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■ A Morehead Planetarium employee
notified police of an attempted shoplifting,
reports state. According to reports, an uni
dentified suspect tried to leave the building
with a Star Trek Glow-in-the-Dark Earth.
■ A UNC student reported that some
one removed an SBOO painting from a sec
ond-floor storage bin in Hanes Art Center,
reports state. The incident occurred some
time between Friday evening and Satur
day, reports state.
FrMay, March 11
■ A UNC student said someone force
fully removed a Wyoming license plate
from the rear of his car while it was parked
in Craige parking lot, reports state. The
screws holding the plate had not been loos
ened, reports state.
Thursday, March II
■ AUNCemployee said herwallet was
stolen from Room 439 in McNider Hall
between 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m., reports
state. The black leather wallet contained
sls and a credit card, reports state. The
woman had left her wallet on her desk, and
the office door was open and accessible to
the public, reports state. The woman said
she had been working nearby but away
from the desk, reports state.
■ An employee of the economics de
partment said a photo was stolen from the
departmental bulletin board sometime be
tween Dec. 23 and early February, reports
state. The employee said she had placed a
teaching assistant’s picture on the board
just before Christmas, reports state.
The teaching assistant who was pic
tured noticed the photograph was missing
in early February, and that the picture had
been replaced with that of a cat, reports
state. The TA’s name appeared under the
cat’s picture, reports state.
■ A UNC Power Plant employee said
an expansion joint burst and activated the
plant’s halogen system at 4:14 p.m., re
ports state. The Chapel Hill Fire Depart
ment and the UNC Health and Safety
Department responded to test thebuilding’s
air and make sure there were no fires still
burning, reports state.
City
Saturday, Mareb 12
■ Isidro Razo Valadez, 28, of 4216
Garrett Ed. t£l2 in Durham, was arrested
at 1:17 a.m. and charged with one count of
driving while impaired and one count of
possession of marijuana, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
Valadez, an employee at K & W Cafete
ria at University Mall, was stopped on East
Franklin Street at Battle Lane for erratic
driving, reports state. During a search after
the arrest, a small quantity of marijuana
was found, according to reports.
When given a breathalyzer test,
Valadez’s blood alcohol level measured
0.21, which is higher than the state’s legal
limit of 0.08, reports state.
He was released on a S4OO unsecured
bond and will appear in Chapel Hill Dis
trict Court on April 19.
■ Harold Grady Perry, 57, of 106 Bim
St. in Carrboro, was arrested at 11:54 p.m.
and charged with driving while impaired
on Estes Drive Extension, reports state.
Police officers gave Perry a Breathalyzer
test, on which he registered 0.11, reports
state. The legal limit is 0.08.
Perry was placed under a $350 unse
cured bond and was escorted home, re
ports state. He will appear in Chapel Hill
on April 19.
Friday, March 11
■ An Airport Road resident told police
at 1:37 p.m. that someone had broken into
a residence sometime between March 7 at
11:30 p.m. and Friday, reports state.
After returning home, the resident found
that the back door had been kicked in,
causing about SIOO of damage, reports
state. A small gray safe, worth S3OO, and
some family pictures, worth S2OO, were
removed from the residence, according to
reports.
■ A Chapel Hill man reported at 5:04
p.m. that his wallet had been lost or stolen
on the lOOblockofFranklin Street, accord
ing to reports. The brown leather wallet
contained a driver’s license, a credit card
and a N.C. State University student iden
tification card.
■ A S4OO Hufly mountain bicycle was
stolen from the sidewalk area at 105 Gra
ham St. at 11:48 p.m., reports state. The
woman’s green bike was unsecured, re
ports state.
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Public Housing Board Asks Town for Funds
BYLYNN HOUSER
STAFF WfflTiß
Chapel Hill’s Housing and Community
Development Advisory Board decided to
ask the town for funds Tuesday night be
cause the Department of Housing and
Community Development does not have
enough money to maintain local public
housing complexes.
