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100th Year of Editorial Freedom
EBB Est. 1893
Volume 100, Isse 125
FRIDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from state, nation and world
Clinton abandons vow
to alter Haitian policy
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. President
elect Bill Clinton, retreating at least
temporarily from a campaign pledge,
said Thursday he would honor
President Bush’s policy of forcibly
returning Haitian boat people to Haiti.
“For the time being, this is the right
policy,” Clinton said.
He had criticized the policy sharply
during his campaign, leading to
widespread expectations in Haiti that
he would overturn it.
First word of Clinton’s decision to
abandon at least for now his
campaign vow to scrap the restrictive
policy on Haitian refugees came in a
radio broadcast to the Haitian people.
Later, he cited humanitarian
grounds for his first foreign policy
pronouncement. He said he id not
want his inauguration next Wednes
day to launch tens of thousands of
refugees on the risky trip to Florida.
“I still believe the policy should be
changed ... but I don’t think we can
do it on a dime on January the 20th,”
Clinton said.
Iraq swears revenge
for U.S.-led air strikes
NICOSIA, CYPRUS A still
defiant Iraq pledged Thursday to
avenge the U.S.-led air strikes against
its southern missile sites.
The raids by American, British and
French warplanes on Wednesday
killed 19 people, two of them
civilians, and wounded 15, Baghdad
radio said.
Saddam Hussein’s government
appeared willing to make some
concessions to the United Nations. At
the same time, it apparently was
trying to shift attention away from the
southern “no-fly” zone to a similar
aircraft exclusion zone in the north.
The Iraqi ambassador to Turkey,
Raffi Daham al-Tikriti, said in
Ankara that his country’s anti-aircraft
missiles in the zone north of the 36th
parallel would be kept in place.
Iraqi television reported “mass
demonstrations” across Iraq to protest
the air raids and show support for
Saddam. Tens of thousands of people
were shown marching in Baghdad,
Najjaf and other towns.
Letterman will make
summer switch to CBS
NEW YORK David Letterman
told his “Late Night” audience
Thursday he’ll be taking his “Stupid
Pet Tricks” and Top 10 lists from
NBC to CBS.
Letterman said his last show on
NBC will be June 25.
Letterman, during the afternoon
taping of his show, tipped his hand by
starting with a
joke about how
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gentlemen? He
continued: “Shortly thereafter we’ll
be taking this program to another
network can I mention this?
taking it over there to CBS.”
Former “Late Night” page Chris
Brown, a 1991 UNC graduate, told
the DTH that Letterman’s top 10 list
for the program was the “real reasons
Dave is leaving NBC.” Brown said
Letterman’s number one reason for
departing the network was “because
they make me wear pants.” .
ADS epidemic slowing,
still spreading in U.S.
ATLANTA At least 330,000
Americans will have died from AIDS
by 1995, but the epidemic’s spread
will slow a little, according to
projections federal health officials
released Thursday.
“The AIDS epidemic hasn’t
plateaued, but it will not grow as fast
as in its earlier years,” said Dr. John
Ward, chief of AIDS surveillance for
the Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention.
“Why? A slowdown in new
infections is a possibility, and another
is that people with HIV are getting
treatment that slows the progression
to AIDS.”
Still, the CDC said that by 1995
more than half a million Americans
will have been diagnosed with AIDS
since the start of the epidemic.
—The Associated Press
and staff reports
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UNC employees to get day care help
By Daniel Aldrich
Staff Writer
Lower-paid UNC employees will be
getting University help in finding af
fordable child-care alternatives as part
of a $ 100,000 allocation by Chancellor
Paul Hardin.
In a five-page letter to Hardin dated
Jan. 5, the Child Care Advisory Com
mittee recommends that the University
allocate almost SIOO,OOO for additional
child-care services for UNC employees
and students.
