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Volume 101, Issue 108 century of editorial freedom BMB Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world House Passes Brady Bill By 238-189 Majority Vote WASHINGTON Responding to public fear of street crime, the House ap proved the Brady bill Wednesday that would require a five-day wait and a back ground check on people who want to buy handguns. The House voted 238-189 for the bill and sent it to the Senate. The House also approved Brady last year, but it failed after being attached to a larger crime bill blocked by Senate Repub licans. This time, it is being kept separate in the hope the Senate will send it to President Clinton, who has promised to sign it. “We need to stop these thugs from getting these guns rapidly, and if we pass the Brady bill, we will do that,” said Rep. Lucien Blackwell, D-Pa. Mexicans Stand By Gore Following NAFTA Debate MEXICO CITY—New hopes that the North American Free Trade Agreement will be approved set off frenzied trading on the Mexican stock exchange Wednesday. Mexicans declared Vice President A1 Gore the winner of Tuesday night’s free trade debate with NAFTA opponent Ross Perot. Even their anger at Perot’s sugges tions that Mexicans all live in poverty gave way to satisfac- . tion that the American Reaction Texas tycoon To NAFTA Debate had been put in See Page 5 his place. “NAFTA opponents are using argu ments without much substance, ” said Trade Minister Jaime Serra Pache. Within its first four hours, the Mexican stock exchange had soared more than 72.34 points t 02,026.18, slightly underthe record 0f2,029.06 set last month. Hunt Supporters Plead Guilty to Phone Charges RALEIGH—A former state Supreme Court justice and another former law part ner of Gov. Jim Hunt pleaded guilty Wednesday to reviewing transcripts of cel lular-phone conversations involving Hunt’s gubernatorial opponent. Phil Carlton, the former justice, and Charles Lane, both members of the law firm Poyner and Spruill, pleaded guilty to reviewing cellular-phone conversations late in Hunt’s 1992 gubernatorial race against former Republican Lt. Gov. Jim Gardner. The office said the government was unable to establish that the transcripts were used for “tortious or illegal conduct, or for commercial gain or advantage.” Jury Acquits Virginia Man Of Marital Sexual Assault MANASSAS, Va. John Bobbitt, whose wife cut off his penis in retaliation for alleged sexual abuse, was acquitted Wednesday of marital sexual assault. The jury rejected the argument that she “struck out at the very thing that harmed her.” The jury of nine women and three men deliberated about four horns before return ing the verdict. Bobbitt’swife, Lorena, willbetriedNov. 29 on a malicious wounding charge. She faces up to 20 years in prison, as her hus band had on charges of marital sexual assault. John Bobbitt, 26, jumped fromhis chair and hugged his lawyer, Gregory Murphy, then buried his face in Murphy’s shoulder as Bobbitt’s aunt shouted, “Oh Lord, thank you!" Lorena Bobbitt, 24, wasn’t in court. Norplant Contraceptive Overpriced, Groups Claim WASHINGTON Family planning groups and a lawmaker accused a U.S. drug company Wednesday of profiteering on Norplant, the implantable contracep tive. The company said its $365 product was cheaper than birth-control pills. But Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Norplant was developed with extensive government support and sold for $23 in some Third World countries. He said the actual cost to Wyeth- Ayerst laboratories might be as little as sl6. “Thousands of women are not getting access to the drug because they can’t afford it,” Wyden said. Dr. Amy Pollack of the Asocication of Health Services Professionals said the fail ure rate was less than four per 10,000 with Norplant compared to 300 per 10,000 for women on the pill. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Sunny, mild; high in 60s. FRIDAY: Mostly sunny; high upper 60s. Whatever happens to one people affects all people .... The planet is very small. Elie Wiesel (Hip HaiUj (Tar Ippl Students Accept Coker Site for BCC wjjK —p —r —"K * —* H |||! I BjlSff ■ JEBj. tm |* h | jk 11 Ijp DTH/fUSTIN WILLIAMS John Bradley, Black Student Movement president, answers questions at a news conference Wednesday about the decision to accept Coker Woods as the site for a free-standing black cultural center. The Intimate Reopens Its Downtown Doors BY JAY TAYLOR STAFF WRITER A Chapel Hill institution returned Wednesday after a 14-month absence. The Intimate Bookshop, which was destroyedinafire last September,reopened at 119 E. Franklin St. and many people— from all over the Triangle came out to welcome it home. “People are excited that we’re back,” employee Rebecca Ashbum said. Ashbum, who moved to Chapel Hill only two months ago, said she could tell the store was a special place to many local residents. “I’ve had several people say to me, ‘This is where I used to spend my lunch hour—l’m so glad you’re back, ’” she said. “It seems to belong to the community more than to any owner.” The store is celebrating its grand open ing through Nqv. 20. Events will include visiting authors, door prizes and special savings on books. The celebrations began with a ribbon cutting ceremony Tuesday night. “We had a nice turnout,” said owner Wallace Kuralt. “We invited some of the old staffers and the fellas who worked on the building. Enough people wanted to buy that we opened the registers to contrib ute the money to our literacy fund.” The new store has been redesigned and expanded, but Kuralt, a UNC alumnus, said he tried to maintain the feel of the old store and was pleased with the results. “I’m tickled,” he said. “It’s different, but it seems to have the same character. People seem to like it.” The store was busy all day, filled with book-lovers of all kinds. On one aisle you would find a retired couple; on another, a student wearing a