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I WEATHER TODAY: Sunny; high mid-40s WEDNESDAY: Fair; high low 50s TURKEY TIME: Local groups offer Thanksgiving meals CAMPUS, page 3 DUKE FALLS AGAIN: Swimmers trounce Blue Devils ............SPORTS, page 5 HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!! t ialif at mm 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 99, Issue 123 Tuesday, November 26, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcwSponiAru 962-0249 BusinessAdvertising 962-116 If O V, Dwight Hollier has tackled adversity with perseverance By Warren Hynes Assistant Sports Editor It was fitting that in the final game of his college football career, Dwight Hollier had to face both the uplifting and the disappointing. As he sat relishing North Carolina's 47-14 pounding of archrival Duke Saturday afternoon, Hollier withstood the prospect of missing the postseason bowl game he and his teammates had wanted so badly. "I think this team is very good," he said. "We've made a lot of strides since the beginning of the year. We've matured a lot as a team. "I feel good. I'm more or less thinking about, 'I'm 7-4 for the first time since I've been here."' It has been that way for Dwight Hollier. The all-time leading tackier in UNC history, the best I inebacker to play for North Carolina since Lawrence Taylor, Dwight Hollier has had a bittersweet collegiate career, one in which he has thrown optimism and maximum effort in the way of adver sity. "I think that's life," he said. "You're going to have adver sity in your life, and if you can handle the adversity properly and become better from the adversity, then you've done the right thing." Just name it, and Dwight Hollier has been through it. In what may be the most incredible four-year span in UNC football history, Hollier stood at the head of aseniorclass that weathered two 1-lOseasons before improvingto 13-8-1 in its final two years. "I think we've made a big change and pretty much turned the comer for the North Carolina football team," he said. In addition, Hollier has cultivated a spectacular academic career, one that saw him remain a fixture on the All-Academic ACC team. He will graduate in December with a double major in speech communications and in psychology. And throughout his college years, Dwight Holl ier has been a leader. For two years, Hollier was the brightest spot on a dismal UNC squad, one that managed two wins in 22 tries. While head coach Mack Brown was beginning the long road of rebuilding, Hollier was asked to be a leader. As a redshirt freshman and as a sophomore, Hollier was a starter at inside linebacker, Hollier was relaying calls to the huddle, and Hollier was making 276 tackles in two years. "Dwight Hollier is one of those guys who has all the intangibles," Brown said. "He's the coach, he's the leader, and he sparks the other guys." In his junior campaign, Hollier saw a difference in his team. He saw that UNC was improving, and he continued to lead. The first non-senior to be named team captain in 44 years, Hollier led the Tar Heels to their turnaround 6-4-1 season. He made an ACC-leading 1 55 tackles, many of them coming at the most crucial of times. One such clutch hit was his fourth-quarter, third-down stop of Georgia Tech tailback William Bell at the 1 -yard line in the 1 3-1 3 tie that prevented Tech from being the consensus national champion. But as the 1990 season ended, the Tar Heels were unable to accept an Independence Bowl biddue to a conflict with the school's final exam schedule. Again, Dwight Hollier faced the bad along with the good. Then there was this year. "Roller coaster is probably a SeeH0LUER,page7 Permit denied for University Place condos By Emily Russ Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously denied a special-use permit Monday night for the controversial 70 unit University Place condominium complex proposed for the Bolin Creek area and intended for student housing. Robert Bradley, the Virginia-based developer of the plan, said hedid not plan to appeal the decision. He said that he was disappointed that his application to develop the area was denied and that he felt the decision was political. "I was surprised that it was (rejected) because we complied with the laws of Chapel Hill," he said. The vote came during the final council meeting for Mayor Jonathan Howes and council members Nancy Preston and Jimmy Wallace. Wallace was absent from the meeting. Mayor-elect Ken Broun and council members-elect Mark Chilton and Joe Capowski will be sworn in at next week's meeting. Council member Julie Andresen said before voting that she thought the condominiums would adversely affect the surrounding neighborhoods and they would not promote the general welfare. "I don't