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LEARNING TO READ: Student tutor helps spread literacy CITY, page 3 WE WANT YOU: Men's basketball aims for top recruits SPORTS,page 5 ON CAMPUS Oktoberfest, sponsored by Cerman Honor Society, 9 p.m. until midnight at Chapel Hill Community Church. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 101 Friday, October 25, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcmSportaArU 9620245 Business Advertising 962-1163 WEATHER TODAY: Partly cloudy; high mid-70s SATURDAY: Cloudy; high around 80 Iferf .ffflA revises By A. John Ford Staff Writer A revised plan to increase racial di versity in residence halls received the go-ahead from Housing Advisory Board members Thursday. . . The plan now has a four-year time restriction on its use and eliminates participation by incoming freshmen. Scott Peeler, Residence Hall Asso ciation co-president, said freshmen par ticipation was eliminated from the pro posal because these students already face a difficult transition coming to college. Loud noises end at plant; report calls for change Neighbors still unhappy with power plant By Julie Flick Staff Writer : Neighbors of the University power plant said at a Thursday night meet ing with UNC off icials that they were dissatisfied with the officials re sponses to complaints about noise, lighting and pollution from the plant. Members of the Power Plant Neighbors, a group formed to point out the plant's effects on neighbor hoods, also complained about a lack of communication between them' selves and University officials. '. "There has been a tremendous credibility gap," said Wes Lawton, a realtor who lives in a house beside the plant. "We were basically asking that the power plant be ... as de scribed in the earlier discussion, which was a state-of-the art plant, built a little quieter and cleaner than before. That's basically where we're coming from. : Lawton said the University has not fulfilled the commitments set forth at prior meetings with the area residents. "There's frankly been a deteriora tion of the issues," Lawton said. There area lot of things (UNC) had promised to do that have not been done. There was the statement that the plant, during these tests, was go ing to be putting out 75 decibels about the amount of noise on the corner of Franklin and Columbia streets. It was double that." Residents were worried particu larly about the noise from present testing, which is carried out 24 hours a day. The plant still is in its construc tion phase, which is the cause of many of the problems. Lawton said he called the plant s control room Wednesday evening to inquire when the testing would be over. "I was told it would last another 1 5 or 20 minutes, and yet at 1 1 or 12, they were still blasting away," Lawton said. PPN members discussed the noise, which they said woke them up at 6 a.m. Sunday. The testing of the turbo generator requires that both boilers be on full blast and produces 28,000 kilowatts. Tom Grisham, UNC special projects director, said the quick shut down of steam to meet the 9 p.m. deadline was the cause of last Friday ' s 145-decibel violation. Theconstruction workers pushed it right up until 8 :55 and rushed out to close the valves," Grisham said. There was a lot of steam trapped which set off all of the relief valves. We're doing everything we can to See PPN, page 7 "African Americans who are choos ing to live in North Campus right now are taking a risk because they don't feel as if it's a community," he said. "We didn't want freshmen to make an uninformed choice. We wanted to give them a chance to get here and then decide." Christy Pons, RHA co-president, said if the plan is approved by the housing department, it would be implemented in the spring when fall room assignments begin. The plan would be used only until spring 1995. "If it doesn't work in four years, it's probably not going to work," she said. By Amber Nlmocks Assistant City Editor The loudest of the UNC power plant's tests may be over, but a town report issued Thursday requested that the Uni versity continue to address environmen tal and special-use permit violations at the plant. Testing on a turbine generator, which caused noise levels as high as 145 deci bels last week, was completed Wednes day, said Tom Grisham, special projects director. Plant officials were conducting the tests to determine if the generator would create the amount of energy the manu facturer had promised, he said. Oliver Orr, who lives on West Cameron Avenue, said noise caused by the weekend tests prevented conversa tion and caused his house to shake. Martin O'Brien, University special projects ombudsman, visited Orr's house to observe the vibrations. Orr said O'Brien assured him that the shak ing would cease after testing was com pleted Wednesday night. "We've gotten full cooperation in terms of the problems we were most concerned about since the Power Plant Neighbors was organized," Orr said. The Power Plant Neighbors is a group of residents who live near the plant and who organized to draw the University's and the town's attentions to their con cerns. Chapel Hill Town Manager Cal Horton released Thursday the first in a series of reports which will inform the town council about problems between the University powerplant and itsneigh bors. "We need to convey the seriousness of our concerns," Horton said. "We don't have any miracle cures. I wish we did. But we would enjoy the opportu nity to work with (power plant offi cials)." The town council will discuss Mon day night a resolution requesting coop eration between University and town officials on the issue. Noise, particle matter, night lighting, violations of environmental regulations and compliance with the town's special-use perm it requirements are named in the report as the highest-priority is sues. The report suggests that University officials meet regularly with represen tatives from the town and with resi dents. "Representatives of the town man ager.eitherplanningorengineeringstaff members, should meet with University officials to find out what's going on," Horton said. "(Staff members) should receive advice from the University offi cials, and we should give them our best advice." Staff members then should compile reports to keep the council members informed, he said. Horton said he expected that the University would be cooperative. 