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Volume S3, Issue 17
Tuesday, March 27, 19S0
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Contra tension builds
despite no-fighting pact
MANAGUA, Nicaragua Three
days after the U.S.-backed Contras
signed a pact promising to disband by
mid-April, fighting has intensified and
there appears to be a split in the rebel
leadership.
The agreement reached Friday in the
Honduran capital of Tegucigalpa called
for a cease-fire between the Contras
and the Sandinista army, but there have
been three clashes since the pact was
signed.
Ballot counting slow;
Democratic Forum leads
BUDAPEST, Hungary Hungari
ans applied the West's rulesof fair play
to their first free election in 43 years,
but not its efficient tabulation of re
sults. . Only 69 percent of the votes cast in
Sunday's election were counted by late
Monday.
The state news agency MTI said the
conservative Hungarian Democratic
Forum led with about one-quarter of
the votes, the center-left League of Free
Democrats had roughly 20 percent and
the Socialists, the new name adopted
by the Communists, were a distant
fourth after the Independent Smallhold
ers party.
Bombings in Greece
damage diplomats' cars
ATHENS, Greece As many as
eight bomb blasts within 10 minutes of
each other early Tuesday wrecked the
cars of nine foreign diplomats in four
Athens suburbs. No injuries were re
ported in the explosions, police said.
Three of the vehicles belonged to
diplomats from Czechoslovakia, two
from the Soviet Union and one each
from the embassies of Syria, Hungary,
Bulgaria and the Palestine Liberation
Organization's envoy in Athens, a
police spokesman said.
Anti-secession leaflets fall
on Lithuanian capital
VILNIUS, U.S.S.R. Soviet troops
occupied another Communist Party
building in Lithuania and an army heli
copter dropped leaflets in the republic's
capital on Monday, calling for an anti
secession demonstration, reports said.
Lithuanian leaders began talks with
the Soviet army about their standoff
with Moscow since declaring independ
ence two weeks ago. They disagreed
whether the meeting reduced tension.
Hungarian-Romanian
battles begin to ease up
' TIRGU MURES, Romania Army
tanks pulled back and schools reopened
Monday in this northern Transly vanian
city, wh ich has been the scene of deadly
street battles between ethnic Hungari
ans and Romanians.
Despite easing tensions, scattered
small-scale incidents between the two
groups were reported in the region
Monday. No casualties were reported
In addition, several hundred troops and
policemen remained around Tirgu
Mures, a picturesque Transylvanian
town of 170,000 people.
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Lecture on healthy pregnancy to begin
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Court forced
to issue sites
From staff reports
Student Supreme Court Chief Jus
tice Asa Bell was forced to issue a court
order Monday night to designate the
pollsites for today's elections.
Student Congress was supposed to
choose the pollsites in a special meet
ing Monday night, but the congress
was one member short of achieving
their quorum of 13 members. Bell is
sued the order as an emergency meas
ure to uphold Sunday's court decision
to hold the student body president elec
tions today, said Gene Davis, Student
Congress speaker.
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symposnuim delilber ate
affirmative action issues
By NANCY WYKLE
Assistant University Editor
Affirmative action is a product of
white America designed to keep blacks
from becoming competitive, said James
Meredith, the first black student at
University of Mississippi and Sen. Jesse
Helms' domestic affairs adviser, in the
first debate of this year's Carolina
Symposium series Monday.
'The white liberals created the con
cept in order to provide a system of
payoff and control of the black elite
they needed as leverage to control the
black masses."
Panelists Meredith; Robert J. Can
non, UNC's affirmative action officer;
and Bill Murphy, UNC Brandis law
professor, discussed the effects affirma
tive action has had on minorities.
Panelist Rosalind Fuse-Hall, associ
ate dean in the College of Arts and
Sciences, was unable to attend the fo
rum because of a family emergency.
During the debate, Meredith said Fuse
Hall was part of the problem. "(She is)
one of the principals in the white lib
eralblack elite scheme to use the af
firmative action umbrella to control the
black masses."
Meredith also distributed copies of
his speech which included questions
directed at Fuse-Hall accusing her of
refusing to let Meredith speak at St.
Lawrence University and attempting to
censor him on other college campuses.
Fuse-Hall declined to comment
because of the family emergency.
Panelist Cannon spoke immediately
after Meredith. He opened up his com
ments by saying, "I think Mr. Meredith
has a right to his opinion and he has a
right to speak on campuses. But so does
Rosalind Fuse-Hall." He did not com
ment further because he said he was not
there to defend Fuse-Hall.
