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Friday, April 24, 1998
County residents participate in nontraditional forum
■ Cedar Grove residents
mingled with the candidates
for hoard of commissioners.
BY NICOLE WHITE
STAFF WRITER
Orange County Commissioner can
didates got relief from formal elections
forums during a down-home meet-the
candidates reception at the Northern
Orange Family Resource Center on
Thursday.
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their mind,” said
Bessie Wiggins,
coordinator for
the center. “The
last time we went
to the polls, this
area had a very
low turnout, and I think it was because
some of them just didn’t know all of the
candidates.”
Candidate Wes Cook said he enjoyed
the relaxed atmosphere but that a more
traditional format would have been
more informative.
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county will find out more about where
you stand on the issues if they ask ques
tions,” he said.
Incumbent Alice Gordon said she
enjoyed the variety that the forum pro
vided.
“For people who aren’t comfortable
talking in a group, it gave them a chance
to just talk to us if they want to," she
said.
Several candidates said the new
approach was appropriate for the area
because it was a return to hometown
politics.
Incumbent Stephen Hallriotis said he
did not become involved in politics
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because of big issues.
“Bathrooms," he said. “I got involved
so the young people of this county
black, white, yellow and red would
have a place to go to the bathroom."
Halkiotis said an effort to install bath
rooms near baseball and softball fields at
a local school inspired him to run for
county commissioner.
Each candidate for county and state
offices was allowed two minutes to state
their qualifications and platform before
adjourning to a reception where local
residents could meet them face-to-face
and ask questions.
Incumbent Bill Crowther said the
Ethnic clashes in Yugoslavia
result in 23 Albanian deaths
THE associated press
PRISTINA, Yugoslavia
Government troops killed as many as 23
ethnic Albanians in a series of clashes in
the embattled Kosovo province, Serb
officials said Thursday.
Officials speaking on condition of
anonymity said soldiers fought an all
night battle with some 200 ethnic
Albanian militants trying to cross into
the Serbian province from neighboring
Albania.
State radio put the toll at 16. There
was no way to resolve the discrepancy
late Thursday night.
Details on the clashes were released
by the Serb Media Center in the provin
cial capital of Pristina shortly after polls
closed in a referendum asking Serbs
whether they want foreigners to mediate
talks on Kosovo’s future. The ethnic
Albanian majority in the province is
seeking independence.
With about 20 percent of Serbia’s 189
voting districts reporting, 97 percent of
the voters opposed outside mediation,
referendum commission secretary
Nebojsa Rodic told reporters at around
midnight Thursday.
Rodic said final results expected
Friday would likely show a similar
result. Ethnic Albanians boycotted the
referendum.
The toll was the biggest since a sweep
by Serbian police in early March left
more than 80 ethnic Albanians dead.
With tensions already high, the deaths
Friday
noon The UNC Curriculum in
Genetics and Molecular Biology will pre
sent a seminar in 321 MacNider Hall titled
“Signaling Pathways Regulating Chemotaxis
and Morphogenesis: Insights from
Dictyostelium,” featuring Richard Firtel of
the University of Califomia-San Diego.
8 p.m. The Presbyterian Campus
Ministry will host a contra dance at the
PCM located off Henderson Street behind
Cafetrio. A $2 donation is requested.
8 p.m. The Duke University Music
Department will present drummer Carl
Allen and the Duke Jazz Ensemble as part of
the 15th Annual N.C. International Jazz
Festival in Baldwin Auditorium on Duke’s
East Campus. Tickets are sl2 for students
Center was an appropriate place for a
forum.
“We’re coming to a place that is at the
heart of the challenge we face as coun
ty commissioners,” he said.
Candidate Barry Jacobs said the cen
ter was a good location to discuss the
issue of representation.
“I think we need to do a better job of
advocating equally for the northern and
southern sides of the county.”
Thome said he enjoyed visiting the
center and the break from the tradition
al format of the other forums.
