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Tuesday, March 14, 1978, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Students asked to conserve watts; mandatory regulations possible
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By HOWARD TROXLER
Staff Writer
UNQ.students, faculty and employees are being asked to save electricity in a
conservation effort reminiscent of the '77 water crisis.
The conservation campaign comes in response to an energy shortage brought on
by the 99-day coal-miner strike, the longest in the nation's history. Effects of the
shortage are being felt nationwide as the leaders of the United Mine Workers and
the coal industry continue to bargain for new contract terms.
In North Carolina, government officials have warned citizens that power
blackouts across the state are a possibility if coal supplies dwindle further and have
urged North Carolina residents to conserve as much energy as possible.
"We almost certainly will have to put into effect mandatory conservation
measures if conditions do not improve right away," Gov. Jim Hunt said in a news
conference last week.
Hunt has ordered a 20 percent cutback in lighting in all state buildings at night,
including the University.
At the University, steps have been taken to cut power consumption wherever
possible, officials said Monday.
"We do generate some of our own electricity, but only as a by-product of steam
for heat," Raymond Dubose, University power plant engineer, said.
'On the Road'
reporter Kuralt
speaks at forum
By CARVER CAMP
Staff Writer
CBS news correspondent Charles Kuralt
will open the five-week Carolina Symposium
at 8 tonight in Memorial Hall.
Kuralt will supplement his talk on the role
of television news in society with several of
his favorite film clips from his highly
acclaimed "On the Road" series.
The Carolina Symposium is a biennial
forum, alternating with the Fine Arts
Festival. The goal of the symposium is to
bring distinguished speakers, panels,
exhibits and cultural presentations related to
a central theme to the UNC campus.
The theme this year, "Communication:
Message and Medium," will examine the
nature of both personal and mass
communication at a cost of $13,000.
Kuralt, a native of Wilmington, N.C.,
began his news career as Daily Tar Heel
editor. After graduating from UNC in 1953
with a degree in history, Kuralt became a
reporter and eventually a columnist for the
Charlotte News.
The following year, he was awarded the
Ernie Pyle Memorial Award for his human
interest columns. In 1957, he joined the CBS
staff as a newswriter and began his
broadcasting career.
Two years later, Kuralt began traveling
about the United States in search of human
interest stories for the CBS Evening News.
For eight years he worked to capture the
intrigue of the places he visited.
In October of 1967, these stories grew into
the series called "On the Road With Charles
Kuralt."
"On the Road" won an Emmy and the
George Foster Peabody Broadcasting
Award for Kuralt in 1969.
A reception will be held after the speech
from 9-11 p.m. in the Morehead Faculty
Lounge in Morehead Planetarium.
UNC Indians "forgotten,"
victims of discrimination
By KATHY HART
Staff Writer
Editor's note: This is the first of a three
part series examining the status of Native
Americans at UNC.
The American Indian has often been
called the forgotten minority. Some of
UNCs 97 American Indian students have
said recently that they feel not only
forgotten, but discriminated against as well.
"The prejudice and discrimination are
very real," Marcia Locklear, secretary of the
Carolina Indian Circle, said. "It's a mental
and social putdown from students and
others.
"Most of the Indians in the Indian Circle
are Lumbee. The Lumbee Indians are
thought to be descendants of the lost Colony
and the Lumbee tribe, therefore we don't
really look like the typical storybook picture
everybody has bf the Indian. However, we
arc treated as Indians whether we look or act
like that typical fictional stereotype.
"Sometimes I think it is more a matter of
ignorance than an attempt at overt racism,"
Janet Whitmore, an Indian graduate
student, said. "People have certain
expectations of what an Indian should look
like. When you don't look like they expect,
sometimes they try to challenge your
identity.
"It's dehumanizing. You are expected to
play a role that other students seem to want
to force you into.
