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PHE sells ‘a celebration of sex’
By Vicki Cheng
Staff Writer
According to Phil Harvey, his com
pany doesn’t sell obscenity. It doesn’t
sell pornography. It sells erotica.
“We sell materials involving sex
between cheerfully consenting adults,”
said Harvey, the owner of PHE Inc., a
company that offers sex materials from
condoms to body butter in its mail
order catalog under the trade name
Adam & Eve.
“It’s a presentation of sex in a posi
tive light and a celebration of sex as a
human attribution not something
dirty or disgusting.”
Harvey has been in the news lately
because he wants to move from his
38,000-square-foot shipping plant on
N.C. 54 in Carrboro to a facility twice
as large in Hillsborough. Some
Hillsborough ministers, who organized
the Orange Coalition Against Pornog
raphy in February to protest the move,
have charged that the materials PHE
sells are immoral.
The Hillsborough Board of Adjust
ment has twice denied PHE a site-plan
permit to build the larger plant, but
Harvey appealed the board’s decision
to the Orange County Superior Court.
Senate bill could help University save energy, money
By Steve Robblee
Staff Writer
While UNC is plagued by budgetary
shortfalls, one member of the N.C. Gen
eral Assembly thinks he can help save
the University money by making the
campus more energy efficient.
Sen. Clark Plexico, D-Henderson, is
sponsoring a bill in the Senate to help
make state buildings more energy effi
cient. The bill calls for the state to set up
a S3O-million bond to help fund energy
saving projects for state agencies, in
cluding the University.
After the projects are funded, they
will save the state money in lower en
Legislative committee
hung over tuition hike
By Jennifer Talhelm
Associate Editor
Students waiting for N.C. legisla
tors to reveal Gov. Jim Hunt’s honed
down 1993-94 operating budget will
have to wait at least a few days longer
to find out whether their tuition will
increase next year.
Members of the General
Assembly’s Conference Committee
did not meet their self-imposed June
15 deadline due to a number of con
flicts between committee members
over issues such as whether to raise
tuition at the 16 UNC-system schools.
“We’ll be lucky to have an agree
ment by the end of the week,” Sen.
Howard Lee, D-Orange, a conference
committee member, said Monday night
after a committee meeting.
The committee, consisting of 21
representatives and 22 senators, is tied
up over many issues, but the question
Thursday, June 17, 1993
PHE owner Phil Harvey
Harvey says PHE should not have to
apply as an adult-use business, which is
defined in the Hillsborough zoning or
dinance as one which “excludes minors
for reasons of age,” such as adult book
stores and massage parlors.
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to $33 million,” Plexico said. “(The
state) spends about slll million on
lighting, heating and cooling each year.”
of whether to raise tuition has caused
considerable concern at the Univer
sity.
Committee members must find a
compromise between two very differ
ent tuition plans from the House and
Senate.
Rebecah Moore, student govern
ment coordinator for state relations
who has been lobbying both houses
against the proposed tuition increase,
said she was glad the committee was
giving the tuition issue serious consid
eration.
“It’s a good thing they’re not trying
to shove it through on some sort of
self-imposed deadline,” Moore said.
“It’s better that they’re taking every
representative’s questions into ac
count.
“We have no indication what the
outcome will be. Both sides want their
See TUITION, page 4
I don't want to be a millionaire. I just want to live like one.— Joe E. Lewis
Birth control
PHE s first goal
By Vicki Cheng
Staff Writer
The history of PHE Inc., a com
pany that sells $65 million worth of
condoms, sex toys, videos, sex in
struction guides and other erotic
paraphernalia each year in its Adam
& Eve catalog, is not what you
might expect it to be.
Phil Harvey, founder and owner
of Phil Harvey Enterprises, gradu
ated from Harvard University in
1961. He spent two years in the U.S.
Army and worked in a public health
program in India before enrolling in
UNC’s School of Public Health in
1969 as a graduate student.
It was his thesis, winning him a
master’s degree in Family Planning
Administration, that led to the cre
ation of Adam & Eve.
“We were doing experiments
with mail-order condoms, looking
See HARVEY, page 2
The bill would help the University
fund energy conservation measures such
as replacing incandescent light bulbs
with fluorescent bulbs and installing
automatic radiator valves in dormitory
rooms to control heating and cooling
levels.
Plexico’s bill is scheduled to go be
fore the Senate Appropriations Com
mittee today.
Student Body President Jim Copland,
who promised during his campaign to
make the University more environmen
tally friendly, supports the bill.
“The bill could save money very
quickly and would pay for itself by
saving the University money which
Town kills meals tax, seeks funds for Streetscape
By Kelly Ryan
Associate Editor
The Chapel Hill Town Council unani
mously voted Monday night to with
draw a proposed 1-percent meals tax
from the General Assembly and pledged
to work with the local restaurant and
hotel community to raise money for
downtown improvements.
