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WEATHER TODAY: Partly cloudy; high mid-70s TUESDAY: Cloudy; high mid-70s CHILTON'S DEBUT: Rookie council member to be sworn in...,...CITY, page 3 THREE'S COMPANY: Heels swish a trio of holiday wins SPORTS, page 10 ON CAMPUS Resume writing workshop for seniors and graduate students to be held at 2:45 p.m. in 210 Hanes. 0 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 124 Library fee referendum fails By Marty Minchin Staff Writer Student Congress members voted against a bill Tuesday night that would have let students decide on a possible fee increase to help fund the libraries. Bills to change The Daily Tar Heel editor selection process and to disband the UNC Media Board did pass and will be placed on spring referendums. Mark Shelburne, Dist. 19, presented the library bill to congress members. He proposed raising student fees by $2.50 Congress kills bill naming elections board leadership By Stephanie Johnston Unhftrsity Editor Student Congress members killed a bill Tuesday night that would have named an elections board chairman and vice chairman, after finding the student government code ambiguous about who must review such legislation. Student Body Vice President Meridith Rentz presented a bill on be half of President Matt Heyd naming Evan Eile elections board chairman and Ron Barnes vice chairman. But the bill ran into trouble when Carl Clark, Student Affairs Committee chairman, questioned why the bill had not gone through his committee. The Rules and Judiciary Committee sent the bill to the full congress favorably the week before the meeting. "For the longest time members have abused the rights and privileges ac corded to the (Student Affairs) Com mittee," Clark said Sunday night. "As a committee chair, I felt the need to stand firm." Members questioned two sections of the student government code that some said were contradictory. Title II states that the Student Affairs Committee must review all appoint ments and nominations made by the president. But a section of Title IV called "Elections Board Chairperson" says that the president appoints the chair man with the approval of the Rules and Student contributions BySheaRiggsbee Staff Writer Students are footing more of the bill for their education at the University, while the percentage of state-appropriated money continues to dwindle. In-state tuition has increased 54 per cent over the past four years, and out-of-state costs went up 62 percent during that time. But the percentage of state appro Town loses environmentalist, fighter for civil rights By Peter Wallsten City Editor Former Chapel Hill mayor and present council member Jimmy Wallace, noted as a fighter for civil rights and as an environmentalist, died Wednesday night, five days before he was to be honored for his 31 years of service to the town. "He knew and loved the University deeply, as a student and somebody that took great interest in it," said Institute of Government Director John Sanders, who had been friends with Wallace since 1 950. "He cared deeply about the community ... and recognized thattheir two destinies were intertwined." A memorial service will be held Sun day at 4 p.m. in Gerrard Hall. Wallace, 68, was officially to com plete his fourth term on the council tonight at a swearing in ceremony for the winners in last month's election. Friends and colleagues said the three time mayor and four-time council mem ber was ahead of his time. "He was an advocate of fau- treat ment of black people long before most people knew there was a problem," Sanders said of Wallace's work forcivil rights while he was an undergraduate in We are always getting ready to live, but Monday, December 2, 1991 to help the libraries offset some of the state budget cuts' effects. 'The state should provide for us, but due to the recession they can't do that," he said at the meeting. 'This will affect people who go and deal with the librar ies themselves." The bill failed by a vote of 1 0-6, with some members abstaining from the vote. If it had passed, students would have voted on it in the spring elections. Shelburne said Sunday night that he thought students were cheated out of a chance to decide for themselves if they Judiciary Committee and two-thirds of congress members. Clark said Sunday night that the sec tion of the code requiring the Student Affairs Committee's review has prece dence over the other part. But Heyd said the code is not am biguous, and that Title IV clearly states it is the Rules and Judiciary Comm ittee's responsibility to review the bill. Heyd said Sunday that he could not understand why the problems arose Tuesday because the same congress members approved the appointment of Nick Franzese as elections board chair man in the