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Volume 102, Issue 76
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IN THE NEWS
Top stones from the state , nation and world
Military Authority in Haiti
Collapses, Incites Rioting
CAP-HAITTEN, Haiti Police and
soldiers abandoned their posts Sunday as
authority collapsed throughout Haiti’s sec
ond-largest city. Hundreds of Haitians,
emboldened by the deaths of 10 armed
men in a fire fight with Marines, ransacked
police stations, carrying off guns, identity
cards and even musical instruments.
The fight outside a Cap-Haitien police
station Saturday night was the first deadly
clash between Haitians and American
troops sent to restore the elected govern
ment of Jean-Bertrand Aristide.
Afterward, police and soldiers aban
doned the city’s main military barracks,
police station and about a dozen smaller
posts.
Word spread quickly to the streets, bring-
inghundredsout
to trash the prop
erty of those who
had ruled over
them.
Marines
Fighting in Haiti
May Delay Return
Of President
See Page 6
stormed the main military barracks, met
no resistance and secured it. They set up
checkpoints all over the city, trying to keep
the chaotic scene from turning dangerous.
Near police headquarters, a group of
Haitians grabbed a man and dragged him
into a house, apparently believing he was
an “attache,” one ofthe civilian strongmen
backed by police, said Hans Deryk, an
Associated Press photographer.
Haitian army commander Raoul Cedras
and Lt. Gen. Henry Hugh Shelton, com
mander ofthe U.S. operation in Haiti, flew
together to Cap-Haitien to investigate.
N. Korea Threatens to Call
Off Geneva Nuclear Talks
GENEVA—North Korea warned Sun
day that U.S. naval maneuvers off the
Korean peninsula threatened to dash talks
on opening the North’s nuclear proyram to
international inspections.
Talks between the United States and
North Korea reconvened Sunday amid
reports that differences between the two
sides were widening.
Western experts believe North Korea
has diverted enough plutonium from its
nuclear reactors to make at least one nuclear
bomb. Pyongyang insists its nuclear pro
gram is peaceful, but for more than a year
it has blocked international inspections it
previously had agreed to.
During two sessions that lasted nearly
five hours, experts from the two sides dis
cussed “the agenda” of issues before them,
said a U.S. official.
President to Address U.N.
About World Democracy
NEW YORK A day before he ad
dresses the U.N. General Assembly, Presi
dent Clinton extolled his military interven
tion in Haiti as “saving our neighborhood”
for democracy Sunday in a speech to a
Harlem church.
The president, apparently buoyed by
the sure foothold U.S. forces had achieved
in Haiti, made no mention of the firefight
in Cap-Haitien in which U.S. Marines killed
10 Haitian men Saturday night outside a
police station.
Instead, he sounded the theme he will
use in a speech today to a special session of
the U.N. General Assembly: Democracy
is on the rise, and the United States wel
comes a helping hand from other nations
not just in the Caribbean but in Bosnia and
in other world hot spots.
Anti-Smoking Legal Case
May Have Political Effects
ST. PAUL—The upcoming legal battle
over a Minnesota lawsuit filed against the
country’s major tobacco producers could
spill out of die courtroom and into the
arenas of politics and public opinion.
The suit by Attorney General Hubert
Humphrey in and Blue Cross & Blue Shield
of Minnesota alleges a 40-year conspiracy
by producers to deceive the public about
the dangers of smoking.
It seeks recovery of hundreds of mil
lions of dollars in taxpayer money alleg
edly spent on the smoking-related health
claims of public employees and people on
state-funded public assistance.
The Minnesota suit uses consumer fraud
and antitrust laws to allege a conspiracy
among tobacco manufacturers to conceal
tobacco’s ill effects from the public.
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TUESDAY: Partly cloudy; high in 70s.
Nationsßank Pledges $500,000 to BCC
CEO Challenges Other N.C.
Banks to Give $1 Million to
Construction of Center
BY AMY PINIAK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
UNC officials hailed a $500,000 leader
ship pledge from Nationsßank Corp. as a
sign of confidence in the University’s $7
million project to construct the Sonja H.
Stone Black Cultural Center.
On Thursday, the Charlotte-based
Nationsßank pledged a leadership gift and
a challenge to other banks across the state,
Chancellor Paul Hardin announced to the
Board of Trustees on Friday.
“First, Nationsßank will make an out
right gift of $500,000 toward construction
of the center,” Hardin said. “Second,
Nationsßank will provide up to an addi
tional $500,000 in the form of a challenge
to raise $1 million in matching gifts from
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Student Attorney General Will
Investigate Finance Committee
BY ADAM GUSMAN
STAFF WRITER
Undergraduate Student Attorney Gen
eral Shannon Kete verbally agreed Friday
to select and head a committee that will
investigate the Student Congress Finance
Committee's treatment of the Black Stu
dent Movement and B-GL AD, the student
group that supports UNC’s bisexual and
homosexual community.
