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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Clinton Reassures Asian
Leaders During Journey
JAKARTA, Indonesia On his first
overseas trip since the elections, President
Clinton assured anxious Asian leaders
Sunday that America’s foreign policy
would not be shaken by the Republican
landslide in Congress.
Organizers hope leaders of 18 Pacific
and Asian nations attending the Asia-Pa
cific Economic Cooperation forum will
agree to free trade in the region by 2020,
although China and Malaysia are resist
ing.
In advance of the summit, Clinton was
holding one-on-one talks Monday with the
leaders of China, Japan, South Korea and
Australia.
Disputes over human rights and trade
barriers were expected to be high on the
agenda for Clinton’s second meeting with
Chinese President Jiang Zemin in a year.
Ireland's Labor Party May
Collapse Over Dispute
DUBLIN, Ireland—The coalition gov
ernment that promoted peace in Northern
Ireland is on the brink of collapse in a
dispute over the appointment of a conser
vative to the High Court.
The Labor Party, a coalition partner,
demanded Sunday that Prime Minister
Albert Reynolds explain the appointee’s
handling of an extradition request for a
priest accused of child sexual abuse.
Reynolds is to speak in Parliament on
Tuesday.
If Labor withdraws from the coalition
with Reynolds’ Fianna Fail party, it could
force an early election, or Labor could try
to form a government with another party.
Fianna Fail, the largest party in Parlia
ment, might lead a minority government.
Shuttle Crew Members
Preparing to Land Today
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Atlantis’
six astronauts wrapped up their work in
orbit Sunday as scientists gloated over the
amount of data collected during the 11 -day
mission to map ozone in the Earth’s atmo
sphere.
One ozone monitor aboard Atlantis
gathered enough data to fill 120,000 com
puter floppy disks.
The shuttle’s scheduled landing Mon
day morning at the Kennedy Space Center
was threatened by Tropical Storm Gor
don. NASA sent the astronauts’ families to
California on Sunday to await a probable
landing there.
Two other space shuttles have been di
verted to the desert mnways at Edwards
Air Force Base in California in the past two
months because of storms.
Bosnian Government Asks
U.S. to Help Slow Fighting
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
The Bosnian government asked Croatia
and the United Nations on Saturday for
help to stop attacks on its surrounded sol
diers in the northwestern community of
Bihac.
Serb rebels are advancing on Bihac,
counterattacking after suffering their worst
battlefield defeat ofßosnia’s 31 -month-old
civil war when a joint Muslim-Croat alli
ance captured the city of Kupres earlier
this month.
President Alija Izetbegovic asked
Croatia to stop rebel Croatian Serbs from
attacking government-held Bihac, which
is sandwiched between the advancing
Bosnian Serbs and Serb areas of Croatia.
Hijacking Resolved After
8-Hour Standoff in Spain
PALMA DE MALLORCA, Spain
Three hijackers who forced an Algerian
airliner to land in Spain and threatened to
blow it up with 35 people aboard surren
dered Sunday after an eight-hour standoff.
Their bomb turned out to be a box
containing a coffee grinder, airport direc
tor Pedor Meaurio said.
The Air Algerie Fokker-27 turboprop
plane was flying from Algiers to the south
ern Algerian city of Uargla when it was
diverted to this Spanish island in the Medi
terranean, Meaurio said. All of the passen
gers were believed to be Algerian.
They had demanded that Algeria’s mili
tary-installed government release political
prisoners and hold elections demands
similar to those of anti-government Islamic
guerrillas.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-70s.
TUESDAY: Increasing cloudiness;
high 70-75.
Carolina Impressions: A Liberal Arts Festival at UNC
The Black Student Movement Gospel Choir performed in the Great Hall on Sunday afternoon as part of the weekend-long event.
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Justice Focus of Human Rights Week
Hunger, Homelessness,
AIDS Among Scheduled
Topics of Weeklong Events
BY BRIAN VANN
STAFF WRITER
Human Rights Week 1994 officially
begins today with the Human Rights Week
Kickoff in the Pit.
Throughout the week, various campus
groups will spon
sor events to en
hance the aware
ness of the UNC
community, cov
ering issues such
as hunger,
homelessness,
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AIDS and international human rights in
fringements.
The theme for the 11th annual Human
Rights Week, “What is Justice? Where is
Justice? Is there Justice?,” coincides with
organizers’ goals in putting together the
program.
