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100th Year of Editorial Freedom
H Est. 1893
Volume 100, Issue 135
The Moody presidency:
By Marty Minchin
Assistant University Editor
As Student Body President John
Moody prepares to wind up his final
months in office, he comes under fire
from many students who are left to
wonder if he actually did “Break the
Mold.”
Moody ran his campaign on the plat
form that he would work for little things
such as extending the hours of the Union
Station and placing more bicycle racks
around campus.
Moody portrayed himself as the out
sider in last year’s campaign and was
the only candidate who had no previous
experience in student government. He
also stood apart from the other candi
dates as the only one to advocate a
multicultural center rather than a free
standing black cultural center.
But after the campaign, Moody
seemed to disappear from the public
eye, choosing to be a quiet student body
president, less inclined to express his
MONDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from state, nation and world
U.S. troops returning
home from Somalia
MOGADISHU, Somalia Nearly
3,000 American soldiers and Marines
are returning home this week in the
biggest pullout since U.S. forces
landed in Somalia, a military
spokesman said Sunday.
Marine Col. Fred Peck said 2,700
servicemen and women were being
sent back to the United States because
of a command restructuring that
shifted supply duties from the
Marines to the Army.
About 1,000 combat Marines went
home earlier in January. The United
States currently has 24,361 troops in
Somalia.
Iranians set conditions
for new ties to West
TEHRAN, Iran President Hashemi
Rafsanjani said Sunday that he would
not consider improving ties with the
West unless it freed up frozen Iranian
assets and does more to help Muslims
in Bosnia’s civil war.
Rafsanjani used his first meeting
with foreign reporters in two years to
underscore Iran’s isolationist policy.
He seemed especially pessimistic
about relations with Washington.“At
the present juncture, we are still
witnessing the animosity of the
United States toward our country, and
therefore, I see no new avenues to
explore for cooperation,” he said.
He said growing trade ties with the
United States would not necessarily
mean better diplomatic ties.
Wisconsin hate-crimes
law garners support
NEW YORK Wisconsin is getting
support from all 49 other states in its
effort to restore stiffer sentencing
guidelines for hate crimes, New
York’s attorney general said Sunday.
Robert Abrams said the other states
and the District of Columbia would
be part of a planned joint brief urging
the U.S. Supreme Court to rule in
Wisconsin’s favor.
The high court has agreed to
review a ruling by the Wisconsin
Supreme Court that struck down the
hate crime law. A black man chal
lenged the law after his sentence for
beating a white youth was doubled
because of racial epithets.
Former Gov. Martin
returns to private life
CHARLOTTE Former N.C. Gov.
Jim Martin has returned to the private
sector to oversee the James G.
Cannon Research Center at Carolinas
Medical Center.
“I expect to stay tuned in to
politics,” Martin said.
For the time being, he will
coordinate research and teaching
activities at the
sl3 million
research facility,
which opened
last year. He also
will use his
persuasive skills
to help raise
funds.
Meanwhile,
Martin has
accepted an offer
from Gov. Jim
|im Martin
Hunt to continue as the chief cheer
leader for the proposed North
Carolina Global Trans Park.
At 57, Martin did not shut the door
to future public service.
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opinions and publicize his work. Moody
has placed much less emphasis on pub
lic relations than previous student body
presidents.
Moody: Just a ‘normal guy’
Moody, who brought no political in
clinations to office, has served more as
a “regular student” rather than a high
profile politician.
Carl Clark, a member of Student
Congress and a candidate in this year’s
student body president election, said of
all the student body presidents he had
worked with, Moody was the most ap
proachable.
“I think he comes from the perspec
tive of a student,” Clark said. “I’d feel
very comfortable approaching him and
sharing my concerns with him.”
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spective to Suite C did seem to have its
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Hundreds of students swarmed into the Great Hall Sunday for the International Festival,
at which more than 20 groups danced, sang and displayed artifacts of their culture.
Bus driver suspect
in heist of vehicle
By Kelly Ryan
Assistant City Editor
A bus driver from a Tennessee-based
leasing company stole her employer’s
bus Saturday night from the parking lot
of the Hampton Inn after learning that
she was going to lose her job, according
to Chapel Hill police reports.
TLC, the opening band for Saturday ’ s
Bobby Brown concert, discovered at
about 7:45 p.m. Saturday that the pink
and silver bus the group leased had been
stolen, according to Chapel Hill Police
reports.
The bus, which was leased from Little
David Leasing, was parked in the Hamp
ton Inn lot with the keys in the ignition
before it was stolen, police reports stated.
