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'The Daily Tar Heel/Friday, Janaury 22, 1993
Professor led double life by working at two universities
By Andrea Jones
Assistant State and National Editor
Officials at UNC-Charlotte and the
University of Minnesota have been
forced to reconsider their expectations
of faculty members after an acclaimed
Judaic studies scholar took full-time
posts at both institutions without their
knowledge.
UNC-Charlotte officials said Tzvee
Zahavy, a nationally-renowned acade
mician, was asked to resign from a
prominent chair ‘at the university and
will be repaying the $5,000 he was paid
to move to the Charlotte area.
Zahavy also submitted his resigna
tion to the University of Minnesota Jan.
13 and will be returning $20,000 —the
full amount of pay he would have re
ceived for the fall term to university
officials.
Zahavy’s combined annual earnings
from positions at both universities would
have been $146,400.
Jeffrey Meyer, chair of UNC-C’s
Minority groups fear increase of hate crimes
By Bruce Robinson
Staff Writer
Minority groups fear that two violent
assaults in Florida and South Carolina
may be a reflection of increasing hate
crimes in the United States.
Christopher Wilson, a black tourist
from New York, was abducted, robbed,
then set afire in Tampa, Da., Jan. 1.
Three white men have been charged
with attempted murder in the case.
Two days earlier, in North Charles
ton, S.C., Melissa McLauchlin, a white
woman, was abducted and taken to a
nearby trailer park where she was raped
by at least five men. McLauchlin then
was driven out of town, where she was
shot six times and killed. All eight sus
pects in the case are black.
Both of the cases have been charac
terized as hate crimes by local authori
ties and have struck a chord with minor
ity groups who fear this type of bias
crime may be on the rise.
Tim Williams, director of communi
cations for the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People,
said the Wilson case in particular was
troubling.
“That’s a heinous incident regard
less of whom the perpetrators were,” he
said. “We were disturbed by the amount
of time it took officials to determine it
was a hate crime.”
Williams said reports the NAACP
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Department of Religious Studies, said
that Zahavy had acted wrongly in de
ceiving the two universities about his
employment status and that he had used
the possibility of a job at UNC-C to gain
a pay raise at the University of Minne
sota.
“It was absolutely and utterly unethi
cal to do what he did because he misrep
resented himself to both places. Last
spring, while he was talking to us, he
went to the University of Minnesota
and said, 'l’m going to take this job
unless you raise my salary,’ and they
did.”
Meyer also said Zahavy’s double
employment had violated unwritten
codes of academic ethics.
“It’s not written down on paper any
where, but it’s just assumed in the aca
demic world that you don’t hold down
two full-time jobs. It’s pretty rare that
anyone would try such a thing.”
Julia Davis, dean of the University of
Minnesota’s College of Liberal Arts,
agreed.
had received showed a recent increase
in the number of hate crimes.
Other minority groups also have no
ticed the same trend.
Aaron Breitbart, senior researcher
for the Simon Wiesenthal Center in Los
Angeles, said reports of hate crimes had
increased dramatically in the last few
years.
“There is no doubt that (hate crimes
are) increasing,” he said. “The question
is, are they increasing or is the reporting
increasing?”
Breitbart said that while minorities
were more willing to come forward and
report hate crimes than in the past, there
still was a definitive increase.
“There was a time when they would
just take it,” he said. “However, we
know full well there are more.”
Gregory King, communications di
rector for the Human Rights Campaign
Fund, agreed with Breitbart that hate
crimes had increased.
“Definitely, hate crime against gays
and lesbians is increasing over the last
couple of years,” he said. “There is a
rising tide of prejudice.”
King said biased rhetoric by conser
vatives was a major cause of hate crimes.
“When you have politicians like Pat
Buchanan and preachers like Jerry
Falwell mouthing prejudice, it really
has an impact,” he said.
Despite these reports from minority
groups, the FBI still was unable to de-
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“Everyone knows that if the Univer
sity of Minnesota pays you for a full
time job, they expect a full-time effort,”
Davis said. “The idea that you could
take two full-time posts is so alien to the
environment at most universities... that
I don’t think you’d find anybody who
wouldsay, ‘Oh, yeah.that’sO.K.’ Most
people would be pretty horrified by
that, me included.”
Zahavy, who lives in Minneapolis,
Minn., commuted to Charlotte on Mon
days and usually stayed in town for at
least three days to teach at UNC-C,
Meyer said.
Meyer said he began to think there
was a hidden factor to Zahavy’s em
ployment when the professor failed to
move into the Charlotte area, but he
added that he did not discover the moon
lighting until Zahavy had held the UNC-
C position for more than seven weeks.
“We expected him to move, and that
was one of the things that made me
suspicious,” Meyer said. “Also, his re
lationship here in the community did
termine if more hate crimes were occur
ring.
Angela Bell, spokeswoman for the
FBI, said the agency had just begun to
collect statistics on hate crimes and
therefore was unable to acknowledge
any increase.
