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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Agreement With Haiti Still
Raising Questions in U.S.
WASHINGTON, D.C. As Ameri
can troops began their risky peacekeeping
mission Monday, President Clinton said
forcing Haiti's military leaders to surren
der power had been more important than
demanding they leave the country.
Republicans and Democrats alike criti
cized letting them stay, although the gen
eral feeling in Washington was one of
relief that invasion had been averted.
Clinton, looking tired after a tense week
end, declared himself satisfied with the
1 lth-hour accord Sunday. “This is a good
agreement, ” he said at an East Room news
conference.
However, he made it clear he had not
forgotten that Lt. Gen. Raoul Cedras had
reneged on a pledge last year to surrender
power.
Serb Troops Force More
Muslims Across Borders
TUZLA, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnian Serbs herded hundreds more
Muslims across the front lines Monday,
and U.N. officials said few non-Serbs were
left in Serb-held areas in the northeast.
Two people were killed during the trans
fer and many others required urgent medi
cal treatment when they arrived, accord
ing to Red Cross officials at the crossing
point.
One man, 66-year-old Ismet Amautovic,
died when he stepped on a mine while
crossing into government territory, offi
cials of Bosnia’s Muslim-dominated gov
ernment and refugees said.
The exodus from the towns of Bijeljina
and Janja showed the determination of
ethnic Serb nationalists to force out the last
few thousand non-Serbs.
Minority Leader Declares
Health Care Reform Dead
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Health re
form appears dead for this session of Con
gress, Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole
said Monday.
“Time is running out. I don’t see any
thing happening this year,” Dole told the
Independent Institute. “Maybe next year
we’ll have a more rational approach to
health care.”
Even as Dole pronounced a requiem for
reform, a bloc of Senate moderates was
still laboring on a possible compromise.
But even some moderates seemed to be
looking to next year.
Sen. John Chafee, R-R.1., and others
were huddling later with Senate Majority
Leader George Mitchell to discuss their
attempt to put together a bill that could
command at least 60 votes.
Simpson Judge Refuses to
Dismiss Murder Charges
LOS ANGELES A judge today re
fused to dismiss murder charges against
O.J. Simpson, turning aside arguments
that the case was built on sloppy police
work and investigators’ lies.
Superior Court Judge Lance Ito said
detectives acted properly when they en
tered Simpson’s estate without a search
warrant and found a bloody glove and
drops of blood on the driveway. *
The judge also said he believeSkhere
was sufficient evidence to order Simpson
to stand trial and that murder was the
proper charge based on the brutal nature of
the killings.
Simpson is charged with murder in the
slayings of his ex-wife Nicole Brown
Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman.
Representative Works to
Block Congress Pay Raise
WASHINGTON, D.C. A Republi
can lawmaker said Monday that he would
try to block a $3,473 pay increase for Con
gress that was scheduled to take effect
automatically in January.
Rep. Jim Lightfoot’s efforts could lead
to another embarrassing pay debate for
lawmakers, who currently earn $133,600.
If the lowa Republican is successful, this
would be the second straight year that
Congress denied itself a raise.
Lightfoot said pay raises should “re
ward people doing good work,” adding
that he didn’t believe one American in 100
thought Congress had earned an increase.
The lawmaker said he would offer a
procedural resolution Tuesday that would
force the House to vote on the issue.
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UNC Places 26th Among National Universities
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University Ranks 26th
UNC jump* two slots from last year
1. Harvard University
2. Princeton University
3. Yale University
4. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
5. Stanford University
6. Duke University
7. California Institute of Technology
8. Dartmouth College
9. Columbia University
10. University of Chicago
2C. UNC-Chapei Hill
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T.J. Hall and Matt McCaughan play a tune on their djembe drums on Franklin Street on Monday afternoon. Hall, a member of the Edwin
McCain Band, and McCaughan, a freshman, had never met before. As Hall said, "Music is a universal language."
