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By SUSAN LADD
Staff Writer
When UNC freshman Pell Tanner decided to
pledge a fraternity last fall, he never thought his
decision would result in three weeks in the hospital
with multiple fractures after being struck by a truck.
But it did.
Tanner is one of the pledges for whom a hazing
prank turned into a hazing tragedy.
Although hazing is illegal under official University
policy and a 1974 North Carolina statute, it still is a
reality at UNC.
"There is a lot of hazing," said Tom Terrell,
Interfraternity Council president. "But it's primarily
small incidents counting bricks in the sidewalk
silly and time-wasting activities that possibly involve
no mental or physical harm. Most of the hazing
incidents are benign when it comes to physical
abuse."
But some hazing "pranks" can turn into serious
incidents. Two such have come before the University
Hearings Board this year in which excessive
consumption of alcohol combined with hazing
activities led to the hospitalization of two pledges,
Terrell said.
One concerned Tanner, and" The other, which
occurred last year, involved a pledge who had to be
hospitalized after overconsuption of alcohol in an
initiation activity. Tanner's fraternity was found
guilty of hazing; the other fraternity was not.
University administration could not reveal details
of the cases because both cases were granted closed
hearings.
Hazing is defined by North Carolina statute as
"any action taken or situation created whether on or
off fraternity-sorority premises, to produce mental
or physical discomfort, embarrassment, harassment
or ridicule. Such activities include paddling in any
form; creation of excessive fatigue; physical and
psychological shocks; involuntary road trips or any
other such activities carried on outside the confines
of the house; wearing, publicly, apparel which is
conspicuaous and not normally in good taste;
engaging in public stunts and bailoonery; morally
degrading or humiliating games and activities; and
any other activities which are not consistent with
fraternity-sorority law."
In Tanner's case, Sigma Alpha Epsilon pledges
were left on a country road after a night of drinking
to find their way back to Chapel Hill. Tanner broke a
leg and wrist in the accident.
Elson Floyb judicial programs officer in the
division of Student Affairs, said the fraternity was
charged with hazing and placing a person in fear of
imminent danger. -,
The University Hearings Board found SAE guilty
of hazing and-put it on social probation until Feb. 1 .
SAE cannot hold any parties until the probation time
is up, but it does not prevent informal rush activities
not involving parties.
"Some members of the board were looking toward
a more severe sanction," Floyd said. "But the
fraternity had the opportunity to offer character
witnesses and showed that they had made efforts to.
correct the-hazing problem."
Terrell called this kind of punishment "verbal
wrist-slapping" and said he advocates tougher
penalties.
"We have had two serious cases this year," Terrell
said, referring to Tanner and the other hospitalized
pledge. "Both times, the University Hearings Board
tried the cases and acquitted the fraternity or gave
them an extremely light penalty. The Student Honor
Court and the University Hearings Board have
demonstrated that they cannot competently or
adequately deal with the situation."
Suzie Mitchell, student attorney general, and
Reggie Gillespie, prosecutor in both cases, disagreed.
"I support the court's ruling," Gillespie said. "Until
jurisdiction is removed from the University Hearings
Board, I think they have done the proper thing."
: "Tom has shown strong interest in the hazing
matter, and I'm glad he has," Mitchell said. "It has
done a lot of good for the fraternity system.
"These two cases this year were the first cases to be
brought to the judicial system in its present form. The
court is trying to form a definition of exactly what
hazing is. I think the decisions were appropriate and
convey a significant message to the Greek
community." '
But Tanner, said he doesn't think such punishment
will stop hazing.
"In a way, they (SAE) are getting punished twice,"
Tanner said. "What happened to me is punishment
enough. The other punishement is really for
everybody to set an example. But I don't think it
will do the other fraternities any good. 1 don't think it
will stop hazing."
See HAZING on page 4
Tom Terrell
"We're definitely loose and
relaxed now and expect a good,
close, hard-fought game."
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By PETE MITCHELL
Assistant Sports Editor
Sometimes there's no clear-cut winner
when N.C. State and Carolina play each
other in basketball.
The officials catch an earful every time
they even hedge toward a call against the
home team. But they never submit.
And Joe Wolf pack and a kid with a
light blue sweater holler back and forth
the whole game. It was something the
latter said about going to State if you
can't go to college. But neither ever gives
in.
Down on the court there's always a
chance to claim a moral victory, even if
the scoreboard doesn't say so. Take last
year in Reynolds Coliseum, the place
where Carolina and State will tip it off at
9 tonight on Channel 5.
Phil Ford, Mike O'Koren and Rich
Yonakor wore ties and sat on the bench
injured. State won by only a few.
Forward Al Wood remembers the game;
he got a chance to start in a State
Carolina game as a freshman, and they've
heard about those even in Gray, Ga.,
Wood's hometown.
