ON CAMPUS
Human Rights Week Committee will
begin planning in Campus Y lounge at
6 p.m. All students welcome.
BUENOS DIAS: Hispanic Association to hold celebration ....CAMPUS, page 3
THAT'S GREEK TO ME: Focus on fraternities, sororities page 5
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Volume 99, Issue 66
Wednesday, September 4, 1991
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University bike patrol covers campus
to increase police visibility, mobility
By Karen Schwartz
Staff Writer
The next local arrest you see may be
made from a bike.
Six University police officers now
patrol the campus on their 21 -speed
mountain bikes as part of the
department's new bike patrol.
After a four-day training period, of
ficers hit the roads Aug. 26, University
Police Chief Arnold Trujillo said Tues
day. "It's been really well-received by the
community," he said.
The bike patrol officers are more
visible to the University community
than officers in patrol cars, Trujillo said.
They also can go places that squad cars
Bicentennial to
By Cathy Oberle
Staff Writer
People who have wondered what life
at UNC was like during its first 100
years soon may know.
UNC archaeologists and students
plan to excavate old parts of the UNC
campus as part of the University's bi
centennial celebration.
The idea evolved several years ago
when each department was asked to
think of ways to celebrate the Bicenten
nial, said Vincas Steponaitis, director
of UNC's Research Laboratories of
Anthropology, on Tuesday.
Steponaitis said that he, staff archae
ologists Trawick Ward and Steve Davis,
and other members of the anthropology
department thought an excavation would
be "archaeologically and historically
interesting" because it might reveal
many things about the campus and
cannot and can more easily pursue sus
pects, he said.
The patrol is composed of officers
who volunteered to serve on it. "They
love it. Officers seem to always want to
be on the bikes," Trujillo said.
Maj. Robert Porreca, support ser
vices commander for the police depart
ment, said the bikes put the officers
more in touch with citizens. "Cars are
great, but they are more of a barrier."
Capt. P.E. Cooper, the patrol's train
ing officer, said the bike patrol is some
times a more efficient means of law
enforcement. Other police departments
that use bike patrols have reported four
times more arrests on bikes than on car
patrols or foot patrols, she said.
"On bikes they are silent, they can
include campus excavation
people who were here.
The department proposed the idea to
the UNC Bicentennial Observance Of
fice, which agreed to fund the excava
tions. Steve Tepper, associate general sec
retary of the Bicentennial Observance
Office, said the office granted the de
partment $1 1,700 for the excavations.
"We ' re prov iding the funds they don 't
have," he said.
Preliminary investigations tentatively
are scheduled to begin in January 1 992,
Steponaitis said. About three or four
people will investigate a list of possible
sites then and decide if they are worth
excavating, he said.
The full-scale excavations will begin
in the fall of 1993 and will end in the
spring of 1994 in recognition of the
Bicentennial.
"The preliminary excavations will
be helped by just a few graduate and
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come up quickly and they can get a
suspect that might otherwise get away,"
Cooper said.
The first day the bike patrol was
used, an officer on a bike was able to
reach an accident scene that an ambu
lance could not get to immediately, she
said.
Truj illo said bike patrol officers com
municate with officers in patrol cars
and help them when they can.
The cost of implementing the new
patrol, including bikes and training, was
approximately $2,000, Trujillo said.
Performance, a local bicycle shop, sold
the bikes to the department at a dis
count. See PATROL, page 7
undergraduate students," Steponaitis
said. "The major part will be open to
students from all over campus."
Tentative sites to be excavated in
clude the possible location of Steward's
House, the University's dining hall for
more than 50 years; and the Eagle Ho
tel, located on Franklin St. for about 1 20
years before it burned. They also plan to
excavate a dirt path across McCorkle
Place, the oldest part of campus,
Steponaitis said.
Researchers became interested in the
dirt path when Davis' daughter found a
19th-century bottle fragment there, ac
cording to a press release. Scientists
probed the ground and found what they
believe may be the foundation of a
structure measuring 20 feet by 30 feet.
No record exists showing a building
at that site, but researchers believe a
See EXCAVATION, page 7
100 march for Stone,
await Hardin's response
By Matthew Mielke
Staff Writer
More than 100 spirited students
marched from the Black Cultural Cen
ter to South Building Tuesday after
noon to ensure that Sonja Stone's legacy
is kept alive for years to come.
The marchers, wearing purple
armbands and carrying signs commemo
rating Stone, went to South Building to
give Chancellor Paul Hardin a letter
listing several demands.
The demands include that the Uni
versity establish an endowed chair in
Stone's name, rename the BCC after
Stone and give departmental status to
the African and Afro-American Studies
curriculum.
Black Student Movement President
Arnie Epps, BSM Minister of Informa
tion Toija Riggins and Campus Y Co
President Heather Lynch led the march.
Student Body President Matt Heyd, Vice
President Meridith Rente and several
faculty members also participated.
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for
student affairs, met the students at the
chancellor's desk. Hardin was in a meet
ing at the time.
