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Watch whatcha
do with those
campaign signs
Hey! Watch where you put that cam
paign sign.
Candidates for student office need to
be aware of where they can and can’t
put campaign signs.
Elections Board Chairman Ron
Barnes said that although technically
candidates could only hang posters on
bulletin boards and the Cubes, he would
not enforce the removal of posters from
the walls inside buildings.
“If taking the poster off the wall pulls
paint off, the candidate must pay for
repairs,” Barnes said. “That has been a
problem in the past.”
Barnes said he did not mind if candi
dates hung the posters neatly on walls
and did not hang them in any way that
would damage University property.
Candidates may not hang posters on
the outside of buildings, on trees, bushes
and lightposts, on Daily Tar Heel boxes,
or within 50 feet of the poll sites, he
said.
If a candidate hangs a poster in an
illegal area, the University Facilities
Use Policy states that the candidate
should be fined $5 and must pay for any
damage to the property, Barnes said.
Unauthorized removal of a
candidate’s campaign posters is an
Honor Code violation.
Attention candidates:
Only 17 days ‘til E-day
Election Day, that is.
Candidates for any and all campus
offices must have their petitions in by 5
p.m. on Jan. 28. This is the absolute
deadline, and there are no exceptions.
Petitions can be picked up and
dropped off outside the Elections Board
office in Suite A, and there will be a
mandatory candidates’ meeting at 5 p.m.
Thursday that’s right, at the same
time petitions are due in Gerrard
Hall.
Elections will be held Feb. 9.
UNC undergrad women:
Let us hear you roar
If you are an undergraduate woman
with opinions about how University life
has been treating you, there’ s a program
you shouldn’t miss.
A panel discussion called “Under
graduate women at Carolina: Is this
what you expected?” will be held from
7 p.m. to 9 p.m. Jan. 26 in the Hanes Art
Center auditorium.
The panel will include Carol Binzer,
University assistant director for leader
ship development; Margo Crawford,
director of the Sonja Haynes Stone Black
Cultural Center; Dorothy Holland, an
thropology professor; and Peggy
Norton, from the Student Health Ser
vice gynecology clinic.
Small-group discussions about mi
norities on campus, career preparation,
rape and sexual assault, part-time jobs,
activism, academic pressures, self-es
teem, volunteering, women’s health,
sororities and other issues will follow
the panel discussion.
Hey, don’t you throw
away that soda bottle
I have one word for you: Plastics.
And the Orange County Recycling
Program has one more word for you:
Recycling.
The OCRP has three recycling re
ceptacles on campus. Look for the large,
blue dumpsters labelled “plastics only”
located at Hinton James, Ehringhaus
and Odum Village on the comer of
Hibbard Drive and Bernard Street.
Plastic soda bottles and milk jugs
only may be recycled. Other plastics
may contaminate the whole lot. The
bottles should be emptied, rinsed and
flattened.
Journalism educators
have a Cuban cigar
Dean Richard Cole of the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication
led a group of 20 educators to Havana to
find out about Cuban journalism.
The group visited Granma, the only
daily newspaper in a communist nation,
Radio Havana Cuba and the Cuban In
stitute of Radio and Television, which
oversees all broadcast media in the coun
try, Cole said. They also met with fac
ulty from a journalism program at the
University of Havana.
Strict limitations on the Cuban me
dia force Cuban broadcast journalists to
change news-reporting styles, Cole said.
The greenhouse effect
welcomed on campus
Three new greenhouses will be added
to Coker Hall by this November.
Work began on Jan 19. on the
$418,000 project to the south and east
of the existing greenhouses.
Chinese students ring
in Year of the Rooster
By Phuong Ly
Staff Writer
Happy New Year! yes, again.
The Chinese New Year, based on the
lunar calendar, begins Saturday, mark
ing the dawn of the Year of the Rooster.
The Chinese associate each year with
one of the 12 symbols of the Chinese
zodiac, rotated in this order: rat, ox,
tiger, hare, dragon, snake, horse, sheep,
monkey, rooster, dog and boar.
According to Chinese myth, the or
der of the animals in the zodiac were
determined by a footrace in which the
rat finished first and the boar came in
last.
The rooster represents reliability and
hard work, said Hui Huang, a sociology
graduate student and member of UNC’s
Friendship Association of Chinese Stu
dents and Scholars.
Before clocks and watches were
available, the rooster was important,
especially to farmers, because it would
let people know when anew day had
arrived, Huang said. “When the day
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Residents request more services
in spite of town budget shortfall
By Richard J. Dalton Jr.
