Clearing The highs today and Saturday will be near 60, and the low tonight will be in the upper-30s. The chance of rain is 20 percent today and tonight. Amos ACC rookie Amos Lawrence was named rookie of the year Thursday by the ACC Sports Writers Association. See this story and other sports news on page 5. Serving the .undents and the L nivcrsiiv community since ,VVJ Volume 85, Issue No. -65 Friday, December 2, 1977, Chapel Hill, North Carolina Please call us: 933-0245 Wit mtti r'm i ma w a Construction of water pipeline began Monday New link to be used for emergency needs Construction on the $l.8-million Hillsborough water pipeline began on schedule this week despite rainy weather, according to Orange Water and Sewer Authority (OWASA) Executive Director Everett Billingsley. "They've already started digging on the Hillsborough end," he said. Construction began Monday. The pipeline, which will supply the emergency water needs of Chapel Hill and Carrboro during the next several years, will be used only when the level of University Lake is sufficiently low to warrant such emergency use, he said. The pipeline will have a capacity of 2 million gallons per day and is scheduled to be completed in 90 days. In order to take advantage of a 30 percent grant and 70 percent loan from the federal government to fund the project, the construction must be completed by April 30. The agreement between OWASA and Hillsborough on the pipeline was reached last August, but awarding of bids and the final contract were not agreed upon until recently. The T. A. Loving Co. is in charge of the construction. 'Cannot turn on friend' Holtz defends Helms endorsement By MARK ANDREWS Staff Writer RALEIGH U .S. Sen. Jesse Helms defended his endorsements by popular North Carolina sports figures at a press conference here Thursday saying, "I hope we haven't reached a point where Sen. Jesse Helms S;fferfJ UNC needs new image, early contact, additional recruiters to attract blacks By LAURA SCISM University Editor 1 Editor's Note: This is the fifth in a series of articles examining race relations on the UNC campus. Chancellor N. Ferebee Taylor has publicly committed himself to the goa'l of increasing the number of black students at the University, but until the pool of black applicants becomes larger, the number admitted as freshmen is not likely to increase appreciably. More black high school seniors applied to UNC for admission as freshmen last fall than ever before, but the total number of black student applications was still only 658. That compares to a total of 320 black applicants in 1970, two years after the Faculty Council passed the Dixon Resolution, which expressed support for increasing black enrollment here, and one year after the admissions office hired its first full-time minority recruitment officer. Of the 658 black students who applied for admission to the UNC freshman class of 1977, about half 359 were offered adm ission, and about two-thirds of those 223 enrolled. Increasing the pool of black applicants is one of tne main concerns of Collin Rustin, an assistant dean of admissions at UNC and the only UNC ' r i ! r - ' . V s . "Z ''',""'" I ' ' i ' 1 I v . " V 1 V ri , $ 1 , ' -' 4 I " 'J A 4 v w " 'y J jam A Is -Mm, C x t Stephen T. Gould, chairperson, president and general manager of Student Graphics Inc., was removed from office Wednesday because the group's board of directors said the corporation lost money under his management. you can't express yourself." Lou Holtz, former head football coach at N .C . State and now head coach at Orange Bowl-bound Arkansas, appeared with the conservative senator and defended his support of Helms. He called the senator a man of integrity and honesty. "I cannot turn my back on a friend," Holtz said. Helms was in Raleigh for a fund raising dinner sponsored by the N.C. Congressional Club. Over 2,000 persons were expected at the dinner. Holtz and Alton Lennon, a former U.S. Representative from North Carolina, were featured speakers. Former U.S. Treasury Secretary William E. Simon was also scheduled to speak but was unable to attend due to poor weather in New York. Holtz said that while he sometimes does not understand Helms' position on certain issues, he does not always have the facts that the senator has. Holtz praised Helms for doing what he thinks is best for the people. The Arkansas coach admitted that just a few minutes before the press admissions officer who devotes most of his working hours to minority-student recruitment. Rustin says he will log about 5,000 miles this year traveling to high schools throughout the state to inform minority students about UNC admission requirements and academic programs. As the only admissions officer assigned full-time to minority recruitment, Rustin estimates he will be able to visit only between 65 and 80 of n i I ( 1 -Pi tx h "'if conference Helms had briefed him on the Panama Canal controversy. When asked if Holtz supported ratification of the treaty. Holt explained, "1 did before 1 talked to him (Helms)." Helms called the proposed treaty a "giveaway" and sounded confident that the Senate will block its ratification. "We have more than enough votes to block the treaty," Helms maintained. The senator, one of the most vocal opponents of the Panama Canal treaty, said there is a good chance the treaty will not even come up for a vote next year. Nobody in the Senate wants to vote on it, Helms said. While many proponents of the canal treaty have said it is necessary to avoid some kind of major confrontation in the future, Helms said he did not foresee any major problems developing over failure to sign a new treaty. Helms said he did not foresee a "Vietnam situation" developing in Panama. President Carter insists that the canal is "absolutely defensible," Helms said. Helms predicted that he also will get political support in his campaign from the state's approximately 400 high schools .four-fifths of which he says have sizeable black populations. In January, a newly created admissions staff position will be filled by someone who will work with Rustin on minority recruitment. The position is temporary until June but may become full-time if funding is available. "You need more than one person in this particular position," Rustin says. Since he joined the admissions staff in 1975, he has recommended in annual reports to the admissions director that an additional minority recruiter be hired. Rustin's predecessors made similar recommendations