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Qthp latlu ®ar MM J? Volume 102, Issue 81 101 years of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation a'nd world One of Three Coup Leaders Flees From Port-Au-Prince PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Police chief Michel Francois sneaked out of Haiti in the dark Tuesday, the first coup leader to abandon the struggle against American soldiers who poured into Haiti to install a democratic government. Several hours later, a militia leader re nounced violence and called off his oppo sition to the planned return next week of exiled President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. “No more violence,” said Emmanuel Constant, the leader of the pro-army mili tia FRAPH, whose headquarters were taken over by the American soldiers Mon day. Francois’ nighttime drive past the Hai tian border post at Malpasse came after his soldiers were humiliated Monday by some of the nearly2o,oooAmerican troops there to ensure the exit of the Haitian coup leaders. Major Earthquake in Japan Spurs Pacific Tidal Waves TOKYO Thousands of coastal resi dents spent Tuesday night sheltered in schools and government buildings after an undersea earthquake triggered tidal waves on both sides of the Pacific. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii issued a tidal wave warning for all Pacific islands and coastal areas, in cluding the west coast of the United States and Canada. Hawaii closed its public schools and beaches and ordered residents of coastal areas to evacuate. By early Wednesday, about 40 small tsunami waves had been observed in Ja pan. The quake was centered 13 miles beneath the Pacific Ocean floor, near the southern end of the Kuril island chain. Housing Secretary Denies Speculation He Will Resign WASHINGTON, D.C. Housing Secretary Henry Cisneros brushed aside speculation Tuesday that he might step down because of a federal inquiry into his payments to a former girlfriend. The question came a day after another Cabinet member, Agriculture Secretary Mike Espy, was forced from office because of allegations of ethical impropriety. A senior White House official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Cisneros had told friends he would willingly leave office if persistent publicity about the pay ments to Linda Medlar created a political burden for President Clinton. But Cisneros, secretary of housing and urban development, said he did not tell White House officials he was prepared to resign. China Reaches Agreement With U.S. on Missile Plans WASHINGTON, D.C. China and the United States concluded a major agree ment Tuesday designed to halt the spread of Chinese missile technology to Pakistan and around the world. At the same time, the Clinton adminis tration announced it would remove eco nomic sanctions imposed against China in August 1993. The sanctions stopped deliv ery of S4OO million to SSOO million in American technology. Sanctions levied against Pakistan in 1993 were not lifted, however. Discussions to “achieve key nonproliferation goals” are continuing, the State Department said. Pakistan long has been suspected of working on building an atomic bomb as a way of countering India, which exploded a nuclear device in 1974. Yeltsin's Speech Regins New Russian Parliament MOSCOW —As demonstrators ringed the old parliament building to commemo rate the anniversary of a crushed rebellion, President Boris Yeltsin said Tuesday that Russia was stronger and more confident because that “second October Revolution" failed. And there is anew respect for Russia abroad, as well, Yeltsin said. About 1,500 Communist supporters formed a human chain around Russia’s White House, the old parliament building, a year after Yeltsin sent in tanks and sol diers to end the rebellion over his disband ing of parliament. His speech at the Kremlin came a day before Russia’s new parliament opened its second session. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Sunny; high 69. THURSDAY: Sunny; high 70. Gay Scholarship Half Funded Anonymous Donor, Alumni Group Have Raised $10,900 Toward Fund Establishment BY SARAH BAHNSON STAFF WRITER More than half the needed funds have been raised to establish a scholarship for gay and lesbian students or for any stu dents interested in gay and lesbian studies. Nancy Davis, director of communica tion in die Office of Development, said $20,000 must be pledged toward a scholar ship fund for it to be established. So far the Pine Tree Scholarship Fund has raised $10,900. In spring 1994 the UNC Gay and Les bian Alumni Association founded the Pine Tree Scholarship. The scholarship will be based mainly on financial need, with pref erence given to gays and lesbians as