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TUESDAY
FEBRUARY 11,1997
IFC seeks to improve
rush, end alcohol use
BY DANA SPANGLER
STAFF WRITER
The Interfratemity Council held an
open discussion Monday night to talk
about proposals that could prevent a
University mandate to defer rush.
According to an agreement with
Chancellor Michael Hooker, the Greek
community must alter its rush processes
or Hooker will postpone the new mem
ber recruitment until the spring.
The main topic of discussion was
how fraternities could prevent alcohol
use during rush.
“We can deal with dry rush for three
weeks if that means we will have a bet
ter brotherhood,” said David Gregg, a
senior Chi Psi fraternity member from
Greenville, S.C.
Adar Berghoff a senior from
Fayetteville, said it was possible for fra
ternities to have a successful rush with
out alcohol.
“We are selling ourselves short and
proving what everyone says is true if we
can’t have a band during rush without
alcohol,” he said.
Berghoff suggested a two-strike sys
tem. “The first strike would be a warn
ing, and the second strike would say that
fraternity would have no rush this
semester.
“We have to make the punishment fit
the crime.”
Gregg said there should be a stiffer
financial penalty for an individual’s
CAA pairs
get plaudits
in Ist forum
BYSHENGLEE
STAFF WRITER
The first ever Carolina Athletic
Association candidates forum took
place Monday night, on the eve of elec
tion day.
CAA co-presidential candidates
Jason Reynolds and Charlie Roederer
and co-presidential candidates Beth
Stem and Brian Whitley discussed ideas
at the forum, sponsored by the Critical
Issues Committee of the Carolina
Union Activities Board.
CAA President Seth Nore expressed
his support for all candidates.
“We have four excellent candidates
for the position, running together as co
presidents, all of which have had expe-
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Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange, (left) was appointed co-chairman
of the N.C. Senate's education committee last week.
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alcohol use.
“I don’t want to see a house go under
because of one person’s actions,” he
said. “We’ve got to separate the individ
ual from the fraternity.”
Christian Chamaux, president of Chi
Psi and a sophomore from Dallas, said
there needed to be a better way to find
the alcohol violations. He suggested that
students do the enforcing.
Mo Nathan, a member of Chi Psi
and a junior from Cary, said, “I think it’s
good, that we need to take responsibili
ty for ourselves."
Berghoff agreed with the idea of stu
dent enforcement. He suggested inviting
the media out to see the enforcement.
“We could use the media as our tool and
show everyone we are serious about
this,” he said.
IFC members also discussed shorten
ing the rush period.
Gregg said he thought cutting the
rush period could lead the members’
and the prospective members’ to decide
too quickly.
“Careful decisions have to be made,
and we need that extra time to make
those decisions,” he said. “Freshmen
need that extra time.”
Curtis Jablonka, a junior from Grove
City, Ohio, said a list of proposals
would be distributed to all IFC repre
sentatives by 3 p.m. today.
Voting on the proposals will be held
Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. in the South
Gallery of the Student Union.
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CAA co-presidential candidates Jason Reynolds and Charlie Roederer, and Beth Stern and Brian Whitley debate
in the Union Cabaret on Monday night. The forum was sponsored by the Carolina Union Activities Board.
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Toned down turnout
BYTORI DAVIS
AND HILARY FRANKLIN
STAFF WRITERS
“I Voted” stickers could be few
and far between on campus today if
the past 10 years are any indication.
The number of votes cast in stu
dent elections has been consistently
low since 1988. The 1990 and 1994
elections garnered the highest
turnouts, with more than 4,000
votes. About 24,000 students are eli
gible to vote.
Many students attribute the low
election turnout rates to voter apa
thy, lack of information and short
ened campaign periods. And they
don’t see any signs of change.
Senior Class vice presidential can
didate Russell Mahan said he expect
ed this year’s turnout to be about
equal to last year’s 3,489 votes.
“The student body presidential
race is not a close race this year like
last year,” Mahan said. “I think part
of that might be due to the shorten
ing of the campaign. That way you
didn’t have as much time to reach as
many people.”
Association of Student
Governments President John Dervin
also said he thought the length of
this year’s election period the
shortest ever made it difficult to
Senator’s new appointment
to reap dividends for UNC
BY GRAHAM BRINK
SENIOR WROER
North Carolina’s political arena pro
vides few guarantees, but Democratic
Sen. Howard Lee’s appointment to co
chair the education committee ensures
that the UNC-system advocate will have
a strong influence on the state’s educa
tional agenda.
