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Gas Leak Drill to Be Held
At Kenaa Labs Today
The University will be staging a simula
tion of a natural gas leak in Kenan Labora
tories at 10:30 a.m. today. The drill will be
held in order to better prepare for emergen
cies on campus.
University Police, the Health and Hu
man Safety Office, the Assessment and
Emergency Response Management teams,
the Department of Chemistry, and the
Chapel Hill Fire Department will partici
pate in the drill. The drill will be heard on
police and fire radio frequencies and is
expected to be finished by noon.
Author to Discuss Work
On The Anatomy of Love 1
Helen Fisher will discuss her interna
tionally best-selling book “The Anatomy
ofLove” at 7:30 p.m. Monday in the Great
Hall.
Fisher has appeared as an anthropo
logical commentator on “Today” and has
worked with the American Museum of
Natural History for 10 years. She has lec
tured at more than 150 colleges, museums
and cultural institutions and is currently a
research associate in the Department of
Anthropology at Rutgers University.
The author has appeared on several talk
shows, including “Good Morning
America,” “Eye to Eye with Connie
Chung,” “Oprah” and “Sally Jessie
Raphael.”
Carolina SAFE to Give
First-Aid, CPR Course
Carolina SAFE (Safety, Awareness,
First aid & Emergency care) will hold an
American Red Cross adult CPR and stan
dard first aid “challenge” course next week.
Those who have current American Red
Cross certifications may participate to have
them extended for another year without
having to retake the entire course.
Participants are asked to bring their
current certifications and $5 to the instruc
tor on the day of the course.
The course will take place from 7 p.m.
to 8:30 p.m. Monday in Union 209.
Please call 962-CPRI, or show up at 7
p.m. Monday, to register.
Summer School's Catalog
Available on the Internet
UNC students can now use the Internet
to plan ahead and select their summer
school courses. The 1995 Summer School
Catalog is now available on line. Aca
demic affairs course offerings with course
descriptions for both sessions are acces
sible through the Internet.
There are two ways to access this infor
mation. Students can set their World Wide
Web browser to http://www.unc.edu or
telnet info.unc.edu and log in as <info>.
From the UNC-CH Home Page menu,
students should select “Directories, News
and Publications, ” then “Academic publi
cations," followed by “1995 Summer
School Catalog.”
The catalog is crossposted in the “Stu
dent” section under “Course and degree
information” and in the “Faculty” and
“Staff” sections under “Academic re
sources” and then “Course and degree
information.”
N.C. Principals to Gather
At University Thursday
Up to 350 N.C. principals and school
administrators will gather at UNC Thurs
day through March 4 for a symposium
marking the 10th anniversary of the Prin
cipals’ Executive Program. “Leadership
for World-Class Schools in the 21st Cen
tury: From Rhetoric to Reality” will focus
on how strong leadership creates excel
lence in the public schools.
The program, which will be held at the
Friday Center, will feature national and
state education experts as well as panels of
N.C. legislators and principals from 10
model schools. The symposium is open to
invited educators.
Mini-Medical School Gives
Special Series of Lectures
This spring, UNC will offer a series of
lectures designed to give people who don’t
have scientific or medical backgrounds an
overview of the science that underlies the
modem practice of medicine.
The UNC Mini-Medical School will
meet at the Friday Center on seven con
secutive Tuesday evenings beginning
March 21. The series will involve nearly
two dozen members of the medical school’s
basic sciences and clinical faculty.
To register, call UNC Health Link at
966-7890 between 7 a.m. and 6 p.m. Mon
day through Friday.
UNC Team Gets Patent for
New Plastic Development
A research team from UNC has re
ceived a U.S. patent for developing highly
flexible ion-conducting materials from the
hard plastic commonly used for residen
tial plumbing. The materials might help
physicians detect diseases sooner.
The team, led by Dr. Robert Kusy, a
professor in the School of Dentistry’s orth
odontics department and the School of
Medicine’s biomedical engineering depart
ment, synthesized anew type of polyvinyl
chloride that, with the addition of a liquid
plasticizer, has produced anew
biomaterial.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Browning Appeals Judge’s Decision
Judge’s Feb. 7 Ruling Sent
Case Back to the State
Personnel Commission
BY ADAM GUSMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Eric Browning, a former UNC house
keeper who is suing the University, is ap
pealing a judge’s ruling against him that
remanded the case to the State Personnel
Commission.
Browning’s attorney, A1 McSurely, filed
an appeal Wednesday with the N.C. Court
of Appeals asking that Wake County Supe
rior Court Judge Narley Cashwell’s Feb. 7
ruling be overturned.
