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Campus
Saturday, Jan. 9
■ A case of breaking and entering
and larceny was reported at Room 161
of the Carolina Inn. The victim left a
wallet and purse on a night stand and
returned to the room to find $132 and
the wallet missing, reports stated.
■ An attempted breaking and enter
ing was reported at 114 Bingham Hall.
Police reports stated that damage to the
external side of a door indicated an
unsuccessful attempt to gain entry from
outside.
■ Another attempted breaking and
entering case was reported at 200
Greenlaw Hall. After pry marks were
discovered at 200 Greenlaw, security
personnel searched the building and
reported more pry marks on the door of
the mail room, reports stated.
Thursday, Jan. 7
■ A black wallet containing S4O in
cash and assorted credit cards was re
ported stolen from the Woollen Gym
locker room. Police reports stated that
there were pry marks on the locker.
■ Gary Colson of Chapel Hill was
arrested for driving while his license
was revoked and with driving without
his lights on, according to reports.
Colson was stopped on Franklin Street
near Hillsborough Road because his
lights were not on, and the dispatcher
found that his license had been revoked,
reports stated.
Colson was placed under a S2OO un
secured bond and will appear in court
Feb. 9, reports stated.
■ According to reports, $lO in cash
was stolen from 218 Bynum Hall. The
money was located in a secure desk
drawer, according to police reports.
Some change was left in the envelope,
reports stated.
■ S9O and a receipt were stolen from
a secured desk drawer in 208 Bynum
Hall, reports stated.
■ A construction employee reported
vandalism at the UNC Neuropsychiatric
Hospital construction site. Police esti
mated the damage, which included 250
feet of severely damaged wire, at $3,500,
reports stated. Several large tire prints
were found in the mud, according to
reports.
Wednesday, Jan. 6
■ A person stuck in a Davis Library
elevator left the premises before police
officers arrived on the scene, reports
stated. Elevator personnel got the per
son out of the elevator, which was stuck
at the sixth floor, according to police
reports.
City
Sunday, Jan. 10
■ A Chapel Hill High School student
was arrested and charged with disor
derly conduct at University Square at
4:15 a.m.
James Ryan Edwards, 17, of 7020
Old 86 Highway, fired a .25-caliber
pistol in the vicinity of a group of 15 or
more people, according to Chapel Hill
police reports. Edwards was released
on a SSOO secured bond. His trial is
expected to take place on January 28 in
the Chapel Hill District Court, reports
stated.
Saturday, Jan. 9
■ A suspect stole a cash register from
a Chapel Hill business, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
A suspect entered J&J’s Deli, lo
cated at 1129 Weaver Dairy Road at
Timberlyne Shopping Center, and ap
proached the register, reports stated.
The suspect pushed several items from
the counter onto the floor and then picked
up the register and ran from the busi
ness, according to reports. Total loss
and damages were not yet available,
reports stated.
■ A resident of Camelot Apartments
in Chapel Hill reported $ 1,675 in goods
stolen the apartment, Chapel Hill police
reports stated. A typewriter, television,
videocassette recorder and jewelry were
among the items missing, reports stated.
Friday, Jan. 8
■ A resident of KA Fraternity, lo
cated at 110 W. Cameron St., reported
$6lO worth of goods stolen from his
room while he was away for the holi
days, Chapel Hill police reports stated.
The door to the resident’s room was
kicked in, according to reports.
Thirty compact discs, a wall clock
and a coat were reported missing.
■ A Chapel Hill teenager was ar
rested and charged with possession and
intent to sell and deliver cocaine, ac
cording to Chapel Hill police reports.
Jerry Maurit Baldwin, 17, of 7
Rockbrook Trailer Park, was observed
dropping an object on the ground, re
ports stated. The object was found to be
a Lifesaver Holes canister containing 6
rocks of .9 gram crack cocaine, reports
stated.
Baldwin, who is employed by Ye
Olde Waffle Shoppe, was arrested on
Johnson Street, an area known for drug
related activity, police reports stated.
