( ''ZD ' ' ' Wind-blown Windy today with a high in the upper 40s. Increasingly cloudy with a 40 percent chance of rain tonight. Copyright The Daily Tar Heel 1983 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume CX Issue 123 Wednesday, February 9, 1933 Chapel Hill, North Carolina In Top 20 The UNC women's basket ball team broke into the Top 20 in this week's national poll for the first time in the team's history. Go Heels! NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusJneasAitvertising 962-1163 Monroe 9 mm. ran -off; rac O K ' V - VJ -v .4 V . . . - Voters talk system about Kerry DeRochi (above) is the unofficial win ner of the 'PTH' editor's race, and cam paign workers celebrate in the Great Hall Tuesday night. Kevin Monroe (right) and a supporter watch the student body presi dent returns come in. Monroe and Hugh Reckshun are in a run-off for president. Photos by Al Steele By JOSEPH BERRYHELL and LIZ LUCAS Staff Writm About one-third of the UNC students turned out for Tuesday's campus elections, constituting a relative ly high turnout, Elections Board Chairman Stan Evans said Tuesday afternoon. While students gave different reasons for casting their, votes, they generally agreed that the new voting procedure was satisfactory. Mary Pat Corrigan, a junior from Jacksonville, 3 FTa., professed a civil reason for voting. "If you don't vote, who's going to vote?" she said. "You have to put your 2 cents in." Corrigan said she voted for Monroe for student body president because he "combines the experience of being involved in Student Government with the awareness that students need to be involved." Sandra Gentry, a sophomore from King, said voting was a privilege. "I might as well use it," she added. Philip Anderson, a junior from Murphy, said he voted to state his opinion. 1 "I just thought I'd have a say in what was going on," he said. Anderson said he voted for Reckford because "he , sounded appropriate for the office." Lisa Gitelman, a junior from Durham, said the elec- See VOTERS on page 4 Israel commission calls for Sharon' s dismissal; accuses him of 6 blunders I Irregularities cou new Id cause S. V vote In unofficial campus election results Tuesday night, Kevin Monroe and Hugh Reckshun finished one-two in the race for student body president and will face each other in a run-off. Kerry.DeRochi easily defeated John Altschuler for Daily Tar Heel editor. In other races that also will be de terrnined by a run-off election, Padraic Baxter finished ahead of Debby Flowers for Carolina Athletic Association presi dent and Mark Dalton edged Henry Miles in the contest for Residence Hall Associa tion president. Jon Reckford was eliminated from the race for student body president; Brad Ives did not make the run-off for CAA president; and Frank Winstead was elimi nated from the contest for RHA presi dent. . The run-off elections are scheduled for Feb. J5. A run-off race is required when 3?adidatc receives at least 50 percent of the vote. There ' were some irregularities at Morrison Residence Hall where 510 votes were cast but only 173 votes were registered but the votes will be counted unless contested, said Elections Board Chairman Stan Evans. "I feel that it af fects all the candidates equally, but if any candidate can give me a case where it may make a difference, we may do something about it." Late Tuesday night, Reckford filed a complaint with the Elections Board be cause of the voting irregularities at Mor rison. The board met about 1 a.m. to decide whether to hold another student body presidential election in view of Reckford's complaint. The board had not made a decision by press time. The voting discrepency is significant "enough to completely change the elec tion in any direction," Rsckford said. In addition, there also were instances of students who did not have their IDs validated when they voted, he said. Reckford said the main weakness in his campaign was that people "still want to ljhetbric while -he proposed more concrete ideas. "If I ran again, I would have fought back and done more comparisons of can didates rather than playing it straight," See RACES on page 4 R eferendums pass; students vote on issues funding of student groups "religious or political" programs, passed by a vote of 3,117 to 2,236. Student groups now may appeal to the Student Supreme Court if they feel the Campus Governing Council unjustly itrirnrfftr "'-tfty By CHARLES ELLMAKER Stan Writer Referendums concerning divestment, political and religious funding and stu dent initiative referendums were all pass ed by a wide margin in Tuesday's campus chose not to fund the group's programs election. because they were "political or Unofficial tallies showed that the religious.' referendum demanding that the Universi- The referendum asking for a rewording ty divest of its interest in companies of the initiative section of the Student operating" in South Africa passed by