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Carrboro Police Search
For Suspect in Robbery
The Carrboro Police Department
responded to an armed robbery
between 102 and 104 W. Carr St. about
2:50 a.m. Sunday.
A suspect placed a handgun to the
victim’s head and forcibly stole items,
reports state. Among the items taken
were a U.S. passport worth SSO, a sls
blackJanSport book bag, 10 BB&T per
sonal checks, a BB&T ATM card and
Visa card, a Citibank Master Card and a
Chase Visa.
The suspect also stole four books val
ued at SSO, the victim’s wallet and the
victim’s South Carolina driver’s license,
reports state.
There are no suspects, and the inves
tigation is ongoing.
City
Sunday, Sept. 10
■ Carrboro police arrested and
charged Vincent Gunter of Moncure
for driving without a license and pos
session of cocaine.
Officials pulled Gunter over at the
N.C. 54 Bypass ramp near Jones Ferry
Road because of outstanding warrants
from Durham County. When stopped,
Gunter was unable to produce identifi
cation and was transported by police to
the Orange County Jail.
Police searched Gunter’s belongings
and his vehicle and found a box of
ammunition and a small bag of cocaine
weighing 1 gram, reports state.
Gunter was charged with two counts
of driving with a license revoked, a mis
demeanor, and one count of possession,
a felony.
He was also charged with communi
cating threats and making harassing
phone calls, reports state.
Bond was set at $2,850, and the case
is closed.
■ Carrboro police were notified that
a suspect used a stolen key to access
newspaper vending machines and stole
$548 in quarters from different
machines located throughout Chapel
Hill and Carrboro.
Police are investigating the matter.
■ Chapel Hill police stopped Arlita
Prettyman of Durham early in the
morning for speeding at Smith Level
and Culbreth roads, reports state.
Officers reported seeing the vehicle
swerve left of center, speeding 50 mph
in a 35 mph zone on Culbreth Road.
Prettyman then allegedly ran a red light.
Reports state that Prettyman refused
a field sobriety test and later registered
a .20 on the breathalyzer test.
Prettyman was charged with one
count of driving while intoxicated, one
count of possession of marijuana and
one count of possession of drug para
phernalia.
She was released on a written
promise with a trial date scheduled for
Oct. 7.
Saturday, Sept. 9
■ A Chapel Hill Police Department
alcohol compliance check resulted in
charges of selling a malt beverage to a
minor at four out oi 14 locations, reports
state.
The four noncompliant locations
were Wilco, 1213 Airport Road; Cedar
Village Store, 618 Weaver Dairy Road;
Circle K, 1806 Ephesus Church Road;
and Pantry, 1501 E. Franklin St.
The operation tested each store by
sending a 17-year-old female to the loca
tions.
The clerks, each cited with a misde
meanor, were arrested and are awaiting
court dates.
The cases have been closed.
University
Sunday, Sept. 10
■ A male Henderson resident
reported that his Dodge Dakota was hit
by an unknown person while it was
parked on campus.
Police reports state that he left his car
at 11:45 a.m. and returned at 2:45 p.m.
to find the left rear area damaged.
■At 1:15 a.m., police were called to
Morrison Residence Hall, where a male
freshman student was possibly suffering
from alcohol poisoning.
The subject was unable to stand or
talk, and EMS technicians were unable
to determine if the subject had con
sumed any other substances.
Witnesses were unable to determine
how long the student had been in that
condition.
The student was transported to the
UNC Hospitals emergency room.
■ A female victim said her car was
parked on Cobb Drive when an
unknown person put out a cigarette on
the trunk of he r car, possibly damaging
the paint.
Police have no further information.
GPSF Holds First Meeting of Year
President Thad Woody
wrote three resolutions for
the meeting Monday, aii of
which passed unanimously.
By Robert Albright
Staff Writer
In a room scattered with future
lawyers, doctors, professors and psy
chologists, members of the Graduate
and Professional Student Federation
Senate put their heads together for the
first time Monday night.
The GPSF Senate, which includes a
representative from each graduate
school department, discussed such issues
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Roger McGuinn, cjuitarist for the '6os foik-rock group The Byrds, makes a special appearance in associate music Professor John Covach's
"History of Rock' class Monday. McGuinn sang several songs with his 12-string acoustic and electric guitars and discussed his career.
Byrds Guitarist Brings Rock History to Life
By Ashley Atkinson
Arts & Entertainment Editor
Ask the average college student who Roger
McGuinn is, and he won’t be able to tell you. Ask
the average student’s mother, and she might. •
But the students in associate music Professor
John Covach’s “History of Rock” class won’t forget,
after the class hosted one of the ultimate guest
speakers Monday.
McGuinn, leader of the seminal folk-rock group
The Byrds, performed and spoke about his career
while in Chapel Hill to help launch Meta Lab’s new
Web site, www.ibiblio.org. Meta Lab hosts
McGuinn’s “Folk Den” music site.
