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(Slip Sally ®ar Hppl Volume 101, Issue 130 V—' A century of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Clinton Gives In, Requests Prosecutor for Thrift Case WASHINGTON—YieIding to relent less political pressure, President Clinton asked Wednesday that Attorney General Janet Reno name a special counsel to in vestigate his investment in an Arkansas land development. “The president requests that this inves tigation be conducted as expeditiously as possible,” Ciiiiton adviser George Stephanopoulos said in announcing the White House’s abrupt strategy shift. Stephanopoulos said Clinton had full confidence that the Justice Department could conduct its own impartial investiga tion of the Whitewater Development Corp. But he said that “innuendo, political pos turing and irresponsible accusations” by Republicans had given Clinton little choice but to call for an investigation. Rehnquist Blocks Woman From Entering The Citadel CHARLESTON, S.C. The gates of The Citadel opened to a woman armed with a court order Wednesday. But after Shannon Faulkner registered to take day classes, the nation’s top judge blocked her from attending them. At the request of the 151-year-old mili tary college, Chief Justice William Rehnquist granted a stay to keep the 18- year-old student from attending classes Thursday Faulkner, who plans to major in educa tion, walked several hundred yards through a driving rain and a horde of reporters to register in Bond Hall, the turreted admin istration building that dominates one end of The Citadel’s parade ground. Prosecutors Axe Inquiry Into New Jersey Election NEWARK, N.J. Federal and state prosecutors said Wednesday that investi gators found no evidence to support allega tions of illegal payments to suppress the black vote in the November election. The investigation resulted from explo sive comments made and later recanted by Ed Rollins, campaign manager for Repub lican Gov.-elect Christie Whitman. Rollins’ suggestion that black ministers took pay ments to discourage voter turnout out raged the clergy, who still have two federal lawsuits pending. “I said from the beginning that the only way to settle this was with a full investiga tion,” Whitman said after prosecutors an nounced they were ending their inquiry. Clinton Arrives in Russia For Three Days of Talks MOSCOW With President Clinton arriving Wednesday to bolster Russian democracy, Russia’s new parliament al ready was degenerating into a free-for-all of bickering, name-calling and threats. A dozen anti-American demonstrators who stood in a light snow outside the U.S. Embassy said Clinton shouldn’t even bother comingto Moscow. “Clinton —we don’t need your advice,” said one demonstrator’s sign. Clinton and President Boris Yeltsin are scheduled to hold three days of talks on nuclear weapons, the possible expansion ofNATO and the sorry state of the Russian economy. Clinton also planned meetings withleadingpoliticians, including Yeltsin’s opponents, to get a first-hand look at Russia’s emerging democracy. Jurors Hear Testimony From Wife in Bobbitt Trial MANASSAS, Va. Lorena Bobbitt nearly broke down on the witness stand Wednesday as she described how her hus band repeatedly beat her during their mar riage and forced her to perform various sexual acts against her will. Bobbitt, who is on trial on charges of malicious wounding, testified about a se ries of beatings she said her husband in flicted on her shortly after their marriage in 1989. At one point in afternoon testimony, Bobbitt nearly broke down on the stand as her lawyer asked her whether her husband had ever forced her to have anal sex. Bobbitt testified that he forced her to have anal sex against her will and that the sex act left her bleeding. Every time they had sex after that, she said, he would threaten her with anal sex. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Mostly cloudy; high near 50. FRIDAY: Mostly cloudy, colder, chance of afternoon snowflurries; high near 40. Report Touts Strides in Housekeepers’ Pay BY HOLLY STEPP UNIVERSITY EDITOR Chancellor Paul Hardin released a re port today designed to inform students, staff and employees of the University’s efforts to improve the working and salary conditions of UNC housekeepers. Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancel lor for facilities management who helped prepare the report, said Wednesday that the report’s purpose was to give a detailed account of what improvements the Uni versity had made in housekeepers’ pay and working conditions. “The report was designed to detail, in black and white, what the University has or has not done to better the conditions of our lowest-paid employees, which includes housekeepers,” Runberg said. “We in administration felt that some of the information presented by the local media has been inaccurate and did not reflect the positive efforts of the University on the behalf of the housekeepers.” The University’s departments of hu man resources and facilities management Kill trill Erullr I™S|§ vMhv HP *v~ 1 I WBS&k.,. DTH/MISSY BELLO UNC point guard Marion Jones and Virginia guard Jenny Boucek dive for a loose ball in UVa.’s 77-75 win Wednesday. Wahoos Humble 4th-Ranked Tar Heels BYZACHARY ALBERT ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR If only Sylvia Crawley could slide on some ruby red slippers and tap her heels together, maybe the venue ofWednesday’s UNC-UVa. matchup in the Smith Center could have been switched. “To me, It just doesn’t seem like home,” Women's Basketball Virginia 77 UNC 75 Crawley said. “We’ve played our last few games here, and we’re getting adjusted, but there’s no place like Carmichael.” But the game went on as scheduled in the Dome, where the No. 15 Cavaliers upended the fourth-ranked Tar Heels, 77- Newspaper Alleges Kerrigan Rival’s Husband Planned Attack THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PORTLAND, Ore.