Future of Horace Williams
Tract Remains Undecided
BYGRETCHENHOFFMAN
STAFF WRITER
Amid conflicting opinions as to how the
University would view the action, the re
zoning of a portion of the University-owned
Horace Williams
property will be re
ferred to Chapel Hill
Town Manager Cal
Horton, the town
council decided
Monday.
The subject of
greatest concern
right now, accord
ing to a memoran
dum written by
Horton, is the area
bordered on the
north by Chapel
Hill’s Extraterrito
rial Jurisdiction line
ill
Town council member
MARK CHILTON
thinks the Horace
Williams property
should be rezoned.
and on the south by the Horace Williams
Airport. It is currently zoned Office/Insti
tutional-3, and it has been proposed that it
CanceDation of Haitian Invasion Raises U.S. Policy Questions
BY RYAN THORNBURG
ASSISTANT STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR
AND KELLY RACE
STAFF WRITER
What many international politicians
once believed would be no more than a
month-long ordeal in Haiti has now lasted
nearly three years. And it’s not over yet.
Although questions still remain in the
minds of Americans about just how in
volved the U.S. government should be in
restoring popularly elected President Jean-
Bertrand Aristide to power in Haiti, many
experts believe the eleventh-hour agree
ment reached by the American delegation
in Port-Au-Prince Sunday night will fi
nally bring an end to the turmoil.
“We thought it would be quickly taken
care of in two or three weeks. But here we
are, three years later,” said Michael Barnes,
chief legal counsel for Aristide’s govern-
Home is where the college student home for the holidays isn t.
Chapel Hill. North CareliM
TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20,1994
BY AMY REAVIS
STAFF WRITER
UNC rose to No. 26 among 229 na
tional universities ranked in the U.S. News
and World Report’s annual “America’s
Best Colleges,” which hit the newsstands
Monday.
Last year, UNC had slipped to No. 28,
which was a decline from its rankings of
No. 25 in 1991 and No. 20 in 1990.
UNC missed returning to the 25th spot
this year by 0.3 percentage points, accord
ing to Robert Morse of USN&WR.
Jane Brown, chairwoman of UNC’s
Faculty Council, said she was pleased by
the University’s rank.
“I think the new ranking is great, and I
hope it keeps going up,” she said.
Brown said UNC was still working to
improve its national ranking.
“The two main areas the council is
STAFF
Dueling Bongos
be changed to 01-2.
Chapel Hill’s 01-3 zoning district was
designed with UNC’s central campus in
mind, and therefore has few restrictions.
There is no height or use restriction for the
buildings on this section of the property.
01-2, on the other hand, has height restric
tions and excludes such buildings as hospi
tals, hotels and residence halls.
According to the town manager’s memo
randum, the community had expressed
concern that the 01-3 zoning would allow
too great of a range ofbuilding possibilities
for the undeveloped area.
Martin Rodyofthe town Planning Board
said the University saw no need to com
plete the zoning process until a complete
plan for the land was made.
“I was confused and surprised to find
this on our agenda,” Rody said. “The
University has indicated that they will not
do anything with this land until a plan is
made. To go through the process of rezon
ing the property at this time is fallacious.”
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Barnes is a 1965
UNC graduate who
volunteered to rep
resent the fugitive
government after a
military coup led by
Raoul Cedras
forced Aristide out
of Haiti in Septem
ber 1991. He said
Sunday’s agree
ment had much
more potential for
success than previ
ous agreements that
had notbeen upheld
Ousted President
JEAN-BERTRAND
ARISTIDE should
return to power in
October.
by Haiti’s military junta.
“The reason it has more potential is that
15,000 American forces are behind it,” he
said.
The peace agreement is not infallible
working on are returning to a competitive
salary level and restoring budgets for the
library,” Brown said.
