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it's Friday Just in case your digital watch stepped during the night or you forgot to wind your calendar, we thought we'd let you know. Thank God it's Friday. Mostly cloudy through Saturday with a chanco cf rain today and Saturday.1 Highs bell .dsys in tha 60s, lows in th2 .C3. 7 1 ' ft. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Friday, November 9, 1070, Chi p: I HI'!, f.'crth Carolina T1 ;1 S3 ! i ! f I'M m f . 1 I i ' 1 1 s i j en gel tourney bid; no money a ill n vauaoie r or rip By PAM HILDECRAN Staff Writer Although the men's basketball team has been allotted $15,000 to participate in the London Invitational Tournament Dec. 29-31, the women's team will go only if it can raise the money, William' Cobey, UNC director of athletics, said Thursday. NCAA rules allow teams to play in an international tournament every four years. "You have to realize we've been planning this trip for five years," Cobey said. As an incentive to get the men's team to travel to London, the tournament officials guaranteed them approximately $7,500, Cobey said. The money was offered because the UNC men's team is outstanding and renowned, he said. "The men's team could have gone to London, Italy or Spain," Cobey said. "London gave us the best offer." The women's invitation was not issued until August, after the athletic departments budget had already been made, Cobey said. "We don't have any money for a non-revenue-producing sport," Cobey said. Even if the Women's team raises part of the estimated $15,000 needed to make the trip, the athletic department will not put up the rest of the money, he said. "We haven't talked in those terms," Cobey said. The women's team will either have to raise all the money or the members will have to pay their own way, he said. Although the athletic department maintains a $450,000 reserve fund which serves as a buffer against a poor revenue-producing year, this money could not be used to send the women players to London, Cobey said. "We have a $2,923,704 operating budget, but all but $705,000 comes off the profits of men's football and basketball," Cobey said. "Three years ago, the fund was down to only $38,000. 1 told the football coaches that, if they didn't have a good year, we would have to cut back on their budgets." . The reserve fund has been built up through the years when the revenue-producing teams have made money, Cobey said. "It comes from when the profits have exceeded our operating costs," he said. Women's Basketball Coach Jennifer Alley said the team is pursuing various fund-raising efforts in an attempt to raise the money for the trip. f "We did a clinic last weekend, and we plan to do another," Alley said. "The girls have written letters in an attempt to get sponsorships from individuals and small businesses." The team has received only two or three checks, ranging from $25 to $100, she said. Alley said the UNC Alumni Association has agreed to include a letter asking for donations in its next newsletter. . i "Unfortunately, most of them won't read it until December (the money is due Nov. 28)," Alley said. "But we might ask for an extension." Bernadette McGlade, captain of the women's team, said that a rally to get support from students and small businesses has just started. "We tried big companies like Coca-Cola and McDonald's, but they didn't come through," McGlade said. "The players have written letters to get individual sponsors from hometowns and booster clubs, but we haven't gotten much response." Rebekah Radisch, a member of the ' Association For Women Students, said her organization is trying to help the women's team in its fund-raising efforts. "We're pretty big on trying to establish equal funding for women's sports," Radisch said. "We're working on a petition to show student and faculty support for the women's basketball team." The petition probably will be presented to either Cobey or the Alumni Association, she said.. Cobey said he does not believe Title IX (the law banning sex discrimination in federally funded education programs) has been violated by financing the men's trip and not the women's. The men's football and basketball teams are revenue-producing and are thus in special categories, he said. "For women's basketball, the direct expenditures are $76,509," Cobey said. Mdn's football expenditures exceed $823,000 this year, he said. McGlade said the women's team would not give up trying to get funds from the athletic department. "I think they're maybe trying to see just how much we're really willing to work," McGlade ; said. "This just provides us with an extra incentive." But if the women's team does have to put up all of the money, McGlade said she thinks they can do it with the support of the town and the University. I think if all the players on the team really put their minds to it, we'll get the money," McGlade said. "It will really take a group effort." ' Donations to the women's basketball team may be sent to the women's basketball office in Woollen Gym, McGlade said. The team is pursuing various fund raising efforts in an attempt' to raise the money for the trip. Jennifer Alley r DTK Andy James We don't have any money for a non-revenue-producing sport. 