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Volume 102, Issue 159
102 years of editorial freedom
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Former Cabinet Member
Indicted in HUD Scandal
WASHINGTON, D.C. Former In
terior Secretary James G. Watt was in
dicted Wednesday in connection with his
role as a housing consultant after he left the
Reagan administration.
Watt was charged with perjury, unlaw
ful concealment and obstruction of justice
in a 25-count indictment.
Watt is alleged to have falsely testified
about his consultant activities to Congress
and to a grand jury investigating the hous
ing scandal in the Reagan administration.
He also is charged with withholding docu
ments that contradicted his testimony.
Independent counsel Arlin Adams an
nounced that the investigation already had
made it possible to recover almost $lO
million in low-income housing funds.
Detective Describes Delay
In Collecting Blood Sample
LOS ANGELES Blood from a gate
at Nicole Brown Simpson’s home was not
collected for three weeks although a tech
nician was asked to do so the day after
Simpson and a friend were slain, a detec
tive testified Wednesday.
Detective Tom Lange also acknowl
edged that the victims’ hands weren’t sepa
rately covered with bags to protect evi
dence when the bodies were removed from
the scene.
Continuing cross-examination that he
had begun Tuesday, defense attorney
Johnnie Cochran Jr. worked at bolstering
a theory that police bungled the investiga
tion and contaminated key evidence.
Foreign Minister's Visit
Key to Moscow Relations
WASHINGTON, D.C. —With a sum
mit up in the air and nerves fraying on
Capitol Hill, Russia’s deputy foreign min
ister held critical talks with U.S. officials
Wednesday on relations with Moscow.
On one front, at least, there were hints
of progress. An official said the two sides
were working on ways to link Russia to
NATO through the “Partnership for Peace”
program, while also setting the stage for
absorbing former Soviet allies as full mem
bers in NATO.
Georgiy Mamedov faced quizzing for
two days, meanwhile, on Russia’s con
tinuing cooperation with Iran on a nuclear
project near the Persian Gulf and on con
flicting signals Foreign Minister Andrei
Kozyrev is giving Belgrade on a U.S.-
backed initiative to end the war in Bosnia.
U.N. Food-Supply Trucks
Enter Bosnian War Zone
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
U.N. trucks loaded with food crossed the
bureaucratic obstacles ofßosnia’s war zone
Wednesday to reach thousands of hungry
civilians in the northwest, which has been
without regular supplies since May.
Aid workers said the 99-ton shipment
would run out before it reached many of
the neediest of the area’s 180,000 people.
“These are very hungry people, and
though they are not dying of hunger at the
moment, they will fall ill very soon," said
Karen AbuZayd, the U.N. High Commis
sioner for Refirgees’ chief of mission for
Bosnia. The food from Wednesday’s con
voy will be distributed to hospitals and
public kitchens in the Bihac region,
AbuZayd said.
PLO, Frustrated in Talks,
Seeks Help From Europe
CAIRO, Egypt—Mired in a stalemate
with Israel over expanding Palestinian
autonomy, PLO leaders sought help
Wednesday from Europe and the Arab
League to pressure Israel to withdraw from
occupied lands.
Anew round oflsrael-PLO talks, mean
while, ended without any progress toward
holding Palestinian elections.
The PLO’s executive committee held a
second day of talks in Cairo on Wednes
day to discuss ways of breaking the dead
lock over Israel’s failure to withdraw from
Palestinian towns in the West Bank to
make way for elections, as called for in the
Israeli-PLO accord. Only the West Bank
town of Jericho and the Gaza Strip are
under PLO rule.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Partly cloudy, windy; high
mid-60s.
FRIDAY: Partly cloudy; high mid-50s
102 YEARS OF EDITORIAL FREEDOM
Galbo Files Student Court Case for CAA Race
BY JULIE CORBIN
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Challenging Anthony Reid’s victory in
Tuesday’s runoff election for CAA presi
dent, Wes Galbo filed a complaint with the
Student Supreme Court at noon Wednes
day requesting that the original results of
the Feb. 14election
be allowed to stand.
The complaint
asks that the write
in votes from that
electionbenullified
based on three pre
cedents Galbo said
he and his staff dis
covered in past Stu-
CAA df
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dent Congress races. In the previous cases,
the Supreme Court nullified the write-in
votes based on the Student Code, Galbo
said.
“We just discovered precedents in the
past where write-in votes were nullified
and the complaints (similar to the one filed
by Reid last week requesting a runoff elec
tion) were dismissed,” Galbo said.
