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4The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, April
City Police Roundup
In Chapel Hill:
B Several drug incidents involv
ing marijuana occurred Saturday.
UNC student Lori Mahmoud
was arrested for simple drug
possession and possession of drug
paraphernalia after an officer
noticed an odor of marijuana
around her.
Three men were arrested behind
Four Corners Restaurant and
charged with simple possession.
Officers observed Ashley Austin
and Emmanuel White of Chapel
Hill and Anthony Royster of
Carrboro using the drug behind
the restaurant Saturday night.
Royster was also charged with
possession of drug paraphernalia.
a A UNC student was arrested
Sunday after he was seen banging
on the front window of Four
Corners Restaurant. Stephen Curl
was also consuming a malt bev
erage. Police asked to see his
identification and as he pulled it
out, he ran. After running across
Franklin Street, Curl was appre
hended by the officer near the rear
of Battle Hall.
a Someone stole a candy gum
vending machine Friday from the
hallway of Suite 206 at Eastowne
Office Park.
B James Bradshaw of Chapel
Hill was arrested Saturday at Fast
Fare on East Rosemary Street and
was charged with larceny
shoplifting. Police observed him
picking up two bags of Skittles
Fruit Candy and putting them in
his pocket.
In Carrboro:
B A bizarre incident on N.C. 54
between Chapel Hill and Carrboro
resulted in injuries to a man and
his wife Saturday night.
The Chapel Hill couple were
traveling west on N.C. 54 into
Carrboro when another vehicle,
carrying five men, began tailgating
their car and trying to run them
off the road.
The man took the exit ramp at
Smith Level Road and was
stopped by a light at the bottom
of the ramp. While his car was
stopped, the car with the suspects
followed. The men got out,
approached both sides of the car
and began assaulting the couple.
They used blunt weapons,
including a crowbar and a .billy
stick, according to police reports.
Soptlh Carolina renews prohibition, of NoC. hazardous waste
By KARI BARLOW
Staff Writer
After a 10-day reprieve, South
Carolina reissued a ban Friday that
prohibits North Carolina and other
neighboring states from dumping
hazardous wastes in a S.C. landfill.
North Carolina does not have a
disposal facility.
North Carolina sends about 45,000
tons of waste each year to the Sumter
County landfill, GSX Chemical
Services Inc., said Roger Davis, vice
president of the company.
"Certain industries in about 25
different states have historically sent
hazardous wastes to South Carolina,"
Davis said. "I think every state ought
to share in providing a solution to
the hazardous waste problem."
North Carolina produced 2.8
billion pounds of hazardous waste in
1987, said Marge Howell, public
information officer for the N.C.
Hazardous Waste Treatment
Commission.
Fifty-eight percent of that waste
went to the Pinewood, S.C, landfill,
Howell said.
The future of the state's relation
ship with the S.C. landfill depends
on a bill that has already passed the
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The man was injured on the left
cheek and suffered bruises and
cuts around the mouth as well as
a knot the size of a silver dollar
on the top of his head. The woman
was pushed by the men. The
assault occurred while the couple
were in the car. The door and the
left side of the car received several
scratches.
The couple described the men's
car as a older model (1977-1982)
mid-sized, off-white vehicle. It was
last seen heading northeast on
Merritt Mill Road. The driver was
wearing either a red or maroon
shirt.
Officials at the Carrboro Police
Department request that anyone
with information concerning the
incident contact them.
D A UNC student reported to
police that she was harassed
Thursday while waiting for a bus
at Royal Park Apartments on
N.C. 54.
The woman was approached by
a white male who tried to start
a conversation. She said his
mannerisms made her nervous, so
she told the man she had forgotten
something and began walking
toward the apartments.
The suspect followed, yelling
and holding his genitals, and then
ran from the scene.
