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ff Free Claudine Claudine Longet may be headed up Moon River toward a jail term, but there are still those who hang on with her through thick and thin, and they're right here at UNC. See Publick Knowledge on page 3. Please call us: 933-0245 Cloudy It wilt be increasingly cloudy today with a high of 53 and a 40 per cent chance of precipitation. The low last night was about 38. y a, J Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Friday, February 4, 1977, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Volume No. 84, Issue No. 90 Myths of vanity, power and long-range influence revealed Mir rf fit fr vv 1 K O- P ast editors by Toni Gilbert Staff Writer It's April 24, 1941, student election day at UNC. Rivalry between the Daily Tar Heel editorial candidates Louis Harris and Orville Campbell is high. Both have been campaigning for two weeks. Harris, endorsed by both the paper's staff and the Student Party, wants to win. Campbell, receiving the University Party's endorsement, doesn't want to lose. The polls are now closed and votes are being tallied. In a major upset, Campbell defeats Harris by 10 votes. Because the margin of defeat is so slim, Harris demands a recount. The next day the votes are recounted and Harris still loses by four votes. He demands a third and final recount. This time Harris loses by 14 votes and Campbell is officially declared editor. The 1977 election for Daily Tar Heel editor is fast approaching with three candidates in the running. While many view the position as a powerful and influential one, Harris, now a prominent public opinion pollster, expressed a different attitude toward the editorship when he spoke last year at UNC, 35 years after his defeat. With a slightly faulty memory, Harris said he lost to Campbell by two votes because he didn't campaign in Lewis dorm the night before the election. If he had, he said, he would have won. Instead, he said, he came within two votes of winding up as an obscure editor of a small-town newspaper. While Harris might have shattered the myth about the long range influence and importance of being editor for the present candidates, some past editors, including Campbell, still have strong, positive feelings about the position. "I have never felt as important in my life in anything I have done or tried to do as when 1 was editor of the Daily Tar Heel" says Campbell. While student parties no longer exist at UNC, Campbell says they were important in his day. "If you didn't have the support of a party, then you didn't have a Chinaman's chance of winning," he says. But endorsements, campaign issues and elaborate platforms didn't guarantee a victory either. I feel that students should elect the editor, but what the editorship turns into is a popularity contest," he says. "Whoever of the candidates gets around the most and has the most people working for him usually wins, even if he's not qualified." Campbell says he viewed the power of the editor to be greater than that of student government. "He can ruin the student body president if he wants to," he says. "This is not to say that the editor is God Almighty; he isn't," Campbell explains. "But that doesn't mean he isn't important; he is. "Anyone who is editor and doesn't think it is the most important part of his life won't make a good editor." UNC Journalism Prof. Walter Spearman, elected editor in 1928, also saw the power in the position a power, he says, which attracted him because of his desire to serve both the University and, he admits, his personal vanity. "The editor of the Tar Heel was one of the most influential positions on campus you could be if you wanted to do anything on campus," he says. "1 came here (to UNC) wanting to be editor of the Tar Heel and president of Phi Beta Kappa. I was both." Spearman says he was elected because he was very active on the paper his freshman and sophomore years and did so much writing that "when it came time in my junior year to run for editor, no one would run against me." As editor, Spearman says he felt a responsibility to use the paper to expand the opportunities and power of the students. While he regarded himself as a mediator between student government and the administration, he says he often criticized both when he considered it necessary. What do students look for in editorial candidates'? "I think people generally look for experience, although personality and charisma play a part in who's1 elected," Spearman says. For Mayor James Wallace, his five unsuccessful bids for editor in 1943-46 were based on his interest in campus politics, not journalism. "From the beginning, 1 considered the Daily Tar Heel to be the most lively and active extracurricular activity on campus," Wallace says. He explains that he had so many chances to run for editor because it was wartime. Several of the editors were in the military and were transferred from UNC in the middle of the term, leaving vacancies. "We had elections about every three months," he says. He says he never won because, "I was the campus radical and they (the students) viewed me with alarm." The closest he came to winning was in his fourth run when he lost by only 35 votes. Please turn to page 2 The 1895 1 1 -member Daily Tar Heel staff clusters around Chief S. Wills. Standing are, left to right, J.A. Gwyn, D. Eatman, J.O. E.W. Myers. The rest of the staff included, on the floor, left