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the sport since its first lessons in 1971. According
to instructor Tony Cockrcll 2,600 student-jumps
have been made. Out of any given class, half of the
students will make only one jump; many go on to
make 25 or more. The average student will make
three jumps after completing the lessons. Cockrell
said that all students have about the same reaction
after each jump: a state of complete euphoria,
exhilaration and a desire to do it again. "Right
when you get down, it's just an incredible high," he
said. His most recent students were inclined to
agree.-Most of them said it wis one of the most
exhilarating things they've ever done.
"It was the highlight of my freshman year. 1 1 was
just a fantastic experience, especially since it was
something I had always wanted to do," Mark
Mann, from Cary, N.C., said.
Monte Thompson, a freshman from Ahoskie,
N.C., said, "It was great. I had never imagined it
would be this much fun."
One of the three female members of the class
expressed a bit of disappointment in the
experience. "I was thinking that if 1 was more
conscious when I was falling it would be more fun.
I felt better when I got an A' on my English
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paper," Maureen Chambers, a sophomore from
Manahawkin, N.J., said. Also, Chambers said she
enjoyed her second jump more than the first.
Many of the students gave the same reasons, for
deciding to learn skydiving an acquaintance
who participated in the sport, a desire to be able to
say, 'I've gone skydiving' or just for the fun of it.
"I took it on a dare from a friend who's in the
club," Pamela Mackey, a sophomore from Pisgah
Forest, N.C.. said. .
No student in the skydiving class expressed any
fear before his first jump. All said they felt
thoroughly ready for any emergency situations
that might come up.
The soberest night of lessons was the second
night, when students were introduced to all types
of emergency situations, ranging from tangled
canopies to landing in power lines. However.
Cockrell emphasized repeatedly to the class, "If
you get hurt in this sport, it's because of something
stupid you did." Cockrell, who is tall and slim and
has made well over 1000 jumps, kept the class's
confidence up, saying, "Anything would break my
bones." He has never been injured while
skydiving.
Another thing which kept the confidence of the
class high was a device called a Sentinel, which
automatically . opens the student's reserve
parachute at 1000 feet if he has failed to take
emergency actions. Cockrell emphasized that any
skydiver should have ample time to take
emergency action before the Sentinel functions,
however.
By the time the lessons were over, all the
students were confident of their ability to handle
any emergency situation.
M ost of the students said they left the class with
a changed attitude about the sport. Instructors
Cockrell and Mike Wilson, another club member
who teaches emergency procedures, left students
with a deep impression of the sport's safety.
Before a freak accident on Sunday, Feb. 7 in
which Chris Alvan, a freshman from Greenville,
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sustain a serious injury. Alvan died when he cut
away from his canopy which was tangled in a tree
where he landed and a suspension line caught his
helmet as he fell. Cockrell said the coroner on the
scene commented that the chances of such an
accident happening were "unbelievably slim."
The cost of skydiving lessons from the UNC
Parachute Club are $35 for lessons and $10 per
static line jump. A minimum of five static line
jumps (jumps in which the chute is automatically
opened from a line attached to a snap inside the
plane) must be made before a student can make
freefall jumps, which cost between $3 and $6
depending on the altitude they are made from.
Lessons can cost more than $100 when taken from
other skydiving schools. Information on taking
lessons can be obtained by calling the UNC Club
at 929-2315.
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OFF
Miller and Moss to battle in runoff
, by Karen Millers
Staff Writer
For the past few weeks, students have been
barraged with issues, platforms and smiling
candidates. The scenario reached its climax
Feb. 9 when 5,472 persons voted and the
returns were tallied. Most of the candidates
relaxed and took a few days off to sleep.
But Mark Miller and Bill Moss, who will
meet in a runoff for student body president
Wednesday, redoubled their efforts to sway
students to their side. . .
"During the first election there were a lot
of reasons for people to vote," Moss said,
pointing to the greater number of
candidates.
"Generally it is more difficult to get people
to vote in a runoff," he said.
Moss said that the basic issue is a clear-cut
decision between what he terms Miller's
project-oriented continuance of present
programs and his own major emphasis of
representing' the students and opening up
Student Government (SG).
"You have to have a full platform," Moss
said, acknowledging his own list of projects.
He said a candidate's emphasis is a matter or
priorities. His first priority would be to
represent students, organize a staff and
delegate people to carry out projects.
Miller disagreed that his platform
represents a strict continuance of existing
programs.-
"I think I'm the one who's proposing
innovative ideas and programs," Miller said.
H e added that there should be a continuity in
SG or it would lose its potential.
Both candidates said their platforms have
remained basically the same, although
Tuesday,
Miller said he has picked up a few ideas from
students as he has campaigned door to door.
The only other campuswide runoff will be
for Carolina Athletic Association president.
David Royale will face Gary Mason in that
race.
The following Campus Governing
Council (CGC) districts will have runoffs for
CGC seats:
District 4, Fred Goss and Ira Friedlander;
District 16, Bill Hamby and Ken Smith;
District 17, Vaughn Ramsey and Nancy
Mattox; District 18, Phil Searcy and Keith
Head. David Finklestein was determined
winner of the CGC District 19 seat.
Diane Shafer will face Brian Wirwicz in a
Board sets Union activities
by Charjene Havnaer
Staff Writer
A easino night, a car rally and entrance in The
National College Quiz Bowl are among the
activities planned for students this semester by the
recreation committee of the Carolina Union
Activities Board.
A casino night complete with crap games,
roulette wheels and horse races for the gambler to
bet on will be held M arch 2 from 8 to 1 2 p.m. in the
Great Hall of the Carolina Union.
Admission is free and each person will be given
$30 in play money to gamble with. At the end of
the evening, prizes ranging from autographed
basketballs to gift certificates from area residents
and stores will be auctioned off to the highest '
bidders.
The Union billiards tables and bowling lanes
also will be operating at reduced rates for the
night.
A car rally is being planned for the end of M arch
or the first of April, according to M ichael Cannon,
chairperson of the recreation committee.
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special runoff Feb. 23 for CGC District 7
seat. Shafer won by 10 votes over Wirwicz in
the election Feb. 9, but the Elections Board
ruled those results void after finding that at
least 10 persons who should have voted in
District 7 voted in another district.
He said the board also ruled earlier on a
complaint by Shafer that Wirwicz had
campaign material circulated that
misrepresented Shafer's past CGC record.
The ruling was in Shafer's favor, and the
board directed Wirwicz to distribute
material clarifying the original statements. .
Brown said the runoff was postponed to
Feb. 23 to allow both candidates sufficient
time to campaign.
Cars with standard equipment, a pencil, paper,
clipboard and any simple timepiece will enter in an
unequipped class. Cars equipped with prepared
mileage and speed tables and other mechanical
devices such as slide rules will enter in a
navigational class, and cars using any rally
equipment other than a two-way radio will enter in
an equipped class.
There will be an entry fee of approximately $2,
according to Cannon.
Another project being planned by the
committee is recruiting a team from UNC to enter
the National College Quiz Bowl.
To participate in the event schools must hold 10
intramural quiz games and choose their teams
from these.
The intramural games will be held Monday
through Thursday from 7 to 1 1 p.m. the week of
Feb. 28, according to Cannon.
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people four contestants and an alternate. Each
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