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The University and Towns
In Brief
Applications Available
For Graduate Officers
The Graduate and Professional
Student Federation is accepting appli
cations for officers and executive com
mittee members.
Available positions include vice pres
ident of internal affairs, vice president of
external affairs, treasurer and secretary,
as well as committee coordinators.
Applications are available at the
Student Union front desk and are due
by 5 p.m. Feb. 25.
Any questions or comments should
be directed to GPSF President-Elect
Lee Conner at 960-2724 or
lconner@email.unc.edu.
Health Center to Offer
Eating Disorder Testing
The Center for Healthy Student
Behaviors is participating in the
National Eating Disorders Screening
Program on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 3 p.m.
The screening program is free and
anonymous. It includes educational
information, a written screening test, an
interview with a health professional and
referrals for further evaluation.
This event is part of Eating Disorders
Awareness Week from Feb. 22 through
Feb. 26. Preregistration is required. Call
962-9355 for more information.
UNC Professor to Give
Speech on Work Ethics
James Dean, associate professor of
management at the Kenan-Flagler
Business School, will present a speech
called “Why Do Some People Work So
Hard While Others Are Hardly
Working?” Feb. 23 in Lexington.
The speech will be held on the
Davidson County Community College
campus. Cost is sls and includes lunch.
The presentation was arranged by
Carolina Speakers, an outreach pro
gram to bring leading faculty members
to business, civic and community
groups.
Law Dean to Receive
Bell Award in March
Dean of the School of Law Judith
Wegener will receive the sixth annual
Cornelia Phillips Spencer Bell Award in
a ceremony to be held March 18 at the
Carolina Club.
The award was established in 1993
and is presented to the woman who has
made the most significant contribution
to the University in the past year.
Nominations were received from fac
ulty and staff, and the final selection was
made by the Bell Award Committee.
Local Church to Hold
Prosperity Workshop
The Rev. Edwene Gaines, who is the
director of The Masters’ School in
Metone, Ala., will speak from 2 until
5:30 pm Sunday at Unity Center of
Peace Church in Chapel Hill.
Her program will feature four topics:
Finding Your Divine Purpose,
Forgiveness and Worthiness, Tithing
and Giving and Setting Clear-Cut
Goals.
The church is located at 8800
Seawell School Road. Questions should
be directed to 968-1854.
Service Group to Give
Advice to Businesses
The Board of the Chapel Hill chap
ter of the Service Corps of Retired
Executives will hold its monthly meet
ing at 10 a.m. Tuesday.
; The meeting will be held at the
Chapel Hill Chamber of Commerce at
104 Estes Drive.
■ SCORE counselors volunteer their
time and expertise to assist aspiring
entrepreneurs and small business own
ers in Chatham, Caswell and Orange
counties. Those interested should call
John Custer at 919-542-1582 for more
information.
Recreation Department
To Start Baseball Clinic
The Carrboro Recreation and Parks
Department will be sponsoring a Youth
Baseball Program for ages 6 to 14.
Registration will begin for Carrboro
residents at McDougle Middle School
Gym from 6:30 to 8 p.m. on Monday,
and at the Recreation office at 301 W.
Main St. in Carrboro from 8:30 a.m. to
5 p.m. Tuesday.
Other Orange County residents can
register at McDougle Middle School
Tuesday 6:30 to 8 p.m.
The registration fee is $27 for Orange
County residents and $49 for those not
living in Orange County.
-From Staff Reports
Ivy League Joins Labor Code Battle
The rallies followed in the
wake of other nationwide
university protests against
unfair labor practices.
By Warren Wilson
Staff Writer
Following the example of students on
college campuses across the nation, Ivy
Leaguers held “knit-ins" and marches
Wednesday to protest sweatshop-made
clothing.
The protests - which occurred at
Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Brown,
Cornell and Columbia universities -
coincided with a New York meeting of
Ivy League administrators designed to
create a code of conduct for companies
that manufacture the schools’ apparel.
And although the outcome of these
efforts has yet to be determined, stu
dents at Duke University, Georgetown
University and, most recently, the
Religious
'Violations'
Spark Vigil
Fifteen UNC Baha'is held a
candlelight vigil in the Pit
to protest Iranian action
against Baha'i students.
By Carol Adamson
Staff Writer
Fifteen members of the UNC Baha’i
shed light on religious oppression in a
candlelight vigil Wednesday in the Pit
by calling for the opening of a recently
closed Baha’i university in Iran.
Speakers described the restrictions
Baha’is in Iran faced as on-lookers held
candles and hugged each other for sup
port. Students walking in and out of
Lenoir Dining Hall paused to watch the
demonstration.
