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Wednesday, Feb. 28
■ A dead opossum was found on the
waterfountainoftheOldWell on Cameron
Avenue, according to police reports.
The opossum was found at 8:30 a.m.,
reports state. The animal appeared to have
been struck by a vehicle. Animal Control
was called to remove the animal accord
ing to reports.
Tuesday, Feb. 27
■ A UNC student reported the theft of
her key-holder purse from Greenlaw Hall,
according to police reports.
According to reports, Heidi Brown of
Cobb Residence Hall had a key-holder
purse stolen from 319 Greenlaw Hall.
Brown had left it in the room and when she
returned she was unable to locate it, re
ports state. The purse contained S3O, an
N.C. driver’s license, a Master Card credit
card, a Wachovia ATM card, a dorm key
and a house key, reports state.
■ A UNC student reported the theft of
a wallet from Davis Library, according to
police reports.
Reports 'state that Bryant Welch of
Finley Golf Course Road had a wallet
stolen from Davis Library on Sunday night.
Welch said he put his wallet in his back
pack and then wenttothebathroom. When
he returned, his backpack was unzipped
and his wallet was gone, reports state.
Stolen were a black eel-skin wallet, SIOO,
two employee checks from University Flo
rist, an N.C. driver’s license, a UNC ONE
Card, an Amoco gas card, a Wachovia
ATM card, a Social Security card and a
Federal Communications Commission li
cense.
Monday, Feb. 26
■ A UNC student suffered injuries due
to a seizure, according to police reports.
A resident of Craige Residence Hall
was found to have a large amount ofblood
on him, reports state. Emergency Medical
Services personnel checked him over but
were able to determine he had suffered a
seizure and had struck his nose on some
thing during the episode, according to re
ports. Reports state he refused transporta
tion by die rescue squad. The resident
assistant on the floor said she would check
on him periodically, according to reports.
■ A UNC student was injured while
playing tennis at the Hinton James tennis
courts, according to police reports
Erin Elizabeth Price of Hinton James
Residence Hall was transporfed to the
emergency room at UNC Hospitals for
treatment of a possibly broken ankle, re
ports state.
■ A Navy Field storage shed was dam
aged but nothing was taken, according to
police reports.
Reports state someone had taken a metal
rod and knocked the doorknob off the
storage shed. The report said that entry
most likely was gained but that nothing
was missing.
Saturday, Feb. 24
■ A student from East Carolina Univer
sity broke his leg while roller-skating down
Skipper Bowles Drive, according to police
reports.
While the student was roller-skating, he
skidded and fell on the cuib in the parking
lot and broke his left leg at the knee, reports
state. According to reports, the victim was
transported to the UNC Hospitals Emer
gency Room.
■ Four males were engaged in an alter
cation near Aycock Residence Hall, ac
cording to police reports state.
A large group of people gathered in
front of Connor Residence Hall to observe
the fight in progress, reports state. Observ
ers said three of the men involved in the
fight headed toward Franklin Street. A
police officer approached the men and
asked for information about the incident.
Reports state that the men were intoxi
cated and that their information was in
consistent. One of the men had a tom shirt
and scratch marks, which was determined
to be damage done during a previous argu
ment.
Police directed all the parties to leave
the premises and to return to their resi
dences, according to reports.
City
Wednesday, Feb. 28
■ Larceny from an auto was reported at
Walden at Greenfields apartments, police
reports state. According to reports, a sus
pect broke the window and pried the lock
of a parked car.
Tuesday, Feb. 27
■ Police responded to a report of lar
ceny from a business, reports state. A sus
pect could not produce identification re
quested by the store clerk at the Glenwood
Exxon at 1200 Raleigh Road, reports state.
The suspect took a pack of cigarettes val
ued at $ 1.79 and $6.65 in gas, according to
reports.
■ Larceny of a purse was reported to
police. According to police reports, apurse
was stolen at BatT-Ee Station, 149 E.
Franklin St.
The purse was valued at $45, reports
state. $75 in prescription medicine, a $lO
gift certificate and $lO in cash was in the
purse, according to reports.
■ Police responded to a report of lar
ceny from an automobile at a home on
Kingston Drive, reports state.