Concerning the general topic of the
forum, Murphy said affirmative action
was a program applied to minorities to
give them an advantage. In extreme
form, affirmative action refers to nu
merical goals and quotas, he said.
UNC receives government funds and
is required to have an affirmative ac
tion program, Cannon said. "Affirma-
Forum concemin;
transit held tonight
By JENNIFER PILLA
Staff Writer
Students will be able to voice their
concerns and ideas about the Chapel
Hill transportation system at a forum
with transportation officials and stu
dent leaders tonight at 7 p.m. in the
Morrison Rec Room.
John Gardner, transportation plan
ner for the Department of Transporta
tion and Parking Services, said a sur
plus of transportation funding has been
generated and is expected to be avail
able by the end of this year.
"At the end of this year after the
Chapel Hill Transit System gets its
federal operation assistance there
will be a positive balance of about
$300,000," he said. "We'd like some
ideas about what the money should be
spent for."
Charles Merritt, Student Govern
ment Campus Affairs Committee
director and organizer of the event,
said students would be presented with
information about how their student
transit fees are being used.
"Basically we're going to talk about
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Candidates want to return
to normalcy after elections
By VICTOR BLUE
Staff Writer
Students will go to the polls once
again today, after more than a month's
delay, as student body president candi
dates Mark Bibbs and Bill Hildebolt
compete in a runoff election and stu
dents vote on whether they favor an
increase in student housing fees to
accommodate cable television hook
ups. Student government leaders said the
election turnout would probably be
lower because of the delay. Student
Congress member Mindy Friedman
(Dist. 1 2) said the turnout would proba
bly be considerably lower than the Feb.
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tive action at UNC has not significantly
changed the place."
UNC also has a lack of black faculty
members, he said. Affirmative action is
not necessarily the solution. "To in
how the finances are being worked
and then we're going to open it up to
questions," he said. "We want stu
dent input, especially from people
living in apartments, people who
would like to see changes in the routes
or who would like additional serv
ice." Improving blue-line service to
Durham and giving discounts to stu
dents who buy bus passes are two
possible improvements that Merritt
mentioned. "From my perspective,
the transit system works well," he
said.
The Chapel Hill transit system is
one of the three most efficient sys
tems in the state, Gardner said. "As
far as the number of passengers per
mile and per hour, we're right up
there with Charlotte and Winston
Salem," he said. "You won't find a
transportation system of the same kind
in other towns the size of Chapel
Hill." .
The transportation department is
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"This year's student body president
will probably win with the least amount
of student body voter turnout," she said.
"For a referendum to pass, you need to
have at least 10 percent of the student
body voting, but a student body presi
dent could be elected with only two
people voting."
Both presidential candidates said
recent events after the first election had
shifted the focus of the campaign.
"In the beginning, the campaign was
about issues, but after Feb. 20 when all
this stuff started, it snowballed and
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crease the number of black faculty
members, we need to increase the
number of black students going to
graduate and professional schools."
Murphy said he had found affirma
tive action to bea troublesome area. "It
doesn't have a clear-cut answer."
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Panel diaie Channel One
By WENDY BOUNDS
Staff Writer
"Channel One": legitimate educa
tion or compromising exploitation? The
controversial school television show
from Whittle Communications was the
focus of the Wesley H. Wallace Distin
guished Lectureship at UNC's Depart
ment of Radio, Television and Motion
Pictures Monday afternoon.
A sample 12-minute "Channel One"
program was shown to those attending
the symposium. The program, which
premiered in some North Carolina
schools last week, is shown every school
day to students in grades six through 12
of participating schools and contains
10 minutes of news and two minutes of
commercials. The two commercial
minutes pay for the show. .
In return for subscribing to the pro
gram, schools receive a satellite dish,
VCRs and other equipment necessary
for broadcast production, all at the
expense of Whittle Communications.
The symposium addressed the issue
of the conflict between the interests of
the media as businesses and the inter
ests of the larger community. The key
note speaker was Herbert Schiller,
professor of communication at the
University of California-San Diego.
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By MARCIE BAILEY
Staff Writer
The Black Student Movement
(BSM) Central Committee has de
cided to let the BSM general body
vote on whether a re-election will be
held for the position of president.
The grievances of BSM presiden
tial candidates Dana Lumsden and
Sabrina Evans were heard and dis
cussed at a forum Monday evening
regarding the unofficial results of the
March 8 election.
