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Habitat for Humanity to hold interest meeting The Orange County chapter of Habi tat for Humanity will meet at 3 p.m. Sunday to coordinate the efforts of com munity volunteers to build houses. The meeting will be in the Holy Catholic Church on Governor Burke Road in Hillsborough. The meeting will allow area business leaders, community organization mem bers and church members to join in the funding and building of two houses in northern Orange County. Direct questions to Susan Levy at 732-6767. Ronald McDonald House to sponsor reception The Ronald McDonald House of Chapel Hill will hold a reception from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday to encourage local community groups to work with the house to serve families with sick children. The Ronald McDonald House is on Finley Golf Course at 101 Old Mason Farm Road. Direct questions to Travis Montgom ery or Ellen Crow at the Ronald McDonald House at 966-6752. Local service agencies to hold pet care clinic Several agencies will sponsor a ra bies clinic Saturday to encourage pet owners to care for their pets. The Carrboro Animal Control, the Animal Protection Society of Orange County and Weaver Street Market will sponsor the clinic from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at Weaver Street Market. Weaver Street Market is located at 101 E. Weaver St. in Carrboro. Dog and cat owners also can have their pets vaccinated for a $5 fee. The Animal Protection Society will provide educational materials and free pet identification tags. Direct further questions to Amanda Graham at 967-8323. Discussion to highlight history of N.C. women The Orange County Women’s Cen ter is holding a free forum to share the stories of three North Carolina-raised women to celebrate Women’s History Month from 7:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. Thursday. Catherine Dickman, Ida Friday and Marie Mann will talk about the stories of their childhoods in North Carolina. The Orange County Women’s Cen ter is located at 210 Henderson St. For more information, contact Dawn Williams at 968-4610. County manager’s plan focus of public hearing There will be a public hearing Tues day to discuss the county manager’s capital improvement plan. The Orange County Board of Com missioners will sponsor a public hear ing Tuesday at the Orange Water and Sewer Authority Community Center, 400 Jones Ferry Road in Carrboro. The county manager has proposed forming an agreement with the Triangle Youth Hockey Association to build a new swimming pool in Orange County, setting aside funds to provide four staffed solid-waste collection sites in the county and providing a reserve fund to increase elementary school space. Direct questions to Rod Visser, as sistant county manager, or Sally Kost, budget director, at 732-8181. ARE YOU PLANNING FOR GRADUATE SCHOOL? (IfYouAreA Senior, It Is Too Late.) □□□□□□ IfYou Are A Junior at Carolina and Think You Might Need an Advanced Degree in the Arts or the Sciences, You Are Cordially Invited to: Tike Jumior Forum on Graduate Studies in Arts & Sciences TliuirstHay, -Marcia 18 at A P.M. in Gerrartl Hall Deans, Directors of Programs, Counselors, Advisors 6c Other Well-Informed Persons will gladly provide Facts &, Answer Questions on Qualifications, the GRE’s, Finances, National Scholarships, the Application Process and Much, Much More. □□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□□a Sponsored by Dean Henry Dearman, the U.N.C. Graduate School, & the Pre-Graduate Advisor in Arts and Sciences, 310 Steele A DISCUSSION OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL . SCHOLARSHIPS WILL FOLLOW AT 5 p.m., SPONSORED BY ASSOCIATE DEAN OF HONORS ROBERT ALLEN. Congress loan could revive Phoenix By Everett Arnold Staff Writer The Phoenix could rise from its ashes this spring if Student Congress approves a $460 loan to the financially troubled student news magazine. The news magazine ceased publish ing in January after Student Congress froze its funds. The magazine’s editors had failed to pay a $9lO phone bill due since last summer, said Student Body Treasurer Kevin Hunter. The Student Congress Finance Com mittee recently thawed the Phoenix’s advertising revenue funds to pay half the phone bill, and finance committee member Jonathan Roberts, Dist. 24, has proposed that Student Congress loan $460 to the magazine. Proposed Bible class sparks debate at Chapel Hill High By Ivana Washington Staff Writer A proposed Chapel Hill High School Bible-study course has drawn mixed reactions from school board members, students and faculty who are concerned the course could violate the doctrine of separation of church and state. The Chapel Hill High School student government passed a resolution Thurs day endorsing a course that would teach the Bible as a work of literature and history. Chapel Hill-Carrboro school board member Ken Touw said Monday that he did not think the proposed class would result in the injection of