The Daily Tar HeelMonday, October 9, 19893
City and State
Comitest'to aid recyciiimg efforts
By NANCY WYKLE
Staff Writer
; Can-crushers will compete at noon
Wednesday to become champion alu
minum stompers in a contest sponsored
by Tar Heel Aluminum Recycling
Project (TARP).
; Six different teams, each with their
6wn Hefty bag full of aluminum cans,
yill try to be the f irst to crush and return
to the trash bags their 10 to 15 pounds
Of cans.
! The three teams who finish first and
tjie team with the best name will re
ceive prizes. Classic Food Services of
Purham donated 10 cases of Coke for
die. winners.
pfficiais
Py TIM BENNETT
Staff Writer
', The number of people riding the new
Chapel Hill trolleys in its first month of
operation has excited town officials,
but reviews from merchants are mixed.
! "It (the trolley) has exceeded all of
my expectations," said Bob Godding,
director of transportation in Chapel Hill.
; There was an average of 40 passen
gers per hour through the month of
September with Thursday and Friday
as the busiest days. Having more than
30 passengers is considered very good
for a regular bus route in Chapel Hill
where bus ridership is already strong,
said Debbie Dibbert, co-director of the
Downtown Commission.
'. The trolleys, which each cost
$ 1 50,000, were purchased to bring more
jlask force delays creation of
AIDS patients' boarding house
By JEFF MOYER
Staff Writer
Orange County AIDS Task Force
chairman Dan Reimer has announced
the cancellation of a proposed boarding
house for AIDS patients at 1 10 Taylor
St.: and a scheduled Oct. 10 meeting
with neighborhood residents.
v "After talking with the AIDS house
in-Durham, we have decided not to
establish ahouse on Taylor St. for AIDS
patients," Reimer said. "We can not
operate without being an incorporated
body."
The AIDS home in Durham, known
as" the AIDS Community Residential
Association (ACRA), has operated
successfully for two years but is still
actively seeking licensing, said Susan
WHson, chairman of the Orange County
AIDS Task Force housing subcommit
tee. ACRA has a board of directors and
generally is more organized than the
task force.
' "Because of the need for state licens
ing of the AIDS home as a family care
facility, many things were overlooked
by the task force, Wilson said.
'"This was not an optimal home for
the project," Wilson said. "There were
only three bedrooms, and the house
would have required a lot more work
before it could have reached the stan
dards such as handicap access and fire
Bakker trial
By JULIE GAMMILL
Staff Writer
Televangelist and former PTL min
ister Jim Bakker will find little support
from national and local religious groups.
-- Bakker, found guilty Thursday of 24
counts of fraud and conspiracy in U.S.
District Court in Charlotte, defrauded
followers of his PTL ministry of $3.7
million to support his luxurious life
style, according to the jury.
Campus religious group leaders and
members disagreed on the sincerity of
Bakker's ministry, but none thought
tnel scandal made a significant impact
otr Christianity at UNC.
"I definitely think that he (Bakker)
was sincere, " said Darren Phillips,
director of Maranatha Campus Minis-
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The contest will help, increase recy
cling awareness on campus, said Jon
Heidersheit, TARP president.
"It's a very loud demonstration in
the Pit that will get a lot of attention," he
said. "It gets people's attention."
Paul Giragos, event coordinator and
TARP publicity chairman, added, "The
basic goal of the contest is to get people 's
attention so that we can say something
to them about recycling."
Heidersheit said TARP has been on
campus for three years but did not get
off the ground until last year, Heider
sheit said. TARP is a subcommittee of
the Campus Y organization Student
Environmental Action Coalition. But the organization is having prob- paper.
praise success of trolleys
Environmental Action Coalition.
people into the downtown area .and
generate excitement that would attract
customers for merchants, Dibbert said.
Because the trolley only runs from 1 1
a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Monday through Fri
day, the most obvious impact should be
on the restaurants downtown, she said,
and the impact on the retailers is not as
obvious.
The trolley runs from downtown on
Rosemary and Franklin streets and
Columbia and Pittsboro streets to North
Carolina Memorial Hospital. The hos
pital helped pay for the trolley, and
Dibbert said hospital employees were
expected to be among the most fre
quent riders.
