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THE TAR HEEL VOL. 101 The Tar Heel University of North Carolina EDITORS Peter Wallsten, Amber Nimocks, Anna Griffin, Alan Martin, Jackie Hershkowitz, Jason Richardson, Yi-Hsin Chang, Steve Politi, Erin Randall, David Counts, Samantha Falke, David Lindsay, John Caserta, Jennifer Brett, Alex DeGrand, Jennifer Pilla, Editor in Chief Peter Wallsten, Managing Editor, Amber Nimocks. Tuesday, February 23,1993 STATE LEGISLATORS PLEDGE TO SUPPORT TOWN S PROPOSALS By Jackie Hershkowitz City Editor County delegates to the General Assem bly told Chapel Hill Town Council mem bers they would try to gamer support in the assembly for the town’s legislative requests but predicted thftt proposals for tax in creases would meet a great deal of resis tance. N.C. Reps. Anne Barnes and Joe Hack ney, D-Orange, and N.C. Sens. Howard Lee and Russell Walker, D-Orange, met with council members Monday morning for breakfast to discuss local bills the council is considering to send to the legislature for approval. The legislative delegates said that al though they thought several of the council’s requests had merit, they could not guaran tee their passage through the assembly. “We have so many requests this session, it’s real hard to gauge how things will shake out,” Hackney said. Barnes said the proposed $1 entertain ment tax, which would affect ticket prices for Smith Center and Kenan Stadium events, would stand a better chance of being ap proved if it applied to other arenas through out the state as well. “This is the kind of thing where it might be good to network with other cities,” she said. “If it has statewide support, it will go down easier.” Council member Mark Chilton said he hoped the council would follow Barnes’ advice and discuss the possibility of a push ing for a statewide entertainment tax with local leaders in Charlotte and Greensboro. But council member Joe Capowski said he thought the council would be “wasting its time.” “I don’t think (we should) go out and lobby everyone in North Carolina,” Capowski said. “It’s time to give this issue a rest, at least for the next two years. “It’s not a bad idea, but we’ve got other things to do," he added. Barnes said that if the revenues gener ated by an entertainment tax were earmarked for specific purposes rather than general funds, legislators would be more inclined to approve the tax. “(Taxes) seem to be approached in more positive ways if people can see the results,” she said. Hackney said the tax proposal would stand virtually no chance of passing if it did not specify how the revenues would be used. Chilton said the council could consider earmarking revenues to the Chapel Hill Senior Center, the Carrboro Arts Center or to organizations that promote tourism in Chapel Hill. “I think it’s a good idea,” Chilton said. “There are a lot of potential recipients of this tax revenue.” But Capowski said that even if revenues were designated for particular causes, the tax stood little chance of passing. “Some people think it would make it more palatable to pay a fee if you know where it’s going,” he said. “But when you put things all together, what you’re saying is that this doesn’t have much of chance.” Hackney said: “I don’t want to discour age you, but the arguments (against the tax) are fairly predictable. The benefits are the same, and the problems are the same as they have been in the past.” Lee said most legislators were predis posed to oppose any tax increases this year. “Any new taxes this year, whether local or otherwise, will have a difficult time,” Lee said. The legislative delegates also told coun cil members the proposal to add a recall amendment to the town charter probably would sail smoothly through the General Assembly. The amendment would enable voters to petition for an election to remove local elected officials from office. Hackney said bills pertaining to one municipality that had no effect on other (Continued on page two) SERVING THE STUDENTS AND THE UNIVERSITY COMMUNITY SINCE 1893 BSM, CELLAR DOOR, STV FACE MASSIVE CUTS; RAPE-FREE ZONE BUDGET VOTE POSTPONED FINANCE COMMITTEE FAILS TO MEET QUORUM By Marty Minchin Assistant University Editor For the third time, a bill proposing funding for the Campus Ys Rape-Free Zone was postponed Monday night, as the Student Congress Finance Commit tee failed to reach a quomm at its 10 p.m. meeting. Sue committee members attended the meeting, one less than necessary for quo rum. Committee members and guests waited for an hour, but no other members came. Rep. Chris Tuck, Dist. 20, finance committee chairman, said he was not sur prised the committee did not reach quo rum because of the long hours members putin during last weekend’s finance com mittee budget hearings. “We just finished a weekend of budget hearings,” Tuck said. “We went Friday night, all day Saturday and Sunday, then we had a regular finance committee meet ing yesterday after the budget hearings. “It’s not something I’m overly con cerned about.” Mike Klompas, co-chairman of the Rape-Free Zone, said he was not pleased that the committee did not reach quorum. “I feel it’s an appalling reflection upon Student Congress and an abuse of the authority they’ve been given in having responsibility over student fees,” he said. Tuck said the bill could bypass com mittee and be brought before the full congress at its Wednesday meeting. If the bill is not brought up, it will have to wait until the next congress meeting March 13. The Rape-Free Zone is set to lack off the last weekend in March. “It’s going to create a severe financial strain upon the program (if the bill is delayed),” Klompas said. Ed