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<Ht|r Saily alar Brrl rao ROUNDUP University Wednesday, Nov. 17 ■ A UNC student said she hit a man hole in the road with her 1988 Volkswagen Fox Coupe while driving west on South Road, police reports state. She immedi ately stopped the car, and a passenger in the car ran into the street to find the man hole cover lying in the middle of the road way, according to reports. The driver said she had seen the man hole cover rolling in the street when she hit the hole but assumed it was her hubcap, reports state. The car’s right rear tire went flat as a result of the incident, reports state. Tuesday, Nov. 1C ■ A graduate student in the English department reported the left driver-side window of his vehicle was broken, reports stated. According to reports, the car was parked in the F East Lot at the time of the incident and sustained an estimated SIOO in damage. ■ An employee in the Department of Human Resources told University Police officers that she accidentally set off the intrusion alarm while working in the Hu man Resources office at 725 Airport Road, reports state. According to reports, another employee set the alarm without realizing anyone else was in the building. An interior check of the office found everything in order, and the alarm was reset, reports state. Monday, Nov. IS ■ A dental school employee reported an attempted breaking and entering into the school, reports state. Somebody tried to forcibly enter room 252 of the Dental School by removing two of the three pins from the door hinge but did not remove the door, according to reports. Approximately six burned matches were lying on the floor near the door, reports state. ■ A female student found a harassing picture drawn on the chalkboard of Trailer 41, which is used by the medical school and the School of Public Health, reports state. The woman reported a cat face was drawn on the chalkboard and her phone number was listed underneath, reports state. The trailer is used by fellowship stu dents and graduate students, reports state. The woman said she did not know any motive for the drawing, according to re ports . The board was erased and no further action was taken in the incident, reports state. ■ A female student who reported a sus picious person Nov. 12 in Hanes Art Cen ter told University Police officers she saw the same person in the building at 3:57 p.m. Monday, reports state. The complaint Nov. 12 was for inde cent exposure, according to reports. Police found Ashley Wayne Burke, 35, of6oo-A Gomains Ave. inside the building and is sued him a trespass warning after the woman identified Burke as the man she saw Nov. 12, reports state. Burke was not affiliated with UNC in any way, according to reports. No other charges were filed against Burke, reports state. City Tuesday, Nov. IS ■ An employee of Local 506, at 506 W. Franklin St., reported to Chapel Hill police at 8:35 p.m. that he had been robbed while one of the suspects held an edged weapon against him, reports state. The Local 506 employee told police officers the armed robbery had occurred in the gravel parking lot at the back of the night club, reports state. The victim identified the suspects as two black men, but police officers could not locate the suspects, reports state. The incident still is being investigated. ■ Chapel Hill police received a call at 7:45 a.m. regarding a breaking and enter ing and larceny that occurred at Seawell Elementary School on Seawell School Road, reports state. According to police reports, the inci dent occurred between 3 p.m. Monday and 7:30 a.m. Tuesday. An unknown number of suspects en tered the reading room by throwing a rock through a door window, reaching through and opening the door, reports state. A $260 television and $2lB VCR were taken from Seawell’s reading room, re ports state. The incident still is being investigated by Chapel Hill police. ■ Mustafaa Abdullah Ali, 21, of 139 Timberlyne Apartments, was arrested at 7:20 p.m. and charged with assault on a female, Chapel Hill police reports state. According to reports, Ali was placed under a S2OO secured bond, but he was released at 10:30 p.m. after posting bail. Ali is scheduled to appear Dec. 23 in Chapel Hill District Court. Monday, Nov. 15 ■ Michael Brown, 42, of 100A Louis Armstrong Court was arrested at 4:46 p.m. and charged with assault on a female, po lice reports state. Chapel Hill police arrested Brown at Ham’s Restaurant at 310 W. Franklin St. and took him to the Chapel Hill Police Department, reports state. According to police reports, Brown was placed under a S3OO unsecured bond and was released at 5:10 p.m. Brown will appear Dec. 7 in Chapel Hill District Court. UNC Students to Fast in Name of