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Vote Recount Reveals Coleman As New RHA President
By Amy Stephens
Staff Writer
A recount of the votes for Residence
Hafl Association president revealed that
write-in candidate
Murray Coleman
was the winner.
Coleman, a
junior, received
743 votes while
sophomore Jermain
Reeves received 703 votes.
Coleman marks the first write-in can-
Endorsement
Calls Code
Into Question
By Lauren Beal
and Amy Stephens
Staff Writers
Confusion surrounding the Student Code led student body
president candidate Brad Morrison to decline an offer of
endorsement from the Carolina Review on Saturday, after he
learned that such an endorsement might violate campaign
finance rules and lead to his disqualification.
According to the code, a campaign
expenditure is defined as “any materials,
gratuities or services for or on behalf of
the candidate or referendum ... which,
by intent or effect, tends to advertise the
name of a candidate, to endorse or sup
port his candidacy ... by any means.”
While the code does not specifically state that a candidate
must decline an offer of endorsement in order to avoid financ
ing the publication, it does give the Elections Board the
authority to determine what constitutes a campaign expendi-
ture.
Morrison said that when Elections
Board Chairwoman Heather Faulk told
him that money for the endorsement
would come out of his own campaign
fund, he had no choice but to decline
the offer.
“It’s a very scary thing when you’re
told you are endorsed by an organiza
tion but then find out (you will have to
pay for the publication and) it will go
over your campaign expenditure and
you may be disqualified,” he said.
According to the code, any candidate
that exceeds 105 percent, or $525, of
the spending limit will be disqualified.
Faulk said the line between what was
editorial freedom and advertisement for a candidate needed
to be defined in the code.
“Where does editorial freedom stop and start and what
kind of gray area is there? Because there is one.”
Faulk said strictly focusing on the code caused problems
because of issues dealing with freedom of the press.
“We are dealing with a First Amendment issue,,not a code
issue,” she said. “(Yet), it’s not fair for a candidate to get a
See ENDORSE, Page 6
Education
Keeps Home
Prices High
Homes outside of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools district are usually
bigger and less expensive.
By Kim Dronzek
Staff Writer
Many potential home buyers in the
Triangle are willing to pay more for a
home in Chapel Hill just to ensure that
their children attend “the best schools in
the state,” realtors say.
Although there are other factors that
influence a buyer to move to Chapel
Hill, the main concern is the general rat
ing of the school system, said John
Modisett of Tony Hall & Associates
Reality in Chapel Hill.
“Chapel Hill (schools) are the highest
rated in the state,” he said. “I also think
there is a good quality of life in Chapel
Hill - it has the small-town sophistica
tion of a larger city, and you don’t find
I believe any person who asks for forgiveness has to be prepared to give it
President Bill Clinton
didate to win a race other than congres
sional since 1989, when senior class
president and vice presidential write-in
candidates Bobby Ferris and Greg
Zeeman were elected. Reeves was the
only official RHA presidential candidate
this year.
“I am delightfully excited,” Coleman
said. “I’m still in a state of shock.”
Elections Board Chairwoman
Heather Faulk said the votes had to be
recounted because Coleman’s votes
were counted by hand, excluding all
graduate student votes, while Reeves
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Despite Partisan Vote for Clinton Acquittal,
Impeachment Process Bridges Political Gap
By Jonathan Cox
Special Assignments Editor
Candidate
Brad Morrison
said he declined the
Carolina Review's
endorsement
Saturday.
WASHINGTON - After standing in the spotlight of
America for more than a month during the trial of William
Jefferson Clinton, senators say they will step back into the
shadows of mundane legislative duties next week without fear
of political repercussions.
Senators will take this week off
after acquitting President Clinton on
both articles of impeachment Friday.
When session resumes next Monday,
freshman Sen. John Edwards, D-
N.C., said he and his colleagues would work together with a
better understanding for each other’s perspectives.
“I think there is more respect inside that Senate chamber
than when we went in,” he said Friday as he walked down the
The Price of Top-Notch Education
Buyers can expect to find bigger homes in the Durham and Orange County school districts
for the same price as a smaller home in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools district.
Chapel Hill Durham Orange County
Total Square feet 1,989 2,541 2,988
Year Built 1994 1990 1998
Price $229,000 $229,000 $229,000
■ Due to inflation, housing prices have changed since 1995.
-A $158,692 house in Durham County costs $149,376 in 1998.
- A $266,084 house in Orange County costs $242,058 in 1998.
■ Quarterly Market Update
n . „ 1 132 L 1238 Change
Durham County:
Average Price $143,774 $144,994 +51,220
Sales 772 791 +l9
Orange County:
Average Price: $198,345 $202,390 +54,045
Sales 306 332 +54
SOURCE: TRIANGLE MULTIPLE LISTING SERVICE
that very often.”
According to standardized test scores
which contribute to state ranking,
Chapel Hill students’ total average
Scholastic Assessment Test score in 1997
was 1060, while Durham students aver
aged a score of 875 and students in
Orange County had an average score of
845.
Recently the developer of
Creekwood, a subdivision in northern
Orange County on the border of the
total was tabulated
by a computer
program that
included some
graduate student
votes.
