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University
Saturday, April 8
■ A UNC student reported to police
that she was missing items placed on
her dresser in her residence hall room.
The student reported that she left two
keys, a credit card and a UNC ONE
card on her dresser March 1 and found
they were missing April 1.
She told police there were a large
number of people in the room the night
before she discovered the items were
gone.
There are no suspects or witnesses at
this time.
■ A UNC student, Cara Elizabeth
Reese of 1054 Morrison Residence
Hall, was issued a citation for possession
of marijuana and drug paraphernalia
after officers received a call in reference
to the smell of marijuana on the 10th
floor of Morrison Residence Hall.
Officers reported that when they
entered the suite, they detected a
strange odor of marijuana.
A female visitor saw the officers and
closed the door immediately, reports
stated.
After knocking and gaining permis
sion to enter the room, the police were
granted consent to search the room by
the resident.
Officers found a small amount of
drugs and paraphernalia.
Upon leaving the building, officers
discovered a marijuana joint outside the
room’s window. The suspect told police
she had thrown it out while the officers
were at the door.
The area director on call was notified
about the incident.
■ A student was walking on the side
walk near Saunders Hall when a tree
branch from above struck her on the
nose and face area, reports state.
When police arrived at the scene, the
student was alert and conscious and
bleeding from the nose.
A towel was applied to the victim’s
face and she was transported to Student
Health Service.
■ Officers responded to the Hanes
Visitor’s lot after being informed of a
vehicle damaged in the lot.
The police found a gray 1998 Saturn
with the windshield and hood area
damaged by a bowling ball-sized rock,
which still remained on the hood of the
vehicle.
The operator of the vehicle was noti
fied by UNC Department of Public
Safety via telephone.
Police have no known suspects, wit
nesses or motives at this time, according
to reports.
City
Monday, April 10
■ A Durham man was arrested for
various charges stemming from alcohol
consumption.
Farid Jamal Richards, of 4611 High
Meadow Road, was arrested by Chapel
Hill police for driving while intoxicated,
a misdemeanor, reports state.
At approximately 2 a.m. an uniden
tified resident warned police of an
assumed intoxicated man in a nearby
parked vehicle. At 2:19 a.m. police
found Richards passed out behind the
wheel of a vehicle. The motor was run
ning. Reports state the suspect was
given a field test to decipher the level of
intoxication. After responding miser
ably, reports said, Richards was arrest
ed and taken into custody.
He was released on a written
promise. A trial date has been set for
April 16 at district court in
Hillsborough.
Sunday, April 9
■ A disturbance late Sunday evening
at a local residence led to the arrest of
a Chapel Hill homeless man.
Joe Lewis Bradshaw, 38, who has no
known address, was arrested at
Chancellors Square Apartments for mis
demeanor assault on a female and
felony attempt of common law robbery,
police said.
Local authorities were called to the
scene by a resident of the apartment
complex. When they arrived at the
scene, they found a man soliciting
money from a young woman, Chapel
Hill spokeswoman Jane Cousins said.
Bradshaw asked the unnamed victim
for money and cigarettes, who refused.
He then proceeded to put his hand on
her elbow exclaiming to her to let him
in, reports stated.
He attempted to rob the woman in
front of the officers.
The woman refused to let him in and
when Bradshaw refused to back away
the police officers placed him under
arrest.
The man was taken to Orange
County Jail and is being held on a
$2,500 secured bond. A trial date is yet
to be set.
Panelists Tackle
Tobacco's Future
By Jason Arthurs
Staff Writer
The hotly contested national debate
over the future of the tobacco industry
found its way to Carroll Hall on Monday.
The School of Journalism and Mass
Communication hosted representatives
from Philip Morris tobacco company,
N.C. tobacco growers, tobacco prevention
researchers and health researchers for this
year’s Mass Communication Days.
The panelists gave presentations dur
ing the day’s sessions, wresding with
issues like smoking prevention and
trends that the tobacco industry faces.
Tim McGlain, a research associate
with the Tobacco Use Prevention
Training Program, spoke about the
research he had conducted concerning
the effect of anti-smoking campaigns.
“We organized a focus group of
young people and asked them to rate
those (anti-smoking) messages,” he said.
McGlain said the results showed that
IFC Shelter
Seeks More
Funding
IFC officials say they need
to raise an additional
$90,000 to reopen services
during the weekend hours.
By Nish ant Garg
Staff Writer
In an attempt to combat weekend
closures of its downtown homeless shel
ter, the Inter-Faith Council has
unleashed a last-chance effort to raise
$240,000 in funds.
