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POLICE ROUNDUP Campus and City Reports Campus Saturday, April 3 ■ A car parked in the Morrison Resi dence Hall parking lot was damaged, reports stated. The right headlight was broken out and the right side of the windshield was cracked, reports stated. The damage was estimated at $350, reports stated. ■ A front grill was stolen from a vehicle parked in Wilson Court parking lot, according to police reports. It was valued at $350, reports stated. Friday, April 2 ■ A security guard was washing a car and noticed a dent in the hood and scratch marks, reports stated. The dam age possibly could have been done dur ing a Grateful Dead concert, according to police reports. ■ Police responded to a report of a smell of smoke at 214 Henderson St. The smell was coming from the bed room area, reports stated. The Chapel Hill Fire Department re ported that a heater in the basement had malfunctioned and caused the smell, police reports stated. ■ Four bicycle seats were found near a bicycle rack in front of the Student Union, reports stated. The seats were placed in an evidence locker, police reports stated. Thursday, April 1 ■ A tar kettle caught on fire at the UNC Power Plant, according to police reports. The roofing crew had gone to lunch without leaving someone to watch the kettle, reports stated. The Chapel Hill Fire Department and the University Health and Safety Office handled the problem along with the person in charge at the construction site and the power plant, reports stated. ■ A professor fell and hurt his head in the Law School Library, reports stated. When police arrived they found that the professor had been bleeding from the head, according to police reports. A doctor wrapped the professor’s head with a bandage, and the professor was taken to the hospital, reports stated. City Sunday, April 4 ■ Three Durham minors were ar rested and charged with breaking into the Performance Chevrolet Body Shop on Durham-Chapel Hill Boulevard, ac cording to Chapel Hill police reports. Each of the three minors was charged with three counts of breaking and enter ing and one count of larceny. Sherwood Jerome Barbee, 16, of Route 3, Box 346-A Barbee Road in Durham, was arrested at 2 a.m. He was caught breaking into the busi ness and was transported to the Chapel Hill Police Department while officers secured the crime scene, reports stated. Barbee appeared before the magis trate and was released into his parents’ custody, according to reports. Collin Theron Felton, 17, of 604 Carpenter Flecher Road in Durham, also was arrested at 2 a.m. Police observed Felton breaking into the cars at the dealership and try ing to pry open a door at the body shop, reports stated. Felton was caught after a brief foot chase, according to police reports. James Edward Holloman 111, 17, of 902 Brandon Road in Durham, was found trying to enter the body shop and break into three vehicles, reports stated. Barbee, Felton and Holloman will each appear in Chapel Hill District Court Wednesday. ■ UNC student Mary Margaret Crowell, 21, of 313 E. Franklin St., was arrested at 1:25 a.m. and charged with shoplifting at Fast Fare Convenience Store, according to police reports. Crowell concealed a 6 3/4-ounce container of Pringle’s Potato Chips, valued at $1.89, police reports stated. Crowell will appear in Chapel Hill District Court April 22. Fast Fare is located at 321 W. Rose mary St. in Chapel Hill. Saturday, April 3 ■ UNC student Jason David Umphenour, 19, of 935 Hinton James, was arrested at 9:35 p.m. and charged with one count of assault on an arresting police officer, according to reports. He was arrested on the 100 block of East Franklin Street, reports stated. He was released on a s2sounsecured bond and will appear in Chapel Hill District Court April 29, reports stated. ■ Joseph Richard Ciriago, 24, of 101 Rubin Court, Apt. D-4, was arrested at 11:34 p.m. and charged with breaking and entering and larceny, reports stated. Ciriago was arrested in the parking lot at 208 N. Columbia St. Bicycle officers located Ciriago be side a 1992 Ford Explorer with a bro ken, front passenger-side window, ac cording to reports. Ciriago had possession of a check book that had been inside the vehicle, reports stated. Ciriago was released on a S2OO se cured bond and will appear in Chapel Hill District Court April 15, reports stated. ■ An unknown person broke a win dow pane at the rear of the Delta Delta Delta Sorority House, reports stated. A hand was used to break the win dow. Damage to the house was esti mated at $lO, reports stated. The Delta Delta Delta Sorority House is located at 407 E. Franklin St. Hardin refuses to call HOT meeting By Thanassis Cambanis University Editor Chancellor Paul Hardin said Sunday night that he would not respond to “re quirements” established by protesters who have occupied South Building since Thursday morning. “I don’t understand what the people in South Building think they can ac complish by this,” he said in a telephone interview from New Orleans, where he is attending the Final Four. South Building, located on the north end of Polk Place, is the University’s administrative headquarters. Student