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Union Cabaret welcomes
students to watch game
Students who were at the end of the
line on ticket distribution night still have
the opportunity to have choice seats for
the UNC vs. Duke game tonight.
The Union Cabaret will open its
doors at 8:30 p.m. and show the game
on a big screen.
Only students are allowed inside the
.Cabaret, and seating is on a first come,
first served basis.
Advising expert to hear
concerns from students
Students will have the opportunity to
share their academic advising concerns
Friday with a group that is reviewing
the advising program at UNC.
Wendy Whittmore, an experienced
adviser from the University of
■•Maryland at College Park, will listen to
students' concerns about freshman
advising, General College advising,
advising in the College of Arts and
Sciences and career counseling from 1
p.m. to 3 p.m. in Union 205. She will
have questions for the students who
attend and will take questions.
Refreshments will be served.
Call Barbee Crowley, chairwoman of
the Academic Affairs committee of stu
dent government, for information.
UNITAS housing program
accepting applications
" Applications for the University’s
UNITAS housing program are available
at the Union desk and are due Feb. 18.
UNITAS is a living and learning pro
gram dedicated to promoting multicul
turalism and challenging racial and cul
tural barriers on campus, in the com
munity and in students’ lives.
Participants live on the fifth floor of
Carmichael Residence Hall and attend
weekly text-based discussion seminars.
For more information, call Monica
.Shah at 914-2682.
'Expressions of Love 1 to
fill Cabaret on Monday
The Union Cabaret will host an ama
teur poetry session entitled
“Expressions of Love" at 6 p.m.
Monday.
The program, sponsored by the
Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center,
will give attendees the opportunity to
hear original or published poetry, prose
song or dance and to send expressions
of love from the open microphone.
For more information, call the BCC
at 962-9001.
Local high school to host
special basketball game
Chapel Hill High School Student
Government is sponsoring a Buckeye
Donkey Basketball game. The event will
feature eight students playing basketball
while riding live donkeys.
The game will take place Feb. 23 at 7
p.m. in the CHHS gym. Admission is
$4 in advance and $6 at the door
Tickets may be purchased by calling
929-2106, etx. 4102.
School district accepting
bus drhrer applications
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
School District is accepting applications
r for immediately available bus driver
l positions.
Applicants should be high school
graduates at least 18 years of age with
a clean driving record and should be
willing to submit to random drug test
ing. The pay rate starts at $8.23 per hour
-with a SIOO hiring bonus paid once
' training is completed.
; To receive more information or an
\ application, contact the Chapel Hill
* Canboro City School District’s trans
■ portation department at 942-5045.
: Charity organization to
hold spring clean event
The Ronald McDonald House of
Chapel Hill will hold its sixth annual
Spring Geaning Fling Mar. 22 from 9
a.m. to 12 p.m. All community mem
bers are invited to attend the event, both
to help with cleaning and to learn more
about the services the house offers.
The house is located at 101 Mason
Farm Road. For more information, you
may contact Sheri West at 966-6752.
Local department to host
family billiards event
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks
Department will sponsor a
Parent/Child Billiards Challenge on
March 22. Child participants should be
between the ages of 11 and 16 as of Jan.
1, and each team must pay a fee of SB.
The required pre-registration begins
Feb. 9 at the Recreation Department,
which is located at 301 W. Main St. in
Canboro. For more information, call
968-7703.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Walters gets backing
from NAACP, BSM
■ The two groups made no
endorsement in race for the
co-presidency of CAA.
BY JESSICA GALAZKA
STAFF WRITER
The Black Student Movement and
the student chapter of the NAACP
endorsed Reyna Walters for student
body president after they sponsored a
forum Wednesday night.
The 200 attendees who voted by
secret ballot also backed Jeremy Cohen
and Janora McDuffie for senior class
president and vice president.
The groups made no endorsement in
the race for the Carolina Athletic
Association co-presidency.
Before making the endorsements,
BSM and National Association for the
Advancement of Colored People leaders
asked the student body president candi
dates what they planned to do about
tuition increases affecting out-of-state
students.
“We must give the Out-of-State
Students Association a real, tangible
goal,” candidate Anne Neville said.
“We must be able to convince the leg
islature that having out-of-state students
U of Minnesota reconsiders preference program
BY ADRIENNE BRANCHE
STAFF WRITER
Preferential treatment for minorities
might soon come to an end at all four
campuses of the University of
Minnesota.
The university plans to revise a cur
rent program which allows out-of-state
minority students to pay in-state tuition.
Mark Rotenberg, university general
counsel, said the new program would
shift away from exclusive race factors.
“We are now considering revising the
program to have more flexible criteria to
select students,” he said. “The criteria
will include the economic disadvan-
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Orange Water and Sewer Authority's water tanker truckers help prevent
flooding in low-lying areas. The trucks remove 6,000 gallons at a time.
Weather keeps officials from estimating damage left by fire
■ The building will still
host three different sports
events during the weekend.
