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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
European Leaders Hoping
To Restart Talks in Bosnia
GENEVA The European Commu
nity is hoping to lure the leaders ofßosnia’s
warring factions back to the negotiating
table with an offer to lift sanctions on
Yugoslavia, the troubled region’s
powerbroker. But prospects for achieving
peace soon appear dim.
The 12 European Community foreign
ministers will meet Monday with the lead
ers of each faction in a bid to restart the
talks. Their new offer involves phasing out
international sanctions against Serb-led
Yugoslavia if Belgrade pressures the
Bosnian Serbs into giving more land to the
Muslims.
On Sunday, at least five people were
killed when Serb gunners fired a mortar
shell into the city center.
British Officials Confess
Secret Contacts With IRA
BELFAST, Northern Ireland The
British government’s admission Sunday
that it has secretly communicated with the
IRA has cast a shadow over months of
peacemaking efforts for Northern Ireland.
An influential Protestant leader de
manded British Prime Minister John
Major’s resignation. Sinn Fein, the IRA’s
political ally, said the contacts were more
substantial than the British government
was willing to admit. Major is due to meet
his Irish counterpart, Albert Reynolds, next
month in Dublin, where they hope to reach
agreement on a way toward peace.
The British government admitted to the
communications with the IRA in hopes of
persuading the outlawed group to end its
violent campaign against the British.
Court Hears Case That
Could Bankrupt Union
ROANOKE, Va. ln the spring of
1989, coal truck driver Richard Adams
rounded a curve on a southwestern Vir
ginia road and encountered a group of
striking miners. Adams, a replacement
worker, told Circuit Judge Donald
McGlothlin that they hurled fistfuls of rocks
that “hit us like a hailstorm.”
The U.S. Supreme Court has scheduled
arguments Monday on whether
McGlothlin was justified in fining the
United Mine Workers union $52 million
forepisodesof violence and civil disobedi
ence in its 11-month strike against Pittston
Cos. Labor analysts said this was the largest
civil contempt fine ever imposed by an
U.S. court and could bankrupt the union.
Space Mission to Repair
Hubble Space Telescope
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. The
countdown began Sunday for the Hubble
Space Telescope repair mission, consid
ered by many to be NASA’s biggest chal
lenge since the Apollo moon landings.
The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled
to lift off on the 11-day flight Wednesday.
Hubble program managers and scien
tists were thrilled to be, finally, this close to
correcting the telescope’s fuzzy vision and
other problems. Even normally placid
launch officials were caught in the excite
ment. Endeavour’s crew will go out five
and possibly seven times to work on Hubble
after the bus-sized telescope is anchored in
the shuttle cargo bay. No U.S. space mis
sion to date has had more than four
spacewalks.
U.S. Retailers Heartened
By Early Holiday Shopping
Consumers who spent erratically for
much of this year regained their zest for
shopping during the Thanksgiving week
end, giving the nation’s retailers an en
couraging start to the Christmas season.
Several big storeowners said Sunday that
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that people are buying in the categories
that show they have some liquidity."
Retailers in the Midwest and on the
East Coast lost some business to foul
weather. But because the rain, sleet and
snow came early in the season, most ex
pect to make up the sales before Christmas.
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Students Protest BOT Vote on 24-Hour Policy
BYPHUONGLY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Student leaders said Tuesday that they
would use letters instead of angry protests
to change the minds of the UNC Board of
Trustees about the recently revoked 24-
hour visitation policy.
Residence Hall Association members
urged the 250 students attending the rally
Tuesday in the Pit to tell their parents
about the visitation program, write letters
and make phone calls to University offi
cials and trustees.
RHA President Jan Davis said students
should not break the policy openly. “It’s
only going to show them that we are chil
dren who retaliate because someone has
taken away something from us.
“We’re here not to slam the Board of
Trustees or the University,” Davis said.
Coffee Shop to Replace
Barrel of Fun Arcade
BYANUBHAANAND
STAFF WRITER
From Dig Dug to Mortal Kombat E,
Barrel of Fun on East Franklin Street had
been the place to go for video games since
1981.
But the popular arcade quietly pulled
the plug on the few games left in the store
Saturday night as managers prepared to
move out after losing their lease.