“We have in the classroom someone who is at
the very center of rock ’n’ roll and what is arguably
one of the most creative moments in the genre,”
Covach told his students.
The Byrds, which formed in 1964, fused the folk
of Bob Dylan with the pop aesthetics of the British
Towns Seek Housing Options
By Phil Perry
Staff Writer
The need for affordable housing has
long been a sticky issue in Chapel Hill and
Carrboro. While it won’t be easy, officials
hope to make progress where they can.
The problem of acquiring affordable
housing in this area is well-known. As
the costs of
owning a home
here increase,
more and more
people are
being forced to
live elsewhere.
Chapel Hill Town
Council Examines
Possible Rezoning
See Page 6
To curb that trend, the Chapel Hill
Town Council and the Carrboro Board
of Aldermen are working on plans rang
ing from rezoning to land trusts to make
buying a home less expensive for resi
dents who make less than 80 percent of
the area’s $59,000 median income.
Town Council member Pat Evans
said that while the council is doing all it
can to create more affordable housing,
there is little that can be done to allevi
ate the situation. “(Chapel Hill is) 90
percent built out,” Evans said. “So we
only have 10 percent of land yet to be
developed, and much of that has envi
ronmental constrictions."
Fellow Town Council member Edith
Wiggins also said the problem could not
be completely solved and that trying to
do so would be unrealistic.
“The price of housing is going up,”
as subsidized child care, teaching assis
tant pay and campus safety at their first
monthly meeting.
Although only 25 of the 50 represen
tatives attended the meeting, GPSF
President Thad Woody said he is confi
dent the issues will be addressed effec
tively. “It’s difficult to get (graduate and
professional students) together because
we are all so busy,” Woody said.
“But I’m looking forward to tackling
issues and getting to know everyone.”
Woody and Tara Hogan, the GPSF
vice president for internal affairs, led the
meeting, which featured elections for the
GPSF’s Appropriations and Finance
committees.
Hogan said the Finance Committee
will oversee any changes Woody makes
Invasion, earning them the tag of “America’s
answer to the Beaties,” Covach said.
Pioneering both folk-rock and country-rock, the
group -and the distinctive jangling sound of
McGuinn’s 12-string guitar - left a lasting influence
on the rock genre before disbanding in 1973.
“He’s one of the people who started what we’re
studying about. It’s like having Einstein come to
your physics class,” said freshman Ross Pringle.
McGuinn played some of his own songs, as well
as some from his influences (Elvis Presley,
Leadbelly), his contemporaries (Bob Dylan, Pete
Seeger) and those he influenced, like Tom Petty.
“There is a whole generation of professors for
whom the Byrds and their music were the definitive
mark of creativity in rock music,” Covach said.
While McGuinn is now 58 - old enough to
recall the first time he heard “Heartbreak Hotel” on
his transistor radio - he took steps toward crossing
the generation gap with tales of his youth.
He told the class how he used a fake ID to sneak
she said. “Completely eradicating the
problem has never been my goal.”
But officials can implement some
measures to increase the amount of
affordable housing. Not doing so would
decrease the amount of financial diver
sity in the area, Wiggins said.
She offered one possible way to deal
with the need for growth with a limited
amount of land. “(The council) is con
sidering rezoning some property that
will allow for more density,” she said.
Wiggins also said the town is working
with UNC and UNC Hospitals to obtain
more in-town housing for employees,
which would foster diversity by having
people of all incomes living side by side.
Town Council member Flicka
Bateman touted an existing measure
that attempts to bring more affordable
housing to the area. Chapel Hill has a
program that waives the developer’s fee
for builders whose projects include 15
percent affordable housing.
Alderman Allen Spalt said Carrboro
also recognizes the lack of affordable
housing as a major concern. “The board
has ... identified it as one of the most
important problems in town,” he said.
Spalt said raising taxes would create
some revenue for more housing, but that
this action isn’t feasible. “Raising the tax
rate more than a few cents a year is par
ticularly difficult for people already
struggling in this area,” he said.
Instead, other measures must be
taken, Spalt said. The ideal one would be
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while in office. She added that spending
the GPSFs allotted funds will be the
responsibility of the Appropriations
Committee.
“We have $7,000 that (the
Appropriations Committee) needs to
spend by the Christmas break,” she said.
“I’m making it your responsibility to get
the word out.”
While Hogan and Woody encour
aged Senate members to volunteer for
the five available positions on each com
mittee, only four people agreed to help
with the Appropriations Committee,
and three people signed up for the
Finance Committee.
Despite minimal volunteerism during
committee assignments, the rest of the
Senate meeting was marked by unani
indusionary zoning, which mandates that
development zones indude a certain per
centage of homes available for less than a
specified amount. But the N.C. General
Assembly will not grant Carrboro the
power to implement that measure.
