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EASTER EATERS: Can't leave town? Go to dinner CAMPUS, page 3 REPUBLICAN ROUT: Analyst says GOP will fail in '96.... NATION, page 4 SportsLine Major Leagues"' FRIDAY: Partly cloudy and Boston 6, Baltimore 5 breezy; high low 80s on campus ; Cincinnati 3, Atlanta 1 Houston 5, Los Angeles 4 NBA Basketball Yackety Yack Is taking y laig iar Serving the students and the University community since 1893 protraitsat 9 a.m. In 213 Union. Amnesty International Stu NAMED: As head coach of the San Antonio Spurs, Jerry Tarkanian, who left UNLV as the NCAA's winningest active coach, by percentage, with a 624-122 (.836) record. dent Action Group will write urgent-action letters at 5:30 p.m. In Lenoir Dining Hall. ;f2 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Est. 1893 1992 OTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 100, Issue 29 Thursday, April 16, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcWSporttAru 962-0241 BurineWAdvntWnt 96M16J WEATHER" TODAY: Cloudy; high mld-70s Mm Congress committee By Marty Minchin Assistant University Editor '. A special Student Congress commit tee will look into a recent spending 'spree that has left congress with only a small amount of money to operate on for the remainder of the year. : The audit also will investigate all congress expenditures in the past year. Speaker Jennifer Lloyd appointed the committee Wednesday night after dis covering that congress had only $ 1 68 in its account. Pam Sanders, congress organiza Emiis ready far challenges as University Police chief By Bonnie Rochman Assistant University Editor ! Although the University's new di rector of police and public safety has not formulated a game plan yet, she said she was looking forward to taking con trol of UNC's 54-member force. Alana Ennis, a Durham Police De partment captain, said she would not make any immediate changes upon her installment May 4. "It's too soon to tell about the (department's) problems," she said. "I need time to learn the people and the agencies." About three months should prove to be adequate time for Ennis to learn about the inner workings of the depart ment, she said. "Hopefully, within 90 days I'll have a grasp of what's what." Improving the professional aura of University Police is something Ennis said she hoped to accomplish jointly with the officers. "Tve read what they've said in the paper about a more profes sional agency, and that's my goal, too." In her role as one of four district commanders, Ennis was responsible for supervising the work of four sergeants and 4 1 officers in neighboring Durham, a city riddled with crime. Although geographically Chapel Hill Commission may reconsider University ash By Dana Pope Assistant City Editor Orange County Commissioners will reconsider lowering the University's ash tipping fee next week, but one com missioner said Wednesday that the is sue should not be brought up again. : Donald Willhoit.thecommissioner's representative on the Landfill Owners Group (LOG), said at a Wednesday LOG meeting that the commissioners might vote again on the ash tipping fee issue. The commissioners decided against decreasing the University's fee in a 3-2 vote last week. But Commissioner Stephen Lenoir's summer hours won't include dinnertime By Chandra McLean Staff Writer ' . Lenoir Dining Hall will be closed during dinner and weekend hours this summer because not many students have eaten there in previous years, University officials said Wednesday. . "Few people eat dinner on campus during summer break," said Biruta Nielsen, contract administrator for auxiliary services. "A lot of people are here for only a short time over the summer, whether it be for conferences or for one session of summer school." Chris Derby, director of Carolina Dining Services, said that because stu dents are not required to purchase meal plans during the summer, many don't eat at Lenoir. "In 1990-91, we dropped the man datory requirements," he said. During the school year, students who live on campus are required to purchase $ 100 meal plans each semes ter. Nielsen said that to compensate for the limited hours at Lenoir, Union Sta tion will offer more dinner options to students. "There will be more sandwiches and salads for students to choose from." Derby said Union Station's hours would be extended to 6:30 p.m. Mon- if you're going to do something tonight tional treasurer, said members could not account for $216 worth of office supplies purchased April 3. Tim Moore, former congress speaker, authorized all expenditures. Moore could not be reached for com ment Wednesday. "What mainly brought this about was the expenditures in the last week of congress," Sanders said. "We're just interested in finding out where these (funds) went." Rep. Andrew Cohen, Dist. 6, special committee member, said the purchases were not very economical. is only about 10 miles apart from Durham, the crime climate is radically different, she said. "We deal with a lot of violent crimes, homicides and as saults, in Durham. "That's not to say there's never vio lence on a university campus, but it's not to the same extent," she said. Carolyn Elfland, interim police chief and associate vice chancellor for busi ness, said Ennis was selected partly because of her experience with han dling violent crimes. "When we interviewed her for the job, she said, 'I had two murders this week,' " Elfland said. Elfland said such experience was particularly important for the position because about 44 assaults were reported to University Police in 1991. Ennis said she has had some previous ' experience in dealing with the mechan ics of a college campus. "The only other university I've worked with is Duke, and they have an excellent department." But Ennis said she was not implying that the Tar Heels' rival school had a superior police department. "I'm really looking forward to work ing at the University," she said. "If I didn't believe the University had a good department, I wouldn't have applied." Halkiotis, who