Unanimous vote WDBS trustees sell FM station By Brenda Coleman According to the release, Village the board's decision and look forward to Board of Trustees. However, the trustees The eight-member board of trustees of Broadcasting is one of a group of being able' to serve the Durham were unable to make a recommendation WDBS agreed in an unanimous vote companies known as the Village community." that the station be turned over to Wednesday to accept a bid from Village Companies, which operates WCHL and Negotiations for the sale have been students, Schaefer said. Broadcasting Company Incorporated of the Tar Heel Sports Network. The going on since the board decided last In a resolution passed by the executive Chapel Hill for the sale the radio station, Village Companies also own and November to sell the station because of committee of WDBS in February the according to William Green, director of operate two radio stations in Lexington, "severe fiancial problems." Two bids committee rejected the student proposal, University relations and chairman of Ky., as well as the Village Advocate, were received a that time, one from though "reluctantly," the executive committee of WDBS. University Directories and the Triangle Village Broadcasting and one from BLS The committee commended the Village Broadcasting operates Pointer. Inc., which has previously been management of WDUK and said that it WCHL-AM in Chapel Hill. The intentions of Village Broadcast­ identified only as a group of area intended for "any pro fits from the sale of In a news release issued yesterday ing with respect to the future staff and WDBS assets to be used by WDUK on a afternoon Green was quoted as programming of WDBS as unknown. The sale was delayed because of a plan that would be drawn up by WDUK estimating proceeds from the sale ofthe However, according to Stephen student effort launched last fall to put and approved by the committee." Duke-controlled commercial FM station Phelps, assistant treasurer for the the station into student hands. Under a The resolution is still in effect, Green at "about $250,000." University and a member of the proposal drawn up by Phil Schaefer, said. Schaefer said that he now hopes WDBS currently owes the University station's executive committee, both of general manager of WDUK, Duke's that profits from the sale will be used approximately $195,000, a debt which two groups of bidders who wanted to buy campus AM stations, and Ron Kertzner, toward establishing an educational FM has accrued since Duke loaned the the station indicated general intentions news director of WDUK, students would station at Duke. Education FM licenses, station $120,000 in 1971 so that it could to keep the station programming and have taken over the station and repaid like commercial FM licenses, are issued buy a commercial license. staff much as it is now. its debt to Duke over and 18-year period. by the Federal Communications It is expected that profits from the sale Jim Heavner, president ofthe Village The proposal was considered by the Commission, though the rules of WDBS will be steered toward the Companies, could not be reached for WDBS board and then passed on to an governing the two kinds of stations are establishment of an educational FM comment. He was quoted in the news ad hoc committee of the University's different, according to Schaefer. station to be operated by Duke students. release as saying, "We are pleased with WEATHER Fair, high in the mid-70's, low in the fifties. Good The Chronicle beach weekend on the way! Duke University Volume 73, Number 129 Thursday, April 6, 1978 Durham, North Carolina RLC looks at 1 r ti ATO suspended twrwr^> TEP, meal planp pending action By Trish Gandy By Douglass T. noon in response to The Tau Epsilon Phi fraternity (TEP) will be Davidoff Douthat announcement. relocated to the third floor of the Pi Kappa Alpha Duke's chapter of Alpha "At this point, ATO is fraternity (PKA) section if a Residential Life Tau Omega fraternity not willing to take the Committee (RLC) recommendation to the Office of -*- (ATO) was placed on an blame," Murrah contin­ Student Affairs is enforced. "interim suspension of ued. The RLC also Monday night endorsed tentative charter" yesterday If probable cause is not board plan for West campus students on a one year pending a hearing Friday found, Douthat said, the trial basis. afternoon determining if ATO fraternity will revert The TEP recommendation resulted from the probably cause exist to to their probation status. fraternity's alleged failure to fill three-quarters of its investigate alleged ATO But Douthat also said that house with pledges and surviving members for next involvement in water if probable cause for fall. melees and assaults questioning alleged According to James Douthat, associate dean of Tuesday