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The University and Towns
In Brief
Firm Advises Against
Privatized Services
A recent report released by Roesel,
Kent and Associates, a private firm
hired by the University to look for ways
UNC could cut costs with privatization,
urged UNC not to turn residential
housekeeping services over to an out
side contractor.
Privatization of residence hall house
keeping would cost the University an
extra $59,620, according to the report.
The report will be discussed as part
of a presentation by the UNC
Housekeeping Department to the out
sourcing committee April 12.
University officials said they agreed
with the findings of the report.
“We obtain excellent services from
the in-house housekeeping employees,"
said Bruce Runberg, associate vice
chancellor of facilities services.
“We have seen significant improve
ments in the quality of housekeeping in
the last year-and-a-half.”
Out-of-State Students
Needed for Committee
The Out-of-State Students
Association, a group run through stu
dent government, is accepting applica
tions for its 1999-2000 Coordinating
Committee. Applications are available
at the front desk of the Student Union.
The deadline for completed applica
tions is 5 p.m. April 5.
Cancer Clinic to Teach
Prevention, Self-Exams
The Carolina Cancer Focus, a stu
dent organization, will present a clinic
on breast and other types of cancer at
7:30 p.m. tonight.
The goal of the clinic is to teach stu
dents how to prevent cancer with self
exams. Females should meet in 105
Gardner Hall and males should meet in
309 Gardner Hall.
For more information, contact Sonia
Mondor at 914-6109.
Community Recycling
Holds Waste Collection
Orange Community Recycling, a
program of the Orange Regional
Landfill, is holding a hazardous waste
collection from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. April 3
at the Orange Regional Landfill on
Eubanks Road.
Items included in the collection are
all household, lawn, pool and automo
tive chemicals, batteries, cleaner, paints,
sealers and solvents, aerosol cans and
fluorescent light bulbs.
Bookstore to Present
Local Author's Book
Author John Elliston will be at 7 p.m.
April 1 at Internationalist Books to pre
sent his new book, “Psywar on Cuba:
The Declassified History of U.S. Anti-
Castro Propaganda."
Elliston unveils declassified CIA and
U.S. Government documents detailing
a 40-year campaign to wage psycholog
ical warfare on Cuba.
Refreshments and discussion will fol
low his unveiling of the book.
Internationalist Books is located at 405
W. Franklin Street Those with ques
tions should call 942-1740.
Orange County Names
Economic Director
Orange County Manager John Link
has appointed Dianne Reid as
Economic Development Director. Reid
will begin work April 5.
As Economic Development Director,
Reid will supervise the Orange County
Economic Development Department
and oversee areas such as small business
assistance, tourism, arts promotion,
employment education and training.
County in Immediate
Need of Volunteers
Volunteer Orange!, a service of
Triangle United Way, is recruiting and
referring volunteers to local nonprofit
and human service organizations.
Immediate needs include escorts to
drive animals to and from an animal
shelter to a clinic for medical treatment
on weekends, mentors to children or
adolescents with a learning disability
and/or emotional or behavioral prob
lems and adult volunteers who would
like to be court advocates for children.
Hundreds of volunteers are needed
to work a large fund-raising event, to be
held April 24, for four area nonprofit
organizations that serve people living
with HIV/AIDS.
Those who need information should
call 929-9837 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Monday, Wednesday or Fridav.
-From Staff Reports
Congress Gives Thumbs-Up to Picks
Laughter and antics marked
resolutions of gratitude in
the final session of the
80th Student Congress.
Bv Andrew Meehan
Staff Writer
A Student Congress that one repre
sentative described as “touchy-feely”
was all thank-yous and approvals at its
last session Tuesday night
The body approved, without objec
tion, Student Body President-Elect Nic
Heinke’s choices for student body trea
surer, vice president and secretary.
Congress then passed some unusually
State Law
Inhibits
Charge
Officials say a driving while
intoxicated charge in
Saturday's Zeta Tau Alpha
house accident is unlikely.
By Jon Ostendorff
City Editor
Although Chapel Hill Police are still
investigating a possible driving-while
impaired charge in Saturday 's Zeta Tau
Alpha accident, state law might make it
difficult to build a solid case.
According to the Orange County
District Attorney’s office, drivers can
only be charged with driving while
impaired if they are caught on a public
road, highway or public parking lot
Although police reports state that
UNC senior Samuel Paul Buckman, 21,
of 701 Pritchard Ave. Ext., who drove
his truck through a wall at the Zeta
house, was “extremely impaired” he
was not charged with DWI because the
accident happened in a “private” park
ing lot.
