4The Daily Tar HeelFriday, September 29, 1989
Virginia
By HELLE NIELSEN
Staff Writer
In a high-profile gubernatorial race
still too close to call, Virginia could
elect the country's first black governor
Nov. 7.
Recent polls indicate a dead heat
between Democratic nominee, Lt. Gov.
Douglas Wilder, who is black, and his
Republican opponent, Marshall Cole
man, who is white. A Washington Post
poll showed Wilder ahead by 3 per
centage points. Another poll, taken by
Mason-Dixon Opinion Research of
Maryland, showed Coleman leading
by 5 percent. Both leads, though, were
within the poll's margin of error.
"Some of the support is too soft,"
said Brad Coker, president of Mason
Dixon. "It shifts from week to week.
(Voters) could be moved one way or
the other with the right massaging."
A recently launched offensive on the
issue of abortion seems to be paying off
for Wilder.
Wilder, who is pro-choice, has be
gun to hit hard on Coleman in televi
Disaster aid
for 5th N.C.
By WAGNER DOTTO
Staff Writer
Brunswick is the fifth N.C. county
cleared by the Federal Emergency
Management Agency (FEMA) to
receive emergency disaster aid in the
wake of Hurricane Hugo, said Bill
Cannell, public information official
at the Department of Crime Control
and Public Safety in Raleigh.
The announcement was made
Thursday morning in Charlotte by
Tom Credle, FEMA coordinating
official, Cannell said. FEMA coordi
nates the assessment of hurricane
related damage.
"Damages in Brunswick County
are calculated in $75 million, the
second worst in North Carolina,"
Cannell said. Hundreds of Brunswick
coastal homes were damaged or de
stroyed in last week's storm.
Union was the most damaged North
Carolina county; officials estimate
that it has had more than $80 million
in losses. Total damage for North
Carolina is now estimated at $248
million, Cannell said.
Mecklenburg, Gaston and Lincoln
counties were also cleared for federal
aid.
FEMA's assessment will continue
in North Carolina and more counties
may be cleared to receive federal aid,
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voters may elect nation's 1st black governor
sion commercials for opposing abor
tion rights under almost all circum
stances. The slight Coleman lead in the
Mason-Dixon poll made a turnabout
when respondents were informed about
the candidate's stands on abortion.
"The abortion (commercials) defi
nitely helped Wilder," Coker said. "It
moved the race into a dead heat. But it's
not going to win it for Wilder."
Coleman, a lawyer, was the first
Republican to be elected attorney gen
eral in Virginia in 1977 and served one
term before he ran for governor in 1 98.1 .
He lost to Charles Robb, now a U.S.
senator.
Wilder, also a lawyer and a former
state senator, has served as lieutenant
governor since 1985.
In a campaign mirroring last year's
presidential campaign, law and order
issues have dominated the agenda with
Coleman trying to depict his opponent
as soft on crime.
"Coleman is running very much the
same campaign against Wilder as Bush
did against Dukakis," said Thomas
approved
county
Cannell said. Gov. Jim Martin has
sent a letter to President Bush asking
for disaster relief for 51 counties.
Application centers for claims will
be open tomorrow in at least three
locations, Cannell said. The locations
are not yet definite. Cannell recom
mends that people bring insurance
forms, pictures of damage, income
statements and credit records.
"In general, it will take from one
week to two months for the money to
be released," he said. "Past experi
ences have shown that relief checks
in North Carolina are quicker to be
released than in other states."
About 170,000 people are still
without power in North and South
Carolina, said Mary Kathryn Scar
borough, a Duke Power Co. official.
"The damages were very exten
sive, and as we got in the field we
found more than we had anticipated."
She said there were about 8,000
people working to restore electricity
in several areas where Duke Power
operates. Many of Duke Power's
workers were borrowed from power
companies in 14 states. Electricity
has been restored to 330,000 people,
she said.
"We can't be sure to say that, but in
one week the service will be restored
in most areas."
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Morris, a professor of political science
at the University of Richmond.
Unlike Michael Dukakis, Wilder has
been quick to respond, underscoring
his support for the death penalty and
harsh punishment for those convicted
of drug-related crimes, Morris said.
Wilder is running as the natural suc
cessor to his two Democratic predeces
sors, Robb and Gerald Baliles, both
moderate-conservative Democrats.
Each served one term this decade, as
Virginia does not allow its govemor-to
run for re-election.
"I think it's fair to say that if it came
down to a referendum about the ap
proach to government of the previous
two Democratic administrations, Wilder
would win," Morris said.
Both candidates have moved to the
right, Sabato said.
"I think it (is) a fair description of
Doug Wilder as a very liberal Demo
cratic state senator, who became a
Dean Jicha gives students highest priority
By BEVIN WEEKS
Staff Writer
Maybe it's the excitement he feels
when students enter UNC as freshmen
in the fall, or the joy he feels when they
leave as graduates in May. In any case,
Donald Jicha has made students his top
priority during his 29 years at Carolina.
A professor of inorganic chemistry
and associate dean of the General Col
lege, Jicha maintains that "students are
my favorite group of people."
