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100th Year of Editorial Freedom
BMH Est. 1893
Volume 101, Issue 3
THURSDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stones from state, nation and world
Mulroney relinquishes
Canadian leadership
OTTAWA Prime Minister Brian
Mulroney, battered by the lowest
popularity ratings in Canadian polling
history, called it quits Wednesday,
ending months of speculation about
his future.
Dogged by a three-year recession,
unable to unite the country’s bicker
ing provinces or solve its French-
English divisions, Mulroney bowed to
the inevitable but went out insisting
that he could have won again.
But the man who has governed
Canada since 1984 acknowledged that
he would not be given that chance.
“The time has come for me to step
aside,” Mulroney said, accompanied
by his wife Mila and two of his four
children. “I’ve done my very best for
my country and my party, and I look
forward to the enthusiasm and
renewal only new leadership brings.”
The Quebec lawyer who led his
Progressive Conservative party for 10
years said he would remain in office
until it selected anew leader.
Cuba holds first direct
elections since 1959
SANTIAGO, Cuba Cuba on
Wednesday held its first direct
elections for parliament since the
1959 Communist revolution, but only
candidates supporting the party line
were permitted to run.
Candidates were selected by labor
and social groups affiliated with the
Communist Party and were approved
by city assemblies.
President Fidel Castro, himself a
candidate, was greeted by thousands
of cheering Cubans at the Manuel Isla
Perez elementary school, where he
voted. In a rare and free-wheeling
news conference with reporters from
more than a dozen nations, he said the
elections would “change the course of
the country, of the revolution.”
But the only apparent opposition
came from several anti-Castro radio
stations in Miami, heard easily on the
island, which urged Cubans to cast
blank ballots or avoid the polls.
North Korea working
toward nuclear bomb
WASHINGTON North Korea has
produced enough material for at least
one nuclear weapon, the new director
of the CIA said Wednesday in the
first official public estimate of that
nation’s highly secretive nuclear
program.
R. James Woolsey said North
Korea refused to open its nuclear
program for inspections, produces
weapons-grade material, has devel
oped a missile with up to 1,000-
kilometer range and is willing to sell
weapons to anyone with cash, putting
it “almost in a class by itself in the
proliferation world.”
Most East Europeans
distrust democracy
LONDON Most east Europeans
are deeply disillusioned with democ
racy and half believe they were better
off under communism, according to
an 18-country survey released
Wednesday.
Among Russians, who were
generally the most pessimistic of the
18,700 people polled between Oct. 30
and Nov. 17, one-third expect the
nation to revert to dictatorship.
Lithuanians were the happiest of
those surveyed by the Gallup
organization.
“This survey is an indication in real
terms that some of these countries are
going to go toward a dictatorship,”
said Gallup managing director
Gordon Heald. “That doesn’t
necessarily mean a reversal back to
communism,” he said.
libertarian challenge
against state delayed
GREENSBORO North Carolina
and the state chapter of the Libertar
ian Party agreed Wednesday to delay
a challenge of a law that calls for
officials to drop the organization as a
recognized political party, attorneys
said Wednesday.
The State Elections Board could
have moved to decertify the organiza
tion as early as Wednesday 9O
days after the board certified the
results of last November’s election.
“The board has agreed to not take
any steps to take Libertarian voters
off the rolls until the case can be
heard on its merits,” said Special
Deputy Attorney General Charles M.
Hensey, the elections board’s chief
legal counsel.
—The Associated Press
_ THURSDAY FEBRUAKt 25,1993
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Higgins: Moody faked memo as ‘joke’
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
Student Body Vice President Charlie
Higgins said Wednesday that a memo
containing his name and initials and
implying that he was involved in send
ing out mailings to colleges across the
country was meant as a joke by Student
Body President John Moody, who
Higgins says is the actual author of the
memo.
“(The memo) is some kind of joke,”
Higgins said. “John did that as a joke. I
am not involved in this and never have
been.”
Higgins said he would not go so far
as to say Moody forged the memo,
which was delivered to The Daily Tar
Heel Tuesday morning with a note ap
parently from Moody. “I’mreally down
on John right now,” Higgins said.
The memo, dated Feb. 3 and ad
dressed to Ed Ryan, gives the impres
sion that Higgins is involved in Moody’s
Children’s advocate...
Gov. Jim Hunt outlines his plan to improve North Carolina's children's programs in the
closing speech of a symposium at UNC's Kenan Center Wednesday. See story page 3.
Sex-materials distributor
denied relocation permit
By Daniel Feldman
Staff Writer
HILLSBOROUGH—Hillsborough
Board of Adjustment officials decided
Wednesday night to deny a permit to
PHE Inc., a company that sells adult
videos, vibrators and contraceptives, in
a special hearing before a standing
room-only crowd of about 300 citizens.
Hillsborough Town Attorney
Michael Brough said the permit was
denied because PHE Inc. did not meet
all of the necessary criteria.
