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Thursday, N0v.20
■ Some narcotics were tampered
with, and morphine was stolen from the
Student Health Service building, police
reports state.
A nurse went to check the storage
room and discovered the bottle of mor
phine empty, reports state.
According to police reports, the
director of pharmacy told police that
she had notified the N.C. Drug
Commission and also the State Bureau
of Investigation.
Wednesday, N0v.19
■ A Sony microcassette recorder
and a box of microcassette recorder
tapes belonging to an employee at 440
W. Franklin St. was reported stolen
from her desk, police reports state.
■ A cellular phone, battery, adapter
and leather case was stolen from a car
belonging to a medical center employee,
police reports state.
According to reports, the car was
parked at the first level of the Health
Affairs parking deck.
Tuesday, Nov.ll
■ A black 19-inch Serotta Colorado
ATX mountain bike belonging to a stu
dent was reported stolen, police reports
state.
According to reports, the bike was
locked to the bike rack in front of New
East Hall.
■ A vehicle belonging to a
University employee was vandalized
while parked at the fifth level of Craige
parking deck, police reports state.
According to reports, the car’s front
tire was slashed, and the car was
scratched.
City
Thursday, Nov. 20
■ Shannon D. Green, 23, of 1734
Legion Road, Chapel Hill, was arrested
at 1800 E. Franklin St. and taken into
custody at the Chapel Hill Police
Department, where she submitted to
breath tests and scored .10, police
reports state.
Green was held under a S3OO bond
afterbeing charged with one count of
speeding and a misdemeanor count of
DWI, police reports state.
Police reports state she was taken
before the magistrate and released
under bond.
Wednesday, Nov. 19
■ According to police reports, a
Carrboro woman reported the breaking
and entering of her car and the larceny
of several items in her car.
Reports state the incident happened
at 503 W. Franklin St. and several items
were stolen.
A $651 check issued to the victim,
boots and a purse. The victim also
reported damages to her car, police
reports state.
■ David Robert Garrison, 19, of 108
Grady Court, Morehead City, was
arrested and charged with a misde
meanor count of DWI and a misde
meanor count of having an open con
tainer, police reports state.
Reports state that Garrison was
stopped for not wearing a seat belt and
that after alcohol was detected, he was
arrested.
Garrison scored a .06 on breath tests
and was held on an unsecured S3OO
bond, police reports state.
Tuesday, Nov. It
■ Gilverto Lopez Casas, 32, of 2305
Fox Ridge Manor, Raleigh, was arrest
ed for one count of felony larceny at
University Mall, 201 S. Estes Drive,
police reports state.
Reports stated that Casas refused to
be fingerprinted and had no identifica
tion with him, except for an old citation.
Casas was held on a $5,000 secured
bond, reports state.
■ A narcotics investigation by offi
cers led to the arrest of two men, police
reports state.
Reports state that Robert Allen
Poole, 44, of 101 Evans Court,
Carrboro, was arrested and charged
with a felonious count of possession of
crack cocaine.
Poole was held on a SI,OOO unse
cured bond, and police seized two
dosage units of crack cocaine from him,
police reports state.
Police reports state that Poole was
arrested after he purchased two rocks of
crack cocaine from Bobby Lee Davis in
the dirt lot at the intersection of
Rosemary Street and Sunset Drive.
Investigators with the narcotics unit
observed the transaction and made the
arrests, reports state.
■ Bobby Lee Davis, 23, was arrested
and charged with a felonious count of
selling and delivering crack cocaine,
misdemeanor count of possession of
marijuana and a misdemeanor count of
resisting, delaying and obstructing,
police reports state.
Reports state that Davis attempted to
flee from police and strike the arresting
officers.
He was held on a $4,000 secured
bond, police reports state.
Board discusses landfill options
■ County commissioners
spoke on the difficulties
surrounding the landfill.
BY CHRIS ANDREW
STAFF WRITER
After months of tedious planning for
possible waste management scenarios,
the Orange County Board of
Commissioners faces a key issue of
whether it will take on the responsibility
of managing the landfill or pass it on to
someone else, said Orange County
Commissioner Moses Carey Jr. at a pub
lic meeting Thursday.
“We’ve got to decide who will be
responsible for moving it forward, so we
Biker pedals
for cleaner
environment
■ Robb Hirsch is traveling
the East Coast to promote
environmental awareness.
BY MARY-KATHRYN CRAFT
FEATURES EDITOR
He keeps riding and riding and rid
ing.
Forrest Gump might have run across
the country because he wanted to, but
Robb Hirsch has been riding his bike
throughout the eastern United States to
promote environmental awareness.
“I left on Labor Day,” he said as he
began to chart his journey. “I started in
Long Island, N.Y., and went up to
Maine,” said this medium-sized man
with an athletic build, wearing a beat-up
New York Yankees baseball cap.
“I covered New England, the Great
Lakes, the Mississippi River, the Gulf
Coast, and now I am hitting the
Atlantic States,” he said during his brief
stop in Chapel Hill on Wednesday.