well as students interested in gay and lesbian stud ies. New Top of the Hill Building Almost Complete BYSUZANNEWOOD STAFF WRITER The first tenant in the new Top of the Hill onthecomerofColumbia and Franklin Street is scheduled to open Oct. 17. First Union will move from its current home across Franklin Street into the first floor of the three story complex. The project, which broke ground in June 1993, was scheduled to have been com pleted in July of this year. According to Butch Dunlap, the vice president of development for Riddle Com mercial Properties, the company that owns the project, bad weather has caused the delay in opening. Dunlap says the delay has not cost the company any extra money. Dunlap said the problems with the project were “typical of construction, noth ing out of the ordinary.” The project’s location had caused some problems for the construction crew. “It’s one of the busiest intersections in Chapel Hill and with pe destrian traffic, it is tough to get things in and out of the area,” Dunlap said. Dunlap would not release the exact list of businesses that will be located in the building, other than First Union. He did say there will be law offices and Fortune 500 businesses on the first and second floors. Negotiations between prospective busi nesses and the development are not final. A list of companies and firms will be an nounced on Oct. 17 with the opening of the First Union, branch. In addition to the three stories, the build ing will have a full basement. The third floor will house a restaurant with a 1,500- square foot terrace overlooking Columbia and Franklin Streets. The name of the restaurant has not been released. Chapel Hill Town Council member Mark Chilton said the council was pleased with the project’s progress. “The council gave a fair amount of time to put the project together,” Chilton said. “It has faced regulatory problems with the Student Groups Awaiting Funds Moved To Top of Tonight’s Congress Agenda Absence of Quorum Forces Student Congress to Cancel Tuesday’s Special Meeting BYNANCY FONn STAFF WRITER Student Congress was forced to cancel a special meeting Tuesday night because they were unable to reach a quorum, making this the second meeting in a row that has been disbanded because oflack of quorum. Eleven of the 24 Student Congress mem bers were present Tuesday in the Law School. To form a quorum, a majority of Student Congress members must be present. Without quorum, congress has no legal authority. If Student Congress had met, they would have voted on appropriations for five cam pus groups: The Alliance of Black Gradu ate and Professional Students, executive branch for the Elections Board, Company Carolina, UNTTASandN.C. Student Leg islative. The bills were originally scheduled for consideration Sept. 14. However, the meeting’s quorum was lost at about 1:15 a.m. after a motion was made by Trong Nguyen to reconsider the controversial Minority Recruitment Bill. Student Congress Speaker Monica His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork. Mae West Chapel Hill. North Caroliaa WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 5,1994 The GLAA, which is not recognized by the UNC Alumni Association, raised S9OO this summer with a Stonewall Tea Dance in Charlotte, and SIO,OOO was anony mously donated. The association hopes to raise the remainder of the money through donations. “We just wanted to do something to give back to the school, ” GLAA Vice Presi dent Tim Eudy said. “We wanted to make people feel better about their orientation. To me it is a morale booster.” The University will select the scholar ship recipients. The scholarship will be renewable provided the student maintains a minimum grade point average, and it is open to undergraduate as well as graduate students, Davis said. “Selection of scholarship recipients will be made by the University Committee on Scholarships, Awards and Student Aid,” Davis said Monday. “Those awards will be based on scholastic record and financial need, with preference given to students who identify themselves as being gay or lesbian, or who are interested in gay and E&ie *.S]; Hfiat PRnpronl <- "V 3,1 ippi WBR jWBP nfvl DTH/DAVID ALFORD First Union will be the first tenant in the new Top of the Hill's first floor. The remaining two floors will be occupied by a law firm and other unnamed businesses. state and there were problems with remov ing the old gas pumps.” With respect to the delay, Chilton said, “We won’t hold it against them. It’s a great looking building.” School Kids Records, located at 144 E. Franklin St., had originally planned to move into the new building. The business had planned to have two stores onFranklin “Groups needed money two weeks ago, and