demonstrators faxed a letter to Hardin at his hotel in New Orleans asking him to endorse the BCC Advi HI? -Ad* JjjLk .J - "* ; Jjk jg VSS/'/y.:, ■ ijjf 1 —■-sfcftvi Serve’s up In an annual warm-weather rite of passage, students take to Connor Beach for a game of pick-up volleyball Sunday. Connor Town requests federal grant to reduce drug-related crime By Robert Strader Staff Writer In an effort to combat drug-related crime in public housing developments, Chapel Hill is applying for a two-year $156,000 federal grant. The money would be used for: ■ increased patrolling of public hous ing communities, ■ additional physical security im provements, ■ continued rental of a van for youth activities and ■ continued employment of a full Week to present solutions for racial problems By Holly Stepp Staff Writer Students for the Advancement of Race Rela tions will attempt to cultivate campus racial aware ness this week through programs focusing on cultural education and racial harmony as part of the fifth-annual Race Relations Week. “Our slogan ‘lt’s Raining Revolution lt’s Raining Solutions’ exemplifies our goals and what we’re trying to do,” Race Relations Week coordi nator Mona Doshi said. The slogan is a quote from the Arrested Devel opment song “Raining Revolution.” Doshi said the goals of the week were to bring about racial awareness and to find solutions to campus problems involving race relations. Keynote speakers for the week include Attallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X, and Delores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers. Fred Wherry, SARR co-chairman, said it was important that the week include solutions as well as open dialogue about race relations. “One without the other only exacerbates prob lems,” Wherry said. “It is good to set the fires of passion, but without solutions you have a bunch of angry people with no way to vent that energy.” Race Relations Week began on Sunday with a State of Emergency address focusing on the his tory of racism and its effects on the black commu nity. Williams Forbes, a researcher from Norfolk, Va., gave the lecture. Artist Sabrina Evans performed a one-woman play titled “Dark and Lovely: Expressions of Beauty by Black Women” in the Union Cabaret Sunday. Organizers said they hoped to have performers Chapel Hill, Ann Arbor mayors make NCAA bet By Jackie Hershkowitz City Editor Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun has a personal stake in tonight’s NCAA cham pionship game between North Carolina and Michigan. If UNC loses, Broun will have to wear a Michigan victory T-shirt to the next Chapel Hill Town Council meet ing—a thought the Tar Heel fan doesn’t particularly relish. Broun bet Ann Arbor Mayor Liz CAMPUS AND CITY sory Board report on the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center and asking him to convene an emergency Board of Trustees meeting to decide on the future of a free-standing BCC. “It’s absolutely out of the question to call a meeting of the Board of Trust ees,” Hardin said. The BOT decided March 26 to put the BCC issue on the agenda for a May 28 meeting. Trustees have received cop ies of two reports on the BCC —one from the Chancellor’s Working Group and one from the BCC Advisory Board. The two reports differ on the sites and sizes they recommend for a BCC. The working group, headed by Pro vost Richard McCormick, recommends two possible sites in its report: the plot Beach, located in the middle of Henderson Residence College, becomes the home of student sun-worshippers every spring. time resident activities coordinator. “Our ultimate goal is to have no drugs in the public housing units,” said Glenn Davis, assistant director of Chapel Hill’s Department of Housing and Com munity Development. Chapel Hill Town Council member Joe Capowski said drug-related crime in the town’s 312 public housing units needed immediate attention. “The drug problem is serious for the residents who live there and the town that owns (public housing units),” he said. Capowski said that if the grant re from various cultural groups in the Pit every day from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Today’s activities will feature a seminar about AIDS and the African-American community at 2 p.m. in the Union. Spike Lee’s film “Do The Right Thing” will be shown at noon in the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center. Today’s programming will conclude with a lec ture by UNC geography Professor James Johnson on racial discrimination in the housing market. The University chapter of Habitat for Humanity will sponsor the 5 p.m. lecture. Tuesday’s activities will feature keynote speaker Attallah Shabazz. Shabazz, co-founder of Nucleus Inc. production company, will speak at 8 p.m. in 106 Carroll Hall. Doshi said she thought Shabazz would speak on some of the current campus issues such as the black cultural center movement. “We thought that it was pertinent that students hear her message,” she said. A discussion of similarities and differences be tween black and white fraternities and sororities, sponsored by the Black Greek Council, the Inter- Fraternity Council and the Panhellenic Council, also will be held Tuesday in