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Students to vote on Union renovation cost
■ A fee increase would
help add 40,000 square feet
to the Student Union.
BYNAHALTOOSI
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Students will have the opportunity to
decide for themselves whether to pay for
the Student Union’s planned renovation.
After almost two hours of debate,
Student Congress passed a resolution
Wednesday to place a referendum on the
Feb. 10 student elections ballot for a stu
dent fee increase of up to $29.09 starting
in the year 2000.
In addition to the $2 Student Union
debt service fee students pay now, a
passed referendum will call for an
Hands join in spirit
of unity, reflection
■ Dean Smith and* Michael
Hooker backed affirmative
action at the campus rally.
BY MARISSA DOWNS
STAFF WRITER
The voice of Martin Luther King Jr.
filled Polk Place on Wednesday as stu
dents and faculty members joined hands
in commemoration of the civil rights
leader.
Wednesday’s presentation started
with a small circle of linked hands that
silently grew in size as students and fac
ulty joined and concluded with a
recording of King’s “I Have a Dream"
speech.
The University’s “Show of Hands”
was one of many presentations this
week to celebrate King’s legacy —a
legacy that many believe lives on.
“You came here not to celebrate
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Students of all races join hands in a
symbol of unity for the "Show of
Hands' ceremony Wednesday on
Polk Place.
Council hears
Board’s idea
on parking
■ The town’s planning
board came up with four
amendments on parking.
BY JEFFREY WONG
STAFF WRITER
Proposed changes to downtown
parking provisions might help provide
additional parking in Chapel Hill in the
near future.
In its Tuesday night meeting, the
Chapel Hill Town Council heard rec
ommendations for changes to the
Chapel Hill Development Ordinance
and Town Code regarding downtown
parking.
The Chapel Hill Planning Board, in
a memorandum prior to the meeting,
proposed four amendments to the cur
rent options which developers could fol
low to comply with off-street parking
space requirements.
The board’s director, Roger Walden,
said the proposed changes were drafted
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increase of $8 per
semester in the
1999-2000 school
year.
Up to $21.09
more will be
added for the next
school year. The
final fee will be
payable for 20
years.
The money will
help construct
40,000 square feet
more space in the
Union and will
finance a copy
center, a 24-hour
Student Body
Treasurer
MARC MCCOLLUM
said the fee
increase figures
presented were
concrete.
computer lab and
other services in the Union.
The resolution passed by a vote of 21-
something or
someone who
died before
you were born,
but to cele
brate a living
spirit,” said
Reginald
Hildebrand,
chairman of
the advisory
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board for the Sonja H. Stone Black
Cultural Center.
“Martin Luther King is not dead. I
see you, and I see him.”
Affirmative action was one topic
addressed by various speakers through
out Wednesday’s program
Several speakers discouraged people
from misusing King’s message of judg
ing people by “content of character”
and not by “color of skin,” as a case
against affirmative action.
“(King’s message) was a dream for
the future, not a statement of the pre
sent,” Chancellor Michael Hooker said.
Hooker also said King’s dream could
be achieved by enhancing discussions.
Former men’s basketball coach Dean
Smith, who also spoke Wednesday, is a
long-time supporter of racial integration
and civil rights in the South.
Smith, who brought the first African-
American basketball player to the
University in 1967, said basketball pro
vided a “common denominator” for
students of different races to unite.
He encouraged others, especially
those in the racial majority, to find sim
ilar common interests with others
despite differences in ethnicity.
“The majority have to take the initia
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Sarah Myers, a senior from Raleigh, tries her luck at a bean-bag toss set
up in the Pit during a sports membership drive Wednesday.
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3 after three attempts to amend it, one of
which passed and cleared up some
wording.
Rep. Marayo Orija, Dist. 11, who
helped introduce the resolution said stu
dents should pay for the renovations to
retain control over the Union.
Outside funding could give privileges
to those not in the student body and
leave less space for students to meet, she
said.
“If we want to serve the student body,
this can’t happen,” she said.
An ever growing number of student
groups necessitates better facilities, she
said.
Amy Lawler, president of the
Carolina Union, agreed.
“It’s a matter of taking a stand as a
student,” she said. “This is our Union.
It’s our house.”
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Professor Reginald Hildebrand speaks with a student after the ‘Show of Hands' ceremony for unity Wednesday. The
painting of Martin Luther King Jr. was created by Sabrina Tillman, a senior art major.
five,” Smith said. “It’ll be 30 years in
April since (King’s) death, and his work
still isn’t done."
Russell Hendrix, a senior and Martin
Luther King Jr. Celebration Committee
Life is too short to stuff a mushroom.
Shirley Conran
“It s a matter of taking a
stand as a student
This is our Union.
It's our house.”
ANY LAMER
Carolina Union President
Rep. Jim Seney, Dist. 2, introduced
an amendment Wednesday night that
would start the fee increase at “up to
$21.09 in 1999-2000.”
