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OS EM """" TODAY: Variably cloudy, 50 chance of rain; hieh mid-80s FRIDAY: 50 chance of rain;i high mid-80s ,4 Alpha Phi Omega National Coed Service Fraternity will have informal rush at 7 p.m. in 226 Union. (2) 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Est. 1893 Volume 100, Issue 54 Aamlt M lockiro By Babita Persaud Staff Writer For the second time in a week, UNC housing officials have put a 24-hour lock-up policy into effect in campus dormitories, this time because of two recent assaults on campus. Housing officials decided upon the lockup, which will be in effect until Sept. 9, after learning of two assault reports filed Tuesday with UNC police. One assault occurred at 12:05 p.m. Monday along the wooded pathway between Kenan Stadium and the Ramshead parking-lot construction site. The second assault took place Tuesday afternoon on the pathway behind Morrison dormitory. Lt. Angela Carmon, a UNC police investigator, said that although both assaults occurred on campus, police did not believe the cases were related. UNC police are continuing to search for the two suspects, she said. In response to the reports, University housing director Wayne Kuncl met with his associate directors Wednesday morning to discuss tightening resident security over the three-day Labor Day weekend. Kuncl said a 24-hour lockup would be in effect until 9 a.m. Wednesday in the 30 University residence halls that house more than 7,000 students. "Many students will be exiting for holidays, and a small population in the residence halls is vulnerable," he said. "We are assuming that the suspects are still at large, and we feel that locking resident halls is the prudent thing to do." Allan Calarco, associate director of housing, said the lockup was a preven High noon Two people, who requested that their names be and burn incense while playing bongo drums IfSr- Yackety Yack eligible for aid under new congressional fund By Gary Rosenzweig Staff Writer Student Congress took the first step toward helping the Yackety Yack out of its financial woes Wednesday night by approving a bill that makes part of the Student Activity Fund Office's operat ing budget available to congress for use in emergency situations. The bill, introduced by Speaker Jen nifer Lloyd and passed by consent, cre ates a congressional discretionary fund from excess money generated by inter est and investment returns earned by SAFO's funds, rather than from student activities fees. Money from the discretionary fund could be used by congress to help stu dent groups in financial need. Although the bill does not guarantee funding for the troubled UNC annual, Yack editor Shea Tisdale said he planned to apply for a loan as soon as he felt the Yack adequately could present its case to congress, possibly at the next meet itoo.CED on tv IQMIMyg3 From the Brady Bunch to Star Trek, Americans love "-imiittW MJLufmtli their television snows Off iaito Thursday, September 3, 1992 through next week tive measure. "We do not want to start a panic or anything, but we feel some thing needs to be done," he said. Residence halls will be open to resi dents with keys and to invited guests during the 24-hour lockup. Residents will need to arrange ahead of time for guests to enter the dormitory, or the resident will need to accompany the guest inside. "It might be inconvenient for a while," Kuncl said, adding that the lockup was needed to ensure safety. Housing officials also are making special arrangements for campus postal workers, maintenance workers and housekeeping staff to enter and exit See LOCKUP, page 2 Security tips Housing department and UNC police offi cials have issued the following safety tips for students: Walk on well-traveled, well-lighted path ways. Avoid short-cuts through woods or behind buildings. Become familiar with the locations of secu rity phones. Attend safety and security programs offered in residence halls. Never prop open doors. Carry keys at all times. Limit your movement on foot. Don't travel alone; use the buddy system. I Use services such as the Safe Escort Pro gram, the Point-to-Point Shuttle System and Chapel Hill Transit. Don't be in buildings alone after business hours. Secure your residence and personal prop erty at all times. withheld, smoke day in the Pit. Although many students were enjoying the sunny at noon Wednes- weather, this group seemed to be having a particularly high time. ing on Sept. 16. "We would hope that Student Con gress would give us what they are able," Tisdale said. "This would be a loan, just as if we got it from a bank." Tisdale