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Century of Editorial Freedom
BUB Est. 1893
Volume 101, Issue 29
MONDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stones from state, nation and world
Black Communist chief
kiHed in South Africa
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
The African National Congress
accused security officials Sunday of
ignoring requests for special protec
tion for black activist Chris Hani but
said his killing would not derail
negotiations with the government.
Hani was chief of South Africa’s
influential Communist Party and a
member of the ANC’s polie-making
National Executive Committee.
At a news conference, the ANC
said Hani’s death should inspire
political parties to work for a peaceful
end to apartheid.
Police arrested a white man hours
after the killing and said a pistol
found in his car was the murder
weapon. Police could not confirm
newspaper reports that a 40-year-old
man, Januzu Jakub Wallus, had links
to neo-Nazi groups and left Poland 10
years ago to escape communism. No
right-wing group has claimed links
with Wallus, who is expected to
appear in court Tuesday.
Israeli Cabinet moves
to seal occupied zones
JERUSALEM Cabinet ministers
endorsed Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin’s proposal Sunday to seal the
occupied territories indefinitely and
sharply cut the Palestinian work force
in Israel. Ministers acknowledged that
the closure created economic
hardships for the 1.8 million Palestin
ians living on the occupied lands but
were vague about measures to
guarantee their economic survival.
Rabin believes separation of the
areas is vital to curb violence and win
support among Israelis for future
concessions in peace talks.
On Sunday, the Cabinet decided to
review the closure weekly and inject
an undetermined amount of money
into the territories to compensate for
the lost jobs.
Armenia caphres key
Azerbaijani territories
NAGORNO-KARABAKH,
Azerbaijan Azerbaijan said
Sunday that Armenian forces had
captured 18 villages and key moun
tain points in southwestern
Azerbaijan, and Armenia reported
heavy combat near the disputed
enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh.
The official Iranian news agency,
IRNA, reported that the Azerbaijani
ambassador in Tehran had asked Iran
to help bolster the defense of the
strategic town of Fizuli.
The Azerbaijani Defense Ministry
said Armenian forces had penetrated
10 miles into Azerbaijan during
fighting in the past two days and had
seized 18 villages and key mountain
points in a triangle of Azerbaijani
land bordering Iran, Armenia and
Nagorno-Karabakh.
Factional killings still
plague Indian districts
NEW DELHI, India lndian
security forces shot and killed eight
suspected Muslim militants in
Jammu-Kashmir, and separatist
guerrillas killed five people in
retaliation, Press Trust of India
reported Sunday.
Police and municipal workers
discovered 11 other bodies across the
northern state, the news agency said,
quoting officials in Srinagar, the
summer capital of Jammu-Kashmir.
Nearly 6,000 people have died in
Jammu-Kashmir, India’s only
Muslim-majority state, since 1990, as
a result of rebels intensifying their
campaign for independence from
predominantly Hindu India. Other
factions want to merge with Pakistan.
Spacecraft to explore
winds in sun's corona
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The
space shuttle Discovery’s astronauts
heaved a glistening, gold-colored
spacecraft into orbit Sunday for two
days of solar study.
The $6-million reusable spacecraft,
about the size of a large air condi
tioner, should be retrieved by the
crew Tuesday. It’s smaller and
simpler than most satellites.
Called Spartan, it contains two
telescopes for observing the sun’s
blazing halo, or corona.
Spartan’s telescopes, which have
flown before on small rockets, are
designed to investigate how solar
wind is generated in the sun’s corona.
Researchers also want to know
how the corona heats up to 1 million
degrees.
—The Associated Press
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Jackson plans visit to support BCC
By Marty Minchin
Assistant University Editor
The Rev. Jesse Jackson, founder of
the National Rainbow Coalition, will
visit UNC Wednesday to lend his sup
port to the student movement for a free
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Jesse Jackson Jr. “You at UNC are in
that tradition, engaging in creative dis
ruptive action, willing to suffer the con
sequences of your actions.
“I hope that the chancellor and the
University community will accept these
actions as a mercy appeal for inclu
sion.”
Jackson Jr. visited the University
Friday afternoon to announce that his
father soon would visit campus to sup
port the fight for a free-standing BCC.
After speaking with a group of stu
dents who were sitting in in South Build
ing during Easter weekend, Jackson Jr.
called his father on a cellular phone and
See JACKSON, page 7
Town resident considered for Supreme Court post
By Jackie Hershkowitz
City Editor
Chapel Hill resident Walter Dellinger
will find out within the next two weeks
whether he will be nominated to fill the
shoes of retiring United States Supreme
Court Justice Byron White.
