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Gorbachev might leave post
as communist party leader
MOSCOW Under fire from Com
munist hard-liners, President Mikhail
S. Gorbachev said today that he might
soon leave his post as party leader.
"Tomorrow, or after 10 days or 12
days, there may be another general
secretary or chairman of the party,"
Gorbachev told the largely anti-reform
delegates at a conference of the Russian
republic's Communist Party.
He did not say if he might resign or if
he expected to be ousted from the party
job. Giving up that position legally
should not affect his five-year term as
president of the Soviet Union.
There has been speculation for
months that Gorbachev's long-range
strategy is to shift the key leadership
positions from the party to the govern
ment. His appeal appeared to be an effort to
gain support at the fractious meeting.
Conservative delegates have attacked
him for diminishing their influence.
Polish resistance leaders
rehabilitated by Soviets
WARSAW, Poland The Soviet
Supreme Court has rehabilitated
survivingleaders of the Polish resistance
tried in Moscow after World War II, the
Polish news agency Rzeczpospolita re
ported today.
The 16 men, representing the main
surviving opposition to Soviet domi
nation of Poland, were invited to Mos
cow in March 1945 for a fictitious
meeting, kidnapped by the secret police
and held in Lubyanka prison on trumped
up charges. Several died while serving !
sentences in Soviet labor camps.
The Soviet Supreme Court on April
19 discontinued the criminal charges
against the men and rehabilitated them,
PAP reported. The court said the men's
actions'iacked any criminal intentions."
The Soviets informed the Polish em
bassy, but provided no further details.
Crowd protests barring AIDS
patients from entering U.S.
SAN FRANCISCO A thousand
demonstrators drawn by Wednesday's
opening of the Sixth International Con
ference on AIDS marched on immigra
tion offices to protest a U.S. policy
barring AIDS-infected people from en
tering the country.
Eight arrests were made during the
protest Tuesday, in which demonstra
tors unleashed a smoke bomb at the
Immigration and Naturalization Service
offices.
At barriers in front of the INS build
ing, police stood, batons in hand. The
officers donned riot helmets when a
flag was burned. Several protesters who
tried to break through police lines were
tackled, handcuffed and carted off. Eight
were charged with misdemeanors, po
lice said.
The protest was over a 1 987 amend
ment by Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C, or
dering the Public Health Service toplace
infection by the AIDS virus on the list
of contagious diseases that may bar
foreigners from entering the United
States.
From Associated Press reports
Share the road
Chapel Hill Police take to the streets
and bike paths 3
Dick Tracy is swell
See the review of this summer's comic
strip-movie blockbuster ........ .....5
Heels on top
John VonCannon maps next year's
freshmen basketball players 7
State and National 2
Campus 3
Sports ..........7
Classifieds 8
Comics 9
Opinion 10
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'Police
for meetM
By THOMAS HEALY
Assistant Editor
Chancellor Paul Hardin last week
agreed to meet this summer with 20
campus police officers to discuss their
concern about the future of the depart
ment, but has not yet set a date to do so.
The officers requested the meeting
in a letter to Hardin earlier this month in
which they expressed concern about the
communication gap between manage
ment and staff.
"We need to meet with you and only
you as soon as possible to discuss these
problems before irreparable damage is
done. Please respond back to one of the
undersigned police officers," the letter
said.
"The efforts we have made to address
these concerns have been ignored by
our superiors. Even with a new interim
director, there still is no communication
between the management and officers
in this department."
Interim Public Safety Director John
DeVitto admitted in a phone interview
June 1 5 that there was a communication
problem in the department, but denied
the letter's accusation that "these con
cerns have been ignored by our superi
ors." "Why would we bring consultants in
and then follow up on 44 recommen
dations?" DeVitto said. He said the fact
that he had gotten department feedback
on whether there should be 8- or 12
hour shifts proved that management has
addressed the concerns of the officers.
Sgt. Phyllis Cooper, who signed the
letter, said the group hoped the meeting
would take place before July 2 when the
force will convert to 12-hour rotating
shifts.
Hardin was unavailable for comment
this week.
