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A record crowd of about 70,000 people paraded and packed onto Franklin Street on Saturday night in celebration of Halloween.
70,000 Flood Franklin Street
Some restaurants charged
long lines of Franklin Street
frolickers money to use
rest rooms Saturday night.
By Courtney Jones
Staff Writer
Clear skies and crisp weather wel
comed a record-breaking number of
costumed party-goers and spectators to
Franklin Street on Saturday night to cel
ebrate one of Chapel Hill’s most festive
events of the year.
Nearly 70,000 people flooded
Franklin Street, according to Chapel
Hill police, far surpassing last year’s
crowd of 17,000.
Police closed the downtown area of
Franklin Street at 9:20 p.m. and later
blocked off the stretch from Raleigh
Street to Mallette Street to accommo
date the crowd.
Though many merchants closed to
escape possible damage from the flock
Negotiations Begin
For GPSF Demands
Student Body President
Reyna Walters says the
executive branch will
discuss changes this week.
By Carol Adamson
Staff Writer
Members of the executive branch of
student government are working to
compromise with the Graduate and
Professional Student Federation to avoid
a separation of the two entities.
Issues of compromise include giving
more of a percentage of student fees to
the GPSF and
making the orga
nization more vis
ible to University
officials and state
legislators.
Tuesday, GPSF
President Bryan
Kennedy
announced that
the group would
try for autonomy,
citing ill represen
tation and lack of
funding from
Congress.
But cabinet
Graduate and
Professional Student
Federation President
Bryan Kennedy
said GPSF autonomy
was a last resort.
members, other graduate students and
former GPSF President Katherine Kraft
did not support the measure.
Student Body Vice President Emily
Williamson said the executive branch
had asked those involved in the issue to
help work toward a resolution by listing
their grievances.
“Some of the ideas that we’re tossing
around include giving them a greater
percentage of their student fees to be
allocated through the graduate senate,”
she said.
The executive branch had also
looked into assigning more power to the
GPSF president, she said.
of partyers, some restaurants braved the
masses and remained open.
“It was insane,” said Kevin Fischer, a
Caribou Coffee Shop employee. “We
still had a line out into the street when
we closed at midnight.”
Vendors were pleased with business
generated by those who sought refuge
from the congested street and sidewalks.
Steve Ballard, owner of Smoothie
King, said he wanted to be open on
Halloween to expose his business to the
public. The shop opened last Saturday.
“A lot of people gave us positive feed
back on our coffee and smoothies,”
Ballard said. “We were non-stop from 10
p.m. to 2 a.m. and it was packed.”
Hector’s employee Ismael Portillo
said the door had to be guarded to keep
too many people from entering the tiny
restaurant. “People were still trying to
come in when we closed at 4:30 a.m.,”
Portillo said. “Halloween is the busiest
night of the year.”
Silent Sam’s manager Steve Hunt
See HALLOWEEN, Page 7
“We’re also looking at the role of the
GPSF president as it affects the execu
tive branch because some of (the grad
uate and professional students) would
like more voice with the Board of
Trustees,” she said.
“One of our ideas was to make the
GPSF president chair for the student
advisory committee for the board of
trustees.”
Kennedy said though the proposed
changes met some of the GPSFs
demands, he could agree to remain a
part of the present student government
system if specific demands were met.
“There are two major issues behind
the GPSF autonomy movement: the
legitimizing of the GPSF Senate and fee
autonomy,” Kennedy said.
Currently, the GPSF Senate gets 25
percent of student fees available for allo
cation.
Kennedy said an arrangement where
each group would control its own fees
and pass resolutions would strengthen
all positions, including the student body
president’s.
“They would truly be able to say that
they spoke for all students,” Kennedy
said.
“I would certainly prefer to work this
out with a constitutional change that
empowers graduate students, instead of
having us go autonomous.”
Student Body President Reyna
Walters said the the ideas concerning a
change in code did not fully meet all of
the demands of the GPSF.
“We’ve already started the negotiat
ing process,” Walters said. “The outlines
don’t fully represent everything that
(Bry an Kennedy) had been hoping for.”
Walters said that further negotiation
and changes would be made throughout
the week.
“I think making changes code
will help us come to a compromise.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
Death is just a distant rumour to the young.
Andy Rooney
Monday, November 2,1998
Volume 106, Issue 108
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A dressed-up dominatrix displays her chain in Groundhog Tavern on
Halloween night. Police began to block off Franklin Street at 9:20 p.m.
Environmental Woes
On Election Agendas
By Emily Cramer
Staff Writer
In a state largely driven by its agri
cultural industry, environmental con
cerns have taken a top seat in the dia
logue among candidates.
Incumbents tout efforts made to tight
en regulations on industries and to raise
environmental standards across the
board. Opponents vying for a seat in the
U.S. House and Senate said their com
petitors had not done enough.
Sen. Lauch Faircloth, R-N.C., is one
candidate pushing his successful envi
ronmental record, Faircloth’s press sec
retary Jonathan Felts said.
He said Faircloth’s involvement in
the Senate Appropriations Committee
allowed him to take active stands on
important issues, specifically the reloca
tion of the Cape Hatteras Lighthouse,
Land Preservation Puzzles Candidates
Local candidates offered
several proposals to
regulate hog farms and air
and water pollution.
