4The Daily Tar Heel MondayOctober 3, 1988
Officials revise hoosiimg ""damage policy
By WILL SPEARS
Staff Writer
The Department of University
Housing has changed its policy on
who should pay for residence hall
damage when officials cannot deter
mine who is responsible, housing and
Residence Hall Association (RHA)
officials said Thursday.
In the past, if officials could not
determine who was responsible for
the damage, all of the hall's residents
were liable for damage and restora
tion costs.
Under the new policy, residents
involved will meet with the area
director and a student government
representative, who will decide who
to charge for the damage.
Wayne Kuncl, director of housing,
said the new policy should improve
the process.
"With last year's policy, students
saw it as unilateral decision making,"
he said. "Now the students are
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involved with the fact-finding, and
that seems to help a great deal."
Last year, students and RHA
officials questioned the legality of the
old policy, he said. In February,
former. RHA President Kelly Clark,
RHA President Jimmy Randolph
and Henderson Residence College
Governor Kurt Seufert met with Olde
Campus AD Roger Nelson and
Ehringhaus AD Gary Johnson and
suggested that housing officials meet
with students before they charge
groups of residents for damage.
The controversy stemmed from an
incident last fall in Winston Resi
dence Hall, where housing officials
assessed some of the fourth floor
residents $145, or $5.50 each, for
damage to common areas.
Some residents said they had been
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homes decreased in the 1980s after
increasing steadily for 35 years,
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charged unfairly and had done much
of the clean-up themselves but were
charged for the job anyway.
According to the new policy, the
incident should be reported to the
area director, who must meet with
the involved students and a student
government representative appointed
by the area's governor, Seufert said.
k If the area director and the student
government representative determine
that collectively billing all residents
would be unfair, the Department of
University Housing will pay the cost
of repair. -
But if they decide that collective
billing is reasonable, . the residents
may appeal the decision. The resi
dents must appeal to the area director
and the student government represen
tative within 48 hours of billing
estimated that 1.5 million more
families could have bought a home
by 1987 had the home ownership rate
remained at the 1980 level.
The mock eviction of Helms was
part of a national campaign for
affordable housing kicked off last
week, said Catherine Crabtree of
CCNV. Housing groups across the
country will go to Washington for
civil disobedience acts on Capitol Hill
every weekday until the November
elections, she said.
Twelve people, including Guern
sey, started a 48-day water-only fast
last week, Crabtree said.
A Boone housing group is expected
to arrive in Washington this week for
a protest, Jones said.
"The purpose basically is to
demand that Congress replace the 77
percent Reagan has cut from the
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notification.
This amendment is not in "Hall
ways and Highrises," the housing
department's contract booklet, but
was distributed in August to campus
residents, Randolph said.
"I think it's a very realistic, work
able policy," said Roger Nelson, Olde
Campus area director. "I think it will
work. It has been very well received."
But making the housing depart
ment pay for repairs may cost
students in the long run, said Anne
Presnell, Scott Residence College
area director.
"The goal of the housing depart
ment is to provide inexpensive,
quality housing," she said. "However,
housing costs go up every time the
housing department must assume the
cost of restoration."
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housing budget," she said.
Fifty protesters were arrested last
week for sit-ins' at Congressional
offices, blocking an intersection in
front of the Capitol and demonstrat
ing in the Capitol's rotunda, said Dan
Nichols, a public information officer
for the Capitol Police.
If convicted, Jones, Thompson and
Guernsey could receive a $500 fine
arid six months in prison, Nichols
said.
Jones said he was found guilty of
the same charges for entering a
congressional building July 14 and
dropping a banner that read "Hous
ing Now." He was then placed on
probation, which he violated by the
protest at Helms' office, he said.
"If I am convicted of this one, I
will probably end up serving a small
sentence," he said.
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Conference to focus on AIDS
issue in the black community
From staff reports
"An Awareness of Cultural
Norms and Values: the Black
Community's Response to
AIDS," will be the subject of a
conference at N.C. Central Uni
versity in Durham on Oct. 10.
The conference is sponsored by
the School of Public Health at
UNC-CH, the Health Education
Department at NCCU and the
N.Ci Department of Human
Resources AIDS Control
Program.
