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weather TODAY: Partly cloudy; high near | 65 TUESDAY: 40% chance of rain; high near 60 0 , Century of Editorial Freedom AM?. Est. 1893 Volume 101, Issue 14 MONDAY IN THE NEWS Top stones from state, nation and world Supreme Soviet begins impeachment process MOSCOW Russia’s hard-line legislature, meeting in emergency session Sunday, took the first step toward impeaching President Boris Yeltsin. The Supreme Soviet voted 125-16 to ask Russia’s Constitutional Court to review Yeltsin’s declaration of emergency rule. If the court finds that Yeltsin violated the Constitution, he could be impeached by the full parliament, the Congress of People’s Deputies, which may be convened as early as Wednes day. Constitutional Court chairman Valery Zorkin said Saturday that Yeltsin’s declaration appeared to violate the constitution. The Supreme Soviet’s resolution also asked Russia’s chief prosecutor to consider whether any of Yeltsin’s advisers bear criminal responsibility for the declaration of emergency rule. White retirement fuels hope for U.S. liberals WASHINGTON Their nearly 20- year wait for a sympathetic Supreme Court nominee is almost over, but liberals are hardly euphoric. They say it could take years to undo a genera tion of conservative appointments. Most liberal activists are keeping their expectations in check as President Clinton begins his search for a candidate to succeed retiring Justice Byron White. The new justice is sure to be more progressive than the conservative White. But liberals say the most they hope for with one appointment is an end to what they view as erosion in areas ranging from gay, civil and abortion rights to church-state relations. French conservatives elected to parliament PARIS Voters fed up with political scandal and high unemployment ousted the Socialists from their control of parliament Sunday and cast their lot with the conservatives. Socialist Party leader Laurent Fabius conceded defeat minutes after the polls closed, saying voters had delivered their verdict and that France faced the most right-wing government in its history. Fabius urged supporters to vote for any left-wing candidates in runoff elections next Sunday to block a huge right-wing takeover of parliament. The likely conservative majority means President Francois Mitterrand, a Socialist, will govern the final two years of his second seven-year term with a hostile premier and Cabinet. Nuclear war almost happened, book says WASHINGTON The world was on the edge of a nuclear confrontation between India and Pakistan in early 1990 because of the tug-of-war over Kashmir, according to anew account by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour M. Hersh. The detailed report, titled “On The Nuclear Edge,” is in the March 29 issue of The New Yorker magazine, which appears on newsstands today. Hersh, quoting senior U.S. intelligence officials by name, termed the showdown in the spring of 1990 “the most dangerous nuclear confron tation of the postwar era.” He said the Bush administration kept the conflict secret, failing even to disclose it to key members of Congress. According to Hersh, the nuclear confrontation was defused by the intervention of President Bush’s personal envoy, who was sent to India and Pakistan to negotiate a standdown between the two countries.. Seven more members depart cult compound WACO, Texas At least seven more Branch Davidian cult members left the group’s armed compound Sunday, a quickening tempo of releases that the FBI said is a positive sign. The first of the seven two women left the compound shortly after midnight. Two more women followed them out late Sunday morning and a man and two women left in the afternoon, authorities said. Also, at about midday a school bus was seen moving into the compound area, and a short time later a bus left the area with one passenger. But federal authorities wouldn’t immedi ately say if that was yet another cult member leaving the compound. —The Associated Press " ~~~ MONDAY, MARCH 22,1993 ttHjplailij tariffl Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Faculty group OKs rape amendments By Holly Stepp Staff Writer Amendments to Honor Court sexual assault trial procedures have passed the first step toward becoming part of the University’s Honor Code, but some stu dents say they still are concerned that the procedures would violate victims’ rights. A rape shield amendment, which would minimize testimony about a victim’s past sexual history, and a vic tims’ rights amendment were approved by the Faculty Council Friday. The Faculty Council approved the report by the Committee on Student Conduct presented by Committee Chair Late 3 advances Tar Heels By John C. Manuel Assistant Sports Editor The scene was the stuff sports mov ies are made of. Two players carried their teams for 40 minutes, with spectacular individual moves and efforts, only to see their squads knotted at the end of regula tion. Both UNC’s Tonya Sampson, ajun ior, and Alabama’s Yolanda Watkins, a freshman, took the big shots for their teams, and when Watkins put her club on top with an old-fashioned three point play with 29 seconds remaining in overtime, the Tide led 73-71. The Carmichael Auditorium crowd of 1,007 was silenced. Then it was Sampson’s turn. The Tar Heels set up a play for their star, who already had tallied a game high 30 points, one better than Watkins’ game total, her career best. Sampson came off a pick at the top of the key, stepped in and shot. But Sampson’s shot was off. Both teams crashed the boards, and with the ball falling out of bounds, Alabama’s Niesa Johnson grabbed it and threw it as far from the basket as she could. That wasn’t very far, as it turned out. The ball landed a few feet behind her, bounding toward UNC’s 6-foot-l forward Stephanie Lawrence. A noted 3-point shooter, Lawrence was 0-for-' 3 for the game. Lawrence scooped up the loose re bound with 5.6 seconds remaining, squared