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weather TODAY: 30% chance of rain; high mid-50s FRIDAY: 80% chance of rain; high mid-40s 0 100th Year of Editorial Freedom BMfl Est. 1893 Volume 100, Issue 143 THURSDAY IN THE NEWS Top stories from state , nation and world Powell wants to leave chairman's post early WASHINGTON Gen. Colin Powell said Wednesday that he will complete his term as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if asked by President Clinton, but would prefer to leave a bit early. In a day of appearances in TV interviews, Powell strongly disputed a report that his desire to retire early was reinforced by disagreements with Clinton concerning the president’s policies on homosexuals and budget cuts. Powell, 55, is the nation’s highest ranking military officer and chief military adviser to the president. He has held the job since Oct. 1, 1989. “I am not Colin Powell unhappy, I am not disappointed, I am not crosswise with the administra tion,” he told CNN. Later, when told that White House spokesmen had said Clinton wants him to serve out his full term, Powell indicated he would stay on the job if asked. Haitian activists angry about observer plan PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti An agreement to allow human rights observers into Haiti came under attack Wednesday by the far-right and by supporters of exiled leftist President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Rightist politician Hubert De Ronceray called Tuesday’s U.N.- brokered agreement “illegal and senseless” and said Haiti’s army backed Prime Minister Marc Bazin had no right to sign it. There was no indication how the soldiers would react to the deploy ment of the first 40 U.N. observers, including 15 Americans, who are expected to arrive by Saturday. Aristide’s backers said the compromise agreement reached by Bazin and the U.N. envoy Dante Caputo undercuts the power of the observers and would prolong the rule of the army and the conservative elite. Russia backing Bosnia peace proposal at U.N. MOSCOW Russia urged the U.N. Security Council Wednesday to adopt the Bosnian peace plan forged by former U.S. Secretary of State Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen of Britain. Deputy Foreign Minister Vitaly Churkin said there was no viable alternative to the plan, which divides Bosnia-Herzegovina into 10 autono mous zones. The proposal has been rejected by the republic’s Serbs and Muslims. “We have only two hopes in this situation,” Churkin said. “One is Cyrus Vance, and the other is Lord Owen.” President Clinton has called the plan unfair to the Muslims. Iraq continues to hold British men hostage BAGHDAD, Iraq lraq on Wednes day rejected pleas to release two jailed Britons until Britain first frees millions of dollars of Iraqi assets seized during the Persian Gulf War. Michael Whitlam, head of the British Red Cross, said after a 45- minute meeting with Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz that Baghdad had denied requests by the Britons’ relatives to free them. Aziz reiterated his demand, made last week on British television, that the men could be freed if London releases Iraqi assets, Whitlam said. Dwarf tossing banned after Geneva protests GENEVA Dwarf-tossing has been banned in Geneva after a nightclub’s plan to stage it sparked protests. Dwarf-tossing is a “violation of human dignity,” endangers perform ers and spectators and could trigger violent disputes between supporters and opponents, Bernard Ziegler, police chief of the Swiss canton, said in an order Tuesday. Charles-Yves Gavillet, manager of the Velvet Club, had planned a one night show next month. “Mothers of dwarfs, invalids, people working with the handicapped called me to protest,” he told a local newspaper. The Swiss Association of People of Small Height also com plained. —The Associated Press ®hp Snily atir Ippl Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Controversial bills struck, amended By Marty Minchin Assistant University Editor Student Congress members Wednes day amended a bill that would have forced groups receiving student fees to submit their publications to student gov ernment and also struck down a bill that would have redefined the term “politi cal partisanship.” The first bill, which was introduced by Rep. Charlton Allen, Dist. 21, rede fined “political partisanship” as “ac tively supporting a political party, per son, cause or political principle.” The bill also defined “religious” as “advocating orcondemning in any fash ion a religion, or a set of religious prin ciples.” “I believe that politically partisan, if we are to define it, we should follow the textbook dictionary definition and not Downtown bakery in financial trouble By Marie Carpenter Staff Writer Columbia Street Bakery employees said Wednesday that thepopular down town eatery had given its menu a face lift to offset the