they didn iget it... the waiting game is getting old. ” STACY FRANKLIN N.C. Student Legislation delegate chairwoman Cloud said appropriations for the five ne glected groups will be at the top of the agenda for the next meeting, at 7:30 today in Room One of the Law School. Roy Granato, Student Congress Ethics Committee chairman, said many of the members did not know the meeting would be held because they did not receive letters informing them of the meeting until Mon day. He also said some did not receive notice of the meeting at all. Granato said members must receive let ters informing them of a meeting 72 busi ness hours before the meeting is to be held. Cloud said she sent letters to members Thursday, which she said was 72 hours advance notice. Cloud said the members knew about the meeting more than week before it was to be held. “Everybody I spoke to on campus said they received the letter, and all but one of the others knew about the meeting,” Goud “We just wanted to do something to give back to the school. We wanted to make people feel better about their orientation. To me it is a morale booster. ” TIM EUDY GLAA vice president lesbian studies.” The only other established scholarship for gays and lesbians is at the Law School. Provisions for another scholarship at the School of Journalism and Mass Commu nication still exist in someone’swill, Davis said. The Pine Tree Scholarship will be the only one not affiliated with a specific school at the University. Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Al lies for Diversity, the student organization that supports UNC’s homosexual commu nity, is not helping to fund the project, but Street. The original store would have sold only classical and jazz music while the new store in the Top of the Hill would have sold rock. David Harvey, the owner of School Kids, was offered the chance, over a year ago, to buy back the lease with the Top of the Hill project. He bought back the lease said. “Half of the people who signed the petition for the meeting didn’t show up. That especially bothered me because we called this new special meeting.” jinny Moore, Student Affairs Com i: ttee chairwoman, said she received the Utter Monday. “It could be argued that this meeting is unnecessary because it is the day before a full congress," Moore said. “But a lot of people weren’t informed until late.” Another member of Student Congress, Erica Cornelius, said she did not attend the meeting because she did not receive the letter of notification. Stacy Franklin, delegate chairwoman for N.C. Student Legislation said she un derstood why the bills had to be resched uled a second time, but added that she was frustrated that they could not be heard Tuesday. “Groups needed money two weeks ago, and they didn’t get it... the waiting game is getting old,” Franklin said. “Last year we were defunded. Now we have projects we could start working on, which could improve the way we look on the state level.” Max Von Essen, producer of Company Carolina, also said the situation was unfor tunate. “This delays the budget, which we need Please See CONGRESS, Page 7 it may conduct a fund raiser in the spring to contribute to the remaining $9,100, B GLAD Co-chairman Patrick Willard said. Willard said the scholarship would have a favorable impact on the campus. “I think it would be a symbol of accep tance for high school students,” Willard said Monday. “It would enable some stu dents to come to UNC that otherwise couldn’t, showing that Carolina is willing to reach out to them.” Co-chairwoman Dawn Prince said B GLAD would also serve as an information post for students interested in the scholar ship. “In past years, magazines have warned against UNC’s liberal appearance, ” Prince said Monday. “This will help the image of the University to those wary of attending. ” The University has not yet determined the number of scholarships to be offered or the value of each scholarship. The scholarship cannot be initiated un til the $20,000 is in the fund, but according to Davis it could be awarded as early as next year. because the price was right and “the offer was too good to pass up.” Instead ofopening thenewstore, Harvey decided to remodel his present site. The remodeling, which began at 10 p.m. Mon day, will continue for another three to four weeks. The store will remain open throughout the renovations. Delivery Truck Driver Held Up At Gunpoint; Suspect At Large Victim Robbed While He Was Unloading His Truck At Chinese Restaurant BY ADAM DAVIS SENIOR WRITER An armed robbery early Tuesday morn ing outside Chop Chop restaurant cost a South Carolina delivery man $ 147 and two credit cards. Kenny White of Pelzer, S.C., was un loading his delivery truck at 2:35 a.m. outside