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Saturday, Feb. 11
■ A wallet was stolen from Woollen
Gym, police reports state. Reports state
that a license, two bank cards and S2O were
reported missing.
Friday, Feb. 10
■ University Police reported vandalism
and trespassing around the water tower
behind the Security Services building.
According to reports, an OWASA em
ployee reported people climbing the trees,
fence and watertoweron several occasions
and then spray-painting the dates on which
the tower had been climbed.
■ A newspaper was found smoldering
in a bathroom stall in the ground-floor
men’s rest room of the law school, accord
ing to police reports. The reportee said he
had stomped on the paper to extinguish it
and then contacted thepolice, reports state.
■ Police reports state that a secured
locker in the Fetzer Gym men’s locker
room wasbrokeninto. Merchandise worth
more than SIOO including a wallet,
jeans, a shirt, a coat, keys, credit cards and
a hat was taken, according to reports.
■ Reportsstatethattwosuspiriouswhite
men solicitingforPalmgtto marketing with
out a permit were questioned by officers. A
UNC student sighted the men selling maga
zines around Hibbard Drive, reports state.
■ Two windows were broken in a New
East classroom, according to police re
ports. Officers reported that there was no
entry and nothing was taken.
■ Officers separated an intoxicated
couple arguing on the sidewalk in front of
Old East Residence Hall, reports state.
Thursday, Feb. 9
■ Trenton Michael Grisson, a fresh
man, of 640 Hinton James was charged
with simple possession of 1.5 grams of
marijuana, and Allen Ray Edwards, a fresh
man from N.C. State University, was
charged with possession of drug parapher
nalia, reports state. Allen and Grisson were
spotted by police in the visitor’s parking lot
for Security Services and then arrested,
according to reports. Police reports said
Grisson was rolling a marijuana cigarette,
and rolling papers and a pipe were found in
Edwards’ possession.
■ A University student on Bernard Street
reported that someone had entered and
searched her home, according to records.
Reports stated that nothing had been taken
but that objects had been rearranged.
, City
Sunday, Feb. 12
■ Chapel Hill police were called in to
break up a fight between patrons at
Tammany Hall, 157 E. Rosemary St., at
1:18 a.m., according to reports.
■ After receiving a complaint from a
passerby at the Circle K at 106 Ephesus
Church Road, police responded at 12:52
a.m. to reports of a man leaving the store
with a gun, reports state.
Police arrested Garet Raynard Smith,
34, ofßoute 6, Box 429, in the Holiday Inn
paridng lot on U.S. 15-501 Bypass at 1:08
a.m. in connection with the complaint,
reports state. Smith was stopped by Chapel
Hill police after officers saw him and he fit
the description given by the complainant,
reports state. He was charged with carry
ing a concealed weapon after police found
a meat cleaver in his pocket, reports state.
The cleaver, valued at $lO, was seized by
police, and Smith was released on $250
unsecured bond, reports state.
■ A bartender at Last Call was arrested
at 4:04 a.m. for driving while impaired,
reports state. Matthew Thomas Malone,
22, of 5605 Old Forge Circle in Raleigh,
was stopped on the 100 block of South
Columbia Street by Chapel Hill police for
going 45 mph in a 20 mph zone, reports
state. According to reports, Malone regis
tered a .11 blood alcohol content. He was
released on $250 unsecured bond at 5:25
a.m., reports state.
Saturday, Feb. 11
■ A man reported being robbed at gun
point on Franklin Street, reports state. Two
men with two handguns approached the
victim in front of the United Methodist
Church at 150 E. Franklin St. at 2:45 a.m.,
reports state. The suspects took a$ 10 wal
let containing sls, three bank cards and an
N.C. driver’s license.
■ Police responded at 2:50 a.m. to a
complaint of a disturbance at T.S. Elliott’s
Groundhog Tavern, 149 1/2 E. Franklin
St., reports state. An employee of the res
taurant was choking a man, reports state.
■ Two men were arrested for vandal
ism in connection with the destruction of a
5-foot red bubblegum stand in Emilbeny’s
at 106 W. Franklin St., reports state. Jack
Malykin, 17, of 112 Summerlin Drive and
John Pennington Benger, 18, 127 Wolfs
Trail, were charged with knocking over the
SSO gumball stand, reports state.
