The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, March 28, 1 9903
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Candidates violate fooiisiing regulations "
Tuesday, March 27 I
0 An incident of telephone harass
ment was reported at 4:46 a.m. from
Parker Residence Hall.
Monday, March 26
B A car at the dental school lot was
removed for repairs at 7:54 a.m. and a
puddle of leaked gasoline was covered
with sand.
B A suspicious person was reported
at the Student Union at 9:04 a.m. but
was gone when police arrived.
B A car window was reported bro
ken at 10:52 a.m. while the car was
parked in the Estes Drive lot. Police
could not determine whether vandal
ism, a break-in or interior pressure from
radiated heat caused the damage.
Sunday, March 25
B Police confiscated a night stick
found under the driver's seat of a car
Whose driver was cited at 1 2:02 a.m. for
Overloading. No charges were made.
B A student was taken from Kenan
Residence Hall to North Carolina
Memorial Hospital at 12:32 a.m. for
extreme intoxication.
. B An Ehringhaus resident received a
phone call at 12:34 a.m. in which the
caller made threats to her. Police were
present when the caller called again.
The caller would not speak the second
time, but did breathe heavily into the
phone.
B A diamond and sapphire ring and
a watch valued together at $ 1 ,050 were
reported stolen from an unlocked
Spencer room. The items were in plain
view from the open door.
Saturday, March 24
B Two people were issued trespass
ing warnings on Seawell School Road
at 12:38 p.m. for attempting to cut
firewood on state property.
B Around 6:06 p.m., three piles of
leaves were found on fire on Navy
field.
B An assault was reported at 10:10
p.m. on the sidewalk between the Smith
Center and Kenan Center. Fifteen
people beat up one male victim, who
was treated and released. He was not a
UNC student.
Friday, March 23
B While checking the area around
Frank Porter Graham School at 12:02
Cm: after aperies of break:ins;police
saw a suspect imhe woods. The officer's
flashlight beam caught the reflection
from the man's eyes, but the officer
thought the eyes were an animal's
because they were so close to the
ground. The suspect fled into the woods
and was believed to have escaped on a
motorcycle.
-.'BAt 1:51 a.m., police checked a
man near Hanes Art Center. He had
been watching a couple lying in the
courtyard "making out," according to
the police report.
B An attempt to steal a car radio was
reported at 1 2:2 1 p.m. The damage was
estimated at $100.
- B A secured bike was reported sto
len from the Bynum rack at 10:03 p.m.
The bike was valued at $50.
Thursday, March 22
B A digital clock was reported sto
len from a carrel in Davis Library at
9:23 a.m. The clock was valued at $ 1 5.
' B A cordless drill, valued at $130,
was reported stolen from a construc
tion site near the Physical Plant at 1:51
p.m.
'. B A woman reported at 3:58 p.m.
that a man intimidated her as she was
waiting at the parking deck. He did not
speak or touch her in any way, but
walked toward her, making her feel
threatened. When she cried out for help,
he fled toward the S-7 lot.
; B A bookbag and other property,
Valued at $150, was left unattended in
the Woollen Gym women's locker room
nd was reported stolen at 4:5 1 p.m.
; B Police stopped Scott William
Roberts, 21, of 400 Davie Road,
Carrboro, on South Road at 1:43 a.m
and cited him for transporting alcohol
with a broken seal.
;! Wednesday, March 21
; B At 3:52 a.m., someone reported
ithat a VCR valued at $350 had been
stolen from a Hinton James Residence
Hall room during Spring Break. The
door had been locked during the break
. B Police advised a woman at 5:38
p.m. that if she persisted in calling a
!man, legal action might be sought
- against her by the man and his family,
B A woman reported at 9:37 p.m
! that a car was stalking her in the F lot
She never saw a driver or occupant
Police were unable to locate the car
because the woman did not report the
' incident immediately after it happened
fl A security officer saw five golf
carts being driven in the area of the F
jLpt at 10:40 p.m. The carts are nor-
mally kept behind the bmith center,
jPblice identified some people, but they
denied having driven the carts.
Tuesday, March 20
DA man's car engine blew up at
.,(J:51 a.m. as he entered the parking
JJeck. The car was also leaking gaso
Jjhe. Police had the car towed for rea
;'6ns of public safety.
By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON
Assistant University Editor
Many campus residents awoke Tues
day morning to find miniature cam
paign posters from Mark Bibbs taped to
their doors after finding letters from
Bill Hildebolt under their doors Sun
day. What Bibbs and Hildebolt, student
body presidential candidates, did not
realize was that by trying to get stu
dents' attention on on election day,
they were breaking housing regulations.
