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Stories from the University and Chapel Hill
VP hr Public Attain Will
Speak to Retired Faculty
The 39th quarterly meeting of the UNC
Retired Faculty Association will be held
from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. today in the Institute
of Government auditorium. The speaker
will be D.G. Martin, UNC-system Gen
eral Administration vice president for pub
lic affairs.
Women Business Owners
Discuss Cash-Flow System
Women Business Owners’ Roundtable
will discuss “Surviving the Cash Flow
Crunch” from 7:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. March 1
at the Chapel Hill Senior Center at the
Galleria, 400 S. Elliott Road, Chapel Hill.
Discussion will include how to set up a
cash-flow system, how to use practical
cash management techniques and how to
outline an approach for climbing out of the
hole.
Register for the free program by calling
the Orange County Department for Hu
man Rights and Relations at 732-8181,
967-9251 or 227-2031 ext. 2250.
County Women's Group
Searching for 'Firsts'
The Orange County Women’s History
Month Committee is looking for names of
women in Orange County who made his
tory as “firsts” in their area of achieve
ment. The committee plans to recognize
Orange County’s “first women” on March
19 at a reception at the Government Ser
vices Center in Hillsborough.
Anyone who has a name to submit can
call 967-9251, 732-8181 or 688-7331 ext.
2250, or write the committee at P.O. Box
8181, Hillsborough, NC 27278. The dead
line is Feb. 28.
UNC Gets $25,000 Gift
From Reynolds Foundation
The University has received $25,000
fromtheZ. Smith Reynolds Foundation to
help N.C. educators take anew approach
toward teaching history.
The Project for Historical Education
was created in 1991 by UNC history pro
fessors who were concerned that most his
torical research at universities never made
it to high schools.
High Fibrinogen May
Signal Diseased Hearts
Anew study has shown that high levels
of fibrinogen—the major product in blood
clotting—appear to signal diseased hearts.
In a study at the Center for Thrombosis
and Hemostasis, researchers found two
unrelated families who had both cardio
vascular disease at an unusually early age
and a specific fibrinogen abnormality. The
new findings support the idea that high
levels of fibrinogen contribute to cardio
vascular disease, researchers said.
Special Trade Series to
Start Tonight on UNC-TV
A special series about trade between
Mexico and North Carolina and the effects
of the North American Free Trade Agree
ment will air at 7:30 p.m. Thursday on
UNC-TV.
Chapel Hill Hosts Council
On Latin American Studies
The Duke University-UNC Program in
Latin American Studies will host the 42nd
annual meeting of the Southeastern Coun
cil on Latin American Studies March 10-
11 at the Omni Europa Hotel in Chapel
Hill.
The conference on “Colonialism and
Post-Colonialism in Latin America: Revi
sions and New Perspectives” is scheduled
to feature 30 panels with 94 participants.
New Center for Pediatric
Bronchology Established
An internationally respected physician
at the UNC School of Medicine and his
colleagues have established anew Center
for Pediatric Bronchology to provide clini
cal expertise in diagnosing and managing
children with airway problems.
Dr. Robert Wood, professor of pediat
rics, formed the center to formalize and
disseminate UNC’s extensive expertise in
bronchology—the study of the lungs and
their major branches.
County Bape Crisis Center
To Celebrate Anniversary
The Orange County Rape Crisis Center
will hold an open house from 2 p.m. to 4
p.m. Sunday to celebrate its 20th anniver
sary and relocation to 825-A Estes Drive.
There will be a ribbon-cutting ceremony at
2:30 p.m. Refreshments will be served. For
more information, call 968-4647.
Town Parks Department
To Hold Climbing Event
The sixth annual Dixie Rock sport climb
ing competition will be held Saturday at
the Chapel Hill Community Center by the
Chapel Hill Parks and Recreation Depart
ment. The event is sponsored by the town
of Chapel Hill.
Climbers come from all over the East
Coast, and the number of contestants is
limited to 135. Local climbers and outfit
ters put on exhibitions. For entry forms or
information, call 932-2950.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Auditor Search May Start in March
BY JENNIFER BURLESON
STAFF WRITER
The chancellor has named a search com
mittee to select an internal audit director,
and the committee chairwoman said she
thought the search would begin in March.
