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®lu' latlg (Far Itol J® Volume 102, Issue 135 101 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Russian Government Takes Hold of Palace at Grozny GROZNY, Russia Russian troops drove Chechen fighters from the presiden tial palace Thursday and hoisted Russia’s flag over what remained of the rebels’ stronghold and symbol of their defiance. While the victory in Chechnya’s capital was a rare boost for Russian morale in the five-week-old war, rebel fighters said it only signaled anew guerilla phase of their campaign to win independence from Mos cow. They abandoned the charred, smoking skeleton of the palace and also pulled back from the train station, another base of their resistance in the center of Grozny. Chechens deny the palace had much military significance and promise to de fend their capital inch by inch. 6.5 Magnitude Earthquake Strikes Eastern Colombia BOGOTA, Colombia An earth quake with a preliminary magnitude of at least 6.5 rocked Colombia on Thursday, killing at least one person and damaging buildings in several cities. The quake, centered in eastern Colombia’s sparsely populated plains, was felt some 550 miles away in Caracas, Ven ezuela. With news reports of Japan’s massive quake on Tuesday still making headlines, nerves were on edge. Hundreds of people bolted out of swaying buildings in Colombia’s capital. Initial reports were that damage was light. The quake registered a preliminary magnitude of 6.5 at its epicenter in Tauramena, 90 miles east of Bogota. GM Truck Factory Shuts Down on 2nd Day of Strike FLINT, Mich. A strike at a General Motors Corp. parts plant began to ripple through the No. 1 automaker’s assembly operations Thursday, forcing the shutdown of a truck factory. As negotiators tried to end the contract dispute in Flint that could cripple GM production nationwide, the automaker sent home day-shift workers at its Pontiac East truck plant and canceled later shifts for lack of parts. Other GM plants could be forced to close by early next week as parts run out, said Joseph Phillippi, an analyst for Lehman Brothers in New York. The shutdown at Pontiac East added 3,100 workers to 6,800 strikers idled by the walkout that began Wednesday at GM’s AC Delco Flint East parts complex. Japan Quake Death Count Reaches More Than 4,000 KOBE, Japan Swiss rescue dogs helped find bodies as the earthquake death toll swelled past 4,000 Thursday, and the bark of a pet led to one old man’s salvation after more than two icy days in the wreck age. New fires burst out around the shat tered city, and firefighters’ efforts to douse them were stymiedby crushed water mains. With government relief efforts falling far short of victims’ needs, thousands more gave up hope of finding food and shelter and joined the stream of residents aban doning the city on foot. By early today, confirmed deaths to taled 4,047, making Tuesday’s 7.2 magni tude earthquake the worst in Japan in more than 70 years. Yugoslavian Truce Falling Apart With More Fighting SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina More than 400 shells rained down in just four hours Thursday near a northwestern Bosnian town, illustrating that the latest cease-fire has done as little as countless previous truces to stop the fighting. Trouble was reported along several other fronts. Elsewhere, heavy snow appeared to be doing as much to silence guns as U.N. peacekeepers and foreign mediators. U.N. spokesman Paul Risley said more than 400 detonations were reported be tweenßa.m. and noon near VelikaKladusa in far northwestern Bosnia, a chronic trouble spot during a truce that went into effect Jan. 1 and was meant to last four months. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Variably cloudy; high 50. SATURDAY: Partly cloudy; high mid 60s. SUNDAY: Partly cloudy; high upper 40s. UNC Lands SSSM Contract Medical School Program Aims to Improve Health Care in Developing Nations BY ADAM GUSMAN UNIVERSITY EDITOR The University announced Thursday that it had received a $55 million contract with the federal government the largest in UNC’s history. The U.S. Agency for International De velopment selected the INTRAH program at the School of Medicine to receive fund ing for efforts to improve health care ser vices in developing countries throughout the world. INTRAH is an acronym for the Pro gram for International T raining and Health. “This award signals the enormous re spect and stature that the INTRAH pro 'kJkdMSmr “ ff ]n jH imp w ■ * *' v f ,#l/1 Mi I 4 Ijjj |§ & ilfjv. ffrii A Quest for Empowerment Giving women more control over their health and well-being BYELLENFLASPOEHLER STAFF WRITER Growing up in Medellin, Colombia, Cecelia Zapata saw examples every day of the social constraints placed on women. In countless neighbors’ and friends’ homes, boys were given power positions and young girls couldn’t dream past the roles defined for them in society. Zapata’s family was different. “I was lucky to be bom to a family believing all children are equal regardless of sex,” Zapata said. Joint SBP Violates Student Code, 1991 Chief Justice Said BYKATHRYN TAYLOR STAFF WRITER The two pairs of students who have each declared their intention to run as co candidates for the student body presidency could face the possibility that their cam paigns could be deemed unconstitutional as the spring elections approach. Two students attempted a similar co candidacy for the student body presidency in 1991 before their campaign was in formally declared unconstitutional under the Student Government Code. Students Matt Heyd and Mark Bibbs considered running together StudeM^ Bodwjf for the office in 1991 until then-Student Supreme Court Chief Justice Asa Ball told them a joint