spring. Franzese stepped down last month. "We did everything according to the code and how it was done in the past," Heyd said. Clark said it was an oversight on his part to allow Franzese to be named chairman without the Students Affairs Committee's reviewing the bill. "It was a bad precedent that was being set," he said. Congress members originally voted to send the bill to the Student Affairs Committee for consideration, but when the issue was brought up again later in the meeting, they voted to kill the bill. Clark said that because the bill failed, Heyd must present two new candidates to student congress in January. "I understand now that this will be See ELECTIONS, page 4 priations decreased from 41.5 percent of the 1987 budget to 36.8 percent in 1991. The trend of students paying for a larger part of their education at state supported schools is not likely tochange, said Wayne Jones, associate vice chan cellor for finance. "Once a new level of support is struck, (it's) hard to reverse that," he said. In-state undergraduate students this year pay $387 per semester and out-of- Jimmy Wallace the 1940s. "He was an environmental protectionist before many people knew what the term meant." Chapel Hill Mayor Jonathan Howes said Wallace will be remembered for his unique rhetorical style in addition to his involvement in creating the Cane Creek reservoir in the early 1980s. Serving the students and the wanted to give money to the libraries. "I believe in this, and I believe that students should have an opportunity to vote on it," he said. Congress has a lot of divisions within it, and the vote showed this split, he said. About 22 of the 33 congress mem bers were at the meeting when the li brary bill wasdiscussed.Shelbumesaid. Gretchen Prochaska, Student Con gress assistant clerk, could not be reached for comment to confirm the number of representatives present. Shelburne said that although he could NOW I can see them t- rjX 1 -Z uii di Jerry Mashburn of High Point improves his student's-eye view with a pair of binoculars as the men's basketball teams are introduced at the UNC-Towson State game Saturday. to education outpacing legislative funding state students pay $3,32 1 per semester. Nancy Pakerek, press secretary for Gov. Jim Martin, said increasing tuition had advantages. 'Tuition money grants greater flexibility for the UNC system." The University decides how to spend its tuition money, but funds from the state legislature are designated for spe cific uses, she said. Tuition costs are unlikely to sky rocket in the future because legislators are reluctant to increase tuition signifi While manv nennle favored nsinp J i i o Jordan Lake also built in the early 1980s as Chapel Hill's new water source, Wallace pushed for damming Cane Creek to end the shortages. "He used some poetic language, and led us to believe that (Jordan Lake) was going to be a cess pool," Howes said. Wallace also strongly supported the $5 million open-space bond passed in 1989. "Over the objection of many people on the council, that went to a vote and the people supported it over whelmingly," Howes said. Sanders said town residentscan thank Wallace for pushing the idea of a East Rosemary Street parking deck, which currently is being constructed and will be finished by the end of the year. Wallace wanted to build a deck instead of the proposed Rosemary Square. "We now are about to do what Jimmy wanted to do 10 years ago, and that's build a moderately sized parking deck instead of a grandiose hotel complex with parking facilities," Sanders said. Carrboro Alderman Hilliard Caldwell, a civil rights leader in Chapel Hill in the 1960s, said Wallace's work gave the movement a boost. "Whenever there were problems, he always made nimselt available, University community since 1893 Chapel Hill, not bring the same piece of legislation before congress again this session, he would present the proposal or have someone do it for him next year. Congress members voted unani mously to let students decide if the DTH editor election should be changed. The proposal calls for changing the proce dure from a campuswide election to selection by a 13-person committee. Three DTH members would serve on the committee and the Board of Direc tors would select eight other students. The editor and general manager would cantly and the state economy is improv ing, she said. Although students now are paying more tuition, less of their money is being used for support and instruction. UNC spent 42.1 percent of its 1987 1988 budget on support and instruction but will spend 40.3 percent this year. Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for student affairs, said UNC would remain one of the country's best buys if tuition increases continued at the present rate. Caldwell said, adding that Wallace fre quently contributed bond money to get protesters released from jail. Rebecca Clark, who worked with Caldwell and Wallace during the civil rights movement, said people always could look to Wallace for advice. "We believed in him," she said. "He has made great contributions." Clark said she got to know Wallace when he was an undergraduate at UNC in the 1940s. She worked occasionally at Danziger's coffee shop then lo cated downtown where Wallace would frequently play the piano. "He was a loner then," Clark said. "He came in and played on weekends until midnight." Wallace first was elected to the Chapel Hill Board of Aldermen in 1971, but resigned his post in 1 972 to work for what would later be called the state Environmental Management Commis sion. Wallace ran and won the mayoral post in 1975. After serving two terms, he ran for and again won a seat on the council in 1 979. He held the position for two terms, until 1983. In 1 985 he won again for mayor, and then ran for town council in 1 987 at the completion of the two-year mayoral term. never living. North Carolina to make b serve as non-voting, on-call members. Tim Moore, student congress speaker, amended the bill to change how the DTH would receive student fees in the future if it needed them. The newspaper is now accepting less student fees each year and plans to receive its final allotment in 1993. But the amendment states that if the DTH ever needed student money again, three fourths of congress members would have to approve holding a referendum in stead of the usual two-thirds. This amendment provides students Mashburn, who has been a Carolina fan "for as long as he can remember" and is now a season ticket holder, enjoyed seeing the Tar Heels win, 98-88.See story page 1 0. Tuition in the state has been held artificially low, Boulton said. Many out-of-state students are paying less to at tend UNC than they would have to pay at public schools in their states, he said. "We do not have a complaint ... about raising tuition," he said. "Somebody's paying the bill . . . and it's the taxpayer." Tuition will "creep slowly upward" because of the University's tradition of trying to keep its doors open to every- Raleigh man arrested for scalping basketball tickets Police nab man for stealing 1,700 alumni tickets from UNC mail room Staff Report A Raleigh man was arrested Satur day night for the possession of about 1,700 stolen UNC basketball tickets. Michael Joseph Pope of Lemay Court, Raleigh, was arrested after he sold 20 stolen tickets to a University Police officer. Pope is being held in the Orange County Jail under $20,000 bond. The man had the 1.700 tickets grouped by game in a duffel bag, Daren Lucas of the Smith Center and Educational Foundation told WCHt. sports announcers Sunday. Lucas said Sunday night that he could confirm a man was arrested for trying to scalp tickets, but he had been told by police not to comment further on the incident. Police officials said thev could not comment on the arrest until this morn Ralph Waldo NcwsSporUArtt 962-0249 Business Advertising 962-1163 allot with the input in the DTH that they will lose if they no longer vote for the editor, Moore said at the congress meeting. Student congress also voted to place a bill to disband the UNC Media Board before students in a referendum. "The Media Board doesn't even wish to come together again to talk about this," said Jennifer Lloyd, Dist. 12. The Media Board voted unanimously in October to disband. The board gov erns the Yackety Yack, The Phoenix, the Cellar Door and the Carolina Quarterly. UIHS. tum one in the state, Boulton said. All state-supported institutions must find resources other than state money because funds cut during the budget crisis will not be restored even if the economy improves, he said. In the past, UNC students only con tributed lOto 12 cents of every dollar of their education cost. But students re ceive most of the benefits from that education, so it is not unreasonable to expect them to pay more, Boulton said. ing when they would be in the office. During the Tar Heel Sports Network's report, Lucas said the man had tickets to all the UNC games, including about 20 for the game against Duke University and 20 for the N.C. State game. He had more than a hundred for this weekend's games against Cornell University and Towson State. Lucas told the announcers that the man apparently stole the tickets from the UNC mail room when they were being sent to alumni who had ordered them. University Police received an anonymous tip telling them they could contact Pope to buy stolen basketball tickets, Lucas said. The police used video monitoring equipment to record the sale. Emerson
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