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By SAMANTHA NEWMAN
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The UNC Alpha Phi Omega ser
vice fraternity won the Blue-Gold
Service Award March 29 for the most
service hours in a competition with
Duke University and N.C. State
University.
"We're just happy to have beaten
Duke at something," said Vicki
Williams, a sophomore member from
Raleigh.
The award, set up this semester by
the UNC APO Executive Council,
grew out of an intra-fraternity com
petition started in 1978 called Blue
and Gold Week. The fraternity
divides into two groups and competes
for the most service hours.
"We try to use Blue-Gold Week to
cram in as many service hours as
possible," Williams said.
Experts disagree on Panamanian situation
By CHRIS LANDGRAFF
Stiff Wrrter
As opposition to strongman Gen.
Manuel Noriega continues to mount
in Panama, U.S. foreign policy
experts struggle to agree on the role
the United States should take in
ensuring a solution to the instability.
Noriega, who faces U.S. drug
trafficking charges, seized control of
Panama in February and has con
tinued to quash opposition to his
leadership, often violently. The
United States imposed economic
sanctions on the Noriega government
and is deploying troops today to
protect U.S. interests and citizens
there. But Noriega has refused to step
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The newly-created comDetition.
which lasted from Friday, March 18,
until Saturday, March 29, is similar,
except that it is based on the amount
of service hours each school can
gather.
APO works with Book Buddies,
the Red Cross, Carol Woods Rest
Home and the Orange County Liter
acy Council, among others, to gather
service hours, said APO member
Curtis Hedgepeth, a junior from
Dover.
"We like to go out to local elemen
tary schools and read to kids for an
hour after school while they wait for
their mothers to pick them up," he
said. "This is the Book Buddies
Project."
The fraternity also helps other
organizations, members said.
"APO co-sponsors every blood
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down.
"Even if Noriega loses power, the
drug trade will not be affected, due
to other countries such as Haiti and
Nicaragua picking up the slack, and
it is not a given that Noriega will not
be replaced with another military
strongman," said William Glade of
the Woodrow Wilson Center for
International Scholars.
The United States has been too
'active in Panamanian affairs, Glade
said.
"We must consider the disruption
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drive," Williams said. "We contact
other groups to help us out. For
instance, the last blood drive was
during Greek Week so we contacted
the Inter-Fraternity Council to help
us out."
Sharon Rock, a junior from Jack
sonville, said APO members get a lot
of personal satisfaction from the
service they do.
"We go to the local animal shelter
and take dogs to Carol Woods,"
Rock said. "The old people can pet
the animals. One old lady told us,
We look so forward to you all
coming. We come to wait in the lobby
at 1 1 o'clock, even though you don't
come until 3.' "
APO, with 70 active members and
30 pledges, is located in the basement
of the Union and is the only service
fraternity at UNC.
we are causing. The U.S. policy of
stringent economic sanctions could
cause long-term strife for the people
of Panama," he said.
It is not clear if banking, Panama's
most important industry, will ever
recover from the damage U.S. sanc
tions have caused, he said.
But Neal Pickett of the Hudson
Institute said U.S. actions have not
been severe enough. "Stronger sanc
tions are necessary to increase oppo
sition to the Noriega government," he
said.
The United States should not
attempt to have normal relations with
the Noriega government, because it
is the U.S. government's responsibil
ity to help the people of Panama to
bring Noriega from power, he said.
Man sentenced to prison
on sexual assault charges
From staff reports
The man accused of sexually
assaulting a UNC sophomore in the
basement of the Beta Theta Pi
fraternity house last November was
sentenced to 40 years in prison
Thursday.
John Joseph Healy, 24, pleaded
guilty to breaking and entering,
common law robbery, attempted
second-degree rape and second
degree sexual offense in connection
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The UNC organization, which was
chartered in 1930, is one of 600
chapters nationwide. It was founded
on the Boy Scout principles of
community service and charity work,
Hedgepeth said. Women were first
admitted in 1976.
Another factor that makes APO
unique is that it is not as selective
as other fraternities, members said.
"GPAs don't factor into our decision
making process," Williams said. "We
are looking for time commitment and
enthusiasm."
