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©lff Hath} ®ar Jtol J? Volume 103, Issue 17 102 years of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1593 r^m m IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Witness in Farrakhan Plot Says He Was Paid to Inform ST. PAUL, Minn. The key witness in an alleged murder-for-hire plot against Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan said Thursday the government promised him $45,000 to inform on a daughter of Malcolm X. Michael Fitzpatrick has been in seclu sion in the federal witness protection pro gram since before Qubilah Shabazz was charged in January with hiring him to kill Farrakhan. Farrakhan was never attacked. Fitzpatrick entered U.S. District Court through a back door for Thursday’s pre trial hearing and took the stand for ques tioning by civil rights lawyer William Kunstler, answering in mostly one-word replies. The government has contended that Shabazz believed Farrakhan was in volved in her father’s 1965 assassination. Police Name Cult Leader As Subway Attack Suspect TOKYO Police found more danger ous chemicals Thursday at the headquar ters of a secretive religious cult and report edly wanted to question its missing leader on suspicion of planning the gas attack on Tokyo’s subway. It was the latest apparent link between the group, Aum Shinri Kyo or Sublime Truth, and Monday’s attack, which killed 10 people and injured nearly 5,000. Though suspicion had fallen immedi ately on the apocalyptic Buddhists, police used an unrelated kidnapping case as justi fication for raids on the sect’s facilities. At the group’s headquarters, military specialists used trucks to remove large piles of chemicals that could have been used to make the nerve gas used in the attack. Kaelin: Nicole Was Upset When I Moved to O.J.'s LOS ANGELES Nicole Brown Simpson was upset and accused O.J. Simpson of manipulation after he per suaded Brian “Kato” Kaelin to move from her home to a guest house at his estate, Kaelin said Thursday. Deputy District Attorney Marcia Qark, firing pointed questions at her own wit ness, tried to use Kaelin to portray Simpson as a possessive ex-husband who wanted to keep men away from his ex-wife. Kaelin lived in a guest house at Nicole Simpson’s previous residence and said he had planned to move into a room in the condominium she bought in January 1994 the building outside which she and her friend Ronald Goldman died June 12. Russian Troops Take Over Chechen Rebel Stronghold NAZRAN, Ingushetia Russian troops on a renewed offensive in Chechnya seized control of Argun, a main rebel strong hold, on Thursday, the government said. Oleg Soskovets, the first deputy prime minister, told parliamentarians in Mos cow that Argun had fallen Thursday after noon. He said the town, 9 miles east of the Chechen capital of Grozny, was captured relatively intact. Soskovets, who was delivering a speech on Chechnya, broke the news after receiv ing a cable from the commander of Rus sian troops in Chechnya, Gen. Anatoly Kulikov, die Interfax news agency reported. Russian ground forces launched anew offensive this week on the separatist south ern republic. Government Troops Press Toward Northeast Bosnia SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian government troops gained ground Thursday in an offensive in the northeast, and fighting raged around a strategic Serb telecommunications tower. Government troops had gained more than a mile on one of three battle fronts in the Majevica mountains and may have taken the tower, U.N. spokesman Lt. Col. Gary Coward said. However, the Bosnian Serb news agency SRNA said the tower was well-defended and claimed Serbs had repelled a govern ment attack. The tower has served as a radio link between Serb territories. U.N. peacekeepers have limited ability to report on the fighting northeast of the government stronghold of Tuzla because their movements have been restricted. