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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state , nation and world
Mars Spacecraft Remains
out of Contact with NASA
PASADENA, Calif. NASA engi
neers maintained a vigil Tuesday for their
Mare Observer orbiter, which remained
lost in space while it was supposed to be
entering orbit around Mars.
“We’re not giving up, and I need to
emphasize that point strongly, ’’said Glenn
Cunningham, project manager for the
nearly $1 billion mission run by NASA’s
Jet Propulsion Laboratory. “We are not
giving up.”
Mars Observer last communicated with
controllers Saturday, but engineers insisted
they were confident that the spacecraft
even without communicating would
execute automatic computer commands
Tuesday, fire its maneuvering thrusters,
and start orbiting Mars.
And no matter what happened, they
hoped it would follow another set of auto
matic instructions and radio Earth on
Wednesday afternoon. If the craft orbited
Mars, it could stay safe for weeks while
engineers tried to regain contact.
Detroit Officers Convicted
in Black Motorist's Death
DETROIT—For two months, Sherry
Green sat quietly in the courtroom’s front
row, listening to witnesses describe how
police beat her only brother to death with
metal flashlights.
Ex-officers Larry Nevers and Walter
Budzyn were convicted Monday of mur
der in Malice Green’s death. A third former
officer, Robert Lessnau, 33, was acquitted
of an assault charge. The three were fired
after the beating.
“I did not kill this man,” Nevers said in
an interview after the verdict.
Nevers, 53, and Budzyn, 47, could get
life in prison when sentenced Oct. 12.
Neveis sobbed and covered his face when
the verdict was announced. Budzyn re
mained stoic. Their lawyers said they would
appeal. In an interview published Tuesday
in The Detroit News, Nevers bitterly lashed
out at prosecutors and the jury.
“All these years, I gave myself to this
city. And right off the bat, they turned their
back on me,” he told The News.
New Demjanjuk Evidence
Cited in Plea for New Trial
JERUSALEM Nazi-hunters seek
ing anew war crimes trial against John
Demjanjuk said Tuesday they have evi
dence linking him to the Majdanek death
camp in occupied Poland where 250,000
Jews perished.
The organizations also are following
leads indicating that he was at Sobibor,
another Nazi death camp in Poland. On
Monday, a woman in New Jersey said she
remembered Demjanjuk at Sobibor and
would be willing to testify.
“We have some new information we
are looking at that could be very impor
tant,” said Efraim Zuroff, head of the Is
rael office of the Los Angeles-based Simon
Wiesenthal Center, a Nazi-hunting orga
nization.
Demjanjuk, 73, was acquitted July 29
of being “Ivan the Terrible,” a guard at
Treblinka death camp who operated gas
chambers in which 850,000 Jews perished.
Jackson Ranch Searched
After Abuse Allegations
LOS ANGELES Michael Jackson’s
ranch and another of his homes were
searched by police investigating a child
abuse allegation that the pop star’s security
consultant blamed Tuesday on an extor
tion attempt gone awry.
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Female Residents Squeeze into light Quarters
BY HOLLY STEPP
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Several freshmen women will make a
few more close friends this year. Literally.
An unusually large freshman class this
fall has forced University housing officials
to turn several double rooms into triples in
Cobb and Joyner residence halls.
About 120 female students were placed
in temporary triple rooms in Cobb and
Joyner residence halls.
“We were very careful in determining
which dorms could handle triple rooms,”
said Rick Bradley, assistant director of
University housing.
“Cobb and Joyner have the largest
rooms on campus, and we tried bunking
the beds to give added space.”
There are approximately 2,700 fresh
men living in University residence halls
this year, Bradley said.
The average number of freshman liv
ing in the residence halls is about 2,600.
The University has about 6,800 spaces
available for students.
"The increased number of freshman
11 Residents
Face Off for
Council Posts
BY ROCHELLE KLASKIN
STAFF WRITER
The race to secure one of five open seats
on the Chapel Hill Town Council intensi
fied this summer as 11 residents—incum
bents, former candidates and political new
comers filed for spots on the November
ballot.
