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Campus Calendar The Carolina Student FundD7"H Campus Calendar will appear daily. Announcements to be run in the expanded version on Mon days and Thursdays must be placed in the box outside the Carolina Student Fund of fice on the third floor of South Building by 5 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Wednesday, respec tively. The deadlines for the limited editions will be noon one day before the announce ment is to run. Only announcements from University recognized and campus organiza tions will be printed. Today 1 p.m. Lecture by Dr. Robert Edwards on "The Problems of Parasitic Infection in Haiti" in 103 Ber ryhill. 4:30 p.m. Industrial Relations Association meeting and elections in 205 Union. 5 p.m. Film: "Pink Triangles" a film about prejudice against gays presented as part of Gay Awareness Week in 218 Union. Call 962401. 6 p.m. UNC Hag Line try-outs practice. All students welcome in the Tin Can. Check by the Band Office in the Union for more informa tion. UNC Parachute Club Meeting and Officer Elections in the Union. 6:30 p.m. The Navigators small group Bi ble studies in the Union. 7 p.m. CGA presents a speech on "Gays and Religion" in 301 Dey. IVCF off-campus chapter meeting in the basement of the Bible Church. Speaker is Dottie Venable. Campus Crusade for Christ will sponsor "Thursday Night Live" in the Union. 7:30 p.m. SEEDS general meeting in the Union. Friday 1 p.m. Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit will speak on "Reflections on Women and Roe v. Wade" in the Auditorium of the Institute of Gov't. Sponsored by the School of Law. 9 p.m. CGA is sponsoring a Dance in Craige Dorm. Call 9624401. AH Day CGA will sponsor "Blue Jeans Day" to show sympathy for the gay cause. Saturday TBA IFC will sponsor BRICK basket ball shooting tournament for American Cancer Society. Entry forms at Union Desk. Call 929-3381. 9:30 p.m. Anglican Student Fellowship will sponsor a breakfast at Chapel of the Cross. Sunday TBA IFC will sponsor BRICK basket ball shooting tournament for American Cancer Society. Entry forms at Union Desk. Call 929-3381. 1 p.m. UNC Flag Line will hold tryouts for Fall 1984 in Carmichael Auditorium. Call 929-1249. 4 p.m. Spring Concert by Mens' and Womens' Glee Clubs in Hill Hall Auditorium. 7 p.m. Baptist Student Union Choir Rehearsal at BSU. Monday I I 1 I I I I I I I 1 I I I I J I -t I I I I I I I I 5 p.m. Application deadline for poetry, prose, graphics, and production editorial positions for the CELLAR DOOR. Applications available at Union desk. 5:30 p.m. GPSF Finance Committee Meeting at Union. 7 p.m. Sociology Club presents a film "Killing Us Softly" in Hamilton 151. Discussion to follow. ITEMS OF INTEREST Attention Education Majors: Did you miss the registration deadline for the Na tional Teacher's Exam? An additional test date of May 5 has been set up. Call Nash Hall at 962-2191. TOEFL Exam is May 12. Registration must be received by Monday, April 9. Last test date until August. Registration forms I available at Nash Hall. Orange County commissioners approve increase in sales tax By MIKE GUNZENHAUSER Slaff Writer Orange County commissioners de cided Monday night to raise the local sales tax to 4!2 percent. The half-cent increase will go into effect June 1. Commissioners voted 3-2 to take advantage of the local-option sales tax approved by the General Assembly last year. Orange County becomes the 91st county in North Carolina to adopt the tax. Commissioner Ben Lloyd's pro posal reserved at ieast 80 percent of the revenue earned from the tax for school capital needs over the next 5Vi years. By law, at least 40 percent of the revenue earned from the tax must be used for schools. The Schools Capital Task Force previously asked that all the revenue be given to schools. Commissioners Richard Whitted and Shirley E. Marshall voted against Lloyd's proposal. Whitted said the in crease was regressive since it included an increase in taxes on food. People with lower incomes would be burden ed with too much of the tax, he said. ' U '' .'i i hi'i Whitted advocated a referendum on the tax increase. Marshall also favored such a refer endum. Although a referendum would delay the increase by as much, as six months, Marshall said it was more important that the public be able to decide on the issue. Chairman Don Wilhoit spoke against the referendum, which would not be held until August. Approxi mately $500,000 