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Volume 98, Issue 47
Thursday, July 12, 1990
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Italy sends ships for
Albanian refugees
ROME Italy is sending two ships
to Albania to ferry out more than 3,500
Albanian asylum-seekers who have
holed up in three Western European
embassies, the Foreign Ministry said
today. The operation will begin Thurs
day or Friday, a ministry spokesman
told a briefing.
The ships will transport between
3,500 and 4,000 people from the Italian,
West German and French embassies, a
spokesman said.
! Scores of Albanians began entering
the embassies on June 28 in an effort to
escape Europe's last' hard-line Com
munist bastion. Some dodged bullets as
they scrambled over embassy walls.
The first 51 asylum-seekers left their
country Tuesday for Czechoslovakia
on a plane sent by that nation's president,
Vaclav Havel.
Mandela diagnosed
with mild pneumonia
; JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Black nationalist leader Nelson Mandela
was diagnosed today as having a slight
case of pneumonia and flown from
Ethiopia to Kenya for treatment, ac
cording to a published report.
The newspaper, which has a corre
spondent with Mandela, quoted
Mandela aides as saying the pneumonia
was "slight" and there was no cause for
alarm. The aides said he had been or
dered to rest.
Mandela was. hospitalized in June
and had a benign cyst removed from his
bladder. Doctors have expressed con
cern about his heart and he undergoes
regular medical checks. He also suffered
from tuberculosis in 1988.
Polish farmers block
highways with tractors
WARSAW, Poland Farmers rolled
tractors across major highways today
for a national road blockade called by
the Rural Solidarity union to demand
government-guaranteed minimum farm
prices.
The roadblocks were the latest chal
lenge to the Solidarity-led government
of Prime Minister TadeuszMazowiecki.
On Monday, the Cabinet acknowl
edged the farmers' difficult economic
situation and made several conciliatory
gestures.But the government steadfastly
has refused to set minimum prices,
saying it runs counter to the basic
principle of establishing a market-based
economy.
Aid package to Mexico
may include helicopters
LOS ANGELES U.S. officials
say they're prepared to ship helicopters
to Mexico to help that country's war on
drugs, a newspaper reported Wednes
day. The aid is part of a package that also
includes radar and other advanced
equipment and may be worth as much
as $65 million, the Los Angeles Times
reported. The newspaper quoted uni
dentified U.S. and Mexican officials
From Associated Press reports
Dig this
Local archeologists examine remains
of Native American villages 3
Negative points
"Jetsons" doesn't even rate on this
reviewers scale 4
National league picks
Pirates and Reds predicted to finish
on top in their divisions 6
State and National .......2
City and Campus .........................3
Arts and Features 5
Sports 7
Classifieds 8
Comics 9
Opinion 10
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Censorship cannot get at
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By KELLY THOMPSON
Editor
The state House passed a bill Tues
day that calls for even deeper cuts in the
UNC system budget than the Senate
version passed last month, but would
give the University some benefits in
return, according to legislators.
Although the Senate cuts were esti
mated at 3 percent and the House at 5,
the two budget versions would have
about the same impact on the University,
said Felix Joyner, vice president of fi
nance for the UNC system.
"Both houses proceeded to identify
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Local fratermity charter is
revoked by national SAEs
By THOMAS HEALY
Assistant Editor
and KELLY THOMPSON
Editor
SAE National Fraternity has sus
pended the charter of the local Sigma
Alpha Epsilon fraternity for 3 years,
but members and alumni say that other
than having to change the fraternity's
name, the decision will not make much
difference.
"They do not want us to use SAE.
They've pretty much said they do not
want us to be affiliated with SAE
national," said Jack Graham, fraternity
alumnus and president of the North
Carolina Xi Corporation, which owns
the title of the SAE house on Frater
nity Court.
Graham said the group would come
up with a "creative name" to use until
Fox declares album
By THOMAS HEALY
Assistant Editor
A local record store has stopped
selling copies of 2 Live Crew's As
Nasty as They Wanna Be album after
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl
Fox determined it was obscene and said
he would prosecute any store that sold it
earlier this week.
School Kid's Records at 144 E.
Franklin St. stopped selling the album
Monday after police told owner David
Harvey it had been labeled obscene and
warned him he would be subject to
arrest if he continued to sell it.