But James Walters, UNC’s director of
admissions, said some of the decision pro
cesses used to compile the report were
flawed and that people should not judge
schools solely by their rankings. “One
should not give a lot of weight to national
rankings because a lot of universities do
not respond to the survey,” he said.
According to a press release from
USN&WR, the magazine conducted a
survey of officials at 1,400 accredited four
year colleges and universities to compile
information for the rankings in the na
tional universities category.
College presidents, deans and admis
sions directors were asked to rate all schools
in the same category as their institution.
The response rate was a record 66 percent.
Walters said these administrators were
Hoops Tickets Available Wednesday
BYGAUTAMKHANDELWAL
STAFF WRITER
Just as quickly as North Carolina foot
ball fever has swept diehard UNC fans, the
basketball bug is about to hit as well.
The Carolina Athletic Association has
announced its basketball ticket distribu
tion policy for the 1994-95 season with a
few minor changes from last year’s policy.
CAA co-president Jennifer Rasmussen
said the policy was reviewed by the athletic
department before it was approved.
“The athletic department looks at our
proposed policy and usually OKs our
plans,” she said. “However, they may
change some aspects if necessary to make
the plan run more smoothly.”
The student ticket distribution will be
held on Saturday mornings from 8 a.m. to
11 a.m. The only exceptions will be the first
two distribution dates.
Students can pick up tickets for the the
Blue/White, Croatia and Athletes-in-Ac
tion exhibition games Wednesday at 8
a.m.
Tickets for North Carolina's season
opener against Texas Nov. 26 and the
Nov. 29 game against Pittsburgh will be
“We thought it ivould be
quickly taken care of in two or
three weeks. But here we are,
three years later. ”
MICHAEL BARNES
Chief Legal Counsel for Aristide's
government
however. Barnes, who represented
Aristide's government in negotiations at
Governor’s Island, N.Y., in July 1993,
said the team of American negotiators
working in Port-Au-Prince had negotiated
independently of Aristide.
“We were not involved in the latest
round of negotiations,” Barnes said. “We
found out that an agreement had been
Laurence J. Peter
asked to rank each school overall on a scale
of one to five. He said he thought the rating
system was an ineffective method of deter
mining the quality of each school.
Each school also submits educational
data used in the rankings. The data include
information on factors such as academic
reputation, student selectivity, faculty re
sources, financial resources, graduation
rate, alumni satisfaction, SAT/ACT scores,
acceptance rate and student/faculty ratio.
According to Walters, UNC has im
proved its SAT averages, graduation rates,
yield percentages, retention rates and per
centage of acceptance during the past year.
Walters said he had contacted
USN&WR last year to find out why UNC
had dropped in the rankings. He said rep
resentatives of the magazine had told him
low faculty salaries and graduate stipends
had caused the slip.
The top five ranked national universi
Recruitment Bill
Legal, Conner Says
BYUSA ROBBINS
STAFF WRITER
Student Congress Parliamentarian Lee Conner released a memo
to other congress members Monday stating that Student Body
President George Battle legally signed the Minority Recruitment
Bill Thursday.
The bill originally passed Wednesday night 11-10-1 after an
hour and a half of debate. After other bills were considered and
four congress members, including Battle, had left the meeting,
Rep. Trong Nguyen, Dist. 8, moved to reconsider the Minority
Recruitment Bill.
Battle signed the bill into law after Speaker Monica Cloud, who
co-sponsored the bill, declared the 11-3 reconsideration vote
invalid because of an absence of a quorum.
Conner wrote his memo in response to a memo from Rep.
Jonathan Jordan, Dist. 1, who argued last week that Battle
illegally signed the bill into effect. “I consider (Jordan’s) interpre
tation to be incorrect and believe that (Battle) was within (his)
rights and duties as Student Body President to sign the bill,”
Conner said in his memo. “I would assert that the bill was not on
the floor of congress because of the lack of a quorum when the vote
was taken on the Motion to Reconsider.
“Therefore, the motion did not pass and the bill remains as it
was before the Motion to Reconsider was made,” Conner said.
