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University
Wedntsday, Aug. 27
■ Police reports state that Bernard
Stroud, 43, and James Howell, 38, were
involved in a collision on Bell Tower
Drive.
According to reports, Stroud hit
Howell’s car on Bell Tower Drive on
Tuesday morning.
Stroud said he did not want to wait
for the police, so he gave Howell his girl
friend’s name and phone number and
the tag number of the vehicle, reports
state.
Stroud left the scene and later told
police that Howell told him his insur
ance company would handle the acci
dent, reports state.
According to reports, Stroud was
charged with a misdemeanor for driving
with a revoked license.
■ Someone stole S9O from the
Department of Rheumatology at UNC
Hospitals sometime Tuesday night,
reports state.
According to reports, the money,
four S2O bills and one $lO bill, was
taken from the reception area of the
department.
Reports state that the key to the
money drawer was left in an unlocked
drawer in the adjacent room and that
the key was left in the lock by whomev
er took the cash.
The reception area has large open
ings above the counter by which entry
to the cash drawer could be gained,
reports state.
The outer door to the department
was locked, and police have no suspects
in the case.
■ According to reports, someone
kicked and broke the southeast entry
door to Morrison Residence Hall late
Tuesday night or early Wednesday
morning.
Police reports state that an impres
sion of a footprint was left on the entry
door.
The police have no suspects at this
time.
■ At 3:26 p.m. Wednesday, Phillip
Garland Rhew Sr. lost his welding trail
er at the intersection of Manning Drive
and Ridge Road, according to reports.
Police reports state that Rhew of
4306 Etta Road in Durham had his
welding trailer break loose from his
pickup.
According to reports, the trailer
rolled approximately 550 feet, crossing
the center lane and rolling into west
bound traffic on Manning Drive.
The trailer hit the Ehringhaus drive
way and rolled 33 feet into the woods,
reports state.
The hitch pin, which held the trailer
behind the truck apparently worked
loose, police reports state. Police said
the trailer was not licensed.
City
Wednuday, Aug. 27
■ Police are investigating a theft at
Ashley Forest Apartments.
According to reports, the complex’s
$4,000 cement sign was reported stolen
at 9 a.m.
The complex is owned by Tycon
Properties.
■ The vandalism of a car at 102
Fraternity Court was reported to police
at 5:08 p.m.
The owner of the 1995 green
Chevrolet Suburban called police when
he found a dent that had been kicked
into his car’s door, according to reports.
The damage was estimated at SSOO.
Tuesday, Aug. 26
■ One act of trespassing and one of
vandalism at East Chapel Hill High
School is still being investigated by
police.
According to reports, Chapel Hill
police officers were first called to the
school, located at 500 Weaver Dairy
Road, at 12:58 p.m., when school offi
cials noticed someone trespassing on
school grounds.
They returned to the school at 2:58
p.m. when spray paint was found on the
roadway, reports state.
No arrests have been made in con
nection with the incidents.
Monday, Aug. 25
■ Michael Shane Lanier, 27, of 220
Highway 54 West, was arrested and
charged with one misdemeanor count
of possession of drug paraphernalia,
reports state.
According to reports, he was also
charged with one felony charge of pos
session of drugs with the intent to sell
and deliver.
According to reports, police stopped
Lanier at Airport Road and Timber
Hollow for a broken windshield in his
1985 blue Chevrolet Blazer.
According to reports, the officer con
ducted a plain view search and discov
ered a pipe.
Reports state that after further
searching the vehicle and Lanier, 3
grams of marijuana were found.
Lanier was released on SSOO unse
cured bond.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Officials: fire safety
measures not needed
■ The provision serves no
practical purpose to UNC
schools, administrators say.
BY WHITNEY MOORE
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Efforts by the N.C. General
Assembly to help colleges pay for sprin
kler systems probably won’t help much,
UNC-system administrators said
Thursday.
The state budget, which passed on
Wednesday, included a provision to ban
water systems from charging more than
marginal costs for services in residence
halls, fraternity and sorority houses.
Officials said the measure, while a nice
safeguard, posed
little practical ben
efit.
“(Orange Water
and Sewer
Authority) already
did that,” said
Ron Binder,
UNC-CH’s direc
tor of Greek
Affairs. “This did
n’t really affect
us.”
But N.C. Sen.
Howard Lee, D-
Orange, said the
measure included
in the budget orig
inated because of
Director of Greek
Affairs
RON BINDER
said OWASA already
took steps to solve
the issue of fire safety
service costs.
efforts by OWASA to overcharge UNC
CH residencies using sprinkler systems.
“They had been charging an amount
that was pretty exorbitant,” he said.
“(Former President C.D. Spangler)
wanted this measure included to keep
the rates at a reasonable amount. This
was basically a control factor,” he said.
Vic Simpson, communications direc
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Junior Diana Wall leads a step-combo aerobics class in Fetzer Gymnasium on Thursday afternoon. This is Wall’s
first year teaching the class.
Officials look at merging
4 separate honor courts
■ Some leaders are concerned that
students in one school could not
judge students in others fairly.
