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®lir lailu ®ar Wwl Volume 102, Issue 37 101 years ofeditorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 9 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Serbs Launch Attack on Gorazde Red Cross Center SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Scorning the United States’ tough talk, Bosnian Serb forces shelled a hospital an nex and Red Cross refugee center in be sieged Gorazde on Thursday. Dozens of people were reported killed. Doctors and town officials contacted by ham radio said Thursday’s bombardment was the worst of the three-week Seib offen sive against the Muslim enclave. “Counting the dead and wounded doesn’t make sense any more,” said Esad Ohranovic, a local official. Ohranovic said four rockets landed near a building that housed U.N. aid workers and military observers, killing or wound ing 25 people. Report Suggests Warning Systems Were Turned Off WASHlNGTON—ldentification sig nal devices on two Army helicopters downed by friendly fire last week in north ern Iraq were turned off, according to a published report. Pentagon officials Thursday would nei ther confirm nor deny the report in The Washington Times that investigators found the devices on the two Black Hawk heli copters in the “off” position. The officials told the Times that the finding was the result of a preliminary investigation. The officials said it was pos sible the explosion or crash of the helicop ters might have jolted the switches off. The Identification-Friend or Foe de vices send out a beacon that can be re ceived by aircraft carrying the appropriate equipment and which identifies the send ing aircraft as a friend or enemy. Nixon's Status Worsens As He Slips Into a Coma NEW YQRK Richard Nixon fell into a deep coma Thursday, two days after suffering a major stroke, and doctors said the former president’s condition appeared to be life-threatening. Nixon’s family was at his side as his condition deteriorated, accordingto a state ment from New York Hospital, where he was brought after suffering die stroke Mon day night. Nixon’s doctors and aides declined to discuss his treatment orcondition in detail. But other doctors said the coma sharply reduced Nixon’s chances of survival and virtually guaranteed he would never re cover his formidable powers of expression. Right-Wing Leader Rejects Upcoming S. African Vote JOHANNESBURG, South Africa A pro-apartheid leader squashed hopes Thursday that he would bring the white right wing into South Africa’s elections, andZulu nationalist Mangosuthußuthelezi made his campaign debut after ending his election boycott. Buthelezi said he had dropped his oppo sition to the election to end the violence. Fighting between supporters of the Afri can National Congress and Buthelezi’s Inkatha Freedom Party have left lOOpeople dead a week. South African security officials said the violence abated soon after Buthelezi an nounced that Inkatha would take part in the April 26-28 election, the first to include South Africa’s black majority. Tnrkisfa Troops Kill 55 In Continuing CracMown ANKARA, Turkey Turkish troops killed 55 separatist Kurdish guerrillas in clashes Thursday as part of a widening crackdown on rebel operations, bringing the two-day total of rebels killed to 90, officials said. Forty-three died in land and air attacks on bases at Mount Ararat and Tendurek mountain near the Iranian border, said Gov. Dogan Hatipoglu of eastern Agri province. Twelve other Kurdish guerrillas died in clashes in Bingol, Hakkari, Batman and Sirnak provinces, the regional governor’s office said. Thirty-five Kurdish rebels were reported killed Wednesday in southeastern Turkey. No reports were available on possible gov ernment losses. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: 40-percent chance of rain; high 60-65. SATURDAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-60s. SUNDAY: Chance of rain; high low 80s. Law Faculty Nominates Alumnus for High Court BY MATTHEW HEMBY STAFF WRITER Several faculty members of the UNC law school are asking President Clinton to nominate Julius Chambers, a UNClawschool alumnus and chancellor of N.C. Central University, to Jilin Chambers Accomplished Many Firsts at UNC and Beyond See Page 2 replace Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. Chambers is similar to Thurgood DTH/KATIE CANNON Senior Darren Allen makes public apologies to various campus groups and individuals Thursday in the Pit. Allen most recently received widespread attention for placing a toy sheep in the Pit during B-GLAD Celebration Week. Dog Owner in Carrboro Asks Board for Extension BYELENABERTON STAFF WRITER CARRBORO—Rizwan Sheikh made an appeal Thursday night on behalf of Keetoo, his German shepherd who remains unaware that her incessant barking has prompted protests from the neighbors and an investigation by the town