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uR?f My alar Hppl BRIEFS Stories from the University and Chapel Hill Dist.l9 Senior Unofficially Nets Open Congress Seat Unofficial results from a special elec tion held Tuesday indicate that Steve Wil liam, a senior from the Bahamas, will be come the new Student Congress represen tative for Dist. 19. After 13 votes were cast, unofficial re sults showed William was ahead with five write-in votes, said Melinda Manning, elec tion board chairwoman. “I am very surprised, and 1 am looking forward to the challenge," Williamsaid. “I think that that outcome will be favorable.” Official results are pending on the winner’s submission of a financial state ment and will be released after Fall Break. Student Congress held the special elec tion to fill a vacancy created by die resigna tion of representative and former finance chairman, Jeff Matkins, in September. Newsweek Art Critic Set To Speak at Conference As part of the Bicentennial Observance, UNC is sponsoring the Southeastern Col lege Art Conference on Oct. 21. The keynote speaker, Peter Plagens, a Newsweek magazine art critic and former art department chairman at UNC, will speak on “The Last Esthete.” The event, which will be held in the Hanes Art Center Auditorium, begins at 7:30p.m. and is free and open to thepublic. Plagens, who also taught studio art at UNC during the 1983-84 school year, is a graduate of the University of Southern California and received his master’s de gree in fine arts from Syracuse University. Church Organizes March Against Violent Crime The First Baptist Church is sponsoring a march Saturday for residents interested in fighting the town’s recent surge in vio lent crime. The march will begin at 2 p.m. at Morehead Planetarium and end at the Hargraves Community Center. “It is to serve notice that we are not taking this kind of behavior,” said J.R. Manley, chairman of Saturday’s march. HealsoisthepastorofFirst Baptist Church and Hickory Grove Baptist Church. The church invited other organizations to participate in the march, including the Chapel Hill and Carrboro police depart ments and the University. The group will walk and carry signs. League of Women Voters Sponsors Election Forums The League of Women Voters is spon soring two forums for local residents to meet the candidates in the Nov. 2 elections for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board and the Chapel Hill Town Council. The first forum will be held Thursday at 7:30 p.m., and the second will be held Oct. 28. Both forums will be held at the Chapel Hill Town Council chamber. "Anyone who votes in these elections and wants to know who’s running for these public offices are invited to come,” league spokeswoman Catherine Emerson said. Saturday Bike-a4hon to Benefit AIDS Patients The seventh annual “Triangle Bikes and Hikes Against AIDS” bike-a-thon benefit ing those who have AIDS will be held Saturday. The 15- and 30-mile bike-a-thon will begin at 10 a.m. at The Imperial Athletic Club in Morrisville. Bike registration will occur at 8:30 a.m. There also will be a four mile fitness hike. One of the beneficiaries of the bike-a thon is The AIDS Services Project. TASP is a Triangle nonprofit group that supports those with the HIV virus and their loved ones. “We need the bike-a-thon to raise both awareness and money, ” said Wanda Floyd, TASP board member and co-chairwoman of this year’s bike-a-thon. 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The rec ommended reading list for the project con tains more than 2,000 titles, 200 of which are written by gay and lesbian authors. Most of the speakers said the literature was inappropriate for a high school En glish class because some contained sexu ally explicit passages about sodomy, group sex and sex between men and boys. Dip’s a Home Away From Home for Southern Food wm -y, > jigggNMißt * v'?- ; !s| ■Hggjflgip v . Jill S.W , ■ ■■ ||p OTH/IQJ. KAUFMAN Mildred Council works on a pie in the kitchen of Dip's Country Kitchen on West Rosemary Street. Council, who opened the restaurant in 1976, still manages the business with help from her children and grandchildren. New Gay and Lesbian Group To Endorse Local Candidates BYKATHRYNHASS STAFF WRITER Although the newly formed Orange Lesbian and Gay Association has not yet held its first meeting, the group already is hard at work getting its voice heard in time for the November elections. OLGA will meet for the first time Mon day. The organization already has sent out questionnaires to all the candidates run ning for Chapel Hill Town Council, the Carrboro Board of Aldermen and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board ask ing for opinions on gay community issues. Led by Doug Ferguson and Liz Stiles, OLGA was formed to endorse candidates who are willing to represent the gay and lesbian community. OLGA will make en dorsements Monday. Ferguson, a first-year UNC law stu dent, said a combination of other factors also had caused the group to form. One was the negative, stereotypical ideas about gays being publicized by Putting Children First, a community-watchdog group that formed to protest the Chapel Hill High School multicultural education curriculum. The recent resignation of Joe Herzenberg, the only openly gay public official in the state, was another factor behind OLGA’s formation. “If people running for office think Put- UNIVERSITY & CITY CHHS Principal Charles Patteson this week suspended the gay-lesbian literature project until a committee was formed to review the reading material in question. School board member Ken Touw said he thought Patteson’s suspension of the project was appropriate. “It appeared from these excerpts that the readings contained material that was inappropriate for high-school students,” Touw said. Reviewing challenged classroom read ing materials is an administrative responsi bility, Touw said. The school board will not take part in reviewing the