The Daily Tar HeelMonday, September 9, 19913
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Police dog Nero wins
three regional awards
A Chapel Hill Police Department
canine pulled in three awards at a recent
national competition.
Nero, a four-year-old Malinois, won
first place for criminal apprehension,
third place for agility and fifth place for
overall ability at the United States Po
lice Canine Association Region II Dog
Trials held last month.
Nero works with public safety Offi
cer Nancy Cellner.
Forty-five police dogs competed in
the event, which was held in Gastoma.
Region II includes four southeastern
states.
The other Chapel Hill police dog
Sandy, was unable to compete, because
she is recovering from back surgery.
The four-year-old German Shepherd
works with public safety Officer Troy
Smith.
Both dogs have been a part of the
department since December 1 990. They
are used for detecting drugs, searching
for missing people or fleeing felons and
for searching buildings.
Genital herpes support
group meets monthly
HELP, a confidential support group
for people concerned about genital
herpes, meets once a month in Chapel
Hill.
The group is sponsored by Planned
Parenthood of Orange and Durham
Counties. A $5 donation is requested to
attend the meetings, and anyone who
attends may remain anonymous.
The meetings offer an informal op
portunity to share experiences and to
exchange information with others who
have herpes. A medical adviser will be
available to answer questions.
For more information about Planned
Parenthood and the HELP group, call
929-5402.
Women voters league
'91-'92 program opens
The local League of Women Voters
will kick off the 1991-92 season with
coffee and a brief program for members
and prospective members next week.
The program, which will take place
Sunday at the Siena Hotel at 3 p.m., will
focus on the league's contributions to
the community welfare and the benefits
of league membership.
Town offers tours of
Chapel Hill Town Hall
The New Generation Program, for
adults age 55 and over, is offering a free
tourof the Chapel Hill Municipal Build
ing on Tuesday, Sept. 17.
Mayor Jonathan Howes will conduct
the tour, which will take place at 9:30
a.m. The tour is limited to 30 people.
Individuals should register by call
ing the Chapel Hill Parks and Recre
ation Department at 968-2784. The reg
istration deadline is next Monday.
Red Cross fears post
holiday blood shortage
The American Red Cross is solicit
ing blood donors to avoid a post-Labor
Day shortage, said the principal medi
cal officer of Blood Services Carolina
Region.
Many regions across the country al
ready are experiencing shortages, said
Dr. Jerry Squires.
Donor statistics show that 72 percent
of the donor population donates only
once a year. But Squires said it's safe to
donate as many as six times a year.
Blood donors need to be at least 17,
weigh at least 1 10 pounds and be in
good health. The American Red Cross
operates permanent blood collection
sites in Charlotte, Durham, Greensboro,
Raleigh, Wilmington and Winston-Salem,
along with 12 to 15 mobile collec
tion operations per day.
The next blood drive at UNC will
take place Sept. 17-18 in the Great Hall.
Quit-smoking program
scheduled for October
FreshStart, a quit-smoking program
sponsored by the Orange County un it of
the American Cancer Society, will be
held in October.
The program will be held at the Unit
Office at Westgate Plaza, Westgate
Drive, Suite 201 in Durham.
Participants are asked to attend all
four classes, which will take place Oct.
I, 3, 8 and 10 from 7:30 to 9 p.m.
Anyone interested should call 942-1 953
for more information and registration.
There is no charge for the class.
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Crime task force preparing reform list
By Jackie Hershkowitz
Staff Writer
The Task Force on Violent Crime is
formulating a list of proposals to reduce
incidents of crime in the Chapel Hill
area, urging increased prevention mea
sures, consistent law enforcement and
rehabilitation for offenders.
The list suggests specifically that lo
cal agencies participate by providing
education, support groups and job train
ing to the community.