presidency would violate the code, said Bibbs, now a member of the UNC-system Board of Governors. “Matt and I considered the idea and had a good deal of support to run as co-presi dents,” he said. "We asked the chief jus tice, and in his opinion, [running together] was unconstitutional because of Article 3, Section I of the code, which states that the executive power shall be vested in a presi dent of the student body.” Love is the only disease that makes you feel better. Sam Shepard Chapel Hill. North ColiM FRIDAY, JANUARY 20,1995 gram has earned,” said H. Garland Hershey, vice chancellor for health affairs. “It will clearly indicate to the national and international community the respect that scholars and investigators in interna tional health have for our INTRAH pro gram, our medical school and our Univer sity at Chapel Hill,” he said. Under the direction of James Lea, par ticipants in the program have worked for 15 years training primary providers of health services in almost 40 countries. INTRAH works with local agencies in identifying ways to improve health ser vices in areas such as reproductive health, infant care, and prevention of HTV, AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases. “More men and women worldwide will be able to receive high-quality reproduc tive health care where and when they want to receive it,” Lea said Thursday at a press conference. USAID has named the global outreach “My sister and I were treated the same as the boys. We could be the most charming, delicate children or the toughest.” Recognizing the difference between her family and others she encountered, Zapata knew early on that she wanted to work with women. Women’s health issues became her focus when she saw women die as a result of childbirth and saw their deaths being seen as natural because they died fulfilling a role society gave to being a mother. Her early vision and years of fighting for what she believed in brought Zapata to her current situation as an assistant professor in the Department ofMatemal Bibbs said the decision had been based on the code’s reference to the president in the singular rather than the plural form. “There is no room for interpretation of any other meaning for the word ‘a’—even the broadest interpretation would not al low for two student body presidents,” he said. Bibbs said that although there had been no case tried before the court and no for mal ruling made, he believed the decision was valid. “We felt that if we took it to court we would definitely lose because there wasn’t a sufficient legal basis for us to win,” he said. Bibbs, who withdrew from the election following Ball’s informal ruling, said he still believed a co-presidency would be unconstitutional under the code. Student Congress Speaker Pro Tem Meredith Armstrong said that although she did not want to discourage anyone from running for office, having co-student body presidents would create several prob lems that had not yet been accounted for. “I think it’s an innovative idea, but running as co-presidents is tricky because the code is geared toward one student body president and not two,” she said. Armstrong said the Student Congress would not be able to pass legislation as See SBP, Page 2 program PRIME because primary care providers are the main beneficiaries of the training and the financial assistance. The contract is a five-year grant that will greatly expand INTRAH’s existing pro grams, Lea said. “This is an extension of the long tradi tion of outreach at the University,” he said. He described PRIME as a globally scaled version of the statewide Area Health Edu cation Centers program based here at the University. AHEC already has contributed to a sig nificant decrease in the state’s infant mor tality, Lea said. And what program partici pants learn from their experiences abroad will be applicable here in North Carolina, he said. The funding will almost triple INTRAH’s budget, which is currently roughly $4 million a year, and the increase in funding will allow INTRAH to increase its staff from 36 people to about 50, he said. and Child Health in UNC’s School of Public Health. And recently, Dr. Zapata was honored for her contributions to promoting and improving women’s health when she received the Torchbearers and Trail blazers Recognition Award from N.C. Equity’s Women of Color Program. “I was very honored to receive the award,” Zapata said, “not only because it was from N.C. Equity but also because I was awarded it along with 27 other women, and it made me proud to be with such other wonderful women.” See HERO, Page 4 Your Handy Guide to Campus Elections BY ANDREW RUSSELL STAFF WRITER Mark it down! Right next to the big, red heart. The 1995 campus elections will be held Feb. 14, and this is your unofficial guide to the election process. We’ll just call it, “Ev erything you wanted to know about the campus elections but were afraid to ask.” ■ What offices will candidates be run ning for? Students will elect candidates for a num ber of offices: student body president, Carolina Athletic Association president, Graduate and Professional Student Fed eration president, Residence Hall Associa tion president, senior class officers and Student Congress representatives for all 23 districts. ■ Who is eligible to run for office? To be eligible, a candidate must be a duly registered, fee-paying student who is not on probation. They must be a constitu ent of the office for which they are running by the beginning of the fall 1995 semester. No student may run for Student Congress if he or she has filed for graduation, nor may astudentrunformore than one office simultaneously. Lea said they would begin programs in countries such as South Africa, which was off-limits as recently as