Boulton led marchers into a confer-
Lack of mediation, time table
cited as grievance policy flaws
By Gillian Murphy
Staff Writer
The recently revised employee griev
ance procedure is under fire again.
A UNC employee said Tuesday there
is "absolutely no mediation" at Steps 1
and 2 of the grievance procedure, and
administrators are trying to keep em
ployees from pursuing grievances by
delaying hearings.
The employee, who asked not to be
identified for fear of retaliation, said
that Step 2 was a "farce."
"The decision was made from the
beginnirig," said the employee.
The employee is waiting for a Step 3
Computer Labs
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Undergraduate Libary
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Fri 9 a.m. -5 p.m.
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"We should be able to have a closer relation
ship with the chancellor. His response will
show how he wants to work with us."
Scott Wilkins
Campus Y member
ence room, where Riggins presented
the students' demands.
BSM memberMichelle Thomas also
presented Boulton with 300 letters from
UNC students endorsing the demands.
"We expect some action," she said.
Hardin has said he wants to meet
with student representatives from the
groups to discuss the endowed chair,
Boulton said.
"I will share this with the chancel
lor," Boulton said. "I anticipate that we
will be able to get his support in moving
toward these directions."
Students complained that the admin
istration did not regard the establish
ment of the endowed chair as an urgent
hearing date to be set. The Step 3 griev
ance was filed in May.
At Step 3 of the grievance procedure,
the employee and the employee's su
pervisor appear before a panel of one
faculty and two staff members appointed
by Chancellor Paul Hardin. A griev
ance proceeds to Step 3 if investigations
at Steps 1 and 2 by the employee's
supervisor and the supervisor's do not
resolve the problem.
AlanMcSurely, aChapel Hill lawyer
who represents many employees with
grievances against the University, said
there is "no semiobjective party" in
volved at the Step 1 and 2 levels.
"Almost by definition an employee
UNC computer labs
stop giving students
free laser printing
By Soyia Ellison
Stiff Writer
Students who need laser-printed cop
ies of resumes or papers this year will
have to go off campus to make them.
Campus microcomputer labs are no
longer offering free laser printing to
students, faculty or staff members, said
Linwood Futrelle, director of micro
computer labs for the Office of Infor
mation Technology.
The office could not afford to con
tinue providing laser printing at UNC
computer labs because of the costs in
volved. The lab printers also were old and in
need of repair.
Two of the office's eight printers
broke last spring, and repairing the
machines would have cost almost as
much as replacing them.
Laser-printed copies were most of
ten used for resumes and for graduate
students' theses and dissertations,
Futrelle said.
The office spent $9,000 last year on
maintenance and supplies for the laser
printers, he said.
Students were required to supply their
own paper, and some students abused
the service by printing more than the
allotted five copies.
"It was basically an economic deci
sion," Futrelle said. "We were giving
away about 300,000 pages a year, and
that was something we could not afford
to do."
The office's budget this year is about
$200,000. Sixty percent of that money
Northern Exposure
matter. Some protesters said they felt
frustrated by the lack of accessibility to
Hardin.
Campus Y member Scott Wilkins
said, "We should be able to have a
closer relationship with the chancellor.
His response will show how he wants to
work with us."
Epps said students would continue
lobbying until their demands were met.
"We will be back again if we do not hear
anything in a day or so."
Epps said at a meeting Tuesday night
that he had not heard from Hardin. "We
will give him until 5 p.m. tomorrow
See MARCH, page 7
is forced to go to Step 3 before there is
any kind of impartial investigation," he
said.
Paula Schubert, chairwoman of the
State Employees Association of North
Carolina, said that Steps 1 and2"should
not go up the supervisory ladder," and
that they should be reviewed by an
"unbiased third party."
SEANC protested the new grievance
policy when it was designed last year.
The delays in the Step 3 procedure
have led the anonymous employee to
believe that "University administrators
are hoping that you will just forget your
See GRIEVANCE, page 7
is used to pay staff members.
The technology office gave two of
the printers to the law school, which is
charging students for use of the ma
chines. Copytron owner and manager Terry
Boren said he had seen a modest in
crease in laser-printer use since the
University discontinued the service.
Boren said he expected the increase to
continue.
Copytron has one laser printer and
charges one dollar a page for the first 25
pages.
About 30,000pages have been printed
since the installation of the printer two
years ago, Boren said.
Futrelle said a few people had com
plained about the termination of the
services. But most people understood
the economic reasons that made the
change necessary after they were ex
plained to them.
Michelle Cannella, a junior from
Miami, said the lack of on-campus laser
printing would be a slight inconve
nience. "I didn't really use it that much," she
said.
"But it is a problem if you have a long
paper like over 25 pages. It's a real
pain to wait to print it out on a regular
printer."
The end of free laser printing is a
bigger problem for Pamela Graham, a
fifth-year graduate student who teaches
a political science class.
"I teach a class, and I used to laser
print my syllabus, but I don't anymore
because I can't afford it," she said.