—Figure skating champion Tonya Harding abruptly canceled an appearance Wednesday in Virginia amid reports that her husband and bodyguard arranged last week’s attack on rival Nancy Kerrigan. A Portland minister went to the FBI after hearing a tape recording in which the two men allegedly spoke with a “hit man” from Arizona about attacking Kerrigan, a private investigator said Wednesday. A law enforcement source in Washington told The Associated Press that the FBI would announce arrests in the Kerrigan case Wednesday. Meanwhile, Detroit police said they might hold a news conference. The FBI alerted Kerrigan’s family to an impending development, said Dewey Blanton, a spokesman for Kerrigan. The Oregonian newspaper reported Wednesday that Lose an hour in the morning, and you will spend all day looking for it. Richard Whately Chapal Hill North Ciroliaa THURSDAY, JANUARY 13,1994 prepared the eight-page report in Decem ber at Hardin’s request. The report is in cluded in today’s edition of The Daily Tar Heel as a paid insertion and will be distrib uted in the University Gazette, a employee newsletter published by the University. The report, divided into five sections, covers the issues of compensation, train ing, supervision and work conditions. An additional section also covers the history of the grievances filed by seven UN C house keepers. Laurie Charest, associate vice chancel lor for human resources who also helped prepare the report, said the charges made by members of the UNC Housekeepers Association steering committee reported by the area media were in direct contradic tion of actual events. “There have been some significant changes made over the past years, ” Charest said. “In 1990, there were no training pro grams at the University, and now there are." The reports lists the state’s lowest pay grades and the salary level at which the University hires new employees. 75. Virginia ran its record to 10-2 overall and 3-0 in the conference, while UNC lost its share of first place in the ACC, falling to 11-1,2-1 in the conference. The Tar Heels have played their last several games in the Smith Center due to floor repair in Carmichael Auditorium. Although the team posted a season-high attendance of 3,671, UNC head coach Sylvia Hatchell agreed with Crawley that the home-court feel was lacking. “This is a tremendous facility, but it’s justtoobigforus,” Hatchellsaid. “Welove Carmichael, and I love walking in here and looking at all the tradition, but as a coach, I like the closeness of Carmichael, the atmosphere, and I really do think that if we the FBI was investigating Harding’s husband, JeffGillooly, and her bodyguard, Shawn Eric Eckardt, in the attack on Kerrigan Jan. 6 at the U.S. Figure Skating Champion ships in Detroit. In that attack, a man brandishing a club struck Kerrigan after a practice session in Detroit, severely braising her right leg and forcing her to withdraw from the competi tion. He escaped. The International Committee of the U.S. Figure Skat ing Association named Kerrigan to the team anyway, along with Harding, who won the U.S. championship at the trials. Harding has denied any link to the attack, saying she felt cheated of the chance to compete with Kerrigan. She was scheduled to fly Wednesday to Fairfax, Va., for the Nationsßank U.S. Olympic Festival on Ice. But she canceled, said Barry Geissler, general managers of the Patriot Center, the site of the event. The state allows hiring at a salary below the minimum salary for a given pay grade, but the report states that the University hires at the minimum salary for each pay grade. The Office of State Personnel recently established anew special entry rate of $14,549 for all full-time, permanent state employees as of Jan. 1, which means that the base salary of 133 employees in pay grades 50 through 55 will see more money in their next paycheck. According to the report, the average “base salary” for a full-time UNC house keeper is $14,897. Information about meetings with the Orange County delegation to the state’s General Assembly also was included in the report. In the fall of 1992, the Physical Plant sponsored a series of meetings with housekeepers to develop pay proposals. The majority of housekeepers supported a pay proposal that would eliminate pay grades 50, 51 and 52. Wayne Jones, vice chancellor for business and finance, re- Please See HOUSEKEEPERS, Page 2 had been in Carmichael, it would’ve helped us out tonight, but you have* to adjust to situations. “I do appreciate the big crowd, I just hope the people will come back for Geor gia Tech.” Sunday’s matchup with the Jackets will be held, incidentally, in Carmichael. The contest remained tight throughout the night, with neither team forging ahead by more than single digits. However, the UNC shots just didn’t drop down the stretch. North Carolina remained in the game in the final two minutes, despite losing Crawley—who finished with 12 —Tonya Please See VIRGINIA, Page 9 A representative of Bill Graham Presents, the event’s promoter, said Harding told producers she was canceling because she’s “having a few media problems.” No one answered the telephone at Harding’s house, and her coach, Diane Rawlinson, did not reply to a message left on her answering machine. A call to the U.S. Figure Skating