Committee members said Thursday
that Hardin had pledged his support for
the recommendations. Hardin, who is
out of town until Tuesday, was unavail
able for comment
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john Carswell, owner of Colonial Drug Cos., closes up shop on
West Franklin Street Thursday night. Carswell graduated from
Week of festivities honors King
By Chris Robertson
Staff Writer
Although no classes will be held on
Monday, there is more for UNC stu
dents, faculty and employees to do than
sleep late and not check the mail. A
series of celebrations, festivities,
speeches and services are planned to
honor the birthday and memory of Mar
tin Luther King Jr. throughout next
week.
The week kicks off with the eighth
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Several speeches will be presented
during the week, including a Friday
night lecture by Lerone Bennet, senior
editor of Ebony magazine, in Memorial
Hall. Discussions will be held during
the week on topics such as the philo
sophical differences between Malcolm
X and King, civil responsibilities and
race relations.
Michelle Johnson, coordinator of the
1993 Martin Luther King Oratorical
Contest, sponsored by the Delta Sigma
Theta Sorority, said students would
present skits five to seven minutes long
for the event. All students who wish to
compete for the SSO prize should con
tact Johnson.
“We’ve been doing this contest for as
long as the celebration week has been at
the University, and it is a great way to
come out and continue Martin Luther
King Jr.’s dream,” she said.
In “A Show Of Hands” in Polk Place
at noon Wednesday, Jan. 20, members
of the University community can join
hands as a remembrance of the peace
and love King preached.
Soyini Madison, an assistant profes-
ive of day care and is certainly in sup
port of our recommendations,” said
Garland Hershey, a member of the com
mittee and vice chancellor for health
affairs.
The committee recommended that
$50,000 of the money be used to pro
vide subsidies and loans to University
staff members to help them pay the high
cost of day care.
Nancy Park, administrative director
of Child Care Networks, a resource and
referral agency for Orange and Chatham
counties, said the average cost of day
care for an infant aged 1-12 months was
about $385 a month at a licensed full
time center.
Both Victory Village Day Care Cen
ter and Chapel Hill Day Care Center are
licensed full-time child-care centers.
UNC pharmacy school in 1943, and his shop has been a fixture
in Chapel Hill since the 19505.
Celeliralion Schedule of Events
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7 p.m.-Eight Annual Martin Luther King, Jr., University/Community Banquet,
UNC Ballrooms, Carolina Inn. Tickets: S2O. Call 962-6962
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3 p.m.-Community Memorial Service First Baptist Church, Chapel
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12 noon-MLK Discussion Forum, “Malcolm and Martin: Must We Choose?” The
Sonya Haynes Stone Black Culture Center
7:30 p.m.-1993 MLK Oratorical Contest, “Reclaiming the African American
Youth,” Great Hall
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8 a.m.-12 noon-Housekeepers Appreciation Day. Students will be paired with
housekeepers.
12 noon- “A Show of Hands,” Polk Place, UNC Campus (Quad area in front of
South Building)
1 p.m.-MLK Discussion/Forum: “Rap, Race and Religion,” The Sonja Haynes
Stone Black Culture Center
2 p.m.-Video and discussion: “The Rumors and Facts of Poverty and Civil
Responsibility” Union 206
3 p.m.-Forum and panel discussion: “It’s Not Just Black and White” Union 224
4 p.m.-Discussion and forum: “The Universality of Civil Rights” Union 208-209
6:30 p.m.-Residence Hall Programs: Further information at your area office
6:30 p.m.-Lecture/Discussion: Dr. Yvan das dores Silva, “Martin Luther King and
Mahatma Gandhi; Carmichael Ballroom
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12 noon- MLK Discussion/Forum: “Dr. King and Education;” Sonja Haynes Stone
Black Cultural Center
4 p.m.-Video and Discussion: “Muslims in America” Union 208
7:30 p.m.-“I, Too, Sing America” Union 208
Friday, Jan. 22
6:30 p.m.-Candlelight Vigil; The Pit
7 p.m.-Lecture: Lerone Bennett, Jr., “Martin Luther King: The Man, The Message,
and Our Times," Presentation of Scholarship; Memorial Hall
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12 noon-Lecture/Demonstration: James Chapman, “The Principles of Empower
ment;” Great Hall
8 p.m.-Play: “Our Young Black Men Are Dying and No One Seems to Care;”
Memorial Hall
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3 p.m.-“Martin Luther King Memorial Celebration” Sonja Haynes Stone Black
Culture Center
sor of speech communication, will lead
a candlelight vigil in the Fht on Jan. 22
at 6:30 p.m.
