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In 1 842, fraternities 'injurious? to morals, learning; today, aligned with tradition
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By MELAML SILL
Staff Writer -Editor's
note.This is the first of tw o ankles examining the K
status of fraternities and sororities at UNC. The follow ins
story outlines the 136-year history of Greeks at the
University.
When Carolina officials in the spring of 1 842 got wind of a
plan toestablishachapter of theMystical Seven Fraternity'
at UNC, they wasted little time in squelching it.
Acting on a motion by Trustee Charles Hinton, the UNC
Board of Trustees voted in December 1842 to order school
administrators to crush fraternities and to demand a pledge
from every entering student not to connect himself with such
a group. Fraternities, the board said, were injurious "to the
cause of good morals and sound learning.-"
Many college students today see the Greek-letter society as
a firmly entrenched institution, aligned closely with
traditions like mother, the red, white and blue, and
respecting one's elders. But a glance back at the history of
fraternities and sororities uncovers some. surprises.
The fraternity system at U NC neither sprang up overnight
nor was established w ithout opposition. Like ancient Rome,
the Greek system at the University wasn't built in a day.
On April 5, 1851, the Beta-Chapter of Delta Kappa Epsilon
(later nicknamed the Dekes) became the first nationally
chartered fraternity at Chapel Hill. And before the year was
out. the Dekes' had a rival the Epsilon chapter ol Phi
Gamma Delta. "
Chapel Hill's Greek system almost became a casualty of
the Civil War when the faculty voted at its first meeting
following the school's re-opening in 1875 lor a ban against
fraternity reorganization. The faculty feared lor the
continued existence of the heaviK indebted Dialectic and
Philanthropic Literary Societies,: whose .memberships had ,
declined steadily following' the arrival of fraternities at
Carolina. ' " - ' . j.
This second ban on fraternities was maintaineduntil 1 885.
although some chapters met secretly during its duration.
When the ban finally was lifted, it was with two strict
conditions: that fratcrnitiesgive the faculty' the- names of all -members
and that no liquor be allowed in fraternity houses.
From then on.-the Greek system began to expand and
flourish at UNC. Following the chaos of Reconstruction and
the subsequent instability of southern life, students saw the
fraternity as a symbol , of Security and a base for lasting
relationships. Although many schools abolished or forbade
fraternities during the years before and after the turn of the
20th century, administrative opposition at U NC decreased as
more chapters were added and fraternity activities played
greater roles in student life. .
Traditions began and were passed on: Greek attitudes,
philosophies and rituals not only began to take shape, but so
did criticism and complaints that became institutions in their
own right. ,
Rush, the time-proven method of attracting and selecting
new members, evolved over the years. In 1949. a poster
outlinging rushing rules for freshmen, transfers and veterans
defined., rush as "any form of communication, direct or
indirect, on the part of any fraternity manl alumnus or agent
thereof." Rush did not begin until live weeks alter the start of
the fall term, and these weeks were -ones of enlorced
"absolute silence." During the period of silence, "new men
and fraternity men shall not be allowed to engage each other
in social conversation."
Despite the month of silence, many felt no freshman
should be allowed to rush, but should be required to wail a
year to become acquainted w ith the school. This complaint is
.still common today.
Also, many non-Greeks ridiculed the elaborate ritual,
secret handshakes and badges, passwords and similar
practices fraternity men employed. One fraternity initiation
standard, known as hazing, brought so much disapproval
and condemnation it eventually became, for the most part,
forbidden by the system itself.
Hell Week was the period set aside for intensive initiation
ritesfor new pledges. In a report of the "Committee
Appointed to Investigate Haing at UNC" in 1952. members
looked into reports of students being "beaten bloodily" and
"lotted to drink noxious substances." I hough these reports
never were substantiated, the committee concluded that Hell
Week was a waste of energy and that haing should go.
through self-regulation and guidelines set by the.
Interfraternity Council, the practice eventually was toned
dow n and todav exists only in a much diluted lorm.
