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Friday, October ; 9jJ981 (The Daily Tar Heel3 ! GoTudacil- candidate Mebane stresses communication Tow n Co unc il cun didu cy By RICHARD FLYNN DTH SUIT Writer Announcing his candidacy for the Cha pel Hill Town Council, Al Mebane, director of the North Pharmaceutical Association, said he saw communications the biggest problem with the present council. "I think we need someone more re sponsive and responsible to the citizens of Chapel Hill and who are aware of the pro blems today," Mebane said. "The council may be spending money on things that the citizens may not neces sarily agree with," he said. "The council's lack of ability to communicate with the citizens is evidenced by the num ber of people who were shocked by the (property) tax increase." , Mebane said he wanted to make the Lindsay candidate for . Town Council By FRANK KENNEDY DTH Surf Writer Saying he was convinced that high tax ation has left many Chapel Hill residents in desperate trouble, William Gilbert Lindsay announced his candidacy for Chapel Hill Town Council in the Nov. 3 election. Lindsay, a lifetime resident of Chapel Hill, plans to center his campaign around the tax issue. "My motives (for nmning) are basically philosophical," Lindsay said. "My main, concern is for the welfare of the taxpayers of Chapel Hill, especially those people on fixed incomes. "Those people are in desperate trouble because they can't keep up with the enor mous tax increases. The property taxes are so bad that people are having to move Dramatic Art presents show The Department of Dramatic Art's Laboratory Theatre presents Luigi Pirandello's The Jar as its first show of the year at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Forest Theatre. Admission is free. The cast made up of Master of FJne Arts graduate students will take this come dy to local public schools after Sun day's performance. k tic , ouuum iiuc mKvs ,a , fighter iook at the news. Look for it every Tuesday . and Thursday on the editorial page of The Daily Tar Heel "SELF-SERVICE COPIES Sin ef " ti"i!ii'i!! 'm! i!l!!Fili!H""'lli"inif ' ' ' --.,.. dMW!pfe''''- ! "n!i ! ill! Si IS I IS ! ; ' jW' IS III I ! ii ? ' 1 1 . J ,, ' i ? ! i "hi it ii I il'iir : ii i .f T . -si t $ ,. ' , W L J..-. . f :,!- yt0l 1 ;. :t0V ij , n .'n'V'Mii.'l 1 1 ' 'I'1, i' fi " council more responsive to the people and to the committees and. boards which it appoints. About public and off-campus housing, Mebane said that he wanted to "remove all barriers to making housing available. Because of actions of the city council, the quality of life in Chapel Hill is rapidly becoming unaffordable." The crackdown on offenders of the town's public consumption of alcohol ordinance also prompted comments by Mebane. "I don't think they ought to drink beer in public. But I don't think a citation for a first offense is appropriate." A stern warning, he said, would not be out of place. Mebane .said that he approved of the present noise ordinance, saying "it can be good if it's fairly enforced. It's bound to out of Chapel Hill," Lindsay said. Lindsay cited as an example a 60-year-old woman who works as a practical nurse and is being forced to sell her home due to a doubling in property taxes this year. "I truly care about the town and the people," Lindsay said. "My roots here are deep and they mean something to me." . Lindsay said he hoped to slow down the process of town government so the council could take a good look at what is essential for the town. "The Town Council has immense power over the individuals of this town. The council can do a lot of good, but it can also do a lot of harm. It can't afford to be luxurious.- ! "If elected, I will assure every indivi dual citizen of this town that he is being orim A political committee has been formed by the Black Student Movement recently in an effort to address issues pertinent to the black community both locally and nationally. The committee is designed to inform the campus community of issues facing the BSM and blacks of the surrounding area. BSM Vice President and chairperson of the committee Wende Watson said that although the BSM was founded as a poli tical organ for blacks on this campus the existence of a formally established com mittee in the constitution was lacking. i; )ii?The BSM was' formed and establTshed .3iivdnfheseveiy;)rinciples.? ahdjitwaSiisot necessary to put in writing," she said. "Because of the changes over the years this was put in." But, neither Watson nor committee member Katey Assem said they felt that the changes were a result of the BSM losing its effectiveness. "It has become more and more the need for the BSM to have a political di KM Columbia & FranklinQ Seven BBSS tli3 h c'dt tooting h 3 at? f WB V f.'