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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Treasury Secretary Plans
To Resign From Cabinet
WASHINGTON, D.C. Treasuiy
Secretary Lloyd Bentsen plans to resign his
Cabinet post early next year, costing the
Clinton administration one of its most re
spected senior policy-makers, administra
tion officials said Monday.
The officials, speaking on condition of
anonymity, said
Bentsen wanted to
return to Texas to
go into business.
A precise date for
the resignation has
not been decided,
the officials said.
They said Bentsen
wished to discuss
the date with
Clinton.
Speaking to re
porters Monday,
Bentsen called re
ports of his depar
ture “premature.”
Administration officials
said Monday that
Treasury Secretary
LLOYD BENTSEN
plans to resign.
However, an administration official said
that Bentsen simply did not wish to have
the news of his departure come out on a
day when Clinton was out of the country.
Bentsen’s decision to resign was first
reported in today’s editions of the Wall
Street Journal, although it has been specu
lated upon for months.
Bentsen has been telling associates for
more than a year that he planned to leave
before the end of Clinton’s first term.
His value to the administration appeared
enhanced with the Nov. 8 GOP landslide
in Congress because of his past cordial
relations with some of the Republicans
who will take over in January.
Serbs Condemned for Not
Releasing Peacekeepers
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
The United Nations condemned Serb forces
Monday for reneging on their promised to
release hundreds of peacekeepers and
warned that food was running desperately
short in government-held enclaves.
Even news that Bosnian Serbs had
agreed to allow two civilian aid convoys to
pass through their territory Tuesday en
route to the towns of Srebrenica and
Gorazde was greeted cautiously.
In an uncharacteristically blunt assess
ment of U.N. operations in Bosnia, the
chiefU.N. political spokesman in Sarajevo
accused the Bosnian Serbs of “a deliber
ately designed, carefully calculated insult
against the United Nations, which can
only be allowed to pass at great cost."
Mexican Rebels Threaten
Government With Violence
TUXTLA GUTIERREZ, Mexico
Indian rebels warned anew on Monday
that southern Mexico could face another
“blood bath” if the country’s ruling party
installs its candidate as governor in the
rebel stronghold of Chiapas.
Subcomandante Marcos, spokesman of
the Zapatista National Liberation Army,
announced that he would hold a news
conference Tuesday, apparently to insist
that Governor-elect Eduardo Robledo
Rincon not take office this week.
The rebels charge voter fraud and main
tain the real winner of the gubernatorial
election was Amado Avendano of the left
ist Democratic Revolutionary Party and
not Robledo of the Institutional Revolu
tionary Party.
The inauguration is to be held in the
state capital, where police were preparing
heavy security.
Postal Service Considers
Stamps Honoring A-Bomb
WASHINGTON, D C. The State
Department, concerned about insulting
Japanese, is asking the U.S. Postal Service
to reconsider the planned stamp commemo
rating the atomic bombing of Hiroshima
and Nagasaki 50 years ago.
The stamp, due to be issued in Septem
ber, portrays a mushroom-shaped cloud
over the caption, “Atomic bombs hasten
war’s end, August 1945.”
Japanese officials have protested the
Postal Service plan, noting that tens of
thousands of nonmilitary Japanese were
killed in the bombings. They also com
plain that the caption ignores the view of
many that the bombings were morally un
justified and not essential to ending the
war.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Partly cloudy; high low 60s.
WEDNESDAY: Variably cloudy; high
mid- to upper 60s.
Search Will Now Follow Meetings Law
BYKARI COHEN
STAFF WRITER
Once entirely shrouded in secrecy, all
meetings of the UNC chancellor search
committee will now be announced to the
public in order to comply with the N.C.
Open Meetings Law, chancellor search
committee Chairman John Harris said in a
written statement Monday.
The statement noted that Harris had
spoken to University chief legal counsel
Susan Ehringhaus about the requirements
of the Open Meetings Law and that he was
acting based on her advice.
“Without in any way admitting that
any violation of the law has occurred in the
past, even an inadvertent one, I want to
assure the public that any future official
meetings of the committee will be pre
ceded by public notice.
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Students Can Receive
UNC ONE Card Credit
For Selling Back Books
BY CHRISTINA MASSEY
STAFF WRITER
Students running low on UNC ONE
Card expense account credit can replenish
their money supply just by getting rid of
their old textbooks.
Students Stores and the UNC ONE
Card office have announced a plan that
allows students to receive credit on their
ONE Card accounts instead of cash pay
ment when they resell their books to Stu
dent Stores.
ONE Card office Manager Jim Clinton
said Student Stores and the ONE Card
office were offering the credit option for
two reasons.
“First, we hope this will help students’
accounts;” he said. “Second, we feel this
will create less flow and less cash to be
handled by the textbook departments, add
ing an extra measure of security.”
