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Chapel Hill drug problem falls in cracks
■ Town officials praise the
community-centered effort
to battle the drug problem.
BY RACHEL SWAIN
STAFF WRITER
Although the Chapel Hill Police
Department may have won a major bat
tle against illegal drugs Tuesday, the war
is far from over.
Police unexpectedly discovered 220.8
grams of crack cocaine worth an esti
mated street value of SBB,OOO during a
routine traffic stop. Darryl Eugene
Williamson, 31, and Anthony Nigel
Feaster, 23, both of Rocky Brook
Mobile Home Park in Carrboro, were
arrested and charged with trafficking of
Students lobby to bring
voices to policy-makers
BY ERICA BESHEARS
SENIOR WRITER
Erica Adelsheimer got a sneak pre
view Monday night of the education
budget President Bill Clinton revealed
Tuesday.
Adelsheimer, legislative director of
the United States Student Association,
and representatives from other educa
tion groups met with officials from the
Education Department.
She called the
meeting a symbol of
the amount of
respect the USSA
and by extension,
the student popula
tion gets in
Washington.
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“USSA has a really, really great level
of access,” Adelsheimer said. “That’s
come from USSA’s 50-year history.”
At the state and national levels, stu
dents struggle to keep their voices heard
over partisan bickering and government
day-to-day operations.
“We really have to be the watchdogs;
we really have to be vigilant,” said John
Dervin, president of the Association of
Student Governments.
Dervin, who lobbied the N.C.
General Assembly last summer to
oppose budget cuts, said students could
play a more important role in the leg
islative process than university adminis
trators or faculty.
“Students are able to say more pub
licly than other people are,” Dervin said.
“We don’t have a lot to lose.”
Mark Bibbs, a Board of Governors
member who held Dervin’s position in
ASG from 1990-93, said students pro
vided unique perspective to lawmakers.
“Most times, the only advice legisla
tors get is from university administra
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cocaine by posses
sion and traffick
ing of cocaine by
transport.
The two men
made their first
court appearance
Wednesday, said
Orange County
Clerk of District
Court Michelle
Dunevant. Their
next court appear
ance is Feb. 17 in
Chapel Hill, she
said.
Police hope the
Council member
RICHARD FRANCK
commended drug
enforcement efforts in
Chapel Hill.
bust, the largest amount of drugs con
fiscated in town history, puts a dent in
the local drug market. “We do have a
problem with narcotics in Chapel Hill,"
tors,” Bibbs said. “Students are the moti
vating factors for the universities.”
When Bibbs lobbied the General
Assembly as ASG president, he gained
an ex officio, nonvoting position on the
BOG to give students more voice in
UNC-system governance.
Government bureaucracy can be so
daunting that students get lost in the
process, Adelsheimer said.
“If we weren’t here, (the student
voice) would be gone. It’s an egocentric
thing to say, but
Dervin,
Adelsheimer and
Bibbs all empha
sized organization
and planning.
Bibbs named act-
ing professionally and showing legisla
tors respect as keys to student lobbying.
“You cannot be seen as hostile,” he
said. “You cannot be seen as very mili
tant. (Today’s activists) need to under
stand that legislators are adults. They
talk a certain language.”
Adelsheimer said USSA developed
long-term relationships with committee
heads and remained nonpartisan to deal
with hostile lawmakers.
Dervin said he was working to make
ASG’s lobbying more organized and
effective. He plans to start visiting the
General Assembly on a regular basis
starting next week.
In recent years, students have waited
until legislators threaten large cuts to
jump into the process at the eleventh
hour, Dervin said. Now he wants to
influence policy two or three years in
advance, although he’s graduating in
May. “What I’ve tried to do is set the
highest standard possible,” he said.
ASG plans to push heavily to give its
president a vote on the BOG.
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BY LAUREN AGRELLA
STAFF WRITER
Something’s brewing in the Department
of History.
Anew book by Dr. Judith Bennett focus
es on the reasons why women, once domi
nant in the beer industry, have set aside their
vats. The professor of medieval history stud
ies at UNC has devoted the last nine years to
this question.
“I hate talking about kings and battles
and things,” said Bennett, who focuses
much of her research on female figures and
lifestyles.
Her most recent book, “Ale, Beer and
Brewsters in England,” published last year,
examines why brewing changed from being
dominated by females in the 1300s to being
almost completely male-centered 300 years
later.
Bennett’s genre of choice is a bit unusu
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Lt. Marvin Gark said. “We would hope
(the bust) would definitely slow the traf
fic of crack cocaine down.”
Clark said crack cocaine was the
most prevalent drug in Chapel Hill.
“Since it’s introduction in the area six to
eight years ago, crack cocaine has been
the drug of choice,” he said.
The police department is doing any
thing it legally can to get drugs off the
street, Clark said. “We’re trying all pro
grams nationally recognized pro
grams, our own modified programs, and
anything we can come up with.”
Community policing is one of the
more recognized programs the police
use. It is a nationwide concept where
officers and community members know
each other on a first name basis, Clark
said.
“The officer becomes a citizen of that
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Cigarette sparks SIB,OOO in damages
■ A Carrboro woman’s
cigarette caused structural
damage in her apartment.
BY ROB NELSON
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Careless handling of a cigarette led to
a small fire Wednesday at Camelot
Apartments located at 130 S. Estes
Drive.
One woman was in the apartment
during the blaze, but no injuries were
reported, said Captain Larry Johnson of
the Chapel Hill Fire Department.
al in the world of history-related writing, she
said. In fact, Bennett said hers was the only
book on women’s role in beer-brewing in the
Middle Ages.
Dr. Barbara Harris, chairman of the
Department of Women’s Studies, teaches
several history courses on women with
Bennett. She said the impact of Bennett’s
book should not be underestimated.
