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Copyright 1986 The Daily Tar Heel
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 94, Issue 69
Friday, September 26, 1986
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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From AMOciated Press reports
WASHINGTON The House
moved Thursday toward approval of
$567 billion in spending authority for
federal agencies in the new budget
year, the largest sum ever crammed
into a single money bill.
Working under the threat of a veto
by President Reagan, members of
the House wrapped virtually every
facet of government spending for the
new fiscal year starting Oct. I into
a single, giant package.
The reason for this is that Con
gress, with only a week to go before
the fiscal year runs out, has failed
to complete action on any of 13
regular appropriations bills needed
for government operations.
Without authority to spend their
allotments of funds, federal agencies
could be forced to close down next
Wednesday , Oct. 1, the first dav of
fiscal 1987".
But House passage of the bill
would only start a three-way struggle
with the Republican-led Senate and
with Reagan, who already has
threatened to veto the measure
because he dislikes the priorities
established on military versus social
spending.
So far, Congress has agreed on
nothing more specific than setting
$567 billion as the spending total for
the entire package.
Staying within the total and
compromising on the deficit
reduction legislation already passed
by the House and Senate would help
meet the Gramm-Rudman law's red
ink limit of $154 billion.
Within the $567 billion total, the
measure known as the "continuing
resolution" sets spending and policy
priorities for domestic and military
programs many of which the
Reagan administration says it can't
accept.
Chief among the administration
problems are issues affecting the
Pentagon and Foreign affairs.
James C. Miller 111, White House
budget director, said the president
could accept no less than $292 billion
in military spending in the Senate's
pending version of the bill. The
House bill only allows $285 billion.
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Tim Lilie teaches his 4-year-old daughter, Alexis, ate student and Durham native, Lilie is showing
about magnolia trees. A special education gradu- Alexis his campus for the first time.
Committee seeks
director for Union
By JENNIFER ESSEN
Staff Writer
A search committee will begin
reviewing applications for a new
director of the Frank Porter
Graham Student Union, accord
ing to University officials.
The new director will take
office in April, replacing present
director Howard Henry, who will
remain in semi-retirement until
then. Henry was appointed as the
Student Union's first permanent
director July 1, 1958.'
The Division of Student
Affairs in cooperation with the
Carolina Union Board of Direc
tors selected the search
committee.
The board began advertising
for a new director on Sept. 15,
and a Nov. 10 deadline for
applications has been set. Appli
cants will be interviewed from
Jan. 26 to March 6, according to
the tentative schedule for the
Union director's search.
Jeannie Mitchell, Carolina
Union president, said she hopes
the search committee will be able
to narrow the number of appli
cants down to six by Nov. 17. The
committee will submit a list of the
final three candidates to the office
of Vice Chancellor Dear Boulton
on April 1.
1 he board's goal is to push the
hiring process up one month,
Mitchell said.
Boulton said he predicted
about 200 people would apply for
the position, which requires
experience at another college or
university of considerable size, he
said.
Mark Appelbaum, search com
mittee chairman and UNC pro
fessor of psychology, said the new
director must be able to work
effectively in a student-directed
union.
It's very important that the
person chosen be able to work
with students, Mitchell said. "The
director serves in an advisory and
administrative position, but the
Union is student-run.
"Students have freedom
that's what makes (the Union) so
special," Mitchell said.
"We're rocking with all kinds
of creativity," Boulton said, and
the new director will have to be
in sync with that.
Search committee members
include professors Appelbaum,
Martha Hardy of the speech
department and Kimball King of
the English department. The
majority of the group consists of
students Mitchell, Carrie Deener,
Todd Hart and Kim Jordan.
"1 have confidence with this
committee," Boulton said.
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Towmic, state, officials plan
safer streets for bicyclists
By RHESA VERSOLA
Staff Writer
By the year 1988, three well-traveled state roads in
Carrboro will have wider lanes and bike paths to make
the commute between Carrboro and Chapel Hill safer
and easier for cyclists and motorists.
