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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Harding's Ex-Husband
Arrested for Conspiracy
PORTLAND, Ore.—Tonya Harding’s
ex-husband was arrested Wednesday in
the alleged plot to injure Olympic rival
Nancy Kerrigan, and authorities released
an affidavit with statements linking Harding
for the first time to the attack.
Harding’s bodyguard said her ex-hus
band told him the skater made phone calls
to determine Kerrigan’s practice schedule,
according to the affidavit.
Harding has not been charged and has
denied involvement. Olympic officials have
said Harding would be removed from the
team if she was implicated in the attack.
Jeff Gillooly, who also has denied in
volvement in the attack, surrendered at the
FBI office in Portland. He was charged
with conspiracy in a warrant issued Tues
day, the same day authorities questioned
Harding for 10 hours.
California Begins Cleanup;
Clinton Orders Federal Aid
LOS ANGELES Brick by brick,
Southern Californians salvaged what they
could Wednesday from the earthquake
that could end up matching Hurricane
Andrew’s S3O billion cost.
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gathered steam.
Throughout the city, residents rushed
into and out of quake-damaged apartments
and homes, tossing clothing and furniture
into pickups and rental vans before build
ing inspectors could condemn their homes.
President Clinton surveyed the damage
Wednesday and ordered $45 million in
initial quake relief.
In a taste of post-quake life in Los
Angeles, thousands of commuters spent
hours negotiating the roads to get to work.
Cold Temperatures Wont
LetUp Until the Weekend
The Big Chill of’94 smashed record low
temperatures Wednesday across North
Carolina, closing schools and testing the
ability of electric utilities to keep up with
demand for power.
So far, five deaths have been blamed on
the cold, and forecasters aren’t predicting
any relief until the weekend. Charlotte
broke a century-old low temperature with
a reading of 6 degrees, while several other
N.C. cities also established new lows.
In Raleigh, the low temperature was 2
degrees with wind chills dropping to minus
31 degrees, causing massive problems for
students trying to get to school Wednesday
morning.
Report: Pace of Economy
Showing Improvement
WASHINGTON—TheU.S.economy
was showing fresh “signs of acceleration”
as 1994 began, including new factory hir
ing and strong consumer spending, the
Federal Reserve said Wednesday.
The report was accompanied by other
government figures showing the nation’s
trade deficit narrowing slightly in Novem
ber, helped by a drop in foreign oil prices.
The Federal Reserve, in its summary of
regional business conditions, said, “Eco
nomic activity continued to expand with
signs of acceleration in some sectors.”
In the flat language habitually used in
the central bank’s reports, that amounted
to the most positive view of the economy
since before the 1990-91 recession.
Iran-Contra Report Could
Affect North's Campaign
WASHINGTON Oliver North says
Iran-Contra prosecutor Lawrence Walsh
has “fired his last shot.” But Walsh’s final
report could find its mark in North’s cam
paign for the U.S. Senate.
No candidate likes to have his trial on
12 felony charges replayed page by page—
and that’s just what Walsh did Tuesday in
issuing his final report on the Iran-Contra
scandal.
North is running in Virginia for the
GOP nomination for the U.S. Senate seat
now held by Democrat Chuck Robb.
Democrats and other North critics were
pounding the former White House aide for
his Iran-Contra role even before Walsh
issued his final report.
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Weather
TODAY: Partly cloudy; high near 30.
FRIDAY: Decreasing cloudiness; high
mid-30s.
Panel Proposes 3 Visitation Options to BOT
Trustees to Vote on Housing
Contract at Jan. 28 Meeting
BY RACHAEL LANDAU
STAFF WRITER
The University’s visitation study com
mittee decided Wednesday to recommend
to the UNC Board of Trustees that stu
dents be given a choice between three visi
tation policies.
If the BOT passes the proposal at its Jan.
28 meeting, students will be able to choose
between round-the-clock visitation, 24-
hour visitation on weekends and a 1 a.m.
curfew on weekdays, or the current policy.
The current visitation policy states that
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Carl Smith, assistant to the provost and Suzanne Strandhoy, a senior from Winston-Salem, join hands Wednesday during Campus Y's 'A Show of Hands'
program in Polk Place. The event brought people from all walks of life together to join hands in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. See story on page 3.
Congress Places Fee Referendum on Ballot
BY HOLLY RAMER
AND MARISSA JONES
STAFF WRITERS
Student Congress passed a bill Wednesday night estab
lishing a student referendum on reducing student fees.
