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In Brief
Tuesdays With Friday’
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All faculty, staff and students are
invited to attend “Writing From the
South," a conversation between UNC
students and writer Doris Betts.
The event is part of the ongoing
series “Tuesdays With Friday," moder
ated by former UNC-system President
Bill Friday.
Betts will speak in the Commons
Room of the Johnston Center for
Undergraduate Excellence in Graham
Memorial from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday.
Motley Fool Co-founder
To Give Talk Thursday
David Gardner, co-founder of the
financial media company The Modey
Fool Inc., will speak at the Kenan-
Flagler Business Sdiool on Thursday in
a question-answer session.
A 1988 Morehead Scholar graduate
of UNC, Gardner founded The Modey
Fool in July 1993.
The company has since become the
world’s most popular online investment
Site, attracting roughly 2 million visitors
each month.
The Alexandria, Va.-based company
employs more than 300 people world
wide.
UNC marketing Professor Rollie
Tillman Jr., who directs Kenan-Flagler’s
Center for Entrepreneurship and
Technology Venturing, will facilitate
Gardner’s talk, which will begin at 5:30
p.m. in the Koury Auditorium.
The event is the finale for Kenan-
Flagler’s 2000 Dean’s Speaker Series.
To RSVP, call 962-9252 or e-mail
KFBSRSVP@bschool.unc.edu.
School to Hold Briefing
With Russian Dignitary
Ivan Tyulin of the Moscow State
Institute of International Relations, will
speak from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m. today at a
media briefing sponsored by the School
of Journalism and Mass
Communication.
The event will be in the Freedom
Forum Conference Center, Room 305,
in Carroll Hall.
Journalism Dean Richard Cole and
David Pike, a UNC German professor
who heads a joint project between the
University and the Moscow institute,
will join Tyulin in the briefing.
The Moscow State Institute of
Intemadonal Relations, the most elite
university in Russia, is affiliated with the
Russian Foreign Ministry.
Tyulin’s tides include first vice rector
of the institute, the second-in-command
post and political science professor.
After the briefing, media are invited
to attend a reception from 5 p.m. to 6
p.m. in the N.C. Halls of Fame Room in
Carroll Hall.
Those interested in attending should
call either Jo Bass or Jackie Williams at
962-1204.
Summer Sports Camps
Need Local Volunteers
The Chapel Hill Department of
Parks and Recreation needs instructors
and assistant instructors for a variety of
summer sports camps.
Instructors are needed to teach fun
damentals in volleyball, basketball, ten
nis and flag football.
Knowledge of the game and playing
experience is helpful.
The camps start Tune 12 and run until
July 21.
The positions pay $lO-$ 12 per hour,
and applications must be received by
May 5.
For more information, call the parks
department at 968-2784.
Center to Sponsor
Herb, Perennial Sale
The Women’s Resource Center in
Alamance County will be presenting its
Third Annual Herb and Perennial Plant
Sale.
The sale will be held from 8:30 a.m.
to 7 p.m. Friday and from 8:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. Saturday at First Presbyterian
Church.
People are invited to shop and to
learn how to grow and cook the herbs
■they buy.
Demonstrations by noted chefs will
Ibe held, and gardening, cooking and
.home decorating items will be for sale.
The church is located at 508 West
Davis St. in Burlington, and admission
is a $1 raffle ticket.
The ticket includes a coupon and
entry into a raffle for special door
prizes.
Contact Heidi Norwick, executive
-director of the center, at 227-6900 for
■more information.
I From Staff Reports
OWASA Wants Revised UNC Sewage Deal
By Nishant Garg
Staff Writer
In the face of a growing college cam
pus, town officials worry that UNC is
footing less than its proportionate share
of the bill for water and sewage services.
Orange Water and Sewer Authority
bought UNC’s water and sewer net
works in 1977 for S2O. In return,
OWASA was to provide free hookups
for future University construction.
OWASA negotiated another contract
with UNC in 1996, whereby UNC was
to be charged for any expansion on the
Horace Williams and Mason Farm
Staying Within the Lines
As Chapel Hill continues to expand, town
officials say local growth has remained
slow-moving and well-controlled.
By Kathleen Wjrth
Staff Writer
During the waning hours of one night in October
1995, amid outspoken criticism by area residents, the
Chapel Hill Town Council launched the largest mixed-
use development in the town’s his
tory - Meadowmont.
Despite the 6-3 decision in
favor of rezoning the 435-acre
property, located on N.C. 54 near
the Friday Center, tension sur
rounding the development project
still looms five years later.
That controversy stems from
the fact that the people of Chapel
Hill often tout the town as a “vil
lage” community and work to pre
serve that image by keeping
development under a close, political microscope.
And the scrutiny doesn’t stop with the Meadowmont
project, which is a multi-use conglomeration of apart
ment buildings, office complexes, retail stores and a
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EPA Award to Highlight Earth Week
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The Student Environmental
Action Coalition expands a
belated Earth Day salute
into a week of festivities.
