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Vice Provost Named
Chairman-Elect of Board
Vice Chancellor for Health Affairs and
ViceProvostH. Garland Hershey has been
named chairman-elect of the Association
of Academic Health Centers’ board of di
rectors.
The association is a national nonprofit
organization with 100 members in Canada
and the United States.
The association is based in Washing
ton, D.C.
The election was held Sept. 29 at the
association's annual meeting in Colorado.
Di Phi Society to Debate
Open-Container Law Today
The Dialectic and Philanthropic Societ
ies will hold a formal debate about Chapel
Hill’s open-container law today at 3 p.m.
in Bull’s Head Bookshop.
Jean Fugate, co-president of the group,
said one side will argue that violating the
town ordinance, which is now a misde
meanor, should be reduced to an infrac
tion.
Fugate said the other team in the debate
will argue that the town should abolish the
controversial law.
Memorial Service to
Honor Statistics Professor
The Department of Statistics will spon
sor a service today at 4 p.m. in Person Hall
to honor Professor Stamatis Cambanis,
who died April 12.
Cambanis was a professor in the statis
tics department and served as chairman
from 1986-93.
He joined the faculty at UNC after re
ceiving a doctorate from Princeton Uni
versity in 1969.
Duringhiscareer, Cambanis edited three
major collections of works and published
approximately 90 research papers.
He also served on the editorial boards of
several journals in probability theory, ap
plied mathematics and engineering.
All members of the University commu
nity may attend.
Peace Corps to Conduct
Information Session
The Peace Corps will hold a general
information session on Thursday. The
event will be held in 02 Old Carroll Hall
from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m.
Peace Corps recruiter Alex Cutter will
show a brief video and then moderate a
panel of former Peace Corps volunteers
from the Chapel Hill area.
They will share their experiences of serv
ing overseas in developing countries. Since
1961, more than 325 UNC alumni have
served in the Peace Corps.
In addition to the information session, a
Peace Corps information table will be set
up Thursday in the lobby of the Carolina
Union from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Speaker to Address Race,
Class, Gender N0v.15
The second annual Sonja H. Stone
Memorial Lecture will be delivered Nov.
15 by bell hooks, a speaker on personal
empowerment and the politics of race,
class and gender. She prefers that her name
be written with lowercase letters, hooks
will speak in Memorial Hall at 7 p.m. Her
lecture, “Racism and Sexism: Healing the
Wound,” is free and open to the public.
Student Group to Discuss
Rabin's Assassination
Haverim: Carolina Students for Israel
will hold a potluck dinner as its first orga
nizational meeting at 6:30 p.m. in Union
213.
While the meeting will be an organiza
tional one, a large part will be devoted to
discussing the assassination oflsraeli Prime
Minister Itzhak Rabin and the implica
tions for the Middle East and the peace
process.
7th Annual RSWP Event
To Fight Hunger in Area
As part of the Restaurants Sharing V/5
& V/5 Percent, restaurants in Chapel Hill
and Carrboro will donate 10 percent of
their gross receipts Nov. 14 to the Inter-
Faith Council.
The Inter-Faith Council will use the
proceeds for local hunger relief programs
in Chapel Hill and Carrboro.
The Community Kitchen and the Fam
ily Assistance Emergency Food Pantry are
two of the organizations that will receive
the donations from the restaurants.
There are 91 restaurants signed up to
participate in the event. More restaurants
than ever before will participate in the
event.
Commission Looking for
Student Representatives
The Orange County Commission for
Women is currently seeking applications
from UNC students for a one-year, non
voting, student representative position.
The commission advises the Board of
County Commissioners on the needs and
status of Orange County women.
Current objectives address low-income
women, women business owners and
women’s health.
For more information, contact Judy
Messenheimer at 967-9251, ext. 2250, by
Dec. 15.
FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS
Candidate Seeks Apology for Illegal Poster
BYTODD DARLING
STAFF WRITER
The wrongful placement of an endorse
ment poster at Culbreth Middle School by
a member of the Teaching Federation
sparked several complaints and a possible
lawsuit from Board of Education candi
date Sandra Johnson Theard.