Senior Ginny Phelps, who participat
ed in the vigil, said the group appealed
to passers-by to sign a petition that
would have the Iranian government
open the Baha’i Institute of Higher
Education. “The Baha’i in that country
are banned from attending normal
Iranian universities, simply because of
their religion,” she said.
“The University shut down last fall
because (the government) is trying to
block the Baha’i from having access to a
higher education.”
Phelps said that in 1991, the Iranian
government wrote a secret petition that
called for the impairment of Baha’i
progress and development.
Party Proceeds to Benefit BCC
By Carrie Callaghan
Staff Writer
Fund-raisers for a freestanding Black
Cultural Center will hold the second
annual Hip-Hop Party at the Cat’s
Cradle tonight.
All the proceeds will go toward the
campaign for the freestanding center,
said Bethany Hedt, the event’s organiz
er.
“We’re trying to raise as much as we
can,” she said. “If the show sells out, we
can raise up to $2,500.”
It would take 575 purchased tickets to
sell out the show, she said.
“(Our goal is) to show that students
are committed enough to a freestanding
Groups Seek Funding From Council
By Rudy Kleystelber
Staff Writer
Despite warnings of scarce resources
from Chapel Hill officials, members of
various Town Council committees
requested funds for programs including
a summer music festival and improved
library services at a budget work session
Wednesday night.
Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary'
Waldorf repeatedly warned members of
the seven advisory boards and commis
sions that funding in the coming year
would be scarce. “Revenue growth pro
jections for the town aren’t as good as
they have been, so we may be looking at
a tighter budget than we have seen in
recent years,” she said.
But members of several committees
said the groups they represented would
seek increased funding nonetheless.
Dan Costa, who spoke for the Parks
and Recreation Commission, said his
University of Wisconsin-Madison have
already successfully lobbied their
administrations to enforce stricter codes
aimed at eliminating sweatshops.
In the latest of a series of nationwide
campus events protesting unfair sweat
shop labor practices including a demon
stration at UNC, students at UW staged
a 95-hour sit-in last weekend and forced
officials to meet their demands.
Erik Christianson, spokesman for
UW, said students and administrators
had held similar goals about the code
throughout the debate.
“(The students and administrators)
weren’t very far apart all along,”
Christianson said. “The students really
just wanted us to be more specific in the
language (of the code).”
The agreement featured three major
demands for manufacturers - full dis
closure of manufacturing locations,
maintenance of a living wage and pro
tection of women’s rights.
Samantha West, a UW senior who
participated in the sit-in, said she was
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Maya Rosman prays during a candlelight vigil in the Pit protesting the persecution of members of the Baha'i
faith in Iran. Protesters said that Baha'is in Iran have been denied access to higher education.
Baha’i member Lea Ray said that by
denying Baha’is access to higher educa
tion, the country was breaking an agree
ment signed with the United Nations.
“We’re sending petitions and asking
faculty members to send letters to the
Minister of Education in Iran and the
UNESCO,” Ray said.
“We’re hoping we can show Iran that
the outside world is aware that they’re
violating the covenant on economic,
social and cultural rights.”
BCC to go to a benefit,” she said.
“People won’t give to the BCC unless
they see that students really want it.”
BCC supporters have raised nearly
$4 million of the $7 million needed for
the center. Last year, members of the
BCC Student Fund Raising Campaign
raised more than $25,000 for the center.
In addition, members of the senior
class and the executive branch of stu
dent government have sponsored this
year’s party.
Hedt said Student Body President
Reyna Walters, on behalf of the execu
tive branch, offered up to S2OO to spon
sor the event. About SIOO had been
spent so far, Hedt said.
Senior Class Vice President Janora
group needed
funds to pay for a
consulting firm
that could help
develop a master
plan for parks and
recreation in
Chapel Hill.
“Parks and
Recreation was
essentially dis
qualified last year
from some state
grants because we
didn’t have a mas
ter plan,” he said.
Town Manager
Chapel Hill Mayor
Rosemary Waldorf
said the 1999-2000
town budget would
be tighter than
in years past.
Cal Horton said he would budget
$40,000 to $50,000 to pay for the plan.
The Parks and Recreation
Commission also presented various
ideas concerning ways to increase com
munity participation in events and facil
ities. Such ideas included a summer
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satisfied with the pact between students
and administrators.
“Our position was the pragmatists’
position: make change when the time
was right,” she said.
Duke students also demanded full
disclosure when they stormed universi
ty President Nan Keohane’s office earli
er this month, but the required living
wage has special ties to UW.
UW will conduct a study over the
next year to determine exactly what a
living wage is based on human needs,
UW senior Ryan O’Malley said.
“A lot of studies have determined
those numbers and what is necessary for
people to survive,” O’Malley said. “It
will be more of a study of studies to fig
ure out what the best ideas are.”
Protection of women and their repro
ductive freedom was the final focus of
the agreement, which demands equal
pay for women and prohibits forced
pregnancy tests and contraception.
