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Defense attorney John Burney challenged the extent of Pridgen’s injuries and raised questions about his character. During cross-examination, Burney held up a long computer printout he said contained Pridgen’s criminal record. Pridgen acknowl edged he had been convicted of driving under the influence of alcohol and driving with a suspended license. Pridgen said he was bruised all over his body, but Burney said photos introduced as evidence showed only head injuries. Clinton promises new policies against Serbs WASHINGTON President Clinton said Tuesday that the Bosnian Serbs’ refusal to accept a peace plan for their war-ravaged country was “the most difficult and frustrating problem in the world today” and promised to seek tougher sanctions against them. “There are lots of other things we can do to make life more uncomfort able for the Serbs, and I wouldn’t rule those out,” the president said at a joint news conference with visiting Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Clinton said the United States was working through the United Nations to put pressure on Serbia, which is providing military support for Bosnian Serbs seeking territorial gains from majority Muslims in the former Yugoslav state. Radical cleric on trial for old crimes in Egypt FAYOUM, Egypt Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman, who rails against Egypt’s government from pulpits in the United States, went on trial in absentia Tuesday with 48 other Muslim militants on charges they were acquitted of three years ago. Although the trial is on other charges, Egypt accuses Abdel- Rahman of instigating escalating violence by Muslim extremists against police and foreign tourists. Mandela calls for end to factional violence JOHANNESBURG, South Africa Nelson Mandela pleaded with his followers Tuesday to refrain from violence, admitting that members of the African National Congress are partly responsible for bloody black factional fighting. Mandela, president of the ANC, urged his supporters to show toler ance for their political opponents, such as the Inkatha Freedom Party. The ANC has often blamed the political violence that has killed thousands in recent years on its opponents, accusing government security forces and Inkatha of instigating the fighting. But Mandela conceded that the ANC is not blameless in its battles with Inkatha. U.S. Marine convicted by court martial board MOGADISHU, Somalia Marine Gunnery Sgt. Harry Conde had wiped away the tears, but the shock and sorrow were still clear after his court martial conviction Tuesday. Conde, 33, arrived in Somalia on Jan. 6, less than a month after a U.S.- led coalition began Operation Restore Hope to ensure aid agencies could get food supplies to the starving. Tuesday, he sat a convicted felon, busted in rank and fined $1,706. 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Secretary of State Rufus Edmisten urged the UNC Young Demo crats not to lose faith in the political process and to get involved at the local level in a speech Monday. “The political route is the best, quick est way to achieve changes for the good,” Edmisten said, pointing out that mi norities in American society had used political machinery to enact social changes. But Edmisten added that the political process had gained a sordid reputation in recent years. “We are almost teach ing the public to say that public officials are trying to steal something from them,” he said, while addressing the group in the Student Union. Edmisten also stressed what he saw as a need for students to get out into the community, rather than merely being active on campus. “What I’m trying to encourage you to do here tonight is not to just be active at the University of North Carolina, but to be active in your county,” he said. Americans need to realize that all areas of their lives are affected by gov ernment, Edmisten said. “From the time you get up to the time you go to bed, government will have affected your life in literally hundreds of ways,” he said. He also said students should plan for their future political careers instead of simply expecting to move up the politi cal ladder by chance. “These things don’t just happen. You plan them.” Edmisten, a UNC graduate, said his own political life had been inspired by his love of county conventions and his experiences in UNC’s student govern ment. He said he also was inspired by Bernard Boyd, his professor of biblical White professor says racial discrimination caused tenure denial By Anna Burdeshaw Staff Writer A white professor who said he was the victim of racial at predominantly black St. Augustine’s College in Raleigh took his case to court last week, nine months after he filed a lawsuit against the school’s administra tion. Dr. Allan Cooper, who became a political science professor at St. Augustine’s in 1981, filed suit against St. Augustine’s President Prezell Robinson and Vice President of Stu dent Affairs Dwight Fennell in June. Cooper claimed the only reason admin istrators gave for denying his 1991 ten ure request was his race. “My race was the only reason ever given to me before the case started,” Cooper said. “They gave two other rea sons in court that took us completely by