■ A University student was charged by
Chapel Hill police with underage purchase
of a malt beverage, reports state. Accord
ing to reports, Wade H. Tillery, 18, 1723
GranvilleTowersWest, did not present an
identification before he bought a 12-pack
of Ice House beer in bottles and a 6-pack of
Ice Light in bottles from an employee at
Franklin Street Market, 208 W. Franklin
St., reports state. The employee charged
with selling Tillery the beer was also ar
rested, reports state. James Windham
Holcomb HI, 25, of3oß McCauley St. was
charged with selling a malt beverage to a
person under 21 after officers observed the
transaction, reports state.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Hiflel’s Leader Koren Calls it Quits
BY JULIE CORBIN
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Andy Koren, the director ofN.C. Hillel
Foundation, will leave Hillel in June to
take a position at the Wexner Foundation
in Columbus, Ohio, an organization that
offers fellowships and leadership training
to students who are pursuing positions of
leadership within the Jewish community.
Koren said he had chosen to leave UNC
after just two years as director of Hillel in
order to take advantage of an opportunity
that he did not expect to have for at least
another 10 to 15 years if at all.
Although Koren said he was looking
forward to his work at the Wexner Foun
dation, he said he had mixed feelings about
leaving Hillel in June.
“The best way I could describe it: I feel
like I’m leaving too early,” he said. “It’s a
bittersweet feeling ... I’ll be leaving here
with fond memories and a sense of a mis
sion I won’t be able to complete.”
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Mike Zeillmann, a senior from Durham, said the Dribblin' Dragons had given
him the opportunity to teach kids that they could accomplish anything as long
as they didn't give up. He started the program last summer and plans to
continue it after graduation.
International Festival to Educate
Students About Different Cultures
BYKENDRA GEMMA
STAFF WRITER
In an effort to educate more students
about the various cultures, traditions and
belief systems in the world, UNC will be
hosting its International Festival starting
today.
“Pangea,” the world when all land
masses were one, is the theme of this year’s
festival.
The event runs today through Sunday
with programs ranging from a Great Deci
sions lecture to an international food tast
ing.
The festival has been held for 15 years.
Laura-Julie Perreault, a sophomore from
Quebec, led the festival committee. She
said many students were unaware of the
many international students on campus. “I
think most of the time their presence is
First Women Join Local Rotary Club
BY JOHANNASTOKES
STAFF WRITER
After long deliberation, the East Chapel
Hill Rotary Club has recently inducted two
female members. Denise Corey of
Nationsßank and Leslie Hayes of
Wachovia were inducted Jan. 27.
The club has been discussing the inclu
sion of women for at least the past year,
and discussion had been encouraged by
the past presidents.
“As it happened, we had a lot of discus
sion about (inducting women), and every
body got a chance to say what they thought,
but things don’t happen real quickly a lot of
times,” said Earl Tye, a Rotary member for
a year and a half. “It took a while for things
to be put in place and move forward.”
Hayes and Corey both accepted the
invitation to the club, but both said they
hadn’t joined the club in order to make a
UNIVERSITY & CITY
Koren said that although his new job
would impact the national and interna
tional Jewish communities, he would miss
the personal interaction he experienced
while working at Hillel.
“I know I’m going to miss walking into
a room and knowing everyone there,” he
said.
Daniel Aldrich, a member of the Hillel
Student Board, praised Koren’s work for
Hillel.
“He was great,” Aldrich said. “He’s
very close in age to the students. He has a
great rapport.”
Aldrich, a junior Asian studies major
from Chapel Hill, emphasized Koren’s
skills in relating to students.
“He’s been very involved, ” he said. “It’s
good to have someone who understands
your problems.”
Aldrich said that Hillel hoped to find a
replacement for Koren by April. A board
composed of students and members of the
Hillel Community Board is conducting the
“I think most of the time their
presence is invisible. Basically,
we tvant to break down
stereptypes. ”
LAURA-JULIE PERREAULT
UNC sophomore
invisible,” Perreault said. “Basically, we
want to break down stereotypes.”