The FBI released its first report on
hate crimes Jan. 4 in response to the
Hate Crime Statistics Act of 1990, Bell
said. The report recorded hate crimes
that occurred in 1991.
According to the report, 4,755 hate
offenses were recorded by the 2,771
participating agencies in 32 states. Anti
black crimes accounted for 35.5 percent
of the offenses followed by 18.7 per
cent for anti-white crimes, 16.7 percent
for and-Jewish crimes and 8.9 percent
for anti-homosexual crimes.
Of the crimes, 33.9 percent were
intimidation, 33 percent were assaults
and 27.4 percent were crimes of de
struction, damage or vandalism of prop
erty. Violent crimes such as the murder
and rape in South Carolina and the
attempted murder in Florida only make
up about 0.4 percent of hate crimes,
according to the FBI report.
Bell said the FBl’s definition of a
hate crime was “a criminal offense com
mitted against a person or property
which is motivated in whole or in part
by the offender’s bias against a race,
religion, ethnic/national origin group,
or sexual orientation group.”
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not seem very positive. None of (these
things) singly was enough to make it
suspicious, but put together, they made
me begin to suspect something.”
Ken Sanford, public information di
rector at UNC-C, said complaints from
members of Charlotte’s Jewish com
munity had also made members of his
department curious.
“(Zahavy) was expected to give lec
tures to the members of the Jewish
community,” Sanford said. “There had
already been some complaints about
him charging high fees (for the lec
tures), and it had been understood he
would do that as public service.”
The situation was discovered when a
member of UNC-C’s religious studies
department met one of Zahavy’s co
workers at a national conference in
Minnesota. When Zahavy’s new posi
tion as UNC-C’s Distinguished Chair
of Judaic Studies was mentioned, the
University of Minnesota faculty mem
ber expressed surprise.
Meyer said that when the puzzling
Breitbart said the increase of hate
crimes could be attributed to the recent
recession. “The haters come out of the
woodwork like roaches when times get
tough,” he said.
However, Breitbart said improved
economic conditions would not be suf
ficient to reduce hate crimes.
“There will always be bigotry out
there,” he said. “All bigotry is based on
some type of plot story. This tends to get
much worse when there is economic
difficulty.”
Breitbart said parents must begin to
teach their children at an early age to
reject hatred and bigotry. Schools must
also take an active role, he said, and
there must be strict enforcement of hate
crime laws so that people are deterred
from taking action.
The minority groups also feel hate
crimes should receive stiffer penalties
than similar crimes not committed out
of hatred.
Breitbart said hate crimes could be
more harmful to society than other
crimes. “I believe motivation should be
a consideration,” he said. “There is a
compelling enough reason for society
to do so.”
King concurred but said the laws
must be carefully written so that con
duct and not motive was penalized.
Williams said the NAACP supports
legislation that would give hate crimes
tougher sentences.
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levard and the downtown parking deck.
The deficit will be covered by
$300,000 from the transportation fund
and $600,000 from the general fund, he
said.
Horton also said town employees
would not receive a salary increase this
year.
The council will have a work session
on the preliminary budget report and
capital improvement plan March 2 and
hold a public forum March 16.
Council members will hold a public
hearing on the recommended budget
and the capital improvement plan May
18.
The council is scheduled to vote on
the new budget June 7.
event was relayed to him, he called the
University of Minnesota and uncov
ered Zahavy’s misconduct.
“He’donly been here for seven weeks
total, and I thought at first that he’d not
seen (Zahavy) and didn’t know about
it,” Meyer said. “But that’s when I got
on the phone.”
Philip Dubois, UNC-C vice-chan
cellor, said that Zahavy had an excel
lent reputation throughout the country
and that his selection for the position
carried with it a great deal of responsi
bility.
“(Zahavy) had an outstanding repu
tation in all areas of academic endeavor,”
Dubois said. “He had written several
books, was a nationally-known scholar,
had a good reputation among his peers
and as a teacher. He was intended to be
one of our principal contacts with the
Jewish community.”
Dubois said he had been angered and
disappointed by the events, which oc
curred after a long search process.
“My personal feelings are really dem
U.S. efforts in Iraq, Somalia
spark defense budget debate
By Paul Garber
SQffWriter
The role of the U.S. militaiy after
the Cold War and recent humanitarian
interventions have intensified the
seemingly incessant debate over mili
tary budget cuts.
The military actions in Iraq and
Somalia have highlighted die chang
ing concept of what constitutes the
“national interest,” said Andrew Scott,
a UNC political science professor. “I
see a wider concept of our national
interest emerging.”
The relief efforts in Somalia have
forced a change in the way the
military’s role is perceived, and will
require a rethinking of possible mili
tary budget cuts, said Ray Landis, a
spokesman for U.S. Rep. John Murtha,
D-Penn., who recently returned from
Somalia.
“(Humanitarian) intervention is
such a jump,” he said. ‘lt’s such anew
use of armed forces.”
Landis said if U.S. armed forces
continued their involvement in hu
manitarian interventions, their actions
would require current levels of fund
ing to maintain the armed forces’ cur
rent capabilities.
