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Oct. 9.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 87, Issua No. 322-3
Friday, September 23, 1979 ChcpsI Hill, North CereKna
News, Sports Arts 933-C24S
Busincsv Ad-mtiting S33-11S3
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By GERRI RATLIFF
Staff Writer
As classes of students have come and gone at UNC, the
Bell Tower has gone on, chiming its ditties and tolling the
hours. But the tower is getting on in years these days, and it
somtimes emits a sour note or adds a few strokes to the time.
Right now one bell isn't speaking well," said John
Yesulaitis, director of the Univeruity band and overseer of
the Bell Tower, which was modeled after the famous West
Point Chimes. "We have been in touch with general services
and will have someone take a look (at the bells)," he said.
University electricians can handle minor adjustments, but an
expert from Blowing Rock must be consulted about serious
troubles.
Yesulaitis has also made a request for 23 new bells to add
to the 12 old ones. The addition of higher pitched,
electronically corrected bells would allow the tower to
produce harmonies instead of the clashing overtones the old
bells send out.
But the trouble is that a new set of bells would cost a
minimum of $65,000 to $70,000. That's up from $29,000
when Yesulaitis made his first request in 1972.
So failing another monetary gift like the $100,000 from
alumni John Motley Morehead and Rufus Lenoir Patterson
II that built the carillon in 193 1, Yesulaitis said the University
will never be able to afford the new bells, which come from
Holland. -
Yesulaitis said he would also like the University to invest in
rolls like those for a player piano which electronically
control the tower's music and time. New rolls cost several
hundred dollars apiece.
The nine selections on the one roll UNC has now include
"Greensleeves," "Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young
Charms," "The Gift to be Simple" and a folk song medley of
"Shenendoah" and "Billy Boy". Also on the roll is a Scotch
medley of "Flow Gently Sweet Afton" and "The Blue Bells of
Scotland." .
From the pen of Stephen Foster comes a combination of
"Beautiful Dreamer" and "Camptown Races," followed by
"Integer Vitae" and "A Mighty Fortress is Our God."
"Let My People Go," "Dem Golden Slippers" and one
unidentified song form a spiritual medley, and "Wayfaring
Stranger" finishes the roll.
The bells can also be operated manually to produce
another 30-50 tunes. On football Saturdays, for instance,
senior band member Frank King sometimes turns out the
gallactic sounds of the theme from Stars Wars. The carillon
also sounds Carolina fight songs and the alma mater.
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By GEORGE JETER
SUfl Writer
Construction workers will begin fencing off the dirt parking lot
beside the Carolina Union this weekend in preparation for
construction of the University's new central library, William
Locke, traffic and parking director, said Thursday.
The lot will remain at least partially open until after the UNC
Cincinatti football game Oct. 6, Locke said. The lot will be closed
permanently after the game, he said. A construction trailer was
already on the site Thursday afternoon.
People who park in the Union lot were notified at the
beginning of the year that it would be closed for construction,
Locke said. University employees, the biggest users of the lot,
have been told that they will have to park in other areas, mainly
in the Bell Tower lot, he said. Employees currently parking in the
Bell Tower lot are scheduled to move to the new parking deck
addition and fringe lot on Manning Drive.
Although N.C. Memorial Hospital employees have been using
the parking deck for about a week, the town building inspector
still has not issued an official certificate of occupancy for the
deck. Bad weather has put the opening date of the Manning
Drive fringe lot in question as construction crews have been
hampered by recent heavy rains. Locke said a letter has been sent
to University employees who park, in the Bell Tower lot
requesting them to come to the Traffic Office to receive a special
permit which will guarantee them space in the parking deck until
the fringe lot can be opened.
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Construction of ths nsw library to begin soon
...but first Union parking is stopped
Response to the letter has been slow, however, Locke said.
Only 75 people out of the more than 200 notified have requested
the special permits, he said. Employees who received the letter
must obtain a permit by Oct. 8 or they will be assigned to the
airport parking lot, he added.
UNC Planning Director Gordon Rutherford said the
Manning Drive fringe lot should open Oct. i 5. The lot still needs
parking stripes, steps, a bus shelter and grass seeding on the
banks, he said.
After the Union lot is closed off, the brick walkway which runs
between the lot and the north side of the Carolina Union will be
closed to the public, Locke said.
