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Sty* Sailg ®ar Ibri n ROUNDUP University Tuesday, Jan. 10 ■ A woman reported someone was fol lowing her at the Health Affairs Parking Deck at 1:40 a.m, according to University police reports. The victim said a vehicle had followed her from Pittsboro to the University, and a small Ford with headlights caught her at tention, reports state. According to reports, just before the entrance of the parking deck she pulled over on West Drive, as did the suspect’s vehicle. The car remained there for approxi mately five seconds and then went around her, reports state. The suspect is believed to be a black male with brown eyes and possibly with facial hair, reports state. The suspect’s car is a 1992 teal Ford with license plate UNK, reports state. ■ A UNC student reported at 11:30 p .m. that she had received harassing phone calls at Kenan Residence Hall, according to University police reports. The victim asked the subject what num ber he was trying to call and whom he wished to reach, reports state. The suspect asked to speak to Carla, and she told him Carla didn’t live there, reports state. The suspect then told the victim that she had written Carla up and that it was not right for her to do so, reports state. According to reports, the victim had reported Carla for breaking a dorm rule. The subject threatened the victim during the conversation, reports state. ■ According to University reports, po lice arrested Ronald Lee Greene, 29, of 100 W. Rosemary St. in Chapel Hill at Student Stores on two misdemeanor counts of lar ceny and three counts of forgery. He was placed under a SSOO unsecured bond and is scheduled to appear in court Jan. 26, reports state. Greene was also placed under a SSOO secured bond for the forgery charges and held in Orange County Jail. Monday, Jan. 9 ■ Judy Ann Gwyrm, 35, of 612 Tucker Street Apartments in Burlington was charged at 10:17 p.m. with obtaining a controlled substance by fraud, according to police reports. 8 The suspect tried to pass herself off as .Someone’s niece so that she could obtain some Percoset, reports state. An unsecured bond was set at SI,OOO. ■ According to University police re ports, someone stole money from an unse cured pocketbook at 2:28 p.m. at the Am bulatory Care Center on Mason Farm Road. When the victim was called in for a biopsy, she put her clothing and her be longings in a locker, reports state. When she came back, she took her be longings out of the locker and was just about to change back into her clothes when her doctor wanted hertohavesome X-rays done, according to reports. The victim left her belongings out, and when she returned, $35 was missing from her pocketbook, reports state. City Wednesday, Jan. 11 ■ Two UNC students were charged with underage possession of alcohol and pos session of a fictitious license just before 1 a.m. at University Square, 143 W. Franklin St, Chapel Hill police reports state. James Michael Lowell, 18, of 539 Hinton James Residence Hall was charged and released by Chapel Hill police at 1 a.m. after police seized his alcohol, according to reports. Police charged Mark Alden Johnson, 18, of 611 Ehringhaus Residence Hall with having a fictitious Louisiana license and possession of a malt beverage by a person less than 19 at 12:45 a.m., police reports state. Johnson was leaving Ken’s Quickee Mart when he was stopped carrying two cases of beer, according to Chapel Hill Police reports. Tuesday, Jan. 10 ■ A Clarion car AM/FM stereo CD player was stolen from an automobile parked at a residence at 200 Melville Loop at 7:33 a.m., according to Chapel Hill police reports. The unknown suspect broke the rear side window of the car, which was valued at $75. The suspect then stole the stereo valued at S3OO, according to police re ports. Monday, Jan. 9 ■ At 10:31 a.m, police received reports that a pocketbook had been stolen from a pedestrian on the sidewalk at Willow Drive and Conner Drive. The suspect snatched the purse and fled on foot, reports state. The purse, valued at S2O, contained keys, credit cards and $lO in cash. ■ Police received a report of a suspi cious condition at 309 S. Estes Dr. at 10:31 a.m., reports state. An unknown person had raked the yard and then left a note, according to reports. ■ An unknown suspect threw a rock through the window of Sycamore Pre school, located at 110 N. Elliott Rd., and entered the building, police reports state. A cordless telephone with an answering machine, valued at SIOO, was stolen. Dam age to the window is estimated at SSO, reports state. FROM STAFF REPORTS Local Skaters Take Next Step to Get Facilities Plan for Skateboarding Park to Go Before Parks And Recreation Commission BY LAURA GODWIN STAFF WRITER Forty people turned out Tuesday night at a Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Department meeting to voice their support for a local skateboarding park. The meeting was intended to give the department an idea not only of the level of interest but also of what type of park the skaters wanted. “I wanted to confirm inter est in the facility, said Mike Loveman, * • ~ ~ v ■, r ' * I * ’s . 