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Candidates Rally
For Student Vote
U.S. Secretary of Education
Dick Riley also spoke at the
rally about the need for
support of public education.
By Holly Neal
Staff Writer
U.S. Rep. David Price, D-N.C., and
U.S. Secretary of Education Dick Riley
urged students Wednesday to get out
and vote for candidates who supported
higher education
in the upcoming
elections.
Scores of
enthusiastic stu
dents gathered at
the steps of South
Building at noon
to show their support, occasionally
cheering to voice their approval for the
speakers.
Idea in Accord With GPSF History
Adequate representation
and equitable funding have
always been issues between
the GPSF and Congress.
By Chris Hostetler
and DeVona A. Brown
Staff Writers
According to past relationships
between the Graduate and Professional
Student Federation, GPSF President
Bryan Kennedy's push for the group’s
separation should not come as much of
a surprise.
At Tuesday’s Student Congress meet
ing, Kennedy announced plans to file
petitions for a referendum that would
give the GPSF complete autonomy
from Student Congress.
Kennedy said his decision to seek
Health Care Tops List
Of Campaign Priorities
Both Republican and Democratic
candidates agree that health care
reform is necessary, but have
different solutions for the problem.
By Anne Fawcett
Staff Writer
In the U.S. congressional races, state incumbents
and challengers agree health care should give
patients as much choice as possible in their
providers and treatments. Their conflict comes in
deciding how to attain the goal.
While Libertarians propose returning health
care to the free market, Republicans and
Democrats say those needing medical care must be
protected. They disagree on patient recourse with
insurance companies.
“The Patients’ Bill of
Rights guarantees that
(health care) decisions
are made by doctors and
patients rather than
insurance clerks,” said
Tom Bates, spokesman
for Rep. David Price, D-
N.C. “Congressman
Price is committed to
making sure patients are
protected.”
The protection
ensures patients’ access
to specialists and emer
gency care, Bates said. It
also guarantees a mini
mum hospital stay for
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women recovering from breast cancer treatment.
Both parties created a version of the Bill of
Rights which included these provisions, said
Kimrey Woodard, spokeswoman for Sen. Lauch
Faircloth, R-N.C. The Republican version provid
ed physicians to hear appeals from patients with
Price discussed the successes for high
er education resulting from the recent
passage of the federal budget. “The
thing I’m proudest of is the Price
Education Affordability Act,” he said.
This act makes interest on student
loans tax deductible and allows with
drawals from Individual Retirement
Accounts to pay for higher education.
Price also said he was proud of the
Hope Scholarships, increases in Pell
Grant funds and his plan for on-campus
childcare support.
Education in public schools is also a
concern, Price said.
“We have an education agenda in this
country that goes beyond higher educa
tion,” he said. “We have some things to
celebrate for higher education, but there
is a huge unfinished agenda for sec
ondary and primary education.”
Riley also stressed the importance of
improving public school systems.
See SOUTH, Page 2
autonomy from student government’s
executive branch was the next step in a
history of animosity between graduate
and undergraduate students at UNC.
He said part of that history involved
poor representation in Congress.
Undergraduate representatives in
Congress do not seem to care about the
needs of his constituents, Kennedy said.
“Undergraduate representatives are
saying ‘This is in the law school; I have
to represent my constituents who are
never going to go there,’” he said.
“Those statements are completely bull.
In addition to Congress, the execu
tive branch has also had difficulty
addressing graduate students’ concerns.
Even former Student Body President
Mo Nathan, whom Kennedy said had
done an exceptional job of representing
all students, apologized to the GPSF last
year for not adequately representing its
point of view in the Chancellor’s Report
coverage disagreements, while the Democrats left
patients to appeal to the courts.
“The Republican bill and Democratic bill have
pretty clear-cut similarities,” Woodard said.
“(Faircloth and other Republicans) would like to
see access to care rather than access to lawsuits.”
Tom Roberg, U.S. House GOP challenger, said
health care reform was being held up by partisan
squabbles more than patient concern.
“Both sides have to get together on passing
health care (legislation),” he said. “Democrats and
Republicans agree on most things, but they can’t
agree on getting things done.”