BY SARAH BECK
STAFF WRITER
The only fans in Carmichael
Auditorium on Wednesday were those
around the basketball court used to air
out the gymnasium after Tuesday’s early
morning fire.
A monetary estimate of the fire that
damaged three offices and burned a 25-
square-foot section of the roof will take
a while due to the weather, said Ed
Willis, Director of Construction
Administration.
“The rain is hampering our efforts to
here is very important.”
Walters suggested creating a con
sumer guide for out-of-state students to
find their way around the area.
Lacey Hawthorne said the solution to
tuition increases is to implement a
tuition freeze program.
“We come in with a budget; our par
ents come in with a budget,” she said.
The tuition freeze program would allow
students to stick to that budget,
Hawthorne said.
Danny Siegle said a tuition freeze
program would not work because stu
dents would have no motivation to
protest future tuition increases.
Members of the BSM and NAACP
also expressed concern about candi
dates’ experience supporting the Sonja
H. Stone Black Cultural Center.
Hawthorne said she had worked with
the BCC through student government
and that ties between the two groups
needed to be strengthened.
Neville said she wanted to teach stu
dents, faculty and staff members about
the BCC.
“I really wanted to talk to the rest of
the community about this, and that’s
when I got involved in the BCC
Ambassadors.”
Some senior class president candi-
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tionally disadvan
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broad factors like
exceptional lead
ership.”
Mario Prada,
director of inter
national and mul
ticultural pro
grams at the
University of Minnesota at Crookstown,
said the program had been beneficial to
both the campus and the students.
“The University of Minnesota was
interested in recruiting students of
color,” he said. “They used an incentive
send estimators onto the roof to deter
mine the monetary damage,” Willis
said.
The rain is also preventing construc
tion workers from repairing the section
of roof that was damaged by the fire, he
said.
Although students who attend some
physical education classes use
Carmichael to warm-up, no scheduled
classes are located in the gymnasium
this semester.
“The fire didn’t affect classes in Fetzer
or Woollen,” said Frederick Mueller,
Chairman of the Physical Education
Department.
Tuesday morning, fire fighters extin
guished the blaze on the roof, which was
located above the auditorium’s lobby on
the east side of the building.
Before the fire, construction workers
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Senior class office candidates Bill Warren and Carrie Heise speak to Black Student Movement and NAACP members
Wednesday night. After all candidates spoke, members voted who their organizations would endorse.
dates said they had tangible ideas to
bring in money to the BCC fund-raising
efforts.
Cohen and McDuffie proposed get
ting each senior to donate $1 to a free
standing BCC.
The senior class would receive an
accumulated donation of $3,000,
according to their plan.
Other candidates said that a lack of
education of details about a freestanding
center held fund raising back.
to recognize top students who can bene
fit from this program.”
Andrea Liles, a UNC student from
Knoxville, Tenn., said the program,
though beneficial, should consider all
students from out of state.
“It would probably be more effective
if it were open to out-of-state students of
all backgrounds with strong considera
tion given to financial and minority sta
tus, as well as educational merit,” she
said.
Liles said Minnesota is doing a good
job in recognizing the fact that while
some students may be admitted, they
might not be able to afford the tuition.
“The program diversifies the student
Wave of rainy weather
keeps OWASA on alert
■ Officials said last month
was the wettest January on
record since 1890.
BY ANGELA LEA
STAFF WRITER
In the wake of record-setting January
rainfall and continuing February show
ers, the Orange Water and Sewer
Authority is swimming in extra work.
OWASA General Manager Katie
Kalb said crews were working around
the clock on Tuesday and Wednesday to
prevent and control any flooding that
might result from recent heavy rains.
The 8.93 inches of rain received last
month at the Jones Ferry Water
Treatment Plant in Canboro made it the
wettest January since 1890, said
OWASA spokesman Vic Simpson.
A more recent storm spilled 2.13
inches of rain between Monday and
Wednesday, he said.
The excessive rainfall caused two
sewage spills on Tuesday, Simpson said.
He said an estimated 50 gallons
leaked at the Countryside sewage pump
station on Kenmore Drive, and a 325-
gallon spill occuned at a manhole on
Daley Road. Both spills were reported
to the N.C. Division of Water Quality.
While these spills were problematic,
the situation was more favorable than it
could have been, Simpson said.
“Any spill is serious, but it could have
been a whole lot worse,” he said.
“The rain is hampering our
efforts to send estimators onto
the roof to determine the
monetary damage. ”
ED WILLIS
Director of Construction and
Administration
had been working on a welding project
on top of Carmichael’s 60,000 square
foot roof.
Investigators believe a stray spark
from this project was likely the cause of
the blaze.
The fire took 33 firefighters several
hours to completely douse the flames in
the layered roof.
Carrie Heise and Bill Warren said
they planned to create a committee to
help raise money for the freestanding
center.
Neil Bagchi said, “We want to be part
of the effort to educate the campus.”
Bagchi is running for senior class presi
dent with Adam Aberra.
