I© A Volume 101, Issue6o A century of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Middle East Peace Talks Reopen Amid High Hopes WASHINGTON—Emotion-charged Middle East peace talks reopened Tuesday with confident Palestinian and Israeli pre dictions that a historic agreement to estab lish Palestinian self-rule would be con cluded within days. Moreover, Nabil Shaath, chief political adviser to Palestine Liberation Organiza tion chairman Yasser Arafat, said, “We hope to hear very soon—tomorrow or the day after” statements of “full mutual rec ognition” by Arafat and Israeli Prime Min ister Yitzhak Rabin. Israeli sources confirmed that Arafat and Rabin would move toward an accom modationbut said the announcement might be several days off. The sources, declining to be identified, also said the PLO had agreed that 3,300 Jewish settlers would remain in Gaza with Israel responsible for their security. Secretary of State Warren Christopher, praising the accord that will put the PLO in charge of day-to-day life in Gaza and in the West Bank city of Jericho as “a conceptual breakthrough,” said the United States was prepared to provide financial assistance. Yeltsin Attempts to Create New Legislative Council MOSCOW—After failing to defeat his opponents head-on, President Boris Yeltsin is trying anew tactic: circumvent them with plans for anew legislative body and state treasury. The strategy, however, might only in tensify his power struggle with the Russian parliament and heighten the risk of “dual government” paralysis. The parliament is led by Yeltsin’s mainpolitical rival, speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov. Yeltsin had promised a battle to end the feud with hard-line lawmakers, who had assailed his political and economic reforms over the past two years, claiming they are impoverishing and dividing Russia. Yeltsin’s chief of staff, Sergei Filato\ told the ITAR-Tass news agency that a new 176-seat legislative body, called the Federation Council, would be created next week. Jackson Accuser's Father Made Threats on Phone SINGAPORE Michael Jackson’s doctor pronounced him fit after a brain scan Tuesday and said the entertainer could continue his concert tour. Jackson’s publicists and his doctor have insisted the cancellations had no connec tion to allegations that he sexually abused a 13-year-old Los Angeles area boy. On Monday, KCBS-TV in Los Angeles and CBS News broadcast excerpts of a tape recording on which a man, purportedly the father of the boy Jackson is accused of molesting, threatened to ruin Jackson’s reputation. On the tape, a telephone conversation allegedly between the boy’s father and step father, the voice identified as the father is heard making a threat involving Jackson and the boy’s mother. The parents recently were involved in a custody dispute overthe boy. “Certain things are going to have to come out, and those two are not going to have any defense against me whatsoever,” said the voice on the tape, allegedly re corded in July. “It’s going to be a massacre if I don’t get what I want,” he added with out elaborating. Witness: Beating Suspect Declared Violent Intent LOS ANGELES A man accused of beating trucker Reginald Denny at the outset of last year’s riot had declared ear lier that “today I’m going to hit and kill people, ” another victim of the rioting testi fied Tuesday. Gabriel Quintana, a gas station atten dant working at the comer of Florence and Normandie avenues on April 29, 1992, said defendant Damian Williams ap proached him that afternoon and made the threat. Later, during the riot, Williams dragged him out of a bathroom where he was hid ing, pushed his head through the glass cashier’s window, beat him and demanded money, Quintana testified. The witness also identified Williams as one of Denny’s attackers. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Partly cloudy, hot, humid; high low 90s THURSDAY: 30-percent chance of afternoon showers; high 90-95 Slip Daily (Far Htpl Emily Brushes N.C. Coast, Veers Toward Northeast FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS ATLANTIC BEACH—CoastalNorth Carolina was deserted Tuesday evening as residents breathed a sigh of relief that Hur ricane Emily had left the N.C. coast un scathed, save a few minor scratches. “There was fight damage on the Outer Banks. Walkways and small piers were washed away. Winds reached 100 miles per hour at (Cape) Hatteras and there was some structural damage to a few homes,” said a spokesman for the North Carolina Highway Department. “Much of the beachfront damage was due to waves that were four to eight feet high." Many buildings along Ocracoke and Hatteras islands lost their roofs as wind gusts topped 90 mph, said Dare County emergency management officials, who abandoned their operations center on Hatteras because of flooding. The center of the hurricane got as close as about 20 miles due east of Cape Hatteras late Tuesday afternoon, and the eye wall the region of strongest wind around the calm eye moved over Hatteras Island, said Bob Sheets, director of the National Hurricane Center. No part of the eye crossed land, how ever. The eye had grown to 45 miles wide Tuesday evening, and it was 30 miles due east of Rodanthe at 8 p.m. Cars were floating