The Daily Tar HeelMonday, November 2, 19923
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Commission to discuss
economy at breakfast
; The Orange County Economic De
velopment Commission will sponsor a
public breakfast for residents who are
interested in learning about pressing
local economic concerns.
The breakfast is scheduled for 7:30
;a.m. to 9:30 a.m. Nov. 12 at the Omni
Europa Hotel, located on the 15-501
bypass between Chapel Hill and
Durham.
The program will include in-depth
! looks at the county's tax base, census
'trend data, employment and occupa
tional changes, and retail sales.
: ' Tickets will cost $10, including the
: price for the full breakfast.
) , Anyone who is interested in attend
ing the event must register by Friday. .
Tickets may be purchased by con
,tacting the commission offices at 968
.4501, extension 2325.
. . Residents also may purchase tickets
:by mailing their name, organization's
: name, mailing address and phone num
ber, along with a check payable to the
-Economic Development Commission
to P.O. Box 1 177, Hillsborough, N.C.,
: 27278.
Political columnist
to do local reading
Mclntyre's Fine Books and Book
ends will sponsor a special reading by
' novelist Tom Wicker.
" Wicker, a well-known "New York
" Times" political columnist until 1991,
" will read from his new book "Donovan's
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Following the reading, Wicker will
be available for questions and an infor-
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of Chapel Hill on U.S. 15-501.
The reading is free.
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,. events, contact Dawn Weniger at 542
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months, the Inter-Faith Council has a
volunteer ODDortunUVrfor1 vou.
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to worK m tneir pantry tor one-to-two-
hour shifts.
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training for anyone who is interested.
Volunteer teams of two are preferable,
but not necessary.
For any further information, contact
Katherine Leith at the Inter-Faith Coun
cil at 929-6380.
Local church to hold
benefit weaving sale
The Church of Reconciliation will
sponsor a benefit Mayan weaving sale
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday.
Lunch also will be served from 10:30
a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
The sale will be held at the church,
which is located at 1 10 Elliott Road in
Chapel Hill.
The proceeds from the event will go
to funds for maternal and child care,
literacy and water projects.
Direct any questions to the church
Reconciliation at 929-6042.
Hunt links jobs with better education
By Tara Duncan
StaffWrlter
Jim Hunt, Democratic candidate for
governor, adamantly stands behind the
position that North Carolina must build
an economy based on high-skill, high
wage jobs, but the former N.C. gover
nor said the only way to build such an
economy was through education.
"We must change our public schools,"
said Hunt, who was N.C. governor from
1976 to 1984. "We're no longer just
competing against Virginia and South
Carolina, but we're up against Ger
many and Japan."
Hunt, who froze N.C. teachers' sala
ries for a period during his two terms,
admits there might have been some
negative effect but said most voters
were reflecting on the good things he
accomplished, including a 75-percent
pay increase for teachers during his
eight years.
Hunt said the changes needed in state
education included more flexibility with
funds and higher standards for testing.
"We have so far to go on the (Scho
lastic Aptitude Test), but more than
anything, we need a test that measures
whether you are prepared to hold a job,"
he said.
Hunt said that allowing more flex
ibility of basic education funds would
allot money the school systems did not
use for poorer school systems and addi
tional personnel.
"Rural areas should get just as good
an education," Hunt said.
Hunt who is running against Repub
lican N.C. Lt. Gov. Jim Gardner, has the
endorsement of the N.C. Association of
Educators and N.C. Superintendents.
Town employees face
high costs off housm
ByShaktiRoutray
Staff Writer
Fewer than half of the employees of
the town of Chapel Hill live within city
limits due to the increasing problems of
housing affordability.
In their searches for the right house,
many town employees do not have the
resources or the wages to qualify for a
loan.
As of one year ago, in a study con
ducted by to wn personnel analysts, only
24 percent of town employees lived in
Chapel Hill, while 26 percent had a
Chapel Hill address but lived outside
town limits. Fourteen percent lived in
Durham, 1 2 percent li ved in Carrboro, 7
percent lived in Hillsborough, and 17
percent lived in other areas.
Bunny Spadaro, a senior personnel
analyst for the town of Chapel Hill, said
the lowest-paying town jobs in Chapel
Hill had a salary range of $13,437 to
$19,475 per year.
