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GOOD LUCK ON EXAMS!!! WEATHER TODAY: Sunny; high upper 50s SATURDAY: Sunny; high mid-50s 7Tl NC CO 073192 NC COLLECTION WILSON LIBRARY 4 CE 3930 UNC CAMPUS CHAPEL HILL hQ':i-r-r--r : NC 7514 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 C 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Chapel Hill, North Carolina NtwiSpofttAitt 92-0245 Business Advertising 962 "63 Volume 99, Issue 128 Friday, December 6, 1991 CRUNCH TIME: Exam season hits University .......................CAMPUS, page 6 START YOUR ENGINES: Senior aims for racing career....... FEATURES, page 8 Senior By Bonnie Rochman Assistant University Editor University Police charged the Yackety Yack's business manager Thursday with embezzling more than $75 ,000 from the campus yearbook over a period of more than a year. Tracy Lamont Keene, 21, of 101-13 Melville Loop Road, was charged with 21 counts of embezzlement after an investigation by police detectives and Cops caught taking break in lounge Dean says mystery of Howell Hall ends By Matthew Eisley Special Assignments Editor University Police Chief Arnold Trujillo rebuked three on-duty campus security officers Thursday for taking an unauthorized late-night break in a Howell Hall lounge that has a full kitchen and satellite television. Trujillo said he also was investigat ing whether other security guards had used the lounge without permission ear lier this week. Richard Cole, dean of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said school administrators had been try ing for months to discover who was using the second-floor faculty and graduate student lounge after hours. "It's been irritating as the devil," Cole said. "We didn't know who had been changing the TV (channel). We come in in the morning and turn the TV on. Sometimes it would have a couple in bed making out at 7:30." Two Daily Tar Heel reporters dis covered the officers playing cards and watching television at about 2:30 a.m. Thursday. The officers had their coats off, and an empty popcorn bag and soft drink bottles lay nearby. An ashtray held several cigarette butts. The school's faculty voted to make Howell a no-smoking area during the last academic year. Thesecurity guards locked the lounge and left after the students approached them. One retrieved something from a kitchen adjoining the lounge. "We were just taking a short break," said security guard Fred Moore. "We've only been here a little while." Trujillo said Moore and security guards Tonya Cash and George Wil liams told him they had decided to take a 10-minute break after securing the building's doors. "They were just try ing to get out of the cold for a few minutes," They did not have permission to be in the lounge, Trujillo said. "Our policy is that they should take a break at the police station if they want to take a break." All three have worked for University Police since July. "They are new em ployees," Trujillo said. "They're still learning." Trujillo said he had counseled the security guards and would not disci pline them further. Judy Meade, the journalism school's business manager, said she called Trujillo earlier this week after a house keeper reported seeing three police of ficers leaving Howell's second floor at about 4 a.m. Monday. Trujillo said a different team of secu rity guards was on duty Monday and that he hadn't had a chance to talk with the team's supervisor. Meade said the housekeeper reported seeing security guards in the building on several other occasions. "We just had the lock changed last week, so we knew it had to be some body with a passkey," Meade said. "That boiled down to housekeeping or police. "It has been happening off and on for quite a while," she said. "First we thought students were using the video equipment, and then we thought it might be professors." ' Howell has three televisions con nected to a satellite dish, including one in Cole's office, all controlled from the lounge. See POLICE, page 2 Insanity is charged with embezdement University Internal Audit employees. He was charged with embezzling $75,896.65. Keene was suspended from the year book staff about two weeks ago when the investigation began. He served as the Yack's business manager in 1990 and part of 1991. Doris Wilson, Chapel Hill District Court clerk, said Keene attended a bond hearing Thursday, in which his secured bond was set at $5,000. "The last I " It t :,y 111 Steeple climber Jeffrey Miller secures a safety rope around University United Methodist Church. Miller, Discord at Campus Y Editor's note: This is the second article of a two-part series. By Mara Lee Staff Writer Some see it as a steel framework, helping them reach to the sky others see it as a maze that keeps them back: the structure of the Campus Y. Committee co-chairmen and co chairwomen said the structure helped them do their jobs well, but members of the Campus Y's Executive Committee had more reservations. The more than 500 members of the group belong to 27 committees, and co chairmen and co-chairwomen head each one. A coordinator represents a group of about five committees, and they, the co-presidents, director and associate director serve on the Executive Com mittee. Sarah Davis, co-chairwoman of the Student Environmental Action Coali tion, said: "We do have a large amount of independence, but at the same time, we're very much a part of the Y. There are so many safeguards and so many references, support structures, though (it) can be tedious at times, it's far and away a positive aspect of the Y." Director Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson said: "The co-chairs are usually not even aware of the problem. The com mittees are the heart and soul of the often the logic & &r M 4 It 1.. - I M - - ". f. j t' I ' J -;- s ' V t heard, a family member was going to the magistrate's office to pay that." Keene's probable cause hearing has been set for Dec. 13, Wilson said. At that hearing, a judge will decide if the case should be heard in Superior Court. Keene, chairman of the UNC Media Board, did not return an answering machine message Thursday. University Police Lt. Marcus Perry said Keene used the money to write checks to relatives but said he could not Ai'y ' 1 - x the bell tower of a steeple jack or the top doesn't prevent from carrying out goals SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT CamDus Y. and their work goes on. Felts Lewis, a coordinator last year, described his year on the Executive Committee. "We did have a few per sonality conflicts," Lewis said. "Not myself personally, but some of my col leagues at the time felt the co-presidents were not receiving input from the Ex ecutive Committee members like they should." Associate Director Pamela Cheek