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By PAM KELLEY
Sun Writer
It is no secret that there is a housing shortage in the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro area; both towns have a vacancy rate of less
than 1 percent. Administrators of the two towns admit it, and
students become painfully aware of the problem when they
look for an apartment.
Apartment owners are aware of the shortage, too. They
know their apartments probably will be rented by someone
no matter what kind of policies they make or how high rents
are. Of course, not all owners are jumping at the chance to
take advantage of their tenants, but a quick look at the
policies of many apartments in the area shows some owners
are making it even harder for students especially
undergraduates to find an apartment.
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Apartment owners can legally refuse to accept
undergraduate tenants, and quite a few owners in the area are
doing just that.
Robert Oakes, who owns and manages Cedar Court and
Fidelity Court apartments in Carrboro, rents primarily to
graduate students and does not accept undergraduates. "I
discriminate against age, but their is no other way you can do
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it," he said recently. "Graduate students are more serious
minded. I used to rent to undergraduates, and they made the
damnedest mess I ever saw in my life. If they would discipline
themselves, they wouldn't have the problem they're having
finding a place to stay."
Several other owners also flatly refuse to accept
undergraduates, but many others simply establish renting
policies that discourage undergraduates from try ing to rent.
"We require a twelve-month lease and do not allow
subletting," said Barbara Meade, who manages Laurel Ridge
apartments in Chapel Hill. She said undergraduates usually
don't care how they treat an apartment because they don't
own it. "We can be picky because of the housing shortage,"
she said.
"We allow undergraduates, but by allowing only one
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By MARTHA WAGGONER
SufT Writer
Action on a Residence Hall
Association report recommending 24
hour weekend visitation rights in
dormitories will be delayed because the
Housing Advisory Board will not meet
until next fall. Director of Housing James
D. Condie said Wednesday.
The delay could eliminate the
possibility of any visitation policy change
until the spring semester 1980, Condie
said. Condie has had the report since
March 24, but it will have to be reviewed
by the board, the housing department
and the Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Donald Boulton before any
decison can be made, he said.
"We need to have them look at it in
terms of things the faculty would consider
important." Condie said "The process
could take a full semester."
The report probably will be the first
item on the board's fall agenda, Condie
said. The board will seek outside opinions
when discussing the report, he said.
RHA President William Porterfield
said RHA is trying to determine if there is
any possible method of appealing the
board's decision not to meet until the fall.
"1 hope that they will be able to
reconsider," Porterfield said. "It certainly
needs to be considered this semester.
"The concern is immediate as well as
long-range. The association (RHA) has
done its share in trying to expediate the
change in a fair way. The burden is now
on the administration and the students to
work together to expediate the final
change."
The RHA report proposes extending
dorm visitation hours from 10 a.m. to 1
a.m. on weekdays and 24-hour visitation
on weekends. The report also proposes
new rules for enforcing visitation and
other housing rules by measures such as
the establishment of two student
judiciary courts to hear complaints.
RHA will lobby to establish the courts
by spring 1980, Porterfield said.
A roommate's bill of rights also is
included in the report. The report
recommends guaranteeing a roommate's
right to sleep or study. Any roommate
right would supersede visitation rights,
Condie said.
However, Condie said, Associate Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs James O.
Cansler is making an effort to have the
board meet during the summer. But any
final decision on the visitation report
probably will be made by Boulton or
Chancellor N.Ferebee Taylor, Condie
said.
HEW dispute
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By JIM HUMMEL
Staff Writer
The recent flurry of legislative activity
concerning the UNC-HEW dispute has caused
speculation about the right of the General
Assembly to intervene in the matter, but UNC
President William Friday said Wednesday he
saw it only as concern for higher education.
"I think there has been a genuine and honest
response from the General Assembly
(concerning HEW)," Friday said. "They have
received unfair treatment from the press."
A bill introduced by Rep. Ernest Messer, D
Haywood, calls for a commission to examine
whether any of the 16 campuses within the
University system should be merged or closed.
"The bill is still in committee and will be
discussed next Tuesday," said state Rep. Lura
Tally, chairman of the House Higher Education
Committee. "Unless Mr. Friday goes against it,
I think the bill will pass in our committee," she
said.
Some critics say Messer's bill is part of an
attempt to close down the traditionally black
schools in the UNC system.
"I don't think they want to close them down,"
Tally said. "I believe the legislators think if the
state government is looking into the issue, HEW
may be more agreeable.
"Mr. Messer's bill reflects many comments
that have come from the General Assembly in
one form or another," Friday said.
Another bill originally introduced Monday
by Sen. Carolyn Mathis, D-Mecklenburg, and
later withheld on Mathis' request, called for two
proposals. One would attempt to 'raise an
additional $2Q million by increasing class size
and reducing the number of professors
throughout the system.
The other proposal would hike tuition 10
percent over the next 10 years. The General
Assembly killed an attempt earlier this year to
raise tuition 24 percent for out-of-state students
and 10 percent for in-state students.
"I am certainly opposed to any tuition hike,"
Friday said. "Her proposal (Mathis'), in my
judgment, would bring a swift reaction from
every chancellor in the system.
