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Volume 100, Issue 129
UNC officials question Clinton loan plan
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By Peter Sigal
Staff Writer
Bill Clinton has promised to revamp
the Guaranteed Student Loan program
with his National Service Trust plan,
but some University officials say the
new president’s financial aid package
could cause more problems than it
solves.
Clinton’s plan would offer solutions
to a number of problems, including un
paid student loans and a shortage of
community service workers. The plan
could replace the Guaranteed Student
Loan program with a community ser
vice-based repayment system.
FRIDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from state, nation and world
Senate confirms top
nominees to posts
WASHINGTON The Senate
confirmed more top officers in
President Bill Clinton’s administra
tion on Thursday, hurrying action to
give the new president a fast start
with scant resistance.
Eight Cabinet officers including
Donna Shalala as health secretary and
Robert Reich as labor secretary
were authorized by a single voice
vote.
Five more top officials includ
ing Rep. Leon Panetta of California to
head the Office of Management and
Budget also were approved.
Ron Brown, Clinton’s pick to be
commerce secretary, won a Senate
panel’s approval and later was
confirmed.
Others confirmed were: Florida
environmental official Carol Browner
to be administrator of the Environ
mental Protection Agency; investment
banker Roger Altman to be deputy
treasury secretary; budget scholar
Alice Rivlin to be deputy director of
the Office of Management and
Budget; and lawyer and former
Clinton campaign chairman Mickey
Kantor to be U.S. trade representa
tive.
U.S. warplanes bomb
Iraqi defense site
BAGHDAD, Iraq A cease-fire
proclaimed as a “goodwill gesture” to
President Clinton broke down
Thursday when U.S. jets bombed a
radar site. Baghdad denied it pro
voked the action but promised to
uphold the truce.
Pentagon officials said two U.S.
warplanes fired on and bombed an
Iraqi air defense radar site in northern
Iraq after radar was turned on them
.The Pentagon said Iraqi anti-aircraft
guns also shot at the allied planes.
A statement carried by the Iraqi
News Agency quoted an unnamed
“official spokesman” as denying any
radar had been turned on in the
northern “no-fly” zone.
In a move that could also be seen
as a challenge to Clinton, Saddam
announced Thursday the reopening a
Baghdad powdered milk plant that
U.S. officials say was a cover for
biological weapons production.
President to revoke
abortion restrictions
WASHINGTON Abortion foes
will assemble near the White House
today for their annual march on the
Supreme Court. But for the first time
in 12 years, rather than being
emboldened by a president’s words,
they will be set back by his deeds.
President Clinton will mark the
20th anniversary of legal abortion in
America by revoking his predeces
sors’ restrictions on abortion counsel
ing at federally supported clinics.
In contrast,
both Presidents
Reagan and Bush
delivered, by
telephone
hookup, support
messages for the
anti-abortion
marchers.
Clinton’s
scheduled action,
striking down
what he and other
Bill Clinton
critics have called the “gag rule,” was
celebrated in advance Thursday by
congressional leaders and the abortion
rights movement.
Aside from striking down the rule
against abortion counseling on Friday,
his future orders are likely to include
approval of the morning-after
abortion pill from France, RU-486,
administration officials have said.
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About 6 million students nationwide
currently receive $21.5 billion in total
federal aid annually, including guaran
teed student loans and grants such as
Stafford loans, supplemental student
loans and Pell grants.
During the 1991-92 school year,
8,151 UNC students received financial
aid.
In 1991,17 percent of students who
received financial aid defaulted on loans
to the tune of $2.7 billion.
In his “Plan for America’s Future,”
Clinton called the National Service Trust
“a radical overhaul of the American
education system” and “the best invest
ment we can make in our common fu
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Entrepreneur Robert Matis, co-owner of Class Notes, got the idea to sell notes fo students from a similar operation at Penn State
Some students get by on Class Notes
By Suzanne Wuelfing
Staff Writer
“Holly,” a UNC student, made a B+
in Anthropology 46 last semester with
out doing any of the readings or attend
ing classes after the midterm.
“Chris” made a B- in one of his
classes without doing any readings or
attending class except on exam days.
