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FrJrtcky . UOHOVeO'SEty U 12 OldS 0 raVe OCT) uElie CEaSSCOOm With Alcohol Awareness a!:o in Rdh n 1 r n 1 1 am to 2 p.m. Sunny. High 65. QlFOP - Page 5 ' paOglieS - Page 8 in the Pit Skirl lit o o Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Copyright 1987 The Daily Tar Heel Volume 95, Issue 81 Friday, October 23, 1987 Chapel Kill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 tireet robberies increase By WILL LINGO Staff Writer A recent rash of local pedestrian robberies has authorities suggesting ways for students to make themselves less prone to attack. Four pedestrians have been robbed in October, but arrests have been made in only one case. Capt. Ralph Pendergraph of the Chapel Hill Police Department said there has been an unusually high number of incidents this month, but the high crime rate is not entirely surprising. "I hate to sound pessimistic, but we have been expecting an increase in street crimes in Chapel Hill," Pendergraph said. Although the police have tried to prevent it, the increasing presence of nonresidents in Chapel Hill makes street crime more likely, he said. Police have made no connection between any of the four crimes so far, he said. B On Oct. 18, Jeffrey Ambrister of Chapel Hill was robbed of his jacket and $150 in cash on West Cameron Avenue. Two people approached Ambrister from behind and placed a sharp object at his back, according to the police report. B On Oct. 13, Ruth Baldwin, a UNC School of Public Health stu dent from Durham, was robbed of her purse on Vance Street. According to a police report, a black male jogged up behind Baldwin, shoved her to the ground and took her purse. In connection with the robbery, Ernest Marvin Josey and Lisa Rebecca Josey were arrested Oct. 16 and charged with common law robbery and possession of stolen property. Lisa Rebecca Josey was also charged with two counts of uttering, which involves tendering a credit card under false pretenses. See ROBBERIES page 7 UNC touniee school raekedl in By BARBARA LINN Staff Writer UNC's School of Business Admin istration was ranked 17th in a list of the nation's top 20 graduate business schools released by U.S. News and World Report Thursday. The list, which will appear in the Nov. 2 issue of the magazine, was compiled through a survey conducted last month. - Paul Rizzo, dean of UNC's bus iness school, could not be reached tankmit 1L to prevent campes crime By STEPHANIE MARSHALL Staff Writer Students walking home alone after ' late nights in the library may notice four students clad in orange vests patrolling campus. The students are part of the newly organized student patrol that began operation Thursday, Oct. 8. The patrollers walk around the campus from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. each night, and report illegal activities to campus police officers. The students watch parking lots, bike racks, monument areas such as the Old Well, the libraries, the arboretum and campus residence halls, especially the women's, said sophomore Kurt Sowers, student supervisor. The patrol is sponsored by Student Government and campus police. Patrollers are paid $3.50 to $4 an hour for their work. "We're looking out for anything suspicious," he said. Only four patrollers are working at this point, according to Officer Billy Hilliard of University police, but organizers plan to hire five more students by the end of October. "They're doing very well," Hilliard A little bit of soap Ashley Mattison, a junior from Marietta, Ga., decided to take time out Thursday afternoon to blow bubbles in front of Wilson Library. More rankings Thursday, but he told the UNC News Bureau: "It is always satisfying when a school is recognized for excellence by its peers. We're gratified to be among this distinguished group of schools." In the survey, U.S. News and World Report asked deans from 232 business schools to choose the top 10 graduate business schools. All the schools are either nationally accre roatffollefs work "It's been going along really well. We've gotten a lot of positive comments from students about the patrol. They're seeing us, and they know we're out here to help them. " Kurt Sowers said. "We're proud of them." Hilliard emphasized the patrol's value as a learning experience for the participants. "We want to get them familiar with what we do, and hopefully get them interested in law enforcement." Sowers said the patrol is making progress. "It's been going along really well," he said. "WeVe gotten a lot of positive comments from students about the patrol. They're seeing us, and they know we're out here to help them." They who drink beer will think beer. Washington Irving - i - 4 s DTHMatt Plyler dited or nationally recognized for excellence. About 57 percent of those surveyed responded, including Rizzo, UNC's dean. The deans selected schools based on quality of their faculty, strength of their curriculum and how well they prepare students professionally. UNC's business school was ranked in the top 10 by 16.8 percent of the respondents. "UNC has an excellent faculty, and Mike Thigpen, another patroller, said he enjoys the work. Thigpen, a pre-medical student, said that although law enforcement is not in his career plans, he has always had a strong interest in it. "My father is the former director of a i police academy in Macon, Ga., and my brother is a county deputy. IVe just always been around it." During their first week on the job, the patrollers found several vehicles being broken into, recovered a stolen bike in the woods, broke up parties in the baseball stadium and the arboretum, and