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Police
Roundup
University
Saturday, March 20
■ A Texas A&M University student
was arrested Saturday for breaking and
entering, larceny and damage to prop
erty, police reports state.
Michael Watkins, 21, of Spring,
Texas, claimed a 1993 Toyota Camry in
Swain Visitor lot was his and that he
was waiting for friends to arrive and
give him a ride, reports state.
Two men arrived and said the car’s
driver-side window was shattered and
that Watkins was reaching into the car,
reports state.
According to reports, police arrived
and found Watkins concealing a cut on
his right hand and found a parking sign
uprooted and laying on the ground.
Police searched Watkins and found a
flashlight that one of the men claimed
was his, reports state. Watkins was
arrested, taken before a magistrate and
placed on a $2,100 secured bond.
Friday, March 19
■ A student reported $65 stolen
from her purse in Joyner Residence
Hall, police reports state.
Reports state that the student said she
left her room at 9 p.m. to do laundry,
leaving the door unlocked.
She returned and found her purse
moved, reports state.
■ University police responded to a
report of smoke in Research Building A,
a research trailer on Mason Farm Road,
according to police reports.
Someone had heated para-formalde
hyde in room 116, and the chemical
reacted by smoking, reports state.
Reports state the room was evacuat
ed and aired out.
■ A University employee reported a
blue-green 1995 Jaguar XJ6 stolen from
the Water Tower lot Friday afternoon,
police reports state
The employee claimed his wife
parked the car in the lot that morning,
but when he came to get it, it was gone,
reports state.
City
Saturday, March 20
■ Tamara Jean Allison, 36, of 1600
Anderson St. Apt. Dl, Durham, was
arrested and charged with one misde
meanor count DWI and one misde
meanor count of possession of marijua
na, Chapel Hill police reports state.
Police found Allison in possession of
8 grams of marijuana. She also regis
tered a 0.15 on the intoxilyzer, reports
state. She was held on SSOO bond and is
scheduled to appear in Orange County
District Court in Chapel Hill on April
27.
■ Two victims were held at gunpoint
while a suspect demanded one victim’s
wallet, Carrboro police reports state.
At 9:55 pm, Saturday night, a tall,
slender, black male, about 20 years old,
wearing dark pants, a dark jacket and
ball cap approached two victims at Old
Well Apartments and pulled a silver-col
ored automatic pistol on them. The sus
pect ordered them to get on the ground.
As the two victims laid down, the sus
pect put the pistol to one of the victim's
heads and demanded the victim’s wal
let. The victim reached to get his wallet
and then knocked the gun away from
his head and both victims began run
ning. The suspect fired several shots at
them and then disappeared, reports
state. Carrboro Police have no further
information at this time.
Friday, March 19
■ Eric Campbell Nelson, 16, of 107
Yukon Lane, was arrested by Chapel
Hill police and charged with one mis
demeanor count of possession of a
weapon on school campus, police
reports state.
Nelson, a student at East Chapel Hill
High School, 500 Weaver Dairy Rd.,
brought a switchblade knife on school
grounds, March 3.
He is scheduled to appear in Orange
County District Court in Hillsborough
on March 29.
■ Jerry' Alan Helisek, 31, of 605
Jones Ferry Rd. Apt. 552, and bartender
at BW-3 Restaurant, located at 206 W.
Franklin St., was cited and charged with
one misdemeanor count of selling a
malt beverage to a person under 21
years of age, police reports state.
He is scheduled to appear in Orange
County District Court in Hillsborough
on April 19.
■ Steve Douglas Hunt, 23, of 1436
Sedwser Rd., Durham, manager of
Silent Sam’s, located on 205 E. Franklin
St., was cited and charged with one mis
demeanor count of selling a malt bev
erage to a person under 21 years of age,
police reports state.
He is scheduled to appear in Orange
County District Court in Hillsborough
on April 19.
Officials Mull Adoption of New Labor Code
The Fair Labor Association
Code has met opposition
because it does not include
full disclosure of factories.
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
Although some UNC officials are
considering approval of anew labor
code, some students continue to raise
their voices in protest, making adminis
trators hesitant to give the code the
University’s seal of approval.
The Licensing Labor Code Advisory
Committee met Monday to discuss the
FLA Mailing Aims
To Rally Campuses
The Fair Labor Association,
supported by the apparel
industry, seeks to prevent
sweatshop conditions.
