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9 mm Handgun Stolen
From Local Man’s Car
A 9 mm handgun and ammunition
were stolen from a Chapel Hill man’s
car on Tuesday, police reports state.
The Glock 26, valued at $450, and a
S4OO laser sight were taken from the
passenger compartment of a Mercedes
C 240 sometime Sunday night or early
Monday morning, said Chapel Hill
police spokeswomanjane Cousins.
The thief entered through an open
garage door at the home on the 100
block of Tharrington Drive, Cousins
said.
The case is under further investiga
tion, reports state.
University
Tuesday, Jan. 14
■ University police served a local
high school student with a second
degree trespassing warning at Woollen
Gym at 3:29 p.m., police reports state.
According to police reports, an offi
cer was dispatched to the gym in
response to a complaint from a securi
ty officer at Woollen.
The security officer advised the sus
pect not to come onto the basketball
court because he was not a student or
affiliated with the University.
The suspect ignored the security offi
cer, and police issued the suspect a tres
pass warning for Woollen, Carmichael,
and Fetzer gyms, according to police
reports.
The suspect refused his copy of the
trespass warning.
■ Police responded at 11:27 p.m. to
a felony larceny in which a car was
stolen from the Dogwood parking deck.
According to police reports, the vic
tim reported that he parked his 1994
Nissan in the parking deck at 5 p.m.
before visiting a relative.
The victim returned to the deck at
11:20 p.m. to find his vehicle missing.
According to police report, the vic
tim stated that no one else has a key and
that his car was not repossessed.
B A citizen found what appeared to
be a diamond bracelet in the Pit on
Tuesday afternoon, according to police
reports.
Police reports state that the citizen
turned the bracelet in to the front desk
at the new Student Union. Police placed
the bracelet into the evidence locker for
safekeeping.
Monday, Jan. 13
■ Police reported to Hanes Hall on
Monday afternoon in response to a
pickpocketing incident.
According to police reports, a
Durham man said an unknown suspect
bumped into him in Hanes Hall.
Shortly after, he noticed his pocket
computer was missing from his pocket.
The computer, valued at SBOO, was
later recovered in Polk Place, reports
state.
City
Tuesday, Jan. 14
■ Carrboro police responded to a
report of harassing phone calls commu
nicating threats at a business in Willow
Creek at 10:28 p.m.
Reports state that the owner said the
former owner of the business called the
business three times and threatened him
with his life.
The victim told police that the for
mer owner, Maya Smara of Durham,
was evicted by the corporation and lost
the business.
The suspect thinks that he is the
rightful owner and that the victim is
there illegally, police were told by the
victim.
The suspect told the victim that he
was going to come to the Jones Ferry
Road business and shoot him with a
shotgun if he didn’t leave, police reports
state.
Police contacted the suspect, who
said he wouldn’t go to or call the busi
ness again.
■ A Chapel Hill High School stu
dent was arrested in school on drug
charges after police were alerted by an
anonymous note, reports state.
Adam Holloway, 18, of 101 Quail
Roost Drive was arrested on charges of
simple possession of marijuana after
police found 5 grams in his possession.
Reports state that the victim showed
students on the bus a bag of marijuana.
After police were tipped off, they
conducted a search and found the
drugs, reports state.
He was arrested in school and
released to the possession of his mother.
The suspect will appear in Orange
County District Court in Hillsborough
on Feb. 3.
—Compiled by Staff Writers Lynne
Shallcross and John Frank
Boards to Give Feedback to OWASA
Drought problems
addressed in plan
By Billy Corriher
Assistant City Editor
Officials from Chapel Hill, Carrboro
and Orange County will give the
Orange Water and Sewer Authority
feedback on its new, more strict draft of
the area’s water conservation rules at a
joint meeting tonight.
The meeting will be an opportunity for
the local governments to make sugges
tions about the OWASA board of direc
tors’ latest draft of the rules before the
board finalizes its proposal and sends it
back to the governments for ratification.
“This meeting is important because
OWASA would like to complete our
draft as a proposal that we can give back
to local governments as soon as possi
ble,” said OWASA Executive Director
Fid Kerwin.
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Campus Y's hunger banquet and the Campaign to End the Cycle of Violence's anti-war protest also were held on campus.
Staff Salary Raises Unlikely Given State Budget
By Billy Ball
Staff Writer
Hard economic times and bleak
chances for a pay raise have not damp
ened the spirit of Employee Forum
leader Tommy Griffin.
