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Staff Writer
A Chapel Hill minister is leading a drive to
bring 2,000 Vietnamese "boat people" to
North Carolina by the end of the year.
Jim Riddle, pastor of Chapel Hill's
interdenominational Community Church
called the flight of refugees from Southeast
Asia "the greatest humanitarian crisis of this
decade."
Riddle will head a N.C. Council of
Churches committee to set up a special office
for coordinating refugee sponsorship
activities among the organization's 6,000
churches.
The council voted Tuesday to apply for a
$20,000 Church World Services grant to help
pay for that office. The remaining $10,000
would be raised by churches throughout the
state.
Locally, churches are preparing to welcome
about 20 families by mid-September, said Pat
Reefe, spokeswoman for the Indochinese
Refugee Resettlement Coalition. Two families
arrived this summer, joining 36 refugees who
have come to Chapel Hill since 1975.
Riddle said the biggest problem facing
Chapel Hill churches that sponsor refugees is
the housing shortage. Sponsoring groups are
required by federal regulation to place a
family in a permanent home.
But Riddle said families can be temporarily
housed while their sponsors seek permanent
housing. "Families may have to be housed in
people's homes until something more
permanent can be found," Riddle said. "I
don't see that as a problem, because people
want to help out. If there were a flood, people
would double up," he said.
Reefe said students can help refugees adjust
to life in America. "I would like to see students
involved in one-to-one tutorial sessions to
help the refugees learn English. Also, students
can assist in transportation by taking refugees
to medical and dental appointments or :
grocery shopping.
"The refugees will need help with everything
we would take for granted in our everyday
lives," Reefe said.
Riddle's state committee will select a full
time employee to act as a liaison between state
churches and other groups sponsoring
refugees. -
Riddle said such a liaison is needed because
existing programs and personnel are not
adequate to meet the needs of the thousands of
refugees leaving Indochina daily or those who
already have fled.
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Jim Riddle expects 20 families
"Even if the flight from Indochina were now
complete, existing projects and activities are
not adequate to assure quick resettlement of .
the 370,000 currently in first asylum camps,"
he said.
The Chapel H ill coalition will meet at 8 p.m.
Sept. 4 at University Baptist Church. Anyone
interested in sponsorship or other refugee
related services is welcome. For more
information, call 929-8301.
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By PAM KELLEY
and SUSAN LADD
Staff Writers
The Orange County Board of Elections is
shying away from efforts to organize special
voter registration for apartment dwellers
because members of the Orange Committee
could file challenges against the new voters,
Carrboro lawyer Steven J. Rose said Thursday
night.
The- Orange Committee, a group of
conservative northern Orange County
Democrats, unsuccessfully challenged last year
the voting rights of more" than 6,300 southern "
Orange County residents, most of them
University students. .
Rose, a candidate for a seat on the Carrboro
Board of Aldermen, said he and several other
politically active citizens including Carrboro
Alerman Doug Sharer and Gerry Cohen, a
member of the Chapel Hill Town Council
wanted to organize special voter registration at
area apartment complexes from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.
Monday through Thursday from Sept. 10 until
the registration period ends Oct. 8.
Rose said he hoped the special registration
would benefit students who are unable to
register during the day or who cannot get to
registration places because they have no car.
. Special registration had been planned in
clubhouses and laundromats at - several
"apartment complexes, including Carolina, Old
Well, University Lake, Estes Park and
Tarheel Manor apartments, he said. Rose
said permission had already been secured from
several apartment managers, and added that
three people had volunteered to act as
registrars.
But elections board member Evelyn Lloyd,
who , said she talked to Rose about the
registration, said her hesitation did not stem
from fears of voter challenges, but from past
experience with apartment registration that was
not properly supervised.
"It doesn't have a thing to do with the Orange
Committee," she said.
But Sharer said he also talked with another
elections board member who expressed concern
See ELECTIONS on page 2
By MARK MURRELL
Staff Writer
Studies will be conducted soon to determine why
more Carolina students failed the state bar exam this
year. Law School Dean Kenneth S. Broun said
Wednesday.
"We will be analyzing who was flunking and
looking at how they did in law school," Broun said.
' "Scores vary from year to year in each state, and it's
not unusual for them to suddenly take a dip."
The Law School experienced a 14 percent drop in
scores from last year's passage rate of 96 percent,
while socres at the North Carolina Central
University School of Law fell 6 percent from last
year's 51 percent.
"In October all law school deans will meet with the
State Board of Law Examiners as a routine matter to
discuss the exam," Broun said.
He said copies of the test have been given to the
UJMC Law School faculty to analyze.
Broun said since the curriculum of the school and
i the rnmnnsition nf the student hrvrf v have remained
constant over the past few years, there is no clear-cut
reason for the drop in scores.
Wake Forest Law School also reported a drop
from a 100 percent passage rate in 1977 to 87.1
percent this year. Statistics are not yet available from
,Duke University.
