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SUfT Writer
When the Chapel Hill Police Depart
ment began enforcing the public consump
tion of alcohol ordinance more rigorously
last year, those arrested did not necessarily
have to pay the $31 court costs.
If the district attorney agreed to defer
prosecution, defendants were given the op
tion of attending an alcohol abuse pro
gram, said Student Legal Services adviser
Dorothy Bernholz. If a person chose that
option and satisfactorily completed the
program, the case was dismissed.
"One of the rationales for doing it (pro
viding the option) last year was that the
strict enforcement of the public consump
tion laws was something that was fairly
new last year," said Rosemary Waldorf,
assistant to the mayor of Chapel Hill.
District Attorney Wade Barber Jr. said
he also thought the program was a good
alternative and that enough people were
charged with public consumption to make
a program worthwhile.
"The emphasis (of the alcohol program
offered to students through the Student
Health Service) was that it wasn't a prob
lem that was owned by students, it was a
problem we all had," said Ken Mills, an
associate professor in the School of
Medicine who works with the Center for
Alcohol Studies. The program did not
distribute a lot of information on alcohol,
but included discussion on public drinking
and what that meant. "We gave them the
reason behind the bust and they seemed to
understand," he said.
But the program no longer is being of
fered. "(This is) because there was a lot of
publicity at the time, and there was a con
sistent level of enforcement," Barber said.
"At some time we had to say ? Yest if you
commit the criminal violation, you will
have to be convicted of the criminal viola
tion'." "We don't like the way it is now," said
Frank Hirsch, chairman of the UNC Stu
dent Government's Town Relations Com
mittee. Student Government officials
spoke to the town about setting up another
. option for people charged with public con
sumption. "What we proposed was to have (a)
mandatory work program for first of
fenders of public consumption," Hirsch
said. "The desire is for the ordinance to
show some sensitivity towards the student
population."
"Some of the issues that they raised we
are still looking at and I am not prepared
to discuss them right now," said Chapel
Hill Town Manager David Taylor,
"Basically we ran into some logistical
problems," Hirsch said. "It's also a prob
lem of magnitude right now, since there
aren't a lot of people being arrested right
now." He said they receive weekly reports
from the police department and few
students have been arrested in the last
three weeks. "Ether they (students) know
about it or it's not being enforced as strict
ly." There were 22 arrests for public con
sumption of alcohol in Chapel Hill in
19C0, said Chapel Hill police officer Gregg
Jarbies. In 1981 there were 116 arrests.
There were 46 in October, when the
crackdown started. In the first nine
months of 1982, there were 136 arrests, in
cluding 36 in Jury, 42 in August and 17 in
September.
"The penalty wasn't fair for the first of
fender," Hirsch said. When people are
punished for public consumption, they are
punished for "something that they dtf
without thinking," Hirsch said. "And it's
something that goes down in your record
and you're going to answer for it a long
time."
While many students may not be aware
of the ordinance, there is also the problem
juniors and seniors on campus may face:
"They have been accustomed to a dif
ferent sort of enforcement procedure,"
Student Body President Mike
Vandenbergh said. Another big problem,
Vandenbergh said, is that "there is some
confusion of where one can drink and
where one can't."
Student Government officials have ap
proached the Carrboro and Chapel Hill
governments and the Chamber of Com
merce about putting together a pamphlet
that would provide an introduction to the
towns, including information about or
dinances.' .
In Carrboro there is no public consump
tion ordinance like the one in Chapel Hill.
"It is not against the law in Carrboro to
consume a can of beer on the street," said
Mayor Robert Drakeford. "Thus far in
my discussion with the police chief that has
not been a problem."
Getting a criminal record for drinking a
can of beer on the street is "just
ridiculous," Drakeford said. "You
shouldn't be arresting people for that.
That's just personal belief."
Bernholz has been working to establish
a formal system where students can re
quest a deferred prosecution. This would
be an option in a number of situations, not
only public consumption cases.