The poster, endorsing Ken Touw, Eliza
beth Carter, Harvey Goldstein, Nicholas
Didow and Sara Williams was placed in a
window at the school Thursday. It was
taken down early Friday morning, said
Kim Hoke, spokeswoman for the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City Schools.
Friday, Johnson Theard delivered a
letter to SuperintendentNeilPederson ask
ing for an apology. She also made copies of
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By the turn of the century. University planners expect to replace the Bell Tower parking lot with anew mid-campus parking deck. The structure 0
integrated with other planned construction in the area, including anew Health Affairs Library and the free-standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center.
Funding Only Obstacle to Bell Tower Deck
■ Officials say the proposed
structure will not cause
environmental damage.
BY NATALIE NEIMAN
STAFF WRITER
The possible construction of anew park
ing deck where the current Bell Tower
parking lot stands would not involve de
stroying the surrounding natural environ
ment, said Gordon Rutherford, director of
Facilities Planning and Design.
In fact, he said, building a parking deck
on the location would actually use less
land for parking and leave more land for
other things. Rutherford said the deck
would only occupy a portion of the land
already used for the Bell Tower parking
lot.
In addition to the parking deck, a green
space and an unspecified academic build
Campaign Workers to Help
Voters at New Polling Site
BY VICTOR D. HENDRICKSON
STAFF WRITER
Diverse as all their other stances on
issues may be, the three mayoral and five
alderman candidates in Carrboro all agree
on one thing that there will be at least
one person from each campaign stationed
at Carrboro Elementary School, formerly
a polling site, today from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Campaign members will be giving rides
to voters to the new polling site at the
Homestead Community Center. The el
ementary school was a polling site for
many years but was moved this year to the
community center, which some say is not
nearly as convenient as the school.
“A lot of people have normally walked
to the school, and many can’t walk to the
Homestead site,” said Randy Marshall,
mayoral candidate and current member of
Carrboro’s Board of Aldermen.
Another thing that prompted the candi
dates to provide tides to voters is that many
Carrboro residents are not aware of the
poll site move.
“Not everyone is aware of the change,”
Marshal] said. “This is an attempt by the
candidates to give everybody the opportu
nity to vote.”
Mayoral candidate Charles Riggsbee,
who said he is supplying a driver for a few
hours today, said the candidates’ ride ser
vice will encourage residents to vote de
spite the change in poll location.
“The precinct has been moved, and we
were afraid people were going to show up
at the school and get discouraged and not
vote at all,” he said. “And this is probably
the biggest precinct as far as voter tum-
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Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board
the letter and sent them to the other school
board candidates. “Iwillnotstopuntillget
an apology,” Johnson Theard said. “If
they apologize, I can forgive them. ” While
she had not yet talked to her attorney,
Johnson Theard said she planned to take
further action if a formal apology was not
made.
Hoke said she felt it was an isolated
incident. “We do restrict campaigning for
any political office. It is a board policy.”
Johnson Theard said she felt all candi
dates and teachers were made aware of the
rule prohibiting candidates from campaign
ing might be built on same piece of land, he
said.
“One of the reasons for putting the deck
there is to use less land,” he said. “What
we’re talking about doing is in the perim
eter of the existing parking lot.”
The creek running alongside the Bell
Tower lot would not be affected, he said.
“We have to be environmentally sensi
tive so all that will be taken into consider
ation,” Board of Trustee Annette Wood
said.
At their Sept. 22 meeting, the BOT
approved a developmental plan that would
unify construction of the Bell Tower park
ing deck, Kenan Stadium’s expanded fa
cilities and the free-standing Sonja H. Stone
Black Cultural Center, Wood said.
“All that was approved was a concep
tual development plan, ” said Ted Hoskins,
a consulting architect for the Department
of Facilities Planning and Design. “Ap
proval (of the conceptual development
plan) does not guarantee that each indi-
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Carrboro Mayor & Board of Aldermen
out.”
Board of Aldermen candidate David
Collins, who thought of and organized the
ride service, said it didn’t matter who a
resident planned to vote for —as long as
they do vote.
Riggsbee, who lost an alderman bid in
the 1992 elections, agreed. “Everyone
agrees on this,” he said. “It’s in everybody’s
best interest to see that people can get
involved.”
