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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 87, Issue No.
Thursday, January 10, 19S0, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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University must obtain permit,
raise funds for athletic center
By BILL FIELDS
Assistant Sports Editor
Second of a two-part series on the proposed UNC
student at hie tie center.
Before the University can proudly show off a
proposed new student athletic center it must pass two
major obstacles.
The first hurdle will appear this spring most
likely in April, say UNC athletic officials when the
University presents its plans for the facility to the
Chapel Hill Town Council to apply for a special-use
permit. The permit is necessary for the project to
proceed any further.
After the special-use permit proceedings if the
University is granted such a permit the next step
will be to raise $21 million for construction of the
center.
Fund-raising activities will begin after June 30,
1980, when the University's current fund drive, the
Carolina Challenge for general endowment, comes
to a close, said John Temple, UNC vice chancellor
! for business and finance.
The new facility is scheduled for completion in
1985, although UNC Director of Athletics Bill Cobey
said there's much to be done before then.
"We hope to launch our fund-raising next July,"
Cobey said. "We hope to start building the facility by
the summer of 1982 so that will give us two
years to fund raise and do all the design."
Because of differences in opinion with residents of
Mason Farm Road, near the site picked for the
athletic center, some people expect the University to
have difficulty in acquiring the needed permit during
the special use permit hearings.
"I think it could be a heated battle, but I don't
think it ought to be," said Town Council member
Jonathan Howes. "The potential is there. The burden
of proof is on the University.
"The University would have preferred not to have
the building under special-use regulations, but now
that has been done and it's up to them to produce,"
Howes said.
The requirement for the special-use permit was
placed on the University after the land for the project
was rezoned from residential to University-A last
January. That rezoning came after vocal protest
from Mason Farm Road residents, who said that
when the land was purchased for $500,000 from the
late Dr. H.G. Baity in 1974, an oral agreement
implied an athletic center would never be built there.
In recent interviews, two Mason Farm residents
were less vehement than in the past in their dislike of,
the project, but expressed concern that an athletic
center would disrupt their neighborhood.
"We're going to look at the design and see how it
affects our neighborhood," said Col. Wesley Egan,
who lives at 1303 Mason Farm Road. "We're going
to lobby (against the facility)."
"We're of course interested in what the plans are,"
said Dr. Richard Wolfenden of 1307 Mason Farm
Road. "We don't know exactly what they are. We're
hopeful that it's going to happen in such a way that it
won't be a threat."
Elizabeth Baity, wife of the late Dr. Baity, has told
the Chapel Hill Town Council and University
officials that a non-written agreement was made
when the land was purchased stipulating that UNC
would not construct an athletic center on the
property.
Mrs, Baity, who declined recently to talk about the
matter, has said her husband, a former faculty
member of the UNC School of Public Health,
wanted the University to use the land for a medical or
science building.
Dr. Baity made the announcement of the verbal
pact at a meeting of Mason Farm residents several
years ago, Egan said. "All my knowledge comes from
what Mrs. Baity says," Egan added.
"I was not at that meeting," Egan added. "They
made the statement that the University said they
would not put up a coliseum there. They're (the
Baitys) certainly reputable people. I know Mrs. Baity
and I'm sure Mr. Baity was."
Both Cobey and Temple said there is no basis for
believing such a verbal agreement ever was
negotiated.
"There is none to the best of my knowledge,"
Cobey said. "And it's been checked out. The
principals who were involved in negotiating that land
have been talked to and there's no agreement
verbal, written or otherwise."
"She (Mrs. Baity) is a very fine person," Temple
said. "She and I have talked many times, and she
fully believes what she says. I was not involved at the
time of the negotiations. Mrs. Baity says there was
(an agreement). People on the University side say
there's not."
According to Mike Jennings, planningdirector for
the town of Chapel Hill, the "niversity must present
four findings of fact durirt
hearings to receive an af
Town Council. The burder
the special-use public
mative vote from the
jf proof, Jennings said,
are:
That the facility will not affect the health and
safety of the neighborhood.
That the facility meets all other town ordinances,
such as for height, bulk and placement.
That the facility will not devalue adjacent
property.
.That, the project is. planned to be in general
harmony with the area in w hich it's located and in the
general plans for development for Chapel Hill.
"The University is going to have to show very
See COLISEUM on page 2
Tripling crisis verooof or now
By ROANN BISHOP
Staff W riter
All students living in tripled dormitory rooms
ast semester are now living in double-occupancy
rooms, eliminating the threat of tripled University
housing for new and re-entering freshmen this
semester.
be credited to the student's University account.
