Monday, October 3, 1983The Daily Tar Heel3
Landlords, tenants disagree on new eviction laws
By CARRIE SZYMECZEK
SUff Writer
Landlords and tenants of local apartment complexes
are in disagreement over the practicality of new eviction
laws, which went into effect Oct. 1.
One change in the law will speed eviction proceedings.
After Oct. 1, the sheriff will have only 27 days to evict a
tenant once the landlord has filed an eviction notice.
The second change will require the landlord or sheriff
to store an evicted tenant's property for 21 days after the
tenant leaves. The landlord would have to lock the pro
perty in the empty aprtment or pay for storage in a ware
house. Most landlords contacted in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
area agreed that 27 days was enough time for tenants to
find other living arrangements after the eviction papers
were filed.
"After they (the tenants) get the notice, I'd say two
weeks is sufficient," said Pat Monish, manager of Bolin
wood Apartments.
Monish also said that by the time the landlord filed, the
tenant was usually a few months behind in rent. "We're
already losing rent" when the eviction papers are filed, she
said.
Brent Bobbitt. manager of Booker Creek. Estes Park,
Kingswood and Royal Park, said the changes in eviction
laws "will help in the fact that the papers will be served
quicker. This will keep people from dragging their feet.'
Annette Evans of Tar Heel Manor Apartments and
Mary Charles Jenkins of Camelor Apartments both said
that 27 days was a reasonable amount of time for evicted
tenants to find a new place to live.
Although all apartment managers contacted expressed
the opinion that 27 days for the sheriff to evict someone
was enough or too much time, many landlords said that
the new laws would not affect them significantly.
R.J. Wells of Berkshire Manor Apartments said that in
his 12 years as manager he had never evicted anyone.
"The new laws don't affect me," he said. "I'll cross that
bridge (concerning tenant evictions) when I have to," said
Wells.
Monish and Jenkins both said that in their experiences
they had never had to call in the sheriff for evictions. "We
send out a letter," said Monish. "Usually that will do it."
All landlords contacted also agreed that it was unrea
sonable for them to have to bear financial responsibility
for storing tenants' property. Again, however, most
managers said they had not had much trouble with
tenants' leaving their property behind.
"That part (of the new laws) I was not really happy
with," Bobbit said. "You got much better results with set
ting property outside, except on cloudy or rainy days."
However, Bobbitt also said that in his 12 years as
manager he had not set property outside more than three
or four times.
Jenkins and Monish agreed that landlords should , not
have to carry this extra financial burden.
"If you have to lock up property, you're losing three
more weeks of rent, and then another week is lost while
you're preparing the apartment for a new tenant,"
Monish said.
"It isn't right for the owner to assume this financial
responsibility for a tenant who is in default of contract,"
Jenkins said.
The majority of student tenants disagreed with the
landlords' opinions.
Sam Dennis, a tenant of University Gardens Apart
ments, said 27 days was not enough time for tenants to
, move out.
"We (the tenants) give the apartment owners 45 days
notice when we're leaving," Dennis said. "They ought to
give us 45 days notice for eviction."
John Sanford, a tenant of University Gardens Apart
ments, held a different opinion than most tenants.
"As far as I'm concerned, they (the tenants) should get
evicted right away if they don't pay their rent. It's their
own fault," Sanford said.
Students may register through Wednesday to vote in local elections
By KATHERINE SCHULTZ
Staff Writer
Although some students do not think of
Chapel Hill as their permanent home, they
may still become involved in local politics.
The Orange County Board of Elections,
UNC Student Government and some
members of the Orange County Demo
cratic Party are involved in efforts to en
courage student voting in elections.
Students wishing to vote in the local
elections on Nov. 8 may register in the Stu
dent Union on the following dates: today,
, 9 a.m.-2 p.m.; Tuesday, 3 p.m.-9 p.m.;
and Wednesday, 1 1 a.m.-4 p.m.
"We feel it is important to get students
involved in local politics because they live
here most of the year," said Margaret
Parker, chairman of the Orange County
Board of Elections. "It's a matter of
deciding where your home is, and it's a
hard decision to make."
Offices up for election are mayors of
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough
and town board positions for each of the
towns.
