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The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, November 7, 1 9903 CAMPUS and COTTV GMD(DG)QHD(? " Campus Monday, Nov. 5 B A University police officer dis covered that several windows had been broken in the Tin Can area by the indoor track. Four windows were broken Oct. 31 and more were broken during the weekend. Damage was estimated at $337.50. An unknown suspect tried to break into the Family Medicine Building. Officers found pry marks Sunday, but there was no evidence of entry. Sunday, Nov. 4 B Police responded to a call that an animal was trapped on the fourth floor balcony of Hinton James Residence Hall. Police caught the animal and re leased it in the woods. B The rear windshield of a car parked behind Fetzer Gym was broken. Several dents were also made with an unknown object. Damage was estimated at $600. A Craige Residence Hall resident reported his wallet was stolen from his room. The resident had left the room unlocked, the report stated. Saturday, Nov. 3 B Thedriver'swindowofacarparked at Ehringhaus Residence Hall was bro ken between 6 a.m. and 7:15 a.m. Damage was estimated at $300. B Both left windows of a car parked in the lower parking lot of Ehringhaus were broken. Damage was estimated at $400. B The rear passenger window of a car parked in the Astroturf field parking lot was broken with a medium-sized rock. Damage was estimated at $ 150. Friday, Nov. 2 B Police issued a citation for littering to Snehal Harivadan Parikh, after he was seen throwing trash out of a car in Hanes Parking Lot. B Four windows of a car parked in T parking lot were broken with rocks. One of the rocks was found inside the car. Police were able to get a palmprint and fingerprints from the rock, the re port stated. Damage was estimated at $1,500. B Three backpacks were reported stolen from the second-floor study room of Fetzer Gym. The total value of the bags is $294. Thursday, Nov. 1 B Police transported a female stu dent to UNC Hospitals after she fell off her loft and injured her head and back. B A 1 982 Toyota Tercel was stolen from Ramshead Parking Lot. The car is burnt orange in color with a tan interior, the report stated. The car has a large dent on the driver's side. The value of the property in the car was estimated at $730. B A beeper was stolen from an office in Gravely Building. It was valued at $250. B Police reported seeing two males jumping on the top of a vehicle parked beside a loading dock at Student Stores. The suspects damaged the top of the trunk and the cargo box, the report stated. The subjects identified themselves and offered to pay for the damages. Wednesday, Oct. 31 B Police responded to a report that a car was damaged while it was parked in Ramshead parking lot. An unknown subject had walked on the hood, caus ing dents, the report stated. B Police reported that a male was assaulted by a group of 'skinheads' in McCorkle Place. One of the suspects took a green plastic water gun from his pocket and squirted a liquid in the victim's eyes. The suspect with the water gun was described as 1 5 to 1 7 years old, five feet five inches tall, about 1 25 pounds, with very short brown hair, and wearing a flannel shirt and blue jeans. The victim said he was in immediate pain and felt his face burning, the report stated. Police transported the victim to UNC Hospitals. B In another incident, the same sus pect struck another male in the face at McCorkle Place. When the victim tried to hit back, he was knocked down and kicked by several other 'skinheads,' the report stated. The victim was taken to UNC Hos pitals. B An unknown person pried open the kitchen elevator and entered Morehead House, which is located on the third floor of Morehead Planetarium. An employee found a trail of leaves from the elevator to a television room. The employee also found peanuts in the room and someone had apparently slept on the couch, the report stated. City Sunday, Nov. 4 B A car was vandalized and some items were stolen from inside the car while it was parked outside of Colony Apartments. The front left tire was slashed and the plexiglass which covers the speedometer was broken. Approxi mately $150 in damage was done and around $65 in property was stolen. Democrats sweep County Commission seats By JENNIFER DICKENS Assistant City Editor Democrats will continue to control the Orange County Commissioners as Alice Gordon, Stephen Halkiotis and Verla Insko were elected to fill the three open seats on the board. With 90 percent of the precincts re porting, Gordon led all the candidates with 21,755 votes, while Halkiotis and Insko received 20,861 and 20,601 votes, respectively. Meanwhile, Ted Latta led the Re publicans with 10,260 votes, while Bill Aderholt and Johnny Kennedy received 9,309 and 9,300 votes respectively. Halkiotis, winning his second con secutive term, said he was extremely pleased with the outcome of the race. "I'm delighted. Absolutely delighted," he said. Halkiotis, the only incumbent, said he was looking forward to serving with all the other winners, and that he deeply regretted seeing present Commissioner Shirley Marshall leave. Halkiotis said he had confidence in the Democratic board. "The county has been