.V; Shower the poop! Cloudy and cooler today with a 40 percent chance of rain, and a high in the 50s. 4 Life goes -on ; Students who. survived the dorm tottery celebrate good luck while others wonder where to turn. Story on page 3. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 The Daily Tar Heel 1982 ' ' , Volume 90, zsuejf Wednesday, March 3, 1982 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NwSportArts 662-0245 Business Advertising 962-1153 Survey how rmcmi dmcrimimmtion ft I By KYLE MARSHALL Staff Writer About 63 percent of black students at UNC who responded to a 1981 survey said they had experi enced some form of .racial discrimination in Chapel Hill, according to a study recently com pleted by Henry Frierson of the UNC School of Medicine. Of the 184 respondents, 41 percent said that al though they had experienced racial discrimination at UNC, it "hardly ever" occurred. Forty-eight percent said it occurred "sometimes," 9 percent said "often" and 3 percent said "very often." "A mailed questionnaire was sent to a random sampling of black undergraduates," Frierson said. "We wanted to look at many factors, including students attitudes and experiences they have had at UNC." Frierson said the survey only netted a 37 percent response rate. "We're really not pleased with the response rate. A higher response would have given us more confidence in our findings. About two- thirds of the responses came from freshmen and sophomores." "Many students don't think it's a problem because they don't ex perience it directly." The survey was part of a national study con ducted by Walter R. Allen of the Center for Afro American Studies at the University of Michigan. A spokesperson for Allen said the UNC findings were fairly consistent with those at the five other state universities participating in the survey the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, Memphis State University, State University of New York at Stony Brook and UCLA. The spokesperson also said "The survey was intended to get black students' feelings from a personal as well as an academic point of view." In interviews Tuesday, two UNC black students expressed their opinions about racial discrimina tion. Cassandra Thomas, a junior from Fayetteville, said, "My feelings are that a lot of people are ig norant of discrimination. Many students don't think it's a problem because they don't experience it directly." Thomas, a member of the University's Black White Dialogue Committee, said, "The committee has an opportunity to speak to students and facul ty, not to change their opinions, but to make them more aware of racial situations. We talk to any in terested members of the University community. "A lot of the problem is that the faculty is re moved from the students," she said. "They can't see the social and dorm life that students are al ways involved with." Vickie Smith, a sophomore from Greenville, said she had experienced racial discrimination, but only rarely. She also commented on how she, as a minority student, has adjusted to academics and social life at UNC. "I've adjusted well because I'm involved in a lot of organizations on campus. I also think that blacks in general have adjusted well. There are a lot of activities they can get involved in, such as the Black Student Movement and the United Christian Fellowship, but I think the reason most blacks ad just well is because they have to. It's a predom inately white university." , Harold G. Wallace, vice chancellor for univer sity affairs, said the study had been somewhat mis labeled as a discrimination survey. "It was intended as a survey of minority' stu dents at UNC," Wallace said. "It would give us some, information on the attrition rate of minorities and why they succeed or do not suc- ceed. We hope it will give us insight into these questions." Frierson said he saw the survey as "being useful to the University not as an indictment. If the in formation is taken for what it is worth, it will cer tainly be of use." "... think the reason most blacks adjust well is because they have to. It's a predominately white university." Wallace also said the survey would be useful, al though he declined to say in what capacity. "I have yet to see Frierson's final report, but I have looked at the raw data with him," Wallace said. "We will at some point see the results of the na tional survey conducted by Dr. Allen," he said. "As for right now, the University is not planning any change in policy. We still have to analyze the data before we can really do anything." Landfills registered with EPA By ALEXANDRA McMILLAN Suff Writer The two landfills used by UNC to dump toxic waste materials until 1979 have been registered with the Environ mental Protection Agency and the Solid and Hazardous Waste Management Branch of the State Department of Human Resources. All hazardous waste producers were re quired to identify their dump sites by June 9, 1981 in order to comply with the federal Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, a Uw commonly known as ; the "superfund." The superfund will help provide money to clean up toxic waste sites when necessary. The first local landfill, located off of New Banks Road, was used by both the town of Chapel Hill and the University until 1973. It was closed when the second one, located near Horace Williams Air-, port and used solely by the University for toxic waste disposal, was opened. The se cond site, established under the recom mendation and approval of the state, closed in 1979 when hazardous waste dis posal regulations were proposed. There were no regulations prior to these, direc- tor of UNC's Health and Safety office Don Willhoit said. The University now exports its toxic wastes, produced primarily by the labs and the plants, to Alabama through Tri angle Resources, .a commercial toxic waste service. "North Carolina has taken over full powers of its own toxic waste manage ment within the last month," Willhoit See WASTE on page 2 w rU , . v J m ' ill ib 1 - " ni : : jK - 'stood- ' : v.'