"Everytime someone brings up an Indian
issue, people groan and say 'Oh no, not the
Indians again.' People assume Indians died
off with the frontier. People just don't seem
to realize that Indians are not always one of
the three common stereotypes: the
Hollywood glamour Indian, the reservation
Indian or the drunk Indian.
"Most people don't realize that Indians
hae problems. They look at Indians as just
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Break beachbums bronzed, burned yearly
By LAURA SCISM
DTH Contributor
You may be green with envy over those
Florida tans, but at least you're not red with
sunburn.
Some of those bronzed bodies you saw on
campus Monday were actually red with first
and second-degree burns.
The burns are an annual phenomenon,
treated at the Student Health Service about
this time of year. "Anytime there's a spring
break and kids go to Florida, you have this,"
said Dr. James Taylor, SHS director.
Although a number of students have
sought treatment for sunburn at the
infirmary fewer blistered sunworshippers
have visited the clinic this year than in the
another minority to deal with. That is ?
function of the fact that Indians are
politically powerless. They are not like
blacks. It is so easy to ignore them.
"Also, if you confront Indian issues you
will confront the national conscience. In
confronting the national conscience, you will
soon realize that this country was built on
genocide principles. It took almost the total
death of the native population to build this
nation.
"Sometimes people say things that sort of
wear you down," Whitmore said. "The other
day I tqld a group I wanted to do my seminar
project on Indians. I was told by a student
that no one wanted to hear about the
Indians.
"I find people use me as a curiosity or a
token, and that is almost as bad as being
ridiculed.
"I was told by one professor that since I
was both a woman and an Indian that I
counted twice in minority representation
and wasn't that nice."
"Indians are often low in self-confidence,"
Locklear said. "They have been less educated
and received many societal putdowns. After
a while they begin to feel inferior, but we are
not. We are a proud people, proud of our
heritage.
"Sometimes the Lumbee Indians receive a
special putdown because of their mixed
blood. Other tribes often feel that because of
our white blood we are a lower Indian. We
know what it is like not to be claimed by
either the Indians or the whites.
"It is silly for Indians to argue over who is
more Indian. There is no pure-blood
anything anymore. The Indian strength lies
in banding together, not in arguing among
themselves.
"We want to live and grow with other
people. We want people to recognie us not
as different, but as special w ith something to
offer humanity."
"Right now, we have a three-week coal supply on hand and have contracted a
five- to six-week supply, so we're holding our own," Dubose said. "But it's touch-and-go."
UNC still has between a three- and four-week supply of coal, Robert Peake,
director of University utilities, said.
"We've got enough coal, if there is no more severe weather, to last about 25 days,"
Peake said.
But Peake said that the University would be subject to any power-conservation
efforts ordered by the state.
"We're subject to anything the governor might lay down," Peake said.
In residence halls, the housing department has already taken conservations steps,
Russell Perry, director of housing operations, said.
"What we've done is remove every other hall light and cut off the courtesy lights in
the high-rises," Perry said. "We've reduced as much as possible the amount of
wattage by changing bulbs.
"In older halls, we're turning off as many hall lights as possible."
Perry urged students to avoid cooking in rooms by using dormitory kitchens
instead. He also suggested that students cut down on hot water consumption. Hot
water heaters have been turned off in all University buildings except dorms.
Perry said that housing staffs would continue to urge residents to make
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past few years, according to a nurse who was '
on duty from 3-1 1 p.m. Sunday, when spring
break ended.
"People apparently are using better
methods to protect themselves," she said.
"They may be using sunscreens, or they may
be using better judgment.
"Maybe we just have smarter young
people these days."
The nurse said no tally is kept of patients
according to diagnosis, but one nurse, also at
work Sunday, estimated that there had been
25 to 30 cases, some with severe second
degree burns.
"We used to get people who went to sleep
in the sun," a nurse said. "We've seen very
few of those this year, which was a pleasant
ecrets;
Speech professor analyzed
students' deepest secrets
By KATHY HART
Staff Writer
Are you dying to tell your best kept
secret? It seems that a lot of students are
more than 3,000 anonymous secrets
were available to University of North
Carolina speech communications
professor Dennis Tafoya, just for the
asking.
