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Sunday, OcL 13
■ Three men were arrested for sec
ond-degree burglary, reports state. Chris
topher Wyatt Miller of 1711 Snow Hill
Road in Durham, Brian Thomas Cook of
6520 Chantilly Place in Bahama and
Kevin Jon Macintosh of 5804 Clamore
Drive in Durham were arrested at Erwin
Road near Sage Road, according to re
ports.
They were arrested and placed under
$25,000 secured bond in Orange County
Jail, reports state.
■ Reports state that a vehicle was sto
len from Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
parking lot on East Rosemary Street.
According to reports, the vehicle was a
red four-door 1992 Jeep Cherokee val
ued at $11,500.
Saturday, Oct 12
■ Reports state that $2,143 in cash
was stolen from McDonald’s at 1748 N.
Fordham Blvd. The assailant was wear
ing a ski mask and assaulted a clerk. The
incident is being further investigated,
according to reports.
■ The rear glass of a 1995 Honda
Accord was broken with an unknown
tool, reports state. The incident occurred
in the Granville Towers West parking
lot. According to reports, S2OO worth of
damage was done.
■ An unknown person cut the safety
line to a ladder protection device at
Granville Towers East, causing SIOO of
damage, reports state.
■ Reports state that an unknown sus
pect threw a beer bottle through the rear
window of a vehicle parked in the
Granville Towers West parking lot. The
car was a 1995 Nissan, according to re
ports.
Friday, Oct 11
■ Reports state that a man was as
saulted and robbed of sl7 on Lindsay
Street at Mitchell Lane. The victim suf
fered minor injuries, reports state.
■ A stereo was taken from the Alpha
Tau Omega fraternity house at 303 E.
Franklin St., reports state. The stereo
was valued at $l,lOO, according to re
ports.
University
Sunday, Oct 13
■ Leratta Lane reported the glass in
the rear door ofMorrison Residence Hall
was shattered at 6:35 p.m., police reports
state .Lane stated that each time the door
was shut, more glass fell out of the door.
The Department of University Housing
was called, and the door was repaired.
Saturday, OcL 12
■ University Police was called after
an unidentified woman passed out in
Manly Residence Hall after drinking sev
eral combinations ofbourbon and vodka,
police reports state. The womanwastaken
to Student Health Service by paramed
ics. The matter was turned over to the
area director.
■ Jeffery Martin of 500 Umstead
Drive, Apt. 301 F, in Chapel Hill was
arrested for driving while under the influ
ence, police reports state. Police pulled
Martin over for running a red light at the
comer of Cameron Avenue and South
Colombia Street at 2:38 a.m.
According to police reports, the of
ficer reported smelling a strong odor of
alcohol from the driver. Martin admitted
to drinking six beers to seven beers prior
to driving. After failing the sobriety tests,
Martin was arrested for driving while
under the influence.
■ Julian Upchurch 0f5201 Pine Way
in Durham was arrested for public urina
tion Saturday at 5:50 p.m., police reports
state. Upchurch was found urinating in a
cup outside of the University Police De
partment at the time of the arrest.
■ A resident of Cobb Residence Hall
passed out from an allergic reaction to an
insect bite at 12:28 p.m., police reports
state.
According to police reports, the
woman’s hand began to swell and she
passed out. She was taken to Student
Health Service by paramedics.
■ An unknown woman turned her
ankle playing volleyball at 5:19 p.m.,
police reports state. She was examined
by Sports Medicine and taken to Student
Health Service.
■ Cassandra Carver of Q-5 Tarheel
Manor Apartments in Carrboro was cited
with trespassing at 7:53 p.m., police re
ports state. Carver was reported panhan
dling at Rosenau Hall and was asked by
University Police to leave University
property.
Friday, Oct 11
■ A bike was reported stolen at 8:50
a.m. from Alderman Residence Hall,
police reports state. The owner said she
locked the bike to the rack the night
before, but when she returned in the
morning, it was gone.
■ Jacob Isaiah Livingston of Lewis
Residence Hall was arrested for posses
sion of marijuana and drug parapherna
lia at 11:48 p.m., police reports state.
Police requested permission to search
Livingston’s room, and upon investiga
tion, found two grams of marijuana un
der Livingston’s couch cushion.
Amorous relations policy
needs review, Kraft says
BY KELLY O'BRIEN
STAFF WRITER
The University will look at changing a
policy that allows only faculty to receive
punishment for amorous relations with
students, while ignoring the problem of
students propositioning faculty.
This problem was recently proposed
to the Committee on Student Conduct by
Katherine Kraft, Graduate and Profes
sional Student Federation president, in
response to numerous accounts of stu
dents making advances towards profes
sors in an effort to influence their grades.
“I was amazed at the number of sto
ries regarding this, ’’ she said. “There were
so many that it became apparent that this
is an issue we should not dismiss.”
Kraft said her concern was that the
current policy on amorous relationships
had no provisions for professors and
teaching assistants to take recourse if
students made sexual advances toward
them.
