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Zbsf laity (Far Hrrl J? Volume 104, Issue 3 103 years of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1593 INSIDE TUESDAY Council Hears Alcohol, Bar Concerns BY ANGELA MOORE STAFF WRITER The alcohol-related death of a Univer sity student in April, recent Alcohol Law Enforcement crackdowns around Chapel Hill, efforts ofalocal “Beer Patriot” against the town’s Open-Container law, and the balance local bars must maintain between making money and restricting entry to minors have ail been important town topics in the past year. Monday ALE Cites 79 in Chapel Hill Bars See Page 3 night’s public hearing before the Town Council combined all of these issues and the variety of emotions that came along with them. At issue was a possible town resolution allowing for more council control over the licensing of local bars and alcohol regula tions. Town Manager Cal Horton said the measures were “part of a town-wide effort to improve compliance with ABC laws.” Aldermen Face Crucial Landfill Decision Tonight BY AMY CAPPIELLO STAFF WRITER Tonight will cap off six years of negotia tions between Orange County residents, the Landfill Owner’s Group and various county boards over the future site of the new Orange County landfill. The Carrboro Board of Aldermen will vote tonight on whether to adopt Orange County site 17, which would extend the current landfill, located on Eubanks Road, by 100 acres. Currently, none of the sur rounding landfill residents have spoken in support of She 17 has al ready been approved by the Orange County Board of Commissioners, the Hillsborough Town Board and the Chapel Hill Town Council. While the size of the land to be annexed for the entire landfill area is about 350 acres, Orange County Commissioner Don Willhoit said that only about 100 acres would actually be used by the landfill. The rest of the land would be used in the landfill construction process, he said. Alderman Jacquelyn Gist said she be lieved the site size selection process was done without taking into consideration the town’s waste reduction plan. “People are taking measures to decrease theiramountofsolidwaste,”Gistsaid. “If Diverging Faiths, Merging Viewpoints ■■■■■ mssmm f'jUß -Tr lll . l ji ) iiiiiTTjTTmuLß A National Holocaust Museum visitor reads the names of the small European towns and communrfes that were wiped out by the Holocaust when their mainly Jewish populations disappeared. Museum Recalls Sights, Sounds of Holocaust BY JENNIFER WILSON STAFF WRITER WASHINGTON, D.C.—Visi tors to the National Holocaust Mu seum in Washington, D.C. are transported to the Europe of nearly 60years ago. The sights, the smells, the voices, the artifacts and the memories of the six million people who died in the Holocaust dwell Hole-Hearted Effort The Public Works Department is working to fix potholes left by the winter weather. Page 2 Kenneth and Cindy McGee addressed the council. Their daughter Jamie fell to her death from Phillips Hall Annex last April. An autopsy later revealed the 19- year-old UNC freshman was legally drunk at the time. “I take full responsibility and account ability for allowing my daughter to come to this town, to come to Carolina,” said Kenneth McGee, Jamie’s father, his wife Cindy stood beside him and held back tears. Jamie McGee fell to her death from the Phillips Annex after she was served alco hol at Buckheads, a former Franklin Street bar. An emotional Kenneth McGee chal lenged the council to take action to prevent bars from serving alcohol to minors. “You (the council) haven’t done what it takes to get thejob done,” he said. “Yourpurpose is to provide government for the welfare of the people. You can base your decisions toward that purpose, or you can continue the quagmire of greed that exists in Chapel we are successful, and we must be, we will not need as much land as we originally thought.” Alderman Diana McDuffee said her main concern in the selection process was the residents ofßogers and Eubanks Roads. “These people put up with the landfill all these years,” McDuffee said. “They were promised that there would not be another landfill in their neighborhood. I’m bothered by that broken promise.” Willhoit said he believed with solid waste reduction plans, the new landfill could last forever. “We estimate the landfill will last for about 100 years,” Willhoit said. “How ever, if we are at all successful with our waste reduction efforts, it could last indefi nitely.” The battle over where to put the new landfill has been waged for six years. Gist said the process had taken so long because of the various stages it had to endure. “First of all, we had to come together and identify that we needed anew land