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The University and Towns
In Brief
Carrboro Gunslinger
Foiled By Witness
Donald Troutner, 33, of the Village
Apartments, unit L-6, in Carrboro, was
arrested in his home early Wednesday
and charged with two misdemeanor
counts of assault with a deadly weapon.
Police reports state that Troutner
drew a gun and threatened to kill a
father and son at the Willow Creek
shopping center in Carrboro on
Tuesday night.
Ed Joyner, 50, of 1508 Jomac Rd.,
Chapel Hill, was shopping at the Food
Lion with his son and daughter, police
Said, when he sent his son to the drug
Store.
Joyner and his daughter finished
shopping when he saw his son waving
in the parking lot and calling him over.
The boy pointed to Troutner and said
Troutner pointed a gun at him and
threatened to kill him. Joyner
approached Troutner and Troutner
turned the gun and threatened to kill
him, too, reports state.
Joyner called 911 at 9:34 p.m.
Tuesday and Carrboro police respond
ed and stopped the white Ford Explorer
that Troutner was reported to be leaving
in. Troutner, riding with three other
men, claimed that Joyner had threat
ened him with a gun. But police did not
find a gun. They released everyone and
no one was injured.
Then a witness came forward and
identified Troutner as the gun-toter, said
Carrboro Chief of Police Carolyn
Hutchison. Police served a warrant on
Troutner later that night.
Troutner was released on S3OO unse
cured bond. His trial is scheduled for
Feb. 1 at the Orange County District
Court in Hillsborough.
College Lights Lectures
To Feature Faculty
The spring series of “College Lights”
afternoon lectures will begin Feb. 9.
Professor of Marine Sciences Dirk
Frankenberg is the speaker for the first
, lecture in the series.
Frankenberg will discuss “North
Carolina Natural Areas and
Environmental Tourism.”
Each lecture will begin at 4 p.m. in
the George Watts Hill Alumni Center.
The series features outstanding teach
ers from the UNC College of Arts and
Sciences.
The talks are free and open to the
public.
Drama Companies to
Hold Auditions at UNC
Outdoor drama companies from
seven states will hold auditions for sum
mer jobs at UNC on March 20.
Companies from Kentucky, North
Carolina, Ohio, Texas, Virginia, West
Virginia and New Mexico will recruit
for 350 jobs at the auditions, sponsored
by UNC’s Institute of Outdoor Drama.
Auditions are open to anyone over
18 with theater experience. For more
information, contact Todd Lidh at 962-
1328.
Roe v. Wade Breakfast
Planned for Friday
Planned Parenthood of Chapel Hill
will host a breakfast on the 26th
anniversary of the landmark Supreme
Court decision in the Roe v. Wade abor
tion case.
Rep. David Price, D-Orange, is
expected to attend. Contact Planned
Parenthood of Chapel Hill for more
information.
Late OWASA Bills
Mailed This Week
All of Orange Water and Sewer
Authority’s December bills -some of
which were delayed after a computer
glitch - were in the mail by Wednesday,
an OWASA official said.
About 4,500 accounts were not billed
for December last week because of the
installation of anew billing and finan
cial management system, OWASA
Public Affairs Administrator Vic
Simpson said.
Bills are normally mailed on a 10-day
cycle beginning on the 10th of the
month.
Two-thirds of January’s bills would
normally have been mailed by now, but
Simpson said none have been sent thus
far.
OWASA’s billing cycle should be
caught up by February, but next
month’s first cycle could also be a cou
ple of days late, he said.
Despite the delay, Simpson said no
customers would receive two months’
bills at once, and OWASA officials were
trying to be as understanding as possi
ble with payment arrangements.
From Staff Reports
Alderman Approve Cable Rate Hike
Carrboro officials say the
cable company has used
the wrong inflation rate
to calculate its rate hike.
By Ferris Morrison
Staff Writer
Despite heated opposition from
members of the Carrboro Board of
Aldermen on Wednesday, cable cus
tomers will see an immediate hike in
standard service rates from Time
Warner Cable.
Standard service charges will be
increased about $1 for Chapel Hill and
Carrboro. Charges for additional chan
nels like HBO will increase anywhere
from $.55 to $1.55.