The coach bus is valued at about
$350,000, Little David Leasing owner
David Wilkens said.
The Hampton Inn is located on High
way 15-501 in Chapel Hill.
Pat Velke, who had been driving
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Broken promises or a broken mold?
advantages, Moody seems also to have
discovered that the highest student of
fice on campus requires more than just
working to fulfill campaign promises.
Student Congress Speaker Jennifer
Lloyd, also a candidate for student body
president, said she thought Moody had
discovered that student government was
an institution that did not welcome out
siders with open arms.
“I think that definitely he has been
put off by student government and has
not enjoyed many aspects of the job,”
she said. “He is definitely a non-politi
cal, regular student in office.”
Mark Shelburne, a senior from
Durham who ran against Moody last
year, said that he thought Moody had
put a lot into his campaign but that he
did not fully realize what the full spec
trum of his duties involved.
“I don’t know that he put a whole lot
of thought into the nuts and bolts of
being president,” he said. “His prom
ises were pretty ambiguous.
“His general statement was ‘Hey,
buses with Little David Leasing for
about six months, found out she was
going to be fired and took the bus to
think about the situation, Wilkens said.
“We were going to replace her with
another driver and she got all upset and
panicked and she drove off with the
bus,” Wilkens said.
Little David Leasing is a Nashville,
Tenn.-based company.
Authorities still have not located the
bus, but Velke called Wilkens Sunday
to tell him she planned to return the bus
to him in Nashville by today, Wilkens
said.
Chapel Hill Police Lt. Tim Pressley
said police reported the bus stolen
through the National Crime Informa
tion Center, which will inform police
all over the Eastern seaboard that the
bus was stolen.
“Being as it’s a large pink bus, it
seems like someone would have seen
it,” Pressley said.
Wilkens said members of TLC told
Velke Saturday that she was going to be
replaced because she was ha ving trouble
keeping up with the touring schedule.
“I just feel like from talking to her
that she went off the deep end, and then
she went off with the bus,” he said.
Velke probably could not handle the
band’s schedule because she was tired,
Wilkens said.
Wilkens said he had not contacted
his attorney so he didn’t know whether
he would press charges against her.
Velke did not tell Wilkens where she
drove the bus, he said.
Velke discovered some TLC lug
gage on the bus after she had left Chapel
Hill, Wilkens said. Little David Leas-
See BUS, page 2
Moody promises action during final three months
By Marty Minchin
Assistant University Editor
Student Body President John Moody
said the product of almost nine months
of relative silence in his office would
be a flurry of activity in the remaining
three months of his term.
Moody said he was not prepared to
discuss his plans in detail, but his ad
ministration had been working to make
responses to various issues, such as the
proposed tuition increase and the re
cent tenure battle.
“The whole reason I have been less
visible is because we wanted to finish
up our product before talking to people
about the little bits and pieces of what
we’d like to do on any given issue,” he
look. I’m not like those other guys.”
Where was John?
Plant neighbors sue
UNC, cite racial bias
By Leah A. Campbell
Assistant City Editor
Merritt Mill Road residents have filed
suit against UNC and charged that Uni
versity officials ignored residents’ com
plaints about the power plant because of
its location in a predominantly black
neighborhood.
The six plaintiffs claimed that the
University-owned power plant, located
on Cameron Avenue, posed a serious
health threat to nearby residents be
cause of the pollution and noise it emit
ted.
Darryl Lee, a Wake County school
teacher, said he initiated the suit be
cause he was fed up with the University
and its unresponsiveness to neighbor
hood complaints.
Sex materials distributor
to move to Hillsborough
By Jackie Hershkowitz
City Editor
The Carrboro-based PHE Inc., a com
pany that sells contraceptives, vibrators
and adult videos, will move to a larger
facility in Hillsborough sometime this
year to meet an increasing demand for
its products, Hillsborough Mayor
Horace Johnson said Sunday.
PHE Inc., which distributes sex ma
terials by mail-order under the trade
name Adam & Eve, will expand to
create 100 more jobs at its new location,
Johnson said.
PHE Inc. owner Phil Harvey could
not be reached for comment.
The new facility is expected to open
by September, Johnson said.
Johnson said PHE Inc. would pay
employees about sll an hour at its new
facility, well above wages most compa-
Race relations top student concerns
Editor’s note: The following is the
first in a four-part series investigating
what issues students consider the most
important and what solutions the can
didates for student body president have
proposed.
