Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / Oct. 22, 1991, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
WEATHER TODAY: Partly cloudy; high 70-75 WEDNESDAY: Sunny; high mid-60s GO AWAY: Study Abroad Fair opens cultural doors ..FEATURES, page 2 PICKING CANDIDATES: Orange County Greens endorses CITY, page 3 ON CAMPUS "JUST DO IT: Maximizing Your Career Openings" seminar on internships and the job search at 3:30 p.m. in 209 Hanes. Wm law tor mm C 1 991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 99, Issue 98 Tuesday, October 22, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcmSporUAm 962-024? Buainesi Advertising 962-1163 life) Pf0Dft 'Canned hunts' footage spurs library employee to activism By Yl-Hsln Chang Staff Writer The magnificent black cat crouched low and paced back and forth, his eyes glaring suspiciously at the men standing around him. He hissed, showing his long, sharp fangs, hoping to wara ott his enemies. This seemingly exotic "hunt" did not take place in the wilds of Africa. It happened in a cage a few states away, right intne neartot lexas. When the leopard was released from the cage, he was attacked and mauled to death by a pack of dogs. Then the nunter shot him, claiming the cat as his trophv. . Hunts of this type, where animals are shot after they are let out of a cage and sometimes while still in it, are called canned hunts. They are illegal only if the animal is endangered and have become a thriving business in many states across the nation. The hunts first came to national attention on the "CBS Evening News" on July 2. While watching the news, Eve Burgess, library carrel supervisor at Davis Library, unsuspectingly witnessed the airing of a home video of the leopard hunt. She remembered her reaction: "I cried immediately. I was very hurt, very disappointed ... I felt as if I witnessed a murder . . . When I saw this leopard in the cage, when he came out from the cage, he was cowering. His eyes looked terri fied." Burgess left the room in the middle of the segment. "I refused to watch the man shoot the leopard because he was already dead," she said. Disturbed by what she had seen, Burgess began consulting family and friends on what action she could take. She wrote a letter to CBS expressing her outrage over the canned hunts. On Sept. 6, NBC's "Expose"" aired a documentary on the hunts. "I thought maybe I can have courage to watch this, but I couldn't. ... I only saw the first part of it and made my decision. I thought action must be taken," Burgess said. Though she had never before actively protested, Burgess decided to generate petitions against the canned hunts and take them in person to Governor Ann Richards of Texas. When she called Richards' office to make an appointment, however, she was told she could not get one before January. Burgess is trying to schedule an earlier appointment. "I'm going to take a definite step by going down there, and the longer she makes me wait for the appointment the more signatures I will get, the more backing I will get," Burgess said. When Burgess informed a close friend. Will Stott, a teaching assistant and graduate student in the English depart ment, about the canned hunts, he also decided to become involved. "This is a glaring example of the mistreatment of animals. ... When problems like this come to our attention, we have a responsibility to act on this quickly by starting petitions," Stott said. Stott made copies of the petition and took them to his two English classes. He read his students a narrative Burgess had written explaining the purpose of the petition and allowed See HUNTS, page 5 Group to petition for Stone proposal By Heather Harreld Staff Writer Members of the Sonja Stone Task Force plan to make their presence known at the UNC Board of Trustees meeting Friday. Task force members will attend the meeting to show their support for renaming the Black Cultural Center for Stone, said Toija Riggins, Black Student Movement Minister of Information. "We want to gather and let them know we are in favor of the renaming of the BCC," Riggins said. Stone, an African and Afro-American studies professor, died Aug. 10 after suffering a stroke. Chancellor Paul Hardin will present a proposal to BOT members to rename the center the Dr. Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center. Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for student affairs, said it was not unusual to have large numbers of students attend BOT meetings. "We've had a number of occasions where students have appeared to support an issue," he said. Students will not need to speak at the meeting because University officials are in favor of the proposal, Boulton said. "I supported the letter to me from the task force, and I turned it overto Chancellor Hardin who in turn supported it," he said. Student Body President Matt Heyd said the students would show board members how important the renaming of the center was by attending the meeting. "The presence of the students will be very helpful," he said. Heyd is a member of the task force and an ex-officio BOT member. The proposal should be approved without