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Volume 100, Issue 136
Racial incidents cause concern but no action
By Peter Sigal
Suff Write-
In the wake of two racially charged
incidents in Morrison Residence Hall
during the past month and a recent U.S.
Supreme Court decision that could
change the University’s Code of Stu
dent Conduct regarding racial harass
ment, some Department of University
Housing officials are concerned about
their inability to take action against
racial incidents.
“We have been told to back off,” said
Robert “Bo” Aylin, Morrison area di
rector. The two recent incidents in
Morrison prompted concern among
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Marines who beat gay
man show no remorse
WILMINGTON, N.C. Three
Marines who shouted “Clinton must
pay” showed no remorse as they were
being booked on charges of beating a
gay man, police said Monday.
The White House called the attack
deplorable and said it was not a
reason to delay Clinton’s plan to lift
the ban on homosexuals in the
military.
“They were saying things like they
hate all faggots, and they wish
(homosexuals) were all dead, and
they’re not ashamed of it,” said
Wilmington police officer Ed Gibson.
The three Marines, stationed at
Camp Lejeune, were each charged
with four counts of assault. They each
were released from jail on a S4OO
bond.
The victim, Crae Pridgen, suffered
cuts and bruises, particularly on his
head, in the attack early Saturday. He
lost a tooth, had a black eye, swollen
lip and cut ear.
Pridgen went to Raleigh on
Monday to meet with representatives
of Gov. Jim Hunt, saying he would do
whatever it takes to prevent more
gay-bashing. Hunt was at the meeting
of the National Governors Associa
tion in Washington, D.C.
Israel to repatriate all
deportees within year
JERUSALEM lsrael will repatriate
100 of the deported Palestinians from
Lebanon immediately and return the
remainder within a year, Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin announced
Monday.
The deportations had prompted the
United Nations to demand the exiles’
immediate return and endangered the
resumption of Middle East peace
talks.
Israel’s environment minister said
the compromise unanimously
approved by the Cabinet on Monday
night would avert U.N. sanctions.
However, the Palestine Liberation
Organization quickly rejected Israel’s
move.
Clinton adopts tough
stance in trade feud
WASHINGTON The Clinton
administration, taking a tough
approach in its first major trade
dispute, announced Monday that it
was banning federal government
purchases of European-made utility
products.
The move, scheduled to take effect
on March 22, immediately was
attacked as “unilateral bullying” by a
European official.
The U.S. action was in retaliation
to the 12-nation European
Community’s adoption of rales
favoring European manufacturers in
the purchase of telecommunications
and power generation equipment,
U.S. Trade Representative Michael
Kantor said.
Danforth says he will
not seek re-election
ST. LOUIS Sen. John C. Danforth
said Monday that he would not seek
re-election in 1994.
In a hastily called airport news
conference, Danforth, R-Mo„ said
that he had no immediate plans but
that he wanted to fulfill a commit
ment to the Episcopal Church.
Danforth, formerly Missouri state
attorney general, first was elected to
the Senate in 1976. He was re-elected
in 1982 and 1988.
The moderate Republican’s
decision to run for a third term had
been somewhat of a surprise because
he had said two terms were enough
for any senator.
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University housing officials that they
now have less authority to discipline
racially motivated crimes.
“I think for black students on cam
pus, it’s a real concern,” Aylin said.
Morrison has 300 black residents, the
largest concentration of minority stu
dents on campus, he said.
Rick Bradley, assistant housing di
rector for student services, said that in
the past, the housing department was
able to respond to racial incidents be
cause they were a violation of the hous
ing contract. The contract, which stu
dents in University housing must sign,
includes both the University’s Code of
Student Conduct and separate housing
Forum highlights tuition, grad student issues
By Thanassls Cambanis
Assistant University Editor
A proposed tuition increase and
graduate student involvement in stu
dent government were the focuses of
discussion at the first student body presi
dent candidates’ forum Monday, spon
sored by the Dialectic and Philanthropic
Society.
