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Volume 98, Issue 49
Experts return human
remains from S.E. Asia
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia U.S.
military experts announced Wednes
day they will repatriate six sets of hu
man remains collected by Cambodians
that are believed to belong to Americans
missing since the Vietnam War.
, Eighty-two Americans are listed as
missing in action in Cambodia from the
war, which ended in 1975. The U.S.
specialists examined 28 sets of remains
thought to be those of Americans that
had been collected by the government
in recent years.
The U.S. mission, which started
Tuesday, broke a long political stale
mate between Washington and succes
sive Communist governments in Phnom
Penh. It was the first contact over
Americans missing in action since the
United States broke relations with
Phnom Penh in 1975 at the end of the
war.
S. African activist
resigns as minister
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
The Rev. Allan Boesak, a prominent
anti-apartheid campaigner, said
Wednesday he is resigning his church
posts to seek a political career after a
scandal over an extramarital affair.
Boesak, saying he wants to play a
role in South African politics, reaffirmed
a decision to step down as a Protestant
minister despite pleas from other reli
gious leaders and friends not to leave
the church. The mixed-race leader also
said he would continue his relationship
with television journalist EIna Botha
and would divorce his wife.
Boesak has played a major role in the
opposition to apartheid, leading dem
onstrations and touring the world to
denounce South Africa's racial segre
gation. The revelations about Boesak
and Ms. Botha were seen as a moral
scandal in South Africa since both were
married and Boesak was an ordained
minister.
Surgeons with AIDS
rarely infect patients
CHICAGO Physicians with AIDS
are unlikely to transmit the deadly virus
to patients during surgery, according to
a study of 2, 1 60 people operated on by
a Tennessee doctor who had the dis
ease. None of the patients whom Dr. Harold
Dennison operated on between 1982
and his 1989 death are believed to have
contracted AIDS during surgery, a re
port in this week's Journal of the
American Medical Association said.
Only one patient, an intravenous drug
user who frequented prostitutes, tested
positive for the AIDS virus. But the
authors concluded that the patient had
contracted AIDS through his high-risk
activities and not from surgical contact
with Dennison.
Dennison, 56, died Jan. 30, 1989,
just weeks after he tested positive for
AIDS. Dennison believed he contracted
AIDS while operating on a patient with
the disease, but he didn't know when he
had been infected.
AIDS, or acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome, cripples victims'
ability to fight infections. It is passed
through blood and other body fluids.
From Associated Press reports
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Legislature loosens reins
Administrators hope more budget
flexibility is on the way 3
McCartneyism
Reviewer compares McCartney show
to 1966 Beatles concert 6
American League picks
Toronto and Oakland predicted to
finish on top in their divisions 8
World and National 2
Campus , ,...,3
City and State 4
Arts and Features 6
Sports .,..8
Classifieds 10
Comics 11
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CoimHiMttee approve
General Assembly to approve
final version by next week
By KELLY THOMPSON
Editor
A General Assembly conference
committee which is reconciling House
and Senate budget versions approved
5-percent cuts in the University budget
for fiscal year 1 99 1 last week, and state
officials say a final budget is less than a
week away.
The University will face a definite 3
percent cut in its base budget, according
to the committee's plan to compensate
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Graduates
By KELLY THOMPSON
Editor
Student leaders announced Tuesday
they are planning to picket registration,
call a general meeting of the entire
student body and hold a "Save UNC
Day" with a faculty, staff and student
boycott in September to protest cuts in
the University's budget.
Members of Graduate Students
United (GSU) and Student Government
discussed their plans during a GSU
Strategy Meeting Tuesday night in the
Union, and the graduate students ap
proved a set of priorities for negotiating
with University administrators in Au
gust. Their activities were in response to
the General Assembly's decision to cut
the University's base budget by 3 per-
Student
killed in
Point
From staff and wire reports
High Point police discovered the body
of a UNC summer school student last
Friday after a 22-year-old man from
Candler, N.C., confessed to her murder
when he was arrested for killing a South
Carolina woman.
Lesley Eugene Warren was charged
with felonious larceny and three counts
of first-degree murder in the deaths of
UNC student Katherine Noell Johnson,
2 1 ; Jayme Hurley, 39, of Asheville; and
Velma Fay e Gray, 42, of Travelers Rest,
S.C.