store’s financial troubles in facing competition from other local restaurants. Co-owner Frank Ferrell said the bakery planned to add wine and beer to its menu within the next two to three weeks, adding that he hoped it would keep the restaurant financially viable. “(Columbia Street) is on the turn around,” Ferrell said. Columbia Street Bakery is located at 107 N. Columbia St., near the comer of West Franklin and Columbia streets. Doug Matthews, a Columbia Street Bakery employee, said that the restau rant owed a substantial amount of money to Ninth Street Bakery, its par ent restaurant in Durham, but that employees had been assured that the restaurant was not about to close any time soon. “We definitely have to pay off debts to them,” Matthews said. Activists to challenge nuclear waste dump By Daniel Feldman Staff Writer Local environmental activists said Wednesday that they would fight the state’s proposal to build a nuclear radio active waste dump in neighboring Chatham County. A forum will be held tonight at the Chapel Hill Town Council at 7:30 p.m. to discuss a strategy to protect local land. Love Your Mother, a Carrboro based environmental group, will spon sor the meeting. Environmental activists said Wednes day that the waste dump could cause serious health problems for nearby resi dents. “Love Your Mother aims to fight back with meetings aimed at organizing the Triangle area, along with a state wide campaign,” said Debi Bird, a local University student to run for school board By Rama Kayyali Staff Writer Lavonda Burnette is not a typical University student. Nor would she fit the profile of the average Chapel Hill- Carrboro School Board member. Burnette, 22, is an Evening College student studying English and a single mother with a five-year-old daughter. By planning to run for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board this No vember, Burnette said she hoped to bring a fresh perspective to the board. Burnette said being both a parent and a student helped make her especially qualified for the position. “I think I can help bring a change by bringing in energy and youth to the board,” she said. “If I do run and if Ido win, I will be the youngest person to serve on the board in history.” Asa recent high school graduate, Burnette said she would be able to relate equally to the concerns of students and parents and be an advocate for both groups. “I will listen to everything from el ementary to high school, from rich to poor, from black to white,” she said. “Everyone has a right to be heard and I hate people who are intolerant. Laurence J. Peter THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11,1933 Chapel Hill, North Carolina try to make up one of our own,” Allen said. During debate on the bill, Rep. An drew Cohen, Dist. 6, said he thought the definition would restrict many groups from receiving funding. “If we have this much of a definition we are going to be funding the yachting club and the juggling club and that’s all,” Cohen said. “It’s important that we have an intel lectually diverse climate.” After the bill was amended and de bated, the entire bill was struck. “I felt that as amended it was at tempting to destroy the intent of the legislature,” Allen said. The second bill, also introduced by Allen, required that all student groups requesting campus funds and publish ing a newsletter to submit the newslet ter to student government within 72 Matthews said the Columbia Street operation was not the type of business that earned high profits. Customers tend to purchase an item for less than a dollar and then stay in the shop to read, he added. “It ’ s not the kind of thing that makes a lot of money,” Matthews said. “It’s never been pulling in profits.” Matthews said bakery employees would like to increase profits by the first of April, when the parent com pany will evaluate whether to renew its lease. “At that time, (the owners) will stan looking at us with more critical eyes,” he said. Taylor Mayo, assistant manager of Columbia Street Bakery, said many restaurant regulars had expressed con cern that tire opening of SaladeKa, the new deli next door, would force the bakery out of business. “We even had customers offer to volunteer (to work at the bakery),” Mayo said. Matthews said that despite finan- See COLUMBIA, page 2 activist who founded the group. Bird said she planned to inform the public about the illegal activities of Chem Nuclear, the organization hired by a state commission to find a suitable location for the waste facility. Chem Nuclear chose its proposed site in Chatham County based on socio economic considerations and not scien tific findings, according to the Epley report. Bird said: “The proposed site be tween Moncure and Mary Oakes is a sparsely populated area, consisting of a low-income minority community. This is simply an area where the individuals simply do not have enough