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2 Friday, November 10,1995 Campus Y Hosts Human Rights Conference BY DAVE SNELL STAFF WRITER About 200 high school students from across North Carolina will discuss social change this weekend at a conference spon sored by the Campus Y. “UNC-CH: A Catalyst for Positive So cial Change” conference will kick off Cam pus Y’s annual Human Rights Week, said Teju Omolodun, conference coordinator. Workshops will be held today through Sunday, and most of the workshops will be held in the Student Union. Human Rights Week will continue until Friday. “(The conference) will provide a forum to discuss solutions for social issues,” she QUINN FROM PAGE 1 the fears of African Americans; that this not become divisive but that it become an opportunity for dialogue between the races,” she said. Blacks’ fears and ideas of genocide have been discussed foryears in the mass media. One article, “AIDS, is it genocide?” was published in Essence magazine, and the black television news show “Tony Brown’s Journal” has focused on the issue as well. The two are examples of the popularpress, but white America may not read or see these media, Quinn said. HOUSING FROM PAGE 1 year).” Junior Nicole Davidson said she had been pleased with maintenance. “Overthe summer we had a really bad wasp problem on our balcony, and Mrs. Brooks came over and killed them. We leave a message and a few hours later there’s a knock on the door and she’s there.” Brooks said she tried to contribute to that feeling by giving friends apartments that are near each other and by encourag ing tenants to know their neighbors. “It’s safer that way,” she said. Brooks said she tried to address com plaints quickly. “My husband is the main tenance man, and we generally get to it the next day. If he can’t fix it, we call an outside contractor. My policy is that I want to treat everyone like I like to be treated.” Students at Bolinwood Apartments, a condominium complex largely managed by Real Estate Associates, said problems were usually addressed within reasonable time periods. Junior Bryan Pruitt said the manage ment at Bolinwood addressed tenants' prob lems promptly. “My roommate has had problems with the ceiling plaster falling down, but the management fixed it.” Junior Wade Downey said, “Whenever we need to get something fixed we’ll go to WHERE WIEE YOU DOE O Y TUESDAY, NOVEMBER l Ytli? Visit one of these RSWP restaurants for breakfast, lunch or dinner. Asa participant in the Triangle-wide event, the Interfaith Council’s hunger-relief program will benefit from the 10% of gross receipts pledged by participating restaurants. 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Issues to be discussed will include youth rights, student-school relations, gen der relations and violence in schools, Omolodun said. “The most important part is raising the awareness of youth ... by giving them a feeling of empowerment needed to change problems,” Omolodun said. “I was in volved in the first conference and seeing the energy and enthusiasm the kids had to implement change, ... it does do some thing for the community.” Omolodun said Darryl Lester, the pro gram manager for the N.C. Public Allies, would be the keynote speaker for the week end. He will speak at 7:30 p.m. today. Harold Woodard, interim associate However, in 1993, TheNew York Times ran an editorial about a black man’s fears of genocide, explaining that those fears were not strange to blacks, Quinn said. She said the fear of genocide did not havetobenegative. “Dialogue could begin to focus on, if African Americans believe this, how can we work with people at risk by virtue of their behavior to turn their fear into a positive factor,” she said. People who are frightened need to learn how to protect themselves, their family and their community, Quinn said. Nationally, blacks are 12 percent of the population but constitute 33 percent of all reported AIDS cases. the handyman, and he’ll fix it, usually within a day or two.” Sophomore Stacey Largent, however, said she and her roommates had experi enced small maintenance problems that had not yet been fixed. “We wanted anew rug, and they wouldn’t give us one,” Largent said. “There’s other little things like leaks that we mentioned when we mo ved in and they haven’t fixed yet. There’s some water dam age. I guess it’s not top priority.” Tenants