People from the hospital said the
trolley made it easier for them to go
downtown for lunch, said Cheryl Rip-
codes."
The task force, in association with
community church volunteers, also met
logistical problems such as utilities,
routine maintenance and other practi
cal matters.
"Neither the task force nor the con
cerned individuals are incorporated and
the utility company will not connect a
house just to any individual," Reimer
said. "Volunteers can change from time
to time and there is no way to guarantee
their commitment."
After talking with groups such as
ACRA, it is clear that the absence of the
incorporation of interested parties or a
landlord willing to take responsibilty
poses a problem that can not be over
come quickly, Reimer explained. "It
takes at least six to 12 months to be
come incorporated."
Unless another alternative presents
itsel f, at least six months will pass before
the task force seriously can consider
setting up another house, he said.
"Neither organization is far enough
along with its development to under
take all the responsibilities necessary
for such a project to be successful."
Although a majority of Taylor Street
residents were opposed to the house,
the decision to discontinue the plan was
independent of these matters, Reimer
said. "Even if the neighbors welcomed
fails to affect campus
tries. "The PTL ministry came from a
love for people. It just got out of hand
with the money."
Bakker's crime was "wrongdoing
but not with evil motives," Phillips
said. The scandal and trial have not
affected Maranatha at UNC, he said.
Intervarsity Christian Fellowship
(IVCF) has grown 10 percent a year in
the two years since Bakker resigned
from PTL, said Brian Wallace, one of
four IVCF campus ministers.
Because televangelists mix religion
and money, they come across as hypo
critical and turn people off from Chris
tianity, said IVCF member Andy Dunk
erton, a senior from Baltimore. "Some
times people use that as an excuse to
not deal with God."
"I'm in absolutely no position to
make a judgement whether he was
sincere," said Wallace, who had never
seen Bakker's PTL show.
The Bakker scandal has not hurt
Campus Christian Fellowship's recruit
ment on campus, said Ed Russ, a junior
from Bath.
Adding that he personally thought
Bakker used religion to make money,
Russ said he only watched Bakker's
PTL show "when there was nothing
else on" and never for religious pur
poses. Meanwhile, the Revs. Jerry Falwell
and Jimmy Swaggart, also televangel
ists, appear to have distanced them
selves from Bakker during his trial.
"While I am personally sorry for Mr.
Bakker, his family and the thousands
who have been hurt by the PTL saga, I
am pleased that this dark chapter of
religious history has concluded," Fal
well said in a printed statement.
Swaggart was leading a crusade and
was unavailable for comment, said
Norma Shaw, his spokeswoman. She
said Swaggart had not commented
during the trial and would probably not
release an opinion statement on the
verdict.
Giragos said informing students
about recycling was important because
recycling aluminum prevented deple
tion of natural aluminum. Recycling
cans also uses less energy than making
new ones, so less pollution is produced,
he said.
Another advantage of recycling is
land-fill reduction, Giragos said. "In
some way (a land fill) will affect people
in a negative way."
Heidersheit said TARP had placed
34 recycling bins in various residence
halls and buildings on campus. Stu
dents who adopt the bins through TARP
are responsible for emptying them.
But the organization is having prob
perton, who works at Sadlack's Heroes
and Deli. "I've also seen a lot more
parents come in with their kids."
Henry Schliff, owner of Papagayo
Mexican Restaurant, said the trolley
had helped his business. "I think it (the
trolley) is really nice because a lot of
our customers are hospital employees."
But some establishments have not
experienced much change in business.
Michael Erickson, manager of
Huggin's Hardware, said his store was
one of those businesses.
"Being on Franklin Street, most of
our business comes from people who
are walking," he said. "It has not really
done much for our business."
Paul Wiester, manager of Hector's
restaurant, said the trolley had also made
little impact on his business. "We've
the idea with open arms, there would
have still been the problem of who was
going to take care of utilities and simi
lar problems."
