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The Daily Tar Heel/Thursday, January 14, 1993
Police admit fault
in report handling
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?>NDurham city officials said Wednes
day that they considered thecaseclosed
Iversial Jan. 4 police report
a gang whose initiation
oukl include raping a white
arose for the department
e a press conference Jan. 4
urham residents of the pos
. When police officials ad
-7 that their report might
have been premature, die department
faced accusations of mishandling the
report’s release.
; At a meeting of die city council's
public Works Committee Monday,
HVterim Chief of Police Jackie McNeil
said the report attempted to warn the
community about two rapes that had
in the area. McNeil also apolo
gised for die wording of the repot
The conflict concerning the report
occurred whoa some citizens said the
report heightenedracial tensions. Con
cerned residents saidindudingtherace
of victims implied the gang was black
add created strained race relations.
Durham City Councilman Howard
dement, who chairs the Public Works
Committee, said although he agreed
with the report’s release for safety pur
poses, he felt the situation could have
befen handled more appropriately.
■ r“I just diought that, while the objec
tive was laudable, (die repot) hardly
implemented it” Clement said. “It was
'sojunnecessary to inject the race issue.
And the police did inject die race issue
and did not have tangible evidence to
’support it
’rt ,’ißace relations in Durham are at a
crossroads, not just with this matter,
but across the board,” Clement said,
Shwartz
ljjefit teaching effectiveness is suffi
efefit to deny promotion and/or tenure;
the margin teaching excellence can
some deficiency in a candidate’s
TOsarch portfolio,” the letter states.
!dy personal opinion is that all of
acuity should have a strong vested
est to ensure that candidates up for
re are held to a high standard of
ling performance,” Schwartz said
i interview this week.
_ :hwartz said he sent the letter to
&6flsall in mid-December. But Birdsall
Lira Wednesday that he had not seen the
letter or did not remember receiving it.
• Paul Ferguson, the speech commu
nication assistant professor who has
appealed his tenure denial to the Board
of Trustees, signed and said he fully
supported the letter. “I agree 100 per
cent with the statement on teaching,” he
said. Ferguson, winner of a 1992 Un
dergraduate Teaching Award and the
1989 and 1992 Senior Class Favorite
Teacher awards, said he was pleased
with the effort to promote teaching.
“lt is a united voice of teaching
award winners, and I’m proud to be part
Of that group,” he said. “I was elated by
the statement from Professors Schwartz
ind Filene, and I hope that this is just the
first of many statements about the is
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referring to a recent merger of area
schools and other developments.
Clement said he praised the candor
McNeil exhibited (hiring the meeting
and said he thought problems created
by the report had been alleviated.
‘The police chief admitted that there
were mistakes,” Clement said. "This
is the first time any department head
has come to us admitting he made a
mistake. I drink rise concerns raised...
resolve the issue.”
McNeil tokl council members that
he could give them no further details
to justify the report because the case
was still under investigation, Clement
said. The police spokesman in charge
of the case was unavailable for com
ment Wednesday.
Virginia Englehard, vice chair
woman of die Public Works Commit
tee, agreed that the department’s origi
nal statement should not have included
references to race, but said that the
department’s response had been satis
factory under the circumstances.
“It was clear to me from the begin
ning that a better job could have been
done,” Englehard said. “All that (the
police) could have done was remove
the reference to the race of the woman.
They’re in a position where they can’t
really reveal anything more about die
case. I thinkit’s been resol vedas far as
it can be.”
Durham Mayor Harry Rodenhizer
said he had heard nothing negative
about the report and that he felt there
was no need to explore the issue fur
ther. “The people I spoke to were
happy that the ladies in the community
had been warned,” he said. “I think the
issue has been resolved now. As far as
we’re concerned, the issue is dead.”
Rebecah Moore contributed to this
article.
sue.”
Kevin Stewart, a geology assistant
professor who signed the letter, was
also denied tenure, even after receiving
a 1992 Undergraduate Teaching Award.
“(The letter) hits the nail on the head,”
he said. “A lot of people on this campus
say that teaching and research are treated
equally, but nobody believes that, not
even the people who are saying it.”
Ted Leinbaugh, a professor of En
glish, said teaching often was neglected.
