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Thursday, May 21, 1992
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UNC junior defenseman Holmes Harden (left) tries to cut off lacrosse match at Fetzer Field. The Tar Heels outlasted Brown 1 6
Brown attackman NeilMunroduringSaturdas NCAAquarterfinal 1 0, moving them to this weekend's Final Four. See story, page 6.
Violations
upset plant
neighbors
PPN members
call for change
By Kathleen Keener
Staff Writer
v Recent environmental violations
by the University's new power plant
and other pollution problems
prompted heated debate at a meeting
between area residents and Univer
sity officials this week.
Power Plant Neighbors, a group
formed to address residents' concerns
with the new plant, met Tuesday night
with UNC Vice Chancellor for Fa
cilities Management Gene Swecker
and Wayne Jones, the incoming vice
chancellor for business and finance.
Meanwhile, the state Department
of Environmental Management in
formed University officials this week
that the Cameron Avenue plant may
have violated emission standards and
rules for keepingrecords.UNCcould
face a penalty as high as $ 10,000 for
some of the is possible violations.
Neighbors are upset about allega
tions of high levels of sulfur released
by the plant, the constant noise and
the lights that remain on 24 hours a
day. In addition, a pile of coal behind
the plant, which University officials
have said soon would be covered by
grass, still spreads dust throughout
the neighborhood, PPN members
said.
Doug McFayden, UNC alumnus
and member of PPN, said he smelled
unusual odors and suffered from burn
ing lungs since the power plant
opened.
"I have been sick more in the past
six months than in my entire life with
respiratory problems," he said
Pierre Morrell, a resident of
Brookside Drive, said members of
PPN were worried about the level of
emissions, especially after the DEM's
announcement.
"We have repeatedly been assured
(by the University) that sulfur emis
sions are under control,"MorreU said.
Nevertheless, we have people com
plaining of burning lungs."
Members of PPN said they were
upset the University had not accepted
the proposal to let students and fac
ulty members test sulfur dioxide emis
sions earlier.
Swecker said testing for sulfur di
oxide emissions may begin within
the month.
Jerry Sharpe, who presently is
building a house in the area and owns
several rental properties around the
plant, said he did not understand the
University's reluctance to test for
emissions. -
'We don't want to believe this was
like other things in the past that was a
cover up," he added.
Members of PPN said they wanted
the University to take measures to
decrease noise caused by the plant.
Morrell said the plant exceeds noise
levels permitted by the town noise
ordinance 24 hours a day.
A fraternity party would receive
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UNC officials fight against
proposed tuition increases
By Peter Wallsten
Editor
The UNC system's chief lobbyist
said that because of Gov. Jim Martin's
proposal for a 10-percent tuition hike,
the General Assembly probably would
increase UNC tuition this fall.
"We may have some kind of tuition
increase," said Jay Robinson, UNC
system vice president forpublic affairs.
"I don't know of any time the governor
suggested a tuition raise and we haven't
had one. ... We are very concerned
about the effect that tuition and fee
raises have on students."
Legislators are searching for creative
ways to generate revenue, and a tuition
increase is a tempting alternative for
their needs, Robinson said in a tele
phone interview from the legislative
building, where he has spent the week
lobbying against the tuition increase.
'They're trying to make the money
reach further than they have the re
sources for," he said.
Martin's proposed 10-percenttuition
hike, part of his recently released bud
get proposal, would raise in-state tu
ition by $78, while out-of-state students
would pay $664 more per semester.
At press time, leaders in the state
House of Representatives and the state
Senate were unsure about when they
might release their budget proposals for
Scholars anticipate benefits
By Karen F. Peterson
Staff Writer
Faculty members at UNC are enthu
siastic about anew program to study the
American South in the Institute for Re
search in Social Sciences (IRSS).
"Southern studies is one area where
this University is the best in the world,"
said John Reed, IRSS director.
The UNC Board of Governors ap
proved funding for the Center for the
Study of the American South at its May
8 meeting.
The center's budget, estimated at
$ 1 40,000 for each of the next five years,
will be funded through grants and con
tributions, according to a memo from
Local 'unheralded talent'
By Peter Wallsten
Editor
What do Louisiana State basketball
star Shaquille O'Neal, Ohio State All
American Jimmy Jackson and UNC
student Doug McCurry have in com
mon? Not much, but all three have declared
themselves eligible for early entry in
next month's National Basketball As
sociation player draft.
McCurry, a rising junior from Char
lotte, sent letters this month to NBA
Assistant Director of Security Larry
Richardson declaring himself eligible
for the draft, despite his lack of expo
sure on the court.
"I had to tell him I was an unheralded
talent," McCurry said.
Richardson's job is to screen letters
the NBA receives from ambitious young
players. Because many people submit
letters as a joke, Richardson interviews
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Martin'sbudget
proposal, which
also includes a
plan for the state
to increase the
amount of over
head research re
ceipts it takes from
UNC-system
schools this year,
Jim Martin
has prompted uni-
versity and state leaders to push for
alternatives as the General Assembly
prepares for its summer session.
