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OMNIBUS: Ian Williams defends bur cultural generation SPECIAL INSERT JEWISH HOLIDAYS: Students observe holiest days FEATURES, page 5 ON CAMPUS Panel discussion about women's issues in the humanities and sciences at 7 p.m. in Hanes Art Center Auditorium. tsr Serving the students and the University community since 1893 C 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 72 Thursday, September 12, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewSporuAru 962-024) Bulncs Advertising 962-1163 WfATHER TODAY: Fair; high in low 80s FRIDAY: Cloudy; high in low 80s Till TTK0 Uiscirmmation charged m By Jennifer Brett Staff Writer The owner of a popular Franklin Street nightclub says his lease will not be renewed because the building's owner disapproves of his clientele, which includes many homosexuals and blacks. Al Collier, owner of The Club, said he would not be granted a new lease in January because James Chris, the owner of the building, disapproved of the num ber of homosexual and black patrons who frequent the nightclub. The Club, formerly Club Zen, is located above Four Corners restaurant on West Franklin Street. Chris, meanwhile, denied the accu sations and said he made the decision .not to renew the lease for business rea sons. . Collier said Chris had approached him several times over the past year I- """ " I Ksg'J J l ( I l ' ' IS ' . . "l'le..-:.' -.- t Jj y-in-tiiini)L).;Ltrj;.tit "SW,, , " " ir,'...., .v 1 ...y.iA Helmet law in action Anne Shackelford, a Chapel Hill resident, helps her daughter Kelly quench her thirst at the Old Well Wednesday morning. Residents By Amber Nimocks Staff Writer - South Loop road may have been de feated by the Chapel Hill Town Council Tuesday night, but residents in the areas adjacent to Mason Farm Road said they still are concerned about the future of their neighborhood. "I'm pleased with the council's deci sion," said mayoral candidate Ken Broun, who is a resident of Whitehead Circle near Mason Farm Road. "But I think (residents) need to sit down with the town and find out what the Univer sity is going to do.... We can do better in communicating about different prob lems." A lady with accusations that The Club was a gay bar, but Chris rarely visited to see for himself. "Jim's come up here repeatedly, ask ing what kind of bar I'm running, and that he'd heard it was a gay bar," Collier said. "I've told him again and again, it's just a bar. I've invited him to come up many times, but it seems he's just look ing to argue." Collier claimed Chris said he didn't want homosexual patrons to make up the majority of The Club's business. On one occasion, Chris approached Collier with the allegation that too many blacks were frequenting The Club on Wednesday nights. Collier said. The Club used to hold "hip-hop" night on Wednesdays, he said. "He came up here, again asking me what kind of place we were running, and again I told him, 'It's just a bar,'" Collier said. "He said he'd noticed it was getting 'ratherdark' up here, mean concerned Broun said he thought the town and the University should address the issue of traffic patterns and the prospects of keeping the Mason Farm neighborhood and Odum Village intact. Odum Vil lage is UNC's student family housing. Universityplanners want South Loop, which would realign Manning Drive further away from UNC Hospitals, built to handle increased traffic and to pro vide better access to the medical com plex on South Campus. Controversy has surrounded the road because it would destroy half of Odum Village. The council voted 5-3 Tuesday night not to include the controversial road on the town's thoroughfare plan. Includ is one who never shows her underwear intentionally. Lillian Day ing there were too many black people." Chris said Collier's accusations were unfounded. "Whatever clientele he has is no matter to me," Chris said. "I don't care." Collier said he wrote a letter to Chris in mid-August requesting that The Club be allowed to expand into the space soon to be vacated by Hairlines. Before Collier received a response, club em ployee Brett Long was informed by Jim Weldon, the owner of Four Corners, that The Club's lease would not be renewed in January, Collier said. 'There was some sort of dispute over parking between Brett and Jim," Collier said. "The quarrel ended with Jim say ing he was glad he wouldn't have to be bothered with us much longer that we weren't going to be here next year. So obviously Four Comers knew about this before we did." Weldon refused to comment on the matter. DTHKelly Franklin Shackleford took her daughter and son, David, out for a bicycle ride around the campus. about planning despite South Loop defeat ing the road on the thoroughfare plan would have enabled the University to fund its construction with Department of Transportation money. Council member Roosevelt Wilkerson reversed his earlier position in favor of the road's inclusion and voted Tuesday to defeat the resolution. Wilkerson said he changed his mind after considering the lack of communi cation between the town and the Uni versity. After the new council is elected in November, it will need to address the communication problems in the com munity, he said. Richard Wolfenden, a resident of Mason Farm Road, said he would like to see the University and the town get Chris said Wednesday he decided not to renew the lease solely for busi ness reasons. "It's a business decision," he said. "It's personal between Al and me. Mr. Collier knows why, and it has nothing to do with his clientele." Chris declined to provide specific information about his decision. "I'm not here to tell you why I'm not going to renew the lease," he said. "I've been a businessman here for over 20 years. For somebody to come along and slander my name as an upstanding citizen, that's just not right." But Collier said he could not think of another reason why Chris would refuse to renew the lease. "I don't know what else it could possibly be,"Colliersaid. "Whenlasked why, Mr. Chris only replied that he needed to talk to his attorney. He does not like the clientele." Collier said Club patrons did not disturb activities on Franklin Street. Tuition budget By Ashley Fogle Assistant University Editor Revenue generated from tuition in creases will not completely offset money lost by the University because of budget cuts, administrators said Wednesday. Ken Grogan, UNC system associate vice president for finance, said the in crease will provide $6.3 million for academic affairs and $1.4 million for health affairs at UNC-CH. The increase, passed this summer by the N.C. General Assembly, raised tu ition by 20 percent for in-state students and 25 percent for out-of-state students. Wayne Jones, UNC-CH associate vice chancellor for finance, said the University's appropriations from the General Assembly were $20 