Baldwin was taken to an Orange
County jail where he was held on a
SI,OOO secure bond, according to re
ports.
■ Joel Harper, president of the Chapel
Hill Chamber of Commerce, reported
that a rattlesnake was crawling on the
roof of the Chamber of Commerce, ac
cording to police reports.
The complaint, filed at 10:39 a.m.,
was unfounded, reports stated.
Apartments, frats
targets of brea k-ins
By Jackie Hershkowitz
City Editor
Chapel Hill law enforcement offi
cials said Sunday that they were not
surprised by the rash of break-ins that
occurred while students were away for
the holidays.
Several thousand dollars in property
was reported missing, according to po
lice estimates.
Most of the break-ins took place at
apartment complexes where students
comprise the majority of renters, but
several fraternity houses, homes and
local businesses reported burglaries as
well.
Patrol Lt. Robert Frick said that de
spite efforts to encourage people to se
cure their homes, the number of break
ins tends to rise when students leave
town.
“There are always more break-ins at
this time of year,” Frick said. “The
largest part of the population goes home.
(Burglars) know that the percentage of
Chapel Hillians is way down during the
holidays.”
Elvis is alive! At least in hearts
of fans eager to buy his stamps
By Phuong Ly
Staff Writer
Thousands of El vises were seen leav
ing area buildings this weekend—post
office buildings, that is.
More than 61,000 stamps commemo
rating the late “King of Rock and Roll”
were sold at Chapel Hill and Carrboro
post offices Friday and Saturday.
Nationwide, 500 million copies of
the 29-cent Elvis stamp went on sale
beginning at noon Friday, which would
have been the legendary singer’s 58th
birthday.
At area post offices, crowds of Elvis
enthusiasts flocked to buy the stamps.
About two dozen eager fans lined up a
little before noon Friday at the East
Franklin Street post office, making jokes
and reminiscing about the “King.”
“Surely Elvis is worth an hour. Shoot,
he might even be in line with us,” said
Ken Litowsky, Who works in the Uni
versity human resources department.
He bought eight stamps four to use
and four to save while he was on his
lunch break.
Jennifer Watson of Chapel Hill, 24,
also plans to save the stamps as souve
nirs.
“I love Elvis. My parents were raised
on him, and what they listened to, I
listened to,” she said. “He appealed to
all age groups. Everybody loves Elvis.”
Denise Johnson, a secretary in the
University anesthesiology department,
thought she was making history be
cause she was the first person to buy the
Elvis stamp at the East Franklin Street
post office.
“Elvis is a big thing.... Everybody
talks about him,” said Johnson, an Elvis
fan and a stamp collector. “Now I can
add to that and tell everybody, ‘Guess
what? I was the first person in (the East
Franklin Street office) to buy the Elvis
stamp.’”
A total 0f42,000 stamps remain from
the order of 92,000 stamps that Chapel
Hill post offices received, said Becky
Vester, mail processing supervisor.
Customers are limited to five sheets of
stamps there are 40 per sheet —and
two plate blocks, a section of four stamps
which have a color code printed on the
side.
The Carrboro Post Office sold all of
its 11,000 Elvis stamps by noon on
Saturday, said Preston Mooney, a clerk
at the Carrboro office. “The line was
pretty much out the door for the first
hour (the stamps were on sale),” he said.
A total of 800,000 stamps were dis
tributed to post offices served by the
Raleigh regional office an area
stretching from Chapel Hill to the coast,
said Elaine Gamer, acting customers
relations coordinator for the office.
Another 200,000 to 300,000 stamps are
expected to arrive next week, she said.
The U.S. Postal Service originally
printed 300 million Elvis stamps, but
because more than 100,000 were re
quested in advance, a total of 500 mil
lion stamps were printed—that’s about
two Elvises for every person in the
country. The postal service usually re
leases 160 million of each commemo
rative stamp.