represented by a Democratic board for the last four years," he said. "We will serve the people well." Halkiotis, who has been principal of Orange High School in Hillsborough for 1 1 years, said he has a strategic plan to expand Orange County's tax base with an entertainment tax on the Uni versity. Gordon, a resident of Chapel Hill, said she was excited with the results and that she would strive to follow up on the goals she outlined in her campaign. "My goals include improving our schools and protecting our environ ment," said Gordon, who is president Gantt wins By JEFFREY D. HILL Staff Writer The controversy surrounding the Harvey Gantt-Jesse Helms U.S. Senate race drew a large number of UNC stu dents to polling sites Tuesday, with an overwhelming share of them supporting challenger Gantt. But election results from four pre cincts mainly serving the University ran against election trends elsewhere in North Carolina. The major networks projected at about 10 p.m. Tuesday that Helms would return to the Senate. However, if the election had been decided on the strength of the Green wood, East Franklin, Lincoln and Country Club precincts, Gantt, former mayor of Charlotte, would have been swept into office with 84 percent of the vote at those precincts, a total of 3,026 votes to 556 votes. Visiting Soviet Editor's note: This is the second in a three-part series about the UNC-Soviet Exchange program. By SOYIA ELLISON Staff Writer Sergei Chernicov and Victor Osipov were surprised when two American women left the table after dinner Mon day at Dips Country Kitchen. "In our country this is only the be ginning of dinner," Chernicov said, as he continued eating his spaghetti, roast beef, salad, french fries, rolls and, of course, apple pie a la mode for dessert. After the huge dinner the group of six Soviet students stepped outside to smoke Marlboro cigarettes. These big eaters are some of the 1 2 students and two faculty members from Rostov State University participating in a cultural and educational exchange program with the University. The exchange students arrived in Chapel Hill Oct. 28 and will be here until Nov. 7. They have participated in a number of events including meetings with Chancellor Paul Hardin, visits to election poll sites and presentations by the Carolina Indian Circle and the Black Student Movement since their arrival. School life back in the U.S.S.R. The Soviets said they were surprised by the amount of work American stu dents do. "We have a lot of free time, but students of Chapel Hill have only work, exams, classes, work, exams and classes. It's rather boring," Osipov said. They said they found the busy female students especially amazing. "We are surprised by women of the University they study all the time and don't have time for a laugh," Osipov said. IrinaTolstikh said she was surprised by the women's schedule too. She said she goes to school four days a week from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m. and works in the biochemistry lab at the university, but she still has more free time than American women students. "I am surprised your girls are busy all days and all nights," she said. Yury Plevkov said Soviet students receive a free five-year university edu cation and are guaranteed a job when they graduate. Businesses submit a list of vacancies in their departments and the school helps match up graduates with the available positions. elect of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro PTA Council and was chairwoman of the Orange County Planning board from 1984-1986. "I promise to try and listen to and represent the concerns of all the people in our county," she said. Although all the newly elected commissioners are from southern Or ange County, Gordon said the board is better balanced than it has been in the past. "It is important to recognize this is the first time we have two women serving on the board of county com missioners," she said. "This is definitely a turn in a positive direction." Insko, also a Chapel Hill resident, said she is looking forward to serving the entire county. "We are a representative board," she said. "But just as people need to get to know their congressman, they need to get to know their county commissioner and make sure their concerns are heard." She said she was concerned because the vote was split 2-1 along party lines while voter registration is actually split 3-1 along party lines. "We may have had people registered as Democrats voting as Republicans." Insko said she was also disappointed that the local race was overshadowed by the Harvey Gantt-Jesse Helms sena torial race. "It may not be as glamorous as the state and federal races, but the decisions made at the local level will have the greatest impact on education and the environment." Aderholt, a former naval officer, said he was disappointed to lose, but that he wouldwork with the newly-elected majority of Waits of up to 45 minutes to t vote at the Greenwood precinct in Fetzer Gym didn't discourage voters, some students said as they were leaving the polling site. Students returning by shuttle from the General Administration Building, the site of the Country Club precinct, said the wait there was 10 to 15 minutes. Gantt supporters