If the CLC, which negotiates licens
ing contracts for more than 160 schools
The Baha’i religion is based on belief
in one god and one humanity. Members
believe that although there are many dif
ferent religions in the world, they are all
the same because they have the same
spiritual truth.
Freshman Maya Rosman said Baha’is
were persecuted in the Muslim state of
Iran because they believed in a prophet
(Baha’u’allah) that came after
Muhammad, the Muslim prophet and
founder of the religion.
McDuffie said the senior class officials
supported the event as part of her plat
form with Senior Class President Jeremy
Cohen.
She said senior marshals would assist
in staffing the party as well as encourag
ing people to attend.
The party will feature DJ Seoul and
DJ Pez, and musical groups Sankofa,
Samadhi Manifest and Crymson Guard
will perform.
Matt Brandau, bass player for
Sankofa, said the group played at the
show last year.
“It was really successful, and we had
a really good time,” he said.
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music festival coordinated through the
University’s Department of Music.
Costa also said that the commission was
working with the UNC Department of
Athletics to coordinate athletic pro
grams. “They’ve expressed a lot of inter
est in providing coaching training and
expanding student coaching and intern
ing possibilities,” he said.
The Library Board of Trustees asked
the council for help in pursuing more
funding from the Orange County Board
of Commissioners. “Of the county’s sup
port, Chapel Hill does not receive its
proportional share,” Trustee Paul Farel
said. Per capita, the library' receives less
than half the funding that other county
libraries receive, he said.
The meeting continued late
Wednesday with representatives from
the Transportation Board, the Housing
and Community Development
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including UW, refuses to comply to
these provisions within a year, UW,
Duke and Georgetown will seek con
tracts elsewhere, said Keith Wilkinson,
assistant director of the Duke News
Service.
“We were prepared to go it alone (if
the code were not strengthened),”
Lawrence said.
“Obviously we’re glad that other
schools have followed suit.”
West said she encouraged other
schools to follow UW’s lead.
UNC protesters presented their own
set of demands Feb. 11 in protest to
Chancellor Michael Hooker’s approval
of the Collegiate Licensing Cos. code for
labor practices, claiming the code was
hot strict enough. Hooker has not yet
responded.
West said, “The time to act is now, if
you want to see your university’s logo
on clothes not made in sweatshops.”
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“The government there believes that
the Baha’i faith is heretical and subver
sive to the government,” Rosman said.
For some, personal beliefs as well as
hope for change brought them to the
vigil. “Hearing about Baha’is who are
persecuted always gets me right here in
my heart,” Rosman said. “I couldn’t not
be here tonight.”
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Sophomore Dana Pierce guesses how many condoms are in a jar as part
of National Condom Week. Information is available this week in the Pit
about contraceptives as well as how to prevent pregnancy and diseases.
Thursday, February 18, 1999
New Bill
Clarifies
Old Role
Finance Chairman Ryan
Schlitt says the new bill
will make officeholders
more aware of their duties.
By Chris Hostetler
Staff Writer
Student Congress members intro
duced legislation this week to beef up
the Student Code in an attempt to com
pel the student body president to call
special elctions more often to fill empty
Congress seats.
The bill, sponsored at Tuesday’s
meeting by Student Congress Finance
Committee Chairman Ryan Schlitt and
Rep. Mark Kleinschmidt, Dist. 1, retains
the process for calling special elections
as written in the Student Constitution.
Graduate and
Professional Student
Federation President
Bryan Kennedy
said the bill would
help representation.
But, it calls for the
provision to be
added to the
Student Code,
which, among
other things, out
lines the job of the
Elections Board
and student body
president.
According to
the constitution,
the student body
president must set
a date for a spe
cial election with
in 15 to 30 days of
the vacancy of a Congress seat.
“(The bill) doesn’t change anything,”
Schlitt said.
“It just makes the duties more appar
ent to the officeholder.”
Kleinschmidt said it was important to
put constitutional provisions in the code
so the executive branch and Congress
would be aware of the same rules.
He said encoding the provision
would help eliminate controversies such
as the one that occurred last semester
when members of the Graduate and
Professional Student Federation wanted
to secede from Congress. At the time,
only four of the 12 graduate seats in
Congress were filled.
“Last semester’s GPSF crisis could
have been avoided because a lot of that
was because graduate students didn’t
have enough representation,” he said.
“(This bill) would have kept the gov
ernment from looking stupid.”
GPSF President Bryan Kennedy said
the bill would benefit graduate and pro
fessional students, who often have a dif
ficult time filling congressional seats.
“Having a special election every' time
there’s a vacancy will allow the gradu
ate and professional students to be rep
resented,” Kennedy said.
Elections Board Chairwoman
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