With all the screaming and cheering
and pep bands blaring so loud you can't
hear the coach's instructions, it's yessX a "
fan rivalry as far as Wood is concerned.
"The people are who are mainly into
that all the Go to hell State stuff but
goin' to State doesn't bother us," Wood
said. "Thoses people can't jump out of the
stands and play. We're gonna go at it hard
no matter who we play or where we play."
Sounds exactly like something his
coach would say. But after a weekend in
psyched-up. Carmichael and before a
national audience in Greensboro, it might
take a few sneers out of Hawkeye
Whitney and Tony Warren to get the Tar
Heels thinking mean.
See STATE on page 5
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liiLelly declares candidacy
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By BEN ESTES
stall Writer
J.B. Kelly, a junior political science
major from Jacksonville, Fla., Tuesday
became the first announced candidate for
student body president. '
"I see Student Government as
providing a service to the students
throughout their University life," Kelly
said. "My goal is to improve the quality of
life for students here at the University,"
Among the ideas Kelly proposes for
increasing Student Government services
are a telephone action line which students
could use to obtain information,
expansion of Student Government's
tutorial service and establishing an
employment office which would inform
students of available part-time jobs on
campus.
The action line would be "a telephone
line where students call up if they have a
problem or question," Kelly said. An
action line coordinator would take the
student's question and his name and
number and call the student back when
the information the student needs is
found, Kelly said.
Students currently do not know where
to turn for much of the information they
need, Kelly said.
Kelly also proposed the reduction of
prices at Student Stores, reopening of t he
Avery Snake Bar, extension of operating
hours at Wilson Library and the possible
inclusion of an extra reading day.
He also said he would like to end the
practice of UNC students paying $3 for
Tar Heel basketball games in Greensboro
and Charlotte and that he would like to
look into the possibility of having
students' schedules mailed to their homes
before they return to school.
Kelly said he would urge the
administration to concentrate on
improving the quality of education rather
than attempting to lower students
grades. The University administration
But arena faces hurdle
By CAROL HANNER
and MIKE COYNE
Staff Writers
Chapel Hill Aldermen rezoned 36.6 acres of
land known as the Baity property Monday and
cleared the way for the University to build a
proposed athletic complex and 600-space parking
.., lot.
The board also conducted a public hearing on
restrictions of the Uniyersity-A zoning
designation, including a stipulation giving the
town some control over where UNC would build
the proposed complex. -
The rezoning of the Baity property on Mason
Farm Road from residential to University use has
aroused concern from nearby residents that a
coliseum would disrupt the neighborhood.
The University responded to residents' fears by
including a 200-foot buffer strip around the
property.
Gordon H. Rutherford, director of UNC
planning, said the Baity rezoning will allow the
University to begin construction of a 600-space
parking lot to be completed by fall semester of
1979.
The athletic complexes included in UNC's five
year growth plan and was approved by the UNC
Board of Governors in October. It has not been
approved yet by the N.C. General Assembly.
If the state legislature which is now in session
approves the proposed $21 million complex.
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will begin;
Rutherford said, the University
preliminary plans on the structure. ?
While the Board of Aldermen's vote Monday
gives UNC permission to build an athletic
complex, the town is also working on another
ordinance placing restrictions on the University-A
zone. .
The ordinance, which elicited little response at
Monday's public hearing, includes a stipulation
placing coliseums and auditoriums under special
use procedures.
Such a restriction would force the University to
ask the town for a special-use permit to construct
See BOARD on page 4
WridMy9 ''CalifunOy'hope to; avoid courts
From staff and wire reports
UNC President William C. Friday said Tuesday
he shares Health, Education and Welfare
Secretary Joseph Califano's hope that an
agreement can be reached on desegregation of the
16-campus University of North Carolina system
without a court battle.
Califano, at a news conference Monday
announcing acceptance of Virgina's desegregation
plan, said, "We've still got some time" to settle the
desegregation issue. HEW has until March 11 to
complete its review of the UNC plan.
"I would hope we don't have to do that (go to
court)," Califano said. "Once we go into litigation,
everything freezes.
"I'm not hurt. Gov. Hunt is'not hurt. President
William C. Friday is not hurt," he said. "It's the
students of North Carolina who are hurt."
The HEW Office of Civil Rights is reviewing the
UNC plan and will send the results of its study to
UNC officials.
Friday said he has had no indication of when the
study might be concluded. "I have not heard from
anyone since Dec. 1 1 (when UNC's duplication
report was submitted to the OCR)," Friday said. "I
would have no way of knowing."
Donald J. Stedman. UNC vice president for
academic affairs, said he doubted HEW would
report on its findings before February. "My feeling
is, since the report went in Dec. II, it would take
them atleast a couple of months," he said.
