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Baker, Cuban official
scheduled to meet
NEW YORK The Bush adminis
tration on Wednesday scheduled the
first formal meeting with Cuba in more
than 30 years.
The evening meeting in New York
was set to occur at a time when Secre
tary of State James Baker has been
expanding his search for votes from
United Nations Security Council
members to threaten Iraq with war if it
did not leave Kuwait.
The meeting between Baker and
Foreign Minister Isidoro Malmierca of
Cuba means the U.S. official will have
personally lobbied all 14 countries to
join the United States in voting on a
U.N. resolution Thursday to authorize
force to liberate Kuwait if 450,000 Iraqi
troops do not withdraw by Jan. 15.
Gephardt opposes
force in Persian Gulf
WASHINGTON House Majority
Leader Richard Gephardt is the first
congressional leader to oppose autho
rizing use of military force in the near
future to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
"The best policy now is to enforce
the (economic) sanctions. I am against
authorizing force now," Gephardt, D
Mo., said Tuesday in a telephone in
terview. "I think we should stay the
course with sanctions" against Iraq.
Gephardt's opposition to a resolution
is the first public break among the
Democratic leadership, who said last
week that President Bush would have a
better chance of winning congressional
approval for the use of force in the
Persian Gulf if the United Nations first
backed such a move.
CNN allowed to air
Noriega phone calls
MIAMI A federal judge
Wednesday lifted a ban on broadcasting
tapes of Manuel Noriega's prison tele
phone calls, defusing a confrontation
between the rights of the media and
those of a criminal defendant.
While CNN hailed the decision as a
victory over censorship, Noriega's de
fense and constitutional specialists said
the case showed the U.S. Supreme Court
was willing to accept at least temporary
restrictions on the press.
Noriega is charged with drug traf
ficking in a February 1988 indictment
accusing him of accepting $4.6 million
in bribes from the Medellin drug cartel.
Ethics committee
hears S&L testimony
WASHINGTON A former fed
eral regulator says "the whole setting
was an intimidating one" when he met
with four senators to discuss financier
Charles Keating and the problems of
Lincoln Savings and Loan Association.
Edwin Gray, the former top federal
thrift regulator, testified Tuesday that
Sen. Dennis DeConcini, D-Ariz.,
flanked by three fellow lawmakers,
opened the meeting by referring to
Keating as "our friend from Lincoln
Savings."
The testimony came at a Senate Ethics
Committee hearing into charges five
senators intervened improperly on be
half of Keating and his savings and loan
after he provided them with consider
able campaign contributions.
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raising 3
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Christmas shopping mania up close
and personal 4
Rule reversal
The new NCAA basketball rules and
ideas for future changes 5
Campus and City 3
Arts and Features 4
Sports 5
Classified 6
Comics 7
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By JENNIFER DUNLAP
and DI0NNE L0Y
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Signs such as "You want to hide this,
yet fund homosexual filth?!" and
"Censorship is censorship. Save our
statues," were hung by the College
Republicans (CRs) on the statues out
side Davis Library between 1 a.m. and
3 a.m. Wednesday.
The CRs, who wrote the signs on the
backs of U.S. Senator Jesse Helms
campaign posters, did so to show the
hypocrisy of the students who wanted
to move the statues, said Charlton Allen,
CR chairman.
"Many of the students who are so
enraged at the defunding of the NEA
and so supportive of (Robert)
Mapplethorpe want to move these
statues," he said. "They are opposed to
censorship, yet they are censoring things
themselves." Mapplethorpe was a con
troversial photographer whose work
often contained homoerotic,
sadomasochist images. Helms has based
his anti-National Endowment for Arts
campaign on Mapplethorpe's work.
A sign hung on the statue of an African-American
basketball player stated,
"Would this be racist if it was a white
student? It's not a black thing." Other
signs compared the statues to
Mapplethorpe "If you think the
statues are offensive, look at
Mapplethorpe (at least the taxpayers
didn't pay for this!!!)" and
Policy to
By BURKE K00NCE
Staff Writer
A University policy prohibiting dis
crimination against homosexuals and
other minority groups helps make life in
UNC residence halls more like "the real
world," said Lydia Newman, assistant
director of housing.