said he was "glad that con gress had the wisdom to do this." The Yack presendy owes Delmar Publishing of Charlotte about $1 10,000. Much of the debt is due to the actions of former Yack business manager Tracy Lamont Keene, who pleaded guilty this summer to embezzling $77,000 from the yearbook last year. Keene has been sentenced to pay the money back over at least a 10-year period. He also wsa ordered to turn over his 1986 Acura to the University. The rest of the debt comes from Keene's financial mismanagement, Tisdale said. Yackofficials already have paid back some of the debt, which originally to talled more than $ 1 40,000, Tisdale said. If the Yack is able to pay back a large A little inaccuracy saves a world of explanation. Serving the students and the n 11 1 - &Vfixn jfL Security tightened as police investigate two more attacks By Babita Persaud Staff Writer UNC officials are preparing for an other tightening of security following two separate assaults reported on cam pus Tuesday. The police said the assaults, one on Monday and the second on Tuesday, were unrelated. The first assault occurred at about 12:05 p.m. Monday. A UNC student was attacked while walking to Hinton James dormitory from Dey Hall along the wooded pathway between Kenan Stadium and the Ramshead parking lot construction site, police reports said. The victim was approached from behind by a black man, police reports stated. The assailant grabbed her neck and upper left arm and knocked her to the ground. The victim broke away, and she and the suspect fled in opposite directions, police reports stated. The woman reported the incident to UNC police officer Scott Bayer at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday. The second incident took place at 4 p.m. Tuesday and was reported 40 min utes later. A UNC student was assaulted while walking from a friend's Hinton James dorm room to Carmichael dor mitory. She was walking on the path way behind Morrison dorm leading to Kenan Field House, police reports stated. The victim told police a black man, who was about 20 years old and ap- 1 I) IllInn Rdnddll portion of the debt soon, Delmar will give Yack officials ample time to pay back the rest of the money, he said. Delmar is publishing this year's ad dition of the Yack, due out sometime next year. If the Yack receives a loan from the new discretionary fund, the money Keene has been ordered to pay the Yack could be paid directly to congress to pay off the loan, Tisdale said. An amendment to the bill, proposed by Rep. Charlton Allen, Dist. 21, re quires approval by a two-thirds major ity of congress and the student body president to give out discretionary fund money. Tisdale said that although the two thirds requirement would make it more difficult for the Yack to obtain a loan, the overwhelming support for the bill was a good sign. Lloyd said that while the bill was not meant specifically as aid to the Yackety Yack, any student group could ask for a loan. SWECKER RETOES Gene Swecker, associate vice chancellor for facilities management, plans to enjoy life after retiring this month tor University community since 1893 Chapel Hill, JtlOUiF proximately 6 feet tall, walked up be hind her and grabbed her by the arms. The victim tried to spray the man with Mace, but was not sure where she hit him, said UNC police officer Felecia Harding. "At that point, he knocked the Mace out of her hand, and it dropped to the ground. He put his hand over her mouth and said 'I have a better idea,'" Harding said. "Then he pulled her behind a tree, and she kneed him between his legs." The woman picked up the can of Mace and ran toward Carmichael dorm. She later told police her assailant had been wearing a white T-shirt, dark shorts and white tennis shoes. Police have completed a composite sketch of the suspect in the Tuesday assault. Copies of the sketch have been posted in campus residence halls with information about the case. Both victims were uninjured and were offered police counseling. Lt. Angela Carmon and Lt. Rodney Carter, UNC police investigators, said they did not uncover any useful infor mation at the two crime scenes. The two assaults are the second and third reports of violent crime on campus in the past week. Last weekend, a Granville Towers resident was raped by a man who broke into her room. Local and federal offi cials spent the weekend searching for Hildred Manuel Lyles, an escaped con See ASSAULTS, page 2 New phone plan comes under fire By Gerri Baer Staff Writer Some campus residents say the new University-run phone system makes them want to do more than just reach out and