Volume 101, Issue 74
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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation ami world
Gephardt Rises to Oppose
"Deeply Flawed" NAFTA
WASHINGTON A prominent
House Democrat, Majority Leader Rich
ard Gephardt, declared on Tuesday that he
would vote against what he called a “deeply
flawed” North American Free Trade Agree
ment.
President Clinton insisted that the de
fection of the number-two Democrat in the
House would not be fatal but opponents
hailed the announcement as “one more
nail in the coffin” of the effort to erect a
continent-wide free trade zone.
Gephardt told a packed news confer
ence that supplemental agreements negoti
ated by the Clinton administration did not
go far enough to address fears that U.S.
companies would continue to move plants
to Mexico to take advantage of lax enforce
ment of environmental and labor laws.
The administration had worked hard to
win Gephardt’s support for NAFTA with
the supplemental agreements that would
allow the United States to impose trade
sanctions against Mexico for failure to
enforce its labor and environmental laws.
But Gephardt said the arbitration pro
cess that the United States would have to
go through before imposing sanctions was
too convoluted.
Masked Gunmen Murder
Important Arafat Backer
GAZA CITY, Occupied Gaza Strip
Masked gunmen assassinated a prominent
supporter of Palestine Liberation Organi
zation Chairman Yasser Arafat Tuesday,
the first such killing since the PLO signed
a peace accord with Israel.
Muhammad Abu Shaaban, a 38-year
old lawyer, was shot dead as he was leav
ing a rally of several thousand Palestinians
who demonstrated in support of the peace
pact in Gaza City's Zeytoun quarter, Arab
and Israeli reports said.
Relatives of Abu Shaaban blamed op
ponents of the accord for the killing
But Arab reports said that Abu Shaaban,
leader of Arafat’s mainstream Fatah fac
tion in the Gaza Strip, might have been the
victim of rivals within his own group.
Masked men in two cars forced Abu
Shaaban’s car off the road, spraying him
with bullets when he stepped from the car,
Arab reports said.
Earthquake Rocks Oregon
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. Crews
cleared earthquake debris of bricks and
broken glass from streets and sidewalks
Tuesday and half-eaten meals still sat on
restaurant tables where diners had fled
hours earlier.
Geologists warned that buildings dam
aged by Monday night’s quake could col
lapse as aftershocks rambled through the
area.
More than 100 people refused to spend
the night in their homes after the tremor,
including one family who left California to
get away from quakes One motorist was
killed by a rock slide. An 82-year-old
woman died of an apparent heart attack
after she was frightened by the quake.
The earthquake, which struck at 8:29
p.m. Monday, was upgraded Tuesday from
5.4 to 5.7 on the Richter scale by the U.S.
Geological Survey in Menlo Park, Calif. It
was followed within three hours by after
shocks measuring 5.5 and 4.8 on the scale.
The earthquake was felt more than 200
miles to the north, in Salem, and more than
100 miles to the south, in Redding, Calif.
More than 100 people stayed in two
Red Cross shelters, some of them sleeping
in tents outdoors, some in their cars and
some on cots set up in the gymnasium.
Bosnian Muslim Leader:
Progress Made on Issue
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia’s Muslim President Alija
Izetbegovic reported progress Tuesday on
a key issue blocking a peace agreement: his
demand for giving a Muslim ministate
secure access to the sea.
Izetbegovic commented after returning
to Sarajevo from a summit of leaders of the
country’s three warring factions on a Brit
ish warship in the Adriatic Sea. His re
marks also signaled some movement on
another outstanding issue the division
of eastern Bosnia.
Izetbegovic’s comments indicated new
movement and flexibility on all sides as the
warring Serbs, Croats and Muslims edge
closer to a peace agreement.
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Residents Approve
Six Dormitories Will Allow
Visitors of Opposite Sex to
Stay Overnight in Rooms
BYJOHN ADCOCK
STAFF WRITER
Students in six residence halls voted
Tuesday to allow visitors of the opposite
sex 24 hours a day, ending years of limited
visitation in UNC dorms.
Mangum, Teague, Craige, Carmichael,
Kenan, and Aycock residence halls will be
part of a pilot project to test a 24-hour
visitation policy that goes into effect today.
“I think everything will be fine with the
new policy,” said Jim Ullman, area direc
tor for Scott College, which includes Avery,
Parker andTeague residence halls. “I don’t
anticipate any problems.”
Residents in the six dorms had the choice
Students Honor Stone
As Her Dream Nears
Fruition in New BCC
BY JAMES LEWIS
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Sonja Haynes Stone played many roles
during her 17 years at UNC.
On Tuesday, 130 students and friends
remembered her as a professor, heroine,
warrior, mother, builder, intellectual and
social activist.