several years ago, as well as the former Soviet Union and Vietnam, where American influence had not been welcomed. In some countries, INTRAH will pur chase, deliver, and install basic clinical equipment and supplies. Lea said that only 70 to 90 percent of medical care in developing countries was obtained at hospitals. “Hospitals are, at best, fourth on the list of where people go for health care,” he said. During the next five years, Lea said that PRIME expected to train 121,000 people in 25 countries. Faculty, staff and graduate students from the UNC schools ofmedicine, public health and education will work with several inter national organizations, including the World Bank, the World Health Organiza tion and U.N. agencies. tfimillillnll A weekly series highlighting Chapel Hill heroes Name: Cecelia Zapata Birthdate: Aug. 26,1949 Birthplace: Medellin, Colombia Occupation: Assistant professor. Department of Maternal and Child Health, School of Public Health Hobbies: Movies, music Community Involvement: Public Health Association co chairwoman for In the Spirit of 1849; community work with local Latin American communi ties; helped to organize La Fiesta del Pueblo Life's Philosophy: "Everyone has the right to have the chance to have a decent life and to contribute the best that they can, according to their abilities, to the well-being of humanity." Dr. Cecelia Zapata was inspired to join the health profession through her observations growing up in Colombia. DTH/CHRIS GAYDOSH ■ What exactly are these things that people keep asking me to sign? Petitions are required of any potential candidate who wishes to have his or her name on the ballot. Petitions must be signed by the candidate and the required number of other duly registered, fee-paying stu dents who are constituents of the office for which the candidate is running. Five hundred signatures are needed for candidates running for president of the student body or of the CAA. The candi dates for senior class president and vice president need a combined 150 signatures on their petition. RHA presidential candidates are also required to have 150, while GPSF presi dential candidates need 50 signatures. Stu dents running for seats in Student Con gress must acquire 25 signatures. All peti tions are due in Suite C by 5 p.m. Jan. 31. Students may only sign one petition for each office unless there are two seats avail able in a particular district. Petitions must include the candidate’s full legal name, as well as any nickname that he or she wants to appear on the ballot. Candidates for senior class president and vice president will be listed separately on the ballot unless all candidates vote to run as pairs. News/Features/Aits/Sports 962-0245 Business/ Advertising 962-1163 O 1994 DTH Publishing Coip. AH rights reserved. I nll w DTH/KATIE CANNON Dr. ALVIN POUSSAINT, a Harvard Medical School dean, at a media session Thursday Poussaint Delivers Keynote Author, Race Relations Expert Lectures on the Legacy of MLK’s Dream BYBETH GLENN STAFF WRITER “No society can function if its people only think of what’s in it for me. That’s why the anthem of the civil rights move ment was ‘We Shall Overcome,’ with the emphasis on ‘we.’” Dr. Alvin Poussaint, Harvard Medical School dean, clinical professor of psychia try, and author of “Why Blacks Killßlacks” and “Raisingßlack Children” spoke Thurs day at Memorial Hall on “Black America’s Responsibility to Keep the Dream Alive.” Poussaint counseled minorities to stop letting other groups divide them and to learn to see others’ point of view. “In carrying on the legacy of King’s dream, activist students should lead peers to form alliances with other racial, ethnic and reli gious groups. Unless people continually get together across boundaries to hash out our problems, there will be no progress. “As Americans, we’re still very trapped in individualism. We think we made things happen by ourselves, but no one made it by themselves. Individualism carried to the extreme can be malignant. Martin Luther King reached out continually to pull new people in to work with the movement, ” he said. Poussaint drewparallels between King’s struggle and that of modem activists, not ing that King displayed courage in the face of intense opposition. “We think the entire nation was marching behind Dr. King, but that’s not true. He had criticism from all sides. He took stumbling blocks and made them into stepping stones. “If it’s change, ifit’s revolutionary, ifit’s something that means you’re taking power away from its normal site, there will be counterforces working against you,” he See POUSSAINT, Page 2 ■ Where can I vote? The Elections Board has proposed six poll sites. They are tentatively planned for Union 208-209, the Health Sciences Li brary, Hanes Art Center and Chase Cafete ria. A poll site at the School of Law will be restricted to law students only, and a Granville Cafeteria site will accommodate only Granville Towers residents. Poll sites will be open from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., with the exception of the law school and the Health Sciences Library, which will close at 5 p.m. At its meeting Wednes day, Congress will either approve or reject the sites suggested by the Elections Board. Ahoy, Politicos! The DTH Is once again gearing up for its election coverage. Candidates for major of fices - student body president and presi dents of the senior class, CAA RHA and GPSF - must notify us by 5 p.m. Wednesday. Candidates should contact University Edi tor Adam Gusman or Editor Kelly Ryan at 962-0245 to set up an interview and a photo shoot Student Congress candidate notifica tion deadlines will be announced next week Let the games begin!
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