religion into public education. But Touw added that the class would have to be structured so that it did not exclusively study the Bible. School board member Ted Parrish said the administrators at the high school would make the final decision on whether the class would be allowed. “The high school has the responsibil ity for making those decisions,” he said. Holly Kileff, the Chapel Hill High School senior who sponsored the reso lution, said there had been opposition to the idea of teaching the Bible in school but added that she did not think the class Sanford to speak on United Nations as part of new Law School series By Gina Evans Staff Writer In the first part of a series sponsored by the UNC Law School Forum, Terry Sanford, a former U.S. senator and N.C. governor, will discuss “The United Nation’s Mission without the Cold War,” at 7 p.m. Thursday in Memorial Hall. The event marks the first in what organizers hope will be an annual speaker series sponsored by the new forum, said Winston Crisp, assistant dean of student affairs at the Law School. Sanford, who was defeated in his campaign for re-election to the U.S. Senate in 1992, earned his undergradu ate and law degrees from UNC and served as Student Congress speaker while at the University. He also holds an honorary doctor of laws degree from the University. Sanford is president emeritus of Duke University and will begin teach CAMPUS AND CITY Under Roberts’ proposal, the Phoe nix staff could then use self-generated funds to print an issue. Phoenix Editor Diane Faces said the Phoenix did not have enough self-gen erated funds to pay the phone bill and to print another issue. “If we have to pay $460 of our own funds, it leaves us with not enough money to put out an issue,” Paces said. “It takes about SSOO to put out an issue.” Phoenix Treasurer Brendan Smith said the proposal was not drafted Mon day because finance committee Chair man Chris Tuck, Dist. 20, called quo rum for lack of members when commit tee member Eric Pratt, Dist. 22, left the meeting. Smith said he would work with Rob erts to present the proposal to the full violated the doctrine of separation be tween church and state. “It’s just teaching history,” she said. “There’s nothing illegal about that.” The resolution the student govern ment approved stated, “Therefore be it resolved that Student Government sup ports the idea of the creation of a class that teaches the Bible as a piece of literature and history for the school year 1994-1995.” The resolution will be presented in April to the governance committee, the school’s policy-making body. Kileff said she introduced the course because she wanted to promote under standing between students of different religions. “I wanted people to understand Bib lical allusions and have an understand ing of our civilization,” she said. Touw said he also was concerned that adding another class to the curricu lum would give the school a shopping mall image by offering a wide variety of classes. Parrish said he could not comment on the course since the matter had not reached the school board. School officials also are concerned about the reaction of religious organi zations to the addition of a Bible course. Touw said a Bible course could open ing at the school’s Institute of Public School Forum, a J student-run (Pf ,2^ M branch of the Stu- ift jfl dent Bar Associa speaker series last ill faU- Terry Sanford “The UNC Law 7 School Forum is try ing to bring in people to talk about topics of national and public interest with the University cam pus and Chapel Hill community,” said Ellen Smith, director of public informa tion at the Law School. The forum was proposed by Harry Martin, a recently retired N.C. Supreme Court justice who now teaches at the UNC Law School. The forum is mod eled after the Harvard Law School Fo rum. Martin and Sanford, who have been TRACItt 1 TRACKS I fcliMM— lIIMBi lll— Nlf ■—MWWf flOTl^lr ir||Tinimn'|MHri jnn"rn'-|o| r-— * HHnMHMNRMMMBHMHMMHHpMIHHMHBHHHiHiHnH congress tonight. The Phoenix will not publish again this semester unless congress approves some sort of proposal, Smith said. “If no proposal is made, we’re dead in the water because we’ll only have $3 left (after paying the phone bill),” he said. But Smith said he didn’t know how the Phoenix would be able to pay off the proposed loan from congress, which would accumulate about 4 percent in terest. “We won’t have the self-generated funds, which are usually used to pay printing costs, to pay off $460 unless we skip an issue next year,” he said. The size of the phone bill was due in part to unauthorized long-distance calls made when a lock that was supposed to be on the phone during last summer the door for other religious organiza tions wanting to introduce other reli gious books to public school curricula. Kileff said she would support intro ducing other religious books into the curriculum, including the Torah and the Koran. “I think that’s fine,” she said. “I would gladly take a class on the