Stone, for whom the black cultural cen
ter is named, was honored Tuesday evening
during the third annual Stone memorial
ceremony in the Great Hall.
University and local leaders reflected
on Stone’s impact on their lives and the
University community. The Black Student
Movement Gospel Choir, which Stone
founded, also performed several selections
during the ceremony.
Ed Chaney, co-president of the Campus
Y, said that in the spirit of Stone, the
Campus Y would celebrate and remember
those movements and straggles that were
not officially a part of the University’s
Bicentennial Observance.
“Her legacy is strong,” he said. “She
lived what we aim to do, and we aim to five
what she did.
BCC Advisory Board to Prepare Statement for BOT Meeting
BY JUDY ROYAL
STAFF WRITER
During a meeting of the Black Cultural
Center Advisory Board on Monday, the
group decided to prepare a statement for
Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting, advi
sory board Chairman Harry Amana said
Tuesday.
The BOT willreconsideranearlierdeci
sion to build the proposed $7-million BCC
on the Coker site, located between the Bell
Long Shot
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Freshmen Steven Tankard and Todd Griffin play catch Tuesday on Lower Quad. Tankard, an avid baseball fan and
former player, predicts the Atlanta Braves and the Toronto Blue Jays will play in the World Series.
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Elaine Dundy
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22,1993
to vote for the current visitation policy, a
24-hour visitation policy or a combination
of the two, in which visiting hours would
have been 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday through
Thursday with unlimited hours on week
ends.
The current visitation policy allows
guests of the opposite sex from 9 a.m. to 1
a.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 9
a.m. to 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday.
A two-thirds majority was needed to
pass anew policy. Ninety-seven percent of
voters in Mangum chose the 24-hour policy,
while 87 percent approved it in Teague and
Carmichael, and 76 percent voted for it in
Aycock. Vote totals for Craige were not
known at press time, but Housing Director
Wayne Kuncl confirmed that voters had
passed the 24-hour policy.
Area directors said they were happy
with the results and the voter turnout.
“We don’t have this good of a turnout
for government elections, ” said Dan Watts,
“That is why on Oct. 12, University
Day, the culmination of the University’s
Bicentennial Observance, the Campus Y
will have its own celebration,” he said.
“We have plans to celebrate those indi
viduals who the University is not going to
recognize.”
Michelle LeGrand, Campus Y co-presi
dent, said speakers and performers still
were being assembled for the separate cel
ebration. She said the event was not in
opposition to, but in conjunction with, the
University’s celebration.
“The tone of it is not a tone of opposi
tion,” she said. “It is saying we need to
look at those straggles which will not be
highlighted and not seen.”
She said that commemorating campus
straggles for the equality of groups such as
women, Native Americans, African Ameri
cans and housekeepers would give a more
full picture of the University and serve to
promote Stone’s vision of greater social
and racial justice in the University’s next
200 years.
Harold Wallace, vice chancellor for stu-
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Tower and Coker Hall.
“We have been invited to give a state
ment at the BOT meeting on Friday, but
we haven’t been invited to do much more,”
Amana said. “We are working on a state
mentthat’s not complete,” he said, adding
that the statement would be short.
Although the BOT voted in July to
build the free-standing BCC on the Coker
Woods site, supporters of the center are
worried about the environmental impact
of the BCC on that site. They have asked
24-Hour Visitation
Students Extend Hours
Of Dorn Visitation
Same Weekends At
Aycock 4 20 75
Carmichael 5 45 328
Craige Voted for 24-hour visitation
Kenan 5 8 103
Mangum 1 1 72
Teague 2 19 136
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hour visitation on weekends; AH = 24-hour
visitation all week.
area director for Whitehead and
Carmichael dorms. “I’m very enthusiastic,
and I hope the pilot project will work out. ”
Leslie Sadler, area director for Spencer-
Triad, which includes Alderman, Kenan,
Mclver and Spencer residence halls, said
she wasn’t surprised by the results of the
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Junior Carolynn McDonald shares some thoughts about former UNC professor
Sonja Haynes Stone at the third annual Stone memorial service Tuesday night.
the BOT to re-examine the site.
But the site has received the green light
from four architects, including one em
ployed by the advisory board and former
Charlotte Mayor Harvey Gantt, an archi
tect and former member ofthe Chancellor’s
Working Group on the BCC.
BCC supporters prefer a site located
between Wilson Library and Dey Hall on
the mam quad of campus. Many think that
the BOT intentionally waited until the sum
mer, when most students were away, to
vote. “I thought the students would go this
way. It will be very healthy for our resi
dents.”
Some area directors did express some
concern about the rights of roommates
“We have to make sure the students
understand the guest policy. Residents must
get their roommate’s permission as to
whether they can have someone spend the
night in the room,” Watts said
Kuncl said he was happy with the
change.
