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The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, November 7, 19893 Campos and City nU'boXolQjljo) ,-.i,-lrimii,..niii,inm.l.i.i..f ,?.M,,n r,.m,M In Chapel Hill: Sunday, Nov. 5 Police responded to a possible assault behind Yates Motor Com pany. The victim stated that two males were hanging around her and one male just "went off on her, hitting her about the face with his hand. There was minor injury to the victim's chin and cheek area, but a rescue squad was not needed. The victim knew both suspects. Saturday, Nov. 4 While on a routine patrol, an officer observed a large terrier walk ing on Hillsborough Street without a leash. The officer provided an escort for the dog to its residence. Someone removed money from a" patron's wallet at the Chapel Hill Community Center on South Estes Drive. The complainant was prepar ing to leave the community center when he noticed the money was missing from his wallet. There are no suspects at this time. The manager of Spanky's Res taurant contacted police when an intoxicated party refused to leave the restaurant. The party left before officers arrived at the scene, and no further action was taken. Police were called to the Uni versity Presbyterian Church on East Franklin Street to find a man and a woman arguing in front of the church. After talking with the police, the subjects stated they had calmed down and everything was all right. Offi cers spoke with the subjects for about 20 minutes to make sure the situ ation was resolved. A resident of 304-B McMasters St. reported to police that her next door neighbor was running an ex tension cord from her house to oper ate his power tools. Officers spoke to the neighbor who thought the owner had given permission to use the power supply to operate the tools. The neighbor disconnected the cord and attempted to find another power source. Police stopped to investigate a disturbance on East Franklin Street near the Carolina Theater. Officers found that two people were having a friendly wrestling match, and no further action was taken. , A suspicious person called 116 Basswood Court and identified himself as a police officer and left a number to call. Police attempted to reach the person, but there was no answer at the number. . A resident on Hamilton Road contacted police and reported a prowler. Officers checked the area and found no one. Friday, Nov. 3 A Chapel Hill resident contacted police when the rear window of his 1989 Excel was shattered after a piece of concrete was thrown through it. The incident took place in the Hardee's parking lot on West Fran klin Street. There were no witnesses or suspects, and damage was esti mated at $300. Officers responded to a report of an intoxicated subject asleep on the sidewalk in front of the Food Lion at Eastgate Shopping Center. A friend transported the subject to his resi dence. A Carrboro resident reported that she parked her pickup truck and -went into the State Employees Credit Union to get a money order. The resident returned to the truck after leaving the credit union and noticed after she was already on the road that abox containing a chair was missing .from the truck. A resident on Bridle Run con Jacted police to report a bat on her .doorstep. When officers arrived the jbat had left the area. Police were able to locate the jiyvner of a tire left in the Chapel Hill 5plice Department lobby. The tire y.as returned to the owner. X compiled by Steven Adams Spend extra time at DTH U-Desk '. Getting tired of the same old col lege scene? Sick of having your af- lejnoons free? Fed up with study ing? Well, do something about it! X The University desk of The Daily Y$br Heel is looking for a few good f Nvjriters. If you're interested, submit t& Sample article to the DTH office by noon Friday. . RADUAT 'Novembers Meet Admissions Officers from Delegates etabl3lh co By JOEY HILL Staff Writer Delegates from UNC attended the National Collegiate Black Caucus (NCBC) Friday and Saturday in At lanta, where representatives from more than 20 schools met to ratify the group's constitution. Officers were elected, including an officer from UNC, and a date was se lected for a march on Washington, said Keith Belton, a UNC delegate to the convention. Five delegates from the Black Cul tural Center (BCC) attended the con vention, and delegate Anne Ards was elected the NCBC's corresponding Safety walk to pinpoint unsafe campus areag By DEBBIE BAKER Staff Writer Student Congress has passed a bill establishing a commission to report unsafe areas on campus. Commission members will take monthly walks around campus in order to determine which areas are danger ous for students to walk through at night. They will report their findings to Student Congress, the Building and Grounds Committee, Campus Patrol, University Police, the dean of students Wired - jftc If "Ssx , fjj - yi -r ' ! ;-L IN k-V If 4) -it -T -I--.! V vX-x-x-xV W - SC .J - $ I ' fcJyf""'""f lHWmw.. Tim Greene, Chapel Hill resident and residential Top of the Hill convenience store on Franklin electrician, repairs lights over the gas pumps at Street during Monday's rainy afternoon. Officials predict library By CAMERON TEW Staff Writer A proposal by the public library building committee to hold a $3 million bond referendum this spring might meet opposition from Chapel Hill Town Council members who may want to place the referendum on a ballot in November 1990. In 1986 the town voted for a $4 million bond to build a 47,000-square-foot library. The proposed library would replace the library