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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Monday, January 31, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Volume No. 84, Issue No. 86
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Gas shortage,
layoffs caused
by bitter cold
Unrelenting cold hung on Sunday in areas
of the Midwest and East already reduced to
semidormancy by weeks of subzero
temperatures that gulped the nation's energy
reserves at an alarming rate and left almost 2
million persons out of work.
Temperatures again dropped below zero
from the northern Rockies across the upper
half of the Mississippi Valley, the Great
Lakes and Ohio Valley into the northern
Atlantic Seaboard.
The federal government and states
marshaled forces to deal with the multitude
of problems caused by shortages of natural
gas, electricity.Tieating oils, essential parts
for making automobiles, salt for cutting ice
on highways and other items which fell prey
to the Great Deep Freeze of 1977.
President Carter donned heavy underwear
. and made a flying trip to hard-hit Pittsburgh
in order to demonstrate to Americans that
"we're all in this (the weather-energy battle)
together"
It's going to get worse instead of better,"
he said of the energy shortage.
Carter declared Pennsylvania and New
York two of the nation's most populous
and industrialized states federal disaster
areas Saturday. It was his first such
proclamation since a devastating
combination of bitterly cold weather and
heating fuel shortages gripped the eastern
half of the United States.
Florida will be declared a disaster area
Monday, Carter said, a move triggering
immediate federal assistance.
A delegation of North Carolina legislators
will meet with President Carter and
Congressmen Tuesday to press for relief
from the state natural gas shortage, but
none of the legislators were optimistic about
getting any immediate help.
The delegation, led by Lt. Gov. Jimmy
Green and House Speaker Carl Stewart Jr.,
will be pushing for passage of legislation to
allow Carter to divert natural gas surpluses
to areas suffering shortages.
North Carolina's natural gas supplies have
been curtailed 70- per cent by
Transcontinental Gas Pipeline Corp., which
is the state's only supplier.
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Staff photo by Charles Hardy
Ducks cavort on the pond while the young man shivers in the cold. The recent Arctic
air masses have frozen most local ponds, giving ducks few places to paddle about.
Authorities warn however, that most ice is not frozen thick enough to walk on,
perhaps keeping this fellow from venturing out into the middle.
, by Tony Gunn
Staff Writer
David Stewart, assistant professor of
geology, has failed to prove to a substantial
certainty that his denial of tenure was based
on a violation of his right to freedom of
speech or on personal malice, the Faculty
Hearings Committee ruled Saturday.
"We were satisfied the geology
department didn't fire him because of
freedom of speech or personal malice," said
Daniel H. Pollitt, acting chairperson of. the
committee. Their job, he said, was not to
determine whether Stewart deserved tenure
but to make sure tenure was not denied him
for those reasons.
Stewart said Sunday that the committee's
decision was predictable.
"The regulations are such that no
professor can win his case. It has never
happened, and it never will until they (the
tenure regulations) are scrapped."
Stewart said he is considering taking his
case to court. He said he would also contact
the American Association of University
Professors, who might send an investigative
team to look into the University's tenure and
academic freedom policies.
Stewart may still be able to appeal to the
chancellor and then to the Board of Trustees.
Pollitt said that while the hearings
committee had followed the rules, the rules
may need revision. "This was their first test,"
he said. "We'll try to find a couple of things
that need improving."
One of those items, he said, was to give a
longer explanation of their decision rather
than a simple, unelaborated statement,
which the tenure regulations required.
The committee plans to meet in two weeks
and make recommendations for revision.
Roy L. Ingram, chairperson of the
geology department, declined to comment
on the specifics of the case, but he said
Stewart was treated fairly during the entire
process.
"I'm really heartened to know the
committee cares," Stewart said. "I hope
every professor in my situation appeals. In
the end it's going to help."
Stewart said he still did not know the
complete reasons for the nonrenewal of his
contract. "It's very clear that 1 do a good job
of undergraduute teaching. But the
University does not count that.
"In my case it's publish and perish. 1 think
it's a ripoff to students paying thousands of
dollars for mediocre teachers.
"I have come to realize how impossible it is
to fight the system." Stewart said
accessibility to appropriate information is
very difficult to obtain. And even then, he
said, one never has a full review.