and fired a 3-pointer to give UNC acome-from-behind, 74-73 over time victory against Alabama. “I knew it was going in,” Lawrence said. “I was going in for the rebound and I saw the ball get tipped. “It was more habit, more instinct. I was thinking, ‘follow through.’” The win lifts the Tar Heels to 22-6. The Crimson Tide ends its season at Board might not endorse BCC report By Thanassis Cambanis Assistac University Editor The Black Cultural Center Advisory Board will hold a press conference to day at noon announcing whether mem bers intend to endorse a report on the BCC completed by a joint drafting com mittee. The report, drafted by members of the Chancellor’s BCC Working Group and the advisory board, includes pro gramming specifics for a 48,000 square foot free-standing BCC and a mission statement for the BCC. Advisory board members said they looked at a draft of the report earlier this week and found it “unacceptable.” Ruby Sinreich, an advisory board Rape-Free Zone aims to empower students By Phuong Ly Staff Writer I kept telling him to stop, and I was crying. 1 was scared of him and thought he was going to hurt me.... He had a hand over my face. I was 5 foot 2 and weighed 110 pounds. 1 didn 7 have any choice.... I just wanted to block it out. I felt ashamed because it happened. Ijust felt dirty, violated.... I just had no concept that anyone would do something like that to me.... Every six minutes, a woman is raped. Rachel, a college student from Bos ton, was one of those women raped during her freshman year by someone she had met at a party. Her reaction was recorded in the book “I Never Called it Rape: The Ms. Report of Recognizing, Fighting and Surviving Rape.” According to national statistics, three We thought we had the answers but it was the questions we had wrong. U 2 Chapel Hill, North Carolina man Robert Byrd. The report still must be approved by Student Congress and Chancellor Paul Hardin before it can take effect. The proposed amendments establish a procedure for determining the admis sibility of evidence concerning the victim’s sexual behavior and allow the victim to be present at the hearing and bring a support person. But Ruth Campbell, co-chairwoman ofWomen Against Rape, said she didn't think the rape shield would be effective. “It was the general consensus of the Rape Awareness subcommittee on Honor Court Reform, which I am a member of, that the proposed rape shield amendment to be implemented would Courtesy of Herald-Sun/Bemard Ttiomas UNC's Jill Suddreth drives to the hoop in Sunday's overtime win against Alabama 22-9. No. 17 UNC moves on to play Tennessee, the No. 2 team in the nation, in the Mideast Region semifinals Thurs day in lowa City, lowa. The win left North Carolina ecstatic, and Alabama speechless. “The worst possible scenario that member, said advisory board members told Provost Richard McCormick the plan needed “major revision” before they would approve it. She said McCormick, chairman of the working group, told them he would not accept “substantive changes” in the working group’s report. McCormick said a report endorsed by the working group would make it to Hardin’s desk early this week. But he said he was “somewhere between pes simistic and optimistic” about whether the advisory board would also endorse the report. “We’re trying to figure out if we can issue a joint report,” he said. “We’re still hoping for a joint report, of course.” The report written by a drafting out of four women 11 j\!(^ will be victims of ApF-FRFF at least one inci- E ' dent of sexual vio- .CAINE lence in their life- / hours from noon Thursday to Y\ noon Friday one area of the UNC campus will be designated as a ' site free from SHE sexual violence. w The UNC Rape-Free Zone, a slate of programs on sexual assault, will be held within one section of Polk Place from the steps of South Building to the flagpole. The purpose of the event is to raise awareness about sexual violence, to educate people about what can be done not work,” she said. Sexual assault cases at the Univer sity are heard by the Honor Court, a panel of students who enforce the Honor Code and preside over cases involving Honor Code violations. Rape is an Honor Code violation. The Honor Court’s handling of rape cases has come under fire this year from Campbell and other students who claim the court’s policy is ineffective. The proposed amendments to the Honor Code were an attempt to make the Honor Court more capable of han dling the sensitive issues involved in sexual assault cases. According to the first of the proposed amendments to the Honor Code, evi- could possibly happen happened,” Tide head coach Rick Moody said. “It’s very, very difficult to explain what happened to your team. “They won’t forget this feeling and See ALABAMA, page 5 committee composed of working group and advisory board members does not recommend either of the two sites remaining under consideration. Sinreich said the Coalition for a Free- Standing BCC discussed the draft of the report submitted to the advisory board last week at a meeting Sunday night. “It’s the coalition’s unanimous opin ion that Dick McCormick’s report needed substantive changes to elimi nate Dick McCormick’s bias,” she said. Matt Stiegler, a coalition member, said the coalition would encourage the advisory board to reject the report and write their own report “separate of the Chancellor’s Working Group and Dick See BCC, page 7 and where to go for help and to em power people to action, said project co chairwoman Jenny Youngblood. “It’s a place where people can pro claim the right to safety for their bodies and to feel safe in their actions and their words,” she said. “It’s to emphasize that we do have that right (to safety), and we can stand up for it.” A clothesline display, sponsored by the national Clothesline Project, will mark off the area. The shirts to be hung on the clothesline were created by sur vivors of sexual assault and friends of victims primarily from the Cape Cod, Mass., area, where the Clothesline Project is based. 