The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, October 30, 19903
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Fraternity to sponsor
Halloween party
A Halloween party will be held in the
Black Cultural Center for Head Start
children from Carrboro and Chapel Hill.
Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity, Inc. will
sponsor the party Oct. 3 1 .
Hettleman winner
to speak on biology
Pauline Kay Lund, associate profes
sor of physiology and a 1 990 winner of
the Phillip and Ruth Hettleman Prize
for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement,
will speak Nov. 8.
The lecture, "Molecular Biology of
Insulin-Like Growth Factors," will be
held at 4 p.m. in the faculty lounge of
the Morehead Building. The lecture is
;free and open to the public.
Phone book recycling
stations in Union
The Office of Waste Reduction and
Recycling will collect old University
telephone books from campus buildings
Oct. 3 1 -Nov. 6.
The recycling office will collect the
books from central locations in each
academic department as copies of the
new University directories arrive. De
partment heads are asked to identify a
place for collection and to notify faculty
and staff of the recycling effort.
Department heads should call Rhonda
Sherman-Huntoon, recycling coordi
nator, when collections are complete.
Students also are encouraged to de
posit their old telephone books in bins
placed in the Student Union.
UNC receives grant
to benefit programs
UNC received a $295,000 grant from
the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation in
Winston-Salem.
The grant will support UNC's Pro
gram for Minority Advancement in the
Biomolecular Sciences, the School of
Social Work, the Environmental Re
source Project and the College of Arts
and Sciences.
Snack Bar relocates
to Mason Farm Road
The Celsus Snack Bar on campus
will move Nov. 5 from the corner of
Manning Drive to Mason Farm Road,
next to the Glaxo Building.
The store was located on Manning
Drive for nine years. The bar is moving
because the new Thurston Bowles re
search building is being built on the site.
The Celsus' reopening will include
daily food specials for customers, and
prizes.
Lifetime achievement
recipients named
A former UNC chancellor and one of
the oldest practicing lawyers in North
Carolina received Lifetime Achieve
ment Awards from the School of Law
during Alumni Weekend, Oct. 19-20.
The recipients were William B
Avcock. chancellor emeritus and Kenan
law professor emeritus, and Katherine
R. Everett, a Durham. attorney wno, ai
age 97, is one of the oldest practicing
attorneys in the state
Avcock. a 1948 graduate of the
School of Law, retired as a full-time
faculty member in 1985. He was chan-
cellor of the University trom iyo-ct
Everett is a 1920 graduate of the
School of Law and was the tourtn
woman licensed to practice law in North
' Carol ina. She was active in the women's
suffrage movement and became one of
the first two women to noia a seai on me
Durham City Council.
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First Caroline users experience difficmilties
By MATTHEW MIELKE
Staff Writer
Students experienced technical
problems with Caroline, the new tele
phonic registration system, this week
end, but there are ways students can
minimize their frustrations.
Some students complained of re
ceiving repeated busy signals, being put
on hold for long periods of time and not
getting a response from the computer.
Andrew Satenberg, a senior from
Northridge, Calif., said that initially the
computer repeatedly hung up on him.
He said that, despite his having spent
two hours on the phone, he consiaera
himself "one of the lucky ones."
Fraternities question policies
of BFC following BOT meetin
By APRIL DRAUGHN
Staff Writer
After comments made by Chancellor
Paul Hardin at Friday's Board ot
Trustees meeting, some fraternity
members are expressing concern about
the effectiveness of the Inter-Fraternity
Council.
Robb Beatty, IFC president, said IFC
members were taking Hardin s com
ments seriously. At the meeting, Hardin
said fraternities did not have enough
supervision, and the University did not
haveenough control overtheir activities.
Beatty will meet with Hardin in
November.
Some fraternity members said IFC
did not have the power to enforce its
policies.
The IFC may not be useful it frater
nities aren't willing to follow policies
the council establishes, some fraternity
members said.
Louis Bissette, Chi Psi fraternity
president, said the council would be
more effective if fraternities would
follow the IFC's policies more closely.
"It's disappointing to us to see many
of the other houses blatantly violating
the policy," he said.
The positive image Chi Psi tries to
project is done more by the fraternity
than by IFC mandates, Bissette said.
'There's little if any teeth in the IFC
policies."
Bissette said although he thought
Beatty had tried to improve IFC, the
low adherence rate of fraternities to IhC
policies has created problems.
Beatty said most fraternities followed
IFC policies this semester. Fraternities
who aren't members of the council still
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Other students reported problems
after they had been connected to
Caroline.
Ruth Dowling, a senior from Provi
dence, R.I., said that after she got
through, Caroline told her the computer
was having trouble processing her in
formation. But she finally was able to
get her schedule, she said.
David Lanier, University registrar,
said this weekend was "a stress test" for
the system. A hardware problem caused
most of students' difficulties in getting
through, he said. Because of a flaw in
the protocol converter, only about half
of the 32 lines were available on the
system.
