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ji SeeZliy's Get ticketed now for Wske may be but for ".S8 , Partiv cloudy. High 75. fSl f eVeSTCS - Page 8 i ' ' ": ea00-Page9 '.. Copyright 1988 The Daily Tar Heel Volume 96, Issue 36 -,;-: ::-:: n ' froircr UflW 7 Congressman David Price talks Plhoime-oin) regDstaftooiro to be ready In fall 1 99 Py JENNY CLONINGER Assistant University Editor ; .Drop-add is a routine headache each semester for most UNC stu dents, but the hours spent in Woollen Gym will only be a memory in two more years. A computerized phone-in registra tion and drop-add system is being installed at UNC and will be oper ational , by.-Octoticr-1990, David "Lanier, University registrar, said. . "We've got the hardware and the software already installed on cam pus," he said. "We're putting the FTTV Jl ramiei qioscossiioo FTTi By TAMMY BLACKARD Staff Writer I Only 100 miles from Chapel Hill, there are cases of oppression and injustice similar to those in South Africa and Central America, said the moderator for the forum "Struggling for Freedom in Robeson County" Tuesday night. The forum, sponsored by the Student Action Union and the Native American Solidarity Group, included Eleanor Jacobs, Timothy Jacobs' mother, and Alan Gregory, part of the Christie Institute South and of the defense team for Eddie Hatcher and Timothy Jacobs. Hatcher had helped arrange the forum and was scheduled to speak until he disap peared after bail was rescinded for him and Jacobs and they were told to return to jail. , n n inous By KYLE HUDSON Staff Writer With wide bipartisan support in .hand, the U.S. House of Represen tatives will debate a massive anti-drug bill this week, with Democratic leaders allowing debate, on amend ments that are attractive to their Republican colleagues. To many, the effort for a bipartisan ; anti-drug initiative comes at a time ;when the Democratic Party wants to deflect Republican criticism that the ; Democrats are soft on drugs. U.S. 100 More than Less than Total of 75 of 75 of preregistered classes classes classes Continuing students 13,400 63 21 16 Freshmen 3,151 48 30 22 Source: Office of the 4 (f fj 'ITrf : VOLUNTtt HAPP. DTHDavid Foster with Ada Haylor at the Orange County Democratic Headquarters system together. It's going to be a reality; it's just going to take us a while to put it together." Switching student records from the old system to the new one is time consuming, Lanier said. N.C. State and other universities were able to use a phone system with their present computer network, but UNC's system needed to be reorganized, he said. "It's kind of like putting a race car , engine in a Model T Ford," he said. But Woollen Gym hasn't seen its final days of drop-add. This year's process-was even more crowded than Coyimuy Hatcher, 30, and Jacobs, 20, were arrested Feb. 1 by an FBI agent for taking hostages at the Robesonian, the local Robeson County news paper. The two were demanding investigations into their charges of corruption and racial oppression in the county among local government and law enforcement officials. "It's been a harsh struggle the past several months," Mrs. Jacobs said. "It seems we get more support away from home. At least a lot of people are more aware of the problem now than they were in February. "I'm not going to stop how IVe gone too far," she said. "I sleep with two shotguns and a pistol under the bed. We've gotten one phone call telling me to back off, but I'm not going to back off . . . Timothy is my son." e to debate amend inriieiiits to popylar aoti The House will begin the debate over 30 proposed amendments Wed nesday and may vote on the bill as early as Friday, said George Mair, House Speaker Jim Wright's chief press officer. Mair denied that Wright is allow ing debate on such a large number of amendments to rush a bipartisan bill through and make his party look stronger on the drug issue before November. "Youll be hard-pressed to find a single person in the United States who University Registrar What is moral is Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Wednesday, September 7, 1988 last year's, Lanier said. Last week, 10,705 students turned in drop-add forms to complete or rearrange their fall schedules. That's 349 more than last year, an increase of about 3.4 percent. The busiest day was Aug. 3 1 , when more than 4,455 students filled Woollen Gym and trailed down the sidewalk in a line that meant a wait of oat, least two hours for many, .students. More freshmen preregistered this year than in 1987, but . total fall registrations during the first week of exDooires coiinflict Mrs. Jacobs has spoken around the state to raise awareness of the charges of oppression in Robeson County since the Feb. 1 incident. Judy Brooks, an activist in the Hatcher-Jacobs case, told the audience in Hamilton Hall that it needed to question events and offi cials in Robeson County. "Money and drugs talk in Robeson County," Brooks said. "That's why Timothy and Eddie don't have that much support there. There are too many people involved. Eddie and Timothy were pushed into a coriier (when- they took over the Robesonian)." - Mary Sanderson, a member of the Robeson Defense Committee, said she heard "through the grapevine" See PANEL page 2 doesn't want to do something about drugs," Mair said. "The essence of the legislative process is compromise and coalition." The bill, officially titled the Omni bus Drug Initiative Act, will pour more money into virtually every front of the war on drugs, from rehabil itation to law enforcement. A similar bill is pending in the Senate and is expected to pass Nvith little trouble. The bill is unusually large because it is actually the product of the . . v l-, ,-TCN ft I . Iff I . : - - , - r Preregistration success By JUSTIN McGUIRE Assistant University Editor It's spring semester. You preregis ter for 15 hours. You eagerly antic ipate taking all these classes, some of which you need to graduate. Flash ahead a few months to summer. You get your registration card in the mail. Much to your dismay, you only have two classes, one of which was an alternate any way. With dread, you anticipate getting up at 4 a.m. to go to drop- what you feel good after. Ernest Hemingway Mr Chapel Hill, North Carolina n Deom jneadctiiyariieir By DANIEL