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Council seeks
new authority
from state
■ One law calls for live-in
managers to be placed in
fraternities and sororities.
BY STEVE MRAZ
SENIOR WRITER
The Chapel Hill Town Council is
making a list aad checking it twice.
Tuesday night the council discussed
a request list of potential laws over
which the N.C. General Assembly
could give them authority. However, no
official request will be submitted until
early March.
Asa town, Chapel Hill must have all
of its laws created at the state legislative
level.
One of the written requests calls for
restricting happy hours and other spe
cial discounts and promotions by busi
nesses selling alcoholic beverages, while
another requires full-time resident man
agers in fraternity and sorority houses.
“Most of those are controversial,”
said council member Pat Evans. “Most
will not be considered because of the
short session (of the General Assembly)
this year.”
UNC senior Kelly Giles, a member
of the Kappa Alpha Order Fraternity,
said he knew sororities had house moth
ers but did not know of fraternities that
had or wanted a live-in manager.
“We have enough pressure from
(Ron) Binder (Director of Greek
Affairs) doing all his stuff,” he said. “A
house mother or father would create
added pressure we don’t need.”
Giles said besides a mixer or two dur
ing the semester people usually just
hung out at the house and didn’t need
continual supervision.
“It’d be like being at home all over
again,” he said. “You’ve waited 18 years
to get out of that situation, and you
come here and have it all over again.”
However, Evans said there were
probable benefits from live-in managers
at fraternities.
"It’s an idea that someone assumes a
sense of responsibility,” she said.
Questions also surround possible reg
ulations at local businesses that sell
alcoholic beverages.
Lauren Kellner, a manager at T.S.
Elliott’s Groundhog Tavern on Franklin
Street, said restricting happy hour was
not a problem but said she was con
cerned with restrictions on special dis
counts and promotions.
“That’s a bit much,” she said. “Why
would they want to do that?”
Happy hours have been outlawed in
North Carolina since legislation was
passed in 1985.
Another of the five potential requests
calls for placing restrictions on the
University from acquiring privately held
land and buildings.
When the University acquires such
holdings, the properties are no longer
See LEGISLATION, Page 11
U p al l night
■ Students pulling the late
shift at Granville Towers
often witness crazy events.
BY MELANIE FLOYD
STAFF WRITER
Minutes tick by and the world
seems asleep until a group of boister
ous students bust through the doors
keeping the attendant at one of the
Granville Towers desks from falling
asleep.
It may seem crazy to have to report
to work at 4 a.m., but a few students
who work the front desk find it is the
best time to work.
“Typically nothing happens,” said
Michelle Matthews, who works the
Granville Towers East desk late
Thursday nights.
“At 4 to 8 a.m., usually I just sit
Students make way for substance-free halls
BY CHRISTINE ELLIOTT
STAFF WRITER
A recommendation by the
Chancellor’s Task Force on substance
abuse and student demand for sub
stance-free living have led University
officials to make three residence halls
“substance free.”
The Department of University
Housing sent letters this week to stu
dents living in Manly, Old West and
Winston residence halls explaining the
details of the progam, said Wayne
Women play historic role in ’9B SBP race
BY KAITLIN GURNEY
STAFF WRITER
In a century of women at UNC, the
last bastion that has remained elusive to
female leadership has been the student
body presidency.
The very year the University cele
brates the 100th anniversary of women
on campus, the unprecedented has
occurred in student government: three
women filed for
the office of stu
dent body presi
dent Wednesday.
Juniors Lacey
Hawthorne,
Anne Neville and
Reyna Walters
Elections 98
are all running for the office that has
been previously filled by only one
woman, Patricia Wallace in 1985.
Two male candidates, juniors Charlie
Roederer and Danny Siegle, are also
running for student body president.
Die three female candidates acknowl
edged the novelty of three women in the
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there and do my homework. It’s a time
when I can get a lot of work done
because it’s quiet,” Matthews
explained.
Although quiet is the status quo,
every now and then the desk atten
dants encounter unusual and some
what off-the-wall incidents.
“I remember one time this guy wan
dered in and didn’t think that I should
be working the desk alone. He said he
would give me S2OO if I would leave
and never come back,” said Matthews,
a sophomore from Wilmington.
“Then he changed his mind and
said I had to do something else to get
it," Matthews recalled.
“He filled out the check and gave it
to me, but I gave it back to him. He
probably found that check the next day
and didn’t know what it was. He was
pretty drunk.”
Claudia McClinton, a senior from
Charlotte, has seen a lot of interesting
Thursday, January 29,1998
Volume 105, Issue 142
Kuncl, director of
University hous
ing.
As part of an
effort to decrease
on-campus sub
stance abuse,
University hous
ing will open 328
new substance
free spaces. That
triples the number
now available.
“People seem
Mousing Director
WAYNE KUNCL s
office wrote students.
campaign but said they were convinced
the change was a positive one.
“I think it’s incredible that three
women are running,” Neville said.
“Sure, it’s unprecedented, but it reflects
change at the University. This is a great
piece of history.”
Walters said she was surprised when
she heard three women were running
because a woman had not run for the
office since she’s been at UNC.
“I’ve had a lot of people tell me it’s
about time to have a woman in office,”
she said. “With three women running,
we’re making up for the past this year.”
Hawthorne, on the other hand, said
this year’s situation just had to happen.
“With women making up 60 percent
of the student body population, it was
inevitable that we would end up in this
situation,” she said. “I think it’s great it
happened this year.”
The elections leading up to this year
haven’t always been so friendly to female
candidates.