GSU wants funds designated,
specifically to pay TA salaries
By ELIZABETH BYRD
Senior Writer
Members of Graduate Students
United are pushing for a change in the
General Assembly's method of funding
the University to ensure adequate sala
ries for graduate student employees.
"This is a long-term plan," said Joel
Sipress, GSU co-chairman. "What we
need to do is talk to the campus ad
ministration and local delegates and
gain their support."
GSU wants the General Assembly to
create a funding category specifically
for graduate students in the University
system's budget, Sipress said.
"The way the budget is made up, if
you're not explicitly recognized in it,
you're going to get short shrift," he said.
"And there is no line item for graduate
student employees."
But Rep. Anne Barnes, D-Orange,
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"Mapplethorpe and the statues... what's
the difference? Sadomasochism, child
pornography, homosexual filth, tax
payer funding, liberal support. Don't be
a hypocrite."
Some people may have found the
statues offensive, but the Mapplethorpe
exhibit was more blatantly offensive,
Allen said. "The difference is between
a statue of a male basketball player and
a photograph of a nude seven-year-old
male (in the Mapplethorpe exhibit)," he
said. "I think you could build much
more of a case for Mapplethorpe's work
being offensive."
Students who support the relocation
of the statues and oppose ending fund
ing for the NEA are not recognizing the
correct definition of censorship, Allen
said.
"First of all, I don't think defunding
is censorship, because people can still
privately support the art," he said. "But
to remove something privately sup
ported, like the statues which were
purchased by the (1985) senior class,
that is censorship."
The CRs wrote at the bottom of each
sign that their organization sponsored
the posters. Some of the group's offic
ers decided to hang the signs, and not all
members of the organization may have
agreed with the decision, Allen said.
The signs were torn off the statues
and ripped up early Wednesday morn
ing. The pieces were left at the bottom
of the statues. Later in the morning
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The policy states, "Among the tra
ditional factors which are generally
considered irrelevant (in educational
and employment decisions) are race,
sex, religion and national origin. It is the
policy of the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill that an
individual's sexual orientation be treated
said the addition of another category to
the University system's budget would
be unlikely.
"It would be a real departure from
process to do it that way," she said. "But
I don't want to sound like I'm making
the decisions since (the plan) hasn't
been presented yet." Barnes has not yet
heard from students about their proposal,
she said.
Under the present budget system,
salaries for graduate students are in
cluded in the system's instructional
budget category, which provides faculty
salaries. Teaching assistants are paid
out of money from unfilled full-time
faculty positions.
S ipress said the recent budget crunch
has hurt graduate students severely by
eliminating vacant faculty positions. The
specific designation of graduate student
funding would ease the present situation
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someone pieced the signs back together
and left them at the statues' bases.
Chris Bracey, spokesman for Com
munity Against Offensive Statues, said
members of the group first saw the signs
early Wednesday morning. "We were
just shocked and appalled."
The group formed to protest the lo
cation of the statues on campus because
they thought the sculpture, which was
donated by the Class of 1985 to the
University, had sexist and racist impli
cations. Allen said opinions that the statues
are racist and sexist are unfounded. "A
lot of things said about the statues are
really reaching," he said. "How can
people say the statues represent male
domination when after all, the sculptor
is a female? Only by twisted logic can
they say that the statues are racist. Are
they saying that any minority athlete is
promoting racism by simply playing his
sport?"
The CRs actions may energize
support for leaving the sculpture in its
present location, Allen said. "We hope
to support the camp of leaving the statues
exactly where they are and to influence
the people who are unsure."
Bracey said CAOS members found
the association between Mapplethorpe
and the statues disturbing. "It's silly
because you're not putting
Mapplethorpe on campus, you're put
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in the same manner."
The philosophy of the housing de
partment and the University is not
merely to provide housing, but to edu
cate students living on campus, she said.
