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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 87, Issue No. 4 'r
Thursday, October 25, 1979; Chcpel HI!!, North Carolina
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By CATHY ROBINSON
Staff Writer
The unpredictable music business can make overnight
successes of some singers and ignore others. It has done well
by one Chapel Hill son. .
Mike Cross, Chapel Hill singer songwriter musician,
decided to try his luck as a full-time performer two years ago.
Since then, his fame has spread in the Southeast, especially in
North Carolina.
Cross said he doesn't know if success has changed him. "I
feel like I'm the same guy I've always been. I'm more
conscious of what I say and do now, because I'm more on the
line for it."
More is on the line for Cross now especially more
money. Last year, Cross played at Henderson Residence
College's Springfest for $600. This year, Susan Strayhorn,
HRC Social Lt. Governor, was quoted an "exorbitant"
price and told that a free show in Chapel Hill would be
impossible.
"We were disappointed," Strayhorn said. "His price was
more than our entire budget for the whole year. We really
hated it. But we've had Springfest before without him, and
well have another one without him."
"I could not allow that kind of show," said Cross manager
Charles Steadman, about Springfest. "When we could take
Mike Cross into a 5,000-seat facility. and sell out a $5-$6 a
ticket, I could not permit an outdoor, non-ticketed event."
"It's not fair to the fans," Steadman said. "The acoustics
are bad outdoors. Also, we have obligations to Mike Cross'
promoters.
"Mike has worked long and hard in his career, many nights
for nothing. If I give away a date for Mike to play, I am
honor-bound to act in his best interests."
The price any act is "worth is a direct derivative of its
drawing power in a given market, Steadman said. In the
Triangle area, Mike Cross is worth a lot.
But Cross leaves that part of the business to Steadman.
"I like to play anywhere and everywhere I can," he said.
"I'm a performer rather thanfc business man. I let Charlie
handle all of that. Sometimes he makes decisions that I
wonder about, but then he explains them to me and I
understand.
"I really enjoyed playing at Springfest last year,' Cross
said. "I was excited about it because it was the first time any
organization of the University ever invited me to play."
Cross said he doesn't approve of the way the music
industry makes overnight successes of some singers.
"Every culture needs a myth," Cross said. "Since we don't
have kings, queens, or noblemen, we have projected that
myth on other people athletes, actors and performers. It's
unfortunate that some people who sing well have suddenly
been granted a mystique from the public at large.
"It's wonderful for certain people to experience success.
But we need a perspective brought back into it."
Cross said that his new success won't affect his music.
"IH be continuing what I've always done," he said. "I'll
perform as much as possible. I need to be out there cranking
out the music to make money, but if I had my choice, I'd play
two nights a week. One of the things I like to do is create and
it's hard to do that when you're on the road all the time. As
for the places I perform, I need to expand. I will do less
performing in my home state and more and more outside.
"I'm basically a performer who does some records, not a
recording artist who does concerts. That means that I do a lot
of one-nighters and try to communicate with the people who
come to see me. v
"A lot of people who go into show biz want to get on the
Johnny Carson show and jet gold records and everything.
With me, I just want to be as good a writer and performer as I
can be with the Pollyanna view that if I work at it, things will
happen."
Mike Cross will perform at 8 p.m. Sunday in Memorial
Hall.
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WASHINGTON (AP) Bowing to the wishes of the Carter
advnistration, the House reversed itself Wednesday and voted to
retain price and allocation controls on gaxline through mid
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by congressional leaders over soaring oil-industry profits.
"It's a disgrace to the nation. It's just an absolute and utter
disgrace," House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill said of the large,
recently posted thij-quarter profits of some major oil companies.
The ouse action overtkned a 1 9 1 -1 88 vote taken on Oct. 1 2 for
immediate and full gasoline decontrol action some criticssaid
might have sent prices at the pump soaring toward $2agallm.
The vote means the controls, which opponents claim have
done little to check spcaling prices athhe pump, will stay on until
Sept. 30, 981, when they are set to expire automatically.
;; nocking price and allocation controls off gasoline would create
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But Rep. James A. Courter, R-N.J., author of the decontrol
amendment, defended his proposal, claiming it would make gas
lines less likely in the future by shucking the government's
complex allocation system. Courter argued that controls don't
stop prices from increasing.
Administration officials, siding with Dingell, contended
abrupt gasoline decontrol would hamper the orderly phase-out
of energy price controls sought by the president.
Wednesday's House vote leaves intact the president's decision
to phase out price lids gradually on U.S.-produced crude oil by
1981. It also has no effect on heating oil or diesel fuel, which are
already free from price controls.
The gas-decontrol amendment had been attached to a bill
authorizing Department of Energy programs for the fiscal year
that began last Oct. I. After removing the amendment from the
bill, the House passed the overall legislation on a 263-150 vote.
sending it to the senate.
Courter's amendment also would have scrapped most of the
allocation controls that determine how much gasoline goes to
each service station during a shortage! Courter claimed this
system did more to aggravate gasoline shortages than it does to
alleviate them.
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The Environmental Protection Agency was
misinformed when- it asked the Orange Water
and Sewer Authority to re-justify a request for
an addition to the Mason Farm Waste
Treatment Plant, an OWASA official said
Wednesday. . :
In a meeting.Wednesday, Executive Director
Everett Billingsley told the OWASA Board of
Directors that the federal agency was "not really,
aware of what we were planning to construct"
until he and other OWASA representatives met
with officials of the EPA Facilities Review
office in Washington Tuesday.
