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By BRIAN E. PUTNAM
Staff Writer
On a wall inside the office of UNC women's
gymnastics coach Ken Ourso hangs a portrait of a
samurai warrior. .
Anyone familiar with the samurai warrior class in
Japan during the 1 1th to 19th centuries knows that
the samurai were indisputable the toughest, most
resolute and principled human beings who ever lived.
The portrait does not hang in Ourso's office by
coincidence. 'Ourso is tough; he studied karate in
Japan for a year and a half with the masters of the art.
He has a black belt.
Ourso is resolute. In less than five years he has
elevated the UNC women's gymnastics program
from physical education-class status to national
prominence. The team finished second in the AIAW
regionals last year.
Ourso is also a man of strict principles. In fact, it is
because of his principles that Ourso will resign as
coach and instructor at UNC at the end of this
semester. Saturday's 1 p.m. meet in Carmichael
Auditorium against Appalachian State will be
Ourso's last home meet.
In July Ourso will take to the ocean in a 45-foot
sailboat with plans to circle the world randomly.
Ourso says he wants to leave society.
"You know 1 just don't like the lifestyles we're
forced to live these days," Ourso said. "I like to be
challenged, and I like to be self sufficient.
"I really enjoy teaching and coaching; it's a good
life. But I think there is more to life than just working
at a job. Everybody nowadays all they're concerned
about is making money, buying houses, buying cars.
But we really need so little to enjoy life. 1 love nature,
and I love to be outdoors. Now 1 have a chance to
pursue that, and I'm going to do it."
Another reason he is leaving is because to continue
teaching at the major University level, Ourso says he
must obtain his doctorate degree, something he feels
would be a waste of time.
"Everything I teach at UNC (gymnastics, Karate
and scuba diving)," Ourso said, "I've learned on my
own outside of college. But now the system says it
doesn't matter what you've learned, you have to go to
school, you have to sit through all these classes which
are totally irrelevant to life."
Ourso's . coaching record at UNO supports his
claim to need no further schooling. In 1975 Ourso
inherited a team with no scholarship athletes that
had won less than half its meets the year before and
which started off the 1975 season by losing its first
three meets.
By the end of the season the team was scoring
much higher than it had earlier. It won all of its
remaining meets after the first three losses, and
finished second in the N.C. AIAW tournament. '
The next year Ourso's Tar Heels went 6-3 and
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Although there has been much talk recently about the
unification of the towns of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, local
legislators said Thursday it is very unlikely any bill concerning
the merger will be introduced in the state legislature.
"The chances are slim of any bill being proposed," state Sen.
Charles Vickery, D-Orange, said. "1 think this issue has been
given more significance than it really has."
Newspaper reports Sunday said that Vickery said he had
requested a charter study commission to prepare a proposal for
merger. Vickery said Thursday he has never had anything
prepared concerning Chapel Hill and Carrboro unification. "I
have not prepared any legislation on the merger or planned to
propose any," he said.
In North Carolina, two municipalities can be merged in three
different ways. The General Assembly could simply pass a law
that would merge the towns. .
It could also merge the towns subject to a local referendum. A
majority of "yes" votes in each town or a simple majority of all
votes would allow the merger.
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Finally, the two towns could merge themselves by setting up a
joint study commission that could propose a merger subject to a
local referendum. If voters endorsed the merger, it would then
have to be sanctioned by the General Assembly.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro unification has been tossed about in
local political circles for years. Aldermen in the two towns have
mixed feelings about it.
"1 predict you won't hear anything about this for a few years,"
Carrboro Alderman Doug Sharer said. "I'd be extremely
surprised if any local delegation would bring it up again, unless
they wanted to retire.
"The relationship between the towns is developing, but it
hasn't reached a point yet where they are on equal footing,"
Sharer said. "Carrboro has some projects it wants to carry out
that might not be possible if the towns were merged. For
instance, we would like to seek out clean industries."
Carrboro Mayor Robert Drakeford, who opposes merger,
said some people in both towns have political, social and
financial reasons for wanting to merge.
"The political conservatives in both towns feel that they'll be
able to join together to bring about a joint power," Drakeford
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By MARTHA WAGGONER
Staff Writer
As many as 1,021 students living on campus could be
closed out of their residence halls in the random lottery
Feb. 21, Peggy Gibbs, associate director for housing
contracts, said Wednesday.
