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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 9, Issue 1Q
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Tuesday, November 24, 1981
Chapel. Hill, North Carolina
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By SUSAN HUDSON
DTH Staff Writer
Houseparents seem to be a dying breed in
UNC fraternities. Only a few fraternities bother
to keep alive the housemotherhousefather tra
dition today.
Two fraternities have housemothers. Elsie
Shapiro works at the Zeta Beta Tau house and
Mrs. J. Colton Burris is the housemother for
the Chi Phis.
The Phi Delta Chi fraternity has Tony Mit
chum for their housefather. Mark Beck has a
similar role at the Pi Kappa Phi house.
' The reason that some of these fraternities K
have houseparents lies in their location. The
ZBT, PDC and Pi Kap houses are on Finley
Golf Course Road on land owned by the Uni
versity. Having a houseparent is one of the con
ditions of the lease signed by the fraternities.
"These 99-year leases were drafted by the at
torney general and signed by the Governor,"
said Grace Wagoner of the University Property
Office.
"The University holds the land in trust for
ever. We can't sell it," Wagoner said. "We
deeded the property to them (the fraternities).
They built the houses, deeded the property back
to the University and entered into a 99-year
lease," she said.
The fraternities, beginning with the ZBTs, be
gan to move to Finley Golf Course Road in the
early 1960s. "It was a common practive then for
a fraternity to have a housemother and house
father," Wagoner said. In effect, the 99-year
lease signed by these fraternities froze into law a
tradition which faded from on-campus frater
nities in the turbulent late 1960s and early 1970s.
"I'm here to fill a University requirement,"
Tony Mitchum of the PDCs said. Mitchum, a
1981 pharmacy school graduate and regional
director for the PDC fraternity, gets free board
at the house but receives no salary.
Mitchum said he could not think of any spe
cific duties he is required to perform. "I've been
here for five years. I know how things operate,"
he said. "I know who the lawyer is, who the in
surance is with, the house rules. I keep the older
alumni in touch," he said.
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Pi Kappa Phi housefather Mark Beck is one of four houseparents at UNC
... the brothers 'see me as older but equal,' he says
Mitchum does not consider himself a parental
image despite his title of housefather. "I'm
somewhere between a big brother and one of
the guys," he said.
Mark Beck, the Pi Kaps' housefather and a
third-year medical student, emphasized the im
portance of the fraternity officers. "I don't
have as much responsibility as you might think.
The officers really run everything themselves,"
Beck said.
"I help during rush, cleaning up, everyday
things," he said. "But my goal is not to try to
run the house. I just help when the brothers
want help," he said.
Beck, who has a free room at the Pi Kap
house but gets no salary, said the brothers con
sider him as one of them. "They see me as older
but equal," he said.
Elsie Shapiro, the. other - houseparent on
Finley Golf Course Road, is a veteran at the
job. She began her eighteenth year at the ZBT
house this fall. Shapiro saw the role as house
parent as an important one.
"Some people say that they're old-fashioned
and out of style, that the boys don't need them
any more," Shapiro said. "But I think a house
mother adds a lot to a house. It's something
that ties a house in."
When asked to describe her duties, Shapiro
said, "It's probably easier to say, 'What don't
you do?' Basically I'm here to see that they have
what they need," she said. "I'm on call 24
hours a day."
The Chi Phi house -is the only on-campus
fraternity that still has a housemother. When
their housemother retired last year, the Chi Phis
found another woman willing to "mother" 60
fraternity brothers Mrs. J. Colton Burris.
Burris, a former substitute teacher in the Dur
ham County school system, began her new job
in August. "I do things that need to be done,"
she said. These duties include planning refresh
ments for rush activities and being a hostess at
social functions, she said.
"It's good to be around young people," Bur
ns "said. "I get to see what they're thinking;
what's on their minds. It's restored my faith in
young people and the future of the country,"
she said. '
Burris is keeping a diary of her housemother
experiences. She plans to stay at the Chi Phi
house for a long time. "I told them that they're
going to have to take me out in my coffin," she
said. "I'm here to stay."
Issue to go before full CGC
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON President Ronald Reagan
signed late Monday a revised emergency money bill
that Congress rushed to him 10 hours after he vetoed
its forerunner and shut down much of the govern
ment, true to a vow not to tolerate "business as
usual."
Passage of the new measure ended, for now, a con
frontation with Congress which triggered Reagan's
first veto, the layoffs of hundreds of thousands of
federal employees and the closing of all "non
essential" offices.