think this project can be a good neighbor," she said. The University Place condominiums would have included five buildings and 280 parking spaces on a 1 4-acre site. In the proposal, 7.5 acres would have remained undisturbed. The proposed site contains some slopes that many residents feared would cause erosion problems. Chapel Hill residents voiced their opposition to the devel opment of the project in public hearings prior to the town council's vote. The residents were concerned with traffic and environmental problems that might have been created by the condominiums around Northside, one of the town's oldest neighborhoods. "This project will affect my very fragile neighborhood in an adverse way," said Northside resident Estelle Mabry, president of the Chapel Hill Alliance of Neighborhoods. The increased flow of sewage on the Bolin Creek intercep tor, which has been found to overflow during storms, also concerned residents. Lightning Brown, a Clark Road resi dent, said that despite the attempts made by the Orange Water and Sewer Authority to end the sewage overflow, the excess See CONDOS, page 2 sir . . -H J? : UlMScotl Lansing Giving crime the boot lack Mensch, a junior from Merritt Island, Fla., fights crime by rigging a boot to hit burglars in his Craige Residence Hall suite doorway. Mensch said his room already had been broken into twice this year. Forum addresses survival of a.p.p.l.e.s. program f f 1 x :r ' '4 J r ' ' ' -1 -1 imihibwii -Hi mm By Ashley Fogle Assistant University Editor DIHUebbieSteneel Denise Beal, coordinator of a.p.p.l.e.s., speaks in the Pit Monday at noon Student leaders, administrators and a handful of supporters turned out to voice their concern about the fate of the a.p.p.l.e.s. program at a Pit forum Mon day afternoon. A 90-cent student fee increase, ap proved in a referendum last spring, was supposed to fund the program which allows people to plan learning experi ences in service. But the UNC Board of Governors refused to recognize the in crease this year in response to a request from UNC-system president C.D. Spangler to freeze fees. Spangler had considered allowing each system school to name one excep tion to the freeze but announced earlier this month that he would not be able to do so. UNC-CH's exception would have been a.p.p.l.e.s., which combines class room learning with hands-on service projects. "C.D. Spangler said the fee increase you voted by 65 percent last semester could not be put into effect because of economic cutbacks, hard times and bud get cuts," Denise Beal, a.p.p.l.e.s. ser vice learn ing coordinator, told the group. "But students at UNC aren't the ones that will suffer. People in the commu nity the (Interfaith Council) Shelter, the people at 751 Pritchard Avenue Extension, organizations that already do not have the money to do good work in the community will suffer." Some of the money from the fee increase would have paid Beal 's salary. The Division of Student Affairs and the College of Arts and Sciences funded Beat's salary this semester. Beal said that she had not anticipated the difficulties the program would face when she accepted the job with a.p.p.l.e.s. "I never knew when I was selected to be the service learning coordinator that it would be for me to find my own salary," she said. "I want you to know it's cold out here today, but if you can't find me a salary, I'm going to be freez ing all year." Forum organizers urged students to approach their Student Congress repre sentatives about support for the pro gram. Student Body President Matt Heyd said congress could reallocate student fees given back by The Daily Tar Heel to a.p.p.l.e.s. Mark Chilton, a UNC senior and Chapel Hill Town Council member elect, said students should take action to find funding for the program. "Because the upper echelons of the UNC system do not approve of us hav ing any control over our finances, we have been left in the unfortunate posi tion having to overcome the shortfalls of poor tax planning," he said. "Talk to student congress. Tell them you sup port a.p.p.l.e.s. and want to see it funded as we voted in the past." Beal said, "You need to write to congress. You need to sit in on congress meetings to help us get fees; the fees the General Assembly wouldn't raise." Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for student affairs, said he would do every thing he could to support the program. "We want to make sure that this great program has the full support of every one and has the support to make the full impact that I know it will," he said. Ann Trapasso, a teaching assistant whose English 1 section is part of the a.p.p.l.e.s. program, said her class was See a.p.p.l.e.s., page 4 Student reports on-campus rape to UNC police By Chandra McLean Staff Writer A University student reported to the police Thursday that she was raped on campus early Nov. 15. The victim told University Police that the rape took place on the north steps of Lenoir Dining Hall, according to police reports. The north steps face the side of Manning Hall. No weapon was used in the alleged attack, the report states. The suspect was described as a 28-year-old black man in the report, but police would not say if the woman knew the man. Maj. Bob Porreca of the University Police said he could not comment on the incident because it was under inves tigation. No one has been charged with the assault yet, he said Monday afternoon. Police officials refused to release the victim's age or say whether she was injured in the alleged assault. "We have a responsibility to alert the community of threatening situations," Porreca said. "We don't give out a lot of information about victims because we are victim-oriented." Sexual assault is a stressful experi ence for the victim, he said. "For victims of sexual assault, it is a traumatic experience to come to the police and an emotionally taxing action for them." This is the second sexual assault al leged to have taken place at Lenoir this year. A woman told pol ice in February that she was raped in the dining hall, and police charged a cook with second degree sexual offense. Greek members put on 'trial' about party, hazing liability issues By Michael Workman Staff Writer Imagine this scenario: A University student is left quadriplegic after being hit by a car while walking home from a fraternity mixer, and two University students face criminal charges. This was the situation that members of Delta Sigma Phi fraternity and Zeta Tau Alpha sorority faced Monday night during a mock trial at the sorority house. Zeta Tau Alpha President Laura Quate played a sorority member ac cused of hazing, and Delta Sigma Phi President Tony Walker portrayed a fra ternity member charged with providing alcohol to a minor. Joey Burby, a Delta Sigma Phi mem ber and one of the organizers of the event, said he hoped the mock trial would make fraternity and sorority members more aware of liability issues. 'The purpose is to educate Carolina Greeks on risk management and liabil ity so we can better prepare ourselves," he said before the trial. But the two groups also want admin istrators to know they are aware of liability problems, Burby said. "This will really send a message to the University that we are concerned about liability," he said. Assistant Dean of Students Judi Bar ter, who serves as a liaison between Greeks and administrators, said Greek organizations needed to improve risk management programs. "You're behind the times when it comes to risk management," she told the Greeks. Burby said he was pleased with at tendance at the presentation, where or ganizers counted about 1 10 people. Jim Woodall, Orange-Chatham as sistant district attorney, played the pros ecuting attorney during the trial. Woodall cross-examined Quate and Walker about hazing and serving alco hol to Jane Doe, a fictitious member of Zeta Tau Alpha. Chapel Hill attorney Joe Buckner, playing the role of judge, found both defendants guilty and sentenced each to six months in jail and a $500 fine. Although the last hazing case in Chapel Hill courts was heard about three years ago, hazing is fairly easy to prove, Buckner said. "The threshold for haz ing is very, very low," he said. A criminal conviction for hazing or for serving alcohol to a minor also has civil case ramifications, Buckner said. A conviction in a criminal case is all that is needed to win a civil case, he said. Civil cases also usually name all pos sible defendants, Buckner said. Frater nities and sororities, national Greek or ganizations, the university and indi vidual Greek members all could be named as defendants in a civil case, he said. Several factors determine liability in hazing cases, Buckner said. "The first thing you have to consider is, what is the degree of hazing that went on," he said. Other factors include the willingness of pledges to participate in the activity and the hazing policies of the fraternity or the sorority and the school. Correction In the Nov. 25 Daily Tar Heel ar ticle,"ChapelHill 'can't afford to give up' fighting drug problems, officials say," Chapel Hill resident and engi neer Steve Wallace should have been quoted as saying that he advocates the taxation and control of marijuana be cause it could displace a large portion of cocaine usage. Wallace does not support the legal ization of cocaine or crack and does not support the use of drugs for recre ational purposes. The DTH regrets the error. Thanksgiving is murder on turkeys. PETA
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