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Volume 101, Issue 2
Honor Court rape policy may get reforms
By Everett Arnold
Staff Writer
The Committee on Student Conduct
recently recommended two proposals
for reforming Honor Court hearings
regarding sexual assault and rape, said
Frederic Schroeder, dean of students.
The proposals, recommended Mon
day, would make the Honor Court hear
ings on cases of rape or sexual assault
more closely resemble criminal court
proceedings, which provide more ex
tensively for a victim’s rights.
One of the judiciary’s proposed re
forms recommends implementing a
version of the criminal court “rape
shield.” A rape shield would restrict the
WEDNESDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stones from state, nation and world
Airline delays decision
on fate of Raleigh hub
GRAPEVINE, Texas American
Airlines said Tuesday that it had
agreed to delay for 18 months any
decision on closing its unprofitable
Raleigh-Durham hub while N.C.
officials work to build passenger
traffic there.
The announcement followed a
three-hour meeting between Ameri
can chairman Robert Crandall and a
delegation of North Carolina business
and political leaders led by Gov. Jim
Hunt.
“We go home happy,” Hunt said
during a news conference at Dallas-
Fort Worth International Airport,
during which he announced a
“partnership” with the airline.
Hunt said North Carolinians
wanted to go beyond winning a
reprieve for Raleigh-Durham, one of
seven hubs operated by Fort Worth
based American.
Crandall said it would not take
much to turn the situation around.
Russian demonstration
urges Yeltsinls ouster
MOSCOW Rallying behind red
flags and portraits of Lenin, more
than 10,000 pro-Communists
marched to the Kremlin on Tuesday
to denounce President Boris Yeltsin
and urge the military to rise up
against him.
“The walls of the Kremlin are not
shaking from our cries. The people
inside are shaking!” hard-line
legislator Sergei Baburin declared
over loudspeakers to the biggest pro-
Communist demonstration in months.
Two years ago, equally large
protests by Yeltsin supporters helped
bring him to power. But for the past
year, his supporters virtually have
surrendered the streets to pro-
Communists.
The rally came on Defenders of the
Fatherland Day, known as Soviet
Armed Forces Day until the Soviet
Union collapsed in 1991.
Casey denounces new
abortion initiatives
WASHINGTON Abortion would
become the least-regulated industry in
the nation if Congress approved
legislation guaranteeing women’s
reproductive rights, Pennsylvania
Gov. Robert P. Casey said Tuesday.
In an appearance before a House
subcommittee, the two-term Demo
crat said the bill would gut his state’s
existing abortion law, recognized as
one of the country’s most restrictive,
and establish a national “abortion-on
demand regime.”
Its passage “would place the
Congress outside the mainstream of
American public opinion and on the
extreme fringe,” said Casey, whose
opposition to abortion rights put him
at odds with fellow Democrats at the
party’s national convention last year.
Zairian troops kH 50
in mixup of funerals
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast Zairian
troops, seeking revenge for the
beating death of an officer, fired by
mistake on two funeral processions in
the capital of Kinshasa, killing up to
50 people, sources said Tuesday.
The elite presidential guards were
trying to disrupt the Monday funeral
of a man who was killed by soldiers
in a barroom brawl. The man’s
friends later beat to death a soldier,
sources said.
The collapse of law and order in
Zaire is matched by the ruin of the
economy, but President Mobutu Sese
Seko has defied pressure to end his
27-year dictatorship.
—The Associated Press
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use of information about the victim’s
sexual history, said Tucker Ball, in
coming student attorney general.
“Its admissibility has to be agreed
upon by a (review) panel before the
trial,” Ball said.
The second proposal recommends
that the victim be present during the
entire hearing, Ball said. Under the cur
rent policy, the victim only can be
present to testify and answer questions
from the defense.
Bob Byrd, chairman of the Commit
tee on Student Conduct, said victims
should have the right to respond to the
testimony of the defense, especially
because there often were conflicting
versions of what occurred.
DTH/Debbie Stengel
Muscling the Irish
Scott Cherry (11) takes the ball downcourt, stiffing Notre Dame's Matt Adamson in an
85-56 North Carolina thumping Tuesday in the Smith Center. See story page 7
‘Godmother of politics’
remains caring activist
Editor’s note: This is the third in a
five-part series recognizing blacks who
have made a difference on campus and
in the community.
By Phuong Ly
Staff Writer
To many people in the Southern Part *
of Heaven, Rebecca Clark is like a god
mother, a mentor.
Hardly a day goes by without town
residents or community leaders calling
Clark for information or advice on top
ics such as local candidates, problems
with litter and the
names of good
baby sitters.
A leader in the
community for
nearly 50 years,
Clark has made a
reputation for
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herself as someone who enjoys giving
of herself.
Since the 19405, she has been in
volved in local politics, working for
candidates and helping with voter reg
istration drives, especially in the black
community. She also has served on vari
ous town committees, addressing is
sues such as low-income housing and
neighborhood safety.
