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Wesfhor Sunny and warmer through Wednesday, High today in the low 70's; low near 50. Chance of precipitation is near 0 through Tuesday night. Extended outlook for Thursday through Saturday: fair and dry with highs in the 70's; lows in the 50's. 1 i .... ill (' I Danes Concert (I The University Dance Theater concert Times Two will be held et 8 p. m. Tuesday and Wednesday nights in Memorial Hall. Ad mission is $1 .50 at the door. is Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume No. 83 Chapel HiH, North Carolina, Tuesday, April 13, 1976 y mm if yy njv issued No.! 30 '" . ' . . ' i 0 V,'''i ' 'f rlMv" Hi ens mm imi jo ' rr d rs ho While most UNC students would glad ly trade their books, exam notes and term paper outlines for a couple of hours un der the April sun, there are still a few underprivileged members of the un iversity community who yearn to enter Wilson Library. Staff photo by Howard Shepherd Survey lists area beer prices by Dan Fesperman Features Editor If you are going to get drunk, you might as well da it at the least possible cost. For those of you who prefer to intoxicate yourself with beer, the Daily Tar JJeel has conducted a survey of beer prices m 14 Chapel HiH stores. The beers surveyed were the premium brand beers (Budweiser. Schlitz and Miller), the popular-priced beers (Old Milwauee. Pabst Blue Ribbon and Falstaff) and Michelob. Of the stores checked, five are within walking distance of campus Fowler's Food Store. Fast Fare (formerly Quick Pik). Ken's Quickie Mart, the Campus Party Store and the Quick Food Mart. Of these. Fowler's has the best prices, and is also open the latest (until midnight). At Fowler's, the premium brand beers are 51.83 and the popular-priced beers are SI. 75 (except Falstaff. which is SI. 57). At the other close-to-campus stores you pay for by Laura Toler Staff Writer UNC Assistant Vice-Chancellor for Business John L. Temple ordered changes Monday at a University-owned waste disposal site after neighbors complaints about the site appeared in a Chapel Hill Newspaper story Sunday. Meanwhile the neighbors, residents of Glen Heights, were present last night when the Board of Aldermen examined possibilities for use of part of the site which it leases from UNC. Temple said he ordered University maintenance personnel to dump fly ash from University Service Plants farther from an area of the site adjacent to houses on Windsor Circle in Glen Heights. Formerly 1 5 loads, about 3 tons each, have been dumped weekly on the 5 to 6 acres of the site, w hich is located near Horace Williams Airport on Airport Road and is separated from the Windsor Circle backyards by a 200-foot stand of trees. Temple also directed workers to bury the ash in trenches rather than dumping it and covering it . with dirt. Residents of the neighborhood had complained of an incident about a year ago when a stiff wind carried fly ash into their open windows. They also objected to the clcarcutting of trees on the site and its unpleasant appearance. Temple said it was the responsibility of his office to prevent ash from blowing off the site. But he said. "It's no', a case of our being careless; it was a case of it being unusually dry and there being a lot of wind at the same time." The residents had said the clearcutting was progressing rapidly toward their backyards until they visited Temple and he agreed to the 200-foot buffer zone. .They also said cutting continued advancing until this decree reached the loggers. "I can see the stripped area from my window," Mrs. Allen C. Smith III said Monday. The clearcutting was done on the advice of a forestry consultant who said the trees were mature and if left would die from beetles," Temple said. Also on the consultant's recommendation, the University planned to leave only a 50-foot wooded area on the edge of its land bordering the yards until the residents complained. Most of the area has been replanted in pines, he said. Allen S. Waters, director of operations and engineering for UNC, said Monday that a state permit to bury toxic chemicals from UNC labs is the only permit required for operating the site. "We're not operating it as a dump or a sanitary landfill,' he said. No town permits have been required. Chapel Hill Zoning Administrator Art Berger said ..iv;w your convenience, particularly at Fast Fare, where Budweiser, Schlitz and Miller are $2.09, the popular priced beers .are $1.99 and Michelob is $2.55. The other quick-service stores' prices fall between Fowler's and Fast Fare's, but they all have advantages. The Campus Party Store is the closest beer outlet to the North Campus, while Ken's Quickie Mart is a quick hop from Granville Towers. The Quick Food Mart, somewhat out of the way on Rosemary Street next to PTA, runs occasional specials (such as last week's on Tuborg for $1.69.) But if you are going to walk to get your beer, you might as well save a few pennies by going to Fowler's. If you have a car. then you w ill probably want to use it when shopping for beer. Once out of walking distance of the campus, town beer prices drop at the larger grocery stores. Kroger's. Big Star and Winn-Dixie all have nearly identical prices, charging $1.79 for the premium brands and $1.67 or $1.68 for the popular-priced beers (except for Falstaff, with . ... Monday that "it is not clear whether the town can regulate the use of state property." If the site should be judged to fall under town jurisdiction. Berger