0 William Cobey i 1 DTH Andy Jsmes I rooBs to JL e at hand for march on Sunday GREENSBORO (AP) Five hundred National Guard troops and more than 400 law enforcement officers will be on duty in Greensboro Sunday, during a scheduled funeral march fotfive persons killed during last weekend's anti-Ku Klux Klan rally, police said Thursday. Organizers of the funeral march have vowed they will be armed. Radical communist leaders said Thursday they expect supporters to come into Greensboro by the busload from points throughout the nation. Police Chief William E. Swing-said the guardsmen and 250 Highway Patrolmen would join his 175 officers "to insure the safety of those in the funeral procession and the safety of those in the community." "I don't think anyone would question why we requested a large number of men to be in the streets," Swing said at a news conference. Meanwhile, the annual state convention of the NAACP opened Thursday with a brief memorial service for the dead and NAACP leaders said some members probably would march Sunday in a funeral procession for the shooting victims. Delegates to the state convention began arriving in Greensboro Thursday. The session will end shortly after noon Sunday, about the time crowds began to gather for the funeral procession. "There will be some, no doubt, who will march. We don't think there's anything wrong with that. I just hope that nobody would try to do any other crazy thing to anybody," said Kelly M. Alexander Sr. of Charlotte, state NAACP president. ack-nmm, scores lower on state exam By MARK MURRELL Staff Writer Despite inadequate performance by students at predominantly black schools in the UNC system on the state Board of Nursing exam given in July, undue pressure should not be placed on these programs, said Jeanne McNally, associate UNC vice chancellor for academic affairs. McNally, who recently has made extensive visits to eight of the nine UNC system nursing schools, said students that graduated in the most recent class did poorly on the exam because they weren't able to benefit from curriculum changes brought about to improve programs. "The only information I was able to glean was that students in the old curriculum did not experience the changes that went into effect," McNally said. She said the class of 1981 in three of the system's predominantly black nursing programs will be the first to have benefited from recent changes. According to a UNC Board of Governors mandate, all nursing programs- in the system must obtain a 66 percent passage rate on the exam by 1931, or risk having their programs eliminated. Swing said state officials had promised to have the guardsmen in Greensboro by the time of the march Sunday afternoon. Gen. William E. Ingram, commander . of the.-guard in North Carolina, said earlier Thursday that troops will be1 armed if they are placed on the streets. But he said a decision had not been made on whether each man would be issued ammunition or if it would be kept with guard leaders- for issuance as needed. Swing said police estimated that between 2,000 and 2,500 persons will attend the march, which is scheduled over a 2.5-mile route. Nelson Johnson, leader of the Communist Workers Party and an organizer of the march, said during a news conference at a Greensboro book store that he had obtained word from other CWP chapters that supporters would come to Greensboro. The radical Marxist group claims to have chapters in at least 10 U.S. cities. Burley Mitchell, secretary of crime control and public safety, said in Raleigh that the state was providing city officials with all law enforcement and National Guard personnel requested. Mitchell was given authority to order the troops in by Gov. Jim Hunt, who is out of the country. "We are relying on the judgment of the local officials who have the responsibility in this matter," he said. "We have, not second-guessed them at all. We are giving them exactly what they asked for." Mitchell said the guardsmen and state troopers would be on the streets and deployed as needed by city police officials. The first 1 50 highway patrolmen will arrive on Saturday morning. The Shah iFam rejects The Associated Press Iranian students holding the U.S. Embassy in Tehran rejected a bid by the Palestine Liberation Organization on Thursday to negotiate freedom for their American hostages, Tehran radio said. In Lebanon, a second attempt to seize a U.S. Embassy was reported foiled. In a grisly display of the Iranian students' anti-American zeal, a protester set himself afire outside the Tehran. embassy, Iran's Pars news "agency said. He was later reported near death in a hospital. The students, meanwhile, released what they said was embassy correspondence showing that U.S. officials had planned last summer to allow Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi into the United States permanently. In Beirut, Lebanese security sources said the PLO thwarted a plan by 40 armed Iranians to storm the U.S. Embassy in the Lebanese capital. The sources said the alleged plotters were under house arrest IPILO CD iLii .in a Palestinian refugee camp in southern Lebanon. Spokesmen for the PLO and the U.S. Embassy in Beirut said they had no information on the reported takeover plan, and it could not be confirmed elsewhere. Meanwhile, the State Department reportedly told House members in a briefing that Pope John Paul II had agreed to issue a public appeal for the hostages' release. , And it was announced that President Carter, overseeing U.S. efforts to free the hostages, had canceled his planned trip to Canada on Friday and Saturday. The rejection of the PLO mission seemed to kill one of the best hopes for ending the explosive situation quickly and peacefully. The students said Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, supreme leader of Iran's Islamic republic, and his secretive Revolutionary Council See IRAN on page 2 ue en votes may represent organization JL 1 By SHARON KESTER Staff Writer This year's Homecoming queen candidates are taking the campaign as seriously as any of their predecessors, but many UNC students say they feel the contest is more of a race between sponsoring organizations than between the candidates. ( "It's more for your friends than for yourself," said one Homecoming queen candidate who asked not to be identified. "If I were to win the contest, I would consider it a group honor." Another candidate who also wished to remain anonymous said she agreed that the sponsoring organization mattered