Taking on Tasks While many students report overall sat isfaction with their rented homes and then landlords, some have quit relying on land lords to fix problems and have taken on maintenance chores themselves. Junior Chris Lea rents a house on Air port Road managed by Lilley Properties, which handles about 100 properties in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro area. “I like the house,” he said. “It has a lot of character. It has a porch swing.” Lea said the washing machine leaked but it did not bother him. “It’s an old house, it’s rustic, and a little bit of water and dirt here and there won’t hurt any thing. I study all the time, so I don’t really notice a stain on the wall.” He said he had been concerned, how ever, about what he believed was old and outdated wiring in the house and had de- EAT OUT - HELP OUT Ilf//' 'V^l mm-m GO OUT TO EAT ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14th Let’s show our support by dining at these fine restaurants all year long! Flying Burrito Franklin St. Pizza & Pasta Golden China Restaurant Golden Corral Groundhog Tavern Ham's Restaurant Hectors of Chapel Hill 'Henry's Bistro Hunam Chinese Restaurant *ll Palio Ristoronte at the Sienna Hotel Jade Palace Jersey Mike's of Chapel Hill Katie's Pretzels K&W Cafeteria 'La Residence Lee's Chinese Take-Out & Delivery W. Franklin St. & Elliott Rd. Lizard & Snake Cafe Looking Glass Cafe Maggie's Cafe & Espresso Margaret's Cantina 'Mariakokis Restaurant Mario's Pizza Mediterranean Deli Mio's Pizza 'Mondo Bistro 'New Orleans Cookery Oasis Cafe Oriental Garden Chinese & Thai Owens 501 Diner Pantana Bob's Papagayo UNIVERSITY dean of student counseling in the General College, will head a workshop entitled “Tolerance, Understanding and Respect: What Does It All Mean?” University students will be registering the attendees, leading and assisting in work shop sessions and acting as guides to the campus, Omolodun said. Conference promoters hope to “gener ate a vision of youth activism” and teach the students to “become catalysts and agents of change,” Omolodun said. Participants were selected through an application process administered by high school counselors, Omolodun said. The application consisted of an essay asking the student to identify the most important Quinn said it was important to recog nize how sacred the church was to blacks. “The church is historically the only institu tion wholly owned by blacks,” she said. “The church is an advocate for those who don’t have a voice in our community.” But there has been a reluctance of the black church to take on the AIDS issue, Quinn said. The church has traditionally been homophobic and churchgoers have denied that there is a real risk of AIDS facing its followers, she said. Quinn said that because researchers had speculated that AIDS originated in Africa, some blacks were perhaps fearful they would be blamed for the virus as another cided to rewire his own room. “My room was fairly easy (to rewire),” he said. “I have an expensive computer, so I had to take care of that. I do a lot of heavy computation, and if my computer were to blow up that would be especially bad.” Landlord Jim Lilley of Lilley Properties said he had put several weeks of work into the house Lea and his housemate rent. To the best of his knowledge, he said, all the wiring in all of his properties complied with safety codes. Junior Ben Storey rents a house from Lilley Properties. He said repairs were com pleted quickly, but he and his roommates had had problems with upkeep. A broken dishwasher has been in Storey and his roommates’ yard since they moved in, and a car was finally removed. “By the second week of school there were 50 to 60 trash bags in front of our place,” Storey said. “My roommate and I finally got rid of them.” Storey said most repairs were completed quickly. “The only time he had to fix some thing, the dryer broke, but he took care of that pretty quickly,” he said. Storey and Lilley said they were gener ally content with their landlord-tenant re lationships. “On the good side, we’ve been given a lot of freedom,” Storey said. “He’s not at all nosey. It’s salutary neglect.” Lilley said he enjoyed having student tenants. “I always like the students, be- Penguins at Wellspring Pepper's Pizza a Provisions Cafe Pyewacket Restaurant Rathskeller Red Hot & Blue 'Restaurant Halina Ritzie's Too