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weather 0 TODAY: Mostly sunny; high upper 50s TUESDAY: Mostly cloudy; high near 60 f2> 100th Year of Editorial Freedom BMH Est. 1893 Volume 101, Issue 5 MONDAY IN THE NEWS Top stories from state, nation and world FBI says bomb caused blast at Trade Center NEW YORK The FBI confirmed Sunday that a bomb caused the explosion at the World Trade Center but was unable to say who placed it and why. The investigation could take several months. James Fox, head of the FBl’s New York office, said agency explosives experts had concluded that a bomb caused Friday’s lunch-hour blast that wrecked four underground floors and rattled the 110-story twin towers with earthquake-like force. Also Sunday, Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly told a news confer ence that there had been 40 telephone calls claiming responsibility for the blast, which killed five people and injured more than 1,000 others. FBI director William Sessions told NBC News Saturday that there was some indication the explosion might be connected to the trouble in the former Yugoslav republics. Newspaper: Russians sold arms to Serbians LONDON Russia has agreed to supply $360 million worth of arms, including tanks and sophisticated missiles, to Serbia and Serb-con trolled areas of Bosnia and Croatia, a newspaper reported Sunday. The Observer said generals from the Russian army and intelligence service signed a secret arms agree ment with Serbian leaders Jan. 22 following negotiations in Romania and Bulgaria. Such an agreement would violate the U.N. arms embargo against all factions in the former Yugoslavia. Russians and Serbs share historical ties and the Orthodox religion. In Moscow, a Defense Ministry spokesman said it does not deal with foreign weapons sales. Officials in other government departments could not be reached for comment. U.S. military launches Bosnian relief effort SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina The U.S. military launched a major relief effort in besieged eastern Bosnia, dropping a million leaflets saying airdrops of badly needed humanitarian aid were on the way. But Bosnian officials said Sunday that some of the messages missed the mark. Local officials said residents feared the bundles of food and medicine also might not land in intended villages. The airdrop aims mostly to help Muslims suffering from cold and hunger in enclaves almost entirely cut off from relief, but they will also provide aid for Serbs and Croats. Four U.S. agents killed in shootout with cult WACO, Texas A fierce gun battle erupted Sunday as law officers tried to arrest the leader of a heavily armed religious cult. At least four federal agents were killed and 12 others injured. Authorities had a warrant to search the Branch Davidians’ compound for guns and explosive devices and an arrest warrant for its leader, Vernon Howell, said Les Stanford of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms in Washington, D.C. The fate of the people in the compound was not known. The federal bureau estimated that 75 people were in the group, about a third of them children. Howell, the current leader of a cult that dates back more than 50 years, claims to be Christ. Researchers find gene linked to Alzheimer's WASHINGTON Duke University researchers have discovered that a gene associated with one type of heart disease also is linked to the most common form of Alzheimer’s disease. In a study to be published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Duke scientists report that they have found a single copy of a gene called APO- E 4 in 64 percent of patients who have died from the noninherited form of late-occurring Alzheimer’s. Single copies of the APO-E4 gene occur much more rarely in the general population, the researchers said. Dr. Warren Strittmatter, first author t>f the study, said by identifying the gene, researchers may be able eventually to develop a test that would tell people of their risk for developing Alzheimer’s disease. —The Associated Press Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily. George Santayana _ ~ MONDAY, MARCH 1,1993 lailu oar Uppl Confidential B-GLAD list distributed Congress approves $200,000 in 1993-94 funding By Marty Minchin Assistant University Editor and Steve Robblee Staff Writer A list of more than 60 people who attended a meeting of Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity was circulated at Sunday’s Student Congress budget hearings in the middle of debate over the group’s budget. Doug Ferguson, B-GLAD co-chairman, said to his knowledge only one handwritten copy of the list existed before the congress meeting, and only a few people knew of the list’s loca tion in die B-GLAD office. Ferguson said the circulation of the list among congress members would be detrimen tal to B-GLAD because many of the people on the list had given their names under strict confidentiality and had not made their homo sexuality public. “Tonight we have to call each member on this list and tell them they have been compro mised,” he said. “B-GLAD, although we got our full funding tonight, has been dealt tin extremely serious blow.” To Hh By Deepa Perumallu Staff Writer With only weeks left before beach weather and a few days before Spring Break, don’t be surprised if that fair-skinned woman in your math class suddenly acquires a brownish tinge. Students and local residents alike have begun the annual rush to local tanning salons. Dana Fields, a sopho more from Butner, said she launched efforts against her pale-skin complex ion three weeks ago. “You couldn’t catch me dead in a bathing suit before (I went to the tan ning salon),” Fields said. “Even