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Thursday, February 17, 2000
Anti-Sweatshop Protest Escalates, Students Maced
By Rachel Leonard
Staff Writer
Students at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison expected to meet
with Chancellor David Ward on
Wednesday to discuss the university’s
sweatshop monitoring policy.
Instead, they were met with mace.
About 150 people held a rally and
marched to the administrative building,
where they intended to join eight fellow
activists already occupying the
Chancellor’s office, said Ben Manski, a
member of the university’s Alliance for
Democracy.
Senior Molly McGrath said,“Our
demands (are) that they terminate mem
bership in the (Fair Labor Association),
join the (Workers’ Rights Consortium),
that we get a progress report of where
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tory locations.”
Manski said those in the office were
linked together with U-locks around
their necks. “The police came in with
bolt-cutters,” he said. “There was a con
frontation with the police, and about
half a dozen people were maced, two
were seriously injured.”
The confrontation occurred when
students tried to follow police into the
building. “The students were not vio
lent” Manski said. “One of the people
maced was a nonviolent-action trainer.”
As of Wednesday night, Manski said
the police were not allowing food, water
or other supplies to the people inside.
“It’s a serious situation,” he said.
UW-M graduate student John Peck,
one of the students maced, said, “the
police were really obnoxious. We were
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“There was a confrontation
with the police, and about half
a dozen people were maced; two
were seriously injured. ”
Ben Manski
Alliance for Democracy Member
just trying to follow them in ... they just
started macing people.
“The vice-chancellor was there - he
saw it all. He didn’t do anything. He told
them to get rid of us.”
Manski said there were 60 people in
the hallway planning to spend the night.
University police did not comment
other than to say they were on the scene.
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The protesters sought to convince
Ward to join the WRC. Ward has sup
ported the university’s membership in
the FLA, ignoring a recent vote by the
school’s Sweatshop Advisory
Committee that favored the WRC,
McGrath said.
Like the FLA, the WRC monitors
groups throughout the entire industry.
“That’s the only similarity,” Brakkan
said. “The FLA was created by corpora
tions as a PR move - its monitoring
structure is very top-down.”
In contrast, Brakkan said the WRC
monitoring structure had better inspec
tion procedures on a local level. “It was
created by people who honestly care
about workers,” he said.
The protest came shortly after some
University of Pennsylvania students won
Aldermen Hand Off
Subdivision Proposal
By Heather Tart
Staff Writer
The Carrboro Board of Aldermen
has not made a decision about whether
the Cheek subdivision planned to be
built near North Greensboro Street
meets town regulations.
The issue came before the board
because of complaints by residents. At
Tuesday’s meeting, the board voted to
transfer the decision to the Board of
Adjustments because the Cheek subdi
vision falls within its jurisdiction.
But the aldermen did not voice much
opposition to the planned subdivision.
“I don’t find myself greatly disturbed
by what I see on the plan,” Alderman
Allen Spalt said prior to Tuesday’s
meeting.
The layout of the proposal prompted
the aldermen to consider the issue. The
main concern expressed to aldermen
involved driveways for the subdivision,
the number of trees slated to be cut
down and the development’s compli
ance with Carrboro’s open-air policy.
The Board of Adjustment’s meeting
focused around deciding whether the
subdivision should be subject to regula
tions in place at the time plans were
submitted or at development time.
Concern over the driveways was that
the new development would increase
the use of Creek Street, which receives
about 381 trips per day according to the
Carrboro’s 1999 Average Daily Traffic
(ADT) information. Officials estimate
that the new development will increase
a similar battle against the FLA on
Tuesday night after nine days of protest
The move made the university the first
in the nation to withdraw from the FLA.
“What Penn did has been a motivat
ing factor,” Brakkan said.
UNC-CH students also protested the
University’s sweatshop policy last April,
until interim Chancellor Bill McCoy
agreed to their demands to disclose fac
tory locations.
But the UW story is taking a different
turn, students said. “The chancellor and
his police have chosen the wrong side in
the struggle over university involve
ment,” Manski said. “People in
Wisconsin believe that UW should be in
service to people, not to corporations.”
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traffic on the street by 84 trips per day,
which is within accepted capacity lim
its for streets such as Creek Street.
Additionally, concern arose over
Carrboro’s policy that 40 percent of all
area in developments should be left as
open or natural space in order not to
crowd the town. The Board of
Adjustments was informed that the
development exceeded open space
requirements by 15 percent.
Aldermen were asked to consider
two trees located on the lot which have
been slated for cutting if the develop
ment receives approval from the Board
of Adjustment on Wednesday night.
Both trees must be cut down in order to
meet Carrboro’s Land Use Ordinance.
At the Board of Adjustments meet
ing, Chris Murphey, development
review administrator, said the town staff
found that plans for the development
complied with the town’s open space
ordinance.
Richard Ellington, chairman of to
Board of Adjustments, said the
Wednesday night meeting was classified
as “quasi-judicial.” “This is a minor sub
division request,” he said of the project.
Murphey presented the Board of
Adjustments with a list of ways plans for
the development complied with and
violated town guidelines.
Two suggestions for improvements
were made, including stipulations for
lighting conditions.
Suggestions were also made to
improve architecture and design ele
ments for the development concerning
roof pitches, window sizes and front
porch widths. However, Murphey said
it was not possible for such changes to
be mandatory.
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A series of break-ins has
prompted police to step up
patrols downtown to
prevent future crimes.
By Jenny Rosser
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill police are investigating
four business break-ins that occurred in
the Franklin Street area during the last
week, two of which police believe are
related.
Chapel Hill police Lt. Marvin Clark
said the incidents could be connected,
but police had no suspects in the cases.
The most recent incident occurred at
about 2:45 a.m. Wednesday at Whims,
located at 122 E. Franklin St.
Whims owner Denise Kronberger
said she did not know what else her
business could have done to prevent the
break-in.
“We have a security system, but
when someone throws a rock through
the door, I don’t know how to prevent
that,” she said. “Maybe we could look
like New York and put bars on the
doors and windows.”
The other incidents occurred early
Monday morning, beginning at about
1:30 a.m. with the Mediterranean Deli,
located at 410 W. Franklin St. The lock
and the door of the restaurant were
damaged and money was taken.
Casual Woman, located next door at
412 W. Franklin St., was broken into at
about the same time. Cash was taken
from the register and a door was dam
aged.
The third break-in occurred at Zogs
Pool, located at 108 Henderson St., at
about 5 a.m. Monday. A window was
broken and money was also taken.
“We never rule out the possibility
that they are all related, but we know
the break-ins at Mediterranean Deli and
Casual Woman are definitely related,”
Clark said.
Clark said Chapel Hill was experi
encing an unusually large number of
breaking and enterings and larcenies at
local businesses and were taking extra
steps to prevent future problems.
“We are stepping up patrols in the
area and using all of our forensic tech
niques,” he said.
Clark said businesses could help pre
vent break-ins by not keeping currency
on hand. Some business managers in
the Franklin Street area said they were
not worried about the break-in frequen
cy, but others were concerned.
Kronberger said Whims lost about
$2,000 in money and damaged proper
ty. “I just hope they catch them soon.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.