Hunger Relief BYUSA ROBBINS STAFF WRITER For one day, impoverished and home less people won’t be the only ones who will be hungry. Aspart of the Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, some UNC students will be fasting for the Oxfam Fast for a World Harvest from Thursday afternoon to Friday morning. “In our eyes, fasting from a meal for a day makes us realize the pain and injustice of hunger,” said Brad King, co-chairman of the Campus Y’s Hunger and Homelessness Outreach Project. “We usu- Campaign Promotes Child Care BYJAYTAYLOR STAFF WRITER CARRBORO Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and Betty Bumpers, wife of Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark., brought their "Every Child by Two” campaign to Carrboro on Wednesday to promote early childhood immunization. “The thing we hope we can do is focus attention on how important it is to have babies immunizedatthe propertime, which is before the age of 2,” Carter said. Also present were First Lady of North Carolina Carolyn Hunt and Lisa Price, wife of U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C. Carter and Bumpers began the cam paign in 1991 in response to the largest measles outbreak in 20 years—more than 55,000 cases and 150 deaths occurred from the disease from 1989 to 1991. They also have encouraged health de partments to increase access to immuniza tion services and have promoted policy changes to ensure full vaccination for all children by age 2. Lisa Price said the main reason for Wednesday’s event was to gain publicity. “We think that if people come and see us here, that will help to bring people in.” Dan Rimer, director of the Orange County Health Department, discussed the need for early immunization in Orange County. Of 1,600 children younger than 2 in the county, 720 are not immunized. “We do a good job of immunization before school-age because the law requires it, but the fact is, these immunizations should take place before the age of 2,” he said. Carter said one of the obstacles in im munizing children was finding them. “We still haven’t found a way to track 2-year olds,” she said. Panelists: Communication Is Key to Race Relations BY JENNIFER AYRES STAFF WRITER At a race-relations forum marked by peaceful discussion rather than confronta tion, participants concluded that people of different races needed to learn to commu nicatebettertocreatea harmonious .multi racial society. “The only way we can live together in a multicultural society is to open up the lines of communication, ” Chris Kabrhel, a mem ber of Chi Psi fraternity and an organizer of the event, said to the group of about 50 who attended the Great Hall discussion Wednesday night. The discussion of race relations was sponsored by Kappa Alpha Psi, a predomi nantly black fraternity, and Chi Psi, a pre Smokeout Asks Smokers To Put Out Their Butts BY TIFFANY ASHHURST STAFF WRITER Buzz words about the dangers of smok ing will swarm the Triangle today. The American Cancer Society will spon sor the Great American Smokeout, in which smokers are encouraged to refrain from smoking for 24 hours. Shelley Collinsworth, area director of the American Cancer Society, said the society had sponsored the national event in this area for 17 years. The group has given materials to businesses, schools and volunteer organizations in Orange, Chatham and Lee counties and in Durham. The dissemination of information and programs is left up to individual compa nies and organizations, Collinsworth said. The most popular materials ACS gives out are the smokeout stickers. “The stickers say, ‘Kiss me, I don’t smoke, ’ and those go like hot cakes among the school-age kids,” Collinsworth said. Statistics from the American Cancer Society national headquarters have shown the success of the program, Collinsworth said. According to statistics, 10.3 million of the nation’s 50 million smokers partici pated in the smokeout last year. Thirty percent of those people stayed smoke-free for 24 hours, and 10 percent were not smoking five days later. Collinsworth, an ex-smoker herself, said it was hard to quit smoking. “It took me three or four times to quit smoking before I became a permanent nonsmoker.” Some local companies and organiza UNIVERSITY & CITY Homelessness Awareness Week ally have access to food 24 hours aday on campus, so it’s kind of a challenge to give up food. (Stu dents) are fast ing, and fasting for a good cause.” This year will mark HOPE’S fourth year of participation in the Oxfam Fast. The cause is a project of Oxfam America, a nonprofit, self-help de velopment and relief agency that works in 28 countries around the world. DTH/ELIZABETH MAYBACH Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and Betty Bumpers, wife