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Volume 102, Issue 129
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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Southern California Floods
Force Many From Homes
LOS ANGELES Mud oozed from
the hiDs as an inch-an-hour deluge swamped
Southern California roadways and neigh
borhoods Tuesday, forcing people to leave
homes and abandon cars mired in win
dowsill-deep water. Helicopters plucked
some homeless people and others from the
rushing water.
Forecasters said they foresaw no real
break all week in the wet weather pattern
that has forced thousands of evacuations
and brought havoc to northern and south
ern California and Oregon.
Three deaths were blamed on trees and
power lines falling on vehicles, one in
Monterey County, one in Sonoma County
and one in southwestern Oregon. One
homeless man said he had watched a friend
being washed away in the Los Angeles
area.
Chechen Cease-Fire Fails,
Mass Fighting Continues
GROZNY, Russia Chechen rebels
scrambled Tuesday to bury comrades'
white-shrouded corpses and reinforce their
presidential palace during a cease-fire that
collapsed in hours, heralding more fight
ing ahead.
The proposed4B-hour truce, announced
by Moscow early Tuesday, was designed
to allow both sides to gather dead and
wounded while civilians fled Grozny.
But it proved a fleeting pause in the
battle for file Chechen capital, devastated
by a monthlong siege and 11 days of a
Russian ground attack launched to quell a
secessionist uprising.
Sniper fire sounded throughout the
truce, which crumbled after four hours
when salvos of Russian artillery slammed
into the city center. Each side immediately
blamed the other.
Strong Earthquake Rocks
The Southern China Coast
HONG KONG—An earthquake with
a magnitude of 6.2 struck Tuesday off the
coast of southern China, the second quake
to hit the area in less than two weeks.
A dispatch by China’s official Xinhua
News Agency mentioned no casualties. It
said residents described the shaking as more
violent than a quake in the same area Dec.
31.
That quake, also with a magnitude of
6.2, injured 50 people.
Tuesday’s quake in the Gulf of Tonkin
was recorded at 6:11 p.m. and was cen
tered 74 miles west-northwest of the coastal
city ofHaikou on Hainan Island, the Royal
Hong Kong Observatory said.
It said some Hong Kong residents had
felt the 30-second tremor.
A quake with a magnitude of 6 can
cause heavy damage in populated areas.
Serb Forces Vow to Open
Sarajevan Access Roads
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnian Serbs promised Tuesday to end
their blockade of Sarajevo, lending an up
beat note to a day when new fighting and
diplomatic conflict threatened a lasting
truce.
The Serbs, however, continued to de
mand that the government army vacate
key positions overlooking Sarajevo. The
unspoken threat was clear: Even if the
Serbs keep their promise, they can block
ade Sarajevo anew unless their demands
are met.
If the Serbs open roads linking Sarajevo
with other government-held territory, they
would be meeting some terms of a planned
four-month truce signed Dec. 31.
Israelis Launch Campaign
To Expand Settlements
ELKANA, West Bank Jewish set
tlers launched an expansion campaign
Tuesday in the occupied West Bank, fac
ing off against the army and Palestinian
demonstrators in a fight that threatens to
further disrupt peace talks.
In Jerusalem, Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin said Israel wanted to keep key areas
of the West Bank in addition to Jerusalem
as part of any final agreement with the
Palestinians.
Tractors started leveling about seven
acres of land near Elkana in the northern
West Bank for what settlers said would be
anew neighborhood, although it is about a
mile from Elkana.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Partly cloudy; high mid-50s.
THURSDAY: Mostly cloudy; high
low 60s.
NCAA to Debate 30-Day Rule
College Coaches, Pro Scouts
Say Underclassmen Hurt
By Basketball Return Clause
BYJACSONLOWE
SENIOR WRITER
North CarolinaheadcoachMackßrown
lost two talented players Monday when
Curtis Johnson and Greg Black decided to
make themselves eligible for the NFL draft.
Due to NCAA
rules, the deci
sion disallows
the two from re-
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turning for their senior season, no matter
the results of the draft.
