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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Earthquake Devastation in
Japan Leaves 1,800 Dead
KOBE, Japan Japan’s nightmare of
a disastrous urban earthquake came true
Tuesday when a powerful quake tore
through several western cities, toppling
hundreds of buildings, touching off raging
fires and killing 1,800 people.
The devastation was worst in the port
city of Kobe, where the early morning
quake collapsed roadways, knocked trains
off their tracks, wrecked docks and severed
communications. Huge blazes still burned
20 hours after the quake, lighting the night
sky.
On the outskirts of the city, almost ev
ery home had collapsed. Ruptured gas
lines fueled fires in block after destroyed
block as burglar alarms shrilled in the night.
Chechen Leaders Say Talks
Progress; Fighting Rages
GROZNY, Russia Russian and
Chechen negotiators took a step Tuesday
toward a cease-fire in breakaway
Chechnya, where the bloody 5-week-old
war raged on. But many on both sides were
skeptical any agreement would hold.
In the streets
of Grozny, Experts Have
Chechen fighters Doubts About A
scornfully dis- Quick Resolution
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peace, saying they were merely a ruse to
fool world opinion while Moscow pre
pares new offensives.
A cease-fire last week broke down after
only several hours.
Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin
met Tuesday with two envoys from
Chechen President Dzhokhar Dudayev in
Moscow, a day after making a televised
appeal for peace.
Bosnia Issues Ultimatum
To U.N. Peacekeepers
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Croatia has already decided to kick out its
U.N. troops. Now Bosnia is threatening to
give 450 of its peacekeepers the boot if they
don’t open an airfield within two weeks.
The United Nations has been trying for
a year to persuade Serbs to allow U.N. aid
flights into the airfield outside Tuzla, 90
miles northeast of Sarajevo.
After the Bosnian capital, the city is the
largest held by the Muslim-led govern
ment —and like Sarajevo, it is surrounded
by Serbs.
The United Nations angered the gov
ernment last week when it allowed Serbs to
station an officer at the airfield as a guaran
tee against its military use. Still, Serbs have
refused to allow the aid flights.
Floods Cause at Least $l.B
Million in Damage to Roads
WINSTON-SALEM Floods during
the weekend caused at least $l.B million in
damage to roads in northwest North Caro
lina and washed away part of a controver
sial bridge project in Valle Cruris.
Ten inches of rain fell at Boone during
the weekend, and more than 14 inches fell
in the western part of Watauga County,
officials said. Grandfather Mountain in
Avery County had about 15 inches of rain
Friday and Saturday, but high wind made
exact measurements impossible.
The downpour caused creeks, streams
and lakes to overrun their banks.
By Monday,most ofthe rain hadstopped
and emergency crews were assessing the
damage.
Senior Democrat Thwarts
Movement on Amendment
WASHINGTON, D.C. —Sen. Robert
Byrd, one ofthe fiercest Democratic oppo
nents of a balanced budget amendment,
Tuesday temporarily thwarted Republican
efforts to advance the measure through
committee.
With the Senate Judiciary Committee
debating the measure, the West Virginia
Democrat invoked a little-used Senate rule
to object to the proceedings.
Under Senate rules, any senator may
block any committee from meeting more
than two hours after the Senate has con
vened for the day.
Republicans almost certainly will have
the votes they need to push the amendment
the centerpiece of their “Contract With
America” through Congress and to the
states for ratification.
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There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond and to know one’s self.
Benjamin Franklin
Council Hears Public on Commercial Growth
Two-Hour Debate Focuses
On Traffic, Tax Revenue
Increase, Store’s Relocation
BYRYAN THORNBURG
CITY EDITOR
In what is becoming an ever more press
ing issue for Chapel Hill, the Town Coun
cil heard more than two hours of public
input Tuesday night on a development
project that could increase traffic conges
tion on U.S. 15-501 but that also could
bring the town increased tax revenue.
Nearly 30 speakers addressed a capac
ity crowd at Chapel Hill Town Hall on the
proposed rezoning of eight acres in the
northeast comer ofthe intersection of Sage
Road and U.S. 15-501.
The proposed rezoning from residential
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Senior Anna Burdeshaw is led around campus by her guide, Deborah Padgett, as she walks blindfolded behind
Hamilton Hall Tuesday morning. The acting for nonmajors exercise was intended to teach students about trust.
No. 3 UNC,
No. 18 UVa.
Square Off
BYSTEVEROBBLEE
SENIOR WRITER
Call this Big Game No. 1 in the ACC
season for North Carolina.
After four games for each conference
team, the ACC pecking order has been
established —and Virginia is on top, fol
lowed closely by UNC.