The members were chosen by Chancel
lor Paul Hardin and his chief finance of
ficer, Wayne Jones. They were selected on
the basis of their experience and expertise
in their fields, Hardin said.
The committee members are chair
woman Nadine O’Malley, business man
ager in the School of Medicine’s biochem
istry department; Harold Langenderfer,
professor in Kenan-Flagler Business
School; Timothy Underhill of the N.C.
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Aaron Joiner enjoys a picnic lunch with his mom, Sherry, outside Morehead Plantarium on Monday. Aaron visited the campus landmark as part of a field trip to
the planetarium with his fourth-grade class.
Residential Development
Planned Near Mason Farm
BYJOHANNASTOKES
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council gave the
go-ahead during its meeting Feb. 13forthe
development of anew 114-acre residential
area off Rhododendron Drive. The devel
opment will consist of 22 single-family
lots.
The Reserve, Phase II being planned by
Marin Development is adjacent to the
Mason Farm Biological Reserve, which is
home to trees believed to date back to
precolonial times. The development caused
some concern among the area’s environ
mentalists, including UNC professor of
biology and ecology Haven Wiley.
“When Marin Development proposed
Reserve 11, the members of the Botanical
Garden Foundation Conservation Com
mittee immediately recognized that it re
ally was a special place,” Wiley said. “We
approached (Marin Development) and
asked if at least a part of the really old
upland forest in that area could be pro
tected.”
Some residents of the nearby first phase
of The Reserve were concerned that the
town would require stubouts in the new
development Stubouts are access roads to
undeveloped property on other peoples’
land. “When you build these stubouts,
CNN, Java to Highlight Expanded Supermarket
BY DAVID GERLACH
STAFF WRITER
Within the next year, customers of Har
ris Teeter at University Mall will be able to
stop for a cappuccino and watch CNN
while shopping. The store plans to expand
intotheareaformerlyoccupiedby Tripodi ’s
restaurant.
Albert Markham, store manager of
Harris Teeter, said remodeling of the Uni
versity Mall supermarket was set to begin
Monday. Plans call for 10,000 square feet
of space to be added to the existing 33,500
square feet of space.
Tripodi’s was located next to the super
market in University Mall. Paul and Patti
Tripodi, owners of the restaurant, decided
to concentrate their efforts strictly on cater
ing rather than running both a restaurant
and a catering operation from the Univer
sity Mall location, they said.
Paul Tripodi said that Harris Teeter had
wanted to take over the space occupied by
their restaurant. “University Mall officials
decided that they would not renew our
lease,” he said. Although theTripodishave
a year left on their lease, they decided to
move last September and begin catering
solely.
UNIVERSITY & CITY
auditor’s office; Preston Bethea, N.C. State
University’s internal audit director; and
Carlyle Craven, a retired state auditor.
The committee has not determined when
it will meet, O'Malley said. She said she
thought the first meeting would occur after
March 10. “We just need time to get the
applications in,” O’Malley said. “I’m re
ally happy to be able to contribute.”
S. Grady Fullerton became the interim
director in January.
“The internal audit position sees that
the policies and procedures have been fol
lowed,” Fullerton said. "He may have to
check receipts from time to time,”
Fullerton will remain as interim direc
tor until a permanent director has been
selected. Hehasnotyet determined whether
there is a danger of drawing traffic through
both Reserve I and Reserve n,” said N.C.
Botanical Garden Director Peter White.
The town decided not to require stubouts.
Sidewalks were another issue of major
concern to environmentalists. “We had
supported Marin Development, who didn’t
want sidewalks,” White said. “If you can
imagine creating an opening in a forest, say
a foot path, that probably has no effect on
the environment within that forest.
“The wider you make the opening in the
forest, the more edge effects there are and
the more the environment changes within
adjacent forest. So we wanted to keep the
road corridors narrow in that neighbor
hood in order to protect the environment
inside the forest,” White said. In the com
promise between Marin Development and
the town, sidewalks will only be required
in certain areas.
The environmentalists were also afraid
the development would break up the for
est. “An issue that we felt was important
was not to create holes in the forest, ’’Wiley
said. “A forest that has been fragmented or
has had edges created into it changes its
character biologically.”
Town Council members agreed with
Wiley. “Basically it’s a semirural area, and
they didn’t need those stubouts or the side-
See RESERVE, Page 4
Harris Teeter will
expand into the former
home of PAUL
TRIPODI s restaurant.