A case can only be made on three grounds:
violation of the right to freedom of speech,
discrimination on the basis of sex, race,
religion or national origin, or personal
malice. "If you can't manage to put it in those
terms, you don't have a case. It's a handicap
to start with."
Approximately a half-dozen of the full
geology professors testified Saturday that
the episode of last January, with Stewart
bringing in California psychic Clarisa
Bernhardt to give her prediction of the
possible Wilmington earthquake, did not
affect their decision not to grant Stewart
tenure.
"1 had it made until Bernhardt," Stewart
said, referring to his chances of obtaining
tenure.
ERA is sent to House floor;
N.C. may be 36th to ratify
by Charlene Havnaer
and Laura Seism
Staff Writers
A favorable vote on the Equal Rights
Amendment (ERA) Wednesday by the N.C.
House Constitutional Amendments
Committee will send the amendment to the
floor of the House for debate by early next
week, according to John Gamble, D
Lincoln, chairperson of the committee.
If passed by the House, the amendment
will go to the Senate. A favorable vote there
would make North Carolina the 36th state to
ratify the amendment. Thirty-eight states
must ratify ERA by March 1979, for it to
become law.
Orange County legislators, all ERA
proponents, said in telephone interviews last
week that they anticipated another close vote
on the amendment.
In 1973, the Senate rejected ERA by two
votes. In 1975, the House defeated it by five
votes in the final roll call.
Renovations begin at Comprehensive Nursing Care, Inc.
by Robin Clark
Staff Writer
Comprehensive Nursing Care, Inc.
received new plaster, paint, furniture and
repairs last week, as outlined in a state
ordered plan of ienovation that may take
more than three months to complete.
Comprehensive Care, Chapel Hill's only
nursing home, has been under fire from state
authorities and local citizens since it was
declared unsafe Jan. 19 by the N.C.
Department of Human Resources.
"We've come a long way already, but
there's still a ways to go," James Ammons
said Sunday. Ammons, who owns the
building and the surrounding property, took
over operation of Comprehensive Care
Tuesday from Nelson Tibbitt. Tibbitt, who
leased the business from Ammons, pulled
out under pressure from more than 25
employees who said they would quit if he
stayed.
The staff said Tibbitt had cut the home's
operating budget to the point of jeopardizing
the lives of the 45 elderly patients.
Already, major improvements have ben
made. Two new tables, a sofa and a chair
decorated the home's main lobby Sunday
the first of many additions that will take
place during the coming months.
Ammons said water pipes that had frozen
and burst during the severe cold weather
have been repaired and reinsulated.
Electrical problems, which once kept the
home's older wing in darkness as many as six
hours a day, have been fixed, too, Ammons
said. N
Ammons blamed the crisis at
Comprehensive Care not only on Tibbitt,
but on years of bad management and shabby
repair work.
"Of course, Tibbitt was the owner and he
should have kept up better with his
managers," Ammons said, "but Tibbitt was
putting enough money into this place to run
a first-class nursing home. It just was grossly
mismanaged and misspent."
Tibbitt could not be reached for comment
Sunday.
Ammons said the former management
spent $1,000 on a modern typewriter to do
office work that took 15 minutes a day, and
then complained that no money was left for
medical needs.
Some supplies were stockpiled in
enormous quantities, Ammons said, while
other needs were neglected.. Ammons cited
as an example a new call system that was
installed last year at a cost of more than
55,000. Ammons said the old one could have
been repaired at a savings of more than two
thirds. Ammons also said that careless
repairmen working on the plumbing and
electrical systems had caused more problems
than they had alleviated.
"One maintenance man who knew what he
was doing could've fixed the electrical
problems in a couple of hours."
Ammons blamed ruptured water pipes on
repairmen, too. He said the plumbers who
fixed the frozen pipes left the insulation off
one of the pipes, so that it froze and ruptured
again.
Ammons' first move Tuesday was to
replace Chief Administrator C. Benjamin
Smith with Ammons' daughter-in-law,
Christine Ammons. Three of Smith's
assistants also were fired.
