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Volume 97, Issue 125
Friday, February 9, 1990
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Caroline Philson checks out upcoming events on the Franklin
Street kiosk Thursday afternoon.
Meeting examines
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By DIONNE LOY
Staff Writer
About 20 students, faculty members
and administrators met with architects
Thursday night to discuss three sets of
preliminary drawings for the Student
Recreation Center.
Meeting participants voted in an
informal poll on the orientation of the
building in relation to Fetzer Gymna
sium. The vote favored having the SRC
flush against Fetzer with an entrance
facing the Student Union. The other
two plans showed the center flush
against Fetzer but facing the Bell Tower
and showed the center as separate from
the gymnasium.
The preliminary floor designs are
the same for all three plans. The design
calls for a two-story, about 20,000-square-foot
addition to the Fetzer court
yard. The center would include the
Wellness Resource Center, a lobby and
reception area, dance and aerobics areas,
exercise areas and a weight room.
The SRC would also include a vend
ing machine and juice bar area, a quiet
leisureresting area, sauna and steam
room facilities, and an elevated walk-
Worker dies in
From staff reports
Stacy Weaver Sox, a pipe Fitter for
the Tyger Construction Co., fell to his
death at about 4 p.m. Thursday at the
UNC Boiler Plant construction site at
the intersection of W. Cameron Ave
nue and Merritt Mill Road, according
to University police.
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ing.
Three problems were addressed in
the meeting: handicapped accessibil
ity, control of access to the facility, and
the location of the Wellness Resource
Center.
The plans presented by SRC archi
tect Norma Burns included ramps to
accommodate handicapped individu
als, which provided open viewing areas
of different levels of the center.
Burns, of Burnstudio in Raleigh, said
several problems had arisen with the
ramp designs. With one foot of ramp
for every inch of vertical height, the
length of the ramps would approach
120 feet.
"That takes a huge bite out of your
area. I think we can look at other op
tions to save space."
The other options for handicapped
access include installing stairs and an
elevator in the SRC at extra cost or
installing stairs and using the existing
elevator in Fetzer.
Many at the meeting opposed the use
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nounced dead at the scene when police
and South Orange Rescue Squad units
arrived.
Police are investigating the cause of
the fall.
Construction of the plant, which will
cost more than $89 million, is projected
to be completed in early 1991.
Lanning, Thompson enter race for
By KENNY MONTEITH
Staff Writer
Jessica Lanning, a sophomore jour
nalism major from Raleigh, and Kelly
Thompson, a sophomore journal ism and
international studies major from Jef
ferson, Ore., have announced their
candidacy for co-editors of The Daily
Tar Heel (DTH).
Lanning said they decided to run as
co-editors because it seemed logical to
them. "We are very complimentary to
each other. We have insight into de
sign, news and entertainment, and it
would be effective to have two people
instead of one."
Thompson said that if elected, the
pair would place briefs concerning top
national stories on the front page.
"We (the DTH) are just not able to
cover the important events of the day,
so we would like to able to expand our
coverage of national events," she said.
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Staff member released by Elections
By JASON KELLY
Assistant University Editor
The Elections Board voted unani
mously Wednesday to remove a staff
member from Jonathan Martin's stu
dent body presidential campaign after
the staff member was implicated in the
tearing down of another candidate's
campaign poster.
Sophomore Kyle Herod, Granville
Towers area governor, was removed
after he failed to stop a friend from
tearing down a Mark Bibbs campaign
poster on Jan. 27 in Spencer Residence
Hall. The friend's name was not re
leased because of his pending honor
court hearing.
Herod said he had been unfairly
found guilty for a violation he did not
commit. "I had no control over the
situation. The Elections Board has
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By MARCIE BAILEY
Staff Writer
Cable television may be installed in
residence halls by fall 1991 if residents
vote to pay for it, Larry Hicks, associate
director for business affairs, said at a
Residence Hall Association (RHA) and
housing meeting Thursday.
The cable service would require a
$30 per semester increase in rent for
each student for basic cable with addi
tional cost for any premium channels
such as Cinemax or Showtime. Be
cause the proposal would be a fixed
cost for 10 years, after which the Uni
versity would own the system, the cable
deal is "all or nothing," Hicks said.
Liz Jackson, RHA president, said
she believed the entire on-campus
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Lanning and Thompson said they
would create the positions of ombuds
man and forum editor. The ombuds
man would handle student comments
and criticism during regular office
hours, and the forum editor would
organize letters to the editor.
They said they would eliminate the
board opinion on the editorial page
except for important University issues.
"It seems by doing it (the board opin
ion) every day that it began losing its
effect," Thompson said.
They said they would separate arts
and features coverage. Arts would be
covered in Omnibus, Thompson said.
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pressured me to step down for some
thing I haven't done. I don't understand
why I've been dragged into this situ
ation. I still think I chose the right
course of action (by not doing any
thing)." David Smith, Elections Board chair
man, said Herod was guilty as a passive
participant in the incident.
'The Elections Board decided that
since he is a governor and very aware of
the election law, that his passive par
ticipation in the removal warranted his
dismissal. He in no way tried to replace
the poster or notify anyone."
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population should decide whether the
University should install cable because
everyone would have to pay for it. This
election would be separate from the
Feb. 20 elections and probably be done
by paper ballot.
