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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 94, Issue 3
Wednesday, February 19, 1SS6
Chapel Hiil, North Carolina
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By GUY LUCAS
Staff Writer
Bryan Hassel defeated David Brady
1,8 ll votes to 1,086 in the runoff
election for student body president
Tuesday.
Hassel led throughout the evening
and won all precincts but Ehringhaus
and Morrison dormitories, Granville
Towers, and the Medical School.
"We've been working on this for six
weeks," Hassel said. "It's the moment
weVe been waiting for.
"It's hard work on the part of the
people working for me (that won the
election), and also I think we had some
ideas that were new and different."
Brady congratulated Hassel on run
ning a great campaign, and said he
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the campaign.
The controversy over "David Brady
for President" T-shirts printed by
Brady's fraternity. Kappa Sigma,
contributed some to his loss, Brady said.
"That's one of the things I learned,"
he said. "Issues don't matter on this
campus. People vote for images.
". . . (The Daily Tar Heel) blew it
out of proportion," Brady said, "but
that's not the reason I lost. I lost because
Bryan beat me."
The appearance in Davis Library of
posters saying, "He'd give you" the shirt
off his back to be SBP," and bearing
a cartoon of a person holding up a
"David Brady for SBP" T-shirt dam
pened the evening.
'Gremt Decisions' lecturer Chavuku
voices support of US. divestment
By HELENE COOPER
Staff Writer
Divestment is the last chance for
peaceful change in South Africa, South
African minister Motldlepula Chavaku
told an audience of about 200 people
Tuesday night in the Hanes Art Center.
Chavaku's speech "South Africa:
Change Without Bloodshed" was the
fourth in the "Great Decisions $6"
lecture series sponsored locally by the
College of Arts and Sciences.
Tears streamed down her face and
her voice broke as she said, "Help us.
You cannot be people of justice and
still invest in South Africa."
If there is to be a peaceful transition,
pressure must come from outside, in the
form of divestment, she said.
Chavaku, who has lived in the United
States for nine years, was national
president of South Africa's Voice of
Women, a multiracial organization. She
was a high school classmate of Nobel
Prize winner Bishop Desmond Tutu,
and is working with the Raleigh Board
of Missions and Church Extensions of
the United Methodist Church.
Students today can help to change
things in South Africa, just as they
helped to change things in Vietnam in
the 70s, Chavaku said.
"What will you do during your era
so that the world will know that you
stood for something?" she asked the
audience, which gave her a standing
ovation at the end of her lecture.
But there is little time left for peaceful
change in South Africa, she added.
"Blacks in South Africa are put out
of sight on Bantustans (homelands) and
left to die out of sight . police take
pot shots at children . . . and when we
say it's not right, they open bullets on
us."
Chavaku said peace-loving blacks in
South Africa were pushed to violence.
"Why do we expect the victims to be
Brady congratulating SBP winner
That's the inexcusable kind of stuff
that marred the election last year,"
Hassel said. "There's enough substan
tive issues on campus without having
that."
The poster, credited to A.R.B.
Scitocran Productions, also said: "Jesse
and the Congressional Club did it in
4. Will Dave and the Sigma Chi's do
it in ,86?" Brady is a member of Kappa
Sigma fraternity, not Sigma Chi.
Elections Board Chairman Bruce
Lillie said he would talk with Attorney
General Mary Evans in deciding what
action to take regarding the posters.
"IVe been really pleased that this year
there ,hasnt been a whole lot of this
kind of poster," he said. "It too bad
it had to happen."
Brady said, "I really hope people
dont hold any animosity toward me for
this T-shirt thing because I didn't have
any control over them."
Brady said he planned to stay active
in Student Government and campus"
issues.
"Ill be looking some more at stu
dents' problems," he said.
Hassel said one of his first objectives
would be to establish a grievance task
force whose members would talk to
people in dormitory governments and
campus organizations to find out their
concerns.
He said he did not feel he would be
handicapped as student body president
by being a sophomore.
"I wouldn't have run if I didn't think
peaceful?" she asked. "How can we
expect peaceful change?"
1 She talked of her personal experien
ces in outh Africa, where black natives
are not allowed to vote in the govern
ment, or move around the country
without a pass. A black woman in South
Africa is classified as a child, and
j because of this law, Chavaku was
unable to adopt a malnutritioned child
whose slife she had helped to save. "A
child cannot adopt a child," she said.
She compared the South African's
apartheid system of government with
Hitler's treatment of the Jews in
Germany prior to World War II, and
condemmed the idea of constructive
engagement with South Africa.
"Some Jews were made to work in
concentration camps in Germany,"
Chavaku said. ". . . if the United States
wanted to get rid of the concentration
camps, would the Jews who worked
. there say, 'No, at least we're employed?
The United States is paranoid about
communism, she said. "They (South
Africa) know that if they just say 'I'm
anti-communist,' the U.S. will (support
. them). That's why the United States'
best friend is Marcos."
, But most of the crimes committed
against blacks in South Africa are not
t . done by ; communists, Chavaku said.
TThose crimes are done by devout
Christians and devout Jews."
Chavaku fears for her life, and the
lives of her family back home because
of the risks involved in speaking out
against the South African government.
But it's too easy to play it safe by
remaining silent, she added. "Nothing
in this world will stop me fighting for
., justice."
The blacks in South Africa still do
not hate the white man as much as they
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I had enough experience," he said. "I
wonder if anybody who comes into this
job has enough experience."
Though Hassel led 1042 votes to 607
with 10 precincts counted, he remained
cautious in his comments.
Hassel expressed guarded, optimism
later, however, when he learned he had
won Hinton James dorm.
"That's the victory of the night
because it's the turnaround," he said.