Patti Tripodi said
it had been difficult
to do the things they
had wanted to do
when they had to
worry about the res
taurant in addition
to the catering ser
vice.
The catering
business will be
based out of the
Tripodis’ home.
Paul Tripodi said
his wife always had
wanted to do this.
“We’ll be able to
cook different things, work with our cus
tomers on a personal, one-to-one basis,”
he said.
Markham said the expansion of Harris
Teeter would improve the supermarket’s
relationship with its customers. He said
renovation plans called for an expanded
deli and floral department, as well as the
addition of anew decor and coffee bar.
“The deli will be staffed by full-time,
gourmet culinary chefs,” he said. “The
coffee bar will have 40 varieties of coffee,
and customers will be able to watch CNN
he will apply for the position.
He said the committee would be look
ing at applicants’ previous positions and at
whether they had had experience with au
dit functions.
Langenderfer said he thought the com
mittee should search for a well-qualified
auditor. “I think it’s clear we need a very
strong person in the position, and I am
looking forward to helping find that per
son,” he said. “I suspect that we will have
a significant number of applicants.”
Underhill said there were no specific
qualifications that had to be considered for
the position. “We don’t have any standing
criteria as far as I know,” he said.
Hardin said he was looking for some
one with professional competence, man
Peace Corps Director Hooked on Job
BY ADAM GUSMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Carol Bellamy said she decided to sign
up for the Peace Corps after she thought
she was locked in a library one night and
picked up a pamphlet about the organiza
tion.
But even after serving as a Peace Corps
volunteer, Bellamy said, she never imag
ined that she would eventually become the
organization’s national director.
“I didn’t even think about it,” she said.
“I loved Peace Corps, and I think I have by
far the best job in Washington, but I didn’t
consider it a possibility.”
But then she spent part of a day visiting
the Peace Corps offices —and she was
hooked.
Bellamy, who was appointed Peace
Corps director by President Clinton and
approved by Congress in 1993, talked to
students Friday during a visit to the Tri
angle last week for a recruitment drive.
Recruiters target the Triangle because
of the close proximity of several universi
ties. “(The state of) North Carolina has
been a great source of volunteers for us.
Currently, there are 108 North Carolinians
serving in the Peace Corps,” said Susie
Zimmerman, manager of the recruitment
office in Arlington, Va.
Bellamy is the first returned Peace Corps
volunteer to head the 33-year-old govern
ment agency.
on a big-screen television while drinking
coffee.” Renovations should be completed
within a year, he said.
The new renovations are part of Harris
Teeter’s major redevelopment plans,
Markham said.
“This is part of a five-year plan of new
concept superstores.” A pilot program in
Charlotte earlier this year was successful,
he said. “Customers want these changes. ”
In addition to the University Mall store,
several other Harris Teeter stores in the
Triangle will be remodeled. Two stores in
Raleigh will undergo improvements simi
lar to those occurring at the University
Mall location.
The new and improved Tripodi’s should
also be welcomed by customers, Paul
Tripodi said.
“The move is going well. We’ll be able
to do anything and everything out of the
new kitchen.”
The new kitchen will be located adja
cent to the Tripodi’s house outside of
Carrboro, Patti Tripodi said. “The new
location will allow us to spend more time
concentrating on catering.”
The Tripodis have been in the catering
business for 13 years and often cater Uni
versity functions.
agement skills and integrity.
“The person assuming this responsibil
ity should be experienced in auditing, a
proven manager and a person of unques
tioned integrity,” Hardin said in a letter to
search committee members. “This is a po
sition that requires specific knowledge in
accounting and auditing. I know of at least
three or four applications that have come
into my office.”
Edwin Capel is the former University
internal audit director. The audit position
became available after he requested reas
signment to the Systems and Procedures
Department, which is part of Administra
tive Data Processing. Hardin said he ex
pected the committee to choose the new
auditor in four or five weeks.
DrHfIENFLEISHDi
Peace Corps Director CAROL
BELLAMY visited the University on
Friday to explain the mission of the
Peace Corp and recruit students.
“The Peace Corps has been blessed with
some great directors,” she said. “It’s not
that you have to have been a Peace Corps
volunteer.”
But Bellamy said that as a result of her
own experience she was able to empathize
with volunteers when visiting them in the
field.