Harvey said he removed the records
from the shelf immediately. "I just don't
have the resources to fight a legal battle
New psychiatric hospital planned
By PETER WALLSTEN
Staff Writer
Officials with the Department of
Psychiatry said they are excited and
hopeful that a new 1 00-bed, self-funded
$43.2 million psychiatric hospital will
be approved by state government this
year.
"The idea of the hospital is to have a
very forefront, avant garde facility with
avant garde treatment," said David
Janowsky, chairman of the psychiatry
department.
The N.C. Certificate of Need Agency
has already certified the need for the
new building, and officials are awaiting
approval from the General Assembly
for the project. As of Wednesday, the
for 5-percent cuts in University funding, but give
reductions up to a point, and within
those we end up with about the same
amount: $40 million. That's the so
called 3 percent cut," he said.
'The House, having done the iden
tifiable cuts, found they needed more.
They spread the $150 million (in addi
tional cuts) over state agencies in a
relatively common form. That brought
reductions to a little over 5 percent.
"The Senate got to the same
point.. .and chose to assign that respon
sibility (of further cuts) to the governor.
We can't tell the amount of cuts from
the Senate bill," Joyner said.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon house on Fraternity
the fraternity could become re-affiliated
with the national organization.
"We'll be an independent fraternity,"
he said. "I'm very encouraged and up
beat about our future."
Troy Furr, 1989-90 president of the
SAEs, agreed. "The fraternity will
definitely continue," he said.
"It will certainly not slow us down
this fall in regard to rush," Graham said.
"We plan on being involved in com
munity programs and outreach pro
grams. We don't plan on being just a
place to sleep and eat. We really want to
exemplify a leadership role on campus,"
he said.
The national organization decided to
revoke the SAE's charter earlier this
summer because the fraternity was not
paying enough attention to the regula
tions and ritual of SAE national, ac
against Orange County," Harvey said.
"It all seems rather strange. The al
bum has been out for over a year and no
one complained until this national
bandwagon started," he said.
Harvey said he wasn't sure if he was
going to challenge Fox's determination.
"It is obviously an infringement on 1st
amendment rights," Harvey said. "It
just makes you angry. Our whole re
sponse has been anger and frustration."
Fox said he listened to the album
over the weekend after it was brought to
his attention in a Chapel Hill Herald
article.
"After listening to the album, I de
termined it depicted sexual conduct and
is patently offensive based on commu
House had passed the bill but the Senate
had yet to vote.
"The current facility is pretty anti
quated," Janowsky said, referring to the
36-year old south wing of the N.C.
Memorial Hospital, which was con
structed in 1954. "This'U be more
modern, spacious and airy. It'll be de
signed to be more comfortable for pa
tients." The proposed 240,000 square foot,
nine-floor structure will house the
psychiatric unit as well as a modern
emergency room. The building, which
is scheduled to be completed in 1994,
will be funded by tax-exempt revenue
bonds.
"The main problem is that it's
the real evil, and it is an evil in
A joint conference committee will be
created this week to iron out hundreds
of differences between the Senate and
House versions. Legislators said
Wednesday they hoped to have a final
budget by early next week.
"I think we'll be done by Tuesday.
We might even get done by Saturday
night if things go well," said Rep. J.W.
Crawford, D-Granville. "We'll do the
best we can for the University."
Joyner said the differences between
the two versions would be resolved in
the joint committee, but the University
still might not know the total budget cut
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cording to Graham. A representative
from SAE national was unable to be
reached for comment.
Furr said the conflict was a matter
of paperwork. "Before the house was
reopened (after renovations in 1989),
our mail was going somewhere else
entirely. For a whole year, we weren't
even recei v ing mail from the nat ional
headquarters," he said.
After the fraternity moved into the
refurbished house, Furr said it took
awhile to re-establish communica
tion with the national headquarters.
"It seemed natural that our task
was to get the house going. In that
process, our obligations to the na
tional headquarters were neglected a
little bit," he said. "This spring we
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obscene
nity standards," Fox said. "It appeals to
the prurient interest in sex and lacks
serious literary, artistic, political or
scientific value."
Fox said if School Kids sells the
album "they may subject themselves to
going before a jury to determine whether
it is obscene. And if the jury determines
it is, they will face felony charges."
