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Decade of measurements
finds no global warming
WASHINGTON Ten years of
weather satellite data show no evidence
of global warming from the greenhouse
effect, scientists said Thursday, but they
added it will take at least another dec
ade of measurements to draw a firm
conclusion.
The data, collected from 1979
through 1 988 by the TIROS-N series of
weather satellites, proved that the
Earth's temperature can be measured
accurately by instruments probing the
atmosphere from space, two scientists
shy in a paper to be published Friday in
Science.
; "We found that the Earth's atmos
phere goes through fairly large year-to-year
changes in temperature and over
that 10-year period we saw no long
term wanning or cooling trend," said
Roy Spencer, of the Marshall Space
Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala.
Soviets offer amnesty
to Lithuanian deserters
: VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. The Soviet
army offered amnesty Thursday to
Lithuanian deserters who return to their
units in what appeared to be a first step
toward compromise in the crisis over
Lithuania's independence drive.
; The decision announced by the
Defense Ministry General Staff came a
day after Lithuania offered two com
promises: it suspended a plan to insti
tute its own border guard, and it told
citizens not to resist Soviet attempts to
seize their firearms.
Navy criticized for trying
to reclaim gays' tuition
WASHINGTON A Navy move
to oust two homosexual Reserve Offi
cer Training Corps cadets and get back
its Harvard and MIT tuition money
drew fire Thursday from members of
Congress.
The battle pits two dozen liberal
members of Congress against the Pen
tagon over the military's policy of
excluding homosexuals. In the middle
are cadets David Carney, 23, a Harvard
graduate now studying at Oxford, and
Robert Bettiker, 22, a student at the
Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In separate cases, Bettiker in No
vember and Carney in December told
their Navy ROTC superior that they
had discovered recently that they are
homosexual. The Navy immediately
moved to block their commission as
Navy officers.
But in a move that prompted a letter
Thursday from two dozen members of
Congress, the Navy wants the two to
repay the service for their college tui
tion. ; For Carney, that translates into a
$50,687 tab. For Bettiker, the bill comes
to $38,612.
Spring ahead Sunday into
Daylight Saving Time
WASHINGTON America will
shed some light on its evenings Sun
day, when clocks will be moved ahead
one hour for Daylight Saving Time.
. For the record, the official change
occurs at 2 a.m. Sunday, local time.
The law calls for the change to be the
first Sunday in April.
, , From Associated Press reports
Roadblock
Stadium Drive to be closed for
Alumni Center construction 3
On the trail again
former Chapel Hill mayor takes to
re-election campaign trail .4
Trading places
1 Kids Clinic allows young patients to
play doctors for a day 6
Campus and city 3
Features 5
Sports Friday 7
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Comics 9
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Friday, March
Voters
Dissatisfaction
By STEPHEN POOLE
Staff Writer
Tuesday's student body president
(SBP) runoff yielded votes not only for
candidates Bill Hildebolt and Mark
Bibbs, but also former candidates Jon
athan Martin, John Lomax and Mike
Strickland, along with a few others.
The Elections Board announced last
week that write-in candidates would
not be counted, but that didn't stop
students from voting for the likes of
Josh Helms, the fictitious kin of Sena
tor Jesse Helms, who got about 10
Wet rush
Thursday's wet, chilly weather fails to
these soggy Tar Heels slog onward in
Trademark royalty
reallocation slated
for review by EOT
By DI0NNE L0Y
Staff Writer
A Faculty Council motion asking
that money from royalties on licensed
University trademarks be reallocated
to the Student Aid Office will be con
sidered by the Board of Trustees (BOT)
next month.
The council passed a resolution last
Friday suggesting that all royalties be
distributed equally among scholarship
funds for undergraduates, graduate
students, professional students and
student athletes.
The trademark system, which started
in 1982, includes a series of University
symbols, such as the Old Well and Tar
Heel foot, that are sold to generate
money for the University, said Stuart
Hathaway, director of Students for
Educational Access, a group that works
through the Campus Y. The BOT de
cided that half of the money would go
to the athletics department for scholar
ships and the other half to the student
aid office, he said.
Student Body President Brien Lewis
said other universities handled the allo
cations differently. "For example, at
Stanford, all of the money (from the
trademarks) goes to academics, and at
N.C. State, all goes to athletics," Lewis
said. "We've split the allocations half
way." Hathaway said the Student Stores,
which are required by law to give 50
percent of their profits to scholarship
funds, had been a steady source for
more than half a million dollars each
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evident in ballots supporting former candidates, others
votes, and Bart Simpson, who received
about five votes. Even Student Con
gress Speaker Gene Davis' dog, Monet,
won about three votes, according to
Elections Board member Mary Jo
Harris.
