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City
Sunday, OcL 20
■ Leroy Little, 42, of 100 W. Rose
mary St. was arrested for possession of
cocaine with the intention of sale and
delivery, police reports state.
At 11:51 p.m., Little made the sale
and delivery of a S2O rock of cocaine to
Investigators Moore and Smith of the
Chapel Hill Police Department, reports
state.
The sale and arrest took place in the
parking lot of Chapel Hill Tire on West
Franklin Street, according to reports.
■ Solomon C. Wright, 19, of 301
McMasters St. was arrested for assault,
injury to real property, and communicat
ing threats at 12:38 a.m., according to
reports.
Wright assaulted a man with his fist
and caused S2OO worth of damage to a
window, according to reports.
After being arrested on North Gra
ham Street, Wright was found to possess
marijuana. Police reports state that
Wright was put on S3OO secured bond.
Saturday, OcL 19
■ At 4:49p.m., Stephen Anthony Roy,
44, of Chapel Hill, and Henry David
Mood, 49, of Siler City, were arrested for
drunk and disruptive behavior and crimes
against nature, reports state.
The suspects were found urinating on
the median ofHighway 15-501 atEastgate
Shopping Center, according to police re
ports.
Friday, OcL II
■ Kathryn Enright, 47, of 108
Elmwood Circle, was arrested at 1:00
p.m. for assault with a deadly weapon,
reports state.
Enright intentionally backed her auto
mobile into two women, reports state.
The incident occurred at 1800 E. Franklin
St., according to reports.
■ George Washington Parrish, 35, of
323 Brooks St., was arrested for robbery
with a dangerous weapon and was later
found to be the suspect in an Oct. 11
assault case, reports state.
At 10:25 p.m. at University Square on
West Franklin Street, Parrish held a man
at knifepoint and stole five dollars, ac
cording to reports.
Once he was arrested, Parrish con
fessed to throwing a boulder at another
victim on Oct. 11, police reports state.
Parrish was given an overall secured bond
of SIO,OOO for both events, reports state.
University
Monday, OcL 21
■ At 10 a.m., a system network ad
ministrator for the Department of
Mathematic Computer system reported
an obscene e-mail message.
The message, which came from an
America Online system user, was routed
from a former employee’s e-mail system,
according to police reports.
Themessage, according to reports was
soliciting and ad vertising the sale of child
pornography.
Friday, OcL 18
■ A woman’s purse was stolen from
an office in Wing D of the Medical School
at 1:08 p.m. According to the report,
items reported stolen included two Visa
cards, an ATM card, a UNC ONE Card,
a driver’s license, SIOO in cash, personal
photographs and sunglasses valued at
$125.
The suspect was described as a black
male wearing green hospital scrubs by
numerous witnesses, according to the
police report.
The woman stated her door was not
locked and the purse had been taken off
of her desk when she arrived, according
to reports.
■ A woman’s wallet was taken out of
a purse in room 259 in Wing D of the
Medical School at 3:47 p.m.
The woman left the room at 12 p.m.
and when she returned at 2 p.m., she was
informed of a thief in the area, according
to police reports. She went to check on
her wallet and found it gone.
Items taken included a North Caro
lina driver’s license, a Nationsßank
checkbook, and a Shell Mastercard.
■ Hattie Edwards was pulled over for
driving without a licence at a routine
checkpoint at 9:30 a.m. She was issued a
citation and released, according to police
reports.
Wednesday, OcL 16
■ A woman’s wallet was reported sto
len at 2 p.m. from the Family Practice
Center. The wallet was left unattended in
a meeting room for three hours, and
police reports state upon the owner’s
return it was discovered missing.
The woman told police a person was
sitting next to her and when he left, the
wallet was missing, according to the re
port. Items reported missing included $8
in cash, two Visa cards, a checkbook, a
Belk credit card, and a Hecht’s credit
card.
Anyone with information concerning
the sale of controlled substances or any
other criminal activity on campus is en
couraged to contact Lt. Mark Mclntyre
of University Police at 966-2120 to con
fidentially report this information.
Committee recommends transportation fee increase
BYNAHALTOOSI
STAFF WRITER
The Chancellor’s Committee on Stu
dent Fees discussed recommendations
from the Student Fee Audit Committee
regarding proposed fee increases Tues
day.
The recommendations concerned pro
posed increases in student transporta
tion, athletic, education and technology
fees and a newly proposed UNC ONE
Card fee.
