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Century of Editorial Freedom
BHD Est. 1893
Volume 101, Issue 31
WEDNESDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stones from state, nation and world
Judge acquits Mariues
of assault on gay man
WILMINGTON, N.C. Three
Marines were acquitted Tuesday of
charges that they assaulted three
people at a bar that catered to
homosexuals.
Judge Jacqueline Morris-Goodson,
who was hearing the case without a
jury, said the state failed to meet its
burden of proof.
The Marineswere charged with
three counts each of simple assault.
They faced a maximum penalty of 30
days in jail or a SSO fine.
In closing arguments, defense
James Faison m
countered, “It r __ D
wasn’t self- CraePndgen
defense. What it was was an excuse.”
Judge Morris-Goodson, ruling after
six days of testimony, said, “If any of
the defendants acted in self-defense,
their individual actions are excused.”
Pridgen, who has filed a civil lawsuit
against the Marines, met with state
and federal officials and complained
that he was the victim of a gay
bashing.
Efforts to feed Sudan's
starving not effective
LOKICHOGGIO, Kenya A major
diplomatic offensive is under way to
feed Sudan’s starving, but aid
workers say any solution will be too
late to save the severely malnour
ished, including 4,000 children in the
“hunger triangle.”
At a tent camp 15 miles south of
Sudan’s border, airplanes carry food
and workers into Sudan every day as
part of Operation Lifeline Sudan, a
program of the U.N. Children’s Fund
and World Food Program. But they
are not taking the aid to two of three
communities the United Nations says
are the most at risk.
Japanese aid to Russia
more than $1 billion
TOKYO Japan, stung by criticism
that it sat on the sidelines while others
scrambled to help Russian reforms,
has prepared its own major aid
package for Moscow.
Tokyo has planned to announce the
details today at the opening of a
seven-nation aid meeting. News
reports said the package would total
$l.B billion.
It will be an important symbolic
step for Tokyo, which had to over
come strong public sentiment
regarding a long-standing territorial
dispute with Moscow.
Foriegn ministers of the so-called
Group of Seven major industrial
nations are holding the two-day
emergency meeting.
Muslim extremists kill
security chief in Egypt
ASSIUT, Egypt Muslim militants
claimed responsibility Tuesday for
the machine-gun killing of a top
security official and promised more
attacks in their campaign to overturn
Egypt’s secular government.
A member of al-Gamaa al-
Islamiya, or the Islamic Group,
telephoned a reporter and said
Sunday’s attack was to avenge the
death of a militant leader shot by
police this month.
Maj. Gen. Mohamed el-Sheimy,
Assiut’s provincial security chief, and
his bodyguard and driver were killed
in the attack.
Journalism professor
does notwinPumzer
UNO journalism professor Margaret
Blanchard, who had been nominated
for the Pulitzer Prize, was not among
the winners announced Tuesday.
Blanchard’s book, “Revolutionary
Sparks, Freedom of Expression in
Modem America,” had been
nominated for a Pulitzer Prize in
American history literature.
Blanchard’s 572 page book
described conflicts stemming from
differing ideas about the freedoms
guaranteed in the First Amendment.
She wrote the book after reading
opposing opinions concerning a
1920s case in which a communist was
accused of trying to overthrow the
New York state government.
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Council members: IINC
should buy town buses
By Leah A. Campbell
Staff Writer ,
Chapel Hill Town Council mem
bers suggested Tuesday that the Uni
versity absorb the cost of running
Chapel Hill Transit, die town’s bus
system, to help offset the town’s bud
get problems.
"Why don’t we just offer to sell die
system to the University?” asked coun
cil member Art Werner.
Werner said he thought the taxpay
ers should not be expected to pay for
the system that was used primarily by
people affiliated with the University.
He added that University officials
might be forced to pay for the system
if the town couldn’t hind it.
Council member Joe Capo wski said
he thought UNC should contribute
more money to upgrade the bus sys
tem.
“In a town of39,ooopeople, 27,000
of them commute to campus every
morning,” he said. “The University is
the primary user of the buses.”