There’s another head coach at UNC
who has some pretty talented underclass
men competing on the hardwood, and
they have NBA scouts and agents chomping
at file bit.
However, thanks to an exemption
passed at last year’s NCAA convention,
Dean Smith may not lose Rasheed Wallace
or Jerry Stackhouse if they decide to de
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Kelvin Hildreth of the Harlem Globetrotters helps Robert Cordo, 7, of Chapel Hill during a relay
race at the YMCA on Tuesday. Hildreth taught ball-handling skills, which the children got to
practice during the race.
Future of UNC Land Use
Discussed at Public Forum
BY DEAN HAIR
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The Public-Private Partnership of
Chapel Hill sponsored a community fo
rum Tuesday night to discuss the
University’s plans for its Horace Williams
and Mason Farm tracts.
The comments regarding the 1,356-acre
Mason Farm tract and the 970-acre Horace
Williams tract were made at the Friday
Center. The forum included members of
the University administration, local gov
ernments and the public.
“The purpose of the planning effort is
that UNC and UNC Hospitals have been
growing and they are running out of room, ”
said Bruce Runberg, associate vice chan
cellor.
“The outlying properties are significant
and need to be planned in an intelligent
manner.”
Last night’s forum was the second in a
series of six that are dispersed between
each of the five phases of Michigan firm
Johnson, Johnson and Roy Inc. 's land-use
framework plan.
Richard Rigterink, project manager of
JJR, believes the forums are very impor
tant means for the public and the Univer-
dare their professional eligibility—unless
some folks out on the West coast get their
way.
New legislation, sponsored by each
member of the Pacific 10 Conference, has
been introduced at this week’s NC AA con
vention in San Diego to rescind the rule
that allows players to return to college 30
days after the draft if they are not happy
with where they are drafted or are passed
over.
The exception to NCAA rule 12.2.4.2
which prohibits a player to return to
college after declaring professional inten
tions states:
“A student-athlete in the sport of bas
ketball may enter a professional league’s
draft one time during his or her collegiate
career without jeopardizing eligibility in
that sport, provided the student-athlete
declares his or her intention to resume
intercollegiate participation within 30 days
after the draft.”
According to PAC-10 Assistant Com
missioner Jim Muldoon, the exception that
was passed one year ago today has good
intentions, but those intentions aren’t nec
essarily getting met.
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sity to convey information to the consult
ing firm.
“We are beginning to pool information
for the next phase,” Rigterink said. “We
are going to find developmental and
nondevelopmental areas as well as locate
sensible natural environmental areas to be
identified as resources to be considered.”
The University does not have any pre
conceived ideas about these properties, ne
said.
“There are no bulldozers sitting idle
waiting to develop,” Rigterink said.
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Beth Barnes
Chapel Hal. North Caroliaa
WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 11,1995
“The intended
spirit of the original
rule is not what our
coaches are op
posed to,” Muldoon
said. “The thing
that’s not working
well is it’s not giv
ing enough leverage
the players are
still tied to file team
that drafts them. It’s
also hard to recruit
playersnot knowing
who’s going to be
back.”
According to the
1995 NCAA Con-
vention Legislative Proposals Handbook,
the PAC-10 members have two major gripes
with the legislation as it now stands. They
feel if a player decides to enter the NBA
draft, which takes place in late June, it does
not leave them adequate time to recruit
other incoming players.
Their second point says that the as
sumption a student-athlete will not use an
agent in the draft process is “naive.” This
Faculty Down on Upper-Level Dome Seats
BY CHRISTINA MASSEY
STAFF WRITER
Anew system for distributing basket
ball tickets to faculty and staff is shaking
things up a bit for the slightly older basket
ball fans on campus.
While they won’t be camping out in
order to get their Smith Center seats, some
faculty members have voiced complaints
about the new system.