The SFAC supported an increase in
the transportation fee but raised major
concerns regarding the other three fee
requests.
A memo submitted by the student
body treasurer and SFAC chairwoman,
Julie Gasperini, stated that the SFAC
believed the transportation fee increase
DTH/CARABRICKMAN
Peyton Myrick (left) of the Chapel Hill Improvisation Team watches as fellow members act out the part of fencers Tuesday. The group spent part of the
sunny afternoon in the Pit entertaining students.
Additional
rabies cases
reported
■ The cases, including two
raccoons and a bat, bring
the county’s total to eight.
BY LAURA GODWIN
CITY EDITOR
Orange County Animal Control offi
cials confirmed Tuesday that three more
cases of rabies had been found in the
area. This brings the year-to-date total of
rabies cases in the county to eight.
Orange County Animal Control Di
rector John Sauls said two cases involved
infected raccoons and the other an in
fected bat.
One raccoon was found on a driveway
on Canter Drive, in the northeastern sec
tion of Orange County. Another raccoon
was found on a driveway on N.C. High
way 57 north, near Pearson County. In
both cases, the residents’ dogs found the
Environmental organization
endorses 3 local Democrats
BYMEEGANP. SMITH
STAFF WRITER
The Sierra Club formally announced
Tuesday its endorsement of Democratic
contenders Eleanor Kinnaird and
Howard Lee and incumbent Joe Hack
ney, D-Orange, in the Nov. 5 General
Assembly elections.
Sierra Club spokeswoman Trish
Rafalow said the club supports Kinnaird
and Lee in the 16th District state Senate
race based on their history of supporting
environmental concerns.
Kinnaird, the former mayor of
Carrboro, was instrumental in enacting a
series of measures to protect the Univer
sity Lake Watershed, Rafalow said.
“They’ve both shown a great deal of
leadership in environmental issues," she
said.
They face incumbent Republican
Teena Little, R-Moore, and Republican
was justified since only students who
would be receiving services during the
summer would have to pay.
The committee disagreed with the cre
ation of anew fee category for the ONE
Card.
Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chan
cellor for business, said the segment of
the ONE Card system needing fee sup
port was the cost of activation and usage.
“There’s no money support of the in
teractive portion of the ONE Card sys
tem for the students,” she said.
Katherine Kraft, president of the
Graduate and Professional Student Fed
eration and a member of the SFAC, said
she disagreed with forcing all students to
pay for a service not utilized by everyone.
She gave the example of students in
Health Affairs who had little use for their
ONE Card.
FREEZE FRAME
Rabies Tips
To protect pets from rabies, Sandy Christiansen, general manager of the Animal
Protection Society, said pets should be kept indoors at night Some other tips she
suggested are: __
■ Residents should not leave food outside that would
attract racoons. mw!
■ If you suspect an animal is rabid, you should call the
Animal Control Department at 732-8182, ext 2075, or
911 if it is after business hours.
raccoons and had an undetermined
amount of contact with the infected ani
mals.
“In both cases all the dogs had a valid
rabies vaccination,” Sauls said.
The bat was found by a resident of
Flint Ridge Apartments on South
Churton Street in Hillsborough.
Sauls said the woman found the dead
bat and picked the animal up wearing
gloves.
The gloves, according to an Orange
County press release, were semi-porous
and thought to be unsafe for handling the
infected animal.
Sauls said the woman is now being
treated for post-exposure rabies prophy
laxis, which involves a regimen of six
injections.
Since rabies has spread to raccoons
P.H. Craig, a Chapel Hill resident.
Kinnaird said she was grateful to have
the club’s support.
“The Sierra Club is part of our team to
help us work for the best protection of our
naturalresources,”Kinnairdsaid. “Ithink
the Sierra Club endorsement is very, very
important.”
Leaders of the Sierra Club said they
supported Lee’s work in public transpor
tation.
“A balanced approach to transporta
tion is an important item," Lee said.
The Sierra Club said it shared Lee’s
interest in protecting the state’s waters.
Lee, formerly a state senator and mayor
of Chapel Hill, said he would support a
fund to clean up the state’s rivers and
streams.
Lee said the Sierra Club was a power
ful organization and he bwas glad to
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NEWS
“Charge the people who are using the
services and benefitting from the ser
vices,” Kraft said.
However, Student Body President
Aaron Nelson disagreed, saying that the
same ONE Card benefits are available to
all students, some people just chose not
to use them.
