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Wednesday, Feb. 6
■ A Durham resident had her black van
stolen at the Ambulatory Care Center Park
ing Lot, police reports state.
According to police reports, the victim
said that she parked the vehicle in the
upper lot at 11 a.m. and at 12:30 p.m., she
discovered it missing. According to police
reports, the victim was positive she had
locked the vehicle.
There are no suspects, police reports
state.
■ According to police reports, someone
vandalized and took some items from an
Avery resident.
According to police reports, the victim
said that she and her roommate were hav
ing problems, and the roommate was mov
ing out. The victim said she was told by a
resident assistant to stay away from the
room between 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. to allow
her roommate to move out, police reports
state.
According to police reports, the victim
said when she returned to her room, she
noticed someone had gone through her
desk drawer and clothing drawer. The vic
tim also indicated that half a bottle of her
body lotion was gone, some of her things
had been switched to a different wall and
some things on her wall had been turned
upside down, police reports state.
According to police reports, the victim
said something in the room was knocked
down, and a jet that she had was deflated.
The victim also said that a shot glass and a
picture frame were missing, thumb tacks
were found in a pair of her shoes and a
paper towel rack had been ripped from the
wall, police reports state. The victim said
her room was locked when she arrived,
police reports state.
■ An Ehringhaus resident complained
of chest pains and difficulty breathing at
Hinton James Residence Hall, police re
ports state.
According to police reports, EMS was
dispatched to the scene. The victim was
transported to Student Health Services,
police reports state.
■ A Macintosh CPU hard drive and a
computer monitor were stolen from a hall
way inMacNider Hall, police reports state.
Accordingtopolicereports, thereportee,
who works in MacNider Hall, said the
CPU hard drive and monitor were sitting
out in the hallway on Feb. 2.
She said she last saw them on Feb. 5 at
5:30 p.m. and discovered they were miss
ing on Feb. 6 at 10:30 a.m., police reports
state.
She also said that they were in the hall
way for UNC surplus to pick up, police
reports state.
According to police reports, the UNC
tag number for the CPU hard drive is
191456.
■ A Chapel Hill resident was the victim
of a theft on the fourth level of the Health
Affairs Deck, police reports state.
According to police reports, the victim
reported an unknown person took his tools
while he was working at the deck.
Die victim said he laid his tools down
on level four to begin clearing snow from
the deck, police reports state.
According to police reports, the victim
said it happened on Feb. 6 between 3 p.m.
and 4:15 p.m. There are currently no sus
pects, police reports state.
■ A UNC student was the victim of a
theft at a Fetzer Gym volleyball court,
police reports state.
According to police reports, the victim
said that on Feb. 5 she played volleyball in
Fetzer.
The victim said she left her keys and
credit card holders on the floor next to the
court at 4 p.m, police reports state. She
finished at 4:30 p.m and realized they were
stolen, police reports state.
The items stolen included a credit card
holder, a First Union Visa Check Card, a
car key, a house key, UNC legal clinic keys
and a copy machine card, police reports
state.
According to police reports, the victim
canceled her cards but not before the credit
card was used. Thursday, Feb. 8
■ Two males were cited for refusing to
leave Time-Out Restaurant at 1191/2 W.
Franklin St., police reports state. Police
officers arrived on the scene at 4:40 a.m.,
reports state.
City
Wednesday, Feb. 7
■ A citation was issued fortheunautho
rized use of a car, police reports state. The
1989 Nissan 240 SX of Keva Butler, 31, of
Chapel Hill was borrowed by her husband
to go to Durham, but he had not returned,
reports state. According to reports, the car
was last known secure on Monday.
■ Vandalism of an automobile was re
ported on the 200 block of South Estes
Drive, police reports state.
A person damaged the left rear door of
a 1996 Ford Explorer. Damage was esti
mated at S2OO, reports state.
■ A careless and reckless driving cita
tion was issued at U.S. 15-501 nearEastgate
Mall, police reports state. According to
reports, one vehicle almost struck another.
■ Larceny of a purse was reported on
Elliott Road, police reports state.
The complainant left her purse on a
bench unattended, and when she returned
the purse was gone, reports state. A total of
$65 was lost, reports state. Contents of the
purse included a N.C. driver license, credit
cards and $37 in cash, reports state.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Outsider’s Guide to a Campaign’s Anatomy
BY BRONWEN CLARK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Running for a campus office is no small
undertaking. There are posters to make,
dorms to storm and hands to shake. With
25,000 students, hundreds of classrooms
and countless administrators to schmooze,
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it is often too
much for one per
son to handle.
But what is the
solution? Do
campus elections
really need organized political machines?
To some extent, the answer seems to be
yes.
Nearly all of this year’s candidates said
their campaigns were organized with a
“grass-roots” sort of style and denied a
strict hierarchical structure. They claimed
their campaigns centered on a core group
Candidates Pledge Support for Women’s Center
BY SHARIF DURHAMS
STAFF WRITER
Fourprogressive student groups learned
at a Wednesday night forum how the stu
dent body president candidates would en
courage diversity and that all four candi
dates would support a free-standing
women’s cultural center.
