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Iljp Daily Ear Urpl POLICE ROUNDUP City Thursday, Sept 19 ■ Steven Joseph Shova, 23, of 207-A Cedarwood Lane in Carrboro was ar rested at 2:20 a.m. for driving with a revoked license, driving without insur ance and driving without registration tags, according to reports. Reports state he was originally stopped for speeding on N.C. 54, but was then arrested with the other charges. According to reports, he was identified, cited and then released. ■ According to police reports, a car parked at the Park and Ride parking lot by the Friday Center was broken into, and a stereo was removed. Reports state that there was SIOO of damage done to the car with its right side passenger win dow smashed. Wednesday, Sept 18 ■ Police reports state that Michael Towle Hosmer, 21, of C-7 Mill Creek was arrested at 2:25 a.m. for littering. According to reports, Hosmer was walk ing through Nations Bank Plaza parking deck toward North Street carrying a 12- ounce botde of Bud Light. He put the bottle under a white car in the parking deck and walked away, reports state. ■ Someone drove off without paying for their gas at Etna, located at 1509 E. Franklin St., police reports state. A little more than 11 gallons of gas were stolen, worth $12.78. ■ According to reports, SI,BOO was removed from a safe at Bruegger’s Bagels located at 1800 E. Franklin St. This is the Bruegger’s Bagels at Eastgate Shopping Center, reports state. Tuesday, Sept 17 ■ Rico-Antonio Thompson, 18, of J -25 Oakwood Apartments in Carrboro was arrested at 11 p.m. for failure to appear in Superior Court on cocaine re lated charges, police reports state. Ac cording to reports, Thompson was ar rested at the intersection of West Rose mary Street and Mitchell Lane and was transported to the Chapel Hill Police Department. He was then placed under a $31,000 secured bond, reports state. University Tuesday, Sept 17 ■ According to reports, a visitor on the.UNC campus reported the theft ofhis right rear tire, rim and wheel cover around 6:50 p.m. from the Natatorium parking lot. The victim’s car was a blue 1979 Dodge Aspen. He said this was the sec ond time since Sept. 5 that someone had taken his right rear tire, according to reports. Reports state no suspects are known presently. ■ Several people required emergency help when their elevator became stuck on the second floor ofEhringhaus Residence Hall, reports state. According to reports, the victims opened the inner door of the elevator compartment, causing the door to come off track. ■ The Orange County Rescue Team went to assist a UNC student residing in Avery Residence Hall when he reported having trouble breathing when his in haler went dry, according to reports. The student was transported to Student Health Service for further assistance, reports state. ■ South Orange Rescue and the Chapel Hill Fire Department went to aid a woman in Murphey Hall who reported having breathing difficulties, reports state. According to reports, the victim said that she was having a panic attack. She re fused further medical treatment once calmed down, reports state. Monday, Sept. 16 ■ 23-year-old Warwick Taylor Jr. of Chapel Hill was arrested on Stadium Drive for driving with a revoked license, according to reports. Reports state the officer stopped the car initially due to an expired inspection sticker. Taylor was later cited and released, reports state. ■ A UNC student was assaulted while biking on Country Club Drive and Ra leigh Road at around 10:56p.m. Reports state that an unknown vehicle attempted to run her off the road. She attempted to get away, but the vehicle caused damage to her bike, as well as leaving a 5-inch gash in her stomach area. 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PowerPC is a trademark of International Business Machines Corporation, used under license therefrom School board votes to revamp bond package ■ The $2.9 million would be used to help alleviate school overcrowding. BY JIM MARTIN STAFF WRITER In their first meeting since July 25, the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Educa tion unanimously voted Thursday night to send a $2.9 million bond referendum back to the drawing board. The bond referendum, also called BCC head discusses race issues ■ BCC Director Gerald Horne said the meaning of race was changing. BYSHENGLEE STAFF WRITER Gerald Home, director of the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center, discussed the new meaning of race at the Bull’s Head Bookshop on Thursday afternoon. Home said die main focus ofhis talk would be that race changes over time as a result of changing relations among na tions and the rise and fall of various economies. Home said race was an unscientific concept. “Other than perhaps skin color and hair texture, the definition of race is dif ficult to discern,” he said. Asa result of the changes during the 20th century, it was predicted that China and Japan would probably have a larger economy than that of the United States at some point in the 21st century, Home said. “The meaning of race is undergoing a new alteration. This is due in part be cause the meaning of race and race rela tions specifically, historically have been conditioned by the economic factor,” he said. Home’s talk was followed by a short discussion. Audience members raised questions about definitions of ethnic cultures and recent black and Asian conflicts in Cali fornia. Clint Kale, a sophomore from Kings Mountain, said he thought Home’s talk introduced a refreshing insight on how to view the meaning of race in the future. “I found his discussion intriguing be cause he didn’t just deal with white and black issues, he went further and delved Landfill begins to mulch trees instead of burning BY MEGAN MEADOWS STAFF WRITER Trees knocked down by Hurricane