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POLICE ROUNDUP Campus and City Reports Campus Saturday, Feb. 13 ■ A student reported at 9:52 a.m. that she had been receiving harassing phone calls, according to police reports. The student reported that she received a call Feb. 12, according to police re ports. The call involved a man yelling something the student couldn’t under stand and then screaming, laughing and hanging up, reports stated. The student said she had received from 20 to 25 harassing calls since spring semester began, reports stated. Until Feb. 12, the caller had played only classical music, police reports stated. Friday, Feb. 12 ■ The fire alarm on the lower-food court area of Lenoir Dining Hall was activated at 7:39 a.m. by burning toast, according to police reports. The alarm was reset, reports stated. ■ A bus rolled into a Morehead Plan etarium parking meter causing $200.50 in damage, according to police reports. David Brickley, maintenance me chanic for Morehead Planetarium, was directing the Piedmont Coach Lines bus in the parking lot, according to police reports. The bus was having clutch problems, and it rolled into the parking meter, reports stated. ■ University Police officers re sponded to a call concerning two drunk females in the first-floor restroom of Bynum Hall at 11:35 a.m., according to reports. The females were identified as Lisa Renee Baldwin, of 103 C Eugene St., Carrboro, and Rita Baldwin, of 17 West Road, Chapel Hill, reports stated. The two women were advised to leave the premises and did, reports stated. Wednesday, Feb. 10 ■ A student reported that she was verbally harassed on Feb. 3 by two white males, reports stated. The student said the two men ap proached her at about 6 p.m. outside Davie Hall, and one said he wanted to ask her a question, reports stated. When the student answered “What?” the man asked her if she had ever seen the epi sode of Star Trek in which Mr. Spock became dysfunctional from lack of sex, reports stated. The man said he felt like Spock, reports stated. The student then saw two females walking in the direction she was headed, so she walked with them to her place of destination, reports stated. The man who threatened the student was described as being 5 feet, 11 inches tall, medium build with short, dark hair and dark eyes, wearing a long, black trench coat, reports stated. The other man was described as be ing 5 feet, 11 inches tall, medium build, with sandy brown hair, reports stated. Both men were described as being in their middle 20s, reports stated. ■ A car was damaged when it hit a piece of asphalt in Ramshead Parking Lot, according to police reports. The car’s right front tire burst when it hit the asphalt, causing about $l4O in damage, reports stated. The asphalt had been removed to put a fence post in, reports stated. City Saturday, Feb. 13 ■ A sexual assault involving a Uni versity student was reported to Chapel Hill police at 12:54 p.m., reports stated. The victim was at a friend’s house in Chapel Hill when another visitor pulled down his pants and his underwear, re ports stated. The subject then pulled the victim against him, police reports stated. The subject then let go of the victim and was told to leave, reports stated. Police are investigating the incident, according to reports. ■ Regwald Antwan Brown, 20, of 2905 Hadsworth in Durham, was ar rested at 9:06 p.m. for one count of possession of cocaine with intent to sell, according to police reports. Brown was arrested on Johnson Street at Crest Avenue, reports stated. A witness observed Brown making a transaction, reports stated. When Brown saw a police officer approaching, he ran and threw a plastic bag with eight beige rocks on the ground, reports stated. Brown was placed under a SI,OOO secured bond and taken to Orange County Jail, police reports stated. ■ A Knight-Campbell Hardware, Inc. employee reported at 8 a.m. that a sus pect had entered the store and stolen money from the cash register, Chapel Hill police reports stated. The suspect opened the unattended cash register, took the cash that was inside the register and left the business, reports stated. Knight-Campbell Hardware is lo cated at 420 W. Franklin St. YACKFTY YACK PORTRAITS through Wednesday, February 17, from 9 am—7 pm Room 213 of the Union • Call 962-3912 to make an appointment Architect plans commune-like area By Stephanie Siebold Staff Writer A Carrboro architect said Sunday that he planned to create an “environ mentally friendly” commune-like neigh borhood of about 35 homes in north west Carrboro where residents would share in yard work, child care and meal preparation. Giles Blunden, local architect and founder of Chapel Hill-Carrboro Cohousing, said at an interest meeting he would design the community to have minima] impact on the environment. He said he hoped the neighborhood could be built by November 1993 but added that the project needed seven more families. Blunden said shared facilities, which would include a common dining hall Hearing to address request for Intimate redesign permit By Karen Clark Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council will hold a public hearing tonight for local residents to give their opinions on whether the council should approve a request for a special-use permit by Inti mate Bookshop owner Wallace Kuralt. Kuralt has requested a special-use permit to rebuild the Intimate Bookshop with an additional 4,000 square feet and a third floor. The building that housed the Inti mate Bookshop, located at 119 E. Franklin St., was gutted in a fire that occurred Sept. 20. If the council approves the request at its meeting next Monday, Kuralt said he would begin demolition later this month. He added that he hoped to reopen the shop by July. The hearing will take place at 7:30 p.m. at the Chapel Hill Town Hall, located at 306 North Columbia St. The property originally was zoned to hold 10,000 square feet of commercial CHEC giving out contraceptives during