However, Carrboro has found a way
around the obstade. “We were the first in
the state to develop an ordinance that
comes as close as we can get to (inclu
sionary zoning),” Spalt said. “It says that if
you build a large development, a certain
number (of houses) must be small in size.”
The hope is that the smaller the hous
es, the lower the prices. But the town has
no way to ensure that will happen.
Spalt said other initiatives also are
under way, including mixed-use devel
opments, which are buildings that house
both commerdal and residential tenants.
Spalt said a land trust is another
excellent idea for the area. Ordinarily
when buying a home, the buyer pays for
both the house and the land. But trusts
acquire land, which allows buyers to
purchase the house without paying for
the land, saving them money. “(The
land trust) is really a win-win situation,
and it’s not the only solution,” Spalt said.
Regardless of the method, something
must be done to provide more afford
able housing in the area, he said.
“Just left to the market itself, we will
become more and more exclusive.”
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mous approval of three resolutions that
Woody drafted.
The resolutions encompassed three
separate issues: welcoming Chancellor
James Moeser, raising awareness of the
need for library improvements and
lending support to the upcoming $3.1
billion bond package.
Doctoral business student Scott
Turner said he looks forward to helping
the GPSF improve the campus atmos
phere for graduate and professional stu
dents. “Professional schools are separate
from the campus,” Turner said.
“Hopefully, the Senate can help bridge
that gap.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk9unc.edu.
into bars to listen to folk music, and he talked
frankly about the band’s drug use. “It was almost
a religious quest,” McGuinn said. “We thought we
could expand our consciousness; we could learn
more, write better, play better music.”
But the era wasn’t all about drugs, McGuinn
said. Peace and love figured strongly in The Byrds’
music as well. “Love was something serious. It was
n’t as much about physical love as much as loving
your brother, loving your fellow man,” he said.
“We really did believe we could change the
world through our music, that we could stop war.”
As for the state of rock today, McGuinn hasn’t
been paying attention. “I’ve gone back to my folk
roots. I really listen to more folk music now,” he said.
McGuinn has been bringing folk music into the
information age since 1995, when he began posting
anew song every month on his “Folk Den” site.
The Arts & Entertainment Editor can be reached
at artsdesk9unc.edu.
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Senior Sara Martin reacts after giving blood at the University's ROTC
blood drive Monday. The drive was geared toward alleviating
the moderate shortage of blood in the Triangle area.
Tuesday, September 12, 2000
ASG Leader
Sets Plans
For Term
UNC Association of Student
Governments President
Andrew Payne has several
goals for the group this year.
By Kathleen Hunter
State & National Editor
Newly elected UNC Association of
Student Governments President
Andrew Payne says turning the ASG
into a proactive organization will be the
main goal of his administration.
The ASG selected Payne as its leader
in a special election held Thursday
night at N.C. State University. “It
seems, in the past, that all we’ve done is
react to situations,” he said. “If we can
be more proactive, maybe we have a
better chance of getting what we want I
would like (ASG) to set the agenda, not
have someone ebe set it for us.”
The N.C. State University senior said
his primary objective in the coming
m
months will be to
build support for a
$3.1 billion bond
referendum that
will fund building
repairs and reno
vations on the sys
tem’s campuses if
it passes Nov. 7.
But it is equally
important that the
ASG form an
alternative capital
funding plan in
case the bond
proposal fails,
Payne said. “My
ASG President
Andrew Payne
says ASG will form
an alternative
funding plan if the
bond proposal fails.
main priority is to help with the bond
package,” he said. “With that, though, I
think it is important for us to look at
other plans if the bond does not pass.”
If the bond doesn’t pass, Payne said
university officials will likely turn to
tuition increases to fund capital projects
- an option that he contends ASG must
be prepared to counter with its own
funding proposal. Payne has yet to set
such a contingency plan but says he will
consult with fellow ASG members to
draft a proposal.
Payne succeed* CtiK Webster, who
stepped down after reports surfaced that
he was arrested this summer and
charged with stealing two benches from
the East Carolina University campus.
Other items on Payne’s agenda
include a proposal to initiate a private
fund-raising campaign to expand ASG’s
annual $4,000 budget.
He said he will incorporate video
conferences and message boards into
ASG’s daily operations, expanding dia
logue beyond just monthly meetings.
ASG Vice President Liz Gardner, a
UNC-Chapel Hill junior, lost to Payne
in a runoff but attended Friday’s Board
of Governors meeting in Fayetteville
where Payne assumed the ASG presi
dent’s seat on the BOG. Gardner said
she still hopes to incorporate a plank of
her presidential platform that would
have ASG address a specific topic at
each meeting - publishing a statement
on the topic at the end of each session.
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk9unc.edu.
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