The new policy makes living in resi
dence halls safer for homosexuals and
has little effect on other students, she
and guard against similar predicaments
in the future, he said.
The plan, if implemented, would have
the greatest effect on teaching assistants,
whose salaries are paid entirely by the
state. Graduate students in other cat
egories, such as research assistants, re
ceive some grants from private sources.
GSU's request for more specific
earmarking of the budget comes at the
same time as Chancellor Paul Hardin's
call for increased flexibility throughout
the University's budget. The General
Assembly will implement parts of
Hardin's flexibility proposal in July
1991, enabling the University to retain
surplus money that now reverts to the
state's General Fund.
Barnes said the success of graduate
students' push for a specific funding
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Newman said, "A major goal is to
provide an understanding of diversity
among students. We want students to
learn to live with students different from
themselves."
Wayne Kuncl, director of housing,
said there were no policies within the
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By PETER F. WALLSTEN
City Editor
The University will not buy an
existing apartment complex to replace
Odum Village if the proposed South
Loop is built, destroying the present
family student housing facilities, Vice
Chancellor for Student Affairs Donald
Boulton said Wednesday.
But Vice Chancellor for Business
and Finance Ben Tuchi said he would
not rule out the purchase of an exist
ing facility for family student housing,
and the University will not conduct
any studies to find other alternatives.
Boulton made his announcement
after weeks of complaints from town
officials and residents that such a
purchase would take money out of
Chapel Hill's tax base and reduce
affordable housing in the area.
A committee appointed by Chan
SAT scores not indicative
of N.C. academic abilities
By JENNIFER LYNN DAVIS
Staff Writer
The validity of the Scholastic Apti
tude Test (SAT) in measuring academic
ability is again being questioned with
the recent release of the average scores
of freshmen enrolled in the University
of North Carolina system this fall.
The results of a report compiled for
the Board of Governors include the
average SAT scores of first-time
freshmen, arranged according to resi
dence status and institution. The report,
covering the fall of 1980 through the
fall of 1990, is both encouraging and
troublesome for administrators.
The University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and North Carolina State
University were the only two schools
where the in-state freshmen average
SAT score exceeded 1000, with UNC
CH posting 1090 while NSCU freshmen
scored 1049. The out-of-state average
for UNC-CH freshmen was much higher
at 1207, but N.C. State showed no real
difference, with a 1069 out-of-state av
erage. The five lowest in-state averages did
not exceed 800.
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and Fayetteville State University, a
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department dealing expressly with mi
nority group housing.
Newman said discrimination against
homosexuals or other minority groups
would not be tolerated. Students who
request room changes solely based on a
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cellor Paul Hardin and headed by
Boulton recommended last summer
the purchase of Glen Lennox apart
ments to replace Odum Village if the
plans for the new road would be ac
cepted into the state-funded thor
oughfare plan.
University administrators want to
realign Manning Drive to reroute
traffic away from UNC Hospitals.
South Loop would run between the
South Campus residence halls and the
Smith Center, and connect Manning
Drive to South Columbia Street. UNC
administrators have said the road is
also necessary to handle increased
Vntffoi flow, that will result from ad
ditional hospital facilities.
"I'm talking about trying to kill any
idea that we can or will buy Glen
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significant improvement has occurred
in the average SAT scores of enrolled
freshman over the past 10 years, with
in-state averages of 729 and 772 respec
tively. "Elizabeth City State and Fayetteville
State have showed tremendous progress
in the last ten years," said CD. Spangler,
Jr., president of the University of North
Carolina system. "Fayetteville State
has improved its average almost 200
points." Cv
The five schools with the lowest SAT
averages were also the five schools with
the highest minority population in 1 989.
In addition to the below 800 average in
state scores posted at ECSU and FSU,
North Carolina School of Agriculture
and Technology averaged 754, North
Carolina Central University scored 729
and Winston Salem State University
posted 694.
'The SAT is racially problematic,"
said Killian Manning, a lecturer for the
physical education department at UNO
"It's biased towards the white middle
class." s
The College Board has received sev
eral complaints that the test is geareij
See SAT, page 7