“It was up to (the students) as to which
policy we take. I just want to be sure that
the students understand the guest policy so
there won’t be any conflicts over guests.”
The housing department might allow
students in the six residence halls who
prefer the old policy to move to a different
dorm, Kuncl said.
Guests are allowed to visit for only 48
hours at a time under the new visitation
policy, he said.
make its site decision. But BOT Chairman
John Harris has said the board made its
decision in July to expedite BCC planning
The advisory board also plans to ask the
BOT to allow Margo Crawford, BCC di
rector, to speak at Friday's meeting.
Other issues discussed in the meeting
were the exclusion of BCC fund raising
from the Bicentennial Campaign and
formerßOT member John Pope'sadinthe
Sept. 12 issue ofThe Chapel Hill News that
urged opposition to the construction of a
Some Group? Falling Behind
In Bicentennial Fund Raising
BY HOLLY STEPP
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Despite reaching 90 percent of its goal,
the University Bicentennial fund-raising
campaign is falling short of its goals in
several areas, University officials said
Monday.
“We have a goal of $320 million and are
closing in on $290 million, but there are
some areas that are still lagging behind, ’
said Matt Kupec, associate vice chancellor
for development.
Individual departments in the Univer
sity set goals for the Bicentennial fund
raising campaign, Kupec said “For ex
ample, the College of Arts and Sciences
has set a goal of SSO million and currently
they have raised about $29 million,” he
said.
In the case of the College of Arts and
Sciences, Kupec said he thought that reach
ing its goal was just a matter of informing
donors.
“I think we need to get the message out
that for at least two years every student
who attends this university goes through
the College of Arts and Sciences by means
of the General College,” he said “In a lot
of ways, it is the heart and soul of the
University.”
Other departments that have reached
less than 60 percent of their goals are the
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Boris Yeltsin
Dissolves
Parliament
Disbanded Body Impeaches
Russian President, Names
Ri\al Rutskoi As Successor
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin
seized control of the Russian state in a
coup against enemies of his reforms Tues
day, ousting the hard-line congress and
calling December elections for anew par
liament.
Lawmakers meeting in emergency ses
sion voted to impeach Yeltsin and named
one of Yeltsin’s main rivals, Vice President
Alexander Rutskoi, acting president.
In his first “decree,” Rutskoi nullified
Yeltsin’s action and ordered all govern-
ment leaders to
obey him and the
parliament.
Yeltsin, ap
pearing hours
earlier in a na-
For President
Clinton's reaction
to the crisis,
Please see page 4
tional TV address, claimed he was amend
ing the constitution by decree, but his ac
tion effectively suspended the Soviet-era
charter. He warned that any attempt to
stand in his way would be “punished by
law.”
In Washington, President Clinton en
dorsed Yeltsin’s decision to disband par
liament and set new elections for Decem
ber.
Rutskoi and another Yeltsin rival, par
liament speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov, were
inside the Russian White House, where
parliament is located.
By midnight, several hundred anti-
Yeltsin protesters gathered outside the
building, many waving red Soviet ham
mer-and-sickle flags and erecting make
shift barricades as police stood nearby.
Yeltsin’s gamble could decide the fu
ture of Russian politics and what kind of
government ultimately would emerge from
the chaos of the post-Soviet era. It was his
boldest move since he faced down tanks
during an abortive August 1991 coup
against Mikhail Gorbachev.
If Yeltsin succeeds in dissolving the
parliament and conducting Dec. 11-12 ele
ctions, the vote could give him a congress
more in tune with his reformist policies.
Yeltsin’saction to break his longstanding
stalemate with lawmakers will need the
strong backing of the military and security
services, which have supported him in the
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free-standing BCC.
The Bicentennial Steering Committee
decided Friday that it would wait until its
December meeting to make a decision on
whether it would raise the campaign goal
to include the BCC.Steering Committee
Chairman William Armfield said the
delay was due in part to the fact that total
funds pledged to the campaign were $32
million short of the orignal goal.
BCC supporters said Pope’s ad created
a false representation of the center.
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Kupec said he a r ° 1 ‘ 11 a
still wasconfidentthattheUniversitywould
reach its goal. “Right now it's just a matter
of matching the right donors with the right
departments’ needs,” he said.
According to Kupec, various depart
ments have exceeded their goals for the
fund-raising drive. “The AcklandMuseum,
the botanical gardens, the business and
dental schools have already exceeded their
goals, ” he said, adding that the journalism,
nursing and pharmacy schools were very
close to reaching their goals.
Some of the construction projects in the
campaign have not been as successful as
the University had hoped, Kupec said.
“Some of our capital projects such as Me
morial Hall are lagging behind other
projects,” he said.
Other construction projects indude a
Center for Dramatic Art, a new wing for
the School ofPharmacy and new buildings
for the Kenan-Flagler School of Business
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