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7 f 'V .At. f i 1 1 r . l 7 . j . i 7 Wring cut tho yeor Partly cloudy with a 40 per cent chance of afternoon thundorshowers. High will be 83, with a low of 59. I f 5 1 ! fTT. 1 r Don't worry If you plan to be here this summer, the Tar Heel will too every Thursday beginning May 28. Look for it! Serving the students and the University community since 1893 '.Thursday. -'April 30, 1081 Chspcl Hilt, fiorth' Carolina ' '"' NawsSportsArts S33-C245 BusinessAdvertising S33-1 163 I : 1 ' ,---f- s - - - -- - ' 1 ' ' ... t m waDimldl ire ate ;e9 u)m?mmm sum. Mil cCU'Iiiir-. L By KEN SIMAN - ! : Eiaff Writer . ' '. . A joint state legislative subcommittee has proposed a congressional redisricting plan that would put Orange . County into a new congressional district with Wake and Durham counties. ',",' The proposal was drawn up by the panel Tuesday and faces further consideration before being sent to the redis ricting committee for a vote. The tentative plan proposed the following changes: 2nd District: Alamance and Chatham counties would be added to the district, and Orange County would be dropped. '. ;' . . 4th District: Chatham and Randolph counties would be dropped, leaving a new district of Wake, Durham and Orange counties. 8th District: Yadkin County would be dropped, and Hoke County would be added to Anson, Cabarrus, Davie, Montgomery, Moore, Richmond, Rowan, Scot land, Stanly and Union counties. 5 th District: Yadkin County would be added and Stokes County would be dropped, making the district contain Yadkin,. Forsyth, Surry, Wilkes, Davidson, Alleghany and Ashe counties. V 6th District: Alamance County would be dropped and two counties Stokes and Randolph would be " added. The district now encompasses Guilford,- Rock ingham and Alamance counties. Both representatives from the 17th state legislative dis trict, which is composed of Chatham and Orange coun ties, voiced opposition to the plans. Rep. Joe Hackney, D-Orange, said he did not think the proposals were in the best interests of Chatham and Orange counties. "Chatham would be stuck in the far corner of the 2nd District," Hackney said. "The people of Chatham are used to .being in the fourth district, and are used to working with other counties." Hackney also said that Orange County would be weakened by being in the same congressional district as L .St Hackney Wake and Durham counties, both of which have larger populations than Orange. . Rep. Patricia Hunt, D-Orange, echoed Hackney's opposition to the proposal. She said if Orange were placed in the 4th District with Wake and Durham, "Both counties would out-vote us four times around." Hunt said she could support a redisricting proposal that placed either Wake or Durham County but not both in the same congressional district with Orange. Sen. Charles Vickery, D-Orange, said he was leaning toward favoring the creation of an Orange-Durham-Wake county congressional district. Vickery said "a lesser vote doesn't necessarily mean a lesser voice." The three counties unified in one district could attaiii many mutually beneficial goals in areas such as higher educa tion and health care, he said. Sen. Russell Walker, who represents Orange County, opposed the proposal. JRep. J.P. Husldns, chairman of the House Congres sional Redistricting Committee, said the chances of the tentative proposal passing were "50-50. " The matter should be resolved by June, he said. Dy LOUISE GUNTER Staff Writer Housekeeping workers at North Carolina Memorial Hospital and several UNC medical students are working to try to solve what they say is a long-standing problem - the inadequate space given housekeeping workers for break and lunch areas. Students and environmental services workers said re cently they were particularly concerned about break areas for those who work in Gravely and South Wing areas of the hospital. Because the cafeteria in Gravely was closed last year, the housekeepers have had to eat lunch and take breaks in a small unventilated room that doubles as a storage closet for mops and cleaning chemicals. "We clean up other people's break rooms, and then we are told to get out," said one environmental services worker; who asked not-to be : identified; ."About ,25, workers have to use that break room, and the fact that we have 100 signatures on the petition shows that the concern extends beyond those immediately involved in that single situation." Second-year medical student Barbara Johnston said the workers had petitioned in the fall and collected ap proximately 100 signatures to get a better space. They received no response, she said. v Now the workers have contacted some students in volved with a student group concerned with occupational health and safety, and students have raised the situation with housekeeping head supervisor Jean Cullen, Cullen said that a break room was planned for the bottom floor of the