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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Tensions Rising Between
United States, N. Korea
WASHINGTON The Pentagon is
redrawing options forbolsteringU.S. forces
in South Korea as President Clinton weighs
possible responses to heightened tension
with the North. But administration offi
cials staunchly denied Thursday there was
a crisis.
Defense Secretary Les Aspin and Gen.
John Shalikashvili, who have been con
ducting a long-range review of the U.S.
military situation in the region, went to the
White House for a national security meet
ing. But Clinton did not attend.
White House spokeswoman Dee Dee
Myers called the matter of North Korea’s
refusal to allow international inspections
of its nuclear sites "a serious situation.”
and she said Clinton was concerned.
Canadian Prime Minister
Agrees to Sign NAFTA
OTTAWA—Canada’s prime minister
on Thursday dropped his opposition to the
North American Free Trade Agreement,
agreeing to a Jan. 1 signing that will elimi
nate the final obstacle to the pact's imple
mentation.
Prime Minister Jean Chretien’s an
nouncement, hailedby a “delighted" Presi
dent Clinton, came after the Canadian
leader failed to win concessions he prom
ised to get during his election campaign.
Chretien, who took office last month,
had run on a platform demanding revision
of certain aspects of the trade agreement,
which was signed by his conservative pre
decessor, Brian Mulroney. He had told
Clinton his signature on the agreement
was anything but a sure thing.
Police, Military Forces
Shoot Down Drug Lord
BOGOTA, Colombia—Security forces
killed drug lord Pablo Escobar Thursday in
Medellin, ending a 16-month hunt for one
of the world’s most wanted men.
Police and soldiers shot Escobar dead at
a shopping mall in the heart of the city that
served as the base for his cocaine empire,
according to local radio reports. Escobar
was killed by members of a 3,000-man
police and army force that had hunted him
since he escaped from prison in July 1992.
The United States and Colombia had of
fered $8.7 million for his capture.
Just three days ago, the drug lord’s wife
and two children flew to Germany seeking
political asylum, but were turned away.
Bosnian Talks Collapse
Amid Deadlock Over Land
GENEVA—Bosnian peace talks broke
up Thursday with no agreement on how to
divide the country, and the Muslim-led
government blamed Serbs for refusing to
give up some of their battlefield gains.
Leaders of the three warring factions
said they were willing to return to the
bargaining table.
On Wednesday, thegovemmentforthe
first time agreed to discuss giving up parts
of Sarajevo, but in return demanded that
Serbs return chunks of land in eastern
Bosnia.
U.N. mediator Thorvald Stoltenberg
confirmed there was no agreement on any
issue so far, but said bilateral talks would
continue in coming days.
Officer: Seagroves Said
He Shot as Boys Ran Away
DURHAM—A homeowner who says
he shot two teenage burglars in self-de
fense, killing one of them, told police he
shot at the youths as they fled his garage,
an officer testified Thursday.
Michael Seagroves is on trial for man
slaughter and assault in the March 18 shoot
ing of two Jordan High School students.
The two were in a group whose members
admitted they went to Seagroves’ house to
steal a motorcycle.
At issue is whether the teens who were
shot had advanced on Seagroves or whether
he used too much force by shooting as they
ran away. ,
“He said they were running when he
shot,” testified Durham police Sgt. Robin
James.
“ ... He stated he fired several shots,”
then stepped outside the broken down ga
rage door and fired twice more.
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Students Organize Housekeepers Publicity Blitz
BY HOLLY STEPP
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
By the end of next semester, students
who support the housekeepers movement
hope everyone in the University commu
nity will know what the fight is all about.
The Housekeepers Student Support
Group plans to boost its efforts to educate
the community about the UNC House
keepers Association through petitions and
a focused publicity blitz.
About 25 students and concerned town
residents gathered Thursday night in the
Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center to
discuss and plan the students’ role in the
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night in the Great Hall. The show, sponsored by the Carolina Union Activities Board, allowed students to compete in contests for cash.
Awareness Key to Crime
Prevention, Panelists Say
BYKELLYNEWTON
STAFF WRITER
University safety programs are empha
sizing prevention to help curb campus
crime, panelists said in a discussion Thurs
day night on campus safety.
“A point needs to be made that many of
our students come from small towns in
North Carolina and need to be made aware
that Chapel Hill is a city, or dam near close
to one,” said Bill Roeder, chairman of the
Safe Escort program.
The discussion, held in Lenoir Dining
Hall, was the last of a series of talks spon
sored by student government and the Bi
centennial Observance Committee. The
discussions are part of student
government’s Front Line project, which
examines student life at UNC in its 200th
year.
Don Boulton, vicechancellorof student
affairs, said people needed to realize that
Chapel Hill had the same problems as
bigger cities.
