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drifted Mostly cloudy High in mid-50s Friday: Rain High in mid-60s SeniorMarshall applications available at UnionDesk ii ir i 11 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume S3, Issue 19 Thursday, March 29, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSports Arts BusinessAdvertising 962-0245 962-1163 louse fee Wis former professor ft h d (? d sv Iraqi attempt to transport arms foiled by customs LONDON Customs officials said Wednesday they foiled an attempt to supply Iraq with 40 American-made devices for triggering nuclear weap ons, and they arrested five people after an 1 8-month investigation by U.S. and British authorities. The probe climaxed in a freight shed at London's Heathrow Airport as an attempt was made to put the devices which may have been dummies aboard an Iraqi Airways flight to Baghdad, British customs officials said. Of those arrested in and around London, one was an Iraqi national who was immediately served with a depor tation order, authorities said. Iraqi dip lomats in London refused to comment on the affair. French government bans cigarette and alcohol ads PARIS The French government declared war on tobacco Wednesday, approving a draft law banning all ciga rette advertising and announcing a 15 percent increase in the price of tobacco products beginning next year. In addition, advertisements of nearly all alcoholic beverages will be banned except in the print media. The measure will be submitted to Parliament during its spring session, said government spokesman Louis Le Pensec. If approved, the bans would be implemented progressively over a three year period. Filipino troops attack rebel training camp MANILA, Philippines Govern ment troops destroyed a heavily forti fied Communist rebel training camp after two days of fierce fighting that left 59 insurgents and one soldier dead, the military reported Wednesday. Armed forces spokesman Col. Jua nito Rimando said 23 troops were wounded as 1 ,200 soldiers stormed the camp. "The report we received was sketchy, but judging by the size of the govern ment casualties, I would say that it must have been a really big gunbattle," Rimando said. He said a platoon of Army Scout Rangers discovered the heavily forti fied camp used by the Communist New People's Army on Sunday. It was in the remote mountain town of Lianga in Surigao del Sur province, about 540 miles southeast of Manila. Violence among factions continues in South Africa JOHANNESBURG, South Africa- Rival Zulu factions battled with guns, clubs and knives Wednesday in Natal province, setting scores of homes on fire and forcing hundreds of villagers to flee into the countryside. Soldiers and police patrolled Natal in an effort to quell the violence, which broke out Tuesday and has killed at least two people. "The whole so-called 'Valley of Death' is covered with blue smoke. I saw 120 homes burning at the same time in a radius of (15 miles)," said journalist Khaba Mkhize after flying over the Edendale Valley near the pro vincial capital of Pietermaritzburg. From Associated Press reports On the 'House Columbia Street restaurant environ mentally conscious 6 Smashing success Men's tennis team nets a victory over the Wolf pack 7 Campus 3 City ...4 State and nation 5 Features 6 Sports 7 Classifieds 8 Comics 9 Omnibus insert mm By CAMERON TEW City Editor Earle Wallace, professor emeritus of the University's political science de partment, died Wednesday morning in a fire at his home on Marilyn Lane after firefighters were unable to rescue him from the room where he was sleeping. Wallace. 75, was chairman ot tne UNC political science department in the 1970s and retired in 1980. The Chaoel Hill Fire Department released a statement Wednesday after noon confirming Wallace s death, the statement said two fire engines were dispatched to 2 1 5 Marilyn Lane at 1 1 :zu a.m. after the fire was reported. General Body votes for BSM re-election By SUSIE KATZ Staff Writer The Black Student Movement's (BSM) General Body voted Wednes day night by a margin of 32 for and 29 against to hold a re-election for BSM president April 3. After weeks of meetings to hear the grievances and rebuttals of the presi dential candidates following the March 8 election, the Central Committee de cided to have the General Body vote on whether to hold another election. Tonya Blanks, BSM president, said the Central Committee wanted to make sure it had been impartial about the election. "The Central Committee be came the elections board. We asked for volunteers (to help with elections) back in February and no one showed up, so the Central Committee had to man the polls. The Central Committee wanted Pulitzer Prize-winning author Taylor Panel discusses freshman athletic By VICTOR BLUE Staff Writer Freshman eligibility and the dispar ity in SAT scores of out-of-state stu dent athletes and non-athletes were the focus of a panel discussion Wednesday concerning ethics in athletics. The event was part of the 1 990 Caro lina Symposium. The panelists included Anson Dorrance, head coach of UNC women's soccer; Professor Henry Landsberger, a member of the UNC Faculty Advisory Committee on Ath letics; Pat Crowley, a senior and former member of the football team; Sharon For truth The firefighters