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Century of Editorial Freedom
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Volume 101, Issue 37
THURSDAY
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from state , nation and world
Yeltsin takes key win
in struggle for power
MOSCOW A court handed
President Boris Yeltsin a political
victory Wednesday, ruling that he
needs to secure only a simple
majority in this weekend’s referen
dum to win a vote of confidence in
his leadership.
The 8-5 ruling by Russia’s
Constitutional Court overturned
election rules set up by the Commu
nist-dominated Congress of People’s
Deputies for Sunday’s plebiscite that
would have made it nearly impossible
for Yeltsin to win.
The ruling made a mixed result at
the polls more likely, which would
give both the president and his foes in
parliament the ability to interpret the
results to their advantage —and thus
extend the power struggle that has
paralyzed Russia for months.
Five whites questioned
in South Africa slaying
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Police questioned five more whites
Wednesday in the slaying of African
National Congress activist Chris Hani
and said other arrests might follow as
officials explore leads into a sus
pected right-wing murder conspiracy.
The sweep was aided by informa
tion given by Clive Derby-Lewis, a
senior leader of the pro-apartheid
Conservative Party and former
legislator, authorities said.
Police Brig. Frans Malherbe said
he expected Derby-Lewis to be
charged eventually in Hani’s murder.
He also said investigators believed
the slaying was part of a conspiracy
possibly an international plot
and that more arrests might follow.
He did not elaborate on the possible
international scope of the case.
Colorado passes new
dMc-protection law
DENVER Colorado enacted a
unique law this week to provide a 8-
foot “bubble” of protection for people
entering or leaving abortion clinics.
The measure, signed Monday by
Gov. Roy Romer, is the first state law
of its kind in the nation. It bars
demonstrators from coming within 8
feet of visitors or workers outside
abortion clinics.
The anti-abortion group Operation
Rescue already has said it will
challenge the law in court and is
unlikely to change its protest tactics.
Legislatures in 26 states considered
pro-abortion laws this year in an
effort to stem the violence, the
National Abortion Rights Action
League said.
Bills that would protect patients
and doctors entering clinics are
pending in California, Florida,
Nebraska, New Jersey and Virginia,
Planned Parenthood said.
In Colorado, the bubble law won
favor from 85 of the state’s 100
lawmakers despite impassioned
testimony in the Republican
controlled legislature.
Helms says State Dept
budget request too big
RALEIGH One day after being
discharged from a brief hospital stay,
Sen. Jesse Helms roared back into
action with a threat to block State
Department appointments until
President Clinton trimmed the
department’s budget request.
It came as Secretary of State
Warren Christopher testified before
the Foreign Relations Committee for
the first time since taking office.
Helms, the committee’s ranking
Republican and its most persistent
State Department critic, wore a large
button that read “Just Pay For It.”
Durham librarian dies
in cult-compound fire
DURHAM The death of a former
law school librarian in the fire at the
Waco, Texas, cult compound has
friends wondering how a bright young
man ended up as a top lieutenant to
David Koresh.
Douglas Wayne Martin represented
the Branch Davidians in negotiations
with federal officials. He and two of
his daughters, 15-year-old Sheila and
13-year-old Lisa, were listed among
the likely fatalities.
“People may tend to dismiss this
event as just a bunch of religious
fanatics, but having known Doug
humanizes it for me,” said Mark
Morris, a law professor at N.C.
Central University in Durham. “He
was a very bright, smart, able, kind
person, and it’s a real shock.”
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Stewart ‘outraged’ at tenure denial
By Thanassis Cambanis
University Editor
Another popular professor learned
this week that he would not receive
tenure and might be forced to leave
UNC.
“It’s just absolutely unconscionable
that they could have the tenure process
in my case work the way it has,” said
geology Assistant Professor Kevin
Stewart. “It has definitely eroded my
confidence in the ability of this Univer
sity to behave professionally.” •
Stewart, who has been at die Univer
sity for six years, said he was denied
tenure on his third try by the Chancellor’s
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Michelle Johnson bows her head as Rev. Leon White anoints her forehead with holy oil
Pastor anoints ‘holy 5 Wilson site
By Thanassis Cambanis
University Editor
A close associate of new NAACP
Director Ben Chavis claimed the land
between Wilson Library and Dey Hall
for a free-standing black cultural cen
ter Wednesday afternoon, injecting
religion into the students’ fight for a
center at UNC.
