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Officials investigate allegations against fraternities
BY SCOTT HICKS
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
University officials are investigating
charges leveled by orientation leaders
that at least two fraternities made C
TOPS participants women in partic
ular the target of parties where sever
al women got drunk.
But one member from Alpha Tau
Omega denied the allegations. Ted
Shipley, a junior from Winston-Salem
and an Alpha Tau Omega member, said
Crews remove lights,
call boxes for movie
BY KITRA SHEPPARD
STAFF WRITER
Bringing Hollywood to Chapel Hill
might be lucrative, but it might have
compromised safety for summer school
students.
In addition to changing UNC to
Virginia Medical University, crews from
the movie
“Patch
Adams,” which
stars Oscar
award-winning
Robin
first movie filmed
at UNC ceased
controversy.
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Williams, have also been altering safety
features on Polk Place.
Light posts and call boxes have been
removed from the area, and some of the
bricks in parts of the walkway have been
dug up, all part of the movie crew’s need
to film at night.
But with crews no longer filming at
night, the absence of light has become
much more evident.
University Police Lt. Angela Cannon
said there was no safety threat to stu
dents because of the lighting for the
cameras and the added security on the
set location.
But some students believe the
Changing face of downtown part of business trend
■ Chapel Hill has seen an
influx of large, chain-owned
stores over the years.
BYNORADAUBE
STAFF WRITER
The possibility of the Intimate
Bookshop on Franklin Street closing its
doors this summer has brought anew
focus to the plight of many local busi
nesses.
Many small businesses on Franklin
Street have been forced out over the
years as a result of constantly increasing
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stores. The Intimate's owner, Wallace Kuralt, is looking for support to keep his business open. See story page 2.
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the fraternity held a cookout June 1, not
a party, and they never advertised alco
hol or targeted women participants,
although he admitted they passed out
fliers to C-TOPS attendees. Leaders of
Phi Kappa Sigma, another fraternity ori
entation leaders said advertised a party,
could not be reached for comment.
The orientation leaders daim the fra
ternities intended to intoxicate the C
TOPS students and have sex with them.
“One of the students told me every
body was drinking, and there were a lot
removal of lights and call boxes, even
temporarily, reduces campus safety at
night.
“With all the sexual assaults and
muggings that have occurred (on cam
pus), our students should be ensured
safety,” said Casey Mitchell, a senior
from Belews Creek.
Other students agreed.
“It’s a little unsafe with the lights
being down and no call boxes. It takes
away from your sense of safety,” said
Tamika Denny, a senior from Brooklyn,
N.Y.
“Although I have never had to use the
boxes, I appredate the fact that they’re
there if I need them."
Others say their concerns are geared
more toward acridents that could occur
as a result of carelessness, rather than
from criminal attacks.
“I understand that they’re trying to
make a movie, but there’s a lot of dutter
and contraptions up there,” said Tinika
Lucas, a senior from Springhope.
Crews have also disturbed sidewalks
on campus.
“It was enough to watch out for all
those loose bricks without having to
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rent prices.
Some members of the community
said they believed the declining number
of privately owned businesses on
Franklin Street was simply a sign of the
times.
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Kevin Foy said the increased commer
dalization was an economic issue.
“Locally owned small businesses
haven’t been able to compete with
chains on Franklin Street,” Foy said.
“Asa result, some of the small busi
nesses are unable to pay the rent”
Council member Lee Pavao agreed.
“Rents increase and small businesses
have a hard time making it,” Pavao said.
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of drunk girls there,” said Cori Ahrens,
an orientation leader a senior from
Charlotte.
Shipley reiterated that his fraternity
only wanted to introduce C-TOPS part
ripants to fraternity life. “ATO did not
specifically target women,” he said.
Orientation leaders said they saw fra
ternity members stop women to give
them fliers, and they heard from stu
dents that the fraternities served Purple
Jesus, an especially potent drink of juice,
fruit and Everclear grain alcohol.
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Olga Lidia Portela-Suarez and Jose Luis Morales-Rivero, members of the Cuban acting group Eben-ezer, performed
various skits silently in the Pit last Thursday.
“It’s unfortunate, but that's what has
happened.”
But the situation on Franklin Street is
just a reality of the business world,
council member Pat Evans said.
“It’s the marketplace,” Evans said.
“Oftentimes, it’s more difficult for the
small businesses to survive.”
Despite the changes on Franklin
Street over the years, the owners of the
privately owned Sutton’s Drug Store and
The Rathskeller have positive outlooks
on the number of chain stores now pre
sent.
“We do welcome the chain stores.
Change brings business to the area,”
said Reed Raynor, 12-year manager of
Shipley said Alpha Tau Omega did
not serve alcohol, but several members
were drinking. He said only two C
TOPS participants came to the house
because of their fliers, but 20-25 students
were drawn to the house later because
loud music was being played. He said
several C-TOPS participants came to die
fraternity house carrying beer.
Fraternity members passed out fliers
the day of die parties at the base of the
main Student Union stairs as C-TOPS
participants left an orientation program
QUIET CUBANS
The Rathskeller.