The man was described as a
white male, about 20 years old,
with long, dirty, matted light
brown hair and blue eyes. He was
wearing a turquoise bandana,
navy warm-up pants and a black
shirt.
b A woman reported that some
one climbed through a bedroom
window, walked down the hall and
left through the front door of her
Estes Park apartment. She was
asleep but heard someone knock
on the door twice. She heard a
noise and looked up to see some
body walking down the hall. A
screen had been removed from the
back bedroom window and the
front door was open.
D A resident of Tarheel Manor
told police that Kevin DePriest
called him Friday and threatened
to "blow his head off." The man
had started dating DePriest's
former girlfriend. DePriest was
arrested Saturday and charged
with communicating threats.
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state Senate, Howell said. The bill
would establish an Industrial Waste
Management Commission and an
off-site waste management facility,
she said.
The bill is now in the House and
has been discussed once, said Linda
Little, executive director of the
governor's ' Waste Management
Board.
South Carolina will be more likely
to open its doors once the bill has
passed the House and definite efforts
are being made to name a site for
the facility, Little said.
"South Carolina has been trying to
get North Carolina to take more
responsibility for their hazardous
waste," Little said.
South Carolina wants North
Carolina to get its act together, said
Doug Rader, senior scientist with the
Environmental Defense Fund.
"(North Carolina has) no hazardous
waste disposal regulations."
This absence of regulations has
resulted in the classic "not-in-my-backyard"
syndrome, Rader said.
Although not desirable, it is legal
and fairly safe for most companies
in the state to keep their wastes on
site for 90 days, Little said.
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By CRYSTAL BERNSTEIN
Staff Writer
More problems face the space
shuttle program because experts are
having difficulty assessing the poten
tial for disaster in manned space
missions.
Officials at NASA have become
more realistic in their evaluation of
expediton risk since the 1986 Chal
lenger disaster, said Karl Kristoffer
spn, news chief at the NASA station
in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
Before the disaster, success with
Apollo and Gemini shuttle missions
caused the space center to overesti
mate the safety of space travel, he
said. "There's no secret that the
agency became a little overconfident."
Officials at NASA previously
claimed the odds for disaster were one
in 100,000, which would make travel
aboard a space shuttle only 10 times
riskier than flight on commercial
passenger airplanes and about as
risky as a flight on a single-engine
private airplane, said John Pike,
associate director for space policy at
the Federation of American Scientists
in Washington, D.C.
Though it is generally understood
that space travel is dangerous, no one
can estimate exactly how dangerous
it is. Risk for shuttle explosion could
be one in several dozen to one in
several hundred, Pike said.
' This broad range of uncertainty
makes it difficult to decide how much
effort should be put into the shuttle
Late report criticized io NCCU soot
By KIMBERLEY MAXWELL
Staff Writer
A late brief stating N.C. Central
University provided sufficient secur
ity in the case of a slain student should
not be accepted, attorneys for the
student's mother say.
The brief was filed on March 31,
said William Goldston, one of the
three attorneys representing Mazelle
Bullock. The deadline was March 30,
established in an order by the N.C.
Industrial Commission.
State statute requires the N.C.
Industrial Commission to review all
suits filed against state institutions.
Bullock has accused NCCU of not
providing enough security for its
students and is suing for $100,000,
the maximum a plaintiff can win in
a tort claim case.
The fact that the state is not
providing a place for its industries to
store hazardous waste poses a danger,
Howell said. "We don't want anybody
trying to get rid of their hazardous
wastes in a way that it will hurt our
environment."
With the S.C. facility off limits to
North Carolina, many companies are
shipping their wastes to Alabama to
IRezoning
By MARIA BATISTA
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill residents support a
recommendation by the Chapel Hill
Planning Board to refuse the rezoning
request for land near the intersection
of 15-501 and Mt. Carmel Church
Road.
"I think its the only decision the
board could have made because none
of the legal requirements for rezoning
were present," said Margaret Taylor,
president of the Alliance of Neigh
borhoods, referring to the board's
recommendation.