Time Warner Cable announced in
October that it would decrease its basic
Think Tank Targets
Student Concerns
The half-hour session
allowed students to talk
about concerns to a student
body presidential candidate.
By Carrie Callaghan
Staff Writer
Students aired their concerns about
student government’s ability to provide
information and representation
Wednesday during a think tank spon
sored by “Amanda Greene for Student
Body President.”
The forum provided an opportunity
for students to reach student body pres
ident candidates and for Greene to solic
it platform ideas, said Kristen Campbell,
a worker for
Greene’s cam
paign.
About 18 stu
dents came and
went throughout
the hour-and-a-half
period and had an
unfacilitated dis
cussion where
their ideas were
recorded on poster
“When you ’re getting
slammed with so much
information, it’s really easy
to throw stuff aside. ”
Shawn Frost
UNC Junior
board in front of the group.
Voiced concerns included issues such
as the overall availability of information
on student resources, parking and the
operating hours of University facilities.
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Senior track team member Regan
Leahy, who has been on the team
for four years, throws a medicine
ball during practice.
Local Officials Criticize Mega-Mall Zoning Approval
A resolution passed by the
Chapel Hill Town Council
failed to convince Durham
to stop the mall project.
By Matt Leclercq
Assistant City Editor
Local officials said they were disap
pointed but not surprised after the
Durham City Council rezoned 243 acres
of land Wednesday morning for a mall
and office complex, passing on a Chapel
Hill Town Council request to delay the
move.
A resolution passed last week by the
Chapel Hill Town Council asked the
Durham City Council to weigh the
impact of a 1.3-million-square-foot mall
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service rate by
$.04 for customers
in Carrboro and
$.54 for customers
in Chapel Hill.
Basic cable
includes local
channels, and
standard service
includes channels
like MTV, ESPN
and Lifetime.
According to
an analysis head
ed by Robert
Sepe, Carrboro’s
cable consultant,
Carrboro Alderman
Alex Zaffron
said he was not
satisfied with the
standard cable
service rates.
Time Warner incorrectly used the
Federal Communications Commission
inflation percentage when the cable
rates for Carrboro and Chapel Hill were
calculated in October. Had Time
Warner used the current inflation rate,
Shawn Frost, a junior from Raleigh,
expressed dissatisfaction in the avail
ability of information. “The resources
that women have on campus aren’t pub
licized,” he said, citing the Orange
County Crisis Center as an example.
Jodene Akeung, a freshman from
Trinidad, said the lack of accessible
information for international students
bothered her. “Things don’t always
work as fast in other countries as they do
here,” she said, citing how the difference
affects mail services.
A letter that takes two days in the
United States might take three weeks to
reach an international student, she said.
“I had nothing (in the way of classes)
when I first got here,” she said. Akeung
recommended a better support system
for international students.
Others dis
cussed how the
availability of
information con
cerning advising
and enrichment
programs would
benefit students,
particularly fresh
men.
Frost said using
resident assistants
to disseminate information would all
students. “When you’re getting
slammed with so much information (at
the beginning of the year), it’s really
easy to throw stuff aside.”
Search Continues for Law School Dean
Richard Cole, chairman of
the search committee, says
members will meet today
to discuss further options.
By Chris Hostetler
Staff Writer
A committee charged with recom
mending anew law school dean will
meet today to mull over the remaining
five candidates chosen as finalists for the
position.
University of Arizona School of Law
Dean Joel Seligman, the leading candi
date to replace outgoing dean Judith
Wegner, announced Monday he would
accept the deanship at Washington
University School of Law in St. Louis,
Mo.
School of Journalism and Mass
Communication Dean Richard Cole,
chairman of the law school dean search
committee, said committee members
would meet this afternoon with Provost
on area traffic and air pollution.
“To have that many added cars is
going to be a real impediment to getting
around efficiently,” Chapel Hill Town
Council member Flicka Bateman said.
“We all lose when our major traffic arter
ies get too much cholesterol in them.”
The mall would mean an additional
24,000 cars traveling on Interstate 40,
the resolution states.
Durham City Council members gave
a nod to the proposed Southpoint mall
and an adjacent office-residential com
plex at a heavily attended meeting
Tuesday night that lasted past 1 a.m.
