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4Thc Daily Tar HeelWednesday, NECTARINES G1D ANPLUMS P 405 (p) (p) MOM 1 y y gjaEtflfifl lb. zJ DEU-BAUEIIY I I BREYEHS mm BOLOGNA ICE CREAM STUDENT'S WE INVITE YOU TO APPLY FOR YOUR HARRIS TEETER COURTESY CARD. I L IT ALLOWS YOU TO CASH PERSONAL CHECKS AT OVER 134 HARRIS TEETER LOCATIONS IN GEORGIA, SOUTH CAROLINA, NORTH CAROLINA, VIRGINIA AND TENNESSEE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS $1.00 COUPON AND SAVE. I?!?! I ANY $3.00 OR MORE I I PURCHASE IN OUR FULL I I SERVICE DELI-BAKERY I I THS COUPON MAY NOT BE REPRODUCED. I MAMr ONf COUPON PER FAMILY PER VISIT I I OFFER GOOD SEPT. 9 THRU SEPT. 15, 1992 COUPON Prices Effective Through September 15, 1992 Prices In This Ad Effective Wednesday, September 9 Through Tuesday, September 1 5, 1 992. In Chapel Hill Stores Only. We Reserve The Right To Ljmit Quantities. None Sold To Dealers. We Gladly Accept Federal Food Stamps. September 9, 1992 2 LITER BOTTLE PEPSI OR DIET PEPSI PRICE GOOD ONLY WITH THIS COUPON This Coui Coupon May . NolSe oduced. limit, J Renri On CouDon Per Family, Per Visit. Offer Good r I n rl i ! 4 PK. ASSORTED FLAVORS ' PRICE GOOD ONLY WITH THIS COUPON This Coupon May Nol Be Reproduced. Limit One Coupon . Per Family .Per Visit. Offer Good SfotimMr 9 Thru September IS, 1992 LgpZy ZJ 64 OZ. HT ORANGE JUICE . DAIRY BsaaasaLfflLlo FRIED PIGS i l vj BAKERY VAUK ft w(rtw9BiArtHhlBBKJ L. J J Overcrowding at N.C. schools creates need for new options By Tara Duncan Staff Writer Schools in the Wake County and Chapel Hill-Carrboro school systems are bulging at the seams. The continued overcrowding is forc ing the school systems to consider the construction of new schools and the implementation of a year-round school calendar. In Wake County, some schools al ready have reached their student capac ity, even with the addition of portable classrooms. Enrollment for the system exceeded 70,000 for the 10th day of school, 3,480 more students than on the same day last year. Four new elementary schools and a middle school opened this year, but there still is not enough room for all the students. The new schools were part of a Phase II plan for Wake County schools that included 11 new schools and expan sions or improvements at 44 existing schools, said Karen Bond, director of long-range planning for Wake County schools. The building plan began in 1989 and will end in 1994, she said. Next fall, only one new school, Leesville Road High School, will open. LRHS is the last of the new schools completed in the Phase II plan. A Phase I plan, which was com pleted in 1988, comprised five new schools and six major high school ex pansions, Bond said. Five of the elementary schools in the Apex and Cary areas have exceeded Health si ve, mainstream package," Thorpe said. Silberman said cutting back on costs in administration and procedures was a major issue in reforming health care. 'There's a whole list of procedures that are being overutilized," Silberman said, adding that overusing procedures wasted money that could be used else where in the health-care system. Silberman added that money for health care was limited. "My basic gut instinct is that we have a limited amount of health-care dollars," she said. "You've only got certain places where you can cut back on health-care costs." The health-care plans of presidential candidates George Bush and Bill Clinton also were discussed at the forum. "We need to have a president that focuses debate on one or two relevant choices," Thorpe said. Mulhnax said at least 40 health-care proposals were pending in Congress. But Silberman said that political ac tion committees, insurance companies and big businesses were controlling which plans received the most discus sion. "I don't think consumers have been included in the health-care debate," she said, adding that reform would occur when consumers mobilized and asked Stone from page 3 feelings." Stone continued to check in with the Chapel Hill police after his retirement, Pendergraph said. Stone s funeral is scheduled for 3 p.m. today at University United Meth odist Church. All available Chapel Hill police officers plan to attend, police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said. Mildred Stone, Herman Stone s wife, requested an honor guard to fold the flag, Pendergraph said. The Orange County Sheriffs Department offered honorary pall bearers for the service. After the funeral, a different police department will block off each intersec tion for a procession to the new Chapel Hill cemetery, Pendergraph said. Memorials may be made to the American Cancer Society or to the Uni versity United Methodist Church me morial fund. March from page 3 24-hour lockup is still fresh in the minds of the undergraduates," Egerton said. Since members of the campus and town homosexual communities often are the targets of violent acts, CGLA members thought they should help spon sor such a march, Ferguson said. He added that he would address the types of violence faced by gays and lesbians during the rally. KslpOaitlei Greenhouse Manager full time, permanent, experience required. Greenhouseinterior maintenence full time, permanent Greenhouse full time, permanent Eastgate full time, permanent Landscaping full time, permanent c r it it: me- - potted a Unly Shopping Ctr. r JikHI their capacity, and Apex High and Cary High both are overcrowded. "We are planning a Phase III plan because of the continuing space prob lems," Bond said. "We are trying to re evaluate new projections and cost, but there will be a bond issue to cover part of the cost. "New schools will definitely help alleviate the problem, but we are al ways able to house our students." The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system's rate of growth is similar to that of Wake County's, said Neil Pedersen, superintendent of the Chapel Hill Carrboro system. "We enrolled, as of the 10th day of school, 67,063 students, which is ap proximately 400 more than last year," Pedersen said. All of the secondary schools in the Orange County system are over crowded, and the elementary schools are at 98-percent capacity, he said. Chapel Hill-Carrboro schools have a $52 billion bond referendum that would provide Orange County with a new middle school that would open for the 1994-95 school year and a new high school that would be ready for the 1996 97 school year, Pedersen said. The ref erendum goes to a vote Nov. 3. "Even with the bond referendum, our space problems will not be solved," he said. "We lobbied hard for an elemen tary school on the bond as well. If there is