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2 Friday, August 29, 1997 Hector’s new bar celebrates big success ■ Hector’s bar hopes seven televisions and satellites will assist its business. BY STACEY TURNAGE ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR Two weeks after adding a bar to their already popular restaurant. Hector’s owners are celebrating their sudsy suc cess. “Of course right now we are just try ing to get the word out,” Lee Minor, the bar’s manager, said. “But so far, the response has been real positive.” Minor said he thought business would really begin to increase when stu dents got settled in and chaos from the first few weeks of school had subsided. “I think business will really start booming when fraternity and sorority rush is over,” he said. “When everyone gets used to being back at school, they will start coming out more.” He said even though there are many bars and restaurants on Franklin Street, he thought Hector’s Down Under would still be able to draw a crowd. “We offer something that no other bar in Chapel Hill offers,” he said. “Besides, any bar is a great investment if you can keep people in the door." Minor said the thing he thought would keep customers coming back is nightly specials the bar will offer. Another advantage the bar hopes will increase its business is seven large tele visions and four satellites, Minor said. “We will be able to show up to four dif- California’s affirmative action ban becomes statute THE ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO After nearly a year of legal challenges, California’s affirmative action ban became law Thursday the 34th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Thousands of the law’s opponents streamed across the Golden Gate Bridge in protest of California becoming the first state in the nation to eliminate race and gender considerations in everything from hiring to education. “This is history,” said 60-year-old demonstrator Jestine Singleton, who drove overnight with a church group to attend. “We’ve still got the dream. It’s We Do Everything But Move You in! ny * 'I 4th Anniversary sale Through September 14th Hdd Y>ur Own Organization and Storage Solutions •' Eastgate Shopping Center • 969-7001 Monday-Saturday 10-9, Sunday 12-6 • Student Advantage Card Accepted rift „ ' ytd t ■ '>* IS! DTH/MATTKOHUT James Jefferson takes some time out Thursday afternoon to quench his thirst in the recently opened Hector's Down Under. ferent games at any one time,” he said. Minor said he also thought when football and basketball seasons were in full swing, the bar would see an increase still coming.” California voters passed the measure, Proposition 209, last November by a 54 percent margin, but the ban has been tied up in the courts since. The American Civil Liberties Union and other opponents tried to have it struck down, but the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals refused Tuesday to block imple mentation while it is appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. King’s famous speech in Washington in 1963 was on the marchers’ minds as they trooped across the bridge, four and five abreast on a pedestrian sidewalk, chanting and singing “We Shall Overcome.” The protest, followed by a Over 7000 Great Organizing ideas for Dorm, Apartment, and Office! & ... . . l \_J All Professional's Choice Shelving Systems 10% OFF Reg. Price i ii * • in its business. “Monday night football will see the bar full of fans drinking beer, eating food and watching their favorite NFL rally, was peaceful and traffic was not disrupted. Jackson urged Prop 209 opponents to continue fighting. “In this country there are those who are dreamers and those who are dream busters. The dreamers need to outlast the dream-busters. We must pursue the dream of an inclusive society,” Jackson said. Schoolchildren, college students and the elderly of all races walked side by side, many wearing “Save the dream” buttons as drivers honked and waved. Drum and bugle corps music added to the din. “I don’t think we’ve undone the neg All elfa® Drawers and Easy Hang™ Shelving 20% OFF Reg. Price ■ NEWS “We have built an area where any adult can come in, relax, drink a really great beer and enjoy some good, traditional Hector’s food.” Manager of Hector's Down Under team,” he said. The Alcohol Law Enforcement agency will come in to talk to bar tenders about North Carolina’s laws regarding serving alcohol, he said. “The ALE came in a did a sweep of the bar (last) Friday night,” he said. “We came up with a clean bill of health.” Britt Keele, the manager of Groundhog Tavern, said he didn’t think the new bar was affecting the tavern’s business. “It is really hard to gauge whether is has affected us or not because they haven’t been open that long,” he said. “I do think that it is a really neat bar. They did a great job remodeling it.” Sarah Fryer, manager of Brothers Pizza, said she didn’t see a difference in her business either. “We haven’t noticed anything,” she said. “We have a pretty regular crowd, though.” Minor