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weather TODAY: Mostly sunny; high near 40 SATURDAY: 40% chance of rain; high 45-50 fS> 100th Year of Editorial Freedom SMB Est. 1893 Volume 100, Issue 149 FRIDAY IN THE NEWS Top stones from state, nation and world Senate votes to bar ADS-infected refugees WASHINGTON The Senate voted Thursday to bar AIDS-infected foreigners from immigrating perma nently to the United States, a lopsided defeat for President Clinton that left the White House groping for what to do next. Clinton had promised during the campaign that he would lift a ban already in place, but after the vote the White House seemed to run up the white flag. “If you look at the vote margin, he doesn’t have that many options,” said spokeswoman Dee Dee Myers. “He’s going to review it; I think the Senate made pretty strong statement about it.” Sen. Don Nickles, R-Okla., thought so too, and said the 76-23 vote on his amendment should send the adminis tration a message that letting people with the AIDS virus into the country and letting homosexuals into the military are politically unpopular. Myers suggested that Clinton had not put up much of a fight on the AIDS issue in the Senate. Serbians might deckle to boycott peace tafts BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Bosnian Serbs dealt peace talks a blow Thursday by announcing a boycott unless the negotiations are moved back to Geneva. There also were doubts that Bosnia-Herzegovina’s Muslim president would attend. In a letter to Cyrus Vance and Lord Owen, co-chairmen of the peace conference, the Serb delegation said it would not attend talks Friday at U.N. headquarters because of discrimina tion by the U.S. government and New Yorkers. Bosnia’s U.N. office said President Ilia Izetbegovic would not leave Sarajevo unless U.N. peacekeepers guaranteed security for his vice president. The absence of the Serbs, who occupy two-thirds of Bosnian territory, likely would scuttle the new round of talks. Overloaded ferryboat sinks off Haitian coast PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti An overloaded ferryboat sank during a rainstorm off southern Haiti, and hundreds of passengers were missing and feared dead. U.S. Coast Guard cutters and airplanes were dispatched today to help in the rescue effort. The Coast Guard said port authorities reported 800 tickets were sold for the triple-decker ferry. But the skipper said as many as 1,500 people were packed onto the Neptune for an overnight crossing from the southern port of Jeremie to the capital when it went down early Wednesday. Yeltsin asks opponents to help in compromise MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin went on the political offensive Thursday, offering in a televised address to give up some powers if parliament stops meddling with his Cabinet. “Reconciliation can and must be achieved. Russia and all of us are tired of tension and confrontation. We need a breather,” Yeltsin said. “We cannot waste time and energy on a fruitless struggle.” Yeltsin and Parliament Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov have been locked in a dispute over who should be more powerful, the president or the Congress of People’s Deputies, the parliament. At stake are Yeltsin’s reforms, which hard-liners in parliament oppose. Haitian soldier hijacks U.S. missionary plane MIAMI An armed Haitian soldier hijacked an American missionary plane at an airport in Haiti and ordered it to Miami on Thursday, but when it landed he emerged with his hands behind his head and surren dered to a SWAT team. None of the other 12 people aboard all believed to be Americans was injured, FBI spokesman Paul Miller said. Among them was a woman whom the hijacker had taken hostage before boarding the plane. The hijacker had given his handgun to the crew during the flight, about two hours after he seized the plane and two hours before it landed in Miami, a federal law enforcement source said on condition of anonym ity. —The Associated Press (wjp Saily ®ar BM New BOG appointees to tackle tenure, tuition By Daniel Aldrich and Gautam Khandeftval Staff Writers Tenure policies and tuition hikes are among the top concerns facing the UNC system and UNC-CH in the coming year, several new and reappointed Board of Governors members said this week. “It has concerned me in the light of what I have been learning that there is an apparent lack of administrative (in terest) in promoting quality teaching at (UNC-CH),” said Helen Marvin, one of four new members of the Board of Gov ernors “I think we ought to put quality teaching on a basis with research and publishing, as not only a basis for award " ■KgHKgipl/v.' * , llgkj. a - -1 Jmmm. I vWmm: M W)m |jk % J r r * : - v ? -SMS' * Cubist painter Laura Greene forgot to roll up her sleeves when she painted the Cube Thursday afternoon. Greene was painting for the Clef Chelsea owner to revive former Carolina Theatre By Jimmy Dula Staff Writer The Carolina Theatre, a Franklin Street landmark that closed two years ago, could open as early as next month, the movie theater’s new owners said Thursday. Bruce and Mary Jo Stone, who own the Chelsea Theatre, a theater that shows many foreign films, plan to appeal to a more mainstream audience at their new location. “I’ll keep my eye on the audience,” Bruce Stone said. “We’re pretty much captive to what (films) are available.” The new theater, which will seat about 280 people, will feature one large screen, he said. Mary Jo Stone said a wider selection of movies would be available to the Carolina Theatre than to the Chelsea simply because of its size and location. “It’s easier with some distributors to pick up certain films on Franklin Street,” Mary Jo Stone said. Bruce Stone said he would try to keep the 51 year-old theater’s charac ter. He said he planned to place a replica of the original Carolina Theatre sign on the entrance. The original sign will be hung somewhere on the inside of the building, he added. Former Chapel Hill Mayor Howes