The Cavaliers (10-3, 4-0 in the ACC)
will visit the m .. u nnn .
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night to play the liOStS n■ State
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p.m. The game will be televised nationally
on ESPN.
UVa.’s biggest win of the season came
Saturday when it upset Duke in in Durham
91-88 in double overtime. With the win,
the Cavs re-entered the Associated Press
poll this week at No. 18.
And perhaps more importantly, it was
Virginia’s third ACC road win this season.
“They’re probably in as good a shape as
anybody has been in several years if you
believe in the home and away theory, which
history will tell you is pretty accurate,”
UNC head coach Dean Smith said Mon-
See VIRGINIA, Page 7
Cluiml Hill. North Carolina
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18,1995
to community commercial conditional is
being looked at because of a planned relo
cation of Lowe’s hardware store, currently
located at 1710 E. Franklin St between
Elliott Road and Eastgate Shopping Cen
ter.
Lowe’s had placed full-page advertise
ments in local papers calling for residents
to speak at the public hearing in support of
the rezoning effort.
Charlie Williams, president and gen
eral manager of Lowe’s, told the council
that the current site of the hardware store
was insufficient to serve the community.
He indicated that if the rezoning measure
was not passed by the council, Lowe’s
would leave Chapel Hill.
“I would hate to see Lowe’s pull up and
move out because of denial of this zoning
protest,” Williams said.
Despite Williams’ thinly veiled threat
to pick up stakes and take tax revenues
Feeling Around
Why Do Coursepacks Cost So Much?
BYPETER ROYBAL
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
“Outrageous” is the word Jonathan Tepperused to describe the
$57 coursepack he bought at Student Stores last week, especially
since the royalties cost more than the copying.
Tepper would have preferred to copy the reading for his
political science class from the Undergraduate Library reserve
desk and save almost S3O, but __
he did not have the choice. SpcCloL Assi gTimCllt I
His professor had already ** j
packaged essential readings for
the semester into a coursepack and thus driven the freshman from
Spain into a rapidly growing industry —one that provides stu
dents with convenient access to current readings but leaves them
light in the wallet and stuck with a book that no one will buy back
at the end of the semester.
“Everyone deserves the fruit of their work, but they are milking
it for all it’s worth,” Tepper said.
Why So Expwtshn?
It’s hardly news that coursepacks cost a lot—in many cases as
much as textbooks. But what makes them cost so much? And how
do prices compare among local stores?
Prices vary according to two factors: what the store charges to
get copyright permission and produce the coursepack, and what
die copyright owners charge for use of their material.
On the first count, a Daily Tar Heel survey found that prices
vary dramatically from one store to the next. For example, an
LSAT Preparation coursepack with no copyrighted material cost
$6.55 at Student Stores but would cost $3.25 at Tar Heel Text
books, based on an order of 25 coursepacks. Other area stores
quoted prices from $3.50 to more than $5.
When comparing prices for coursepacks with copyrighted
materials, the issue becomes more complicated. This is because
the amount of labor required to get copyright permission varies
from one article to the next.
Whatever the labor required, all stores surveyed in Chapel Hill
down the freeway into Durham County,
three town advisory boards recommended
that the council deny the rezoning request.
Richard Franck, chairman ofthe Trans
portation Board, told the council that an
other large commercial establishment in
the area would increase traffic on already
congested local streets.
“The town’s growth should not grow
faster than the town’s ability to provide
services,” Franck said.
According to a memo from Chapel Hill
Town Manager Cal Horton to council
members, the development would add
8,000 cars daily to the freeway already
carrying nearly 40,000 cars a day.
But Orange-Chatham District Attorney
Carl Fox, who lives in the area of the
proposed shopping center, told the council
that even if the area were developed with
its current residential zoning, traffic in the
area would increase.
Price off Coursepacks Compared
Our survey found that the prices of coursepacks can vary
significantly from one store to the next for a small,
uncopyrighted coursepack.
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are on the high end of or above the national average of Bto 12 cents
per page quoted by Lori Jablonski, an official at the National
Association of College Publishers.
Student Stores charges an average of 14 cents per page, said
Gina Mahalek, course material manager at Student Stores. “Of
that 14 cents a page, 5 to 7 cents is royalties and the remainder is
the cost of printing and binding and getting permissions.”
TarHeelTextbooks, Copytron and C.O. Copies average about
11 cents per page, but they carry far fewer coursepacks than
Student Stores and are free to refuse to produce less profitable
coursepacks. Student Stores, on the other hand, is bound “to
provide educational materials for all students,” according to
Mahalek.