"For students who are already regis
tered in their hometown, we give them a
cancellation card to send to their
registrar," Parker said. "To be eligible to
vote in any precinct you must have lived
there for at least 30 days. '
"Most students aren't concerned with
Orange County politics because they don't
think the issues affect them, but they do.
The building surge Chapel Hill is facing is
a political issue and will affect the students
in terms of parking and housing."
Student Body President Kevin Monroe
said, "We are looking into getting a per
manent registration site at the Under
graduate Library and don't foresee any
problems with that. Several other universi
ties have them, and it is a good way to get
students registered to vote and participate
in elections."
Joe Herzenberg, a member of the
Orange County Democratic Party, is on a
party committee that is trying to get a per
manent registration site on campus. The
committee is also seeking a change in the
county precinct lines in order to form a
total campus district.
"We hope to have the permanent site on
campus by next year," Herzenberg said.
"State law says that all public librarians
are eligible to be registrars, and we con
sider the Undergrad to be a public
library."
The campus falls into three different
voting districts. "Because of this division,
the campus has no political unity,"
Herzenberg said. "Having one geographi
cal district would make the on-campus stu
dents a political body. It would also give
the Young Democrats and the College
Republicans a more defined area to work
in."
Students may register until Oct. 10 for
the November elections. Besides register
ing at the Union, students may also
register at the municipal buildings in
Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough.
Oldest N. C. poem discovered
By CHRIS EDWARDS
Staff Writer
A poem accidentally discovered by
UNC law student Thomas E. Terrell Jr.
has turned out to be quite a literary
find.'
The 302 lines of verse, penned in
1698 by Quaker religious leader Henry
White, -constitute the oldest known
poem written in either of the Carolinas.
Terrell said the 285-year-old poem,
which appears in the Spring 1983 issue
of the journal Early American
Literature, was a "modest attempt to
use a common English verse form to
convey a religious message."
The poem has its greatest
significance as a "cultural artifact,"
since little literature of any kind re
mains from the period to give us an
idea of the lifestyles of early North
Carolinians, Terrell said. Although the
religious narrative is "not very good
poetry," he said, "it is evidence of in
tellectual arid literary life that did exist
at a time when we thought such things
were nonexistent."
Terrell, a High Point native,
discovered the poem in 1979 while stu
dying early religious thought in the
South as a University of Chicago
graduate student. He also learned
much of what is known about White
from the Quaker collection at Guilford
College, in which he found White's
poem. Court records, land grants, wills
and genealogical records in the collec
tion provided clues about the author.
Terrell said he thought that White
an "unheard of colonial figure" had
a greater interest in religion than in
literature. Since the number of feet and
the meter in the poem follow no set
pattern, the poem's primary purpose
probably was to teach Quaker doctrine
to citizens of White's community in
what is now Perquimans County.
White's description of man's fall and
of his salvation through Christ is the
only surviving 17th-century Southern
poem from outside Virginia, Terrell
said. .
Most early Southern poetry differed
from White's work by being aimed at
an audience in Europe and usually
describing exploration of the New
World and life there, thus making
White's poem unique.
The three-year wait to get the poem
published is standard practice for
academic journals, Terrell said. Early
American Literature journal recently
moved from the University of
Massachusetts at Amherst to the UNC
English department.
Cult techniques discussed in forum
following Union-sponsored film
Hart's biggest problem is lack of funding, campaign co-chairman says
By VANCE TREFETHEN
Staff Writer
Ted Sorensen, national co-chair of Sen. Gary Hart's
presidential campaign, said the Colorado senator's biggest
problem for 1984 was lacking of funding.
Sorensen, who is travelling around the nation for the
"Americans With Hart" campaign, spoke at the Carolina
Inn Thursday morning.
Sorensen said Hart did not have the name recognition
that other candidates, such as John Glenn and Walter
Mondale, had in the minds of the public. He said it would
take a lot of money for Hart to be able to make a good
showing in the early primaries and caucuses. Doing well in
early contests would help build the name recognition that
Hart needs to carry on a viable campaign, he added.
Focusing on specific campaign issues, Sorenson said
Hart's No. 1 priority is economic recovery. Hart also
wants a" greater American commitment to arms control
negotiations and to foreign policies that will keep America
out of war in Central America and the Middle East, he
said.