Already, Ammons' management has
gained support among the families of the
patients.
The relative of one elderly patient said
Saturday: "The changes I saw take place in
48 hours under (Christine) Ammons are like
night and day.
"When I went over there Thursday, my
grandmother, who hadn't wanted to come
out of her room to the dining room or
anywhere else in a long, long time, was
sitting by the front window."
Other relatives have expressed similar
sentiments, Ammons said, and the staff, its
wages raised, no longer intends to quit Feb.
13. ,
"It's a long haul and we're finding new
problems every day," Ammons said, "but we
won't stop till these patients are getting the
very best care that we can give them."
"It (the vote) is going to be mighty close,"
said Rep. Patricia S. Hunt, D-Orange.
House Speaker Carl Stewart, an ERA
supporter, may have to cast the tie-breaking
vote, she said.
Rep. Edward S. Holmes, D-Chatham,
said he thinks the amendment has a good
chance of passing in the House, but that it
will face a closer vote in the Senate.
A recent poll conducted by the Capitol
reporters of seven major N.C. newspapers
reported that of the 120 House members, 55
were for ERA, 34 against, 5 leaning for and
12 -leaning against. The remaining 14
representatives were either undecided or
refused to comment.
"We are confident that we are going to
win," said the Rev. Martha Bliss, president
of North Carolinians United for ERA. She
said pro-ERA forces are counting on
support from undecided legislators.
Although ERA proponents seem
confident of victory, opponents disagree.
Asked if she thought the amendment would
be passed, Bobbie Matthews, state
cochairperson of North Carolinians against
ERA, recalled the earlier attempts at
"ratification: r:
"I keep remembering that I heard the same
thing two years ago. Whenever I doubt it, I
get out my old newspaper clipping, and read
and restudy them.
"The newspapers said the same thing
then This is the year.' "
Neither side has conceded the fight. Both
continue lobbying legislators. The pro-ERA
forces have hired a professional lobbyist,
Raleigh attorney Thomas Barringer. Both
sides continue to distribute ERA literature
and encourage their supporters to write
legislators.
Orange County legislators report
receiving large numbers of letters and cards
on the issue, most of which favor
ratification. Hunt, for example, said she had
400 letters on ERA, four of which opposed
the amendment.
Indiana became the 35th state to ratify
ERA two weeks ago. The Virginia state
legislature, however, rejected the
amendment Thursday in a close vote.
25 men eyed for dean of Arts of Sciences
Committee seeks successor
by Merton Vance
Staff Writer
A. student-faculty
committee is in the
process of
narrowing down a
list of 25 nominees,
all male, to replace
James R. Gaskin,
dean of the College
of Arts and
Sciences, who will
resign that post
June 30 to teach
Dean Gaskin English full time.
The committee of 10 faculty members
and three students began its search this
fall by asking faculty members for
nominations. Twenty-eight nominees
agreed to be considered, and their
names were sent to faculty and student
groups for comments and
recommendations.
Three of the nominees have since
asked that their names be withdrawn.
All nominees are members of the UN C
faculty.
The committee will narrow its list to
between three and six names before
submitting it to Chancellor N. Ferebee
Taylor, who will make the final
'selection.
Taylor has asked the committee to
give him the list no later than March 1.
The committee has been meeting
regularly in closed sessions to consider
the qualifications of the nominees.
One member of the committee said
that many faculty members and student
groups have suggested their favorites for
the post and given the committee
comments on the qualifications of
various nominees.
The absence of women on the list has
drawn some criticism.
"When .Gaskin decided to resign,
there were hopes that a woman might
get the position," said Sallie Shuping,
chairperson of the Association for
Women Students. "I think that there are
qualified women in this faculty", she
said, adding that she had hoped to see at
least one woman nominee.
An ad hoc committee of students
from the YM-YWCA and Student
Government sent a letter to the
committee suggesting criteria for
selecting the new dean.
Among the suggestions were
recommendations that the nominees be
persons who favor improved personal
contact among students and faculty
members and who are interested in
imaginative and innovative curricula
and teaching methods.
The committee members said in the
letter that they arrived at their list of
criteria after meetings with faculty and
students.
