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Thursday, Oct. 28
■ A VCR, last seen Wednesday at 11
a.m., was reported stolen from
Morehead Planetarium, reports stated.
■ The Carolina women’s basketball
team reported a pair of running shoes
was stolen from a locked room in the
Carmichael Auditorium, reports stated.
Wednesday, Oct. 27
■ After being denied a prescription
for pain medication a doctor said was
unnecessary, a patient assaulted a doc
tor at Aycock Family Practice.
The patient punched the doctor once
in the ribs and twice in the abdomen,
reports stated. The doctor was unin
jured and has not pressed charges.
■ The passenger-side window of a
vehicle in Lower Manning F Lot was
smashed. A CD and tape player were
stolen, reports stated.
■ University Police removed a male
from Connor Residence Hall at 3 a.m.
for disturbing the peace.
He had been trespassing in his ex
girlfriend’s room. He had been in con
flict with his ex-girlfriend and her new
boyfriend, reports stated.
■ An unknown subject attempted to
break into 296 Phillips Hall, damaging
door slots and a pantry lock, reports
stated.
■ A car trailed smoke before burst
ing into flames on Gravely Drive while
turning onto Manning Drive.
Police and firefighters put out the
blaze before anyone was injured.
Tuesday, Oct. 26
■ A Lenoir Dining Hall employee
was taken to the UNC Hospitals emer
gency room by University Police after
collapsing from severe back pains.
■ A hole was cut into the window of
a vehicle parked on Stadium Drive. A
CD player, a pair of sunglasses and the
center console were stolen from the
vehicle, reports stated.
Sunday, Oct. 24
■ A Dell laptop computer was
reported stolen from 134 1/2 Franklin
Street. It was last seen on August 15, but
the owner did not mention the loss
because she thought someone had bor
rowed it, reports stated.
City
Thursday Oct. 27
■ A 25-year-old Chapel Hill man
was arrested at 12:09 a.m. and charged
with assault on a female after punching
the woman he lives with several times,
reports state.
JoshuaJ. Wilray, University Gardens
Apt. E-l, hit the 21-year-old victim at
their home and police reports stated she
was visibly injured.
Wilray was confined in the Orange
County Jail just after 1 a.m. His trial is
set for Nov. 29 at Orange County
District Court in Hillsborough.
■ Two unidentified men stole over
SIOO worth of packaged meat from the
Food Lion on Jones Ferry Road in
Carrboro, reports stated.
Food Lion manager John Parrish told
police the men entered the store around
4 a.m., picked up one basket each and
walked to the meat department. Then,
they loaded up the baskets, ran out a
back door and into a wooded area.
■ The Shadowood apartment com
plex on Airport Road became the site of
another breaking and entering and lar
ceny, for the fourth time since Friday.
Apartment 106-Q was broken into
sometime between 6:30 and 8:30 p.m.
An unknown individual stole money,
gold chains and ajar of spaghetti sauce
after entering the apartment through an
unlocked second story window.
Three similar situations were report
ed to police last weekend. In one case
the subject entered through an unlocked
door. In the other two cases the subject
entered through an unlocked window.
A television, valued at $475, was
stolen from apartment 106-G. An undis
closed amount of money was taken
from apartment 116-0.
Various pieces of jewelry, valued at
SBSO, were taken from apartment 116-S.
Police spokeswoman Jane Cousins
said the weekend incidents, along with
other break-ins along Airport Road,
were being investigated as related
crimes.
Wednesday Oct. 26
■ A University student reported that
his laptop computer was taken from his
residence at 207 W. Cameron Ave., the
Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity house.
The student reported the missing
Gateway computer, valued at $2,100, to
police at 12:53 p.m. Tuesday. It was
stolen sometime between 1 p.m. Friday
and 6 p.m. Monday.
RHA Submits Housing Proposals
The Housing Advisory Board
recommended a way to
integrate Old East and Old
West residence halls.
By Katy Nelson
Staff Writer
The Housing Advisory Board dis
cussed final recommendations concern
ing next year’s housing policy Thursday,
including strategy on integrating Old
East and Old West residence halls.
Interim Housing Director Dean
Bresciani should have the board’s rec
ommendations by Friday, said board
member and Residence Hall
Association President Murray Coleman.