“This is a good forum to have in the
middle.”
of several more Kosovo Albanians were
bound to further damage relations
between Serbia’s government and the
province.
Despite the unrest, Yugoslav
President Slobodan Milosevic remained
firmly opposed to foreign mediation in
the talks.
“This referendum is for Serbia to
decide about Serbia,” said Milosevic in
an emphatic message after casting his
ballot.
“I believe we can solve all these cur
rent worries of ours.”
Milosevic is seeking public backing
for his defiant policies over Kosovo. The
vote will be valid if more than half of
Serbia’s 7.2 million voters cast ballots.
Officials said initial reports showed
about 75 percent of eligible voters
turned out.
The voting took place against the
troubling backdrop of new violence. An
army statement said troops blocked the
insurgents from crossing into Yugoslavia
at daybreak Thursday.
The Yugoslav Foreign Ministry
lodged a formal protest with the
Albanian Embassy in Belgrade, com
plaining about “systematic armed
provocations.” Albania denies stoking
the Kosovo independence movement.
Ethnic Albanian villagers in Batusa,
in a border area with neighboring
Albania, said they heard artillery fire for
most of the night and saw helicopters
flying overhead.
Campus calendar
and sls for the general public and will be
available at the door.
Items of Interest
The Black Student Movement will spon
sor a basketball tournament Sunday at Fetzer
Gym A. Registration is at 10:30 a.m. The
cost is $lO per team of three and $5 per per
son individually. There will be prizes!
For the record
Wednesday's article, 'Court rules pri
maries must be split,' should have stated
that the primary elections to be held Sept.
15 are for U.S. congressional races.
The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error.
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SEAC hosts
presentation
on rainforests
■ Experts said the
destruction of rainforests
was a complex problem.
BY BETH HATCHER
STAFF WRITER
Contrary to popular belief, logging is
not the only culprit of rainforest
destruction, a graduate student in ecol
ogy said Thursday.
At a presentation sponsored by the
Student Environmental Action
Coalition, Greg Gangi spoke about the
problems of rain
forest destruction
by colonization.
Gangi, who is
chairman of the
local Sierra Club
chapter, lived with
the Witoto people
Earth
Week
in the Amazon Basin of Columbia from
1992 until 1995. “Cultures and environ
ments all over the Amazon are under
pressure (of destruction),” Gangi said.
Jessica Warshaw of SEAC said the
presentation’s purpose was to focus on
the suffering of the rainforest’s inhabi
tants as well as its land. “We want to
zoom out and look at the problem in a
broader sense," Warshaw said.
Gangi said many more issues con
tributed to the destruction of the rain
forest and its inhabitants than most peo
ple realized. He said colonization
caused the majority of rainforest
destruction in the Amazon basin.
Many South American countries
allow citizens to colonize the rainforest,
Gangi said.
He said these people had little knowl
edge of how to live in the rainforest and
employed slash-and-bum farming meth
ods that destroyed the land.
“Over 95 percent of destruction in
the Amazon basin is currently caused
by burning,” Gangi said.
Rick Spencer, a member of Earth
Culture, an environmental group in
Greensboro, also spoke at the presenta
tion. He said that while he agreed most
people oversimplified the problem, he
believed logging was the main factor of
rainforest destruction.
He said the logging industry hit
many rainforests besides the Amazon
basin. He urged people to hit the furni
ture and logging industries in theix
pocketbooks by boycotting their prod
ucts. “We can use our buying power to
affect change,” Spencer said.
He said he refused to believe the
problem was hopeless. “You get a lot of
that hopeless stuff from people in the
industry,” Spencer said.
Gangi said the problem was not
hopeless but offered no easy solutions.
With the destruction of their forest,
the more than 65 cultures of the
Amazon basin were also dying out, said
Gangi.
“As settlements become sparse,
there’s rapid decline in traditions.”