Officials said it was unlikely the dri
ver would be charged with anything
more than resisting, delaying and
obstructing an officer and injury to real
property.
But Chapel Hill Police Lt. Tim
Pressley, who teaches a motor vehicle
law course to police officers, said the
law that designated areas as private and
public was not that cut and dry, which
was part of the reason Buckman was not
charged with DWI after the accident
Although Pressley would not com
ment direcdy on the Zeta house acci
dent because its still under investigation,
he did use the University Mall parking
lot as an example of traffic law enforce
ment on private property. He said the
parking lot was private, but open to the
public and that this meant police did
have some regulatory power.
“The way that it comes into play, as
far as law enforcement is concerned, is
that a person can be arrested for DWI
in the mall parking lot but does not
need a valid driver’s license to drive
there," he said.
Pressley said police could also have
difficulty' charging drunk drivers who
crash into private property. If witnesses
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Rough-housing:
Women's Rugby Club
By Moira Vanderhoof
Staff Writer
While the members of the women’s
rugby club might be tough with their
tackling, they deny the common mis
conception that the sport makes them
brutish or masculine.
“We are defi
nitely not brutes.
We are of all dif
ferent body
types, shapes
and sizes,” said
Shannon
Edgerton, club
president and a
senior from
Asheville.
th e edge
Made up of 25 dedicated women,
the undefeated team was founded in
1993 by a group of students anxious to
open the sport up to UNC women.
Senior Beth Creech of Zebulon has
been playing rugby for three years,
and she said that nothing compared to
the feeling of being on the rugby team.
“It’s really a good group of people,”
University & City
worded resolu
tions of gratitude
for many students.
Student
Congress Finance
Committee
Chairman Ryan
Schlitt was
approved as trea
surer. He inherits
an office that was
in disorder early
this semester after
former treasurer
James Dasher
resigned.
Student Body
All appointments
made by
Student Body
President-Elect
Nic Heinke
were approved.
Vice President Emily Williamson said
Schlitt had saved the office with assistant
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UNC students celebrate after Connecticut defeated Duke (77-74) in the National Championship game
Monday night. Students stormed Franklin Street, chanting "overrated" and started a small bonfire before
the Chapel Hill police and fire department regulated the scene.
UNC: Computer Virus No Problem
The computer virus Melissa
disguises itself as an e-mail
message that contains an
infected Word document.
By Angela Mers
Staff Writer
Although a computer virus infecting
e-mail servers has swept across the
nation, officials said they had already
taken steps to prevent the virus from
taking hold at UNC.
The Melissa vims, first reported
Friday afternoon at Carnegie Mellon
University, disguises itself as an e-mail
message that contains an infected Word
document named list.doc.
If the user has Microsoft Outlook e
mail client software installed, then the
vims automatically enters the user’s
address book and sends itself to the first
Creech said. “We are all close friends.”
Although UNC does not have a var
sity rugby team, the women play on a
varsity level. “Everyone takes it very
seriously," Creech said. “It is struc
tured like a varsity sport.”
The competitors in the women’s
league are varsity teams. They include
Elon College, N.C. State University,
Guilford College and Furman
University.
This past weekend the team com
peted in the South Eastern Collegiate
Conference Regional Championship in
Greenville, S.C., and beat Clemson
University to win the championship
for the second year in a row.
With the win, the women earned
the right to travel April 17 to
Pennsylvania State University where
they will compete in the Sweet Sixteen
of the National Championship.
“We feel great, and our goal is defi
nitely to win nationals,” said Coach
Ted Calhoun, a UNC alumnus who
commutes from Zebulon to coach the
teapi-
Neil Bagchi, a senior from Toronto,
treasurers Sara Reynolds and Brandon
Davis. “I’m proud that Ryan Schlitt is
going to step up one more step.”
Monika Moore, a junior from
Statesville, was approved as the new
vice president. Moore was co-chair
woman for academic advising reform
and associate student attorney general.
Lerissa Rentas, a sophomore from
Charlotte, was approved as the new sec
retary. She said she wanted to work
inside student government. “If you
could help the student government
members by motivating and encourag
ing, they will be able to accomplish
more goals,” she said.
After approving Heinke’s appoint
ments, Congress began passing resolu
tions of gratitude.
50 addresses.
A user without the Microsoft Outlook
software can still receive the virus, but
the virus will not send itself through the
user’s address book.
Director for Information Technology
Response Services Sherry Graham said
most of UNC did not use Microsoft
Outlook as an e-mail client, but some
departments did, including the School of
Medicine, the Department of Biology
and the Facilities Planning Department.