The four candidates, Sean Behr, Lee
Conner, Michael Farmer and Aaron
Nelson, spoke at the forum sponsored by
Bisexuals, Gays,
Lesbians and Al
lies for Diversity;
People’s Organi
zation for
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powerment and Rights; the Student Envi
ronmental Action Coalition and the
Women’s Issues Network.
The sponsors expressed concern about
the candidates ’ opinions on a free-standing
women’s cultural center.
Behr said he would arrange for advo
cates fora women’s cultural center to speak
to University administrators.
“As student body president, you need to
facilitate that kind of interaction,” Behr
said. “Let’s get the people who are passion
ate about these things in the rooms where
derisions are made.”
Conner said his administration would
appoint a diverse cabinet to help make
building a center a priority.
“As student body president, you need to
build a broad base of support,” Conner
said. “You need to go up to South Building
and have an army of students behind you."
DTH/RYAN MATIHES
The recent winter storm caused many trees on campus to fall over due to the excess weight of snow and ice.
This fallen tree still remained behind Greenlaw Hall on Thursday afternoon.
Ice Storm Leaves Campus Trees Dead
BY JIM NICKS
STAFF WRITER
Ice and snow were not the only things
falling on campus last weekend. Along
wth icy roads and cold temperatures, the
snow also caused several trees across cam
pus to fall.
N.C. State Students Upset Over Proposed Athletic Fee Hike
BYLEECARMODY
AND JAMES PALMER
STAFF WRITERS
N.C. State University students thought
they were being forced to pay for anew
sports arena through a proposed sls ath
letic fee, the student body president said
Thursday.
According to the NCSU athletic depart
ment, the proposed increase would help
offset the cost of planned renovations to
Carter-Finley Stadium. But NCSU Stu
dent Body President John O’ Quinn said he
thought the increase was an athletic de
partment attempt to free up alumni contri
butions for a separate 20,000-plus seat
arena.
“We’re being asked to subsidize the
sports arena, which from the onset we
were told we would not have to do,” O’
Quinn said. Plans to build the sports and
entertainment complex have been in mo
tion since NCSU celebrated its centennial
in 1987.
of workers with the help of more than 100
others.
“We don’t have any big bureaucracy,”
said student body president candidate Lee
Conner, who also said he had a manager
for his initial petition drive and for his
campaign.
Sean Behr, a candidate for student body
president, said he thought his campaign
was the most loosely organized of the four
student body president contenders, largely
due to the nature of his staff. “Out of all
campaigns ever seen, mine has the least
amount of structure ever,” he said. “There
is no campaign manager. If I told my
friends we’d have a hierarchy ... they’d
laugh at me for horns. My friends are not
into hierarchy.”
Because 50 to 60 percent of his staff is
freshman and those outside student poli
tics, Behr said his campaign’s organization
ran more on interest than on assignments.
Farmer said he supported the idea of a
center but would avoid raising student fees
to pay for it.
“I know right now a free-standing
women’s center is very important, ” he said.
“There are people with more money in the
state, there are people with more money in
the nation than students.”
Nelson said student groups needed to
encourage state leg
islators to fund a
center.
“We need to de
mand. With every
athletic improve
ment, there needs to
be an academic im-
Today's
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Graduate School
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provement,” Nelson said.
Though a center has wide student sup
port, anew building would not solve gen
der communication problems, Behr said.
“Yes, Isupportawomen’s center,” Behr
said. “It can be a start, but it’s not an end
all and be-all.”
The co-sponsors also asked the candi
dates how to make UNC a more accepting
climate for homosexuals.
Communication between professors
who study sexual orientation and students
would help promote understanding, Behr
said.
“I think a forum would be great,” Behr
said. “Getting these (professors) to interact
with students would help students under
stand gay issues.”
Farmer said inviting speakers to the
University could have an impact the treat-
See FORUM, Page 4
Tom Sudderth, grounds supervisor at
the UNC Physical Plant, said eight to 10
trees with trunks at least 10 inches in diam
eter fell on the campus as a result of the
weekend storm, along with dozens of
smaller trees.
Sudderth said that the falling trees were
“completely random and widespread all
The sls intercollegiate athletic fee is
part of a $42 student fee package currently
being considered by the NCSU Board of
Trustees, which will vote on the increase at
its meeting next Friday. A BOT-appointed
committee recommended that the athletic
fee increase be reduced to $5.
Associate Athletic Director Mark
Laßarbera said the athletic fee increase
would go toward establishing a separate
band seating section and improving handi
capped facilities. The existing stadium,
whose renovations could top sll million,
opened in the mid-1960s and is no longer
in compliance with some federal guide
lines, such as the Americans with Disabili
ties Act.
The NCSU Student Senate recently
voted not to allocate any additional stu
dent fees to the athletic department. Stu
dents at NCSU currently pay $66 per year
in athletic fees.
The senate approved the remaining fee
See FEES, Page 4
NEWS
“There maybe two people on my staff who
have ever been involved in a political cam
paign,” he said. “We’re not low politico,
we’re no politico.”