. An officer who asked not to be named
said the officers are desperate to have
someone hear their concerns. "We're
Officials
By THOMAS HEALY
Assistant Editor
University officials say the Board of
Trustees (BOT) will most likely act on
Chancellor Paul Hardin's recommen
dation and approve the proposed Kenan
Heights business school site this Friday
despite controversy last week over a
faculty comm ittee's approval of the site.
The buildings and grounds commit
tee, an advisory group to the chancellor,
approved the site in early June with a
vote of two in favor, zero against and
five abstentions. Committee members
said they were told Hardin had already
made his decision, and they felt pressure
to approve the site.
Hardin was out of town Tuesday and
Wednesday and unavailable for com
ment, but he said on June 1 3 that Kenan
Heights was acceptable despite trans
portation and scheduling problems
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Dave Sheriton, a volunteer at WUNC, transfers of jazz recordings to digital audio tape to preserve them.
ask
going to show Chancellor Hardin fac
tual proof of what's been happening (in
the department) since 1987. We're go
ing to go in and explain what it's like to
work at the UNC-CH Police Depart
ment," the officer said.
"How would you like to work in a
place where you never know what's
going to happen?" the officer said. "How
would you like to work in a department
where you are made to feel like a piece
of shit?"
The officer requested anonymity for
fear of reprisal from administrators.
One officer said the department is
suffering from a lack of communication.
"There is a lack of a director being able
to listen, a lack of upper management
thinking about people's lives," the of
ficer said.
DeVitto said about half of the offic
ers who signed the letter had told him
their main concern was that the 1 2-hour
shifts were going to run from noon to
midnight rather than from 6 a.m. to 6
p.m. DeVitto met with personnel June 5
and agreed to schedule the shifts from 6
to 6.
But officers who signed the letter
said there were other problems that
needed to be worked out, and the meeting
with Hardin was still necessary.
Officer Keith Edwards said, "There
is a lack of communication, a lack of
management working with officers.
They (management) are unwilling to
have a meeting with all the officers and
iron out any remaining problems."
Edwards, who has been with the de
partment for sixteen years, has filed
several grievances against the depart
ment concerning discrimination in the
promotion process.
Edwards cited the shift issue as an
example of the communication gap. She
said it was unfair of DeVitto to make his
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caused by the site's distance from North
Campus.
'The real secret is we are no longer
looking at perfect locations," Hardin
said. "Every other site created severe
consternation among the student body."
Student Body President Bill
Hildebolt, a voting member of the BOT,
said he expected the recommendation
to pass. He said he didn't know if the
committee's vote would have an effect
on the BOT's decision, but added, "I
hope people take notice of what hap
pened in the buildings and grounds and
how decisions get made."
Hildebolt said the process went
backwards and as a result has made a
good project look very questionable.
"The process was so screwed up it puts
an extra burden on them (BOT) to weigh
the merits of the project pretty carefully."
Last week Hardin disputed commit-
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One-time fee could b
repeated.
By CAMERON TEW
Assistant Editor
The one-time fee increase students
will face this fall may become a per
manent fixture, according to a state
representative who spoke with a group
of graduate and undergraduate stu
dents in the Union Tuesday night.
"Don't look for this (fee) to go
away in the next few years because
the budget crunch is here for about six
years," said Rep. J.W. Crawford, D
Granville. The University proposed
the one-time increase in late May to
forestall deeper cuts by the General
Assembly.
Crawford said North Carolina's
state constitution calls for a tuition
that is as low as humanly possible,
and this must be achieved at UNC.
"People don't care about the other
schools in the system, but they want
education to be attainable at Chapel
will approve Kenan site
" hope people take notice of what
happened in the buildings and grounds
committee."
SBP Bill Hildebolt
tee members' statements that he had
already decided to recommend the
Kenan site before they voted. But he
said he would review the committee's
decision with committee chairman John
Sanders.
Sanders said he had not discussed the
business school issue with Hardin since
the committee voted June 6. He said
there was no reason to think the BOT
would not approve Hardin's recom
mendation because they usually go along
with his decision.