Al Calarco, associate director of
Aiiimals
By TERESA JEFFERSON
Staff Writer
The ethical rights of animals to be
treated with the same respect as hu
mans was the focus of a lecture pre
sented Tuesday by Tom Regan, phi
losophy professor at N.C. State Uni
versity and internationally renowned
animal rights activist and author, as
part of the 1990 Carolina Symposium.
The lecture, titled "Animal Rights
and Human Wrongs," encompassed the
ideas of animal equivalence to human
beings in fundamental cognitive pow
ers and awareness and denounced the
killing of animals for selfish reasons.
"Cats, dogs, raccoons, rodents, cows
and hogs, in my view, are not just
stimulus-response machines or pieces
of biology," Regan said. "They bring
the mystery of consciousness to the
world.
"They are not only in the world but
are aware of it, sounds and tastes, things
in their visual field. They are aware of
things that give them pleasure and things
that give them pain. They are not uni
formly indifferent, as a rock might be."
Regan, whose two books on the
subject were nominated for Pulitzer
Prizes, insisted that his opinions were
consistent with science. He concurred
with Darwin that "in degree they (ani
mals) differ, but not in kind."
Animals are to be equated with
humans because they also have "bio
graphical presences and life stories,"
Regan said. They have the inalienable
right to be treated with respect and not
solely as utilities for the pleasure of
humans, he said.
Human ethics are based on respect
for one another, Regan said. When man
exploits animals tor seltish reasons,
this basic moral principle is violated,
he said, because animals are not on
earth solely for peoples' use.
"You are not something in the world
(just) for me. If I forget that and use my
powers to deceive you or my physical
power to coerce you, to reduce you to
the level of something whose function
in the world is to promote my interest,
then I have done you a grave wrong.
"This is what the thief does when he
steals property, this is what the rapist
does, this is what the murderer does."
Regan questioned whether rational
ity was the linking factor to human
with
Planning board, architect
By KENNY MONTEITH
Staff Writer
Members of the Student Recreation
Center (SRC) planning board met
Tuesday night with Norma Burns, chief
architect with Burnstudio, and brain
stormed about ideas for and problems
with the preliminary drawings for the
new building.
Burns told the board plans for the
building were still in the early stages.
'These are preliminary plans because
there are things that we are still wres
tling with."
One problem the architect encoun
tered was the need for extra fire doors,
which are mandated by the state. There
fore, the dimensions of certain rooms
would be decreased to create more room
for fire exits, Burns said.
"You start analyzing things at cer
tain levels and then you find things that
Event to inform seniors
about commencement
By SARAH KIRKMAN
Staff Writer
Commencement Information Day, a
time for seniors to find out anything
they want to know about graduation,
will be held today from 10:30 a.m. until
2:30 p.m. in the Great Hall of the Stu
dent Union.
Susan Larson, senior class marshall
and co-chairwoman of commencement,
said the information day would answer
such questions as where to get diplo
mas, where to park for commencement,
how to get graduation announcements,
how to get caps and gowns and how to
obtain special services for handicapped
relatives attending the ceremony.
The University Cashier also will be
there to explain how to close out ac
counts and loans and how to begin to
pay them back, Larson said. "Basically
every department will be there to an
swer questions."
Tables will be set up by representa
tives from Student Stores, Student Legal
University housing, said students were
only allowed to put posters on their
own doors. "They are subject to billing
if damage occurs," he said.
Candidates are allowed to go door-to-door
talking with students, but they
are not allowed to put notices under
residents' doors, he said. "They're
breaking solicitation laws."
Bibbs said the small posters should
have been placed on every resident's
door this morning, but that he had not
had an opportunity to check with all of
his campaign workers to verify that that
should be
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Author and animal rights activist Tom Regan
Carolina Symposium
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ethics. If so, he asked, are children and
the mentally handicapped to be used as
utilities for more rational people?
Mankind must treat the defenseless
with respect even if they don't under
stand right from wrong, Regan said.
'This is true within the human family
and true without.
you do not know about. There would be
three fire exits for the ground floor and
two fire exits for the first floor."
The board also toyed with the idea of
adding a third floor for the Wellness
Center instead of placing it on the lobby
floor. This idea would be costly and
useless because the Wellness Center
would not need a whole floor, Burns
said.
The board also was concerned with
the landscaping outside the SRC. The
courtyard would feature shrubbery,
grass areas, trees and a small pond.
The front part of the SRC has poten
tial to be a plaza with sitting walls, a
place for sunbathing or even a tiny
amphitheater, Burns said.
Lisa Frye, president of the Carolina
Athletic Association, said students had
indicated that they would like to have
concrete sitting walls for studying, but
Services, Alumni Affairs, the Athletic
Department, the registrar and many
other organizations, Larson said. A
senior class table will have a list of
activities planned by the senior class
for the weekend of commencement.
Another table will have maps of the
area for parents, area hotel and motel
accomodations and restaurant guides,
Larson said. 'There will be informa
tion about what to do with your parents
when they're in Chapel Hill," she said.
