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Volume 99, Issue 59
Friday, August 23, 1991
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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The Ringmeister
Jostens representative Andy Bills, a UNC graduate, shows class rings to students outside
Student Stores Thursday afternoon. Today is the last day for Jostens' sidewalk sale.
Task force says community
should crack down on crime
By Peter Wallsten
City Editor
Chapel Hill and Carrboro officials
need more "intestinal fortitude" in
fighting crime problems throughout
the community, residents and mem
bers of a task force on reducing violent
crime and drug abuse said this week.
"Chapel Hill is a patient, and the
patient is sick," said Mickey Ewell,
owner of Spanky's, 411 West and
Squid'srestaurants. "There is no pana
cea, no one magic pill to cure it all."
Ewell, one of this year's 12 candi
dates for four open seats on the Chapel
Hill Town Council, called for tougher
enforcement of local laws regarding
panhandling.
Crime is expected to be one of the
main issues during the municipal elec
tion campaigns this year. An apparent
increase in violent crime in the area,
including fights and a shoot-out dur
ing a melee at Cat's Cradle this sum
mer, has attracted much attention.
The Task Force on Reducing Vio
lent Crime, Alcohol and Illegal Drug
Use, which is headed by John Turner,
dean of the UNC School of Social
Work, is preparing a report to submit
to the town council in October.
Task force members also discussed
whether the location of the Inter-Faith
Council Community House is to blame
for the apparent crime increase.
Some suggested closing the shelter
to people convicted of crimes.
"Maybe we need to work with the
Inter-Faith Council," said Chapel Hill
resident Perry Dowd. "Maybe if
they've been in jail, they shouldn't be
allowed to stay there. It's not a good
scene for family living."
Jane Gold, a Chapel Hill resident,
suggested transporting homeless
people unable to stay at the shelter out
of town so they would leave pedestri
ans alone. She criticized the adminis
tration of the shelter and kitchen and
suggested changing the rules govern
ing who can eat there.
Some members of the community
were opposed to the shelter's present
location at 100 W.Rosemary St., where
it has been in operation since 1987.
Opponents of the shelter's downtown
location have said it attracts people
who may be prone to commit crimes.
"If these people are drinking, they '11
feed them three meals a day but won't
let them stay there," Gold said. "It
seems that maybe they need to put
them on a bus and take them out be
tween towns and leave them until the
next meal. We don't need these people
annoying people on Franklin Street."
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it Franklin P. Jones
Local crime statistics .
But advocates of the sheltercharged
that some people pass judgments on
the people who eat and sleep there.
"I firmly believe the shelter is not
the cause of crime downtown," said
task force member Jacquelyn Gist,
who helped found the original Chapel
Hill-Carrboro homeless shelter. "You
can't tell somebody is homeless by
looking at them. The homeless people
tend to be more passive."
Gist, who serves on the Carrboro
Board of Aldermen, said keeping
people convicted of crimes out of the
Community House will only make
matters worse. "You don't want to
deny services to people who've been
in jail, because then you're really
going to be in trouble."
Task force member Margo
Crawford, director of UNC's Black
Cultural Center, urged the commu
nity not to pass judgment on people in
the downtown area. Many blacks in
the area are scared to walk downtown
because they feel alienated, she said.
"There are definite gaps in the com
munity," Crawford said. "The intimi
dation that you people feel who own
this town is one thing. But the people
who feel no ownership are intimi
dated also. I hear people from the
black community who feel intimi
dated and feel they need to carry
around armor because theyVe not
wanted. They're harassed."
Some who attended the meeting
Monday night said the area law-enforcement
agencies should use more
creative ways of patrolling the streets.
"I think we should have more un
dercover police downtown," said
Sarah Carter, owner of Airport and
Intown Taxi. "We need to do some
thing about putting these criminals
away for a long time, and maybe
they'll be discouraged."
Ken Jackson, the new president of
the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Downtown
Commission, said he hoped the vari
ous facets of law enforcement will
work more closely to ensure arrests.
Convicted criminals should not be
allowed to leave prison before their
sentences expire, he said.
"If (they) don't serve sentences,
the criminal knows he will not go to
jail because there's no room."
Chapel Hill Town Council mem
ber Roosevelt Wilkerson, who helped
create the task force, said the commit
tee needed to realize problems exist
all over the community.