office was not returned. The private investigator, Gary Crowe, said Harding evidently knew nothing about any plot to attack Kerrigan. Crowe said the minister, Eugene Saunders, came to him for advice after an acquaintance played the tape recording for him. Crowe said Saunders told him the tape recording made it clear that Kerrigan was the target. Saunders told him a man’s voice on the tape asked, “Why don’t we just kill her?” The response was: “We don’t Please See KERRIGAN, Page 11 Average Housekeepers Salaries for UNC Schools UNC housekeepers' salaries are comparable to those at other UNC-system institutions. i WinaovSaleni Stale $13,600 $13,800 $14,000 $14,200 $14,400 $14,600 $14,800 $16,000 $16,200 Avenge Annual Salary SOURCE: OFFICE OF STATE PERSONNEL DTH/JUSTIN SCHEEF Chapel Hill, Carrboro Crime Rates Decrease BY KATHRYN HASS STAFF WRITER Although the media spotlighted crime in Chapel Hill for most of last year, the Chapel Hill Police Department’s 1993 crime report shows that crime has decreased in the town by 16 percent. Chapel Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said the report was definitely en couraging, but she added that the police department would not want people to think the town was free of crime concerns. Among the types of crimes that dropped were rapes, sexual assaults, aggravated assaults, burglaries and motor vehicle thefts. “We’re real glad to see (the decrease),” she said. “Our concern is that we don’t ■want people, or ourselves, to get compla cent. We would certainly like to see it decrease again next year.” The July killing of jogger Kristin Lodge- Miller on Estes Drive had a heavy impact on the public’s perception of crime in Chapel Hill, Cousins said. “It definitely impacted the community, ” she said. “Any time we have any type of horrible crime like that, the community reacts.” The large number of assaults that oc curred downtown during the summer and fall months also publicized crime in the town. The sharp increase of violence in a Codes to Thwart Deceivers At Senior Ticket Distribution BYRACHAEL LANDAU STAFF WRITER Even if you look older than you really are, you’ll have a harder time sneaking in lines for basketball tickets reserved for se niors. Due to problems in the past with senior ticket distribution for basketball tickets, each athletic pass now has a code that specifies what program and year a student is enrolled in. “They are simply to define more clearly who’s in their last year of school here,” said Todd Austel, ticket director for the Carolina Athletic Association. “Many stu dents took advantage of us not totally know ing what year they were in. ” The senior tickets for the Feb. 26 game against Florida State University are only available for those people in their last year of their program. “The reason we do (the senior distribu tion) is because we want seniors, since it’s News/Features/Aits/Spotts Bus mess/Advertising C 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. short amount of time concerned citizens, Cousins said. Also, the steady increase of criminal incidents has put local police reports in the headlines. “There were a number of things that got people concerned for their safety,” she said. “I think that people in Chapel Hill feel less secure than they have in the past.” An exceptionally high number of date and acquaintance rapes were reported in 1992, and Cousins said the number had nowhere to go but down. The number of reported rapes and sexual assaults dropped from 40 to 16. “Rape and sexual assault really went back into the normal range,” she said. “What we think happened was that in 1992 there was a big peak.” Cousins also said there was an increase in the number of quick crimes ones in which windows are broken, and expensive objects are grabbed out of homes and used to get cash to eventually buy drags. “Being robbed, there’s a real potential for some danger and even though it was a small increase, there is an area for some real concern,” she said. Cousins reports an increase in the num ber of suspicious situation calls from resi dents who are bothered either by prank phone calls or by strange people in the Please See CRIME, Page 2 their last chance to go to a game, to be able to sit in as good of seats as possible,” said CAA President Daniel Thornton. “That’s what it is for, and we want to keep it that way.” The codes that will be honored for the senior distribution are AS4, JO4, NU4, BA4, ED4, HU4, MU4, PYS and DH4 for undergraduates. Graduate codes that will be honored are DN4, LW3, MD4 and MB2. Students who are not included by these codes and are in the last year of their programs must prove their status. They can do this by having their dean write a note to the CAA showing their eligibility for the tickets. “We will make allowances for anyone who can prove they are graduating, ” Austel said. Thornton said that if a graduate school or a student was not represented by the Please See TICKETS, Page 2 Editor's Note The Daily Tar Heel is looking for new staff members for the spring semester. If you are interested in writing, copy editing, photography, graphics, layout, illus trating or drawing editorial cartoons, come by the DTH office (Union Suite 104) and pick up an application. No experience is necessary, except for the photography and graphics desks. There is an additional application if you are inter ested in photography. All applications are due by 5 p.m. Tues day. Call 962-0245 if you have any ques tions. It's going to be a fun and exciting semes ter at the DTH. Don't miss out. 962-0245 962-1163
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