The total cost of rebates to the University has not
been determined.
Graham also said that information on dorm
lotteries will go out Monday to residence hall
directors.
Phyllis Graham, Department of University
Housing administrative assistant, said the housing
department was able to detriple all crowded rooms
due to the number of upperclassmen who canceled preliminary draw ing in the housing office, enough
The procedure for entering these lotteries
involves three steps. Students who wish to change
residence halls should submit a housing contract
to the dorm residence director. Then, at a
their housing contracts last semester. As many as
1,000 freshmen had been tripled at the beginning
of the fall semester.
We asked the students who were interested in
canceling their University housing contracts last
semester to come to the business office between
Dec. 3 and 7 to put their names on a list to be
considered for release from their contracts,
Graham said. "This gave us some idea of the
number of students who were interested in
canceling their contracts. These students were then
asked to come back to the office on Dec. 14 to
check on their eligibility for release."
Students who were tripled last semester will
receive a 20 percent rebate of their housing fees for
the time that they were tripled, Graham said. She
said the majority of tripled students already have
received rebates.
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Graham said that all rebates should be
completed during the next two weeks. Rebates will
contracts will be drawn to fill the number of
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By KAREN BARBER
Staff Writer
f he College of Arts and Sciences and the Division
of Student Affairs plan to tap the University's
discretionary contingency fund next summer for
money to develop a centralized internship program
on the UNC campus, said Samuel R. Williamson,
dean of the College of Arts and Sciences.
The discretionary contingency fund is an internal
source of money for the University that is supported
through gifts from private sources.
"I'm an advocate of this program, and we're
definitely going to ask for some money to set it up on
at least an experimental basis," he said.
Awareness of the need for a central program on
campus to coordinate student precareer internships
resulted from a proposal for a centralized internship
office that was developed by Ruth Bernstein,
program coordinator of the Precareer Experience
Program in Nash Hall.
Bernstein sent copies of the proposal to officials in
the College of Arts and Sciences and the Division of
Student Affairs in August.
Bernstein contends in her proposal that such an
office is needed to "provide the liberal arts students at
UNC with a viable chance in today's job market and
restore public confidence in the liberal arts
education."
Other advantages of a centralized office are that it
would eliminate duplication within departments that
maintain separate internship programs, enhance
communication on campus between the University
and its students, and give students a chance to
experiment with a career before they get out of
school. Bernstein said.
The major difference between a proposed
centralized office and the existing PEP program is
that the office w ould have the power to coordinate all
internships availabe to UNC students, Bernstein
said.
Bernstein's proposal called for a budget of $10,700
and for the centralized office to be set up within the
College of Arts and Sciences. Since sending that
proposal to the College of Arts and Sciences and the
See INTERNS on page 2
By PAM HILDEBRAN
Staff Writer
A nine-month dispute between The Daily Tar Heelzxxd the Student
Activities Fund Office over a $5,000 auditing fee is awaiting the
decision of an independent arbitrator after the two parties failed to
reach a mutually acceptable settlement.
The conflict arose when SAFO Director Frances P. Sparrow sent
the newspaper a $5,000 auditing bill in April 1979 for fiscal year 1978
79 without an itemization of the services rendered.
Saying the charge represented an 800 percent increase over the
previous fiscal year up from $1,000 the DTH business office
refused to pay without an explanation, which SAFO declined to
provide. The DTH claimed that the $5,000 charge was not relative to
the size and non-profit nature of the newspaper, which has a $31 1,000
annual operating budget.
SAFO disperses all student activity fees earmarked for student
organizations and provides bookkeeping services for each. Last fiscal
year mid-May 1978 through mid-May 1979 almost $496,000 was
distributed through SAFO. The Daily Tar Heel received 16 percent of
that amount, or about $70,000.
After he received the $5,000 bill, DTH Business Manager Grant
Duers said he sent SAFO a $2,500 payment in June 1978, although
year-end financial statements had not been sent to the newspaper.
When the statements were received in July, Duers said that the income
statements revealed that $5,000 was missing from the newspaper's
administrative account even though he had released only $2,500.
All monies dispersed from the newspaper's accounts are supposed to
be authorized by the business manager, Duers said.
"We didn't get the services that we were being charged for," Duers
said Wednesday. "As far as I'm concerned, the end of the financial year
was ruined because we got no financial statements until July."
Duers said SAFO also sent late financial statements the year before
and the $1,000 audit fee charged for fiscal year 1977-78 also was taken
without authorization.