A minimum of 16 congress members must be present to
establish quorum. Without quorum, Student Congress has no
legal authority.
Jordan said in an interview that quorum was assumed unless
otherwise stated. “Up until (when there is) a quorum call, quorum
is presumed,” he said. “Because it’s presumed there was quorum,
there could be a motion.”
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BASKETBAU TICKET DISTRIBUTION
Studentjckets for home games will be
given put starting Wednesday.
Students can pick up tfteir tickets, at the
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given out Wednesday, Oct. 12.
T ickets will be distributed from the “will
call” windows on the north side of the
Smith Center. Students may obtain tickets
by presenting their UNC ONE Card and a
valid, unpunched athletic pass. A student
may also pick up a ticket for another stu
dent with that student’s ID and athletic
pass.
Student fans also will be allowed to
obtain as many as six seats together as long
as they have three people together in line.
As in past years, lower-level seats will
continue to be distributed randomly. Co
president Nil Dalai said this policy would
ease the fervor associated with distribution
lineups.
“You can be No. 50 in line orbeNo. 650
reached at the time
it was signed. We
were briefed before
the public knew.”
Barnes said
while Aristide was
eager to return
home, the ousted
leader was not in
volved in planning
the military strike
which was averted
by the late negotia
tions.
“He (Aristide)
wanted the crisis to
end. Let’s just leave
Military General
RAOULCEDRAS
agreed Sunday to
relinquish control of
Haiti.
it at that. The constitution of Haiti forbids
him to advocate violence,” Bames said.
Now, while it appears that major vio
lence in Haiti has been avoided, 9,000
American troops have gone ashore to sta-
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ties in this year’s report were Harvard
University, Princeton University, Yale
University, Massachusetts Institute of
Technology and Stanford University.
Harvard ranked first for the fifth con
secutive year.
Appalachian State University, UNC-
Charlotte and UNC-Wilmington ranked
ninth, thirteenth and fourteenth respec
tively in the Southern regional category.
Schools ranked were divided into five
categories based on classifications main
tained by the Carnegie Foundation for the
Advancement of Teaching, according to
the USN&WR press release.
Last year, 300 four-year colleges
changed categories after the Carnegie Foun
dation issued its first revision of the classi
fications since 1987.
The categories are: national universi-
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in line and still get the best ticket in the
house,” Dalai said. "People tend to freak
about lower-level seating, and random dis
tribution should ease their worries about
being the first one in line.”
The distribution will continue until the
number of student tickets are exhausted.
Any remaining tickets will be distributed
the following Monday, starting at 8 a.m. at
the Smith Center ticket office. Any re
maining student tickets not picked up by
the following Wednesday will be sold to
the general public.
The CAA will also implement a line
number/roll call policy for distributions
where camping out occurs by passing out
numbers to students waiting in line. Once
numbers have been distributed, CAA offi
cials will monitor the line at the top of any
hour —for example, at 8 p.m., 3 a.m. or 5
a.m.—to check the line. One person may
represent only one number in line. Any
person absent during a line check will be
disqualified from the line.
From 6 a.m. to 8 a.m., CAA officials
may check the line at any time. Students
are requested to stay in line at all times
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bilize the island before Aristide returns.
There is still a concern among negotia
tors that Port-Au-Prince police Chief
Michel Francois was not party to Sunday’s
agreement calling for the current military
leaders to step down by Oct. 15.
“I’m wondering what’s going on (with
Francois),” Bames said.
Despite widespread training of civilians
in Haiti last week to prepare them for
combat against an American invasion,
Bames said another armed insurrection
was unlikely.
“Guerilla warfare would be very diffi
cult to wage in Haiti,” Bames said. “For
guerilla warfare, you need the support of
the populace so they can hide the troops
and the people of Haiti hate these thugs.”
The imminence ofpossible intervention
frightened many Americans, including
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