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By LORETTA GRANTHAM
City Editor
Once is not enough.
At least not for Jim Wallace, who will be back
for his second term as Chapel Hill mayor following
a six-year absence.
In Tuesday's nip-and-tuck race with candidate
Beverly Kawalec, Wallace, who was mayor from
1975 to 1979, won by 455 votes.
"I regretted that the campaign turned out to be
a quasi-referendum on Rosemary Square," he said
Tuesday night. Wallace captured 48 percent of the
votes, while Kawalec received 41 percent.
The newly-elected mayor opposes the Rosemary
Square project, a condominium and retail complex
designed for downtown Chapel Hill, while Kawalec
firmly supports it.
The local Development Ordinance, which has
been recently scrutinized, is "overly permissive as
far as density is concerned," Wallace said, adding
that the town should "downzone overly obvious
areas and then proceed at a leisurely pace."
Wallace, a lecturer of university studies at N.C.
State, is owner of Continental Travel and president
of Meridian Travel Service.
"We are faced with a critical situation regarding
the increased threat to public safety! and the
unwanted consequences of explosive development,"
Wallace said in a prepared statement published in
Monday's Daily Tar Heel.
Wallace, who supports a merger of Chapel Hill
and Carrboro, said he "will not press it at this time."
"There are many people in Carrboro who have
conflicting views on this matter," he said. "I will
vote for merger when the people of Carrboro, acting
through their elected representatives, make known
their wish to engage in serious merger talks with
the town of Chapel Hill."
Wallace received degrees in physics, math, ancient
and medieval history, and environmental sciences
and engineering from UNC. Since 1960, he has
served on numerous local and state level boards
and committees.
Had Beverly Kawalec been elected, she would
have been the first female mayor of Chapel Hill.
Currently mayor pro tempore, Kawalec has been
a Chapel Hill Town Council member since 1977.
"I'm sure Rosemary Square played a role,"
Kawalec said Tuesday night in discussing the
election. "The voters decided, and that's the way
democracy works.
"I don't feel any regrets for running," she said.
"It was a wonderful experience for me ... I care
an awful lot about the issues talked about during
the campaign.
"We gave the people a choice," Kawalec said.
"We clearly presented the issues."
A former college professor, Kawalec received a
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By LISA BRANTLEY
Staff Writer
Three Town Council candidates endorsed by the
Chapel Hill Alliance, of Neighborhoods swept
municipal elections Tuesday, winning three of four
vacant seats.
Julie Andresen, David Pasquini, David Godschalk
and Arthur Werner, beat six other candidates.
Andresen, a former teacher and real estate property
manager, was the only woman in the council race.
Andresen received 4,272 votes, 19 percent of the total.
A founding member of the Chapel Hill Alliance of
Neighborhoods, she received the greatest number of
major endorsements in the race.
As one of the many candidates who stressed a
platform of controlled growth, Andresen said her
flection., showed a, widespread concern with growth
management in Chapel Hill and some dissatisfaction
with present policy.
Another major issue that evolved during the race
was opinion on Rosemary Square, the proposed hotel
and retail complex that is a joint venture between the
town of Chapel Hill and Fraser-Morrow Development
Company.
Andresen opposes the Rosemary Square project
because of possible traffic congestion and parking
problems that may result, she said.
"It (Rosemary Square) was a much larger issue in
this campaign than it should have been," she said.
Pasquini, an incumbent candidate, who has served
on the council since 1981, is an environmental engineer
with Dynamit Nobel Silicon of Research Triangle Park.
Although not a member of the anti-development
Alliance of Neighborhoods, Pasquini received its
endorsement for one of the four vacant council seats.
He received 2,949 votes, 13 percent of the total.
Pasquini declined to comment before all the election
returns were in, but said the Alliance of Neighborhoods
showed its strength in the election.
"I keep remembering the Dewey defeats Truman
headlines," he said.
David Godschalk, a UNC professor of city and
regional planning, -has. been a council member since
last April when he was appointed to fill the unexpired
term of the late Winston Broadfoot.
Godschalk received 2,786, 12 percent of the total
vote.
In a telephone interview Monday, Godschalk said
he expected some of the candidates elected would
change some of their initial goals and ideas.
Arthur Werner, also an Alliance of Neighborhoods
candidate, was the group's first president and a main
organizer behind its growth moratorium petition.
Werner is an environmental consultant in air
pollution and hazardous waste management.
Werner edged out Tom McCurdy, an environmental
planner and Chapel Hill Planning Board member, by
66 votes.
Werner received 2,618 votes to McCurdy's 2,552.
Candidates John Currie, Milton Julian and John
Morgan Jr. who ran on platforms widely regarded as
more pro-business and development.