“Doing for other people is part of
life,” said Clark, 77, who retired from
her position as a nurse at the UNC
Student Health Service in 1979. “I feel
like it’s no more than what I should do
and what you should do as a part of the
community.”
Lillian Lee, who has known the com
munity activist for 27 years, said Clark’s
reputation for caring made her respected
and trusted by both blacks and whites in
the community. Clark is a natural choice
for people to call when they have prob
lems, Lee said.
“She cares about her neighbors, her
family and her friends,” said Lee, who
has worked with Clark on several com
munity projects. “I think because she’s
been here so long, and she’s been so
I was thinking of suiting up the entire JV. Dean Smith
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Ruth Campbell, co-chairwoman of
Women Against Rape, said she was
very pleased with the Committee on
Student Conduct’s decision but added
that she was disappointed that student
leaders had waited this long to initiate
reform.
Jennifer Backes, chief justice of the
Honor Court, said a student judicial
subcommittee had been examining pos
sible sexual assault and harassment
policy changes since last summer.
“My inclination is that we’ll con
tinue with positive discussion on (pos
sible changes),” she said.
Even if the proposals were approved,
See COURT, page 2
Rebecca Clark
involved in the community, people tend
to think if there’s something they need
to know, Rebecca Clark surely knows
it.”
Clark, a resident of Chapel Hill for
63 years, spent most of her childhood
on her parents’ farm near University
Lake. “I worked in the cotton field when
I was 9, 10, 11 years old,” said Clark,
the oldest of the six children in her
family. “We were poor, but we were
happy poor. We were lacking a lot of
food, but we always made out.”
Clark dreamed of going to college,
but lack of finances forced her to drop
out of Orange County Training School,
which was the county’s only school for
black students at the time. Shortly after
ward, she married John Clark and raised
two children.
At that time, during the 1930 sand
19405, black residents faced discrimi
nation even in Chapel Hill, one of the
most progressive towns in the state,
Clark said. She remembers that while
See CLARK, page 2
Incoming attorney general Ball aims to improve system
By Everett Arnold
Staff Writer
—
When Tucker Ball, the incoming
student attorney general, takes over on
March 1, he will be joined by three
new associate attorney generals he has
appointed as part of his efforts to re-
form the judicial system.
Student Body President John
Moody, who appointed Ball to his
post, said Ball wanted to have the
judicial system looked upon in a more
favorable light by faculty and students,
Moody, staff promoting
nonexistent organization
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
Student Body President John Moody
and his staff have spent the past few
weeks preparing several hundred mail
ings encouraging student governments
at other universities to join a National
Association of Student Governments
an organization that, despite what
the letters say, doesn’t exist.
In a letter dated Feb. 22, Doug
McCurry, Moody’s chief of staff, wel
comes fellow student governments to
the association, asking them to help
increase the group’s total membership
to 750 within the next two years. The
letter also states that the NASG “re
cently received a sizable grant intended
to expand its membership.”
McCurry asks each school to enclose
a check for S2O, made out to NASG,
with its membership application.
In reality, however, the organization
has no members and has yet to be formed.
McCurry, who identifies himself in
the letter as NASG president, said in an
interview Friday he did not know any
thing about the group.
“It’s kind of still in the idea stage,”
McCurry said. “I’m not sure exactly
what we’re going to do. John (Moody)
is more in charge of that.”
As of Monday night, there were sev
eral large boxes of NASG mailings in
Moody’s Suite C office, apparently
ready to mail.
According to the letter, addressed
“Dear Student Government Leader,”
NASG is a growing student organiza
tion designed to coordinate programs
provide for policy-exchange networks
between different universities.
See MOODY, page 2
Doctor’s trip reveals tragedy
By Andrea Jones
Assistant State and National Editor
Dr. Jeffrey Sonis, a UNC instructor
in medical family practice, returned
Feb. 6 from a trip to the former Yugo
slavian republics that left him with
unforgettable impressions of acountry
beset by civil war and a policy of
“ethnic cleansing.”
In an interview at his home, Sonis
described many moving, personal ex
periences he had while observing con
ditions in the area, which has been the
site of bloody fighting among Serbs,
Croats and Muslims since ancient feuds
tore the country apart in the early
months of 1992.
One encounter Sonis cited as being
particularly poignant occurred during
his first visit to a camp in Karlovac,
Croatia. The group he was working
with was brought into a barracks and
introduced to the refugees in the camp
when Sonis’ attention was drawn to a
Muslim woman.
“(There was an) elderly woman in
the comer wearing Muslim type of
dress. She had on a kerchief over her
head and the pantaloons Muslim
women tend to wear, and she looked at
me, and she said ‘We have fear into our
bones.’
“Those were her words. I’ll never
forget them.”
Sonis was part of a seven-member
team sent to the East European country
to compile a report on conditions there
for Physicians for Human Rights, a
group founded in 1986.
