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®ljp Daily ®ar Jtel Jj Volume 102, Issue 60 101 yean of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1593 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Bomb Strikes Democratic Headquarters in Nigeria LAGOS, Nigeria—Assailants threw a gasoline bomb at the headquarters of the Campaign for Democracy on Wednesday in yet another attack that human rights activists blamed on Nigeria’s beleaguered military government. Activists said the government was des perately trying to kill the democracy move ment andbreak a crippling eight-week strike by oil workers who were trying to force an end to military rule. The bomb did little damage, appar ently because it was thrown from some distance. A direct attack would have involved confrontation with young guards who now patrol the offices of the Campaign for De mocracy, a coalition of 41 human rights, social and labor groups. U.S. May Gain Additional Support for Haiti Invasion WASHINGTON, D.C.—The Clinton administration is hopeful of winning the support of three more nations for a possible invasion of Haiti if economic and diplo matic sanctions fail to remove the ruling military junta. The Bahamas, Antigua and Guyana withheld a commitment at a meeting of foreign ministers and military command ers from the region Tuesday in Kingston, Jamaica. Jamaica, Trinidad, Tobago, Bar bados and Belize agreed to contribute troops. TTie United States would provide the troops for the first wave, with the other countries intervening soon afterward, ad ministration officials said. Israel to Halt Peace Plans If Violence Not Curbed JERUSALEM —Israel would halt fur ther transfers of power in the West Bank if the Palestinian Authority did not take ac tion against Islamic extremists who attack Israelis, Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin warned Wednesday. An agreement signed this week gave Palestinians control over health, educa tion, social services and taxation in the occupied West Bank, but the two sides have not settled on a timetable. “Security considerations will be the dominant factor in deciding the timing,” Rabin said. Officials said they did not expect the Palestinians to stamp out all violence but to make the maximum effort to jail assail ants. Judge Denies Key Defense Motion in Simpson's Trial LOS ANGELES OJ. Simpson’s challenge to the credibility of a key inves tigator suffered another setback Wednes day when a judge denied a defense request to search the detective’s personnel file for signs of racism. “I did not find any reports, incident reports, any information that was perti nent to the issues in this case,” Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said. The ruling, along with a previous one denying the defense access to Detective Mark Fuhrman’s military records, limits Simpson’s efforts to interject race into the case. During yet another fractious hearing, Ito heard arguments about his proposed gag order that would prohibit attorneys and investigators involved in the case from talking to the media. Mayors Encourage Clinton To Implement Crime Plan WASHINGTON, D.C. Mayors urged President Clinton on Wednesday to implement the newly passed S3O billion anti-crime bill swiftly so they could begin hiring police officers in hopes of cutting urban crime before 1996. The U.S. Conference of Mayors put together a three-member task force to prod Congress and the Clinton administration along as they appropriate money for cities to use in anti-crime efforts. The task force comprises Denver Mayor Wellington Webb, Louisville Mayor Jerry Abramson and Paul Helmke, mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. When it is signed, the new law, ap proved by Congress last week, will ban assault-style weapons and devote SB.B bil lion to putting 100,000 more police on U.S. streets. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Variably cloudy; high 87. FRIDAY: Partly cloudy; high 80. Auditor Served as Interim Head of Purchasing BYAMYPINIAK UNIVERSITY EDITOR The auditor who is responsible for being the University’s main financial watchdog also temporarily headed UNC’s purchas ing department in 1991, according to em ployee records. Records show that Internal Audit Di rector Edwin Capel, who has been head auditor since 1981, served as UNC’s head departmental purchasing and service of ficer in the department of purchasing from March toAugust 1991. Although the docu ments were unclear as to whether Capel served in both positions simultaneously, Carolyn Elfland, associate vice chancellor for business, said Wednesday that Capel was still in the Internal Audit Department v * DTH/DAVID ALFORD Jacqueline Fields greets anew pledge on Franklin Street Wednesday evening. The recent rushees were welcomed by bid day celebrations at their new sororities. Anonymous HIV Tests Saved Temporarily by N.C. Court BY EMMA WILLIAMS ASSISTANT FEATURES EDITOR In everyday language, there is only a minor difference between the words anony mous and confidential. When they refer to HIV testing, the difference becomes a mat ter of tremendous debate. That difference was highlighted Wednesday morning when N.C. Superior Court Judge Gordon Battle halted the state health department’s plan to discontinue anonymous HIV testing starting today. The state had planned to replace anony mous testing with confidential testing, which requires people taking HIV tests to reveal their names and other information. When people test HIV-positive, theirnames are entered into a state databank. People currently can choose between anonymous and confidential testing at state health clin ics. The Triangle branch of ACT-UP, the AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power, sued the N.C. Commission for Health Services, hoping to maintain anonymous testing. Local Woman Questions Burnette Recall Petition Methods BY MICHELLE LAMBETH ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR The signatures have been counted, and a recall election for school board member LaVonda Burnette is set for Nov. 8. But, not all local residents are happy about the turn of events, and they’re not only Burnette’s supporters. “I don’t think recalls are appropriate,” said Marjorie Schwartz, a Chapel Hill resi dent who became concerned when she saw a lot of petitions floating around. “I wish the board (of