NAACP activist still fighting racism
Editor's note: This is the fourth in a
five-part series recognizing blacks who
have made a difference on campus and
in the community.
By Karen Clark
Staff Writer
Despite drastic political and social
changes over the years, James Brittian
does not believe that Chapel Hill’s atti
tude towards blacks has changed con
siderably.
“There were times when we were
children that the (Ku Klux Klan) would
hide in the woods and jump out at us
with their sheets,” Brittian said.
“Nothing’s changed. We still have the
KKK. They’re just wearing three-piece
suits.”
Brittian, who has been the president
of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of
the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People since
December 1990, was bom and raised in
Chapel Hill. He became active in the
community in 1963.
Brittian said he remembered attend-
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Moody wrote this memo
efforts to organize a National Associa
tion of Student Governments.
“After talking to a number of people
DTH/Stephani Rae Holzworth
“The Board of Adjustment may refuse
if it fails to comply with specific points
of the ordinance, fails to protect resi
dential zones or if it fails to guarantee
the safety of pedestrians and motor
ists,” Brough said.
Board Chairman Frank Ray said the
measure to approve the site permit failed
because it was located too close to resi
dential areas and did not comply with
regulations forbidding products from
being sold to minors.
See PHE, page 5
CELEBRATING
BLACK
HISTORY
MONTH
ing the segregated
Lincoln High
School and being
expelled for par
ticipating in a
civil rights protest
march.
“All we
wanted were the equal facilities at Lin
coln High that the students at Chapel
Hill High School had,” Brittian said.
After the march, Brittian became
chairman of the Student Commission,
which was a branch of the Chapel Hill
Freedom Commission. The Freedom
Commission was a leading force work
ing for civil rights.
Brittian said he enjoyed growing up
in Chapel Hill, despite living in a segre
gated neighborhood. Because the town
was segregated, Brittian and his play
mates did not see themselves as op
pressed people, he added.
“We lived in substandard housing
and we didn’t share the fruits, such as
jobs and education, that others had, but
we never felt oppressed,” Brittian said.
All goodness is in jeopardy. The Log Lady
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
SBP admits to signing vice presidents initials
Student Body President John
Moody told members of Student Con
gress Wednesday night that a memo
he wrote and signed Student Body
Vice President Charlie Higgins ’ name
to was “a joke.”
The memo was addressed to stu
dent Ed Ryan and apparently was
signed by Higgins. It implicated
Higgins in the work of Moody and
members of his staff in sending out
about the feasibility of such an organi
zation, I am convinced that we have
come up with a much needed service to
student governments around the coun
try. While chopping broccoli last night
while watching Baywatch, I thought
about what a positive statement this
would make about our student body at a
time when our rankings are dropping,”
Despite second vote, still
no decision on CDS clause
By Gary Rosenzweig
Staff Writer
The managers of Carolina Dining
Services met in a closed meeting
Wednesday to discuss adding sexual
orientation to their nondiscrimination
policy, but did not reach a decision
about the matter, CDS manager Chris
Derby said.
The CDS managers voted 9-4 in fa
vor of adding a policy, but Derby said
he was looking for a consensus before
making a decision.
Matthew Stiegler, a leader of the
recently formed Student Organized
Movement Against Discrimination, said
Derby would like to get the entire man
agement to agree on a policy change but
possibly could make the decision him
self.
“It’s in Chris Derby’s hands at this
RTVMP students challenge
proposed program changes
By Ivan Arrington
Staff Writer
Motivated by the concern that the
production aspect of the Department of
Radio, Television and Motion Pictures
would be decreased or possibly even
eliminated, RTVMP students packed a
basement classroom in Swain Hall
Wednesday night to discuss the future
of the department with faculty mem
bers and Stephen Birdsall, dean of the
College of Arts and Sciences.
“This department should not be here
if we can’t have production facilities,”
said senior RTVMP major Scott Lan
sing. “I’m an out-of-state student. For
my $12,000 a year, I deserve produc
tion.”
Assistant Chairman Robert Gwyn
spent much of the two hours of the
forum attempting to quell student fears
that film production was being given a
secondary role as suggested in a plan
written by permanent faculty members
and presented as the meeting.
The plan, written under Gwyn’s di
rection, calls for a cultural studies cur-
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Brittian said the Chapel Hill commu-
See BRITTIAN, page 2
mailings to colleges across the country
about the National Association of Stu
dent Governments.
But Moody said Wednesday night
that die memo, which he wrote and
delivered to The Daily Tar Heel office,
was an effort to “mock” DTH attempts
to report about the letters.
“We were very upset when we first
caught wind of what the DTH was do
ing,” Moody said. “The first thing we
the memo states.
“Everybody has said that they
wouldn’t say anything until the appro
priate time, so hopefully this will not be
a problem. If asked about it, redirect
them to Moody somehow,” stated the
memo.
