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ON CAMPUS :
Nikki Ciovanna, sponsored by the
Human Rights Week Committee, will
speak at 8 p.m. in Memorial Hall.
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Volume 99, Issue 107
Monday, November 4, 1991
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By John Broadfoot
Staff Writer
Students who are helping housekeep
ers petition the University for better
wages and working conditions will hold
a forum Tuesday to publicize the work
ers' problems.
The Sonja Stone Task Force and the
Campus Y are sponsoring the noon fo
rum in the Pit to bring the housekeep
ers' problems to the attention of the
entire campus.
Marsha Tinnen, a housekeeping as
sistant; Scott Wilkins, co-chairman of
the task force; Denise Matthewson, co
chairwoman of the task force; and oth
ers will speak about workers' problems.
"We want to bring it to the forefront
of issues on campus," Wilkins said.
Tinnen said she thought students
Caller threatens BSM president
for work with Stone task force
By Stephanie Johnston
University Editor
An unknown caller has repeatedly
threatened Black Student Movement
President Arnie Epps because of his
involvement in the Sonja Stone Task
Force.
"There have been threats on my life
because of my involvement with the
asking of the three goals on the Univer
sity," Epps said Sunday night.
The threats began in late August when
students decided to ask the University
to rename the Black Cultural Center for
Stone, establish an endowed chair in
her honor and give the African and
Afro-American studies curriculum de
partmental status.
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Broun criticizes Gardner,
By Amber Nimocks
Assistant City Editor
Chapel Hill mayoral candidate Ken
Broun called hisopponents' approaches
to the town's economic problems sim
plistic and short-sighted in a statement
released Saturday.
Broun stated that he would support
an investigation of the efficiency of
town government, but was opposed to
across-the-board hiring freezes.
"My opponents both of them
believe in simplistic, short-sighted at
tacks on our town's personnel budget,"
Broun said in the statement. "They call
for the so-called TaxWatch' solution
speak against crime, drugs
town hall Sunday before marching in protest
wi
needed to be more aware of housekeep
ers and their work in the University.
"We would like for more students to
talk with housekeepers when they see
them," she said. "I will talk on money
and also how we would like to have a
program so we can have classes for
housekeepers after work hours."
The housekeepers' fight for higher
pay will be discussedduring this week's
observance of Human Rights Aware
ness Week.
Housekeepers receive $ 1 1 ,000a year,
and their salaries have not increased in
the past two years.
Wilkins said the housekeepers' prob
lems had not been addressed quickly
enough by administrators. Housekeep
ers now are trying to reach administra
tors through UNC's grievance process.
"We feel the grievance process is set
can studies professor, died Aug. 10 af
ter having a stroke. The Board of Trust
ees recently renamed the BCC for her.
The caller said basically the same
thing each time and then hung up, Epps
said. All but one of the calls were made
to him in the BSM office in the Student
Union. Epps said this was strange be
cause he rarely was at the office for
extended periods of time.
"They seemingly knew where I was,"
he said.
The last threatening call he received
was Tuesday. "I do think about it a lot,"
he said. "It's scary. I take the Lord with
me and go on."
Epps said he didn't think the caller
was a student because the voice didn't
sound like a student's. The same person
called each time, he said.
ECTION '91
hook, line and sinker."
Chapel Hill mayoral candidates
Tommy Gardner and Rosemary Waldorf
are members of TaxWatch, a local group
whose purpose is to monitor and audit
the expenditure of public funds.
Broun said the TaxWatch solution
inaccurately blames the town's finan
cial problems on high salaries for town
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of poor living conditions and low wages
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cize
issues
up to delay things as long as possible,"
Wilkins said.
A group of housekeepers filed a griev
ance in the spring, which is now at Step
3 of the grievance process. At this step,
the employees and their supervisor will
appear before a panel of one faculty and
two staff members appointed by the
chancellor.
Meetings held this past week be
tween housekeepers and their supervi
sors failed to resolve the conflicts.
Housekeepers and students partici
pated in a march Sunday protesting the
lack of low-income housing in Chapel
Hill.
Tinnen spoke during the march about
housekeepers' low pay and work hours.
The march began at the town hall and
continued through low-income neigh
borhoods. He has not officially filed a com
plaint with University police, but has
talked with officers, Epps said.
"If it happens again I will file a com
plaint," he said. Police officers told him
to document all of the calls and not to
walk alone at night, Epps said.
Sibby Anderson-Thompson, assistant
dean of students and BSM adviser, said
she has met with Epps to discuss the
phone calls.
"We do keep records, and these
records stay on fi le for three years," she
said. "I asked him to keep records and
encouraged him to talk with University
police."
Anderson-Thompson said there were
about 22 cases of racial harassment
reported to the dean of students' office
last year.
Waldorf for
employees and excessive numbers of
bureaucrats in town government.