voted against a reduc tion, said Wednesday that he had never heard of voting again on any issue and would not change his vote if the com mission voted again. "As far as I'm concerned, the matter's closed," he said. The University had reached a tenta tive agreement earlier this year with a private company to haul ash produced at its West Cameron Avenue power plant to a landfill in Fayetteville for a lower price. But Chapel Hill Public Works Direc tor Bruce Heflin presented the Univer sity with a plan to keep the ash in the town's landfill. s day through Thursday during the sum mer. Regular weekend hours, from 10 s a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and from t to 5 p.m. Sunday, also will apply. .: "Normally, they closed at 4:30p.m. in past summers," Derby said. "They will have pizzas, sandwiches and sal ads available, and that should suffice for the dinner hours." Lenoir Dining Hall will close at c 2:30 p.m. on weekdays this summer, and Chase Hall will not operate. On campus residents live in three North :S Campus dormitories and Craige Resi dence Hall. Derby said officials from the hous ing department, summer school and ' auxiliary services came to the deci sion. Yolanda Pridgen, a sophomore from Wilmington, said she did not think Lenoir's early closing would affect her. "I don't eat at Lenoir during the summer anyway," Pridgen said. "I ; usually eat out at restaurants with friends because my classes are in the mornings." Maureen Hagerty, a junior from Raleigh, said that although it would be nice to have a dinner option at Lenoir : during the summer, it would not be . worthwhile to keep Lenoir open for ; only a few students. "It is unusual that they were pur chased a couple of days before the pre vious speaker left office," he said. "It is unclear what happened to a large amount of office supplies." Denny Skipper, former congress clerk, said he bought the supplies but did not have time to put them away when he returned to Suite C, so he locked them inside the office. When he returned the next day to put the supplies away, someone had al ready done the job, he said. Sanders said she also questioned the whereabouts of supplies purchased ear Ennis said the decision to continue existing programs, such as bike patrols and student patrols, would hinge on how successful they appeared after she analyzed them. Potential areas of concentration could include accrediting the department, she said. Ennis, who was instrumental in the Durham Police Department's suc cessful quest for national accreditation, said she was aware of only five univer sity police departments in the country that were accredited. Accreditation improves the status of a police department because of the in tense examination the department must submit to in the process, she said. "It gives the agency a lot of credibility because you're judged by outsiders," she said. "Every facet of your agency is scrutinized." The University could benefit from receiving accreditation because it can decrease the risk of successful civil liability lawsuits brought against the department, Ennis said. To prove her point, Ennis cited a case in Pennsylvania alleging police brutal ity. The suit was dropped by the plain tiff after accreditation documents proved that the officers had acted in accordance with the rules of their department. Heflin's plan would reduce the University's tipping fee by $7, from $20 per ton to $13 per ton. Govern ments of Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Orange County would make up the dif ference by paying an extra $3 for ash tipping at the landfill. Willhoit said earlier this week that lowering the fee for the University, while creating a higher one for local town and county governments, was not the issue. "This isn't a question of preferential treatment," he said. "This is not a fee on garbage." But Halkiotis said commissioners were trying to accommodate the University. Public housing needs more attention, By Brendan Smith Staff Writer Public housing is not just a problem for poor people, but it is an issue, like public schools or roads, that must be addressed by the entire community, Donna Dyer, executive director of Or ange Community Housing Corporation (OCHC), said Wednesday. 'The community needs to come to agree that everybody needs public hous ing," Dyer said. "The problem is not a low-income person's problem; it's everybody's problem." Dyer spoke at the second quarterly board meeting of the Public Private Slogan unites independent presidential, gubernatorial campaigns By Rebecah Moore Assistant State and National Editor "Joe and Perot, the Independent Way to Go" Whether they know it, independent candidates H. Ross Perot and Joe Mavretic have been tied together for a campaign slogan that has been appear ing in local newspapers, on bumper stickers and on other campaign para phernalia. Mavretic, an independent guberna torial candidate, and Perot, the Texas billionaire whose potential presidential campaign has placed him in the national spotlight, have been dubbed the state's that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late. investigates spending lier in the year, such as 200 stamps and a ream of paper. "We've looked through the office, and a lot of those things aren't there," she said. "There are little things that should be there." Cohen said, "It seems to her these things couldn't be consumed by normal congress usage in the passage of time between then and now." Andy Bressler, also a special com mittee member, said the committee was planning to find out exactly how the money was spent. "There were some funds spent at the Aahnold Arnold Schwarzenegger, chairman of the Vufeo-' I ff I ""l. f iff 1 ' I 4 I 111 v ) n i 7 r - if t S i - ! ' ' I t t ' W ) - f f khiifS Illilf ' fx will? '; liiil j Mf ill ( 1 1 III f iMMMaMir I II m-mmm , ttiagf irtiiiMialMMIMMMWBBilM mmmit " ' nifrttilM " -- Physical Fitness & Sports, visits Raleigh Wednesday. The actor, )im Martin and spoke "(The commissioners voting in fa vor) were trying to