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lailg ®ar Hppl POLICE RODNDUP University Wednesday, Sept 13 ■ A Durham man reported his CD deck stolen from his car parked at Kenan Sta dium parking lot this weekend, according to police reports. Thompson left his 1992 Lexus at the stadium from Friday night until Sunday. Damages to the car are estimated at SSOO, according to police reports. ■ Oleg Zur of 100 W. Rosemary St. was arrested at 10:28 p.m. in Davis Library and charged with fust-degree trespassing, ac cording to police reports. Zur had been sleeping in the periodical section when University Police arrived, police reports state. According to police reports, he already has charges pending for prior similar events. Zur was taken to the magistrate and placed under an unsecured S2OO bond, reports state. Tuesday, Sept 12 ■ Police were dispatched to 219 Connor Residence Hall to respond to a domestic situation at 9:30 p.m., police reports state. An argument between Andrew Duncan, who lives in room 219, and Tamara Donita Deloatch of 319 Alderman Residence Hall, Duncan’s girlfriend, had erupted, accord ing to police reports. When police arrived, Duncan was ask ing Deloatch to leave, reports state. She said she would leave after getting her be longings, according to police reports. Po lice escorted Deloatch back to her room, reports state. ■ Paul Bloom, a marketing professor, received a suspicious phone call while at 316 New Carroll Hall at about 11 a.m. from a person claiming to be a reporter from the L.A. Times, reports state. The caller asked Bloom a series of per sonal questions, then asked him if he had read the Unabomber’s manifesto, reports state. After conferring with colleagues, he filed a police report at 12:39p.m., police reports state. ■ An employee of the UNC Hospitals Ambulatory Care Center on Mason Farm Road reported at 2 p.m. that someone might be obtaining services from the hospi tal and the care center using a false name, address and social security number, police reports state. According to police reports, the com plaint said the employee suspected a cur rent outpatient of using an alias, and police are investigating the situation. ■ A Carmichael resident reported that his wallet had been stolen while he was in the Health Sciences Library, according to police reports. The wallet and its contents are valued at sllO, reports state. ■ A UNC student discovered her bus pass missing when her wallet was found at the Student Union at 12:44 p.m., police reports state. According to police reports, the bus pass is worth S7O. City Thursday, Sept. 14 ■ According to police reports, two males have been arrested on outstanding war rants in connection with a car break-in on Cooper Street in Chapel Hill. The first suspect was charged with one count of felony breaking and entering a vehicle and one count of misdemeanor larceny, according to police reports. The suspect’s bond has been set at $3,000. The second suspect was charged with one count of felony breaking and entering a vehicle, one count of felony possession of burglary tools and one count of misde meanor larceny, police reports state. Bond for the second assailant has been set at $4,000. Wednesday, Sept i3 ■ According to police report* unarmed robbery was committed at a single-family dwelling on West Franklin Street. The victim was forced at gunpoint to surrender his possessions, reports state. The victim reported minimal losses includ ing $2 and a pack of Marlboro Light ciga rettes valued at $2.50, reports state. There have been no arrests. ■ According to police reports, an inci dent of forcible breaking and entering a vehicle was reported in the early after noon. The driver’s window of a black 1993 Acura Integra was broken out and a purse was stolen, reports state. Losses include one Visa card, one ATM card and a brown leather purse with an estimated value of SSO, according to police reports. Total damage to the car was esti mated at $175, reports state. Tuesday, Sept. 12 ■ A purse that was left unattended in the hall of a fraternity house on Cameron Avenue has been reported stolen, accord ing to police reports. The owner of the purse, a UNC student, estimated the losses at $42. The purse con tained S4O, a UNC ONE card, an N.C. driver’s license and a room key. No prop erty has been recovered, according to re ports. ■ Four subjects were reported to have jumped on a single victim as he walked down Whitaker Street in Chapel Hill, ac cording to police reports. The assault was reported by a bystander minutes after it happened. The case is still under investigation, according to reports. Senior Corps Plans Year of Service to Chapel Hill Area ■ A group of seniors dedicated to activism will launch the school year by cleaning up Jordan Lake on Saturday. BY STEPHEN LEE STAFF WRITER Senior Corps, anew organization devoted to volunteering for various service projects, will be taking part in the ninth annual Big Sweep Cleanup at Jordan Lake on Saturday. Thad Woody, senior class president, said the event allowed seniors to get involved in a worthwhile project. “It’s just an opportunity for seniors to become more aware of the community and fellow seniors,” he said. “This is something we chose to partake in. It’s something accessible to seniors. “We hope all seniors will take part. It’s open to anyone, and you don’t have to be a senior to participate,” Woody said. John Dervin, Senior Corps co-coordinator, said this was a good way for students to contribute to the community. “Beyond a monetary contribution, we are encouraging all seniors and interested students to give back to the community in terms of voluntary service, ” Dervin said. “We wanted to be a part of where the state makes a commitment to the environment.” About 50 to 75 seniors have already committed to participate, and more than 100 students are expected, Dervin said. Those needing rides should meet at 8:30 a.m. at Morehead Planetarium. The event is scheduled to last until Ip.m. Pizzas and drinks donated by area businesses will be served for lunch. Terius Dolby, senior class vice president, said the cleanup was Leaving Meat mi the s Lazy Days # i :: -i * ' ■!