Qlhe Satlu (Ear Brel ■ News/Ff “ Busines: f SHI 106 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Students to Protest Hooker's Stance on Sweatshops By Jim Harris Staff Writer Students will raise their voices and banners today to demand full public dis closure of all locations of factories that produce UNC apparel. The students will hold a demonstra tion in front of South Building starting at Raids Persist; Serbs Call Refugees Home Associated Press BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Yugoslavia urged refugees to return home Thursday, declaring “peace has prevailed in Kosovo” and saying its 14- month war against ethnic Albanian sep aratists was over. But Western officials feared the refugees would be used as human shields against NATO attacks. NATO jets unleashed fierce attacks late Thursday and early today against Yugoslavia, even though a former Cypriot president arrived in Belgrade to try to win freedom for three captured U.S. soldiers. A hard-line Serbian vice premier, however, ruled out any release as long as the NATO bombardment continued. On the 16th night day of the U.S.-led air assault, hopes for the prisoners’ release were mixed with concern over thousands of ethnic Albanian refugees whose fate was unknown a day after Yugoslavia sealed off its borders and stopped their flight out of Kosovo. Workers Challenge University Housekeepers Association members may join student activists next week at South Building in protest. By Melissa Williams Staff Writer Emotions were unleashed and voices raised when UNO’s Housekeepers Association met Thursday to discuss their concerns about overbearing work loads and extending University initia tives designed to improve housekeeping conditions. Barbara Prear, president of Housekeepers Association, said one of the group’s main concerns had been job vacancies. The lack of a constant labor force at UNC has caused many house keepers to take on two or three extra jobs around the University, Prear said. “All the University cares about is that the work gets done,” she said. Prear said the solution to fill job vacancies at UNC had been to pull workers from the streets daily and offer them $5.25 an hour to work, but this was only temporary service. “Anything this University wants to do, they make legal,” she said. “People are walking from shelters to work at Lenoir.” Chapel Hill civil rights lawyer A1 McSurely, who has represented UNC’s Housekeeping Association for eight years, said the association members were also concerned because the 1996 Revised Initiative, designed to improve housekeeping conditions at UNC, only guaranteed the improvements until at least Dec. 31. The Housekeepers Association members said they believed they had won a victory when Chancellor Michael Hooker signed this initiative. The Revised Initiative was a result of a 1991 grievance filed by McSurely for discrimination against housekeepers at See HOUSEKEEPERS, Page 7 1:15 p.m. with banners and posters demanding that administrators require apparel companies that work with UNC to reveal factory locations. In preparation for today’s demon stration, members of Students for Economic Justice, Student Environmental Action Coalition and Students United for a Responsible The Yugoslav government, which says it has been observing a unilateral cease-fire in Kosovo since Tuesday for Orthodox Easter, claimed the refugees were voluntarily heading back to their homes in the province. Shortly after 10 p.m., air-raid sirens sounded in Belgrade, as well as Novi Sad, Nis, Kragujevac and Cacak, herald ing yet another night of attacks. The state-run Tanjug news agency said at least seven missiles struck the center of Kragujevac, 55 miles southeast of Belgrade, including the Zastava auto factory. Tanjug also said NATO jets struck an oil storage depot early Friday in Smederevo, about 18 miles east of Belgrade, setting it ablaze. In addition, Studio B television said NATO planes were “active" on Orthodox Good Friday over the Belgrade area and around two towns, Uzice and Pozega, about 60 miles to the south. Earlier in the evening, thousands See KOSOVO, Page 7 Town Manager Says Time's Up for Pine Knolls The Pines Community Center Inc. owes the town $181,500 from a loan it was granted three years ago. By Kim Dronzek Staff Writer They really mean it this time. The Town of Chapel Hill has tired of extensions, and if Pines Community Center Inc. does not turn over the deeds to four Pine Knolls homes today, town officials say they will foreclose - no exceptions. “We have unquestionably given District Court Rakes in Money for State Coffers Most of the money paid on a speeding ticket goes to court costs, which generally ends up in state coffers. By Rudy Kleystli ber Staff Writer Early on Tuesday mornings, they line up outside the Chapel Hill Courthouse on Franklin Street to fork over their cash and settle up with the state. Anyone who has braved the long traffic court line knows that the fines waiting at the end are not small, and according to Orange County Court doc uments, most of the money goes into state coffers. Traffic court can lower a fine or reduce the points on a driver’s violation record, but clemency doesn’t come cheap. Court fees on top of the sls ticket cost can often be more expensive than a ticket - SB6 for a standard district court offense. Court officials say the high cost is the result of a rapid growth of district court employees and recent technology upgrades to help the court process cases quickly. According to documents provided by Friday, April 9, 1999 Volume 107, Issue 28 Global Environment held a Pit sit-in Thursday. Students and professors signed a ban ner during the sit-in requesting that Chancellor Michael Hooker discontinue UNC’s relationship with apparel com panies that do not tell human rights workers the locations of their foreign factories. ~ tom. SBm k i % Lr* .. j£-'.ii|yn t* mk % W J^y NEWSMAKERS/DAVID BRAUCHLI Ethnic Albanian refugees reach out to receive bread from a truck Thursday in a temporary camp set up in a factory near Kukes. More than 20,000 people per day are leaving Kukes, although the flow of refugees has stopped