education) had just said they could live with it —and they could have lived with it.” On Tuesday, the Orange County Board Procrastination the art of keeping up with yesterday. Don Marquis Chapel Hill, North Caroliu THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 1,1994 when he was acting purchasing director. A state investigation recently found that Capel regularly failed to file reports of financial irregularities. According to a re port issued in July by State Auditor Ralph Campbell Jr., Capel did not file audit re ports in at least six instances over the past eight years. Although Capel’s office had spent 5,277 hours almost two years of labor —performing the audits, the reports had never been filed, Campbell concluded. Capel declined comment Wednesday. Elfland, who appointed Capel to the purchasing post, said it was common for a University employee to temporarily have two jobs at the same time. Capel acted as purchasing director for a five-month pe riod between the retirement of former di rector Frank Farrington and the hiring of Rushed ACT-UP argued that some people, es pecially those in high-risk groups for con tracting AIDS, would be too intimidated if they had to reveal their names and there fore would never be tested. “Anonymous testing brings a lot more people into the system,” said Stewart Fisher, the attorney who represented ACT - UP. “Unless you can show that there’s some kind of a net gain in the number of infected individuals being treated, then you ought to keep both kinds of testing.” The state argued that anonymous test ing hindered its ability to counsel people who tested positive and help them contact others they might have infected. Bill Fumey, spokesman for the state health director’s office, summed up the situation this way: “You can’t help people if you can’t reach them.” Too many people who are tested anony mously fail to show up to receive their test results, which leaves health department workers without any way to notify them, Please See AIDS, Page 2 of Elections verified more than enough signatures, which local resident Madeline Mitchell collected with the help of a grassroots effort, to call for a recall elec tion. Schwartz became upset when she saw several petitions in stores and other busi nesses in the community. N.C. laws state that a witness must be present to attest to every signature on a particular page. Schwartz’s concern is that because so many petitions sat in area businesses, some resi dents might have signed without a witness, which would make the signature invalid. “There were people who were handing in whole bundles of names and swearing falsely,” Schwartz said. “There were a few current director Howard Gorman. “Any time you have a major position vacant, you try to find someone who knows about the job to fill in,” Elfland said. The internal audit office is responsible for auditing the purchasing department if the need arises. Susan Ehringhaus, the University’s le gal counsel, who is responsible for ensur ing there are no legal conflicts of interest in University hiring procedures, said she was not familiar with Capel’s employment record. “Isimplydon’tknow, ’’Ehringhaus said when asked about Capel’s positions of audit director and purchasing officer. A state auditor’s report from 1986 also criticized Capel’s performance—for simi lar reasons as those found in the 1994 report. According to the 1986 report, Capel and his auditors failed to regularly com Burglaries Down on Campus in 1993 BYJENICOOK STAFF WRITER Keeping up with recent trends in Chapel Hill and Carrboro, burglary and breaking and entering reports have declined at the University in the past year. Statistics in UNC’s new 1994 security report show 117 incidents were reported in 1993, as opposed to 285 in 1992 and 296 in 1991. The reason for the drop in burglary and breaking and entering reports was hard to explain, said Alana Ennis, University Po lice chief. “There are just too many variables to consider to definitively say why a category may change suddenly,” she said. The number of burglary and breaking and entering incidents reported for Chapel Hill and Carrboro also took a sharp plunge. Last year, Chapel Hill received 416 re ports, compared to 752 in 1992. Carrboro reported 172, do wn from 315 the previous year. ‘Tve been told in the past that univer sity crime is reflective of the community it is located in," said Mary Sechriest, associ ate University legal counsel. who accounted for more than half the signatures. Along with that, I noticed that the last seven were pages of the petition I had seen in stores.” The local chapter of the National Asso ciation for the Advancement of Colored People is also looking into the matter. Although he could not elaborate, Carrboro Alderman Hank Anderson, a vice presi dent of the local NAACP chapter, said the issue was in “legal hands.” The move to try to hold a recall election for Burnette came after it was discovered that she repeatedly lied about her educa tional background. During the campaign, Burnette said she was a UNC student and a product of the local school system. municate the results of their findings to UNC administrators and had no formal system for issuing audit reports. The 1986 report, by former State Audi tor Edward Renfrow, also stated that the internal auditing office workpapers were of “poor quality,” that Capel apparently failed to review thepapers, and that neither Capel nor his secretary was required to document and account for activities. Elfland said she was unaware of the 1986 findings when she appointed Capel to the temporary post. When asked if Capel’s simultaneous employment pre sented a conflict, she said, “I thought about that at the time, but there are so many checks and balances in the purchasing pro cess, and so many signatures required, that one person couldn’t subvert the process.” UNC Gets Donation Toward Gay Studies BY JUDY ROYAL ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR The University may receive funds from a California man’s estate to offer some gay studies courses in future semesters, said Lawrence Gilbert, associate vice chancel lor for academic affairs. Charles Williamson, a UNC medical school graduate from San Francisco, died in 1993 and designated in hiswillasl 70,000 grant for gay education and awareness classes at the University. Because of legal