GinaMahalek, Students Stores Course
Materials manager, said Monday that the
decision to offer ONE Card credit, which
will take effect at the start of buyback
Saturday, had been made in response to
student requests.
Administrators: Greek Affairs Dean Doing ‘lmpressive Job’
BYLEAHMERREY
STAFF WRITER
Director of Greek Affairs Ron Binder
has done an impressive job working with
the University’s fraternities and sororities,
Dean of Students Fred Schroeder said
Monday.
“We are delighted with his first several
months here at UNC,” Schroeder said.
He said that Binder had spent his first
semester with the University becoming
acquainted with the students involved in
the Greek system. “He’s been very well
Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it.
Jane Wagner
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6,1994
“My goal in taking this action is to
eliminate any cloud from the work of the
search committee and to put a stop to
efforts to detract from the committee’s abil
ity to carry out the (UNC-system)
president’s charge,” Harris’ statement said.
Ehringhaus said Monday that she could
not speak beyond Harris’ statement.
“It would not be appropriate to com
ment on this matter,” she said.
Harris was unavailable Monday for fur
ther comment.
The statement came after allegations
that the search committee had been violat
ing the state’s Open Meetings Law.
The Open Meetings Law, amended Oct.
1, states that all public bodies, including
University committees, must notify mem
bers of the public of the date and time of
their meetings 48 hours before they take
place.
All Played Out
Textbook
Buyback
Student Stores will only buy back books
during the following times. Credit can
then be added to UNC ONE Card
expense accounts.
Dec. 10 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Dec. 11 Ip.m. to 5 p.m.
Dec. 12 to Dec. 16 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m.
Dec. 17 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
When students go to Student Stores to
sell their books, they will be given a voucher
they can present to the ONE Card office
during normal business hours to receive
credit to their expense accounts only,
Clinton said.
Students can still receive cash payments
for selling their books, receiving vouchers
for cash redeemable in the Textbook De
partment, he said.
Clinton said he believed that the credit
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received,” he said.
Binder became the director of Greek
affairs July 1. He oversees the entire UNC
Greek system, which includes 28 fraterni
ties and 14 sororities.
Binder was unavailable for comment
Monday.
“The risk-management program has
been a main focus of Binder’s agenda; (it)
was initially implemented three years ago, ’’
Schroeder said.
Risk-management policies exist to pro
tect Greek organizations from lawsuits
resulting from alcohol-related incidents that
Dick Robinson, legal adviser to UNC
system President C.D. Spangler, said he
had no knowledge of the workings of the
committee and had never been asked for
any advice.
“I know nothing about the issue,”
Robinson said. “Mr. Spangler generally
meets with a search committee to set out
general principles and expectations of the
committee.
“I know that he met with this commit
tee, but I do not know what was said
because I was never a part of the process. ”
Spangler could not be reached for com
ment.
According to Katherine White of the
Raleigh-based Everett, Gaskins, Hancock
and Stevens law firm, the committee ap
peared not to have been following the pub
lic notification guidelines established by
the Open Meetings Law.
Finance Committee Subpoenas
18 to Testify in Investigation
BYPETER ROYBAL
STAFF WRITER
Student Body President George Battle
said Monday that he might not testify be
fore the Student Congress Finance Com
mittee in its investigation of congress and
the executive branch.
“I’m probably not going to testify be
cause I think that this thing is basically a
witch hunt,” he said.
“If they’re really concerned about fi
nances in the executive branch, ask the
auditor at (the Student Activities Fund
Office) to audit our books. We don’t have
anything to hide.”
SAFO distributes the money congress
allocates.
But finance committee Chairman Tom
Lyon, who was recently the target of an
investigation ordered by Battle, said those
subpoenaed had a duty to the student body
to appear.
“If they want to play power games and
hinder an investigation, then that’s their
choice, and it’s sure as hell not going to
help their case,” Lyon said.
“I think that shows they have some
thing to hide.”
Lyon said testimony would take place
at 7 p.m. Jan. 8 and 9 in T-5 New Carroll.
can be traced back to fraternities or sorori
ties.
Risk-management guidelines include
prohibiting the use of chapter funds or
common collections to purchase alcohol
for Greek events as well as forbidding open
containers of alcohol at fraternity or soror
ity functions.
Will Warrick, president of the Interfra
temity Council, said Monday that the IFC
was currently in the process of helping
Binder define what his agenda would be at
UNC.
“We’re trying to define his role accord
When asked about Harris’ statement on
Monday, White commended the commit
tee chairman.
“I think it’s wonderful that he took this
action,” White said. “That brings them
into compliance with the Open Meetings
Law.”
White said none of the firm’s clients had
requested further action against the com
mittee.