Students who vote for the referendum
would be passing off the major part of
the fee increase to another class, unless
the original resolution was amended, he
said.
“It’s a very popular way to get this to
representative, also encouraged mem
bers of the audience to recommit them
selves to King’s dream by challenging
their own actions.
“What is your vision?” Hendrix
Counselors help students
face abortion dilemmas
BY MATT DEES
STAFF WRITER
An unexpected pregnancy can turn a
college student’s life into one of confu
sion and turmoil.
According to statistics compiled by
the Alan Guttmacher Institute, women
aged 20-24 obtained 33 percent of all
abortions in 1997,
and teenagers had
22 percent of
them, making col
lege-aged women
recipients of near
ly half the abor
tions performed
last year.
Today, 25 years
after Roe vs.
Wade legalized
Wade
25th
Anniversary
abortion, many organizations exist that
make it their mission to help women
cope with this dilemma by outlining all
their options, including abortion.
“Most women are under an incredi
ble amount of pressure when they find
out they’re prepant without wanting to
be,” said Ingrid Byker, client services
coordinator for Pregnancy Support
Services in Chapel Hill.
pass,” Seney said.
But Student Body Treasurer Marc
McCollum said the figures and time esti
mates were recommended by the
University’s Office of Business and
Finance.
"The numbers that we brought before
you were brought for concrete reasons,”
McCollum said.
An amendment to Seney’s amend
ment failed before the resolution passed.
In other action, Congress approved
the selection of junior Rebecca
Hockfield as student body secretary and
approved the allocation of funds to sev
eral organizations, including the
National Lawyers Guild. The guild
plans to host an affirmative action forum
on Feb. 2.
Congress also approved the creation
of a Freshman Focus Council.
asked.
“Who do you associate with? Who
do you hang out with? Who do you talk
to? Are you making Dr. King’s dream
come true?”
“Most women are under an
incredible amount of pressure
when they find out
they’re pregnant without
wanting to be.”
INGRID BYKER
Pregnancy Support Services coordinator
“We want them to have as much
information as possible and have some
one there to listen to them.”
Byker said almost all of her clients
had a certain amount of fear about their
pregnancy and needed guidance to help
make the difficult decisions involved in
this situation.
The most difficult decision is whether
or not they choose to keep the child.
“We explain how abortions are done
and the physical and emotional risks
involved,” Byker said.
“We obviously respect people’s
choice and would never stand in the way
of their decision, we just want them to
be aware of all their options.”
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Fans ready
with tents for
Duke tickets
■ Despite the CAA’s rules,
students plan to line up
before 5 p.m. to camp out.
BY MONICA DEV
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The UNC men’s basketball team is
only three weeks away from a shot at
beating its arch rival Duke University,
and student sports fans would kill each
other to get a ticket.
“The last thing you want to do is hurt
people, but then there are the tickets,”
Greg Blomberg, a junior from Alameda,
Calif., said.
Because it could be the biggest home
game of the year, many students are
expecting chaos at Friday’s ticket distri
bution.
The Carolina Athletic Association is
setting up a camp-out for the Feb. 5
home Duke game and distributing num
bers at 6 p.m. in front of the Smith
Center.
Organizers do not want students to
line up for the distribution until 6 p.m.,
but many students plan to drag their
tents, sleeping bags and radios out to the
parking lot by the Smith Center as early
as Thursday night.
“Even though there’s not supposed to
be a line (before distribution), there will
be a line anyway,” Ryan Buckholtz, a
freshman from Columbia, Md., said.
The CAA plans to patrol the area
before University Police arrives at 6
p.m., asking students who are lined up
early to leave. “We can’t make (them)
leave, but we will ask (them) to,” CAA
Executive Assistant Brian Elliot said.
Some students do not expect the
CAA’s crowd control to be very effective
in light of past problems with basketball
ticket distribution.
During ticket distribution this fall,
many students had been lined up across
the street before distribution began, but
they rushed the tables, dodged a U-bus,
and crushed a table when it was
announced that numbers were ready.
“There’ll be a mob there, the police
will be controlling it, not the CAA,”
Buckholtz said.
University Police plans to have 4 or 5
police officers and security guards to
assist with the distribution, Events
Services Manager Laßron Reid said.
“We’re not expecting the same vol
ume of people as the Florida State
game,” he said, referring to the Nov. 8
UNC-FSU football game.
In addition to University security,
Elliott said CAA would hire a few secu
rity guards from off-campus to assist in
crowd control.
CAA co-presidents Charlie Roederer
and Jason Reynolds could not be
reached for comment.
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No. 2 North Carolina defeated N.C.
State 74-60 behind Antawn Jamison's
36-point performance. Page 11
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New thespian on the block
Senior Barry
Wyner's play
premieres
tonight care of
theater group
Company Carolina. Wyner wrote the
music and the script in Israel. Page 5
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Most local travel agencies have
already booked all open spots on
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