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Thursday, July 27,1995
Despite Setbacks, Auditor To Be Named Soon
BYJAYMOYE
STAFF WRITER
The search for anew internal auditor,
which was supposed to have been com
pleted by March, is finally coming to a
close, Chancellor Michael Hooker said
Wednesday. “We are very close to filling
the position. Personnel has made an offer
and we expect a reply within a week. ”
Hooker, who could not reveal the
applicant’s name, cited several factors that
contributed to the delay of the process.
The $64,000 annual salary has driven
away several top candidates, all of whom
are employed by top accounting firms.
“Part of the problem is that the salary
structure has made it extremely difficult to
hire someone,” he said. “The amount we
Carolina Quarterly’s Newest Issue Is Free to UNC Students
BY DANIEL KOIS
ARTS & FEATURES EDITOR
Staff members of The Carolina Quar
terly, a nationally renowned literary maga
zine based at UNC, will be handing out
copies of the Summer 1995 issue in room
510 Greenlaw Hall.
The magazine, which features work by
UNC alumnus Robert Morgan and UNC
Professor William Harmon, is free to all
interested students.
“We’re very committed to getting the
magazine out to students,” said Amber
Vogel, editor of The Carolina Quarterly.
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students in here, they will find service and
fair prices,” Keenan said.
Keenan owns three other textbook stores
in other cities.
John Jones, director of Student Stores,
the UNC-owned bookstore on campus,
said he was not surprised that bookstores
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are able to offer is substantially below the
average mark for jobs that require these
qualifications.”
The transition period between Chancel
lors Hardin and Hooker also created a lull
in the search, Vice Chancellor for Business
and Finance Wayne Jones said.
“Chancellor Hardin did not want to
rush and make a final decision, so it has
been up to Chancellor Hooker to see that
the search is completed as soon as pos
sible,” Jones said.
The University is looking for an indi
vidual who can manage an audit staff well,
appropriate the monetary procedures and
communicate with the chancellor, Hooker
said. "The auditor must report to the chan
cellor and bring recognition as to how the
financial proceedings can be improved. He
"Our magazine serves as quite a good
introduction to the contemporary Ameri
can literary landscape.”
The Carolina Quarterly - which despite
its name publishes three times a year - is
devoted to fiction, poetry, and reviews,
selected from about 4,000 manuscripts a
year. “It offers UNC students interested in
the publishing business the unique chance
to participate in the literary life of the
nation,” Vogel said.
The magazine’s staff, which usually
consists of about 15 people, is made up
primarily of UNC undergraduates and
graduate students.
were moving into the area. “I’m not really
surprised,” he said. “Chapel Hill is a big
textbook area, and it would be really un
usual to have only one bookstore.”
Student Stores does not focus on the
new textbook stores as a competing busi
ness for them. “I don’t compete, and I
don’t really think about it.” he said.
Both store owners claim they see each
other as healthy competition. “If (Ram
UNIVERSITY & CITY
or she also reports irregularities within the
system.”
The University has been without a per
manent auditor since long-time audit di
rector Eddie Capel was reprimanded by
the state auditor’s office almost a year ago.
Capel was criticized for failing to report
allegations of missing property and for not
issuing reports on staff investigations.
Since then, problems have continued.
Three weeks ago, a UNC Police officer
noticed a car parked after hours at the
loading dock of the Faculty Lab Office
Building on campus. The car, owned by a
35-year-old graduate student, contained
$5,000 worth of chemistry lab equipment.
The student claimed two UNC bio
chemistry professors and the department’s
business manager had given the equip
Esquire magazine has named The Caro
lina Quarterly a “perennial” place to find
good writing, on a list that included The
New Yorker and The Atlantic. This year,
stories from the magazine were selected
for “Best American Short Stories” and
“New Stories From the South,” two pres
tigious anthologies.
“We have a national reputation for ex
cellence,” Vogel said. Past contributors
include Doris Betts, Wendell Berry,
Raymond Carver, Paul Green, Thomas
Wolfe, and Reynolds Price.
Robert Morgan’s short story “The Visit”
highlights the Summer 1995 issue. Mor
Book and Supply) will be a bigger reason
for students to come down and check us
out, we will gain from it,” Kochan said.
Keenan agreed that competition from
Kochan’s store, as well as Student Stores,
would be a benefit to business and to the
students. “I welcome it (Tar Heel Text
books),” he said. “Now the students will
have three choices. We will listen to the
students and give what they want to them. ”
ment to him, something none of them had
the authority to do. UNC policy states that
such materials such should have been given
to the UNC property warehouse for bids.
David Perry, associate dean of the UNC
School of Medcine, said he thought it was
simply a matter of misunderstanding Uni
versity procedures. “It was an honest mis
understanding ofUniversity and state rules
ondisposingofproperty,”Perrysaid. “The
matter, once discovered, was remedied.”
Grady Fullerton, the second interim
auditor, would not comment on the inci
dent. Fullerton has served as interim audi
tor because Bruce Thomas resigned from
thepositionafterservingonly afewmonths
to take another job.
Fullerton said he was not interested in
the full-time post.
gan, whose novel “The Hinterlands” gar
nered praise from TheNew York Times, is
a novelist and poet from North Carolina
and former fiction editor at The Carolina
Quarterly.