of Sen. Dale Bumpers, D-Ark„ cuddle children at the Carrboro Community Health Center on Wednesday while promoting an early childhood immunization program. Rimer said Orange County had at tempted to address this problem through its Maternity Care Coordination Program, designed to stay in contact with mothers afterbirth for continuing health care. North Carolina plans to start a tracking program through the use of birth certificates. Carter, who has visited 30 states with Bumpers for this campaign, said she was pleased with the progress they had made. “I think the program has been really successful, but it’s not just our program,” she said. “We are working with many other organizations. We try to get different groups, different people to work together. ” Carter said her group worked with state dominantly white fraternity. Reggie O’Rourke, a member of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, said that the forum’s purpose was to encourage racial harmony oncampus. “We’rethefutureoftheUnited States, and ifwe can’t relate in harmony on campus, we won’t be able to relate in the business world,” he said. The groups discussed the status of insti tutional racism in the United States, the positive and negative aspects of affirma tive action and quotas, and the specific problems facing each racial group. Rosalind Wood, a senior from Cary, said that many whites might think institu tional racism no longer existed in the United States. “I think it seems better as education gets better,” she said. “When I was in elementary school, I wasn’t taught about tions said they would celebrate <he event by providing information to smokers who wanted to participate. Donna Woody, secretary of die UNC Wellness Resource Center, said the center would set up at a table from 11 a.m. to 12:45 p.m. today in the Pit and give out handouts, buttons and brochures. Karen Bly, associate director for Planned Parenthood, said it was important for pa tients to know about the consequences of smoking while taking birth-control pills. “For a lot of the patients that come in for birth-control supplies, we tell them to cut down on smoking, because the risks of smoking and taking the pill become greater,” she said. Health Services Plus, located at 102 Finley Forest Drive, said the company was working with Duke University in Durham for the event. Erma Smith, owner of Health Services Plus, said it would have a table set up at Duke to pass out literature and talk to people about ways to stop smoking. Smith said she knew there were a lot of tobacco businesses in North Carolina, but she added that health was more important in the long run than company profits. “The long-term effects of disabilities caused by smoking are greater than the immediate gain of cash,” she said. One UNC student said Tuesday that she wasn’t sure if she would be able to stop smoking for the day. Freshman Sonya Amesen of Roanoke Rapids said, “It depends on how much stress I am under, but I will tty.” While there is a growing trend of stu dent and national involvement, Oxfam officials say there still is a steady increase in people who are going hungry. “It’s very encouraging that young people are aware of social issues and going out and doing something about it,” said Peggy Connolly, Oxfam’s press director. In addition to the 400 colleges involved in the Oxfam Fast and other hunger activi ties this week, church communities, social groups and even some major corporations will join the cause, she said. Oxfam will raise approximately $700,000 from the fast and more than sl4 million this year to train farmers and feed and local health departments, as well as many civic organizations such as Rotary Clubs and Junior Leagues. Rimer said the Kiwanis Club and the Masons had been active in Orange County in many ways, such as providing transpor tation and increasing awareness. Bumpers also was encouraged by the program’s progress. “There are good things happening throughout the nation,” she said. “Last summer, national legislation passed that assured free vaccination for all who can’t afford it, whether they are uninsured or underinsured.” Cartersaidmanystates, including North black culture.” Krista Green, a junior from Raleigh, said that the traditional power structure lent itself to discrimination. “Ithinkalotof the fear comes from compromising power. ” Affirmative action has earned a bad reputation because it often is confused with quotas, said Matthew Bradley, a senior from Fayetteville. Quotas designate a cer tain number of jobs to be given to a specific minority group while affirmative-action programs work to recruit qualified minori ties but do not choose a candidate based solely on his or her race, he said. Wood said that while she did not