Staff Report
With Election Day getting closer,
students are beginning to form opinions
about the issues and the candidates.
In 129 telephone interviews con
ducted by The Daily Tar Heel last week,
students were asked about their voting
habits, the campaign issues and the per
formance of the i.........a-sssa
current student
Moody’s perfor
mance, most students did not have an
opinion, but some were disappointed
with his year in office.
“I think he has done a decent job, but
someone else could do better,” fresh
man Julie Vanhellemont said.
Junior Sonya Armstrong agreed.
John Moody
said.
“We’ve mainly
reacted to the con
cerns that have
been raised and are
trying to find solu
tions for those is
sues. It’s my hope
that the final prod
uct of what we
come up with in
the next couple of
months justifies
the time that’s been spent on it.”
Moody said his policy of being less
vocal on campus issues than past stu
dent body presidents was a result of his
belief that his administration should
know all of die details about the issue
Unlike past student body presidents,
Moody has steered clear of the press
and many public functions. He has made
“That administration has a biased,
redneck, plantation attitude regarding
the whole thing,” he said. “I sit right in
the shadows of this thing. They would
have never put (the power plant) near
Dean Smith’s house.”
Lee said he thought the University
built the plant in its present location
because surrounding residents were
mostly working-class blacks who would
not have the power to oppose it.
“We’ve gotten 500 letters of apology
from them but they won’t do anything
about it,” he said. “I think they could
care less about the people in the com
munity and it doesn’t help that I’m
black.”
But Power Plant Superintendent
Raymond Dußose said he thought the
plant’s location, which was decided in
nies pay for unskilled labor.
“It’s much more than you can make
sweeping dormitories at the Univer
sity,” he said. “It’s 30 percent more than
the county average.”
Although PHE Inc. has been the
target of numerous complaints, Johnson
said he would welcome the business to
Hillsborough.
“I’m not in the business of setting
moral standards,” he said. “People need
jobs, and as long as (PHE Inc.) is a
legitimate business, we have no reason
to question.”
In addition to creating new jobs, PHE
Inc. will provide the town of
Hillsborough $20,000 per year in tax
revenue, Johnson said. “Who in their
right mind who professes to be a Chris
tian would stop something like this?”
Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird
said that although PHE Inc. was based
What are the most pressing issues in
the student body president election?
The DTH conducted a random informal poll of 100 students. Each was
allowed to answer up to three issues.
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“Moody has been too quiet,” she said.
Karen Abner, a senior, said she
thought Moody ’ s term was “status quo”’
“But he hasn’t done a lot of bad
things either,” she said.
Some blamed the media’s coverage
of Moody’s administration.
“President Moody has done an ad-
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before reacting to it
“I think it’s just one of the things
we’ve tried to stress —is the need for
people to try to listen to all sides of the
argument... and to research the issues
and not simply jump on the band
wagon or start advocating the first
thing that comes to mind,” he said.
“Rallies and other public relations
events held by past student body presi
dents have been good for their image,
but the events may have not been their
most successful accomplishments,"
Moody said.
“Rather than focus on results, what
students think they have to go on is
basically visible activity towards
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no Pit appearances this year, and he
See MOODY, page 4
1939, was chosen because the railroad
tracks, electric sub-station and steam
tunnel converged in one location.
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Joe Herzenberg said he did not think the
issue was racially motivated.
“I don’t think this is a racial issue
because there are some white residents
who live on Cameron Avenue who are
also affected by the plant,” he said.
Lee said he thought it was hypocriti
cal for the University to claim to teach
responsibility and integrity while vio
lating the rights of black community
members.
Lee acknowledged that the power
plant’s neighbors stood little chance of
winning the suit because the odds were
See PLANT, page 2
outside of Carrboro, the town’s tax base
would not be affected by the move
because the company’s tax revenues
went to county coffers.
“It really won’t make any difference
except that we won’t get nasty letters
from people all over the country asking
us why we support that business,”
Kinnaird said.
Kinnaird said if Harvey had applied
to the town of Carrboro for permits to
expand his business, his request would
have received serious consideration.
“You can’t pick and choose accord
ing to morals,” she said. “The law has to
be equally applied.”
Kinnaird said she didn’t know why
Harvey didn’t apply for Carrboro zon
ing permits before deciding to move to
Hillsborough.
See PHE, page 4
equate job,” sophomore Mac Abrams
said. “The newspaper is giving him a
bad reputation.”
Other students named some of
Moody’s accomplishments.
“I’ve seen more bike racks,” junior
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