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WsdMiday, Jan. 2S
■ A Physical Plant employee report
ed that his car was scratched while
parked in the Physical Plant parking lot,
police reports state. A key made the
scratch, which was approximately 6
inches long, on the side of the victim’s
vehicle just above the gas tank, reports
state. Damage is estimated to be SSO,
and the incident has been ruled as van
dalism, reports state.
■ A Granville Towers resident was
threatened and intimidated by a fellow
resident, reports state. The suspect
threatened the victim not to tell anyone
about the incident after she refused his
advances on several occasions, reports
state. The victim stated that she feared
for her safety and was advised to file a
report with the Chapel Hill Police
Department, reports state.
■ Calls for assistance were made by
a housekeeper when a computer began
smoking at the School of Law library,
reports state. Officers responded to the
calls by unplugging the computer and
waiting until the fire department arrived
on the scene, reports state. No other
damage was done.
■ A UNC student’s wallet was stolen
while he was playing in an intramural
game at Woollen Gym, police reports
state. According to the report, the vic
tim placed his belongings on the floor
while he played. On returning from his
game, he discovered his wallet, which
contained his credit cards, bank cards,
UNC ONE card, driver’s license and
parking card, was missing, reports state.
Tuesday, Jan. 27
■ Officers responded to an EMS
Assist when a UNC student passed out
in Room 205 of Alumni Hall, police
reports state. According to reports, the
subject was lying on the floor but still
alert when the officer arrived. The sub
ject had a small bump on her forehead
and was transported to Student Health
Service by Orange County Rescue,
reports state.
■ Two people got stuck in an eleva
tor in McColl Building when a door
restrictor cable broke and would not let
the doors open, police reports state.
According to reports, the elevator kept
going from the first floor to the fourth
floor and back again. Elevator person
nel responded to the scene and freed the
victims from the elevator, reports state.
City
Thursday, Jan. 29
■ An 18-year-old female student was
forcibly robbed Wednesday night near
the Hardee’s of Chapel Hill Inc.’s park
ing lot on West Franklin Street.
The victim, who was walking alone
at 7 p.m., was grabbed from behind and
thrown to the ground, according to
police reports.
No weapons were used in the inci
dent. The suspect was described as a
stocky black male, 5 feet 7 inches tall,
wearing a dark blue toboggan, a dark
jacket and pants, police said.
The victim’s keys, wallet, UNC ONE
Card and a credit card were taken.
Wednesday, Jan. 28
■ Incidents of larceny and posses
sion of stolen goods were jointly report
ed by Chapel Hill Sportswear Inc.,
located at 133 E. Franklin St., and The
Shrunken Head, located at 155 E.
Franklin St.
According to reports, stolen items
included one UNC T-shirt valued at
$10; one Tar Heels key ring valued at
$11; one UNC rugby shirt valued at
$33; one Tar Heels wallet valued at $7
and two Tar Heels lapel pins valued at
$2. All stolen items were recovered,
reports state.
Carolyn Green Okine, 46, of 908 B.
Drew St. in Durham was arrested and
charged with two misdemeanor counts
of larceny and a misdemeanor count of
possession of stolen goods in connec
tion with the incidents of larceny and
possession of stolen goods.
According to reports, Okine was
arrested at Eringhaus Residence Hall
and later confined in Orange County
Jail. Okine was issued a secured bond of
SSOO and a trial date of Feb. 9 in Orange
County District Court in Chapel Hill,
reports said.
Tussday, Jan. 27
■ Christopher Octavius Gordon, 28,
of 100 W. Rosemary St. was arrested
and charged with a misdemeanor count
of larceny, a misdemeanor count of
resisting, delaying and obstructing jus
tice and a count of assault on an officer.
According to reports, employees at
Barree Station, located at 149 E.
Franklin St., saw Gordon in the store
with a white plastic bag and believed he
had taken sweaters. When Gordon was
approached by employees, Gordon fled
from the scene, reports state. Officers
apprehended Gordon on Church Street,
and a struggle ensued in which Gordon
attempted to bite one of the officers,
reports state. According to police
reports, two sweaters were found in the
plastic bag.
SBP candidates address issues,
ask for support at DiPhi forum
BY LAURA STOEHR
STAFF WRITER
Candidates for the student body pres
idency pitched their platforms Thursday
night at a forum sponsored by the
Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies.
Parking was an issue that was heavily
discussed. Candidates all said students
deserved more
access to park
ing spaces.
Lacey
Hawthorne, a
junior from
Clinton,
Elections 08
Miss., said it was unfair that 75 percent
of professors’ parking needs were met,
while a smaller percentage of students
had their needs met.
Anne Neville, a junior from Berlin,
Conn., said students forget they have
rights. “Too many times we forget this
University is here for us,” she said. “If
we can’t get to this campus, we won’t be
Budget requests by 80 student groups exceeds money available
BY KELLI BOUTIN
STAFF WRITER
The Finance Committee of Student
Congress will review requests of the
largest number of student groups ever to
ask for funding.