Chester Higgins Jr. will speak tonight
at Hanes Art Center at 7 p.m. His photo
graphic essay is titled “Feeling the Spirit:
Searching the World for the People of
Africa” and documents his 26-year jour
ney to capture the daily life and rituals of
people of African descent around the globe.
The Association of International Stu
statement.
“The Rotary’s a good public civic orga
nization , and this particular one has a lot of
my customers in it already, and those are
the reasons I joined,” Corey said. “In my
career, I’ve been one of the few women lots
of different times. It doesn’t feel any differ
ent than going to work.
“It’s no more than when you’re with a
bunch of guys in a social setting, ” she said.
“You know, they’re talking about sports,
and it’s not an uncomfortable feeling at
all.”
Hayes expressed some of those same
feelings. She, like Corey, said she didn’t
feel uncomfortable within the male-domi
nated club.
“I’m in banking, so I work around all
different types of people, and very often
I’m in a room with all males because that
just happens to be the makeup of the cus
tomers,” Hayes said. “So, it wasn’t any-
search, Koren said.
They are looking for a rabbi with many
of the same qualities that Koren brought to
the job, Aldrich said. They hope to find
someone close in age to the students at
Hillel who understands their experiences
and viewpoints, he said.
The Wexner Foundation is dedicated to
encouraging promising students who are
training for a career of work in the Jewish
community.
It offers grants and leadership training
to students in rabbinical school or to those
who are pursuing higher degrees in fields
such as Judaic studies, Koren said.
He said the Wexner Foundation helped
to enrich the leadership within the Jewish
community. He said the fellowships it of
fered had drawn talented students to be
come rabbis who otherwise would have
gone into other fields. Furthermore, Koren
said, it attracts people from all sects of the
Jewish faith and encourages them to work
together.
UNC’s Mike Zeillman Helps
Children Learn the Tricks
Of the Basketball Trade
BY ELIZABETH MAYBACH
STAFF WRITER
The Dribblin’ Dragons take basketball
very seriously.
They practice two hours a week and
even get homework. The only problem
with practicing the drills at home is that
some of the players can’t do the assign
ments ... they’re just not old enough to
read them yet.
The Dragons, a basketball trick show
team in Durham, is composed of boys and
girls between the ages of 4 and 12. The
team has about 30 players, and the young
sters learn basketball tricks such as multiball
dribbling, juggling and ball spinning.
The Dragons are coached by Mike
Zeillmann, a UNC senior from Durham.
He began the program last summer and
plans to continue after graduating.
Zeillmann’s goal for the program is to
ensure that participants have a good time.
“It has to be fun, or they won’t do it, ” he
said. “Everything I want to teach them, I
make into a game. Also, as long as you
keep the kids busy, boredom isn’t a prob
lem.”
The Dribblin’ Dragons’ season lasts for
six weeks and costs S4O. They participate
in halftime shows at area basketball games,
including one Tuesday at Durham Acad
emy. They put on juggling displays and
involve members of the crowd in their act.
The Dragons meet every Sunday at
Edison Johnson Recreational Center in
Durham. Practice begins with a whistle,
and the Dragons circle up in the middle of
the basketball court. The team then works
through a series of short and active drills,
including dribbling one, two and even three
balls at a time. The Dragons finally sepa
rate into three stations, working on shoot
ing, juggling and spinning the ball on one
finger.
The skill level of the players is widely
varied. Some are more hesitant than oth
ers, but all show amazing familiarity with
the ball. Handmade signs taped to the wall
of the gym are an unofficial record book,
dents sponsors the festival, but other orga
nizations help support certain programs.
For example, the Campus Y and Carolina
Union Activities Board are co-sponsoring
Higgins’ presentation.
A Great Decisions lecture on Middle
East peace prospects takes place at 7 p.m.
Tuesday in 100 Hamilton Hall. Curtis Jones
of the U.S. Foreign Service will speak.