on Franklin and Boundary streets. Construction prices have increased $3 million over budget since the vote. y The proposed new library site is near the intersection of Estes Drive and Franklin Street behind the Siena Hotel. Construction is slated to begin in 1991. Kathy Thompson, Chapel Hill li brary director, said the town council EMBA S secretary. The NCBC, formed in September as an extension of the Congressional Black Caucus, will target educational, politi cal and economic problems facing black America and America as a whole, Bel ton said. The march on Washington, which is scheduled for June 17, 1990, will be the NCBC's first major event that will gain the group recognition. Part of the NCBC's purpose is activ ism, Ards said. "In our constitution we flushed that purpose out and decided how to do that from a national stand point." The NCBC worked to mobilize tech niques and strategies for the march, office, the chancellor and the Board of Trustees. Gene Davis, speaker of Student Congress, said, "Safety is an issue that is of great concern to the entire Univer sity community. Anything that we can do to increase the safety of our campus should be done with the utmost expedi ency. The Safety Walk Commission has been created in order to report on the areas of campus that are unsafe." Davis and Mark Bibbs, chairman of the congress rules and judiciary com should approve the bond for May be cause the new library had been on hold for a few years. 'The council needs to approve this issue because people don't understand what is going on with the project, and this is very frustrating to them." Before the Nov. 1 library committee meeting, Mayor Jonathan Howes said holding the referendum in November 1990 would be sounder government policy because the town was likely to hold other bond votes on road and build ing needs at that time. 'The council will have to reach its own conclusion on what to do. It's up to them to deal with the timing." Howes and council member Joe Herzenberg, members of the library building committee, said the town council was not likely to support the May 1990 single-item referendum QreatHdH 12t304t30p.m. 41 Schools & Recruiters from Four 2-Year Analyst Programs. which will allow the NCBC to act as a "moral conscience to the Bush admini stration and to the nation at large," she said. It will fight the erosion of civil and human rights before and since the civil rights movement, as well as the erosion of the gains that were made during the movement, Ards said. The ratification of the constitution was a long process, Belton said. "It was a hammering process. All of us wanted the best for the NCBC, so a lot of different viewpoints came out. "I feel it was a good starting point. There will have to be more refining mittee, introduced the safety walk bill to congress. Davis will appoint a member of congress to serve as chair man to the commission and a member of Campus Y will serve as co-chairman. Davis learned about the safety walk commission at the N.C. Student Gov ernment Conference last month. The idea came from Appalachian State University, where the student govern ment walks across campus once a year to locate potential unsafe areas. "It was DTHSchuyler Brown bond delay because it went against town policy. Council member Julie Andresen said spring ballots usually had lower turn outs than ballots proposed in the fall. "We should be careful to get the most town input we can when thinking about raising taxes." Council member Roosevelt Wilker son said the referendum was important but too much was being made of its approval for the May ballot. "I don't understand why there is such a rush to have the referendum in May instead of November because the archi tect says it will not affect the construc tion of the new library." Council member David Pasquini, a member of the library committee, said the decision on when to hold the refer endum could have an effect on the library's construction. chool Exploration Day JlegDate down the road," he said. "It's some thing we can bring back to our cam puses. "With the constitution and election of officers, we set a good foundation. Now we have set leadership, and we know who we can go to with specific concerns." Sherry Waters, another UNC dele gate, said she felt the convention was very successful. Some work involved the Youth Manifesto for the Nineties, a document written at the Congressional Black Caucus in September. The Youth Manifesto served as a foundation for the NCBC constitution, she said. my desire to involve a different group of students in this project," he said. Davis said he hoped students from all areas of campus would get involved. Safety is an issue which affects the faculty and students who live on or off campus, he said. "The commission wants to involve as many people as want to get involved." The commission will target specific areas of campus that are extremely dark or where lamps are burned out. Paths where there are high bushes and hedges are also dangerous, according to Davis. The commission will also report any areas that make commission members feel unsafe during their investigations. Davis said the administration and the police needed to know where the unsafe areas were so they could plan for Tutorial service operas new offices By CATHY APGAR Staff Writer The Writing Center will open its doors as usual today to students seek ing help with their writing skills. The only difference is, the doors won't be the same. The center's main offices relocated to the lower level of Phillips Annex over the weekend because space was tight