Sunny and clear High in 60s Friday: Mild High in low 60s Winning ACC Tourney ticket numbers: 6,11,12, 13,18,31,41,43 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 97, Issue 124 Thursday, February 8, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 Cable io)ue mm f n ueao with By CHRIS HELMS Staff Writer Cable TV may be installed in resi dence halls if students agree to pay for it through an on-campus housing rent increase. Residence Hall Association President Liz Jackson said Wednes day. Jackson said students should be able to vote on the cable service, possibly in a referendum in the Feb. 20 general elections. "I want the decision to be made by the students." The housing department received one cable bid that would cost each student living in a residence hall $20 to $30 per semester, Jackson said. This price w ould not include premium channels such as movie channels, which could be or dered by individual students, she said. The increase would come on top of an already planned 12 percent to 14 percent rent increase to pay for utilities costs. Housing officials said installation of re By JASON KELLY Assistant University Editor Student Congress voted Wednesday to include two potential fee-increasing referendums on the Feb. 20 election ballot, while voting down one proposed referendum that would have raised fees and one that was non-binding. One of the referendums that will appear on the ballot asks for student Effects of By WILL SPEARS Assistant University Editor UNC's academic departments have been coping with last month's $2.8 million budget cut, but Univer sity officials said Wednesday that they will not be able to assess fully the final effects of the cut until early next week. "It will take time to determine the situation," said Ben Tuchi, vice chan cellor for business and finance. "We're gathering the data now." Tuchi and Provost Dennis O'Connor declined to speculate on the overall effect of the cut until all Conns Wolfpack crushes Tar Heels, 88-77 A. 1 14 VaN K 4k if i Wr Chris Corchlani and teammates Don't reDTDtt Ih the service would probably take at least a year. Norman Vogel, former director of the Office of Data and Video Commu nications, said installation would in volve expanding the existing system of lines into residence halls. Pipes could be sunk from manholes w here lines are clustered, but the installation would still be large job, he said. "By the time it was designed, and bids put out and installed, it (cable service) would take at least a year. If the money's available, we will certainly be able to provide the service." Housing Director Wayne Kuncl and RHA area governors will discuss the future of on-campus cable today. "We know at some point we'll bring in cable for residence halls it's just a ques tion of when and how much it will cost," Kuncl said. Kuncl said he had asked RHA to gauge student opinion. "Knowing what our cost increases will be, I'm trying to vote fees to be increased by 50 cents a semester to pay for a Student Body Scholarship Fund. The other will ask for a 35-cent per semester increase to pay for safety escorts from midnight to 3 a.m., hours when the libraries are still open but SAFE Escort is not. The proposed scholarship fund ref erendum passed 16-5 over objections to raising student fees. Fifty cents per budget cots unclear the information has been gathered. "When that data is compiled, we'll know where we stand going into the fourth quarter (of the fiscal year),"Tuchi said. The cut affected UNC's third quar ter, which began in January and runs through the end of March, when the fourth quarter begins, Tuchi said. Uni versity officials will not know if there will be further cuts in the fourth quarter until it begins, he said. UNC's departments have thus far dealt with the cut in various ways. Most departments have limited the use of 4 if f- .... f - - UltX r fJ DTHJodi Anderson were not stopped by Heels " iTT U talk about yourself; it will be done when you leave. Wilson Mizner 3 jC find out if there is a big enough support base among students. The only people paying the bills are the students in the residence halls, so I'm trying to be a good steward of the students' money." Jackson said cable would give a boost to on-campus life, which she said has become less attractive because of lack of parking and continued rent increases. A rent increase for cable would be perceived differently than a rent in crease for utilities, she said. "I think people will pay extra money because they can see a tangible result." The specifications for the cable company bids require that the chosen company install conduits with enough room to accommodate cables for video, data and telephone lines, Jackson said. Kuncl said it would be cheaper to put in all three lines at the same time than to install them separately. The data cable would connect students to the See CABLE, page 3 ireferemidlyinnis onto balDot semester will be added to each student's fees if the student body passes the ref erendum. Rep. Jeff Beall (Dist. 7) was the main opponent of the bill. "Don't make me pay for other people's educations. Brien Lewis has used the example of 'Would you give up a can of Coke to help your roommate through college?' The point is that I will if I want to, but paper in copying machines, limited long-distance phone calls and watched the thermostat a little more closely, department chairmen said last month. University Career Plan ning and Placement Services had to limit its mailings detailing job op portunities to academic departments and senior students. If the budget cuts continue, the University will have to determine what else to cut from its overall budget, Tuchi said. One possibility includes cutting faculty or staff posi- See BUDGET, page 2 By DAVE GLENN Senior Writer N.C. State head coach Jim Valvano finally knows what it's like to leave Chapel Hill with a win, and he has his entire team to thank for it. Valvano's Wolfpack brought him his first win in 10 appearances on The Hill with an 88-77 triumph Wednesday night before 21,572 shellshocked wit nesses at the Smith Center. "If you come here enough times," Valvano said after the game, "you're bound to win one." With the victory. State upped its record to 16-6, 5-3 in ACC competi tion. The Tar Heels' second consecu tive ACC loss dropped them to 1 6-8, 5 3 in conference play. "We were certainly beaten by a bet ter team tonight," said UNC head coach Dean Smith. "We could't get things going, and a lot of that has to do with their quickness." Valvano brought an eight-man rota tion into the game and it's a good thing he couldn't have won with only seven. As usual, the Pack was led by sharp shooting guard Rodney Monroe and pesky point guard Chris Corchiani. Monroe tallied a game-high 24 points; Corchiani sparked a tough State de fense while