Seniors will be able to vote on fac
ulty awards during the information day,
Larson added. "They can vote for the
faculty member that the senior class
thinks has helped them the most to get
through the last four years," she. said.
Larson said the class held a Com
mencement Information Day every
year. "Usually about 700 seniors come
during the day. I think most seniors find
that it's really informative; it answers
basically anything seniors want to know
about graduation."
had been done. He did not know that
taping the papers to doors was a hous
ing violation, he said. "We were told
things could go on doors, but not under
them."
Calarco said he met with candidates
and explained the rules regarding post
ing in residence halls.
Hildebolt said his campaign mem
bers distributed about 2,200 letters to
students Sunday afternoon. The letters
were not meant to be put under doors,
he said. "The letters were supposed to
be placed on the doors. They were
ecraated
DTHJoseph Muhl
"'We (animal rights advocates) are
the voice of the voiceless. Through us
the dumb shall speak. To the deaf
world's ear to be made to hear the
wrongs of the worthless weak,'" Regan
quoted from a poem called "Kinship,"
by Ellen Wilcox.
He said, "The philosophy of animal
rights is first and foremost a philosophy
that grounds , the rights of the weak
against the strong, whether the weak
are human beings or animals."
confer on preliminary plans for SRC
"students are also concerned with
people trampling through the grass area
(off the sitting walls)."
A possible solution given at the
meeting was to place tall bushes, like
the ones around the Bell Tower, next to
the sitting walls to make students use
the sidewalks.
Students want the landscaping to be
featured and to be an important part of
the SRC's exterior, Frye said.
To get ideas for the SRC, the board
looked at recreation centers at Appala
chian State University and the Univer
Decision on seeking indictment postponed
From staff reports
Willie McCauley Jr. remains a free
man at least until April 30. This is
the date Orange-Chatham District
Attorney Carl Fox must decide
whether to bring McCauley before
the grand jury for indictment of the
Feb. 10 slaying of his girlfriend.
McCauley, 49, of 44 Partin St., is
Invalidation
terms of voter turnout, Smith said.
The late openings of polishes at
Carmichael Residence Hall and be
tween Mangum and Ruffin halls also
failed to hinder the elections, he said.
Both districts were short of poll tenders
when the polls opened. The Carmichael
site opened at 1 2:30 p.m.; the Mangum
Ruffin site opened at 2:30 p.m.
Because students had many polishes
where they could vote, the late starts of
the two polishes should not have se
verely affected voting, Smith said.
There also was plenty of time to vote at
the Carmichael and MangumRuffin
sites, he added.
Smith talked to candidate Mark
Bibbs, whose district is Carmichael,
and said Bibbs had no complaints. "I've
already talked to Mr. Bibbs about it. He
said he doesn't have any problem with
it."
Smith said he was told by Student
Supreme Court Chief Justice Asa Bell
supposed to be stuffed behind message
boards."
David Smith, Elections Board chair
man, said neither placing posters on
doors nor sliding materials under doors
violated elections laws.
Campaign posters may only be dis
played on bulletin boards in residence
halls. The housing policy is enforced
simply by taking the posters down,
Calarco said.
Smith said when posters were taken
from residence halls and returned to the
Elections Board, the items were re
Date rape mock trial
opens issue to public
By JENNIFER PILL A
Staff Writer
Students caught a rare glimpse into
the workings of a date rape trial
Tuesday at a mock trial sponsored by
the Carolina Union Current Issues
Committee and the Undergraduate
Student Court.
Members of the Undergraduate
Student Attorney General's staff and
the Undergraduate Student Court
simulated a hearing of a date rape
case involving two students. The
defendant was charged under the Code
of Student Conduct for "knowingly
engaging in sexual intercourse with
or inflicting other sexual invasion
upon any person without that person' s
consent."
The circumstances surrounding
the hypothetical hearing involved a
male student escorting a female stu
dent home from a fraternity party at
which she had been drinking. The
female student accused the defendant
of forcing his way into her room and
forcing her to have sex with him. The
defendant pleaded not guilty and
claimed the female student had con
sented to having sex with him.
After the hearing, members of the
audience were polled to see how they
would rule. Twenty-three members
of the audience thought he was guilty;
10 believed he was not guilty.
Scott Morton, Current Issues
Committee chairman, said they de
cided to hold the mock trial to bring
date rape to the attention of students.
"I personally don't think it gets enough
dialogue or coverage on campus. If
we want to do something about it, we
Grand jury indicts local man
in rape of woman in Carrborq
From staff reports
Tommy Noell, 37, of 1453 Hatch
Road, was indicted by an Orange
County grand jury for the Nov. 2 1 rape
at knife point of a woman on Fidelity
Street in Carrboro.