more than the individual .candidates. She attributed her own candidacy to winning a "popularity contest in the dorm." Several students who were voting for queen candidates at the Carolina Union Thursday' said they weren't pleased with the sponsor system for nominating candidates but they still felt compelled to vote out of group loyalty. A member of Pi Kappa Alpha Fraternity said he voted for a candidate because she dates one of his fraternity brothers. A member of Sigma Chi called the contest "silly" but said he nevertheless was supporting the Interfraternity Council candidate. Some students said they felt the sponsor system was the best way to conduct the elections, however. "There is no way for candidates to get a substantial number of votes without the sponsor system," said student Todd Johnson. "The University is simply too large." Johnson said he felt that the emphasis placed on the Homecoming queen had declined in recent years. "The emphasis at one time had been on the presentation of the Homecoming queen, but now it's not as important as the social aspect of seeing old friends," he said. Voting system may avoid fraud A new voting system for this year's Homecoming Queen election has prevented students from trying to vote more than once a problem in last year's election.' Instead of simply showing an l.D. card, this year students also must get their athletic pass punched to vote. The two sites, at the Carolina Union and the Campus Y, were open from 10:30 a.m.-2 p.m. Thursday. Both polls will be open at the same times today. Many students made the effort to cast a vote for their favorite nominee Thursday. "I'm certain that there arc more people voting this year than last year," said Matt Judson, president of the Carolina Athletic Association. One unforeseen problem with the new voting system was that band members and cheerleaders had to turn in their athletic passes to receive complimentary tickets for Saturday's football game. The problem was solved when Judson went to band practice Thursday night and personally recorded the votes of the band members and cheerleaders. Votes cast Thursday were sorted Thursday night but will not be counted until today when all votes have been cast, Judson said. The 1979 Homecoming queen will be announced Saturday during halftime of the UNC-Clemson football game. GERR! RATLIFF Jeanne McNally In July, the passage rate at North Carolina A&T University was 26 percent, 23 percent at North Carolina Central and 63 percent at Winston-Salem State University. While the passage rate at most UNC schools dropped this year, Winston-Salem State's rate rose from 32 percent in 1978 to 63 percent. "They gave students a good deal of tutorial work," McNally said. "They also tightened up their progression standards." See EXAM on page 2 BlueWhite referee r cbeUo toots j or Carolina .By NORMAN CANNADA Staff Writer Just as Homecoming Day arrives each year, so does the UNC Blue-White basketball scrimmage, and with that appears a man who has become a sports institution in the area. Lou Bello, most known for his work as' an Atlantic Coast Conference basketball official, returns to Carmichael Auditorium for Saturday's Blue-White game to referee his eighth straight exhibition. Now in retirement. Bellow, 58, worked five NCAA regional tournaments. Later he served as a television sports announcer, in the promotions department for a pro basketball team and as a sports columnist. "It's a wonderful nostalgia trip for me," Bello said of officiating the Blue-White game. "It's great because Carolina always wins a Blue White game " Bello, who ironically graduated from Duke, started officiating in college, working intramural and YMCA games to pay for his college expenses. There, in the 1946-47 season. Bello was offered a chance to referee an intereollegh!: pm. "One of the regular Southern Conference officials was snowed-in in Charlotte, so I was asked to help do the Furman-Wakc Forest game," Dcllo recalled. "The next nihl 1 worked the Furman-N.C. State game, and from there, 1 began doing a lot of other Southern Conference games." Later, during his years in the ACC, Bello became one of the - league's most popular officials because of his colorful style of acting out every call and his tendency to talk back to any fan who spoke to him. "People say that a referee should be inconspicuous, but how can. anyone be inconspicuous wearing a black-and-white shirt and blowing a whistle? I always felt I should take charge of the g3mc." kilo's experience in officiating abo led to jobs as a TV sports announcer and in the Promotions Department of the Carolina Cougars of the American Basketball Association. "I was speaking at the Raleigh Sports Club one day and was asked to do night broadcasts for Channel 5 (WRAL-TV in Raid-h) Hello said. "Later on, 1 became the regular tports announcer at WRDU (now WPTf-TV, Channel 23 in Durham) and stayed there tix jears," - ' Bello's column-writing experience includes predicting ACC football fames for Tlic Daily Tar I ia ! in 1976, "They though! it would be good to have a former referce-turned-tports announcer predict football games. W'c really had a ball with it." Bello went to work in the Advertising Department of the Chapel Hill Ntmpaper until Rcfcrco Lou Dc'fo ill retiring last June. Although he taid he still tz as many games as possible, fkllo akl hi only involvement in sport now comes durir.j the DIue-White game. I11 probably do it one or two more vcas, maybe end with an even 10 veari. My lrn ttz getting more tired than they uitd to. It's rea!!y CO p Worthy. r,..,, i- if., is,, jv. Kenny, Al Wood and Rkh Yoruler, Smith uiJ Thursday thit the White team u i'l nsht of Jimmy B'ict, Mike CTKoren, Mike er-er. John Virgil, Jeff Wolf tt. Js The Blue wsll be Jim Braddock.Chm . f - - ft p v t --v ,.-. ,sk s" -iWa-
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