In your car
The North Carolina
Symphony performed a pops
concert in Memorial Hall
Sunday afternoon. Read
about it on page 3.
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overcast with occasional
clearing. The highs will be in
the low 70s and the lows in
the mid 50s. There's a 30
percent chance of rain.
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Volume 87, Issue No. 2p
Monday, September 24, Chspel Hill, North Carolina
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Saturday's North Carolina-Pittsburgh game may have '
indicated that football players and coaches have access to a little
crystal ball not available to the rest of us.
Maybe Matt Kupec, Dick Crum and Jackie Sherrill are in the
soothsayer business on the side, just showing up in football
' stadiums every week for show.
For instance, a look at some of the predictions that developed
into realities in the Tar Heels. 17-7 win:
Kupec, the Carolina quarterback, had said turnovers would
' play a big role in the game's outcome and might be the deciding
' factor. They were, as Pittsburgh lost the ball seven times; four
times to interceptions, three on fumbles.
Crum, the Carolina coach, had said the Panthers were
committed heavily to the passing game and would pass
frequently. They did, throwing 44 times, completing 21, for 220
yards.
Sherrill, the Pittsburgh coach, said the weather in Chapel Hill
would be hot and humid, just the conditions his Panthers were
not used to and did not want to play in. The coach and his troops
got exactly what they didn't want. When a long rain stopped two
hours before game time, the sun shone brightly and Kenan
Stadium performed adequately as an oversized Turkish bath.
Everyone said the Pitt defense, especially its defensive line, was
mean and fast. It was, holding the Tar Heels to 2 19 total yards, 96
yards less than the Panthers.
Everyone but the oddsmakers the people who are paid for
such things was right in their predictions as unranked Carolina
upended the i3th-ranked Panthers in the second game of the
season for both teams.
And the oddsmakers didn't have to wait long to see they might
have made a wrong choice.
On its first possession, with 50,000-plus just beginning to sweat
in the 85-degree heat, Carolina struck first and fast.
Using. a particular pass play for just the second time in. two
games, the Tar Heels produced the sajne result as the first time: a
43-yard touchdown pass from Kupec to flanker Phil Farris. A
video tape of the first TD couldn't have looked any more like
Saturday's play.
Kupec dropped back, Farris took off on a post pattern, the ball ;
was on target and UNC had a 7-0 lead when JeffHayes added the
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By MELANIE STILL
Staff Writer
The search for a new chancellor,
proposed changes in the General College
curriculum and study of minority
admissions and faculty tenure policies
will be the biggest issues facing the
University faculty during the coming
year. t- acuity
Chairman Daniel
Pollitt said Friday.
Pollitt spoke at
the Faculty
Council's first
meeting of the 1979
80 academic year.
The meeting also
included members of
the general faculty.
Pollitt said the
selection of a new
University chancellor was of primary
importance. UNC Chancellor N. Ferebee
Taylor, who submitted his resignation in
August, will leave his post Jan. 31 or as
soon thereafter as a replacement can be
found. After a heart attack on June 7,
Taylor was advised by his doctor that
pressures from the chancellorship could
hinder his recovery.
A five-member search committee made
up of faculty has been named and a public
meeting is planned for Oct. 25. Pollitt
asked faculty members to submit
nominations for a new chancellor by
Nov. I.
General College curriculum changes
recommended in a report by a committee
Pollitt
headed by English Professor Weldon
Thornton will come before the council
this year. Pollitt said. Thornton said after
the meeting, however, that discussion of
the proposed revisions by academic
departments and student groups must
take place before the proposal can be
brought before the council.
The report can't officially go to the
Educational Policy Committee until after
it goes to the Faculty Council." Thornton
said. "And we won't have the report ready
to go to the council until spring."
Faculty review of a report by the Long
committee, appointed last year to
investigate charges by Hayden B.
Renwick, assistant dean of the college of
arts and sciences, criticizing University
policy in black undergraduate admissions
will take place at the council's meeting
next Oct. 19, Pollitt said.
Also on the council's agenda this year is
a report by the Committee on University
Government concerning review of faculty
tenure denials, Pollitt said.
