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r.r ..l- i.n i , Kyy.. , HIT"'!! fY-fm, , , , r,-,-,. mr-jyi :80 chance or rain High in 60s Friday: Cloudy High in 50s Bloodmobile Upstairs Student Union 10a.m.-3 p.m. Come give the gift of life S3 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 97, Issue 73 Thursday, October 19, 1989 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 Qresn draft Activist wairmis ef TV l tTh Sfeur MM py site mm aims i By BILL TAGGART Staff Writer ; UNC-system President CD. Span gler answered Chancellor Paul Hardin's proposals for more UNC-CH financial autonomy with a mixture of support ami disagreement in a speech to the Board of Governors in Fayetteville last Friday. ; rVI thought the speech was generally receptive to what Chancellor Hardin has had to say," BOG member Philip Crson said Wednesday. "It was a positive speech, and I think President Spangler was intending on it being positive." : :Carson said he didn't think the tone oft Spangler's speech was confronta tional. ', ' Neither Spangler nor Hardin was available for comment Wednesday. ! ' Dennis O'Connor, UNC-CH provost NCAA seeks- chamiges By MARK ANDERSON Staff Writer ; .In an attempt to limit the demands on college athletes' time, the NCAA's Presidents' Commission has recom mended measures including shorten ing the basketball season by a month and virtually eliminating spring foot ball practice. ' In addition, the presidents approved recommendations to publish athlete graduation rates and to allow athletes who did not meet the academic require ments of Proposition 48 to receive non athletic aid based on need. UNC athletic officials praised the presidents motives, but questioned some of their methods. "Their intent and what they are trying to accomplish is laudable," said UNC Athletic Director John Swofford. "We ress .association By SANDY WALL Staff Writer Attorneys with the N.C. Press Asso ciation are charging that the chairman of the special commission that investi gated possible wrongdoing in the N.C. State University athletic department is in violation of the state's Open Records Law. Signature seeking 11: t iv.- ;f I k. ft i I I 5 V ' " " i? ffi) i n rff : ' ;, L - Willy s7i . 1 - - nn hi i i imii -T ,""1"T i-r iinrwriinfr 11 n -r m--u Senior Kaarin Tisue, a member of Amnesty Inter ' national, recruits a signature from senior Laurel weirs Hamuli and vice chancellor for academic af fairs, agreed there were some points of agreement between Spangler and Har din. "I think that some of President Spangler's comments were indeed very helpful." He specifically mentioned Spangler's proposals on purchasing regulations and the use of overhead receipts as "consistent with the chancellor's ideas." Spangler said a larger portion of overhead receipts, indirect costs in volved with research projects, should be available to the University. "Cur rently 30 percent of these receipts are included in institutional academic budgets as offsets to state appropria tions," he said in his speech. The president also recommended See SPANGLER, page 6 need to think through if these (recom mendations) are the ideal ones. I think there will be amendments and I don't think these will be the only ones con sidered." Swofford cited three major reasons for the direction of this year's commis sion. "We are concerned with the time committed to sports compared to aca demics. Also, our national surveys show that athletes don't have much time for campus life. There is also a desire to move sports into one semester." The members of the National Colle giate Athletic Association will vote on the measures at their annual conven tion in January, and approved recom mendations could go into effect by 1 990. Martin Massengale, . chancellor of the University of Nebraska and chair Samuel Poole, who chaired the Poole Commission, has violated the N.C. Open Records Law by refusing to re lease a draft report containing the commission's findings, said Catherine White, a lawyer for the N.C. Press Association. Poole said his copy of the draft re port was the last surviving copy of the t.f 0 d I. in m All! ''(Wl ' ' ' Davis Wednesday afternoon in the Union. The group works to free prisoners of conscience. The reward of a thing p' CD. Spangler man of the Presidents' Commission, said he expected the measures to pass because he felt the members were more unified than last year. One of the dividing factors in 1988 was Proposition 42, and criticism be came so intense that the commission readdressed the issue this year. Origi nally, Prop 42 was passed to deny aid to recruited athletes who failed to meet the academic requirements of 1983's Prop 48. Under this rule, incoming freshmen must earn a 2.0 high school grade point average, both cumulatively and in core courses, and score more than 15 on the ACT or 800 on the SAT. The presi