“The week does not focus on one thing, ”
said Mike Rhyne, co-chairman of the Hu
man Rights Week Committee. “It deals
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Human Rights Week
Today's Events:
Noon - Human Rights Week Kickoff,
in The Pit
3 p.m. - Rape as a Weapon in War, in
Union 211-212.
6 p.m. - A Discussion on the UNC
Housekeepers Movement in Lenior
North Dining Room.
8 p.m. - An Evening with Randall
Robinson, in Hill Hall Auditorium.
9:30 p.m. - Reception with Randall
Robinson, in Student Union Upstairs
Lounge.
with what is just, how we can achieve
justice and what we can do to make things
right.”
The events began Sunday with the Foot
falls Roadrace, the annual fund raiser for
the Campus Y. The Human Rights Week
Kickoff is at noon. At 8 p.m. today, key
note speaker Randall Robinson, the execu
tive director of Trans Africa, will address
the UNC community.
Events will continue throughout the
week. Many events are sponsored by com-
See HUMAN RIGHTS, Page 4
BY JAY STONE
STAFF WRITER
The keynote speaker was absent, but the show went on
as models, singing call girls and a pianist entertained
Sunday afternoon in the Hanes Art Center at the “Caro
lina Impressions” festival.
Ned Riflrin, curator of Atlanta’s High Museum, was in
a car accident and could not deliver the festival’s keynote
address as scheduled. Riflrin, who was to speak on the
importance of liberal arts in the community, suffered no
injuries in the accident and may speak later in the week.
A performance called “cONcEpt of Colors” used a
classroom setting to demonstrate multicultural modeling.
Linda Sutton, who played the instructor, said the
spelling of the performance’s title was central to the
message of the piece. “Rarely in modeling do you see
people of diverse races and gender,” Sutton said. “The
capitalization of the letters stresses the significance of
‘one. ’ We all live in one world and are therefore intercon
nected despite our differences.”
Performing as models were Erika Maiming, Tiffany
McCoy, Michellete Pleasants, Leslie Valentine and Corey
Scott.
Following the “cONcEpt of Colors” performance,
pianist Kevin Chang-a-shing performed 10 selections,
including the theme from “Terms of Endearment,” “Pan
in A Minor” and an improvisation of “Heart and Soul.”
The Pauper Players gave a preview of their upcoming
performance, “The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas,”
with two scenes from the musical.
Other Sunday events of the two-day festival included
speakers, dance performances and readings by the Ebony
Readers and members of the cast of “2.”
Saturday featured concerts by the Tar Heel Voices and
the BSM Gospel Choir, a step show and oratorical contest
by Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity Inc. and two productions
of “Man of La Mancha” by Company Carolina.
Sponsored by the executive branch of student govern
ment, “Carolina Impressions” was UNC’s firstliberal arts
festival. Mona Bhavsar, co-secretary of the Executive
Projects Committee, said the festival promoted the arts.
“We had a retreat in August when the idea for ‘Carolina
Impressions’ came out. Art is such an important part of
the University and we think it should be displayed."
Student Body President George Battle said he hoped
“Carolina Impressions” would be an ongoing event.
“From what I understand, it went really well,” Battle
said. “I hope it continues in the future. Of course that will
be up to other administrations.”
Randall Robinson
To Deliver Keynote
BY BRIAN VANN
STAFF WRITER
Trans Africa Director Randall
Robinson, whose 27-day fast this sum
mer brought attention to U.S. foreign
policy in Haiti, will address the UNC
campus today as part of Human Rights
Week.
Robinson, who will speak at 8 p.m.
in Hill Hall Auditorium, protested Presi
dent Clinton’s refusal to allow Haitian
refugees into the United States, declar
ing that he was “prepared to risk my life
if it might spare thousands.”
Robinson’s efforts with regard to
Haiti followed his success with estab
lishing democracy in South Africa. As
director of Trans Africa, a research and
lobbying group for Africa and the Car
ibbean, he was considered to be the
American most responsible for demo
cratic elections in South Africa.
Robinson was selected to speak at
See ROBINSON, Page 4
Panel: BCC Is
For Education,
Not Relaxation
UNC’s Faculty Council Expresses Approval
Of Mission of Free-Standing Stone Center
BY JASON SELVERSTEIN
STAFF WRITER
A panel from the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center stressed
the center’s academic purpose at a Faculty Council meeting Friday.
Panel member Harold Woodard, the interim associate dean of
student counseling forthe General College, said, “This is not ablack
Student Union.”
Woodard said the undergraduates had more of a desire for a place
of education. When determining dedication of space for the new
center, he said the undergraduates had been motivated to make the
BCC a center of learning and had decided to change an area
originally designed as a lounge area to a study hall.