Although women were indeed admit
ted to the University in 1898, they were
happenings during the time she has
worked the late shifts for all three of
the Granville Towers’ desks.
“I’ve seen people get sick. I’ve seen
people basically about to pass out. I’ve
seen a whole lot of drunk people,”
McClinton said.
But sometimes more happens late
at night than the occasional drunk
stumbler. McClinton has witnessed
theft as well as humiliating Greek rush
activities.
“I was working one night, and I
See NIGHTLIFE, Page 11
To pass the time while working the
graveyard shift at the Granville
Towers West desk, Claudia
McClinton seeks help with her home
work from Brian Gaster early
Wednesday morning.
PHOTO BY DANA GARDNER
I don’t like strident women.
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to be happy with the (substance-free)
program and supportive of its goals,”
said Jenna McPhee, the area director for
Ehringhaus Residence Hall. Ehringhaus
is home to all 165 of the current sub
stance-free spaces.
The original substance-free program,
Ehringhaus’ Living Well Program, was
created six years ago at the request of
students, said Wayne Thompson, assis
tant director for special programs for
University housing.
The Living Well Program requires
participation in several activities during
“I think its incredible that
three women are running.
Sure, it’s unprecedented, but
it reflects change at the
University.”
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Student body president candidate
only admitted as junior transfers or pro
fessional students. After the University
admitted the first class of female under
classmen in 1965, women began enter
ing in large numbers.
Women began to take leadership
roles in many campus organizations,
and in 1985 Wallace was elected the first
female student body president.
Wallace, now a professor of English
at the University of Miami, said she
remembered little gender discrimination
during her administration.
She said she remembered women
being helping to lead many campus
OWASA contends with heavy rains
BY ANGELA LEA
STAFF WRITER
While the recent deluge of rain has
some N.C. counties flooded, the Orange
Water and Sewer Authority is flooded
with potential problems and extra work.
OWASA spokesman Vic Simpson
said the Jones Ferry Road Water
Treatment Plant in Carrboro received
2.42 inches of
rain between
Monday and
Wednesday.
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said the average amount of rainfall for
the month of January at Raleigh-
Durham International airport was 3.48
inches. Therefore, the 2.42-inch total is
more than 10 times the amount expect
ed in a two-day span.
The excessive rain caused three
sewage spills on Tuesday, Simpson said.
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the semester. However, Ehringhaus’ 1-
year-old Substance-Free Floor is a result
of students requesting substance-free liv
ing without required activities.
Thompson believes the expansion
will allow interested students more
opportunity, and, “because of the loca
tions, students will want to choose this
option.”
The other main reason for expanding
the program is the Chancellor’s
Substance Abuse Task Force recom
mended substance-free residence halls in
its 1997 report, Thompson said.
organizations but that the student body
presidency was “the one quirk.”
“The women I knew were very inter
ested in doing a job and fighting for a
cause. The office of the student body
president was less well-defined and more
of a politico position,” Wallace said.
“It reflects well on the women of
North Carolina that they have wanted to
do something meaningful rather than
see their picture in the newspaper every
day."
Since Wallace’s presidency, women
have run for the office, but none have
won. The last female candidate was
Stacey Brandenberg, who was defeated
by Calvin Cunningham in 1994.
This year’s female candidates all held
positions in Student Body President Mo
Nathan’s cabinet before resigning to run
for office. Neville was student body sec
retary, Hawthorne was an executive
assistant and Walters was the Human
Relations Committee co-chairwoman.
Nathan said the trio had added a lot
of ideas, energy and enthusiasm to his
administration.
A 150-gallon spill occurred at the
Countryside sewage station on
Kenmore Drive. Infiltration of the sewer
system by storm water also caused a
2,400 gallon overflow from a manhole
on Lakeshore Drive and a 9,150 gallon
leak from a manhole in the Markham
Drive/Daley Road area, Simpson said.
Markham Drive resident Alan Dillon
said he experienced some of the effects
of the overflow. “It smelled kind of
funny in the house,” he said. “(The over
flow) wasn’t really unexpected, but I
don’t know if (OWASA) did enough
advance work.”
Katie Kalb, general manager of oper
ations at OWASA, said the agency took
precautions before the rain started. “We
don’t just inspect and repair before
major rains. It’s a continuous process.”
Simpson said OWASA had been
watchfhl of potential flooding and over
flows in the past few days. “There were
crews out literally all night on Tuesday,
watching the manholes and trying to get
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According to the letter the University
housing sent out, expansion will benefit
students who have problems with room
mates because of drugs or alcohol, who
are recovering from drug problems or
who dislike cigarette smoke.
Students now living in Old West,
Manly or Winston have the option to
join the program or leave. David
Kemodle, a sophomore in Old West,
said he’s fine with staying but he expect
ed others to be less receptive.
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unsure of the impact three women run-
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the water out,” he said.
Simpson said storm water could
cause serious problems even after it
reached the plant. Extra water coming
in to be treated can overload the system
and cause the waste to be handled less
effectively, he said.
But Kalb said while the problems
OWASA had faced were serious, they
had been handled well and had not yet
required the assistance of Orange
County Emergency Services.
Nick Waters, director of emergency
services for Orange County, said his
organization would become involved
only if flooding impeded traffic or if
evacuation became necessary.
Simpson said he was not sure how
much more rain would have to fall
before emergency assistance intervened.
Dillon said despite the problems the
sewage overflow near his house caused,
he was taking the weather in stride “I’m
just drinking bottled water and waiting
for things to get better.”
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