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.Volume 99, Issue 2
Tuesday, February 19, 1991
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By Heather Phibbs and Adam Ford
Staff Writers
The Student Congress Finance
Committee slashed the Black Student
Movement's requested budget by more
than half during budget hearings last
weekend.
The group's budget was cut by more
than $38,000 from the $67,910 it
requested to $29,283. The recommended
allocation is $13,000 more than the
group received last year.
Laura Anderson, BSM minister of
information, said, "Overall, the process
was very fair. Everyone was very pro
fessional. We went in knowing they
would question every expenditure."
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By. Cheryl A. Herndon
Staff Writer
An electrical short was the cause of a
fire that destroyed a restaurant and
damaged businesses in abuilding on the
corner of East Franklin and Henderson
Streets, fire officials said Monday.
XThe blaze started Saturday in the
basement of the Continental Cafe due to
an electrical short in a light switch that
was underneath the stairwell, said
Chapel Hill Fire Chief Daniel Jones.
The only business with actual fire
damage was the Continental Cafe, which
was closed for renovation and set to
reopen in about a week under new
ownership. But Hector's, Manires'
Goldsmiths, Sadlack's Heroes and Deli,
Linda's Bar and Grill, Spring Break
Election
Elections Board announces candidates,
7 99 1 Runoff
All-campus sites
Union
10a.m.-7 p.m.
10a.m.-7 p.m.
Campus Y
Graduate and off-campus undergraduate sites
Law School 10 a.m.-3 p.m. graduate
Davis Library 10a.m.-5p.m. graduate
Health Sciences 1 0 a.m.-5 p.m. Off campus, graduate
On-campus undergraduate sites
Chase 1 0 a.m. -7 p.m.
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The BSM plans to appeal for extra
money in only a few specific areas, she
said.
Student Congress will consider the
committee's recommendations for the
BSM and other student groups Sunday,
when student groups will have a chance
to appeal their allocations.
Juergen Buchenau, Finance Com
mittee chairman, said the committee
had $214,000 to allocate, but student
groups asked for $280,000. The com
mittee allocated all but $40 of the
available funds.
The Phoenix's proposed budget was
cut from $25,626 to $16,500.
Phoenix Editor Charles Overbeck
said he was not pleased with the rec
for Fradklm Steeet fire
Travel, CO. Copies and The Tannery
each received varying degrees of water
and smoke damage.
Insurance adjusters presently are
determining the monetary loss from the
fire, but officials will be unable to es
timate the cost for several days, Jones
said.
Although one Hector's employee said
that the fire department's slow arrival
contributed to the amount of damage
done to the building, Don McLennan,
owner of Sadlack's Heroes and Deli,
said the fire department did a good job.
"They're trained firefighters, andthey
know what they're doing," McLennan
said. "They came in here and protected
my equipment. As old as these build
ings are, we're lucky the whole build
ing didn't go down.
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ommendation. The weekly newspaper's
computer system will require $1 1,000
of the budget, leaving only $5,500 for
production. The publication is used to
getting about $19,000, he said.
"(Committee member) Andrew
Cohen believes we can raise the other
$15,000 on our own," he said. "It's
disappointing that the initial feeling of
Congress was to give the Phoenix such
a low amount. We could cut down on
our circulation, but I won't let that
happen."
Cohen said, "I think we gave them an
appropriate amount." Because the
Phoenix is a quality publication, it should
be able to increase its revenue by a few
thousand dollars from advertising, he
in reannpaimlt
Larry Johnson, assistant Chapel Hill
fire marshal, said the first fire truck
arrived on the scene in less than three
minutes.
"When a fire breaks out and people
get excited, they tend to think it takes
more time than it actually does," Johnson
said.
Jones said the call was placed to the
department at 2:29 p.m., and the first
fire truck arrived on the scene at 2:3 1 .
"Response time is a key element in
fire fighting," Jones said. "We respond
to 99 percent of all calls within five
minutes."
Businesses with the least amount of
damage will reopen in the next few
days, store owners said.
