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®lff Sail}} oar Mrrl BRIEFS Stiries frtm the University and Chapel Hill Brew King Jr. to Give Talk In Great Hall on Thursday Adolph Coois IV, great-grandson of the founder of Coors Brewing Company in Colorado, will speak at 7 p.m. Thursday at the Great Hall. The talk is sponsored by Campus Crusade for Christ. Coors spent more than six years work ing in positions for Coors Brewing Com pany. In 1979, he left the family business to be the investment adviser for his immedi ate family. Former Governor to Give Lecture on Citiienship Former N.C. Governor James Martin will give the 1995 Weil Lecture on Ameri can Citizenship at 8 p.m. Feb. 13 in Hill Hall auditorium. Martin will discuss “Citizenship and the Political Contract.” The event is free and open to the public. A reception in Hill Hall lobby will follow the speech. Grant Awarded to School For Study of Teenagers A $372,525 grant from the Smart Fam ily Foundation to the UNC Clinical Cen ter for the Study ofDevelopment and Learn ing will provide funds to expand the use of Survey of Teenage Readiness and N eurode velopmental Status. Investigators believe that if STRANDS is successful it will provide assistance in obtaining information on adolescents for guidance counselors, school psychologists and professionals who work with adoles cents, said Dr. Stephen Hooper, associate professor of psychiatry and director of psy chology at UNC. Fatty Acid Compounds Aren't So Bad, Study Says Compounds in margarine, known as transfatty acids, do not increase the risk of heart attacks, anew study says. The study was conducted in eight Euro pean countries and Israel, and it involved analyzing the frit tissue taken from men who had recently suffered heart attacks. Dr. Lenore Kohlmeier, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Univer sity, said she hoped a study with similar methods would be done in the United States because consumption of fats was higher here than in Europe. Lecture Series on Black Experience to Continue The Ackland Art Museum’s series “Im ages and Ideas: Perspectives on the Black Experience in America" will continue at 3 p.m. Wednesday with speeches by two graduate students. Andrea Barnwell and Kathy Giuffre will discuss themes on the museum exhibi tion of “The Walter 0. Evans Collection of African-American Art.” BCC Lecture to Discuss Female Circumcision The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Cen ter is presenting student lectures in its “Blacks in Diaspora Lecture Series.” The free talks will be held at noon Wednesdays in the BCC. Latarsha Cham bers will discuss “Female Circumcision: The Response From African Women on Western Intervention” Wednesday. Ivy Sophomore Aids UNC Researchers in Clot Study A Harvard University sophomore and two UNC School of Medicine researchers are collaborating on a study involving the blood clotting process. The study is led by Drs. Dougald Mon roe, research assistant professor of medi cine, and Harold Roberts, director of the Center for Thrombosis and Hemostasis. Marcello Morgan, a Harvard sopho more, will also work on the study, which focuses on a substance in the blood that allows factor IXa, a form of a protein necessary for coagulation, to anchor itself to a platelet surface. Carson Elected President Of New Campus NAACP The campus chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Col ored People elected new officers Tuesday. Ellis Carson, ajuniorfromßaltimore, Md., was elected president. Malcolm Logan will serve as vice presi dent, and Shani Foy will serve as second vice president. Hugh Davis was elected secretary; Sharon Perkins was elected trea surer; and Rokiatu Rahim will serve as parliamentarian. The terms of the new officers begin immediately. N.C. Hiilel Hebrew Study Class to Begin Monday Beginning Monday, the N.C. Hiilel Foundation will sponsor a 10 week inten sive Hebrew course. The classes, taught by Israeli native Batya Eisner-Knebel, consist of three lev els. Beginning level classes will be held on Fridays, and the intermediate and advanced classes will be held on Monday and Wednesday evenings. The cost for 10 sessions is SSO per stu dent. For registration or more informa tion, call N.C. Hiilel at 942-4057. FROM STAFF REPORTS 5 SBP Forums to Be Held Next Week BY STEPHEN LEE STAFF WRITER The first of five forums for student body president candidates will take place Mon day. The Dialectic and Philanthropic Liter ary Societies will sponsor the first one at 7:30 p.m. Monday on the third floor of New West. Four more forums sponsored by different organizations are scheduled during the rest of the week, one each day. Katherine Scott, chairwoman of the programs committee for Di-Phi, said the forum would address all kinds of campus issues. “It’s a very general forum,” she said. “We want to get the candidates’ platforms out in the open and have a chance to get to know them." Scott said that all candidates would have opening statements and that then ques tions would be asked by the audience. Each candidate will have four minutes to respond, and other candidates will have a two-minute rebuttal. The forum is sched uled to last an hour or two, she said. The campus NAACP chapter will be sponsoring a forum at 7 p.m. Tuesday in Howell Hall. Former NAACP national Executive Director Benjamin Chavis will speak, and the forum will be held immedi Nike Gives Clinic, Reveals New UNC Shoes BY ADAM GUSMAN UNIVERSE EDITOR Nike, the world’s largest manufacturer of athletic shoes, sponsored a basketball clinic and presentation Thursday for young people and their Big Buddies. From the rear of a black Hummer ve hicle, Nike representatives distributed free T-shirts to participants in the Campus Y program, showed three short movies and unveiled