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UNC Head coach Mack Brown gets a Gatorade shower after finally defeating N.C. State on Saturday after five tries.
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Support for Yeltsin Grows
MOSCOW —Thousands cheered Boris
Yeltsin at a concert on Red Square Sunday
andatleast 10,000peoplemarched through
downtown in the biggest demonstration of
support for the president since he disbanded
parliament five days ago.
Across town, the hard-liners who defied
the president by refusing to leave the par
liament building dug in their heels.
In apotentially significant development,
Interfax news agency reported that a top
Yeltsin aide had agreed to simultaneous
parliamentary and presidential elections.
No date was mentioned, and the president
has not approved the proposal.
Police Searching for Clues
In Wake of Amtrak Wreck
SARALAND, Ala. Crews began
hauling the last engine of the wrecked
Sunset Limited out of a muddy bayou on
Sunday, while other workers repaired the
bridge from which it plunged, carrying 47
people to their deaths.
Still moored nearby were a tow ofbarges
that investigators believe struck the rail
road bridge shortly before the train ca
reened into the water. A tugboat lost the
barges in heavy fog. But lawyers for the
tugboat crew have refused to let NTSB
investigators interview the crewmen.
In the meantime, NTSB spokesman Ted
Lopatkie wicz said the results of lab tests on
urine samples taken from the crew soon
after the accident might be ready Monday.
Biosphere 2 Study Ends
ORACLE, Ariz. Biosphere 2’s crew
emerged Sunday from a two-year experi
ment in self-sufficiency, filling their lungs
with fresh air and waving to some 2,500
reporters and cheering well-wishers.
Operators say the crew set a record for
living inside an essentially closed structure
designed as a mini-earth with rain for
est, ocean, savanna and farm.
But the dome has been opened more
than two dozen times, first for crew mem
ber Jane Poynter to get surgery after injur
ing her finger and later for import of thou
sands of small items, including seeds, sleep
ing pills, mousetraps and makeup. Outside
air was pumped in once and pure oxygen
was added twice tobalance the atmosphere.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: 60-percent chance of rain,
breezy; high upper 70s.
TUESDAY: Sunny; high lower 70s.
Herzenberg Quits To™ Council
BYKELLYRYAN
CITY EDITOR
Chapel Hill Town Council member Joe
Herzenberg ended an almost six-year com
mitment to public service when he resigned
Thursday night.
Herzenberg had faced a likely recall
election, initiated by Chapel Hill resident
James McEnery, who said Herzenberg had
violated his oath of office after being con
victed in 1992 of willful failure to pay state
taxes.
“All I’ve decided to do was resign. I’m
not talking about Thursday, Friday, Satur
day or the future,” Herzenberg said Sun
day. “Ihaven’tfinishedthinkingaboutit.”
Herzenberg delivered his resignation
letter to town hall Thursday, just before 5
p.m. The letter states, “Please note that I
hereby resign my post on the town council,
effective immediately.”
McEnery started the recall process Aug.
17 when he began collecting signatures
callingforHerzenberg’souster. Understate
law, McEnery had 30 days to collect at
least 2,211 signatures, or 8 percent of the
registered voters as of the last election.
On Sept. 16, McEnery delivered 2,694
names to the Orange County Board of
Elections and since then has been waiting
for the elections board to verify the signa
tures. A special recall election could have
been held as early as Dec. 7.
As of Friday, the board of elections
already had verified about 1,956 of the
names and only had about 500 or 600
names left to verify, said Carolyn Thomas,
deputy supervisor of the board of elections.
The board was notified Friday morning
Students Work to Cut Required Meal Purchase
BYPHUONGLY
STAFF WRITER
Student Congress member Philip
Charles-Pieire doesn’t think on-campus
residents should be forced to buy a mini
mum SIOO meal plan.
Charles-Pierre, chairman of the Student
Affairs Committee, and other congress
members are meeting with UNC and din
ing services officials to see if they can
change the Board ofTrustees’ requirement.