from Kosovo since Serb authorities closed the borders Wednesday. them enough time, no doubt about it," Town Manager Cal Horton said. The community center is facing fore closure because it failed to repay $ 181,500 in loans that the town granted three years ago. The town had expected repayment in January, but gave the group a 60-day extension when Pines officials said they didn’t have the money. The loans came out of community development block grants that were sup posed to be used to renovate low income housing. Pines Community offi cials say the homes were renovated, but that they couldn’t find buyers in time. “The town has spoken, Pine Knolls has spoken," said Wayne Weathers, a Pine Knolls resident. “I don’t really want the Fiscal Research Division of the N.C. General Assembly, the legislature has added 314 clerk positions, 125 assistant district attorneys and 25 district court judges statewide in the last four years. Officials say the employees are need ed to help cases move through the court system faster. But moving faster means paying more. The basic district court fee has risen more than 70 percent in the past 10 years, and s6l of that fee never even goes to the court. It goes directly to North Carolina’s general fund, which is administrated through the state treasurer’s office to pay for many projects across the state including roads and schools. “The courts are funded by the state, and all that (general fund) money goes to the state,” said Allison Fieri, a state judicial branch communications officer. “It all goes into one big pot. It does n’t necessarily fund the courts. It funds everything, including UNC," Fieri said. In fiscal year 1997-98, the Orange County court system kept around $93,000 of court fees to pay for local court facilities. However, it paid approximately $874,000 to the N.C. general fund, said Joan Terry, Orange County clerk of Superior Court. A hard man is good to find. Mae West Coordinator for SURGE Dennis Markatos said Hooker signed a petition promising to uphold a code of conduct but had not taken appropriate steps to leave a company that had not practiced what the code required. “He signed a petition that the chan cellor should not agree with any code of conduct that does not uphold full pub to contribute to the hostility of the situation.” George Sanford, president of the Pines Community Center, said the group was consult ing with a lawyer over the deed turnover. “We’re waiting on the advice of our lawyer and I can’t comment anymore,” he said. Council member Joe Capowski said the town manager wrote a letter asking for the four deeds. What the Courts Do With Your Cash Service Fee $5 Officers Retirement Fund $8 the flue to f the I Facilities employees ' icket those who end Cost wmJKBK up in from the |udge 515 the for the ous expens- SOURCE: N.C. GENERAL STATUTES DTH/SHARIF DURHAMS Fieri said each individual county was responsible for providing its own court facilities. “The county pays for the courthouse, furniture and utilities, but none of the people,” she said. “Those are funded through the uni fied judicial branch of government, which is funded by the state legislature.” Of the remaining $25 in district court lie disclosure, pay workers living wages and allow students involvement in the whole process,” Marcatos said. “Now Hooker is not acting on his word.” Hooker could not be reached for comment on Thursday. In February, students protested Hooker’s backing of labor code pushed by the Collegiate Licensing Cos. The Horton said he did not expect the matter to be extended any further. “One way or the other, we are going to get the money,” he said. The whole loan totaled $280,000 and was allocated by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development To date, only $98,500 has been repaid by Pine Knolls. The loan allowed the group to buy and renovate seven homes in the Pine Knolls community and sell them to low income families. Joe Capowski, Chapel Hill Town Council member, said that the town manager had written a letter concerning the deeds of the houses to the head of Pine Knolls. “He asked in the letter that fees, sl2 goes to pay directly for court facilities. The remaining portion goes to local law enforcement and a retired police officers’ benefit fund, according to state judicial branch documents. “All court money in the state is fed into Raleigh, so the state treasurer doles it back out,” Terry said. See COURTS, Page 7 News/Features/Arts/Sports Business/Advertising 962-0245 962-1163 Chapel Hill, North Carolina C 1959 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. code, which could bind all colleges that license their apparel through CLC, does not call for full public disclosure of fac tory locations. SEAC member Durba Chattaraj said Hooker had passed the buck to a task force, ignoring a pledge to discourage See DISCLOSURE, Page 7 they voluntarily transfer the deeds for the four houses to the town,” he said. Horton said if the deeds were not handed over by the deadline then the foreclosure process would continue. “I don’t like to speculate,” he said. “If the company declines outright then the council has decided to continue with the foreclosure process.” Capowksi said the people that cur rently live in the homes would not be evicted if the houses are foreclosed. “The leases will still stand, the people will not be kicked out during lease time and after that I don’t know.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. iMcinc Friday Crumpler's Back UNC junior Alge Crumpler returns to football this year after missing 1998 with a knee injury. See Page 4. Decisions, Decisions Starting in the fall, UNC will offer applicants an early decision option that will bind them to attending the University. See Page S. Today’s Weather Chance of Rain; Mid 80s. Weekend: Partly sunny, Mid 80s. The Water’s Fine Calling all seniors. Today is your last opportunity to take the swim test. Dive on in between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. at the Indoor Pool in Woolen Gym. Remember, no test means no diploma. So bring your best trunks and a friend.

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