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IN THE NEWS
Tof stories from the state, nation and world
Biological Weapons Found
In Tokyo Cult Compound
TOKYo—Police were reported Tues
day to have found lethalbacteriaata dooms
day religious group’s compound, suggest
ing the sect, suspected in a nerve gas attack
onTokyo’ssubway, was preparing for germ
warfare.
Even before the subway attack, a book
published by the group dwelled on the
themes of poisons, germ warfare and the
subways.
Known as Aum Shinri Kyo, or Supreme
Truth, the sect is suspected in the March 20
attack that killed 10 people and sickened
about 5,000. The group has denied in
volvement, and no arrests havebeenmade.
Police raiding Supreme Truth’s proper
ties have found quantities of chemicals,
some of which reportedly can be used to
produce the deadly gas used in the attacks.
Limo Driver: I Didn't See
Bronco Outside Simpson's
LOS ANGELES —A limousine driver
testified Tuesday that he didn’t see a Ford
Bronco parked outside O.J. Simpson’s es
tate at about the time prosecutors say
Simpsonwas committing murder two miles
away.
Allan Park, a Town and Country lim
ousine driver sent to take Simpson to the
airport, said he had looked directly at the
area where the white Ford Bronco was
later found because he had been trying to
spot an address number painted on the
cuib.
Deputy District Attorney Marcia Clark
exhibited a photo showing Simpson’s
Bronco parked just a few feet in front of the
house number that Park testified he saw
the night of June 12.
Fighting Rages in Algeria;
More Than 500 Rebels Die
ALGIERS, Algeria More than 500
Islamic rebels died this past week in
Algeria’s largest military operation against
guerrillas fighting to install Islamic rule,
sources said today.
There was no way to reconcile widely
conflicting reports of casualties from re
cent fighting across Algeria. But the report
ofhundreds of deaths in mountains west of
Algiers suggests that the scale of the mili
tants’ operation has grown.
The fighting, reported in four regions,
also shows how determined President
Liamine Zeroual is to crush the militants
before elections planned for later this year.
InWashington, D.C., Secretary of State
Warren Christopher said the violence in
Algeria was a matter of great concern to
the United States.
Carter Brokers Cease-Fire
In Sudan's Ongoing War
KHARTOUM, Sudan—Former Presi
dent Jimmy Carter has brokered a two
month cease-fire between Sudan’s Islamic
government and rebels locked in one of
Africa’s longest and bloodiest wars.
The cease-fire, to take effect at midnight
Tuesday, was announced by Carter and
Sudan’s military leader, Lt. Gen. Omar
Hassan el-Bashir. In announcing the truce
late Monday, Bashir offered rebels a gen
eral amnesty if they laid down their arms.
More than 1 million people have died in
the 12-year war or in famines produced by
the fighting, which has pitted the Islamic
government against Christian and animist
southern rebels.
Carter said he sought the truce to allow
health workers into to try to eradicate the
worm parasite that causes diarrhea.
Gingrich Urges Doctors to
Back Medicare Tightening
WASHINGTON, D.C. House
Speaker Newt Gingrich appealed to physi
cians Tuesday for help in passing the Re
publican agenda, including radical changes
in Medicaid and limiting the growth of
Medicare.
As the Georgia Republican tried build
ingpolitical pressure fortheGOP’splanned
revamping of the two biggest government
health programs, the Senate’s senior bud
get-writer provided the fust outline of the
reductions he planned for them.
Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., who
chairs the Senate Budget Committee, said
he would produce a budget next month
that would slow the current 10 percent
annual growth of Medicare to 6 percent or
7 percent.
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THURSDAY: Showers and possible
thunderstorms; high in the 60s.
Ex-Governor, Chairman Axed From BOG
BYERICABESHEARS
STAFF WRITER
In a surprising move, the Democrat
controlled N.C. Senate chose not to re
elect incumbent Board of Governors Chair
man Travis Porter, a Democrat, and sent
eight Democrats to the board, which su
pervises the UNC system.
Former Republican Gov. Jim Martin
also fell victim to Tuesday’s N.C. Senate
voting, which mirrored last week’s Repub
lican sweep of the BOG seats elected by the
Republican-controlled N.C. House.
“There was a feeling that we needed
some new folks. Governor Martin is still
an ex-officio member,” said Sen. Clark
Plexico, D-Henderson, co-chairman of the
3 Men Rob UNC Student, Friend
At Gunpoint in Coker Arboretum
Incident Marks Fourth
Time a UNC Student Has
Been Robbed in Past Week
STAFF REPORT
University Police received a report at
10:43 p.m. Sunday that a female UNC
sophomore and her male friend, a student
at Georgia Tech, had been the victims of
armed robbery, accordingto police reports.
The robbery occurred while the couple
was lying on a blanket talking in the center
of Coker Arboretum, police reports state.
The incident was the fourth time a UNC
student had been robbed in the past week,
including one other time on campus, ac
cording to police reports.
