She Batlg uar Heel
The University and Towns
In Brief
Police Continue Search
For Suspect in Assault
A woman was forced into an aban
doned house and sexually assaulted
near the comer of West Franklin Street
and Merritt Mill Road early Sunday
morning. Chapel Hill police reports
state that a man with a knife forced the
woman into the house.
The suspect is described as a black
male, about 30 years old, 5-feet 8-inch
es tall, slender build, last seen wearing
red sweat pants and a gray sweat shirt.
The victim’s injuries were not life
threatening, according to reports.
Housing Registration
To Take Run on Web
Sign-ups for on-campus housing for
1999-2000 begin today at 7 a.m. and
continue until midnight Thursday for
students currently living on-campus.
The online registration option is
available for most students. Priority of
assignment does not depend on when
students access the sign-up Web site at
www.unc.edu/student/ and click on
Student Central. A prepayment of S2OO
is due before housing applications will
be processed. Students with questions
about eligibility should call 962-5401.
Professor to Speak on
Oxford Study Abroad
Dr. Christopher Armitage, director
of the Oxford Study Abroad Program,
will speak about this year’s trip to
Oxford, England at 4 p.m. today in 305
Greenlaw Hall.
The program allows students to study
Shakespeare at the University of
Oxford and view the plays in the coun
try in which they were written. Any stu
dent interested should attend the meet
ing-
-2 UNC Professors Win
Excellence Awards
■ Richard Blackburn, associate profes
sor of business, and Thomas
Warburton, professor of music, have
received the 1999 Johnston
Undergraduate Teaching Excellence
Awards.
Current Johnston Scholars nominate
faculty members for the award, which
gives $5,000 to each recipient.
Blackburn has taught at UNC since
1979 and now teaches courses on orga
nizational behavior. Warburton, who
joined the UNC faculty in 1969, teach
es courses in 20th century music, music
history and music theory.
Community Center
Needs Lifeguards
The Chapel Hill Community Center
has positions available for lifeguards
and swim instructors for the center’s
indoor pool.
Lifeguards can earn $7 to $8 an hour.
Requirements include having current
Red Cross Lifeguard, CPR and First
Aid certificates.
Swim instructors’ requirements are
the same as lifeguards, but a water safe
ty instructor’s certificate is also required.
Instructors can earn $11.50 an hour.
All those interested must apply by
April 5, 1999. For more information,
call 932-2964.
Abuse Support Groups
Offered by County
The Orange County Rape Crisis
Center is sponsoring four confidential
sexual abuse support groups free of
charge.
The groups include Friends, Family
and Partners of Sexual Assault/Abuse
Survivors Group, Adult Survivors of
Incest or Child Sexual Assault Group,
Rape or Sexual Assault Survivors
'Group and Parents of Children Who
Have Been Sexually Abused Group.
Enrollment is limited and pre-regis
;tiation is required.
- For more information or to register,
call the Orange County Rape Crisis
Center at 968-4647.
Volunteer Orange!
Needs Volunteers
Volunteer Orange!, a service of
Triangle United Way, has immediate
volunteer needs.
Volunteer needs include Spanish
speaking volunteers to serve as Crisis
Line Counselors, volunteers to help
develop and execute plans to landscape
new development in Chapel Hill, tutors
to teach illiterate and low-literate adults
to read and write, and ushers for special
Events and an art center.
Those interested can call 929-9837
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday,
Wednesday or Friday or e-mail volun
terrorange@mindspring.com.
From Staff Reports
Athletes Still Hospitalized After Car Accident
The two women's lacrosse
players from George Mason
University were in town for
their game against UNC.
By Hugh Pressley
Assistant Sports Editor
Two women’s lacrosse players from
George Mason University in Fairfax,
Va., remained in critical and good con
dition respectively on Sunday at Duke
University Medical Center, two days
after a car driven by a UNC student
Gay Activists Hold
Candlelight Vigil
By Daniele Eubanks
Staff Writer
A hymn of peace sounded above the
noise of traffic Sunday evening on
Franklin Street as gay and lesbian rights
activists and local clergy held a candle
light vigil to convince state officials to
protect their civil rights.
Charlie Kass, the minister at
Community Church of Chapel HHI,
said he and other local clergy had unit
ed with Equality of North Carolina, a
Raleigh-based activist group, in hopes
that the support of religious factions
would convince the N.C. General
Assembly to include sexual orientation
in the Orange County Civil Rights
Ordinance.
Sunday’s vigil coincided with
Equality Begins at Home Week, a week
of action in all 50 states on gay rights.
Kass spoke to a group of nearly 30
people in front of the Franklin Street
post office. He emphasized the inherent
worth and dignity of all human beings,
and supported his beliefs with a scrip
tural paraphrase from the Gospel of
Luke.