.cbcno bother people on both sides." The proper management of tax money collected by the town was also a point on which Mebane focused. "They (town councils) are not in the position to have savings accounts with their citizens monies." represented," Lindsay said, adding that he felt the citizens of Chapel Hill were be ing pooriy represented by the present council. Lindsay, 45, is an architect for City Planning and Architectural Associates in Chapel Hill, In the past, Lindsay said he had been active in the community trying to "pro mote more humanitarian efforts from the Town Council." Lindsay ran for the same office four years ago and lost, but he said his beliefs had not changed at all. Lindsay's critics have charged him with being a one-issue candidate. Lindsay con firmed these charges. "Yes, I am a one-issue candidate, but that one issue is extremely important. This taxation is morally wrong and must be dealt with." comLMiittee rection. To continue td make political statements, the BSM needs some political drive," Assem said. The committee has approximately 25 members including undergraduate and graduate students. Undergraduate stu dents majoring in political science, English, journalism, history and indus trial relations were invited to join the committee. Graduate students were asked to join on a volunteer basis regardless of their major. . Duties of the committee range from planning all political rallies, activities and electionjbrams. TJiejcommittee will jdsc coordinate votereucation and registra tion drivels 1n''additfon to proposing re sponses to criticisms of the BSM. It will also consider requests from other organizations or individuals asking for BSM support. Establishing contact with other black student organizations on the 16-member University system will also be a goal of the committee. FRANCES SILVA THOSE DEVILS! Days A Week in tho v;otuL raBl wi w IP"' ,(B W By MICHELLE CHRISTENBURY DTH Staff Writer Saying zoning and taxes are the issues that will shake up the most people, Winston Broadfoot announced his candi dacy Thursday for the Chapel Hill Town Council in the Nov. 3 election. Broadfoot said Chapel Hill's revised zoning ordinance was good, but he would not like to see settled residential areas become densely populated. Using the recently approved Piney Mountain public housing development as an example, Broadfoot said, "I am not fond of infilling or making thicker the present single-family zoning require ments." On the issue of condominium conver sion, Broadfoot said, "It's an issue I'd like to do something about, but I don't think the town has the municipal authori ty to do anything about it." Broadfoot said Chapel Hill was one of the few university settings apart from a Carolina Concern Gampm political '.parity formed By JONATHAN TALCOTT DTH Staff Writer Carolina Concern, the first campus-wide student political party to be formed on campus in ten years, received University recognition this week, founder Tim Smith said. "After the campaign last year, several people approached me and asked me if I would be interested in helping to form a poli tical party," Smith said. 'The goal of the party is to monitor the BSM (Black Student Movement), the RHA (Residence Hall Association) and the CGC (Campus Governing Council). We hope to let the students know more about what the various campus political organiza tions are doing," he said. "We hope to encourage the development of other parties on campus so that some of the red hot issues will be faced by the candidates. I feel that in the past some of the more controversial issues have been avoided by the candidates," Smith said. Student Body President Scott Norberg, one of Smith's oppo nents in last year's election, disagreed with the idea of forming a political party. "With very few exceptions, most students are in agreement on most issues," Norberg said. "Political parties would only tend to magnify the minor dif ferences between candidates and take the students' attention away from the more important point of who would do the better job," he said. Smith commented that he would like to see political parties form that do not challenge Student Government but add to its effectiveness. "Student Government has inadvertently grown away from the students in recent years. "We are trying to serve as the voice of the students," Smith said. He said he and his colleagues had elaborate plans for gather ing student opinion and focusing campus issues. "Wejiave appbTrited""a platiOTrnairrr ancTpolIing cornmittee. The pllmg'mmittee" will ea 'phoebahk that we e going to set up to find out student views. We will analyze the findings of