Elvis-stamp fever began in June,
Party peachy with Mack and the Heels
Staff Report
All hail the conquering Heels.
For the first time since 1982, die
UNC administration is inviting all stu
dents, faculty members and Tar Heel
fans to take part in a rally honoring die
UNC football team for its 21-17 vic
tory in the Peach Bowl and its 9-3
record.
Players and coaches from the team
will gather on the steps of the South
Building today at 3 p.m. for the cel
ebration. In case of rain, the event will
CAMPUS AND CITY
Scott Russell, a senior from
Brownsville, Tenn., returned to his room
at the Kappa Alpha fraternity house on
West Cameron Avenue to find more
than S6OO worth of property missing.
Four other residents of his fraternity
had personal propoertytaken as well,
Russell said.
“We took the same precautions we
usually take,” Russell said. “There’s
not really anything you can do but count
your losses.”
But Chapel Hill law enforcement
officials said there were several things
students could do to decrease the chances
of being the victim of a break-in.
Before leaving town, students should
make sure their doors and windows are
securely locked, remove valuable be
longings and have well-lit entrances.
But Russell said his fraternity could
not afford to increase its security.
“It’s not really practical for us to hire
security or buy alarms,” he said. “We do
the best we can do. And pray.”
Russell said his fraternity house was
an easy target for would-be burglars
because the doors cannot be secured.
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Selling Elvis stamps to waiting fans kept postal worker Pawley Edwards busy Friday
when more than 1 million people par
ticipated in a nationwide vote on which
image of the King would be featured on
the stamp —a young 1950s Elvis or an
older, heavier, “Las Vegas” Elvis. The
young Elvis won by a landslide.
Monica Hand, a spokeswoman for
the U.S. Postal Service in Washington,
D.C., said the huge demand for the
stamp was a little surprising.
“We knew it was popular just by the
numbers of people that participated in
the poll,” she said. “We could feel the
public interest,... but we didn’t know it
would be this big.
“We haven’t seen this kind of inter
est in a commemorative stamp in recent
years.” Postal service officials have not
decided whether to reissue the same
Elvis stamp or one with a different
image of the singer.
The postal service expectsanet profit
of S2O million from the sale of the
stamps, Hand said.
Some customers also are hoping to
capitalize on the stamp.
“I feel someday (the stamps will) be
worth something maybe not in my
lifetime, but maybe in my
grandchildren’s lifetimes.... You never
know,” said Sue Hester of Graham,
be held in Carmichael Auditorium.
“Coach Brown will be there and will
speak, and theco-captains will certainly
have something to say,” said UNC Ath
letic Director John Swofford.
Natrone Means and Bracey Walker,
the offensive and defensive Most V alu
able Players of the game, also will speak.
The UNC Pep Band and cheerlead
ers will entertain the crowd, and the
1993 Peach Bowl championship trophy
will be on display.
Chancellor Paul Hardin will emcee
“It’s easy to break into,” he said.
“And once you’re inside, you’ve got all
the time in the world to take what you
want because no one’s here.”
Although most stolen property is
never found, odds are “quite good” that
police investigators can locate missing
items if serial numbers are known, Frick
said.
“People should immediately record
serial numbers,” he said. “Without a
serial number, there’s probably one
chance out of a hundred that missing
property will be found.”
If serial numbers are known, investi
gators can search in a computer system
that locates missing property anywhere
in the world.
Frick said although some residents
were at fault for not taking precaution
ary safety measures, some thefts were
due to burglars becoming more resource
ful.
“I’m not sure people are being more
lazy,” he said.
“They probably just go by the old
theory that it always happens to some
one else,” Frick said.
who bought 23 stamps.
Because of the popularity of the stamp
among Elvis fans and collectors, postal
service officials estimated that 15 per
cent of the stamps would be saved rather
than used, Hand said. Most stamps have
a retention rate of 5 percent, she said.
But don’t get your hopes up on cash
ing in on the stamps, warned Pierre
Wertheimer, owner of Wertheimer
Stamps & Collectibles in Chapel Hill.