"Last time, we lost (Hinton) James big."
Although there were no problems at
most polling sites, the polls at Ehringh
aus, Hinton James and Ruffin dormi
tories opened later than expected, and
the poll at Craige dormitory opened for
only one hour, Lillie said.
"We called to the (Craige) dorm
president, and we understood he would
get people to set up a poll for the
runoff," he said. But the Craige pres
ident left town without arranging for
the polltenders, he-explained"- -
Lillie said he was going to pull some
polltenders out of the Medical School
to tend the poll at Craige, but since only
one person voted in the hour the poll
was open, he decided to just close the
poll.
The person who was to tend the
Hinton James poll at 10 a.m. got a
concussion Monday night and had to
be rushed to the hospital, Lillie said,
and there was no time to find a
replacement.
Jo Fleischer contributed to this story.
could, Chavaku said.
"These people are oppressed, vote
less, voiceless, suffering the same fate
as the Jews under Hitler, and yet they
still see human beings in white people."
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56 percent gives
Jones victory
in RHA runoff
By LINDA MONTANARI
Staff Writer
Avery President Ray Jones took the
victory in Tuesday's Residence Hall
Association president runoff election
after a week of controversy triggered
by the RHA's Feb. 10 endorsement of
H. F. Watts.
Jones received 1 ,2 1 7 of the total 2, 1 7 1
ballots cast, or 56 percent of the vote.
Watts finished with 954 votes.
Jones said he was not surprised at
the election's outcome, but would not
speculate why students voted as they
did.
"You can't tell what has an effect on
the vote," he said.
In an unusual move Feb. 10, the
RHA Governing Board endorsed Watts
for the RHA president, a vote in which
Watts participated. Watts is area
governor for Scott Residence College.
The endorsement met opposition
from four members of the board and
led to the resignation of Morrison Area
Governor John Fanney, a former RHA
president candidate himself.
"Last Monday's board decision to
endorse a candidate overstepped RHA's
boundary as a representative organiza
tion, thus likening it more to a Political
Action Committee," Fanney stated in
his resignation letter.
Jones said he was bothered that at
the RHA meeting, the endorsement
took precedence over the issue of
conversion of Old East and Old West
dorms into offices.
But RHA President Tim Cobb
defended the board's right to endorse
candidates.
"Each board has the power to choose
to endorse or not to endorse," he said
last week. "This board did, and that's
. right. That's ethically right."
Jones had received endorsements
from the DTH and the Black Student
Movement before the Feb. 4 election.
Fanney submitted an endorsement for
Jones after he was eliminated from the
race.
Jones said, "I hope that people wont
hold RHA's behavior on (the endor
sement of Watts) against the adminis
tration that well be bringing in."
1 In the runoff Watts received the
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By JO FLEISCHER
Staff Writer
A referendum calling for the deletions
of parts of the Student Constitution
containing references to student organ
izations was defeated by slightly more
than 50 votes in Tuesday's election.
Basically a housecleaning amend
ment, the referendum would make the
student code more equitable, said
Student Body President Patricia Wal
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majority of votes at the Hamilton,
Craige, Granville, Hinton James and
Spencer polls.
He had won only the Spencer, Triad,
Old Well Residence Area in the Feb.
4 election.
Jones attributed Watts' vote percen
tage in this election to heavy campaign
ing in the past two weeks.
"He's worked a lot harder these past
two weeks than I have because he knew '
he had a deficit to make up," Jones said.
"I figured people were tired of seeing
my face."
Watts said he would continue work
ing with RHA ifJones would appoint
'Deleting these groups would be easier than incor
porating every other group on campus into the
constitutions.' SBP Patricia Wallace
Campus Governing Council. Deleting
these groups would be easier than
incorporating every other group on
campus into the constitutions, Wallace
said.
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him.
The Daily Tar HeeTs coverage of the
RHA race was biased, Watts said.
"77i Daily Tar Heel should not
endorse," he said. ". . . . (It) is the only
paper that's read by every student, and
because of that it has a definite influence
on voters.
"The majority of people don't under--stand:
all the- points- of -everyone's
platform," Watts said. But the DTH
articles probably did not affect the
outcome of the election.
Fanney said he was pleased with
Jones' victory. "I think RHA has a great
future ahead of it for next year."
The referendum, which would delete
the sections incorporating the Associ
ation for Women Students, the Inter
fraternity Council, the Panhellenic
Council and the Craige Graduate
Center Council into the constitution,
Was defeated 1144-1088.
"The sections were in there for no
good reason, basically," Wallace said.
"And it was a lot easier to delete these
references than it would be to incor
porate every group on campus into the
constitution," she said.
The referendum was part of a con
tinuing effort to clean up the student
code, Wallace said. "IVe been trying to
update it for the past two years. It hasn't
been updated for the past five years,
which is why there were so many
referendums on the last ballot."
The referendum was approved for the
runoff ballot, and not for General
Election voting, because CGC rules
specify that a referendum on a consti
tutional change must be read to the
CGC at one. meeting, and acted upon
at the following meeting, said Jimmy
Greene, Acting CGC Speaker before the
Feb. 4 elections.
"We tried to schedule a special session
before the election, but we were unable
to get a quorum so it was passed
following the election," Greene said. ,
Some students were confused by the
amendment, and were uncertain about
what their vote would mean. Tuesday's
results show more than 250 students
who voted for the SBP race, did not
vote on the referendum.
"I didn't know what it was about,
so I didn't vote for it at all," Rudy Isaac,
a freshman from High Point said. Betsy
Gillespie, a sophmore from Washing
ton, D.C., said she understood the
referendum, but she was surprised she
hadn't heard that there would be a
referendum on the runoff ballot.