dishing out a game-high nine assists. But on this night, the two guys in State's highly touted "Fire and Ice" backcourt needed plenty of help. And they got it. Surprise starter Mickey Hinnant, a 6-foot-6 senior swingman, pitched in with 14 points and five rebounds; sen ior forward Brian Howard scored 14 points and grabbed six boards; sopho more center Tom Gugliotta threw in his 13 points and five boards. But the Wolfpack may have gotten its biggest lift from forward Kevin Thompson, who scored a workmanlike 10 points on 5-of-6 shooting from the field; the 6-9 freshman added a game See STATE, page 6 ,-": V i - v( V 7 Camp in Sandy Shenk (left) and Cathy Shenk of the Green River Preserve Camp describe the benefits of I shouldn't be forced to." Beall added that fees are becoming so high as to prohibit students from attending UNC. Other congress mem bers maintained that an additional 50 cents would not stop anyone from at tending UNC, while the scholarship fund would help many students attend. Rep. Jiirgen Buchenau (Dist. 3), a graduate student, said the proposed More freshman adunDttec By SUSIE KATZ Staff Writer The number of freshman athletes admitted to UNC-CH as exceptions to the school's minimum admissions stan dards is up this year, according to the Intercollegiate Athletics Reports re leased by UNC-system officials Tues day. The number of freshman athletes admitted this year as exceptions for the football and men's basketball teams was up by six to 1 5 from last year's total of nine. Thirteen of 23 freshman football players and two of six freshman men's basketball players receiving full ath letic grants were admitted as excep tions in the fall of 1989. Both freshmen receiving full grants to play women's basketball were admitted as exceptions this fall as well. Of the 58 remaining athletes receiving full or partial athletic grants in 1989, eight were exceptions. Students must meet certain basic academic requirements to be consid ered for admission to UNC-CH. The Board of Trustees of UNC-CH stated in a 1986 resolution: "Minimum requirements for admis sion and enrollment shall be (a) a total score of 800 on the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) of The College Entrance Examination Board with scores of at least 350 on each of the verbal and quantitative sections thereof and (b) a Predicted Grade Average of 1.6; pro vided however that applicants who do not satisfy these two criteria may, for sufficient reason, be admitted with the approval of the Advisory Committee on Undergraduate Admissions in each individual case." UNC-CH has a tougher admissions standard than the minimum require ments set forth by the NCAA in Propo sition 48, whose guidelines require freshman student-athletes to score at Attention congress candidates The Daily Tar Heel will interview Student Congress candidates on a walk in basis Feb. 12 from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. and on Feb. 13 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. in Room 224 of the Student Union. Candidates should be prepared to Police confirm rape report From staff reports Chapel Hill Police have confirmed that a rape took place Jan. 27 in a Pritchard Avenue home. Police Planner Jane Cousins said the assault occurred at the house of the victim's mother on Pritchard hi scholarship fund was necessary for graduate students as well as under graduates. "I am in favor of this bill because it allocates money to support graduate students in the proportion that they are charged. The graduate student need for help is evident by the fact that the average Ph.D. is $7,000 in debt. This referendum is help we need." as exceptions Fall 1989 Student-Athlete Admissions Exceptions Entering Freshmen Exceptions Football 23 13 Men's Basketball 6 2 Women's Basketball 2 2 All Other Varsity Sports 58 8 All UNC Students 3,194 94 Football and basketball teams' exceptions include only fresh men with full athletic grants, while the other varsity teams' exceptions include freshmen with full and partial grants. Source: UNC-CH 1988-89 Intercollegiate Athletics Report least a 700 on the SAT and have a cumulative grade point average of 2.0 in at least 1 1 academic high school courses. None of UNC's "exception" athletes failed to meet Proposition 48 guide lines. Anthony Strickland, associate direc tor of admissions, justified admissions exceptions saying, "There are good reasons for admitting someone with an 800 over someone with a 1400. We hate to see a standardized test used as the only criteria (for admission)." He said he supported faculty reforms regarding athlete admissions. "One of the great advantages of our system is that it has provided for faculty control and has kept us from the embarrass ment suffered by other programs." Athletes are not the only students admitted to UNC as exceptions. Of 3,194 freshmen entering Carolina in the fall of 1989, 94 were admitted as exceptions. There were 137 recruited student-athletes in the entering fresh have their photographs taken at the time of their interviews. Any candidates for congress who cannot attend either interview session should contact Sarah Cagle at 962 0245 as soon as possible. Avenue. The incident is still under investigation, and Cousins refused to comment any further. Jan. 28 police reports listed the incident as a sexual assault pending further investigation to determine if a rape actually occurred. DTHTodd Diggs their camp to junior Jennifer McKay during Camp Day Wednesday in the Union's Great Hall. The second proposed fee referen dum would have put a referendum on the spring ballot increasing student fees by $ 1 per semester to help fund Univer sity Career Planning and Placement Services (UCPPS). The potential referendum needed a two-thirds vote to get on the spring See CONGRESS, page 2 athletes man class of the fall of 1989. Of these student-athletes, 25 were admitted as exceptions. This means that 69 of those students admitted as exceptions were not athletes. UNC head basketball coach Dean Smith said he thought this point was important. "The nice thing about the University is that the athletes are a small percentage of the total number of exceptions. That's a credit to the Uni versity." UNC is a leader in bringing in stu dents who can enhance the University environment. Smith said. He stressed that there were several criteria impor tant for consideration in the college admissions process. "I think the SAT is culturally bi ased," said Smith, who gained notori ety last year for his comments on the See EXCEPTIONS, page 2 Inside Hear ye, hear ye Candidates to voice platforms during campus forums 3 On the air STV makes plans to incorpo rate Omnibus Campus 3 City 4 Business 5 Arts and features 6 Sports 7 Classified 8 Comics 9 Omnibus ..insert '

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