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31tp flatly ®ar MM Volume 102, Issue 32 101 yean of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the Univenity community since 1593 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Bosnian Conflict Escalates As Serbs Threaten U.N. WASHINGTON Serbian forces massed outside a depot near Sarajevo Thursday and confronted French U.N. troops guarding artillery taken from the Serbs in February, administration officials said. But U.N. officials in Sara-jevo said the standoff had ended quietly after about a half hour when the Serbs withdrew a tank they had de ployed at the de pot. Nonetheless, the incident Serb Foiees Back Down From Attack Posturing See Page 7 raised new concerns about Serb intentions in Bosnia and questions about how the United States and its NATO allies might respond. President Clinton said he believed the Serbs would be making a mistake if they started treatingU.N.andNATO forces as “adverse combatants.” Official Says Russia Won't Join Peace Partnership MOSCOW Protesting NATO air raids on Bosnian Serbs, Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev said Thursday he had dropped plans for Russia to join the alliance’s Partnership for Peace program next week. In a strong departure from his earlier positions, Kozyrev said there was no ap propriate concept yet for Russia’s role in the program. Russia is angry it was not consulted in advance of the air raids on the Serbs, who are fellow Slavs and Orthodox Christians, and says the attacks have shattered Moscow’s peace initiatives in the region. The attacks were almost unanimously criti cized in Russia. Palestinian Group Warns Of Three Imminent Attacks JERUSALEM—A day after claiming responsibilitylbf abombingthatlrilled five people, a Palestinian group warned it was planning three more attacks and told Ar abs to avoid “crowded Israeli areas.” The leaflet was circulated Thursday by the Muslim fundamentalist group Hamas, the leading opponent to the PLO-Israeli peace talks. It scorned PLO leader Yasser Arafat for condemning Wednesday’s bombing and a similar one April 6. Arafat phoned Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin on Wednesday and rejected violent acts by Palestinian opponents of the peace talks. On Tuesday, he sent a letter to Presi dent Clinton, in which he said he strongly rejected attacks on Israeli civilians. Belgium to Pull Troops Out of Rwandan Mission KIGALI, Rwanda—Rockets exploded at the capital’s airport on Thursday, threat ening the attempts of foreigners to escape the country, which daily is falling further into gruesome anarchy. Belgium an nounced it was pulling its troops out of the U.N. mission in Rwanda, threatening the entire multinational operation. Mortar shells rained down on streets already bathed in blood as government forces battled the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front for control of the city. More than 20,000 people are estimated to have died since fighting broke out be tween the army and the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front a week ago. Vote Allows Death Penalty For 70 Additional Crimes WASHINGTON The House re sponded to demands for tough anti-crime legislation by authorizing the death pen alty Thursday for nearly 70 additional crimes. Working on a sls billion crime bill, the House rejected by a 314-111 vote an amend ment that would have substituted life with out parole for the death penalty. Among new crimes that could result in execution: drive-by shootings, a killing committed while stealing a car and activities of big time drug dealers, even if they don’t result in death. President Clinton focused on other parts of the bill as he addressed a ceremony honoring police officers. The bill, he told the officers, would give them “the tools you need to do your jobs.” THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: 30-percent chance of rain; high low 80s. SATURDAY: 80-percent chance of rain; high mid-70s. SUNDAY: Mostly clear; high 65-70. Few Students Turn Out for Chancellor Forum BY HOLLY RAMER STAFF WRITER Members of the chancellor search com mittee heard a variety of suggestions from students at a forum Thursday, but said they would return again to meet with stu dents due to the low attendance at the forum. The 12 committee members greatly outnumbered students at the start of the meeting. By the end of the forum, 15 stu dents of the approximately 25 people in attendance had spoken. Search committee chairman and Board of Trustees Chairman John Harris said he would meet with Student Body President George Battle to set another time to hear student concerns. “If you tell me to be in the Pit, I’ll be in the Pit,” he said. Although one student called the forum “a parade of special interests, ’’ nearly all of the speakers agreed the next chancellor should be someone who was devoted to improved communication between the S iv W gk MB jBM A L DTH/MSTIN WILLIAMS USA's outside power hitter Dexter Rogers puts a fast one past Zhou Jianan of China’s national men's volleyball team in Carmichael Auditorium on Thursday night. USA won the match 3-0. See story on page 8. City Schools Face Suit From Eagle Scout BYLYNN HOUSER STAFF WRITER A ninth-grade Eagle Scout plans to file a lawsuit Tuesday against the Chapel Hill- Canboro City Schools, claiming that a new mandatory community service require ment is unconstitutional. Although Aric Herndon, 14, is no stranger to community service, he said he believed the government had no right to require it. “First of all, it’s unconstitu tional,” Aric said. “And also, they call it ‘mandatory voluntary,’ which is an oxy moron.” Beginning last fall, Chapel Hill High School required freshmen to perform 50 hours of community service during their high school years in order to graduate. Students cannot be paid for the work. But when the school board approved the requirement about two years ago, they did not call it “voluntary,” said