p & Volume 101, Issues 7 A century of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Nigerian General Returns Power to Civilian Leaders LAGOS, Nigeria Gen. Ibrahim Babangida stepped down as president and military commander Thursday, handing power to a mostly civilian government he cobbled together in the final hours of his eight-year dictatorship. While the government is supposed to rule only until elections next year, the changeover nevertheless fell short of ful filling Babangida’s repeated promises to step down and hand power to an elected government. Human rights activists immediately called the government an “extension of dictatorship.” A general strike to protest the government kept Lagos quiet on Thurs day, and gas, oil, airport and other workers planned strikes for Saturday. It remains to be seen in the coming weeks whether the interim government will gain public acceptance and be able to act independently of the military that has long ruled the country. The army will retain a military council with the authority to act as it sees fit. Muslim Cleric Maintains Innocence in Bomb Plots NEW YORK Amid heavy court room security, the Muslim sheik accused of masterminding the World Trade Center blast pleaded innocent Thursday to con cocting a campaign of bombings, kidnappings and assassinations in the United States. Fourteen co-defendants entered the same plea during a hearing at a federal court in Manhattan exactly six months after the Feb. 26 bombing. The appearance was Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman’s first as a defendant in the alleged conspiracy. After the sheik’s followers in Egypt threatened to retaliate against the United States "if any harm occurs” to him, the courtroom was wall-to-wall with plainclothes security and streets outside were lined with police. Prosecutors feared that other members of the terrorist cell remained free. Heckler, Hunt Exchange Jabs in Charlotte Forum CHARLOTTE —Gov. Jim Hunt didn’t have a totally receptive audience Thurs day when he hosted a forum on school violence at a Charlotte middle school. Jack Daly, 21, who said he represented parents from Mecklenburg County and others in the region, accused the governor of showboating on the high-profile issue to the detriment of children. Daly, a marketing executive with a Mint Hill industrial equipment company who does not have any children, asked why Hunt was ignoring the issue of school choice. He also criticized the govemorforsched uling the forum at 2 p.m., when many parents are at work. Hunt, who was obvi ously agitated, asked Daly for his ideas. Hunt, a Democrat, received an ovation from the rest of the audience when he told Daly: “We are all trying to do our best. None of us have all the answers and you certainly don’t.” Daly, who acknowledged he was an active Republican, didn’t quit there, wait ing until several other speakers were fin ished before confronting the governor again. Jackson Is Not Molester, 11-Year-Old Friend Says LOS ANGELES An 11-year-old Australian boy told a television audience he shared a bed with Michael Jackson but said it was all in slumber party-style fun and that the megastar is no child abuser. “I was on one side of the bed and he was on the other. It wasabigbed,” Brett Barnes of Melbourne, Australia, told KNBC-TV late Wednesday. As friends and family rallied to Jackson’s support, police expanded their investiga tion of Jackson to include his relationship with at least four boys, the Los Angeles Times and KCAL-TV reported. The investigation earlier had centered on Jackson’s relationship with one boy, a 13-year-old, who had told a therapist he was sexually abused by Jackson, a source has told The Associated Press. Police declined to comment on the re ports Thursday. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Partly cloudy, 20 percent chance of thunderstorms; high 92 SATURDAY: 20 percent chance of thunderstorms, hot; high 92 athp laily if ilti ' .v . . ' * Ifwv ~' | DTH/IUSTOt WILLIAMS David Wood, student circulation assistant, restacks doctoral dissertations on the second floor of Davis Library. Under a new interpretation of the Family Information Act, these theses no longer would be readily available to the public. But the May ruling directly conflicted with the practice of UNC libraries, which requires that graduate students release a copy of their dissertations for public pe rusal and distribution across the country. The University’s graduate schoolrecord states, “Receipt of an approved thesis in walk-in business like the examples listed in the ordi nance. But shortly after the ruling, the Or ange Coalition Against Pornogra phy, agroupofmin isters that fought PHE in court, filed an appeal. So Harvey said on Thursday that PHE now was busy weighing its legal PHE owner PHIL HARVEY will wait to start building anew headquarters. options to decide whether to begin build ing anew office despite OCAP’s pending appeal which could take a year to be heard in court. “The whole process, going back almost a year now, has been a financial drain,” Harvey said. “It certainly hasn’t reached the magnitude that it would cancel out the advantage for being in an industrial busi ness park.” PHE attorney Nick Herman said that although he had tried to stay away from the company’s business decisions, PHE did have the legal right to start construc tion in the northern Orange County town. PHE already was granted the right to build, but still has to secure a building Please See PHE, Page 9 I love mankind; it’s people I can’t stand. Charles Schultz CkaiMl Hill, North Carolina FRIDAY,AUGUST 27,1993 Garland Hershey, vice chancellor for health affairs, said he and McCormick allocated the money to the deans and de partment heads, who then determined the salary increases of their faculty members. The money was allocated to each de partment in proportion to the number of faculty members in that department. Within each department, the money was allocated primarily on the basis of merit, but McCormick said he wrote a letter to department heads urging them to pay special attention to the problem of salary compression. Salary compression plagues mid-career professors who have not received large raises in the past few years because money was not available for salary increases. But recently-hired professors are paid more because the University must pay salaries competitive with other universities to at tract quality faculty. “There were far too many professors the Graduate School is tantamount to pub lication, and the thesis will be available to the public in the University library and available for inter-library loan.” Strauss said students who enroll in the University’s Graduate School know their work will be made available to the public, Housekeepers Write Hardin Letter Berating Treatment BYTHANASSISCAMBANIS UNIVERSITY EDITOR Chancellor Paul Hardin has yet to re spond to a letter from members of the Housekeepers' Association Steering Com mittee that a