continued overcrowding at the el ementary level over the next two years, we will have to look at other options." One of the options that the Chapel for changes. "I'm not convinced that anything will happen in the next five years," Silberman Districts tion, in which several districts had voter turnouts in double and in at least one case single digits as proof that the new districts fail to represent the entire student body. The proposed redistricting involves dividing off-campus students into four large areas along the lines of Franklin Street and Airport Road, Lloyd said. Lloyd wrote a bill in April that autho rized newly appointed Elections Board Chairman Ron Barnes to conduct re search on the proposed change. "Elections Board Chairman Ron Barnes will present his findings to the entire congress at our next meeting," she said. "He will give an unbiased i reportofwhathefeelswouldbethebest plan based on his research." ' ' The-idea behind the current districting, proposed by former Speaker Tim Moore, was to keep the districts small so that representatives would not lose touch with their constituents. Lloyd said that while the intentions behind the current plan were good, it didn't do what it was meant to do. "The districts are too small and are difficult to keep separate," she said. "If someone calls me and wants to know what district they live in, it usually takes me about 20 minutes to figure it out. "Mr. Moore's plan is completely in valid," Lloyd said. "An open, bigger Housekeepers money. The fund-raising team will' be in volved in a great deal of one-to-one work with the housekeepers, Baumann said. 'This is a fun group," he said. "It gives students a chance to work right alongside the housekeepers and learn firsthand the struggles they go through." Gathering information about the current University grievance procedure. "We want to try to get students knowl edgeable about the current grievance system," Baumann said. "This team will work to gather knowledge and facts so that we students can stay on top of things and know the grievance system by which complaints are filed." D Organizing meetings and further housekeepers' activism. "We, the students, are the foot sol diers and the communication lines be tween the housekeepers themselves," Baumann said. "There are another 300 housekeepers that need to get involved with the movement, and we hope that this will happen through these commu nication efforts." Students at the meeting said that de spite University efforts, they remained united with the housekeepers. Several graduate students, who are waging a fight against the University for better health benefits, said their movement THURSDAY East Carolina 7:00pm Fed er Field Hill-Carrboro system is considering is multi-track, year-round schooling. "If you have a school district that can't build anymore, then this can be a good option," said Vann Langston, high school consultant for the N.C. Depart ment of Public Instruction. Wake County, which is trying five multi-track calendars, is the only school system to use the option. "You divide a school body into four even groups that go to school 45 days and then have three weeks of vacation," Langston said. "Calendars are staggered so that one of the four groups is always on its vacation. The plan accommo dates up to 33 percent more space in the same school." The Chapel Hill-Carrboro system is planning to make a recommendation to its school board concerning the issue. Only five Wake schools are using multi-track, year-round system, but 32 N.C. schools are using single-track, year-round systems, Langston said. Single-track students are not divided into groups like the multi-track system, but every student goes to school for 45 days and then has 15 vacation days. "This plan isn't used to save space, but because many people think regular spaced vacations may be a more natural way to learn," Langston said. "Schools that have used this plan have been pleased, therefore we think the multi-track plans will be success ful." Wake has used its multi-track plans as magnet schools and hopes to imple ment more schools in the program. from page 3 said. "When more of the middle class is uninsured, it will be a politically pal pable issue." from page 1 district is fairer." Lloyd said the current districts were ineffective and led to increased poli ticking around election time. "The current plan was drawn up about a month before this year's elections," she said. "It made things really impos sible and was very discouraging for many candidates. In this plan, a candi date can siphon competition and can open up spaces for his or herself." Rep. Jonathan Roberts, Dist. 24, how ever, supports the current system. "At present, I'm against redistrict ing," he said. "My idea of Student Con gress is a congress of normal, regular, everyday students. These students are going to get lost in the proposed big districts." Roberts said new districts would make it harder for lesser-known candi dates to get elected. 'There will be an increased financial difficulty for students interested in run ning for congress," he said. "For those who aren't involved in the circles of Student Congress, they will have a hard time running an efficient campaign." Rep. Ruffin Poole, Dist. 24, had pro posed a different plan for redistricting but withdrew his bill due to an inability to achieve the 10 percent vote from congress, Lloyd said. Poole was unavailable for comment. from page 3 paralleled the housekeepers' efforts. "Most people are involved in both the graduate student movement and the housekeeping issue," said Kathy Nastrom. "The University is constantly trying to separate the two movements so that we won't gain strength in num bers. It's kind of a 'divide and conquer' mentality. "It is really important for the two (groups) to work together." One of the problems facing the house keepers is that 92 percent of them are African-American, and most of them are women, said housekeeper Barbara Prear. "What gets me is that these rules apply to no one but the housekeepers," she said. "This happens just because we are poor black women. "For them to tell me that they can't do away with the lowest-pay bracket and that I'm supposed to work for noth ing is bullshit." About 10 housekeepers met last week with State Reps. Joe Hackney, D-Or-ange; Anne Barnes, D-Orange; and Sen. Howard Lee, D-Orange. At the meet ing, which was closed to the press, thp legislators urged the housekeepers to include low-paid employees from other UNC-system schools in die fight for better wages. ; K2S"
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