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(Blip latU} (Ear Uppl £ Volume 101, Issue 102 A century of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Desert Winds Restoke Fires Near Los Angeles LOS ANGELES New brushfires, fanned by fierce desert winds, tore through brushland and hillside homes Tuesday, forcing hundreds of residents and school children to flee. Two people were badly burned while trying to rescue animals. Roads jammed as people fled a giant blaze pushing through brush and envelop ing homes in the Woodland Hills, Calabasas and Malibu areas 20 miles north west of downtown Los Angeles. Seventy acres were scorched in the San Bernardino County community of Yucaipa, 60 miles east of Los Angeles. With winds clocked at up to 53 mph, the new round of blazes erupted as firefighters were consolidating their hold on big fires that broke out last week. Hundreds of people who live in the narrow canyons fled as the fire bore down on theirneighborhood. Many schools were evacuated. Watson Spared Prison Sentence in Beating Trial LOS ANGELES Henry Watson pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony count of assault and apologized for attacking truck driver Larry Tarvin at the outset of last year’s riots. Under the plea agreement, he will be spared a prison term. Watson, 29, entered the plea after pros ecutors said they planned to retry him on the jury’s one deadlocked count from the trial that ended last month. In exchange fortheplea, Watson will be on probation until January 1997 and will be required to do community service. He could have received up to seven years in prison upon conviction. Senate Committee Rejects Packwood's Compromise WASHINGTON The Senate Tues day night rejected an attempt to narrow the scope of an ethics committee subpoena for Sen. Bob Packwood's diaries. The vote was 77-23. The second day of argument over ac cess to Packwood’s diaries, punctuated with flashes of anger by the Oregon Repub lican and others, moved the argument from legal theories to new disclosures. Packwood offered to provide all diary entries on the employment opportunities for his former wife, Georgie, in addition to his proposal to turn over everything in volving original allegations that he made unwanted sexual advances to more than two dozen women and tried to intimidate some of them to keep them quiet. The Senate Ethics Committee said no; it still wanted the diaries themselves. Rightist Candidate Likely To Win Jerusalem Election JERUSALEM Six-term Mayor Teddy Kollek was headed for a resounding loss Tuesday to a right-wing lawyer in municipal elections viewed as a nation wide gauge of public support for the peace process. Exit polls broadcast by Israel television showed Ehud Olmert, a 48-year-old former health minister, ahead 55 to 41 percent. While the mayor has little direct say in the peace negotiations, he can set the tone for Arab-Israeli relations in a city that is holy for Muslims, Christians and Jews. Papers Stolen As Protest At University of Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. Protesters seized about 10,000 copies of the student newspaper at the University of Maryland, claiming they were racist. In place of the missing papers, the pro testers left a small computer-generated sign Monday that read: “Due to its racist na ture, the Diamondback will not be avail able today.... Read a book.” No one claimed responsibility for the missing newspapers, which are distributed for free. Campus police said they were investigating. About 20,000 copies were distributed Monday. Several students said the protest prob ably stemmed from a general perception that the Diamondback was insensitive to blacks and other minorities on campus, rather than from any particular article. Blacks account for 11 percent of the 23,300 undergraduates on the College Park campus. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Variably cloudy; high 58. THURSDAY: Mostly sunny, warmer; high 65. If the grass is greener in the other fellow’s yard let him worry about cutting it. Fred Allen With 98% precinct* reporting Yes No | UNC-System Bonds LLrll $3lO Million 52% 48% j i Community College Bonds l!=J $250 Million 57% 43% @ Water and Sewer Bonds $145 Million 59% 41% ri State Parks Bonds llrll $35 Million 56% 44% I IT] N.C. Bond i"° I Amendment 18% 82% life '' ' ‘ lo V ■V. -t. , v „ , v jjjjjK tv IrVV ISHf WWJt i DTH/lUSTIN WILLIAMS Rosemary Waldorf hugs Dianne Lemasters, a close friend and campaign committee member, after hearing the next-to-last election returns Tuesday night. Waldorf won the most votes in the Chapel Hill Town Council race. Broun Wins Easy Second Term, Plans to Finish Job BY ROCHELLE KLASKIN ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR Some people never throw in the towel. Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun will try to finish many of the projects he initiated the past two years during his second term. “I think I did a good job my first two years, but I think there was a lot ofleaming to do. I spent a lot of that time finding out what mayors do,” he said. “In order to be fully effective, I needed to spend a full four years in office.” Broun won Tuesday’s uncontested may oral race in Chapel Hill with 6,630 votes. But his son, Dan, who is a graduate student in UNC’s city and regional plan ning department, could not believe his dad was at it again. “I’m bewildered why he wants to do this,” he said. But Dan Broun said his father hadn’t embarrassed him yet, and as long he con RHA Plans Letter Campaign In Support of Visitation Policy BYRACHAEL LANDAU STAFF WRITER The Residence Hall Association has launched a campaign to encourage stu dents and parents to show their support for the new visitation pilot program to the Board of Trustees, which will review the program during its regular Nov. 19 meet ing. “There has been so much negative feed back that we need something to counteract it,” said Jan Davis, RHA president. Students in six residence halls voted Sept. 21 to allow 24-hour visitation by people of the opposite sex. The old policy, which is still in effect in the rest of the dorms, allows opposite-sex guests in dorm rooms from9a.m. to 1 a.m. Sundaythrough Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday. BOT members said Tuesday that they had received some complaints about the Chanel HilL North Carolina WEDNESDAY,NOVEMBER 3,1993 N.C. Voters Pass University Bonds BY AMIR KHAN STAFF WRITER North Carolinians passed all four of the bond referendums on their ballots Tues day, much to the jubilation of state and university officials who viewed the bonds as a great progressive step for the state. “In my eight years as president, nothing compares to this in significance," UNC system President C.D. Spangler said. “I’m a very happy university president.” The University Bond passed by a mar gin of 4 percent; the Community College Bond passed by a margin of 14 percent; the clean water bond passed by a margin of 18 percent; and the state parks bond passed by ******ELECTION RESULTS implON Fa Official results from Orange County Board of Elertoiw j|/j Kenneth Broun 6,630 74% tinued to dress well, he guessed it wouldn’t be too bad. Ken Broun, who also doubles as a pro fessor of law, splits his days between the UNC Law School and Chapel Hill Town Hall. Broun came to Chapel Hill from Chi cago in 1968 and was dean of the law school from 1979-1987. He compares his experience as dean to the role he now plays as mayor. Please See BROUN, Page 7 policy but were hesitant to judge the pro gram. “Everyone I know has been against the program,” said Walter Davis, aBOT mem ber. He has not received any positive feed back about the program, he said. “I don’t want to prejudge the program before I hear about it, and discuss it with the board,” Walter Davis said. But other board members said they thought the program was unnecessary and shouldn’t have been adopted. BOT mem ber David Whichard said he had gotten complaints from across the state. “This was a very important decision, and we were not informed of it before it happened, ” he said. “I do not agree with the program and feel that is a very ill-conceived policy and it is not in the interests of the University,” Whichard said. “It should not have been Please See RHA, Page 2 a margin of 12 percent. The University Bond appropriates $3lO million for 37 construction projects on all 16 UNC-system campuses. Community colleges will receive $250 million, while water-supply facilities will receive $145 million and state parks $35 million for overall im provement mea sures. Amendment to N.C. Constitution Suffers Defeat See Page 4 Spangler said the passage of the bonds was the pinnacle of his term as president. “lam very pleased that the people of the state of North Carolina support universi ties,” he said. “They’ve done it.” Kinnaird Keeps Carrboro Mayor Post BYAMYPINIAK AND KATHRYN HASS STAFF WRITERS Eleanor Kinnaird won a fourth term as Carrboro mayor Tuesday night, winning 60 percent of the votes to beat longtime colleague Hilliard Caldwell, a 12-year member of the Carrboro Board of Aider men. Kinnaird, who ran unopposed in 1991, received 1,605 votes to Caldwell’s 1,021. She said she was very pleased with the results, but thought it would have been a much closer race. “The key factor was a very well-run campaign,” she said. “With all the en dorsements, good voter support and a hard working campaign group, it all adds up.” Her campaign did not target one par ticular voting population, Kinnaird said. “We made a real effort to reach everyone. We called e veiy voter two or three times, ” she said. “The voter turnout was abso lutely tremendous.” Kinnaird said the vote of the North Carrboro precinct was a nice surprise. She won 599 votes to Caldwell’s 445 in that precinct. “I was pleasantly surprised with the results in North Carrboro because I've lost there every time,” she said. Continuing work on Carr