“After today, that land will be a holy
place,” the Rev. Leon White told a
group of about 40 students. White, a
pastor for the United Church of Christ
in Vance County, said he had worked
with Chavis for more than 20 years.
Clad in a black robe and a Kinte
cloth stole. White led students from
the BCC in the Student Union to a 20-
minute anointment ceremony at the
site activists prefer for anew cultural
Students criticize English faculty
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Senior Writer
More than 20 English graduate stu
dents sat outside Greenlaw Hall
Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. to
make what they called a “visible state
ment” of their concerns with the En
glish department’s lack of diversity.
The students criticized the
underrepresentation of senior female
faculty and the threatened status of the
African-American major in the English
graduate program.
In last Friday ’ s letter to English gradu
ate faculty members, the students said
they were sad and dismayed that En
glish Professor Trudier Harris, who spe
cializes in African-American literature
and folklore, was leaving UNC in June
to take a chaired professorship at Emory
University.
“We believe that Dr. Harris’ choice
to leave illustrates serious problems with
the graduate program, and we hope we
can begin to work together to alleviate
these problems,” the letter stated.
“Dr. Harris’ nationally recognized
scholarship has been a source of great
pride for graduate students. Her exper
tise has been invaluable for those of us
who work in the African-American and
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Stewart said he Kevin Stewart
could not under
stand why he had not received a positive
recommendation from the chancellor’s
committee.
“I’m at a complete loss as to why this
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center.
“We move the struggle to a spiritual
level,” he said. “The claiming of land
has been a part of our heritage for thou
sands of years.”
By claiming the land as their own.
White said BCC advocates were estab
lishing the seriousness of their struggle
and following the biblical precedent of
Abraham.
“I don’t care what anyone else tells
you today, this is our land," White said.
“Let no one build anything else on this
land without giving up your life for it.”
White compared the anointment cer
emony to the arrests of 16 students and
one community member in Chancellor
Paul Hardin’s office last Thursday.
“When you were arrested, you
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English graduate students protest outside of Greenlaw Hall Wednesday
contemporary 20th-century literature
and women’s studies, areas already
underrepresented in the graduate pro
gram.”
Laurence Avery, chairman of the
English department, said he had talked
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committee would ignore the recommen
dations of my department and the dean
of my college,” Stewart said. “I’m go
ing to appeal. This is an absolute out
rage.”
Stewart’s most recent denial comes
in the aftermath of the tenure battle
waged by popular speech communica
tion Assistant Professor Paul Ferguson,
who won tenure after appealing all the
way to the Board of Trustees.
Chancellor Paul Hardin now must
review the committee’s recommenda
tion about Stewart and decide whether
to uphold it. If he does, Stewart can
appeal to the Faculty Hearings Com
mittee.
crossed a line, and you crossed an
other line today,” he told the “UNC
17.”
Local pastors would join in the fight
for a free-standing center on the Wil
son site, White said.
After blessing a bowl of holy water.
White anointed the foreheads of about
12 students who became “trustees” of
the land.
“This land becomes our altar,” he
said. “There are very few people who
understand the significance of what
we do until it is all over.
“If the University of North Carolina
ever decides to build anything else on
that land than a black cultural center,
then we will escalate the struggle.”
White instructed students to sprinkle
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to some of the graduate students
Wednesday afternoon at a meeting with
teaching assistants and understood the
students’ concerns about Harris’ immi-
See ENGLISH, page 2
“I have not had a chance to make my
own decision or get in touch with Pro
fessor Stewart,” Hardin said. “I’ve been
out of town since I met with the com
mittee, and I’m going to continue giv
ing some talks in the Research Triangle
Park tomorrow. I don’t know when I’ll
get to it.”
Christine Powell, an associate pro
fessor of geology and colleague of
Stewart’s, said the tenure denial was
unfortunate.
“I’m devastated,” she said. “They
made him feel like he’d gotten tenure
and then told him he hadn’t. No one
should be treated like that.”
The tenure process should be reex
Former students
ask UNC to save
RTVMP program
By Steve Robblee
Assistant University Editor
A wealthy alumnus of UNC’s De
partment of Radio, Television and Mo
tion Pictures says he might strike a $ 1.5
million donation from his will if admin
istrators decide to eliminate the RTVMP
department, and other alumni say they
might follow suit.