.V;. -V.-.-.-. -v. V.-.r SKngf Fever Sam Mitchell demonstates the fine art of frisbee playing. Suzanne Conversant) T1 aiimit aid cuts fits By MARK STINNEFORD Staff Writer Dismayed by proposed cuts in federal student financial aid, UNC graduate and professional students have voiced their opinions with letters, telegrams, petitions and personal visits to Washington. The focus of the protest has been Presi dent Ronald Reagan's proposed elimina tion of Guaranteed Student Loans for graduate and professional students. ' , About 1,700 graduate and professional students (except those in the medical, dental and law schools) borrowed more than $7 million through the GSLs for the current academic year, more than half the funds distributed to UNC students through the program, according to Grad uate and Professional Student Federation Treasurer Mae Liau. "You can view the cuts as a $7 million deficit in needed financial aid," she said. While not included in the $7 million' figure, 30 percent of the students in medi cal school and over 50 percent of those in law and dental schools depended on " GSLs for financial support in academic year 1981-82. The GPSF has been a major force in organizing protest a petition drive and letter-writing campaign against elimi nation of GSLs, while many individual schools and departments have begun their own efforts. "There are many of us who don't . know how we're going to be able to come back to school next year if these loans are eliminated," said graduate business stu dent Amy Davidoff. Davidoff, along with fellow business graduate student Elizabeth Bevan, ini tiated the business school's protest to the cuts. They drafted a memo detailing Reagan adrninistration proposals and urging students to express their opposi tion through letters, telegrams, mailgrams and telephone calls to the White House, the Department of Educa tion and member of Congress. School of Business Adrninistration stu dents would be especially hurt by the elimination of GSLs because school policy "strongly discourages" outside employment during the first year of busi ness school nd Offers only limited, part time jobs "during the second year, Davidoff said. "For business school and a few other schools on campus, the problem is com pounded by the lack of teaching assis tantships and scholarship funds," Davidoff added. Alternatives to GSLs for law students are also nearly "non-existent," said first year law student Kathy Waylett, a mem ber of a law school committee which has organized its own petition-drive and letter-writing campaign. "Many people are so fired up. that they're arranged per- See GPSF on page 3 mS) News - Briefs Funding religious groups unconstitutional By ALISON DAVIS Staff Writer A bill passed by the outgoing Campus Governing Council last week is un constitutional in parts because it allows religious groups to receive CGC funding, UNC Law professor Barry Nakell said Tuesday. The bill, which amended the criteria for groups applying for CGC funds to in clude religious or political groups, was based on a U.S. Supreme Court ruling. A religious organization recently sued the University of Missouri for the use of its facilities to hold meetings. In December, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the religious group, saying that denying the use of university facilities was an infringement on their right to free speech, former CGC member Jeff Carnes said while presenting the bill. "The state may not support religious groups," he said. "Student Government is a part of the state." CGC members Susan Sparks (District 9) and Garth Dunklin (District 1 1) plan to present a bill to the newly-elected CGC Monday, March 15, that would reverse the last CGC's ruling allowing religious or political groups to request CGC fun ding. If the bill passes, religious or political groups will again be unable to request CGC funds. The bill would reinstate a clause that the outgoing CGC deleted from the criteria for groups receiving CGC funding: "programs, services, or events of a religious or political nature are nonfundable." Funding political groups is not un constitutional, NaKell said. He said, "It's perfectly all right for the government to take political positions," citing the Reagan administration as an example. Student Government has complete policy control over .funding political groups, Nakell said. "That's a question for the CGC to decide." The outgoing CGC removed the clause prohibiting religious or political groups from requesting CGC funding because of the difficulty involved in defining a religious or political group, said former speaker