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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Hard-Liners Admit Defeat,
Flee Burning Parliament
MOSCOW Boris Yeltsin won a
bloody victory in the battle for Russia’s
future Monday, his tanks and paratroopers
flushing his hard-line opponents from a
flaming Russian parliament building.
Scores died as Yeltsin crashed the stron
gest power bid yet by remnants of the old
Communist regime.
The mass surrender of lawmakers and
their armed sup
porters seemed
likely to allow
Yeltsin to move
ahead with plans
to elect anew
Clinton supports
Yeltsin's move
for power
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parliament in December and pursue long
frustrated economic reforms.
Parliament leaders gave up after 1,000
soldiers raked the white marble parliament
relentlessly with fire from T-72 tank can
nons and heavy machine guns, but at least
some holdouts remained at large.
12 U.S. Servicemen Killed
During Somalian Fighting
WASHINGTON The Pentagon or
dered fresh infantry, aerial gunships and
top-of-the-line tanks to be sent to Somalia
Monday to bolster U S. forces after at least
12 Americans were killed, 78 wounded
and others captured in the fiercest fighting
since the mission began.
The casualties, inflicted by the forces of
warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid, were the
most for the United States in such a short
period since the Persian Gulf War. The
battle began late Sunday and stretched into
Monday.
On Capitol Hill, some lawmakers called
forU.S. withdrawal, but President Clinton
insisted American forces would remain
until order was restored.
Clinton said that if any U.S. soldiers
were mistreated, “the United States—not
the United Nations will view this very
gravely and take appropriate action.”
Navy Admiral to Keep Job
After Tailhook Scandal
WASHINGTON U.S. Defense Sec
retary Les Aspin, acting against the advice
oftheNavy’scivilianleader, decided Mon
day not to fire the service’s No. 1 officer,
Adm. Frank B. Kelso 11, for his role in the
Tailhook sex scandal, a senior Pentagon
official said.
U.S. Navy Secretary John Dalton had
recommended to Aspin that Kelso be dis
missed for failing to use proper leadership
in the aftermath of the scandal arising from
the 1991 Tailhook convention, at which
scores of women were sexually harassed or
assaulted. Kelso is not accused of partici
pating in the mayhem.
Bosnia Endures Warfare
In Northwestern Region
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
New fighting broke out Monday in the
Bihac region of northwestern Bosnia be
tween Muslim-led government troops and
supporters of a local Muslim leader.
Both sides reported casualties and ac
cused each other of shelling their positions
in Johovica, a town close to the stronghold
of Bihac’s rebel leader Fikret Abdic.
He said forces supporting Abdic had
shelled army positions in Johovica. Two
soldiers were wounded, Sadikovic reported.
Bosnian radio said some of Abdic’s sup
porters had surrendered in Johovica.
A report from a local news agency said
the Bosnian army opened up with auto
maticweaponsandmortarfireonJ ohovica.
Palestinian Car Bomber
Injures 30 in Israeli Bus
JERUSALEM—A Palestinian suicide
car bomber injured 30 Israelis when he
rammed into a bus Monday. Prime Minis
ter Yitzhak Rabin said Israel would act
against such attempts to disrupt the peace
process.
“It is always an expression of religious
fanaticism and political extremism joined
together, "Rabin said, noting that car bomb
ing appeared to be anew tactic. Four such
attacks have occurred in the last few
months.
Rabin said the army would target Mus
lim extremist groups including Hamas
and Islamic Holy War—and other organi
zations that resort to violence.
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Freshman Charles Wright speaks about the first black student at UNC during
the Black Student Movement meeting in the Pit on Monday. Through
research, Wright discovered that the first black student enrolled in 1951.
Professors: Nike Deal Won’t Benefit Entire University
BYRACHAEL LANDAU
STAFF WRITER
The $4.7-million deal Nike signed with
the University and head basketball coach
Dean Smith on Saturday has received
mixed responses from administrators and
faculty members, some of whom question
whether it benefits UNC.
“This is a fine contract, and it clearly
will provide benefits for the department of
athletics,” Provost Richard McCormick
said.
McCormick said he was pleased that
the University had been so open about the
details of the contract. But he did not think
anyone should be concerned that the aca
demic side of the University would suffer
because of the contract.
“I don’t think the contract with Nike
changes the relationship between athletics
Performing Self-Exams
Women’s First Step in
Detecting Breast Cancer
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Groups Struggle to Enforce Existing Risk Management Policies
BY MARTY MINCHIN
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
Risk-management policies, designed to
save fraternities and sororities from being
held liable in massive lawsuits, do exist at
UNC.
But a workable system to enforce these
policies doesn’t.
Since risk management becameanissue
at UNC in the
late ’Bos, groups
have been trying
to find a way to
enforce these
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ASSIGNMENTS
policies. But students, alumni and Univer
sity officials have failed to implement a
method to effectively enforce risk manage
ment.
