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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
More Than 600 New U.S.
Troops Headed to Somalia
WASHINGTON More than 600
U.S. troops armed with specialized weap
ons headed to Somalia Tuesday as admin
istration officials tried with little success to
quiet calls from Capitol Hill for quick with
drawal of American forces.
President Clinton summoned his top
national security „ e
advisers in- fflore
eluding the com- COIMIHtIMRt
mander for the in Somalia
region, Marine Story on page 4
Gen. Joseph P.
Hoar —to the White House to review the
situation, especially increased casualties
suffered by U.S. forces.
Clinton’s spokeswoman, Dee Dee
Myers, said he was “obviously very con
cerned” but no dramatic change in Soma
lia policy was being considered.
Defense Secretary Les Aspin, Secretary
of State Warren Christopher and White
House adviser David Gergen briefed more
than 150 House and Senate members.
At the Pentagon, spokeswoman
Kathleen deLaski said that some 650 troops
had begun moving to Somalia by air.
Yeltsin Begins to Assess
His Victory As Strife Ends
MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin
strengthened his victory over hard-line
enemies Tuesday, sacking three officials
even as tanks rolled back from Russia's
smoldering Parliament and soldiers
searched for more dead.
Sniper fire from the blackened Parlia
ment building, died down during the day
Tuesday. But Russian television said au
thorities suspected some 10 gunmen re
mained in the building.
The government assigned lawyers to
the leaders of the rebellion former vice
president Alexander Rutskoi and Parlia
ment speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov.
China Ignores Test Ban,
Detonates Nuclear Arms
BEUING —Ignoring a plea from Presi
dent Clinton, China set off an underground
nuclear blast Tuesday that jeopardized a
moratorium on nuclear testing by the
world’s atomic powers.
The United States and other nations
denounced the Chinese test, which West
ern intelligence had predicted for weeks.
Clinton immediately directed the Energy
Department to prepare for possible resump
tion ofundergroundnucleartesting. China
detonated the device Tuesday at its Lop
Nortestingsiteinthe province ofXinjiang.
Hours later, China issued a statement
saying it was developing nuclear weapons
for self-defense and reiterating that it would
join negotiations in Geneva next January
to ban all nuclear tests by the end of 1996.
Syrian Leader Asks for
Conference With Clinton
WASHINGTON Syrian President
Hafez Assad proposed on Tuesday that he
meet with President Clinton on slow-mov
ing negotiations with Israel over the future
of the Golan Heights.
The proposal was relayed by Foreign
Minister Farouk Sharaa in the first visit to
Washington by a senior Syrian official in
nearly 20 years. “Such a meeting, if it takes
place, would help very much the peace
process," Sharaa said. On the other hand,
Sharaa said Syria would not negotiate with
Israel “to gain time or to kill time.”
Secretary of State Warren Christopher
did not respond to the overture for a Qinton-
Assad summit in a joint news conference.
Jordan's Accused Killers
Could Face Death Penalty
LUMBERTON —The state plans to
seek the death penalty against two Robeson
County teenagers charged with killing the
father ofNBA superstar Michael Jordan in
July, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
District Attorney Richard Townsend
made the disclosure in response to a mo
tion by Hugh Rogers, the attorney for de
fendant Lany Martin Demery, during a
hearing in Robeson County Superior Court.
The prosecutor said there were “aggra
vating factors” that warranted making it a
capital case.
Demery, 18, of Rowland, and Daniel
Andre Green, 18, of Lumberton, showed
no emotion when Townsend spoke.
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Sororities Take Initiative, Establish
Own Risk-Management Enforcement
BY MARTY MINCHIN
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
While some UNC fraternities continue
to struggle with enforcing risk-manage
ment policies at theirparties, sorority mem
bers have taken the initiative to enforce the
policies and protect themselves from alco
hol-related accidents.
Risk-management policies at UNC pro
hibit open con
tainers of alcohol SPECIAL
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the general pub
lic admission to parties. The policy, de
signed by the UNC Panhellenic Council
and the InterFratemity Council and imple
mented in spring 1992, also states that
sponsoring chapters must hire security
guards to check identification, mark guests
of drinking age with a stamp or a wristband
and remove unwanted guests from the pre
mises.
National sororities prohibit their UNC
chapters from having alcohol in their houses
and hosting parties at their houses, said
Bettie Ann Everett, Chi Omega sorority
alumni chapter adviser.
Risk management policies mainly ap
plies to fraternity parties, but because so
rority women co-sponsor mixers witb fra
ternities, they also are affected by policy
guidelines.