faded baseball cap, car rying a backpack. A local businessman stood on the next. AH were taking their time, soaking up the shop’s atmosphere. The new building is bright and spa cious, with large windows in the front. It Congress Gives Phoenix S6OO To Help Magazine Rise Again BYHOLLY RAMER STAFF WRITER Student Congress voted Wednesday to appropriate S6OO to the Phoenix student news magazine. After amending the proposed bill to in crease funding, passing a second amend ment to decrease funding and making a third motion to vote on the original pro posal, Student Congress voted 19-9 to ap propriate SSO for fund raising, $450 for printing and publicity, and SIOO for pho tography supplies. One member abstained from the vote. Phoenix representatives said they needed the funds to restart the magazine, which suffered from financial mismanagement in the past. Phoenix Editor Stephanie Siebold said the funds would help the magazine move toward self-sufficiency. “It’s the ultimate goal of any publication to become self-supporting,” she said. “The problem is, if you’re not an established paper, you can’t expect to be self-support ing from the start. It’s hard to get advertis ers.” Siebold said she was pleased with the final decision, but some members of Stu dent Congress had not focused on the most important issues in making their decisions. “I think certain members just did not want the Phoenix to be funded,” she said. “Throughout this process, there has been Chapel Hill. North CaroKaa THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 11,1993 rH( MISSY BELLO Patrons browse through The Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street at its grand reopening Wednesday. Wider, more open ceilings and stairwells give the Intimate anew look. The bookshop, which has been under reconstruction for about a year, offered discounts and gave away door prizes to celebrate the reopening. resembles its predecessor in many ways, with wood floors and creaking stairs. The hardback books still are shelved on the first floor, and paperbacks still are on the sec ond. But the newness was apparent, as work ers finished painting the second floor. The building also has a third floor, which con constant nit-picking by certain members who refused to recognize us as anew group. They dwell in the past. “Certain members seemed to be most concerned with the past, (but) what is im portant should be why I am qualified to be an editor.” But Rep. Jonathan Jordan, Dist. 1, said he was not impressed with the new Phoe nix staff. “I have a very bad feeling we’re throw ing money down a hole,” he said. “I’m not sure what they’re doing, and I’m not sure they do either.” Other congress members said the Phoe nix should prove they deserved the funds. “Whether or not they can ever get this off the ground is questionable,” said Rep. Joey Stansbury, Dist. 11. “Let them prove through several issues that they are ac countable.” But Rep. David Bames, Dist. 4, said the Phoenix had proven itself with the first issue. “I believe they have been responsible,” he said. “True to their name, the Phoenix has risen again.” Rep. Andrew Cohen, Dist. 6, said fund ing the Phoenix would not encourage the magazine to become self-supporting. Al though Cohen said several campus publi cations had been successful without stu- Please See CONGRESS, Page 2 BYMICHAEL WORKMAN UNIVERSITY EDITOR Student leaders representing several campus groups announced Wednesday that they had decided to support the construc tion of a free-standing black cultural center on the Coker Woods site. The announcement by leaders of the Black Student Movement, the Campus Y and the Student Environmental Action Coalition ended speculation that students would continue to campaign for the Wil son-Dey site, located between Wilson Li brary and Kenan Labs next to Dey Hall on the main quad. TheUniversity’sßoardofTrusteesvoted in July to build the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center on the Coker site, located between Coker HaU and the BeU Tower, sparking protests from students who be lieved the site was too far from the main quad of campus. Some students also raised environmental concerns, saying a building on the Coker site would destroy plants and wildlife. But on Wednesday, the students said the location of the building was less impor tains office space and conference rooms. The new store has 7,000 square feet of space for books alone, compared with a total of 7,000 square feet in die old store. Karen Bronson, a regular customer at the old Intimate Bookshop, noticed the expansion. “(The new store is) colorful, with a lot Wiesel Urges Remembrance of History’s Lessons BYANNABURDESHAW STAFF WRITER History has a way of repeating itself, Nobel Prize-winner Elie Wiesel told a sold out crowd of 1,600 Wednesday night at Memorial HaU. Wiesel, a Holocaust survivor and 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner who now works for human rights causes, offered his ideas to the audience about how to improve both the Jewish and the human condition. “I believe that it is from the insight of my Jewishness that I can try to attain univer sality, not the other way around,” Wiesel said. Biblical history provides insight about many of today’s problems, suggesting that modem man can benefit from studying historical events, such as the war between Cain and Abel, he said. “Everything that is happening now has already happened before,” Wiesel said. “Not only do we learn that brothers can kill each other, but that everyone who kills, kiUs his brother.” Wiesel added that there was much that humanity could leam from Judaic history and the perspective of Jews in the modem world. “What is the Jewish condition if it is not the human condition?" he asked. “Only our enemies have tried to say that the Jews are different, that they are not part of the human condition.” Although Wiesel condemned hatred directed toward Jews, he added that anti- Semitism