More than a thousand federal workers in North
Carolina went home early Monday after Reagan
vetoed an emergency bill to finance national govern
ment operations.
Reagan ordered "non-essential" offices to.close,
sending home up to 400,000 federal workers nation
wide. Nearly all of the 1 ,200 workes at the U.S. Environ
mental Protection Agency in the Research Triangle
Park were sent home Monday afternoon. .
"We're closing shop at 1:30 p.m.," said EPA
spokesman Chris L. West.
In Washington, Reagan appeared pleased about
the new bill, even though it amounted to just a three
week breather before the budget issue must be ad
dressed or settled again. He signed it immedi
ately, then headed for his ranch in California for a
Thanksgiving vacation, a respite delayed by the bud
get battle.
"I just signed the extension," Reagan told re
porters as he boarded his helicopter. "Of course, we
now must come back and do the work all over again,
in the Congress, on a bill that can be signed. But I am
glad for this extension, so no one's holidays were dis
rupted." The president believes "there is a lot more work to
be done," said deputy press secretary. Larry Speakes.
"He's looking forward to working with Congress
when he returns."
Despite the infuriation of House Democratic
leaders at Reagan's actions, the chamber agreed to
the Republican-drafted compromise and reopened
the money tap which technically was closed at 12:01
a.m. Saturday. The compromise expires Dec. 15.
Democrats had sought interim funding authority
through Feb. 3, but the Republican plan was substi
tuted on a vote of 221-176, then passed, 367-26.
The measure sailed; through the Senate, 88 to 1,
with only Democrat Alan Cranston of California
voting against it.
It was Reagan's first veto, and it stuck. A bitterly
divided Congress had sent him last Sunday night a
$428-billion emergency bill expiring next July 15,
after it had toiled for days to resolve scores of dif-
Committee back shallot ting service use
By JONATHAN SMYLIE
DTH Starr Writer
After more than an hour of debate, the Finance
Committee of the Campus Governing Council ap
proved Monday a $9,500 computerized ballotting
system for use in the February campus election.
In a 3-2 vote the committee approved the
American Tabulating System, which the Elections
Board had proposed out of many systems it had
considered.
"We have looked at a lot of systems," Elections
Board Chairman Mark Jacobson said, "I don't
think there is anything out there that is better than
this system."
One of the major advantages in choosing the
ATS ballotting system was that the Board may be
able to rent the system for one election, on a trial
basis, Jacobson said.
If the system could be rented, the CGC could
avoid the investment costs and give the students a
chance to use it without having to commit such a
large amount of money, he said.
Avoiding a paper ballotting election and giving'
the Elections Board more time to look into other
systems were additional advantages Jacobson
listed.
Questions were raised by committee members as
to an alternative if the voting machine could not be
rented.
"I just don't feel like I have quite enough infor
mation," said Allan Graham, district 3.
The only alternative, if the board was unable to
rent the machine would be to buy the system im
mediately, Jacobson said.
Council members said this alternative would,
eliminate the chance to have time to research other
possible systems.
Jacobson said the Elections Board needed to
know which system they would be using by the end
of this semester to be adequately prepared to run
the February elections.
If the CGC wished to avoid another paper
ballotting election, he said, the ATS system was the
only system that could be put into use by
February.
Trie ballotting system will go before the full
CGC for approval at its Monday meeting-.
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Jacobson with a sample ballot
before committee meeting Monday night
ferences.
The House, to which Reagan returned that bill un
signed, made no effort to override the veto, but con
centrated instead on shortening the expiration date.
Meanwhile, just hours after Reagan said "as
quickly as possible, people should be sent home,"
workers streamed out of federal buildings, their work
interrupted, their pay discontinued. Many offices
were closed entirely.
"Everybody in my office is gone," said Connie
Crunkleton, regional information director for the
Department of Agriculture in Atlanta.
The Boston offices of the Department of Edu
cation and the Environmental Protection Agency
closed at noon local time; so did the Oklahoma City
offices of the Federal Information Center and the ,
Economic Development Administration.
Confusion seemed to reign at many federal offices
in North Carolina, where employees did not know
whether they would be working Tuesday or fur
loughed without pay.
At 12:45 p.m., 21 workers at the Federal-State
Crop and Livestock Reporting Service in Raleigh
were sent home, said Jim Olson, statistician in
charge.
Fee increase
gets support
By KEN MINGIS
DTH Staff Writer
Student Body President Scott Norberg said Monday
that he would go along with the proposed $8 Student
Health Fee increase when it comes before the UNC
Board of Trustees next month for approval.