touch someone. Dorm-dwellers are complaining about not being able to choose their long-distance company, not receiving special discount programs and being charged increased basic service charges. Under Southern Bell, the company that directly served most UNC students last year, dormitory residents were of fered two basic service options, the thrift-caller plan and the community caller plus plan, which cost between $9.75 and $15.02 per month. The UNC Department of University Housing now charges each dorm resi dent $50 a semester for basic local phone service almost twice what students living in dormitories paid last year. Although Southern Bell's monthly charges on average totalled approxi mately $50 per semester for a single phone line, students who had room mates could split the charges. While the student telephone service does eliminate the $42.75 hookup fee Southern Bell charged dorm residents each fall upon returning to their dorm rooms, students are not satisfied with the new service. Deirdre Holmes, a senior from Char lotte living on campus this year, said she was unhappy with the student tele phone service. "I have a problem with the University making this decision for us," she said. "It's like the University is saying we have options, but really we don't." Most of the complaints registered with the UNC Physical Plant about the phone system have come from students living in Odum Village, the student family housing complex on Manning Drive, Home said. "Ninety percent of our complaints have come from student family hous ing," Home said. "They are a different group of customers, and their needs are different." Steve Wallace, an Odum Village resi dent, said he was dissatisfied with the See PHONES, page 2 Jwl North Carolina Congre vote backs students ting By Anna Griffin ttarrerolty Editor Student Congress voted 13-8 Wednesday night in favor of a resolu tion that supports a frce-standingblack cultural and urges UNC administra tors to accommodate advocates of a new building. While the vote, which was pre ceded by an hour of statements by congress members and other students, is largely symbolic, students involved in the coalition for a free-standing BCC said dicy thought the resolution , would help convince Chancellor Paul Hardin of the need for a new building. "Since we have no direction at all from the student body president, it's important that somebody in student government take a strong role in the fight," said Scott Wilkens, co-president of the Campus Y, one of the student organizations involved in die coalition. Student Body President John Moody has said he supported a multicultural center rather than a sepa rate facility for black students. Wilkens said, "(The resolution) is symbolic in that if the building is produced, student leaders will play a role in determining uses and facilities. Right now the entire debate is mostly symbolic, since we basically have the private funding." Two weeks ago, Dolores Jord m mother of former UNCbasketball star Michael Jordan, promised that the philanthropic foundation that bears her son's name would provide fund ing for a free-standing building. The resolution, which cites the need for improved race relations on cam pus, states that the Student Congress supports the fight for a free-standing BCC and encourages the chancellor to work toward that goal. "All the black cultural center is asking tho University for is a free standing building in order to have adequate facilities and resources to accomplish the high-minded goals of improved race relations and educa tion," the resolution states. Provost, students support further debate on free-standing building By Michael Bradley Staff Writer Chancellor Paul Hardin's response to black cultural center director Margo Crawford's appeal for a free-standing BCC evoked mixed reactions from students and University officials, while one high-ranking administrator said he wasn't ready to rule out a free standing building. Hardin said Tuesday he was ready for a concrete BCC plan to be drawn up and sent to the Board of Trustees. He was responding to a letter Crawford circulated explaining the need for a free-standing BCC and requesting resolution. Crawford would not comment on Hardin's response. Crawford's letter, which alluded repeatedly to Martin Luther King's "Letter From a Birmingham Jail," said the movement for a free-standing BCC was "greatly misunderstood" and called for "direct action." Meanwhile, first-year Provost Ri chard McCormick said he didn't think Hardin's response ruled out further consideration of a free-standing BCC. "I think (Hardin's response) was a good step