“Education, from preschool through
graduate school, is the most important
building block for successful future gen
erations,” he said.
Lee, who runs an airport concessions
company, was first elected to the Senate
in 1990 and twice won re-election before
losing in 1994.
Lee, along with fellow Orange
County Democrat Eleanor Kinnaird,
beat Republicans Teena Little and P.H.
Craig in District 16 last November to
help build a 10-seat Democratic major
ity in the Senate.
“Lee has been a supporter of UNC
and knows the education system,” said
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get students excited about the races.
Others contend that it’s hard to
get students excited about an election
that they do not feel a part of.
“Nearly one-third of the student
body are graduate students that feel
disenfranchised from student gov
ernment,” said Mo Nathan, a stu
dent body president candidate.
Katherine Kraft, president of the
Going to the polls
The number of UNC students who have voted for student body president has
varied greatly during the past nine years.
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Elson Floyd, executive vice chancellor
of UNC. “It’s always nice not to have to
go through a long learning curve.”
Lee, 62, said he thought his most dif
ficult task would be the fight to fund all
levels of education. He said the recent
tax cuts reduced the available funds.
For the UNC system to receive the
maximum amount of funding during
the N.C. General Assembly’s upcoming
budget negotiations, Lee said it was
important to package the system as a
team, not as individual schools.
“Negotiating for funding is easier if
it’s done for the whole system, not for
each school separately,” he said. “Pitting
one school against another will split the
legislature into regional groups.”
Despite the systemwide approach,
Lee said successful university systems
rely on strong, well-funded flagship
schools to bolster the regional schools.
A flagship school like UNC-CH draws
out-of-state students, provides a goal for
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Graduate and Professional Student
Federation, cited various reasons for
the low graduate student turnout.
“Students have been faced with no
introduction to student government
and no information about what role
they can play in it,” Kraft said.
“We’ve tried very hard this year to
send out e-mails informing students
about what issues they’re eligible to
Council delays proposal
for Tar Heel Motel site
BY JULIA WOOD
STAFF WRITER
At a third public hearing on the mat
ter, Chapel Hill Town Council members
and residents expressed reservations
about approving the demolition of the
Tar Heel Motel on Fordham Boulevard
and replace it with a Days Inn.
Several council members said they
were not ready to turn down the project,
but they wanted the development’s
impact on stormwater management to
be addressed before they would consid
er approving the application.
The application asks for concessions
to the development ordnance allowing
the project to exceed maximum floor
area limit, to provide less than the min
imum amount of livability space and to
allow a buffer to overlap along the
northern property line.
Council member Mark Chilton said
he was most concerned that the appli
cant wanted to be allowed to exceed the
allowable amount of impervious sur
faces, such as parking lots.
“I am disinclined to reject this project
outright, but I would like for the appli-
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Carolina Athletic Association
President Seth Nore said another
large segment of students don’t real
ize they can vote.
“It needs to be publicized that
seniors are still able to vote,” he said.
“They need to realize that they’re
voting for the thousand incoming
freshmen and should want to leave
the University in good hands.”
Jason Reynolds, a CAA co-presi
dential candidate, said he had talked
to many seniors who did not realize
they could vote. “We’re trying to let
them know that they can vote,”
Reynolds said. “Their vote is wanted
and needed.”
Shawn Fraley, a student body
president candidate, said he wanted
to directly ask for student input.
“Perhaps this direct interaction will
create a general interest in the works
of student government,” he said.
CAA co-presidential candidate
Charlie Roederer said this general
interest was lacking.
“Students don’t see student gov
ernment as being something they can
really influence or really change,” he
said.
Student Body President Aaron
Nelson said students do not fully
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cant to find a way
to much more
closely approxi
mate the impervi
ous surface that
currently exists at
the site,” he said.
Mayor
Rosemary Waldorf
said she was also
not ready to reject
the proposal but
had concerns.
“I find the
amount of imper
vious surfaces
most troubling, in
terms of precedent
setting,” she said.
“I’m also concerned with how far the
project will extend back into the flood
plain.”
Several residents raised concerns
about how the development would
affect already problematic flooding con
ditions. Resident Art Werner said he
was concerned that calculations about
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Council member
MARK CHILTON
raised concerns about
the impervious
surfaces on the old
Tar Heel Motel
property.
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