dents' compromise will allow these athletes to receive non-athletic aid based on need. "I support it because it puts athletes 1 V Vs- 4 -s . J? I jX calls for release of document. The N.C. Press Association contends that Poole must release his copy of the report in order to comply with the law. "It is a document prepared with publ ic funds involving a public institution," White said in a telephone interview. "If we paid for it, we ought to be able to see what it says." MM X- " 4 ' DTHSheila Johnston well done is to If v' if i qyelclhe!l v By JEFF HILL Staff Writer The Graduate Student Court's decision to put Dale McKinley on definite probation signals that dis senting views will no longer be ac ceptable at UNC, the student activist said Wednesday. "I think that people, students in general, should realize from this procedure I mean Jerry (Jones)'s trial, my trial, the whole procedure that if they are politically active that they are in danger, if they speak out on this campus, of facing honor court charges themselves." McKinley said this decision could discourage people from expressing themselves on campus. "Everybody has been punished because of expressing their con Sim athletic schedyDes in the same situation as non-athletes," Swofford said. "Otherwise, they are being penalized for being athletes." UNC head basketball coach Dean Smith has been a vocal critic of the measure to push the opening day of basketball practice from Oct. 1 5 to Nov. 1 5 and to delay the first game until Dec. 20. "The report took me by surprise. I think politically they felt they had to say something. I don't have any idea what this will accomplish." Smith called the commission hypo critical for reducing the season's length while only reducing the number of games from 28 to 25, with the confer ence tournaments counting as one game and the NCAA tournament being an exception.. "All it does is jam up more games B ut Poole, vice chairman of the UNC Board of Governors and an attorney, argues that the report is not a public record and is exempt from the Open Records Law. The report was only a draft and contained notes and personal references, Poole said in a telephone interview from Washington, D.C. "It's a draft I made of notes. Every thing that's in the draft document was in the president's (Spangler's) report." Poole said the four-member com mission never adopted the document as its official findings. The report also contains references to personnel matters and to individual students records, which are always exempt from disclosure, he said. If the report were disclosed, these individu als' right to privacy would be violated. Student records are exempt from release under the Federal Family Edu cation Rights and Privacy Act. But White disagreed with Poole's reasoning. "Whether it's a draft or not Quake shakes students' lives From staff and wire reports Although Northern California's devastating earthquake was 3,000 miles away, at least two UNC students felt its effects. Laura Snideman, a junior history major from Menlo Park, Calif., heard from her family late Tuesday night. "My family and my house are OK. It was a long night though." Menlo Park is near Stanford between San Jose and San Francisco, two areas severely damaged by the quake. "It's amazing ... we were really lucky." Damage in Snideman's neighbor hood was evident in cracks in roads and sidewalks and water that had been shaken out of swimming pools "But there weren't any buildings falling down." Bret Cohn, a senior economics and anthropology major from Marin County, Calif., a few miles north of San Francisco, was unsuccessful in his at tempts to reach his parents Tuesday night and Wednesday, but his sister did hear from them, and she said they were safe. At least 270 people are feared dead, with 250 believed killed in Oakland when the upper level of Interstate 880 collapsed on the lower level. About 1,400 people were injured. "It was like bumper cars," said Cathy Miranker, who was driving on an ele- have done it. science, and that creates an environ ment that is not very conducive to people speaking out on this University's cam pus." Attempts to reach University offi cials for comment on McKinley's charges were unsuccessful Wednesday. The Graduate Student Court chairman and the graduate attorney general could not be reached for comment. Joey Templeton, a CIA Action Committee (CI A AC) member, said group members would have to think more about the possible consequences of their actions in the future. "But I don't think that is going to stop us. We still believe as strongly, and we still take the stand that what we did we would do again, and we are See McKINLEY, page 6 into January and February. That means three games a week instead of two, and all of them can't be home games. "If they're serious, they should spread out the season and play only on week ends, or