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Volume 100, Issue 122
Gumby’s Pizza left off UNC meal-card plan
By James Lewis
Staff Writer
Students who want to charge pizza
on their meal cards will have to pick
from a smaller selection this semester
because Gumby’s Pizza failed to renew
its contract with Carolina Dining Ser
vices on time.
Although the business still operates
on Franklin Street, students will no
longer be able to use their Carolina
Dining Services meal cards to pay for
pizza from Gumby’s. The pizza vendor
is known for its low-priced specials like
the “Gumby Dammit.”
Chris Derby, Carolina Dining Ser
vices director, said Gumby’s failed to
lUESDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from state, nation and world
Iraqis defy U.l\l. pules
in territory violations
KUWAIT Scores of Iraqis crossed
into Kuwait again Monday and carted
off equipment from a disputed naval
base; this was the second border foray
in 24 hours that underlined Saddam
Hussein’s defiance of President Bush
and his allies.
The U.N. Security Council
scheduled a closed session late
Monday to discuss the incursions.
U.N. Secretary-
General Boutros
Boutros-Ghali
said he hoped the
council would
make a tough
response, but
diplomats said it
was unlikely to
do more than
condemn Iraq.
Iraq’s U.N.
ambassador
Saddam Hussein
argued that U.N. officials gave
permission for Monday’s action as
well as another Sunday in which 200
armed Iraqis removed weapons,
including four anti-ship missiles,
abandoned by defeated Iraqi troops in
the Gulf War.
A U.N. spokesman, Abdel Latif
Kabbaj, denied that required permits
were issued and said Iraq violated an
agreement allowing the removal only
of non-military equipment by Friday.
He said U.N. observers warned the
Iraqis that they were breaking the
Gulf War cease-fire accord.
“It’s clear from this raid into
Kuwait that Saddam Hussein is
continuing his pattern of trying to
cheat wherever possible, continuing
to challenge the U.N. resolutions,”
said Marlin Fitzwater, chief White
House spokesman.
He repeated that the United States
was ready to act “without warning” to
force Baghdad back into compliance.
Fitzwater said the incursions were
“clearly an infringement of the cease
fire regulations.”
Senate demands probe
of Clbiton nominee
WASHINGTON The Senate
Foreign Relations Committee staff is
demanding that the Clinton transition
team explain Secretary of State
designate Warren Christopher’s
knowledge of Army surveillance in
the late 19605, a congressional source
said Monday.
The action came after The Associ
ated Press reported that Christopher’s
personal files from his service as
deputy attorney general in 1968
indicated he was informed about
Army surveillance on civil rights and
anti-war activists even though
Clinton’s nominee later told Congress
he did not know about the activities.
“The staff wants a full explanation
of any inconsistencies,” the Senate
panel source said.
He said the staff was sending the
Clinton team copies of the intelli
gence summaries and memos the AP
found in Christopher’s personal files
at the Lyndon B. Johnson archives in
Austin, Texas. It also might seek to
interview some authors of the memos,
the source said, who spoke on the
condition of anonmity.
Christopher told the committee in
1977, when he was being confirmed
as President Carter’s deputy secretary
of state, that he had not known the
Army placed civil rights activists and
anti-war demonstrators under
surveillance in the 19605.
There are at least 67 intelligence
summaries and other documents in
Christopher’s Johnson library files
relating to civil disturbances that are
unavailable for public inspection
because they are classified due to
national security or privacy.
—The Associated Press
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submit a contract proposal for this se
mester by the December deadline.
Bert Smith, assistant general man
ager for Gumby’s Pizza in Chapel Hill,
said Gumby’s officials could blame only
themselves for being cut from the Caro
lina Dining Services roster.
“It was our fault,” Smith said. “We
lost the schedule. We didn’t follow their
rules.”
Smith said Gumby’s would try to
renew its contract the next time the
bidding took place. “It’s a yearly bid
ding process, and we hope to get it back
next year,” he said.
The loss of the contract will hurt
Gumby’s business, but the pizzeria will
survive in Chapel Hill, Smith said.
300 welcome bowl champs
By Jennifer Talhelm
Assistant University Editor
University and community Tar Heel
fan s braved cold and rain Monday after
noon to welcome home the UNC foot
ball team after its 21-17 1992 Peach
Bowl victory over the Bulldogs of Mis
sissippi State University.
