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She Daily (Bar Hrpl BRIEFS Stories from the University and Chapel Hill Groundbreaking for Law School Today at 2 p.m. The state’s legal eagles will gather at Van Hecke-Wettach Hall, home of the UNC School ofLaw, fora groundbreaking ceremony today at 2 p.m. The ceremony coincides with die 150th anniversary of the school’s founding. The event is open and free to the public, but seating is limited. ChiefJusticeoftheN.C. Supreme Court Burley B. Mitchell Jr., a 1969 alumnus of the school, will read a special Supreme Court resolution commemorating the groundbreaking and the school’s anniver sary. Burley is also scheduled to lead guest speakers in a ceremonial gaveling in the construction for the law school addition. Other featured speakers from the Uni versity include UNC-systemPresidentC.D. Spangler, Chancellor Michael Hooker, Dean of the School ofLaw Judith Wegner, legal historian John V. Orth and William R. Kenan Jr., professor of law. Former N.C. Govs. Terry Sanford and James E. Holshouser, both alumni of the school, are also expected to speak. N.C. Scores C-on First Child Health Report Card Four state agencies gave the state an overall C- for its progress and key work areas of children’s health, according to the first N.C. Child Health Card Report re leased Monday. The report card gives the state its first overall grade for children’s health and spe cific grades for key areas such as vaccine preventable diseases, drug and alcohol abuse, infant mortality, child abuse, and nutrition. The state earned an A in the areas of asthma and vaccinations for tetanus and polio, while receiving a D for nutrition among low-income children and infant mortality among nonwhites. The gradeisbasedinpartontheprogress the state has made toward goals set in 1992 by the Governor’s Task Force on Health Objectives by the Year 2000. The report card was released by repre sentatives of the N.C. Institute of Health, the N.C. Division of Maternal and Child Health, the N.C. Pediatric Society and the N.C. Area Health Education Centers Pro gram. Annual Spaulding Lecture Monday at Friday Center The Asa T. Spaulding Sr. Memorial Lecture Series will feature an award-win ning professor from the University of Wis consin at Madison Monday. Gloria Ladson-Billings, an assistant pro fessor of curriculum and instruction at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, will deliver the speech at 7 p.m. at the Friday Center. A 6 p.m. reception will precede the lecture. Ladson-Billings will speak on “Acting Black: Academic Achievement, Cultural Competence and Political Will.” She is author of “The Dreamkeepers: Successful Teachers of African-American Students” and was the recipient of the American Educational Research Association’s Outstanding Teaching and Teacher Education Research Award. The lecture series, sponsored by the School of Education, was named for Spaulding, formerpresidentofthe Durham based North Carolina Mutual Life Insur ance Cos. Local Groups to Hold Town Candidates Forum The Orange County Greens, the Or ange/Chatham Sierra Club and the Chapel Hill-Carrboro NAACP will host a progres sive issues forum for Chapel Hill Town Council candidates and mayoral candi dates. The forum will be held Wednesday at Hargraves Center in Chapel Hill. The fo rum will feature questions from the spon soring groups concerning social justice, ecology and quality of life. Candidates will also answer questions from the audience and from other candi dates during the forum. The public is en couraged to attend. Artist Mangum Publishes “North Carolina" Book William Mangum, who has won recog nition for his watercolors of North Caro lina, has published a volume of North Carolina paintings titled “North Carolina: Behold the Beauty.” Three journalists, C.J. Underwood of WBTV in Charlotte; Lee Kinard, host of “The Good Morning Show”; and Charlie Gaddy, executive producer for WFMY in Greensboro and WRAL senior anchor, contributed text to the book. Racial Demography Expert To Speak on Thursday Reynolds Farley, an expert on the re search of population and racial demograph ics will give the Carolina Population Center’s 1995 Distinguished Lecture Thurs day at 3:30 p.m. in the Faculty Lounge of the Morehead Planetarium. His lecture is entitled “America in De cline: Evidence from the 1990 Census about Social and Economic Change.” The lecture is free and open to the pub lic. Farley is a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan. FROM STAFF REPORTS DTH/ STEFAN NIKLES Patrick Stewart, better known as Captain Jean-Luc Picard, spoke Monday. Math Professor Denies Allegations of Assault ■ The UNC professor is scheduled to appear in District Court on Oct. 12 to answer the charges. BYNANCY FONTI ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR A tenured math professor is„being charged with assault inflicting serious in jury after he allegedly threw his girlfriend down her stairs and slammed her against a wall in August of 1994, according to court documents. Chapel Hill police filed criminal charges against Thomas Brylawski, who says the charges are false, on May 18. The trial is scheduled for Oct. 12 in Chapel Hill Dis trict Court. Brylawski is free on a SI,OOO unsecured bond. Federal Endowment Cuts Will Meet UNC ■ UNC faculty members have banded together to fight federal cuts to the NEA and NEH. BYDAVIDGERLACH STAFF WRITER The national infatuation with downsizing the federal government may eliminate numerous programs and oppor tunities which directly benefit UNC stu dents and faculty. The National Endowment for the Hu manities and the National Endowment for the Arts each face a possible 40 percent reduction in their respective budgets. In addition, the Environmental Protection Agency faces cuts of similar magnitude. Each of these government agencies fund programs at UNC. To counter many of the proposed cuts, UNC has developed the Washington Group. The group has accumulated infor mation regarding University programs threatened by budget cuts and