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Tuesday, January 12, 1999
UNC: Policy, Not Law Governs Pit
University counsel Susan
Ehringhaus says UNC is not
responsible for assisting
vendors in selling products.
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
Although a UNC official claimed that
an online bookseller violated state poli
cy by setting up a table in the Pit last
week, University counsel Susan
Ehringhaus said Monday that only a
campus policy had been violated.
Jon Curtis, assistant director of stu
dent activities, claimed that
Varsitybooks.com, an online textbook
vendor, was violating both the
Chancellor’s Facilities Uses Policy and
the N.C. Umstead Act last week by
advertising in the Pit through a hot
chocolate stand.
The stand was operated by a
Varsitybooks.com employee.
Campus Calendar
Wednesday
noon - The African & Afro-
American Studies Department will
present its third colloquium,
“Colonialism, Witchcraft & the
Diaspora,” a discussion by Dr. Timothy
McMillan in Union 209. For more
details, please call 966-5496.
noon -3 p.m. - The Anthropology
Club invites you to have tea and cocoa
with peers and faculty members in the
Anthropology Lounge.
3 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. - Alpha Phi
Omega, a co-ed national service frater
nity, invites you to drop by for pizza and
to learn about joining our fraternity.
Second floor Union Lobby.
3 p.m. - The Institute of African
American Research invites all mem
bers of the campus and triangle com
munity to join them for conversation,
food and drinks to kick off the new
semester. LAAR, 134 1/2 Franklin Street.
7 p.m. - WXYC 89.3 FM, Carolina’s
student-run radio station, is holding an
interest meeting for students interested
in DJ positions in Flamilton 100.
7 p.m. - A benefit evening with
Lee Smith for local heart transplant
patient will be held at the Horace
Williams House in Chapel Hill. S2O sug-
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However, Ehringhaus, who also
serves as assistant to the chancellor, said
the act was not connected with the
state’s Umstead Act, which protects mer
chants from competition by the state.
Curtis said he was not aware that the
action was not connected with North
Carolina’s Umstead Act.
John Jones, director of Student
Stores, said a misunderstanding tran
spired between the information desk at
the Student Union
and
Varsitybooks.com
concerning the
table in the Pit.
“When the desk
looked at the list of
organizations
scheduled for the
Pit that day, they
should have real
ized that the busi-
“If the University didn’t have
the policy, there would be fliers
and other forms of advertising
all over campus. ”
John Jones
Student Stores Director
ness could not advertise on the UNC
campus,” he said.
The Chancellor’s Facilities Uses
gested donation. For reservations and
more information call 484-9684.
7:30 p.m. - “Einstein, Bill Gates
and the Buddha: The Power and
Limits of Reason in the Search for
Truth.” Ken Felder, former manager of
Natural Language Processing at
Microsoft, will hold an interactive lec
ture on the complicated relationship
between science and religion in
Bingham 103. Cost is $5 for students
and $8 for non-students.
Thursday
6:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. - Alpha Phi
Omega, a co-ed national service frater
nity, invites you to informal rush to meet
brothers, ask questions and learn more
about our fraternity in Fetzer 106.
7 p.m. - The UNC Psychology
Club will be having its first meeting of
the semester in 112 Davie Hall. New
members are welcome to attend.
Friday
8 p.m. - Singer-songwriter
Christine Icane from Asheville will be
performing at Presbyterian Campus
Ministry at 110 Henderson St. Tickets
are $5. Call 967-2311 for more informa
tion.
Items of Interest
■ Pauper Players announces audi
University & City
Policy originated at UNC in 1981 and
prevents outside vendors from coming
on campus to advertise and leave flyers,
Ehringhaus said.
Part of the reason for the policy, she
said, was that since UNC was a public
university, the state was not responsible
for assisting the vendors in selling their
products.
“This facility is paid for by the state,
and the state does not have the respon-
sibility to provide
space for business
es,” she said.
Another reason
for the policy is to
keep vendors from
selling to the stu
dents and employ
ees who are here to
learn and to work,
Ehringhaus said.
“The students
and employees are a captive audience to
these vendors on campus, and the poli
cy prevents the vendors from abusing a
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an audition time at the Union Desk.
■ The Campus Y will be having Y
Horizons in the Great Hall from 11 a.m.
to 2 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday for
students to sign up for membership.
There will be someone there to provide
information and answer questions about
each committee.
■ The BCC Ambassadors is
searching for students interested in co
chair positions. The group is dedicated
to educating the UNC community
about the Black Cultural Center and the
drive for a free standing BCC.
Applications will be available beginning
Friday at the Union Front Desk and the
BCC. For more information, contact
Ange Marie at 962-9001 or Bethany at
969-7027.
