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UNC Athletic Director Bill
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Young Republicans tonight
at 8 in the Student Union.
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WASHINGTON President Rea
gan and Fritz Mondale will meet in 90
minute televised debates on Oct. 7 in
Louisville, Ky., and Oct. 21 in Kansas
City, the League of Women Voters
announced yesterday.
Their vice presidential running mates,
George Bush and Geraldine Ferraro,
will debate under an identical format
in Philadelphia on Oct. 11, the league
said.
The first presidential debate will
cover the economy and other domestic
issues, and the second will cover defense
and foreign policy, said league President
Dorothy Ridings.
The vice presidential matchup will be
equally divided in time between domes
tic and foreign questions.
At a news conference, Ridings said
the debates would include a moderator
and four questioners, probably all
journalists.
"Arriving at this package has been
a long and productive process,' she said.
Ridings said the league had proposed
that only a single moderator appear
with the candidates, but Reagan cam
paign officials had insisted throughout
the negotiations on the panel of
questioners.
Mondale also signaled shortly after
the Democratic National Convention in
July that he would like tough questions
from journalists, but in negotiations bis
campaign aides also sought the single
moderator format.
The league, according to Ridings,
also proposed a "team debate" among
the two presidential candidates and
their running mates, an idea she said
was rejected by both camps.
Up and away
Local balloonist flies high
By MARY MULVIHILL
Staff Writer
The sky is definitely the limit for
Chapel Hill hot-air balloonist Dodds
Meddock. Clouds and stars are familiar
company to Meddock in skies around
the world.
"That aspect of aviation, ballooning,
always fascinated me. The fascination
just grew with time," said Meddock, one
of the pioneers of modern hot-air
balloon aviation.
At an early age he built model hot
air balloons and later produced home
built balloons during college. Some
years later he was the first American
to attempt a hot air balloon flight across
the North Pole.
"It was something I thought about
since the first time I learned about the
first balloon attempt to cross the North
Pole, fairly early in the game," Meddock
said. After 1977, when he designed a
balloon system for oil exploration in
the Arctic and consequently had to
examine the problems of a balloon
excursion in the Arctic, serious plans
for a North Pole crossing were set in
motion. His dream of attempting a hot
air balloon flight across the North Pole
became reality on April 11, 1980.
But his attempt was destined to be
unsuccessful. Unusually warm weather
caused the ice to break up, and the
equipment required to bridge the ice
floes for landing areas simply was not
on hand.
"It certainly could have been done,
but it would have taken different rigging
than we had with us. That was a gamble
we took," Meddock said.
A chase plane, which follows the
balloon with supplies, was imperative
to the success of this 30-hour hot-air
balloon flight, but the plane could not
land and refuel on the small rifts of ice.
This also hindered the attempted North
Pole crossing.
Even though this attempt was unsuc
cessful, Meddock has already compiled
a list of accomplishments stretching
higher than his hot-air balloon could
ever climb. He built the first natural-
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debates
All of the debates will begin at 9 p.m.,
and will be broadcast live by the three
major television networks, she said.
Neither the moderators nor the
questioners have been selected. Ridings
said a long list of possible participants
will be drawn up by the league and
submitted to both campaigns.
She said if a potential moderator or
questioner is believed to be unfriendly
to either camp, campaign officials will
have the option of asking that the
person be excluded.
But the league will retain control over
the final selection process, Ridings said.
The dates selected marked a com
promise between the candidates. Rea
gan's strategists wanted the debate series
over early, and Mondale's aides pushed
for dates closer to the election.
The league president estimated that
the cost of the debate would total about ,
$1.5 million, with the expenses split
between the league and the television
networks.
The 1984 format is roughly compar
able to one used in 1976, an event also
sponsored by the league:
A panelist will ask Reagan or Mon
dale a question. The candidate will
answer and then listen to and respond
to a followup question.
The same panelist will then pose the
identical question to the second candi
date who will answer it and and a
followup question.
Then the first candidate will rebut,
followed by another rebuttal from the
second candidate.
After the question-and-answer por
tion, Reagan and Mondale will deliver
closing statements.
shaped smoke balloon, organized the
first modern international hot-air
balloon competition in 1969, and
conceived of and co designed Dream
of Flight, which in 1976 was selected
as one of the 10 finest examples of
American design by the National
Collection of Fine Arts and the Amer
ican Academy of Design. He was also
involved in designing, building and
flying the world's first solar-powered
balloon.
Hot-air balloonists encounter inter
esting and unparalleled experiences
when they take to the sky, according
to Meddock. One such experience is
flying at nighttime. "It is a very unique
sensation," he said. "After a while you
totally lose a sense of connectedness
with the earth because the twinkling
lights on the ground donl look any
different than the twinkling stars, and
you just get the sense of being totally
in space."
