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100th Year of Editorial Freedom
BHH Est. 1893
Volume 100, Issue 139
Tension building between BCC planners
By Thanassis Cambanis
Assistant University Editor
The choice of a site for anew black
cultural center has become a bone of
contention for some members of the
BCC Advisory Board, who said the
goals of the Chancellor’s Working
Group have sometimes run counter to
those of the advisory board.
Members of the advisory board, ac
knowledged by the chancellor as the
experts in the BCC planning process,
and the working group, which answers
directly to the chancellor, have been
working together to submit a joint plan
for the new center to the chancellor by
the end of February.
FRIDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stones from state, nation and world
Three left on Clinton's
attorney general list
WASHINGTON President Clinton
has narrowed his search for an
attorney general to three people, and
the leading contender is Kimba
Wood, the female judge who presided
over junk-bond king Michael
Milken’s fraud trial, administration
officials said Thursday.
A decision is expected within days,
they said.
Wood is a Democrat but was
appointed to the federal bench in New
York by Republican President Reagan
nearly five years ago. Her confirma
tion hearings then were trouble-free.
Others said to be finalists are
Washington attorney Charles F.C.
Ruff and former Virginia Gov. Gerald
Baliles, according to two administra
tion officials who discussed the
matter on condition of anonymity.
Russian space mirror
bounces Hglit off Earth
MOSCOW Russian scientists
unfurled a mirror in space on
Thursday and briefly bounced
sunlight onto the night side of Earth,
testing anew solar spotlight that
could eventually illuminate parts of
the planet.
The troubled Russian space agency
hailed the experiment as a qualified
success and immediately began
fishing for investors, saying the pre
dawn test proved a space spotlight
was feasible.
It was unclear whether the
experiment, named Operation Banner,
came off exactly as planned. But
officials claimed victory in the most
important part, in which the 82-foot
wide reflective sheet was spun open
like a parachute behind the unmanned
cargo ship Progress.
The experiment could be the first
step in creating a stellar spotlight out
of several banners. Such a spotlight
could be used to light up nighttime
work, rescue operations, blacked-out
cities or sun-starved polar areas.
General Motors must
pay $102.5 Min suit
ATLANTA A jury found the
nation’s biggest automaker negligent
Thursday in the fuel-tank design of a
General Motors pickup truck and
awarded $105.2 million to parents of
a teenager killed in a fiery 1989 crash.
The Fulton County State Court jury
awarded 17-year-old Shannon
Moseley’s parents slOl million in
punitive damages and $4.2 million for
the value of his life. The parents’
lawyer had asked for SIOO million in
punitive damages.
The company did not immediately
say whether it would appeal.
Georgia law gives the judge the
option to increase or lower a jury
award, but Judge A.L. Thompson did
not say whether he would.
Part of parking deck
collapses at Crabtree
RALEIGH Part of a 3-month-old
parking deck at the entrance to
Crabtree Valley Mall collapsed when
a faulty concrete support gave way
early Wednesday, sending tons of
rubble crashing to the deck’s bottom
floor.
No one was injured. The 210 stores
were closed and the deck was empty
at the time. Only a security guard was
present to hear a loud thud and see the
gaping hole in the bridge from the
deck to Glenwood Avenue.
The deck, which opened Nov. 1, is
expected to be closed for four to six
weeks while the failure is investigated
and the damaged portion replaced.
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But Carolynn McDonald, BCC Ad
visory Board recorder, said conflict over
the site recommendation had created
tension during the talks between the
two groups.
“There hasn’t been a whole lot of
discussion of the site issue in joint dis
cussions because (members of the work
ing group) are avoiding it because they
know it’s a touchy issue,” said
McDonald, who added that she was
speaking for herself, not the advisory
board as a whole.
Gordon Rutherford, director of fa
cilities management, said the joint dis
cussions primarily were focusing on
two sites, the Wilson Library site and
the Coker Hall site.
