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iSSSS. Lsiyow odeoD'Gii'iy? Get Dean lands another top Ni"otchK. . uuua .aicn.ng - - " Tonight in Union Auditorium paiiycioudtSs. ' aootCTieD oinie--page7. ; recruit - page 8 7and9:30pm mm m A 4 O Serving the students and the University community since 1893 s Copyright 1987 The Daily Tar Heel Volume 95, Issue 65 Wednesday, September 30, 1987 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 wT CoMMEtttee favors more By LEIGH ANN MCDONALD Staff Writer Chapel Hill transportation planners should devote more time to developing park and ride lots serviced by buses on the town outskirts, according to a recommendation made Tuesday by the joint University-Town Committee. Some committee members, appointed in July to examine UNC's K,xowinieiF off By HELEN JONES Staff Writer The site of the Smith Center was sold to the University on the condi tion that it be used to extend the School of Public Health or for a related purpose, according the former owner of the land, Elizabeth Baity. But UNC officials deny that such a promise was ever made. Baity said last week that a Uni versity negotiator verbally agreed to the condition when the land was sold 13 years ago. Baity 's late husband, Herman Baity, helped found UNC's School of Public Health. Baity and her husband sold the 44.9-acre lot, which includes the Smith Center, the Koury Natatorium, the Kenan Institute for Private Enterprise and the surrounding parking lots, in July 1974. Joseph Eagles, who began nego tiations with the Baitys when he was vice-chancellor for finance at UNC, said he had no such agreement with them about the use of the land. Eagles, who has retired and now SAC Video -company n credit hows for mtemlMp By MICHAEL JACKSON Staff Writer A local company, run by three UNC graduates, is entering the spotlight in the lucrative world of video production. And this semester, some UNC students will get involved in the action, earning credit hours at the same time. UAV Productions, a video pro duction house located on Airport Road, recently completed several successful projects, including videos for UNC recruitment and varsity sports, and several music videos now being aired on Music Television (MTV). The company is the brainchild of John Wilson, Tim Sullivan and Bill Dukes, all 5 graduates of UNC. Wilson said they started the business during their senior year at UNC. "We're a video production com NoCo senators9 mail supports By LAURIE DUNCAN Staff Writer North Carolinians lobbying in favor of the nomination of Robert Bork to the Supreme Court have generated a slew of phone-call and letter-writing campaigns directed at the Washington offices of both N.C. senators. The flow of mail in Democratic Sen. Terry Sanford's office, described as steady but not overwhelming by a Sanford aide, favors the Bork nomination by a ratio of almost 2-to-1. "For every nine ' tters supporting Bork, we get f? opposing his nomination," s Tom Lawton, Sanford's press secretary. "That's not a lot of margin compared to what a lot of other senators' offices are land-use plan, said these satellite lots would alleviate traffic congestion in Chapel Hill, but construction of roads under the land-use plan would increase it. "We're bringing traffic into the campus with this road plan," com mittee member Charles Shaffer said. "We can do something to move traffic without building more roads, such as satellite parking and busing people in lives in Florida, said he was interested in acquiring the land for the future expansion of the University, although no specific plans for its use had been made. Negotiations for its purchase had just begun when he left UNC in November 1973, he said. "Buying that land when it first became available was the best thing I could do for the University, regard less of when the University used it," Eagles said. Grace Wagoner, who was Eagles secretary at the time and is now UNC's property officer, said no one had the authority to give the Baitys a guarantee on the future use of the land. "There was never any commitment that I know of or have been able to find, either oral or written, to either her (Elizabeth Baity) or her hus band," Wagoner said. "The state does not buy land with conditions it cannot accept." The Baitys approached the Univer See SITE page 4 pany that does work ranging from recruitment videos and work for schools to development work for corporations," Wilson said. The company has produced a recruitment tape and video year book for Wake Forest University, he said, as well as videos about sales training, promotion, marketing and public relations for corporations. Most recently, UAV produced a political commercial for Sen. Terry Sanford, D-N.C, and music videos for local bands which have aired on MTV. One of the videos produced for The Connells debuted on MTV last week. UAV has also produced videos for The Pressure Boys, The Downsiders and The Three Hits. Now, several students in UNC's Radio, Television and Motion Pictures Department will have the opportunity to earn academic experiencing. Sen. Howard Heflin, D-Ala., and Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., both undecided Senate Judiciary Commit tee members, have received more letters than Sanford supporting Bork, Lawton said. At Republican Sen. Jesse Helms' office, the mail count is running 3-to-1 in favor of the Bork nomination, said Press Secretary Barbara Lukens. Phone calls by lobbyists run along the same lines, she said. Helms has announced his support for President Reagan's May nomina tion of Bork; a Federal Appeals Court judge, to the U.S. Supreme Court. Sanford, who is undecided, is expected to announce his position on the nomination Wednesday or Thurs day, Lawton said. I invent (to town)." Committee member R.D. Smith said he wanted the University and the town to build adequate satellite parking areas so that commuters could ride the bus into town. David Bonk, town transportation planner, said that building satellite lots would create a need for road improvements anyway. "Transit riders are fickle people," he said. i l Hangin' around Adam Goldstein, son of UNC Emma Riggs, daughter of Tim offeFne credit by working for the company. UAV is in the final stages of choosing interns for the fall semester Martin Clark, an '86 UNC graduate and former station man ager of Student Television, is one of UAV's production workers. He's in charge of the internship program. "We targeted RTVMP students (for the internships) because they have the most to benefit from the experience in the field," Clark said. Theoretically, the internships are open to everybody, he said. "We want persons who have enthusiasm and not a lot of