in a bank parking lot in Buxton, and fallen trees were blocking : - ~ Hhv nppn Ilf Bijl "i; 11|pf v 4 -I y&lk... f' : Sf Ml Ny** w DTH/IUSHN WILLIAMS Members of Delta Delta Delta sorority escort rushees out of a preference night activity Tuesday evening. Rush began last week and will come to a close tonight when rushees are matched with sororities. Dealer: Department Knew of Tag Law BYPHUONGLY STAFF WRITER UNC athletic officials said Tuesday they didn’t think they were doing anything wrong when they drove cars with dealer tags. But a Chapel Hill car dealer said the athletic department knew it was violating a state law banning use of dealer tags on courtesy cars. In the athletic department’s 25-year-old courtesy car program, dealers lend 53 cars to UNC coaches free of charge in return for Chapel Hill, North Caroliaa WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1993 KEmUySpares N .C. Coast / Hurricane Emily veered northward, thus ,** sparing North Carolina's Outer Banks from serious damage. The storm center, with 115 mph winds, was located 30 miles due east of Rodanthe at 8 p.m. Tuesday night. It brushed Cape Hatteras Tuesday afternoon with gusts of up to 100 mph, Hurricane warnings remained in effect from the Northern coast of North Carolina to Cape Henlopen in Delaware. SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS roads, said the National Weather Service in Buxton, which also reported flooding in the yard of its office a mile inland from Pamlico Sound. The slow-moving storm was expected to create a tidal surge six to eight feet high, though the weather service said flooding reports on Hatteras indicated the surge was even higher. No injuries were immediately reported, though to the north, a surfer was missing in Virginia. 'Pref Night* tickets to athletic events. Courtesy cars are legal; putting dealer tags on them is illegal. Only dealers, their employees, company officers and those test-driving cars are allowed to drive cars with dealer tags. Buck Copeland, general manager of Yates Motors Cos. Inc. in Chapel Hill, said athletic officials and dealerships knew about the law. “They knew it was not right, but they were just getting by with it,” said Copeland, whose dealership supplies one car a year to the athletic department. I think I think; therefore, I think I am. Ambrose Bierce DTH/fUSTIN SCHEEF Paul Getty, a Morehead City dentist, said he was surprised the hurricane had not hit Atlantic Beach harder. “This is the fourth time one has come in, and then, whoosh! It turned away. There must be some meteorological reason for storms to turn away from Morehead City,” he said. “It’s odd that each hurricane has missed us. Maybe God is waiting to hit us with the Please See EMILY, Page 7 COURTESY CAR CONTROVERSY Legislators decided to put teeth into the law because of the widespread abuse of dealer tags, said N.C. Sen. John Kerr, D- Goldsboro, who wrote the legislation. Law makers did not direct the law at athletic courtesy car programs, he said. Anew state law taking effect Oct. 1 includes fines for dealer-tag abusers. The old law had no penalties and wasn't heavily enforced, Kerr said. Kerr said users of dealer tags had several advantages they did not have to pay Please See PLATES, Page 4 Grads Are Struggling To Make Ends Meet Low Graduate Stipends Hurt Teaching, Studies As Students Take Extra Jobs Editor's note: This is the second in a two-part series about the financial troubles of the University's graduate programs. BY MARTY MINCHIN SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR The stereotype of the struggling gradu ate student may just be a reality at UNC. Graduate students juggle a frill schedule of teaching, studying for competency tests and going to class. And the small stipends the University pays these students has forced many to take part-time jobs to sur vive. “There is a real sense that (graduate students) can barely get by on the teaching assistant stipends,” Randall Henrick, lin guistics department chairman, said. The University removes tuition charges and students fees straight from graduate students’ paychecks, a practice most uni versities do not follow, Henrick said. Many universities that UNC competes with for graduate students waives all tu ition and student fees, said William Balthrop, chairman of the Department of Communication Studies. The University still charges all graduate students in-state tuition and student fees, he said. Henrick said: “The problem we have here is that people gooff and do other sorts of things to make money. Sometimes they spend an inordinate amount of time work ing part-time. “I’m worried about keeping and pro ducing good students,” he said. “I’m wor ried that there’s not much support once they get here. It’s a problem for the pro gram because it diminishes from the life of the department. They aren’t around to share ideas and bounce ideas off each other.” NJ. Suit Names Hardin; Chancellor Denies Role FROM STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS University of North Carolina Chancel lor Paul Hardin, who is a defendant in a lawsuit aimed at the board of directors of a New Jersey insurer, said he was not re sponsible for the company’s day-to-day operations. Hardin is one of 45 defendants in a