He especially enjoys working with
students in their early college years as
they try to find majors, think about
career choices and discover all the
possibilities of life, he said. "It's a lot of
fun to work with the students who are
exploring."
He sees his job as helping students
make what he calls the difficult transi
tion from teenager to young adult.
"Giving them (students) direction, or
some options to consider ... is some
thing from which any teacher would
get a great deal of satisfaction," he said.
It is obvious that students also see
him as a mentor, as he sometimes writes
more than 200 medical school recom
mendations a year. Many of Jicha's
former students still keep in contact
with him. He spoke of one student who
had just called him because he had
received his medical degree and needed
a recommendation for an internship.
Current students also have great
respect for Jicha. Junior Tracey Lang
horne, an assistant in the General Chem
istry office, described him as dynamic.
"He has so much to do and so little time
to work with. He gets everything ac-
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moderate conservative lieutenant gov
ernor; and Coleman as a liberal Repub
lican, who became a conservative can
didate for governor."
Like most other political hopefuls
for major offices, both candidates have
addressed the drug problem extensively.
Coleman advocates holding drug
.users more accountable for their end of
the problem, said Dennis Peterson,
Coleman's communications director.
He suggests stiffer penalties for small
time offenders, including community
service, fines and publishing of their
names, Peterson said.
"If there's not a market, there's not a
problem," he said.
Coleman also favors sending drug
offenders to a rigorous boot camp rather
than prison "to set them straight," he
said.
Seeing law and order as one of the
most important challenges the gover
nor will have to deal with, Coleman
complished."
Although it may come as a surprise
to this generation, there are a lot of
similarities between the students of
1960 and those of 1989, according to
Jicha. "I think there's a real commit
ment that students had to the University
then, and I think there's still that same
commitment now."
Jicha's allegiance to UNC keeps him
busy, even after almost 30 years.
He described himself as being
"happiest when I have a variety of
things to do, like teaching and course
development," but said that if he had to
pick one thing as a favorite, it would be
teaching.
This is no surprise to the students of
a man who won the Tanner Award for
excellence in teaching at the under
graduate level at UNC.
A native of Chicago, Jicha received
his undergraduate degree from the
University of Illinois in 1955 and his
Ph.D. from Ohio State University in
1960. He came to UNC, an institution
he describes as having "a lot of tradi
tion and a lot of pride," the same year.
Since then he has become a fixture in
undergraduate education in Chapel Hill.
Yet there is more to this man than
just academics. He is also the father of
two sons, one of whom just graduated
from college. The other is now a fresh
man at UNC.
Jicha also led a Boy Scout troop for
13 years. He gave up being a scoutmas
ter, this year, but he continues to work
with scouts on achieving merit badges.
For a man who likes "the diversity of
working both in administration and
working in academia directly," Jicha
certainly has all bases covered.
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also proposes abolishing the parole
system for prisoners, Peterson said.
Scuffing at Coleman's depicting
Wilder as soft on crime, Wilder' s dep
uty press secretary B.J. Northington
said Wilder sponsored Virginia's first
anti-drug paraphernalia law as early
1971.
But stricter laws and law enforce
ment alone will not solve the drug
problem, Northington said. Getting rid
of drugs requires a comprehensive
program, including dealing with social
problems, she said.
Wilder's program is "pooling all the
resources to fight the problem," she
said.
Wilder also addresses drug prob
lems in a comprehensive education plan,
aiming to fight what he calls the three
D's: Drop-out, drugs and disparity.
He would set up regional academic
rehabilitation centers for students
caught with drugs or alcohol in the
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schools, said Marie Kirk, also a deputy
press secretary.
. "That would remove the kids from
our schools who are using drugs. But
instead of just expelling them from
school and turning them back on the
street, we would continue to give them
academic work and drug counseling."
In a state where the battle to integrate
schools was unusually bitter, every
body seems to agree that race plays a
role, albeit a subtle one, even though
Wilder already beat the odds when he
was elected lieutenant governor.
"There is general consensus that race
is an issue, which Wilder has to clear
once again," Morris said.
But changing demographics in the
South from rural toward more urban
societies are lowering the barriers for
blacks in politics, Sabato said.
'The South gives a very mixed po
litical message if you look beyond
presidential elections."
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swering machines and two telephones,
together valued at $535.69. On Sept. 4,
one answering machine, valued at
$184.80, was stolen.
Edwards was released under $2,000
unsecured bond.
University police officers became
suspects Sept. 6, when Edwards and
two other officers were removed from
active duty in connection with the in
vestigation of about $4,000 worth of
missing property.
The SBI answered the University
police's request for assistance Sept. 5
when it assigned an agent to the case for
investigative field work.
One of the officers removed from
duty, police dispatcher Michael P.
Curtis, and his wife Nancy were found
dead of shotgun wounds the evening of
Sept. 6. The bodies were found in a
wooded area behind their mobile home
at the Crawford Trailer Park on N.C.
Highway 54.
Two shotguns were found at the scene
and the couple's will and testament was
found on a tabletop in their home,
Orange County Sheriff's Department
Sgt. Royce Tripp said.
No note referring to the deaths was
found in what police believe was a
double suicide.
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