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Sunday, Oct 23
■ A woman working in a Venable Hall
laboratory reported that the ceiling fell in
at 10:30 a.m., University police reports
state. The hole, a result of water damage,
was 45 feet long and 5 feet wide, reports
state. According to reports, there were signs
of water damage throughout the lab.
Saturday, Oct 22
■ University Police responded to a call
from a woman who said she had witnessed
a man in the William and Ida Friday Cen
ter for Continuing Education pushing a 2-
year-old child up against a vending ma
chine and striking him, reports state.
The woman told the police the man
then had carried the child into the bath
room and had continued to abuse him,
reports state. After questioning the man
and looking over the child, they let the man
go, reports state.
■ University Police arrested Sharon Bra
dley, 26, of McLeansville at the Ronald
McDonald House after she struck a man
with a glass bottle, reports state. The as
sault occurred after a dispute about smok
ing in the bathroom, reports state.
Friday, Oct 21
■ According to University police re
ports, the archery targets at Ehringhaus
Field were stolen at 3:41 p.m. The targets,
which replaced archery targets stolen in
September, are valued at $ 194, reports state.
■ A mountain bike was reported dam
aged at 1:25 p.m. near Cobb Residence
Hall, reports state. The bike’s backrim was
bent, University police reports state.
■ Anothermountain bike was damaged
at 3:02 p.m. in front of Whitehead Resi
dence Hall, University police reports state.
The bike’s front and back wheels were
bent, its lock was busted and its frame was
dented, reports state.
■ Anothermountainbike was damaged
behind Old East Residence Hall at 3:52
p.m., University police reports state.
The victim said she had parked her bike
behind Old East because it had a flat tire.
When she returned, her seat had been
stolen and her rear tire and rim had been
bent, reports state. There was SBO worth of
damage, according to reports.
Thursday, Oct 20
■ University Police found an intoxi
cated UNC student sitting next to Silent
Sam at 11:55 p.m., reports state.
After questioning him, they escorted
the student back to his Morrison Resi
dence Hall room, reports state.
■ University Police received a call at
10:41 p.m. from a UNC staff member who
said she had been harassed by two black
males on her way to her car, reports state.
As she walked along the north side of
Carroll Hall, she said she was approached
by the two suspects, who sang about ran
domly killing somebody, reports state. She
said she was intimidated, reports state.
City
Saturday, Oct 22
■ Chapel Hill police received a report
that a customer had tried to leave the N.C.
54 Mobil Mart without paying for his gas.
The suspect initially said that he would pay
for two tanks of gas, reports state.
According to reports, the suspect was
located and payment was made.
■ An employee of Airport & Intown
Taxi on West Rosemary Street reported at
4:56 p.m. that a passenger had run from the
taxicab without paying the fare, reports
state. The suspect was located, and the taxi
driver made arrangements for payment.
■ Jeny Maurit Baldwin, 19, of 500 #7
S. Greensboro St. in Carrboro was arrested
at Johnson and Crest streets at 10:30 p.m.
for operating a motorcycle without a li
cense, reports state.
Chapel Hill police pulled Baldwin over
when they saw him riding a motorcycle
without a helmet. When they asked for his
license, he said he did not have one, reports
state. Baldwin was released on a $l5O
unsecured bond and will appear in court
on Nov. 29.
■ Police responded to a report of an
assault in front of 416 W. Franklin St. at
4:34 a.m., reports state. A Trinity Court
resident said that an acquaintance had
stabbed him with a pencil, reports state.
Friday, Oct 21
■ A resident of Huntington Drive in
Chapel Hill reported at 4:46 p.m. that his
mailbox had been stolen, police reports
state. The mailbox had been tom from the
post. The resident last saw the mailbox
intact at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
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School Board to Pay $4,500 for New Ballots
BY DEAN HAIR
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
AND JENNIFER FREER
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel HiU-Canboro Board of
Education officially accepted LaVonda
Burnette’s resignation and voted unani
mously to have the ballots reprinted since
a recall vote is no longer a possibility.
The school board voted 6-0 to accept
Burnette’s resignation. Burnette was not
present at the meeting.
