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weather I TODAY: Increasing cloudiness; TUESDAY: 70% chance of rain; high upper 50s (S) JIK. 100th Year of Editorial Freedom BMH Est. 1893 Volume 100, Issue 145 McCormick denies misleading BGC advocates By Peter Walls ten Editor University administrators defended themselves Friday against charges that they were being dishonest about site and design plans for a free-standing black cultural center and emphasized their support for a location away from Polk Place. “We haven’t slid around on our posi tion,” said Provost Richard McCormick, who came under criticism last week for not supporting the site between Wilson Library and Dey Hall preferred by BCC advocates. Members of the BCC Advisory Board have said they wanted the building to go MONDAY IN THE NEWS Top stories from state, nation and world Clinton to give first TV address on economy WASHINGTON President Clinton will give his first televised address to the nation tonight, promoting an economic program that top adminis tration officials said Sunday would ask for sacrifices from all Americans. The administration said the president’s plan would propose close to 150 specific spending cuts to save money, while a top Democrat in Congress said that the middle class would be most affected by anew broad-based tax on energy. The White House confirmed that in its effort to control the deficit, it was considering limits on the payments received by doctors and hospitals under Medicare, the giant government program that supplies health care for 35 million elderly and disabled Americans. White House officials conceded that virtually every American would be asked to contribute to the plan through benefit cuts or higher taxes. UN mission to inspect human rights in Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti The stalled effort to restore democracy to Haiti gained new momentum on Sunday with the dispatch of about 40 human rights observers to the Caribbean nation. After months of resistance, Prime Minister Marc Bazin’s military backed government acceded to the mission last week after the United Nations agreed to reduce the observ ers’ autonomy and guaranteed that Haitian sovereignty would be respected. An airliner carrying the first group of observers was expected to arrive Sunday evening from Miami. The group included 15 Americans, the U.S. State Department said. Ex-communist leading hi Lithuanian election VILNIUS, Lithuania Lithuanians voted Sunday in their first popular presidential election, a contest that could decide whether the Baltic country looks to the East or West as it struggles to rebuild its economy. Pre-election polls indicated Lithuania’s former Communist Party leader and acting president, Algirdas Brazauskas, had a comfortable lead of 10 percent to 30 percent. But his challenger, Stasys Lozoraitis, might have narrowed the gap during televised debates this month. He urged Lithuania’s 2.6 million voters to look past their current hardships to a Western democratic future, rather than romanticizing the socialist past. Jordan, Syria censure UN Security Council AMMAN, Jordan Jordan and Syria condemned the U.N. Security Council on Sunday for accepting an Israeli proposal to end a standoff over its expulsion of some 400 Palestinians. In Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin told reporters he was confident the Palestinians would rejoin the Middle East peace talks now that the compromise had been endorsed by the Security Council. The compromise calls for 101 of the deportees to be returned now and the rest within a year. Palestinian spokesmen have said they will boycott the talks until Israel repatriates all the Palestinians. The deportees have been living in a camp in southern Lebanon since being expelled in December for alleged links with Muslim fundamentalist groups blamed for the deaths of six Israeli soldiers. —The Associated Press I did not mean to eclipse my point by stressing the arbitrariness of the unit. Professor Art Benevie <3hp Saily (Ear MM on the Wilson-Dey site because of its location on the main academic quad. Recent joint working group-advisory board meetings ended in tension, how ever, as BCC advocates and McCormick have failed to find common ground. University administrators now say they support holding the Wilson-Dey site open for a 110,000-square-foot physical sciences building —as speci fied intheMarchl99l land-use plan— and building the BCC on a site between Coker Hall and the Bell Tower. But BCC supporters, who hadn’tbeen made aware until recently of McCormick’s support for the Coker site, say the provost has misled them. “He has not been up front and hon tin ... ■ r i TTO J ... m ii * 9 wJHPH : |HP .If -'*JgHfc {| MW iH i ... L. ,;■ That love thing Missy Kent, a sophomore from Duke, and Chris Johnson, a freshman dramatic arts major at UNC, spend a quiet moment CDS managers to rule on sexual-orientation clause By Thanassis Cambanis Assistant University Editor Carolina Dining Services officials will decide at a weekly manager’s meet ing Tuesday whether to add a clause to their employment policy banning any discrimination based on sexual orienta tion, said Matt Stiegler, one of the stu dents leading the push against Marriott. Stiegler said CDS Director Chris UNC officials: Sexual harassment policy getting second look By Steve Robblee Staff Writer UNC officials said Friday that they were working to improve the Univer sity sexual-harassment policy in the af termath of the Anne Powers case. Powers, a former Physical Plant worker who claimed she was retaliated against and forced to resign after filing a sexual-harassment grievance, recently received a positive ruling in a Step 4 grievance against the University. Susan Ehringhaus, senior University legal counsel, said at a press conference that UNC officials wanted to let the public know how concerned and open they were trying to be about sexual harassment complaints. “From our perspective we want to do everything we can to encourage people to come forward,” she said. “This is