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.Downtown business break-ins stamp police
By Amber Nimocks
City Editor
Several Chapel Hill merchants have
discovered during the past week that
glass has been broken and money taken
from their downtown businesses as a
string of larcenies and vandalism has
left Chapel Hill police stumped.
Barr-ee Station, Mink's Sports Cards,
Carolina Pride, an office at suite 103
NCNB Plaza, Universal Printing &
Publishing Co., and Papagayo Mexican
Restaurant were entered illegally late
Sunday night or early Monday morn
Colleagues mourn
deaths of honored
science professors
By Bonnie Rochman
Assistant University Editor
and Steve Politi
University Editor
Two University professors recog
nized nationally for scientific research
and locally for their concerns for stu
dents died recently.
John Koeppe, a 47-year-old associ
ate professor of biology, died Sunday of
complications from pneumonia after a
lengthy illness.
Philip Bassford, a 44-year-old pro
fessor of microbiology at the School of
Medicine, died during Winter Break.
Koeppe joined the University fac
ulty in 1 975. His research in the areas of
insect physiology and biochemistry at
tracted international attention.
During his 16 years in the biology
department, Koeppe helped develop an
group for undergraduate honors re
search. Lawrence Gilbert, department
chairman, said Koeppe was instrumen
tal in the program's success.
"He was the organizer and director of
the undergraduate research program in
the department of biology, which is one
of the most successful and imaginative
in the United States," Gilbert said.
Paul Koeppe said his brother had
been very dedicated to the University.
"His whole life was UNC,"Paul Koeppe
said. "He loved it very dearly."
Gilbert said Koeppe was nominated
this year for the Tanner Award for ex
cellence in undergraduate teaching. "He
gave everything for the students and
was a great undergraduate teacher."
Koeppe is survived by his mother,
Lillian Koeppe of Cedar Grove, Wis.;
brother Paul and sister-in-law Anne
Council hears plan
to relax restrictions
on downtown parking
By Jennifer Brett
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill residents expressed sup
port Tuesday night for a proposed plan
that would relax requirements for down
town business parking.
Chapel Hill Town Council members
voted unanimously to refer to the town
manager and town attorney the pro
posed development of a transportation
management plan for downtown.
Scott Bradley, a planning consultant,
said the plan was a necessary step he
supported wholeheartedly.
"I think (the plan) will go a long way
towards creating more coherency along
Franklin Street as we go towards
Carrboro," Bradley said. "There's a lot
of square footage and business opportu
nities that could be beneficial without
parking down there. The removal of
private parking would get rid of a lot of
problems."
The plan would encourage down
to wn development and alternative trans
portation use by eliminating the town's
requirement that downtown businesses
provide private parking, according to a
memo from Town Manager Cal Horton.
Because of the high land costs, ex
tensive land use, heavy pedestrian traf
If you want the present to be
ing, according to police reports.
Reports state that windows in the
businesses were smashed, and the cash
registers were damaged. Not all of the
businesses reported money missing.
The weekend break-ins follow sev
eral similar incidents last week.
TGIF Outlets, Great Cuts, Last
Tangle hair salon, the Ram Theatres 1-2-3,
Breadmen's Restaurant and two
office buildings were among the down
town businesses vandalized and entered
illegally during the past week.
Police spokeswoman Jane Cousins
said Tuesday that she thought the break-
Koeppe of Cross Plains, Wis.; and neph
ews Jim and Sam Koeppe of Cross
Plains.
A memorial service will be held at 2
p.m. Saturday at Binkley Memorial
Baptist Church in Chapel Hill. Burial
will be in Wisconsin.
Donations can be made to the Under
graduate Research Program, Depart
ment of Biology, University of North
Carolina, Campus Box 3280, Chapel
Hill, N.C. 27599-3280.
Bassford, a native of Washington,
D.C., won several awards for outstand
ing scholastic achievement and several
grants for his research.
"He was very interested at what he
did, " said David Klapper, professor of
microbiology. "He was very good at
what he did. He was considered to be an
outstanding adviser to his students.
"His students are taking it very hard.