a Constitution passed by a vote of 4,037 to vote of 3,313 to 1,891. ' -680. Although the referendum does not The new initiative section states that force any action on the part of the UNC the Student Body President, upon re Board of Trustees endowment fund, ceiving a petition from the students call leader of the UNC Political Interest Re- ing for a referendum on a bill, must search Group said the vote represented a decide whether the petition and bill are. "clear mandate" by the students to divest valid within five days. If he determines of its interests in companies operating in the apartheid country. A second referendum, prohibiting the See TALLIES on page 4 The Associated Press JERUSALEM An Israeli judicial commission on the Beirut massacre called for the ouster of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon on Tuesday, accusing him of "blunders" that set the stage for the slaughter of Palestinians. The panel's explosive report, which also rebuked Prime Minister Menachem Begin, rocked Israel's political structure and touched off speculation about early elec tions at a time when U.S. pressure is mounting for Israeli concessions toward a Middle East peace. Begin and his Cabinet met for two hours Tuesday without a decision on Sharon's status, and scheduled another meeting for today. The three-man commission of inquiry said Israeli leaders should have foreseen that allowing Lebanese militiamen into two Beirut refugee camps last September was an invitation to tragedy. Hundreds of Palestinians were slain by the militiamen. An official Lebanese in-" vestigation has yet to bring any of the killers to justice. "No prophetic powers were required to know that concrete danger of .acts of slaughter existed," said the commission report. ' , It also called for the resignation of the head of Israel's military intelligence and condemned the military chief of staff. It accused Begin of "indifference" to the threat of a massacre in Beirut, but recom mended no action against him. Israel radio reported that Sharon was refusing to quit or accept another Cabinet ; post. But a Cabinet source said almost sail the 20 ministers, including Sharon,, favored endorsing the findings. The chairman of Begin's coalition, Avraham Shapira, said after meeting with Begin that the prime minister would not demand Sharon's resignation. , Mayor Nassif to investigate reasons for funds rejection (IV -w ..,,r..: I ' - - 'A. '.it- , tint 41 OTHFite Photo Joo Massif to look into fund rejection . . . town won't get $750,000 in grants By JOHN CONWAY Staff Writer Mayor Joe Nassif said Monday night that he would conduct a personal investigation to find out why the state rejected the town's application for $750,000 in community block grants. Town Manager David Taylor told the Chapel Hill Town Council on Jan. 24 that the town's application for state funds was rejected because the Chapel Hill Housing Authority had failed to spend 35 percent of the 1981-82 grant. Nassif defended the housing authority Monday night at a town council work session on the management audit presented to the council. A recent management audit, prepared by McManis Associates of Washington, D.C., examined the operations and management of the town government and housing authority. The audit cited serious management problems stemming from reduced federal funding and resignation of the authority's director. "Yes, we have problems today (in the housing authori ty),' Nassif said. "But they can be resolved. Chapel Hill has a good housing plan. I wish for it to continue." Nassif missed the Jan. 24 meeting, when council members discussed the rejection of the town's application lor state tunds. Nassif said he would contact Joseph Grimsley, secretary of the N.C. Department of Natural Resources and Community Development, to ask why the council's application was rejected. ' . "They (CHHA) have been accused and I don't think that's fair," Nassif said. Town Council member Winston Broadfoot has been critical of the CHHA operations for some time. He said the CHHA should become totally hidependent of the town. Broadfoot questioned a recommendation in the management audit that the town explore ways in which it might provide support and assistance to the CHHA. Broadfoot said the CHHA should remain financially in dependent from the town. . The council asked Taylor to investigate NRCD's rejec tion of the funds. Taylor's report should be ready by Thursday, Broadfoot said. In other discussion, Allan Rusten, director of public ad ministration for McManis Associates, said the manage ment audit was generally favorable. There were only two departments, police and fire, that faid serious manage ment and operational problems, he sziid. "The report is very positive," Nasaf said. "Problems develop in the town and the report gives a starting point for making those adjustments," he said.' . ;,' ,

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