This move comes in light of IFC
Board of Directors’ inability to meet
expenses from its earlier proposed
$150,000 solicitation.
IFC Executive Director Chris Moran
said the organization had sent solicita
tion letters to residents throughout the
county -a decision prompted by
increasing budget constraints.
“We had launched a spring solicita
tion fund drive last Thursday,” he said.
“Our hope is to mobilize new resources.
Our revenue projections for the next
budget depend on what happens in the
next three months when we finalize
budget proposals.”
The homeless residents at the IFC
have been notified that as of April 8,
Community House Shelter is closed
every Saturday and Sunday from 6 a.m.
to 6 p.m. However, the Sunday morn
ing worship service will continue to be
provided at 8 a.m.
Asa result, Community Kitchen will
no longer be serving lunch on Saturdays
and Sundays.
Breakfast will be served at 6:30 a.m.
and dinner at 6:30 p.m. as usual.
Lunch will be served on weekdays.
Moran said the residents had also
been informed that another local non
profit organization, Community
Cuisine, would be serving box lunches
on a trial basis on Saturdays around
noon.
The food will be distributed at
McCorkle Place on the UNC campus,
across from the Franklin Street post
office.
IFC Treasurer Jeanne Coleman said
funds were required immediately
because the homeless center aimed to
extend services at the community shel
ter.
“There is a historical data where
funds come from,” she said. “We have a
list of sources from where we get our
grants and then we take care of our
expenses. We always predict the income
first. A budget, by nature, is an estima
tion.”
Council board member-at-large
Natalie Ammarell said the mailing list of
about 6,000 people was targeted to indi
vidual residences in Chapel Hill,
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Center to Dole Out SBO,OOO in Fellowships, Grants
By John Maberry
Staff Writer
For the third consecutive year, the
Carolina Center for Public Service will
be awarding grants to student, faculty
and staff organizations seeking funding
for service projects.
The amount of funding available in
grants alone is SBO,OOO, which does not
include money allotted to public service
high-price smoking awareness campaigns
launched by companies like Philip Morris
were ineffective compared to lower bud
get personal testimony campaigns.
Ann Houston, field director for
Public Education and Communication
for the N.C. Tobacco Prevention and
Control Branch said that even though
low-budget campaigns impacted young
people, funding was still needed.
“We’ve had some really good suc
cesses over the years, but we’re working
with pennies as opposed to the dollars of
tobacco industries,” she said.
Health behavior and health educa
tion Professor Kurt Ribisl and family
medicine Professor Adam Goldstein
represented the University on the panel.
Ribisl stressed the need for better
smoking research in North Carolina, a
focus on youth and adult prevention
campaigns and more support for farmers.
He said one way to deter smoking
across the board was to increase North
Carolina’s excise tax of five cents, cur-
Area Police Tactics Under Fire From Fox
By Kevin Krasnow
Staff Writer
Three embarrassing high-risk felony
stops were the topic of conversation
between two local officials attempting to
evaluate the effectiveness of police pro
cedures in the area.
Orange-Chatham County District
Attorney Carl Fox and interim Chapel
Hill Police Chief Gregg Jarvies met
Friday morning to discuss Fox’s con
cerns with police procedures, which he
had expressed in a March letter to for
mer police Chief Ralph Pendergraph.
The letter outlined Fox’s concerns
about police tactics when making high
risk felony stops, instances when a per
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awards and fellowships.
Applications for the available grants
and nominations for the awards and fel
lowships are due April 19 to Suite 201 at
the Bank of America Center at 137 E.
Franklin St.
Nick Didow, director of the Carolina
Center for Public Service and associate
professor in the Kenan-Flagler Business
School, said he was pleased with the
amount of money the center was able to
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Community activist Timothy McGloin presents a video of teens discussing the reasons why they smoke
as part of "The Future of Tobacco" sponsored by the School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
rendy the second lowest in the country.
But he said many obstacles, such as
the Big Tobacco firms that reside in
North Carolina and feed its economy,
stood in the way of achieving those goals.
The afternoon’s discussion came to a
son is pulled over and searched because
the police think the suspect might be
armed.
Fox said that while he understood
police had to follow procedures, he felt
a less hostile approach could be taken.
“I am looking for a middle ground,
wheje the officers are still protected but
the embarrassment to citizens is less,” he
said.