to Carr and J.C. Eller. UNC students select next year's editor right. J.A. Moore and Harry Howell. At the table are, left to Wednesday Feb. 9. righ E.B. Lewis, Myers, M.H. Young, A.B. Kimball and George iiiiiiiplii mmm-mmm 1 - 0 liiill mmitt egislative co review University syste ees, Friday m budget if K i m 5 Ml 1 - viSs- - MWWiiwmYiiwrwoiiiVii(infii'nfiittiii,iii,ivii Hi Staff photo by AMen Jemigan These pigeons faithfully obey Gov. Hunt's orders to conserve energy. Photographed in Raleigh, the birds seem to prefer sitting and watching the rest of the world go by. by Tony Gunn and Tom Watkjns. Staff Writers RALEIGH Consolidated University President William C. Friday and members of his staff responded to questions Thursday from the N.C. Senate Ways and Means Committee and the House Appropriations Committee dealing with programs in the UNC budget request. Friday said that the meeting was not a budget hearing but an information session. "It is a good exercise for us," he said. "It will make us go back and look at what we've done." In a letter to Friday earlier this week, the committees outlined 21 areas of concern in which they would like to have more information. Addressed Thursday were the proposed veterinary school at N.C. State, the East Carolina School of Medicine, the Area Health Education Center (AH EC), the vocation rehabilitation center at N.C. Memorial Hospital, agricultural research funds at N.C. State and library growth of the UNC system. Friday said it is too early to predict if an additional UNC system budget request of $132 million will be approved by the general assembly. "The University is not privy to revenue projections," Friday said. "But all of the programs we discussed today were initially approved by the general assembly." Asked if the UNC system's budget problems are due to programs costing more than originally anticipated by the legislature, Friday replied, "The longer we "delay construction, the more things cost." The consolidated University originally requested SI. Of billion for the 1977-79 biennium. Gov. James Hunt Jr. and the Advisory Budget Commission (ABC) recommended an allocation of $690.5 million. After the meeting, N.C. Rep. Trish Hunt, D-Orange, said, "I think lots of things will determine whether the (additional budget) requests are granted." One factor, she said, will be how the revenue looks in May, when the legislature is expected to vote on the budget. "The things answered today were legitimate questions," she said. Rep. Louise S. Brennan, D-Mecklenburg, and a former UNC political science instructor, was more pessimistic, however. "The University won't get near where they (originally) requested. It's simply because there's a shortage of funds. We're having to divide it, the little bit we have, divide it among all sorts of educational and human resource requests." Nor did Rep. Brennan think the University will receive much of Friday's additional request. "There's just not that much to go around," she said. At the meeting John L. Sanders, vice president of planning for the UNC General Administration, told the legislators that an architect has been engaged for the N.C. State vet school. An estimated 340,000 square feet would be required for the school. Sanders reminded the committees that $2 million for operating funds and $9.25 million for the initial capital investment has been, requested by the UNC system Board of Governors. The governor and the ABC have recommended only $500,000 in operating funds for continued planning of the school. The anticipated opening of the school is 1981, with an initial enrollment of 32 students. "Unless funds are provided," Sanders said, "we can't promise to have a school at any fixed date. Dr. Eugene S. Mayer, deputy director of the AH EC program in Chapel Hill, explained that the purpose of the program is to improve the supply of physicians throughout the state. Since the program began, he said, more UNC-CH medical school graduates have stayed in the state. The almost two-hour session covered only six of the 21 issues raised by the committees. Friday and his staff will be called back to Raleigh at a later date to deliver more information. Hunt's energy restrictions Order exempts UNC by David Stacks Staff Writer Gov. James B. Hunt's energy conservation directive ordering state agencies to go to a four-day, 10-hour work week does not apply to UNC, Vice Chancellor Claiborne S. Jones said Thursday. University activities, including classes, will be conducted on a regular schedule, Jones said. Thermostats in classrooms and offices will be lowered to 62 degrees Boulton, George meet with Connor residents new dean seie Drop add. ction di by Merton Vance Staff Writer Drop-add policy and the selection process for a new dean of the College of Arts and Sciences were the major topics on the minds of Connor Dorm students who met informally in the dorm lobby Thursday afternoon with Dean of Student Affairs Donald Boulton and Claude George, associate dean of the business school and chairperson of the search committee for a new dean of Arts and Sciences. Approximately 12 to 18 students drifted in and out of the hour-long "Dean's Hour," an informal meeting between students and administrators arranged by student government. Bus system requests UNC funding by Mary Anne Rhyne Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen were giving no hints as to what level of bus service the town can expect