The conference is designed to
increase awareness of community
cultural beliefs and behaviors that
help or hinder acceptance of AIDS
treatment and prevention strate
gies. Another goal is to develop
approaches for treatment and
prevention that will meet the needs
of the black community.
Registration fee is $30. Spaces
are still available for the confer
ence, which will take place in the
Health Sciences Building on the
NCCU campus.
Summer program gets grant
The UNC Mathematics and
Science Education Network,
headquartered at UNC-CH, has
received a $154,000 grant for the
National Science Foundation's
Young Scholars Competition to
support its Summer Scholars
Program.
Tliis is the second straight year
the foundation has awarded a
grant to the UNC program.
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students in four areas participated
in last summer's program. They
participated in intensive courses in
mathematics and science, field
trips and meetings with University
and business scientists.
Senior citizens series planned
The 10th annual "Village Elders
in Dialogue with UNC Scholars"
lecture series begins Saturday and
will continue throughout the year.
The six-lecture series, designed
for people aged 60 or older, will
be held Saturdays at 10 a.m. in
Hanes ; Art Center Auditorium.
The series is sponsored by the
Orange County Department of
Aging, the Chapel Hill Parks and
Recreation 'Department and the
UNC Division of Extension and
Continuing Education.
Lars Schoultz, professor of
political science and director of the
Institute of Latin American Stu
dies, will speak on "U.S. Policy
Toward Latin America" Nov. 5.
The series will resume Jan. 21
with a discussion about "Under
graduate Education in the Modern
Research University" led by Gil
lian Cell, dean of the Colle? of
Arts and Sciences and history
professor.
Although the lectures are free
and open to the public, partici
pants should register through the
Department of Aging.
Police guard
'Temptation'
showings
By LYNN GOSWICK
Staff Writer
Moviegoers who attended the first j
local showings of uTHe Last Temp- '
tation of Christ" may have come face- .
to-face with uniformed Chapel Hill '
police officers at the Carolina '
Theatre.
But don't worry, they weren't
hauled off to jail.
The guards were there for the.,
public's protection, a spokesman for . -Universal
Pictures said. .i
The officers worked the early ?
showings of the film in Chapel Hill,
but stopped working there later when uj
no incidents occurred at the theater.
Because of many bomb threats to
theaters and the Universal Pictures. t
offices, the company found it neces
sary to hire police officers to ensure
law and order at the showings of the '.
controversial film by Martin Scor- .'
cese, said the spokesman, who asked '
not to be identified. .
"It's a very serious matter to us,, '
he said of the threats. "You never
know about these things." y
Although many protesters are,
organized and "very sincere" in their -views
about the movie, those causing "
trouble, such as the vandals in Salt..'
Lake City who stole the film from
the theater and slashed the movie
screen, probably are not a part of a .
group, but people seeing an oppori,
tunity to make trouble, the spokes-T
man said.
The controversy surrounding
"Temptation" stems mainly from-,
objections to a scene in the movie in .
which Jesus is portrayed making love .
to Mary Magdalene. ,
Before the film was released,;
investigators were sent to study 3Q
possible cities where the movie might'
be shown, the spokesman said.
Before the controversy about the
film erupted, Universal Pictures had
planned to show it in a few cities only, '.
and at art houses and film festivals
because it was such an "artsy picture,",
he said.
People normally don't want to see,
a serious film; they want to see action ,
thrillers, he said.
But because so much publicity has
been stirred, the film is being shown,
in markets where it may never have
gone before, the spokesman said.
Clergy screenings were held in the.
studied cities like New York, Los
Angeles, Chicago and Atlanta before,
the opening of the film.
Many of the clergymen thought
that Scorcese had "done his home
work" in' researching the film, the
spokesman said: Others thought the
film would be great material for
group discussion. ;
"Nobody walked out," the spokes-,,
man said. .
The policemen who worked at the ,
Carolina Theatre were off-duty ,
officers who had volunteered to work.,
there after officials at the theater,
expressed a need for help, said CaptV.i
Ralph Pendergraph of the Chapel
Hill Police Department.
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