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Sunny; high 60-65. SATURDAY: Sunny; high mid-60s. SUNDAY: Increasing cloudiness; high 70-75. Tar Heels Cruise: 3 Down, 3 to Go Wallace Takes Over As UNC Tops Hoyas, Advances to Final 8 BY STEVE ROBBLEE SENIOR WRITER BIRMINGHAM, Ala. The contrast in styles between North Carolina and Georgetown was obvious from the open ing tip. The Tar Heels’ style worked better, lead ing UNC (27-5) to a 74-64 win over Georgetown (21-10) before 17,458 at the Birmingham- Jefferson Civic Center Thurs day night. The Tar Heels ad- Men's Basketball Georgetown 64 UNC 74 vanced to the NCAA Southeast Regional championship game against Kentucky Sat urday at 6 p.m. Thursday’s game was decided in the first half, when North Carolina hit its open 3-point shots and Georgetown straggled to score in the post. “In the beginning, because we concen trated and focused on trying to stop their inside game, they were getting a lot of 35,” Georgetown head coach John Thompson said. “Once we extended the defense to try to put pressure on the 3-point shooter, they went inside. Any good team will do that, and they hurt us inside.” The Hoyas went inside on six of their first seven possessions, letting their bigger frontcourt players post up the Tar Heels’ big men. The Tar Heels worked from the outside in, and at the second television timeout, UNC had a 21-7 lead. “The 3s opened it up for them,” said See MEN’S BASKETBALL, Page 5 Since Thursday's women's basketball NCAA regional semifinal vs. Stanford started too late for today's edition, call: 549-4576 and find out how the Tar Heels did in Los Angeles. NCCU Chancellor Defends Affirmative Action Programs’ Necessity BY ADAM GUSMAN UNIVERSITY EDITOR Julius Chambers, chancellor of N.C. Central University, urged a Hill Hall audi ence to support affirmative action pro grams Thursday evening. Chambers, a former director of the Na tional Association for the Advancement of Colored People, came to campus to deliver a speech entitled “Martin Luther King’s Dream: Fulfilled or Deferred?” for this year’s Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture. Perpetual Students Report: Small Stipends Slow Graduate Students BY ERICA LUETZOW STAFF WRITER Ifthemorethanß,soostudents inUNC’s highly regarded graduate programs seem a bit anxious lately, it’s because despite their poor salaries and inadequate medical in surance, Gov. Jim Hunt wants to hike their tuition by as much as 30 percent. That proposal will only intensify what the soon-to-be-completed University self- study identifies as the No. 1 problem facing graduate students: in adequate funding. The lack of fund ing fuels a host of other University Speaks Out Against Cuts See Page 3 difficulties for the graduate program— it means students take longer to graduate because they have to work to pay higher tuitions, and it means that UNC attracts fewer top-notch students in the first place, the report states. “There is an overall problem of fund ing,” said Pierre Morell, who led the study on graduate programs. “There is not enough funding available to pay graduate students appropriately for their time and efforts.” Stipends for teaching assistants and re Cfcapal HHi, North CaroiM FRIDAY, MARCH 24,1995 fti' * T J&JTJlre#' -* ■ I \ WSm' 1 ' k f ' v " ' - : . W WO ' Hi - , ■- "8^ BhHIH to % itjlj K HF : k* iF* jk jH JBPk -/JP' njop HH w F y •y I 1 * w L HV * I rSE SPECIAL TO THE DTH/DOUG BEHAR Donald Williams (21) soars to the basket over Georgetown's Don Reid in North Carolina's 74-64 win Thursday night in the NCAA regional semifinals. Williams finished with 20 points and shot 4 of 9 from beyond the 3-point line. “I cannot accept the thesis that we have advanced past racial and gender discrimi nation,” he said. “Theglassceilingthat we have heard discussed interminably has become more of a steel wall. “I speak as a victim for more than 25 years of blatant racial discrimination. People like to forget that period,” Cham bers said. “They say we have Brown vs. Board ofEducation, the Civil Rights Act of 1964, that most people do not believe in racial segregation. They suggest individual rather than group remedies.” Racial discrimination continues to per- Slow to Graduate Average years to complete doctoral degree Fine Arts ■ Humanities H Social Sciences I|l Biological HHHI Sciences mHBBU Academic Affairs Prof. Schools HHHHU Physical Sciences MWWWPPS and Math MNHmmI Health Affairs ■■Kl Prof. Schools HHBaUI SOURCE: BIENNIALREPORTI992-93 DTH/PETER ROYBAL search assistants at UNC ranked the low est among a peer group of 30 research universities, the study states. Total fund ing for UNC graduate students tied for last place in a survey of 12 peer schools. And although UNC’s programs are still quite selective 26 percent of applicants were admitted in 1992 the program’s “ability to attract excellent research stu- See SELF-STUDY, Page 4 Books are a load of crap. Philip Larkin vade society, he said. “No one can claim that racism or at least the vestiges of racism have been eliminated.” An attack on affirmative action pro grams is being carried out