ElChino Martin. Several CGC members said they were displeased at the ruling made by the outgoing council. "We're dealing with state funds and state funds don't go to political parties," CGC member. Phil Painter (District 19) said. "I'm real mad about that (the ruling)," CGC member Dana Simels (District 22) said. "But I think it's going to be O.K. for this council because they're so conser vative that they won't give them (religious or political groups) the money' Finance Committee chairperson Charlie Madison (District 23) said defin ing a religious or political group woujd not cause a problem for the council. "There is a strong possibility that the individual subcommittees would define those terms themselves," he said. See CGC on page 2 Punk rock Evangelist: today's music has harmful, satanic influence By SUSAN WHEELON Staff Writer Students who listen to most hard rock and punk rock music are subjecting themselves to satanic ideology and perversion. At least that's what Durham-based evangelist Albert Long said on an hour-long cassette discussing these groups and their lyrics. "Most punk and hard rock music today is not a 'harmless pastime' like many people think.. .and most of, those who think that know nothing about this music," Long said. . s , "The reason 1 make that statement is that it is though:' J , . .w be harmless, and for this reason, it does its damage completely unchallenged," he said." Albert Long, Carolina's last four-sport letterman, now an evangelist with Happenings, Inc. in Durham, made a cassette tape explaining the hidden messages in punk and hard rock. In the tape, he named specific groups, described their backgrounds and told of their involvement with sexual perversion, rebellion, violence, hatred, drugs and the oc cult. , s Long quoted Bob Larsen, a former rock entertainer, now in full time Christian work, as saying, ''Rock music jumps right out at you from 20,000 watts of power to jam uu in the skull. "You cannot objectify its sound... The topical con tent of hard rock music had molded this generation into an irresponsible and very frustrated one." Much rock music is obviously satanic, Long said. Rock groups can attack the subconsciouses of those listening through the use of subliminal effects and backward masking, he said. Backward masking is a process through which a message or phrase is played into a song and only recognized when the specific song is played backwards. "For example," Long said' The fifth verse of a very popular Led Zeppelin song says 'Yes, there are two See PUNK on page 2 Reagan committed to tax cuts CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) President Ronald Reagan vowed Tuesday he would not retreat from his tax cuts and proposed Pentagon buildup even though Washington "seems paralyzed by hand-wringers" over record budget deficits. Reagan, whose own lieutenants, including Budget Director David Stockman, in creasingly have talked of compromise with the Congress, did not leave any room for concessions in his latest speech. . Instead, the president assailed what he termed "the born-again budget balancers" and the "pessimists on the Potomap" during a campaign stop for Sen. Malcolm Wallop (R-Wyo.), en route to a CaMbrnia vacation. Speaking to about 4,000 Wallop supporters who paid $10 each to cram into a high school gymnasium, Reagan declared that "As the volume of voices rises in debate, there is one thing I want to make very clear: My commitment of cutting taxes and rebuilding our defenses is every bit as strong today as it was the day I took office. There must be no retreat in these areas." Education budget cuts criticized WASHINGTON (AP) House Republicans balked at President Ronald Reagan's school-budget cuts on Tuesday as Education Secretary T.H. Bell conced ed that the quality of education for disadvantaged youths would slip under the pro gram. "Many of these proposals I can't support," declared Rep. John Ashbrook of Ohio, ranking Republican on the House Education and Labor Committee. He specifically assailed cuts in vocational education and education for the handicap ped. :. Increase in drinking aige approved RALEIGH (AP) The Governor's Commission on Crime has given formal ap proval to recommendations to increase the minimum age for purchase of beer and wine to "21 and add increasing penalties for levels of drunken driving. , A total of 13 recommendations were endorsed by the commission at its February meeting and will be submitted in a written report to Gov. Jim Hunt and the Gover nor's Task Force on Drunken Driving. Among the other key recommendations are proposals to eliminate the law on careless and reckless . driving, and to, establish first-, second- and third-degree drunken driving offenses in which the severity of the penalty would be increased ac cording to the Breathalyzer reading. Watt legislation called a 6sham9 (AP) State and national environmentalists say after studying Interior Secretary James Watt's bill calling for a moratorium on gas and oil drilling on wilderness land, they have dubbed the legislation the "Wilderness Destruction Bill." "The proposal is a sham from the first line to the last," Wilderness Society Chairman Gaylord Nelson said in a statement. "Instead of preserving the wilderness, it will destroy it."

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