Staff Writer
Although Chapel Hill Town Council
members might be forced to raise taxes
or cut the town’s budget to make up for
a $900,000 shortfall, residents said
Thursday night that they wanted the
town to provide more services.
“The choice is either we raise taxes
or reduce services,” council member
Julie Andresen said at the public budget
forum held at Town Hall. “Should we
accept the notion that there is going to
be a tax increase, or should we also look
at other options?”
But residents who spoke at the bud
get forum did not address the town’s
budget cuts. Instead they requested town
improvements such as better sidewalks,
improved athletic fields and support for
high school sports.
Andresen asked town manager Cal
Red, Hot & Blue Barbecue to
attract conservatives, liberals
By Nathan Bishop
Staff Writer
Liberal residents of Chapel Hill don’t
need to worry that the February opening
of the Red, Hot & Blue Memphis Pit
Barbecue will attract Republicans to
town, according to restaurant manager
Jim Groot.
Groot dispelled the myth*that the
Virginia-based chain was intended to
be a bastion of the Republican Party.
The restaurant’s image as a popular
haunt for prominent Republicans began
when former Republican National Com
mittee Chairman Lee Atwater invested
in the Arlington, Va., branch of the
chain as one of its original partners.
Prominent members of the Bush ad
ministration and Republicans seeking
jobs frequented the restaurant to meet
with Atwater and enjoy the food.
“A big reason that so many public
servants and politicians frequent the
Arlington, Va., Red, Hot & Blue has to
do with its convenient geographic loca
tion near Washington, D.C.,” Groot said.
But Groot said he wanted to concen
trate more on food than politics at the
Chapel Hill branch of the restaurant.
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breaks, the rooster
will wake up and
wake all the people
and bring the
world to life.”
The Chinese
like to say, “When
you hear the
rooster crow, you have to get up, and
you have to work hard,” Huang said.
But roosters aren’t always serious.
During the daytime, the rooster’s crow
or “song” can get people in the spirit of
dancing, Huang said.
People bom in years of the rooster
are diligent and hard-working, said
Shaoyi He, president of the Friendship
Association.
The Chinese New Year, celebrated
in many East Asian countries, usually
begins between late January and mid-
February on the Gregorian calendar, the
one used in the United States.
The lunar year begins with the new
moon of the year after 12 lunar cycles.
At the beginning of each lunar phase,
the moon is invisible. Because lunar
Horton to present budget-cutting op
tions to the council.
Clark Road resident Lightning Brown
requested that sidewalks be built on the
west side of North Columbia Street and
on Longview Street. He said the area
was dangerous to pedestrians and bicy
clists, adding that the rain made the area
muddy.
Brown said the capital improvement
plan allocated less money for sidewalks
and more for housing. But he added that
public improvements encouraged bet
ter maintenance by private residents.
“The better the town treats neighbor
hoods like this neglected area back here,
the more the property owners there are
going to feel it’s worth keeping it up,”
Brown said.
Council member Joe Capowski
agreed that the sidewalks were an im
portant problem.
Horton said that the bulk of capital
“The Arlington restaurant has con
sistently been rated amongst
Washington’s finest, and last year The
New York Times rated it as one of the
nation’s best barbecue restaurants,” he
said. “We intend to continue that tradi
tion here in Chapel Hill. We do a great
barbecue.”
Groot said the restaurant was not
designed to become a surrogate head
quarters for the Republican Party.
“The restaurant was originally the
idea of a group of people living near
Washington, both Democrats and Re
publicans, who were originally from
Tennessee,” Groot said. “They missed
the great barbecue they had enjoyed at
home and wanted to create a restaurant
that served quality barbecue.”
Groot said Atwater was not involved
in the restaurant for political reasons.
“Atwater invested in the restaurant
because he wanted to provide blues
musicians with a place for rap sessions,"
he said. “He played in the Red, Hot &
Blues Band, which included musicians
not associated with the Republican
Party. The band raised a lot of money
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cycles are uneven, an extra month is
added to the Chinese calendar every
three or four years to keep it in tune with
the seasons.
The New Year celebration tradition
ally lasts about two weeks, until the first
full moon of the year appears.
Jamin Huang of Chapel Hill, who
helps coordinate activities for the Tri
angle Area Chinese American Society,
said the New Year celebration was a
special time for the family.
“The Chinese New Year is like the
Thanksgiving dinner,” he said. “The
family members will try to get home
before the New Year eve, and all sit
down together and have dinner.”
