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Volume 102, Issue 89
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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Haitian President Aristide
Returns to Power Saturday
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Jean-
Bertrand Aristide proudly reclaimed the
nation he was forced to flee three years
ago, his persecutors gone and his people
dancing Saturday to the promise of a soci
ety reborn.
His return literally on American
wings completes the first phase of a
world effort to sow democracy in a land
cursed by a long history of tyranny. The
diminutive priest-tumed-president must
now transcend Haiti’s fractious history to
unite his wretchedly poor nation and cre
ate true democracy.
The Clinton administration, which sent
20,000 troops to Haiti to ensure the depar
ture of its military rulers, is hoping the
restoration of Aristide’s elected govern
ment will send a message to dictators
around the world.
The U.N. Security Council welcomed
Aristide’s return by voting Saturday to lift
stifling trade sanctions imposed to force
out army rulers.
Aristide released a white dove into the
air before he addressed thousands of sing
ing, dancing Haitians at the National Pal
ace.
“T oday is the day that the sun of democ
racy rises, never to set, ’’ he said. “Today is
the day that the eyes of justice open, never
to close again. Today is the day that secu
rity takes over morning, noon and night.”
Aristide spoke from behind a bullet
proof shield—a reminder of the danger he
still faces from rightist opponents.
Serbian Troops Advance
To Battle Posts in Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Backed by heavy artillery barrages, Serb
forces are advancing toward strategic hill
tops along the biggest battlefront in Bosnia,
U.N. peacekeepers reported Sunday.
The Serbs are apparently trying to dis
rupt supply routes for the Muslim-led
Bosnian government.
If they score furthergains, taking a4,835-
foot peak called Demak, the Serbs would
dominate a vital north-south supply route
for Tuzla and other north-central towns
held by the Bosnian government.
A spokesman for U.N. peacekeepers,
Maj. Koos Sol, said both sides were be
lieved to have suffered heavy casualties in
the fighting.
Most of the conflicts have occurred
along the frequently shifting front line.
U.S., N. Korea Continuing
Nuclear Talks in Geneva
GENEVA Negotiators from the
United States and North Korea held two
hours of unscheduled talks Sunday on eas
ing nuclear tensions but reported no move
ment toward a settlement.
But Defense Secretary William Perry,
arriving Sunday in Beijing for talks, said an
agreement could still come as soon as this
week.
Perry described the Geneva negotia
tions as moving toward a very complicated
agreement that would entail “working with
the North Koreans for years and years to
come.”
Chief U.S. negotiator Robert Gallucci
met informally with his North Korean
counterpart, Kang Sok Ju, on Sunday,
although no meeting had been planned.
The two sides had seemed close to a break
through Saturday, but the talks ended
acrimoniously.
German Leader Maintains
Power Following Elections
BONN, Germany Chancellor
Helmut Kohl’s party won Sunday in the
election pitting his conservative coalition
against a divided leftist opposition, but the
final results were unclear and the opposi
tion refused to concede.
A projection by the ARD television
network, based on exit polls and partial
vote counts, gave Kohl’s coalition almost
49 percent of the vote. The general secre
tary ofKohl’s Christian Democratic Union
party, Peter Hintze, announced the victory
late Sunday afternoon.
But Anke Fuchs, deputy leader of the
main opposition Social Democrats, said
the race was still unclear.
ARD projected that Kohl’s party and its
Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social
Union, would win 282 seats in parliament
and be able to count on their junior partner,
the Free Democrats, with 51 seats.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Sunny; high 72.
TUESDAY: Sunny; high 75.
Burnette Resigns From School Board
BYCHRIS NICHOLS
CITY EDITOR
AND GRETCHEN HOFFMAN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
Less than one month before a recall
election that could have removed her from
the Chapel Hill-Carfboro Board of Educa
tion, Lavonda Burnette resigned her post
Friday, ending 11 months of controversy
and speculation.
Burnette, with her daughter Brittany by
her side, handed in her resignation letter to
school superintendent Neil Pedersen about
6 p.m. Friday. Burnette’s letter cites con
cerns about her family and the school
board’s ability to concentrate on the needs
of students as reasons for her resignation.
Pedersen said Burnette indicated earlier
last week that she was considering step
ping down.
“Only a day or two before she called me
and indicated that she might be (resign
ing),” he said. “At that point I knew that
was what she planned. It looked like all the
legal ways the recall might be blocked had
been eliminated. I think that LaVonda
surely realized that would be a difficult
period to go through.”
It's Only Fair to Be On Top
The N.C. State Fair kicked off in Raleigh Friday afternoon and will run through Oct. 23. Beautiful weather Sunday drew thousands to the
from atop the "Sun Wheel," to enjoy rides, games, food, agricultural exhibits and live entertainment.