were confident Tuesday that this was the year to retire Helms, who first won the Senate elec tion when this year's freshmen was still in diapers. Supporters wearing blue and white Gantt buttons dotted campus and did last -minute campaigning. Monjya Bynum, a junior from Char lotte, said the Gantt-Helms race was the most important on the ballot. "It's going to be a close race, but I'm pushing for Harvey Gantt all the way. It's time for a change a serious one. I think he can do it." students compare university life in Rostov, Chapel Hill yijjjp ' ' ' "We have a lot of free time, but students of Chapel Hill have only work, exams, classes, work, exams, and classes. It's rather boring' Soviet Exchange participant Victor Osipov Of course there are good jobs and not-so-good jobs, he explained. Hard work will help you get a better job. Many Soviet students have part-time jobs at the university. Tolstikh has two jobs she works at the university biochemistry lab three days a week and at the library on Fridays. Chernicov used to work as a gardener at the library. "Every morning I watered grass it Orange board. 'The people have spoken. I am cer tain the new commissioners will do a good job, and I wish them luck," said Aderholt, who served on the Orange Water and Sewer Authority board for more than eight years. Aderholt said he is not thinking about running again, but that he would con tinue to be a Republican participant in local government. "Right now I plan to look at what's happened and consider my options," he said. Kennedy, who owns a nationwide bus parts company, said he was disap pointed with the results. He said a Democratic board is not a balanced board. "(The commissioners) are all from the Chapel Hill township," he said. 'The Declaration of Independence says, 'No taxation without representation,'" he said. "I'm afraid some people in this county will now be taxed without being represented." Kennedy said he enjoyed his election campaign and valued the friendships he made along the way. He said he would consider doing it all again, adding that "the Republican party is here to stay." Latta, who has now failed three straight times to win a seat on the county commission, said he would concentrate on his realty business in Hillsborough. "I want to thank the voters for going out and voting," he said. "They deserve a definite round of applause for their record turnouts." Kris Donahue contributed to this report. the student Scott Patten, a senior from Charlotte, said the Senate race gave him extra incentive to go to the polls. "I want Helms out of office. As much as I dislike Gantt, I still want to get Helms out of office because he seems downright evil and mean and hateful to other ways of thinking and other kinds of people." Brian Allen, a senior from Charlotte and a member of Young Democrats, said the Young Democrats had regis tered 3,500 new voters this year. Freshman Ernestine Byer of Farmingdale, N.Y., said she had regis tered to vote in North Carolina because of the Gantt-Helms race. "There has been a lot of controversy about it (the Senate race) and I just wanted to be a part of it," she said. Helms supporters were few and far between on campus Tuesday. I T! 1 Soviet students enjoy dinner hosted by Carolina was a good job; I liked it," he said. Until last year, all healthy Soviet males were required to serve in the military for two years. Chernicov spent six months serving in Siberia and 18 months in the air force in Poland, and Osipov and Valery Poltavstev spent two years each in the army. Poltavstev said Chapel Hill's cam pus was much larger and more spread Leaders say fall not fault of fraternity By LEE WEEKS Staff Writer The Greek system should not be held responsible for the fall of a Uni versity student at the Sigma Phi Ep silon fraternity house Sunday, frater nity presidents said Tuesday. Robb Beatty, president of the Inter Fraternity Council, said the accident was an isolated incident. No fraternity sponsored party was held on the pre mises and alcohol had not been pur chased that evening with chapter funds, he said. Fred Schroeder, assistant vice chancellor of student affairs, said he had not heard or read anything indi cating that the incident was not an accident. The University will not investigate the situation, he said. "That's an ac cident that occurred on private prop erty." According to police reports, Holly Hancock, a junior from Reidsville, fell 50 feet from the fraternity house's roof at about 2: 15 a.m. Sunday. Hancock, who is listed in good condition at UNC Hospitals, refused to comment about the incident. Mike Ferguson, Sigma Nu presi dent, said he was concerned the inci dent might be blown out of proportion because of the recent negative publicity by the local news media of the Greek system. "I think, unfortunately, this may have some negative ramifications," he said. Fraternity presidents criticized the media's coverage of the Animal Pro tection Society's (APS) allegations that the former Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity chapter at UNC abused vote on UNC's campus Charlton Allen, UNC College Re publicans president, said he thought Helms supporters did not show their support for Helms because they were intimidated by