Perhaps the most common complaint against the Greek
system over the years has been that it is of an exclusive and
homogeneous nature. But Greek members have argued that
exclusiveness and homogeneity are largely unavoidable
because of physical space and the cost of membership dues,
conditions that effectively limit the number and
characteristics of members.
During the civil rights awakening of the 1950s, the
traditionally white fraternity and sorority systems came
under the lire of activists and media nationwide. Greece
organizations were pressured to integrate. ,but in 1953 the
National Interfraternity Conference reaffirmed its belief that
"each society could establish its own criteria for
membership."
Although most fraternities and sororities at Carolina
eventually adopted non-discriminatory philosophies, lhe
remain basically homogeneous in terms of racial makeup.
Blacks at UNC with Greek affiliation usually are members of
See GREEKS on page 4 .
College
s vie
for increase
in state aid
By MARK MURRELL
Staff Writer ,
President Carter's plan for a separate
U.S. Department of Education, which
faces an uncertain future in a Congress
readying for adjournment this week, has
drawn mixed reactions from educational
and political leaders in North Carolina.
Recognized educational leaders such
as UNC President William C. Friday and
state schools Superintendent Craig
Phillips said the president's idea probably
will become reality, even if Congress puts
the issue aside until after November
elections.
"This development (Carter's proposed
Cabinet-level education agency) seems
inevitable, given that HEW has grown so
large," Friday said.
"A new department would give
education more visibility," said Friday,
who speculated that the president's post
Camp David popularity will insure
passage of the federal re-organization bill
before members of Congress go home on
Saturday.
"We feel we need a strong, aggressive
federal office speaking exclusively to the
needs of children and education," said
Jerome Melton, deputy superintendent
of the N.C. Department of Public
Instructioa
Gary Pearce, press secretary to Gov.
Jim Hunt, said Hunt agrees with Friday
and Melton that North Carolina's
educational needs would be served best
by a federal agency split away from the
HEW Office of Education.
"The governor basically supports the
new department because he feels
education does not get enough attention
from HEW," Pearce said. "But the
. governor wants to see safeguards set up to
protect against over-involvement, over
regulation and too much federal
interference. With these safeguards.it
would be better to split HEW into two
departments."
State AFL-CIO President Wilbur
Hobby, speaking for teachers' unions and
organizations across the country, said the
proposed U.S. Department of Education
would hinder the financial help state and
local education agencies receive from the
federal government. "Departmental
fragmentation will only foster narrow
thinking," Hobby said. "We are
interested in the total child and the total
school system, which is more than just
reading and writing, but a well-rounded
program involving the health and welfare
offices (of HEW)."
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By PETE MITCHELL
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Even a touchdown ' deficit seems
insurmountable to the Tar Heel's offense these ,
days. The offense didn't even, come close,r?to
making up the difference on Saturday. Instead
it was satisfied to die a quiet death between the
30-yard stripes as the locab jeered UNC out of
Kenan Stadium. .. .' ,
Of the many disappointments Dick Crum has
had to endure already this year, Saturday surety
had to be the most difficult to swallow."
"It was very embarrassing," he stated simply
after Carolina's pathetic 7-3 loss to his old team,
the Miami of Ohio Redskins. v
Keep that opening-season win over East
Carolina in mind. It looks bigger and bigger
each week, now that the Tar Heels are 1-3.
This week it was a razzle-dazzle. 75-yard
flanker pass play that beat the Heels. Next
week, how UNC will perform is anybody's
guess. All Crum can do is keep experimenting to
try to bring life to an offensive unit that cannot
move the football very well' against anybody.
"We've gotta find an offensive leader," Crum
said. "Until one of these guys steps forward we;
will play mediocre football."
ismal dsfeut
The first-year head coach showed on
Saturday he wants freshman quarterback
Chuck Sharpe to lead the Tar Heels back to
respectability. Sharpe took every snap
although fumbling several threw 31 passes
and generally performed to Cr urn's liking.
