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Volume 87, Issue No. 112f 1 0
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By STEPHANIE BIRCHER
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Two UNC students were arrested approximately one hour
after they allegedly called in a bomb threat to Hamilton Hall
Thursday morning, University Police Lt. Charles Mauer said
Thursday.
The threat was called in to Hamilton at 9:40 a.m. and the
callers said the bomb would go off at 10 a.m. Hamilton was
evacuated 9:40-10:40 a.m. State law requires that buildings with
bomb threats be evacuated for at least one hour.
University police arrested the two students after the threat and
brought them to the Chapel Hill Police Station, Mauer said.
Each of them was released on $300 bond. They will appear in
Orange County District Court next week. Bomb threats are a
misdemeanor according to N.C. General Statutes and are
punishable by a fine or imprisonment determined by the judgs
for the case.
The students also will have to appear before the UNC Honor
Court, which could fine them and place them on probation,
suspend them or dismiss them from UNC, Mauer said.
"We got a tip from where (the call) came from," Mauet said.
"A good Samaritan." The informant was not a campus police
officer.
Mauer said that the students may have been connected with
other bomb threats but that there was no proof of that. Because
of the 26 bomb threats which have been made in Chapel Hill since
July 1, the prosecutor may be harder on the students, he said.
There were only eight bomb threats last year.
Mauer would not elaborate on the case or reveal the students
names. He said the case was still under investigation.
, M auer said he hoped that now that there have been arrests, the
number of bomb threats will decrease, since potential threateners
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record forever," he added. o
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made several years ago. The unc student was expelled from the auguration ceremonies held at the Carolina Inn for him and Residence
In the past, bomb threats often have been made on buildings in
which tests are being held. The tests usually have been postponed Just,Se RoV Cooper performed the swearing in and former presidents
and rescheduled. At least one test was interrupted by the threat in JB- Ke,,y and William Porterfield also spoke. As one of his last off icial
Hamilton Hall Thursday. duties, Kelly played 'Hail to the Chief on the Kazoo to Saunders.
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By CHARLES HERNDON .
Staff W riter
North Carolina temporarily has suspended its
search for an area facility to dispose of low-level
radioactive and toxic chemical wastes and instead
has concentrated on the possibility of burning the
wastes, said Ralph Ely, a member of a special task
force studying disposal methods for the state.
Last fall the state was pressed to find a disposal site
for its wastes after two of the country's three disposal
plants stopped accepting radioactive liquid wastes,
forcing many area research institutions and
universities to look for alternative places to send
their wastes.
Ely, director of the Office of University Relations
at the Research Triangle Institute, said this week that
because of the reopening of waste storage plants in
. Washington state and Nevada, the pressure to find a
dumping site is not as intense.
However, Ely also said the state eventually would
establish a storage facility for the wastes. "In several
years, this problem will need to be addressed," he
said. About 95 percent of the state's low-level
radioactive waste is used for research and produced
at the institutions and universities of the Research
Triangle, Ely said.
Only three sites in the country the Washington
arid Nevada sites and the solid waste storage and
disposal units at Barnwell, S.C. are currently
equipped to handle the substances. The task force
was formed to establish a facility in North Carolina
to handle the state's own radioactive wastes.
"If we in North Carolina are producing (these
wastes), then we should be responsible for disposing
of them as well," Ely said. He said the present system
. of sending the state's wastes to other states, especially
Washington, was too costly and inconvenient. In the
event the plants close as they did last fall, the state
would be forced to find another place for disposal.
But the costs of establishing a disposal unit in
North Carolina would make such a project
infeasible, said Don Willhoit, a task force member
and director of UNC's Health Safety Office.
He said the University could distill and store its
wastes for up to a year, but that it would need some
form of local disposal or incineration units in the
Research Triangle eventually. .
Because most of the isotopes are produced in the
Triangle area, Ely said the task force would prefer a
site in or near the area as a future facility. "We would
attempt to get it as close to the Triangle as possible,
mostly for convenience," Ely said.
The task force chose Butner last fall as a temporary
site for the wastes, but it was closed before any
material could be stored because of inadequate safety
features and local opposition to the project.
"The place in Butner was picked site unseen," Ely
said. "We asked the State Property Office to pick it
out as close to the Research Triangle or Durham as
possible, but the (facility) was not fireproof, so we
voluntarily stopped (the project)," he said.
Now that the state's wastes are again being shipped
out-of-state, the task force, at its meeting two months
ago, has initiated a study to determine the feasibility
of incinerating the material.
Incineration would be better than simple storage
because such a method would substantially reduce
the volume of radioactive material and thus reduce
its radiation output, he said. There still would be a
residue of radiation from the wastes, but the ashes
then would be stored and buried.
