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(The Hatty ®ar Hkd Volume 101, Issue 138 JL A century of editorial freedom mm Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world SeagrovesWill Not Face Second Trial for Shooting RALEIGH—A second trial will not be held for the Durham man whose first trial on charges that he killed a teenager who broke into his home ended with a hung jury, the state attorney general said Tues day. Attorney General Mike Easley said Michael Seagroves would not be retried on charges of voluntary manslaughter and assault with a deadly weapon. “lam convinced the state cannot obtain a unanimous verdict of guilty in this case,” Easley said at a news conference. “The case cannot be made any stronger or tried any better than it was in December.” One of the main reasons for the decision is that jurors told the Attorney General’s Office that they did not believe the prosecution’smain witness, Clifton Hester Taft, Easley said. Taft was shot and wounded as he ran from Seagroves’ house. Jackson Settles Dispute Over Sexual Abuse Charge SANTA MONICA, Calif. Without admitting guilt, Michael Jackson settled a lawsuit Tuesday that alleged he molested a 13-year-old boy. Terms of the settlement left the youngster “very happy.” Terms of the out-of-court agreement were confidential, although a source put it at at least $lO million The settlement probably could end the criminal investigation, experts said, but Jackson's problems were far from over. “I am very happy with the resolution of this matter,” said Larry Feldman, attorney for the boy, now 14. The boy, Feldman told reporters, was also “very happy with the resolution of this matter.” Jackson didn’t issue any statement but insists he didn’t do anything wrong. Clinton Asks Congress for $7.5 Billion in Quake Aid WASHINGTON The Clinton ad ministration wants $7.5 billion in federal spending to aid earthquake victims in Cali fornia, officials said Tuesday. White House Budget Director Leon Panetta said the administration would send Congress an emergency supplemental bud get request Wednesday for $6.61 billion that would be added to $897 million in contingency federal funds that already had started flowing to California. Panetta called the $7.5 billion estimate a "placeholder” that would likely rise. Panetta said that the administration would ask Congress to declare the supple mental request an “emergency” which under budget rules would allow the deficit to be increased rather than forcing Con gress to find cuts in other federal programs. Arby's Restaurants to Ban Smoking With New Policy FORTLAUDERDALE,FIa.—Arby’s Inc. will ban smokingin all of its corporate owned restaurants this summer and hopes to install the smoke-free policy in all fran chise outlets as well, company officials said Tuesday. Arby’s said it would be the first major fast-food chain to have smoke-free corpo rate restaurants nationwide. The chain, which features roast-beef sandwiches, has 2,248 restaurants in the United States, 257 of them corporate-owned. Arby’s said test markets would be set up next month in Phoenix and Pittsburgh. Each city has 24 corporate-owned restau rants. By summer, Arby’s plans to have a no-smoking policy at all corporate outlets. U.S. Troops Continue Withdrawal from Somalia MOGADISHU, Somalia Discour aged U.S. troops are withdrawing from Mogadishu’s streets faster than expected and moving to the heavily guarded seaport and airport to await the trip home. Two months before the U.S. military is scheduled to finish removing its 5,300 sol diers from the capital, the beaches at the airport are crowded with tents. Most U.S. bases and strongholds around the city have been turned over to soldiers from other countries who are staying in Somalia as U.N. peacekeepers. The American soldiers, the backbone of the operation, must finish withdrawing by March 31, along with their helicopters, howitzers, armored personnel carriers and anti-tank missiles. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Variably cloudy; high tnid 50s. THURSDAY: Chance of rain; high low 50s. Clinton Calls for Speedy Reforms on AD Fronts THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON Proclaiming progress on his promises to break gridlock and revive the nation’s economy, Presi dent Clinton challenged Congress Tues day night to move promptly on health care and welfare reform. “Our work has just begun,” he declared in his first State of the Union address. Clinton told a joint session of Congress that both reform efforts could be done this year: “We must do both at the same time.” Upping pressure on Congress to pass the health care reform plan he proposed, Clinton who has yet to veto a bill threatened to veto any measure that did not meet his standard of universal cover age. “If the legislation