“I suspect I’m on a rather long list at
this point,” Dellinger said Sunday.
“There are so many distinguished law
yers, professors and people with politi
cal backgrounds for the president to
choose from.”
The 51-year-old UNC alumnus, who
teaches constitutional law and history
at Duke University’s School of Law,
said he would relish the opportunity to
serve the nation’s highest judicial body.
“Thinking long and hard about legal
questions is something I enjoy doing,”
he said. “Clearly, it would be a wonder
ful and challenging job.”
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hard knocks,” said Cindy"
Powell, 44, in reference to the life
experiences work, marriage and
family she had before she came
back to college this semester.
“To the student right out of high
school, that’s something that they have
to learn. I’ve already experienced it,”
said Powell, who took a one-year un
paid leave from her job to finish the
English degree that was stymied by
marriage her junior year at UNC.
Powell’s life experiences classify
her as a nontraditional student, or one
who goes back to the classroom after a
break of a year or more from school.
Although some nontraditional stu
dents are returning to school for the
love of learning, most are hitting the
books to increase their job options or
to start anew career, said Lea Blanton,
associate director of the Division of
Continuing Studies. The continuing
studies program offers services for
part-time nontraditional students, in
cluding evening classes.
With technological advances and
increased competition in the work
place, the number of people returning
to seek additional education in various
areas has increased steadily since the
continuing studies program began in
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BCC supporters confront Chancellor Paul Hardin as he arrives to work Thursday morning
Dellinger already has filed several
friend-of-the-court briefs and argued a
case before the Supreme Court. He also
helped prepare material for President
Bill Clinton’s speeches during the No
vember presidential debates and drafted
Clinton’s executive orders on repro
ductive rights.
Despite his extensive legal back
ground, Dellinger said he wasn’t overly
optimistic that the president would
nominate him to the Supreme Court.
“My reaction (to receiving the nomi
nation) would be about the same as if I
were asked to shoot free-throws for
Michael Jordan,” Dellinger said. “I’d
be surprised but pleased to have the
chance.”
Dellinger said he probably would be
competing for the post with several
prominent governors, senators and
members of Congress.
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun, a
1958, Blanton said.
Most of the 1,500 to 1,600 students
in the continuing studies program each
year are ages 25 to 30, Blanton said.
“Those are the years when academic
credentials can make a difference in
the job opportunities that are avail
able,” she said. “A number of them are
doing this because the field that they
selected requires constant upgrading,
updating and recertification.”
And most older students are women
because the life decisions that many
women tend to make either mar
riage or early employment often
delay their education and career pur
suits, Blanton said. About 60 percent
of part-time nontraditional students at
UNC are women.
For Powell, forsaking her bachelor’s
degree when she got married meant
the difference between staying in
middle management at Centel Cellu
lar and moving up the corporate lad
der.
“We have an incredible amount of
competition,” she said. “(The degree)
just gives them an edge to narrow the
field of applicants.”
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professor at the UNC School of Law,
said Dellinger would bring a great deal
of integrity to the Supreme Court.
“I think he would be the equal of
anyone on the court,” Broun said. “He’s
a very well-regarded scholar and he’s
one of the country’s leading experts on
constitutional law.
“His reputation clearly extends be
yond the Carolina and Duke law com
munities,” he said.
Judith Wegner, dean of the UNC
School of Law, said Dellinger was well
respected in legal circles for his work on
reproductive rights.
“He’s got a lot of experience work
ing on pro-choice causes,” Wegner said.
“He’s very politically astute and has
good judgment.”
Dellinger has worked on behalf of
the National Organization of Women
and has testified before congressional
committees on the legal questions sur
Charles-Pierre pushes congress
to reconsider 19-18 speaker vote
By James Lewis
Staff Writer
Student Congress Rep. Philip
Charles-Pierre, Dist. 19, who lost a bid
for speaker of congress to Rep. Wendy
Sarratt, Dist. 12, said Sunday night that
he would not contest the election in the
Student Supreme Court.
Charles-Pierre lost the race for
speaker by one vote. Former Speaker
Jennifer Lloyd, Dist. 17, presided over
the speaker election at last Wednesday’s
congress meeting and voted for Sarratt
to break an 18-18 tie.
“Win or lose, I want to win or lose
fairly,” Charles-Pierre said. “I don’t
want to go through the courts. Ulti
mately, I have to suck it up and hope for
the best.”