adjusting to new job in state capital By Jackie Hershkowitz City Editor Former Chapel Hill Mayor Jonathan Howes doesn’t spend much time in Chapel Hill these days. As N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt’s hand-picked secretary of the Environment, Health and Natural Resources, Howes typi cally spends 10 to 12 hours a day at his Raleigh office overseeing a staff of 4,000 employees. “It’s even more challenging than I thought it would be,” Howes said ear lier this month. “But it’s an extremely rewarding assignment, and I’m thrilled to be doing it.” Howes, who taught in the University’s Department of City and Regional Planning and served three It’s better to burn out than fade away! Def Leppard FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1993 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Chapel Hill, North Carolina ing tenure, but a basis for hiring at University.” Marvin is one of four recently elected to the BOG by the General Assembly. The General Assembly also reappointed five BOG members. Former Gov. Jim Martin, Bert Collins of Durham, G. Irvin Aldridge of Manteo and Marvin, a former state senator from Gastonia, will bring fresh blood to the BOG. The five returning members —Lois Britt, Maxine O’Kelly of Burlington, Jack Jordan of Mount Gilead, D. Samuel Neill of Hendersonville and Wallace Hyde of Raleigh will continue to serve in their capacities as the final administrators of the 16-school UNC system. Hangers, who are hosting the A Cappella Invitational Feb. 26 and Feb. 27 for college vocal groups. Project delayed on Franklin, Columbia By Jimmy Dula Staff Writer The owner of the property on the comer of Franklin and Columbia streets said he did not know when construction would continue on the project slated for the dirt-covered space. Joseph Riddle, the Fayetteville based developer who plans to build a three-story office and retail complex on the comer, said Thursday that sev eral factors have stalled construction. Riddle said soil tests revealed that the land, formerly home to Top of the Hill gas station and convenience store, was contaminated by benzene depos its that leaked from the store’s gas storage tanks. Until more testing is done, Iheprop Bruce Stone said the theater’s previ ous owners told him they had no prob lem with his use of the name or the sign. “How can you copyright a name like Carolina, anyway?” Bruce Stone asked. The theater will be painted Carolina blue and will contain plush red seats, he said. , Brace Stone said that although the terms on the Chapel Hill Town Council and two terms as mayor, said his years of political activism in Chapel Hill had prepared him well for the challenges of holding a state office. Howes said Hunt told him any- Jonathan Howes one who could be a leader in Chapel Hill government was qualified to hold an office in the state capital. Although Howes is a relative new comer to state government, he said his background as a Chapel Hill leader helped ease the transition from the local Marvin: Tuition increase is necessary Marvin said by not providing quality teaching, UNC-CH was denying stu dents a top-notch education. She added that there was a great deal of emphasis on the “publish or perish” concept in the University system and not enough interest in teaching quality. Financial problems also could con tribute to a decline in the quality of education at all UNC-system schools, Marvin said. “I am very much concerned we have not been able to provide the 16 colleges and universities with the financial aid they need,” she said. Marvin said raising tuition, not an increase in state taxes, would be neces- DTH/Andrea Broaddus erty cannot be developed, he said. John Wise, a spokesman for Groundwater Management, a private soU-monitoring company, said that before construction could take place, the Department of Transportation had to issue permits to allow drilling on the sidewalks. “Once this thing breaks loose from the permitprocess, we should see some real progress,” he said. Wise said the full extent of the damage to the soil would not be known until more deep soil samples were obtained. Wise said the request for a permit was filed in November and added that he was optimistic die DOT would grant the necessary permits. See CONSTRUCTION, page 2 new Carolina Theatre would appeal to a different clientele than the Chelsea, for eign-film aficionados would still have a place to go. “Chapel Hill is very well served by the Varsity and (the Chelsea) in terms of foreign and art films,” he said. See CHELSEA, page 7 to the state political scene. “Chapel Hill is recognized across the state as a town that knows how to take care of itself,” he said. “Leaders from Chapel Hill are awarded some kind of status.” Despite having served for more than 15 years in local government, Howes said he often felt like a political outsider in Raleigh. “There are times when I feel very much like an outsider because I don’t know the capital’s cast of characters,” he said. “But because of my position, I’m an insider.” Howes said the most challenging as pect of his new job was the breadth of issues his department was expected to work on. “The scope of the department is far sary to increase the University’s rev enue. “I would favor a tuition increase for in-state and out-of-state students,” she said. A tuition hike would allow the Uni versity to maintain its high level of education, Marvin said. “We don’t want our prestige to de cline, and I would not do anything to decrease the prestige of the Univer sity,” she said. “I can’t give you the amount of the increase.” Britt: “Every institution is a teaching institution” Britt, chairwoman of the committee on personnel and tenure which cur rently is re-evaluating the tenure policy at all 16 state schools said the BOG Activists plan rally on steps of Lenoir Hall By Peter Sigal Staff Writer A host of student groups will sponsor a rally in the Pit at noon today in an effort to force Carolina Dining Services to include sexual orientation in its anti