Housing lifts
ban on dorm
campaigning
Housing officials decided Thursday
night to lift the ban on door-to-door
campaigning for candidates for Student
Congress, Elections Board Chairman
Ron Bames said.
Candidates for student body presi
dent still may not campaign in dormito
ries. Presidential hopefuls who make
the runoff vote may go door-to-door
Dr. Ruth set to speak
in Memorial Hall
Who says the sexual revolution is
over?
Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the noted psy
chosexual therapist and media psychol
ogy pioneer, will present “Sexually
Speaking with Dr. Ruth” Feb. 16 at 8
p.m. in UNC’s Memorial Hall.
The talk will include a chance for the
audience to submit written questions
for Dr. Ruth, which she will answer at
the end of the program.
Tickets to see the small, geriatric
sexpert are $3 for students and $5 for
the general public and can be obtained
from the Carolina Union box office.
Be there. It might just change your
life.
Nursing school gets
$183,000 (wow) grant
Go nurses!
The UNC School of Nursing has
received a $183,000 grant to develop
the state’s first master’s degree pro
gram for nurses specializing in women ’ s
health.
The Kate B. Reynolds Charitable
Trust of Winston-Salem is funding the
project, which will train nurses called
Obstetric/Gynecological Nurse Practi
tioners to provide primary care to women
aimed at preventing illness and promot
ing health.
OGNPs, working with physicians,
provide health care to women from ado
lescence to old age, including services
such as sex education, family planning,
general health care and care during and
after pregnancy.
Ackland presents snap
shots of homelessness
A photographer is teaching area kids
to shoot back.
No, not with guns —with cameras.
The Ackland Art Museum will
present “Shooting Back: Photography
by and about the Homeless” from Feb.
14 through April 4.
Photojoumalist Jim Hubbard’s exhi
bition documents the daily lives of chil
dren living in homeless shelters in Wash
ington, D.C. Hubbard traveled to'area
shelters teaching children photography.
He showed the children pictures of their
world through the viewfinder to “shoot
back.”
AT&T is sponsoring a lecture series
that will address art and homelessness.
Hubbard will begin the series with a
discussion of his work with children in
the shelters Feb. 14 in the Hanes Art
Center auditorium.
Eldery more likely
io die in accidents
A national study shows pedestrians
older than 65 are two to four times more
likely than younger people to be killed
when hit by cars.
But the good news is: The study also
shows older people are slightly less
likely than younger people to be hit by
cars.
The study, conducted by the UNC
Highway Safety Research Center, ana
lyzed more than 70,000 cases from the
Fatal Accident Reporting System, a
computer file of all fatal auto accidents
that occurred in the United States na
tionwide.
Retired faculty to hear
from McCormick
Hold onto your hats, members of the
Retired Faculty Association.
UNC Provost Richard McCormick
will address the association at 7 p.m.
Feb. 16 in the Institute of Government
building. McCormick, who came to
UNC last summer from Rutgers Uni
versity, will speak on “Observations on
the State of the University.”
To vote is human, not
to is just plain stupid
; To borrow a line from some sage
philosopher vote dammit!
Campus elections will be held Tues
day. All you need to do is bring your
student identification and semester reg
istration card to one of the numerous
campus poll sites, which will be pub
lished Tuesday in the DTH.
It’s quick, it’s easy and it will make
you feel better.
Law students aid housekeepers’ cause
By Everett Arnold
Staff Writer
A group of law students are volun
teering their services to help the house
keepers in a class-action grievance
against the University.
The student founders of the newly
organized Housekeepers’ Legal Assis
tance Team (HALT) are in the fact
finding stage of their research on the
history of the University’s treatment of
the housekeeping staff, first-year law
student and HALT spokeswoman Erica
Johnson said.
“We’re actually going all the way
back to the ’6os to see how and if it’s
changed since then,” said Johnson. “It’s
still very sketchy.”
Professor says tensions in
Iraq, Somalia to worsen
By Leah A. Campbell
Assistant City Editor
University history Professsor Herb
Bodman said Thursday that the ten
sions and problems that plague Iraq and
Somalia were likely to worsen before
they got any better.
“There is no longer a Soviet threat of
invasion or subversion, so it only fol
lows that there will be more local fire
points,” he said.
Bodman spoke at Internationalist
Books on 408 W. Rosemary St. as the
second speaker in a series on current
issues.
Bodman, who specializes in Middle-
Eastern affairs, said the end of the Cold
War had ushered in anew era that
would be characterized by more inter
nal strife in developing countries.
The current situations in Iraq and
Somalia are “a mess,” he said.
Although both countries were facing
the consequences of the fall of commu
nism, the situations originated from dif
ferent historical backgrounds, he said.
Bodman said it was crucial to learn
the history between Iraq and Kuwait to
understand why the Gulf War began.
