2The Daily Tar Heel Friday. February 20, 1987
Mairtiitt to. revise radidal. elections
By LAURIE DUNCAN
Staff Wntet
In an clTort lo improve the state's
judicial system. (lov. Jim Martin
said Monday he would create a task
force to design a judicial election
system based on merit instead of
political party affiliation. Martins
press secretary said.
With a merit-based system, judi
cial candidates would be chosen for
elections based on their qualifica
tions, experience on the bench and
knowledge of the law. press secretary
I i m Pittman said.
"There are l(X) different ways to
(select judges on merit), he said.
"The task force would explore some
of these possibilities."
Martin has asked l.l. Gov. Bob
Jordan and House Speaker Listen
Ramsex. D-Madison. lo put together
a bipartisan committee of lawyers
and non-lawyers to study different
election systems. Pittman said.
TUNC mot affected by
By NICKI WEISENSEE
Staff Writer
N.C. State University's decision
Feb. 1 to divest beginning May 31
from companies doing business in
South Africa xvill probably not affect
I'NC's decision to divest. UNC
Fndoxvment Board members said.
Bobo Tanner, chairman of the
I'NC Board of trustees and an
Fndoxvment Board member, said he
is still against divestment.
"I think xvc can help the people
of South Africa by having the (U.S.)
companies there hire them." Tanner
said. "If xve pull out. then we have
no sax -so whatsoever about what
goes on there."
Tanner said the Endowment
Board had talked about funding
scholarships for blacks in South
Africa as an alternate way of aiding
them, but nothing ever came of it.
UNC has approximately $4.5
million, or 4 percent of its endow
ment, invested in U.S. corporations
in South Africa.
The Fndoxvment Board, sche
duled to meet Feb. 20, postponed
Elections Board lax with
By MARK FOLK
Staff Writer
1 he Elections Board has not
begun enforcing its policy of lining
candidates for not removing cam
paign posters on time. Elections
Board Chairman Steve Eisk said
Tuesday.
Although candidates can be fined
one dollar for each poster still on
campus 96 hours after the Feb. 3 or
Feb. 1 1 elections, no fines have been
made. Eisk said.
"Though xve don't like fining
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Jordan, a Democrat, launched a
similar effort last week when he
introduced a bill in the N.C. General
Assembly to create his own task
force to study the subject.
Judges are now elected m partisan
elections.
"The governor suggested that the
system could be better, but he's not
criticizing the present system."
Pittman said.
Jim Wallace, an attorney for the
N.C. Board of Elections in Raleigh,
said the present system allowed for
some local influence in the initial
selection of judicial candidates. He
said it would be unfair to make
xoters accept candidates whom they
did not have a say in choosing.
But Jim Fxum, chief justice of the
N.C. Supreme Court, said the
judicial election system deserved
careful study and government offi
cials and lawyers should consider the
its meeting until May 15.
UNC Chancellor Christopher
Fordham. a member of the Endow
ment Board, said he didn't know
what the Board would decide to do.
but nothing has changed their minds
so far.
"We'll have to wail and see."
Fordham said. "Maybe the more
people closer to home that decide
to divest, the more it will affect
UNC"
Rex. Leon Sullivan of Philadel
phia, the author of the Sullivan
Principles, a code for racial equality
in hiring, recently called for all U.S.
companies in South Africa to with
draw Irom that country by May 31.
1 he U.S. companies in South
Africa which agree to follow the
Sullivan Principles report annually
to Sullivan.
Jim Hacknex. chairman of the
NCSU Board of Trustees and an
Endowment Board member, said
NCSU used Sullivan's judgments to
guide them in investment decisions
in the past and decided respond to
candidates for leaving their posters
up too long, it's something that has
to be done." he said. "They're simply
taking up too much space."
Exen though the Elections Board
hasn't followed a set procedure for
collecting the posters. Eisk estimated
that 35 to 40 posters have been
lound. The number will probably
increase once Lisk's staff starts
looking for the posters, he said.
Elections Board workers haven't
looked for posters yet because they
haven't had enough time to do so.
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possibilities of change.
"I think, generally speaking, the
judges (in North Carolina) favor
some kind of merit-based system.
F.xum said.
N.C. Attorney General Lacy
Thornburg said most states use some
sort of merit-based system to choose
judges, but said he didn't necessarily
support such a system in North
Carolina.
Dick Richardson, chairman of
political science at UNC, said,
"Merit-based selection (of judges)
would let people who are more
closely attached to the system make
the selection of candidates instead of.
letting political parties choose them.
But the political battle of nomi
nating judicial candidates would
move from the people of the state
to the committees of legislators and
N.C. State Bar members; who would
be responsible for nominating them,
Richardson said.
State's' - divestment
his call for withdrawal.
"This action by the Board was the
second (action taken by the Board),
Hacknex said. We first considered
the question of divestment in fall
l.)X5. At that time, we decided to
invest only in U.S. companies in
South Africa which adhered to the.
Sullivan Principles. In fall 1985. we
began an orderly process of divest
ment from (U.S.) companies which
did not follow these principles. By
the end of 1986 we had completed
this transaction."
Hacknex said the NCSU Student
Government passed a resolution in
Nov. 1986 calling for the BOT and
the Endowment Board to divest in
all companies.