At 7 p.m. Wednesday is Cultural Night
in Hanes Art Center. Various international
groups representing India, the Middle East,
Asia and Eastern Europe will perform
dances, sing and play music. The Opeyo!
dancers are among the entertainers. There
will also be a bamboo flutist representing
Japan.
Nelia Charalambous, a mathematics
majorfrom Cyprus, coordinated the night’s
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thing that I felt real uncomfortable with.”
But women from other Rotary clubs
who have attended meetings of the East
Chapel Hill chapter have been made to feel
uncomfortable because of innuendos and
remarks that were made, said a member of
another Rotary Club in the area who asked
not to be identified.
“Certainly, there was a portion of our
membership that wanted to keep it a ‘good
old boys club,’” said Gene Howden, presi
dent of the East Chapel Hill Rotary Club.
“But yet there was an ever-increasing num
ber that didn’t think that it was right or
responsible to be exclusive to women who
have shown leadership in the community
and are members of the business commu
nity, which is what Rotary is all about.”
He said that despite some threats from
members, there had been no resignations,
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Andy Koren, director of the N.C. Hillel
Foundation.
noting the names of Dragons who have
conquered juggling or spinning the ball for
a certain amount of time. Almost every
child’s name is on at least one list.
Zeillmann said he liked to stay involved
with his players. He frequently attends
different league basketball games in the
area and is sometimes available for one
on-one instruction.
“Mike’s wonderful,” said Teresa
Engebretsen, whose son Jake has been
involved with the Dragons since last year.
“He comes over and works with (Jake) at
home.... He’s like one of the family.”
Zeillmann coaches with the help of a
few other college students and several of
the Dragon parents. Many of the parents
are familiar with the sport. Members of the
team include Cherokee Parks’ younger sis
ter andVanHatchell, son ofUNC women’s
basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell.
The Dragons are partially sponsored by
Sports Unlimited and Body Billboards.
Karen Johnson, special events coordina
tor for Sports Unlimited in Raleigh, said
the store had chosen to sponsor the Drag
ons because of their discipline and talent.
“Working with their talent, (Zeillmann)
has been able to create an interesting as
well as skillful team.”
Edwin Yarborough, father of veteran
Dragon Andrew, said the program had
been extremely educational for his son.
“He has to budget his time and knows
that he won’t improve unless he works at it
every day,” Yarborough said. “I had An
drew start working with Mike when he was
about 8. The sooner you can start your
child with someone who knows the fimda
mentals, the better off you’ll be.”
Joe Vicars, who has two children in
volved with the Dragons, said the shows
were a lot of fun for the kids. “The high
light was doing the show in Raleigh,” he
said. “It’s been phenomenal what they’ve
learned to do.”
Zeillmann works with all ages and skill
levels. “I’m not just teaching them basket
ball; it’s teaching them not to give up. I let
them know you can do anything if you
don’t give up.”
He said the most rewarding thing about
coaching had been seeing them improve.
“I lookback to when these guys started and
see how confident they are now. Well, it’s
just amazing.”
Sons of Confederate Yets
Chapter to Be Kicked Off
To Celebrate the South j
BYEMILYADAMS
STAFF WRITER
Twenty-four men whose ancestors
fought in the Civil War have formed a local
chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veter
ans.
The Chapel Hill chapter has applied to
receive a charter, and Hillsborough might
also have a chapter soon.
The Chapel Hill chapter, called a camp,
is the first in Orange County and the 68th
camp in the N.C. division.
Todd Goodson, a Chapel Hill resident
who operates Axiom Investigations, is
Chapel Hill camp commander and one of
the group’s youngest members.
“The Sons of the Confederate Veterans
are committed to the historical preserva
tion of Southern cultural heritage and edu
cation,” Goodson said.
His great-grandfather was a calvary sol
dier for the first N.C. regiment.
The United Sons of Confederate Veter
ans was founded by J.E.B. Stuart Jr. on
July 1, 1896, in order to take care of the
veterans of the confederacy, he said.
“Basically, federal armies didn’t give
anything to Confederate veterans, so it was
the duty of the descendants to make sure
their parents were taken care of, ” Goodson
said.
The SCV will celebrate its centennial in
July 1996.