The stamps are not a good investment
because too many are being printed, he
said.
“It’s a simple equation of supply and
demand,” Wertheimer said. “They’ll
probably be worth 29 cents for years to
come.”
Even an Elvis stamp that was sold
accidentally and used Dec. 30 more
than a week before the stamps were
scheduled to go on sale will not be of
much value, he said.
A post office in Texas sold the Elvis
stamps the day it received them because
it had not received the letter stating the
stamps’ official release date. Texas resi
dent Kay Peoples bought 60 El vis stamps
and sent a letter to her nephew with one
See ELVIS, page 6
the event, which is expected to last
about 30 minutes. Student and civic
leaders also will be on hand to honor
the team.
The last time the University staged
such a welcome-hfmie for a varsity
team was in 1982 when the men’s
basketball team won the national cham
pionship by defeating Georgetown.
More than 25,000 students, faculty
members, employees and alumni
crowded into Kenan Stadium for the
1982 event.
The Daily Tar Heel/Monday, January 11, 1993/
Hardin agrees
to meeting with
tenure activists
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
Chancellor Paul Hardin recently
refused to intervene in the tenure case
of popular speech communication
Assistant Professor Paul Ferguson,
citing University regulations that pre
vent him from making any move in
the case.
But supporters of Ferguson, who
has filed an appeal with the Board of
Trustees, took heart in Hardin’s an
nouncement at the Dec. 11 Faculty
Council meeting that he would meet
with them “at the appropriate time.”
“Yes, I guess you could say this is
a good sign,” said Martin Strobel, a
graduate student who has been one of
the leaders in the student movement
for Ferguson. “I don’t think he’ll talk
about the (Ferguson) case. But we
would like to talk about the tenure
evaluation process and also how the
University evaluates tenure overall.”
Ferguson, winner of the 1992 Un
dergraduate Teaching Award and the
1989 and 1992 Senior Class Favorite
Teacher Award, contends that he has
been denied tenure because Beverly
Long, a professor in the department,
and William Balthrop, chairman of
the speech communication depart
ment, removed a favorable review
from his personnel folder. The re
view, written by Northwestern Uni-
Council to consider
hiking parking fines
By Richard J. Dahon Jr,
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Town Council is
likely to approve a proposal at tonight’s
meeting to increase the fine from SSO to
SIOO for illegally parking in handi
capped-designated spaces, according to
council member Joe Capowski.
Capowski said the proposal, which
would go into effect February 1, was
unlikely to generate much controversy.
“It’s kind of like motherhood and
apple pie,” he said. “It’s pretty hard to
oppbste it.”
Capowski said the purpose of the
proposal was not to increase the town’s
revenue but to help handicapped people,
adding that increasing the penalty would
not generate much money.
“It’s absolutely criminal when some
one who does not require (a handi
capped parking space) takes one,” said
Capowski, who requested the proposal.
“Put yourself in their position.”
Capowski said the proposal was on
the consent agenda, in which non-con
troversial proposals were voted on as a
package. He said he planned to make a
motion to remove the proposal from the
Tuition overestimate
causes $1 million cut
By Thanassls Cambanis
Assistant University Editor
An overestimate in the amount of
out-of-state tuition revenue two years
ago caught up with the University this
fall, forcing all academic affairs depart
ments to trim their budgets to the tune of
almost $1 million.
Every department in the Division of
Academic Affairs, which includes all
UNC departments except health sci
ences, was asked to return approximately
1 percent of its budget last November.
Revenues fell short of projections
during the 1991 -92 academic year, when
the University overestimated the amount
it would receive in out-of-state tuition.
Departments used reserve funds to
make up for the discrepancy and were
left underfunded the next year.
Several factors combined with the
out-of-state tuition shortfall to cramp
the budget and force the cutbacks, said
Stephen Birdsall, dean of the College of
Arts and Science.
