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TODAY: 40 chance of rain;
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A SIBLING OPERATION
University students and recent graduates assist children in Third
World countries as part of Operation Smile .
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CLINCH ED:The National Leaguefast
by the Pittsburgh Pirates with a 4-2 win
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny;
high lower 70s
UNCs top-ranked women's soccer team shuts out
the seventh-ranked Virginia Cavaliers
against the New York Mets.
MAGIC NUMBERS:
Toronto 4
Atlanta 2
Oakland 1
24-hour Residence Hall Lock
up Forum with Dean Donald
Boulton will take place at 8 p.m.
in Carmichael Ballroom.
(Magic numbers denote how many
games a league leader must win or a
second place team must lose for a team
to clinch a baseball division.)
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B-GLAD file second suit following faraial
By Marty Minchin
Assistant University Editor
A complaint brought by members of
Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians and Al
lies for Diversity against Student Con
gress for a rider imposed upon the
group's budget last year was dismissed
in a pre-trial hearing Sunday night, but
B-GLAD members immediately filed
another complaint.
Chief Justice Malcolm Turner said
he dismissed the complaint because it
was filed against former congress
speaker Tim Moore and the 73rd con
gress and therefore was invalid against
the present 74th congress.
"I dismissed their original complaint
based on the fact that they're suing the
BOT member Pope
assails rape victims
Staff Report
At Friday 's Board of Trustees meet
ing, BOT member John Pope said that
the general public had no sympathy
for women who have traveled home
from parties with men and then been
the victims of date rape.
During a discussion on the prob
lems of campus security, Pope, who
has made controversial remarks con
cerning the number of women en
rolled at UNC, said that while die
campus may feel sympathy for women
who have been the victims of date
rape, the general public did not.
"Any female and I probably
shouldn't say this who wants to go
home with a bunch of drunken boys at
two or three o'clock in the morning
and then yell rape at eight that morn
ing, that female does not have much
sympathy in the general public," Pope
said.
Campus safety has become an in
creased concern in recent weeks, with
the Aug. 29 rape of a UNC student in
Time constraints limit
effectiveness of WTVD
cultural center debate
By Thanassis Cambanis
Staff Writer
Key figures in the black cultural cen
ter controversy discussed the move
ment for a free-standing BCC on WTVD
11 's weekly "Reflections" program
Sunday but came out of the forum say
ing they were no closer to an agreement
on the issue.
Provost Richard McCormick, BCC
Director Margo Crawford, Student Body
Vice President Charlie Higgins and
Black Awareness Council co-founder
Tim Smith took part in the panel discus
sion, which was hosted by WTVD's
Gayle Paschal.
The program, recorded in front of a
studio audience Tuesday, focused on
the history of the controversy and ef
forts to reach a solution.
Higgins, who has supported Student
Body President John Moody in his ad
vocacy of a multicultural center, said he
thought the program accomplished very
little in terms of encouraging dialogue.
"The dialogue on this issue has been
taking place through the newspapers,
and that's unfortunate," he said. "Even
TV is better than talking through the
newspapers. It's a good start."
After the program, Higgins and
McCormick "chatted" with Smith and
"pleaded with him to take part in the
discussion," Higgins said.
"We made it clear to him that the
door is open," he said. "As Dr.
McCormick said, there are empty chairs
on the committee with (BAC mem
bers') names on them."
So far Smith, the BAC, members of
the coalition and members of the BCC
Advisory Board have refused to sit on
McCormick' s committee, which will
discuss various proposals and give
Chancellor Paul Hardin a final recom
mendation on the BCC issue.
Clifford Charles, an audience mem
ber and chairman of the Black Faculty
Staff Caucus, said the program was
limited by the half-hour format.
"I thought it was constructive as far
as it went," he said. "I don't think any
thing new came from this discussion. It
was a summary of things that have been
wrong congress," Turner said. "The 73rd
congress no longer exists."
B-GLAD members refiled theircom
plaint against Speaker Jennifer Lloyd
and the 74th congress at the hearing and
demanded a response to their complaint
by 5 p.m. Friday.
Turner will hear the new complaint
at a pre-trial hearing set for Oct. 4.
Lloyd, who voted against the rider in
congress last year, said she would con
sult the full congress on the matter at its
Wednesday meeting before issuing a
response.
The rider, which was attached to the
former Carolina Gay and Lesbian
Association's funds at last year's bud
get hearings, stipulates that the group
and its publications cannot endorse or
her Granville
Towers dorm
room and three
recent unsolved
assaults on cam
pus, two of
which occurred
in broad day
light. In addition to
putting up more
lights on cam
pus, UNC offi
John Pope
cials have imposed a permanent lockup
on University dormitories and have
increased the number of University
Police patrols.
After the meeting, Pope said his
remarks were meant to express the
need for students to be responsible for
their own safety.
While UNC officials can try to make
the campus a generally safer place,
students should take extra precautions
to prevent violent crimes from occur
ring, he said.
said over the past few months."
