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Basketball poll
Top-ranked Kentucky lost
during the week, but so did
No. 2 Marquette and the No.
3 Tar Heels. Consequently,
they remain No. 1, No. 2 and
No. 3, respectively. See page
5 for sports news.
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'Down Home'
to be played
again tonight
Black literature production
to give repeat performance
By KATHY HART
Staff Writer
What started out as a talent show for
members of an English department course in
black' literature grew into a professional
theater performance that has been brought
back by popular demand.
Students of J. Lee Greene's English 84,
"American Negro Literature," began
working last semester on a production of
selected black poetry, drama, music and
dance, which they called Down Home.
They presented it for the first time Jan. 13,
the Friday night after the ice storm struck
Chapel H ill. It will be presented again at 7:30
p.m. today in Memorial Hall.
"The weather was bad, and a lot of people
who wanted to see the play did not get an
opportunity," Greene explained Monday.
"They asked that we present another
performance."
Down Home traces the evolution of black
American art forms from their African
antecedents to the present day. "It attempts
to depict the expectations and aspirations
that have generated particular art forms,"
Greene said.
"We started out to do a musical version of
Jean Toomer's Cane, but we didn't have the
time," Greene said. "Instead, we decided to
use some of the basic themes of the book,
incorporating some original work of
students as well as that of known artists.
"Most of the 60-member cast and crew for
the production came from the class, but it
was strictly voluntary. We got the people
first and then built the play around the
people who wanted to participate."
"I enjoyed being a part of it," said cast
member Patrice Jones. "It was a lot of fun to
do, but a lot of work as well. I had no idea
when we began it would be such a great
success."
. There has been at least one request that
Greene and the cast tour other campuses
with the production, but Greene said that
doesn't appear to be feasible at present.
Greene hopes, however, that the group's
next play will be able to do some touring.
Although no definite title or script has
been selected for the next presentation,
Greene said the next play would be entirely
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Al Wood, a native of Georgia, sank two important free throws late in the game against
Mercer, a team from Georgia. Wood's two shots put Carolina ahead 73-70 for a win
over a team the Tar Heels were expected to have little trouble with. See story on page
5. Staff photo by Andy James.
By DAVID STACKS
Staff Writer
UNC law Professor J. Dickson Phillips is
Attorney General Griffin Bell's choice to fill
the vacant U.S. 4th Circuit Court of Appeals
judgeship, sources said Monday.
Phillips' name goes to President Carter
over objections from both of North
Carolina's senators, Republican Jesse Helms
and Democrat Robert Morgan.
Carter must approve Phillips' nomination
before it can be forwarded to the Senate for
confirmation.
Robert G. Byrd, dean of the UNC School
of Law, praised Phillips as the best of five
possible choices a merit selection panel sent
to Bell in September.
"Professor Phillips is an excellent choice,"
Byrd said Monday. "He is an extremely
capable individual. He will bring a rich law
background to the bench."
Phillips, 55, was dean of the law school
from 1964 to 1974 and in 1977 received the
Thomas Jefferson Award, one of the highest
honors given a University faculty member.
He was named alumni distinguished
professor in July 1977.
The other four attorneys the merit
selection panel recommended to Bell are
Judge James B. McMillan of the U.S.
Western District Court in Charlotte, Duke
University Chancellor Kenneth Pye,
Charlotte civil rights lawyer Julius
Chambers and Duke law Professor William
Van Alstyne.
Phillips said he doubts the validity of the
report because of several conflicting rumors.
"It's hard for me to believe I would find out
about it this indirectly," he said.
"I've heard so many different things over
the past few months, I'm sort of gun-shy,"
Phillips said.
The appeals-court post became vacant
when Judge Braxton Craven of Asheville
died last year. Saying he wanted to remove
the federal judiciary from the political
patronage system of senatorial courtesy,
Carter appointed an 1 l-member merit
selection panel to review applicants for the
judgeship.
Since Craven was from North Carolina,
Carter said he wanted the new judge to be
from the Tar Heel state.
Morgan protested Carter's creation of the
panel. It is customary for the President to
ask a senator from the affected state to
review applicants lor vacant federal court
posts if the senator is of the same political
party as the president.
Helms also lashed out at Carter for not
observing senatorial courtesy and for not
including Helms in the decision-making
process.
State Sen. Kathy Sebo of Greensboro, a
member of the selection committee, said 23
lawyers applied for Craven's post. The panel
forwarded the names of its five
recommendations to Bell in September.
Boih Helms and Morgan criticized the
selection panel's five choices, charging that
none of the five measured up to the
standards the committee itself set when it
was formed.
John Russell, press spokesperson for the
U.S. Department of Justice, said he does not
know when Bell will forward the name to the
White House.
