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Airline considering reductions in Raleigh-Durham service By Julie Nations Staff Writer Out-of-state UNC students going home for the holidays could find some thing not so special in the air if Ameri can Airlines closes its hub at Raleigh- Durham International Airport. Students face the possibility of los ing several direct flights if the hub shuts down, said Smedes York, chairman of the Raleigh-Durham International Air port Authority. “It would make (flying home) more difficult,” he said. ‘Tor example, stu dents going to Florida would have to go through Atlanta.” The airline, which has suffered ma jor losses in the past few years, is con sidering options that might include clos ing one of its hubs. However, company representatives said the airline was con sidering many possibilities and had not ruled out any course of action. Gov. Jim Hunt plans to meet this B-GLAD from page 1 GLAD project. “B-GLAD has a lot of different mis sions to fulfill on this campus,” he said. “They have to provide a comforting and supportive atmosphere for a constitu ency which everyone recognizes is over whelmingly closeted. The rationale is that to be too militant would interfere with that necessary role.” In addition to Stiegler, four others have been working on the Marriott is sue: Kathy Staley, B-GLAD co-chair woman; Tasha Heeler, co-chairwoman of the Woman’s Forum; Fred Wherry, co-chairman of Students for the Ad vancement of Race Relations; and Joan Petit, a sophomore from Elizabethtown. Stiegler said he wasn’t surprised that a group other than B-GLAD had con fronted a gay and lesbian issue. “It’s unfortunate that there isn’t more faith in activism in B-GLAD,” he said. Forum “ John’s a very articulate spokesper son for why he doesn’t believe integra tion can offer equal opportunity and access to society resources, and I’d like you to listen very clearly to what I heard him say,” he said. “I heard him say that whites are al ways going to see blacks as lowering the status of their neighborhood, that whites perhaps are so fundamentally racist that we shouldn’t worry about trying to change that. We should just segregate ourselves and argue for equal opportunity in these segregated com munities. Now does that make sense to you?” Galster asked. “If whites are so fundamentally rac ist, they can’t be changed and are al ways going to see blacks as inferior. Yet whites control a major investment lever in our society, so how can you believe a MBS m A. IP Ym phone and they mW JBB Hf H np Wgk deliver. It's a lot MI EBB Jis app rn ,j 4 easier and more yp ‘ : convenient with my 0 1 K SB Jmmt work schedule." "" jSktf.m SffpfMpPgHnjfHKf. 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Adding, “We will do our best to work with American Airlines in every way we can.” Hunt’s press secretary, Rachel Perry, said that although Hunt’s former law firm had represented American Air lines in North Carolina, the connection had very little to do with the fact that he was going to Texas. “Part of his job as governor is to do all he can to boost the economy, whether it be attracting or retaining business,” she said. Tim Smith, spokesman for Ameri can Airlines, said that the governor’s office had been in touch with the airlines’ s corporate headquarters but that a date for the meeting had not been set. “Mr. Crandall has told them that they Powers front page 1 ■ Dennis Curtis, Powers’ former su pervisor, committed sexual harassment against Powers by touching her leg and hugging her in an unsolicited, unwel come manner; ■ Although Herb Paul, physical plant director, and Steve Stoddard, housing support superintendent for the physical plant, responded reasonably to Powers’ complaints, their actions did not relieve UNC of liability for Curtis’ actions. Becton also ruled that there was no evidence that Powers’ transfer to a Kenan Residence Hall plumbing as signment was retaliation for her sexual harassment complaints. Thejudge stated that there was no evidence UNC forced Powers to resign in September 1991. The State Personnel Commission a panel appointed by the governor will review Becton’s decision and make the final decision in the Powers case. segregated black community is ever going to get the same resources as whites? This fundamental cynicism about this self-segregationist position is self-defeating and generally contra dictory,” he said. Calmore, who shook his head in dis agreement during Galster’s comments, responded with equal fervor. “I don’t think white people are so fundamen tally racist that we’ll never see a better day in terms of race relations,” he said. “What I am saying is that integra tionists talk about the policy as a pana cea, as the only choice. But even if you get rid of all discrimination today, you would still have problems in bringing blacks access to suburban benefits be cause of a perpetuation of past discrimi nations,” Calmore said. Galster said he believed in the “con are most welcome and would be happy to meet with them,” Smith said. York said he would accompany Hunt on his trip to promote the Raleigh hub. “Right now, we are having a major promotion,” York said. “We want to reinforce the strength of this area.” York said the trip also was intended to demonstrate North Carolina’s sup port for the airline. “There are possibly some cost-sav ing things we could suggest,” he said. York said that although airport au thority officials believed American would not shut do wn the hub, they were considering looking at other alterna tives. “We don’t believe they’ll close, but they may scale back,” he said. Smith said no decision on the hub had been made. A press statement is sued by the company indicated that it had made no official decisions. “Contrary to published reports, a speech given by American Airlines Chairman and President Robert L. League verbal sexual advances, ■ sexual