2 Thursday, April 9,1998 Residents complain about representation BY NICOLE WHITE STAFF WRITER Several residents outside the Carrboro city limits but within the Board of Aldermen’s planning jurisdic tion said they did not feel represented by the board during a joint meeting of the Aldermen, Chapel Hill Town Council and Orange County Board of Commissioners on Wednesday. “I think this is why we threw tea into Boston Harbor; it’s why we have Whiskey Rebellions,” said David Lang, a county resident. “Because people have presumed to tell people like us what to do when they are not our elected officials." The joint board held the meeting to State seeks more time for redistricting schedule THE ASSOCIATED PRESS RALEIGH The state filed a ri' 4 CONFERENCE * Friday, April 10 • danvSpm H^*^s<^o,^n£^’s,ea< * n 9 s P o,. \ knowledge of the microbrew industry! 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The purpose of the hah is to study items, such as den sity designations, planning classifica tions or other matters, town documents state. Some residents said they would sup port moratoria in the area to allow offi cials the time they needed to create ordi request Wednesday seeking more time to develop a congressional redistricting Call your mom. Tell everyone you’re calling your girl. 1-800-COLLECT I nances and make wiser decisions. “It’s one of the few motions tonight that seems to make sense,” said county resident Steven Deer. Other residents said, however, that they resented the hold moratoria placed on their land. In a moratorium, land cannot be rezoned or developed. This makes property difficult to sell, said county resident Neil Alderman. “These folks are elderly, and their retirement plans are in their land there,” he said. “If it’s stuck in a moratorium, what can they do?” County resident Curtis Morgan said he did not think the Aldermen would like it if he were in control of their retire ment fund. schedule and waited to see if the U.S. Supreme Court would allow the May 5 primaries to proceed. Senate Democrats, meanwhile, tried to turn attention back to the reason for the special legislative session devel oping a plan to extend health care to the children of the working poor. Attorney General Mike Easley asked the panel of three federal judges that declared the 12th Congressional District unconstitutional last week to give law makers five days after they issue their full opinion to present a redistricting schedule. The judges had wanted it by Wednesday. “For the legislature to have to draw a plan without benefit of the court’s rea soning forces lawmakers to play pin the tail on the donkey,” Easley said. “At this point, we do not even know if the 12th District needs to be completely redrawn or merely tweaked.” There was not response from the three-judge panel late Wednesday. Nor had the U.S. Supreme Court acted on the state’s request for an emergency order to allow the May 5 primaries to proceed on schedule. ■ok. j s s< • >9Bl George Watts Hill Alumni Center To celebrate your upcoming graduation, the UNC General Alumni Association Is hosting a cookout In honor of the class of 1998. Enjoy live entertainment by the soulful sourid of Doug Clark and the Hot Nuts. This Invitation will admit you to the reunion and register you J| for great door prizes. Bring a fellow senior and join In the fun! ( fT. | GE N ER A L ALU MN I ASSOCI AT 10 N ■~ j! )NIV E' R "S'l T Y N R-;T H R i. I \■ . NEWS “I need my retirement fund,” Morgan said. “But I can’t sell land for what I want to.” Many of the residents who spoke during the public hearing appealed to the Orange County Commissioners, officials for which residents in the joint planning area can vote, to represent them in these matters. “I think it’s our conviction that we will not be seriously heard by the people in Carrboro,” Lang said. After hearing residents’ comments on file issue, officials voted to refer the mat ter to the joint-planning board. The Aldermen, who were present at the meeting, did not respond to criticisms that they did not represent residents in the joint-planning area. DEVELOPMENT FROM RAGE 1 can be approved, Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos said. “We could not enter into that kind of agreement with a property owner under current law in North Carolina,” Karpinos said. “We would need addi tional legislative authority.” Council members discussed the prospect of submitting the necessary legislation at a breakfast with their leg islative delegation Feb. 27. Capowski said the council approved sending legislation to Raleigh that would give the town authority to enter into development agreements with developers. The General Assembly con venes its “short session” May 11, and Capowski said he expected to receive a derision by the end of the summer. Carrboro also contains a piece of the Horace Williams Tract within its boundaries. The Board requested that the town staff produce a report on the possibility of the town adopting a devel opment agreement at their Tuesday meeting, said Alderman Alan Spalt. He said the aldermen disagreed about submiting their own legislation. “There certainly is no consensus to move forward at this point.” Vitamin C’s benefits diminish THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Vitamin C’s theo rized ability to protect against cancer and heart