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®hi? Daily ®ar Iferl INSIDE TOEM NOVEMBER 19,1996 No major bowl, no major profit for some Chapel Hill merchants ■ But some shopkeepers say fans are still excited about this year’s team. BY CHRISTINA KOPP STAFF WRITER Although the Tar Heels lost their chance for an Alliance Bowl bid Satur day, bowl fever lingers in Chapel Hill with a possible trip to the Gator Bowl in the future. But the temperatures of some local stores have cooled, along with their ex pectations of great profit. Local T-shirt stores and travel agen cies anticipate a slight loss of revenue compared to what they could have made if the UNC football team had earned an Alliance Bowl bid. Body Billboards, a company that screen prints T-shirts, will suffer finan cial losses because of Saturday’s 20-17 Sex scandal spurs Army to fix policy ■ Harassment allegations forced the Army to examine its training processes. BY WILLIAM GARVIN STAFF WRITER In the past few weeks, numerous sex scandals arose at military bases across the country, forcing the military to recon sider its training process. Even local authorities were affected by the trend when a noncommissioned male officer in a support battalion at Fort Bragg was accused of sexual misconduct Nov. 10. Allegations of rape and sexual harass ment at the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, which resulted in criminal charges being filed against two drill ser geants and a captain, also drew national attention. In response to these allegations, the Army decided to re-examine their train ing policies. “The Army announced that they are going to investigate all of their training facilities,” said Ed Starnes, public affairs officer forthe ordinance centerandschool at Aberdeen. UNC students in the ROTC program have been told not to comment. In addition to the Army’s formal in vestigation, Starnes said that officials at Aberdeen had already begun to make their own inquiry. “We’re interviewing all females in the last two years,” Starnes said. “It’s not a witch hunt to find victims, but to find out why it happened and why people did not report it." Starnes said that by interviewing vic tims they hoped to gain a profile of people who are at risk of becoming abusers and victims. In addition to the inquiry, Aberdeen also set up a hotline for complaints of sexual misconduct from military per sonal. “We started it primarily for the Army. And now we have 800 numbers for all the armed service," Starnes said. “Anybody who has been a victim or a witness to sexual harassment can call us.” Starnes said that he believed that the hotline would help give women more ability to be vocal about sexual harass ment. “Two drill sergeants and a company commander is who was accused here, and those are the people that you would normally report this to,” Starnes said. “The victims lost trust in those people, and when that trust is gone (harassment) is hard to report.” Since Fort Bragg is not an Army train ing center, it will not fall under the Army ’ s See SEX, Page 7 Christmas HYPE A Campus Y committee is asking for donations to make the holidays brighter for local children. Page 2 A loss to Virginia that shot down UNC’s chance for a major New Year’s Day bowl game. “We were definitely counting on it,” Body Billboards employee Christine Cuchel said. “There’s a definite loss for everybody that carries Tar Heel mer chandise. I mean, we were up by 14 and then boom, nothing.” Others said the remaining bowl possi bilities couldn’t be called “nothing.” Shelton Henderson of The Shrunken Head located at 155 E. Franklin St. said he thought Saturday’s loss might have dampened fans’ spirits, but there would still be some interest in bowl T-shirts if the team went to the Gator Bowl. “People are sort of down and out, but we’ll be ready when they’re ready,” Henderson said. Die sale of T-shirts is not the only business that UNC’s loss of an Alliance Bowl berth will affect. Travel agencies, who would have pro vided travel arrangements for Tar Heel Lack of permits leads to long waiting lists, parking tickets ■ Seventy thousand tickets were issued for on-campus parking violations last year. BY EVAN MARKFIELD AND TERESA KILLIAN STAFF WRITERS It’s no surprise that parking remains a constant issue for UNC students. With a mere 3,096 permits available to a student body of more than24,ooo, some students will not get spaces. Learning on the rocks BY MELISSA MILIOS ARTS & DIVERSIONS EDITOR On Aug. 31, 1986, Franklin Street was the site of a party intended to end all parties. The festivities began at about 10:15 p.m., when students flooded downtown, bringing with them “a stench of stale beer, vomit and urine.” By midnight, between 12,000 people and 15,000 people had congregated on the street and sidewalks. When traffic was finally able to resume at 5:30 a.m. the next day, $50,000 worth of damage had been re ported, 24 people had been admitted to N.C. Memorial Hospital and 15 people had been arrested. At 12:01 a.m. Sept. 1,1986, the legal drinking age in North Carolina was raised from 18 to 21. Ten years later, despite predictions that changing the drinking age would curb alcohol abuse in college-age stu dents, it is no secret that partying is alive and well at UNC. Within the past 18 months, six alco hol-related deaths at UNC have brought a flood of national attention to the cam pus. These incidents have prompted the University to cite the campus’ “party atmosphere” as one of the three biggest deterrents to the intellectual climate, along with the Greek system and the emphasis on “big-time sports.” A common problem Drinking in colleges is not a problem confined to UNC. A July study from the Harvard University School of Public Health reported that 84 percent of more than 17,000 American college students surveyed reported drinking during the school year. Forty-four percent quali fied as “binge drinkers,” defined in the Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein Memory lane Totally rad 'Bos web sites provide online jukeboxes, trivia and six degrees of Kevin Bacon. Page 4 Site Seeing Jessica Banov fans trekking down to Miami, now find themselves alongside the