"It would also bring a loss of teaching
positions, and 1 know they would oppose that,"
he said.
Mathis withdrew the bills on the advice of
State Sen. Kenneth Royall, D-Durham, who
said the bills would affect the negotiations going
on between HEW and UNC. Many people,
including Royall, say the talks between HEW
and UNC are not within the legislature's
jurisdiction and should be left to Friday and his
staff.
"I think they'd be in a (ot better position to
negotiate without the bills" Royall said.'
"Since nothing has been enacted. I don't
think it will have any effect on our discussions
with HEW," Friday said.
"Obviously the legislature turned over to the
(UNC Board of Governors) the power to deal
with higher education in North Carolina and I
would hope they'd leave it there," UNC vice
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By NATALIE EASON
SUIT Writer
Classes and tests in Phillips Hall were
canceled Wednesday as the third campus
bomb threat in four days forced police
and University officials to clear the
building.
The building was cleared from 9 a.m. to
11 a.m. while police searched for the
bomb. But University Police Maj. E.B.
Rigsbee said no bomb was found.
The bomb threat was called in to the
police dispatcher at approximately 8:30
a.m. University Police Sgt. Walter Dunn
said the call was made by a young male
who said he had planted two bombs in
Phillips, one set to explode at 9:30 a.m.
and the other at 10 a.m. Police were
unable to trace the call, Dunn said.
Dunn said he believes the bomb threat
was a result of the heavy testing schedule
in Phillips Wednesday morning. To
prevent future threats, professors should
select alternate sites to reserve for tests in
the event a threat is received, he said.
"If enough professors do this, there will
be fewer bomb threats," Dunn said.
Other bomb threats were made this
week at Ehringhaus dorm Sunday
morning and Carmichael Auditorium
Sunday afternoon.
Several professors Wednesday said the
Phillips bomb threat caused difficulties
but there will be not major problems.
Kenan Professor Eugene Merzbacher,
chairman of the physics department, said
an astronomy test was canceled because
of the threat. "I have no idea if there was a
connection between the threat and the
test," Merzbacher said. "It is extremely
disruptive to classes, but it won't retard
the students' progress."
Physics Professor Lawrence M. Slifkin
said his class also was canceled because of
the threat. Alternate test sites would help
put an end to the threats, he said.
"If people knew we had a back-up
system, bomb threats clearly wouldn't
happen," he said.
University Police Sgt. Robert Porreca
said bomb threats are a misdemeanor
under state and federal law. Persons
convicted of making bomb threats could
be imprisoned for a maximum of two
years and be fined, he said.
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Carter wage hike arithmetic
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WASHINGTON (AP) The Carter
administration proclaimed victory Wednesday for
the president's stretched anti-inflation guidelines
after the Teamsters union agreed to a contract
settlement to end a 10-day nationwide trucking
shutdown.
The new settlement exceeds the 7 percent annual
wage ceiling originally announced by Carter, but the
administration has raised he wage guideline to
accommodate a larger package for the Teamsters.
Union and trucking industry bargainers, who
reached tentative agreement on a new contract late
Tuesday, said the pact boosts labor costs 30 percent
over three years just over 9 percent a year.
But administration officials disputed that cost
estimate, saying the contract boosts wages and fringe
benefits 27 percent over three years, or 8.3 percent a
year, according to their calculations. After
subtracting several increases exempt from the
guidelines, the administration said the contract
complied with the program. -
One administration official acknowledged
Wednesday the pact is inflationary. The
administration would have preferred a 7 percent
annual settlement, said the official, who asked not to
be named. But he said the contract is still better than
a settlement of up to 12 percent a year.
Publicly, the administration expressed pleasure
with the contract. "The settlement is within the
administration's voluntary pay standards,"
President Carter's chief inflation fighter, Alfred E.
Kahn. said Wednesday.
Industry officials concurred with the
administration that the package falls within the
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as city rejoices
KAMPALA. Uganda (AP) Tanzanian troops and Ugandan
rebels, showered with flowers by delirious civilians, entered ldi
Amin's capital in triumph Wednesday after a five-month war to
drive the dictator from power.
The victors promised to return the good life to this
bloodstained land and said they expect the United States to play
a major role in helping them do it.
; Jubilant residents of Kampala flooded the streets to greet their
liberators, swarming over the Tanzanian tanks, looting shops
and beating to death stragglers from Amin's army.
Amin. with remnants of his forces, was last seen Tuesday
fleeing eastward toward Jinja,'50 miles away, in a convoy of
limousines. Some reports said he had gone beyond that to
Tororo, near the Kenyan border.
But at the offices of the Nation newspaper in Nairobi, Kenya,
the editor answered the phone Wednesday and heard: "This is
President Amin speaking. I am in control of 90 percent of the
country, completely. I am speaking from Kampala."
There was no way to confirm the identity of the caller, but the
message had all the hallmarks of the bold theatrics Amin had
regularly broadcast over his state radio.
Townspeople in Jinja reported a flood of wounded and ragged
soldiers from Amin's loyal units. Tanzanian and rebel
commanders ordered no immediate full-scale push to the east,
however.