has tried to address the concerns of those who may be affected. .Up IWf 0 . . DTH/ MURRAY DAMERON Beth Stern (left), a sophomore from Winston-Salem, helps herself to free cotton candy in the Pit on Monday. The cotton candy and several events, including a jazz trio and caricature drawings, were sponsored by the Carolina Union Activities Board. UNIVERSITY & CITY Susan Docherty, 38, of Chapel Hill, said she and Brylawski had been involved in a relationship since 1989, when she entered the University as a graduate stu dent in English. She said Brylawski, who is married, had been verbally abusive, and in August 1994, he slammed her against a wall and threw her down her stairs. Brylawski and his lawyer, Joe Hack ney, said the accusations against him were not true. “I am denying all charges, and I think this situation should not be reported, ” Brylawski said. “He has not been involved in any of this conduct,” Hackney said. “He didn’t do this to anybody.” Hackney said Docherty was intoxicated when she fell down the stairs. Court records state that Docherty’s nose, jaw and neck were broken in the fall. She See PROFESSOR, Page 4 National Endowment for the Humanities Funding in N.C. J In fiscal 1994 Over the last 5 years j Outrightgrant $3,299,121 $15,049,171 . A \ Matching fund $606,325 $5,853,453 L made to the UNC system.) :.-.Y :':7.Y: ; ' SOURCE: NATIONAL ENDOWMENT FOR THE HUMANITIES DTH/ALANASMIT “It is clear that there will be a negative impact on (UNC’s) ability to promote schol arship, and (the cuts) will limit our role in enriching culture and the area’s and nation’s way of thinking,” said Tom Meyer, vice chancellor for graduate studies and a mem ber of the group. Meyer said UNC can only publicize the importance of the threatened programs, because there are lobbying rules that limit the University’s actions. Faculty and individuals involved with departments facing elimination can ad dress lawmakers in Congress in hopes of saving their respective research grants or programs. TheTriangleUniversitiesNuclear Labo ratory is a collaboration of NCSU, Duke University and UNC which studies nuclear ACTER, Patrick Stewart Bring Shakespeare to UNC BY DEAN HAIR ARTS & DIVERSIONS EDITOR Patrick Stewart, known mainly for his role as Jean-Luc Picard on “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” beamed onto the UNC campus Monday to perform his one-man show, “Uneasy Lies the Head.” Stewart spoke at a brief press confer ence before his performance Monday af ternoon regarding the program, A Center for Theatre, Education and Research (ACTER), of which Stewart is a founding director. ACTER focuses upon bringing classi cally-trained actors from the London stage to American universities and is dedicated to forging a stronger alliance between the ater and classroom, as well as developing an enthusiasm for Shakespeare in perfor mance. “One thing in this extraordinary pro gram was to encourage actors to create their own material," Stewart said. “We were all encouraged to look around for material or create from scratch that which would provide a canvas with the broadest Chronic Absences Plague Congress ■ The Student Congress Ethics Committee is working on bills which would enforce stricter attendance policies. BY LILLIE CRATON STAFF WRITER The Student Congress Ethics Commit tee barely made quorum at a Monday night meeting to discuss the problem of poor attendance at congressional sessions. Just three members of the five-person committee were present at the meeting. Low turnout has plagued the full con gress and its committees all year, accord ing to attendance reports. Of the 33 representatives in congress, three members have already missed two of the three general sessions held this semes ter. The Student Code states that a congress member may miss two general sessions and two committee meetings each semes ter before being expelled from congress. physics. TUNL faced elimination after a House Subcommittee voted to cease fund ing. A letter-writing campaign saved TUNL’s funding. “People moved quickly to raise aware ness in Congress about TUNL, ” said Mark Kautz, TUNL resident development coor dinator. Unfortunately, not all programs facing the budget-cutting knife can be saved. Meyer said many of the cuts proposed by Congress are shortsighted. “Congress is undermining many pro grams by eliminating funds,” he said. Con gress does not have enough time to prop erly study the issues and programs in ques tion, Meyer added. See GRANTS, Page 5 possible options of the actors skill.” Fear has helped push Stewart away from the camera and back into the theater, par ticularly Shakespearean. “I was actually afraid that, as I have seen happen with some actors, that I would spend too much time exclusively in front of the film camera, and it would diminish the skills that the stage muscles during a live performance,” Stewart said. “I did not want to lose my nerve, and ‘A Christmas Carol’ grew directly out of my need to create something.” Stewart began performing one-man the ater in coordination with ACTER, and after 20 years of performing, he finally has the ability to choose what he does. “In the beginning of a career you are not in the position to pick roles; you take what you can get, and you are thankful for it, but if all goes well then there comes a time when you can be a little more selective,” Stewart said. “But now I can also initiate work too, so if there is something I particu larly want to do I can do it.” With the success of the “Star Trek” franchise, Stewart now has the ability to Representative AARON NELSON said members who missed too many meetings should be removed from congress. “If you miss more than two meetings during the semester, we can expel you with a majority vote,” committee Chair man Steve Oljeski said. During Monday’s ethics committee meeting, members discussed new attendance policies that may be turned in as bills before the next con gress meeting, to be held Oct. 11. These new policies would require a rep resentative to check out with the clerk