Slated to open in 2002 on 1-40 near
Fayetteville Road, Southpoint will be
Durham’s largest retail complex with
five anchor stores and an outdoor shop
ping plaza, said Paul Norby, director of
Durham City-County Planning.
the basic cable rate would have been
$1.02 less for Chapel Hill and $.16 less
for Carrboro, the analysis states.
Sepe said Time Warner followed
FCC guidelines because the cable com
pany’s officials announced its rate
changes the day before the FCC
released 1998’s inflation factors.
The board voted 5-2 to approve a
basic rate adjustment. Aldermen Alex
Zaffron and Jacquelyn Gist said they
voted against the adjustment because
they were not satisfied with the standard
service rates. “Technically, it’s correct,”
Sepe said. “It has to be allowed.”
Town Manager Robert Morgan said
this same problem occurred last year.
“Last year, they used the wrong infla
tion factor,” Morgan said. “What we’re
recommending is that they correct that.”
Mayor Mike Nelson said the board
could only vote on the adjustments
made to basic cable, not to the standard
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Candidate for student body president Mandy Greene (right) listens
to freshman Abi Sommer at Wednesday's "think-tank" meeting.
In addition to concerns about fresh
men, students complained about the
lack of privilege accorded to seniors in
the parking process. “I was thinking
maybe we should have some sort of
seniority system because people have
the spot they want as a sophomore but
then they’re off to the PR lot as a
junior,” Frost said.
Another major student gripe was the
operating hours of UNC facilities,
including the libraries and dining halls.
“At an academic institution, I think it’s
ridiculous not to have a library at your
disposal at all hours,” Campbell said.
Dick Richardson
to discuss further
options.
Although UNC
officials were dis
appointed that
Seligman turned
down the
University’s offer,
the decision did
not come as that
much of a sur
prise, Cole said.
“He was being
courted by a num
ber of different
schools,” he said.
University of Arizona
Law School Dean
Joel Seligman
said his family
wanted to live in a
larger city.
Seligman, in a letter faxed to
Chancellor Michael Hooker, said he
chose Washington over UNC only
because his family wanted to live in a
larger city.
Cole said the committee had made
no decision yet as to the next candidate,
and might not decide anything concrete
in today’s meeting.
“It’s just a discussion meeting,” Cole
The developers will pay about sl4
million to improve surrounding roads,
Norby said. “The developer of the mall
offered significandy more traffic
improvements to the intersection of 1-40
and Fayetteville Road and also
more intersection improvements of
Fayetteville and N.C. 54.”
Durham City Council member Floyd
McKissick Jr. said fellow council mem
bers considered the Chapel Hill Town
Council’s request, but that other issues
prevailed. “A spontaneous weighing-in
on an issue will not receive a great deal
of consideration,” he said, adding that
local governments should form a mech
anism to share ideas in the future.
“I do believe there is an absolute
need of a greater level of regional coop
eration for land and transportation
issues."
service or individual channels. Effective
April 1, no agency will regulate rates
beyond basic service, giving Time
Warner and other cable companies the
ability to raise their rates without justifi
cation, according to town documents.
Zaffron said he found it disturbing
that cable rates would not be regulated
after March.
Alderman Allen Spalt said the board
should send a letter to Rep. David Price,
D-N.C., concerning a legislative inquiry
on the deregulation of the cable rates
beyond the basic service. The board
also discussed the possibility of explor
ing other options for Carrboro’s cable
service.
“We all know basic cable doesn’t offer
anything,” Zaffron said. “It’s so insub
stantial, it’s comical.”
The City Editor can be reached at
citydesk@unc.edu.
Abi Sommer, a freshman from
Austin, Texas, said the inconsistent
hours of campus dining halls were
inconvenient “I think Lenoir and Chase
(dining halls) need to set up an eating
schedule and set it in stone, regardless of
holidays,” she said. “If the University’s
open, they need to be available.”
Almost every issue boils down to stu
dents being aware of information and
how to access things, said Erik Mikysa,
a junior from Oklahoma City, Okla.
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
said.
After the committee decides who to
recommend for the position, it will pre
sent the recommendation to Hooker
and Richardson.
