4The Daily Tar Heel Tuesday, April
Students
By HELLE NIELSEN
Staff Writer
UNC students will join abortion
rights activists from across the state
in Raleigh Wednesday to remind
legislators that most of their constit
uents want to keep abortion legal,
rally organizers said.
Pro-choice supporters will meet at
the N.C. Legislative Building to lobby
their representatives at 10 a.m., said
Holly Marrow, an organizer with the
National Abortion Rights Action
League (NARAL).
A rally is scheduled at noon on the
lawn in front of the Archives Build
ing. Rep. Dan Blue, D-Wake; Rep.
Ann Duncan, R-Forsyth; and Pres
byterian minister Jeanette Stokes will
speak at the rally.
"We will be there to put the
legislators on alert," Marrow said.
"We will not see the right to choose
Bail set for
From staff reports 1
Virgilio Palacios, a Carrboro man
accused of a Saturday morning rape,
appeared in court for the first time
Monday only to return to jail on
S50.000 secured bond.
Palacios, 29, of C-l Old Well
Apartments in Carrboro, was
charged with first-degree rape, assault
with a deadly weapon, inflicting
serious injury and first-degree sexual
Stydermt Congress may offerr loam to ease University
By JUSTIN McGUIRE
University Editor
Student Congress may offer a
$10,000 loan to the University to help
alleviate its financial crunch, and
although the loan cannot be accepted,
administrators called the offer a
"significant gesture."
The congress' finance committee
Monday passed a bill offering the
loan, which would come from a
$22,000 excess in student fees, to the
Office of Business and Finance. The
bill will go before the full congress
Wednesday.
The N.C. Office of Management
and Budget cut non-personnel fund
ing at UNC $3.2 million for the fourth .
fiscal quarter, and the cuts have
severely hampered the operations of
many University departments.
Jurgen Buchenau (Dist. 3), co
author of the bill, said the cuts had
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a safe and legal abortion taken away.
"The issue is who has to make the
decision ... Is it the. individual or
is it 'them' legislators and the very
vocal anti-choice minority?" she said.
The lobby and rally day is spon
sored by the N.C. Coalition for
Choice, which includes NARAL,
Planned Parenthood, Religious Coa
lition for Abortion Rights (RCAR),
the ACLU and the National Organ
ization of Women, Marrow said.
About 25 UNC students are
expected to participate in the event,
said Tania Malik, a senior political
science major and president of
Activating Awareness for Choice and
Equality (AACE).
AACE plans to hold a rally in the
pit at noon today to make students
aware of the lobby and rally day.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme
Court will hear a Missouri abortion
man accused of rape
offense.
Chapel Hill Police arrested Pala
cios Saturday morning after receiving
a report of a sexual assault at 2:38
a.m.
Judge Patricia Hunt appointed
Kirk Osborn, a public defender, to
represent Palacios. Palacios was also
reminded of his rights and given a
copy of the warrant.
hurt many University services that
students rely on, including the librar-.
ies and microcomputing services.
"We have a crisis that has reached
the boiling point. I think this is an
extraordinary situation which has no
precedent (in recent University his
tory). It forces us to take extraordi
nary steps."
The University will not be able to
accept the loan, according to Wayne
Jones, acting vice chancellor for
business and finance. The N.C.
General Assembly must approve any
loan to the University, but it is not
accepting any more bills this session,
he said.
Also, the University as a basic
principle does not accept loans that
do not produce revenues to repay the
loan, Jones said. .
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case, which could overturn or change
the 1973 Roe vs. Wade ruling a
decision that legalized abortion
nationwide.
If the Roe vs. Wade ruling is
fundamentally changed, states could
outlaw abortion.
The pro-choice activists will be
lobbying against several bills pending
in the General Assembly that would
restrict access to abortion, said Janet
Colm, executive director of Planned
Parenthood of Orange County.
"The two issues that are most in
jeopardy are minors' access and poor
women's access," Colm said. "The
anti-abortion people are going after
the people who have the least clout."
Both Senate and House budget
bills include provisions to cut the
State Abortion Fund, which funds
abortions for low-income women.
Under the current budget, $924,500
Anyone who owns $50,000 worth
of property may use his property for
collateral to release Palacios, said
Joan Perry, assistant clerk of court.
Palacios' wife may not post bond.
As of 5 p.m. Monday, Palacios was
still in custody at Orange County Jail
in Hillsborough. No further informa
tion is available concerning the case
or the victim.
tant as the gesture itself. This is a
very significant gesture on their part.
It shows a willingness to help and
participate in our efforts to solve our
current financial difficulties."
Congress Speaker Gene Davis also
said the offer was an important
gesture although it couldn't be
accepted.
"This will make a strong statement
to the alumni (and) to the adminis
tration. What stronger statement can
students make than to offer their own
money?"
Tom Elliott (Dist. 6) was the only
finance committee member to speak
against the bill Monday. He said that
although he was fully aware of the
crisis and had seen instances where
the cuts had hurt students, he didn't
think the offer was worth the con
gress' time.
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Senate has already passed its budget
proposal for next year, which would ,
cut the fund to $424,500. The House
budget bill proposes cutting the fund
to $200,000 and restricting eligibility
to women who are victims of rape
or incest, or women whose lives are
endangered by the pregnancy.
A bill that would require parental
consent for anybody under 18 to have
an abortion also has pro-choice
constituents aggravated. The House
has passed the bill, and the Senate's
judiciary committee is now reviewing
it. Rep. Paul Stam, R-Wake, intro
duced the bill.
Stam also proposed the Abortion
Control Act, which would outlaw
abortion except for rape and incest
victims, according to Marrow.
