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(The Satlu ®ar HM J NC CO 07/30/96 J? Volume 103, Issue 118 102 years of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Carquest Ends Waiting Game, Invites Tar Heels ■ UNC’s foe for the Dec. 30 bowl will be determined by the end of the week. BY JUSTIN SCHEEF MANAGING EDITOR Finally, it’s official. After waiting anxiously for five days, the UNC football team was formally in vited on Wednesday to play in the Carquest Bowl. Officials of the Dec. 30 game, held in Joe Robbie Stadium in Miami, had delayed their decision to wait for NCAA rulings on other schools. The bowl will kick off at 7:30 p.m. on TBS. Whom the Tar Heels take the field against, however, is still up in the air. It could be a Big East team (Syracuse, Miami or Virginia Tech) or an SEC team (Arkan sas, Alabama or Georgia). But Arkansasor Georgia are the likely opponents because The Boston Globe reported Wednesday that Miami would go on self-imposed pro bation, forcing the Carquest to look to the SEC. “We’re excited we’re in a bowl, and we don't care who we play,” UNC coach Mack Brown said. “We’ve learned this year that there’s a whole lot of things we can’t control, and who we play is one of them.” The bowl, which pays each school a guaranteed $750,000, is supposed to take the Big East No. 3 team after the Alliance and Gator Bowl make their selections, but if Miami is on probation, the Carquest will go to the SEC. Carquest Executive Director Brian Flajole said the bowl hoped to line up a foe for UNC by Friday. “We said we would wait until Friday to get an indication before making a commit menttoanyoneelse,”Flajolesaid. “I think Home Gets Final Approval, Set To Take BCC Post Jan. 1 BY SHARIF DURHAMS STAFF WRITER The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center’s wait for a permanent director is over. After being recommended for the job earlier this fall, Professor Gerald Home has been approved for three tenured pro fessorships at UNC. A professorship was necessary for Home to take over as head of the BCC. The UNC Board of Governors approved Home’s nomination for professorships in the African and Afro-American studies curriculum and the communications stud ies department at its Nov. 10 meeting. The history department separately approved him for a professorship in that department pp'>: . DTK/ ERIK PERIL Chapel Hill resident Mark Johnson gets a tooth filled by UNC students Jim Anderson and Mark McConnell at a clinic in Carr Mill Mall on Wednesday. Card May Give Students ‘Advantage’ BY LILLIE CRATON STAFF WRITER A representative from Student Advan tage, a Boston-based company that sells discount cards to college students, will visit campus Monday to pitch the Student Advantage Card to members of student government. The card, normally sold for S2O, would enable students to receive discounts on products and services from both local and national businesses, said Jeff Parks, an area director with Student Advantage. “Student Advantage consists of two pro grams, ” Parks said. “The first is a grassroots program that gets local businesses to offer discounts to students. “The other is a national program in which national companies give discounts, ” he said. Parks said Amtrak, Greyhound, Dollar Rent-A-Car and several airlines of fered discounts to cardholders. Parks saidStudentAdvantage was work ing on similar deals with many other na Bowl Bound si ? 7 p.m., Dec. 30 Joe Robbie Stadium, Miami Televised on TBS Tickets: Club level s43 General Reserved s3s On sale now at Smith Center ticket office, 962-2296 the bowl has to step forward and say what’s in the best interest of the bowl. It’s advan tageous for the bowl to make a selection as soon as possible.” If the Carquest goes to the SEC, it could take Georgia or, if Alabama’s postseason ban is lifted, select either the Crimson Tide or Arkansas, depending on which team the Peach Bowl chooses. Of course, that’s as suming the Razorbacks fall to Florida in Saturday’s SEC title tilt. The NCAA should rule on Alabama’s postseason status to day. Even though the Tar Heels don’t have an opponent yet, Brown said they were excited to be going to their fourth-straight bowl and 20th overall. UNC went to the Peach Bowl in Atlanta in 1992, the Gator Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., in 1993, and the Sun Bowl in El Paso, Texas, last year. “When we asked them (Tuesday) if the invitation would be brought forth would they be excited about coming, there was a bigger roar than I’ve heard around here in a long time,” Brown said. The bowl game caps a season of fallen expectations. The Tar Heels started the See CARQUEST, Page 2 Nov. 15. In a telephone conversation from Zim babwe where he is conducting research, Home said he planned to leave