Chaney, Campus Y co-president and financial coordinator for the Rape- Free Zone, said that if the program and weekend kickoff events did not receive funding from Student Congress, they would have to depend on funding from other areas of the University. “We were hoping with these programs to tap everyone,” he said. Chaney said the group still planned to have the zone de spite the actions of Student Congress. Klompas said: “I feel the program is a sufficient need. No matter what happens, we feel the program is a necessity.” The group plans to use the funding to pay for speaker Gloria Allred, a West Coast attorney who is an expert on rape and sexual harassment, and to pay for candles, T-shirts and supplies, informa tion and handouts, office costs, technical support and plywood silhouettes for the zone’s weekend kickoff. In addition to Tuck, Reps. Kellyjones, Dist. 11; JeffMatkins, Dist. 27; Darren Allen, Dist. 21; Eric Pratt, Dist. 22; and Chris Handy, Dist. 23, attended the meet ing. MEAL TAX TO FACE LOCAL OPPOSITION By Daniel Feldman Staff Writer Local delegates to the General Assem bly said Monday that a proposed meal tax to increase town revenues would meet large roadblocks from state representa tives and local restaurant owners. Chapel Hill Town Council members met with local state delegates early Mon day morning and discussed the possibility of imposing a 1-percent meal tax on pre pared foods. All restaurant-bought meals would be subject to the tax, council member Mark Chilton said. Chilton said the tax might increase prices at Lenoir and Chase halls. “Lenoir doesn’t charge sales tax for (UNC One) card users,” Chilton said. “The effect on the dining services is un clear but could translate into a couple of cents per individual.” Carolina Dining Sendees officials would not comment on the issue. Chilton said he supported the meal tax because the revenue would generate a lot of money for the town and only would affect tax payers minimally. “This shouldn’t affect the restaurant business too much,” he added. “A nickel on lunch is not that much to ask for.” Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos said he was not sure if the University would be exempt from the original proposal for the meal tax. “As of now, meals served to residents in boarding houses would be the only ones exempt from the tax,” Karpinos said. (Continued on page two) UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, FEBRUARY 23,1993 By Marty Minchin Assistant University Editor The Student Congress Finance Com mittee will recommend severe cuts in the budgets of some campus groups to the full congress at the upcoming budget hear ings. Finance committee members voted last weekend to recommend complete defunding for Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbi ans and Allies for Diversity and also voted to drastically reduce the budgets of the Black Student Movement, Student Televi sion and the Cellar Door. The finance committee reduced the BSM’s budget by about $12,000, with most of the cuts coming from the BSM Gospel Choir’s budget. The committee will recommend cut ting $9,000 from the gospel choir’s budget, leaving the group with $2,900 to operate for the year. Of that money, the committee requires that $2,000 be used specifically for fund raising. The cuts came mainly from the choir’s traveling expenses. BSM President Michelle Thomas said the choir would not be able to travel around the country as they had in the past if the full congress approved the recommendation. “It will cripple the BSM Gospel Choir,” she said. “They have a budget of S9OO with over 70 members.” Thomas said that the choir traveled all over the nation and the state and that their trips also served as recruiting drives for the University. “(The finance committee mem bers) were cutting a major recruiting tool for the University,” she said. The finance committee also placed a (Continued on page seven) W&Km nib jjjgj ‘SPIKE’: A PIECE OF UNC HISTORY By Anna Griffin University Editor J. Maryon Saunders’ hands shake. His eyes don’t focus very well. He has trouble hearing and even more trouble standing up for long periods of time. But Spike, as he is known to his friends, smiles when he talks about The Daily Tar Heel. His eyes light up, and he gets the same wry grin he had 70 years ago as a college senior and editor of the DTH. Saunders, currently a resident of Carol Woods Retirement Community in Chapel Hill, is the oldest living editor of The Tar Heel, which celebrates its 100th birthday today. He served as the 28th editor of the then weekly paper, back in the days when women were girls, Thomas Wolfe had yet to look homeward, and Frank Porter Graham was remembered as former student, not a Stu dent Union. Saunders’ memories of The Tar Heel span seven decades, from his years as an undergraduate at what was then a male dominated state school to his long term as General Alumni Association secretary and president. Spike Saunders is a piece of University, Chapel Hill —and Daily Tar Heel history. “When I was at the University, The Tar Heel was smaller, not so regular,” he said. “We were never quite sure of getting out on the right day or even getting out at all.” Saunders’ papers averaged about four pages—a front page, an editorial page and two news pages. “We covered a lot, though, despite our size,” he said. “There was a lot of news.” The 1920s were a historic period for the University and for its newspaper. In 1922, the paper dropped the slogan “Official Organ of the Athletic Association” from its masthead. During the same year, the con troversy about the place of women or co eds, as they were known—at the University bubbled over in