The panel presented their ideas on center programming and the
layout of the proposed 50,000-square-foot building.
The BCC will have 15,040 square feet of instructional and re
search areas, including general purpose classrooms, a library and
reading room, and music and dance studios.
Michelle Thomas, program coordinator for the BCC, said the
programs offered by the existing center would increase with the new
center.
The center already has several student-run magazines, such as
mpya (New Voice), and has plans to produce a premier national
magazine of sauti mpya for 200 other cultural centers, Thomas said.
The center also has a program, Communiveisity, for 40 children
ranging from 8 years old to 12 years old, in which the children can
come and learn about history, arts and crafts and participate in social
activities with college students, she said.
Faculty Council Chairwoman Jane Brown, who originally said
she had mild interest in the center, said she recently had become very
interested in its activities.
Brown, who was an out-of-state undergraduate at the University
of Kentucky, likened her approach to the center to her experience in
college. At Kentucky, she participated in sorority rush but did not
join, and she came to think of groups as being communities.
She came to a personal philosophy: “If my base is secure, I will
venture out.”
Groups can give such a base, Brown said.
“I have come to believe the center will make us a stronger
community," she said.
Also at the meeting Friday, the Athletics Committee and the
Scholarships, Awards and Student Aid Committee of the Faculty
Council presented their annual standing committee reports.
The Athletic Committee’s report stated that 32 percent of die
student-athletes who participated in varsity sports had achieved a
grade point average of 3.0 or better for the 1993-94 academic year, a
record for the University.
There are still problems, however, that student-athletes face with
their academics and their social life due to athletics, said committee
Chairman Frederick Mueller. “Study hall has continued to be criti
cized,” Mueller said of the committee’s findings.
Mueller, a professor of physical education, exercise and sports
science, said that a main concern of the committee was the extended
trips that athletic teams often had to make
To help fight this problem, the committee recommended provid
ing lights for night reading on University-owned vans and establish
ing study rooms during overnight stays in hotels to help the student
athletes, he said.
Mueller also said that because of their time commitments to the
athletic department, many athletes did not get the classes they would
like to take.
This is detrimental in that 66 percent of white student-athletes and
90 percent of black athletes also find that professors treat athletes
with bias, Mueller said.
The report from the Scholarships, Awards and Student Aid
Committee was presented by new committee Chairman W. James
McCoy, associate professor of history.
The report states that approximately 39 percent of the student
body received financial aid last year.
Students are getting their costs met, but there is a higher cost of
education and a higher need for support, said Eleanor Morris,
director of the student aid office.
“Scholarship funding is never adequate," Morris said.
The Office of Scholarships and Student Aid distributed more $53
million in 1993-94, ands3percentwentto undergraduates, the report
states.
Center for Developmental
Science to Be Joint Venture
BY JULIE CORBIN
STAFF WRITER
A request to establish a Center for De
velopmental Science was approved by the
UNC-system Board of Governors Friday.
The center will serve to advance re
search on “social and biobehavioral devel
opment,” according to the request to the
board to establish the center.
The center will incorporate several in
stitutions besides UNC-Chapel Hill, in
cluding UNC-Greensboro, N.C. Central
University, Duke University, N.C. State
University and Meredith College, the re
port states.
“The idea is to involve faculty from
these multiple institutions,” said Robert
Cairns, director of the center.
As an interdisciplinary institution, the
center involves many departments in the
participating universities, including nurs
ing, psychology, sociology, anthropology,
psychiatry, education, pediatrics, neurobi
ology, maternal and child health, and epi
demiology, the report states.
“The center is a cross-university en
tity,” Cairns said. “It’s both a research
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center and an institute for advanced stud
ies in the issues of behavioral develop
ment.”
The Carolina Consortium on Human
Development, the parent organization of
the Center for Developmental Science, will
continue to provide a place for pre-doc
toral studies, and also allow post-doctoral
students to extend their own background
and training, Cairns said.
The consortium has been noted as a
model of collaboration among universities
and disciplines since it was established
seven years ago. It currently shares faculty
and students with the universities involved
in the center and with five other universi
ties in Brazil and the University of
Stockholm in Sweden, Cairns said.
The center currently is supporting three
major research projects concerned with
the principles of behavioral development,
Cairns said.
The first project studies the connection
between family relationships and school
dropouts in inner cities, Caims said. The
center is studying inner city children in
See DEVELOPMENT, Page 4