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BY SHARON COLE
STAFF WRITER
As part ofthe Violence Against Women
Act approved in the 1994 Crime Bill, on
March 22 President Clinton appointed the
first director of the Department of Justice’s
new office to deal with violence against
women.
Bonnie Campbell, former attorney gen
eral oflowa, was named head ofthe newly
created office.
The Violence Against Women Office
was authorized and funded in the 1994
Crime Bill and will deal with crimes against
women, including sexual assault, domes
tic violence and stalking.
Campbell will represent the administra
tion in its efforts to fight violence against
women.
She will work with the Department of
Justice and the Department of Health and
Human Services.
Campbell devoted much effort to these
types of crimes as attorney general oflowa.
She pushed to strengthen the state’s
domestic violence laws and to increase
funding for shelters. She also authorized
an anti-stalking law passed in 1992, one of
the nation’s first.
Campbell said she was delighted with
the appointment and honored that the presi
dent and U. S. Attorney General Janet Reno
had chosen her.
She said that she was excited by the new
office and that it brought “the weight of the
presidency” to the issue ofviolence against
women.
The 1994 Crime Bill also included the
Violence Against Women Act, which pro
vides $1.6 billion in the next six years to
improve prevention programs, increase
police, create services for victims and pros
ecute criminals.
The Violence Against Women Office
will be responsible for distributing this
money in the form of grants to the states.
On March 22, Clinton also announced the
first grants to states, which total $26 mil
lion.
Communities may use this money to
fund women’s shelters and crisis centers
and to pay for rape crisis therapists, domes
tic violence hotlines and more prosecutors.
In order to receive the grant, states must
comply with specific regulations. Each state
must spend 25 percent of the grant money
to improve and enhance direct services for
crime victims, 25 percent on law enforce
ment and 25 percent on prosecution of
criminals.
The remaining 25 percent may be spent
at the state’s discretion.
Caroline Adelman, head of public af
fairs for the Department of Justice, said a
second goal ofthe office would be to “raise
the profile of the issue and make people
realize this isn’t a private matter, but the
law.”
Campbell said she would work on “edu
cating players in the justice system and the
public at large” on the trauma women
experienced as victims of sexual assault
and domestic violence.
“Violence usually targeted against
women is usually (committed by) some
one they are intimate with or acquainted
with or it’s intimate in nature,” she said.
Campbell said she thought the Ameri
can criminal justice system needed to im
prove its sensitivity when working with
victims of crime.
“A broad challenge is to sensitize the
criminal justice system to successfully pros
ecute sexual assault, domestic violence and
stalking cases,” she said.
Campbell stressed the need to prosecute
violent crimes vigilantly.
“If they (criminals) know there is a pen-
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The Violence
Against Women Act
The Violence Against Women Act is
the first comprehensive federal effort
to fight violence against women and
to protect the rights of victims.
Violence against women is one of
America's most serious crime
problems.
* During the past 10 years, the rape rate
has increased nearly three times as fast
as the total crime rate.
• 700,000 rapes are committed or
attempted each year.
• Three million to 4 million women are
victims of family violence every year.
♦ One-third of all American women killed
die at the hands of a husband or
boyfriend.
SOURCE WHITE HOUSE DT7U CHRIS ANDERSON
alty attached to their actions, a certain
percentage will not commit these crimes, ”
she said.
She said she thought the grant program
would allow areas to tailor programs to
their specific needs because a university
community like Chapel Hill would have
different problems than an urban area like
Raleigh would.
Campbell said she would work to raise
the profile of crimes against women by
traveling to conferences and forums, pro
viding research, and helping to develop
policies to help protect victims and their
rights.
Adelman said an advisory committee
for the Violence Against Women Office
was being created to work on legislation, to
provide training sessions for law enforce
ment and crisis centers, and to help states
in their efforts to set up and enhance pro
grams dealing with violence.
The advisory committee would act as a
liaison between the states and the federal
government, she said.
Clinton, in a press conference announc
ing Campbell’s appointment, said the newly
created office was an overlooked item in
the debate over the 1994 Crime Bill be
cause it had bipartisan support.
“We really had a national consensus
that we had to do something,” Clinton
said.
The president said he thought the grow
ing crime rate against women necessitated
involvement by the federal government.
“If children aren’t safe in their homes, if
college women aren’t safe in their dorms, if
mothers can’t raise their children in safety,
then the American dream will never be real
for them,” he said.
