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Thursday, March 3, 1983The Daily Tar Heel3
Theft rate is highest in gyms
By SCOTT WHARTON
Staff Writer
Woollen and Fetzer gymnasiums have become the most theft
ridden areas on campus, University police said Tuesday. A study
of police reports indicate that more thefts have occurred since
January 10 than in the period between July 1, 1981 and June 30,
1982.
Thirty-nine thefts have been reported in the gyms since
January 10, compared to a total of 26 in the 1981-1982 period.
"They are up a significant amount," said Maj. Charles
Mauer of the University police.
Police said the majority of thefts occur when students leave
their lockers unlocked or clothes and. other valuables unattended.
Of the 39 thefts reported, only eight were reported to have oc
curred from locked lockers. Police reports said two thefts occur
red with forcible entry into the lockers.
Though thefts at the gyms have always been a problem,
Mauer said the amount occurring now is the worst he can
remember. "The opportunity is there and the thieves find out
and take advantage of it," he said.
In response to the problem, University police have met with
John Billing, chairman of th nhvsirl ptiimtifn Hv"m-tmpnt
Crime prevention officer Ned Comar said he has put up
posters warning students of the thefts in the locker rooms, on
locker room doors and in other parts of the gyms. Comar said
he has also discussed the problem on radio station WCHL.
"No evidence indicates that someone is coming to the gyms
primarily to steal," he said, adding that he would not rule out
the possibility some of the thefts have been committed by
students.
Students, despite the warnings, "just don't think it will hap
pen to them," Billing said.
There has "really been a substantial increase of thefts in the
women's locker rooms," he added. "Girls are more trusting."
Though the gyms are to be used only by students and faculty,
Billing said anyone can enter the gyms without being noticed.
Gym instructors have been warned to tell their classes of the
problem, Billing said.
"We're making a big issue with the instructors," he said. He
said he has been surprised at the substantial amounts of money
which sometimes have been left unattended and then stolen.
There has been an increase in patrolling the locker rooms, but
the only way to solve the problem "is for students to buckle
down and lock their lockers," Comar said.
Reservoir plans
Future depends pn decision
Fallen tree causes power outage
By LIZ LUCAS
Assistant University Editor
The same roar that usually echoes
from the balconies of South Campus
residence halls when the Tar Heels
celebrate a victory reverberated
through the stillness early Wednesday
morning.
No, the students were not celebrating
an unannounced win. Rather, they
were excited by the sudden power
outage that encompassed South Cam
pus and other areas, including the law
school complex, the pharmacy school,
Woollen and Fetzer Gyms, and two
fraternity houses. '
The outage occurred around 12:55
a.m. when a tree between the Chi Phi
and Phi Delta Theta fraternity houses
fell on a power line and tripped a cir
cuit at the power plant, said Gale
Winslow, power distribution supervisor
of the UNC Utilities Division.
The tree was evidently rotten and
had a bad root system, Winslow said.
" "With the ground super-saturated, it
simply fell over." The tree damaged a
pickup truck when it fell.
Most of the power was restored
within an hour, though power to the
fraternities and the pharmacy school
was not returned until 4 a.m., Winslow
said.
Though the electricity was off for
only an hour, there was ample time for
chaos to break out in the darkened
dormitories.
"Although there was a lot of yelling
and firecrackers, there was no real
damage," said Mark Brown, area
director of Morrison dormitory. "It
seemed to be an amazingly orderly
situation," he said, adding that it was
much more orderly than during some
of the bomb threats a few years ago.
"When I was there in the dark grop
ing for my shoes I thought there might
be some bad problems, especially since
a lot of people were running up and
down the stairs," Brown said.
"But it was really less of a problem
than I expected. The main problem was
firecrackers someone coud have got
ten hurt," Brown said. Also, two peo
ple were caught in an elevator when the
electricity went out, but they were
released soon after the power was returned.
jobs
From page 1
By KEITH TAYLOR
Staff Writer
The Orange Water and Sewer Authority
and the Cane Creek Conservation
Authority await a pivotal decision from
the state Environmental Management
Commission, which meets March 10 in
Raleigh to decide whether to grant land
condemnation rights to OWASA for the
proposed Cane Creek Reservoir.
OWASA needs the land condemnation
rights in order to proceed with plans to
build the reservoir on Cane Creek, located
about 12 miles west of Chapel Hill,
because the water company has been
unable to obtain all the land it needs
through direct purchase.
OWASA has faced stiff opposition to
the reservoir proposal from members of
the Cane Creek Conservation Authority
since the reservoir was first considered in
the late 1960s.