By Derick Mattern
Staff Writer
Although Easter weekend prevented
student environmental advocates from
observing Earth Day, they are making
up for it with a week’s worth of festivi
ties.
Starting today and running through
Thursday, the Student Environmental
Action Coalition is packing its “Earth
Week” full of speakers, awards, presen
tations and feasts.
“Our goal is to celebrate and educate
about the earth,” said Linda
Chupkowski, co-chairwoman of SEAC.
“This is the one week where we get to
stop and celebrate what we’re fighting
for.”
Wednesday’s Earth Day events in
Polk Place will be the focal point of the
week’s activities.
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phere - we want to keep it lighthearted
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tracts. At that time, these two sites were
anticipated to undergo the bulk of
University construction.
The Mason Farm Tract, located near
Estes Drive, and the Horace Williams
Tract, cut by N.C. 54, are the primary
satellite lands owned by UNC outside of
the general campus. Both tracts together
total about 2,000 acres. Also in 1996,
central campus development was to be
exempted from any sort of fees.
But now UNC has embarked on the
Master Plan, which seeks substantial
growth on the central campus. And fac
ing the anticipated development,
OWASA officials say this move might
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examining local
development.
and action oriented,” said Earth Day co
coordinator Margie Wakelin.
SEAC campaign leaders will set up
several booths where students can con
struct crafts such as notebooks made of
recycled paper or glass bottles reused as
flower pots.
In keeping with the national Earth
Day emphasis on energy issues, interim
Vice Chancellor for Financial Affairs
Jack Evans will receive an award on the
University’s behalf from the
Environmental Protection Agency.
The accolade is for pollution reduc
tion at the power plant on Cameron
Avenue, said Bruce Runberg, chairman
of the University Environmental
Coalition.
“It’s a chance to promote the
University’s success -a lot of effort went
into it,” he said.
The coalition will also present its first
annual report to Evans, Runberg said. It
will also sponsor a booth using an elec
trified spike to demonstrate the amount
of energy needed to illuminate a light
bulb, Wakelin said.
At 2 p.m. Wednesday, Sen. Elbe
Kinnaird, D-Orange, will discuss local
ecological concerns.
Later that day, students will plant a
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result in a loss of heavy revenue.
Aaron Nelson, assistant to the chan
cellor for community relations, said
OWASA officials were concerned about
the fact that the University was not pay
ing for hookup and availability fees.
“The history is that the University
owned and controlled the network in
the 19705,” he said. “When it sold its
rights, OWASA was to provide the ser
vice to the University at a lower cost.”
However, he justified UNC’s deci
sion of paying lower fees for the services
rendered to it. “We are paying a subsi
dized cost because it was a negotiated
agreement,” he said.
SEAC Week Events
Student Environmental Action Coalition is sponsoring a weeklong celebration
with events ranging from a lecture on global warming to a vegetarian banquet.
Monday - Lecture on global warming by Professor Paul Bartels, 7 p.m.
Tuesday - The Rev. Carrie Bolton, Democracy Now member, speaks at 7 p.m. in 111 Mutphey Hall
Wednesday - Earth Day celebration
Thursday - Fourth annual Vegetarian Banquet
tree rescued from an area under active
deforestation. Before it is taken to
Coker Arboretum, students can hang
signed pledges to protect the environ
ment.
To kick off the week, SEAC asked
Professor Paul Bartels to lecture on glob
al warming at 7 p.m. Monday in 209
Manning Hall.
SEAC has also invited the Rev.
Carrie Bolton, a member of Democracy
Now, to speak at 7 p.m. Tuesday in 111
Murphey Hall.
Bolton will discuss environmental
justice and student involvement in envi
ronmental issues.
As an end to the festivities, the fourth
Daughtry Touts Education in Race
Editor's Note: For the next five days, The
Daily Tar Heel will profile the top five
contenders in the N.C. gubernatorial race.
State primaries are slated for May 2.
By Kristian Kordula
Staff Writer
When N.C. Rep. Lyons Gray, R-
Forsyth, examines gubernatorial candi
dates, he looks for someone demon
strating integrity and reliability.
And he believes Republican guber
natorial candidate Leo Daughtry, who
he has worked beside on legislative
committees and has known for 12 years,
has those very qualities.
“The way I measure my trust for
someone is to ask myself if I would be in
a foxhole with a candidate,” Gray said.
“Leo is the kind of guy I would want
watching my back in a foxhole.”
Daughtry, a businessman and
Sampson County native, has served six
terms in the N.C. General Assembly.
His platform focuses on improving
education through raising test standards
and disciplinary initiatives, lowering
crime and spending state money to
improve mass transit woes.
