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Campus
Monday, Feb. 17
The UNC Laundry Service re
ported that counterfeit coins and dollar
bills were being used in the laundry
rooms at Morrison, Avery and
Carmichael residence halls.
Pol ice found 30 fraudulent dollar bills
in the change machine in Carmichael
and gold and silver slugs in the washers
and dryers in Avery and Morrison.
A laundry service representative said
about $10 to $12 per week was lost
because of the counterfeit money.
The Finley Golf Course staff re
ported that several areas of the course
were damaged by an unknown driver
during the weekend.
The practice driving range and put
ting green, No. 6 and No. 10 tees, and
the No. 3 fairway sustained damage
estimated at $800 to $ 1 ,000.
Police plan to increase patrols in the
area on weekends and after athletic
events.
Sunday, Feb. 16
A Chapel Hill resident was ar
rested at 1 1:25 a.m. on charges of second-degree
trespassing.
Police spotted Mark Beasley skate
boarding on Cameron Avenue and
stopped him on Franklin Street. After
an identification check, Beasley was
found to have been issued a trespass
warning for skateboarding on campus
Jan. 7.
Friday, Feb. 14
Motor Fleet Management reported
that a state vehicle was damaged in the
Carolina Inn parking lot.
Police responded at 8:48 a.m. and
found the driver's-side door kicked in
and the handle broken off. Damage was
estimated at $300.
Wednesday, Feb. 12
Finley Golf Course staff reported
that flag sticks had been stolen from the
course between Tuesday night and
Wednesday morning.
The sticks from all of the back nine
holes were missing when police re
sponded at 7:30 a.m.
The left middle door of Manning
Hall was damaged between 2:30 a.m.
and 4:30 a.m. while campus election
returns were conducted upstairs.
Police found signs of attempted
forced entry upon arrival. The toe and
jam lock had been npped from the door,
and damage was estimated at $300.
City
. ' ; Tuesday, Feb. 18
An ash can was thrown through the
glass front door of Le Pont, a clothing
store located at the Courtyard, between
1 1 p.m. Monday and 4 a.m. Tuesday,
according to police reports.
An unknown suspect gained entry
and took a money box which contained
about $20 in coins, reports stated.
A brick was thrown through the
glass front door of Colonel Chutney's
Bar and Grill, 300 W. Rosemary St.,
between 2 a.m. and 5:15 a.m. Tuesday,
according to police reports.
The suspect did not enter the restau
rant, police reports state.
Sunday, Feb. 16
The 200-block of Henderson Street
was the site of several marijuana arrests
Sunday morning just after 1 a.m.
Cole Hunter Headley of P.O. Box
620, Buies Creek, was arrested for
simple possession of marijuana, accord
ing to police reports.
Paul Allen Rockwell of 33 1 8 De
von Road, Durham, was charged with
unauthorized purchase of alcohol.
Rockwell told police that he had used
another person's identification to gain
entrance to bars located at the corner of
Henderson and Rosemary streets, po
lice reports stated.
Jason Matthew Keys of 800
Pritchard Ave., Ext. B-4, was arrested
at 12:15 a.m. behind Cat's Cradle, 206
W. Franklin St., according to police
reports.
Keys was charged with simple pos
session of a controlled substance, po
lice reports state.
Saturday, Feb. 15
Matthew Louis Williford of 1305
Melfleld Road, Raleigh, and Caren
Leigh Mallve were observed smoking
marijuana by officers sitting in an un
marked car behind Cat's Cradle at 10:44
p.m., police reports stated.
Williford and Mallve, Appalachian
State University students, were charged
with simple possession of a controlled
substance.
Police officers and the Chapel Hill
Fire Department responded to reports
of smoke coming from Brueggers Ba
gel Bakery, 104 W. Franklin St., at
1 1:01 p.m., police reports state.
Officers gained entry through the
bakery's front glass door to continue
their investigation, according to police
reports.
No damage was reported inside.