After a Feb. 3 hearing to decide whether
Browning should be awarded his job and
back pay , Cashwell decided the SPC should
re-examine the case because it had over
stepped its rights in its first decision.
In Cashwell’s written order, he stated
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performances run Saturday through Tuesday in Graham Memorial.
Chapel Hill Artists
Face Possible Censor
Exhibit Features Nudes,
Sexually Explicit Text to the
Chagrin of Raleigh Council
BY ALISON MAXWELL
ARTS/DIVERSIONS EDITOR
The fate of a UNC assistant art
professor’s latest exhibit lies in the hands of
the Raleigh City Council today as the group
decides whether to censor the sexually
explicit art.
The controversy surrounds Professor
Elin O’Hara Slavick andKimberly Russell’s
20-piece exhibit entitled “Pleasures of Gen
der.” A piece titled “Man D.,” which fea
tures nude images surrounded by a lettered
lesbian sexual fantasy, created what some
people called a problem. Slavick said the
text referred to “spanking, whips, piss and
spit.” The remaining part of the exhibit
contains paintings, sculptures and draw
ings.
At the suggestion of Raleigh Mayor
Tom Fetzer, the city council decided to
Pharmacy School Lacks Crucial Degree
BY ANGELIQUE BARTLETT
STAFF WRITER
Although ranked among the top 10 phar
macy schools in the nation, UNC’s School
of Pharmacy is one of the few that does not
have an entry-level doctor of pharmacy
program.
Because of this, UNC pharmacy stu
dents are placed at a disadvantage, said
Brandon Maddox, president of the phar
macy school’s student body.
Although the school has a Pharm.D.
program, only students with a post-bach
elor of science degree are accepted into the
program. Currently, only 15 to 20 of the
180 pharmacy students are in the program.
“We in the pharmacy school want to
bring this to the attention of (UNC-system
President C.D.) Spangler’s office, ” Maddox
said. “The accreditation team suggested
years ago that every pharmacy school
should have a doctor of pharmacy degree
as their entry-level degree.
“The best graduate schools in the coun
try require Pharm.D.,” he said. “We’ve
been expecting a Pharm.D., but we’re
graduating with a B.S. We’re just left out.
UNIVERSITY & CITY
that the SPC only had the authority to rule
on whether the University had just cause to
discipline Browning.
Furthermore, he stated that the SPC did
nothavethe authority to create an interme
diate remedy by ordering the University to
reinstate Browning with attorney fees.
Cashwell’s ruling states that the SPC’s
decision is now “vacated and remanded to
the SPC so that it can enter a decision that
is within its statutory authority.”
Cashwell had previously ruled that the
SPC’s decision against Eric Browning was
invalid because it had come after more
than 90 days had passed since its first
opportunity to hear the case. Therefore,
the recommended decision of Administra
tive Law Judge Fred Morrison became the
SPC’s final decision.
A temporary restraining order was
granted to the University preventing im
mediate implementation of Morrison’s
May decision that Browning be awarded
his job and back pay.
McSurely went into the Feb. 3 hearing
Immortal Beloved?
examine the exhibit prior to its opening
March 3at Artspace. In addition, the board
of directors at Artspace will also re view the
exhibit and release its decision sometime
today. Ann Tharrington, executive direc
tor of Artspace, and Fetzer were unavail
able for comment Thursday.
The gallery, which is housed in a city
owned building, received a $175,000 tax
payer subsidy this year. Fetzer questioned
whether taxpayers should be required to
participate in an exhibit that could possibly
be considered offensive to some residents.
After Fetzer received complaints from two
people who had seen slides of the items and
reported them to be pornographic, he re
quested the vote.
Council members voted 6-2 to request a
preview of the exhibit. Council member
Mary WatsonNoohe was one of the two in
the minority. “I voted not to review the
exhibit because the city council has no
authority in this area. It is a decision of the
Artspace board," she said.
“We are not set up as a review board for
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It affects the reputation of our school, our
future jobs and our post-graduate opportu
nities.”
In August, the pharmacy school faculty
discussed a budget that would fund an
entry-level Pharm.D. program, said Kevin
Almond, assistant dean of the School of
Pharmacy. The faculty passed it on to
Garland Hershey, vice chancellorfor health
affairs and then to Chancellor Paul Hardin.
Almond said that now the budget allo
cating money to the Pharm.D. program
was somewhere in between Hardin’s office
and the General Assembly.