She said since the majority of the
University did not use Microsoft
Oudook, the virus should not cause the
e-mail server to go down. “We have
done our best to contact these depart
ments (that use Microsoft Outlook).”
Graham said the virus could damage
e-mail servers for corporations where
Microsoft Outlook software was used.
When IT Response Services learned
of the Melissa virus Monday, they
downloaded the anti-virus of Melissa
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Justine O'Connor, a freshman from Matthews, drives into a sled at rugby practice on Ehringhaus Field. The
women's rugby team qualified for the April 17 National Championships at a tournament this past weekend.
Canada and a member of the men’s
rugby team, has been the women’s
assistant coach for the past three years.
“The girls on the team are in great
shape and are great athletes,” Bagchi
The resolution thanking principle
Congress clerk Katie Hanson stated she
had “endured the endless monotony of
Student Congress bureaucracy.”
When Congress thanked Congress
television producer Amy Joe Scruggs,
the lights dimmed and Celine Dion’s
“My Heart Will Go On” sounded as she
went to the podium. Fourteen Congress
members then lined up, got down on
one knee and kissed her ring finger.
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Bryan Kennedy,
who was a member of the previous two
sessions of Congress, said die body had
passed resolutions only thanking the
speaker when he was a member.
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from the Norton Anti-virus Web site to
the IT shareware Web site. IT Response
Services also contacted a listserv of
University computer support employ
ees, Carolina Technology Consultants,
and Computer Labs Manager Brent
Caison informing them about the virus
and where to find the anti-virus.
Graham said that over time the virus
would get cleaned up, but the main issue
was whether there would be copycat
viruses. Tuesday morning there were
reports of a mutation of the Melissa
virus called Papa. This mutation infects
Excel spreadsheets and sends 60 mes
sages of itself after infection.
Dennis Schmidt, director of opera
tions of the medical school’s Office of
Information Systems, said the school
made the anti-virus available on the
school’s Web site. Schmidt said he had
not heard any reports of the virus so far.
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said. “In terms of technique, they are
better than the guys.”
He described the women’s practices
as very intense. “At practices we do a
lot of fitness, sprinting and ball han-
Wednesday, March 31, 1999
Charter
School
Still Open
Students who have not yet
transferred to other schools
will still attend class at the
School in the Community.
By Lindsey Emery
Staff Writer
Despite reports that Carrboro’s
School in the Community is closing its
doors today, staff members said they
would continue to instruct remaining
students on a voluntary basis until fur
ther notice.
Due to a lack of state funding and
support, teachers at the school will
receive their last paychecks today.
While most of the students will either
enroll in public schools or homeschool
ing, the school’s four teachers will
remain without pay to teach seniors and
students who have not yet transferred.
Lead Administrator Debra McHenry
said the school did not adequate funds.
“We just didn’t have enough resources
or support to get the vision off the
ground.”
The small charter school opened
with 132 students in 1997. McHenry
predicted it would close with less than
10 seniors at the end of the school year.
School officials said they did not
know how long the school would
remain open, but the main concern now
was placing all current students and
ensuring that seniors would graduate.
“The teachers are committed to get
ting good situations for the students set
up, for the seniors to graduate," said
Fred Good, of the Association for
Quality Schools, a nonprofit board that
opened the Carrboro charter school.
j The Board of Directors plans to meet
in two weeks to discuss the future and
finances of the school.
Aaron Winbom, a teacher and tech
nology coordinator at the school, said
he did not think the school could afford
to stay open long. “They do have prob
lems financially and will not be able to
continue much longer,” Winbom said.
The board currently faces a SIO,OOO
to $15,000 debt, and officials are trying
to cut back expenses by transferring
their students to other schools.
Melinda Malico, public affairs spe
cialist for the U.S. Department of
Education, said it was common for char
ter schools to fail due to lack of funds.
“The biggest barrier is a lack of start
up funds and then inadequate operating
funds,” Malico said.
Officials also cited the lack of orga
nization and experience as a problem.
Malico said the state did not accept
chartered schools until 1996.
McHenry said few schools could
develop into perfect institutions in just
two years. “Even if you came from the
school system, you have a whole central
office; when you come to charter
schools, you have to know everything -
you have to start from scratch.”
School officials said they did not fore
see the school renewing its charter for
next year. But they emphasized that
nothing was certain and no one knew
what the next step would be.
“Charter schools are new, and every
one is new at this," Good said. “The
government is new at this; it’s not all cut
and dry.”
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dling drills, and we run plays like in
football or basketball.”
Although the practices are rough,
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