A resident of 407 E. Franklin St.
reported that when she woke up just
after 1 a.m., a suspect was standing in
her room, according to police reports.
The suspect fled on foot when the
victim awoke. No description of the
suspect was available, according to po
lice reports.
The suspect entered the residence by
removing a screen and opening a side
window, police reports stated.
ome owners call annexation too costly
By Jennifer Brett
Staff Writer
Residents of the Culbreth Park de
velopment spoke at a Monday night
Chapel Hill Town Council hearing
against a town plan to annex their neigh
borhood. Adele Newman of 1 05 Culbreth Park
Drive said many residents could not
afford the tax increase that would ac
company annexation.
"We are asking you to please vote
against the annexation of Culbreth Park
at this time," Newman said. "We are
thankful for our homes, and we are
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Matt White, a senior chemistry major from King, watches closely to see if the No. 1 5 ball
he has just shot will fall into the corner pocket. White escaped dismal weather
Teachers,
By Carol Davis
Staff Writer
Local parents and educators asked
again Monday night for more influence
in selecting Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
Schools' next superintendent, but some
board members hesitate to increase the
number of people involved with the
selection committee.
After hearing from residents at a
school board meeting, board members
considered appointing an II -member
group to serve with board members on
the selection committee.
Superintendent Gerry House said she
thought a larger selection committee
would threaten applicant confidential
Surcharge
By Tiffany Ashhurst
Staff Writer
Some local customers have com
plained about a surcharge on their natu
ral gas bills, but gas company represen
tatives say the charge is part of a new
weather normalization program.
Ruth Kinzey, public relations man
ager for the Public Service Company of
North Carolina, said the weather nor
malization adjustment enabledgas com
panies to make profits during unusually
warm winters and allowed consumers
to save money during cold winters.
'It takes the high and low swings out
of the process," Kinzey said. "If the
winter is warmer than normal, then
there's acharge on the fixed costs of the
bill, but if the winter is colder than
normal the customer receives credit.
The charge is based on a complex
formula computed every day based on
weather readings."
Campus personalities to battle
By Kathleen Keener
Staff Writer
How would you like to see 40 well-
known campus figures wrestle in lime
green Jell-O?
Participants in the UNC-Rostov Ex
change program hope a night of Jell-0
wrestling Friday will raise money for
their May trip to the former Soviet
Union.
Contestants include members of the
Clef Hangers, Student Environmental
Action Coalition, Carolina Fever, the
fencing and football teams and even
Mr. UNChimself, Ashutosh Kshirsagar.
The event will start at 6 p.m. in
Woollen Gym.
going to fight annexation."
Of the 50 homes in the development,
20 have been sold, Newman said. Ninety
percent of home owners signed a peti
tion opposing the annexation.
"A large number of residents in
Culbreth Park are state employees who
were denied increases in wages last
year," she said. "We can't handle more
taxes."
The average price of a Culbreth Park
home is $72,000.
Residents have not yet considered
filing a law suit, Newman said.
Drusilla Zimmerman, of 1 12Culbreth
Circle, said residents appreciated their
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parents might aid superintendent search
ity.
"Many applicants would not want
their names revealed unless they were
part of the final group," House said
Tuesday.
But board chairwoman Mary
Bushnell said she thought a larger se
lection committee would make the
board'sdecision more representative of
community interests.
"There are also those people who
would've been weeded out that educa
tors may approve," she said, adding that
the.board should make an effort to in
clude teachers in every step of the selec
tion process.
Some board members said it would
be too tedious for each applicant to be
on gas bill
The Public Service Company has
received some customer complaints
since the program charge was estab
lished in November, Kinzey said.
Other natural gas companies through
out the state also have installed a sur
charge. Craig Stevens, spokesman for the
N.C. Utilities Commission, said the
commission had received about 250
complaints about the program. "(The
commission is) collecting the com
plaints and creating a special file."
Bill Gillmore, a state natural gas in
dustry analyst, said that if a large num
ber of complaints were received about
the program, the complaints would be
channeled to the public staff commis
sion. The commission will decide whether
to let the program continue when utili
ties companies lobby again for rates, he
said.