Despite Griffin’s semester-long fight to
include staff salaries in tuition discussions,
a recent decision by the UNC-system
Board of Governors to put a moratorium
on tuition increases for the 2003-04 year
has seemed to negate much of that work.
Griffin and the UNC-Chapel Hill
staff, which includes rank-and-file
employees such as housekeepers and
dining hall workers, received no pay
raises from the state this fiscal year and
only slight raises the year before.
Traditionally, staff pay raises are ini
tiated by the state, but this year Griffin
worked with the UNC-CH Tuition Task
Force to include higher pay for staff
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Rep. David Price, D-N.C., speaks to a meeting of the Young Democrats.
Price discussed Iraq, North Korea and economic issues.
OWASA has not received any advice
from local officials while drafting the
new Water Conservation Rules and
Standards so far, but it has received
feedback from citizens at public hear
ings, Kerwin said.
Local officials
said they will look
at the latest draft to
see if OWASA has
addressed proce
dural problems that
occurred during
last year’s drought.
Chapel Hill
Town Council
member Pat Evans
said she hopes the
“I’m looking for a way that we
can use water more wisely so
that we don ’t get in a situation
as drastic as last summer. ”
Jacquelyn Gist
Carrboro Board of Aldermen
board of directors includes a quicker
timetable for implementing the stages of
mandatory water restrictions.
Evans said that last year there was a
lag between the time when local gov
ernments, along with OWASA, decided
to move to the next restriction stage and
the time when OWASA announced the
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workers in a proposal crafted and passed
before the BOG passed the freeze.
Members of the task force debated
whether to add a clause to their tuition
recommendation calling for staff raises
even though it was likely that the BOG
would not approve such an item. But
members decided to include the increas
es, saying it was necessary to send a mes
sage about the importance of staff salaries.
But the BOG’s decision last Fridav to
freeze tuition hikes for a year leaves the
issue of employee pay raises in the hands
of the N.C. General Assembly again.
“(The state’s) track record hasn’t been too
good in the last few years,” Griffin said.
With staff salary raises again in jeop
ardy, Griffin said the Employee Forum
has begun letter-writing campaigns to
Gov. Mike Easley and the state legisla
ture asking for increased pay.
Yet Griffin said he understands that
the state is in tough economic times and
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decision to citizens.
“When OWASA would come before
us and we decided to go to the next
stage, they wouldn’t implement it right
away,” Evans said. “So you would have
people watering their lawns when they
weren’t supposed
to until they made
the announce
ment.”
Orange County
Commissioner
Moses Carey said
another problem
associated with last
year’s drought
response was that
the water restric-
tion stages were not coordinated
throughout the county.
“With the old system, having Phase II
(restrictions) means something different
in Orange County, Chapel Hill and
Hillsborough," he said. “We need to
eliminate those differences.”
The local governments generally will
that financing a raise through increased
tuition for already cash-strapped stu
dents might not be the answer.
Griffin said that everyone who wants
an education needs to be able to afford
one and that further tuition hikes might
be too burdensome for some prospec
tive students. He said UNC-CH should
not penalize students for the state’s bud
get woes: “The only way we’re going to
get out of this economic situation is
through education.”
Griffin said he expects the legislature
to recognize the staffs low pay and to
give much-needed relief in better eco
nomic times in the future.
Provost Robert Shelton said more
resources are needed from the legislature
to provide the staff with the bonuses they
deserve. “The staff here is phenomenal,”
he said. “But they’re paid very little.”
Shelton said he is not sure how the
legislature will act on the issue but said it
By Matt Crook
Staff Writer
The challenges facing the United
States range from the Far East to the
nation’s congressional chambers, a
local representative told members of
UNC Young Democrats on Wednesday
night.
Rep. David Price, D-N.C., spoke
about a variety of foreign and domestic
issues, including relations with Iraq and
North Korea and the nation’s economy.
Though tensions with Iraq and North
Korea make negotiations in today’s
world difficult, it is not as dangerous as
the Cold War world, Price said.
He added that the impending conflict
with Iraq should not overshadow the
nation’s other priorities.
“(Iraq is) a danger that does not
trump all other dangers,” Price said.
Price said he was one of 155 repre
sentatives who voted against a bill to
look at whether OWASA’s new draft will
make the area more prepared for a
water shortage, Carey said. “We all
learned something from the last
drought.”
One group of citizens that was espe
cially hurt by last year’s drought and
resulting restrictions were businesses
that depend on water, such as gardeners
and greenhouses, Evans said.
