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Monday, Nov. 6
■ A resident ofMonison Residence Hall
reported the larceny of two compact discs
and a black portable cassette player, re
ports stated. According to reports, the vic
tim left the items unsecured in his room
while taking a shower, and they were miss
ing when he returned.
■ A resident of Aycock Residence Hall
reported the larceny of her wallet valued at
$35, reports stated. According to reports,
the victim left her bookbag at a table in a
campus library and briefly left to go to the
restroom twice. During the second time
the victim left the table, the wallet was
stolen from a pocket attached to the
bookbag, reports stated. According to re
ports, the wallet contained a driver’s li
cence, two credit cards and sls.
■ An employee of the Ambulatory Care
Center at UNC Hospitals reported the lar
ceny of a voice pager valued at $259, re
ports stated. According to reports, the vic
tim left the pager on her desk momentarily,
and when she returned it was missing.
Sunday, Nov. 5
■ Darcy Daniel Nolan, 32, of 100 W.
Rosemary St. was arrested for second-de
gree trespassing after being found sleeping
in an outside building on the Michie prop
erty on South Columbia Street, reports
stated.
■ Union Stationreportedthetheftofice
cream valued at $2, reports stated. Accord
ing to reports, an unknown man entered
Union Station and went to the frozen case.
Then the suspect tried to put some ice
cream in his bag, reports stated. When a
Union Station employee called University
Police the suspect threw the ice cream
down and ran out the entrance door, re
ports stated. According to reports, officers
searched for the suspect, who was believed
to be a student, without finding him.
■ Student Union officials reported the
larceny of a painting valued at SIOO from
the second floor ofthe Union, reports stated.
According to reports, an employee noticed
the painting missing and contacted Uni
versity Police.
City
Tuesday, Nov. 7
■ Harvey Stanford Keith, 33, of 128
No. 1 Johnson St., was arrested in pursu
ant of a warrant issued by Granville
County’s clerk’s office and charged with
possession of a license plate reported sto
len in Durham, reports stated. Keith was
held on S3OO bond.
Monday, Nov. 6
■ Patricia Wilma Parker, 29, of 24 Fel
lowship Drive in Durham was arrested for
concealing merchandise at Eckerd Drugs
at Eastgate Shopping Center, reports stated.
■ A Chapel Hill resident reported that
the license plate on her car had been stolen,
reports stated. The victim’s car was parked
at Culbreth Middle School, reports stated.
■ An employee at Cerebral Hobbies,
located at 128 E. Franklin St., reported
burglary and forcible entry at the business,
reports stated. According to reports, a steel
cable valued at $lO and a door handle
valued at SSO were damaged.
■ An Airport Road resident reported
the larceny of $l5O and five rings valued at
$1,028 from her home, reports stated.
■ Two guests at the Best Western Uni
versity Inn, located on Raleigh Road, re
ported the larceny of $856 worth of mer
chandise from their hotel room.
Sunday, Nov. 5
■ Four UNC students were arrested for
the larceny of Halloween decorations, re
ports stated. According to reports, Tho
mas Eugene Gallo, Jason Wade Marlow
and Matthew Robert Paszek, all 18, of
Granville Towers South, were arrested.
Matthew David Kennedy, 19, of Stacy
Residence Hall also was arrested, reports
stated. According to reports, all four were
released on $l5O bond.
■ Jeffrey Scott Benfield, 23, of 116
Marlow Court in Canboro was arrested
for driving while intoxicated and for driv
ing 78 miles per hour in a 45 mile per hour
zone, reports stated. Benfield had a blood
alcohol level of .19, according to reports.
Benfield was released on S3OO bond.
■ Thomas R. Hipp, 20, of 27 Clover
Drive was arrested for driving while intoxi
cated and driving while intoxicated with a
provisional license, reports stated. Hipp’s
blood alcohol level measured .11, reports
stated. Hipp was released on S4OO bond.