The council’s Committee on the Pre
pared Meals and Beverage Tax met last
Friday to determine the fate of the tax,
which would have been levied on all
food and beverages sold for immediate
consumption, including most items
bought in restaurants.
Town council members Julie
Andresen, Joyce Brown, Mark Chilton
and Joe Capowski, who make up the
committee, decided that it was more
important to work toward funding the
Streetscape plan than try to push an
unpopular tax through the legislature.
The multi-million dollar Streetscape
plan would fund extensive downtown
improvements, including the construc
tion of more sidewalks, the addition of
more lighting and increased police foot
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
UNC faculty salaries
lag far behind peers
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
Some say it’s the most serious prob
lem facing the University.
Professors at UNC are paid less than
at most peer universities, and many
University scholars are packing up their
bags and leaving Chapel Hill for more
lucrative offers.
According to a recent annual report
on faculty salaries in Academe maga
zine the bulletin of the American
Association of University Professors
UNC ranks low among the 68 re
search universities in the nation.
The University pays full professors
an average of $79,900 per year in total
compensation, which ranks UNC 50th
out of the 68 universities. The average
compensation for associate professors
is $58,200, placing UNC at 49th. Assis
tant professors receive an average of
$47,700 57th in the nation.
UNC’s rankings fell from the year
before. For 1991-92, the University
ranked 35th in total compensation for
full professors, 33rd for associate pro
fessors and 47th for assistant profes
sors. In 1981, UNC was in the top 20
percent in terms of salary and compen
sation among research universities.
“Most people would say, ‘We expect
Harvard and Cal Tech to be at the top,
but UNC shouldn’t be that low,”’ Pro
vost Richard McCormick said. “(Fifti
eth) is near the bottom. That’s wild for
a University whose reputation is glori
ous —as it should be— all around the
world.
“This is the biggest issue concerning
the University.”
The competition
At Duke University, full professors
are paid $102,500 in compensation, as
sociate professors receive $70,900 and
assistant professors $54,800. Duke ranks
in the top 22 in all three categories,
comparable to most Ivy League schools.
Rockefeller University has the highest
compensation for full professors at
$126,300. California Institute of Tech
nology pays its associate and assistant
professors the most: $86,000 and
$70,500, respectively.
This year UNC was not included on
U.S. News and World Report’s list of
the nation’s top 25 colleges. Emory
University, which replaced UNC in the
rankings, also has taken away one of the
University’s top English professors,
See SALARIES, page 6
would be spent on wasted energy,”
Copland said.
The energy efficiency bill was
brought to Copland’s attention by his
Environmental Issues Committee.
According to a memo to N.C. sena
tors written by Copland and members
of his staff, budgetary surpluses in the
last two years at UNC’s Physical Plant
have been used to adopt energy-saving
measures. The cost-saving projects gave
the University an 83-percent return on
their investment two years ago and a 40-
percent return last year.
Rebecah Moore, student government
coordinator for state relations and a co
author of the memo, said that if the state
patrols.
“We (withdraw the tax) with a cer
tain amount of disappointment, but with
a heightened realization of our slight
chance to have this legislation passed
this year.” Andresen said Monday night.
“I don’t think the committee mem
bers really were dissuaded that we need
a source of revenue to fund downtown
improvements,” she said. “I don’t think
the vehicle is going to be the meals tax
this year.”
Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange, said he
thought it was a good move for the
council to withdraw the tax because
there was so much local opposition to it.
He added that the tax proposal now
would just die in the Senate Local Gov
ernment Committee since the council
did not want to push it through.
“I did not file a bill with the tax in it
because I knew the council needed to
review the bill,” he said.
Andresen said she was encouraged
that the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Chamber
of Commerce, restaurateurs and hotel
owners were committed to educating
the public about Streetscape.