Meddock said some of his most
challenging flights have been in his
Solar Firefly, -the world's first solar
powered balloon. The balloon is approx
imately three to four times the volume
of the typical sport balloon, and its size
alone invites difficulties. Also, the only
control a pilot has in the solar balloon
is a valve which allows him to make
the balloon descend.
And if the valve fails? Meddock
found out what that was like one day
while making a flight for a solar
exposition in Canada.
"The balloon continued to climb
rapidly," Meddock said. "My partner
and I had given as a personal limit that
if we couldn't get the balloon to stop
by 10,000 feet we were going to jump.
At 10,000 feet we were still going up
so I set a limit again at 15,000 feet. I
prefer balloons to parachutes."
Luckily, he didnt have to jump that
day, since the balloon stopped at 12,000
feet.
Meddock said the adventure and
excitement provided by hot-air balloon
ing can be experienced by everyone,
even those who are afraid of heights.
"Visually there is nothing to tell you
that you are so high, so it doesnt trigger
any of those anxieties," he explained.
He added that ballooning can also be
an inexpensive hobby because "it is very
easy to defray both the initial capital
cost of investment and maintenance
costs through the normal activities you
do in the sport, such as rallies, races,
promotions for local firms and so on."
Two area balloon operations, Balloon
Court of Raleigh and Greensboro, are
active and can help anyone adopt the
hobby of hot-air ballooning.
Meddock does not fly as much these
days as he did in the past, but he still
is very much involved in the sport. Last
weekend, he served as balloonmeister
in the Second Annual East Carolina
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Christian speaker Josh McDowell told an audience of around 3,500 in Carmichael Auditorium last
night that maximum sex does not exist in a purely physical relationship and that love and trust are
the main ingredients in a good relationship. McDowell's speech, which lasted IV2 hours, was sponsored
by several UNC Christian organizations.
CGC members told not to
By RUTHIE PIPKIN
Staff Writer
After the Campus Governing Council
failed to make its quorum of 13 for an
emergency meeting last night, Speaker
Reggie Holley announced that members
who had consecutively missed two
regularly scheduled meetings would be
removed from the CGC.
Holley informed the 12 CGC
members present of his decision. "An
absence doesn't show up on one's
official attendance record for a special
meeting but does for a regular meeting,"
Holley said. "Those who havent been
to two regular meetings will be gone.
"There are about three members on
the CGC that for the past two weeks
IVe been trying to contact and ask for
their resignations, and I haven't been
able to get in touch with them," Holley
said.
"The first step is to get a resignation
that's just courtesy. You get a
High tech act creates jobs
By ANDY TRINCIA
Staff Writer
North Carolina's High Technology
Jobs Act means better times for small
businesses and more jobs for North
Carolinians. The act, passed during the
spring session of the N.C. General
Assembly, was a culmination of efforts
that began in 1980.
That year Gov. Jim Hunt developed
a task force, the N.C. Board of Science
and Technology, to study the state's
potential for economic development.
The board concluded the state had
significant potential for further eco
nomic growth and a proposal was
written up by Kirsten Nyrop, now
executive director of the Technical
Development Authority, which was
established to administer programs
under the act.
"The act provided funds for small
business in high tech and created the
TDA. Although all monies are auth
orized by the General Assembly, it's
under the purview of the Commerce
Department," said Mike Rakouskas,
research chief at the Commerce
Department.
"The TDA creates jobs throughout
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council and have them declare the
district vacant. Since IVe not been able
to get resignations, IH have to go before
council without those resignations."
Holley described attendance at reg
ular meetings as pretty good. "WeVe
got the most active council as far as
attending goes in a long time," Holley
said. "It's just two or three members
we need to get off the roll."
Lacking one member to make
quorum, the CGC was unable to vote
on two proposed bills. One came from
the Student Affairs Committee, request-'
ing $600 for a voter registration drive
($100 for publicity, $500 as a prize to
the residence college registering the
most voters) and the other from the
Finance Committee, offering $100 for
publicity but no prize money.
"Basically on the Finance Commit
tee, the general consensus was that
there's no need to give a top prize to
the state in research and development.
It tries to create growth all over the
state, not just in the Research Triangle
Park area," said Brent Lane, assistant
director of the TDA.
Two services resulting from the jobs
act are the Incubator Facilities Program
and the Innovation Research Fund.
"The incubator program offers grants
of up to $5,000, which the communities
must match. The program provides
space, real estate, and secretarial
services which a small business cannot
afford. A number of businesses can
share the facility," Lane said.
The businesses also gain access to
expertise and technical and managerial
assistance from the state's universities,
he said.
The TDA received $200,000 in its first
year, all of which went to one new
facility the Smoky Mountains
Development Agency, now under
construction in Haywood County and
part of a 17-county project. The grant
was increased to $600,000 by the
General Assembly, Lane said.
"This is our first effort for an
incubator facility in North Carolina.
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any area," said Committee Chairperson
Wyatt Closs, who wrote the bill prop
osing $100. "There's no need to provide
a financial incentive to vote, there
should already be a natural desire, an
automatic incentive," Closs said.
