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Volume 101, Issue 45
4,000 left without phones for two days
By Jennifer Talhelm
Associate Editor
Almost 4,000 Chapel Hill residents
and businesses still were without phone
service Wednesday as Southern Bell
repairmen worked to repair a cable dam
aged by construction workers Tuesday
afternoon. I
About 4,300 Southern Bell custom
ers lost phone service Tuesday when
three of five phone cables were cut.
Many residents in the northeast quad
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shower by wading through Bolin Creek at Umstead Park on Umstead Drive. Scattered
Broun throws mayoral hat into the ring
By Kelly Ryan
Associate Editor
After two years of learning the ins
and outs of town government, Chapel
Hill Mayor Ken Broun announced
Thursday that he would seek another
term of office this fall.
“A four-year term is a much more
comfortable time for someone to pro
vide leadership,” he said in a telephone
interview Tuesday. “It’s time I cash in
on my experience.”
Broun said his first term made him
more enthusiastic about the chance to
tackle the town’s problems.
Broun, a professor at the University’s
School of Law, won his mayoral seat
Nov. 6,1991, in a three-way race after
securing 49 percent, or 3,992, of the
vote. Candidate Rosemary Waldorf re
ceived 40 percent with 3,061 votes and
candidate Tommy Gardner received 903
Students to get two reading days in fall 1994
By Mary Jo Tumey
Staff Writer
For students who needed an extra
day to prepare for exams or just a longer
break between the last day of class and
finals, their wish finally has been
granted. Almost.
UNC students will get two reading
Copland working with administration to improve energy efficiency on campus
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
The Green Lights program, virgin
paper and automatic radiator valves are
terms Student Body President Jim
Copland seems to be throwing around a
lot these days.
That’s because Copland and mem
bers of his staff have been meeting with
administration officials to push the
University to pufchase more recycled
paper and to make the campus more
energy efficient.
Thursday, June 3, 1993
rant of Chapel Hill along both sides of
Forham Boulevard and U.S. 15-501
from Eastgate shopping center north
ward —were left without phone service
for more than a day.
By Wednesday, about 700 lines had
been restored, but Southern Bell work
ers still were trying to fix two cables.
Mark Collins, a spokesman for South
ern Bell, said service workers had been
working all night to repair the lines.
“We’ll continue to work until all the
phone lines are back up,” Collins said.
votes.
Among
Broun’s goals for
a second term are
easing transporta
tion problems,
combating rising
crime and im
proving the
town’s economic
climate.
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Chapel Hill
'Mayor
“I think I have the leadership to ac
complish that,” he said. “I think we’re
going to have some significant ques
tions to answer in the next several years
Broun said he announced his candi
dacy before he officially filed next
month for a spot on November’s ballot
to let voters and other mayoral-hope
fuls know where he stood. “I know of no
one else running right now,” he said.
When former Mayor Jonathon Howes
ran for his second term in 1989, he ran
days before final exams, but the change
won’t happen until fall of 1994.
“Our students asked for this through
their student government, and we were
able to grant it,” Chancellor Paul Hardin
said. “This is great for the students who
need the extra reading time.”
Hardin said the extra reading day
was former Student Body President John
“We would like the University to
take more of a leadership role in this,”
Copland said.
Copland initially met with Chancel -
lor Paul Hardin and other administra
tors May 3 to discuss Gov. Jim Hunt’s
April 22 executive order that requires
state agencies and universities to in
crease their recycled-paper purchases
to 25 percent by 1994.
“The administration wasn’t really
aware of Gov. Hunt’s order,” Copland
said.
According to Hunt’s directive, re
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He said most of the phones should be
hooked up by midnight Wednesday and
the rest should be restored by this morn
ing.
The phone lines were severed by
workers from Bryant Electrical Cos. who
were digging in a ditch near Bolin Creek
on East Franklin Street. The Orange
Water and Sewer Authority had hired
the High Point company to install a
sewer line.
John Green, the engineering man
ager for OWASA, said when the Bryant
thunderstorms throughout the day Monday put a damper on many outdoor activities.
Memorial Day marks the start of the summer season.
uncontested.