Goodson said that now the main aim of
the SCV was to protect the history and
culture of the South. “The SCV wants to
make sure that history is not rewritten and
changed by modem historians and North
ern textbooks,” he said.
The N.C. division of the SCV recently
participated in the successful protest march
to hang the Confederate flag over the South
Carolina Capitol.
Monday, February 13,1995
Future of
Earth Day
Considered
Students, Scientists Will
Participate in National '
Conference to Be Held in Pa.
BYPATRICKLINK |
STAFF WRITER
Is Newt Gingrich more likely to support
(a) the champions of industry, (b) the Si
erra Club or (c) both? Many student envi
ronmental leaders hope that if they show
the new Congress that environmental is
sues are still important to America, (c) will
be the answer.
With this question and the future of
Earth Day in mind, national, community
and collegiate environmental groups have
called for an Emergency Environmental
Student Conference to be held in Philadel
phia, Pa., on Feb. 25 and 26.
“We want the conference to develop
leaders around the country who can suc
cessfully put on huge Earth Day events,”
said Robert Hickey, N.C. field organizer
for Green Corps.
Participants will also learn from scien
tists and scholars through lectures oil the
scientific basis for environmental action.
They will also come up with “a universal
platform that all environmentalist groups
could support,” Hickey said. This plat
form will include 25 steps Congress oould
take to ensure a better environment. I
The 25 steps will be listed on a petition
that will be circulated from Earth DayJuntil
July 4. The organizers of the conference
hope that if a quarter million to a million
people sign the petition, Congress will pay
attention to environmental issues and tarry
out the 25 steps.
The national conference is being orga
nized by the Siena Student Coalition, the
national Student Environmental Action
Coalition and Green Corps. The Earth
Day Task Force, a campus SE AC commit
tee, is organizing the state’s contingent to
the conference.
“Basically, we’re kind of the center for
the N.C. recruitment drive,” said Noelle
McKay, a member of the task force. •
The idea for the conference came but of
conversations between the Student Public
Interest Research Group and Green Corps,
which is concerned that the environmental
movement is losing its force and direction,
Hickey said.
One of the main concerns ofthese groups
is the increasing corporate domination of
the Earth Day celebration.
“Earth Day has been a weak and pretty
corporatized .event since 1990,” Hickey
said. “The messages are watered dswn
and people don’t take action.” f,j
The groups are also concerned ; that
Congress is no longer emphasizing envi
ronmental issues. 1
“The ’92-’94 Congress was one of the
worst for environmental action in ths last
20 years, ” Hickey said. “The leaders of the
new Congress have been very direct and
clear about their intentions to dismantle
many environmental protections thai we
have taken for granted ... if not all. That’s
a big concern, obviously.”
Students interested in attending thecon
ference should come to the Earth Day f ask
Force’s meeting at 8 p.m. Wednesday in
Union 208.
“The SCV wants to make sure
that history is not rewritten
and changed by modern
historians and ;
Northern textbooks. ”
TODD GOODSON
Camp commander of the Chapel flill
Sons of Confederate Veterans*
Goodson said the Confederate flaaused
to fly over the N.C. Capitol three times a
year. Gov. Jim Hunt limited the flfcg to
being flown once a year—on Confederate
Flag Day, March 4.
The Chapel Hill camp has 24 listed
members, including Tim Naomi, a tJNC
dental student, and William S. Povjell, a
UNC history professor. Chris Pepjjer of
Carrboro serves as the lieutenant {com
mander.
Eligible applicants to the group must be
men and must have an ancestor who sfcrved
in the Confederate Army. Notable
bers of the SCV includeS.C. Senator Strom
Thurmond and N.C. Senator Jesse Helms.
Naomi, whose great-grandfather served
in the Confederate army, said he be
come interested in the SCV because pf his
mother, who is a member of the United
Daughters of the Confederacy. Asa child,
Naomi was a member of the Children of
the Confederacy.
He said some members of the SCV par
ticipated in Civil War re-enactments and
preservation of Civil War historical sites in
the South.
The SCV has been meeting in the Chapel
Hill Public Library. Goodson said the next
meeting would be held in the library bn the
first Tuesday in March.
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