■ “Cellar Door,” the undergradu
ate literary magazine, is accepting sub
missions of fiction, poetry and pho
tographs. Entry forms are available at
the Union Desk, and are due Jan. 28.
■ Class of ’3B Fellowship applica
tion deadline is March 4. Four $3,000
fellowships are given to sophomores
and juniors interested in an independent
study project abroad that is tied to per
sonal and/or career aspirations. For
more information stop by the Union’s
International Center or call 962-5661.
captive market,” she said.
Jones said Student Stores received
many calls from vendors looking for
ways to advertise on campus because
they were permitted to advertise at N.C.
State University and other state cam
puses.
However, the Chancellor’s Facilities
Use Policy prevents businesses from
doing so at UNC.
Jones said he supported the policy
because it helped to control the amount
of advertising that was brought onto
campus.
“If the University didn’t have the pol
icy, there would be fliers and other
forms of advertising all over campus,”
he said.
As it is, he said, the campus still had
business fliers that violated the policy,
but there was no way the school could
regulate all of the advertisements on
campus.
The University editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
Board Revamps School's Focus
Officials had planned for
Mary A. Scroggs Elementary
School to operate on a
year-round schedule.
By Jeff Crawford
Staff Writer
Although the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Board of Education is cancelling the
year-round schedule and longer acade
mic day once planned for Mary A.
Scroggs Elementary School, the school
will be open for the 1999 school year,
officials say.
School leaders had envisioned
Scroggs Elementary as a model school
where children would learn through rev
olutionary teaching practices, particu
larly in language arts and math, Chapel
Hill-Carrboro City Schools
Spokeswoman Kim Hoke said.
Plans for the school involved a longer
class day, year-round schooling and a
level teacher pay scale that would
reward hard-working teachers with
Police Arrest Woman
For Assault With Rifle
The suspect threatened an
animal protection worker
after approaching him as he
worked near Carver Street.
By Matt Leclercq
Assistant City Editor
Chapel Hill Police charged a suspect
Monday for threatening an Animal
Protection Society worker with a rifle
over the weekend.
Vanessa D. Byrd, 40, of 303 School
Lane was charged with felony assault
with a firearm on a government
employee, according to police reports.
She was released on a written
promise to make a first appearance in
Chapel Hill District Court today.
APS workers had responded to a
complaint about Byrd’s animals three
days before the incident and left a notice
extra pay, she said, adding that some of
these plans had been cancelled.
Plans for the length of school day,
year-round schooling and the flattened
pay scale had been scrapped, she said.
“The longer school day would have
required additional funds that we didn’t
have,” she said. “There wasn’t a com
pelling interest in the community for
this to be a year-round school.”
Hoke said the pay scale proposed for
the school would not have been attrac
tive to experienced teachers because it
was a flat-rate scale that wouldn’t reward
for experience.
“We were not getting experienced
teachers who wanted to teach at
Scroggs,” she said.
The original plan allowed for all
teachers to receive the same pay initial
ly and earn extra money depending on
the number of extra projects they chose
to undertake, she said. The actual plan
that will be implemented is the same as
in the rest of the school system, which
pays based on teaching experience.
Another idea the school board
scratched permitted a limited number of
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on her door to call APS, said Jonathan
Gilmore, APS director of field services.
Animal Control Officer Warrgn
Porter, who had been on the job for ope
week, was investigating an unrelated
complaint Friday near Carver Street,
several blocks from Byrd’s property.
While Porter was speaking to a resi
dent, Byrd approached him, pointed a
rifle at him and told him to keep off her
property, according to police reports.
Local APS workers had never tun
into a problem like this, Gilmore said,
adding he was pleased charges had been
filed. “Obviously we wouldn’t be able to
do our jobs and conduct investigations if
we have people pointing guns at us.”
Porter said Friday’s incident was the
first time he had been seriously threat
ened. “I’m going to definitely be cau
tious around that neighborhood.”
The City Editor can be reached at
citydesk@unc.edu.
parents to enroll their children in the
school by choice, rather than by resi
dential districting. The original plan
allotted for 100 to 150 spaces for stu
dents whose parents specifically select
ed Scroggs, Hoke said.
“The school board found it increas
ingly difficult to determine how parents
would go about choosing,” Hoke said.
Anew redistricting plan was drawn
up with the elementary school included
like other local schools, she said.
Although the more extensive plans
for the school have been altered, offi
cials said they still planned to put prior-'
ity on language arts and math.
The revised plan calls for two hours
in the day devoted for language arts
such as spelling, reading and writing;
while one hour will be devoted to math,
Hoke said. ’
The school is scheduled to be com-'
plete in May and is adopting specific'
methods of teaching to be ready for the 1
1999-2000 school year.
The City Editor can be reached a t
citydesk@unc.edu. '■