The referendum, which will appear on the Feb. 8
campus election ballot, will allow undergraduates and
graduate students to vote to decrease their student fees by
$3. The referendum also will allow graduate students to
allocate a greater percentage of their student fees to the
Graduate and Professional Students Federation. Cur
rently 15 percent of graduate student fees are given to the
GPSF. If passed, the referendum would increase the
allotment to 25 percent.
The bill was introduced by Student Body President Jim
Copland. Student government’s funds increased because
Student Legal Services and The Daily Tar Heel no longer
receive money from fees allocated by Student Congress.
Congress voted against another referendum that would
Remedial Gasses Reteach High School Material
BY MARTY MINCHIN
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
Every day, high school teachers across
the state walk into their classrooms to
teach algebra, reading and writing. Like
wise, some graduate students and profes
sors spend their day teaching exactly the
same material —the only difference being
that their students are enrolled at a univer
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theUNCsystem,
offers remedial courses to students who are
not prepared to do college-level work. Stu
dents systemwide take classes in math,
composition and reading to leam the skills
they will need to pass regular college
courses.
The Freshman Performance Report,
commissioned by the N.C. General As-
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opposite-sex guests are allowed in dormi
tory rooms from 9 a.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday
through Thursday and from 9 a.m. to 2
a.m. Friday and Saturday.
Visitation committee Chairman Will
iam Jordan said the committee’s goal was
to make as many people as possible happy.
“From a practical standpoint, I think
we can help everybody if we have that
option,” said Jordan, who also is a trustee.
“We have to reflect the wishes of students
and not infringe on the rights of students
who don’t want 24-hour visitation.”
In November, trustees rescinded the 24-
hour visitation pilot program, saying they
were not aware of the program before it
was implemented in September.
They also said they had been flooded
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have polled students on whether they support a free
standing Sonja Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center.
Rep. Joey Stansbury, Dist. 11, who introduced the bill,
said he thought it would be interesting to know the
students’ opinions on the BCC issue. “I think this is one
of the biggest issues on this campus.lt would be good to
know what students’ opinions on this are.”
Rep. Andrew Cohen, Dist. 6, said he was opposed to
the bill because the information gained would be useless.
“What are we going to do with the knowledge that a lot of
students are against it?” he said. “I don’t care what the
mob thinks. By and large, people are idiots.”
Two-thirds of the vote was required to pass the act, but
the bill failed 11-11.
In other business, congress appropriated $2,820 to
Students for the Advancement of Race Relations after
two hours of debate. The funds will be used to bring
speakers and performers to UNC for Race Relations
Week, scheduled for the week of April 10-16.
Members of SARR hope to bring Angela Davis, a
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sembly in 1989, shows that 19.9 percent of
freshmen who graduated from N.C. public
high schools.in 1991 and entered UNC
system universities enrolled in at least one
remedial course.
Gary Barnes, associate vice president
for planning in the UNC system’s Institute
of Government, said all remedial courses
with calls from irate citizens.
Students had overwhelmingly voted for
the program in September, which affected
six of the 29 residence halls on campus.
Jordan said trustees were not against
the program totally, but they would have
preferred to have been involved in the
decision.
“I didn’t agree with how it was imple
mented, but I do agree with offering op
tions,” Jordan said at Wednesday’s meet
ing.
If the BOT passes the committee’s pro
posal, students would mark their prefer
ences for campus areas and visitation poli
cies on their housing contracts.
The contracts also would ask students
to indicate which is more important—the
black feminist known for her past affiliation with the Black
Panthers, to the University.
Laura-Juhe Perreault, co-chairwoman of Race Rela
tions Week, said the money would enable SARR to foster
communication among student groups. “We focus on the
human, not the political side of race relations. Race Rela
tions Week is a perfect time to bring people together.”
But several congress members questioned the political
views of the proposed speakers and whether the speakers
would encourage students to attend the week’s events.
Stansbury said he objected to Davis because she would not
bring students of different races together but instead would
push some students away. “If people like me are part of the
problem, the stimulus should be to try to bring conservative
people to these things,” he said.
Rep. Andrew Ballen, Dist. 15, said he had disagreed
with ffie ideologies of past SARR speakers, but that the
overall goals of the group merited funding.
Congress also approved a $ 13,000 loan to Student Tele
vision for new equipment.
taught in the UNC-system last year cost
$2.3 million. The annual budget for the
system totaled about $1.2 billion.
“It was just a fraction of a percent of the
entire budget,” Barnes said.