attempted to rescue Wallace after a neighbor said he was still trapped in the home. Firefighters extinguished the fire within two to three minutes, but discovered that Wallace was dead. Chapel Hill Fire Chief Joe Robertson said both his department and the Chapel Hill Police Department were investi gating the fire. He said the cause of death could not be determined without further investigation. Wallace earned his bachelor's de gree from The Citadel in 1951 and his Ph.D. in 1959 from UNC. He taught as a part-time instructor at the University from 1952 to 1954 before becoming an to know that if they had done anything to interfere with the election, they were going to have a re-election." BSM Secretary Lisa Schaeffer told the General Body members in atten dance, "(The Central Committee) thought the best body to make the deci sion was you." Before the meeting, presidential candidate Dana Lumsden said, "(The voters) are going to consider a re-election, and, in essence, consider who's going to be president." He said he didn't agree with the way the vote was being handled. "I don't think the people who show up at a 5:30 meeting are the only people who should vote for the de facto leader of black people on this campus." Lumsden and the other presidential See BSM, page 9 'all!;! 111 f J It f ill Mm Branch speaks for Carolina Symposium Carolina Symposium E T II i C S German, a member of the women's volleyball team; and Heather Notting ham, a member of the women's swim team. UNC Provost Dennis O'Connor, a former college basketball player, mediated the event. Landsberger said revenue sports took up too much time in freshmen athletes' lives. He proposed that students should be ineligible until their sophomore year. 'They should have a lot of time freed fx-.- HlLA there is no deadline Heywood Brown assistant professor of political science at The Citadel. He returned to the University in 1 957 as a professor and held many adminis trative and teaching positions until his retirement in 1980. Wallace served as acting chairman of the political science department on two separate occasions and was the associate chairman of the department from 1967 to 1970. Wallace also served on the Faculty Council from 1 959 to 1 962 and was the associate dean of the UNC Graduate School from 1962 until 1967. Richard Richardson, chairman of the political science department, said Wallace was an outstanding teacher Fraternity ay tlieft a pledge By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON Assistant University Editor Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity members admitted Wednesday that fraternity pledges and members removed copies of The Daily Tar Heel (DTH) from newspaper racks early Tuesday morning. Kevin Schwartz, DTH general manager, said 10,000 to 12,000 pa pers were missing, but Glenn Cole, Sigma Phi Epsilon president, said the fraternity did not take that many newspapers. "We don't believe we took 12,000 papers," he said. "It sure didn't seem like 12,000 to me." Cole said the papers were to be used to fill a chicken wire and burlap ''A i--K ft 5 DTHP.J. Disclafani Wednesday night in Memorial Hall up for studying," Landsberger said. "Traveling with the team and daily practices require a lot of time. "The freshman athlete should be allowed to maintain his musculature so that he will be ready to play during his sophomore year." Nottingham disagreed with Landsberger, saying athletes should be given more credit for their ability to place a high priority on academics. "We are saying that freshmen can't balance their time," she said. "Usually these athletes have been playing their respective sports for years and are used whom students adored. Wallace had won the University's Tanner Award for excellence in teaching in 1962 and was selected in 1 963 by the University's junior class for its outstanding teaching award. "Many people throughout the state have called today and said they ma jored in political science because of Wallace," Richardson said. "He had great humor and devotion to the school, faculty and students. I stayed in contact with him, and he always asked questions about the University." Richardson said Wallace had been ill and had a stroke a few years ago, but he continued to be happy. Louise figure used in rituals. The fraternity usually uses old newspapers, he said, but this year members were rushed to find papers and decided to collect DTHs out of the boxes. "The fraternity recognizes that it used poor judgment and sincerely regrets its actions," a statement given to the DTH said. 'The fact that the incident oc curred on election day was only a coin cidence and was not intended to influ ence the election in any manner." The DTH reprinted 7,500 copies of the paper and placed some at each of the major distribution locations. Schwartz said the reprinting and redis tribution of the new copies cost the DTH between $3,500 and $4,500. The fraternity will try to make repa Civil rights movement addressed by author By JENNIFER DUNLAP Staff Writer Democracy means crossing barri ers, but cultures turning inward shrinks the space of democracy, UNC alumnus and 1989 Pulitzer Prize winner Taylor Branch said Wednesday as part of Carolina Symposium 1990. Branch spoke about race relations and ethics in light of the 1960s civil rights movement to about 1 00 people in Memorial Hall. Movements go in cycles of enlargement and constriction, in which culture-bound barriers are crossed, then pride in culture allows blindness to develop, he said. "Ambivalence about ethical issues goes to the core of racial and demo cratic philosophy. Much of it has to do with the images of, as opposed to the reality of, both Malcolm X and Martin Luther King. "King has been processed through a black George Washington phase, while Malcolm X has a ferocity image not very well connected to his philosophy as it was evolving at the time he was killed." Branch said Malcolm X and Martin Luther King had many things in com mon that most people don't realize. 