A refresher bar-review course which changed
hands this year may have been a factor in the falling
scores, officials said.
Robin Hinson, a Charlotte attorney, sold a
refresher course he has conducted for the past 18
years to Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich Corp. of
Chicago.
"We're not excluding it totally, because of the
coincidence," Broun said of the new course. "But it is
just one among many things we will be considering."
Hinson said the new course, BAR-BRI, is widely
acclaimed in many states, but that his previous
course concentrated more on North Carolina law.
"1 have no responsibility for the format and
content of the BAR-BRI course," Hinson said. He
added he only taught one particular subject this year
in conjunction with BAR-BRI, because he wanted to
limit his involvement with such courses.
"This is the first vear there was no alternative to
BAR-BRI at Wake Forest," Elva Jess, assistant dean
of the Law School, said.
The falling scores, according to UNC President
William C. Friday, "were a bit unusual and
disappointing."- 5 '
Friday said the NCCU law school should be given
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two or three more chances to pull its passage rate up,
since there is a "massive building program" going on
at the school.
"One particular test interval is not a fair way to
draw conclusions," Friday said. "1 feel the record of
NCCU will improve and that the school will meet the
requirements of accreditations."
Friday said the faculty at Central Law School has
doubled, and the budget has tripled since the 1974-75
fiscal year. The current budget for the school is about
$984,000. A budget figure for Carolina's Law School
was not available Thursday.
A $3 million building for the Law School at
Central is expected to be completed within the next
12 months.
Central now has 15 faculty members for its
approximately 200 law students.
"We consider that full and sufficient for the
present enrollment," Friday said. "The problem was
there was enrollment in excess of the facilities."
Friday said he hopes the building program at
Central will help pull the school out of a provisional
accreditation status.
The school's accreditation became endangered in
1975 because of poor performance on the state bar
exam.
But Friday said he is confident the school will
improve.
"The accreditation people expressed pleasure at
the substantial improvements under Dean Groves,"
he said.
Many officials said the test was just stricter this
year, and that since scores dropped at all schools,
none is in danger."! would guess the bar result would
have little or nothing to do with what's going on
here," Broun said.
"There must be a reason for such a consistent
pattern! 'arid I'm sure it will be looked into," Friday
said.
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Monies lost in shuffle
HUB on the way
By JIM HUMMEL
' Staff Writer
The Department of Housing and Urban Development
was wrong in withholding a loan from UNC-Charlotte
and has "rectified the situation" by reversing its decision,
said Raymond Dawson, UNC vice president for
academic affairs.
Earlier this month HUD decided to withhold a $1.5
million dollar loan approved to go to the UNCC campus
for construction of a new dormitory.
"It was wrong and they never should have done it,"
Dawson said of HUD's withholding action. "After a
stunt like that, it (the reversed decision) was the only
right thing to do."
Many have speculated that HUD joined forces with
the Department of Health, Education and Welfare in
withholding the funds, attempting to force the university
into a settlement of a court suit over desegregation of the
UNC system that is awaiting a hearing Jan. 7. The
federal government has denied those charges.
"After consulting with the Justice Department, we
(HUD) felt it would be in the best interests of both sides
to lift the deferral of funds for now," said Tom Bacon,
HUD spokesman.
"HUD will continue with the loan application and at
the same time proceed with the administrative actions to
determine the real matter at hand, that is the (HEW)
dispute over Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act,"
Bacon said.
As a result of HUD's original decision to hold back
the loan, the state went to federal court last week,
seeking to avert any cutoff of funding to the UNC system
from a federal agency.
U.S. District Judge Franklin T. Dupree, who issued a
restraining order in June, preventing HEW from cutting
off funds to UNC, has heard arguments from both sides
about including HUD in the order blocking any fund
cutoffs to UNC.
Dupree specifically ordered H E W not to withhold any
of the $89 million the UNC system receives annually
until proceedings are completed. HUD was not
specifically named in the order.
"We're very pleased that the money is back," said
UNCC Chancellor E.K. Fretwell, in a telephone
interview Thursday.
"We did not have any other access to such low interest
funding. Because of the law, had the loan not come
through, the students would have had to carry the
burden and we felt this was not right."
A state law prevents state money to be used for
student housing. Therefore, Fretwell said, to get enough
money for the dormitory, student rent would have to be
dramatically increased.
"Although I have not been here very long, 1 have never
been aware of this type of thing (loan deferral)
happening before," Fretwell said.
The College Housing Loan program began in 1950
and provides low interest loans for schools across the
country. The interest rate is 3 percent and the institution
may take up to 40 years to repay the loan.
In 1978 HUD received 315 applications for money.
This year, over 400 applications were submitted, with
almost $95 million going to approved borrowers.
Since the program started, 20 loans have been granted
to schools within the UNC system, according to a
spokesman for HUD.