football team in a losing situation. “Obviously, it will affect most travel agencies in the area,” Dottie Berry of Cole Travel said. “If we go to Jackson ville (for the Gator Bowl) instead of Mi ami (for the Orange Bowl), those people that go will be driving down there, not flying.” Local bars that often pack fans in for UNC sports events said they would not really be adversely affected by a possible trip to the Gator Bowl. Jeff Tsipis, owner of BW-3, said no matter what bowl game UNC attended, his restaurant and bar would probably still be packed. “It’ll make a small difference, but we can only get so many people in anyway,” Tsipis said. “It won’t have a huge finan cial impact on me. I think everyone will come out and support them.” Angela Moore contributed to this article. “I believe that the lack of parking is a major concern among students, staff and faculty here on campus,” said Randy Young, marketing specialist for the De partment of Transportation and Parking. One result of the lack of permits avail able is that many students get parking tickets. Young said 55,000 unregistered ve hicles and 15,000 registered vehicles were cited for parking violations in 1995. That number has remained fairly con stant. Y oung said some of the most common violations were not having a permit dis study as having five or more drinks in a row one or more times in a two week period. The study also reported a significant increase in the number of binge drinkers between their senior year in high school and their freshman year in college. This comes as no surprise, however, to anyone who has ventured to Frater nity Court or Franklin Street on the first day back to school in August. Before freshmen are introduced to the academic aspect of college life, before they attend a single class, they are intro duced to UNC’s party atmo sphere. ANovember 1995 Student Health Service-administered survey of429undergraduates bolsters this impression. While the survey reported al cohol consumption results on fill 9 control Part two of a fire-part series about the intellectual climate par with other colleges, the importance of drinking in the social lives of UNC students startled many. Thirty-seven percent of the students surveyed re ported binge drinking in the two weeks See ALCOHOL, Page 5 Dismayed about drinking, University takes aim at Greeks BY SARA FRISCH SENIOR WRITER Tradition dictates that Fraternity Court is the place to be as students return to Chapel Hill on the last Sun day night of the summer. By midnight, hundreds of Greek and non-Greek students swarm the area, milling around on front lawns and in the parking lot. With the aca demic year around the comer, this is how students choose to prepare. Jump-start for Smart Start Officials hope to expand the program into all 100 counties. Page 7 HMNWMMI The Shrunken Head Boutique on Franklin Street shows an old football game on television, surrounded by Tar Heel regalia. The management expects good sales on T-shirts despite the football team's loss of an Alliance Bowl bid. played, parking at an expired meter, park ing in fire lanes and parking in reserved spaces. In 1995, DTP took in just less than $500,000 from parking fines, but this is not a huge source of revenue, Young said. “A lot of people have a misconcep tion that this is a driving force in our budget,” he said. Young added that much of this rev enue was spent trying to collect fines from violators and that some people also appeal their fines. “A lot (of the fines are) reduced and ILLUSTRATION BY RABATOIA OGUNTOYINBO This year, Ron Binder, director of the Office of Greek Affairs, was there, too. He was disappointed that stu dents picked the fraternity houses as a central gathering spot. “I think that’s a huge failure on the part of the University to provide any alternative," he said. “The University has abdicated that Sunday night.” The current debate about the University’s intellectual climate has focused on both positive and negative factors affecting the atmosphere at Today's Weather Partly sunny; low 60s. Wednesday: Sunny, low 60s. waived, and a lot we haven’t gotten yet,” he said. Waiting lists existed for student per mits to all parking lots except P, a com muter lot, as of Friday. All 2,950 undergraduate and graduate students who pre-registered for permits last April were offered one of the 3,096 parking spaces that were available to students in 1996. Young said approximately 3,500 spaces were allocated to students in 1995. He said he did not believe this number had decreased and that this year’s figure might not include permits allocated to UNC. In a 1994 survey, the faculty pointed to the Greek system, among other things, as a detriment to the intellectual climate. In defense, students claim that fra ternity and sorority life is an essential part of the college experience. The two perspectives create a conflict between the party-oriented social life of Greek students and the educational mission of the University. “ Part of the identity ofbeing a Greek is you drink a lot, you party a lot, ” said 103 years of editorial freedom Serving the studenuand the University community since 1893 News/Featares/Arts/%xjfls: 962-0245 Business/ Advenamg * / 962-1163 Volume 104, Issue 113 Chapel Hill, North Carolina ©1996 DOT Publishing G*p AB rights reserved. married students and other specific groups. A student government committee de cides what percentage of the available spaces will be given to commuters and non-commuters and whatpercentage will be allotted to each class. After these figures are approved by Student Congress, DTP randomly as signs parking permits meeting these guide lines. The parking space location is assigned according to availability and student pref- See PARKING, Page 2 Professor Pam Conover, who serves on the Committee on Greek Affairs andheadsthe Chancellor’s T ask Force on Intellectual Climate. But senior Jill Duncan, a former member of Kappa Kappa Gamma, said movies and popular culture had perpetuated the myth of institutional ized drinking. “People kind of expect that from fraternities and sororities,” she said. See GREEKS, Page 5
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