The community expressed many of
its concerns in a September task force
meeting. One of the main concerns was
the presence of transients in the neigh
borhood. "Our main objection is not with the
condition of the people, even though it
is to a certain extent, but that these are
homeless people that no one is taking
responsibility for," said a Taylor Street
spokesman who wished not to be iden
tified. The cancellation of the house and
meeting was a surprise to the residents
who read about it in the newspapers.
"I was disappointed by the way it
was announced to the neighborhood,"
the spokesman said. "This was another
example of the task force's lack of
cooperation with the community and
unwillingness to communicate."
Before the announcement of the
cancellation of the project, some con
cerned residents with extra rental space
in their homes offered use of the space
to the task force, Wilson said. "Even
with all the bad publicity of this, there,
are still some concerned citizens in
Chapel Hill."
The Assemblies of God, who "de
frocked" Bakker after the revelation of
his sexual encounter with Jessica Hahn,
also will not release an opinion on
Bakker's verdict, Dick Champion,
editor of the Assemblies' Pentecostal
Evangel magazine, said.
It would be inappropriate for the
Assemblies to comment on the case
because they no longer have any ties
with Bakker, Champion said from the
Assemblies' national headquarters in
Springfield, Mo.
Richard Yao, founder of Fundamen
talists Anonymous, was pleased with
the verdict and will demand the strong
est possible sentence, said Ian Bieder
man, an intern with the organization.
A legal task force for Fundamental
ists Anonymous, representing more
than 300 former PTL Lifetime Partners
in PTL bankruptcy proceedings, is
trying to secure priority status for the
claims in bankruptcy court, Biederman
said. Priority status will give the dis
gruntled former followers a better
chance of recieving refunds of money
used to purchase $ 1 ,000 partnerships at
PTL, he said.
Town Meetings
Tuesday, Oct. 10
Chapel Hill Town Council T
7:30 p.m. Municipal Building, 306 N. Columbia St.
Included on the agenda: Consideration of Conner Drive parking restrictions and
reduction of the speed limit on Airport Road to 35 mph from Estes Drive north to
the town limits. A status report on the Tandler Homeownership Program and
nominations for the New Hope Corridor Greenway Advisory Board.
Carrboro Board of Aldermen
7:30 p.m. Carrboro Town Hall, 301 W. Main St.
Included on the agenda: Resolution establishing a student liaison to the Board of
aldermen. Planning Board recommendations on affordable housing, and a presen
tation of the Audit Report for fiscal year 1988-89.
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lems finding a place to buy bins. In the
past, TARP bought bins from Liggett
Meyer, a cigarette company. Other
recycling groups have started using
Liggett-Meyer bins, so TARP is look
ing for other sources, Heidersheit said.
More bins will be put on campus
when the organization finds a new
company .that sells bins. "If we had 50,
we'd put them out,", he said.
The group has collected 600 pounds
of aluminum this academic year, Hei
dersheit said. "We're doing really well
this year."
Giragos said TARP was also begin
ning to recycle other products, such as
gotten a few customers from the other
side of town who said they rode the
trolley in."
Town officials do not expect the
number of riders to decrease signifi
cantly when the weather becomes
colder. The trolley has Plexiglas win
dows that can be installed to protect
passenger when the temperature drops.
"I expect the ridership to level off
but not drop dramatically," Dibbert said.
"North Carolina winters are not very
severe."
The Downtown Commission would
like to extend the operation hours for
the trolleys but that would require more
money from private donations, said
Dibbert. For every additional half-hour
of service, $7,000 to $30,000 are added
to its annual operating costs.
Strumming for a cause
Folk singer Tracy Chapman performs Saturday
afternoon in front of the Capitol building in Wash-
Lack of information angers Martin
By KYLE YORK SPENCER
Staff Writer
Gov. Jim Martin chastised the state
superintendent of public instruction in
a Sept. 22 letter for not informing him
of North Carolina's low rating on the
Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT).
Superintendent Bob Etheridge re
ceived a letter from the governor last
Academic Accolades
From staff reports
The American Heart Association
awarded grants and fellowships for
cardiovascular-related research to 10
researchers at UNC.
