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Assault reported at
Chapel Hill High School
A 16-year-old male student put a 14-
year-old female student in a choke hold
Friday afternoon at Chapel Hill High
School, according to police reports.
The incident was reported to police at
1:10 p.m. by CHHS Principal Butch
Patterson and Anthony Brooks, a Chapel
Hill police officer assigned to CHHS.
Chapel Hill Police Chief Ralph
Pendergraph said Monday that no arrest
warrant had been issued yet for the 16-
year-old offender.
City
Sunday, Sapt 22
■ Airport Intown Taxi, of 500 W.
Rosemary St., reported at 4:15 a.m. that
two 15-passenger vans worth SIB,OOO
each were stolen from their parking lot,
police reports state. Reports state that
one van was recovered.
■ Police responded to reports of a loud
party at 118 Pin Oak Court at 9:04 p.m.
Reports state that teenagers who lived at
the residence were having a party while
their parents were out of town.
Saturday, Sept 21
■ Minnie Margaret Farmer, 47, of
130 H 7 Camelot Village was charged
with simple assault at 11:50 p.m. and
taken to Orange County Jail, where she
was later released, police reports state.
Reports state that Farmer assaulted her
husband by punching him and kicking
him in the back.
■ N.C. Central University student
Alver Hughley in, 22, of 4940 Carvel
Glen Lane in Winston-Salem was ar
rested at 9:32 a.m. on Estes Drive off
Airport Road for speeding and carrying a
concealed weapon, police reports state.
According to reports, Hughley was
stopped by a police officer for driving 61
mph in a 35 mph zone. The officer no
ticed a loaded .44 caliber Smith and
Wesson Rossi Special pistol in Hughley’s
car, reports state.
■ Rico Antonio Thompson, of
Oakwood Apartments in Carrboro was
arrested at 4:56 p.m. on Lindsay Street
near Church Street for possession with
intent to sell and deliver crack cocaine,
possession of drug paraphernalia and
resisting, delaying and obstructing an
officer, police reports state. According to
reports, Thompson had 10 crack rocks, a
crack pipe and $305 with him when he
was arrested.
■ UNCstudentTara Elizabeth Bailey,
25, of 331 W. Rosemary St. was arrested
at 4:45 a.m. for driving while impaired
on Airport Road, reports state. Accord
ing to reports, a police officer observed
Bailey’s vehicle weaving down the road
and stopped her. Bailey had a blood alco
hol level of .08, reports state.
■ David Michael Heame, 21, of 5807
Old Greensboro Road was arrested at
1:27 a.m. in front of University Presbyte
rian Church for driving while impaired,
having an open container of alcohol in a
vehicle and driving while with a revoked
license, police reports state. According to
reports, Heame refused a blood alcohol
level test.
University
Sunday, Sapt 22
■ According to police reports, a fire
alarm was set off in Morrison Residence
Hall at 8:24 p.m. Reports state that the
alarm was set off when someone cooking
in a kitchen area in Morrison allowed
their food to bum. The smoke set off
smoke head 4-2, which was reset by the
fire department, reports state.
Saturday, Sept 21
■ Michael Petty, 29, of Raleigh was
charged with public urination when a
University Police officer witnessed him
urinating against the west wall of Craige
Parking Deck, police reports state. Ac
cording to reports, Petty was cited for a
one-count misdemeanor and released.
■ Allen Jay Jacob, 17, of Carrboro
was arrested for second-degree trespass
ing when a University Police officer ob
served Jacob and five friends skateboard
ing near Carroll Hall, reports state. Ac
cording to reports, Jacob was held on
SIOO unsecured bond.
■ A fire alarm was set off at 5:15 a.m.
in the first floor lobby of Ehringhaus
Residence Hall, police reports state. Ac
cording to police reports, someone had
set fire to papers in the lobby area. The
fire was extinguished by a Hinton James
Residence Hall resident, and the fire de
partment reset the alarm, reports state.
■ William D. Spivey, 45, ofHigh Point
was charged with public consumption
when a University Police officer observed
him drinking a malt beverage at Craige
Parking Deck, according to police re
ports. Spivey was cited for a one-count
misdemeanor and released, reports state.
■ According to police reports, a resi
dent of Graham, N.C., reported that his
car had been broken into while it was
parked in the upper Ehringhaus lot at 1
p.m.