neces sarily like the idea of quotas, she under stood their necessity. “However, I think that if I was an African American given a job based on a quota, I might think it was RSYVP Day Draws Crowds To Eat Out to Help Hungry BY MOLLY SHAFER STAFF WRITER Restaurants in Chapel Hill and Carrboro were packed Tuesday with diners stuffing their faces in support of RSWP Day. RSWP, or Restaurants Sharing Five (V) + Five (V) Percent, began in 1989 in Chapel Hill and Canboro and expanded to include the rest of the Triangle in 1990. The daylong event encourages people to eat at participat ing restaurants, which in turn do nate 10 percent of their profits to lo cal charities. lutMTMtl Sharing 10 ftreent Although the actual donations have not yet been received, RSWP Co-chairwoman Irene Briggaman said this year’s event ap peared to be a success. “There was a steady flow. We’ve got such a great variety (of restaurants) geographically,” Briggaman said. “There has been such great support. I’m a little full after eating breakfast, lunch and dinner out yesterday.” The money raised from Chapel Hill and Carrboro restaurants will be donated to the Inter-Faith Council’s Community Kitchen. Money from other Triangle restaurants will go to St. Philip’s Community Kitchen and The Food Bank of North Carolina. “We certainly have a lot of places to put the money,” she said. “Asuccessful RSWP Day will be important.” Briggaman will have an idea about how much money the event raised after the participating restaurants send in their hungry people around the world. At UNC, not only can students who fast ask for pledges, but they also will be able to donate up to $5 from their meal card. “It is a very good idea,” said junior Ricky White, who plans to fast for lunch. "When you see all the publicity about it, it just stops you and makes you think.” Shirley Liu, a junior who will fast the entire day, said the experience made stu dents realize what it was like to be hungry. “By fasting, you are more aware of how (hungry) people are feeling on a day-to-day basis,” Liu said. “The whole point is to open the eyes of people on the campus to a problem that will always exist.” Carolina, had enacted legislation to help ensure that children were immunized. “A law passed here allowing grandparents to give consent for immunization,” she said. “That is so important, because in poor communities it is often the grandparents who take care of the children.” Bumpers said early immunization would save the nation money in the long rim. “They estimate $lO to sl4 is saved on every $1 spent on preventive health care,” she said. Price said, “Not only is this excellent for the health of our children, but it will help save us money, so it makes good health sense and economic sense.” almost like charity.” She also said that many whites thought affirmative-action programs caused reverse discrimination toward whites. Green said she had little sympathy for whites who protested reverse discrimina tion because minorities had been facing discrimination for hundreds of years. “My whole response to that is, 'Deal with it’.’’ Many students said they wanted to help minorities overcome stereotypes and elimi nate racism but were intimidated. Lauren Chambers, a sophomore from Newbury, Mass., said that she sometimes was uncomfortable asking blacks about their culture or their problems. “I always feel like (black) people are going to react harshly. Even now, I don’t know what kind of reaction I’m going to get.” checks with a completed survey. “We sent out a mailing right before the event it’s a little questionnaire about business on Tuesday,” she said. “We re quest that at the end of the day they drop the checks in the mail with the survey. We’re hoping that will stimulate them to send back a check.” About 190 restaurants participated in RSWP, including 73 in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. Last year, a total of $24,000 was raised ,withsl2,Uo coming in from Chapel Hill and Carrboro eateries. First-time participants this year included some franchises. Briggaman said she was surprised about how accommodating the restaurants were. “Subwayshavebeen very supportive, even as franchises. Swensen’s joined us for the first time this year.” Local restaurant managers said Wednes day that they welcomed the extra business RSWP brought. “It went pretty well. We had a really good turnout,” said Jon Balbo, one of the managers of Ham’s. Elmo’s Diner in Carrboro had a 45- minute wait at one point during dinner Tuesday night. Manager Eric Brantley said he expected his diner to contribute about S4OO. “It’s generally one of our biggest weeknights of the year,” Brantley said. “Last night was no exception.” David Bacon, owner of Pyewacket Res taurant, noticed