“Iraq used to own Kuwait as part of
the Ottoman Empire, so they have this
feeling of legal and rightful ownership,”
he said. “Hussein and all of Iraq are
having to deal with the question of
legality versus reality.”
Bodman said Hussein’s early career
was comparable to that of a mafia
hitman. “Saddam Hussein is perhaps
one of the most unlovely men I can
think of,” he said.
During the new Clinton administra
tion, American relations with Iraq are
likely to change, Bodman said.
“I think (U.S.-Iraq) conflict became
something of a personal vendetta be
tween George Bush and Hussein,” he
said. “I think it is clear that Clinton will
not let Hussein get under his skin.”
Bodman said the fight for raw mate
rials was one of the main sources of
conflict in Iraq.
“In the Middle East, water is really
much more important than oil,” he said.
“With the exception of Turkey, every
Middle-Eastern nation is currently us
ing more water than they can replace.”
The lack of raw materials is a key
factor in the civil unrest in Somalia too,
Bodman said.
Different regions in Somalia must
Curbside pickup of recyclables expanded
By Matthew Henry
Staff Writer
Curbside pickup of recyclable soda
bottles, aluminum cans and plastic jugs
began Monday in Chapel Hill, Carrboro
and Hillsborough, according to Blair
Pollock, solid-waste planner for the
Orange Community Recycling Pro
gram.
The Landfill Owners Group decided
last year, in response to environmen
tally conscious residents throughout the
county, to expand the types of items it
accepted for curbside recycling, Pol
lock added.
Residents already were able to de
posit newspapers and glass for curbside
pickup, Pollock said.
The Landfill Owners Group consists
of representatives from the Chapel Hill
Town Council, the Carrboro Board of
Aldermen and the Orange County Com
missioners.
Who needs Cupid? Classifieds contest gives chance to win hearts, prizes
By Nancy Riley
Staff Writer
LOST: First-year law student/boy
friend, probably somewhere in the law
library.... Has a great sentimental
value.... Will always have my heart. If
found, please call Jessica.
This personal not only got Jessica
Guzek a chance to see her boyfriend,
but it also got her a free dinner for two
at Cracovia and tickets to a play at The
Arts Center in Carrboro, along with half
a dozen roses.
Guzek, a senior from Gastonia, was
last year’s second-place winner in The
Daily Tar Heel Classifieds Valentine’s
Contest.
The contest, started four years ago to
add anew twist to the personal section,
CAMPUS AND CITY
HALT has about 10 members who
are assisting Alan McSurely, the house
keepers’ attorney, in the housekeepers’
class-action grievance against the Uni
versity.
The complaint contends that the Uni
versity is committing racial and gender
discrimination against the housekeep
ers —most of whom are black women
—by refusing to give them higher wages
and better working conditions.
HALT members meet every other
Thursday to organize and give updates
on their case research.
“It’s real helpful to have them do the
research and (answer) different legal
questions we need to ask when Al’s not
available,” said housekeeper Marsha
Tinnen.
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Professor Herb Bodman speaks at Internationalist Books Thursday night.
compete for the country’s limited re
sources, he said.
“The (civil unrest) in Somalia wors
ens as you go farther South,” he said.
“The reason for this is because the south
ern part of Somalia is more fertile and
thus has better and more abundant
crops.”
He said the government, which has
been overshadowed by warring factions,
had no power to stop northern Somalis
from killing southern Somalis and from
stealing their crops.
Bodman said he thought the U.S.
decided to assist Somalia as a way of
The additional pickups cost an extra
36 cents per household, making the
total cost of curbside pickup about $1.54
each, Pollock said.
The group estimated that about 35
more tons of recyclable materials would
be picked up each month.
Tim Morris, Browning-Ferris Indus
tries district recycling manager, said
BFI, the company responsible for pick
ing up recyclable goods, added one truck
to its fleet and changed the routes of
other trucks to adjust to the change.
Now the only items not collected for
recycling are glossy magazines, white
office paper and corrugated cardboard,
Pollock said.
Glossy magazines and corrugated
cardboard can be dropped off at recy
cling sites.
Darcee Killpack, co-chairwoman of
the Tar Heel Recycling Program, said
she was impressed by the change.
“I’m excited they’re picking these
has grown into an annual tradition.
Once again any reader—besides the
DTH editor and the classified staff
can try his or her wits at wooing in the
paper’s fourth-annual Valentine’s con
test by submitting a personal before 3
p.m. Wednesday.
This year’s classified staff has added
anew feature for those artistically in
clined they can draw their own ads.
Drawn ads can be as small as one inch
long or stretch three inches in length.
All personals will appear in a special
insert section of the DTH Feb. 12. The
three wittiest entries will receive free
evenings out for two.