hospital, but employees understood, that there might be a lack of money for furniture. They had not been told when the break room would be opened. Gravely workers said they felt the new break room would be no closer for them than the hospital cafeteria is now. Several workers said that by the time they walked to the hospital cafeteria, waited in line for food and an empty table, their 45-minute lunch break was over. Another worker who asked not to be identified said: "We were told not to talk to anyone outside the hospital , ."about .theliOspitalrThey -stroll -sro-asd to .check" on listtC; and see if we axe talking to the students. They just don't trust us. I feel like I'm being treated like a child." I "The supervisors realize that the situation shouldn't be this way," Johnston said. "It's just a matter of their priorities. Also, we (several concerned medical students) think it is very unfair that people are being harassed about voicing their opinions." - ' "There is a caste system," said Mark Smith, also a . second-year medical student. "Nurses don't punch a clock, and doctors can eat where they want. In appear ance of equality, there is no equality." The Employees Forum is a place for hospital employees to air their grievances, but the employees fee! that it is more of a place for the management to make announce ments, Johnston said. "During the many years I've been here, housekeeping has been taking breaks in the service closets and cubby holes," another environmental services employee said. "We wanted them to open the old cafeteria in Gravely for'us, but they keep boxes and supplies stored in there.... But they make us eat in that hot little room." "A lot of workers don't want to speak up because they are afraid they are going to lose their jobs," Johnston said. "But both workers and students have been trying to go through the appropriate channels, and I think things may improve, but I'm not sure when." "I don't think this place will ever change," one em ployee said. "It may get worse." n ITeiniiBle to "get 1 report wMi 6 .optiiiG -" Dy ELAINE MCCLATCIIEY Staff Writer The Food Services Advisory Committee met Mon day to review a second draft of its recommendation to Vice Chancellor of Business and Finance John . Temple. The committee is expected to turn over its final recommendation to the vice chancellor next week. . FSAC Chairman Douglas Elvers said that the committee would discuss the pros and cons of op tions J, K, L, N, and T with the addition of option Q. Option Q, an idea for a livingdining complex that would offer a roorn-and-board plan, was sussestcd by Associate Vice Chancellor James O. Canslcr after a recent proposal made at the Board of Trustees' last meeting to build another residence Hall. Canslcr said the option had become more feasible because of the recent proposal to add another re sidence hall near Teague, Avery and Parker. The committee did not have time to look into it but will suggest further study on the option. The committee is also recommending that a survey be conducted by Sherri B. Morrison, director of Research for student affairs, with input from the Student Consumer Action Union. Another fusibility being discussed in the recommendation is to have a food services consul tant come in and research the options presented. The options being presented include: Option J a plan to renovate the first floor of Lenoir I fall for added seating space, close down the Pine Room in the basement of Lenoir and retain Fast Break and Ch-se Cafeteria as they are. Cost $2 million. Option A a phn similar to option J with the addition of the second-floor dining area in Lenoir. Cost $2.1 million. Option L a phn simibr to option J except that It recommends closing down the Fast Break operations and moving fast food services into the Pine Room in the basement of Lenoir. Cost $2.82 million. Option N2 phn lo instill a trr.h cenvtyer belt to replace the stacks of trays, change the dah washing equipment and to improve the dining environment. Cost $200,000. Option T a r-' s'rrilUr to option L, including the closing down of rast Break and the second floor of Chase end turning the first floor of Chase into a fast food service, Cost $5.13 million. Informal reviews of the fecemmendatient revealed that option L was rated the best by the committee memtm. Of-1 ion K received tfw lowest ranking. Committee ir ember Mike Vandrnberjn en fh Yffiimsrt vtmw nun Mvnon i 7 r , .1 ' r 4:V r : Campus fire A Chapel Hill fireman sprays water into a wooded area behind Crsiga Dormitory in an effort to put Concert tonllit in Greensboro DTHMatt Coop out a small brush fire at about 6 p.m. Wednesday. Campus police and a Chapel Hill public safety of ficer were also called to the scene. nri 7? 