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Sally ®ar UnT Business/i f EHBIO6 years of editorial freedom . Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Blue Devils Sweep UNC, ACC By Aaron Beard Senior Writer The warning signs had been there for weeks. Duke had won 23 consecutive games, overwhelming opponents in tidal wave- like fashion. N. o r t h Oarolin a, ineanwhile, had struggled to keep its Men’s Basketball Duke 81 UNC 61 head above water, pulling out three close wins against middle- and lower-tier ACC teams. Yet by virtue of the first meeting The Division of Water Quality will plug a nine-month loophole today that resulted in the draining of 6,000 acres of wetlands in North Carolina. By Eugene Wheeler Staff Writer C.B. Caroon has fished the waters of the Cape Fear River since his childhood on the North Carolina coast But Caroon, a 67-year-old retired fisherman, said the river quality would soon change. Disheartened by the recent loss of thousands of acres of wetlands in southeast ern North Carolina, he said the damage was incurable. “I’ve seen our river utterly devastated,” said Caroon, a former chairman of the Marine Fisheries Commission and a lifelong resident of Southport, a small town nestled at the mouth of the Cape Fear River. Many N.C. officials and residents, like Caroon, said wedand drainage was devastating to the state’s wildlife. Today will be bittersweet for Caroon and others both ered by the loss of the wetlands, as the N.C. Division of Water Quality will enact anew policy to monitor drainage activities in the state. This monitoring will put an end to a nine-month loop hole in federal laws that has resulted in more than 6,000 Court Delays RHA Lawsuit While Counsel Study Case By Jim Harris Staff Writer Rather than dismissing former RHA candidate Jermain Reeves’ suit naming Residence Hall Association President elect Murray Coleman, the Student Supreme Court ruled Saturday to delay hearing the case until March 17. Coleman, who moved for dismissal, will have to wait until then to hear from 27 witnesses testifying either for or against his case. RHA President David Jemigan said the continuance would hinder efforts to organize RHA organized for next year. “Last year, I appointed my (execu tive) board before Spring Break,” he said. “This year there won’t be a presi dent at the time to elect anyone.” Reeves and Coleman have until 5 p.m. today to submit their respective between the two teams - an 89-77 Duke win on Jan. 27 that was closer than the score indi- Duke Dominates Boards Against Bigger Tar Heels See Page 14 cated - there was hope and even opti mism that UNC would shake off recent struggles and apply the lessons learned from that loss to even the score Saturday night at the Smith Center. Instead the 14th-ranked Tar Heels found themselves lost amid a raging tempest of Duke rebounds, deft guard penetration and timely outside shooting. When the storm finally passed, No. 1 Duke had turned a 35-33 halftime edge A Draining Dilemma s&rL. mK. . ij. ■ . y'Yjfc VJ f** ImL [ I dr. JBmpM 'flBS -i ■ V. iMr if 1 Li’ A JL ) iMb -Lgff ij kaHk _ Mr. A,' •*, ■-i iK ■£ fit"- || PHOTO COURTESY OF SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENT LAW CENTER Environmental officials say that without the filtering mechanism of the wetlands, coastal water quality will be diminished. acres of drained wetlands in southeastern North Carolina. Much of the draining is being done by developers who will eventually build housing developments or retirement communities on the land. John Domey, head of the state’s wetlands unit, pre sented the new wetland draining policy to the Environmental Management Commission Water Quality Committee last month. The new policy, which takes effect today, will require all new wetland draining activities to be approved by the Division of Water Quality, he said. Dorsey said ditches created before today would not be affected by the policy unless developers violated water quality standards. Before June, the Tulloch Rule prohibited wetland drain ing without a permit from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Dorsey said. But the statute was overturned in June by a 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, which governs Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. Since the decision, at least 6,000 acres of wetlands have been drained. Before the ruling, North Carolina only 1 lists of witnesses to Chief Justice Calvin Cunningham. Reeves filed a suit against Coleman and Elections Board Chairwoman Heather Faulk cit ing improper con duct in the RHA presidential race. Coleman, a write-in candidate, was credited for fewer votes than Counsel for defendant Murray Coleman maintains he did not violate any campaign rules. Reeves until he challenged how gradu ate votes were counted. Due to the com plaint, Faulk disqualified graduate votes because she could not discern which graduates had payed fees to the RHA, Lawyers spend a great deal of time shoveling smoke. Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. Monday, March 1, 1999 Volume 107, Issue S to an 81-61 rout of the Tar Heels in front of a sellout crowd of 21,572 on Senior Day. The 20-point defeat was the worst ever for the Tar Heels in the 13-year his tory of the Smith Center. The win - Duke’s first in Chapel Hill since 1991 - was the Blue Devils’ biggest at UNC since a 104-69 win in 1964. The win also gave Duke (29-1,16-0 in the ACC) the first undefeated ACC reg ular season since Florida State became the ACC’s ninth team in 1992. The last team to go unbeaten in the league was UNC (14-0) in 1987. “Coming in I thought they were a great team, and they were even better which makes them eligible to vote. Reeves also said Coleman gained unfair support when Black Student Movement President Tamara Bailey sent a mass voice mail advocating Coleman. Coleman’s counsel Shawn Fraley said Coleman did not violate RHA election rules. “Murray had no idea of the voice mails until after the election. He had permission to hang up posters in all res idence halls except Morrison - which he took those posters down when notified,” Fraley said, emphasizing Coleman’s compliance with campaigning rules. Reeves’ counsel Laura Killinger said Fraley’s claims were unsubstantiated. “There is no knowledge of whether he had permission from residence halls or prior knowledge of voice mail,” she said. “A trial