The first-place winner and his or her
date will be delivered by limousine,
provided by Old South Limousine, to
Aurora restaurant and a matinee show
Johnson described HALT as a group
of law and pre-law students dedicated
to civil rights and equality. Ashley
Osment, a first-year law student, said
HALT members were interested in get
ting to know the housekeepers, who she
called “unsung heroes” of civil rights.
“I believe the University has an obli
gation to reduce the institutional ob
stacles left over from slavery,” Osment
said. “It’s not a quirk of history that (the
housekeepers are) mostly black
women.”
Johnson said HALT’S research
sought to make comparisons that would
show evidence of discrimination. The
housekeepers contend that UNC offi
cials traditionally have been quick to
improve working conditions for white
accepting responsibility for helping to
arm the country during the days of the
Cold War.
University graduate student Jeff Jones
said he organized the lecture to create a
forum to discuss current issues.
“I think it is important for people to
debate about these issues,” he said.
Sarah Jordan, a senior from Char
lotte, said she came to the session to
leant more about volatile areas of the
world.
“I really know so little about these
areas,” she said. “I just came to try
educate myself.”
items up curbside, because it helps to
give people the incentive to recycle,”
she said. “More people will be inclined
to recycle if it’s easy.”
Pollock said the group had not yet
started curbside pickup of cardboard
because it was extremely bulky. To
pick up cardboard, the Landfill Owners
Group would have to decide if it wanted
to fund extra trucks.
White paper is difficult to recycle
because it is harder to separate than
magazines and cardboard, he added.
“The tendency of the resident might
be, faced with picking through office
paper to choose what is recyclable, to
let the collector sort it out, which would
cause a lot of hassle and wasted time,”
Pollock said.
It is unclear when magazines, card
board and office paper will be added to
the list of items recycled curbside, Pol-
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ing of “Frankenstein” at The Arts Center.
The second-place winner also will
receive tickets to the play, plus dinner at
Mark’s Cafe.
The third-place winner will get din
ner at Four Comers and a pair of tickets
to The Varsity Theater.
In addition, all three will receive a
bouquet of roses from The Potted Plant.
The contest comes in handy for some
couples who might not otherwise cel
ebrate Valentine’s Day with flair.
“It was really good because we are
both kind of last-minute people," Guzek
said. “It was cool having someone plan
everything out for us.
“We had a great time. Since the con
test, we try to go to plays and things like
that more often.”
Last year’s first-place winner, Amy
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workers while ignoring black ones.
She said HALT was examining pay
grades for different University profes
sions. The grievance seeks to eliminate
pay grades below the poverty level.
HALT also will research the house
keepers’ opportunities for advancement
and job training.
“We’re trying to come up with the
best way to frame statistical data to
show how the housekeepers are being
kept down,” Osment said.
Johnson said that misconduct files
were kept on the housekeepers and that
they had to ask supervisors for permis
sion to take breaks.
She added that HALT was obtaining
the supervisors’ job descriptions to find
out where in the University’s adminis
Bossio: Beating was
reminder of home
By Everett Arnold
Staff Writer
“It’s kind of a strange thing to come
to anew country, but I found some
things are very familiar,” Peruvian
gay activist Enrique Bossio said Thurs
day night in Dey Hall’s Toy Lounge,
referring to the beating of a gay man
by marines in Wilmington.
Bossio, the co-founder of the Ho
mosexual Movement of Lima
(MHOL), spoke about Peruvian atti
tudes toward homosexuality, sexual
identity and AIDS. A group of about
15 attended the event, which was spon
sored by Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbi
ans and Allies for Diversity and the
Graduate Student Colloquium.
Lima has a population of about 7
million people, but MHOL is the only
gay and lesbian organization in the
entire country.
“We aren’t really a movement, but
a symbol,” he said. “The name was
too big for our small group, but we
continue to try and fit into the name.”
Bossio recounted an experience that
made him realize homophobia is
learned by socialization at a young
age.
“In 1987 I entered an elevator and
there was a mother (with her young
daughter), and she said 'Look, mom,
he’s wearing earrings, he’s a girl.’”
Bossio organized a support group
that yaar, a group where gays and
lesßians’coiild talk about their experi
ences and share books, he said.
Bossio said it was difficult to be
openly homosexual in Lima because
Residents want frats
to take better care of
historic-area houses
By Leah Graham
Staff Writer
Some University fraternities in
Chapel Hill’s historic districts are not
maintaining their houses in compliance
with town codes, according to members
of the Chapel Hill Historic Commis
sion.
Mary Arthur Stoudemire, chair
woman of the Historic District Com
mission, said some residents thought
that some fraternities were not living up
to the expectations set by the commis
sion.
