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Serving the students and the- University community since 1893
Friday, September 10, 1976, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Volume No. 84
Issue No. 11
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HONG KONG (UP1) -Chinese
Communist party Chairman MaoTse-tung
died Thursday in Peking, ending a
tumultuous 82 years of life that saw him rise
from simple peasant to leader of the world's
largest mass revolution and ruler of one
fourth of mankind.
His death sent the nation of 800 million
Chinese into mourning, many pouring into
the streets of Peking with tears streaming
down their cheeks. It raised the prospect of a
long period of the political turmoil like that
which marked his own career from the time
he assumed leadership of the Chinese
Communists in the 1930s.
The armed forces went on alert, according
Mao Tse-tung
Chinese Communist Party leader
to intelligence sources in Hong Kong.
However, the sources said this appeared to
be a routine precautionary move.
A titanic struggle for power seemed
certain with Premier Hua Kuo-feng seeking ...
to hold bis role of leadership against the
Politburo's determined conservatives, who
argue that Mao's doctrinaire policies
adopted by Hua undermined the country's
economic development.
Authorities set a week-long period of
official mourning' and announced that an
unprecedented mass memorial service would
be held on Sept. 18 in the capital's huge Tien
An Men Gage of Heavenly Peace Square
where Mao celebrated his greatest triumphs.
The cause of death was not announced,
but the death came as no surprise. Mao had
suffered a series of strokes and was reported
suffering from Parkinson's disease. It was
announced in mid-June that Mao would no
longer receive foreign visitors.
The Chinese had shouted many choruses
of "May Chairman Mao live 10,000 years'
but as early as the mid-1960s Mao told
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student
Two men wearing stockings over their
heads tried unsuccessfully to rob a UNC
student early Thursday and shot him in
the leg with a pellet gun before fleeing
from approaching police.
The student, Scott Lucas, was not
seriously injured.
The incident occurred at 12: 10 a.m. in
the parking lot of University Gardens
Apartments, according to Chapel Hill
Police Chief Sidney Hilliard.
The two masked men, one of whom
held a pistol, approached Lucas and
demanded money. Lucas had no money
but offered them a check, which they
refused.
The two men took Lucas to a nearby
apartment and knocked on the door.
The residents of the apartment saw what
was happening and refused to open the
door. , They turned out the lights,
dropped to the floor and called the
police after one robber pointed a pistol
at them through a window in the door.
' A patrol car arrived in time for the
policemen to hear a shot and see the men
running into nearby woods.
The police chased the robbers but
found only a discarded stocking which
had been used as a mask.
Hilliard said the robbers fired at
Lucas as they fled, wounding him in the
thigh. Hilliard said the wound was not
serious, bruising the leg without
breaking the skin. Police said the
weapon was apparently a pellet gun.
The suspects were described as black
males about 25 years old. One was
wearing dark blue pants and the other,' a
red shirt.
foreigners he was "preparing to see God
soon."
The Chinese announced that Mao's body
would lie in state for a week in the Great H all
of the People beginning Saturday. They also
announced that on a national dav of
mourning, Sept. 18, the nation's millions
will stand in silence for three minutes of
meditation while sirens, whistles and bells
sound throughout the country at factories
and on trains.
Crowds in Peking poured into Tien An
Men Square, the scene of serious rioting just
five months ago, and began paying tribute to
the man who was the only leader they had
known since the Peoples Republic of China
came into being on Oct. 1, 1949 after Mao's
forces drove Chiang Kai-shek from the
mainland.
Peking reports said great throngs of young
people, many of them in tears, entered the
square and stood in front of a huge portrait
of the chairman, where they raised their
clenched fists and took oaths: "Beloved
Chairman Mao, we commit ourselves to
continue the struggle, always according to
your teachings."
A single green, flowered wreath was
placed on the Martyrs Monument in the
center of the square, which bears an
inscription in Mao's calligraphy reading,
The People's Heroes are Immortal." People
gathered around the monument, writing
tributes to Mao on paper posters.
The Italian news agency ANSA said stores
in Wan Fuchin, Peking's main shopping
street, stayed open and people lined up to
buy large portraits of Mao and white paper
flowers of mourning. They also bought
wooden boards, steel wire and silk to make
wreaths.
