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Snogun Cloudy today with a 60 per cent chance of snow. Highs in the upper 30s. Lows to night in the low 30s. Who will it be? UNC meets UVa tonight at 9 p.m. in Carmichael Audito rium to determine who's No. 1 . Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Copyright The Daily Tar Heel 1983 Volume 3, Issue 123 Thursday, February 10, 1983 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsfArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 ulariti 1J1 iS i Foiling irreg Write-in candidates9 political careers end as votes confirmed J&tV By JIM WRINN State and National Editor The budding political careers of write-in candidates Mr. Potatohead, Richard Nix on, Susie Sorority and Ken Mingis were ended early Wednesday morning. Those , candidates, and universally famous movie star E.T., acid rock singer Ozzie Osborne and cartoon character Mickey Mouse lost in Tuesday's campus elections, despite often valiant write-in campaigns. Mr. Potatohead, promoted by a campus political action group Spuds for a Free Society raked in 70 votes for Residence Hall Association President, according to Elections Board Chairman Stan Evans. Mr. Potatohead, who finished fourth in the RHA race, also stuffed away votes in almost every other campus race. UNC sophomore Cabot Dixon, spokes man for SFFS, said his candidate was speechless as a result of the election returns. He said Mr. Potatohead would leave politics for a career in the Pine Room in the near future. MI think the idea of Mr. Potatohead is half-baked," said 1982-83 RHA President Scott Templeton. "He'd be all right in RHA just as long as (University) housing didn't try to butter him up." A more successful write-in campaign for Daily Tar Heel editor was staged by DTH Associate Editor Ken Mingis. He dropped off the staff for two days to run on an nti-vegetablcr'ihaven-beaH'Wo-1: grandmother platform. His posters, plastered across the campus in a last-minute attempt, boasted that Mingis" had been to Pittsburgh and the beach. "I really didn't want to win," Mingis said, when election results showed him third behind certified candidates1 Kerry DeRochi and John Altschuler. "But it was worth it." Several DTH staff members received one or two write-in votes as did punk rocker David Bowie and William F. Buck ley Jr., well-known conservative and editor of The National Review. Unsuccessful 4th Congressional District candidate Bin Cobey of Chapel Hill got one, write-in vote for DTH editor, an ef fort several campus political observers linked to the paper's endorsement of the candidate during last fall's election. Donald Duck and University of North Carolina basketball team members Cecil Exum, Warren Martin and Sam Perkins gained single votes in several races. Donald Boulton, UNC vice chancellor for student affairs, currently on suspension from the University, also received several votes for RHA president. Adolph Hitler, the infamous German chancellor, got one write-in vote for senior class president. Unlike other senior class president candidates, however, Hitler did not run on a ticket with a vice presidential , candidate. He was unavailable for com- -""rnchtV--- ' n 00 Reckford drops out of SEP rSLCG DTHAISteeie f.!r. Potstohssd, a v;rite-in candidate, after tha elections he:was an' unsuccessful RHA presidential contender By CHARLES ELLMAKER Staff Writer The UNC Elections Board ordered early Wednesday morning that a new election be held for student body president after presidential candidate Jon Reckford filed a complaint that poll tender errors had caused irregularities at the Morrison poll. But Wednesday afternoon, Reckford announced that he would drop out of the race and throw his support to Kevin Monroe, the front-runner in Tuesday's campus presidential election. "I'm withdrawing not because I feel any different about Student Government, but because I want to throw all my support to Kevin Monroe," Reckford said. "For Stu dent Government as a whole, I feel it's much more important to speed up the elec tion and let people get to work in Student Government. Student Government is more important than the election." Elections Board Chairperson Stan Evans said Wednesday that only the Presi dent's race and the District 15 Campus Governing Council race could have been affected enough by irregularities at the poll to cause changes in race winner and run off results. With all votes counted early Wednesday morning, Reckford was 101 votes behind second-running Hugh Reckshun, but of the 5 10 ballots from the Morrison box, on ly 173 had accompanying names on the poll tender sheet. That discrepancy could have an effect on the final outcome of the returns and could have placed Reckford in the run-off position with Monroe, Evans said.' ; , ' Although ' the Elections Board had decided to run a new election for CGC District 15, the board reversed its decision when all six candidates submitted a state ment allowing the Morrison returns to stand as counted Tuesday. Reckford told Evans Wednesday that he would maintain his complaint concerning the Morrison poll but would drop out of the new election. Next Tuesday's presidential election will therefore be a new election with only two candidates instead of a run-off, Evans said. Because it will be a re-vote, write-in ballots will be counted, although they are expected to have little effect on the out come, he said. There were three write-in votes for stu dent body president on Tuesday, Evans said. All other campus elections and referen dums except for write-in Campus Govern ing Council districts were certified by the Elections Board Wednesday, Evans said. Monroe said he was satisfied with Reckford's decision. "I'm confident that Jon thought things through pretty much," he said. "I'm glad that it's not going to drag out, but it's definitely going to be a strain on our (Stu dent Government) staff." Hugh Reckshun's campaign manager, Randy Walker, said Reckford probably made the right decision to drop out of the race because "it looked pretty obvious that Kevin was going to win (Tuesday night)." "We were upset with the Elections Board decision (Tuesday) night, but since Reckford dropped out, I guess it doesn't matter," Walker said. Both Monroe and Reckford said they See RUNOFF on page 3 i 6 ::PTH"SCOtt. 