Hirsch, 27, completed his master’s
degree in environmental studies last
May. He studied in New Zealand on a
Fulbright Scholarship and has worked
with the U.S. State Department and the
National Oceanic Administration.
After learning about the condition of
the world’s environment, he decided to
take action to fight for these issues.
“I am circumventing the eastern U.S.
by bike to raise interest in the global cli
mate issues,” he said. “I am visiting uni
versities and communities along the
way to encourage people to take a
demonstrative stance to reduce fossil
fuel consumption.”
Tuesday he talked to students at
UNC-Charlotte. He then ventured to
Chapel Hill where he worked with the
Student Environmental Action
Coalition and spoke to students at Jane
Goodall’s speech at Memorial Hall.
Hirsch is getting signatures aon a
petition requesting stricter government
standards on fossil fuel emission.
“People at UNC have been very
receptive," Hirsch said about students
who attended Goodall’s speech. “Jane
Goodall herself signed it. She is such an
inspiration.”
Early yesterday morning Hirsch
hopped on his bike, laden with his daily
necessities and took off for Duke
University.
“That is only 11 or so miles away,”
Hirsch said with relief.
So far he has traveled more than
5,000 miles and will not stop until
reaching his grandparents’ home on
Long Island, N.Y., for Thanksgiving.
Hirsch plans to take his petition to a
demonstration in Washington, D.C., on
Monday. Students from all over the
United States will take similar petitions
to the Senate and State Department.
The goal is to persuade government offi
cials to take strict environmental
requirements to a global conference in
Kyoto, Japan, on Dec. 1.
"Right now the U.S. offers the lowest
bid (for fossil fuel regulations) offered
by a developed nation,” Hirsch said.
While fighting for a cleaner environ
ment, Hirsch has learned all about the
country during his journey.
Although he often stays with stu
dents he meets along the way and some
times sets up for the night at camp
grounds, he has also been forced to get
creative with sleeping arrangements.
“I've slept in baseball dugouts,”
Hirsch remembered. “I stayed next to a
haystack in Arkansas one night. There
was the press box at the track-and-field
stadium at Florida State.
"The best night was under this gaze
bo on the Gulf Coast in Florida. The
stan were out, and the waves were
breaking. I took a morning swim in the
ocean.”
He said meeting people at a grass
roots level was the best part of his trek.
“It really keeps me pedaling, meeting
students,” he said with a smile while
stroking his five o’clock shadow. “I now
feel more responsibility to carry on their
goodwill.”
UNIVERSITY & CITY
can take the next step,” Carey said. “I
happen to think it should be us.”
The county’s original plan to expand
the old landfill was foiled Oct. 9, when
Duke University revealed it had given
the land to NASA as a tract for a
research easement.
The much debated Interlocal
Agreement was also a topic of discus
sion Thursday night.
Carey said the board should use the
agreement or give it to Chapel Hill and
let the town act on it.
After discussing six basic scenarios
for the way to handle the problem of
solid waste, Carey said he was ready to
move on and make a decision.
“All these conditions and stuff
that’s a waste of time,” Carey said.
One issue on which the board mem
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Sadie Hardin sits in Santa Claus' lap Thursday at the Christmas party Kappa Delta sorority and
Kappa Sigma fraternity held for the children in the Oxford Orphanage.
Harassment complaints concern
administrators, Davis employees
BY SEAN ROWE
STAFF WRITER
A female student’s report of two inci
dents of harassment by a stranger at
Davis Library ignited concerns about
student safety from University Sexual
Harassment Officer Judith Scott.
The female student, who asked not to
be named, said she stayed out of Davis
Library for two weeks after a man
dressed like a construction worker fol
lowed and leered at her on Oct. 23 and
Oct. 27. She said she didn’t think report
ing the incidents to the circulation desk
made a difference.
“They all thought it was the biggest
joke,” she said. “They said, ’Let’s just
treat this as a training exercise.’”
Deadline approaching
for storage-site decision
BY EMILY CRAMER
STAFF WRITER
Along with peaches and boiled
peanuts, South Carolina might soon be
sending radioactive wastes across the
state line.
Facing a December deadline, North
Carolina must decide on a location for a
new dumpsite.
It is North Carolina’s turn to store the
southeastern states’ low level radioactive
waste, which consists of everything but
activated nuclear rods. This requirement
follows the demands of the Southeast
Compact Commission.
“The compact has put a Dec. 1 dead
line to come up with a financing plan
that will solve the (problem) that faces
the licensing work plan,” said Andy
James, director of Governmental and
External Relations for the N.C. Low-
Level Waste Management Authority.
“We are trying to prove that the chosen
site is suitable.”
However, some maintain that the
most recent proposed storage site is not
the safest.
The proposed site, located south of
Raleigh, adjacent to the Sharon Harris
Nuclear Power Plant, might not be the
safest place for the waste, said N.C. Sen.
“We’ve got to decide who will
be responsible for moving (the
landfill) forward, so we can
take the next step. 1 happen
to think it should be us.”
