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100th Year of Editorial Freedom
BMH Est. 1893
Volume 100, Issue 146
TUESDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from state, nation and •world
Iran says it will finish
work on nuclear plant
NICOSIA, Cyprus lranian
President Hashemi Rafsanjani said a
nuclear power plant abandoned after
the 1979 revolution by a German firm
would be completed, state-run Iranian
radio reported Monday.
Rafsanjani inspected the site of the
Bushehr nuclear power plant, in
southern Iran, on Sunday. He said
Teheran remained determined to put
the facility into operation with or
without German help, according to
the radio, monitored by the British
Broadcasting Corporation.
Germany’s Kraftwerke Union, a
subsidiary of Siemens, began building
the facility in 1975.
The project was abandoned after
the Islamic revolution. It was about
80 percent completed but was
bombed by Iraqi warplanes during the
1980-88 Iran-Iraq war.
Teheran radio reported last year
that Iran had opened discussions with
China on building nuclear power
stations.
Slovakians elect Kovac
to be first president
BRATISLAVA, Slovakia
Parliament elected Michal Kovac, a
former banker, as Slovakia’s first
president on Monday, breaking a
deadlock that had threatened to
destabilize the newly independent
country.
Kovac was the last speaker of
Czechoslovakia’s federal parliament
before the country split peacefully
into Czech and Slovak states Jan. 1.
Parliament had failed in two tries
last month to choose a head of state
when none of four candidates won the
necessary three-fifths majority.
Kovac, the only candidate in
Monday’s vote, won 106 votes in the
150-member parliament, 16 more
than the three-fifths needed.
Kovac, 62, said his election was an
“important signal” of Slovak unity.
“We have to increase the credibility
of Slovakia in the world,” said the
president-elect, who will be sworn in
on March 3 for a five-year term.
Kovac was the nominee of Premier
Vladimir Meciar’s governing
Movement for a Democratic Slovakia,
a party Kovac helped found. In a
goodwill gesture, Kovac said he
would quit the party and not align
himself while president.
Jackson begins strike
to aid Haitians' cause
WASHINGTON The Rev. Jesse
Jackson threatened Monday to
organize a hunger strike in the United
States unless the Clinton administra
tion allows HTV-infected Haitians
into this country. Jackson, who began
a personal hunger strike Sunday,
emerged from a meeting with White
House Chief of Staff Mack McLarty
saying he supported Clinton’s Haitian
policy, but he wants action this week.
The civil rights leader recently
returned from the Guantanamo Bay
Naval Base in Cuba, where he joined
HIV-infected Haitians on a hunger
strike to pressure Clinton to lift the
ban on their entry.
He also urged Clinton to move
faster to restore deposed Haitian
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide and
to end a naval blockade meant to
discourage mass migration from the
Caribbean nation.
“I’m going to continue (the hunger
strike) for at least a week, and if at
end of the week there has been no
shift of policy, I will have to consider
expanding the number of people
involved,” Jackson said.
Strike of LA teachers
looms as trial oears
LOS ANGELES Nearly forgotten
amid the apprehension about two
racially charged trials is the prospect
of a strike next week by 28,000
teachers in the nation’s second-largest
public school system.
The teachers’ union worries that a
walkout next Tuesday would put
pickets and thousands of students on
city streets at a time when tensions
are running high.
If mediation efforts fail, the teacher
walkout is scheduled to begin during
the federal civil rights trial of four
white police officers accused of
beating black motorist Rodney King.
That trial is now in the jury selection
stage.
And it would start shortly before
the state criminal trial of three black
men charged with beating white
trucker Reginald Denny during last
year’s riots.
—The Associated Press
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BCC design endorsed as Crawford walks out
By Thanassis Cambanis
Assistant University Editor
Tensions between advocates of a free
standing black cultural center and mem
bers of the chancellor’s working group
climaxed Monday, as BCC Director
Margo Crawford announced she was
fed up with the process and members
approved a building plan.
“I will not participate in writing a
proposal,” Crawford said after walking
out of a meeting with the working group.
“I’m formally withdrawing from the
process. I’m not going to spend time in
a process that has no integrity.”
Crawford and 20 BCC supporters
left the meeting after working-group
member and former Charlotte Mayor
Harvey Gantt blasted their negotiating
tactics.
