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Volume 101, Issue 95
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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Tensions High in Somalia
Prior to Demonstration
MOGADISHU, Somalia
Submachine gunfire crackled across cen
tral Mogadishu Sunday on the eve of a
protest that threatens to explode into clan
violence. Somalis said two people were
killed and three wounded in an hour-long
shootout over a water well.
The gunfight was adjacent to the Kilo
meter Four traffic circle in the southern
stronghold of Mohamed Farrah Aidid,
whose supporters held their regular Sun
day rally barely a mile away
Aidid’s deputy, Mohamed Nur Aliyo,
repeated warnings against a demonstra
tion planned for Monday. Protesters plan
to cross the Green Line dividing rival clan
leader AliMahdiMohamed’sterritory from
south Mogadishu
Irish Republican Army
Sets Off Bomb in Belfast
BELFAST, Northern Ireland—Abomb
planted by the Irish Republican Army in a
busy Protestant shopping district went off
sooner than planned, and police said on
Sunday that an IRA bomber was one of the
10 people killed.
The outlawed Catholic group said it
bungled the attack in west Belfast, which
injured a second IRA bomber and 57 oth
ers. It was the deadliest attack in Northern
Ireland in nearly six years.
The bomb exploded in a fish shop on the
crowded Shankill Road Saturday. The IRA
said it was targeting an office above the
shop belonging to the Ulster Defense As
sociation, the largest Protestant paramili
tary group in the province.
Aristide's Enemies Offer
Peace Proposal to U.N.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti U.N.
officials welcomed a peace proposal by
opponents of Haiti’s exiled president, but
said Sunday that the army and lawmakers
needed to move faster to restore democ
racy or face a broad
ened commercial
embargo.
A U.N. spokes-
man said the pro-
posal by a group of
lawmakers opposed
to exiled President
Jean-Bertrand
Aristide represented
a shift toward accep-
tance of the U.N.
plan to free vio-
lence-plagued Haiti
from military rule.
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would ease the current crisis, or was a
delaying tactic.
Guerrillas Backed by Iran
Attack Security Zone
MARJAYOUN, Lebanon lrania
nbacked guerrillas attacked Israel’s self
styled security zone in southern Lebanon
Sunday with rocket-propelled grenades and
automatic rifles.
Security sources said two attackers were
killed and three Israeli soldiers inside an
armored personnel carrier were wounded.
The Israeli army confirmed the deaths
of the guerrillas and said one Israeli soldier
was seriously wounded.
The sources, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said that hours later six
Katyusha rockets crashed near villages
close to Marjayoun, the headquarters of
the Israeli-backed South Lebanon Army
militia, several forest fires broke out.
U.S. Offers $l4O Million
To Former Soviet Republic
ALMA-ATA, Kazakhstan Offering
$l4O million in U.S. assistance, Secretary
of State Warren Christopher won a prom
ise that the oil-rich central Asian nation
would move quickly to get rid of nuclear
weapons left over from the Cold War.
But Christopher did not get a timetable
for the dismantling of more than 1,000
nuclear warheads perched on 108 long
range missiles.
Kazakhstan already has promised to get
rid of the nuclear warheads left after the
breakup of the Soviet Union and to sign a
treaty designed to deterthe spread of nuclear
technology.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Professor Says Lensing Altered Tenure Report
English Professor MARY KEMP
DAVIS lost a tenure appeal to the
Board of Trustees.
UNC Stumbles in Charlottesville Nail Biter
UVa. Snags Sole Possession
Of 2nd Place in Conference
Behind Stifling Rush Defense
BY JOHN C. MANUEL
SPORTSATURDAY EDITOR
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. The
Virginia Cavaliers have heard it all before.
They don’t play a tough schedule. They
don’t play with emotion. They beat up on
creampuff non-conference and ACC foes,
pad their record, then choke when the big
games come up.
Not this year. Not this team.
Before 42,300 screaming Wahoos, the
’93 Cavaliers established themselves in the
national spotlight by holding off North
Carolina 17-10 at Scott Stadium in a battle
for second place in the ACC.
“I’ve never seen our team like this,”
UVa. junior defensive end Mike Frederick
said. “This team’s been criticized for being
a little too businesslike, but not this game.
I’d say it’s probably the No. 1 win, the best
moment of my career.”
For the Tar Heels, the postgame mood
was somewhat more somber.
“It’s a humbler, ” linebacker Kerry Mock
said. “It’s going to take a lot for us to
regroup.”