Koran.” Touw added that the class was worth considering if there was a demand for it and qualified teachers to teach it. “I guess somebody in the English department might be qualified,” he said. Michael Hickman, the chairman of the school’s governance committee and the student government faculty adviser, said he did not think the addition of a Bible course would encourage other religious groups to call for more reli-i gion courses. “Religion is not the issue,” he said. Hickman, a history teacher, said there was a strong need for a course that considered the Bible’s influence on Western culture. The class would help students under stand the prevalent Biblical allusions in music and literature, he added. Hickman said he thought some athe ists and non-Christians would like to take a Bible course because they had little exposure to that information. friends for many years, attended UNC at the same time. “Sanford likes young people,” Mar tin said of his friend. “He realizes the future of our state is in the hands of our young people.” Cynthia Gamer, a law student from Lexington and student chairwoman of the Forum, volunteered to work with Crisp and Martin on the actual details of the forum last fall. “We talked about the purpose of the forum and whether Senator Sanford would be willing to be the first speaker,” she said. “Last fall, we had a tentative commitment from Sanford to speak.” After Winter Break, a student com mittee took over the work the forum was doing. “From then on, the UNC Law School Forum was a student sponsored and organized event,” Gar ner said. Crisp said the forum was working toward bringing “very prominent na tional figures” to speak at UNC. The Daily Tar Heel/Wednesday, March 17, 19931 disappeared, Smith said. “The phone bill wasn’t really our fault,” he said. Paces said former Student Body Trea surer Nigel Long assured her in a meet ing with Tuck and Hunter late last year that student government would pay the phone bill. Smith said he thought the freeze was unfair to the magazine because Long had promised to pay the bill. “They’re punishing us for something their own student body treasurer didn’t do,” he said. Smith added that until recently, Phoenix editors were unaware that Long had not paid the bill. Smith said Hunter had mentioned during Monday’s meeting that he re membered Long’s promise to pay the bill. Tuck said congress would continue DTH/Erin Randall Playing footsie Nik Mittal (center), a senior from Raleigh, coaches 5-year-old Andrew Baker Monday during a Rainbow Soccer practice as assistant coach Ibrez Bandukwala watches. Residents criticize town pay increases By Jay R. Davis Staff Writer About 30 Chapel Hill residents ech oed President Clinton’s call for national sacrifice at a public hearing Tuesday night, saying it was time for the Chapel Hill Town Council to cut the town bud get to avoid raising local taxes. The council held a public hearing at town hall to allow residents to respond to the preliminary 1993-94 town bud get. The budget would cut the property tax rate from 57.7 cents to 54.9 cents per SI,OOO, but town property revaluations still might cause a tax hike. The preliminary budget also calls for a 4.75-percent salary increase for all town employees, which would be the first raise for town employees in two years. Town Manager Cal Horton said the budget proposal would allow the town to continue providing the same ser vices, including transportation and park ing. the freeze until the Phoenix had a busi ness staff and could prove the magazine editors could manage their finances “re sponsibly.” But Smith said the legal services needed to become a business would cost about S4OO. “They want us to have a board of directors,” he said. “It would give us extra direction because they don’t think we can run a magazine.” Smith said he was concerned that a board of directors would interfere wjth the magazine’s content and editorial decisions. Tuck said no new funds were allo cated to the Phoenix during congress’s February budget allocations because the magazine’s managers missed the re quired budget orientation session. Chapel Hill resident Sandy Brownstein said she sympathized with town employees but thought that all residents needed to make sacrifices for the good of the community. “There are too many other needs,” Brownstein said. “I would like to see not much, if any, of a pay raise.” Chapel Hill resident James Goldstein said he did not support a town employee salary increase. He urged council mem bers to look at consolidating and elimi nating some employees. “Have the mentality of a prudent buyer ... consider your own pocket book,” Goldstein told council mem bers. But Chapel Hill resident Mary Dexter, a bus driver, said a salary raise was necessary to preserve the quality of the town’s services. “Chapel Hill’s town services are highly touted,” Dexter said. “Good employees make this happen.” She said most of the employees at her See BUDGET, page 4 3
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