expo sure to the field," he said. Weekly lessons of about 30 minutes will introduce different kinds of equipment and theory, he said. See VIDEO page 5 Since Reagan nominated Bork for the Supreme Court seat being vacated by retiring Justice Lewis Powell, liberal interest groups have responded with shrill denouncements of Bork, while conservative organi zations have bestowed praise on Reagan's nominee. "There are people playing tough ball on both sides," Lawton said of the pressure some interest groups : were exerting on undecided senators and members of the judiciary committee. One of the broadest-based lobby ing campaigns is by the Coalition for Judicial Responsibility, a group that combines the interests of labor, the legal community, women and civil rights activists to fight the Bork nomination. The coalition, formed nothing. I rediscover. paurEdimg lots ineanr to we "They need the buses to be reliable and on time, which is not happening now because of traffic problems." The committee is also considering alternatives to the proposed eastern loop road in the land-use plan, which would link Franklin Street and Raleigh Road. The committee asked University and town planners to design a route that would use UNC owned property rather than private III! IV tr . V rt,Y,1fiiii professor Harvey Goldstein, and Riggs, the associate director of 1 ? 'L. r- w::;v v' v..v'jv-'.v..'. -v.-. ... Frats meed imMof repairs to pass town inspections By KELLY JOHNSON Staff Writer Window screens are all that stand between many condemned UNC fraternity houses and a clean inspec tion slate. John Davis, Chapel Hill inspec tions director, said screens need to be installed on the windows of nine fraternity houses, but that is basically all that remains to be done. Town inspectors condemned the houses in July and August, and have since re-inspected most of them, granting extensions for unfinished repairs. "The fraternities look 150 percent better now than when they first started," Davis said. "Now it's a safe place for students to live." He said the fraternity houses that still need to install window screens to pass inspection are: Kappa Sigma, Pi .Kappa Alpha, Delta Kappa Epsilon, Zeta Psi, Kappa Alpha, Sigma Chi, Chi Phi, Tau Epsilon Phi Bork nomination Sept. 15, is educating its 12 organization membership about Bork with speeches and pamphlets con cerning his judicial and scholarly writings, said Ruth Ziegler, spokes woman for the coalition. ' Another strong lobbying group is the N.C. branch of the National Organization of Women. NCNOW is educating its members about Bork's failure to uphold rulings on free speech, abortion and black civil rights, said President Robin Davis. Bork's philosophy would restrict the Supreme Court's range of issues, she said. "There is a history (since the 1960s) of precedent of the court ruling on issues like abortion and birth control, and (Bork's philosophy) flies in the face of precedent," she said. Auguste Rodin property. Gordon Rutherford, director of facilities planning, presented the committee with seven alternatives to the eastern loop in the area north of South Road: a Leave the roads as they are. B Close Battle Lane to improve traffic movements. Traffic would basically move in the same way. B Turn Raleigh and Boundary MM f? 11 HIIITiViir - - - .-... va. - ...., u "if DTHTorty Oerfell Ackland Art Museum, spend some time after lunch Tuesday playing on the stairs next to the Chapel of the Cross. and Sigma Nu. Some of these fraternities also have to complete minor work such as fixing broken windows and patching cracks in the walls. "Nobody is in danger of being put out of the house," Davis said. He said he does not know when all the fraternity houses will be re inspected. Fraternity brothers at the Sigma Chi house, for example, will call him when they determine how long it will take to make screens to fit the windows and install them. The Pi Kappa Alpha house was inspected Sept. 24 and has a 30-day extension to put up screens, he said. But he added, "If they are showing good faith (by putting up some of the screens), 111 extend it again." Both Kappa Sigma President David Clary and Pi Kappa Alpha President Stuart Friou said they wil not do anything different to maintain Bork's testimony in front of the judiciary committee earned the name "confirmation conversion" from one of the committee members after Bork said he was no longer the conservative his opponents have accused him of being. "If you have a record of a 20-year standing on an issue, then you repudiate it, you lose credibility," said Daniel Pollitt, a UNC law professor. "What good is a promise that is not supported by a record?" Bork supporters, however, focus on his qualifications. "Qualifications should not be belittled by ideological beliefs because we all have (ideological beliefs)," said Anna Critz, co-chairwoman of Stu dents For America at UNC. Bork served as deputy solicitor streets into a one-way pair. Traffic would travel north on Boundary Street and south on Raleigh Street. B Turn Raleigh Street and Battle Lane into a one-way pair. B Widen Raleigh Street to allow four lanes so that all traffic would be directed to this street. B Widen Boundary Street to four See PARKING page 5 2 - - - .. - ,,,... - their houses now that they are close to getting inspection clearances from the town. Friou said the Pi Kappa Alpha house was condemned because "they got us at a bad time." , In the future, the fraternity plans to stay on top of the things that are broken, he said. Clary said that some of the prob lems at the Kappa Sigma house were caused by the old age of the building, which was constructed in 1949. Davis said some fraternities were not condemned because they were in the process of renovating their houses on their own, including Beta Theta Pi, Phi Delta Chi and Lambda Chi Alpha. The Sigma Alpha Epsilon house is closed for repairs and the Delta Upsilon, Pi Kappa Phi and Alpha Tau Omega houses have yet to be. inspected. aides say general during the Nixon administra tion and is noted for firing Special Watergate Prosecutor Archibald Cox under orders from Nixon. The N.C. Federation of College Republicans has organized clubs at 21 colleges and universities across the state to gather signatures for petitions to send to undecided senators and to telephone Sanford, Helms and judi ciary committee members, said NCFCR Chairwoman Zan Bunn. The organization is also encourag ing its members to write letters to the editor of their local newspapers, she said. ; "We are supporting Bork because we ' feel his credentials " are above reproach," said Bunn, a graduate See BORK page 2
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