Police substation suffering due to lack of publicity By Shakti Routray Staff Writer Few University Mall customers have taken advantage of the nearly four month old Chapel Hill Police Depart ment satellite office because many resi dents do not know the office exists, according to police officer Rick Ennis. Ennis, who oversees the Commu nity-Oriented Policing shop in Univer sity Mall, said he was working on a promotional campaign to make the of fice more visible. “We would like for everyone to know the C.O.P. shop is here, instead of just coming to the mall and finding it by Town native announces school-board candidacy By Leah A. Campbell Assistant City Editor A 22-year-old Chapel Hill native and single mother announced her candidacy Saturday for a seat on the Chapel Hill- Cartboro school board, saying she wanted to take back the school system to provide educational opportunities for all children. LaVonda Burnette, who is a member of the school district’s blue ribbon task force on the education of African- American children, said she wanted to ensure that the system provided quality education across the board. “We need to guarantee a first-rate education to all of our children—white as well as black, rich as well as poor,” she said. “The future of our community depends on it.” Burnette gathered with about 50 area residents at the school’s administrative offices at Lincoln Center on Merritt Mill Road to make her announcement. Burnette said she described herself as a constructive critic of the school system. “Although the statewide statistics support that fact that this school system is one of the best in the state, I think the system has fallen short of providing opportunities for poor children, chil dren from single head-of-household families and children of color,” she said. Remember To Consider These When Selecting A Place To Live. Everything Is Included. 48k Granville Towers 11 University Square 919/929-7143 Stay With Granville And Your Rent Never Increases. chance,” Ennis said. “We would like to encourage people to come down.” The police department opened the office last November to offer programs about current town police issues, in cluding crime prevention and child abuse, Ennis said. C.O.P. shop volunteer Bert Alvins said the shop’s location in one of the mall’s side corridors might be one rea son mall shoppers had not visited the facility more frequently. Police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said she thought more adults might have been attracted to a centrally located See C.O.P. SHOP, page 5 lisyi & -v --| MM? | * JHH ■ LaVonda Burnette Burnette said she thought poverty stricken children often struggled to stay focused on their education. “Each and every time I see a child rise through a life in which the street presents strong temptations to do any thing other than succeed in the class room, I recognize a true miracle of God,” she said. See BURNETTE, page 5 Br *st f ® Mm i|| * $ jjjl 111 Mr _ x - * W t * T/' w “. I— llSlp , [ '• V •*: I l f V:'' ' ' ' DTH/Erin Randall Devil of a rivalry Ecstatic UNC fans hang a Bobby Hurley doll in effigy March 7 in the Smith Center after the Tar Heels beat the Duke Blue Devils, 83-69. Boulton to discuss STY budget problems By Jon Rich Staff Writer Officials from Student Television, angry at recent Student Congress bud get cuts, will meet with Dean Donald Boulton to discuss their frustration. STV station manager Geoff Newman organized the meeting with Boulton, the vice chancellor for student affairs and student government’s faculty ad viser, in hopes of changing how student fees are allocated and addressing other congressional procedures. The meeting will be held at 4:30 p.m. Tuesday in room 213 of the Student Union. Newman has invited other cam pus organizations that went through budget appropriations and all interested students to attend. Student Congress allocates about $220,000 of student fees annually to University-recognized campus organi zations. The $11,385.40 Student Congress allocated to STV was almost $6,000 less than the $16,880 the station re quested. The proposal for 1993-94 is a “bare-bones” allotment and is $3,000 less than what the station received last year, Newman said. “I went through and tried to stream line things, put together an actual bud get of what we needed specifically,” he said. “That was a mistake. “I should have ballooned our budget so that when (congress) cut things, they only took us down to an operating level. Instead, they took what