The advisory board decided to ask the
Chapel Hill Town Council at Wednesday
night’s budget meeting for enough funds to
pay for preventative maintenance and
painting at the complexes, said Housing
Director Tina Vaughn. Although a figure
of $483,300was mentioned at the meeting,
no specific amount was included in the
official recommendation, she said.
Board members also decided to ask the
town to allow the Public Works Depart
ment to maintain grounds and the Parks
and Recreation Department to maintain
playground areas at the complexes at no
cost to the housing department, she said.
The funding would allow the housing
department to use anew maintenance
schedule, Vaughn said.
Under the present system, the
Local School Students DARE to Say No to Drugs, Alcohol
BYHOLLYM. WILLIAMS
STAFF WRITER
Keeping children interested in school is
a challenge for any teacher, but try teach
ing students that saying “no” to drugs is
cool.
Officers who teach the Drug Abuse
Resistance Education program try to do
just that.
“How many of you have ever taken a
dare?” Darryl Roseboro, a Carrboro police
DARE officer, asks a fifth-grade class at
Carrboro Elementary School. Most of chil
dren in the class raise their hands.
Roseboro writes “Risk taking a
chance!” on the chalkboard. The students
eagerly write the slogan in their DARE
books, workbooks with pictures and ques
tions to encourage students to learn about
the program. One girl has even colored the
pictures in hers.
Roseboro discusses the positive and
negative consequences of taking a risk with
the students. They also talk about choices
and how family, peers, media and values
affect the decisions they make.
“The main thing that I’d like for people
to understand about DARE is that it’s a
growing skills course, ” Roseboro said dur
ing an interview outside of class.
The program, which targets elementary
schoolchildren, teaches kidshowto handle
stressful situations, including saying nolo
drugs and alcohol, Roseboro said.
“We teach them how to handle it, how
to cope,” he said. “We believe that if a
person feels good about themselves, they
won’t harm themselves on purpose.”
Children need to understand that every
decision they make is important, Roseboro
said. “Everything you do is going to have
a set of consequences attached to it.”
Carrboro Elementary students
Laquentin, Wesley, Jeremy and Blake said
they liked Roseboro because he was fun
and made them laugh. “He cheers us up
when we’re down,” Jeremy said.
Carolina Indian Circle
Sponsors Cultural Week
BYALIBEASON
STAFF WRITER
The Carolina Indian Circle will cel
ebrate its eighth annual cultural week this
week beginning with a dance workshop
Tuesday.
The group’s purpose is to express the
concerns of UNC Native Americans. CIC
also helps the Office of University Affairs
with minority recruitment projects and
serves as a support group for Native Ameri
cans on campus.
The cultural week begins at 7 p.m. Tues
day in Gerrard Hall with a dance work
shop and a film on the origins of pow
wows. CIC Members will teach traditional
dances to the audience after the film.
At 7 p.m. Wednesday the keynote
speaker, Chancellor Joseph Oxendine from
Pembroke State University, will speak in
the Upendo Lounge of Chase Hall on
Native Americans and education.
Pembroke State University, in Robeson
County, was the firstNative-American state
university, and Oxendine is the only Na
tive-American chancellor in the state.
Sandra Whittemore, a nurse from
Cumberland County, will speak about
AIDS prevention at 7:30p.m. Thursday in
UNIVERSITY & CITY
department’s five maintenance workers
begin painting and upgrading the oldest
units and gradually work up to the newest.
The proposed system would call for all
units to be painted and inspected at least
every five years, she said.
The local funds would supplement the
public housing program, which has relied
completely on federal funds since 1987.
Those funds are dwindling each year,
Vaughnsaid. “Our revenues can’t keep up
with the costs,” she said.
Vaughn will propose expenditures of
$1.07 million for 1994-95 at Wednesday
night’s town budget meeting. Proposed
funding for these expenditures is $639,063
from the U.S. Department of Housing and
Urban Development and $430,972 in rev
enues from rent payments and interest.
These expenditures cover only day-to
day operations, Vaughn said. Additional
funding is needed for maintenance.
Town Manager Cal Horton agreed that
more funding was needed. “A major ques
tion for the council this year is what kind of
local funds are available,” he said.