The task force, headed by John
Turner, dean of the UNC School of
Social Work, was created to submit
Hip-hop activist urges
constant questioning
By Jon Whlsenant
Staff Writer
Question authority, but question
submissiveness even more. Question
your words and deeds. Question the
words and deeds of others. Question
your goals and values. Question ev
erything. People involved with the struggle
toward racial equality should ask them
selves these questions every second of
their lives, Harry Allen, hip-hop activ
ist and media assassin, said during a
speech Thursday night.
Allen, who handles public relations
for the rap group Public Enemy, gave
the speech as a salute to Sonja Stone,
capping off a two-week celebration of
her life and work. Stone, an African
and Afro-American studies professor,
died of a stroke Aug. 10.
"Her living had a great impact on
my way of thinking," Allen said. "Even
though I only met her once. She wrote
apiece that made me realize that blacks
have to work on a very high level in
order to overcome white supremacy.
"They're (white people are) work
ingon unifying Europe, installing huge
fiber-optic networks. If we are talking
3 members of Orange County Greens
elected to positions in national group
By Sally Bright
Staff Writer
As a result of last month's national
Green Congress, three members of the
Orange County Greens were elected to
serve on the national level.
Dan Coleman, a local computer con
sultant and active Greens member, was
elected to a six-person committee that
will develop a proposal for the Greens
to become an incorporated national
party.
The proposal will be presented at the
next national Green Congress in Au
gust 1992.
The Greens, originally formed more
than a decade ago in Europe, are dedi
cated to environmental and social
causes. The Orange County group was
created six years ago.
Amy Belanger and Eric Odell, both
employees of the Chapel Hill-based
national office of the Student Environ
mental Action Coalition, also were
elected to national office by the mem
bers of the Green Congress.
Belanger will manage the daily af
fairs of the Greens as a member of the
seven-person coordinating committee.
Odell will serve on the executive body
of the Greens as the youth caucus repre
sentative to the Green Council.
Coleman attributed the Chapel Hill
Greens' election to national office as a
result of years of hard work. The Or
ange County Greens, formed in 1985,
have been consistently active locally in
grass-roots democracy.
"The members of the Green Con
gress recognized that fact," Coleman
said.
Joyce Brown, a member of both the
Chapel Hill Town Council and the
Spiritual leader
By Michael Workman
Staff Writer
Man's purpose is to discover what
Allah wants from mankind and todo his
will, the spiritual leader of the Durham
Islamic Center told students Thursday
night.
In his lecture introduction to Is
lam," Iman Talib Abdullah said the
word "Islam" means submission to the
will of Allah. Allah is the only god
recognized by Muslims, people who
practice Islam.
Allah is Lord, Creator, he said.
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Task force members include elected
officials, attorneys, business people and
community activists.
The Chapel Hill Town Council,
which appointed the task force, will get
a chance to review the proposals at a
joint meeting Sept. 21.
Many of the proposals focus on youth
programs in the schools. Task force
members recommended decreasing the
number of adolescent offenders through
education, discussion and counseling.
The proposals also include provid
ing more youth-oriented activities and
about starting a black student newspa
per, are we working on the same
level?"
He defined black culture as any
speech or action that is effective in the
elimination of white supremacy. "Oth
erwise, who needs it?" he asked.
Allen asked the students and fac
ulty in the audience what life has been
like on campus the last few weeks.
Michelle Thomas, a senior Afro
American studies major from
Laurinburg, said the past few weeks
had been amazing.
"The three largest student organi
zations, Campus Y, Black Student
Movement and student government,
joined together last week and marched
to the chancellor's office to present a
letter in Dr. Stone's name," Thomas
said.
The letter demanded that the Uni
versity establish an endowed chair in
Stone's name, rename the Black Cul
tural Center after her and give depart
mental status to the African and Afro
American studies curriculum.
"The community is coming to
gether," Thomas said. Much of the
credit for this unity should be given to
Stone, she said.
"(Their elections to national office will) bring a
greater awareness of Green concepts and ideas to
the Citizens of Chapel Hill."
