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100th Year of Editorial Freedom
BMH Est. 1893
Volume 101, Issue 11
TUESDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from state , nation and world
Sixth body discovered
in Trade Center ruins
NEW YORK More than two
weeks after a bomb ripped through
the basement of the World Trade
Center, authorities recovered a sixth
body in the rubble Monday.
The victim was identified as
Wilfredo Mercado, 37, a building
worker who was last seen in the
basement parking area where the
bomb exploded Feb. 26. The first five
victims were found within hours of
the explosion at the 110-story twin
towers.
Trained dogs had gone into the
blast area eight times during the
weekend searching for Mercado, an
employee of the center’s Vista Hotel.
Workers searching the debris in the
underground parking garage first saw
a boot sticking out of the debris and
then dug up the body, said Mark
Marchese, spokesman for the Port
Authority of New York and New
Jersey, which owns the complex.
Witnesses in King case
allege police cover-up
LOS ANGELES The prosecution
case against four white police officers
in the Rodney King beating wound
down Monday with witnesses called
to suggest that a cover-up of brutality
began with the first police report.
A police traffic supervisor, Sgt.
John Amott, testified that officer
Laurence Powell’s written report
didn’t match a videotape of the
beating and omitted the names of
civilian witnesses who might provide
details.
Amott said the report also omitted
the names of two passengers in
King’s car and didn’t mention that
King was kicked, stomped and
clubbed repeatedly.
Indian police battle
bombbig suspects
BOMBAY Police officers fought a
gun battle Monday with two criminals
who might be linked to some of the
bombs that devastated Bombay last
week, but the men escaped.
Officials said police had been
looking for the men based on
eyewitness descriptions of suspects
believed to have left suitcase bombs
in three hotels.
About 300 people were killed, and
1,100 more were wounded when 13
bombs exploded across the city
Friday, devastating India’s largest
stock market, a large section of the
financial district, apartment buildings
and hotels.
China accuses Britain
of Hong Kong meddling
HONG KONG ln a stinging
speech felt thousands of miles to the
south, Chinese Premier Li Peng on
Monday accused Britain of trying to
foment unrest in Hong Kong before
the territory’s transfer to China in
1997.
His voice rising with anger, Li said
Gov. Chris Patten “perfidiously and
unilaterally” crafted proposals to alter
Hong Kong’s election system that
violated previous Sino-British
agreements.
Li told applauding delegates at the
opening session of China’s legislature
in Beijing that Patten’s democratic
reforms were “designed to create
disorder and to impede the smooth
transfer of power.”
Li’s remarks, an unprecedented
attack on a foreign leader, contributed
to panic selling on Hong Kong’s
financial markets and heightened
anxieties about the power struggle
between the colony’s present and
future sovereigns.
Rabin offers to return
part of Golan to Syria
WASHINGTON lsraeli Prime
Minister Yitzhak Rabin, declaring he
is “ready for compromise,” offered on
Monday, after meeting with President
Clinton, to surrender part of the Golan
Heights to Syria.
But Rabin said Israel would not
negotiate a pullback in the strategic
territory without knowing Syria’s
peace terms.
Clinton endorsed Rabin’s demand.
He said peace must include open
borders and full diplomatic relations.
And he pledged to maintain Israel’s
military edge over the Arabs as an
inducement for a compromise
settlement.
The statements by the two leaders
after a 3-hour Oval Office meeting set
the stage for a resumption of Arab-
Israeli peace talks here April 20.
—The Associated Press
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Tenure OK may halt EEOC charges
By Steve Robblee
Staff Writer
The recent decision to give an assis
tant professor tenure might prevent the
Equal Employment Opportunity Com
mission from citing UNC with violat
ing federal laws against sexual discrimi
nation.
Faculty members in the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication
recently voted to grant tenure to Anne
Johnston, an associate professor in the
Department of Radio, Television and
Motion Pictures who was denied tenure
in the RTVMP department last year.