"The racist fascist is no longer in power," the rebels declared
over Ugandan Radio and through loudspeakers in Kampala
streets.
The Tanzanian-sponsored Ugandan National Liberation
Front quickly announced establishment of a provisional
government with former Ugandan university official Yussufu K.
Lule as president, defense minister and armed forces chief.
The elderly Lule, in a statement broadcast from Dar es
Salaam, Tanzania, promised a rule of law and said Uganda's first
elections since 1962 would be as soon as conditions permit.
He said he wants to "bring back to the people of Uganda the
good life they once knew. There must be no revenge," he said.
Another UNLF spokesman said the United States is expected
to play a tremendous role in helping to rebuild Uganda, as "the
only developed country with a consistently clean record towards
Amin's regime."
He said preliminary talks with U.S. officials and other
potential aid donors had taken place. Members of the
provisional government might travel to Kampala as early as
Thursday, he said.
Yoga improves self-awareness, flexibility, strength
By KAREN BARBER
Special to the Daily Tar Heel
Take a de-e-e-e-p breath.. .put all of ydur
tension, heartaches and worries in your
abdomen.. .and then let it go-o-o-o!
Deep breathing, relaxation and self
awareness these are the most important
aspects of yoga, said Vicki Thomas, a UNC
yoga instructor. Although the term "yoga" is
vague, it is basically defined as a discipline
which heightens self-awareness and increases
flexibility, strength and endurance, she said.
Many people evidently think those who
practice yoga are weird " or that yoga is
dangerous, Thomas said. "Yoga is a relatively
new thing. People are afraid of it because they
get the idea that it's going to hurt them. But
yoga is just a tool for building up the self."
Most people in Western societies practice
Hatha yoga, which emphasizes physical
movement and postures as means of achieving
relaxation and self-awareness. Hatha yoga is
one of six traditional yoga schools found in
Eastern cultures, said Hannah Carothers, yoga
instructor and operator of The Yoga Place in
Chapel Hill.
"Hatha yoga combines spiritual and physical
aspects for a unique experience," she said. "One
of the ways I describe it is living creatively on all
levels of yourself physical, mental, emotional
and spiritual."
The postures assumed in Hatha yoga, known
as asana, require concentration, relaxation and
deep breathing for the desired effect, said Eileen
Brisgfove, yoga instructor at the Chapel Hill
YMCA. "What you're doing is massaging the
internal organs of the body. You're also
affecting the endocrine glands and getting more
oxygen in the blood. This increases a person's
vitality and health and regulates the body."
However, yoga is not solely physical.
"Yoga has a mystical tradition," Carothers
said, "but some of the people that practice it are
not interested in the spiritualapproach. Some
people are only attracted to a yoga class for the
exercise, but they're missing out on a lot. Some
people that come to a yoga class to become
more flexible end up having a 'mystical'
experience anyway. 1 think it's a really shallow
approach for people to teach yoga only for.the
exercise and not the spiritual aspects."
Thomas agreed the spiritual aspects of yoga
are important, but she also said the breathing
techniques and asana used in Hatha yoga can
help a person relax or relieve tension after a long
day.
"People spend so much time pushing
themselves during the day. Yoga can help them
freshen up, recharge, or re-energize."
Mastering yoga to achieve both physical and
spiritual relaxation takes practice and
discipline, Thomas said, but there are a few
basic breathing exercises and postures
beginners may try at home.
"The nice thing about yoga is that almost
anyone can do it. You don't have to be flexible
or very strong to do yoga. The key to yoga is
deep breathing. All yoga movements are done
with breath, so this is especially important."
Thomas recommends doing a "sitting breath" to
calm the body before beginning the yoga
postures. Sitting in a comfortable position with
legs crossed and spine straight, exhale slowly
and completely, contracting the abdomen.
Then, slowly inhale, filling the lungs totally and
pushing the abdomen out. Practice this
breathing very slowly at first until it can be done
rhythmically.
"It's not so important in the beginning to
make long, deep breaths, but to get the breaths
even," Thomas said. "And don't force the
breath and push into pain."
Along with bieathing. yoga asana provide an
outlet for tension "and anxieties. Thomas
outlined some basic asana for the beginning
yoga student to practice. In one posture. "The
Corpse," the person lies fiat on his back with
arms opened out and palms up. Legs are apart
but not locked, and eyes are closed. Taking a
deep breath, the person exhales and "blows out"
tension.
In another asana. "The Mountain." the
person stands erect with feet together and heels
and toes touching, elbows and knees locked.
With eyes closed, attention is focused in the
abdomen while breathing is still and balanced.
"The Bow" is performed lying lace down. As
the person exhales, his knees are bent and his
elbows' are locked as he grabs his ankles.
Inhaling, the person pushes his chin out and lifts
his chest and thighs to arch and stretch the
spine.
"The more you practice these basic oga
skills, the better person you will become, and
you will have more endurance," Thomas said.
"The key thing to remembei is not to let voga
become another rut or routine to go through.
That spoils it," he said.
Thomas recommended practicing yoga each
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