"I thought he played well for his first time out
there." Crum said. "I'm satisfied with his
performance. He showed good composure. I
really didn't think there was any reason to take
him out." v :
The rookie completed 10 of those 31 aerials,
and couldn't move the Tar Heels farther than
the Redskins' 3 1 -yard line. The Miami team
gave up 38 points to Ball State and 37 to
Western Michigan. But the only two chances
Carolina had to score were Jeff Haves' field goal
tries one of them wide from 53 and the othex
good from the 47 on the first play of the fourth
quarter to make it 7-3.
"After that field "goal we didn't get that
excited on the bench." Crum said. "Wc needed
to get fired up to get some momentum."
But Miami, a 17 to 21 point underdog,
wanted it worse. And it showed it in its tough
defense. In fact, the 'upset' might not have been
an upset at all.
" We were going to try the same things on
offense that we've been trying all year, but we
just didn't do them right." Sharpe said of the
unit's friability to generate an offensive threat. "I
think we ran real well out of the 1 (formation).
We were moving the ball well then. And I felt
comfortable with my drop-back passing, but we
had some, bad exchanges., that killed some
drives." ' '
Defensively, the Tar Heels played havoc with
quarterback Larry Former's attempt to get the
Redskins on the board. UNC defenders picked
off three passes and had the visitors playing
Carolina's own brand of offense make three
downs, and punt. ,
Bur w ith 5:52 left in the third period, the
scoreless tie was broken when, Hanker Don
Treadwell took a pitchout, faked a reverse and
fooled the UNC secondary by hurling a perfect
spiral to split end Mark Mattison who sprinted
into the end zone. "
"We have worked that play in practice, but it
never worked." Mattison said. "My job was to
give a block on the safety and then take off. He
swept right past me toward Treadwell and I was
See UPSET on page 5
'I he Associated Press
Republican Sen. Jesse Helms leads his Democratic challenger.
Insurance Commissioner John Ingram, by a little more than
seven percentage points in the race for the U.S. Senate, according
to a poll released Saturday.
The report came as Kentucky Gov. .1 ulian Carroll gave I ngram
the strongest endorsement the Democratic candidate has
received at a 550-per-plate fund-raising dinner in Asheville'
Saturday night.
-The race is close enough, and there are enough voters still
undecided, to swing the Nov. 7 election either way. the poll
-conducted for a Raleigh :iiewspa per" shiiiw-":"- -
If the Vote were held now. Helms.: who is seeking a second
term, would receive 45,1 percent of the vote, and Ingram would
receive 37.8 percent, the poll showed.
Twelve percent of the voters questioned said ,tthey were
undecided, and another 4.5 percent refused to say riow they
would vote. Less than I percent said they would vote in other
races but not in the Senate race.
The survey was based on telephone interviews with a
scientifically selected sampling of 600 registered voters w ho said
they planned to vote in the Nov. 7 election.
The survey was conducted by the North Carolina Opinion
Research Inc.. a polling firm headed by Walter De Vries, a
nationally experienced pollster in Wrightsville Beach..
The interviews were conducted last Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday. The survey has a margin of error of 4 percent.
Helms, contacted in Washington, said the results indicate that
his "apprehension has some validity. , .
"All this time I've been trying to tell my people that it is awfully
close." the senator said. "Perhaps this will give them a little added
enthusiasm for helping us in the closing weeks.
"I'm aware we're operating in a state that is overwhelmingly
Democratic by registration and I have thought all along it would
be exceedingly close, regardless of w ho my opponent turned out
to be."
Ingram, at the Asheville fund-raiser, could not be reached for
comment.
At the Asheville event. Carroll said Gov. Jim Hunt at present
can depend on just one senator, instead of both elected from the
slate. The Kentucky chief executive urged the election of Ingram
to replace the incumbent Helms.
President Carter needs the kind of help he is getting from
Democratic Sen. Robert Morgan to keep a veto of an
inflationary bill from being overridden. Carroll said.
"You've got a governor highly respected in the United States
highly respected by the people of the United States." he said.
"And your governor's sworn duty is obviously to represent the
people of North Carolina. And yet when he goes to the U.S.
Senate he can only depend on one of the two men from North
Carolina not two."Carroll said.