"Everyone should be able to voice
an opinion because we (RHA) can
represent 7,000 people, but we can't be
7,000 people."
The installment would actually be
three wires one for cable, telephone
and data, which provides options for
the future said Housing Director
Wayne Kuncl.
The biggest advantage of the system
is the lower, Fixed cost, Hicks said.
Most cable companies charge $14.50
or more per month, while this proposal
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They said they planned to eliminate
the positions of business and managing
editors because the jobs could be
handled by other desks.
Business stories could be handled by
the city and state and national desks,
and the managing editor would be re
placed by the ombudsman, Thompson
said.
Lanning and Thompson would also
expand sports coverage to include intra
mural championship results and club
sports' standings and schedules.
They would add a Sports Friday
announcing the various revenue and
non-revenue sporting events of the
weekend.
Lanning has served as city editor,
assistant city editor and staff writer.
Thompson has been Omnibus edi
tor, design editor and editorial assistant.
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Martin said he removed Herod not
because he thought he was guilty in the
incident, but because he was forced to
when the Elections Board found him
guilty by association.
Herod said he and his friend had
been waiting for another friend when
the incident occurred. "We were in the
hall for about two minutes. When the
poster was taken down I had my back
turned. My friend is just Fidgety, and he
dropped the poster on the ground when
we went down the stairs. My back was
turned pretty much the whole time.
"Gret (Diffendal, STOW area gov
ernor) was there also, and I know for a
fact that she saw him removing the
poster. She should have confronted me
then. If I'm guilty for acting passively,
then she is equally guilty especially
since we were in her jurisdiction (STOW
is only $14. Because this rate is fixed
for 10 years, students will pay only the
$30 a semester and no more, he said.
Kuncl said Appalachian State Uni
versity probably had the best cable
system of any of the state universities
because the company put it in free.
UNC-Charlotte had the same free in
stallation deal, and students now pay
$36 per outlet per semester for service.
Kuncl said the University was inter
ested in the service because of the data
lines for academic purposes that may
eventually lead to computer hook-ups
to residence hall rooms.
"The computer link-up is far more
valuable (than cable), but not as sel
lable." Hicks said that at this time housing
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out-of-state ratio
By SARAH CAGLE
Assistant University Editor
The UNC Board of Trustees decided
Thursday to consider raising the per
centage of out-of-state freshmen ad
mitted to the University.
The out-of-state limit, now 18 per
cent, was last raised in 1984 from 15
percent.
Chancellor Paul Hardin said he sup
ported an increase in the out-of-state
percentage. "It's time to ask the poli
cymakers of our state not only about
total enrollment but about our balance."
Hardin said the University would
still have "an overwhelming predomi
nance" of in-state students if the out-of-state
percentage were increased.
He compared UNC's percentage to
that of the University of Virginia, where
35 percent of the student body is out-of-state.
"I don't see it going that far. But
I'd like to see it somewhere between
where we are and where they are."
Richard Cashwell, director of under
graduate admissions, said the admis
sions policy considered international
students, academic scholarship recipi
ents, and children of alumni or of par
Police investigating assault
From staff reports
Carrboro Police are still investigat
ing a sexual assault that allegedly took
place last week in Carrboro.
Capt. Ben Callahan said Thursday
that police had not yet determined
whether the incident was actually a
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Smith said Diffendal did not act in
the same manner as Herod. "Gret
(Diffendal), after confronting him
(Herod), put the poster back on the
wall. She did her job."
Diffendal said she saw Herod's friend
take the poster off the wall, fold it up,
and take it with him down the stairs. He
then dropped the poster in the stairwell.
Diffendal said she picked up the poster
and asked the two if they were taking
down posters, and they replied, "No."
Smith said members of the Martin
campaign had asked him Thursday night
not to talk to The Daily Tar Heel about
the incident. The Martin campaign also
pressured Diffendal to issue a press
release disavowing Herod's role in the
See CAMPAIGN, page 2
cable
officials were looking for a "yes or no"
decision about installing the system.
After the go-ahead, a referendum and
setting out bids may take a year, after
which it will take five to six months for
the actual installation, which will proba
bly be done room by room, he said.
In other business, Kuncl said the
1990-91 projection year rate increase
was about 15 percent with utilities
included. The utility rate, which makes
up a large part of the increase, is com
posed of three elements: increase of
consumption, normal inflation and
payment of debts.
Because of the increase, room price s
that ranged from $686 to $801 per
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ents who were born in North Carolina
exceptions to the quota on out-of-state
students.
"The history of out-of-state students
on this (exceptions) has been one vt
change," Cashwell said.
Trustees discussed either raising m;
percentage of out-of-state students vr
classifying out-of-state scholarship
athletes as exceptions from the 18 pci
cent. Charles Bishop, special assistant to
Provost Dennis O'Connor, explained
to trustees that the number of graduat
ing high school seniors in North Caio
lina decreased 9 percent from last year
and will continue to decline.
A 12 percent drop in the number of
graduating high school seniors is ex
pected between 1 990 and 1 994, he said.
"After that, it will start to show a climb
up, but even after that it won't be up to
the same level."
The number of freshman applica
tions to the University was down 5
percent in 1989 after two years of record-setting
numbers of applications.
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rape, because the victim had not come
forward.
"The victim has not contacted us yet.
We have not found anything else out."
Police were told Tuesday night from
a third party that a woman had been
raped last week.
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