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Volume 98, Issue 101
Tuesday, November 13, 1990
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Bush pledges to work
with Congress on gulf
WASHINGTON The White
House Dledeed today President Bush
will work closely with Congress on the
Persian Gulf crisis but said he might be
forced to order military action on his
own in the event of "unforeseen kinds
of nrovocations."
White House press secretary Marlin
Fitzwater, addressing concerns raised
by Democratic lawmakers, said Bush
would work with Congress "every step
of the way. We have no intention of
leaving Congress out.
Fitzwater added, "He will follow the
constitutional requirements, and we
would want to consult with the Congress
everv step of the way. But there are
always those unforeseen kinds of
provocations that might result in having
to move first.
Congress needs to be involved in any
decision to fight, several congressional
Democrats said Sunday, several days
after Bush announced plans to nearly
double the 230,000 troops in the Persian
Gulf to provide an "adequate offensive
option.
CNN agrees to freeze
playing Noriega tapes
MIAMI Manuel Noriega and
Cable News Network declared a cease
fire Monday, agreeing to postpone their
constitutional showdown over taped
conversations until the U.S. Supreme
Court rules on the issue.
Under the deal worked out in federal
court. CNN must refrain from playing
anv tapes between the imprisoned
former Panamanian leader and his at
torneys.
In return, Noriega's defense delayed
a request for contempt penalties of up to
$300,000 per broadcast against the
network. U.S. District Judge William
Hoeveler also delayed his order de
manding that CNN hand over seven
disputed tapes to the court.
"Our concern is to keep General
Norieea from being denied a fair trial,
defense attorney Jon May said. "I'm not
here to squeeze blood out 01 l.jnjn.
He said suspending the contempt
proceedings would allow the Supreme
Court to focus on the broader constitu
tional question balancing protections of
the attorney-client privilege and treeaom
of speech.
German leftists riot
to protect homes
BERLIN Anarchists in black
hoods flung rocks and fired flare guns at
hundreds of riot police Monday in a
wild battle for control of a rundown
Berlin street.
Club-wielding police protected by
helmets and shields used armored cars
w ith water cannons against the hundreds
of leftist squatters living in a long row
of abandoned tenements.
At least 12 people were arrested in
the mid-afternoon clash, but no injury
figures were immediately available, said
Berlin police spokesman Werner
Thronicker.
The violence began when police
evicted leftist radicals from three houses
they had been occupying in other parts
of eastern Berlin.
The leftists built barricades on the
street from junked cars and trash con
tainers and began attacking when police
moved in.
From Associated Press reports
Professoral lunch
Student Government sponsors student-professor
lunches 3
Lyrical ladies
Loreieis pitch themselves into creai
ing a memorable concert 4
NBA (No Buts About it)
Doug McCurry picks Michaeito bring
home the bacon for the Bulls 5
Local . 2
City and Campus ." 3
Arts and Features 4
Sports 5
Classified : 6
Opinion 8
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By LAURA WILLIAMS
Senior Writer
Community Against Offensive
Statues (CAOS) will propose five al
ternative sites for "The Student Body"
statues in an effort to speed up the
decision to move the controversial
statues or leave them in front of Davis
Library.
The group met Monday night to
discuss alternate sites. Members
planned to write a letter to John Sand
ers, chairman of the Buildings and
Grounds Committee, and deliver it to
him today. Chancellor Paul Hardin said
last week that he would send the issue
to the committee for consideration.
CAOS will ask the committee to call
an emergency meeting to select an al
ternate site for the sculpture.
The five alternate sites suggested
were: the Paul Green Theatre, Hanes
rock garden, the area between Sitterson
and Phillips halls, the area between
Fetzer Gymnasium and Carmichael
Auditorium, and a site near the Law
School.
Dana Lumsden, an organizer of
CAOS, said the group's goal was to get
the sculpture moved no later than winter
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Proposed
procedure
for limiting counsel
By BURKE KOONCE
Staff Writer
University employees filing griev
ances against the University under the
proposed employee grievance process
are "definitely at a disadvantage, saia
Daniel Pollitt, Kenan law professor.
Employees have critic ized the policy
proposed by the grievance procedure
review committee because it prohibits
lawyers in the first three stages of the
grievance procedure.