'Mo.ue:6thumb up
out MEW separation
B
ack Greeks emphasise niiity
By ROANN BISHOP
Staff Writer
While some fraternity pledges are out
guzzling beer and raising hell, the pledges
of Omega Psi Phi, Alpha Phi Alpha and
Kappa Alpha Psi are keeping quiet and
spending time in the library.
The pledges are going through social
probation a traditional part of the
pledge program for black fraternities.
For a period of four to six weeks, the
pledge must undergo a strict set of
guidelines which prohibit talking outside
the classroom, sweets, using elevators
and, in some cases, sleeping. Social
probation also means four hours of
mandatory studying each day in the
library, walking in lines, wearing suits
and ties to class, and an assortment of
other activities.
All the activities associated with social
probation serve a very important
function, the fraternity leaders say.
"Social probation prohibits
communication outside the classroom for
the purpose of improving academics,"
said Wayne Davis, head of Kappa Alpha
Psi. "It stops the pledges from killing a lot
of time that would be spent more
effectively."
Social probation channels leisure time
into projects such as tutorial services,
helping local day care centers, raising
funds for various charities, canned food
drives for needy families and other local
and national projects.
None of the black fraternities on this
campus have houses. Omega Psi Phi had
an option on a house when the fraternity
first began at UNC in 1973. However,
when it was discovered that the fraternity
was black, the option on the house was
See GREEKS on page 2
From staff and wire reports
WASHINGTON The House gave
approval Thursday to a bill creating a
new Department of Education and sent
the measure to President Carter.
The House voted 215-201 to create the
13th Cabinet department. During his
1976 campaign. Carter had promised to
place the government's education
programs within a single new agency.
U.S. Reps. Ike Andrews of Cary and
Richardson Preyer of Greensboro
supported the measure, which will cut ffre "
size of the Department of Health,
Education and Welfare and rename the
agency the Department of Health and
Human servicesAndrews, who chaired
the House education subcommittee
which handled the bill, said a Department
of Education would be much more
responsible to the public.
Despite the opposition of U.S. Sens.
Robert Morgan and Jesse Helms of
North Carolina, the Senate version of the
bill passed earlier this week. Both
expressed opposition to the bill because
they said it allows the federal government
to exert more control over local school
systems.
The HEW Office of Education is the
agency to which UNC President William
C. Friday forwards annual desegregation
reports for the University.
However, Marilyn Harris, a
spokesman for the Government Affairs.
Commission, said a separate Department
of Education would have no affect on the
UNC-HEW conflict over desegregation.
The new department is the second
created during Carter's term. The Energy
Department was established in 1977.
Under the legislation, more than 150
federal programs will be transferred to
the new agency. The education division
in the Department of Health, Education
and Welfare will be the heart of the new
agency, but programs from the
departments of Agriculture, Justice, and
Housing and Urban Development, Labor
and other agencies will be added.
The new department will have a budget
exceeding $14 billion and will have about
18,000 employees.
The debate over the Education
Department pitted the two largest teacher
organizations against one another. The
National Education Association, the
largest teacher organization, actively
supported the idea. But the rival
American Federation of Teachers led the
opposition.
After the vote, Carter called it "a
significant milestone in my effort to make
the federal government more efficient."
Rep. Richardson Preyer
...supported bill
First Amendment rmht w0 national security
r Morland: accept H-bomb as reality
Story behind 'Progressive
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suppression, then publication
By BILL DURHAM
Staff Writer
"There is no secret, there is no defense,
and there is no possibility of control
except through the aroused
understanding of the peoples of the
world."
Albert Einstein, speaking on atomic
energy in 1947
,On March 26 of this year a federal
court, for the first time in U.S. history,
issued an injuction for prior restraint.
The same jurist, U.S. District Judge
Robert W. Warren, had on March 9
issued a temporary restraining order in
the same case, The United States v. The
Progressive.
The case concerns the publication of an
article by Howard Morland called, "The
H-Bomb Secret: How We Got It, Why
We're Telling It." In the article, Morland
used materials which the government said
would be dangerous to national security
if published. ,
Government lawyers dropped their
case last week, claiming it was made moot
by the Sept. 16 publication by a
Wisconsin newspaper of a letter written
by computer scientist Charles Hansen
that contained information similar to
that in The Progressive article.
