruments are installed,
and deciding where to put them is still a hit-and-miss
procedure at best, he said.
In January, Stewart publicized
Bernhardt's Wilmington forecast, saying she
correctly predicted the magnitude, date and
location of a mild California earthquake in
1974, the date and location of another and
the date of a third.
Toffler to discuss
America's future
Alvin Toffler, author of the book Future
Shock, will open the 1976 Carolina
Symposium March 16.
Known for his books and theories on the
future, Toffler will speak on "Future Shock:
Problems in America's Future."
The speech will be at 8 p. m. in Memorial
Hall.
Toffler is one of 19 speakers invited to
present the Symposium topic "America's
Future: Beyond the Bicentennial."
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would serve as a self-regulating mechanism.
People won't go down in advance to wait in
line."
Gibbs also said eliminating the freshman
on-campus residency requirement as
Williams has proposed, would not open up
many more spaces in University housing.
Williams responded, "Dr. Condie told me
each year that 60 to 70 freshmen request
permission to live off-campus, even though
the literature says it is not allowed. I think
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Lee declares
in lieutenant
governor race
RALEIGH (UPl)-Former Chapel Hill
Mayor Howard N. Lee announced his
candidacy for the Democratic nomination
for lieutenant governor Wednesday.
"I believe that the people of North
Carolina will respond to a candidate who
offers innovative and progressive ideas and a
record of honest, responsible public service."
Lee told a group of about 150 people at a
news conference.
The 4 1 -year-old Lee served as mayor of
Chapel Hill from 1969 until 1975. He wilt
have at least seven opponents in the
Democratic state primary Aug. 17.
Lee called for removal of the state's four
per cent sales tax on food as part of his
overall tax reform package, which he said
would be completed this month.
- He did not rule out the possibility of an
income tax increase and also suggested that
taxes on alcoholic beverages and tobacco
could be increased to make up for the
estimated S70 million the state would lose
each year if the food tax were eliminated.
Now on leave from his job as director of
human development at Duke University,
Lee was the first black to be elected mayor of
a predominantly white southern city. He said
he did not believe being black would hurt his
chances of being elected in North Carolina.
"The people of this state will respond to
the candidate with proven leadership," Lee
said.
He said his three terms as Chapel Hill
mayor would help him as lieutenant
governor.
"I have struggled with problems of water
supply, decayed housing, drug abuse and
public transportation," he said. "I hav e faced
.tough choices and hav e made hard decisions,
and this experience as a public administrator
will serve me as lieutenant governor.'
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