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ABC weatherman Spencer Christian prepares to interview Mildred Council on Tuesday morning in front of South Building on Polk Place
for Good Morning America. Council, owner of Dip's Country Kitchen, also gave a cooking demonstration.
School Plans to Raise
Enrollment in 7 Days
School in the Community,
a Carrboro charter school,
must enroll 10 students
and remedy budget deficits.
By Shelley Levine
Assistant City Editor
Leaders of Carrboro’s School in the
Community are confident enrollment
figures will rise this week and the school
will be allowed to remain open.
The charter school has a week to
enroll 10 students and explain how it
will balance a projected $85,000 budget
deficit. Fred Battle, the charter school’s
board chairman, said he had already
received calls from parents who wanted
to enroll their children.
“We’ve started an outreach program,
Student's
Deed Aids
Homeless
Freshman Andrea Fritschle
gave a homeless man a
free Thanksgiving dinner
at Chase Hall on Tuesday.
By Amy Stephens
Staff Writer
In a season when family and friends
gather together, a UNC student pushed
to find the true holiday spirit by reach
ing out to a stranger.
Andrea Fritschle, a freshman from
Jacksonville, Fla., walked on Franklin
Street on Tuesday night offering a free
meal to any homeless person she met.
“I had a lot of meals on my (UNC)
ONE Card, and I thought it would be
good to use them to the benefit of other
people,” Fritschle said.
But after asking almost 20 people,
only one man chose to take the offered
meal at Chase Dining Hall.
“It was weird that no one else want
ed to come with us,” Fritschle said. “It
and we’re trying to get students.
Evidently the publicity we’ve gotten has
gotten people trying to work with us.”
The state’s Charter School Advisory
Committee decided Monday to recom
mend that the State Board of Education
revoke the school’s charter if conditions
were not met by next week.
Battle said the school had until
Tuesday to report to the committee.
Investigations began on the school
when it did not meet an enrollment
requirement of 65 students, said Richard
Clontz, an educational consultant in the
Office of Charter Schools for the
Department of Public Instruction.
The state then asked the charter
school for a revised business plan for the
current school year and discovered the
$85,000 projected deficit, he said.
See CHARTER, Page 5
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Billy Gaspari, a freshman from Graham, dines with Steven Newsome, a
homeless man, during dinner at Chase Hall on Tuesday evening.
was like they didn’t trust me.”
Steve Newcomb, the 31-year-old man
that accepted the offered dinner, said he
could not believe others had turned
down a free meal.
“I have never had anyone offer me a
free meal before,” he said. “I love food,
and would never turn down anything
anyone wanted to give.”
Newcomb said he had left his apart
ment in Raleigh a few weeks ago after
disagreements with his roommates. He
said he came to Chapel Hill because his
sister and brother both live in the area.
“I am going back (to Raleigh) some
Home is not where you live but where they understand you.
Christian Morgenstern
Wednesday, November 25, 1998
Volume 106, Issue 125
N.C. State Officials
A state lawmaker says the
death of a student at N.C.
State University is not likely
to effect stronger gun laws.
By Mary Cameron
Staff Writer
Despite Sunday’s shooting death of
an N.C. State University student, uni
versity officials defended the effective
ness of their weapons policy.
“There is no place on campus for a
weapon,” said Tom Stafford, vice chan
cellor for student affairs at N.C. State. “If
we find any student in possession of a
weapon anywhere on campus, we take
extreme action.”
And across town at the capital build
ing, a state lawmaker said Neil Davis
Jr.’s shooting death was not likely to
spark stricter gun control legislation.
“You like to think that anytime some-
time after Thanksgiving, and if every
thing goes right. I’ll be able to move
back in,” he said.
Newcomb said he had only one
major regret in life. “I graduated from
high school in Wake Forest, but I really
wish I had gone to college,” he said.
Billy Gaspari, a freshman from
Graham who joined Fritschle and
Newcomb for dinner, said offering a
free meal to a homeless person was a
wonderful way to help out.
“I only wish more people would have
See HOMELESS, Page 5
thing bad happens, there is a law you
could pass that would prevent it from
happening again,” said Sen. Brad Miller,
D-Wake. “But that does not seem to be
so in the case of (Davis). I can’t imagine
this, as tragic as it is, is going to change
dramatically the political environment
in the legislature on gun control.”
Davis, a junior from Fayetteville, died
Sunday at Wake Med in Raleigh of a
gunshot wound to the stomach following
a scuffle with an N.C. State wrestler.
Raleigh police have since arrested 10
suspects in connection with the crime.
N.C. State’s campus wide ban on
weapons is clear, and students recognize
the policy’s severity, Stafford said.
“If we catch a student on campus with
a weapon, whether they say it is for
hunting purposes or not, very swift
actions are taken against them,” he said.
“Unfortunately, this incident occurred
off campus. The young man who was
killed had a pistol he possessed legally
and did not violate (our) policy.”
$4 Billion Deal With AOL
Seals Fate of Web 'Pioneer'
The merger, sealed Tuesday,
makes America Online the
distributor of Netscape's
Internet browser software.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - America Online
will buy Netscape in a $4.21 billion deal
that turns the world’s largest Internet
provider into anew superpower of the
high-tech industry'. It also effectively
concludes Nekscape’s dramatic rise and
fall as an independent Internet pioneer.
The agree
men t ,
announced
Tuesday,
includes Sun
Microsystems
UNC Officials
Respond to the
Hign-tech Merger
See Page 4
Inc., which will distribute Netscape’s
business-level software in exchange for
AOL’s purchase Sun’s powerful com
puters.