the phonebank polls and present them to the party assembly. "We will also set up an editorial staff that will take Carolina Concern stands in the DTH and The Phoenix" Smith said. Saturday morning with the Spend Saturday morning between 10:00 and 12:00 at the Record Bar in University Mall as we devote two hours to nothing but the classics. Here is your opportunity to audition new releases in a pleasant and unhurried atmosphere. This Saturday, hear albums like violinist Pinchas Zukerman's digital recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra. -October 9 to 11, all Columbia classics are on sale, including the Great Performances Series, the toundation to any complete classical library. It's the basic repertoire featuring Mozart's Jupiter Symphonies, Hoist's The Planets, Beethoven's Fifth Symbhonv. and more, conducted bv contemporary masters Szell, Serkin, Bernstein, Ormandy, and others. All Columbia classics on sale October 9-11. B Wrtut fcrfuruanrrs n O Z A R T warn 8YR1PHONICS GZELL CLEYEL&NO ORCHESTRA f.'ti'. s 'irrt rrrfarwanrcs H O L S T Ti!E FLAIITS :ixixz?;i i , 4.49 LP 4.99 Tape RECORDS & TAPES I ' .' University Mall densely populated area and independent of industry. "I am 1 10 percent opposed to industry in this town," Broadfoot said. "We have good employment and good wages. In dustry is the last thing we need in Chapel Hill." Broadfoot said that the increase in taxes in Chapel Hill must be controlled. "I would like to see some economy in government," he said. "I don't think that money is being wasted, but I think we have to hold back on the total amount spent." Broadfoot said that although Chapel Hill had a fine recreation program, the town could recover some of the cost by including an overhead cost to its recrea tion program. On the topic of public consumption of alcohol, Broadfoot said, "A university towrt should not be an uptight town. Va grancy and public drunkenness bothers me, but students simply enjoying them selves does not." .. ..rz' -jiff's' Li jD C 1 ' ' . Columbia I i Broadfoot Broadfoot first came to Chapel Hill as an undergraduate in 1937 and has lived here almost half of his life. He currently does appraisals of books, manuscripts and fine arts. "I look for harmony between the town council and the University," Broadfoot said. "There's a common good in Chapel Hill, and I want to keep it that way." The last student undergraduate political parties faded away after the election of 1970. The party decline occurred for several reasons. Joseph Stallings, student body president in 1971-1972, said, "Parties were originally identified with specific issues but toward the end of the 1960s parties became more overlapping." "Student began to join more than one political party to show their support for various ideas and points of view. It became practically impossible to' identify a party and the people in that party with a specific position on an issue," Stallings said. . "In 1970, Tom Bellows as elected as an independent candi date and the next year, the year I ran, no one identified himself with a political party. People just faced the political reality that political parties were no longer needed," he said. Norberg seemed to agree with Stallings. "Student Govern ment here at Carolina has developed to the point where political parties are no longer necessary. Parties simply cause the institu tionalization of an opposition. They take the focus of Student Government away from the administration. When students con centrate on battling one another, the emphasis oh overall stu dent concerns is lost," Norberg said. Smith disagreed: "The party system would allow for more, open debate of the issues. "Student Government of the last five years has surrounded itself with the friends and supporters of the people who are elected. A party system would alleviate the spoils system, and would prevent individual social groups from gaining too much influence," Smith said. r . . Robert Spearman, who was student body president in 1964-1965 when political parties were at a peak, seemed to agree with Smith's contentions though he declined to comment on the present political climate at Chapel Hill. "Parties were extremely useful vehicles when I was there. It caused the formation of nu merous programs because the opposition brought up numerous issues. " The" competition was lively" bur not unhealthy;' )Spearman said. " : ,,lli ::lj:;-S7f Smith said he saw Carolina Concern as a different way to implement student desires. "Both Carolina Concern and Stu- . dent Government might have the same goals but it's the tech niques for accomplishing those goals that are different." classics Records
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