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Sljp Daily aar Uwl BRIEFS Stories from the University and Chapel Hill Food Services Bill Up in Student Congress Tonight Tonight’s Student Congress meeting will decide whether students will be able to vote on a plan which could increase fees for the renovations of food service facilities. The vote will be a yes-no decision for congress to make on whether to place the issue in the form of a referendum on the Feb. 13 ballot. The proposal, if approved by the student body, could recommend raising student fees to cover the cost of renovations, which could be as extensive as gutting Lenoir Dining Hall and drasti cally expanding Union Station. Student Body President Calvin Cunningham said the food service task force would be ready to make a presenta tion at tonight’s meeting and would make sure that the questions of students were answered. Other issues planned for discus sion include the appropriation of $3,000 to the Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship and a resolution to call for constitutional fund ing for the Yackety Yack. Up for immedi ate discussion is the establishment of poll sites for the Spring 1996 semester. ALE Crackdown Targets Carrboro's Elks Club The state Alcohol Law Enforcement Agency raided the Elks Club in Canboro Sunday. ALE agents seized $24,000 in cash, $56,000 in gambling tickets, as well as various illegally possessed alcoholic beverages, District Supervisor John Simmons said. “We alleged the alcoholic beverages were for the purpose of sale,” Simmons said. Boychuk Bail Hearing Postponed Indefinitely A Wake County Superior Court post poned the bail hearing for William Boychuk, the second-year MBA student charged with first-degree murder in the Dec. 31 death of his pregnant wife. Assistant District Attorney R. Thomas Fordsaidthestatehadnotdecided whether to seek the death penalty in the case. According to North Carolina state law, bail must be set in cases where the death penalty is not sought. If the state intends to push for the death penalty, then a judge may refuse to set bond. Ford said the state will decide how to prosecute the case within two weeks. Boychuk remains in custody at the Wake County Public Safety Center. Asian-American Student Group to Host Conference The 1996 Atlantic Coast Asian-Ameri can Student Union Conference, which kicks off Asian-American Heritage Week Feb. 9-11 at UNC. The theme for the confer ence is “Uncovering the Voices of the South.” The conference draws Asian-American students from Southeastern universities to educate them about Asian-American heri tage, culture and struggles through work shops and speakers. The keynote speaker is U.S. Rep. Patsy Mink, D-Hawaii. She is the only female Asian-American representative in Con gress. She will speak Feb. 10 at 7 p.m. Registration for the event is $33. For more information call 914-0081 or 967-8210. International Dinner Tonight in Great Hall The 16th International Festival, which kicked off Monday, will continue tonight with an international dinner and picture exhibition. “PANOPTICOM: Images Transcend ing Borders,” is the theme for this year’s four-day event. The dinner tonight will begin at 6 p.m. in the Great Hall. Guests can sample ethnic dishes in a buffet. The cost is $5. An international picture contest will follow. Wednesday, international students will exhibit artifacts from their native countries and answer visitors’ questions from 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. in the Great Hall. Thursday, international groups from the campus and community will salute their native countries in a program of dance, music and more. The event begins in the Hanes Art Center at 7 p.m. Roundtable to Discuss Retirement Planning The Orange County Commission for Women will host the Women’s Business Owners Roundtable on Wednesday at 7:30 a.m. until 9 a.m. The discussion will be held at the Chapel Hill Senior Center at the galleria on 400 S. Elliott Road. Financial consultants from Merrill Lynch, Dean Witter Reynolds Inc. and Kenie Feiner, Account Executive will be on hand to answer questions and present retirement planning options. For more information call the group at 967-9251, ext. 2250. Group Seeks Memorabilia From School Alumni Lincoln High School alumni are seek ing memorabilia from students and staff who attended Lincoln Junior-Senior High School, Northside Elementary School or Orange County Training School. An exhibit of photographs, newspa pers and other items remaining from these schools will be on display at Lincoln Cen ter. The exhibit will be featured as part of Black History Month. People wishing to donate or loan items to the exhibit should call Kim Hoke at 967-8211, ext. 227. FROM STAFF REPORTS Council Hears Town Budget Concerns ■ Residents spoke primarily about affordable housing and transportation issues. BY ANGEIA MOORE STAFF WRITER Affordable housing and transportation issues proved to be foremost in the minds of many residents who spoke to the Chapel Hill Town Council Monday night in a public hearing concerning the town’s bud get. Eight people addressed the council with matters related