1 ’ ' ' fli i<: ‘ ! ‘-*s^ '. -f ***** ' • . . DTH/KATIE CANNON Jamie Black winds down after class on the front porch of the Zeta Psi house. Students are having a hard time getting back into the swing of things after leisurely holidays. County Jail Finalizes Plans To Increase Size, Security BYKAREN WILLIAMS STAFF WRITER The plans for the improvement of the Orange County Jail have been completed and approved, but the date for construc tion has not been set, according to Orange County officials. The addition will help to improve the jail’s security and will increase the capacity to hold more prisoners. Officials said the approval of the exten sion to the jail had nothing to do with the suicides of inmates Dale Lee Allen and Orlando Jesus Pena. Allen was found dead in his cell hanging by a phone cord on Sept. 17, and Pena was found Dec. 23 hanging from a shower curtain rod by a noose he had braided from his sheet’s elastic. Pam Jones, director of Orange County central services and project coordinator for the new jail, said it was only a coincidence that the new addition was approved soon after the suicides. “The project was begun out of sheer need for bed space, ” she said. Moses Carey, chairman of the Orange County Board of Commissioners, said plans for the improvements had been go ing on for three years. Carey said the main reason for the expansion was to accommo date the increase in prisoner population. “The jail population has been running above capacity for three years.” Capt. Joe Dickey of the Orange County Sheriffs Department said he agreed that overcrowding had been a problem in the jail for several years. The current jail is built to house 71 prisoners, but there are about 90 prisoners in the jail at this time, Dickey said. “Our population has been progressivelygrowing. Wehavemattresses, and they sleep on the floor,” he said. The improvements, which have been approved by the Orange County commis sioners, will include 25 to 30 new cells. There will be some single cells and some dormitory-style cells. The addition should add 56 new beds to the jail, raising the capacity to 127 prisoners. Jail security is another reason behind the new addition. “The addition will im prove the staffs ability to manage a large number of prisoners,” Carey said. Dickey said the unique design of the new addition would improve the staffs UNIVERSITY & CITY parks and recreation director. “It was a good, open discussion about the possibilities. There were lots of parents and skaterc there,” Loveman said. “It was a good mix of people.” Matt Peterson, a 17-year-old skate boarder at Chapel Hill High School, came away from the meeting with mixed emo tions. “Mike Loveman has put a great deal of effort into the park, but a lot more work needs to be done,” Peterson said. The group was unanimous in its deci sion to use a Fayetteville skateboard park as an example to consider when designing the potential Chapel Hill park. “We talked about the setup in Fayetteville, and all agreed it was a good model,” Loveman said. Orange County Board of Commissioners Chairman MOSES CARY said jail improvements have been in planning for three years. abilitytoobserveprisoners. “The cell blocks and beds will be situated so that the control room is in the center, allowing the officer to observe the entire area,” he said. Dickey also said the new facilities would require less manpower per prisoner to manage. The extension, he said, would require that additional staff be hired but not as many new officers as would be required if the jail had been designed with out the new central control room. Carey said the addition was funded by two federal grants equaling $2 million. Both of these grants were given to Orange County by the Federal Marshal’s Office. John Link, county manager, said some of the inmates in the Orange County Jail were federal prisoners. He said this was the reason the Federal Marshal’s Office had agreed to grant the money to make the necessary improvements. Neither Carey nor Jones knew when the construction on the extension would be gin. Carey said, “The plans are pretty well settled now, but I don’t know when we’ll break ground.” The Parks and Recreation Department came to the meeting with two potential sites for the park in mind: the existing Cedar Falls Park and the Northern Com munity Park that will be completed in three years. Loveman said the group was in favor of building the park into Cedar Falls. Loveman explained that existing parks with playground equipment would not be consideredfor the possible skateboardpark. “We can’t use a park with playground equipment because of the liability. It (the skateboarding park) has to have a different setup for management and operation,” Loveman said. Peterson said the meeting was side tracked when possible park locations were Faculty Council to Consider Computer Network Policy Demonstration Will Focus on Users’ Responsibilities BYMICHAEL HATCH STAFF WRITER The associate provost for in formation technology is going to help the University navigate the transition into the informa tion age. In other words, he’s going to help the faculty surf the ’net. William Graves will present a policy framework for the University’s computer network titled “Electronic Rights