Pollitt also asked faculty members to
submit their opinions on the proposal by
the UNC General Administration for
guidelines governing outside professional
activities by faculty members. A
committee will meet Thursday, Pollitt
said, to discuss faculty position regarding
the proposal and prepare for a meeting
Friday of the UNC Faculty Assembly,
which has delegates from each of the 16
institutions in the UNC system. A
delegate will represent the Chapel Hill
See FACULTY on page 2
Trend toward low SA T scores soon to level o
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By MARK MURRELL
Staff Writer
An 11-year trend of falling Scholastic
Aptitude Test scores for UNC-CH freshmen
is likely to level off this year with a composite
test score of 1063, Carolyn Bishop, assistant
director of undergraduate admissions said
last week.
Preliminary figures for freshmen who had
paid enrollment fees by the first week in
August show the composite score matches
last year's, but fell 21 points below the 1977
score of 1084.
The average verbal score was 511; the
average math score 552.
SAT scores for freshmen at the Chapel Hill
campus started a downward trend in 1967
from an average high point of 1233.
Bishop said the growth in enrollment over
the past 10 years has affected the scores.
Enrollment at the university has increased
from 1 6.233 in the fall of 1 968 to 20, 1 26 in the
fall of 1978.
"Naturally the scores will be lower the more
people you have attending the school,"
Bishop said. "Unfortunately in our society we
tend to measure things by numbers. There are
other considerations. We give more attention
to high school records than SAT scores."
Some officials said it is hard to speculate
about trends in the SAT scores,
"We could speculate if the class size
remained the same, but it changes," Anthony
Strickland. - assistant director for
undergraduate admissions at Chapel Hill,
said.'
Many national officials expected the score
decline to level off or reverse itself this year,
but SAT national average scores for high
school students continued to fall.
The national average verbal score fell two
points to 427. with the math score dropping
one point to 467.
"The trend line is still down, and I can't
predict when it will change because the data is
full ioi surprises," Robert Cameron, director
of the admissions testing program for the
College Board in New York, said.
"Certainly this year's scores caught me by
surprise since we have evidence high schools
are working harder to improve themselves,"
Camerons said.
Cameron said an advisory panel on score
decline issued a report in 1977 which
attempted to explain the slump in scores.
The experts divided the score drop into
Compositional. . from 1963 to 1971, and
Pervasive, from 1971 to the present. The
compositional period was characterized by a
larger group entering college as educational
opportunity broadened.
"Schools were dipping deeper and deeper
into the ability scale" as enrollment increased,
Cameron said.
There are many various speculations as to
the cause of the pervasive, or largest, decline.
Experts have suggested such factors as
deterioration in education, the war in
Vietnam, Watergate, the breakup of the
family and the influence of television as
factors, Cameron said.
"Students are used to picking up the'phone
now for information, when they used to dig it
out by reading," Cameron said.
Though average scores in North Carolina
high schools increased this year, they remain
below the national average.
Verbal scores increased from 390 to 393,
with math scores increasing from 424 to 426.
Sco'res for freshmen at N.C. State are off
slightly this year at 1 000 from last year's 1010,
but scores at Duke are on their way up since a
1976 drop, at 1290. up from las year's 1275.
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By GEORGE JETER
Staff Writer
Gym students will have to endure,
crowed classes and locker rooms a little
longer than originally planned.
University officials said last week the new
physical education facility under
construction next to Woollem Gym
probably won't be ready for use until next
fall.
Charles Davis, consulting architect to
the UNC office of engineering and
construction, said construction of the
gymnasium will not be completed until
June 1980.
"You can say the fall and winter of 1 978
is to blame." Davis said. "It just couldn't
come out of the ground because of all the
rain and low temperatures."
Davis said the unusually cold winter
made it difficult to pour the proper
concrete foundations because areas had
to be dug out of frozen ground. "It's a
very complicated construction." Davis
said.
Betty Partin, women's locker room
manager in Wollen Gym, said that
women physical education students are
suffering from a shortage of space while
the new facility's completion is awaited.
"Especially when the classes start turning
in baskets while others start coming in,
there are long lines," Partin said.
Angela Lumpkin, director of physical
educt on ciiity programs, said the new
gym's space also Is needed to alleviate
crowded classes. "For instance we have
three classes this semester meeting in
Woollen Gym at the same tim and it just
isn't ideal." Lumpkin said.
Lumpkin, w ho arranges meeting places
See GYM on page 2
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By ANNE-MARIE DOWNEY
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted
Thursday to place a $300,000 open space bond
referendum on the Nov. 6 election ballot.
