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weather TODAY: 80% chance of rain, thundershowers; high mid-50s FRIDAY: Variably cloudy; high in 50s |S> 100th Year of Editorial Freedom 9MB Est. 1893 Volume 101, Issue 8 THURSDAY IN THE NEWS Top stories from state, nation and world Federal agents waiting for end to cult siege WACO, Texas Federal agents appeared to settle in Wednesday for a long wait to end the stand-off with a heavily armed religious cult whose leader claims he is waiting for God to tell him what to do. As the siege continued for a fourth day, officials said Branch Davidian leader David Koresh might have more than 100 followers and a “massive weapons cache” inside his fortified compound. Two elderly women who left the compound Tuesday had fired machine guns and other weapons during battles Sunday that left perhaps 14 people dead, authorities said. The women faced charges including murder. Negotiations continued Wednes day. A day earlier, Koresh had promised to immediately and peacefully end the deadlock after a 58-minute taped statement he made was played on radio stations. “Koresh refused to honor his promise and has indicated he will keep his promise to come out when he receives further instruction from God,” FBI Agent Jeffrey Jamar said during the first briefing for reporters since Monday. “Koresh stated he had received a message from God instructing him to wait,” Jamar said. FBI suspects Serbian group In N.Y. bombing NEW YORK lnvestigators in the World Trade Center bombing are giving the most credence to a Serbian militant group’s claim of responsibil ity, an FBI official said Wednesday. Also on Wednesday, authorities said the towers would not reopen until April. The first call of responsibility after Friday’s bombing came from a man who identified himself as from the Serbian Liberation Front, and he “seemed to have information that hadn’t been out there,” the official told The Associated Press. That information was a reference to the level of the garage beneath the trade center where the bomb was detonated, the official, who has been involved in the investigation, said on condition of anonymity. IWo Marines die; two face trial in Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia A U.S. soldier was killed by a land mine Wednesday, the second American death in as many days. The chief U.S. military spokesman also announced that two Marines faced hearings on whether they used excessive force in shootings that killed one young Somali and wounded another who tried to steal a soldier’s sunglasses. The hearings, the first since the U.S.-led military coalition arrived in December, could lead to court martials and possible prison sen tences. Zairian victims buried after ferry disaster BRAZZAVILLE, Congo Dozens of victims who drowned in a rush to board a river ferry were buried in mass graves Wednesday. Unconfirmed reports said the death toll might top 200, most of them Zairians ordered expelled by the Congo. The Congo, which has set a Friday deadline for illegal immigrants to leave the country, reported that 147 people died in the Sunday accident. That would make it one of the world’s deadliest river ferry disasters in years. State agents will not face murder charges WILLIAMSTON, N.C. No criminal charges will be filed against SBI agents who shot and killed a hostage as a bank stand-off ended in Oak City, a Martin County grand jury decided Wednesday. The decision was announced by District Attorney Mitchell Norton after the panel concluded three days of testimony behind closed doors. Investigators said the SBI agents mistakenly shot Jean Wiggins of Williamston last October when she ran from the bank where she and her husband, Ernest, had been hostages for 15 hours. Jean Wiggins and the gunman were wounded. 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X ..o ; j Green Space—No construction allowed d§ Open Space—Construction allowed Pedestrian walkways P] Not specified in Land Use Plan Q Wilson/Dey site G Coker Woods/Bell Tower site UNC LAND USE PLAN Copland selects Toll to serve as next SBVP By James Lewis Staff Write Dacia Toll, the junior selected as student body vice president-elect Tues day, said Wednesday that she would work to be anything but “just the shadow of the president.” Toll, a political science and eco nomics major from Bethesda, Md., was selected by Student Body Presi dent-elect Jim Copland Tuesday from a field of three finalists. The finalists and the only three stu dents to apply for the position—Toll, Black Student Movement Secretary Linda Sutton and former Student Con gress candidate Eddie Hanes were interviewed by a panel of campus lead ers. The committee, which under the Student Government Code is assigned the duty of interviewing all applicants and passing on the top three choices, recommended Toll highly, Copland said. “Dacia was to me the clear choice,” he said. “I asked her to apply for the post.” Copland said he chose Toll because of her experience as a campus leader and her involvement in major campus issues. Toll is a member of the Black Student Movement and Students for the Advancement of Race Relations, works with attorney Alan McSurely on the legal team of the UNC house keepers and until recently was a mem ber of The Daily Tar Heel editorial board. Toll also is no newcomer to campus politics, having run an unsuc cessful campaign for DTH editor. “Dacia would broaden my vision,” Copland said. “She has been involved with different areas of campus than I Straight gay activists battle homophobia By Deepa Perumallu Staff Write- Meet the latest breed of reformers at UNC