Early morning frost High in mid-60s Wednesday: Fair High in upper 60s CSJtI? fflsf llij SIT Intern workshop 209 Hanes,4p.m. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 97, Issue 67 Tuesday, October 10, 1989 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 fa debate wotih 7 r i - Dale McKinley . - Wf ComiEiress founds short of ysyal faiD amoymit By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON Staff Writer Student Congress has only $28,000 left to appropriate to qualified campus organizations, less than it ordinarily has at this time of year. Congress will consider Wednesday the International Association of Stu dents in Economics and Commerce's (AIESEC) request for funds and two bills to donate money: $200 to the executive branch to be given to the Campus Y and $2,500 to the executive branch to be spent on the Threshold Conference. The Finance Committee recom mended AIESEC's request for funding unfavorably. "The Finance Committee doesn't think the services they asked money for are a good idea," said Jurgen Buchenau MimioiTDlty By LYNETTE BLAIR Staff Writer Hoping to rally the support of vari ous student groups for University po lice Officer Keith Edwards and her grievance against the University, the Network for Minority Issues (NMI) held a meeting Monday night that pro vided facts about Edwards' case and Tibetan Tair Heel proud after foirmmer employer wins Nobe - 1 5 1 Migyur Dorjee Samkhar, left, with You're x L By WILL SPEARS Assistant University Editor Members of the CIA Action Com mittee (CIAAC) met with Vice Chan cellor and Dean of Student Affairs Donald Boulton Monday to ask for administrative support in their effort to have a CIA representative take part in an educational debate on the UNC campus. The administration should become involved because the group's attempts to convince the CIA to engage in a debate have proved fruitless, said CIAAC member Dale McKinley. "The onus should be on the admini stration. The administration has the option and it should tell the CIA they have to debate if they want to recruit. Recruiting is a privilege, not a right." Representatives of the CIA are on campus this week for the Career Fair and will also recruit on campus Nov. 6. (Dist. 3), Finance Committee member. "But we're not against them getting money." . Buchenau said there was a hierarchy of criteria for funding that would be the issue Wednesday. Carol Hooks, treasurer of Student Congress, said student government usually had more money at this time. "The referendum last year gave more to the Student Union. Now a third of the student activities fees for the year, plus 20 percent of the summer student fees, go to the Union." Previously, a third of the student activities fees each semester went to the Student Union. Under the new sys tem an additional $ 1 8,000 was given to the Student Union. Finance Committee Chairman Don nie Esposito said the congress was issues group gathers' support for gave supporters a chance to sign a letter on her behalf. Edwards, the only black female offi cer on the campus police force, claims in her grievance that she has been de nied promotions on the basis of her race and sex. She also charges that the po lice department uses racist and sexist hiring practices. Last week, her Step 4 the Dalai Lama, center, in India not very smart. Hp. ' : t- 41 csi-I" -if t Is) y. CDA CIAAC member Joey Templeton last month asked the CIA to consider en gaging in a debate and was turned down. 'The CIA just refuses. We think the administration should take some ac tion." The CIA should engage in the debate because it recruits UNC students on campus and the students deserve to know more about the operations of the CIA, Templeton said. "A debate is a way to get so many people involved. Because we're trying to do it in an educational way, they should agree to the debate. Since the CIA is not a private organization, they should come." McKinley said a precedent for the debate was set in the late 1960s, when the Faculty Council passed a resolution calling for a representative of Dow See DEBATE, page 2 desperately trying to find more money. "During the budget process in the spring, maybe we were too generous. We didii t expect this many groups in the fall. Most requests are justified, but we don't have enough money." Working with the total amount of fees expected for the next year, the congress formulates the budget in February and March for the next year. Last year the budget was based on an estimated $180,000 to $190,000 in student fees this year. Groups that have already been rec ognized by the Rules and Judiciary Committee can submit budgets to the Finance Committee requesting funds from Student Congress. "Last year 30 to 40 groups submitted See FUNDS, page 2 grievance hearing, scheduled for Mon day, was delayed. Representatives from the Campus Y, Black Student Movement (BSM), Students for the Advancement of Race Relations (SARR), NMI, the Women's Forum and SANGAM attended the meeting and signed the letter support ing Edwards. Student Body President By WAGNER DOTTO Staff Writer The selection of the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and political leader of Tibet, as the Nobel Peace Prize winner last Thursday had a unique special mean ing for one UNC student. Migyur Dorjee Samkhar, a UNC political science and international rela tions graduate student originally from Tibet, worked under the Dalai Lama in the Tibetan government in exile for almost five years between 1980 and 1985. Samkhar, the first Tibetan to study at UNC, said he had talked to the Dalai Lama several times during past years. "I heard of his selection on Thursday morning, right after the announcement. I'm very happy, you know, but it doesn't surprise me because this prize is a result of his efforts to free the Tibetan people." Samkhar was deputy secretary of the council of religion, culture and educa tion of the government of