“We had to take responsibility for try
ing to come to grips with issues that we
ordinarily would think of as issues that
belong to local law enforcement or local
social agencies, or even to the privacy of
the home.”
Joan Zorza, senior attorney for the na
tional Battered Women’s Law Project, said
she thought the Violence Against Women
Office would be able to examine what
government policies worked best and what
needed reevaluating.
She also said the coordination between
the office, state programs and women’s
groups would improve current efforts to
fight violence against women.
“Unlesswe get everyoneon board, we’re
just going to go fumbling three steps for
ward and two back,” she said.
Zorza said the formation of the federal
office added the power of the government
to the fight against crime.
“They will have a lot of government
force behind them.”
STATE & NATIONAL
House Bill May Eliminate Tenure in Public Schools
BY WENDY GOODMAN
STAFF WRITER
N.C. representatives are trying to push
a bill through the General Assembly that
would eliminate tenure for educators in
the state.
Last week, Rep. Gene Arnold, R-Nash,
filed the bill, which would phase out tenure
or career status.
Currently, teachers can be granted ten
ure after three years on the job. This basis
of tenure is to prevent the unfair dismissal
of teachers.
Underthelaw, the only way a teacher of
three years can be fired is if one of 15 acts
that are listed in the Fair Employment and
Dismissal Act is violated.
According to supporters of the new bill,
the elimination of tenure would allow edu
cators to be more responsive to parents and
more open to reform efforts.
“Tenure isn’t needed anymore, ” Arnold
said. “I don’t know why any teacher who
can teach well and has a good record would
worry about it.”
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denied (being gay) and found it hard to get
involved. Then I realized my sense of right
and wrong and a desire to fight for justice.
All my heroes are freedom fighters, and
that made me realize that’s what I want to
do with my life. So I went to the office and
told them I wanted to help.”
Now, as co-chairmen, they helped wrap
up the year with another Celebration Week,
held this week, consisting of activities for
the group’s members and the community.
The main goal of the week was to edu
cate, said Prince, a sophomore from
Zebulon. “A lot of times, people think ofB
GLAD as a mysterious organization with
members they don’t know. I think it helps
to see actual people in the Pit.”
Programs included a picnic at Polk
Place, a rally in the Pit, a semiformal and
several films and panel discussions on gay
issues. Despite some last-minute planning,
the scheduled events have gone well, said
Frank Johnson, the coordinator of the week
who helped with most of the planning.
“I’m disappointed with the lack of ac
tivities, and we were scrambling around at
the last minute,” said Johnson, a sopho
more from Emerald Isle. “But we are ac
complishing something. The Pit tables have
been very productive, and the programs
have been well attended.”
Willard described the difference in the
group’s approach from last year as more
laid back and less intense. He cited the
reason for the relaxed effort as a result of a
less homophobic campus this year and a
general liberal attitude overall.
“Lots of times, I feel like we didn’t have
as much opposition,” said Willard, a jun
ior from East Bend. “I know there needs to
be opposition for people to get involved
and motivated to work for something.”
The group was originally formed as the
Carolina Gay Association in 1974, when it
became the first gay organization on a
college campus in the South. In 1985, the
group changed its name to the Carolina
Gay and Lesbian Association to get more
women involved. The most recent change
occurred in 1992 when the group became
Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians and Allies
for Diversity to open it up to all people.
This year, Prince and Willard have led
a strong core of active members hoping to
strengthen the programs and services that
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Arnold said he thought that teachers
who already had tenure would not lose
their status but that those who did not have
it would really not lose anything.
“A teacher now can go throughout his
career without tenure, and I don’t think it
really means anything,” he said.
Arnold said his main problem with ten
ure was that it gave the same respect to
good teachers as to teachers who really
didn’t seem to care.
“Tenure rewards teachers for staying
three years, for longevity rather than per
formance,” he said.
“A teacher with a substandard rating
gets paid the same as teacher of the year in
this system, for instance, and that is not
fair.”
Arnold said he thought that the bill’s
only opposition thus far was from the N.C.
Association of Educators and that many
people outside of teaching, such as school
administrators, had spoken out in favor of
the bill.
lone Perry, director of the Division of
Human Resource Management at the N.C.
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dent was to improve the outreach pro
gram,” she said. “I wanted to make Caro
lina a more tolerant place to be in.”