Transportation
Broun, who is the chairman of the
Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Trans
portation Advisory Committee, said he
thought obtaining federal funds to widen
N.C. 86 to include a median, pedestrian
walkways and bike paths was a major
local accomplishment.
“I’ve worked hard to establish local
influence on transportation projects,
road projects,” he said. Broun also serves
on the board of the Triangle Transit
Authority.
Broun said he had worked hard to
determine alternative modes of trans
portation to the single-occupancy ve
hicle, including developing increased
mass transit region wide, a possible fixed
guideway system, more bicycleways
See BROUN, page 2
Moody’s idea.
Moody said increasing the number
of reading days had been a major issue
students talked about when he cam
paigned for student body president.
“Even though this may be a small
thing, it is something that affects every
body,” Moody said.
Many students like the idea of having
cycled-paper purchases also will have
to increase 10 percent every year after
1994. By 1998, 65 percent of all paper
purchased by state agencies must be
recycled paper.
The University already is meeting
Hunt’s requirement for 1994. Currently,
29 percent of the University’s paper
product purchases, which includes toi
let paper and paper towels, are recycled.
But less than 2 percent of the bond
paper copier paper is recycled,
Copland said. He would like the Uni
versity to shoot for buying only re
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
workers uncovered the lines, they tried
twice to find out whether they were
being used.
“It was indicated to them that they
were abandoned lines,” Green said.
“They proceeded with the excavation
until they broke into the cable and dis
covered they were phone lines.”
But Collins said Southern Bell would
not blame anyone until they could in
vestigate the incident.
“Our first priority is to restore ser
vice,” he said. “After that we can inves
f
Mayor Ken Broun
two reading days, but they say it should
have come along sooner.
“I think having two reading days is a
great idea,” said Jennifer Moye, a se
nior from La Grange. “They should
have done this years ago because we
have needed it for a long time.”
See READING, page 4
cycled paper and no virgin paper by the
year 2000, he said.
Copland also is urging the Univer
sity to take bigger steps to become more
energy efficient. He suggested that the
University join the Environmental Pro
tection Agency ’ s Green Lights program,
in which the agency helps businesses
and institutions audit their lighting sys
tems to come up with ways to make the
systems more energy efficient.
Other ways to become more energy
efficient include replacing incandescent
light bulbs with fluorescent ones and
tigate and bill appropriately.”
Orange County Emergency Manage
ment set up emergency access points
where residents without phone service
could reach fire, police or ambulance
service if necessary. The Orange County
Radio Amateurs and emergency man
agement coordinated the points located
at: Ephesus Elementary School, Uni
versity Mall, Hardee’s on U.S. 15-501
and Chapel Hill Fire Station No. 3 near
the comer of East Franklin Street and
Elliott Road.
House approves
tuition increase
minus surcharge
By Jennifer Talhelm
Associate Editor
The N.C. House of Representatives
finished weeding through Gov. Jim
Hunt’s 1993-94 budget proposal in a
session that lasted until the wee hours of
Friday morning and approved a tuition
increase for UNC-system schools that
did not include the controversial S2OO
surcharge for students at UNC-CH and
N.C. State.
But student leaders who have been
lobbying members of the House and
Senate for weeks say their fight against
the surcharge is far from over.
“We are happy with (the House’s
proposal), but you can’t take anything
for granted,” said Rebecah Moore, State
Relations Committee coordinator.
Members of the House and Senate
will meet in a joint conference commit
tee to come up with a compromise plan.
The Senate approved a 5-percent tu
ition increase May 12 for all 16 UNC
system schools and a S2OO surcharge
for students at UNC-CH and N.C. State.
The surcharge would have been used
for faculty salaries, the libraries and
financial aid.
The House revised the Senate’s pro
posal Friday, calling for a 3-percent
tuition increase for in-state students and
a 5-percent increase for out-of-state stu
dents for the 1993-94 school year and a
3.3-percent increase for in-state stu
dents and 5 percent for out-of-state stu
dents in 1994-95. The House budget did
not include the surcharge.