For about a month Kathy Speas, School
of Social Work intern at the Chapel Hill
Police social worker office, has acted as
, coordinator of a community service
restitution program. The court usually
refers people to her program, she said.
Then she interviews them and assigns them
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Dorothy Bernholz
"I don't think it's appropriate to just
have a criminal record and pay court costs
and that's it," Bernholz said. "I think if
the student has to make restitution to the
community in some way ... he learns or
she learns a much bigger lesson.
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Controversy arises over the recent increase in the towing of students' cars, especially on football Saturdays
... cars taken away to make more space available for people who come to Chapel Hill for home football games
Towing has caused controversy
Of f icials work to solve parking problems
With an eye on next year, Student Government and
UNC administration officials are working to resolve
parking problems on football Saturdays.
The issue of parking and the towing of students'
cars came to light with the UNC-Vanderbilt game at
the beginning of the semester. Since that time, Univer
sity and student leaders have attempted to iron out dif
ficulties. "We've had a number of meetings," Charles Antle,
associate vice chancellor for business, said Thursday.
"It's been a very good cooperative effort."
On Monday, representatives from the University
business and finance office, the Athletic Association,
Student . Government and the Carolina Athletic
Association will meet to discuss proposals on how to
handle the parking situation in the future.
"We've prepared a listing of proposals for how
things can be changed next year," Antle said.
If approved, the proposals will be presented to
Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III by Wayne
Jones, acting vice chancellor for business and finance, -and
athletic director,John Swofford for a final deci
sion, ' Ande said. .
He declined to comment on the nature of the pro
posals, but said that issues discussed have included the
need for more parking on football Saturdays, the
possibility of using a shuttle bus so fringe parking
could be better utilized and the locations of reserved
parking.
"We've talked about the pros and cons of having
reserved numbered parking assignments," Antle said.
He added that there was a possibility that reserved
parking on game days might be changed for next year.
"There are a lot of sides to this issue that have to be
taken into consideration," Antle said. He said the
Athletic Association had a problem in handling the
number of people coming to football games, while at
. the same time students and the University community
should not be forgotten.
Student Body President Mike Vandenbergh said
Thursday that he was unaware of any proposals being
presented, but that he welcomed the opportunity to
meet with the other organizations to discuss the issue.
"This is what we have been trying to get with all our
efforts on this," he said.
Vandenbergh has met with the administration of
ficials in past weeks to work out towing problems that
arose with the UNC-Vanderbilt game.
At that game, student cars were towed from the
Cobb parking lot, which had been reserved for Educa
tional Foundation members. - '
Vandenbergh spoke out this week against the tow
ing that occurred at the Vanderbilt game.
"In areas where students had not received proper
warning, their cars should not have been towed," he
said. "That attitude is important, that students should
not have been manipulated."
Assistant Athletic Director Willie Scroggs said prob
lems with parking were a case of first-game confusion.
The Cobb lot is a new lot this year, and it is an
employee lot during the week, he said.
Over the summer, the Cob and lower law school lots
were given to the Athletic Association for football
Saturday parking. Combined, the two lots total 100
spaces.
Confusion was multiplied by the Athletic Associa
tion's notification process of placing notices on wind
shields in the lots reserved for game days on the
Wednesday and Thursday prior to the game.
"We put notices on the cars, but they were on facul
ty cars," Scroggs said.
He said it was unfair to characterize the Athletic
Association as taking away student parking places in
the Cobb lot.
"That's not a student parking lot," he said. On
regular Saturdays, that parking lot is open to anyone,
Scroggs said.
Initially, Vandenbergh had complained that student
fees were being used to tow student cars. After being
shown accounts by the Athletic Association, he said
that was not the case.
Money for operations of football games, which in
cludes towing, comes from gate receipts, said Moyer
Smith, associate athletic director.
"We do not use student fee money (to tow)," Smith
said.