eliminate the NCAA tourna ment," Smith said. Smith and Swofford also said they felt the reduction would have financial ramifications for the non-revenue sports. "We have to be practical because basketball helps pay for the non-revenue sports," Swofford said. "We'll play less games on the road to protect our revenue base, but not all schools can do that. We also have to remember that if the right thing to do causes problems, we need to adjust." Swofford said a national meeting of athletic directors recommended that NoC State report doesn't make any difference. He's looking for reasons not to turn it over. I think the Public Records Law has not been complied with." White said Poole could delete indi viduals' names and thereby protect their identity and privacy. Poole said there would be no way to delete the names of individuals, and even if he did, their identities would be obvious. The possibility of their being identified is too great to release the report, he said. Poole said his commission's sole duty was to report its findings to UNC system President CD. Spangler, and because it had done so orally, it had fulfilled its reporting obligations. He added if he were to turn in the written document to Spangler, it would then automatically become a public record and would have to be released. But since Poole retained ownership of the document, it was not public. Poole also said he would not inten tionally break the law and in fact con More coverage 6 vated section of highway. "It literally started to buckle, bend and bounce. Cars were bounced into the air on the roadway. Cars tried to stop, but the motion kept them running even if you slammed on the brakes." Oakland Mayor Lionel Wilson said: "We have made an exhaustive search to make sure no people are still alive. To the best of our knowledge now, there are not any people still alive on this freeway." Cars slammed into each other and into guardrails and stopped. One woman rolled down her window and asked if she had car problems. "I said, 'No, it's not your car, it's an earthquake.'" Hundreds of aftershocks, including one registering 4.5 on the Richter scale, were recorded Wednesday. The earth quake hit at 5:04 p.m. PDT Tuesday, and lasted 15 seconds. It registered 6.9 on the Richter scale, and was centered on the San Andreas Fault 10 miles northeast of Santa Cruz and 50 miles . southeast of San Francisco. It affected seven Northern California counties. Lt. Gov. Leo McCarthy estimated overall damage around $1 billion. Hundreds of buildings along 100 miles of the San Andreas Fault were either heavily damaged or destroyed. Ralph Waldo Emerson oew : ' t K ;v:-fS:-:::::i:Wi:: : Dale McKinley practice begin on Nov. 1 and games on Dec. 1 , with a 27-game schedule that would have no exceptions. The proposal to publish athletes' graduation rates for all sports is in re sponse to a federal bill proposed by Sen. Bill Bradley, D-N.J., and Rep. Major Owen, D-N.Y. "The NCAA should do this because if the federal government has to step in, it says that the NCAA hasn't done it's job," Swofford said. "It should be made available to potential recruits so they can make an appropriate decision." Some presidents objected to the commission's proposal to break down the graduation rates in football and basketball by race and ethnic minority. Massengale said that there was a See NCAA, page 10 sulted with state officials before decid ing not to release the report. "I have consulted the Attorney General's office," he said, adding that he had been advised he was not in violation of the law and that the report was exempt from disclosure under the law. Andrew Vanore, an official with the N.C. Attorney General's office, said his office did advise Poole that he did not have to release the report. "We don't think he is in violation of the law," Vanore said in a telephone interview from Raleigh. Vanore also said Poole's reasons not to release the report were sound. Vanore said the question of whether the state could grant exemptions to similar reports under the Open Records Law had never been decided in court. "This is a case of first impression in North Carolina. A court has never addressed the question of whether it See POOLE, page 4 In Santa Cruz, 75 miles south of Sari Francisco, 40 buildings collapsed. "I've felt all the earthquakes since I lived here, and this was the best one my best near-death experience," said Ray Blair, an employee at Velomeister Cycles, who escaped through the front door as the building's brick facade crumbled. Back to old haunts Annual benefit haunted house returns to Mangum 3 Windy City sounds Chicago ensemble opens performing arts series 7 City and campus .. State and national Arts and features .. Business Sports Classifieds .... Comics Opinion ..3 ..5 ..7 ..9 ,10 ,12 ,13 ,14 Bnside
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