Student Charged With
Possession of Marijuana
BY JULIE CORBIN
AND NANCY FONTI
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITORS
A student was charged Friday with pos
session of marijuana and intent to sell and
distribute.
University Police officers took Jason
Brian Buffkin of 209 Graham Residence
Hall into custody at approximately 6 p.m.
Thursday after an anonymous complaint
informed them that he had marijuana in
his room, reports state.
Buffkin, a sophomore from Traveler’s
Rest, S.C., was arrested Thursday after
noon forpossession ofmore than onepound
of marijuana, according to University po
lice reports.
He was taken to Orange County Jail on
Thursday and released on bond Friday,
Lt. Angela Cannon said.
Reports state that before entering
Buffkin’s room police met with the area
director and applied for a warrant to search
it.
Tuesday, February 21,1995
Hacker f
Taps Med
School i
UNC Police Investigate
Possible Invasion of
‘Bugs Bunny’ Computer
BYKAMALWALLACE
STAFF WRITER
University Police are investigating; a
possible break-in to the UNC School of
Medicine’s computer systems on Wednes
day afternoon.
At 2:45 p.m., Rochelle Brown, com
puter coordinator for the SchooLiof
Medicine’s office of information systems
in MacNider Hall, found a message that
appeared in the school’s electronic mail
system, according to University police re
ports.
The message reportedly came from the
“Kurt Cocaine” cybernetic network tp.a
user ID on “Bugs Bunny, ” a medical schopl
computer.
The message was a question that asked,
“Does your domain offer any reward for
security information regarding your net
work?”
Police at this time are investigating for
motives as to why and how someone would
break into the medical school’s computer
systems to create such a message.
This is the second incident of computer
hacking investigated by University Police
in less than a week.
On Tuesday, University Police arrested
two students Clifford Wesley Lindsey ,
19, and Mark David Kucera, 18, room
mates in Granville Towers—and charged
them with two counts of felonious com
puter accessing.
The two freshmen said they had found
a student’s athletic pass and used the infor
mation to create an e-mail account op
ISIS, the school’s e-mail system, without
the student’s permission, according to
University Police Lt. Mark Mclntyre. „
According to police reports, they used
that information to steal other students’
passwords to access the Internet and re
trieve software from different computer
systems.
In North Carolina, the crime is punish
able by a fine and a maximum prison
sentence of 10 years.
The students were later released under
an SBOO unsecured bond each.
Police believe the electronic message
that appeared on the School of Medicine’s
computer did not follow the pattern used
by the previous hackers.
“I’ve been there on those days when
you don’t even want to get out ofbed, ” she
said. “I’ve also been there when you’ve got
a month to go and you don’t even want to
go home.”
Bellamy did her volunteer project in
Guatemala from 1963 to 1965. She broad
cast a radio show on health and diet in
Spanish. She said it was not as fancy as it
may sound. “We didn’t even have electric
ity; we had a power generator.”
The radio was the most effective means
of reaching the local people, Bellamy said.
“Most people could not read or write, but
they did listen to the radio.”
She said the grassroots approach and
the threefold mission of the Peace Corps
had remained the same throughout its his
tory to help train men and women of
countries in need, to promote a better un
derstanding of Americans on the part of
the people served and to help Americans
better understand those people. “Our mis
sion hasn’t changed, and it shouldn’t
change,” she said.
There have been marked changes, how
ever, such as the places that the Peace
Corps serves and the types of projects that
volunteers are doing.
For example, volunteers are venturing
into areas of the world that were previously
closed including South Africa, where
secondary school education and water-
See PEACE CORPS, Page 4
A University police officer was guard
ing the door to Buffkin’s dorm room when
Buffkin arrived at 5:31 p.m., police reports
state.
Buffkin was asked if he would give per
mission to University Police Lt. Mark
Mclntyre to search a gym bag he was
carrying, reports state.
According to reports, Buffkin handed
the bag to the police and told them they
could search it.
A plastic bag that appeared to contain
marijuana and suspected drug parapher
nalia were found in the gym bag, reports
state.
The suspect was placed under arrest at
that time, reports state.
His room was searched, and several
clear bags containing a substance that ap
peared to be marijuana were discovered,
reports state.
According to University police reports,
police officers confiscated a total of 17
ounces of marijuana from Buffkin’s resi
dence.
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