Council members Joyce Brown, Bar
bara Powell and Alan Rimer all will run for
re-election. Former mayoral candidate
Rosemary Waldorf and former council
candidate Paul Tripodi, who both ran in
the 1991
will also vie for a
seat.
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Rural Opportunities Corporation to ex
pand its job-training programs are some of
Tripodi’s goals.
If local residents have jobs, they will be
better able to afford their mortgages. This
will benefit individual residents as well as
promote people in Chapel Hill to spend
money in town.
“People are going to return the money
through mortgages,” he said.
Three residents with experience on sev
eral town boards also have entered the
race. One candidate, Lee Pavao, is chair
man ofthe Parks and Recreation Commis
sion and two are members of the town’s
planning board: Nine-year member Pat
Evans and one-year member Scott Radway.
■ Evans, a 23-year town resident, said
she thought she could serve the town using
her experience to open the lines of commu-
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Citizen Circulates Petition for Herzenberg Recall
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Council member JOE HERZENBERG
says he won't resign his town post
despite failing to pay state taxes.
Chapal Hill, North Carolina
WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 25,1993
women is pretty consistent with the trends
we have seen here at the University, ” Bra
dley said.
Students living in the triple rooms have
found the situation frustrating but are
learning to deal with the inconvenience.
Amy Allred, a junior from Asheboro,
said most of the problems would come
when classes began. Allred lives in a triple
room in Cobb Residence Hall.
“We have a loft in our room, so that
helped with the space problem,” Allred
said. “We only have two desks in our
room; studying space will be at a pre
mium.”
Bradley said four additional students
were placed in the Spencer-Triad area.
But Bradley said with the typical “no
shows,” about 50 to 75 students could be
moved to double rooms. “Wealwayshave
students who chose to go somewhere else
so we will have other spaces,” he said.
“There are upperclassmen who change
their minds about living the dorms, so
those are additional spaces.”
Katie Grover, a sophomore in a Cobb
triple room, said that living in a triple made
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afternoon. Bray drove his truckload of dorm fridges from the company headquarters in Atlanta.
BYKATY WURTH
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill resident James McEnery
began disseminating petitions to recall town
council member Joe Herzenberg from of
fice last week, but Herzenberg refuses to
give up his seat without a public recall
election.
McEnery currently is circulating more
than 40 petitions and plans to distribute
some on campus, saying that Herzenberg
violated the oath of office he took the three
times he was elected.
“He sits on a body designated to make
and enforce laws for paying taxes,” he
said. “In my mind, that is a position of
trust, and he has violated that trust.”
Herzenberg was out of town and could
not be reached for comment, but he told
The Daily Tar Heel when the council de
bated the recall procedure that he would
not resign if the procedure were initiated.
By state law, Chapel Hill will hold a
recall election if McEnery receives 2,211
signatures, which is 8 percent of the regis
tered voters as of the last municipal elec
tion in 1991, according to the Orange
County Board of Elections.
McEnery must receive these signatures
within 30 days of filing the affidavit.
getting to know her roommate harder.
“I was told that I had a third roommate,
when I called her, she said that she had
been moved to another room, ” said Grover.
One of Grover’s roommates, Katie
Tyson, also a sophomore, said she and
Grover were not informed of their new
roommate until they moved in last week.
The last time the University had this
kind of a housing problem was in 1987.
That housing shortage took about two to
three weeks to solve, Bradley said. “We
are letting students know that changes will
be made within the month.”
The residence halls, however, still have
space for additional male students. “Our
problems have come with the female stu
dents, so in the next couple years we may
consider turning some male spots to fe
male spots.”
The entering freshmen class is about 58
percent female.
The large class of freshmen is an advan
tage for the housing department which is
totally supported by residence hall rent.
Bradley said: “The overflow students are a
mixed blessing.”
“1 would rather he resign than
force us to go through a recall
election that would he expen
sive and divisive ... .We levy
taxes, we should pay them.”
JOE CAPOWSKI
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Herzenberg was convicted of willful
failure to pay state taxes Aug. 10,1992, but
the N.C. state legislature just signed the
recall bill into law July 16.