Dharmsala, a Himalayan town in India where the Tibetan government's headquarters are located. The main purpose of the coun cil is to preserve, promote and propa gate Tibetan culture and religion, he said. "I used to talk to the Dalai Lama not so often, just about once a year when I had something very important to report to him. "It's really a tremendous honor for me to have met the Dalai Lama person ally," Samkhar continued. "I used to derive an inexplicable inspiration after talking to him. I also used to feel much peace in the heart." See NOBEL, page 5 I like that in a man. Kathleen mA3jmA ' "'tin: s? JJ mmmmmm " - - N , I f""" f" j '-- js tY Ul it I vV I m - 7 U ! nm 'mmmm?sm i 1 jmrauiww''"'"""" . . . , .. ., i ., - j " s v - . " -" " " - s ' ; w -w fe ;; v 5 : ,y : . -. . This end up Sophomore Kent Gitter, a biology major from Winston-Salem, flips Monday afternoon during Brien Lewis and Student Congress Speaker Gene Davis also attended the meeting and signed the letter. 'This is one of the first reasons in a very long time that student leaders have rallied around an issue of this sort," Davis said. "This should be a signal that the entire student body supports Officer Edwards." Davis and NMI chairwoman Banu Ogan wrote an informal draft of a letter that was critiqued by those attending the meeting. Ogan said that a final draft of the letter was typed last night and signed by the representatives. Today, copies of the letter will be sent to Chancellor Paul Hardin, Vice Chancellor and Dean of Student Af fairs Donald Boulton, members of the ' police department, the head of the griev ance department, Edwards, the judge Cast your ballot for referendums By JOEY HILL Staff Writer Today's election ballot allows stu dents to vote on three referendums and elect Student Congress representatives to fill two vacancies. Congress voted Sunday to put a ref erendum on the ballot updating the composition of The Daily Tar Heel Board of Directors. This referendum would amend the Student Constitution, reflecting additions made to the board in recent years. "This referendum is necessary to more expediently act upon the board of director's decision to incorporate," Student Congress Speaker Gene Davis said. "In order to prove that The Daily Tar Heel is a non-profit newspaper, the founding documents which are lo cated in the Student Constitution have to be congruent with the current Daily Tar Heel bylaws." To allow the referendum to appear on the ballot, congress voted to sus pend a rule stating that all referendums must be submitted to the elections board six days before the election. "Because of the non-controversial status of this referendum, it was decided that its passage would be for the benefit of the entire student body," Davis said. Davis said that he encouraged stu dents to vote for the referendum and that he expected it to pass. presiding over her case and other administrators. The letter will encourage the Uni versity to allow Edwards a hearing for her grievances. Edwards said she was pleased with the letter and happy to have student support. "Yes, yes, yes I'm pleased and I'm not going to give up. I think, for the students, they are tired of hearing about the case. They're telling the University it's time to make some changes." Tony Deifell, co-president of Cam pus Y, agreed, saying the letter was a way for students to speak out on the issue and back Edwards. "Enough people are concerned about this. There is a problem here and there needs to be a change." Deifell also said the group felt that Edwards had a legitimate case. "This A second referendum on the ballot calls for the separation of graduate and undergraduate student fees. If the reso lution passes, undergraduates will vote only on fee increases affecting them, and fee increases affecting graduates will be voted upon only by graduates. If the referendum passes, graduates and undergraduates could still vote on proposed fee increases affecting both groups. Congress representative Jurgen Buchenau (Dist. 3) said he expected the referendum to pass. "I would be really surprised if students rejected this refer endum, because to me the referendum makes eminent sense." The referendum is an insurance pol icy for both undergraduates and gradu ates, Buchenau said. "We have a precedent under the teaching award fee set in the spring (of 1989), which for me presented a seri ous problem." Both graduate and undergraduate students voted on that fee, and it only affected undergraduate students. Be cause that vote was not close, the issue of separation was not addressed at the time, Buchenau said. Both congress members Jeffrey Beall (Dist. 7) and Mark Bibbs (Dist. 12) expressed opposition to the referen dum. "I think the idea is good in prin Turner in "Body DTHCatherine Pinckert his Sigma Chi Trampoline-a-thon time slot. Do nations go to the N.C. Children's Hospital. Edwards isn't somebody that is just complain ing. She has a reason." Davis said that if Edwards' allega tions are true, racism and sexism can only serve as shackles on the Univer sity. "Women and minorities have fought so long and hard for the rights they were denied. Oppression of this nature alerts them that to the fact that the battle is not yet over." Students interviewed Monday said they thought Edwards had a valid complaint with the University. Dawn Dreyer, a sophomore from Raleigh, said the University didn't do all that it could for women and minori ties. "I have heard that there is a planta tion sense about this campus. This is one case where the University is being forced to take notice." ciple," Bibbs said. "The bill has too many loopholes. The constitution, being a legal document, specifies a difference between professional and graduate students." The referendum does not make this distinction. "If that clause were included (making that distinc tion), I would support it." 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