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Wednesday, February 15,1995
Law Students Work to Take Guns off Streets
BY MEGAN HANLEY
STAFF WRITER
A group of UNC law students are fol
lowing in the tradition of “Buy Back the
Hill" and plan to sponsor a gun buyback
program in April. The program will allow
people to sell back their guns in order to get
them off the streets.
“We wanted to know what we could do
to make our community safer, involving
guns specifically, and we decided this more
than anything was a tangible result,” said
UNC law student Allen Baddour, who is
the task force chairman. The task force is a
group of law students who have come
together to prevent gun violence, he said.
Chi Psi fraternity became involved with
“Buy Back the Hill” after an Appalachian
State student was killed at its house last
year. The fraternity sponsored a gun
buyback program in May, and although
Chi Psi is no longer involved in the project,
several members of last year’s group are
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providing Internet services in dorms, and
expanding peer advising and the Point-2-
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are installing more lights and call boxes,
making the University more attractive to
minorities, and taking a visible role in
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advising the new task force, Baddour said.
“They (Chi Psi members) and the Buy
Back the Hill group disbanded in January
and kind of put out a call for new involve
ment, and we’ve pretty much taken over
the group,” he said. “Our purpose is the
same thing.”
The downtown shootings Jan. 26
prompted some to join the task force. “My
initial reaction (to the shootings) was a
sense of helplessness, that a person could
take every precaution and still become a
victim in such a senseless tragedy,” said
Jennifer Davis, vice chairwoman of the
group. “I’ve tried to combat my helpless
ness by working on the campaign and help
to prevent gun violence in Chapel Hill."
Most funding for the campaign will come
from private contributions. Money from
last year’s effort is being held in escrow by
the town. Baddour went to the Chapel Hill
Town Council on Monday night to ask for
a resolution to obtain the leftover funding.
The Council referred the matterto the town
lobbying.
“We put forth a good effort,” he said.
“We have the energy, and we’re ready to
move forward.”
Both candidates said they planned to
continue to campaign this week, with no
major changes in their campaign strate
gies.
Brandenburg and Cunningham’s victo
ries eliminated the four outsider candi
dates from the race for student body presi
dent.
Jen Fiumara ended up with 389 votes;
Andrew France had 270 votes; Robert
staff, and it will probably come up at the
next meeting, Feb. 27, council member
Lee Pavao said Tuesday.
Several fund-raising events will also be
held in early spring. The task force hopes to
sell T-shirts, hold a benefit concert and set
up a booth at local malls, Baddour said.
The Chapel Hill Police Department
helped handle the purchasing and evaluat
ing of the guns during the buyback last
year, and the task force hopes to have its
assistance in this buyback, too, Davis said.
Residents selling their guns could re
ceive as much as SSO last year, depending
onthetypeofgun. Thisyear’sbuybackwill
not have an upper price limit. “We decided
to not limit the upper end in hopes of
having more people to sellbacktheir guns,”
Baddour said. He added that people who
turned in guns would remain anonymous.
The returned guns are usually disabled,
and a local artist is trying to build a sculp
ture with the dismantled guns. Members of
the new task force will be able to decide
Simes received 131 votes; and Kelly Jo
Gamer had 131 votes.
Fiumara said she was satisfied with her
campaign efforts.
“I think third shows that an outsider can
make a good showing,” she said.
“I hope my miming will convince some
one in the fiiture to run a similar cam
paign.”
Simes said he was not disappointed with
how the results came out.
“We ran an honest campaign that dealt
with the issues,” he said. “I just want to
wish both candidates good luck.”
CITY
what to do with the guns. “We make sure
that it (a gun) is not recycled back into the
community; it’s forever disarmed,”
Baddour said. Some high-quality guns
might be used for police training, he said.
The group decided to hold a buyback
because it thought it was a way to directly
affect the community, Davis said. “We
can’t assume that a gun buyback will pre
vent gun violence, but if it prevents one
accident, one suicide or one child from
using a gun, then in njy mind it’s had a
positive impact on our community.”
After the buyback, the group hopes to
become involved in educational programs,
such as awareness and gun safety pro
grams.
The task force wants to involve other
members of the University and town com
munities. Currently, all members of the
task force are law students, but Baddour
said he hoped other faculty, students and
townspeople would support the task force
and give it more ideas.
Brandenburg received many ofher votes
from the Student Union and Chase Hall
polishes. She and Cunningham each re
ceived about the same number at the law
school and Hanes Art Center.
Tuesday’s total voter turnout was just
under 3,700, a significant decrease from
last year’s total of more than 4,200 voters.
Over the past several years, student turn
out has varied widely from one election to
the next.
The turnout in 1994 was the highest
since 1990,but the previous fouryears had
seen a steady decrease.
Orange County Looks at
Alternatives for Children
BY LAURA GODWIN
STAFF WRITER
The Orange County Department of
Social Services is looking for alternative
ways to find care for the 35 emotionally or
physically challenged children in the
county’s custody.
Because of a lack of suitable facilities for
the children in Orange County, the chil
dren are being placed in locations outside
of their home county.