and Responsibilities” foracceptance at the Faculty Council meeting at 3 p.m. Friday. Arm Parker, deputy director of the Office of Information Technology, said Wednesday that Graves’ presentation would include examples of electronic information and a discussion of the proposal for the University’s computer network. The council meeting will be held in 209 Manning Hall, one of the University’s “master classrooms” that has computer large-screen projection and network access. “Friday’s meeting will be a demonstration of the information superhighway and the electronic network on campus,” Faculty Council Chairwoman Jane Brown said Wednesday. Brown said the Information Resources Coordinat ing Council, which is headed by Graves, had pro duced the new policy. “They have come up with a policy on the Informa tion superhighway," she said. One reason the Faculty Council is meeting to discuss the information superhighway is that many faculty members are still not familiar with the technol ogy, Brown said. “The meeting’s objective is to educate the faculty on what’s now available and what the new policies are,” she said. In the memo sent to Brown, Graves said the new policy described the nature of the University’s net work and proposed a set of Universitywide rights and Grocery Proceeds Will Benefit BCC Wellspring Grocery Gives Portion of MLK Day Sales To Outreach Program BY NANCY FONTI ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR AND ADAM GUSMAN UNIVERSITY EDITOR Students who want to help out needy children in the area can go grocery shop ping between 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. Monday at the Wellspring grocery store. “Every year, Wellspring Grocery has a fund-raising project in memory of Martin Luther King Jr., and this year they’ve cho sen to donate the money to Communiversity,” said Rhonda Miller, co director of Communiversity and a member of the Black Cultural Center. Communiversity is a program for chil dren between the ages of 8 and 12 who live in local public housing, Miller said. Volunteers from the BCC, which spon Students Still Scrambling to Find Open Glasses BY AMY REAVIS STAFF WRITER Deans and advisers from the College of Arts and Sciences and the General College have been busy this week helping students get into the classes they want. Bobbi Owen, dean of arts and sciences, has helped several students get into classes this week. She started Sunday when the University was open on that day for the first time in the more than 20 years that she has been here. “We saw over 100 juniors and seniors on Sunday,” she said. “The registrar is providing us with a list of classes that are still open daily,” Owen said. This list better allows advisers to get students into classes because it shows them exactly what is still open and how many spaces there are, she said. Caroline, UNC’s telephonic registration, will be open for students until Friday, she said. “If students need to add classes after Friday, they will have to have written per mission from the instructor,” Owen said. David Lanier, University registrar, sends class availability lists to Owen and the list of waitlisted students to individual depart debated. “We are hoping we can do it (the park) at Cedar Falls,” he said. Loveman was also concerned about funding for the facility. Since the skate board park is anew idea, Chapel Hill has not placed it into the budget, therefore, funding could be a big hurdle to overcome. Gary Barnes, vice chairmanoftheparks and recreation commission, although en thusiastic about the idea of a park dedi cated to skateboarders, is concerned about where to find the funding for the park. “Funding is a big issue,” Barnes said. “I think we should try to meet all of the recreational needs of Chapel Hillians, but funding is a problem,” he said. Peterson said funding should not be a problem because area skaters were willing p * Z ÜBagT] 0* jMT jL Faculty Council Chairwoman JANE BROWN said faculty members needed to learn more about the information superhighway. sots the program, tutor children on the weekends and teach them about black his tory. Five percent of the profits made from thegroceriessoldonMondaywillgotothe Communiversity program, Miller said. She said the amount of money the group would receive depended on the amount of groceries sold. “The more groceries people go out and buy, themoremoney we’llget,” said Miller, a junior from White Plains, N.Y. “It has the potential to be a sizable donation.” “We haven’t decided what we will do with the money yet,” Miller said. “Communiversity needs money for so many different things, like supplies and books. “We think that this program is impor tant because by helping these children, we’re helping ourselves,” Miller said. “We’re all in the same community.” Miller said Communiversity also taught the children about black history, which is not stressed enough in public schools, even ments. “We sent a copy of the waitlists to de partments from preregistration,” he said. Because classes have already started, waitlisting is no longer in effect, Lanier said. Students who are waitlisted may or may not get into a class. Some departments can elect to not have a waitlist, he