The lack of selectiveness is what
attracts members, Rock said. "You
look at the sororities. They're so
picky," she said. "You want to be a
part of something, but something
that's not so selective. I knew that
joining this fraternity would make me
feel good about myself."
There is no reason for military
actions as long as Americans are not
threatened, but economic sanctions
should be increased, and businesses
should be encouraged to cease paying
the Noriega government taxes, Pick
ett said.
But if businesses don't pay those
taxes, long-term U.S. interests in the
region will suffer, Glade said.
While neither Glade nor Pickett
thought the U.S. should kidnap
Noriega or actively remove him from
power, such a policy is currently
under U.S. consideration, they said.
The experts agreed that to achieve
stability in Panama, the consensus is
that "the situation cannot be ignored
and a government which better
represents the people of Panama must
come into power," Pickett said.
with the incident.
Healy was also wanted for the Nov.
6 robbery of Ken's Quickee Mart at
University Square.
According to Capt. Ralph Pender
graph of the Chapel Hill Police
Department, Healy's lengthy prior
arrest record also includes first-degree
burglary, drug possession and assault
of a police officer.
While awaiting trial for the
November assault at UNC, Healy was
released on bond from Orange
County jail in mid-February. Two
days after his release, Healy was
arrested for assaulting a Chapel Hill
woman at a Columbia Street
residence.
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station manager,
projects expansion
By BETHANY LITTON
Staff Writer
Mike Isenhour, a junior
RTVMP major from Hickory, has
been selected as Student Televi
sion's new station manager, and
will assume leadership of the
station April 12.
Isenhour said he would con
tinue to expand STV's services and
increase student involvement in
the station.
Purchasing new equipment for
the station is the key to STV's
growth, Isenhour said. During
spring elections, students
approved an increase in student
fees for the purchase of new
equipment.
"When we get the new equip
ment," Isenhour said, "we should
have enough to double our student
capacity."
Additional equipment will also
help STV add more original shows
to its programming schedule,
Isenhour said.
Installation of cable television
in residence halls is crucial if STV
is to expand, Isenhour said.
Students would be more aware of
the station, and the programs
would be broadcast directly to
their intended audience, he said.
"Right now, it's hard to tell what
our student audience is," he said.
According to outgoing station
manager Don Harris, cable in the
residence halls would not only be
beneficial to STV, but would
provide students with another
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drop out of school, less likely to be
involved in crime, less likely to abuse
drugs and alcohol and less likely to
get pregnant while still in their teens,
he said.
The project will also lobby the
legislature for more spending on day
care programs, Segal said.
"Thousands of women in the state,
a hundred thousand around the
country, want to work but can't
without day care," he said.
Gretchen Knight, a sophomore
involved in the project, said day care
concerns students, despite what they
may think.
"Most of us are going to end up
with children," she said. "If there is
no place to go, we're going to feel
the crunch in five to eight years."
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"The students are missing out,"
Harris said. "The University is
only spiting itself by not giving the
students access to all the informa
tion that cable provides."
The last year has been a suc
cessful one, despite limited resour
ces, Harris said. The approval of
the STV fee increase referendum
is evidence of increased student
awareness and support of the
station, he said.
"The students think of STV as
a viable organization," he said.
Harris said he felt Isenhour will
do an excellent job as station
manager.
"Mike has the respect and
admiration of everyone in the
organization," Harris said. "If
anyone deserves to be station
manager, he does."
Isenhour's application was
reviewed by STV's Executive
Board and then screened by the
group's Board of Directors.
STV is just over four years old,
and 90 to 100 students are involved
with the station. STV members
produce three original programs:
"Off the Cuff," "Campus Profile,"
and "General College."
Isenhour said the next year will
be a productive one for STV,
especially if more students get
involved in the station and watch
its programs.
"We want people to feel as if
this is their campus TV station,"
he said.
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Mary Bridgers, director of Victory
Village Day Care Center, said day
care lets "people who need to work,
work."
Day-care programs also help child
ren in many of the same ways
preschool programs do, Bridgers
said.
"We get kids ready to go to school,"
she said. "We help them acquire
skills."
Day care also keeps families
together, Bridgers said.
Segal said he thought the legisla
ture would pass some kind of bill
'supporting preschool and day care; if
the lobbying effort was there.
"It's an apple pie issue," he said.
"Who doesn't want to help children?"
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