The policy states that if on-campus resi
dents do not spend at least slooonameal
plan, they cannot register for the next se
mester.
The SIOO is nonrefundable, and any
unused portion goes into Carolina Dining
Services’ operating expenses.
University officials said the policy was
implemented in 1983 to ensure a stable
economic base for the dining services, but
some congress members say it violates
students’ rights.
The Student Affairs Committee is push
ing for exemptions to the policy or possibly
an abolishment of it.
“I don’t think one should force students
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Chapel Hill, North Cirolioa
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 27,1993
"Joe s being on the council did,
with at least a certain segment
of the citizenry, cause a
credibility problem. ”
KEN BROUN
Chapel Hill mayor
that Herzenberg had resigned.
“We already stopped counting,” Tho
mas said Friday afternoon. “We hold on to
the petitions. W e don’t throw them away. ”
Thomas said the board would meet to
determine whether the petitions would be
returned to McEnery or kept on file.
Although2,2ll signatures were required
to hold the approximately $ 14,000 special
election, there was no minimum number
of voters who would have had to vote in the
recall election for the results to be valid.
“The only time a specific number had to
be reached was with the petitions,” Tho
mas said.
The next municipal election will take
place Nov. 2 for the town council, the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board and
the Carrboro Board of Aldermen.
Herzenberg had two of four years left of his
term. His seat now will be open.
McEnery said he was both surprised
and pleased that Herzenberg had resigned.
“All I did was get it on the table, and the
people did all the work. I’m very thankful
that it did not go to a (special election). Any
election is a toss-up in Chapel Hill.”
Herzenberg’s former colleagues were
to have to eat on campus,” said Charles-
Pierre, who ran on the platform of chang
ing the rule. “Why should a meal plan
matter in terms of your status at a univer
sity?”
He said some students have told him
that they still had money on their meal plan
with only a few weeks left in the semester
to spend it.
Charles-Pierre, who represents a dis
trict with several sorority houses, said some
members of fraternities and sororities must
pay for a meal plan for their group and for
the University.
Tyson Holt, a sophomore from Raleigh,
said members ofher sorority, Kappa Delta,
have complained about the rule.
Holt, who lives on campus and has a
meal plan at her sorority house, said she
had to spend her $ 100 meal plan on things
she didn’t need.
“It’s really a waste,” she said. “I think
it’s pretty stupid.”
But Biruta Nielsen, contracts adminis
trator for UNC Auxiliary Services, said the
requirement was not a big problem for
most students. Only about 10 students per
semester apply for exemption, she said.
It's Over!
UNC Ends N.C. State’s 5-Game Streak
BY STEVE POLITI
SPORTS EDITOR
RALEIGH Fifth-year seniors can
graduate.
Chapel Hill residents can visit their
friends in Raleigh again.
Mack Brown can smile.
It’s over. And the Fat Lady’s singing
“Hark The Sound.”
After five straight painful losses, North
Carolina (4-1,2-1 in the ACC) defeated its
archrival N.C. State (2-1, 1-1) 35-14 at
Carter-Finley Stadium.
“Today was
just the day,”
defensive tackle
Marcus Jones
said Saturday af-
Football
UNC 35
N.C. State 14
ter the Tar Heels erased a 14-10 halftime
deficit with 18 third-quarter points. “Ev
erybody has a smile on their face. This is
great.”
Well, not everybody had a smile. In
fact, nobody was smiling during a minute
long fisticuffs that broke loose after State
strong safety Ricky Bell chased UNC quar
terback Jason Stanicek to the sidelines and
shoved him into the Tar Heel bench.
And UNC outside linebacker coach
Donnie Thompson certainly wasn’t smil
ing when he charged State offensive coor
dinator Ted Cain after the game and
slammed him into the turf. It’s not certain
whether or not either University or the
ACC office will take action.