Zimbabwe on Dec. 17 and spend the rest of the year in London before arriving at UNC on Jan. 1. “I don’t have a house or car yet, but I’ll be there,” Home said. Home, a professor at the University of California at Santa Barbara and a former candidate for U.S. Senate from California, said the focus of his work at the BCC would be raising funds for a freestanding BCC. “One of the main objectives is to raise funding for this building,” he said. The University approved development of a freestanding center in 1993. Since that time, only $l.B million of the $7 million tional companies. “Next year the national program will consist of about 50 busi nesses,” he said. Amy Swan, student body vice presi dent, said Student Advantage had ap proached student government with an at tractive offer that student government was considering but had not yet accepted. “The representative from Student Ad vantage is going to come to our executive committee meeting this coming Monday, ” she said. “We’re going to ask him ques tions about the card and the arrangements. ’’ Swan said student government would consider the ethical issues of the deal and would check around for other offers of this kind. “We want to make a very informed decision,” she said. According to the proposed plan, Stu dent Advantage would sell the cards to the University for a bulk purchase price of only 80 cents per card instead of the normal S2O per card fee, Swan said. Students would receive the cards for free. “If this (deal) was to take place, Student I Kke work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. Jerome K. Jerome Chattel Hill Matlh Carolina THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 30,1995 v - rfPil ' Paul . aum. ii v viter . . ||l|l Jbzsb' • !$, i -/1 lliilliife -X X<; jmmx - -% z ■ r •Wf %' * Ji| > x -X. m Mafcs&m . M •' JPf ■■MMHMyiIMHi: £mm - #X m m \ ' :4 - xSgerv HRHH UOBum Slil. •* *vsi Xfilfc 1 * Wm n 'MroWMamßi ’ _ : |||Lt M Coach Mack Brown has a good reason to be happy. He and the Tar Heels were informed Wednesday by Keyna Cory (background), game chairman of the Carquest Bowl, that the Tar Heels would indeed spend the holidays in Miami. Brown said the team was excited to be bowl-bound for the fourth year in a row. GERAU) HORNE says he will focus on fundraising for the BCC when he arrives next year. needed to pay for the center has been raised. Architects are expected to un veil a preliminary design of the BCC building at the Board of Trustees’ January meeting. “We are plan ning a reception on the week of the Martin Luther King holiday to empha size the importance ofthis issue,"Home said. Program director of the BCC, Ellington Student-Run Health Clinic Aids Those in Need ■ The Student Health Action Committee offers both dental and medical attention. BY ELIZABETH ARNOLD STAFF WRITER In the midst ofbureaucratic controversy over welfare, medical insurance and Med icaid, a program founded and operated by UNC students offers a free, easy alterna tive to the confusion of today’s health care system. Student Health Action Committee is believed to be the nation’s oldest student run health service. Founded in 1968 by Stores would transfer money into a student government account so we could buy the cards,” Swan said. “There would be no student fees involved.” John Jones, director of Student Stores, said that he would be interested in helping finance the cards but that he would not know the details of the plan until later. “What we’re thinking of doing is help ing to underwrite the cost of the cards as a promotional expense,” he said. “We don’t know exactly how this will be worked out.” This bulk-purchase plan would differ from the arrangements made with schools such as Boston University and Simmons College. According to reports in the Bos ton Business Journal, in the past Student Advantage has exchanged a percentage of its profits for University-sponsored adver tising. Jones said he did not know how the meeting with Student Advantage would turn out, but he did not think University sponsored advertising waspartoftheplan. Graves, said having a permanent director would help Ae development of a free standing BCC move forward. “It has been hard when everybody working here day to day is a student or temporary,” he said. Graves said he would continue doing the programming for the BCC while Home would focus on fund-raising. The heads of the three departments said Home would make a great addition to their staffs. “We voted unanimously and enthusias tically,” said chairman of the history de partment, Richard Soloway. Soloway said the history department waited until Home visited UNC last month before approving him because they wanted to be certain he could contribute to the health affairs students, the program offers free medical