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time this year. See news
briefs on page 3.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 85, Issue No.f
Tuesday, January 17, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Jack Frost may not be nipping at your nose, but he has left his mark on Chapel Hill.
The recent winter storm produced a variety of winter art, such as the frost and icicles
on these holly bushes. Staff photo by Billy Newman.
By AMY McRARY
Staff Writer
As many as 23 members of University of
North Carolina governing boards may be in
violation of state statutes prohibiting them
from holding a university seat if they or their
spouses have another state office.
According to a computer check by Gov.
Jim Hunt's office, five members of the UNC
Board of Governors and 18 members of nine
state campuses' trustee boards could be
violating state law.
One law, statute 1 16-7(b), effective July 1,
1973, is directed at the Board of Governors.
It states that anyone who is, or whose spouse
is, a member of the General Assembly or an
"officer of the state" cannot sit on the UNC
board.
The law also states that any UNC board
member who becomes a state officer is
deemed to have resigned automatically from
his board seat.
A similar statute, G516-3 1(h), also
effective July I, 1973, applies to members of
campuses' boards of trustees.
UNC Board of Governors member
George Watts Hill of Durham could be
violating the law because he serves on the
Historic Hillsborough Commission. Other
members who may be in violation because
their spouses serve on state commissions are
Lawrence A. Cobb of Charlotte; Betty
McCain of Wilson; Mrs. Hugh Morton of
Linville, N.C; and Lewis T. Randolf of
Washington, N.C.
Of the 18 trustees listed by the computer
check, two serve on the Board of Trustees for
UNC-Chapel Hill. They are Henry A.
Foscue of High Point, who serves on the
Executive Mansion Fine Arts Commission
and John A. Wilkinson of Washington, N.C.
who is on the Historic Bath Commission.
N.C. Deputy Attorney General Andrew
Vanore said Monday he did not know if
the 23 members listed by the computer are
violating the laws.
"1 don't know yet and can't comment on if
they are violating the law until I get the facts
from the governor's office or from the
chairman of the boards," Vanore said.
Vanore issued an opinion Dec, 8 that
members of the UNC Board of Governors on
either the Commission for the Blind or the
N.C. Banking Commission were state
officers and were deemed to have resigned
from their board seats when they received
their commissions.
His opinion made Mrs. George D. Wilson
of Fayctteville and J, J. Sansom Jr. of
Raleigh ineligible to serve on the UNC
board. Wilsmi has since resigned r.cr
position on the Commission for the Blind
and has been reappointed to the UNC board.
Sansom, however, has said he does not
feel he is a state officer because he serves on
the N.C. Banking Commission and has filed
suit in Wake County Superior Court for a
decision on Vanorc's ruling. Rulings by the
state attorney general's office are
interpretations of the law but are not legally
binding.
William A. Johnson, chairperson of the
Board of Governors, asked Vanore for a
ruling on Sansom and Wilson's
commissions. Johnson said Monday he
would have to "wait and see" what the
court's ruling on Sansom's suit was before
making a decision about the other UNC
board members.
"I think that because that statute is now in
See BOG on page 3.
Discussion of election plans
tops CGC itinerary tonight
Campus elections are almost here, and the
agenda for the Campus Governing Council
meeting tonight consists mainly of election
related business.
The ballot to be used in the election, which
is tentatively set for Feb. 15, will include the
candidates for student body president, editor
of the Daily Tar Heel, the CGC, president of
the Residence Hall Association and
president of the Carolina Athletic
Association.
The CGC will consider two constitutional
referenda for possible inclusion on the
ballot.
The first referendum, if approved, would
provide for a four-week interlude between
the time the results of the elections are
known and the inauguration date of the new
officers. Proponents of the bill maintain that
the four-week period would provide a
transitional period during which the new
officers would have time to acquaint
themselves with their new jobs.
The second referendum would be voted on
by residence hall students only. If approved,
the referendum would provide for an
increase in residence hall social fees of 50
cents per semester. The increase would be
included automatically on future rent bills.
Both referenda must be approved by the
CGC and the student body before they take
effect.
The coucil also will consider
parliamentary details such as the election of
a new speaker pro tempore, several
committee appointments and the selection of
a new Elections Board chairperson to
oversee the February elections.