No timetable has been set for the release of the
studies, Ely said. The wastes currently are disposed
of by storing the material in 55-gallon steel drums.
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Pari
stickers, tickets finance traffic office
By KAREN BARBER
Staff Writer
Second of two parts
Ever wonder where all that money you've been
forking out to pay for parking stickers, bus passes and
parking tickets goes? Most of it is used to help finance a
big business on campus which is self-supporting and
relatively free of state control, That business is the UNC
traffic and parking office.
Money to support the office also comes from towing
fees, parking meters, fees for parking decks and
controlled-access lots and investment income, said Ted
Marvin, director of the security office of the UNC traffic
and parking office department.
All those sources of revenue bring in a lot of money. In
a six-month period from July to the end of December
they accumulated just short of $1 million.
"Back in the early '70s, North Carolina, passed some
legislation that said state universities had the authority
to control traffic and parking on their property, and
could use any legitimate means necessary for this
control," Marvin said.
, "Certainly the enforcement of parking regulations
was not made with the primary intent of making money.
How we use the money is defined by the state, and we can
only use the money according to the guidelines of state
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Even though the amount of money accumulated in
that six-month period seems tremendous, office records
show that for the same period expenditures were more
than $ 1 million. The difference was made up from a trust
fund that holds any excess money the office brings in.
The fund currently holds more than $1 million.
"Expenses are extremely high now," Marvin said. One
of the primary projects of the traffic office now is paying
the $450,000 owed for the new parking decks on South
Campus.
Despite rising expenses for the department and the
fact that a significant proportion of its income is
generated through issuing parking stickers, the cost for
parking stickers will not increase next year, said Carolyn
Taylor, traffic office supervisor. The cost for a student
sticker will remain $54, and parking applications will be
available April 8. The deadline for applying for a
parking sticker is May 15.
William Locke, administrative officer for the traffic
office, said 10 percent-25 percent more parking stickers
are allocated than the , number of parking spaces
available, depending upon the parking zone. It is
assumed that not everyone with a sticker will be in the
zone at the same time.
Fines and towing fees for parking illegally on campus
are a viable source of income for the traffic office, and
Melba Hill, violation coordinator for the traffic office,
estimated that between 300 and 400 parking citations are
given every day. As many as 50 percent of these are
written for campus visitors, she said.
Jane Riley, appeals officer, said that between July and
December 1979, 69.5 percent of all appeals requested
were granted. This figure includes students, faculty, staff
and visitors. She estimated that 642 appeals were
granted per month between this time as well.
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County primary
Taxes crucial issue
By CINDY BOWERS
Staff Writer
Taxes and government spending have
emerged as the key campaign issues in the
race for two open seats on the Orange
County Board of Commissioners.
On the Democratic side, incumbents
Richard Whitted, who currently is
chairman of the board, and Don Willhoit
will be going up against challengers Ben
Lloyd and Bo Dunlap in the May 6
primary. In May, Democrats will vote to
send two candidates into the November
race. '
Chapel Hill resident Josephine
Barbour is the sole candidate in the
Republican primary. Barbour
automatically will be in the November
race against the two nominated
Democrats.
The race is shaping up as a strong
challenge of the current board's policies,
especially county spending. The county's
property tax rate currently is 90 cents per
$100 valuation, but increases are
expected. Lloyd, Dunlap and Barbour all
charge that the tax rate reflects excessive
spending by the commissioners.,
But Whitted and Willhoit said they
defend county spending and also said the
current tax rate is necessary to maintain
county services.
Lloyd, an Efland dairy farmer, is
president of the Orange County Farm
and Landowners Association which
worked to defeat the county's November
bond package. Both Whitted and
Willhoit were strong supporters of the
bonds which would have financed
renovations in the county jail and
improvements in county schools.
California tax revolt leader Howard
Jarvis visited Orange county in October
at Lloyd's invitation and urged defeat of
the proposed bonds. Lloyd's efforts were
successful and county voters
overwhelmingly rejected the bonds.
"Orange County government
gotten too big, and the property owners
of the county are having to pay the
bills," Lloyd said Thursday.
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the average man to pay taxes," he said.
"There must be another way of financing
than this."
Dunlap, who is assistant director of
alumni affairs at UNC, expressed a
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Students blamed for 'bouncers
By KITTY ADAIR
Staff Writer
Because Chapel Hill has a very transient population, local
merchants and bankers say they have many problems with
bounced checks, and they blame University students for most of
their trouble.
But area businesses handle bad checks in different ways.
Mildred Council, owner of Dip's Country Kitchen, said her
restaurant rarely accepts checks.
"1 do take checks at times, but when I first opened up I had
about $1,000 in bad checks," she said. "It almost bankrupted
me."