Antle said that it was to the credit of Vandenbergh
ihat the administration became aware of the impact
the loss of those lots on football Saturdays had on
students who park there on regular weekends.
"We didn't think of the impact on students who live
over there," he said. "He (Vandenbergh) has been
very helpful in pointing out what things can be done."
The administration was looking into reserving space
for those who need parking on game days but who are
not attending the football game, Antle said.
The administration and Student Government are
also taking specific measures to prevent similar prob
lems next year.
In a meeting with Antle and Jones earlier this
semester, Vandenbergh asked that signs be erected in
the lots to warn students that they were not student
lots on game days. He also asked that students be
notified of where their cars had been towed, that
students not be charged for towing expenses and that
students be involved in future parking decisions.
"We informally agreed that the game day situation
needed to be improved," Vandenbergh said. He added
the three also agreed on reimbursing students, notify
ing students where their cars were located and involv
ing students in the decision-making process.
The administration has made no formal agreements
with Student Government about the towing issue,
Jones said. r :: '
But he did say that signs were placed in the lots from
Thursday until Saturday to warn students on game
days and that the Athletic Association would inform
the campus police where towed cars were located so
they could respond to inquiries from those whose cars
had been towed.
Signs were not put up earlier warning students,
because business and finance officials "thought it
might draw attention to the problem," Scroggs said.
Student participation in football parking decisions
will be encouraged in the future, Jones added.
In the past, planning for football parking has been
done during the summer, he said.
"We realize that is inconvenient for student par
ticipation," he said, adding that the process may be
moved to the preceding spring semester.
"I just hope we can do a better job of handling this
parking situation next year," Antle said.
Stock
market records busiest day; Dow falls
The Associated Press
The stock market retreated from its
historic high as Wall Street racked up its
busiest day in history Thursday amid
discouraging reports from other areas of
the economy. Retail sales remained slug
gish, a record number of Americans drew
unemployment checks and the U.S. trade -deficit
widened.
A key factor in the growing deficit is.the
lofty value of the U.S. dollar in relation to
other currencies, and the dollar rose again
Thursday to reach record highs against the
French franc, Italian lira and Norwegian
krone in European trading.
The dollar also hit six-year highs against
the West German mark, Swiss franc and
British pound, and was mostly higher as
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well in U.S. trading.
The stock market tried to extend its rally
several times, but a late selling wave left
prices mixed on the New York Stock Ex
change. The 30 stocks of the Dow Jones
industrial average were hit particularly
hard, and the measure tumbled 15.27
points to 1,050.22.
A day earlier, the well-known average
soared 43.41 points, its biggest gain ever. It
closed at a record 1,065.49 to eclipse the
previous peak of 1.051.70 set Jan. 11,
1973.
Another record was set Thursday,
however, as 149.35 million shares traded
hands on the Big Board, eclipsing the
record of 147.07 million set Oct. 7.
The late selling was attributed mainly to
investors cashing in to take advantage of
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the market's spectacular performance in
recent weeks gains that analysts said
reflected investors' optimism that interest
rates will keep falling.
Consumers were not as enthusiastic
about spending money last month, and the
poor October sales posted by retailers ex
tended a sluggish trend that began in June.
The latest " reports prompts analysts to
revise downward their projections for sales
in the crucial Christmas season.
Three of the top four retailers reported
small sales declines last month, while in
dustry leader Sears, Roebuck & Co.
reported a small 3.8 percent gain.
Meantime, a record 4.69 million
Americans drew unemployment checks in
mid-October, the Labor Department said.
The seasonally adjusted total was the
highest since the unemployment compen
sation program was enacted in the
mid-1930s.
The department also said 677,000 peo
ple filed initial claims for jobless benefits
in the week ended Oct. 23, down 10,000
from a week earlier. The weekly record for
such initial filings was 703,000, set in the
week that ended last Sept. 18.