“We were operating on very tight
budgets,” he said. “That meant that any
unanticipated changes mean we have to
scramble a lot more.”
Provost Richard McCormick said
University projections did not take into
account the large number of out-of
state graduate students who success
fully applied for in-state tuition.
“They just didn’t take into account
the growing trend of out-of-state gradu
ate students who, after their first year,
are able to qualify for in-state tuition,”
he said.
The admissions office and the dean’s
office work with the provost to project
student enrollment. McCormick said
revised projections had been sent to the
general administration office.
“Obviously we don’t want this prob
lem to happen again,” he said.
Birdsall delayed cutting departmen
tal budgets until he could examine the
budget shortfall in detail.
“This is something that grew on us
over time,” Birdsall said. “The impact
versity scholar
Paul Edwards, a
leader in speech
communication
studies, outlined
the importance
of creative re
search what
Ferguson was
hired to produce.
Ferguson also
contends that
Stephen
Paul Hardin
Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts
and Sciences, has not provided him
with fair hearings since Balthrop and
Long admitted to removing the re
view. On Dec. 11, shortly after his
appeal to the Faculty Hearing Com
mittee was denied, Ferguson filed an
appeal with the BOT.
Hardin said he would be happy to
meet with the students to discuss some
of their ideas for improving the tenure
process but not Ferguson’s specific
case.
“At an appropriate time, (Provost
Richard) McCormick and I will be
glad to hear the general concerns of
these students with respect to tenure
policies, particularly with respect to
the evaluation of teaching and the
appropriate weight to be assigned to
teaching in the tenure decision,”
See TENURE, page 4
consent agenda to increase publicity
about the issuee.
Capowski said he was unsure how
the town would publicize the change
other than through the media.
Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos said
the proposal was suggested in response
to the N.C. legislature authorizing maxi
mum penalties of SIOO for illegal park
ing in handicapped-designated zones.
Although the increased fine would
be the second in less than a year, Horton
said the town had not experienced ex
cessive violations of the statute.
“I think the signs afe the main deter
rent,” Karpinos said. \
Chapel Hill Towii Manager Cf*l
Horton said he had not heard any oppo
sition to the proposal.
David Holmes, evening supervisor
of the University Department of Trans
portation and Parking, said the town
ordinance would not affect parking on
campus.
Holmes said the University had man
dated SIOO fines since August for ille
gally parking in handicapped-desig
nated spaces. Violations tend to occur
more often at night and during football
games, he said.
did not occur for quite a while. We had
to see what impact it would have on the
college.”
Birdsall met with McCormick and
requested additional funds to help the
College of Arts and Sciences deal with
the budget cuts.
“I think Dean Birdsall was taking
time to do everything he could to absorb
the cuts before passing them along to
departments,” McCormick said.
“My office was able to provide
(Birdsall) with several thousand dollars
to protect spring instruction. We gave
the highest priority to retaining the num
ber of courses and sections in arts and
sciences.”
Some departments in the College of
Arts and Sciences had to reduce course
offerings this semester to operate with
the financial constraints.
Richard Soloway, chairman of the
history department, said his department
had to cut the number of teaching assis
tant positions for graduate students this
semester.
“In practice, it means discussion ses
sions in large undergraduate survey
courses will be bigger,” he said.
Laurence Avery, chairman of the
English department, said some course
offerings had been shifted from the
spring semester to the summer session.
“We have more students than we can
offer courses for anyhow,” Avery said.
“This spring we have seven less
courses.”
McCormick emphasized that the
College of Arts and Sciences wasn’t the
only academic division hit by the cuts.
“This is not just an arts and sciences
problem,” McCormick said. “The ‘cut’
affected all academic affairs divisions.”
McCormick said systemwide tuition
increases mandated by the General As
sembly had no relation to UNC’s tuition
shortfall.
The N.C. state legislature sets a cap
on undergraduate enrollment of out-of
state students. “The guts of the problem
seem to arrive at the graduate level,”
McCormick said.
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