In his letter, Fox outlined the embar
rassing nature of three high-risk felony
stops in the past year that resulted in
innocent residents being stopped.
In one such stop, the police received
a call that a man at BW-3 Restaurant in
Chapel Hill was armed. Police followed
procedure, drawing out their weapons
make available for grants.
“The total has gone up about $20,000
every year,” Didow said.
“Hopefully that trend will continue as
we receive outstanding proposals.”
In addition to the SBO,OOO in grants
available to organizations, the center is
also handing out awards and fellowships
to individuals.
The Robert E. Bryan Public Service
Fellowships will award five students with
climax during a brief question and
answer session in which several of the
panelists questioned points made by
representatives from Philip Morris.
McGlain called the tobacco indus
try’s prevention messages “a joke,“ say
“If an officer does not see
a weapon, that officer should
minimize embarrassment until
he is sure the suspect has one. ”
Carl Fox
Orange-Chatham District Attorney
and briefly hand
cuffing and search
ing the suspect
outside of the
restaurant, only to
discover the sus
pect was carrying
a beeper.
Pendergraph
responded to the
letter sent by Fox,
but before Friday’s
meeting there had been no further com
munication between the police and Fox.
Fox said he had a vested interest in
the matter because his position included
working with law enforcement.
“As the DA, I am the chief law
Legislative Push
To Raise Grant
Lies in Limbo
Following a Senate amendment to increase
Pell Grants by S4OO, the legislation must
now go to a conference committee to be
reconciled with the bill’s House version.
By Gavin Off
Staff Writer
Asa bill to increase financial aid for college students heads
to a U.S. House-Senate conference committee, congression
al leaders are divided on how much to boost the grants.
With a vote of 51-49, the Senate passed Sen. Russ
Feingold’s, D-Wis., and Sen. Edward Kennedy’s, D-Mass.,
proposal late Friday to increase the Pell Grant by S4OO.
Mike Briggs, press secretary for Sen. John Edwards, D-
N.C., said the amendment, part of a larger budget resolution,
will go before a conference committee that will reconcile the
Feingold-Kennedy legislation with a similar House bill.
Democratic leaders laud the bill as a way to increase edu
cational access, but GOP lawmakers say the increases are too
large and would take away from a proposed tax cut.
The Pell Grant is the nation’s largest federal need-based
college financial aid program. Last year the Pell Grant award
ed $7.7 billion to college students nationwide, with UNC stu
dents receiving $4 million of that total.
Shirley Ort, UNC director of scholarships and student aid,
said the Pell Grant was the University’s largest source of fed
eral aid and would be awarded to nearly 3,000 UNC students
next year. “The Pell Grant is the cornerstone for our financial
aid package for needy students,” Ort said. “We use that to
anchor a package and add other sources.”
Friday’s vote fell largely along party lines, with many
Senate Republicans upset by the amendment’s large price tag.
Gary Hoitsma, press secretary for Sen. James Inhofe, R-
Ohio, said the cost of implementing the proposal prompted
Inhofe and other Republicans to vote against it.
The funds for the Pell Grant increase would come from
cutting the Republican-proposed tax cut by about 2 percent,
providing 2.7 billion in aid over the next five years.
“We felt that the funding for the Pell Grant that was in the
resolution was too high,” Hoitsma said.
Hoitsma said the amendment w’ould cost the federal gov
ernment even more revenue than President Clinton’s earlier
See PELL, Page 8
$5,000 to pursue individual service pro
jects.
“The intent of these fellowships is to
enable innovative and potentially high
impact community activities proposed
by students,” Didow said.
The fellowships, which Didow touted
as the most unique and exciting of the
awards, are being given for the first time.
“These five awards are an unprece
dented resource for students to follow
Tuesday, April 11, 2000
ing, “They actually try to enforce the
removal of messages because they are
too effective.”
Goldstein’s presentation direcdy
See TOBACCO, Page 8
enforcement
administrator,” he
said. “In that
capacity, these
stops are a concern
for me.”
Fox pointed to
two possible sce
narios where he
believed the police
stops could be han
dled improperly.
“If an officer does not see a weapon,
that officer should minimize embarrass
ment until he is sure the suspect has
one,” he said. “Also, if a person has a
See FOX, Page 8
their hearts," Didow said.
In addition to the fellowships, the
Robert E. Bryan Awards will be pre
sented to four students, faculty or staff
members.
The awards have a value of $2,500
each.
Anthony Maready, office manager of
the Carolina Center for Public Service,
See AWARDS, Page 8
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