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IN THE NEWS
Top stones from the state, nation and world
Clinton to Authorize Troop
Increase, Date for Pull-Out
WASHlNGTON—Deflecting calls for
swift withdrawal from Somalia, President
Clinton is preparing to authorize a short
term troop increase while setting a dead
line for pulling out, a senior administration
official said Wednesday.
“It is essential that we conclude our
mission in Somalia but that we do it with
firmness and steadiness of purpose,”
Clinton said at an East Room ceremony as
aides discussed the direction of his policy.
Pentagon sources said one option under
consideration calls for sending at least 2,000
new troops and more heavy weaponry.
The possible deployment would come
on top ofthe movement of some 650 troops
and armored vehicles that are being flown
to Somalia this week. Currently, there are
4,700 Americans in Somalia, including a
Rapid Reaction Force.
Yeltsin Calls for Enemies
In Provinces to Step Down
MOSCOW President Boris Yeltsin
followed his bloody victory over hard-line
lawmakers with a demand Wednesday that
opponents in the provinces resign, and he
yanked the ceremonial guard from Lenin’s
Tomb—asymbolicbutpotentblowagainst
Communist holdovers.
In a stem voice on nationwide televi
sion, Yeltsin said elections should be held
in December for every legislative body in
the country not just for anew national
parliament as he previously decreed, but
for new regional and local councils as well.
His aim clearly was to use the momen
tum ofMonday’s battle with hard-liners to
sweep his opponents out of office in cities
and regions from Karelia in the west to
Kamchatka in the Far East.
U.S. Planes Deliver Food
To Georgian Refugees
TBILISI, Georgia Georgian troops
battled a rebel advance Wednesday that
has cut off the capital from the sea, and the
United States sent a planeload of food to
thousands of hungry refugees. Security
forces, meanwhile, continued to round up
opponents of Georgian leader Eduard
Shevardnadze.
And in Geneva, talks opened Wednes
day between rebels in the northwest
Abkhazian region and a United Nations
peace mediator try ing to end the fighting in
the former Soviet republic.
Swiss diplomat Edouard Brunner met
with Ami Jetjenia, a special envoy of
Abkhaz leader Vladislav Ardzinba.
Negotiations were to resume on reviv
ing a July cease-fire agreement brokered
by Russia.
Rabin, Arafat Have First
Meeting to Solidify Plan
CAIRO, Egypt Yitzhak Rabin and
Yasser Arafat got down to the business of
turning words of peace into reality Wednes
day, but there were signs that generations
of enmity would not be easy to erase.
The Israeli prime minister and Palestine
Liberation Organization leader had no
handshake for the cameras at their first
official meeting, which ended with sepa
rate news conferences.
Still, the longtime adversaries said their
meeting at Egypt’s Unity Palace was con
structive. They announced the formation
of four committees to work out the details
of last month’s accord on limited Palestin
ian self-rule in Israeli-occupied territories.
Police Charge S.C. Man
With Food Lion Killings
RALEIGH Police charged a South
Carolina man with two counts of murder
Wednesday in the slayings of two employ
ees of a Food Lion grocery store.
Elmer Ray McNeill Jr., 23, of
Summerville, S.C., is charged with the
deaths of John Ray and Michael Truelove
at the Food Lion at Six Forks Station
shopping center, said police Sgt. Martin
McLamb. McNeill also is charged with a
count of armed robbery, McLamb said.
Police wouldn’t comment on what led
to the charges, but McLamb said the case
still was being investigated.
Robert McNeill, 25, Elmer’s brother,
also is charged with robbing the Food Lion
store at Tower Shopping Center and kid
napping employees there in May.
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It’s Official: Air Jordan Quits NBA
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
DEERFIELD, 111. Saying he had
reached the pinnacle of his career and had
nothing left to accomplish, Michael Jor
dan retired from basketball Wednesday—
but maybe not forever.
“I have achieved a lot in my short ca
reer. I just feel I don’t have anything else to
prove,” Jordan said in walking away from
the game after winning seven scoring titles
and leading the Chicago Bulls to three
straight championships.
