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(Dip Satly (Ear J? Volume 102, Issue 73 101 yean if editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1593 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world U.N. Working to Convince Serbs to Restore Utilities SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina U.N. officials tried to talk Bosnian Serbs into restoring utilities Tuesday to Sarajevo, but for a sixth day the capital remained without running water and electricity and too cold for comfort. As temperatures dipped into the 40s on the eve of autumn, a halt in the humanitar ian airlift added to the miserable reminder of the two past winters when Sarajevans were short of food and fuel. Additionally, just hours after the airlift resumed Tuesday morning, a small-arms bullet pierced the fuselage ofa C-l 30 French aid plane as it landed in Sarajevo. No one was hurt and the plane was able to unload its cargo, but die airlift was halted anew by U.N. authorities. Irish Leader Asks Clinton For Monetary Assistance WASHINGTON, D.C. A leader from one side ofNorthem Ireland’s sectar ian divide pushed President Clinton on Tuesday to increase U.S. financial aid to the troubled country as a way to help both sides live in peace. John Hume, the Catholic leader who helped pave the way for the IRA cease-fire, said he told President Clinton that “the next stage has to be agreement among our divided people ... and that the best assis tance that I thought could come from the United States would be economic assis tance.” A senior administration official said the White House was studying proposals to increase aid to Northern Ireland. Vietnamese Boat People Incite Riot in Hong Kong HONG KONG Prison officers in riot gear broke up a protest Tuesday by hundreds of Vietnamese boat people who are to be forcibly returned to Vietnam. Thirty-four people were injured. Eleven Vietnamese who were staging a rooftop protest at the High Island deten tion camp were dragged away kicking by officers who used ladders to reach them. Hong Kong radio said the 11 were among 21 Vietnamese who were defying plans to force them home on flights this week. Prison officers found the remaining 10 during a search of the camp, the broad cast said. The 11 protesters sat tied together with string and huddled under raincoats on a roof. About 1,300 boat people surrounded them when authorities moved into the camp in a driving rain early Tuesday. Citizens Flee as Volcanoes Erupt in Papua New Guinea PORTMORESBY, PapuaNew Guinea —Rain-sodden ash crushed buildings and trees in the port of Rabaul on Tuesday while ships picked up thousands of people who fled the simultaneous eruption of two volcanoes. Thick ash, dense black smoke and poi sonous fumes blanketed the area around the city, which is on New Britain island about 500 miles northeast ofPort Moresby, the capital on New Guinea. “You cannot see Rabaul. You cannot see the landscape. You can only see smoke and ash,” the prime minister, Sir Julius Chan, said after flying over the devastated region. Most of Rabaul’s residents fled just be fore the Tavurvur and Vulcan volcanoes erupted on opposite sides of the harbor. Former Interior Minister Charged With Mafia Ties ROME A former interior minister who directed anti-Mafia operations was arrested at dawn Tuesday and charged with having ties with mobsters. Antonio Gava and 97 others, including three other former members of parliament andprominentbusinessmen, were accused of working with the Camorra, the Neapoli tan version of the Sicilian Mafia. Gava, 64, was first investigated in 1993 for suspected ties with organized crime. He had headed the interior ministry from 1987 to 1991, and was a top-ranking Chris tian Democrat. He lost parliamentary immunity from arrest this spring, after he chose not to run for re-election. The balloting swept away the Christian Democratic domination of politics in the wake of corruption scandals. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Partly cloudy; high 78. THURSDAY: Chance of showers; high mid-70s. Hardin Orders Review of SHS Policy BYPETER ROYBAL STAFF WRITER Chancellor Paul Hardin ordered a re view of the new Student Health Service policy that requires patients to pay for services when they receive them after a member of the Board of Governors pro tested the change. In a letter SHS Director Dr. Judith Cowan received Monday, BOG member Mark Bibbs wrote that the policy change “is unwise and should be abolished” and said he would not support SHS fee in creases until the policy was recanted. Following a late Tuesday afternoon meeting on the subject, Hardin said he had directed Vice Chancellors Wayne Jones and Edith Wiggins to meet this morning with Cowan and University Cashier Kermit Williams to find at least “a temporary Memos About New Recruitment Bill Sent to Members Student Congress Speaker Pro Tempore Debates Invalidating Votes From Two Other Congress Members, Parliamentary Rules BY ANDREW RUSSELL STAFF WRITER Jonathan Jordan, speaker pro tempore of Student Congress, issued two memorandums Tuesday —one that questioned the voting conduct of two congress members on the Minority Recruit ment Bill and one that reiterated his previous argument that Student Body President George Battle had illegally signed the bill into effect. The first memo stated that because the bill involved an appro priation to the executive branch, no member of the executive branch could vote on it. This is a stipulation of the Student Congress Code or of “Robert’s Rules of Order Newly Revised,” the memo stated. The members in question are Meredith Armstrong, editor of the Carolina Course Review, and Michelle Reeve, Chapel Hill Town Council liaison. Jordan claims that both members hold positions in the executive branch and that their votes should be declared invalid, thus affecting the 11 -10-1 vote on the bill. If their votes were declared invalid, the Minority Recruitment Bill would not have passed at last week’s congress meeting. Student Congress