The secrets which students divulged
, included:
I was secretly married in high school
and had the marriage annulled.
I am afraid to touch women.
I have been in a mental institution.
I hate the family pet.
Tafoya collected his list of secrets in a
student-based study he conducted at the
University of Michigan. In the survey, he'
tried to determine which secrets most
frequently trouble people and how risky
it it to tell such secrets.
Tafoya divided his findings into 16
categories and ranked them according to
frequency. Sex-related secrets were the
most frequent, followed by violence and
destruction secrets in which the person
either injured someone, would like to
injure someone or has been injured.
Mental health problems were the third
most frequent category of secrets.
After determining the nature of the
secrets, Tafoya asked students to rank
them according to how risky they would
be to tell to someone. Incest ranked as the
most risky secret.
Besides incest, the ten most risky
secrets included: "1 have V.D."; "I'm not
surprise. The doctors did see three or four
cases though."
Treatment often includes steroids to
prevent inflammation and creams to soothe.
Cold compresses are suggested to provide
relief from pain. Most burns are on the
shoulders, face or ankles, all sensitive skin
areas.
"If they have blisters, or any break in the
skin, they need care," one nurse said. "We'll
be glad to see anyone. We'll help them."
She suggested that student sunbalhers use
caution while working on their tans.
"Follow dermatologists' advice. Go very,
very slowly. Use extreme caution. Read
labels on your lotions and look for
sunscreens. Follow the directions."
gay... I have homosexual tendencies and
desire both sexes"; "I have been in a
mental institution;" "I am constantly
toying with the idea of killing myself;" "1
am a speed freak;" "1 masturbate;" and "I
stole half of my books from the
bookstore."
"The whole thing about secrets is that
they create anxiety within the person,"
Tafoya said. "Keeping a secret within you
has a physical and psychological effect. A
person can become tense and even
neurotic. They are expending their
emotion on a physical level.
"I always suggest to students to
disclose their secrets. They should talk to
people with whom they are intimate.
"When people disclose their intimate
details they should keep two things in
mind. First, they should consider how
long they have known a person. You
should never disclose high-risk secrets
early in a relationship' because that
violates the initiation pattern.
"Second, when you reveal a secret to
someone, you should make sure that the
person you are revealing it to is mature.
The more mature person is able to weigh
the evidence more rationally.
Tafoya says that most people really
w ant to tell their secrets in order to relieve
the physical and emotional strain they
feel as a result of them.
"You have this phenomenon called the
"stranger on the bus syndrome" in which
complete strangers tell the persons beside
them on the bus, train or plane their
innermost secrets," he said. "They do it in
order to relieve the anxiety. They also feel
safe revealing themselves to strangers
conservation efforts. "Whenever we see a light in the dormitories that we can turn
off, we'll do it," Perry said.
Duke Power Co. and Carolina Power and Light, the two principal electricity
utilities in the state, have both reduced voltage 5 percent the second phase of an
emergency plan designed to prolong coal reserves.
Hunt initiated the first phase of the plan, a request for voluntary conservation,
two weeks ago when existing coal reserves dropped below the 50-day level.
According to the plan, Hunt will declare an energy crisis and place restrictions on
power consumption when coal reserves reach the 30-day level.
As of Monday, Duke Power had a 46-day coal supply, and Carolina Power and
Light had a 34-day supply of coal.
But CP&L officials say that the coal reserves are holding constant at the 34-day
level due to conversion of a Wilmington power plant to fuel oil.
Spokesmen ior both companies said Monday that the rate of decline of coal
supplies is unpredictable.
If state coal supplies dip below the 20-day level, a series of rotated power
blackouts will be implemented under the emergency energy conservation plan
approved by the governor's energy policy council.
See ENERGY on page 2.