"The tuition battle is going to be very
tough, and we have the overhead re
ceipts on the table at the same time,"
Robinson said.
Under the budget approved last year,
the state currently claims 20 percent of
overhead receipts from UNC-CH and
N.C. State, the UNC system's major
research institutions. Martin's plan
would increase the state's share to 50
percent, at a cost of $1 1 million to
UNC-CH.
"I am cautiously optimistic about at
least some relief in the overhead receipt
area," Robinson said.
UNC's student government also has
plans to be involved in the tuition fight,
Student Body Vice President Charlie
Higgins said.
UNC-system President CD. Spangler.
The $10,000 needed to renovate IRSS
facilities in Manning Hall is already
available.
The goals of the center, which will
open this fall, include "research on the
public policy implications of public
health and environmental issues of the
South, development of a research pro
gram in Southern politics, research
colloquia on a variety of Southern po
litical issues, and work towards a gradu
ate program in American Studies with a
concentration in Southern studies,"
Spangler's memo states.
Various disciplines will be incorpo
rated into the center, including Afro
American studies, anthropology, eco
the potential draft
ees and their
former coaches.
NBA officials
contacted all 27
teams in the league
about McCurry's
eligibility,
Richardson said,
adding that he had
not heard if teams
were interested.
Rod Thorn, the
Doug McCurry
NBA's vice president for operations,
said McCurry's name was placed on a
list of about 10 other players without
college basketball experience.
McCurry's name is not listed as a "le
gitimate"candidate, and was not placed
on the same list as players like O'Neal,
who is expected to be the top draft pick.
"If anybody wants to sign (McCurry)
they can," Thorn said. "He's a free
agent."
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grievance concerns
By Anna Griffin
Associate Editor
. After just 16 months under the new
staff grievance procedure, UNC em
ploy ees are demanding changes be made
in a policy they claim is ineffective and
unfair.
Tensions between employees and
administrators were evident at a meet
ing held Wednesday between Chancel
lor Paul Hardin and about 35 employ
ees. Most of the workers were there to
express discontent with the staff griev
ance procedure and to support proposed
changes in the procedure.
In a recently-released report, the State
Employees Association of North
Carolina's District 35 chapter contends
the new procedure has made the process
more difficult. SEANC also recom
mended eight changes which they con
tend would make the chancellor more
responsible for the procedure.
"Lobbying is a dirty word," said
Higgins, who will head the executive
branch's efforts in the state legislature.
"That's not to say we're not going to be
involved. We're going to talk to the
people we need to."
Meanwhile, state Sen. Howard Lee,
D-Orange, assailed Martin's proposals
for increasing tuition, withholding a
larger percentage of overhead research
receipts and cutting back the state's
Basic Education Plan.
"It's almost as if the governor is
behaving foot loose and fancy-free now
that he's leaving office,"Lee said. "He's
making some asinine proposals, espe
cially in regards to education."
UNC-system officials should fight
against unnecessary tuition increases,
especially after last year's 20-percent
hike, Higgins said.
"Our concern is that any tuition in
crease is matched by a financial aid
increase," he said. "We don't want an
elitist University."
Lee said he will strongly oppose any
attempts at increasing tuition for UNC
system schools.
"We just had an increase," he said.
"My concern is we're going to keep
chipping away and increasing tuition to
the point that we're going todeny people
access to education in the universities."
See TUITION, page 2
of American South program
nomics, education, English, folklore,
geography, health education, history,
journalism, law, political science, psy
chiatry and sociology, according to the
memo.
Reed said the center was destined to
be a success.
"A dozen or more departments do
research on the South and have worked
together informally for years," he said.
"It would be foolish not to build on this
strength."
The center will begin as part of the
IRSS, but may become independent
later. The IRSS acts as a research sup
port organization for faculty and gradu
ate students, and provides statistics and
data processing services for social sci
declares NBA eligibility
Thorn said McCurry's name was cir
culated with those of other less serious
candidates. "We'll get letters from, say,
a 50-year-old who used to play in high
school and wants to be eligible, or some
fraternity kid who wants to get his name
in the paper," Thorn said.
McCurry, a 20-year-old Morehead
scholar, played prep basketball at Provi
dence Day School in Charlotte. The 6-foot-6
center averaged about 16 points
a game, but sustained minor injuries
before his freshman year at UNC.
The declaration of draft eligibility
was somewhat of an experiment to learn
how the NBA chooses candidates for
the draft, McCurry said.
"I probably would have done this
whether I was miserable at basketball or
not," he said. "Obviously I'm not want
ing to get drafted by the NBA. I prob
ably wouldn't even make Carolina's
team. The jayvee team maybe."