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Peter and Pam Uhlenberg say their diverse family members get along well with one another
Couple built rainbow family of 16
By Ross Taylor
Staff Writer
A smile runs across Peter Uhlenberg ’ s
face as one of his children bounds across
the wooden back porch into his arms.
“Daddy, the Super Bowl’s about to
start. Are you coming?” the child asks
anxiously.
“In just a minute, son,” Uhlenberg
replies softly.
Like many other American families,
the Uhlenbergs gathered around their
television Sunday night to watch the
biggest football game of the year. But,
unlike most families, there were some
differences.
Eleven, that is.
Uhlenberg, a UNC sociology profes
sor, and his wife, Pam Uhlenberg, spend
SHS first local clinic
to get Depo-Provera
By Joyce Clark
Staff Writer
Student Health Service will become
one of the first local health clinics to
offerthe newly approved Depo-Provera
birth control injection sometime this
spring.
Depo-Provera, an injectable form of
birth control effective for three months,
was approved by the Food and Drug
Administration late last fall.
SHS officials expect the drug to be
available in the pharmacy for $36.80
beginning in mid-February. The price
includes the cost of the medication and
the injection.
Dr. Jon Power, SHS director of gyne
cology, said the FDA had rejected ap
proval of Depo-Provera in the United
States twice before because of concern
that the drug might have been linked to
breast cancer.
The FDA since has determined that
Depo-Provera carries no greater risk of
cancer than the risks associated with
other forms of birth control.
Depo-Provera is an injectable syn
thetic progesterone similar to the hor
mone present during the second half of
a woman’s menstrual cycle.
The drug is injected into the arm or
buttocks within the first five days of the
woman’s period and is effective imme
diately. Its effects are reversible after_
three months if the woman opts not to
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While the two groups disagree over
which site is preferable for the BCC,
McDonald said the advisory board
would not waver in its commitment to
recommending the Wilson site the
plot of land between Wilson Library
and Dey Hall.
“We will get that site as long as we
keep on believing we need to be there,”
she said.
McDonald said renewed student ac
tivism, in the spirit of last fall’s student
coalition movement for a free-standing
BCC, would follow a decision not to
recommend the Wilson site.
“We’re not going to start all over
again,” she said. “If the need starts,
we’ll pick up where we left off. It’ll be
nights at home with 11 of their adopted
children. The couple also have three
more children, one adopted and two
biological, who have moved out of the
house.
What makes the Uhlenberg family
even more unusual is that while the
parents are Caucasian, all 12 adopted
children are of different ethnic back
grounds: Korean, black and some of
mixed backgrounds Korean-and
black and black-and-white.
“From the beginning, even before we
got married, our plan was to adopt chil
dren,” Pam Uhlenberg said. “After our
first two children, who were boys, we
decided to adopt from then on. Our first
two adoptions were two girls.”
Peter Uhlenberg said they had no
racial preference. “We wanted kids who
return for another shot.
Depo-Provera protects against preg
nancy by preventing the release of the
egg from the ovaries during a woman’s
menstrual cycle, thereby precluding fer
tilization.
Power said Depo-Provera, which had
an effectiveness rate of 99.7 percent,
was an excellent method of contracep
tion with relatively few side effects.
The most common side effects asso
ciated with Depo-Provera are irregular
menstrual bleeding, missing periods for
prolonged periods of time and weight
gain of two to six pounds. The weight
gain usually subsides after the first year
of use.
Power said Depo-Provera is hoped to
be an option for women who had been
advised against using other forms of
over-the-counter birth control because
it did not contain the female hormone
estrogen.
Estrogen is thought to be linked to
strokes and other health risks associ
ated with oral contraceptives contain
ing the hormone.
“But that is something we would
have to discuss with those patients on
an individual basis,” Power said.
In fact, Depo-Provera offers benefits
to its users that other forms of birth
control do not.
Norplant, which also is offered at
See SHS, page 2
ugly.”
McDonald said that members of the
chancellor’s working group, and espe
cially Provost Richard McCormick,
were pushing the Coker site the land
between Coker Hall and the Bell Tower.