“We’re all selling security. Chapel Hill
is the Southern Part of Heaven, but we do
Triangle Church of Christ Takes Heat From Anti-Cult Groups
BYANNABURDESHAW
STAFF WRITER
Members of the Triangle branch of a
church that has been banned from seven
universities across the nation have denied
accusations that the church is a cult, de
spite the opinions voiced by members of
cult-watch groups and a Duke Chapel pas
tor.
The Triangle Church of Christ, part of
the International Churches of Christ, in
cludes 12 UNC students as members and
has been the focus of complaints from
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 3,1993
housekeepers movement. The student sup
port group is part of a larger planned com
munity group called We Are All House
keepers.
Recently, Wake County Superior Court
Judge Henry Hight dismissed the house
keepers’ class-action suit after the Univer
sity filed an appeal. Administrative Law
Judge Brenda Becton originally ruled to
allow the housekeepers to sue as a group,
but Hight said Becton had no jurisdiction
over the case.
UNC graduate Chris Baumann, an or
ganizer in the housekeepers movement,
said students always had played a large
role in the movement but needed to cen
“Many of our students
come from small towns in
North Carolina and need
to be made aware that
Chapel Hill is a city, or
darn near close to one.”
BILL ROEDER
Safe Escort chairman
have our pockets of hell,” Boulton said.
Residence life is one of the areas of
student activity that possibly adds to crime
on campus. Wayne Kuncl, director of
University housing, said the residence halls
currently were under restricted access, but
residents let people that they didn’t know
into the halls.
“The security system is as good as people
want to make it,” Boulton said.
Boulton said a 24-hour visitation policy
Please See SAFETY, Page 4A
religious leaders at Duke University.
“We’re really trying to do what Jesus
wanted us to do, and that level of commit
ment shocks people, it upsets people, ’’ said
Ed Moorhouse, a senior art major from
London who has been a member of the
Triangle Church of Christ for three years.
Roger Barkley, a senior pharmacy ma
jor from Newton who also has been a
member of the church for three years, said
he thought the complaints stemmed from
the fact that the International Churches of
Christ were different from other Christian
churches.
tralize their efforts.
“The housekeepers are working all day.
They really don’t have the time to get out
and talk to students and other housekeep
ers who work in other parts of the cam
pus,” he said.
During the meeting, the student group
made a list of key objectives for students to
focus on. Students said working with the
outreach committee of the organization
and establishing liaisons to educate other
campus groups about the housekeepers
was a key part of their role.
Kieran O’Sullivan, a member of the
outreach committee, said students should
work toward educating the Chapel Hill
Congress Rejects Anti-Gay Resolution
BY ERIKA HELM
STAFF WRITER
Student Congress voted late Wednes
day against an act to establish a referen
dum that would let students vote on whether
they wanted their fees to fund campus
homosexual groups or activities.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Tom Lyon,
Dist. 21, failed to pass on a 9-5 vote with
three abstentions.
Rep. Andrew Ballen, Dist. 15, said the
bill showed hate-mongering and ignorance.
“It does not recognize that gays and
lesbians are a member of this campus,” he
said. “That type of majority thinking is
dangerous for minorities.”
Trey Harris, co-chairman of Bisexuals,
Gay Men, Lesbians and Allies for Diver
sity, said there was no chance that a refer
endum could be enforced.
“I think Student Congress knew it was a
good idea not to pass it,” he said.
But Rep. Joey Stansbury, Dist. 11, said
students needed to have a voice in where
their fees were spent.
He said he wasn’t surprised by the out
come of the vote.
Stansbury had originally introduced and
co-sponsored the bill, but removed his name
from it before it went to congress because
“ The difference is that every single mem
ber is trying to live a life like Jesus, ” Barkley
said. “That’s not the way it is in a lot of
places... so people think it’s radical.”
But Deborah Brazzel, director of reli
gious life at Duke Chapel, said church
members tended to target alienated people,
often showing up on freshman move-in
day on many campuses and offering to
help students get settled. Much of the time,
the church operates “covertly" on the Duke
campus, she said.
“The most destructive part of their be
havior is that they initially ’love-bomb’
community about the issue.
“I would like to see students set up
tables on Franklin Street to pass out litera
ture on the movement,” Sullivan said.
The student support group has been
gathering signatures of students who sup
port the housekeepers' demands. The
Housekeepers Association steering com
mittee presented a list of demands Nov. 12
to the University administration.
The housekeepers demanded that Chan
cellor Paul Hardin recognize and meet
with the their steering committee, file a
joint proposal to expedite the grievance
process, implement the housekeepers’ pay
proposal, give cash rather than turkeys as a
Carmichael Floor
To Be Repaired
After Pipe Leak
BY CHRIS GIOIA
STAFF WRITER
The gym floor that UNC basketball greats Michael Jordan,
James Worthy and Sam Perkins played on will get a facelift
starting next week when work begins on a project to smooth
Carmichael Auditorium’s warped playing floor.