“If that department ceased to exist,
then I would be forced to disestablish
the donation,” said E. Reese Felts, a
1952 RTVMP graduate.
Arts and sciences Dean Stephen
Birdsall is expected to decide soon the
fate of the RTVMP department,, which
has suffered in recent years front fund
ing and organization problems.
An external review team reported
last month that UNC would be better
served by “disestablishing” the RTVMP
department and incorporating RTVMP
courses into the Department of Speech
Communication and a newly created
curriculum in cultural studies.
Alumni have written letters to Chan
cellor Paul Hardin and Birdsall stress
ing what they call the department’s edu
cational value and its importance in
Morning jogger reports
attempted sexual assault
By Jay R. Davis
Staff Writer
A woman jogging down Airport Road
early Sunday morning reported to po
lice that an unknown man attempted to
sexually assault her.
A man in his early 20s approached
the woman at about 6:10 a.m. while she
was jogging on the 300 block of Airport
Road, reports stated.
“This is highly unusual,” Chapel Hill
police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said.
Cousins said the man approached the
jogger, grabbed her, picked her up and
threw her into a bush.
The man was standing over the
woman when she screamed for help,
Cousins said. Soon after, the suspect
fled the area.
Cousins said police investigators
were uncertain why the man fled.
The suspect was wearing a navy blue
sweatshirt with “Duke University”
printed on the front in white letters. He
also was wearing dark pants, which
possibly were sweat pants.
The suspect is described as a 5-foot
-10-inch tall black man with short black
hair, a dark brown complexion, brown
eyes and a muscular build.
Allen, Tuck request open
hearing in B-GLAD case
By Marty Minchin
Assistant University Editor
Two former Student Congress mem
bers who face Honor Court charges
from Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and
Allies for Diversity said they planned to
open their Monday hearing to the pub
lic.
But Doug Ferguson, former B-GLAD
co-chairman, said he did not want the
hearing to be opened to the public.
“We believe that a number of the
people we need to have testify would
not do so knowing that their identity as
gay or lesbian individuals could be
come common knowledge,” he said.
“We think it would put these people at
risk.”
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GOLDEN: UNC's Yann deFabrique, who
won one gold medal and one silver medal
Wednesday at the Winter National Swim
ming Championships of France. The gold
came in the 400-meter freestyle, while the
silver came in the 200 butterfly.
A sophomore, deFabrique holds dual citi
zenship in both the U.S. and France.
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amined, Powell said. “The entire pro
cess needs to be reviewed. There’s some
thing wrong here,” she said. “(Stewart’s)
such a fine researcher, he’s gotten a
major grant, he’s an excellent research
scientist. He should have gotten ten
ure.”
The Department of Geology had sent
two positive tenure recommendations
to the College of Arts and Sciences,
which Dean Stephen Birdsall returned.
On a third try, the department sent 4
negative recommendation to the col
lege.
Birdsall sent Stewart a letter Feb. 3.
See STEWART, page 5
enhancing careers in mass communica
tion fields.
Felts said his donation would be ear
marked for the RTVMP department and
not the University in general. If there
were no RTVMP department, Felts said
he did not know how he could donate to
the University.
“How do you give a gift to something
that no longer exists?” Felts said.
The RTVMP department has given
students a complete education and is
more than just a training school, said
Felts, who worked as an announcer and
broadcaster for WSJS radio and televi
sion in Winston-Salem.
“It gave you a broad-based liberal
arts background,” he said.
The external review team had pro
posed that the University eliminate many
production courses and concentrate on
other aspects of mass media, such as
media criticism. But Felts said produc
tion courses were an important part of
RTVMP students’ training.
“How do you expect doctors to per
form in the medical field if all they do is
criticize medicine?” Felts said. “Unless
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Cousins said the suspect was not
carrying a weapon at the time of the
incident.
The Chapel Hill Police Department
will continue to investigate the inci-
See JOGGER, page 4
Ferguson said he planned to submit a
request to close the hearing the day of
the hearing.
Former congress member Darren
Allen said an open hearing was the best
way to resolve the conflict.
“We requested an open hearing be
cause we feel the need to vindicate
ourselves publicly,” he said.
B-GLAD members pressed charges
against Allen and Chris Tuck, former
Student Congress Finance Committee
chairman, for passing around a confi
dential B-GLAD attendance list at last
March’s congress budget hearings.
Allen said he and Tuck had submit
ted a written request for an open hearing
See ALLEN, page 7