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Neighbors'
Criticisms
'Not True'
The Town Council received
a report Monday that listed
complaints about students
living in the Northside area.
By Mate Leclercq
Assistant City Editor
Students who live in the Northside
Conservation Area said they should not
be targets of complaints by neighbors to
the Chapel Hill Town Council.
The council received a report
Monday from the town’s planning
board and Northside residents blaming
students for noise, traffic, parking and
garbage headaches.
In the traditionally low-income
neighborhood near the border of
Chapel Hill and Carrboro, houses rent
ed by groups of students bump elbows
with single-family dwellings.
“The problem is not people living in
the neighborhood but people in the
street who come up to our house asking
for money, drugs or beer,” said senior
Bryan Grant, who is from London.
“And these are not students. What they
do is pinned on and associated with us.”
Grant, who lives in a McMasters
Street duplex, said he understood resi
dents’ complaints about noise.
However, his neighbor, junior Laura
Wood, said non-students who lived
nearby were louder than students in the
neighborhood. “I bet you could sit on
our deck for 10 minutes and hear
screaming, fireworks or gunshots. Other
people we see walking around at night
are ioud, and they aren’t students.”
Pritchard Avenue resident Estelle
Mabry said students were welcome but
should respect neighbors. She men
tioned an earlier party thrown by stu
dents with an outdoor band. “There was
not only beer bottles everywhere, but
there was a cymbal in my garden.
Students need a place to have live
bands, but my back yard is not it.”
Town Council member Joe
Capowski said students would
See LEASING, Page 8
Incumbents, Challengers Pound Education Pulpit
By Cate Doty
Staff Writer
Incumbents Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C., and Rep.
David Price, D-N.C., have both been strong education
advocates during their tenures in the U.S. Senate and
House respectively, pushing spending bills and tax cred
it plans.
But challengers have their own ideas for improve
ments in education.
Republican House challenger Tom Roberg and
Democratic Senate hopeful
John Edwards outlined plans
for increased educational
spending and cuts in govern
ment bureaucracy, while
Libertarian candidates advo
cated abolishing the U.S.
Department of Education.
The candidates might have
a tough road ahead to over
shadow the work of the
incumbents.
Last year, Price authored
the Education Affordability
Act, a program to make inter
est on student loans tax
deductible. Faircloth support
ed a bill that created tax cred-
Starting today,The
Daily Tar Heel takes a
look at some of the
major issues in this
year's elections.
Today: Education
Thursday: Health Care
Friday: Social Security
Monday: Environment
its for community college students.
“Education is my first priority,” Price said.
And that view is held by Senate contenders as well.
Edwards said if he was elected he would work to
increase educational spending.
“First we need to cut the bureaucracy from the (U.S.)
Department of Education,” Edwards said in a speech at
UNC on Monday. “There are also other potential
sources (for educational funding), for example, closing
corporate subsidies.”
Partisan differences did not stop Republicans from
touting a similar idea.
“There are over 300 departments within the educa
tion department,” Roberg said. “We can compartmen-
See EDUCATION, Page 8
Leaders Question GPSF Autonomy
By Colleen Jenkins
Staff Writer
Tensions rose when Graduate and
Professional Student Federation
President Bryan Kennedy presented his
proposal for the secession of the GPSF
at Tuesday night’s Student Congress
meeting.
Student Body Treasurer James
Dasher was among several campus lead
ers who expressed concerns.
“(Kennedy’s) behavior has been
unconstitutional,” he said. “No petition
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Student Congress representative Jason Crowley, Dist. 21, debates the
proposed funding for Common Sense to bring Charlton Heston to UNC.
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Laura Dickerson leads her first grade class in a book discussion at Seawell Elementary School in Chapel Hill on Tuesday
afternoon. Issues such as school funding and overcrowding will be significant issues in the upcoming elections.
N.C. Candidates ‘Talk the Talk’ of More Funding
By Lindsey Emery
Staff Writer
A common theme among those vying for
North Carolina’s two 16th-district state senate
seats is the need for increased funding in both
primary and higher educational institutions
across the state.
Overcrowding, lack of technology advance
If you think education is expensive try ignorance.
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Wednesday, October 28, 1998
Volume 106, Issue 105
has been submitted to the student body
president in accordance with the consti
tution.”
Kennedy said he talked about his pro
posal with the leaders of 30 or 40 of the
largest graduate and professional orga
nizations at UNC and received approval
from all of them.
But he admitted he had only spoken
with one graduate congress member,
Rep. Mark Kleinschmidt, Dist. 1.
Kleinschmidt said he disagreed with
Kennedy’s claim of approval from all
graduate and professional leaders.
ments and underfunding for community col
leges topped the candidates’ lists of concerns.
But the overall consensus remained focused on
the idea of more money for education.