a considerable increase in business during dinner. “Dinner seemed to be busier than usual," Baconsaid. “People were aware of the fund-raiser. “I haven’t actually calculated yet, but it went well.” Thursday, November 18,1993 King said studies done by the National Student Campaign Against Homelessness illustrated the impact of world hunger. Twenty million people die from hunger related causes each year. Three out of four people who die of hunger are children, with 40,000 children dying each day, ac cording t 6 the study. Chris Moran, director of the Inter-F aith Council Community House in Chapel Hill, said the present situation had motivated people to aid the cause. “There is just a lot of thinking going on about issues of poverty, hunger and homelessness,” he said. “It’s all just very helpful to us and the entire community.” Speaker: West Should Take Charge In Bosnia BY JONATHAN BARKER STAFF WRITER The United States is not doing enough to stop the genocidal war in Bosnia, Ma laysian artist and scholar Zuria El-Jefferi told a crowd of about 30 Wednesday night in Hamilton Hall. “The superpowers must take the lead. If the superpowers could bomb Iraq, then they could do something in Bosnia,” she Human Rights ILy Week (SO 1993 Mr said. “But nothing has happened, and we are still reading reports of the trag edies." The discussion, sponsoredby the In ternational Relief Committee, was a part of UNC’s Hu man Rights Week and focused on “Bosnia and the Woman’s Perspective.” El-Jefferi said that powerful Western countries had been too slow to react to the ethnic cleansing that had been taking place in Bosnia for more than a year. “Big powers, the superpowers like the United States, should have done some thing positive when the tragedy happened in Bosnia over one year ago,” she said. “If the world could come together, if the superpowers could come together to fight Iraq for its invasion in Kuwait, then the superpowers could also come together to prevent, to stop the war, to stop the atroci ties that have been happening in Bosnia.” El-Jefferi said that she had been shocked at the inaction of the Western powers to end ethnic cleansing. “In Vienna, when I went for the human rights conference, that was never ad dressed , ” she said. “It’s a nonissue as far as they’re concerned.” The events in Bosnia are not as far removed from the rest of the world as Westerners tend to think, El-Jefferi said. “It could happen anywhere it could happen here, it could happen in Malaysia, it could happen in any country,” she said. “We just try to not bother about it. ” El-Jefferi said she thought the ethnic cleansing in Bosnia was comparable to the extermination of the Jews by Nazi Ger many during World War n. “What is tragic is that over 50 years ago, something that is very terrible happened... when the Nazis systematically lolled the Jews, ” she said. “To think that it was only about 50 years ago that this sort of thing happened and that the atrocities are hap pening again ... one could consider why we should be there, to allow one group to wipe out another. “We are all children of God.” El-Jefferi integrated religious imagery heavily into her lecture. “We came from the same source... but that doesn’t allow one group to wipe out another group,” she said. El-Jefferi said she thought the viola tions ofhuman rights in Bosnia were some thing the entire world as a community should have the power to stop. “When we talk about human rights, we are talking about human dignity,” she said. “Human dignity is not just individual rights, but collective rights. It is not just self interests, but it is also about what affects your neighbor.” El-Jefferi also spoke of the atrocities being committed against women and chil dren in Bosnia, quoting an article from The Guardian written by a friend. “More often than not it has been the women and children that are most af fected,” she said. El-Jefferi said she was specifically criti cal of recent developments in U.S. foreign policy. “During Desert Stonn, (former U.S. Secretary of State) James Baker traveled around the world to get various consensus from other countries to attack Kuwait,” she said. “We don’t have a secretary of state like James Baker to attack Bosnia.” El-Jefferi said she thought Western in terest in Bosnia was lower because the area was not of any strategic importance. “There is no oil in Bosnia, and there was oil in Kuwait, and I think that is another reason why the United States refuses to get involved.” The slaughter of innocent civilians in Bosnia should be enough to prompt inter vention by the West, El-Jefferi said. “I couldn’t fathom that nobody wanted to do anything, to just let it go,” she said. “It’s not getting better. It’s only getting worse.” 3