The 30-year-old superstar—basketball’s
greatest player and perhaps the world’s
most recognizable athlete said “it was
time to move forward, away from games,”
but did not rule out a comeback.
“I’m not making this a 'never’ issue. I’m
saying I don’t have the drive right now,”
Jordan said.
“Five years down the line, if the urge
comes back, if the Bulls will have me and
(NBA commissioner) David Stem lets me
back in the league, I may come back. But
that’s a decision I don’t have to make at
this moment,” Jordan said.
In a news conference at the Bulls’ train
ing center, Jordan said the murder of his
father, James, in July made him realize
that “it can be taken away from you at any
time.”
Campus Y
Event Joins
Bicentennial
BYHOLLY RAMER
STAFF WRITER
The Bicentennial Committee decided
Wednesday to accept the Campus Y’s
Dawn of Justice Celebration proposal and
co-sponsorseveral events designed to show
case diverse cultural groups and people
working for social change.
The Dawn of Justice Celebration will
feature music, speeches and representa
tives from a vari
etyofculturesthat UNC
will entertain au- BICENTENNIAL
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will be held from m
11 a.m. to 2 p.m. T t A R S
on Oct. 12 near South Building, may take
part in the Dawn of Justice activities.
“We felt like a lot of groups were being
left out,” LeGrand said. “There’s a big
difference in having these groups repre
sented and how things were before.”
Beverly Botsford, a performer with the
Chuck Davis Group, will provide music
and entertainment at 1:30 p .m. on the steps
of South Building.
The Dawn of Justice programming will
continue with a speech by civil-rights activ-
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Gen-ard Hail. Bicentennial series
Richardson,
founder of the Full Bicentennial
Student Non- Opening
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producer of a ee P a 9 e
new documentary about Malcolm X, will
speak about how social activism has been
a catalyst for change in the past and how it
can motivate for the future, LeGrand said.
Kevin Moran, chairman of the Student
Bicentennial Planning Committee, said
groups such as the Carolina Indian Circle
and the Women’s Forum already had been
involved in Bicentennial events prior to the
Dawn of Justice program.
“All of these groups (the Campus Y)
was concerned about were represented in
Bicentennial activities,” he said. “They
have always been involved, but now it’s
important that people become more famil
iar with the programs.
“The biggest project is a program that
they are sponsoring called ‘UNC-CH: A
Catalyst for Positive Social Change,”’ he
said. “This is a conference in November
that will bring together high-school stu
dents to help them recognize important
issues in their community.”
The Campus Y also will participate in
the symbolic candle-lighting ceremony to
open the Bicentennial Celebration, Moran
said.
Steve Tepper, executive director of the
Bicentennial Observance Office, said he
was glad the Campus Y and the Bicenten
nial Committee were working together on
the Dawn of Justice program.
“I’m glad (the Campus Y) found a fo
rum and a time to discuss the issues they
were concerned with.”
His father uiged MICHAEL JORDAN
him to retire after retired Wednesday,
the Bulls won their
first championship, Jordan said, but “I felt
I still had a lot to prove.”
Jordan said he was leaning toward retir
ing immediately after the Bulls won their
third championship, but wanted to wait
until just before the start of this season “to
see if my heart would change.”
He said he discovered “the desire was
not there.”
The startling announcement leaves the
Bulls without their scoring champion, the
NBA without its glitziest attraction and
millions of fans without the hero who rede
fined standards of excellence.
“I know kids are going to be disap-
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Laying the Bait
DTH/MISSY BELLO
Carrol Jones, a senior from Atlanta, reaches behind a shrub to adjust a speaker playing bird mating calls.
Jones was on Connor Beach on Wednesday attempting to "bait' birds out of a tree for a Biology 73 class.
Fraternities, Sororities Across America
Individualize Risk-Management Policies
BY MARTY MINCHIN
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
As Greek systems across the nation face
new laws that could hold them liable in
high-paying lawsuits, fraternities, sorori
ties and administrators have worked to
create and implement policies that would
best suit the Greek system.
Risk-management policies for fraterni
ties and sororities
at most schools SPECIAL
include provi
sions to prohibit ASSIGNMENTS
common contain
ers of alcohol and open parties, provide
security guards to check identification and
monitor the doors. The policies are in place
to reduce the risks of a fraternity being
liable if someone is injured or killed as a
result of drinking at a fraternity party.
