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ack, Democrats increase registotiom
From Associated Press reports
GREENSBORO Registration for
those who want to vote in the Nov. 6
election closes Monday, but an infor
mal newspaper survey found an increase
in the number of registering blacks and
Democrats.
The last official tally of voter regis
tration was taken in April, before the
May primaries.
Since then, black voter registration
has increased 10 percent in Wake
County, compared with a 3 percent in
crease in the number of white voters.
The number of Democrats increased
3.7 percent compared to 2.9 percent for
Republicans.
In Pasquotank County, in the north
east, the number 6f .black voters has
increased 9 percent compared with a
1.5 percent increase for white voters.
"Elizabeth City State has been very
strong," Catherine Perry, the county
elections supervisor, told the Greens
boro News & Record.
"They have done a lot of canvassing
at the school and are getting the students
there registered." Elizabeth City State
is a historically black university.
"They have had very effective regis
tration drives at N.C. A&T State Uni
versity, and the numbers reflect that,"
said George Gilbert, Guilford County
elections supervisor. A&T is another of
the state's predominantly black schools.
In Mecklenburg County, blacks have
increased their registration nearly 11
percent, while white voter registration
increased 3 percent.
"It's been very, very up," said Nancy
Starnes, deputy elections supervisor.
"We did over 8,000 to 10,000 (new
registrations) in September. That's very
(many) for a non-presidential year. It's
almost like a presidential year."
Rena Murchison, elections supervi
sor in Alamance County, said voter
registration activity has been very heavy.
"People are just registering every
where the churches, schools and
neighborhoods. Up until this week voter
registration had been split 50-50 be
tween Democrats and Republicans. But
now we have more blacks registered,
mostly with the Democratic Party."
Contributing to the voting furor is the
Senate race between three-term Re
publican Sen. Jesse Helms and his
challenger, Harvey Gantt. Gantt is the
first black Democratic Senate candidate
nominated in this century.
While getting voters registered is
important, the emphasis lies in getting
them to the polls, officials said.
Electronic house arrest to ease jail population
From Associated Press reports
WINSTON-SALEM Withinafew
months, N.C. judges may send up to
3,000 criminals home with transmitters
strapped to their ankles as a means to
combat prison overcrowding.
They can go to work and to school.
But if they wander away from home for
more than five minutes, a computer
operator will call a probation officer to
track them down.
Forsyth County was the trial ground
for the state's first experiment with
electronic house arrest in 1987.
"We keep up with these people a lot
closer, and it helps with the regular
caseload. We really have a lot more
control over these individuals," said
William Bell, the branch manager for
the North Carolina Division of Adult
Probation and Parole for Forsyth,
Guilford, Stokes and Rockingham
counties.
House arrest was extended to Wake
County in 1 988, and to 1 2 other areas in
1989. This fall and winter, electronic
house arrest will be implemented
statewide.
One reason, state correction officials
say, is that house arrest costs much less
than incarceration. It costs an average
of $50 a day to keep a prisoner in jail,
but putting them under house arrest
costs about $6.50 a day, according to
George Barnes, the assistant director of
the North Carolina Division of Proba
tion and Parole.
And, Bell said, people under house
arrest can still work, support their
families and pay taxes.
The statewide system will be operated
out of base stations in Wake and Forsyth
counties that will monitor the east and
west halves of the state, said John
Patseavouras, the state Director of Adult
Probation and Parole.
The two computer complexes will be
the largest house-arrest monitoring
stations in the country, he said.
"Other states are going to it but not
on this scale," he told the Winston
Salem Journal in an interview published
Sunday.
The two regional base stations each
will be equipped with 15 NCR com
puters and manned by 12 house-arrest
specialists working eight-hour shifts to
monitor 1 ,500 clients.
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2 p.m. Come find out what we're really all about...
challenging racial and cultural barriers in our society.
UNITAS applications for the 9 1 -92 academic year go
out this week! Come and fight apathy on campus!
Noon: The UNC Child Care Education Com
mittee present "Listening and Talking, a video on
language development as a medium for communicat
ing and thinking and how adults can help, in 205
Union until 1 p.m.
3 p.m.: Study Abroad will have an information
session for students interested in studying in Tubingen,
Germany, in the Study Abroad Office, Caldwell Hall.
4 p.m.: The Dept. of Statistics presents The Hajek
- Le Cam Asymptotic Minimax Theorem and Some
Applications. in 324 Phillips. Reception to follow.
AAF Advertising Club will have a meeting in
204 HowelL Way big fun.
5 p.m.: The Elections Board announces that
campus elections will be Tuesday, Oct. 16. Open
districts are 13 (E-hausHinton James) and Graduate
District 2 (Computer ScienceEducationSocial Work).
Interested students should attend mandatory candi
dates meeting in 215 B, Suite A of the Union.
Human Rights Week invites all interested parties
to attend an informational meeting in Gerrard Hall.
6 p.m.: The Presbyterian Campus Ministry
will have a graduate dinner at the Presbyterian Stu
dent Center, 1 10 Henderson St.
7 p.m.: Tar Heel Recycling Program will present
"The Mountain In The City," a film about NYC's
solid waste crisis in 103 Bingham.
7:30 p.m.: CGLA will have a speaker on "Com
ing Out" issues and we will discuss National Coming
Out Day activities. For more info call 962-4401.
8 p.m.: SEAC invites you to come celebrate cata
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next year in 21 1 Union.
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The Tar Heel Recycling Program announces that
it is Precy cling Week! Stop by die Pit to learn more
about what you can do to reduce waste, and where you
can recycle on campus.
