Housing department charges
$20 fine for electrical misuse
Thuibuay, October 27, 1977 The Daily Ta
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By SHELLEY DROESCHER
StfT Writer
To discourage dangerous electrical
misuse, the housing department
requires dorm residents to pay a $20 fine
for tripping a circuit breaker, but a local
electrical engineer says tripping a circuit
is not dangerous.
Housing department regulations state
that students may not use appliances
exceeding 1,000 watts. Also, students
may not use more than 1,800 watts at
any one time.
Wattage exceeding these limits may
trip a circuit breaker, cutting off the
current. When this happens, a resident
assistant (RA) flips a switch in the
circuit-breaker box and current passes
through the wires again.
Russell Perry, assistant housing
director, calls the $20 a punitive fine to
discourage electrical misuse. "Safety is
what the whole system (of fines) is
about," he says.
A circuit breaker grows weaker each
time it is used, Perry says, and after
several shutdowns it must be replaced,
at a cost of between $8 and $10 plus
electrician wages for a half-day of labor.
But electrical engineer Ray DuBose
says the circuit breaker would have to be
used at least 2,000 times before
replacement would be necessary, and
the cost would be $30 to $40, including
labor.
When asked about DuBose's
comments. Perry said, "I have nothing
to say."
DuBose says repeated tripping of the
circuit breaker from excess wattage
could cause wiring insulation to melt,
creating a fire hazard. But he says circuit
breakers cut off current before the
wattage becomes high enough to
overload wires, which melt when
overloaded.
Before 1967, students were not
allowed to cook in their rooms. But the
housing department rewired dorms,
replaced the fuse system with a circuit
breaker system and instituted the $20
fine for misuse.
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UNI1ED NATIONS (DPI) - The Dnitcd
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delaying arms embargo against South Africa
unless Pretoria rescinds its crackdown
against black opposition leaders.
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arms embargo and possibly other sanctions
against South Africa, delayed to give
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The reports said Washington's idea is to
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Approximately 70 DNC students are
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Their pupils are 100 high school students
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to motivate these students for success
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Lewis said the program has been a success
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Approximately 85 to 90 percent of the
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Lewis estimated that only 10 or 12 percent
of these students would have considered
college had it not been for Dpward Bound.
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The program is funded totally by the D.S.
Department of Health, Education and
Welfare (HEW). The DNC School of
Education hosts the program in Chapel H ill.
Before a school can sponsor an Dpward
Bound program, it must show that it can
meet the academic, social and housing needs
of the students involved.
The school also must make a financial
commitment. DNC, for example, donated
$25,000 to the program. This money is
combined wilh the money allocated by HEW
and used to finance the program.
Dpward Bound consists of three
programs: a summer session that meets six to
eight weeks, a tutoring service held during
the academic year and a bridge program for
students between high school and college.
The students that participate in the
summer program come to Chapel Hill and
live on campus.
From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. students study a
high school curriculum so they will be ahead
of or at least even with the other students
when the school year begins in Ihe fall.
The summer program also ofrvrs cultural
enrichment courses such as art, drama and
sewing. The students take trips to
surrounding areas ahd also make one major
trip. This summer they went to Washington,
DC.
Recreation includes basketball,
swimming, tennis and a variety of other
sports,
1 he tutoring sessions are held two
Saturdays per month during the academic
year. The sessions are held in Peabody Hall
and include help in any area in which a
student may be weak.
The bridge program allows graduated
high school seniors to take freshman English
for credit. The Reading Program also is
offered. This phase of Dpward Bound has
been successful: 14 of the 15 students
enrolled passed, and 1 1 were able to transfer
the credit.
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Lewis said the program wants to help the
student who has been a loser to become a
winner, to help the student say "1 can"
instead of "I can't" and to help him move
from being a liability to becoming an asset.
"Therefore, in my estimation Dpward
Bound is a program that does not cost, hut
rather pays," Lewis said.
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