Sorensen also said Hart wants to restore governmental
concern for the rights of women, blacks, the poor and the
elderly, who he feels have been unfairly treated by the
Reagan administration.
Sorensen, who was a speechwriter and special aide to
John F. Kennedy from 1959 to 1963, said Hart was similar
to Kennedy in many respects. He said Hart was a young
man who, like Kennedy, is a "man of vision" who "looks
to the future" for solutions to problems.
He also said that Hart was committed to running a
"grassroots" campaign and that Hart has refused to ac
cept any campaign money from political action commit
tees. He said it was also significant that Hart has received
no endorsement from any major social or political
organizations.
CWP member says Reagan and media overplayed airplane incident
By BETH O' KELLY
Staff Writer
President Reagan and the U.S. media
overplayed the Soviet downing of the
Korean Air Lines plane Sept. 1, a Com
munist Workers Party member said last
week.
yonnie Chapman said at a CWP
meeting at UNC that emphasis should be
placed on events leading up the issue.
Reagan and the press have made com
munism the issue instead of the fact that
269 lives were lost in the incident, he said.
Also at the meeting were members of
the organization Collegiate Association for.
the Research of Principles who said opi
nions presented at the meeting were not
true. One member of the organization said
Chapman's claims about Reagan were a
"bunch of crap." He also said com
munism was based on lies. He didn't
believe that Reagan would deceive the peo
ple as Chapman claimed.
Chapman said the U.S. response to the
Soviets was not a shooting war, but an
ideological war. Chapman also quoted an
alleged comment by Sen. Jesse Helms
from a newspaper saying it was the "best
chance to paint the bastards into a corner."
He criticized Reagan for using this as
an opportunity to justify deployment of
U.S. Pershing II missiles in Europe, to
consolidate NATO and to get his present
military budget through Congress.
The speech reported the Reagan-media
position as a "Red-Bathing" campaign.
It labeled those who opposed the so-!
called invasion of Central America as
communists, saying communists are for
murder and the shooting down of inno
cent men, women and babies.
By STUART TONKINSON
Assistant University Editor
Followers of the Rev. Sun-Myung.
Moon said in a discussion Saturday night
that their religion teaches values no dif
ferent from those held by other Chris
tians. But the parent of a former follower,
who asked to be unidentified, said that
Moon is a fraud who robs people of their
minds.
Members and parents of members of
the Unification Church discussed the
techniques cults use to attract people, in a
Carolina Union-sponsored forum after
the Union movie Ticket to Heaven, a film
describing one man's initiation into a
cult.
Alison Lunt, a member of the Chapel
Hill branch of the Collegiate Association
for the Research of Principles, said that
the Moon-founded Unification Church is
disliked because it represents a challenge
to traditional Western materialistic
values. CARP is affiliated with the
church.
"People join the church because they
are looking for answers," she said.
"They're looking for alternative life
styles, ones which do not lead to prob
lems like alcoholism." ' 1
Lunt said that the movie was too criti
cal of the Unification Church and that it
did not accurately depict such cults.
"Moonies are not brainwashed. They
are taught to go on a spiritual quest and
to search for answers," she said.
But a parent whose son had been a
member of the Unification Church said
the church teaches that "a questioning
mind is Satan's mind."
Lunt said that members of the Unifi
cation Church obey the Christian
precepts of poverty, chastity and obe
dience. She also said she believes that
Moon was told by Jesus Christ to save the
world. Moon is more likely than anyone
else to be a messiah, she added.
Members of the audience asked how
Moon could be a messiah when he had so
much personal wealth.
Lunt said the wealth is not Moon's but
the property of the Unification Church
and used to spread the power of the
church and to combat communism. She
said he lived his life in extreme poverty.
CARP is one of the ways the church
tries to change society, she said. Most
members of CARP do not belong to the
church, Lunt added.
Moon was criticized by one of the
parents for stealing peoples' minds in
order to make money. Students in their
first or last year of college were listed as
being particularly susceptible to thcl tech
niques of the Unification Church,
because they are in a period of great tran
sition; the parent said. . -v.
"They are searching for truth, and
Moonies act like they have all the
answers. But they know they don't.
They're just being deceitful," the parent
said.
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