The holiday also is a time of renewal,
Jamin Huang said. Some traditions he
remembers from his childhood in Tai
wan are wearing new clothes for anew
beginning, setting off firecrackers be
fore leaving the house on New Year’s
Day to ward off evil spirits and trying
not to fight or curse because otherwise
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improvements would go toward the
maintenance of major facilities but that
it was possible to allocate some money
for sidewalks.
Rogerson Drive resident Valerie
Broadwell said she wanted to ensure
neighborhood involvement in the up
grading of two regular soccer fields and
six practice fields near Glen Lennox.
She said she was concerned about
traffic and dust that would be caused by
the soccer fields.
The area is located south of Leland
Drive and west of Hamilton Road.
To cover the transportation shortfall,
Horton said the town could lobby the
state or the federal government for more
money to cover the costs.
Another resident requested that the
council allocate 5 percent of hotel-mo
tel tax revenues to support the N.C.
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Domestic-abuse fund-raiser targets men
By Matthew Henry
SUffWritp
University history Professor Will
iam Barney would like to be a role
model for other men.
Barney is a contributor to “100 Men
for CHANGE,” a fund-raising project
to solicit 100 men to donate to a coun
seling program for abusive men.
Once men acknowledge the prob
lem of wife abuse, they can be instru
mental in preventing domestic vio
lence, Barney said.
Fred Stang, director of the Orange/
Durham Coalition for Battered
Women, said he hoped to find 100
men, like Barney, who would contrib
ute SIOO each to support a rehabilita
tion program for abusive men.
“Men are primarily the aggressors,”
Stang said. “Domestic violence is not
a women’s problem, but a men’sprob
lem. We are causing a lot of the vio
lence, and we need to do something
about it”
Stang said 66 men from a wide
cross-section of the community had
registered to be part of “100 Men for
CHANGE.” Participants come from a
variety ofbackgrounds, including pro-
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Bond money falls
short of project,
fiscal groups say
By RamaKayyali
StoffWrite
Members of two local financial
watchdog groups said Thursday that
the school boards’ lack of planning
would cause the $52 million school
bond to fall short of the amount of
money needed for improving county
schools
On Nov. 3, Orange County resi
dents voted to support a bond calling
for a tax increase to raise funds to build
two middle schools, one for toe Chapel
Hill-Carrboro system and one for toe
Orange County system. The bond also
provided money to build anew high
school for toe district and to provide
facility renovations in Orange County
for educational technology.
The funds first will be used to build
a Chapel Hill-Carrboro middle schooL
UniTax member John Graham said
he wasn’t surprised that toe actual costs
exceeded toe projected costs.
“The schools boards have no damn
idea what they are doing,” he said.
Bill Oppold, a member ofTaxWatch
and UniTax, said: “The cost of con
struction was projected to be sl4 mil
lion. However, toe actual cost is more
than anticipated, by their own admis
sion.”
Oppold said the school boards have
thus far withheld information about
the their plans.
Both Tax Watch and UniTax openly
opposed the school bond before the
November elections.
Mary Bushnell, chairwoman of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board,
said she wasn’t sure how the school
system was planning to raise the addi
tional money.
“I would like to stress that we will
be as economical as can be, but we
can’t compromise toe quality of edu
Police unable to
enforce bike rules
By Leah A Campbell
Staff Writer
Bicycle traffic violations in Chapel
Hill have moved down on the police
department’s list of priorities because
of short staffing and a bogged-down
court system, according to Chapel Hill
Police Chief Ralph Pendergraph.
Pendergraph said his staff already
was overworked trying to battle more
serious crimes in Chapel Hill.
“With the more major crimes we
have to deal with like the drug problem
and robbery, my staff has a hard time
trying to enforce bicycle traffic safety,”
he said.
“Plus, the court system probably
could not handle every bicycle traffic
violation it would get if we had the staff
to enforce the rales,” Pendergraph said.
Pendergraph added that although
there were many responsible cyclists in
Chapel Hill, an increasing number of
motorists have complained about traf
fic infractions by cyclists.
“With the quick rise in population for
the area and the constrained space bicy
clists have to ride in, problems arise,”
he said. “These factors make the situa
tion on the roads potentially danger
ous.”
Orange-Chatham District Attorney
Carl Fox said enforcing the helmet law,
which requires cyclists under age 16 to
wear helmets, was one of his main pri
orities.