said, probably at least one special use permit would be required. Glen Heights residents are also apprehensive about what the town will do with 34 acres of the site it has leased from the University, possibly for location of any or all of an animal shelter, public works and recycling facilities and a bus garage. Town officials have considered moving these facilities from the present public works area on Plant Road and converting that site into a recreation area. Last night Town Planning Director Michael Jennings presented the Board of Aldermen with a Planning Board recommendation that the Airport Road site not be used lor an animal shelter or recycling facilities and that use of the site be tailored to minimize impact on the Glen Heights residents. Instead of transferring public works facilities to convert the Plant Road area for recreation. Smith said, it would seem more sensible to simply establish a recreation area on Airport Road, which she thinks already suits that purpose. Court will by Vernon Loeb Staff Writer RALEIGH - Wake County Superior Court Judge Clarence W. Hall refused Monday to revoke a stay order prohibiting the N.C. Veterinary Medical Board from exercising any authority over veterinarian Louis L. Vine. Hall allowed Vine's stay order to stand until the record of the veterinary board's January hearing is reviewed by the court. As a result of the January hearing, the veterinary board reprimanded Vine for organizational deficiencies at the Vine Veterinary Hospital on E. Franklin Street, and directed him to make specific changes in the operating procedures there. The hearing Monday was petitioned by veterinary board attorney, R. Mayne Albright, who asked Hall to abolish Vine's stay order because "there is nothing to stay. We merely gave him a warning that those conditions ought to be improved. We didn't stop his operation." sir .w;: , . x u wj 5 ii u u u u u ui o w u i wj wc? 5 by Laura Seism J " tL: ,rr Staff Writer i, - I f-; ' A l,,,,.,.- ,; r. "liiT I A proposal calling for the issuance of grades f - " U tC ' with plusses and minuses and the shortening of the 4 , 'Nvw period in which courses may be dropped will be prices of SI. 54 and $1.55.) The two A&Ps (at Eastgate and Airport Road) charge equally high prices for their not-so-convenient locations $1.85 for premium brands and $1.75 for Old Milwaukee and Pabst Blue Ribbon. However, their Falstaff price is competitive at $1.57. The prices at Hugh's Party Store are about the ""same as at Ken's Quickie Mart. - At the other driving-distance beer stop, the Car Shop, you have the convenience of shopping from the driver's seat. This convenience is paid for handsomely. The prices arc the second highest in town $2. 10 for the premium brands and $2 for the popular-priced beers. Michelob is $2.50 there. The Stop-N-Shoppe. on Airport Road, has prices identical to the Car Shop's, except for their popular-priced brands, which are $1.65. But the highest beer prices in town are at the Seven Eleven Store on EphesUs Church Road, also one of the least convenient locations to the campus. Prices are $2. 19 for the premium brands and $2.09 for popular-priced brands. The Michelob is a town-leading S2.59. J - v- " y V . - - s , 0 '4 y 'f ', be This pile of ashes near the Glen Heights residential section drew complaints from area home-owners when wind blew the ashes into their yards and houses. Residents also objected to clearcutting of trees around the dump site. not revoke Typically, in cases involving a doctor's license revocation by a medical review board, a stay order is petitioned on that revocation, allowing a doctor's practice to continue until the board's proceedings are reviewed in court. "But since nothing is happening to Vine that hasn't already happened to him - namely he got the reprimand I saw nothing to stay." Albright said after the hearing. "Therefore. I said let's do away with the stay order and let the judge decide, at that time, just what the judge decided here; that Vine was entitled to a hearing on the board's full order." he said. North Carolina general statute holds that a licensed practitioner, "who is aggrieved by an adverse decision of a board issued after hearing, may obtain a review of the decision." and that"thc aggrieved person may apply to the reviewing court for an order staying the operation of the board decision pending the outcome of the review. Albright argued that Vine was not aggrieved by the board's reprimand and order to improve operating procedures at his hospital, and thus A proposal calling for the issuance of grades with plusses and minuses and the shortening of the period in which courses may be dropped will be presented to the Faculty Council April 23. Dean of Student Affairs James Gaskin said Monday. If the proposal, prepared by the Special Committee on the Grading System, is passed by the Faculty Council, professors would have the option of giving students plus and minus grades for a three year trial period beginning next fall. Gaskin, chairman of the committee, said. But students' averages would not be affected by the plusses and minuses. Gaskin said. A student receiving a B-pIus would get three quality points, as would one receiving a B-minus. However, the pluses and minuses would be recorded on the student's transcript. The period in which students could drop courses would be shortened to four weeks, as compared to the present policy of allowing courses to be dropped until the twelfth week of