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voting process a film project to fund and staff.
Aid Might
Stall UNC
Bond Deal
Officials say it is too early
to tell if funds allocated
during a special session
would hurt the UNC system.
By Asta Ytre
Staff Writer
Hurricane relief funds that could be
allocated during a special legislative ses
sion should not detract from the UNC
system’s quest for capital improvement
money, officials say.
Gov. Jim Hunt announced Oct. 23
that he might call a special session of the
N.C. General Assembly prior to its
planned convention in May.
The session, which might occur as
early as next month, would aim to fund
flood damage relief efforts in the eastern
part of the state, said Tad Boggs, Hunt’s
press secretary.
Boggs said it was too early to say
where money allocated in the session
would come from or if the special ses
sion would subtract from system funds.
“We need to see what comes out of
the special session first,” he said.
Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange, said
spending money from the state’s budget
on flood relief would not help North
Carolina. “I would oppose spending
money from the general budget,” Lee
said. “It is too small as it is. Spending it
would hurt other institutions such as the
University system.”
But Lee said most legislators realized
that spending the general budget would
damage the state.
“I don’t think the general budget will
be used for flood relief,” he said.
Boggs said several preliminary alter
native funding proposals had already
been placed on the table.
He said options included a $ 1 billion
state-issued bond package, a temporary
increase in the sales tax and the state’s
S3OO million rainy-day fund.
Rep. Richard Morgan, R-Moore,
proposed the state-issued bond package,
but he would not say whether it would
influence the system’s $6.9 billion bond
See FUNDING, Page 9
University & City
The board
made recommen
dations on inte
grating women
into Old East and
Old West.
Bresciani said
he would decide
whether to enact
the recommenda
tions into the
housing policy in
time to be in the
housing guide for
early decision
UNC applicants.
The advisory
RHA President
Murray Coleman
said the
all-female floor plan
had been dismissed
for the time being.
board is composed of students, faculty
members, a resident assistant and repre
sentatives from the student financial aid
REEL LIFE AT UNC
Belafonte Brings Calypso Beat to UNC
By Allison Rost
Staff Writer
Strains of calypso music will be heard
outside Memorial Hall tonight when
Harry Belafonte brings his unique vocal
style to campus.
He spent much of his childhood in his
mother’s native country ofjamaica, and
this influence appears in his music,
including such hits as “Day-O” and
“Jamaica Farewell.”
Perry Hall, a professor in the African
and Afro-American studies department
who teaches a course on black influ
ences in popular culture, said Belafonte’s
Fired Up About Volunteering
By Jennifer White
Staff Writer
On a recent Halloween night,
Debbie Sill was not trick-or-treat
ing with her friends. Instead, she
and fellow fire fighters were break
ing up a fire-lit seance taking place
along the roadside.
“(The people) were
obviously fairly intoxi
cated, and they were
having a big bonfire,”
said Sill, a freshman
from Raleigh. “It wasn’t
out of control - it was
just illegal.”
Sill has been a volun
teer firefighter with the
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Raleigh since the age of 16. Now
that she is in college, she only
works on weekends. But she
attends training classes Thursday
nights and keeps a pager.
“I have my pager with me all
the time except when I’m at
school," Sill said. “Whenever it
goes off, that’s when I start work
ing.”
Sill decided to become a fire
fighter after attending an interest
meeting at the station.
“I found out when the meeting
was, and I showed up and was
sucked in immediately,” she said.
“It was just a neat thing to do. I
couldn’t resist.”
office, the admissions offices, University
housing, the Athletic Association and
the General Alumni Association.
The board is recommending that
next year a minimum of 36 women
should live in Old East and Old West,
which have been all-male for more than
200 years, Coleman said.
This minimum number is based on
the residence halls’ high retention rate.
Board member Bennett Harris said
the number was not definite yet; it
depended on how many seniors decid
ed to live there next year.
The board also suggested that for
safety reasons, no women should be
housed on the first floor or in the middle
suites.
Floor plan recommendations allow
women one suite on both the second
style was unique.
“He helped to bring new and differ
ent sounds - mainly soft calypso and
Caribbean ballads - to mainstream
musical venues,” Hall said.
This style has led to a long and illus
trious career, but his achievements have
not been purely confined to the stage.