was not different than other types tant than what would go on inside it. “Wherever it’s placed, the programs and things that come out of it will draw students to it,” BSM President John Brad ley said at a news conference in the current BCC, located in the Student Union. “If it means that we have to build it on a site that’s less acceptable,... we want a building, so we’U build on this site,” Brad ley said. Caitlin Reed, SEAC co-chairwoman, said the group still opposed the site but was unwilling to stand in the way of construc tion “as long as the process remains open to student and community input and pro ceeds in an environmentaUy and socially just manner.” In a statement read by Bradley, the students also caUed fora “positive response and itinerary” from Chancellor Paul Hardin by Wednesday. After reading the statement, Bradley said the groups expected fund raising to begin immediately and wanted Hardin to commit to a “guaranteed time-line" for further BCC planning. Please See BCC, Page 5 more shelf room on the sides to display the books,” she said. Kuralt said the store tried to display one-third to one-half of its books in stock. Displaying so many books invites a great deal of browsing in the store. Customer Please See INTIMATE, Page 2 1986 Nobel Peace Prize winner and Holocaust survivor EUE WIESEL of hatred. “Anti-Semitism is growing, but you know I believe those who hate, hate every body,” he said. “Hate is like a cancerous ceU it starts somewhere, but then it spreads. Those who hate wiH always find a target; they wiH always find someone to hate.” Wiesel said the best way to prevent future wars was to educate young people about the atrocities of the past. “When you teach students the value of memory, that is the best means, the best News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 C 1993 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Judge Dismisses Grievance Housekeepers Vow They Will Appeal the Decision Made Wednesday in Wake County Superior Court BY STEVE ROBBLEE ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR Wake County Superior Court Judge Henry Hight on Wednesday dismissed a suit brought by UNC housekeepers against the University 21/2 years after a grievance was first filed by housekeepers. “We’U definitely appeal that (ruling),” said Alan McSurely, a Chapel HiH attor ney representing the housekeepers. “There’s no legal basis for doing that that I know of. And I’m sure it wiH get over turned in the appeal, but that wiH take another six months.” The case came before Hight because University lawyer David Parker appealed Administrative Law Judge Brenda Becton’s Oct. 11 decision to aUow the housekeepers to sue as a group. Parker argued that the Office of Administrative Hearings and Becton did not have jurisdiction over the case. McSurely said the case now would go totheN.C. Court ofAppeals, but lamented the fact that an ultimate decision in the case would be delayed. “The (N.C.) Court of Appeals, I am confident, wiH uphold Judge Becton. Butit accomplishes the purpose of continuing the hearing during the time of the con tinuum.” The housekeepers’ grievance was filed in 1991. It aUeged that the University dis criminated against the housekeepers based on race with regard to pay, training oppor tunities and unfair supervisory practices. It went through three steps of the UNC griev ance process before Becton agreed to hear the case in October. The possibility of a lengthy appeals pro cess has concerned many members of the UNC Housekeepers Association, and they I have adopted the slogan, “Justice Delayed is Justice Denied," to express their dissat isfaction with the appeals process. Marsha Tinnen, a housekeeper who filed the initial grievance with the University in 1991, said Wednesday that she would con tinue fighting the University but could not speak for others. “I can say for myself that I am (deter mined to go on). I don't know about other people on the (housekeepers’) committee. ” McSurely said he did not hear about the decision until about 5:30 p.m. and thought aU the housekeepers had not heard the decision Wednesday. “We haven’t had a chance to reaHy get everybody together,” McSurely said while discussing the case in Bingham HaH before a UNC student production titled, “I Have My Story To TeU.” Part of the perfor mance was based on interviews with house keepers about their experiences. Parker said he did not know much detail about the judge’s decision, only that he Please See HOUSEKEEPERS, Page 2 instrumenttosensitize,”hesaid. “Memory is the best shield against hatred.” But memory also can be the cause of hatred, Wiesel said. The war in Bosnia is an ancestral war caused by people remem bering the wrongs committed against their families in the past, he said. Wiesel, who traveled to Bosnia last Thanksgiving, said it was the most disas trous area in the world today. “Sarajevo is today the most tragic city in the world,” he said. “It has been under siege for 18 months. I went there last year, and I wiH never forget it.” Although Wiesel said he did not know the solution to ending the strife in Bosnia, he did say the world needed to stop ignor ing the situation there. He suggested that the “great” leaders of the world hold a summit meeting in Sarajevo inviting the presidents of the five republics of the former Yugoslavia. They should be forced to reach an agreement, he said. “We can’t afford to say we don’t know what’s happening there,” he said. “It’s not there, it’s here.” Despite his concern about the war in Bosnia, Wiesel said he was optimistic about other areas of world concern, especially the peace plan recently signed by the lead ers of Israel and the Palestinian nation. “I am terribly optimistic with regard to the Mddle East,” he said. “For years, everybody moved except for the Middle East. Now, aUof a sudden, the Mddle East Please See WIESEL, Page 5
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