“Right now, the helmet law is our
main focus,” he said.
Fox said he was not sure how to deal
with toe problem of recurring bicycle
fessions from physicians to chief ex
ecutive officers, he added.
“These men are willing to make a
public statement that domestic violence
is wrong,” Stang said.
Stang said he hoped to find other
private donors and businesses to con
tribute.
Women who want to honor the men
in their lives whoexemplify the project’s
spirit are encouraged to donate, Stang
said.
Mike McCarthy, a program partici
pant, said he agreed that men’s attitudes
were changing, adding that toe process
was “awfully slow.”
McCarthy said it was time for men to
take responsibility for men who are
abusive.
“It’s amale nroblem,” he said “Males
caused toe problem, and men have to fix
toe problem."
Area law enforcement agencies, es
pecially toe Chapel Hill and Carrboro
police departments, have been sympa
thetic to toe problem of domestic vio
lence, he said.
“Chapel Hill was one of toe first to
adopt apro-arrest policy regarding abu
sive men,” Stang said.
Stang said he hoped that students,
cation,” she said, “ft wouldn’t be fair
for the taxpayer.”
But Bushnell said it always was
understood that there would be some
additional construction costs.
“We are short (of money), but it is
not a surprise for me and it shouldn’t
be for anybody," toe said.
Tax Watch member Mickey Ewell
saidTaxWatch members always have
saidthey believed the actual cost would
be more than the schools had pro
jected.
He added that the mission of
Tax Watch waste make sure taxpay
ers’ money was being spent prudently.
Kim Hake, spokeswoman for tire
Chapel Hill-Canboro Schools, said
that the construction costs would not
exceed what was anticipated but that
more money would be needed to pay
for infrastructure improvements.
Hoke said toe school boards were
negotiating with the contractors to
choose toe lowest bidder.
The construction will begin as soon
as toe lowest bidder is selected, Hoke
said. *
The new Chapel Hill-Canboro
middle school be operational by the
1994-1995 school year, Hoke said.
The new school will have a capac
ity 0f740 students, which will relieve
a lot of pressure from other middle
schools, she added.
“In Culbreto Middle SchooL they
are having classes in cafeterias ami
hallways,” Hoke said. “We have also
added mobile classrooms."
The Orange County middle school
should be ready for the 1995-1996
school year, while toe new Chapel
Hill high school should be ready by
toe following year, she said.
The tax increase was projected to
be about 15 cents for every SIOO in
property values, Hoke said-
safety violations.
Pendergraph also said he was not
sure how to handle the problem because
his staff had not had time to investigate
it fully.
Wayne Pine, head of Chapel Hill’s
bicycle advisory committee, admitted
that bicycle infractions were a problem.
But he added that they were not as
important to on-toe-road safety as mo
tor vehicle infractions.
“The most important point is that
usually when a bicyclist breaks the rales,
he is potentially dangerous to only him
self,” he said.
“However, when a motor-vehicle
driver breaks the rales, he is usually
dangerous to others,” he added.
Pine said that although bicyclists were
supposed to follow all motor vehicle
traffic laws, the lack of bike paths made
it difficult
He added that people unjustly singled
out bicyclists because they were more
visible on the road.
“Bicyclists are easy to single out
when they break toe rales on, say,
Franklin Street”he said “But how many
people do you know who actually drive
20 mph on Franklin Street?”
Thebicycle advisory committee plans
to educate the student population about
bicycle safety when funds become avail
able, Pine said.
“We plan on sending letters and hold
ing seminars for students when we find
the funding,” he said.
Pine added that wearing reflectors,
putting lights on bikes and wearing hel
mets are the most important safety mea
sures a bicyclist should take.
local residents and community orga
nizations would get involved in the
fight against domestic violence.
Stang said that he spoke to the
University’s Inter-Fraternity Council
last semester about supporting toe
Coalition forßattered Women but that
tire response had been disappointing.
“Obviously, male violence in ffats;
is an issue,” Stang said.
But Edward Marshall, president of
toe IFC, said he didn’t think domestic
violence was an issue that concerned
fraternities.
“Domestic violence is very wrong
and a tremendous problem, but wife
beating is not associated with frats,”
Marshall said.
The coalition has to raise SIOO,OOO
- year to continue operating. Stang :
said. He added that although the orga
nization was federally funded, it did
not receive enough money to accom
plish all of its missions.
The coalition also operates a shel
ter that houses up to 18 people and
provides crisis counseling, support'
groups and programs for children, he.
added. $
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