before leaving a meeting early and would list specific reasons for which an absence might be excused. “A valid excuse will be determined by the ethics committee,” Rep. Todd Blackwell, Dist. 20, said. Code Changes May Benefit Campus Religious Groups BY JOHN PATTERSON STAFF WRITER With a code change in Student Con gress making it possible for student reli gious organizations to apply for funding, money is running short, and the process is still complicated for applicants. Darin Diner, interim director of North Carolina Hillel, said he felt congress had not made the funding process an easy one for student religious organizations. “We were told we did what we had to do,” Diner said. “However, when we got to full congress, they told us we had to go back to the (Student Congress) Rules and Judiciary Committee. There is no clear guideline or outline for what we are sup posed to do.” Diner said because student religious organizations had become eligible for stu dent funds, congress had become over whelmed with additional requests for money. Council Votes to Allow Museum in Old Library BY MARY-KATHRYN CRAFT STAFF WRITER After much discussion and input from various groups, the Chapel Hill Town Council decided Wednesday to allow a mu seum to move into the old library building on Franklin Street. Chapel Hill Day Care presently occupies the space, but their lease has expired. The museum and another day care service, Victory Village Day Care, both requested use of the space. Not every council member supported the museum’s move into the facility. “I spoke in favor of a compromise for Victory Village Day Care to use the facility and the museum to use the lower level as a starting point to raise money,” council member Pat Evans said. “I thought that might be acceptable, but no one else took me up on it.” Council member Lee Pavao was the council liaison to the museum. At Wednesday’s meeting, he handed out copies of a resolution to allow the museum to use the space. “I think it is an ideal use of a public facility, ” Pavao said. “When the money was raised to build the library, the town made a commitment that the building would always be used as a public facility.” He said the vote showed that the town had made a commitment to the residents to keep the building a public arena. Council member Joe Capowski voted against allowing the museum to use the space. “I voted against it because I thought the process used was elitist,’’ Capowski said. No one else in the town, including council members, had previously seen the proposal. Capowski said he is glad the museum will be housed in the building, because the town needs another museum. “We should not give the building away without receiving revenue for it until we have a working museum,” Capowski said. The development of a museum was proposed years ago, council member Joyce Brown said. A commission on the museum was appointed, and the council is now acting on their recommenda tions. “We are acting on recommendations of the commission,” Brown said. “This process has been going on for quite a few years! ” Tuesday, October 3,1995 choose his roles. “What I look for in a role now is something that moves you, that is the most important part, rather than its comic or dramatic or whatever,” he said “I look for something that has a visceral im pact on me, and my feelings are that if it moves me, then the chances are that it might move somebody else as well.” “I am also constantly looking for work thatisas varied as possible,” he said. “And I am still in a role of trying to find work that puts as much distance between me and Captain Picard’s space suit as possible; not that I don’t have great respect for Captain Picard, because I do.” Fans of-“ Star Trek: The Next Genera tion” need not worry about the Trek film franchise ending with only seven movies. “The ‘Next Generation,’ and Captain Picard, Commander Ryker, Commander Data and all the rest of the crew are going to continue their lives but in the more elevated atmosphere of feature film,” Stewart said. “I will expect to be in produc tion of the next ‘Next Generation’ film See STEWART, Page 4 The committee plans to strictly enforce the attendance policies, Oljeski said. “I assume we’re going to be bouncing at least a half-dozen people.” Rep. Aaron Nelson, Dist. 13, argued that such penalties were fitting to the in fraction. “We give people a chance to come be fore us and explain,” he said. “I don’t think that two-and-a-halfhours every other week is too much to ask. There are other people out there who can do the job full time, and I don’t think that being busy is a valid excuse. When you start missing that many meetings, you don’t really have any interest in congress." Poor attendance hampered congress at the last meeting, which addressed funding requests for many student groups includ ing the Carolina Athletic Association. Low turnout made the three-fourths majority required to pass funding bills im possible, forcing Student Body President Calvin Cunningham to approve an emer gency measure that allowed Congress to pass funding bills with only a two-thirds majority. “Student Congress is paranoid, because they know that this has opened up a Pandora’s Box,” Diner said. “This is not an effective way of distributing funds.” Student Congress Speaker Roy Granato said that while congress had no obligation to fund student religious oiganizations, the University had made great strides to follow the precedent set by the U. S. Su preme Court when it ruled that student funds cannot be denied to groups because of religious or political affiliation. “There is nothing that tells us that we have to fund them (student religious orga nizations),” Granato said. “But after the Supreme Court case, we cannot deny fund ing based on religious affiliation. We pretty much came up with a strategy after meet ing with University Legal Counsel Susan Ehringhaus.” Congress Speaker Pro-Tempore James Kilboume said he was confident a number See FUNDING, Page 4 3
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