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' f -vtrr. f r -1 rr"V T P' ' :!-;rs vill be t! ::e to match fI'J's. I lower, be said, "I'm r." .. ccnfiJent tus year." C:3 FOOL on pcigo 6 -UNC pffixAals discuss budget , inflation, cuts create problems By PAUL COCKE Staff Writer UNC officials wrestling with state budget woes are now in the process of determining where cuts can be made in the University's academic budget. "The austerity program is still in effect," University Provost Charles Morrow said last week. "A general review was made at the end of the year and by mid-January it was clear we would have to hold back on expenses," he said, adding that the state government has instructed UNC's Academic Affairs to cut 6 per cent from its 1982-83 budget of approximately $75 million. Each college and professional school in the University is now undergoing a review to see where they can make cuts, Morrow said. TTiey should be reporting back to the UNC Office of Business and Finance by next week, he said. Department officials are examining various ways" to cut expenditures, including reducing the number of student employees, research assistants, as well as cutting back on supplies. Faculty has also been hurt by the budget constraints, University officials say, because salaries here are not as competitive as other schools'. And departments already understaffed because of the state salary freeze are hurting even more now, officials say. "In effect, the state cut our budget," said Wayne Jones, associate vice chancellor for University finance. Because state receipts are running behind estimated expenditures, all state agen cies are looking for ways to save money to offset this anticipated deficit, he said. "This is not an across-the-board cut of 6 percent," Jones said. Some schools may be able to cut more, others less." David Taylor, librarian at the Undergraduate Library, said library officials "were contemplating drastically cutting hours and letting student employees go." But library officials avoided this by carrying over book purchases until next year. And the Graduate School has been told it must give back some money, said Terry Maddox, assistant office director at the Graduate School. Maddox said he did not foresee any reductions in personnel or student services at the Graduate School,, which he said has been able to offset high mailing costs by the $15 application fee re quired of each student there. "That made the difference between us sinking and swimming," he said. Because of the tight budget, the Graduate School has had to cut back on the number of undergraduate student employees from three or four to one, Maddox said. Kenneth Broun, dean of the UNC School of Law, said budget constraints had forced the law school to dip into private endow ment funds "just to pay the phone bill." "We may have to cut back on research assistants," Broun said, adding that tapping the Law Foundation Fund for operating ex penses would reduce money available for research and expanded programs at the law school. Another budget-related problem at the law school is the con tinuing freeze on faculty salaries, Broun said. "Unless salaries keep up with the cost of living, some faculty may go into private practice where they can make more money," he said. Both visiting and regular faculty have been affected by budget cuts, also. "Some faculty have accepted offers at other univer sities that we couldn't match," said Gordon Whitaker, assistant dean of academic affairs. Whitaker said the School of Arts and Sciences has, had to curtail outside faculty and visiting speakers because of the tight budget. See FUNDS on page 6 Southern Bell proposes increases in charges for all telephone services By KELLY SIMMONS Staff Writer Southern Bell Telephone Co. asked for a 57 percent increase in rates Tuesday. If approved, it could go into effect as earty as September, Gene Clemmons, spokes man for the North Carolina Utilities Commission, said Wednesday. . The rate increase, filed with the com mission Tuesday, would increase the base rate for local service from $10.40 to $16.20 per month. George Mullen, manager of Southern Bell's Chapel Hill office, said the request was filed because the company was losing money on local calls. If approved, the new rates would in crease telephone company revenues by $145 million, with $135 million coming from local service and the rest from operator-assisted long-distance calls. Southern Bell had been able to sub sidize local rates with revenue from long distance calls, Mullen said. Following the Justice Department's breakup of American Telephone and Telegraph Co., there are now four long-distance tele phone services. Customers "would no longer be billed a flat rate under the new plan, Mullen said. Instead, the charge would depend on the length of time the job took. The cost to install service lines averages $23 per month, and the increase still would not cover the cost, he said. Clemmons said the company asked to put the rates into effect March 10, but hearings are not scheduled until late June or early July. He said the commission would investi gate and file recommendations for the in crease, then decide which parts would be approved. Also, the public hearings would get public input, he said. A task force of engineers, accountants, economists and lawyers would begin in vestigating Bell's proposal next week, Clemmons said. No decision would be made until September at the earliest. Mullen said he did not expect the in crease in rates to have a drastic effect on telephone usage in the Chapel Hill area. "It's still the best buy in town," he said. The commission held a hearing recently on a measured service proposal under which callers would be charged a base rate for a certain number of calls plus ex tra for additional phone service. ' Mullen said that proposal would benefit about 50 percent of Chapel Hill phone subscribers who do not make large num bers of calls. The commission is expected to rule on the measured service proposal soon.
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