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Volume 102, Issue 59
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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the ante, nation and world
Developments May Slow
Rush of Cuban Immigrants
WASHINGTON, D.C. One week
after more than 3,200 Cuban boat people
headed for U.S. shores in a single chaotic
day, a series of encouraging developments
have Clinton administration officials
breathing somewhat easier.
U.S. officials attribute a sharp drop in
the numbers of boat people in the last few
days to a combination of bad weather and
round-the-clock appeals for Cubans to stay
home.
“Growing numbers of Cubans under
stand that they will not come to the United
States if they are picked up in the Straits (of
Florida),” Undersecretary of State Peter
Tamoff said Monday night.
By then, only 118 Cubans had been
intercepted by the Coast Guard through
out the day. The final tally for Monday was
295.
Caribbean Countries Will
Provide Soldiers in Haiti
KINGSTON, Jamaica Four Carib
bean nations have agreed to provide peace
keepers if the United States decides to
invade Haiti to remove its ruling elite,
senior U.S. government officials said to
day.
Foreign ministers of Jamaica, Trinidad,
Barbados and Belize told U.S. officials
meeting here today that they would con
tribute to a force 0f266 soldiers to partici
pate in the peacekeeping phase of a mili
tary operation to remove Haiti’s military
leadership.
Guyana, the Bahamas and Antigua had
not made a final commitment of forces
pending further internal consultations, the
U.S. officials said.
It was not immediately clear why the
three balked.
IRA Might Call Cease-Fire
After 25 Years of Violence
BELFAST, Northern Ireland Re
ports that the IRA was about to call a
cease-fire after a quarter-century of blood
shed put nerves on edge Tuesday in North
ern Ireland’s majority Protestant commu
nity.
Speculation became intense after Gerry
Adams, leader of the Sinn Fein party, said
Monday that he had met with IRA leaders
and had told them the time was right to
"break the political, constitutional and
military stalemate and create the potential
to eradicate the underlying causes of con
flict.”
Many among the Protestant majority
feared the IRA would not suspend its ter
ror campaign to reunite the province with
the largely Roman Catholic Irish republic
unless it won concessions from the British
government.
Dosnian Leader Relieves
West Won't Punish Serbs
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnia’s prime minister said Tuesday that
he had little hope the West would punish
Serbian rebels for having rejected an inter
national plan to end their 28-month-old
war.
Tens of thousands of people would be in
danger of dying from hunger and cold this
winter, the third ofthe war, Prime Minister
Haris Silajdzic said in an interview with
The Associated Press.
The plan rejected by Bosnian Serbs this
weekend would have split the former
Yugoslav republic with a Muslim-Croat
federation, reducing Serb holdings from
the 70 percent of territory they control now
to 49 percent.
Whitewater Prosecution
Seeking New Chief Deputy
WASHINGTON, D.C. Hoping to
counter criticism, newly appointed
Whitewater prosecutor Kenneth Starr is
searching for a top deputy with prosecut
ing experience and no ties to Republican
politics, according to lawyers familiar with
the effort.
The search comes as the staff of his
predecessor, Robert Fiske, begins its exo
dus. With a smooth transition well under
way, at least four key Fiske staffers have
departed or are preparing to do so.
Starr, a Republican-appointed appel
late judge who later argued Bush adminis
tration cases before the Supreme Court as
solicitor general, has been criticized sharply
by Democrats for his ties to the GOP.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Partly cloudy; high 90.
THURSDAY: Variably cloudy; high
87.
Burnette Will Face Fall Recall Election
BY JAMIE KRITZER
CITY EDITOR
The Orange County Board of Elections
verified enough signatures this week to put
embattled school board member LaVonda
Burnette’s fate in the hands of local voters
for a November recall election.
Madeline Mitchell, a UNC research
scholar in family medicine who started the
petition to recall Burnette, said Tuesday
night that more than6,ooonames hadbeen
certified by Tuesday afternoon.
Then, the board of elections, made up of
three people, had to verify the certified
names.
At around 4 p.m. Tuesday, the board
met to do this and then contacted Mitchell
with the news.
“I don’t know what the right feeling is,”
Alumni House Meets End
Renovation Will
Close Carolina
Inn for 9 Months
BYJAMIE KRITZER
CTTY EDITOR
Ruth Barnes remembers living
with her husband and 2-year-old son
more than 40 years ago in the
cramped quarters of an apartment
building on the west side of the UN C
campus.
The first efforts to demolish that
former apartment building, located
on the south side of the Carolina Inn
along Columbia Street, began Tues
day afternoon as University employ
ees, retirees and others stood close
by.
“It was a real era passing today
when they knocked that building
down,” Barnes said after the demo
lition process began on the brick
building, which was constructed in
1939. “It’s been a very important
part of my life. I’ll miss it.”
In 1969, the building became the
home of the General Alumni Asso
ciation, the University’s nonprofit
organization designed to maintain
continuing contact with former stu
dents. For more than 20 years, the
building was known as the Alumni
House. The alumni association
moved into the George Watts Hill
Alumni Center on Ridge Road in
1993.
Chancellor Paul Hardin said the
demolition was a stroke of progress
for the University. “We’re advanc
ing on all fronts, but to do that you’ve
got to give up something that you’re
sort of used to,” Hardin said.
The destruction of the red-brick,
three-story building marks the start
of efforts to add a 56-room wing to
the Carolina Inn.