BYNAHALTOOSI
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The four honor courts that serve graduate and
professional students might soon become one.
A plan to consolidate the four honor courts that
serve the School of Medicine, the School of
Dentistry, the School of Law and the rest of the
graduate and professional schools is in early dis
cussion stages.
Graduate and Professional Student Federation
President Katherine Kraft brought up the possibil
ity.
“It’s definitely something worth considering,”
she said.
“It’s worth having conversations about.”
Under the current system, all four graduate and
professional honor courts and the Undergraduate
Honor Court are under the jurisdiction of the
Instrument of Student Judicial Governance.
However, the graduate courts can determine their
own court structures.
Kraft said she had the idea came when she chose
the attorney general of the law school’s honor
court, Jason Walser, as a nominee for attorney gen
eral for this year's Graduate Honor Court, which
covers all but the medical, dental and law school.
“There are ways that it could be made to work,
and, if so, I think it could be a very positive
process,” Walser said.
UNIVERSITY & CITY
tor for OWASA, said the recommenda
tion to cut fees had already been made.
“That recommendation came direct
ly from our rate study that we’ve been
working on for the past year,” he said.
Simpson indicated that the proposal
should be approved in late September
and take effect Jan. 1.
At N.C. State University, although
the local water service provider has not
passed such a measure, officials said no
problems seemed imminent.
“In Raleigh, there’s no indication
that the city has considered any addi
tional charges,” said Tim Luckadoo,
director of university housing and
Greek life.
“But the passage of this keeps every
body honest."
Luckadoo said he felt the measure
might be a preamble to possible future
legislation requiring sprinklers in all res
idence halls. Lee said he saw no
attempts to do that this session but that
he didn’t know about the future.
“We haven’t talked about that specif
ically,” he said. “But I think it would be
a good idea.”
Wayne Kuncl, director of university
housing at UNC-CH, said system
schools were already preparing for that
possibility.
“All 16 campuses have submitted lists
(of funds needed to install sprinklers),”
he said.
Although- the measures are consid
ered unnecessary at some schools, the
inclusion of the matter brings the idea of
fire safety back into the open, officials
said.
“This hasn’t affected whether or not
our houses install sprinklers,” Binder
said, pointing out the 2001 deadline that
the Chapel Hill Town Council set for
installing fire safety measures in frater
nity and sorority houses. “But this has
certainly helped us out by helping con
trol fees.”
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“But at the same time there could be ways that
would do more harm than good.”
One of the concerns is whether students in one
program could accurately judge those in another.
The Instrument separated the medical, law and
dental school because of the concern that the envi
ronments were so different, said Margaret Barrett,
judicial programs officer.
“The cons would be that the individual schools
would lose some of their autonomy,” Barrett said.
The system was set up to promote judging by
true peers, she said.
Kraft said if the courts were consolidated, the
system might be more efficient.
“It also has the potential for providing an oppor
tunity for open communication across schools,”
Kraft said.
Having one court might also increase the diver
sity of those students serving on it, Barrett said.
“The central issue is whether there are the com
mon interests among graduate and professional
students that outweigh the individual interests of
the schools,” she said.
Karen Stohr, a former attorney general of the
Graduate Honor Court who still serves on the
court, said she saw no reason to object to a consol
idation.
“The reason for the distinction between the
groups isn't very clear,” she said.
“(Consolidation) would disperse some of the
disciplinary power of the schools, but I’m not so
sure that’s such a bad thing.”
Stohr said the Graduate Honor Court, which
handles several graduate programs and profession
al schools as well, had never had problems with
adequate peer judgment.
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Alice Welsh (right) walks on the Bolin Creek Greenway she helped found with friends Elaine Andrews (middle) and
Julia Nelson. Welsh was honored Thursday at a dedication of the first phase of the greenway.
Trail dedicated to Greenway founder
BY STEVE MRAZ
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill officials paid tribute to
the woman responsible for the town’s
greenway system by dedicating Phase I
of the Bohn Creek Greenway to her
Thursday.
Alice Welsh, a member of the Chapel
Hill Board of Aldermen from 1970 to
1975, had the .6-mile trail that runs
along Bolin Creek from Airport Road to
Elizabeth Street named in her honor. In
the early 19705, Welsh was a key leader
in the Greenway’s early planning and
land acquisition. “We are here today
because Alice was the person with the
vision of greenways and open spaces in
Chapel Hill,” Mayor Rosemary Waldorf
said.
Welsh, along with other members of
LOG members unable to finalize
list of recommendations to towns
BY ROB NELSON
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The Landfill Owners Group foiled at its meeting
Thursday night to approve a list of recommenda
tions to make to the local governments regarding
the proposed landfill.
LOG members spent considerable time debating
how the document, when voted on in its entirety,
would be legally enforced and in what manner it
would be presented.
