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IN THE NEWS
Top stones from the state, nation and world
Irish Prime Minister, IRA
Make Peace Commitment
DUBLIN, Ireland After their first
face-to-face meeting, Ireland’s prime min
ister and the leader of the IRA’s political
partner made a joint commitment to peace
Tuesday.
The talks angered Protestants and got a
cool response from Britain, where Prime
Minister John Maj or also had a run-in with
hard-line Protestant leader lan Paisley.
Paisley accused Major of “shouting and
interrupting” him during the 10-minute
meeting.
The two sessions mirrored divisions over
bringing peace to Northern Ireland despite
a cease-foe declared by the Irish Republi
can Army, which has been fighting to end
British rule of the province.
German Leader: Abortion
Issue Must Be Dealt With
CAIRO, Egypt Abortion is a fact of
life and despite the hot debate surrounding
it, must be dealt with by an international
gathering on population control,
Germany’s interior minister said Monday.
The minister, Manfred Kanther, is lead
ing efforts to ease contention at the U.N.
population conference, which exploded
into controversy long before it opened
Monday.
The Vatican and Muslim fundamental
ists oppose abortion provisions in the pro
posed plan of action that participants will
be asked to sign, and the Vatican is pushing
to remove all references to abortion.
Compromise language reportedly be
ing considered for the plan of action would
remove all references to abortion or “preg
nancy termination.”
100 Cuban Refugees Being
Transported Into Panama
WASHINGTON, D.C. About 100
Cubans being housed at the Guantanamo
Naval Base were being flown to Panama
on Tuesday, the first such group to depart
the facility since it was opened to Cuban
boat people last month.
The initial group agreed to leave for
Panama voluntarily, but State Department
spokesman Mike McCurry said it was not
clear whether volunteers would be avail
able for all future transfers of Cubans to
Panama.
He refused to speculate on what the
United States would do with the Cubans if
the six-month time limit established by the
Panamanians expired without any agree
ment on where they would go next.
One advantage for the United States is
that it is cheaper.
Rwandan Soldiers Moving
Into Uncontrolled Sectors
KIGALI, Rwanda Tutsi-led troops
began trickling Tuesday into southwestern
Rwanda, where a half-million Hutus have
sought U.N. protection in the only part of
the country the new government does not
control.
The former rebels, seeking to consoli
date their victory, have promised they will
not tolerate reprisals against Hutus for the
slaughter of an estimated 500,000 people
during three months of civil war. Most of
the victims were civilians from the country ’ s
Tutsi minority.
But there have been reports of retalia
tionagainstHutus in other partsofßwanda,
and U.N. officials worried that frightened
Hutus might flee to already crowded refu
gee camps in neighboring Zaire.
Nigerian Leader Declares
Absolute Military Power
LAGOS, Nigeria—Flexing his muscles
after defeating a pro-democracy strike,
Nigeria’s military ruler onTuesdaybanned
newspapers, made it easier to keep oppo
nents in jail and decreed that his regime
had absolute power.
Thousands of Nigerian oil workers
ended a two-month strike on Monday,
caving in to the military government of
Gen. Sani Abacha.
They went on strike to demand that
Abacha surrenderpowerto Moshood K.O.
Abiola, who is widely believed to have
won the annulled 1993 presidential elec
tion. Abiola is in jail awaiting trial on
treason charges.
Pro-democracy activists responded to
Abacha’s decrees with frustration Tues
day.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Sunny; high low 80s.
TUESDAY: Mostly sunny; high mid
80s.
Senior Class to Give UNC New Job Database
BYERICA LUETZOW
STAFF WRITER
Classes have hardly begun, and already
the senior class officers are asking their
classmates to focus on what they want to
leave behind.
Fund raising for the Senior Class Gift of
the Career Search database begins with the
Senior Class Gift Kickoff from 11 a.m to 1
p.m today in the Pit.
Mike Crisp, senior class president, said
the database was valuable because it helped
students withjob searches, identifying ideal
companies and making contacts.
“You can search by any variable,” Crisp
said. “The biggest advantage is that the
Career Search is often updated. It’s light-
Carrboro Takes Sides
On Domestic Partners
BY ALISON BAKER
STAFF WRITER
Almost 80 concerned residents crowded
the Carrboro Town Hall on Tuesday night
for a passionate public debate on the con
troversial domestic partners proposal.
It was a divided room as supporters vied
both for and against the controversial pro
posal, the first of its kind in the state, which
would provide unmarried couples the same
financial benefits as married couples. The
ordinance will be put to a vote Sept. 13.
Carrboro resident Mike Miller said the
proposed ordinance
unfairly excluded
family members
who lived together.
“The proposal is
less about family
and more about
sex,” he said. “It
defines family in
terms of who you
have sex with.”
But Doug
Ferguson, a mem
ber of the Orange
Lesbian and Gay
Association, said
passage of the pro
posal would pro-
Carrboro Alderman
MICHAEL NELSON
has said the ordinance
will provide financial
benefits to unmarried
live-in couples.
mote family values and help break down
social pressures that forced people into
unhappy relationships.