Raynor also said The Rathskeller
encouraged small businesses to move in
when there was a vacancy, but he said
he understood that sometimes the rent
on Franklin Street was a bit too high.
John Woodard has owned Sutton’s
for 21 years, and he remembers when
small local businesses dominated
Franklin Street.
“There were more townspeople that
came downtown when it was more
independendy owned,” he said.
Although the clientele may have
changed over the years, Woodard is not
unhappy with the atmosphere of
Franklin Street.
“Naturally, with the newer business
es moving in, they have more glamour
and glitz, but I’m glad they’re here,”
Woodard said.
Chain stores like The Gap and
Suriucks Coffee have moved to
Franklin Street to fill the vacancies left
by small businesses that have closed in
the past.
Shannon Gibbs, the new manager of
Starbucks, said she felt blessed that the
community let her company come to
Chapel Hill.
“We’re really down to earth as a
company. Starbucks is set up to fit into
the community,” she said.
An obvious difference between the
chains and the small businesses is the
lack of local attention to problems. The
Gap refers all questions about its com
pany to its public relations headquar
ters. Small businesses are able to deal
with the community on a more person
al level.
Despite the changes on Franklin
Street, most community members and
proprietors said they were lucky to have
a thriving downtown.
“The world has become more com
mercialized,” Evans said.
“Why should Chapel Hill be any dif
ferent?”
during what was the first session of the
summer, orientation leaders said. “I saw
them passing out random fliers, and in
the next program, two of my students
asked me where this party was,” said
LaTosha Britt, a senior from Wilson.
“When the two students showed me the
fliers, I knew immediately they were frat
guys trying to get them to come to their
party.”
Britt said she immediately tore up the
students’ fliers, telling them to come to
C-TOPS’s alcohol-free party instead.
Roberts says
he was fired
from position
■ The 21-year veteran
coach later said he resigned
for personal reasons.
BY JACK HARDISON
STAFF WRITER
Former UNC baseball coach Mike
Roberts said in a May interview with
The Daily Tar Heel that he was termi
nated from his post.
In the interview about new head
baseball coach Mike Fox, Roberts
addressed specula
tion surrounding
his departure from
the program.
“Well, I was
terminated,”
Roberts said in the
interview. “I plan
to work at UNC at
this time, but I
don’t know that
that’s definite.”
Athletics
Director Dick
Baddour denied
firing Roberts, say
ing Tuesday that
Roberts resigned
for personal rea
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Coach
MIKE ROBERTS
finished his career
one game shy of the
College World Series
with a loss to Miami.
“I said back in August that this
would be his last season and that he had
resigned for personal reasons,” Baddour
said.
“That is the extent of what I will say
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But the Alpha Tau Omega flyer Shipley
showed The Daily Tar Heel did not
mention alcohol or give directions to the
house from Cobb Residence Hall, which
houses C-TOPS participants.
C-TOPS participants left empty con
tainers of beer in Cobb’s bathrooms,
leaders said. “When I woke up the next
morning there was a case of beer in the
trash can,” Ahrens said.
Though Shipley said his fraternity did
See C-TOPS, Page 4
Nike, coaches
shake hands
on new deals
■ Coach Carl Torhush said
the Nike contracts pointed
to anew trend in athletics.
BY MIKE ISKANDAR
STAFF WRITER
Head basketball coach Bill Guthridge
and head football coach Carl Torbush
cashed in on Nike Corp.’s deal with
UNC last Thursday when University
officials approved
their personal ser
vice contracts.
Nike will pay
Guthridge,
Torbush and three
other bead coach
es for the next five
years in exchange
for conducting
clinics, making
public appear
ances and wearing
Nike apparel.
Guthridge, who
will receive $2.25
million over the
next five years,
said he was hum
bled by the con-
Head basketball coach
BILL GUTHRIDGE
will receive $2.25
million in exchange
for wearing
Nike apparel and
appearing in public.
tract “My initial reaction is that I’m not
worth that much,” he said.
“I know there are a lot of professors
on our campus that do a better job than
I do as a basketball coach.”
Guthridge said he saw the contract as
an opportunity to help the University.
“I, like Dean Smith, am sharing the
money that I get with my staff, the assis
tant coaches and other people in our
basketball program,” he said. “My wife
and I have been longtime supporters of
the University library, which means we
will be able to help the UNC library
more than we have in the past.”
Torbush, who will receive $650,000
See NIKE, Page 4
INSIDE
Popcorn, Cokes and movies
Relieve your summer boredom, escape
from the heat and support a local
filmmaker this weekend by taking in a
comedy starring two UNC graduates
at the Varsity Theater. Page 5
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Riding on the justice bus
The UNC Housekeepers Association
joined in welcoming the New Freedom
Bus to Raleigh Saturday. The bus
visited the area to highlight injustices
in welfare reform and poverty. Page 2
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Different strokes
Former UNC tennis standout Roland
Thornqvist has been named coach of
the UNC women’s tennis team. He
comes to UNC after a two-year stint at
the University of Kansas. Page 7