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The Chapel Hill Transportation Board
is considering a proposal which, if also
approved by the Board of Aldermen,
would increase adult bus fare 63 percent
and increase bus-pass prices by perhaps
56 percent over a five-year period.
The plan would increase bus prices
beginning in fall 19S0, from the present 25
cents to an eventual 40 cents. It also
would increase the cost of bus passes on a
fixed discount rate basis accordingly. The
board will vote on the proposal Jan. 30
and will then pass it on to the aldermen.
Under the proposal's discount rate
schedule an annual bus pass could cost as
much as $70 five years from now.. An
annual pass now is $40. The University
buys a number of passes and resells them
to students for $36, a $4 discount.
"This proposal hinges on the fact that
the fare-box fare in Chapel Hill is very
low in comparison to the rest of the state
and, in fact, is one of the lowest in the
nation, said Janet D'Igazio, Chapel Hill
transportation planner on Thursday.
"Most transit fares in other parts of the
country are already up and about 35 to 40
cents, and in a very short time, at the
present bus-fare prices in Chapel Hill, it
really won't be worth it to collect fares
when you look at the staff time and paper
work required to record them," she said.
Another reason for the proposal,
according to D'Ignazio, is to coordinate
the fare and bus-pass prices because they
bear no relation to each other at present.
"We think that there should be some
fixed discount rate and that this discount
should be based" on the length of time a
person buys the pass for, D'Ignazio said.
The proposal suggests that an annual
pass be discounted 50 percent from the
farebox price; and academic-year pass
discounted 45 percent; a six-month pass
discounted 40 percent; a three-month
pass discounted 30 percent and a 40-ride
ticket discounted 20 percent.
"We feel that these are reasonable
discounts, D'Ignazzio said, "but, even
so, they would make the bus passes more
exp ensive than they are now. Right now - -an
annual pass is discounted 65 percent,
which is a terrifically good deal."
D'Ignazio stressed that the proposal "is
neither cast nor concrete," and that
before any decision is made the matter
will be discussed with both the Board of
Aldermen and the University.
"We are in the process now of starting
our annual negotiations with the vice
chancellor's office to determine to what
extent the University will be able to
contribute to the bus system next year,"
D'Ignazio said. "The University was
given a copy of the transportation
department's memo to review and I've
heard they had some hesitation about it,
but nothing definite as yet."
A representative of "the University's
business and finance department said,
however, that the administration has no
opinion on the matter yet.
"You have to realize that we are
proposing some radical things insofar as
fare icreases are concerned," D'Ignazio
said. "It does look like we are socking it to
the bus riders. But we are trying to be
careful, because our ultimate goal is to
keep ridership high and, if we find that in
order to keep ridership high we need to
change the proposal somewhat, we'd be
willing to do so," D'Ignazio said.
The Transportation Board also
included in its memo a suggestion to offer
the bus-pass purchaser the option to pay
an additional amount, possibley $10, so
their pass would be transferrable.
Another suggestion to increase ridership
on the U and S routes, would make a
special pass valid only on the U and S bus
routes and would cost half the yearly pass
price.
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Increased popularity Brings
three new sororities to UNC
By MARLA CARPENTER
Staff Writer ,
The Office of Student Affairs recently has had to
wrestle with a new problem of supply and demand:
too few sororities coupled with a soaring interest in
joining them.
Each year, more women have registered for that
year's fall rush than registered the previous year.
With each sorprjtytryjrjgjo rnaintain ajbalance
betwcar house size and pledge quota, ah
increasing number of women were being denied an
opportunity to make a bid. Informal rush, held
one week after format rush and again in the spring,
hardly-helped alleviate the problem.
The solution? On the recommendation of the
Faculty-Student Committee on Sororities,
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for Student
Affairs, invited several national sororities to make
presentations on the UNC campus. Of these, Zeta
Tau Alpha, Delta Phi Epsilon and Zeta Phi Beta
were selected to colonize at the University.
According to Sharon Mitchell, Panhellenic
adviser, the committee evaluated all prospective
sororities on the basis of national size, financial
strength, energy and number of alumnae in the
area - - "
Becky Burbage,-. out-going president of the
Panhellenic Council, said the decision to colonize
, wa$ a resulttoJncreased., demand and a .desire to
"lessen the number of -women being cjosed put of
sororities in other words, to increase their
opportunities. Figures show that in formal rush of
Panhellenic sororities, 652 women registered and
314 pledged in 1975, 657 registered and 294
pledged in 1976, 693 registered and 310 pledged in
1977 and 794 registered and 409 pledged (including
new sororities) in 1978.
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By CAROL HANNER
and MIKE COYNE
. Staff Writers
Town and University officials may have avoided a
head-on collision in court when they agreed Monday
to negotiate a compromise on the proposed UNC
Press Building.
The Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen voted
unanimously Monday night to delay a decision on
whether to take legal action against UNC on the
proposed building.
The vote came after Historic District Commission
Chairman Joe Herzenberg asked the board to defer
action on the issue because the University agreed
Monday morning to negotiate with the commission
for a Certificate of Appropriateness.
The Press Building has caused controversy during
the past months because the town's Historic District
Commission and concerned residents do not feel the
structure is appropriate for the neighborhood.
Buildings planned for the Chapel Hill Historic
District require a Certificate of Appropriateness
from, the commission before construction can begin.
Controversy , heightened when UNC expressed
plans to go ahead with the building without a.
Certificate of Appropriateness. Town officials have
said the certificate is binding, and that the University
cannot build without it.
One opinion issued from the attorney general's
office said the U niversity, as a state agency, is exempt
from historic district requirements. A second
opinion from the office said the issue is not clearcut
and must be decided by the legislature. .
"We do believe there is a principle involved, and
that principle is the integrity of the Historic District
Commission," Herzenberg told the board.
Herzenberg told the aldermen he took an informal
poll of commission members and they were willing to
reconsider the Press Building issue.
Aldermen expressed approval of the University's
decision to re-apply to the Historic District
Commission.
Epting said the University's action indicates it
agrees that town boards should have jurisdiction or it
wouldn't be trying to comply with the Historic
District Commission ordinance.
Alderman Gerry Cohen said he was pleased the
Historic District .Commission ordinance, was going
to remain intact, but he said the matter of town
boards' jurisdiction over the University would
probably come up again.
Cohen said he would like to see the issue resolved
now.
The board will delay making any decision on the
Press Building until negotiations between UNC and
the Historic District Commission have been
completed.
Earlier Monday, Herzenberg, Mayor James C.
Wallace, Aldermen Marilyn Boulton and Robert
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Epting, UNC Board of Trustees Chairman Tom
Lambeth and John L. Temple, vice chancellor for
business and finance, met to discuss the issue.
Temple said UNC would work with the town to try
to design the facility to comply with Historic District
Commission criteria.
Temple said the possibility of court action was not
ruled out.
..,r(The. town and the University) oukLga forward
with the purpose ofgetting the judgment of the
court not a lawsuit," Temple said. "I would hope
we can avoid the town and U NC suing each other per
se."
"In a matter of a couple of weeks we'll know
whether a compromise can be reached," Boulton
said.
She said the Historic District Commission would
advise UNC oh the changes it must make to bring the
Press Building in conformity with the surrounding
neighborhood.
Carter budget y proposal draws criticism
WASHINGTON (AP) President Carter urged
Congress Monday to let him spend more for defense but
cut some job programs in a $532 billion budget that is
stirring controversy within the president's own party.
Describing his budget as "lean and austere," Carter
said he plans to reduce this year's $37.4 billion budget
deficit to $29 billion in 1980, during the presidential
campaign. The deficit would fall to $1 billion in 1981.
"Real sacrifices are to be made if we are to overcome
inflation," Carter said in his budget message. "I have
made every effort to spread that burden fairly and
objectively."
Liberals within the Democratic Party, particularly
Sen. Edward; M. Kennedy D-Mass., have criticized
proposed cuts in school lunch, jobs and other programs.
"The budget askes the poor, the black, the. sick, the
young, the cities and the unemployed to bear a
disproportionate share of the.-.reductions," Kennedy
said Monday. . v V -
"The budget contains wasteful increases in defense
spending and no reductions in wasteful tax spending",
such as tax breaks for the wealthy, Kennedy said.
And House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill found fault
with proposals to pare some job-creation programs and
reduce some Social Security benefits. He told reporters:
"I didn't become speaker of the House to dismantle
programs I fought for all my life."
Predictably, Carter was also under fire from
Republicans. Sen. William V. Roth, R-DeL, co-author
of the last year's Kemp-Roth tax cut bill, said, "To
describe Carter's budget as lean is like looking at the
package of bacon in the supermarket you don't see
that fat until you open the package." '
However, Carter was commended by Rep. Robert
Giaimo, D-Conn., chairman of the House Budget
Committee.
"I believe it will meet with cooperation generally in the
Budget Committee and te Congress," Giaimo said.
As he signed his budget message Monday, Carter said,
"1 believe at this point it is fair to say that the response
has been very encouraging."
Carter's decision to fight inflation with an austere
budget that cuts some domestic social programs follows
advice from his political po lister, Patrick Caddell, who
told the president-elect in 1976 that a second term
depended on substantial support from middle-income
suburbanites who view federal spending and inflation as
major problems.
At the same time. Carter and his chief political
lieutenant, Hamilton Jordan, say the anti-inflation
effort will help poor people more than they will be
harmed by the cuts in social spending.
