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Cy GRANT PARSONS
Staff Writer
The Student Affairs Committee
of the Board of Trustees decided
Thursday to uphold its decision to
implement the $100 mandatory
meal plan in the fall and laid the
groundwork for a full board plan
for all on-campus residents if
necessary.
The committee heard Fetzer
Mills, co-author of the Student
Government report, speak in oppo
sition to the meal plan before
making its decision. "There are no
documents which show a need for
a mandatory meal plan," Mills said.
"All documents tie (meal plan fees)
into renovation costs (of Chase and
Lenior halls).
"The renovations are already
being paid for by a $10 per student,
per semester fee," Mills said.
While University administrators
have said that the mandatory plan
would provide a financial base for
the food service company on
campus, Mills said the 3,500 stu
dents already on a $100 meal plan
would provide adequate capital for
ARA.
Mills also said that the meal plan
would discriminate against the
minorities on campus.
"Ninety percent of the blacks
enrolled at this University live on
this campus, and 75 80 percent
of those students are on some type
of financial aid," Mills said. "With
tuition hikes and cuts in state and
federal aid, they just won't be able
to afford to go to school next year
if they have to pay an extra $100
per semester.
"Students across the board are
united against the meal plan," Mills
said, referring to the referendum.
"This is not a small but vocal
minority, as Chancellor Ford ham
has suggested. It is unanimous."
Mills asked the Student Affairs
Committee to impose a one-year
moratorium on the meal plan to
allow further study of the issue. He
also asked that the BOT impose
a ceiling on the $100, so that the
cost could not rise in coming years.
James O. Cansler, associate vice
chancellor and dean of Student
Affairs, defended the meal plan.
Cansler said that the campus
food service was roughly analogous
to how a resort operated because
it required a financial base to
operate on the weeks when it is not
open seven days.
Ron Hyatt, a physical education
professor who served as the chair
man for the Food Service Advisory
Committee when the decision was
made to implement the mandatory
meal plan, agreed that a financial
base was required.
"From 11 (a.m.) to 3 (p.m.),
Lenior has people in there elbow
to elbow," he said. "On the wee
kend that sucker dies."
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor
and dean of Student Affairs and
a member of the BOT's Student
Affairs Committee, also spoke in
favor of the mandatory meal plan.
"I watched and participated in
the long process (of evaluating the
need for a campus food service),
and it has been an open, fair,
thorough process throughout,"
Boulton said.
"I'm hopeful that in a year from
now we will be able to see the
answers to (Mills') questions," he
said.
Boulton said students chose to
have a mandatory meal plan.
"Students who signed up to live in
the residence halls did it with the
knowledge of (the mandatory
plan). In my definition, when you
live in the residence halls you make
a choice to buy the package."
George Ragsdale, BOT chair
man and a member of the Student
Affairs Committee, gave the only
BOT dissent to the 1983 meal plan
agreement. "I'm concerned that the
matter is on automatic pilot,"
Ragsdale said, referring to the
mandatory meal plan fee increase
of $25 per year if ARA fails to make
a profit in coming years.
The committee decided to give
the BOT a vote on rewording the
1983 food service agreement so that
all University residents rather
than South Campus residents only
may be required to pay for a
full board plan if the campus food
service does not make a profit in
the future.
"It would be far more equitable.
We were in error by singling out
any area of campus. Any change
in dollars should be assessed for
the whole campus," Boulton said.
The motion carried unanimously
after about five minutes of discus
sion. Committee members are
Student Body President Patricia
Wallace, Koury, Ragsdale, Boul
ton, J. Clint Newton Jr. and Robert
Eubanks.
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By KAREN YOUNGBLOOD
Staff Writer
The fervor surrounding the mandatory meal plan
during the past few weeks was laid to rest with one
sentence by the Board of Trustees Friday, as it
reaffirmed the implementation of the plan.
Maurice J. Koury, chairman of the BOT's Student
Affairs Committee, told the BOT that the committee
approved of the mandatory meal plan and would
proceed with plans to implement it in the fall. Koury
also said the committee had decided to allow
implementation of a full board plan for both North
and South campuses should the $ 100 meal plan prove
"inadequate" to operate Chase Cafeteria.
The Student Affairs Committee also recommended
increasing student fees by $1.50 and health service
fees by $9 and proposed moving the Fastbreak from
the Commons back into the Student Union.
In other business, the BOT unanimously endorsed
efforts by Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III
to end the eligibility of freshman athletes in
intercollegiate sports. Fordham told the board he had
campaigned against freshman eligibility for some time
because it was unrealistic to expect athletes to adapt
socially, emotionally, mentally and scholastically to
college while playing sports at the same time.
"As you know, we bring freshman football players
up for four weeks before class (to practice football).
It seems to send the wrong message," Fordham said.
The BOT approved a resolution urging the builders
of the Student Activities Center to complete the
project on time. The project, which has been
hampered by construction delays, is scheduled to open
Nov. 24 when the UNC men's basketball team plays
UCLA.
The BOT also passed a resolution honoring former
trustee Bowman Gray III, who died of a heart attack
March 26. The resolution praised Gray for the
contributions he made to the BOT and the University.
"I think one of the best qualities a man can have
is gentleness. Bowman Gray was a gentle man," said
Koury as he handed Gray's widow, Jody, the
resolution.
Trustee George R. Ragsdale announced that a
$100,000 fund has been established in the College
of Arts and Sciences in Gray's name.
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Gov. Jim Martin and bust of Walter Royal Davis.
By TOM CONLON
Staff Writer
Speaking on democracy Satur
day morning, Gov. Jim Martin told
about 500 people on campus that
"we all make responsible judgments
affecting the interests of others
. . . , and a library is a storehouse
of that courage."
Martin was the keynote speaker
at the dedication of the Walter
Royal Davis Library. Following
his speech, he unveiled a bronze
bust of Walter Royal Davis. Davis,
a former chairman of the Board
of Trustees, played a significant
role in lobbying the General Assem
bly to provide funds for the
library's construction upon sale of
the University's telephone utilties.
Martin said he was pleased to
dedicate the library for UNC's
contribution and treasure to the
state, "because the library I am
dedicating today is one of the most
beautiful library buildings I have
ever seen." The latter comment
drew a few comical face expres
sions from a handful of audience
members.
Martin described Walter Royal
Davis as "a man of enterprise, a
man of determination and a man
of great generosity," who has a deep
love for the state and the
University.
"Democracy obliges us all to
play a real part in this miraculous
experiment in selfgovernment,"
Martin said, citing a TV make-up
man's comment to Dwight D.
Eisenhower that "you used to be
a five-star general, but now you're
just a politician."
"But the secret of the story is
that, in this state indeed in this
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