said, "Questioning the structure, that's to be expected." Shilpi Somaya and Richie Harrill, the last co-presidents, made structural change part of their platform. They con cluded that co-leadership of commit tees and the presidency was inefficient but suggested only the presidency be come a single office. The staff steps in to solve committee conflicts, Hatcher-Wilson said. "Weput co-chairs together that some times have never seen each other be fore," she said. "It's up to us to make the best of that situation." Annika Goff, co-chairwoman of the Hunger and Homelessness Outreach of an accurate mind overtaxed. provide any details of the transactions. The Associated Press reported that a checklist showed that checks Keene may have written had been designated for a variety of yearbook supplies such as photography processing, typesetting, a camera lens and subscription cards. Keene, a senior, has been charged with a Class H felony, which carries a penalty of up to 10 years in prison. "It means it's real serious," Perry said. "Nothing of this magnitude has f if" DTHloo Alkeson highman from Frederick, Maryland, has been working in all weather for Skyline Engineers of Maryland for about two years. Project, said, "At the beginning of the year, we had a few problems with group dynamics, working separately, and she helped us work through that." Staff vs. students? One of the conflicts on past Execu tive Committees has been between staff and students. The director and associate director have full votes. Somaya and Harrill wrote: "Unfor tunately, our relationship with Zenobia and Pam, more often than not, was a stumbling block throughout the year, rather than the cooperative force we expected and hoped it would be." Hatcher-Wilson and Cheek misused their authority, Somaya and Harrill wrote. ' The co-presidents used in their re port the example of SEAC National, a SEAC subcommittee, being told to leave the Campus Y and go out on its own, an action which was taken unilaterally by Hatcher-Wilson in March 1990 and which was related to the Executive Committee after the fact. "Admittedly, our problem was not one-way, and there were things we, as students, did that worsened the situa tion," they wrote. "This is not a small problem, a tem porary problem, or an individual prob- See CAMPUS Y, page 3 happened (on campus) before that I'm aware of." The courts will decide whether Keene must pay back the money if he is con victed. Perry said. Yack Editor Shea Tisdale said the 1992 yearbook production and staff would not be affected by the embezzle ment of funds. "None of the money is really out of See YACK, page 2 Student still Officials await recommendation BySheaRIggsbee Staff Writer Student Stores will continue to ad vertise its merchandise in an alumni magazine insert unless given other in structions by University officials. Stu dent Stores Director John Jones said. Carl Fox, Orange-Chatham District attorney, said Monday that he thought the campus store was violating the Umstead Act by advertising in Carolina Collectibles, an insert in Carolina Alumni Review. The Umstead Act limits the sale of Student Stores merchandise to students, staff and their families and people on campus for reasons other than purchas ing items from Student Stores. The act is designed to prevent state agencies Few 'alternatives' left as The Club closes for good By Julie Flick Staff Writer One of the Triangle's only alterna tive dance clubs will close its doors permanently next week, and the owner of the popular Chapel Hill night spot said Thursday that he had no plans to open a similar business in town. The Club, located above Four Cor ners Restaurant on West Franklin Street, will close Thursday because its original three-year lease will expire in January. Big-time N.C. government comes of age in year of political scandal, tragedy Editor's note: This article is the last of a four-part series highlighting the dramatic events of 1991. By Anna Griffin Staff Writer Like it ornot, North Carolina has hit the big time. , . , Themaiorstatenewseventsot lyyi reflect a growing trend in the Tar Heel state toward big-ttme politics, bean- dais, partisan tensions and govern ment complacency have propelled North Carolina into the arena of na tional notoriety. "North Carolina consistently over the years has reflected trends the na tion goes through," said N.C. Repub lican Party chairman Jack Hawke. "As much as we like to think we control our own destinies, national trends ... have always played a big part in N.C. life." As the jurisdiction of the federal government shrinks, the N.C. General Assembly has won greater control over economic and social policies. "More and more government policy and creative policy is taking place at a state level," said N.C. Democratic spokesman MikeJEvans. "That means more problems can be traced back to Oliver Wendell Holmes LJ Tracy Keene Stores to run ads from competing with private businesses. Five and one-half pages of the 14 page insert feature Student Stores mer chandise. The magazine is sent to about 100,350 homes. Susan Ehringhaus, chief University legal counsel, said she was reviewing the issue and would advise the chancel lor as to what action to take. Chuck Helpingstine.owner of Johnny T-shirt, said Student Stores might be hurting his business because alumni could select items from a Johnny T shirt catalogue if they were not receiv ing Carolina Collectibles. "It's a form of competition that's not supposed to be there by law," he said. "I don't think Student Stores ... should See UMSTEAD, page 4 'The whole situation's unfortunate," said Al Collier, the owner of the two-year-old dance club. "The Club was the only place you could go to be yourself and have a good time." Collier said he was never officially notified about why his lease was not approved and added that he planned to move out of town for "personal rea sons." In September, Collier said his lease See CLUB, page 11 Year In Review Raleigh rather than Washington." Although the problemsconfi outing North Carolina in 1991 varied in na ture, most major state issues during the past year had their roots in govern ment, experts said. An extensive budget battle and a short-lived libel case have set the stage for a highly charged 1992 campaign season. The 1988 lieutenant governor's race returned to a Cumberland County courtroom in October when former challenger Tony Randcharged Lt. Gov. Jim Gardner with libel. Gardner, the Republican front-runner in the 1992 governor's race, was accused of running libelous ads de picting Rand as an accessory to drug trafficking. Bombarded with negative public ity, Gardner apologized for the adver tisements and ended the libel suit after See N.C, page 7
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