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2 Wednesday, November 26,1997 World leaders convene, discuss international issues THE ASSOCIATED PRESS VANCOUVER, British Columbia Warily watching world markets, President Clinton and Pacific Rim lead ers approved a rescue strategy Tuesday for shaken Asian economies but agreed there was no quick fix. They resolved to settle disputes over a global warming treaty in difficult negotiations next month. After two days of talks over the diffi cult Asian currency crisis, Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chretien said, “We say to the world, we will not be discour aged, we will not turn back" from the goal of free trade in the next century. The leaders also expanded their ranks, adding Russia, Vietnam and Peru to the 18-nation Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation group. The leaders expressed determination Hunt pens book, aspires to attend medical school BY LEIGH DAVIS STAFF WRITER For those of you who thought all your resident assistant did was live on your hall and keep the peace, meet senior Darrell Hunt. A chemistry major from Miami, he looks after the second floor of Hinton James Residence Hall, serves on the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center Advisory Board, is involved with the Campus Y, and is editorial page editor for the Black Student Movement’s pub lication, the Black Ink. “I’ve been busy with the Black Ink lately,” Hunt said. “The 30th anniver sary edition will be coming out soon, and it’s 48 pages long and in news mag azine format, so it is quite a bit of work but enjoyable.” Hunt is also currently writing a book on masculinity, especially for the black man. “It’s in the works,” he said. “I think I’m going to title it ‘Appropriated Location The Creation of Modern Black Masculinity. ’’’ It is based on the concept of hyper reality, which he explains as the “inabil ity to make a distinction between what is real and what is fabricated.” Media provide images of what black ness should be, and Hunt explained that when people emulate these unreal images, hyper-reality was in effect. “I read Richard Majors’ book, ‘A Cool Pose,’ and it sparked me to start thinking to a large extent about how black masculinity is created,” he said. “I started doing research after that, WALDORF FROM PAGE 1 “I’m very concerned with the penalty associated with it,” he said. “I’d like to see it reduced from a misdemeanor to an infraction. I don’t think it was ever the intent to give people criminal records.” Now Available in Paperback from Ballantine Carolina Moon T K ' r Jill McCorkle # Bull’s Head Bookshop UNC Student Stores ■ 962-5060 bullshead@store.unc. edu to reach a worldwide agreement in Kyoto, Japan, to cut greenhouse gases blamed for global warming. But they failed to strike an agreement on how much pollutants each nation will be required to cut. Clinton, in an upbeat assessment as the meetings ended, said, “Here in Vancouver we proved that our Asia Pacific community is for all times good times and more challenging ones.” He said an understanding to reduce trade barriers in nine areas from toys to chemicals “is a strong vote of con fidence in our common future.” The discussions were overshadowed by turmoil that continued unabated dur ing the talks, with markets tumbling in Asia after the fourth largest brokerage house in Japan failed. “The purpose of coming here is not a Name Darrell Hunt Miami Major Chemistry A weekly series spotlighting a UNC senior who has made a significant contribution to the University and since May I have read 24 books on the hip-hop culture or either masculini ty. I hope to have it published, but it needs a couple more years of work.” He hopes to attend medical school at Columbia University and get a masters in public health. “I also want to contin ue writing while doing this,” he said. Hunt said UNC was the perfect for his undergraduate studies. “I have enjoyed the interactions with people I have had here,” he said. “UNC has intellectual engagement like no other.” Do you know someone who should be Senior of Week? Pick up an application at the Student Union desk. Waldorf said she believed the crimi nal record could be expunged through community service, but that lessening the punishment might not be effective in deterring public drinking. “Really, (the penalty) needs to be a little bit of a prob lem for someone in order for them to refrain from this behavior.” UNIVERSITY & CITY short-term, 72-hour, we’re going to fix the situation,’” said Daniel Tarullo, Clinton’s international economics advis er. “A number of leaders including those from affected countries said, ‘You don’t fix this overnight.’ ” He said APEC sent a reassuring message by demonstrating the leaders were respond ing “appropriately and forthrightly.” “There are no easy solutions,” said Philippine Finance Secretary Robert De Ocampo. “This thing is pretty shocking. The measures that are needed to address it don’t make the governments in power very popular.” Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad urged stronger regulations to govern the activities of currency traders, who he has blamed for triggering the Asian crisis. But a Canadian official, who summed up the talks, said, “There University facility hours during Thanksgiving break Carolina Dining Services facilities and libraries have different hours of operation during Thanksgiving break. Location Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday Chase Hall closed closed closed 7:00 a.m- TOtfO p.m. South Campus Mini Mart closed closed closed 11:00 a.m.- 12:00 a.m. Union Station dosed closed closed 5:00 p.m.- 9:00 p.m. Hanes Pavilion closed closed closed closed Carmichael closed closed closed closed Food carts closed closed closed closed Davis Library dosed 8:00 am- 1000 am- tegular 500 pm 500 pm schedule Undergraduate Library closed closed 10:00 am- 12:00 pm -5:00 p.m. all night Campaign to counter child exploitation ■ N.C. doctors launched a campaign against ads that sexually exploit children. BY CRAIG MACDONALD STAFF WRITER To raise awareness of the sexual exploitation of children in advertise ments, several North Carolina doctors launched a statewide awareness cam paign Tuesday. Dr. Denise Everret, director of the Child Sexual Abuse Team at Wake Medical Center in Raleigh; Dr. Linnea Smith, a Chapel Hill psychiatrist; Marcia Herman-Giddens, adjunct pro fessor of maternal and child health at UNC and Laura Gutman, associate pro fessor of pediatrics at Duke University launched their campaign in reaction to the increasing numbers of provocative advertisements using young children. “Society is becoming desensitized, new standards in sexual exploitation are being set and the public is gradually becoming more tolerant,” Everret said. Child abuse cases now number about 3 million annually, although the recent rise is attributed to increasing willing ness to report such crimes. 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Leaving a lot of room for separate approaches, the leaders’ communique said, “We affirm that this issue is of vital significance and that it requires cooper child abuse is not clear, said David Williamson, director of Research News at UNC. The campaign, managed by the N.C. Pediatric Society, aims to counter adver tisements that glamorize the sexuality of children, such as those introduced last year by designer Calvin Klein. In response to such ads, the group published some 100,000 brochures which they plan to distribute to N.C. pediatricians and their patients. “The brochures are designed to raise awareness among the public of such advertising,” Everret said. In addition to raising awareness, the group wants to encourage people to view advertisements objectively. “(People should) look at advertise ments and decide for themselves whether they are inappropriate or not, before registering their opinions with the relevant magazines,” Everret said. Williamson said such advertisements were pervasive in popular culture. “(The ads are found) in mainstream publishing, such as The New York Times and involve the touching of pri vate parts or the use of adult models dressed up to look like children,” he said. After a planning stage of nearly two years the campaign’s debut has already met with considerable success. Both the Campus calendar 8:30 p.m. Admission prices are $4 for adults and $3 for children, students and seniors. Call 549- 6863 for more information. Interested in minority health issues? The Minority Student Nunes Association will sponsor a presentation by the N.C. Office of Minority Health on Dec. 2 at 6 p.m. in 09 Carrington Hall. The Duke Univereity Music Department will present the Duke Jazz Series on Dec. 5 at 8 p.m. in Baldwin Auditorium. The Duke Jazz Ensemble, directed by Paul Jeffrey, will ative efforts by the international com munity, in accordance with the principle of common but differentiated responsi bilities.” Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto was mounting anew initiative to help developing nations move closer to a treaty. Clinton said the leaders agreed to develop an emergency program to pre dict, prevent and coordinate responses to natural disasters such as the Indonesian forest fires that spread a haze over southeast Asia. The United States will contribute $4 million to the plan. Clinton proposes to tackle global warming gradually, using tax breaks to reduce greenhouse gases followed by internationally binding pollution cuts. The goal is to stabilize carbon releases into the air at 1990 levels by 2008-2012 and then begin making slight reductions. “Hopefully, parents will talk to their children ... because children get confused if given the message that this is what they should look like. ” MARCIA HERMAMIDDENS UNC professor American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics endorse the campaign. “The North Carolina campaign is