and dental attention to low income Orange County residents. Similar programs have been adopted by universi ties across the United States. The after-hours clinics operate every Wednesday evening of the academic year and are staffed by volunteer students and faculty from the Schools of Medicine, Nursing, Dentistry and Public Health. The clinics are run by student coordinators. SHAC provides such routine services as job and school-related physicals and den tal cleanings and fillings. Students' work is overseen by professors and graduate stu dents, as well as local professionals. The medical clinic also offers a free well-baby service. And They're Outta Here... At the end of 1995 Bill Watterson is retiring from his daily comic strip production, taking Calvin and As Hobbes with him. The precocious 6-year- f' old and his favorite stuffed tiger will be f genuinely missed by readers everywhere, especially in Chapel Hill, where they've \ appeared in The Daily Tar Heel for four /Vfy Here's your chance to 7 f make the call. Come 7 take its place. The possibilities are endless. Write the name of your preferred strip at the bottom of this ballot and drop it by the DTH office in Union Suite 104. Or email us with your vote at dth@email.unc.edu. department. “We weren’t hiring a director of the Black Cultural Center. We were hiring a professor of American history,” he said. “We don’t make tenure approvals at that level very lightly.” Chairman of the African and Afro- American Studies curriculum Julius Nyang’Oro said Home would offer stu dents classes which would explore diver sity. “He has done a lot of work in Africa and the U.S. We would be interested in his making connections between African and African-American culture,” he said. Home said he was interested in teach ing courses in African-American history since 1865, African history, the Civil Rights Movement and the politics of stage and screen. Tamara Campbell, the faculty adviser for SHAC from the dental school, said that approximately 10 to 13 students from the dental school staff the dental clinic each Wednesday night, which operates out of the Carr Mill Mall offices of the Orange County Health Department. SHAC is so popular among students that each volunteer works only one night per year. “For many students, this is their first encounter with a patient,” Campbell said. “It’s good that this is a more casual environment and that it’s such a good service to the community. Students get good feelings from volunteering.” Campbell said that many students who See CLINIC, Page 2 ~N@MwwraJT fwwtno.m* News/Features/Aits/Spoits Business/Advertising 995 DTH Publishing Corp. AD rights reserved Congress Rejects Lawsuit Bill ■ Congress voted against a bill that was intended to stop frivolous cases from going to the Supreme Court. BY JOHN SWEENEY STAFF WRITER Student Congress voted Wednesday against a bill to end “frivolous” legal ac tions brought before the Student Supreme Court. The bill, which would have allowed the Student Supreme Court to “impose or rec ommend sanctions against individuals bringing frivolous actions,” was the sub ject of an hour of debate, ranging from the necessity of the bill to its constitutionality. The bill failed by a vote of 7-13. “This bill is not necessary,” said Rep. Steve Oljeski, Dist. 4, after the meeting. “It sends the message to students that we in power will not tolerate your interfer ence with our business,” Oljeski said. Rep. Jamie Kilboume, Dist. 1, one of the bill’s most vocal supporters, said it was almost identical to the rules of professional conduct used in real courts. “It works in the federal courts. It works in the state courts. If you are an attorney, it’s something you have to live with,” Kilboume said. Rep. Terry Milner, Dist. 1, who spon sored the bill, said it clarified the Student Code’s position on the issue. “It points out what I feel is the authority the Student Supreme Court already pos sesses,” Milner said. But Oljeski cited sections of the Student Code that prohibit members of the court from issuing advisory opinions. “It all there, folks, in black and white. This bill is against the code,” Oljeski said. Congress also examined the redistrict ing plan for student elections. Kilboume, who helped with the redistricting process, said 20 of the 37 seats in congress were unconstitution because they did not repre sent the appropriate number of students. However, congress tabled the bill. Elections Board Chairwoman Annie Shuart said the decision frustrated her. Shuart said,“lf they don’t do something about (redistricting) by Feb. 13,1 won’t be able to hold an election.” ' Weather TODAY: Sunny; high in low 50s. FRIDAY: Mostly sunny; high in the 60s. 962-0245 962-1163
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