N.C. Press Association attorney Hugh
Stevens, also of the Everett, Gaskins,
Hancock and Stevens law firm, said he
wrote a letter to Ehringhaus on Monday
requesting that the search committee pro
vide the public with the following:
■ Announcements of future meetings;
■ All minutes taken during the search
committee’s nine months of work, remov
ing any information that would identify
the candidates, to expose the committee’s
OWASA Almost Finished
With Equipment Repair
BY JOE REYNOLDS
STAFF WRITER
The Orange Water and Sewer Author
ity is nearing completion of repairs to its
water treatmentplantonJonesFerry Road.
The plant experienced a major equip
ment failure Nov. 28 when the main elec
trical switch gearmalfunctioned. OWASA
received anew gear switch Wednesday
and began installing it Thursday.
Of the six water pumps the gear switch
operates, two were connected over the
weekend, two were connected Monday
and the last two should be connected by
Wednesday, said Linda Faulkner-Vaughn,
director of customer and community af
fairs at OWASA.
“We had originally expected to have
everything installed by Saturday, but the
company ran into some unexpected diffi
culties,” Faulkner-Vaughn said.
The last two pumps are working off
auxiliary power until they are reconnected
to the gear switch Wednesday, she said.
“By Friday, we should have all the pumps
working off the new gear switch.”
OWASA contracted Viaelectric, a con
tractorbased inMadison, to install the new
gear switch and reconnect the pumps.
Faulkner-Vaughn described a gear
switch as the main throw switch that cuts
the plant’s power on and off. “It diverts the
electricity to the different components of
List of Subpoenaed Witnesses for Student
Congress Finance Committee Investigation
George Battle, 111, student body president
Charlton Allen, former member of the Battle administration
Meredith Armstrong, Student Congress speaker pro tempore
Howard Brubaker, Student Activities Fund Office director
Monica Cloud, speaker of Student Congress
Lee Conner, student body co-secretary
Calvin Cunningham 111, executive branch assistant chief-of-staff
John Dervin, senior adviser to the student body president
Roy Granato, congress ethics committee chairman
Jonathan Jordan, former speaker pro tempore
Trong Nguyen, Student Congress representative
Jill Page, clerk of Student Congress
Donyell Phillips, student body vice president
Philip Charles-Pierre. executive branch chief of staff
Wayne Rash, student body treasurer
Katie Scheffel, student body co-secretary
Tara Servatius. former finance committee member
Darice Witherspoon, parking coordinator
“We’re just trying to find out facts about
certain financial things that may or may
not have happened,” he said.
Lyon noted that he had testified for 21 /
2 hours before the investigation Battle or
ing to the bylaws of the IFC and the judicial
board,” he said.
Warrick said that Binder had educated
the houses about risk management. “He’s
also done a good job of getting Greek
activities publicized,” he said.
A member of Phi Gamma Delta frater
nity who asked to remain anonymous said
Monday that Binder had been focusing
more on the enforcement of existing poli
cies than on the implementation of new
ones.
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organization and procedures;
■ Travel and expense records; and
■ The clerk’s name, to help the public
gain access to information about the search.
Stevens said he was encouraged by
Harris’ Monday press release statement,
adding that the NCPA was still waiting to
determine whether litigation might be nec
essary.
If the issue were to go to court, it would
likely be resolved quickly, he said.
Stevens said that under the new Open
Meetings Law, as amended in October, the
court is required to give priority to cases
like this one.
If the committee releases all of this in
formation, it would enable members of the
public to understand what the committee
has been accomplishing up until this point
and to get a sense of the possible duration
of its work.
the facility,” she said.
OWASA has had to pump water in
from water suppliers in Durham and
Hillsborough to make up for the water
shortage caused by the breakdown.
The supply from Hillsborough was cut
off last week after a major break in
OWASA’s water line. OWASA has al
ready begun repairing the break, which is
located near the Orange County Prison
Camp off Old N.C. 86.
“By that time, there wasn’t as big a need
for the water,” Faulkner-Vaughn said.
OWASA has also brought in 3 million
gallons of water per day from Durham
water supply and treatment. “This will
continue until we are sure that they (the
pumps) are working well,” Faulkner-
Vaughn said.
“This time of year, the demand for wa
ter is 8 million or so gallons per day,” she
said. “When it’s cooler, people aren’t us
ing as much water."
Faulkner-Vaughn said that to receive
water from Durham, OWASA was paying
an amount equal to 75percentofDurham’s
outside rate averaged with OWASA’s rate
for the use of the water. “This comes out to
$2.26 per thousand gallons, which is slightly
higher than our rate,” she said.
Faulkner-Vaughn said a few customers
had called complaining about a cloudy
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dered.
But Battle said the investigation he had
called for had been different because it had
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