See CRIME, page 5
Students cannot buy class rings until they
of many vendors in the Pit on the first day
Building plans for social work school delayed
By Steve Politi
Assistant University Editor
The School of Social Work'splans to
construct a $10 million building have
been put on hold because the N.C. Gen
eral Assembly rejected a proposed bond
issue to pay for the project.
But Dean John Turner said the school
unfortunately has become accustomed
to such delays.
"We got caught along with everyone
else with the fact that there was a short
fall of funds," Turner said. "If the plans
had come along five years ago, we'd be
in the building by now."
Funding for the construction was part
of a proposed $600 million bond issue
for statewide capital improvements that
the General Assembly did not approve.
"The Board of Trustees has approved
the location and the exterior design of
the building, the technical people have
Gorbachev
The Associated Press
MOSCOW President Mikhail
Gorbachev purged his government
Thursday of the "crude and crafty" men
who tried to oust him and promised a
renewed push for democratic reform.
But his position was immediately chal
lenged by the soaring popularity of the
man credited with rescuing Gorbachev,
Boris Yeltsin.
"Yeltsin! Yeltsin !" tens of thousands
of flag-waving, whistling demonstra
tors shouted on Red Square, just be
yond the walls of Gorbachev's Kremlin
office. They demanded Gorbachev re
sign and suggested he go on another
vacation.
"Shame!" marchers cried as they
Fee moratorium hurts a.p.p.l.e.s. program
By Jennifer Mueller
Staff Writer
UNC-system President CD.
Spangler's moratorium on student fee
increases is continuing to cause finan
cial problems on campus.
Because of the ban, the two fee in
creases approved by students in Febru
ary were not reflected in the fees paid by
undergraduates for the fall semester.
Money from one increase was to
have paidacoordinatorfor the a.p.p.l.e.s.
program and to have been used to help
student groups offset inflation.
Student fees would have increased
by 90 cents to fund the new a.p.p.l.e.s.
position.
Howard Brubaker, director of the
Student Activities Funds Office, said
the lack of funding for the a.p.p.l.e.s.
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have completed 60 credit hours. Bills was one
of classes.
approved the plans and the drawings are
ready to go to bids," Turner said. "We
have to have either all construction
money allocated or a commitment from
the legislature to give the money to us."
Architect William Nichols said con
struction could be delayed another year
because of the lack of state funding. But
the legislature has shown interest in the
building, he said.
"It's significant that two years ago
the legislature appropriated half the
money for the project," Nichols said.
But the money was frozen in the
spring because of state budget cuts and
later taken away, he said.
If the five-floor building is built, it
will be located on Pittsboro Street be
hind Beard Hall. The first two floors
would include classrooms and an audi
torium, as well as the Family Life and
Learning Center. This center would be
a first-of-its-kind project designed to
dumps foes, promises further reforms
Soviet Shake-up
passed the Defense Ministry, whose
chief was involved in the failed coup.
"Hangmen!" they shouted outside the
KGB headquarters. The crowd cheered
wildly as five giant cranes toppled a 14
ton statue of secret-police founder Felix
Dzerzhinsky. Some also painted a swas
tika on the KGB building.
coordinator could cause serious prob
lems. Denise Beal had already begun work
ing in Chapel Hill as the coordinator
when the moratorium was issued.
"I started work Monday, and Thurs
day Matt (Heyd) walked into my office
with (Spangler's) memo," she said.
Spangler issued the freeze on student
fees for all 16 system schools in June,
citing this year's 20 percent to 25 per
cent tuition hikes as the reason for his
actions.
The moratorium followed news re
ports that UNC-CH administrators were
considering a technology fee increase
of up to $200 a year that would have
been added to the other increases.
Brubaker said Beal now is being paid
from a.p.p.l.e.s.' general fund account.
"There is enough to last several weeks
Drama building
to house new
academic center
By Bonnie Rochman
Staff Writer
University officials plan to use pri
vate funds from the Bicentennial Cam
paign to help establish the Center for
Undergraduate Excellence, a facility
designed to foster excellence in under
graduate academics.
Robert Allen, General College asso
ciate dean, said Graham Memorial
would be renovated to accommodate
the center. The Department of Dramatic
Art, which now occupies Graham Me
morial, is scheduled to move to a planned
addition to the Paul Green Theatre.
"The Center for Undergraduate Ex
cellence will be one of the few buildings
in the Bicentennial Campaign that will
be exclusively devoted to enhancing
the academic experience for under
graduate students," Allen said.