though the tan hasn’ t come along as quickly as I would have liked it to, at least now I won’t stand out so much on the beach.” Kelly Fuquay, owner of Daytona Rays Tanning Salon in Carrboro, said RTVMP students to march today By Ivan Arrington Staff Writer Students in the Department of Radio, Television and Motion Pictures mobi lized Saturday, outlining a plan to con tact UNC alumni in the film industry and preparing for a protest march from the Pit to Swain Hall today in an effort to save the production aspect of the RTVMP program. “We need community support, alumni support, and we need the whole Bicycle committee requests $50,000 grant By Stephanie Siebold Staff Writer Members of Chapel Hill’s Bicycling Advisory Committee will present a pe tition tonight to the town council for $50,000 to improve bicycle facilities. ‘The funding would be used for on going improvements to the town’s bi cycle facilities, like making roads safer Report: UNC librarian salaries lagging By Eliot Cannon Staff Writer Many library workers at UNC are finding themselves in deeper financial straights than even University faculty members, whose salary woes have re ceived a great deal of attention in recent months. The median salary for professional librarians in the UNC Academic Af fairs Libraries is $32,650, according to statistics published by the Association of Research Libraries, which ranks Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Chapel Hill, North Carolina Rep. Darren Allen, Dist. 21, said he re ceived an anonymous message on his answer ing machine from a B-GLAD member last week telling him there was important informa tion about B-GLAD in his mailbox in Suite C. Allen said he found the list and numerous fliers that suggested that B-GLAD was a politi cal group in his box. He said he brought die list and the fliers up at the congress meeting be cause the list showed that only nine of the more than 60 people on the list had paid their annual dues. “We saw it as basically proof of our position on B-GLAD that they weren’t really in need student fees,” Allen said. “We made copies of all the other stuff proving they were a political organization.” Copies of the list were circulated among congress members at the budget hearing be fore all the lists finally were collected by B GLAD members. Ferguson also said he thought B-GLAD meeting attendance would decline because the confidentiality of the group had been breached. Trey Harris, B-GLAD outreach coordina tor, said the list contained names of resident assistants, University employees, people who now was by far the busiest time of year for her business. “On a good day, we get anywhere between 100 and 120 cus tomers ... and we also get a lot of students from the University,” she said, adding that the male-to-female ratio was about 40 percent to 60 percent. But those seeking bronzed bodies shouldn’t expect once-a-week visits to produce the desired results, Fuquay warned. She recommended three to four 20-minute visits per week —with at least 10 visits in all —to get a substan tial tan. “I also think it’s safer than being in the sun because it eliminates burn ing,” she said. “You control the amount of time you’re exposed.” Like most area salons, Fuquay ’ s uses Bellarium S bulbs, the strongest pres ently available. She also uses the Wolff student body behind us if we’re going to accomplish anything,” said Peggy Wetzel, a junior RTVMP major and the meeting’s organizer. Wetzel, senior RTVMP major Scott Lansing and RTVMP graduate student Matt Kaufhold will represent student concerns when they meet with a review board commissioned by Stephen Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, at 2:30 p.m. today in the Swain Hall faculty lounge. The trio plans to rebut a permanent for bicyclists,” committee chairman Wayne Pein said. The town council meets tonight at 7:30 in Chapel Hill Town Hall. The money also would be used to purchase new bicycle racks, add bike lanes to local roads and promote helmet use, he said. Pein said more bike racks were needed on Franklin Street. member libraries in 19 categories. UNC’s median librarian salary ranks 90th out of 108 Associaton of Research Libraries members, according to the organization’s annual rankings. The libraries ranked much higher in the annual association rankings in most other categories. University libraries rank 20th in total volumes, 26th in gross volumes added, 20th in current serials and 25th in total operating expenditures for 1991-92. “You can’t raise a family on this salary,” said Rita Moss, the business were trying to get grants and members of the Chapel Hill community. “All these people could get into quite a bit of trouble,” he said. Matt Stiegler, co-editor of Lambda, B-GLAD’s newsletter, said the jobs of some of the people on the list could be in jeopardy if their sexual orientation were made public. “There’s a lot of pieople who say that anyone at a B-GLAD meeting is gay, and anyone who is gay should be fired,” he said. Allen said he did not realize the seriousness of making the list public. “We realize now we should have tom the names and phone numbers off the list,” he said. “We are going to write a letter of apology (to B GLAD).” Ferguson said University Police were investi gating how the list got out of the B-GLAD office. Ferguson also said he planned to pursue Honor Court charges against Allen and Rep. Chris Tuck, Dist 20. Congress members voted 21 -7 to reinstate the budget of B-GLAD. Finance committee mem bers voted last week to completely cut the group ’ s See BUDGET, page 4 tanning system, which Fuquay and several other tanning operators agreed was the best on the market. So far, the only complaints