Daughtry, who served as the house
majority leader in the General
Assembly, received his undergraduate
OWASA Executive Director Ed
Kerwin said officials had been negotiat
ing with the University in order to alter
some of the terms of the agreement. He
said the deal had saved the University
$l.B million in expenses since 1977.
However, Kerwin anticipated unfa
vorable prospects for OWASA if the
existing terms of the agreement were not
revoked and rewritten.
Council member Jim Ward said
UNC ought to pay its proportionate
share of expenses. “The town and the
University are intermingled,” he said.
“We are concerned and involved
because all the users of OWASA me our
annual vegetarian banquet will be held
Thursday.
The “hoe-down” will include hay
decorations and the local bluegrass
band Steep Canyon Rangers, said
Heather Yandow, co coordinator of
SEAC’s Earth Day.
Among other local restaurants,
Breadman’s, 23, Darbar, 35 Chinese
and Pepper’s Pizza will be donating veg
etarian fare.
Yandow said, “We want to talk to
people about environmental issues
going on around here.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
and law school
degrees from
Wake Forest
University. He
later served as an
Air Force lawyer
stationed in
Turkey during the
Vietnam War.
He said he was
optimistic about
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his chances of winning the governor
ship. “We’re moving in the right direc
tion in the polls, and we’re looking at a
pretty tight race,” Daughtry said. He
said his political and business back
ground made him a well-rounded can
didate, and his businessman mentality
and legislative leadership would give
him the chance to be a strong governor.
Daughtry’s ambition to become the
state’s next governor is coupled with a
platform that promises to improve
schools and neighborhood safety.
He plans to initiate Finish Smart, a
program calling for a higher academic
standard for K-12 public schools. This
program also would require all high
school students to pass a 12th-grade
level test for reading, writing and math.
Under current guidelines, students
performing at the eighth-grade level can
receive a high school diploma.
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constituents,” he said. “We want an equi
table distribution of the share of the cost
of services.”
Town Council member Edith
Wiggins said other OWASA customers
had to field additional costs for the ser
vices that UNC enjoyed.
“I am hopeful that OWASA and
UNC will reach an agreement,” she
said.
“Everyone else who pays water and
sewer fees to OWASA bears the remain
ing expenses.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Events Aim
To Promote
Greek Hype
Director of Greek Affairs
Ron Binder says the week
was planned to eliminate
stereotypes about Greeks.
By Shahrzad Rezvani
Staff Writer
All 48 fraternities and sororities will
celebrate the meaning of Greek mem
bership and try to break racial barriers
within the Greek community this week
beginning with tonight’s inter-racial din
ners.
Greeks aim to build the interaction
among houses of separate races, said
Ron Binder, director of Greek affairs.
“We have a lot of interaction
throughout the year, but Greek Week is
the time when interaction is at its great
est,” he said.
At tonight’s dinner swap, members
of National Pan Hellenic Council and
specialty groups will venture into the
houses of predominantly white Greek
houses, where they will dine together
“We’ve assigned the groups, so there
should be some good interaction*”
Binder said.
Also today, sororities will bvpe lip
the festivities by displaying banners at
their houses.
Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority
member Stephanie Sparrow, a senior
from Greensboro, said last year’s Greek
Week had multiple benefits.
“I thought (Greek Week) was a greht
way to get the Greek community
together and at the same time promote
unity within our own chapter,” she said.
Throughout the week, Greeks will
show their charitable side by donating
canned goods, Binder said. Tuesday,
members of the Greek community cin
donate two cans to attend a perfor
mance of Jupiter Coyote at the Chi Phi
fraternity house.
Thursday, IFC Greeks from UNC
and Duke University will face each
other in a basketball game. The two
teams will be composed of one Greek
from each fraternity to further encour
age interaction, Binder said.
While Steve Wojciechowski will
coach Duke’s team, UNC’s coach has
not yet been named.
Thursday night, paired teams of fra
ternity and sorority members will head
to Gotham dance club for a night of lip
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Daughtry’s platform also would
establish rehabilitational camps for dis
ruptive students, increase the number of
charter schools, provide tax credits for
home schooling, increase funding for
technology and teacher salaries and
double the number of state prosecutors
in high-crime areas.
Members of Daughtry’s campaign
touted the candidate as a genuine man
of honesty and integrity. Jay Warshaw,
Daughtry’s press secretary, said
Daughtry was a man who got things
done. “When Leo tells you something,
you can take it to the bank,” he said.
Warshaw said Daughtry’s only weak
ness as a candidate was that he was run
ning in his first statewide race. But he
said Daughtry had experience from his
tenure as a legislator.
Thad Beyle, a UNC political science
professor who has been following the
primaries, said Daughtry had the quali
ties to be the next governor, but candi
dates had to possess more than past
leadership experience to run a success
ful campaign. “(A gubernatorial candi
date) has to possess the ability to get in
contact with people and get them inter
ested in their candidacy."
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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