UNC-System Schools Net
Record-High $356.7M
In Grants for Research
BY BRIAN VANN
STAFF WRITER
The UNC system received a record high
$356.7 million in research grants last year,
surpassing last year’s total by over S2B
million
The Chapel Hill campus maintained its
status as the leading
recipient, account
ing for over 50 per
cent of the system’s
total. Grants re
ceivedbyUNC’sre-
searchers jumped
from $187.82 mil
lion to $201.46 mil
lion, a 7 percent in
crease.
The grants were
a combination of
federal, state and
private research
funding. Professors
from the 16 cam-
UNC-system President
C.D. SPANGLER
praised the campuses
that brought in more
money for research.
puses put in requests to various organiza
tions that approve or deny the requests.
UNC-system President C.D. Spangler
said the increase in research grants was
good news for the University. “We were
pleased about the increase,” Spanglersaid.
Doughnuts. Is there anything they can’t do?
Homer Simpson
Cfca|Ml Hill, North Carofiaa
MONDAY, OCTOBER 17,1994
BURNETTE said she
called it quits to
protect herself and her
7-year-old daughter.
He said the pres
sure was probably
just more than
Burnette could deal
with. “I believe in
working with her
the past month or
two that the ordeal
was taking a toll on
her, and I certainly
understand that.”
Burnette has
beenunder fire since
December, when it
was discovered that
she was not a UNC
student, as she had
billed herself in her efforts to gamer a seat
on the school board.
In January, at Burnette’s second meet
ing as a board member, her colleagues
voted unanimously to remove her from the
board. Burnette, however, refused to step
down, saying instead that she would resign
in July 1995.
The board then pursued a bill in the
N.C. General Assembly to force a recall of
Burnette, prompting another controversy.
After the bill passed, resident Madeline
“It will enable professors to do what they
wish in their areas of research. They were
the ones who requested the grants; they
had the good ideas.”
Spangler said the increase would make
graduate programs better. “This will not
only allow professors to search for new
knowledge, it will bring in good graduate
students who want to be a part of it and the
graduate program will grow,” he said.
Other campuses also experienced sig
nificant increases. Elizabeth City State
University’s research grants increased 1,805
percent, escalating from $57,810 during
the fiscal year 1993 to sl.l million in 1994.
N.C. Central University’s grants jumped
507 percent, and Appalachian State
University’s increased by 435 percent.
Spangler attributed the success of these
schools to professors who anticipated what
organizations were looking for in the fund
ing requests.
At Chapel Hill, health affairs depart
ments and professional programs drew the
greatest amount of grants. Of the more
than S2OO million total, these departments
—including the schools ofMedicine, Den
tistry, Public Heath and Pharmacy re
ceived $166.9 million This sum was over
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Mitchell last summer initiated a petition
drive to force a recall election.
Meanwhile, two school district resi
dents, David Mage and Harvey Carnes,
brought a lawsuit against the school board
for what they perceived as dereliction of
duty.
Now that the controversy is effectively
over, the board can better concentrate on
its duties, Pedersen said.
School board Chairman Ken Touw said
he did not expect the resignation, but said
that in the last few weeks Burnette behaved
as if she were depressed.
“I think that this is probably a good
choice forthe school system,” he said. “It’s
unfortunate it wasn’t done earlier.”
The resignation should allow the board
to get on with their jobs, he said.
The school board must now appoint a
replacement to fulfill the remainder of
Burnette’s term, which would have lasted
until November 1995.
“That appointment process is not set by
policy, so the school board will need to
discuss it,” Touw said.
The next school board meeting is Thurs-
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Teacher-Student Relationships
Focus of Proposed Guidelines
BY MELISSA MILIOS
STAFF WRITER
The chancellor’s Sexual Harassment
Advisory Committee has drafted a pro
posal aimed at avoiding potential prob
lems stemming from romantic relation
ships between teachers and students.
The proposal will be evaluated by the
Faculty Council, Student Congress and
the Graduate and Professional Students’
Federation (GPSF) before the committee
presents the final draft to Chancellor Paul
Hardin for approval.
Committee chairwoman Judith Scott,
the University’s Sexual Harassment Of
ficer, said the policy was still in the forma
tive stages and the committee was strongly
encouraging feedback before drafting the
final policy.
“We’re not interested in anything but
feedback from the groups at this point,”
Scott said Friday. “What the committee is
going to do is gather all the feedback and
revise accordingly. Then we will present
(the revised policy) to the chancellor.”
The policy has already been presented
to the Employee Forum, Scott said. “The
feedback from members of the forum is
that they’re very much in favor of it and
even want to extend the policy to all Uni
versity staff, not just those in direct teach
ing relationships with students, ’’ Scott said.