On zoning, taxes
Liberal county Dems
differ from Committee
By ROBERT THOMASON
Staff Writer
Conservative Democrats who call
themselves the Orange Committee differ
with more liberal party members on basic
county issues such as zoning and taxation, a
Democratic Party official said.
"It's just a basic difference in how county
government is run," said Bruce Tindall,
secretary of the Orange County Democratic
Party.
"The people who consider themselves
liberals think in terms of big government,"
Tindall said. "Extensive social service
programs and long-range planning are a way
of life for the liberals.
"But the conservatives want to limit
county government to basic services like
paying the sheriff and keeping the roads
cleared," Tindall said.
The Orange Committee was organized in
late 1975 to preserve the political power of
long-time residents of the county, a member
of the group said Monday.
"We formed just as a group of interested
voters, like the League of Women Voters,"
committee member Sim Efland said.
Efland, the Democratic Party's
chairperson in the western Orange County
precinct of Efland, was a county
commissioner in the 1950s.
Efland and other conservative members of
the Orange County Board of Commissioners
held the reigns of government at the
courthouse in Hillsborough until liberals
Richard Whitted and Donald Willhoit
defeated Orange Committee candidates
Charlie Johnston of Chapel Hill and Billy
Ray of Cedar Grove in the August 1976
Democratic Party primary election.
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because they know they will never see that
person again.
"Lots of times fear of rejection keeps us
from revealing our secrets to those we are
really close to. It is not fear of rejection of
the secret itself, but fear of rejection of us
as a person for carrying that particular
kind of secret.
"When a person tells a secret they are
lookingfor support and acceptance. They
want you to say 'That's OK. I would have
done the same given that situation.' "
Tafoya said that sometimes in
disclosing ourselves we are trying to give
people an idea of who we are. "In the
beginning of a relationship we tell then
low risk things like where we are from and
how old we are.
"Later on we tell them things that
influence not how we want them to
peiccive us but how we icjUv aie. Finally,
Whitted is from Hillsborough and
Willhoit is a University professor from
Chapel Hill. Liberals had pulled ahead in
county elections in 1974.
The Orange Committee raised almost
$4,800 from campaign contributors in 1976
to put Ray and Johnston into office,
according to records released by the Orange
County Board of Elections.
The list of over-$50 contributors includes
Sandy McClamrock, owner of WCHL
radio, former Commissioners Carl Smith
and Harvey Bennett of Chapel Hill,
Hillsborough physician Dr. Robert Murphy
and James Freeland, a member of the
Orange County Board of Education.
Orange Committee chairperson Lucius
Cheshire, a Hillsborough attorney, and
others have said UNC students' newly gained
right to vote was the primary reason for
consecutive losses in 1974 and 1976.
"We saw a number of outsiders coming in
and attempting to urbanize the county,"
Efland said. "We aren't against students
voting. We just think they should vote where
their home is.
"In the election of 1976, we saw some
people drive up in cars with out-of-state
plates and go in and vote," the precinct
leader said.
A cattle farmer, Efland said families who
have been in Orange County should have a
stronger say in county government than
people who have been here only a short time
when they pull up stakes and leave.
Efland described the Orange Committee
as a cross section of laborers, (armers,
lawyers and realtors. He said the grqup has
200 members from Chapel Hill, Carrboro,
Hillsborough and rural areas.
we reach a stage where we reveal our
innermost secrets about our failures and
embarrassments. We only reveal these
secrets when we determine that is the
right person for us to reveal to.
"In the research I am doing now I am
trying to determine whether secrets
maintain their risk level over a period of
time. So far I have found that high risk
secrets remain high risk secrets, while low
risk secrets tend to lose their risk."
One of the reasons Tafoya indicated
for the shift in risk intensity might be the
change in societal attitudes.
"Many secrets are secrets because
society makes them that way," he said.
"For example, abortion was cited as a
high rish secret in my pilot study. In my
later study, abortion had been legalized
and the risk level fell from high to
moderate and now it is relatively low.