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weather # TODAY: Sunny, warming early; high 55 THURSDAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-50s 0 100th Year of Editorial Freedom □MB Est. 1893 Volume 100, Issue 137 BOC planners still debating center location By Thanassis Cambanis Assistant University Editor Planning for the new, free-standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center has faltered on the topic of the building’s site, but the center’s overall program ming has been worked out, BCC plan ners said this week. “The only thing causing a problem right now is the location of the site,” said Tim Smith, co-founder of the Black Awareness Council. The joint planning committee made up of members of the BCC Advi sory Board and the chancellor’s work ing group is debating the relative WEDNESDAY IN THE NEWS Top stories from state, nation and world Haitian refugees stage strike to end Isolation MIAMI Haitian refugees confined behind barbed wire in the U.S. Navy’s Guantanamo base because they had the AIDS virus were on a hunger strike Tuesday. The approximately 270 refugees, including all the children except infants, have not taken food since Friday, said Lt. Cmdr. Gordon Hume of Atlantic Fleet headquarters. The refugees’ attorney, Michael Ratner, said his clients were deter mined to end their legal limbo, which has lasted more than a year . “The hunger strike is continuing until we get some commitment from the administration that we are going to get these people out,” he said. U.S. Immigration and Naturaliza tion spokesman Duke Austin said the protest would make no difference in the Haitians’ status. Anderson might join U.S. delegation to U.N. NEW YORK Former hostage Terry Anderson said Tuesday that he had had informal talks about joining the U.S. delegation to the United Nations, but no decision had been And contrary Anderson said ¥ there was no discussion about Jl J Ambassador *g£X '^j “We didn’t Te rry Anderson discuss the ' deputy spot because, as I understand it, it has traditionally been a career foreign spot. ... We talked about other places I might be helpful, where I have considerable interest and knowledge,” Anderson, the longest held U.S. hostage in Lebanon until his release 14 months ago, said. CHnton, Major agree to February meeting LONDON British Prime Minister John Major will meet President Clinton in Washington, D.C. accord ing to a Tuesday announcement. The visit follows speculation in London that the relationship has gotten off to an uneasy start. Major’s Downing Street office said the Conservative prime minister who has only spoken by telephone to Clinton will be the first European leader to meet the new president. Clinton spokesman George Stephanopoulos confirmed the meeting was set for Feb. 24 and said it would be “a working visit” with further details released later. Coman assumes post as new director of SB! RALEIGH SBI employees said hello Tuesday to anew director, who pledged that his word was his bond, and good-bye to an old one, who said he was leaving the best law enforce ment agency of its kind in the country. Jim Coman, a senior deputy attorney general, will be sworn in Friday. Charles Dunn, who held the director’s position twice, bid an emotional farewell to employees, who were told of the change by Attorney General Mike Easley at a meeting at SBI headquarters. Coman, 50, has headed the criminal division of the Attorney General’s office. He is a former police attorney and assistant district attorney in Greensboro. He also is the SBl’s legal counsel. —The Associated Press WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3,1993 Wj (Hip laily ®or Hppl Serving the students and the University community since 1893 merits of two sites: the patch of land between Wilson Library and Dey Hall and the “ditch” between Coker Hall and the Bell Tower, across South Road from the Wilson Library site, Smith said. Smith said he could not predict what kind of decision the group would make. “It’s really a business deal,” he said. “It’s the real world.” Journalism Professor Harry Amana, the chairman of the BCC Advisory Board who also has led the talks be tween the two groups, said the group’s final report might not make any recom mendation at all about the BCC’s loca tion. “We might not recommend a site; SBP candidates swap views on environment By .Anna Griffin University Editor The six candidates for student body president braved chilly conditions to answer questions about campus ecol ogy and their own environmental aware ness Tuesday at the Student Environ mental Action Coalition’s candidate forum. The forum, held Sl°. ,E i l i , I E l!!!L l J in the Pit before a FI EOTIOH bundled crowd of ment and each MMjfilLidllM candidate’s level of “eco-friendliness.” Each of the six contenders said they were concerned about being environ mentally conscious. Kevin Ginsberg, a junior from Co lumbia, S.C., said he would work to incorporate environmental issues into his administration just as he had tried to make himself more environmentally aware. “I do consider myself an environ mentalist, but I realize I could do bet ter,” he said. Ginsberg, who plans to have a presi dential liaison for every major student group on campus, said his liaison with 1 Cable remote users uninformed By Nathan Bishop Staff WHta- Spokesmen for Chapel Hill’s cable company admitted Tuesday that cus tomers might be overpaying for remote control access because of the company ’ s failure to publicize their policies re garding remote control fees. Cablevision, the company that as sumed control of cable access in Chapel Hill last May, charges customers $2 per month for cable remote-control services. But Bill D’Epagnier, vice president of customer service at Cablevision, said customers who already owned a re mote-control device did not need to pay the $2 surcharge. Lawmakers debate health care plan By Bruce Robinson Staff Writer N.C. lawmakers are debating the vi ability of a universal health-care pro posal made by the Health Access Fo rum of the N.C. Institute of Medicine. The proposal is built