“By allowing same-sex and opposite
sex couples to enter domestic partnerships,
you will ensure traditional American rela
tionships by ensuring that those people
who enter into them do so out of love and
not out of pressure from the committee,”
Ferguson said. “You will allow them to
strengthen their commitment to each other
by making a public declaration.”
The domestic partners ordinance seeks
to register domestic parti 1 .jhips for
Carrboro residents. Couples would be re
quired to pledge that they share the same
University’s Black Enrollment Jumps
BYPETER ROYBAL
STAFF WRITER
This year’s freshman class made Pro
vost Richard McCormick a happy man
even before it arrived on campus.
Because of increased minority scholar
ship funds and recruitment efforts, 440
black students enrolled at UNC the
second largest number of black freshmen
in the University’s history.
In a state whose population is 22 per
cent black, 12.6 percent of UNC’s fresh
man class is black, up from 10.5 percent
last year.
While McCormick concedes that the
number of historically black colleges in the
state makes it unlikely UNC will reach 22
percent black enrollment any time soon,
he thinks the increase is important.
“If the University is going to continue to
be academically excellent, it has got to
become even more diverse than it is now,”
he said.
As many other schools across the na
tion embrace this belief, competition for
qualified minority students has become
intense and UNC has to compete for its
share of the pie, McCormick said.
“There is a tremendous amount of com
petition for minority students, African-
American in particular,” he said. “If we’re
going to attract and retain thebest, we have
to recruit hard."
UNC’s minority recruitment program
includes admissions office visits to minor
ity students from every N.C. county and
some out-of-state students, and offers sev
eral scholarship programs, including one
which pays for the bulk of a college educa
tion.
Admissions representatives visit about
90percent ofNorth Carolina’s high schools
and ha ve attended college information fairs
in Virginia, Pennsylvania, South Carolina
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and includes current
names.”
Students using
the new database
can research more
than26o,ooopoten
tial employers and
find companies that
match their own
specific geographi
cal or size prefer
ences. Through the
Career Search sys
tem, students also
can download the
names and ad-
Senior Class President
MIKE CRISP says the
database contains
more than 260,000
potential employers.
dresses of appropriate people to contact
residence and “the common necessities”
of life. The proposal would also require
that the financial disclosures of the town’s
elected officials be required of domestic
partners of elected officials. The ordinance
would extend health benefits to the domes
tic partners of town employees, as well.
Susan Johnston, a lesbian mother con
cerned for her children’s welfare, spoke in
support of the health coverage the plan
would provide for family members.
“Asa mother of a child with chronic ear
infections,... I don’t know what I would
have done without health insurance,” she
said. “Enabling a town employee to buy
one insurance policy instead of two might
mean the difference between taking a child
to the doctor or not, between a child being
healed of an infection or a child having
permanent hearing loss; it might mean the
difference between a person getting pre
ventive care and getting regular checkups
or letting a disease develop that goes unde
tected and becomes life-threatening.”
Carrboro resident Dave Lohse said the
proposal represented the town’s present
ideals. “Can-boro reflects a diversity of
humanhood,” he said. “That is a large
reason why so many ofus love to live here.
“I think that it is eminently fair to offer
to all of Carrboro citizens the same rights
and privileges that only some of them cur
rently enjoy,” Lohse added.
To The Rev. Gary Webb of the Calvary
Missionary Baptist Church in Carrboro,
opposition to the proposal is both legal and
moral. “Thecohabitationthatyouareseek
ing to give official recognition to is against
North Carolina law,” he said.
The reverend added that the passage of
the ordinance would make all involved
accessories to the fact, a crime he said
would be subject to the same legal action as
the crime itself. Earlier Tuesday, Webb
had said it was his duty to the church to
oppose the ordinance. “We don’t want
people to have to face the wrath of God,”
hesaid. “That’sthepurposeofourchunch.”
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and Georgia, according to Sha-Ron Jones,
assistant director of undergraduate admis
sions.
“We seem to be the most popular (col
lege at the fairs),” Jones said. “A lot of
students are interested in Carolina, being
the flagship institution of the state. We
have a strong liberal arts program, good
campus life and we’re affordable.”
Visits to other schools are funded
through the Undergraduate Admissions
Office and the Office of the Provost, Jones
said.
In addition to visiting schools, UNC
has expanded the 25-year-old Project Up
lift, which last summer brought I,4ooblack
and Native- American rising high school
seniors to campus for a taste oflife at UNC.
According to Jones, Project Uplift is a very
successful program, and the majority of
living is entirely too time-consuming.
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with employment inquiries.
Sanjay Premakumar, co-chairman of
the Senior Class Gift Committee, said stu
dents should get involved in the campaign
because of the gift’s wide benefits.
“(The database) is really exciting, and I
think it is something everyone will benefit
from,” Premakumar said. “We are just
trying to get more people involved.”
Fund raising for this year’s class gift will
be organized differently from past cam
paigns in order to involve more of the
senior class, Crisp said.
“It will be a one-year, cash-driven cam
paign instead of a five-year pledge cam
paign,” he said. “We also will not have to
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Mina Gokal catches up on her studies in front of Wilson Library on Tuesday
after the holiday weekend. Many students could be found enjoying the late
afternoon sun around campus after a rainy Labor Day.