"In a way it'd be like paying people
to register, it just didnt add up," he
said.
Student Affairs Committee Chairper
son Marshall Mills said although he
thought a prize ranging anywhere from
$300 to $500 would be enough, students
needed the monetary incentive.
"The bottom line is, we're talking
about the resident colleges, about 1,000
people, and we want to make it a prize
to grab their attention," Mills said. "A
small prize is not going to make any
difference to 1,000 people. Think of the
people who will register the number
would be substantial."
The bills will be brought before the
CGC at the next regular meeting.
for N.C.
Other states have had such facilities for
20 to 30 years. There are approximately
50 such facilities in the nation," Lane
said. There will be 13 more incubator
facilities in North Carolina in five years,
which should improve the survival rate
of small businesses, he said.
"Eighty percent of small businesses
fail after five years," he said.
A second service, the Innovation
Research Fund, is designed to support
research and development by small
businesses which have no access to
capital. Entrepreneurs are the clientele
for the $225,000 program, with a
maximum of $50,000 going to any one
firm. Lane said the TDA is interested
in being approached by faculty and
student entrepreneurs as well as small
businesses.
"We have a standard application
procedure and workshops for interested
communities and businesses. The prop
osals are read by the 12-member TDA
board and grants are based on merit,"
he said. "We hope that the Innovation
Research Fund will be self-supporting
in five years and will eventually require
no state appropriation."
Students
urge UNC
to divest
By MARK STINNEFORD
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement and
Student Government have launched a
new campaign to convince the Univer
sity to divest itself of stocks in com
panies that operate in South Africa.
"We dont see the issue as a matter
of dollars and cents but as a matter of
what's moral, what's right and what's
wrong," BSM President Sherrod Banks
said yesterday.
Banks said the University is following
contradictory policies of promoting
equal opportunity in employment and
admissions, while investing in compan
ies that help maintain the racist policies
of the South African government.
"UNC invests money into corpora
tions that operate in South Africa and
keep that government in control," he
said.
In February 1983, the student body
passed a divestment referendum by a
two-to-one margin. Several months
later, the Campus Governing Council
called upon the UNC Board of Trustees
to yield to student opinion and sell
stocks in companies operating in South
Africa.
But the trustees have resisted efforts
to charge the investment policy, stating
that current investments are designed
to provide maximum profit and thereby
keep students' costs down.
Banks said the University would
probably make less money if it switched
its investments to "socially responsible
corporations," but he said UNC has a
moral responsibility to change its
investment policy.
"What we would gain in moral
character as a university is just as
important as those extra dollars of
profit," Banks said.
But Student Body President Paul
Parker said the University may be able
to make just as much money by
switching its investments to new com
panies. Student Government has been
studying the divestment problem since
. April and hopes to present the trustees
with a plan for new investments in the
spring, Parker said.
Past divestment efforts may have
failed because students have not pres
ented the trustees with alternatives to
the current investment policy, Parker
said.
People Against Racism, a Campus
Y organization, and the Black Greek
Council also announced their support
for the new divestment campaign
yesterday.
George R. Ragsdale, chairman of the
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Payoff for Hunt
expected when
Taylor comes
By MARK POWELL
Staff Writer
Officials for the Jim Hunt for Senate
campaign say they expect James Tay
lor's upcoming benefit concert for Hunt
at N.C. State's Reynolds Coliseum to
raise more than $50,000.
Hunt spokeswoman Don Hobart
said the Sept. 28 concert would net the
Hunt campaign between $50,000 and
$100,000.
"James Taylor has agreed to give
everything above a base cost (profits
above overhead) to the campaign,"
Hobart said, adding that the singer
songwriter's interest in Hunt stems from
Taylor's connection to the state he
grew up in Chapel Hill and his
opposition to the environmental poli
cies and nuclear arms stands of Repub
lican Sen. Jesse Helms.
"Taylor's family is interested in the
race," he said. "His father is a contrib
utor to the campaign."
Tickets for the concert had been
advertised to go on sale Monday at
$12.50 and $13.50 at Schoolkid's
Records in Chapel Hill, Raleigh and
Durham but were released unan
nounced Saturday. Schoolkid's owner
Pete Borton said that despite the mix
up, 50 tickets were sold Saturday in a
few hours.
Tickets are also available in Raleigh
at the Reynolds Coliseum box office,
Kerr Drugs in Mission Valley Shopping
Center and Quail Corners Shopping
Center and in Cary at the Cary Village
Mall.
Hobart said ticket sales for the Taylor
concert have been brisk, causing the
Hunt campaign to satisfy the demand
with new outlets in Raleigh and
Durham.
"WeVe had a widespread interest in
the concert," he said. "Whenever James
Taylor has a concert in North Carolina
it's always a hit."
A post-concert reception for Hunt
and Taylor will be held immediately
following the benefit at the N.C. State
Faculty Club.