The vehicle was broken into through
the right rear side door, and the victim
reported that a Sony radio/compact disc
player and two Sanyo speakers had been
stolen, reports state.
Police searching for
suspects in fraud case
BY ANGELA MOORE
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
A 79-year-old Carrboro woman was
defrauded Saturday of sl,Boo by a couple
who approached her in a grocery store,
Chapel Hill police reported.
The woman was shopping at 123 W.
Franklin St. when a couple approached
her and asked that she give her savings to
God, according to police reports.
The couple convinced the woman she
would be giving her money to God if she
gave it to them, Chapel HUI Police Chief
Ralph Pendergraph said.
“This person was really aggressive,”
hesaid. “Shejustcouldn’tgetawayfrom
him.”
Republican gubernatorial candidate
Hayes visits local residence tonight
■ Robin Hayes will speak to
visitors and raise money at
the Jenkins’ home.
BY ANTIONETTE KERR
STAFF WRITER
This evening, Republican gubernato
rial candidate Robin Hayes will bring his
“listening tour” to Chapel Hill.
Hayes will visit the home of Edward
and Martha
Jenkins at 6 p.m.
Martha Jenkins,
vice president of
the Republican
Women’s Club of
Chapel Hill, met
Hayes at a club
fund-raiser last
Hayes comes
to town
6pjn.
Tuesday
At the home of
Ed ft Martha
Jenkins
spring.
“I met Hayes during the primary sea
son and my husband and I wanted to
invite him to our home so others can
meet him,” Jenkins said.
This event will raise money for the
Hayes campaign.
But Fred Shambly, chairman of the
Orange County Campaign for Hayes,
said this visit would serve another pur
pose. Shambly and other Hayes support-
$13.5 million bond issue
■ The Town Council will
hear from residents about a
possible bond referendum.
BY JULIA WOOD
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill residents will get the
chance to approach the Town Council
tonight and voice their concerns about a
$13.5 millionbond referendum thatmight
come before voters in November.
The council will decide within the
next month whether to put the bond
referendum on local ballots this fall.
The bond would include funds for the
Department ofParks and Recreation, the
Former political dissident recalls fight against oppression
DTH/UNDSAYCAGE
Ana Rodriguez speaks about oppression by Cuban leaders in the Student
Union on Monday afternoon. About 50 people attended her speech.
Pendergraph said the couple accom
panied the woman to a bank, where she
withdrew her savings.
“She took money out of a bank at
University Mallandgave it to thecouple,”
Pendergraph said.
When the woman returned home, she
realized that the couple had taken advan
tage of her.
The woman, whose name the police
asked not be released, called her daugh
ter.
Shortly after, the daughter reported
the case to the police at 8:45 p.m.
Pendergraph said the actions of the
couple were reprehensible.
As of Monday, police were still inves
tigating this incident.
Spokesmen for
ROBIN HAYES said
he was planning to
make a campaign trip
to the UNC campus.
ers said they hoped
the visit would in
crease support for
Hayes in the
Chapel Hill-
Canboro area.
“We expect to
generate more en
thusiasm and to
carry Orange
County in the elec
tion,” Shambly
said on Monday.
Edward Jenkins
said he wanted to
invite Hayes to his
home to show him that he did have
supporters in Orange County.
“Chapel Hill is heavily Democratic,
and we wanted him to know that there
are a lot of supporters here, Democratic
and Republican,” Jenkins said.
“We don’t want him to write off Or
ange County.”
Republican Women’s Club President
Deane Burch said she was excited about
Hayes’ visit and planned to bring her
family to the fund-raiser.
“I think Hayes is a family man as well
as a businessman and someone I would
like to have around my family,” Burch
said.
“I think he’s a really good person, and
preservation of greenways and open
spaces, the police department, foresta
tion, remodeling of the police headquar
ters, sidewalks, streetscapes and public
works, council member Lee Pavao said.
Council member Pat Evans said plans
for use of the money had been laid out,
but not made final. “For instance, there
has been talk about a fire department for
southern Chapel Hill,” Evans said.
Pavao said some of the funds allo
cated to the Parks and Recreation De
partment would go to improve the
Hargraves Gym and Recreation facility.
Other department funding would go to
finish the Northern Community Park,
which would include a community cen
ter and swimming pool.
Pavao said the department needed the
NEWS
Fraternity break-in suspect arrested
■ Police charged a former
Pi Kappa Alpha pledge in a
break-in at Sigma Nu.
