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4 Friday, November 5,1993 USC Chancellor Candidate Refuses to Accept Position BY JENNY HEINZEN STAFF WRITER The prime candidate for the post of chancellor at the University of South Caro lina at Spartanburg, who is black, chose to decline the position because of the treat ment he said he received from an advisory board that voted not to endorse him. “I have decided that recent action on the part of the Spartanburg Commission on Higher Education has created an envi ronment of suspicion and controversy which would negatively impact my ability to do the job effectively,” Charlie Nelms, who currently is chancellor at Indiana University East, said in a letter to USC system President John Palms Nelms turned down the job after the Spartanburg Commission on Higher Edu cation, an independent group that only makes recommendations to the university, voted to deny him the position. “I made a decision based on what I think is in the best interest of myself and my family,” Nelms said. S.C. Sen. John Russell, R-Spartanburg, said the choice of anew chancellor should havebeena “command decisiori’by Palms, without input from outside organizations. “The decision incensed the candidate so much that he withdrew,” he said. Russell said he thought the group's de cision should have had no validity because when the commission was created, no pro vision had been made to allow for the committee to elect the chancellor. “The board had no authority whatso ever in who would be chancellor,” he said. Russell said he did not think the fact that Nelms was black had affected the decision, but said he did believe Nelms’s race was Discover Elegance! aaa mFmeDinin 8 f " W * European Style - vlB I | * Delicious Italian & Chinese | • Discounted Fraternity & / Ij Sorority Banquet Services y7n(^/Jjm r'Wwfii, £35 Located 1813 Hwy. 15-501 (Next to Brendle’s) Between Chapel Hill & Durham TAR HEEL SPORTS SHORTS r A ACC MEN's SOCCER Semifinals Tonight! 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ALL STUDENTS, ALL YEARS, ALL MAJORS WELCOMEI related to the high salary Palms had offered Nelms. “President Palms went overboard in agreeing to meet the salary request of the candidate,” he said. The former USC chancellor made about $92,000 per year, but the salary offered to Nelms was approximately $120,000, Russell said. In a letter to the university’s Board of Trustees, Palms said he thought the educa tion commission had overstepped its duty as an advisory board. “The commission changed its consul tive capacity into that of arbiter of the university’s final choices,” he said. “It clearly gave Dr. Nelms the impression that he was not welcome.” Nelms said that even if the commission was removed from the decision, he would not consider the position again. “I’ve made my decision and I’m mov ing on with my life and I think they ought to move on with their institution, ” he said. The UNC system conducts its chancel lor elections differently than the USC sys tem, said Joni Worthington, assistant vice president for communications for the UNC system. Worthington said chancellor selection was a process involving the Board ofTrust ees, the president of the system and the Board of Governors. She said the BOT appointed a search committee consisting of trustees, faculty, alumni and students who would seek out potential candidates and make recommen dations to the BOT, who then would for ward the names of at least two nominees to the president of the system. The president would then select one candidate to send before the Board of Gov ernors, who makes the final decision. STATE & NATIONAL North Carolinians Tell Stories of Life in Haiti BY ALIA SMITH STAFF WRITER DURHAM —After completing a peace mission to Haiti in October, Ray Eurquhart and Tom Hammond, members ofWitness for Peace, reported on the state of affairs in the troubled Caribbean nation at the group’s meeting Thursday night at the Immaculate Conception Church. “Now there is no safe place in Haiti;” Eurquhart said. “Being American won’t save you from the military or the police.” Witness For Peace is a nondenomina tional Christian organization that spon sors delegations to Latin America to pro vide Christian fellowship, education and assistance to those in need. Addressing a crowd of about 30, Eurquhart began his presentation with a slide show featuring peasant life in Port au-Prince , the Haitian capital. He explained the hardships ofHaitian life by focusing on workers’ difficulties. “It was amazing for me to see these Clinton, Perot Trade Barbs in Controversy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS LEXINGTON, Ky. President Clinton told fellow Democrats Thursday not to be spooked into voting against free trade with Mexico by this week’s Republi can election victories. He also traded barbs with former U.S. presidential candidate Ross Perot, who called the trade pact “stupid.” Intensifying his uphill struggle for votes, Clinton dismissed arguments from the Texas businessman —and some Demo cratic and labor leaders that a trade agreement with Mexico would cost many American jobs. “That one fellow talks about the giant sucking sound,” Clinton said, referring to Perot ’ s charges that American plants would rush to Mexico because of cheaper labor and less stringent environmental rules. “I know a little about this I was the governor of a state that lost plants to Mexico,” Clinton said. “I used to go stand at plants on the last day they were open and shake hands with people when they walked off the job for the last time. “I want you to understand this very clearly from somebody who’s lived through this: This agreement will make that less likely, not more likely,” Clinton said. 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He cited the system of tax collection in Haiti as one example. * “The taxation system in Haiti is very unfair,” he said. “All of a sudden one day, the military will come by and say, ‘This is what you owe.’ If you can’t pay it, then they confiscate your property or land. It’s not like here, where you have plenty of notice.” Eurquhart said the military also was destroying Haiti’s forests as a means of trying to prevent “peasant insurrection.” Much of the Haitian population relies on selling lumber as a source of income. Lack of roadways in much of the coun try and insufficient funding for Haitian universities also are major problems, Eurquhart said. “The university system in Haiti is ex tremely underfunded and disorganized,” support the pact. He said the agreement was “dead on arrival” among ordinary citizens. “If this is such a good deal, why doesn’t everybody get excited about it?” he de manded. He called it “another stupid trade agree ment rammed through by special inter ests.” Clinton flew to Kentucky to appear at a Lexmarkplantthatmakes computerequip ment that is subject to a 20-percent tariff in Mexico. The trade agreement would eliminate the tariff. With the House set to vote Nov. 17, the White House acknowledged it still lacked enough support but said things were pick ing up as a result of new deals with Mexico to protect politically sensitive American industries. NAFTA supporters estimated that an agreement with Mexico on sugar would bring Clinton 10 to 12 votes. On the other side of the battle, Rep. Teny Everett, R-Ala., said there were 53 solid Republican votes against NAFTA in the House. Appearing at a news conference with Perot, Everett and other NAFTA oppo nents said there were 213 House members against the agreement —just five short of the number needed to kill it. Some analysts believe the Republican sweep inTuesday’selections inNew York, New Jersey and Virginia will make fence sitting Democrats even more nervousabout casting risky votes, such as for the trade agreement. “That’s ludicrous, that’s just a Wash “People just go around shooting each other in the middle of the day. ” RAY EURQUHART Witness for Peace member he said. “There are no books, just some times mimeographed copies of chapters here and there.” Furthermore, the lack of literacy in the country is very disturbing, he said. Eighty to 90 percent of the public is illiterate. Eurquhart also mentioned the growing military violence in Haiti’s major cities, especially in Port-au-Prince. “The military loves to beat people on the rectum,” he said. “A taxi driver was beaten so badly he had to have reconstruc tive surgery. “There have been over 300 killings in Port-au-Prince since Aristide fled. People ington story,” Clinton said. “That’s ridicu lous.” However, the fears were real enough that the White House sent Clinton’s own pollster, Stanley Greenberg, to Capitol Hill to reassure Democrats they wouldn’t be ousted by voters for supporting the trade agreement. Clinton said he was proud of the show ings of New York Mayor David Dinkins and N.J. Gov. Jim Florio, even though they lost narrowly to Republican challeng ers. “They came back from the dead. Every body wrote them off,” Clinton said. “Be sides that, NAFTA wasn’t an issue in any of those races.” He said the best course for American lawmakers “is doing the right thing for America.” “The real evidence is that if people think you’re for change, you get elected, and if they think you’re for the status quo that’s not working, you’re (in trouble),” Clinton said. “And the proper change this time is to support NAFTA.” ECONOMY FROM PAGE 3 dramatically over the last decade—by 62 percent. At the same time, the number of people commuting to work outside the county increased 47 percent. According to the report, only 2 percent of the Triangle population uses the bus. Future growth was a key issue discussed at the meeting. Lee, who is a chairman of the Economic Development Strategic Plan ning Committee, saidjobs and growth were questions the county still was struggling with. “We know we’re great, and we know we have what it takes to attract business, but we also must be responsible, ” Lee said. “We need to build consensus.” My type of comedy! -Guttenberg UVE COMEDY EVERY FRIDAY & SATURDAY Show Times at both locations 8:30 P.M. Doors Open at 7:45 P.M. COMEDYSim City Market Omni Europa Chapel Hill RESERVATIONS 829-0822 Comedy that’s til to print! T.S*RRMOTT*S GROUNDHOG TAVERN “locally Worid Famous” Gourmet Burgers- Best Wings in Town Dell 8, Chicken Sandwiches • Soups 8. 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He also said he believed the Haitian military was afraid of peasant gatherings, which in turn could prompt an uprising. Eurquhart said the military tried to con trol the peasant movement by importing rice, so the small fanners weren’t able to sell their agricultural products. Over NAFTA Asked by reporters about Perot’s pre diction that NAFTA would fail, Clinton said, “He’s certainly done everything he could to cloud the atmosphere.... The vice president has challenged him to a debate on Larry King. Let’s see if he takes it.” In his remarks, Clinton said the United States had trade problems with some coun tries but not with Mexico. Mexico this year will buy $5.5 billion more in American goods than it will sell in the United States. Clinton acknowledged that America would take some job losses because of the trade agreement. On the other hand, he said, “Some people will be dislocated if we do nothing. Every year, Americans lose their jobs.” He said all displaced workers would have access to job training programs. Clinton also said a North American Devel opment Bank would concentrate its re sources in areas with substantial job losses to try to start new job enterprises. He said a third program would offer special investment incentives targeted to areas where jobs had been lost. Lindsay Efland, chairman of the com mission, said the commission did not sup port large-scale development. “We understand that economic devel opment means different things to different people,” he said. Efland said the commission recom mended attracting businesses that were nonpolluting, used little treated water and didn’t produce hazardous waste or large amounts of regular waste. 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