Candidates for Carolina Athletic
Association co-presidents spoke of ways
to increase the attendance at Olympic
sports on campus.
body financially, ethnically and geo
graphically by reaching out to students
that were formerly unreachable,” she
said.
Rotenberg said the University of
Minnesota campuses are not alone in
providing aid to out-of-state minorities.
“Details may differ, but the idea and
incentives to qualify minority students is
common in many higher education sys
tems,” he said.
“The change is part of that effort to
deal with the need to keep the policies
consistent with federal laws. The uni
versity is always involved in continuing
to find ways to diversify the student
body.”
Worse spills did occur last month.
Three leaks Jan. 27 spilled 11,700 gal
lons of storm water in the area. Two of
the three overflows took place at
Countryside station and in the Daley
Road area, respectively.
Simpson said he attributed much of
the improvement to new methods
OWASA is using to control flooding.
A portable pump and two 6,000-gal
lon tanker trucks were used to collect
and transport the overflow, he said. The
water was then dumped at a point in the
sewer system that was not overflowing.
Kalb said flow meters and other tech
nology had been used to try to locate
potential problem areas. She said crews
had been taking measures to prevent
leaks, like sealing manholes and repair
ing other breaks in the sewer line.
“I feel like the crews have worked real
hard, and I’m real proud that they’re
willing to work day and night,” Kalb
said. “(The extra work) really helps.”
But Kalb said luck was an important
factor, as well. She said if the pump sta
tions had lost power, flooding problems
would have been much worse. “We’re
very dependent on electricity,” she said.
Kalb said she thought that consider
ing the tremendous amount of rain the
area had received, OWASA had dealt
with the complications well.
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Joe Capowski had a similar opinion.
“Considering all the miles and miles
of (sewer) lines and all the rain, it’s sur
prising that there aren’t more problems
than there are.”
As of Tuesday, officials have not
determined the exact amount of damage
to the three Carmichael offices, Willis
said.
Fire fighters covered the damaged
section with a tarp Tuesday morning to
keep the rain from damaging the audi
torium's floor.
“No water has leaked through to the
auditorium's floor,” University Police
spokeswoman Lt. Angela Carmon said.
This weekend’s women’s basketball
game against Georgia Tech and
wrestling match against Georgia State
and Virginia Tech in Carmichael will
not change venue, said Beth Miller, asso
ciate athletic director of Non-revenue
Sports.
“We do plan to have them in
Carmichael unless damage from the rain
occurs.”
Thursday, February 5,1998
“The (resident assistants) have had
trouble with social events,” candidate
Jeff Stencel said.
“One idea is to let (students) know
(about Olympic sporting events) is to
have the resident assistants take them to
Olympic sports.”
Hunter McCrossin, a CAA co-presi
dent candidate running with David
Cohn, said, “The CAA should be out
there telling people and letting people
know (about the events).”
May primary
proves costly
to candidates
■ Some candidates who are
unopposed in the primaries
have started raising funds.
BY KERI BOOKER
STAFF WRITER
The filing season has ended for local
candidates seeking state offices, but the
race for funds has just begun.
Monday was the last day to file for
state in North Carolina. Now
Democratic candidates in Orange
County are gearing up their campaigns
for the May primaries.
The Democratic race for the N.C.
House is tight, with three candidates
vying for two
open seats. With
more competi
tion, candidates
need more
money to run
successful cam
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“This campaign will cost me a lot
more money than if I didn’t have any
opposition,” said Rep. Verla Insko, D-
Orange.
Campaign financing is an important
issue for both House primary candi
dates and Senate candidates, Insko said.
But in the N.C. Senate primary,
incumbents
Eleanor Kinnaird
and Howard Lee,
both D-Orange,
have less to worry
about. Without
primary competi
tion, they intend
to focus on the
November general
election.
Democrats
Verla Insko, Joe
Hackney and
Moses Carey will
be vying for only
two N.C. House
seats. Ellie
Kinnaird and
Rep.
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M) range, said her
campaign would be
more costly than if
she did not have to
run in the primaries.
Howard Lee, however, are both unop
posed in the Democratic party for the
N.C. Senate seats.
As the primary season begins, House
candidates are making many efforts to
raise money for the primary campaign.
Senate candidates, on the other hand,
are free of such financial pressure.
In addition, campaigns for the pri
mary election will consume much time
and effort for House candidates, while
Senate candidates Kinnaird and Lee are
delighted to not have to deal with
financing a primary campaign.
But Kinnaird and Lee are wasting no
time planning for their own campaign*
“We started with a kickoff in
December to let people know I was run
ning and to begin raising funds,”
Kinnaird said.
She is now traveling throughout the
district so that her constituents can get
to know her better.
Although Lee says that he has never
stopped campaigning since he was elect
ed in 1 996, he began to put together his
official campaign for this year last
November.
Kinnaird said she thought it was
important to keep the interests of the
public in mind when gathering cam
paign funds.
“I think it’s important that legislators
be beholden to all people, not just the
special interests.”
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