being used to spearhead a national cam paign and efforts in other parts of the country,” Williamson said. Herman-Giddens said through the campaign, the organizers hoped to improve children’s ideas of themselves. “Hopefully, parents will talk to their children about the images, because chil dren get confused if given the message that this is what they should look like,” Herman-Giddens said. State officials have not provided any money for this project yet, but organiz ers hope they will soon see support. “We have not had help from the state legislature,” Everret said. “Hopefully we will get a response, but it is a little too early to tell.” perform with guest artist Peter Leitch on gui tar. Beth El Synagogue and Beth El Sisterhood will hold their Annual Hanukkah Book Fair on Dec. 7 from 9:30 a.m. to noon at the Beth El Synagogue, located at 1004 Watts St. in Durham. All proceeds will ben efit projects to improve the physical plant and the religious school. For more informa tion call 682-1238 or send e-mail to bethel sy@mindspring.com. For the record The raised quote in the Nov. 25 article, "Gov. Hunt files lawsuit against federal gov ernment,' should have been attributed to Isaac Unah. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the error. Voted "The Best Delivered Meal" -The Daily Tar Heel, March 20,1997 Large 14’’Cheese Pizza "*s49ss^r ■ additional toppings $1 each FAST, DELIVERY 968-FAST (Tip Daily Sar Heel IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world. Report: More nations cair create deadly weapons WASHINGTON More than 25 nations have or may have been develop ing nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and ways to deliver them, Defense Secretary William Cohen said. In a press conference Tuesday, he called the threat “neither far-fetched nor far off.” “The front lines are no longer over seas,” said Cohen, releasing a report that said Americans could fall victim to such an attack, because criminal orga nizations and cults —as well as nation states could deploy such weapons.' These weapons are “the poor man’s atomic bomb cheaper, easier to pro duce and extremely deadly,” the defense secretary said. The report focused on Middle East and North African nations and singled out Iran, Iraq, Libya and Syria as trou ble spots. They “are aggressively seeking NBC weapons and increased missile capabilities” and constitute “the most pressing threats” to stability in the region, the study said. The Pentagon declined to list all 25 nations mentioned in the report, calling the information classified. Officials plan for possible end to waste site study RALEIGH Seeking time to fix a 1999 funding shortage, state officials made plans Tuesday for a possible shut down of a low-level radioactive waste dump project if money for it was cut off. “I have a big concern because it looks like our backs are to the wall,” said James Reddish, a member of the state Low-Level Radioactive Waste Management Authority. The authority voted 11-2 during a teleconference to ask the Southeast Compact Commission for time to con sider a $7 million loan offer from sever al electric utilities that would use the dump. The commission doles out funds to develop the repository, planned to store wastes from seven southeastern states. Authority members also voted to authorize spending the $139,058 it would cost to put the project on hold in December if the commission cuts off funds. If monqy is cut off, the project may have to Be stopped in January. The state, its contractor and state radiation regulators have spent much of the past year reaching agreement on methods to study the Wake County site. The next step is to determine whether water flowing underground would carry radiation into drinking water sources. The commission gave the state a Dec. 1 deadline to work out disagree ments with the utilities over the loan terms or lose money already allocated. The commission has authorized $600,000 a month in spending on the project. To date, some SIOO million has been spent on the project with no future date to begin building the dump. Vatican uses new media to increase accessibility VATICAN CITY - The Vatican unveiled anew series of multimedia products Tuesday, including a double CD-ROM complete with an interactive game. The new line also includes two new videotapes, including one on the famed Sistine Chapel, and three books, including one for children called “Alice in the Museum of Marvels.” The interactive CD-ROM takes view ers on a tour of the Vatican, its treasures and its history. The children’s book is intended to make the Vatican’s vast art collections more accessible. In the last few years, the Vatican has become more aggressive in producing such products, which have turned into successful money makers for the Holy See’s tight budget. The latest CD-ROM is the Vatican’s fifth, and it now has a series of 18 video tapes. FROM WIRE REPORTS
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