of Carrboro. The ongoing neighborhood controversy made its way to the town’s animal control appeals board where Sheikh asked fora 60- day grace period to try to find a solution. The board did not release a decision Thurs day after going into a closed meeting. The first complaint about Keetoo reached the Carrboro police department last May when a neighbor called saying that Sheikh was away for the weekend and Keetoo had been barking all night. Other complaints followed until the town of Carrboro issued anote ofviolation Oct. 26. Sheikh first tried to correct the problem with a special collar designed to shock the Natives Reminisce About Town History As Celebration Approaches BY JAMIE KRITZER STAFF WRITER Gray-haired Douglass Hunt leaned for ward in his chair, his clear blue eyes show ing through like ice even in the darkness of his basement room in South Building. The special assistant to the chancellor gets ex cited when he recalls vividly what he was doing Sunday, Dec. 7,1941. It was a Sunday like many others. Then- University President Frank Potter Gra ham had lit the long, slender light in the front window of his Franklin Street home as a message to all passers-by that the Grahams were accepting visitors. Hunt, a first-semester freshman at the University, was coming back from Durham with some friends after having seen a mu sical. He got out of the car to go visit the Grahams and heard the radio broadcast about America’s entry into the World War n. “I remember President Roosevelt’s words that night,” he said recently, lurch ing forward in his seat. “’Today, Sunday, Dec. 7,1941, is a day that will long live in infamy.’” Hunt now serves as special assistant to the chancellor. Like many other long-time Chapel Hillians, he has distinct recollec tions of experiences in the little town that bursts at its seams with fervor. That town, in which the famous and the not-so-famous alike have made their Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Benjamin Franklin Chapel Hit, North Carolioa FRIDAY, APRIL 22,1994 Marshall, the first black Supreme Court justice, said William Aycock, professor emeritus at the UNC law school, who signed the law school’s letter to Clinton. “Thurgood Marshall was not known as a politician but an outstanding lawyer,” he said. The law school’s letter, which was signed by 16 representatives of the school, states that one of Chambers’ qualifications was that he was a leading civil rights leader and one of the foremost litigators before the Supreme Court. William Murphy, a UNC law profes sor, said Chambers would be a credit to the dog when it barked, but the collar appar ently stopped being effective after a while. Further complaints about Keetoo led Carrboro animal control to issue another notice March 18 to have Keetoo either destroyed or removed from the town. Sheikh said he wanted to offer a com promise and had never wanted a conflict. “I came to the appeal because I wanted to have my side heard,” Sheikh said. “Keetoo is my family. All I can ask for before fingers are pointed is a 60-day trial period working in contact with the Animal Protection Society and the animal control officer to train Keetoo.” Several neighbors attending the meet ing said Keetoo’s well-being also was at issue in the controversy and the barking was caused by neglect. John Messenheimer said he had neve* seen Keetoo exercised around the neighborhood. “Maybe there’s emotional attachment Please See DOG, Page 6 Tom of PrChapel Hill A firm nnrf nnrirrr wsmwinii Ithano! Monday. Changing Face of Franklin Street Tuesday: Memories of life in Chapel HHI Wednesday A Wafc Through the Cemetery Thursday The Town's Most Famous TODAY: That aad low MRhNRRHNmHRHHNHHmHNNIRHNHRI homes, is now 200 years old. Chapel Hill and its University have be come synonymous, although the latter pre ceded the former, and people from far away know both well. “If you say Chapel Hill in any motel in the world, you could even say it in Seattle, and people would know what you were talking about,” said Ralph Wdeman, a professor in the School of Education. “People like the town, not just the Univer sity. You can’t say that about a lot of places.” Chapel Hill grew around its University, which began in 1793 when settlers auc tioned off 30 plots of land, each between two and four acres, to begin the school. Today, the University and the commu nity are working together to preserve town court “if lightning would strike.” He added that Chambers would be a “healthy counterweight to Clarence Tho mas.” Chambers was unable to be reached for comment Thursday. “He is of impeccable character. He is rich in experience,” said Adam Stein, one of Chambers’ former law partners. The two men established the first integrated law firm in the state. Law Professor Daniel Pollitt, who taught Chambers, said Chambers had litigated some landmark Supreme Court cases, in cludingthe