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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.
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Faculty To Get Salary Raise Tuesday
Provost Says Money Still
Not Enough to Address Low
Pay for UNC Professors
BY MARTY MINCHIN
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
Although faculty members soon will
receive pay raises resulting from money
the General Assembly allocated last sum
mer, many University officials said the
salary increase would not make a large
difference in UNC’s problem of low fac
ulty salaries.
“It helps, but the problem is serious
enough that a 3.38 percent raise isn’t going
to make a fundamental difference,” said
Provost Richard McCormick. “We’re go
ing to need to keep at this for a period of
several years.”
According to an annual report released
Libraries Keep Dissertations Open to Public
BY STEVE ROBBLEE
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Doctoral dissertations and other stu
dent-written documents at UNC always
have been available to the public. But all
that may change because of a recent letter
from a U.S. Department of Education of
ficial to a Penn State librarian which says
that doctoral dissertations are private docu
ments.
Diane Strauss, associate University li
brarian , said UN Chbrarieshadnoplansto
change their policy of making research
public until they were formally told to do
so.
“We are under the assumption that
things are as they always have been,”
Strauss said. “From what I understand
other libraries are treating it the same way. ’’
Strauss said the controversy started
when a Penn State librarian wrote to the
education department asking if student
written dissertations could be made avail
able to the public without the author’s
consent.
Shockwaves were sent throughout aca
demic circles when Leßoy Rooker of the
education department’s Family Policy
Compliance Office responded in May that
an author’s consent would be needed for
the library to release works produced while
a student at the university.
Rooker ruled that releasing an author’s
work to the public without permission
would be a violation of the federal Family
Education Rights and Privacy Act.
Laura Gasaway, director of the
University’s law school library and a pro
fessor of law, said the University would
not need to change its policy unless the
education department issued a federal regu
lation that required obtaining an author’s
permission to make documents available.
But Gasaway said she thought students’
permission should be required before their
works were reproduced.
PHE Waits to Build New
Office, Plans Strategy
To Fight OCAP Appeal
BYKELLYRYAN
CITY EDITOR
Although mail-order erotica company
PHE Inc. was granted a permit this sum
mer to relocate and build a larger head
quarters in Hillsborough, the company
plans to hold off construction.
“There does appear to be very legal
permission that we have the right to pro
ceed,” said PHE owner Phil Harvey. “We
may be able to shorten the legal appeals
process considerably.”
Orange Superior Court Judge Knox
Jenkins granted PHE’s appeal on July 6
against the Hillsborough Board of Adjust
ment for denying the company the right to
relocate to the northern Orange County
town.
PHE is located on N.C. 54 in Carrboro
and is seeking a spot at Meadowlands
Office Park where it would be able to
double its office space.
The Board of Adjustment had denied
PHE a site-plan permit on the grounds that
the company was an adult-use business
and thus needed to apply for a conditional
use permit with stricter requirements.
The town ordinance defines an adult
use business as one that “excludes minors
for reasons of age,” such as adult book
stores, adult picture theaters, massage par
lors and adult cabarets.
Jenkins ruled that PHE was not an
adult-use business because it was not a
in the March-April 1993 issue of Academe
magazine the bulletin of the American
Association of Professors—UNC ranked
50th out of 68 universities in terms of total
faculty compensation.
Last summer the General Assembly
budgeted a 2 percent increase in the budget
of all state faculty salaries as well as an
additional $7.1 million for teaching fac
ulty in the 16-school UNC system.
McCormick said faculty members
would receive their raises that resulted
from the General Assembly’s allocations
in their Tuesday paycheck.
Neal Berryman, associate vice chancel
lor for finance, said that of the $7.1 million,
UNC-CH received roughly $1.6 million,
or 22 percent of the lump sum.
McCormick said: “(The allocation) was
all in proportion to the existing salaries at
the 16 universities. Obviously we got more
than some of the other campuses because
we’re bigger.”
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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.
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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
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