in revenue would be lost with the delay. Wilhoit pointed out that holding a special referendum would cost the county additional money. He also said that without the . sales tax increase, the county would see a 10 percent rise in property taxes. The overall cost to county residents would be lower and less regressive with the sales tax increase. Only one out of 16 speakers at a public hearing on the tax increase March 13 was against adoption of the increase. Wilhoit said that a referen dum would probably approve the sales tax increase. An $8 million to $9 million bond issue has been advocated by the Schools Capital Task Force to further meet school capital needs. t h '. f i :::::::.' . . '.V.: '-VW rv vi t sous? $3!H mm .aj mmi & im lESsimt ism & msm$w mssz m. University of North Carolina Monday, April 9, 1984 4 pm, Union Auditorium Free Admission Thursday, April 5, 1984The Daily Tar Heel3 Plan to construct new apartment complex approved Bv VANESSA WILLIAMS By VANESSA WILLIAMS Staff Writer . The Chapel Hill Planning Board unanimously approved a new 336-unit apartment and townhouse development plan Tuesday night to be built at the intersection of Airport Road and Piney Mountain Road. The new apartment and townhouse complex, Misty Woods, will have 108 two-bedroom and 228 one-bedroom units, accor ding to Don Kennedy of Bass, Nixon & Kennedy, Inc., con sulting engineers for the project. The apartments, which will be owned by Barnett-Range Corp., will rent from $345 to $465 per month, he said. Construction of the project will begin-by June, 1985. The proposal for the apartments did not pass without some deliberation, however. Board member Pat Evans said she was concerned about traffic in the area after the apartments were completed. Evans said that a bus pull-off lane would be needed on Airport Road and Piney Mountain Road. A representative of the Piney Mountain Development Association said that 336 units was a large number which should not be considered without careful thought. The representative Vflict He 'i'r:( 'hr 5f there were lOOf! tnio nr niw ,i--nM be surprised." One resident of the Piney Mountain area said that she was worried about the increase in crime that such a swift population growth could cause. The board also approved, by a vote of 5-3, a revised plan for a new McDonalcf s with a drive-through window to be built next to Hotel Europa. The plan, which had gone before the board three times,, was approved because McDonald's had revised its plan to save more of the existing trees on the site and to provide more plants in the buffer between McDonald's and Hotel Europa. Evans voiced concern that the McDonald's would make the traffic situation on U.S. 15-501 bypass more hazardous unless improvements are made. "I cannot feel that this is safe until the highway is improved," she said. Board member Lightning Brown questioned the traffic safety in the parking lot of McDonald's. He was concerned that the drive-through window would cause traffic in the parking lot to back up and create a hazard. Evans also suggested that filters be installed in the exhaust system of the McDonald's so that the smell of hamburgers would not drift up to the Hotel Europa swimming pool. O'Brien 's preliminary hearing postponed indefinitely Pollster Harris interviewed The first of a 14-part series called "Globewatch" airs tonight at 7:30 on Channel 4, and will feature pollster Lou Harris. Professor James Leutze will introduce Harris and a panel of questioners, which includes former Daily Tar Heel editor Kerry DeRochi and professors Nell Painter, Jurg Steiner and Charles Jenner. Judge discusses abortion The Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion will be discussed by the Honorable Ruth Bader Ginsburg, U.S. Circuit Judge, at 1 p.m. in the Institute of Government auditorium. For the record In Wednesday's story, "Historical odds against Martin in gubernatorial race are high," The Daily Tar Heel incorrectly 'reported that Jim Holshouser had been the first Republican elected governor of North Carolina since 1876. Holshouser actually-is -the-second Republican, the first being D.L. Russell, who was elected -in l896. The Df regrets the error; ' - By KAREN YOUNGBLOOD Staff Writer The preliminary hearing for Chapel Hill Newspaper City Editor Sean O'Brien was postponed indefinitely Wednesday afternoon, pending the results from lab tests on two of the drug charges O'Brien is facing. O'Brien was arrested February 19 on