"The consumer is mainly concerned
Tickets will be sold for $5 in the Pit
through Friday and for $6 at the door.
Ruffin Hall, a senior from Linden,
said he and his tag-team partner Greg
Parent, a senior from Gastonia, decided
to participate once the competition was
made coed.
"Greg and I support Russian ex
change enough to wrestle our two good
looking neighbors," Hall said.
The exchange program will send 12
University students and two faculty
members to Rostov-on-Don in May.
The exchange also will sponsor visits
by 12 Russian students and two faculty
members from Rostov State University
in October.
Exchange members hope to sell 500
affordable housing and were not ready
to be annexed.
"Sometime in a few years, we hope
to be included into your town,"
Zimmerman said. "But not yet."
Council member Julie Andresen said
annexation would present a financial
problem for many Culbreth Park resi
dents. "I can understand where it does
weigh on people with lower incomes."
Council member Mark Chilton said
the town should leave the annexation
option open until the burden on home
owners could be assessed fully.
"We need to clarify if the Realtor told
these people the truth about if and when
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conditions of chilly rain Tuesday afternoon by seeking refuge in the Union
Underground to engage in friendly pool competition.
perused by a large committee.
"Having a great number of people on
the school committee could be un
wieldy," said board member Ruth
Royster.
"And the information we've been
reading speaks clearly of having only
board members on the search commit
tee. This particular board has really
gone way out in making other parts of
the education community part of the
search process."
According to the board's proposal,
10 of the 1 1 selection committee mem
bers would be members of School Gov
ernance Committees, who administrate
the site-based management program.
Some governance committee repre
protested
with paying for things they don't use,"
Gillmore said.
Jo Cohen, a gas heat user from
Hillsborough, said she disagreed with
the weather normalization charges. "The
charge is not fair and is only a way for
the companies to get more money."
Kinzey said the company had tried to
inform customers about details of the
program by putting brochures and in
serts into bills.
Gillmore said no extreme protests
had been reported.
"Once (customers) understand it, it's
not quite as crazy," he said. "With the
old system, it required people betting
on the weather."
Because the N.C. Utilities Commis
sion regulates gas company rates, the
Public Service Company had to receive
the commission's approval to imple
ment this program.
Similar programs have been imple
mented in 40 states.
it out in Jell-0
tickets. The event will cost $1,500, so
members need to sell at least 300 tickets
to cover expenses.
Eve Furse, a sophomore from
Jenkintown, Pa., said participants hoped
the event would raise enough money to
cover the cost of plane fare.
Furse organized the event with
Ashley Perkins, a sophomore from
Marshville. Furse said the high school
she attended had raised more than $5,000
with a Jell-0 wrestling competition.
"I want it to raise a lot of money, but
I think it will be a lot of fun and will
bring the student community together,"
she said.
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they would be annexed, and we need to
determine if the additional financial
burden is something the residents can
handle," Chilton said. "The annexation
is not automatic by any means."
Residents said developers told them
the area, located off Culbreth Road near
U.S. 15-501, would not be annexed.
.The annexation is scheduled to go
into effect June 30.
Council member Joe Capowski said
many first-time home buyers often failed
to research community development
plans before moving in. "When a per
son buys a home, particularly if it's his
first, rarely does he go down to town
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sentatives expressed concern for the
board's proposal to involve 10 people
from the committees.
Committee representatives com
plained that they already spent vast
amounts of time working.
Governance committees should
choose representatives from the com
munity to help in the selection process,
they suggested.
Board member Sue Baker disagreed
with the suggestion and said board mem
bers often were required to do more
things than those for which they had
time.
Board members also requested that
at least two members of the selection
committee be minorities. A representa
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First black SBP advises
leaders to battle racism
with spiritual strength
By Jon Whisenant
Staff Writer
He was called a nigger on his first
day as a freshman on the University
campus. Discouraged, he decided to
seek an education elsewhere. But in
stead of letting racism intimidate him,
he gritted his teeth and stayed at UNC.