Town employees who fall within this
salary range are building and
groundskeepers, equipment service at
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Spooky practice begins season
By Steve Robblee
Staff Writer
Getting "pumped" was the theme of
the night at the Tar Heel Tipoff men's
basketball practice Saturday night
The Tar Heels tipped off at about
1 0:50p.m. as the team entered the Smith
Center floor to "Hark the Sound" played
by the UNC pep band. "Voice of the Tar
Heels" Woody Durham welcomed fans
to the event and introduced a highlight
film of the 1991-92 team. .
Fans, some of whom were dressed in
Jim hunt
AGE: 55
PARTY: Democrat
FAMILY: Wife, Carolyn Hunt; four children
EXPERIENCE: N.C. governor, 1976-1984, N.C.
lieutenant governor, 1972-1976
EDUCATION: Graduate of N.C. State Univer
sity with degrees in agricultural education and agricultural
economics, graduate of UNC-CH School of Law
"Our teachers must be treated and paid like professionals"
Another area of Hunt' s interest is the
problem of crime increases in the state,
especially rape crimes.
If elected, Hunt said he would pro
pose a new first-degree rape charge that
would be punishable by life in prison
without parole.
He also has developed the idea of a
Rape Strike Force. The program would
assemble a team of crime experts that
would come into an area, at the request
of the police, to investigate arape. Then,
at the request of the district attorney, the
team would prosecute the rape cases.
"Small towns and rural areas just
don't have the resources that a place
like Charlotte does," he said. "People
think they can get away with it. That's
why only one of 10 rapes is reported.
Our plan is aimed at deterrence."
Hunt counters arguments that increas
ing first-degree rape convictions would
add to the problem of prison overcrowd
ing by proposing that prisoners work
during their stay.
"I said it long before Gardner .... I
tendants and parking lot attendants,
Spadaro said.
Spadaro added that it would be diffi
cult for town employees earning a mini
mum salary to buy a house in Chapel
Hill.
"The real estate in Chapel Hill is very
expensive as compared to other places
in North Carolina," he said. "Our em
ployees are not in a real good situation
as far as (buying housing goes)."
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Joe Herzenberg said that not just em
ployees in the lowest salary ranges en
countered problems in finding afford
able housing.
"You could go much higher than (the
$13,437 to $19,475 range) and still find
housing prpblems for employees in
Chapel Hill," Herzenberg said. "If they
had theirchoice, most of our employees
would live in Chapel Hill if they could.
(Housing) is a bad situation."
Spadaro also said town employees
naturally would want to live in Chapel
Hill because it would be more conve
nient Herzenberg said he attended a con
Phelps during special post-Halloween practice
Halloween costumes, jammed to blast
ing music as they watched last year's
Tar Heels dunk, pass and block on the
giant video screen set up at one end of
the Smith Center.
At 1 2:01 a.m., the Tar Heels began a
20-minute intrasquad scrimmage simi
lar to the annual Blue-White game. Blue
team member George Lynch lead all
scorers with 1 2 points. Scott Cherry led
the white team, which was outscored
38-28, with eight.
This year's freshman players were
impressive in the scrimmage. Larry
intend to have prisoners help build fac
tories, grow their own food, learn skills
and even have factories within the prison
walls," he said.
Hunt said that government must be
run more like a business. "The goal is to
have total quality management" he said.
Throughout the campaign, Hunt has
attacked Gardner's business debts that
he incurred as co-founder of the
Hardee's fast food restaurant chain.
"Gardner's way is not the way to run a
business," he said.
Hunt claimed a Gardner TV adver
tisement that features Gardner and his
wife talking about their past was just a
"lame excuse" to try to divert people.
After leaving the governor's man
sion in 1980, Hunt began lobbying for
companies such as Pepsico and RJR
Nabisco in an effort to create jobs for
the state, he said.
"I will resign from my law firm and
any business interests except the Cattle
Farmers Association when I am gover
nor," Hunt said.
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ference sponsored by the Public Private
Partnership about the housing crisis
Thursday.
Herzenberg said the high cost of land
and the fact that a large portion of the
housing built in recent years had been
targeted for upper-middle class house
holds contributed to the lack of afford
able housing.
The housing summit addressed this
and other issues, Herzenberg said. He
added that the situation could not be
resolved easily, or it would have been
solved long ago.