The funds, if approved, w ill be used to buy 70
acres of land in the Ridgefield area, near Bolin
and Booker Creek. The land would remain
permanently undeveloped, serving as open green
space for the town.
The referendum has been the source of
controversy among Ridgefield residents and
within the council. Thursday's vote followed two
previous conflicting council votes on the issue.
In July, the council approved an open space
referendum which did not designate what land
would be purchased with the bond funds. But
the council rejected this version of the
referendum Sept. 4. and it appeared that the.
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Opening of the new women's gym has been delayed
.workers may be contending with another bad winter
for Nov 6 ballot
7 referendum would be stricjeen from the
November ballot.
The issue surfaced again at the council's Sept.
1 1 meeting, however. After the council voted to
begin long-range study of open space, the
members decided to revote on a bond
referendum specifically designated to acquire
the Ridgefield land.
The council approved the referendum for the
Ridgefield property Thrusday. Council
members Robert Epting and Marilyn Boulton
opposed the referendum. Council member
Jonathan Howes was absent from the meeting.
Much of the controversy surrounding the
Ridgefield land concerns a subdivision which is
being built on 10 of the 70 acres. In May.
Ridgefield residents asked the council to block
the construction so the town could buy the land
for open space.
Since May. the town's proposed purchase has
been expanded from 10 to 70 acres, and the
subdivision has also been approved. Some
council members opposed the referendum
because they said it is designed to block the
subdivision.
If the $300,000 referendum is approved, the
town will have to stop construction of the
subdivision.
The Chapel Hill Board of Realtors spoke
against the referendum Thursday, objecting to
the council's handling of the subdivision.
The open space referendum will be the third
bond issue on the November ballot. Local
residents abo will vote on a S2.6 million
referendum for construction of downtown
parking facilities, including a parking deck on
Rosemary Street. A $450,000 referendum on the
construction of a fire station at the intervection
on N.C. 86 and Weave? Dairy Road abo will be
on the ballot.
An old craze, newly discovered ct UNC
Skaters invade
Franklin Street
From Stff Report
The latest fad in from the Coast has given Chapel Hill
happy feet.
It's roller skating; that rainy afternoon childhood
entertainment when Mom loaded the station wagon with ,
kids and headed for the nearest rink.
And now, college students arc rolling down Franklin
Street, across campus, into discos. I he sensation is
outrageous, exciting, childish, outlandish and catching on.
The roller fad has hit the Village courtesy of the -Heels on
Wheels, the operation of two young entrepreneurs. Mark
Grossman and Pat Prouty, both 1978 UNC graduates,
opened their skate rental, which they operate out of Prouty't
car trunk, on Sept. I.
"Heels on Wheels has spurred an interest people already
had in roller skating." Prouty said, "and now they are
hooked.
On South Campus, the skating site was the parking lot of
Hinton James dorm, where about 70 people skated to a disco
beat Sunday.
The skating party, "Heels on Wheels first, was the idea
of eighth-floor James residents, who were looking for a
different kind of dorm entertainment. Prouty laid the
turnout was so good that people waited in line to rent out
their 58 pairs of skates,
Prouty said she and Grossman plan to advertise "Heeli on
Wheels" services for parties and mixen around campu.
The response from uptown skaters has been good, too.
Sophomore Sandra Urovhill said skating around cam put
and uptown is a great way to meet people. "It's something
different, I never thought it would come this far."
Sophomore Tom McCoy and senior John pjmcron 4id
they look forward to their nights, !ucra!!y m the town. They
agreed that skating makes a nice break from the routine of
academics, that it's relatively inexpensive (SI. 53 an hour for
students, $2 an hour for others), and that it's gnrat exercise.
McCoy and Damcron aid they sustain their roller skating
habit by working ai sorority home waiters. They taiJ that
any idea for a "meal on wheel" is just in the plannir-g itages.
however,
."HeeU on Wheel' operate from 7 p m,mLjntht
Tuesday and Wednesday, from 7 p m -I arc. Than
from 7 p.m. -2 p.m. Friday and Saturdays and from! -6 p.n
Sundays out of a car p-rked a! the te?py Store at fi&rllin
and Columbia.
Skate are also rented at the CaroUra Union from 10a m
4 p m. Monday-Thursday,