Three years later, he became UNC's
first black student body president, and
now, some 18 years later, he is in the
running for a seat on UNC's Board of
Trustees.
Richard Epps, 40, told many simi
lar stories about being a young black
man growing up in the '60s and '70s
and offered advice to today's black
campus leaders during a speech Tues
day night.
"I grew up in Wilmington, N.C,
when all the schools were segregated;
all the neighborhood restaurants and
theaters were segregated," Epps said.
"I can tell you what a debilitating
feeling it is to be turned away from a
theater or forced to sit on the back of
the bus. I can also tell you how to deal
with those types of struggles."
Epps said his parents enabled him
to overcome the barriers of his youth.
They lived in the South of the 1920s,
when blacks had little opportunity.
But Epps parents worked hard and
survived in an effort to ensure a better
life for their children, he said. They
provided him with support and in
stilled within him a moral imperative
hall and ask, 'What's going on in my
neighborhood?'
"People buying their first homes are
often naive and operating on a shoe
string budget," Capowski said. "It's an
emotional issue, and they're caught up
just getting into the house and starting
the American Dream. They're not con
cerned with the future of the develop
ment." The council has been explicit in stat
ing its intent to annex the area since the
issue originated in December 1989,
Capowski said.
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Woman
drowns in
whirlpool
By Amber Nimocks
City Editor
A woman found floating inaCarrboro
fitnesscenter's whirlpool Saturday prob
ably died of accidental drowning, an
Orange County medical examiner said
Tuesday.
Jennifer Joyce Owen, 29, of 104
Brighton Square, Carrboro, was pro
nounced dead after UNC Hospitals
emergency room workers tried to re
vive her. Dr. Lisa Flannigan of the Or
ange County Medical Examiner's Of
fice said.
Flannigan said the exact cause of
Owen's death had not been determined.
Police said preliminary autopsy re
ports indicated that Owen had a blood
alcohol level of 0.385 when she died.
Carrboro police Capt. Ben Callahan
said employees of The Gym, 503-C W.
Main St., Carrboro, found Owen float
ing in the pool with her head underwater
about 1 p.m.
Flannigan said South Orange Rescue
workers attempted to resuscitate Owens
after they responded to a call from The
Gym employees.
Owens came to The Gym about 1 1
a.m., according to police reports.
A blood-alcohol level of 0. 1 is con
sidered legally drunk in North Carolina.
Flannigan said she would not speculate
about how Owen's blood-alcohol level
had affected her. Effects depend on an
individual's weight and the frequency
of alcohol consumption, she said.
The manager of The Gym declined
comment about the incident Tuesday.
tive from the central office also would
serve on the proposed selection com
mittee. Board member Douglas Breeden said
the selection committee needed to have
proportionate representation of teach
ers, parents, principals and minorities.
Applications will be accepted for the
superintendent position until April 6.
The Board of Education will address
the selection process again at its March
2 meeting.
House announced earlier this year
that she would accept the
superintendent's position in the Mem
phis, Tenn., school system at the begin
ning of March.
to excel.
"When you see
your parents
struggle to pro
vide a future for
you, you must
work to prove that
you appreciate it
not waste it,"
he said.
Epps' speech
was part of the
Leadership Workshop Series spon
sored by the Sonja H. Stone Black
Cultural Center, Black Student Move
ment and Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Those who want to carry on the
legacy of black leaders of the past
should search for and develop a spiri
tual faith from which to draw strength,
he said. "The thread that runs through
all major black leaders is that they had
a personal relationship with a higher
being."
Martin Luther King, as a Christian
minister, had such a relationship, and
this gave him the strength to face the
police dogs and fire hoses of his oppo
nents, Epps said, and Malcolm X, a
devout Muslim, gained great strength
through his faith in Allah.
Rallies are effective tools for forc
ing an issue, but if used too much they
can lose their effectiveness, he said.
He advised students to choose wisely
when deciding to rally.
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