power to fight back.” But Judith Buskill, Chem Nuclear community relations specialist, said the See SITE, page 2 Lavonda Burnette represented.” Burnette said she hoped University students would take an interest in local school issues. “Most students, especially under graduates, may not have children but school board issues are very important hours of publication. If the group does not turn their pub lication in on time, the student body treasurer could freeze the organization ’ s funds. Allen said the bill was necessary to ensure that groups that asked for stu dent fees for publications actually used that money for newsletters or periodi cals. “We have to deal with groups con tinuously coming in asking for money for a newsletter,” he said. “We need to see what type of publi cation it is. We are trying to determine an appropriate mechanism so the fi nance committee has access to this in formation.” Rep. Michael Kolb, Dist. 1, amended the bill, striking the original articles on the bill and changing the Student Gov ernment Code to state that all organiza Chuck D calls on blacks to ‘return to community’ By Jennifer Talhelm Staff Writer Chuck D, leader of the controversial rap group Public Enemy, said at a lec ture Wednesday night that black stu dents have to “up the ante” in their communities and stand up as leaders to build a structure for the black commu nity. “The people in college have got to get more hard core,” he said. “Our people are not afraid of our community be cause the people who are supposed to be in charge of our community won’t take charge.” Chuck D spoke to about 500 students and community members in Carmichael Auditorium about “Hip Hop and Its Effect on the Liberation Movement." His speech was sponsored by the Caro lina Union Forum Committee. “We got to stop sitting on our asses and hands when you refuse to up the ante and challenge youth,” he said. “So ciety is within your grasp. It’s a war zone within your hands and the rest of the community is waiting. You’ve got to up the ante.” He said black students no matter what their college major should go back to their neighborhoods and start businesses within the community as leaders. He said black people only di vided their community when they com peted against each other in the white job market. “We as adults have to take back our community,” he said. “The importance of building business is the only thing we can have in our community. If you don’t have skills in the black community, you sure as fuck aren’t going to have any skills in the white community.” At a press conference Wednesday afternoon, Chuck D said that “integra tion was the worst shit that ever hap pened to (blacks), technically. “The big job is the community,” he said. “That’s what we should be moth ers and fathers for. Black people need to make their own rules. We can’t just look for a resolution, we’ve got to just roll up our sleeves and get to work.” Chuck D encouraged students to fight for a free-standing black cultural center to make the University more relevant to them. “That cultural center that you’re try- and affect everyone,” Burnette said. Chris Baumann, a senior political science majorfrom Nashotah, Wis., who plans to work on Burnette’s campaign, said University students could make the difference in Burnette’s campaign. “Students have a very powerful vote,” Baumann said. “During Mark Chilton’s campaign for Chapel Hill Town Coun cil, students had a large impact in help ing him win.” Joel Sipress, Burnette’s campaign manager, said he hoped Chilton’s vic tory would propel other undergraduates to get involved in local politics. At least three seats on the Chapel Hill-Carrboro School Board will be vacant in November. Burnette said she would raise money for her campaign by holding fund-rais ers and asking for donations. “This campaign will be a grassroots campaign from the bottom,” she said. Sipress said he hoped voters would realize that Burnette had a genuine in terest in serving the community. “(She) has lived here all her life and has always been very active in local politics and community service,” Sipress said. “Lavonda is concerned with making tions using student funds must store newsletters and periodicals with stu dent government for one year after the printing date. Allen said he thought the amended bill would serve his intentions in the original bill. “I felt like as amended (the bill) is perfectly fine,” he said. “The finance committee needs some kind of mecha nism to review these groups.” Kathy Staley, co-chairwoman of Bi sexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity, said that although she was pleased with the final bills, she still feared congressional action that would censor certain student groups. Allen’s original periodicals bill was similar to restrictive riders placed on the budgets of B-GLAD and Graduate Students United last spring. The riders later were