The election resulted in a 78-75
vote in Evans favor with a two-vote
discrepancy between the number of
votes and the number of registered
voters. Since then, Lumsden has pre
sented several grievances to the Cen
tral Committee.
The committee turned the decision
of re-election over to the general body,
who will vote on the matter Wednes
day. Lumsden, a sophomore political
scienceEnglish major from Boston,
said his grievances about the BSM
constitution regarding elections were
presented earlier but ignored by the
election chairwoman.
His grievances include not receiv
ing a list of BSM members until two
weeks after Evans, insufficient con
stitutional election guidelines and
Evans' presence at a BSM poll site.
Lumsden also opposed a general body
vote on the re-election issue.
Evans, a junior speech communi
cations major from Brooklyn, N.Y.,
said she did not believe the Central
Committee had the initial right to
decide on a re-election. When she and
Lumsden first went over the
constitution at the start of the elec
tion, he seemed to have no problem
with it and should have submitted a
formal written grievance if he did
have a problem, she added.
Evans said she perceived herself
and Lumsden as making a mutual
agreement and saw a re-election as an
"There is almost total subservience
... of (the) media informational system
with marketing. Our entire environ
ment is saturated," Schiller said.
Although he did not speak exten
sively about "Channel One," Schiller
said there are few crevices left that have
not been filled with advertising.
"And that is Mr. Whittle's genius,"
Schiller said, "to ferret out those few
last places and ... to totally contribute to
the near lobotomization of the popula
tion from cradle to grave."
The commercials shown on the
"Channel One" program played for the
symposium touted 3 Musketeers candy
bars, Air Jordan shoes starring Michael
Jordan, Dentyne chewing gum and
Fritos corn chips.
The 1 0 minutes of news on "Channel
One" included sections called "Up
Front," which showed current news
events; "New Focus," an in-depth story
relating to one of the current events;
"World Class," a weekly five-part se
ries; "Feature," focusing on topics of
interest to teenagers including music
and starting careers; and "Pop Quiz and
Answer," short factual quizzes on a
range of topics.
The audience also viewed an expla
nation of an educational program pro
election
invalidation of the vote of BSM
members. "I have problems with
negating an election with grievances
brought after the fact," she said.
Lumsden said he did not want the
decision of re-election in the hands of
the general body because he ques-'
tioned whether the whole general body
could be accounted for on Wednes
day. Evans said the general body
present at the meeting would consist
of concerned members and that they
should be the ones to make the deci
sion. The discrepancy between the times
that the two candidates received BSM
membership rosters is possibly a
mistake of the Central Committee
and one reason they initially an
nounced the possible re-election.
Evans, who is a Central Commit
tee member, asked for the roster from
the election chairwoman. At the time,
she was unaware that in being a
Central Committee member she was
entitled to see the roster or that, as a
presidential candidate, she was not
supposed to receive the roster before
she announced her candidacy. "I got
the roster as a candidate and not a
Central Committee member," she
said.
Lumsden, who asked for the roster
days later from BSM president Tonya
Blanks, was told he could not receive
one before an official candidacy
announcement. After a period of about
48 hours, Lumsden received a roster
but, after needing a week to rearrange
it, felt Evans had the advantage over
him.
B lanks said she would comply with
the decision of the general body at the
March 8 meeting and that clearer
guidelines for re-election would be
the first thing addressed by the new
BSM president.
Evans said this was an unfortunate
situation and that there is a need to
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duced by Turner Broadcasting's Cable
News Network (CNN). The CNN pro,
gram has no commercials, but does not
provide schools with equipment for
broadcasting. ,
The symposium included a panel
discussion on the merits of televisionin
school and the ethical merits of such
programs as "Channel One."
The State Board of Education see
that school districts need equipment so
badly that they are willing to compro
mise their principles, said panelist Sue
Baker, chairwoman of the Chapel Hill
Carrboro Board of Education. :
A member of the audience said tele
vision takes advantage of a system that
is falling apart and that teachers rely on
technology to avoid teaching. Televi
sion turns kids into "droids," he said
Today we must stand back and ask
ourselves if we can really have our
fundamental informational system in
private hands, Schiller said.
"I welcome this seminar not because
you're going to solve any of these
questions," Schiller said, "but by the
very fact that we're discussing this J,
(we are) opening up the kind of chan
nels that for so long have been closed in
this society." ' "
Jennifer Cox contributed to this story.