University spokesman dubbed “a malicious, unfair, personal attack.” Seven UNC housekeepers, most of whom serve on the steering committee, sent a letter to Hardin dated Aug. 23. “Dear Paul: On behalf of the house keepers, African-American employees, and all UNC employees who make less than $16,000, we want to express some issues with you,” the letter states. The letter blames Hardin for gross ineq uities between housekeepers who are predominately black —and UNC faculty members, who are predominately white. “You got a $2,700 or so raise.... We got a $270 or so raise,” the letter states. MarshaTinnen, amemberoftheHouse keepers’ Association Steering Committee, said the letter’s purpose was to communi cate basic issues to Hardin. “We want answers,” Tinnen said. “We have not in a while heard from him. It’s not an attack. We’re not attacking him.” The letter was another step forward in the housekeepers’ quest for better treat ment on the job, higher wages and more on-the-job training, Tinnen said. Clifton Metcalf, associate vice chancel lor for University relations, issued a press release Thursday in response to the letter. “It did not address issues or suggest solutions to problems,” Metcalf said of the letter to Hardin. Tinnen said the letter spoke for the three main groups on campus that provide nec- and assistant professors in the College of Arts and Sciences whose salaries are ex tremely low in comparison to their peers at research universities across the country,” McCormick said. David Lowery, chairman of the politi cal science department, said he tried to make up for salary compression in his department when he allocated money for raises. “The first thing you want to do is re ward excellent research, excellent teach ing and excellent service,” Lowery said. “We tried to make sure that people doing the same amount of work, who had been here the same amount of time, were mak ing the same amount of money. “The net affect was those people who hadbeenherea long time... they tended to get more as a result of that process,” he said. Please See SALARIES, Page 9 and therefore the University should not have to gain written permission to make students’ documents public. Graduate students who are trying to decide on their research topic must have access to prior theses to ensure that their work will be original, Strauss said. essary labor food-service employees, groundskeepers and housekeepers all three of which primarily are staffed by blacks. “Our goal is that we are treated with better respect that we may rise out of pov erty level jobs,” Tinnen said. The letter contrasts the poverty-level wages of housekeepers with the relative affluence of the Chapel Hill community. “ You have helprd drive up the price of living in Chapel Hill areas with the high salaries of faculty and practically all-white upper level staff,” the letter states. “Our black families—who were here in Chapel Hill long before you have been driven out by the high cost of land, and now we cannot afford to live within 10 miles of Chapel Hill.” Hardin was unavailable for comment Thursday. In his response, Metcalf said the chan cellor had done all he could to help house keepers. “The letter’s authors accused him of doing little to get them a raise, ” Metcalfe said. “They don’t seem to understand that Paul Hardin is their greatest champion, and the greatest champion of their col leagues. “He lobbied hard for a larger raise for all University employees. He did it often and forcefully.” Housekeepers wrote to Hardin because there had been little fruitful communica tion between the steering committee and the chancellor in the past, Tinnen said. The following housekeepers signed the letter: Barbara Prear, Marsha Tinnen, Larry Farrar, Betsy Jean Nickerson, Mary Moore, Annie Pettiford, Hassie Thomp son and Rebecca Torain. NONPROFIT ORG U.S. POSTAGE PAID PERMIT NO. 250 CHAPEL HILL, NC 27514 News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 © 1993 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. ■ * MK; • WALTER CRONKITE. former CBS anchorman, sent a film crew to UNC. National TV Polls UNC Students on Integration BY HOLLY STEPP ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR What has happened to Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream of an integrated society free of racial discrimination? Answering that question is the goal of an upcoming edition of The Discovery Channel’s “The Cronkite Reports.” And part of the answer might have been found at UNC. Film crews from the Cronkite and Ward production company were on campus Wednesday and last week interviewing students about the status of King's dream. The interviews will be a part of the Oct. 18 edition of “The Cronkite Reports,” hosted by Walter Cronkite, former CBS Evening News anchorman. The show will air at 10 p.m. Susan Gottlieb, associate producer for Cronkite and Ward, said the program was part of a celebration of the 30th anniver sary of the March on Washington and King’s “I Have A Dream” speech. Aug. 28 is the anniversary of the march and speech. “It is really about King’s dream of an integrated society,” Gottlieb said. “We wanted to answer some questions about the status of the ‘dream’ and find out whether there is self-segregation among black Americans and society as a whole,” she said. UNC was the only college campus in cluded in the research forthe story. Middle class suburban families from the Washing ton, D.C., area also were interviewed, Gottlieb said. UNC was chosen primarily because of its pre-orientation program for African- American andNative-American freshmen. “We were told about it by a student who had attended the program,” Gottlieb said. “I think the pre-orientation program is beneficial in helping minority students adjust to college.” Gottlieb said the University’s opening schedule as well as the publicity surround ing the Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center controversy also helped the pro duction crew decide to come to UNC. Both black and white students were asked about their opinions on integration in today’s society. Opinions on integration varied with age andacademic classifications, Gottlieb said. “We talked to freshmen, and the majority of them seemed to believe in integration and equality. Segregation was not an op tion in their lives,” she said. “When we talked to about three or four (black) upperclassmen they didn’t seem to look at self-segregation as a negative idea. They saw it as a way to learn about their culture and people and better prepare for integration into society.” Learning about the contributions of African Americans, especially in the fields Please See CRONKITE, Page 9 Editor's Note The DTH is desperately seeking new staff members for its many desks. We need writers, copyeditors, pho tographers, graphics designers, layout artists and editorial cartoonists. No experience is necessary. Really. We try to take all who apply. 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