"It's disappointing to us to see many of
the other houses blatantly violating the
policy."
Louis Bissette, Chi Psi president
have to follow the IFC dry rush policy,
he said.
Bissette said many fraternities vio
lated the dry rush policy.
Beatty said three or four fraternities
violated the dry rush policy.
Several fraternity presidents said
membership in IFC had no effect on
fraternities holding mixers with sorori
ties unless the fraternity violated dry
rush.
Mike Ferguson, Sigma Nu fraternity
president, said a fraternity could have
mixers unless it was put on probation by
the council.
IFC is necessary to establish basic
policy for fraternity functions such as
dry rush, Ferguson said. "There needs
to be someone to set policy for rush."
Bissette said IFC was beneficial be
cause it helped promote a positive im
age of fraternities. "But if its policies
are more for show, I feel little benefit of
the whole organization," he said.
David Bone, Theta Chi fraternity
r,nciHfnt Q?iirl fraternities could still
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attend IFC meetings and vote on lru
policies even if they did not pay dues.
John Paulson, Sigma Chi fraternity
president, said he, thought IFC was
beneficial because it helped bring
members of other fraternities together.
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Lanier said "business started drop
ping off after 9 p.m. Sunday.
Thomas Stumpf, English professor
and adviser, said one of his students
gave the computer the personal identi
fication number (PIN) he had been
given, but the computer refused to verify
the number.
Many of the students interviewed
who had trouble getting through in the
morning said they were able to register
in the evening. Lanier said it was best to
call in the evening.
Southern Bell has been working "full
blast" to handle the large volume of
calls in the registration process, he said.
Lanier suggested that students read
Beatty said fraternities that had not
paid their dues by the end of the semes
ter could still be IFC members, but they
could not vote on policies.
Most IFC dues go to pay for the buses
and the cookout that are involved in
structured rush at the beginning of the
fall semester, he said.
Being an IFC member benefits fra
ternities because they are more aware of
policies, Beatty said. National organi
zations encourage fraternities to become
members of IFC, he said.
"It's good to be a member because
when we pass policies, the fraternities
need to know what's going on," Beatty
said.
GPSF considers fee to aid graduate students
By BRIAN G0LS0N
Staff Writer
The Graduate and Professional Stu
dent Federation is considering propos-
inp a $2 oer semester fee increase be
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professional students.
The money would help support in
dividual graduate students in field re
search, travel expenses and costs of
printing doctoral dissertations, said
Dean McCord, GPSF president.
These costs can be serious barriers to
some graduate students who are living
on very tight budgets, he said.
Because salaries for UNC graduate
assistants are among the lowest in the
nation, the money generated from the
fee increase will supplement these
salaries, McCord said.
Franklin
By ADAM C. WALSER
Staff Writer
Although the trick-or-treaters have
yet to hit the streets, some Chapel Hill
merchants have begun trimming the
trees in anticipation of the Yuletide
season.
As the national economy continues
to waver, area retailers are getting a
jump on the holiday season and are
banking on a strong year's end.
"Having a good year in sales depends
on an especially strong finish," said Bill
Stokes, manager of Grimball and Stokes
Jewelers. "We always have a slight
slump in sales during the first part of the
school year, so we won't, really know if
the recession is going to affect us until
the Christmas rush."
Brad Chesebro, an assistant manager
at Rite Aid, said, "We want a good
season to help our whole year's sales."
The official holiday shopping season
traditionally begins on the day after
Thanksgiving (November 23 this year).
Because Chapel Hill is a university
community in which a large part of the
population leaves town a week or more
before Christmas, it has a shorter
shopping season than other towns.
Chesebro said his store is trying to
encourage customers to shop early by
displaying its holiday items before its
competitors display theirs.
"We want them to be aware that we
have those items far in advance, so
when they start to buy Christmas items
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the instructions in the Directory of
Classes before calling. The first two
phone calls to Caroline were from stu
dents who did not have their PIN or did
not know how to use the system, he
said.
Students should terminate a call when
they are finished registering by pressing
the 8 key and the pound sign, he said.
Many people hang up without termi
nating the call, thereby keeping that line
busy for 90 more seconds. With 32 1 ines
"that's a lot of minutes," he said.
Another reason the lines remained
busy was that many seniors thought last
weekend was the only time they could
register, he said. But seniors are able to
Sophomore
after accident in Boone
By MARCIE BAILEY
Staff Writer
A UNC sophomore from
Hendersonville remains in serious
condition at the Baptist Hospital in
Winston-Salem from injuries he re
ceived in a car accident early Oct. 2 1 .
John Jason Egolf was the passenger
in a car driven by Clyde Robert
Ingersoll, 19, of Boone. Ingersoll was
arrested for driving while impaired
after being treated and released for
minor cuts and bruises, according to
an article in the Watauga Democrat.
Egolf and his roommate, Daniel
Krug, were visiting friends in Boone
at the time of the accident, Krug said.