million less this year than they were last year. These cuts were greater than the money raised by the tuition increase, he said. "The University benefited from the tuition increase on the assumption that the cuts would have been greater with out it," Jones said. Grogan said the combination of bud- Phoenix available By Marty Minchin Staff Writer Students soon will be able to use The Phoenix Student Newsweekly staff's laser printer for half the price charged per page by Kinko's and Copytron. The executive branch of student gov ernment and the Phoenix staff worked together to provide the service, said Josh Siegel, executive branch treasurer. Students will be able to use the laser printer at the Phoenix office in the Stu dent Union beginning Sept. 20. The service will be available from 8 a.m. to noon Friday mornings for 50 cents per page. The last day to use the Phoenix's printer will be Dec. 6. "At the student government retreat. together and minimize development in the area. Ben Tuchi, UNC vice chancellor for business and finance, said Wednesday he could not predict how the University would proceed with funding the project until after the next meeting of the Facili ties Planning Committee. The meeting has not yet been scheduled, he said. "We have not taken it to a discussion with the staff," Tuchi said. "It's impact would be so far in the future. We are disappointed because we are not going to be able to approach (campus devel opment) in a way we wanted." University officials said in the past they would seek capital funding for South Loop if the council did not rec hiw mmmte Violence is rare, and The Club sells less alcohol than most Chapel Hill bars be cause people come to dance, not to drink, he said. "We stay open until 3 (a.m.), whereas other places close at two," he said. "Oc casionally, we'll get people coming in who have been drinking, and some times violence results. But they didn't get drunk here. We're a safe place." Chapel Hill police planner Jane Cous ins said The Club had caused no more problems than other Franklin Street es tablishments. "We do get called to The Club on occasion, but no more frequently than to other places," Cousins said. "We have had to go down after reports of drunken violence were called in, but no more often than any other bar in Chapel Hill." Collier said since The Club's open ing one and one-half years ago, em ployees have received repeated harass hike fails to lift crisis off UNC Ben Tuchi get cuts and tuition increases made it difficult to tell how much UNC-CH would gain. "We're in a situation where we went laser printer will be to students for fee one problem we saw facing the student body was the lack of free laser printing on campus," Siegel said. "The execu tive branch thought it would be a good idea to do something about it." The campus microcomputing labs aren't offering free laser printing to students and staff this year because of the high cost of maintenance and sup plies for the printers. Students must bring in their finished work on a disk because Phoenix com puters will not be available for use, Siegel said. Christy Cochran, executive branch chief of staff, said, "We tried to find a printeron campus where wecould work out a deal and the Phoenix people were glad to help out." ommend it for DOT funding. Odum Village resident Steve Wallace, who led community opposi tion to the road, said he did not think UNC would give up on South Loop. "Now it will go into the legislative arena," Wallace said. "UNC will now be competing with other campuses for the capital money.... It would be very difficult for them to obtain that money." After elections in November, coun cil rules state that the new council could take up the South Loop issue again when the thoroughfare plan is discussed. Mayoral candidate Rosemary Waldorf said she made it clear in July she would not support putting South Loop on the town's thoroughfare plan ment from Four Corners employees. Four Corners bouncers often are sent up to assess the ratio of men to women and then to report back to Chris, Collier said. Traditionally, Thursday nights draw a more diverse crowd to The Club, Collier said. "On Thursday nights, which I like to call liberal night. Four Corners has their guys come up here and check out the crowd," Collier said. "They're saying there's nothing but a bunch of faggots up here, and that we should be shut down." Four Corners Manager Craig Reed denied there had ever been friction be tween the two businesses. Chapel Hill Town Council member Joe Herzenberg, the first openly gay elected official in North Carolina, called the issue "an abomination." See CLUB, page 5 through the budget hearings and had some budget reductions," he said. "And then there were tuition increases and enrollment changes. "It's a combination of pluses and minuses, but obviously we're not as well off as we would have been if we were not in a period of economic down turn." Ben Tuchi, UNC-CH vice chancel lor for business and finance, said the University would gain from the increase. "We benefit from the tuition increase because of the increase in the amount of financial aid and new money for exist ing programs," he said. "The net effect is that if we didn't have tuition in creases, our decline in funding would have been greater." The legislature will dictate how some of the revenue must be spent, Tuchi said. "The legislature, in mandating re ductions, mandated cuts in several dozen areas, and they were quite specific," he said. 'That injects a new uncertainty. See TUITION, page 5 The executive branch will pay for the paper, toner and wages of a lab assistant from their discretionary fund, she said. The lab assistant will monitor use of the laser printer in the Phoenix office. Siegel said the 50 cents will offset some of the costs, but the executive branch will lose money on the project. Kinko's charges 90 cents per copy for the first 1 0 copies, 50 cents per print for 1 1 to 25 copies and 25 cents perprint for every additional copy. Copytron charges $1 per page for the first 25 copies and 25 cents for each additional copy. Cochran said the printer will only be open to students four hours each week See PRINTING, page 5 unless the University agreed to support the town's road funding priorities. "I don't want South Loop to eclipse the town's more important priorities," Waldorf said. "I'm glad it was defeated because the University didn't seem in terested in working with the town. If the University obtains capital money, there would be no way the town could ob struct the construction of South Loop." Waldorf said the town and the Uni versity should cooperate more on de velopment issues. She also said the University should initiate the next at tempt at communication. Tommy Gardner, another candidate for mayor, declined to comment on the issue.
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