“I feel that teaching should be an impor
tant part of the equation,” he said.
Leinbaugh said that while good re
searchers were eligible for many en
dowed chairs, good teachers could only
receive “folding chairs.”
Although Schwartz’s letter did not
mention student involvement, many of
the professors who signed the letter said
they felt students could become more
active and support those professors they
felt were good teachers.
“I’m always happy to see students
involved and supporting good teach
ers,” said Karl Peterson, a mathematics
professor. “There is a lot of information
and a lot of misunderstanding. Having
students involved and raising questions
helps educate everybody about the ten
ure process.”
State needs doctors to practice in rural areas
By Anna Burdeshaw
Staff Writer
Lower pay, fewer social activities,
longer hours and shorter vacations are
causing small-town doctors to become
a disappearing breed in North Carolina.
Tom Irons, senior associate dean of
the School of Medicine at East Carolina
University, said that many rural physi
cians recently have retired and that a
decreasing number of medical school
graduates have shown interest in estab
lishing a practice in a small community.
Irons said the quality of health care
for rural residents was in danger. While
rescue squads are effective in providing
emergency care, Irons said many resi
dents would forego preventative care if
it became inconvenient.
Alfred Earwood, a practicing physi
cian in Banner Elk, agreed.
“A lot of people just let it go,”
Earwood said. “They won’t go far away
for care.”
Bemie Patterson, assistant director
of the N.C. Office of Rural Health, said
the problem centered around a dispro
portionate number of medical students
who were becoming specialists instead
of primary-care givers.
“There are not enough primary-care
physicians being produced,” Patterson
said. “Most of the medical students are
becoming specialists. It is primary
Lansing
of February. Officials hope to restruc
ture the department’s program to keep
up with the fast-changing field of visual
communications.
In addition to the lack of practical
training in the RTVMP department,
Lansing has run into financial prob
lems. He estimates that his film will
cost about $7,000, and the department
does not provide any funding for stu
dent productions.
Simpson and Lansing said such grants
would benefit students greatly. “I think
it would be wonderful if we had school
funds for students to produce films,”
Simpson said.
Much of Lansing’s work since he
began the project in October has been
directed toward covering the cost of the
film. He has used various tactics includ
ing calling numerous UNC alumni and
selling T-shirts door-to-door in dorms.
He credits student volunteers with
sending out more than 130 letters solic
iting donations from alumni. “There’s a
lot of people that are really pushing for
me,” he said. “I couldn’t do it without
the people helping me.
“If we can get $2,000, we can get it in
the can,” he said, using film industry
jargon to refer to the completion of the
shooting. Editing the film will be the
most expensive part of the venture.
Although Lansing has not come up
with any large monetary pledges, many
Ferguson
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said.
Cohen and John Rittelmeyer, another
attorney from the Raleigh law firm of
Graham and James, represented
Ferguson at the hearing. Stephen
Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, William Balthrop, speech
communication department chairman,
and senior University counsel Susan
Ehringhaus represented UNC at the
hearing.
Ferguson declined to comment on
any specific details of the two-hour
long meeting. “I feel good that I got my
case before the Board of Trustees, but
until they render a decision, I cannot
comment about the proceedings,” he
said.
University rules require officials to
keep personnel issues confidential, and
none of the parties involved wished to
comment on the hearings.
Ehringhaus refused to explain her
role at the hearing.
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caregivers that the rural communities
need.”
“There are not a lot of residents com
ing out of residency and going into
primary care, and your bigger special
ists are not going to small towns. You’ve
got to have primary-care doctors,” he
said.
Patterson said many upcoming stu
dents were encouraged by the specific
hours of specialized practice. “If you’re
sub-specialized, the incentives are such
that you’re likely to earn more money
for less investment of time,” he said.
Irons and Earwood both said finan
cial considerations and the amount of
work involved were major factors that
discouraged physicians from establish
ing a medical practice in a rural commu
nity.
Earwood pointed out that many medi
cal-school graduates had accumulated
large debts in order to finance their
education and that it was easier to repay
loans by becoming a specialist in an
urban community. He also said rural
doctors did not receive adequate reim
bursement for Medicare and Medicaid
payments.
