COMPUTER COLD: Virus strikes PCs nationally at UNC CAMPUS, page 3 FALLEN HEELS: 2 losses knock Carolina off ivory tower.........SPORTS, page 5 ON CAMPUS VOTE TODAY!!! mm n irir 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Est. 1893 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 1992 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 162 Tuesday, February 25, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewiSporUArt 962-0245 BmlneWAdvcrtlslni 962-1163 WEATHER TODAY: Rainy; high low 60s WEDNESDAY: Rain; high around 60 it a i? o it 0 4 o a o "A Day care trials strike fear in hearts of wary parents By Rebecah Moore Staff Writer With sex abuse trials like the ongoing Little Rascals Day Care case splashed across newspapers daily, worried parents are caught between fearing for their children's safety and having no place to leave them during the work day. Seven months of graphic testimony in the sexual molesta tion case of Little Rascals Day Care owner Robert Kelly has severely damaged the credibility of child-care centers. But hard economic times have forced many protective parents to risk entrusting their children to the hands of strangers. "Parents are shocked, angry and feel their trust is under mined when these (types of) cases occur," Drell said. "They feel guilty about sending theirchildren to day care while they go off to work." Robert Kelly, his wife Elizabeth Kelly and five center employees were indicted on charges of sexually molesting more than a dozen children in their Little Rascals Day Care Center in Edenton. Although Robert Kelly's trial, the longest in N.C. history, has raised questions about the safety and quality of day-care programs, child-care centers have seen a dramatic increase in enrollment in recent years. 'The number has definitely increased, but parents are being much more cautious," said Maddie Wardsworth, direc tor and owner of Happy Day Day Care Center in Chapel Hill. "Parents want more open door policies and guarantees their children are safe." Any trial where a trusted day-care worker is charged with molesting or harming children naturally will cause parents to question the safety of their children, said Martin Drell, head psychiatrist of the infant, child and adolescent psychiatry division at the Louisiana State University Medical School. But unfortunately for worried parents, the ideal situation of keeping children at home with a parent until they reach school age is rare. In many families, both parents must work to acquire the needed income, said Roberta Polk, program director for Family Day Care at the-Family and Child Ser vices of Washington, D.C. "The old days of leaving children with a grandma, auntie or trusted neighbor are gone," Polk said. "Day care is a necessity, not a luxury." The current recession and the rising cost of living have turned day care into a much-needed option for many parents, Drell said. "Forty years ago it was unheard of to place a child in day care," he said. "With the economy the way it is, people have to trust their children to strangers." The nation's sagging economy also has affected salaries in the child-care industry. Despite a rise in the number of children enrolled in day cares, center owners still are not able to raise their workers' wages. As it has with many elementary and secondary school teachers, dropping salaries have led to a decline in the number of qualified day-care workers. "People are paid abysmally, so (the industry) doesn't always attract the best and the brightest," Drell said. 'Taking care of the next generation is not a profession that is taken seriously." The Little Rascals trial and other recent sexual abuse cases involving day-care centers have prompted re-evaluation of the employee selection process. Presently, a center's director has the prerogative to choose employees without considering any government-approved standards. Hiring processes can range from an application and back ground check to interviews and supervised trial periods. "My process is application, but the employee must do substitute work first," Wardsworth said. "I also rely on previous employers, not just the last one on their application, and personal references." Barry Lawson, co-director of the Small Wonder Learning Center Inc. in Winston-Salem, said he conducted a series of interviews to observe an applicant's personality. See DAY CARE, page 2 Students to cast final votes in run-off elections ByTeeshaHolladay Staff Writer Today is the big day for student candidates and the last day for campus elections. Voters will cast the deciding bal lots in run-off elections for student body president. Daily Tar Heel editor and senior class president and vice president. Juniors also may write in candidates for the office of senior class treasurer, and dormitory residents will choose area governors for Granville, Morrison, Mangum, Morehead and Scott Residence College. Graduate students can cast write-in ballots to fill congres sional districts 2 through 10 based on their department. All graduate students can vote in a special election to fill the two new at-large District 1 1 seats. Candidates in the