Johnson, who was enrolled for both
summer sessions, met Warren July 15
at an employee picnic for the Radisson
Hotel in High Point, where she worked
on weekends. She went for a ride with
him on his motorcycle later that evening,
and Warren told police he killed John
son that night.
Johnson's body was found in the
trunk of her car Friday in a downtown
See MURDER, page 5
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for a projected $336 million shortfall in
state revenue. In addition, the group
approved an additional 2-percent cut to
be determined by state department
heads.
As a result, the University will not
know the exact amount or type of the 2
percent cut until the UNC system Board
of Governors (B OG) assigns reductions
campus-by-campus. Felix Joyner, UNC
See BUDGET, page 4
plan picketing, 'Save UNC Day' this fall
cent and assign an additional 2-percent
cut in allocations to help compensate
for a projected $336 million shortfall in
state revenue this year.
University officials estimate up to
200 graduate student contracts could be
affected and up to 300 class sections
could be canceled as a result of the cuts.
Kathy Nasstrom, chairwoman of the
GSU Publicity Committee, said gradu
ate students would picket outside of
Woolen and Fetzer gyms Aug. 27-29
during drop-add, while student govern
ment members would staff tables inside
the buildings to publicize the effects of
the cuts.
"GSU is going to handle the picket
ing," she said, adding that the inside
tables would have two purposes. "We're
going to encourage students to write a
Oh, Romeo
Melissa Etheridge strums her way into
in Raleigh's Memorial Auditorium July
in the groin of
Chapel Hill,
Budget reduction will affect at
By KELLY THOMPSON
Editor
University administrators say about
the enrollment of 6,800 students will be
affected this fall by canceled classes or
enlarged sections because of budget
cuts approved by a General Assembly
conference committee last week.
"I dread the beginning of the semes
ter. So many students will return to find
classes they thought they registered for
have ceased to exist," said Gillian Cell,
dean of the College of Arts and Sci
ences. "Registration and drop-add will
be a nightmare."
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the game and the tournament with
letter to their legislators at home and to
register to vote."
Nasstrom also mentioned Student
Body President Bill Hildebolt's plan to
call a general meeting of the student
body Sept. 1 1 at 8 p.m. in Carmichael
Auditorium.
Hildebolt said the Student Code au
thorizes the student body president to
call such a meeting, although no one has
done so in several years.
'The last time was when the U.S.
invaded Cambodia. Thomas Bellow
convened a meeting in the Pit and the
Faculty Council canceled exams,"
Hildebolt said in an interview. "We felt
this was an equally crucial situation to
Cambodia, oniy on a local scale."
Hildebolt said he wanted to inform
students as to how they could respond
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North Carolina
Ber cent ceils
The conference committee, which is
reconciling House and Senate budget
versions, approved a 3-percent cut in
the University's base budget and a 2
percent allocation reduction as part of a
plan to compensate for a projected $336
million state income shortfall.
Cell said the majority of the 6800
students affected would be undergradu
ates. Because introductory courses are
more likely to be canceled or enlarged,
freshman and sophomores in the Gen
eral College will be affected the most,
she predicted.
Cell declined Tuesday to release
JNCs reaction to
trial Mmdecided
By THOMAS HEALY
Assistant Editor
University officials say they have
not decided what actions to take after an
administrative law judge handed down
a verdict last week that UNC police
officer Keith Edwards was discrimi
nated against on the basis of her race
and sex.
Judge Delores Nesnow wrote in the
decision she submitted on July 19 that
the University discriminated against
Edwards in a 1 987 reorganization of the
police department because she was a
black female.
Interim Public Safety Director John
DeVitto said Monday he had not yet
talked to the administration about the
finding nor had he read the decision. He
would not comment on Nesnow's rul
ing, but said that since becoming direc
tor last winter, he had implemented
several policy changes aimed at making
"it an equitable and fair situation."
DeVitto submitted the development
of a new training program and a new
promotion policy aimed at dealing with
problems of morale and trust in the
ailing department to University admin
istrators in February.