Some schools, such as the University of
Texas at Austin, have experienced tragic
accidents in which fraternity members have
had to pay thousands of dollars in settle
ments.
Other schools that lead the nation in
risk management have implemented strin
gent policies that have reformed the way
students view risk management. At the
same time, fraternity and sorority mem
bers at other schools have been reluctant to
accept risk management and still do not
take the policies as seriously as some ad
ministrators would like.
The Last Bastion of Party Schools'
The fraternity system at the University
ofTexas at Austin has experienced some of
the worst alcohol-related accidents in the
nation.
In 1986, members of one fraternity took
I just feel I don’t have anything eke to prove.
Michael Jordan
Clmiml Hill, North Caroliu
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 7,1993
Local Fans Remember No. 23,
Support His Decision to Retire
BY STEVE POUTI
SPORTS EDITOR
Jared Hoyle is alone in Woolen Gym.
It’s a rare opportunity. After all, the
gym has 16 hoops, making it the most
popular place to play basketball on cam
pus.
But even when no one’s looking, even
when he doesn’t have to feel embar
rassed in front of otherplayers, the UNC
freshman won’t try to imitate a Michael
Jordan shot.
“He’s just too good,” Hoyle says.
"Jordan is the smoothest basketball
player that’s ever walked the earth,” he
continues. “Everything he’s done is
smooth.”
The press conference the NBA super
star held to announce his retirement,
however, didn’t go so smoothly. The
audio fizzled in and out several times as
Jordan spoke.
Ri s k
( Management:
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Bl Happen
MONDAY: The situation facing UNC fraternities
TUESDAY: The problem: Who’s responsible
WEDNESDAY: How sororities fit in
FRIDAY: Future policies and solutions at UNC
a student who was pledging the fraternity
on “The Ride,” on which the members
took the pledge out for a drive in a van and
made him drink alcohol until they judged
him to be sufficiently drunk. They had
planned to drop the pledge off and make
him find his way back to campus, but they
decided he was too drunk to even stand up
on his own.
The fraternity brothers then drove the
pledge back to his dormitory room. He
died later that night of alcohol poisoning.
The pledge’s parents sued for about $2
million, but the case was settled out of
court for a little more than $1.5 million,
according to Brendan Fehily, risk-man
agement chairman forUT’s InterFratemity
Council.
The fraternity’s national organization
paid half of the settlement, while everyone
who was in the van with the pledge and the
person who had purchased the alcohol
paid the other half. Each individual in
volved had to pay a different sum the
man who was driving the van had to pay
$300,000, while a fraternity member’s girl-
Still, about 100 students crowded in
front of the Union’s big screen TVs
Wednesday morning and watched, pa
tiently waiting to hear what the super
star had to say.
“This is the perfect time for me to
walk away,” Jordan said.
Jordan leaves behind a nine-season
NBA legacy during which he won three
championships for the Chicago Bulls,
seven straight scoring titles and estab
lished himself as the world's most fa
mous athlete. In Chapel Hill, people
still remember No. 23 for his three years
as a Tar Heel, when he helped UNC to
the 1982 national championship.
UNC women’s basketball player
Tonya Sampson watched the announce
ment from her dorm room.
“I support his decision 100 percent,”
Sampson said. “He needs time off. He
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friend, who was in the van, had to pay
$40,000.
Fehily said the UT fraternity system
had experienced several other serious acci
dents and lawsuits in the past decade that
had resulted from alcohol consumption
and hazing incidents.
UT fraternities adopted the Fraternity
Insurance Purchasing Group’s risk-man
agement policy in March 1992. The FIPG
is a group of national fraternity organiza
tions who have joined together to form
their own insurance and risk-management
policies, which all members are required to
follow.
Fehily said UT was considered the “last
bastion of party schools” because UT was
one of the last schools in the nation to
adopt a risk-management policy.
Although UT fraternities no longer pro
vide kegs at their parties, many groups
choose to have their parties catered, Fehily
said. The caterer then serves the alcohol
instead of the fraternity.