Teams of workers were at work in
adjacent streets, removing piles of bricks and
debris piled up during the restoration of
several downtown buildings following last
July's earthquake.
The agency said the Chinese first annulled
the schedule of James Schlesinger, the
former U.S. defense secretary who is now
visiting Peking, but later reversed themselves
and said tLcy acted at a time of "great
emotion." They said Schlesinger could visit
theGreat Wall of China Friday as scheduled?
They informed the Schlesinger party that
they were not inviting foreign delegations to
the Mao rites but that "foreigners already
here will of course be free to take part to offer
their condolences."
World leaders hailed Mao as "the last
giant of the century" and one of the "world's
immortals."
President Ford called Mao's death
"tragic."
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Workmen add finishing touches to the 16 new tennis courts on the old site of the
Chapel Hill Country Club golf course.
Un i versity constructs
sixteen tennis courts
by Tony Gunn
Staff Writer
A $300,000, 16-court tennis recreational
complex is under construction by the
University on the old site of the Chapel Hill
Country Club.
The complex will include a parking area
with an 85-car capacity and toilet facilities.
The tennis courts will be completed in
approximately two weeks.
The courts must be inspected before play
can begin on them, according to University
Engineer Selwyn N. Bryant. The complex is
located about 10 minutes walking distance
from campus.
Bryant said he had hoped the courts would
be completed by the beginning of the fall
semester. Plans for the new facility have been
in the works for approximately a year and a
half.
A new dramatic arts building is under
construction on the site of the old varsity
courts in front of Cobb dormitory.
The new courts will have a hard Laycold
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surface, which is ari all-weather, medium
fast type that UNC men's tennis team coach
Don Skakle requested.
The old varsity courts were composition,
but most schools in the country use hard
courts for their matches.
The courts will be primarily for student
use, according to Moyer Smith, assistant
athletic director. Smith said the men's and
women's tennis teams would also use the
facilities. During times that the physical
education classes or the tennis teams are not
using them, the courts will be open to any
UNC student, faculty member or employee.
The plans call for three sets of courts. One
set of six courts will be located south of the
parking area. A set of four courts will be
constructed east of the parking area and
another set of six courts will be built further
south.
Smith said the three sets of courts would
allow both varsity tennis teams to hold
practices or matches at the same time.
No rent hike -assured
Tenants
by Julie Knight
Staff Writer
More than 50 Laurel Ridge tenants
recently completed successful
negotiations for new lease agreements
with the new management, the First
Property Management Corp., which
assumed responsibilities last July.
Led. by undergraduates Jack Goans
and Wallace Nelson, the tenants, who
objected to delays in issuing a new lease
as well as the provisions of that contract,
completed the negotiations with Laurel
Ridge Community Director Marc
Goodell.
Following the advice of Student
Legal Services Counselor Dorothy
Bernholz, Nelson and Goans organized
the tenants and then took their
complaints to Goodell.
The addendums, or contract
additions, which tenants . obtained
included a provision for terminating the
contract; a guarantee that rent would
not rise for six months; a provision for
water, appliances and maintenance, and
a provision for the return of security
deposit.
"In getting all this stuff, (the
management) still got the rate increase.
What we got is a bearable lease," Goans
said.
"Marc told people in July that rent
was not going to go up and that there
would be no problem with signing a
lease," Goans said.
Goans said that when he wanted to
sign a new lease, he was told that the
management did not have new leases.
He said, however, that some people did
sign a lease at that time.
Nelson said he was told that a new
lease was being drawn up and that there
could be a rent increase. "Different
people were told different things," he
said.
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by Chuck Alston
Staff Writer
The School of Law faculty
overwhelmingly approved Thursday a
motion to strip the Student Bar Association
(SBA) Board of Governors' right to appoint
students to faculty committees and to
transfer that power to Dean Robert Byrd.
Approximately 1 15 law students watched
in silence at the first open meeting of the law
faculty as the motion sponsored by Profs.
Peter Glenn, Jon Eddy, John Martin and
Dickson Phillips passed 1 9 to 7. The meeting
was moved from the faculty lounge to a
classroom to accomodate the crowd.
President of the SBA Board of Governors
Ran Coble said, "I don't know what we'll do.
We'll hold a meeting of the Board of
Governors, and really quick."