According to reports, a suspect broke
into the car and stole three pairs of sun
glasses. The value of the sunglasses was
estimated at $350, reports state.
Student Attorney General Not Funded by Fees
■ George Oliver said the
source of his stipend had not
affected his accountability.
BY JOHN PATTERSON
STAFF WRITER
Although funding for the student attor
ney general’s stipend currently comes from
the University, his ultimate responsibility
still lies in serving students.
Student Attorney General George
Oliver, whose term ended Wednesday,
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Kappa Omicron chapter President Pamela Alston presents a $2,200 check to Gerald Horne to support the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center' CANDIUNG
The check was given by the local chapter of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc.
Students Give BCC Fund Raising $2,200 Boost
BYBRONWEN CLARK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The Kappa Omicron Chapter of Delta
Sigma Theta Inc. sorority donated $2,200
to the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural
Center Wednesday, one of the largest do
nations by a student group to the center’s
fund-raising efforts.
“In terms of students this is probably the
most substantial contribution we have re
ceived,” Director Gerald Home said. “We
recognize this is an indication of things to
come.”
Pamela Alston, president of UNC’s
Student Congress Votes
To Fund Religious Groups
■ Inter Varsity Christian
Fellowship received $l,lOO
after a University ruling.
BYIOHN SWEENEY
STAFF WRITER
The issue of allocating student fees to
religious groups finally came to a head at
the Wednesday night meeting of Student
Congress, as congress voted to allocate
money to the Inter Varsity Christian Fel
lowship.
The move follows the ruling by Univer
sity legal counsel Susan Ehringhaus last
week in which she said congress could not
withhold money from IVCF or Overcom
ers International, another religious group.
Both groups have religious requirements
for leadership positions. Ehringhaus saida
refusal to fund those groups would violate
their First Amendment right to freedom of
association. Congress did not fund IVCF
in November because many representa
tives felt the group discriminated against
non-Christians.
The money requested in Wednesday
night’s bill was meant to fund speakers at
IVCF meetings throughout the semester.
However, because the semester is nearly
one-half over, IVCF President Daniel
Vandergriff requested that some of the
$3,000 he was asking for be used as a
retroactive allocation to fund speakers who
Exchange Students Use Break to Explore World Beyond UNC
BY AUSTIN GELDER
STAFF WRITER
An Australian, an Irishman and an
Englishman were headed in a rental car
from Chapel Hill to Panama City.
Waiting for the punch line? You’ll have
to wait until after Spring Break when these
exchange students get back to school.
Exchange students from the Nether
lands, Spain, Scottland, Russia and many
UNIVERSITY
said that although Student Congress would
not grant him a stipend last year, he peti
tioned the Office of Student Affairs for a
stipend and got it. The Finance Committee
in its annual budget hearings recommended
that the Office of Student Affairs fund the
stipend again in 1996-97.
Oliver said the S2OO monthly stipend
did not make him any more accountable to
the administration than to the students,
despite the fact it came from student af
fairs, not from student fees.
“I don’t think if I was paid by the stu
dents I would be any more accountable to
them than I already am,” Oliver said. “As
Delta Sigma Theta chapter, said the group
wanted the donation to symbolize their
commitment to the BCC.“We have been
firm supporters to the Black Cultural Cen
ter and its fund-raising efforts for a long
time,” she said. “We recognize the need
for student involvement with fund-raising
efforts so that the cultural center could
reach its goal.”
Home said fund-raising efforts were
“inching closer” to $2 million of the $7.5
million needed to construct the center.
“Fund raising in the past six to eight
weeks has gotten quite a lift, ” Horae said,
citing BCC T-shirt sales in the Pit and
had already appeared.
Student Body Treasurer Nathan Dar
ling said such a decision required a two
thirds majority to vote in favor of it. An
amendment by Rep. Vince Rozier, Dist.
16, split the bill to allocate SBOO retroac
tively to IVCF for previous speakers, print
ing and publicity, and $l,lOO for subse
quent speakers, printing and publicity.
While the retroactive appropriation
failed by a vote of 9-8-2, the allocation for
subsequent speakers passed 11-3-4.