the future footwear of several NBA stars. Amid the spitting rain, the participants even got a glimpse of the shoes the UNC men’s basketball team will introduce at the Atlantic Coast Conference tournament, which begins March 9 in Greensboro. UNC senior Jim Lamont, Nike’s cam pus representative, said the program was an effort to promote fitness and the con cept of sports in general as a healthy activ ity both physically and emotionally. “I grew up playing sports,” Lamont said. “It wasn’t even a consideration that there would not be someplace safe to play.” “We want to make sure you have safe courts to play on,” said Jason Cohn, who works in Nike’s sports marketing depart ment. The clinic was offered through the Nike PLAY (Participate in the Lives of Ameri can Youth) program. “I’m out here for my Little Buddy, ” said Lynn Hughes, a sophomore biology major from Williamsburg, Va. “She loves to play basketball. She liked the videos, and hope fully she’ll get to play soon.” Nike has recently become more involved on college campuses through its campus recreation program, Lamont said. The shoe company is currently involved at five schools across the country, and there are plans to expand the recreation program to five more schools for the next school year, Lamont said. “Nike’s become such a big company; this is a grassroots approach to get back in See NIKE, Page 4 Board Finds Funds for New Elementary School BY RYAN THORNBURG STAFF WRITER The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Education approved Thursday night the reallocation of funds to build anew el ementary school scheduled to open in 1996. The school board also approved the awarding of contracts to four companies for the construction of the new elementary school. Shirley Construction company was named as general contractorforthe project. Tommy V. Strigo Inc., Cooper Oil Com pany Inc. and Quality Electric Company Inc. were awarded the plumbing, HVAC and electrical contracts respectively. The bids had been open since Jan. 12. Plans for the school originally came in at more than sl.l million over budget. “We have been able to bring the project Battle Testifies in Finance Committee Investigation BY NANCY FONTI ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR AND WILL SAFER STAFF WRITER Student Body President George Battle and other members of the executive branch of student government testified before the Student Congress Finance Committee on Thursday night. The finance committee questioned the distribution of hardship parking permits, the passage of the Minority Recruitment Bill, the use of personal pagers by execu tive branch members, the distribution of business cards to various executive branch members and the executive branch’s use of the Carolina Course Review’s computer equipment for personal matters. UNIVERSITY & CITY ately afterward. Lee Richardson, SlIluGIUp president of the u Jmf campus NAACP, DOuV said there needed to PrnrMnnf be a close connec- CPw*"* tion between the student body presi- § tit iiS’il'H'll dent and the iJLi! JilUir J NAACP, he said. Richardson said it had been a good year for addressing minority concerns and men tioned the success of the Human Relations Summit. “This year has been a great year for minorities,” hesaid. “We would like to see the individual or individuals who will be the next student body president conjure or sustain open communications for all groups on campus.” Richardson said the NAACP planned to ask questions about minority issues such as retention, recruitment and representa tion to the candidates. He said other issues the NAACP was planning to stress included the housekeep ers’ movement, treatment of nonacademic UNC employees including Keith Edwards and Eric Browning —and the relationship between the University and the town of Chapel Hill. Richardson said the questions to the ■ ; -,w| ft " mm j*; yXXgk mmsm DTH/ERIK PEREL David Bond, product-line manager for Nike basketball, shows Travis Daughteridge the kind of shoe the Tar Heels will wear in the ACC tournament. Nike sponsored a Big Buddy basketball event Thursday afternoon. projects in order to finance the school. The school is sched- uled to be com- pleted as planned on May 5, 1996. School board member MARK ROYSTER was concerned about cuts to other school system projects. Cuts were made in plans for natural lighting facilities in the new elementary See BOARD, Page 4 During the hearing, committee mem bers asked Battle why only S3OO of the money allocated in the Minority Recruit ment Bill had been spent. Battle said that much of the money had not been spent because most of the minor ity recruitment programs would take place in the spring. He admitted that he had suggested spe cial consideration for members of the ex ecutive branch and the DTH editorial staff when they applied for hardship permits but said that his actions had been within the Student Government Code. Some members of the executive branch and members ofthe DTH staff were turned down for hardship permits initially, but See FINANCE, Page 4 candidates were made up by the executive committee of the NAACP. Seven to 10 questions will be asked, and candidates will have a chance to respond to other candidates’ responses. The floor will then be opened up to the audience to ask ques tions of the candidates for a limited amount of time, he said. Candidates will not be aware of the questions prior to the forum. “We want an earnest response to our questions so no one will have a prepared speech or circle around the issues,” he said. The Black Student Movement will be sponsoring a candidates forum for all of fices excluding Student Congress from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m Wednesday in Upendo Lounge. Carolynn McDonald, co-vice president oftheßSM, said that