But they didn’t have to beg for notes
from classmates with higher attendance
rates. They bought their notes from Class
Notes.
The one-semester-old enterprise hires
good students enrolled in large classes
to make copies of their notes, which in
turn are sold to other students.
Class Notes is offering notes for about
Congress approves new districts again
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
After a two-and-a-half hour debate
that one representative described as
“ugly, just plain ugly,” Student Con
gress approved new electoral districts
Thursday, one week after the last redis
tricting and less than two weeks before
student body elections.
The changes enacted Thursday night
by a margin of 19-4-1 decreases Stu
dent Congress from 39 to 37 members,
taking away two undergraduate repre
sentatives. ,
Under the bill, co-authored by Rep.
Bret Batdorff, Dist. 20, and Rep. Philip
Charles-Pierre, Dist. 17, on-campus
undergraduate districts remain the same
but off-campus undergraduate districts
Sangam uses cultural programs in fight for Hindi class
By Michael Easterly
Staff Writer
As part of its effort to have a Hindi
language course established at the Uni
versity, Sangam, the Asian-Indian stu
dent association, plans to offer UNC
students two programs to leam about
Indian culture this spring.
Last fall, Sangam members circu
lated 50 petitions around campus and
mailed letters to 75 faculty and admin
istrators in an effort to get a Hindi
language class established at the Uni
versity.
A Sangam-sponsored Hindi discus
sion group will hold its first meeting
Jan. 25. Intended for all levels of profi
ciency, the sessions will focus on speak
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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
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ture ... it will pay for itself many times
over.”
Eleanor Morris, UNC director of
scholarships and student aid, said she
hoped the plan did not totally replace
the GSL program.
“While our office is supportive of
adding the expectation of community
service to funding for higher education,
we hope it won’t be used to replace
existing programs that are working,”
she said. “My hope would be instead
that the community service feature could
be added to an existing program.”
Morris agreed that the present GSL
program needed an overhaul.
“It’s the most tedious program I have
40 classes this semester. Co-owners and
entrepreneurs Stan Preschutti and Rob
ert Matis, who attended Penn State
University, choose only classes of more
than about 150 students.
The semester pack, which contains
notes from the entire semester, costs
S3O; exam packs, covering material for
individual exams, cost sl2; and daily
notes are $2.50 each.
Notetakers must have a 3.2 grade
point average and be enrolled in the
class for which they take Class Notes.
Most notetakers’ grade reports consist
of a long list of A’s with a few B’s
scattered throughout, Preschutti said.
They are required to type the notes and
submit them the day after each lecture.
Preschutti and Matis said they did
are altered. There are now five off
campus districts:
■ One district running north and east
of the center of the intersection at
Franklin and Columbia streets stopping
at Estes Drive with three representa
tives;
■ A second running south and east of
the Franklin-Columbia intersection with
two representatives;
■ A third running south and west of
the intersection with two representa
tives;
■ A fourth running north and west of
the intersection with three representa
tives;
■ And a fifth running north and east
of the center of the Franklin-Columbia
intersection past Estes Drive with two
representatives.
ing the language.
Instead of formal instructors, stu
dents who have become proficient in
the language through their family back
grounds will lead the discussion.
“There are two motivations for the
(discussions),” said Rupa
Kothandapani, a sophomore from Mo
bile, Ala., and Sangam co-secretary.
“One is to compensate for our need for
academic (study). The other is to show
the faculty and the University that the
interest is there.
“A lot of people think that because
we’re such a small group that we won’t
get the class, but that’s just not true.”
Between 20 and 30 students ex
pressed interest in the class at the last
Sangam meeting, said Sandy Cash, co
ever seen,” she said.
But there still are a number of unan
swered questions surrounding Clinton’s
proposal, Morris said. If the program
were available to all students, it could
create tremendous staffing and admin
istrative problems, she said.
The plan is similar in intent to John
Kennedy’s Peace Corps and Volunteers
in Service to America programs of the
early 19605, but the National Service
Trust would be much larger in scope.
Clinton has called it “a domestic G.I.
Bill that will pledge college assistance
to any student who wants it the
middle class as well as the poor.”