classes. Student Government Academic Affairs Director Carol Conrad said Student Government will be distributing surveys to students at random Wednesday to determine student support for these proposals. "We're not for or against the- proposals." Conrad said. We just want to show the faculty the facts and figures of how the students feel." However, if the students surveyed are aeainst the proposals, Conrad said Student Government would try to take some action for the students. Lisa Bradley, one of the three student members of the committee, explained that the proposed grading system would be more reflective of a student's work in class. The proposal is similar to a grading system advocated by history professor James Leutze last fall that would have assigned different quality points to plus and minus grades. Bradley said shortening the course dropping period would- be fairer to all studentst She noted . that many students decide to drop a course after the mid-term examination. The D-and F-students drop the course, but the professor must create D and F-students from those remaining to complete the bell curve, she said. Nick Herman, also a student representative on the committee, explained that the four week period was arbitrarily decided on because by then the teacher had usually given the first quir.. Gaskin noted that many students are closed out of courses in the fall, but by the end of the drop period 20 seats in that class might be empty. He also said that after the three-year trial period, the Faculty Council may decide to attach quality points to the plus and minus grades, but upgraded ti i ' 'Si I, r .V jab. 9 stay order should not be entitled to a stay order. But Vine attorney Blackwell M. Brogden argued that "when the board reprimands and tells Dr. Vine to do certain things, he is an aggrieved person." Brogden petitioned the stay order and a court review of the board's hearing last month. Albright said at the hearing Monday, however, that "I don't find any petition for a review." He apparently did not consider Vine's right to a review of the board's decision, since he thought Vine was not "aggrieved" by it. Albright said last week that Monday's hearing would bring an end to the stay order by either allowing or disallowing the board's decision to stand. Now it appears a settlement will only come at some unspecified future date. Albright has until April 23 to file the record of the veterinary board's hearing in court. He said Monday that he would file the record "within the next couple of days." and that the review hearing would follow shortly. Is i Ml I a 'mi-iiriwiiiir -' iri.ini " wnmitf James Gaskin, chairman of the Special Committee on the Grading System. this would depend on how consistently professors and departments give pluses and minuses. The committee surveyed 400 faculty members and 1.000 students on grade inflation. The State students stage all-day strike against stricter course policy by Merton Vance Staff Writer N.C. State University students are planning an all-day strike today to protest faculty plans to revise the school's policy for dropping courses. Controversy over the large number of students dropping classes at NCSU led to the strike and has prompted UNC President William C. Friday to call for an inquiry to see if the problem exists on other UNC system campuses. A large number of students at NCSU are not taking enough classes to graduate within four years, so NCSU's Faculty Senate voted to reform the school's policy for dropping classes. Tfiis action has drawn protests from students. Since 1973. NCSU students have been able to drop a course up until the ninth week of the sixteen-week semester without penalty to their records. The Faculty Senate decided to shorten the drop period to two weeks and require that students take a minimum course load of twelve hours per semester. Students balked at the recommendations. They are circulating a petition protesting the Faculty Senate's actions, and the school's student government called for today's strike. There will also be a student rally at noon. Lu Anne Rogers, president of the Student Senate and student body president-elect at NCSU. said Sunday that most students oppose the two week drop period but disagree on how to go about challenging the Faculty Senate's actions. "A lot of people don't think a strike is necessary, but at this point in time the strike is still on." she said. NCSU began allowing students to drop classes up until the ninth week of the semester in the fall of 1973. That fall, students dropped more than twice as many courses as they did the previous year. By last fall, students were dropping 10 per cent of all the courses for which they had registered. The Faculty Senate decided to take action last semester when less than half of NCSU's student body were taking enough courses to graduate within four years. Friday said a preliminary inquiry shows that such a problem with course dropping does not exist at UNC-Chapel Hill. He said that so far there is no indication that the problem exists at other schools in the 16-campus University system. UNC-CH Provost J. Charles Morrow said UNCs policy for dropping courses is different from N.C. State's. At UNC a student must have permission from his dean or general college advisor before he can drop a course. "The dean is empowered to drop a student at any time, but deans are reluctant to drop students near the end of the semester." he said. A student can make a routine withdrawal