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IN THE NEWS
Top stunts from the state, nation and world
Clinton Lifts Sanctions on
Haiti During U.N. Speech
UNITED NATIONS Citing “a mo
ment of opportunity” for democracy, Presi
dent Clinton lifted travel, trade and most
otherU.S. sanctions against Haiti onMon
day and urged other nations to follow suit.
Clinton told the U.N. General Assem
bly that lifting the sanctions would hasten
rebuilding of the impoverished country
and was being done “in the spirit of recon
ciliation and reconstruction.”
He suggested the sanctions were no
longer needed, with American and other
forces firmly in place in the Caribbean
country to enforce theU.S.-brokered agree
ment to restore exiled president Jean-
Bertrand Aristide to power by Oct. 15.
But Clinton said some sanctions would
remain in force against Haiti’s military
leaders and their supporters.
Serbs Stage Exercises in
Retaliation for Airstrikes
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Underscoring their contempt for the United
Nations, Serbs entered a U.N. weapons
compound and staged “training exercises”
with anti-aircraft guns stored there, offi
cials said Monday.
NATO jets strafed and bombed a Serb
tank near Sarajevo Thursday in retaliation
for Serb attacks on French peacekeepers.
Serbs increased the pressure on U.N.
peacekeepers Monday by:
—Denying permission for U.N. heli
copter flights or convoys.
—Announcing anew requirement that
U.N. military vehicles get clearance three
days in advance of any movements through
Serb-held territory.
—Making a veiled threat to shoot at any
U.N. planes landing at the airport.
Israel to Renew West Rank
Peace Effort Construction
JERUSALEM lsrael has decided to
renew some West Bank construction to
bolster its territorial claims in future talks
with Palestinians, officials said Monday.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s gov
ernment froze construction of Jewish settle
ments in mid-1992 to spur talks with the
Palestinians.
Housing Ministry spokeswoman Ofra
Preuss said the freeze had been lifted in the
Alfei Menashe settlement in the northern
West Bank. She did not confirm newspa
per reports of a list of more settlements to
be expanded.
A top government official confirmed
the move waspartly aimed at making some
changes in the West Bank before talks with
the Palestine Liberation Organization on a
permanent peace settlement.
Algerian Security Troops
Murder Extremist Leader
ALGIERS, Algeria Security forces
on Monday killed the chief of an extremist
Muslim faction that has vowed to derail
peace talks between Muslim leaders and
Algeria’s secular government.
According to a government
communique, Chetif Gousmi, 26, was slain
in the Algiers region, but it gave no details.
Authorities had offered a $70,000 bounty
for his death or capture.
Gousmi headed the Armed Islamic
Group, which opposes any negotiations
that would thwart its goal of turning the
North African nation into a radical Islamic
state. Two top leaders of the fundamental
ist Islamic Salvation Front were released
from jail this month and placed under
house arrest.
Chief of CIA Says Iran May
Gain Nuclear Technology
WASHINGTON, D.C. The CIA
believes Iran will be able to build its own
nuclear weapons in eight to 10 years, and
that it is focusing on Russia as a potential
source of key materials and direction, the
spy agency’s chief said.
R. James Woolsey, the director of cen
tral intelligence, told a Washington think
tank that inadditiontoan aggressive effort
to strengthen its conventional defenses,
Iran had put a high priority on acquiring
nuclear weapons.
Woolsey spoke to a conference spon
sored by the Washington Institute for Near
East Policy on Friday. A text of his pre
pared remarks was released by the institute
Monday.
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UNC Students Discover Phytosaur
Landmark Finding
Made Near RTP
Two weeks ago, UNC students Marco
Brewer and Brian Coffey made a
discovery that is one of the most
astonishing paleontological findings in
North Carolina history.
BY JON GOLDBERG
FEATURES EDITOR
DURHAM For years, UNC seniors Marco
Brewer and Brian Coffey have sifted through dirt,
looking for clues to the past.
Much to their dismay, they mostly had found only
a few shark teeth and whale bones.
But that changed two weeks ago.
In a big, big way.
While digging near Research Triangle Park as part
of Coffey’s honors thesis, the two uncovered a 7-foot
phytosaur skeleton, the largest and most complete
one ever found in North Carolina.
“When we first saw a tailbone, we knew it was a
reptile,” said Brewer, who lives in Raleigh and was a
junior transfer from UNC-Wilmington. “It became
significant right then and there.
“Brian and I had looked for a long, long time. We
spent a lot of hours and found nothing. Finding one
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Professor Joseph Carter uses a dental
pick to loosen soil around the bones.
Servatins Calls Petition Statements ‘Blatant lies’
BYAMYPINIAK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
AND MARISSA JONES
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Student Congress Rep. Tara Servatius,
Dist. 12, said Monday that a petition to
recall her in an Oct. 11 special election was
invalid.
“As far as I’m concerned, the petition is
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nottrue—they’reallblatant lies,’’Servatius
said.
Student Body President George Battle
said early Monday afternoon that all the
signatures on the petition to recall Servatius
had been verified.