Student Congress Finance Committee
Chairwoman Julie Gasperini, who voted
against the first allocation and for the sec
ond, said she thought approving alloca
tions after the fact set a bad precedent.
“I just don’t think it’s appropriate to
start retro-spending,” Gasperini said.
Rep. Monique VanderMarck, Dist. 8,
who opposed both allocations, said she
believed funding for religious groups vio
lated students’ rights.
“My understanding is that fees create a
public forum. Therefore you can’t censor
what (groups) have to say,” VanderMarck
said. “But you shouldn’t be forced to con
tribute to such a forum, either.”
VanderMarck said she had thought a
great deal about the issue over the past
several months, and she felt a fee refund
system was necessary. “This has nothing
to do with discrimination,” VanderMarck
said. “I think fees should go to religious
groups, but only if students can take back
the money if they want to.”
other countries have spent the past semes
ter or two in Chapel Hill getting a taste of
American culture.
Next week, many of the foreign stu
dents will venture from this microcosm of
20-somethings out into the real world,
where body piercing isn’t all that cool and
you can actually park your car without
getting a ticket.
Brenda McCorry, an exchange student
from the University of Ulster at
far as accountability, I was nominated by
the (student body) president and approved
by congress.”
Julie Gasperini, finance committee
chairwoman, said the committee’s deci
sion regarding a stipend for the student
attorney general was based on precedent,
not on accountability.
“The money was (here from the Univer
sity last year, so the rest of the committee
was satisfied by an outside source provid
ing the funds for a stipend,” Gasperini
said. “In terms of accountability, we are
worried about the students’ money, and in
this case we decided that money from the
several unpublicized but large donations.
“We expect even larger gifts in the very
near future. I think fund raising has turned
the comer.”
Alston said the chapter began accruing
funds for the $2,200 donation last year.
However, the chapter chose to donate the
money this year so as to give a large and
symbolic amount.“ The $2,200 is in honor
of our 22 founders,” Alston said. “Our
chapter began our fund-raising efforts last
year in hopes of making a substantial con
tribution to the center.”
Alston said the chapter raised money
through donations, ticket sales to the
‘lntifada’ Highlights Issues Surrounding Rape
■ A group of audience and
cast members debated the
implications of the play.
BY LILLIE CRATON
STAFF WRITER
Cast and audience members met in the
Lab! Theatre Wednesday to discuss the
production and implications of “Intifada,”
a courtroom drama about date rape writ
ten by UNC junior Mac Rogers.
“This is not the kind of political theater
that takes an audience and sends it out
feeling empowered,” Director Dan Kois
said.
“This makes people angry or frustrated,
but at least it leaves people thinking about
things they might not have thought about
before,” he said.
Liz Vaughan, stage manager of the play,
said she considered the amount of audi
ence reaction to be a compliment to the
play’s power.
“Almost everyone that came up to me
aftertheplayhassaid, ‘I want to talk to you
about this,”’ Vaughan said.
Kois said the play was not intended as a
comment on any specific case or even on
rape in general.
“It becomes a matter of generalized
versus specific crime,” he said.
The play focused on one specific sce
nario that should not be considered typi
cal, he said.
Adam McKible, a graduate student in
English, said he thought there were impli
cations in the play that the accuser had
never been raped.
Jordanstone, plans to cram her duffle bag
into the trunk of a rental car Friday and
head for Panama City, Fla.
The car will be packed with four other
people, including students from England,
Australia and Vermont. She said they
would to meet more students in Panama
City, where they will spend the week.
“I’m going to lie in the sun, relax and
have a good time,” she said.
McCorry said that although she was
University would benefit the students.”
However, Associate Dean of Students
Margaret Barrett said stipend money for
the student attorney general should come
from student fees.
“My preference would be for stipend
money to be funded through student fees,”
Barrett said. “We never have more than a
one-year commitment to fund the stipend,
but if we need to we will request the money
from the University again next year.”
Student Body President-Elect Aaron
Nelson, who could receive a $2,400 sti
pend if congress approves the legislation,
said all student leaders were ultimately
chapter’s annual Sweetheart Ball, held
Saturday, and other fund-raisers.
Horae said this donation was particu
larly important because of the message the
donation sent to potential donors.“ Large
donors see student participation, and it
reinforces in their own minds that students
of all kinds want this BCC,” he said.