Eighty-eight groups requested a total
of $434,750.74 in funding, but the actu
al amount of fees available is $196,320.
“We are going to end up cutting over
half of the requests," Student Body
Treasurer Marc McCollum said.
This year, the committee plans to use
a group’s spending records as the key
indicator for how much funding to allo
cate for the following year. “I think the
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Richard Joel, international director of Hillel, the foundation for Jewish Campus Life, speaks
Thursday afternoon about ways to improve outreach to Jewish people on campus at N.C. Hillel.
Jewish leaders tell N.C. Hillel
growth has several meanings
■ N.C. Hillel kicked off its
campaign to build anew facility on
its Cameron Avenue site.
BYNAHALTOOSI
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The Jewish community should focus on building
its love of Judaism, two prominent Jewish leaders
said Thursday at N.C. Hillel’s announcement of its
“Capital Campaign.”
Edgar Bronfman, president of the World Jewish
Congress, and Richard Joel, president and interna
tional director of Hillel, the foundation for Jewish
campus life visited N.C. Hillel to discuss Jewish stu
dent life and kick off the campaign to build anew
facility on the existing N.C. Hillel building site.
Jewish student leaders joined Bronfman and Joel
in addressing issues about growth in the Jewish
community.
Sarah Manekin, a senior from Baltimore, Md.
spoke of behalf of the N.C. Hillel foundation.
Manekin said UNC’s Jewish students were
active in unique ways that often did not deal with
religion and that many didn’t identify religion as a
personal adjective.
“There’s tremendous involvement in social jus
tice issues on the part of Jewish students,” she said.
“There’s less of an emphasis on secular Jewish
involvement.
“I think that those students who are Jewish but
not religious don’t necessarily feel that this is the
place for them.”
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here.”
But increasing available parking
spaces should only come after students
have retained access to current parking,
said Reyna Walters, a junior from
Greensboro.
“The concrete thing we can do is fight
for the parking we have now,” she said.
Charlie Roederer, a junior from
Pinehurst, said the N.C. state legislature
did not think parking decks were a pri
ority. He said better busing and park
and-ride systems would help solve the
problem.
Matt Nash, who spoke on behalf of
Danny Siegle, a junior from Winston-
Salem, said Siegle endorsed free busing,
which would reduce reliance on cars
and improve the environment.
Improving the advising system also
sparked discussion.
Hawthorne said advising was her
number-one priority, one that had been
neglected by the University for 20 years.
She said full-time advisers were nec
best indicator of
how much money
a group will spend
is how much
money it spent the
year before, but we
understand the
need for flexibili
ty,” McCollum
said.
Finance
Committee
Chairman Amar
Athwal said the
committee
planned to be
“very hard” on
Student body
treasurer
MARC MCCOLLUM
said Student Congress
would cut half of
groups' requests.
“The goal of Hillel isn’t to
get people into Hillel. It’s to
get Jewish into
people. ”
RICHARD JOEL
President and International Director of Hillel
The campaign is titled “Building a Brighter
Jewish Future,” and both speakers challenged the
audience on defining the term “building.”
Bronfman and Joel said learning about Judaism
was vital, and that the religion should be an inher
ent part of Jewish students’ actions.
“The goal of Hillel isn’t to get people into
Hillel,” Joel said. “It’s to get Jewish into people.”
He said a center such as N.C. Hillel’s current
location should be a “nerve center, ” but that the
Jewish community should not rejoice about its size
as much as it rejoices about Judaism.
“One size doesn’t fit all, and membership has
connotations of either you’re in or out,” Joel said.
Bronfman agreed.
“The important thing in my life is to get every
Jew to know their Judaism,” Bronfman said.
“We’ve got to start putting some joy back into
Judaism or we’re doomed.”
The dialogue involved student representatives
from Elon College and N.C. State University as
well as a number of area Hillel coordinators.
N.C. Hillel has been located at UNC for almost
50 years. It is located at 210 W. Cameron Ave.
essary as well as an increased cumber of
advisers.
But she said plans to improve advis
ing could not be implemented without
funding. “If we don’t have the resources
for academic advising, nothing can be
changed.”
Roederer said full-time advisers were
unnecessary but that the faculty stipend
for advising should be increased as an
incentive to serve as an adviser.
Neville said having an older student
as a mentor would ease the college tran
sition for incoming freshmen.
Candidates also discussed student
government’s role and said students
often do not understand what student
government can do for them.
Walters said she would hold office
hours in the student government office
and in Lenoir Dining Hall next year to
improve student interaction with student
government.
Neville said opening the doors to the
student body was an essential task.
groups that had received large amounts
of money in previous years but had not
spent a substantial portion of it.
This weekend, groups that requested
funding will go before the committee.
Each group is allocated a 20-minute
time slot. Group members have five
minutes to speak about the organization
and its request.
Committee members ask questions,
propose amendments to the request,
vote on the individual amendments and
also vote on the group’s total financial
package, McCollum said.
Student Congress will meet the week
end of Feb. 20 to approve the budget
package.