you send me does not guarantee every American private health insurance that can never be taken away, I Afterschool Play DTH/JUDITH SIVIGLIA Darby Landy, Matt King and Chris Pendergraft play ball after school outside the Carrboro Baptist Church on Greensboro Street. The three all attend Grey Culbreth Middle School. Students Want to Help Select New BCC Chief BY HOLLY RAMER STAFF WRITER Student leaders asked the chancellor Tuesday to appoint students to half of the slots on the selection committee for anew director of the Sonja H. Stone Black Cul tural Center. Leaders from the Black Student Move ment, the Campus Y and student govern ment sent a letter Tuesday to Chancellor Paul Hardin saying that students should have an active voice in the selection pro cess, which will begin next month. The selection committee, to be formed in February, will conduct a nationwide search for a permanent replacement for BCC director Margo Crawford, who will leave Jan. 31. “Students have played a vital role in bringing the issue of a free-standing SHS Black Cultural Center to fruition as well as being a major part of the programming and the decision-making processes concerning the black cultural center,” the letter said. “Given the history of student participa tion with the SHS Black Cultural Center, it seems logical that the selection committee for the BCC’s new leader have strong stu dent representation,” the letter said. Hardin, who received the letter Tues day night, said he would take the recom mendation into “serious consideration.” He said he is now in the process of consulting several people and considering advice on finding a replacement for Crawford. “I have begun to consult with people to get an assortment of views on how we will put a committee together," Hardin said. Provost Richard McCormick said the Most of the sighs we hear have been edited. StanislawJ. Lee WEDS^JMUM26iI994 Presidem BILL CLINTON gave his first State of the Union address Tuesday night will take this pen, veto that legislation, and we’ll come right back here and start over again.” First lady Hillary Rodham Clinton, the president’s chief adviser on health care, was seated in the gallery between AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland and Jack Smith, the chief executive of ficer of General Motors. At the top of his speech, Clinton paid special tribute to former House Speaker Thomas P. O’Neill Jr., who died earlier this month. members of the search committee would be chosen carefully. “There will be a great deal of talk about who should be on the committee," he said. “Of course, there will be students and fac ulty on the committee.” McCormick said that although assem bling a committee could take weeks, and the actual search even longer, he thought the BCC would run smoothly under In terim Director Harold Wallace, vice chan cellor of University affairs. “He is someone everyone has an enor mous amount of confidence in,” McCormick said. “It’s not like (the BCC) will drift or disintegrate in the meantime.” Once the search committee is formed, it will turn to the task of finding the best person for the job. The ideal candidate will have a variety of skills, McCormick said. “We’ll be looking for someone who has real strengths in the broad field of African- American culture,” he said. “It could be someone with an academic background, such as someone who has studied African- American art or music. It could also be a practitioner of one of those things—some one who creates culture.” McCormick said applicants would also be judged on the basis of their administra tive skills, but these skills alone would not suffice. “We don’t want someone whose sole strengths are bookkeeping and shuffling papers,” he said. Although the search for anew director will be nationwide, there still is a possibil ity that the position could be filled by a local person, McCormick said. Please See SEARCH, Page 6 O’Neill’s eldest son, Tommy O’Neill, sat in the gallery near Mrs. Clinton. Clinton called the late speaker “a giant who presided over this house with such force and grace,” drawing the first of many rounds of applause. In the formal Republican response, Sen ate GOP Leader Bob Dole signalled a fierce election-year battle lies ahead over health care, as he sharply criticized Clinton’s plan. “More cost. Less choice. More taxes. Less quality. More government control. Less control for you and your family,” he said in remarks prepared for after Clinton completed his speech. “That’s what the president’s govem ment-run plan is likely to give you.” Dole called instead for a more modest proposal that he said would offer greater access to health care for all. 10-Point Guarantee Outlines Treatment of Rape Victims BY JESSICA FRANK STAFF WRITER In an effort to increase the reporting of sexual assaults, Univer sity Police has adopted a 10-point guarantee to ensure that victims of sexual assaults will be treated with courtesy and respect. Advocates for Victims of Sexual Assaults, formerly Women Against Rape, worked with the Campus Security Committee and University Police to develop the new policy. Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, assistant dean of students, said the 10-point guarantee would be distributed on 3-inch-by-6-inch cards to various student agencies, including the Office ofthe Dean of Students, University Housing Department, Student Psycho logical Services, Student Health and University Police. Under the 10-point guarantee, University Police promise to arrange a one- on-one meeting, not to release the victim’s name, not to blame or prejudge the victim, to assist in arranging for medical treatment, to fully investigate the case and to considerthe case seriously regardless of gender. Ruth Campbell, co-president of Advocates for Victims of Sexual Assaults, said the myth that police officers were uncaring, impersonal and intimidating led to the discomfort people felt in reporting sexual assaults. “The UNC Police is not like that, and it’s important that students know,” Campbell said. “The 10-point guarantee is a way to show victims that they will be supported and treated with respect when they report sexual assaults. This should result in increased reporting.” Campbell said University Police were very easy to work with and had already been following most of the guidelines in the 10- point guarantee. “They had already done it it just wasn’t articulated,” Campbell said. Maj. Donald Gold of University Police said no rapes had been reported in the past year. However, according to the 1993 Campus Security Report, 11 sexual offenses were reported to University Police, said Anderson-Thompkins. Sexual assault includes any type of sexual crime except for rape, Gold said. “This does not indicate that rapes do not occur on this cam pus,” Gold said. “They’re just not reported to us.” Gold said that it was more common for sexual assault victims to report the crime to the Orange County Rape Crisis Center or Please See GUARANTEE, Page 2 Local Companies Boost Town Security Fund BYJOHN BLACKWELL STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill businesses and citizens are continuing to support an experimental citi zen patrol program initiated last fall to help local police fight crime. Local businesses and individuals have contributed $7,500 to the town security fund since Oct. 15., town finance director Jim Baker said Tuesday. The Chapel Hill Police Department started the citizen patrol program last No vember with a $30,000 contribution from the Village Companies, WCHL radio and the Village Company Foundation, an or ganization funded by the 10 Village Com panies. The police department has used the fund to hire citizens for part-time patrol work. Residents patrol file streets with hand-held radios to notify the police of any crime or potentially dangerous situations they observe. A.D. Yates, ownerofY atesMotorCom pany, which made a donation to the fund, said he donated money because he was concerned about crime in the community. He added that it still was too early to tell if the patrol project would be a success. “I certainly hope it’s going to be effec tive,” Yates said. "If we can’t have patrol by the police in sufficient numbers, it’s a good idea to have someone else looking out for those who cause trouble.” Chapel Hill Police Chief Ralph Pendergraph said the additional money would only help to sustain the program through this fiscal year, which ends June 30. “I don’t think it will let us expand the program,” Pendergraph said. “But we’ve got the staff a little bit closer to where we want to have it.” The citizen security assistants work Thursday through Saturday from 9 p.m. to Clinton took advantage of— and some ofthe credit for—the improving economy to call for Congress to “continue our jour ney of renewal” by enacting the remainder of his domestic program. “We replaced drift and deadlock with renewal and re form,” Clinton said. Tumingtocrime, Clinton voiced strong support for legislation that would put 100,000 more police on the beat, send three-time felons to prison for life and ban assault weapons. “Violent crime and the fear it provokes are crippling our society, limiting personal freedom and fraying the ties that bind us,” Clinton said. “Those who commit crimes must be punished, and those who commit repeated violent crimes must be told: Commit a third violent crime and you’ll be put away, and put away for good. Three strikes and “It’s not that 1 think the program is the answer to the (crime) problem, but its a first step. Just from the publicity value alone it has merit. People