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Volume 102, Issue 148
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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Simpson Juror Dismissed;
New Jury Hears Evidence
LOS ANGELES The judge in the
O. J. Simpson case dismissed a juror Tues
day because she has arthritis and was treated
by the same doctor who plans to testify
about Simpson’s health.
A 54-year-old black male, a postal em
ployee, was chosen to replace the 63-year
old white female onthepanel.The excused
juror was a legal secretary who started as
an alternate and was named to the panel
Jan. 18 when two previous jurors were
dismissed.
Superior Court Judge Lance Ito told
jurors little about the matter, explaining
the two-hour delay in the start of the public
proceedings by saying, “There were some
very delicate matters that I had to inquire
into this morning that took a significant
period of time.”
Palestinian Police Arrest
Militants in Gaza Strip
GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Retaliat
ing for an attack on Israeli security guards,
Yasser Arafat’s troops Tuesday rounded
up dozens of followers of a radical Syrian
faction suspected in the deadly ambush.
Arafat is under pressure from Israeli
leaders who have told him they would not
agree to expanding Palestinian self-rule to
the West Bank unless he foiled attacks on
Israelis.
Signaling that he was serious this time
about reining in the militants, an angry
Arafat said he wouldn’t let anyone spoil
his peace agreement with Israel.
Tuesday’s sweep targeted the Demo
cratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
a group that claimed responsibility for
Monday’s ambush in Gaza.
Water Shortage May Force
Bulgarians Out of Capital
SOFIA, Bulgaria Bulgaria is consid
ering evacuating some of the capital’s 1.5
million residents to alleviate a water short
age that has already meant three months of
rationing for most people.
Nikola Baltov, Bulgaria’s highest-rank
ing government spokesman, said that in a
last-ditch effort to a void declaring a state of
emergency, the government planned to
separate water supplies for industry and
for residents and to search for additional
water sources. The government also is re
suming a stalled project to pipe water to
Sofia from the Rila mountain region to the
south, Baltov said.
Sofia has been rationing water since
November, when the city’s main reservoir
dropped dangerously low due to a drought.
U.N. Aid Agency: Food
Short in Northwest Bosnia
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Tens of thousands of civilians are increas
ingly short of food in northwestern Bosnia,
U.N. officials said Tuesday, because Serb
allies are blocking aid convoys.
A spokesman for the U.N. High Com
missioner for Refugees played down
Bosnian government reports that people
were starving in the Bihac pocket.
But food shortages were getting worse
for the people in the region. The 340 tons of
food the agency was able to deliver in
January “falls very short” of the 2,100 tons
needed a month, Kris Janowski said.
Food shipments into Bihac are being
restricted by Croatian Serbs and renegade
Bosnian Muslims who surround the area
and clash with government forces.
Gingrich Defends Ethics,
Complains of Liberal Bias
WASHINGTON, D.C. Defending
his ethics and those of his wife, House
SpeakerNewt Gingrich complained Tues
day that he’d been “investigated, scruti
nized, smeared and attacked” by liberals
who detested his conservative ideas.
Although he was responding to ques
tions from reporters, Gingrich clearly was
poised to strike back at his critics. He
identified them as “tax-and-spend liber
als” who were trying to put him through
“Chinese water torture.”
Gingrich defended his wife’s job with a
company seeking a free-trade zone in Is
rael; his book deals; his assistance to a
company in his district and his featured
appearance Tuesday night at a $50,000-
per-couple dinner to benefit National Em
powerment Television.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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Terrapins Tame Top-Ranked Tar Heels
BY STEVE ROBBLEE
SENIOR WRITER
COLLEGE PARK, Md. This time
there would be no comeback for North
Carolina.
Not without senior leader Donald Wil
liams, who fouled out with 2:38 left.
Not as the No. 1 team in the country,
Former NAACP Executive Urges
Blacks to Control Own Education
BY DIANA D’ABRUZZO
ANDSTACEYEDWARDS
STAFF WRITERS
Benjamin Chavis, former executive di
rector of the NAACP, challenged Univer
sity students to “use your privileged oppor
tunity of being at this great institution and
the intellect you gain from this to uplift
those who are less fortunate than you and
to bring justice to the African-American
community.”
Chavis spoke in front of a full audito
rium in Howell Hall at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday.
He focused his message on eliminating
racial discrimination, stating that society
will never reach its maximum potential
unless America dismantles its “apartheid.”
Chavis also emphasized the issues of
unifying African-American organizations,
restructuring education and changing eco
nomic spending by African Americans in
order to forward the struggle of liberation.
“There should be unity across lines of
race, religion and ideology. It is time to
reassert ourselves unapologetically and
unashamedly. The sentiment of African
Americans today is that we’re going to be
less tolerant of racial discrimination today
than in the last 30 years,” Chavis said.