on the concept of managed competition, in which state citizens would be able to choose among private health-care organizations. These organizations include health-care Presidential hopefuls united in opposition to proposed tuition hike Editor’s note: The following is the third in a four-part series investigating what issues students consider the most important and what solutions candi dates for student body president have proposed. Staff Report Tuition. Everybody pays it; nobody likes it. This year, the always key campaign issue of tuition has taken anew turn with a General Assembly proposal that would raise in-state undergraduate tu ition 20 percent and graduate student tuition 50 percent. Out-of-state tuition rose 11.5 percent last summer. Out of 129 students polled last week, 25 percent named the proposed tuition hike as one of the top three issues in this year’s student body president race. The candidates agreed, and although sev eral have said the increase appears to be But February made me shiver with every paper I delivered. —Don McLean Chapel Hill, North Carolina maybe we’ll recommend two sites,” he said. The discussion about possible sites has been intense, Amana said. “There have been some rigorous dis cussions about the pros and cons of various sites,” he said. “The student coalition (for a free-standing BCC) fa vors the Wilson site, but again we haven’t made any recommendation.” Provost Richard McCormick, chair man of the working group, said that regardless of the group’s recommenda tion, the Board of Trustees would make the final decision on the location of the BCC. “We’re deciding what to recom Despite the cold weather, the six SBP candidates debated for about an hour Tuesday in the Pit SEAC would help coordinate SEAC goals with presidential policy. Ginsberg said the key was to get as many people as possible involved in environmental efforts. He said students Cable customers have not been offi cially notified of Cablevision’s policy on remote-control devices, he said. “Any customer who wishes to turn in a remote control issued by Cablevision because he or she has a universal re mote, or for any other reason, may have the $2 per month fee waived,” he said. Although customers have not been informed cable remote-control devices aren’t needed, customers should be aware of this possibility, he said. “Those customers who buy univer sal remotes can find out how to program them to control their cable boxes by reading the instructions that come with the remote,” D’Epagnier said. Staci Rosche, a Cablevision cus groups, health maintenance organiza tions, preferred provider organizations and insurance companies. Under the proposal, these private organizations would create community health plans based on a basic package of services required by a seven-member Health Policy Commission. Inpatient and outpatient services, ambulance ser vices, equipment, therapy and physician’s services would be covered by the plan, as well as one-half of the inevitable, all six have come out against the proposed hike Fighting the N.C. General Assembly’s proposed tuition increase for the UNC system ranks high on can didate Kevin Ginsberg’s list of priori ties. Ginsberg, a junior from Columbia, S.C., said he wanted to use the political clout of UNC students and their parents to fight any attempt to raise tuition. He vowed to organize students and vote legislators out of office if they approved the increase. “It’s the power of the people,” he said. “These 30 legislators (who voted for the increase) need to realize that when elections come around, we’ll re member.” Ginsberg also wants to remind the legislature of the N.C. Constitution’s goal to make public education as close mend,” McCormick said. The report might recommend one or two possible sites, he said. Amana said that once the group is sued its report, Chancellor Paul Hardin and the BOT still had to consider and approve it. Smith said he was confident the re port would be viewed favorably. “The package that we have to send to the Board of Trustees is very thorough,” he said. “I don’t think we’ll have any problem getting it through.” The size range the group was consid ering fell well within the coalition’s expectations, Smith said. “Right now you’re talking about an needed to use the energy they devote to other causes to the environment. “People don’t know the great things the Student Environmental Action Coa lition does,” he said. tomer, said she was outraged by Cablevision’s failure to inform custom ers about its remote-control fees policy. “(The spokesman) said Cablevision had only informed its employees of this capability, and it had refrained from informing the customers because the $2 remote fee provided the company with significant revenue,” she said. Bob Herman, a Cablevision spokes man, said he was unaware of efforts to inform the public about remote-control user fees. “I don’t know what the company has done to inform customers,” Herman said. “As far as I know, it is a relatively new policy at Cablevision to allow cus tomers to waive the $2 fee.” cost of prescription drugs and preventa tive services. One-half of the proposal would be financed by payroll taxes, and the other half would be financed by income taxes so that the burden would be shared by both employers and individuals. Dr. Ewald Busse, president of the N.C. Institute of Medicine, said he be lieved the N.C. General Assembly would See HEALTH, page 7 n°,tl e -' aS “ PraCti_ ISTVDEMT SBVEMMENTj 3~ ELECTION $2 million from alumni last year, said funding could be raised from sources other than tuition, thereby easing the burden on UNC stu dents. He pledged to work to increase outside giving. “There are other ways to eam money —grants, alumni, giving,” he said. “We have a lot of alumni to draw on. These are things we need to tap.” Ginsberg said he wanted UNC to area of what they call usable space of 30,000-plus square feet, maybe4o,ooo,” Smith said. “The total space would be about 50,000 square feet.” McCormick said that although he preferred not to discuss size specifica tions, the group would