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Century of Editorial Freedom
BHB Est. 1893
Volume 101, Issue 19
FRIDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from state , nation and world
Russian speaker calls
for easing of tensions
MOSCOW On the eve of a
Congress session that could end his
presidency, Boris Yeltsin’s chances of
keeping his job rose sharply when his
main rival backed off a demand for
the president’s ouster.
The call for compromise by
parliament speaker Ruslan
Khasbulatov eased tensions, although
the fundamental conflict between
Yeltsin and the hard-line Congress
remained. In a nationally televised
address Thursday night, Yeltsin
renewed his call for a popular vote of
confidence to resolve the struggle.
Russia’s Christian Orthodox
patriarch, meanwhile, warned that the
political fight threatened to grow into
a full-scale civil war.
The flurry of speeches came on the
eve of a special session of the
Communist-dominated Congress of
People’s Deputies, which meets today
to consider ousting the president for
calling the April referendum without
consulting them.
ANC demands release
of nuclear information
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Opposition groups demanded
Thursday that the government reveal
more nuclear secrets to prove its
claim to have dismantled its nuclear
weapons program.
President F.W. de Klerk, said
Wednesday that the country built six
atomic bombs as a deterrent but
destroyed them in 1990 and aban
doned its nuclear ambitions.
The African National Congress
demanded a detailed accounting of
the country’s nuclear history, which
de Klerk did not disclose.
“We insist that the government
reveal what has happened to every
gram of the stockpile of weapons
grade uranium,” which international
experts estimate at 440 to 715 pounds,
the ANC said in a statement.
That amount is considered enough
to build 20 or more nuclear weapons.
4 bomb suspects plead
innocent; sth charged
NEW YORK Four of five men
arrested in the World Trade Center
bombing proclaimed their innocence
Thursday, and, a month after the
blast, investigators believe there may
be only one suspect still loose.
The fifth suspect, Bilal Alkaisi, 27,
was arrested early Thursday after he
surrendered for questioning. He faced
arraignment later in the day on
charges of aiding and abetting.
One of the suspects arrested earlier,
Nidal Ayyad, a chemical engineer
who investigators believe had bomb
making know-how, said at his court
appearance: “I am not guilty. I swear
by all I hold dear the Koran, my
wife, child and mother I had
nothing to do with this.”
fanatic' sneaks into
lfltaco cult compound
WACO, Texas Authorities trying
for nearly a month to get people out
of the heavily armed compound of a
religious cult faced anew problem
Thursday people sneaking in.
A 24-year-old man described as a
“religious fanatic” wove through a
cordon of law officers Wednesday
night, knocked on the door of the
Branch Davidian sect and was let in.
FBI agent Bob Ricks said authori
ties watched Louis Anthony Alaniz of
Houston scoot across the yard of the
compound but decided not to shoot
him because he was unarmed.
“He was described as a religious
fanatic by his own mother and is there
in search of whatever truths Mr.
Koresh might be able to impart to
him,” Ricks said.
House votes down gag
rule at federal clinics
WASHINGTON The House voted
Thursday to permanently do away
with government restrictions on
abortion counseling after defeating an
attempt to require parental notifica
tion for minors seeking abortions at
federally funded clinics.
The House passed and sent to the
Senate, 273-149, a bill that authorizes
spending for family planning clinics
and writes into federal law President
Clinton’s lifting of the Bush
administration’s ban on abortion
counseling. Supporters of Clinton’s
action to lift the “gag order” wanted
to lock Clinton’s policy into law to
reverse 12 years of Republican anti
abortion policies.
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Rape-Free Zone wake§ up Polk Place
By Gautam Khandehval
Staff Writer
“In the darkness U stole my worth!
Faceless U took my identity!”
T-shirts hanging limp in the damp
spring air display ed words such as these,
written on a rape victim’s shirt. The
shirt hung on a clothesline in Polk Place
next to hundreds like it as part of the
UNC Rape-Free Zone.
The clothesline separated a zone in
Polk Place that at least for Thursday
would be free from rape.