any problems, he said. "Chancellor Hardin and Dean Boulton have both gone out on a limb to support this proposal," Heyd said. Black Student Movement members have been recruiting people from Greek organizations and other groups to attend the meeting Friday. Heyd said response to the BSM's request for students to attend the meeting had been positive. "Many organizations are working together," he said. John Pope, a BOT member, said he did not like the idea of students attending the meeting. "It will not have a positive effect on the board meeting," he said. The group should choose one spokesman to present its argument and then tell board members what it wants in an orderly manner, Pope said. "I don't believe that mass protest at a board meeting is appropriate," he said. Task force members took a letter to Boulton Sept. 3 outlining their demands of renaming the BCC, establishing an endowed chair in Stone's name and giving the African American curriculum departmental status. Members of the task force will gather at the bus stop across from the Carolina Inn at 9:30 a.m. Friday. The BOT meeting is at 10:30 a.m. at the Inn. iiiiiihmmhii'" -.w Mir m?m I ill 1 I --r -Tr"--- llTTi'iTfrwHf i ...-.aS : Lumbering help DTHCrant Halverson Chapel Hill police officer Jimmy Tapp helps Andrew Myers of Blake's Landscape and Garden clean up a load of 1 -by-6-inch planks that fell out of Myers' pickup truck Monday afternoon. Myers was on his way to a job when Ihe boards slid out onto N.C. Hwy. 54 East near U.S. 1 5-501 . Committee may choose DTH editor Board of directors considers change By Birch DeVault Staff Writer A 13-member committee would se lect The Daily Tar Heel editor if a proposal being discussed by the newspaper's board of directors passed in a campus referendum. The student body now selects the editor. The proposal, compiled by a sub committee of the board of directors, states that "selection power should be contained within a group understand ing the needs of the paper and of stu dents who read it." Choosing the editor through campus elections makes the editor a politician and prevents the paper "from operating as a truly free press," the proposal states. The selection board's 13 members would include people appointed by the student body president and the presi dent of the Graduate and Professional Students Federation, as well as a DTH staff member chosen by the staff and a DTH editor chosen by the editorial board. Seven positions on the selection board would be filled by a campus-wide ap- See EDITOR, page 7 Residents say condoinuiiums would harm forest, increase traffic By Dana Pope Staff Writer Residents carrying signs and wear ing buttons filled the Chapel Hill Town Council chambers at a Monday night public hearing to oppose the proposed 98-unit University Place condomini ums. Speakers against the development, which would be adjacent to the Northside neighborhood, said there would be parking and traffic problems and the complex could be damaging to the environment. Northside is bordered by North Columbia Street to the east and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro line on the west. It is one of the town's largest and oldest neighborhoods. Robert Bradley, a Virginia-based developer, applied to the town for a special-use permit to build University Place, which would include seven build ings on a 14-acre tract on Clark Road. Bradley and other developers have proposed building 300 parking spaces for the complex, although 400 people would live there. They said one bus pass would be assigned to each unit to dis courage automobile use. Chapel Hill Town Council candidate Robert Joesting, who has lived in the Northside area for more than 17 years, said allotting parking spaces for each bedroom in the complex would not guar antee adequate parking. "Adding 400 bedrooms does not mean only 400 people will live there," he said. "Realistically, 500 to 700people will live there, most of whom will have cars." Clifton Brock, a resident of Dover Street, said parking would overflow into the Northside neighborhood from the proposed complex. "Where you find students, you find cars that multiply," he said. R.D. Smith, a Caldwell Street resi dent, said traffic increases could endan ger residents living in two retirement homes in the area. "The majority of automobiles will come through the neighborhood in which I live," he said. Northside resident Thomas Gunn said he counted traffic for a 12-hour period at the corner of the University Gardens apartments and North Columbia Street to see if figures in a Kimley-Horn study were accurate. Bradley hired the Kimley-Horn con sulting firm to study existing traffic congestion in the area. The report stated that 90 percent of the traffic from University Place would use the Airport Road route to campus, but Gunn said his findings show there would be about a 50-50 split between Airport Road and the western segment of North Columbia Street. Representatives from the Student Environmental Action Coalition con tributed to the hearing by making signs, marching before the hearing and voic ing their opinions on threats the devel opment could