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GREEK GENEROSITY: Derby Days benefits sick children .....CAMPUS, page 3 SPORTS MONDAY: Volleyball aces pair in weekend action ...........page 10 ON CAMPUS Four-time Nobel Prize nominee Helen Suzman to speak about South Africa and apartheid. 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall. mi rat Serving the students and the University community since 1893 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 97 Monday, October 21, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NrwsSportsAru 962 024? Business Advertising 962-1163 WEATHER TODAY: Partly cloudy; high mid-60s TUESDAY: Cloudy; high near 70 Oi l IP yE I. . - - - " V.-l.- - Renovations will restore Graham Memorial, Police nab rape suspect, sketch of other released By Jennifer Brett Staff Writer CNpel Hill police arrested one man and released a ct'iiposite of a suspect in another case after two incidents of at tempted rape last week. Peter Aaron Walters, 56, of Lot 65, Park and Stay, Chapel Hill, was ar rested in connection with a report of sexual assault at University Gardens apartments Wednesday, Chapel Hill police planner Jane Cousins said. The police warrant charged Walters with second-degree rape. The victim reported that Walters as saulted her after she allowed him to enter her apartment shortly after 9 p.m., Cousins said. The woman, who had a visible bruise on her face, told police she escaped from Walters and then fled to a neighboring apartment to call 9 1 1 . Walters was an acquaintance of the woman. Cousins said. Condos get manager's O SEAC plans march By Kelly Ryan StoffWritcr Chapel Hill Town Manager Cal Horton has recommended the town council approve a special-use permit for construction of the 98-unit Univer sity Place condominiums, despite op position from neighbors. The council will hold a public hear ing on the issue tonight at 7:30 at Town Hall. Hearings in the past have focused on problems and leakage from an Or ange Water and Sewer Authority inter ceptor that would serve the complex and the impact of increased traffic in surrounding neighborhoods. Representatives from the Student Environmental Action Coalition will meet at the Campus Y at 6:30 p.m. to march on Town Hall in opposition to the development. Estelle Mabry, president of the Chapel Hill Alliance of Neighborhoods, predicted there will be a lot of angry Heyd's platform promises were few, but staff striving for his goals Editor's note: This is part one of a Jive-part series analyzing the progress student-elected officials have made on their campaign promises. By Jennifer Dunlap Staff Writer - ." When Matt Heyd ran for student body president last year, he said he did not like campaign platforms. But he and staff members are working to fulfill the few promises he did make. - "The goal is to have everything we promised to do done by the end of the semester," said Heyd, who is almost at the midpoint of his term. He said he is confident that goal will be reached. While campaigning last year, Heyd said he wanted to rebuild the campus community. "I'm trying to undo the sort of white-male, undergraduate, liberal arts major bias that we've traditionally held." The need for more diversity and state budget cuts are two problems he has Nothing makes a little knowledge as dangerous as examination time. Pholo courtesy of North Carolina Collection the former Union, to its original grandeur Police also re leased a compos ite of a man sus pected in the at tempted rape of a University stu dent in her Church Street apartment Wednesday. The suspect is described as be ing a black man Police composite in his late 30s with a medium build. He reportedly is about 5 feet 8 inches tall. A witness described the suspect as look ing "like Judge Clarence Thomas with out the mustache," according toapolice report. The victim told police that the sus pect had a knife and threatened to as sault her. After a struggle, the man agreed to leave the woman alone if she would in protest of University Place complex citizens at tonight's public hearing, as it relates to a major investment that would affect green space of the neighborhood. "We have two pictures of (the developer's) little projects," she said. "They're not a pretty sight. They're not taken care of." Mabry said that Robert Bradley, the Virginia-based developer, has made no plans for maintaining the facility after it is built. About 400 people, mostly UNC students, are expected to live in the apartments and can't be expected to maintain the complex without assis tance, she said. The permit would allow for the con struction of seven buildings, each 3 12 stories high. It would include 298 park ing spaces for the residents. Horton placed conditions on his rec ommendation, lowering the number of parking spaces allowed per unit from four to three. He also limited the num ber of unrelated occupants who could live in each unit to four. gi Second look: Matt Heyd's SBP Platform used to try to draw the University com munity together. For example, the Sonja Stone Task Force has united the goals of several different campus groups, Heyd said. Meridith Rentz, student body vice president, said several of Heyd's staff members are on the task force. The group also includes members of the Black Student Movement, student gov ernment. Students forthe Advancement of Race Relations and the Campus Y. The task force is asking the Univer sity and the Board of Trustees to rename the Black Cultural Center for Stone, to create an endowed chair position for her and to give the curriculum in African Center shoiildl be By Steve Politl University Editor Sharing is a concept usually learned in kindergarten, but one that organizers of the Center for Undergraduate Excel lence plan to reinforce in college. Student groups should share space in Graham Memorial to make the center more accessible to everyone, members of the center's planning advisory com mittee said Friday. 