The celebration, originally scheduled
to be held on the steps of South Build
ing, was moved to Carmichael Audito
rium because of rain. But that didn’t
discourage about 300 fans from coming
out to welcome the players home.
Students and community members
saluted the team with a standing ovation
as Chancellor Paul Hardin displayed
the 1992 Peach Bowl trophy.
“Mack Brown and I arrived here the
same year, and it took us over five years
to win a bowl, and I’m happy we have
such a successful program,” Hardin said.
“The student athletes won this bowl
game, and I congratulate them on their
hard work.”
Hardin introduced offensive Most
Valuable Player Natrone Means and
defensive MVP Bracey Walker as well
as co-captains Jonathan Perry and Corey
Holliday. He said a special farewell to
Means, who, after the Peach Bowl win,
announced that he was entering the NFL
draft and forgoing his senior year.
“Everybody in this room hates to see
you go, but we appreciate what you
have done for us, and we wish you
well,” Hardin told Means.
The chancellor also thanked co-cap
tain seniors Randall Parsons and Tommy
Thigpen, who were not present. Par
sons and Thigpen participated in the
Japan Bowl on Saturday and will play
See CELEBRATION, page 2
NPR correspondent
recounts harrowing
Somalian experience
By Andrea Jones
Staff Writer
Sitting in the cluttered refuge of his
Chapel Hill office, mild-mannered
National Public Radio reporter David
Molpus told first-hand accounts Mon
day of the starvation and violence
plaguing the East African nation of
Somalia.
Molpus, Southeastern correspon
dent for NPR, left North Carolina on
Dec. 20 and was evacuated from So
malia on Christmas Day due to an
illness.
Molpus, who is based in Chapel Hill
at UNC’s Swain Hall, said he was sent
on assignment to temporarily relieve
another correspondent and to provide
much-needed cash to a team of report
ers. When he arrived at the Mogadishu
airport, Molpus said no one was there
to meet him, and he was forced to take
a local taxi to the Save the CWldren-
United States compound where he was
to stay. The taxi turned out to be less
than reliable, he said.
“(The taxi driver) basically drove
me around to a residential section and
dropped me off nowhere near where I
nested to go and demanded $l5O dol
BOT panel to hear Ferguson tenure appeal Wednesday
Staff Report
The tenure appeal of speech commu
nication Associate Professor Paul
Ferguson will be heard Wednesday by a
panel made up of three UNC trustees,
including controversial Board of Trust
ees member John Pope.
Pope, and fellow trustees David Ward
and David Whichard will hear
Ferguson’s appeal Wednesday. After
the hearing, the three will report back to
the full BOT, which has 45 days from
A skeptic is a person who would ask God for his ID card. Edgar A. Shoaff
TUESDAY, JANUARY 12,1993
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
“(The University) was roughly 17 to
20 percent of our business,” he said. “Of
that 17 to 20 percent, we expect at least
30 percent will still order.”
Gumby’s received calls from nine or
10 students who wanted to charge or
ders to their meal cards Sunday night,
but most found other way s to pay for the
pizzas after they were told of die con
tract loss, Smith said.
“The majority say, ‘Hold on, and
we’ll get some cash together,’ or ‘l’ll
write a check,”’ he said.
Local pizza vendors compete for the
chance to be part of the UNC meal-plan
program each semester. The competi
tion includes bidding, a presentation to
Derby and a pizza taste test.
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Senior fullback B.J. Runyon holds aloft the 1992 Peach Bowl trophy Monday
lars,” Molpus said. “These three guys
got out and basically intimidated me
enough that I paid them off, and then
I had to do sort of a house-to-house
search trying to find someone who
spoke English.”
Molpus said he was able to find a
ride wilh the help of a resident who
understood him and arrived at the
STC-US compound half an hour later.
Molpus said that on Dec. 21, he
traveled in a four-vehicle convoy to
Coriolei, a town where local fanners
were planting crops for the first time
since the beginning of Somalia’scivil
war. Molpus said the trip became har
rowing when one of the trucks in the
convoy broke down repeatedly and
armed Somalis began to take notice.
