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a s 4 r"""" i in Cloud cover Partly cloudy today with a high in the mid-70s. 30 per cent chance of rain tonight. Low in the upper-50s. Harmony in action Find out about four UNC faculty members who are doing their part to preserve the barbershop quartet on page 4. C7 Copyright The Daily Tar Heel 1982 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume b6, Issue H Ul Chapel Hill, North Carolina 1 electee aeated House: rac orew Wednesday, November 3, 1982 ll ousinesssMovenising M2-1163 C1S11 ft" ft Ola caniToai From staff and wire reports RALEIGH Democratic Rep. Ike An drews won re-election against a well-heeled challenge by Republican Bill Cobey, who received a campaign visit by President Reagan. Andrews took the podium with his wife in his acceptance speech at 12:21 a.m. He immediately said that with all but one of the 200 precincts being reported, he held a 5,000 vote lead over Cobey. "I think it's safe to say that the 4th Congres sional District is won," he said. "I think the National Congressional Club is the best asset I've had in this cam paign," Andrews said with a smile in his acceptance speech. "They've given us the opportunity to serve them." "They (the campaign ads) can't con vince the people who have known us for all of our lives that we ars big spenders and that we are too liberal," Andrews said about Cobey's campaign advertisements. Cobey left the Republican campaign headquarters shortly after Andrews spoke. "I want to thank the thousands of voters that voted for us," he said before leaving. "You just don't know how good it feels to have that support." Cobey said he would make no statement until all votes were in. "I want to wait until morning to make a statement," he said. "If Andrews has won, I'll be the first one to congratulate him, send him a telegram and offer my support." Andrews said, "I might say that 10 days ago I felt we were down, but I did not think we would lose because we had 10 more days." He said he attributed his success to the support that rallied to his cause, referring to his recent driving under the influence charge to which he later pleaded guilty. m "When you slip and faB, they all come ronning," he said. " : " The Aa-odated Press ' RAiXIGH Here are the unofficial, incyrr.pfcte returri from Tuesday's general election, 'with pcr- fcr.r;e of prclrcts report m parentheses.- , ! t DUtrfct Cor;.-esc--J (95) , th Dtrict Congressional V - ?) Jones 74,345 .Mclnfyre 55,627 - Hefrere3,lS9 - - Bhke43,701 IniD'lrlctCoemi 92) 9th District Cor..'?onH - - ' (CO Yi!::.L:ie 55,175 . Marin 31,951 - Cornelius 44,5 19 - Martin 6Q,?:7 3tdD-.'rkrtCc"-;fesJcnJ - (85) 10ih District CoE.resskm&I ? " - (?") J.-y55,;.J . McDanscI 31,102 BrcryhJi 74,642 - - Ranking n. tclC- -- ! I llih District CgTe&ioyrf" 33) A:wT3.:'J Crnt'.?'i ' , Hcndon 77,75 JthDLtrictCcrcsiionJ 90) , Court ef Appeals - " (5) NV&I 78,271 v ; Fv.gnal 50,907 ' Ea-js 462, 1 9 , Pearoe276n :h D'-''.i;t Ccr jrjsionsl 7) ; LgL!ativeTcttrs Anscniimem 1 Dritt 65,231 - . JoLaston 57,317 - For 465,114 - Ajainrf 194,193 - 7;h District Cor-sressionaJ , (94) . Tax Bonds Anxndsaent Z) .lUref 3,553 . . Jo!jisoa26CS Forl,33 - . AgistS52,eC5 W , -.-r imf-i r nTmr"iy" Nil -n--7Hwi i;nr"nnnrrirTiri(imn"-n-r unwrnr n iimn urimiriniHiiini nwnnn rmww m nimnm huhmiwhhmhih iluujuih Pfff ; ' K . II - - - ,s ft ". I l I I ' ; " ; 1 s j - j If ',VvX i. . T-:, v" ' lurt Cob ey Andrews spent much of the evening mingling among the crowd, which by late evening had swelled to about 300 people. After Andrews' informal acceptance speech, Cobey came on television saying that Randolph County had now come in and would make a difference. Cobey said earlier that 3,000 votes in heavily Republican Randolph County would decide the election. "We're excited. We may pull it out," he said. Andrews led in every county in the 4th District except Randolph. In Orange County Andrews won by over 4,000 votes. Andrews said he was very surprised with Orange County results, especially Chapel not in good shape in Orange County. Cobey spent some time there and targeted that district with a lot of money. The pro paganda coming out of the Cobey cam paign was that they were going to carry Chapel Hill," Andrews said. "We did better in Chapel Hill than I thought we would. I had hoped it might be this good. This has reached my best expec tation," he said. In Chapel Hill, Andrews beat Cobey soundly in almost every precinct. In the Country Club precinct, Andrews took 101 votes while Cobey received 71. The Greenwood precinct, which is made up of mostly Chapel Hill residential areas, the vote went 174 for Andrews, 120 for IV L Hill where he was leading. r-We'th"6ught three w on page 4" K';' .'.: :A'.voft-.v:.'.v. ...o,','Av. ....- ... . . . i... . I N I .. -i , r,ni,mmltr-,v,,1-1Brrmiow,1, aj victorious L Ike Andrews celebrates with family in Raleigh at stta Dsmocratic house''6' L"ra . . . 57-year-old incumbefifcfefeatecl Bill Cobey to return to sixth term in U.S. House L ocal turnout heavy; precinct law confuses Republican Congressional candidate Bill Cobey awaits election results with family, friends in Raleigh's Marriott .. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C, ponders ominous news of defeat of Cobey, who was supported by Congressional Club By JIM WRINN Stale 'and National Editor Under cloudy but often bright skies, UNC students and Chapel Hill residents flocked to local polls Tuesday in unex pectedly large numbers. When polls opened about 6:30 a.m. at Chapel Hill's 23 polling spots, poll sitters reported an unusually strong early vote, which continued at most precincts throughout the day. "By 7:30 a.m., we had 33 voters," one poll sitter at the Mason Farm precinct said Tuesday afternoon. "It looks like it'll be a good turnout." By 7:30 p.m., most precincts near the UNC campus reported just that a better-than-average turnout for an off year election. At the Northside precinct polling site the Chapel Hill Municipal building poll sitters said that of the 1,259 registered, about 530 people had voted. The East Franklin