in their annual reports. "It seems that after eight years of saying we don't have enough money, by some magical formula we come up with enough money," says Hayden B. Renwick, UNC's first full-time minority recruitment officer. "When you say, 'I need more money.' those are excuses," Renwick says. "When you make a commitment, then you shift the funds you've got to the things that need attention." ' More money in the areas of financial aid and scholarships might also help the minority recruitment program. See UNC on page 4. Board remov es Gould from Graphics position By KOBFRT THOMASON Staff Writer The Board of Directors, of Student Graphics Inc.. a printing shop funded by the CGC, removed Stephen T. Gould from his position as chairperson, president and general manager of the corporation at a special meeting Wednesday night despite Gould's absence from that meeting. Members of the board said Gould was dismissed as an officer and an employee of the corporation because Student Graphics lost money under his management. Gould has said that in certain months a loss is to be expected, and that accounting procedures made other months look unprofitable. Rebecca Stroud, executive assistant of Student Graphics, was named acting general manager until a new manager could be hired. The board agreed to advertise for a new manager in December and January. In a regular meeting Thursday, the board amended its action to honor Gould's contract through Jan. 2, 1978 so that Gould could meet eligibility requirements for unemployment compensation. The original action was to have terminated Gould's contract today, with 30 days severance pay. Arkansas football coach Lou Holtz, who has endorsed Sen. Jesse Helms for reelection, praised the senator for doing what he thinks is best for the people. national Republican Party leaders. He said he expects former President Gerald Ford and former California Gov. Ronald Reagan to come to North Carolina on his behalf, "They're both friends of mine." Kim Wickes, a blind evangelist from Korea who lives in Arkansas, provided a musical performance during the dinner for Helms. Helms introduced her at the press conference, noting that she had been the victim of a Communist bomb at three during the Korean War. Opera in Hill Hall vJi4v4.'",: - ,. j irW; X it fl xi !ffv f t z . ' 'J ; j Gould did not attend the meeting Wednesday because he considered it illegal. Gould said he believed that Patty Turner, former vice chairperson and present chairperson of the corporation and the person who signed the letter of notification for the meeting, could not call a special meeting on her own authority. The board proceeded with the meeting, however, because six board members had called the meeting on Nov. 19, although only one member signed the notice. Before proceeding, the board checked with North Carolina Assistant Attorney General Andrew Vanore, who confirmed the legality of the meeting. North Carolina law states that five board members of a non-profit corporation may call a special meeting. This summer, some board members attempted to dissolve the corporation but failed because they could not draw support from a majority of board members. They cited the following reasons for attempting to dissolve the corporation: Presence of an alternative printing service (University Printing and Duplicating). Lack ol sound business practices in New Hope Conference nixed because of planning problems By STEPHEN HARRIS Staff Writer Plans for a 70-member conference on black-white relations at UNC have been scrapped for this scmeslcr, according to Greg Underwood, a member of the conference's planning committee. The proposed location for the weekend conference, which was being arranged by Student Government and the Office of Student Affairs, was Camp New Hope, a retreat located six miles north of Chapel Hill. The conference may not be rescheduled. "Right now. the conference is officially postponed." Underwood said Tuesday. "We're looking to see if there would be interest in the conference." Underwood declined to speculate on when or if the conference would be rescheduled. Originally set for Oct. 28 through 30, the New Hope Conference was postponed because of the lack of participation by blacks. Conference planners said the lack of participation was due to a conflict with the Black Student Movement (BSM) Coronation Ball, but BSM chairperson Byron Horton disagreed. "Blacks did not attend the conference, not because of the ball," Horton said, "but because the BSM had never been contacted and there had not been a concerted effort to contact it." "There was not a strong enough sense of The UNC Opera Theatre, a new ensemble will present An Evening ol Mozart tonight at 8 in tne mil Man auauorium. ine program consists of portions from tour of Mozart's most popular operas, including The Magic Flute, Don Giovanni, and Cost Fan Tutti. All will be performed in English so that the audience can follow the drama, and the humor, of the various scenes. Staff photo by Mike Sneed. Stephen Gould Student Graphics. II igh turnover rate on the Board of Directors. These reasons stem from a study of Student Graphics conducted by a graduate business student. preparation laid for this conference," William R. Strickland, associate vice chancellor for student development and a member of the New Hope Conference's planning committee, said Wednesday. "We made some assumptions, and quite " ortviouslv, we had some information that was mistaken." A lack of communication might have been the cause of the conference's initial problems, but there have been moves to correct this. Strickland and Underwood met with Horton and other black student leaders Nov. 18. "I was encouraged by these conversations," Strickland said. "1 would like to put it (the committee's first effort) aside and make another try. "There are serious problems in relations between blacks and whites (on campus) and they need to be addressed," Strickland said. "I am willing to do anything I can in my power to remove any barrier to productive conversation." One barrier to conversat ion is past tension between the BSM and both Student Government and the University Administration, according to Horton. "In both cases. Student Affairs and Student Government have not given us any reason to have faith in them and many reasons to not have faith in them," Horton said. See NEW HOPE on page 3. under the direction of Marajean Marvin,

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