Flanked by two lawyers, Ben Tuchi,
committee chairman and UNC's vice
chairman of business and finance, told
University employees at a open forum
Nov. 6 that the inclusion of lawyers in
the process' s early stages would make it
too formal and cumbersome, Pollitt said.
Most grievance cases are decided in the
early stages, he said.
Under the present system. Step 1 is
handled within departments, Step 2 is
handled by the" employee relations of
fice. Step 3 is a hearing in front of a
UNC panel that reports its ruling to the
chancellor and Step 4 is a hearing out
side the University.
The present policy does not mention
the presence of lawyers in the process
and has been criticized because of Step
2.
William Campbell, committee
nosed by CAOS
To help make moving the sculpture
easier, CAOS is looking into fund
raising projects to pay for a flower
garden to go in the space the statues
now occupy in front of Davis Library.
Fund raising would also show that
CAOS has the support of students,
Lumsden said.
"It's not a black thing or a woman's
thing it's a student thing," he said.
The Buildings and Grounds com
mittee handles issues that affect the
appearance of the University, such as
the location of buildings, the selection
of architects to design or remodel
buildings, landscaping and long-range
physical development plans.
Sanders said the committee was
consulted about placing the statues in
front of Davis Library. The group had
not seen any pictures of the statues
when the location was determined, he
said.
Buildings and Grounds committee
members are considering holding an
open forum on the statues before it
makes a recommendation to Hardin
about how to resolve the issue.
The group has not taken any action
on the issue, because it has not received
an order by Hardin to consider the issue,
DTHJonathan Grubbs
grievance
criticised
member and law professor, said em
ployees had objected to Step 2 because
of the large role the employee relations
office played in the process. Employees
filing grievances generally have no le
gal training and have difficulty arguing
their case before the trained personnel
in the employee relations office, he said.
As a result, employees have begun
finding lawyers to better present their
cases, Campbell said.
Committee members said the pres
ence of lawyers would make the griev
ance process more adversarial than co
operative and would limit compromise,
he said. Employees still would be able
to seek legal advice in private, but could
not actually be represented by a lawyer.
The grievance review committee
proposed that trained support persons
be provided by the University and made
available to all parties involved in filed
grievances.
Pollitt compared the committee's
proposal to letting the UNC football
team practice with Coach Mack Brown
on Friday, but barring him from the
game on Saturday.
"I've been teaching people to be
lawyers for 35 years, and I think lawyers
can provide a good service," he said. "It
doesn't matter what the length (of the
process) is as long as you get the results."
Life is just a bowl of pits. Rodney Dangerfield
he said. After the forum, committee
members would go into private session
to vote on their proposal to Hardin.
CAOS members expressed concern
about Hardin's decision to send the
issue to committee. Many members said
Hardin was reluctant to make the deci
sion himself and was passing the re
sponsibility on to another organization.
Hardin's decision to send the issue to
the committee came after the
committee's duties were called into
question last summer during approval
of the Kenan Heights site for the Busi
ness School.
In a controversial 2-0-5 vote on the
school's location, several members said
they felt Hardin had already decided on
a site for the school and their advice had
not been considered.
Hardin also is under pressure from
alumni who think the statues should be
left in place, CAOS members said.
Lumsden said those alumni make sig
nificant contributions to the University,
and Hardin must consider the financial
implications of going against their
wishes.
"It's a tough decision on his part," he
See CAOS, page 7
By VICKI HYMAN
Features Editor
People need to think again, and think
harder about what they are doing to the
earth, said environmental activist and
two-time Nobel Peace Prize nominee
David Brower Monday night.
"We've got to think about equity and
what we are contributing to the lack of
it,"Brower said. "We've been (using up
resources) awfully fast, considering the
short time we've been on the earth. In
my lifetime, the population of the earth
has tripled. In my lifetime, 78.3 years,
the world has used four times as many
resources as in all previous history."
In his speech, given in conjunction
with Human Rights Week, Brower
discussed the need for government to
play a larger role in the environmental
issue, how people need to make use of
communication resources to spread
awareness about environmental issues,
and how people need to stop destroying
the environment before it destroys those
people.
"The resources do not exist to feed
ourselves ... much less help any of the
other population. Nature recycles ev
erything and we better learn to do it
damn quick."