“It’s supposed to be a cooperative
effort,” she said. “But on some issues
(working group members) have their
own hidden agendas.”
Ruby Sinreich, another advisory
board member who spoke as an indi
vidual, said working group members
had a poor attendance record at joint
meetings.
“I’m very unsatisfied with the pro
cess so far,” Sinreich said. “We have
joint meetings, and they are not very
would be hard to adopt.”
After the Uhlenbergs adopted their
fifth child, a boy, friends and acquain
tances began to express concern about
the size of their family.
“It was at this point where there were
a lot of people encouraging us not to go
on,” Peter Uhlenberg said. “We spent a
lot of time praying and thinking. We
knew that God would provide for us if it
was the right thing to do.
“So we were open for adopting more.”
And seven more they did.
Until then, they had adopted only
healthy infants. But after the fifth child,
they began to look for those with physi
cal or mental handicaps.
Eventually they adopted three, in-
See UHLENBERG, page 5
Ninety faculty, graduate students
nominated for teaching awards
By Chris Robertson
Staff Writer
The nominees for the Tanner and Johnston teaching
awards for 1993 have been released, and the winners will be
announced soon.
The Tanner Distinguished Teaching Awards are given
every year to five faculty members and three teaching
assistants. Two faculty members are named Johnston Schol
ars each year.
The 10 winners are given framed certificates and a
monetary prize.
Faculty Tanner winners receive $5,000, and graduate
student Tanner winners get SI,OOO each, said Diane Fisher,
administrative secretary to Donald Boulton, vice chancellor
for student affairs.
The two Johnston Scholar winners, each faculty mem
bers, receive a $5,000 donation from the Johnston Scholar
Program.
This year’s 90 nominees were selected by an open ballot
box process during the fall semester.
Boxes were placed around campus buildings where stu
dents and faculty could place their nominations, said Joy
Kasson, chairman of the Chancellor’s Committee on Dis
tinguished Teaching Awards.
Names collected from the boxes were given to a commit
tee, composed half of students and half of faculty.
The committee reviewed the names based on talks with
department chairmen, teaching evaluations and phone in
terviews from randomly chosen students in the nominees’
classes, Kasson said.
After the committee investigated the nominees, they cut
down the list and gave it to the chancellor.
The chancellor will choose the 10 winners, based on the
committee’s recommendations and the candidates’ qualifi-
well attended by the working group.”
At some joint meetings, so few mem
bers of the working group showed up
that they said they did not feel comfort
able representing the whole group,
Sinreich said.
“I feel like we’ve wasted a lot of
time,” she said.
Robert Eubanks, a working group
member and former chairman of the
Board of Trustees, said he did not see an
attendance problem with the group
meetings.
“The meetings are very well at
tended,” he said. “All that’s so insig
nificant to what we’re trying to focus
on.”
Eubanks said the site debate was
Faculty, officials
recall memorable
SBP races of past
By Michael Easterly
Staff Writer
John Sanders has a unique perspec
tive on this year’s student body presi
dent election.
A professor and former director of
the Institute of Government, Sanders
has seen student body presidents come
and go for 36 years.
And in 1950-51, he served as UNC’s
student body president.
“It was a great opportunity to work
with the student legislature and get some
legislation passed, doing various things
for the student body, (like) opposing
tuition increases that’s not a nov
elty,” he said.
While not all UNC faculty members
and administrators have experiences like
Sanders’ to draw upon, many take inter
est in student body president elections.
Sanders said he was happy to see so
many people running for the position
this year.
“I think (the student body president)
needs to be a person the students respect
and have confidence in,” he said. “I
think he or she needs to be committed to
serving the students, helping to make
their lives here more productive and
more satisfying. Tuition is a part of that,
(as is) making the campus safer.”
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said he had followed
student elections for all of the 21 years
he has worked at the University.
“I thought they were all good candi
dates speaking to a number of issues,”
he said after watching the Student Envi
ronmental Action Coalition Student
Body President Candidate’s Forum in
the Pit on Tuesday.