He was bom March 27, 1927, in the
Harlem section of New York City.
Upon returning to the United States
from Jamaica at the beginning of WWII,
Belafonte enlisted in the navy. After an
honorable discharge, he worked at var
ious blue-collar jobs in New York.
It was only after he was given two
Before she was allowed to join
the department, Sill had to attend
three training classes. She also had
to complete an application, get
recommendations and be inter
viewed by several members of the
department. She was eventually
voted onto the squad by the other
fire fighters.
Not surprisingly, Sill
has gotten nearly every
reaction imaginable
when she tells people
about her job.
“Some people just
look at me like I’m an
alien, and some people
are like, ‘Eww, feminist,’”
she said. “But some peo-
pie are like, ‘Hey, that’s really
awesome.’ There’s always at least a
bit of surprise.”
Perhaps nobody was more sur
prised than Sill’s mom, Kathy,
who had reservations about her
daughter joining the department.
“I thought, ‘Oh my word, you
must be kidding,’” said Kathy Sill
after hearing about a phone con
versation between her daughter
and the fire department chief. “We
thought it was absolutely crazy.”
Sill’s parents agreed that she
could attend the interest meeting
but expected she would change
her mind about joining the depart-
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and third floors of Old East. Women
would have two suites and a female RA
on the third floor of Old West.
The board rejected the idea of an all
female floor in the residence halls,
Coleman said. “The community in Old
East and Old West is a strong, tight-knit
community. We don’t want to create two
separate communities in the buildings.”
To fulfill the board’s quota, it suggest
ed recruiting only women to Old East
and Old West next year. “Until women
are phased in, you can’t keep bringing in
other residents,” Coleman said.
The board recommended striking the
current housing quota that allows 25
percent of freshmen to live on North
and Mid Campus. Seniors would con-
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free tickets for a performance of “Home
is the Hunter” at the American Negro
Theater that his entertainment career
began.
He began studying acting with
Marlon Brando and Tony Curtis when
they were starting their rises to fame.
Theater offered few opportunities to
blacks, though, and Belafonte, who
spent his evenings listening to jazz greats
such as Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis,
discovered his talent for music.
His musical career took off in numer
ous nightclub performances with big
names like Miles Davis, and his first
Broadway appearance in “John Murray
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Friday, October 29, 1999
Task Force
Debates
Shelter Site
The Inter-Faith Council has
identified the Chapel Hill
Police Department as a
potential relocation site.
By Kathryn McLamb
Staff Writer
The Chapel Hill Police Department
is the latest addition to the list of poten
tial future sites of the Inter-Faith
Council homeless shelter.
Town officials say the police depart
ment has outgrown its facilities at 828
Airport Road, and they are considering
a possible move. If the police depart
ment relocates, the building would be
left vacant, making it a viable option for
an expanded IFC shelter, officials said.
Chapel Hill Town Manager Cal
Horton said no definite plans had been
made, but both organizations were con
sidering options for relocation.
“The police department is evaluating
its building and trying to see if it is fea
sible to renovate, or if it is better to try
to find anew site,” Horton said. “The
IFC has said ‘if that ever happens, we
might be interested in that building.’”
The IFC task force met Oct. 19 to
discuss a list of possibilities to send to
the IFC Board of Directors.
The police department is also con
sidering the possibility of relocating
because the force has expanded beyond
the facility’s capacity. Other possibilities
include renovation or expansion of the
existing department
Officials said an architect had been
hired to evaluate the police department
building and determine what it would
cost to enlarge and address future
needs. If the costs are too high, the
department might decide to relocate.
IFC officials have expressed interest
in the police department as a possible
alternative location should it move from
its site at 100 W. Rosemary St.
“We are looking to expand, whether
that location is where we are or whether
it is at a different location,” said Pamela
Smith, president of the IFC Board of
Directors. “We just need more space.”
See IFC, Page 9
Anderson’s Almanac” earned him glow
ing reviews and a Tony Award.
After that, he entered into a long-run
ning recording contract with RCA. His
third album, Calypso , released in 1955,
was the first album to sell over 1 million
copies.
His concerts have since broken atten
dance records in many major cities.
In the midst of all of his musical suc
cess, he still found time to get back to
acting.
His first film, “Bright Road,” was with
Dorothy Dandridge. Recently, he
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