Although remedial classes do not put
much of a financial strain on the UNC
system, many professors and graduate stu
dents have to teach the classes when they
could be teaching higher-level classes.
UNC-CH math Professor Bill Smith
said that Math 10, a “developmental”
course equivalent to high school Algebra
11, used a lot of the department’s resources
because so many sections had to be taught.
All UNC-CH students must either take
or place out of Math 10 to fill the
University’s math requirement.
Last semester, more than 700 students
were enrolled in Math 10, which was di
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housing area or visitation policy.
Housing officials then would try to ac
commodate the wishes of as many stu
dents as possible. They would notify par
ents of the new program through mailings
and explain it thoroughly in the summer
orientation information sessions.
Housing officials said they hoped to
have the same visitation policy in effect
throughout a dorm if possible, but might
have to resort to having the policy vary by
floors. The committee said the proposal, if
passed, would not be implemented imme
diately because details had to be worked
out.
Residence Hall Association President
Jan Davis said offering several options
would be a good solution.
Deadhead Graffiti Covers
Front of Hardin’s Home
BYPHUONGLY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Vandals used the chancellor’s home as
a canvas recently.
The graffiti artists spray-painted, in red
and black, obscenities and phrases such as
"Grateful Dead,” “Dead Rules” and
“Dead” on the front door and columns of
Chancellor Paul Hardin’s brick house,
University Police said Wednesday.
They also painted symbols onto the
Country Club Road home, but police could
not identify what the symbols were be
cause apparently the vandals had run out
of paint when they were drawing them,
said University Police Detective Angela
Carmon.
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“If we give an option, we will be able to
meet all students’ needs,” Davis said.
Committee members said the options
would allow residents to be more assertive
about their rights.
“It is easier to be assertive if you have
elected for those guidelines in effect in your
dorm,” Jordan said. He said peer pressure
played a big role in students’ actions to
ward the policy and violations.
AlCalarco, assistant director ofUniver
sity housing, said, “I think the strength in
this program is the focus in roommate
rights. This is the first time it has really
been talked about.”
He said the proposal would be success-
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Spangler
Donates
Millions
To UNC
BY HOLLY STEPP
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Officials of the C.D. Spangler Founda
tion announced Wednesday that it would
donate $1 million a year for 10 years to the
UNC system and its 16 campuses to be
used for new and existing professorships.
The foundation is controlled by C.D.
Spangler Jr., who is the UNC-system presi
dent, and his family. Spangler is the direc
tor of the family foundation, which holds
assets of SSO million and gives primarily to
universities and colleges. The foundation
is named after Spangler’s father.
“It is a family foundation, and we feel
very strongly about education in North
Carolina as well as throughout the na
tion,” Spangler said. “And this was a great
opportunity to act on those feelings.”
The grantwill be used to fund at least 16
new endowed distinguished professorships,
one at each university. The Chapel Hill
campus’s professorship will be named af
ter Raymond Dawson, a former Univer
sity professor, and will be given in the area
of political science.
Dawson taught in the political science
department and worked with Spangler and
former UNC-system President William
Friday as the senior vice president of aca
demic affairs. He currently teaches in the
political science department of the Univer
sity of North Carolina at Wilmington.
Dawson said he was overwhelmed that
the Spangler Foundation named the pro
fessorship in his honor.
“I was speechless when I found out
about the professorship. (Spangler) really
likes to surprise people,” he said. “It really
is quite an honor that I never expected.”
Dawson said the award was the culmi
nation of a long history with the University
and the UNC system. He came to the
University in 1960 and taught until 1972
when he left to work with the UNC system’s
General Administration.
Dawson also served as dean of the Col
lege of Arts and Sciences, and both of his
daughters attended UNC.
The grant should help all the UNC
system schools improve their quality of
teaching. “In my eight years at the univer
sity, I have become convinced that if we
are to have a great university, we must
have great professors,” Spangler said.
“By helping to provide distinguished
professorships, we can improve the com
petitiveness of our universities in seeking
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Carmon said she did not know the cost
of damages.
Hardin and his wife, Barbara, were out
of town when the vandalism occurred,
Cannon said. Neighbors reported the inci
dent at 5 p.m. Monday, she said.
Police have no leads or suspects and are
continuing to investigate, she said.
Hardin could not be reached for com
ment Wednesday.
In December, about a dozen Grateful
Dead fans protested the chancellor’s deci
sion to bar the rock band from playing at
the Smith Center. Hardin said he was con
cerned that the conceit would mean safety
problems and inconvenience for the town.
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