■ Glenn Ralph Etheridge, 41, of 2517
Shirley St. in Durham was arrested for
larceny after he took merchandise valued
at $190.62 from Eckerd Drugs at Eastgate
Shopping Center, reports stated. Etheridge
was released on S3OO bond.
■ The Red Roof Inn, located on 5623
Chapel Hill Boulevard, reported the lar
ceny of $570 from its safe, reports stated.
■ According to police reports, a purse
worth SBO was stolen from the Taco Bell
located on East Franklin Street. According
to reports, the purse contained $25, a check
book, a credit card, an ATM card, a library
card, an operator’s license and a set of
keys.
■ According to police reports, a break
ing and entering of a vehicle occurred on
Columbia Street.
The owner of the Chevrolet Blazer re
ported that someone had taken a compact
disc player, valued at S3OO, from the ve
hicle, reports stated. According to reports,
the door lock, valued at SIOO, also was
broken on the vehicle.
Newcomer, Two Veterans Grab
Open Carrboro Aldermen Seats
BY AMY CAPPIELLO
STAFF WRITER
Carrboro Board of Aldermen veteran
Jay Bryan was re-elected to another term
Tuesday, while newcomer Alex Zaffron
grabbed his first seat on the board and
veteran Hilliard Caldwell hung on to win a
fourth term after a two-year hiatus.
“I feel that the trend that has been set, a
generally liberal trend, will continue, ” said
Canboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird.
Incumbent Bryan, who has served on
the board for eight years, led the Aldermen
race throughout the night. “Everybody
worked really hard to make it a good cam
paign,” Bryan said after winning another
term. “I’m very happy and honored.”
Bryan said the Carrboro board would
continue to run the town in an efficient
manner. He also said that examination of
tax rates and the development ofthe north
ern transition area would be important
issues in the future.
Newcomer Alex Zaffron finished the
evening in second place. “In a large part,
what went on tonight is a reaction to
Carrboro’s need to be a progressive com
munity,” he said.
Zaffron’s platform concentrated mainly
on the need for affordable housing in
Carrboro. “I think that the issues I talked
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Olympic Diver Lougams Says He Uses
Public Appearances as Group Therapy
BY GRAHAM BRINK
STAFF WRITER
A dyslexic, drug abusing, homosexual,
HIV positive rape survivor. This is not how
you would expect a three-time Olympic
athlete to describe himself.
Greg Louganis was never a typical
Olympic athlete. His life, as described in
hisrecentbook, Breaking the Silence, reads
like the proverbial roller coaster ride.
Speaking to almost I,ooopeople at Duke
University on Monday night, the four
time Olympic gold medalist described the
difficulty of making his homosexuality and
HTV status public.
“The first person you have to come out
to is yourself, ’’ Louganis said. “I always let
my record speak for itself, so I wouldn’t
have to speak formy record. Now I feel it’s
time to speak.”
Louganis said the speaking tour’s pur
pose, to promote his new book, was really
a front for what he called “group therapy. ”
“Secrets are incredibly burdensome,”
he said. “They make you feel all alone.”
The themes of relinquishing past secrets
and facing the future with a clean slate
wove their way through the hour-long
speech.
Louganis said his mother was the first
person he told of his homosexuality. He
told of the experience of telling her that the
man he lived with was not just a friend but
a lover.
Louganis said she reacted by saying that
Speaker: Society and Culture Responsible for Sexual Harrassment
BY NATALIE NEIMAN
STAFF WRITER
The socialization of the sexes in West
ern society is a main cause of instances of
sexual harassment, said Judith Scott, Uni
versity Sexual Harassment Officer, during
a forum Tuesday night.
“A lot of the behaviors that I see are just
the playing out ofscripts our culture teaches
us as men and women,” Scott said. “Our
culture supports a lot of men behaving in a
dismissive and disrespectful way to a lot of
women.”