“This is an issue we feel transcends
politics,” Collins said. “I’ll give you a ride
if you’re wearing an Alex Zaffron (another
alderman candidate) pin—it doesn’t mat
ter.”
The Board of Elections moved the poll
ing site because of limited parking and
overcrowding, Marshall said. The voting
formerly took place in the lobby of the
school, but increased voter turnout in re
cent years caused a move to the school’s
auditorium. Voters had to use stairs to get
to the auditorium, and some of the elderly
and people in wheelchairs could not get
there.
The other polling sites in Carrboro are
the Lion’s Club Building, Grey Culbreth
Middle School, OWASA Administration
Building and Carrboro Town Hall.
The only poll site change this year in
Chapel Hill is the Culberth Middle School
location. Voters in the Estes Drive precinct
will go to the Chapel Hill Public Library on
Franklin Street, not the middle school.
ing on school grounds.
“The Lincoln Center called us all in a
meeting and told us that,” Johnson Theard
said. “These teachers have been in the
system for more than one school board
election, so they know that. Don’t tell me
no one knows those rules.”
Because there were new teachers every
year it was possible that a teacher was not
aware of the rule, Hoke said. “We have
over6ooteachers,”shesaid. “Wetrytoget
the word out, but there is always a chance
that someone will not know about it.”
An important issue that arose from the
placing of the poster was the fact that a
board policy was broken by a member of
the Teachers Federation, Johnson Theard
said. The union should have known better
than to put up the poster, she said.
“Yes, (the parking deck is)
going to be built. Its not a
matter of if its going to be
built, its a matter of when. ”
WILLIAM ARMFIELD
BOT Chairman
vidual project will be approved. If you’re
worried about the parking deck, that has
not been approved.”
However, Chairman of the BOT Will
iam Armfield said the University would
definitely build the parking deck. The only
uncertainty, he said, was a timetable for
construction.
“Yes, (the parking deck is) going to be
built,” Armfield said. “It’s not a matter of
if it’s going to be built, it’s a matter of
when.”
The parking deck has not yet been fi-
Panel Examines Causes, Effects of Rape
■ UNC officials encourage
open lines of communication
to combat the problem.
BY LILLIE CRATON
STAFF WRITER
A panel of educators discussed the causes
and psychological effects of date rape
Monday night as part of Rape Awareness
Week.
Margaret
Barrett, assistant
dean of students
and judicial pro
grams officer;
Elaine Barney, a
clinical social
worker at Student
Psychological Ser
vices; and Debbie
Granick, a health
educator with Student Health Service, par
ticipated in the panel discussion. About 20
students attended the event.
Barrett provided statistics about date
rape on the UNC campus. She said her
office received 21 reports of sexual assault
in 1994, up from 18 in 1992 and 11 reports
in 1992.
However, these numbers may not rep
resent the actual number ofassaults .Barney
said. “I think rape is still underreported by
women who are victims and even more so
by male victims,” she said.
Barrett asked the discussion group to
rank different levels of force and consent,
ranging from mutual agreement to use of
weapons, according to severity. She said
she hoped the exercise would show the
range of incidents that could be considered
“If it was just a teacher with a flier in her
hand, it is not the same as an organization
such as the NEA and the Teachers Federa
tion breaking the rules,” Johnson Theard
said.
Johnson Theard also mentioned unfair
coverage of the school board candidates in
the Independent, a local paper. She com
plained the paper only covered candidates
they endorsed, while not mentioning the
other candidates. She also said she felt
each letter to the editor in that paper origi
nated from the same people and organiza
tions. “I have never seen liberalism seem
so much like conservatism.”
“Newspapers are supposed to maintain
neutrality, but I have not seen that,”
Johnson Theard said. She said she felt the
Independent’s omission of certain candi-
nanced or designed said Wayne Jones,
vice chancellor of Business and Finance.
Hoskins said the purpose of the concep
tual development plan was to avoid hap
hazard development.
“I suppose it’s like saying, ‘lf we’re
going to build a parking deck, here’s where
it needs to be,”’ he said.