R. Warren Stephens, the owner of
CO. Copies, said he hoped to open his
open seats, voting
Staff Report
Students will be able to vote today in
the 1991 campus election runoff at six
poll sites on campus.
Students must show their student
identification and registration cards to
vote, said Mary Jo Harris, Elections
Board chairwoman.
The offices and candidates in the
runoff are:
B Student Body President:
Matt Heyd and Jonathan Martin.
Senior Class President and Vice
President:
Mike FergusonJay Dunn and
Wendell McCainLibba Carr.
B Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President:
Martha Fawbush and Jane Roper.
Student Congress District 12:
Allison Inscoe and Jennifer Lloyd.
B Student Congress District 15:
DTHSarah King
Grant Vinik (center) moderates
like a giraffe needs strep throat. Ann Landers
said.
"I'm sure they're going to appeal,
but I don't know where they will get the
money from," he said. There will not be
much room to adjust any of the recom
mended amounts without taking away
from other groups, he said.
Victory Village, for which $13,676
was recommended, was the only group
whose budget passed untouched.
No budget proposals were reviewed
for La Casa Espanola and the Student
Environmental Lecture Fund because
members failed to attend the hearings.
The Yackety Yack's request was cut
from $10,369 to $9,869. Editor Kelly
See BUDGET, page 7
business by Tuesday or Wednesday.
CO. Copies suffered only from smoke
damage.
The Tannery, also operated by
Stephens, received smoke and water
damage. It will be at least two or three
days before it reopens for business, he
said.
McLennan said Sadlack's would re
open in approximately seven to 14 days.
In the meantime, Sadlack's is do
nating all of its perishable produce,
meats, cheeses and breads to the Inter
Faith Council for Social Service,
McLennan said.
The restaurant will donate 385 loaves
of bread, 160 pounds of tomatoes, 180
pounds of lettuce, 27 pounds of cheese
and 50 pounds of different types of
meat, McLennan said.
today with jnmsM Yotim
process for runoff
Russ Helms and Scott Maxwell.
B Student Congress District 21:
Christy Hardison and Tim Moore.
B Student Congress Districts
2,5,8,9,10 and 20 are open and will be
filled by write-in votes.
Districts 2,5,8,9, and 10 are graduate
student districts and District 20 is the
Southeast off-campus district.
Returns will be announced in room
209 of Manning Hall. They will begin
to be posted at about 8:30 p.m.
Candidates will not be official win
ners until their financial forms are
verified by the Elections Board, Harris
said.
"We have until Saturday at 7 o'clock
to validate the elections," she said.
"We really need graduate students to
write in candidates, because we have all
those empty seats."
By Cathy Oberle
Staff Writer
Candidates for senior class president
and vice president discussed their plat
forms and answered questions in a fo
rum attended by only 10 people at the
Student Union Monday night.
Jay Dunn, a candidate for senior class
vice president, said he and Mike
Ferguson, his presidential running mate,
wanted to increase the scope of what the
senior class did.
They want to build on the foundation
of the senior class, Dunn said. 'There
are things that we can build on to make
the class stronger."
Their platform includes creating a
senior volunteer network to help cam
pus organizations, appointing repre
sentative marshals and producing a
booklet and seminar to help seniors in
their job searches. They also plan to
distribute a senior class newsletter.
Candidates Wendell McCain and
Libba Carr said they wanted to get the
senior class involved in the local com
munity. "Chapel Hill gives us so many
things and we should give some back as
students," Carr said.
McCain said he and Carr also wanted
to help seniors better prepare for life
after college.