The motion, which was introduced by
Eddy and seconded by former law school
dean Phillips, calls for the dean, after
consultation with the appointed chairperson
of each committee, to appoint student and
faculty members.
It states further that the "dean shall solicit
from the chairperson of the respective
committees, from the faculty at large, and
from other groups and organizations in the
law school community, recommendations of
students for appointment to the
committees."
"It is an issue whose time has come,"
Phillips said. "Inevitably and unavoidably,
aspects of the present system in use could
work anemically in the maintenance of any
decent, respected, rational committee
approach to the basic decision-making in the
law school," he continued.
Polarization of the students and faculty
into caucuses resulted when the SBA Board
of Governors appointed student
representatives to the committees, according
to Phillips. ' ''TJIT'.:J
"Students coming on to the committee
from this source consider themselves staked
out to maintain at all costs, and to carry
through a program," Phillips said.
Profs. Martin Louis and Bill Murphy
suggested that a compromise solution be
adopted that would return the appointment
process to a previously used method by
which the SBA Board of Governors
win lease fi
"Around Aug. 25 new leases were
given out. The new lease imposed a $20
to $25 rent increase and the terms of the
lease were dated such that you had to
sign a lease through September of next
year " Goans said.
"I went to four lawyers, Bernholz
included, and they all said you would be
a fool to sign it (the new lease)," Goans
said, adding that he knew tenants had
signed the contract without reading it
completely.
Nelson said that a provision was
included in the lease to allow rent
increases at any time with 30 days
notice. Also, the lease did not mention
that the security deposit would be
returned.
Goans noted that the lease did not
"guarantee that water, appliances,
heating, or maintenance would be
provided." He added, "One girl has not
had heat since last January and they
have refused to come out and repair it."
Goans also objected to the liability
clause. This clause indicated, according
to Goans, that the management was
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nominates a slate of appointees. The dean
then chooses students from the slate.
Peter Glenn, speaking in favor of the
original motion said, "The proponents of
this motion do not choose to go back to that
system. We do not consider the role of the
students on faculty committees to be the role
of representing the student viewpoint, which
has been solidified in the political process of
student government.
"We do not consider that faculty
committees, and the student role on faculty
committees, to be anything approximating
democracy, and I'll say that clearly and
unequivocably," he added.
Susan Lewis, assistant professor,
proposed a substitute motion that called for
tabling the Eddy motion until it could be
studied by an ad hoc committee of students
and faculty.
The substitute motion was defeated 22 to
5, but a similar motion calling only for the
study committee was later passed 17 to 4.
Law students were denied special
permission Wednesday to speak at the
faculty meeting, but a letter from the SBA
Board of Governors to the faculty was read
at the meeting by Byrd.
It stated opposition to the Eddy-Glenn-Martin-Phillips
proposal on three points:
"We do not accept the premise that the
dean, or any other faculty member, as
opposed to elected student officers will do a
better job appointing students to
committees.
"The proposed system of appointment
will reduce the role of student members on
the committee from student representation
in shared decision making, to token student
input in faculty decision.
"We are at a low point in institutional
communication when the faculty will
consider drastically altering the governance
of this school without giving those most
affected by this change a chance to speak."
The motion did not-stipulate the exact
method Byrd would have to use in
appointing student representation on the
committees.
"As far as we are concerned, for this
motion to pass there is no end to the variety
of arrangements that might be made by
which student members of the committees
might be chosen," Phillips said.
not liable for anything.
"The leasor would have to pay for any
damages collected from any lawsuit
against the company," he said.
The objecting tenants requested "a
guaranteed rent; a change in the liability
clause; provisions for water, appliances,
and service; a way to get out of the lease
and some provision for return of the
security deposit," Goans said.
Goans also explained that First
Property Management Corp. is a
nationwide company offering one lease
which meets all state regulations.
Nelson said that when the company
runs into opposition they provide
addendums to the contract. "You don't
get any of these addendums unless you
ask for them. They will not offer them to
new leasors."
Goan emphasized the importance of
getting all agreements in writing and
keeping a copy for self protection.
Nelson and Goans said that Bernholz
helped them a great deal. "Without her
help, encouragement and advice, this
probably would never have gotten
going," Nels on said.
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