toward (resolution)," McCormick said. "I don't think it was all that we needed. I'm hoping person ally that there can be more discussion ... including discussion explicitly about a free-standing BCC." McCormick said he didn't know what steps would be taken, but that the administration was "strongly in terested in doing our part" to provide an effective BCC. "The administra tion is not going to sit back and wait," he said. McCormick, who came to UNC from Rutgers University, said he didn ' t think a free-standing BCC would pro mote separation. McCormick said Rutgers had a free-standing black cul tural center that "worked just fine. C.E. Ayres Major League Baseball Baltimore 2, Oakland 1 Seattle 4, Boston 3 Minnesota 4, Detroit 2 New York 6, Atlanta S Chicago 5, Los Angeles 1 U.S. Open Tennis Stefan Edberg def. Luiz Mattar Michael Chang def. Ellis Ferreira Monica Seles def. Lisa Raymond Cabriela Sabatini def. Julie Halard 1992 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. NtwtSpoftiArti 962-024! BusintBAdvrrbtmf 962-116) for HOC Several Student Congress mem bers, including Speaker Pro Tempore Michael Kolb, Dist. 1, said they were concerned that a free-standing BCC' :;. would promote segregation, rather than encouraging open discussion. ' Kolb said that the original BCC plans called for a building much like the Student Union and that construe-' tion of such a facility would create two unions one for black students and one for whites. "We don't need two student unions,' separate but equal," he said. "I really feel we can celebrate our differences while sharing the same space." : But Rep. George Battle, Dist. 17, a co-sponsor of the bill, said the build ing was necessary to accommodate all the spatial needs of black student groups and organizations. "A free-standingbuilding is needed to accomplish all the goals the BCC hasforitself,"Battle said, "Noexpan-' sion of any existing building would suffice." Kolb was joined in voting against the resolution by Reps. Carl Clark, Dist. 19, Andrew Cohen, Dist. 6, Jeff McGraw, Dist. 12, Jonathan Roberts, Dist. 24,'Shane Stutts, Dist. 12, Chris Handy, Dist. 23, and Claudia Bastia, Dist. 10. Cohen said that while he was a firm believer in the need for equality at UNC, he did not believe a free-stand ing BCC was the proper means to achieving that goal. "We should not dilute (the civil . rights) demands uf 30 yeaitt ag-j wilh demands for a free-standing build ing," Cohen said, "Recognition of a culture can be done without isolating the center of activity of that culture." Supporters of the resolution, in cluding co-sponsor Philip Charles Pierre, Dist. 17, argued against a : multicultural center, contending that such a center would take away from the overall effectiveness of the effort? "People are afraid - afraid be-',: cause tiiey are ignorant," Charles- - Pierre said. "We cannot let our fear cause us to lag behind on ideas and goals and aspirations." "(Rutgers' center) did not conspicu ously promote separation," he said. Some student leaders said they were not satisfied with the chancellor's re sponse. Scott Wilkens, Campus Y co-president, said Hardin failed to respond directly to Crawford's letter. "Basi cally, there was no response to the letter in particular," Wilkens said.. "(Hardin)'s not responding to the need for a black cultural center." Wilkens said he thought Hardin needed to respond to the philosophy behind Crawford's letter. But Donald Boulton, vice chancel lor for student affairs, said he thought Hardin's response reflected a "sense of openness." "From my standpoint, the chancel lor said that we need to move to get some discussion going, and we'll find some resolution," Boulton said. "I thought he was addressing (the issue) pretty clearly." Black Student Movement President Michelle Thomas dismissed the idea that a free-standing BCC would be exclusionary. Her comments came at the BSM's first general body meeting Wednesday night. The BSM held an informal discussion about the BCC issue during its meeting. "Everyone on campus will benefit from a black cultural center," Thomas said during the exchange. Thomas said a free-standing BCC was a necessity so that BSM sub groups, such as the BSM Gospel Choir and the Black Ink, would have ad equate meeting space. She encour aged BSM members to voice their : opinions about the BCC. "Knowledge is going to be the key : to winning this battle," Thomas said. : Thomas was hopeful that a deci- . sion on the BCC was near. "(The BCC : is) an issue we will be victorious on, ; on (the BSM's) 25th anniversary : year."
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