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UNC President William Friday urged rejection Tuesday of a new Health, Education
and Welfare proposal which calls for the elimination of duplicate programs In order
to promote racial segregation around the 16-school UNC system. Staff photo by Billy
Newman.
Recovery agency hunts down
bad check writers for stores
By DEBBIE ODELL
Staff Writer
The cashier looks at the name on the
check, turns to her alphabetized list of
names, then completes the sale. Your name
has just been cleared. You're not a bad-check
risk.
Bad-check-writer lists are common and
practical in the Chapel Hill area, according
to Dick Hammond of the check-recovery
department of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Merchants Association. Hammond says that
one time a merchant brought in 12 bad
checks from one man. "This would not have
happened, shouldn't have happened, if there
had been a list," Hammond says.
The department helps about 70 members,
including Fowler's Food Store, Kwik-ee
Take-Out and Dine In, BillyArthur, Inc. and
Pizza Transit Authority. Any member can
take advantage of the service by sending a
notice to the association.
Merchants may try to collect on their own,
and some wait six to nine months before
giving the check to the department. The
department sends its own notice which
-includes a $9 fee from the merchants.
If the check is not cleared in 72 hours, a
representative will phone or visit the person
responsible for the check. If there is still no
action, the representative forwards the check
to an attorney.
Although the department can. take no
legal action, the merchant can take the case
to cpurt where a conviction could mean a
criminal record and six months in jail.
Uncandidate puts
hat in ring; cites
SG uninvolvement
The Uncandidate, a junior from Elsewhere.
S.C., announced Tuesday his candidacy for
student body president.
The Uncandidate is a duly registered UNC
student seeking signatures on his nomination
petition. Student election law allows him to have
his nickname, the Uncandidate, placed on the
ballot. He asked that his given name not be used in
his announcement.
"It is my intention to return Suite C to the
nameless, faceless majority who put it there in the
first place," the Uncandidate said.
"I expect some criticism because of my lack of
involvement in Student Government," he said.
"However, my supporters maintain that I am well
qualified because of my lack of involvement in
Student Government."
The Uncandidate said he wanted to open
Student Government to all students and suggested
moving the executive offices to the Pit.
"Suite C could then be used to house the new
administration's political prisoners," the
Uncandidate said.
"In addition, I will choose an ordinary student
to don the presidential bag once a week."
The Uncandidate said he would work for
several academic reforms, including a half-point
rebate on all 1977 QPAs, an extension of the drop
period to one and one-half years after the
completion of a course and a large gong in the rear
of each classroom to be sounded "whenever
faculty members lapse into their periodic drooling
absurdities or reach new depths of boredom."
"I hope to promote student-faculty interaction
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The department keeps a permanent reco.rd
of all barTTfiecks. The name remains in the '
file, but it is noted if a check clears the bank.
Merchants and the department can decide
to list the name with the credit bureau, where
it will remain for seven years.
"We handle 175 to 200 checks a month,"
Hammond says. The recovery rate for the
three-year-old service is 50 to 60 percent,
which he says is good for such a transient
situation.
Local residents do not write so many bad
checks, says Andrew Landes, head of the
check-recovery department. "Foreign
students and people with no social ties here
think they can get away with it," he says.
Landes, who is virtually a one-man staff
with some part-time clerical and collection
help, says the department is an incorporated
business and a service organization operated
on a break-even basis.
Members of the merchants association
pay a fee for the service, and non-members
can get the service for a slightly higher fee,
Landes says.
"They give us real good service, real good
results," says Marion Lasley, an employee at
Fowler's. "We couldn't do it ourselves. We
probably have the highest volume of bad
checks in town." .
UNC Student Stores has similar lists, but
it does not use a collection agency, says
Thomas Shetley, general manager.
"We have a considerable amount of bad
checks," Shetley says. UNC Student Stores
handles $25,000 in checks a year, or between
$1,400 and $2,000 at any given time.
Uncandidate
by allowing uiuiugiuu'ualoi open access to faculty
homes and cars on weekends," the Uncandidate
said. "I would also like to implement a series of
student-faculty slumber parties in the Pine
Room."
The Uncandidate proposed a solution to the
current money controversy in Student
Government. "The $184,000 surplus should be
used to commission a giant statue of Jesse Helms
to be placed on the right side of 100 Hamilton
Hall," he said. "If we run into a cash flow crisis,
we'll authorize Student Graphics to print enough
bills to tide us over."
He also suggested establishing an NBA
franchise in Chapel Hill, free pinball machines,
institution of mandatory homeroom and
organized field trips to Decatur, Ga.
The Uncandidate urged students to "show us
you don't care. Bag it."
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By AMY McRARY
Staff Writer
University system President William C.
Friday said Tuesday he will recommend the
UNC Board of Governors reject an eleventh
hour requirement by the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare for the UNC
desegregation plan.