He said he felt that the events surround
ing the runoff election constituted “a bi-
Race and Work: A Tangled Intersection
Behind Raucous Rhetoric, Black Staffers Have
Made Gains but Often Face Sam Old Problems
BYPETER ROYBAL
SPECIAL ASSIGNMENTS EDITOR
There are really three possible conclu
sions about how UNC has treated its
black staff:
(a) The record is terrible. One only needs to
look at the highly publicized cases Keith
Edwards, Eric Browning, the housekeepers
to see that black staff members are the victims
of a historically racist institution that once
owned slaves and only desegregated itself grudg
ingly and under threat of legal action.
(b) The record shows a genuine respect for
diversity. UNC shares the history of the larger
American culture, including its racist past, but
has made a significant effort in the past several
decades to right historical wrongs against blacks.
The school has established all sorts of affirma
tive action and nondiscrimination plans and
has hired black employees into higher paying
and more prestigious jobs while also increasing
the salary of the lowest-paid employees.
(c) The record is as inconclusive and confus
ing as the whole culture’s record. The
University’s rhetoric supports a diverse staff
and programs are in place to make it happen,
but at the same time many in the University are
tired of race being made an issue in areas where
they don’t think it is relevant. People would like
to put an end to racism, but race is a compli
cated and subtle element in the society. Some
people wish America’s intense racial conscious
ness would just go away while others are con
vinced it should be a defining element in staff
relations.
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Housework can I kill you, but why take that chance?
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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23,1995
zarre irony.”
“It’s kind of
ironic that 14 votes
did not give me a
victory the first
time, but now 14
votes gave Reid a
victory,” Galbo
said.
Galbo also men
tioned that he won
by a larger percent
age of the votes in
the first election
than Reid did Tues
day because more
students voted in the
runoff election.
CAA president
candidate WES
GALBO lost by 14
votes to Anthony Reid
in the runoff election
Tuesday.
He said that he was unable to file an
appeal earlier than Wednesday because
the Elections Board still was investigating
the 32 write-in votes on Feb. 14 for candi
dates other than Galbo and Reid.
Wendy Sarratt, chief justice of the Stu
dent Supreme Court, said Galbo’s appeal
would be heard this afternoon.
Galbo declined to comment further on
the complaint because he said releasing
too much information could hurt his case.
Of course, how you see the role of race at the
staff level of the University depends on where
you sit and what facts you use. A good example
of this was the mixed report that emerged in
1991 from the Chancellor’s Committee on
Community and Diversity.
The report points out that black employees
are better distributed throughout the job ranks
than they were in 1980, when more than 50
percent were in the lowest paying category
service and maintenance. After 10 years of
progress, however, the upward mobility ofblack
workers seems to have dissipated. Since 1990,
roughly 40 percent of black staffers have lin
gered in the lowest category, and the majority
of service and maintenance workers are still
black.
At the same time, blacks are now repre
sented in the secretarial/clerical class in num
bers nearly comparable to those in service and
maintenance. And the University has encour
aged mobility by offering free clerical training
to low paid staff members, although the num
ber of graduates from this program remains
relatively small.
But the report also makes dear contrary
to these positive trends that the numbers
don’t tell the whole story of staff race relations.
“Employees report a general sense of fatigue
and wariness that makes it difficult for many
members of the staff work force to contribute as
effectively as they might to the University’s
mission and to develop professionally for their
own satisfaction," the report states.
See STAFF, Page 2
Just Hangin 1 Out
Reid won Tuesday’s runoff election by
14 votes, the same amount that Galbo
defeated him by on Feb. 14.
The Elections Board dedded to allow a
runoff for the CAA presidency after Reid
appealed Galbo’s earlier victory.
Reid appealed the original election re
sults on the basis that 32 write-in votes
were not counted in the total number of
votes, saying that Galbo did not earn a
majority of the votes.
Once the write-in votes were added to
the total, Galbo only had 49.8 percent of
the total vote. He needed 50 percent plus
one vote for the victory.
Galbo had asked Elections Board Chair
woman Erin Lewis to determine the legiti
macy of the write-in votes according to the
1994 Student Code in the hopes of avoid
ing a runoff election. Nineteen of the write
in votes would have had to have been
voided for the Feb. 14 results to stand,
Lewis said.
The Elections Board was unable to void
enough write-in votes by 7 p.m. Monday
night, the deadline it had set for itself to
decide about a runoff.
At that point, Lewis decided to allow a
runoff election.
Where Black Staffers Work
Although black UNC staff employees still make up the majority m
the lowest-paying classification - service and maintenance - they
have also become a significant presence in other areas, especially
the secretarial/clerical category.
