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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 97, Issue 104
Thursday, December 7, 1989
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By TOM PARKS
Business Editor
and JUSTIN McGUIRE
University Editor
Freshman ineligibility, shorter ath
letic seasons and open Rams Club fi
nancial records were among drastic and
far-reaching changes called for by a
Faculty Council report released
Wednesday.
"Our finding is that all intercolle
giate athletic programs of Division I-A,
including our own, are, in varying
degrees, in conflict with the purposes
and standards of universities in gen
eral," said the report by the Ad Hoc
Committee on Athletics and the Uni
Cetyro
By JENNIFER PILLA
Staff Writer
Two Student Congress members
Wednesday submitted a letter to hous
ing director Wayne Kuncl demanding
that their residence hall social fees for
the fall semester be refunded because
they think the fees were used to fund
religious celebrations.
Rep. Sam Bagenstos (Dist. 14) and
Rep. Mindy Friedman (Dist. 12) said
residence hall dues had been used over
the years to pay for a "myriad" of
overtly religious Christmas celebra
tions, such as a tree-trimming party in
Joyner Residence Hall last week.
Efforts to reach Kuncl for comment
Wednesday were unsuccessful.
Friedman said the purpose of the
letter was to bring the problem to the
attention of Kuncl.
"This is an issue that needs to be
attended," Friedman said. "It's wrong
that part of my $9.25 is going to parties
that are, by title, exclusionary."
Bagenstos and Friedman said the
use of their fees by the Residence Hall
Association (RHA) to fund Christmas
parties should be stopped because it
violated the principle of separation of
church and state.
"Residence hall government spon
sorship of a Christmas tree decorating
party comes dangerously close to gov
ernmental establishment of religion,"
the letter to Kuncl said.
Student Supreme Court Chief Jus
tice Asa Bell last week denied a motion
Board appoints architect
By WILL SPEARS
Assistant University Editor
: The Board of Trustees (BOT) in a
Iclosed session Tuesday appointed archi
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The report will be delivered to the
University's Faculty Council on Dec.
15, and will not be discussed until the
council's Jan. 19 meeting. The council
will then make a recommendation to
Chancellor Paul Hardin. "After the
Faculty Council has passed on to me its
recommendations, I plan to share them
with my ACC colleagues," Hardin said
in a statement issued Wednesday
through the UNC News Bureau.
All 10 members of the faculty com
mittee, chaired by Doris Betts, an
Alumni Distinguished professor of
English, agreed not to discuss the re
port until January, said committee
of social
Mindy Friedman
by Bagenstos to hear a case concerning
the Joyner party.
The letter directly cited the Joyner
party, which was advertised as a"Christ
mas tree-trimming party."
Liz Jackson, RHA president, said
she had ordered the word "Christmas"
removed from signs at parties at Joyner
and Cobb.
Bagenstos and Friedman said that
using RHA funds for Christmas trees
was wrong because they believed the.
Christmas tree was a Christian symbol.
"Just because the Christmas tree has
tect Norma Burns to design the pro
posed Student Recreation Center
(SRC), after declining to appoint her
during its October meeting.
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member Daniel Pollitt, a law professor.
Hardin said he felt a national re
examination of the total enterprise of
intercollegiate athletics was necessary.
The committee was formed in the
wake of controversy surrounding for
mer head football coach Dick Crum's
resignation in December 1987. The
Educational Foundation, known as the
Rams Club, drew fire after buying out
Crum's contract for $800,000.
While the report recommended radi
cal changes in UNC athletics and in the
Rams Club, the committee found no
evidence that UNC had broken any
NCAA regulations. "If we take the
NCAA regulations as a standard of
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become Americanized and commer
cialized does not mean that it has lost its
religious meaning," Friedman said.
Jackson disagreed, citing a decision
by the U.S. Supreme Court stating that
the Christmas tree is not a religious
symbol.
The RHA Constitution was amended
on Nov. 1 6 to say that RHA funds could
not be used to sponsor events of a
religious or political nature.