After an attorney investigated the
legal aspects of divestment, the
Endowment Board met and made its
decision to divest.
Hackney said he feels dixestment
will not help the black South Afri
cans. He refused to divulge the
amount of money affected by
dixestment.
UNC Student Bodv President
campaign poster policy
Eisk said. Candidates from the first
election should haxe taken their
posters down bv 7 p.m. on Saturday.
Feb. 7.
But the candidates whose posters
are still up have' not been penalized
yet. Eisk said.
"1 he staff just hasn't had enough
time to get out and search Tor posters
yet." he said. "The only posters that
we have now are the ones that have
either been brought to us or have
been foond by some of us in
classrooms."
Changing to a merit-based system
would be difficult to do because it
requires constitutional change, he
said.
The measure may be approved
eventually, but the General Assem
bly probably wouldn't approve it this
session, he said.
Richardson said judges should not
be chosen on the basis of the value
system of a particular political party.
"It's not appropriate," he said.
"Judges should be chosen by their
objectivity and knowledge."
Partisan elections are ineffective
because the law restricts candidates
from discussing issues that might
come up in court, and.. voters lose
interest in the candidates. Richard
son said.
Martin wants to have judicial
candidates for the court of appeals
elected district-wide instead of
statewide, Pittman said..
Brian Bailey said, "I think (divest
ment is) a positive move for State.
1 hope the UNC Endowment Board
and Board of Trustees will look at
(their decision) and follow suit."
Bob Eubanks. vice chairman of
the Board of Trustees and an
Endowment Board member, said. T
think it's a horrible decision (to
divest). I've taken the position all
along that it's an impractical use of
endowment money to fight political
and social problems. The money
belongs to the University and should
be invested (in the interests of) the
people who contributed, the people
of North Carolina. And the people
of North Carolina have not asked
us to divest; the students and faculty
haxv."
Eubanks said he doesn't agree
with Sullivan, N.C. State, or Duke
Unixersity. which divested last year.
"As a concerned human being, 1
don't think divestment is a positive
move to end apartheid. 1 think it will
hurt the blacks; not help them," he
said.
Rob Friedman, the Rules and
Judiciary Committee chairman, said
he wasn't sure whether the Elections
Board had a legal right to fine
candidates for leaving posters up
past the deadline. V
"I think that something needs to
be done to make candidates take
their posters down, but I'm not sure
if fining them is the right thing."
Friedman said.
J aye Sitton. who ran for student
body president, said she thinks that
all of her posters are down, but she
isn't Mire because she and her
supporters put up about 2.500 of
them.
"Since xve put up so many posters,
we're not sure xvhere some of them
are." Sitton said. "I just hope we find
them before the Flections Board
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Refugee criticizes
apartheid health care
By PAUL CORY
Staff Writer
Health care in South Africa is
inextricably bound up with the
country's system of apartheid.
Makekolo Mahlangu, a South Afri
can refugee and registered nurse, told
25 people in Berryhill Hall Thursday
afternoon.
Mahlangu s speech. "Health Care
and Apartheid: A Report," was
sponsored by the International
Health Forum, and the Southern
Africa Medical Aid Project.
"Everything has to be within the
apartheid system," Mahlangu said.
"You cannot look at South Africa
and say you are apolitical."
Fxen the Red Cross in South
Alrica is segregated, she said.
Mahlangu said the link between
apartheid and health care showed in
the pattern of diseases. Whites catch
diseases that are more prevalent in
"developed" countries, specifically
cardiovascular diseases, while blacks
catch diseases that are" more' preval
' ent in "underdeveloped" countries,
she said.
A study of South African gold
miners from 1965 to 1975 found that
12 percent of the black miners
contracted cancer of the esophagus,
while only I percent of the white
miners did, ihe said.
South African blacks suffer from
a lack of trained medical personnel,
poor medical facilities, cramped
living conditions, poverty, and a lack
of tood. Mahlangu said.
Blacks comprise 73 percent of the
population but are forced to live on
13 percent of the land. Mahlangu
said. She also said that whites took '
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the best land, and gave the blacks
the worst.
"Malnutrition (among blacks) is
rife in South Africa," Mahlangu
said.
Mahlangu said that doctors and
nurses are taught that blacks suffer
from malnutrition because they do
not know w hat foods to eat, she said.
But a black woman who brought her
emaciated child into a clinic where
Mahlangu worked told her, "It's not
that 1 do not know what to feed him,
1 cannot afford to."
The infant mortality rate for
blacks is 100 per 1000 'births, but
much less for whites, Mahlangu said.
"Diarrhea is still killing black
children in South Africa," Mahlangu
said. "TB (tuberculosis), which is
really being eradicated (elsewhere),
is rife in South Africa, especially
among blacks."
Hospitals are segregated into
separate maternity wards for whites
and blacks, she said. When the black
maternity ward is overflowing, law
prevents the hospital staff from
moving them into empty beds in the
xvhite maternity ward, she said. ;
Death during childbirth is preval
ent among blacks, she said.
Mahlangu said the South African
government encourages family plan
ning among blacks to control the
population.
The only available contraceptive
for black women is Depo Provra,
which is banned in the United States.
Mahlangu said. When hired by the
goxernment. some black women are
given injections of the contraceptive
without their knowledge, she said.