By Courtney Weill
State & National Editor
The American Council on Education
mailed information to more than 1,800
members on how colleges and universi
ties can affiliate with the Fair Labor
Association, which will monitor apparel
company compliance with a workplace
code of conduct.
The FLA, established by the Apparel
Industry Partnership, seeks to ensure
that licensed products are not produced
under sweatshop conditions.
Since the college recruitment initia
tive began, 17 schools have pledged to
affiliate with the FLY, including Duke
University and Princeton University.
Colleges that join the FLA by May 1
can participate in the formation of an
advisory council and vote for the initial
college representative to the FLA board,
according to an ACE press release.
“A number of colleges and universi
ties have expressed the hope that they
could participate in some kind of nation
al approach to these issues,” ACE
President Stanly Ikenberry stated.
“The FLA has adopted a code of con
duct and, through its professional staff,
will administer a carefully prescribed
monitoring process to assess compliance
Information School Focuses on Students
Officials at UNO's School of
Information and Library
Sciences credited its rank
partly to accessible faculty.
By Umlr Tuncer
Staff Writer
Tucked away in the corridors of
Manning Hall, a class of 35 students
tackles new approaches to gathering,
organizing and disseminating data.
The students are disciples of the
UNC School of Information and
Library Sciences, which recently moved
up from its 1996 second place ranking to
earn the distinction of being tied for the
Officials Ponder Plan
To Study Intersection
A Friday accident on U.S.
15-501 has some worried
about the pedestrian
safety of an intersection.
By Hugh Pressley
Assistant Sports Editor
Four days after two women’s lacrosse
players from George Mason University
in Fairfax, Va., were hit by a car at a busy
highway intersection in Durham, area
officials are trying to determine whether
they need to modify the intersection to
make it more pedestrian-friendly.
Laura Kenney, a GMU senior from
Hampstead, Md., and Liz Paoli, a GMU
junior from Monsey, N.Y., were hit at
3:30 p.m. Friday. A 1991 Toyota
Corolla, driven by UNC senior Paul
Suh, heading east in the far right lane of
U.S. 15-501 skidded into the two women
as they walked south on Mount Moriah
Road across the nine-lane highway, a
Durham police report stated.
The women, who remained in critical
Fair Labor Association Code, which
seeks to provide fair working conditions
in sweatshops. But some students said
they were reluctant to adopt the code
because it did not include full disclosure
of sweatshop locations.
So far, 17 schools have committed to
the FLA, including Duke, Princeton and
Arizona universities. UNC and the
University of Michigan are currently
deciding whether they will join the FLA
Rut Tufts, director of auxiliary ser
vices and co-chairman of the LLCAC,
said approving the FLA code was a
good move. “I personally think that it is
the channel through which UNC can
make a difference in the factories with
concern to their licensing,” he said.
of companies with these standards.”
Chancellor Michael Hooker said
ACE’s approach was not unusual.“lt’s
what the ACE does,” he said. “It takes
policy positions on higher education.”
Hooker said he handed over the
ACE materials to Director of Auxiliary
Services Rut Tufts and the Licensing
Labor Code Advisory Committee and
expected a recommendation in the next
two to three weeks.
Marion Traub-Wemer, a senior active
in UNC’s Students Against Sweatshops,
said the organization appealed to most
college administrators.
“They see it as the easiest way to do
the monitoring of a code of conduct,”
she said. “It keeps them in good graces
with major licensing companies that are
participating, like Nike and Reebok.”
But student activists are worried
about the FLA’s lack of public account
ability, Traub-Wemer said.
“We see it as an industry-controlled
initiative that universities would have
very little real power in,” she said.
Traub-Wemer said the code was not
stringent enough because it failed to
require full disclosure of factory loca
tions.
After 17 universities announced their
intentions to join the FLY last week, stu
dents complained that they had been
misrepresented as supporting the uni
versities’ decision to join the association.
“This was never what students want
ed,” Traub-Wemer said. “By saving it
was, it was a slap in the face to students."
After acknowledging the student con-
best school of library sciences in the
nation.
According to a ranking released by
the U.S. News & World Report, UNC
shared the distinction with the
University of Illinois at Urbana-
Champagne, which held the ranking
alone in the previous report, released
three years ago.