said he thought the bar would eventually stand out on Franklin Street. “We have built an area where any adult can come in, relax, drink a really great beer and enjoy some good, tradi tional Hector’s food.” ative effects of slavery,” said Jean Mont- Eton, 68, of San Francisco. “I still think we need affirmative action." Meanwhile, it wasn’t clear whether implementation of the law would have any immediate impact. In San Francisco, City Attorney Louise Renne said a local affirmative action program would stand despite Proposition 209. “In San Francisco, at least, there will be no precipitous action to undo the hard work we have already undertaken to remedy past discrimination,” Renne said. State officials and proposition sup porters were quick to warn that failing to abide by the law would not be toler ated. In education the big change came not from Proposition 209 but from a similar measure approved by University of California regents in 1995. It affected the fall’s incoming graduate students and will apply to new undergraduate admissions starting next year. For the record In the Aug. 28 article "BCCto promote ties to community,' freshman Delois Mcßae's name was misspelled. In the August 28 article 'Road's con struction draws more protest,' Chapel Hill Town Council member Richard Franck's name was misspelled. In the Aug. 27 article ‘OWASA advo cates cleaner Cane Creek,' the chairman of the OWASA Watershed Committee should have been identified as Alan Rimer. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors. Prices every bit as comfortable as our furniture. guaranteed" Choose from more than one way to pay. 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Burwell Ware, spokesperson for the Alliance, said Chapel Hill had failed to involve citizens in zoning decisions. “The problem lies just as much with the council as with the town staff,” Ware said. “We now feel that Chapel Hill has become a town where the government favors developers over neighborhoods.” The Alliance claimed traffic surveys done by developers are biased. The town government made decisions that are developer-friendly, and citizens do not have the same privileged access to infor mation and city officials as do develop ers. Chapel Hill Town Council member Joe Capowski said he agreed. “I agree with the opinion that the current Town Council is pro-commercial,” he said. Capowski said he was a proponent of Chapel Hill’s neighborhoods and that the council intended to address their and the Alliance’s concerns over public par ticipation in town decisions. Specifically, they intend to discuss the Campus calendar Friday 4 p.m. Phi Alpha Delta pre-law frater nity will hold an interest session in Union 205. The meeting is open to the public and all interested in joining. Hems of Interest The University Counseling Center in Nash Hall will conduct a career clinic to help students develop a plan for selecting a major or career on Sept. 2 at 3:15 p.m. Novelist and short-story writer Lewis Shriner will read from his works, including “Glimpses,” “Deserted Cities of the Heart” and "Slam.” The reading will be held Sept. 4 in Gill Caldwell Hall on the campus of N.C. State University. It is free and open to the public. For more information call 515- 4170. The Duke University Department of Music will present “Duke Choral and Chapel Choir,” at 8 p.m. Sept. 2 in Duke t lamps from 529 mattress 8 box spring sanitized twin sets queen sets king sets ’B9 ‘159 ’199 Wife flatly War Herf : three-minute time limit on citizens to speak before council, Capowski said. Under current town-meeting proce dures, developers in opposition of a plan receive unlimited time to rebut and dis cuss zoning plans. A major bone of contention between the Alliance and the town was the recent decision to construct anew Lowe’s on U.S. 15-501 by Interstate-40. Members of the Alliance said infor mation of the project was obscured due to private traffic studies and a failure of the town government to properly pro vide tax information before die master land-use plan was approved. Bill Strom of the Alliance said a less favorable traffic study was overshad owed by the private developers’ study. “The fact that information on Lowe’s did not come to the surface shows the system is stressed,” Strom said. Lowe’s property straddles the city limits. It is not subject to Chapel Hill property tax, Ware said. Council member Lee Pavao said the council intended to annex the property before the end of the year. Pavao said the information confu sions and favorable relation of the devel opers to the town was the result of ordi nances. “Any council member is legally bound to approve anything that com plies with the ordinance,” he said. “(The Alliance) should work to change the development ordinance.” Chapel. Rodney Wynkoop will be conduct ing. Anyone who has ordered a yearbook prior to the 1997 edition, should pick it up in the Yackety Yack office in Suite 106 of the Student Union by Oct. 1. After that date the staff will resell the book. 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