Seventy percent of the bus system’s
users are University faculty, students
and staff, transportation officials said.
Chapel Hill Transit currently re
ceives 45 percent of its $5 million
annual operating costs from Chapel
Hill residents through taxation, 45
percent from the University and 10
percent from the town of Carrboro.
A preliminary transportation bud
get report outlined that the costs to
Jackson still to contact
Smith for BCC meeting
By Anna Griffin
Senior Writer
Despite wishes to the contrary, it
appears the Rev. Jesse Jackson will not
be meeting with UNC basketball coach
Dean Smith during his two-day visit to
Chapel Hill today and Thursday.
Jackson, who will speak at 8 p.m.
today in Memorial Hall, said earlier this
week that he had hoped to meet with
Smith and several Tar Heel players as
part of his effort on behalf of student
supporters of a free-standing black cul
tural center.
“I certainly hope that Dean Smith’s
support will be key in making this cen
ter,” Jackson told reporters during a
layover at Raleigh-Durham Interna
tional Airport Monday.
Bill Keys, Jackson’s assistant, came
to Chapel Hill Tuesday to finalize de
tails of the civil rights leader’s visit. But
Keys and National Rainbow Coalition
officials said they were uncertain
whether the meeting would occur.
“We’re still hoping the meeting will
take place, but we don’t have any con
firmation yet,” Lisa Simms, spokes
woman for the Rainbow Coalition, said
Tuesday afternoon. “It’s still up in the
air.”
Linda Woods, Smith’s administra
The poetry of human beings inspires me. Maya Angelou
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
maintain the bus system would in
crease by 15 percent each year. But
the amount of people using the system
has reached a plateau with no future
growth in sight, according to the re
port submitted by town staff.
The transportation department al
ready is facing a $370,000 shortfall
for next year. <
Transportation officials are hoping
to replace 28 buses that are almost 14
years old. The new buses would cost
$7 million, most of which would come
from federal grants. The town would
pay about $700,000 of the cost.
“Thirty percent of our fleet is older
than what the replacement limits will
allow,” said Bob Godding, the town’s
transportation director.
Godding said buses would cost
about $250,000 per vehicle, adding
that new requirements for handicapped
facilities and increased emission stan
dards made buses more expensive.
Godding said that if the bus system
shutdown, there would be about 5,000
more single-car drivers added to Uni
versity traffic. The patting required
for these extra vehicles is roughly
equivalent to four more Craige park
ing decks. The Craige deck, located
besideCraige Residence Hall on Man
ning Drive, holds 1,600 parking
spaces.
Mayor Ken Broun said the idea was
worth considering later, but it would
See BUSES, page 7
tive secretary, said no one had con
tacted her about a possible meeting be
tween the coach and Jackson.
“They haven’t called here,” Woods
said late Tuesday afternoon. “Maybe
they will later today, but so far they
haven’t even tried to set anything up.”
Student organizers of the Jackson
visit said Jackson planned to meet with
student athletes, housekeepers, Chan
cellor Paul Hardin and other adminis
trators. Keys, who was trying to finalize
details of Jackson’s visit Tuesday
evening, said the reverend’s scheduled
had not yet been finalized.
“(The athletes) are part of the protest;
they’re very involved,” he said. “I’m
assuming we’ll come into contact with
them at some point in the trip.”
At a welcome-home celebration for
the men’s basketball team last week,
senior George Lynch used his time at
the Smith Center microphone to plug
the BCC movement.
“There’s an issue on campus people
have been talking about,” Lynch told
the crowd of about 15,000 fans and a
television viewing audience through
out the Triangle. “I’d like to say: Sup
port the BCC.’’
Lynch, a member of the BCC Advi-
See SMITH, page 7
Angelou urges audience
to explore black poetry j
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Senior Writer
She brought down the house before
she spoke a single word.
A crowd of about I,3oojumped to a
standing ovation when poet Maya
Angelou appeared on stage Tuesday
evening in Memorial Hall.