The report Sonis is compiling for
PHR will include information on the
three areas he investigated during the
trip: children, public health and human
rights violations. The report will be
completed sometime next month, he
said.
Sonis said PHR served an important
He was recommended by every
bodyconcemed(inthesystem),’’Moody
said. “His main push right now is to get
his staff together and train them and
make them work as well as possible
under the current system.”
Moody said Ball was the only person
to apply for the position of student attor
ney general, but he added that Ball
would have done well in a pool of other
candidates.
Ball said his goals included strength
ening the judicial branch’s connection
to faculty members, improving student
NASG
National Association of Student Government
Feb. 22,1993
Dear Student Government Association Leader.
Welcome to the National Association of Student Governments! NASG was created so that collegiate
student governments across the country could exchange ideas and strengthen their collective interests.
NASG recently received a sizable grant intended to expand its membership. The goal of this money is to
increase NASG’s total membership to 750 student governments in two years. The benefits of NASG
membership are:
• NASG’s extensive database. Often student governments want to look at other schools’ systems to make
their own better. NASG collects student government association constitutions and judicial system honor
codes from member schools. We then work with schools wanting to reform their system to give them several
models that have worked at different universities. In the next year, we want to expand the database to include
how member colleges and universities deal with racial tension, housing problems, exam and reading day
scheduling, preparing students for the job market, and other topics.
* Directory of student governments and organizations. NASG is working on compiling a directory
(including address, phone number, and president) of student governments across the country. We also are
trying to put together national directories of service organizations, environmental groups, and other specific
interest groups. With the database and director, a student government or student leader could see how other
colleges are handling problems similar to their own and have an easy means of contacting the appropriate
leaders at these schools.
•A quarterly newsletter. Articles are written by student leaders from across the country and focus on
effective means or innovative programs to solve problems common to student governments. The newsletter is
a great tool for communicating with other student governments to seek or offer solutions for tough problems.
• Annual awards. NASG gives yearly awards to student governments in several categories: student
government of the year, student body president of the year, best new idea or program, best use of another
school’s program, crisis management award, and the annual student government All-American team.
• Speakers. NASG leaders have tremendous experience working with foundations (for money) and the
speakers themselves. We can help you bring nationally recognized speakers in the areas of educational reform,
intercollegiate athletics, race relations, and other fields to your campus. We are also working on setting up
speaker tours in which a recognized speaker will visit five to ten member schools. Prominent speakers can be a
great asset to influence stubborn students or administrators.
• National Influence. A large, active organization of student governments has a powerful lobbying effect.
For example, a letter signed by hundreds of student body presidents across the country demanding more
money be spent on education could gamer national media and political attention.
NASG needs you! Please return the enclosed membership application as soon as possible, preferably no
later than March 31, the end of our membership drive. Although NASG receives the overwhelming majority
of its funding from grajit money, we still must charge a nominal S2O annual dues fee which should be
enclosed with the application. Upon contact, NASG will then mail you the 1993-94 membership packet and
recognize you as the founders of your chapter of NASG. Call me or John Moody, membership drive director,
at the NASG office (919) 962 —5201 —with any questions.
Sincerely,
Doug McCurry
NASG President, 1993-94
Hundreds of copies of this letter, prepared by Moody and his staff, sit in Suite C
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Dr. Jeffrey Sonis returned Feb. 6 from a trip to the former Yugoslavian republics
role in the discovery and prevention of
assaults on human rights, citing a Jan.
31 “60 Minutes” piece in which the
organization was featured for having
uncovered a mass grave in Vukovar,
Croatia. The site will be submitted to
the United Nations for possible pros
ecution as a war crime, he said.
The United Nations decided Tues
day to convene a war-crimes tribunal
that would investigate the growing num
ber of human rights abuses reported in
the Balkan country.
During the trip, Sonis spent most of
his time in Split, a town on the Serbian
coast. He spoke with and examined the
largely Muslim populations fleeing from
the Serbians in Northern Bosnia.
Sonis originally was assigned to col
lect information in central Bosnia as
well but could not make the trip due to
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awareness of the judicial system and
being more receptive to complaints.
Ball said his first project would be
todiversifytheattomeygeneral’sstaff.
He added that no minority members
would be returning to the attorney
general’s staff next year,
“This disturbs me because our staff
would potentially not represent the
student body,” he said. Ball said mi
norities and other students were en
couraged to apply in Suite D before
See BALL, page 2
increasingly bloody warfare in the
area.
“The caravan that I was supposed
to have gone on ... was attacked,
blown up, and the driver was killed,”
Sonis said. “Things really exploded
while we were there.”
Sonis said one of the major diffi
culties involved with working in Yu
goslavia was the misinformation is
sued by government sources, sources
that he said ordinarily would have
been one of the most valuable means
of drawing an accurate portrait of the
Yugoslavian situation.
He cited a passage from the lead
article in a 1992 issue of the Croatian
Medical Journal, a publication Sonis
called “comparable to the journal of
See SONIS, page 5
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