the Student Union at 3:30 p.m. The International Relief Committee will spon sor a Yard Sale for Bosnia at 11 a.m. in the Pit. Tuesday’s activities will also include a lecture about the roles of black women in the family and will be sponsored by Sigma Gamma Rho sorority. Wednesday, which SARR designated UNC Housekeepers Appreciation Day, will include a candlelight vigil in the Pit at 7:15 p.m. and a See WEEK, page 5 Brater that the navor of the win ning town would send the mayor of the losing town a victory T-shirt to be wom at an offi cial town function. “I’m not wor ried,” Broun said. “We have a better team and a better coach. I don’t ex- Ken Broun of land between Wilson Library and Dey Hall, and Coker Woods, located between the Bell Tower and Coker Hall. Hardin said he would make a recom mendation to the BOT after the Build ings and Grounds committee holds a public hearing on the site issue April 13. “I sent both of the reports to the Buildings and Grounds Committee for a site recommendation,” Hardin said. Ruby Sinreich and Staci Hill, official spokeswomen for the protesters, said students would stay in the South Build ing rotunda until Hardin responded to their requests in writing. “We’re very happy that the BOT has put this issue on the agenda for May, but we don’t want students to get left out of the discussion,” Sinreich said. DTH/)ustin Williams quest was approved by the U.S. Depart ment of Housing and Urban Develop ment, it would be the first step in the right direction. “It’s the best we can do to attack the problem,” he said. Council member Alan Rimer said that although the town needed to ad dress the problem of drug-related crime in public housing areas, it was impor tant to acknowledge that no area of town was immune to drug problems. “We have this problem in the down- See FUNDS, page 11 Race Relations Week Today Noon Movie: Spike Lee’s “Do The Right Thing” - Black Cultural Center. 2 p.m. Seminar. AIDS in the African-American Community - Union 208- 209. 5 p.m. Lecture: A House of One’s Own, Professor James Johnson - Gerrard HalL Tuesday. Aorii 6 11 a.m. Yard Sale for Bosnia - the Pit. 12:30 p.m. Film and Discussion - BCC. 3:30 p.m. Discussion: Greek Lives: Black and White - Differences and similarities between black and white fraternities and sororities - Union 206. 6 p.m. Lecture: Black Women and Their Role in the Black Family - Speaker Audreye Johnson - Union 206. 8 p.m. Keynote Speaker Attallah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X - Carroll 106 Wednesday, April 7 UNC Housekeepers Appreciation Day 11 a.m. Yard Sale for Bosnia Noon UNC Housekeepers Bake Sale - the Pit. 2 p.m. Discussion: UNC Curriculum and Its Response to Diversity- Union 208-209 3:30 p.m. Informal Discussion on Working Class Struggles - Union 208- 209 5 p.m. Discussion: No Easy Answers-Union 208-209. 7:15 p.m. Candlelight Vigil for UNC Housekeepers - the Pit 8 p.m. Keynote Speaker Delores Huerta, co-founder of United Farm Workers - Carroll 106 Thursday, April 8 12:30 p.m. Movie: Stand and Deliver - BCC pect to have to wear a Michigan shirt.” Braten said she was equally confi dent she would not have to face the ridicule of her colleagues. “My nine-year old son is my sports adviser and he says we’re expected to win,” Brater said. Brater called Broun Sunday night to propose the wager. Broun said he im mediately agreed. “When you weigh this against issues like taxation and transportation, it’s one of the more important matters mayors The Daily Tar Heel/Monday, April 5, 1993: Sinreich said trustees needed to dis cuss the BCC issue immediately. “This is an absolutely urgent issue and has to be solved before students leave for the summer,” she said. Hardin said he would not stray from the procedure followed for planning every campus building “in the history of the University.” “Everyone else has taken their time, there is no reason to hurry the trustees,” he said. “Nothing could upset the trust ees more than having an emergency meeting called because of some coer cion or threat.” Sinreich said the fact that Hardin had not responded directly to the students was indicative of his reluctance to com municate with the student body. Boulton: Congress can’t stop DTH from publishing By Marty Minchin Assistant University Editor At the final meeting of the 74th Stu dent Congress Wednesday, members voted 9-7-2 to pass a bill that called for prohibiting The Daily Tar Heel from using Student Union property and evict ing the newspaper from its offices in Suite 104. “It’s a matter of time to get the DTH evicted,” said Rep. Eric Pratt, Dist. 22, author of the bill. “It’s going to hap pen.” But Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for student affairs, said only he and the Union Board of Directors had the power to evict student groups from the Union. “I’m not sure what’s behind all this,” Boulton said. “I don’t know what the passing of the bill means, but as far as I’m concerned it is not within (Student Congress’) jurisdiction as of who in the Student Union. “I would like to keep The Tar Heel where it is.” The DTH currently works under an annual budget of $624,000, said Kevin Schwartz, DTH general manager. The DTH received 4 percent