Irons emphasized that small-town
doctors not only were earning less than
their urban counterparts but that their
overall income has decreased since the
early 1980s.
“Rural physicians in most areas are
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it has been an obsession
with me. I was that little
kid that would go in the
movie theater in the
summer and watch The
Empire Strikes Back’
over and over.... That
was my world. I never
quite got out of it.”
SCOTT LANSING
SENIOR RTVMP MAJOR
people have volunteered products and
services.
Richard Aldrich, a UNC alumnus
now running Carolina Production Ser
vices in Charlotte, donated the use of
production equipment for the three-day
shoot Lansing has scheduled for Feb.
15-17.
Bob Newcomb, another UNC alum
nus living in Charlotte, recently prom
ised to give Lansing all of the raw film.
Hope Valley Country Club in Durham
gave Lansing a reduced rate to shoot on
“I would like to keep all aspects of it
confidential,” she said. “I want to pre
serve the confidence of those hearings.”
Ferguson said the “tremendous” ef
forts of the group Students for Dr. Paul
Ferguson had helped support him
throughout his tenure battle.
“I think there’s been so much less
psychological wear and tear because of
the support students have shown,” he
said.
“It’s a trying process and extremely
lengthy. I appreciate the support they’ve
shown.”
On the eve of the hearing, Valerie
Halman, a senior from Montreal and
one of the leaders of Students for Paul
Ferguson, said she was confident that
Ferguson would be successful at the
hearing.
“I really feel the Board of Trustees
will be responsive to the students who
have spoken out for and stood behind
Dr. Paul Ferguson,” she said.
making less in absolute dollars than
they made ten years ago,” Irons stud.
Earwood also said lifestyle and fam
ily considerations discouraged doctors
from practicing in small towns as shop
ping, social activities and high quality
education rarely were convenient.
“Your spouse has to be happy, too,”
he said.
However, some doctors quickly
pointed out that there were many ad
vantages to practicing medicine in a
small town.
William Jordan, a Windsor physi
cian, said a rural community offered
many rewards that were absent from an
urban area.
“You know your patients a lot bet
ter,” Jordan said. “It gets to be a family
affair, and I think that’s what practicing
medicine is all about. I wouldn ’ t trade it
for any urban practice.”
Patterson agreed and added that pri
mary-care doctors, particularly in small
towns, had more of an opportunity to
serve people directly than did urttan
specialists.
“You’re in the rural community,
you’re helping people, and you’re
needed,” he said.
Patterson said the N.C. Office of
Rural Health was working to eliminate
the disadvantages associated with rural
medical care by compensating young
doctors with medical-school loans and
location there, and Carolina Dining
Services has pledged all the food for the
shoot.
Two actors from Playmakers The
atre, graduate students Brett Halna du
Fretay and Connan Morrissey, will play
the lead roles for the film free of charge.
Lansing will conduct auditions for
smaller parts in the film this afternoon
in the Student Union.
The only paid crew member will be
the cinematographer, or cameraman,
who is a professional. An editor also
will be hired to ensure that the complex
editing process is done as profession
ally as possible, Lansing said.
Lansing is hoping his finished film
will educate viewers. “The film is about
the way human beings relate to each
other and the masks that we carry
what happens when a person’s mask
falls,” he said.
When this project is completed and
Lansing gets his diploma in May, he is
not planning to head to Hollywood like
his friend John Ward.
“I’d like to stay involved in indepen
dent film, advertising and documentary
work for a while to get production expe
rience,” he said.
He also hopes his future work will
benefit society. “My final aspiration
would be to make a film that truly
affects people in a positive way.”
Lansing said modem television and
films were filled with violence, sex and
blatant stereotypes, elements he would
like to eradicate.
“We as a society have become numb
to it,” he said. “We don’t need to see any
more violence; we don’t need to see any
more pain. There’s enough of it out
there.”
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Machines
Police said that there were no firm sus
pects but that the investigation was con
tinuing.
“We have redeployed our people,
and it seems to have been effective,”
said Gold.
N.C. State University suffered an
epidemic of vending machine thefts last
semester during which 50 to 60 ma
chines were broken into.