Gantt's popularity on campus. Informal surveys by College Republicans earlier in the year showed that Helms had about 30 percent "committed support" from UNC stu dents, he said. The College Republicans put signs up Tuesday, but they were torn down, Allen said. One of Gantt's daughters, UNC freshman Angela Gantt, spent Election Day in class and at the Young Demo crats' table near the Student Union be fore leaving for her father's campaign headquarters in Raleigh. Gantt said she was glad the election was over. "It's been going on for ten months. There's not much else that you Yackety YackOavid Minton Indian Circle out than Rostov. "It is bigger than our campus because we only have about 5,000 (students) in our day department," he said. He said he liked the squirrels that scamper through campus. "We have only cats and dogs near where we live." Dorm life, parties and gift buying Rostov and Chapel Hill dormitories chickens at a mixer Oct. 1 1 . APS later dropped the charges against the former, chapter and the fraternity volunteered. 250 hours of service to the organiza tion. John Paulson, Sigma Chi president, said students and admin istrators should realize the incident at the Sigma Phi Epsilon house could have happened anywhere. , "I don't think it's a reason to go, Greek bashing," he said. Louis Bissette, Chi Psi president, said people should not be so eager t(", attribute the cause of the accident tt fraternity-related actions. "I really feel that rational people will understand the fact that the inci dent coincidentally happened at a fraternity," he said. Chancellor Paul Hardin said at a'k Board of Trustees meeting in October that fraternities did not have enough supervision. The University would find a way to control them if fraternities could not control themselves, he said. Schroeder said the accident would not have any affect on the University's relationship with the Greek system. He recommended that communication between student groups and adminis trators increase. ' - A staff liaison position between the' University and the Greek system' would be created in the next three to four weeks, he said. The liaison woulij facilitate regular communication be tween student groups and administra tors, he said. Schroeder said he looked forward to working more with the Inter-Fraternity Council, Black Greek Council and the Panhellenic Council. can do and there's not much else that can be said that hasn't already been said or done before." According to unoffi ial results Tuesday, Gantt defeated Helms 647 votes to 1 07 votes in the Lincoln Center precinct, which covers Granville Tow ers, Whitehead Residence Hall, frater nities and sororities on Columbia Street. In the East Franklin precinct, whkh covers STOW residence area, fraterni ties and sororities on Franklin and Rosemary streets, Gantt won 768-126. At the Greenwood precinct, which covers South Campus, Avery', Carmichael, Parker and Teague dormi tories, Gantt got 551 votes to Helms' 154 votes. Gantt defeated Helms 1 ,0oQ 1 69 in the Country Club precinct, which covers Olde Campus, Henderson Resi dence College and Cobb and Joyner dormitories. are similar, several of the students agreed. "I thought dorm life would be high. Now I see there is a difference, but not as much as I thought," Plevkov said. American residence halls are cleaner and in better condition because the So viet Union has no money to spend on improvements, he said. Tolstikh thought American rooms were bigger than the Soviet rooms. "One difference is I live in room wtl three girls (in Cobb) and they have "a large room. In Rostov three girls have a small room," she said. Plevcov's dormitory has only one phone on the first floor and very few students have televisions or refrigera tors, he said. Pictures of scantily-clad women are common in American and Soviet male students' rooms. "I think that is interna tional," Plevcov said with a laugh. He said Soviets were very familiar with American music, particularly classic rock. Favorite groups include Pink Floyd, Deep Purple, the Beatles', KISS and Motley Crue. At a Chi Psi fraternity party held for the visiting students last week, Plevcov said parties at Rostov were not as big because no one had such large houses. About 10 people attend the parties, which are usually held in dormitory rooms or apartments. Large groups occasionally go to restaurants if they can afford it. The best times for parties are birth-I days and New Year's Eve, he saidJ Typical parties consist of loud music, dancing, talking and, best of all, vodkaJ "Mostly, a lot of Russians like vodka,' and a lot of Russians use vodka," he! said. Shopping has occupied much of the Soviets, time here. James Normant, a UNC junior who is hosting one of the students, said the visitors were amazed at the amount of material wealth in America, but noted that the people are very careful about" how they spend their money. "We've been to Circuit City a hundred times," he said. After several visits, his guest, Vladimir Iosiptichuk, finally chose a Panasonic portable stereo. Tolstikh said she bought a backpack, computer disks, a pair of shoes, a North Carolina T-shirt and Winston cigarettes for her father. . .
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