The UNC Student Agencies will be having a
raffle to give away 5 free movie rentals through its
movie courier service. All students, staff and faculty
are encouraged to fill out a free raffle ticket. Tickets
can be picked up in the UNC Student Agencies office
or in the Pit all this week.
The Student Psychological Services of Student
Health announces that a group is forming to talk about
coping with an alcoholic parent. Come to the first
meeting tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. Call 966-3658 for
further information.
The Elections Board announces that candidate
petitions are available in 215 B of the Union, Suite A,
for the Oct 16 special elections. Open Student Con
gress seats are in Graduate District 2 (Ed., Social
Work,Comp. Sci.) and Undergrad District 1 3 (Hinton
James and Ehringhaus). Petitions are due tomorrow.
UCPPS announces on-campus testing for seniors
interested in careers with the federal government
Test dates are Nov. 10 and Nov. 17. Registration
forms and information are available in 21 1 Hanes.
Registration deadline is Oct 31 by 3 pjn.
The University Counseling Center announces
that an Interracial Relationships Support Group will
be offered beginning in October. Group will offer a
supportive, confidential and nonjudgmental environ
ment to explore unique issues encountered in interracial
relationships (e.g. societal disapproval, cultural dif
ferences and similarities, conflicting feelings, etc).
For more information, call 962-2175.
PlayMakers Repertory Company will present
the Southeastern premiere of ""Nothing Sacred, by
Canadian playwright George F. Walker, Oct 24 -Nov.
1 1 at the Paul Green Theatre in Chapel Hill. For
more information, call 962-PLAY.
The Carolina Union Gallery Committee present
Europe 1 989-90: A Collage, the color photographs of
UNC Senior Stephen Culp, who spent last year in
Eastern and Western Europe and Morocco.
Arts Council awards
Triangle-area artists
grants, fellowships
By MARIEL WILSON
Staff Writer
The N.C. Arts Council recently
awarded visual arts grants and fel
lowships to three Triangle area artists.
Beth Grabowski, a UNC faculty
member, received a fellowship for her
work in printmaking, Chapel Hill
sculptor Patrick Dougherty won a grant
for his talent, and Durham photogra
pher Caroline Vaughan also received
a fellowship from the Arts Council.
Only six artists, chosen from ap
proximately 195 competitors, received
fellowships that each include a $7,700
cash award. Dougherty was one of
four winners of a visual artist project
grant worth $4,820.
The grant supports Dougherty's
work on various projects and empha
sizes the importance of professional
artists across the state. The grants and
fellowships are given based on many
factors including quality and the most
potential use in the artist's work.
The grants are given annually by
the Arts Council to support and rec
ognize serious visual artists residing
in the state and to aid them in furthering
their careers.
Grabowski said that most of her
work "stems from personal experi
ences" and that it dealt with conflict
and "human relationships and dilem
mas that arise" between people.
Some of her work will be displayed
in the glass gallery of Hanes Art Center
in late October, although this showing
is unrelated to her work for the fel
lowship. Grabowski will also speak
Nov. 2 in Hanes Art Center. -
Vaughan said her recent work was
not displayed locally because of the
amount of time it takes for artwork to
be published. She said she contributed
two past palladium prints for auction
at two fund raisers for U.S. Senate
candidate Harvey Gantt. She stressed
that this auction was unrelated to her
fellowship and to the N.C. Arts
Council, but is a personal effort.
According to Vaughan, a palladium
print is "made with a precious metal,
emulsion. This metal is palladium
coating." She explained the method
was "very toxic, very expensive and
very beautiful." It is slowly processed
by sunlight or by an arch lamp that
simulates the sun's intensity, she said.
The first fund raiser was Sept. 30, at
Papagayo Mexican Restaurant, and
the second auction will be in Raleigh
at the Radisson Plaza Hotel Oct. 14,
beginning at 7:30 p.m.
Dougherty's work with woven;
twigs will probably begin in four to
five months. He said he wanted to
display it at a large business or in-,
dustrial site where many people would
"be aware of the process." ;
"People will be able to see how the .
work is transformed into something ;
else," Dougherty said.
Both fellowship recipients were,
chosen by professional visual artists
from across the nation. Grants were,
judged by a curator and professional
N.C. artists.
SAFE
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"The intent of this whole revision is
to make sure that we develop a strong
program," she said. "We're really tak
ing some time this year so that it can
stand turnover."
SAFE started working with the
Residence Hall Association this summer
' to improve the service, Benzaquin said.
They (RHA) are interested in this is
sue," she said. "They assist us in re
cruitment and publicity."
Many students already have ex
pressed interest in working with SAFE
Escort, Benzaquin said. "People have
been calling to get involved.
"Right now, I see students taking the
lead on this (SAFE Escort Service) and
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stronger program," she said.
The escorts will be stationed in Cobb
Residence Hall, Davis Library and the
Undergraduate Library Sunday through
Thursday from 7 p.m. to midnighf.
Students can call the office at Cobb
from midnight to 3 a.m. any day to get
escorts.
Six students should be on call each
day from 7 p.m. to midnight, Benzaquin
said. Escorts for the midnight to 3 a.m.
shift will be paid with the 35 cents of
student fees allocated to SAFE Escort
Service, she said. ""-
Gretchan Diffendal, RHA president
said she wanted to make the campus
safer for residents.
"Safety is a big concern of ours, so
we're just working with SAFE to ensure
that residents will have better protec
tion," she said.
Germuth and Benzaquin said RHA
had improved the organization of the
program.
"RHA has been incredibly helpful in
trying to help us get organized. We rely
on them to help us out a lot," Germuth
said.
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