- HOWARD TROXLER
Cohen may askMa Bell
to list student addresses
By MICHAEL WADE
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill Alderman Gerry Cohen said
Thursday he may file a complaint with the
State Utilities Commission against
Southern Bell Telephone Co. for what he
called discrimination in address listings in
the company's 1978 Chapel Hill phone
book.
Cohen said the address listings
discriminate against renters and on
campus residents because they do not list
apartment numbers or dormitory room
numbers, while street addresses are listed in
full.
Cohen said a utilities commission
attorney told him that Southern Bell's
stated policy is that it will not list any
building or room numbers in telephone
book address listings.
Cohen said the company either would
have to list numbers for dorm and
apartment dwellers or not list street
addresses for any residents to avoid
discrimination.
Mike Carson, Chapel Hill district
manager for Southern Bell, said he has
received no complaints from subscribers
about the listings. "I have had absolutely
nobody complain about it other than,
Alderman Cohen," he said.
Persons living in houses have their full
addresses listed, Cohen said. He added that
persons living in apartments which use
street addresses, such as Foxcroft
Apartments, also have their full addresses
listed in the phone book.
Carson said that specific addresses were
provided for houses because Bell has not
yet standardized the format for the Chapel
Hill phone books.
Cohen said Bell's policy of eliminating
building numbers apparently is enforced
against on-campus and apartment dwellers
and not against faculty members, whom he
said had office room numbers on campus
listed along with their home addresses, in
some cases without their request.
"Southern Bell's " claim that they
wouldn't discriminate against students is
totally blasted away by what they've done
in the phone books," Cohen said.
Many ingredients necessary for survival
Restaurateurs discuss recipe for success
By PALMER HILL
DTH Contributor
As you walk through the swinging glass doors you
are greeted by Beatles music. The floors, tables, bar
and walls and wooden. The room is dimly lit by
Victorian lamps. Old-fashioned posters hang on the
walls: pictures of Mary Pickford and advertisements
for Pears soap. Waiters in white shirts and black bow
ties scurry back and forth with trays of beer and plates
of food. The front of the building is glass, and the
customers sitting behind it have a good view of the
passers-by. The clientele ranges from college to middle
age. The place is Spanky's on Franklin Street in
Chapel Hill.
Spanky's is one of 20 restaurants that opened in the
Chapel Hill-Pittsboro area between January and
October of last year, while 22 closed and 107 remained
open, according to the Orange County Health
Department. One out of four restaurants in the state
close each year, according to T. Jerry Williams, N.C.
Restaurant Association executive vice president. "The
restaurant business has the highest mortality rate of
any industry in the country," he said.
What makes running a restaurant such a challenging
proposition? The North Carolina liquor laws, which
forbid the sale of mixed drinks, and in some cases wine
and beer, are one disadvantage to restaurant owners in
the state.
"It's tough to make a buck in the restaurant business
without liquor," said Craig Joy, owner of Harrison's
and Spanky's, both on Franklin Street in Chapel Hill.
"Having to pay the waiters and cooks makes the profit
picture no good for a place that just serves food."
Bill Neal, owner and cook at La Residence on
Highway 15-501 near Pittsboro, agreed. "You can't do
good food and make a lot of money at the same time,
not with the liquor laws," he said. Most of his
customers bring their own wine to drink with their
meal because La Residence is in dry Chatham County.
Finding steady help is the biggest problem William
Piscitello has. He owns and runs Breadmen's on
Rosemary Street in Chapel H ill, which is open all night
on weekends. "It's hard to find a person around here
who wants to make cooking or waiting tables their
career," he said. "Most of the people 1 end up hiring
are college students who want to stay only a few
months."
Sadlack's, a sandwich restaurant that opened this
May be health hazard
Dangers of fad diets revealed
By MEREDITH CREWS
Staff Writer
To most dieters, the problem with
trying to lose weight is "rabbit food"
tasteless, unexciting goodies like celery,
lettuce and carrots.
Diet manuals may exclaim how
wonderful it is to substitute rabbit food
for chocolate mousse, but many
overweight persons are bored with
balanced weight loss plans and often
turn to dangerous fad diets.
The overweight person, who likes
lettuce only when it is piled under
mounds of ham and bacon bits, is a
perfect candidate for fad diets, some of
which have been associated with illness
and death.