Ben Tuchi, vice chancellor for busi
to the budget cuts and to focus publicity
on the problems the University is facing
though the general meeting.
"Basically it will be an information
session and rally that will tell students
what they can do," he said.
The third September activity will be
a "Save UNC Day" on Sept. 11,
Nasstrom said. "We're planning an all
campus boycott. There's going to be
teach-ins and a variety of other events,"
she said.
The graduate students discussed the
feasibility of a boycott, and decided to
ask for all-day class boycotts and an
hour-long boycott from staff members
to ensure the action was seen as a pro
test and not a strike.
"Some people were afraid of reper
cussions when we talked with them,"
Building
postponed by cuts
By CHIP SUDDERTH
StaH Writer
Plans for new facilities for the School
of Social Work and School of Business
as well as several other campus build
ing projects will be delayed indefinitely
because of state budget cuts, according
to University officials.
John Sanders, chairman of the Build
ings and Grounds Committee, said that
"at a minimum, it (the budget reduc
tion) puts everything on hold for another
year."
In the 1990-91 biennial budget, the
General Assembly planned to give $6.5
million to the School of Business and
$4.3 million to the School of Social
Work. But after officials projected a
$336 million shortfall in annual state
revenue, both houses of the legislature
proposed cuts in allocations.
The Senate proposal which was
passed in June would give $5 million to
the business school and $1.5 to the
School of Social Work, while the House
recommended a $2.5 million allocation
to both programs. A conference com
mittee is scheduled to iron out a com
promise later this week.
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least 6,800
contingency plans which department
chairmen drew up in June detailing how
they would enact cuts within their de
partments. She said those plans were
tentative and in some cases no longer
accurate.
"I'd rather not do that. Some chairs
have already changed their plans once,
and others will do so as the cuts come
closer to being realized," she said. Cell
said she did not have exact figures, but
hoped to have a definite list of class
cancellations by the third week of Au
See CUTS, page 4
ness and finance, said he was not pre
pared to comment on the University's
actions until he spoke with the chancel
lor and the school 's chief legal counsel,
Susan Ehringhaus, both of whom are
out of town.
He said that he had no way of know
ing what went on in the department
three years ago because he was hired by
the University a little more than a year
ago.
However, Tuchi referred to the
changes established under DeVitto's
direction and said, "The groundwork
for a lot of changes has already been
laid." He added that it takes a while to
work through the implementation of
new policies before the success of those
policies can be judged.
Alan McSurely, who represented
Edwards in her grievance case and in a
related civil suit she filed against the
University, said that although he was
pleased with Nesnow's decision, he was
unhappy with the University's actions
throughout the entire case.
"I was saddened by the fact that the
University didn't step in and deal with
this right when it happened," he said.
McSurely said he would like to see
See EDWARDS, page 11
said Cindy Hahamovitch, a graduate
student in the history department. "They
hoped a limited boycott would be per
ceived as a protest, not necessarily as a
job action."
Jerry Bradshaw, GSU Co-chair,
agreed. "If we can get faculty support
and then go and ask library staff if they
can just close the library officially for
an hour, that's a way we can convince
them this is a good idea."
The student leaders were unsure of
what other activities would take place
on Save UNC Day, but brought up sev
eral ideas.
Nasstrom mentioned inviting Harvey
Gantt, Democratic senate candidate, and
Sen. Jesse Helms to a forum, but several
See GRADS, page 11
projects
But according to Gene Swecker, as
sociate vice chancellor for facilities,
either amount would delay construc
tion on the School of Social Work and
would also have serious effects on the
business facility.
"The funds for planning (the School
of Social Work) were appropriated two
sessions ago, so it's ready to go,"
Swecker said. Because the business
school is still in the planning stages, the
construction schedule would not be de
layed as yet, he said.
Swecker said that, in addition to the
construction of the two schools, several
other projects would be postponed.
"There are a lot of things being af
fected by a lack of capital appropria
tions. We have a backlog of repair in the
$60-70 million range," Swecker said.
His list included:
B Barrier removal projects for ac
cess for the handicapped in approxi
mately nine buildings and campus
walks,
a Access elevators in Howell and
Hill Halls,
n Expansion of a plant for chilled
See BUILDING, page 7