National Condom Week By Nancy Riley Staff Writer Flying condoms! Helium-filled condoms with condoms attached to them by strings will be given out at a condom-a-thon from noon to 2 p.m. Wednesday at Polk Place in front of Wilson Library. The condom-a-thon is one of several activities planned by the Contraceptive Health Education Clinic for National Condom Week, Feb. 14-21. CHEC, a division of the Student Health Service, educates students about contraceptive methods. In addition to the “balloons” and free contraceptives, students will compete Duo chosen ’93 Campus Y co-presidents By Chris Robertson Staff Writer Ed Chaney, a junior from Chapel Hill, and Michelle LeGrand, a junior from Houston, recently were elected Campus Y co-presidents for 1993-94. Chaney and LeGrand were selected from a field of five in the Feb. 2 vote, open to all dues-paying members of the Campus Y. The Campus Y co-presidents are responsible for upholding the organi zational mission statement, attending the Campus Y retreat in the spring, meeting with the heads of 29 Campus Beaches, slopes or home: Students make big travel plans for Spring Break By Andrea Cashion Staff Writer By 5 p.m. Friday, March 5, the cam pus will be almost deserted. Vacant classrooms and ruddy brick walks will be populated only by the memories of students taking notes and walking to class. Spring Break, March 5-14, will send students cruising through warm seas, skiing in Colorado and visiting their families across the country. D.J. Kelly, a representative of Huddleston Travel, at 115 E. Franklin St., said the most popular vacation pack ages this year were trips to Cancun, Mexico, cruises through the Bahamas CAMPUS AND CITY and playground on the 16.5 acre tract of land, would foster a sense of commu nity. “Houses, ranging in size from 750 to 1750 square feet, will be clustered to gether,” he said. “The saved space will be a common area on which residents can interact together, and cars will be parked outside of the actual living area.” The townhouse-style homes, which will cost about $75,000 each, will be designed to cut the energy costs of tra ditional housing. Some proposed energy-saving fea tures would include: ■ a central heating system, ■ tin roofs, ■ solar panels and ■ large windows on the south side of each house to reduce heating costs. Ray Collins, a member of Chapel property, but Kuralt would like to ex pand the shop to 14,000 square feet. Kuralt said he planned to make a few structural changes but maintain many of the shop’s original features. “The design of the store will be about the same,” Kuralt said. “The added glass in the storefront will make it look a little more airy, but it will still be the same old place. “We plan to have more floor space and less open space,” he said. “The book selection will be much larger. We’ 11 also have much more in the way of paperbacks.” The new structure also will include an automatic sprinkler sy stemon all three floors and in the basement. Kuralt said he also planned to build shower facilities for employees and in crease the amount of storage space. Some of the other changes slated for the new shop include: ■ bike racks in front of the building; ■ parking spaces leased from nearby property; and ■ bus passes for store employees. for prizes in four events during the condom-a-thon: a game of pin the condom on the man, condom relay races, a trivia contest on sexually transmitted diseases and blindfolded attempts at putting a condom on a banana. Event winners will receive tickets to the Feb. 19 George Winston concert in Memorial Hall or gift certificates for local restaurants and theaters. DeVetta Holman, director of CHEC, said the condom-a-thon was created to make educating students about contra ceptives more interesting and entertain ing. People get so used to hearing about safe sex that they start to tune it out, she said. “We still keep it educational and Y committees, presiding over bi weekly committee meetings and rep resenting the Cam pus Y in other or ganizations such as the coalition for a free-standing black cultural cen ter. “(The co-presi dents) really are Ed Chaney the voice of the student organization,” said Campus Y Director Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson. and stays in various sunny spots in Florida. “There are still trips left to book, but students will have to spend time look ing,” she said. “The specials are pretty much gone. You’ll need to have more flexibility with departure times and ex pect to spend a little more now.” For students opting for white snow on the slopes instead of white-sand beaches, spring skiing beckons. “Early March will definitely still be ski season,” Kelly said, “and heading out West is a popular option.” Fliers with pictures of blue skies, sail boats and other snatches of life far from dreary North Carolina in February fill bulletin boards across campus. “W W e want to recreate the idea of community. ” Ginger Blakely, advocate FOR COMMUNE-LIKE HOUSING Hill-Carrboro Cohousing, said cohousing members agreed to leave 12 acres of land undeveloped. Collins said planners of the cohousing project didn’t want to be like traditional developers who used all the available land and left little vegetation. Blunden said residents would be free to design houses according to their indi vidual tastes but that environmental codes would regulate the types of mate rials residents could use to build their Kuralt said he was optimistic that the council would grant his request. “The process that we’ve had to go through to get the permit has gone pretty well (so far),” Kuralt said. “If every thing took as long as it should, we wouldn’t be able to move in for two years. By then we’d be out of business.” Cal Horton, Chapel Hill town man ager, said he thought the process was moving ahead quickly. “The process is going along quite expeditiously,” Horton said. Kuralt said the town seemed to be receptive to his plans to add more square footage. “We haven’t had any