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Petitions Available for
Dist. 19 Congress Seat
Candidates are needed for the upcom
ing Student Congress election for Dist. 19.
The election is scheduled for Oct. 19,
moved up from the original Nov. 9 date.
Former representative Jeff Matkins re
signed last Friday, opening up the posi
tion. Petitions are available in die Student
Congress office of the Student Union and
are due Oct. 11.
Panel to Plan Programs at
Center for Study of South
UNC’s year-old Center for the Study of
the American South will get new direction
from a recently appointed committee that
will plan the center’s programs and head
fund-raising efforts.
The faculty committee, chaired by
Kenan professor of sociology J ohn Shelton
Reed, will produce a report outlining what
kinds of programs such a center should
have.
Once the focus of the center is estab
lished, fund-raising efforts can begin, Reed
said.
The committee comprises faculty in the
liberal arts and social sciences departments
and faculty in professional schools who do
policy-related research and outreach pro
grams.
In addition to starting anew journal
called “Southern Cultures,” the center is
working with the Southern Historical Col
lection at Wilson Library to publish the
Southern Research Report, a guide to re
search in the South, Reed said.
“We are talking to people who work in
the South to find out what needs to be
done, and we may run regional studies
elsewhere also,” Reed said.
More than a dozen departments at UNC
already offer courses on the South.
Timberlyne Subway Shop
Donates Money to Charity
The Subway Sandwich Shop of
Timberlyne Shopping Center will donate a
portion of its sales to the Inter-Faith Coun
cil in celebration of the council’s 30 years
of service to the Chapel Hill community.
Pat Cropp, president of Emmaus Inc.,
which owns several Subway shops, said
she thought this would be a good way to
help the Inter-Faith Council celebrate its
30th birthday.
“We will always be having a worthy
cause donation. Ever since we took over
that store three years ago, we have had a
worthy cause,” Cropp said.
On the 30th day of each month, until
Dec. 30, the Timberlyne Subway will do
nate 8 percent of that day’s sales to the
Inter-Faith Council. Subway is located on
Weaver Dairy Road, offN.C. 86.
The Inter-Faith Council’s Community
House is located at 100 W. Rosemary St.
and offers three daily meals year-round to
the needy. The house also provides shelter
and a medical clinic.
Carrboro Center to Hold
Grand Opening Sunday
The Carr Court Community Center in
Carrboro will celebrate its grand opening
at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at 100 Eugene St.
Eugene Street is located off Franklin
Street.
The opening of the newly renovated
community center will include a “thank
you” to the volunteers who donated the
labor, funds, equipment and supplies to
make the renovation possible.
The opening also is a celebration of
Carrboro's revitalized community and of
change.
“What we’ve been trying to do is to
rescue the community and, in order to do
this, we are bringing services into the com
munity,” said James Harris, a community
and economic development officer.
Sunday’s celebration will include an
introduction of the programs being run at
the new center. UNC minority nursing
students will speak about the health-pro
motions project they plan to start.
An after-school tutorial program for
children, headed by a Carrboro resident, is
another project running through the com
munity center. The program runs from 3
p.m. to 5 p.m. on weekday afternoons.
On Sunday, Carrboro resident Susan
Gambling will lecture on the center’s new
Cynthia Watts Program, and information
will be given on an Outreach Ministry
project. “The purpose of the program is to
help the people of the community to de
velop a sense of individual, artistic, cre
ative talents, to develop a stronger partner
ship with neighboring communities and to
have participants recognize their own self
worth,” Harris said.
The public is welcome at the grand
opening.
Local Lodge to Sponsor
Voter-Registration Drive
The upcoming municipal election is
coming up Nov. 2 are you registered to
vote yet?
The Mount Olive Masonic Lodge, lo
cated at the comer of West Rosemary
Street and Sunset Drive, will sponsor a
special voter-registration drive from 9 a.m.
to 3 p.m. Saturday. Proof of name and
address are required to register to vote in
Orange County.
The Chapel Hill mayor, Carrboro
mayor, members of the Chapel Hill Town
Council, Carrboro Board of Aldermen and
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board
are up for election this fall.
Leaders Learn How to Shape County’s Future
BYANUBHAANAND
STAFF WRITER
Gridlock, air pollution and over-devel
opment is that the future of Orange
County?
It could be, unless local voters change
their thinking on land-use issues, transpor
tation, housing and regional planning, ac
cording to public-policy consultant John
DeGrove.
DeGrove, a nationally known author
ity on growth management and a 1958
UNC graduate, spoke to a group of county
and local officials at the University Presby
terian Student Center Thursday.
DeGrove was the featured speaker at a
morning conference designed to help local
leaders develop plans to control growth in
the county.
DeGrove said the local prognosis for
the future was not good.