The policy does not provide any means
for instructors to take action against
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The current landfill, located on Eubanks Road, is filled to capacity. Now the
area governments are trying to decide who will control the new landfill.
UNC touted as family-oriented school
BY RICK CONNER
STAFF WRITER
With all the concern over outsourcing
and University employee rights, the re
sults of anew survey have brought some
welcome news for UNC employee rela
tions.
A1995 survey conducted by the Col
lege and University Personnel Associa
tion Foundation and the Families and
Work Institute names the University as
one ofthe 29 most “family-friendly” edu
cational institutions in the nation. The
survey highlighted UNC’s progressive
leadership in employee work-family pro
grams.
Laurie Charest, associate vice chan
cellor for human resources, said the sur
Sangam program to focus
on Asian culture, dancing
BY MINDY HODGES
STAFF WRITER
Sangam, the University’s South Asian
Awareness Organization, will hold a cel
ebration of its culture in an event called
Navratri at 6 p.m. today in the Great
Hall.
Navratri, which celebrates the Indian
Festival of Nine Nights, will consist of
South Asian dancing, music, costumes
and food, Sangam President Robin
Sukhadia said.
“This will allow non-South Asians to
actively engage in our culture,” he said.
“It’s not passive but totally active.”
Dance lessons
will be held for the
first hour, and a
disc jockey will
play traditional In
dian music, said
Shama Pathan,
Navratri
6 p.m.
Today
Great Hall
Sangam vice president.
“These dances are simple and easy to
learn,” she said. “They are really easy to
pickup.”
Pathan said the dance would have no
dress code, but some people would dress
in traditional South Asian apparel.
“ Students can taste our culture through
food, music and dance,” Sukhadia said.
“It also gives Sangam members a
chance to celebrate a holiday they nor
mally wouldn’t be able to when away
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Graduate and
Professional Student
Federation President
KATHERINE KRAFT
said the current policy
placed all responsibility
with the instructor.
sexual advances,
and no current pun
ishment exists for
students’ inappro
priate behaviors.
The current
policy was adopted
in April 1995 after
a sexual relation
ship between En
glish Professor
James Williams
and his student,
Ako Shimada, was
made public. The
relationship was
brought to the at
tention of Univer
sity administrators during a divorce and
custody battle between Williams and his
ex-wife.
The policy prohibits faculty and staff
from engaging in sexual relationships
with students. “The current policy is
stated in a manner that places full respon
sibility on the shoulders of the instruc
tor,” Kraft said. “It doesn’t address stu-
vey covered a wide range of programs
and topics. “(The programs) are designed
to make this a good place to work, and we
think that they are really important, ” she
said.
Among many other programs, the
University offers classes in child care, as
well as subsidies for lower income em
ployees with dependent children. Anew
child-care center the University is build
ing for employees’ children near the Fri
day Center should be open by the fall of
1997, she said.
Charest said the University had a
“shared leave” program that allowed
employees to help each other in the event
of illness.
“If an employee or a family member
has a serious illness and the employee is
“This event is different
because people are actually
participating in it. It s more
interestingfor non-Sangam
members usually its just a
show. ”
NISHA KUMAR
Sangam Public Relations Chairwoman
from home,” he said.
Dandia Raas, a dance that will be
taught during Navratri, symbolizes gain
ing strength through prayer, Sukhadia
said. The original dance was created to
bring back the wife of a god after she was
kidnapped by an evil demon, he said.
“This particular dance consists of two
concentric circles where people move in
opposite directions.”
In the actual practice ofNavratri, South
Asians place pictures of gods within the
circle of dancers, Sukhadia said.
Every year there is increased partici
pation of other ethnic groups in Navratri,
Pathan said.
“This eventis different becausepeople
are actually participating in it,” saidNisha
Kumar, a public relations chairwoman
for Sangam. “It’s more interesting for
non-Sangam members usually, it’s
just a show.”
dent responsibility.”
Kraft said UNC should encourage
academic involvement between students
and professors, but that “everyone needs
to understand their role.”
“Students should be mature and take
responsibility for their behavior,” Kraft
said. “I would hope that someone who
attempted to bribe (an instructor) should
be thrown out of the University.”
Kraft brought the idea before the com
mittee, which began preliminary discus
sions on the issue Thursday.
“They will move very slowly because
the only evidence I have is the stories I’ve
been told,” Kraft said.
Margaret Barrett, judicial programs
officer and a committee member, said
the committee had not begun serious
discussion of the matter or defined the
parameters of what they will do.
Kraft said the major problem would
be how to report and try such cases. She
said evidence would be difficult to sub
stantiate, and certain instances could in
volve miscommunication. Kraft said
these “gray areas” were hard to define.
Control of future county landfill
still concerns Carrboro Aldermen
BY ERICA HINTON
STAFF WRITER
The two-year issue concerning future
control of the Orange County Landfill
will again be discussed tonight at the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen’s meeting.
Tonight’s agenda devotes a one-hour
period to the resolution of this matter.
Although this issue has been around
for a long time, it is not an easy one to
solve, Alderman Jacquelyn Gist said.
