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Wht latltt ®ar Wwl J? Volume 102, Issue 113 101 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world United States \ Hurricane Gordon Nearing North Carolina's Coast OCRACOKE Hurricane Gordon plodded through the Atlantic on Thursday after creating havoc in the Caribbean and Florida, and Outer Banks residents weren’t feeling threatened. At 4 p.m. Thursday, Gordon was about 220 miles south-southeast of Cape Hatteras and moving northeast at 25 mph. Forecast ers predicted it would turn more to the north late Thursday, bringing the storm’s center fairly close to the Outer Banks by Friday morning. The National Weather Service issued a coastal flood warning for the North Caro lina coast from Cape Lookout northward Thursday. Gunman Accused of Trying To Assassinate President WASHINGTON, D.C. The Colo rado man accused of an assault-rifle attack on the White House last month was in dicted Thursday on anew charge of trying to assassinate President Clinton. Francisco Martin Duran, who pleaded innocent, could face up to life in prison if convicted. U.S. Attorney Eric Holder said pros ecutors planned to prove that Duran in tended to kill the president when he alleg edly fired about 29 rounds from a semi automatic rifle at the White House from a public sidewalk. Clinton was in the White House at the time of the Oct. 29 attack. Prime Minister of Ireland Announces Resignation DUBLIN, Ireland—Weeks after being hailed as a hero for helping bring about an IRA cease-fire, Prime Minister Albert Reynolds resigned Thursday in a scandal over a priest accused of child molestation. His departure left lawmakers stunned, the government facing a potentially treach erous road to repair, and prospects for the Northern Ireland peace process uncertain. A judge whose appointment precipi tated the crisis resigned several hours later. A few days ago his resignation might have saved the government, but by Thursday the damage was beyond repair and all parties agreed he was right to step down. Serb, Croat Forces Unify Against Government Army SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Rebel Serbs from neighboring Croatia joined the fighting in northwest Bosnia and their Bosnian Sert> brethren shelled two U.N.-declared “safe areas” Thursday, drawing U.N. warnings. U.N. spokesman Herve Gourmelon said that for the first time, Croatian Serb units had joined rebel Bosnian Muslim forces crossing the Bosnian border to fight Mus lim-led government troops protecting the region around Bihac. The combined attack violated Security Council resolutions demanding respect for Bosnia’s borders. Haitian President Appoints New Military Commander PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide named anew army commander Thursday, hoping to succeed this time in subordinating Haiti’s tradi tionally dominant military to civilian rule. The last military chief Aristide ap pointed, Raoul Cedras, turned on Aristide just seven months into his presidency, then brutally ruled Haiti until 20,000 American troops intervened in September to send him packing. The appointment of Brig. Gen. Bemardin Poisson, an American and French-trained soldier, bore several paral lels to that of Cedras. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Cloudy; high 64. SATURDAY: Partly cloudy; high 70. SUNDAY: Chance of showers; high 72. Trustee: ‘Qualified Diversity’ OK BY SARAH BAHNSON STAFF WRITER A heated debate on minority presence, specifically the acceptance of minorities to the University, highlighted a Board of Trust ees committee meeting Thurs day afternoon. Provost Rich- BOT Committee Hears From Student Judiciary System Leaders See Page 4 ard McCormick’s presentation to the Aca demic Affairs and Personnel Committee AIDS Panel Denounces Casual Sex Diverse Group Ranges From AIDS Patient to Public Health Professor BYLEAHMERREY STAFF WRITER Is it safe to use plastic wrap during oral sex as a protective measure against the AIDS virus? How do you treat a friend or family member who has contracted HIV? A panel of five experts answered questions such as these Thursday night at an AIDS forum as part of Human Rights Week. The Critical Issues Committee as sembled an impressive and diverse group of individuals to speak about the AIDS virus. The panel included Geoffrey Mock, lo cal Amnesty International volunteer; Dr. Robert Wehbie, UNC Infectious Diseases Fellow; Dr. Michel Ibrahim, dean and professor of epidemiology at the School of Public Health; Gail Fokine, local speaker for AIDS awareness and AIDS victims; Glenn Kent, public lecturer and AIDS victim; and LaHoma Smith Romocki, manager of health communication and training programs for Family Health Inter national. One of the most poignant speeches in the discussion was given by Fokine, who contracted the HIV virus through a tainted blood transfusion in 1979. “I will fight until the fight is through,” Fokine said. “I want to make people un derstand that this is a worldwide prob lem.” The concept of casual unprotected sex among college students particularly frus trated Fokine. “I just don’t understand how someone can go to a bar, get drunk, then bring someone home and have unpro tected sex. Life is too precious to throw it away,” she said. Tfre lack of a vaccine or cure for the HIV/AIDS virus was discussed in Wehbie’s speech. “We’ve had very good luck in prevent ing and treating infections brought on by HIV, but we’ve had much less luck in a prevention to HIV infection (itself) aside from the use of a condom,” he said. Wehbie stressed the importance of condom use during sexual intercourse as the most effective preventative measure against the spread of the HIV/AIDS virus. “In regards to an AIDS vaccine, it will never be as good as a condom. The vaccine will probably be a live virus that will per manently alter the DNA of the recipient, See AIDS PANEL, Page 5 Human Rights Week Today's Events: 3 p.m. - Human Rights Issues in Bosnia, Union 211. 