> ,A' s Mil-..l*'-. Doc Allman sketches in the Upper Quad on Monday. Allman says his hammock provides him with drawing inspiration. UNIVERSITY & CITY serving a dual purpose. “This event kicks off Senior Corps and helps the environment, which is something we feel strongly about,” he said. “This is a great opportunity to give back to the com munity and surrounding areas.” The idea of implementing Senior Corps was part of Woody and Dolby's platform when they were running for senior class president and vice president. Brad King, Senior Corps co-coordina tor, said that seniors on this campus were spread out and that this was a good oppor tunity to meet others because seniors would have their own cleanup site. “The fact that it’s at Jordan Lake and the weather will be nice kind of made it an enticing place,” he said. King said he was optimistic that seniors would give up some of their Saturday mornings for the cause. “It is very early, but I think they will have the rest of the day to go home and relax or go to their jobs,” he said. “If they want to hang around the lake, they are encouraged to do so.” Dervin said the number of students participating would not determine the success of the project. “Regardless of how many people show up, it still is a success,” he said. “Any amount ofworkhelps. We canreally serveapurpose if we reach out to others.” Woody said that in years past the senior class only had given a gift to the University, and he said he wanted this year’s class to give back to the community as well. See SENIOR CORPS, Page 5 A LI u ■ l. l ■ , ... DTH/MARKADAMS Area Hare Krishnas host vegetarian meals every Wednesday evening outside of Gerrard Hall -one eating option for students who just cannot find enough vegetarian cuisine in the area. For vegetarians on campus , finding something to eat can be a challenge. ide Senior Corps provides students a chance to give back to the area. BY JESSICA BANOV STAFF WRITER Think it’s hard to find a good meal in the dining halls? Well, if you’re a vegetarian, the options are even fewer when you enter Lenoir to find fare from Chick-Fil-A and Firehouse Grill staring at you in the face. “It’s hard enough to eat healthy on campus anyway,” said Maggie Scott, a sophomore from Soddy- Daisy, Tenn. “When you’re a veg etarian, your options are cut off.” However, many vegetarians agreed that practicing vegetarianism had become a healthy way of life and Cuts Won’t Stop SCALE’s Work ■ National literacy group plans to continue its work in the face of AmeriCorps cuts. BYTHERESAAVERY STAFF WRITER A national literacy group founded at UNC may face funding difficulties ifPresi dent Clinton’s AmeriCorps community service initiative is cut, but people con nected to the organization say it will con tinue no matter what Congress does. The people who work at the Student Coali tionforActionin Literacy Educa tion say literacy Senate cuts might affect SCALE programs at UNC. See Page 5 is more than simply being able to read or write. They say it is a tool of empowerment and a mechanism of social change. They call the work they do an issue of social justice. Adults experiencing problems with lit eracy usually lack a high school education, are underemployed, live at or below the poverty level and are politically or socially inactive. SCALE has dedicated itself to promoting literacy in communities around the nation. SCALE originated at UNC, but it is a national network that encourages college students to promote literacy in their com munities. “It’s a mutual learning process,” said Kim Gordon, managing director of SCALE. “We have college students edu cating themselves, but helping others as well.” Not only are college students helping those in the community, but they are help ing peers around the country implement literacy programs of their own. Literacy Impact, SCALE’S primary pro- UNC Graduate Schools Fall in National Rankings BYBRONWEN CLARK UNIVERSITY EDITOR UNC’s drop in the rankings of a com prehensive study of graduate programs can be attributed to declining faculty salaries, said the interim dean ofthe graduate school. The school’s rankings fell overall from 1982, the last year the report was issued. UNC held a position in the top 10 in only two departments, sociology and clas sics. The study was conducted by the Na tional Research Council. “Our quality has gone down since the last one in 1982,” said Interim Dean Craig Calhoun. “There has been a very major drop directly due to faculty salary issues.” The study issued two rankings, one as sessing the quality of the faculty and an other ranking doctoral training. The de partment ofsociology ranked sixth in schol arly quality and fourth in the training of doctoral students, while classics ranked 11th and fifth respectively. “Being