6(The Daily Tar HeelMonday, November 6, 1989
DOT
raises Chapel Hi
irianele route soeed limit!
Qy. JENNIFER BLACKWELL
Staff Writer
The N.C. Department of Transporta
tion (DOT) raised the speed limit from
55"mph to 65 mph on the 1 0-mile stretch
of Interstate 40 between Chapel Hill
and Research Triangle Park last week.
'.The law went into effect when signs
were posted Nov. 1.
'.The increase is the result of the
change in the federal law concerning
the speed limit, said Jim Lynch, the
state traffic engineer for the DOT.
vThe Federal Highway
Administration's (FHA) original law
said the state could not use the 65 mph
limit within an area defined by a 50,000
population density, he said. The FHA
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defined this area using the urban plan
ning boundary, which includes a large
amount of area outside a population
center to allow for future growth and
development.
The law sparked complaints from
motorists nationwide since many of the
roads on the outskirts of the urban plan
ning boundary, like the stretch of 1-40,
were rural in operation. The large
amount of public pressure convinced,
the FHA to take a new look at the law
and redefine it, Lynch said.
The new law redefines the 50,000
population density according to the U.S.
census. This moves the boundary closer
to the city limits, allowing for the speed
limit increase on rural roads that were
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formerly included in the urban plan
ning area, he said.
"(The new law) allows us to do what
we wanted to do all along," Lynch said.
The DOT increased the speed limit
along 70 miles of N.C. roads that met
their requirements.
In determining if it should increase
the speed limit, the DOT looks at the
traffic density, accident rates, the de
sign of the road and major construction
activity, he said. All the roads that were
ECU students boycott city businesses
By ERIC LUSK
Staff Writer
Students at East Carolina University
are being asked by student government
officials to boycott Greenville busi
nesses today because of what they call
unfair noise ordinances passed by city
officials and a lack of university voice
within the community.
Today is being tabbed "Purple
Monday" by student government offi
cials, and will include the boycott and a
rally on campus this afternoon.
"We want to let the city of Green
ville know that ECUs students are
valuable to the community and want to
be heard," said Tripp Roakes, ECU
student body president. .
Today's on-campus rally will include
three or four speakers, and then will
move to an open forum to allow other
students to express views on new noise
Post
partment. "The University's employ
ment and training programs have been
allowed to deteriorate. As the Univer
sity has grown, experienced people had
been reassigned away from training
programs. It has been mostly the per
sonnel function that has lost employees
Hazing
students because they could find no
evidence that a crime had been com
mitted. "Fundamentally, a male police per
son seeing another male naked is not a
crime. We need a female complain
ant," said Sgt. Ned Comar of the Uni
versity police. "If there had been a
female complainant there probably
would have been an arrest."
Comar also said that although the
student who was taken to the hospital
had a blood-alcohol content of 0.27
percent, the fact that he was drunk in
public was not enough to make an arrest.
approved "checked out as being good
candidates for raising the speed limit."
Col. W.D. King, patrol commander
for the State Highway Patrol, said that
although "we were opposed to increas
ing the speed limit to 65 mph in the first
placc.we plan to work with (the
DOT)...and enforce the speed limit."
The Highway Patrol talked with the
DOT before it decided to increase the
speed limit. A survey showing that 65
mph was a safe speed convinced the
ordinances and on ways city and uni
versity relations can improve, he said.
Many ECU officials supported the
students' boycott plans.
"Some people are saying that all this
(Purple Monday) is going on just be
cause downtown businesses closed on
Halloween," said Ron Speier, dean of
students at ECU. "Actually the protest
stems from the fact that the city council
made some decisions, especially those
concerning the noise ordinances, with
out really consulting us."
The new ordidances, which went
into effect a few weeks ago, prohibit
fraternities or sororities from having
live bands at outdoor parties, he said.
"Before, each fraternity or sorority
was allowed to receive one permit to
exceed the city noise limits per year,"
Speier said.
Roakes said that some students were
to other University functions."
Jane Trexler, a recent employee of
the University, said she was tired of the
University after five years, but better
pay and benefits in the area made up her
mind to change jobs. "Benefits have
fallen, or actually they haven't kept up
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"You can be drunk in public, but as
long as you are not making a nuisance
of yourself it is not considered a crime."
According to the Code of Student
Conduct, hazing is defined as "inten
tionally inflicting physical injury upon
a person, intentionally placing a person
in fear of imminent physical injury or
danger, or intentionally inflicting se
vere mental or emotional distress upon
a person."
