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The Daily Tar HeelThursday, July 9, 19923 gum l- iM. Y . upon ) Rak T lo ( tjpd J t jt the i ill in ll h -d i ci tot at Mtof n torn -tk 1992 p am For f hundic I Hundi ' N.C. pectcd io the poO i.td w, in wt i dc nnon n evtry member of Ccncnl Aoci rBcmilv it u l ind, for trM r -election lime una 1960. pRiitknlid nominee mi peat mow I ha n just lymhj Dcmocritic ftrl Public library ground breaking set for Saturday , The ground breaking ceremony for new Chapel Hill Public Library will take place Saturday at 1 1 a.m. at the Pritchard Park site on Estes Drive. The town council awarded construc tion bids last month for the approxi mately $5 million project. The 27,000-square-foot library is expected to be completed in 1994 and will provide expanded book collection, 125 parking spaces and a 1 20-seat meet ing room. Town officials hope to expand the 35-acre park by building pedestrian trails, picnic areas and a Nature Inter pretive Center. Funding for the project comes from $4 million in bonds approved in 1986, a $62,000 Library Service and Construc tion Act grant for library automation and about $1 million in donations. Council hears sister city presentations Chapel Hill resident Dirk Spruyt and Chapel Hill Town Council member Roosevelt Wilkerson made a presenta tion Monday night to the council about their trip to Saratov, Russia, which is the town's proposed sister city. Spruyt and Wilkerson visited Saratov in May along with Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird. During the visit, Kinnaird, Wilkerson and the chair of the Saratov city council signed a proto col of intent. Wilkerson signed for Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun. The delegation from Chapel Hill Carrboro also presented the Chapel Hill flag, the N.C. flag, and the American flag to their hosts in Saratov. ; The American flag presented to the Saratov council flew over the U.S. Capi tol in Washington on the day of the attempted coup last August in the So viet Union, Spruyt said. ; In return, the Saratov delegation gave their city's flag to their visitors from America. Spruyt said the delegation wanted a Russian flag, but the flags are few in number following thedismantling of the Soviet Union. ' " ' I ;ButthechairmanoftheSaratovcoun cil stopped on his way to Spruyt's fare well dinner and took down the only Russian flag that was in the council chamber. : "The only flags fly ing in the chamber now are the American flag, the North Carolina flag and the Chapel Hill flag," he said. jyiedical school opens new research facilities ;-Two new facilities fordirectdisease related research recently opened at the UNC School of Medicine. ;Start-up funding for the facilities, located at the Faculty Laboratory Of fice Building, was provided by the N.C. Biotechnology Center. In one facility, operated by the Thurston Arthritis Research Center, in vestigators can submit samples of DNA, the genetic material found in all cells, for automated sequencing. Two ma chines perform work that previously would have taken the efforts of several trained investigators. v The second new facility, which also received funding from Glaxo Inc., will create mouse models of various dis eases. The use of mice will allow re searchers to study what occurs in pa tients whose genes are altered. Doctors test ovarian cancer treatments DoctorsatUNCHospitalsaretesting riew therapies that could change the way ovarian cancer is treated. . One study is the first ever tocombine chemotherapy with the drug interferon as a first-line therapy for ovarian can cer. V Other work with an experimental drug is designed to reduce nerve dam age associated with some treatment of the cancer. J The tests are part of a multipronged attack on ovarian cancer at UNC Hosptials, which treats 40 to 45 women With ovarian cancer each year. HOB' DDH (MMwmm mm mmmuem&mmw Pendergraph appointed Chapel Hill police chief Drug war, improving technology his top priorities By Peter Wallsten Editor Chapel Hill's new police chief says he wants his department to fight an aggressive war on drugs in the local community, with special emphasis on crime-plagued areas near the Carrboro town line. "We are going to continue what we consider to be a serious push to move the open-airdrug market out of the area by the joint city limits," said Ralph Pendergraph, who was appointed by Town Manager Cal Horton Monday. The police department will target the area through walking beats, bikes, K-9 units and normal patrolling practices, Pendergraph said. "We're just going to keep the pressure on them." Most of the crimes committed in Chapel Hill, including burglaries, as saults and purse snatchings, result in some way from local abuse of crack cocaine, Pendergraph said. "Everything goes back to the drug market," he said. "I think you've got a fairly significant structural base that supports this." Pendergraph, who applied forthe job only several weeks ago after encour agement from Hortqn, said he decided at the last minute to apply after having k feist ?4 1 I I vST vt5 And the walls come tumblin' down Workers began working this week to destroy the building that corner of East Franklin and South Columbia streets. Developers previously housed the Top of the Hill convenience store on the are planning a retailoffice complex for the site. Self-defense educators distribute cards explaining rape guidelines By Gcrrl Bacr Staff Writer SafeSkills Associates, a self-defense education group in Durham, hasdistrib