Johnston, whose appeal of the
RTVMP tenure decision has reached
the Board of Trustees, unanimously was
recommended for an associate profes
sorship with tenure by the journalism
DTH/Ross Taylor
'Charlie Two Shoes,' pictured with his wife and children, was adopted by the U.S. Marines in China during World War II
His ultimate wish: U.S. citizenship
By Ross Taylor
Staff Writer
The Chinese man sits behind the
counter of his restaurant as though he is
in deep thought. A couple walking in
for the first time draws his attention. He
welcomes them and warmly greets them
as though they are old friends.
Once their order is taken and the food
served, he checks on his customers to
make sure they’re enjoying the meal,
smiles, then retreats behind the counter
and chats with his daughter, who is a
waitress at Tsing Tao Chinese restau
Professor to join Clinton’s HUD team
By Jennifer Talhelm
Assistant University Editor
Michael Stegman has spent his ca
reer teaching urban policy. Soon he will
be helping make policy.
President Clinton last month nomi
nated Stegman, chairman of the UNC
Department of City and Regional Plan
ning, for assistant secretary for policy
development and research in the U.S.
Department of Housing and Urban De
velopment. The UNC Board of Gover
nors granted Stegman a two-year leave
of absence without pay Friday.
“I’m very excited. It’s an interesting
challenge,” Stegman said. “I’m very
excited to think about all the people I’ve
trained in the field, and now I will be
involved in implementing policy.”
Stegman said his job would be to
Adult day-care center serves senior citizens, community
Editor's note: This is the second in a
three-part series about senior citizens
in Chapel Hill.
By Tiffany Ashhurst
Staff Writer
Working families who live with their
aging relatives often find it difficult to
juggle work schedules with caring for
their older family members.
But now families have a place they
can turn for help.
The Charles House, located in
Carrboro, is an adult day-care center
that provides afternoon activities for
senior citizens who can’t stay by them
selves during the day but who don’t
need full-time care.
Senior citizens participate in a wide
Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits. Mark Twain
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
school faculty March 3.
She is one of a number of RTVMP
professors who said they were not in
cluded in discussions on possible re
structuring of the department away from
production training.
Johnston, who filed a sexual dis
crimination complaint with the EEOC
in connection with her tenure denial,
said she thought being offered a tenured
position in the journalism school was
connected with her appeal of the
RTVMP tenure decision.
“My appeal (to the BOT) resulted in
this offer of a promotion of associate
professor with tenure,” she said.
Johnston said the EEOC called her
lawyer last week to say the commission
was considering citing the University
with a Title 7 violation —a sexual
discrimination offense.
rant.
For now, business is going well for
Charlie Tsui, and he is happy. But be
hind his hearty smile is unrest, some
thing that this adopted Marine will never
ease until he gets what he desires most—
his U.S. citizenship.
“Although I pay taxes like everyone
else, I am not considered a citizen,”
Tsui said. “I want to make this country
a better place, but I am not a citizen. It
frustrates me, but for now I am happy.
I’m very content with what I’m doing.”
Thirty-five years ago his situation
was very different.
provide HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros
with a broad range of policy advice.
“The secretary oversees the
department’s research and demograph
ics program,” he said. “I will be in
volved in evaluating programs. I will be
a major source of policy advice.”
Stegman is no stranger to federal
government positions. He spent the last
18 months of the Carter administration
as deputy assistant secretary of policy
development and research.
Stegman said his research on many
national housing issues and programs
led to his appointment. “I did not apply,
nor did I have any personal connec
tions,” he said.
Stegman spent much of February fill
ing out forms and interviewing for the
position after he was notified he was a
candidate.
variety of activi
ties at the Charles
House, according
to Executive Di
rector Bette
Bradford.
“Music is very
important, and
people enjoy
crafts and making
jewelry,”
Bradford said.
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The facility, which opened two years
ago, is the only adult day-care center in
Orange County.
Bradford, who founded the Charles
House, said she started the facility be
cause she was unable to take care of her
father during the day.
The EEOC probably will not pros
ecute because the University offered
Johnston another tenured position, she
said.
If she is approved by the BOT and
Board of Governors, Johnston will as
sume the new position July 1.
Johnston is now in her final semester
as an assistant professor in the RTVMP
department should her tenure appeal be
denied.
