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Work on library halted
because of crane crash
From staff reports
Work on the new Central Library was
brought to an abrupt stop Tuesday after
noon when one section of a crane col
lapsed. No injuries were reported.
The crane, owned by McLeod Trucking
and Rigging Co., was lowering a section
of another crane from the top of the
structure. The crane then buckled,
crashing onto another section of the
building. Officials on the site did not
give a cause for the accident.
Greg Hartsell, an insulation worker
on the site, said he watched as the crane
fell past him. "I was standing on the
fifth floor looking outside, and it just
buckled up and fell," he said, adding
that the crane had too much weight on it.
Keith Sikes of Campbell Electric Co.
didn't see the accident, but said that it
sounded like an earthquake. "Everyone
was yelling to get the hell out of the
building and no one knew what was
going on. We thought someone had
been hurt."
The McLeod crane had been rented
by Carolina Crane Corporation, which
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UNC freshman makes' Bell Tower music
By LAURIE BRADSHER
DTH Staff Writer
Every football Saturday, UNC fresh
man Frank Pittman becomes the man
behind the music that emanates from
the Morehead-Patterson Memorial
Bell Tower.
Pittman plays school songs, one or
two hymns some that he arranged
himself and what he calls "Golden
Oldies" like "California Here I
Come."
"I just play a cycle," he said. "A
bout every 10 minutes I play 'Hark the
Sound' or 'Tar Heels on Hand.' I try
to keep the Carolina spirit in."
During the week, the tower auto
matically plays four or five songs,
much like a music roll on a player
piano. But on Saturday mornings, the
computer that controls the bells is
turned off and Pittman's job begins.
"I try to start around 11:30 a.m.
and play for an hour," he said. "Then
with five minutes to go in the game, I
leave." Pittman sometimes plays be
fore the game is finished and usually
continues for an hour afterward.
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By CHIP WILSON
DTH Staff Writer
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Drawing on his own experience, the
Rev. Daniel Berrigan told an audience of
2,000 at Memorial Hall Tuesday night
that "arational" means were most effec
tive to combat nuclear proliferation.
Berrigan, a Catholic priest, was con
victed of criminal coercion after a Sept.
1980 break-m of a General Electric plant
in Pennsylvania.
Berrigan, who gained attention in 1965
for his vehement opposition to the Viet
nam War, spoke as part of a statewide
tour, which included stops in Raleigh,
Durham and Greensboro.
In his speech, entitled "Children or the
Bomb: A Narrow Choice," Berrigan
spoke of the break-in of the Pennsylvania
plant. He and his seven co-defendants
were known as the "Plowshares 8," a
term which stemmed from biblical admo
nitions from the prophets Micah and
Isaiah to "beat swords into plowshares."
"Seeing the social- matrix of today, I
was struck by the likeness of the times in
which the prophets Micah and Isaiah
spoke to today," Berrigan said.
"They had a vision. It was a vision op
posite to Utopia. It entailed a modest
Utopia. Within that passage, there was an
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was contracted by another company to
remove one of its cranes from the top of
the library.
The accident caused minor damage to
the top of the building, but Job Super
intendent James Richter said that the
damage was superficial and that work
would resume today. The damaged
crane would be removed in about a
week, he said. ,
UNC student Bill Eckerman said that
he and junior Kari Schopler were walk
ing by the crane when it fell. "(We had)
just walked out and the whole orange
part (of the crane) just came down ...
and hit the other building," he said.
Lloyd L. Boudreaux, a McLeod em
ployee, was operating the crane when it
collapsed. Boudreaux said the crane had
stopped and was lowering the boom
when the boom fell straight down.
"It didn't bother you a bit, did it?"
one of Boudreaux's co-workers asked.
Boudreaux merely lit his pipe and slowly
shook his head.
The value of the damaged crane was
estimated to be around $100,000.
Pittman, a piano major from Davis,
said he chose UNC because "the
piano faculty is marvelous here." He
has been playing the piano for 12
years. v
"I kept telling the guys on the hall
he'd be famous," said Bart Meroney,
Pittman's roommate in Granville West.
Pjttman also plays tenor sax in the
Carolina Marching Band. It was that
connection that brought him the job
working in the Bell Tower.
There were not enough uniforms
this year because of the large number
of freshmen, Pittman said, so he be
came a temporary alternate. "Then
one day, the assistant band director
asked if anyone could play the
piano," he said. "I volunteered and
so did another girl who played just
one week."
The band office assigns people to
play the Bell Tower each year. Pitt
man said he was allowed to take
friends with him, but that he was re
sponsible for t.hem.
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insistence on effort. It did not say that the
swords would bend into plowshares. They
used the word 'beat'."
Berrigan said the hammers used when
he and his co-defendants struck nuclear
warhead cones at the Pennsylvania plant
were symbols of an effort to tear down to
rebuild againi He also said their blood,
which was spilled over blueprints and the
warheads themselves, was symbolic of an
outpouring of life.
