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APRIL 4,1996
Council Will Have Say Over Chapel Hill Bars
BY ANGEIA MOORE
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council passed
measures Tuesday night giving itself more
control over the sale of alcohol at bars in
town. The issue, which drew a flurry of
differing public opinions at a forum in
February when bar owners and residents
addressed the council, passed with little
public protest and only a few minutes of
council discussion.
In response to the February public hear
ings, local bar owners had formed a group
against the proposal for more council con
trol. Members of the group said they were
concerned the proposal placed a definite
disadvantage on bar owners.
The council passed a change in the town
code giving the council a voice in deciding
While classmates cut their hair and bought
suits, some UNC graduates stuck around town.
They’re keeping the music community alive
BY WENDY MITCHELL
SENIOR WRITER
lan Williams sits in his room
upstairs at the Pink House.
Friends lie on his bed
among the guitars and
shout out questions to a
series of Jeopardy answers
about ’Bos pop music. Tapestries
adorn the walls; assorted tennis shoes
litter the floor. A half-empty bottle
of Pepe Lopez sits on his book
shelves, next to Far Side books, “I’m
OK, You’re OK” and Edgar Allan
Poe’s “Tales.” Williams wears his
ever-present bead necklaces, a sou
DTH WENDY MITCHELL
Greg Humphreys, formerly of Dillon Fence, and lan Williams joke around at the Pink
House. Williams says his environment is 'noisy and brash," but it's the true Chapel Hill.
Unabomber Suspect Detained While
Federal Officials Look for Evidence
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
LINCOLN, Mont.—A former Berkeley professor
suspected by relatives of being the Unabomber was
taken into custody Wednesday while federal agents
searched his cabin near a mountain pass on the Con
tinental Divide.
A member of the Unabomb task force demanding
anonymity, told The Associated Press that the suspect
was named Ted John Kaczynski and had been using
many aliases.
A federal law enforcement official said Kaczynski
was taken into custody so that he would not interfere
with the search of his home, but he was neither arrested
nor charged.
Chuck O’Reilly, sheriff of Lewis and Clark County,
said 20 FBI agents searched the home near Stemple
Family Feud
Ends tragically
A father who shot his son
may not be charged in the
murder. Page 3
whether or not a
bar’s local alcohol
license would be re
newed. The council
also established a
process of consider
ation, denial and
appeal every bar
must pass through
each year to stay
open. Also, the
council passed a
resolution allowing
the town manager,
under guidelines set
by the council, to
give the town’s
opinion to the state
Council member
MARK CHILTON
voted against the
ordinance that allows
council to aid in bar
licensing.
ABC Commission as to whether or not
new bars should receive ABC permits in
venir of Mardi Gras 1992, with a T-shirt
showing a giant globe and an arrow point
ing to North Carolina.
His graduation pictures, tacked on a
bulletin board above his desk, are starting
to look dated —a little faded and not a
“Friends” hairdo in sight. What might be
surprising is that they are not high school
graduation photos; they are college gradu
ation photos. Williams, now a successful
pop culture writer, is 28 years old and
graduated from the University in 1990 —
he was in the middle of a UNC history
class when the Challenger exploded.
But just because he lives in the notori
ous house on North Street known for
inventive parties and iconoclastic inhab
itants (WXYC DJs and friends) —is not
to say Williams and scores of others like
him are stuck in a collegiate time-warp.
Pass. Butch Gehring, a neighbor, said the small cabin
was the home of a Ted Kaczynski.
“He was real shy, real quiet. His conversations were
short,” Gehring said, describing Kaczynski as a her
mit.
A Theodore J. Kaczynski, bom May 22, 1942 in
Chicago, graduated from Harvard in 1962 and taught
as an assistant professor of mathematics at Berkeley in
the 1967-68 school year, according to Harvard and
Berkeley records. He resigned in June 1969.
“We like the looks of this guy as the Unabomber,
but we don’t have make-or-break evidence yet," one
federal law enforcement official told The Associated
Press. “We have some writings that match up, but we
See UNABOMBER, Page 2
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Making a Mark
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imaginative "wizard" of
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Chapel Hill.
The lone voice of public dissent against
the measures was Henderson Street Bar
and Grill owner Kevin Clyde. “I’m very
against both of these resolutions," Clyde
toldthecouncil. “They discriminate against
people who sell alcohol. ” He told the coun
cil they should not pass laws directed against
one type of town business.
Council member Mark Chilton said he
was afraid the ordinance could allow the
council too much control. The part of the
ordinance to which Chilton objected said
the council could deny a license to a busi
ness if they “committed any act or permit
ted any activity in the preceding year that
would be grounds for suspension or revo
cation of the applicant’s permit.”