Ethics Committee Chairman Roy Granato said he wanted the situation resolved quickly with no further delays. Jordan addressed Tuesday’s memo to Granato for consid eration. “I am tired of all the bickering, and I want it to end,” Granato said. “In my opinion, these two members should be able to vote on the bill.” Armstrong’s position is completely separate from the execu tive branch and Reeve represents student government on a lower level than the executive branch, Granato said. Armstrong and Reeve both said their positions were indepen dently recognized. “I am completely separate from the executive branch, and they are completely separate from minority recruitment,” Armstrong said. “The Carolina Course Review is not even fimded by the executive branch. I checked with Roy beforehand, and I had every right to vote on the bill.” Reeve said she agreed that her vote should count. “I am a representative of the student body,” Reeve said. “I am not a part of the executive branch, therefore I should be able to vote on the bill.” Please See CONGRESS, Page 2 Gore Addresses Raleigh Crowd at Rally BYRYAN THORNBURG ASSISTANT STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR RALEIGH While the Casablanca Orchestra played “Chattanooga Choo- Choo” and Democratic supporters were eating fried chicken and hush puppies, Vice President A1 Gore’s campaign stop at the N.C. State Fairgrounds Tuesday looked like an old-time political party. Gore was in North Carolina to drum up support for the nearly 30 Democratic can didates in the state. He joined Gov. .Tim Hunt in the rally at the KerT Scott Building of the N.C. State Fairgrounds before at tending a private, SI,OOO-a-plate reception at the Angus Bam Restaurant. Approxi mately 500 people paid SIOO to attend the rally. Hunt approached the podium, which was placed in front of a background made to look like a tum-of-the-century train, and spoke for about 15 minutes, warming up the crowd for Gore. “Folks, we’re here about seven weeks from the election and this is a very impor tant election for our party, our state and our nation,” Hunt said. The governor cited the progress the state’s Democratic leadership had made during the last two years of his administra tion. Hunt said the work that was being done in education, crime prevention and economic revival in the state paralleled work being done by the Democrats in Washington, D.C. “We ought to be proud of President We don’t make mistakes. We just have happy accidents. Bob Ross Chapel Hill, North Caroliaa WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21,1994 solution to the prob lem.” “Maybe we’ll end up encouraging up-front payment butnotrequiringit,” Hardin said. “We don’t want any stu dent to be turned away because he or she comes up there without cash.” While noting that many students havepaidSHSatthe time of service with- BOG member MARK BIBBS said the new SHS fee policy should be abolished. out complaint, Hardin said he was deter mined to relieve student concerns. “I want to do what I can to facilitate the correcting of the problem, ”he said. “These problems don’t arise out of any high-handed Tanya Jackson teaches step aerobics in the Student Recreation Center's Studio A. The SRC celebrates its one-year anniversary today. SRC Celebrates One-Year Anniversary BYKURTTONDORF STAFF WRITER Today, the Student Recreation Center will cel ebrate its first full year of service to fitness-con scious UNC students. There certainly won’t be a shortage of noise makers for the event the usual 2,000 or so students who use the on-campus facility on a daily basis are expected to attend. Indeed, it will be business as usual for Rick Satterlee, director of the SRC Programming Coun cil, and the rest of his staff, who enjoy the attention the building receives from appreciative students. “I think the variety of programming and the size and scope of the SRC has brought current, former fSHMf 1 t vfcJ' MU iff DTH/DAVID ALFORD Vice President AL GORE appeared at a Democratic Party rally at the N.C. State Fairgrounds. Clinton and Vice President A1 Gore. Yes, they have made their fair share of mistakes ... but they remember what got them there (in Washington). It was putting people first,” he said. Much to the approval of the approxi mately 100 students at the rally from UNC, Duke University, N.C. State University and other local colleges, Hunt told the crowd that thanks to the Democratic lead ership in Washington and Raleigh, the job treatment of students.” Student Body President George Battle said he wanted the new SHS policy cor rected soon. “In changing the way they collect fees, Student Health Service has done a great disservice to students at this University, and I hope they will move quickly to correct this error,” he said. The changes in payment policy, which were enacted at the beginning of this se mester, stemmed from a combination of administrative directives and computer changes. First, some in the office of the vice chancellor for business and finance believed it was inefficient and too costly to have bills from SHS for $2 or $3 charged to student accounts, for which the cashier must process paperwork. Jones, vice chancellor for business and finance, said the cashier had processed 1,488 charges from SHS since Aug. 23. and even non- students to the facility,” said Satterlee, who is in his first year as the building’s director. “Woollen (Gym, site of the former fitness center,) lacked a lot of the activities that we can provide for people here.” Since last year, the facility’s staff has improved the state of the SRC by steadily adding new equip ment to the building’s two floors. Last fall, Satterlee’s predecessor, Tyler Hill, promised to double the number of cardiovascular machines within the year, and the current director has fulfilled that promise. But the new machines aren’t the only additions that the SRC and Satterlee can boast about. “We’ve met requests for lighter dumbbells and more lat pulldown and triceps exercise equip market was improving. “Many