to the subject of affordable housing in Chapel Hill, an issue that has plagued the town lately. The average cost for anew home in the area is above SIOO,OOO. Two members from the Black Public Woikers Association approached the coun Granato, Shuart Trade Blame for Site Fiasco BYREINO MAKKONEN STAFF WRITER Student Elections Board Chairwoman Annie Shuart deflected criticism Monday of her late submission of poll sites, citing Student Congress Speaker Roy Granato’s Mure to process the sites. Under the cur rent Student Code, poll sites are sup posed to be pre sented to Student Congress at least 18 days before any election. The week end blizzard of Jan. 6-8 prohibited Shuart from deliv ering the sites by the Jan. 8 deadline, she said. “I could have put in an immediate Elections Board Chairwoman ANNIE SHUART said the Student Congress should have sent her bill through committee. consideration bill, which is just what this is now, forthat Wednesday (Jan. 10),” Shuart said. “But I didn’t think about that, know ing I wasn’t going to be at that meeting.” Shuart said she believed the poll site amendment could have been taken care of earlier, if Granato had sent her bill to UNC Student to Attend D.C. Conference ■ The American Committee to Save Bosnia will address obstacles to Bosnian peace. BYJAYMURRIE STAFF WRITER A UNC senior will attend a grassroots conference on Bosnia and the Balkans in hopes that she will help to raise awareness of obstacles to the peace process in the former Yugoslav republic. “I went last year, and I’m mostly inter ested in learning how to help with humani tarian aid,” Catherine Petrusz said. Petrusz will be attending the conference sponsored by the American Committee to Save Bosnia on Saturday and Sunday in Washington, D.C. The conference willbringtogethermem bers of organizations that provide informa tion and critical analysis of the situation in Bosnia, as well as groups concerned with Bosnian reconstruction and humanitarian aid. Steve Walker, the associate director of ACSB, said he hopes the conference will result in a greater understanding of the Bosnian crisis among Americans.. Petrusz is a member of the national organization Students Against Genocide and said she wants to see more student awareness ofgroups like the SAG, which is currently only active on a handful of cam puses nationwide. DTH/ULLY BROWN Kari Towery, a junior from Greensboro, uses a computer in the new Cobb computer lab. The lab is located in the basement of Cobb Residence Hall and is open until midnight. UNIVERSITY & CITY cil with affordable housing concerns. Marion Lyde, a member of the group’s steering committee, said, “We are service people of the town of Chapel Hill, but we can’t afford to live in Chapel Hill.” Steve England, another BPWA mem ber, said although the worker’s concerns with the Public Works Administration did not directly pertain to the town’s budget, several of the group’s points should be budget concerns, especially issues concern ing affordable housing. “Anyone who works in the town should be able to live in the town without having to work two or three jobs,” England said. Both men were met with spatterings of applause from the audience. The director of Orange County Hous ing Corporation, Donna Dyer, asked the council to allocate funds to her organiza tion, which provides affordable housing for low to middle income families. “Affordable housing continues to be a committee when she originally submitted it Jan. 22. “Normally, what’s supposed to happen is that people turn in their bills to the speaker; he types them up, puts one (copy) on the bulletin board, one in his files and he is supposed to put another in the box of the committee chair that the bill is going to,” Shuart said. The bill should have been submitted to Student Affairs Committee Chairman Dan Martin.“(Granato) just didn’t put it in (Martin’s) box, so the com mittee didn’t have it." Granato said he believed his forgetful ness actually saved the Feb. 13 elections. “If I had put it in Dan Martin’s box (on Jan. 22), it would have passed through committee and went through full Con gress,’’hesaid. “Wecouldnotpassthatbill because we would have had to change the Student Government Code first. So by my forgetting, an act of fate, I guess, we get to put the bill up for immediate consideration and change the code before we actually pass the poll sites. It all worked out great. ” Granato noted that no congress meet ing took place the week of Jan. 22. An amendment to the Student Govern ment Code, making poll sites due only 14 days prior to University elections, will go before Student Congress tonight, accord ing to Granato. “The main agenda they have planned is the coordination of projects relating to Bosnia on campuses around the country," she said. “They put out publications about grassroots organizations in Bosnia, as well as organizing some demonstrations.” “I’ve spent most of the last two and a half years speaking to people, educating them about Bosnia," Walker said. Walker, a former state department mem ber who resigned in protest of U.S. policy in Bosnia, said the press was largely re sponsible for the American public