The original G.I. Bill, enacted after
not suggest students use Class Notes as
a way to slack off and skip classes all
semester, but instead as a study supple
ment.
“If you’re in class taking notes and
using these as a supplement, you can’t
get anything better,” Preschutti said.
Holly, who found the notes well worth
the money, said that by offering Class
Notes, the company seems to be invit
ing people not to go to class. “It sounds
absurd that you can get all the notes and
not go to class,” she said.
But Holly relied on an exam pack
that covered information after her an
thropology class midterm. “I didn’t go
to class at all (after the midterm),” she
See NOTES, page 2
The districts approved last week but
voided by the new bill did not provide
adequate representation for the large
number of off-campus residents living
in the area north and east of the Franklin-
Columbia intersection, Batdorff said.
“I think this is a better plan,” he told
congress. “It’s not perfect, but it’s defi
nitely a step in the right direction.”
Batdorff rebutted claims that the re
districting was taking place too close to
the Feb. 9 election. “Don’t tell the people
it’s too late for fairness,” he said.
Hunter approved as treasurer
In other legislation Thursday, con
gress confirmed the nomination of one
of its own, Rep. Kevin Hunter, Dist. 14,
as student body treasurer.
Hunter, a two-term representative,
chairman of the Sangam committee for
academics.
Beginning Feb. 4, an Asian-Indian
study circle will meet biweekly. Orga
nizers currently are asking graduate stu
dents specializing in the region to give
a talk on their area of expertise. Sangam
organizers currently have two sessions
planned.
Laura Kline, a graduate student in
the religious studies department, will
teach the first seminar. Kline will focus
on recent unrest in India that occurred
after Hindus destroyed a 400-year-old
Muslim mosque built on Hindu holy
land.
Anu Kumar, who recently earned her
doctorate in anthropology, will lead the
second session. Kumar will present her
World War n, guaranteed housing and
education to returning servicemen.
Under Clinton ’ s proposal, college and
university students could repay loans
either through service —one year for
every two years in school—or through
tax-time payments. Community service
could include social work, teaching,
child care or law enforcement.
Adam Sohn, a member of Clinton’s
transition team, said the National Ser
vice Trust was one of about five pro
grams the president planned to empha
size during his first 100 days in office.
Other University administrators re
sponded to the plan with reserved en
thusiasm.
Recall approval
‘almost certain/
mayor predicts
By Jackie Hershkowitz
City Editor
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said
Thursday that he thought it was “almost
certain” the town council and General
Assembly would approve a request to
amend the town’s charter to include a
recall provision, a move that could al
low the ouster of town council mem
ber Joe Herzenberg.
Herzenberg, who was convicted in
August of two counts of willful failure
to pay state taxes, was asked by the
council to resign but refused to step
down.
If the General Assembly approves
the recall bill, Chapel Hiil residents
could petition to remove Herzenberg
from office as early as June, Broun said.
Herzenberg said that if voters circu
lated a petition to forcibly remove him
from office, he would not see it as an
ultimate indictment of his actions.
“I think the final word is when God
judges you,” Herzenberg said.
Broun said he thought the entire coun
cil, which will not vote on the bill until
next week, supported thel amendment.
“I think I can safely say the recall will
be approved by the council and ap
proved by the legislature,” Broun said.
“What happens after that is another
question.”
Council member Joe Capowski said
it was likely that once the recall provi
sion was passed, it would be used to
oust Herzenberg.
But council member Mark Chilton
said he thought Herzenberg had enough
support in the community to survive an
attempt to remove him from office.
“Clearly he has a lot of supporters,
irrespective of his legal transgressions,”
Chilton said. “Joe was the number-one
vote-getter in the 1993 election. That’s
was approved unanimously after being
nominated last week by Student Body
President John Moody.
In a statement to congress, Hunter
responded to those who worried that his
past actions including his role in
placing restrictive riders on the budgets
of Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians and
Allies for Diversity and Graduate Stu
dents United last year would inter
fere with his work as treasurer.
“The treasurer is an appointed ad
ministrator appointed by the student
body—to follow the will of congress,”
he said.
The responsibilities of the treasurer
include overseeing allocation of stu
dent fees to various student organiza
tions and advising congress on fiscal
matters.
findings concerning women and repro
duction in Rajasthan, a state in India.