Jackson said that she informed resi
dence hall governors of the change and
that they said any parties held this year
The SRC Architect Committee in
October submitted Burns' name to the
BOT as its first choice, and the BOT
failed to approve her, reaching its deci
sion in a closed session. The committee
resubmitted Burns' name Tuesday,
when the BOT appointed her.
Burns, owner of Burnstudio in
Raleigh, said she was looking forward
to working on the SRC project and
would begin as soon as the contract was
finalized. "We are really happy about
it."
Burns will meet with students, fac
ulty and anyone else interested in see
ing what is wanted in the SRC, she said.
"Our intent is to conduct a number of
seminars to determine issues and con
cerns and try to reach a consensus."
Committee member Wayne Going,
intramural-recreational sports coordi
nator, said the BOT's decision was a
good one. "I'm extremely pleased they
made that selection. She will do an
excellent job working with students."
Student Congress Speaker Gene
Davis, and a member of the committee,
said he was surprised that the BOT
decided to appoint Burns after declin
ing to appoint her two months ago. "I
was very, very happily surprised. It's
encouraging to me to see the Board of
Trustees listen to student opinion and
recommend Norma Burns for this student-initiated
project."
SEAC to participate in Mobil protest
By JEFF D. HILL
Staff Writer
About 100 UNC students, primarily
members of the Student Environmental
Action Coalition (SEAC), will take part
in a protest tonight against the pro
posed Mobil Oil Corp. drilling off the
N.C. coast, SEAC co-chairwoman
Ericka Kurz said Wednesday.
The protest will precede a public
hearing at the Velvet Cloak Inn in
Raleigh.
Kurz said Greenpeace, the interna
tional environmental protection group,
was organizing the protest. Organizers
expect about 1,000 people to be at the
6:30 p.m. protest. The hearing starts at
7 p.m.
The public hearing is to determine
whether Mobil's plan is consistent with
the N.C. coastal management program
whose troubles
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judgment, we believe our program is
one of the best in the country," the
report said.
Athletic Director John Swofford said
in a prepared statement that he was
pleased the committee gave the athletic
program what he called "a good bill of
health."
However, the report said that despite
UNC's clean record, NCAA standards
were inconsistent with academic val
ues, and recommended the University
adopt the following reforms:
Coaches should be given long
term contracts after a trial period, and
their win-loss record should not be the
only factor in determining a coach's
would not be of .a religious nature.
"Sam and Mindy seem to think that
'holiday' party means 'Christmas'
party," Jackson said.
Jackson also said that Friedman's
and Bagenstos' fees would not be re
turned. She said that residence hall fees,
like student fees, were voted on by
students and could not be returned if
students did not agree with the pro
grams for which they were used.
"I think that Sam and Mindy, being
on congress, should understand more
than anybody how student fees work,"
Jackson said. "The fees are voted on by
students. They are not optional."
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor and
dean of student affairs, is the only
University official with the power to
refund residence hall fees. Boulton said
the only instance in which he would
refund fees would be if a student be
came ill or had to withdraw from the
University through no fault of his own.
"Mindy and I feel, along with other
people, that we can no longer finan
cially underwrite an organization that
wantonly spends our money on reli
gious celebrations," Bagenstos said.
Parker Residence Hall ' s annual "Last
Kiss before Christmas" party has been
changed to the "Last Kiss" party. The
dormitory will not have the usual visit
from Santa Claus.
"It seems kind of sad that a time of
year that should be a time of together
ness is being more exclusionary rather
than inclusionary," Friedman said.
for SIRC
Carolina Athletic Association Presi
dent Lisa Frye, also a member of the
committee, said she didn't know what
to expect from the BOT when the
committee resubmitted Burns' name.
"I wasn't sure what was going to hap
pen. But I felt that when we made the
second recommendation, we should go
on the same criteria as before."
The committee sent Burns' name
back to the BOT because it felt she was
the most qualified choice, Davis said.
"We resubmitted Burnstudio because
we felt very strongly that she was the
best candidate. I am truly elated about
fruitfully working with Ms. Burns and
her staff."