Sorority women understand the dan
gers of violating risk-management policies
much more than fraternity men, Everett
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Chapal HRi, North Carofiu
WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5,1993
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK Michael Jordan, the
world’s most famous athlete and
basketball’s greatest player, will announce
his retirement Wednesday, according to
NBC and published reports.
“Dateline NBC,” the Denver Post and
the Chicago Sun-Times reported the news
almost simultaneously Tuesday night.
Jordan, NBA scoring champion the last
seven years, leader of the three-time cham
pion Chicago Bulls, two-time Olympic
gold-medal winner and NCAA champion
as a freshman at UNC, is expected to cite
his father’s slaying this summer as the
reason for his retirement at age 30.
“It’s time for me to move on to some
thing else,” the Sun-Times said Jordan
told friends. “I know a lot of people are
going to be shocked by this decision and
probably won’t understand. But I’ve talked
it over with my family and friends, and
most of all I’m at peace with myself over
said.
“The girls seem to only have to deal
with risk management when they have
mixers,” Everett said. “It’s much easier
when we cannot have alcohol in the house.
“They seemed to understand what was
involved (in risk management) and made
adjustments. I know that every single fe
male adviser that I have talked to totally
understands it.”
Leaden in Risk Management
Laurie Austin, a member of Alpha Delta
Pi sorority and Panhellenic Council presi
dent, said sorority women always had taken
riskmanagement seriously and had worked
to decrease their risks at events they co
sponsored with fraternities.
“ Sorority women have always been into
risk-management policies a lot more (than
fraternity men),” Austin said. “They have
held up the risk-management policy.”
In December 1991, UNC sorority presi
dents drafted an agreement by which they
would leave co-sponsored parties where
kegs or open containers of alcohol were
present.
The agreement also stated that sorori
ties would not host parties with fraternities
if kegs were present.
Austin said the walk-out policy was the
sororities’ attempt to keep kegs out of co
sponsored events. When the risk-manage
ment policy was implemented in spring
1992, there was no longer a need for the
walk-out policy, Austin said.
Tammy Woodard, a member of Kappa
the decision.”
His father’s death apparently robbed
Jordan of his desire to play, the Post said.
The Bulls have scheduled a news con
ference at 11 a.m. EDT Wednesday to
make what they called a “major announce
ment.”
Jordan threw out the ceremonial first
pitch at Tuesday night’s playoff opener
between Chicago and Toronto at Comiskey
Park in Chicago. He left after the seventh
inning, got behind the wheel of a black
Mercedes-Benz and drove off.
Jeny Reinsdorf, owner of the White
Sox and Bulls, said from the ballpark: “I
have nothing to say tonight. We’ll have
something to say tomorrow.”
The NBA refiised comment, deflecting
queries to the Bulls.
In a copyright story, the Post said Bulls
coach Phil Jackson had confirmed that
Jordan was retiring.
The Post said Jackson would not say if
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MONDAY: The situation facing UNC fraternities
TUESDAY: The problem: Who's responsible
THURSDAY: Trends across the nation
FRIDAY: Future policies and solutions at UNC
Delta sorority who serves on the
Chancellor’s Committee on Greek Affairs,
said the walk-out policy had been stressed
in her sorority.
“I know that my sorority was educated
about risk management and we were told
to walk out, but I don’t think we ever had
a situation where we had to walk out,” she
said.
Austin said Pi Beta Phi sorority was one
of the first sororities to walk out of a co
sponsored mixer with a fraternity. “That
was very effective,” she said.
“The walk-out policy was really work
ing well, but then it sort of faded.”
Caroline Cooper, a member of Zeta
Tau Alpha sorority and vice president of
the Panhellenic Council, said sororities
and fraternities had been having problems
Please See SORORITIES, Page 2
Jordan had indicated his decision was irre
vocable. According to the paper, a source
close to Jordan said he has told friends he
just doesn’t have the fire to play any more.
Jordan began his NBA career in 1984
after being named college player of the
year at UNCin both 1983 and 'B4. In 1982,
Jordan, then a skinny freshman, helped
Dean Smith win his first NCAA title at
North Carolina when he hit the game
winning shot in the final seconds.
J ordan led the Bulls to three consecutve
NBA titles in 1991, ’92 and ’93 the
franchise’s first championships ever.
Jordan also found nothing but success
in the Olympics. In 1984, he was the best
player as the U.S. went unbeaten through
the basketball tournament in Los Angeles.
