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SEAC member Linda Chupkowski 'chain saws' members at a protest
Thursday. SEAC protested the use of rainforest woods in furniture.
SEAC protests deaths,
logging in rainforests
■ Eight students “died” at
a protest to represent
terrorized Amazon tribes.
BY CATHERINE MEDEOT
STAFF WRITER
Eight members of the Student
Environmental Action Coalition sym
bolically “died” yesterday to protest the
deaths of Amazon tribes people by
Brazilian logging companies.
Each student represented a tribe that
logging companies have terrorized for
the timber on the tribes’ land, said
Annie Newell, SEAC spokeswoman.
“We’re focusing on how tribes people
are losing their land,” she said. “When
they try to defend their land, they usu
ally get killed.”
Dressed entirely in black and carry
ing cardboard tombstones, each of the
eight students gave a brief explanation
of the tribes people’s murders. They
then fell to the ground to the sound of a
chainsaw.
“There are so many people who don’t
know what’s going on,” said Linda
Chupkowski, the SEAC member who
operated the chainsaw. “We want to
inform the ignorant.”
SEAC members staged the demon
stration to get people to stop buying
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lucrative rainforest woods such as
mahogany, said Andrew Pearson, a co
coordinator of the demonstration.
The coalition is protesting the sale of
mahogany because the tribes people
who were killed lived in areas where
mahogany is located, said Rich Bauer, a
co-coordinator of the demonstration.
He said the demonstration’s purpose
was to make consumers more aware.
“It’s about consumers’ responsibility
and people considering the politick
power their money has,” Bauer said.
“It’s about trying to get people to come
to the protest and stand up.”
Pearson said, “SEAC is dedicated to
showing people that they have the
power to affect global issues.”
Lauren Attanas, co-chairwoman of
SEAC, said she was pleased that such an
event made people more aware about
how they can save the rainforest.
“I’m really happy to reach people and
let them know the implications of then
daily actions,” she said.
SEAC encouraged consumers to con
front stores such as Ethan Allen and
Haverty’s Furniture because they refuse
to stop selling mahogany.
Though many students stopped to lis
ten, others laughed and jeered at the
eight. A group of students on the stairs
of South Building even sang, “I’m a
lumberjack and I’m OK,” to make fan
of the SEAC members.
Cards give students P2P route schedules
BY MELANIE FLOYD
staff mm
Along with credit cards and drivers’
licenses, next week students will have
another card to add to their wallets.
The cards will contain information
regarding safety and security, such as
phone numbers for Point-2-Point,
University Police and Student Health
Service.
It will also contain a time schedule
and map of the P2P route.
“Our concentration this year was the
dissemination of information on how
students can keep themselves safe,” said
Karen Schuller, safety and security coor
dinator of student government.
“The cards are small enough to fit in
a wallet, so students should be able to
Day to serve
as hurricane
observance
■ A stream cleanup in will
be held to mark the day
Hurricane Fran hit.
BY CHRIS ANDREW
STAFF WRITER
Students and community residents
will be able to remember Hurricane
Fran in a positive way Friday and
Saturday.
The town of Chapel Hill will spon
sor a stream cleanup project at the
Chapel Hill Community Center on
Estes Drive.
“To many people (Hurricane Fran)
raises a lot of negative images, but I
think they may
forget the positive
side to it,” said
Lisa Baaske of the
Chapel Hill
Department of
Parks and
Recreation.
Baaske said she
hoped people
Hurricane Fran
observance picnic
4pm6pm
Chapel Hill
Community Center
on Estes Drive
could realize they were celebrating
Fran’s observance and the unity they
experienced after the storm.
The project includes a variety of vol
unteer activities set up for times and
locations throughout the two days, said
Delegates call Clinton’s global warming plan disappointing
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
BONN, Germany Delegates to
U.N. talks called President Clinton’s
gradual approach to curbing global
warming “modest” and “disappointing”
Thursday polite criticism that only
hints at their frustration in trying to sal
vage a global agreement.
Clinton unveiled the U.S. proposal for
cutting emissions of greenhouse gases
Wednesday, setting in motion the deci
sive phase of bargaining over a global
accord that is to be signed at a Dec. 1-10
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keep the cards with them at all times for
reference,” she said.
Student government has been busy
stuffing 25,000 envelopes with cards for
each student to provide another measure
of security and safety.
“A lot of students have claimed they
didn’t know about safety services,”
Schuller said. “ We hope the cards will
eliminate the lack of information.”
Many students said they didn’t know
where the P2P stops were. They also
said they often ended up waiting
because they didn’t know the times it
came.
“You have to go searching for a stop,
and you don’t know where it’s at,” said
Kelly Newman, a freshman from Rocky
Mount.