The six candidates for student body
president were given seven minutes to
speak and then
took part in a 20-
minute question
and-answer ses
sion. The event
was held in the
Dialectic Society
Chamber in New
West.
The strict struc
ture of the forum
allowed time for
only two audience questions after the
candidate presentations, focusing on the
proposed tuition increase and getting
graduate students involved in student
government.
According to the proposed tuition
hike, graduate student tuition at UNC
system schools would rise 50 percent,
and in-state undergraduate tuition would
increase 20 percent.
All six of the candidates agreed that
UNC needed a strong lobby in the state
legislature, but they disagreed on the
student body president’s role.
Death prompts concern
for gay soldiers’ welfare
By Lloyd Whittington
Staff Write
As debate about President Bill
Clinton’s determination to lift the ban
on homosexuals in the military contin
ues, the mother of a gay Navy seaman
who was beaten to death fears for the
lives of others like her son.
Beyond the issue of lifting the ban
looms another question, a question of
life and death. Some members of the
American public wonder whether gays
and lesbians who openly reveal their
sexual orientation within the military
will become victims of gay-bashing,
hazing and physical violence.
Lt. Cmdr. Betsy Bird, a Pacific Fleet
spokeswoman, said all possible mo
tives, including gay-bashing, were be
ing investigated in the 1992 death of
Seaman Allen Schindler. The Navy has
not charged the airman being held in
connection with Schindler’s death.
But Dorothy Hajdys, Schindler’s
mother, said she thought the motive
was clear.
After filing for a discharge in Sep
tember on grounds that he was gay,
Schindler, 22, was killed Oct. 27 in a
public restroom near the U.S. Naval
base in Sasebo, Japan, Hajdys said. His
body and face were so severely beaten
that she could only identify her son by
SBP hopefuls address possible solutions for racial tensions
Editor's note: The following is the
second in a four-part series investigat
ing what issues students consider the
most important and what solutions can
didates for student body president have
proposed.
Staff Report
If members of the University com
munity learned one thing from the de
bate about a free-standing black cul
tural center last fall, it was that not
everyone is happy in the “southern part
of Heaven.”
Race relations, always a hot topic at
UNC, a predominately white school
that has elected only two black student
body presidents in its 199-year history,
was the first priority on the minds of
129 students polled last week by The
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regulations.
But Bradley said University officials
had told housing officials they no longer
were allowed to take disciplinary action
in racial incidents.
“We’ve been told we’re no longer
able to take action” beyond talking to
the students involved, Bradley said. All
racial incidents now are referred to the
Honor Court, he said.
The first incident occurred in early
Januaiy, he said.
A sign stating “This bathroom is no
longer desegregated. No niggers allowed
except for housekeepers” was found on
a bathroom door in a Morrison suite,
Bradley said. The sign only was posted
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The six candidates for student body president mull over the issues during the Dialectic and Philanthropic Society forum Monday
Adrian Patillo, a junior from Chapel
Hill, said UNC-CH needed to focus on
lobbying the General Assembly through
the officially delegated UNC-system
lobbyist, D.G. Martin.
“You cannot lobby as one school;
the tattoo on his arm, she said.
In a telephone interview from her
home in Chicago Heights, 111., Hajdys
said that according to the autopsy, her
son’s skull was crashed, his ribs were
broken, his lungs had hemorrhaged, and
there were lacerations on his genitals.
Navy Airman Teny Helvey of Eloise,
Mich., is being held in connection with
the case, pending the decision by Naval
authorities on whether to charge him
with murder.
In return for testifying in the prelimi
nary hearing, Airman Charles Vins, 20,
of Sturgis, Mich., was sentenced to four
months incarceration and a bad-con
duct discharge after pleading guilty to
resisting arrest and failing to report a
crime, the Washington Post reported
Jan. 24.
