off Clear and mild High in 50s Tuesday: Fair High in mid-50s Teach for America last informational session 7p.m., 21 1 Union irir A A Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 97, Issue 126 Monday, February 12, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NesSportsArls BusinessAdvertising 962 0245 962 1163 tJH M mniniys wotae By JENNIFER PILLA Staff Writer University police Chief Charles Mauer failed to appear and testify on Friday, the final day of Officer Keith Edwards' grievance hearing. Judge Dolores Nesnow offered to hold the police chief in contempt of court, but lawyers for both sides said they would waive the subpoena. Both Mauer and Dan Burleson, assistant personnel director, had been ordered by Nesnow to testify despite doctors' notes held by both men claim ing they were too ill to testify. At the close of the hearing, Lars Nance, the University's attorney, moved to have the hearing continued until the middle of April so Mauer could testify. Nesnow denied his motion and the hearing was brought to a close. Nesnow is not expected to hand down herdecision for several months. Both attorneys asked for transcripts of the testimony, which would take six to eight weeks to prepare. After receiving the transcripts, the attor neys have 45 days to submit docu ments into evidence. After the sub missions are made, the judge has 30 days to make her decision. Nance said after the hearing that Mauer's testimony would have been useful, but was not critical to the University's case. "His testimony would have been helpful to our case, but the petitioner really has the bur den of proof." Alan McSurely, Edwards' attor ney, said Mauer's testimony was not essential to his case. CAA candidates cite goals, priorities for presidency By JUSTIN McGUIRE . University Editor Candidates for Carolina Athletic Association (CAA) president discussed main issues facing the CAA and out lined their platforms at a Cobb Resi dence Hall forum Sunday night. Demp Bradford, a sophomore from Eden, and Lisa Frye, a junior from Conover, spoke and answered ques tions at the Residence Hall Association (RHA)-sponsored forum. Bradford said the three areas he wanted to address most were the ticket distribution policy, support for non revenue sports and student notification of meetings about the Student Recrea tion Center (SRC). He said he would form a committee made up of representatives from each residence college and two off-campus students to set ticket distribution poli cies. "The committee will look into ticket distribution policies at other Strickland announces bid for SBP position By SARAH CAGLE Assistant University Editor Mike Strickland, a sophomore applied science major from Fayettev ille, has announced his candidacy for student body president. Strickland, who said he decided to run "on a whim," said his main moti vation for running was to increase voter participation. "They can vote for me or they can vote against me. I don't care, just as long as they vote." He said he wanted more students to participate in student government and wanted the role of student body president to change. "I want the stu dent body president to have a little more grassroots influence around here other than just meeting with student body presidents from other schools and (Gov.) Jim Martin." Strickland said if electeu he would work to implement a phone-in sys tem for campus elections. "All the computer hardware is already avail able on campus." Under this system, voting would take place through touch-tone tele phones and would require the assign ment of voter identification numbers to every student, he said. He would work to add more win dows for cashiers in Bynum Hall to reduce lines. "They need more per sonnel, but that's not the only solu tion. If you rearranged it (the cashier's office) you could fit at least two more cashiers." His campaign theme, "Be Nice to Trees," centers on the problem of construction on campus. 'There's Edwards said she was angry that Mauer did not appear. University administrators should have put more pressure on Mauer to comply with his subpoena, she said. "I feel like he is interfering with the grievance process and denying a complainant the right to a fair hear ing," Edwards said. "Part of being in management is setting examples. By not showing up he is setting a bad example for the whole department." Edwards has charged that the University racially and sexually dis criminated against her during a June 1987 departmental reorganization by promoting a less qualified white male officer ahead of her. Burleson testified Friday that he did not realize that race discrimina tion was an issue in the grievance until the case came before a chancellor's committee at Step 3 of the grievance process. Edwards said after the hearing that she believed it was impossible that Burleson would not have known. "Anyone that knows me knows that 1 would have mentioned race dis crimination before Step 3 of my griev ance," she said. Burleson also said he has found race discrimination to be a factor in six employee grievances since his appointment as assistant personnel director in 1973. None of these six grievances was with the police de partment, he said. There has never been a race dis crimination finding at Step 3 or 4 of See HEARING, page 5 CAMPUS t"" 1 11 " """" """" '" "ii universities." Non-revenue teams at UNC do not get enough support, Bradford said. "We have got to bring the student level of support for non-revenue sports up." He said he would form a non-revenue spirit committee and would adver tise non-revenue games more. He would also encourage students to attend the games and "cheer our teams on." Another important issue facing stu dents is the SRC, he said. Students are often not notified about meetings re garding the recreation center, and when they are notified, it is not far enough in advance, he said. See CAA, page 7 1 . f Mike Strickland CAMPUS in 1 ii if i definitely too much building going on on campus." Strickland said he wanted to trans form the Pit into a pond. "There's no water on this campus. Many people have complained to me about the lack of water on campus." He said the transformation would involve shellacking the Pit and pos sibly putting a small Cupid statue "spitting or something" in the middle of it. Only V y tc' t 1 acylty tfavws reforms r By KENNY MONTEITH Staff Writer After two-and-a-half hours of de bate Friday, the Faculty Council rec ommended that more scholarships be given to spoits having high graduation rates and that fewer out-of-state ath letes with lower academic credentials be admitted. The council voted on these and other recommendations of a report submit ted by the Ad Hoc Committee on Ath letics and the University on UNC ath letic reform. The recommendations will now be forwarded to Chancellor Paul Hardin, who will make the final decision. The committee, which voted on nine of the 32 recommendations in January, has yet to discuss 1 1 of the recommen dations. In the longest debate of the after noon, the council approved