Incumbent Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird, D-
Orange, said many programs for improvement
had been brought up in the General Assembly,
but none had been implemented yet. “We have
talked the talk, but not walked the walk,” she
“Kennedy did not consult the people
as he said he did,” he said. “My presi
dent (Steven Gebeaux of the Student
Bar Association) didn’t find out about
this until Sunday. Every leader does not
support this. It’s a misstatement.”
Alexis Stackhouse, external vice pres
ident of the GPSF, said Gebeaux should
not have an opinion yet because he did
not know enough information.
In addition, Rep. Cianti Stewart-Reid,
Dist. 10, said she supported the GPSF if
it felt it was the last course of action.
“I have concerns, but they know
Student Congress Allots
Common Sense SIO,OOO
The group will use the
hotly-debated funding
to bring actor Charlton
Heston to speak on campus.
By Andrew Meehan
Staff Writer
After weeks of debate and questions,
Student Congress gave SIO,OOO to con
servative group Common Sense
Tuesday so it could bring National Rifle
Association President and actor
Charlton Heston to speak on campus.
Despite earlier questions about
Common Sense’s previous use of
Congressional funds, members focused
discussion on giving SIO,OOO to one
group, which would deplete Congress’
speaker fund by more than 50 percent.
During debate, Congress added two
amendments to the original bill, and
rejected a third amendment.
Congress rejected an amendment
proposed by Rep. Evan Sloan, Dist. 16,
that would have reduced funds to
$5,000. Sloan said he believed the group
could easily raise the additional money.
“If you think (Common Sense) repre
sents half or more than half of the stu
dent body, then vote for the bill.”
what’s right for them,” she said.
Rep. Jason Arnold, Dist. 13, said he
questioned how groups with both under
graduate and graduate students would
be addressed. He said he doubted grad
uate participation would increase with a
separation, since eight of the 12 graduate
Congress seats were presently open.
“(Graduate students) seem apathetic,”
he said. “We’re putting polls in
Hamilton Hall to get them to think
about going to vote.”
Among Congress members and oth
ers questioning the move to separate
Rep. Cianti Stewart-Reid, Dist. 10,
supported Sloan’s amendment. She had
suggested the same amendment in
Congress’ Oct. 13 session, but it was
rejected at that meeting.
The funding for the group comes
from Congress’ speaker fund, which is a
part of its special projects fund. The
fund had SIB,OOO before funding
Common Sense. Congress won’t add
any money to the fund this school year.
Outside the meeting, Finance
Committee
Chairman Ryan
Schlitt, Dist. 21,
said the fund was
supposed to be
used mainly in the
early part of the
year so groups
could plan events.
Congress passed
an amendment
proposed by Rep.
Andrew Hoffman, Dist. 20 ; which gave
Common Sense $ 10,000, but called for
the money to be returned to the speak
er’s fund if the group could not get
Heston to speak.
Congress also passed riders that
Speaker Brad Morrison attached to
Hoffman’s amendment. Morrison’s rid
ers provided specific dates at which the
said.
“We have not committed the funds needed
to implement all the suggested programs.”
This issue did not split candidates along
party lines. Republican candidate P.H. Craig
also said more money needed to be put toward
public education.
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government, Katherine Kraft, former
GPSF president, said she had grave con
cerns about the proposed succession.
“I think the magnitude of this move
goes far beyond the implications being
presented, and I don’t think it will ben
efit anyone.”
She said the major impact of this pro
posed separation would make the grad
uate body the minority. “The minority
always loses, and that would be us,” she
said. “We lose the power of 24,000 stu-
See GPSF, Page 8
group’s funds would revert.
The group, according to the riders,
must have a contract with Heston by the
end of the semester. The contract must
bind him to speak by March 1, 1999. If
the contract is not made, the money
would revert to the speaker’s fund.
Another Morrison rider called for the
funds to be frozen if the group changed
the event’s venue. The group plans to
hold the event in Memorial Hall.
Common Sense Chairman Scott
7 am very confident
because (Common Sense has)
pulled off the events which we
have funded them for. ”
Ryan Schlitt
Finance Committee Chairman
unusual for Congress to fund groups that
had not fully secured remaining funds
for an event.
He said he was not worried about
Common Sense obtaining the rest of the
funds it needed for the event.
“I am very confident because in the
See CONGRESS, Page 8
Shelton Wins No. 300
UNC field
hockey coach
Karen Shelton
recorded her
300th career
win Tuesday
night as the Tar
Heels topped
Wake Forest.
Shelton, who
has been the
coach at UNC for the past 18 seasons,
has also collected four national titles
with the Tar Heels. See Page 9.
It's Fun to Stay...
An addition
al SIO,OOO
from the
town for
after-school
programs at
South Estes
Drive Family Resource Center means
more field trips, cookouts and basket
ball games for neighborhood kids.
Volunteers provide positive role
models for the children See Page 8.
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Rubush said
Heston would
speak for a fee of
$25,000, and the
remaining funds
for the event were
still pending from
three different
organizations.
Outside the
meeting, Schlitt
said it was not