lawsuit that charges former board mem bers and executives of Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Cos. with mismanagement and inaction. New Jersey’s at torney general filed the lawsuit July 8 after a two-year in vestigation into the financial dealings of the company. Hardin, presi dent of Drew Uni versity in New Jer mm '0 PAUL HARDIN sey before coming to the UNC in 1988, served on Mutual Benefit’s board of direc tors from 1986 through its 1991 failure, the Herald-Sun of Durham reported. “I served on the board with other educa tors, other professional persons, and the CEOs of several of the country’s largest corporations. Our responsibilities were the usual ones attendant to persons in that position,” Hardin said in a statement re leased Tuesday. He said that, more than a year ago, the board asked the New Jersey insurance com missioner to step in and protect the assets of the company. “The company was sol vent and he had no authority to come in without our invitation,” Hardin said. He said he was trying to keep the law suit from interfering with his duties as Are Courtesy Cars Necessary Perks For Coaches or Athletic Excess? BYPHUONGLY STAFF WRITER Although athletic officials say courtesy cars for coaches are a necessary perk, some faculty members think it is an example of the inequity between academics and ath letics. “I think perks and large shoe contracts, etc., are a blatant sign of this distortion of values," said Townsend Ludington, chair man of the Faculty Committee on Athlet News/Features/Am/Spoits 962-0245 Busmess/Advcrasmg 962-1163 C 1993 DTH Publishing Coip. AD rights reserved Steve Bos, a third-year graduate student in the political science department, said many graduate students in his department had to work second jobs to keep from going into debt. Bos said he was paid $7,400 a year for teaching in the political science depart ment, but after tuition and student fees were deducted from his paycheck, he only received $lO6 a week. “That’s the same thing they’ve been giving me for two years and tuition is taking a jump,” he said. Bos said he worked a newspaper route every day to earn money to stay out of debt. Working two jobs has affected his per formance as a graduate student, Bos said. “I’m probably a worse teacher because I’m delivering a paper route.” Bos said his work load also cut into his time for study ing. Bruce Winterhalder, anthropology de partment chairman, said some graduate students in his department could not work at their frill potential because they were often stressed because of their financial situation or had to work another job to support themselves. “Once we have graduate students here, even those we can fund, we fund them at such minimal levels that they can’t achieve the potential they would like to,” Winterhaldersaid. “They’re constantly liv ing on sort of a hand-to-mouth poverty level.” Laurence Avery, English department chairman, said one problem resulting from low frinding was that many students took eight or nine years to get their Ph.D., which students normally could obtain in four or five years. “People have to work to make all the money they can while they’re in graduate school,” Avery said. “We need those fel lowships to enable people to move towards a Ph.D. at a faster pace. ” Henrick also said some graduate stu- Please See STIPENDS, Page 4 chancellor and was keeping President C.D. Spangler informed. Hardin said he would not comment about the specifics of the case because it was still being litigated. The company was once the nation’s 18th-largest insurer. Sharon Hallanan, deputy attorney gen eral of New Jersey in charge of the Mutual Benefit case, said the 45 defendants asked for an extension in fifing their answer to the suit. The defendants must file an “answer,” or response, to the suit by the middle of September, Hallanan said. “An answer generally contains denials, explanations, often a counter-claim or cross-claim,” she said. “Sometimes mo tions are filed at this time.” The lawsuit says the company sank too much money into developments and lever aged buyouts and got too far into real estate lending without checking on the risks. It also alleges that top company offic ers made questionable inside deals and worked to keep the directors in the dark. “The essence of the thing, with respect to the directors, is they didn’t oversee the investments of the company adequately," said Bob Ritter, a Hackensack attorney and special counselor for NJ. Insurance Commissioner Samuel Fortunato, thesuit’s plaintiff. “They are responsible and directly ac countable to the policyholders to see the company is run in a proper manner, ” Ritter said. “If they’re not doing that they shouldn’t be on the board. That’s the law. ” The state is seeking an unspecified amount of compensatory and punitive dam- Please See HARDIN, Page 7 ics. “The point of a university is educational and intellectual development,” said Ludington, who is also chairman of the American studies department. “The point of a university is not to offer sports for the millions.” UNC faculty members do not have cour tesy cars. They can get access to a car for business purposes through the University’s Please See FACULTY, Page 4

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