“Everything will probably be out ofhere
by Tuesday,” said Glen Edmisten, area
supervisor for NAMCO, the arcade’s par
ent company.
Edmisten and store manager Brian
Karasek were in the store Sunday after
noon packing.
“We’re closed, ” he shouted several times
to kids who tried the locked door.
A few teenage boys came to stare through
the windows at the blank video screens;
none knew the arcade was closed.
“I think most of our regulars knew,”
Karasek said. “The kids who came in after
Sunday school tended not to know.”
Karasek said he found out in mid-Octo
ber and passed the news on to his patrons.
“I heard the arcade was closing a long
time ago,” said Paul Eberhart, 18.
“I used to come here to play air hockey
with my girlfriend.”
Edmisten wouldn’t comment on why
the arcade was moving out, only that the
company was looking for anew location,
preferably on Franklin Street.
“We intend to be back—bigger, brighter
and better,” he said.
Rookie Lynch Awaits Chance
To Shine in Lakers’ Uniform
BY CHAD AUSTIN
STAFF WRITER
Wants and needs. Everybody has them.
And the NBA’s Los Angeles Lakers
have many. After winning five world cham
pionships in the 1980s, the Lakers are now
trying to re-establish themselves among
the league’s elite.
And they are hoping that UNC product
George Lynch can help them once again
reach that pinnacle.
“We’re a team that is in transition, so
we have a bunch of needs,” said Mitch
Kupchak, Laker assistant general man
ager. “Our immediate need was a point
guard.
“With Magic Johnson retiring, we didn’t
have anybody prepared to step in and take
over. The whole thing was rather unex
pected.”
On June 30, the Laker organization
looked to fill some of those needs. But
sometimes you don’t always get what you
want.
The Lakers made a fast-break toward
the future on NBA Draft day. L. A. did not,
however, get the point guard it wanted to
lead that break. Instead the Lakers used
their first-round draft pick on a forward
that might one day help finish it.
After helping guide UNC to an NCAA
championship just months earlier, Lynch
became the first-round draft choice of the
Los Angeles Lakers.
“When George’s spot came around in
the draft, the 12th draft, the two best point
guards were already gone, ” Kupchak said.
“So at that time we decided to fill another
need that might not be an immediate need,
but one that has to be filled in a year or two,
which is the small forward spot.”
Lynch’s lofty draft status came as a
shock to many draft analysts. During his
senior season at North Carolina, Lynch
was called everything from a poor shooter
to an overrated player. But the Lakers, and
Lynch, thought otherwise.
“My draft status was no surprise to me, ”
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MONDAY, NOVEMBER 29,1993
“We’re here to show them our positive
support for the policy."
The BOT revoked the pilot program,
which allowed 24-hour visitation of oppo
site-sex guests in six dorms, at its Nov. 19
meeting.
Students in Aycock, Carmichael,
Craige, Kenan, Mangum and Teague resi
dence halls overwhelmingly voted in favor
of the pilot program in September.
The old visitation policy, which has
been reinstated in all 29 dormitories, al
lows opposite-sex guests in dorm rooms
from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through
Thursday, and from 9 a.m. to 2 a.m. Friday
and Saturday.
BOT members said administrators
should have told them about the program
before it went into effect. Some trustees
also said they were being barraged by phone
calls and letters from irate citizens, some of
NAMCO owns similar arcades nearby,
Edmisten said, including Cyber Station in
Cary Towne Center and Aladdin’s Castle
in Raleigh’s Crabtree Valley Mall.
George Draper, the building’s owner,
said the arcade’s lease expired and he de
cided not to renew it.
“It’s something I’ve been contemplat
ing for a long time,” he said.
“I just decided it was time to make a
change.”
The same building houses Sutton’s Drug
Store, Player’s, Jamaica Willie’s Jerk Shack
and anew restaurant opening in the back
alley next semester.
Draper confirmed that a coffee shop
would fill the arcade’s old space.
“It’s called the Judge’s Coffee Roastery.
It’s going to be a combination cafe and
retail shop where you can buy freshly
roasted coffee.”
Draper said construction would begin
Wednesday, and the new store would likely
open in mid-January.
The arcade’s closing happened gradu
ally.
First, managers shipped out 17 games
in September. Slowly, other games disap
peared, taking the evening crowds with
them.