famous Swann vs. Mecklenburg House Passes S2B Billion Crime Bill THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON-The House passed a S2B-billion crime bill Thursday that would put 50,000 more police on the streets and substantially expand the number of federal crimes punishable by death. By a 285-141 vote, the House embraced the bill, which also would allocate $13.5 billion for state prisons and $9 billion for crime prevention ef forts and reha bilitation. The UNC Poll Finds Fear of Crime on The Rise in Area See Page 3 price tag for the additional police officers would be $3.45 billion. Differences between the House bill and a $22-billion crime bill passed by the Sen ate last November will have to be resolved in conference. The vote came after the chamber sur mounted a final hurdle: a Republican at tempt to prevent defendants facing the death penalty from using racial statistics on capital punishment as evidence of dis crimination. Lawmakers voted 235-192 to keep the history. On a comer of land bordering Graham Memorial Hall, anthropology teaching assistant Jane Eastman and Pro fessor Steve Davis work on a dig that has uncovered the lost remnants of one of the town’s first artifacts —a tavern. “We found a stone drain over there,” Eastman said, pointing to a portion of excavated earth. “Last semester, we thought it was just another part of the annex.” Eastman and Davis have been unearth ing the area for two semesters and recently found the foundations of the tavem/hotel, built in the early 17905. The Eagle Hotel, as it was known, served students and travel ers for more than 100 years, and in 1847 owners built an annex especially for U.S. President James Polk. In 1907, itwaspurchasedby the Unive rsity for use as student living quarters. In 1921, the building inexplicably burned to the ground followinga UNC-Virginia foot ball game. On the other side of town, Theresa Grywalski, a humanities teacher at Chapel Hill High School, recently produced a play about the town’s first 200 years. Made up of vignettes from the town’s history, “The Chapel of Ease” used more than 110 stu dents to re-enact that history. “I tried to stay away from the Univer sity, but you begin to realize that the two (town and University) are inseparable,” Grywalski said of the play. County case, which involved school inte gration and busing students. “Chambers proposed the same percent age of blacks and whites in the schools,” Pollitt said. “(Under Chambers’ proposal,) some blacks go to white schools, and some whites go to black schools.” Schoolpairingwas another thing Cham bers proposed, Pollitt said. The concept of school pairing is to make students go to one school through the third grade and then transfer them to the other school in the pair. Chambers also was involved in the first two cases of the Equal Employment Act, Allen Apologizes in Pit For Sheep, Past Antics BY HOLLY RAMER STAFF WRITER In his four years at the University, se nior Dairen Allen has earned the ire of most students by destroying a campus “peace” exhibit, ridiculing the Black Stu dent Movement and putting an inflatable sheep labeled “sex toy” in front of a gath ering of gays and lesbians. On Thurs day, he apolo- College Republicans Staged'SCUD* Attack on Peace Demonstrators See Page 2 gized for his actions. “I spent the last four years tearing groups down,” he said during his noon speech in the Pit. “I am deeply, deeply apologetic. Being an asshole is one of the few things I seem to do well lately.” A car accident in November prompted him to re-evaluate his attitudes toward others, he said. His first reaction was to dismiss the other driver, who was injured in the accident, and worry about his car, he said. “Then I realized that my priorities were all screwed up,” he said. “That changed so-called Racial Justice Act in the bill. The House had narrowly endorsed the provi sion Wednesday over the objections of critics who claimed it effectively would end use of the death penalty. Under the version passed by the House, some 70 categories of federal crimes could result in capital punishment being imposed. Earlier Thursday, the House had quickly dispatched the final two amendments to the bill. They voted unanimously to ask the Sen tencing Commission for views on what to do about the widely disparate sentences for crack and powder cocaine. Under current law, possession of five grams of crack co caine is a felony punishable by up to five years in prison, andpossessionoffivegrams of powder cocaine is a misdemeanor call ing for 10 months of probation. “Ourprisons are full ofblack males who have used crack cocaine, and the more affluent white boys in the community who have used powder cocaine are in the com munity on probation,” said Rep. Charlie Rose, D-N.C. Rep. William Hughes, D-N.J., initially Hunt’s uncle, William Lanier Hunt, came to the town as a freshman in 1926, when