He reaffirmed his support of the Na
tional Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and encouraged students
to get involved with issues on campus like
the Keith Edwards case, the Sonja H. Stone
Black Cultural Center and the Housekeep
ers Association as a way of brightening the
future of the civil rights movement.
"I am very proud of the local and stu
dent chapters of the NAACP. We are in
constant need of fresh faces and views, and
Student Body President Issue Profile
Students Want an Ethical Student Body
President, But What Does That Mean?
BY MARISSA JONES
STAFF WRITER
"Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all roq long,
Has been concerned with right or left instead of right or
wrong"
Richard Armour
Ethics in student government. Some
would think we’re joking; some
would call it an oxymoron; insiders
might respond by pointing fingers.
But 82 percent of students thought conduct
ing an ethical administration should be one of
the next student body president’s top priori
ties.
Talk of ethics surfaces frequently in public
life. But what does it mean to UNC student
leaders and administrators? And how is it
applied in student government?
Ethics
82% of students
in The Daily Tar
Heel's poll said
"conducting an
ethical administra
tion" should be
quite important or
extremely impor
tant to the next
student body
president.
(error is +/- 5 percent)
3.29 Conducting an
ethical administration
George Battle, ethics is “doing things hon
estly, with integrity, and running an office
that students can be proud of.”
Student Congress Finance Committee
Chairman Tom Lyon said ethics “means per
forming the task of being in student govern
ment with an open mind, abiding by the rules,
and not just doing something (to promote) a
specific issue.”
And Battle’s Chief of Staff Philip Charles-
Pierre said, “My ethical code is serving my
constituents and bringing home what they
need. I think a politician is unethical if he or
she is unwilling to do what the constituents
need done.”
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The concept of ethics can also be used as a
political tool, and accusations of ethical viola
tions can obscure or obstruct achievements
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On Friday: Issue
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Congress
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
Alan Woods
Chapel Hill, North Caroliaa
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8,1995
where UNC believes it is at a disadvan
tage.
Not against Maryland, the No. 8 team
in the country.
Not in its
third game in
six days.
Men's Basketball
UNC 73
Maryland 86
It couldn’t just be that Maryland (18-4,
8-2 in the ACC) simply outplayed UNC
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BEN CHAVIS supported the BCC
Tuesday, saying "white students need
black culture, too."
I encourage young people to continue to
participate,” Chavis said. “I hope students
will continue to support issues such as the
building of the freestanding black cultural
center. I hope it will be far more than just
a black students’ center, because we all
know white students need black culture,
too.”
Chavis also encouraged students to take
control of their education, their minds and
their economic actions. “The greatest
weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the
mind of the oppressed. We have to recap
ture our minds and consciousness and re
claim our interests,” he said. “Are your
Chancellor Paul Hardin said,
“Ethics, in any walk of life, means
honesty and representing the best
interests of the University and the
students.”
Several student government lead
ers said conducting an ethical gov
ernment required representing con
stituents honestly.
For Student Body President
(18-2, 8-2) in its 86-73 win, could it?
f TheTerpsdidoutshoottheTarHeelss3
percent to4l percent for the game. From 3-
point range, Maryland was on fire, con
necting on 44 percent of its 3s.
“Either they were running a completely
new offense or our defense was nonexist
ent,” said UNC head coach Dean Smith.
It didn’t help that Williams, who scored
majors equipping you with what you need
to uplift your community?”
Chavis saM he planned to continue be
ing active by organizing a 1 million person
march on Washington, D.C., for Oct. 9.
“This will not be a reactionary march
but a proactive one, stating that we are
taking responsibility for ending the de
struction of our people,” he said.
Chavis, a native of Oxford, concluded
with an invitation for students to join his
march and to take action.
“America needs to be prodded, pushed
and challenged. 1995 will be a great year
because we are taking a step forward to
liberation. Long live the movement,”
Chavis said.
At a media session before his speech, he
said the University needed anew genera
tion of freedom fighters to improve the
quality of life on campus.
“I was hoping that at a great university
you wouldn’t find manifestations of racial
prejudice,” he said. “But it took a hell of a
struggle for UNC to commit itself to a
freestanding black cultural center.
“There seems to be a persistent conflict
on where it will be and how it will be
financed.”
Chavis referred to the Rev. Gene Hatley,
director of the Chapel Hill-Carrboro chap
ter of the NAACP, when he pleaded for
college chapters to work with local chap
ters.
“I hope the college chapters will ac
tively participate in leadership and become
leaders of local and national chapters,”
Chavis said.
“I still support the NAACP,” he said.