Ingersoll and Egolf were on their
way back to a friend's house after
leaving Ingersoll's apartment, Krug
said.
The newspaper reported that
Ingersoll was driving east on Howard's
Creek Road in Boone at 55 mph when
the car swerved off the side of the road
at a curve, went over an embankment
and crashed into two trees. The acci
dent occurred at about 3:45 a.m.
"The $2 fee is an excellent opportu
nity for the graduate student body as a
whole to aid those students in graduate
and professional schools who are more
needy."
Many GPSF senate members are in
favor of the fee increase, and the GPSF
has formed an ad hoc committee to
investigate the best ways to administer
the fee, he said.
Jiirgen Buchenau, GPSF Senator and
Student Congress member, originally
proposed the increase, but said it was
still in the planning stages. Problems
that must be resolved include gaining
the participation of each professional
school and formulating a fair way to
administer the funds to graduate stu
dents, Buchenau said.
"We want a good
season to help our
whole year's sales."
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play at Rite Aid and come here," he
said.
Many other factors are also adding to
stores' mounting worries, including the
rising costs of wholesale goods. These
costs have been rising because of in
creases in oil prices, which lead to higher
production and distribution costs.
In September, for example, the costs
of consumer goods rose 1.2 percent,
which corresponds to a 14.4 percent
annual inflation rate. The inflation rate
last year was just under 6 percent. As a
result, the consumer confidence level
dropped to its lowest point since 1983.
High gasoline prices may also mean
that people are driving out to their local
malls or shopping areas less frequently.
Murray Kappelmann, manager of
Record Bar in University Mall, doesn't
share others concerns about the
Christmas season. "Sure, Christmas is
very important to us," she said. "But the
fact that this is a college market makes
it a different type of market. We're
close to campus, so our student business
remains somewhat constant. The fact of
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register anytime this week.
Also, it is unnecessary for a student
to keep pressing "list function" after,
adding a course, he said. ' .
Some callers have been tying up the.
lines with phone games, he said. One
student added courses, dropped them
and then added them back again as. a
joke. One of the tests this weekend was
to see if students could be responsible.
A time limit could be imposed ort
calls to Caroline, Lanier said. N.C. State
University has a 7-minute limit on its.
phone registration system.
On the average, students said they:
were through registering in about 15.
minutes.
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Rescue squads and volunteer fire
departments worked 45 minutes to,
free Egolf from the wreckage. He was' ,
taken to a hospital in Boone where he
was unresponsive to treatment, the,
newspaper article stated. He was later,
transported to Baptist Hospital in
Winston-Salem where he was initially
listed in critical condition with mas
sive head injuries.
Krug said Egolf went into a coma ,
after the accident, but started to come
out of it Tuesday. Egolf opened his
eyes Sunday and attempted to speak,
but was confused about what had
happened, he said.
"He has made real good progress," ;
he said. "They said he would be in the:
hospital for at least another month!:
but he should be O.K." y
Egolf's sister Jenny said Monday
that Egolf was improving, but would
remain in intensive care for a few
more days.
"He is going to be fine," she said.
"He'll need rehabilitation for his right
thigh, leg, arm and hand, but every
thing looks good."
We (GPSF) must set up media
nisms to effectively distribute the fee so
that all graduate and professional dej
partments will benefit," he said. j
The increase will be discussed at the
December GPSF meeting and finalized
at the January meeting. .
In order for the fee to be enacted,;the
GPSF must submit a bill to be voted bn
by Student Congress. McCord said lie
would write the bill with Buchenau; If
Student Congress passes the bill, it vvill
be transformed into a referendum that
will be voted on in the spring by gradu
ate and professional students. If a "ma
jority of graduate and professional stu
dents vote in favor of the increase; it
will be enacted for the 1991-92 school
year.
the matter is, our sales for this month are
higher than our sales for this month-last
year. I can't say what's happening cor
porately, but we've done very welt in
the past two months." !
James Babb, manager of Circuit Cjty,
said that corporate restrictions wqn't
allow him to say if business was slower
than usual, but he said his store's answer
to slow sales was a concentrated sales
effort. I
"When times get hard, you just Have
to execute better," he said. -:
Ken Hamilton, manager of The Hub,
agreed. "I'm just not really concerned
about the recession," he said. "Even
though we sell only quality products, I
think our emphasis on service is what
gives us continuous repeat business."
Hamilton said they had prepared for
the holidays this year by stocking the
best inventory he's seen in the fpur
years that he's worked there.
"The sales have been slow on' pur
winter merchandise up until recenjly,
but I attribute that more to the weather
than to the economy."
Belk Leggett Assistant Manager
Madeline Sparrow said, "It'll be a liftle
while before we put up the decorations,
but we're already busy getting ready."
The new merchandise is coming-.in,
and Belk's costs are still about the level
that was anticipated, she said. ;
"We haven't been forced to raise
prices yet, and we hope we won't have
to," Sparrow said.
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