the pages of The Tar Heel. In one memorable edition, published Oct. 15, 1924, Saunders’ DTH caustically begrudges the presence of women at UNC in an editorial titled The Wimmens are Here to Stay." (Continued on page four) TARHEEL CELEBRATES 100TH ANNIVERSARY By Jen Pilla Centennial Edition Editor In February 1907, The Tar Heel pub lished an article on the state of American college journalism. In it, one Tar Heel writer dubbed Daniel Webster, who in 1801 founded the first student newspaper at Dartmouth College, the “legitimate father oflsoo children”—parent of every college publication that existed at the time. The Tar Heel, Which had been started as a weekly by the Athletic Association in 1893 with less than 250 subscribers, was then just barely a teenager. The newspaper, now hardly a child, has grown into an independent daily with a circulation of more than 20,000. In its 100-year history, The Tar Heel and those who have helped raise her have experienced their share of growing pains. They’ve chronicled a century of history— not just ofUNC sports —but of the entire University community, of the city, the state, the country and even the world. Captured in the annals are some of society’s finest hours moments of hu man triumph and joy. But there among the now crumbling pages also can be found accounts of society’s greatest failures the source of our anguish and shame. Throughout the last century, the news paper itself has experienced many fine hours and, yes, many great failures. But The Tar Heel today is a symbol of the triumph of student journalism an off spring of which Webster could have been proud. THE FOUNDING In 1893, the University had just reached its 100th birthday, and the University ( community was entering its second cen tury with a sense of excitement and an eye toward growth and advancement. Stu dent enrollment had quadrupled between 1891, when George T. Winston was ap pointed president of the University, and 1893. The 376 students who attended the University at the time depended on word of mouth and the University Magazine, which was primarily a literary journal, for their campus and village news. To fill die news void, a group of students founded a now little-known weekly newspaper, the Chapel Hillian, in 1892. But after just a few issues, poor management and opposi STUDENTS GETTING CHANCE TO DISCUSS RTVMP CHANGES By Chris Good son Staff Writer The Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures plans to restructure itself in the coming years because of rapid changes in mass communication technol ogy, but some students are worried that the change might not necessarily be for the better. Assistant Department Chairman Rob ert Gwyn said the idea of restructuring came last year when an evaluating panel reported that the RTVMP masters pro gram was too diverse and needed to nar row its focus. “They said we were trying to do too many different things,” he said. “We needed to decide what our main focus was.” Stephen Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, ordered a restructur ing of the department to narrow the focus and improve the program, Gwyn said. “This is a long-range, long-term project,” he said. “In the end, we hope we will have a program that will be one of the best in the nation.” But senior RTVMP major Scott Lan sing is among many students worried that the restructuring will lead to less emphasis on technology and production and more emphasis on criticism and social analysis. “I’m afraid they’re going to eliminate the technology almost completely," he said. “I’m afraid it maybe almost a theo retical and analysis type department, which is ridiculous in this day and time.” Restructuring is a perfect time to im prove the department’s once lofty prestige and quality by emphasizing the produc tion aspects of the business and not the critical aspects, Lansing said. Successful student productions would gain prestige for the department and help in soliciting corporate donations, he said. “It’s just a matter of someone in the de partment having the initiative to work it out.” With alumni and corporate sponsor ship and little departmental assistance, Lansing recently produced a film that raised SIOO,OOO in equipment. “If a student can do that and the de partment can’t, there must be some man agement problem,” Lansing said. Department officials will give RTVMP (Continued on page four) If ! 'Si 11 § jfc .'v P J 9 r>. Spl 5 s ~‘K THE TAR HEEL STAFF OF 1893 Seated from left to right: A. B. Andrewjr., business manager, Walter Muiphy, managing editor, Charles Baskerville, editor in chief. Stand ing, left to right: Perrin Busbee, Crawford Biggs, Caswell Ellis, W.P. Wooten tion from the faculty, which was often maligned in the fledgling paper, forced them to cease publication. It was the Athletic Association that decided to step in and “fill the crying need for a college news medium” by publishing a four-page weekly tabloid, which would be financed through advertising revenue and paid subscriptions. It has been sug gested that Carolina’s football victory in 1892 over rival University of Virginia in spired the association to start The Tar Heel. Though its first writers primarily con cerned themselves with accounts of ath letic competitions, the newspaper had a much broader goal, which is reflected in the original mission statement: “To serve as a summary of all occur rences in the University and Village of Chapel Hi 11... for the thorough discus sion of all points pertaining to the ad vancement and growth of the University.” On the 25th anniversary of The Tar ASSISTANT DEAN KEEPS DOOR OPEN By Amy Seeley Assistant Features Editor Editor’s note: This is the second