“Some keep (the district) up very
nicely, and some look like junk,”
Stoudemire said. “(Local residents) wish
people would take better care of their
houses and clean up trash and beer
cans.”
Town authorities are not authorized
to inspect a house unless it becomes a
public nuisance, Stoudemire added.
Fraternities and sororities in historic
districts are required to maintain the
exteriors of their properties and to apply
for special permits for any new con
struction.
Jeffrey Johnson, president of Kappa
Sigma fraternity and a junior from Win
ston-Salem, said he thought some fra
ternities violated the commission’s stan
dards because they were uninformed.
“Not many people are aware of the
standards set by the Historic District
Commission unless they are in the pro
cess of renovations,” Johnson said.
Every, wrote a personal to her boy
friend, a student at Duke University, to
rub in the Tar Heel’s 75-73 victory over
Duke.
“We were completely broke and
weren’t going to do anything, so win
ning the contest was really neat,” Ev
ery, a senior from Vienna, Va., said.
Guzek, who placed the ad so that her
boyfriend’s friends would see it, said
the after-effects were good.
“He got a lot of ribbing from his
friends,” she said. “He’s the ‘lost boy
friend’ now.”
It doesn’t take much time and energy
to send a thoughtful message. Pete
Corson, who won an honorable men
tion last year with praises to his
girlfriend’s Norplant, wrote his entry
half an hour before the deadline.
tration such orders originated.
Johnson said HALT also planned to
interview past housekeepers and super
visors about the University ’ s programs.
“We would like to talk to anyone
who has worked with the housekeepers,
so we could get the story of how they
were treated,” McSurely said.
“HALT would also like to talk with
any graduate students who have done
any research on the University’s treat
ment of African Americans to prove
racial differences exist,” he said.
Johnson said the housekeepers’ legal
counsel will present its case to an ad
ministrative law judge in Raleigh in
August.
“We will present our case to the
judge and outline the complaints.”
so many Peruvians lived with their
families. “Families are pushing you to
marry, and they take your calls,” he
said.
In a political crisis, the government
pushes you to live with your family,
he said. “About half of the country is
under martial law right now,” he said.
“Most people cannot afford to come
out because of (financial) dependence
on their families, for fear of being
disowned. I’m the exception,” he said,
adding that his mother was supportive
of his homosexuality.
Cheating is the only way many gays
and lesbians deal with their silence, he
said. Bossio said social pressure is
severe, and higher-status members of
society ran a greater risk of persecu
tion if exposed.
“You are socially dead,” he said.
“You must leave the country the morn
ing after, if not that night.”
The police raid gay discos, detain
ing hundreds of people at a time, and
they rape the lesbians during deten
tion, he said.
Bossio said that despite Peru’s 90-
percent Catholic population, MHOL
has made great strides in AIDS pre
vention. They obtained condoms from
the family planning center in Lima,
held safe sex workshops and later de
veloped an AIDS hotline to answer
questions,about the virus.
“We gained great respect from the
general public because of our work
with AIDS,” Bossio said.
He said the actual numbers of AIDS
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Marilyn Freed, house director of
Delta Delta Delta sorority, said it was
important for houses in historic districts
to follow the commission’s guidelines.
“It’s an honor to be a member (of the
historical district),” Freed said. “By
keeping the outside up and maintaining
the yard, a certain vaJue for the neigh
borhood is maintained.”
Mary White, house director of Alpha
Chi Omega sorority, agreed with Freed
that it was an honor to live in Chapel
Hill’s historic district.
“We live in the most wonderful place
in Chapel Hill,” she said.
Kappa Delta sorority President
Ashley Aull said she thought it was
easy to adhere to the commission’s re
quirements.
“You have to ask permission for any
construction on the exterior, but (they)
are pretty compliant with what we ask,”
Aull said.
Beverly Kawalec, member of the
Chapel Hill Planning Department, said
the homes in Chapel Hill’s two historic
districts had existed since the town was
chartered in 1819.
The Franklin-Rosemary district was
established in 1976, and the Cameron-
McCauley district was established in
1990, Kawalec said.
“A historic district is (one) which
overlays an already established zoning
district,” Kawalec said.
Exterior or structural changes, new
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“We usually have people stacked up
at the door right before the deadline,”
said Leslie Humphrey, DTH classified
ad manager.
Last year’s third-place winner put
the contest to good use by proposing to
her boyfriend.
“1 had been planning to do it any
way,” said Jennifer, who did not wish to
reveal her last name. “The contest
seemed like a great opportunity.”
Probably a more common reason
people enter the contest is the personals
are simply a nice gift for Valentine’s
Day. Gavin Sheridan said he had sub
mitted a personal to score “brownie
points” with his girlfriend.
“It surprised the heck out of her,”
Sheridan said. “It made her happy. It
made me happy.”
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