The committee had suggested six
candidates, but had recommended
Seligman as their top choice.
Cole said the other finalists were well
qualified for the position.
“We have out
standing candi
dates,” he said.
“We’re really fortu
nate to have such a
sterling group of
finalists.”
One of those
finalists, University
of lowa Vice
Provost W.H.
Knight Jr., said he
“We have outstanding
candidates. We’re really
fortunate to have such
a sterling group of finalists. ”
Richard Cole
Search Committee Chairman
was unaware of Seligman’s decision to
decline UNC’s offer.
“If (search committee members) have
tried to contact me, I have not gotten
their message,” Knight said.
‘You enter Durham city limits,
and it’s a world of
asphalt, steel, glass
and concrete. ”
Stephen Halkiotis
Orange County Commissioner
Orange County Commissioner
Stephen Halkiotis called the vote “hor
rible” and said it would chill the working
relationship between Orange and
Durham counties’ governments.
Durham is pursuing “false dreams”
when considering the 3,000 retail jobs
Southpoint is predicted to generate, he
said. “Low-paying sales jobs are the
engine driving the whole project. If
Thursday, January 21, 1999
Groups
Funding
Yanked
Congress Speaker Morayo
Orija says Common Sense
failed to meet conditions
attached to the funds.
By Andrew Meehan
Staff Writer
A conservative group Wednesday
night lost SIO,OOO it received from
Student Congress last semester to bring
Charlton Heston, president of the
National Rifle Association and an actor,
to speak on campus.
Speaker Morayo Orija and Finance
Committee Chairman Ryan Schlitt said
they decided to take back the funds
after Common Sense -a conservative
group that brings speakers to campus -
failed to meet conditions attached to the
funds.
On Oct. 27, Congress gave SIO,OOO
in speaker fees to the group, but
attached a condition to rescind the
money “if a legal contract is not shown
to the student body treasurer and
acknowledgement of that forwarded to
the speaker and finance committee
chairs by the last day of classes for the
fall semester.” The last day of classes
was Dec. 7.
Former Speaker Brad Morrison, who
resigned Dec. 1, said he was never
informed of a contract. Orija also said
she heard of the contract after Dec. 7
last semester, but she never saw it
In a telephone interview Wednesday,
Dasher said he had been told that a con
tract existed, but he had never seen a
signed contract.
“To my knowledge, Common Sense
completed their contract before the
deadline,” he said.
“I didn’t see signatures because you
can’t see them on e-mail, and you can’t
hear them on the phone.”
But in a later interview Wednesday,
Dasher said he had made a mistake. He
said he had seen a contract at the end of
November or beginning of December.
He also said he had told the speaker
about the contract.
“I did see the actual contract, signa
tures to boot.”
Schlitt said he was told of the con
tract on Dec. 8, and he saw the contract,
dated Dec. 7, early this semester, which
was the last day of classes in the fall.
Congress allocated the funds after
debate in two separate meetings. The
debate stemmed from questions about
See SENSE, Page 11
He also said UNC would find a qual
ified person to take the job.
“The person who is ultimately select
ed will be of star quality and will do an
excellent job at UNC,” Knight said.
Cornell Law School Professor Stewart
Schwab, another of the six final candi
dates, said although he had not been
informed of Seligman’s decision, he was
still interested in taking the post at
UNC.
“I think it
remains a very
attractive posi
tion,” Schwab said.
The other can
didates are Emory
University
Professor Frank
Alexander, UNC
Professor John
Conley and Ohio
State University Professor Nancy
Rogers.
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
that’s economic development in
Durham, more power to them.”
Halkiotis also questioned the way
Durham had allowed growth along U.S.
15-501. “You enter Durham city limits,
and it’s a world of asphalt, steel, glass
and concrete. This will look like the
Baltimore-Washington corridor, but they
seem hell-bent on doing it”
But critics of Durham’s decision
should review the proposals more close
ly, McKissick said.
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Joyce Brown said the two governing
bodies would continue joint efforts to
develop around along U. 5.15-501. “I
think we’ll continue to work together as
much as we can in a cooperative spirit"
The City Editor can be reached at
citydesk@unc.edu.
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