Romano's Pizza Kitchen (take-out & delivery only) Rubens at Omni Europa Hotel Sol's Pizza & Restaurant Saladelia Cafe Silk Road Tea House Spanky's Spring Garden Bor & Grill Squid's Subway, Downtown Subway, Glenwood Shopping Ctr. Subway, Timberlyne Shopping Ctr. Sunrise Biscuit Kitchen Swensen's Teddy's at the Holiday Inn Thai Paloce 'The Pines and Tonte Alice's Oyster Bar The Steamery Tsing Tao Restaurant 'Village Market & Cafe at Southern Village 'Weathervane at a Southern Seoson Ye Olde Waffle Shop 'Zorbas Restourant social problem in his community and to explain how he could solve this problem. Two students were accepted from most counties to ensure a diverse group would be chosen, she said. “The students (selected) had issues they wanted to combat at home, ” she said. This conference is the second one held by the Campus Y for high school students, Omolodun said. The first was held in 1993, coinciding with the University’s Bicenten nial. Omolodun said she thought this year’s conference would be a success, and she said it would help students when they return to their hometowns. “They have the power within themselves to do it.” negative link to their culture and history. Quinn is presently instituting a program to combat the fears of genocide. Under this program, health educators can use the church as a venue and work through their belief system to communicate with the many blacks who are either at risk of get ting HIV or are infected. Health professionals need to be edu cated as well as their patients, Quinn said. “As long as white health professionals and society look at the results from the study and say ‘That’s bizarre,’ we will never get past the distrust,” she said. Professionals need to leant to create an atmosphere where people feel comfortable cause it’s very seldom that you have prob lems with them. The only time you have problems with them is if they’re in a resi dential neighborhood where there aren’t a lot of students." Seniors Brent Inscoe and Brad King live in a house near Carr Mill Mall managed by Gray-Nickell Realty. They said they had experienced a slow response to small maintenance problems. “First we had problems with our door lock,” King said. “It was difficult to open the door. One of our roommates broke a key off in it just because it’s so difficult to get it open. We had to have a friend come and fix it.” King said he thought Gray-Nickell Re alty had trouble keeping up with mainte nance requests because it managed many properties. Legal Recourse Senior Kirsten DeLuca and junior Laura-Julie Perrault lived in the same house last year that Inscoe and King live in this year. “The house was great, ” DeLuca said. “I loved living there.” Although the roommates experienced very few problems with their house’s main tenance and upkeep, they did find them selves in a legal dispute with their landlord at the end of the year. When Inscoe and King and their room mates moved into the house, their lease 44 mai num Ri Su Men’s & Women’s Open Weight Men’s & Women’s Light Weight Men’s & Women’s Novice Coxswains Race Coaches Race Team Relay All of Your Favorite Fashion, Gift and Specialty Stores Belk-Leggett • Dillard’s • JC Penney Chapel Hill Boulevard & 15-501 • Just off Exit 270 on I-40 Durham, N.C. • 919-493-2451 KRISTALLNACHT FROM PAGE 1 killed. “Half of the Jewish population was wiped out, and that’s extremely signifi cant,” he said. “I was fortunate, but had my family not been fortunate enough to get out of Europe at the time, I could be just another statistic.” Darin Diner, interim director of N.C. Hillel, said several of his relatives were killed in the Auschwitz concentration camp. “Whether or not we lost relatives, we all lost such a part or our community that we’ll never see again,” Diner said. “We’ll never get to know what could have been because of what we lost.” Martin Meisels, who was visiting from Chicago to see his daughter in Chapel Hill, was a partisan in Slovakia during the Ho locaust. Partisans were underground free expressing their fears, to begin creating trust in the relationship, she said. Quinn and her partner in the study, Dr. Stephen Thomas of Emory University, are in Atlanta, where delegates from churches, community groups and gospel radio sta tions in seven cities, including Raleigh and Durham, are meeting to receive training and technical assistance for AIDS educa tion and care. This