But Sangam members also will con
tinue their efforts to gain the Hindi
class.
“We’re moving ahead, but we’re not
moving as quickly as we were when it
all started,” Cash said. “We’re still in
the opening stages.”
Members have gathered about 500of
the 3,000 signatures Sangam leaders
hope to gain before presenting their
petitions to University administrators.
Sangam members also have received
about 20 responses to the 75 letters they
mailed to faculty and administrators,
Kothandapani said.
See SANGAM, page 7
sportsline
HOMESICK: Wake Forest freshman bas
ketball player Steve Rich has left school for
personal reasons, coach Dave Odom said
Thursday. Odom said Rich had expressed
feelings of homesickness. Rich, a 6-9 for
ward/center from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., has
played in all 12 games this season, averag
ing 2.4 points and 3.4 rebounds.
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“It sounds to me like it’s an exciting
and promising idea,” said Provost Ri
chard McCormick. “It would inculcate
good citizenship.”
But Morris said she wasn’t sure
whether Clinton’s proposal would en
courage more minorities and low-in
come students to borrow money for
college. Families with low incomes tra
ditionally are afraid of debt in any form,
she said.
Herbert Davis, associate director of
undergraduate admissions who also
works in minority recruitment for UNC,
said low-income and minority recruit-
See LOANS, page 2
a significant mandate.”
Chilton said he didn’t think voters
would abuse the recall provision.
“You couldn’t get that by just play
ing around,” Chilton said. “You’d have
to get about 2,000 signatures, so I don’t
see a whole lot of possibility for it to be
overused.”
To remove an elected official from
office, apetition would have to be signed
by 25 percent of residents who had
voted in the last mayoral election.
Chilton said that although he voted
against the resolution to censure
Herzenberg, he thought it was wise to
amend the town’s charter so that elected
officials could be removed from office.
Herzenberg said he thought amend
ing the town’s charter was a great idea.
“I think it strengthens our democ
racy,” he said.
During the civil rights rpovement in
the 19605, voters recalled an entire city
council in North Carolina because it
desegregated a local swimming pool,
Herzenberg said. A number of proce
dural safeguards would have to exist to
prevent this kind of misuse, he added.
Herzenberg said the proposed bill
was “an excellent draft,” but he thought
a few elements needed further study.
Instead of requiring a petition to be
signed by 25 percent of residents who
voted in the last mayoral election,
Herzenberg proposed that the number
of required signatures be equivalent to
25 percent of the number of people who
voted in the last municipal election.
Herzenberg said that in years of un
contested mayoral races, the number of
votes counted for the mayoral race would
not genuinely reflect voter turnout.
The council will meet Monday to
vote whether to request that the General
Assembly approve amending the town
charter to include a recall provision.
MLX Celebration
Schedule of Events
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6:30 p.m.-Candlelight Vigil; The Pit
7 p.m.-Lecture: Lerone Bennett, Jr.,
“Martin Luther King: The Man, The
Message, and Our Times,” Presenta
tion of Scholarship; Memorial Hall
Ratnrrtay, Jm, 23
12 noon-Lecture/Demonstration: James
Chapman, “The Principles of
Empowerment;” Great Hall
8 p.m.-Play: “Our Young Black Men
Are Dying and No One Seems to
Care;” Memorial Hall
Jan 24
3 p.m.-“Martin Luther King Memorial
Celebration” Sonja Haynes Stone
Black Cultural Center
Candidates -
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What do George Bush, Terry
Sanford and Jim Gardner have in
common? They forgot to contact
The Daily Tar Heel to arrange an
interview and picture session.
Candidates for student body presi
dent, Residence Hall Association
president, Carolina Athletic Asso
ciation president, Senior Class presi
dent and Senior Class vice president
must contact The Daily Tar Heel by
3 pm. Monday, Jan. 25 for an inter
view and photo session if they want
to be included in the DTH’s election
previews. Come by the DTH office
in Suite 104 of the Student Union or
call 962-0245.
Congressional hopefuls should
watch the DTH next week for an
nouncements regarding congress
interviews and photo session.