"Even if there had been no public
outpouring of opposition, they, would
have come to the same decision
because that's the way the law is."
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program. The risk of explosion, if
known, could dictate whether shuttles
should be flown at all, he said. "If
it's one in 38, it's too dangerous to
fly. On the other hand, if it's one in
500, we ought to fly everything," he
said.
The disaster potential is very
difficult to estimate because space
shuttles are so powerful, Kristoffer
son said.
"When you consider that the power
of rocket boosters is 150 million
horsepower energy equal to 21
Hoover dams every part must
function perfectly," he said.
Although safety inspectors conduct
numerous tests on shuttle machinery
and most systems have backup
mechanisms installed, problems can
crop up without warning. Problems
are most likely to occur during the
rocket launch and return phases, he
said.
NASA is constantly fighting the
human element in manufacture and
assembly as well, he said.
In a large bureaucracy such as
NASA, problems detected at the
engineering level are often not heard
at higher levels of management, said
Wayne Christiansen, a professor in
the department of physics and astron
omy at UNC. This kind of bureau
cracy contributed to the Challenger
failure, he said.
"The potential for disaster is always
there," Christiansen said.
Goldston said the brief wasn't
cause for worry. "I'm not going to
jump up and down over a late brief,"
he said.
But Harry Bunting, assistant attor
ney general of N.C. Tort Claims
Court, rebuts the claim that the brief
was late.
"The brief wasn't late," Bunting
said. "The deputy commissioner had
given a one-day extension."
Bullock's lawyers, Goldston, Alex
ander Charns and Paul Green, filed
an objection and a response to the
late brief, which was the only brief
filed by Bunting.
The next step in the judicial process
is a decision from the N.C. Industrial
Commission, Goldston said. "The
record should be complete," he said.
"The judge has the entire thing. It's
another waste management facility
that is accessible to the state, Little
said.
The hazardous waste problem in
North Carolina has also been hin
dered by past laws that have impeded
the process of choosing a site for a
facility, Little said.
North Carolina is trying to work
out an interstate agreement with
request meets with opposition
More than 100 residents attended
a planning board public hearing last
Tuesday to protest a rezoning request
submitted by developers Jon Hoetger
and the Protean Group, Ltd.
Residents complained to the plan
ning board that the development
would cause traffic problems in the
area.
"It's already a bad traffic situation,
and they were planning a 1,200-space
parking lot," Taylor said. "You can
imagine how much traffic that would
create."
Richard Andrews, 298 Azalea Dr.,
said the developer's proposal
included a business complex larger
than University Mall and a shopping
center about the size of Glenwood
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The space center plans to have nine
shuttle missions this year and 12 to
14 missions annually by the mid
1990s. An accident similar to the
Challenger fiasco could be expected
every 10 years, Kristofferson said.
Because of the high risk involved
in space travel, NASA is using
manned shuttles only when necessary.
Unmanned vehicles are adequate for
launching satellites and space probes,
he said.
Some missions, however, require
people to perform experiments and
bring the experiments back to earth,
Pike said.
Humans are also better than
programmed computers at assessing
situations and coming up with solu
tions when something goes wrong in
space, Kristofferson said. "There is
no substitute for the human mind."
Missions that involve $300 to $400
million satellites, such as the Magel
lan mission scheduled for later this
month, are too expensive to entrust
to expendable unmanned shuttles,
Pike said. These "throw-away"
rockets have a l-in-10 to a l-in-20
chance for explosion, he said.
, NASA is also flying fewer missions
for commercial purposes. The space
center paid a commercial launching
company, Space Services Inc. of
America, to perform a suborbital
launch for the University of Alabama
at Huntsville on March 28, said Julia
Sardan, assistant to the vice president
for marketing and government rela
just a matter of the judge deciding
the case."
Anthony Wayne Bullock, an
Oxford native, was found dead in
Childley Hall on a stairwell landing
in August 1986, said David Wither
spoon, news director for NCCU.