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and academics in the University at all. It
provides benefits for the athletic program
and thus the whole University,” he said.
The Nike contract provides shoes and
athletic apparel for 24 of 26 UNC athletic
teams. Nike will pay the athletic depart
ment $420,000 over four years. The shoe
contractalso gives Smith about $1.7 mil
lion, most of which he has said he will
allocate to his coaching staff and donate to
charities.
But the contract will not change the
relationship between athletics and academ
ics, McCormick said.
“The Department of Athletics provides
$200,000 a year to the chancellor for sup
port of academic programs,” he said.
Faculty members differed in opinion
about the contract. Teachershaveexpressed
their concern about the possible overem
phasis of athletics over academics at UNC.
The UNC InterFratemity Council and
the Panhellenic Council, the governing
groups for campus sororities and fraterni
ties, implemented a risk-management
policy in March 1992.
But some fraternity and sorority mem
bers say groups continue to violate the
policy because no one has been able to
enforce it.
The risk-management policy at UNC
prohibits open containers of alcohol or
kegs at parties and does not allow open
parties where alcohol is served. The policy
also requires host chapters to hire security
guards to check identification, mark
underaged guests with a wristband or a
stamp and remove unwanted guests from
the premises.
Groups such as the IFC, Panhellenic,
BYSTEVEROBBLEE
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The debate over the location of the free
standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center and how the center sh ould be funded
is still alive, members of the Black Student
Movement said Monday during a BSM
meeting held in the Pit.
“We’re askingfor $7 million out of $320
million just a small percentage of the
Bicentennial campaign,” said BSM Presi
dent John Bradley. “Why should (the head
of the Michael Jordan Foundation) Mrs.
(Deloris) Jordan have to raise the money
for a building that’s going to be used by this
University?”
The BSM’s position is firm, Bradley
said. The center should be built between
Wilson Library and Dey Hall on the main
quad, ratherthan across the street in Coker
Woods.
“The message I’m trying to get out is:
The students should stand by the Wilson-
Dey site,” he said. “If (administrators)
want to change our minds they have to
come out and solicit us.”
Campus Y Co-president Michelle
LeGrand said the final two proposed loca
tions might be near each other but were far
apart in stature.
“What about the symbolism?” LeGrand
said. “What about Coker in the woods or
Wilson-Dey in the middle of campus?”
Bradley said the current BCC, located
in the Student Union, was not adequate for
the programming the BSM hosted.
“(The current BCC) is not a place of
learning. It’s an old, renovated snack bar.”
Plans for the new 53,000-square-foot
center include space for a cross-cultural
Townsend Ludington, chairman of the
Faculty Athletic Committee, saidtheNike
deal was a good arrangement from the
athletic department’s point of view, and
many people would benefit from it.
“However, the concern for the Univer
sity is always when we lose perspective
between big-time sports and other aspects
of the University,” Ludington said.
“There are concerns from faculty that
big money for nonacademic areas of the
University will tilt the University in a di
rection we may not want it to tilt in,” he
said.
It’snotthatthe faculty expects themoney
to go to academics instead of athletics,
Ludington said. “But it is very frustrating
in a time of tight economics to see big
money spent on athletics when there are
important academics needs to be met,” he
said.
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the Alumni Fraternity Council and the
UNC Office of Student Affairs have at
tempted to devise plans that would provide
necessary enforcement. Each plan has ei-
Student Sparks Discussion
About BCC on Public Land
BY MICHAEL WORKMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Black Student Movement members
held a brief debate Monday night with a
student who spoke against building a
free-standing black cultural center on
public land at the end of a BSM meeting
in the Pit.
As BSM members closed the meeting
with a song, Joey Stansbury, a senior
from Raleigh and the Dist. 11 represen
tative to Student Congress, called out
from the othersideofthe Pit: “Build it on
private land.”
Stansbury approached the group, and
BSM members suggested the discussion
be moved to the BCC in the Student
Union.
“The best way to educate you about
the BCC is to walk right through those
doors (to the BCC),” said BSM Presi
dent John Bradley.
institute, the Communiversity program,
which allows University students to teach
local children, and various other BCC fo
rums and programs.
“Hopefully we can get African and Af
rican-American studies—when it becomes
a department in the building,” he said.
Latricia Henry, BSM vice president,
said the University was “shady” in its deal-
Jack Sasson, chairman of the Depart
ment of Religious Studies, said he thought
many professors thought the money from
multi-million-dollar contracts should ben
efit the entire University.
“Nike is trying to buy the University’s
name and its reputation so the money
should go to the University as a whole.”
Although some faculty members dis
agree with the deal and think it emphasizes
athletics more than academics, some pro
fessors are more concerned with other as
pects of the deal.