Gardner said he was not in favor of
across-the-board hiring freezes, but
added that the town manager should be
able to consider whether vacant posi
tions should be filled on a case-by-case
basis.
Waldorf said Broun had misinter
preted her position on the issue.
"I said I thought we ought to have a
moderate hiring freeze," she said. "The
manager needs to consider the open
positions with the mayor and the coun
cil and possibly eliminate some of them
by attrition."
Waldorf said he did not want to cut
a hand out
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Residents blame low wages, high housing costs j
By Emily Russ
Staff Writer
Residents of subsidized housing,
University housekeepers and town offi
cials and residents marched through
some of Chapel Hill's low-income
neighborhoods Sunday demanding bet
ter living conditions and higher wages.
Public housing residents addressed
about 100 people who gathefedat Chapel
Hill Town Hall with concerns about the
drug and crime problems in their neigh
borhoods. Speakers asked town and University
officials to pay more attention to their
needs.
"We are looking for better-paying
jobs so we can afford the so-called
affordable housing in Chapel Hill," said
Maxecine Mitchell, chairwoman of the
Residence Council.
The Residence Council is a group of
people elected by residents of each pub
lic housing community in Chapel Hill
and Carrboro to address the communi
ties' unique needs. Each of the 12 low
income communities elects a president
who serves on the Residence Council.
Mitchell said the council identified
common problems and decided to bring
them to the public's attention.
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'short-sighted' approach
back on services offered by the town.
"The town's obligated to perform
certain services and we need to con
tinue to perform them," she said.
Waldorf also said she had addressed
the possibility of redesigning the town's
merit-pay system.
Broun said concern for affordable
housing would be forgotten if TaxWatch
gains control of town government.
He also criticized Gardner and
Waldorf for their failure to focus on the
town's lack of affordable housing.
Broun said in an interview Sunday
that TaxWatch 's involvement in the
campaign had diverted attention away
from issues that should be important,
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in neighborhoods!
"We are hoping this will open
everybody's eyes up," she said.
Mitchell said Chapel Hill's low-income
developments were nice public
housing units, and she was fighting to
keep them clean and drug-free.
The marchers called for more afford
able housing in Chapel Hill, improved
recreation areas for children, and better-paying
jobs in the town and the
University.
Sareeta Thompson, an 8-year-old
public housing resident, said she wanted
a nice playground with swings. She said
the violence in her neighborhood scared
her, and she usually played in herhouse.
"People are breaking stuff," she said.
'They throw rocks around."
Pat Davis, a public housing resident,
said low-income communities needed
to cooperate to solve neighborhood drug
and crime problems.
Davis also said the maintenance and
public works for public housing was
virtually non-existent. Trash dumpsters
were inadequate, and roads needed re
pair, she said.
Carl Fox, Orange-Chatham district
attorney, called on the marchers to pro
tect their neighborhoods and fight for
their rights as citizens.
"We need to dare ourselves to accept
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like the environment and affordable
housing.
"I have talked about affordable hous
ing throughout this campaign," he said
in the statement. "You haven't heard
my opponents talk about it much be
cause, under the 'TaxWatch' philoso
phy, there's little concern for affordable
housing."
Gardner said he had suggested estab
lishing a private foundation which would
help people buy homes.
He said that affordable housing
should be the focus of public agencies
such as the Public Private Partnership
and that he was in favor of the PPP's
establishment of a support group on
responsibility for our own communities
and neighborhoods," he said. I
Chapel Hill attorney Al McSurely
said skyrocketing prices of Chapel Hill
housing caused problems in low-income
neighborhoods. University employees
who make $ 1 1 ,000 a year cannot afford
to live a decent life in Chapel Hill, he
said.
"All of us must come together and
find some damn decent jobs,"McSurely
said. "This town has a long and system
atic legacy of holding black people
down."
Marsha Tinnen, a University house
keeper, said the housekeepers also had
complaints. She said the housekeepers
wanted higher wages, better continu-ing-education
programs and better su
pervision. Housekeepers have presented
theirconcerns to Chancellor Paul Hardin
and other University officials.
Annie Pettiford, another University
housekeeper, said, "We just want more
money for all this work we are doing."
Mitchell said that with additional
funding, the communities would like to
offer part-time jobs to residents. Schol
arship programs forstudentsalso would
be established. A teaching program
would be initiated to teach adults how to
seek job advancement.
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to economy
affordable housing.
Waldorf said Broun was not being
honest about his approach to affordable
housing.
"Every time the question of afford
able housing came up, all candidates
said they were for it," she said. "The
only true difference is that most of us
were honest and said wedidn't think the
town alone would be greatly able to
increase the amount of affordable hous
ing stock."
Waldorf said she would encourage
the town, the University, the Orange
Water and Sewer Authority and the
private sector to work together to ad
dress the lack of affordable housing.