Joyce Brown, town council member
Greens, said the Orange County Greens
greatly supported her electoral cam
paign and were instrumental in her suc
cessful bid for office.
Brown said that Coleman's,
Belanger's and Odell's new positions
on the national level will help the image
of the community.
"(Their elections to national office
will) bring a greater awareness of Green
concepts and ideas to the citizens of
Chapel Hill," Brown said.
Another reason local Greens were so
successful at the Green Congress was
that UNC students initiated SEAC.
Belanger's and Odell's elections il
lustrated that student activism is an in
tegral part of the Green movement in
general, Coleman said. "Strong, active
student environmentalists are in Chapel
Hill."
A lot of legal work will be required
for the Greens to become an official
national political party, Coleman said.
"In the United States, it is much more
difficult for parties to get ballot status
than it is in Europe," he said.
While it is the goal of Coleman's
committee to form a Green national
party, "electoral work is just one part of
Green strategy," he said.
Ballot status in all 50 states will fa
cilitate the Greens' efforts to elect their
own candidates to local, state and, even
discusses purpose of man, basic tenets of Islamic religion
"He is sender of life and taker of life. He
causes all causes. Nothing can happen
without His knowledge."
Part of doing the will of Allah is
upholding the five pillars of Islam,
Abdullah said.
The first pillar states that there is no
deity worthy of worship except Allah,
he said.
The second pillar requires salat, or
prayer, five times a day. Muslims must
pray at dawn, about noon, dusk, sun
down and night.
The fasting of Ramadan, which takes
place during September, is the third
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recreational facilities. At a recent meet
ing, some task force members suggested
opening basketball courts late at night
to keep young people off the streets.
Turner said the task force's recom
mendations could have a substantial
impact. A significant amount of money
will be needed to carry out the propos
als. Although precise figures have not
been disclosed yet, finances will inevi
tably be a determinant in the viability of
the plans, he said.
Money is available for such programs,
and the town needs to research possible
funding sources. Turner said.
"We should investigate whether it '
Teachers approve pay bonuses,
turn down lead teacher program
By Tiffany Ashhurst
Staff Writer
Teachers in the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools voted down plans last week
for a lead teacher program and elected
to receive a pay bonus.
The lead teacher plan would have
added new programs to the school cur
riculum, while the bonus was a one
time award between $300 and $550.
The vote took place as part of Senate
Bill 2 and the state School Improve
ment and Accountability Act of 1989.
In Chapel Hill, the results were 256
votes for the bonus, 235 for the lead
teacher plan and one abstention, said
Kim Hoke, assistant to Superintendent
Gerry House.
"The bonus was a small amount, but
at least it was something for the teach
ers," Hoke said.
Vanessa Jeter, spokeswoman for the
North Carolina Department of Public
Instruction, said the teachers vote each
yeartodecide how Senate Bill 2 money
should be allocated. This year, Chapel
Hill received $ 1 88,000 for the program.
The vote was unfair in some teach
ers' opinions. Randy Marshall, princi-
tually, national offices.
'To become a party is not the end all,
be all," Coleman said. "It will allow us
to support electoral campaigns of people
that can initiate our goals."
The Green movement is "committed
to an ecological and socially respon
sible society through a process of grass
roots democracy," he said. "We are
giving people in the community the
ability to make political decisions that
their way of life depends on."
Greens encourage activecitizenship,
Coleman said. The government needs
to be on a decentralized scale so that all
people in their day-to-day lives can get
involved, he said. It is important that
Greens members "look to make con
nections between issues and to engage
citizens in the political process,"
Coleman said.
The Green movement's immediate
local goals are to increase participation
in the Orange County group and to
become active in all the environmental
and social issues that have an impact on
society, Coleman said.