caught two people trying to steal a tennis net from the courts near Cobb Residence Hall. "Other than that, things have been kind of quiet," Thigpen said. Students proposed forming the patrol in response to concern about campus safety, but University police officers took over organization of the patrol. Student Government allocated money to buy radios, jackets shirt and flashlights for the patrol. Funding for patrollers' salaries will come from the Department of Uni versity Housing, University police and the Traffic and Parking Office. tDTDO O T O j itflnoaiJls ffenect n parimng propose By KRISTEN GARDNER Assistant University Editor The eight tennis courts at Hinton James will not be used for parking spaces, a committee of students and administrators decided at a meeting this week. The group was formed this spring in response to a University proposal that would have allowed people who donated money to the Smith Center to park on the tennis courts during home basketball games. "There won't be any parking spaces," Moyer Smith, associate athletic director of the Educational Foundation, or Ram's Club, said Thursday. "We got the message that it just was not acceptable from the student standpoint." Research drags fmm Sointli C&kmms Mb By KIMBERLY EDENS Assistant University Editor About $100 worth of marijuana was stolen from a University research lab on Monday, according to UNC officials and University police. Sgt. Ned Comar of University - police said Thursday that the man juana was stolen from a freezer in a South Campus research lab. He said he would not reveal any details on the case because of the possibility of another theft. Other University police officers also said they would not comment further on the case, since it is still under investigation. The stolen drugs were being used in an experiment on several UNC they have worked hard to make the MBA program distinctive for its integrated approach to management decisions and for the collegiality that is possible because of its relatively small size," Rizzo said. In the survey, Stanford University's graduate business school was ranked first, since it was chosen by 86.3 percent of the deans. The business schools at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania were ranked second and third. Student patrollers Dave Wyatt i mi rA 5 i Jfi - - x : t f - - v -V . --- $ U I v 1 4 T The committee met Wednesday to determine if the surface of the courts could be used for limited parking on game days and still serve as tennis courts, said Paul Hoolahan, athletic fitness director. Carol Geer, Carolina Athletic Association president, said some Smith Center donors who were promised parking spaces on the courts have not received them. The Ram's Club saw using the tennis courts as a possible solution to the problem, she said. But students' negative reaction to the proposal helped convince officials otherwise, Geer said. "They realize that those courts are widely used, and I dont think they have any desire to take them away," student volunteers, who are being paid to use the drugs so researchers can monitor the combined effects of marijuana and alcohol. Dr. Mario Perez-Reyes, who is conducting the research, said the marijuana was stolen from his lab. He estimated the value of the stolen drugs at about $100. Perez-Reyes blamed the theft on Friday's Daily Tar Heel article about his research, as well as subsequent articles that appeared in other North Carolina newspapers. "The publicity that we received in the newspaper is the reason that they (the thieves) came and broke in," Perez-Reyes said. But the theft will not create prob eatnoeal sunfvey Duke University's business school was selected by 16 percent of the deans, placing it 18th, right behind UNC. The school at the University of Chicago was listed 5th, receiving the highest rating for a public university. Although this is the first graduate business school survey conducted by U.S. News and World Report, other surveys have listed UNC's business school in the top 20 for the past decade. V -ax (left) and Mike Thigpen walk through she said. Donald Boulton, vice chancellor and dean of Student Affairs, said that while it is possible to use the courts as a parking lot, it is not advisable. "It could be used for parking, but it could decrease the competitive value of the courts," Boulton said. "We would end up with neither a good tennis court nor a good parking lot." Van Sumner, president of Van Sumner, Inc., a company in Virginia that builds tennis courts, said the material the courts are made of is too soft to withstand the twisting and turning of wheels, and not strong enough to support the weight of cars. See PARKING page 3 stolen lems for the research project, Perez Reyes said. "The institute (of drug abuse) will provide more drugs for me," he said. "That's not a problem." The person who broke into the lab was looking for marijuana only, t t : j . - "They came and broke in looking for the drugs," he said. "We have a lot of expensive lab equipment "that didn't take anything else." Security around the lab is being increased because of the break-in, Perez-Reyes said. "We are afraid that this might happen again," he said. In the Cartter Report in Barron's Guide to Graduate Business Schools, UNC's business school has been listed 14th in the nation, according to Margaret Matrone, the school's communications director. "We don't work for a number or ranking," Matrone said. "We work to be an excellent business school." Last year, UNC was ranked 18th in a Wall Street Journal survey of employers who hire MBA students, Matrone said. h DTH David Minton Forest Theatre Wednesday night