Council member Lee Pavao said he
would judge whether the request should be
approved after he had more information
Former Los Angeles police Chief Daryl
Gates started DARE in 1983. The pro
gram now has expanded to all 50 states.
North Carolina is one of five states that
receives federal grant funds for a regional
DARE training center.
Fifth-grade students in the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City Schools receive weekly
DARE training for 17 weeks.
Roseboro said DARE officers used role
playing to teach students responses to dif
ferent situations. “We teach them how to
be assertive and state what their rights are
without violating other people’s rights.”
Chapel Hill DARE officer Matt Sullivan
said DARE offered children a favorable
view of police officers.
“The most important thing about DARE
is it presents a police officer as a positive
role model in a classroom setting, ” he said.
“They’ll carry these feelings about the po
lice department for life. If a DARE officer
goes into a neighborhood, kids will mn up
to you and hug your neck.”
Because of DARE, children are starting
to feel these positive attitudes toward other
police officers, Sullivan said. “It’s opening
up lines of communication.”
According to Roseboro, the DARE pro
gram definitely had helped children learn
to communicate with the police. Two years
ago, a car approached two of his students
as they walking home, and the car’s
passengers’bffered the two students drugs.
The students said no. As the car drove
away, the students wrote down the license
number of the car and called Roseboro.
The police were able to determine who
was in the car, but didn’t find any drugs.
Although the high school students in the
car said they were just playing a joke,
Roseboro made them attend a DARE class
and apologize to the students for their
behavior. “It was a real learning experi
ence for everybody involved.”
Sullivan said he also noticed his stu
dents using the techniques he taught in
class. He said he had seen some students
Room 206 of the Student Union.
Whittemore deals with AIDS patients with
open wounds. Whittemore will present a
slide show on the effects of AIDS.
“It’s very effective; you'll never have
sex again,” said Jamie Goins, CIC trea
surer.
CIC will host a banquet for members at
7 p.m. Friday to honor graduating seniors
and induct next year’s president.
A traditional pow-wow, open to the
public, is planned for Saturday in the Great
Hall at 11 a.m. and ending around 6 p.m.
Inthemiddleofthepow-wow will be an
arena for dancing, where people will sing
and dance to the beat of a huge drum.
“We dance in a circle,’’Goins said. The
circle, which represents life, is used as a
way of praying to the Great Spirit, she said.
“We get together and we dance. There’s
singing and trading,” Goins said.
Dance groups have been invited from
all across the state. Some of the dancers
will be dressed in Native-American rega
lia. Traders bring jewelry, arts and crafts
and other goods to sell at the pow-wow.
Some people on campus believe that the
Native American culture is dead, Goins
said. “That’s what the whole week is for, to
let others know about us.”
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TMA VAUGHN
Chapel Hill Department of Housing and
Community Development director
on the proposal. “It’s probably a reason
able request,” he said.
If the request is approved, the council
will allocate tax money as a last resort,
Pavao said.
“We will look at community develop
ment funds first,” he said. “If additional
funds are needed, we’ll have to look at the
general fund, which would include prop
erty taxes collected.”
Tuesday’s meeting fulfilled promises
made by both Horton and Mayor Ken
Broun to include public housing residents
in decision-making when the advisory
board invited residents to participate in the
budget discussion.
But only three residents attended the
meeting. Residents’ Council Chairwoman
Joann Shirer and member Maxecine
Mitchell were unable to attend because of
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Carrboro police DARE officer Darryl Roseboro talks with children at Carrboro Elementary School after one of his
presentations. The DARE course teaches schoolchildren how to deal with stressful situations.
using violence prevention methods that
the DARE program teaches. “Instead of
hitting someone, they say ‘I feel angry.’”
Students also leam about drags in their
health classes, Sullivan said. “That’s what
makes our program unique,” he said. “I
know that in a lot of areas DARE is the
only program.”
Janet Turyn, who teaches one of the
classes that Roseboro visits, said that
3 Students Finalists for Truman Scholarship
STAFF REPORT
UNC is the only school to have three
students named recently as finalists for this
year’s $30,000 Truman scholarships.