CONOVER Staff Writer . Fourth District U.S. Congressman David Price unofficially kicked off his Orange County re-election campaign when he spoke to an overflow crowd at the Orange County Democratic Headquarters opening celebration Tuesday. Price used the event to meet with Orange County Democrats and drum up support in a traditional district stronghold; Price, who is being challenged in his re-election bid by Republican candidate Tom Fetzer, tried to preempt expected negative campaign rhetoric from his opponent. "You're going to be amazed to learn how many times I tried to raise your taxes," Price said. school, about 5,929, were higher than last year', Lanier said. Students say adding necessary classes to their schedules, even after a day in Woollen Gym, is sometimes impossible. "I'm still waiting," Annette Roche, a junior from Wooster, Ohio, said Tuesday. "I still don't have enough hours. The professors need to let .peopleia whonesd- the classes and they need to make a decision (about enrollment arid available space) . earlier than the last day of prereg istration. If they decide the classes I H 4 Eleanor Jacobs, mother combined labors of 10 congressional committees, said Edith Wooten, press assistant to N.C. Rep. Tim Valentine. Some confusion remains over the price tag Congress will affix to the final version of the anti-drug legis lation. Estimates have ranged between $1.5 and $2 billion annually; but estimates by the' Congressional Budget Office show the programs provided for in the bill would cost between $4.2 and $6.1 billion dollars in 1989 alone, Wooten said. Conservatives and liberals alike . add. This scenario probably sounds' familiar to many UNC students. The lines at drop-add can attest to the fact that many students were not happy with their schedules. But how many students in fact got the classes they preregistered for? University Registrar David Lanier said Tuesday that 63 percent of continuing students, including grad uate students, and 48 percent of freshmen who preregistered got all Responding to charges that Fetzer is planning and conducting a negative campaign, Price said, "WeVe had our fill of that in North Carolina." Orange County is a traditionally Democratic area, illustrated by the unopposed candidacies of two incum bent state representatives, but Repub licans have gained in recent elections. "There used to be a six-to-one ratio (of Democratic to Republican regis tered voters) in North Carolina," said Don Hartmon, Price's Orange County campaign chairman. "I understand it's down to 2.5-to-one now." Price and other local Democrats gave much of the credit for this change to Governor Jim Martin, but they criticized his role in changing the state's political climate. - . need are full on Thursday, what am I going to do?" Lanier said there is not an overall shortage of classes, but popular classes can't always accommodate all the students who would like to enroll, Perspective requirements also affect thei availability o'f certain classes, he said. "We're getting more overlap on evervone wanting to take the; same thing," Lanier said. "There's compe- tition3 in particular courses: I don't think there will ever be a time when there's enough courses for everyone J. of Timothy Jacobs, speaks as part have applauded the bill, but both camps say it will have little effect on the elections in November. "The war on drugs will be a top priority in the Bush campaign," said George Bush's press secretary David Sandor, adding that the average voter will see Democrat Michael Dukakis as weak on drugs and crime regardless of bipartisan drug initiatives. Peggy Connolly, director of com munications for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Commit rate low, registrar says their courses., This includes students who may have gotten courses they listed as alternates, he said. These numbers do not change much from semester to semester, Lanier said, but they "are not getting any better." "Sixty-three percent is pretty low," Lanier said. "I'd like to see at least 80 percent of students getting a full schedule, but I think that would be hard to obtain here." Lanier said the new University News Sports Arts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 ape n State Rep. Joe Hackney blamed Martin for blocking the legislative process. "You run into one obstacle (in the legislature), and that's Jim Martin," Hackney said. "He's spent the last four years trying to build the Repub-. lican Party." State Sen. Russell Walker carried the theme even further. . "The exec utive branch stymies a lot of things," Walker said. "He (Martin) has worked only towards building the Republican Party in North Carolina." Hartmon said it was unclear how strong, the Republican Party has become in North Carolina. He cited a Washington magazine article which See DEMOCRATS page 4 who wants to take them." But the long lines in the gym are accepted, for the most part, as a necessary evil, ,' "It's a hassle to have to wait in line all day," Chuck Taylor, a freshman from Rye, N.Y., said. "But I guess this is part of college and I guess I have to live with it." While waiting for the $450,000 nhone svstem to be imnlemented. - students can already try out one aspect of the new phone-in system by See DROP-ADD page 4 lliSf DTHDavid Minton of a panel in Hamilton Hall - tee, said the drug bill arose , from public sentiment and concern, not Democratic political maneuvering. "The Republicans tried to use drugs as a cutting issue in 1986, and it HiHnV unrV MVifnirl T Hrmt thinV the drug issue will have a cutting influence on any of the races." - Rep. David Price, who represents Chapel Hill, plans to vote for the bill, said press secretary Rachel Perry. "The bottom line is that drugs are , not a partisan issue," she said. telephone registration system may alleviate some of the problems. For instance, he said, students will be able to select alternate courses after they know what courses are not available. tl: ; i A c .1 i nc implementation oi me pers pective system in fall .1984 has led students to think that classes are -scarcer than they are. This has caused excessive demand for certain classes, leading to the impression that all See PREREGISTRATION page 3 , r ;: 'Hh III dirog bill
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