“(Closingnight) was sad, ” Karasek said.
“It was really quiet. The employees said
their goodbyes everyone was really
thoughtful and reticent. Some of these
people have been playing here for years.”
Karasek has a long history with the
arcade.
“I started coming here on my bike from
GEORGE LYNCH is backing up
fellow UNC alumnus James Worthy.
Lynch said. “If you look at my career
numbers at Carolina, and just by play ing in
the ACC, you’ll see that I played well.”
And the numbers speak for themselves.
Need some defense? Ask Lynch. He is
UNC’s all-time steals leader with 241. Need
a rebound? Ask Lynch. His 1,097 career
boards are second only to Sam Perkins’
career total of 1,167 on the UNC list.
Lynch is also oneofonly two players in
ACC history to score 1,500 points, log 200
steals, dish-out 200 assists and grab 1,000
rebounds. Minnesota Timberwolves’ cen
ter Christian Laettner the third pick in
the 1992 draft —is the only other who can
make such a claim.
Plus, there is the North Carolina factor.
“(Lakers’ General Manager) Jerry West
has gotten very close to Coach (Dean)
Smith and that program in the last six or
seven years,” Kupchak said. “Jerry really
believes that a player that comes out of
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whom have threatened to withhold dona
tions because of the policy.
Tuesday’s rally didn’t feature the angry
chants, marches or sign-holding that mark
many Pit protests.
When RHA leaders asked students to
talk about the visitation program, only one
student, fifth-year senior Wallyce Todd,
took the microphone.
Todd, a former resident assistant, said
24-hour visitation was about students’ rights
to make adult decisions, not premarital
sex.
Anne Cates, the only BOT member to
attend the rally, said she thought the rally
showed the maturity of students.
“I think it’ll impress the trustees,” said
Cates, who was among the nine trustees
who voted to rescind the visitation pro
gram.
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Brian Karasek, store manager of Barrel of Fun, loads one of the store's most popular video games onto a moving truck.
The arcade closed Saturday, and all of the games will be delivered to other stores owned by its parent company.
Durham about 10 years ago,” he said.
The popular games then included such
classics as Pac Man, Frogger, Tempest,
Gorf, Space Invaders, Phoenix and a ca
cophony of pinball games.
“I’m really going to miss this store,” he
said. “It has a certain appeal. There have
AIDS Week Begins With Quilt Display;
Two Panel Discussions Also Scheduled
BY STEVE ROBBLEE
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The University will display a portion of
the AIDS Memorial Quilt on Tuesday as
part of World AIDS Day observances that
will take place Tuesday through Thursday.
More than 180 countries are expected
to participate in the sixth annual World
Aids Day on Dec. 1. “A Time to Act” will
be the theme for this year’s activities.
“What we’re doing is hoping to raise
awareness and raise sensitivity to people
who are HIV-positive, ” said Julie Sweedler,
UNC World AIDS Day co-chairwoman
and a graduate student in the School of
Public Health. “Essentially, we want the
pool of HTV-positive people not to get
bigger.”
UNC World AIDS Day officials have
organized two panel discussions in con
junction with the observation. The first, at
7 p.m. Wednesday in the Union Film Au
ditorium, will offer college-age adults’ first
hand experiences with HTV, the virus that
causes AIDS. A former College Republi
cans president who was an active fraternity
member at UNC and a married couple will
discuss how HIV has made an impact on
their fives.
“We’re hoping that people who attend
the session will find that they are no differ
ent than the people (who are HIV posi
tive),” Sweedler said.
A Thursday discussion focusing on
women and AIDS will be held in 1301
McGavran-GreenbergHall. Itwillbemod
erated by Rachel Royce, assistant profes
sor of epidemiology at UNC. Both HFV
health specialists and an HIV-positive
woman will participate.
HIV-positive women with children face
an added burden of having to care for a
family, Sweedler said. The panel will offer
the opportunity forpeople to “seethe depths
to which the disease can affect women,”
she said.
In addition to the panel discussions,
rector, called the quiet protest a “smart
move” from students.
“I think the trustees are sincere in their
efforts to form a committee and look for a
way to resolve the issue,” Kuncl said.
Although trustees rescinded the policy,
they said they would form a committee of
trustees, administrators and students to
discuss the policy and make a presentation
at the board’s January meeting.
