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IN THE NEWS
Top stones from the state, nation and world
Mexican Officials, Rebels
Begin Peace Negotiations
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS,
Mexico—Masked Indian rebels sat down
with government mediators Monday in a
16th-century cathedral tobeginformal talks
on ending an uprising for economic and
political reforms.
Hundreds of journalists, Red Cross
workers, human-rights advocates and mili
tary police armed only with truncheons
thronged around the ornate Santo
Domingo Cathedral.
Rebel negotiators spent the night in the
cathedral after arriving from jungle hide
outs Sunday. They discussed procedural
issues Sunday night with the government’s
peace envoy, Manuel Camacho Solis and
Roman Catholic Bishop Samuel Ruiz.
Marcos said the rebels did not expect a
quick agreement.
NATO Not Planning Action
Against Serbian Artillery
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
With the threat of North Atlantic Treaty
Organization air strikes averted, peace
keepers Monday moved in to control the
remaining Serb guns around Sarajevo while
diplomats pushed for a political settlement.
Immediate air strikes against remaining
Serb artillery positions were unnecessary,
NATO and U.N. officials said.
Although some Serb guns remained in
place after the 1 a.m. Monday deadline,
the Serbs were credited with trying to com
ply with an ultimatum that could have put
NATO into combat for the first time ever.
Russians, Americans and Europeans
called for momentum to use this halt in the
siege of as a model for a wider settlement in
Bosnia after 22 months of war.
North Korea Questions
Nuclear Site Inspections
VIENNA, Austria Five days after
agreeing to new international nuclear in
spections, North Korea threatened Mon
day to back out if it was pressured to
expand their scope.
U.N. officials said it appeared that North
Korea was trying to pressure the United
States into making other concessions.
Among its demands is the cancellation
of joint U.S. and South Korean military
maneuvers, diplomats said.
In a statement Monday, North Korea’s
Foreign Ministry said Pyongyang would
block inspections at seven declared nuclear
sites if pressure continued about othersites.
If Washington applies pressure, “it would
be impossible to implement the points al
ready agreed upon,” an unidentified spokes
man said.
Dissidents Say Iraq Killed
Hundreds of Prisoners
TEHRAN, Iran lraqi exiles claim
Saddam Hussein’s regime recently slaugh
tered hundreds of prisoners at the infa
mous Radwaniyeh death camp southwest
of Baghdad in one of the largest mass
executions reported in Iraq.
Most were Shiite Muslims who have
been rounded up by the Baghdad govern
ment since an ill-fated uprising in southern
Iraqi right after Saddam’s Gulf War defeat
in early 1991.
Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim,
a senior Shiite cleric and leading dissident,
and Hussein Sharastani, who monitors
human rights abuses in Iraq, told The As
sociated Press in separate interviews that
refugees reported that the Radwaniyeh
executions took place three months ago.
Hunt Puts Cow on the Line
As Guarantee for Budget
RALEIGH—Gov. JimHuntisn’twill
ing to bet the farm on the budget projec
tions he has supplied to the legislature for
this crime session, but he is willing to put
up a beef cow.
Hunt said on Monday that there would
be enough money next year to pay for his
s9l million crime package as well as con
tinuing Smart Start, improving education
and pay raises for state workers.
But the General Assembly’s budget
writing committees have greeted Hunt’s
projections with skepticism.
“I wish they’d believe our numbers,"
Hunt said. “I’m willing to bet one of my
very good beef cattle on our numbers.”
The bet would amount to sßooto $1,400,
agriculture department officials said.
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Law Enforcement Agents Target Local Bars
BYALISON BAKER
AND KATHRYN HASS
STAFF WRITERS
UNC students bar-hopping this week
end were in good company.
Chapel Hill police and Alcohol Law
Enforcement agents were out and about in
some of the town’s hottest night spots
but they were looking for alcohol and fire
code violations instead of for a good time.
ALE agent Alan Fields said Monday
that the police presence this weekend was
the second phase of a joint operation be
tween the two agencies. The first phase
targeted bartenders selling alcohol to al
ready intoxicated customers.
“We targeted overservice of alcohol,”
BSM Candidates Push for Renewal of Goals
BYALIBEASON
STAFF WRITER
Candidates running for office in the
Black Student Movement all agree that
policies that worked in the 70s and ’Bos
have to be revised for the BSM of the ’9os.
About 50 BSM members met with
candidates at a pre-election forum Monday
night in Chase Hall. The group will hold
elections Friday for president, vice presi
dent, treasurer and parliamentarian.