Suspects in the three previous robberies
had not been armed, but University Police
Spllik matters
Faculty Choose Teaching Ahead of Research
Today's Focus:
Teaching
About the report
The top-tobottom
review of UNC was
conducted over a
period of two years
for the purpose of
reaccrecfiting the
University. The self
study is now being
assembled into final
form and will be
reviewed by an
evaluation team in
early May.
The article is based
on a draft of the final
report that was
provided to the DTH.
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The fourth in an occasional series on UNC’s self-study
BY MARISSA JONES
STAFF WRITER
A draft of the University’s comprehensive
self-study downplays the long-debated ten
sion between teaching and research and
concludes that in cases of conflict most faculty put
students first.
“The notion that teaching and research are a
zero-sum game is wrong,” said Pamela Conover,
who led the study’s review of undergraduate pro
grams. “They reinforce one another.
“My research influences what I teach my un
dergraduates, and students ask questions, even in
introductory courses, that affect my research.”
James White, who studied UNC faculty for the
report, agreed. “I doubt I ever gave a lecture in
which some part of it wasn’t illuminated by some
thing I picked up in research.”
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Big Country, Cinderella Cowboys Travel Long Road to Seattle
BYADAM DAVIS
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
Oklahoma State center Bryant Reeves
is aptly nicknamed, for if there’s one thing
his Cowboys have learned this year, it’s
that this is a Big Country.
By the time OSU completes its trip to
Seattle for the Final Four, it will have
played games in five time zones and will
have traveled 29,215 miles enough to
circumvent the globe with a few thousand
miles to spare.
Saturday at 5:42 EST, the Cowboys (27-
9) will try to extend their magical journey
for two more days as they face top-ranked
UCLA (29-2) in the national semifinals.
“It’s one of those things it’s kind of
like a fairy tale,” said OSU’s other star,
shooting guard Randy Rutherford.
Chapel Hill, North Carolma
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 29,1995
Senate Education
Committee. “We
can maintain his ex
pertise and let some
one else have a vot
ing slot."
Martin and Por
ter were not re
elected partly be
cause the Senate
wanted new blood
on the BOG,
Plexico said.
“(As for) Travis
Porter, it was not a
slap in his face. As
goodajobashedid,
Former Republican
Gov. JAMES MARTIN
will remain on the UNC
Board of Governors as
a nonvoting member.
there’s still other people, fresh faces that
—with the help of Chapel Hill authorities
are investigating any possible connec
tion of this theft with the others.
Capt. Walter Dunn ofUniversity Police
said Tuesday that he was not sure whether
investigators had linked the separate inci
dents.
The victims described the suspects as
three black men of medium build wearing
dark sweatshirts and baggy jeans, accord
ing to police reports.
One suspect was 5’ 8” tall, another was
5’ 10” and the third suspect was described
as a six-footer, reports state.
The latter two suspects were wearing
dark-colored hats, but it is unknown if they
were armed, according to reports.
The three suspects approached the
couple in the Arboretum, and one asked,
“How are you all doing?” According to
reports, tbe 5’ 8” suspect then displayed a
This “Cinderella’s” carriage stopped first
in Baltimore, where the fourth-seeded
Cowpokes thrashed Drexel and sent Ala
bama back to its sweet home.
On to East Rutherford.N.J., where OSU
upset top-seeded Wake Forest in the East
Regional semis. And before midnight
struck, the Cowboys held second-seeded
UMass to 27.6 percent shooting in a 68-54
triumph.
Now OSU’s players are headed West,
meaning they get to turn their watches
back—something the real Cinderella never
got to do. The only thing the Pokes need
now is a better carriage the plane that
brought them home from New Jersey was
the same plane that was hijacked in Beirut
in 1985.
Cowboy fans, for one, are glad that the
carriage is not yet a pumpkin.
Would you like to buy a monkey?
David Letterman from "Cabin Boy"
need to be put into the system,” he said.
Democrats retained controloftheboard.
The new members will take their seats in
July.
Martin will keep a nonvoting BOG seat,
as former governors are allowed to stay on
as members emeriti.
“The only way to avoid a disappoint
ment is to never put yourself up for one,”
Porter said Tuesday afternoon. “I’ve cho
sen a different way, and I’ve had a political
disappointment.”
BOG Vice Chairman Joseph Thomas,
who will run for the chairmanship, said
that in his eight years on the board a stand
ing chairman had never lost a re-election
bid.
The 32-member Board of Governors is
dark-colored gun and said, “Empty your
pockets.”
The victims complied with the suspect’s
request, and they then threw up their hands
and said, “That’s all we got,” according to
reports.
The suspects took the Georgia Tech
student’s wallet, which was valued at S3O
and contained S3O in cash, a driver’s li
cense, his student and work identification
cards, three bank cards, and an insurance
card, reports state.
After the holdup, the suspects began
running toward Davie Hall.
The victims ran in the opposite direc
tion to Everett Residence Hall, where they
notified University Police of the incident,
reports state.
According to reports, Chapel Hill po
lice were also notified and officers assisted
in locating possible suspects.