uted cards containing advice for women who are sexually assaulted by an ac quaintance. The cards are in response to Orange Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox's guidelines for deciding whether he will prosecute rape cases. Fox's guidelines include evidence of force, resistance by the victim and verbal resistance. "In one sense, we're protesting the guidelines," said Kathleen Hopwood.a women's self-defense instructor at SafeSkills Associates. "I do disagree with the guidelines." The cards suggest that women first tell their attacker to stop raping them, physically resist and immediately re port the assault if it occurs. "I teach women self defense," Hopwood said. "These cards are a self defense for women to have knowledge of what the laws are and what they need to do to have a good case." extra time to resolve some personal reservations. "I had a chance to consider some of the issues," said Pendergraph, who served five months as interim chief fol lowing the resignation of Arnold Gold. "Most of them were just personal issues that I found would not be problems." Pendergraph's salary will be $5 1 ,557 a year. The 48-year-old Orange County na tive said he felt slightly overwhelmed by the position. "I wish I could say I was excited, but I'm a little awed by the responsibility," he said. Horton said he asked Pendergraph numerous times throughout the process to apply for the job to strengthen the pool of applicants. Orange County Sheriff's Department Maj. Don True love and Chapel Hill Police Capt. Gregg Jarvies were the two other finalists. Pendergraph said he wasn't expect ing Horton to request his application at the last minute. "It was sort of a sur prise," said Pendergraph, who joined the Chapel Hill Police Department in 1973 and had served as patrol officer; crime prevention officer, training of ficer, administrative officer, patrol cap tain and, most recently, support ser vices captain. To prove that you have been raped by an acquaintance you should 1. Say to him: NO. I DON'T WANT SEX WITH YOU. THIS IS RAPE. STOP RAPING ME. 2. Resist. 3. Report the assault immediately. Guidelines established by the Orange County District Attorney Card provided bySafeskills Associates Fox was not consulted before the printing of the cards. "I haven't re viewed, approved or sanctioned the cards," he said. "I do not know why they used my office, except maybe in re sponse to my guidelines." About 2,000 cards already have been distributed to women's organizations, rape crisis centers, libraries, businesses and restaurants. "Any public place where they can be seen is where we've distrib uted them," Hopwood said. Since Fox offered his guidelines, AUTHORIZED SALES & SERVICE ALSO TOSHIBA T2200SX -J. T3300SL, T4400 T6400, etc IN STOCK 80 MB hard disk. 2 MB RAM 5.5 lbs, 3.5" 1.44 MB floppy, 386SX processor UNIVERSITY DISCOUNTS SOFTWARE from 30 top manufacturers. Call for FREE catalog. DSR, IMC 800-375-0037 -- ' " VISA, Mastercard & AmExp Accepted Horton said he was pleased to be able to hire a native of the area. "Chief Pendergraph has lived in this commu nity for a long time, knows the area and is well-respected,"he said. "He also has a value system that is consistent with this community." Pendergraph's main administrative priority will be computerizing the de partment, which, he said, was "a little bit behind the times." "We have no computers," he said. "For in-house records, we have to pull hard copies. We need to take a realistic look at what we need to get and what we hope to get." Horton said he hoped the town would devote enough resources to upgrade the police department's technology. "It's my hope that with the right kind of leadership in the department, we'll be able to take the best advantage of the revenues and people we have." Before joining the Chapel Hill po lice, Pendergraph served in the U.S. Navy. He also has volunteered as vice chairman of the board for the Orange Durham Coalition for Battered Women in 1989. In 1990, he received the Pauli Murray Human Rights Award from the Orange County Human Relations Commission. DTHTodd Scott Hopwood has changed what she teaches women in her self-defense classes. Hopwood used to teach women to sub mit to their attackers in order to avoid injury. Fox 'sguidelinesexplicitly state: "She can't lie back and let it happen when the perpetrator is an acquaintance." Hopwood now teaches women that they don't have the right to submit. "Our primary concern is women's safety," Hopwood said. TOP QUALITY . REPAIR & WARRANTEE -gSKYICE.TOO University LP - iront porcn cnar 1 ! 1 . witn maj or By Anna Griffin V Associate Editor As the November elections draw closer, University officials say they will know within several weeks between the three majorpresiden tial candidates. Officials from the Bicentennial Observance Office, hoping to draw attention to the Bicentennial cam paign, are trying to organize a discus sion between George Bush, Bill Clinton and H. Ross Perot. Unlike a normal debate, the "front porch chat," as University officials have dubbed it, would consist of each of the three candidates being inter viewed by Southern scholars. The centerpiece of the program would be a half-hour documentary on the South's role in presidential politics. The event, which would be aired on national television, would focus on the candidates' perspectives on the South and would serve as a preview to an upcoming television mini-series on the region, said Steven Tepper, associate general secretary of the Bi