run-off for student body president are Rashmi Airan and John Moody. Daily Tar Heel editor candidates are Matthew Eisley and Peter Wallsten. The senior class president and vice president teams in the run-off are Art Gallagher and Yvette Rieger and Bob Paty and Elizabeth Mitchell. The six poll sites remain the same as in the Feb. 1 1 general election. The rain site for the Pit location is 205-6 Union. Polls will be open today from noon to 6 p.m. Any under graduate or graduate student may vote with a valid student ID and registration card. Chris Bracey, Elections Board chairman, said he could not Run-off Candidates estimate student turnout for the run off election. "Last week there were 3,164 total votes,"Braceysaid. "Thisisupfromlast year's total and is more than we ex pected." Election returns will be counted in room 209 Manning beginning at 7 p.m. Bracey said offi cials would tabulate the results by mid night at the latest. "Two weeks ago, we were unable to get results until mid-day on Wednesday," he said. "This time should go more quickly." Most students questioned said they planned to vote, but many had unanswered questions about the voting process. Whitney Lewis, a freshman from Atlanta, said she didn't understand why election officials eliminated poll sites. 'Two weeks ago, it was really tough to get to the polls," Lewis said. "The lines were terrible, and the whole process took much longer than I expected. I think it would have been much easier with more poll sites." Tommy Koonce, a freshman from Fayetteville, said he Student Body President John Moody Rashmi Airan Daily Tar Heel Editor Peter Wallsten Matthew Eisley Senior Class PresidentVice President Bob PatyElizabeth Mitchell Arthur CallagherYvette Rieger would vote, even though he hadn't been pleased with the elections so far. "I don't think they ran smoothly at all," Koonce said. "The candidates were too concerned with getting elected and not concerned enough with the school." In a DTH poll, 80 students said they planned to vote today, while only 28 said they did not plan to vote. Only a handful of students said they did not know where to vote. Students surveyed also split down the middle between the candidates for DTH editor and student body president. Airan and Eisley held slight advantages in the election two weeks ago. Eisley had 1290 votes to Wallsten's 1023. Airan had 792 votesto Moody's 719. Student Election Poll Sites Pit (rain site, 205-6 Union) All students Carmichael dorm Dist. 17 residents only Granville Towers basketball court Granville residents, off-campus residents Law School Graduate students only Chase Hali ..South Campus undergrads, all grads Health Sciences Library Off-campus undergrads and grads ir ' " Mi -....IrLtf a !Z25Mta&i.... .u DTHToddBarr Smokin' sax Sam Newsome, the tenor sax player for the Terence Blanchard Jazz Quintet, performs in Memorial Hall Friday night. Blanchard composed the music for Spike Lee's "Jungle Fever" and "Mo' Better Blues." ailed .Hardin c to act on BCC housekeepers By Ashley Fogle Assistant University Editor A coalition of student activists de manded Monday that Chancellor Paul Hardin address three proposals for im proving the University community, but Hardin said he refused to respond to demands. The Black Student Movement, the Campus Y, student government and the housekeepers movement outlined plans for a new black cultural center, an en dowed chairfor the late Sonja Stone and concessions for UNC housekeepers. Hardin has until 4 p.m. March 1 1 to respond to the groups' demands, said Arnie Epps, BSM president. Epps de clined to comment on what action the groups "would take if the chancellor refused to address their concerns by the appointed deadline. But Hardin said he was concerned that the requests were "couched in terms of demands." "This is familiar rhetoric, but I will make a decision based on reasoned ar guments, not demands," he said. "I will not respond negatively or positively to demands." Epps said Monday night that the term "demand" was used by the coalition to convey a sense of urgency. "These are issues that we feel strongly about, and if the chancellor fails to respond by the date and time indicated, he should be prepared for direct action," he said. Hardin must commit to finding an on-campus location for a free-standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center, Epps said. The UNC Board of Trustees in 1989 approved a search for a permanent home for the center. Hardin said he supported the BCC as a program. "However, I do not agree with a free-standing center," he said. "I am in favor of something like we have now, but I realize that space is too small. It should be part of a campus development for student activities rather than a separate, outside structure." The groups demanded that the new structure cover at least 23,000 square feet in the area bounded by South Road, Franklin Street, Raleigh Road and Pittsboro Street, as proposed by Facility Planning officials in 1989. The coalition also demanded that one of 40 endowed chairs to be funded by the Bicentennial Campaign be named in honor of Sonja Stone. Hardin said he had no