"I don't determine community stan
dards," Fox said. "I determine whether
I would prosecute."
James C. Shields, director of the North
Carolina Civil Liberties Union, said
Wednesday he thought the union would
help School Kids if asked. "I'd be very
See ALBUM, page 3
cramped," Janowsky said of the current
63-bed facility. "The rooms are very
small, and patients must be interviewed
in small rooms. It's just very inefficient."
The additional space will create op
portunities for the department to spon
sor more programs to help its patients,
said Mary Beck, director of planning
and program development in the psy
chiatry department.
'There is limited space for recre
ational therapy, and 1 imited educational
space for children," she said. "The out
patient space is not in the supportive
and conducive state we'd like. The
whole (current) facility constrains a
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it will face.
"If it's the senate (plan), we won't
know until some definitive action by
the governor," he said. "Ultimately, I
think some decisions will be made at the
campus level. We've had enough
arithmetic. I hope we get some judg
ment." Rep. Joe Hackney, D-Orange, said
either version would be detrimental to
UNC. "The main point to be gleamed is
that they're both pretty devastating. The
house budget leaves alot of flexibility
as to where the cuts will be made,
though."
Police officer
files civil suit
against UNC
By THOMAS HEALY
Assistant Editor
UNC police officer Keith Edwards
took her allegations of discrimination
in the campus police department to the
Orange County Superior Court last
month, although she has not yet received
a verdict on a similar charge filed under
the University grievance process in
1987.
Edwards filed a lawsuit on June 22
against the UNC Board of Trustees
(BOT), Chancellor Paul Hardin and
other administrators asking for a mini
mum of $10,000 in emotional and
$250,000 in punitive damages.
The suit claims police administrators
passed Edwards up for a promotion in
June 1 987 and instead gave the position
of first shift sergeant to a white male
with less training, experience and edu
cation. Edwards made the same claim in a
case she filed through the campus
grievance procedure 3 years ago in hopes
of receiving the promotion and backpay.
State Administrative Law Judge
Delores Nesnow is expected to hand
down a verdict in that case by July 19,
but Edwards said Monday she couldn't
wait for Nesnow 's decision before fil
ing her suit because the statute of limi
tations on her case was running out.
"If I had not filed my lawsuit when I
did, I would have lost my legal right to
sue the University," Edwards said.
State regulations allow three years
time in which to bring a civil suit to
court after the date at which injury oc
curs. Alan McSurely, Edwards' lawyer,
said he wanted to wait and incorporate
Nesnow's decision into the suit, but in
order to protect Edward's legal rights,
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more flexibility
Hackney said he was unhappy with
the House financial plan, although he
cited a faculty salary increase and ac
celerated pay raise for low-income state
employees as two positive points.
"I'm pretty disappointed with it," he
said. 'Those are the only bright spots in
an otherwise dismal budget."
The House version would affect the
University in several ways:
D A $60 million cut from the UNC
System budget. About $7.4 million
would come from UNC-CH alone,
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he had to file the suit on June 22.
McSurely said he would amend the
lawsuit once the decision was returned.
He said if Nesnow ruled against Edwards
it would hurt their case tremendously
and likewise if she ruled in favor of
Edwards, it would bolster their case
tremendously.
Although Nesnow could recommend
to the office of state personnel that
Edwards be awarded a promotion and
backpay, Edwards said that is not her
top priority.
"The main thing I'm concerned about
is that she (Nesnow) finds the Univer
sity guilty of violating their own policies
of equal opportunity employment and
affirmative action employment," she
said.
The lawsuit states that Edwards has
been the victim of racial and gender
discrimination for the 16 years she has
been on the campus police force. It
charges that police administrators at
tempted to alienate her from the rest of
the officers and to label her as a "trouble
maker."
Edwards said she filed the suit to
"insure that this doesn't ever happen to
any other employee. When there is a
verdict brought down against you, you
will not make the same mistake twice."
Both Edwards and McSurely said
they requested a jury trial so that
Edwards' case could be decided by a
group of her peers who are familiar with
the University and the way it operates.
"Jury trial is the heart of the American
system of justice," McSurely said.
In addition to Hardin and the BOT,
Associate Vice Chancellor Charles
Antle, Assistant Personnel Director Dan
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