Finalists are juniors Myles Presler, from
Lexington, Ky.; Garrett Martin, from
Staunton, Va.; and Jason Cox, from
Clayton.
They will go on to an interview round,
and winners will be announced in late
March.
UNC has been represented well in the
number of Truman Scholars. Harvard
University and UNC both have produced
five Truman Scholars in the past five years.
Last year, UNC students Dacia Toll,
from Bethesda, Md., and Jennifer Lloyd,
from Burlington, won the grants.
“It’s just terrific,” said Richard
McCormick, provost and executive vice
chancellor. “Obviously, it says a lot about
the quality of our students and the quality
of our education.”
The Truman Scholarship is designed to
prepare students for careers in government
or public service. Nominees are judged on
their academic achievement and commu
nity service. The 70 to 80 scholarships
awarded each year provide money for use
during the winners’ final year of under
graduate study or for graduate school.
A Truman Scholarship is given to one
student per state per year. A few states, like
North Carolina, receive more than one if
a commitment to attend a minority leader
ship workshop, they said.
Shirer said she suspected the turnout
was low because previous meetings in
volving the housing staff had disillusioned
residents. “They tell us what they already
decided and ask if we have anything to
add,” she said.
Residents were encouraged in recent
years when the housing department re
ceived two federal grants totaling $187,000
to fight crime and drag addiction, Vaughn
said. But much of that money remains
unspent.
The Chapel Hill Police Department is
negotiating with the hodling department
for the unspent portion, said police spokes
woman Jane Cousins. About eight months
ago, the housing department began using
the grant money to hire off-duty police
officers to patrol public housing areas on
weekends and nights, Cousins said.
“They looked for people loitering or
drinking in the parking lot and enforced
trespassing orders,” she said. “They talked
to residents to find out what was going on
and what needed to be done.”
But about two weeks ago, the program
was discontinued, Cousinssaid. “Itwasn’t
DARE was a good program for her stu
dents because they learned about conse
quences of illegal behavior.
The time Roseboro spends with stu
dents outside of the classroom adds to the
program, Turyn said. Roseboro goes on
field trips with the class, attends student
awards banquets and helps students with
book reports. “He is such a positive influ
ence on these children,” she said.
Juniors Myles Presler, Garrett Martin and Jason Cox are congratulated by
Provost Richard McCormick on being finalists for the Truman Scholarship.
they have a large population.
UNC nominates three students each
year. Nominees turn in a written applica
tion consisting of 15 short-answer ques
tions and must write an 800-word public
policy analysis.
Presler has designed his own interdisci
plinary major, “Community Development
and Social Change.”
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as productive as we had hoped,” she said.
“It was sort of hit and miss.”
Two new programs will take its place,
Cousins said. Under the first plan, which
includes the entire town, officers will be
assigned an area in which they will spend
their time when they’re not answering calls.
“This will increase the number of on
duty officers in public housing neighbor
hoods,” Cousins said.
The other plan calls for adding a posi
tion for an officer to work primarily in
public housing. “We are negotiating to get
the rest of the money from the grant to hire
an officer,” Cousins said.
Vaughn said she was not certain how
much of the $187,000 remained, but she
said it was less than $70,000. That figure
did not include money that is obligated but
not yet paid.
The money has also supported a neigh
borhood basketball team and haspaid three
public housing residents and one resident
activity coordinator to plan neighborhood
activities, Vaughn said.
The deadline for spending the money
from the first grant was extended from
December 1993 to June 1994. The second
grant’s deadline is January 1995.
Student teacher Monica McKinney said
she thought the program helped the stu
dents at Carrboro Elementary. “They re
ally enjoy it,” McKinney said. “I think
they get a lot out of it.”
Students agreed that having the weekly
classes were fun and made learning excit
ing. “It’s not really boring,” said Kelly, a
fifth-grader in the class. “He makes it film
and exciting. It’s real cool.”
He serves as program director for Com
munity House, the local homeless shelter,
and has helped develop a national literacy
campaign as a member of the national
Student Coalition for Action and Literacy
Education.
Cox, a political science major, and
Martin, an international studies major,
were unavailable for comment Sunday.
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