Despite the conflict, the working
group passed a resolution approving a
plan for a 48,000-square-foot BCC and
another urging the completion of a joint
report with the BCC Advisory Board.
Gordon Rutherford, director of the
facilities planning and design for the
University, suggested the group con
sider submitting a final report to the
Board of Trustees by its May 28 meet
ing, rather than by March 26, as origi
nally planned.
At the confrontational 3 1/2-hour
meeting, members of the BCC Advi
sory Board gave reasons why the final
report should recommend that the BCC
be located on a plot of land between
Despite complaints, runoff still on
By Marty Minchin
Assistant University Editor
Two Student Supreme Court justices
ruled late Monday that the student body
president runoff scheduled for today
would be held despite an llth-hour
complaint filed by former candidates
Carl Clark and David Cox.
Clark, a junior from Fuquay-Varina,
and Cox, a junior from Chattanooga,
Tenn., filed a complaint against Elec
tions Board Chairman Ron Barnes at 6
p.m. Monday, calling for postponement
of today’s election. The pair called for
investigation into charges against the
two final student body president candi
dates, Jim Copland and Jennifer Lloyd.
The complaint contended that
Copland and/or one of his campaign
workers violated the election code by
distributing campaign literature to vot
ers within 50 feet of the Union poll site
Student activists say summer recall elections unfair
By Jimmy Dula
Staff Writer
Student activists said Monday that
University students would be discrimi
nated against if the Chapel Hill Town
Council passed a resolution allowing
recall elections to take place during
summer months.
The council will hold a public hear
ing at 7:30 p.m. to discuss whether to
amend the town charter to include a
provision to recall elected officials. The
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While the working group reached no
decision, members decided to make a
final site recommendation at a future
meeting, after University architects had
completed studies of the two sites still
under consideration.
The debate between the working
group and the advisory board centered
on the relative merits of the two pro
posed BCC sites—the Wilson-Dey site
and the land between the Bell Tower
and Coker Hall.
Gantt, a Charlotte architect, said the
BCC’s emotional pleas for the Wilson-
Dey site had accomplished nothing.
“You’re saying, ‘lf Idon’t get the site
I want, I’m going to have a demonstra
tion tomorrow morning,’” said Gantt, a
candidate for U.S. Senate in 1990. “I
think you do a disservice to the process
we have gone through. I think you have
been insulting, in the name of ‘lf I didn’t
get what I wanted, I’m not going to
compromise.’
“We need to decide what can be done
with the process. You can’t sabotage
this thing. I’m absolutely to the point
where I think we’ve heard all the points.
I’m not feeling intimidated.”
Gantt said BCC supporters had to
learn to negotiate and compromise.
“It sounds to me like you folks are
willing to go to the wall and say, ‘lf we
don’t get what we want, to hell with the
BCC,”’ he said. “I think you’re all play-
See BCC, page 5
during last
Tuesday’s elec
tion.
The pair also
contends in the
complaint that
Lloyd and/or
members of her
campaign staff
violated Elections
Board policy on
door-to-door so-
licitation in campus residence halls by
knowingly and willfully distributing
campaign materials in Cobb Residence
Hall.
Although the election code does not
bar door-to-door campaigning, the Elec
tions Board had asked candidates to
follow the Department of University
Housing policy during the general cam
paign.
After almost an hour of testimony
council also will discuss whether recall
elections can be scheduled during the
June, July or August.
Council member and University stu
dent Mark Chilton raised the issue at the
council’s last meeting, saying that if
recall elections were permitted to be
held during summer months, students
would be disenfranchised.
“Someone might purposefully turn
in their petition (to recall an elected
official) when the students would be out
of town,” Chilton said. “We’re opening
are common at the fraternity, which is located on Little Fraternity
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BCC advocates Ruby Sinreich and Carolynn McDonald debate while working-group member Harvey Gantt listens in Monday
and debate, Chief Justice Mark Bibbs, a
first-year law student, ruled that the
election would be held as scheduled.
“A ruling in favor of postponement
will set a dangerous precedent, due to
the time and circumstances of the filing
of the plaintiff s complaint,” Bibbs said
in the final statement. “Any attempts to
delay an election at this late hour will
make a mocking out of the entire elec
toral process, something that this court
does not condone.”
Cox said he filed the complaint at
such a late hour because the election
results were not certified until Saturday
morning, and he was at home in Chatta
nooga during the weekend.