Play wright James Chapman will give
a lecture on “The Principles of Empow
erment” in Great Hall at noon on Jan.
23. A presentation of Chapman’s play,
“Our Young Black Men Are Dying and
Nobody Seems To Care” will follow
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Chapel Hill, North Carolina
The care provided by centers like these
could cost more than $4,500 annually
for University-employed parents whose
yearly salary may be only $ 15,000, Park
said.
Many university employees could
have to spend almost one-third of their
annual salaries to pay for day care.
“We hope that this subsidy will en
able parents who would otherwise be
unable to afford day care to find that
care,” Hershey said.
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for
student affairs and a committee mem
ber, agreed with Hershey, adding: “We
have a number of people now who are
employed by the University with chil
dren.”
“Child care is not a cheap thing it
is expensive as you want it to be for high
the lecture in Memorial Hall. Tickets
can be purchased at the Carolina Union
Box Office for $3.
The week’s activities will end with a
ceremony in the Sonja Haynes Stone
Black Cultural Center at 3 p.m. Jan. 24.
The service will include a speech by
Cressie Thigpen, a member of the UNC
Board of Trustees.
quality. This kind of financial aid will
be definitely instigated.”
Provost Richard McCormick said the
loans would focus on lower-paid staff.
“Paying for child care is difficult for
employees with low wages,” he said.
“The largest amount of money in the
report is for this child-care support for
the less well-off faculty, students and
staff.”
Alan McSurely, the attorney repre
senting the UNC housekeepers in their
grievance against UNC, said Univer
sity officials had been working over
time to provide small concessions to the
housekeepers.
“As the university tried to hand out
turkeys at Christmas (last year), that is
not what the housekeepers are upset
about,” McSurely said. He said the
Some furniture
still gone after
athletes’ arrest
By Thanassis Cambanis
Assistant University Editor
Despite the arrest of two former UNC
football players on charges of possess
ing property stolen from Carmichael
Residence Hall, University Police still
are investigating the case, in which more
than $2,000 in furniture was reported
missing from the dormitory shortly af
ter a 10-day stay by the football team.
University Police arrested former
UNC quarterback Chuckie Burnette and
wide receiver Julius Reese Wednesday
after searching the pair’s 228 Teague
Residence Hall room and discovering
stolen furniture and UNC property tags
valued at $908.70.
But the pieces of furniture found in
Burnette and Reese’s room, which in
cluded two chairs, an end table and a
cocktail table, did not account for all of
what was reported missing after the
team’s 10-day stay from Aug. 7 through
Aug. 17.
“There were other pieces that disap
peared at the same time that haven’t
been accounted for,” said Wayne Kuncl,
director of University housing. “The
police have had this matter since it
happened and, to the best of my knowl
edge, they are still investigating.”
The furniture and property tags found
in Reese and Burnette’s room matched
Randall
Dorms might remain
open for Duke game
By Gautam Khanddwal
Staff Writer
“We want Duke, we want Duke,”
was the chant heard in the Dean E.
Smith Center as the Tar Heels de
feated Georgia Tedi Wednesday night
However, because of a scheduling
quirk, many UNC students may not be
able to attend the Duke-UNC basket
ball game, which is scheduled for
March 7—die first Sunday of Spring
Break.
But don’t shed tears yet Tar Heel
fans.