the restaurant, located at 211 Elliott Road, when the suspect approached him and demanded his money, according to Chapel Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins and police reports. “I came out, and I opened the freezer door to the trailer, and the next thing I know, there’s a gun in my back,” White said during a telephone interview Tues day. “All he wanted was my money. I asked the guy if he would just take my money and not take my wallet, and he said the big f-you word, and I gave him my wallet, and he took off.” White was not injured but he lost his gray leather wallet, which contained the cash, the credit cards, his driver’s license and his social security card, according to Chapel Hill police reports. TTie suspect is believed to be a black man, about 5-foot-6 and 110 pounds, Cous News/Features/ Arts/Sports Business/Advertising C 1994 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. CAA Nixes Write-In Candidate Queen Candidate Not Picked As Finalist; BSM Considered Write-in Campaign for Thurs. BY MELISSA MILIOS STAFF WRITER The Carolina Athletic Association de nied the Black Student Movement’s re quest for a write-in candidate on the Home coming queen ballot Monday, saying it would conflict with the CAA selection policy. Jennifer Rasmussen, CAA co-president, said there was no provision for a write-in candidate in the policy. “The Homecoming queen selection pro cess is a selection, not an election,” Rasmussen said Monday. Jason Rumfelt, CAA Homecoming Committee chairman, said adding a write in option would not only be against policy, but also unfair. “After discussing this with the CAA co presidents, the Carolina Athletic Associa tion has decided that to allow a write-in candidate for the court would not be fair to the contestants who had already advanced through the first two rounds,” Rumfelt said. The BSM candidate, Renee Alexander, was rated third out of ten finalists after the interview portion of the selection, Rumfelt said, but had dropped to eighth by the end of the evaluation. Only the top six girls are asked to be on the Homecoming court. BSM executive staff member Teresa Williams, associate editor of the official BSM newsletter Black Ink, said she thought Alexander might have received an unfair evaluation by the Homecoming queen se lection committee. “I personally feel, just as in any other election, that there should be the option of putting a write-in candidate on the ballot because there are some very qualified people on the ballot,” Williams said. “But at the same time you do have to acknowl edge the rules that the CAA has set up.” Williams said Alexander was up to par with the other contestants in every aspect, but that the extremely high grades of the others might have reflected poorly on Alexander’s. “I feel that Renee was overlooked,” she said. “The GPA requirement is a 2.5 and she had well above a 2.5. Unless the CAA has some kind of hidden qualification, I don’t know why she was not given the opportunity to be on the court.” While having a 2.5 is a requirement, the selection process stresses scholarship in general, not just grade point average, Rasmussen said. “The policy dearly states that the queen should be someone who embodies the University tradition of scholarship, leader ship and character,” Rasmussen said. “We had an excellent pool of appli cants, and it is a difficult task to narrow the field, but this is the process that we have used for three years without complaint.” Please See BSM, Page 7 ins said. White said he thought the assail ant was between 14 and 16 years old. White also said there was another per son in front of his truck during the robbery, who he believes was an accomplice. White said he thought it was a woman, about 17 or 18 years old. Cousins said the two suspects were last seen fleeing on foot toward the Village Plaza Theater. “We had a dog and we tracked them on foot, and the K-9 officer said he was sure he had a good track, based on the actions of the dog,” said Milton Durham, the inves tigating officer. “(The officer and thedog) followed them around Eastgate and behind Eastgate to the Tar Heel Motel. We lost the trail at the Tar Heel Motel, which led him to believe that they got into a vehicle and left the area.”^ The investigation has been turned over to detectives, and the case remains open, Durham said. The department has few leads, he said, adding that White has said he can identify the suspects. Though he never actually saw the gun, White said he’d played with guns as a kid, and he’s sure a gun was involved. White also said he feels fortunate de spite the financial loss. “I feel that the man upstairs was on my side,” he said. 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