eight different charges: assault with a deadly weapon, assault with intent to kill, simple possession of marijuana, simple possession of cocaine, failure to stop for a blue light and siren, speeding to allude arrest, careless and reckless driving, and driving alongside the road. The second charge was later dropped. O'Brien, who has worked for the Chapel Hill Newspaper for two years, was spotted sitting in his car in a parking lot. When a police officer approached O'Brien to question him, O'Brien drove toward the officer with his car. The of ficer, who was not injured, chased O'Brien for a mile to Mason Farm Road. O'Brien was apprehended when his car wrecked. O'Brien was released the same day on $600 bond. Police said that O'Brien was alone at the time and there were no other suspected accomplices. He had not been under police surveillance, nor was he suspected of dealing drugs. Orville Campbell, editor of the Chapel Hill Newspaper said that although O'Brien was currently not working at the paper, he was still on the company payroll. When asked if O'Brien would be asked to resign, Campbell said that would be determined after the trial. Lunsford Long, O'Brien's attorney, refused to comment on the case. King From page 1 America was without violence, and if we ever started the eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, we would all be eyeless and toothless." "That is why his birthday is a holiday today," Young said. "He is- the only leader in our history who advocated the settlement of disputes without violence." It was 16 years ago Wednesday that King was assassinated in Memphis, Tenn. Young, who had seen King minutes before his death.said he, King and other civil rights workers had planned to go to dinner that night. King then left the group to get his coat from his room. Upon stepping out on the balcony at the hotel, King was shot and killed. "Martin's work led to great changes in the nation," Young said. "The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1963, ending segregation of facilities. A year later the Voting Rights Act was passed, allowing all citizens to vote. President (Lyndon) Johnson's Great Society program gave all citizens the same rights and oppurtunities as others and made it the government's responsibility to provide them." King also took a stand against the Viet nam War, causing even the American liberal press to question a civil rights leader's authority to talk on war, Young said. "Martin knew war did not solve pro blems," Young said. His intention was to get us out of war early, before losing 50,000 lives and the destruction of the country. He realized it was inevitable to conquer a people who had struggled for centuries against European colonial powers. That is the kind of mandate he left us." Young said progress on racism has been made and, has been noticeable in Atlanta. "Years ago when I drove to Alabama from Washington, D.C, I'd fill up my gas tank in Anderson, South Carolina," Young said. "I didn't want to stop in Georgia. It wasn't the place for a young black man to be alone. If someone then had told me I'd be mayor of Atlan ta, I'd have told them they were crazy. "Today, Atlanta has become a city too busy to hate," he said. "We've blossom ed because people have worked together and progressed in the market place. You can go down Peachtree Street at noon and see whites and blacks having lunch together because they like each other." Young said 70 percent of Atlanta's blacks are prospering and are responsible for $180 billion in income. But 30 percent have not yet reached the mainstream of the economy. During a question and answer period, Young encouraged students to support political candidates with philosophies similar to their own and to make a dif ference in the political process. Young was elected mayor of Atlanta in 1981. He also served as U.S. ambassador to the United Nations from January 1977 to September 1979. . . .Till you've spent a 0 summer in Carolina's finest student housing f TTi urn . Granville Towers Air conditioning and all other utilities included Great location - downtown Franklin St., adjacent to campus 45 meals per week (Sunday dinner thru Friday lunch) including pool side barbecues Weekly maid service Private weight room ' $365 per summer school session All housing in Granville East Come by or call for applications University Square Applications ior fall still available. 929-7143
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