Brower joined the Sierra Club, an
environmental group, in 1933, became
Activist urges student involvement
By S0YIA ELLISON
Staff Writer
Some work must still be done in the
human rights movement, 90-year-old
activist Modjeska Monteith bimkins
told a group of about 40 students in
Hamilton Hall Auditorium Monday.
Simkins spoke to students after the
showing of a documentary about her
life, "Makin a Way Out of No Way."
She urged young people to get in
volved in the fight for equality. "I
haven't finished, and the people I
worked with haven't finished," she
said. "There's still a job to do, and I
hope you'll go on."
The country's problem today is not
its citizens, but "trashy politicians,"
she said.
"I think the youth should keep their
minds very keenly on the rapid changes
that are taking place in our political
structure," she said. "This isn't a poor
man's country anymore, it's not a
middle man's country it's all
moving toward the power structure."
Voting is one of the best ways to
make changes in the political system
today, she said, urging voters to "throw
out the scamps."
"The vote is the thing that makes
the difference between a free man and
a slave," she said.
Simkins, a native of Columbia, S.C.,
worked with numerous human rights
organizations, including the National
Association for the Advancement of
Colored People, the Southern Con
ference Education Fund and the
Commission on Interracial Coopera-
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By STACEY KAPLAN
Staff Writer
Students and faculty can no longer
light one up in Howell Hall, home of
the School of Journalism and Mass
Communication.
Faculty and staff of the journalism
school voted at their October general
meeting to ban smoking from all ar
eas of the building, excluding private
offices occupied by one person, said
Cathy Packer, assistant journalism
professor.
The smoking ban applies to ev
eryone in the building so people who
do not smoke will not be exposed to
smokers against their will, she said.
"I think we made the right deci
sion," she said. "It's a question of
civil liberties."
Robert Stevenson, journalism
professor, said few people smoked in
Howell Hall. The ban makes a dis
tinction between private and public
areas of the building by allowing
people to smoke in single offices, he
said.
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its first executive director. The club's
membership grew from 2,000 to 77,000
under his tenure from 1 952-1 969.
In 1969, Brower founded Friends of
the Earth, along with the League of
Conservation Voters. In 1982, Brower
founded Earth Island Institute, which
works to bring peace, environmental
and other groups together to preserve
the environment and achieve peace on
the earth.
Brower has been nominated twice
for the Nobel Peace Prize and has re
ceived nine honorary degrees.
The speech was sponsored by the
Carolina Union Forum Committee, the
Campus Y Student Environmental Ac
tion Coalition, Student Congress, the
Ecology Curriculum and the Depart
ments of Biology and Environmental
Sciences.
Jimmy Langman, a SEAC member
who was responsible for bringing
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Susan Ehringhaus, assistant to the
chancellor, said administrators were
reviewing the present smoking policy
for the entire campus.
The Health Affairs buildings and
classrooms in Academic Affairs are
now smoke-free under the existing
policy, she said.
Academic units have the opportu
nity to enforce individual smoking
policies in their particular buildings,
she said.
Chancellor Paul Hardin will ulti
mately make the final decision on a
campuswide smoking ban, she said.
Provost Dennis O'Connor said he
was discussing the present smoking
policy with other administrators. A
decision will be made by January, he
said.
Details concerning a campuswide
smoking ban need to be assessed to
make the policy feasible, he said.
"We're trying to work out the pa
rameters of a campuswide smoking
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Brower to campus, said ai Brower's
introduction that many people did not
see environmental issues as being human-centered.
.
"Most environmentalists bel ieve that
it's time for humanity to stop being
selfish," Langman said. "It's time for
humanity to start caring for other forms
of life on this planet."
The earth's inhabitants are dependent
on the environment, Langman said, and
if people continued to let government
and corporations poison the air, land
and water, human life would not last
much longer.
"Environmentalists are fighting for
the most fundamental human right of
them all, the right to live," he said.
"Freedom, jobs and democracy don't
mean a damn thing if you can't eat or
breathe. Go ask the dinosaurs."
The government is not cooperating
to help the environment, no matter what
lip service the politicians may give the
environment, Brower said. "We should
thank George Bush for saying he is the
environmental president and thank him
when he becomes one," he said.
During a question-and-answer ses
sion, Cris Moore, a national SEAC in
tern from New York, said he thought
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