Hajdys said she was undecided on
the issue of lifting the 50-year-old ban
against gays in the military, but “only
for fear for their lives.” She added that
one military publication even quoted a
Marine as saying he would have to kill
any gay he discovered in his unit.
“The whole time he was on that ship,
my son told me over and over that he
didn’t have to worry about dying and
going to hell because he was already
there,” Hajdys said.
See HAZING, page 4
Town-gown relations a concern 3
Daily Tar Heel.
Of the 129 students reached, 55
named race relations and the BCC con
troversy as the most important issue of
this year’s student body presidential
election.
The candidates, only one of whom
named race relations among their top
three campaign issues, had differing
views on how to solve a problem the
entire campus has been forced to ac
knowledge in recent months.
Presidential hopeful Adrian Patillo,
a member of the working group to de
velop plans for a free-standing black
cultural center, says race relations are
and will continue to be a problem no
for about 10 minutes before a resident
assistant found it.
Aylin said the second incident oc
curred at about 2 a.m. on Jan. 23, when
a white student was reported to have
assaulted a black RA and used a racial
slur.
In both cases, the offenders were
discovered, Bradley said. But the hous
ing department had no authority to take
action beyond telling the students that
their behavior was “not appropriate to
the housing code,” he said.
The cases then went to the Under
graduate Student Court, but Bradley
said he did not know the outcome. One
of the offenders still is living in Univer
that’s illegal,” Patillo said. “I’ll work
with D.G. Martin to lobby with the
entire UNC system.”
Jim Copland, a junior from
Burlington, said the system goals Mar
tin represented were not always com
UNC officials oppose $1 tax
By Daniel Feldman
Suff Writer ___
University officials said Monday
thatasl entertainment tax imposed on
Smith Center and Kenan Stadium
events would lower ticket sales and
unfairly burden the athletic department.
For the past 12 years, Chapel Hill
resident Roland Giduz has proposed to
the town council taxing event-goers to
raise money for the town.
The tax would raise an estimated
$600,000, which could help offset the
town’s sß64,ooobudget shortfall, town
officials said. The tax would have to be
approved by the town council and the
General Assembly.
Wayne Jones, University vice chan
bwn council to consider housing subsidies
By Richard J. Dalton Jr.
Staff Writer
Most students are apartment renters,
not homeowners, so they are unaffected
by housing subsidies, right? Wrong.
The lack of affordable hou sing makes
it difficult for many residents to own
their own homes, creating competition
in Chapel Hill’s rental market, accord
ing to Chapel Hill Town Council mem
ber Mark Chilton.
At a housing work session Monday
matter what is
done.
Patillo, a junior
from Chapel Hill,
was attacked by
some BCC advo
cates for joining
the working
group, a commit
tee in which mem
bers of the coali
tion for a free-
STNHTMKMKIT
standing BCC had refused to partici
pate.
Since the working group was formed,
Chancellor Paul Hardin granted his sup
port for anew center, and Hardin’s
committee participated in joint talks
with the BCC Advisory Board. The
sity housing, while the other’s contract
was revoked for unrelated reasons, Bra
dley said.
Susan Ehringhaus, the University’s
general counsel and assistant to Chan
cellor Paul Hardin, refused to comment
on the specific incidents. She said cer
tain aspects of the University’s Student
Code would change as a result of the
1992 Supreme Court ruling that prohib
ited content-based “hate crime” regula
tions.
Ehringhaus said she did not yet know
which parts of the Student Code would
be changed. She said UNC would con
tinue to prosecute those parts of the
code that were not affected by the ruling
patible with the needs of UNC-CH.
“The system might want something
that is not good for Chapel Hill,” he
said. “It’s important to go beyond the
UNC-system lobbyist.”
sKevin Ginsberg, a junior from Co-
cellor for business and finance, said the
new tax unjustly would allow stadiums
in Raleigh or Durham to steal upcoming
attractions.