fill,” Gist said. Gist said a firm was hired to study the geological, transportational, ecological and social effects of the new landfill on the county. The firm then presented its find ings to a committee composed of county residents. Finally, the citizens presented there, subconsciously whispering one word. Remember. “It’s our responsibility to not let this happen again,” sophomore Alan Shulimson said. “We should feel guilty about turning our backs in this day and age.” Through the “architecture of sug gestion,” the museum educates about 1,500 visitors per day about When pleasure interferes with business, give up business. American proverb JS A s>\ Hill. The choice is yours.” Xavier Chakravarti, the UNC student who filed a harassment complaint last fall against ALE agent Chris Waters, said the alcohol issue in Chapel Hill has “be come out of hand.” "Whenever a student chooses to drink, they are re sponsible for their actions when they The parents of former UNC student JAMIE MCGEE told the council more control over bars was needed. drink,” Chakravarti said. He added that Chapel Hill police and ALE agents had been given too much power in apprehend ing underage drinkers and citizen’s rights werebeingviolatedasaresult. Chakravarti said the council should concentrate on more important issues than drinking. Spencer Everett, the resident who sub- Current and Proposed Chapel Hill Landfills ... SOURCE: CHAPEL HILL NORTHWEST AREA PLAN theirfindingstothe Landfill Owners’ Group which presented them to the individual boards. “We’ve been bending over backwards to find the best site,” he said. Part of the land under consideration for the new landfill is privately owned by Duke University and is part of Duke Forest. However, under an easement, the county could confiscate the land for the landfill. “If private land is needed for a public purpose, the county or the town can con demn the property,” Willhoit said. “We are hopeful that a negotiation with Duke will occur.” David Roberson, director of University relations for Duke University said Duke, is vehemently opposed to a landfill in Duke the horrors of the Holocaust so that nothing ofits kind will happen again. The building was designed in the shape of a downward spiral divided into three floors, each of which tells a chapter of the story. The third floor exhibits describe the Nazi build-up and the prelude to World War n, the second floor chronicles See MUSEUM, Page 5 Cfci|l Hill, Nortli CiroHaa TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 27,1996 Money, Money, Money Student Congress Finance Committee unveiled its budget recommendations. Page 3 mitted the petition on which the resolution before the council is based, presented a letter from men’s basketball coach Dean Smith and his wife Linnea Smith support ing the resolution and any other efforts to combat underage drinking in Chapel Hill. The letter stressed dissociating alcohol with recreation and encouraged the town to stop valuing young adults only as consum ers. Henderson Street Bar and Grill owner Kevin Clyde said the resolution was “a good way to get the heat off (the council), but it doesn’t come close to solving the problems of underage drinking in Chapel Hill. It’s like squirting a water gun at a forest fire.” If an underage person over the age of 18 is caught drinking, they pay a $lO infrac tion, a penalty Clyde said is too low. Clyde said a better way to stop underage drinking is to stiffen the penalties rather than punish bar owners. The council will consider the issue again at either their March 13 or March 25 meetings. Forest. “Ourposition, since they added the Duke Forest area to the list of sites for consideration, is that we are opposed to it and will resist it by all legal means,” Roberson said. “We may wind up taking legal action.” Roberson said projects like the monitor ing of air quality would be severely jeopar dized if a landfill was placed in Duke Forest. Alderman Hilliard Caldwell said that while no one was in favor of extending the current landfill, he was still leaning toward supporting site 17. “I don’t like the idea, but it has to go somewhere,” Caldwell said. “If it were me, I wouldn’t want it in my backyard, but it does have to go somewhere.” D.C. Trip Joins Mixed Group BY JENNIFER WILSON STAFF WRITER WASHINTON, D.C. Some people may think that the walls that divide society by race and religion are made of steel, but UNC students demonstrated that love and open minded understanding can build bridges when they traveled to Wash ington, D.C. to visit the National Holocaust Museum this weekend. “I came away really understand ing all over again that human be ings do not have the luxury of hat ing other human beings just because they are