“The computer
program that
(Academic
Technology &
Networks) wrote
had a mistake in
it,” Faulk said. “It
was my mistake
RHA President-elect
Murray Coleman
said he was in shock.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
President Bill Clinton enters the Rose Garden before addressing the
nation Friday. Clinton apologized, saying he was "profoundly sorry" for
what he did that led to his impeachment and the Senate trial.
Orange County Schools and Chapel-
Hill Carrboro City Schools district lines,
asked the county Board of Education to
consider allowing all students in the sub
division to attend city schools.
The school board has not yet made a
decision but has generally objected to
the change.
Jay Parker, broker in charge of
Weaver Street Realty, which brokers for
See VALUE, Page 6
Monday, February 15, 1999
Volume 106, Issue 161
because I told them what needed to be
counted.”
According to the Student Code, only
students who live in residence halls that
are members of the RHA can vote in a
RHA presidential race. Therefore, only
the votes of graduate students who live
in residence halls are valid in the RHA
vote total.
“There is currently no way to delin
eate where people live so all graduate
students’ votes had to be discounted,”
Faulk said. “This is something that can
be solved with software in future years.”
Capitol steps.
Because of that unity, and the drive to move forward, the
Republican party will not suffer any ill consequences from
this defining point on the political landscape, senior Sen.
Jesse Helms, R-N.C., said from his office Friday. Analysts
have predicted that citizens will turn against the GOP during
the 2000 elections because its members pushed the trial.
“This is today and next year is next year,” Helms said. “I
don’t think it will have any lingering effects.”
Citing one of his colleagues, Helms said Clinton might not
be so lucky during the last two years of his term.
“Billy’s going to be Billy, and he’s going to fall into anoth
er hole,” he said.
Clinton escaped from the biggest threat to his political
career Friday when Republicans failed to acquire the two-
See VOTE, Page 6
Student Reaction
From UNC to
Washington
See Page 5
Town Boards Represent
Local Black Community
By Ashlie Green
Staff Writer
As the nation faced the fierce back
lash of racial discrimination in the
19605, Chapel Hill helped fight for
racial equality with the election of
Hubert Robertson, the first black mem-
ber of the Chapel Hill
Board of Aldermen,
in 1962.
Since then, the
Chapel Hill Town
Council has contin
ued to have at least
one black member on
its board, and this
racial diversity has
also spread to oth r forms of town gov
ernment.
Sen. Howard Lee, a black Democrat
who represents Orange County in the
N.C. General Assembly, said Chapel
Hill government was open to all racial
groups.
“I have a different view than most,”
said Lee, who was elected as the first
black mayor in the South in 1969.
The code does not give Faulk the
power to discount the graduate students
votes but neither does it specify that she
cannot.
For that reason, Reeves said he had
thought about charging the Elections
Board with a Student Supreme Court
case. “I have entertained the thought,
but I don’t know if I will go through with
it," he said.
Faulk said the problem with counting
graduate student votes was not anew
one.
“For the last 20 years, this has been
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
A Senate Page reads the Articles of Impeachment on the chamber floor
before Senators cast their votes Friday afternoon. It only took 40
minutes to acquit the president.
“l am less concerned with race and
numbers and more concerned with giv
ing anyone with the desire the chance.”
Through the efforts of local organiza
tions like the Black Public Works
Association and the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro chapter of the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, Chapel Hill and
Carrboro town governments are grow
ing to become more racially equal, said
Fred Battle, president of the Chapel Hill
NAACP.
By supporting enthusiastic black
political leaders who represent the black
population, these organizations have
contributed to the representation on
local governing boards and councils.
In doing so, the fight for issues such
as equal job opportunities and afford
able housing for blacks has advanced,
Battle said.
Currently there is one black member
on the eight-member Chapel Hill Town
Council. This 12.5 percentile is exactly
even with the 1990 census that estimat-
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going on, but this is the first time a RHA
race has been contested,” she said. “It
obviously needs to be addressed next
year.
Coleman said his campaign staff sus
pected the recount results. “My whole
campaign staff was suspect to all the
votes Jermain got at the law school,” he
said.
Reeves said he was notified of the
recount results late Friday night.
“I was just surprised,” he said. “It was
See RHA, Page 6
How They Voted
Ending the monthlong Senate trial, weary senators
acquitted President Clinton of both impeachment counts.
Ten Republicans crossed party lines to vote 'not guilty'.
ARTICLE 1: PERJURY
Total Democrat Republican
Guilty 45 0 45
Not Guilty 55 45 10
ARTICLE 3: OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
Total Democrat Republican
Guilty 50 0 50
Not Guilty 50 45 5
NORTH CAROLINA SENATORS
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| Jesse Helms, R
Article 1:
Guilty
Article 3:
Guilty
INSIDE
Songs for Pooh Bear?
Sweet Honey in the Rock might sound
like a delicacy for Pooh Bear, but this
Grammy-winning group takes its name
from a fable about a land so rich
honey flows from rocks. See Page 4.
Drug Busts on Rise
Though UNC-system campus drug
violations increased in the 1997-98
school year. UNC-Chapel Hill only
reported 16 violations. See Page 2.
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Mid 50s.
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Mid 60s.
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in-depth story for publication in the
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died in the 1996 Phi Gamma Delta fire.
Proposals are due by 5 p.m. Tuesday.
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Article 1:
Not Guilty
Artide 3:
Not Guilty