“There is a limit on how high ticket
prices can go before attendance begins
to drop off,” Jones said. “The athletic
department has to underwrite all opera
tions for our facilities, thereby main
taining the operating costs.”
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said
he would support the tax only if it ap
plied to the entire state.
“One limited to Chapel Hill would
put the Smith Center at a disadvan
tage,” Broun said. “Having Raleigh tax
their programs would put Walnut Creek
on the same level as the Smith Center.”
But Chapel Hill Town Council mem
night, the town council discussed imple
menting housing subsidies to alleviate
the lack of affordable housing. “What
we’re doing has a very large effect on
the rental market,” Chilton said.
Chilton said residents earning less
than $30,000 per year could not afford
to buy a house in town, so they often
were forced to rent. A large number of
students are renters, creating competi
tion for living space and increasing rent.
If the town were to offer housing
subsidies, some apartment renters would
working group members will make their
final report to the chancellor in March,
Patillo said.
Patillo said he was aware of the racial
tensions on campus and added that
whites and blacks were not communi
cating with each other.
“It’s a real sticky situation, espe
cially for me as a black man, because it
seems like the people who are in power
to make great gains in race relations are
people of color, the people who have
had to deal with discrimination and
what-not,” he said.
Patillo said his victory could help the
situation, although he wasn’t sure how
much change he could bring.
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“as vigorously as the law allows.”
“We’re still against (hate crimes),”
she said. “We can’t be against them in a
way that violates First Amendment
rights.”
Aylin said he was less concerned
with punishment than with educating
offenders.
“I am in favor of doing something to
challenge their beliefs,” he said. “If we
are here to make better citizens, then
that’s part of the message we have to
send. I’m certainly in favor of First
Amendment rights. At the same time,
we have to balance these with students’
rights to be free from racial harass
ment.”
Profile of RHA candidate 3
lumbia, S.C., advocated an aggressive
approach to swaying legislators.
“What we need to do is tell the legis
lators who vote for the tuition increase
that in two years they’ll be out of a job,”
Ginsberg said.
Copland specifically cited Ginsberg’s
philosophy as counter-productive.
“We shouldn’t be combative,” he
said. “We are perceived at the Univer
sity as the privileged few, so we don’t
need to threaten legislators but work
with them.”
Jennifer Lloyd, a junior from
Burlington, said swamping the General
Assembly would not help UNC-CH
students.“ Many students can run around
and be disruptive,” she said.
David Cox, a junior from Chatta
nooga, Tenn., said experience did not
necessarily mean effective leadership.
“Why do we have these problems
now if (the current student government
leaders) are so effective?” Cox asked.
“Obviously this experience isn’t lead
ing to much action.”
Carl Clark, a junior from Fuquay-
Varina, said he thought lobbying the
state legislature in Raleigh should be a
low personal priority for the next stu
dent body president.
“I’m afraid that many of our student
body presidents have lived in Raleigh.
We’re going to have students going to
See FORUM, page 2
ber Joe Herzenberg said he supported
the proposed tax, but he thought it
stood little chance of being approved
by the state legislature.
“It passed two yearsago and should
again,” Herzenberg said. “The usual
obstruction from the University will
probably cause it to fail.”
Council member Joe Capowski also
said he thought the state legislature
would side with the University and
prevent the bill from being passed.
If the bill does not pass, town resi
dents could face service cuts, higher
user fees and a mild tax increase,
Capowski said.
Although Giduz acknowledged that
See TAX, page 7
be able to purchase homes, he said.
Students could benefit from lower
rents, but Chilton said students were not
targeted to be the main recipients of
housing subsidies.
Keith Aldridge, chairman of the non
profit Orange Community Housing
Corporation, said the group targeted
residents at or below the median-in
come level, including school teachers,
and town and University employees.
Council memberßarbaraPowell said
the high cost of housing had forced
many black residents to leave Chapel
Hill. “I think we need to look at how we
can maintain African Americans in our
See HOUSING, page 7
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