Timothy Smith, a senior speech
communication major from Kinston, is
the only presidential candidate on the bal
lot. Latricia Henry and Jasme Kelly are
running for president as write-in candidates.
Smith is a founding member of the Black
Awareness Council, a group that used
“creative methods” in the struggle for a
free-standingSonjaH. Stone Black Cultural
Center, he said. “The BCC is No. 1 on my
list, which is why I’m running for BSM
president,” he said.
Educating black students about their
history at UNC is one of his main goals, he
said. “My main theme is ‘Black to the
Future,’” Smithsaid. “Getting back to the
roots of the BSM—why it was established,
what it needed to be, what does it need to
be today.”
Other pointsofSmith’splatform include
providing tutorial help for members and
help with finding internships. Smith said
he wanted people to respect the
organization, not for its past accomplish
ments but because it was “a force to be
reckoned with.”
“The heart is still there, ” he said, adding
that the goals and means to achieve them
have changed.
Henry, a juniorjoumalism and African-
American studies majorfromßeidsville, is
the current BSM vice president.
She has served on several BSM
committees during the past two years and
Montross’ Sympathies Reside With Terminally 111 Tar Heel Fan
BYSTEVEPOUTI
SENIOR WRITER
Eric Montross is fighting for a rebound
on the Smith Center floor Saturday. The
ball slips through his hands and is taken
down court by a Virginia player.
In a hospital room less than a half a mile
away, 16-year-old Jason Clark is fighting
cancer, hoping that life won’t slip away
before he has the chance to see Montross’
Faculty Works Toward More Recognition
BYMARSHALL BENBOW
STAFF WRITER
On a campus that thinks of itself as
being liberal and accepting of all peoples,
struggles for equality among blacks still
occur, not only for students, but for faculty
and administrators as well.
“Usually, we are in offices that are un
derstaffed,” said Rosalind Fuse-Hall, sec
retary of the UNC system. “Colleagues do
not understand our function and role, par
ticularly if they’re in an office that caters to
students of color.”
Fuse-Hall, who was the associate dean
of the College of Arts and Sciences for
almost five years at UNC, said she thought
there was a lack of recognition for black
faculty and administrators. Too often, they
are only asked to contribute to minority
student programs, although they are ca
pable of doing much more, she said.
Assistant Vice Chancellor of Student
Affairs Sibby Anderson-Thompkins also
said she believed there was a problem with
recognition. “There is a feeling among
many African-American administrators
that their abilities are questioned; people
assume you’re filling a quota,” she said.
The Fall 1993 Faculty Employment
Review, compiled by the Affirmative Ac
tion Office at UNC, shows that whites
account for 1,953, or 91 percent, ofUNC’s
2,141 faculty. Compared to only 75 black
faculty members, there is an obvious dis-
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he said. “We’re looking for a guy who is
just knee-walking drunk, to be honest.”
The second phase also was aimed at
overservice but targeted underage posses
sion, fire code violations and Alcohol Bev
erage Control administrative violations,
Chapel Hill police spokeswoman Jane
Cousins said.
Five ALE officers, two UNC police
officers and seven Chapel Hill officers
combed the bars Saturday night, randomly
checking the IDs of people holding beers.
Cousins said the operation began be
cause bar overcrowding, public drunken
ness and fights outside the bars had be
come commonplace.
Chapel Hill police Chief Ralph
Pendergraph said he had received com
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Mark Lee, a sophomore from Lakewood, N.J., listens as candidates for Black Student Movement president respond to
his question at a forum Monday night. Tim Smith, Latricia Henry and Jasme Kelly are vying for BSM president.
is president of Sigma Gamma Rho sorority.
Henry’s platform is based on improving
the existing structure oftheßSMand build
ing on it. She said she wanted to make the
central committee run effectively by set
ting realistic goals and making the best use
next home game.
Jason is fighting a form of cancer called
Burkitt’s Lymphoma. His family, natives
of Durham, thought Jason had defeated
the disease last month.
“He was trying to go home for Christ
mas and felt some bumps in his stomach, ”
Montross explained. “He came backto the
hospital, and they diagnosed him with
cancer again. Now, it’s pretty much taken
over his body.”
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As the student body continues to change
and diversify, the need for black professors
and administrators becomes an increas
ingly pressing issue.
“The University is going to change,”
Fuse-Hall said. “It’sgoingtochangepretty
quickly, because the numbers will be there. ”
Anderson-Thompkins also is aware of
the changing demographics and urges UNC
to act now to “try to work within the
University system to identify the needs and
addressing them before they get here.”