one of only two departments (to be ranked in the top 10) I find sad,” said Kenneth Sams, chairman of the classics department. “But I’m happy to see we rank so high.” Arne Kalleberg, chairman of the sociol ogy department, said the rankings reflected consistency within his department. “I think the report is picking up on the excellence of the faculty,” Kalleberg said. that it was not an inconvenience. “It’s not something I think about anymore,” Scott said. “It’s Jcind of habitual.” Kiran Lai, a junior from Rocky Mount, said it was pretty easy to eat on campus and in Chapel Hill. “You need to know ‘the ropes’ around it,” said Lai, who has been a vegetarian all her life. “At first I was a little hesitant because I’m used to home-cooked meals with my family who are all vegetarians. It’s also hard to find vegetarian meals that are healthy too, not just french fries.” See VEGETARIAN, Page 5 UNC AmeriCorps members Malinda Todd and Melissa Roche meet with Latricia Roche, site coordinator for the Chapel Hill's SCALE program. gram, provides college students across the nation with the necessary tools to chip away at the shackles of illiteracy. Five UNC students serve as regional coordina tors who consult campus contacts on re cruiting members, training tutors and as sessing the needs of their community. The program is fully funded and co sponsored by Warner Music Group and Time Warner Corporation. In addition, Time Warner offers its nationwide literacy program, Time to Read, at no cost to Im pact campuses. This innovative program uses music videos to assist new readers. “We’ve tried several models,” Gordon said. “Some worked and some haven’t. Literacy Impact works.” SCALE actively recruits college cam puses through their Area Campus Train inglnitiative, which is sponsored in part by Friday, September 15,1995 However, Calhoun said he found the rankings disturbing because they revealed a consistent decline in the rank of most departments. “It is unusual for a university to go down as much as UNC-Chapel Hfll did in the past 10 years,” Calhoun said. While he said he was concerned about the diminishing number of programs in the top 10, he said he was most upset by the slipping of programs out of die top 20. “Many of the programs ranked in the teens are now in the 20s and 305,” Calhoun said. The Spanish department fell from 20th to 31st in faculty quality and music from 12th to 16th. Two departments’ rankings, philosophy and German, movedup.“Being in the top 20 is quite good, ” Calhoun said. “When you fall out of the top 25, you get worried. In lots of fields we used to be in the top 25. We are not anymore.” Calhoun said this survey carried more weight in the academic community than other rankings, such asU.S. News&World Report, because it focused on scholarly quality. Increasing faculty salaries and im proving the lot of graduate students would boost UNC’s rankings, Calhoun said. “Number 1, we need a significant in crease in faculty salaries,” he said. “I think the rankings are an argument for raising faculty salaries. The s4ooproposal is all we have right now to do that. I wish there were a better way to do it, a legislative way.” Anti-Tuition Bill Gamers Little Interest BYJAYMOYE STAFF WRITER A bill opposing the S4OO tuition in crease may be presented in raw form before Student Congress next week because of poor representation at Wednesday night’s Student Affairs Committee meeting. Only four of the 11 members of the committee needed to discuss details of the bill were present at the meeting. The group must reconvene at least 48 hours prior to next Wednesday’s full Congress meeting in order for the bill to be considered. But Speaker Roy Granato said he was not concerned that the committee did not discuss the bill. He said he was confident that congress would debate thebill Wednes day night, regardless of whether the com mittee found the time to meet before then. "Committee is a good forum to discuss a bill in its preliminary form, but it mainly needs to be considered by Ml congress,” he said. John Dervin, an outspoken opponent of the tuition hike who is not a member of congress, said he was extremely disap pointed with the turnout. “It’s sad and unfortunate that this bill, which determines Student Congress’s po sition on a tuition hike, didn’t go through committee,” he said. “Hopefully they will be able to reschedule, but it’s a horrible statement on our representatives that they weren’t able to get more than four mem bers at tonight’s meeting.” If the committee fails to meet before the deadline, then it can request that full con gress immediately consider the bill. This, Dervin said, would be a mistake. “If the bill is presented under immediate See CONGRESS, Page 9 the Kellogg Foundation and the U.S. De partment of Education. The goal of this program is to identify five regions where there is a significant need for literacy programming and estab lish at least five organizations in each re gion. This year SCALE is planning devel opments in Chapel Hill, Houston, Fresno, Calif., Richmond, Va., and Rhode Island. SCALE and four North Carolina uni versities have pooled their resources to create the Community Literacy Initiative, a statewide AmeriCorps program. Forty seven AmeriCorps members work to pro mote literacy in homeless shelters, low income housing facilities and community centers. AmeriCorps members commit to 900 See SCALE, Page 9 3
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