Brown downplayed the incidents, and
most North Carolina players agreed that
the fights were a result of the game’s inten
sity. “When you get people who live in the
same neighborhood, emotions do fly," the
sixth-year UNC head coach said. “And I
think everybody handled it pretty well un-
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Council member JOE HERZENBERG resigned
Thursday in light of a likely recall election.
not surprised by his decision to quit the
town board, most saying that they sup
ported his decision. Council members Joe
Capowski and Julie Andresen both signed
the recall petitions.
"What he did was dishonest. Integrity is
everything," Capowski said. “We have to
have members on the council that every
body can trust.”
Andresen said she had not realized that
Herzenberg had been seriously consider
ing resigning. “I was really glad he did it. I
think it was a prudent decision —one that
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“Just stop and think — how many times
would you have to eat in the Carolina
Dining Services to spend $100?” Nielsen
said. “If you live in the high-rise dorms, it
can easily be spent in the snack bars.”
She said UNC’s rule was less stringent
than Duke University’s or N.C. State
University’s, which require students to
purchase meal plans.
Under the UNC requirement, students
can apply for exemptions, which are de
cided on a case-by-case basis.
Charles-Pierre said he didn’t know if
the requirement was necessary. He said
Marriott officials have told him that they
have a strong enough base not to need the
requirement.
But Nielsen said that Marriott Corp.
had been losing money every year.
Private contractors have never made a
profit from the campus dining services, she
said. Marriott is the fourth private contrac
tor the University has hired in almost 30
years.
Chris Derby, CDS manager, said he did
not want to comment on the meal plan
requirement because Marriott has no con
trol over the meal plan rules.
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Curtis Johnson, who gained 153 yards on 18 carries, scampers to the end
zone for a 50-yard touchdown that gave UNC the lead for good.
der the circumstances.”
The second-quarter fight led to the ejec
tion ofN.C. State free safety James Walker.
“When Jimmy Walker got kicked out, I
felt a momentum change,” said Mike
O’Cain, the Wolfpack’s first-year head
coach. “I felt something leave our ballclub.
I felt it in the lockerroom, I felt it at half,
and when we came out on the field in the
third quarter. We never gained that enthu
siasm and intensity back.”
BOT Sticks to Decision
On Coker Woods Site
BYMICHAEL WORKMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The UNC Board ofTrustees on Friday
refused to reconsider its July decision to
build the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center on the Coker Woods site.
Supporters of the Wilson-Dey site, lo
cated between Wilson Library, Kenan Labs
and Dey Hall, had asked the board to re
examine the decision at its regular meeting
Friday morning. The Coker Woods site is
located across the street, next to Coker
Hall and the Bell Tower.
After a presentation by BCC Director
Margo Crawford and Campus Y Co-presi
dent Michelle LeGrand, several BOT mem
bers explained their site votes, but the six
who voted for the Coker site refused to
make a motion to revote on the issue.
Wilson-Dey supporters did not say after
the meeting whether they would protest
the board’s rejection of their preferred site.
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Chapel Hill High School band members Jos Purvis and Leia Wilson pitch their
car wash to Franklin Street motorists Saturday to raise money for uniforms.
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The first half ended four plays after the
fight, and UNC received the second-half
kickoff. Marcus Wall grabbed the kick at
the nine, darted from one sideline to the
other at the 20 and then sprinted up the
field, finishing his4l-yardkickoffretumat
the 50-yard line.
Tailback Curtis Johnson took the pitch
from Stanicek on the next play and outran
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Crawford said she would confer with
the BCC Advisory Board. “I’m not sure
what we are going to do,” she said.
Campus Y co-presidents LeGrand and
Ed Chaney issued a statement Friday. “As
members ofthe Campus YExecutive Com
mittee, we are refuting the Board ofTrust
ees categorization of today’s meeting as a
revisitation of the Sonja Haynes Stone
Black Cultural Center site selection issue,”
the statement read. The statement did not
say whether students would continue to
protest the decision.
LeGrand and Chaney could not be
reached for comment Sunday.
During her presentation, LeGrandread
a prepared statement. The University al
ready is segregated, she said, with most
black students living south of South Road,
which divides the Wilson-Dey site from
the Coker site. “Producing a black cultural
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