Also entered as write-ins were "none
of the below" and "none of the above,"
as well as about 75 ballots that bore
derogatory statements, Harris said.
David Smith, Elections Board chair
man, called this last group of ballots
"short essays on the ineffectiveness of
student government."
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slow the usual pace on campus, as
a blur through Polk Place.
year since 1984. But several factors
have contributed to a 40 percent de
crease in contributions this year, he
said.
The renovations of the Daniels build
ing, the reduction of profitable mer
chandise, the closing of the Pit Stop and
departmental budget cuts which lim
ited purchases of supplies from the
stores havcreduced the Student Stores'
contribution to $300,000, he said.
"That's four or five ways the reve
nue which was used for scholarships
was slashed," Hathaway said. "And
this also came right at the time student
fees jumped 20 percent."
The Student Aid Office has used part
of the money from the trademark royal
ties to fund 25 minority and 25 non
minority merit-based scholarships,
another part to increase the amount of
grant and aid scholarships to 60 per
cent, and another part to establish an
endowment, Hathaway said. "But now
the Student Aid Office is using the
money they were setting aside," he
said. "The merit scholarships have been
slashed in half, and next year the 60
percent grant and aid may be in jeop
ardy." Paul Debreczeny, a professor of
Slavic languages who brought the
motion before the Faculty Council, said
the full amount of the royalties should
be given to the University. "It's arbi
trary to give 50 percent to athletics," he
said. "After all, the logo stands for the
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Despite the 175 write-in votes and a
small overall turnout, some members
of the Elections Board said they were
pleased with the voter participation.
"I'm shocked but happy that we had
2,000 voters in light of everything that
happened," Smith said. "It's a pretty
significant sign of something I just
don't know what."
The Elections Board received a total
of 2,075 ballots: 1,028 for Hildebolt,
872 for Bibbs and 175 write-ins, which
were not counted. The first SBP elec
tion, held on Feb. 20, drew approxi-
Ned
from police force today
By KENNY MONTEITH
Staff Writer
When University police Sgt. Ned
Comar wakes up Saturday, he plans to
go out to his garden and plant some
corn and maybe, if the astronomical
signs are right, some beans too.
To some people, this extracurricular
project would seem natural for a Satur
day activity, but for Comar it will be a
new career.
Today will be Comar' s last day at
work, as he retires after 15 years with
the department. "I can't say that I have
regretted this," said the 59-year-old,
reminiscing over the years. "It's been a
different sense of humor."
Comar joined the UNC police in
1974 after serving in the Army during
the Korean War. He has spent most of
his 1 5 years with the department's crime
prevention office and as a patrol offi
cer. " "I took a course in crime preven
tion," he said. "(Crime prevention) was
fairly new on campus back then, and a
lot of them still don't (have it). I took
what I learned, tailored it and made it
unique to this campus."
Comar, who was raised in an or
phanage in Columbia, S.C., said his
new life would be an "emotional gear
change."
"This will the first time in 5 1 of my
59 years that my time will not be struc
tured," he said. "In the orphanage, time
was structured 24 hours a day."
There was more discipline in the
orphanage than there was in the Army,
Comar said. "In the Army, we were
encouraged to date. In the orphanage,
they didn't mind us dating, but they just
wanted us to stand around."
While at the orphanage, Comar said
he enjoyed writing. "I wrote my theme
and almost everybody else's themes,
except, one," he said, "and he almost
didn't make it."
An impromptu gift to the orphanage
allowed Comar to follow a hobby that
would stay with him for life. "Someone
gave the orphanage a guitar," he said
smiling. "They taught me four chords
and then let me go.
"Some guy heard me one day out
side my window playing guitar. He
brought over his instrument (as did
some others). I learned a lot more by
just playing with them. Eventually, we
got to play in a park in Columbia for a
square dance."
Comar continued his love for music
throughout his middle-age years. "I even
wrote a march for the Tar Heel March
ing Band," he said. A former band
director told him if Comar would score
Signs urge
By SUSIE KATZ
Staff Writer
The UNC Physical Plant has installed
cardboard signs on light switches
around campus that ask the University
community to turn on to the idea of
conserving energy by turning off the
lights.
Roger Hayes, an energy conserva
tion engineer at the Physical Plant, said
the project was an attempt "to make
folks on campus more aware of the
need to cut lights off after class to
reduce consumption and costs, primar
ily costs right now because of the budget
constraints we're faced with."