The center's design and cost esti
mate have not been completed, but
Chancellor Paul Hardin approved the
project in February, Allen said.
Stephen Birdsall, interim dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences, said the
center's future hinged on the drama
department receiving the funds neces
sary to add a wing to the Paul Green
Theatre.
help families track their histories and
deal with problems such as divorce,
Nichols said.
The third, fourth and fifth floors
would provide offices for graduate stu
dents and faculty members and student
conference rooms, he said.
Plans to construct a new building for
the Kenan-Flagler School of Business
were also effected by the bond issue.
The business school has raised $18.5
million of the $30 million necessary to
complete the project through private
donations.
Turner said the School of Social Work
had not asked alumni to make donations
to help the project. The school typically
uses private donations for scholarships
and endowed chairs, he said.
Marie Weil, associate dean, said the
school's alumni couldn't donate as much
as alumni of other schools.
"It's unlikely that we could get a
Fireworks lit the evening sky over
Moscow as the jubilant capital cel
ebrated the coup's collapse.
Yeltsin, president of the Russian Fed
eration, the Soviet Union's largest re
public, tapped into surging Russian na
tionalism to rally opposition to the coup.
On Thursday, a triumphant Yeltsin
emerged from the riverfront headquar
ters he had occupied since the coup
began and rallied 100,000 elated sup
porters to mark the end of "three dark
days" of the takeover. Yeltsin told re
porters he had agreed to meet with
Gorbachev on Friday to discuss the
formation of a new "government of
national trust."
Gorbachev promised punishment for
as long as there aren't any other ex
penses," he said, adding that the money
from the general account would have to
be refurbished.
Beal said a.p.p.l.e.s. student coordi
nators Tony Deifell and Mike Steiner
were talking with UNC officials about
obtaining grants or University funding.
They also are contemplating fund-raisers
to help cover her annual $20,000
salary.
Deifell and Steiner could not be
reached for comment Thursday.
Student Body President Matt Heyd
said student government leaders would
petition to have the a.p.p.l.e.s. program
fee reinstated for the spring semester.
"Spangler will listen to hardship
cases, and that is what the a.p.p.l.e.s.
See FEES, page 2
Allen said the center would sponsor
visiting speakers and academic enrich
ment programs.
"Wouldn't it be great to have a spon
taneous 'town meeting' with a panel of
experts to discuss issues of concern to
the University community, like the situ
ation in the U.S.S.R. right now?" Allen
asked.
"It would be possible in other places, '
but this building would be devoted to
things like this," he said. '
Allen said he envisioned classrooms
with movable chairs so students and
faculty could interact on a more per-'
sonal level.
Seminar rooms, with up to 20 seats,!
and larger classrooms, with up to 35
seats, would be located in the building.
"There is a demand for appropriate class
rooms for different classes," Allen said.
A living room in which students and.
faculty could interact in an informal
situation would be built, reminiscent of
a time when professors invited students;
to their homes on a regular basis, Allen
said.
Allen said 5,700 alumni were sur
veyed and were asked how their aca
demic experience could have been bet
See CENTER, page 2
major private donor," Weil said. "We
just don't have the kind of alumni who
have that sum of money."
Turner said he is optimistic that the
General Assembly will find the funds
necessary to pay for the construction
when members reconvene in February.
"I know how the leaders of the legis
lature are committed to the purpose of
this building and seeing it come.
"A lot of people think a new building
is a luxury ."Turner said. "The school is
70 years old and has never had a build
ing of its own."
Weil said social work classes are
held in lOcampus buildings and admin
istrative offices are in four buildings.
No classes are held in the Old Con
solidated Building, where the school is
centered, she said. "It's not even on
many of the campus maps," she said.
The school has been working since
1 983 to have a new bui Iding constructed.
the plot ' s ri rrg leaders as wel 1 as "a proper
evaluation of those who waited on the
sidelines and refused to oppose" the
three-day coup.
President Bush lifted the freeze on
economic help to the Soviet Union.
Bush also said he sees an opportunity to
accelerate the talks leading to indepen
dence for the Baltics.
The Baltic republic of Latvia said it
was seeking the arrest of the republic's
hard-line party leader, who also was
denounced by Gorbachev for his sup
port of the coup.
In other fast-moving stories:
Gorbachev said he would meet Friday
with leaders of the nine republics who
support the new Union Treaty. The
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