Studentbodypresident candidate Aaron
Nelson, who, ike Conner, has a campaign
manager, said his run for office operated
around a core group of people, with a staff
of about 70. “We went out and brought
about 20 people as a core,” he said. “We
bounced ideas off of each other.”
Nelson said members of the core group
acted as heads of committees that focused
on different campus constituencies. The
committees target their efforts on about six
different areas: Granville, off-campus,
North Campus, South Campus,
midcampus and Greek areas.
Conner said he tried to get everyone
involved, while relying on a small group
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Student body president candidate Michael Farmer speaks at
the Women’s Issues Forum on Thursday while Aaron Nelson looks on.
over campus.”
The weekend storm was almost as bad
as the one in early January, even though
much less precipitation fell on Chapel Hill
this time, he said.
“Plowing six inches of snow is okay, but
See FALLEN TREES, Page 4
Student Fee Allocation at N.C. State University
Over the past two years, total student fees at NCSU have increased from $874 per year to s94Bper year. Here is a
breakdown of how student fees were allocated and the projected increase in fees for the 1996-97 academic year.
IN DOLLARS 11994-95 1995-96 | 1996-97
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Publication Intercollegiate Health University Student Physical
Pee Athletic Fee Services Fee Center Fee Education Fee
SOURCE; N.C STATE SOURCES
What's in a Nam?
The Daily Tar Heel intercept poll surveyed students on their recognition of
current leaders and student body president candidates. Die poll was
conducted before official campaigning began.
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Trebek to Quiz Freshman on
College Jeopardy Next Week
■ Viewers can catch UNC
student Bronwyn Bedient on
College Championship Week.
BYKARAHODGES
STAFF WRITER
During Jeopardy’s College Champion
ship Week, this UNC student plans to buzz
her way through questions and answers
along with her 14 new friends.
Who is Bronwyn Bedient? That’s cor
rect!
Bedient, a freshman English major from
Fort Myers, Fla., will appear asa Jeopardy
contestant on WTVD News Channel 11 at
7 p.m. on Feb. 13.
“I have wanted to be on the game show
for a long time,” Bedient said.
Bedient first tried out for the Jeopardy
Teen T oumament as a junior in high school
but was not selected to compete. This year,
after her mother mailed in a postcard to
Jeopardy, she was selected to try out forthe
JeopardyCollegeToumament. InNovem
ber she flew to Memphis, Term., where she
had to pass a written test.
When asked how she prepared for the
written test, she said, “I borrowed a Jeop
ardy book from my suitemate and read it
on the plane on the way there.”
Bedient passed. She then entered the
next stage of the selection where she had to
play a mock game of Jeopardy against
other contestants who also passed the writ
ten test. After being selected as one of only
Friday, February 9,1996
DTH'LAURIE PERRIS
ABC May
Penalize
Local Bar
■ Players has been under
investigation since a Duke
student fell down the steps.
BY KARYN MITCHELL
STAFF WRITER
Charges against a Franklin Street bar
for serving an alcoholic beverage to a mi
nor have been turned over to the state for
further investigation, said John Simmons,
Alcohol Law Enforcement agency district
supervisor.
The ALE reported that Players, located
at 159 1/2 E. Franklin St., violated the
Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s regula
tions on Jan. 24. Bartenders had served
alcohol to an underage Duke student, who
then fell down the metal steps outside the
bar.
“This was not a special incident,”
Simmons said. “We routinely forward the
reports onto the ABC.”
Simmons said the ABC would set a
hearing to determine the consequences of
the violations. “The penalties could range
from a written warning to a loss of ABC
permit,” Simmons said. Loss of the ABC
See ALE, Page 4 h , ,
15 students in the whole country who tried
out, Bedient’s appearance for the show
was filmed in L.A. Bedient said that she
prepared as a quarter finalist by studying
information about Shakespeare and the
U.S. presidents for the show.
Because of a contestant’s contract,
Bedient cannot reveal the game’s outcome.
Bedient said she was more excited than
she was nervous.
“I was a little bit nervous, but the other
contestants were really great,” she said.
“We all went to Planet Hollywood to
gether, and now we e-mail back and forth
as friends. It was a positive experience and
didn’t really feel like a competition.’’
Another University student, Cynthia
Greenlee, a senior from Greensboro, who
appeared on Jeopardy in 1995, also said
that she made several lasting friendships as
a result of the tournament.
“I would do it again but this time win
the whole tournament,” she said. “I have
met a lot of people, even here. It’s amazing
how people will open up to you once you
have been on TV.”
After she won her first game, Greenlee
lost in the next round.
“I got $5,000, nottaxfree, andanumber
of rather interesting consolation prices in
cluding Hooked on Phonics and 250 jars of
pickles,” said Greenlee.
Each of the 15 quarter finalists will
receivesl,ooo,andthetoumament’ssemi
finalists will receive $5,000. The three fi
nalists will receive anew Volvo and $25,000
or the sum of the money they earned in the
two final days.
DTH / CHRIS nWCMAN AND DANIEL NTBLOCK
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