Students who deliberately chose not
to attend athletic events or utilize other
services still had to pay the required fees,
he said.
The memo stated the SFAC realized
the proposed increase was necessary be
cause fees were not increased for food
service improvements last spring.
“We felt this was a through-the-back
door funding offood services,” Gasperini
said.
Another disputed increase was the $lO
increase in athletic fees. The increase
and other terrestrial animals, the number
of rabies cases in Orange County will
continue to rise, Sauls said.
In an effort to make it easier for resi
dents to have their pets vaccinated and to
end the epidemic, the Orange County
Animal Protection Society is sponsoring
a reduced-cost vaccination clinic on Nov.
9 at the animal shelter on Airport Road,
Sauls said.
However, after a pet has been vacci
nated, the most important thing residents
can do to stop the spread of the epidemic
is to keep pets confined to their property
and away from wildlife, Sauls said.
“Over the last several cases, these
people are letting their dogs run loose,”
he said.
“I hope people will realize this is a
real threat to their families.”
.
DTH/AMYCAPWELLO
Sierra Club gathered in front of the U.S. Post Office on Franklin Street on Tuesday morning to endorse candidates
for state legislative seats. N.C. Rep. Joe Hackney, D-Orange, Howard Lee and Eleanor Kinnaird won the nod.
Counting pennies
The Chancellor s Committee on Student Fees met Tuesday to discuss Student
Audit Commitee recommendations on possible fee increases.
Fee Audit Committee Recommendation
YES NO
Increase in student transportation fee ✓
Increase in student athletic fee ✓
Increase in student education and
technology fee
Increase in UNC ONE Card fee ✓
SOURCE: STUDENT GOVERNMENT DTH/MARKWEISSMAN
would mainly support UNC’s newest
varsity sport, women’s crew.
“The general consensus of the com
mittee is that, while we support Title IX,
a $lO increase was a great burden on the
University field expansion
prompts council concern
BY JIM MARTIN
STAFF WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council voted
54 Monday to discourage the University
from building athletic fields near the
Mason Farm Biological Reserve.
The University has plans to renovate
18-hole Finley Golf Course and extend it
by nine holes, displacing five athletic
fields adjacent to the course. It plans to
relocate the athletic fields and add two
new fields to a site next to the reserve.
The entire project would cost around
$5.2 million dollars.
Council member Lee Pavao voted
against the resolution and said he thought
it was not within the council’s jurisdic
tion.
“We don’t have any authority over
the University here,” he said. “I don’t
think it called for a resolution.”
Although council member Joe
Capowski also voted against the resolu
tion, he said the town still needed to think
about the environment.
Wednesday, October 23,1996
individual student,” Gasperini said.
Title IX requires universities to offer
equal athletic opportunities to men and
See STUDENT FEE, Page 8
Educators
debate on
vouchers
■ Candidates for State
Superintendent differed
about school choice.
BY VICKY ECKENRODE
STAFF WRITER
The candidates for state superinten
dent for public instruction, Republican
Vernon Robinson and Democrat Mike
Ward, faced off Tuesday in a debate that
reflected a race characterizedby two radi
cally different approaches for improving
North Carolina’s public schools.
About 50 people came to the debate in
Gerrard Hall, which was sponsored by
the N.C. Teaching Fellows.
Ward, who has worked for 19 years in
N.C. public schools, favored improving
the current conditions in schools while
Robinson, a former professor at Win
ston-Salem State University, said he ad
vocated switching all of the state’s public
schools over to charter schools.
The candidates’ opinions on numer
ous educational issues centered around
this split in basic educational policy.
Ward said his goals were to improve
safety in schools, set high academic stan
dards, recruit good teachers, deal with
aging facilities and resist vouchers and
See SUPERINTENDENTS, Page 5
“ I think we ha ve to pay close attention
to the environmental impact of those
athletic fields,” Capowski said.
Council member Julie Andreson, who
voted in favor of the resolution, said she
was concerned about the construction of
the ball fields.
“I would hope the University would
listen to their citizens,” Andreson said.
“I think the ball fields would degrade the
area significantly.”
Andreson said the University should
think first about the environment.
“It seems like bad planning, and
frankly I don’t think this serves the mis
sion of the University,” she said.
UNC Associate Vice Chancellor for
Facilities Brace Runberg said he felt the
project was still viable after all the feed
back he received.
“Generally, these people were con
cerned about the impact on the environ
ment,” Runberg said. “We'll be adding
more buffer from the stream to isolate
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