Noell has already been charged with
a rape that occurred at knife point in
downtown Carrboro Nov. 14.
Noell was sentenced to death for
raping a Carrboro woman May 23, 1973,
but the sentence was overturned by the
sity of Virginia, she said. "The one at
Appalachian is more what we modeled
our recreation center after."
The preliminary plans show the
building opening into a lobby area with
a reception desk where staff members
could check student IDs. Vending
machines, two rest rooms, stairs and an
elevator would be located to the left of
the reception desk. The Wellness Cen-
ter would be located to the right of the
desk. .
The lobby stairs would lead to a
platform on the second floor that would
the suspect in the shooting death of
Gwendolyn Riggsbee Bowen, his late
girlfriend. He was charged with first
degree murder the day Bowen died,
i But, Orange-Chatham District Court.
Judge Lowry Betts released McCauley
Feb. 23 following the probable cause
hearing on the case.
Fox said he decided not to seek an
that the Elections Board, in Bell's opin
ion, had put forth its best effort in
running the elections.
The main concern with late poll
Election
petition and other activities of the group
is to give students an alternative voice,
members said.
Congress representative Tom Elliot
(Dist. 6) said The Daily Tar Heel and
the rest of the campus had not recog
nized the positive actions of student
government and instead had focused
on the bad aspects. "We don't get good
press. So many aspects of student gov
ernment are ignored by the DTH."
Brien Lewis, student body president,
said student government -represented
the most visible student voice on cam
pus. Lewis commended the group's
petition, but said he did not want stu
dents to attack or abolish student gov
turned to the candidates, who were totd
not to post campaign materials inr'jji'-
stricted areas. 0
"The big problem is that the Elec
tions Board has no power," Smith sid,
"The only thing we can do is disqualify.:!
a candidate if he falsifies a statement or
overspends." Cz'r'
Scott College Area Director Ajine
Presnell said she had seen a number of '
posters on doorways, walls and vylji-'
dows in the residence halls. "We.Vev
had some problems, but not as bad a;S :iW '
the past," she said. ,
need to start talking about it first aricf
get it out into the open."
According to Jeff Tracy, Under-,
graduate Student Court chairman, an"
amendment was made to the code on
July 1 of last year to include date rape
as a punishable offense. No cases
have been tried under the amendment
since it was made. The amendment is
an important addition, he said.
"I think we have an obligation to
the students on campus to have these
amendments and to be able to deal
with them."
The Rape Action Project and other
groups have trained members of the
court to deal with rape cases.
Amy Germuth, co-chairwoman of
the Rape Action Project, said a good
rough estimate of the number of date
rapes at UNC would be two to four
cases per weekend. "That's just by
word of mouth. I've gone to confer
ences and talked to people, and that
still is probably an underestimate."
Alcohol is a factor in many date
rapes at the University, she said. "Most
cases on campus that have been seen
by Student Health involve alcohol.
Alcohol blurs the communication
between the two parties."
Tracy stressed that the mock trial
was not a direct simulation of an
actual rape case. An actual case is
typically much longer, he said. Date
rape hearings are usually confidential
and closed to the public.
'The hearings are always closed,
unless the defendant and the victim'
specifically request in writing that
the court be open," Jeff Cannon, as
sistant dean of students, said.
U.S. Supreme Court, according to cKjrt
records.
In the Nov. 21, rape, a woman s
awakened in her home by a man pq$pe
believe to be Noell. The suspect thfjSlJ
ened to kill the woman if she refused to
have sexual intercourse. The man fled
the house after raping the woman. !
Noell is also considered a suspect in
the rape of a University student on Oci.
1 near Craige Residence Hall, authori
ties have said.
overlook the lobby below. The second
floor would have an area almost identi
cal to the lobby floor, with the excep
tion of the Wellness Center.
Offices for the SRC director, the
student SRC president and others who
work for the SRC would be located to
the right on the second floor. A large
aerobics area with a skylight would
occupy the rest of the floor.
Frye said all meetings were open to
students and faculty so they could
express their opinions about the SRC.
indictment yet because he does not
have any more evidence since the
probable cause hearing. Fox said
i police were still working on the case.
Betts ruled that police had not
gathered conclusive evidence to dis
prove McCauley 's claim that Bowen
accidentally shot herself during a
struggle with him in her apartment.
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openings is protection against misuse
of ballots, and these were not bothered,
Smith continued. "The ballots were
never in jeopardy."
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ernment.
Members of the governmental re
form coalition said they would work
with president-elect Hildebolt if he was
willing.
Forum
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also, it might seem like a token move."
Other suggestions involved bring
ing all freshmen together to discuss
racism. Changing perceptions by talk;
ing to the BSM and other minorities.;
"When I came, I just wanted to meejt
different kinds of people," Studevenjt
said. "I think it all lies in the attitude ojf
the people." i
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