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Board of Aldermen Results
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Alex Zaffron
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S Hilliard Caldwell
| 1,383 21%
about really resounded, especially keeping
housing costs under control,” he said.
Zaffron said now that he was on the
board he wanted to move ahead with the
inclusionary zoning ordinance which
would require a certain number of afford
able houses in new developments.
Caldwell returned to the Board Tues
Music for the Masses
“1 decided that if I tested
positive, I was going to pack
my bags, go home and wait to
die
GREG LOUGANIS
Olympic Diving Gold Medalist
she already knew he was gay, then asked,
“What’s for dinner?” The crowd laughed.
Louganis described his reaction to team
mates refusing to room with him. “I don’t
know what they were worried about,” he
said. “They should be so flattered.”
The mood ofthe audience was somber
when Louganis described the constant
harassment he received from other diving
teammates. “‘Fagbusters’ was the provo
cation of choice,” he said. “Eventually the
harassment wears you down."
Louganis said he considered coming
out to end the harassment and the secrets,
but said pressure from sponsors and doubt
about the media’s reaction delayed his
decision.
“I didn’t want to trust the media with
getting the story right,” he said.
In 1988 Louganis was tested for HIV.
He suspected that he was infected because
several of his previous lovers were getting
sick.
“I decided that if I tested positive, I was
going to pack my bags, go home and wait
About a dozen people attended the fo
rum sponsored by the Office of Greek
Affairs as part of Rape Awareness Week.
Scott said that 95 percent of sexual ha
rassment was done by men to women, 3
percent of cases involved men harassing
other men, 2 percent involved women ha
rassing men and the percent of single-sex
female harassment was so small that it was
not measured.
“Women are socialized to be nice and
so they are more equipped to pick up on
nuances of behavior that tells them the
behavior isn’t welcome," Scott said. “Our
day night. “I’m glad the citizens saw fit to
send me back,” he said.
Caldwell said now that he and Hank
Anderson were on the board, it would
mark the first time that there were two
black Aldermen at the same time.
The foremost issue in his mind is taxes,
and he will work hard to reduce them,
Caldwell said. He said growth was another
important issue that the board would be
faced with in the near future. “Growth is
going to be very carefully scrutinized. The
next four years is going to be the turning
point of the community,” he said.
Although she finished in fourth place,
newcomer Diana McDuffee said she was
optimistic because Mike Nelson’s election
as mayor would free up another seat.
“We’re thinking that in fourth, I’ll be in
good position to replace Mike’s spot,” she
said. “But it’s up to the board to decide
how to fill the seat.”
“Diana will be appointed next time
around,” Kinnaird said.
For her first run for public office,
McDuffee said she felt it was successful.
“We came real close to coming in third.”
Fifth place finisher David Collins gath
ered 875 votes.
Matt Mesmer and Victor Hendrickson
contributed to this article.
to die,” he said.
But with the 1988 Olympics held in
Seoul, South Korea, quickly approaching,
he said he changed his mind. For months,
he trained without telling his coach. Even
tually the burden became too heavy.
“I didn’t tell him right away because I
didn’t want him to take it easy on me,” he
said. “Finally, I needed an ally on the pool
deck."
The Duke audience cringed when a
highlight film showed Louganis smashing
his head on a springboard and blood flow
ing into the pool during the Olympic com
petition. Louganis opted not to break the
news of his HTV status to the team doctor.
“Looking back, I’d do things differ
ently,” he said. “I regret not telling the
doctor.”
After the Olympics, Louganis said his
life took a turn for the worse.
His self-esteem plummeted as the se
crets continued. Raped at knife point by his
abusive partner, Louganis said he felt
“trapped” and didn’t think he was going to
“survive the relationship.”
His health worsened, but he still refused
to reveal his secret, he said. To avoid pub
licity he flew to Florida and checked into a
hospital under an assumed name.
