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Men: No High Heels
In UNO's Top Rooms
Residents in Old East and
Old West say they want fair
compensation if they are
forced to move.
Bv Pall Hobson
Staff Writer
Some Old East and Old West resi
dents believe letting women move in
would destroy strong friendships, dis
rupt substance-free housing in Old West
and offer poor compensation to resi
dents displaced by incoming women.
So about 70 men met Monday night
with student representatives to protest
letting women
move into the tra
ditionally male res
idence halls.
“We don’t want
them,” Matt
Belskie, a sopho
more living in Old
West, said before
the meeting.
Student Body
Vice President
“The cost is more than
women on tours saying
‘Aw, shucks. I guess I can V
live here.
Emily Williamson
Student Body Vice President
Emily Williamson and Residence Hall
Association President David Jernigan
drafted a proposal last week that would
allow women to live in the residence
halls.
Kym Orr, area director for Olde
Campus Upper Quad, said, “Old East
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Nora Wilson, left, a sophomore from Chapel Hill and Rekha Perumallu, a sophomore from
Goldsboro, examine a life-sized replica of a Barbie doll in the Pit on Monday. The Women's
Issues Network made the Barbie to illustrate how her body measurements are unrealistic.
Word Queer' Not Seen as Clean
Queer Network for Change
members say they will
rechalk their messages and
hang anew Pit banner.
By Colleen Jenkins
Assistant University Editor
The buckets and washcloths of the
Grounds Services Department and a
missing banner chalked up disappoint
ment for students trying to promote the
Queer Network for Change’s
Celebration Week on Monday.
QNC’s chalk messages written
around Polk and McCorkle places were
cleared away by the UNC grounds crew
after a supervisor decided the messages
were graffiti with inappropriate content.
“A professor asked the groundskeep
ers why they were cleaning it up and
they said they were told to remove it
because ‘queer’ is considered offensive,”
said Maia Kaplan, QNC co-chair
woman.
All things must change to something new, to something strange.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
and Old West have the strongest com
munity on campus.”
That sentiment was shared by resi
dents throughout the evening.
“To me, it’s senseless (to disrupt this
community),” said John Brothers, a res
ident assistant in Old West. “These guys
have developed into an enriched com
munity. They do everything together.”
But Williamson said the tradition
started because women were not admit
ted to UNC when the residence halls
opened. She said women needed the
option of living in the best residence
halls on campus. “This is a sacrifice that
needs to be made for the future of the
University,” she said. “The cost is more
than women on tours saying, ‘Aw,
shucks. I guess I
can’t live here.’”
But Bryan
Smith, a sopho
more living in Old
West, said today’s
male residents
shouldn’t have to
make that sacri
fice. “This punish
es men for past
sexism,” he said. “I
don’t like other people making decisions
that will affect my life like that.”
Jernigan said if the proposal was
adopted, it could take effect as early as
fall 2000, but Rep. Jason Arnold, Dist.
13, suggested easing residents into coed
life during the next four years.
QNC, formerly known as Bisexuals,
Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for
Diversity, became the group’s new
name after members decided to reclaim
the word “queer,” giving it a positive
connotation. “We want to know if they
are going to remove anything with our
name on it now,” Kaplan said.
Associate Vice Chancellor Bruce
Runberg said the University allowed
chalk messages as long as they were in
good taste. “But what is good taste to
one individual may not be to another.
“If this is going to become an issue,
then we’re going to give (grounds ser
vices) a more definitive policy to avoid
awkward situations,” he said. “Their
goal is to keep the campus beautiful, but
we don’t want to impede on anyone’s
First Amendment rights.”
QNC’s Celebration Week banner
was found missing from the Pit by 8 a.m.
Monday, after the group had finished
hanging it a few hours earlier.
“You could see a little comer of black
material left so it had obviously been
cut,” Kaplan said. “We tied it to bricks,
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Freshman John Clark protests the possibility of female students moving into Old East and Old West residence
halls. Clark joined other residents Monday evening to discuss the issue with student representatives.