The Rape-Free Zone, sponsored by
the Campus Y and other student organi
zations, will run until noon today. The
event was designed to promote aware
ness of sexual violence through speak
ers and discussions ranging from “Rac
ism and Rape” to “Portrayal of Women
in the Media.”
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Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred says women must press charges against rapists
Allred urges women
to fight campus rape
By Everett Arnold
Staff Writer
“Campus rape is out of control.”
Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred’s
words came as no news to the 50 people
who came to see her speak at Memorial
Hall Thursday night.
Allred served as the keynote speaker
for the Rape-Free Zone, which the Cam
pus Y and other student groups orga
nized to educate the community about
how to fight sexual violence.
“When I heard what you were doing
with the Rape-Free Zone ... I had to
come,” she said.
Allred, an active feminist, has gained
a reputation as a hard-nosed, successful
attorney. She recently filed a complaint
with the Senate Ethics Committee when
female staff members of U.S. Sen. Bob
Pack wood, R-Ore., made allegations of
sexual harassment against him.
Allred said colleges and universities
needed to develop effective rape-action
programs. Victim support and respon
sive treatment of rape victims would
encourage them to come forward, she
said.
“If not, campus rape will increase,
and that is not an acceptable alterna
tive,” Allred said.
UNC-CH leads comparable universities in four-year graduation rates
Editor's note: This is the first in a
two-part series on UNC graduation
rates.
By Scott Ballew
Staff Writer
Although UNC Board of Trustees
members in January voiced their con
cern that too few students graduated in
four years, UNC-CH tops many of its
peers in four-year graduation rates, ac
cording to a recent survey.
Earlier this year, trustees called for
universities in the UNC system to en
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Michael Klompas, co-chairman of
the Rape-Free Zone, said the desig
nated area was a literal and symbolic
asylum for those seeking safety from
sexual violence.
“We are living in a state of siege
where even our most fundamental of
rights the sanctity of our own bodies
and minds is not allowed us,”
Klompas said at the noon Kickoff Cer
emony. “This is a refuge for us, a place
where the beleaguered who are con
stantly living under the threat, the fear,
the tension of sexual violence, can for
once be safe.”
Students and University community
members roamed through the Rape-
Free Zone, some participating in the
programs, others reading the messages
on the shirts.
Every three minutes, a bell tolled,
reminding observers that every three
She suggested universities could
improve their rape-action policies by
including provisions to change on-cam
pus housing arrangements if accused
rapists and victims lived in the same
dorms.
Allred said the intimidation of rape
also affected perceptions of women in
society, and consequently, in the work
place.
“Fear keeps women vulnerable, sub
ordinate and powerless, and that is the
whole point of rape: power, violence
and control,” she said.
She gave specific advice on creating
a rape-free climate on campus, includ
ing changes in the student judicial code,
legal counseling, better campus light
ing, residence hall security and pro
grams to provide rape victims with
proper medical and psychological treat
ment.
“Be women who will not take no for
an answer when it comes to rape,” she
told the audience.
Allred shared stories involving some
of her clients’ rape trials, emphasizing
that rape victims could win in the court
room.
The story of one of her former cli-
See ALLRED, page 9
courage students to graduate in four
years to cut costs. Students who take
longer than four years to graduate are a
drain on taxpayers’ money, they said.
But UNC-CH ’ s four-year graduation
rates are more than 19 percent higher
than peer universities, a survey by the
American Association of Universities
reported. UNC-CH graduated 65 per
cent of the students in the Class of 1992,
according to the survey.
“These numbers are excellent and
gratifying,” Provost Richard
McCormick said. “The results speak
minutes a woman is raped in the United
States.
“It’s really just overwhelming,” said
Brian Henderson, a junior from Carrboro
who was watching the activities. “I can’t
think of anything any stronger to say.”
The clothesline was part of the Na
tional Clothesline Project and featured
shirts containing messages by rape vic
tims or friends of rape victims. The
clothesline will mark off the Rape-Free
Zone until noon.
Lori Britt, a freshman from Gastonia,
said the messages on the shirts were
moving. “It’s very sad. It makes it a lot
more personal when you read about
their experiences.”