But some members of the University
community are worried about possible
safety hazards that could arise in the
face of the "lights out" campaign.
Richard Cole, dean of the School of
Journalism, said he was concerned
about the possibility of someone being
injured after walking into a dark room
and tripping over something. He re
moved the plates from the light switches
in the rest rooms of Howell Hall be
cause he was worried that someone
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mately 5,000 voters.
SBP-elect Bill Hildebolt said he was
also pleased and hoped the decision to
exclude write-ins would now make
sense.
"If we hadn't closed the ballot, the
elections would not be over," hesaid.
Turnout may have been hurt by the
petition started on Tuesday, Hildebolt
said. "A lot of people interpreted that
(the petition) as 'sign that and don't
vote,'" he said.
Mark Forbes, a freshman from Gas
tonia, voted but said he had wanted to
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the piece, the band might play it.
But after transposing the piece for
the individual instruments in the band,
Comar never got to hear it played be
cause of various technicalities. "I've
still got it in the closet at home, and I've
still never got to hear it."
Later in his career, Comar continued
his writing by working at various
newspaper and print shops. He worked
as a printer for The Cherokee Scout and
eventually became the editor for the
Clay Co. Progress.
"It (The Progress) was mainly pub
lished for advertising," he said. "It fi
nally became a live paper, so I tried to
write like Robert Louis Stevenson for
the second page feature."
Comar decided to leave the N.C.
mountains after what he believed was a
bout with pneumonia. "I had what's
called mitral stenosis, which basically
stops up the heart," he said.
The disorder caused the Comars to
move to the warmer climate of Florida.
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would trip on the floor, which has dif
ferent levels.
"It's really dangerous to leave those
lights out," he said.
Cole said he thought the Physical
Plant had acted "with good motives,"
but added that it was a "penny-wise,
pound-foolish" thing to do.
"You have to be reasonable about
things like this," he said. "I think (safety
is) a big concern. Safety is something
you have to consider in all this. In some
places, lights shouldn't be turned off."
Hayes said he was aware of safety
concerns like Cole's, but said, "Some
people overreacted to the signs being
installed."
The goal of the project is to target
"primarily classrooms and offices when
no one is there," Hayes said. "It was
never our intent for people to turn off
the lights in areas where they need
,them," he said. "I do think people will
be more conscientious and aware and
we'll see a reduction in consumption
and costs."
Herbert Paul, Physical Plant direc
tor, said he estimated the cost of 15,000
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sign the petition. Signing the petition
and voting would have been contradic
tory, he said. "If I had signed the peti
tion, I wouldn't have voted."
James Clark, a freshman from
Conover, also said he had wanted to
sign the petition, but voted anyway. "I
felt like I was choosing between the
lesser of two evils," he said.
Dave Novak, a sophomore from
Hendersonville, said the candidates'
decision to keep a closed ballot was an
invitation to write in. "I'm sick and
tired of this whole election," he said.
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Ned Comar types in incident reports
tures by working as a linotype operator
on The Venice Gondolier. He realized
he had a major heart problem when he
was trying to cross a railroad trestle to
avoid a train.
"When I got to the other side, I was
out of breath," the sergeant said. "Then
I realized something was wrong. I said
to myself 'your tail's gonna die if you
don't do something.' At that time
(1961), they didn't have good programs
for valve problems."
After two heart operations, the latter
giving him "a heart that lasted about 14
years," Comar began working on a
construction site as a pipe welder and
fitter.
After arriving at UNC and establish
ing a crime prevention office, Comar
began to speak to numerous UNC stu
. dents about the prevention of rape, theft
and other crimes.
He said he spoke to students because
he loved being around them. "I would
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light switch plates at $5,000. This fig
ures to a cost of 33 cents per plate.
This might seem like a lot to spend in
an effort to save money, but Hayes said,
"They have potential to pay back in one
day if people will be more responsible
with cutting the lights off than they
have in the past."
Hayes estimated the cost of provid
ing lights in an average office in the
University at two cents an hour.
"If people are more aware and, say,
turn off the lights during lunch for two
days in a row, it pays for them (the light
switch plates)," he said.
The Physical Plant has work-study
students who walk around campus at
night turning lights off in buildings
where they are unused. He said there
was only one student doing this job this
semester, and that student can only go
to certain targeted buildings each night.
If people were more responsible
about turning off the lights when not in
use, the work-study student could cover
more buildings, saving the University's
money, Hayes said.