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The University and Towns
In Brief
BSM Raises Awareness
Of 2000 U.S. Census
The Political Action Committee of
the Black Student Movement conduct
ed a mock census in Carmichael
Residence Hall on Monday and
Tuesday. Members of the Political
Action Committee went door to door to
ask residents to verify their addresses
and year in school to simulate the short
form of the U.S. Census.
Jhe goal of the mock census was to
raise awareness of the census and bring
attention to the undercounting of
minorities, children and youth.
Authors to Discuss
Novels at Bull's Head
’ Alumna Sarah Dessen will discuss
hfer new novel “Keeping the Moon” at 3
p.m. today. Author Adam Hochschild
Will read from his new book, “King
Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed,
Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa,”
at 3:30 p.m. Thursday.
Kenan-Flagler Names
Distinguished Scholars
The Kenan-Flagler Business School
has rewarded six prominent professors
with distinguished scholar titles.
The title acknowledges the role of
faculty in establishing and maintaining
the school’s record of excellence.
1 The new scholarship awards recog
nize outstanding contributions in
research, teaching and service.
James Dean Jr., Stuart L. Hart,
Albert H. Segars, Anil Shivdasani,
Vaiarie Ziethaml were all named 1999
Sarah Grahm Kenan Distinguished
Scholars. Douglas Shackelford was
named the 1999 Arthur Anderson
Distinguished Tax Scholar.
Good Work to Sponsor
Local Business Seminar
1 Good Work is co-sponsoring a one-
seminar on “The Business of
Running Your Own Business” on Friday
the Orange County Skill
Development Center on Franklin
Street The seminar will last from 8 a.m.
until 3 p.m. and is for all interested in
starting or expanding their own busi
ness skills.
1 Guest speakers scheduled to appear
4 the seminar include Heather Linton,
President of the N.C. Certified Public
Accountants association, Dub Gulley, of
Durham Technical Community College
Sjnall Business Center, Dianne Reed,
Qrange County Economic
Development Commission and Joel
Harper, Chapel Hill-Carrboro
(Chamber of Commerce.
-There will be representatives on
hand from El Centro Hispano to pro
vide translating services for spanish
speaking participants.
County Seeks Members
For Advisory Board
The town of Chapel Hill is seeking
applicants for two positions on the Solid
Waste Advisory Board that will replace
the Landfill Owners Group and advise
the Orange County Board of
Commissioners on a wide range of solid
waste issues. Unlike the LOG, the
board will be entirely residents.
Applicants must reside in Chapel
Hill and applications can be obtained
frojn the Chapel Hill town clerk. No
experience is required for applicants.
For more information call 968-2888,
ext. 340.
Candidates Visit UNC
For ‘Town Hall Day’
UNC is hosting “Town Hall Day in
the Pit” from 11 a.m. to noon Thursday.
All local candidates have been invit
ed to attend and will field questions
from students. This annual event is
being sponsored by the executive
branch of the student government.
Crime Dog to Appear
For Crime Prevention
A special appearance by McGruff
the Crime Dog is one of several upcom
ing events that will take place at Saturn
of Chapel Hill on Saturday as part of
National Crime Prevention Month.
Chapel Hill police will be on hand to
offer fingerprinting to families with
young children in the area. Officers will
also offer tips about anew program by
the department to help residents protect
their cars from break-ins and damage.
Saturn of Chapel Hill will provide
refreshments for guests. The event is
scheduled from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Saturn of Chapel Hill is located on the
U.S. 15-501 Bypass two lights south of
Interstate 40.
From Staff Reports
Alternative Labor Group Gains Momentum
By Kimberly Grabiner
Staff Writer
UNC’s Students for Economic Justice
has joined about 119 other student orga
nizations in urging University adminis
trations to withdraw from the Fair Labor
Association and support the Workers
Rights Consortium.
The consortium is a labor group
designed to improve the rights of sweat
shop workers through consumer aware
ness and unannounced plant visits.
While FLA is controlled by corpora
tions, labor activists say the consortium,
developed last spring by United
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Citizens Prep for Irene's Floods
Officials expect the Cape
Fear, Tar and Neuse rivers to
crest today in the wake of
Hurricane Irene's rainfall.
Associated Press
TARBORO - Eastern North
Carolina residents are looking for any
thing to raise their spirits after three hur
ricanes since September have dumped
up to 4 feet of rain, damaged thousands
of homes and turned fives upside down.
The rains sent rivers from their banks
and promised to produce more serious
flooding later this week as runoff drains
into the Tar, Neuse and Cape Fear rivers
- the last with crests 8 feet above flood
stage expected.