something (the University) works on every single minute of every single day.” Judith Scott, University sexual dis Housing discrimination focus of forum By Beth McNkhoi Staff Writer A Los Angeles law professor and a Washington, D.C. minority think-tank scholar squared off Friday during a conference at UNC’s Kenan Center over how to cure housing discrimina tion in America. John Catmore, an associate profes sor at Caliibmia’s Loyola Law School, and George Galster, a senior research associate at The Urban Institute, en gaged in a lively debate over the ef fects of 1960s desegregation policies on minority living conditions of the 19905. The two were panelists at a two-day MONDAY, FEBRUARY 15,1993 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Chapel Hill, North Carolina est,” said Trish Merchant, vice chair woman of the BCC Advisory Board. ‘To us, he’s looking just like (Chancel lor) Paul Hardin, which is a sad state ment.” But BCC Advisory Board Chairman Harry Amana said he still had faith in the negotiation process. “I think we’re in the final stages and it’s getting rougher,” he said. “I’m con fident we’ll have a plan to send to the chancellor.” Amana said the planning had been fair. “I’ve felt things are pretty open, that it’s a democratic process.” Hardin and the BCC’s strongest sup porters have been at odds since the chancellor arrived in 1988 and soon outside Avery Residence Hall on Valentine's Day. Mild tempera tures and sunny skies provided quite an opportunity for romance. Derby told him that CDS did not need permission from Marriott Corp., which oversees CDS, to change its nondis crimination policy. The two met last Wednesday. Derby said Marriott had an anti-dis crimination policy but added that the policy did not cover sexual orientation. The proposal Stiegler and four other student activists have submitted would require CDS to put a clause in its Equal crimination officer for faculty and staff, said the majority of sexual-harassment cases didn’t get reported because of a historical sense of hopelessness on the part of victims. “There’s a silence that is being bro ken and needs to continue to be broken if we’re going to eliminate this prob lem,” she said. Often when people report sexual ha rassment to a supervisor, they do not want their name used in a complaint, Scott said. This puts the supervisor in a difficult position, she said. Ehringhaus said a person with a prob lem could lodge either an indirect or a direct complaint. A complainant’s name must be used for a direct complaint, but no names are necessary for indirect complaints, she said. Indirect complaints are not official grievances but are handled within a department by the departmental super visor, Ehringhaus said. “There are a number of ways like Solutions to poverty, race discussed 4 symposium entitled “Race, Poverty, and the American City: The Kemer Com mission Report in Retrospect,” which was hosted by the UNC School of Law. The conference examined the legacy of the Kemer Commission report, a 1968 government study that asserted that U.S. society was moving toward a form of racial apartheid. The commis sion was formed following the 1968 race riots that ravaged American cities. The exchange between Calmore, the only black member of the four-person panel, and Galster occurred when Galster criticized Calmore’s remarks about the merits of integrating inner after announced his opposition to a free standing center. The chancellor changed his position last fall after intense pres sure and asked McCormick, who came to UNC last summer from Rutgers Uni versity, to lead a working group charged with developing plans for anew BCC. BCC advocates had believed that McCormick was on their side in dealing with his working group and Hardin, Merchant said. “McCormick was to a point that ev erything seemed OK,” she said. “His wording was that everything was OK, and he felt that, ‘lf you want the Wilson site, sure, that’s fine.’ He led us to believe that (some) members of the working group didn’t support that site.” DTH/Missy Bello Employment Opportunity statement covering discrimination against gays and lesbians. “Chris Derby will present (the pro posal) to the managers, and it will be decided at that meeting ‘yes’ or ‘no,’” Stiegler said. Derby said he didn’t want to predict whether the 17 CDS managers would approve the clause. Stiegler said Derby had been recep College women frequent targets of unwanted advances By Katy Wurth Staff Writer Sexual harassment can have debili tating effects on college students and members of the workforce by lower ing morale, self-esteem and motiva tion, members of the Chapel Hill- Carrboro League of Women Voters said at a forum Sunday. Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, the University’s harassment and assault prevention coordinator, said sexual harassment consisted of “any type of unwanted sexual attention in the work place or campus setting.” Anderson-Thompkins said the Uni ts ending people to sensitivity training) that you can intervene in indirect com plaints,” she said. In a decision dated Jan. 29, adminis city minorities into predominantly white, affluent suburbs. Calmore said integration failed to take into account the desire of blacks to live in separate communities. “We have to question the notion of segregation being a disadvantage, be cause I believe there are lots of blacks choosing to live among themselves,” Calmore said. “My focus is looking at the denial of opportunities that are associated with living in one place as opposed to another,” he said. Galster said he strongly disagreed with Calmore’s opinion. See FORUM, page 5 But McCormick said he never mis led anybody about his position. ‘To imply that Chancellor Hardin or I said the Wilson-Dey site would be OK for the BCC is wrong,” he said. “I never said, ‘Gee, that’d be a fine site.’” Members of the BCC Advisory Board and McCormick’s working group have a meeting scheduled for today to dis cuss possible sites for the BCC. Mer chant said this was the “last chance” to come to an agreement. As