Court Com munity Center, construction of a town commons and a branch library will be three goals during Kinnaird’s fourth term. “This gives me a chance to finish the three projects with strong support,” she said. “Right now I would like to get more students involved as mentors in the Can- Court program and coordinate each with a child, a parent and a teacher.” Kinnaird said her re-election would al low her to continue being an active leader and working well with the board of aider men. She praised the winners in the board of aldermen race and said she looked for ward to working with them. “Jackie (Gist) has always had a very strong, progressive voice and her leader ship has been significant. Mike (Nelson) will bring a fresh perspective to the board, ” she said. “Hank Anderson will provide a voice for the minority and balance the board.” Kinnaird said she was sorry to see Caldwell leave Carrboro politics. “I have a great deal of respect for Hilliard, ” she said. “He’s a good friend of mine. Working Spangler said the university bonds also would benefit North Carolina economi cally. “The bond will put to work 11,000 people in construction alone,” he said. “Most importantly, it will give much needed facilities for students. Some build ings will endure for 200 years in the fu ture.” UNC Chancellor Paul Hardin said the university bonds would help to build four new buildings on campus. For UNC, the bonds will finance anew building for the Kenan-Flagler Business School, the Lineberger Cancer Research Center, an addition to the UNC School of Dentistry, the Carolina Living and Learn Two Incumbents, Four Newcomers Join Council BYKELLYRYAN CITY EDITOR Rosemary Waldorf campaigned the same way two years ago, stressing the importance of proactive public safety mea sures and fiscal responsibility. It took two years for Chapel Hill voters to be sold. “I think two years have shown that I was right two years ago,” Waldorf said Tuesday night after learning that she had been elected to the Chapel Hill To wn Coun- cil. “I really be lieve the events that have oc curred in the in terim proved I Moderate Turnout At Area Poll Sites See Page 2 was on the right track.” Waldorf is among the six new faces voters chose to serve on the town council. Waldorf, who Ken Broun defeated in the 1991 mayoral race, placed first in the neck and-neck race with 6,196 votes. Incum bents Joyce Brown and Barbara Powell trailed Waldorf, securing 4,853 and 4,322 votes, respectively. Lee Pavao grabbed 4,313 votes to win the fourth four-year council term. Business executive Jim Protzman, with 4,195 votes, and Pat Evans, with 4,049 votes, each will serve the remaining two years of two unex pired terms. Eleven candidates ran for election for six open seats. Protzman and Evans will fill in for former council members Roosevelt V % lim, * DTH/ELIZABETH MAYBACH Eleanor Kinnaird hugs a campaign supporter after winning her fourth term as mayor of Carrboro. Official feasts from Orange County Board of Elections jt/f Eleanor Kinnaird 1,605 60% I | Hilliard Caidweß 1,021 38% with him on the board of aldermen has been a good experience. So of course, it’s a bittersweet moment.” Her fourth mayoral term also would “absolutely” be her last, Kinnaird said. “It’s hard to campaign every two years, News/Features/Arts/Sports Business/Advertising C 1993 DTH Publishing Coip. All rights reserved. ing Center for Autistic Adults and nine area health education centers across the state, he said. “The new building for the business school will create space for journalism mass communications in the empty Carroll Hall,” Hardin said. “The new business center will be built on top of the hill where the Kenan Center is now, right behind the Smith Center.” State Treasurer Harlan Boyles said he was grateful to North Carolinians for vot ing to enact the four bonds. “I think it is very encouraging, ” he said. “I am very pleased the people were so Please See BONDS, Page 2 Rosemary Waldorf 6,196 69% j/j Joyce Brown 4,853 54% Jf/j Barbara Powell 4,322 48% M Lee Pavao 4,313 48% Vt Jim Protzman 4,195 47% gf Pat Evans 4,049 45% □ Alan Rimer 3,602 40% [J Paul Tripodi 3,165 35% j_J Scott Radway 3,140 35% | j Kenneth Rudo 1,499 I ! Jeff Snyder 1,486 16% 1 * Please See COUNCIL, Page 7 and it’s nerve-racking to always be in the spotlight for things I’ve said that weren’t as circumspect as they could’ve been,” she said. “It will be nice to be a private citizen, but I probably will still be active on citi zens' boards and things like that.” Alex Zaffron, Kinnaird’s campaign manager, said the election experience had been tiring and extraordinary. “Up until the end, I thought it would be a very tight race. At times I thought we’d lose,” he said. Zaflfon, who also ran Kinnaird’s cam paign in 1989, said the crew focused on presenting Kinnaird clearly and concisely to as many voters as possible. Please See CARRBORO, Page 7 962-0245 962-1163
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