Senior students will have to finish with
a new adviser, and starting students will
have to start again."
Bassford was an international au
thority on molecular mechanisms of
procarvotic protein secretion.
He came to UNC in 1979 as an assis
tant professor. He was promoted to as
sociate professor in 1984 and profes
sor in 1989.
Klapper said Bassford's death was
both surprising and not surprising.
"He was in intensive care for six or
seven weeks, ... but up until that day he
was perfectly healthy," Klapper said.
Charlotte Mansfield, microbiology
department administrative assistant, said
Klapper died of an unusual ailment that
caused several infections. Doctors tried
to save him by performing seven differ
ent surgeries, Mansfield said.
fic and readily available transit service,
the downtown area should be given
more flexibility in meeting minimum
parking requirements, the memo states.
Mickey Ewell, who owns Spanky's
and 41 1 West on Franklin Street, said
the management plan was the second
step toward encouragement of down
town development. The first step was
the decision to construct the Rosemary
Street parking deck, he said.
"We as Americans have a love affair
with our automobiles, and it's going to
be hard to discourage people from not
getting into their cars driving down
town," Ewell said.
But Ted Blostein, former director of
a New Jersey Board of Adjustments,
questioned the plan's feasibility.
"Personally, I don 't quite understand
what a transportation management plan
is, and I don't know how you would
enforce that," Blostein said. "I can't
follow how the developers are going to
set this thing up and how you're going
to enforce it to the fellow who he's
going to sublet to. Candidly, it boggles
my mind."
Downtown parking problems must
be contained, Blostein said.
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ins were committed by the same person
or group. There were no suspects in the
cases, she said, adding that police were
considering a wide variety of suspects.
"It is the kind of thing where kids
could be under consideration," Cousins
said. "At this point, we don't want to
rule anything out."
Foot patrols are assigned downtown,
she said. The number of officers patrol
ling downtown depends on the time and
day of the week.
"It varies," she said. "It could be as
many as five at one time."
Paschall McNeill, a manager at
Lighting the memory
Senior Deaundrea Adams joined about
members in an Alpha Kappa Alpha-sponsored candlelight vigil sang songs with the
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different from
Papagayo in NCNB Plaza, said Tues
day that no money was taken from the
restaurant.
McNeill said he thought the police
were doing what they could to prevent
crime.
"A lot of the problem here is with the
parking deck that is under construc
tion," he said. "(Police) used to be able
to cruise by and check out these alleys,
and now they can't."
Papagayo's management has con
sidered installing a new alarm system,
McNeill said.
"At this point I'm not sure what you
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50 other community honoring Martin Luther King Tuesday night. Vigil participants
Public Enemy
Editor's note: This is the second ar
ticle in a three-part series.
By Layton Croft and Alisa DeMao
Senior Writers
In "The Rejected Statement," George
Bernard Shaw wrote, "Assassination is
the extreme form of censorship."
On January 6, 1992, cable channel
MTV first aired Public Enemy's music
video "When I Get To Arizona," a track
off the rap group's latest album. Apoca
lypse '91: The Empire Strikes Black.
The video portrays black members of
the Public Enemy posse publicly shoot
ing, covertly poisoning and violently
sabotaging parodies of white Arizona
politicians who oppose a state holiday
honoring late civil rights activist Martin
Luther King. Those assassinated within
the video include a politician based on
presidential hopeful David Duke who,
at the beginning of the video, spouts
white supremacist and overtly racist
slurs.
Arizona is the only state that doesn't
offer a paid holiday to state employees
on the federally recognized King holi
day, which was observed Monday. In
stead, the state observed an unpaid civil
rights day Sunday.
the past, study
can do short of putting a security guard
in the building or a motion detection
device," he said. "We are so far back off
the main strip."
Karl Pace, a Universal Printing em
ployee, said Tuesday that there was not
much to be done about the break-ins.
"There's nothing we can do to keep
them from coming through the win
dows," Pace said.
No money was taken from the print
ing company, and Pace said there was
little damage to the cash register.
Pace said he thought the police usu
ally patrolled the plaza frequently.
