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u TODAY: Mostly sunny; high low 60s o::ce mmi University Police, students stili forced to deal with widespread incidents of bicycle thefts ACC l70r3fS HOOPS A preview of the 1992-93 conference basketball season shows a group of torrid Terrapins at the head of the pack ANOINTED: To host the women's soccer final four, North Carolina at Fetter Field. The first semifinal match, between Duke and Hartford, will take place at 1 p.m. Saturday. Six-time defending champion UNC will host Santa Clara at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in the other semifinal. The national championship will be played at 1 p.m. Sunday. This is the fourth time in five years that the Tar Heels have hosted the event. wtuiNtbUAY: Partly cloudy;A high mid-60s m lailta ar m. STOWE and Morehead will sponsor a blood drive from 3 p.m. until 7:30 p.m. in the Cobb basement. 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Est. 1893 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 1992 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 100, Issue 104 Tuesday, November 17, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewiSpoiUAitl 962-0241 ButineuAdvertuinf 962-1163 WW '111 ' M ' ' V (Lift ' . " v 1 ""M"" riiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii-- : .. - rl, DTHEnn Randall Zoe Sherman and Tom Quinn, former students of Paul Ferguson, perform "Green Eggs and Spam" at a protest Monday Ferguson supporters rally, plan meeting with Hardin By Gautam Khandclwal StaffWriter Skits, not shouts, were the tools for an unusual protest Monday, as student supporters of UNC Assistant Professor Paul Ferguson used literary skits to ex press their support for the award-winning speech communication instructor. The protest, which lasted from 1 1:30 a.m. to about 12:30 p.m., incorporated literary skits including, "The King of Jazz" and "Green Eggs and Spam," an adaptation of Dr. Seuss' popular"Green Eggs and Ham." Senior Valerie Halman, student co ordinator of the effort, said the protest was organized to muster additional sup port for Ferguson, who is appealing a Food Lion By Tara Duncan StaffWriter State health regulators said they were increasing inspections of Food Lion grocery stores as a result of two recent ABC "Prime Time Live" epi sodes that claimed the stores practiced unsanitary procedures in their meat and deli departments. "We have stepped up inspections of grocery stores in general and espe cially Food Lion, but we don't want to warn Food Lion," said Johanna Reese, a spokeswoman with the N.C. Depart ment of Environment, Health and Natural Resources. "We don't want to say, 'Here we're coming, clean up!'" The department, which has juris diction over meat markets and delis, became concerned when former and current Food Lion employees told of unsanitary practices on the ABC show. Some of the employees of the south eastern grocery chain, whose head quarters are in Salisbury, said they had taken old meat off the shelf, re packaged it with new dates and put it back on the shelf to sell. They were ordered to repackage the meat to make a profit and keep their jobs, some of the workers said. A Food Lion spokesman disputed these claims and said the employees interviewed in the television program had been given to ABC by the Gov ernment Accountability Project. "We know employees used were or are disgruntled employees who have either been fired or demoted," said Brad Cartner, a Food Lion spokes man. "Food Lion has over 60,000 employees, and with this many, you are going to find a few who had an axe to grind. "Go to any company, and you'll find someone who has been fired and has a grudge; not to say we don't take the allegations seriously." Cartner also blames much of the recent publicity on troubles with the United Food and Commercial Work- I've over - faculty committee's recommendation against granting him tenure. "All of us are here to show our pro test, our unity, and voice our support for Dr. Ferguson," Halman said. "I and the other students feel passionately for him." Ferguson' s supporters have collected more than 2,000 signatures on a petition supporting the professor, closing in on their ultimate of 5,000 signatures. Martin Strobel, a second-year gradu ate student and another leader in the student movement, said he and other members of his group would meet with Chancellor Paul Hardin Thursday to discuss the growing controversy over the University tenure policy and Ferguson's dismissal. Hardin, who was out of town and story leads Food Lion stores try to ers Union. "We know the program was fed to ABC by GAP, which has been linked to the union," he said. "The United Food and Commercial Workers have tried to destroy us be cause our employees are anti-union," he said. "Many of our stores are moving into union hot spots Atlanta and near Washington, D.C. and the union has said it is going to unionize us or shut us out of business." Members of the United Food and Commercial Workers were unavailable educated myself ' j 1 I imf- nMMiiMmiiiiairiramliiiffliipmnir . "-r iiitii" fnTiiTrnMwiiifirTiiiii (mi "i .-lgniir- lom-nwiiMiiiiriiiin unavailable for comment Monday, con tacted Ferguson's supporters and re quested the meeting, Strobel said. The group also will meet at 1 1 a.m. Thursday with Stephen Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. At the meeting with Birdsall, the students will present the petition to the dean, Strobel said. "(Birdsall is) going to give us a half-hour to present the petition and voice our concerns," he said. ' Ferguson, who won a 1992 Under graduate Teaching Award and the 1989 and 1992 Senior ClassFavorite Teacher Awards, recently learned he had been denied tenure because he had not done See FERGUSON, page 2 to more inspections operate as usual in the wake of reports of health for comment on the issue. N.C. meat departments and delis are inspected four times a year by county health departments that report to the state, Reese said. "Unfortunately, counties have a lack of manpower, and most just get in spected three times a year," Reese said. "We hope not just two times." The