Police, firefighters plagued
by outbreak of small fires
From staff and wire reports
Six fires wrre reported in the Chapel Hill area
Sunday night, and arson is suspected in at least
five of the incidents.
Chief Lloyd Everette of the Chapel Hill Fire
Department said four fires in cars and two fires at
Fowler's Food Store were reported between 7:30
p.m. and midnight Sunday.
"These look like a very amateurish type of fire,
easily set with paper and very little evidence left,"
said fireCapt. Matthew Maynor. "We've found no
flammable liquid so far.
"We can't determine if it's one person or several.
He's making good time if there's one person doing
it, covering a lot of territory."
Two fires in cars were reported about 7:30 p.m.
at the China Nile Restaurant on Pittsboro Road.
At 8: 15 p.m., two fires were reported at Fowler's
Food Store.
Two more car fires were reported later: one at
approximately 9 p.m. at the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity house at 114 W. Columbia St. and
another at 11:20 p.m. at 809 Woodland Drive.
The fires in Fowler's, one in the wine
department and one on the sales floor, occurred
almost simultaneously, store manager Roger
Cook said. He estimated the damage to be
between $500 and $1,000.
While no estimate had been made on the
damages to two cars at China Nile Restaurant,
manager Floyd I.ee said the inside of one of the
cars was burned before the fire was discovered.
The other fire, he said, was discovered before it
caused extensive damage.
Approximately $150 damage was done to a car
parked in front of the Beta Theta Pi house, Lt.
Wilbert Simmons of the Chapel Hill Police
Department said.
original with contributions from both
Greene and students.
"Our only problem with our next
production is money, because we certainly
have the talent," Greene said. The English
department, the African and Afro-American
Studies curriculum, and the students
themselves-helped finance Down Home.
"We could have charged admission,"
Greene said, "but it just seems that things
like this should be free."
Greene is proud of the production's
success, especially considering the short
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Finds Chapel Hill warm, friendly
New football coach Crum begins transition
By LEE PACE
Assistant Sports Editor
Dick Crum eased into a chair in his new
office in Kenan Field House. Around him
lay unopened cardboard boxes, their
contents ignored for nearly a week. There are
UNC profs agree with study:
the pill, smoking don't mix
By PAM KELLEY
Staff Writer
Two associate professors in the UNC
department of obstetrics and gynecology
said Monday they agree with recent findings
that women who take the pill and smoke run
an increased risk of heart attack and other
circulatory disease.
The conclusions were announced last
week by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administratioa The agency issued an order,
effective April 3, under which druggists will
have to distribute a brochure and a leaflet to
their customers each time a pill prescription
is filled.
Dr. Gary Berger explained that extensive
studies on the effects of smoking and taking
birth control pills have been going on since
1975. "One British study done by the Royal
College of Practitioners which involved a
large number of women confirms previous
evidence," he said.
"The reason for the danger of taking the
Pill along with smoking is that the estrogen
present in the Pill affecis- the cardiovascular
system, as does smoking," Dr. Frederick
Wicgand said. "When the two are combined,
the risks of having a heart attack or other
circulatory disease, such as a stroke, are
greatly increased."
Even though college-age women do run
less of a risk than older women, a danger is
still present, Berger said. This risk will drop
but not necessarily disappear after a woman
stops taking birth control pills and smoking.
For college-age women who smoke and
wish to use some method of contraception,
Wiegand said he probably would
recommend a vaginal suppository. This
product has only been on the market for
about two months, but he said statistics
report a low pregnancy incidence for users pf
the product.
Berger said he felt that the vaginal
suppository appears to be a reliable method
of birth control, but that it has not been
studied sufficiently in the United States. He
said he would recommend devices such as
diaphragms or foam to college-age women
who smoke.
Both doctors agreed they would not refuse
to give a woman who smoked a prescription
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more important things or the new head
football coach at a major university to do
than to worry about on which walls to hang
the plaques and on which tables to place the
autographed footballs.
He looked over his shoulder through a
large window overlooking the field where, in
shortly over seven months, the Crum
administration will get its first test against
East Carolina.
The temperature outside was warming to
the high 30s, the sky was cloudless
summer weather compared to what he would
be enduring in Miami, Ohio, had he not
accepted the post vacated by Bill Dooley in
early January.
"Oh, this is beautiful," he said with a smile.
"I've talked with my wife back home every
day, and they're having unbelievably bad
weather. They've had particular problems
with heavy winds. My wife said in some spots
the street is bare and a block and a half down
the road snow will be a foot and a half deep."
Fortunately for Crum and the seven
assistants he brought from Miami, the
conditions are better in North Carolina. It
would be quite difficult for the new coaches
to scurry across the state on snowmobiles,
roadmaps in hand, trying desperately to
rekindle the recruiting fires that have
smoldered since Dooley left.