“Until this time, there has been no
mechanism to remove a public official,”,
McEnery said.
McEnery said he had received more
than 50 supporting phone calls since he
launched his effort .
Last week, McEnery sent Herzenberg a
letter asking him to resign and save the
town the cost of a special recall election.
“He should step down if he has any
integrity and save the town which he pro
fesses to love so much the $12,000 to
$ 14,000 it would cost to hold an election, ”
McEnery said.
Last August, the council passed a reso
Freshman Gass to Break
UNC Enrollment Records
BY HOLLY STEPP
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The class of 1997 is close to breaking
University enrollment records, and its
members only have been here a couple of
days.
The entering freshman class is one of
the largest in the University’s history,
although official enrollment figures will
not be known for another week, said
James Walters, director of undergradu
ate admissions.
This year’s freshman class of roughly
3,500 students is about 300 students larger
than an average freshman class. “We
accepted 5,900 students out of the 15,000
applications,” Walters said.
lution drafted by Chapel Hill Mayor Ken
Broun and council member Art Werner
that states it is in the town’s best interest
that Herzenberg resign.
“I had asked him to resign as soon as I
learned of his failure to pay taxes, and I
voted with the council to ask him to resign
last year,” Broun said Tuesday. “I have
not changed my mind on that point.”
But Broun added that he would stay out
of the recall process.
Council member Joe Capowski agreed
that Herzenberg should resign.
“I would rather he resign than force us
to go through a recall election that would
be expensive and divisive, ” Capowski said.
“Since we levy taxes, we should pay them.
“During the 14 years Herzenberg was
not paying his taxes, he took the oath of
office three times where he promised to
uphold the laws of the state ofNorth Caro
lina. That’s a level of dishonesty we don’t
want on our town council.”
Herzenberg received more votes than
any other candidate in the 1991 council
elections, but McEnery attributed his popu
larity to the fact that Herzenberg was not
convicted until 1992.
Capowski said he thought McEnery
had a realistic chance of receiving enough
signatures to hold a recall vote.
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“We figure our acceptances to yield
a certain amount of enrolled students,
but even with melt down of students
who choose not to come here, we still
estimate a class of 3,400.”
The jump in enrollment can be at
tributed to several factors .Walters said.
Cost played a big factor in many stu
dents’ decision to attend UNC, Walters
said.
“Carolina is an incredible bargain, a
best buy so to speak,” he said, “i think
that students realize that they are get
ting a great education for not a lot of
money, and that helps with the skyrock
eting costs of a college education.”
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Student
Fees Go Up
after 2-year
Freeze
Scaled-down proposal
results in $92.80 increase
BY YI-HSIN CHANG
EDITOR
As students dole out cash, write checks
and max out their credit cards on tuition,
rent, meal plans, books and school
plies, yet another bill is coming in the mail.
Most undergraduates will be billed an
additional $46.40 for general student fees.
The Board of Governors approved a 21
percent increase in student fees earlier this
month after a two-year moratorium on fee
increases. Undergraduates paid $435.70
last year in student fees. They now will
owe $528.50 592.80 more per year.
Add the 3 percent tuition increase for
in-state students and 6.5 percent increase
for out-of-state students, and N.C. resi
dents will see an overall 8.8 percent in
crease while nonresidents will pay 7.3 per
cent more.
Student Body President Jim Copland
said that although 8.8 percent was a large
overall increase, the tuition and fees hike
was less than it had been for the past two
yean.
"I’m very pleased,” he said. “We’re
doing a lot better than in past years.”
BOG members replaced course fees and
special fees with anew fee called the edu
cational and technology fee. All students
will be required to pay this fee regardless of
which courses they take.
But students taking courses that require
unique supplies, equipment and services,
such as musical instruments and scuba
diving gear, still must pay individual course
fees approved by the BOG.
University administrators had requested
$26 more in general fees plus additional
special fees that were not approved by the
BOG.
For instance, students will not have to
pay a proposed $lO athletic fee. Also, stu
dents enrolled in the master of business
administration and master of accounting
programs in the Kenan-Flagler School of
Business will not have to pay a SSOO
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