different in some way,” said Gregg Sullivan, program direc tor at the Wesley Foundation. A trip organized by Hillel, a UNC Jewish student organization, V. jc jj ~ soK * 'wg m . ~ H—, ' DTH/JENNIFER WILSON Each visitor to the museum receives a pamphlet detailing one person's experiences during the Holocaust. Diploma Debate Senior Class President Thad Woody wants to make changes to the style of diplomas. Page 2 ]Q[ W J ■ jS I .../X. , ... . DTH FILE PHOTO UNC s mascot was found dead Sunday by its owner, Robert C. Hogan. Hogan found Rameses gutted with a cut throat and one shoulder missing. Mascot’s Death Still Under Investigation ■ Officials say the death of Rameses XXVI was not satanie or sports-related. BY MARISA FERGUSON STAFF WRITER There are no suspects in the death of UNC’s mascot, Rameses the ram, which was found dead Sunday at its owner’s Carrboro farm. Robert C. Hogan Jr., the ram’s owner, found the animal dead when he went to feed it around 9 a.m. Sunday. He discov ered Rameses 200 feet from his pen. The ram had been gutted, its throat cut and one shoulder missing, Hogan said. Police reports state that the animal ap peared to have been dragged across the field. Hogan said he thought someone had DTH FILE GRAPHIC brought students from various reli gious organizations. The group con sisted of about 40 students and lead ers from Hillel, the W esley Founda tion, the Baptist Student Union, the Newman Catholic Center, Angli can Student Fellowship, the Lutheran Campus Ministry, the Presbyterian Ministry and students fromUNC-ChariotteandN.C. State University. This was the second time Hillel scheduled a trip to the museum since it opened in 1992. Darin Diner, interim director of Hillel, said in cluding members of other religious groups made the trip more exciting and educational. “I think everyone needs the op- See HOLOCAUST, Page 5 News/Featutes/Ara/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 C 1996 DTH Publishing Coip. AH rights reserved. killed the ram for food. “It seemed that it was being processed to be carried off by humans for food,” Hogan said. The chain and stake to which Rameses was tied were also missing, according to a press release from the Orange County Sheriffs Office. Hogan said finding anew ram was not at the top of his agenda at this time. “We’re not in direct process in looking for anew ram,” Hogan said. “Right now we’re still in shock over this.” Hogan said rams cost about SIOO. Rameses XXVI would be difficult to re place, he said. The slain ram, the 26th in its line, had only been the mascot for a year, said Rich ard Brewer, assistant athletic director of Sports Information. It was two-and-a-half years old. See RAM, Page 2 Copies of Carolina Review Redistributed In Campus Buildings BY MARVA HINTON STAFF WRITER Members of the Carolina Review staff redistributed issues this week of the Feb. 14 issue which criticized Student Body President- Elect Aaron Nelson’s voting record in student congress. Ashley Gamer, editor of the Caro lina Review, said she wanted the stu dents to get a chance to read the issue, which had been removed from class- rooms on the night it originally hit the stands. “We felt that it was best for the students to read it and judge for themselves instead of what the media has reported,” Gamer said. Students, administrators and Jewish leaders criticized the issue as being anti-Semitic. The cover of the issue depicted Nelson with horns and a pitchfork. An enclosed article said Nelson’s religion affected his decisions of whether to fiind religious groups on campus. TTie Review staff initially distributed more than 1,500 issues in classrooms the night before the student body election. The issues disappeared early Tuesday morning and were found around 9 a.m. Wednesday in the Student Attorney General’s office, located in Suite D of the Student Union. Student supervisors in the Union open the offices around 7:30 each morning. Therefore, whoever put the issues in the office did notneedakey, said Scott Hudson, assistant director ofUnion Operations. Stu dent Attorney General George Oliver said he found the issues in the foyer in front of his office. Nelson said he was shocked when he first heard about the issue Monday night, Feb. 12, from lan Walsh, a former candidate for president of Carolina Athletic Association. “I couldn’t believe it,” Nelson said. “I was stunned.” Nelson said he then got Walsh to drive him to the Tau Epsilon See REVIEW, Page 2 Today's Weather Partly sunny; high mid-70s. Wednesday Chance of showers, high in the 70s. Review Officials Go On Air See Page 3 Publisher CHARLTON ALIEN said he had not decided if he would press charges against the suspects.
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