'The committee believes the goals of the Center will be best realized ... if most of the space in the building is so designed and configurated that it can be used by multiple groups for multiple purposes," states the committee's re- give him somemoney. Cousins said. He left the scene after taking a sweater and the woman's wallet, which contained a small amount of cash and some pieces of identification. Cousins said that because situations in which sexual assaults occur vary greatly, extreme caution should be ex ercised at all times. "Don't trust anyone, even people you think are your friends," Cousins said. "Maintaining personal security and us ing good judgment are essential in pre venting assault." Cousins said victims should follow these steps afteran assault has occurred: Call someone a friend, a room mateoracounselorattheOrangeCounty Rape Crisis Center (967-RAPE). Go to the hospital or the Student Health Service before taking a shower to receive a thorough medical exam and post-trauma treatment. Call the police and file a report. Residents of the Clark Road area oppose the construction for several rea sons, including the possible impact of increased traffic on roadways that are already crowded. "(Clark Road) is basically an asphalt path," Mabry said. "You cannot park on the street. Two cars, if they are large, can't pass each other." The Alliance would like to see the large greenway preserved for future generations and will oppose the devel opment because it contradicts one of the organization's primary goals. "The Alliance's biggest goal is pro tection from development," Mabry said. "This is the largest greenspace in town." Lightning Brown, a Clark Road resi dent, said he is concerned with the ad equacy of the Bolin Creek sewer line which would serve the site. The line is the responsibility of OWASA. Residents haveclaimed that the sewer See CONDOS, page 3 and Afro-American studies departmen tal status. Rentz, a member of the Committee on Diversity in the Curriculum, said that committee was developing a pro posal for a multicultural curriculum to be integrated into the General College. Heyd will become involved in the drive for a multicultural curriculum when the proposal is unveiled at a pub lic forum Oct. 30, she said. Heyd said he also wants graduate students to be involved in rebuilding the community. He and Eric Levinson, president of the Student Bar Associa tion, have discussed starting a group comprised of graduate student associa tion presidents, the Graduate and Pro fessional Student Federation president and Heyd. Levinson said the group's purpose would be to promote discussions be tween different graduate departments and undergraduates. "We've had no contact, really, before this." K port to Stephen Birdsall, interim dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Administrators plan tocreate the cen terinGraham Memorial when the drama department moves to the Paul Green Theatre. Birdsall said he met with committee members to discuss the proposal when it was in draft form but hadn't looked at the final report closely. He said he hoped to have a response for committee mem bers in one or two weeks. Robert Allen, associate dean of the General College andacommittee mem ber, said the committee didn't want to designate all space in the building for specific uses. "If you control your own space, you ' Burning artistic passion Mark Williford of Raleigh melts glass to add of his sculpture Saturday at a crafts show in Heyd said he also has attended meet ings of campus organizations, such as the BSM and Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association, to show his support. Joseph Smith, CGLA co-chairman, said he was pleased Heyd attended his group's meeting. "It wasn't like he just showed up and said, 'Hi.' He was there for the meeting." Heyd's support is helping alleviate tension that arose earlier this year when Student Congress Speaker Tim Moore proposed denying the CGLA funds, Smith said. "I think Matt and Meridith are doing a great job with respect to my organization." Felts Lewis, a Heyd appointee to the Arts and Sciences Committee on Com munity and Diversity, said although he realized the president is working to improve race relations, racial tension still pervades the campus. "I'm not confident to say that the racial climate has improved on campus because I don't see, on a common basis, 4 can make things happen," Allen said. "We tried to anticipate the kinds of ways intellectual growth could be fos tered at the University." Committee memberscall forthe reno vation of Graham Memorial's lounge and the creation of a "living room," or a place where students can sit comfort ably and "develop the fine art of intelli gent conversation," the report states. A multipurpose meeting room, three seminar rooms, three large classrooms, conference rooms, a reading and re source center, and a kitchen also should be included in the building, the report states. The center would house the University's Honors Program, but the v II f i$L If j $ T7': 1, to - I droplets to the base Williford, who learned glass sculpturing in Oklahoma, was South Square Mall. his company, M&M Designs, at the show. black students and white students com ing together to enjoy each other's cul tures, whether it be socially or educa tionally," Lewis said. Heyd also is trying to rebuild the community by uniting students against state budget cuts. He said he was pleased with the uni fied appeal students made to state legis lators in the spring. Legislators avoided further cuts in the areas protested most by students, Heyd said. "They came back in July again, and there was another round of cuts, and they did not impact the University in the same way, I think in part, because stu dents sort of gave them an avalanche of mail," Heyd said. Legislators are not in session now and will reconvene after Heyd leaves offi :e. But his staff members are work ing on other ways to address the budget issue, he said. "It's a different focus because no one's real ly there right now." Rentz said student government mem harec program would only take up about 2,500 square feet of the center's 1 6,000 square feet, Allen said. "It gives us considerably more room than we have now," said Allen, who also is the chairman of the Honors Pro gram. "We serve 1,000 students in a room that is less in square footage than a restroom in the Dean Dome. We mea sured it." The committee recommended giv ing the N.C. Fellows and the Leader ship Development Program space in the center. Thecenteralso should have space reserved for faculty members to work in the center with students. See REPORT, page 5 DTHFlorian Hanig with bers were compiling fact sheets with information about state legislators' backgrounds and education voting records. The information will be ready for students to pick up in November. Heyd said another way in which he was trying to improve the community was making himself accessible to stu dents. The executive branch holds a weekly Pit forum, and, "I'm going to start going to dorm government meet ings as well," he said. Andy Johnston, Graham Residence Hall representative, said he didn't think Heyd had accomplished this goal. "He hasn't made himself accessible the way I thought he would." B ut Johnston also said he didn 't th ink Heyd had to respond to any crisis so far which would have made him more vis ible. "Nothing's really been publicized yet that he's had to deal with." Rashmi Airan, co-coordinator of stu- See SBP, page 2 Anonymous
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