for what BCC supporters plan to do if the meet ing ends in disagreement, Merchant said the University community would “have to wait and see.” The site question Officials prepare plan for possible systemwide cuts By Mike Easterly Staff Write- In a possible prelude to future budget cuts, the Board of Governors has col lected reports of what each of the UNC system schools would cut if their bud gets were reduced by 1 or 2 percent, UNC-system President C.D. Spangler said Friday. At its Friday meeting, Spangler told the BOG that die action was in compli ance with Gov. Jim Hunt’s request for all state agencies to review their bud gets. Hunt will hold a press conference Tuesday to state his plans for the 1993- 95 state budget. Chancellor Paul Hardin said a 1 - to 2- percent reduction would mean a loss of $3 to s6million to UNC-CH. The Uni versity traditionally receives more than 20 percent of the system’s budget “I think the new governor is looking for some kind of slack anywhere he can find it,” Hardin said. “I think he will realize that the Uni- ti ve to the idea of changing CDS ’ policy, which currently covers gender, race and religion. “I would say personally that I’m very optimistic that (the clause) will be added,” Stiegler said. “I would be sur prised if they let us make an issue out of this.” Stiegler said he and Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity weren’t stopping with CDS. B-GLAD versity needed to recognize that sexual harassment had become increasingly prevalent “College is the time and place where women are preparing for their careers,” she said; “It is the appropriate place to deal with the issue of sexual harassment in the workplace.” Judith Scott, the University’s sexual harassment officer, said sexual harass ment was used as a power tool. “Sexual harassment is not about sex but about abuse of power in a sexual ized context” Scott said. “It’s not a women's issue; it’s a social problem.” Scott said: “One of the major myths is that sexual harassment hardly ever trative law judge Brenda Becton ruled that: ■ The circulation of vulgar and sug gestive pictures by her fellow employ Found votes change results Staff report Usually the final student election re sults are close to the unofficial results released election night—close enough to not change the outcome in any races. Not this year. The certified 1993 general election results, released Saturday, reveal that a referendum, thought to have passed, actually failed and that a center, thought to have finished sixth, actually tied for last place. The referendum, which would have given the Graduate and Professional Students Federation control of 24 per cent of its student fees, failed by a vote of 1,520 yes, 869 no. Because it in volved student-fee changes, the pro posal had to be approved by two-thirds sportsline PASSED: On the final lap at Daytona Inter national Speedway, Dale Earnhardt, en abling Dale Jarrett to capture his first Daytona 500. jarrett swept past Earnhardt on lap 199 of 200, winning by .19 seconds barely two car-lengths. See related story on the future of Daytona’s 24-hour endurance race, page 10. © 1993 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. NewiySpoiti/Arta 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 Some members of the BCC Advi sory Board say they now believe McCormick is working with a “hidden agenda” to build a smaller center on what now is the Student Union parking circle. Hardin originally proposed ex panding the Union into the parking circle space. But McCormick, who on Friday en dorsed the Coker site, says his dispute with the BCC lacks reason. “If I say the sky is blue, they’d say it’s green, these days,” McCormick said. “They’ll disagree with it because I said it.” The provost said he knew of no one See BCC, page 2 versity has already made all the cuts it can and that we need to share in the economic recov ery in North Caro lina. We have des perate needs.” UNC-CH’s re port, submitted Feb. 10, divides the hypothetical budget cuts into C.D. Spangler three areas: the Division of Academic Affairs, the Division of Health Affairs and the N.C. Area Health Education Centers. In the reports, each school presented hypothetical scenarios of how they would handle budget cuts of 1 percent and 2 percent. The cuts outlined in the report do not necessarily represent those that would actually be made if the General Assem bly finalized the budget reductions, See CUTS, page 4 is circulating a petition calling on Marriott to change its national corpo rate policy. Derby said he couldn’t predict whether the corporation would adopt the clause. Stiegler, editor of the B-GLAD news letter, Lambda, emphasized that the push against Marriott and CDS was not a B- See B-GLAD, page 5 happens in higher education settings because people know better. The Uni? versity is a microcosm of society and includes all its flaws.” Anderson-Thompkins said a wide range of actions qualified as sexual harassment. She and Scott divided these actions into five categories: ■ gender harassment, which con sists of comments which inappropri ately emphasize anotherperson’s sexu ality or communicate insulting, de meaning or sexist attitudes, ■ seductive behavior that is un wanted and inappropriate physical or See LEAGUE, page 5 ees constituted sexual harassment against Powers; See POWERS, page 5 of those voting. In the race for student body presi dent, David Cox, the junior from Chat tanooga, Tenn., picked up 12 votes in the final count, propelling him into a tie for sixth place with Tar Heel center Eric Montross, who finished with 121 votes. Montross, a write-in candidate, did not pick up any additional votes in the final tabulations. The added votes came from ballots on which voters failed to specify their polishes. “I found out Friday that the ballots that students didn’t mark polishes on were on another part of the printout that I didn’t know about,” said Elections Board Chairman Ron Barnes. “We went back and certified all the results.”
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