“It’s not just about the landfill, it’s about
North and South, big town-little town,
taxes, the environment, waste reduction,
equipment, roads it’s like an onion
with many layers,” she said.
Although the issue is complex,
Carrboro Mayor Mike Nelson is ready
for a decision to be made. “I’ve reached
the point of being seriously frustrated,”
Nelson said.
out of leave time, another employee can
donate their leave time,” Charest said.
Other programs include the spouse
relocation assistance program, which
helps the spouses of employees who have
just moved to the area look for employ
ment, job sharing and telecommuting
opportunities.
There is also a supervisory training
program, which helps supervisors meet
employee and departmental needs.
“We have very flexible policies in terms
of flex time,” Charest said. “We let su
pervisors approve any schedule that works
for them and their department.”
The University also provides a sum
mer day camp, known as the Carolina
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Dancers perform at Rang-e-Sangam, one of Sangam's many cultural programs
throughout the year, in Hill Hall on Sunday night.
Shelters prepare for
cold weather crowds
BY RACHEL SWAIN
STAFF WRITER
With the onset of winter in Chapel
Hill and Carrboro, the local homeless
population once again finds itself search
ing for protection from the cold.
Inter-Faith Community House, the
area homeless shelter located at 100 W.
Rosemary St., is preparing for the ex
pected increase in the number of those
seekingshelter.Theshelter’sbusiest times
are from the end of October to the end of
February, said Wesley Norwood, day
time manager of the Community House.
With the cold weather’s arrival, the
shelter also sees an increase in health
related problems. “Every winter there’s a
lot of upper and lower respiratory infec
tions, pneumonia and some cases of frost
bite,” said Dr. Gayle Thomas, medical
director of the shelter’s clinic.
The cases start appearing in Novem
ber, when temperatures remain consis
tently below freezing, Thomas said. “In
a typical week we’ll often see about 20
people, but the people that don’t want to
stay at the shelter for one reason or an
other are the people at the greatest risk,"
While Nelson
said he hoped a de
cision was reached
tonight, Gist said
her goal for the
evening was to hear
every one’sconcem
Landfil^fearin^j
7:30 p.m.
Tonight
Carrboro Town
Hall
on ffie matter. “I hope to get a sound
feeling about what we want this to look
like,” Gist said.
A couple of suggestions at the helm of
this issue are splitting the board. One
suggestion is to create a separate entity
consisting of two members of each of the
four governing bodies of Orange County:
the Chapel Hill Town Council, the
Hillsborough Town Board, the Orange
County Board of Commissioners and the
Carrboro Board of Aldermen.
The other suggestion is to allow the
Orange County Board of Commission
ers to control the landfill. Supporters of
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she said.
Even though space is limited during
the winter months, the shelter tries to
accommodate as many people as pos
sible. “The nice thing about the shelter is
that it does everything it can to help
people when the temperature drops be
low freezing,” said Thomas, who is also
a family physician at Carrboro Commu
nity Health Center.
“When the weather’s bad, such as rain
or temperatures 30 degrees or below, we
provide mats and floor space for those
that come in,” Norwood said.
The floor space is available on a night
per-night basis, with those coming in
signing up for one night, he said. “We
only have a limited floor space of 15
because of the fire code,” he said.
The shelter also offers 27 beds for men
and 18 beds for women. “People with
beds can keep them for up to 14 days,”
Norwood said. “After the 14 days, there
is a 30-day waiting period before a person
can sign up for a bed again.” According
to Norwood, a person can get an exten
sion on a bed for up to 12 weeks if he or
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this avenue see the advantages of county
control because it is already set up, it is
representative of the county and it has
autonomous rule.
Nelson said he does not see county
control as a loss, but as a compromise.
“We want to negotiate a contract with
the county to sell them our garbage if
they agree to limit the tip fees to 5 per
cent," he said. A tip fee is the amount of
money charged by the landfill to take the
garbage.
The board’s mixed feelings about the
issue were voiced at the last meeting.
Nelson said he believed the answer lay
within county rule. “The concerns raised
by the Board of Aldermen on Sept. 30
can all be met with county control.”
Despite the differing opinions of the
board, Nelson said he believed this issue
would be resolved tonight. “I thinkwe’re
all ready to move on.”
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Weekend
stabbing still
baffles police
■ Two men were stabbed
Friday night outside of
Nationsßank Plaza.
BY ALEX PODLOGAR
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Police Department is
continuing an investigation to try to piece
together the events that led to a brutal
fight on East Franklin Street on Friday
night, police spokeswoman Jane Cous
ins said.
Two men were stabbed in the back
and another man suffered a broken jaw in
the altercation, police reports state, Cous
ins said.
The investigation has produced little
information leading to the arrest of the
perpetrator of the injuries, Cousins said.
“It’s very early on in the investiga
tion," she said. “Evidently there was
some sort of fight. Who started it, we
don’t know. However, no witnesses saw
a knife. Right now, there are no leads."
Cousins would not comment on dis
cussions with witnesses about the fight.
The altercation took place Friday night
at about 11:20 p.m. in front of
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