departments inspected are given A, B or C grades based on a point system. If enough points are subtracted for a score that is below 70, then the in all the things I DA revie guidelmes for raitte proectitioiii By Jackie Hershkowitz Assistant City Editor In the wake of a series of rape charges in Chapel Hill, Orange-Chatham Dis trict Attorney Carl Fox issued a memo randum Monday on acquaintance rape that modified the definition of consent. Fox acknowledged that his prelimi nary guidelines issued in May might have been too narrow. In the guidelines Fox issued in the spring, a rape victim had to fight with her assailant and make a clear statement that she did not want to have sex, or Fox would not prosecute. "We shouldn't insist that rape vic tims fight with their assailants," Fox said. "There's absolutely no reason to hold rape victims to a higher standard than victims of other crimes." The revised memo states that a vic tim can communicate her lack of con sent either by saying no or by "any other unambiguous word or phrase which would cause a reasonable person to believe the victim does not want to voluntarily participate in vaginal inter course." Phrases such as, "I don't even know you," "it's late" and "maybe we shouldn't be doing this," do not clearly communicate lack of consent, accord ing to the memo. Fox, who was criticized last spring by local women's groups, said Monday at a press conference that he had met with representatives of various women' s organizations before formulating the new guidelines. Fox said he decided to circulate re vised guidelines because the initial guidelines did not address specific de tails pertinent to prosecuting rape cases. The memo, although it is not legally binding, will be distributed to law en forcement agencies throughout the county as reference material. "This document is not to be used for screening cases or deciding which cases are acceptable for prosecution," Fox said. "It's just for officers' consider ation." Fox said he planned to circulate cop ies of his proposal to change existing rape la ws to the governor, the lieutenant DTHErin Randall and safety violations department's permit is suspended or revoked. If a department receives a suspen sion, it is closed temporarily and then checked again, but if a permit is re voked, the department must start again as a new store by applying for a per mit, Reese said. "Allegations such as those raised on 'Prime Time would take serious points off a company's rating," she See FOOD LION, page 5 shouldn't have known at all. Noel K - - - v,v' - s ' ' , t vc ; - ' - ; f i , l r ' t x I , f r- -T ' A i ' V J ' " "'n"u''' ; f - ' District Attorney Carl Fox explains his governor and members of the state leg islature. "None of (the proposed legal changes) will prevent rape," he said. "But as long as rape is going to occur, what's going to be needed is aggressive prosecution coupled with the necessary legal means. "I don' t believe prosecuting acquain tance rape is adequately addressed un Ren & Stimpy director calls for cartoon revolt By Gary Rosenzweig StaffWriter A chihuahua brutally beat a man with a paddle in Memorial Hall Monday night, and the students of UNC loved it. The auditorium was filled to capac ity, and students were crouched outside windows to see Bob Camp, the head writer and director of the cult cartoon hit "Ren & Stimpy." Camp told the crowd of about 1,500 that cartoons today were "kind of like art or music most of it stinks." Camp said he was going to do something about it. He criticized Saturday morning car toons, accusing them of being nothing more than cute characters with false morality used sell toys. Rabbi discusses dignity, death at Hillel seminar By Chris Robertson StaffWriter Questions of euthanasia and the dig nity of the terminally ill dominated dis cussion Monday night at a presentation by RabbiMaurice Lamm. In his presentation, Lamm, president of the National Institute for Jewish Hospice and author of "The Jewish Way in Death and Mourning," discussedpre serving the dignity of patients of termi nal diseases. Lamm began his presentation, which was part of N.C. Hillel's Fall Bioethics Symposium and was held in Gerrard Hall, by asking the audience a thought provoking question. "What is the major problem in health today?" he asked. The answer, Lamm said, was ethics and respect for the dignity of human beings. OTHDale Castle rape guidelines at a press conference Monday der the current law," he added. Fox's proposals include mandating life without parole for first-degree rap ists, raising the age of consent from 13 to 16 and eliminating marital rape ex emptions that currently exist under the law. "The proposed changes are meant to See FOX, page 2 And Disney, he said, keeps making the same cartoon over and over again. "I hope that 'Ren & Stimpy' is some sort of catalyst for a new form of car toon," Camp said. Camp showed four full-length "Ren & Stimpy" cartoons, which feature a cat, a chihuahua and lots of slapstick humor. He twice interrupted the video in spots where a scene had been changed because the language was considered too obscene for younger viewers and explained what was changed. Camp, a graduate of the University of Texas at Arlington's film-making school, mentioned several of his influ ences, including Mad Magazine. He began his career in cartoons by See CAMP, page 5 "What is dignified?" Lamm asked the audience of about 55. "What is my life and its significance?" Lamm questioned the audience's rea soning on death itself. "Should we accept this death or should we deny it?" Lamm asked. "Once you receive the diagnosis, are you alive or are you dead? Are you living until you are dead, or are you dying until you are dead?" Lamm expressed his own opinion of euthanasia and bioethics by recounting a parable of sorts. The story told of a patient in a small hospital who had contracted every dis ease. The doctor said the patient was to be given flounder and pancakes. When the doctor was asked how the flounder and pancakes would help the patient recover, the doctor replied that the food See LAMM, page 5 Coward
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