Charles-Pierre said he wanted con
gress members to reconsider the speaker
vote at their Wednesday meeting. “I am
not going to do anything major at this
point,” he said. “I hope that on Wednes
McCormick: Next in line for chancellorship?
By Anna Griffin
Senior Writer
Call him the man who would be
chancellor.
Or the guy who just wants to do the
right thing.
Either way, Provost Richard
McCormick has made quite a stir dur
ing his short tenure at UNC, stepping in
to fill Chancellor Paul Hardin ’ s shoes in
the debate over a free-standing black
cultural center and putting himself in a
position possibly to be named chancel
lor some day.
Those who have worked alongside
him describe McCormick as a tireless
worker, a caring father and a devoted
husband. To them, he is an educator
among administrators, a champion of
racial diversity and tolerance and a man
who cares more about students than
himself.
rounding abortion rights.
He also has been called to testify
before Congress on the constitutional
ity of flag-burning and prayer in school.
Even if Dellinger doesn’t get the
highly coveted Supreme Court nomina
tion, there’s a good chance he’ll receive
some kind of federal judicial appoint
ment.
Dellinger said he had heard specula
tion that he also was being considered to
be named deputy assistant attorney gen
eral for the Justice Department’s Office
of Legal Counsel or solicitor general.
Dellinger, who graduated from UNC
in 1963, has lived in Chapel Hill for
nearly 25 years.
“I’d feel terrible about leaving Chapel
Hill for Washington,” he said. “But
except for (New York) Governor
(Mario) Cuomo, I don’t know many
lawyers who would turn down a Su
preme Court nomination.”
day the congress reconsiders the vote.”
Charles-Pierre said Lloyd should not
have voted in the election of the speaker
because she was not a member of the
75th congress. “She should not have
voted for moral, ethical and legal rea
sons,” he said.
According to Robert’s Rules of Or
der, which dictate parliamentary proce
dure, “the right to vote comes from
membership, not from office,” Charles-
Pierre said.
Charles-Pierre said Lloyd and
Sarratt’s friendship was a conflict of
interest in the original speaker vote.
But Sarratt said her friendship with
Lloyd had no affect on the outcome of
the vote. “She’s worked with both of us
and she was in the position to make a
very educated decision,” she said.
Charles-Pierre said he was worried
that the dispute would further erode
public confidence in congress
He said he had to consider both the
implications of pursuing the matter for
But those he has faced off against
most specifically the student supporters
of a free-standing BCC—aren’t so sure
that this soft-spoken Yale University
graduate really is as honest and straight
forward as he seems.
‘A scholar among administrators’
McCormick came to UNC last sum
mer from Rutgers University, the New
Jersey school where he had served as
dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
and as a history professor.
His resume is impressive, to say the
least.
After graduating magna cum laude
from Amherst University, the current
UNC provost got his doctorate in his
tory from Yale University and served as
a teaching assistant at the New Haven,
Conn., school for two years.
See McCORMICK, page 2
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Hardin refuses
to call special
BOT meeting
By Thanassis Cambanis
University Editor
Chancellor Paul Hardin told protest
ers, who have been sitting in the rotunda
of South Building for more than a week,
that he would not respond to their de
mands to call an emergency meeting of
the Board of Trustees.
“There is no way that a protest and a
demonstration can make me know some
thing I didn’t already know,” Hardin
told 60 supporters of a free-standing
black cultural center Thursday morn
ing. Supporters were there to “greet”
him upon his return after a weeklong
absence from his office.
Hardin said he would take time to
reach his own conclusions about the
two different BCC reports he had re
ceived —one from the BCC Advisory
Board and another from the Chancellor’s
Working Group.
“I’m quite sure that unless I take
something to the board that I sincerely
believe, they won’t approve it,” he said.
Student advocates of a free-standing
See HARDIN, page 7
Walter Dellinger
himself and for congress.
“It’s like a Catch-22,” he said. “No
matter what I do I’m going to lose.
Congress is going to look like it is
playing games again.”
Student Body President Jim Copland
said he did not think the vote could be
reconsidered at Wednesday’s congress
meeting. “According to Robert’s Rules
of Order it’s impossible to reconsider
an election,” he said. “Therefore the
congress cannot do it, in my opinion.”
Sarratt said that as speaker she did
not have the ability to call for a revote.
“It’s not up to me,” she said. “An elec
tion is final if the candidate is present.”
Sarratt said a point of order was made
Wednesday night to consider that Lloyd
was not a member of congress and could
not vote to break the tie. But Sarratt said
she ruled that Lloyd was eligible to
break the tie vote.
An appeal to the ruling was made.
See SPEAKER, page 2
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