although they wanted a student body president who would ad dress the needs of the BSM, they were looking for an honest candidate above all else. “We want to see what the the candi dates’ platforms are and how they will affect flie BSM,” she said. “We’re also looking for sincere candidates, someone who has integrity and someone we can trust." Candidates will field questions from the audience and will have two minutes to answer, McDonald said. “IStill Don’t Think I’m A Hero” A week after risking his life to tackle a gunman on Henderson Street -and taking a bullet to the left shoulder in the process Bill Leone has become somewhat of a national celebrity. BYWENDY GOODMAN STAFF WRITER It was more than a week ago when William Curt Leone 11, better known to his friends as Bill, threw himself into a crossfire to tackle and disarm aji gunman who , mu, -h.. m had already killed two men on Henderson Street. In broad daylight Jan. 26, a gunman walking south on Henderson Street be gan firing shots seemingly at random, killing Chapel Hill resident Ralph Walker and UNC student Kevin Reichardt. As the gunman was chased by po lice, Leone stopped the gunman in his path across the street from Tammany She said issues that BSM members wanted candidates to address included minority issues, the Black Cultural Center, the housekeepers’ movement, campus safety and dining services. Prior to the candidates’ forum, McDonald said, the BSM will hold sepa rate interviews with the candidates which will help the group choose whom it will endorse. The Women’s Issues Network will co sponsor a forum at 7:30 p.m. Thursday in 104 Howell with B-GLAD and POWER. The forum will be moderated by Susan Covington, co-chairwoman ofWIN. Some questions will be asked from a question naire, which candidates will pick up today and return by Tuesday. In addition, some questions will be asked that won’t have been given out in advance. Amy Swan, co-chairwoman of WIN, said the forum would focus on issues such as a women’s center on campus, issues that affected women of color, the promotion and hiring of women faculty, the house keepers’ movement, campus security, and the new chancellor. “We’d like to see a feminist chancellor, either male or female, someone who is going to be attuned to women’s issues on See FORUMS, Page 4 I H DIH/)USTIN WILLIAMS Hall, where he is an assistant manager and head bartender. Leone ran through a park ing lot, jumped the gunman and threw his rifle into the street before the gunman was finally apprehended by police. His effort to save other people's lives by risking his own has been termed as nothing short of heroic by people and press nation wide. See HERO, Page 4 Friday, February 3,1995 Congress Has Say in VP Choice BY ANDREW RUSSELL STAFF WRITER Student Body President candidate An drew France’s plan to appoint Jeanne Fugate as his vice president has met with opposition from a law student. Elliot Zenick said Thursday that it was not up to only the candidate to chose his or her vice president and that there were other steps involved in appointing the vice presi dent. “To say, ‘lf I am elected, I will appoint so-and-so to vice president, ’ is quite a dubi ous statement,” Zenick said. “There are several roadblocks along the way.” Zenick said the “roadblocks” were out lined in the UNC Student Government Code. Title I, Part 1, Article HI, Section 1 of the code states that the undergraduate vice president shall be appointed by the student body president from a pool of nominees recommended by the Search Committee with the approval of two-thirds of Con gress. The Selection Committee accepts appli cations for the position of vice president, secretary and treasurer of the student body. The committee selects three of the ap plicants for each of the positions and sub mits their names to the studen} body presi dent-elect along with a repirt of each candidate’s qualifications. If three or fewer applicants apply for a position, then all those candidates’ names are submitted to the new student body president. The Selection Committee consists of the outgoing student body president, a designate of the incoming student body president, the outgoing vice president, the outgoing Student Congress Speaker, and the outgoing rules and judiciary commit tee chairman. In order for a student to be appointed vice president, he or she must be approved by the Selection Committee and by a two thirds vote of Congress. Fugate said that initially she and France were not aware of the vice presidential appointment process. “Originally, we planned to run as co presidents, but with the slew of co-presi dents applying and the surrounding con troversy, we tried to find another way to do this together,” Fugate said. She said that she planned to apply and that she believed that she was a qualified candidate. “I feel that I am very qualified,” Fugate said. “Andrew and I have worked closely togetherforthe last two to three yean,” she said. “While diverse, we still find ways of cooperating.” Graduate student Ruffin Hall filed a Student Supreme Court case Thursday to present candidates from running as co candidates for student body president. Zenick is also involved in that suit. The Student Government Code inter prets the office of student body president as one run by one person, Hall said. Wendy Sarratt, chief justice of the Stu dent Supreme Court, said the trial would be held late next week. Name: William Curt Leone II Birthdate. Oct. 16.1968 Education: Graduates in May with bachelor of arts degree in industrial relations Family: parents William and Joanne Leone: sisters Deborah and Mari-Jo Hobbies: basketball, weightlifting Philosophy on Life: Jim Morrison saying: "Now is blessed, and tomorrow is the same." 3
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