MOSES CAREY JR.
Orange County Commissioner
bers are basing their decision is the
plan’s cost. Hauling and tipping fees
could be greater if the board decides to
lead the plan, Orange County
Commissioner Margaret Brown said.
Average hauling and tipping fees
range from $31.80 to $52.75, said
Orange County Commissioner John
“/ think the more informed
my office is about
incidents like these, the
better we can interact
with people. ”
judith scon
Sexual harassment officer
She told Scott a man wearing a heavy,
red plaid coat and dingy blue jeans sat
outside her carrel and stared at her for
several minutes while she studied on the
fifth floor. The second time, the same
man followed her while she was reading
at a study desk on the seventh floor.
Eleanor Kinnaird, D-Orange.
“There is a great deal of doubt as to
whether that is an appropriate site
because the radioactive waste could run
into the area’s water supply,” she said.
She also expressed concern about the
transportation of the waste on North
Carolina’s roadways and explained that
the expenditures for relocation would be
costly.
“Trucking radioactive waste on our
highways or roads could be unsafe,” she
said. “It is time to stop throwing away
money and find another site.”
The compact, which includes
Virginia, North Carolina, Mississippi,
Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Florida
and formerly South Carolina, was cre
ated to decrease the number of states
contributing wastes to a single site,
James said. “The compact circumvents
the commerce clause of the constitu
tion, so waste from other states can be
excluded.”
Funding for the project, which has
already cost more than SIOO million dol
lars, might now be generated by the pri
mary producers of the radioactive
waste, said Mary McDowell, research
coordinator for Chatham Preferred Site
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“If you think about it in the long run,
the cost of recycling and this plan, it
could backfire,” Brown said.
The economic problem that the cur
rent plan outlines was another contro
versial topic the board members dis
cussed.
Orange County Commissioner Alice
Gordon said there was a problem with
the board trying to eliminate waste and
bring in enough waste to meet the fixed
costs.
“There’s a serious problem,” Gordon
said.
Economic issues also arose when a
few board members began to discuss
requiring the taxpayers to pay for recy
cling, Gordon said.
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“I was scared because if he had
grabbed my legs or something there
would have been no one there to help
me,” the student said.
Scott said she could not speak about
the case because that would break her
confidentiality with the student.
University officials also dismissed
two construction workers from campus
this semester because of disorderly con
duct with two female students, said
Susan Kitchen, vice chancellor for
Student Affairs.
Kitchen said one of the students told
her the worker used profane language.
The second student said the construc
tion worker was purposefully taking too
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T.J. Daneker, 6, from Richmond, Va., shoots baskets after the UNC-
Richmond game Wednesday. Daneker hopes to attend UNC in the future.
Friday, November 21,1997
UNC among
first to test
new program
■ Anew program to curb
hinge drinking will target
dilents through media.
BY KERRY OSSI
STAFF WRITER
Continuing a stream of programs
tackling alcohol abuse on campus,
University administrators announced
plans Thursday for a three-year media
campaign aimed at changing students’
attitudes toward binge drinking.
Chancellor Michael Hooker said
UNC and Cornell University would be
the first schools to test this program,
which targets students through a blitz of
print, radio and television advertising.
If the campaign proves successful, it
could serve as a national model for
reducing binge drinking at the universi
ty level, Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Susan Kitchen said.
Hooker said the incidents of binge
drinking at the
University were
below national
average, which a
1996 national sur
vey reported as 37
percent.
“I don’t think
we have a party
school reputation
that some other
schools have,” he
said.
But several
recent alcohol
related incidents
have drawn atten
tion to student
drinking at the
University.
Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs
SUSAN KITCHEN
said the new
program could
serve as a national
model.
A student who had been drinking fell
from Winston Residence Hall earlier
this semester. And in May 1996, impli
cations of alcohol abuse surrounded the
death of five students in a Phi Gamma
Delta fraternity house fire.
Since then, University administrators
have stepped up efforts to curb binge
drinking and change any party-school
image UNC might have gained.
The University and Tar Heel Sports
Marketing began the “Don’t Get
Wasted” campaign this fall to promote
responsible drinking at sporting events
among people of legal age.
Hooker said the campaign led to a
decline in binge drinking, evident by
fewer numbers of alcohol-related refer
rals to counseling and fewer reports of
inebriated students on campus.
Hooker said the University needed to
change the campus culture that made
binge drinking socially acceptable and
persuade students of its dangers.
“This project has the potential to do
just that win students over," he said.
“If this is something students resist, it
will be to no avail."
Kitchen said a consultant would start
developing the media campaign next
spring using data on the University’s
binge-drinking incidents as well as input
and ideas from students.
“We’ve always recognized this will
only work with student involvement.”
Bill Warren, the student representa
tive at Thursday’s press conference and
a member of Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity,
said student involvement would make
the project more effective.
“Parents, administrators they can
all tell us not to drink,” he said. “But
when students hear a message they have
a part in writing or creating, it makes it
a little bit more powerful.”
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