Battle said Monday afternoon that the
24-Hour Weekend Visits
To Be Part of New Policy
Housing Department Spells
Out Residence Hall Visitation
Policy on All New Contracts
BY CHRISTINA MASSEY
STAFF WRITER
The University’s visitation policy may
change again because of proposals made
by the Board of Trustees and the Depart
ment of University Housing that will go
into effect next school year.
Wayne Kuncl, director of the housing
department, announced plans to expand
the current visitation policy at a meeting
before the BOT’s Student Affairs Commit
tee on Thursday afternoon.
Kuncl said Monday that the new policy
would include an option of 24-hour visita
tion on weekends in addition to the option
of 24-hour weeklong visitation already es
tablished in six residence halls.
“Within two years, we will have 66
percent of all residence halls with eitherthe
weekend option or the 24-hour option, ” he
said.
Under the current visitation policy, six
residence halls have 24-hour visitation:
Aycock, Carmichael, Craige, Kenan,
Mangum and Teague.
In all other residence halls, opposite-sex
visitors are allowed from 9 a.m. until 1
a.m. on weekdays and from 9 a.m. until 2
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remove a fragment of the fossil for analysis at Mitchell Hall.
dinosaur bone would make my year. Finding an
articulated skeleton is unbelievable.”
Phytosaurs, also known as parasuchids, were large
carnivores and were close relatives of the dinosaur
and crocodile, UNC geology Professor Joseph Carter
said Monday. The phytosaur, distinct for having nos
trils near its eyes, thrived during the late Triassic
signatures on the petition to recall Rep.
Jonathan Jordan, Dist. 1, had not yet been
verified. Battle could not be reached for
comment Monday night.
Servatius said she planned to take the
students who started the petition to the
Student Supreme Court. “I don’t know
how that will turn out,” she said.
According to the petition to recall
Servatius, “Ms. Servatius has a history of
unethical and inappropriate actions that in
no way represent die 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
chairwoman after holding office for four
days.
Accftrdingto thepetition, “Ms. Servatius
a.m. on weekends.
Another change concerning the visita
tion policy that will be made is the inclu
sion of policy information in the housing
contracts, Kuncl said.
In the past, incoming freshmen were
not aware of the visitation policy and could
not use such information to help determine
where they wanted to live.
“For the 1995-96 school year, we have
published the visitation policy in the hous
ing contracts to have a means for students
to indicate their choice of housing prefer
ence based on their visitation preference,”
Kuncl said.
He also said the housing department
was making efforts to ensure that room
mates shared the same opinions on the
visitation policy in their dorm.
At the BOT committee meeting, Allan
Calarco, associate director of the housing
department, presented a three-page ques
tionnaire, which deals with issues such as
visitation, that roommates would be re
quired to fill out and discuss with each
other, Kuncl said.
George Battle, student body president
and ex officio member of the BOT, said
Monday that he was pleased with the cur
rent visitation policy but was looking for
ward to the upcoming policy changes and
expansion.
“The policy is working out well, ” Battle
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Period 225 million years ago.
On Sunday, Carter, his dog “Scruffy” and eight
students from his invertebrate paleontology class
including Brewer and Coffey returned to the site,
which was somewhat muddy thanks to Saturday’s
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“Everything thats happened
since the reconsideration of
the Minority Recruitment Bill
has been a blow to student
government. It makes us look
like a joke. ”
ROY GRANATO
Congress Ethics Committee chairman
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 (Minority Recruitment Bill), Ms.
Servatius answered, ‘Hell no!”’
NAACP Calls For Investigation
BY CHRIS NICHOLS
CITY EDITOR
AND HILARY SPARROW
STAFF WRITER
The president of the local chapter of the
NAACP has sent a letter to state legislators
asking them to review the process by which
enough signatures were collected to hold a
recall election for Chapel Hill-Carrboro
school board member LaVonda Burnette.
N.C. Sen. Beverly Perdue and N.C.
Rep. Anne Barnes received the letter, dated
Sept. 18, from the Rev. Gene Hatley, presi
dent of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro chapter
of the National Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People.
The letter was accompanied by a report
done by Marjorie Schwartz that declared
that the recall petitions for Burnette had
violated a recently passed law that estab
lished provisions for recall petitions.
School board Chairman Ken Touw said
that Hatley’s letter contended that the law
had been violated because the signatures
on the petitions had not been validated by
a witness.
“Rev. Hatley’s contention is that that
person (of the Board of Elections) did not
see all the signatures, but that’s not what
the law says; the law says that he must
authenticate them,” Touw said.
“It (the letter) indicates a lack of trust of
voters to make a decision on this issue....
I am mystified why Rev. Hatley is not
willing to trust in a democratic process,"
he said. While the law requires that the
petitions have approximately 4,000 signa
tures in order for a recall election to be
Servatius said the prior statement was
completely false. “I’m outraged that some
one would attribute that to me,” she said.
However, she declined to comment on her
alleged “hell no” statement.