school board chairman Ken Touw. The board left the details of the program up to the high school, he said. Touw said the board had decided the benefit students would get from perform ingcommunity service outweighed the fact administration and the students. Susan Dodge, speaking on behalf of the Student Environmental Action Coalition, said the organization would like to see a chancellor who was committed to envi ronmental concerns, but the most impor tant quality in anew chancellor should be listening skills. “It all boils down to someone who will listen to students’ needs,” Dodge, a junior from Katonah, N.Y., said. Mike Easterly, a senior from Rochester, N.Y., said the next chancellor should fo cus more on undergraduate education. He said many of the hopes he had as a fresh man had gone unfulfilled. “I understand there have been budget cuts and other problems, but I don’t feel that the administration has done enough to make up for that,” he said. “A lot of people’s priorities were else where.” But Marty White, a first-year law stu dent and Student Congress representative, Please See STUDENTS, Page 2 In Your Face that a small percentage of students might not want to participate. “It’s a benefit,” he said. “They learn by doing. That’s the best way to learn.” The Institute for Justice in Washington, D.C., stated in a press release this week that itwillfiletwo lawsuits, onefor Herndon and one for a student in Mamaroneck, N.Y., who is in a similar situation. Individuals in a free society should not be required to serve others, and the govern ment should not dictate what individuals “owe” the community, the release states. The decision to serve others must be be tween an individual and his conscience, it states. Aric agreed. “Community service should come from the heart,” he said. “People should want to do it, not have to do it. If people don’t want to do something, they won’t do a good job.” Aric spent more than 80 hours on his Eagle Scout project alone, said his father, John Herndon. For that project, Aric de signed and built several split-log benches at Frank Porter Graham Elementary School. “He has hundreds of hours, countless hours, since he was 5 years old,” said Aric’s mother, Christiana Herndon. “He Indecency and fan are old cronies. Samuel S. Cox Cfcapal M. North Cnka FRIDAY, APRIL 15,1994 New Leader Should Value Nonfaculty, Employees Say BY CHRIS GIOIA ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR AND KARA SIMMONS STAFF WRITER UNC faculty and staffhad the oppor tunity to address members of the chan cellor search committee with their con cerns Thursday at two public meetings, the first in 100 Hamilton Hall and the second in Gerrard Hall. The first meeting was attended by approximately 40 people, among them Ann Hamner, an administrative man ager in the biostatistics department. “I’m here because I’m interested in hearing what is said today, and I particu larly wanttohearwhatMargaret Balcom (chairwoman of The Employee Forum) has to say on behalf of the forum,” Hamner said. Three University officials spoke to has always helped people and won’t stop doing that. It doesn’t matter what he has done, he’ll still do more.” If prisoners cannot be forced to work without pay, then neither should students, John Herndon said. “The government is usurping authority not constitutionally granted to it." High school officials have asked Aric if he would drop the suit if they counted his past service hours toward his graduation requirement, Christiana Herndon said. She said Aric told them it was nice of them to offer, but that was not why he was filing the lawsuit. Touw said the requirement came out of a community wide task force that set guide lines five or six years ago on what should be expected of graduates. “One was that they should be effective citizens who had contributed to the community,” he said. Most students already perform commu nity service, Touw said. The program’s purpose is to benefit the small percentage who aren’t participating and who don’t get encouragement at home to do so, he said. In 1990, two families in Bethlehem, Pa., Please See SCOUT, Page 5 the 10 committee members and stated the qualities they thought essential for the new chancellor, who will replace Paul Hardin when he retires in June 1995. Balcom, the first to speak, said her con stituents wanted a chancellor who would respond to the needs ofUniversity employ ees, especially those who did not hold faculty positions. “We need someone who is accessible and who does not receive her or his input about employees solely from faculty and administrators,” Balcom said. “Someone who values employees’ advice and who will continue the inclusion of employees on policy-making and advisory commit tees.” Patricia Bigelow, chairwoman of Dis trict 25 of the State Employees Association and an accounting assistant in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication, said her constituents would value a candi Friendly Fire Destroys American Helicopters THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON American fighter jets mistakenly shot down two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq Thursday, killing the American crews and passengers from four other nations. “Something went wrong,” said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and President Clinton prom ised to find out what. The dead were military officers from the United States, Britain, France and Turkey working to support the U.N. hu manitarian relief operation aiding the Kurdish minority in northern Iraq. Five Kurds also were aboard. The helicopters were shot down by two F-l 5C fighters enforcing the “no-fly zone” over the area. Clinton expressed “terrible sorrow” and pledged a thorough investiga tion. At the Pentagon, Defense Secretary William Perry said initial reports indicated the fighter pilots had mistaken the UH-60 Blackhawk choppers for Iraqi “Hind” heli copters. Both jets apparently had the