4 The Rape-Free Zone, sponsored by the Campus Y and other campus groups, will include 15 programs throughout Thursday afternoon focusing on vari- See ZONE, page 2 dence of the victim’s past sexual behav ior is admissible only when the behav ior includes the past history of the vic tim and the accused. The proposed change states that the victim’s sexual behavior can be used as evidence only if it proves the accused did not commit the charged acts or when the victim’s past history is related so closely to the alleged encounter that it proves tfte alleged victim consented to the charged acts. Evidence that the alleged victim “fan tasized or invented the act or acts charged” offered on the basis of expert psychological or psychiatric opinion, also is admissible, according to the pro posal. Selection board chooses Chang to lead the DTH By Jackie Hershkowitz City Editor After nearly five hours of delibera tion, an 11-member selection board chose sophomore Yi-Hsin Chang to lead The Daily Tar Heel into its 101st year. Chang, a journalism and English major from Raleigh, said her top prior ity would be to increase the diversity of the DTH’s staff. “I think it’s most important for the DTH to reflect the diversity of the Uni versity community,” she said. “I want to let campus groups know that the DTH is open and any interested student can write.” The board, which voted six times before coming to a decision, selected Chang by a mar gin of 8- 3. The selection board was composed of eight at-large students and three DTH staff members, including a desk editor, an assistant editor and a staff writer. Board members said they opted for Chang because of her commitment to diversify the DTH. “She has a unique sensitivity to mi nority issues because she is a minority,” board member Dave Glenn said. “She has a lot of ideas about how to make the DTH more representative of the student body.” Chang, who will begin her term this summer, said she also planned to ex pand the DTH’s coverage of campus, city and world news. “Our paper tends to shelter our read ers from what’s happening outside Chapel Hill,” she said. “I want our re porting to reflect the issues that concern students, faculty members and admin istrators.” Chang said that under her leadership, By Deepa Perumallu Staff Writer Gone are the days of Camelot and its chivalrous knights, but have the ideals of chivalry “courage, gener osity to inferiors, courteousness to en emies and faithful service to the king, the savior and his lady,” according to Collier’s Encyclopedia, 1990 died out in the modem sense as well? The modem notion of chivalry has lost any former associations with pa triotism and physical prowess, at least in the minds of many students, profes sors and Chapel Hill residents. Chivalry now boils down to a single association: the association between men and women. Some women, such as junior Kelly Eddins, appreciate men who regard them with traditional chivalrous atti tudes. She defined these attitudes more sportsline Division I Lacrosse Poll 1. North Carolina (8) 6-0 160 2. Princeton 2-1 152 3. Loyola, Md. 2-1 130 3. Virginia 4-1 130 5. Syracuse 1-2 122 6. Johns Hopkins 3-1 118 © 1993 DTH Publishing Coip. AU rights reserved Nrws/Spoiti/Am 962-0245 Business/ Advertising 962' 1163 The amendment also stipulates that before a case is heard, the evidence will be considered by a three-person panel appointed by the judicial programs of ficer. The victim is not given the ex plicit right to be present for the panel hearing. But the accused, the legal coun sel of the accused and the victim’s legal counsel can be present. Campbell said the exclusion of the victim in the amendment was a clear violation of the victim’s rights. “She should be there after all, we are talking about her sexual past,” she said. “The members of the three-person panel are not trained enough, educated See FACULTY, page 7 the DTH would cover issues that had been ignored in the past. “I want to cover IfwlH being covered,” she said. “1 think JHk ' we tend to only report the most | % - IHE vocal views. A lot I of issues are left Yi-Hsin Chang out of the picture simply because people aren’t as vocal. “I think we need to go out there and find the stories so that people aren’t left out,” she added. Chang said she thought coverage of Greek organizations, graduate student concerns and nonrevenue sports needed to increase. Chang said she would keep world briefs on the front page and added that she thought the paper should publish seven or eight briefs each day. “I want to extend briefs and not just limit them to events that occur in the Western world,” she said. “I think we need to include Asia, Africa, Australia and other parts of the world that don’t get a lot of coverage.” Chang said she also wanted to re structure the editorial page to include more letters to the editor to present more diverse editorial viewpoints. “I’d like a conservative columnist, a woman columnist and one or two mi nority columnists,” she said. “I want to open up our editorial board to everyone on campus. “When I talk about diversity, I don’t just mean ethnic diversity,” she said. “I See EDITOR, page 2 specifically as “how respectfully a man treats a woman” and said chiv alry as she saw it was still alive but rare. “The emphasis on it has been taken away and downplayed a lot by the feminist movement,” she said. “Women tend to resist it.” Freshman Kelly Gore agreed that chivalry is now rare but attributed the change in behavior to men and to an overall decline in Americans’ values. A chivalrous man is one who is not so pushy on dates, opens doors for women, brings them candy and flow ers and avoids being rude to them in general, Gore said. “That type of thing is almost ex tinct in men,” Gore said, adding that chivalry could be reciprocated by women acting less forward toward See CHIVALRY, page 4
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