According to HE W News, the liquid
protein diet has been linked to 3 1 deaths
and 102 illnesses. The diet presently is
being investigated by the Federal Drug
Administration (FDA) and a proposal
has been made to require warning labels
for protein supplement diets.
Ann M., who asked that her name not
be used, said she recently lost several
pounds on the liquid protein diet but
stopped when she heard of the danger
involved.
"I lost 10 pounds in a few weeks, but I
decided to give it up because it's better to
be overweight by 20 pounds than to be
dead," she said. "What scared me was
that 1 heard young people died, even
though that had no previous heart
conditions or family histories of heart
failures."
The liquid protein diet, however, is
not the only potentially dangerous
weight reduction plan.
Deaths also have been associated with
the Zen Macrobiotic diet, and illnesses
have occurred in persons following Dr.
Stillman's high-protein diet (known as
the water diet) and Dr. Atkin's high
protein, low carbohydrate diet.
Cindy Arnold, a nurse at Wake
Memorial Hospital in Raleigh, said she
was on ,Stillman's diet for several days
and had unpleasant results.
"It was. horrible," Arnold said. "I
drank eight or so glasses or water a day,
ate a lot of meat and felt like I was going
to die.
"I was nauseated, had diarrhea for a
week and felt bloated," she said. "I was
still in school then, and I missed a few
days of class because I was too weak to
get out of bed."
A Duke University News Service
release quoted Dr. Sue Y. S. Kimm, a
nutrition expert, as saying she did not
recommend the diet for anyone,
especially persons with kidney or liver
problems. K imm called Dr. Atkins' high
protein diet "bizarre," and "unsound,
unsafe and unbalanced."
Kimm, who holds masters degrees in
both nutrition and public health from
Harvard, as well as an M.D. from Yale,
said miracle diet books seldom help the
overweight.
It's dinners without the delights of
gooey pizza and cold beer that
dieters despise. Yet many people
are turning from dangerous fad
diets which promise treats like this
to the more traditional lettuce-and-will
power formula. Staff
photo by Billy Newman.
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"Eating fads and miracle diet books
make a lot of money for authors and
certain retail stores but seldom help the
consumer stay slim," Kimm said. "They
attract wishful thinkers because they
promise something for nothing more
than their price. "
Dr. Robert Linn sold 3 million copies
See DIETS on page 3.
fall, also employs mostly students, but owner Don
McLennan said they are an asset to business. "I try to
keep the help college-aged even though one of my
biggest problems is working out their schedules. They
have a better rapport with the customers, which
definitely helps."
Finding reliable employees is no problem for the
Rathskellar and the Ranch House in Chapel Hill,
according to Robert Brooks, supervisor of the two
restaurants. "We've got waiters and cooks who've been
here for 18 years," he said.
Tom Meyer, a student who has worked part-time in
restaurants for the last three years, has some ideas
about why persons go into the restaurant business.
Meyer considers organization the biggest problem
for all restaurants, large or small.
"If things are unorganized you don't feel good about
the job you're doing," he said. "If you have the idea
that the place is run competently, then you feel proud
to be working there."
Meyer said having one single person responsible for
the running of a restaurant is a prerequisite to smooth
operation. He said he thought the group management
system at some restaurants alienated the employees.
NCMH to spend
nearly $5 million
for additions
By ROBERT THOMASON
Staff Writer
North Carolina Memorial Hospital
officials plan to spend approximately 55
million to upgrade hospital fire prevention
and life-saving systems, according to a
spokesperson.
The improvement is needed because the
Joint Commission of Accreditation of
Hospitals found the NCMH systems
substandard when it reviewed the hospital in
November 1976. JCAH gave the hospital a
one-year accreditation, instead of the usual
two-year accreditation, because of the
deficiency.
NCMH has $2 million worth of
improvement projects underway now or
starting soon, the spokesperson said.
Another S3 million will be needed to
complete the improvements.
Because the hospital does not have that $3
million now, the completion date for the
modernization project is not known, he said.
Although JCAH rating carries no official
or legal binding, the spokesperson said
medical students would stay away from a
hospital as a training place if the hospital
were considered substandard.
The spokesperson said JCAH had
planned to review the hospital in November
but failed to do so. He said the hospital
expects the review to come later this month.
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