And it was learned Thursday that home
mortgage interest rates fell from early
September to early October and reached
their lowest level since May 1981. The
Federal Home Loan Bank Board said the
average effective rate offered by major
mortgage lenders on a conventional,
25-year loan fell to 15.73 percent from
16.18 percent in early August.
ID
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rofessor says sports fans carry loyalty too far
By LINDA RODERTSON
Sports Ediior
Last of three parts
When Louis Rubin was an Associated Press
writer based in Richmond one summer, he was also
a monomaniacal New York Giants fan. When base
ball news came across the wire, Rubin was there,
empathizing with every player who hit a home run
or struck out a baiter, memorizing every boxscore.
Yet Rubin had seen the Giants play only once. And
they lost. A double-header,
"There was no reason for such loyalty or emo
tional attachment," said Rubin, University Dis
tinguished Professor of English, critic, novelist and
a speaker at last Friday's seminar on "Sports and
American Values," sponsored by the UNC Program
in the Humanities.
"Competitive athletics fill a need, a need for iden
tification," Rubin said. "There is that in us which
wishes to belong, compete and win:"
Sports offer competition in its purest form, with
no strings attached. Winners and losers are deter
mined absolutely arbitrarily.
"There was UNC against Georgetown not in
war, not as rivals for money, food or possessions.
And furthermore, the coaches vere friends," Rubin
said, "didn't sink any field goal, but we're No. 1 ."
Aside, from fulfilling a psychological need, sports
serve a sociological function. An athletic team, as a
symbol of community membership, satisfies the
average citizen's desire to be a part of a community
- or region, Rubin said.
"Regardless of occupation, social status or pro
fession, we were all watching that basketball game
last March," he said. "Not as professors or barbers
or bankers or lawyers or clients, but as North
Carolinians."
That statewide bond accounts for the over
whelming adoration visitors or newcomers to North
Carolina sense when natives talk about their Tar
Heels. It almost seems as if some received a trans
fusion of Carolina blue blood at birth.
C. Townsend Ludington, English professor and
fervent Phillies fan, also has the distinction of re
ceiving a professorship endowed by the same man
who paid for UNCs baseball stadium Cary C.
Boshamer. Ludington talked about why the interest
accompanying intercollegiate athletics in the United
States is unparalleled.
"In Europe, athletics do not dominate university
life. It's not because we're more competitive," he
said. "There they are predominantly funded by the
national government and the settings are urban.
Entertainment can be found elsewhere.
"Here support comes from a more regional base.
Supporters make personal investments, and they
want to see the university known and respected.
Nothing does that like the fanfare of sports,"
There were reports of suicide by Brazilian afi
cionados after the soccer team lost in the World
Cup semifinals, proving that fanaticism is not an ex
clusively American trait. But here, UNC is the
natural rallying point for a state without a major
league team or national representative.
Ludington recalled watching a football game be
tween his son's prep school, Phillips Exeter, and
Deerfield Academy. What struck him most was the
imperfection and "paucity" compared to sports on
the college level.
"Where, 1 wondered, had my values gone as
phrases like 'love for the game' floated through'my
head?" he said. "I missed the perfection.'
The speakers concluded that Americans' con
tinuing obsession with sports is simply a part of
human nature. No one can expect the university to
be exempt from that. While reforming athletics may
require the impossible task of reforming society,
fans can make that leap of the imagination and win
with their team.
"A large number of North Carolinians don't un
derstand what a complex entity the university is,"
Rubin said. "I would find it hard to go out and ex
plain to tobacco farmers that they should invest
their hard-earned dollars to help UNC buy the best
edition of John Pendleton Kennedy's Swallow Barn.
"A farmer from Franklin mighi not be interested
in John Pendleton Kennedy, but we both saw
(Michael) Jordan sink that shot in New Orleans.
When he took that shot he took it for both of us,
and that's why our heavenly father was a Tar Heel
and the sky is Carolina blue."