Underthenewseatingplan, faculty and
stafftickets are distributed randomly rather
than by position in the University as they
were in the past, said Frederick Mueller,
chairman of the faculty committee on ath
letics. “The formula for seating changed,”
he said. “Before, rank was considered in
determining seats. For example, if you
were a full professor, you had better seats
than a secretary. Now, rank is no longer a
part of the formula, and a full professor has
equal seating status to a secretary."
The change in seating status has led to
complaints from faculty members who lost
their more desirable seats, Mueller said.
“Some people who sat downstairs
moved up, and some people moved farther
back,” he said. “Asa result, some people
have complained, especially those who
lost their downstairs seats. ”
All complaints were directed to Daren
Lucas, the Smith Center ticket manager,
Mueller said. “I have heard no complaints
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week, representative’s from all threeNCAA
divisions will vote on the matter, and if a
majority agrees with the rationale, the rule
will be rescinded.
“The law originally came from the Pro
fessional Sports-Liaison Committee,” said
Steve Lyons, an NCAA legislation repre
sentative. “They think it provides the stu
dent-athlete the opportunity to access the
draft and gives them the right to determine
their market value without losing their
eligibility.”
Last year, only two underclassmen of
the 12 drafted decided to use the rule.
Minnesota’s Voshon Lenard, drafted 46th
overall by Milwaukee, and Georgia’s
Charles Claxton, taken by Phoenix as the
50th pick, both returned to school this
year.
Milwaukee head coach Mike Dunleavy
encouraged Lenard to return for his senior
season instead of settling for a minimum
contract of $150,000. According to some
people involved in the pro ranks, it’s a no
lose situation for the NBA.
“You can look at it two ways: You can
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DEAN SMITH hopes
the NCAA keeps the
rule that allows
underclassmen to
return to school after
declaring for the draft.
Hoopster Thrills
Kids, Adults Alike
BYRYAN THORNBURG
CITY EDITOR
The Harlem Globetrotters are in town. Not only to trounce
their traditional rivals, The Washington Generals, but to encour
age local youth “to score a slam dunk in life.”
Kelvin Hildreth spoke to a group of about 50 youngsters from
the Volunteers for Youth Program and the Chapel Hill YMCA’s
Pine Knolls Afterschool Program Tuesday night at the YMCA on
Airport Road.
From 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Hildreth showed the kids and
their parents a small sample from the Globetrotters’ bag of tricks.
“You call them tricks, we call them ball-handling skills,”
Hildreth said.
Carolyn Harris brought her 8-year-old son, Chris, to see the
famous hoopster but said she was just as excited as he was to see
a Globetrotter perform live. “I grew up with the Harlem
Globetrotters,” she said.
Harris said that her son was a big fan ofthe NBA but that he was
not yet very familiar with the Globetrotters. Still, Chris could not
wait for Hildreth’s arrival, she said.
“All week he’s been asking, ‘ls today the day?”’ Harris said.
Chris wasn’t the only one who was more familiar with Tar Heel
stars of the last decade than with members of the Globetrotters, a
team that has been around since 1927.
“On the back of your shirt, is that 23?” asked 7-year-old
Kenneth Jones, referring to Michael Jordan’s number.
Hildreth came to Chapel Hill not only to show off anew trick
shothe’sbeen practicing (a shot on which he needs more practice)
but also to encourage children to stay in school and stay away
from drugs.
“The real reason I’m here is not just because I do tricks,” he
said. “One of the true reasons I came to North Carolina is that I
knew I could talk to young people. That's what I believe I was put
on earth to do.”
Scotti Cowan, resource development director for the United
Way of Greater Orange County, said the Globetrotters often
made community presentations when they played in a city with a
United Way branch. She said the Greater Orange County United
Way had set up the program with the Chapel Hill YMCA.
“The Globetrotters have a partnership with the United Way,”
Cowan said. “They believe in community service, and they
believe in children.”
Hildreth also spoke earlier in the day at Chapel Hill High
School. He spoke to a group offreshman and sophomore students
about why was involved with the community and the United
Way, Cowan said.