Last year; a total of 645 students were closed out.
Twenty of these canceled contracts before the drawing,
leaving 625 students closed out.
Gibbs said this means 24 percent of all students will be
closed out this year. Of these, 438 will be men and 583
will be women. The total number of men who turned in
contracts was 1,839, while 2,365 women turned in
contracts. Last year, 1,792 men and 2,183 women filed
contracts. Seventy-six percent of the men will be able to
return to dorms and 75 percent of the women will be
readmitted, Gibbs said.
These figures are accurate assuming there are no
cancellations between now and the lottery, she said.
"There won't be enough (cancellations) for any
significant change," she said. "The best would be 1 ,000."
There are three reasons for the increase in students
wishing to live on campus. "Of course, there are more
freshmen," Gibbs said. "But the big thing is the price of
living on the outside world," she said.
Housing is planning for the 1979 freshman class to be
58 percent female-and 42 percent male. Gibbs said.
Housing expected this year's freshman class to be 52
percent female. It was actually 57 percent female. "This
is why more men got into dorms through the waiting
list," Gibbs said.
When the percentages of male to female change,
forced tripling occurs.
Gibbs said housing lacks 140 to 150 spaces for
freshmen so the first cancellations will go to them. "We
always have at least that many cancellations," she said.
About 200 persons will get back into a dorm through the
waiting list, but the number could be divided in anyway
between men and women, Gibbs said.
The preliminary drawing is Feb. 19. There will be 97
spaces available for men and 128 spaces available for
women then. Gibbs said.
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Ballot counting and tabulating from
Wednesday's elections continued
Thursday, bringing the results in the race
for senior class president and vice
president and several of the Campus
Governing Council races.
While official tallies were unavailable.
Elections Board Chairperson Jil Linker
said Karen Moss and Janet Tagalos were
clearcut winners for senior class president
and vice president, with Steve Felts and
Bob Cramer in second place and Heather
Weir and Steve Jacobson third.
Candidate Mark Mann, who ran
without a vice presidential candidate, and
write-in candidate Leo Warshauer
finished far behind the top three pairs.
In CGC races, the totals stacked up this
way: District 1-6 drew only write-in
candidates and had not been tabulated as
of late Thursday. In District 8 (Granville
East, Carr, Spencer, Old East and Old
West) Cynthia Currin beat Bonnie Brown
with 254 of 345 votes cast. In District 7,
Eleanor Smith, who ran unopposed, was
elected with 262 of 320 votes cast.
A total of 487 persons voted in the
District 9 (Ehringhaus, Alderman,
Kenan, Mclver and Craige
undergraduates) race between Lisa
Harper, Barclay Marsh and Dianne
Hubbard. Hubbard, who took 238 of the
votes and Lisa Harper, who polled 183,
will meet in a runoff Feb. 21.
District 10 (Hinton James) chose Tim
Rafferty as its new CGC representative,
giving him 33 1 of the 568 votes cast. Greg
Cranford received 220 votes.
Incumbent Jimmy Everhart beat
Kathy O'Neill in the District 11
(Morrison) race with 312 votes. O'Neill
received 178 votes.
District 12 (Avery, Teague, Parker,
Whitehead and Joyner) also will see a
runoff between Anne Middleton and
Don Laton, who polled 179 and 184 votes
respectively of the 500 votes cast.
District 13 '(Winston, Alexander.
Connor, Ruffin, Grimes, Manly and
Mangum) saw a close race between
Randy Harry, 203 votes, and Susan
Hoke, 212 votes, that also will be decided
with a runoff. Ellen Gelbin finished third
with 61 votes.
District 14 (Cobb, Stacy, Everett,
Lewis, Aycock and Graham) will pit
Dave Wright, 195, against Joyce Green,
127. Brenday Jenkins finished with 77
votes and write-in candidate Shaw
Kenion got 67.
Incumbent Rhonda Black w.on District
15 with 138 votes; Art Stetson took 103
votes of the 256 cast.
Linker has ordered a recount in the
District 16 race between Reggie Gillespie,
Britt Lassiter and Russ Phipps because of
the close vote in that district.
Sonya Lewis ran unopposed in District
17 and received 125 of the 150 votes cast.