a measure reducing the number of out-of-state athletes admitted as exceptions by the University to 50. The University now admits 100 out-of-state athletes whose academic credentials are not the same as regular out-of-state students. The original recommendation by the committee would have allowed 75 exceptions, but Doris Betts, chair woman of the committee, said the committee wanted to improve the aca demic aspects of the out-of-state stu dent athlete, and "still not have Clemson (University) mop up the floor with us." History Professor Richard Soloway said that in some sports, 70 percent to 95 percent of the athletes were from out-of-state. "I find that (the admis sions rate) a price we ought not to pay extensively for our out-of-state student purposes," he said. "At this moment, whether we like it or not, over 100 athletes are being admitted into this university without V Lisa SBP hopefuls address campus By JASON KELLY Assistant University Editor and KENNY MONTEITH Staff Writer University expansion at the expense of greenspace on campus was debated by candidates for student body presi dent Sunday nicht in Cobb Residence Hall. Jonathan Martin, John Lomax, Bill Hildebolt and Mark Bibbs were the candidates present at the forum. Also at the forum, candidates for Daily Tar Heel (DTH) editor and Resi dence Hall Association (RHA) presi dent presented their platforms and answered questions. Martin said one role of the student body president was to propose alterna tives to building on sites students did not favor. He suggested a satellite campus as one possible solution to the present space problems. "What that would involve is having buildings that are going to be built to house a certain department or certain programs on campus somewhat away from campus, and resorting to a commuter-type shuttle system. This is a solution used by many of the larger the young die good. Oliver Herford any academic policy guiding them, being admitted for athletics or non academic reasons by the admissions office in conjunction with the athletic department." Richard Cashwell, director of under graduate admissions, said there were about 1 00 grants-in-aid for athletes who have lower academic credentials. These students are admitted to the University because of their special talents, he said. The council also agreed to a report recommendation which would give coaches fixed-term contracts based on their "contributions to the athletic, academic and personal growth of the student-athletes who come under their leadership." Hardin said he supported fixed-term contracts for coaches. "Though I'm very leery of fixed-term contracts to persons whose duties are administrative, par ticularly the chancellor's." Coaches should not have lengthy contracts that would make it difficult to release coaches if they were found to be involved in illegal activities, Hardin said. He also told the council he would not fire a coach for his won-lost record. "I think Mack Brown is a smashing success," Hardin said. Brown, the var sity football coach, has won two games in two years at UNC. Faculty members made it clear that they were trying to strike a balance between the roles of student and athlete without harming UNC athletics. Jack Donnelly, associate professor and director of graduate admissions in the political science department, said athletes bring diversity to the Univer sity. "They bring diversity in the same way students who have conceptual leadership abilities do, in the same way students who are minorities, who are handicapped. Frye C A M P U universities, and that's something that because we're running out of green space we need to come up with solutions like that," Martin said. Lomax said students needed to be better informed, and student leaders needed to be prepared to fight hard against the loss of greenspace. "Stu dents need to take an acitve role to stop things like this from happening. "The satellite campus that Jonathan (Martin) mentioned is not a new idea. If that comes about, I want the satellite campus to be a research campus that students would not be required to go to daily." Keep the students living right here on the main campus." Hildebolt said the student body president needed to formulate a land plan like the University's so students would have something to back up their arguments. "Students shouldn't be moved out of the center of campus. Right now all those old dorms are administrative II it ft i --V :- ": V p-Lin J.lliui III jumWipih iwBlfniiw.wiw.iuiliIIwiWIWiiMv1 I I y ""V . ! , I W i' i VJ . ; - . i ; y .-- or I ) V Lr s : 1 ' if ( j ; I it- Paul Hardin addresses the "They contribute to the diversity so that this institution can better reflect American society and some of its val ues." Donald Warren, Kenan professor of surgery in the dental ecology depart ment, said athletics at UNC were a building ground for the growth of a person. T think athletics stand for accom plishments, and it stands for building Demp buildings." The students aren't even in the middle of campus. How did that happen? That's one of the things the student land-use plan could address." Bibbs said protection of campus greenspace was at the top of his agenda, but the limited powers of the student body president were a difficulty. "I think it's important to remember the alumni have something over us that we don't have over them their money and status.It's important for us to go into dealings with the administration stating that we don't want any more buildings taking up our greenspace. "If the students don't want a build ing to go somewhere, I will definitely fight as hard as I can to keep it from going there." Also at the forum, the team of Jes sica Lanning and Kelly Thompson, and the team of Mary Jo Dunnington and William Taggart outlined their plat forms for co-editors of the DTH. Thompson said she and Lanning chose to run as co-editors because of feedback they had received from cam pus organizations and students. "We felt we could make the changes (students wanted) and make the DTH accountable to the students." -i. - J, Faculty Council meeting integrity. It stands for a lot moie nun just 'they're playing the game for tun. "They're learning how to compere, which is important, but it's imp.niuut that they learn how to compete cor rectly." Chemistry Professor Sla ton Evans said the University could be looked at as a training ground for professional See FACULTY, page 5 Bradford expansion Lanning said they would eliminate the board opinion editorial because it was losing its effect by running daily. They would also eliminate the posi tions of business and managing editors because they could be handled moie easily by other desks, Lanning said. See FORUM, page 7 nside Well drying up Student Stores may need help in providing aid 3 A current affair Power company to make re funds for excessive bills ...4 Romancing the phone A look at romance by modern means 6 Campus Arts and features Sports Monday ... i - ,,,-z: ..3 ..5 ,12 , . 1 '", j

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