not fully understanding the war in Bosnia. “When you do a serious job of explain ing the Bosnian conflict, it’s simpler than the shorthand version journalists use,” he said. “This is not a civil war of ancient ethnic hatreds. In reality it’s a war of ag gression run by Serbia.” Bosnia was not historically a region of ethnic conflicts, Walker said. “Before the war, the intermarriage rate between ethnic groups was high in Bosnia, ” Walkersaid. “You’dseeCatholicchurches, Eastern Orthodox churches and mosques all on the same street.” Walker said the conflict was caused by former Communist Party boss Slobodan Milosevic, who, towards the end of the last decade, realized communism was on the wane and becoming not viable for an au thoritarian state. “He therefore adopted extreme nation alism, really fascism, and set out in the late 80s to conquertenitory, using the Yugoslav critical issue for the community,” Dyer said. Dyer said she is also working with the Meadowmont developer on including af fordable housing tracts in the proposed development on N.C. 54. Pat Connelly, a representative for a group concerned with helping the men tally ill of Orange, Person and Chatham Counties, said the lack of affordable hous ing in Chapel Hill makes her job of finding housing for the mentally ill harder than it would be in other areas. “It’s difficult finding housing for the severely and persistently mentally ill,” she said. “In Chapel Hill, it’s doubly difficult.” Connelly asked the council for financial aid to enable her group to purchase condo miniums to house the mentally ill. The affordable housing issue was also addressed by representatives from Habitat for Humanity, the Inter-Faith Council Halfway House and the Knolls Develop ment Association, a neighborhood group. ERIVPEREL Campaign workers for student body president candidate Lee Conner receive flyers and pins to place around the campus. army which he controlled to create a greater Seib state,” Walker said. Walker said he felt U.S. policy in Bosnia had been detrimental to achieving peace in the future. “The arms embargo denied Bosnians the right to defend themselves, meaning the Serb forces have been killing defenseless civilians,” he said. According to Walker, the Dayton peace accord was fatally flawed. “The Clinton administration wanted the fastest deal they could get because they knew they would have to send troops, and they wanted them home before the elec tion,” Walker said. “They had to offer all the concessions to the aggressor. The Serbs said they would only agree to a peace accord if they had the power to make it unworkable, and the U.S. said fine.” The Dayton accord rewards four years of aggression and genocide by the Seibs, Walker said. The accord also gives the Seibs veto power over all the new Bosnian government’s decisions, so they can make the central government not function if they want to. Walker said he hopes the conference will aid discussion of the points of conten tion in the Dayton accord and lead to a more workable policy for peace. “As it stands, Dayton will not bring peace to Bosnia,” he said. “Bosnia may be in worse shape when our troops leave. This conference is an opportunity because it’s an election year and there’s a greater amount of political discourse going on.” Transportation issues were also ad dressed by former council member R.B. Smith and Student Body President Calvin Cunningham. Because of cuts in federal funding, expected bus service reductions, fare increases, or an increase in the trans portation tax are expected to make up for the lost funds. Smith advocated increasing the effi ciency of the bus system rather raising fares or taxes. “Rather than increase taxes, let’s reduce our operating costs,” Smith said. Smith said the town should run smaller buses through neighborhoods in the middle ofthe day. Smith also said residents needed to be given incentives to ride buses. Adding ridership is sensitive to cost, so fare increases are not the answer, Cunningham said. “It’simportantin main taining the idyllic nature of the town that we have a successful transportation plan. ” Additional public hearings on the bud get are scheduled for February. himpsons treates 1 Bevy of Fanatic Fans BY FRANK WANG STAFF WRITER Even though they don’t have a catchy name like the Trekkers or Deadheads, de voted fans of the television show “The Simpsons” populate the campus in large numbers. For a half-hour, their lives be come “the world according to Bart,” and those who don’t understand their infatua tion and have something to say during the show have to wait their turn to be heard. “I’ll miss phone calls from my parents to watch ‘The Simpsons ’,” said Nick Beard, ajuniorcommunication studies major from Atlanta, Ga. “If my mom calls, I’ll say, ‘Mom, I’ll call you in half an hour, I’ve got to do homework.’” Beard didn’t start watching the show until he got to college. Once he started, he was quickly hooked. Now, he even does a dead-on impression of Nelson, the teen bully who often terrorizes Bart Simpson and the other kids. “It’s clever humor, and one of the best written shows on television, animated or not,” he said. Tracy