Landis warned that if another situ
ation arose elsewhere in the world that
required U.S. intervention, the efforts
in Somalia could be hampered.
However, some critics have argued
that the actions taken in Iraq and So
malia did not justify the size of the
budget that the Pentagon maintains.
“We have for a decade been ex
pending 60 percent of our budget to
confront the Soviet Union and the
Warsaw Pact,” said Bob Brauer, spe
cial counsel to U.S. Rep. Ronald
Dellums, D-Caiif. “We have only cm
15 percent.”
Brauer said that the Iraqi and So
mali forces did not compare to the
former Soviet Union’s military
strength and that confronting such
opposition should not require as large
a budget.
New Year
you will be doing that all year long.
Many New Year’s traditions are as
sociated with good luck, He said. On
New Year’s Day, the Chinese don’t
mention death and try to avoid using
words that sound like the word death.
Parents give their children “lucky
money” in red envelopes to help them
prepare for the year ahead. He said.
“Just like Santa Claus, this money is
supposed to be put in the child’s pocket
when he falls asleep.”
Some traditions associated with food
also can bring luck, He said. Eating fish
will help a person avoid running out of
luck, money or food, He said, because
the pronunciation of the Chinese word
for fish is similar to the pronunciation of
the word for excess.
Some Chinese people cook all the
food they need for New Year’s Day the
night before. He said. Eating the left
overs the next day symbolizes then
hope that they will have an abundance
of good things in the coming year, He
said. “People are afraid of scarcity for
the new year.”
To help ensure good luck, several
campus organizations will celebrate the
Chinese New Year this weekend.
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Dubois said. “Within one week of offi
cial notification ... he was suspended
from the University. I simply did not
want, and the Chancellor did not want,
a person who had behaved in that man
ner on the faculty.
“I’m disappointed for the University
because I thought we had a good per
son, and I’m disappointed for the Jew
ish community,” he said.
Dubois said that the probability of
another moonlighting professor was so
slight that changes in the faculty search
process were unnecessary.
Kenneth Janzen, associate executive
director of the University of Minnesota’s
Board of Regents, said the board ap
proved a document last Friday in re
sponse to the incident.
“There is a statement in the docu
ment to the effect that even a highly
competent faculty member cannot do
justice to his position in 40 hours (per
week), that the average is more like 55
hours (per week),” he said.
The United States began moving
supplies into Somalia from Kenya in
August, four months before the land
ing of U.S. forces on the beaches of
Somalia in December. Since August,
more than 34,148 metric tons of relief
supplies have been distributed in a
joint military-civilian effort.
The operation has proceeded, in
three phases since U.S. forces arrived
in Somalia. The first phase involved
gaining control of the airport in the
capital city of Mogadishu. In the sec
ond phase, U.S. troops secured die
roads in outlying areas of the country
and distributed the relief supplies.
Currently, the U.S. troops are at
tempting to stabilize die area to create
a safer environment that will allow
people to get food out and allow dip
lomatic processes to proceed.
Marine LtCol. Kerry Gershaneck,
a Pentagon spokesman, said that
23,900 U.S. soldiers currently are in
volved in this third phase.
The long-term outlook in Somalia
is less certain. There are currently
11,000 personnel from 20 other coun
tries in Somalia, and Gershaneck said
the U.S. operation most likely will be
turned over to U.N. forces sometime
late- this month or in February. He
said the United States may pull out its
combatforces andleaveonly logistics
personnel in Somalia. ■ .
Murtha has argued that the opera
tion already should have been turned
over to the United Nations, Landis
said. “The U.S. has accomplished its
mission,” Landis stud. He said that if
there were a U.N. force in Somalia,
the U.S. could withdraw immediately.
Brauer said efforts in Somalia was
important to national interest because
it stabilized the Horn of Africa.
But Brauer noted that “In Iraq, the
case has not been efficacious to any
stated goal.”
The recent air strikes by U.S.-led
forces against Iraq have not hindered
the relief efforts in Somalia,
Gershaneck said. “We’re capable of
handling several operations at once.”
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New Year’s dinner and show Saturday
night in Raleigh. The celebration will
feature skits and dances, including the
dragon dance to bring good luck and
ward off evil spirits.
The celebration is a way for ASA
members to eat good food, have a fun
time and learn more about Chinese cul
ture, said ASA President Karen Ko. In
February, UNC’s ASA plans to attend
the annual Lunar New Year Festival
sponsored by Duke University’s ASA.
Members of the UNC Chinese Stu
dent Association will ring in the new
year with a potluck dinner and party
Sunday night. Activities will include
games and singing.
The Friendship Association will hold
a potluck dinner and show for members
and their families and friends Saturday
night.
Four women will wear traditional
Chinese costumes and perform the red
ribbon dance, which symbolizes the end
of the old year and the hope for a pros
perous new year. The lion dance, also
supposed to ensure good luck and ward
off evil, also will be performed, He said.
“(The celebration) is a chance for
club members and their families to get
together with old friends and make new
friends.”