"This is a needed project," said project engineer Whit
Webb of the state Department of Transportation. "This
is one of the few areas in the state where bicycle
transportation is an essential part of the community."
Local residents met informally yesterday afternoon
with officials from Carrboro and the transportation
department in Carrboro Town Hall to discuss the $1.1
million bikeway project.
The targeted roads, which are owned and maintained
by the N.C. Division of Highways, are North Greens
boro, Hillsborough and West Main streets, according
to town transportation planner Jim Dunlop.
The 2.3 miles of road will be nearly doubled in width.
The extra space will contain two new 6-foot bike lanes,
and the existing traffic lanes will become 2 feet wider,
said Webb.
In addition, two 8-foot wide flat grassy areas on the
side of the bike lanes will be reserved for sidewalks,
if necessary.
Construction is expected to begin in 1987 and reach
completion within a year.
Daily between 1,000 and 1,500 cyclists travel the
common bike paths already paved in Carrboro, Dunlop
said.
Improvements to some intersections such as adding
turn lanes to Estes Drive and changing the traffic flow
where North Greensboro and Hillsborough streets meet
will also be considered, Webb said.
"This is a little bit unusual that we have a request
from the town itself," he said. "In normal highway
projects, (the state) develops the projects."
The project was approved in a bond referendum in
1984. At that time, Carrboro allocated $394,000 for the
road improvements and went to the state Department
of Transportation to begin planning.
The remaining 52 percent of $1.1 million in expenses
comes mostly from the federal highway funds, but its
use and distribution is controlled by the state, Webb
said.
"We (state officials) are viewing this as a transportation
project, not recreational," he said. "It's healthy, and in
good weather it's a good way to travel."
Other streets in Carrboro included in the town's road
improvement referendum include Poplar Avenue and
Lloyd Street, he said.
Carrboro Alderman Tom Gurganus said he foresees
only major benefits from the project.
Aside from, the additional road width and extension
of bike paths, the roads will have curbs, gutters and
sidewalks, he said.
Gurganus said he is pleased with the plans because
the streets will have better drainage and safer pedestrian
and cyclist traffic.
Gurganus said he was worried that residents may lose
yard space and landscaping as a result of the width
additions.
Mildred Weaver, a resident of Hillsborough Street,
said she was concerned that she would lose her fully
grown holly tree because of the construction.
If the road width overlaps private property, the
transportation department will buy the land from the
resident, Webb said.
The extra road width also will have little impact on
the environment, he said, although there may be a slight
increase in run-off after a rainfall, he said.
Additional curbs and gutters would not cause
flooding, he added.
Carrboro resident Frances Shetley said she was in
favor of the project because it would encourage more
people to bike to Chapel Hill.
"It'll get a lot more cars off the roads," she said,
"especially if the cyclists feel safer."
"Many motorists still think that bicyclists should stay
off the roads," said Melissa Marion, a cyclist herself
and a bicycle facilities planner for the state Department
of Transportation.
But overall, Carrboro and Chapel Hill have some of
the "friendliest roads" for cycling in the state, she said.
Martin
defends
Broyhill
By PAUL CORY
Staff Writer
As the date of the second debate
between Terry Sanford and Sen. Jim
Broyhill draws nearer, Gov. Jim
Martin has defended Broyhill's
decision to accept only one debate
in the Senate race, while Sanford
continues to press for more.
Sanford spokesman Tom Lawton
said the Democrat is happy that
Broyhill has accepted the invitation.
The debate will take place Oct. 12
at a Charlotte meeting of the N.C.
Association of Broadcasters.
"Mr. Sanford honestly believes
that the democratic process works
best when the public is well informed
about the candidates," Lawton said.
"The best way to do this, he believes,
is for the candidates to have face-to-face
debates.
"The tradition of debating goes
back over a hundred years to the
Lincoln-Douglas debates in 1856,
and includes the televised debates
between Kennedy and Nixon in 1960
and the Reagan-Mondale debates in
1984. Debates allow an in-depth
discussion of the issues that would
be impossible if the candidates did
not debate."