'They were both struggling for univer sal standards of conscience and racial cohesion. Malcolm X appealed to a common standard of justice. In the racially charged context of the 1960s that was seen as a declaration of war, Malcolm X pointed out the double stan dard. With white people it's called a scuffle, but with blacks it's a riot. "King did not believe in thinking of other human beings as something less reducing them to the status of en emy. Enemy thinking can invert moral ity." A common point between King and Malcolm X was their concern about means justifying ends, Branch said. "Another thing King had in common with Malcolm X is that both remained, eligibility, to the requirements. Sports help you to balance your work and free time." Dorrance said there was a big differ ence in the amounts of pressure put on athletes playing revenue and non-revenue sports. "In nort-revenue sports there are different types of pressures and requirements placed on athletes," he said. "At half of the non-revenue games, Mom, Dad and a cat are usually the only ones watching." Landsberger said he was also con cerned about the differences in the SAT scores of out-of-state athletes and non athletes. "The competition among out- Larsen, University administrative as sistant, said that the stroke limited Wallace's activities, but that he contin ued to do things he liked, such as travel. "He loved the beach and always loved to drop a line or net in the ocean," Larsen said. "He was a fine man who had a sense of reality but always tried to look at the bright side of things." Wallace is survived by his wife, Elaine Wallace, and his two sons, Scott and Robert Wallace. Richardson said the political science department planned to hold a memorial service next week, but he was unsure of the date at press time. Funeral arrange ments had not been made at press time. paper prank rations, Schwartz said. "They're going to take until next Wednesday to see if they can't get funds from members of the house to help offset some of the costs." The DTH and Sigma Phi Epsilon will try to devise a way for the fraternity to pay back the remainder of the cost, Schwartz said. "Some way, the financial loss has to be made up. We lost real money out of our hands. "They saw it as a fraternity prank or function, but it had serious over tones. They seem to be willing to own up to it and take responsibility," he said. See THEFT, page 9 Carolina Symposium E T ii r c s in their time, symbols of racial, na tional and international pride. But both preached on a theological basis against pride as the enemy of ethics." Pride for King and Malcolm was the enemy of religion because they be lieved it destroyed reverence, Branch said. "Pride is a narrow window. People need just enough pride to be human but not so much that they lose contact with the humanity of anyone else and be come blind. "I call this little tiny window the wood stove effect that there's a tre mendous audacity in disempowered people to rise up against injustice, and that generates a lot of heat. Injustice be comes hateful and the heat swells up." Democracy means putting faith in strangers and taking a leap into the unknown, Branch said. "The move ment spirit made contact with enemies and strangers, and enlargement oc curred." Pride leads to an inward turning of a culture rather than an enlargement, he said. "Inward turning changes peoples' perception toward enemy thinking. The process (of enlarging and inward turn ing) is cyclical breaking down bar riers leads to enlargement, but when you don't get anywhere it turns into self-hatred and inward turning starts. Then, after time, breaking barriers becomes exhilarating again." To revive our culture's declining democratic spirit, people must have the kind of discipline Malcolm X and King had in practicing nonviolence and non retaliation, Branch said. "Malcolm X and Martin Luther King were prophets. They cal led their people to summon up discipline to keep reason from developing into pride to keep the spirit of movement clean and enlarg mg. SAT scores of-state students to get into UNC is tremendous," he said. "These students need a score of about 1300 on the SAT because only about 550 out-of-state students are accepted each year. "One hundred of those slots are set aside for athletes. This is unfair be cause the average SAT score for out-of-state athletes is 960. Is this fair to non-athlete students who work hard in high school and score above this?" Crowley said he thought too much emphasis was being placed on the SAT See ATHLETICS, page 3 7
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