Julian, a Franklin Street clothier, is vice presideifl
of the Downtown Chapel Hill Association and served
on the board of directors of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Chamber of Commerce for two years. Morgan is a
former textile industry executive and a past president
of the Chamber of Commerce. Currie is an assistant
, professor at the UNC School of Medicine.
Other candidates included Joe Herzenberg, a
political activist and historian, and Roosevelt
Wilkerson Jr., a local minister.
Herzenberg, who placed fifth, was in second position
at an early point in the election.
City writers Mike Gunzenhauser, Kenneth Harris,
Mitra Lotfi and Katherine Wood contributed to this
story.
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Editor's note: This story is part of an
extensive series focusing on University
academic departments.
By JOY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The University's African and Afro
American Studies curriculum is becom
ing one of the "premiere" black studies
programs in the nation, curriculum
Chairman Colin Palmer said in an
interview last week.
The growth of the AfriAfam cur
riculum is against the national trend of
stagnation and decline in most of this
country's Afro-American studies pro
grams, Palmer said.
According to a 1985 report to the
Ford Foundation on Afro-American
programs around the country, enrol
lment in these programs reached a high
point in 1970, but has leveled off since
1974. A few programs even have died,
the report said.
"The purpose of the (Afro-American
studies program) is to develop a broad
understanding and knowledge of the
history, culture, heritage and significant
social, political, economic and huma
nistic issues faced by the peoples of
African and American descent in the
Americas," Palmer said. The purpose
of African studies is to increase student
understanding about the peoples and
cultures of Africa, he said.
Since its creation in 1969, the UNC
AfriAfam. curriculum has expanded
not only in enrollment, but also in the
number of courses, size of facilities and
amount of research. And Palmer said
the professors of the curriculum were
planning its continued expansion.
During the 1979-80 school year, the
curriculum taught 251 students. Almost
eight times that number enrolled in the
curriculum last year, Palmer said. More
than 1,000 students are enrolled this
semester alone, Palmer said.
The curriculum also has more people
teaching the courses, including profes
sors from other departments and area
universities, he said. But the increase
in the curriculum's staff has not
paralleled the increase in student
enrollment, and most of the staff is
overburdened, Palmer said.
"Our greatest difficulty is being abie
to attract the kind of teacher scholar
that we need," Palmer said. Such people
do not want to begin their scholarly
careers being identified with African
and Afro-American studies, he said.
But professors in the curriculum said
they enjoyed working with AfriAfam
studies.
Joanne Woodard, a visiting lecturer
in Afam studies who has been affiliated
with the curriculum for three years, said
she thought the subject was a fascinating
one.
"There are so many connections
between Afro-American Studies and
U.S. history," Woodard said. "To get
a well-rounded picture of (U.S. history)
you need to investigate the black
experience in the new world."
Palmer also attributed the curricu
lum's growth to its having three courses
Afam 40, Afam 41 and Afri 40
listed as fulfilling perspective require
ments in the new curriculum.
But Woodard added that many
students showed a genuine interest in
the course material.
Julius Nyang'oro, who teaches Afri
can Studies for the curriculum, said he
had been very happy in the curriculum,
because his students took the course
material seriously.
"Essentially, the sense of challenge I
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By ELISA TURNER
Staff Writer
Hilliard Caldwell, Judith Wegner and
Tom Gurganus were elected to the three
open seats on the Carrboro Board of
Aldermen Tuesday night.
Caldwell, who won by 20 percent of
the 3,189 votes, was elected for his
second term as alderman.
"I think the people have given me
a mandate," he said. "They are pleased
with my mandate, and IH continue to
work for them the next four years."
Caldwell said he felt that the three
new members' had "ousted people that
had been in control for a long time"
and that it was a clue from the people
of Carrboro to make some changes.
"The people want me to continue in
the leadership role out there," he said.
"And I'm ready to put heat into four
more years.
Caldwell, who was first elected to the
board in 1981, is also a member of the
N.C. Housing Finance Agency and has
been coordinator for the Chapel Hill
Carrboro city schools since 1969.
"This particular race has been very
quiet and low profile," Caldwell said.
"I think I can put it down to being a
costly campaign."
Caldwell said he had gotten himself
"ready for a win and ready for a loss."
Wegner, who was elected by 19
percent of the votes, said the help of
students and the progressive people of
Carrboro were the major force behind
her win.
"I'm very thankful for the help of all
the students and the progressives!" she
said. "That's where most of my votes
came from, and I'm pleased and
thankful for their support."