“The potential is still there for real
problems,” said Robert Carver with the
State Emergency Response Team. “It’s
nothing to ignore.... You have to watch
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Pam Fone, Jacky Philips and Milan Phan listen to District Attorney Carl
Fox speak about domestic violence in Hillsborough on Tuesday night.
Students Against Sweatshops, will push
the power to unionize into workers’
hands.
On Tuesday, Members of SEJ pre
sented information about the consor
tium to the University’s Licensing and
Labor Code Advisory Committee.
Brown University was the first to
have its administrators support the
WRC, officially joining the organization
Monday night, said Nicholas Reville,
Brown Student Labor Alliance member.
This accomplishment has rejuvenat
ed efforts to encourage University offi
cials nationwide to withdraw from FLA.
SEJ member Todd Pugatch said the
it very carefully and be prepared to
move.”
Hurricane Irene dumped up to 11
inches of rain on North Carolina, send
ing residents back to relief shelters.
“I just hope that it gets better soon,”
said Casheila Draughn, 43, who was at a
Red Cross recovery center in Tarboro
one day after Irene visited the region.
The storm veered out into the Atlantic
late Sunday without making landfall in
North Carolina. “Obviously, it can’t be
as bad as it was the last time, but I’m just
hoping for life to get close to normal.”
Normal may still be months away, as
hundreds five in camping trailers pro
vided by the government because their
homes were damaged in floodwaters
from Hurricane Floyd. More river flood
ing is expected this week with Irene,
although not the historic levels associat
ed with Floyd. Meanwhile, Tropical
Storm Jose is expected to reach hurri
cane strength later this week.
State transportation officials said
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FLA did not demand full disclosure of
41 facilities or a living wage.
“FLA is a fundament4ly flawed
approach,” Pugatch said. “And we need
to start with something different”
WRC would require workers to be
paid a living wage, Pugatch said. He said
it would 4so give workers the ability to
make complaints to human rights and
nongovemment4 groups.
He said WRC was pulling together an
advisory committee consisting of dele
gates from developing countries, includ
ing Latin American and China, as well
as from the United States and Canada.
Rut Tufts, deputy for auxiliary ser
Irene caused 156 road closings as of
Monday. Seventy-five roads still remain
closed in the aftermath of Floyd. Still,
inland rainfall amounts in most areas
were below more grave predictions.
The heavy rainfall caused a small
dam to fail outside Raeford in Hoke
County, forcing some evacuations. The
U.S. 401 bypass around Raeford was
closed by a mudslide, while N.C. 24 in
Sampson County will remain closed
until later in the week. About 500 peo
ple in adjacent Cumberland County
were without water because their water
system failed. “People are overwhelmed
right now by the fact that they have to
clean up after the storms and be a mom
and a dad and an employee,” said Red
Cross spokeswoman Gina Giarronardo.
The Red Cross has dispatched 244
ment4 health workers to eastern North
Carolina to help flood victims cope.
That is more than for any other disaster
except the Oklahoma City bombing,
Giarronardo said.
March Honors Victims of Abuse
District Attorney Carl Fox
spoke at a candlelight
march to raise awareness
of domestic violence.
By Dawne Howard
Staff Writer
Victims of one of the most prev4ent
yet least recognized crimes were com
memorated with a candlelight march
Tuesday night in Hillsborough.
Twenty area residents marched to
raise awareness of women and men who
faced abuse at the hands of their spouse
or partner.
“The purpose of the march is to
vices, said task force members as well as
faculty members shared mixed feelings
about the FLA. “The chancellor has
expressed to me the FLA is one of the
best options open to us and is looking at
it with an open mind,” Tufts said.
But some members were concerned
that the FLA was not meeting its
requirements while others felt it was a
bad approach, he said.
UNC committed to FLA on July 1.
“We only commit to FLA a year at a
time,” he said.
Other student organizations have met
with their university’s offici4s to discuss
the issue.
Speech Explores
Labor Conditions
In Third World
Two labor activists encouraged students
Tuesday to join campus efforts to regulate
manufacturing sites in the Third World.
By Lani Harac
Staff Writer
Just two weeks after the Nike Corp.’s disclosure of 41 fac- i
tories in 11 different countries, students gathered in Bingham !
H4l on Tuesday night for a presentation designed to raise ;
awareness of Indonesia’s volatile politic 4 situation and encour- J
age student activist efforts.