Fran, which were being burned at the Orange County Landfill, have anew destiny. The trees are now being mulched and turned into compost. With such a large quantity of trees being brought into the landfill, Orange County Commissioner Don Wilhoit questioned if the burning was simply a waste of natural resources. “I raised the question at the Landfill Owners Group meeting last week,” Wilhoit said. “I’m glad to see we were able to find some alternative." Harold Harris, managerofthe Orange County Landfill, said he ceased the tree burning as soon as he was notified. “We already stopped burning earlier (yesterday); we got word around noon (yesterday),” Harris said. Questions had been raised as to how costly alternatives to burning would be Power Macintosh’ 5400 PowerPC'6o3eZ 120 MHz/ 16MB RAM 1.6G8/8X CD-ROM/15"display Option 5-A, was part of a S4O million Orange County bond to buildnew school buildings. Tonight’s meeting only addressed the $2.9 million of funds that would have gone to build more schools in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro area. The new schools would ease over crowding in area schools that are filled to capacity. “(The bond) would allow us to build new schools by the year 2000,” Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools Superintendent Neil Pedersen said. School board members said they had ' ,41 1 ' ' v sarinr ■ jr i | Wat. ▼ ... fk I R JprMp. HE w S* ■ : Wg ■ I 1 DTH/BRAD SMITH The Bull's Head Bookshop featured BCC Director Gerald Horne on Thursday. Horne discussed his latest book, 'Fire This Time.' into relations of other cultures as well,” Kale said. Erica Eisdorfer, manager of the Bull’s Head, said she thought the subject matter of Home’s discussion was unique. “Idon’tthinkl’veeverheardanything like it before,” she said. Home’slatestbook, “Fire This Time,” contains discussions about the 1992 Los Angeles riots that followed the acquittals of white police officers who were re corded on video beating a black citizen named Rodney King, Home said. “(The riots have) been described as and if they were realistic possibilities. “Obviously, burning is the cheapest method,” Hanissaid. “Grindingiscostly, but there are benefits to it such as creating mulch and compost for people to use.” The mulch will be sls a ton, said Blair Pollock, landfill solid waste programs manager. The landfill will only make a “minor” profit from the sale, he said. “It’ll be a marketing challenge for us.” The challenge of where to store the wood waiting to be mulched is now a major concern for the landfill. “On-site storage was a difficult option. We have a 4-acre spot where we grind, sell and mulch a year’s amount of wood waste,” he said. Since the hurricane, the landfill has had a “ballpark figure” of 50,000 tons of trees, 10 times the amount they usually get, Pollock said. Pollock said the limited amount of people looking for mulch and wood chips added another hurdle to the task of pro cessing the wood. “There’salimitednum ber of markets out there for wood chips. ” Power Macintosh’ 5260 PowerPC'6o3e/100 MHz/16MB RAM 800MB/4X CD-ROM/14" display NEWS several reservations about passing the bond referendum. Option 5-A wouldsendmoney to build new schools but would not help build ings that already exist. The problem lies in the lack of money all around. Pedersen said there simply wasn’t enough money in Option 5-A to refur bish the schools that already existed in the county. School board member Harvey Goldstein said people in the community have told him of their concern for dete riorating school buildings. the most expensive, destructive episode of civil unrest in U.S. history,” he said. The book also analyzes civil unrest, Home said. It talks about the growth of minority groups in the West, which are sweeping eastward, and how this trend will lead to minorities becoming the majority and whites becoming the mi nority, Home said. “This, of course, presents a challenge to our flunking about race and ethnicity,” he said. “It is also going to, it seems to me, make a mark of significant departure in terms of U.S. history.” Committee discusses enforcing rush deferral ■ Members wondered if too much attention was paid to the Greek community. BY JON WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER A subcommittee dealing with the en forcement of a possible deferred rush for fraternities and sororities met Thursday afternoon to discuss its goals and objec tives. The Chancellor’s Committee on Greek Affairs, of which the subcommittee is a part, is currently discussing deferring rush. The enforcement subcommittee will de cide the pros and cons of enforcing a deferred rush in case it does take effect. “(The subcommittee) needs to exam ine the ways in which wexan satisfy the chancellor and his large constituency and the Greek committee,’’subcommittee Co chairwoman Dorothy Bemholz said. The subcommittee, represented by stu dents, faculty and the Chapel Hill Police Department, said research into present enforcement of Greek policy was needed. In addition to this immediate con Save SIOO on an Apple printer when you buy a Mac. UNC Student Stores lEflfl Only currently enrolled students, faculty and staff C I I|j may purchase from the RAM Shop of the Student Stores. Free one-year Apple warranty. The school board said they welcomed responses and positive feedback from the community. “I don’t think we can over-emphasize the feeling in the community, ” Goldstein said. School board Chairman Mark Royster said the Orange County Commissioners were just now coming to the realization that issues like overcrowding and the current condition of schools needed to be addressed. The state of schools in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro area could not be refur bished only with the funds appropriated Fees pay ECU student body officers’ tuitions BY JEFF YOUNG STAFF WRITER For the first time, the student body president, vice president, treasurer and secretary at East Carolina University are receiving free tuition. In addition, each of the four Student Government Association officers receives a monthly cash stipend and a book sti pend of S2OO per semester. ECU’s Student Congress approved the tuition remis sion and stipends in April under the former studentgov emment adminis tration. John Phillips, current What's up with 'TN the UNC system? SGA treasurer, was also a member oflast year’s Student Congress. “At the last SGA meeting of the year, the bill was passed along with about 30 or 40 other appropriations bills,” Phillips said. “ Basically, this is a leadership scholar ship that will prevent these offices from being exclusionary,” he said. “People already view the SGA as a group of elites, so hopefully this will help students that need financial assistance and want to hold office.” ECU’s SGA is the only one in the UNC system that uses student fees to pay tuition and monthly stipends, said John Dervin, president of the Association of Student Governments. Dervin added that student body presi dents deserve tree tuition. “I would love to see it,” he said. Barbara Wood, a junior microbiology major, disagreed, saying she didn’t want her student fees paying for tuition. “There should be compensation for the work they do, but not tuition,” she said. ECU’s 17,000 students pay $439 per semester in fees, about s4l more than UNC-Chapel Hill’s students. Aaron Nelson, UNC-CH’s student body president, agreed that student rep resentatives work hard, but he did not think paid tuition should be a part of the cem, the subcommittee outlined several goals to deal with before making a rec ommendation to the committee. One goal of the subcommittee was to gage what the community thought the level of enforcement in deferring rush should be for fraternities and sororities. “Does the Chapel Hill community sup port stronger enforcement?” she asked. Student members raised concerns about stronger enforcement of policies. Subcommittee member Amardeep Athwal, a junior from Durham, said they should consider the manner in which enforcement would be carried out before deciding upon what penalties should be enacted. “ The Greek community is singled out; on campus and off campus students aren’t," Athwal said. Captain Gregg Jarvies of the Chapel Hill Police Department said he felt the town did focus a disproportionate amount of attention on fraternities and sororities. “We have mor e problems with private residences rather than fraternities and sororities,” he said. The committee discussed withdraw ing official University recognition from fraternities and sororities that violated Friday, September 20,1996 in the referendum. Pedersen said Option 5-A would still leave the system more than $1.5 million in debt because of all the construction work that needs to be done. Pedersen said he was pleased the com missioners realized that the system needed more money to upgrade the cur rent schools, but it would cost at least $4 million. School board member Nicholas Didow said he believed the board would finalize Option 5-A. ‘Tmoptimisticthattheminor changes to this plan will be worked out.” compensation. “I personally spend as many as 80 hours a week on the job,” Nelson said, who was allotted S2OO a month by UNC CH’s Student Congress. “I believe SGA presidents should be granted some (compensation) for the work they do.” Nelson said a similar measure would be unlikely to gain approval from UNC CH’s Student Congress. Sergio Mariaca, SGA president at UNC-Asheville, agreed with Nelson. “I would hope that student bodies gain a lot from our service,” he said. “Whether or not we deserve paid tu ition, I don’t know. I do know there are scholarship athletes who, although they work hard at being student athletes, don’t do as much as we do for the university as a whole.” Brandon Mathis, SGA president at UNC-G, said presidents should receive either stipends or tuition, but not both. Asa result of a campuswide pay cut, Mathis receives $3,240 per year, 10 per cent less than his predecessor. N.C. State University SGA President Robert Zimmer earns a salary of $2,400 a year. ECU Student Body President Angela Nix receives $876 per semester to pay her in-state tuition, a S4OO per month stipend and a S2OO per semester book stipend. If an out-of-state student was elected, the school would not pay for the total bill. “Only the in-state tuition amount would be paid,” Phillips said. Dervin, who has worked with Nix, citedher extensive voter registrationwork throughout the UNC system as reason for payment. “ECU students are making money off the job she does,” he said. Nix declined to comment. Wood also concededthatECU’s SGA had been doing a good job, but she won dered about the motivation of next years’ SGA candidates. “I see people in those positions who are working for free similar to volunteer workers,” she said. “They are in it to do the job, not for financial benefit.” “(The subcommittee) needs to examine ways in which we can satisfy the chancellor and his large constituency and the Greek committee. ” DOROTHY BERNHOLTZ Subcommittee Co-chairwoman the guidelines of a deferred rush. Jarvies said if official recognition was withdrawn, it would cause organizations to lose Greek status. This would in turn cause problems for the house if the zoning laws in that area are specifically zoned for the Greek com munity, he said. “Once the house loses (University) recognition it becomes a residence hall according to zoning laws,” Jarvies said. The fraternity or sorority would then have to make either costly changes to the house in order to meet zoning laws or vacate the property to keep from getting fined, Jarvies said. “It’s a strong sanction.” 3