No Profit
Despite the high per-page price of coursepacks in Chapel Hill,
no one claims to make a profit from them, and, in fact, one major
area store found coursepacks to be such a hassle that it stopped
See COURSEPACK, Page 2
“Any successful use of that land, be it
residential or be it commercial, would in
crease traffic,” Fox said.
Chapel Hill-Canrboro school board
member Bea Hughes-Wemer said the coun
cil should take into consideration the fund
ing for local schools that would come from
the sales tax revenue generated by a major
home improvement store in Chapel Hill.
But the main question of the night was
one Chapel Hill grapples with more and
more asplansfortwo new schools, the 425-
acre Meadowmont development and an
expansion of the town’s physical borders
are also being considered.
Some residents who came to speak said
they were afraid Chapel Hill was losing its
small-town atmosphere.
“Don’t ask me to sacrifice my small
townforyourgardeningtools,” said David
Izzo, who moved to Chapel Hill from New
York. “Raise my taxes. I’ll pay them.”
University Appeals
Judge’s Ruling, Claims
Browning Delayed
BY ADAM GUSMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The University is appealing a judge’s
Jan. 5 ruling that declared invalid the State
Personnel Commission’s decision against
former housekeeper Eric Browning.
Browning’s attorney, A1 McSurely, re
ceived Tuesday the University’s appeal of
Superior Court Judge Narley Cashwell’s
ruling.
The appeal, signed Thursday by state
Attorney General Michael Easley and
Associate Attorney General Tom Ziko,
claimed that the University had never re
ceived notice that the previous recom
mended decision of an administrative law
judge was indeed the final decision.
In the appeal, the University petitioned
the Wake County Superior Court tor re
versal of the decision of Administrative
Law Judge Fred Morrison, who ruled in
May that Browning be reinstated with back
pay and legal fees.
“This petition is timely ... because it is
filed within 30 days of notice that
(Morrison’s) decision is the final agency
decision in this case,” the appeal states.
The appeal also claims that any delay
on the part of the SPC, which did not issue
its decision in the University’s favor until
Nov. 4, should not be held against the
University.
In addition, the appeal states that Brown
ingandhisattomeywaiteduntilNov. lOto
raise the argument that the SPC could no
longer overturn Morrison’s ruling.
“That inactivity and delay on Mr.
Browning’s part led the University reason
ably to believe that Mr. Browning had at
least acquiesced in any delay by the SPC,”
the appeal states.
According to McSurely, the law states
thatiftheSPC hands down no decision for
90 days from its first opportunity to hear
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The SPC ruled against
former housekeeper
ERIC BROWNING,
but the decision came
after 90 days had
passed from its first
opportunity to hear the
case,
the case the
SPC's meeting on
June 8 —then the
recommended de-
cision automati
cally becomes the
SPC's final deci-
sion
“The reason we
waited (until Nov.
10) was in the vain
hope that the SPC
would rule in our
favor,” McSurely
said Tuesday.
The SPC did not
overrule
Morrison’s deci-
sion until early No-
vember—after the
maximum 90 days so Judge Cashwell
granted Browning’s petition to let
Morrison’s earlier ruling stand.
McSurely said Jan. 9 that because more
than 30 days had passed in which the
University could have appealed the SPC’s
decision if it had been delivered on time, he
thought there was no longer a right to
appeal.
“As far as I’m concerned, they sat on
their rights; they should have gotten an
extension if they wanted to appeal.”
Browning filed grievances against the
University in fall 1992 and spring 1993
complaining that he had not been inter
viewed for a position he had applied for
and that a training request had been de
nied.
The University appealed Morrison’s
May ruling to the SPC, which overturned
the decision. Browning then chose to ap
peal the case further to the N.C. Superior
Court.
Browning was dismissed May 7,1993,
after he made threats to his supervisor.
Auditor
Search
Committee
Assembling
BYSTEPHENLEE
STAFF WRITER
The search for anew internal audit
director will begin as soon a search com
mittee has been fully selected.
Vice Chancellor for Business and Fi
nance Wayne Jones said that as of Tues
day there were five members on the search
committee but that not all the members
had been selected yet.
“It’s not finalized,” he said. “We want
to find one or two more members.”
Chancellor Paul Hardin said he hoped
to complete the committee within a few
days so the search process could begin.
Jones said the search committee mem
bers already selected were faculty mem
bers, auditors from the state office and
retired auditors.
“All are involved with auditing in one
way or another,” he said.
Hardin said the qualities he was looking
for in potential candidates were experi
enced backgrounds in auditing and good
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