“The General Administration would
have to say, ‘Yes, this is something we’re
going to fund,”’ Almond said.
William Little, vice president for aca
demic affairs, said the Board of Governors
had approved the discontinuation of the
baccalaureate program in the pharmacy
school. “What they’re concerned about is
the funding,” he said. “If the General As
sembly appropriates what has been asked
for, there will still be other financial con
siderations that have to be worked out.”
Little also said that, due to Gov. Jim
Hunt’s proposed budget cuts, the
was fired after
threatening to kill his
employer in 1993.
expecting that
Browning might
even be reinstated
and awarded legal
fees.
He said last
month that the cen
tral issue at the hear
ing would be
whether the Univer
sity had forfeited its
right to appeal by
waiting beyond the
90-day cutoff pe
riod.
McSurely said
the University would also have to prove
thatMonison’sdecisionhadnotbeenbased
on substantial evidence.
Browning filed grievances against the
University in fall 1992 and spring 1993
complaining that he had not been inter
viewed for a position he had applied for
and that a training request had been de
nied.
UNC Officials Unsure of Movie Location
BYBETH GLENN
STAFF WRITER
The remake of Jerry Lewis’ “The Nutty
Professor” is keeping University officials
in limbo.
AsofThursday, University officials were
still awaiting official notification as to
whether the Eddie Murphy film would be
shot on campus within the next couple of
months.
“They have been saying they, would
make a decision every week for about a
month now,” Clifton Metcalf, associate
vice chancellor for University relations,
said Thursday.
“We're just waiting. I don’t think they
know yet.”
Imagine Entertainment, a subsidiary of
Universal Studios, had sent scouts to con
sider UNC’s campus as well as sites in
Durham and at the University of Virginia
in Charlottesville.
Durham agreed to be considered as a
possible film location almost immediately,
but the University took a little longer to
respond.
Once University officials extended an
official invitation to the film company on
Jan. 20, however, they have been eagerly
anticipating the film ever since.
University’s budget in the General Assem
bly “doesn’t look good.”
Yet pharmacy administration and stu
dents consider the funding ofthe Pharm.D.
program a priority.
In a letter to Spangler, Maddox wrote:
“We feel as though we are at a major
disadvantage as new practitioners in our
profession because we have not been of
fered the highest level of training in phar
macy the Pharm.D.”
Almond agreed. “Our students are pay
ing the price for not having an entry-level
Pharm.D. program. The Pharm.D. degree
will be the degree for pharmacy.”
He said that during the past three years,
the school had been converting to a
Pharm.D. program. “We would do away
with the B .S., which is a five-year program,
replacing it with a Pharm.D., which is a
six-year program.”
Students would spend two years in a
pre-pharmacy curriculum and then four
years in the Pharm.D. program. During
those fouryears, students would take classes
for three years and then spend the fourth
year on rotation in clinical, hospital and
community pharmacy settings.
The University appealed Morrison’s
May ruling to the SPC, which overturned
the decision.
Browning then chose to appeal the case
further to the N.C. Superior Court.
Browning was dismissed from his job as
ahousekeeperMay7,l993, after losing his
temper in front of UNC employees and
saying he ought to kill his supervisor.
On April 28, 1993, Browning went to
University Counseling Services to pick up
forms he needed to file a second grievance
for having been denied a training course
request.
While there, Browning overheard a con
versation between his supervisor and
UNC’s training manager, who said the
request could not be fulfilled until Brown
ing finished a newly created prerequisite.
Browning then got angry, threw a note
book and papers, and said, “I ought to get
my gun and kill the son of a bitch.”
Browning admitted to having made
threatening comments but apologized the
same day.
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The studio making
EDDIE MURPHYs
latest film has not yet
informed UNC officials
whether filming will
take place on campus.
Michael
Rosenberg, execu
tive vice president of
Imagine Entertain
ment was not avail
able for comment
Thursday after
noon.
“We’d be disap
pointed if it didn’t
come,” Metcalf
said.
“I think it would
be fun, but if they
choose not to, I’m
sure it will be for a
good reason,” he
added.
“Our greatest interest in the project is
the educational value to the students and
faculty,” he said.
If filmmakers decided to shoot the film
in Chapel Hill, they would spend about six
weeks on campus, Metcalf said.
Crews would use about three weeks to
set up their equipment, two weeks to film
and one week to break down sets.
Metcalf said filmmakers had been inter
ested in shooting several scenes on cam
pus, including various external classroom
scenes and one inside a classroom.