Fred Stevens of Franklin Street Re
alty Inc. said the starting range for a
single-family house in Chapel Hill was
between $60,000 and $70,000.
Assuming that a town employee
searching for a house only depends on
one income that is in the range of $ 1 3,437
and $ 1 9,475 per year, banks would prob
ably loan out only $32,000, Stevens
said.
"That is probably going to keep (town
employees with minimum wages) out
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DTHDebbe Stengel
at the Dean E. Smith Center
Davis, Ed Geth, Dante Calabria and
Serge Zwikker all scored and were led
by Davis' six points.
"They looked comfortable," head
coach Dean Smith said of the team's
play. "I know they didn't feel comfort
able." Speaking of the scrimmage as a
whole, Smith said that he thought there
were "more pluses than minuses."
After a speech by Carolina Athletic
Association President Tracy Kirincich,
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Gardner seeks cure to education woes
By Eric Lusk
Senior Writer
Jim Gardner, Republican candidal
for N.C. governor, said granting local
governments more authority to run
schools would improve the state's fal
tering secondary education system.
Gardner, who is making his third try
at the state's highest office, also said he
supported expanding job skills training
programs, building more prisons and
offering an array of tax breaks.
The state's universities and commu
nity colleges have remained strong
through budget crises, but secondary
education has fallen apart, said Gardner,
the state's lieutenant governor.
"I want to keep funding the universi
ties so we don't lose any momentum;
they're world-class," he said. "Ourprob
lem is in public education. "
Expanding Head Start programs,
which target preschool-age children, and
allowing parents more choice on where
to send their children to school would
rebuild public education's foundation,
he said.
The state's Basic Education Plan has
failed to improve public schools as the
authors of the program had promised,
Gardner said.
"The BEP . . . has nothing to do with
basic education," he said. "I'm not op
posed to enhancement programs, but
when you're taking $500 million of
desperately needed education dollars,
you're doing a disservice to the students
of our state."
A vast number of the state' s students
do not attend college and need proper
job skills training, Gardner said. He
supports programs like Tech Prep, which
Dining facilities
to stay open later
for better service
By Casella Foster
StaffWrlter
Students now can take that late
night snack break even later.
Union Station, the Cutting Board
and residence hall snack bars have
permanent extended hours as a result
of student demand and a 30-day study
conducted by Marriott Food Services.
Under the new, extended hours.
Union Station will stay open until 1 1
p.m. Monday through Thursday and
until 10 p.m. on Sunday, the Cutting
Board will stay open until 8 p.m., and
residence hall snack bars will open at
7:15 a.m. and close at midnight Mon
day through Thursday.
Carolina Dining Services general
manager Chris Derby said the 30-day
study was conducted to see when each
of the cafeterias had the most busi
ness. Derby said that during the trial,
Union Station received the bulk of its
traffic between 5 p.m. and 10 p.m.
Monday through Thursday, but after
1 1 p.m., traffic died down.
"After analyzing the data, we're
going to pull back to 11 p.m.," he said.
During the trial, Marriott officials
closed Union Station at 1 1:30 p.m.
Several students said they approved
of the new hours.
"The extended hours help me be
cause when I'mdoing late-nightstudy-ing
at the library, Union Station is
open, and I can get a snack," said
Jamila Perry, a freshman from
Newburn.
: Davis Library is open daily until
midnight
"I think Lenoir should be open a
little later, maybe until 8:30 p.m. be-:
cause sometimes you're just not hun
gry around 7 p.m.," she said
The Cutting Board, located in
Lenoir Dining Hall, originally closed
Education advocacy
group endorses bond
By Matthew Henry
Staff Writer
A member of the Citizens Advocat
ing and Supporting Education said
Wednesday that the group supported
the $52 million school bond referen
dum. CASE spokesman Peter Topping said
the organization had waited to support
the referendum, which would provide
funding for new schools and technol
ogy upgrades for the Chapel Hill
Carrboro and Orange County school
systems.
"The closer it was to the election, the
greater the impact in the community we
thought our endorsement would have,"
Topping said.
Topping said CASE supported the
referendum because new schools were
needed to ease overcrowding problems.
"It's time to bite the bullet," he said.
"We've got to build new facilities
schools are grossly overcrowded."
Topping added that low interest rates
made now a good time to build new
schools.