centennial Observance Office. "This is an especially interesting year because all the candidates claim to have some southern roots," Tepper said. "It makes this idea more intrigu ing, more important than ever." Tepper said University officials were in the process of contacting the three campaigns. Once initial con Agreement will release $56 million for 15-501 By Dana Pope City Coordinator . The N.C. Department of Transporta tion may approve the Transportation Improvement Program for Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Durham early next week and release $56 million in state and federal funds for road improvements. The Chapel Hill-Durham-Carrboro Transportation Advisory Committee and the DOT reached a compromise at a meeting Tuesday which would allow additional planning and review con cerning the widening of U.S. 15-501 South from Pittsboro to Chapel Hill. Last week, the DOT decided to with hold the money because the widening of U.S. 15-501 South was not included on the Transportation Advisory Committee's list of proposed road projects. "This at least has given us an oppor tunity where all the options will be looked at," said Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun, who also is the chairman of the local transportation committee. "I for one am very pleased with it." The compromise would add a feasi bility study for improvement of Jack Bennett Road in northern Chatham County to the Transportation Improve Agency chooses site along Culbreth Road for first AIDS house By PJ. Waicus Staff Writer AIDS Service Agency officials this week announced the future location of a house for local people with the dis ease. Agency chairwoman Jean Bolduc said the agency purchased a parcel immediately off U.S. 15-501 on Culbreth Road for $50,000. "It meets every need we can foresee," she said. But construction on the house will not begin until the federal department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) provides the agency with a $280,000 grant. "We should have that by the end of the year," Bolduc said. She said the agency planned for the structuretobeaone-levelranchhouse, accessible to handicapped, with space for up to six residents. Bolduc also said she would count on volunteer help when the project mm (tin Wmti) &&m& may host 1 1 . candidates Jt tacts have been established, the Uni versity will begin formal planning as to where and when the discussions would take place, he said. The event would be a preview of the eight-part mini-series on the South being put together by Hamilton Pro ductions for the Bicentennial celebra tion. Jay Hamilton, head of Hamilton Productions and a UNC graduate, said the presidential chat would be a way of celebrating the role of the South in the American presidency. The less fonnal structure would help ease the jaded feeling many voters have toward politicians and big-name journalists, he said. "People may be at that stage where this format would providearefreshingchange,"Hamilton said. "Folks are turned off by over zealous journalists. 'This is nice because it will reveal a little bit more about the candidate and about their feelings about the South." Officials hope at least one of the candidates will agree to come to Chapel Hill for the event. The other contenders could be con nected using satellite technology, Tepper said. The project has a budget of about $500,000, most of which will go to the half-hour documentary, Tepper said. Another $50,000 will be used for pro moting the event, he said. None of the money will come from the University. See CHAT, page 6 ment Program and would include a plan ning study of widening U.S. 15-501, Broun said. If the feasibility study indicates that widening is necessary, then the DOT would be able to continue design work on the widening project and the local transportation committee would get another chance to make a decision. Broun said the compromise may be approved by the committee at a meeting next Monday. "Assuming that the TAC approves f. the compromise we reached, th'e state 4 would approve our Transportation Im provement Program and send it to-the -federal government," Broun said. "We would be immediately clear." Larry Goode, a DOT official, said that the DOT was happy with the com promise and would comply with the committee's request for a feasibility study. "We will do the feasibility study and impact they requested," he said. A decision could be made by Secre tary of Transportation Thomas Harrelson early next week about whether the $56 million will be allocated for the widening project, Goode said. "After we receive the Transportation Improvement Program, we'll make a decision," he said. was complete, including help from UNC students. "These students are individuals who have always been behind these types of causes," she said. "That's going to be a wealth of help we will greatly appreciate." Bolduc said she did not see any problems with the site or with the residents of the Glenmere develop ment on Channing Lane, who live closest to where the house will stand. "There haven't been any complaints at all," she said. "The response has been all positive, and the site is mostly out of their way to begin with." ! David Elmore; resident of the Glenmere development, said he didn't mind the agency's project being close to his home. "It really won't affect our community it's a single family home," he said. "It really doesn't make a difference to me as long as it's there to help people."
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