disease appears to diminish at high doses, and the vitamin might even become harmful, a researcher says. A study indicates that at 500 mil ligrams a day, “it’s really no particular help at all’’ at discouraging oxidation, a damaging chemical reaction linked in theory to those two diseases, said Joseph Lunec of Leicester University in England. The study found evidence that at 500 milligrams, Vitamin C both suppresses and promotes oxidation, with the effects apparently canceling themselves out, Lunec said. At even higher doses, Lunec suggest ed, the harmful effects might prevail. That is, Vitamin C might actually pro mote oxidation. Experts were wary of Lunec’s brief report, which appears in the April 9 issue of the journal Nature. The dose tested in the study is a bit more than eight times the standard rec ommended dietary allowance, but it can be found in some supplements sold at stores. At about 500 milligrams a day, “although we see a profound protective effect, we also see a definite adverse effect” that “would negate any protec tive effect you have,” Lunec said on Wednesday. He and colleagues gave 30 healthy SILENCE FROM PAGE 1 me that there still are lesbian, gay, bisex ual and transgender people living in silence and fear,” Davies said. Maia Kaplan, a sophomore from Greensboro, said most of the people she handed out explanations to were sup- PARKING FROM PAGE 1 comes with extra costs. Some faculty members said new bus schedules and parking allotments might cause them to be late for work, or force them to leave work early. Scroggs said flexible work schedules and transit were “issues that work close ly together.” He said it might be possible to break up some of the traditional work times. Another problem discussed at the meeting was the high number of suc cessful appeals on parking tickets. Cheryl Stout, a member of the task force, said UNC had one of the highest successful appeal rates in the nation, which takes money away from the University. Scroggs said he was happy with the afternoon meeting because many facul ty members from the lower end of the pay scale voiced their concerns. “It was a great community meeting, an oppor tunity for people to express themselves.” icAtlti QiihiTiftlfrrKl 1 L S f I Monday. APRIL 13 ft Tuesday. APRIL 14 Sign up at Union Desk jgg ~ All Voice Parts! * Buy any reg. r/76/ISGIj size sub b receive the 2nd re 9' size sub of equal SUBMARINES orlesser asALAos value for SiTb zzr l/2 Price! eombmaNon wM any "f •**. in Oood atlo7 N. Columbia St. location only BaiUj (Jar Hrri volunteers 500 milligrams of vitamin C daily for six weeks. Before and during the vitamin treat ment, researchers looked at two indica tors of oxidation damage in DNA from the volunteers’ white blood cells to assess any change. While the volunteers were taking sup plements, one indicator showed less oxi dation and the other indicator showed more, compared to before the supple mentation began. That raises questions about the vita min’s antioxidant abilities at this dose, the researchers said. But Dr. Steven Zeisel, a UNC nutri tion professor, said the mixed result was puzzling. The study “is not a definitive help in our understanding about whether vita min C is protective or not” at high doses, he said. Bruce N. Ames of the University of California at Berkeley, said he suspected the result might have been influenced by the study’s lab procedures. Dr. Mark Levine of the National Institutes of Health said the volunteers’ white cells may have been saturated with vitamin C before they took supple ments. If so, it’s hard to see how supple ments could make any difference, he said. Lunec said researchers were still studying why the mixed result occurred but that it was not surprising. portive of what the day represented. There were some students and facul ty members, however, who chose not to give full support to the silent protest Kaplan said one teacher she showed the explanation paper to said she could not support participation in the event. Christine Elliott contributed to this story. Campus calendar Thursday 7 p.m. Hdrima, the fiction organiza tion of the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center and the Black Student Movement, will present “An Evening with Octavia Butler” at the Tate Turner Kuralt Building. Items of Interest Sigma Sigma Sigma sorority will sponsor the Centennial Book Drive from Monday to Friday. Drop off books at the sorority house at 307 E. Franklin St. or call 942-9802. The Concert 4 Unity 111 will be April 17 at 7:30 p.m. in Hill Hall. Tickets are $3 in the Pit or at the door. The Sports Chib Council and the Orange County Rape Crisis Center will co-host an inaugural 5K run/walk April 18 at 9:30 a m. on campus. The entry fee will be $lO. Call 962-1013 for more information or to register International Student Orientation Counselor applications are available at the International Center. Call 962-5661 for infor mation. The UNC Ballroom Dance Club will sponsor ballroom dances in die Great Hall of the Student Union from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. on April 26. Admission is $4 for students and $6 for the public. =■ SIOFF \Jr j any size sub / M&Ui with the purchase of stair regular size SUBMARINES fountain . soda b reg. size chips! •UnroHw. bpim.4/)/• Oood at 107 N. Columbia St. location only