Wegner, a UNC law professor spe
cializing in land use and local govern
ment law, is a member of the Board
of Adjustment and treasurer of the
Orange County Association for
Retarded Citizens. Wegner is also a
member of the Orange County Com
mission for Women and chairwoman
of the University's Committee on the
Status of Women.
Wegner said she felt "gratified by the
support and endorsement of the South
Orange Black Caucus, the Carolina
Independent and the Rainbow
Coalition."
Tom Gurganus, who won by 16
percent of the votes, worked with the
Association for a Better Carrboro to
support the campaigns of Doug And
erson, John Boone and Zona Norwood
for aldermen and Jim White for mayor
in 1983.
"I wasn't so surprised, but apprehen
sive," he said. "My emotions can be
summed up by saying I'm euphoric."
Gurganus said that he felt a sense of
unfairness because the smaller precincts
were the first to be counted and the
two strongest, Town Hall and North
Carrboro, were last.
"I took the two largest precincts, but
because they were the last to be counted,
it seemed as if I had lost," Gurganus
said. "I was down, and all of a sudden
came back and won."
Gurganus said he thought the election
was "not a very negative race, but very
positive and upbeat."
Gurganus, manager of a data pro
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By KAREN YOUNGBLOOD
Staff Writer
Campus Y members say they are upset with University
administrators' wishes to affiliate the Campus Y with a
national Christian organization.
Both Campus Y Director Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson and
Associate Vice Chancellor of student affairs Edith Wiggins
said they would like the Campus Y to reaffiliate with the
national chapter of the Young Woman's Christian
Association.
The Campus Y advisory board voted last year to disaffiliate
itself from the YWCA national chapter, said Jennifer Ayer,
former Campus Y co-president. The advisory board is made
up of students, faculty and community members.
Hatcher-Wilson said: "I would like to see the Y reaffiliate
with the national organization. That is an administrative
decision. It would not affect programming. I do see a need
for some national affiliation because otherwise we just
become some other student group."
Ayer said the members of the advisory board felt it was
inappropriate for the Campus Y to affiliate itself with the
YWCA.
"The advisory board spent 1 lA years deciding whether the
Y should stay affiliated with the national YWCA," she said.
"We didn't think it was right or legal to be part of a Christian
organization. We also didn't think it was appropriate or legal
to be in an organization that didn't allow men to vote.
"It really wasnt an organization we should be affiliated
with. The administration opposes this decision."
The Campus Y was part of the national Young Men's
Christian Association when it first opened in 1860, Hatcher
Wilson said. After women started attending the University,
a separate YWCA was formed in 1939. The two organizations
merged in 1954.
Wiggins served as director of the Campus Y from 1972
until about four years ago. She said disaffiliation from the
national chapter came when the YMCA started focusing
on community branches instead of campus groups.
"I cant remember the exact date we disassociated from
the national YM," she said. "They no longer provided staff
assistance to Campus Ys. So we were only affiliated with
the YW, which is more socially and politically active.
"It's important for the Campus Y to be different from
other groups," Wiggins said. "It's one of the last affiliations
that a campus organization has with a national student
movement. You are not just a group of students on this
campus, but a chain of students around the nation."
Kim Reynolds, Campus Y co-president, said affiliation
with a national chapter was unnecessary.
"I dont think it is any great drawback not to hav ic,"
she said.
Hatcher-Wilson said that although the Campus Y
originally was a Christian organization, its purpose now was
to encourage personal growth.
"It's been the idea of providing extracurricular activity
in a moral and ethical atmosphere," she said. "The Y has
always been involved in developing the whole person and
growth took place in the whole person."
Reynolds said that although the national YWCA also
encouraged growth, it didn't assert the same ideas that the
Campus Y considered important.
"Some of the national YWCA's commitments are in line
with the Campus Y's," she said. "(But) one of their policy
statements somewhere is certainly about Christianity. You
can't say it's irrelevant that you're joining a Christian
organization ... for other reasons-, because it certainly is
relevant."
Cemttral
America
poll passes
By LORETTA GRANTHAM
City Editor
Tuesday's local elections
allowed voters not only to select
officials but also to express their
sentiments on Central America.
Proposition Paz, an unofficial
referendum sponsored by Carol
ina Interfaith Taskforce on Cen
tral America, posed seven resolu
tions dealing with such issues as
aid to contras, the trade embargo
against Nicaragua and the depor
tation of refugees. "Paz" means
peace in Spanish.
Each of the resolutions passed,
said CITCA representative Sara
Carter. Out of 17 precincts, 2,084
people voted, she said.
"The results (of the referendum)
will be used as a reflection of
Chapel Hill as an enlightened
community," Carter said. "People
came up to the table (at a polling
site) and demonstrated great
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