Higgins said Wednesday that he was
not involved in any of the planning of
point,” Stiegler said.
Joan Petit, another leader of SO
MAD, said she thought Derby favored
adding the clause but wanted to avoid
the spotlight. “He seems to want to
change the policy,” she said.
Derby said he could make the deci
sion himself at this point but wanted to
continue discussions with the other
managers.
“It’s going to take further discus
sions among the management team,” he
said.
Auxiliary Services Director Rutledge
Tufts said he was asked to come to the
meeting to explain the University’s anti
discrimination policy, which includes
sexual orientation. Tufts said that be
cause CDS was run by Marriott Corp.,
the group did not have to abide by the
University’s policy.
The federal government, ROTC and
riculum paired with a documentary stud
ies program. The faculty constructed
the proposal based on Gwyn’s instruc
tions to present a plan based on a pro
spective budget lower than the
department’s current funding.
Gwyn also fended off suggestions
that a visiting review board arriving
March 1 was stacked against a produc
tion focus.
“I don’t think there’s any hidden
agenda here,” he said. “I think you have
to agree (the group) is often to ideas.”
The review group was selected from
a pool of numerous experts in the com
munication and education field and in
cludes three professors of speech com
munication from the universities of Illi
nois, New Hampshire and Texas and a
professor from the School of Cinema at
the University of Southern California,
Gwyn said.
Birdsall ordered the group’s forma
tion after the release of a report last year
calling on the department to refocus its
curriculum. The review stated that the
RTVMP department was overextend
ing itself and was unable to carry out its
BAC member Bradley
elected BSM president
By Holly Stepp
Staff Writer
About 110 Black Student Move
ment members turned out Wednesday
to elect John Bradley BSM president.
Bradley, a junior from Wilmington
and co-founder of the Black Aware
ness Council, received approximately
55 percent of the total votes cast
BSM members also elected Latricia
Henry, a sophomore from Reidsville,
to be the next BSM vice president
Lucy Chavis, ajuniorfrom Henderson,
will serve as the next BSM secretary.
Bradley said one of his first goals
would be to attend the Student Con
gress budget hearings for the BSM
and attempt to re-establish the fund
ing for the BSM Gospel Choir. The
hearings will take place this weekend.
Last weekend, members of the con
gress finance committee voted to cut
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did to mock the DTH, we gave them a
memo that made no sense. It was
obviously a joke, and they just didn’t
get it”
Earlier Wednesday, Moody
abruptly ended an interview with Daily
Tar Heel Editor Peter Wallsten, refus
ing to comment on allegations of
wrongdoing after Wallsten said he
See MOCK, page 2
the organization. “I think (the NASG) is
a ludicrous idea,” he said. “I have had
no involvement in it at all.”
Higgins said the letter was written by
Moody, who refused to comment on the
allegations Wednesday.
Moody and Doug McCurry, his chief
See MEMO, page 4
private contractors operating at the
University are not required to adhere to
the University’s policy, Tufts said. But
Marriott does follow some state require
ments concerning anti-discrimination
policies that do not address sexual ori
entation, he said.
Tufts said he hoped the CDS man
agement would decide to adopt the
policy soon. “It’s a Marriott decision,”
he said.
The 9-4 vote was the same as that of
aFeb. 17meeting where managers voted
9-5, except that one member was not
present at this meeting, Derby said.
Stiegler, Petit and other members of
SO MAD asked to be allowed to attend
the meeting but were told it was closed,
Stiegler said.
Derby said he and Tufts made the
See CDS, page 2
role of both a production and education
center.
“Rather than take the preliminary
recommendation, we had another group
to look ahead and make some recom
mendations,” he said. “I didn’t have to
call for another study.”
Birdsall said he was unsure of when
the group’s report would be sent to the
University and did not have details as to
when the report would be completed.
He said that before a decision on the
future of the department was made, he
and other faculty would review the re
port. Birdsall also said he hoped to
reach a final decision about the
department’s future before the 1993 fall
semester.
“I don’t like to drag this out,” he said.
“It’s hard to predict when we’ll get the
report, but it would be nice to get it by
the end of this spring.”
Talk of lessening the departmental
emphasis on production and shifting it
to cultural studies sits well with other
faculty around campus, Birdsall said.
See RTVMP, page 5
the amount given to both the BSM
and its gospel choir.
In a BSM-sponsored forum Tues
day, Bradley said that if elected BSM
president, he would work with Pro
vost Richard McCormick, chairman
of Chancellor Paul Hardin’s black
cultural center working group, to plan
the new BCC.
But Wednesday after the election,
Bradley said he hoped that the BCC
working group already would have
presented a proposal for anew BCC
to Chancellor Paul Hardin by the time
he takes office later this spring.
“I am optimistic that the negotia
tion aspect of the BCC planning will
be over by the time my term begins,”
he said. “But if it is not I will strive to
let the BCC working group know that
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See BSM, page 2