Fellow linebacker Rick Steinbacher
added: “I think that’sthemost disappointed
I’ve ever seen the team. In past years I can
remember losses where we were dejected
and we felt down.
“But not like this.”
The loss dropped the Tar Heels, who
fell to 18th in the latest Associated Press
poll, to 7-2,4-2 in conference play. UVa.,
which visits N.C. State next week, climbs
to 6-1,4-1, and is now ranked 16th.
North Carolina’s hopes for a Fiesta or
Gator Bowl bid diminished with the loss,
and UNC could find itself headed for a
second-straight Peach Bowl berth. The Tar
Heels are now third in the ACC, which
would send them to Atlanta in the NCAA’s
bowl coalition.
Ahead of the Pack
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Two bike racers pull ahead during the annual Triangle Bikes and Hikes Against AIDS in Raleigh on Saturday. The
fund-raiser for The AIDS Service Project included a 30-mile bike race, a 15-mile bike race and a four-mile fitness walk.
Chapel Hill. North Carolina
MONDAY, OCTOBER 25,1993
Faculty Secretary Admitted
To Changing Tenure Report
In July Hearing, Davis Says
BYMICHAEL WORKMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
English Professor Mary Kemp Davis
says her tenure case is like the biblical
battle between David and Goliath.
“Except that I’m not going to come out
to be David,” Davis said Sunday.
Davis, who learned last week that the
Board of Trustees had denied her third
appeal of a February tenure decision, says
she feels like the biblical David, who used
a slingshot to defeat the giant Goliath.
But Davis says she isn’t confident her
fight will end up like David’s, as she takes
her case to the UNC-system Board of Gov
ernors, the final stage in the University
appeals process.
“I would be very surprised to find that
somebody listens to me and takes me seri
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UNC cornerback Jimmy Hitchcock (18) and teammate Marcus Jones (71) scramble for possession of the ball after
UVa.’s Aaron Mundy (89) fumbled early in the third quarter. Sean Crocker recovered to set up a UNC field goal.
“This was a very, very difficult loss,”
UNC head coach Mack Brown said. “I
thought both teams were good football
teams coming in, and both teams played
really hard. I do not think we played very
well at times.
“I think we’ve got a pretty good football
team, but (Saturday) they were better.”
The Tar Heels’ vaunted option offense,
which entered the game averaging 287.3
rushingyards per game, totaled just 101 on
I’m not going to commit suicide.
Mitch Williams, Philadelphia Phillies pitcher
ously,” she said from a relative’s house in
Florida. “So far, I’ve been brushed off as
not really having a case.”
Da vis said In September that her tenure
report had been altered after it was read to
the faculty and before it reached Stephen
Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and
Sciences, who used the report to rale on
her appeal.
On Sunday, she said George Lensing,
secretary of the faculty, was the one who
changed the report.
Davis said Lensing admitted in the Fac
ulty Hearings Committee hearing this sum
mer that he had altered Davis’ tenure re
port before it reached Birdsall, who denied
Davis’ appeal in May.
Lensing said Sunday that he wished the
part of the report that he changed could be
publicized. “I would welcome the oppor
tunity for that sentence to be revealed, ” he
said.
He would not comment further on the
case, citing the confidentiality of personnel
matters.
Davis said she received a letter last week
the ground Saturday as the Wahoo defense
controlled the line of scrimmage.
“That’s the key to stopping Carolina,”
Cavalier head coach George Welsh said.
“Their power game is good, but the option
is what they score with. I felt like the odds
tilted in our favor when they have to throw. ”
Welsh’s counterpart was disappointed
with his team’s offensive output.
“We didn’t move the ball well on of
fense and at all on the ground with consis
from the BOT notifying her of its decision.
The letter supported the findings of the
Faculty Hearings Committee, which heard
Davis’ appeal this summer, she said. Ac
cording to Davis, that committee admitted
that irregularities had occurred, but said
the irregularities hadn’t affected the origi
nal tenure decision.
Davis, an assistant professor on leave
from the University, said the committee
had decided to use her as a “sacrificial
lamb.”
“A lot of stuff came out in the hearings
that clearly implied that there were racial
problems in the department... (and) noth
ing is to be done about it.”
She described what she believed was the
committee’s rationale: “Maybe by sacrific
ing me, it will help those who come after
me.... Maybe it will contribute to improv
ing the racial climate of the department.”
The committee and the BOT also were
trying to protect the reputation of powerful
University officials, including Lensing, who
headed the English department committee
that originally recommended denying
tency,” Brown said. “We were sporadic.