“One of the vehicles kept breaking
down, and whenever we would stop
on the road, some of these ‘technicals’
would come by filled with armed men
with .50-caliber machine guns
mounted on their truck,” Molpus said.
"They were looking us over real
closely and slowly, and then they’d
go on past us. The guy leading the
caravan kept saying ‘We’ve got to
See MOLPUS, page 4
the hearing to rule.
Ferguson contends that he has been
denied tenure because Beverly Long, a
professor in the department, and Will
iam Balthrop, department chairman, re
moved a favorable review from his per
sonnel folder. The review, written by
Northwestern University scholar Paul
Edwards, a leader in speech communi
cation studies, outlined the importance
of creative research what Ferguson
was hired to produce.
Derby said Gumby’s orders were
about 35 percent of the meal-card pizza
order business but added that Gumby’s
absence would not affect CDS’s profits
this semester.
Last year, CDS received 16 percent
of the pizza companies’ income from
orders students paid for with their meal
cards, said Dale Bailey, owner of Pizza
Transit Authority, another local pizze
ria that bid for a UNC contract.
A taste test conducted last December
by Food Service Committee members
weighed heavily in CDS’s decision to
allow only Domino’s and Pizza Hut to
participate in the meal card plan. “It was
one of the heavier factors,” Derby said.
Pizza Hut and Domino’s finished
BOG seeks to raise 4-year graduation rates
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
Members of the N.C. General As
sembly want to see UNC students in
and out of school in four years.
At its monthly meeting last week, the
UNC Board of Governors took a step
toward complying with the state
legislature’s wishes approving a reso
lution that suggested ways for the 16
UNC-system schools to improve their
four-year graduation rates and called on
each school to do its best to graduate
students on time. The resolution now
will go to the General Assembly, which
convenes Jan. 27.
At UNC-CH, which has the highest
four-year graduation rate of the 16 sys
tem schools, 61 percent of UNC stu
dents enrolled in fall semester of 1987
graduated within four years, according
to an annual assessment of the UNC
system conducted by the BOG. Al
though the UNC-CH figure was up about
2 percent from freshmen who entered
UNC in 1985, it still is unacceptable,
said Rep. Marvin Ward, D-Forsyth.
“There has got to be some account
ability at every school,” Ward said.
“Students taking extra time is costing
the taxpayers of North Carolina a great
deal of money. Sixty-one percent is not
ideal, although it is not as bad as other
schools in the system.”
Last summer, a General Assembly
committee chaired by Ward ordered the
UNC system to “adopt policies that will
encourage the constituent institutions
Ferguson also contends that Stephen
Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, has not provided him with
fair hearings after Balthrop and Long
admitted to removing the review.
Pope, a trustee from Raleigh, has
caused debate in the past because of
several controversial statements he has
made about women. Several years ago,
Pope questioned the number of women
being admitted to the University, ex
plaining that female alumni are more
first and second in the contest.
Derby said Gumby’s and other local
pizza deliveries would have another
chance to take part in the meal card
program when the current contract ex
pired. The current contract will last for
five months, and then CDS will re
evaluate the process, he said.
Derby said other local pizza vendors
such as Chanelo’s Pizza, Oliverio’s
Pizza and Subs and PTA also applied
for a contract but were turned down.
“Hopefully we’ll have some input
from students, but right now we’re go
ing to stick with just two vendors,”
Derby said.
PTA’s Bailey said he wasn’t sure
why his business was refused a con
Council OKs grant
for black-owned
Midway businesses
By Richard J, Dalton Jr.
Staff Writer ■
The Chapel Hill Town Council
unanimously approved a s6,ooogrant
Monday night to promote develop
ment of black businesses and resi
dences in the Midway district.
“The $6,000 is going to bring in
millions,” said James Brittian, presi
dent of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
branch of the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People
and project development coordinator
for tire Midway Development Com
mission.
“It’s just like an investment,” he
said, adding that the grantmoney would
Some council membera, although
supportive of the grant, described the
proposal as a “risk” or “experiment,”
but member Barbara Powell was more
optimistic. “I don’t see it as a risk,” she
said. “I see it as a beginning.”