Jim Gardner
AGE: 59
PARTY: Republican
FAMILY: Wife, Marie Gardner; three children
EXPERIENCE: Current N.C. lieutenant governor,
U.S. representative, 1967-1968, ran unsuccess
fully for N.C. governor in 1968 and 1972, ran
unsuccessfully for U.S. representative in 1964.
EDUCATION: Attended N.C. State University
"Our problem is public education. We're failing drastically in that "
allows high school students who don't
plan to attend college to take skills
courses at community colleges.
Gardner also attested that the state
had adequate law enforcement and
enough laws to tackle crime but that a
lack of prison space had damaged North
Carolina's criminal justice system.
"We've got to make some immediate
changes," he said. "We've got to start
building prisons. I'm talking about in
expensive, wooden barracks-type like
the military has always used."
Gardner, who has accused his Demo
cratic opponent, Jim Hunt, of being soft
on crime, said he favored a prison cap
rise from 20,000 to the amount it would
take to keep the state's streets safe.
"We ' re not talking about misdemean
ors like we were 5 years ago, but about
hardened violent criminals who would
kill you with no remorse at all," he said.
Gardner, who co-founded the
Hardee 's restaurant chain, has been criti
cized by Hunt for being a failed busi
nessman. Gardner dismisses Hunt's
at 7:30 p.m.
During die trial, the hours were
extended to 9 p.m.
But during the 30-day trial period,
traffic sharply decreased after 8 p.m.,
so the Cutting Board now will close at
8 p.m.
Snack bars in residence halls will
open at 7:15 a.m. and close at mid
night Monday through Thursday.
Snack bars will maintain their regu
lar Sunday schedule and close at 1 1
p.m.
Derby said the need to conduct the
study came from students ' demand for
extended hours and with encourage
ment from Student Body President
John Moody.
Moody contacted Derby during the
summer to discuss the possible exten
sion of Union Station hours, Derby
said.
To keep in touch with students'
needs, Carolina Dining Services also
conducts focus groups where students
can air their grievances about the Sec
onds Please! program.
"We at random invite plan holders
of Carolina Court to informal conver
sations," Derby said.
The meetings take place at 5 pjn.
Monday through Thursday, and usu
ally six to nine students participate.
Derby said the meetings helped
Marriott officials because they rewrite
the menus during the Christmas holi
day. In addition, "Carolina Dining Ser
vice Live" is a new program in which
resident assistants in vite Marriott offi
cials into residence halls to talk to
students about meals and hours.
On Nov. 1 8, the dining director at
Chase Dining Hall will invite a group
of randomly selected students to a
special dinner with Derby and other
Marriott officials to discuss dining
services.
"If we don't do it now, we'll pay a
much higher bill in three to fivi years,"
he said. ., . . - -,
Kim Hoke, Chapel HiJl-Carrboro City
Schools spokeswoman, called CASE'S
support an important endorsement even
though the group was relatively new in
the community.
"It's a very active political organiza
tion, and I think most people familiar
with schools and school issues know
about it," Hoke said.
Topping also said that while most of
the group felt strongly positive about
the referendum earlier this year, mem
bers had wanted to hear all of the argu
ments at the school bond referendum
forum held Tuesday.
CASE, formed two years ago, has 30
to 40 active members, bui is in touch
with nearly a hundred people. Topping
said. v
Topping added that the group' s mem
bership was "broadly representative of
the community," and included several
University faculty members and repre
sentatives of various Parent Teacher
Associations from local schools.
claims as mudslinging designed to de
stroy his character.
"In one breath, he talks about run
ning a positive campaign, but he's run
ning the worst trash we've ever seen in
this state," he said. "We're trying to talk
about issues. His record as governor for
eight years is an issue. He can't say,
i'm for school teachers,' when he was
the guy who froze their salaries."
Gardner ran an unsuccessful cam
paign for U.S. Congress in 1964 but
won a seat in 1966. His two attempts at
the governor's mansion in 1968 and
1972 fell short. Although polls suggest
that Hunt holds a firm lead, Gardner
predicts victory Tuesday.
"As we go into the final vote, (Hunt)is
going to lose this campaign because
he'll choke, just like he did in 1984
when he started running those negative
campaign ads against Jesse Helms," he
said. "This guy's a piece of work. I
think people we'll see through it, and
that's why I'm so confident I'm going
to win."