“The additional rooms will give
us larger groups with a great loca
tion,” said David Norton, project
manager from the Doubletree Ho
tels, which is leasing the inn from
the University. “More meeting space
and more guest rooms means that
instead of just 5 to 30 attendees, we
can now target groups with 30 to 100
attendees and we can still keep our
normal business.”
The building only faced mild de
struction Tuesday as a construction
crew punched a few holes in the
building’s roof and demolished a
walkway overhead in the rear of the
structure.
It will be completely leveled by
Monday, and construction workers
plan to begin hauling the loads of
rubble out of the spot, said Mike
Young, director of engineering for
the inn.
Although the building’s walls
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Mitchell said.
“You have no
way ofknowingthat
the person is a regis
tered voter or the
names will be certi
fied.”
Now the recall
will go to the voters
Nov. 8, the same
time as the general
election.
And Mitchell
said saving money
with a November
recall election was
the whole design of
the petition.
School board member
LAVONDA
BURNETT! has said
she will not step down
from her seat on the
local board.
“That was the whole point,” she said.
It takes 4,250 signatures which is 10
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percent ofthe registered voters in the school
system on the petition to get a recall
election.
A deputy supervisor at the board of
elections said late Tuesday night that she
had left work at 5 p.m. and that names
were still being tallied then.
“There were 6,ooothat were certified as
valid registered voters,” Pat Sanes said.
“But (the three members on the board of
elections) still had to go through the peti
tions.”
Sanes said the elections board still had
to confirm that all of the names certified as
valid could be used in the recall petition.
The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board ofEdu
cation chose in January not to remove
Burnette from the board after discovering
that she had repeatedly bed to the public
about her educational background.
We \re advancing on all fronts, but to do
that , you’ve got to give up something
that you \re sort of used to.
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DTH PHOTOS BY KATIE CANNON
TOP: Chancellor Paul Hardin kicks off the luncheon.
MIDDLE: The wrecking ball drops onto the house.
ABOVE: Laura Cartner, whose office was housed in the
building, writes a goodbye message on the bricks.
STAFF
Burnette ran as a UNC student and a
product ofthe local school system, saying
she would bring a student voice to the
school board.
The board opted instead to pursue recall
legislation so that voters could decide
Burnette’s fate.
The recall bill passed the General As
sembly in early July and Mitchell started
the petition drive to remove Burnette on
July 19.
Mitchell collected 7,257 signatures,
which she turned into the board of elec
tions in mid-August.
The elections board had until Thursday
to verify the signatures.
School board chairman Ken Touw said,
like fellow board member Mark Royster,
that he was not surprised that the Burnette
issue would go back to the voters.
Future Audits to
Examine UNC
More Closely
BYAMYPINIAK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
A former vice chancellor who worked with the
UNC internal auditor from 1989-92 said it was com
mon practice for the auditor to report matters of con
cern directly to him and not issue reports.
Ben Tuchi, UNC’s vice chancellor for business and
finance from 1989-92, said in a phone interview from
his home in Pittsburgh that he thought Edwin Capel,
the university’s internal audit director, was an effective
auditor. “I thought he was quite good and quite thor
ough,” Tuchi said.
During his tenure here, he said, it was routine forthe
auditor to make findings and report them directly to
him with no report issued.
“There were numerous instances that needed reme
dial work and he disclosed them to me,” Tuchi said.
The matters were internal, and he declined to say what
any of them were.
The auditor’s office at UNC has been understaffed
since he was at UNC, he said. There were not enough
resources to increase the auditor’s staff, Tuchi said, but
it was common knowledge that there was not enough
staff to handle all the University’s auditing needs.
“If you’re shortstaffed and the audit doesn’t seem to
be showing any deficiencies, you don’t have time to
write a report and you move on to other hot spots,” he
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Campus Group
Eyes Recycling
Efforts at UNC
BYMICHELLE LAMBETH
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Before July 1, recycling was an environmental!}
conscious choice. Now, it's the law.
The General Assembly passed legislation this sum
mer that made it illegal to dispose of aluminum cans in
landfills. Several campus organizations are doing their
. part to make sure UNC not
only complies with the new
law but also properly dis
poses of other recyclable
goods.
The Student Environ
mental Action Coalition
plans to set up a meeting with representatives from the
Marriott Corp. to improve recycling efforts in the new
Lenoir Hall food court where takeout food is now more
popular than ever.
Charles Button, UNC recycling coordinator and
environmental programs manager with the Office of
Waste Reduction and Recycling, said his department
had been busy increasing the number of aluminum
recycling bins around campus.
“We’ve increased the number of outdoor sites on
campus,” Button said. “We probably put out about 10
or 15 new containers every month, and we’re trying to
increase that. We’re also trying to place a lot more
containers inside.”
Button said his office’s initial goal was to have at
least one aluminum can container in every building on
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“I had received more phone calls and
letters about this issue than any other thing
that the school board has encountered in
the past two to three years on the board,”
he said.
“It was clear that a large number of
people were concerned about the issue.
“The best way to resolve this situation is
to let the citizens of Chapel Hill and
Carrboro speak their minds at the polls. I
think this is the right thing to do in a
democracy.”
Touw said he doubted that the Burnette
recall would drive more voters to the polls
than would normally turn out.
He also said, “Based on the response
I’ve had, I’d expect the vote would be to
remove her from office.”
Jon Goldberg contributed to this article.
SMC Meeting to
Discuss Recycling
7:30 p.m., today
208 Student Union
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