Bill Ipock, president of The Happy Store, said he uses a
different policy. The Happy Store issues check cashing cards as
identification. The card also allows people to cash checks for
money.
"We realize students are in transit a lot and their money is
usually tied up in checks," Ipock said. "So, we make it easy on
them to write checks and get cash.
"This card has been very successful," he said. "Last month, out
of 4,000 checks cashed only 55 checks were returned. We have
collected on most of those already."
Most establishments require a person to present identification.
preferably one with a picture on it, before they will accept a
check. Some businesses even use computers to catch bad checks.
But bad checks do get through.
Tom Shetley, general manager of Student Stores, said, "I've
had checks for as much as $25.00 and for as little as 25 cents
bounce here. With us, the student does get a chance though."
If a check bounces, the Student Store will redeposit the check
to see if it goes through. If it does not, Shetley sends the check to
the University Cashier's office and is reimbursed.
The student w ho wrote the bad check then is sent a notice and
the check, plus an additional $5, which is added to his student
account.
"U mil the student pays his account, he is on the bad check list,"
Shetley said.
When a check bounces, most area banks return the check to
the business and charge their erring patron a service charge
ranging from $5 to $10. Some businesses also charge fees for
bounced checks.
But some businesses do not try to clear bad checks through the
banks more than once. They either turn the check over to a
collection agency, which is paid to collect on bad checks, or take
legal action.
Your change is their salary
Waiters and waitresses are
just as poor as the rest of us
By LORI MORRISON
Staff Writer
Remember last week when you finished dinner at your
favorite restaurant and didn't leave a tip?
The person who waited on your table probably does.
Most waiters and waitresses depend heavily on tips since
federal law allows them to be paid as little as 60 percent of the
minimum wage or $1.86 an hour. If, however, after an
average pay period, the employee has not made minimum
wage including tips, his employer must supplement that
amount.
"Waitresses are working for the tips mostly," said Claire
Rosenson, a waitress at Western Sizzlen at 324 W. Rosemary
St. "1 feel like this is how I'm keeping myself alive.
"I can recognize a good tipper when he walks in the door. If
they (customers) don't talk to you, they usually don't leave a
tip," Rosenson said. "If customers don't leave you a tip, it's
kind of degrading especially if you've worked hard."
Rosenson said she understands college students are on a
tight budget and has even had customers tell her they will owe
her money for a tip,
"Anything helps, but I understand that students are not the
richest people. It is nice if they talk to you though," she said.
Conor Storey, a waiter at Spanky's Restaurant at 101 E.
Franklin St. said he usually gets good tips.
"You get your best tips from the 25-to-30-year-old crowd,"
Storey said. Women usually tip less than men unless they've
worked in a restaurant before, he said, adding that most
customers do not realize how little money waiters and
waitresses make.
At another Franklin Street restaurant, employees voiced
strong opinions concerning tips.
"We cannot surv ive the way people tip," one waiter said. If
you can't afford to tip you can't afford to go out to eat.
"Somebody left me two pennies before, and 1 ran up the
street and threw them in his face. 1 had had it that day. I
wouldn't do that again because I would be fired," said the
waiter, whose manager preferred the restaurant and its
employees remain anonymous.
He added: "If you can establish a good rapport with a large
group of people w ho are eating and drinking, you can usually
get a good tip." Waiters remember restaurant regulars who
tend to leave the same amount at each visit, he said.
The restaurant's bartender said people often forget about
his services and do not tip him.
"Our attitudes are better when we get good tips," the
bartender said. "I remember the people who tip me and I go
to them first, no matter how crowded we arc."
In finer restaurants such as S3rdi's in New York City, a 20
percent tip is expected with 1 5 percent going to the waiter and
five percent going to the captain. However, in most local
restaurants, a 15 percent tip is expected by waiters who pay a
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person.
Sophomore Julie Lotipcich said she usually payt the
expected 15 percent tip when dining out. "Sometime 1 pay
more if I feel sorry for the waiter," she aid.
"Sometimes if the service i slow, it not nccearily the
waiter's fault," she said. "It might mean that the took i!uw.
If the waiters are quick and the cook arc iow, they (waiter
and waitress) can't help it so I just go ahead and lcac a
good tip."
She said, however, it the waiter U rude ihc w ill not tip him.
Likewise, freshman Mike Mickey prefer courteou
service.
"Sometimes, if I don't like the attitude of the waiter or tf
the service is slow, I don't leave a tip," hewid."! nuntly kave
10 percent because I don'l have that much change. If I get real
good service I tip more."
At Swenvcn's Ice Cream Factory at 133 W. I ranklm St..
moit of the employees uffcr if the waiter and waitrce do
not provide good ervkc. All tip are collected at the end of
the day and divided by the total number of man hour- I hat
sum U multiplied by the number of hour each individual
worked.