“If you had the card, you would
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Last September local employees helped clean up debris from fallen trees left by Hurricane Fran. Members of the
community will be able to observe the anniversary of Fran by removing litter Friday and Saturday.
Mayor Rosemary Waldorf, who sug
gested the project.
Waldorf said she came up with the
idea for the cleanup because she liked to
see the community unite.
“There was an amazing coming
together of people (for Fran last year),”
she said. “We thought (the observance)
would be a great way to bring it back.”
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“(Friday’s) a teacher workday, and
meeting in Kyoto, Japan.
No breakthrough on emission targets
was expected at the present lower-level
talks in Bonn, which end Oct. 31.
Clinton’s proposals, condemned as
too timid by many European nations,
developing countries and environmen
talists, would commit industrial nations
to cutting emissions of carbon dioxide
and other heat-trapping gases to 1990
levels by 2012. Cuts below 1990 levels
would follow in the next five years.
The 15-nation European Union
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“The cards are small enough
to fit in a wallet, so students
should be able to keep the
cards with them at all times.”
KJUEN SCHULLER
Safety and security coordinator for
student government
know.”
Student government and P2P said
more communication was needed.
“The students turn over every four
years, so then we have to start over with
communication. It’s a continuing
process,” said Tim McGerty, P2P man
ager.
we’re targeting them,” said Michael
Neal, who will supervise the coordina
tor of the stream cleanup. “It’s a good
thing to clean up the streams.”
Interested people can meet at the
Chapel Hill Community Center or at
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The cleanup of the steams is not nec
essarily to remove the debris from the
devastating hurricane. It is mostly to
clean up litter in observance of the
wants emissions cut to 15 percent below
1990 levels by 2010.
“My first impression is that
(Clinton’s) offer is a very modest one,”
said Raul Estrada-Oyuela, the
Argentine chairman of the U.N. meet
ing of about 150 nations.
German Environment Minister
Angela Merkel said the U.S. plan was
“insufficient;” the French Foreign
Ministry called it “disappointing.”
After the United States presented its
proposal at Thursday’s session,
Zimbabwe speaking for African
nations scathingly rejected it before
Estrada-Oyuela postponed debate until
Monday, according to meeting partici
pants. The session was closed to
reporters.
Delegates apparently were still study
ing details of the U.S. plan.
The U.S. proposal was the last major
element missing in the talks on binding
cuts in emissions of the heat-trapping
gases, which began in 1995.
Two White House aides arrived in
Bonn on Thursday to lobby other coun
tries to accept it.
One, David Sandalow, suggested
Clinton’s proposal leaves U.S. negotia
tors limited room to bargain.
“President Clinton does want an
agreement on the basis of the U.S. pro
posal,” he told a news conference,
though he added that Washington hopes
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Some students said they felt they
were being overwhelmed with the infor
mation.
“They give you enough papers with
the information at the beginning of
school, they don’t need to tell us again,”
said Garrett Klas, a freshman from
Washington. “I think it’s a waste of
paper.”
Schuller said the project, which began
in July, had grown from its original state.
She said she hoped it would be a con
tinuing project with cards issued in com
ing years to freshman and transfer stu
dents.
“What started out as an off-hand
comment has turned out to be bigger
than I imagined,” Schuller said.
The cards were paid for through stu
dent safety and security fees.
anniversary of Hurricane Fran, which
slammed through the Triangle in
September 1996, Neal said.
A ceremonial tree planting will be
held Saturday at 4:30 p.m. at the Chapel
Hill Community Center to replace seven
native Chapel Hill trees that were
destroyed by the hurricane. Lowe’s and
the Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce
donated trees for the event, Baaske said.
A picnic lasting until 6 p.m. will follow
the ceremony.
negotiators can “shape a common
approach.”
Bill Hare of the Greenpeace environ
mental group appealed to German
Chancellor Helmut Kohl, British Prime
Minister Tony Blair and other European
leaders to urge Clinton to toughen his
plan.
Developing countries, including
China, Brazil and India, have thrown
their weight behind the EU targets, leav
ing the United States largely isolated.
Japan, taking a middle position, seeks a
5 percent cut by 2012.
While emission cuts are highly con
troversial, delegates in Bonn are also
seeking agreement in a host of other
areas where U.S.-European disputes are
often a factor.
These include which pollutants the
treaty should cover, how to amend it to
reflect new research on global warming
and whether the pact should call for
international coordination on policies
such as energy taxes to fight emis
sions of greenhouse gases.
Powerful U.S. industries have
launched a lobbying campaign against
binding pollution cuts, saying they
would wipe out hundreds of thousands
of American jobs.
Employers across the European
Union issued a similar warning
Thursday, calling the EU plan unrealis
tic.
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