from a course up until ten days before the end of the semester. After this cut-off date a student can drop a course, but only under extraordinary circumstances, such as a medical problem or family emergency. Frederick W. Vogler, an adv isor in the College of Arts and Sciences, said that students are also required to take a minimum 12-hour course load, with exceptions under extraordinary circumstances. When contacted by telephone Monday afternoon. Vogler said there was a line of students in the hall outside his office asking permission to drop courses. "They all missed the deadline last week for one reason or another." Vogler said. He said that such late requests for dropping a course arc treated on au individual basis. At N.C. State, a student may drop a course up until the ninth week of the semester without penalty. After that, a student cannot drop a course unless there are some extraordinary circumstances. NCSU Provost Nash Winstead said that the faculty council's recommendation on changing surveys, both different, indicated that students and professors define grade inflation ditlcrcntlv. Gaskin said. I n a faculty member, grade inflation is defined as a rising grade unaccompanied by a rising level of achievement. A student, however, defines grades in terms ol economics. Gaskin said. " I he student says. l got an A or a B. and it doesn't buv mc anything." he explained. Facultv members feel grade inflation does exist, according to the results of the committee's survey. Gaskin said. But students do not think grade inflation exists, or if it docs, it does not hurt them, he said. Also contained in the proposal are recommendations that temporary grades such as NG (no grade) and NR (no report) not be counted against the student. The committee also suggests that conditional grades be eliminated and that incomplete and absent grades be added to hours attempted and to the student's grade when remov cd. It also recommended that pass-tail continue as it is. but that by 1978 a study of the svstem should be completed. "The committee is not convinced thai grade inflation can be cured with gimmicks." Gaskin said. policy for dropping courses is only a possibilit and that the administration has not yet made a final decision. He said that the administration is meeting with faculty and student leaders to work out a new policy and hopes to resolve the problem before the end of the semester. Patty Hearst given 35 years SAN FRANCISCO (LTD -Patricia Hearst was given the maximum sentence of 35 years in prison for bank robbery Monday, but the sentencing judge said he would reduce the term after she undergoes further psychiatric study. U.S. District Judge Oliver J. Carter imposed the sentence less than two years after the newspaper heiress and four members of the Symbionese Liberation Army held up the Sunset branch of Hibernia Bank in San Francisco and escaped with S 10.690, wounding two bystanders as they fled. The 22-year-old defendant made a bid for probation which was supported by a number of letters w ritten by friends w ho said that because she was a kidnap victim she was not a willing bank robber. Carter said he could' not agree with this judgement because "it was the very issue about which the jury very strongly debated and was presented evidence and argument by both sides." He said he believed the jury had reached its decision with substantial evidence. Miss Hearst was found guilty March 20 by a jury of seven women and fiv e men. The other four SLA members died in a fire and shootout with police in Los Angeles a month after the robbery. Miss Hearst twitched nervousiv during the hail hour court session but listened calmly and w ithout expression as Carter imposed the sentence, then ordered her to undergo 90 days of psychiatric examination requested by her attorneys because of the unusual nature of the case. Randolph and Catherine Hearst, her parents, were seated behind her as they had been throughout the trial. They. too. remained composed when the sentence was announced. When the court was adjourned. Miss Hearst's chief attorney. F. Lee Bailey, embraced her warmly. In order to permit the psychiatric examination. Carter was required by law to impose the maximum sentence - 25 years on the bank robbery charge and an additional 10 years for using a firearm to commit a felony. "It is my intention to later modify and not cumulate or compound the two counts." Carter told a packed and locked courtroom. He said the maximum sentence he would impose would be 25 years and further reductions would depend on the outcome of the psychiatric study. Carter also supported the jury's guilty verdict, reached after 13 hours of deliberation. "The offense of which she was found guilty is most serious and one that can be classified as both brutal and violent." Carter said. "The jury has determined the nature of the participation of the defendant and 1 see no reason to set the verdict aside." In Washington, a Justice Department spokesman said Miss Hearst would be moved to a federal facility, as yet unnamed, within 24 hours. The only institutions with facilities for female psychiatric treatment are in San Diego and Washington. D. C. Miss Hearst is scheduled to appear in court in Los Angeles Wednesday to enter a plea to a variety of state charges, including kidnapping, assault and robbery. n another case. It was not known whether she would appear in view of the order for psychiatric study.
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