Bullock was a new transfer student
at NCCU from N.C. A&T University
in Greensboro.
Bullock was allegedly seen with an
unknown man the night of his death,
Witherspoon said. The two of them
knocked on a student's door in
Childley Hall. The man asked to see
someone named Darrell while Bul
lock mouthed the words, "He's got
a gun."
The two left, and shots were heard
soon afterward.
Edward Teete of Durham has been
South Carolina and surrounding
states that would allow states to share
the management of hazardous waste,
Howell said. This would be econom
ically feasible if a state could not
afford to have both a treatment and
disposal facility.
"North Carolina has nothing to
bargain with because we have no
treatment capacity and no land
Shopping Center planned for the 30
acre tract of land.
- Representatives of the Protean
Group argue the planned upgrading
of U.S. 15-501 will change the
conditions in the region enough to
justify the rezoning.
Residents are worried the develop
ment would set a bad precedent for
the whole town of Chapel Hill,
Andrews said.
"If a developer could come in and
get this rezoning done, then no
neighborhood is safe," he said.
The property was zoned as a low
density residential area because of the
area's heavy rush-hour traffic and
physical characteristics.
Chapel Hill Planning Director
Roger Waldon said town policy
allowed rezoning to correct a rezon
ing error, to adjust to changing
zoning needs or to meet the town's
comprehensive plan. The proposed
rezoning cannot be justified on any
of these counts, he said.
"The concern that has been raised
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NASA would not have contracted
this mission before, she said. Since
the government discourages the space
center from taking commercial pay
loads on the shuttle, NASA has no
choice but to turn the payloads over
to private companies, she said.
Congress has given NASA more
funding since the Challenger incident,
Kristofferson said. Before the acci
dent, Congress saw no need for
increased funding, he said.
"Our successes were dimming our
chances to get the funding," he said.
The disaster proved NASA
required more money and attention,
Kristofferson said. A larger staff is
needed to man the center's three
orbiter fleet, and funds are necessary
to build the fourth orbiter that will
replace Challenger, he said.
Although the Challenger incident
did not greatly reduce public support
for the space program, another fiasco
could kill the shuttle program,
Kristofferson said.
The public would not be able to
cope with a similar disaster in the near
future, Pike said. "The problem
would arise if you had a repetition
of the Challenger accident sooner
rather than later.
"I don't think the national psyche
could withstand a repetition of, the
Challenger accident every five years
or so."
charged with the murder, said Calvin
Smith, investigator for the Durham
City Police Department. Teete was
not affiliated with NCCU.
Security on any college campus is
a problem, said Roland Buchanan,
NCCU's vice chancellor for student
affairs.
"A university campus is an open
community," he said. "It's a difficult
entity to provide maximum security."
Buchanan said the campus would
literally have to be closed off to ensure
all students were safe.
NCCU does have a shuttle service
for female students to transport them
to night classes, Buchanan said. There
are also non-commissioned security s
officers present to some extent at
night and for large functions.
disposal capacity," Howell said.
Davis said the best approach was
to allow the free market system to
dictate where the facilities were
needed in a state.
State governments should not get
involved because the need for facil
ities is so great the private sector will
provide an answer to the problem,
he said. ,
so far about the possible rezoning of
the area is the change to the character
of the area," he said.
"If the property were rezoned the
way it has been requested, there is
the possibility of 200,000 square feet
of business development and over
100,000 (square feet) of commercial,"
he said.
There is land set aside for mixed
use zoning to promote business and
commercial growth in southern
Chapel Hill, but not in this particular
area, he said.
The board's recommendation will
be sent to the town council which
will hold another public hearing on
the rezoning in May.
Bruce Guild, vice chairman of the
planning board, said the rezoning
proposal was inappropriate for the
area.
"It's terrible," he said. "It's too big
for where they want to locate it. In
the comprehensive plan, we have
designated other areas for such
development."
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