“I’m very relieved it is all over,” school
board Chairman Ken Touw said. “I wish it
could have been resolved earlier, for the
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Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. sponsored the sixth annual Morrison Sleepout for the Homeless. The event began with
music and touch football and ended with a chilly night's sleep.
Students Sleep Out to Help Raise
Money for Local Homeless Shelter
BYRACHAELLANDAU
STAFF WRITER
Friday night was camp-out night for
many students at UNC, but not all of them
slept outside to get basketball tickets.
Members of Alpha Phi Alpha Frater
nity Inc. and other students slept on card
board boxes during the sixth annual
Morrison Sleepout for the Homeless to
raise money for the Inter-Faith Council
Homeless Shelter in Chapel Hill, located
on the comer of Columbia and Rosemary
streets.
“The sleepout is a symbolic gesture of
the plight of the homeless,” said Lee
Richardson, president of Alpha Phi Al
pha. “A lot of people don’t identify or
don’t want to identify with the homeless.”
Every year, the fraternity gives at least
Town Disbands 7 Crime
Task Force Committees
BYALEXPODLOGAR
STAFF WRITER
Seven of the nine committees that for
mally make up the Chapel Hill crime pre
vention task force will be officially dis
banded, the task force’s coordinating com-
mittee decided re
cently.
The coordinat
ing committee,
which consists of
representatives
from each of the
nine committees,
decided there was
no longer a need for
seven of the nine
committees. Two
committees, the
Youth Committee
and the Law En
forcement Commit
tee, will continue
the fight against sub
stance abuse.
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Town Council member
ROSEMARY
WALDORF said most
of the crime prevention
task force committees
had fulfilled their
purpose.
“Over the last three or four months, it
UNIVERSITY & CITY
school board and LaVonda.”
Burnette delivered her letter of resigna
tion to Superintendent Neil Pedersen on
Oct. 14.
The board will have to pay an estimated
s4,sooforreprintingtheballots,theboard’s
attorney, John McCormick, said. “If her
name had been allowed to stay on the
ballot, people would count it (although it
is no longer an issue),” McCormick said.
“This is an issue that the school board and
the community would like to see closed.”
The Orange County Board of Elections
would have forced the school board to pay
a higher fee if Burnette’s name had been
allowed to remain on the ballot. Printing
SI,OOO to the shelter no matter how many
pledges they get, Richardson said.
“There is a lot of apathy among people
who have economic mobility toward the
homeless,” he said.
Alpha Phi Alpha, which sponsored the
event, collected pledges throughout the
week in the Pit and during the pre-camp
out donation drive and entertainment.
Many students stopped by throughout
the night to show their support, but only
the hard-core supporters were there at about
2 a.m. to camp out. About 20 Alpha Phi
Alpha members and other supporters re
treated to their cardboard boxes and blan
kets to get in a few hours of sleep before
they left for their regular service projects.
Mark Lee, a member of Alpha Phi Al
pha who organized the event, said the
sleepout had been successful. “The idea of
became evident that we needed to assess
where we were, and if we needed to con
tinue,” said Rosemary Waldorf, a town
council member and chairwoman of the
coordinating committee.
Most of the committees had completed
their tasks and no longer needed to con
tinue working, she said. Some of the prob
lems could not be addressed because of the
need for changes in state law, Waldorf
said.
The Chapel Hill Task Force was origi
nally formed four years ago with the pur
pose of examining the causes of crime and
ways to prevent it. The notable increase in
violent crime, especially in the downtown
areas, prompted efforts to fight crime.
The task force at first focused on drug
abuse. Later, the group realized that major
crimes were also related to alcohol abuse,
she said.
“For about a year and a half, roughly 25
people worked diligently,” Waldorf said.
“Soon the task force realized that more
needed to be done and after recommenda-
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the new ballots would be cheaper for the
board, McCormick said.
“This (ballot) does not really need to
give people more to talk about or discuss,”
school board member Judith Ortiz said.
“We need to put this to an end.”
The school board will discuss the pro
cess for replacing Burnette at the next school
board meeting Nov. 3. The replacement
will be the person who best can fill the
vacancy until the next election in Nov.
1995, Touw said. “Hopefully, before the
end of the year we will have a replace
ment,” he said.