Cathy Rudisill, 77 votes, will face
Debbie Gray, 47 votes, in a runoff for
District 18. Melinda Haynie finished
third with 39 of the 180 votes cast.
A recount has also been ordered in the
District 19 race between Tod Gentry and
Ralph Aubrey. A preliminary count
showed the two candidates tied.
The two candidates in District 20 will
face each other again in a runoff next
Wednesday. Richard Terrell led with 78
of the 162 votes cast. Eddie Carlton
polled 57 votes.
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RALEIGH (AP) The drive to ratify
the Equal Rights Amendment in North
Carolina died as supporters bowed in the
face of insurmountable Senate
opposition and killed the bill themselves
in committee. '
The Senate Constitutional
Amendments Committee, acting on a
voice vote, gave the ERA-ratification bill
an unfavorable report, effectively killing
ERA for the 1979-8a legislative terms.
It was the fourth time ERA failed to
win ratification in North Carolina. The
action was a blow to ERA supporters
nationally, who have gained ratification
in 35 states and need approval in three
more to make it part of the U.S.
Constitution.
"I know when 1 become involved in an
exercise in futility," said ERA sponsor
Sen. Craig Lawing, D-Mecklenburg, in
asking the committee to kill the bill. "1
cannot see any good that would come
from voting on this on the floor of the
Senate.. .It grieves me more than anything
I've ever done before in my life."
ERA supporters applied the fatal blow
rather than see the measure go to the
Senate floor, where its defeat was certain.
Lawing said there were at least 27 and
perhaps 28 votes against ERA in the 50
membet chamber.
He and other supporters said avoiding
"a Senate bloodletting" could help ERA
in future sessions because some senators
who would vote against it now might be
persuaded to change in two years.
"I think this will be a matter before
each legislative session until it passes, and
it eventually will pass," said House ERA
sponsor. Rep. George Miller, D
Durham. "I think we were realistic in
facing the issue now. like this."
Gov. Jim Hunt issued a statement
saying, "I am very disappointed. 1 did
everything 1 could. A month ago, nobody
would have guessed it would have come
this close to passing."
The committee action capped an
emotion-charged day in the General
Assembly during which opponents
maneuvered to force the bill to the full
Senate, where they were, confident it
could be killed, then held up after
reaching an agreement with Lawing.
Supporters had hoped to delay any
ERA action until at least next week, and
the constitutional amendments panel had
voted Wednesday to delay action.
But ERA backers found themselves
caught in a parliamentary squeeze play
when the Senate Judiciary I
Committee dominated by ERA foes
moved to force the bill to the Senate
floor.
The committee, repeating an action
taken Wednesday, amended another
bill which would have authorized a
referendum on ERA so that it became a
second ERA-ratification bill.
Opponents of ERA on the panel, led by
chairman Sen. Julian Allsbrook, D
Halifax, planned to force the issue onto
the Senate floor by actually approving
their ERA bill unless ERA was killed in
the other committee.
"Once it gets to the floor, we want the
world to know we've got 28 votes against
it," Allsbrook said during the meeting.
His committee's meeting was filled
with often bitter exchanges between ERA
supporters and opponents. "1 think it's a
sham on the entire General Assembly to
act in such a manner," Sen. Carolyn
Mathis, and ERA supporter, told
Allsbrook.
The committee action was repeated
because Sen. Robert Davis, D-Rowan,
an ERA supporter, said he was not
notified of Wednesday's special meeting.
During heated exchanges, ERA
opponent Sen. Robert Swain, D
Buncombe, called Davis, 25, a "sweet
little ;boy." On another occasion,
Allsbrook said that when he looked at
Mathis, "my mind "gets distracted,"
.bringing hisses from scores of pro-ERA
women who packed the committee room.
In an afternoon meeting in which the
move by Allsbrook was officially put to
rest ERA's fate already having been
sealed Mathis told Allsbrook the"
remarks by him and Swain uwere
inappropriate."
An anti-climatic blow against ERA
was struck early Thursday when Sen.
Walter Cockerham, R-Guilford, broke
his silence on the issue and said he would
vote "no." Cockerham based his decision
on a survey he conducted through
newspaper advertisements, which gave
opponents a 150-vote edge out of some
6,000 cast. Nearly 1 ,500 were discounted,
however, because of what he said were
discrepancies.