“You’re not going to be a pleasant place
20 to 30 years down the road is my guess,”
he said, citing zoning and transportation
trends in the area.
DeGrove said North Carolina should
not try to expand its highways, but should
concentrate on building mass-transit sys
tems, such as light rail and bus systems.
“Take a lesson from big cities,” DeGrove
said.
He said his home state of Florida had
hadtoinnovateits current transit system at
the cost of millions in taxpayer dollars.
University Mulls Investment
In Companies in South Africa
BY JUDY ROYAL
STAFF WRITER
In October 1987, the University’s en
dowment committee acquiesced to de
mands from anti-apartheid activists and
sold all University-owned stock in compa
nies doing business in South Africa.
Six years later, the committee is consid
ering the possibility ofrevamping the policy
that some students and faculty members
fought so hard to change.
Due to recent developments in South
African government, African National
Congress leader Nelson Mandela asked
the world last week to help terminate all
white apartheid by lifting economic sanc
tions.
John Harris, chairman of the endow
ment committee, said it was too soon to tell
if the policy would change. The situation
will result in further discussion, he said.
“My initial reaction is that it is some
thing that will be discussed at the appropri
ate time,” said Harris.
“Wewilltalkabout(changingthe policy)
at the next meeting.”
For years the endowment committee
denied requests to sell University-owned
stock in companies dealing with South
Africa.
Their refusal to divest sparked protest
during a time of political unrest and all
white rule in South Africa.
However, after numerous marches, ral
lies, and other forms of resistance on cam
pus, the endowment committee finally
decided to sell $6.1 million worth of stock
as part of an anti-apartheid policy.
The University divested about 7 percent
of its total endowment at the time, selling
its stock in companies such as American
Express, General Motors, IBM and Coca-
Cola.
Learning CPR Now Could Help Save
BY ANGIE WAINWRIGHT
STAFF WRITER
It was supposed to be a day like any
other at her part-time job in a local bank.
Heather McCary never could have pre
dicted what would be in store for her as the
day progressed.
Everything appeared normal during the
January day until McCary heard the sound
of something hitting the floor. She came
out from behind the desk and saw a man
lying on the floor.
“A customer was loosening his tie, so I
knew something was wrong, ” McCary said.
“I didn’t realize who it was until I was
closer.”
She soon discovered that the person on
the floor wasn’t a stranger, but a fellow
worker, senior loan officer Charles Harris.
Upon checking Harris, McCary was
stunned to find no pulse or signs of breath-
B-GLAD Hotline to Give Advice, Information on Coming Out
Callers Can Leave Messages
During Day or Talk With
Operators During Evening
BY CHRIS GIOIA
STAFF WRITER
Gay and lesbian students who fear “com
ing out of the closet” will get anew source
of support Monday when a campus gay
and lesbian group begins a telephone
hotline for students unsure of or uncom
fortable with their sexuality.
The hotline is the project of Bisexuals,
Gays, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity’s
Coming Out Committee.
“We want to be able to chat with (closet
gay students), just so they have a
nonjudgmental person to talkto about their
feelings, ” said B-GLAD co-chairman Trey
Harris.
Students will be able to call B-GLAD’s
office during the day and select a counselor
UNIVERSITY & CITY
JOHN DeGROVE, a public-policy
consultant, spoke to local leaders.
“We’re not going to expand another
highway. We’re going to work on moving
people, not more cars,” he said to a round
of applause.
DeGrove said the impact ofbad policies
today really would be felt by younger gen
erations.
“I think you’re going to inherit a huge
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Harris said he did not think Mandela’s
statement was an open invitation for com
panies to reinvest in South Africa.
“I had mixed emotions about regula
tions in the past that we adopted,” Harris
said.
The endowment committee will do
whatever they can to help end apartheid,
Harris said, but they are not placing very
high priority on scrutinizing the policy
issue.
“We’ll get to it when we get to it,” said
Harris, who also is chairman of the Board
ofTrustees.
Marguerite Arnold, a 1989 graduate
and co-founder of Action Against Apart
heid, was involved in several protests urg
ing divestment.
She was among five students who were
arrested during a protest against the BOT.
“(The BOT) just waffled around and
would not listen,” said Arnold, who now
works as a television producer in Washing
ton, D.C.
Arnold said she was in favor of reinvest
ing only if South Africans were not ex
ploited in the process and a true policy of
constructive engagement was enacted to
protect the economically oppressed.
“If the social inequality that exists now
is replaced by the investment policy by
companies because of the cheap labor force,
social inequality will be replaced by eco
nomic inequality.
“The whole point (of divestment) was
to end apartheid, not to hurt blacks in
South Africa,” Arnold said. “If the invest
ments can be used in a truly constructive
manner, I think (reinvestment is) a positive
move.”