Sanford has accepted at least 10
invitations to debate, Lawton said.
The candidates first debated in
Myrtle Beach in June.
Martin also supported debates as
part of a political campaign, but said
Broyhill was rightfully engaged in his
duties as senator, a position Martin
appointed him to after Sen. John
East V suicide this summer.
"It is desirable to have debates.
It is also a desirable ploy to accuse
your opponent of not giving you
enough debates when you are
behind," Martin said in a press
conference Tuesday.
"I asked Mr. Broyhill to do his
best in the Senate and to attend to
his responsibilities. I am glad that
he is doing his job it is what I
appointed him to do. I find it strange
that his opponent is accusing him
Broyhill spokesman Doug Haynes
also defended the senator, saying
Broyhill chose to accept the broad
casters association's invitation to
debate because it gave a specific date
and time that fit into his campaign
schedule.
Haynes also said debating in front
of the NCAB meeting will give every
TV and radio station in North
Carolina the chance to pick up and
broadcast the debate.
Haynes said Broyhill has to stay
in Washington since the Senate
is in session and can only cam
paign on weekends. There have also
been many extra Senate sessions on
Fridays and Saturdays that caused
him to postpone several campaign
events, he said.
The debate will take place in Pease
Auditorium at Central Piedmont
Community College. Negotiations
on the exact format are still under
way.
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By MARIA HAREN
Staff Writer
To protest censorship, UNC students and
faculty members read from their favorite
banned books in the Pit.
The readings, in conjunction with
National Banned Book Week, were spon
sored by the Bull's Head Bookstore, the
American Booksellers Association and the
American Library Association.
The passages read Thursday were taken
from books challenged for different reasons
by parents, school systems and private
citizens across the country.
. "This (event) is to publicize that censor
ship is still a threat to your freedom of
speech," said Erica Eisdorfer, Bull's Head
assistant manager, in her opening for the
readings.
Sexual imagery was one reason the
Thomas Wolfe novel "Of Time and the
River" has been banned, and Robert G.
Kirkpatrick, associate professor of the
English department, read from the novel,
recalling a kitchen scene where food was'
made an "erotic adventure."
English professor Thadious M. Davis,
who read from Mark Twain's "The Adven
tures of Huckleberry Finn," said the reason
for the book's banning was its "immoral
influence on youths." She read an excerpt
in which Huck decides whether or not to
write a letter telling the hiding place of a
runaway slave.
In the passage Davis read, Huck faces the
thought of sinning and going to hell if he
makes the wrong decision, or doing what
is acceptable. Huck says: "1 was trembling,
because I'd got to decide . . . betwixt two
things, and 1 knowed it . . . All right, then,
IH go to hell."
Jill McCorkle, an author and UNC
creative writing lecturer, and Greg Meyjes,
a student, read different excerpts from "To
Kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee.
The book was challenged in various
libraries and school districts between 1977
and 1981 because it used "obscene words,"
was a "filthy, trashy novel," and because the
book did "psychological damage to the
positive interaction process."
"(The book) totally goes against that,"
McCorkle said after the reading. "It breaks
down segregation."
People are deprived of quality literature
because of censorship, she said, adding that
censorship will always exist. "1 think there
will always be small groups who'll get in
a huff " she said. But the freedom of speech
protects against an overdose of censorship,
she said.
As a writer, McCorkle said the fear of
censorship did not hinder her work. "I write
what I want to write," she said. "But that
will change if I have someone dictating to
me what 1 can write and what 1 can't write.
1 couldn't write that way."
Cassandra Butts, a senior, read excerpts
from "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings"
by Maya Angelou. She said it was banned
by the Alabama State Textbook Committee
because it preached hatred of whites.
Passages from Lewis Carroll's "Alice's
Adventures in Wonderland," banned in
China because animals spoke a human
language, were read by UNC author
Elizabeth Spencer.
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I never knew a girl who was ruined by a bad book. Jimmy Walker