Burnette’s tenure on the school board
sparked a controversy when she was dis
a sleepout makes supporting the homeless
and raising money a tangible thing that
students can relate to,” he said.
Lee said the majority of students who
slept out were traditionally fraternity broth
ers or friends of the brothers. They get a lot
of support from other students who come
by the Pit to pledge money or who stop by
during the night to show their support, he
said.
Among those who camped out for the
homeless were George Battle, student body
president, and Philip Charles-Pierre, chief
of staff, who are both members of Alpha
Phi Alpha. Both said it was a nice break
from their normal hectic weekday activi
ties and meetings.
“I think it’s important that other organi-
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Senior Week to Offer Events for Everyone
BY STEVE MAGGI
STAFF WRITER
Seniors will have the opportunity to
attend a variety of events during Senior
Week, which will begin today and end
Saturday.
Parshant Dhiman, seniorclass vice presi
dent, said there would be something for
everyone during Senior Week.
“We have planned a variety of different
activities that appeal to all kinds ofpeople, ”
Dhiman said. “We want to encourage ev
ery senior to come out and participate in all
the activities.”
Sneha Shah, Senior Week chairwoman,
said the UNC-N.C. State football game
would be the focal point of Senior Week,
with activities building up to the game.
Andrea Bailey, senior class co-treasurer,
said that many senior classes had had a
problem being a close-knit unit and that
one of the goals of Senior Week was to
create cohesion among seniors.
“Wewantstudentstobeexcited,” Bailey
said. “Senior Week is about spirit, break
ing the normal routine and going out and
having fun."
Funding for Senior Week comes from
out of seniors’ student fees, Shah said. “It’s
only a dollar or two,” she said. “Therefore,
covered to have lied about her status as a
UNC student, which she billed herself as in
her election campaign last year.
The board voted unanimously in Janu
ary in favor of Burnette’s resignation, but
she refused, saying instead that she would
resign in July 1995.
She was to face a recall election Nov. 3.
Now that there is more time and energy
for school board members to focus on
other things, they plan on devoting their
energy to the coming year, Touw said.
“We want to focus on improving aca
demic achievements of all students,” he
said. The board wants to specifically ad
dress the problems faced by African-Ameri
Council to Consider
Alterations of 15-501
BYSUZANNEWOOD
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council is de
bating whether to enter the second phase of
the U.S. 15-501 corridor study, which
would involve looking into possible alter
ations in the mass-transit systems along
the route.
At a public hearing Wednesday at the
town hall, residents were given a chance to
respond to Phase I of a consulting team’s
corridor’s study, which examined the
highway’s present
traffic problems.
Some council mem
bers said they hoped
to enter Phase II of
the study to investi
gate the different
options for resolv
ing the problems.
Local residents
differed on what
they wanted to hap
pen to the corridor,
council member Joe
Capowski said.
“It’s mixed be
cause it is a real di
lemma,” he said.
’ i
Chapel Hill Mayor KEN
BROUN said he
thought there were
better solutions for the
15-501 corridor than a
six-lane highway.
“Some want it to be widened because it
would protect the neighborhoods from an
increase in traffic, but others oppose a
freeway because it would attract more cars
to the area.”
The council approved Phase I of the
study in January 1993. The study cost
Chapel Hill $15,670 and was completed in
February.
The study uncovered a need to improve
the present road and found that projected
traffic volumes in the 15-501 corridor ex
ceeded the capacity of the existing road
way.
Phase II of the study, which has not
been approved by the council yet, would
look into the impact of a mass-transit sys
tem on the highway.
“I support looking into other options
available, like a mass-transit system,”
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said. “I
think we should look at all the options. I
think there is a better solution than a six
lane highway. “There is a legitimate con
cern for the people living in the 15-501
area. Unless we change the present situa
tion, more traffic will be forced into the
surrounding residential areas.”
A member of the town Transportation
activities are exclusively for seniors paid
for by seniors.”
Shah said another Senior Week would
be held in the spring. The fall Senior Week
is special because it will enable seniors
graduating in December to receive the same
treatment as those who will graduate in
May, she said. “This is a week for all
seniors,” Shah said.
Another goal of Senior Week is to raise
money from seniors for the senior gift.
