®hr latly ®ar Heel
* Business/Advert
J?
105 years of editorial freedom
Serving the students and the University
community since 1893
Heinke Hooks Presidency
Nic Heinke defeated Brad
Morrison by 125 votes
Tuesday to become the next
student body president.
By Katie Abel
Staff Writer
Nic Heinke nabbed the most votes
for student body president after a
monthlong battle between seven candi
dates came down to a runoff sprinkled
with partisan politics.
According to unofficial results
Tuesday night,
Heinke accumu
lated 1,505
votes, while can
didate Brad
Morrison got
1,380 votes.
Although
2,912 students voted in Tuesday’s runoff
elections, this number was less than last
year’s high turnout of over 3,100 stu
dents for the runoff races.
Heinke and
Morrison beat
out five other
candidates in
last Tuesday’s
election to
reach Tuesday’s
runoff race.
“We had an
amazing
turnout, and it
was a good,
fair race,"
Heinke said.
“Everything is
just begin
ning."
Heinke said
he would work
for everything
he had out
lined on his
platform.
“It is all
about making
it real for stu
dents,” he said.
“I want to
make these
things matter.”
Heinke’s
platform called
for monthly
State of the
University
addresses, free
Student Body
President
Unofficial Results
Nic Heinke
1,505 votes
52.2 percent
Sl* vV jßjljfll
w Jm
Brad Morrison
1,380 votes
47.8 percent
printing in computer labs and organiza
tion of a University Day of Action
where students, faculty and staff devot
ed a day to service.
Frosh Trio Turning Heads for UNC
The ACC debut tour of Jason
Capel, Ronald Curry and
Kris Lang continues tonight
as UNC hosts N.C. State.
By Aaron Beard
Senior Writer
It’s a right of passage, a long-standing
tradition that spans high school and col
legiate athletics - upperclassmen keep
ing precocious youngsters in their place.
The elders pick on the newcomers.
They challenge them to contests to
prove the merits of maturity over youth
ful zeal. They fervently look to protect
their spot atop the feeding chain and
make die youths wait for their turn.
In the case of the North Carolina
men’s basketball team, the challenges
came in 3-on-3 pick-up games prior to
this season. One team always featured a
mix-match of Tar Heel veterans.
The other featured freshmen Jason
Capel, Ronald Curry and Kris Lang.
“They always challenge the fresh
men," Lang said with a smile. “We beat
everybody. They couldn’t handle us.”
Sensing a reporter’s skepticism, Lang
turned toward the court after practice
Tuesday and shouted to Capel.
“J! Tell him who we beat in 3-on-3!”
JSk. L ■.?
*
j®l® wSSIHm
jBH
DTH/JENNIFER GUTHRIE
Student Body President-Elect Nic Heinke shouts in celebration after the election results were announced Tuesday night. In the grand total, Heinke
secured 1,505 votes, while opponent Brad Morrison won only 1,380 votes. Heinke will be sworn into office in April.
Morrison said while he did not agree
with everything on Heinke’s platform,
he still thought Heinke would do a good
job as student body president.
“Obviously the students decided who
they wanted as their leader,” he said.
Morrison said the campaign had
been a clean one until the last few days.
“I think things turned into a partisan
attack,” he said.
“The office of (student body presi
dent) should be a non-partisan one. I
think this election has shown that the
campus is very divided.”
Though the runoff campaign lasted
for less than a week, Morrison attributed
partisan tendencies to the endorsements
from several student groups.
Progressive groups like Bisexuals,
Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for
Diversity and the Black Student
Movement endorsed Heinke, while the
conservative Carolina Review endorsed
r Hk >v i
A.— ySSfe —Jhi23fc—Lj&nHEsi^i —.—...——f i a I
DTH/MICHAEL KANAREK
Tar Heel freshmen (from left) Jason Capel, Kris Lang and Ronald Curry
have accounted for 28 percent of UNC's offensive output this season.
“We beat everybody, man,” Capel
shouted back. “Everybody.”
“Thank you." Lang smiled, satisfied
he had proven his case.
Throughout Capel and Lang’s bois
terous conversation, Curry quietly
worked on his jumpshot in a comer of
the Smith Center - isolated as if on
another planet.
I've got to follow them lam their leader.
Alexandre Ledru-Rollin
Wednesday, February 17, 1999
Volume 106, Issue 163
Morrison.
Confusion aiso arose last Thursday
after rumors circulated that ex-student
body president candidate Amanda
Greene would support Morrison in the
runoff race.
But Greene denied the rumors and
said that she and her campaign had not
made plans to endorse either candidate.