in the old center in the lower level of the Undergraduate Library, said director Carol Pinkston. In the new location, more students can be helped more sufficiently be cause there are separate offices and quieter areas to work in, Pinkston said. The office is a walk-in center for students needing help with their writ ing, and it has a grammar hotline for students, Pinkston said. The walk-in center at the library operates on a first come, first serve " basis, and there is one tutor available, she said. If students know ahead of time that they need help with their writing, they should make an appointment with a tutor in Phillips Annex, she said. Handicapped students do not have access to the new location at the annex, Candidates support development limits By KATHERINE SNOW Staff Writer Candidates for Chapel Hill's Town Council Monday expressed support for the recent proposal to place restrictions on development around the University Lake watershed. The proposal to allow only one unit built per 5-acre lot was made by the Joint Orange-Chatham Cooperative Planning Work Group. If the proposal is approved by the Chapel Hill Town Council as it was by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen, it will help protect the quality of the drinking water in Orange and Chatham counties. "There is an obligation to ourselves and future generations to protect our water," said Joyce Brown, a candidate for town council. Other than zoning restrictions, there are few alternatives to protect the wa tershed, incumbent candidate Julie Andresen said. "Consultants told us the only other way was to build retention pumps, which are very costly and no body seemed willing to pay for them." Some people who own property in the watershed are not pleased with the proposal because it could lower the value of their property. Andresen said they had kept the property owners 'concerns in mind and the pro posal included provisions to help them. Delegates to the convention decided to divide member schools into 14 re gions, Ards said. "North Carolina and South Carolina will work together to mobilize the schools in those two states." The next NCBC meeting will be in January, when the group will mobilize for the march, Belton said. The UNC chapter of the NCBC, with about 45 members, is established and only lacks recognition as an official organization, Ards said. The UNC chapter will work with the BCC and the Black Student Movement, but it will be an individual organization. the future safety of the campus. "Re cently the Board of Governors and President Spangler have gone out of their way to provide funding to ensure safe campuses. It is my hope that once we'recognize the areas of campus that are unsafe, we'll be better able to pres ent the needs that we have in this regard to the board." ; The new law marks the first official act where a bill from the Student Af fairs Committee designates that Cam pus Y and student government cooper ate on a project. "It is important to recognize the fact that Campus Y and student government have been work ing together more than ever. I think it is a very exciting time for student groups as we see a movement toward unified empowerment of students," said Davis. so they should continue to go to the library center, Pinkston said. The center is a free tutorial service sponsored by the English department. Tim Logue, a graduate English stu dent, is tutoring for his second year at the center. The center's service is like an Oxford tutoring program and is one of the few elitist programs the Univer sity offers, he said. He enjoys tutoring at the center because it is a rare opportunity to work closely with a student on his or her writing, rather than in the classroom where there are too many students to work one-on-one, Logue said. Chris Neumann, a graduate English student, is a first-time tutor for the center. He said a typical session was usually 1 5 minutes of reading a draft of the student's work and talking about its organization and transition. Consistent improvement in the student's work can usually be seen within two and a half months, he said. The Writing Center is open by ap pointment only on Monday and Thurs day from 8 a.m until 7 p.m., on Tuesday and Wednesday from 8 a.m. until 5 p.m., and on Friday from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. According to the proposal, people who owned multi-acre lots before Oct. 2 would be allowed to divide their property into as many as five lots, but none could be smaller than two acres. Town council candidate Bill Thorpe said he supported the plan. "I am a firm believer that the watershed should be protected and we should do everything we can even if we (the town and county) have to buy the land." He said he thought the proposal should be considered carefully to see how it would affect the town's resi dents and the landowners. "I think it might be a little strict to property own ers, and I want to be fair to both sides." Another candidate for town coun cil, Helen Urquhart, said she was not disinterested in the property owners but the watershed issue was a consumer concern because University Lake is the source of drinking water for so many residents of Chapel Hill, including the University. 'There is always a commu nity downstream of somebody's water shed so they all should be protected." Carrboro Alderman Judith Wegner, the work group's chairman, said the town council had already agreed a hearing should be held about the water shed restrictions. There will be a joint hearing in January.
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