the straight gay activist. Junior Matt Stiegler, die only nongay man in Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity to his knowl edge, said he joined the fight for gay rights to overcome “the last frontier of respectable group hate on this campus,” also known as homophobia. Not that the cause always has been important to him. In fact, Stiegler, a history major from Hatfield, Penn., said his previous attitude toward homosexu als were no different than the average high schooler’s. “My favorite epithet all through high school was calling someone a faggot,” he admitted. “I was the type of person who thought I was on the right side but didn’t have a clue.” Stiegler said his repulsion for homophobia began when he arrived at UNC and found the University and its Student Congress to be much less toler ant than he had heard. THUtSDAfJIMtCH 4,1993 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Chapel Hill, North Carolina DTH Graphic/John Caserta have.” Copland said he used four criteria when looking for members of his ad ministration “trust and ability to work with the candidate, dedication, ability and leadership experience and diversity.” “I am very confident that Dacia will be an incredible vice president, and she will go a long way in re establishing the credibility of Student Congress,” he said. “Her vision for the office was clearly articulated.” Toll said she looked forward to the challenges of the next year and the opportunities the office held. “Essen tially, the most attractive aspect of the office is its inherent ambiguity,” she said. “I plan to define specific issues and focus my energy on those.” Academic affairs, treatment of University employees, race relations and community service will be her main issues, Toll said. Toll and Copland, a junior from Burlington, have been friends for the past three years, and both agreed that the friendship would help build a strong executive team. “Dacia has been a friend of mine since I arrived here at the University,” Copland said. “I think there needs to be a strong, solid relationship between the president and the vice president. Toll said that although she and Copland had not always been involved in the same activities, they recognized each other’s high potential. “I have no doubts that Jim and I will be able to work well together,” she said. “To a certain extent, we have lived in different spheres on campus, but we have a high level of mutual respect.” His growing outrage peaked last Feb ruary when Student Congress came within one vote of defunding B-GLAD, which was then called the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Association. Con v inced that the group could make a more effective response to the situa tion than angry quotes in the newspa per, Stiegler got up his courage and visited the CGLA office. “I was basically all bent out of shape and said, ‘Look, you guys have to start reacting to this.’ Before long, it became ‘We guys’ have to start reacting,” he said. Since then, Stiegler has been pushing for a more activist approach, which surfaced most recently in efforts to make Carolina Dining Services include a clause about sexual orientation in its nondiscrimination policy. He is also a leader of the newly created SO MAD, Student Organized Movement Against Discrimination, and serves on the staff of the Lambda, B GLAD’s newspaper. This involvement has caused Stiegler to take a lot of flak from people who Town, UNC regulations may protect Coker site! By Holly Stepp Staff Write- Town and University regulations might preclude any talk of placing a new, free-standing black cultural center in Coker Woods, the plot of land be tween Coker Hall and the Bell Tower. Critics of the administration’s pro posal to put the new center across from the students’ choice—the site between Wilson Library and Dey Hall have cited emotional, environmental and so ciological concerns about putting the BCC on the opposite side of South Road. But it might be Chapel Hill and Uni versity regulations not the angry cries of UNC students that force members of the Board of Trustees to give in and place the new center on the Wilson-Dey site. Town restrictions on Coker? Chapel Hill’s Resource Conserva tion District policy prohibits construc tion within certain distances of water ways in town limits. Town officials said this week that they were not certain whether Meeting of-the-Waters Creek, a tributary of Morgan Creek that runs through Coker Woods, fell under town jurisdiction. Under Chapel Hill regulations, con- Tar Heels dominate Deacons UNC 83 WAKE FOREST 65 By Warren Hynes Senior Writer When Wake Forest handed North Carolina its biggest defeat of the sea son, an 88-62 thumping in Winston- Salem Jan. 30, Demon Deacotj coach Dave Odom spoke of how difficult it had been to guard the Tar Heels suc cessfully. “You’re not going to cover the whole court on them,” Odom said. “They’re too dangerous inside and they’re too dangerous outside.” Well, that offensive danger was much more harmful to Odom and Cos. Wednes day night than it had been some 4 1/2 weeks ago. And Wake was much less successful in both stopping it and re sponding to it. With a strong offensive game from both the outside and inside, the No. 1 Tar Heels knocked off the No. 14Deacs 83-65 before 21,572 in the Smith Cen ter. “They were outstanding in every phase of the game,” Odom said. Added Wake shooting guard Randolph Childress: “They’re the best team in the country. I knew that when we played them in Winston.” With the win, the Tar Heels improved to 25-3,13-2 in the ACC. The win gave UNC sole possession of the