Paschal asked Higgins to describe
student sentiment toward a free-standing
BCC
"By and large, students support ex
panded facilities," Higgins said. "The
question is whether it should be free
standing or not."
Charles questioned the accuracy of
Higgins' assessment of student opin
ion. Bringing up Student Congress's
13-8 vote endorsing a free-standing
BCC, Charles said, "Maybe the execu
tive branch is out of step with predomi
nant student sentiment."
McCormick said he thought it was
time for a new relationship between the
University administration and the black
community.
"We need to get a process going that
would be based upon support for a new
relationship," he said. "We could re
solve the BCC issue and then address
the more important problem of institu
tional racism."
The final Bicentennial plan put forth
by the University in 1991 included
$500,000 for BCC programming and
expansion, reversing the original 1989
plan, which earmarked $2.5 million for
anew BCC in 1989.
The student movement started in 1 99 1
as a result of this "broken promise,"
Crawford said.
McCormick emphasized that the
money in the Bicentennial plan never
really existed. "There was a plan to
raise $2.5 million which was changed
to a plan to raise $500,000, but the
money was never there to disappear,"
he said.
Paschal showed clips of the BCC at
N.C. State University, which shares a
building with a variety of other student
organizations. She then asked Smith
why UNCs BCC could not be part of a
student union annex or a multicultural
center.
"We're not just going to take what
we can get," Smith said. "We're going
to take what we want. A multicultural
center would be a compromise."
SrMith added that no other minority
groups on campus had stated the desire
to be part of a multicultural center.
Moral victories
oppose any candidates forpublic office.
Under the budget rider, the group's
newsletter, Lambda, will be subject to
censorship by congress members after
its publication.
A similar rider also was attached to
the funds the 73rd congress allotted to
Graduate Students United.
Lisa Grafstein, a first-year law stu
dent and co-counsel to B-GLAD, said
she thought the reasons for the dis
missal of the original complaint were
strange
"We find it interesting that the court
chose to dismiss on the grounds they
chose to dismiss," she said.
Moore, who now attends law school
at the University of Oklahoma, mailed
in a response to the complaint, citing
ICC controversy
heads discussion
by faculty group
By James Lewis
Staff Writer
Debate concerning the future of the
Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center
dominated discussion at the year's first
Faculty Council meeting Friday, much
as the issue has held the attention of the
student body in recent weeks.
After Chancellor Paul Hardin, who
presided over the proceedings in the
Assembly Room of Wilson Library,
made bis opening address, Student Body
President John Moody addressed the
assemblage and stated his reservations
about a free-standing BCC.
Moody said that a large number of
students had complimented him for so
openly opposing a new building and
that a majority of students support his
view.
"What amazes (my supporters) is not
the arguments against a free-standing
BCC, but simply the fact that I openly
oppose one," Moody said.
Moody said he basically disagreed
with all current proposals for a new
BCC or a multicultural center, citing
space availability on campus as his main
concern.
"I do not believe that all hope is lost,"
Moody said. "There are proposals such
as expanding the Union and the Daniels
Building which could increase the
Candidates say UNC
By Matthew Henry
Staff Writer
Democratic gubernatorial candidate
Jim Hunt and lieutenant governor can
didate Dennis Wicker said Sunday that
N.C. universities needed more money
to reverse a downward trend in the
system's quality.
The two candidates made their state
ments at the Orange County Demo
cratic Party Unity Barbecue Sunday
afternoon at the American Legion Build
ing in Chapel Hill.
Hunt, who arrived from a Winston
Salem debate with GOP candidate Jim
Gardner, said that UNC-Chapel Hill's
quality had begun to decline. "The mar
gin of excellence of UNC-Chapel Hill
to other universities has begun to slip,"
he said.
The UNC system, made up of 16
N.C. universities, has declined because
the state legislature hasn't been appro
priating enough money, the former gov
ernor said.
He's back: Legendary UNC
ByAlanAyers
Staff Writer
Dale McKinley, the man known for
raising consciousness and creating dis
cord on the University campus during
the mid-1980s, has returned to UNC,
this time as an instructor in the educa
tional institution he fought to change
throughout his college career.
But McKinley, visiting lecturer and
campus activist, said recently that he
still thought many of the social and
political problems on campus could be
attributed to the administration's lack
of concern for the interests of the stu
dent body.
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reasons B-GLAD' s case should be dis
missed. Ashley Osment, a first-year law stu
dent and B-GLAD's other co-counsel,
said the case was dismissed because it
was filed against the wrong congress.
Osment said Turner had not made his
ruling because he found Moore's rea
soning to be valid.
"We think there's a possibility that
the phantom of Tim Moore is behind
what the court did tonight," she said.
Osment also said that while the Stu
dent Government Code stated that Stu
dent Congress should be represented by
the attorney general in all court cases.
Student Attorney General Ian Fay had
not been involved any of the proceedings.
amount of student space around the Pit
area."
Chuck Stone, a professor of journal
ism who has received criticism from at
least one member of the coalition for a
free-standing BCC for voicing concern
about their tactics, was not in atten
dance but did address the council
through a written statement on behalf of
the Black FacultyStaff Caucus.