The arena currently is home to the women’s basketball team,
which will play in the Smith Center because of a water pipe that
burst, causing the playing floor to buckle, said Willie Scroggs,
assistant athletic director for operations.
“It would have been all right if the water had stayed on top of
the floor,” he said. “That would have been fine. But the water
went in under different spots and got underneath the floor.”
The floor also suffers from termite damage, he said. “There was
probably more termite damage than (maintenance workers) had
anticipated,” he said. “They discovered termite damage, but I
don’t think it was incredible or unusual." Scroggs said he wasn’t
certain if termites still were living in the floor.
Repairs will begin Monday, following the Carolina Invita
tional Tournament this weekend, and will take at least a month,
according to maintenance supervisor Lewis Seagroves.
Workers will sand the floor and allow it to dry in order to
smooth out the warped boards, Scroggs said.
Women’s basketball coach Sylvia Hatchell said the floor still
was in playable condition. “We can practice and play on it, but it
will get worse, so it needs to be repaired,” she said.
The team will use the Smith Center for practice and for three
games, Hatchell said. “It’s really not that big of a problem,” she
said.
“The people there have been very cooperative in working with
us. It's a great honor that we get to play in a facility like the Smith
Center.”
The timing was ideal because the team will practice “sporadi
cally” during the final exam week and will play nonconference
games in Florida later in the month.
Scroggs said the pipe had been leaking for some time, but
maintenance workers couldn’t find the leak until the pipe burst.
Please See CARMICHAEL Page 4A
How Congress Voted
Student Congress considered the following
bills late Wednesday night:
Appropriate $5,000 to the Black Student
Movement to fund a spring concert at UNC -
Passed 20-3.
Appropriate SI,BOO to UNC Pauper Players-
Passed by voice vote.
Appropriate $1,690 to the Black Preprofessional
Health Society - Passed by voice vote.
Appropriate $1,225 to Common Sense - Passed
by voice vote.
Appropriate $2,000 to the executive branch for
the Martin Luther King Jr. celebration -
Passed by voice vote.
Appropriate $2,118.94 to UNC Student
Congress - Passed by voice vote.
Appropriate $415 to the N.C. Student Legislature
- Failed by voice vote.
Appropriate $1,500 to the executive branch for
minority recruitment —Passed 14-6.
Resolution thanking Matt Kupec, associate vice
chancellor for developmenL for his help with
the Front Line project - Passed by consent
he said he knew the bill would not pass.
“It was a basic frustration that I knew
congress would not let students have a
voice,” he said.
Stansbury said B-GLAD was one of
you,” Brazzel said. “Then they get you
where there are two of them and one of
you, and you feel very overwhelmed.”
Brazzel said the church members often
ended up being separated from their fami
lies.
“They cut you off from family and
friends," she said. “(Members) are encour
aged to be with other members of the
church.”
She added that she had worked with
several students who had dropped out of
the church.
Eventually, members convince an in-
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holiday bonus and allow them to meet on
the-clock with the steering committee and
legal counsel.
The chancellor denied the demands,
stating that it would be inappropriate for
the University to recognize the steering
committee because “an administrative
structure already existed through which
employees could voice grievances.”
Other plans for spring semester include
publishing a weekly newsletter on the
housekeepers movement and soliciting the
support of the Faculty Council and the
Black Faculty and Staff Caucus.
The students plan to meet again in Janu
ary.
congress’ “special” groups.
“Student Congress realizes that students
oppose funding ofhomosexual groups and
activities, but they want to quietly skirt the
issue without possibly bringing negative
repercussions with groups such as B
GLAD,” he said.
In other business, congress passed an
act to appropriate $3,400 to the executive
branch for minority-recruitment programs
by a roll call of 14-6.
Ballen said the programs could attract
quality students to the campus.
But Stansbury, who voted against the
bill, said the recruitment programs would
serve high school students, not University
students.
“Student fees should not be used for a
program that does not benefit them,” he
said. “It’s a program that caters to a select
group of students."
Congress also rejected an act to loan
$13,000 to Student Television by a vote of
13-6 with one abstention. Congress needed
a three-fourths vote to pass the bill.
STV General Manager John Sabbagh
said he was disappointed in the vote, but
was encouraged by the increased support
for STV.
Please See CONGRESS, Page 5A
ductee that their organization is the “only
true church” and requires each member’s
full participation, she said.
“If you are a true Christian, you have to
give 100 percent to the church,” Brazzel
said. "Some students drop out to work for
the church. They make it difficult for a
student to remain in school because they
take so much of their time.”
Spiritual Counterfeits Project, a Cali
fornia organization that monitors cult
groups and their activities, has been track-
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