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AUGUST 23,1996
Dole brings campaign home to N.C.
BY JENNIFER WILSON
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
RALEIGH Honesty, integrity and
reliability were a few of the many words
Elizabeth Dole used Thursday to de
scribe her husband, Republican presi
dential candidate Bob Dole, in a speech
for the John Locke Foundation.
Elizabeth Dole refused to remain be
hind the podium, bringing her speech
directly to a mixed crowd of about 300
Republicans, Democrats and indepen
dents.
“I was a North Carolina Democrat, so
I’m going to twist some arms to bring you
all over today,” Dole said.’T don’t want
to be partisan, but we only have 75 days,
ladies and gentlemen, to win this elec
tion.”
Dole focused on the struggles her hus
band had to overcome, such as growing
up poor and injuring his right arm in
World Warn.
She said those experiences made him
the person he is today by instilling love of
God and family and belief in the rewards
of hard work.
She said her husband would focus on
these values to restore “personal respon
sibility to the citizens of the United
States.”
Dole explained how her husband’s
economic reform plan could strengthen
families.
A stronger economy could allow two
parent families to survive on one income,
so parents could spend more time with
their children and do volunteer work, she
said.
Dole also discussed her husband’s plan
for repealing taxes on Social Security
benefits, getting rid of the Internal Rev
enue Service as we know it, flattening the
tax code and balancing the budget.
Dole, the former president of the
Gender gap continues to plague SAT
BY ERICA BESHEARS
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
North Carolina students averaged a score of 976 on the
Scholastic Assessment Test in 1996, the highest state score
ever.
And although female students have narrowed the scoring
gap between themselves and the boys, they still averaged 33
points less than male students in 1996.
“Men’s scores have been higher on math since we’ve been
keeping track of scores,” said Fred Moreno, a spokesman for
the College Board, the national organization that sponsors the
SAT. Moreno said women tend to take fewer math and science
classes, which directly improve SAT math scores.
North Carolina boys averaged 502 on the math section and
492 on the verbal section. Girls scored 472 on math and 489 on
verbal. Nationwide, boys scored 527 on math and 507 on
See SAT, Page 6
SATs and ABCs
How do Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools' SAT scores
stack up against the rest of the state and the nation?
Area Math Verbal Total
Chapel Hill-Carrboro 578 574 1,152
City Schools
North Carolina 486 490 976
National 508 505 1,013
SOURCE: N.C. DEPARTMENT OF PUBUC INSTRUCTION DTH STAFF
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“I was a North Carolina
Democrat, so I’m going to
twist some arms to bring you
all over today. I don’t want to
be partisan, but we only have
75 days, ladies and gentlemen,
to win this election ”
ELIZABETH DOLE
Campaigning for husband Bob Dole
American Red Cross, touched on social
as well as economic issues. She accused
the Clinton administration of being si
lent in the war on drugs and soft on
criminals.
She also emphasized the importance
of parental choice in primary education.
“It’s only fair that low- and middle
income families have the same opportu
nities as the president’s children,” she
said.
Giving political speeches is nothing
new for Dole, who has always been more
than just a “Washington wife.”
She said that women have come a
long way toward equality in Washington
and in society since she graduated from
Duke University Law School.
Shortly after graduation, she needed
to attend a meeting at a club in Washing
ton with a few attorneys from Cleveland,
but was not allowed in because she was a
woman.
She said that the security guard told
her, “I don’t care if you’re name is Queen
Elizabeth, you’renot crossing that thresh
old.”
Dole went on to become secretary of
transportation during Ronald Reagan’s
presidency and secretary of labor during
George Bush’s administration. While
Area students earn
highest scores in state
Students in Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools earned
the highest SAT scores in North Carolina, according to the
N.C. Department of Public Instruction.
The average score for the school system was 1152, well
above the national average of 1013.
Kim Hoke, public relations spokeswoman for the sys
tem, said the scores have been consistently high for the past
few years. She attributed the high scores to the academic
structure in the school system.
“We offer a wide range of academically challenging
classes,” Hoke said.
Black students in the school system improved their
scores in the past year, Hoke said. Black scores in math
improved from below state average last year to placing
second in the state this year, she said.
Hoke attributed the rise in black students’ scores to a
strong focus on improving minority education. The Blue
Ribbon Task Force on the Education of African-American
Students was designed specifically to create strategies and
goals to improve education for black students, she said.
Among other efforts, the Task Force implemented
programs to encourage black students to enroll in SAT
preparatory classes, Hoke said.
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Clinton: tobacco should be
classified as addictive drug
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - President
Clinton is about to reverse centuries of
U.S. tobacco policy, declaring nicotine
an addictive drug in hopes of preventing
some 500,000
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smoke. guidelines
Tobacco still See Page 7
will be less re
stricted than any other drug the govern
ment has labeled addictive. And even if
the Food and Drug Administration’s
ambitious regulations work, it would be
years before the nation saw a drop in the
400,000 annual deaths attributed to to
bacco.
Still, “tobacco has been exempt from
safety regulations that every other con
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Elizabeth Dole spoke about the heart of the upcoming presidential election.