The school offers a master of science
in Library Science, a master of science
in Information Science, and an under
graduate minor in Information Systems.
All three degree programs are
extremely competitive, said Melissa
Cain, development director for the
school. A total of 230 students are
enrolled in the master’s programs, while
only 60 students are pursuing a minor in
and good condition, respectively, at
Duke University Medical Center on
Monday, were going back to
Homestead Suites Hotel - the team’s
hotel - from a shopping trip at New
Hope Commons, police said.
The intersection of Mount Moriah
Road and U.S. 15-501 where the two
women were hit has no crosswalks nor
sidewalks, nor signs that warn drivers of
pedestrian activity in the area
“With the development that is in that
area, it’s only logical that we’re probably
going to see more pedestrian activity,”
said Mark Ahrendsen, Durham’s trans
portation manager. “It started out that it
first had been a more auto-related area
with Horae Depot and New Hope
Commons being there. Now with all die
motel development in the area, it’s not
unlikely to see more pedestrian activity.”
And with all the development on that
strip of highway, some say transporta
tion officials should develop a plan to
make the intersection easier for pedes
trians to cross.
“People from here all know about
that intersection, but for visitors coming
News
However, the FLA code does not
require companies to release the exact
location of their sweatshops to the pub
lic. This would allow human rights
groups to send monitors to check on the
working conditions in the factories, said
Marion Traub-Wamer, a member of
Students for Economic Justice.
In February, students protested
Chancellor Michael Hooker’s approval
of the Collegiate Licensing Cos. code for
labor practices, claiming the statement
was not harsh in regulating factory con
ditions. The CLC does not provide full
disclosure. Tufts said he preferred the
FLA code because UNC was interested
in enlisting the help of as many univer
sities as possible, and the FLA included
Cracking Down on Sweatshops
The American Council on Education mailed out information on how colleges could affiliate
with the Fair Labof Association, designed to assure products are not produced in sweatshops
Fair Labor Association Workplace Code of Conduct
■ There shall be no forced labor, whether m the form of prison labor, indentured iabot bond
ed labor or otherwise.
■ No person shaft be employed under the age of 15, or younger than the age for completing
compulsofy education in the country of manufacture where such age is higher than 15.
■ No employee shall be subject to any physical, sexual, psychological or verbal harassment or
abuse.
■ No person shall be subject to any discrimination in employment inducting hiring, salary
benefits, advancement, discipline, termination or retirement on the basts of gender, race, age,
disability, sexual orientation, nationality, political opinion or social or ethnic origin.
■ Employers shall provide a safe and healthy working environment to prevent accidents and
injury to health.
■ Employers shall pay employees at least the minimum wage required by local law or the
prevailing industry wage, whichever is higher, ami shall provide legally mandated
benefits.
■ Except in extraordinary business circumstances, employees shall not be required to work
more than the lesser of (a) 48 hours per week and 12 Hour overtime or (b) the limits on
regular and overtime Hour allowed by the law of the countiy of manufacture.
■ In addition to their compensation for regular hours of work, employees shall be
compensated for overtime hours at such premium rate as is legally required in die countiy of
manufacture or if these laws do not exist at a rate at least equal to their regular hourly
compensation rate.
SOUK£ AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EDUCATION
cems,Jim Wilkerson, director of licens
ing and stores operations at Duke, said
Duke also disagreed with some aspects
of the code but supported the broad
goals of the FLA.
“We support it because it is the most
comprehensive, credible and balanced
monitoring program that exists today
...,” he said. “We intend to shape the
future of that institution by working
from the inside instead of criticizing or
disparaging it publicly."
Wilkerson emphasized that colleges
still could insist on more stringent
requirements separated from the FLA
Information Systems. She said the
school had turned away people with 3.6
grade point averages in the past.
Cain said the strong student-faculty
relationship in the school contributed to
the high ranking. “One reason we’re No.
1 is because our faculty is so accessible
to students,” Cain said. “We often talk
about not wanting to lose that.”
Greg Newby, an assistant professor in
the school, said he was impressed by the
small class sizes. But he added that class
size did not play a major role in the
ranking criteria.
Cain said that earning the high rank
ing was not an easy task.