Cates said she did not know what the
committee’s recommendation about the
pilot program would be.
“We’ll study it, and we’ll do the best we
can,” she said.
Student Body President Jim Copland,
an ex-officio BOT member who voted
against rescinding the program, said that
after talking to some trustees, he was “fairly
sure” the board would recommend a policy
that would be acceptable to most students.
been other arcades on Franklin Street, but
this one lasted the longest.”
But not everyone is sad to see the arcade
go
“I think the arcade is an eyesore because
of the crowd it attracts, ” said Pete Losculzo,
manager of neighboring Franklin Street
UNC Events
Tuesday, Nov. 30 Jffijff
11 a.m.-6 p.m. Panels of the AIDS oßlach the size of a coffin and featuring the name of
someone who has died of AIDS-rlpscl illness, will be displayed in the Great Hall of the
Student Union.
11 a.m.-2 p.m. Members of the campus community can write personal statements about how
the HIV virus has affected their lives or loved ones in front of the Union.
Wednesday, Dec. 1
3:30 p.m. Dr. Peter Lamptey of Family Health International will discuss "HIV Prevention: Is It
Working?" in 1301 McGavran-GreenbergHall.
7 p.m. A panel discussion titled "HIV Among College Students' will be moderated by Peter
Leone, assistant professor of medicine and director of the Wake County Department of
Health's Sexually Transmitted Disease/HIV Clinic, in the Union Film Auditorium.
Thursday, Dec. 2
1:30 p.m. A panel discussion about "Women and AIDS' will be held in 1301 McGavran-
Greenberg Hall and moderated by Dr. Rachel Royce, assistant professor of epidemiology
and AIDS specialist.
two other events will be held in conjunc
tion with the University’s AIDS obser
vance.
Students, faculty and other members of
the campus community can write personal
statements about how the HTV virus has
affected their lives from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Tuesday in front of the Union.
At 3:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dr. Peter
Lamptey will address the question, “HTV
Prevention: Is It Working?” inMcGavran-
Greenberg Hall.
The two panels and other AIDS-aware
ness related activities should make people
aware that AIDS can affect anyone,
Sweedler said.
“One of the myths is that AIDS only
hits drug users and gay men. In fact, the
(AIDS-infected) population increasing the
fastest is women and young people.”
The AIDS quilt, which is divided into
several pieces around the country, will give
insight into the fives of individuals who
have died of AIDS. Each patch on the quilt
measures several square feet and is pre
pared by family members or friends of
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The RHA rally was not the only protest
that resulted from the BOT decision.
About 60 students gathered in the Up
per Quad at midnight Nov. 22, the day the
pilot program ended, in a peaceful protest
sponsored by Mangum Residence Hall’s
government.
“I think that a gathering such as this
shows that male-female gatherings are not
limited to things of a sexual nature, ” Nicole
Perez, a senior from New Jersey who fives
off campus, said at the rally.
Davis, who made a speech to crowds in
the Upper Quad, said most students dis
agreed with the BOT’s decision to rescind
the pilot program.
“Obviously students are concerned, or
they wouldn’t have shown up in 30- degree
weather.”
Peter Roybal contributed to this article.
Pizza and Pasta.
There wasn’t much spillover business
from the arcade, he said.
“(Barrel of Fun moving) would be great
for us,” he said.
“I think (the new coffee shop) is going to
be helpful.”
someone who died of AIDS.
Sweedler said the Charlotte-based por
tion of the quilt would come to UNC, and
those who viewed it would get a better
understanding ofhow AIDS affected North
Carolinians who died of AIDS.
“For people that go to see the AIDS
quilt, it gives a different perspective than
the statistics," she said. “You actually see
coffin-sized panels that family members
have made for them. It makes the devastat
ing effects of the epidemic more real.”
Several University and student groups,
including the Chancellor’s Task Force on
AIDS, the Black Student Movement, Caro
lina Union Activities Board, the Depart
ment of University Housing, Student
Health Service, the student government
special projects committee and the School
of Public Health will co-sponsor the UNC
events.
Sweedler said students who wanted to
become more active in the fight against
AIDS could help with fund-raisers at local
health organizations or volunteer to be a
buddy for someone who is HIV-positive.