“I’m not sure I support it if it goes that
far,” Chilton said, “TTiere’s the potential
Behind the Scene
They got their diplomas and maybe
even got jobs, but they never got out of
Chapel Hill at least not for long. They
bypassed jobs requiring a haircut or a suit
and tie. “Choosing to reject going to
urban centers to work for The Man is
probably sort of generational,” Williams
said.
On any given night (unless a lame frat
band is playing), you will see some of
them at Cat’s Cradle or hanging around
Henry’s Bistro. The Chapel Hill scene
relies on them for sustenance, but these
people have no idea that they are the
backbone of the music community. They
simply do what they enjoy: hanging out
with friends and occasionally going to
see great bands.
Williams, for instance, goes to see
bands he likes but said he had “always
despised the scene ... The
problem is that if you stay
past a certain age here, the
onlysceneleftforpeople over
the age of 25 is the music
scene. The bars for older
people, like Linda’s or
Henry’s or the Dead Mule
now, are always populated
by scenesters and hangers
on.”
The “scene,” as it is called
by those who try to label it,
seems from the outside to be
a close-knit group of musi
cians and hipsters who de
rive self-importance from the
number of times their hand
has been stamped in a given
week. But there are no secret
initiations and no meetings
to decide what local band
will take off. There is not
even an identifiable group,
only individuals who are
UNC Wants Unique, Eclectic Women’s Center
BYKATIE TYSON
STAFF WRITER
The Chancellor’s Task Force on Women wants
to create a women’s center like none other in the
nation, according to a report submitted to the
chancellor in March.
The study examined
21 universities to assess
women’s programs and
services across the coun
try. Researchers ana-
lyzed women’s centerpublications and interviewed
center administrators, staff and volunteers. The
report was presented on Friday to Chancellor
Michael Hooker, who agreed to create an Advi
soty Board on Women’s Issues and to address
funding for the proposed center.
After reviewing the study, task force members
April is the cruellest month ...
T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land”
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Home for Vacation
The Daily Tar Heel takes a day
off tomorrow, a University
holiday. Have a great break.
for future elected officials to get a little
over-zealous.”
Mayor Rosemary Waldorf suggested
that all those involved in the process of
bringing bars before the council police,
fire and inspection departments and the
town manager should set across-the
board guidelines to decide which bars come
before the council. Waldorf also said the
town wanted to encourage voluntary com
pliance. “My hope is that we never have
one of these hearings.”
Council member Joe Capowski agreed
guidelines should be established and bar
owners should be made aware of them.
“We need to make the rules quite public
and quite clear to everyone, so the bar
owners will know what would bring them
up for review,” Capowski said.
Waldorf told the council that the ordi
drawn to music making it or listening
to it —and this takes up a large part of
their lives.
To generalize, many of them do know
each other, but they do not all go to the
same parties. They have friends who work
at IBM Wat Pepper’s. For them, there is
no identifiable, nameable Chapel Hill
scene —a supportive music community
is as integral to the town as the University
is. Their perceptions of the town are
closely tied to their perceptions of the
music community. Chapel Hill has other
benefits weather, liberal atmosphere,
cheap rent —but most would not have
stuck around after graduation if there
were no Cat’s Cradle, no WXYC, no
Merge Records.
Even though Chapel Hill likes to think
of itself as a college town, these post
graduates keep it going without recogni
tion. Undergrads come and go, some of
their bands and supporters with them,
but Chapel Hill’s twentysomething die
hards are here to stay. Maybe.
Not Jut Hen to Bom the Uidergrads
By all calculations, lan Williams is on
his eighth generation of friends. He en
tered UNC in the fall of 1985, walked
with his graduating friends in 1989, and
then with his “second generation of
friends” in 1990. Six years later, he is
accustomed to farewells. “Ifyou’regoing
to stay in town a long time, you have to be
prepared to say good-bye to everyone
you ever liked because they all leave.”
Williams tried leaving after gradua
tion when he went to work as a produc
tion assistant in Hollywood. One car
wreck and four months later, he was back
in Chapel Hill. Now he travels frequently
on book tours and recording music for a
See GRADUATES, Page 9
recommended that UNC-Chapel Hill’s women’s
center address issues such as security, health ser
vices, legal services and career development and
mentoring. According to the report, most centers
focus on educational programs, coordinating on
and off-campus groups, and service referrals. How
ever, UNC-CH’s women's center will combine
educational programs with health services.
The University of Michigan, which is cited in
the report, serves a broad audience. That center
focuses mainly on educational programs targeted
at the entire community. “We serve both women
who are part of the university community and
women and men from the larger community,”
said Susan Kaufrnann, associate director of the
Center of the Education of Women at Michigan.
The center serves elementary, junior high and
high school students with programs ranging from
encouraging young women into science career
Task Force on
Women seeks to
improve safety
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nance, if passed, would not be retroactive
and would not affect bars who had recent
violations. “Everyone starts with a clean
slate,” Waldorf said.