8 p.m. - Multiculturalism Extravaganza, Hanes Art Center. - Film 'Romero,' Newman Catholic Center. UNC Housekeepers Have Made Gains in Pay, Training, Respect BYPETER ROYBAL STAFF WRITER While the UNC housekeepers haven’t won many victories in the courtroom, their attorney, University officials and a student activist agreed that their pay and working conditions had improved in recent years. “The housekeepers, as far as their orga nization goes, have been making great strides,” housekeeper attorney Mark Dorosin said. “On the legal front, we haven’t won that much, but at the same time they still managed to get the lowest salary raised last year.” In addition, University officials said housekeepers had better training opportu I was so drunk last night I fell down and missed the floor. Harry Crone Clu pal Hill, North Caroliaa FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 18,1994 about admissions, enrollment and diver sity sparked a debate between McCormick and trustee Walter Davis on the justifica tion of minority presence. McCormick stated the importance of racial diversity to academics. Davis said he, too, was in favor of diversity. “I’m for diversity, but for qualified di versity,” Davis said. “I believe we should take the most qualified applicants I can’t see taking a student just for the sake of diversity.” McCormick and Davis disagreed on the degree to which minority presence should gt £IH • . pr . m \ igH' jjfAH| Wm ' ’ WF ff V mm W f w H , M- ‘ “ '* • ' ■" .B 6 'jt 9 . •> > „rvj- f, yH EhhS , - UMMBBpFTi DTH/CHRiS GAYDOSH Vocalist Rafi entertains the crowd at the Union Cabaret Thursday evening. Rafi played a mixture of original works and classics on guitar and harmonica. A Lifetime of Service Since the 19405, Rebecca Clark Has Led Efforts to Improve Her Community BYELLENFLASPOEHLER STAFF WRITER For Rebecca Clark, community ser vice has been a way of life for almost all of her 79 years. She has concentrated most of her energies on exercising the right to vote and helping others do the same. “I was told early on in my life that if I voted long enough for the betterment of my city eventually I would get some of the things I was voting for,” said Clark, who has lived in Orange County since she was 6 months old. “But you have to keep at it. It is a life-long process.” Clark been instrumental in politics at the grassroots level, and she has also been active on many town boards, including the Citizens Advisory Group, the Rede velopment Committee, the Housing Au thority Board, the Town Appeals Board and the Recreation Committee. Sunday she received the Charles M. and Dorcas Jones civil liberties award from the Chapel Hill/Canboro chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). Herzenberg said Clark was cho sen to receive the award because of her commitment to her own neighborhood, nities and working conditions than they did four years ago. “We do believe we have made progress, ’’ superintendent of housekeepers Hardy White said. “We seek the moment that we can become a unit of peace and harmony and not one where it is said that we are not people-loving.” The changes made by the administra tion matter, said Jimmy Hart, a former housekeeper who now supervises the housekeepers that maintain University dorms. “I think the quality of the house keepers has improved because they’re get ting input on what’s happening.” Changes have been made in several areas for housekeepers. be pursued. “Racial diversity is one of the necessary pathways to academic excellence,” McCormick said. Davis said he did not believe diversity was an essential part of the University’s academic life. “I don’t believe racial diver sity is a factor in academic excellence, ” he said. Davis asked McCormick to present data on how many applicants with a Scholastic Aptitude Test score of 900 or above were refused admission. According to McCormick’s report, which was based on Sing Along Heroes on the hill A weekly series highlighting Chape! HiU heroes the black community of Chapel Hill and her drive to better race relations over a long period of years. Having known and worked with Chapel Hill civil rights leader Charles Jones for many years, Clark said she was humbled by the award. “Hewasahumble man who was concerned for all people,” she said. “I wish we had many more people like him.” Clark, who currently serves as vice chairwoman of the Chapel Hill Cem etery Committee and is a member of the town’s Planning Commission and also the Law Enforcement and Support Ser vices Committee, got her start in commu nity activism at age 25. An incident in the early 19405, atime when it was not popu lar for blacks to vote, triggered her inter est in activism. She said she was on her way to vote when she was approached by an elderly white woman. “The lady said to me, ‘Why are you voting? You don’t know what you are voting for,”’ Clark said. “I didn't say anything back to her, but I smiled and kept ongoing. Later I asked myself, ‘Why not vote?”’ See HERO, Page 5 After raises in recent years, housekeep ers at UNC are the highest paid in the Chapel Hill/Durham marketplace, accord ing to a 1993 State Personnel Office survey cited by Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancellor for facilities management. “The University is probably paying any thingfromsl tosl.somore(perhour)than typical housekeeping organizations,” Runberg said. UNC also provides benefits and perma nent employment that commercial employ ers do not typically offer, he said. Benefits include paid holidays and health benefits for the housekeeper, but not for his or her family The minimum salary for most house this year’s freshman class, the majority of these applicants were refijsed admission. “The great majority 68.7 percent of the 11,526 applicants who had an SAT of 900 or higher were not accepted,” McCormick said. Davis claimed that this proved his point since he thought many students with high SAT scores were being rejected in order to make room for minorities with lower scores. Davis said he wanted the present qual ity of the University to be retained and not See DIVERSITY, Page 5 % iifi mm keepers has increased 24 percent since Dec. 1991 from sll,Bßl to $14,767 - be cause of direct grants from the General Assembly and an accelerated pay plan funded by the University, said Laurie Charest, associate vice chancellor for hu man resources. Many housekeepers are above the mini mum level for their pay grade because of experience or state-granted increases, she said. So not aU housekeepers received as much of an increase as those on the bottom of the pay grade. Nevertheless, these raises were “considerably above the increase in other state employee salaries in that period of time,” Charest said. Student activist John Dervin, who has News/Features/Aits/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 C 1994 DTH Publishing Coip. AD rights reserved. N.C. State Librarian Dies at 60 BY JENNY HEINZEN STATE AND NATIONAL EDITOR The man who shot himself in the center of the N.C. State University campus died Thursday afternoon at Wake Medical Cen ter in Raleigh. Joseph Charles Lebourgeois, 60, a re tired librarian atNCSU, shot himselfin the head Wednesday morning with a ,38-cali ber semi-automatic handgun in the Brick yard area of the NCSU campus. He was taken to Wake Medical Center where he died at 5 p.m. Thursday, hospital spokeswoman Liz Mcßoberts said. The incident occurred in front of the D.H. Hill Library where Lebourgeois had worked for five years before retiring in August. Sgt. Larry Ellis of the NCSU police said an investigation into the shooting was con tinuing, but he suspected there were medi cal reasons behind Lebourgeois’ suicide. Counseling services were made avail able after the event to students and staff' who wanted to discuss the suicide. Mike Bachman, a psychologist at the NCSU Counseling Center, said although he did not notice a big rush for counseling services after the shooting, he thought the suicide would be something which would have long-term effects on those who wit nessed it. “I can’t say there’s been a big rush,” Bachman said. “We’ve had people coming in since just after the event. It is good to know, though, that the information is out there, and people who need to can get themselves out here soon after something like this occurs. “With somethinglike this, though, there is bound to be some amount of delayed response,” he said. “People may not be ready or might not be aware that they might need to talk to somebody. I’m sure it will have a lingering and lasting effect. “Certainly the people who witnessed were affected by it; it would be hard not to,” he said. “These kinds of things tend to have a wide-reaching impact. It sort of See SHOOTING, Page 5 Name: Rebecca Clark Birthdate: Oct. 12. 1915 Birthplace: Chatham County Famly: husband, John; sons John and Douglas Occupation: retired licensed practical nurse with UNC Hospitals Positions: Vice Chairwoman of Chapel Hill Cemetery Committee, member of town Planning Commission, member of Law Enforcement and Support Services Committee Life's Philosophy: 'Live the best you can, and treat other folks the way you want to be treated, with honesty." DTH/DAVID ALFORD worked in the housekeepers movement for a year and a half, acknowledged that the raises were significant gains but said, “Just because we pay more than other people doesn’t make it enough.” “We’re not even paying people the fed eralpovertywage.HowcantheUniversity justify paying workers such a low wage that they have to take another job?” he said. “When we don’t pay workers enough, we don’t just hurt the worker, we hurt the community.” UNC offers housekeepers classes in cleri cal and housekeeping skills as well as a See HOUSEKEEPERS, Page 5
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