“We are to love God with all of our
heart, soul, mind and strength, and love
our neighbor as ourselves,” he said.
Kass said loving one’s neighbor
extended to granting civil liberties to
homosexuals.
Gloria Faley, an activist from Chapel
Hill, said the General Assembly reject
ed the sexual orientation clause when
the Orange County Civil Rights
Graffiti in Carmichael Residence Hall Targets 'Fags'
University maintenance had
the graffiti cleaned off the
wall and repainted it soon
after the Friday incident.
By Colleen Jenkins
Assistant University Editor
A slur targeting gays in Carmichael
Residence Hall shocked one UNC stu
dent Friday morning as she waited for
an elevator inside the hall.
Sarah
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when she saw “Fags Live Here” written
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Sangam, the South Asian awareness organization, held its annual Sangam Nite on Saturday. The evening
included dancing, skits and music displaying South Asian culture.
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struck the athletes as they walked across
the intersection of U.S. 15-501 and
Mount Moriah Road.
Laura Kenney, a GMU senior from
Hampstead, Md., suffered a critical head
injury and serious right lower leg injury,
and Liz Paoli, a GMU junior from
Monsey, N.Y., suffered a serious right
leg injury in the accident, said Jim
Bolognisi, director of public relations at
Duke University Medical Center.
The team, which was staying at the
hotel, was in town for a scheduled game
against North Carolina on Sunday. The
game was cancelled because of the acci
dent and will not be rescheduled, UNC
Ordinance was adopted five years ago,
and gay and lesbian rights activists had
been working to add it back.
“The clause is necessary to ensure the
community is safe for all,” she said.
Joe Herzenberg, a Chapel Hill resi
dent, also said the clause needed to be
added.
“There is discrimination against gay
people but the ordinance doesn’t deal
with that," he said.
The vigil participants wore gold
paper stars, like the ones worn by Jews
in Nazi Germany, to draw an analogy
about discrimination and its effects.
Rabbi John Friedman, of the Judea
Reformed Congregation, said human
beings did not have to like each other,
but should treat each other with respect
“Just as God is infinitely holy, so too
every human being is of infinite value,”
he said. “ We should look into each
other’s eyes as if looking into the face of
God.”
Friedman and the other clergy said
that if the sexual orientation clause was
adopted, the dignity of an important sec
tor of society would be protected.
As the vigil drew to a close, the par
ticipants sang: “We are gentle, loving
people, and we are singing, singing for
our lives. We are gay and straight
together and we are singing, singing for
our lives.”
The group will hold another vigil at 7
p.m. Wednesday artht Capitol.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
mately 8-inch letters with a dry erase
marker that she found by the water
fountain, Levin-Richardson said. “I was
shocked," she said. “It’s really surprising
because I thought it could never happen
at Carolina.”
Richardson showed her roommate,
freshman Amanda Hall, the graffiti.
Hall then called and reported the
incident to the resident assistant on duty
because Levin-Richardson had to catch
her bus. Hall said the RA was not very
helpful but the student working at the
Carmichael Area Office was much more
concerned. “It just makes me really sad
that someone has that lack of under
standing, and it makes me a little fright
ened as well,” Hall said.
Rebecca Casey, assistant director of
University housing, said emergency
maintenance was sent to clean the walls
and had them repainted by 10 a.m.
Friday.
She said the Carmichael residence
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coach Jenny Slingluff-Levy said.
The two were hit when a 1991 Toyota
Corolla heading east in the far right lane
of U.S. 15-501 at 3:30 p.m. Friday skid
ded into the two women, who were
going back to Homestead Suites Hotel
from shopping at New Hope Commons,
a Durham police report stated.
“We’re shocked and saddened to hear
of the unfortunate accident involving Liz
and Laura,” said Tim O’Connor, director
of athletics at GMU. “Our thoughts and
prayers are with them, their parents and
their teammates at this difficult time.”
Durham police confirmed that nei
ther drugs nor alcohol played a part in
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Gay and lesbian rights activists joined local religious leaders for a vigil
in front of the Franklin Street post office Sunday. The gathering was to
call for the inclusion of sexual orientation in civil rights legislation.
“It just makes me really sad
that someone has that lack of
understanding, and it makes me
a little frightened as well.”
Amanda Hai l
Freshman
staff filed a report with University Police,
who would conduct an investigation.
Maj. Jeff McCracken, who was not
involved with the case, said investigators
would talk to anybody that might have
information regarding the case. He said
the person responsible could be charged
with damage to state property and with
the costs of cleaning the walls.
McCracken said the graffiti he had
seen on campus before had not target
ed a specific group but had been gang
related or involved school rivalry.
the accident. Traffic investigator L.L.