of skin problems Fuquay has received involve dry skin. Her solution is to provide a tanning accelerator that keeps skin moist while at the same time increas ing the tanning rate. The salon’s precautions include re quiring eye goggles, advising consul tation with a physician if a customer is on medication and discouraging men from tanning in the nude. Customers under 18 must have their parents’ sig natures before using the tanning beds. Chapel Hill resident Mollie Tho mas, who has been a tanning salon See TANNING, page 2 faculty written report that calls for a new emphasis on culture studies and documentary studies and persuade the group that the University needs a strong production department. “We want to go in with the sugges tion that (the faculty) program is not balanced enough,” Wetzel said. “There’s a broader balance that could be found. Not everyone who comes here wants to do documentaries on See RTVMP, page 4 “The council gets constant requests for more bicycle racks by Franklin Street businesses,” he said. Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said the committee’s request would have to complete with monetary requests from other committees. “We’ll just have to look at the com- See BICYCLE, page 4 and economics librarian at Davis Li brary. “It’s abysmal.” Larry Alford, associate University librarian foradministrativeservices, said UNC libraries’ salary standings had fallen substantially in recent years. Alford said according to the same scale, Duke University ’ s libraries ranked 35th, and N.C. State University’s li braries ranked 61st with respect to li brarian median salaries. Alford said it was extremely difficult See LIBRARIES, page 2 Student Congress budget allocations CAMPUS GROUP ' Student Legal Services Black Student Movement Yackety Yack * Executive Branch Victory Village Day Care Sangam Judicial Branch Cellar Door Student Television Carolina Quarterly Lab Theater International Students Asian Students Association Student Congress Pauper Players Student Bar Association Students Against Drunk Driving CHISPA B-GLAD Great Decisions Rape Action Project Peer Leadership Consultants UNITAS Iroko Psychology Club TOTALS Moody decides against sending out NASG letters By Anna Griffin University Editor Student Body President John Moody will not be sending out letters advertis ing the National Association of Student Governments letters that promote the not-y et-established N ASG as a thriv ing organization and that were paid for with student government money. In a letter to the editor dated Feb. 26, Doug McCurry, Moody’s chief of staff, states that despite what the NASG mail ings claim, Moody has not yet received a grant for the project. The mailings state that the NASG “recently received a sizable grant,” with which to increase its membership to 750 within two years. In reality, UNC is the only member of the NASG. McCurry, who was unavailable for comment Sunday, writes that Moody and his staff “did things in reverse or der,” and that Moody did not intend to mail out the NASG letters until he had funding for the project. Moody declined to comment Sunday and said he would be distributing a written explanation of the NASG situa tion sometime this week. In an inter view with The Chapel Hill News pub lished Sunday, Moody admitted using money allocated to the executive branch for printing costs to pay for the mail- SMB ~ * ft*' * jlfPlß-S v,. iiinH Jm .. J ;.t\ - - IIMP - mm is, ||||| - ip ' . EhJ Jm DTH/Debbie Stengel Superb swinger Jennifer Roberdeau hangs on during her uneven bar routine Sunday in UNC's tri-meet with William & Mary and Navy in Carmichael Auditorium. See story page 10. sportsline ORDAINED: As the number one college basketball team in the country by the USA Today/CNN coaches' poll, North Caro lina. The Tar Heels (24-3) received 26 of 34 possible first-place votes. No. 2 Indiana and No. 3 Arizona each garnered four first: place votes. Kentucky and Michigan round out the top five. © 1993 DTH Publishing Cdrp. All rights reserved. 962-0245 962-1163 News/S ports/Arts Business/Advertising GRANTED $61,491 $27,0K $11,050 $9,27658 $14360 $3,400 $8,360 $7,840 $11,385.40 $4,185 $7,868 $5,35)5 $2,370 $3,541.80 $4,115 $3,582 $2,175 $2,575 $2,582 $3,100 $1,460 $683 $290 $420 $lB5 $198,774.2 REQUESTED $166,164 $44,775 $25,450 $24,325 $22,028 $14,410 $14,361 $11,600 $16,880 $10,185 $7,368 $5,780 $5,450 $4,611 $4,065 $3,582 $3,335 $3,315 $2,582 $2,150 $1,410 $983 $450 $420 $lB5 $389,230.10 ings. Moody told the paper he wasn’t go ing to send out the letters. “People have told us it is misleading,” he said. “We’re not going to use it anyway. No, we don’t have a grant yet. That’s why we haven’t mailed something like that out.” Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for student affairs and student government adviser, said Sunday that he was confi dent the NASG situation had been re solved. Boulton met with Moody Fri day. “He said nothing is going to come of this quote-unquote, ‘national organi zation,”’ Boulton said. “He indicated that they hadn’t sent anything out, and indeed were not going to send anything out.” Boulton had said last week that he was concerned with Moody’s behavior. He said he specifically was worried about Moody ’ s refusal to be open about his plans for a weeklong speaker’s se ries later this month and with Moody’s admittance that he had forged Student Body Vice President Charlie Higgins’ signature on a false memo meant to “mock” The Daily Tar Heel. As part of fund-raising efforts for the proposed weeklong symposium, co sponsored by the Carolina Union Ac tivities Board and student government, See MOODY, page 2
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