night. involvement in the main student affairs, the TEP's needed 14 residential The fraternity has been quadrangle and Cam­ members to retain their section. He said that on probation Since bridge Inn incidents is University policy states that a fraternity may not go January. found, the ATOs will below three-fourth's occupacy in its section for three "There are a number of retain their interim consecutive years without losing its section. serious allegations suspension status. The TEP's, Douthat said, have been below the against the ATOs which A hearing will then minimum for longer period. In 1973 due to member may be in violation of follow next week to ship difficuties the fraternity's basement was their probation," said determine if the Universi­ "temporarily reassigned". That space now belongs to James Douthat, associate ty should revoke its Maxwell House. This decrease the number of spaces in dean of student affairs charter with the ATO the section to 19 and allowed the TEP's to keep their while announcing the national organization and house at that time. interim suspension. the local chapter here. In a letter dated January 4, 1978, to Bob Chatten, The interim suspension HOWSC TEP President, Douthat stated that the TEP's must came after a water raid in For the moment, have sufficient pledges by January 18, the date formal the Cambridge Inn though, ATOs are shut bids were returned, to occupy three-fourths of their Tuesday night and down on campus. In section in the Fall of 1978. The TEP's met this various other water recognition, they have requirement. attacks outside on the reversed the bench in He also said that if the fraternity dropped below this Staff photos. West Campus main front of their section and number anytime during the second semestr or the Bob Chatten, former president of TEP (top) is quadrangle. have painted it with summer "the fraternity would lose its section protesting the RLC decision. Glenn Gossett Possible revocation another name for the section: HOWS C. privileges the following semester." manager of the Cambridge Inn (middle) was But there now exists a According to Chatten and Douthat, several working the night of the CI water incidents. Mike possibility that the According to Douthat, fraternity members met with Douthat after bid night Del Vecchio, IFC president (bottom) will help clear University may revoke the ATOs are alleged and presented a plan of continued expansion over a the charter permitting the connected to six or more period of the next three years. up both of these situations. ATO fraternity to operate physical assaults or water Bob Frank, RLC student member, said the about becoming a member, had not listed the TEP here. assaults during the water committee's decision was based on a March 3 deadline section on his housing form planning to change the "The University is battles on the main for fraternity members to turn in their housing forms form later if he decided to join. questioning whether it quadrangle late Tuesday and indicate their preferred house for the fall semester. The RLC decided that March 3 should be used as the wants to continue as party night. Visitors to the He said the TEP's had 13 members signed up to lived deadline by which the TEP's should have had their to the charter," Douthat campus, as well as in their section at that time being one short of the quota filled. said. students, are among those required 14. Chatten also said that since March 3 the TEP's had "I don't know to what filing charges, Douthat Chatten claimed this resulted from two fraternity pledged two more members in their Spring Rush. degree the ATO fraternity said yesterday. members being told by Barbara Buschman, Student Chatten said "we were given certain requirements to was involved in the The water incidents on Housing Coordinator, that housing forms could be live up to which we felt we have done." He said that he incident," said Bobby the quadrangle followed changed after March 3. He said the fraternity was one felt that the RLC's "ex post facto" recommendation Murrah, president of the the Budweiser-sponsored short of its quota because a pledge, who was unsure Continued on page 10 ATOs, yesterday after­ Continued on page 4 Page Two The Chronicle Thursday, April 6, 1978 ridge, wood base and dust 489-7062, 489- CLASSIFIEDS cover. Excellent condition. 3280. SPECTRUM* Announcements $75 Call 684-1201. Today DUKE REPUBLICANS EXECU­ Small contractor needs TIVE COUNCIL will meet in 309D day camp for boys & girls. HOUSE—Split level, four sharp individual at home Bruce Mazliah, Professor of Hislor Flowers at 9 p.m. to nominate a slant of DISSERTATION PROB­ Offering horseback at MIT speaking on Psycho candidates and to review the budget for LEMS? Problem-solving bedrooms, living room, most times to take calls, the upcoming year.