Since this semester began, thieves
have broken into at least five machines.
The damage on the NCSU machines is
estimated to be about $5,000, and about
$2,000 has been stolen from these ma
chines, according to an article in the
Jan. 11 edition of the Technician, the
NCSU campus newspaper.
The bill validators cost approximately
SIOO to fix.
To remedy the situation, Mars Elec
tronics, the company that makes the
machines used at UNC, has produced a
new type of bill validator that is more
difficult to break into. The new proto
type will be placed on campus ma
chines in the next couple of weeks.
Debit card machines soon will be
replacing the bill validators in campus
vending machines. Starting in Febru
ary, students will be able to use their
UNC One Cards for machines in
Ehringhaus and Craige dormitories and
in Gardner Hall, Beard Hall, Hamilton
Hall and the Student Union.
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recruiting physicians from North Caro
lina and other states for communities in
need.
Patterson said medical schools and
universities also were encouraging stu
dents to practice in rural areas.
Irons said ECU was one of the uni
versities making such an effort by ex
perimenting with plans to help rural
doctors gain more vacation time and
link them more closely to the urban
medical community.
One such experiment is the Partners
program, through which ECU physi
cians fill in for small-town doctors for
one to three weeks.
Irons also said the school was work
ing to develop on-line linkage from its
library to rural doctors and has recently
installed televideo linkage in five sites
across the state.
“Medical centers will have to more
actively link themselves with practic
ing physicians,” Irons said.
But despite such efforts, Irons said
more incentives were needed to im
prove the quality of health care in rural
communities.
“Solutions are going to have to be
both creative and radical,” Irons said.
“We can’t afford to wait the seven years
it takes to produce anew crop (of doc
tors) interested in rural health. By the
year 2000, if we haven’t done some
thing about it, we’re in big trouble.”
Matlock
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who said Ward had taught him a lot.
Lansing, a senior radio, television and
motion pictures major, has used last
year’s experience while producing his
own film this year.
Ward now has moved to Los Ange
les, where a talent agent is helping him
find more acting roles and a literary
agent is marketing his scripts.
Though Ward admits it is unusual to
call himself an actor-screenwriter, he
likens it to the title singer-songwriter
and believes it will become a trend.
“It’s a lot easier for you to play (a)
role (you created yourself) because you
remember what you were thinking when
you wrote the script,” he said.
Despite the fact that Ward’s first
prominent role was in “Matlock,” work
in feature films, not television, is his
ultimate goal.
“You get a chance to say a little
more,” he explained. “I want to make
stuff that can change people’s lives.”
But Ward’s dreams of playing char
acters he creates himself will have to
wait a while. For now, he is just one of
thousands of aspiring actors looking to
make it big in Hollywood, land of the
glitz and glitter.
Ward spends three days per week in
auditions, a “frustrating experience,”
he said. Hundreds of people, who all
look the same, show up for each audi
tion, he said. “(So) you have to figure
out what makes you unique.”
He also spends two days each week
in creative meetings for his scripts.
“I’m very close to selling (a script),”
Ward said, adding that he was “under
contract” for another script idea. If the
company representatives like the fin
ished product, they will buy it, but in the
meantime, Ward is not allowed to show
the script to anyone else.
But whether or not Ward succeeds in
Tinseltown, he believes the UNC di
ploma on his wall will guarantee his
survival.
“I know all I gotta do is say the word,
and I can let my lease run out and go
home.”
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Language
daily here at Carolina, students need to
be exposed to different cultures,” she
said. “That is one reason why I wanted
to teach this course.”
Francophone literature courses al
ready are offered at other universities.
Elisabeth Mudimboe-Boyi, a
Francophone-literature specialist at
Duke University, said Duke offered
courses in Francophone literature, which
have been well received by Duke stu
dents.
“We have one course at the under
graduate level and two at the graduate
level,” Mudimboe-Boyi said. “Accord
ing to the attendance level and the course
reviews, (the classes) have been re
ceived very well.”
Some of the Francophone classes at
Duke are taught in conjunction with the
Asian and African languages classes.
The Francophone literature course at
the University is subject to final ap
proval by University administrators. If
approved, it will be offered as French
77 in fall 1993.
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