discrimination policy. The two-week-old effort to make CDS change its policy has been spear headed by Matt Stiegler, a member of Bisexuals, Gay Men, Lesbians and Al lies for Diversity and editor of the organization’s newspaper, Lambda. Eight other student and employee groups have endorsed the rally. Stiegler, a junior from Hatfield, Pa., and four other student activists have collected more than 600 signatures in support of their position, Stiegler said. “This is the home stretch,” he said. “It’s really coming together.” The Rally Against Discrimination will feature four speakers—Ed Chaney, Campus cultural groups raise awareness, concern By Marty Miuchin Assistant University Editor The recent rise in the number of cultural groups on campus maystem from students’ needs to find a place among a large and predominantly white University population, accord ing to some cultural group leaders. The University now recognizes more than 20 cultural groups, ranging from the American-Arab Anti Dis crimination Committee to the Caro lina Hispanic Association. Frederic Schroeder, dean of Stu dent Affairs, said he thought the cam pus had seen a rise in all types of groups on campus in the past few years, including culture groups. “I think there have been a number of new groups,” he said. “Certainly there has been an increasing attention toethnic groupings on campus. We all have an increased awareness of our individual cultural heritage.” Many campus cultural groups have become more active in the past year. Groups have sponsored numerous pro grams, speakers and social events throughout the year to educate the rest of the campus about their culture. The debate this fall over the merits of a black cultural center versus a multicultural center, which its advo cates said would celebrate a variety of and away the biggest of any depart ment,” he said. “It’ll take me a little bit longer to fully get my arms around it. “It’s a real mixture of activities, each of which could be a separate depart ment,” he added. The key to keeping the department running smoothly is to tirelessly advo cate on the public’s behalf and maintain open lines of communication with col leagues, Howes said. Howes said he met with Hunt once a week, in addition to speaking with him periodically by phone. “I see a good deal of (Hunt),” he said. “We work very closely. I respect him a great deal, and I think he respects me.” The most frustrating aspect of over seeing a large department is the over whelming amount of work to do, Howes sportsline RETIRING: Winston-Salem State basket ball coach Clarence "Bighouse" Gaines, the winningest active basketball coach in the country. Gaines won 828 games in 47 years, second only to Kentucky legend Adolph Rupp (875 wins) on the all-time list. The retirement is effective June 30. © 1993 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved.: Nrwi/Spotu/Arti 962-0245 Business/ Ad vertuing 962-1163 had been given a great deal of power to deal with problems in the University system. “The UNC Board of Governors has set a policy for constituent institutions, and the BOT has delegated a tremen dous amount of authority for accom plishing its policies (to the BOG),” Britt said. “We have gone through every in stitution, redefining their mission state ments.” Britt said teaching was a primary part of every school’s mission and tenure was a policy by which that mission could be accomplished. “Every institu tion is a teaching institution,” she said. Britt said she felt tenure should not See BOG, page 4 co-chairman of the Campus Y; Jennifer Lloyd, Student Congress speaker; Fred Wherry, chairman of Students for the Advancement of Race Relations; and Jim Copland, student body president elect, Stiegler said. He said he was expecting one more person to speak. The rally will conclude with a march through Lenoir Dining Hall, he said. “It’s probably going to be by the seat of our pants,” he said. Stiegler said the activists wanted to attract the attention of both CDS man agement and University administrators. “We’re not doing this in a threaten ing or antagonistic way,” Stiegler said. “Our aim is to show the depth of our commitment and depth of our support.” On Tuesday, nine of the 14 CDS managers voted to add a sexual-orienta tion clause to their non-discrimination policy. But CDS Director Chris Derby See MARCH, page 7 cultures, also helped spark interest in cultural groups. The funding for these groups’ pro grams, many of which cost hundreds and even thousands of dollars, comes primarily from student fees allocated by Student Congress. In one case, the recently formed Vietnamese Student Association received more than $3,000 in funding from Student Congress at its Feb. 10 meeting. But despite these groups’ best in tentions, their lectures and programs often draw only club members and students of the same ethnic back ground. Groups provide familiarity in sea of new faces Kenric Maynor, Carolina Indian Circle president, said he thought the number of cultural groups had risen because many students who came to the University from different cultural backgrounds could find familiarity and support in campus cultural groups. “Many times at this University (Na tive-American students) feel like they are overlooked,” he said. “A lot of them come from a predominantly In dian community it’s a big transi tion.” Maynor, a sophomore from See CULTURE, page 4 said. “There’s never enough time to do the job that needs to be done,” he stated. Howes said his first weeks in office were devoted to restructuring the de partment to fit the new administration’s priorities. “I don’t think (environmental issues) were top agenda items in the previous administration,” he said. Howes said a drawback to his new job was that he no longer had time to teach at the University. “I certainly miss contact with stu dents, especially undergraduates,” he said. When the legislature recesses in the fall, Howes said he might have enough See HOWES, page 7
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