1 2- tOBS f or - inunhole covers By STEVE GIUFFIN SUff V, Viler ' Chapel Hill Town Manager Gene Shipman wasn't kidding when he re ported that he had not recommended the construction of table tops over manholes in the town's Emily Braswell Perry Park. Shipman explained his decision in the unusual matter in a memorandum to Mayor Joe Nassif and the town council last week. The park is approximately a three acre site in the Glendale residential area. The land was donated to the town as a park in 1973 by William Perry, and that's where the story started. Perry stipulated when transferring the deed that "any raised manholes constructed on the property shall be painted green and fitted with remov able table tops ... installed at the sole expense of the Town of Chapel Hill. Shipman said the manholes had been painted green as requested, but the tablet op request was not practical. ; "Because fumes from the sewer line are vented through manholes, 1 believe that few if any citizens would use such tables and do not recommend that they be installed," Shipman wrote. In addition to the deed's manhole conditions, Perry requested that an eight-foot wide walkway be construc ted in the park. Y A gravel walkway was built several years ago, the memorandum said but it has since been partly overgrown. Shipman wrote that the public works department would widen and re-gravel the path as part of its 1931-1932 work plan. Perry had written a letter to Town Attorney Emery Denny in 1975 re questing that the conditions he had set forth in the deed be complied with, but the issue remained largely forgot ten until this past February. At that time Chick White, Chairman of the town Parks and Recreation Commission, noticed the discrepancy between what had been requested and what had actually been done and noti fied Mayor Nassif by letter. "It seems to me," White wrote, "that such inaction will not encourage others to donate their property for public use." o 77 I if if r J ty MELAME SILL Stall VVrMer :lves a Seme call them a cult. They call them family. The rock world calls them "Deadheads." They are a musical following whose binding tie is a scmctinscs fancies! love of one band, the Grateful Dead. Their notoriety has spread so far that many who can't name a Grateful Dead sons can describe "typical" Deadheads. "They're t!l turnod-cu! tzli freaks they have & 'dead look about them," says Stan, a sale person in a Triangle Area record store. Stan's description, though not totally serious, minors a common perception of Grateful Dead fans as a stranre breed of obsessed freaks still tcau-ht up in the craiiness of the psychcdehc drug movement of the ICoOs. Another view cf tkzi tzr.i is drawn in I lank J concern that scrr; cf the chsm-rs cn ; ;:r J in c;!io.i N were row in prepress ,:i ha to i;-proprutc any MuJ;m fc;-v. Harrison's 1973 J)i Cr;.!;fJ D.;d is 3 fan p-atrua'hy. it can be iou' Of av Graicfui Dead L .s th vcrn$ to make ;p a vu's. It Di'sJ Hook, :n.dy, a larje an: C c n (. d i t c d c. 1 1 . .mall as zn err:: Triar rro'.:p The ho-av are steady sellers in area record stores a sign that more than a fanatical few enjoy Dead music. Since 1970, the group has played in North Carolina nearly every year. Todays Dead concert in Greensboro is expected to draw about 8,000, a healthy crowd for a group that gets little radio ply. ' "They say that the Grateful Dead is a cult fan group, but 1 just don't know if, that's true," says Karin Doston, co-owner cf Schoclkids' Records in Raleigh. Theyie attracting new people young people who like their music a lot end who come in asking for the new and the eld albums." Many area record stores stock or will order from the enure Grateful Dead catalog as well as outside efforts by different member! cf the group. Reckcr.it following, but it's a strong cult following, Darnell says. "They're not all eld hippie types." The Deadhead stereotype is persistent cnou;h, though, to draw sneers from some and anger from Daad faats who don't fit the Image and fcient being labeled. ? the ctout le-Lve tiamn is sslllng wen it theTii-;e. Lynn Dam: 11, sale-persofiattheCbap:! IIi:i Record Cir, say she's noticed a pickup in . "The Deadhead s::feot)pe thai comas to mi.nd is somebody who's read obnoxious and deuggti oj. and says, 'Grateful Dead, man all the time." says Art Goedyn, a Dead fan and audio consultant at Stereo Sound la Chepel ID., "I'm really pissed off at people who say that Grateful Dead people are t.li I ,-;t..x: I certairdy don't consider myself a burnout. At 23. Goodwyn it younger than many cf the fans who started following the band m the mid-liOs. shortly after its birth Is California as the Wirlocks. Like many othtr Dead though, Goodyn finds a tpeciaJ f C 0 a CTS. arpeal it f 6 S interest In the Dead, cspeetahy am :3OU '; hardly hencrs. :t cf !.e "The the improvisation ana neei. Dead p' TT;ey (the Dead) dsfinitcly hjve a Ci.lt essence cf the Dead Is the jan So 3 DEAD cnp?2 musical , , P Jerry Gercla r-ya Crara fid D:oi , . . i , .". .! V. ill 3 (I ': d 0 2, 1 1 ;J f 0 .- 3 " 3
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