Arnold said she found it ironic that the
endowment board had decided to discuss
the proposed new policy so quickly after
being so resistant to the initial changes.
Fall Classes Offered by Orange County
Chapter of the American Red Cross
Community First Aid and Safety
Adult CPR
Community CHI Review
Infant and Child CPR
Infant and Child First Aid
Preregistration is required tor a§ courses. Class
fees range from S2O to SSO and include learning
materials. For more information about how to
register for a class, visit or cal the Red Cross
office, 105 W. Main St., Carrboro, 9424862.
ing. The only thing left to do was perform
cardiopulmonary resuscitation to revive
him
“I was so thankful at that moment that
I had been trained in CPR,” she said.
“The customer that I found him with
was also trained, so we performed the two
to call them back.
The hotline also is open in the evening
from 7 to 10 Monday through Wednesday
for students who prefer not to leave a name
and number.
A daytime caller can choose a counse
lor based on gender, race, religion, major
and other factors. “We have a diverse
group," Harris said. “They’re a diverse
committee, people who are white, black,
Asian and Jewish.”
The 13counselors,allcurrentandformer
UNC students, were given a crash course
by Harris, who spent several months work
ing on a Wilmington hotline for gay and
lesbian youths.
The service is for people who are unsure
about their sexuality, as well as those who
know they are gay and need help dealing
with that fact.
Harris said B-GLAD already served the
needs of openly gay students, but the group
needed to expand its focus to students who
are not as comfortable. “We don’t want to
encourage people to make decisions about
Region’s Towns Should Cooperate, Expert Says
BYDANIEL FELDMAN
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill isn’t what it used to be.
John DeGrove, a public policy con
sultant in the field of city planning, told
a group of elected officials Thursday
night that economic and population
growth already were taking their toll on
the once-small town.
DeGrove spoke to elected officials
from Chapel Hill, Carrboro,
Hillsborough and Orange County in town
hall. The speech was the second in a two
part conference on growth-management
issues in Chapel Hill.
The evening session was designed to
give elected officials an opportunity to
plan some strategies.
“I think the image of Chapel Hill as a
nice little village is not realistic these
days,” DeGrove said. “You’ll be a mess
unless you seize hold of your future.
You’re going to grow, so it’s best to plan
wisely and well to be proactive.”
Local governments should not blame
the supervising roles of state agencies for
their own failure to implement local
growth-management policies, he said.
DeGrove said it was important for
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man CPR method.”
Shortly after McCary and the customer
began performing CPR on Harris, the para
medics arrived to take him to the hospital.
“The doctors said that it was very fortu
nate that we had reacted so quickly in the
situation because the result may have been
different otherwise,” McCary said. “Mr.
Harris collapsed due to heart failure, but
after two months and surgery, he returned
to work.”
McCary, a hospital administration ma
jor from Asheville, took her first CPR and
first-aid course through the American Red
Cross in 1991 to become a certified life
guard for a summer job.
“In the three years that I worked as a
lifeguard, I never had to use CPR,” she
said. “My first experience was at the bank
this year when I least expected it.”
Because most people are not trained in
CPR, the probability that someone will be
“Sometimes people just really
agonize over (coming out).
There are many gay people
who are scared,
who have been alone.”
TRULY CLARK
Co-chairwoman of B-GLAD's
Coming Out Committee
their sexuality that they don’t feel comfort
able with themselves,” he said.
Coming out often is traumatic, Harris
said. “There are people who have room
mateswhosay, ‘lfl ever knew a fag, I’d kill
him.’ That can be a really uncomfortable
situation.”
Gays and lesbians often suffer intense
loneliness because of their sexuality, said
Truly Clark, co-chairwoman of the Com
ing Out Committee.
This sense of separation is one reason
leaders to regulate rural and urban-devel
opment zones. He added that the two
should be separated for efficient urban
growth and forprotected agricultural rights.
“A county-sponsored $ 100-million bond
is a substantial method to purchase envi
ronmentally sensitive lands without over
regulating tiie people,” he said.
“Use sales and gas taxes, which aren’t
popular but bring in a lot of revenue, to
catch up on lagging public works.”
A variety of representatives and local
citizens asked questions about planned de
velopment and whether it would be suc
cessful in Orange County. Many residents
expressed concern about groirth in the
county’s rural regions. A larger population
means more money would have to be di
rected toward social services.
Chapel Hill Town Council member Joe
Capowski said the county should annex
land to curb future zoning problems.
“We need to work on having the county
work on its functions and have the cities
manage the municipal functions,”
Capowski said. “Orange County is spend
ing too much time on Hillsborough’s is
sues, and that’s a problem.”
Carrboro alderman Jacquelyn Gist said
DeGrove offered a few good starting points,
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caught in an emergency without knowing
how to deal with it is high.