objections,” Kuralt said. “I don’t think that the sug gestions made have been unreasonable. Everything has been valid.” Although the bookshop’s insurance company covered most of die loss caused by‘the fire, some things were irreplace able, Kuralt said. “A lot of the posters and memories are gone,” he said. “Insurance can’t get that back.” informational. We feel that in a fun atmosphere, students will be less em barrassed and receive the informrtion more easily.” Cynthia Carsten, a sophomore from Charlotte and a CHEC counselor, said CHEC pushed condoms primarily to prevent sexually transmitted diseases. “AIDS is not going anywhere, and STDs are running rampant,” Carsten said. “Condoms used to be to prevent pregnancy. Now we’re talking about taking a life.” Holman first brought National Condom Week to UNC in 1986. The University of California at Berkeley See CONDOMS, page 4 LeGrand, who served as minister of infor mation for the Campus Y last year, said she and Chaney would work to end in justice on cam pus by focusing on specific causes such as the BCC move- Michelle LeGrand ment and the housekeepers’ griev- See CAMPUS Y, page 5 One set of fliers advertises trips to Key West and Panama City Beach, both in Florida. Students’ names and num bers are listed to call for more informa tion and to make reservations. Mike Barnes, a fifth-year pharmacy student from Radford, Va., has peddled 75 tours for Endless Summer Tours. “It started when I set up a trip for 25 people in Kappa Psi, my pharmacy fra ternity,” Barnes said. “If I sell a lot, I’ll get a free trip myself out of it.” Spring Break Travel, at 133 1/2 E. Franklin St., still has spaces left for trips to Cancun. Jim Kitchen, manager of the agency, said that Cancun, Jamaica and Florida beaches were the big drawing cards this The Daily Tar Heel/Monday, February 15, 1993/ homes. Linda Waller, a Durham resident who said she would consider buying one of the homes, said she liked the idea of communal responsibilities. “Owning your own house is cumber some,” she said. “You have to do every thing yourself.” Ginger Blakely, who has been plan ning the neighborhood together with Blunden for the past two years, said she wanted to create an environment that allowed children and senior citizens to interact. “We love children, but our kids are grown, and we don’t want to live by ourselves,” she said. “We want to recre ate the idea of community.” Blakely said she and Blunden started planning the community after reading a book called “Cohousing, A Contempo 1 m If Wm. m | I ■ -•• ' - V : - ' • - 4 I mk *7a DTHtrin Randall Second read About 30 people attended a reading Sunday in Wilson Library by authors Willem Henderson and Laurence Naumoff. Armed robber steals • cash from Siena Hotel Staff report An armed robber took an undisclosed amount of money from the Siena Hotel early Sunday morning, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The robbery occurred at 1:27 a.m. Sunday, police reports stated. The Siena Hotel is located at 1505 E. Franklin St. According to reports, the robber en tered the lobby through the hotel’s rear doors and motioned to the hotel cashier that he was armed. The suspect had his hand up under his sweatshirt as if he had a weapon when he entered the hotel, but the hotel employee never actually saw a weapon, reports stated. The subject then demanded the hotel employee give him the money from the cash register, according to police re year as they were every Spring Break. “The big push for reservations is in December and early January,” he said, “but it’s not too late.” Gustavo Bumier, a senior from Bra zil, will be headed for sunny skies and warm temperatures as well. But he doesn’t look forward to endless hours on the beach and leisurely afternoons. “I’m going to Cocoa Beach in Florida for spring training with the crew team,” he said. A group of about 40 team mem bers will practice hard for seven hours each day and enjoy what’s left of each day. Graduate student Mark Leeper will use Spring Break to vacation with his wife and her family on Marco Island, rary Approach to Housing Ourselves” by Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett. Blunden said the concept of cohousing was based on a Danish model of a pedestrian-oriented, socially inter active community. Between 50 and 100 cohousing com munities exist in the United States, Blunden said. Stephen Hawthorne and Sally Erickson said they were planning a cohousing community similar to the Chapel Hill-Carrboro community in Chatham County. The couple said their community would be larger and in a more rural area than the proposed Carrboro project. Chapel Hill-Carrboro Cohousing will hold another informational meeting Feb. 28 at 410 Caldwell St. in Chapel Hill. ports. The subject left the building after receiving the cash, according to Chapel Hill police reports. The suspect is described as a black man in his 20s who is about 5 feet 10 inches tall and weighs about 190 pounds, reports stated. The suspect reportedly was wearing a gray-hooded sweatshirt with the hood pulled down over his head. The suspect also was wearing a scarf to cover the rest of his face, except his eyes, reports stated. Siena Hotel Assistant General Man ager Aytekin Yildiz said he was con ducting an investigation within the ho tel. Yildiz and other hotel employees would not comment further on the rob bery. just south of Florida. “The best part will be a little side trip I’ve planned,” he said. “I’m going to ditch everyone, rent a car and go watch spring (baseball) training.” Professional baseball teams will hold their first practices during the first half of March. Leeper plans to watch the Kansas City Royals prepare for the 1993 season. Other Spring Break options involve the familiar confines of home. “I’m going home,” said Sam Asp, a junior from Hickory. “I’ll be looking for a summer job that I may or may not need.” Asp also has applied for a sum- See BREAK, page 4 3
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