The Parlor plans move
to Raleigh by late June
By Kim Costello
Arts and Features Editor
The Parlor Billiards and Pub will
become the latest Chapel Hill business
to leave its downtown location next
month, and the Pizza Inn franchise
will take its place on the town’s main
strip this summer.
The Parlor, located at 205 E.
Franklin St., will move to anew loca
tion in Raleigh at the end of June and
open sometime in August, said owner
Tommy Byrd.
“Franklin Street, in my opinion,
right now seems to be experiencing a
downturn,” he said. “The fact that the
building has been idle and is an eye
sore hasn’t helped.”
Part of the block where The Parlor
is located was damaged in a 1991 fire
that destroyed Hector’s, a popular late
night eatery. Paliouras Enterprises,
which owns the building, announced
last week that it hoped to bring Boston
Baked Chicken, a Midwestern restau
rant chain, to the block by the end of
the summer.
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said
town officials had been working to
restore the site.
“There’s not a lot we can do,” Broun
installing automatic radiator valves,
Copland said.
“I think the great thing about these
things are that, in addition to being on
the cutting edge of environmental lead
ership, it also saves money,” he said,
adding that the administration was sup
portive of both of his ideas.
Wayne Jones, vice chancellor of busi
ness and finance, said he and Copland
had a mutual understanding and would
continue to meet to discuss these issues.
“We had no disagreement on the fact
that recycling and energy-saving
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Southern Bell set up phone banks at
Eastgate shopping center and Village
Plaza so that residents without phone
service could make free, non-emergency
calls.
Chapel Hill police and fire depart
ment officers also increased patrol in
the areas that lost phone service. Chapel
Hill police Capt. Tony Oakley, said
officers driving through the areas an
nounced the location of the emergency
See PHONES, page 8
Moore said student government lead
ers were concerned that the House would
use the surcharge as a bargaining chip
when trying to reach a compromise
with the Senate. She added that the
S2OO surcharge was just a round figure
the Senate had proposed for the two
schools.
“If it’s used the way it is now, it’s not
going to raise the money they’re look
ing for,” Moore said. “It’s just a magic
number.”
UNC-CH andN.C. State student gov
ernment leaders will continue to lobby
the both houses to let legislators know
about students’ opposition to the sur
charge. Moore said she thought the joint
conference committee would be formed
by the end of the week but might not
come to a decision until the end of the
summer.
Rep. Joe Hackney, D-Orange, said
there w as no consensus in the House for
thesurcharge. “We’re looking for some
other way to approve some faculty
augmented funds,” he said.
Provost Richard McCormick said the
General Assembly would have to find a
way to meet the needs of faculty mem
bers to keep the University from falling
in the rankings among peer universities.
According to a list compiled at UNC
from data from the American Associa
tion of University Professors, the Uni
versity has fallen to 39th in the ranks of
professors’ salaries and 58th in assis
tant professors’ salaries.
See TUITION, page 4
said. “Unless it constitutes a public
nuisance, the most we can do is try and
work behind the scenes to help move
the project along.”
Jim Nance, a businessman from
Washington who owns the Pizza Inn
franchise that will be moving into the
spot The Parlor now occupies, said he
was not concerned about the appear
ance of the burnt-out building.
“It’s as if we’re turning on a light
bulb in a darkened area.”
Nance said he believed the changes
he was making to die property would
greatly improve conditions in the area.
“We feel like with Pizza Inn coming
and doing all that we’re going to do,
we’re going to re-establish that sec
tion of Franklin Street.”
The new restaurant should be open
by die time students return for classes
this fall, he said.
Byrd said the Parlor was moving to
Hillsborough Street in Raleigh, across
from the N.C. State University cam
pus.
Byrd said he would not rule out the
possibility of returning to Chapel Hill
at some point in die future.
“We hate to leave,” he said. “I like
Chapel Hill, but from a business stand
point it made sense.”
projects are commendable and need to
be addressed,” Jones said. “1 think it’s
just a matter of funding and how much
we can do when.”
Jones agreed with Copland that the
University should do more than simply
meeting Hunt’s requirements. “I think
we can probably do better than just the
minimum required by the governor, and
we’re looking at different ways to do
that,” he said.
But Josh Busby, former co-chairman
See ENERGY, page 8