HEW asks that the board eliminate
duplication of programs offered in both
traditionally black and white institutions.
Eliminating the duplicated programs
would be necessary only to the extend that it
is necessary to "dismember the formerly
racially dual system," said a memo from
David Tatel, director of HEW's Office of
Civil Rights.
The Tatel memo also stated that due to the
vast amount of work necessary to elminate
the duplicated programs, HEW would
accept any desegregation plan in which the
board agrees to finish by July I studies
necessary for the elmination of duplicated
programs.
The HEW memo also expressed
dissatisfaction with the UNC board's
approval of 12 new programs for the six
black institutions and, according to Friday, a
redefinition of the "good faith effort."
"We look on that (the new requirement) as
educationally unsound," Friday said
Tuesday. "But even more important, the
authority to make changes is put in the hands
of a federal agency, not in the Board of
Governors, the trustees of the institutions or
the faculty members."
Friday said the memo from Tatel is, in
Grounds workers have begun the
removal of fallen trees and other debris
from the UNC campus. Staff photo by
Scott Johnson.
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Altering habits could help
By DEBBIE ODELL
StafT Writer
The energy crisis is a lot like the weather.
People are talking about it, but they're not
doing much about it.
Mary Jane Boren Meeker of Sunspot
Solar Products Inc. of Carrboro, says,
"Students need to change their lifestyles by
wearing layers of clothing long-sleeved
Majors mart turnout small;
lielpful' to those who came
By EVELYN SAHR
StafT Writer
Although project coordinator Joni Peters was
disappointed with the turnout for the Major
Possibilities Mart held Monday in the Great Hall,
the freshmen and sophomores who attended
received helpful advice on choosing their majors.
"Through the mart I got information on the two
or three majors that I've been leaning towards, and
now 1 can sort through and decide what major I'll
declare," said sophomore Jimmy Lancaster.
Another sophomore went into Great Hall as a
biology education major and left as a botany
major. "I'm glad 1 went," she said. "Now I've got to
?)AYS
COUNTDOWN
History department open house from 2
to 4 p.m. in the history department
lounge in Hamilton Hall.
Botany department tour at 4 p.m. Meet
at Coker Hall front doors. Botany 1 1
classes at 9 a.m. M WF and Botany 10
classes at 12:30 p.m. TTh are open to
interested students.
Career Planning & Placement drop-in
career counseling from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. Monday through Friday in 208
Hanes Hall.
University Counseling Center
academic, career and personal
counseling from 2 to 5 p.m. Monday
through Friday through Feb. 13 in
Nash Hall.
effect, a statement that the UNC plan is
unacceptable. However, the president of the
16-member system said he could not
speculate on Califano's final ruling on the
plan.
"1 don't know what Califano's (HEW
Secretary Joseph Califano) ultimate decision
will be," Friday said. "If it is to say our plan is
not acceptable, I informed Mr. Tatel a few
days ago I couldn't support this new plan."
Friday said to comply with the new HEW
requirement "would be to set aside all of our
long-range planning and all of our planning
to eliminate racial duality."
He said that within the past 36 hours he
has talked with the chancellors of the six
traditionally black institutions, and they
support his decision to oppose the new H EW
requirement.
William A. Johnson of Lillington.
chairperson of the Board of Governors, said
he had not seen the Tatel memo. But he said
if the program elimination is a requirement
made by HEW, the board will not go along
with the federal agency. "1 feel sure the board
will not approve that kind of requirement,"
Johnson said.
Under the new requirement, the board
would have to study any progam, other than
basic core requirements, offered at both
black and white institutions in the same
geographical proximity.
For example, under the new requirement,
either the library science program at UNC
Chapel H ill or the library science program at
North Carolina Central University would
have to be eliminated.
Friday said he believes the thought behind
Six to eight months
Grounds storm damage extensive
By JAY JENNINGS
" Staff Writer ,
It may be six or eight more months
before the last trace of damage to
University grounds from the ice storm
Jan. 19 and the high winds Jan. 25 is
removed or repaired, according to UNC
grounds superintendent Larry
Trammel.
The ice storm downed trees, snapped
branches and ruined ornamental
shrubbery with the weight of the ice. Six
days later, wind gusts up to 70 mph
following 30 hours of rain uprooted
trees from the soggy ground, ripped
shingles from roofs and broke several
windows.
shirts and sweaters so they can be
comfortable at 66 degrees."
Meeker suggests the university system
could use solar heat for hot water in dorms
and gyms. "This would cut down on energy
consumption and will pay back more quickly
than with a home unit," she says.
Apartment dwellers can conserve also.
"Open your water heater, unpeel the
insulation from the dial and turn the
go sort through all this information."
Peters estimated that attendance at the mart,
the first major activity of the Declaration Days
programs sponsored by Student Government, was
about 2S0 students at most.