The council passed the change in the
town code 8-1, with Chilton voting against
it. Originally, the resolution would have
allowed the council itself to comment on
applications for state ABC permits.
“My gut feeling is that this is not some
thing the council should be getting into,”
Council member Richard Franck said. He
said this area was not really one of politics.
Waldorf disagreed. “The ABC Com
mission is made up of political appoint
ments,” she said. “Comment from politi
cal bodies will have more weight.”
The council voted to leave it up to the
town manager to comment for the town on
state ABC permit applications.
Meet the
Players
Amy
Barefoot, 25
"It's not like I’m
just stuck in an
office in Carrboro."
Major Broadcast
Journalism, 1992
Now. International Director,
Mammoth Records
lan Williams, 28
"I don’t even
understand the
ethic of slacking.
You have to pay
rent eventually."
Major
Psychology/Music, 1990
Now: Writer/novelist
5
Chuck
Johnson, 27
"I’m involved in
things I'm really
interested in, and
that helps me stick
around."
Major Psychology/Political
Science. 1991
Now. Landscaper, guitarist
Tim Ross, 22
"I definitely don’t
think, 'I can’t wait
to get out of
Chapel Hill and go
to San Francisco
where it’s great'
That's ridiculous."
Major Computer Science, 1995
Now: Computer Programmer, DJ,
'zine editor, drummer
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Brown
Presumed
Dead
■ Commerce Secretary Ron
Brown was on a plane that
crashed in Croatia.
STAFF & WIRE REPORTS
An Air Force jet liner carrying Com
merce Secretary Ron Brown and a delega
tion of American business executives
veered off course and crashed into a cloud
covered hill Wednesday outside
Dubrovnik, Croatia. All 33 people aboard
are presumed dead.
In Washington, a somber President
Clinton called Brown “a magnificent life
force” and urged prayers for those aboard
the lost flight. State Department spokes
man Glyn Davies said he would release the
other passengers names Thursday. Brown
is presumed dead.
Word of the crash stunned Washington
and brought an outpouring of prayers and
praise for Brown and his entourage, who
were on a mission to find ways to rebuild
the war-tom Balkan region’s infrastruc-
ture and economy.
“To all of their
loved ones and their
families and friends,
I want to say that I
am very grateful for
their lives and their
service,” Clinton
said in brief remarks
to Commerce De
partment workers.
“He was one of
the best advisers and
ablest people I ever
knew," Clinton said
of Brown, who as
Democratic Na
tional Committee
-■
Secretary of
Commerce RON
BROWN was
presumed dead after
his plane crashed in
Croatia.
chairman was a major figure in the
president’s 1992 campaign victoiy. “Those
of us who loved him will always be grateful
for his friendship and his warmth.”
Everett B. Ward, former executive di
rector of N.C. Democratic Party, knew
Brown well and was upset by Wednesday’s
announcement.
“Ron Brown was the most brilliant strat
egist and scholar that I’ve ever known,”
Ward said. “He was a true visionary leader
and one who was extremely optimistic
always. Ron Brown believed that the
Democratic party had to elect Democratic
people to office.
“We developed a very close relation
ship. Always my wife and I enjoyed our
visits (with Brown and his wife). Some of
our fondest memories have been with Alma
and Ron both professionally and out
side the party.”
Air Force Lt. Gen. Howell Estes said
there were 33 people aboard the aircraft—
-27 passengers and a crew of six. Estes said
because of foul weather the plane was on
an instrument approach meaning vis
ibility was poor when contact with air
traffic controllers was lost.
Administration officials confirmed that
Brown and a handful of Commerce De
partment aides were aboard the plane when
itleftTuzla, Bosnia. Longtime Brown aides
Bill Morton and Carol Hamilton were
among the passengers, officials said.
The administration refused to release
the passenger list, saying it wanted to give
the families a day to reflect. But several
companies issued statements confirming
they had executives aboard the flight.
Among the passengers were Walter
Murphy, a senior vice president for AT&T
Submarine Systems Inc. of Morristown,
N.J.; Robert A. Whittaker, chairman and
See BROWN, Page 2
paths to summer internships. The center also pro
vides support for women who are thinking of
returning to school or the work force, she said.
Other centers take a different approach. Al
though the University of South Carolina does not
have a separate women’s center on campus, its
gynecological clinic has more gynecologists on
staff than UNC-CH’s. USC’s Women’s Care pro
gram has two full-time gynecologists and one full
time female nurse practitioner, said Dr. William
Boggs, director ofwomen’s care. Currently, UNC
CH does not have a full-time obstetrician/gyne
cologist on staff.
Most centers surveyed received university fund
ing, but most also relied on outside contributions
of time, money and materials. Judith Scott, UNC
CH sexual harassment officer and task force mem
ber, said UNC-CH would have to follow the same
pattern to maximize the potential of the center.