See CHAVIS, Page 4
The Candidates
Speak on Ethics
STACEY BRANDENBURG
? think the bottom line is that
you need to have a public
servant who is committed to the
students and is not in it for his
or her own interests.... My work
with the Honor Court has
conveyed my belief in integrity."
CALVIN CUNNINGHAM
1 will take personal
responsibility for the actions of
the executive branch. Ethics
are paramount to preserving
the integrity of student self
governance.’
JEN FIUMARA &
JEFFBERKAW
’Part of the reason
why we're running is
because we are tired
of student government
being about politics.
We nave not and will
not engage in any of the back-scratching and deal
making that's gone on."
ANDREW FRANCE
’I believe that ethics are very
important in the administra
tion of the executive branch,
and one of the ways I'm
going to be ethical is to
eliminate any of the extra
perks that the SBP receives.’
ROBERT SIMES
■We're trying to revamp Suite C
to make it more open for student
inquiry. You've got to do things
like make financial records
available. ...There will be no
unethical conduct under my
administration -that's personal
responsibility.’
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MICHAEL WILLIAMS
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'Decisions and
situations become
unethical when a few
people have a lot of
control. Kelly will run a
completely open
administration and there will never be room for doubt.
We will constantly be critiquing ourselves.’
seven points in the first half, went just 1 of
5 for two points in the second half. He was
the man Maryland went at defensively, as
guards Johnny Rhodes and Duane
Simpkins who each finished with a
game-high 21 points challenged.
It wasn’t just Williams who couldn’t
stop the Terps’ guards. Rhodes went 8 of
11, 4 of 5 from 3-point range. Simpkins
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Peter Fryscak shoots pool in the Union Arcade before meeting with his career
counselor Tuesday. Fryscak said he was practicing hi? "relevant skills."
Brandenburg, Cunningham
Endorsed at NAACP Forum
BY CHRISTINA MASSEY
STAFF WRITER
The campus chapter of the NAACP
announced its endorsement of Stacey
Brandenburg and Calvin Cunningham for
student body president Tuesday night fol
lowing the second forum of the election
season, outgoing chapter President Lee
Richardson
said.
“We looked
at the candi
dates’ platforms
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Co-SBP Candidates
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and past history, and we felt that both
Stacey Brandenburg and Calvin
Cunningham would best promote the in
terests of minorities,” he said.
Richardson said the National Associa
tion for the Advancement of Colored
People members were pleased with
Brandenburg and Cunningham’s involve
ment with minority issues. Brandenburg,
an NAACP member, helped with the
E-Mail Hacked Once Again;
OIT: Change Your Password
BY JULIE CORBIN
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
An unknown intruder has stolen the
passwords and user identifications of some
UNC students’ e-mail accounts.
The hacker has probably been breaking
into other systems across the nation by
using the user identifications and pass
words of students’ accounts, said Jim
Gogan, director of the Office of Informa
tion Technology systems.
OIT is strongly recommending that all
students with accounts change their pass
words in order to protect their privacy.
OIT has spoken to IBM and the Com
puter Emergency Research Team about
improving on-line security measures and
determining where the system’s current
protections were breached, Gogan said.
Although OIT is still investigating the
intrusion, Gogan emphasized its concern
with the crime.
“We take it seriously enough that we’re
not only using our own resources hut bring-
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shot Bof 12,2 of 4 from behind the arc.
Joe Smith, the Terps’ primary offensive
weapon, scored 14 points.
“Joe Smith showed tonight how valu
able he is to this team,” said Maryland
head coach Gary Williams. “He showed
what he does not scoring —but going
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housekeepers’
movement and the
Keith Edwards
case, while
Cunningham lob
bied for the Minor
ity Recruitment Bill
before Student
Congress, he said.
“We want a stu-
Student
Bodjf
dent body president who will pursue and
preserve issues we think are important.”
The NAACP decided to endorse two
candidates in the event of a runoff,
Richardson said. “With six presidential
candidates, we foresee a runoff. Ii of
our endorsed candidates doesn’t make it,
we will support the one who does. If they
are both in the runoff, then we will decide
on one person.”
The chapter made its endorsement fol
lowing a candidate forum that centered on
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ing in others from outside of the Univer
sity,” he said.
Gogan compared the act of committing
computer crimes through another person’s
account to credit card fraud. He empha
sized that students whose accounts were
used to commit a crime without their knowl
edge were unlikely to be prosecuted them-
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Endorsement Letters
The DTH will accept letters of endorse
ment for candidates running for student
body president, senior class president/vice
president, CAA president and RHA president,
who may each have one letter submitted in
their support. Letters cannot be written or
signed by the candidates and can have only
one signature. Letters are due at the DTH
office in Union Suite 104 by 2 p.m. Friday
and are limited to 420 words.
No late submissions will be accepted.