Executive
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/ Ny-25 people
/ Secretarial/Clerical /y\
/ 37% / / V Professional
/ 531 people 61
V—" Service and 1
Skttled Crafts \ / Maintenance /
5% Technical / 40% /
73 people \ 12% / 568 people /
\l7O people / /
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SBP Race Victory Came Down to
Cunningham Staffs Tireless Work
BY MARVA HINTON
STAFF WRITER
Calvin Cunningham’s victory for stu
dent body president might have surprised
some students, but it certainly did not sur-
Student
Bodw
ill
prise the loyal,
tight-knit group of
Cunningham cam
paign staff mem
bers.
After the final
votes were tallied
for the first elec
tion, it was obvi
ous to
Cunningham and his supporters that they
had a lot of work to do, Cunningham said.
Candidate Stacey Brandenburg captured
1,623 votes to Cunningham’s 1,165 in the
Feb. 14 election. Tuesday’s election had
slightly different results, as Cunningham
triumphed by a count of 2,169 votes to
GOP ‘Contract’ Far From
Finished at Halfway Point
BYKURTRAATZS
STAFF WRITER
Republican legislators reaffirmed their
promise Wednesday, the 50th day of the
104th Congress, to enact the “Contract
With America” in the first 100 days, de
spite the fact that only two clauses have
been approved by both houses so far.
The only provisions of the “Contract
With America” to be passed by both houses
of Congress thus far
are a bill requiring
that all laws that
apply to the rest of
the country also ap
ply equally to Con
gress and a bill to
prohibit unfunded
mandates, which is
in a conference
committee be
tween the two
chambers.
Legislators have
taken no floor ac
tion on bills con
cerning welfare re
form,areduction in
Speaker of the House
NEWT GINGRICH still
promises to finish the
'Contract' in the next
50 days.
the capital gains tax, Social Security, term
limits and tort reform.
Bills on the line-item veto and a rework
ing of the 1994 Crime Bill that would
provide more money for building prisons
have passed the House but face stiff chal-
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Brandenbuig’s 1,799.
Cunningham said he and his staff had
launched an aggressive campaign to reach
the voters in a more personal way.
The campaign staff moved beyond hand
ing out fliers and started talking to the
voters, said Reza Ardalan, a member of
Cunningham’s staff.
Lainey Edminsten, another member of
Cunningham’s staff, emphasized the in
creased work done by the staff.
“We didn’t revamp our strategy,” she
said. “We just worked harder, and we
made more personal contacts.”
Edminsten also said that after the first
election more students got involved with
Cunningham’s campaign and that all their
efforts had been doubled to prepare for the
runoff.
“We had a staff twice as large (after the
first election),” Edminsten said. “People
See CUNNINGHAM, Page 5
DTH Toasts
Birthday
No. 102
BYLEAHMERREY
STAFF WRITER
For more than a century, The Daily Tar
Heel has provided the University and
Chapel Hill communities with news and
information. Today marks the 102nd anni
versary of the DTH’s public service.
The DTH was founded in 1893 by the
Athletic Association to “fill the cryingneed
for a college news medium. ” Itbegan at the
University as a weekly newspaper with
fewer than 250 subscribers.
The birth ofthe campus newspaper came
at an exciting time in the University’s his
tory. UNC saw its enrollment quadruple
between 1891 and 1893 under University
President Geoige Winston. This growth
within the student body further necessi
tated the existence of a campus news source.
A group of students attempted to fill the
void by establishing a newspaper, The
Chapel Hillian, in 1892. That paper was
forced to cease publication due to poor
management and opposition from the fac
ulty after printing only a few issues.
In the meantime, the 376 University
students were forced to rely on word of
mouth and the campus literary journal, the
University Magazine, for town and cam
pus news.
The Athletic Association compensated
for the demand for a timely news source
with its first publication of the DTH on
Feb. 23, 1893. The fledgling paper was a
See BIRTHDAY, Page 5
Congress
lenges in the Senate.
Thad Beyle, professor of political sci
ence at UNC, predicted that die line-item
veto would be “filibustered to death" in the
Senate.
“(The line-item veto) is a power prob
lem, ” Beyle said. “It’s a separation ofpow
ers issue between the legislative and execu
tive branches."
Jim Pasco, director of member services
for the Fraternal Order of Police, said the
organization opposed any proposed
changes in the 1994 Crime Bill that would
take any of the 100,000 additional police
officers mandated by the bill off the streets.
“There is a need for additional police
men out there,” Pasco said. “We don’t
know how the states would spend money
that is supposedly for enforcement pur
poses. In order to prevent crime, we need a
sufficient number of policeman on the
street.”
He said the cost of the crime bill would
be recouped in the savings the additional
number of policeman would bring to the
criminal justice system.
“To prevent crime, you don’t need a
See CONTRACT, Page 5