“The caterer checks IDs and charges for
each drink,” Fehily said. “That way the
liability is switched from the fraternity to
the caterer. The whole point of having a
caterer is they’re the ones who would be
held liable in a suit.”
The caterer also issues wristbands to
guests of legal drinking age.
The fraternities also have a punch-card
system in which guests bring their own
alcohol to a party and then give it to a
person who is designated as the alcohol
distributor. Every time the guests drink
some of the alcohol they brought, it is
marked on their punch card.
“This shows you’re only having your
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Edwards’
Case Goes
Before
N.C. Panel
UNC Police Officer Claims
Discrimination in Being
Passed Over for Promotion
BYSTEVEROBBLEE
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
A six-year old discrimination suit be
tween a University Police officer and UNC
advanced another step Wednesday when
the State Personnel Commission heard oral
arguments in the case for a second time.
Officer Keith Edwards and her attor
ney, Alan McSurely, told the SPC a long
appeals process had not provided Edwards
“justice without favor or delay,” which is
guaranteed by the N.C. Constitution.
Edwards’ complaint against UNC has
gone through four steps of the University’s
grievance process, the Orange County Su
perior Court and the N.C. Court of Ap
peals, in addition to the two times the SPC
has heard the case.
McSurely said he told the SPC today
that it would be impossible for the body to
hear the case objectively because some
members of the N.C. Attorney General’s
staff sat on the SPC, while other members
of the staff represented the University.
Rather than decide the case themselves,
the body should abide by an administrative
law judge’s 1990 decision that Edwards
suffered discrimination, McSurely said.
“Because the State Personnel Commis
sion is advised by the same law office—the
attorney general—as the University attor
ney, the deck is stacked,” McSurely said in
an interview Wednesday. “That’s not jus
tice without favor.”
Edwards, who still works for University
Police, said she did not expect the SPC to
find in her favor. “We expect (the appeal)
to be denied by the State Personnel Com
mission,” she said.
“There were five judges and a 12-mem
ber jury who found the University in the
wrong. "Why can't the State Personnel
Commission find any wrongdoing?”
McSurely said past SPC decisions did
not bode well for Edwards’ case, which he
said should be decided in two weeks.
“These government appointees’ role has
traditionally been to uphold the bureau
cracy and maintain the status quo,”
McSurely said. “When administrative law
judges find for employees and against the
administration, the State Personnel Com
mission overturns these decisions a great
percentage (of the time).”
Edwards’ case began in 1987 when she
was passed over for a promotion to the
position of crime prevention officer, which
involves coordinating public safety pro
grams for University Police.
She alleges that she was discriminated
against on the basis of race and gender and
that Lt. Marcus Perry, who received the
promotion to CPO, had less training, less
seniority and less education than Edwards.
Since that time Edwards’ case has been
heard by several bodies both within the
University and the N.C. judicial system.
Edwards recently asked to work only
during the day because of medical prob
lems she says are the result of her continu
ing legal battles. Her request was granted
July 26.
In a letter to University Police, Gregory
Strayhom, Edwards’ doctor at the UNC
Department of Family Medicine, said
Edwards was suffering from several symp
toms relating to depression and job stress
which stemmed from her court appeals
against the University.
Edwards experienced increased head
aches, dizziness, nausea, mental confu
sion, fatigue, loss of motivation and a sense
of hoplessness as a result of her legal pur
suits, Strayhom said in the letter.
Edwards ’ case has gone through several
steps since 1987 before reaching the SPC
for a second time Wednesday:
■ During the first three steps of the
University grievance process, which were
handled by the University itself, UNC
found no evidence of discrimination.
■ Edwards appealed her grievance to
Step 4, and the appeal was heard by the
Office of Administrative Hearings begin
ning inDecemberofl9B9.lnJuly 1990,an
administrative law judge found evidence
of discrimination against Edwards. The
judge, who has no power to make a deci
sion, recommended that the SPC find in
favor of Edwards when it heard the case.
■ In December 1990, the SPC found
that the administrative law judge did not
have jurisdiction to hear the case, and
UNC did not discriminate against Ed wards.
She then appealed to the Orange County
Superior Court.
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