OWASA officials had been puzzled by the
EPA's request that they justify the need for the
$12 million project because the agency's
regional office in Atlanta had already approved
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"There was a very clear lack of
communication" between the regional and
federal offices, Billingsley said, because the
federal officials had thought OWASA planned
to duplicate the existing plant.
In answer to the"EPA's requests, OWASA re
documented information showing that the
plant's capacity should be expanded from 5.5 to
8 million gallons per day to take care of growth
in the area for the next 20 years. They presented
that information to the EPA Review Office, he
said.
In other action, Billingsley suggested that
OWASA tell the Army Corps of Engineers that
the Cane Creek Reservoir could keep the area
supplied with water for longer than was
originally thought. OWASA must obtain a
dredge-and-fill permit from the Corps before it
can build the reservoir.
Since the original study on the Cane Creek
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Reservoir's life expectancy was done in 1969,
per capita water consumption has decreased,,
making the study's projections obsolete, he said.
With the good conservation measures and water
saving devices used now, University Lake, Cane
Creek Reservoir and a recently acquired stone
quarry could supply 15 million gallons per day
in a summer drought, enough to "completely
serve the needs of the community for 50 years or
more," Billingsley said.
But board Chairman Flo Garrett said the
figures on area population growth which
OWASA is using may not be accurate.
"I think these figures arc low," Garrett said.
"We're doingUhe best we can, but nobody can
project." Garrett said the board should include
some kind of qualification in its report to the
Corps, even though the figures arc accepted by
the state for planning.
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By MARTHA WAGGONER
Staff Writer
The 20 percent rent rebates for students
living in tripled dorm rooms will be dated
from Sept. 20 rather than from Oct, 8 as the
housing department had said earlier.
The Change occured because students were
informed during the summer they would be
tripled and rebates would begin after they had
lived in a crowded room for one month,
housing officials said Wednesday.
Phyllis Graham, assistant housing director
for contracts, said letters have been sent to the
students who are affected by the change. As of
Tuesday, 1 12 students had received $2,450.82
in rent rebates. Ninety of these students
received money because of the date change.
Alan Ward, assistant housing director for
business, said $ ,820.92 went to students who
were assigned permanent rooms before Oct.
8. Because the housing budget included
rebates only for the period after Oct. 8, Ward
said the money for the extended rebate period
will come from any year-end surplus or from
accumulated reserves.
"It's hard tojpinpoint the effect on rent "
Ward said, "it's like any other cost we have. It
will put that much more pressure on the rent.
But anyone would be hard pressed to say that
this, in and of itself, will cause the rent to go
up."
As. of Monday, 78 men's rooms and 116
women's rooms remained crowded with three
or four students living in each room.
The Department of Housing had predicted
that 194 rooms would remain tripled by Oct.
31. Graham said although the detripling
process is running one week ahead of
schedule, some students still will be tripled
through the end of the fall semester.
Graham sad she could not estimate what
the total amount of rebates will be.
A housing memorandum states that the
amount of money rebated reflects 20 percent
of the amount of rent paid for the period of
occupancy in a tripled room. The memo states
that the rebate will be credited to students'
University accounts after the temporary
occupant has moved. The rebate will be
applied to any outstanding charges on
students' accounts, if the account is clcac, the
student may request a refund check two week
after the temporary roommate has moved to a
permanent room.
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By MARTHA WAGGONER
Staff Writer
UNC Band Director John Yesulaitis has
requested police protection for the Carolina
band for any future evening football games at
N.C State University prompted by harassment
by State fans at Saturday's game.
In a letter to UNC Athletic Director Bill
Cobey, Yesulaitis requested police protection
from the stadium to the parking area. The
request came as a result of ice-throwing and .
drink-throwing directed toward the band as it
passed Wolfpack fans when leaving the field at
the end of the game.
Yesulaitis also said the N.C. State
cheerleaders' van, driven by student David
Gibbs, stayed two to three feet behind the
band's last row of marchers, stopping only w hen
Yesulaitis sto.od in front of the van.
A fraternity group from State tried to take
equipment from the band, Yesulaitis said. The
drum major was surrounded by seven or eight
State fans at his car and had to be helped by
other band members, he said. Women band
members were escorted to their cars and others
left their cars at the stadium and carpooled.
"Security officers did respond to our call, but
that was after this had been going on for 20
minutes," Yesulaitis said. Jim Rosenbergcr,
band member, said the band was advised to
ignore verbal harassment and to board the bus
us quickly as possible.
"They were yelling obscenities and singing
dirty versions of 'Hark the Sound,' " Yesulaitis
said. He said the UNC band, at the end of the
game, had played the State fight song in a minor
key' so that it sounded somewhat like a funeral
march. "They do that at Carolina everytime
they win the game," he said.
Yesulaitis also complained about several
posters at the game. "They had the most
degrading insulting sign you'd ever want to see,"
Yesulaitis said. "One sign w as a Carolina player
with his fanny up in the air and his head was up
his fanny."
Cobey said he has talked with N.C. State
Athletic Director Willis Casey about Saturday's
game. "He said that apparently two people
jumped down onto the field and were marching
around with some signs," Cobey said. "He had
them ejected from the stadium."
Cobey emphasized that this type of behavior
could happen at any school, not just at State.
"This has the potential for happening in most
situations, unfortunately," Cobey said. "Our
crowd behavior is unusually good and I hope it '
continues that way. I'm sure State wouldn't
condone anything like that."
William Strickland, associate vice chancellor
for student development, has written the vice
chancellor for student affairs at N.C. State.
"The game ended in darkness and that almost
always invites trouble," he said. "The people
involved were not mature enough to handle
their frustrations."
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