Any student found guilty of hazing
may be expelled or suspended from the
University.
N.C. state law identifies hazing as a
criminal offense punishable by a maxi
mum fine of $500 or imprisonment for
a period of up to six months or both.
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patrol to agree with the DOT's pro
posal, he said.
King said he thinks most drivers will
probably stick to the 65 mph limit. But
there are "always some who will fudge
on the speed limit," he said.
Raising the speed limit has resulted
in a 20 percent increase in accidents
nationwide, King said. Dr. Donald
Reinfurt, a spokesman for the N.C.
Highway Safety Research Center, said
also upset by the way police handled
events at a local party Halloween night
and that some unfair arrests were made.
Police arrested about 140 people at
the Tar River Estates apartment com
plex around 10:30 Halloween night.
"We were called by the manager and
came in about 9:30," said Lt. David
Bork of the Greenville city police.
"Along with some university officials
we tried to disperse the party for about
45 minutes. When that failed and stu
dents began moving on the street, we
began making the arrests."
While some students disagreed with
the arrests, school officials said they
had ample police warning to disperse.
Brown and Speier said the Hallow
een incident was not the main reason
for the boycott and rally, but the events
did help to speed up student's efforts to
organize some sort of protest.
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with everywhere else. The University
has no day care, and the wages are just
average."
The University has narrowed down
to six the number of candidates to fill
the new position, Tuchi said. "We re
ceived over 1 50 applications, the search
committee then narrowed that number
down to 20 and now down to six."
Funding for the improvements in
personnel will have to come from
somewhere in the current budget, Tu
chi said, but he is not sure from where.
"The money will have to come from
somewhere, but it's hard to say. What I
can say is there is an array of things we
want to do, renovations for example,
but some of them will have to wait."
Hardin said he saw no troubles
implementing the changes. "There has
been talk about this around the Univer
sity for years, and the groundwork has
already been laid. This program should
not be hard to implement."
Tuchi said he was also optimistic
about the new personnel department.
"If we get the right leader and the funds
together then the chances are quite good,
but we won't know until that leader is
in place."
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fatalities on rural routes with the 65
mph speed limit have increased by 15j
percent.
"People don't want to know that
fatalities are going up because we ail
enjoy driving faster...(but) it was inevi
table," he stated.
"There is absolutely no question that'1
average speeds do increase" with the"
increase in the speed limit, Reinfurt'.;
said.
.1.
Greenville city officials said that
while relations between the university'
and the city need to improve, boycott-' '
ing city businesses is an unfair protest"'
"We've already had committees
formed between students and city offi-"-'
cials to deal with community prob-'-
lems," said Ron Kimball, assitant city .'
manager of Greenville. "I don't think j
it's fair to punish businesses."
Hearing
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at the dental school while on duty andS
submitted a time sheet indicating he?,
had worked a full eight hours.
When Capt. Jimmy Roberson, his
superior, issued a written warning to
Perry, Edwards said, the Employee
Relations Division arbitrarily bumped
the written warning down to an oral;)
one. "Mike Lewis (employee relations,
officer) told him (Roberson), There's
no need to send it over here. I'll give"
him an oral warning, because he forgot-v
He just forgot,'" Edwards testified.
Officer Steve Thornton, who is blacky"
damaged his patrol car in an accidents
causing less than $100 in damage, she-
said, and was given an oral warning i
which remained in his file for six;
months. But Capt. Ron Ashley, who is
white, damaged his patrol car on sevr-u
eral occasions without receiving a rep
rimand until he hit a car containing a ,
mother and child.
Edwards said that she had received a -written
warning from Mauer for de-;
clining to work overtime at graduation '
on her day off although she had cleared u
the decision with her superior. Porreca,
however, received no disciplinary acr.
tion when he unexpectedly failed to-1
show up for overtime duty. ,'
Her long history of protesting de?
partmental racism has made her a target .;
of retaliation, Edwards said, citing an
instance when she was forced to take a-,;
qualifying test on a firing range with an 7
injured hand, causing further damage .
even though she had a note from herv
doctor. .n: j . in
"I was told in such a way that, if I did
not do it, I would be fired. I was forced v
to go out to the firing range, but I was f!
told the University would not be liable'.'
if something happened to me." o
Edwards said her superiors saw heri;
as the "ringleader" of the 15 officers 1
who filed a grievance after the 1987v;
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