Local gardening business owners
have been vocal at all of OWASA’s
forums since the revisions began last
October, and Evans said she will look at
the board’s new, more flexible restric
tions for such businesses.
Carrboro Board of Aldermen mem
ber Jacquelyn Gist said she hopes to
reduce the impact a drought might have
on the community as a whole.
“I’m looking for a way that we can use
water more wisely so that we don’t get in
a situation as drastic as last summer.”
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at citydesk@unc.edu.
is necessary for the legislature to under
stand the staff s situation. “I do think it’s
critical for (the University) to go around
and spread our message,” he said.
Last semester, the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication at
UNC-CH took steps to resolve its own
salary problems and launched a fund
raiser to reward its staff with bonuses.
Richard Cole, the school’s dean, said
that nearly all faculty members made
their own personal contributions to the
fund and that the school was able to
raise $8,590 for the staff. This comes out
to a $536 bonus for each of the school’s
16 staff members.
“Their salaries are lower than they
ought to be, in my opinion,” Cole said.
“(The fund-raiser) is a way to show that
we appreciate them."
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
give President Bush authorization to uni
laterally attack Iraq.
“I didn’t think I should give (the pres
ident) the blank-check authority,” he
said.
Price said he wants to allow weapons
inspectors to continue their jobs before
the United States commits to a war.
U.S. intelligence agents are sharing
information with inspectors in Iraq, an
action Price said could lead to a halt in
rogue nuclear weapons production.
Price said there is no question that the
United States is preparing for war but
said he thinks we should use war as a
last option.
Though Iraq poses the more immi
nent threat, North Korea has become a
more pressing issue during the last few
months, Price said.
“I suspect if the president could do it
over, he wouldn’t give the ‘axis of evil’
speech he gave,” he said.
In addition to addressing major issues
Thursday, January 16, 2003
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Cuban pianist Chucho Valdes will
perform at UNC on Feb. 12.
UNC Awaits
Overdue
Performer
Cuban pianist plans
to jazz up campus
By Harmony Johnson
Senior Writer
The jazz pianist billed as “Cuba’s
finest export” is finally an export.
Overcoming the visa troubles that
forced him to cancel his entire fall tour,
renowned musician Chucho Valdes has
arrived in the United States and will
perform at UNC next month.
Valdes, who originally was slated to
kick off the 2002-03 Carolina Union
Performing Arts Series in October, will
perform at 8 p.m. Feb. 12 in Hill Hall
Auditorium. Tickets go on sale Friday.
“This is something we’ve been look
ing forward to for a very long time,"said
Don Luse, director of the Carolina
Union. “He’s just a master piano player.”
Valdes was among many interna
tional performers who were required to
clear a lengthy screening process before
obtaining a U.S. visa. He was unable to
complete the process in time for his fall
tour, which included the stop at UNC.
“Any number of international artists
have had real difficulties in processing
See VALDES, Page 11
UNC Talent
Hits Screen
At Sundance
Film 2nd Sundance
entry for professor
By Tacque Kirksey
Staff Writer
Psychedelic visions do more than
make people trip. They can make them
famous.
UNC professor Francesca Talenti has
had her film “The Planets” -a highly
stylized explorative short film - select
ed for entry in the prestigious Sundance
Film Festival.
She leaves today for the event, which
starts tomorrow, spans three Utah cities,
and ends Jan. 26.
The festival is an extension of the
Sundance Institute, founded by Robert
Redford and colleagues in 1981 to sup
port and enhance emerging American
films and filmmakers.
Every January, the works of bur
geoning independent directors and
screenwriters from across the nation and
the world are showcased at the event.
The largest and most prestigious inde
pendent film festival in America,
Sundance traditionally has been a central
venue for filmmakers hoping to gain
more recognition for their work and for
producers looking to find an independent
gem to take into die Hollywood spotlight
“I’m just very honored and excited,”
said Talenti, professor of communica-
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of U.S. involvement abroad, Price also
spoke about the new session of Congress
at work in Washington, D.C.
People were sworn in one day and
fighting the next Price said.
He said legislators fought over the
issue of unemployment which is high
on the agenda as the nation faces a stub
born economic downturn.
“States are flat on their back eco
nomically," Price said.
The economic status has complicated
the decision-making process, and dele
gates had a hard time agreeing on the
specifics of how to solve the problem.
“There was very sharp partisan divi
sion over this issue,” he said.
Congress has passed only two out of
the 13 appropriations bills that have
been presented in the past week.
Delegates eventually passed a bill that
will provide assistance to jobless
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