Howard Morland was commissioned
See SECRET on page 6
'C' '
idden' facts about H-bomb readily available
There has been much controversy recently
concerning the H-bomb and the publication by
the magazine The Progressive of allegedly
classified material showing how to build one.
What follows is a general outline of the material
involved, although much of this same material
probably is classified under the same laws that
the government invoked to take The Progressive
to court.
The basic bomb consists of two trigger devices
at opposite ends of a mass of lithium-6 deuteride
fusion fuel. This is pontained in an outer casing
of natural uranium, U-238. The geometric
arrangement requires that the outer weapon
casing play a major role in reaching
thermonuclear ignition. These elements are
separated from one another, and partially
supported by, a casing of polystyrene foam. This
foam helps in evenly distributing the force of the
explosion toward the center pf the trigger. The
linear arrangement of the triggers produces a
symetrical compression of the fusion fuel
between them. It also allows an X-ray source at
each end of the bomb. The two triggers must fire
simultaneously. In the center of the trigger is a
neutron generator which initiates the chain
reaction in an atomic bomb. The generator
creates a neutron burst by accelerating tritium or
deuterium to high speeds, causing them to collide
and fuse. This fusion causes millions of neutrons
to be produced. The neutrons help create fission
reactions at the beginning of the fission
explosion, increasing the efficiency of the trigger.
The outer shell consists of an arrangement of
high-explosive lenses fused into the layer of
foam. The next layer is a beryllium neutron
reflector, the purpose of which is to reflect
neutrons back into the fissionable material.
Within this is a U-238 tamper, used to hold the
reacting assembly together longer. Within this
arc concentric shells of plutonium-239 and U
235. In the center of the trigger is a core of
lithium-6 deuteride and tritium suspended in a
framework of beryllium. The neutron generator
projects up into this assembly.
The firing sequence is a complex affair. Each
explosion must occur at the correct moment. In
this two-trigger bomb there will be eight separate
explosions within microseconds.
1. The lenses around each trigger detonate
simultaneously, creating an implosion which
reduces the assembly to one-half of its originsl
size.
2. During the implosion of the trigger, the
neutron generator provides an initial burst of
neutrons to begin the fission in the U-235 and
plutonium-239. The U-238 tamper holds the
assembly together.
3. When the implosion Shockwaves compress
See CLASSIFIED on p3 C
By BILL DURHAM
Staff Writer
If Howard Morland had had possession of a
blueprint for a hydrogen bomb, he would have
printed it, he said Thursday night in a speech at the
Carolina Union.
"What I wanted to do was make the bomb real,"
Morland explained. "I wanted to explain how the
mystique concerning the nuclear weapons started
with the trial of the Rosenbergs and continued
through McCarthyism to today."
"I wanted to get the whole story, classified or not,"
Morland said. He had access to unclassified material,
but once he compiled the material it was deemed
classified by the government, he said.
Morland outlined the Atomic Energy Agency's
policy on classified material, stating that all
information concerning the design, manufacture or
utilization of nuclear weapons, even if not in
government files, b classified.
"I guess that means that part of my head is
classified," Morland said, "Putting unclassified
material in some clever, unique way makes it
classified." This is called the'Born Classified' theory,
he said.
Furthermore, the government can neither confirm
nor deny any information on nuclear weapons.
Morland said. Therefore, he said, the government
cannot enforce its laws without breaking its own
rules.
"I want to keep on hammering away on the
Pentagon;-1 want to put he Pentagon out of
business," Morland said in a press conference
Thursday afternoon. He claims to want to reduce
nuclear proliferation by opening the matter up to the
public.
Dissemination of information will allow us to
take meaningful steps toward disarmament,'
Morland said in his speech.
Morland said he thinks the level of nuclear anxiety
should be much higher than it is now. In the 50. he
said, there was widespread concern even though the
threat then was theoretical
HycVcacn bomb covered by a mystlqua
...Howard Morland
The 'muc of prior restraint lu detracted from the
point he wax Irving to make, he aid,
Tfie Progressive article wa uhcdulcd to he
printed on October 4, but the gm crnmcnt i tr mg u
have the caie put back into U.S. I)stra Court m
Milwaukee where the jud'c arc more pro
government, said Morland.
If thii happen., the original fag order v. ill itdt
stand and ths uti.k riot be printed.
"We're a hit ratified rihl mm n tc hat the
government iv tiirg to do, Morland :a4.