But Norberg said he first wanted the board to re
quire that Student Health Services resolve several
questions that affect the cost of services to students.
"I would be willing to acquiesce to a fee increase
only if there are firm commitments from the SHS to
examine ways of cutting costs of current services,"
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Norberg said one service the SHS should look into
was insurance coverage. ;
"Most students are already covered by plans that
would pay for any in-patient care and diagnostic ser
vices," he said. "We have to know 'whether or not
this system could work."
Norberg said he was concerned that doctors were
taking lunch hours from noon to 2 p.m. "It is ex
temely difficult for students to get seen by doctor
during those hours," he said.
Another issue is the number of beds used in the in
firmary. Of 37 beds available, only eight to 10 are used each
day, Norberg said.
"One recommendation that needs study would be
allowing North Carolina Memorial Hospital to rent
those extra beds for their use," he said. This would
help return some money to SHS.
The health service also needs a more refined fiscal
accounting system that can measure the cost of the
services provided, he said.
This year's proposed increase comes after increases
of $35, $20 and $4 in the past three years. Norberg
said that the questions he had raised should be an
swered before further fee increases were considered.
In a survey of students last spring, 72 percent said
they approved of the current level and quality of
health services, he said.
"They also said they would be willing to pay more
to maintain the same level," he said.
"It is clear that the Student Health Service meets
student needs," Norberg said. "The question that
now needs to be answered is, 'do they meet needs
that do not exist?' "
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ArtSchool expanded to cover all arts,
school's success makes dream a reality
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Instructor Debra Wall teaches students, ages 3-11; creative movement
... at the ArtSchool, in Carrboro, which started in 1974
By SONYA WEAKLEY
DTH Staff Writer
It is very hard to build something from.nothing, and people
have a way of letting dreams sit in the back of their minds to
gather dust. But every now and then there is a market for a good
dream, and then you have a success story.
That's what the ArtSchool in Carrboro is. What is the Art
School about? There are many answers to that question. The
ArtSchool is many things to many people.
"It is the most unique community arts center," said assistant
-director Maria Evans. "We're creating and nurturing the
creative spirit of the people in Orange County," she said.
"The ArtSchool is a place where a lot of different people
come together and make lots of things happen," said Joy
. Metelits, a full time volunteer at the ArtSchool. "We're trying
to provide services that you can't get elsewhere," she said.
"It is a meeting place for artists in the area," said ArtSchool
student and teacher, Susan Reintjes of Chapel HilJ. "It is a place
where my art comes alive; without the ArtSchool, it would be
difficult for me to share it with the community."
Though director Jacques Menache didn't know it when he
started, there was a market for his dream in Orange County.
Menache said the ArtSchool started in one room with 36
students, across the street from its present location in Carr Mill
Mall. He had received his Master of Fine Arts degree from UNC
.and decided to create his own job, He rented the room in 1974
and started teaching painting and drawing.
"Pretty soon, a poet came in and asked if he could read his
poetry and I said 'sure,' " Menache said. "Then a dancer came
m ana asked to dance when we weren't teaching, and a painter
came and asked if he could show his paintings."
It started rolling. More people began wanting more classes.
By late 1978, Menache had 350 students, 30 instructors, 14 pro
grams and even a few government grants.
And space started getting a little, cramped. Ih 1979, the Art
School started moving across the street. By the fall of 1979,
there were 550 students, new programs, a professional mime
troop, a poets' cooperative, an actors' cooperative and a,
theater.
Menache said the ArtSchool was an innovative organization.
"We like to start things, get them going and move on to new
areas," Menache said.
Since the school began, five new dance studios have opened in
the area, allowing the ArtSchool to emphasize other disciplines.
"We're not in the business of competing," Meiuche said.
Facing recent fund cutoffs, the ArtSchool has turned to more
self-supporting areas, mainly performing arts. Two months ago
the "Wednesday at the ArtSchool" program began.
Most Wednesday evenings the ArtSchool holds concerts,
plays, poetry readings or, very often, the recording sessions of
local and national groups; The Wednesday night series is
videotaped and shown on three local cable television stations.
The ArtSchool also has programs for senior citizens, children,
and the handicapped. The senior citizen's "Meet Your Neighbor
Club" gathers regularly at the' ArtSchool for meals, crafts and
films. The summer is dedicated to children with the "Children's
Art Summer Experience." Children are exposed to four dif
ferent disciplines divided into two-week sessions. The play
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