Klompas said the Rape-Free Zone
also was a place for education and learn
ing.
See ZONE, page 4
ACLU offers legal counsel
to challenge drug checks
By Jimmy Dula
Staff ■Writer
A lawyer for the Raleigh chapter of
the American Civil Liberties Union said
Thursday that the ACLU would pro
vide legal counsel to anyone who wanted
to challenge the constitutionality of drug
checkpoints.
The State Bureau of Investigation set
up a drug checkpoint Monday and Tues
day at the New Hope Church Road exit
off Interstate 40, just in time for Grate
ful Dead groupies to come to town. The
band performed at the Smith Center
Wednesday and Thursday nights. Called
Deadheads, these fans are known for
their love of illicit drugs.
“Obviously a person coining to a
Grateful Dead concert is not a constitu
tional basis for search and seizure, but
apparently the State Bureau of Investi
gation thought it was,” said ACLU at
torney William Simpson.
“The Constitution is the law of this
land, and the SBI needs to operate within
that law,” he added.
Simpson said that although no one in
Chapel Hill had yet sought legal assis
tance from the ACLU, the ACLU had
Volunteers end Tar Heels’ season
By John C Manuel
Assistant Sports Editor
IOWA CITY, lowa North
Carolina’s women’s basketball team
has enjoyed a fine 1992-93 season. It
has risen as high as No. 11 in the
Associated Press poll, racked up 23
wins and proceeded to the NCAA
Tomament’s Sweet 16 for the first
time since 1986.
On Thursday night in Carver-
Hawkeye Arena on the campus of the
University of lowa, the 17th-ranked
Tar Heels, who featured only one se
nior on this year’s roster, saw how far
they have to go to be considered one of
women’s basketball’s elite teams.
The Tennessee Volunteers, ranked
second in the nation and seeded first in
the Mideast region, crushed fourth
seeded UNC 74-54 to advance in the
regional finals.
Tennessee pushed its record to 29-
2 and will meet the winner of the lowa-
Aubum game, which had not been
completed at press time. North Caro
lina ends its season at 23-7.
The Volunteers simply outplayed
the Tar Heels in every aspect and held
UNC’s trump card, Tonya Sampson,
in check all night.
Sampson, who entered the night
averaging 21.2 points per game, tal
lied a game-high 15 to lead die Tar
Heels.
Tiffany Woosley led a balanced
Tennessee attack, scoring 13 points.
Lisa Harrison had 12 points and a
dozen rebounds, while guard Nikki
highly of UNC students and faculty.
We are very proud.”
The AAU, an organization of public
and private research institutions, found
that UNC-CH graduated up to 25 per
cent more students than many members
of the AAU, including Indiana Univer
sity, the University of California at Los
Angeles and N.C. State University.
In a similar comparison with public
research universities in the Southeast,
UNC-CH ranked even higher, topping
AAU averages by as much as 30 percent
to 34 percent.
Randall
Erica Honeycutt helps set up the Rape-Free Zone clothesline Thursday morning
received complaints about the check
point.
But Ron Hawley, a local SBI repre
sentative, said the drug checkpoint was
not instituted solely because of the
Grateful Dead concert.
“We ran the operation because of a
series of pieces of information that we
received,” he said. “It was a result of the
totality of information available to us.”
Hawley said 265 vehicles were
searched during the two days the check
point was in operation.
Not every car that passed through the
checkpoint was searched. Hawley said
he could not comment on what criteria
were used to determine whether to search
a vehicle.
Drug checkpoint authorities seized
80 grams of illegal mushrooms and 28
grams of marijuana in two days, Hawley
said.
Checkpoint agents issued 24 misde
meanor drug citations, 102 warning tick
ets, 19 seat belt violations and one fire
arms violation, according to Highway
Patrol Capt. R.W. Isley.
Hawley said he thought the Chapel
Hill checkpoint operation had been suc
cessful.
TENNESSEE 74
UNC 54
McCray contributed 12 points and nine
rebounds for the Vols.
