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INSIDE Today's News Sports to Be Or Not to Be Tennis, Baseball News and No Beer for Points After This Greeks May Have More Fun, Sportsweek AEOLCIS The Chronicle's weekly magazine 76th Year, No. 115 Duke University, Durham, North Carolina Wednesday, March 18,1981 iwJL ^~ "Kmnicr Cm* ^ You. ^Tiooo yoa_r"«_ /*% •^ *.-> ir? ioi/(u... coh(Ln </:X?> _c^ ,^ ^ r^O ^ <^ J$t wrt* dV^ _> <^> tut of hut l ' > ^ ^ Adam was 3 rouAh draft INSIDE Today's news Sports To be or not to be Tennis, baseball news and No beer for points after this Greeks may have more fun, sportsweek. semester, brush fires across N.C, but there are advantages to moving Page 10. angry budgeteers clash in D.C. out of the West Campus scene: two Page 2. sides. Ice cream Too personal Page 6. Bizarre mocha lust and the course A personal ad in the Chronicle Fun page of human history. brought many responses, including Crosswords by and about Dukies, Page 14. a realistic and legalistic phone call. word searches, a couple puns and The Bag Page 4. games to occupy wandering minds Page 8. Page 16. Today's news. Aeolus Beer points way to board plan change By Ken Soo concerned that the President would hand this decision referendum question, said that PIRG's low profile on The sale of beer and wine for points came under down so absolutely, by fiat, without first discussing it campus was his main concern. "Most students don't heavy fire from University administrators at ASDU's with the studentbody. At this point the issue of beer for know what PIRG is doing. I would like to increase the weekly meeting last night. "I find it very difficult to points is merely a sideline." visibility of PIRG," said Podulka. justify beer and wine on the food plan," said William Graydon Forrer, senior in Trinity College, said, "We The question was also sponsored by Dave Peterseim, Griffith, vice-president for student affairs. got screwed. Sanford found out about it [beer for a freshman in Trinity College. Griffith's statement came in the wake of University points] this morning and made a snap decision." Last spring, the student body passed a referendum President Terry Sanford's Tuesday morning Griffith said that Sanford only yesterday discovered approving continued financial support for PIRG. statement that as of today beer and wine would no that beer was available for points. One legislator PIRG representatives came prepared to appeal longer be sold for points. expressed disbelief that Sanford could be so unaware ASDU's decision to place their organization on the Griffith said, however, that beer will continue to be of student life. referendum. ASDU, however, voted 32-31 that PIRG's available for points until the end of the semester. funding would remain on the referendum without Sanford made these comments regarding the point In other business, ASDU discussed the upcoming further debate. PIRG will try to appeal the decision to plan on a Meet the Press show taped by Cable-13. The referendum question concerning student funding of include Podulka's referendum question again at next program will be aired this Friday. the North Carolina Public Interest Research Group weeks meeting. Arguing against beer for points at the ASDU (NC-PIRG). PIRG presently offers refunds each semester to meeting, Griffith said, "The board plan is basically a NC-PIRG currently receives $2 per student per students who wish to withdraw their $2 contribution. food plan and nothing else." semester via the student activity fee. One question on Marilyn Butler, co-director of the local chapter of "Apparently it has been taken out ofhis [Griffith's] next Thursday's referendum asks whether that PIRG, said "Because of our refund system we are at all hands and out of our hands. It was decided today," support should continue. times accountable to the students. The students decide said Porter Durham, ASDU president. "Griffith had Bill Podulka, chairman ofthe Student Orgaizations every spring and fall whether to support us, whereas discussed this issue with students and with ASDU Committee and co-sponsor of of the NC-PIRG with most organizations ASDU decides." Q legislators, however, President Sanford completely undercut student opinion." Claiming that the banning of the sale of beer and wine for points is "not a moral issue," Griffith cited Greensboro seven plead guilty Duke's history as one ofthe first universities in North Carolina to allow alcohol on campus. GREENSBORO (AP) — Seven persons have Willie Young, 27; Mary Miller, 35; and Willena pleaded guilty in Guilford County Superior Court Legislators focused their comments on the Cannon. abruptness of Sanford's announcement. Stu Jones, Tuesday to charges of malicious damage to real An eighth defendant, Vernon Wall, 24, is still chairman of the Student Affairs Committee, said, "I property in connection with four attempted fire scheduled to be tried separately. am personally devastated by this decision. I am bombings last November. Cannon, a supporter ofthe CWP, had filed a motion Each of the defendants, known