next year, when it met Wednesday night with the city Transportation Board. The two boards met to discuss the present bus system and its alternatives in preparation for upcoming budget proposals. The Aldermen stressed the need for financial support by the University. Alderman Ed Vickery said the University should make a cash contribution to the system. He presented a survey of bus riders in an effort to point out University responsibility for the system. The survey shows that 94 per cent of the riders with passes and making round trips use passes purchased from the University. The school's students and employees make up 65.8 per cent of all bus riders. This year the University paid the town $366,200 for bus passes to sell to students and employees. The aldermen asked the Transportation Board to investigate a way to sell passes to students without the University acting as an intermediary. Under such a plan the U niversity would be called on to donate money to maintain the transit system. Much of the discussion centered on the costof maintaining a bus system like the one presently in use. Some of the changes in the present system might be better peak-hour service with a cut-back or complete elimination of service from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. Another suggestion by aldermen would increase bus service in a small rider-concentrated area,while cutting back the total service area. Night service presented a problem to aldermen. They said cab service or a dial-a-ride program are possible solutions. By completely eliminating night service, the aldermen said they feel that they could save money and maintain daytime ridership. The board will meet again Wednesday, Feb. 16, to continue its discussion of buses. One student suggested to Boulton that the drop-add period be extended so that students could meet for two sessions in Tuesday-Thursday classes before making up their minds whether to drop a course. Boulton agreed with the suggestion and said he hopes that can be done next year. One student suggested that the drop add period be extended to three weeks, but Boulton said that this would put too much of a strain on the records and registration office. He said that drop-add was shortened because students previously used frivolous excuses for dropping courses when they were allowed to drop courses until very late in the semester. "It got to the point that people were not making decisions (to drop courses) for educational reasons," Boulton said. Students were also interested in the selection process for a new dean of the College of Acts and Sciences. Dean James R. Gaskin is resigning the post in June to return to teaching English full time. A search committee of 10 faculty members and three students is scusse evaluating 25 nominees for the position, the committee will narrow the list down to no fewer than three and no more than six names, which must be submitted by March 1 to Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor, who will select the final candidate. That name will then be sent to the Board of Trustees for final approval. The new dean will serve a five year term. The dean of the College of Arts and Sciences heads over 50 departments and curricula, as well as the majority of the undergraduate students at UNC. George said that the committee is looking for nominees who have good administrative abilities and can represent the broad range of view of the faculty members in the more than 50 departments and curricula. "This deanship is regarded as the most powerful deanshipon campus," said George. One student asked why there were no women on the list of nominees under consideration. George said that several women were nominated, but they asked to have their names removed from consideration. during the day and 55 degrees at night. Athletic events in Woollen Gym and Carmichael Auditorium will take place in 45-degree temperatures, while dormitories will be maintained at 65 degrees. "Energy shortages in the rest of the state really do not affect us at all, except for natural gas," Assistant Vice Chancellor John Temple said Thursday. The University has been directed to cut natural gas consumption by 35 per cent. Only a few Health Sciences buildings are heated by gas. "We will come as close to carrying out the governor's order as we can," Jones said. In a memo issued Thursday, Jones said physical plant employees have already begun adjusting temperatures downward in compliance with Hunt's orders. But it may be several days before the process is completed, because of the complexity of campus heating systems. Many of the older buildings do not have thermostats, while the larger, newer buildings have several temperature controls. The temperature in buildings without thermostats is controlled by adjusting the temperature of the water from the steam generating plAit on Cameron Avenue. "There are an infinite variety of thermostats," Jones said. "It's going to taks some time for the maintenance people to get around to all the buildings. There will be no overnight results." Power plant supervisor Edward McKnight said the plant has five boilers, two of which are not in use. The plant burns coal, fuel oil or natural gas, but has been using coal due to the oil and gas shortage. The power plant has 900,000 gallons of fuel oil and 2,500 tons of coal in reserve. Thirty railroad carloads of coal are to be delivered to the University this week.