Arnold said the change could be post
poned until the 2003-2004 academic
year, giving this year’s freshmen the
chance of full four years of camaraderie.
Arnold suggested the delay as a
“worst-case scenario,” preferring the all
male tradition of Old East and Old
West.
While Spencer Residence Hall will
house men in fall 1999, opening the
other Spencer-Triad residence halls -
Kenan, Mclver and Alderman - to men
Pit-Sit Blasts Barbie Body
By Angela Mers
Staff Writer
A life-sized Barbie doll with a 42-inch bust and
pictures of students’ favorite body parts grabbed
people’s attention in the Pit on Monday afternoon
during the beginning of the second annual
Women’s Week.
To kick off the week, the Women’s Issues
Network held Happy Body Day to celebrate the dif
ferences in people’s bodies.
WIN Member Nora Wilson said, “Happy Body
Day is about saving everyone is beautiful in a dif
ferent way, and the diversity of different body forms
is the most beautiful way people are.”
Members from WIN asked students in the Pit
what their favorite body parts were and why for a
display to appear in the Student Union this week.
Sarah Brady, Women’s Week chairwoman, said
WIN took pictures of people’s favorite body parts
to stress that a perfect body did not exist. “We are
trying to display the parts of people’s bodies they
love the most even if they are imperfect according
to society’s and cultural standards,” she said.
Junior Rekha Perumallu from Goldsboro took a
picture of her teeth as her favorite body part.
She said she used to think her teeth were too big
but later realized she had no reason to dislike them.
“(Realizing that my teeth were normal) just
showed me that everyone is critical of themselves,
and that we all have imperfections that really aren’t
and the bricks were moved so you could
tell it hadn’t blown awav.”
QNC members called UNC police
and filed a report. “We already made a
second banner, and we’re going to re
chalk tonight,” she said.
The banner listed the activities sched
uled for QNC’s Celebration Week,
which was designed to bring the issues
faced by queers to the forefront of the
University community, QNC Co-chair
man lan Palmquist said.
“In some ways, I think both of these
events are helping us reach our goal by
demonstrating that Carolina is not as tol
erant as it’s made out to be,” he said.
Kirk Pelland, director of grounds ser
vices, said he did not make the call to
remove the chalk messages but heard on
his two-way radio that they were inap
propriate. “There is not a policy about
using chalk on sidewalks,” he said. “If
it’s offensive, we’re going to remove it. If
it’s not, we try to make sure it doesn’t
have a dominating presence.”
See QNC, Page 6
was a popular concession.
“I think they should leave (the resi
dence halls all-male),” said Bill Pate, a
sophomore in Old Blast. “If they change
it, let guys live in Triad dorms.”
While the proposal aims to preserve
“strong female communities" in the
Triad, Williamson said she was willing to
open the residence halls to men, partic
ularly those displaced from Old East or
Old West.
Daniel Waters, a freshman living in
Athlete Housing Bumps
Students From Rooms
By Carrie Callaghan
Staff Writer
The Department of University
Housing has shut the door on some stu
dents in Ehringhaus Residence Hall
who will lose their current rooms to
grant-in-aid recip
ient athletes.
Although
online registration
for housing began
Monday, students
losing their rooms
were only notified
last week.
Forty of
Ehringhaus’
rooms are among
those designated
to grant-in-aid
scholarship ath
letes, who get
complete or par-
Director of University
Housing
Wayne Kund
said students should
have been notified of
the program sooner.
Old West, said residents forced out of
the halls should be given rooms in other
residence halls that were equally nice.
Smith said those supporting the pro
posal did not understand the costs at
stake. “We’re the guys that have to make
that sacrifice. They don’t We do.”
Meredith Drye contributed to this
story.
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
imperfections at all,” Perumallu said.
Linda Chapowski, a member of WIN, took a pic
ture of her stomach because she used to feel inse
cure about it but now her stomach is one of her
favorite body parts.
“I hope people will see the variety’ of women’s
bodies that exist naturally,” she said. “I just want to
show people that this is what real bodies are like.”