BY KATIE ABEL
STAFF WRITER
A third pledge of Pi Kappa Alpha
fraternity was arrested Thursday in con
nection with a Sept. 5 break-in at the
Sigma Nu fraternity house.
Gregory Lucien Simpson, 19, was
charged with second degree burglary and
larceny. He was released onsl,ooounse
cured bond. Simpson will face the charges
in Chapel Hill district court at 9 a.m.
Two other suspects in the break-in
turned themselves in to Chapel Hill po
lice last Tuesday. Michael Jeremiah
Kozel and Clayton Matthew Armstrong,
both sophomores, face the same charges
as Simpson. They were also released on
it’s good to leam about any of our candi
dates.”
Hayes’ assistant press secretary
JohnathanFeltsandElizabethßarnhardt,
scheduler for the Hayes campaign, both
said that the representative would not be
able to make it to the UNC campus on
this trip.
However, they both said plans have
been made for Hayes to come to campus
lateT in the campaign.
“We are scheduling other times when
he will come to campus, but those dates
havenot yet been confirmed,” Bamhardt
said.
Hayes is finishing his second term in
the N.C. House of Representatives. He
has served as House majority whip since
1994.
He is running as a challenger to Demo
cratic Gov. Jim Hunt in the 1996 elec
tion.
He defeated former Charlotte mayor
Richard Vinroot in the May 7 primary.
This is only one of many campaign
stops for the statewide candidate.
According to a press release distrib
uted by the Robin Hayes for Governor
Campaign, Hayes will cross the old north
state this week, visiting Durham, Char
lotte, Rutherfordton, Morganton, New
Bern, Benson, Norwood and finally
Mocksville.
subject of public hearing
bond." We’re spread pretty thin on recre
ational facilities,” he said.
Bruce Heflin, director of the Public
Works Department, said his department
would receive $500,000 dollars if the
referendum is passed. “The money will
be used generally to support renovating
and making additions to die public works
facility,” he said.
Money from the bond referendum
would also go to repair the town’s streets
and sidewalks. Heflin said the Public
Works Department would work on any
repairs to the streets and sidewalks as
well as the repairing of curbs, bridges and
gutters if the bond is passed.
Council member Joe Capowski said
part of the money from the referendum
would be used to set up police and fire
■ The Cuba Working
Group hosted author Ana
Rodriguez on Monday.
BY TRAVIS MILLER
STAFF WRITER
Former political dissident Ana
Rodriguez addressed the past, present
and future of Cuba to about 50 people at
a Monday afternoon meeting in the Stu
dent Union.
Speaking on behalf of the Cuba Work
ing Group, Rodriguez presented the past
of Cuba through describing her own ex
periences.
Aprotester against the dictatorial gov
ernment of Valencia Batista, she was a
member of one of “hundreds of groups”
fighting for his overthrow.
Another dissident, Fidel Castro, ac
complished the overthrow and imple
mented a Communist government that
remains to this day.
Rodriguez continued protesting, but
instead chose Castro as her target. Her
complaints led to her imprisonment in a
“tapiada,” a Cuban jail.
The years she spent there are depicted
in her book “Diary of a Survivor: Nine
teen Years in a Cuban Women ’ s Prison, ”
written with Glenn Garvin.
During her imprisonment, she experi
enced physical punishment, food and
water deprivation and solitary confine
ment.
Despite the painful memories,
Rodriguez said she learned from these
experiences.
“You find how strong humans are,”
SI,OOO unsecured bond.
Kozel and Armstrong appeared in
court Thursday, but information was not
yet available from the Chapel Hill district
court about the cases.
The incident caused SBOO worth of
damage to the Sigma Nu house and in
cluded the theft of two couches and a
cable box. A door in the house was van
dalized.
Police first suspected three Pi Kappa
Alpha pledges about two weeks ago, and
the individuals were immediately re
moved from the fraternity, according to
Ron Binder, director of Greek affairs.
“The chapter did the right thing by
kickingtheguysout,”Bindersaid. “They
are no longer members of the Greek
community. This is the important thing
and shows that we will not tolerate this
kind of behavior.”
In an unrelated incident in December
1994,20 members of Sigma Nu trashed
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While some students lounged about on the quads, others surrounded
themselves with books in preparation for the first onslaught of exams. ,
protection in southern Chapel Hill, which
has experienced population growth.
Capowski saidhe “emphatically” sup
ported the bond referendum. “We badly
need the things that this referendum will
provide for.