The Renaissance woman opened her
presentation by singing a slave song,
her deep, full voice resonating through
out the auditorium, and continued by
dramatically reciting African-American
poetry.
“I encourage men and women to look
at African-American poetry,” Angelou
said. “It is so rich. It is so beautiful. It
can be credited with the survival of one
race.”
Angelou described poetry as an ex
pression of the human condition, un
derstood by people from all over the
world. “This is a literature that will
indulge no distance,” she said.
“I entrust this great poetry to you for
your liberation,” she said.
“The most noble cause of all is the
liberation of the human mind and the
human spirit.”
Angelou was named the first
Reynolds Professor of American Stud
ies —a lifetime position at Wake
Forest University in 1981.
At President Clinton’s request,
Angelou composed and recited a poem
titled “On the Pulse of Morning” at the
president’s inauguration Jan. 20.
Best known for her autobiographical
novel “I Know Why the Caged Bird
Sings,” Angelou presented Tuesday’s
lecture, titled “An Evening with Maya
Angelou.” The Carolina Union Forum
Committee sponsored the lecture.
Dressed in an elegant, black sequined
Cradle might move to Breadmen’s
By Jackie Hershkowitz
City Editor
Cat’s Cradle might yet remain in
downtown Chapel Hill.
After Breadmen’s Restaurant relo
cates this summer from 337 W. Rose
mary St, it will consider leasing the
property to the owner of Cat’s Cradle,
Breadmen’s co-owner Bill Piscitello
said Tuesday.
“I don’t know if the building would
be big enough, but I’d like to see the
Cradle continue downtown,” he said.'
Cat’s Cradle, located at 206 W.
Franklin St., is scheduled to leave its
current location within the next few
months. The owners of the property
are working out a deal with a local
marketing company that wants to rent
the space.
Piscitello said he had spoken toCat’ s
Cradle owner Frank Heath, but no fi
nal decisions had been made.
Heath said the Breadmen’s building
might be one of his only options if he
wanted to stay in downtown Chapel
Hill.
By James Lewis
Assistant University Editor
Advocates of building a free-stand
ing black cultural center beside Wilson
Library and professors favoring a sci
ences building on the same site faced
off for the first time at a public hearing
Tuesday night.
“I want to point out that there are
serious needs in the sciences which
need to be met in the next decade,” said
Geoffrey Feiss, associate dean of the
College of Arts Sciences and professor
of geology.
The University’s Buildings and
Grounds Committee held a three-hour
public hearing to discuss the BCC-site
issue. Committee members held the
hearing to listen to public comment on
the two sites under consideration for a
BCC between Wilson Library and
Dey Hall and between Coker Hall and
the Bell Tower.
The committee will hold a closed
meeting today and make a confidential
recommendation to Chancellor Paul
Hardin. Hardin will give his own report
to the Board of Trustees in time for its
May 28 meeting..
Three faculty members spoke out in
favor of constructing a sciences build
ing beside Wilson Library, marking the
first time they have discussed the matter
in an open forum with student advo
cates of the BCC.
But Charles Childs, a lecturer in the
physics and astronomy department, said
Maya Angelou
jacket, Angelou, 65, delighted the audi
ence with her poetry, anecdotes, wit and
wisdom. The crowd responded with
laughter, applause and three standing
ovations.
Angelou stressed the importance of
literacy and of librarians.
“We have historically mistreated li
brarians,” she said. “Librarians have a
magic. I suggest you go to the library
tomorrow.
“Go to the library. Make sure your
time at this institution is not spent in
vain. Go to the library.”
After speaking for almost an hour,
Angelou entertained questions from the
audience.
One woman who identified herself
as being from Harlem, N.Y., sang to
Angelou and thanked her for speaking.
On behalf of her family, the woman
“It’s available, and it’s closer to town
than other things that are available,” he
said. “But it’s only about a third the size
of the current space. I wouldn’t be able
to get the kind of shows I get in this
building.”
Heath said moving Cat’s Cradle into
the Breadmen’s building might be a
good temporary solution, but eventu
ally he would have to look for a larger
space.