said. Elizabeth Ann Ford, administrative manager in the biology department, said that it was each individual instructor’s de cision whether to have a waiting list. Some students have found it difficult to get into biology classes. Freshman Sree Degala said she had tried to get into a biology class that could h01d245 students but already had 98 people on the waiting list. “I only had seven hours when I finished Caroline,” Degala said. “I had to go ask professors to get into class and sat in on classes, and then I was referred to department heads,” she said. “I finally got 14 hours,” she said. Sophomore Mira Boone also had trouble getting classes. “Overcrowding is the main problem,” Thursday, January 12,1995 to help with the construction of the park. The next step in the future of the skate boarding park will be a meeting Wednes day evening of the parks and recreation commission. If the commission agrees to move forward with the park, it will begin working on a recommendation to bring to a regular business meeting of the Chapel Hill Town Council in February. Barnes cautioned that no plans for the skateboard park could be considered definite until the commission met next week. Peterson said he was hopeful he and his friends would have a place to skate in the near future. “I’m optimistic. I gave my petitions with 137 signatures (in support of the park) to Mike Loveman. Hopefully, it will help.” responsibilities. Graves said the policy was only a framework for the indi vidual departments to use to create their own policies and practices. The new policy will change many of the University’s cur rent practices, Parker said. “All official information placed on the network will be come property of the Univer sity, not the individual depart ments . They (individual depart ments) would serve as stew ards.” Parker also said the indi vidual departments would be expected to publish all institu tional information on the Uni versity network. Graves stated in his memo that this would include all in formation about students, fac ulty members, unit expenditures and other fiscal activities at tbe University. This information would be accessible to anyone who uses the Internet. • Not all information on the network will be acces sible, however. ; All information placed on the network will be considered private unless it is considered official Uni versity business, Parker said. The Faculty Council will also receive reports Fri day from three faculty committees—the Building add Grounds, Faculty Hearings, and Status of Womfn committees. • The Building and Grounds Committee will report on the current and planned construction and renowi tion it oversaw during 1994. According to its report, 15 projects, with a tosd value of $ 102 million, were constructed or were still in the process of being constructed. In addition, 28 projects totalling $ 147 million are In the design stages. ! The Faculty Hearings Committee will report <Jn various cases involving faculty discipline. The Status of Women Committee will talk about the University’s continued progress in increasing the overall number ofwomen faculty and their presence in various administrative and faculty positions at the University. in February, the month designated as Black History Month. Miller said she was dissatisfied with the exposure she received when she was young. “When I was in school, I learned about the same people every February, and the history of black people before slavery is ignored as well,” Miller said. Wellspring chose to honor Martin Luther King, Jr. by giving to Communiversity because it leads to a more positive self-image for its participants. “We present new information to the kids that makes them feel good about them selves.” About 25 students participate in Communiversity every Saturday. They also leam dances, songs and cul tural lessons, Miller said. The program was formed in 1991 by Michelle Thomas and another UNC stu dent in an effort to bridge the gap between black students on campus, she added. ! Wellspring Grocery is located at 81S. Elliott Road in the Village Plaza Shopping Center in Chapel Hill. Boonesaid. “lonly got three hours through Caroline when I called. “I had to sit in on classes to get more hours, but I got classes I didn’t really want, ” Boone said. But Boone only has nine hours of classes, and she said she needed a full load to get her scholarship money. Still, she remained optimistic. “The way I see it, they have to give me 12 hours or I can’t get my scholarship money,” Boone said. “There are just too many people wanting classes," she said. Karen Henry, administrative manager of the psychology department, said me thought her department had a system in place that did a fair job of getting students the classes they wanted. After the first day of classes, the psy chology department starts controlled en rollment and does not allow registration through Caroline, she said. Students who are signed up for a class but don’t show up for the first two are automatically dropped, allowing room for others to enroll, Henry said. “A lot of students are not able to get i*to classes because of limited resources.” I 3
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