complications, UNC was not aware of the possible donation until last spring. University officials must deal with the executor of the estate and meet the terms of the will beforetheymake any more progress to incorporate gay studies courses in the curriculum through this grant. Williamson specified in his will that the money should be spent in a way to encourage gay and lesbian studies on campus. If the executor approved the proposal for gay courses in the curriculum, the Uni versity would receive the money in De cember, Gilbert said. Gilbert also said University officials wanted students’ opinions on the possibil ity of gay studies courses and had waited for classes to begin before making any definite plans. “We couldn’t really do any thing until the students got back because we wanted to confer with B-GLAD to get their ideas as well,” he said. Cecil Wooten, faculty adviser to Bi sexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for Diversity, said he had met with students, the Development Office, the Provost’s of fice and Gilbert to draw up a proposal that Of the incidents outlined in the secu rity report, Univer sity Police reported no murders, 18 sex offenses, three rob beries, 41 aggravated assaults and 11 mo tor vehicle thefts. The report notes that arrests were made for 70 dmg vio lations, 13 weapons violations and 85 al- Crime Offenses Reported at UNC-CH Offense 1991 1992 893 Murder 10 0 Sex Offense, Forcible 7 11 18 Sex Offense, Non-forcible 0 0 0 Robbery 0 33 Aggravated Assault 51 34 41 Burglary/ B & E 296 285 117 Motor Vehicle Theft 12 17 11 SOURCE 1994 SECURITY REPORT STAFF cohol violations. Sex offenses and aggra vated assaults both rose by seven from the past year. An increase in sex offenses might have been a result of new procedures that re quire professional counselors to report crimes revealed to them, Sechriest said. Ennis said the increased number of re ports might also have signified that people were reporting more cases because they had more faith in the department. “Just because the number of some crimes are up doesn’t mean actual crimes wentup, just the number of reports,” she said. The University police department is Schwartz said she had looked over the petitions and expressed her concerns to the elections board, which collected the peti tions and counted the signatures. But she said elections supervisors did not seem concerned. “The position of the board of elections was that itwasnot their business," Schwartz said. “They just take the signatures. “They’re not interested in the process. If someone has apparently followed the law, they’re not going to question it.” Schwartz also voiced her concerns to John McCormick, the school board's at torney, but he said he didn’t see what the Please See BURNETTE, Page 2 News/Features/Ara/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advatising 962-1163 C 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. For the short period of time Capel worked in purchasing, there wouldn’t have been a conflict of interest, Elfland said. But on a permanent basis, she would not have had an auditor in charge of purchasing. Elfland said that when she hired Capel, the warehouse division of the purchasing department formally called the materi als support department had recently installed anew financial accounting sys tem. “I selected Eddie partly because there were problems with the new system. He assigned an auditor to solve the problems, and there was a report issued on that.” Rob Hillman, general counsel for the state auditor’s office, said Wednesday that state auditors had known about the Inter- Please See AUDIT, Page 2 was acceptable to the executor. The formal proposal by the Development Office will include provisions for development grants for courses studying the issue of homo sexuality, lectures, classes on contributions of the homosexual community and funds for B-GLAD. “We would like to see the bulk of the money used for course develop ment grants on homosexuality.” Possible departments incorporating the gay studies curriculum are history, psy chology and English. Gilbert said he thought the University community could benefit greatly from heightened awareness of the contributions of the gay population to the arts and sci ences. “To me, it’s just a segment of society that has made contributions, and I feel faculty and students should be aware of these contributions,” he said. Wooten said the grant would provide a valuable opportunity to diversify the University’s curriculum. “There’s been a tendency in the last few years to broaden the curriculum and in clude groups that have normally been x ed," he said. “I think this fits in well with the increased emphasis onmulticulturalism in the University curriculum.” The donation also could give homo sexuals the recognition they deserve as a minority group on campus, Wooten said. “I think one of the complaints I hear all the time from gay students on this campus are the same kind of complaints I hear from blacks and women,” he said. “They say homosexuality is never mentioned in class throughout their whole four years at this University. “I think this is a way of correcting that.” also continuing to increase its visibility on campus by implementing new programs. Officers now have “contact cards” to make sure faculty, staff and students are aware of their presence. The cards are left to alert people of unnecessary risks, such as unlocked doors or cars. University Police Det. Angela Cannon said the “contact cards” enabled police to create anew avenue to relate to the people they were trying to protect. “We hope we are doing a good job of educating and raising awareness,” Ennis Please See CRIME, Page 2 Editor's Note The Daily Tar Heel wants you. The DTH is looking for enthusiastic, moti vated students to take part in its daily produc tion. Desk editors need reporters, photogra phers, copy editors, graphic artists, cartoon ists and design/layout artists. No experience is needed to work at the DTH, except for the photography and design/ graphics desks. Applications are available in the DTH office, which is located in Union Suite 104. All staff applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday. New staff members will be posted Tuesday. Please call the DTH newsroom at 962- 0245 with any questions.
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