of you are going to college and you expect to get that job when you get out,” he said. Hunt said student support was very important, using students’ work for John Kennedy in the 1960 election as an ex ample. Kennedy carried North Carolina, the only Southern state he won, by only 1,500 votes, many from students. But many N.C. residents, including the crowd of protesting N.C. State students gathered outside the parking lot, believe the Democrats are facing a large-scale de feat in November. According to polls done by both major parties and reported by the Associated Press, Clinton’s approval rate in N.C. is under 40 percent, Gore’s is near 60 per cent. This might be why Gore was chosen to stump for the party. He carried the state in his 1988 presidential bid and was the main campaigner here for the 1992 Clinton-Gore ticket. Hunt introduced Gore, who used two crutches to aid himself on stage. The crutches are the result of a basketball injury sustained three weeks ago. Hunt told the crowd that Gore was known in the pickup games of Washington as “The Raging Bull.” “He plays with the kind of ferocity we know here in the Atlantic Coast Confer ence,” Hunt said. Please See GORE, Page 4 “If some of those charges can be col lected when the service is rendered, par ticularly smaller charges, it could be more efficient,” he said. Second, the cashier will install anew computer system Oct. 17 that will make it part of a larger Student Information Sys tem, which is not compatible with SHS’s unique computer system. In the past, SHS had worked out a way to transfer bills from its computer to the cashier’s computer. Now, the cashier will use a system that does not easily permit bills to be transferred from SHS. Williams said SHS was told last fall that the cashier planned to change to anew system. SHS will have a direct connection to the new computer system and could charge student accounts, but they would have to enter the billing data into both the SHS computer and the cashier’s system, Will Man Given 3-Year Suspended Sentence in Chi Psi Shooting BY HOOPER GRAHAM STAFF WRITER Twenty-two-year-old William Scott Barnes, charged with involuntary man slaughter in the January shooting death of his college roommate, Christopher Todd Stewart, pleaded guilty to the charges Monday in Orange County Superior Court in Hillsborough. At a preliminary hearing, Superior Court Judge D. Marsh McLelland sentenced Bames to a three-year suspended sentence. According to Assistant District Attorney Jim Woodall, this means that if Bames follows probationary terms, he will not serve any time in jail. The probationary terms were the result of a plea bargain presented by Bames’ defense attorney, Joe Cheshire. Bames will be on probation for five years and is not allowed to own or possess any firearms during that period, according to Joan Terry, Orange County clerk of court. Bames was also sentenced to 250 hours of community service. In addition, he must continue psychological counseling and ei ther re-enroll in school or find a job, Terry said. Bames dropped out of Appalachian State University, where he and Stewart were students, after the shooting. Bames was charged in February with the shooting of Stewart, which occurred News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 C 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. iams said. Entering the data, according to Dan O’Neal, Student Information System ap plications manager, is a short process in which a social security number, depart ment code and charge are key ed in a proce dure he estimated to take less than one minute. Cowan said previously that SHS would have to hire more people to enter data in the new system. She did not return calls Tuesday for this story. A third case made by SHS for the “pay when you are served” policy is that the cashier will no longer immediately credit SHS’s account when a student is billed. In the past, SHS was immediately credited. Student Health Ser vice is funded by student fees, which must be approved by the Board of Trustees and the BOG. SHS received $248 per student this year, for a total of about $5.7 million. ment,” he said. “The fitness and aerobics classes are being scheduled up to 50 (students) per day. We’ve also changed the layout of the free-weight machines, providing more space for their users. “But the most notable addition has been the artwork,” Satterlee added. The artwork, which includes a hanging sculp ture in the building’s lobby, was created by Mary Ann Mears, a local artist selected by the SRC’s planning board. The project was partially funded by the Artwork for State Buildings Program, and the SRC is currently holding a contest to find a suitable name for the as-yet-untitled work. “It has created a more aesthetically pleasing Please See SRC, Page 4 when the two attended a party at Chi Psi fraternity house in Chapel Hill. Stewart and Bames were on the third floor ofthe house during a fraternity mixer when Stewart was shot by a 40-caliber semi-automatic handgun that Barnes owned. The gun, which Bames said he thought wasn’t loaded, fired when he and Bames were wrestlingwithit. Accordingto Chapel Hill police, the two friends were intoxi cated at the time of the accident. Lt. Robert Frick of the Chapel Hill Po lice Department said Bames had a .20 blood alcohol level at the time of the shoot ing. This served as a strong case for the prosecution. “Alcohol and guns are almost always a deadly combination,” Woodall said. “It was an accident, but it was an acci dent that never should have happened. “The fact that they were very good friends, both drinking, both playing with guns and the fact that no one knows who pulled the trigger makes it a complete acci dent. If he was found guilty by a jury, he would have received almost the same pro bationary terms from a judge.” The accidental shooting occurred 12 hours before a press conference concern ing the town’s “Buy Back The Hill" pro Please See BARNES, Page 2
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