as the Greensboro earlier to dismiss charges and to dismiss her attorney Seven, received suspended jail sentences from Judge on the grounds that he had little experience in criminal Julius Rousseau. law. White N.C. nurses The group must also pay restitution for the fires they Earlier this week, Judge Rousseau was unhappy allegedly set last fall. The amount breaks down to $188 with delays in the trial of the Greensboro Seven. fare better on tests per defendant. WASHINGTON (AP) - Testimony revealed District Attorney Michael Schlosser said he agreed Rousseau said defense and prosecution lawyers Tuesday that graduates from the University of North to a plea-bargaining arrangement so that Greensboro were unprepared to argue motions and start a trial for Carolina's white nursing and teaching schools have "could put the events of last November behind it." the seven, including one member of the Communist fared significantly better on professional certification The charges grew out of four firebombing attempts Workers Party. exams than those from black institutions. on Nov. 17, 1980, shortly after an all-white jury The only successful firebombing was at Rucker Dr. Raymond Dawson, UNC vice-president of acquitted six Ku Klux Klansmen and Nazis accused of Realty, where thousands of dollars in damage was academic affairs, confirmed those disparities under killing five CWP demonstrators at a "Death to the done. government cross-examination. Klan" rally Nov. 3, 1979. Unsuccessful attempts were made at a Greensboro Dawson testified during a hearing ;o determine if The defendants in the case were Paul Eury, 26; fire station on Gorrell Street and at an auto supply the UNC system should lose almost $90 million in David Ford, 29; William Jenkins Jr.; Bruce Evans, 23; shop on East Market St. federal aid because of alleged failures to eliminate D vestiges of a racially dual system of higher education. Dawson afterwards said reasons for such disparities were complex, adding it wasn't that the white schools were better. Wildfires continue throughout state "It's probably due to educational background," he said. "It's more a reflection of socio-economic RALEIGH (AP) — Dry, fierce winds — sometimes By mid-afternoon Monday, 36 fires had been background than it is race." aided by arsonists — continued to whip up hundreds of contained by mid-afternoon, charring 580 acres. But Dawson confirmed that, in 1980, white institutions wildfires in North Carolina Monday as fire officials he said 14 fires were still burning, including one north had a passing rate of between 78 to 95 percent on the braced for more windy weather today. west of Elizabeth City that already had consumed state board nursing exam, compared to an 18 to 33 Light and scattered rain went almost unnoticed as 2,000 acres. percent range at black schools. The figures only winds gusting above 60 mph grounded firefightingair Hegele said winds caused fires to leap firebreaks in a included first-time test takers. craft and fanned flames out of control. The winds 100-acre blaze in Wilkes County and in three fires in There was also a disparity in teachers exams caused fires in several parts ofthe state to jump control Rutherford County. administered by the state Board of Education, he said. lines. Hegele said 229 fires were reported Sunday and "We found a high correlation between the SAT Tom Hegele of the state Forestry Service in Raleigh 6,449 acres were burned. The number of fires is about (scholastic aptitude tests) verbal and the pass rate," he said there have been a good number of reports of arson. the same as reported Saturday, Hegele said, but the explained. "I imagine it could be as high as 35 percent," Hegele fires were larger and did more damage Sunday. Dawson acknowledged there was even a disparity said. "But we won't know until our investigation is The Forestry Service continues to use all its among the three black nursing schools, which include completed and that could take a couple of months. manpower to fight the fires and Hegele said some of North Carolina A&T State University, N.C. Central "Arson appears to be higher than what we normally the workers in the Raleigh office were being sent to and Winston-Salem State. have," Hegele said. "The leading cause (of forest fires) fight the blazes. He said that 33 percent at Winston-Salem passed the is debris burning. But in the southeastern portion of Columbus County authorities reported 14 forest fires exam in 1980 compared to less than 20 percent at the the state this seems to be reversed." Sunday, all of them believed to be caused by arsonists. two other schools. The National Weather Service reported that much- One fire believed to be the work of an arsonist During cross-examination by chief government needed rainfall amounted to only a few hundredths of destroyed more than 900 acres at a Cape Fear region counsel Richard Foster, Dawson said that Winston- an inch in most places and ranged up to nearly a plantation owned by International Paper Co.
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