Willard’s goals included making the
group more accessible, getting people in
volved and raising membership as well as
enacting a nondiscrimination policy
through UNC. He also hoped to change B
GLAD’s image within the gay commu
nity. “Gays thought the group was too
political, ” Willard said. “They were afraid
of joining the group because they didn’t
like the atmosphere of the group or the way
it was presented through the newspaper.
Once they formed their vision, the
group’s infrastructure and outreach pro
gram were targeted. The outreach pro
gram consists of a committee that goes into
residence halls, classes and small groups to
answer questions about the organization.
As an added service, they transformed
their office into a resource center and a
place for members to meet. “It’s a safe
place for people to hang out, and people
come in here writing papers,” she said.
Members volunteer to hold office hours to
help those looking for information.
The office, located in the Student Union,
contains pamphlets, brochures, and issues
of prominent gay and lesbian publications
to help members keep in touch with issues
affecting the gay community.
Willard held a book drive forthe library
to increase its holdings from 60 to 500
books, and a data base is in the works, too.
Looking at what the duo has accom
plished, Johnson said he felt confident say
ing that the year had gone well. “The two
have definitely improved the group from
what they came in with,” he said. “You
can tell the differences in the office and as
a whole after their terms have ended.”
Department of Public Instruction, said she
thought the bill would more than likely
hurt teachers but agreed that it could help
administrators.
“The intent to allow administrators more
freedom is good,” Perry said.
“The dismissal process takes a lot of
time and is not a pleasant activity; it also
takes a lot of (tax) money from the citi
zens.”
Protecting teachers from favoritism
shown by administrators, from the elimi
nation of their jobs and from unfair treat
ment in general is the more important
function of the tenure law, she said.
“It (the bill) will have a very negative
impact because tenure is designed to pro
tect teachers and allow them to be able to
teach without worry,” Perry said.
Bill Wilson, the political affairs director
with the NCAE said he agreed that the
passage of this law would create several
problems for teachers in the state.
“It really will damage the teachers’ abil
ity to speak out against the administration,
their actions and whether other educators
Prince said that she and Willard had
successfully, maintained a balance between
the male and female leadership roles. “Pat
and I are strong in being motivators,” she
said. “That’s the hardest part, being able to
motivate members to work on issues you’re
dealing with. Both of us never gave up.
Several times, we could have thrown in the
towel; it’s happened in the past.”
Willard said delegating responsibility
had not always been easy. Board members
have occasionally abandoned responsibili
ties, and duties have fallen on them and a
dedicated few. “I know Pat’s been miffed
at times, so much was left for us to do, but
you have to take into account that the
members willneedguidance,” Prince said.
Both have achieved a level of personal
satisfaction as well as leaving the group in
good shape for the future. “I have a great
sense of satisfaction,” Prince said. “I’ve
spent a lot of time on a cause that’s very
dear to my heart.”
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are performing their duties," Wilson said.
Although the law is not specifically
aimed at those who already had been
granted tenure, a change in their position
could mean the loss of their career status.
“If the teacher currently has tenure, he
has due process rights which are guaran
teed by the Fair Employment and Dis
missal Act,” Wilson said. “Those who do
not already have tenure would never re
ceive this status."
He said that before the tenure law was
passed in the early 19705, there had been
several lawsuits because people were being .
wrongly fired. The bill was designed to
prevent firings because of political, reli
gious, racial or gender differences.
Wilson said that a public hearing was >
held on March 21 and that the bill went to
the House Education Committee on March
23. The findings from this committee will
be presented April 6, and the fate of tenure
could be decided then.
He said, “We expect the attack to con
tinue, but we don’t expect to lose our fair
employment rights.”
Not only have they grown from their ,
experiencesasthegroup’sleaders.butthey
have had an impact on other members.
“There is a lot to be taken from what
they’ve done,” said Johnson, who is run
ning unopposed for co-chairman next year.
“I have learned a lot from both of them.
They’ve been productive, especially in an
organization as diverse as B-GLAD.”
Next year, Willard will study abroad,
but he insists on maintaining a daily e-mail
relationship with the new leaders. “There
will be lots oflogistics you come across that
only the (previous) co-chairs would know
about,” he said.
Prince plans on editing the Lambda, B
GLAD’s newsletter. “People asked me to
run again, but there is no way I’d do it
again. The cost of my GP A is too high. It’s
the end of the year, and I’m tired. It’s tough
being the gay representative for the whole
campus. Most people don’t come to Caro
lina being a lesbian extraordinaire.”
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