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6The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, March 28, 1989 Seeds By SIMONE PAM Staff Writer The Elections Board will hold a special election today to fill three vacant Student Congress graduate seats in Districts 2, 5 and 7. The election is being held because the winners from the Feb. 21 election failed to submit their financial forms by the 5 p.m. deadline the day after the election, said Elections Board Chairman Wilborn Roberson. The winners were disqualified and the seats became open. In each district, the candidates are running unopposed. eDectiomi today to foDI vacaiimtt congress seats The candidate from District 2 is Bill Brown. Brown was out of town Monday and could not be reached for comment. The candidate from District 5 is Jim Taylor. Taylor, a second-year medical student from Chapel Hill, is running for re-election. Taylor could not be reached for comment Monday. Both Brown and Taylor were the winners from the Feb. 21 election. Winners are not usually disqual ified, Roberson said. "I don't know why they didn't hand their' forms in," he said. "Two of (today's) candidates were the ones who won." . The candidate from District 7 is Andrew Cohen, a graduate philo sophy student from Melville, N.Y. Cohen's prime goal is to improve fund raising for student groups and activities. "Fund raising would reduce the burden on Student Congress allocating funds, as well as having to raise student fees," he said. "There are a great number of openings that students have to directly support them." Cohen, who did not run in the Feb. 21 election, said he had not consi dered running in the first election because he did not know this was an option for him, but when he learned of the new election, he decided to take advantage of it. It's rather disappointing the elec tion must be held over because of paperwork, Cohen said. "It's got to be done right in order to get the ball rolling, though." It is the responsibility of Student Congress to make students realize that Student Congress is worthwhile to participate in, Cohen said. It seems there is a bigger problem in the graduate districts. Roberson said if a seat had been left vacant in the past, it would not be filled until the fall. However, several members of Student Congress thought the congress should be filled before the new academic year. Voter turnout is expected to be low because the elections are in graduate districts and because it is a special election, Roberson said. District 2 includes the School of Education, School of Social Work and the computer science department. District 5 includes the medical school and the School of Nursing. ' - District 7 includes art (history and studio), biology, botany, chemistry, classics, comparative literature, dra matic art, ecology, English, folklore, geology, German, library science, linguistics, marine science, math, music, pharmacy, philosophy, phys ics, religious studies, romance lan guages, Slavic languages, statistics and zoology. Write-in votes will also be accepted, Roberson said. The two polishes are Davis Library and the Health Sciences Library from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. . Graduate student turns talent to 1 st nove By ELIZABETH MURRAY Staff Writer I he sleeve of his debut novel sums up the past and present 11 Paul Lyons well: "Paul Lyons experienced in his own person the improving influences of the pool hall in his early youth, but seems deter mined to waste his prime in the pro fessorate. At present, he is living in Chapel Hill, N.C." Lyons is not a professor but a teaching graduate student at UNC who has just had his first book, "Table Legs," published by New Amsterdam Books. He is still in the midst of completing his formal aca demic studies. "As far as the storyline goes, it's about someone w ho's a senior in high school who plays pool a lot," Lyons said. "He's from an upper middle-class family and goes to a pretty posh private school. There is the family expectation that he can go to college and play it straight ver sus the preference: the life of excite ment that he can find in the poolroom." Like most authors, Lyons found the basis for his novel in personal experience. "I actually was a middle class kid playing with some very bad characters, and 1 love the game of pool," he said. "I'd been writing for a long time . . . When I went back to choose the subject, the thing I felt strongest about was that experience of playing pool. I like to write about things that I feel something about." 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Lyons said he began thinking about the piece as a novel while he was studying for his oral exam during the summer of 1987. "Table Legs" was published in October and is now on sale at Bull's Head Bookshop. It can also be ordered from most local bookstores, including the Intimate Bookshop. In addition to writing, Lyons is also working on his dissertation and teaches creative writing and Ameri can literature at UNC. While many graduates and undergraduates at UNC have had books published, very few have faced circumstances as demanding as these. "Paul is obviously very talented and well-disciplined to be able to carry his graduate studies and do the teaching he has to do, and write a novel too," said Joseph Flora, chair man of the English department. Discipline is part of the key to Lyons' success, according to Robert Bain, the professor in charge of directing Lyons' dissertation. The GOT A MINUTE? GET A HUNDRED. You can get 100 copies in just one minute at Kinko's. 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Lyons, who is in his fifth year of graduate studies, said he wants to remain in Chapel Hill for at least a year after he graduates. He is trying for a short-term posi tion in the English department. Lyons has already completed a first draft for his second novel. He does not know when it will be ready to be published. Carolina Inn MP f . : : ': ; ill - DTH David Surowiecki Paul Lyons is a graduate student and author of 'Table Legs' from page 1 separate legal status, making tue Carolina Inn exempt from the sU e personnel and purchasing systei ) The other possibility is for a man agement company contractor to be hired. "None of those alternatives have been explored in any great depth," he said. "No detailed plans have been made." Hardin's comment surprised him, Rehkopf said. "We're in the explor atory stages of looking at different options. We're not anywhere close to deciding which way to go." Associate Vice Chancellor Wayne Jones said another option for the Carolina Inn is exempting it from state personnel purchase regulations. It would then be handled in the same manner as an independent LnnnDHBHBBBBDHHnnnBBri AIM lSlflM ton WmiMMi) Wm wmt Gj fS "1 contractor. The Inn's financial troubles are the result of a combination of factors. Staff members of the Carolina Inn are state employees, and the annual salary increases they receive are running the hotel into the ground, Rehkopf said. "That's where the real crunch is." The decision .the University makes will affect the staff, and Rehkopf has met with staff members individually to discuss the ideas being suggested and the complications it will have for them, he said. Jones said increasing competition also plagued the Carolina Inn. Mel Lewis, vice president of sales for Raleigh Convention and Visitors' Bureau, said 25 new hotels have been built in the Raleigh Wake County area in the past 30 months. 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