Morrison said he still wanted to
address the issues he had brought out in
his platform, but said he would not
serve on the executive branch next year.
“Right now I am just going to step
back and see how I can accomplish
these things,” he said.
Heinke said chalked his victory up to
the support he received from his cam
paign staff. “My first priority is to thank
a lot of people.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu
The scene did more than just capture
their personalities - the verbose Lang,
fun-loving Capel and reserved Curry. It
also epitomized the season for the trio.
Capel and Lang have been starters for
the majority of the season. Curry has
found significant time off the bench.
See MEN'S BASKETBALL, Page 7
\ -a
■ ■ > ..y 'HH
DTH/SEAN BUSHER
Brad Morrison shakes hands with Student Body President-Elect Nic
Heinke just after receiving the election runoff results Tuesday evening.
Students to Gain
419 Parking Spaces
With Reallocation
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
This fall, 419 additional University
subsidized parking spaces will be avail
able to students in the Chapel Hill and
Carrboro Park-and-Ride lots because of
a reduction in the number of spaces
allocated for University and UNC
Hospitals employees.
Students will be given a total of 914
parking spaces in the Park-and-Ride lots
in comparison to the 495 spaces stu
dents filled last year. The additional
spots will be located in the N.C. 54,
Southern Village/Eubanks, Carrboro
Plaza and Estes Drive lots, according to
a memo from Cheryl Stout, assistant
director of parking services for the
University.
Hospital employees are facing a net
loss of 166 subsidized spaces, while
University employees are losing 343
subsidized spaces due to the increase in
demand for student parking next year,
Li
Stout said.
She said she
recommended that
the Transportation
and Parking
Advisory
Committee allo
cate Park-and-
Ride spaces to stu
dents and employ
ees based on the
percentage of the
commuting popu
lation they made
up.
Though the
reallocation has
Director of Public
Safety
Derek Poarch
said employees could
still buy permits to
park in the lots.
not made employees happy, Director of
Public Safety Derek Poarch said hospital
employees would still be able to park in
Park-in-Ride lots, but it would come at a
cost.
“Though the hospital and University
See SPACES, Page 4
962-0245
962-1163
News/Features/Arts/Sports
Business/Advertising
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
6 1999 DTH Publishing Corp.
All rights reserved.
Students
Approve
25-cent Fee
Students voted to help fund
the N.C. Renaissance
outreach program on
Tuesday's referendum.
By Amy Stephens
and Patricia Wright
Staff Writers
A referendum to increase student
fees by 25 cents for the N.C.
Renaissance program overcame oppo
sition from some student leaders and
passed in Tuesday’s election.
Unofficial vote results Tuesday night
were 1,474 votes for the referendum and
919 votes against
it
Ellen Greer,
director of the
NCR program,
said she was
happy with the
results.
“We’re so excited that students have
shared our vision for serving the state,”
she said. “We have gotten past our first
hurdle.”
The NCR program, which relies on
private donations, encourages rural
high school students to attend college
by bringing
them to the
University dur
ing the summer.
Sixty-two per
cent of the votes
supported the
referendum. But
Student Body
President Reyna
Walters did not
R<f(-miiium
UnottwaMtesote -**.}**
N.C. Renaissance
Program
Yes 1,474 votes
61.6 percent
No 919 votes
38.4 percent
support the referendum because even
though she said it was a good program,
she said it should not be supported by
student fees.
She said the program had to be
approved by the Student Fee Audit
Committee and the Chancellor’s
Committee on Student Fees before final
approval by the Board of Trustees.
“Next year’s president will have to
put a lot of work into the program and
take the lead,” Walters said.
See REFERENDA, Page 4
Wodnacrfau
,i m w Cuilvj Uftj
Rock Me Amadeus
The music of Wolfgang Amadeus
Mozart will receive royal treatment at
the Camerata Academica Salzburg’s
concert tonight. The world-renowned
chamber orchestra will give its first
North Carolina performance in
Memorial Auditorium. See Page 6.
Back Talk
Negotiators sent an ultimatum to the
president of Yugoslavia on Tuesday
demanding that he sign a U.S. peace
agreement. Though the penalty for not
signing was not articulated, officials say
the threat was clear. See Page 9.
Head of the Class
Gov. Jim Hunt has called on the N.C.
business community to aid in his plan
to make state schools the best in the
nation by 2010. Hunt says stronger ties
between the two will lead to a better
education system. See Page S.
Today’s Weather
Increasing clouds;
Lower 70s.
Wednesday Clearing,
Lower 60s.