By Warren Wilson
Staff Writer
As entrepreneurs fight with environ
mentalists over increasingly scarce
resources, the natural environment and
its preservation have become focal
points for debate in the election.
Despite specific disagreements, local
candidates concur that urbanization and
growth will present challenges for the
next generation of lawmakers.
Incumbent Rep. Joe Hackney, D-
Orange, said the state had done an inad
equate job of recognizing its environ
mental needs. “I think economic inter
ests generally prevail over environmen
improvement of water and sewer sys
tems in municipal areas, mass transit
and environmental research.
His oppo
nen t ,
Democrat
John
Edwards, also
considers the
protection of
natural
resources a
priority, said
Kym Spell,
Edwards’
press secre
tary.
“John
Edwards
believes that
one of the
most impor-
ELECTIONS
The Daily Tar Heel is
exploring four state
and national issues as
part of this year's
elections.
Wednesday: Education
Thursday: Health Care
Friday: Social Security
Today: Environment
tal,” said Hackney, who, along with
Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, is running
unopposed for the 24th district seats.
“We don’t have the resources to do
an adequate monitoring job for both air
and water pollution and other environ
mental problem areas,” Hackney said.
But Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird, D-
Orange, said the quality of the state’s
environmental protection had made
vast strides in the last few years.
She cited several bills, the largest of
which featured tax credits for those who
give land to land trusts.“One could get
up to $250,000 in credits for giving land
to trusts rather than selling them to
developers,” Kinnaird said. “It provides
an incentive for not selling the land, and
there really isn’t any otherwise.”
Kinnaird also plans to concentrate on
hog farm regulation if re-elected. “We
still need better regulation of hog farms
without being harmful to small farmers.”
She said she was studying a European
UNC Junior Dies
After Being Hit
By Drunk Driver
Police are still investigating
an early morning accident
that claimed the life
of Temple Charles Lee.
By Paul Holscher
Staff Writer
A UNC junior died early Sunday
morning after being struck by a drunk
driver while walking on Hillsborough
Street to join Halloween festivities
downtown.
Temple Charles Lee, 20, a journalism
and mass communications major of 104
Syme Avenue, Greenville, was hit while
crossing Hillsborough Street near
Bolinwood Drive around 12:45 a.m,
Chapel Hill police reports state. He died
at the scene.
The driver of the car was later arrest
ed and charged with driving while
intoxicated, reports state.
Marcus Damion Hattrick, 26, of 2100
Mary Anne Drive, Charlotte, was dri
ving north on Hillsborough Street
toward Franklin Street when his Honda
Accord stuck Lee, reports state.
Lee and a group of friends had been
at their apartment earlier that evening
and were walking toward Franklin
Street, said Lee’s roommate Casey
Mullis, a junior English major of 32-B
Stratford Hills Apartments.
Mullis said he was with Lee on
Saturday night but did not see the acci
dent happen,
“I saw him lying down after he was
hit,” Mullis said. “We lived together for
three yearsT’he was probably my best
friend.”
Hattrick was arrested on
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Preventing air pollution, especially smog from traffic, is
a major concern among this year's candidates.
tant things we can do is to ensure clean
water and clean air for future genera
tions,” Spell said. “He has promised that
he will work continuously and vigor
ously to protect our environment.”
system under which farmers must
decrease pollution by a certain amount
using whatever means they choose.
Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange, reiter
ated Kinnaird’s hog farm concern. “I
think how we manage waste from farms,
especially hog waste and from poultry
farms, is my No. 1 priority,” Lee said.
But he emphasized that farmers’
rights should not be overlooked in the
regulation process. “I don’t think we
should be overly restrictive. One way
we maintain that balance is by involving
farmers early in that discussion.”
Republican N.C. Senate hopeful RH.
Craig, said farmers were not the only
ones responsible for water pollution.
“I think we have to look to identify
the source, and when we do, we’ll be
pointing the finger at ourselves,” Craig
said.
He cited fertilizers used on the UNC
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Hillsborough Street at Mill Race Drive
and charged with driving while intoxi
cated, according to police reports.
Hattrick’s blood alcohol level was
.08, reports state.
Chapel Hill police spokeswoman
Jane Cousins said Sunday the investiga
tion had not been completed and that
no other charges had been filed in con
nection with the accident. Cousins did
not expect a complete report until
Tuesday.
Beth Vanrood, a senior communica
tions major from Durham, was walking
on Hillsborough Street shortly after the
accident occurred.
“I was by myself and going to meet
some friends on Franklin Street,”
Vanrood said.
“There was a bunch of people on the
side of the street crying, and some were
asking questions. I didn’t know what
was going on.”
Vanrood said she saw a body bag on
the sidewalk as she walked by. “There
were three ambulances and five to six
cop cars,” she said.
Mullis expressed his grief after losing
his close friend Sunday.
“This was a very, very unfortunate
accident”
Vilma Santana, a neighbor of Lee’s,
said Lee’s apartment was full of people
when she and two of her friends left
Stratford Hills walk to Franklin Street
around 10:45 p.m. Santana described
Lee and Mullis as nice and genuine
neighbors.
Xilang Li, also a neighbor of Lee’s,
said Lee was always friendly when she
saw him.
Li said she moved into the apart-
See DEATH, Page 7
Libertarian Senatorial candidate
Gary Goodson said the government
needed to take responsibility for its
See ENVIRONMENT, Page 7
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