Rep. J.W. Crawford, D-Granville, speaks to students
legislator
Hill," he said.
A group of graduate students ex
pressed their concerns with the budget
cuts during the session. Joel Sipress, co
chairman of Graduate Students United,
asked Crawford how cuts would affect
the graduate teaching jobs on campus.
"Your lobbyist fought very hard for
you and what your services mean to the
University. The administration feels you
are very important to its mission," he
said. "Education is fundamental item
that will make or break our state."
Crawford said there are no "rainy
day" or surplus funds to fall back on to
finance the budget and education
throughout North Carolina will suffer
as a result.
"The economy does not look good,
and we do not have the funds to fall back
on," he said. "It may come to very deep
cuts."
Crawford said, "We have used too
Sanders also said he had no idea if the
decision of the buildings and grounds
committee or the actual tally of the vote
would have an effect on the BOT's
decision.
"Any communication that reaches
the BOT (from the committee), reaches
it because the chancellor forwards it,"
he said.
BOT Vice Chairman Elizabeth Dowd
said she wanted to know what the com
mittee felt about how undergraduate
business students will be integrated into
WUNC raises majority
of funds for buildini
By STEPHANIE DOSS
Staff Writer
WUNC has nearly completed its drive
to fund a new facility that will allow the
station to expand its operations and
better serve its 125,000 listeners, ac
cording to development director Jeanne
Phillips.
The station has raised $ 1 .8 million of
the necessary $2.5 million dollars re
quired to build the new 12,999 sq. ft.
facility on Laurel Hill Parkway over
looking Finley golf course. The station
presently has only 5,000 sq. ft. and is
located in a renovated cafeteria in Swain
Hall.
"Our biggest challenge in this
building is having sound isolated rooms
and studios for production," said
Phillips. "Our new facility will enable
us to operate out of a building designed
as a radio station."
According to promotions coordina
tor Lee Hansley, microphones can pick
up traffic noise from Columbia Street
and Cameron Avenue.
Sound quality is not the only problem
the station faces at its present location.
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Tuesday night
many mirrors to balance the budget,"
referring to Gov. Jim Martin's deci
sion to delay issuing state paychecks
until July 1 to create a balanced budget
on paper for the fiscal year ending
June 3 1 .
The problem of balancing the
budget isdifficult and increasing taxes
may be the only solution, he said.
He said both parties are afraid to
call for a tax increase because of
upcoming elections and the negative
stigma that is associated with tax in
creases. "Everyone is talking about
tax increases but not out loud," he
said.
Three possible taxes are a "bare
bones tax," a "sin tax" on alcohol and
tobacco products and a one percent
sales tax. "We need a sales tax be
cause we are looking at a $400 mil
lion deficit for the next year and this
would raise $450 million."
the rest of the campus.
Dowd said she didn't know exactly
what effect the buildings and grounds
committee's vote would have on the
BOT decision, but added, "I think it will
certainly generate more discussion."
Board member William Darity said
the board usually looks at the building
and grounds committee recommenda
tions because committee members do
the most studies on proposed sites.
"We take into consideration every
thing, including other discussions,"
Darity said. Darity wasn't aware of the
committee's vote tally, but said he
thought the board would certainly raise
some questions about it.
If the BOT approves the site on Fri
day, the proposal will go to the Board of
Governors and then to the General As
sembly for final approval.
The station's basement which houses
the main on-air studio, electronic
equipment and the library of irreplace
able recordings and tapes, is subject to
flooding during heavy rainstorms.
Phillips said the library houses such
collectibles as the N.C. Symphony's
concert in Carnegie Hall and interviews
with Sen. Sam Erwin. The new music
library will have humidity control that
will prevent tapes from shedding and
being destroyed.
The additional space of the new fa
cility will allow the station to expand
their news staff and place more emphasis
on local news. .
The new facility will feature a 34 foot
pyramid-like roof capped by a skylight
and will stand between two trellised
courtyards where special events and
receptions can be held.
Hansley predicted the station would
move into the new building on Laurel
Hill Parkway in late 1992. The Uni
versity donated the land for the new
facilities and WUNC has raised the
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