UNChead coach Sylvia Hatchell said
Tennessee’s superior strength and depth
inside were the keys to the game.
“At this level, strength is a bigger*
factor than skill,” Hatchell said.
“They’ve just got tremendous strength
on the Tennessee team and we just got
manhandled by them.”
UNC reserve center Carrie McKee
agreed.
“They were definitely physical in
side. There were times when we couldn’t
do what we wanted or needed to do to
take the shot,” she said. “They were
stronger than a lot of the teams we
usually face.”
Indeed, the Volunteers shuttled front
court players in and out of the game at
every opportunity and simply wore
down UNC. That inside dominance was
especially telling in the rebounding sta
tistics for the game.
TennesseeoutreboundedNorth Caro
lina 46-31, and ruled the boards in the
first half to a 23-12 advantage, includ
ing 12 offensive rebounds. Volunteers
head coach Pat Summitt said the advan
tage on the glass helped her team over
come a sluggish start.
“I was displeased with our offense
because we were standing around too
much,” she said. “Our defensive inten
sity was what it needed to be and our
rebounding was a big difference.”
McCormick said he was unsure
whether the AAU study results would
change the BOT’s position. “I have
every intention of giving a report on the
results ... and bragging a little bit... at
Friday’s (BOT) meeting.”
The increasing number of freshmen
entering the University with college
credit from advanced-placement classes
and the relatively small number of es
tablished five-year programs at UNC
are factors in the University’s high four
year graduation rate, he said.
“We do have several five-year pro
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“Any time we are able to seize con
traband it is a success,” Hawley said.
“We’re working within the law with the
highway interdiction program, and
we’ve found this to be one of the most
effective tools we have.”
Chapel Hill police spokeswoman
Jane Cousins said the local police de
partment was working this week with
county, state and federal agencies.
“We are certainly aware of the drug
activity of many of die Deadheads,” she
said. “There are SBI agents, highway
patrolmen, (Federal Drug Enforcement
Agents) and undercover agents of other
agencies who are in town looking for
drug-related violations.”
Mike Lannon, telecommunicator for
University Police, said police on cam
pus were making attempts to prevent
drug use from being a problem.
“We’re not doing any drug searches
that would be unconstitutional,” he
said. “But we’re not allowing coolers or
glass containers into the Smith Center.”
Lannon said that although Univer
sity Police did not search backpacks,
the security staff hired by the concert’s
promoter did conduct searches for glass
containers.
The Tar Heels also got off to a slow
start with Sylvia Crawley scoring
UNC’s first field goal nearly four min
utes into the contest
A 3-pointer by Stephanie Lawrence
brought UNC to within one at 21-20
with 6:24 left in the first stanza when
Summitt called a timeout
Her charges responded with a 17-5
run to close out the half, capped by a
steal and layup by Woosley with three *
seconds remaining. The basket gave
the Volunteers a3B-25 lead at the half.
“We picked up our movement and
I think we played well on both ends of
the floor in the second half,” Summitt
said.
The Tar Heels staged a brief sec
ond-half rally, and a basket by Crawley
put North Carolina within 12,54-42,
with just more than 10 minutes to
Play- ‘ :
But the Volunteers would notallow
the Tar Heels to get any closer. With
Sampson having picked up her fourth
foul with 10:30 remaining and Char
lotte Smith struggling (2-10) from the
field, UNC did not have the fire power
to stay with Tennessee.
• The final score equalled
Tennessee’s largest margin of the
game.
For the Tar Heels, the loss and the
experience of a Sweet 16 run gives
them a foundation to grow on.
“I think this experience will be a
key for us,” McKee, a co-captain,
said. “We have so much more to gain
See TENNESSEE, page 6
grams such as pharmacy, but the great
majority of majors require only four
years of study,” McCormick said. “And
while Carolina can take great pride in
ourexcellent graduation rate, we should
not expect every student to necessarily
graduate in four years.”
Tim Sanford, University director of
institutional research, said he thought
the University’s high four-year gradua
tion rate was a result of many factors.
The University’s selectivity in admis-
See RANGS, page 2