Affordable housing sought
by local development group
■ Members of a development
group asked ToVEfi Council for an
expedited review of their project.
BY HUGH PRESSLEY
STAFF WRITER
The Cottage Development Group of Chapel
Hill says it wants to make housing more affordable,
but one obstacle stands in its way the Chapel
Hill Town Council.
The group made a request to the Town Council
Jan. 20 for an “expedited review” of its major pro
posals. These included a group of 29 detached, sin
gle-family homes called The Cottages, which will
be located on Shady Lawn Road in Chapel Hill
“There’s a need for (affordable housing), and the
community has shown their interest in it,” said
Larry Short, the group’s managing partner.
The group, comprised of local business people
interested in providing entry-level homes for single
families, hopes to market the homes in the
SIOO,OOO price range, Short said.
“We need to show (future) developers that they
can come in and develop a project in that price
range,” he said.
But some Town Council members say they’re
not sure if the project will benefit Chapel Hill.
“It depends on what you define as affordable,”
Council member Julie Andre sen said. “If we
decide we really need the project, then we could
make a zoning change.”
Council member Flicka Bateman said despite
the need for affordable housing in Chapel Hill, she
felt too many groups were requesting expedited
developmental reviews.
“I certainly support (the group’s) goals,” she
Elections Board handles violations
1 day into start of campaign season
BY PAUL HOBSON
STAFF WRITER
Student election campaigns began Wednesday
night, but reports of minor violations are already
trickling into the Elections Board office.
Board Chairman Joe Kledis said Thursday he
had received several phone calls reporting cam
paign violations but that no fines had been issued.
“We’re going by the
books on that,” he said.
The violations involved
the misplacement of
posters in academic build
ings.
Paul Cole, building
coordinator for the Department of Music, said
some candidates had “slapped their posters over
some others.”
Cole said posters were placed on walls when
they should have been placed on designated bul
letin boards. Cole said he doubted candidates were
aware of the policy but that signs had been posted
to inform them of correct posting procedures.
Associate Dean of Students and judicial pro
grams officer Margaret Barrett said if walls were
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Anne Neville, student body president candidate, speaks during a forum
sponsored by the Dialectic and Philanthropic Societies on Thursday night.
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how much money a group
will spend is how much money
(the group) spent the year
before ...”
MARC MCCOLLUM
Student body treasurer
Athwal said he hoped to avoid repeat
ing past problems by educating groups
about parliamentary procedure and eli
gibility guidelines before this weekend’s
meetings.
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“The goal this weekend is to amend
the budget in the most satisfactory way
for the groups,” Athwal said.
Campus organization leaders have
their own expectations about this week
end’s budget meetings.
Black Student Movement President
India Williams said, “We hope that the
Finance Committee will find that the
BSM deserves the money it’s request
ing.” The BSM requested $34,125 from
the committee, the largest amount
requested by any campus group.
“I believe the committee will be fair
and impartial,” said Common Sense
Chairman Scott Rubush, whose group
requested $17,128 in funds.
“There’s a need for
(affordable housing), and the
community has shown their
interest in it. ”
LARRY SHORT
Cottage Development Group of Chapel Hill
said. “But I am concerned that we grant too many
expedited reviews I don’t want what’s the (nor
mal developmental review) to become expedited
reviews.”
If the Town Council does not approve the
group’s request for an expedited review, Chapel
Hill may not have these homes until the turn of the
century. “We can either get (the houses) on line this
year, or we’ll have to wait until 2000,” Short said.
But for builders interested in setting up shop in
Chapel Hill, the lengthy review process can be a
hassle, he said. “I think everyone who builds in
Chapel Hill would like to see (the review process)
hurry along,” he said. “The length of time affects
the cost of the product.”
However, Short said that he thought the town
generally made good suggestions and changes
through their normal developmental review
process.
But builders aren’t the only people annoyed by
Chapel Hill’s lengthy special-use permit process.
Some council members also would like to speed up
the current review process. “I’d rather expedite (all
the applications),” Andresen said. “Chapel Hill is
always getting slammed because of the length of
our zoning process.”
The council has yet to decide whether to
approve the proposals of the group, Andresen said.
damaged as a result of incorrect posting, fines
would be subtracted from candidates’ spending
funds.
University Administrative Manager Betsy
Faulkner said materials unrelated to the School of
Education could not be posted in Peabody Hall,
but several candidates violated the policy.
“Again, this year, they were posted,” she said.
Cyndy Falgout, director of communications for
the Kenan-Flagler Business School, said candidates
had not placed posters in designated areas.
“We’re in this new $44 million building, and
we’re trying to keep the (McColl Building) looking
good,” Falgout said.
Individual candidates who misplaced posters
have been contacted and told to post them only on
bulletin boards, she said.
Barrett said the issue came up every year and
could be tricky because buildings had different
rules regulating the posting of campaign materials.
Barrett said she called Kledis because she was con
cerned that candidates might place posters on
freshly painted walls.
“I’m really hoping candidates will be sensitive to
the fact that people work hard to make their build
ings look good."
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