searches for fact, and the defen ce COURT, Page 2 than I thought,” UNC coach Bill Guthridge said. “I don’t think we’re as bad as we looked. We could’ve beaten a lot of teams tonight. But we certainly couldn’t beat Duke.” UNC will go to next week’s ACC Tournament in Charlotte as the No. 3 seed. The Tar Heels will face No. 6 Georgia Tech at 7 p.m. Friday. Duke’s domination of UNC (22-8, 10-6) came despite playing without start ing forward and third-leading rebound er Shane Battier, who was out with an ankle sprain. But the Devils didn’t miss a step; Duke blasted the Tar Heels on See MEN'S BASKETBALL, Page 11 allowed between 500 and 1,000 drained acres of wetland per year, Domey said. “These drainings are complete losses. There is no offset whatsoever,” he said. Domey explained that, under the Tulloch Rule, developers were required to fill in other lands to offset wetland loss. Dan Besse, environmental attorney and member of the Environmental Management Commission Water Quality Committee, said all the wetland losses were needless because the state had the rules to regulate wetland drainage even after the June rejection of the Tulloch Rule. With the overturning of the Tulloch Rule, the Corps of Engineers, which is dedicated to protecting the nation’s waterways and wetlands, was prevented from overseeing these activities, shifting the burden of monitoring to the understaffed and unprepared state government, Besse said. In 1996, North Carolina adopted laws that were stricter than federal laws, thus allowing the state to regulate wet land draining even in the nine-month absence of federal See WETLANDS, Page 2 Initiative Team to Repair Glitches in New Computers By Alexandra Molaire Staff Writer University officials are trying to fix glitches with a file transfer protocol pro gram and an antivirus computer pro gram before they become widespread problems with the Carolina Computing Initiative. Beginning in 2000, the initiative requires all incoming freshmen to pur chase laptop computers. University departments are also receiving IBM computers for classroom instruction. Steve Fearrington, associate director of distributed support for Academic Technology & Networks, said the FTP program that UNC computers support ed was a free product in the University’s system package. The program allows users to transfer files from one place to another, he said at a meeting Friday. Fearrington said the company that supplied the program would not guar OTH/CARABRICKMAN Duke's Trajan Langdon (left) and William Avery trap North Carolina freshman guard Jason Capel in the Blue Devils' 81-61 victory. Crackdown On Pit Policy Irks Students Three instances of students being removed from the Pit for violating UNC policies on sales have occurred in the last two months. By Amy Stephens Staff Writer An incident Friday marked the third time in two months that people have been kicked out of the Pit for being involved in business conflicting with University policy. Licensing Director Steve Brummett asked members of the UNC Men’s Club Track Team to stop selling T-shirts in the Pit for the UNC-Duke basketball game. Although the UNC team is an officially recognized orga nization and able to raise money for itself under the policy, Brummett said the Umstead Act prohibited the sale of mer chandise bearing the UNC logo without licensing approval. “We have to protect merchants in Chapel Hill so if anyone is going to sell merchandise with the UNC name to the public, they have to pay royalty on it and it must be made by a licensed manufacturer.” Mike Steiner, president of the Club Track Team, said he was surprised when Brummett confiscated 35 T-shirts because a week before, Brummett had told him he would let the team slide since they has just bought the shirts. The shirts featured the words “Beat Dook” and had a blue foot on the front and depicted a ram dunking a blue devil into a toilet on the back. “We ended up losing money on a fundraiser,” Steiner said. Another policy caused problems Thursday for senior Chris Crotty-. He unknowingly violated the Chancellor’s Facilities Use Policy by soliciting credit card applications in the Ffit in order to raise money for his mother’s cancer treatment. This is the second time the policy has been scrutinized. Varsitybooks.com, an online textbook distributor, violated the policy in January when it set up a table in the Pit to advertise prices. Director of Student Legal Services Dorothy Bemholz said the policy oftly allowed official student organizations to solic it or sell goods. “If the student organization is officially rec ognized and the funds they raise go back into that student organization, they are fine,” she said. The policy states: “All employees and nonaffiliated indi viduals and groups are prohibited from canvassing, selling, See CREDIT CARDS, Page 2 antee the program’s would read dates marked in programming by the two dig its 00 as the year 2000 and not 1900. “They’re not going to invest in the test ing to make sure its Y2K compliant” He said the initiative logistics team had advised the University to use the FTP program built into Windows ’9B, which the University’s computers already used, rather than the vendor’s FTP program. The team planned the delivery of computers to University departments, said Angela Eubanks, the team’s student representative. Eubanks said the team also continually evaluated the software used in all initiative computers. Linwood Futrelle, the director of dis tributed support for ATN, said checking for current problems within the initia tive prevented more serious ones from occurring later. “We’re trying to antici- See INITIATIVE, Page 2 962-0245 962-1163 News/Features/Arts/Sports Business/Advertising Chapel Hill, North Carolina © 1999 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. INSIDE Redefining Limits The Genera! Assembly is considering an amendment that would lengthen the terms of state senators from two years to four years and will create time limits for both short and long legislative sessions . See Page 4. Today’s Weather % Partly cloudy; Mid SOs. Tuesday Mostly sunny Lower 60s. Do It Yourself Applications to serve as editor of The Daily Tar Heel during the 1999- 2000 school year and to serve as a member of the committee that picks the editor are available at the DTH office in Union 104 and at the Student Union front desk. For more informa tion, cal! 962-0245.