Richard Cole, dean of the journalism
school, said Johnston would be a wel
come asset.
“We scrutinized her record, and we
believe her record merits the associate
professor rank with tenure without any
question,” he said.
Cole said Johnston had won two un
dergraduate teaching awards as a gradu
ate student at Oklahoma University,
Tsui, known by his fellow Marines
as “Charlie Two Shoes,” was an 11-
year-old boy living in China after World
War II under the shadow of conflict
between U.S. Marines and Communist
China for control of North China.
Tsui got his nickname when one of
the Marines said his real name, Tsui Chi
Hsii, sounded like Charlie Two Shoes.
The Marines quickly befriended him,
and Tsui tried to help feed his parents
and siblings by trading his family’s
eggs for the Marines’ K-rations.
See TSUI, page 4
“I do a lot of work in the area of low
income housing and communities,” he
said. “Many of my projects are some
way or another involved with responsi
bilities of HUD. It’s all a part of a
national network, so my research is
known to all aspects of HUD.”
He said he did not know President
Bill Clinton, and although he supported
Clinton’s election in November “en
thusiastically,” he was not involved in
the president’s campaign.
Stegman said he was unsure when
his job in Washington would begin. He
still must be approved by the U.S. Sen
ate. Stegman’s leave of absence will
begin when he is sworn in.
“I’m just not sure when that will
happen,” he said.
See STEGMAN, page 4
The Charles House was designed to
allow the elderly to be independent in a
supportive environment and to enable
their families to continue working,
Bradford said.
With the help of program coordina
tor Lyn Griesemer, Bradford said she
raised several hundred thousand dollars
from businesses and private donors to
open the facility.
Griesemer said the facility was certi
fied to serve 16 participants per day. j
Denise Carey, community liaison for
the Charles House, said she loved work
ing at the Charles House because the
people who ran the program were very
committed to it.
Carey said senior citizens enjoyed
interacting with younger generations.
published seven chapters in various aca
demic books, had a “number of articles
in referred publications” and had 17
papers presented at national and inter
national associations such as the Inter
national Communications Association
and the Broadcast Education Associa
tion.
Next semester, Johnston will teach a
section of JOMC 191, a multiple-sec
tion seminar course.
Each JOMC 191 section deals with a
different topic in journalism, and
Johnston’s section will focus on mass
media and politics.
Johnston also will team-teach a video
communications course with a profes
sional from Burroughs Wellcome, a
pharmaceutical company with a labora
tory complex in Research Triangle Park.
Cole said the JOMC 191 section
BOT may hear
final BCC report
later this month
By Anna Griffin
University Editor
A planning report for a free-standing
black cultural center will be presented
to Chancellor Paul Hardin sometime
this week and might be presented to
Board of Trustees members at their
March 26 meeting before six new
BOT members take office—BCCplan
ners said Monday.
The report, being written jointly by
members of the chancellor’s working
group and the BCC Advisory Board,
will be complete and on Hardin’s desk
by the end of the week, said Provost
Richard McCormick.
Once Hardin approves the report,
which will call for a 48,000 square-feet
building at a cost of $7 million, it will go
to the trustees for approval.
The 13-member BOT also will select
a site for the new center. The chancellor ’ s
working group, which was assigned the
task of planning the new center last fall,
voted late last month to send Hardin and
the BOT two potential sites the plot
of land between Wilson Library and
Dey Hall and the area between Coker
WUNC radio to get
new, high-tech home
By Tim Perkins
Staff Writer
WUNC Radio, which broadcasts a
mix of classical and jazz music and
National Public Radio news programs
throughout the Triangle and beyond,
will be getting anew station sometime
next year.
The station, which will cost more
than $1.3 million and be located near
the Friday Center on Mason Farm Road,
will allow WUNC to utilize recent tech
nological advances and operate more
smoothly.
The WUNC offices currently are lo
cated in Smith Building, and the station’s
studios are located in Swain Hall on
campus. The new facility will house
both the WUNC studios and offices.
David Wright, chief engineer for
WUNC, said the new building would
allow the station to run more efficiently.