The proposed project would cost around
$lO million, Hoskins said. While the deck
has not been designed, it would probably
hold around 1,000 cars and stand about six
to eight levels tall, he said.
The Bell Tower lot, as it is now, holds
600 to 700 cars, Rutherford said.
Hoskins said construction on the park
ing deck would not begin in the near future
because it had not been funded yet. Funds
will not be available unless the die Depart
ment of Transportation and Parking raises
the parking rates which University em
ployees and students pay, he said.
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Debbie Granick, a health educator at Student Health Service, displays
advertising which she claims portrays women as sexual objects.
rape.
“The sad message that we get some
times is that you have to have (fought back
in self defense) for an assault to be consid
ered real,” shesaid. “We want to highlight
how complex these issues are and how
important it is to communicate.”
Barrett said she thought the use of alco
hol made college students particularly vul
nerable to rape. “I think on college cam
puses alcohol plays a major role in many,
many sexual assaults,” she said. “There
are people who do target those who are the
most physically helpless, including those
who are very drunk.”
Barney addressed the different psycho
logical reactions victims have to assault.
Tuesday, November 7,1995
dates slanted the election, because the pub
lic only saw those candidates in the publi
cation. Johnson Theard advocated the
publishing of endorsement questionnaires,
together with the replies made by the can
didates. “Let the people judge for them
selves,” Theard said.
These incidents symbolized a regres
sion to conservatism, Johnson Theard said.
“If people try to come up with something
to clear the air, they just try to cover it up
with another issue.”
She said she felt robbed because she
didn’t have the money to finance an exten
sive campaign. “If you have the money,
you can pay to get your name up there,”
Johnson Theard said. “It’s bad enough
that I’m poor, but it’s worse that they get an
unfair advantage such as that.”
Last-Minute
Campaigning
Under Way
Chapel Hill & Carrboro Municipal
BY CHERYL CHIN
STAFF WRITER
As candidates reached the final leg of
their races, last-minute campaigning proved
tiresome for some and relaxing for others.
Many candidates spent their last few days
making the final arrangements for the big
day.
“I’m trying to get people organized to
work the polls,” Carrboro mayoral candi
date Charles Riggsbee said. “I do have
some volunteers now to hand out cards to
voters as they enter the sites.”
Diana McDuffee, Carrboro Board of
Aldermen candidate, said she planned to
put up some more signs, along with giving
literature to her volunteers so they can
distribute them at the polls today.
“I was very busy last weekend touching
bases with everyone and going around to
polling places,” said Julie Andresen,
Chapel Hill Town Council candidate.
Many other candidates found Monday to
be a quite normal day.
“It’s been the most normal day in the
last couple weeks,” said Mark Chilton,
Chapel Hill Town Council candidate.
Chilton said he put up a few last signs.
Chilton said he prepared for a day at the
polls by throwing a small party with his
friends Monday: a * " m
Mayoral candidate Kevin Foy took an
interesting approach to collect some final
supporters. On Monday, Foy rented a trol
ley filled with balloons and supporters and
rode through campus, downtown and
many Chapel Hill areas talking to the pub
lic. “It was a festive way of reminding
people that elections are tomorrow and to
come out and vote,” Foy said.
Six people working for Foy’s campaign
went door to door in Carmichael Resi
dence Hall passing out literature to stu
dents, campaign volunteer Aaron Nelson
said. “The idea is that the newly registered
voters are the ones most likely to vote, “
Nelson said. “Students can make a differ
ence in this vote.”
Many of the candidates will spend to
day tailring to voters at polls. “I’ll be going
out to the various polls, but I will spend
most of my time at Orange Water and
Sewage Authority,” Riggsbee said.
Many will head to their homes or the
homes of personal friends once the polls
close.
“Some people may try to self-medicate in
order to forget a rape. They start drinking
a lot or using drugs," she said.
Rape victims often have difficulty get
ting over the experience, Barney said.
Granick said she thought it was impor
tant to keep the lines of communication
open from die beginning of a friendship or
relationship.
“A lot of miscommunications and poor
expectations (that can lead to date rape)
start very early,” she said.
Granick said she thought students
needed to be made aware of how they
could avoid date rape.
“I think that there needs to be more
dialogue on prevention.”
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