helicopters in sight during the daylight mission and both fired missiles, Perry said. F-15s carry AMRAAM or Sidewinder air-to-air mis siles. An AWACs reconnaissance plane was overseeing the helicopters’ flight. Gen. John Shalikashvili, the Joint Chiefs chairman, said the final order to shoot normally was given “on the scene” and not from military commanders at the jets’ base in Incirlik, Turkey. “Clearly, something went wrong, and an investigation will have to determine exactly what did go wrong,” said the four Student Union Changes Great Hall Party Policy BY HOLLY STEPP UNIVERSITY EDITOR Fewer non-UNC students will be able to attend parties and dances at UNC due to anew Great Hall party policy enacted by the Student Union. Student Union Director Don Luse met with Dean of Students Frederic Schroeder, National Pan Hellenic Council adviser Darryl Lester, University Police and stu dents to revise the rules. The new policy requires limiting guests to one non-UNC student per UNC stu dent, leaving all lights on during the event and discussing security plans with Univer sity Police before the event. The first event that will be affected by the new policies is the Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. Greek Freak party. Greek Freak, a step show sponsored by the frater nity, will be held Saturday, and the party will follow. The changes are the result of an early moming fight on March 27 between UNC football players and Durham Technical College students during a Great Hall party. About 800 people were attending the party hosted by Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. University Police arrested a Durham Tech student after a shot was fired at a UNC student. Carlos Pauling, Kappa Alpha Psi presi dent, said it was unfortunate the violence occurred at his fraternity’s event and said the fight could have happened anywhere on campus. Pauling, who is also Carolina Union Activities Board president, said he understood the change in the policy but hoped the policy would be revised. Newt/Feimra/Am/Spom 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 01994 DTH Publishing Coip AH rights reserved. date who respected employees and in cluded them in administrative operations. “We ask that anew chancellor con sider the employees as equals, persons who enjoy working in the University environment, persons who do their jobs well," Bigelow said. “Persons who want to participate ac tively and fully in the operations of the University, including membership on significant committees, such as this search committee,” she said. Larry Hicks, associate director of uni versity housing, said he thought it was important for the search committee to select someone who would support stu dent programs such as Student Health Services. The secondmeeting.heldat 4:30p.m., lasted less than 15 minutes. After com- Please See FACULTY, Page 5 star Army general, who spearheaded the relief effort for the Kurds in 1991. U.S. warplanes and helicopters normally use electronic identification systems de signed to tell friend from foe. If proper procedures were followed, the helicopters’ identification beacons should have been operating routinely, Shalikashvili said. He did not say whether the Pentagon knew if the beacons had been on or if they had emitted the proper coded messages. A Kurdish spokesman said the helicop ters were ferrying U.S., British, French and Turkish officers from the U.N. office in Zakho, near the Turkish border. The group planned to meet Kurdish leaders in Salahaddin, the central region of the Kurdish zone. Clinton said those who died were a part of a “mission of mercy." “They served with courage and profes sionalism, and they lost their lives while trying to save the lives of others. The im portant work they were doing must and will continue," he said. The dead included 15 from the United States, three from Turkey, one from France, two from Britain and five Kurds, Lt. Gen. Richard Keller, the chief of staff of the U.S. European Command in Stuttgart, Ger many, said in a telephone briefing with reporters at the Pentagon. “There were no survivors,” Keller said. The bodies were being taken to the base in Turkey. Both Perry and Shalikashvili appeared shaken by the event, the secretary appear ing somewhat pale and the general red- Please See IRAQ, Page 6 “It’s really unfortunate for the groups who try to have events under the new policy,” he said. A committee headed by Vice Chancel lor ofUniversity Affairs Harold Wallace is working to develop a policy for events for the fall, Pauling said. He also said he hoped the new policy would include a more pro active role for the police officers at the events. “I would like to see the police be more of a presence at the events not just around to break off the scuffles maybe walk through the Great Hall to let people know they are there,” Pauling said. “I would also like to see more controls on the people who congregate outside the Great Hall and don’t actually pay to attend the event,” he said. “The majority of the problems come from outside students and maybe one or two UNC students.” The ban on parties in the Great Hall was lifted in August 1992 after six months. The ban was enacted after a fight broke out involving UNC and N.C. Central Univer sity football players. Sixteen University Police officers were needed to get the situ ation under control. The fight two weeks ago was the first case of fighting since the ban on parties was lifted. Other restrictions in the current party policy include installing a metal detector and requiring four University Police offic ers to attend the event. Before the new policies, anyone with college identifica tion could attend the events. Pauling said the Great Hall parties were a fund-raising outlet for most black Greek organizations and a social outlet for UNC black students. “I am just glad that they didn’t take away Great Hall parties.”
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