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LIT Partly cloudy High in low 40s Thursday: Sunny High in 50s A Kappa Psi Health Screening Nov. 29 and 30 9 a.m.-3 p.m., Union lobby V Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 97, Issue 98 Wednesday, November 29, 1989 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts BusinessAdvertising 962-0245 962-1163 latin tor Look at system suggested By SANDY WALL Staff Writer The state should re-evaluate the status of the 16-campus consolidated UNC system as it enters its third dec ade of operation, said Rep. George Miller Jr., (D-Durham) in a recent speech before the Durham Rotary Club. Miller, a 20-year veteran of the General Assembly, told the group that the consolidated system was a good idea but that it was time to study the needs of all 16 schools and determine whether the system has been a success. Miller said the legislature had cre ated the UNC system to stop political infighting over the limited education budget. "It was a worthy endeavor," Miller said in a recent telephone interview from his Durham office. "It (the con solidated system) provided an oppor tunity for parity among the various campuses." But after two decades, the status of the system needs to be re-evaluated because the needs of the campuses are different, he said. "I did not say we should take apart the UNC system," Miller said, adding that he only wanted the General As sembly to study how well it has worked. One of Miller's main concerns is the funding of the respective universities. State education money is limited, and the UNC system is forced to compete for funds with the state's public schools and community college system. The competition for state money is the most piessing leason to re-evaluate the sys tem. He also said he was concerned about the limited autonomy the schools had over their state allocations and budg ets. Besides financial concerns, Miller said there were other issues such as ... . See SYSTEM, page 9 Seats to By MYRON B. PITTS Staff Writer The Smith Center will install 120 additional lower-level seats in time for this weekend's basketball games against Central Florida and Towson State, and a special ticket distribution will be held Thursday for students with upper-level tickets wanting lower-level Court date By MARGE BAILEY Staff Writer A lawsuit filed Oct. 9 by Students for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (SETA) against UNC reseaich labs will be heard in court Dec. 15. The lawsuit is filed against William Huffines, chairman of the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee. The committee reviews protocols, which Town's concerns include environmen Editor's note: This is the third of a five-part series about issues concern ing the new Chapel Hill Town Council. By JENNIFER DICKENS Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council will have many decisions to make in the upcoming years concerning environ- nsi Reaching out UNC to create student embas sador program 3 Calling costs N.C. counties propose fee to finance 91 1 service 4 Safety first Focus on campus crime shows that theft tops the list :....5 Paintball platoon Students engage in Triangle Adventure Games 6 City and campus .. State and national Arts andieatures . Sports Classifieds Comics .3 .4 .6 .6 .8 .9 How can you de -: V i. Passion for fashion Miss Black and Gold, junior Nevaina Graves, models in the Alpha Phi Alpha fashion show in be added to lower level seats. The new tickets will be given out next week for all games for which tick ets have already been distributed. Thursday, students holding tickets for seats in the upper level at the Smith Center can go to the ticket window and exchange them for lower-level tickets in the section of new seats for the Cen set for group's law s detail how animals will be used and what drugs and pioceduies are being used. Chris Brannon, president of SETA, said the organization began correspon dence with the University lab in Janu ary asking to see both the minutes of committee meetings and protocols re viewed. In May, SETA realized the lab would not comply, and lawyers from Issues in the '90s mental issues, and many of these deci sions will not be easy. Protecting the University Lake wa tershed, recycling solid waste, finding a new landfill site and controlling auto mobile emissions are some of the prob lems the council faces. The town council may place restric tions on development around the Uni versity Lake watershed. In November the Joint Orange-Chatham Cooperative Planning Woi k Group proposed to lim it development by allowing only one building unit per 5-acre lot to be built. Council member Julie Andresen said the work group made this proposal with the hopes of protecting Chapel Hill and Orange County's drinking water. "Our whole area is developing, and we need to act now to protect water quality because 15 years from now it may be too late. Our water supply may become so polluted that we can't use it." Andresen said it was in the public's best interest to act now and develop a plan to protect the quality of water in the area. She said the quality of water now is not great, and to keep the quality from decreasing, zoning controls must be introduced. A compromise between Chapel Hill, Orange County and Carrboro govern ments is needed because the University Lake watershed affects each of these be in two places . is 4 i ? t if 0 . if T'-llilii i li HirfiiWfil tral Florida and Towson State games, both of which are sold out. The added seats are in sections 109, 110, 111 and 117. According to Lisa Frye, Carolina Athletic Association (CAA) president, tickets for the extra lower-level seats can be exchanged between 7 a.m. and noon on Thursday. both parties discussed the lawsuit for four months. SETA simply wanted to know what was happening to the animals, Brannon said. The public has the right to know how the labs are treating them. For example, labs in Florida were drowning dogs to test the Heimlich maneuver and because the public was aware of the procedures, enough oppo areas. Chapel Hill drinks most of the water from University Lake, but most of the watershed land is in Orange County, Andresen said. Carrboro also relies on University Lake for its water supply. Several compromises were intro duced as suggestions for solutions to improve the water. Andresen said these included establishing zoning restric tions, restricting the installation of al ternative systems and requiring those who do install systems to be bonded. Bonds would serve as insurance, Andresen said. "If any of these new systems failed, then the money would be there to build a new one." Many landowners fear development restrictions will lower the value of property, Andresen said. "But I don't see any harm at