Berrigan said the break-in was a vehicle
of expression, since "language is mean-,
ingless."
"This is a time when rationale is crush
ed and language is lost," Berrigan said.
"You can take a subject and predicate
and place it with an object (of a sentence)
and expect a general to understand.
"You are dealing with the irrationality
of violence," Berrigan said. "You cannot
break minds like that with rational dis
course. "For that reason, we used symbols to
communicate truths about life and death."
The Plowshare 8 conviction is currently
under appeal following a conviction hand
ed down by a Pennsylvania state superior
court. Berrigan and three of the defen
dants are free on bail now, while four
others remain in prison.
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Fore! Construction at the new Central Library came to an abrupt halt
Monday as one section of a crane collapsed. Officials on-site at the ac
cident gave no reason for the crane falling, althoughit did only minor
damage to the top of the'building. The crane, owned by McLeod Truck
ing and Rigging Co. was lowering one part of another crane from the
top of the structure when it buckled and then collapsed. Luckily no
one was hit by the falling crane which was valued at $100,000.
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By LINDA ROBERTSON
i Assistant Sports Editor
Second of two parts
At colleges and universities across the nation, it is readily
apparent that women's athletic programs have yet to
achieve equal status with men's programs. Although
women's sports still lag behind, progress since Title IX's
implementation has been nothing short of phenomenal.
Since Title IX wais passed in 1972, participation by.
women in intercollegiate athletics has increased 250 per
cent. Female participation in intramural sports has jumped
108 percent.
Ten years ago there were no athletic scholarships for
women, but today 10,000 scholarships are offered by 700
institutions. One-third of all intercollegiate athletes are
women, but they receive only 22 percent of all scholar
ship money and 16 percent of the total athletic budget.
Although it could be argued that this progress is simply .
a manifestation of societal changes and the equal rights
movement, no doubt Title IX has served as a catalyst to
institutions which were previously dragging their feet. .
Most women's athletic directors are confident that
Title IX's fate will have no adverse effects on their pro
grams because the idea of women in sports is now so
thoroughly entrenched in American society.
"Title IX sped things up, but we were well on the way
compared to other schools," UNC Associate Athletic
Director Frances Hogan said. "Now women's athletics
are considered an important part of most schools' total
athletic programs, and I think it would take a major change
in thought to wipe out what's been accomplished.
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"Here, Bill Cobey and now John Swofford have been
committed to women's. athletics, and I think they're very
sincere," she said.
"We've come a long way, and I just think we're here
to stay," said University of Michigan's Women's Ath
letic Director Phyllis Ocker. "Without Title IX, we never
would have progressed so rapidly. There has been no at-
tempt to cut back women's sports at UM."
Dr. Beth Miller, UNC volleyball coach and athletic
business manager, recalled that when she first arrived at
' UNC seven years ago, women's sports were still under
the jurisdiction of the physical education department.
She was a full-time physical education instructor and a
part-time coach receiving a salary of $1,000 a year for
coaching.
"At a lot of schools, the only reason they even bother
ed to establish women's teams was because Title IX was
there to spur them on," Miller said. "I think here the
growth would've happened anyway, but at other schools
it certainly provided the incentive. And the future is very
bright." ; U
UCLA women's Athletic Director Judith Holland
said it was too early to know what would happen to Title
IX, which is now under review.
"I think they're making a serious attempt to single out
the good parts and the ambiguous parts," Holland said.
"Inflation has just killed schools in terms of alloting
money for athletics, and many administrators are wor
ried that men's athletics will suffer because they're get
ting a smaller chunk of the pie now."
At UNC, women have steadily ascended the ladder to
ward parity with men's athletics. Statistics released from
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By RACHEL PERRY
Assistant Managing Editor
After almost two hours of heated de
bate, the Chapel Hill Town Council voted
7-2 Monday night to grant a special use
permit that would allow a 16-duplex pub
lic housing project, the Piney Mountain
housing development off Airport Road,
to be built.
The Piney Mountain Resident Associa
tion, headed by James Haar, a professor
in the UNC music department, presented
a petition to the council Monday night to
delay the vote on the special use permit.
The association has opposed the construc
tion of the public housing project because
it would decrease homeowners' property
values, Haar said after the meeting.
"It will (negativelyX affect our property
value and will alter the neighborhood be
yond recognition with the increased den
sity," he said. "Our part of town has poor
public transportation, and the (public
housing) people would be stuck out there."
Haar said the Piney Mountain Resident
Association would file suit against Chapel
Hill in reaction to the council's approval
of the special use permit.
"We're going to sue the town and prob
ably HUD, too," Haar said. The U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban De
velopment funds the public housing pro
ject. "We aim to block the judgment."