recommend a size depending on the amount of funds they expected to raise. “We’re going to recommend a fairly large building, but how large depends on prospects for fund raising,” McCormick said. “The money for the construction of the building has to be raised privately.” A final report originally was expected by early February, but the group hasn’t DTH/)onathan Hunt Jennifer Lloyd, a junior from Burlington, said students should push UNC administrators to be more envi ronmentally aware and to give students more opportunities to conserve and re- Housing officials ban dorm campaigning By Holly Stepp Staff Writer Acampuselection tradition—door to-door residence hall campaigning has died. Jn past elections, candidates have gone door to door in dormitories, in troducing themselves and asking stu dents to vote for them. But, according to Department of University Housing Associate Direc tor A1 Calarco, it is against University housing policy to solicit door to door in campus residence halls, and viola tors now will be asked to leave or will be escorted out of the building. “The policy on any kind of solicita tion has been in effect for at least the past three years,” Calarco said. “(The policy) came about in result of student complaints about door-to-door solici tation.” Solicitation is not allowed in residence halls without a permit from University housing, Calarco said. Marie Shelburne, a campaign worker for student body president candidate Jim Copland, was told he needed a permit to solicit and was asked to leave Kenan Residence Hall on Mon day while campaigning on Copland’s regain its reputation as one of the best college buys in the country. He cited the University’s fall from its No. 1 best-buy ranking in U.S. News and World Re port. “(High school) seniors look at the best education for the money,” he said. “We can’tkeep hitting students up for a 20-percent raise.” David Cox is an out-of-state student who says he has a “personal vendetta” against a proposed tuition hike. “I would use my influence with the Board of Trustees and make sure the trustees understand that thousands and thousands of students are against this,” said Cox, a junior from Chattanooga, Tenn. Cox said one way to avert some of the cost of a tuition increase, if the General Assembly does approve the proposed hike, would be to look for sportsline AP NCAA Division II Men's Poll Record Pts Pvs 1. Bakersfield (8) 19-0 160 1 2. Washburn, Kan. 18-0 152 2 3. Philadelphia Textile 16-1 144 3 4. Franklin Pierce 16-2 136 4 5. N.C. Central 17-0 128 5 6. Virginia Union 15-2 120 6 © 1993 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved Ncwi/Spoits/Am 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 begun drafting the joint proposal. “I think we’re doing it the right way by not rushing,” Amana said. “We’ve had some deadlines we’ve had to ad just. It’s taking time to build a consen sus.” Amana said that at the Feb. 12 meet ing, the joint group would designate a few members of the advisory board and the chancellor’s working group to form a writing group responsible for drafting the report. McCormick said the group was tak ing its time. “We don’t have a projected finishing point,” he said. “The most important thing is to make sure it’s a good report.” cycle. Lloyd said that instead of establish ing an environmental cabinet position or appointing a liaison with SEAC, she would work to provide funding for stu dent environmental organizations. “It doesn’t do me any good to have environmental advisers if we can’t get funding for SEAC,” she said. “I want to put the groups the people who know what they’re talking about—in charge. My job as student body president would be to get funding for these groups.” David Cox, a junior from Chatta nooga, Tenn., said educating students was the primary way to improve the campus environment. “You just have to recycle more,” he said. Cox said students and administrators needed to rethink their priorities and to begin granting more funding to recy cling efforts. “We know what we need to do; we just aren’t doing it,” Cox said. “All these cost money.” Cox said the primary problem was that not enough students were recy cling. He said his plan to let students choose winch groups would receive stu dent fees would help organizations like SEAC. But Jim Copland, a junior from Burlington, said the University actually would save money by installing en- See FORUM, page 7 behalf. Shelburne said neither Elections Board Vice Chairman Hal Kitchin nor current Residence Housing Associa tion President Charles Streeter had voiced any qualms about door-to-door solicitations. “When I spoke to (Kitchin and Streeter), they said there was nothing wrong with door-to-door campaign ing,” he said. Copland said he thought it was a “disservice” to students in the resi dence halls. “But we won’t be doing any more door-to-door campaigning," he added. Other candidates do not, or no longer, plan to campaign door to door, Jennifer Lloyd, a junior from Burlington, said she did not plan to utilize door-to-door campaigns. Adrian Patillo, a junior from Chapel Hill, said he was disappointed in die policy change but didn't believe it would be a major detriment to his campaign. “I was disappointed, but I had not planned a large scale door-to-door campaign,” he said. “It won’t really be See DORMS, page 4 other sources of income. “One way to do that is to look at the Bicentennial Campaign,” he said of the $320 million University fund-raiser. “I know that the tuition increase is going across all UNC-system schools. I think we ought to be immune to that kind of increase because we have the Bicentennial Campaign coming up, and we can use all of that money coming in for basic operational costs.” If an increase is passed, the student body president must lobby to make sure some of the money comes back to the University, he said. “Now if we do get the increase, then I will try to make sure that a lot of that money comes back to Chapel Hill,” he said. Cox said he would work with the See ISSUES, page 2
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