Virginia’s defense played really well. It
wasn't like we didn’t make any first downs
or didn’t have chances to score.
“It’s when we’ve been putting ourselves
in those positions ... we’ve been scoring,
and (Saturday) we didn’t.”
Virginia’s offense, led by sophomore
quarterback Symmion Willis, took advan-
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Candidates Debate Solutions
To Crime Increase, Growth
BY ROCHELLE KLASKIN
STAFF WRITER
Securing public safety and controlling
the town’s growth were the key issues for
Chapel Hill Town Council candidates at a
forum early Wednesday morning at town
hall.
The forum was sponsored by the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro Chamber of Commerce.
The candidates
each gave a three
minute speech
about their con
cerns and solutions
to the town’s big
gest problems.
Almost all of the
candidates said the
top priority for
spending town
finds should be
public safety.
Chapel Hill
Town Council
Jeff Snyder, a Durham police officer,
also said specific actions needed to be taken
to help curb crime. He has proposed hiring
community-service officers to take care of
minor duties, such as belated property thefts
and stolen bicycles, to free up full-time
police officers for more serious crimes.
“We are in danger of losing our origi
nality, our uniqueness, because crime is
going to take over everything we do,” he
said.
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Davis tenure, she said.
“To grant that I have a valid case would
be to blacken ... the pristine reputations of
prominent faculty members,” she said.
Davis said the BOT had agreed with the
Faculty Hearings Committee's finding that
the passages that were changed had in
cluded words that could be racially offen
sive.
“They did feel that the language used in
the original report was clearly racist in that
certain words included in the original re
port and subsequently deleted have histori
cally created ... ‘negative stereotypes of
African Americans,”’ Davis said.
The BOT also concurfed with a hear
ings committee finding that criticized
Lensing’s committee, she said.
Davis quoted the Faculty Hearings
Committee report: “(The Committee)
might fault the Committee on Rank and
Tenure for a certain lack of balance in its
report in that Dr. Davis' successes as a
teacher seemed to have less visibility in the
report than ‘some merely occasional stu
dent complaints.’”
Robbery
Suspect
Arrested
BY JAMIE KRITZER
STAFF WRITER
A Wayne County man was arrested
Sunday morning and charged in connec
tion with an armed robbery at the Mini
Mart on Airport Road two hours after the
robbery occurred.
Joseph Hayes, 29, was arrested at 11:25
a.m. Sunday at the intersection of
Alexander Drive and N.C. 86, according
to Chapel Hill police Sgt. Steve Riddle.
Hayes has no known address and told
officers he lived out of his car.
In addition to armed robbery charges,
he also was charged with communicating
threats for his involvement in a previous
incident, according to Chapel Hill police
Lt. Tim Presley.
At about 9:09 a.m., Hayes entered the
convenient store at 1200 Aiiport Road and
demanded money from the clerk, Riddle
said.
“He then made statements to the clerk
that made the clerk believe he had a
weapon,” Riddle said. “One of his hands
was wrapped in an article of clothing and
positioned in such a manner that the clerk
felt he had a weapon.”
Hayes then went behind the counter
and took an unknown amount of money
out of the register, Riddle said. An em
ployee at the store, who asked not to be
identified, said the register had been emp
tied by the suspect, who then left the scene
in a Chevrolet.
Police and deputies from the Orange
County Sheriffs Department located
Hayes, and officers arrested him at 11:25
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Candidate Jim Protzman, chief execu
tive officer of local marketing firm FGI
Inc., also has developed a plan called “Buy
Back the Hill," which would allow resi
dents who no longer wanted their guns to
sell them back.
“It’s not a be-all end-all answer to crime
or gun control, but’s it’s something that’s
happening,” he said.
“I’m someone who takes action, not
someone who just talks about it.”
Scott Rad way, an independent city-plan
ning consultant, also advocated specific
town initiatives and said he supported “Buy
Back the Hill.”
“We need to make a real commitment
of resources in a specific time frame,” he
said. “I’m a strong advocate of a gun
licensing requirement."
Other candidates said the town council
needed to look at ways to fund different
projects to help promote pubhc safety.
“Private foundations or some other
groups can develop funding for projects,”
said incumbent Alan Rimer.
“It can’t come just from the tax base, but
it just can’t come from all private business
either.”
Lee Pavao, a retired businessman, said
an increase in community involvement
was needed to fight crime. He used the
Chapel Hill Senior Center as an example
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