‘l’m not sure whether it would work,”
he said. “If it’s the best solution, then
I’ll pursue it”
Piscitello said he also was consider
ing razing the building and constructing
an apartment complex in its place.
“Everything is just talk right now,”
he said. “Idon’t know what we’ll endup
doing with the property.”
Chris Ipock, senior manager of
Breadmen’s,saidhewasn’tsureit would
be feasible to relocate Cat’s Cradle in
the Breadmen’s building.
“In my estimation, the building mi ght
not be large enough,” he said. “The
thing for them to do would be to raze the
building and start from scratch.”
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no consensus had been reached in his
department to support a sciences build
ing on the Wilson site.
“This is the first time I have ever
made a public statement about a build
ing on this campus,” he said. Building a
BCC on the Coker site would create a
psychological and physical barrier to
students, he said. “I certainly hope that
this committee decides to recommend
the Wilson site even if the administra
tion does otherwise,” he said.
Childs asked committee members to
remember the purpose of the
University .”1 think we have lost sight of
the students,” he said. “(The Univer
sity) does not —and I may lose my job
for this exist for the faculty.”
John Sanders, chairman of the Build
ings and Grounds Committee, asked
almost 20 speakers to limit discussion
to the two sites still being considered for
a BCC. Hardin has not set a time limit
on the committee’s deliberations, Sand
ers said. “It could be next week,” he
said. “It could be next month.”
Before an audience of 150, BCC ad
vocates emphasized the need for an
inclusive BCC to be near the center of
student activity. Students alsoexpressed
environmental concerns in developing
the Coker site.
“The Coker site may be the geo
graphic center of campus, but the center
of student activity is around Polk Place
and the Pit,” said Carolynn McDonald,
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added, “We love you.”
When asked about director John
Singleton’s unreleased movie, “Poetic
Justice,” Angelou criticized the use of
profanity and the word “nigger” in the
film.
“The language absolutely burned my
ears off,” she said. Angelou saw a spe
cial screening of the film in Winston-
Salem, where she lives.
“(The word nigger) is meant to be
little you,” she said. “It belittles the
person to whom it is used, and it be
littles the person who uses it.”
“Poetic Justice” stars Janet Jackson
as a poet named Justice. Singleton, dir
rector of “Boyz ‘N the Hood,” used
only Angelou’s poetry in the movie,
Angelou makes a cameo appearance in
the film.
But after seeing the movie, Angelou
refused to help promote it.
“I cannot go back on what I believe
for any reason,” she said. “This movie
that has my name on it is rife with terms,
words and phrases that I would not have
you hear.”
When asked by a school teacher how
she should introduce poetry to her stur
dents, Angelou said: “Read it aloud.
Poetry is written for the human voice.”
Many teachers have used poetry as a
punishment, she said. “It should be the
opposite. It should be, ‘Because you’ve
done so well, I’m going to let you read
this (poem).”’
One member of the audience asked
Angelou what her greatest inspiration
was. Angelou said, “My greatest inspi
ration is that I am a child of God.”
She added that fellow African Ameri
cans and poetry in general also inspired
her.
“The poetry of human beings in
spires me. You inspire me.”
Ipock said the cost of renting the
Breadmen’s building might be out of
Heath’s range.
Piscitello would not say how much
rent he would charge for foe property.
He said he wasn’t interested in selling
the building but would consider leas
ing it to Heath.
“I personally have always thought
that foe Cradle added a lot to Chapel
Hill,” Piscitello said. “It’s one erf the
few places that has that kind of enter
tainment available to students on a
regular basis.”
Piscitello said that although he
would consider meeting with Heath
again to discuss the relocation in more
detail, he thought for foe next few
months he would be preoccupied with
his restaurant’s upcoming move.
“I always consider offers,” he said.
“But right now, my interest is getting
everything going so we can move
across the street.”
Breadmen’s plans to move by Au
gust to a larger building across foe
street. The restaurant has outgrown its
current location, Piscitello said.