Their platform includes community
service projects for the senior class,
such as a voting drive involving students
and Chapel Hill citizens; maintaining
traditional senior events such as Senior
Week and block seats for seniors at
Student Organizations' Budget Allocations
Organization Amount requested ...Recommended
Students Older Than Average $839 $459
Rape Action 1,350 1,215
Black Graduate and Professional Students 1,621 1,142
IROKO 403 553
Carolina Athletic Association 20,744 18,619
Pauper Players ...3,490 2,040
LAB Theatre 6,271 5,871
Elections Board 2,593 2,221
DISC 814 794
Black Student Movement 67,910 29,283
Undergraduate Student Music Forum 640 370
UNC Psych Club... 202 162
Executive Branch 25,121 24,398
Carolina Quarterly 4,955 4,375
Student Environmental Lecture Fund 2,000 Didn't Attend
Best Buddies .. .712 500
Student Congress 5,149 4,809
National Pharmaceutical Association 1,100 400
Phoenix . 25,626 16,500
Victory Village 1 3,676 1 3,676
N.C. Student Legislature 3,867 2,825
Yackety Yack 10,369 9,869
Student Part-Time Employment Services 3,853 3,753
Judicial Branch 10,467 10,117
Student Legal Services 28,178 26,180
UNITAS 1,350 965
SAFE Escort 1,645 1,270
Undergraduate Art Association 625 420
Association of International Students 4,047 2,997
SANGAM 1,177 1,091
La Casa Espanole 900 Didn't attend
Cellar Door 5,150 4,000
Positions 2,400 1,675
STV 25,472 19,952
CGLA 2,165 2,015
The organizations' names are listed in the order in which they were heard by the Student
Congress Finance Committee. All allocations are subject to Student Congress' approval.
Decrease in poll sites meets criticism
By Stephanie Johnston
University Editor
Some candidates in today's runoff
election said the reduced number of poll
sites would hurt voter turnout, but
Elections Board officials said the re
duction was necessary to ensure ballot
security.
The Elections Board reduced the
number of poll sites for the runoff from
19 to six.
Student body president candidate
Jonathan Martin said he was concerned
about voter turnout, especially because
the number of poll sites had been re
duced. "I really want students to have easy
access to vote," he said. "I think voter
turnout will be low because students
aren't going to have the access they did
before."
athletic events; and preparing a list of
graduate school grants and scholarships.
McCain and Carr also want to hold
forums to give students job-hunting and
interviewing tips not provided by the
University Career Planning and Place
ment Services.
"We'd like to have a forum of faculty,
of graduate students, administrative
department (representatives) and stu
dents," McCain said.
Both sets of candidates said senior
marshals would be an important link to
enhance racial involvement in the senior
class.
Ferguson said racial balance would
be achieved through representative
marshals. "We're going to have repre
sentatives from different areas that
represent the different cultural aspects
of the campus," he said.
McCain said marshals with varying
backgrounds should be chosen to better
represent all seniors. "We talk about
men in the ethical and cultural sense.
We forget about students with different
sexual orientations," he said.
Ferguson and Dunn defended their
plan to create an Options Booklet to
help seniors find the opportunities
available to them after college. Wen
Ling Lai, a member of the UCPPS ad
visory committee had questioned
whether senior class officers would be
able to publish such a booklet.
Ferguson said, "It would be unwise
to advertise it in our platform if it wasn't
feasible. (UCPPS Director) Marcia
Harris thinks in some form this can be a
Matt Heyd, student body president
candidate, said the reduction in the
number of poll sites would hurt voter
turnout and his campaign. "We won
seven dorms the last time," he said. "It's
going to be hard to get people out to
vote. Turn-out this year has been low
anyway."
He is asking his campaign workers to
encourage students to vote, he said.
Mary Jo Harris, Elections Board
chairwoman, said the reduction in the
number of poll sites was necessary to
ensure the security of the ballots during
the runoff.
The runoff results are usually closer
than general elections, so the Elections
Board wants to be extra careful, she
said.
"We don't have the budget to print
Sec ELECTION, page 7
vital part of the (UCPPS)."
McCain and Carr said their plan to
create a forum addressing graduate
school enrollment and job hunting would
help centralize information for seniors.
ORBS
CAMPUS AND CITY
Seniors evaluate inclusion of minorities
in class activities . 3
WORLD
Iraqi army still preparing for ground war
despite peace talks 4
SPORTS
U NC basketbal I discipl ines The Citadel,
118-50 5
Arts and Features 2
Classifieds. 6
Comics 7
Opinion 8
WEATHER
TODAY: Rain; high upper 60s
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