Mayor Ken Broun said he thought
1992-93 Average Total Faculty
Compensation at Public
Research I Universities
Rank'j Public Research I Universities | Full Associate Assistant
j | Professors Professors Professors
16 University of California-Berkeley $97,800 $65,900 $54,900“
Rutgers University $97,300 $72,700 $57^800
23 University of California-Los Angeles $94,400 $63,200 $52,600
State University of New York-Stonybrook $92,300 $65,800 $49,800
University of California-San Diego $91,900 $61,900 $52700
| University of California-Irvine $91,500 $64,100 $54*100
University of Connecticut $90,900 $71,300 $59^600
24 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor : $89,800 $68,300 $57,400
Purdue University $89,300 $61,900 $52700
University of Pittsburgh $88,500 $64,100 $51700
22 UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA $87,900 $60,800 $50,300
j University of California-Davis $86,500 $59,600 $51,100
University of lowa $85,400 $63,400 11554;300|
! University of Texas-Austin $85,200 $57,400 $51,700
j University of Hawaii-Manoa $85,100 $64,700 $56,000
; UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND-COLLECE PARK $84,900 $60,200 $49,700
Pennsylvania State University $84,600 $61,900 $50700
j GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY $84,200 $64,300 $57,800
| University of Minnesota-Twin Cities $83,900 $61,900 $54,900
I University of Cincinnati $83,100 $60,400 $49,800
Ohio State University $83,000 $59,900
| Indiana University $82,300 $59,700 $48,000
University of Washington $81,900 $58,700 $51,400
i University of Wisconsin-Madison $81,500 $61,700 $54,800
University of California-San Francisco $80,900 $57,900 $49700
l Michigan State University $80,200 $62,700 ! $52,800
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA-CH $79,900 $58,200 i $47,700|
I University of Colorado-Boulder $78,400 $69,900 I $52,000
; Virginia Polytechnic Institute $77,900 $56,000 ! $47 700
| NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY ; $77,400 l $55,600 j $48,600
Texas A&M University $77,100 i $56,900 \ $49,300 1
5 University of Illinois-Urbana Champaign '577,100 | $56,300 \ $48,900 \
University of Utah $76,000 $55,400 j $49,800
University of Georgia I $75,600 I $54,000 : $45,500
University of Illinois-Chicago i $74,100 j $54,100 j $47,600
University of Kentucky $73,500 j $55,700 ! $48,800
University of Arizona -$72,400 $53,500 I $47,900
I Louisiana State University ($71,300 $52,900 $46,700
Oregon State University $71,000 $57,400 $49,700
j University of Tennessee-Knoxville j $70,000 $52,000 $45,200
Colorado State University • $69,100 $51,700 $46,700
University of Missouri-Columbia ($67,000 $51,000 $46,200
University of New Mexico $65,900 $49,500 $44,400
j University of Florida j $65,500 | $54,400 $48,900
New Mexico State University $61,700 j $51,500 $42,100
’According to U.S. News and World Report
SOURCE: Academe, March-April 1993, Vol. 79 no. 2
helped the University become more
energy efficient it could enable the
University to join the Environmental
Protection Agency’s Green Lights pro
gram. If the University joined the F.PA
program, it would receive federal rec
ognition and some technical assistance
toward meeting the EPA’s goals.
But Moore said the University prob
ably could not meet the Green Lights
requirements without help from the state.
Without funding from the state it
could take the University up to 60 years
to make similar energy-saving mea
sures, she said.
Plexico said that although the bill
would cost some money up front, the
the resolution was a good step toward
developing community support for
Streetscape.
“1 think this is a good step to work
with all these people to work for the
things we need,” Broun said.
Andresen said the meals tax commit
tee would meet again to define the spe
cific direction for the council to take in
working with at-large citizens and the
business community.
Paul Tripodi, owner of Tripodi’s
Delicatessen, appeared before the coun
cil and proposed seven suggestions for
funding Streetscape, including holding
a fair, sponsoring an outdoor concert
series and placing donation cans in area
businesses.
Andresen praised Tripodi for offer
ing his ideas to the council. “Pm appre
ciative of all your good ideas,” she told
Tripodi. “I think they’re ones the coun
cil could take leadership on.”
Tripodi said in a telephone interview
that when the council had proposed the
tax, it had not correctly projected how
much revenue the tax would generate.
He said the council had projected rais
ing $500,000 but had used restaurant
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bonds should be able to support them
selves and save the state money down
the road. “You’ve got to spend some
money to be able to find these savings.”
He said some of the money the state
saved could go to improve N.C. univer
sities. “It certainly would be beneficial
because if the universities end up sav
ing money, there would be more money
for the state to spend on libraries ...
rather than on tuition increases.”
The energy bill would not only save
energy, but it also would save money in
the long-run, Plexico said. “It’s kind of
a win-win situation. We can be good
stewards of both (the environment and
financial management).”
revenue figures from Charlotte, which
was not representative of restaurant rev
enue in Chapel Hill.
“If they’re redoing a part of the com
munity, the community should be in
volved,” he said. “The restaurants were
never against Streetscape. None of the
restaurant community knew what was
going on until it hit the papers.
“We would have liked to be in on the
plan before after-the-fact,” he said.
“That’s why it looked like a battle.”
Joe Hakan, chairman of the execu
tive board of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce, said the cham
ber had pledged to cooperate with the
town to educate the public about
Streetscape.
“We feel very happy about this,” he
said. “It’s a way that lets the town work
on a problem that the whole town wants
to accomplish.”
Hakan said that next week, when
chamber President Joel Harper returned
from a conference, the chamber would
begin working with the council to come
up with alternate means for funding the
See MEALS TAX, page 2