Servatius said she had voted against the
bill because recruitment already received
funding from the University and student
fees should not pay for recruitment.
“I cannot justify the funding of a non
student program while ignoring the needs
of current students and the organizations
that are important to them.”
She said that if her constituents under
stood the reasons why she had voted against
the bill and still wanted to recall her, she
would be “obliged to resign” as a member
of congress.
A day after the recall petitions for
Servatius and Jordan had been turned in,
UNC students constantly called or visited
held, more than 7,000 were collected.
Hatley was unavailable for comment
Tuesday.
Hank Anderson, a Canboro alderman
and a vice president of the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro NAACP, said the intent of the
letter was only to make sure that proper
procedure had been followed in the initia
tion of the recall drive and that it was based
on Schwartz’s report concerning the signa
tures on the petition.
“We were just trying to make sure that
the recall efforts were up to par, ” Anderson
said Tuesday. “We just sent it to let people
know that it was not handled properly. It’s
just a letter being sent to the legislature to
let them know there is something wrong.
“The process is not done correctly. The
process went awry. And we’re saying that
whatever the procedure is, it was not fol
lowed by those who initiated it.”
Anderson added that the NAACP
wanted legislators to conduct an investiga
tion. Neither Barnes nor Perdue was avail
able for comment Tuesday.
Burnette was accused last fall of lying
about her educational background when
she ran for a seat on the Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Board of Education under the
pretense of being a UNC student.
The recall drive was initiated this sum
mer by Madeleine Mitchell.
The recall election is to be held Nov. 8.
If Burnette is recalled, the school board
will appoint someone to replace her until
the next school board elections in Novem
ber 1995.
Two school board district residents,
Harvey Carnes and David Mage, brought
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Aune Case
Won't Go
To Court
BYLEAHMERREY
STAFF WRITER
The Orange County Superior Court of
ficially dismissed on Monday the civil suit
filed by former UNC School of Medicine
employee Kirk Aune, saying his claims
against the University showed no factual
basis.
Presiding Superior Court Judge An
thony Brannon ruled in favor of the Uni
versity.
This ruling responded to a request by
state attorneys representing the University
for a summary judgment regarding a civil
suit filed on July 7,1993, by Aune regard
ing the University’s decision not to renew
his contract.
Either party involved in a civil law case
has the option to file a summary judgment.
To do so, the filing party must feel that they
are able to demonstrate that their facts are
indisputable.
David Parker, associate University at
torney, represented the University and
members of the medical school involved in
the suit. “All defended were granted some
rejudgment," he said Monday in response
to the ruling.
“The University and the defendants are
pleased with the decision,” Parker contin
ued. “The light was favorable in regards to
the University,” he said.
It is unknown whether Aune and his
attorneys, John Stewart and A1 McSurely,
will file to appeal the court’s decision. “Dr.
Aune has the option to appeal to the North
Carolina courts,” Parker said.
Stewart said he and McSurely would
meet with Aune on Thursday to decide
whether to appeal to the N.C. Court of
Appeals.
“Generally, the court of appeals frowns
on summary judgments because our court
system is based on allowing a jury of peers
to make a judgment,” he said. “It is a good
rule in some cases—such as making frivo-
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the student government office saying they
wanted to recall their own representatives,
other congress members said Monday.
“It’s been recall mania in almost every
district,” Rep. Ginny Moore, Dist. 19, said
Monday.
Moore said students had come in asking
who their representatives were and saying
they wanted to recall them.
“There are so many good people on
congress that love the University and want
to do the best thing for their constituents, ”
she said. “There have just been a few people
that make us all look bad.”
Moore said the recall frenzy was a result
of the recent controversy spawned by a
late-night motion Sept. 14 to reconsider
the Minority Recruitment Bill after a num
ber of congress members had left the meet-
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of Recall Drive
a lawsuit against the school board shortly
after the charges against Burnette were
thrust into the public eye.
Carnes’ and Mage’s attorney, Lunsford
Long, was set to square off with school
board attorney John McCormick yester
day in court, but the men decided earlier in
September to allow the recall election to
mn its course.
Carnes said the lawsuit had stemmed
from the fact that the charges against
Burnette had been lined up, the school
board had accepted them and then it had
reneged.
“I did want to see justice done, which
was LaVonda Burnette removed from the
board,” Carnes said. “The law is very
simple. The law of North Carolina is very
clear. The law of North Carolina is un
equivocally compelling. It does not leave a
choice.”
Carnes was referring to state law 11 SC
-39, the part that reads: “... there shall be a
meeting of said board of education for the
purpose of investigating the charges, and if
the charges are found to be true, such board
shall declare the office vacant ...”
“They (the school board members) are
at this moment in dereliction of duty and in
violation of the laws of the state of North
Carolina,” he said. Now, Carnes said he
and Mage had decided to allow the recall
to run its course for practical reasons. “My
guess is that Nov. 8, the electorate will
prevail and she will be ousted.”
Carnes said that if Burnette retained her
seat after the recall election, he and Mage
would still pursue the lawsuit against the
school board.
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