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(Tbr Sailg ®ar itol J? Volume 102, Issue 144 101 years ofeditorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Clinton Chooses Tennessee Dean for Surgeon General WASHINGTON, D.C. Dr. Henry Foster Jr., a medical school leader known for fighting teenage pregnancy in Tennes see, is President Clinton’s choice for sur geon general, officials said Wednesday. Foster, 61, former acting president of a predominantly black medical school, will replace Dr. Joycelyn Elders, an outspoken Arkansas pediatrician who was fired in December after saying schoolchildren should be taught about masturbation. White House aides, speaking on condi tion of anonymity, said the announcement was scheduled for today. They said Foster would lead a national campaign to combat teenage pregnancy. Foster was director ofMeharry Medical College’s “I Have A Future Program,” aimed at delaying sexual activity among teenagers by building their self-esteem, developing job skills, and teaching sexual responsibility, self-control and how to deal with conflicts in relationships. Foster, a Nashville obstetrician-gyne cologist, founded the program seven years ago in two of the city’s public housing developments with start-up money from the Carnegie Foundation. It has grown to serve about 150 youths each week. Clinton, in his State of the Union ad dress, called teenage pregnancy the nation’s most serious social problem and uiged parents and community leaders to join a national campaign “to make a difference." Aides say the campaign will involve few new initiatives, but Clinton hopes to get more people interested in the issue. Violence Counselor, Friend Testifies Against Simpson LOS ANGELES A longtime friend of O. J. Simpson testified Wednesday that the football star had told him that he was defending himself from his wife’s attacks during their New Year’s 1989 argument and that it began while they were having sex. Ronald Shipp, a former police officer who once taught new officers about do mestic violence, said Simpson had told him he “didn’t really hit her.” On Tuesday, the opening day of testi mony, giant photos of a bruised Nicole Brown Simpson were projected on a court room screen. She called 911 early on New Year’s Day in 1989 and was heard scream ing in the background. Shipp testified that Simpson had told him he and his wife had gotten into an argument when they returned home. Israel Won't Sign Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty JERUSALEM lsrael, which refuses to say whether it has nuclear weapons, won’t sign the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres said Wednesday. The treaty, signed by more than 160 countries, is up for renewal in April. Egypt has threatened to block U.S. efforts to extend the treaty unless Israel joins it as well. At a news conference in Cairo on Wednesday, Egyptian Foreign Minister Amr Moussa repeated Egypt’s refusal to re-sign the treaty unless Israel did. If Israel signed the treaty, it would have to end its policy of nuclear ambiguity that has served as an effective deterrent against hostile nations such as Iraq and Iran, Peres said. Russians Pound Chechen Town Full of Refugees SAMASHKY, Russia—Russian forces pummeled a Chechen town packed with refugees Wednesday, only hours after resi dents mournfully loaded corpses onto trucks from a fierce overnight assault. Carloads of residents fleeing the attacks on Samashky described a hellish night in which Russian forces pounded the town from three sides with tanks and artillery, and helicopters strafed it for hours with machine-gun fire. Many homes were reported destroyed, and several fires were visible from a Rus sian checkpoint two miles from the center of Samashky, a town largely untouched by the war until this week. The Russian attacks appear to be the bloodiest yet in a week that has seen the war in Chechnya expand to more outlying areas of the secessionist republic. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Mostly cloudy; high mid 50s. FRIDAY: Cloudy; high mid to upper 50s Professor Presents Promising AIDS Drug BYNANCYFONTI ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR When anew drug known as 3TC is combined with AZT, the standard ap proved dmg for AIDS treatment, the com bination fights the HIV virus better than AZT alone, a University assistant profes sor reported Wednesday at an American Society for Microbiology Conference. Dr. Joseph Eron, an assistant professor of medicine at the UNC School of Medi cine, presented the new study to the Ameri can Society for Microbiology at the Sec ond National Conference on Human Retroviruses and Related Infections in Washington, D.C. “The combination of the drugs is more g " % JlrL! ~i IIIIBwMk : V '1 HH 'Wf ■ - - v K • /'> f paMBF Jjg; WfckTU ’Vm m Ns*- fk m -s. ag ■ * < MBm ■ f DTH/KAHE CANNON Marsha Boitchouk (left) and Bridget Regan enjoy a cup of coffee and a break from the cold weather at The Daily Grind on Wednesday afternoon. Duke’s Unranked, 0-7; Doesn’t Matter Tonight BYJACSONLOWE SENIOR WRITER Duke is winless in the ACC (0-7,10-9 overall). Duke is not ranked in the top 25 for the third consecutive week. Duke has used eight different starting lineups in 19 games. Head coach Mike Krzyzewski will miss the entire season while re covering from back surgery. Duke is, at best, an average team. Got all that? If so, take everything you just read and throw it out with last week’s molded pizza. Duke may be facing archrival North Carolina (16- Co-Candidates’ Legality to Come Before Student Court BY ADAM GUSMAN UNIVERSITY EDITOR One of the students who is filing a Stu dent Supreme Court suit challenging the dual candidacy of two sets of student body president candidates said Wednesday that he was filing the suit to eliminate the pos sibility of an invalid election on Feb. 14. Law student Elliot Zenick, who served last year as vice chairman of the Elections Board, 5t1196i1f said he knew first handtheenormous time and energy in- t H J" volved in organiz- |H * p J ing an election. ImHMHMMnMi “I know the difficulty with finding poll tenders and with organizing the entire thing,” Zenick said. “We’re trying to avoid a big mess by filing the suit now rather than waiting for a disgruntled student body president candi date to file suit,” he said. Zenick said he thought the Student Su preme Court might find the dual candida cies unconstitutional under the Student Government Code. “A friend of mine raised an interesting point, and that is, if you can have two student body presidents, then why can’t you have five or even 10?” If the Student Supreme Court were not to rule on the legality of the co-candidates until after the election, Zenick said the effective in reducing the replication of the HIV virus than either of the two drugs given by themselves,” Eron said. “In addition, the combination is more effective in raising the CD4 count, the cell that helps fight the HIV virus and the cell infected by the HIV virus,” he said. The results came from a 24-week study by researchers at Chapel Hill and across the country. Research was also done in Puerto Rico and Canada, Eron said. The study involved 364 patients who received AZT or 3TC alone or a combination of AZT and 3TC in 150- or 300-milligram doses, he said. By the fourth week of the study, patients taking the combined dmgs showed an av erage 100-fold decrease of the virus in their Something's Brewing 1,6-1 ACC) as an unranked team for the first time since 1984, but don’t expect the Blue Devils to take a fall without an old-fashioned, teeth chatterin’, rim-rattlin’, bone-shatterin’ dogfight. “It’s going to be a tough game. We know they’re going to be ready to play like they haven’t played this year, ” UNC forward Jerry Stackhouse said. “We’ve just got to try to keep working hard defensively and try to keep them from doing the things that they haven’t been able to do well this year—just forcing them to commit turnovers and forcing them to take bad shots.” The turnover has definitely been a problem for entire election would probably be declared invalid if the court ruled that it was uncon stitutional. Anew election would then have to be held, he said. But if the court hears the case before the election, a lot of trouble can be avoided, Zenick said. He said he did not know what action the Student Supreme Court would take if it banned the dual candidacies. The court could throw the two sets of co-candidates out of the election entirely, or one of the candidates’ names could simply be struck from the ballot, leaving a single candidate, Zenick said. “There’s nothing in the code discussing this situation, ” he said. “The whole idea of people running together is unenvisioned by the code.” Zenick also raised the question of whether the petitions of the co-candidates would be valid if their dual candidacy were ruled unconstitutional. In other words, the election might have to be postponed in order to allow the can didates to get their own petition signatures. Zenick said he expected the Student Supreme Court to hear the case, which is being brought by graduate student Ruffin Hall and Zenick, early next week. Petitions were due Tuesday for all can didates running in the Feb. 14 election. Several graduate student districts were See ELECTIONS, Page 7 The purpose of life is to fight maturity. Dick Werthimer Chapel Hill North Carolina THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 2,1995 blood, Eron said. He said that by the 24th week, the average level of the virus was still 10 times lower than it had been originally in pa tients taking both high and low doses of the combination. Although the study did not prove that the combination treatment would make patients live longer, researchers hope that a decrease in the virus will correlate with a decrease in symptoms, Eron said. “The results are very, very encouraging, and it is a major step,” he said. “But it’s not some kind of home-run therapy this is the first step towards a more advanced therapy.” See AIDS, Page 7 Election Candidates Student Body President • Stacey Michelle Brandenburg • James Calvin Cunningham 111 • Kelly Jo Gamer and Michael George Williams • Jennifer Anne (Jen) Fiumara and Jeffrey How (Jeff) Berkaw • Andrew Edson France • Robert J. Simes Carolina Athletic Association President • Jack Weston (Wes) Galbo • Anthony Stephon (Big Ant) Reid Residence Hall Association President • Jessica Ellen Godwin • Michael Scott Holder Graduate and Professional Student Federation • Steven Christopher Hoffmann Senior Class President and Vice President • Thad Floyd Woody and Terius Naython Dolby • Brent Wayne Inscoe and Bradley Ross (Brad) King • Nicholas Simon Macpherson Johnston and Mark Daniel Marin • Susin (Sue) Seow and Adam Butler Jenkins • Brett Aden Doyle and Darryl Allan Zavodny • Brett Andrew Kenefick and Nancy Lynn Hahn SOURCE ELECTIONS BOARD CHAIRWOMAN STAFF y<J' ' v- New Treatment for the HIV Virus . , The Human Immunodeficiency Virus kills by PSfeX attacking the body’s CD4 white blood cells, \ I