regular season conference title for the first time since 1988andforthe 14th time overall. It also marked the 19th time that head coach Dean Smith has won 25 games in a season five more times than any coach in history. The Demon Deacons fell to 18-7,9- 6 in the ACC, and failed in their bid to sweep the regular-season series with UNC for the first time since the 1969-70 season. The Tar Heels jumped ahead 17-12 in the game’s first 7:47, as shooting think he is gay or don’t understand why he is involved. “But that’s not a big deal compared to what gays and lesbians go through,” he said. “For me, it might be easier to develop the emotional resources and the confidence necessary to be active and ‘in your face’ than someone who’s gone through the daily trials (of being gay) all his life.” Freshman Kelly O’Neal realized the extent of this ordeal through her best friend, who is gay, and this knowledge prompted her to join B-GLAD. “Gays face a lot of crap that’s largely ignored because people don’t see it as their problem,” she said. O’Neal is in charge of organizing the Triangle’s contribution to what she thinks might be the largest civil rights march on Washington, D.C., in history, numbering about 1 million activists from around the country. The march, dubbed "Lesbian, Bi sexual and Gay Equal Rights and Lib eration,” is scheduled for April 25. Lo- See STRAIGHT, page 2 \Y/ W e try to weigh the advantages and disad vantages of each space and determine whether the site is appropriate for a given building. Sometimes we find that certain sites are just not appropriate for the building.” JOHN SANDERS Chairman, Buildings and GROUNDS COMMITTEE struction cannot occur within 75-100 feet of a waterway or two feet above the 100-year flood-plain boundary for the waterway. The flood-plain boundary, which delineates the worst possible flood that could occur in a 100-year time span, determines a site’s drainage importance. Chapel Hill engineers have yet to determine whether a site falls in those If s9 L -# %* i ßßlßlll. %'2rW mJ Wi 1 ; m iplifliwl V My Mm, ■ " I ff loHh *Jk fJflpv * ji l DTH/Stephani Holzworth Eric Montross slams one home io UNC's 83-65 win Wednesday against Wake Forest guard Donald Williams’ two 3-pointers and small forward Brian Reese’s one trey opened up UNC’s outside game. With that accomplished, North Caro lina then pounded it inside, giving the Energy tax gets lukewarm reaction from UNC students By Bruce Robinson Staff Writer Students and politicians reacted cautiously to President Clinton’s pro posed energy tax, which has received praise from environmentalists and criti cism from the energy industry and anti-tax organizations. “In general, I’m for his increased taxes,” said Jessie McCary, a junior biology major. “1 think it's a good idea.” But other students displayed greater skepticism concerning the proposed tax increase. April C. Thmer, a junior radio, tele vision, and motion pictures major, said she looked at the proposed tax hike as the least of many evils. “You don’t want to pay more for necessities,” she said. “But, I guess you have to look at the deeper issues, such as what is he going to use it for.” However, Turner said she could not sportsline NCAA Basketball Scores Clemson 92, N.C. State 82 Virginia 72, College of Charleston 58, Duke 95, Maryland 79 Kentucky 98, Mississippi 66 Kansas 94, Nebraska 83 Arkansas 88, LSU 75 > Seton Hall 79, Boston College 61 © 1993 DTH Publishing Cop). AD rights reserved. News/Sports/Art* 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1 HxJ boundaries, said Kendal Brown. Brown, a Chapel Hill town planner, said that historically the University had complied with city guidelines. “How ever, it is completely up to the Univer sity or the state whether they will com ply,” she said. Gordon Rutherford, director of the University facilities planning depart ment, said he was not convinced that the Meeting-of-the-Waters Creek was cov ered by the RCD protection policy. “But in any case, a thorough ecologi cal analysis is a consideration,” he said. University guidelines require plan ners to consider the ecology and preser vation of natural areas. The “open-space spine” Buildings in the central parts of cam pus are designed around open space, natural undeveloped areas divided into two categories: buildable land and green space, which can’t be used for construc tion. According to the University’s Guide to Physical Development, the Coker Woods area is not designated as eithera potential building site or as part of pro tected green space. Student advocates of anew center want the Coker site to be made part of See COKER, page 2 ball to center Eric Montross, power forward George Lynch and Reese. The result: a 19-1 run. When Montross over- See WAKE FOREST, page 7 think of a preferable alternative. “To me, it’s just another tax hike,” she said. “I can’t really think of an other tax I would prefer.” The proposal would tax wholesale distributors based on the fuel’s heat producing capabilities as measured in British thermal units, or Btu’s. The Clinton administration esti mates it will raise the current 14-cent federal tax on gasoline by 2.5 cents ip 1993, with plans to raise the tax an other 7.5 cents by 1997. The proposal would raise the aver age family’s monthly electric bill by $2.25. Jon Strickland, a freshman com puter science major, said he believed Clinton had been successful in spread ing the burden of the tax equally. "I think he affected a broader area,” he said. “No one could get an orga nized argument against it” See ENERGY, page 4
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