'The key concern is that they act on each concern of the residents," he said. Grisham said the University was go ing to work with the town and the resi dents. See REPORT, page 7 plan for dorm mtegratiom The RHA proposal specifies that a target number of 1 5 spaces be reserved for black students in nine North Cam pus residence halls. These residence halls are Manly, Grimes, Ruffin, Lewis, Stacy, Mclver, Kenan, Winston and Alexander. These dormitories were selected be cause they "stand out as particularly lacking in racial diversity," the pro posal states. Wayne Kuncl, director of university housing, said the 15 spaces reserved for black students under the plan usually were saved for freshmen. But freshmen will not lose spaces . Really, it's for my mother Dolly Blunt, a graduate student in library science from State College, Pa., tries to choose a Halloween outfit early Thursday afternoon TJNC's course pack By Shea Riggsbee Staff Writer The Umstead Act was used by local businesses in 1989 to prevent Student Stores from selling greeting cards and posters, but it will not prohibit the store from selling course packs. The act forbids government agen cies, such as the University, from en gaging "directly or indirectly in the sale of goods ... or merchandise in compe tition with citizens of the State." But educational materials areexempt from the act. University Legal Counsel Susan Ehringhaus said Thursday. Downtown Chapel Hill merchants led the 1989 campaign against Student Stores. RHA co-presidents working for Editor's note: This is the last article in a five-part series analyzing the progress student-elected leaders have made on their campaign promises. By Michael Workman Staff Writer Residence Hall Association Co-Presidents Christy Pons and Scott Peeler believe they have accomplished many of their campaign goals but acknowl edge they still have work to do. Students gave them high marks in accomplishing their goals of sensitivity to minority concerns and recycling. But the co-presidents admit they haven't achieved their goals of a minor ity resource library and a revived Fac ulty Fellows Program. because of the proposal. The housing department already planned to reduce their reserved spaces from 50 percent to 25 percent next year to accommodate changes in the assignment process for upperclassmen, Kuncl said. Larry Hicks, housing associate di rector of administrative services, said: 'They're not taking spaces away (from incoming freshmen). They are just tak ing advantage of the fact that we are reducing those numbers so some spots are available." Peeler said the plan would not affect students now living in the North Cam pus residnece halls. . ..... m HI.IIJH ............ LI H...1. .HIIJI .X IMIJ.IIJi JJHJ. Illll-.1UL,I.IPI I ..III.. . JUI.ll .1111 .11111 ILIJIIII.Iill.MJI. JIH.LI.II. I. .1 JH.IIJI III J Ul J.I U fl Yo1 ! i ' ': " f t; x : f I 1 I fir- t"1 V ' ' v I ' " ,? at Costumes, located at 133 12 E. Franklin But John Jones, Student Stores direc tor, said he had not received any com plaints from area copy centers about the store's decision to sell course packs. Andy Vanore, N.C. chief deputy at torney general, said businesses would not have a case against Student Stores because course packs fall under the law's exemptions. The merchandise previously banned from Student Stores was not directly related to the education of UNC stu dents, he said. "The fact that (the course pack) can be purchased elsewhere is not the argu ment," Vanore said. Selling course packs isn't different from selling textbooks, he said. Jones said professors will submit a b Second look: PeelerPons' RHA Platform "As we see it, we still have five months in office, and so for us to have everything done now would be unrea sonable," Pons said. Kristen Davis, STOW area gover nor, said: "I think they're doing exactly what they set out to do. We're slowly accomplishing all the things that were on their platform." One of the key points of Pons and Peeler's platform was sensitivity to "Nobody will get displaced who is currently living there," he said Black students who decide to move to North Campus will do so by their own choice. Peeler said. "We're not asking people to live places where they don't want to," he said. "It's African Americans who want to live on North Campus who don't feel they can right now we're trying to minimize the risks they're taking in forming a community." The plan's success will not be based on the percentage of black students who move to the targeted dormitories, but on the strength of the communities, he said. St. and owned by Ann Davis. The 5-year-old business still has plenty of costumes available to rent for Halloween, including the sequined bra Blunt is holding. sales allowed by law list of articles and books they want included in course packs to Student Stores and the National Association of College Stores will secure copyright permission for them. Many schools, such as Stanford Uni versity, have been producing their own course packs for years, Jones said. But UNC never sold course packs because the school didn't have a way to secure copyright permission, he said. Some professors already have sub mitted requests, and the first course packs from Student Stores will be avail able next semester. Jones said he thought Student Stores' prices would be competitive. Course pack prices everywhere prob ably will increase because producers racial diversity minority concerns. They believe they have addressed one of these concerns by trying to at tract more black students to North Cam pus. An RHA plan, approved by the Hous ing Advisory Board Thursday, reserves 15 spaces for black students in nine North Campus dormitories. If the pro posal is approved by the housing de partment, it will be implemented in the spring. Peeler said: "The (black) community is not forming on North Campus. You can look at the facts and see that. This is a proposal to give a shot in the arm to a community for a four-year period." See RHA, page 7 Pons echoed Peeler's sentiment: "Numbers do not make a community. It's going to be based on more of a person-to-person basis." The proposal states that a board com prising members from RHA, Campus Y, the Black Student Movement, the Black Cultural Center, the Division of Student Affairs, the Housing Advisory Board and the housing department will oversee the implementation of the pro posal. The board also will decide if the plan should continue to be used each year. See HOUSING, page 2 DTHErin Randall now are required to get copyright per mission to copy any portion of a work, he said. But Adrianna Foss, a spokeswoman for Kinko's Copies, said it had an ad vantage over stores now entering the course pack business. The company has pre-existing copy right agreements with the publishers of more than 800 books and 1 ,000 jour nals, which allows them to reprint those materials without contacting the pub lishers. This makes it possible for Kinko's to produce material more quickly, Foss said. Employees at Copytron refused to comment on the issue. Dial DTH OPINION POLL RESULTS "Should the town's new smoking restrictions apply to dormitory hallways?" YES: 67 NO: 33 Total Calls: 24 555 Live long and prosper. Spock
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