"It takes a while for any organization to digest
that amount of material."
Of Califano's statement that he hopes the issue
will be kept out of court, Friday said, "1 would
share his view." '
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"In my judgment, it (the UNC desegregation
plan) complies fully, more than any other state's,"
he said. -
Friday said he hopes the desegregation dispute,
which began more than eight years ago when OCR
charged the state was maintaining a racially dual
system of colleges and universities, can be resolved
quickly.
He said he has faith in the University's plan. "I
know that what we've done is right, and I hope he
(Califano) will see it that way too."
Califano's statement , was his first public
comment on the UNC-HEW dispute in recent
months.
Unconfirmed newspaper reports last week said
Pro, con confident
federal officials will reject ! UNC's position that
there is no unnecessary duplication of programs
among neighboring black and white campuses.
Califano said he would not go along with a
recent request by civil rights lawyer Joseph L.
Rauh that HEW immediately begin cutting off
funds to UNC. Rauh wrote Califano a letter saying
UNC's failure to propose elimination or merger of
any duplicated programs "is an incredible defiance
of the law of the land."
Friday declined comment on the leter Tuesday,
but said, "Mr. Rauh obviously doesn't know what
the state has done."
Califano said Monday he would treat all states
equally extending to North Carolina a period of
negotiation just as he has done with Virginia'and
Georgia.
Virginia education officials obtained HEW
approval by agreeing to drop three programs at
Old Dominion University in Norfolk that
competed with programs at nearby Norfolk State
College, a predominantly black school.
In North Carolina, the duplicated programs
being reviewed are in the Piedmont Triad and
Research Triangle areas. '
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J.B. Kelly
pays toe much attention to grades and
does not take enough interest in academic
quality, he said.
Kelly was speaker pro tern for the CGC
during the spring and fall of 1977. In the
spring of 1978 he worked as an intern
with the N.Y. state legislature. He
currently is executive assistant to Student
Body President Jim Phillips.
By TERR1 HUNT
Staff Writer
Despite many predictions that the
Equal Rights Amendment will be
defeated again by the N.C. General
Assembly, 17 of the 20 women legislators
support the bill and plan to use a get
tough approach to fight for its passage.
In a caucus last week, pro-ER A women
legislators discussed such tactics as voting
in blocs, trading votes, holding bills
hostage in the committees they lead and
courting the aid of the people who make
the difference the state's 50 senators
and its leader, Lt. Gov. Jimmy Green.
"There is no definite plan of action yet
in our fight to pass ERA, but we'd like to
show that we are a force to be reckoned
with," said Rep. Trish Hunt of Orange
County and a leader for supporters of the
bill.
"We would like to show how much we
are in favor of ERA and show that we
have confidence it will pass," Hunt said.
"We are a substantial number of people in
the House, and passage of the ERA bill is
our No. 1 priority in legislation for this
term. We want North Carolina to be the
first real southern state to pass it, and we
want it this year."
For the third time, in February 1977,
North Carolina defeated ERA, failing to
become the 36th state ,to ratify it.
Members of the House passed the
amendment by a vote of 61-55, but it was
defeated 26-24 in the Senate.
Both supporters and opponents of the
bill admit the fight once again will be
close. Hunt said there were 61 solid votes
in the House favoring ERA passage,
while 20 senators have committed their
votes to support the measure with 10
others undecided. For majority approval
in the Senate, 26 votes are needed.
The national deadline for passage of
ERA is March 22, however an extension
plan was adopted by Congress, allowing
time for approval by the 38 needed states
until June 30, 1982.
Beth McAllister, president of North.
Carolinians United for ERA
(NCUERA), said the group is waiting
until the votes are lined up before
introducing the bill this session.
"The very fact that the pro-ERA
women legislators got together is a sign to
me that they want to play good old boy
politics," McAllister said. "We don't
want to wait until 1982, we want it passed'
by March 22."
McAllister said NCUERA plans to
contact as many of its 1.3 million
members as possible by phone, personal
interview or letter and ask them to write
their legislators expressing support for
ERA.
"Vomen are a political force now in
the state for the first time," McAllister
said. "But we expect help from Governor
Hunt. His support will be crucial for the
passage cf the bill."
Gov. James B. Hunt has expressed
support for ERA, saying it is the best way
to give equal opportunities to all citizens
of the' state.
Even though pro-ERA forces have the
support of the governor, opponents of the
bill are confident they will win.
"At this point, we are in better shape in
the Senate than we were two years ago."
Sen. Anne Bagnal, R-Forsyth, said. "I
feel very positive of its defeat."
"A good many of us have come into
office with promises to vote against ERA,
See ERA on page 4
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