Alston said the chapter hoped other
student organizations would follow Delta
Sigma Theta’s lead.
“This is not the end of out efforts. We
hope that our effort will spur other students
and student organizations to make dona
tions.”
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Playwright Mac Rogers and members of the cast of 'lntifada' participate in an
open discussion of the play Wednesday afternoon in Graham Memorial Hall.
“It was a further justification for the
idea that rape is just a female fantasy,” he
said.
“I wonder if we don’t have an obliga
tion to question the onslaught of (media)
representations of women crying rape.
“This was areally well-constructed, well
acted play; but politically, it was a very
troublesome play.”
Cast member Alia Smith and many oth
ers said they thought it was clear the char
acter had been raped.
“I don’t think (the play) is about crying
rape at all, but about the fact that society so
often doesn’t listen to women who have
been raped,” said Smith, who played the
looking forward to the trip, she was wor
ried about the driving. “Where I’m from,
we drive on the other side of the road, ’’she
said. “I’ll have to be careful.”
Jonathan Turney, an exchange student
from Edinburgh, Scotland, will have to
forgo a Spring Break trip because he spent
all his money last week at Mardi Gras. He
went with about 16 other students to New
Orleans for a few days of jazz, Mardi Gras
beads and pre-Lent partying.
Thursday, February 29,1996
responsible for student concerns.
“Working thirty to forty hours a week
with student government is my job from
now on,” Nelson said. “Student leaders
get a stipend because service makes it nearly
impossible to hold another job.”
Oliver said he agreed.
“If I had to get a part-time job, it would
completely take away from what I could
do in student government,” Oliver said.
“When appointed student attorney gen
eral, you stay during the summer, and that
keeps you from getting any type of job to
pay for college. You basically lose a lot of
money.”
Sororities
Discuss
Differences
■ Traditionally black and
white sororities met to foster
an appreciation for diversity.
BY NAHTA ROWELL
STAFF WRITER
Despite differences between black and
white sororities, members of Zeta Phi Beta,
Inc. and Delta Delta Delta sororities are
trying to organize a group effort to work
together.
“Just because we’re different and in
separate organizations doesn’t mean we
cannot share ideas,” said Zeta Phi Beta
member Twanda Jones, a senior from
Winston-Salem.
The two sororities met last Thursday at
the Delta Delta Delta house to discuss
their differences. Coordinating service
projects together, including fund-raisers
for the Black Cultural Center, would help
black and white sororities become more
united, members said.
Some sorority members said cultural
differences between blacks and whites con
tributed to the separation between sorori
ties. Delta Delta Delta member Holly
Hough, a freshman from Charlotte, said,
“The more I talk to sorority sisters from
another organization, the more I can see
the reason for separation.”
Some students said cultural differences
were simply too great to completely inte
grate. Step shows, for example, are consid
ered a mark of a Wadt sorority orffktemiy
and nf ttotr ststertroodfir
brotherhood. Students also pointed out
that white sororities had events black so
rorities didn’t, such as mixers and bands at
their houses.
Some members said they would not
want to be in a sorority or fraternity with
out such a cultural bond.
Delta Delta Delta member Kimberly
Batchelder, a junior from Raleigh, said,
“The desire to have a racially-mixed soror
ity would take away from having an all
black/white sorority.”
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character Jamie.
Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Mar
garet Barrett said she thought the play,
which dealt with a trial in the fictional
Meridian College Honor Court, provided
an interesting perspective on UNC’s stu
dent judicial system.
“It is true that the Honor Court here at
UNC does hear sexual assault cases,” she
said.
“Our Honor Court has handled since
1990 about four cases which went into full
hearings.”
Barrett said the Honor Court had inves
tigated another three or four cases which
did not go to the hearings process.
Laure Granger, a student from Lyon,
France, will head even farther south than
Panama City. She is flyingwith two Ameri
can friendsto Cancun, Mexico, on Satur
day.
Granger said she hoped to check out
some Mayan ruins while in Mexico.
Danny Bell of the UNC Study Abroad
Office said he encouraged foreign exchange
students to explore while they were in the
United States.
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