materials. Touw said the administration should use caution when determining the appro priateness of some of the literature on the list. “I want to make sure that we don’t react with hysteria and destroy academic DOUG FERGUSON will head the Orange Gay and Lesbian Association. ting Children First is the only voice, chances are they won’tbe sensitive to the needs of those people who have been quiet until now,” he said. “We want to make sure the can didates know there is another side to this debate.” After this fall, OLGA wants to es tablish a regular committee for fund raising so it can donate money to candidates and provide volun teers to help out with local campaigns. OLGA has a core group of 10 to 15 people right now, with about 20 expected to help with the endorsement process, Ferguson said. “I want as many people involved who want to be involved (with gay concerns),” he said. Other local organizations do not en dorse candidates running for office. Katherine Emerson, spokeswoman for the League of Women Voters, said her organization tried to provide the public Please See ENDORSE, Page 4 MCAT Test Date: April 23 G&tB&MIUMXhL the best combination of j -m-" review, skill-building, practice tests and test ■w_; taking strategies I small classes (5-8 students) ( expert, grad level ’fl| instructors imf V| extra free |||gjL tutorial help I "fe nationally recognized I ■lf Wmk curriculum mmm continual diagnostic j testing Caif9l9-929-PREP IG MAT I Test Dates: Jan 15/March 19 freedomintheprocess,’’Touw said. “Many of these authors are easy to find. They are authors like Walt Whitman, Tennessee Williams and Truman Capote. To say that these books are very difficult to find is inaccurate.” School spokeswoman Kim Hoke said that while the controversy created a lot of emotion at Monday night’s meeting, there was a general attitude of understanding among the speakers. “Everybody was talking about the need to be tolerant and respectful of other people,” Hoke said. “So this meeting was not as ugly as others have been.” Parents have spoken out both in opposi tion and support of the project at each board meeting this fall. The Chapel Hill-based watchdog group, Putting Children First, has been especially BY KRISTEN MIN STAFF WRITER In the diverse community of Chapel Hill, there still exists a home for tradi tional, good Southern cooking. Dip’s Country Kitchen, a restaurant at 405 W. Rosemary St., is known for its friendly, relaxed atmosphere and is fre quented by many Chapel Hill residents and students. Mildred Council, who opened the busi ness in November 1976, stffl manages the family-run business. “I knew that I liked the restaurant busi ness, and I wanted one of my own,” she said. She said she chose the location on ac count of availability, just as most self-start ers in business begin. “When I go on vacation, I don’t look just on the main street. You normally get better food for more reasonable prices,” she said. Since Dip’s opening, there has been only one change in the business. The num ber of searings has increased from 22 to 94, but everything else, including the appear ance of the restaurant and the styl of cooking, has remained the same. “I don’t cook soul food it’s just gen eral American cooking. I call it country because I use fresh things in my dishes, such as fresh vegetables,” Council said. Like all popular neighborhood tradi tions, the restaurant has had its share of famous clientele. “We have regulars who come in for most of their meals. In general, though, there is a diversity in our customers,” she said. “Chancellor Paul Hardin, Dean New Bowling Alley to Open in December BY BRETT PERRY STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill and Carrboro bowlers and pizza lovers no longer will have to drive to Durham—the new Falcon Bridge Center will be opening two of its stores, a bowling center and a pizza restaurant, by Decem ber. The Falcon Bridge Center, which is owned by Real Estate Associates Inc. of Durham, is located at the intersection of N.C. 54 and Interstate 40, next to Hardee’s. The center will house various entertain ment facilities and eateries. The new bowling center, The Mardi Gras —“where the fun never ends”—will be a state-of-the-art facility with 24 syn thetic bowling lanes. The Mardi Gras also will have comput erized scoring and a Ball Wall for beginner bowlers. The Ball Wall is an electronically operated acrylic wall that covers gutters to ensure that the bowling ball will knock down some pins. The new bowling center will have a large game room, a snack bar and a large room for adult parties. Joe Jemigan, president of Real Estate Associates Inc., said the new bowling cen ter expected a lot of business from both UNC and Duke University students. “We felt that this location was not only a Durham and Chapel Hill location, but also a regional one because Interstate 40 I QAT mm I I Schedules: ATTENTION DEC/JAN TEST-TAKERS! GRE, GMAT & LSAT CLASSES START SOON AND ARE SCHEDULED AROUND FINALS! CALL FOR DETAILS! Locations: Courses are available in Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Greensboro Other locations as demand merits! FREE Preliminary Diagnostic! MENTION THIS AD AND GET SSO OFF THE COST OF ANY FALL COURSE or GET SSO OFF IF YOU ENROLL WITH A FRIEND! OlOSelect Test Prep EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, INC. SBE mmm ■ * El vocal in its opposition to Bruton’s project. Several members of PCF spoke at the meeting Monday night, including Durham resident Victoria Peterson, who called for the resignation of the school board mem bers and superintendent Neil Pedersen. Pedersen issued a press release Tuesday outlining the process of reviewing the read ing materials. While the reading materials are being reviewed by the committee, the seven students involved in the literature project in Bruton’s class will “temporarily suspend their studies,” the release states. The administration will conduct an in vestigation of the way Bruton