pass a piece of favorite consideration to lower the University's cost," he said. "That's wrong. That's all there is to it. I will fight against it. It's a bunch of trash, no pun intended." At Tuesday's Carrboro Board of Al dermen meeting, Alderman Jay Bryan asked Heflin if reducing the University's fees would set a precedent other groups would want to follow. "Historically, we have not had those type of requests," Heflin said. "We don't anticipate a deluge of requests, but we need to be aware of that possibility." Halkiotis said the county commis April declared Fair Housing Month 3 Partnership (PPP), a group of represen tatives from area governments, the Uni versity, local merchants and commu nity groups who meet to discuss com mon concerns. Despite some efforts to build more affordable housing in Orange County, many stumblings persist, Dyer said. Orange Water and Sewer Authority hook-up fees, which do not fluctuate with the price of housing, cause devel opers to build expensive houses to off set the flat fees. OWASA hook-up fees of $4,325 added 5 percent to the cost of a house solutions to parti san politics by campaign support ers who have placed ads, on be half of Mavretic, in papers such as The Daily Tar Heel, which ran a "Joe and Perot" ad Monday. But neither Mavretic's nor )oe Mavretic Perot's N.C. campaign supporters knew about the Perot tie-in. Mavretic, who presently is serving as a member of the N.C. House of Repre ,3 very end of this past (congressional) year that we don't know how they were spent," he said. Sanders said that she and Lloyd thought the congress account contained more than $600, but when they went to the Student Activities Fees Office, they discovered less than $200. She and Lloyd found that many con gress expenditures from earlier in the year, such as a long-overdue bill to Student Stores, had not been paid, Sand ers said. "We were very surprised these ex penditures were on there and we were President's Council on best known for his role tipping fee sioners had been more vocal in their opposition because the landfill issue was primarily a county issue. "Most of the thrust of landfill proce dure is put on the county," he said. At Wednesday's LOG meeting, Carrboro Alderman Tom Gurganus said the aldermen would have voted in favor of the reduced ash tipping fee at their meeting Tuesday but added that alder men still had questions about the pro posal. "It's not a mandate," he said. "There is enough discussion so that we should consider those who are against." Alderman Randy Marshall said ev ery taxpayer in the county would face the OCHC is building in Carrboro, Dyer said. The OCHC, a non-profit organiza tion funded by area governments, has plans to build 2 1 houses for people with incomes below 80 percent of the me dian income. Dyer said she would approve of a si iding scale for OWASA fees based on the price of a home or a rebate for low income families. Carrboro Board of Aldermen mem ber Jacquelyn Gist said OWASA fees could not be changed from project to project because they were set by local governments. "I think we're barking up the wrong tree when we blame OWASA for the sentatives from District 8, said the DTH ad was submitted on his behalf by Braxton Honeycutt, an N.C. State Uni versity graduate student. Honeycutt was unavailable for comment. "I did not know about (Perot's name on the ad)," Mavretic said. "I guess I gave him some free press, but someone else handled the placement of the ad." The idea for the "Joe and Perot" slogan originated in a headline in The (Raleigh) News & Observer's "Under the Dome" column, Mavretic said. "I told (the newspaper), 'I don't think it should be Perot and Joe but Joe and Perot'," he said jokingly. "That has to be where it is from." not aware of them," she said. One reason congress members are so concerned with the missing supplies is that congress will operate on half of its budget from last year, Sanders said. Lloyd said, "Simply not enough money exists." In other news, Moore said he would drop a bill that would have revamped the Carolina Union Board of Directors. The proposal was met with strong opposition from Union leaders. Four board positions reserved for student groups would have been replaced with congress members. DTHKevm Chigneil in the Terminator" movies, met with Gov. to elementary school students. reduction increased taxes if the proposal was not approved. "The facts are this isn't going to shorten the life of the landfill, and it's not bribery by the University," he said. "I think it's a reasonable proposal, and we should approve it." But Alderman Frances Shetley said she opposed giving the University a lower tipping fee. "I don't see an advantage in filling it up faster than necessary and getting less money for doing so," she said. "It seems to be fair that we should reject this request, and hopefully they willcooper ate with us anyway. It's just a neces sity." group says hook-up problem," Gist said. Expensive hook-up fees are caused more by local governments, which fail to fully fund OWASA, than by OWASA itself. Gist said. In addition to lowering OWASA fees. Dyer said area governments should al locate funds specifically for affordable housing. Other communities provide funds for affordable housing through bond refer endums, tax hikes and requirements that developers build a certain number of low-income homes, she said. Dyer said that she was not sure what See PPP, page 4 Like Mavretic, Perot'scampaign sup porters were shocked to find out the Texas computer tycoon's name ap peared in the ad. "I was not aware of (the ad)," said Jonathan Demers, co-coordinator of N.C. Citizens for Perot. Perot's supporters have campaign offices in Raleigh, Charlotte and Winston-Salem in an effort to get the Texan's name on the general election ballot. Perot has said he would run if his name appeared on the ballot in all 50 states. Although Perot has refused to en dorse any independent candidates run See PEROT, page 7 Henny Youngman
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