Cox contended that while he was
standing in line to vote at the Union poll
sitelastTuesday.oneofCopland’scam
paign workers was distributing
Copland’s pamphlets through the line.
Cox said the campaign worker tried to
up the possibility that students could be
systematically excluded.”
Jim Copland, a candidate in the run
off election for student body president,
said he thought the council should pro
hibit recall elections from being held
when the majority of students were out
of town.
“I think if s something that we should
stress,” he said. “Otherwise students
don’t have a voice.”
Student body president runoff candi
date Jennifer Lloyd said students con
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give him a handout.
“About 10 minutes later, I found Ron
(Barnes) and informed him of it,” Cox
said. “In keeping with the rules, I feel
personally that that was a pretty blatant
violation, and it’s definitely put other
candidates at a disadvantage, especially
when (students who are in the line)
hadn’t made up their minds completely
on who they were going to vote for.”
But Copland said he briefed his cam
paign staff about election rules, includ
ing the poll site campaigning rule, the
day of the election.
“I maintain that there was not a know
ing violation of the policy,” he said.
Cox and Clark said Lloyd had vio
lated solicitation rules by distributing
campaign materials in Cobb. They said
Lloyd and her campaign staff were in
volved in handing out the materials.
See ELECTION, page 4
stituted a significant portion of the
town’s population and deserved to have
their votes counted.
“I agree wholeheartedly with word
ing the amendment to prohibit recall
elections during summer months,” she
said. “Our summer school enrollment is
not indicative of student voter registra
tion.”
Chilton said he hoped students would
attend the hearing to remind council
mftmbers to take student concerns into
consideration.
Hunt address outlines
$570 million agenda
for education initiatives
The Associated Press
RALEIGH N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt
asked legislators Monday to spend an
additional $570 million during the next
two years on education and early child
hood programs.
Hunt earmarked $ 105 million for the
state’s university system.
“These are ambitious goals,” Hunt
said in his State of the State address to
a joint session of the General Assem
bly. “But we can be satisfied with noth
ing less. We are building for the next
generation.
“As long as one child cannot get a
public education that paves the way for
success in life, we have not done our
job. As long as we fail one child in
North Carolina, we have not done our
job.”
Hunt proposed to pay for the new
spending by cutting S2OO million dur
ing the next two years using recommen
dations from a yearlong audit of state
government. He did not specify which
of the more than 400 recommendations
in that audit he would support.
He apparently expects to pick up the
remaining $370 million in budget sur
pluses during the next two years. Legis
lative analysts have said they expect
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Poll sites
Polls will be open from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. Poll sites for Tuesday’s election
will be at the following locations:
•Granvffle Towers
-Chase
•Union (Room 205-206)
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•nealtn sciences .Library
•Campus Y
Student Congress runoff
DISTRICT 13
Roy Granato, Tara Servatius
Olde Campus, Residence College
(Aycock, Everett, Grimes, Lewis,
Manly, Ruffin, Mangum)
What you’ll need
• semester registration curd
• student ID or driver's license
“We need to speak up so that we’re
not going to be discriminated against in
any election,” he said. ‘Tuesday night
at 7:30 is the opportunity for people to
make it clear that we will participate.”
Campus activist Erik Ose, who also
is Orange County special registration
commissioner, said students comprised
more than 10 percent of the electorate in
Chapel Hill.
“Most town council members are
See RECALL, page 2
between $ 100 million and S2OO million
in surpluses to be available when the
new fiscal year starts July 1.
The largest new initiative proposed
by Hunt is S6O million for the North
Carolina Partnership for Children. The
group would organize parents, busi
nesses, nonprofit groups, churches and
others to develop early childhood pro
grams.
In education, Hunt proposed S2OO
million “for a greater commitment to
teachers and educators in our public
schools ...
If used for across-the-board pay
raises, that would give teachers roughly
a 3 percent pay raise this year and 3
percent next year. In his speech, Hunt
did not mention pay increases for other
state workers.
“That will come tomorrow,” Hunt
said when asked about pay raises for
other state workers.
He also proposed to spend $ 113 mil
lion for work force preparedness pro
grams and the community college sys
tem that operates them, as well as $lO5
million for the university system.
Those figures apparently would in-
See STATE OF THE STATE, page 4