Information on the senior gift will be avail
able at all events, and seniors will have
opportunities to give donations, she said.
All seniors were sent a copy of “The
Tarheel Senior," a newsletter written for
senior class members. Dhiman said the
newsletter was sent out last week and in
cluded information on all Senior Week
activities.
Senior Week events will begin today
and conclude with Saturday’s game.
On Monday, “Grease” will be shown
from 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. in the Great Hall.
Popcorn and drinks will be served.
Tuesday’s activities begin with a Caro
lina Athletic Association chat in the Pit at
noon by women’s field hockey coach Karen
Shelton. At 8 p.m., Play Makers Repertory
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Monday, October 24,1994
can students, Touw said.
The board is considering several op
tions for fillingthe vacancy left by Burnette.
In the past, the board has selected the
next highest vote-getter in the most recent
election, McCormick said. Bea Hughes-
Wemer finished behind Burnette with4,69B
votes in the November election.
The board doesn’t have a set policy on
choosing replacements, however. One op
tion would be to screen applications from
this summer’s process to replace Ruth
Royster, who resigned and moved to Con
necticut.
The board also simply might invite some
one to join the board, McCormick said.
Board, who asked not to be identified, said
there were other ways besides expanding
the highway to solve the problem. One
option, a fixed-rail transit system, would
involve a bus running along a track in the
center lane of the highway.
At the end of the bus’s route, the rail
would end and the vehicle would ride on
the road like a regular city bus. It is hoped
this form of mass transit would reduce the
numbers of cars on the road, he said.
Capowski said there were three options
for dealing with the corridor.
“The first option is to leave it alone,
although it’s a mess,” he said. “The second
option would be an urban highway, which
means better organizing the existing lanes.
The third option is a six-lane freeway. ”
Capowski said that along with reorga
nizing the existing lanes, he would like to
examine the benefits of mass-transit sys
tems such as a small rail, which he said
could solve the problem.
The town manager will consider the
issue and will bring it back to the council
after having listened to the comments from
the public and the council. Then the coun
cil will decide whether or not to enter
Phase II of the study.
Capowski said there were three ways to
get from Chapel Hill to Durham. Com
muters can either take 15-501, Old Chapel
Hill Road or Erwin Road. Highway 15-
501 is congested with traffic now, and the
other routes are residential areas that could
see an increase of traffic if the corridor is
not improved, he said.
“There were various citizens who came
from across the county who didn’t want us
to close out of the option of a freeway,”
Town Council member Joyce Brown said.
However, making the corridor a six
lane highway to accommodate the traffic
flow would have an adverse effect on lrifcal
businesses, Brown said.
With an enlargement of the highway,
28 businesses would be forced to relocate
and 40 others would face access problems,
she said. Someofthe businesses thatwould
have to relocate would be Wendy’s,
Hardee’s and Central Carolina Bank. Busi
nesses that could remain would face prob
lems with their entrances along 15-501.
The widening of 15-501 to a six-lane
freeway could cost SIOO million or more,
Capowski said.
If approved, the expansionproject would
compete for funding with the work being
done on the section of Interstate 85 that
runs through northern Durham.
Senior Week *94
Monday- 'Grease.' 8 p.m. in the Great Hall.
Popcorn and drinks will be served.
Tuesday- CAA chat with UNC field hockey
coach Karen Shelton at noon in the Pit
Senior night at Play Makers: Seniors will
be given tickets at discount price (but
tickets must be purchased early) to see
the play "V 8 p.m.
Wednesday- CAA chat with UNC football
coach Mack Brown at noon in the Pit.
'Financing Grad School' seminar
at 8 p.m. in Union 226.
Ice cream study break at 9:30 p.m. in
the Great Hall.
Thursday- Senior night band party with
Dada Veda from 9 p.m. to midnight at
Pantana Bob’s. There will be food
and drink specials, and seniors under 21
will be admitted (but they must show
proof of senior status).
Friday- CAA pep rally at noon in the Pit
Special seating at the UNC Clef Hangers
concert at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
Saturday- UNC vs. N.C. State. First 500
seniors will get souvenir pompons.
DTH/CHRIS CRKMAN
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