O’Brien said the two players were cross
ing the intersection in a north-to-south
direction while the light was red and had
made it across four westbound lanes of
the highway. When Paoli and Kenney
reached the midpoint of the five east
bound lanes toward Outback
Steakhouse, they realized the light was
green and began to hurry across the
remaining lanes.
O’Brien said the driver of the Toyota,
UNC senior Paul Suh, of 500 Umstead
Drive, told police he had the green light
and did not see the pedestrians until the
last minute when he slammed the
In her three years at UNC, Casey
said she had never seen this type of
thing happen. “It’s rather unusual We
can’t tolerate this type of behavior.”
lan Palmquist, co-chairman of the
Queer Network for Change, said he had
been personally targeted with this type
of thing before. During his freshman
year, someone slid a note under his door
in Hinton James Residence Hall.
“Housing throws so many diverse
backgrounds into such close environ
ments that it’s where people’s prejudices
come out,” he said.
The incident came as QNC prepared
for Celebration Week, a week dedicated
to celebrating queer sexuality.
“This is just another example of how
much work needs to be done on this
campus to make sure it’s safe for queer
students.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
Three Applicants
Vie for DTH Editor
Applicants for the next DTH
editor want to improve the
paper's quality through
interaction with students.
By Sharon Luo
Staff Writer
For three students vying to become
the next editor of The Daily Tar Heel,
plans to improve the newspaper’s qual
ity are a priority.
“I’m glad these students want to get
involved and make the paper better,”
DTH Editor Sharif Durhams said.
Jim Martin, Rob Nelson and
Courtney Weill have applied to be the
DTH’s 133rd editor.
Martin, currently an editorial colum
nist, said he wanted to make coverage
more in-depth.
“Instead of saying ‘this is what hap
pens,’ the DTH should explain why it’s
Monday, March 22, 1999
breaks, causing the car to skid.
Police are still investigating the inci
dent and said no charges had been filed
in the accident. Suh said he did not wish
to talk about the incident until the police
had finished the investigation.
Traffic often cloggs the two main east
bound lanes and two left turn lanes into
New Hope Commons, police said.
However the fifth lane, in which the two
lacrosse players were hit, often
remained clear, and many drivers used
the lane to pass other traffic.
The Sports Editor can be reached
atsports@unc.edu.
Officials
Help Raise
New Roofs
Habitat for Humanity began
construction of an 11 home
project in the Rogers Road
area of Chapel Hill.
By Jacob McConnico
Assistant City Editor
Local, state and federal representa
tives turned out Saturday to help
Habitat for Humanity of Orange
County raise the first wall at New
Homestead Place.
The development, located off Rogers
Road in Chapel Hill, will provide 11
new affordable homes for families in
need according to John Cotterman,
Habitat office manager.
“The goal is to address the need for
affordable housing in Chapel Hill,”
Cotterman said.
The project broke ground in May
1998 and is being supported by 11 part
nerships that include churches, profes
sional groups, service clubs and Greek
organizations, he said.
Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., said this
project demanded his attention because
affordable housing was an important
issue throughout the nation.
“I think it is critical that (elected offi
cials) do everything in our power to pro
vide affordable housing,” Edwards said.
Deborah Harris, the first homeown
er in the development, said she was
overwhelmed by the amount of com
munity support “This program has
offered me an opportunity of a lifetime
of homeownership,” she said.
Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird, D-Orange,
said it was important because it provid
ed 11 affordable homes on one road.
“That broad vision is the only way we
are going to solve the housing problem.
This fills a great need because the dis
parity of people who can’t afford hous
ing in this area is growing,” she said.
Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary
Waldorf said that although the land was
already zoned for a subdivision, the
town had worked to provide funds for
the project. “We had to redirect some of
the federal funding we receive for hous
ing to make this program possible,”
Waldorf said.
Rich Leber, Habitat board member,
said the homes cost $15,000 in raw
materials and another SIO,OOO in land
acquisition costs.
Matt Cobb, a spokesman for Pi
Kappa Alpha fraternity, said his part
nership had raised $25,000 and would
work on the third house. Phi Kappa
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happening and why it’s important to the
reader,” said Martin, a junior from
Charlotte.
He said he also wanted to get readers’
input through surveys and forums.
If elected, Martin said he wanted to
tie the paper’s editorial content together
with visual elements. “The paper should
have probing copy with enlightening
graphics and pictures that accompany
and complement,” he said.
Weill, who is currently the DTH’s
state & national editor, said she wanted
to “jazz up” the DTH and make it more
reader-friendly.
“The paper has gotten boring,” said
Weill, a junior from Raleigh. “Right now
people glance at the front page and then
flip to the crossword.”
Weill said she wanted the paper to
attract readers by adding more pho
tographs and graphics.
Weill added that she also wanted to
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