Provost Richard McCormick stressed
UNC’s commitment to appointing more
black administrators and faculty.
“I can’t say strongly enough how im
portant it is to the academic excellence of
the University that we diversify our faculty
and administration,” McCormick said.
plaints during the last four months about
people being excessively drunk.
“People are just drinking too much,” he
said. “It does seem to be a conscious effort
to get drank. That worries me a little bit. I
just want to make sure we have a little bit
better hold on where this is happening.”
Pendergraph said he was concerned
about what people do when they leave
bars. Drank people are more susceptible to
being victimized or to being in drunk-driv
ing accidents, he said.
“You need to be in as good a shape as
you can be to look after yourself,”
Pendergraph said. “The bottom line is,
we’d like to see nobody get hurt.”
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of resources already available to the group.
“Before I decide what I’ll do (as BSM
president), I’ll figure out what the prob
lems are for individual students, ” she said.
BSM’s goals need to be revised for
today’s black students, Henry saidi Spon
Jason met North Carolina’s senior cen
ter in November when Montross, who
often visits children at UNC Hospitals,
stopped by Jason’s room. Montross had
heard that Jason wanted to meet him.
“One day, Eric just kind of walked into
the room,” Jason’s mother Lindy Clark
said. “It was really funny because he just
sat down and started talking basketball.”
Since the first visit, the two have be
come close friends. Montross stopped by
He said all professional schools at UNC
had either made one or more appoint
ments of black faculty or were actively
pursuing one or more specific candidates
in order to make appointments. The schools
of business and social work have done
both.
The College of Arts and Sciences didn’t
have the same success this past year, but
administrators also are looking at specific
candidates as well, McCormick said.
He said the term “specific candidates”
went well beyond the stage of advertising
and hoping someone suitable turned up. “I
really believe recruitment of minority fac
ulty has truly reached the front burner.”
McCormick also has appointed Marilyn
Yarbrough, a professor at the UNC law
school, to be associate provost, effective
July 1, 1994. “It is the highest academic
administrative position ever occupied by
an African American at UNC-Chapel Hill,”
McCormick said.
Yarbrough praised McCormick's and
Chancellor Paul Hardin’s efforts to hire
more blacks into faculty positions. She
said she thought there was quite a bit of
difficulty in acquiring quality minority
applicants because most other universities
around the nation also were seeking the
same people.
The pool of qualified applicants is grow
ing, but Yarbrough is concerned for the
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soring programs with other groups and
developing stronger relations with the
community are also goals of her platform.
“We have to give support in order to
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Jason’s room after UNC’s 69-56 win against
the Cavaliers on Saturday.
“They talk almost every day now,” Clark
said. “Eric’s one of the sweetest, gentlest
people we have ever met. He has become a
part of our family.
“No matter how bad the day is, Eric
walks into the room, and they’ll start laugh
ing. I think the thing people have to realize
is that he’s not doing this for PR. He’s
doing this because they have a real friend
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the first black to hold such a high academic administrative post.
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Stolen Gun
Prompts
Concern
BY JUDY ROYAL
STAFF WRITER
The theft of a 12-gauge shotgun from a
fraternity house has prompted new discus
sion about gun possession in fraternities.
The incident comes in the wake of a Jan.
27 shooting at Chi Psi fraternity, in which
an Appalachian State University student
was lolled.
Tilghman Pope, president ofßeta Theta
Pi, reported Thursday the larceny of a
jacket, a Discman and a Browning 12-
gauge pump shotgun from his room at the
house on 114 S. Columbia St.
Although the mere presence of a gun in
a fraternity house is cause for questioning
since the Chi Psi incident, Chapel Hill
police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said
Pope was well within his rights to possess
a gun in his room.
“You can have a gun on private prop
erty,” Cousins said. “That’s not a violation
of any of the town ordinances.”
Pope said he kept the gun in his room
during duck hunting season for only about
one month per year. He said several other
fraternity members occasionally had hunt
ing rifles in their rooms, but there had
never been a problem with any kind of
guns in the lodge. “In the three years I’ve
been here, I’ve never seen a hand gun or
high-powered rifle,” he said.
“(The members with guns in the lodge)
don’t bring them out and play with them
late at night.”
Each fraternity, including Beta Theta
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ship.”
Jason gives Montross advice on his
game. Last month, he suggested a hook
shot that Montross used against Clemson,
resulting in a 3-point play the first time he
was passed the ball.
The two talk about fishing. Montross
tells Jason about a 17-pound channel bass
he caught. Jason jokes that it’s just a “big
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