control over donations to the B icentennial Campaign and could not name the endowed chairs. "The chairs are established by donors that request to honor a certain person." Heather Lynch, Campus Y president, presented several demands on behalf of the housekeepers, who filed a Step 3 grievance against UNC in January. The grievants must be allowed to See DEMANDS, page 2 Wan convicted for raping UNC student faces prison term ByMarcyJ.Walsh Staff Writer An 1 8-year-old Chapel Hill resident who pleaded guilty Friday to the second-degree rape of a UNC graduate student last summer faces 28 years in prison. James Franklin Chavis Jr. of 323-1 2 Brooks St. pleaded guilty to the charge afteraplea bargain agreement with Carl Fox, Orange-Chatham County district attorney. Fox said he offered to drop a first degree rape charge against Chavis, which carries a life in prison sentence and a kidnapping charge, in exchange for a guilty plea of second-degree rape. Chavis probably would serve only 10 years to 12 years of the sentence before being paroled, Fox said. JaneCousins, Chapel Hillpoliceplan- ner, said the woman had been held at knife point, gagged and raped in her apartment after midnight July 2. Chavis stole jewelry, the woman's driver's license and other items before leaving. Cousins said. Chavis, who was 17 and on proba tion at the time of thecrime, also pleaded guilty to a charge of burglary and lar ceny and was sentenced to three years in prison, making his sentence a total of 28 years, Fox said. Fox said the victim's inability to iden tify with certainty Chavis as the man who broke into her home on Columbia Street was one reason for the plea bar gain. "The victim saw a photo-lineup and said she was 80-percent sure that Chavis was the man who raped her," Fox said. To sustain a charge of first-degree rape in court, the victim must identify with 100-percent certainty the defen dant as her attacker. Because the victim was only 80-percent sure that the man she chose in the photo-lineup was her attacker, she could only testify that he looked like the man who raped her. Fox said. Fox said police matched Chavis' fin gerprints with those found in the victim's apartment on a guitar and a credit card. These fingerprints provided the evi dence to arrest Chavis and link him to the crime, he said. The woman, a UNC doctoral candi date, consented to the plea bargain, Fox said. "Otherwise, I never would have en tered the plea." Robert Trenkle, the defense attorney who represented Chavis, could not be reached for comment. English department mourns loss of library contributor, Tennyson expert By Birch De Vault Assistant University Editor "The tender grace of a day that is dead I Will never come back to me" Alfred, Lord Tennyson. Harold Shapiro, an English profes sor, died Saturday at UNC Hospitals after a long battle with heart problems. He was 60 years old. ' Laurence Avery, English department chairman, said Shapiro had an energy and a knowledge that would be sorely missed. "He was a man who could go on for hours on any subject and never tire," Avery said. "He loved to debate and rarely backed down from an argument." Shapiro specialized in Victorian lit erature and was a scholar in the works of Tennyson and John Ruskin. He also was a member of the English department's library committee and worked to expand the rare books de partment of the library system by ac quiring copies of each author's work during his years at UNC, Avery said. "Thanks to him, we have a definitive collection of Tennyson's work which will serve as the perfect basis for gradu ate and scholarly pursuits." Shapiro had a passion for Ruskin's works and continued their acquisition for the University until his death, he See PROFESSOR, page 3 Residents of public housing may be evicted if arrested on drug charges, council votes By Brendan Smith Staff Writer After listening to residents of Chapel Hill public housing ask for stricter regulations controlling drug activity, the Chapel Hill Town Coun cil unanimously adopted two resolu tions to the town's public housing lease agreement. ; But council members sent a third resolution, allowing tenants evicted because of drug charges to be reinstated if later found not guilty, to the Housing Advisory Board for review. One of the council's resolutions pro hibits drug-related activity by tenants in or near public housing. The other states that the town's Housing Advisory Board must prove tenants guilty of drug-related or criminal activity by the greater weight of evidence before evicting them. Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos ex plained that if tenants are to be evicted on drug-related or other criminal ac tivity, the board must establish the greater weight of evidence at the tenant's eviction hearing. Because of differing burdens of proof in civil and criminal proceed ings, the same evidence used to evict someone from public housing might not be sufficient to find them guilty of criminal drug charges, Karpinos said. See EVICTIONS, page 3 Casting one's vote is commendable. Throwing it away is another matter. Anonymous

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