Headlining this issue’s poetry are new
poems by William Harmon, a frequent
contributor to the magazine in the last 25
years.
Also in this issue, said Vogel, is “an
important achievement” for The Carolina
Quarterly: the first publication of an essay
by poet Laura (Riding) Jackson about her
days with Robert Penn Warren and John
Crowe Ransom.
Rep. Accuses UNC-TV of Liberal Bias
BY ROBYN TOMLIN HACKLEY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
In response to legislators’ complaints
about liberally biased coverage at UNC
TV and WUNC-FM radio, UNC system
officials are defending broadcasters’ deci
sion not to air U. S. Congressional hearings
on Whitewater and Waco.
N.C. Rep. Don Davis, R-Hamett, said
he wrote a letter to administrators after
receiving complaints from constituents and
from other legislators about the balance
and fairness of UNC’s public television.
“I took the lead and wrote the letter
because there was a concern expressed to
me and I think (UNC System President
C.D. Spangler) needs to know about it,”
Davis said.
Wyndham Robertson, UNC-system
vice president for communications, re
sponded to Davis’ letter. The letter was
signed by Davis and 18 other Republican
legislators. In it, Davis asked Spangler to
persuade UNC-TV to air the controversial
hearings in their entirety.
The letter said because UNC-TV and
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Black Workers Deciding
Whether to File Charges
BY WENDY GOODMAN
CITY EDITOR
The Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission cannot investigate discrimi
nation complaints against the Town of
Chapel Hill unless the individual employ
ees from the Black Public Workers Asso
ciation file grievances, EEOC officials said.
Attorneys for the black workers, who
allege that the town has discriminated
against them in hiring, promotions and
pay, said they would decide whether to file
a charge against the town at a meeting
today.
Town Attorney Ralph Karpinos said
Chapel Hill officials had not yet been noti
fied by the EEOC about the request to
investigate, but he said if individual charges
were filed, the EEOC would investigate.
Attorney Mark Dorosin said individu
als from the BPWA only filed grievances
with the town and had not yet filed a
charge with the EEOC.
“I think they will file formal charges
with the EEOC following the meeting, ” he
said. “I don’t think there is any reason why
not to bring them in because the town has
already shown their willingness to work
with the EEOC.”
BPWA Steering Committee member
Steve England said the association was
considering filing formal charges so that
the EEOC would investigate. At today’s
meeting between the town and the BPWA,
WUNC-FM aired coverage of Watergate,
Iran-Contra and the Clarence Thomas con
firmation hearings, they should also air
hearings that focus on questions raised
about Democratic political leaders.
In her response letter, Robertson said
the UNC stations were not choosing their
programmingforpoliticalreasons. “While
I recognize the importance of Congres
sional hearings and the interest of some
North Carolinians in watching or listening
to them, I am also painfully aware that
UNC-TV has a finite number of broadcast
hours, and that its programmers are con
stantly making tough decisions about how
to best use the time,” she stated.
The letter went on to defend the judg
ment of Tom Howe, UNC-TV’s director
saying he “tries hard to be balanced and
fair in coverage and programming.”
Rex Quinn, a Republican from Sanford,
has voiced concern to Republican legisla
tors at both the state and national level. “It
struck me funny that they weren’t showing
the hearings. It’s obvious what they’re do
ing. They showed Watergate hearings fora
month solid, and now that it’s the Demo-
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England said the idea of filing formal
charges would be discussed and possibly
voted on.
“We are kind ofwantingto see what the
town’s management and the entire
association’sideasareonit,”hesaid. “Then
we will make a decision on it.”
Dorosin said he did not see any reason
why this would hurt the good standing the
BPWA and town officials had built since
their first official meeting. Although this
move would cause an investigation,
Dorosin said this would not make things
more “adversarial and won’thave any nega
tive effect.”
“Things are going well,” he said. “Us
filing charges is not indicative of things
breaking down with the town, but it is the
opposite ofthat. This is just the only way to
get the EEOC involved.”
The town had previously asked the
EEOC to come in and investigate charges
concerningwhetherovertimepayandcom
pensation pay were being properly given to
black workers; however BPWA attorneys
were notified the only way to do this would
be if a formal charge was filed with the
EEOC.
England also said he thought negotia
tions with the town were going well and he
did not think calling the EEOC in would
cause disruption.
“Presently talks are going quite well,”
he said. “Everyone is open and the talks
are practical.”
crats on the hot plate, you can’t see the
hearings unless you have cable TV.”
Jerry Markatos, an ad photographer
and member of Balance and Accuracy in
Reporting in Journalism, disagreed with
Davis and Quinn. Markatos, who in the
past has accused UNC stations of not giv
ing politically balanced coverage, said the
issues at stake in the Whitewater hearings
didn’t merit schedule interruptions.
Markatos did say that the Waco hear
ings should be broadcast. “Whenever a
government uses force against its citizens,
the investigation should be open and avail
able to the public through the media.”
Robertson’s response letter said while
UNC-TV did cover the Watergate hear
ings, they only covered parts of the Gulf
War hearings and the Clarence Thomas
confirmation hearings. She said that UNC
TV did not cany the Iran-Contra hearings.
The Center for Media and Public Af
fairs calculated that during the first two
days of the Waco hearings, Public Broad
casting offered 15 and one-half minutes of
coverage. Majornetworksofferedlessthan
five minutes.
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