surprise.” He said those reasons were that only 20 percent of the faculty could be ten ured at a time and that Cooper had been at the school for only 12 years. But Cooper said neither of those arguments was backed by official school policy. “Of course, it also came out in court that only 10 percent of the faculty is now tenured,” Cooper said. “And in 1991, five professors got tenure, and four had been there less years than I had.” Robinson and Fennell did not return repeated phone calls to respond to Cooper's allegations. Although he originally hoped to gain tenure through the lawsuit, Cooper now is asking for $1 million. He said he changed his request when U.S. District Court Judge James Fox ruled it inap propriate for Cooper to teach at a school where he was not wanted. “The judge had indicated that the jury could not grant me tenure ... they literature at UNC. “Every day, I would walk into class, and Dr. Boyd would say, ‘Everything makes a difference.’ I never forgot that.” He praised today ’ s students for being “anew breed of people who care and are not cynical.” “Ten years ago, campuses were the most cynical places in the nation,” he said, referring to his unsuccessful 1984 campaign for governor. “People would boo you if you disagreed with the most right-wing beliefs in America.” The backlash against the cynicism of the 1980’s “gives the Democrats one last chance to be the dominant political party in America,” Edmisten said, bash ing the Republican Party for trying to obstruct President Clinton’s budget plan. “The Republicans are filibustering our president’s attempt to bring some fi nancial sanity to America because they just can’t stand the fact that he got elected. “Too bad. Too good. Bill Clinton is the president, and he deserves a chance,” Edmisten said. Edmisten was introduced as “the man who served the subpoena on Richard Nixon,” and he proceeded to tell the story of his encounter with the former president. He said that as deputy chief counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Presi dential Campaign Activities, he had been involved in the questioning of Alex Butterfield, a White House aide who revealed that Nixon had taped his con versations. Edmisten said he had asked for and gotten permission from com mittee chairman Sam Ervin, D-N.C., to serve the subpoena on Nixon. “That was my little footnote in his tory,” Edmisten said. “I was the only person who ever got to serve a subpoena from Congress on a sitting president.” would have to grant me lifetime com pensation instead of tenure,” Cooper said. “That’s where the million dollars came from.” Cooper said the administrators virtu ally had conceded that he was as quali fied as any other tenured professor. “The college has a written process for how you get tenure ... and the college has admitted in court that no one else who’s ever gotten tenure did any more than I did,” he said. Cooper said he thought it was the administration, not faculty members or students, who had a problem with his race. “I’ve had a couple of students over the years who have made negative com ments about my being white at first, but after a year or so I’ve been one of their best friends,” Cooper said. “My student evaluations have always been the high est at the school.” Carlos Bates, vice president of St. Augustine’s student body, agreed that Cooper was well-respected and liked by students in the political science de partment but added that he was not sure Cooper should be granted tenure. “I think he’s an excellent professor, but there are other excellent professors who don’t have tenure,” Bates said. “Tenure is a very sensitive issue.” The case has added anew twist to tenure questions raised at other N.C. colleges this year. Although Cooper said he was familiar with UNC speech communication Professor Paul Ferguson’s tenure battle, he did not think their cases had much in common. “One of the big differences between mine and Ferguson’s (cases) is that his problem started with his department not recommending him,” Cooper said. “He was questioning the standards of the university. I’m not questioning the stan dards at St. Aug’s.” He said the problem at St. Augustine’s was the administration’s varying inter pretation of standards, which he said were dependent on which professor was being considered for tenure. Ferguson said he agreed that the cases had fundamental differences. “I haven't noticed much similarity,” Ferguson said. “He based his case on racism, and that was never an issue in my case at all.” However, Ferguson said he thought both cases were important in bringing about changes in the tenure selection process. “I think tenure has always been a political issue,” he said. “What’s start ing to happen is what should have hap pened long ago, and that’s a much more open examination of the whole pro cess.” • Although a closer look at the tenure process could disrupt a school’s aca demic environment, Ferguson said the benefits were worth the cost. “I think high visibility cases like this can be disruptive in that every person involved gets taken over by the tenure issue ... but that’s a worthwhile tradeoff,” Ferguson said. “If people have been wronged, they need to stand up for themselves.”
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