pose to the environment. SEAC member Jessica Greene said the project damaged "every aspect of the environment." Ruby Sinreich, also a representative of SEAC, said damage to the environ ment was inevitable if the complex was built and attention needed to be placed on the topography changes that would be involved. "You're going to destroy trees, no matter what the number," she said. Bradley said one of the criteria in choosing the University Place location was the fact that student housing al ready existed around it. "The area must already be an obvi ous student housing area," he said. Sue Goodman, a member of the Uni versity faculty and a Northside resident. said the lack of student housing was not a problem that needed to be dealt with by building a new apartment complex. 'The dorms are already complaining about the number of vacancies and (apartment) complexes are competing for students," she said. Goodman said that the Northside area already provides some moderately priced, single-family housing and that the town needs more. Estelle Mabry, president of the Chapel Hill Alliance of Neighborhoods and a Pritchard Avenue resident, said the University Place complex was "de cidedly unwanted" in the Northside area. The town council is expected to take action on the proposed development at its Nov. 13 meeting. Many seniors notice little of officers' efforts to fulfill campaign promises Editor's note: This is the second ar ticle in a five-part series analyzing the progress student-elect officials have made on their campaign promises. By Soyia Ellison Staff Writer Seven months after campus elections, many seniors remember their class of ficers' campaign cows, but few remem ber their promises. Senior Class President Mike Ferguson and Vice President Jay Dunn, who featured cows on their campaign posters, are working to fulfill their cam paign promises. But the average senior hasn't noticed the officers' work. 3 Second look: FergusonDunn's Sr. Class Platform Heather Long, a senior from Hickory, said, "I know that they had some spe cific ideas, and I haven't really seen any of that. But I'm not really into the Uni versity scene, so I haven't seen much." Beth Stevens, a senior from Smithfield, agreed with Long. "I haven 't seen anything except senior night out and senior newsletter, but I'm not up on campus that much so I really don't know what's going on," she said. Many seniors echoed these students' apathy. Very few remembered any of the campaign promises, and many stu dents said it wasn't important to them if Ferguson and Dunn fulfilled their prom ises. But Laurel Falls, a senior class mar shal from Morehead City, said the of ficers were putting in a lot of effort. "I think they're doing a really great job," she said. "They're both working really hard." In theirplatform, Ferguson and Dunn promised to create a senior volunteer network and a guide to the job search See SENIOR CLASS, page 5 Bounced check charges against Heyd dropped By Jennifer Talhelm Staff Writer Charges against Student Body President Matt Heyd for writing a worthless $ 1 04 check to Southern Bell of Greensboro have been dismissed. "As far as Southern Bell is con cerned, (the charges) have been dropped," Heyd said. "They really should not have been brought in the first place." Heyd said he received a notice tell ing him the check he wrote to the company in May had bounced. He then paid the bill in installments dur ing July and August. Chapel Hill police officers deliv ered a criminal summons to Heyd Sept. 30 stating he hadn't paid his telephone bill. But all the checks had cleared his account two weeks before he received the summons, Heyd said. South ern Bell commis sioned the sum mons Sept. 20, 10 days before the court issued it. , "If the last check was dated before Sept. 20, they said the charges would automatically be lifted," Heyd said. His last check was written before that date. Arthur Summey, Chapel Hill magis trate, said companies are required by law to send a certified letter asking for payment before requesting a police warrant. The letter is sent to the address printed on the bounced check, he said. Heyd said his address changed over Matt Heyd the summer. "(Southern Bell) sent the letter to the Chapel Hill post office and they said they couldn't find me. (But) they should have had me in their records, seeing as I had paid them from that address." Heyd said Southern Bell could not have defended its position in court even if his account had not cleared. "Southern Bell would have had to, one, swear they had made a good faith effort to let me know they were pro ceeding with the prosecution; and two, teil me they didn't have the money." The company couldn't support the arguments because he never received the letter and because his last check was dated before Sept. 20, Heyd said. "This whole thing has been a rather large mistake on Southern Bel I's part," he said. Southern Bell officials said they could not comment on accounts. But I always thought that I'd see you again. James Taylor
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Oct. 22, 1991, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75