The Campus Y and Student
Government committee recommended
Samuel R. Williamson, Samuel F. Wells
and John H. Schutz for the post. The
names have been ' sent to the search
committee for consideration. . '
"We thought this was a very
important issue," said James Smalley,
associate director of the Campus Y. "Of
course, these recommendations are
from a student perspective and the
faculty members might have different
criteria," he -said.
He said that the committee members
thought that any one of the three
nominees they recommended would be
acceptable.
. The search committee has also asked
for input from the Graduate and
Professional Student Federation,
Student Government and the three
students on the search committee.
A student-faculty committee is
reviewing a list of 25 individuals who
have ' been nominated and have
expressed a willingness to be considered
for dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences:
Christoper M. Armitage
Department of English
Frederic P. Brooks
Department of Computer Sciences
Joseph A. Cima
Department of Mathematics
Gordon B. Cleveland
Department of Political Science
James H. Crawford Jr.
Department of Physics and
Astronomy
Dirk Frankenberg
Curriculum in Marine Science
John Gulick
Department of Anthropology
Ross D. Hall
Department of Germanic Languages
John I. Harrison
Department of Chemistry
Don R. Higginbotham
Department of History
Richard G. His key
Department of Chemistry
Roy L. Ingram
Department of Geology
H.E. Lehman
Department of English
George Lensing Jr.
Department of English
James R. Leutze
Curriculum in Peace, War and
Defense
Lewis P. Lipsitz
Department of Political Science
Charles Ludington Jr.
Department of English
John H. Schutz
Department of Religion
Tom K. Scott
Department of Botany
George V. Taylor
Department of History
Daniel A. Textoris
Department of Geology
Gerald Unks
School of Education
Frederick W. Vogler
Department of Romance Languages
Samuel F. Wells Jr.
Department of History
Samuel R. Williamson
Department of History
Final candidate list set for spring elections
by Karen Millers
Staff Writer
The 1977 Spring Elections ballot was
completed Friday night as candidates turned in
their petitions to the Elections Board.
Seven candidates are officially in the race for
student body president Hugh Halsey, Mike
Hickman, Tal Lassiter, Mark Miller, Bill Moss,
Joe Roberts and Rob Lyman from the Blue Sky
Party.
The Blue Sky Party had originally planned to
run a triumvirate, but an elections law states that
no more than one person may hold the office at
one time. The party obtained petition signatures
if or the triumvirate which later eliminated Robin
McW'illiam and Mike Penny, filing only Lyman's
name. Lyman may be disqualified because the
signatures were obtained for all three names.
Gary Mason, who had announced his
candidacy for student body president, instead
filed for the office of Carolina Athletic
Association president.
For Daily Tar Heel editor, the candidates are
Sam Fulwood, Greg Porter and Mike York.
CAA president contenders are Gary Mason,
Wes Minton and David Royle.
Bain Jones is running unopposed for Residence
Hall Association chairperson.
There are no candidates for president of the
Graduate and Professional Student Federation.
There will be a three-way race for president and
vice president of the senior class. Candidates are
Mike Egan (president) and Marty Lagod (vice
president), Allen Graham and Allen McCallem,
and Jeff Price and Doug Markham.
Mary Jo Southern is unopposed for the office
of senior class secretary, and no one filed for
senior class treasurer.
The following have filed for district seats in the
Campus Governing Council (CGC):
District 1, Jay Clark; District 2, David
Hackleman; District 3, Glenn Peck; District 5,
Darius G. C. Moss; District 7, Diane V. Shafer
and Bryan Wirwicz; District 8, Gus Lehoukck;
District 9, Chuck Morgan and Barbara Huffman
District 10, Gordon Tobias Cureton; District 11,
K. B. Kelley, Rjchard Bostic, Kent Brewer and
Moses Umphlett; District 12, Sonya Lewis;
District 13, David Hopkins and Chip Cox;
District 14, Bob Long; District 15, Betsy Lindley
and Christopher Capel; and District 20, Kim
Jenkins.
No candidates have filed for districts 4, 6, 16,
17, 18 or 19. CGC representatives in those
districts will be chosen on the basis of write-in
votes.