Tom Bradshaw, EMC chairman, said
Wednesday he expected the commission's
involvement with the matter to be finished
at next week's meeting. However, it is
possible that the commission could decide
to wait until the EMC's next meeting on
April 14 before making a final decision.
Likewise, EMC member and Chapel
Hill Town Council member Jim Wallace
said Wednesday a decision could be
postponed until April if tempers flared and
a "cooling-off ' period were needed
following the March 10 meeting.
"We're down to the wire," Wallace
said. "I sense that."
An EMC decision would bring an end
to administrative action in the land con
demnation rights issue, but it is generally
in Chapel Hill. The EMC will consider
McBride's . recommendation along with
other evidence from the hearing when it
makes its decision.
The EMC had already awarded con
demnation rights to OWASA after a hear
ing in 1979, but the CCCA challenged that
decision in court. The N.C. Court of Ap
peals decided in 1980 that an Environmen
tal Impact Statement, as well as a new
hearing, would be required before the
EMC made a final decision. That state
ment was completed by the N.C. Depart
ment of Natural Resources and Communi
ty Development last September, prior to
the second hearing.
But even with a new hearing, Ed
Johnson, CCCA spokesman and pro
fessor of psychology at the University, said
he was prepared for a repeat performance
by the EMC.
"I would not be surprised to see us get
only two or three votes," Johnson said last
week. "I think the issue at the EMC level
has already been determined." He said
that many of the EMC members were also
on the commission when it voted against
the CCCA at the first hearing.
Wallace is one of those members.
Wallace is also the only EMC member
who lives in Chapel Hill.
Wallace favors the reservoir; but he
took himself out of the voting last time
and said Wednesday he will "probably, do
so again."
Wallace said he planned to be present at
the EMC meeting, but preferred to let the
commission members make their decision
from the evidence itself.
Even, with an almost certain court ap-
tion funds to areas represented by key
lawmakers.
O'Neill made his comments as Republicans
drafted their own alternative jobs bill, a move
one aide conceded was doomed to defeat when
the Heavily Democratic House votes today.
Byijhis remarks, O'Neill indicated the $4.6
billion measure would increase in size by the
time. js finally approved, although he said he
wants.tp avoid a veto confrontation (with Presi
dent Reagan. Reagan has endorsed a $4.3
billidri plan for jobs as well as food and shelter
for the needy.
Rep. David Obey, D-Wis., is leading the
move to increase spending on the Democratic
bill by $200 million for material and child health
care, community based health centers and other
programs. Comments by O'Neill and other
Democratic leaders indicate that increase is
almost certain to be annroved.
As for transportation, O'Neill said a move by
Rep. James Howard, D-N. J., to increase spend
ing for mass transit and distribute it more evenly
around the country "would pass overwhelming
ly on the floor."
All of the $110 million now in the bill for
mass transit would go to areas represented by
members of the Appropriations Committee or
O'Neill's own area of Boston and its suburbs.
"I think it is wrong to do that," O'Neill said.
"I will personally tell them I personally
was disappointed in what they did."
Despite the objections raised by Republicans,
the bill is expected to be approved easily, and
the Senate Appropriations Committee will draft
its own version next week.
There were these other developments as Con
gress seemed to be emerging from its traditional
slow start in drafting legislation:
O'Neill pledged House Democrats would
have a "phase two" package of recession relief
ready in April, including health care for the
unemployed, assistance for farmers and home
owners facing mortgage foreclosures, aid for
workers whose industries have been devastated
by the recession, and temporary public service
jobs.
Neither he nor Rep. Thomas Foley of Wash
ington, who is coordinating the legislation, of
fered any price tag:
O'Neill disclosed -that the entire House
Democratic caucus will vote on a proposed bud
get, evidently before it is drafted in the House
Budget Committee.
All party members are being included in dis
cussions on a tax and spending plan in a series
of meetings that began on Tuesday. Party
leaders say that is a move designed to avoid a
repetition of the chaos that developed last year
when neither Democrats nor Republicans could
muster a majority for their proposals. But it also
has the effect of reducing the authority of Rep.
James Jones, D-Okla., chairman of the Budget
Committee.
Senate aides confirmed that a small group
of moderate to liberal Republicans are drafting
an alternative to Reagan's budget, and could in
clude either limiting or repealing this year's 10
percent personal income tax cut. The group is
expected to call for a sharp cut in Reagan's pro
posed defense budget and restoring money the
administration wants cut from social programs.
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"We are hoping and anticipating that
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He was referring to EMC hearing of
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entirely different issue. OWASA already
has the permit it needs from the Army
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