in Congress and in the nation’s judicial system, Chambers said. He pointed to a Mississippi court’s rul ing against providing Mississippi Valley State University with the resources it needed to become competitive with the predominantly white institutions in the state. “It harkens back to the Dred Scott decision, and the separate but equal of Lecturer Meets Needs of Asian Students Eric Henry’s Dedication Led to UNC’s First Class On Vietnamese Language BY MARSHALL BENBOW STAFF WRITER It’s often said that when a person blessed with a gift shares it, he en riches the lives of those around him. For UNC lecturer Eric Henry, that gift is lan- rrr'i'jTYS.' , j guages, and while his efforts often go unnoticed, others certainly benefit from them. Seemingly on the run for 25 hours a day, Henry has worked tirelessly for the University and is recognized by his colleagues for that dedication. “I don’t think he worries about what’s part of his job; he worries about what ought to be done,” said Judith Farquhar, head of the Asian studies department. This semester, what needed to be done was creating a Vietnamese lan guage class to fill a need for his stu dents. See HERO, Page 4 Plessy vs. Ferguson.” There is currently a debate about school segregation in Durham, Chambers said. “In Durham, N.C., we are still debating whether black students and white students should attend school together or whether we should sacrifice that opportunity in order to reduce taxes. We may jeopardize the future of our children.” The Durham school system does not provide equal opportunities, he said. “For the past 40 years, Durham has provided black students with an inferior education. ” Chambers said the UNC Board of Gov jSWwWN*** v - 'TnrV^i 4 lll DTH/CHRIS GAYDOSH Eric Henry has been an adviser for the ASA since its founding in 1989. News/Features/Are/Sports Business/ Advertising C 1995 DTH Publishing Cotp. All rights reserved. Clinton Vows Veto On College Loan Cuts BYTHANASSISCAMBANIS MANAGING EDITOR WASHINGTON, D.C. ln an at tempt to wrestle control of the budget cut debate in the Republican congress, Presi dent Bill Clinton and high-level cabinet members took the offensive Thursday, de fending higher education loan programs and AmeriCoips as vital national invest ments. “My first choice all along has been to prevail in the debate in congress,” Clinton said in an East Room press conference Thursday afternoon. “But the veto pen is always there.” Clinton said he would go to bat to stop what he described as pointless cuts. “We do not have to cut education to reduce the deficit," he said. Duringaday-longprogramatthe White House for college media representatives from around the country, President Clinton attacked critics of the direct loan program, which cuts out banks as middlemen in government-funded student aid programs. The president said the Senate would probably be more reluctant than the House to pass harsh cuts on educational and ser vice programs. After months of criticism from House leadership, the administration used its fo rum to bash education cuts as economi cally counterproductive. “Technology and global economic com petition have depressed wages in areas that are not highly skilled," Clinton said. To stay economically competitive, the federal government must ensure that college edu cation or apprenticeships are available to all Americans, he said. Critics accuse unlimited direct loans of increasing the burden of the taxpayer by expanding a federal program. President Clinton and U.S. Secretary ofEducation Richard Riley countered with the argu ment that the federal direct loan program cuts out banking middlemen, who earn interest money on student loans while im posing a more difficult payment schedule than direct loans. Republicans want to cap the number of direct loans, a move Clinton says will limit educational opportunities. According to the Department ofEduca tion, more than 2 million students at 1,400 See CLINTON, Page 2 emors had not gone far enough in its at tempts to increase minority enrollment at the 16 UNC-system campuses. “We need to take the necessary steps so that no school in the University system can be racially identified,” he said. “The board should provide each school with the resources needed to make that university attractive to each student.” Chambers graduated first in his class from UNC’s School of Law, became one of the country’s top civil rights lawyers and See CHAMBERS, Page 2 962-0245 962-1163
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