precinct, including North Cam pus and the Franklin Street area, reported a turnout of about 50 percent, while Country Club precinct, made up primarily of the South Campus area, reported be tween 60 percent and 70 percent. But while Chapel Hill and UNC voters turned out, many were turned away from the polls. Because of a state law, voters must change their precinct registration 30 days before an election. Many UNC students who were unaware of the law tried to vote in their old precinct but were told they could not vote. Alan Frazier, a UNC junior, , who moved from Hinton-James to an apart ment on the 15-501 Bypass since the last election, was unable to vote because of the law. "I didn't think it would make any dif ference where I vote," he said after poll sitters at Mason Farm precinct at the Com munity Church told him he could not vote. Others encountered the same problem at several town polling spots; some precincts turned away 20 or more students. Although a recent Carolina Poll predicted a light turnout across the state, locally poll sitters expressed surprise at Tuesday's turn out. "For an off-year election, we're doing pretty well so far," Virginia Julian, registrar for the Country Club precinct, said about 1:30 p.m. Although no students See LOCAL on page 4 uence mr m u r m ww w m WJ w vwmS B- wS0 . '- mith says Americans overplay value of sports in recent UNC seminar IDA ROBERTSON shape, to raise $30 million in two years, is in here by the bus load and hunt them down. when "tr-hine i th fc; ut ' By LINDA ROBERTSON Sports Editor First of three parts As Dean Smith spoke, the UNC Marching Band, winding its way through campus, passed by outside. Alumni visiting Chapel Hill for Homecoming weekend stopped to listen or sing along about being Tar Heels born, bred, and, eventually, dead. Properly inspired, they bought 10 more Carolina blue T-shirts, perhaps an ashtray or umbrella, packed the stuff in their Carolina blue camper, and, after the Blue-White basket ball game, drove off into the Carolina blue yonder. "It's amazing how some universities bow down to alumni," Smith said. "It's like some one snuck in the store and changed all the price tags. The value given to sports is too high. "Take the new Student Activities Center, for example. With the economy in its present amazing. They say people get in the habit and pledge money to other things, like cancer re search. I hope that's the case. I say if someone gives $2 million, they can tell me when to go into the Four Corners." Smith opened last Friday's seminar on "Sports and American Values," sponsored by the UNC Program in the Humanities. Three professors also spoke at the seminar held in the Morehead Building's Faculty Lounge: Don Higginbotham, chairman of the Depart ment of History; C. Townsend Ludington Jr., Cary C. Boshamer Professor of English; and Louis Rubin, University Distinguished Pro fessor of English. All four speakers and the audience of 40 discussed Americans' obsession with sports. "It's the success syndrome we're all tied to. You depend on sports when you don't have that inner affirmation of security or success," Smith said. "Just look at the fish bowl ex istence of our players. High school kids come in here by the bus load and hunt them down. We don't let anyone know who we're re cruiting so the alumni can't interfere." Smith has not allowed success to warp his perspective, although he admitted it has not been easy. He was in a unique position to gauge the fanaticism surrounding collegiate athletics last March. 'We were flooded with letters after the Georgetown game saying God willed that kid (Fred Brown) to throw the ball away," Smith said. "That's the same mentality, the 'same audacity, that God was on our side during World War II." Americans' priorities have been thrown out of order; sports is just one facet of value system gone awry. Smith pointed out that the governor of Virginia wrote Ralph Sampson, encouraging the 7-foot-4 basketball player to attend the University of Virginia, but he didn't write the valedictorian of Sampson's high school class. Smith questioned why physicians imprint "M.D." on their personal checks when "teaching is the profession that should be put on a pedestal." Smith said that if coaches and teachers did their jobs, athletics and academics could be complementary, rather than polar opposites. The discipline of the playing field should carry over to the classroom, he said. "In every Division I school, bar none, the students with the lowest academic standing are athletes from revenue sports," Smith said. "If we have a guy here who plays four years and doesn't graduate, we have used him." Smith told of an interesting clause in li. contract of James Worthy, the NBA's No. 1 draft choice, who joined Los Angeies after his junior year. "If Worthy doesn't get his degree in two summers he has' to pay the Lakers a huge amount," Smith said. "James and I agreed to put that in his contract." Although the problems currently plaguing college athletics are nothing new, Smith said the involvement of university presidents will have a greater impact than cleanup commit tees have had in the past. "We're closer to what we should be in non revenue sports than revenue sports. It's the money that breeds problems, and it always has," Smith said. "As far as aid goes, I'm for scholarships on a need basis. Not many tennis players or golfers need full scholarships. "But-if an athlete's parents don't have the funds to send him to school, give the young man a scholarship plus a $200 stipend per month for spending money to eliminate the under-the-table payments. "I'm also pushing Bobby Knight's idea that if a player doesn't graduate in four years, you lose a scholarship. I know of two schools that haven't graduated a single player since 1973." Smith knows the odds idealists are up against, but he remains optimisitc about the future of college sports. "Maybe we can really change things this time around," he said. "I don't think we're professionalizing collegiate athletics, but there's a lot of work to be done."
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