are paying attention to the problem. ” DAVE ANNA The Resolute Building Company owner 2 a.m. They are paid $6 to $6.50 an hour, one-fourth the cost of overtime pay for Chapel Hill police officers. The citizen patrol also will be used to assist police officers at special events, such as the Franklin Street celebration on Hal loween. Using specially trained citizens to handle tasks such as directing traffic can free po lice officers for more important work, Pendergraph said. The police department has hired about 15 citizens to work on the patrol since its initiation last fall. Town officials had hoped to hire as many as 20 when the program was initiated. “We feel that we’re just beginning to get a core group of employees that we can really count on,” Pendergraph said. Most of the money collected for the fund was spent on jackets, vests, hand-held radios and salaries for the civilian patrol lers. , The amount of money spent on training varied from employee to employee. “There are still some capital needs that we have to satisfy,” Pendergraph said. “We need new hand-held radios. If we don’t have enough to go to all the citizen patrolmen, our officers have to give up theirs, and that’s something I don’t want to News/Features/Arts/Spom 962-0243 Business/ Advertising 962-1163 C 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. Ah rights reserved. you’re out.” He also urged sportsmen to “join us in a common campaign to reduce gun vio lence.” The emphasis on crime follows polls suggesting that crime has become the number-one concern of most Americans. The president also included a strong pitch for overhauling the nation’s welfare system. He said his welfare reform package would withhold certain benefits to preg nant teens. “We will say to teenagers, 'lf you have a child out of wedlock, we will no longer give you a check to set up a separate household. We want families to stay to gether.” Welfare reform was given added em phasis in the speech after Senate Finance Committee Chairman Daniel Patrick Please See CUNTON, Page 7 New Task Force To Study Abuse In Relationships BY DAWN BRYANT STAFF WRITER Have you or someone you know ever been involved in an abusive rela tionship? The increased number of students who might respond “yes” to that ques tion contributed to the formation of a task force to study domestic and rela tionship violence at UNC. Als-member task force met for the first time Tuesday in the Student Union to begin its examination of such inci dents on campus and to discuss ways to educate students about the issue and provide services to victims and abusers. The Office of the Dean of Students received 11 reports of relationship and domestic violence in 1993. “The eleven reports should not be taken as indicative; hidden assault occurs more often than reported ones, ” said Frederic Schroeder, UNC dean of students. Members of the group include ad ministrators, representatives from the Honor Court and from Student Legal Services, Mary Sechriest from Univer sity Counsel and the Chapel Hill Po lice Department. Please See TASK FORCE, Page 2 happen.” Pendergraph said he did not know if the program would be continued after the end of the fiscal year —a budget plan has not yet been made. “That’s an issue the (town) council has to address.” Dave Anna, owner of The Resolute Building Company, said his business made a donation to the fund as a token of his “spiritual support” for the program. “It’s not that I think the program is the answer to the (crime) problem, but it’s a first step,” Anna said. “Just from the pub licity value alone it has merit. People are paying attention to the problem.” Anna said the program was a positive step because it had increased awareness of the town’s crime problem, but added that the town should not become dependent on private money to fund the citizen patrol. “I think it’s a fundamental mistake for private money to be funding something that the town government should be pro viding,” Anna said. Pendergraph said the program had been criticized as being ineffective, especially after the attack of four New York men in the downtown area last November. “The perception was that we could have (the security assistants) working in a two week period, but that’s just not realistic," Pendergraph said. “At that time we had only hired about five of them. Their presence would not have had any effect on those involved in the crime.” Pendergraph said he thought the secu rity assistants could still contribute to crime reduction. “The more we develop a visible pres ence, the more impact it will have.” Anyone who might be interested in part time employment as a citizen security as sistant should go to the police headquar ters on Airport Road for more informa tion.
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