Because the October decision not to
appoint Burns was made in closed ses
sion, it is difficult to determine why the
BOT did not appoint her, Davis said. "It
is my belief that the student support for
the selection of Ms. Burns played a
significant role in the reversal of the
previous decision. I believe that the
committee's continued pressure to
appoint Ms. Burns was also influen
tial." Davis has said that he felt the BOT
failed to select Burns the first time
because of her feminist views and her
membership on the Raleigh City Coun
cil. But Burns said she didn't think
See SRC, page 2
and whether it can be done safely,
according to J.D. Ferguson, an office
manager at the Office of Outer Conti
nental Shelf in Raleigh.
Safety considerations are the pri
mary reason for the protest, Kurz said.
"There are so many problems caused
by gas and oil exploration. There's
everything from oil spills to water
quality and air quality. Then there are
reasons that citizens can be concerned
for the fishing and tourism industries."
Offshore drilling and exploration
rights are controlled by the Minerals
Management Service of the U.S. De
partment of Interior because the off
shore acreage belongs to the federal
government, but the state of North
Carolina can fight the issue in court if it
is not satisfied with Mobil's proposal,
Ferguson said.
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success.
The Rams Club should open its
financial records to the public, submit
its budget to the chancellor for review
and approval, establish relations with
the Development Office and include
representatives of the chancellor and
faculty on its executive committee.
No member of the Board of Trustees
should serve on the executive commit
tee of the Rams Club while on the BOT.
Some committee members recom
mended that members of Board of
Governors also not serve on the Rams
Club executive committee.
The number of grants-in-aid avail
able in each sport should rise. or fall
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By KENNY MONTEITH
Staff Writer
Complications with the heating sys
tem in Olde Campus have left many
students in the cold, but the University
housing department has been working
throughout the week to correct the
problem.
The heating problems in the resi
dence halls of Olde Campus, especially
Everett Residence Hall, should be fixed
by the end of the week, said Herb Paul,
director of UNC's Physical Plant.
Olde Campus includes AycOck,
Everett, Graham, Grimes, Lewis,
Manly, Mangum and Ruffin residence
halls.
The heating problem originated when
the hot-water pipes became cross-connected,
Paul said. "The pipe that should
be receiving water from the heat source
is receiving water from the less hot side
(of the pipe)."
Steve Stoddard, plant management
supervisor, said the pipes were not
supposed to be cross-connected.
Jim Martin, director of Mobil's N.C.
project, said in a telephone interview
that the drilling would take place about
45 miles off the coast of Cape Hatteras.
He said there was a 10 percent chance
of finding natural gas off the N.C. coast
and a "one in 1 percent" chance of
finding oil. The rising oil and natural
gas costs have made such oil drilling
cost effective, Martin said. "
"If this project and other projects
like it are prohibited, this country will
continue to have to import more and
more of it (oil) from overseas, and that
oil comes to us in tankers."
Kurz said the recent Exxon Valdez
accident in Alaska would work in
SEAC's favor.
'The Valdez accident has caused a
See SEAC, page 2
based on that sport's graduation rate. A
minority of the committee recom
mended grants-in-aid be available to
only men's football and basketball and
women's soccer and basketball.
At the end of five years, the aver
age SAT score of UNC's out-of-state
student-athletes should be equal to the
average SAT score of UNC's out of
state students, and the University should
admit only 75 out-of-state athletes
whose SAT scores are not competitive.
The University should stop resell
ing seats in the Smith Center and, in
stead, assign those seats to students.
See REPORT, page 2
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"The pipes were cross-connected
when the buildings (Everett and Lewis)
were renovated. The problem wors
ened when the (other) renovations kept
getting added to the line," Stoddard
said, referring to the 1988-89 Man-gum-Ruffin
renovation and the 1987
88 Manly-Grimes renovation. "Then
we realized we had a problem."
Paul said the Physical Plant was "in
the process of replumbing Everett and
Lewis, and I believe Mangum and
Ruffin."
Housing director Wayne Kuncl said
he learned of the problem when stu
dents began to voice concern after
Thanksgiving. He also said the resi
dence halls have had low temperature
readings since the break.
"We've not been able to get the heat
up to the 70 to 75 degree range that we
try to get our buildings into. They've
been ranging from about 64 to 69 de
grees." See HEAT, page 2
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