As it stands now, the policy states that
due to conflict of interest, “an amorous
relationship between a faculty member or
other member of the instructional staff and
Burnette’s Sudden Resignation
Leaves Local Residents Surprised
BY CHRIS NICHOLS
CITY EDITOR
AND GRETCHEN HOFFMAN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
For residents, community leaders and
school board members, the past year has
been one steeped in the controversy over
schoolboard member LaVonda Burnette.
But now that the dividing factor is
gone, residents appear ready to move on.
Madeline Mitchell, who initiated a
petition drive last summer to force a re
call election, agreed that the focus was no
longer on the original controversy, but
had become largely a racial issue.
“I think that although for me person
ally it was not a racial issue, some mem
bers in our community made it so,”
Mitchell said.
Many residents were concerned that
the controversy over Burnette had af
a student is both inappropriate and unwise
when the faculty or instructional staff mem
ber has professional responsibility for the
student.” The policy also states that “vol
untary consent by the student in such a
relationship is difficult to determine with
certainty, given the fundamentally asym
metric nature of the relationship.”
Scott said she hoped the policy would
help decrease the possibility of faculty abus
ing their power by discriminating for or
against certain students in the teaching
situation. “We’re looking at preventing
abuse of power in the faculty-student rela
tionship, where the power differential is
very significant,” Scott said. “Have there
been problems of this nature in the two
years that I have been here? Of course. But
this University is no different than any
other in terms of problems that might arise
as a result of abuse of power.
“The policy needs to be looked at essen
tially as an expression of this particular
higher education community’s ethical val
ues,” Scott said.
More than 100 colleges and universities
across the country have enacted similar
policies, including N.C. State University
and the University of Virginia, Scott said.
Faculty Council Chairwoman Jane
Brown, professor of journalism and mass
communication, said the Executive Com
mittee of the Faculty Council had reviewed
the policy and would present it to the full
council Friday.
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fected the school board's ability to func
tion effectively.
“I think it did affect their ability,”
Mitchell said, adding that a less divided
school board would have been more
able to concentrate on the educational
issues at hand.
Mitchell said she had no problems
with the views Burnette held on the
school board. “I think we need all the
help we can get in our district, ” she said.
“But I think you have to earn it.”
Harvey Carnes and David Mage, who
filed a lawsuit against the school board
last year for not removing Burnette from
office, both were glad Burnette resigned
and the lawsuit could be dropped.
“I was glad she did it,” Mage said.
“It’s just sad the school board didn’t do
their job a year ago. The purpose of the
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$3.58 Budget
To Give Boost
To Salaries
BY JASON SILVERSTEIN
STAFF WRITER
The UNC-system Board of Governors
on Friday unanimously approved the UNC
system’s proposed $3.5-billion budget for
1995-97, which included a raise in faculty
salaries and appropriations for several
University projects.
UNC faculty and administrators would
get average 5 percent salary increases in
each of the next two yean, according to the
biennial budget request.
Faculty in public service, research and
instruction in the UNC-system’s research
institutions would also receive another 2
percent each year.
The budget request also included an
other 1 percent increase to combat salary
problems at the University. This increase
will bring a total faculty salary boost of up
to 8 percent for instructional, public ser-
vice and research
faculty.
Felix Joyner, the
UNC-system vice
president for fi
nance, said Sunday
that the Chapel Hill
campus had the
highest salaries in
the system, but the
increase of 1 percent
was added so the
University could
compete nationally
with other schools.
“We lost ground
to schools in our size
range. We lost even
Faculty Council
Chairwoman JANE
BROWN said the
salary increase would
increase stipends to
graduate students.
more ground at our research institutions, ”
Joyner said Sunday.
C.D. Spangler, UNC-system president,
said Sunday: “By far, the most important
appropriation is the increase in salary. It
will have the most significant effect on our
university system.”
Faculty Council Chairwoman Jane
Brown, professor of journalism and mass
communication, said Sunday that part of
the salary increase package was also to
provide more stipends for graduate stu
dents.
Brown said although some graduate
students lived poorly while in school, they
offered much support to the professors.
“They keep us alive by sharing their
new ideas with us and by helping us as
research assistants and teaching assistants, ”
Brown said.
The appropriations for the requested
projects on the University campus included:
$24.8 million for a medical allied health
building; $28.2 million for a biomolecular
research building; $16.2 million for an ad
dition to the Student Stores building; $8.4
million for a center of dramatic art; $6.3
million for an addition to Beard Hall, the
School of Pharmacy; and $lO million for
additions and renovations to Van Hecke-
Wettach School of Law.
Brown said these allocations would also
help the UNC faculty as well as improve
education as a whole.
“These capital expenditures will greatly
improve our situation,” she said. “For ex
ample, the center for dramatic art uses
space in Graham Memorial. If we receive
this money, the center would have the
space they need and the undergraduate
honors program could use the space in
Graham.”
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962-0245
962-1163