More than a third of the faculty who responded
to a 1994 survey said they did not face any conflict
between teaching and research. In history semi
nars, chemistry research projects, senior honors
theses and other student-faculty interactions, re
search and teaching occur simultaneously and
effectively, the report states.
And professors who do experience a clash be
tween research and teaching tend to resolve the
conflict in favor of teaching, the study found. Fifty
three percent of faculty survey respondents said
their research was somewhat or substantially hin
dered by teaching.
Faculty and instructor dedication to teaching
has paid off, the report concludes, pointing to high
national rankings of programs and departments,
alumni satisfaction, and student achievements as
evidence of UNC’s educational excellence.
Although teaching is already central to the
University’s intellectual life, the report says it could
be further improved with more frequent peer re
views of professors and higher-profile recognition
of excellent teaching. The report also discusses
educational issues such as student-faculty ratios
and draws intriguing conclusions about the differ
ent teaching styles of men and women.
Darryl Gless, who directed the self-study, said
the University was in sound shape for the upcom
ing review.
“Literally, we meet all the criteria,” Gless said.
“But with some of them, we didn’t feel that we
were fully meeting standards for a university of this
quality. We’re setting high standards forourselves.”
See TEACHING, Page 2
“The thing that was a little bit of a
surprise to me the other night when we
returned, at 2:30 in the morning, was that
we had over 6,000 people in our arena to
welcome us home and had about4oostand
ing outside when we landed in Oklahoma
City, ” OSU coach Eddie Sutton said Tuec
day.
Reeves, a 7-foot, 292-pound giant, is
one of the main reasons Cowboy fans are
excited. He’s averaged 21.4 points and 9.5
rebounds this season. And in the NCAAs,
he’s beaten a bevy of talented centers.
He outscored ’Bama’s Antonio
McDyess and Wake’s Tim Duncan. But
against the Minutemen, he was dominant.
He scored 24 points and grabbed lOboards,
while holding UMass big man Marcus
See OKLAHOMA STATE, Page 9
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elected by the Gen
eral Assembly to
four-year terms.
Every two years, 16
are elected, eight by
the House ofßepre
sentatives and eight
by the Senate.
The Republican
majority House
elected eight Repub
licans Thursday:
Robert Brown,
Orville Coward,
John
Fennebresque,
Lamie Horton, W.
BOG Chairman
TRAVIS PORTER said
it was a ’political
disappointment' not to
be re-elected.
Kenneth Morgan, Cary Owen, Barbara
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North Carolina second baseman Hanes Torbett tags second, but the Louisville
hitter was safe at first in the Tar Heels' 8-5 win Tuesday. See story, page 7.
State Softens Objections
To Sidewalk Dining Plan
BYRYAN THORNBURG
CITY EDITOR
AND DAVID GERLACH
STAFF WRITER
The prospect of eating dinner or lunch
outside at a downtown Chapel Hill restau
rant is close to becoming a reality. The
state Alcoholic Beverage Control Board
and the N.C. Department of Transporta
tion seem to have abandoned their prior
objections to the plan.
Gorman Gilbert, Chapel Hill’s repre
sentative to the DOT, said the department
would allow Chapel Hill to choose how to
use the sidewalks.
The department had previously been
concerned about liability that the state
would have for patrons consuming alcohol
on a state right-of-way, such as that sur
rounding Franklin Street.
Two stipulations come with the DOT’S
acquiescence to the sidewalk dining plan:
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In response to the House naming eight
Republicans, the Senate, which has a
Democratic majority, elected eight Demo
crats. Four were re-elected: Thomas, Ben
jamin Ruffin, Marshall Rauch and C.
Clifford Cameron. Four BOG members
are new: F. Edward Broadwell, William
Brown, C. Ralph Kinsey Jr. and Paul Rizzo,
former dean of the Kenan-Flagler Business
School.
Plexico said politics had played a role in
the election process.
“The House did that first and made it
difficult for the Senate to do anything else, ”
hesaid. “With 170 elected politicians, you
See BOG, Page 4
“By late spring, under the
most optimistic scenario,
you ’ll be able to eat outside in
Chapel HUI. ”
ROSEMARY WALDORF
Chapel Hill Town Council member
the tables and chairs on the sidewalks must
be able to be removed at night, and the
town must claim responsibility for the pa
trons. Town Manager Cal Horton said at
Monday night’s meeting that those condi
tions would be agreeable to the town’s
staff.
Similarly, the ABC, which had wanted
the town to place physical barriers between
the dining area of the sidewalk and the
See DINING, Page 4
QSu
Conference: Big Eight
Coach: Eddie Sutton (sth season.
123-44 at OSU, 553-208 overall)
The Road to the Final Four
beat Drexel, 7349
beat Alabama, 66-52
beat Wake Forest 71-66
beat Massachusetts. 68-54
Probable Starters:
F Terry Collins, 7.6 ppg
F Scott Pierce, 4.9 ppg
C Bryant Reeves, 21.4 ppg
G Andre Owens, 7.8 ppg
G Randy Rutherford, 19.7 ppg