the town was growing once again following the end of World War I. “The whole South was saying Chapel Hill is where all the new things start,” Douglass Hunt said. “People with new things were always coming to this town.” Hunt said one of the greatest boons to the town was the start of the sociology, botany and chemistry departments follow ing World War I. Chapel Hill got its first subdivision in 1915, and in the 1920s the town’s population grew from 3,000 to nearly 6,000. Still, life centered around the Univer sity. “Basketball was all the rage, ’’ Hunt said, remembering his cousin who “could throw the ball from anywhere in the gym and it would land perfectly (in the basket).” The dining hall, nicknamed “Swine Hall” by students, was one of the town’s most popular meeting places, and frater nity parties were becoming popular. “Booze was being made out in the woods Editor's Note Applications now are available for students interested in writing, photography, layout or graphics for the summer Tar Heel, which is published weekly. The DTH is still looking for experienced News/Features/Ara/Spons 962-0243 Business/Advertising 962-1163 O 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Pollitt said. The first case involved Duke Power Cos. “Blacks could not be promoted beyond a laborer,” Pollitt said. Duke Power re quired that applicants for certain jobs have a high school diploma, and Chambers ar gued that this policy had a “disparate im part” on one group, Pollitt said. “This one group, of course, was blacks.” Chambers also was involved in Supreme Court cases involving fair housing laws, Pollitt said. Aycock said these laws dealt with let- Please See CHAMBERS, Page 9 my life forever.” Allen said a recent chat with Dean of Students Frederic Schroeder also inspired him to clear his conscience. Although he went to see Schroeder for other reasons, Allen said a few words from Schroeder made him realize how wrong his tactics had been in the past. About 100 students gathered in the Pit tumed-confession-booth to hear Allen’s apologies, the first of which went to the students whose “Peace Village” he de stroyed more than three years ago. Allen and some friends staged a “SCUD missile attack” on the village, which students had constructed in the Pit. “Now that I think about it, that was totally uncalled for, ” said a humbled Allen. “There can be no more noble cause than peace." Allen also apologized to BCC activist Tim Smith, whose face was pictured on a bull’s eye on the cover of the first issue of the conservative publication The Carolina Review. That issue criticized the fight for a free-standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cul tural Center last semester. Please See ALLEN, Page 2 proposed lowering the crack penalties to those of powder, but Republicans wanted to raise the powder cocaine penalties to those of crack. Hughes then substituted the amendment seeking the Sentencing Commission’s advice. The House also voted 347-82 to require federal prisoners who have not graduated from high school to earn a general equiva lency diploma before gaining eligibility for early release. On Wednesday, the House reflected national anger at lawbreakers by voting to bar prisoners from receiving Pell Grants for college education and to take away inmates’ weight-training machines. “Certainly there is an occasional suc cess story, but when virtually every pris oner in America is eligible for Pell Grants, national priorities and taxpayers lose, ” said Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., a sponsor of the amendment that passed 312-116. But Rep. Albert Wynn, D-Md., said: “In instance after instance across this coun try, we have seen that when prisoners are Please See HOUSE, Page 9 and then delivered to the fraternities, ’’Hunt said. William McWhorter Cochrane, the se nior adviser to the Senate Rules Commit tee, still votes in Orange County elections despite working in Washington. “I think it was Keats who said, ’A thing of beauty lasts forever,”’ Cochrane said. “(Chapel Hill) really is one of the most beautiful places in the world.” Cochrane said he also had enjoyed vis iting the Graham house on Sunday eve nings. Cochrane attended UNC in the mid -1930s and still has a home in southern Orange County. William Powell, professor emeritus of history, reminisced about a friend and pro fessor he had met as a student in the late 19305. “Horace Williams —he was a member of the faculty," Powell said. “He kept horses, pigs, cows and chickens behind Iris house. Neighbors disliked him intensely for the smell and the noise.” Please See TOWN, Page 6 journalists to run the University, features, lay out and graphics desks this summer. Applications are available in the DTH office. Union Suite 104. Contact Kelly Ryan, DTH editor-select at 962-0245 with any questions.
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