down. I DTH/Kristin Prelipp Rapper Chuck D discusses race relations and the hip-hop movement Wednesday ing to build on campus do what you’ve got to do,” he told the crowd. “Fuck it, you protest. Beat mother fuckers down if you have to. “You build that center. You take it. This is not the real world, this is college. This is a training ground for the real world. You get it done what can happen? Oh, they're going to kick you out? So, go to another fucking school.” He said at the press conference that he thought the BCC would serve its purpose anywhere on campus. “Wherever they put it on campus is wherever,” he said. “Developers can do anything they built Vegas in the desert. “If there’s a cultural center, then people will go there.” Chuck D grew up in Roosevelt, N. Y., and attended Adelphi University as a design major where he began an interest in music that led him to start Public Enemy. The group has risen in popularity sure scarce education money be used in the best possible way to improvements in the classroom. She is also very con cerned with meeting the needs of stu dents in Chapel Hill and Carrboro who are currently at-risk students,” he said. Baumann said Burnette’s qualities made her a better candidate. “She is young, with new ideas. She is a prime candidate. Her best interest is the schools and education. She’ll be great,” he said. Burnette first became active in edu cation issues when she was asked to represent the NAACP in the Blue Rib bon Task Force. The task force was created by local school officials to find out why black students were performing below state averages. “We found out not only African- Americans are failing, but white stu dents are as well,” she said. “Something needs to be done about the problems within the system. “The Chapel Hill-Carrboro school system is ranked the highest in North Carolina. To have such a high number of people failing is shameful,” she said. Burnette, a native of Chapel Hill, See BURNETTE, page 7 sportsline SPARKED: To a 73-63 victory over Geor gia Tech, No. 3 Duke's Thomas Hill, who: scored a season-high 26 points. Duke struggled early, trailing in the first half at. home by 2 points, but exploded early in the second period and won its sixth straight game to make its record 19-3 overall and 7-3 in the ACC. © 1993 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. News/Sports/Arts 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 “Student Congress has the right and should see the publications which are used with student fees,” Staley said. “I have no objections to that bill, except for the concern it may be used against student organizations through an amendment like the one proposed tonight.” Doug Ferguson, B-GLAD co-chair man, said he thought that if the second bill had passed in its original form, it would have resulted in infringement of some groups’ rights. “I think the second bill that was amended, if it had been passed, it would have resulted in an abridgement of stu dent groups’ First Amendment rights,” he said. “I think it’s fair for a student group to make sure money isn’t being wasted. I’m still worried there might be a prob lem with censorship in the bill, though.” despite critics who have tried to censor videos and recordings for perceived vio lence and profanity, including the video for the song “By the Time I Get to Arizona,” in which F*ublic Enemy mem bers responded to Arizona voters’ re fusal to approve a state holiday on Mar tin Luther King Jr.’s birthday. The video depicts the assassination of Arizona government officials. Chuck D, who has called hip hop “the black CNN,” said he spoke as one black businessman. He said he used rap as a “conquest of white media.” Rap is the voice of black people, he said. Public Enemy is known as one of the first activist rap groups. The group has been accused of being anti-Semitic and anti-white. “The media controls our perception and our perspective on how we view life in our time," he said. “Rap is our own point of view from a black perspective. See CHUCK D, page 2 Truth, justice and the final election results We’re awake now. Unlike Tues day night. In the flurry of writing, editing and copy-checking that went on in the newsroom on election night, we for got to check our math. A stupid mistake yes, but under standable, considering that we’re jour nalists. Because several ones were left unearned, the final totals in die “Stu dent Body President Voter Break down” table were incorrect in Wednesday’s paper. The official final results are: Jim Copland, l,los;JenniferLloyd,76B; Carl Clark, 569; Kevin “Cooter" Ginsberg, 295; Adrian Patillo. 174; Eric Montross, 121; and David Cox 109. ' In ad, 3,141 students, or 13 per cent of the eligible voters, cast their ballots. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error and promises to use a calculator next time.
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