we hqd anfl cut us below operating level.” ' ' ‘ j|g SOIJTFyQUARy4ALL| WITH WTRG RADIO BUNNY Easter Bunny Photo at South ■ L- Square Mall and your child will r become a member of WTRG and A A nL ' Wu.'s. /\ A A /\ /\ South Square Mall’s “Bunny fY V || || || || | Breakfast Club.” The club card iil r/li i ent *^ e ne an<^ breakfast with the Easter Bunny j- JM Richards” on Saturday, April 10th L J rea^3St re ®* ster to w ’ n /•b The first 300 kids who purchase i '' t their photo with South Square’s I Bunny will receive a free WLFL ft* Fox 22 Kids Club Sweatshirt. Don ’(fa fag j- or a veT y important date. Photo Hours: Dally 11 am-9pm / WWjw Til 1/JjTTI Sundays 1 pm-6pm / WTRG |f 11 \ ffl More than 120 fine shops, restaurants, and theaters including Belk-Leggett, Dillard’s, JCPenneys, Montaldo's Chapel Hill Boulevard and 15-501 • Exit27o on 1-40 • Durham. NC • 493-2451 The Daily Tar Heel/Monday, March 15, 1993/ Series highlights various faces of Jewish culture By Phuong Ly Staff Writer They aren’t of just one skin color or limited to a few parts of the world. Although Jews share a religion, they come from all different ethnic back grounds and live throughout the world. And to give people a broader per spective on Jewish culture, UNC Hillel is sponsoring the Jewish Diversity Se ries, a semester of programs spotlight ing various Jewish communities around the world. As part of the series, diversity pro grams this month will focus on Latin American and Caribbean Jewry. “Voyages to Freedom,” an exhibit that highlights 500 years of Latin Ameri can and Caribbean Jewry, will be dis played from 10a.m. to4p.m. March 15- 19 at the Hillel House, 210 W. Cameron St. A Cuban dinner and a discussion on Cuban Jewry led by UNC Professor Rosa Perelmuter, a Cuban-bom Jew, will be held at the Hillel House March 18. UNC Hillel hopes the series will give people a better understanding of Jewish culture, said Toby Schonfeld, co-chair woman of the Jewish Diversity Series Committee. “Even though we are one, we have Newman said Student Congress had too much financial power. “These are student fees, and you have a handful of students throwing money around left and right. With all this money, there just needs to be some other process.” Rep. Darren Allen, Dist. 21, said he thought the budget cuts were a “shared sacrifice” for campus organizations. “Congress had $398,230 in requests, and all we had to give out was $220,000,” Allen said. “Basically, we had to cut everything (the groups) requested in half. What we tried to do was find things the groups could live without.” Rep. Eric Pratt, Dist. 27, said the budget cuts expressed congress’ con cern, that STV reached a limited per centage of students. STV is available on many different faces as Jews,” she said. “We all have different cultures and tra ditions which help us celebrate our Ju daism.” Many people, including some Jews, do not know Jews come from various ethnic backgrounds and have strong communities throughout the world, said Larry Bach, program director of N.(J. Hillel. “When you think about Judaisn), and you think about Jews, South America, Latin America and the Carib bean don’t usually come to mind.” The “Voyages to Freedom” exhibit consists of four blue cardboard kiosks with four panels each, highlighting Jew ish history in Latin America and the Caribbean since 1492. With words and pictures, “Voyages to Freedom” traces the growth of the Jewish community in Latin America and the Caribbean from a small per secuted group to a society of about 500,000 Jews today. The first four panels focus on the expulsion of Jews from Spain and their search for religious freedom in the New World, despite continued systemized persecution. Panels five through 12 focus on the mass immigration to Latin America and the Caribbean in the early 20th century. See SERIES, page 5 a local community access station. “We cut their budget because a lot ef students we represent live on campus and are not able to get STV,” Pratt said. “It’s just for those who happen to get cable, mainly off-campus students. There were also concerns with how many students actually watch it and how many times the station is on the air. Half of the students don’t even see the programs.” STV made plans to become a stron ger organization before cable television was installed in residence halls, but the budget cuts scrapped these plans. Newman said STV now used fund-rais ing money to cover operating costs in stead of using the funding to turn their See STV, pages 3