At a Democratic rally a week earlier in Nags Head. Morgan
himself asked voters to support local a.nd statewide Democratic
candidates. But faced with the risk of incurring the w rath of his
fellow members of Congress. Morgan stopped short of an
outright endorsement of Ingram.
Hunt had lavish praise for Ingram during the annual Vance
Aycock weekend festivities in Asheville Saturday, but refused to
attack Ingram's Republican opponent.
Town's new towing policy
takes cars to central lot
:
Persons whose cars are towed by the
town can track them down easier now.
thanks to a new towing policy started
Oct. 2.
Vehicles towed by Chapel Hill now
are stored in the airport lot, where the
University also holds towed vehicles,
said Chapel Hill police officer Ralph
Pendergraph, crime prevention and
training officer.
In the past, vehicles towed by the
town were stored wherever the private
tow-truck operator decided to put
them. The town's towing is done by
locally licensed tow-truck operators on
a rotating basis.
Pendergraph said the old towing .
policy led to confusion and doubt as to
whether all the town's storage areas
were secure from theft. He said the
centralized lot will take care of such
confusion and the risk of theft or
vandalism.
"It will also make it more convenient
for persons whose cars are towed,"
Pendergraph said.
To get a vehicle back, a person now
must go by police headquarters at 100
W. Rosemary St. and pay towing and
storage fees. Transportation to the
airport lot then will be provided by the
police department if a person requests
it, Pendergraph said. .
When paying towing and storage
fees, the person will be asked to sign a
form containing towing information,
including the condition of the vehicle
befpre and after it was towed and the
amount of the towing charge. ;
The form serves as a receipt for the
payment of fees and as a record for
damages done to the car.
MIKE C OYNE
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Reclaming a car will be easier
'ChMpel:MiU'td'::get health center
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By PAM KELLY
Staff Writer
The Community -'W holistic Health
Center still exists only in the minds of
some community members, but by this
spring they hope the center will become a
reality in Chapel Hill.
"Wholistic health is being healthy and
keeping healthy." said Salli Cummings.
who holds a M.Ph. in health education
and is a member of the board of directors
of the center. "It uses non-conventional
methods, such as yoga, massage and
herbal medicine, but it is traditional in
that the burden for one's health kills on
one's self."
Cum mirigs said the concept of
wholistic health originated in California
w here there is a famous center in Santa
Cruz. "1 he rise of wholistic health is
partly due to the phenomenal cost of
health care, consumers are clamoring lor
less." she said.
"We're trying to get away from relv ing
only on eslajlihed medicine, wlncii is so
intrusive and violent with its overuse of
drugs and unneeded surgery."
-The center's planning committee,
which is made up mostly of health
professionals, wants to offer many types
of health services at reasonable fees. It
would offer classes, lectures and weekend
workshops focusing on health-related
areas such as meditation and relaxation,
yoga, body therapies, dream awareness,
astrology, health-giving plants, support
and awareness groups. The center would
also provide a community resource
library, a health library and referrals to
other health care providers. CummingN
said. .
"We hope to have it close working
relationship with medical facilities in the
area." she said. "Health professionals are
becoming more aware of preventive
medicine and are more w illing to consider
alternatives. Theie has been more
emphasis on education and sell
responsibility, i "Our community is filled with people
practicing alternative health and healing
methods she said. "1 his center wiU be
designed to serve the Triangle area."
The Community Wholistic Health,
Center w ill put on a Healing Arts Festiv al
on Nov. 4 in the Carolina Union. "We
want to let people know who we are and
w hat we are doing." Cummings said.
"There will be a variety of workshops
at the festival, including nutrition.,
childbirth, dance, parenting, women's
self-help, herbs and plants for healing,
ecology and wholistic health, and the
politics of food." she said. Many of the
workshops will be for children . Also
that night the festival will sponsor an
evening of music and dance in which
there will be audience participation.
The center is in the process ol applying
for and expects to receive non-profit
statu. Cummings said. It was recently
incorporated.
"Wc all don't agree on one right palh to
health, so we want to give people different
wavs to achcive it." she said.