A county task force has been investigat
ing the problem of placing emotionally
and physically handicapped children for
about six months, DSS Director Marti
Pryor-Cooksaid. “Theneedhasbeenbuild
ing for a number of years,” she said.
Pryor-Cook said DSS was in the process
of looking for ways to treat and house
hard-to-place children within Orange
County. “By this time in 1996, we will
have a plan,” she said. “We are looking at
short-term emergency resources as well as
long-term care.”
Child Protective Service Supervisor
Patty Clarke said the cost to the county to
place a child in another jurisdiction could
range from SI,BOO to SIO,OOO. “We are
placing the children out of our county and
paying tremendous amountsfortheir care,”
she said.
Clarke said that by keeping the children
in Orange County, the county would save
money and the children would reap the
benefits.
“The cost (to the county) is more than I
like to think,” said Moses Carey, chairman
of the Orange County Board of Commis
sioners. “It cost anywhere from SSO to
S3OO a day for each child.”
Despite the department’s best efforts to
keep hard-to-place children in Orange
County, the specialized care many chil
dren need is simply not available in the
county. Asa result, the county must place
the children in other counties, Mack said.
Pryor-Cook said DSS spent a great deal
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which was then given to representatives
from the Elections Board to post in 106
Carroll Hall.
Wingate said that although it might
make candidates more nervous, he thought
releasing the information poll site by poll
site was better than giving it out all at once.
“It makes for a much more interesting
elections process to do it in batches be
cause candidates are stronger in certain
areas than others,” he said.
Elections Board Chairwoman Erin
Lewis said improvements made from last
year’s tallying of student voteshad speeded
up the process this year. rt
“This year, it was a lot easier for poll
tenders to just come in and start working, ”
Lewis said. “The instructions were self
explanatory and easy.”
By 9:45 p.m. Tuesday, election results
were reported from four of the six poll sites
—and the remaining two, the two largest,
were reported just before midnight.
Mike Thomas, who designed the sys
tem used at the polls this year and last year,
said he had been able to avoid some poten
tial problems through his experience from
the previous year.
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of time searching for care for emotionally
and physically challenged children.
“The department goes all over looking
for group homes or specialized care,” she
said. “It takes an awfal lot of time to try to
find the resources.”
According to a DSS report, a hard-to
place child fells into one of four different
categories: children between the ages of 5
and 11 who suffer from severe psychologi
cal and emotional problems who require
periodic hospitalization; children who fre
quently run away; children who are diag
nosed as having mental retardation as well
as psychiatric problems; and teenagers who
have sociopathic behaviors resistant to
treatment.
The county is responsible for these chil
dren because “the county will go to court
and request custody of the children in a few
instances when the family is unable to
work with the Department of Social Ser
vices,” said Julia Mack, director of pro
gramming for Guardian Ad Litem, a vol
unteer advocacy group for abused and ne
glected children in Chapel Hill. The group
is often appointed by the court to care for
hard-to-place children.
Although DSS tries to work with each
family to avoid taking the child out of the
home, neglect and abuse often warrant the
child’s removal, Mack said.
When appropriate homes and treatment
cannot be found quickly, children can be
placed in temporary housing with an avail
able family, she said. “This is not designed
to be permanent.”
Sometimes, the children have a long
wait before they are placed in a permanent
home, Pryor-Cook said. “The children are
moved from family to family,” she said.
DSS presented the alternatives to place
ment outside of the county to the Orange
County Board of Commissioners.
Carey said the board would wait until a
final plan for action was issued by the
county task force before budget consider
ations were made.
“Last year, I didn’t have that much time
to come up with something,” he said. “But
this year, I had experience and knew what
problems would come up.”
Thomas said the tallying of election
results had been a collaborative effort be
tween several University departments, in
cluding the two different sections of OIT,
the Office of the University Registrar and
Administrative Data Processing.
He said 10 to 12 OIT computers were
used at various poll sites this year. “Last
year, we were basically operating on bor
rowed computers,” he said. “There were
seven or eight computers campuswide.”
He said the computerized system pro
vided several conveniences.
“It moves the line along quicker, and it
solves the problem of students voting
twice.”
Thomas also said poll-tenders could
automaticallytell on-campus studentswhat
district they lived in by typing in their
social security number.
“Students don’t usually know what dis
trict they live in,” he said. “This saves
students having to look at a sheet.”
Thomas said off-campus students were
still on the honor system to tell what dis
trict they lived in. “Still, that’s about 6,000
students who live on campus.”
Campus Calendar
WEDNESDAY
10 a.m. CAMP DAY - summer jobs, Great Hall.
11 a.m. SFC Volunteer drive in the Pit.
1 p.m. Peace Corps presentations inUnion2l3.
3 p.m. Support Group for Women Graduate
Students in the counseling center, 101 Nash Hall.
Dissertation/Thesis Support Group in the Uni
versity Counseling Center.
3:30 p.m. Lesbian Support Group in 210 Nash.
Job Hunt 101A: decide which career field is best
for you, in 209 Hanes Hall. Sponsored by UCS.
4 p.m. Panel on Science Careers in 210 Hanes.
5 p.m. Guided “tour” of Iran in the Union.