Besides Orange County, several hun
dred other branches of the Green move
ment exist throughout the nation. The
Greens originated in Switzerland in the
mid-1970s. At the present time, there
are thousands of elected Greens in Eu
rope. pillar. Muslims cannot eat, drink or
converse with members of the opposite
sex from dawn to sunset during this
period. Ramadan lasts one lunar month.
The fourth pillar is Zakat, which is
the giving of money to the Islamic reli
gion. Muslims are expected to give 2.2
percent of the money they have saved
over the year.
The fifth and final pillar is the Hajj,
or pilgrimage. Muslims should make a
pilgrimage to Mecca when their re
sources and health permit it. Mecca is
the place where the prophet Muhammad
would be possible to secure federal,
state or university grants," he said.
The task force recommendations still
are in the revisionary stages, so it is too
soon to predict the effect they will have,
Turner said.
"Everyone is looking forward to the
final recommendations," Turner said.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro have expe
rienced significant increases of crime
over the past few years, said Jane Cous
ins, police planner for the Chapel Hill
Police Department.
"This increase mirrors the general
statewide trend," she said.
In 1989, 246 cases of aggravated
"It was unfair to ask
teachers to take money
out of their own
pockets."
Randy Marshall
principal
Carrboro Elementary
pal of Carrboro Elementary School, said
teachers were distressed about the out
come. "It was unfair to ask teachers to take
money out of their own pockets," he
said.
Marshall said faculty at his school
had been planning to implement the
lead teacher plan before the vote even
was taken. Carrboro Elementary was
going to have six lead teachers address
needs of students, he said. It was "inap
propriate for teachers to choose, and the
legislature should have made the deci
sions," Marshall said.
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Funniest People" in the Pit Friday afternoon.
founded the religion of Islam.
Muslims also follow principles other
than the fivepillars, Abdullah said. They
have other beliefs "in their hearts" that
are important tenets of Islam, such as
the belief in a life after death, he said.
"Surely we are Allah's, and surely
we are going to return to Him," he said.
Muslims recognize many aspects of
Christianity and Judaism, Abdullah said.
They believe that biblical characters
such as Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus
and Job were prophets of Allah, he said.
But'Muslims do not believe that Jesus
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assault were reported in Chapel Hill.as
opposed to 427 in 1990, Cousins said.
Twenty-eight robberies were reported
in 1989, compared to 35 in 1990.
Crime is a communitywide concern
that cannot be solved solely by the po
lice department or the schools, Cousins
said. But police intervention is crucial
to improving the situation, she said.
"Stationing police in downtown
Chapel Hill on foot and bike is one way
in which they are better able to patrol
the area," Cousins said. "A visible po
lice force is important to deter crime
and give people downtown a sense of
security."
Sarah Stewart, president of the state
Association of Educators, said teachers
were forced to decide whether "they
should use the money for their school
kids or their own kids."
The state already fails togive enough
back to its teachers, she said. Salaries
have not been increased, and health
benefits have been decreasing, Stewart
said.
Stewart said the fact that some teach
ers supported the lead teacher plan in
stead of a bonus showed their dedica
tion to the profession.
"Half the people in the district were
willing to give up the bonus," she said.
At the end of last year, some teachers
had been selected for the lead teacher
plan and were excited about the
program's prospects, Stewart said.
"People wanted to refuse to vote,"
she said.
The results have caused friction
among teachers, and morale is low, she
said. Stewart said she is not willing to
give up on the lead teacher program and
that she currently is trying to find an
other funding source for the program.
'There is some place to go (for fund
ing)," she said.
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was the son of Allah, because no other
being can share a common spirit with
Allah.
Islam's wide appeal ensures its sur
vival, Abdullah said.
"There is no major Islamic power
today, but people are still coming into
Islam, becoming Muslim," he said.
Abdullah said he became interested
in Islam while he was a student at Iowa
State University in 1974. In Islam, he
saw a religion that is not based on race
or nationality. "The only consideration
would be my actions," he said.
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