The cost and quality of UNC educa
tion, the quality of life on campus and
the level of student involvement in
University decision making were all
important issues, he said.
“My comment for this election is that
Teaching award nominees
Robert Adler
Howard Aldrich
Sandra Almeida
Brooke Baker
Joel Banicek
Jim Bannon
William L. Barney
Dan Bean
Richard Beckman
Herman Bennett
Judith Bennett
John Bittner
Glen Blalock
Maurice Brookhart
Maurice M. Bursey
Lori Carter
Michael T. Crimmins
Carol Connor
R. Coop
Robert Cox
M.T. Crimmins
Bart D. Ehrman
Everett Emerson
Peter Filene
Jaroslav Folda, 111
Michael Folio
Meg Fugate
Darryl Gless
Stella (Beth) Grabowski
Jacquelyn D. Hall
cations.
The final winners could be announced as early as next
week, Kasson said.
“You always hear the pros and cons of teaching, but it’s
nice for the winners and nominees to finally get some
recognition for their hard work,” Kasson said.
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largely immaterial because the group
had no power in the actual site selec
tion. The BOT makes the final decision
regarding site.
“I don’t think it’s creating a lot of
tension because this group doesn ’ t ha ve
the authority to choose,” he said. “I
haven’t sensed any real tensions in the
group about the site.”
The group had not spent too much
time pondering the issue of which site to
recommend, Eubanks said.
“I think it’s an issue we haven’t ne
gotiated or discussed in depth,” he said.
Debates concerning attendance and
site recommendations should not inter-
See BCC, page 5
everybody was
late in getting go
ing, but that’s not
always bad,” he
said. “I hear it’s the
last week that is
the most important
anyway.”
Boulton said the
key was for stu
dents to actually
vote.
“A lot of people say students don’t
care because only 1,000 of them turn
out for the election, but I don’t think
that’s true,” he said. “But the number of
people voting is an indicator.”
Zenobia Hatcher-W ilson said she had
observed seven elections duringher ten
ure as Campus Y director.
“Having a platform is a good place to
start, but a large part of the responsibil
ity (of the student body president) is
being responsive to current needs,” she
said. “That means two-way communi
cation.
“In a sense, you have to become the
steward of the students’ interests.”
The next student body president
should strive for closer communication
with students about what is happening
at Board of Trustees meetings, she said.
The student body president serves for a
year as an ex-officio member of the
BOT.
David Ward, vice chairman of the
BOT, declined to comment on the is
sues in the campus election, saying stu
dents should decide them. But Ward did
explain his conception of the role of a
student body president.
“From my perspective on the board,
the student body president is a voting
member of the Board of Trustees,” he
said. “They have to come and shed their
advocacy position for the students, and
they have to become members of the
See FACULTY, page 2
Melinda Meade
Phil Meyer
Thomas J. Meyer
Jerry Mills
Eric Mlyn
Irwin Moms
David Newbury
Abiqail Panter
Steve Parsons
Gary Pielak
Kim Piontek
Richard Richardson
John Hatch
Edward T. Samulski
Gwendolyn B. Sancar
Shawn von Schreiber
Joel Schwartz
Richard D. Settle
Sid Shaw
Robert Shrewsbury
Euridice Silva
Keith Simmons
RJA Talbert
Ellen Tim
Julie Tomberiein
Anne Tordi
Joan Turner
Gerald Links
Lori Wollerman
Theodore Zorn
Richard Hammack
John Hardham
Anne Hastings
Robert Heyneman
Barbara Hicks
Jim Hile
Tammy Hiller
Darolyn Hilts
Susan Houghton
David Johnson
Aloysius Kasturiarachch
Kim Kenny
Horst Kessemeier
William Kier
Robert Kirkpatrick
Lloyd Kramer
Paul Kropp
Dou-las M. Lay
Donna Le Febvre
J. Finley Lee
Vicky A. LeGrys
Madeline Levine
Dominique Linchet
Kim Logan
Jenifer MacGillvary
Eleanora Magemedora
William Maisch
Jon Malinowski
Kerstin McKay
Chris McDonough