According to American Red Cross sta
tistics, 1.5 million Americans will experi
ence a cardiac emergency this year. One in
14 Americans will need medical help be
cause of injuries occuring in the home.
“ You never know when there will be an
emergency,” said Samantha Caplan, di
rector of health and safety for the Ameri
can Red Cross chapter in Orange County.
“That is probably the strongest argument
in favor of learning CPR and first aid.”
CPR restores normal breathing after
traumas such as cardiac arrest and drown
ing. The process involves clearing the air
passages to the lungs and carrying out
external heart massage by exertion of pres
sure on the chest.
Although many movies depict the use
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why B-GLAD and other organizations
encourage them to come out of the closet,
she said. “Sometimes people just really
agonize over this,” she said. “There are
many gay people who are scared, who
have been alone.”
Doug Ferguson, a UNC law student
and gay-rights activist, said he thought the
service would help such people escape their
isolation.
“The ideaofthehotlineisto help people
come out of the closet and provide support
that wasn’t there before,” he said.
“I see (the hotline) as providing a valu
able source of support for people who are
isolated,” he said.
For gays and lesbians alienated by the
group’s high profile, the telephone service
is a less-public alternative to the group's
meetings.
Clark said she knew of many campus
gays and lesbians who "wished that (B
GLAD) had been less ‘out there' —most
of them wanted it to be more low-key and
provide a more personal atmosphere.”
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but she added that the region’s problem
was that it did not act on the goals it set
“We must move to put all parties to
gether and hammer out something
workable, which is not easy.”
Capowski agreed with Gist that lo
cal governments analyzed problems
excessively without tangible results
emerging. “Wehaveaclosingproblem,
for we’re playing a chess game with all
the planning and studies, but we have a
problem putting them into effect.”
DeGrove said the cooperation be
tween neighboring governments was
key to avoiding future havoc. “Plan
ning in isolation is a killer this will
not cut it,” he said. “Nor is Orange
County enough. YouneedDurhamand
Wake counties to promote regional
growth and development."
DeGrove ended his presentation by
emphasizing that the area would be a
mess unless cooperation between rural,
urban, environmental and other stake
holders developed.
“The typical reactive model is to sit
back and wait for it to get so damn bad.
Let’s not wait ‘til all the horses are out
of the bam,” he said. “I bring you no
cookbook solutions to your problems.”
WUNC
Meets With
Advocacy
Group
Station’s Advisory Council
Hears Citizens’ Complaints
About NPR Programming
BY JIFFER BOURGUIGNON
STAFF WRITER
The quarterly meeting of WUNC’s
Community Advisory Council usually
doesn’t get much input from the public, but
at Wednesday’s meeting, seven members
of a local citizens’ group voiced concern
over slanted news coverage in National
Public Radio broadcasts on WUNC.
Balance and Accuracy in Journalism, a
local media-watch group, has begun an
initiative to increase the diversity of public
affairs programming, and increase public
input into the decision-making process of
the radio station.
“NPR presents the news from one angle
or one group’s perspective,” said Dick
Paddock, a BAJ member.
“For example, while covering the un
veiling of Clinton’s health care plan, re
porters spoke to Republicans and to indi
vidual members of the House, but never
touched on the (other House health care
plan); theplan which over half ofthe House
supports.”
WUNC broadcasts news from National
Public Radio three hours each weekday
morning and another three hours through
out the day.
“The idea that someone can simply re
port facts separated entirely from opinion
is conceit,” said David Kirsh, one of the
founders of BAJ.
“The NPR news does a good job; we’re
not trashing it. Its primary need is a greater
range of perspectives.”
At the meeting, BAJ gave the council a
list of suggestions to help the station in
crease the diversity of its public affairs
programming to serve its community audi
ence better.
The group recommends that WUNC:
■ Offer programs that increase local cov
erage and tiie range of perspectives beyond
that of NPR.
■ Institute a moderated, locally pro
duced public-issues discussion program
featuring speakers with different view
points.
■ Increase public access to Community
Advisory Council meetings. The meetings
currently are held during the work week,
and are often scheduled with a few hours’
notice.
■ Change the role and selection process
for members of the Community Advisory
Council.
Curtis said the council could not take
direct action on BAJ’s suggestions because
it had no power to make decisions regard
ing programming.
“The advisory council only listens,”
Curtis said.
“It is the radio station’s final decision
which instigates action.”
But Paddock said the BAJ still was
pleased with the outcome of the meeting.
“The council was very receptive to our
needs,” he said.
“Most of our requests were met with
genuine interest.”
WUNC General Manager Bill Davis
said he thought the meeting was produc
tive.
“The advisory council willingly listens
to the concerns of the entire community as
to the content of our programming, ” Davis
said. “The BAJ had some good sugges
tions.
“They also had some that were not so
good.
“We must separate the wheat from the
chaff.”
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