in a five part series recognizing blacks who have made a difference on campus and in the community in celebration of Black History Month. Asa student at UNC in the ’Bos, Sibby Anderson-Thompkins couldn ’ t find an ad ministrator to talk with one-on-one about her needs and goals as an African-Ameri can woman, a double minority. Today, fewer students have to worry about that problem because Anderson- Thompkins has been an assistant dean of students since 1991. Her open door and the chairs lining the walls of her small office in the basement of Steele Building show her personal approach with students. “I base a lot of what I do on what I needed when I was a student here,” she said. “Student affairs is a strange profes sion. It’s really whatever you want to make it. I think that’s really why I like this job.” Anderson-Thompkins is also the University’s harassment and assault coor dinator and focuses her energies on mi nority and gender issues. A poster on rape and several pieces of art depicting black women and children decorate her walls. She called herself a “surrogate adviser” and an “unofficial mentor” with a charac teristic laugh followed by a friendly smile. “That’s the way I’ve gone about my work here—not officially advising any one orga nization, but trying to work with as many organizations as possible.” She helps train leaders of UNC groups and also provides them with guidance for creating programs. One minority group she has worked with is the Carolina Indian Circle. Presi dent Kenric Maynor said Anderson- Thompkins related well to students and was an unusual administrator because she actually sought students’ opinions. “She came to our turf, so to speak. It was really refreshing to know that someone has some concern,” Maynor said. “I think she’s always trying to work for the betterment of the University.” Nanci Locklear, former president of Carolina Indian Circle, worked with Ander son-Thompkins to organize Parents Week end last semester. “I found her very easy to work with because she’s been through what I’ve been through as a minority.” Anderson-Thompkins also serves as co adviser to the Black Student Movement. She said her style of advising differed from that of Harold Wallace, vice chancellor for University affairs and the other co-adviser NO. 1 Heel, Editor Charles Tennent remarked that the development of the newspaper had been “simultaneous with that of ath letics at the University.” Perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it has been simultaneous with that of the University in general. As the University has become larger, more sophisticated, more diverse, so has The Tar Heel. Surely, both have faltered along the way. But the basic in ■tent of the two institutions has been con stant the enlightenment of the entire University community. The founding board of editors con sisting of a chief, five subeditors and a business manager seemed to have a sense of the important role that The Tar Heel would play in the evolution of the University, for they admitted that they were entering upon their new venture much like new fathers “with no little trepidation, nevertheless with a determi nation.” (Continued on page ten) to the BSM. “I’m more of the day-to-day counselor. I deal more with the personal problems, the academic problems that students are deal ing with,” she said. T talk with students about anythingfrom their relationship with their boyfriends or girlfriends to how to organize a program.” Anderson-Thompkins said the members of the BSM needed mentors with different skills because the organization encom passed so many different types of groups. She knows well the needs of BSM mem bers, having been president during her junior year at UNC in 1985-86. Anderson- Thompkins said being BSM president had (Continued on page two) RESIDENTS PETITION AGAINST PHE INC. By Jimmy Dula Staff Writer A former Hillsborough town attorney said Monday that he had obtained infor mation that could block the relocation of a sex-materials distributor to the town. Lucius Cheshire, who served as town attorney until the 19705, said he would presen t the information to town officials at a meeting Wednesday in a last-ditch effort to block PHE Inc. from coming to town. The town’s Board of Adjustment will meet Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in the new courthouse at the intersection of Margaret Lane and Church Street to discuss the matter. Cheshire said he would not disclose any information until the meeting. “I want to keep a lid on that for a couple of reasons,” he said. “I want to keep the public's and the media's attention on that until 6:30 p.m. Wednesday. “I think that I can point out to them something (the Board of Adjustment) can do, and I certainly hope they want to do,” he said But PHE Inc. Marketing Manager Peggy Oettinger said PHE had complied fully with all laws and zoning regulations and added that she did not foresee any reasons why the company would be prevented from moving to Hillsborough. “We’re very proud of our product line,” she said. “We provide contraceptives, sex ed videos and medical news letters, as well as adult sexual material." Oettinger said company officials had expected to encounter some resistance to their relocation, but they had not antici pated the outpouring of opposition. “We’ve been very surprised at the amount of hatred, intolerance and quick ness to pass judgment of our company and our employees," she said. Evelyn andAllenLloyd.membersofthe Hillsborough Town Board, said they planned to present a petition with more than 1,500 signatures to the board from (Continued on page seven)
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