McCurry said his love of profes
not yet. Saint Augustine
"This whole thing reminds me of the
Hamlet fire," Jim Goldstein, head of the
District 35 personnel and grievance
committee, said of the Imperial Foods
Products fire that killed 25 workers last
September. "Everybody knew there
were violations there, but nobody both
ered to investigate.
"Somebody at the top wasn't doing
their job. This is a similar situation
there's no coordination at the top."
While Hardin said he agreed the sys
tem took too long, he denied SEANC
complaints that he was not taking an
active enough role in overseeing the
process.
"Obviously, for the most part, the
people who came today came to express
dissatisfaction with the system," Hardin
said at the Wednesday morning meet
ing. "But it's often hard to differentiate
sometimes between disappointment af
ter a grievance has been rejected and
disappointment in the system.
Police investigation
of standoff continues
By Dale Castle
Staff Writer
Chapel Hill police officials Wednes
day still were investigating the events
leading up to a six-hour standoff with
a man at his Pinegate apartment Tues
day night.
William K. White, a retired Vir
ginia law enforcement official, sur
rendered to Chapel Hill police late
Tuesday after waiting in his apartment
with a .44-caliber handgun.
White, 43, of 1081 Pinegate Apart
ments, Chapel Hill, was taken to a
physician at Duke Hospital after po
lice officers took him into custody
shortly after 11:20 p.m.. Chapel Hill
policespokeswomanJaneCousinssaid
Wednesday.
Police rushed to the scene at about
5:40 p.m. Tuesday after receiving a
report that White may have assaulted
Rhonda Allen, who lived with him in
the apartment, Cousins said.
A witness told authorities that Wh ite
had the gun in sight when he was with
Allen, Cousins said. By the time po
lice arrived on the scene, Allen had
kicked White and run out of the apart
ment. No charges have been filed yet
against White, although officials will
make a final decision after interview
ing the parties involved. Cousins said
We never got a chance to really
ence researchers.
Associate Provost Carol Reuss said
the IRSS has "the mechanism for bring
ing people from varying departments
and disciplines together.
"We have had a faculty working
group on the American South at the
IRSS," she said. "They proposed that,
because we also have major holdings in
our library and we have other interests
across campus, we (create) a center
here."
The IRSS already administers sev
eral research programs focusing on the
South, such as the Southern Cultures
journal, the Southern Focus Poll and a
Southern Studies interdisciplinary work
ing group.
sional basketball lead him to declare
himself eligible. "I was just a big NBA
fan, a big fan of the Hornets because I'm
from Charlotte," he said.
Richardson contacted McCurry May
9 after receiving his first letter and in
formed the former prep star that he may
not have fulfilled all the NBA'seligibil
ity requirements.
"He was asking me questions about
my parents and my high school coach,"
McCurry said. "I never really told him
that I thought I wasn't as good as other
people, but I alluded to it."
In his second letter to Richardson last
week, McCurry explained why he chose
not to join Dean Smith's squad at UNC.
"Because I could not play during my
first two years of college, I did not want
to learn to play only two years in a
system like Dean Smith's that is very
difficult to learn," McCurry wrote May
12. "I felt this could only hamper my
future in basketball."
"Sometimes when you lose a griev
ance, the system may have worked."
Employees: Number of grievances
skyrocketing
In the report, SEANCclaims the num
ber of Step 3 grievances has quadrupled
since the new policy was instituted in
January 1991. Step 3, the final stage
before cases are referred to an adminis
trative law judge, involves a hearing by
a three-member Staff Grievance Com
mittee. Under the old process, the University
averaged six Step 3 grievance cases a
year, Goldstein said. But between Feb
ruary 1991, when the new procedure
took effect, and January 1 992, 26 cases
reached Step 3, according to UNC De
partment of Human Resources data.
"If the procedure worked, you
wouldn't see as many cases going to
See GRIEVANCE, page 2
talk to him (Tuesday)," Cousins said.
"We'll be talking to Mrs. Allen and
wrap it up."
Cousins said Orange County dis
patchers received the initial report af
ter 5:30 p.m. Tuesday from Durham
dispatchers about a "possible physical
assault change and a possible hostage
situation" at Pinegate Apartments.
Police surrounded the apartment
complex and waited while White
blocked the sliding glass door of his
apartment. They began to approach
the apartment shortly after 1 1 p.m.
White never pointed the gun at po
lice officers, Cousins said.
At 1 1 :30 p.m., after a peaceful sur
render, White was sped from the scene
in an unmarked police car.
Prior to the resolution, police offic
ers spent much of the evening trying to
rationalize with White through sev
eral telephone conversations, Cousins
said.
Eighteen Chapel Hill police offic
ers, including the Special Emergency
Response Team, remained on the scene
for the duration of the incident. A State
Bureau of Investigation agent arrived
on the scene at about 10:40 p.m. to
assist the Chapel Hill officers.
Frustrated residents, many of whom
: were returning from work at the time
the incident began, continually asked
police when the scene would be clear
and what buildings were open.
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