“All of us wanted to be No. 1,” Cain
said. “But like everything, there’s a lot of
competition to be No. 1 so it’s a great
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DTH/VICTORIA ECKENRODE
Officials are examining this busy intersection of U.S. 15-501 and Mount Moriah Road to see if it should be
made safer for pedestrians. Two college students were hit while crossing the highway Friday.
from out of town, they may not know
how potentially dangerous that intersec
tion can be,” said UNC women’s
lacrosse coach Jenny Slingluff-Levy,
schools not covered under the CLC title.
There are 160 schools in the CLC now.
Students for Economic Justice and
Students for a Responsible Global
Environment demanded in February
that Hooker amend the CLC code to
include full public disclosure and a liv
ing wage for workers.
Lome Bradley, a member of Students
for Economic Justice and LLCAC, said
UNC should not approve the FLA code
because it did not require that sweatshop
locations be disclosed. “The students
here at UNC would like to see a com
mitment to full public disclosure and a
living wage agreement by the
University,” Bradley said.
The FLA provides for monitoring of
policy. “The Fair Labor Association has
no bearing whatsoever on Duke’s abili
ty to require full labor disclosure which
we will do with our individual con
tracts,” he said.
Wilkerson said the flood of criticism
of the FLA did nothing to improve the
conditions of workers in sweatshops.
“It’s time for the political agendas to
be set aside and for all of us to get on
with the work of monitoring the factory
locations.”
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honor when it happens.”
Newby said the school’s reputation
had made graduates popular in the job
market He said the school received calls
from corporations in the Research
Triangle Park offering jobs and intern
ships.
Smyth Lai, a senior psychology major
who minored in Information Systems,
said her minor provided a very strong
supplement to her major. “It looks a lot
better on my resume,” Lai said. “People
are a lot more impressed than just a psy
chology major alone.”
Joanne Marshall, the first-year dean
of the school, said skills limited to librar
ians in the past were useful in other
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who lives in Durham. “That right lane
where the two girls were hit, a lot of peo
ple use that lane for passing traffic.
“I think Durham needs to do some
Tuesday, March 23, 1999
the factories externally, by monitors
chosen by the FLA, and internally with
periodic checks on working conditions.
However, monitors report to the FLA,
rather than publicly disclosing informa
tion, according to the FLA code charter.
Tufts said while UNC could possibly
add the policy of full disclosure to the
code by negotiating with the FLA, the
current code served the University’s
needs. “The FLA, combined with the
contractual conditions that we have the
ability to put in place, appears to be, at
this point, the best implementation
process for the University.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
Projected
Enrollment
Figures Dip
A Board of Governors
committee recommended
that UNC grow by only
3,200 students by 2008.
By Amy Stephens
Staff Writer
University administrators said
Monday they were rethinking their
housing plans in the face of a Board of
Governors’ committee recommenda
tion that UNC take a smaller enroll
ment increase over the next 10 years.
While the Chancellor’s Enrollment
Task Force estimated in September that
UNC could accommodate 6,000 addi
tional students by 2008, the BOG’s
committee on educational planning,
policies and programs estimated Friday
that UNC would only need to take
3,200 students.
Susan Kitchen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said that regardless of
expected enrollment increase, the need
for more University’ housing would not
change. “The need for 1,000 bed spaces
by 2001 is still there,” she said. “We will
be dealing with other housing issues as
the enrollment numbers come in.”
Last fall, Chancellor Michael Hooker
said he wanted to add 1,000 beds to res
idence halls by 2001.
Associate Vice Chancellor Dean
Bresciani said while the Master Plan, a
blueprint for future campus develop
ment would not be greatly affected by
the new estimates for enrollment
increase, housing plans greatly depend
ed on enrollment. “The Master Plan
started prior to the announcements
about enrollment growth, so, theoreti
cally, the overall numbers should not
impact plans,” he said.
“In that sense, it won’t cause any
problems, but it is roughly half as many
students estimated to be attending, and
that has ramifications for housing. We
are going to need more housing regard
less of the growth. If these numbers are
correct, we will simply not build as
many new buildings.”
Bresciani said the 6,000 student
increase was a campus-based estimate
of how many students UNC could han
dle. “We gave our estimate to the BOG
as to how many we thought we ought to
take,” he said. “The BOG takes all the
campus estimates from all UNC cam
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thing - whether it be a crosswalk or an
overpass -and I think they will do
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