Continuation of Anne Case
Involves Public Record Issues
BY ADAM GUSMAN
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The case of Kirk Aune, a former associ
ate dean of information systems who is
suing the University for disclosure of
records he contends are public informa
tion, is scheduled to be heard Monday by
the Orange County Superior Court in
Hillsborough.
N.C. Attorney General Michael Easley
and Chancellor Paul Hardin are named as
co-defendants in the suit, which Aune filed
Oct. 26.
Aune is attempting under the state
Public Records Act to compel disclo
sure of two documents regarding a legal
opinion about a possible conflict of interest
presented by the relationship between
Stuart Bondurant, former dean ofthe UNC
School ofMedicine, and Susan Ehringhaus,
chief legal counsel for the University.
As chief legal counsel, Ehringhaus and
her office would be responsible for investi
gating any possible wrongdoing by the
medical school dean.
Friday, February 24,1995
Book Thief
Caught on
Videotape
BY STEPHEN LEE
STAFF WRITER
The man who stole 10 textbooks from
Student Stores on Wednesday has been
caught on videotape by the store’s video
surveillance system, according to Univer
sity Police records.
An arrest warrant has been issued for
William Ray Hawkins, 22, 0f6003 Stewart
Bend Road in Sedalia. Police have been
looking for Hawkins since the incident,
which occurred at 12:35 p.m. Wednesday.
Hawkins later sold back the textbooks,
estimated at $675.45, to the UNC-Greens
boro bookstore, police reports state.
University Police Lt. Clay Williams said
officials had been able to identify the sus
pect using a combination of the videotape
and the registration of the vehicle the sus
pect drove.
Jim Powell, accounting and systems
manager for Student Stores, said the video
surveillance system was state-of-the-art
technology used in most retail stores.
“It’s a standard retail electronic system
that most stores have,” he said. “It’s been
a system we’ve had for three or four
months.”
Greg Morton, assistant director of Stu
dent Stores, said cameras were located at
the main entrances and throughout the
first and second floors of Student Stores. A
central control room located in the base
ment monitors the whole store, he said.
Powell said the cameras were turned on
in certain areas but not all day long. They
are turned on in special situations such as
when there is suspicious behavior, for
monitoring large crowds and during text
book buybacks, he said.
During the incident Wednesday, the
camera was turned on when a Student
Stores employee who knew the suspect's
past behavior asked that it be turned on, he
said. Powell said that about 90 percent of
the equipment was installed and that some
parts were leased. He said it would take a
while to see whether the equipment would
decrease the number of thefts.
“It’s a little too early to say,” he said. “It
would prove itself as some deterrent espe
cially against the ones who do this for a
living,” Powell said.
Williams said he believed the system
would reduce the amount of thefts.
“I think it will help cut down on the
number of thefts,” he said. “It deters a lot
of fraud when people know it’s there.
Morton also said he hoped the system
would prevent more incidents of theft from
occurring. “We’re still trying to find a way
to use it best,” he said.
He said there had only been a couple of
minor incidents of theft since the system
had been installed. “We want it to be a
deterrent for students. It's just not worth it,
getting expelled over stealing a book.”
“They have been saying they
would make a decision every
week for about a month now.
We ’re just waiting. I don’t
think they know yet. ”
CLIFTON METCALF
Associate vice chancellor for University
relations
The studio had promised a more spe
cific list of scenes to be filmed.
The studio had mentioned Feb. 20 and
March 6 as possible dates when filming
would begin.
The film, a remake of Jerry Lewis’ “The
Nutty Professor,” will feature Murphy in
the starring role as an overweight teacher
who changes from demure to Don Juan
during the course of the film.
Many Lewis fans regard the film as his
masterpiece.
Metcalf said the studios had indicated
interest in offering film seminars and in
ternships, but he doubted that these would
happen unless the movie were filmed lo
cally.
Aune has a pending appeal with the
N.C. Court of Appeals on a dismissed case
against the University in which he claimed
that he had been fired by the University
becausehehadbeen identified as a “ whistle
blower.”
Aune said the two documents he was
seeking were a letter written by Chief
Deputy Attorney General Andrew Vanore
Jr. and Easley’s own letter of response to
Hardin’s request for opinion.
Aune said Vanore’s letter described a
conversation he had with Bobby James,
then executive director of the N.C. State
Bar, about whether the marital status of
Bondurant and Ehringhaus presented a
conflict of interest.
The University has contended that both
documents deal with personnel matters
and are therefore protected from public
access under N.C. General Statute 126-22.
InJune 1991, Hardin requested an opin
ion from the state attorney general’s office
on the propriety of the relationship be-
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