Stam could not be reached for
comment.
The bills have little support among
North Carolinians, said Patricia
Watts, president of the Coalition for
Choice and state coordinator for
RCAR.
Recent polls suggest that most
North Carolinians are wary of state
intervention in abortion rights.
About 72 percent of the respond
ents in one N.C. survey agreed with
the statement that "abortion is a
private issue between a woman, her
family and her doctor, and the
government should not be involved."
"This is not only a gesture, but an
empty gesture that will be ignored as
soon as it is passed and signed,"
Elliott said. "I do not believe that this
bill will garner any publicity, except
perhaps within the University
community."
Concert to aid rain forest
By JESSICA YATES
Assistant Arts Editor
Rain forests and good music may
have a lot in common. For one thing, ,
most human beings require both to
survive. In addition, both will get
plenty of attention at tonight's benefit
concert at the Cat's Cradle.
The concert, sponsored by the
Student Environmental Action Coa
lition (SEAC) of UNC, is featuring
four of the most popular local bands:
Nikki Meets the Hibachi, Dillon
Fence, the Popes and the Veldt.
Admission is $5, with 90 percent of
the ticket proceeds going toward
environmental projects.
This is the first such fund-raiser
SEAC has held to address the prob
lem of rain forest destruction. But,
according to Kim Hill, chairman of
the concert committee, it probably
won't be the last. "We're planning an
even larger concert for September,"
Hill said. "The greater the success of
this one, the bigger we can make the
one next semester."
The rain forest issue focuses on the
problem of governments' allowing
industries to destroy rain forests at
the rate of thousands of acres a day.
The show wiiJ not have a structured
education and awareness program.
"Well just have a table with pamph
lets and fact sheets, and well prob
ably speak between bands," Hill said.
"It won't be anything really pushy.
We just want to let people know why
they're there."
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D Two cases of indecent expo
sure were reported to police
Sunday night within about one
hour of each other.
The first occurred at a residence
on Pittsboro Street. The female
residents reported a man peeping
in the windows and exposing
himself. He left the scene before
police arrived.
About an hour later, a man
walked into the lobby of Granville
Towers East and exposed himself.
He also left the scene before police
arrived.
D UNC student Scott D. Jagow
was charged Saturday with
attempting to purchase a malt
beverage with a fake Florida
driver's license at Henderson
Street Bar.
B Vandalism hit the area late
Saturday night and early Sunday
morning.
Several mailboxes and news
paper boxes were removed and
damaged along Kenmore Road. A
resident of Brookview Drive also
reported that his mailbox had
been removed and placed in a
flower bed.
A water fountain at the tennis
courts of Cedar Falls Park was
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Davis said Chancellor Paul Hardin
mentioned the bill at Friday's Board
of Visitor's meeting and also planned
to use it when dealing with General
Assembly members. "This is a gesture
and a very powerful gesture. Let's give
the chancellor the opportunity to say
group because it is located in such
a small country, a place we thought
we could really make a difference,"
explained Jeff Marron, a member of
the rain forest action committee in
SEAC. The rest of the funds raised
by the concert will be applied toward
other SEAC projects, such as the Tar
Heel Aluminum Recycling Project
and a Greenhouse Effects lobbying
campaign.
Hill and Marron said the four
bands and the owner of the Cat's
Cradle, Frank Heath, were imme
diately interested in the concert and
were donating their services. Heath
said, "For me, this is a way of
expressing myself. I feel that things
like this are more important than the
business aspect of the club."
Most of the bands have been
involved in benefits before. John
Gillespie of Nikki Meets the Hibachi
said the duo recently performed in
a similar concert for ECOS, the
student environmental organization
at Duke. "We're not really centered
around politics," he said. "They're
just part of us."
The band may perform a relevant
song at tonight's concert, "The World
We Made," which, according to
Gillespie, "is critical of technology's
effects on the environment."
Greg Humphries, lead singer of
Dillon Fence, wants the band to play
not only "an incredibly hot, live rock
and roll show," but to accomplish
something else as well. "I'd like to
help raise awareness of the immediacy
of the problem involving rain forests,"
he said. "The environmental balance
they provide is really being taken for
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Buchenau said the loan would
benefit students by allowing them to
write term papers on University
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granted."
"Our lead guitarist first got us
interested," said Henry Pharr, bass
player for the Popes. Pharr admitted
the band had never addressed the rain
forest issue before, but that the issue
"will be concerning people a lot more
in the future."
He said the band had not prepared
anything special for the benefit
concert but added, "We might have
a few surprises. We always try to at
the Cradle."
Joe Boyle of the Veldt was not
available for comment, but according
to Marron, the band, has been
involved in benefits before and , is
"most enthusiastic" about the
conceit. "
Marron also emphasized that the
concert would not be based on SEAC
propaganda. "It will be a great show
and a lot of fun, which is the main
point," he said. "We hope awareness
raising will just come along with it."
The organization would like to gain
some new members as well, said Hill.
SEAC is involved in letter-writing
campaigns to different governments
and companies in an effort to get a
response of concern for the environ
ment. Marron said the campaigns
could be successful. "We got a
response from Secretary of State
James Baker when we were protesting
a road being constructed in Brazil.
Hill said people were slow to react
to the situation right now because "it
isn't directly affecting us. The only
rain forests in the United States are
in Hawaii. But the concert is aiming
toward education.
The rain forest benefit concert
begins at 9 p.m. on Tues., April 25,
at the Cat's Cradle on Franklin Street
in Chapel Hill. Tickets are $5. For
more information, call 967-4652.
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