DTHCarth fori
Black Student Movement Gospel Choir.
rap video raises
Former Ari
zona Gov. Evan
Mecham over
turned the newly
KING
established King 1929-1968
holiday in 1987,
saying it had been proclaimed illegally,
and established the civil rights day in
stead. However, many Arizona cities
and school districts have observed the
holiday.
Referendums designed to re-establish
the holiday were defeated in the
1989 and 1990 statewide elections.
Questions have been raised concerning
the most recent defeat because some of
the referendums on the ballot confused
voters.
Public Enemy rapper Chuck D de
fends the "Arizona" video as artistic
expression, the sole intent of which is to
encourage "dialogue" among the pub
lic and elected politicians. Appearing
live on MTV's "Rockline" and ABC's
"Nightline" Monday evening, Chuck D
fielded questions about the video's para
doxical denouncement of King's doc
trine and practices of civil disobedi
ence. "I think non-violence in a violent
society can be used as a statement but
the past. Baruch Spinoza
"I know people have walked out of
here and left the door open, and the
police have called the manager and told
him about it," he said. "Maybe they cut
back on patrols (Monday night). The
accountant was the first one who no
ticed (the broken window), and that was
at seven in the morning."
Cousins said there was not much
advice she could give merchants about
how to guard against the crimes.
"One thing some stores do is leave
the cash registers open so that people
can see that there is no money in them,"
she said.
South Loop
still draws
complaints
By Birch DeVault
Assistant University Editor
When Chancellor Paul Hardin re
quested Faculty Council support for the
, South Loop plan Friday, some Chapel
Hill residents interpreted his request as
a threat of bigger things to come.
Steve Wallace.an Odum Village resi
1 dent, said Hardin might have meant
more than he said.
"It's not so much what the chancellor
did say as what he didn't say," Wallace
said. "He simply wants the council not
to dissent when he earmarks unmarked
funds for construction of South Loop."
University administrators want Man
ning Drive rerouted to decrease the flow
of traffic near UNC Hospitals. The plan
to build South Loop Road would de
stroy part of Odum Village.
Wallace said he believed that Hardin
planned to use either funds originally
meant for educational uses or money
raised by the Bicentennial Campaign to
build South Loop.
"The faculty would not be pleased
when they hear that unneeded construc
tion is taking place while they don't
have enough supplies to run off hand
outs necessary for their classes," he
said. "Hardin wants to brace them and
bring more over to his side, if that is his
purpose."
Estelle Mabry, president of the
Chapel Hill Alliance of Neighborhoods,
said she agreed that the chancellor had
the power to transfer funds for South
Loop, but she suspected that any diver
sion of money from education would
meet strong opposition.
Some Faculty Council members
didn't believe Hardin's comments car
ried much weight.
"I think he perceives a need, but
thoughts like his getting money from
the Bicentennial Campaign are specu
lative at best," said Michael Salemi, a
Faculty Council member.
Wallace said if Hardin used Univer
sity money he would draw from discre
tionary funds, the uses of which are
controlled by the administration, he said.
"I foresee a semimutiny on thiscam
pus if and when he declares his true
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Arizonans' ire
not as a principle," Chuck D explained.
Arizona residents are denouncing the
video as bigoted and misinformed. Dur
ing a march Monday in Phoenix, Gov.
Fife Symington said the video had no
real significance and was merely propa
ganda, said Steve Clawson, an anchor
for the Phoenix radio station KTAR. '
DougCoIe.Symington'sspokesman,
said the governor believed that the video
made a racist statement about the people
of Arizona.
"He finds the video repugnant and
feels it represents everything that is
contrary to what Martin Luther King
stood for and what his legacy stands
for," Cole said. "The message of the
video is violence and revenge. (The
governor) feels the message is racist
because it taints every Arizonan as a
racist because you know not every
body in Arizona is a racist."
Listeners of KTAR's talk shows also
have expressed concern anddisappoint
ment, Clawson said.
"The switchboard lit up with calls
when we did the talk shows," he said.
"A lot of folks feel that (the video) was
really done unfairly because Chuck D
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