In the statement, Stone said that struc
tures such as the BCC were not unusual
or irregular at diverse universities like
UNC.
"In any institution or any campus
where pluralism flourishes, it is normal
for various groups to cleave together
and form organizations," Stone said in
the statement.
Stone also said that structures like a
free-standing BCC would not "dimin
ish collegiality."
"I can assure you that if this free
standing black cultural center brings in
Arsenio Hall, Oprah Winfrey, Bryant
Gumbel, Michael Jordan, Prince or
Madonna, their audience will be auda
ciously integrated," he said. "And that
indeed is multiculturalism."
Provost Richard McCormick ex
pressed hope for the newly formed
group, headed by him, which will present
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. "Classes have
gotten bigger,"
Hunt said. "I've
heard from stu
dents that they
haven't been able
to graduate in four
years because the
classes they need
haven't been
available."
Research de
im Hunt
partments haven't
been as strong and competitive as they
were in the past, Hunt added.
The way to reverse this decline is to
make sure that the state's universities
receive the money they need and are
more efficient, Hunt said.
Dennis Wicker, thecandidate for lieu
tenant governor, was not ready to say
N.C. colleges were in a full decline, but
he did express concern.
"I'm concerned that the system is
teetering on a decline," Wicker said.
"We've dropped out of the top 25, and
"Freedom of
dissent is a funda
mental right, but
unfortunately, it
only goes so far on
this campus," he
said. "People can
engage in public
expression of their
opinions or even
have a demonstra
tion, but when they
begin to organize
Dale McKinley
themselves into coalitions that seek di
rect action, the administration begins to
make excuses and starts to limit stu
dents' rights."
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f it
The Code states in Tide I, Art. U,
Sect. 4 that: "The Attorney General
shall represent the President and the
Student Congress in all judicial mat
ters." Lloyd was the only representative of
Student Congress at the pre-trial hear
ing. Kathy Staley, B-GLAD co-chairwoman,
said that she had contacted
Fay. Fay told her that he knew nothing
about the case, Staley said.
Osment said the events of Sunday's
pre-trial hearing would not hinder the
group in any way from pursuing its
complaint.
"It was a purely mechanical move
tonight," she said. ,
Doug Ferguson, B-GLAD co-chair
Brown out
North Carolina defensive tackle Curtis Brown
the reality of N.C. State's 27-20 victory sets
system needs money
Thorpe interested
Former Chapel Hill Town Council
member Bill Thorpe said Sunday that
he would be interested in filling the
council seat left vacant by former
member Roosevelt Wilkerson.
Wilkerson resigned earlier this
month after admitting falsifying
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun's sig
nature on an official town document.
Thorpe, who ran unsuccessfully for
a seat on the council in November,
said he was part of the group that
would put forth an application by the
Oct. 5 deadline.
But Thorpe added that he did not
know whether he would be the choice.
"There's always the possibility, but
we were in the top five only a few years
ago."
Wicker said he would not let this
situation continue if elected as lieuten-
ant governor. 'This is a piece of our
activist returns as lecturer
McKinley, who earned a master's
degree in political science from UNC in
1990, was convicted of trespassing and
willfully obstructing the operations of
UNC during a 1988 anti-CIA
protest.The conviction was later over
turned by the Graduate Student
Court, and McKinley said still consid
ered himself an activist for political and
social reform on campus.
McKinley said he believed the ad
ministration had separated itself from
the student body to the point that ad
ministrators no longer were aware of
students' needs, resulting in conflicts
such as the controversy over a proposed
free-standing black cultural center. "You
man, said that if the court decided not to
remove the rider from the group's bud
get, B-GLAD members would not have
any use for their funds.
"If the rider on our budget is allowed
to stand, the congress would have given
us our money to sit on our hands and do
nothing with it," he said.
Ferguson said he was glad Turner
had alio wed B-GLAD members to refi le
their complaint instead of completely
dismissing the case
"The outcome tonight could have
been a very bad one for us."
In recent weeks. B-GLAD has
changed its name from the Carolina
Gay and Lesbian Association and has
voted to join the coalition for a free
standing black cultural center.
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DTHEve Sandiin
sits dejected on the Tar Heel bench as the
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in council seat
I'm not getting
all excited," he
said. "I do have
the experience. I
could begin serv
ing from the first
day."
Thorpe said
he now was con
cerned about the
lack of black rep
resentation on
the council.
Thorpe
Thorpe served two previous terms
on the council, 1977-1981 and 1983
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infrastructure we can't allow to erode,"
he said.
Wicker attributed the problem to
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cannot talk about the issues forever
because eventually, people are going to
get angry and take action," he said.
"There's been no movement on the side
of the University, so now the only ratio
nal response is to raise the stakes.
"Racism and sexism are a problem
on this campus and in society . The most
important thing for students, however,
is to have a holistic perspective. They
must not get caught up on one political
issue but should seek fundamental
change in the economic and political
structures in society."
McKinley said that the United States
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