The event was sponsored by Students for Economic Justice, ;
Students United for a Responsible Glob 4 Environment, the ;
University Center for International Studies and the •
Department of Intemation4 Studies.
The audience listened intendy to speaker Emily Citkowski, .
a writer for Indonesia Alert, who spent four months in '■
Indonesia working with the pro-democratic party PRD.
Citkowski said Indonesia’s military government had shares ’
in many of the factories and used the profits to fund its orga- ,
nizations. Worker’s rights and unions were therefore sup- ;
pressed as much as possible, she said.
Trim Bissell, nation 4 coordinator of the Washington, D.C.- *
based Campaign for Labor Rights, spoke to students about •
how their efforts could significandy impact worldwide events. •
Bissell told the story of Haryanto, an Indonesian man who 1
created PERBUPAS (Shoe and Garment Workers’
Association) after his hand was pulled into a machine and 1
crushed and burned while working at a Nike contractor’s fac- l
tory. He was fired shortly after for his union activities.
The Nike company representative in Jakarta said he could
not intervene on Haryanto’s beh4f, Bissell said, 4though Nike ■
was a member of the Fair Labor Association. Commitment to
the right of association is one of the basic tenets of FLA.
Bissell urged the students to build support for the the work
ers’ unions by being activists at home. “What we can do here
can make a world of difference over there,” he said.
Nike is one of several manufacturers of UNC-logo clothing.
If students put pressure on the administration to stop buying
from Nike, Bissell said, the administration might in turn pres
sure the company to change its practices.
Todd Pugatch, an organizer of the program, expressed con-
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Lawmakers Tout Ideas
For Emergency Funding
By Jonathan Moseley
Staff Writer
While discussing tentative plans to
hold a speci4 hurricane relief session in
November, state legislators are tossing
around possible funding ideas, including
temporary tax increases.
Although officfrds say any state deci
sions hinge on congression4 plans for
feder4 emergency relief funding, bipar
tisan meetings of N.C. legislators have
already created several funding ideas.
Public works projects, temporary
s4es income tax increases and spending
reductions in current programs are
among the propos4s.
Lawmakers advocated a speci4
emergency legislative session to nail
down sources of funding for eastern
N.C. counties struck by flooding left in
Hurricane Floyd’s aiftermath. Most
honor the lives of the women and men
who have died at the hands of their bat
terers,” said Milan Pham, a civil rights
speci4ist with the Commission for
Women. The event was held in con
junction with Domestic Violence
Awareness Month.
Victim advocate Kit Gruelle, District
Court Judge Joseph Buckner and
Orange County District Attorney Carl
Fox shared stories and promoted
stronger laws against domestic violence
on the steps of the courthouse after the
march.
Judy Wood4l and members of The
Mule band provided music about
domestic violence at the conclusion of
the speeches.
Gruelle read one woman’s letter to
Wednesday, October 20, 1999
“We’re encouraging (them) to with
draw from FLA as soon as possible,”
said Snehal Patel, member of Duke
Students Against Sweatshops. “We’re
prepared to follow up on it if the uni
versity doesn’t follow the propos4.”
Patel would not specify what would
be the follow-up measures.
In a further effort to educate univer
sity administration as well as other stu
dents, the USAS declared today the
Nation 4 Day of Action.
“USAS National Day of Action is to
show opposition to FLA and urge uni-
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recently, Gov. Jim Hunt said he would
favor a special session as well.
The coast 4 region’s enormous dam
age prompted Hunt to estimate that
North Carolina’s full recovery would
require significantly more than federal
emergency aid.
In a recent trip to Washington, D.C., !
Hunt requested an additional $2.2 bil- ,
lion from Congress to cover flood dam
age incurred in recent weeks. Hunt said
North Carolina would have to match ;
some of the feder4 funding.
But N.C. offici4s said they were not
planning to allocate funds yet, said Rob
Lamme, spokesman for N.C. Senate
President Pro Tern Marc Basnight.
“Hunt’s requests included specific
funds for specific purposes,” Lamme
said. “Not only do we need to wait on a
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her loc4 newspaper describing the hor
rors she was suffering at the hands of her
husband. The paper refused to print the
letter due to liability problems, but later
published the letter after the husband
killed her and himself.
Gruelle said she wanted a shelter for
victims of domestic violence to be built
in Orange County.
“I think the fact that it’s 1999 and
there’s not a shelter in Orange County is
ridiculous,” she said.
Buckner said domestic violence was
common because the punishment was
not severe enough.
“We need to increase the pen4ties for
repeat offenders,” he said.
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