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When the DTH demanded that the unauthorized $2,500 be
returned, a general meeting of those involved was held Aug. 2 to
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vacancies in each dorm.
The second step begins if the student is closed
out in the preliminary drawing. The students
contracts are returned to the original residence hall
director. The student must then go through a hall
drawing which determines eligibility to make a
room change within the residence hall.
The third step occurs for students closed out of
both the preliminary and hall drawings. In this
situation, the student's housing contract and
submission cards are returned to the housing office
for a later drawing. All the contracts are drawn to
determine order on a central waiting list. These
students must then decide whether to look for
apartments or other housing or wait for an
opening in the residence halls.
Graham said there are now some vacancies in
the residences halls. Anyone who is interested in
living in University housing should come by the
housing office and fill out a contract. Graham said.
Graham said Room To Live booklets,
containing housing contracts for 1980-81, are in
their final draft and are due to be sent to the
printers today. These booklets are tentatively
scheduled to be distributed Jan. 28.
Although planning has not begun for student
housing next fall, Graham said the housing
department has a projected enrollment of 3,200
with an allowable deviation of 50. She attributed
the large number of triples last semester to the
large surplus of freshmen admitted to the
University.
Downtown
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still empty
By ANNE-MARIE DOWNEY
- - Staff Writer
Even though Franklin Street
merchants, University students and other
residents often complain about the
shortage of parking in downtown Chapel
Hill, there is one parking lot downtown
that the owner the town of Chapel
Hill cannot fill.
The town opened its third municipal
parking lpt, which has yet to generate
much business, in late October on West
Franklin Street. The town's other two
lots are located on East Rosemary Street.
Despite earlier studies showing a need
for parking in the West Franklin Street
area, the parking lot rarely has been more
than half full. Chapel Hill Assistant
Town Manager Tony Hooper said. On an
average day only 15 of the lot's 66 spaces
are occupied at one time. Hooper said.
"In part (the problem is) the location of
the lot and in part it is because the lot is
new," he said.
Ladd Baucom, vice-president of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber of
Commerce, which long has argued for
more downtown parking as essential to
the survival of the central business
district, said the empty parking spaces
can be attributed to lack of publicity
about the lot.
In attempt to increase awareness of the
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By REID TUVIM
Sports Kditur
The Wake Forest Demon Deacons spent more
than three quarters of Wednesday night's game
with Carolina playing their typical spoiler role, but
the Tar Heels Al Wood decided he and the rest of
the Carmichael crowd had seen enough.
Wood grabbed a pass from Dave Colescott in
full stride, took off for the basket at the foul line
and, while in the grasp of Wake's Benny McKaig,
threw up a highlight-film prayer that broke a 58-58
tie. Two free throws after the intentional foul put
UNC up by four with 7:21 left, and the Tar Heels
hung on for their first Atlantic Coast Conference
win of the year, 72-68.
But only after Mike O'Koren stole a Mike
Helms pass with 43 seconds left, leading to Rich
Yonakor's dunk, was Carolina safe up by six
with only 20 ticks remaining.
APs play broke their backs," O'Koren said after
the game. "It kind of swung things around." The
senior forward said Wood's play was more crucial
than his steal.
"That was probably the turning point if you
want to call it that." Wake coach Carl Tacy said.
"We're very happy to have won a well-played
game, Carolina head coach Dean Smith said. "I
lied it out.
Mike O'Koren scores on a dunk shot against Deacs
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you probably should start with O'Koren's steal."
Wake had led for much of the game until
Wood's shot, with the lead see-sawing back and
forth in both halves. The Deacons held as much as
a six-point margin at 22-16 in the first period; the
Tar Heels' biggest was four at 32-28. Carolina led
38-37 at the half.
The second half was even tighter, with neither
team up by more than four until Colescott scooted
down the key to put Carolina up 68-62 with 2:35
left.
The Tar Heels missed several opportunities to
put the game out of reach after they went to the
Four Corners with just over 4:30 remaining. Four
times in the next two-and-a-half minutes Carolina
players went to the foul line only to miss every
shot.
O'Koren missed the front ends of two onc-and-ones
during that span. "Mike never misses two
straight free throws." Smith said. "It's amazing be
did that tonight. But I remember Phil Ford doing
that once against Mercer, so it can happen to
anyone."
Smith also recalled that the far Heels missed
five one-and-one in the final minute of the Wake
Forest game in 1977 to lose 67-66. the tovt time
int play was a big factor." Smith
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