Carter says his cuts will fall hardest on people who are
not in desperate need. For example, he says subsidies for
school lunches will be reduced for children of middle
and upper-income families but maintained for children
of the poor.
He said his budget includes $4.5 billion more for the
poor, with increases in programs such as food stamps.
Medicaid, subsidized housing, education, urban grants
and help in providing food for underprivileged women
and children.
One group of college students would no longer get
federal grants to pay their tuition, but others would for
the first time get subsidized loans to pay education bills.
The number of college students eligible for Basic
Opportunity grants that provide up to $1,800 for
education costs is projected to drop in fiscal 1980. The
reason, the budget says, is that inflation will push more
families into higher income brackets and thus make
them ineligible. .
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Allen Jermigan declares
6ID)TE-P editor caiididacy
By PAM HILDEBRAN
Staff Writer
Allen Jernigan, a junior English and
history major from Raleigh, announced
his candidacy Monday for editor of the
Daily Tar Heel.
"I'd like to see a complete Daily Tar
Heel? Jernigan said. "The Tar Heel is the
only paper most students read, and Id
like to see it as the only paper they need to
read. To do this, you need to make
distribution work."
Jernigan called for a three-point
approach to improve distribution: to
study the corridors of student traffic
across campus and strategically locate
distribution boxes; to add one person to
the distribution staff to refill often-used
boxes as they empty; and to make certain
enough copies of the paper are printed.
"The editor and the editorial page
should be responsible to the students,"
Jernigan said. He said the DTH has the
responsibility to probe issues such as
racism and sexism, and he would like to
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editorial page.
Jernigan called for a fresher approach
to news and features. He proposed a
campus-briefs column to give needed
coverage to events, of campus
bureaucracy; expansion of coverage to a
wider range of local, state and campus
events; acknowledgement of women's
basketball and soccer as major sports;,
and provision of a weekly scoreboard of
intramural and club sports.
" Td like to broaden coverage away
from mundane things such as CGC and
the council of governors " Jernigan said.
"I'd also like to refocus features toward
students and student lifestyles." .-'
Concerning the financial stability of
the DTH, Jernigan said he would call for
stricter financial accountability,
increased advertising revenue and better
money management.
"I'd like to do away with four-page
papers," Jernigan; said. "Four-page
papers are caused by the drop in ad
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revenue after Christmas; by running
tighter money-saving papers in the falL
we could expand four-page papers in the
spring to six pages."
Jernigan has served as a photographer,
-summer editor, photography editor and
columnist for the Daily Tar Heel. He has
written foi - Nutshell magazine, the ACC
Basketball Handbook and Cellar D00A
N0C0 nuclear power companies
not affected by new Safety study.
By JIM HUMMEL
Staff Writer
; Officials of North Carolina's two major power suppliers said
Monday that a decision by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
to withdraw its endorsement of a widely used safety study on
nuclear power will have no effect on construction or operation of
their nuclear power plants.
Spokesmen for Duke Power Co. and Carolina Power and
Light Co. said the licensing of their plants had nothing to do with
the safety study, known as the Rasmussen report.
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission withdrew its
endorsement of the Rasmussen report after a panel criticized
parts of the study.
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's decision about the
report will not have any regulatory bearing on us," said Angie
Howard, director of energy information for Duke Power Co.
"I really don't expect NRCs decision to have a great deal of
effect nationwide either," Howard said.
"I'm sure nuclear opponents will try to make an issue of the
. situation, but from a technical and licensing standpoint it will not
have much effect."
"I don't think that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
refuted the Rasmussen report," said Ellison Clary of Carolina
Power and Light Co.
"They questioned the statistics, but it's still a viable report," he
said.
The Rasmussen report is named for Norman Rasmussen of the
Massachusetts Institute cf Technology, who led a group tnai
issued the report in 1975. The study found the danger of nuclear
power plants was very low when compared with other man-made
or natural hazards.
"The Nuclear Regulatory Commission has not essentially
repudiated the Rasmussen report as a whole," said Frank Ingram
of the NRC public affairs division.
"There was study conducted last fall by the Lewis panel that
found certain weaknesses in the Rasmussen report," Ingram said.
"Because of certain questions raised by the Lewis panel, we want
to determine the strengths and weaknesses of the report," he said.
Ingram said the panel was very critical of certain parts of the
Rasmussen report but also found favorable parts.
As a result, the N RC has adopted a neutral position, according
to Ingram, neither endorsing nor rejecting the report.
The Lewis panel was headed by Harold Lewis of the University
of California at Santa Barbara and found a number of
shortcomings in the 1975 report.
The panel accused the research staff that drafted the
Rasmussen report of failing to adequately assess the probability
of nuclear accidents and said the report "greatly understated" the
range of chances for a nuclear accident.
Concern about the validity of the Rasmussen report was
originally by Rep. Morris Udall, D-Ariz.