"The mart didn't achieve my expectations,"
Peters said. "While the number of departments
represented was very good (about 40 departments
were present, representing about 98 percent of all
departments on campus), the success of the mart
can't be gauged this way.
"The purpose of the mart was to bring together
the students and the various departments, and in
this larger sense, it was not as successful as it could
have been. I had been more optimistic and had
hoped for 500 to 600 persons."
Richard Cramer, a sociology professor, called
the mart a great idea, but noted, "There's been a
lot of wasted time on the part of the faculty. I think
the mart could serve just as many students if, say,
it was opened from just 2 p.m. to S p.m. instead of
9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The students that I talked to
though, seemed satisfied, and 1 feel that they really
learned something."
Peters attributed the low turnout to two things
students either already knew what they were
going to major in or they simply were not
interested.
"The mart was very well publicized, in light of
what has been done in other years," Peters said.
"We had announcements in the DTll, WXYC and
WCHL, and distributed posters throughout
campus and apartment complexes. I just think a
lot of students didn't feel it would be worth their
while."
The second phase of the Declaration Days
program begins today as individual departments
conduct special programs for students interested
in that particular major.
the plan is to eliminate programs at
traditionally white institutions in order to
make students and faculty in the program
move to the black institutions. .
The UNC board has previously said that
all the 16 campuses in the state system consist
of a "statewide service area." Friday said a
careful study would have to be done to see if
programs offered at universities in opposite
parts of the state would be affected by the
rule.
Tatel's memo states the UNC board is not
committed to offer the 12 new programs for
the six black schools approved by the board.
Chapel Hill man arrested,
charged in 12 arson cases
Orange County authorities Tuesday drew
up 12 warrants against a Chapel Hill man,
accusing him of setting fire to 1 1 cars and
Fowler's Food Store.
Five of the charges were in connection
with six fires which occurred between 7:30
and 11:30 p.m. Sunday. The remaining
charges were for the burning of seven
vehicles last month.
Lt. Bucky Simmons of the Chapel Hill
Police Department said David McKinley
Allen, 23, of 207 Creeks Edge was arrested at
10:10 p.m. Monday. He was transferred to
Dorothea Dix Hospital in Raleigh for a
psychiatric examination, Simmons said.
to repair
..Trammel said the storms uprooted 12
to 15 large trees on campus. No dollar
estimate of the damage has been
compiled yet. t
"We haven't added what we've spent
so far," Trammel said. "We just have to
pick things up, smile and do the best we
can."
Grounds staffers, hampered by cold
and rainy weather, have been working
overtime since the two bouts with severe
weather to restore the beauty to UNCs
campus. Routine maintenance has been
interrupted indefinitely.
The first priority, Trammel said, is
removing crippled branches from high
save energy
thermostat down to 130 or even 1 15 to 120
degrees so it doesn't work so hard. You really
don't need it that hot," Meeker says.
You can also buy a timer for $21, attach it
to the heater and set it for the hours you will
not need hot water say from 10 p.m. to
6:30 a.m. The heater then will turn itself off
and on, taking only one-half hour to warm
up, thus saving electricity.
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held during the Declaration Days program. Staff photo by Cilly Nowr
However, both Friday and Johnson said
approval by the board was the same as a
commitment for the programs.
Friday said he believes that Tatel's claim
of the board's noncommitment comes from a
lack of understanding of what North
Carolina does.
Friday said HEW also has refused to keep
its promise not to cut off federal funds if the
board made a "good faith effort" to increase
black enrollment by 150 percent by 1983.
Earlier plans had stated that the "good faith
effort" was acceptable.
Police reports said a citizen wrote down
the license-plate number of a car near the
China-Nite Restaurant Sunday night after
two vehicle fires occurred there. Authorities
then traced the car to Allen.
Chapel Hill police charged Allen with one
count of burning a public building for two
fires set Sunday in Fowler's, officer Ben
Callahan said Tuesday night.
He said Allen also is charged with nine
counts of willful and malicious burning of
personal property for the burning of two
other vehicles Sunday night and seven
vehicles Dec. 13, 1977.
- KAREN BARBER
in trees to eliminate risk of the branches'
"falling and injuring passersby.
This work has proceeded slowly,
however, because the University
employs only one tree climber and one
helper, who can attend to only six to
eight trees a day. Trammel said
additional tree climbers may be hired
when warmer weather arrives.
About 30 other grounds employees
have been carting away piles of debris,
sawing downed trees and hauling the
sections and attempting to salvage
drooping shrubs.
The most heartbreaking loss from the
storms, Trammel said, was the
uprooting of a sturdy cherry laurel
which stood between Saunders and
Steele buildings. "That was one of the
largest cherry laurels I've seen. It was
too heavy to try to set it right."
Trammel said he is already
concerning himself with preparations
for graduation ceremonies in May. The
prospect of crowds of visitors being
greeted by sawed-off stumps and
hanging tree limbs is spurring cleanup
efforts, he said.
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