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Volume 104, Issue 3
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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,
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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
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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
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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-
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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
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Publisher CHARLTON
ALIEN said he had
not decided if he
would press charges
against the suspects.