“Radio will come together in the new
building,” he said.
Bill Davis, WUNC general manager,
said the current facilities did not allow
for recording and production work.
“This station will allow WUNC to capi
talize on changes that digital broadcast
ing will create,” he said.
Digital Audio Broadcasting, which
Volunteers from the University help
with various tasks at the Charles House,
she said. In the past, preschoolers also
have interacted with senior citizens,
Carey added.
Carey said senior citizens at the
Charles House also gave back to the
community in significant ways.
“We had a project where we made
pink and blue hearts for premature ba
bies for the UNC Hospitals,” Carey
said.
The ceramic hearts were placed on
incubators so parents could record their
baby’s name and other vital statistics as
a memento.
Other projects sponsored for the se-
See SERIES, page 2
sportsline
TABBED: As the ACC's men's lacrosse
player of the week, UNC senior Steve
Speers. A 5-foot-l 0 attackman, Speers had
sixgoalsandthreeassistsin North Carolina's
two games as the third-ranked Tar Heels
rolled past No. 17 Penn State 25-3 and
sixth-ranked Loyola College 17-8. The
honor was the first for Speers in his career.
© 1993 DTH Publishing Corp.
All rights reserved.
News/Sports/Arts
Business/Advertising
would be anew class, but one that he
had wanted to see the University offer,
“It’s a course about how important
the mass media is in politics," he said.
“The (presidential) candidates went on
a lot more talk shows ... A lot more'
personal media were used (in last y ear’s
campaign.)”
Johnston said the JOMC 191 class
would be similar to “Women, Media
and Politics,” a class she developed
when she came to the University in
1986 and now was teaching in the
RTVMP department.
She said she thought there would be
“a lot of overlap” between classes she
taught in the RTVMP department and
classes she would teach in the journal
ism school.
See JOHNSTON, page 2
Hall and the Bell Tower.
Some doubt still remains as to
whether the current BOT will approve
the BCC proposal once Hardin signs it.
Several BCC advocates had suggested
holding the proposal until July, when
six new members appointed by the
Board of Governors and Gov. Jim Hunt
take office.
But Trisha Merchant, vice chair
woman of the BCC Advisory Board,
said the center planners would take the
plan to the trustees as soon as possible.
“There is a strong chance it could
come up March 26,” Merchant said.
“We are ready to go with it all the way,
regardless of who is on the board.”
Last Friday, the BOG approved three
new BOT members Chapel Hill
realtor Anne Cates, Greensboro busi
nessman William Armfield and Charles
Sanders, chief executive officer of
Glaxo, apharmaceutical company based
in Research Triangle Park. The BOG
also reappointed BOT member Cressie
Thigpen.
Although the three were unavailable
See BCC, page 2
is still in its “embryonic stage” and will
be used at the new studios, will allow
greater flexibility of service, Davis said.
With the new technology, WUNC will
be able to broadcast CD-quality sound,
he added.
WUNC officials hope to someday be
able to broadcast its variety of programs
simultaneously on one signal, with lis
teners being able to select from several
programs, Davis said.
Instead of broadcasting a daily se
quence of shows, listeners could choose
from jazz, classical music, news and an
eclectic mix using their receiver, he
said.
A primitive form of this technology
already is used in the Radio Reading
Service of Raleigh, Davis said. This
service for the blind is carried within
WUNC’s signal, and blind listeners
using the service are able to select the
signal with special equipment.
But the quality of the broadcast is not
good enough for music without digital
technology. It will be five to seven
years before such technology is in place,
Davis said.
Funding for the new WUNC station
was approved by the Board of Gover
nors Friday and now will go before the
General Assembly for approval. More
See WUNC, page 4
DTH needs a
new editor
Applications are still available for
those interested in being editor of
The Daily Tar Heel.
The applications are extensive, so
only serious ones will be considered.
The deadline is Wednesday, and
the selection process begins Friday.
The 11 -member selection board,
which will be chosen later this week,
will review the applications, inter
view candidates Sunday and select,
the new editor. The new editor be
gins work this summer.
For more information, contact.
Peter Wallsten at 962-0245.
962-0245
962-1163