AOL, already with more than 14 mil
lion subscribers, becomes the distributor
of Netscape’s popular Internet browser
software and the owner of two of the
four most popular sites on the Web.
Netscape’s site alone draws 20 mil-
Local Cooks Up
Turkey Day Grub
For TV Broadcast
About 75 people gathered
at South Building's steps for
"Good Morning America's”
live broadcast Tuesday.
By Patricia Wright
Staff Writer
With Turkey Day right around the
comer, “Good Morning America”
picked one of Chapel Hill’s most
accomplished chefs to spotlight on its
program.
The TV show broadcasted several
segments live from South Building
Tuesday starting at 7 a.m.
Mildred “Mama Dip” Council, who
runs the popular Dip’s Country Kitchen
located on West Rosemary Street, was
interviewed by Spencer Christian as a
feature on the show’s American
Thanksgiving dinner series.
During the broadcast, a table full of
Council’s Thanksgiving specialties pre
pared before the broadcast was dis
played.
About 75 spectators, including fami
ly, friends and UNC students, huddled
around as Council showed Christian
how to create her master recipe - pecan
Defend Gun Policy
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1
Gun-related
incidents are not
unheard of on
campus. “One of
our public safety
officers who was
on foot patrol was
coming around
the back of the
Sigma Nu house
and heard a gun
being made ready
to fire,” said Drew
Smith, associate
director of Greek
life at N.C. State,
describing an inci-
N.C. State junior
Neil Davis
died at Wake Med
on Sunday from
a gunshot wound
to the stomach.
dent that occurred last summer.
“He told the student to stop, and the
student was written a campus appear
ance ticket for possessing a weapon.”
Students said although incidents had
happened before, they would never get
used to gun violence on campus.
“It is pretty sad to know these kinds
lion visitors each
month. The other
three most popu
lar sites are operat
ed by AOL,
Microsoft Corp.
and Yahoo!. Steve
Case, AOL’s chair
man and chief
executive officer,
said AOL would
operate Netscape’s
site separate from
its own.
“It was already
one of the major
portals, and
AOL chairman
Steve Case
said Netscape's site
would be run
separately from his
companies.
Netscape has just a terrific brand,” Case
said of the Web site. “We just want to
take that Netcenter strategy to the next
step and reach an even wider audience.”
The deal gives AOL enough influ
ence to challenge industry giant
Microsoft’s dominance in key areas.
“We plan to continue to work with
Microsoft wherever we can,” Case said.
“We do recognize Microsoft is a major
competitor in a lot of different areas, but
we’ve always said we’d like to work with
them wherever it makes sense.”
See MERGER, Page 5
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pie. “This recipe began as what was
called the thin-man pie during World
War II,” said Council of her pie. “There
was a lot of Karo Syrup used back then,
so the pecans came later.”
Council finished the pecan pie before
the broadcast ended and Christian was
anxious to taste it first. “Everyone knows
I’m not a sweets eater, but I must taste
Mama Dip’s pecan pie,” he said.
But Christian was not the only one
that got to taste Council’s specialties. To
everyone’s delight, after the broadcast,
the audience got to taste the
Thanksgiving dinner she had prepared.
Dip’s Restaurant is a favorite among
UNC students who crave the flavor of
Council’s dishes. With smiles and chick
en grease on their faces, some of
Council’s UNC fans said they were
excited about the recognition she was
receiving.
Freshman Christian Sawyer of
Louisville, Ky., said the broadcast was a
special event for the University since the
show had not been here since 1995.
“This was a really neat thing for the
campus, besides waking up at 6:30 a.m.
to get here,” Sawyer said.
Sawyer also said the food was deli-
See GOOD MORNING, Page 5
of things happen in the environment in
which we all live,” said Luis Recinos, an
N.C. State sophomore from Guatemala.
Handgun control organizations
echoed N.C. State students’ feelings.
“In the case of what happened at
N.C. State, I think it is unfortunate that
(Davis) chose to use his gun to express
his displeasure,” said Nancy Hwa,
spokeswoman for Washington, D.C.-
based Handgun Control, Inc. “If the
individual hadn’t had a gun, he could’ve
called the police and maybe the incident
wouldn’t have resulted as it did.”
But other groups said they believed
the firearm was not the contributing fac
tor in this incident. “It was irresponsi
bility and lawlessness,” said John
Velleco, spokesman for Gun Owners of
America, based in Springfield, Va. “The
people involved need to be dealt with in
court according to their alleged crimes.”
The State & National Editors can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
Always 'Room 4' More
The area’s up-and-coming musicians
now rock out at anew club, Room 4
at GO! Rehearsal Studios. The Chapel
Hill club, which holds 180 people,
opened two weeks ago. It fills the void
left with the closing of Lizard & Snake
Cafe in August See Page 2.
ONE Stop Shopping
The University is considering signing a
contract with a local bank that would
allow students to use UNC ONE
Cards as ATM cards. Banks can apply
to serve UNC in January. See Page 5.
Today’s Weather
Mostly Sunny;
Low 60s.
Thursday: Mostly sunny,
High 60s.
Feasting Time
In celebration of the Thanksgiving
holiday,The Daily Tar Heel will not be
publishing Thursday and Friday. Be sure
to pick us up when classes resume
Monday.
Don't forget to look for
Sport Saturday at the N.C. State vs.
UNC football game at in Charlotte.
Happy holidays!