Student Body President George Battle
wrote a letter to Kete on Thursday request
ing the investigation of “possible viola
tions of the Student (Government) Code
taken by the finance committee” with ref
erence to B-GLAD, which stands for Bi
sexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for
Diversity, and the BSM during the 76th
session of the UNC Student Congress.
In requesting the investigation, Battle
invoked the rarely exercised power found
in Title I, Article 111, Section 3, Parts C and
I of the Student Government Code, which
obligates him to enforce and administer all
laws enacted by Student Congress and
includes the setting up of subsidiary bodies
to aid him in the execution of his duties.
“Part of George Battle’s job is to enforce
all the laws of Student Congress,” said
Kete, who plans to put her acceptance of
the task in writing early this week. “He
feels this is the best way to enforce those
laws.”
The investigation is limited to the ac
tions of the finance committee concerning
the BSM and B-GLAD.
Battle said he thought the investigation
was necessaiy in order to give greater cred
ibility to student government and to the
University in general.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 26,1994
otherbanks inNorth Carolina. This means
that altogether the goal is to raise $2 mil
lion from the banking industry of our state. ”
Nationsßank Chairman and Chief Ex
ecutive Officer Hugh McColl, national co
chairman of the steering committee for
UNC’s Bicentennial Campaign, has
pledged personally to lead the effort to
raise the $2 million, Hardin said. McColl
will work with fund-raising leaders Maya
Angelou, Bob Eubanks, Dean Smith,
Deloris Jordan and Jack Tate to help raise
the full $7 million required for construc
tion.
“We are deeply grateful to Nationsßank
and Hugh McColl for sharing our vision of
the Stone Center and for providing tremen
dous momentum to ensure that die Stone
Center, our academic center for the study
and appreciation of African-American cul
ture, will become a reality,” Hardin said.
The BCC fund-raising effort is a part of
UNC’s S4OO million Bicentennial Cam
paign, which ends in June. As of Friday,
$362 million had been given or pledged to
“For a number of years, various groups
have been subjected to ill treatment be
cause certain members of congress don’t
like what the groups stand for, ” Battle said.
“It hurts the students, and it hurts the
image ofthe University. The investigation
is not a power grab or a political game. In
Student Congress, it’s been a few bad apples
ruining the whole bunch; this is an attempt
to throw a little pesticide on the field.”
Tom Lyon, chairman of the finance
committee, said he disagreed about the
motivations behind the announcement of
the investigation. “I think it is blatantly
political,” Lyon said Sunday. “Whatever
the finance committee did last semester,
the student body president knew about it
then. Why choose to bring it up now in the
fall? I think it's because of what happened
with the BSM and the Minority Recruit
ment Bill.”
The finance committee last week re
fused to hear the BSM’s request for fund
ing, saying the group had not acted accord
ing to treasury laws. On Sept. 14, Student
Congress narrowly passed the Minority
Recruitment Bill, which Battle had co
sponsored, then moved to reconsider after
a number of the bill’s supporters had left
the meeting.
Lyon said he was confident that the
finance committee’s actions had not been
in violation of the Student Government
Code. “The finance committee did not
take any action that is expressly forbidden
by the Student (Government) Code,” he
said. “The question is really whether what
we did was fair; we certainly didn’t go
beyond what we're allowed to do.”
Please See KETE, Page 5
the campaign. Before Nationsßank’s
pledge, the Stone Center had received about
$500,000 in written and oral commitments.
McColl’s gift signals a growing sense of
confidence in the BCC and a growing
awareness that the Bicentennial Campaign
is nearing an end, Hardin said. He said
others would be encouraged to donate to
the campaign as a result of Nationsßank’s
pledge.
“Somebody had to step forward and
show a lot of confidence in this project, ” he
said in an interview after the BOT meeting.
“McColl is a creative, energetic and tal
ented banker, and his lead is likely to be
followed.”
Hardin said he would like to see the
building fully funded by the Bicentennial
Campaign deadline in June. “The center
has been an important part of my advo
cacy,” he said. “I’d like to see it completed
before I step down."
Hardin will retire as chancellor in June.
Please See BCC, Page 2
Jordan, Servatius to Face Recall Vote
Constituents Say Congress
Representatives’ Actions
‘Unethical,’ ‘lmmature’
BY ADAM GUSMAN
STAFF WRITER
Student Congress members Jonathan
Jordan and Tara Servatius may face a
recall election Oct. 11. Student Body Presi
dent George Battle received two separate
petitions with signatures Sunday night call
ing for another election for their seats.
After the signatures of at least 15 per
cent of the voters in their respective dis
tricts were collected, the signatures were
turned in to Battle, who is now verifying
that each of the signers is a registered
student voter from the proper district.
Assuming enough signatures are legiti
mate, Battle will notify Elections Board
Chairwoman Erin Lewis, and the seats
J ordan and Servatius currently hold will be
contested with 11 other open Student Con
gress seats at a special election Oct. 11.
Jordan, congress speaker pro tempore,
represents Dist. 1, the law school. Servatius
is the representative for Dist. 12, which
includes Kenan, Alderman, Spencer,
Mclver, Old East and Old West residence
halls. Both can run in the recall election to
retain their seats.