Strawbridge, a junior communi cation studies major from Durham, said she enjoyed the show’s references to clas- New Computer Lab Brings Technology to North Campus BY REINO MAKKONEN STAFF WRITER A seven-year plan to adequately equip University residence halls with computer labs was completed with the opening of Cobb Residence Hall’s facility January 10. “(Cobb) was the seventh and last part of a seven-year series, ” said Steve Famngton, associate director for the Office of Infor mation Technology’s Instructional Ser vices. “The sites were originally identified by both the (UNC) housing department and OIT.” In addition to Cobb, labs exist in Hinton James, Craige, Morrison, Ehringhaus, Teague and Spencer Residence Halls. Dispersed throughout campus, these residence hall computer labs were built to make computer service available to all cam pus residents. The opening of the Cobb lab eased the demand on the computer facilities located in Davis Library, the Undergraduate Li brary and Venable Hall, the most common alternatives for North Campus residents, Farrington said, i “The libraries ham more resources as Tuesday, January 30,1996 Autopsy: Resident Suffocated ■ Police are continuing to investigate Britthaven and the death of the patient. BY LESLIE KENDRICK STAFF WRITER A Britthaven nursing home patient found dead on Jan. 20 suffocated because of a bed restraint fastenedaroundherwaist, according to a preliminary medical examiner’s report issued last Thursday. Chapel Hill Police Department and N.C. Division of Facility Services officials are continuing to investigate Martha L. Har ris’ death. Britthaven employees found Harris, 84, on the floor of her room at 9:45 p.m. on Jan. 20. Nursing staff members had last checked on her at 9 p.m., police reports state. Officials from the Chapel Hill nursing home responded last Friday to an unre lated report of operating deficiencies. The deficiencies were found in a facility ser vices survey last December, said Ken Hamilton, facility services assistant chief for complaint investigation. Chapel Hill Police Spokeswoman Jane Cousins said town police received a pre liminary autopsy report from medical ex aminer Karen Chancellor last Thursday stating Harris’ cause of death as asphyxia tion, related to a waist restraint the patient wore. Hamilton said state law usually required a doctor’s order for a patient to have such a restraint. “We’re in the process of investigating this right now, but I can only say that there was an order for the restraint, which is a soft waist belt, ” he said. “Records we have from Britthaven include such an order.” A final police report will be ready in about seven days, Cousins said. That re port will then go to the district attorney’s office and will also become part of the Division of Facility Services’ investiga tion. “We want to review the other reports and do some checking ourselves about if there was a care plan for this individual and if that plan was implemented appro priately,” Hamilton said. “That will allow us to come to some See BRITTHAVEN, Page 4 sics. During past shows of “The Simpsons, ” it has alluded to such classics as “Citizen Kane” and Edgar Allan Poe’s “Tell-Tale Heart.” However, it was a reference to a classic film starring Marlon Brando that stood out for Strawbridge. “The episode that made me realize that the show was on a higher level than base humor was an episode called ‘A Streetcar Named Marge,’ where Marge took a part in a production of ‘A Streetcar Named Desire,’ and the show dealt with issues of family,” she said. Strawbridge said she also liked the way the show’s opening is different in every episode and how she could identify with the show’s main characters Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. “The characters, as extreme as they are, are recognizable,” she said. “You recog nize people you know.” Mike Peterson, a junior business major from Winston-Salem, said he thought “The Simpsons” provided a fomm forthe lighter side of serious issues. “I find myself laughing at things that you’re not usually allowed to laugh at, ” he See SIMPSONS, Page 4 far as books and so forth, but I’d just as soon do my research outside and type my papers at Cobb now," said Christopher Stoen, a sophomore from Warrenton who lives in Stacy dorm (situated next to Cobb and the Circus Room). “It’s just much more convenient.” The new lab has 16computerterminals, 10 IBM and six Macintosh. The lab also has two laser printers. Predictably, Cobb residents are happy with the new convenience. “It is definitely a lot easier and less crowded than the libraries or V enable, ’’said Morayo Orija, a freshman from Gastonia living on the dorm’s second floor. “I’ve done some Internet work there already.” The Cobb lab is the second computer facility situated in an all-female dormitory (Spencer’s lab being the first). No all-male residence halls are currently equipped with University computer termi nals. The Cobb facility is now open to all students from noon to 12 am Monday throughWednesday;2pmto 12amThurs- to 5 pm Friday and Saturday; aJßlbn. 2 pm to 12 am Sunday. 3
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