She said the election would focus on vision and values.
holding the cabinet positions, Dole in
creased the number of women in high
paying government jobs within the two
departments, she said.
sumer product in the country has been
subjected to,” said University of Califor
nia Professor Stanton Glantz, author of
“The Cigarette Papers.” “They’re basi
cally going from a privileged status to
being treated more like everything else.”
Clinton is expected on Friday to de
clare nicotine an addictive drug and un
leash the FDA to regulate cigarettes and
smokeless tobacco as devices that deliver
nicotine.
The FDA aims, within seven years, to
cut in half teenage smoking through far
reaching restrictions designed to snuff
tobacco’s appeal as sexy and fun, as well
as its availability to minors.
But tobacco farmers in North Caro
lina are concerned that letting the FDA
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the minimum wage
increase could cost us
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Despite the improvements, Dole said
society has yet to achieve total gender
equality. “We still need to network and
help younger women coming along.”
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Professor Joel Williamson is
researching the life and times
of the “King ” Elvis Presley.
BY JESSICA BANOV
FEATURES EDITOR
Joel Williamson never at
tended an Elvis Presley concert
and could only sit through eight
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Joel Williamson, professor of history at UNC, was never really an Elvis fan, but has studied the life
of the ‘King' for the past five years. Williamson argues that Elvis liberated the
southern white woman with his music.
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Hooker pleased with
Housekeepers’ offer
BY JAMIE GRISWOLD
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Attorneys for the UNC Housekeepers
Association said Chancellor Michael
Hooker’s response to their withdrawal of
an earlier request for reparations to the
heirs of black University employees
seemed positive.
Hooker had previously called the settle
ment request, which was made last Au
gust, “excessive in the extreme.”
“I appreciate the withdrawal of the
proposal of ‘sl,ooo cash payment to the
designated heir of every African Ameri
can who workedforUNC-CH from 1793
to 1960,’ and I am hopeful this matter can
be resolved amicably prior to the hearing
scheduled for late September,” Hooker
stated in a press release Thursday after
noon.
Housekeepers chairwoman Barbara
Prear sent a letter to Hooker on Wednes
day, informing him of the Housekeepers’
decision.
Alan McSurely, an attorney for the
Housekeepers, said the association met
Saturday and decided to withdraw the
request forreparations “because (Hooker)
seemed to be so upset about that.”
McSurely said Hooker’s response gave
the Housekeepers hope that the case
might be resolved without going to trial.
“Apparently (the letter) gave the chan
cellor a little breathing room, and he
responded positively,” McSurely said.
“We were pleased about that.”
The Housekeepers have been em
broiled in a legal battle with the Univer
sity over working conditions and salaries
since 1991. The association is set to
present their case against UNC before an
of Elvis’ 32 movies. He initially
didn’t even like Elvis’ music.
Yet somehow, Elvis Presley
has intrigued Williamson
enough for him to spend the
past five years researching and
preparingnot one, but two books
on the King of Rock ’n’ Roll.
“I didn’t
begin at all
as a music
fan,” said
Williamson, Lineberger profes
sor of the Humanities at UNC.
“I just liked him for scholarly
purposes.”
Most recently, Williamson
presented a paper titled “Elvis,
Faulkner and Feminine Spiritu
ality” at the Second Annual In
ternational Conference on Elvis
Presley at the University ofMis
sissippi in Oxford, Miss.
But don’t confuse this con
ference for “silly old Elvis stud-
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administrative law judge Sept. 23.
Hooker’s statement also stressed his
“strong commitment” to the Housekeep
ers and other University employees.
“When I first came to Carolina last
July, I expressed my strong commitment
to all of the employees of the University,
and my particular concern for our house
keepers and other lowest-paid employ
ees,” he stated. “Since then, we have
made significant improvements for these
employees.”
Hooker cited several improvements,
including the reorganization of Univer
sity housekeeping under the directorship
of Barbara DeLon, the creation of new
programs to improve housekeeper train
ing and supervision and the University’s
push for salary improvements for all
employees during the 1996 session of the
General Assembly.
Hooker stated that he had sent the
letter to the attorney general’s office and
that he expected the University to issue a
formal response to their settlement pro
posal within two to three weeks.
Attorneys for the Housekeepers and
the University will meet for a pretrial
conference in Raleigh at 10 a.m. today.
McSurely said he planned to file a
motion at the hearing to sanction statis
tics from the University. Attorneys for
the Housekeepers have already asked for
the statistics, which show how house
keepers are treated as opposed to other
University employees, but UNC has re
fused to turn over the documents,
McSurely said.
“There really is a different manner in
the way the Housekeepers are managed,
and we’re trying to build some data on
that.”
ies,” Williamson said.
“What really struck me (at
the conference) is that Elvis has
attracted deep scholarship from
all different backgrounds
from psychologists and psychia
trists to musicologists and histo
rians,” Williamson said. “The
conference was one of the most
invigorating and exciting schol
arly conferences I’d been to in
my professional life.”
Scholars at the conference
presented papers on a spectrum
of topics from “Elvis ’n’ Jesus”
to “Elvis Lives in Latin” to
“Elvis Presley ala Japonaise.”
The interdisciplinary aspect
of studying Elvis can help lead
to the discussion of broader is
sues, said John Kasson, a UNC
professor ofhistory who teaches
a course on popular American
See WILLIAMSON, Page 6