bribery, which occurs when someone solicits sexual activity in ex change for a reward, ■ sexual coercion, which occurs when someone solicits sexual activity by threat of punishment and ■ sexual imposition, which includes forced, unwanted sexual activity, in cluding rape. Scott said 35 percent of women fac ulty members at the University had ex perienced some kind of sexual harass ment, excluding gender harassment without sexual overtones. “If you include gender harassment without sexual overtones, such as in sulting, demeaning or sexist behavior, then the number almost doubles,” she added. Anderson-Thompkins cited Spring Break flyers around campus that pic tact hypothesis” solution to improving race relations in America. Blacks and whites must learn to live in the same communities before the gap between them can be closed, he said. But Calmore called Galster’s ap proach “inherently tokenistic,” and con tended that integration only had surface value because whites generally moved out of a neighborhood as blacks moved in. “The contact hypothesis may work well on basketball teams, on football teams, in war, but not when you have externalities at play like ‘what’s going to happen to the value of my house if black people come in?”’ Calmore said. Calmore also added that the Kemer Commission’s assertion in 1968 that moving minorities into the suburbs would lead to integration “has been refuted by history.” Crandall ... contained no announce ments about layoffs, grounding of air craft or other definitive actions,” ac cording to the statement. American is reviewing all of its op erations to determine what changes should be made, Smith said. “American ... is determined to re turn the company to profitability by whatever means necessary at the earli est possible moment,” the statement said. Smith said one of the company’s options was to cut back on the number of airplanes in operation. “We could park certain parts of our fleet, which would make our airline smaller.” Another route American might take would be to pull out of certain areas and let its commuter branch, American Eagle, take over those flights, he said. “In 1992, we doubled our jet flights to business centers,” Smith said. “We took those jets from smaller cities and gave them to Eagle.” tured scantily clad women as one ex ample of the way women were set up as potential victims. The University offers programs to help students and faculty deal with sexual harassment, she said. Scott said that to combat sexual ha rassment, universities needed clearly defined policies that were well-publi cized, educational programs to help people identify sexual harassment, user friendly grievance procedures that fa cilitated reporting incidents and effec tive investigations and resolutions of complaints. Scott said the long and involved re view processes made it too difficult for victims to come forward with their com plaints. “Racial and sexual harassment con taminates the community, the work from page 1 The panel, which discussed the mi nority housing issue before an audience of about 80, was moderated by UNC law professor John Boger. At one point during the two-hour discussion, Calmore received criticism from a member of the audience. An drew Dobelstein, a professor in the UNC School of Social Work, said he didn’t “appreciate (Calmore’s) pessimism on this issue.” But Calmore said he was in fact “very optimistic. “But the optimism I have,” he said, “is in black people and then community capacities and their institu tional capacities to survive in the ab sence of integration.” ' ■' it© h Wk ori trfftv nt!)sr *g' not .-Ualgfed bj* you- printer i*._ ♦ _ P With Visa® you’ll be accepted at more than 10 million | places, nearly three times more than American Express. And that’s not a misprint Visa. It’s Everywhere You Want To Bet W ■-* • ! ——©Visa USA Inc. 1903 The Daily Tar Heel/Monday, February 15, 1993 j Smith said that although these op tions were possibilities, the airline might not choose to implement any of these alternatives. “We have other problems at other hubs too,” he said. Smith said American had seven hubs nationwide. Adding that the Raleigh hub, along with those in Nashville, Tenn., and in San Jose, Calif., were the airline’s smallest. American’s parent company, AMR Corp., reported a $985 million loss for 1992. Smith said that the losses were substantially above the previous year’s $278 million mark and that the airline had suffered staggering financial losses in the past two to three years. “None of our hubs have been very profitable,” he said. ‘We have some profitable elements in our company, but they tend to be nonairline.” Smith said American Airlines was not the only airline facing financial dif ficulties. “The airline industry has suf fered billions of dollars of losses in the from page 1 place and the classroom,” Scott said. “The key to elimination is not reacting after the fact, but a proactive program that promotes prevention through edu cation.” F.N. Wolf & Cos., Inc. 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York said that Northwest Airlines would be opening a Raleigh-Durham hub in April and that the airline would offer three flights a day to Detroit, Mich., as well as connections to the Far East “That’s a very big plus for the area,” he said. Smith said American Airlines was not worried about the new competition. We think our service is superior in terms of service and departure sched ule,” he said. We think we can com pete just fine with them.” Campus Y from page 3 ance. “The Y did a very good job of up holding the mission statement last year, and this year we will tackle issues as they come,” she said. We will focus on the housing issues, take an active role in: the issue of (the recent racial incidents in) Morrison Residence Hall and the BCC, and any otherinjustice that arises.” 5
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