“We will be annexing (the Southern
Village area) soon, and they will need fire
and police protection that we haven’t
had to provide before,” he said. “We’re
preparing for that.”
The bond would also provide funds
for the acquisition of scenic lands, or
open air spaces. Council member Mark
Chilton said this was a “serious need.”
“We have no way of purchasing stra
tegic open air spaces that have scenic
value,” he said. “These bonds will make
it possible for us to buy scenic lands.”
she said.
Survival depended on perseverance,
she said, while explaining how jailors
worked to break her spirit by burning her
books and withholding food.
“When you confront them, they try to
show their power,” she said.
Rodriguez was freed from jail at the
end of President Jimmy Carter’s admin
istration when Cuba exiled prisoners to
the United States.
Rodriguez presented a grim view of
the current situation in Cuba.
She said foreign vacationers, not citi
zens, were the only people that could
afford the country’s luxurious restaurants
and beaches.
“Only because you are Cuban, you
cannot enter this restaurant,” she said.
Rodriguez did not attribute Cuba’s
poor conditions to the recent U.S. em
bargo on Cuba but instead to Castro.
“The money he gets... is to support
his own power and his own government
in power,” she said.
People who tried to work within the
Cuban government were not successful,
she said.
“(Castro) knows there can be no
change at all,” she said.
Rodriguez said Cuba’s future after the
death of Castro was uncertain because of
the lack of potential leaders.
“There’ll be bloodshed ... when you
bend and humiliate so much the hate
inside yourself is going to kill you,”
Rodriguez said.
She suggested a way Cuban exiles
could help in Cuba’s transition.
“We, as exiled people, can do only
one thing,” she said. “We can put busi
ness there.”
Tuesday, September 24,1996
Pi Kappa Alpha’s common room.
This incident occurred after a Pi Kappa
Alpha member fired a pellet gun toward
the Sigma Nu house. One of the pellets
hit a Sigma Nu pledge in the head.
Members of the fraternity and the
University community were upset about
the recent incident, and said they did not
support the actions of the pledges.
The Pi Kappa Alpha chapter has
agreed to take full responsibility for the
damages. The fraternity also has con
tacted its national headquarters to in
form them of the break-in.
The University is continuing to inves
tigate the incident and plans to turn the
case over to the student attorney general’s
office. They will searchfor possible Honor
Code violations in connection with the
incident.
Binder said Pi Kappa Alpha has been
placed on probation, and its activities are
being monitored by University officials.
McClatchy
grant to fund
reporting lab
■ The $200,000 will help
build a high quality facility
for the journalism school.
BY LESLIE QUIGLESS
STAFF WRITER
Adding to other recent gifts to the
School of Journalism and Mass Commu
nication, McClatchy Newspapers Inc.
has given the school $200,000 for a news
paper reporting laboratory.
The money will be used to establish
the McClatchy Newspaper Center for
Newspaper Reporting, a laboratory
planned for the school’s new home in
Carroll Hall which is scheduled to open
in 1998.
Associate Dean Tom Bowers said that
while it has not yet been decided what
equipment will be in the lab, there will be
a larger room and more modem comput
ers than are in the school’s current home
in Howell Hall. “The school will have a
computer system that newspapers use.”
Richard Cole, dean of the journalism
school, said McClatchy was one of the
most respected newspaper chains in the
country, and he looked forward to work
ing in the new facilities.
“We are delighted about it,” he said.
Erwin Potts, who is the president of
McClatchy Newspapers, graduated from
the school in 1954.
“We are obviously pleased to receive
suchagenerous gift,"DirectorofAlumni
Affairs Paul Gardner said. “It makes it
more special for us that one of our gradu
ates is contributing so much.”
The school’s goal is to raise $4 million
before moving into the new building;
$1.5 million has been raised so far.
Earlier this month, Sue Millholland
gave the school a $30,000 grant for the
L.C. and Mildred Gifford Career Ser
vices Center. The center will contain an
office for the journalism school’s career
services director, interview rooms and
space for examining career information.
The journalism school also received a
$5.5 million grant from the Park Founda
tion thatwillawardstipendsto 12master’s
students and 12 doctoral students.
Another grant, SIO,OOO from the
Reader’s Digest Foundation, will help
students who have completed one year of
graduate work to pursue careers in print
journalism with an emphasis on maga
zine publishing and related fields.
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