“I was alone, ” he told the audience with
tears forming in his eyes. “I thought I was
flying to Florida to die. This is what secrets
do to you."
See LOUGANIS, Page 6
society teaches them to take that kind of
submissive role.”
Scott said gay and lesbians tended to
sexually harass less than others for two
reasons: their oppression by society caused
them to be more sensitive to the impact of
their behaviors on others, and they valued
egalitarian relationships, rather than domi
neering ones.
“What’s shocking is that more men don’t
behave in sexually harassing ways because
it’s all around them,” Scott said. “And
how they reject ... the messages that are
constantly being reflected is often a sur
Putting Children First
Shut (hit; 2 Rookies,
3 Incumbents Win Posts
BY LESLIE KENDRICK
STAFF WRITER
Outspoken children’s advocacy group
Putting Children First candidates Peter
Morcombe and Louise Cole were left be
hind as incumbent Ken Touw dominated
returns in the Chapel Hill-Canboro Board
of Education election Tuesday.
Incumbents Elizabeth Carter and Bea
Hughes-Wemer and newcomers Harvey
Goldstein and Nicholas Didow filled out
the board’s five available seats. The win
ners broke away from the other eight can
didates by more than 4,000 votes.
Touw, the current school board chair
man, said he would continue to address
current school board issues, including stu
dent achievement and support.
“My first plan of action will be to focus
on improving the achievement of all stu
dents and making sure students don’t fall
through the cracks,” he said.
Touw said he saw the election results as
a sign of residents’ commitment to educa
tion and their readiness to work to im
prove the Chapel Hill and Canboro schools.
“I think (the community) is saying, yes,
the school has problems, but we want to
work together,” he said.
Newcomer Goldstein, a UNC profes
sor and PTA president, snagged the sec
ond-highest number of votes, followed by
Carter and Hughes-Wemer, members who
currently have appointed positions.
Goldstein said strong public schools
were more important now than ever be
fore. “We have to look at the legacy we’ve
been given,” Goldstein said. “We have to
do at least as well in making public schools
good for our children and their children as
our parents did for us."
Hughes-Wemersaid the results showed
voters’ concern for the educational system
and their satisfaction with current philoso
phies on the board.
“Voters have sent a strong message about
how deeply they value public education,”
she said. “The candidates who won all had
the same outlook. The people have spo
ken, and they aren’t moving to the right.”
Hughes-Wemer said achievement of
African-American students and commu
nity growth were two priority issues for her
Kerckhoff Hangs On
To Durham Mayor Post
■ Pat McCrory is elected
mayor of Charlotte in one of
many mayoral elections
across the state.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Across North Carolina, voters in major
cities sent the message that crime preven
tion, low taxes and the environment were
the issues they cared about most.
Charlotte, Greensboro, Asheville,
Durham, High Point, Fayetteville and
Greenville were among the major cities
that elected mayors.
Former city council member Pat
McCrory was elected mayor of Charlotte
Tuesday. McCrory, a Republican, defeated
Hoyle Martin, also a former city council
member. McCrory succeeds Richard
Vinroot, who has held the mayor’s job for
four years. Vinroot is seeking the Republi
can gubernatorial nomination next year.
Cracking down on crime, keeping taxes
low and encouraging development were
among the campaign pledges made by
McCrory, who garnered 63 percent of the
vote. McCrory will serve a two-year term.
Martin, a Democrat, stressed the social
causes of crime. He was the only black
council member to support a city curfew
last spring.
In Durham, incumbent Sylvia Kerckhoff
defeated former mayor Harry Rodenhizer
Jr. Kerckhoff won by nearly a 2-to-l mar
gin.
Greensboro Mayor Carolyn Allen, an
environmentalist and former professor,
defeated Tom Phillips, a Merrill Lynch
consultant. Phillips Out-polled the mayor
by 600 votes in last week’s primary and
boasted a bigger bankroll. But Allen re
claimed her seat Tuesday with 53 percent
of the vote.