Economics Professor Michael Salemi
said he was more concerned that the ath
letic department publicize how it spent its
money. “It doesn’t bother me as long as it
is public. I am more interested in how the
money is spent,” he said. “I feel the Uni
versity should run the athletic department,
not the other way around.”
Dr. Jon Power, director of gynecology at the Stu
dent Health Service, said he also encouraged young
women to leam to do breast self-exams.
“Women are very good about detecting lesions that
haven’t been there before, ” Power said. “90 percent of
lesions are picked up by the women themselves.”
Littleton said that early detection is the key to
curing breast cancers. 95 percent of cancerous tumors
that are less than two centimeters can be cured. Once
the tumor grows beyond two centimeters, the cure rate
drops to 70 percent.
Self-exams are especially important for young
women because younger breast tissue is more dense,
making it difficult to spot tumors in a mammogram.
Kathleen Havlin, assistant professor of hematol
ogy and medical oncology at Duke University, said it
was probably more important for young women to do
self-exams than to have mammograms, especially if
they’re under 35.
“If a woman sees a physician once a year, it’s
difficult for me as a physician to know what is normal
for her breasts,” Havlin said. “Any change in the
breast that persists through the menstrual cycle should
be investigated.”
Littleton said he thought most women knew ho w to
do self-exams, but just didn’t take the time. He said
women also might not perform self-exams because
they’re afraid they might find something.
“Breast cancer is a very scary disease to most
women because it’s so involved with sexuality and
body image and because they perceive the cure to be
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ther failed or not reached its planned po
tential.
No One in Charge
Judi Barter, former assistant dean of
student affairs who served as a full-time
adviser to Greek organizations for two
years, left the University in August. Many
students and alumni said her absence had
set back the University’s efforts to enforce
risk-management policies.
Although Barter herself technically had
no power of authority over fraternities and
sororities, her position gave the officers of
the Greek organizations the authority to
enforce risk management.
Edward Marshall, IFC president, said
he hoped chapter presidents, alumni and
the IFC would be able to ensure the system
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Once inside, students decided to limit
the discussion to 20 minutes.
Stansbury began by stating his objec
tions to the planned free-standing Sonja
H. Stone Black Cultural Center. The
Board of Trustees in July approved con
struction oftheßCC on the Coker Woods
site, located next to Coker Hall.
“My main concern is over a 53,000-
square-foot building and further reper
cussions this building will cause at this
University," Stansbury said. “A build
ing of that magnitude is humongous
it’s huge. ” The building would promote
separatism and shouldn’t be built and
maintained with public funds, Stansbury
said.
But several students disagreed with
Stansbury.
Michelle LeGrand, co-president of
the Campus Y, said, “It’s anything but
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ings with the BSM—and black students in
general—because administrators said one
thing and did another.
“You are shady when you have black
people build this University 200 years ago
and then they’re not let in until 42 years
ago.”
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AIDS Home
To Be Built
In Carrboro
BYKELLYRYAN
CITY EDITOR
In less than a year, six AIDS patients
could have a home in Carrboro.
The AIDS Service Agency of Orange
County will begin constructing an AIDS
house in the next few months after finally
receiving a $283,400 grant from the De
partment of Housing and Urban Develop
ment.
After two years and three applications,
HUD notified the agency Thursday that it
would be able to build a home in the
residential section located at the comer of
Robert Hunt Drive and Greensboro Street.
“We really want to be a part of the
community and an asset to it,” George
Hettich, president of the agency’s board of
directors, said Monday night. “We would
like to begin housing patients as soon as
possible. It’sgoingtobe aplace for patients
to go other than the hospital.”
Hettich said the agency now would be
busy forming committees to take care of
fund raising and ironing out the details to
begin construction. He added that he hoped
the home could be finished as early as June
or July.
The six-bed home will provide quarters
for a manager. Patients will pay a fee for
room and board, which will be determined
based on individual income.
JoeEron, director of the Infectious Dis
ease Clinic at UNC Hospitals, said he
hoped the house would increase aware
ness about the growing number of local
residents touched by AIDS and the HIV
virus. One out ofevery 200 to 300 people in
North Carolina are HIV-positive, he said.
“It’ll be a tremendous help. I have quite
a few patients who otherwise might have
no place to live,” said Eron, who also is a
member of the agency’s board. “Some are
still relatively well, yet they’re unable to
work. They don’t have any place to go.”
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ran smoothly with no one working full
time as a Greek adviser.
“(Barter) had a tremendous amount of
moral persuasion in dealing with risk man
agement,” Marshall said. “Without Judi
Barter, there is a definite gap.”
Randy Cox, alumni chapter adviser of
Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, said some
fraternity members now felt they had no
one to answer to.
“The one lone authority figure is gone,”
Cox said. When Barter left, some frater
nity members had the attitude of “all right,
we can bring out the kegs again,” he said.
The Office of Student Affairs is working
to fill Barter’s position by January. Frederic
Schroeder, dean of student affairs, is serv-
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