WIN members and students built the life-sized
Barbie doll with the measurements of a 42-inch
bust, an 18-inch waist and 33-inch hips. The aver
age measurements of a women are a 35-inch bust, a
26-inch waist and 37.5-inch hips.
Wilson helped make the doll out of cardboard
and styrofoam. She said a lot of women who played
with Barbie dolls as children were influenced to
think Barbie had the ideal body.
“(The life-sized Barbie doll) cannot even walk,”
she said. “If she was real, she would have to walk on
all fours.”
Brady said looking like a Barbie doll was an unat
tainable idea.
“You should love your body the way it is and you
should not try to change your body,” she said.
Sarah Lewis, a junior from Greenville, said that
after seeing how disproportionate the life-sized
Barbie doll was, she was thankful for not looking
like the doll. “It was nice to see that something that
has been held up as a standard of beauty for so long,
See WOMEN, Page 6
tial rent payment, said Rebecca Casey,
assistant director of University housing.
Wayne Kuncl, director of University
housing, said the rooms were reserved
for the Department of Athletics to assign
to athletes, but sometimes not the all the
rooms were used. The housing depart
ment gives those to other students for
the year.
“There will be a handful of rooms
that we don’t use for grant-in-aid ath
letes that we assign to other students,"
he said.
These rooms are then recalled for use
by athletes of any sport at the end of the
year, resulting in the displacement of
some students, Kuncl said. Kuncl said
he did not know how many students
would be removed.
Both students displaced by the grant
in-aid athletes and the First-Year
Initiative program, whose participants
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Gay Judge
Celebrates
Lifestyle
A School of Law alumnus
returned to talk about his
'honestly gay' life since
announcing it in December.
By Amy Stephens
Staff Writer
While Republican Judge Ray Warren
opted for honesty when he announced
he was gay in December, members of
his party and even his family have
denounced his action and his lifestyle.
On Monday, Warren returned to
UNC, where he graduated from the
School of Law in May 1983, to talk
about the dramatic changes his life has
taken since his announcement.
Warren, the state’s only openly gay
elected Republican and its only openly
gay judge, told a group of about 25 law
students and faculty members he made
his announcement because he wanted
to exercise as much control as possible.
“I decided to pull that trigger myself
because it was better for myself, my
family and my children to determine
when was the right time,” he said.
Warren’s announcement created a
divide between him and state
Republican party leaders. Lee Currie,
the party’s executive director, publical
ly accused Warren of betraying
Republicans’ trust and described him as
having participated in “deviant and
destructive behavior.”
Warren’s mother made radio appear
ances denouncing the gay movement
for having sucked in her son as she
insisted he really was not gay.
Aside from the hype surrounding
him and his role as a judge, Warren
appears just a man in his early 40s wear
ing a shirt and tie. He said he loved
country music, a point obvious in the
version of “I Should Have Been a
Cowboy" which he played for his audi
ence. “I want to stress more than any
thing to be open to what life has to offer,
because when I was a conservative law
student here 17 years ago, being a pub
lic gay figure was just not on my radar.
“I like to think of myself as honestly
gay. The experience has been a lot
more positive than you would think.”
Warren attained his undergraduate
degree from UNC-Wilmington before
graduating from from UNC’s School of
Law. He went on to serve in the N.C.
House and has been a Superior Court
Judge since 1988.
Warren and Leigh Berryhill, his wife
of 11 years, separated in September, but
he said they were still on good terms,
and he was very much involved in the
lives of his 8-year-old daughter and 6-
year-old son. “Three weeks ago when I
broke up with my boyfriend, my wife
called me three times to see if I was
okay,” he said with a laugh.
See JUDGE, Page 6
Tennis Anyone?
North
Carolina’s
women’s
tennis team
crushed
Furman on
Monday for
its fourth consecutive victory. The Tar
Heels, who pushed their season mark
to 9-3, begin conference play Thursday
against Duke. See Page 7.
Every Move You Make
A proposal to install several cameras
to monitor activity around the Franklin
Street post office and in the Rosemary
Street parking garage is not enough
bang for the buck, say some Chapel
Hill officials. See Page S.
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