Council member Marilyn Boulton, who
voted against the permit resolution, said
multi-family units (duplexes) did not be
long in a single-family development.
"This creates a pattern of land use that
is inconsistent with the new zoning ordi
nance," she said.
"This is an opportunity to allow some
people to live as comfortably as others in
the community," said council member
Bill Thorpe, who voted for the project. "I
don't think it will be as bad as some people
have made it out to be." .
Thompson
appointed a
By ALEXANDRA McMILLAN
DTH Staff Writer
The Orange County Commissioners
voted unanimously Monday night to ap
point Kenneth Thompson of Morganton
as manager for Orange County, beginning
Oct. 12.
The 39-year-old Thompson will be
come Orange County's second manager,
replacing Sam Gattis, who served 28 years
before resigning in June 1980. Orange
County Tax Supervisor Bill Laws has
been serving as acting manager since Gat
tis' resignation.
"I'm really, thrilled and grateful to
have been selected," Thompson said
Tuesday. "Orange County was at the top
of my lists of opportunities during this
period of a job search."
Thompson, who is originally from
Missouri, was town manager of Burke
County, N.C. from September 1978 to
December 1980. His starting salary in
Orange County will be $37,860 a year.
Thompson said he looked forward to
working with the commissioners. "I've
never seen a group work harder and be
more thorough," he said. "The commis
sioners seem to see what they're doing
more as a calling than a position. Each
Council member Jim Wallace opposed
the resolution. He said the increased den
sity of the project would be unsatisfactory.
But Mayor Joe Nassif disagreed.
"The density is prescribed by the zon
ing ordinance; therefore, it can't be
wrong," he said. "We already have a law
to go by the new zoning ordinance
and we are bound to that law."
In response to Piney Mountain resi
dents' claims that property value would
decrease significantly if the public hous
ing project were built, Nassif said, "Pub
lic housing does not cause property value
to go down. It has escalated in other pub
lic housing areas."
The special use permit resolution is the
first major zoning issue to come before
the Town Council since the new zoning
ordinance was approved in May, Chapel
Hill planning director Mike Jennings said
Tbesday.
"Although the Planning Board recom
mended denial of the special use request,
the planning staff recommended appro
val," Jennings said. "The site is good; it
,meets the town's goals of where assistant
housing should be located, and is designed
in a way that would be compatible with
the comprehensive plan of Chapel Hill,"
he said.
Haar, president of the resident associa
tion, said the site chosen by the Chapel
Hill Housing Authority for the public
housing project was not the best one.
"We were opposing the specific site,
but the council was voting for public
housing in the abstract sense," he said.
"The people (of the Piney Mountain
area) were inadequately represented on
the council, and that will come to light
with the elections in November." .
The seats of council members Boulton,
Thorpe, Kawalec and Herzenberg will be
up for election in early November. .
the athletic department indicate that UNC is among the
schools in the forefront working toward compliance with
Title IX.
In 1974, at UNC, there were 564 male participants and
128 female participants in athletics. Today, that figure
stands at 469 men and 241 women.
The total grant-in-aid and operating budget for women
in 1981 is $664,195 and for men's non-revenue sports it is
$692,354. . The men's total excludes the million-dollar
budgets of football and basketball the revenue
producing sports.
" Some Title IX advocates believe you can equate NCAA
football and basketball with women's sports when they
are calculating proportional expenditures," Swofford
said. "But that's just financially impossible. Athletic de
partments would go out of business."
At other schools around the country, the University of
Minnesota has a. women's budget of $1.2 million; Yale
University's is $300,000 (the men receive $1.7 million);
and Ohio State's is $700,000 (the men receive $6.3 million).
UNC tennis player Laura DuPont received the only fe
male scholarship in j974,: while men received 264 schol
arships. In 1981, 106 women and 234 men are receiving
scholarship aid.
Total scholarship money allocated to women is $3 12,560,
with $336,406 going to men's non-revenue sports. Travel
expenditures for women has jumped from $7,980 to
$96,170 in seven years. The same figure has gone from
$77,300 to $88,640 for the men.
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manager
member really does his or her part," he
added.
Before coming to work in North
Carolina, Thompson held several ad
ministrative positions in the government
of DeKalb County, Ga., including
management services coordinator and
management and budget analyst.
He also worked for the Board of Com
missioners of Lawrence, Kan.,
coauthored a book and served as a re
search fellow for the Ford Foundation in
Guatemala. .
Thompson was chosen from a group of
applicants who were picked to be inter
viewed from an original field of about 90
applicants.
"What made Thompson stand out as
the best person for the job was the sum
total of all his qualifications," said com
missioner Don Wilhoit.
"He got very high recommendations
from his previous posts and he is very
strong in the management and admini
strative end, which is one of our needs,"
Wilhoit said.
Given Thompson's skills, the new
manager should be able to help the coun
ty strengthen and build new programs,
Wilhost said. '