The Residence Hall Association,
Carolina Athletic Association and the
Officials, studies dispute
Locke Foundation report
ByJ. Miles Layton
Staff Writer
A recent study by a conservative
Raleigh think tank that suggests UNC
system professors are among the high
est-paid in the nation is off-base, ac
cording to similar studies and UNC
CH administrators.
“Salary levels that are this low com
pared to our peer universities make it
very difficult to attract the best faculty
members and retain the ones we al
ready have,” said Provost Richard
McCormick. “Undergraduate students
come to Chapel Hill because it has a
distinguished faculty.
“If that ceases then the quality of our
student body will decline.”
The Locke Foundation, a conserva
tive think tank based in Raleigh, re
cently reported that UNC-system sala
ries for full professors are the fourth
highest in the nation. Full professors in
sportsline
SIGNED: Outfielder Ron Gant, who agreed
Thursday to a S3.7 million, one-year con
tftct with the Atlanta Braves — a $1 mil
lion raise for the 27-year-old outfielder.
Gant hit .259 with 17 home runs, 80 RBIs
and 32 stolen bases in 1992, when the
Braves won their second straight National
League pennant.
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housekeepers were seeking higher
wages, not small favors.
Committee members suggested that
SIO,OOO of the allocated money be used
to help develop a potential site for a
Head Start classroom for three- and
four-year-old children of University
employees. The Head Start classroom
would be available for both children in
the Head Start program and children
who could afford to pay for the educa
tion.
The committee also recommended
that $5,000 of the allocated money be
offered to the Victory Village Day Care
Center to hire a child-care expert. The
expert would consult with a team from
the Kenan-Flagler Business School to
set up anew administrative structure for
the center.
some of the furniture stolen from
Carmichael. The property tags, which
identified the furniture as belonging to
UNC, were found in Burnette’s foot
locker.
Both Burnette, a senior from Haw
River, and Reese, a senior from Win
ston-Salem, were charged with posses
sion of stolen goods and were released
on SI,OOO unsecured bonds. They are
scheduled to appear in Chapel Hill Dis
trict Court Feb. 4.
Burnette and Reese were registered
in different third-floor Carmichael
rooms in mid-August. Burnette, who
sparked controversy last summer with
Ms involvement in the fight for a free
standing black cultural center, quit the
team at the beginning of the season
citing personal reasons. Reese still has
one year of athletic eligibility left.
Reese, who is not enrolled in school
tMs semester, was contacted in Win
ston-Salem and cooperated fully with
police, reports stated.
Two University Housing Support
Mainte.._nce employees saw and rec
ognized the stolen furniture in Burnette
and Reese’s room wMle performing
routine electrical maintenance over
Winter Break.
Head Football Coach Mack Brown
See FURNITURE, page 2
UNC Athletics Department have pro
posed a plan that may keep certain
residence halls open the weekend of
the Duke game.
Tracy Kirincich, CAA president,
said she contacted the Athletics De
partment to seek support in keeping
residence halls open for die game.
“I went to the Alhletic Department
and asked if they could write a letter to
(the Department of University Hous
ing) in support of keeping the dorms
open,” Kirincich said.
Wayne Kuncl, director of Univer
sity housing, said students presently
See CAA, page 2
the UNC system earn an average of
$60,564 a year, the report states.
Reports by the American Associa
tion of University Professors and the
National Academy of Sciences con
cluded that UNC-CH professors are paid
much lower than their colleagues at
other major universities.
According to the Locke Foundation
report, salaries for UNC-CH associate
and assistant professors rank seventh
nationally. Associate professors at the
University earn an average of $42,551
annually, and assistant professors make
about $36,291, the report states.
But the AAUP, a national organiza
tion, reported last summer that UNC
system salaries were among the lowest
in the nation.
The report compared nationally
ranked public universities, including
UNC-CH, on the basis of teacMng fa-
See SALARIES, page 4