Award winners from UNC include
Ralph Baric, parasitology; Chris
tos Chatziantoniou, medicine;
Frank Church, cardiology; Thomas
Fischer, medicine; Mitchell Fried
man, medicine; Carl Gottschalk,
medicine; David Millhorn,
physiology; Andrew Morris,
pharmacology; Leslie Parise, phar
macology; and Robert Rosenberg,
pharmacology.
The American Heart Association
and the N.C. Affiliate are spending
$1,478,533 on cardiovascular re
search in North Carolina. About
$445,770 was contributed to UNC
research for 1989-90.
Five UNC Faculty members have
been named Bowman and Gordon
Gray Professors.
William Barney, professor of
history; Peter Kaufman, associate
professor of religious studies; Rich
ard King, professor of psychology;
Theodore Leinbaugh, associate
professor of English; and Michael
Zenge, professor of music, were
named to the professorships.
Barney is a specialist in 1 9th cen
tury U.S. political and social history
with an emphasis on the South and
the Civil War. He earned his
bachelor's degree from Cornell Uni
versity and his master's and doctoral
degrees from Columbia University.
Kaufman joined the UNC faculty
in 1978. Kaufman is former director
week expressing disappointment that
Martin had not been personally noti
fied that North Carolina ranked lowest
in the nation in SAT scores. The letter
was released at a Board of Education
meeting held at the Outer Banks last
week.
The governor did not learn of the low
scores until he read about them in the
newspapers Sept. 13.
He was annoyed that the superin
tendent did not inform him in advance
that "the issue was coming up," said
Tim Pittman, the governor's press sec
retary. The superintendent responded to
Martin with his own Sept. 27 letter
apologizing for the lack of communi
cation. The superintendent regrets that he
did not brief the governor personally,
said Tony Copeland, assistant to Eth
eridge. He did brief Howard Haworth,
chairman of the state Board of Educa
tion, and Etheridge "assumed incor
rectly" that Haworth would in turn brief
the governor on the disastrous scores,
Copeland said.
Although Martin and Etheridge have
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of undergraduate studies in the De
partment of Religious Studies at
UNC. He is a Phi Beta Kappa gradu
ate of Trinity College in Connecticut
and earned a divinity degree from
Chicago Theological Seminary and
master's and doctoral degrees from
the University of Chicago.
King, a specialist in biological
psychology and brain-behavior rela
tionships, came to UNC in 1958. He
is the former associate director of the
Neurobiology Program for Train
ing. Leinbaugh, a specialist in Old and
Middle English, joined, the UNC
faculty in 1980 after earning his
doctorate from Harvard University.
A member of Phi Beta Kappa, Lein
baugh received his bachelor's de
gree from Yale University and
master's degrees from Harvard and
Oxford universities.
Zenge, a pianist, has appeared as
a soloist and accompanist through
out the United States, Germany and
Austria. He received his bachelor's
degree from the Oberlin Conserva
tory of Music and master's degree
from the University of Illinois.
Selection for the professorships is
based on nominations by UNC de
partment and curriculum chairmen.
Shawn Akkerman and John
Wakeford, both of Raleigh, have
been awarded the first Howard Q.
and Mescal Ferguson Doctor of
Pharmacy Scholarships at the School
of Pharmacy.
The scholarship supports the pur
suit of a doctor of pharmacy degree
at the School of Pharmacy.
DTHDavid Surowieckl
ington to protest the lack of housing and the num
ber of homeless in the United States.
differing party backgrounds, the gov
ernor does not want to make education
a party issue, Pittman said.
The governor would like to think
that this is not a partisan issue," Pittman
said. "He would like to keep the theme
of education free of politicking."
Earlier this year the governor ad
dressed the education problem by sup
porting some national educational pro
grams and proposing some of his own,
Pittman said. These programs included
a career ladder which supported better
pay for better teachers and a one per
cent sales tax increase to fund an im
provement in public schools. The su
perintendent never voiced an opinion
on these plans, Pittman said.
Etheridge has appointed a task force
to assess the state SAT problem before
major changes in state programs are
made, Copeland said.
As of this year, sophomores at N.C.
public schools will be allowed to take
the PSAT, a preliminary SAT, free of
charge. Also, SAT scores will now be
released individually by school instead
of by school system in order to focus on
schools with particularly low scores.
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