all. I don't see any adverse effects from zoning. Any zon ing affects property owners, but I see them as protection. "(Having) no zoning or protection would be worse. (Landowners) could have anything (such as a trailer park) pop up next to them." Andresen said she would like to remind residents how expensive it would be to develop a new water source. "That is why we must do everything possible to protect the ones we have." The city is no longer as dependent on University Lake now that Cane Creek has become an available resource, Andresen said, but the city still needs the lake. "Cane Creek is bigger than Univer at once when you're not anywhere at all? Firesign Theater :$: . DTHSchuyler Brown Great Hall Tuesday night. Proceeds went to the United Negro College Fund. "You have to have a (ticket for an) upper level seat. We just want to give people who took the time to come down (to receive a ticket) the opportunity to get lower-level seats." At 3 p.m., anyone desiring a seat for the games can get a ticket, which will most likely be upper-level. Most of the new seats w ill be on the sition was raised to stop them. "We want to stop the duplicative or unnecessary reseai ch pi ejects before they happen," Brannon said. The committee is "sort of a rubber stamp committee," and SETA was concerned that it may not be reviewing the protocols seriously, he said. For every grant lequested from the federal government, a protocol must be sity Lake, and theie isn't much pro tection for it now. The next step is to develop a plan to protect it too." Solid waste planner Blair Pollock said the real issue was the water supply. "The tluust should be on reducing water consumption much like it is on waste reduction." The city should concentrate on the demand side of the jssue, and Pol lock said people needed to conserve water. "People don't seem to take a serious look at that unless we are experiencing a major di ought." The joint hearing for the Univer sity Lake watershed will be held in January 1990. Another recurring environmental problem for the council is waste disposal. The Chapel Hill Public Works Department has expanded curbside recycling programs, and they have been successful. It would now like to include the University in its efforts to reduce solid waste. Pollock said he was pleased with Orange County's recycling efforts. This past month 3.2 percent of the total waste was recycled. This helped to reduce the amount of solid waste sent to the Orange County regional landfill. The next step would be to get the University involved in the town's efforts to reduce waste, Pollock said. "Although campus projects in the past have not been very productive, See ENVIRONMENT, page 9 uit agasost UNC CD it pe n By SARAH CAGLE Assistant University Editor UNC officials said Tuesday they were exploring money-saving options for next spring's spending in the wake of a 1 percent cut in state funds from last fiscal quarter's allocation. Officials received a memo from the state budget office in September that state revenue was lagging behind pro jections and that individual state agen cies might have to absorb the loss. The memo also said a hiring freeze insti tuted by Gov. James Martin in Decem ber was still in effect. State revenue is 2 percent lower than had been expected from the state Tax Amnesty Program and taxes from the RJR Nabisco Inc. buyout. Twenty-one million dollars in unexpected costs from Hurricane Hugo have put an additional strain on state coffers. UNC officials will know how much, if any, of the budget will be cut for next semester by the December's end, said Neal Berryman, University controller. "We don't know for certain that it's going to occur or how substantial the cuts would be," said Ben Tuchi, vice chancellor for business and finance. UNC officials said they wanted to avoid last spring's budget problems. In April, a 5 percent cut in state funds for the University forced all departments to freeze non-personnel spending, caus ing shortages in office supplies and limits on library spending and services. Chancellor Paul Hardin also consid ered delaying the beginning of the fall semester and limiting library hours because of the $3.2 million cuts. "Last year was much more of a sur- of Smith side of the court, where three press booths were removed. The added seats in Section 1 17 will be seats previously occupied by Carolina football recruits. The recruits will now sit in the sections where three more press booths were removed. Frye said the CAA moved students into the recruit area because they animal research labs approved and sent to Washington. The committee submits protocols to get research money, and only one person has been approving the protocols, Bran non said. Junior Andrew Peterson, a member of SETA, said UNC labs were formu lating a countersuit to be presented at the hearing. "They are trying to make research an - - iSx mT: J ! fJi- t ; r$t H-Jr 141 ? - Leaf me alone Ricky Moore spends the afternoon clearing leaves from in front of Winston Residence Hall. D) I aim O 0lQ)lJ( "We might see if cutting back in heat would work." Provost Dennis O'Connor prise because the information occurred late in the year," Tuchi said. But with this year's warning, offi cials said the University would be able to avoid such drastic cost-cutting meth ods. "Hopefully whatever happens will happen early enough," Berryman said. "That (last year's cut) was disruptive. We hope it won't be like that." ; Tuchi said the first response to cuts would need to be a decision whether to' cut personnel or non-personnel spend-" ing. ;' : One option under consideration is reducing utilities usage. "We're look ing at the costs of utilities and reducing that," said Provost Dennis O'Connor, "We might see if cutting back in heat would work. That's one of my more favored ideas." No real plans can be made yet, Tuchi said. "There are too many ifs right now. We're trying to gather information fi om as many sources as we can." O'Connor said that although he hoped tax revenue would increase over the holidays, he expected budget cuts would occur. "Certainly our fondest hope is that nobody is affected. Right now it's too early to tell." Center thought students should have seats in that area. Students will receive any additional seats, she noted. "The number of seats that have been added are the number of seats that students are going to get." Press representatives will sit in a See SEATS, page 4 exception so that nobody would have rights to the lab information." nie documents are considered pub lic records and the public has the right to see them, Peterson said. "In a sense, the Univeisity is breaking the law." Brannon said that an offer for settle ment had been made a few weeks ago See SETA, page 7 i 1 . w DTHJodl Anderson