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those who attend apply to UNC.
Students are selected for the three-day
program on the basis of class rank, course
selection and SAT scores, Jones said.
UNC also has some minority scholar
ships, both merit- and need-based, that
make the University more attractive to
minorities.
One is the Pogue Scholarship program
for in-state minority students, which this
year provided 22 freshmen with $6,750
each. This makes the Pogue one of UNC’s
largest scholarship programs.
The Pogue scholarship is funded by the
Pogue endowment and by Student Stores
revenue.
The University has two other need-based
scholarships, funded by the General As-
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Senior Class Gift Kickoff Celebration
11 a.m. -1 p.m. today
The Pit
Come to the free blowout to begin fund raising
for the Senior Class Gift: Career Search. Feast
on popcorn, bagels, pizza, drinks and win T
shirts and other prizes. Participants include:
The Clef Hangers, George Battle, BSM Gospel
Choir, football players and other campus
representatives.
Two Area Businesses Faced
Robberies Over Weekend
BY JAMIE KRUZER
CITY EDITOR
Chapel Hill police are still investigating
two local armed holdups that occurred
within 24 hours of each other Friday
one of which ended in unusual circum
stances at a local movie theater.
Police do not believe the two crimes are
related.
“At this time, we don’t think they are
related,” Det. Marvin Clark said. “Nor
mally, it’s not something we can determine
until they get caught.”
The first incident started when a man
entered the Circle K convenience store on
Ephesus Church Road at around 3 a.m.,
demanded that the clerk on duty give him
the cash in his register and threatened to
use a gun, according to police reports.
The clerk gave the man about S2O that
was in the register and the robber left.
“We’re still working on the case,” Clark
said.
“We’re running down what leads we
have so far and still looking for leads at all
that we can come up with. ”
The suspect in the Circle K robbery is
described as a black man in his mid-30s, 5
feet 8 inches tall with black eyes and brown
hair.
Nearly 20 hours later and several miles
away, an attempted robbery ended, ironi
cally, leaving the assailant with less money
than when he started.
A ticket taker at Movies at Timberlyne,
located offofWeaver Dairy Road, saw the
man wandering around foe parking lot
several hours before the holdup.
The man first walked up to the booth at
about 7 p.m. and asked if he could get a
ticket for the “Little Rascals” movie.
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What is Career Search?
More Rian 260,000 potential
employers will be listed in an
online database to help
students in their job search.
Capel’s Job
Reclassified
In January
BYMARISSA JONES
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Internal Audit Director Edwin Capel’s
job classification was changed in January
to better reflect his duties, according to
UNC records.
Connie Boyce, manager ofthe employee
records division of human resources, said
records indicated that Capel’s job had been
reclassified on Jan. 10.
The job reclassification—and the raise
that came with it —was not the result of a
promotion, she said.
“UNC-system administrators reviewed
his job and determined that it should have
been classified higher considering the du
ties,” Boyce said. “But it wasn’t consid
ered a promotion.”
Boyce said she could not release the
amount of the increase in salary that Capel
had received because such information was
private rather than public. Capel’s current
salary is $61,458, she said.
Laurie Charest, associate vice chancel
lor of human resources, confirmed that
Capel’s raise had been a result of job
reclassification. t
“The state recognized his job at a higher
level,” she said. “And salaries reflect job
classifications.”
Charest said UNC-system administra
torshadupgradedthe classification ofN. C.
State University’s auditor at the same time
they had reclassified Capel.
Most auditors in the 16-school system
do not run operations comparable to UNC-
Chapel Hill’s, she said.
“Only a couple of them are at the level
of UNC-Chapel Hill’s because of the size,
etc.,” she said.
Boyce said Capel’s job had not changed
status since the January reclassification.
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But the ticket attendant told him that
movie only played during the afternoon
and the man walked away.
About an hour later, the man was back,
only this time to purchase two tickets for a
later showing of “Forrest Gump.”
After turning around outside the box
office, the man came back and bought
another ticket for the movie, the ticket
taker said.
“Then he asked me to give him all the
money in the (cash) drawer,” the ticket
attendant said.
“I didn’t really believe him at first. Then
he crammed a bright yellow plastic bag in
the window and told me to fill it up.”
The attendant said she had tried to get to
a panic button under the counter and had
attempted to stall the man’s demands.
“He kept telling me to huny up,” she
said.
Then he pulled out a small handgun and
shoved it under the ticket window.
“I had the money in my hand and I was
frozen,” she said.
“(The gun) sounded like plastic when it
hit the window, but I didn’t want to find
out for sure.”
That’s when the ticket attendant de
cided to split with the money in her hand.
“I have no idea why I ran. All I was
thinking about was getting out of there.”
The robber dropped his three tickets,
valued at $16.50, and ran away as the
attendant fled into the lobby of the theater.
Theater employees in the lobby tried to
get a profile of the man, who fled the
theater area toward a trailer park behind
the building.
The attempted robber is described as a
black man with a deep voice in his mid-20s,
5 feet 8 inches tall and 160 pounds.