compiled the list, to what extent it has been used in the classroom and “the degree to which Mr. Bruton has fulfilled his duties and respon sibilities as a teacher as prescribed under state statute and board policy.” “It’s like going to your grandmother’s house in the country for a nice home-cooked meal.” MILDRED COUNCIL Dip’s Country Kitchen owner Smith, Coach Mack Brown, and other dignified people in the community come into the restaurant often. Students usually don’t come on weekdays, but on week ends, there are plenty who come in for Sunday breakfast.” One ofthe restaurant’s mainstays is that it makes its customers feel right at home, Council said. “There is one fellow who has been com ing in for all his meals for the past 17 years that the restaurant’s been opened,” she said. “It’s like going to your grandmother’s house in the country for a nice home cooked meal.” Because the restaurant is family-run, Council’s three daughters, one son and a few granddaughters work at Dip’s. Joe Council, Mildred Council’s son, said he thought of Dip’s as his second home. Elaine Council, one of Council’s daughters, agreed. “Working with the family is actually better because you’re more into it as far as the quality of die food and service is con cerned. You want to do everything right,” she said. “There’s also a tighter bond with the employees. “It’s like a family even with the employ ees who are outside of the family.” “We’re trying to boost bowling over a broader area and get more people involved. We want bowling to be an Olympic sport.” JIM GOODWIN Fair Lanes cluster manager can bring people from Cary, Raleigh and other cities in the area,” Jemigan said. Michael Villopoto, owner of the Pizza Cheflocated at 300 E. Main St. in Carrboro, said he thought his new Pizza Chef store in Falcon Bridge Center would be ready by December. “The new store will be very similar to the one in Carrboro. We will still have dine-in service with nine tables, pizza by the slice, salads, subs and pizza delivery,” he said. The new Pizza Chef store also will have a beer license, although alcoholic bever ages will not be permitted in the bowling alley. “The new store will also have a deal with the bowling center to sell pizza from their snack bar. Bowlers can order pizza at the snack bar, and it will be delivered to them,” Villopoto said. Although the location of the Falcon Dojfru You Can Find Them at... Wednesday, October 20,1993 UNC Seeks Telescope Funding BY JUDY ROYAL STAFF WRITER After seven years of dreaming, the con struction of the world’s best telescope still is light-years away forthe University, with out the necessary funds. Astronomy Professor Wayne Christiansen has pursued the dream since 1986, when he first envisioned the South ern Observatory for Astronomical Research as a science project for the Bicentennial Celebration. In Christiansen’s dream, he sees a tele scope of the sharpest vision atop Cerro Pachon, a mountain that rises 9,000 feet above the desert foothills of Chile. Unless UNC’s share of the project can be raised, however, the dream will con tinue to be just that —a dream. The total cost of SOAR is $23 million, and UNC is expected to provide $lO mil lion. But after two years of fund raising, only 20 percent, or $2 million, of that share has been raised through the Bicentennial Campaign. Christiansen said Tuesday that in order to raise the money, the right match must be made between the interest of donors and the project. He said fund raising required a fairly unique group of individuals who loved science and astronomy. “Wehavebeen very busy tryingto spread the word,” Christiansen said. “Wearecon stantly trying to go out and do presenta tions about astronomy,... hoping the word will get out to other possible donors. “We’re really excited aboutthe project,” Christiansen said. “We’re determined to see it through.” UNC is not alone in its quest for the greatest telescope on earth. After the initial dream of the possibility of SOAR, Christiansen and other University astrono mers realized such a project was not fea sible without financial partners. Fund-raising responsibilities for SOAR are divided between UNC, Columbia Un iversity and the National Optical As tronomy Observatories, an organization that will operate the telescope and pay maintenance costs. This will save the Uni versity these otherwise costly expenses, Christiansen said. The three will split view ing time on the telescope. If and when SOAR is constructed, Christiansen said it would be the only university-run observatory in the Southern Please See TELESCOPE, Page 4 Ridge Center is not ideal for the pizza business, Villopoto thought the new store could serve neighborhoods where the Carrboro store could not deliver because of the long driving distance. “Being on that intersection we are near a lot of neighborhoods, housing develop ments and apartments, and we are not very far from the Research Triangle Park,” Villopoto said. “I think we’ll do a lot better lunch busi ness there because the store is a short drive from the RTP and local businesses.” Villopoto also said he would be hiring 15 to 20 new employees for the Falcon Bridge Center store. The Mardi Gras is less than a 15-minute drive from the Fair Lanes Bowling Center at 4508 Chapel Hill Blvd. in Durham. But Jim Goodwin, Fair Lanes cluster manager, said he was glad anew bowling center would be opening in the area. “I welcome the opening of the lanes,” Goodwin said. “I don’t think that the new bowling center will take too many custom ers from Fair Lanes because we get most of our business from Durham residents. “We’re trying to boost bowling over a broader area and get more people involved. We want bowling to be an Olympic sport. ” Jemigan said bowling was becoming increasingly popular. “We believe that the market is large enough so that both bowl ing centers can operate without hurting the business of the other.” 3
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