is part of the National Black Church Week ofPray er for the Heal ing of AIDS. Quinn will use results from her study as part of her class discussions about race issues. She said she hoped the study would make students more culturally sensitive. allowed them to move in two weeks before DeLuca, Penault and their roommates moved out. “When we moved in, the last tenants could be there until May 31,” King said. “We moved in around May 15." The first group of roommates moved out of the house after graduation, two weeks earlier than planned, to allow the second group to move in. The residents obtained help in negotiating the problem from SLS. Despite the disagreement, DeLuca said she would have lived in one of Gray- Nickell’s properties again if her original roommates had stayed together. Bemholz said SLS saw many student landlord problems during August and May, when the highest turnover of rental facili ties happened, but she said overlapping leases were rare. “If the landlord is in a hurry to move new tenants in, sometimes he won’t in spect the property before they move in,” Bemholz said. “We see a lot of disputes about ‘Did the hole in the wall exist when the student moved in?”’ Bemholz said students and landlords can often solve their conflicts through com promise. “Our goal is to work with land lords,” she said. “We deal with all the landlords in town.” But Bemholz said SLS still filed many cases in court. “We’re in court just about all the time.” mangle Ctasl BOWING COMPETITION Rowing Competition Sunday, November 12 at 2pm at Belk Court UNC/NCSU/DUKE J(jit are Slljr Haihj ®ar Hppl dom fighters who escaped authorities and fought against government forces to help Holocaust victims. “I’m a survivor,” he said. ‘Tmallfamiliarwithwhathappened, and this service will bring back the memo ries.” Sophomore Beth Stem, co-chairwoman of UJA, read a poem at the service that she had written after a trip to Germany and Israel last year. “I went to the concentra tion camps and saw the death and destruc tion fust hand, so to me it’s a way to remember what I saw and to bring it back to teach other people,” Stem said. Diner said remembering the Holocaust was even more important today as fewer survivors were able to tell their stories. “The Holocaust survivors are dying,” he said. “In 10 to 15 more years, you aren’t going to have any Holocaust survivors who are going to remember what it’s like to live in a concentration camp.” VERDICT FROM PAGE 1 Winston-Salem. After the Hayes verdict, Linda Cantrell, the motherofone ofHayes’ victims, worked with legislators to tighten the laws involv ing the not guilty by reason of insanity plea. “They still need a guilty but insane ver dict,” Cantrell said. “(The defendants) still need to pay for what they do, and they can’t do that from a hospital.” McDaniel said the bill he and Ballantine proposed would mean those found guilty but mentally ill would be sentenced to a mental institution until medical examiners judged them competent, and then they would serve the rest of the sentence in prison. Ballantine said the bill was proposed during the long legislative session this year, but was never heard by the full legislature. He said a legislative study commission would have to propose the bill for it to be heard during the short session next year. Dr. Seymour Halleck, a psychologist and attorney who is an expert on mental illness in the court setting, said the guilty but mentally ill plea was “best described as ahoax.” Hallecksaid, “Itdoesnothingany different than the guilty verdict. There are currently three men on death row that were ruled to be guilty but mentally ill.” Campus Calendar FRIDAY 5 p.m. APPLICATIONS for Student Opportuni ties Fund are due at the Office of N.C. Fellows and Leadership Development in 01 Steele Building. ITEMS OF INTEREST CAROLINA S.A.F.E CPR challenge course Wednesday from 7:15- 9:15 p.m. in Union 208. CENTER FOR EUROPEAN STUDIES pre sents “The Family” a film about Italian family life on Saturday at 7 p.m. in 303 Dey Hall. BSM will have its Fall Concert on Sunday at 3 p.m. in Great Hall. Donations are $2 in advance, and $3 at the door. ELECTIONS BOARD petitions and candidates’ packets will soon be available for Nov. 14 special election. Please contact Annie Shuart at 962-5201 for more information. South Snuare CREW Challenge
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