Mary Leazer was one of the students
who initiated Jordan’s recall petition. “A
group of 10 or 15 of us felt that the law
students should have another chance to re
evaluate whether we want Jonathan Jor
dan as our representative,” she said.
Leazer, a third-year law student from
Huntersville, said the group that led the
petition drive was very diverse. “We have
liberals and conservatives, males and fe-
UNC Bicentennial Campaign
S4OM Short of |4OOM Goal
BY BRIAN VANN
STAFF WRITER
Less than three years after it was offi
cially announced to the public, the Uni
versity Bicentennial Campaign is a mere
S3B million shy of its S4OO million goal.
Since Oct. 11,1991, the campaign has
raised $2lB million, whichhasbeen added
to the $144 million it possessed at the
time the campaign became public.
The project began in 1985 when a
group of campus administrators, faculty
and students began planning the cam
paign and assessing the University’s
needs. The process continued until Octo
ber 1991, when Chancellor Paul Hardin
About 110 law school
students signed a
petition to hold a recall
election for Rep.
JONATHAN
JORDAN, Dist. 1.
males, blacks and
whites,” she said.
“This has nothing
to do with Jordan’s
political views, sim
ply his behavior
and ethics.”
The petition for
Jordan’s recall,
which included 110
signatures, states
that he has engaged
in “unethical, irre
sponsible and im
mature political
theatrics which
have proven to be
extremely embar-
rassing for the law school community.”
The petition also states that “his lack of
effective communication with his constitu
ency has allowed him to engage in actions
which are not only inconsistent with the
ethical standards of the law school and
legal profession but also raise legitimate
questions concerning his character and fit
ness to represent the law school in such an
important role.”
Jordan indicated that he thought Battle
might be behind the recall petition. “It’s
what I would expect from our student body
president, even though it’s officially from
someone else,” he said. “It’s interesting to
note that Battle has a number of advisers at
the law school.”
Still, Jordan said he was confident that
he would win the recall election. “The
recall petition is a perfectly legitimate thing
for a constituency to do,” he said. “I’m
sure my constituents will speak loud and
clear on Oct. 11 and re-elect me over
whelmingly.”
The petition to recall Servatius had 104
signatures as of Sunday night. Ninety to 95
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announced the original goal of $320
million
The names of those who had already
made donations and the probable allo
cation ofthe funds were also announced
at that time. At that point, the majority
of the donations had been for more than
SIOO,OOO each.
Nancy Davis, director of communi
cations for the Development Office, said
the campaign’s goal had been chosen
after careful scrutiny of the University’s
necessities.
“The goal was obtained through a
study of needs as well as feasibility,”
Please See BICENTENNIAL, Page 2
Task Force:
Revamp UNC
Curriculum
BY NANCYFONTI
STAFF WRITER
The Undergraduate Task Force may
recommend changes in both the general
education requirements and skills training
requirements, the head of the task force
said.
“We don’t think the general education
‘WIMCHMD
MCCORMICK, UNC
vice chancellor for
academic affairs, said
accountability was one
of the most important
aspects of higher
education.
perspective require
ments are working
as well as they
should,” said task
force leader Pamela
Conover, EverettD.
Palmatier professor
of political science.
The Under
graduate Task
Force, which is
composed of stu
dents, faculty and
administrators, is
part of a two-year
project to achieve
reaccreditation and
to target areas ofthe
University that need
improvement.
Conover presented the task force’s re
port Friday to the Board of Trustees. The
goal of the perspective courses is for broad
perspectives to cut across disciplines,
Conover said.
“It’s almost up to the students to de
velop a perspective,” she said. “Is taking
Please See SELF-STUDY, Page 2
“.The recallpetition is a
perfectly legitimate thing for a
constituency to do. I’m sure
my constituents will speak
loud and clear on Oct. 11 and
re-elect me overwhelmingly. ”
JOHNATHAN JORDAN
Dist 1 Student Congress representative
legitimate signatures are required to force
a recall election for that district.
The petition to recall Servatius states,
“Ms. Servatius has a history of unethical
and inappropriate actions that in no way
represent the constituents of Dist. 12.” As
examples, the petition includes her voting
this summer, as a member of the Student
Congress Finance Committee, against a
bill to fund Race Relations Week and her
resignation as finance committee chair
woman after holding office for four days.
Accordingtothepetition, “Ms. Servatius
stated in front of the University commu
nity that a vast percentage of minority
students at UNC-CH were unqualified and
by extension, had no place in the UNC
academic community. In the roll call vote
for this bill, Ms. Servatius answered, ‘Hell
no!”’
Servatius was not available for com
ment Sunday.
Battle said the procedure for the recall
election would go forward immediately.
“We will go over these signatures with a
fine-toothed comb to make sure they’re
legitimate,” Battle said. “I want to make
sure Jonathan and Tara are treated fairly.
I will write a letter to them today (Monday)
notifying them what the procedure will
be.”
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