In High Point, Mayor Becky Smothers
defeated Michael Miller in a landslide.
Smothers garnered 87 percent of the vote.
Asheville Mayor Russ Martin convinc
ingly won a second term, beating Vice
Mayor Chris Peterson by a more than 2-to
-1 margin.
Martin will work with an almost en-
prise to me.”
Forms of sexual harassment range from
verbal sexual remarks to sexual imposi
tion, or forced, unwanted sexual activity,
Scott said. All forms involve a person trans
gressing another’s personal boundaries.
Most sexual harassment is environmental
sexual harassment, which creates an offen
sive, hostile or discriminating work or edu
cational environment, she said.
While an isolated incident of subtle
sexual harassment may not meet the legal
definition of sexual harassment, repeated
occurrences of subtle harassment can, Scott
Wednesday, November 8,1995
Board of Education Results
BKen Touw
7,093 14.2%
PI Harvey
lQ| Goldstein
* ” 6,923 13.9%
JPjl Elizabeth Carter
6,860 13.7%
a Bea Hughes-
Wemer
6,745 13.5%
Nicholas Didow
6,462 12.9%
as a board member.
Carter said the election of appointed
school board members showed voter con
fidence in the current school board. “I was
at first appointed to the board,” she said.
“This election let the people decide.”
Didow, the fifth highest vote-getter, will
serve a two-year term to finish out the term
of LaVonda Burnette, who resigned from
the board last year. “I never would have
guessed this outcome,” Didow said.
Didow said he saw the election results
as an endorsement of current school board
priorities and stressed the importance of
cooperation between town and school.
Luther Caldwell, Todd Darling and Gibson Pate
contributed to this article.
Cities Across North Carolina
tirely new city council as only one of three
incumbents won council seats. The new
Asheville City Council will consist ofMar
tin, current councilwoman Barbara Field,
former councilman Charles Worley, and
fournewcomers: Edward Hay, Jim Skalski,
Tommy Sellers and Chuck Cloninger.
In Fayetteville, incumber J.L. Dawkins
defeated Bob Shoptaw. Dawkins served
on the city council for 20 years, has never
lost an election and attends about 700 civic
events a year. Dawkins, 59, received 6,183
votes compared with Shoptaw’s 2,488.
Greenville voters chose incumbent
Mayor Nancy Jenkins, 63, over challenger
Cameron Morris, 27. Jenkins garnered
3,706 votes to 1,680 for Morris.
Jenkins has served three terms. Morris
is a local radio personality, student at Pitt
Community College and campaigner for
GOP presidential candidate Alan Keyes.
Raleigh voters were left to pick some
city council members in Tuesday’s elec
tion. Mayor Tom Fetzer easily won re
election last month, then endorsed a slate
of conservative city council candidates to
oppose moderate contenders running in
dependently.
Voters in Johnston County passed a SSO
million school bond referendum. The ref
erendum passed by a nearly a 2-to-l mar
gin.
Theschoolbondvotewasbeingwatched
as a test of whether local taxpayers con
tinue to accept responsibility for building
new schools to accommodate a growing
population.
Forsyth County voters overwhelmingly
approved issuing $94 million in bonds for
new schools and school repairs yesterday.
With 96 of99precincts reporting, 23,168
people had voted forthe bonds, and 10,024
had voted against them.
School officials said they will use the
money to build schools, including four
middle schools in suburban Forsyth
County, and make improvements to 46 of
the 58 existing schools.
said.
The rale when determining whether a
person’s actions are welcomed by another
is “mutual consent, mutual pleasure, ” Scott
said. “If you don’t know if it’s welcome,
don’t do it," she said.
“Our cultural prescriptions for how it’s
okay for men and women to behave ...
damages people in many ways because it
prevents them from having egalitarian re
lationships,” Scott said.
“There is resistance to change because it
represents a change to basic social power
structures.”
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