Lawing said the decision to kill ERA
was made Wednesday night after meeting
with opponents and Lt. Gov. Jimmy
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The bill was reported to the full Senate
a"nd placed on the1 "unfavorable
calendar.' Under Senate rules, it would
take a two-thirds vote of the Senate to
dislodge it from that resting place and
revive the issue during this two-year
legislative session.
"It's over till '81," said Lawing. "You
don't have to mention it until then."
All ERA supporters on the
constitutional amendments panel voted
for the killing motion except Sen. Rachel
Gray, D-Guilford, who said she could not
go along with it.
"How can I not take it personally when
1 am a woman fighting for equality," she
said later. "They (opponents) really
wanted a bloodletting on the floor. They
love to use their power to defeat anything
we're trying to do that is progressive."
Constitutional Amendments
Chairman Sen. Cecil Hill, D
Transylvania, an ERA supporter, won
applause from the Senate when he
presented the committee's action.
"There was a feeling being generated in
this Senate that ought not to be," he said.
"Your committee recognized that."
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By BEN ESTES
Staff Writer
The party ended and the work began
on the same day for J.B. Kelly, student
body president-elect. After attending a
Chi Psi blowout, Kelly went to bed at 6
a.m. At 9 a.m. he began to take over his
new job.
Although Kelly, who won in the
presidential election Wednesday, will not
officially take office for a month, he
already has started working on his
transition into the office. In March, he
will replace current Student Body
President Jim Phillips.
"Jim and I sat down and started talking
about the transition," Kelly said
Thursday. "We're already on the move."
Kelly has named Glen Cutler and
Duffy Green as his executive assistants.
"There will probably be another one,"
Kelly said. . .
Cutler and Green are helping him to
find other people to fill various Student
Government positions. "Many positions
will be filled next week," Kelly said..
"Anyone who is interested in working
in Student Government should come by,"
Kelly said. He said interested persons
could fill out applications available at the
desk in Suite C, Carolina Union.
Kelly said he is looking for persons to
fill the positions of treasurer and attorney
general. He said he will begin conducting
interviews for these positions beginning
late next week and hopes to fill these jobs
by spring break.
Kelly has appointed Bob Saunders as
Chancellor's Committee coordinator.
Saunder's job will be to help Kelly
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By EDDIE MARKS
Staff Writer
The campaign isn't over for two candidates for Daily
Tar Heel editor.
DTH candidates Allen Jernigan and David Stacks
have five more days to knock on doors, shake hands and
make speeches in the hope that their efforts will give
them the editor's job in next Wednesday's runoff.
After analyzing the returns from Wednesday's
balloting, which gave Jernigan 39.3 percent of the vote
and Stacks 35.1 percent, both candidates said the
turnout in the runoff will be a deciding factorin the race.
"Whoever can get the vote out will do well in the
runoff," Jernigan said. "If the people who are .working
for me can get the vote out, a lower turnout in the runoff
won't hurt us.
"The places we did well in are the places where we
went door-to-door. We'll be going door-to-door one
more time."
Stacks said he also is depending on his campaign staff
to encourage people to vote.
"If my staff can instill their spirit in the people they live
with, we're in pretty good shape," he said. "We'll bex
going door-to-door, and we'll be on the phone a lot.
We've also got a little money left for some more posters.
"We'll have to pick up more'votes in the areas where
we were strong. We'll have to scrounge around for
voters. With just one race on the ballot, some people
might skip it."
DTH candidate Reid Tuvim was knocked out of the
race Wednesday with 25.6 percent of the vote. Tuvim
said he was disappointed by the results.
"I'm disappointed that I didn't get more than 1 did," he
said. "But that's the way it goes. At least I'll be able to get
some sleep now."
Tuvim said he plans to endorse either Jernigan or
Stacks Sunday afternoon.
"I'm going to talk to the candidates and a few other
people before I decide who to endorse," Tuvim said.
Stacks said Tuvim's endorsement could make the
difference in the election.
"Tuvim could swing the election," Stacks said. "It
depends on his attitude. If he'll knock on doors and
really work for the candidate he endorses it could make a
big difference. But if he just says one candidate is better
without a reason to make it stick then it might not mean
much."
Jernigan said he also thinks Tuvim's influence will be
important.
"We'll try to convert a lot of Tuvim's votes to our
votes." he said. ,
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