"The recruiting's back in gear," Crum
said. "The coaches are getting pretty well
oriented to the area. The majority of the
players we had signed drove in this weekend,
and we had a little get together so they could
meet the new staff and we could sort of feel
each other out. 1 thought it went very well."
And although recruiting has been the
center of the new staffs attention, it hasn't
been the only concern. Answering letters,
evaluating personnel from last year's film,
and meeting the players has comprised much
of the remaining time. Crum likely would
favor extending the day to 36 hours.
"We've been awfully busy," he said. "I
haven't had much chance to get out and look
at houses, bat I did get out for a few minutes
yesterday (Sunday) afternoon. Everyone's
anxious to get their families down here as
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New UNC Head Football Coach Dick
Crum Is in the process of moving into his
offices in Kenan Field House, and he
says he doesn't mind missing the
blizzard which has hit Ohio. Staff photo
by Scott Johnston.
Mixing the Pill with cigarettes is a risky
business, say two associate professors
in the UNC department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology. A recent study shows the
combination can cause increased risk of
heart attack. Staff photo by Nancy Golz.
for the Pill, but they did say they would
advise her against it and recommend another
method of birth control.
Major Possibilities Mart in Great Hall
to help students select, declare majors
Stresses communication
Ellington files for president
Jeff Ellington, a junior history major from
Burlington, announced his candidacy for
student body president Monday.
Ellington said that a lack of
communication between students and
faculty is the most important issue facing
Student Government.
"The only way to increase the
communication between students and
faculty is to have it as the No. 1 priority on
this campus," Ellington said.
Ellington proposed that to increase
communication, the Campus Governing
Council and the student body president be
available for a public forum giving students
the chance to express views to their elected
representatives and the faculty and
administration.
Ellington also said he would appoint
students to help arrange departmental
socials if elected. He said he would push
activities such as the "Down Home" literary
production.
Ellington said he is opposed to both the
so-called rat clause in the Instrument of
Student Judicial Governance as a legal
responsibility and to faculty proctoring of
exams. "It (proctoring) would do more to
alienate teachers and students than bring
them together," he said.
Ellington said he also favors keeping
Honor Court sessions closed. "Honor is such
a matter of personal integrity it is integral
to one's self-concept. If press coverage of
trials before someone was proven guilty were
allowed, he might be met with unwarranted
suspicion from students and teachers," he
said.
Concerning transportation and parking,
Ellington said he favors construction of an
off-campus parking lot with shuttles to
campus. He opposes the proposed South
Campus parking deck.
Ellington is also opposed to funding of the
Carolina Gay Association through student
fees. "CGA should be funded in some way,
but 1 don't know if it's fair for our student
fees to go to something that there's no way
we're going to be involved in."
Fllineton said the Black Student
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Movement deserves student fees. "When you
think about what blacks have been through
since they came to this country, 1 really think
they deserve funds from us," he said.
Ellington said the University could not
reach the federally proposed levels of black
enrollment by 1980, "unless the sort of
communication I've talked about occurs."
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By VANN MILLS
Staff Writer
Representatives of 35 to 40 departments will fill the Great Hall of
the Carolina Union today for the first major activity of the
Declaration Days program.
They will convene from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. for an academic mart
called "Major Possibilities." The mart is being organized by Student
Government in conjunction with departmental chairpersons,
advisers and General College advisers.
The mart will give students, particularly sophomores, who must
declare their major during the week of Feb. 6 through Feb. 17, s
chance to talk with a qualified adviser about a particular field of
interest, according to Joni Peters, who is coordinator for the project.
"If a student wants to major in a certain department, then he can
talk with a departmental adviser about career possibilities and
special requirements of that department," Peters explained.
Representatives of the University Counseling Center and Career
Planning and Placement also will be available to answer questions.
A tabloid publication entitled "The Guide to Major Possibilities"
will also be distributed at the mart to help students make their
decision on maj ors. The tabloid contains profiles of the departments,
and includes requirements and job possibilities.
The second phase of Declaration Days begins Wednesday and
continues through Feb. 10 (not Feb. 18 as previously reported).
During this period, departments will schedule activities related to
their respective departments, such as department tours, speakers and
discussions about the department. The Daily Tar Heel will publish a
list of these activities.
The final phase ends when students declare their majors Feb. 6
through Feb. 17. This period will be called D-Days.
All activities are aimed at helping the student make the tough
decision on his major, Peters said.
"It not only gives the student time in declaring a major, but it gives
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him a chance to get some valuable information from an adviser," she
said.
Before this year, the process of declaring a major was completely
unstructured. The Declaration Pays program is an attempt to
structure the major declaration process so that sophomores,
particularly those who are undecided, won't make a hasty decision,
Peters said.