of its budget, or approximately $2,500, from congress funds for the 1992-93 year. Next year the DTH will be finan cially independent from the University and will not receive any congress fund ing. The bill, which Pratt authored, states that as of March 29,1993, the DTH was publishing illegally. The Student Con gress Finance Committee had tabled the DTH budget at a spring 1992 meet ing, and the finance committee had not rescinded that action, the bill stated. The final reason the bill lists for evicting the DTH is that the publication had acted illegally when barring the Student Activities Fund Office from conducting an audit of the DTH. Josh Siegal, president of the DTH Board of Directors, said the board de cided an audit by student congress was have to deal with,” Broun said. Brater said that if UNC wins, she would hang her head in shame and bear the inevitable disgrace. Broun said that if the unthinkable happened, he would explain his plight to town council members in hopes of obtaining forgiveness. “I think they'll sympathize,” he said. “I hope I won’t be accused of being a secret Michigan fan. Although, there are a lot of Dookies on the council who will probably think it’s funny.” “He has not communicated with us in any way since we initiated the occupa tion,” she said. “It our point that he doesn’t communicate with stu dents he doesn’t listen to us and he doesn’t talk to us.” Hardin said he did not think students would stay in South Building. “I can’t imagine that they will stay that long, but if they don’t interfere with anybody’s freedom of movement or destroy any property, I don’t have a problem with them staying,” Hardin said. “I’m not rattled by their presence.” Sinreich said students occupied the building in shifts. “There’s been no problem getting people to stay here,” she said. “People are pretty surprised that we’re still here.” not valid. Peter Wallsten, DTH editor, said con* gress did not have the authority to de4 mand that the DTH be audited by stu* dent government. “We were just recently audited on a routine basis by an independent firm and everything turned out fine,” he said. “Student government has absolutely no authority over us whatsoever and they have no right to call for an audit.” Pratt said the DTH was publishing illegally because the DTH’s budget had been tabled. “We tabled the budget, and they aren’t supposed to be printing until we reach some kind of conclusion or agreement,” Pratt said. But Student Congress Speaker Jen nifer Lloyd said the Student Code re quired that congress give a certain amount of money to the DTH last yea*, and the finance committee’s tabling of the budget had no effect on the payment to the DTH. Lloyd said the finance committee was not required by the Student Code to look at student groups’ budgets every year. But the finance committee exam ines the budgets every year only to make sure the groups used congress funds consistently and correctly, ship said. “That’s just an implied power—it’s not even in the code,” Lloyd said. Lloyd said Pratt did not realize con gress did not have any jurisdiction over most of the DTH’s budget. “Eric’s misinformed,” she said. “Eric seems to think he should have jurisdic tion over the entire budget.” Boulton said he considered the DTH a student group even though the publi cation would not receive student funds next year. “The independence the DTH has is a business independence,” he said. “There was no attempt to turn the DTH into an independent newspaper. The DTH is the student newspaper always has been, always will.” DA drops Burnette charges Staff report ChargesagainstformerUNCquar-! terback Chuckie Burnette, levied af-! ter stolen furniture was found in his! residence hall room, were dropped! Thursday by the Orange County dis-1 trict attorney’s office. While making a routine mainte-1 nance check during Winter Break, I University housing personnel found I a coffee table, an end table and two I chairs in the Teague Residence Hall < room occupied by Bumetteand Julius j Reese, a UNC football wide receiver.! The furniture found in Burnette and Reese’s room had been reported stolen from a Carmichael Residence Hall lounge last August at the end of a football team stay in the dormitory. Police issued a warrant, searched the room and found two University; property tags at the bottom of a foot locker owned by Burnette, Burnette and Reese were charged with possession of stolen property; Jan. 13. Burnette anA Reese made an agree- ; ment with police in February in which{ they agreed to pay a S6O fine and perform 40 hours of community ser vice rather than go on trial. Thecharges against Burnette were dropped Thursday when police veri fied that the former UNC quarter back had performed his community service, said Jim Woodall, assistant Orange County district attorney. The charges against Reese will be; dropped as soon as the district attor ney receives written confirmation that* Reese has finished his community service, Woodall said. “He’sdoneit,” Woodallsaid. “We just need written confirmation.” Burnette told police that he and Reese bought the furniture, and did not know that it had been stolen. 3
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