“It’s a very important book,” she said.
“It’s going to get a huge amount of attention
in the scholarly world.”
Dr. Richard Soloway, chair of UNC’s his
tory department, said Bennett was an
important leader in her area of research.
“What she does —as well as anyone
is deal with women in a very solid socioe
conomic context,” he said.
Her work has particularly relevance since
it examines conditions that existed 700 years
ago, but have ramifications on present times.
“I want to understand women’s work
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“Since its introduction in the
area six to eight years ago,
crack cocaine has been the
drug of choice.”
MARVIN CLARK
Chapel Hill Police Lieutenant
community and works together with
community members to solve prob
lems,” he said. “The citizen will know
who to turn to, know the officer that’s
coming to the scene and know who to
voice concerns to.
“The program has been effective in
combatting all types of problems in
neighborhoods, whether it be drugs or
fights between neighbors,” Clark said.
STUDY BUDDIES
The fire department responded to a
call from neighbors reporting a fire at
apartment G-8 at 11:05 p.m.
According to reports from the depart
ment, neighbors had extinguished the
fire with a garden hose by the time fire
fighters arrived at the scene.
Johnson said that the blaze, though
contained within the living room of the
unit, caused structural damage, which
lessened the stability of the building.
He said structural damage was when
a building was in danger of being
destroyed or when the integrity of the
building was affected.
Johnson said the female resident of
the unit was sleeping on the front couch
today, so I go to the
past to figure out the
present,” she said.
The idea for her lat
est book came from a
student years ago.
When studying pat
terns in women’s work
wages, the student
noticed that medieval
women were paid only
two-thirds what men
were. The student’s
observations prompted
Bennett to research
why patriarchy has
endured for hundreds
of years.
Bennett said her
book was rooted in the
reality that women’s
wages have always been
lower and attempts to
explain why their sta
tuses haven’t changed
much. “Even with huge economic changes
like capitalism and industrialization,
women’s work relative to men’s hasn’t
changed much,” she said.
While most of Bennett’s current work has
a strong feminist element, it didn’t start out
that way. “As an undergraduate, I thought
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“It’s what I call getting back to the
basics.”
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Richard Franck said he was pleased with
the police department’s efforts in the
fight against drugs. “My impression is
that we’ve been doing a good job,” he
said.
“I think the approach the police
department has of emphasizing com
munity policing is a good strategy, but I
think it will be many years before we see
the full effects (of the program).”
Council member Edith Wiggins said
the size of Tuesday’s bust did not sur
prise her.
“I am concerned that that amount of
drugs was on the street in Chapel Hill,”
she said. “But I can’t say I’m surprised
because drugs are everywhere, including
Chapel Hill.”
when she was awakened by the fire. She
then ran out of the house and yelled for
neighbors to call the fire department.
The fire began when the cigarette
ignited a chair and various paper mate
rials, Johnson said.
According to reports, damage was
estimated at SIO,OOO to the structure and
SB,OOO to the contents of the apartment.
The Chapel Hill Police Department
Crisis Intervention Unit, the Red Cross
and Duke Power Company also
responded to the fire.
Johnson said he was glad the fire was
put under control so quickly. “It is
always one of our goals to to catch fires
in their smaller stages.”
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Congress:
job not just
allotting fees
■ Representatives said it
was important that all
students vote Feb. 11.
BY KERRY OSSI
STAFF WRITER
Student Congress controls about
$250,000 of student money, and with
student government elections around
the corner, students must soon decide
just who they want holding the purse
strings.
But some Student Congress repre
sentatives have expressed concern with
voter apathy and attributed it to stu-
dents not know
ing what
Student
Congress does.
Rep. James
Hofftnan, Dist.
15, chairman of
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the Student Congress Ethics
Committee, said student government
had not done an adequate job of edu
cating students.
“Students don’t know the way it
works, so they don’t know what powers
it has or how it can affect them,” he
said.
Hoffman said
Student Congress’
actions did have
an impact on stu
dents and should
matter to them.
“Look at the
amount of student
money Congress
controls what
can or cannot be
done with that
money is up to
Congress.”
One of Student
Congress’ main
responsibilities is
allocating student fees to campus
groups.
“Who isn’t concerned with money?"
said Rep. Bryan Kennedy, Dist. 4, a
graduate student.
Kennedy said he thought most stu
dents were part of some campus group,
so they had a vested interest in the
actions of Student Congress and who
represented them.
“Where that student activity fee
money goes should matter to students,”
he said. “It’s a substantial amount of
money per student.”
Speaker Jamie Kilboume, Dist. 1,
said the annual budget broke down to
sl6 per undergraduate student and sl2
per graduate student.
Rep. Jason Jolley, Dist. 16, chairman
of the Student Congress Finance
Committee, said he got involved with
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the feminist movement
was unnecessary and
strident,” she said.
Bennett said
medieval beer-brewing,
since it had to be regu
lated and taxed in the
Middle Ages, was an
“unusually well-docu
| mented industry,”
I which made historical
I resources accessible.
Bennett worked at
| two dozen archives in
I the British Isles to com-
I pile her book, drawing
I from existing records
I that were originally kept
lon sheepskin or
I goatskin.
Soloway agreed that
Bennett’s research hadn’t
been easy. "(She’s a)
meticulous researcher
who works with very dif-
ferent sources,” he said.
Bennett, who is on sabbatical this semes
ter in Washington, just finished the first-ever
biography of a medieval woman. She said
her books don’t claim to have any answers,
though. “Feminist research generates the
questions, not the answers at all.”
Rep. VINSTON
ROZIER, Dist. 14, said
Student Congress
needed more
minority
representation.