Food chains upgrade menu, cut prices
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By SUSAN JURGELSKI
Staff Writer
"Howdy pardner. Care to see our wine list? Perhaps a list of
our 42 flavors of ice cream? A dry martini with a whopper olive?"
If trends continue, those may be the newest greetings at your
favorite fast food joint.
The hot competition for the $26 billion Americans spend each
year on fast food has made the mundane hamburger and
cheeseburger practically obsolete. Now burger parlors are
breakfast, lunch, dinner and dessert smorgasbords. Hamburgers
are becoming outnumbered by biscuits, English muffins, fish
sandwiches, sundaes, cookies, pies, ham sandwiches and onion
rings.
The fast food business is booming. The trade has grown from
30,000 to 140,000 outlets in the United States in eight years! A
Gallup poll reported that 33 percent of adults eat out every day
and that 28 percent of these eat at fast food places.
The fast food kings design tantalizing names for their
creations. The letters tumble over hungry tongues, getting stuck
somewhere behind the teeth. "Two allbeefpattiesspecialsauce
lettucecheesepicklesonionsonasesameseedbun and throw in a
hot ham and cheese, please." Frustrated and tired consumers
resort to a simplified version. "Big Mac that sandwich ya got,
some fries and two whoppers before I whop you." ;
What goes on in the advertising windmills of fast food
hierarchy? Do chair-bound executives madly flick their Bics,
concocting fast food fantasies? :
. It's a little more complicated than that. McDonalds, America's
largest fast food chain, provides an example. McDonald's fast
food brainstorms begin and run through a head product division
research and testing institute, explained Scott Daubert, manager
of McDonalds on Franklin Street.
Through the institute, the life or death of a new product is
determined by surveys of consumers, taste tests and other
, research. -
Depending on the consumers' grins or grips after gaping and
gulping, and on the researchers' collected survey and test data,
the new products are placed or not placed in a regional market.
The McFcast hamburger is now being tested in the Triangle area
as well as in Dallas. If the product proves feasible after the
regional test, it's ready for big time and hits the national market.
"Products and their names all are developed to fit in with the
McDonald theme," Daubert said. The commercial character
Ronald McDonald is an example. Products and their names vary
whether they're geared toward children or adults. Most names
start with the Mc or Mac of McDonald's. Consumer surveys and
reactions also help determine names," Duabert said.
McDonald's recently introduced yet another fast food fad by
cutting hamburger and cheeseburger prices five cents. A full scale
war broke out when Burger King joined in and cut its hamburger
prices by 7 cents and its cheeseburger prices by 12 cents.
Hamburgers at both restaurants now cost 38 cents, and the
cheeseburgers are priced at 43 cents. .
Last but not least, the Roy Rogers restaurants owned by
Merriot Corp. cut their quarter-pound hamburgers and quarter
pound cheeseburgers by four to 10 cents. These burgers now go
for 95 cents to $1.05 and $1.05 to $1.15 respectively.
Is the price drop a last, desparate attempt to salvage the plain
hamburger from extinction? Is it a dying breed? Local managers
of fast food restaurants say no, citing the recent 25 cent drop in
beef prices as the main catalyst in the restaurant price cuts.
The local managers said customers seemed to appreciate the
price cuts and that many customers had commented favorably.
"Families will have a break on this because it's mostly the
children who eat the smaller hamburgers," said Margaret
Watson, assistant manager of Burger King.
George Woody, manager of Chapel Hill's Roy Rogers, was
more critical of the price war. "It's just another push by
McDonald's to get into the public eye," he said. "Other
restaurants are following to remain competitive and because of
the lowered beef prices."
Roy Rogers in Chapel Hill is one of the 70 independently
owned Roy Rogers franchises. It has not dropped prices with the
corporate outlets. Manager Woody said the price of meet has not
dropped low enough to warrant price cuts.
Roy Rogers has, however, changed its menu somewhat.
Bottomless drinks have been replaced with three drink sizes: 35,
45 and 55 cents. The large size Coke allows one free refill
Coleslaw, french fries and salad have been split from the
platter entrees and are available as side dishes. Woody said the
separate entrees will streamline sandwich prices and allow the
customer to choose whether he wants extras.
Hardee's and Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers have
elected not to join the price battle.
"We didn't fcej it was necessary to lower prices since we were
and are competitive with the other chains," said Hardee's district
supervisor Ken Kennedy. "In some cases their prices are stiil
higher than ours.
"Since we have such a variety on our menu, we have more to
offer than the other chains. In this area we sell about 2S-30
percent breakfast foods, but hamburgers arc stiil our biggest
sellers."
, Since Wendy's primarily offers larger hamburgers and hat no
children's menu they did not find it necessary to cut their prices to
remain competitive.
Recently, Hardee's Food Systems Inc., reported a 30 percent
increase in profits for the third quarter of 1979 over the tame
period last year. According to Hardee's president Jack A.
Laughery, the increase is due to improved customer traffic,
higher menu prices, new products and strong marketing support.
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