Town Manager Cal Horton said it
was crucial for local businesses, resi
dents, civic organizations and churches
to be involved in tire planning stages.
Horton said the funds also would be
used to define the boundaries of the
area, to conduct area research and to
draft a proposal for development.
Horton said the area was in a promi-
Percentage of mi - lw *'"“ssroSsr&ss
students who
graduate , entry of full-time freshmen
four years
Appalachian State 28.2 29.4 32.1
East Carolina It 19.3 19 18.1
Elizabeth City State 24.8 20.2 35.6
Fayetteville State 6.3 6.1 7.3
N.C. Agricultural & Technical State 14 11.6 17.3
N.C. Central 13.7 13.7 14.5
N.C. State 20.3 18.6 22.8
Pembroke State 16.7 14.6 20.6
UNC-Asheville 15.9 13.8 16.3
UNC-Chapel Hill 524 606 6L3
UNC-Charlotte 25.1 21 21.4
UNC-Greensboro 31.5 28.8 31.6
UNC-Wilmington 22.9 22 21.2
Western Carolina 25 23.8 23.4
Winston-Salem State 24. R 5 11
to have their students complete their
degrees more quickly.” The General
Assembly ordered the BOG to present a
specific plan by Feb. 1.
The policy approved Friday incorpo
rates both policies for individual schools
and broader systemwide measures. The
suggestions include:
■ Limiting all baccalaureate degree
programs to no more than 128 semester
hours, effective fall 1995. Any longer
likely to donate money to their hus
bands’ alma maters.
Last fall, Pope caused sparks when,
in the midst of a BOT discussion on
campus safety, he said: “Any female
and maybe I shouldn’t say this who
wants to go home with a bunch of
drunken boys at two or three in the
morning and then yell rape at eight
o’clock in the morning that female
doesn’t have much sympathy in the
general public.”
sportslinc
CANNED: By the Minnesota Timberwolves
Monday, head coach )immy Rodgers.
Rodgers had led theT-Wolves to the NBA's
second-worst record at 6-23 and was 21-
90 overall with Minnesota. General man
ager Jack McCloskey replaced him on an
interim basis with assistant and former
N.C. State guard Sidney Lowe.
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tract. “(Derby) invited me to come over
and go over the selection criteria,” he
said. “Until we do that, I don’t think it
would be appropriate to comment.”
Steve Sherwin, assistant manager of
Domino’s Pizza in Chapel Hill, said
business probably would pick up as a
result of Gumby’s absence. “We’Uprob
ably see an increase in volume, but not
in profit,” he said. “We’ll run some
specials and things to make up for
Gumby’s absence.”
Ken French, manager of the Pizza
Hut Delivery store on Franklin Street,
said Pizza Hut also would try to lure
students with meal-card plans to the
business. “There will be plenty of good
deals out there for them.”
- mrnmtemmm.
DWI penalties for cabbies softened,
nem place in tire black coramaajty, :
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken BrbutSaid:
“This is a proposal that’s
tire community, and I reaUy'&W&fi'
as seed money.” ■
Horton said that in tire sprin}£*ifrf ! .
Midway Development
would present a proposal to Che coun
cil and that council members would
evaluate community support and
feasibility of the proposal, i ;V.‘ i:
Although the group earlier bad re
quested $9,000 for tire plan, Horton
said $6,000 would be sufficient
Council member Julie Andresen
said, “I think there’s a tremendous
problem we have downtown with
crime and and 1 think tW Miri-
WrIUUC wHU VUwJc,o, ttuu r UHiiK UK l ' CTlUft,
way area has been particularly hard
hit I think that its a good effort. We
want something that’s going to work
and to a large measure must not be
come a drain on the town.”
Council member Joe Capo wski said,
“We’ve had problems in that area of
town, and they’ve got to be resolved
somehow.”
T he Midway Development Com
mission, was formed in 1991 togener
ate capital for development in the dis
trict a stretch of businesses and resi
dences on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
border.
programs will have to be approved by
the BOG and will be designated as five
year programs.
gt Prominently displaying the num
ber of hours and length of time needed
to complete degree programs in course
catalogs and orientation materials sent
to students and parents.
■ Sponsoring conferences for fac-
See BOG, page 7
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