th® cells responsible for fighting the body's Y3/ 4 r invaders. Both AZT and 3TC have been ~.. _ shown to hinder the virus. MV Virus CD4Cell i # no <' iHls % 11111 l y&y.y v ' /: ,4, y ✓ <>§l rrru/niuiQ Awncoc r\\ the Blue Devils in their uncharacteristic season of dismay. Duke has managed only 10 more assists (304) than turnovers (294) this year. Shooting really hasn’t been that much of a problem, with the Blue Devils shooting 48 percent as a team. However, Duke’s senior duo’s field goal per centages help bolster those numbers. Cherokee Parks is doing everything he can to make some thing positive come out of the season. Robert Parish he ain’t, but “The Chief’ is shooting 53 percent, and the 6-foot-l 1 center has made 23 of 54 See DUKE, Page 5 Senate Approves Bill to Give Governor Hunt Veto Power BY DAN THOMAS AND KURT RAATZS STAFF WRITERS The N.C. Senate passed a bill Tuesday that will give Gov. Jim Hunt the power to veto state legislation, thus expanding veto power to the 50th governor. The proposal, named Senate-3, passed the legislature’s upper house Tuesday but still has to be worked out in the House of Representatives, said Yolanda McNeill, a library assistant in the state legislature. If the bill passes the House of Represen tatives and a referendum, Hunt will have the power to veto legislation by the time the next session of the General Assembly begins, said Sen. Ham Horton, R-Forsyth. Horton said North Carolina, the last state without the executive veto, would acquire the power for the first time in 219 years. He also said the bill specifically outlined how the governor could use the veto. “It provides that the governor will have a veto,” Horton said. “He can use it for anything, except for such things as legisla tive affairs or redistricting.” Horton said the veto was not a line-item veto that would allow the governor to veto specific parts of bills without vetoing them as a whole. The line-item veto was de feated on a party-line vote, where mem bers of the parties lined up and voted as blocs. Sen. Betsy Cochrane, R-Davidson, the News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 01994 DTH Publishing Cotp. All limits reserved. Scholarship Named for Slain Student BY ADAM GUSMAN UNIVERSITY EDTTOR A lacrosse scholarship has been named in honor of the UNC sophomore who was killed Jan. 26 in a random shooting by a gunman in downtown Chapel Hill. The University’s Department of Inter collegiate Athletics announced Wednesday that it would endow the Kevin Eric Reichardt Lacrosse Scholarship in conjunc tion with the Educational Foundation. Reichardt, a native of Riva, Md., was a midfielder on the UNC lacrosse team. He was 20 at the time of his death. A memorial service for Reichardt will take place at 7 p.m. today in the Koury Natatorium of the Skipper Bowles Building. The initial award of the scholarship will be made for the 1995-96 academic year and will recognize a men's lacrosse player who possesses the same qualities Kevin demon strated. It will recognize scholarship, lead ership and athletic ability. “Kevin very positively impacted a lot of people within our program and at the Uni versity,” said John Swofford, director of athletics. “We felt this would be a way to both honor and remember him and the qualities he exemplified.” The new scholarship is not in addition to those that already exist for lacrosse, said Dave Lohse, associate sports information director. “We’re not creating anew one, but we’re taking a scholarship and naming it in honor of Kevin,” he said. Moyer Smith, president of the Educational Foundation, said $75,000 from the general fund would be placed in an endowment trust to pay for the scholarship. “Ourprimarypurpose, asstatedin our constitution, is to aid worthy young men who wish to attend the University,” Smith said. “We felt it was a very worthy request made by the athletic department (to establish the scholarship). We’re glad that we were able to provide the funding so that Kevin’s name would be perpetuated,” he said. Reichardt was attending UNC on one of the four to five endowed scholarships offered through the lacrosse department, Smith said. The scholarship, of which Reichardt was the first recipient, was funded by J.B. Lee of Burlington. Senate minority leader, said the governor could not veto joint resolutions of the leg islature or legislative appointments. In addition, the legislature can override the veto with a three-fifths majority, Horton said. The bill is likely to pass the House of Representatives and be presented to the people ofNorth Carolina as a referendum, he said. Atwo-thirds majority in the House would pass the bill. Currently, 67 of the 120 House members are Republicans. “It will get it in the House,” Horton said. The battle in the House may not be a party battle but a struggle for political power, said Thad Beyle, a political science professor at UNC. Traditionally, Democrats have worked See VETO, Page 7 Last Chance, Politicos Student Congress representatives must turn in their endorsement questionnaires at the DTH office (Union Suite 104) by 5 p.m. today. No late questionnaires accepted! All candidates for president of the RHA CAA GPSF, senior class or student body should turn in their platforms and sign up for Sunday's endorsement interviews by 5 p.m. Friday. Platforms cannot be longer than 800 words. Questions? Call 962-0245. Memorial Service for Kevin Reichardt 7 p.m. today Bowles Hall, Koury Natatorium A memorial lacrosse scholarship will be established in KEVIN REICHARDTs name.