Jordan was back in 1992 when the Olym
pics allowed professional players into
Olympic basketball for the first time. Jor
dan and the “Dream Team” were never
threatened in the Barcelona Games.
Some Carrboro Residents Still
Concerned About AIDS House
BYANUBHAANAND
STAFF WRITER
CARRBORO Some neighbors who
live near the site of the future AIDS House
said Tuesday that they still were opposed
to its construction in their area.
The disagreement between neighbors
and the AIDS Service Agency of Orange
County has been going on for about a year.
ASA finally received a s2B3,4oogrant from
the U.S. Department of Housing and Ur
ban Development last week.
The money will be used to foot the bills
for the land purchase and construction.
The facility will house six AIDS pa
tients and a manager and will be built at the
comer of Greensboro Street and Robert
Hunt Drive.
But Carrboro residents say they are con
cerned the home will lower property val
ues.
“I think it is a very bad idea to put it in
this area,” said one neighbor who asked
that her name not be used.
She said that the last time she spoke
against the AIDS House, she received
threatening phone calls.
“Otherplaces should be considered, like
a medical place,” she said.
The woman added that she was sympa
thetic toward the patients who might live
there but said she didn’t want the facility in
her neighborhood.
“We are older people, my husband and
I. We’ve lived here a long time. I just hate
to see this community turn into something
like this,” she said.
“There are many families here with
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Officials
Scramble
To Prepare
Bicentennial Planners Find
New Logistical Challenges
As Observance Approaches
BY JUDY ROYAL
STAFF WRITER
For 12 University employees, the past
year has meant long hours and a lot of
work. That’s because they had the task of
finalizing plans for a Bicentennial Celebra
tion for the nation’s oldest state university.
Steve Tepper, executive director of the
Bicentennial Observance Office, said five
years of diligent and often frustrating work
would culminate in a University Day like
none other.
The events of Oct. 12 will wind down
with a convocation
beginningat7p.m. UNC
in Kenan Stadium, BICENTENNIAL
during which CELEBRATION
President Clinton
tennial Office also
hasthetaskofplan- I * A K s
ning an entire day of commemorative fes
tivities.
The day will begin at 10 a.m. with the
rededication of Old East Residence Hall.
During the ceremony, officials will lay a
new cornerstone for the nation’s oldest
state university building.
Princeton University President Harold
Shapiro also is expected to attend the cer
emony. Shapiro was invited because of “a
strong historical connection between
Princeton and Carolina” because most of
the original faculty was educated there,
Tepper said.
At 2 p.m., UNC head basketball coach
Dean Smith will present 100 sixth-graders
fromeachN.C. county with a sapling from
Davie Poplar to plant in their county.
During the convocation, several groups
will help celebrate UNC’s 200th birthday.
A group of 12,000 high school band and
choir members from across North Caro
lina will perform during the convocation.
Tepper said it wasn’t easy devising a plan
to feed the group.
McDonald’s agreed to provide snacks
for the group, but Tepper said the restau
rant didn’t know how to provide a meal for
so many people at once. In order to feed
them all, McDonald’s would have to serve
200 hamburgers per minute, Tepper said.
McDonald’s will provide the group with
$60,000 worth of vouchers for a meal on
the way to Chapel Hill.
The Bicentennial Office also has the
task of finding direct descendants of origi
nal faculty, staff members and students to
Please See BICENTENNIAL, Page 4
small children who play in the streets.”
The N.C. Department of Health and
Environmental Resources reports that there
are I,4B6people with AIDS in North Caro
lina.
Joe Eron, director of the Infectious Dis
ease Clinic at UNC Hospitals, said Sunday
that the home would be a great help to
those living with AIDS and a way to raise
awareness about the growing number of
HIV-positive residents in the state.
Over the past year, ASA has met with
residents and Carrboro town officials to
discuss their concerns.
In addition, the agency has tried to
distribute information about the h.ome and
its function as a hospice.
Andy Sachs, coordinator of the Public
Disputes Program at the Dispute Settle
ment Center, has been moderating debate
between Carrboro residents and ASA since
the disagreement began.
He said opposition to the home had
waned during the summer months because
of its lack of funding.
But now that summer is over and the
funding is here, he said the center was
willing to moderate further disagreements.
“We’re waiting for residents to contact
us or ASA and see if they still have any
concerns,” Sachs said
“Our role is to mediate so that the
residents and the agency will have fruitful
discussions.”
But some residents remain unconvinced.
One woman expressed concern about the
way the home would fit in with the sur-
Please See ATDS. Page 5