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personally, but I do know that all com
plaints were sent to the ticket manager.”
Lucas could not be reached for com
ment Tuesday.
Townsend Ludington, a member of the
faculty committee on athletics, said the
change in seating status had been made
primarily to benefit the staff. “We changed
the seating in order to help the staff in their
interests to have better seating,” he said.
Mueller also said that the change had
been made to give staff members more
privileges. “We are trying to equalize pri
orities between faculty and staff,” he said.
Ludington said the new seating changes
were not drastic, all complaints to the con
trary. “We went back to the formula used
five years ago, before seniority became the
issue,” he said. “By and large, people did
not suffer to a great degree. In fact, some
faculty members have the same seats as
before, and to my knowledge only 15 to 20
people have actually complained.”
Ludington said he felt the faculty com
mittee had handled this situation as well as
itcould. “There is no perfect answer to this
problem,” he said. “We decided to let the
staff have some of the same advantages as
the faculty, and I think that was a good
decision. Everyone has to bend a little and
give a little, but people can still see the
basketball game.”
Jane Brown, chairwoman of the Fac
ulty Council, said that she thought very
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Moves to
End Probe
BY ADAM GUSMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Members of the executive branch said
they planned to file a complaint in the
Student Supreme Court today seeking a
permanent end to the Student Congress
Finance Committee’s investigation of their
financial records.
Executive branch leaders said Tuesday
that they thought a recently completed
annual audit of the student government
records had proved the soundness of their
financial dealings.
“If an independent auditor says we’re
clean, then I trust him more than (finance
committee Chairman) Tom Lyon or any
one else,” Student Body Co-secretary Lee
Conner said.
Student Body President George Battle
said, “It only makes sense to have an audi
tor who is not part of the executive branch
or of student gov
ernment and is paid
to do nothing but
look at finances.”
Lyon and Kevin
Hunter, legal coun
sel to the finance
committee’s investi
gation, had
searched through
the executive
branch’s books
themselves before
the semester break.
Lyon said the
questions raised by
his investigation
were unanswered
by the independent
Student Body
President GEORGE
BATTLE says an
independent auditor,
not the finance
committee, should look
at finances,
audit. “It has nothing to do with our inves
tigation, which has nothing to do with
whether numbers match up,” he said. “It
has to do with the allocation and disburse
ment of funds.”
Lyon said the Student Supreme Court
had no jurisdiction over the finance com
mittee because they did not pass laws but
simply made recommendations to the full
congress.
The complaint filed by the executive
branch contains three major points: con
tinuation of the temporary restraining or
der against the investigation, a permanent
injunction forbidding such an investiga
tion and a written opinion on the legality of
a similar investigation in the future.
Several executive branch members said
they thought investigations of the type
Lyon’s committee had organized were
beyond thescope ofthe finance committee’s
powers.
“The finance committee is really out of
their realm when they’re not debating dol
lar amounts but processes,” said Philip
Charles-Pierre, Battle’s chief of staff.
“Whenbills are signed and how bills are
processed are matters that the rules and
judiciary committee would investigate,”
Conner said.
Conner cited the role of the finance
committee as defined by the Student Gov
ernment Code: “The finance committee
shall consider legislation pertaining to the
generation and allocation of funds and the
establishment of budgets.”
Conner also disputed Lyon’s narlier
claim that the investigation was n, 'eg
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few faculty members had received worse
seats than usual. “As far as I can tell, only
a few faculty were affected dramatically,”
Brown said. “There’s always some move
ment every year.”
Brown also said that she did not con
sider faculty seating at basketball games to
be a serious issue in need of attention.
Jeff Elliott, associate athletic director,
said the decision to alter faculty seating
status was made last year by the faculty
committee on athletics and the Smith Cen
ter ticket manager. “We rely completely
on what the faculty committee on athletics
tells us,” he said. “They met with Daren
Lucas, the ticket manager, last year and
jointly decided to change faculty seating,
causing some faculty members to sit far
ther from the court than before.”
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