Chapel Hill Town Council member Joyce Brown
said she was very concerned about the LOG’S list of
recommendations being included in the Interlocal
agreement, which would transfer management of
the new landfill to the Orange County
Commissioners. “None of us are lawyers," she
said. “None of us are in a position to draw up a
legally binding document. I don’t want to give the
wrong impression here."
Carrboro Alderman Jacquelyn Gist said the
LOG was in a position to make sure the residents’
concerns were dealt with properly. “My under
standing is that the Interlocal agreement will not be
signed by Carrboro until the problems of the group
are addressed," she said. “That is where our power
is.”
Still, residents said they were reluctant to spend
more time working on their recommendations if
they were not sure what the next step would be.
“We are still trying to find out what guarantee we
have,” said Bonnie Norwood, a landfill area resi
dent. "What happens if this report is voted down?”
Council member and LOG chairman Richard
Franck said the issue was a matter of trust. “You
have the word of the elected officials who have put
all of this together,” he said. “Whether the
Interlocal agreement passes it is up to the individ
the Open Space Committee, purchased
more than 100 acres in Chapel Hill for
sloo,oooby 1975. “It makes me feel like
‘Mother Earth,’ ” Welsh said. “A green
way system will enhance the town visu
ally and ecologically.”
Approximately 60 people, including
U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., attended
the outdoor ceremony under a canopy
of trees along the Bolin Creek
Greenway.
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Joyce Brown said, “As more and more
of the world gets bulldozed over and
paved over, it is essential to preserve
areas like this.”
The paved trail, open to bikers, jog
gers and leashed dogs from dawn until
dusk, cost $480,000 to construct. It was
completed in the late summer of 1994.
Phase II of the Bolin Creek
National TV program
to feature University
STAFF REPORT
A University graduate will kick off
the pilot of anew national TV show at
UNC, and students have a free invita
tion to participate.
The show, “College Rough Cuts,”
will feature video stories about college
life shot by students from schools
around the country.
The film crew followed a student
from the University of California at Los
Angeles who sold sperm to earn money
and students at California State
University at Northridge who tried to
tackle shopping by themselves.
UNC students will view these seg
ments and then interact with host Ken
Ober.
Program executive producer Stuart
Crowner, a 1969 graduate with an bach
elors degree in communications, sug
gested Chapel Hill as the host site
because it is one of the few remaining
true college towns, he said.
Crowner has produced several TV
specials and series, including Larry
Friday, August 29,1997
Greenway system will extend from
where Phase I ends on Elizabeth Street
to the Chapel Hill Community Center.
Construction on the trail has already
begun, and it could be open by fall.
“Once Phase II is completed, people
will be able to get from the east part of
town to the west part of town without
traffic and without having to deal with
hills,” said Bill Webster, interim director
of the Chapel Hill Department of Parks
and Recreation.
Phase II will cost approximately
$600,000 and be dedicated in honor of
the late Lightning Brown, the first chair
man of the Greenway Task Force.
Welsh said she was very honored to
establish something so close to the resi
dents of Chapel Hill. “(Greenways) are
an important visual relief from the
development.”
King’s first TV series, “The People’s
Choice Awards” and “Entertainment
Tonight,” which earned three of his five
Emmy nominations.
But he first worked at WUNC-TV as
an undergraduate to gain experience.
“I got to actually work and get paid to
learn my craft,” Crowner said.
The show is comprised of segments
produced by college students.
“We wanted the show to capture a
unique, student’s eye view of college
life,” said Ted Field, the show’s creator
and co-executive producer.
Barry Gribbon, executive in charge of
production, said the producers also
planned to hire UNC students to assist
in the production.
The pilot will be taped Sept. 12 at
Forest Theatre.
Students can reserve free tickets by
calling Vicki at 1-888-876-4545.
Organizers hope as many as 350 stu
dents will begin arriving at the theater at
7 p.m. for the taping, which is expected
to last from 7:30 p.m.to 10 p.m.
“At some point we have to start
making some recommendations and
seeing where these things go. We can’t
stay at this point forever.”
JACQUELYN GIST
Carrboro Alderman
uals on the board at that time.”
The LOG first discussed the 12th recommenda
tion on its list, which suggests Chapel Hill Transit
establish a shared-ride feeder zone along Rogers
and Eubanks roads, an area not included on Chapel
Hill Transit’s bus routes. Under the shared ride sys
tem, residents in the area would call for a car or van
that would take them to a bus stop.
Landfill area resident Cecil Griffin asked about
the possibility of the LOG providing money for
Chapel Hill Transit to adjust its bus routes to
accommodate the area. Franck said that was not
the option he preferred. “It is legally possible for the
LOG to provide the money, but I prefer that the
Chapel Hill Town Council or Carrboro do it."
AJderman Diana McDuffee said the two towns
were not the only ones who should pay. “I think the
University should share in the cost of this, as well,”
she said.
The LOG did not vote on its transportation rec
ommendation and instead amended it for discus
sion at its next meeting on Sept. 11.
Gist said it was important for the LOG members
to realize there was an urgency to finalize the
report. "At some point we have to make some rec
ommendations and see where these things go," she
said. “We can’t stay at this point forever."
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