Roberg said health care reform should allow
specialized physicians to be primary caretakers. “A
woman should be able to declare an 08-GYN as
her primary physician,” he said. “Likewise, a
child’s primary physician should be a pediatrician.”
Faircloth’s concern expands to women with
breast cancer as well. While Price pushed legisla
tion protecting breast cancer victims, Faircloth
helped double funding for the National Institute of
Health’s breast cancer research.
“Sen. Faircloth sits on the Appropriations
Committee, which sends money to the NIH,”
Woodard said. “A lot of people think these cancer
centers (like UNC’s) just appear from somewhere.
Lauch Faircloth is who makes them appear.”
Libertarian Senate hopeful Barbara Howe and
House hopeful Gary Goodson said the government
should disappear from health care altogether.
Howe said Americans take access to health care
for granted. “What are we entitled to and what do
we expect?” she said. “Health care is not a right.
We have a right to go out and seek it out, and
health caretakers have an obligation to provide.”
Goodson agreed that independent action was
the most efficient way to distribute care.
“I am a firm believer in the free market as the
most efficient and fair means of distributing limit
ed resources,” he said. “That includes health care.”
The State & National Editors can be reached
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Don't defy the diagnosis, try to defy the verdict.
Norman Cousins
Thursday, October 29, 1998
Volume 106, Issue 106
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Leah Hutchinson (left), a member of the Young Democrats, cheers on David Price and other Democratic
candidates at a rally at South Building on Wednesday afternoon.
on the Intellectual Climate.
As for the executive branch this year,
Kennedy said that members who
approached the N.C. General Assembly
for funding for the UNC system touted
Undergraduate Library and Student
Union renovations as their major issues.
Kennedy said the push for graduate stu
dent tuition remission was ignored.
Also, because of the majority under
graduate Congress, other graduate stu
dent interests had been minimized.
For example, in a 1995 Congress
meeting, undergraduate Congress rep
resentatives debated with graduate stu
dents on the University policy that stu
dent groups could not buy alcoholic
beverages with allocated money.
Though she argued for graduate stu
dents then, citing a lack of support from
undergraduates, former GPSF President
See GPSF, Page 2
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Allison Sakash, a UNC pharmacy student, interns at Eckerd Drugs on N.C. 54. This election
season candidates agree that patients should choose their own health care services.
UNC-System Institutions
Benefit from State Budget
By Kimberly Grabiner
and Matt Dees
Staff Writers
The UNC system, especially UNC
CH, came away with full pockets and
great expectations following the long
awaited state budget.
The House and Senate passed a $12.5
billion spending plan for the year
Wednesday - 4 months after it was sup
posed to take effect.
The UNC system received funds for
libraries, information technology pro
grams designed to deal with enrollment
growth and other initiatives.
“I think the UNC system did well
with the budget,” said Rep. Verla Insko,
D-Orange. “UNC-Chapel Hill and
N.C. State (University) did the best,
especially with capital improvements.”
UNC-CH received funding for every
capital request it made to the General
Assembly, UNC-system President
Molly Broad said. The budget included
$9 million to renovate the
Undergraduate Library and $1 million
for additional improvements to
Memorial Hall.
The Board of Governors also pushed
to secure funds for technological
advancements within the system.
“There was a major commitment to
technology in this budget,” Broad said.
“We are very grateful for the support
that was provided by the General
Assembly.”
But Insko said more could have been
done to advance technology.
“I was a little disappointed that we
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Swain Faces
Charges
From State
Lt. C.E. Swain was charged
with lying on a history form
by the state's Criminal
Justice Standards Division.
By Lalra Stoehr
Assistant University Editor
The attorney for Lt. C.E. Swain has
requested this week the state’s Criminal
Justice Standards Division to release
details surrounding charges against
Swain that could result in a revocation
of his law enforcement license.
Swain was issued charges from the
division in September that he falsified
two items on a personal history form
filled out in 1988 when he applied to
work as a police officer at UNC, said
Alan McSurely, Swain's attorney.
McSurely expects an administrative law
judge to hear the case within three to
four months.
In an appeal sent to the division
Tuesday,
McSurely said he
requested it to
release the name
of the person who
reported the
charges, how he
reported them
and his motiva
tions.
McSurely said
the discrepancy
surfaced when
officials deposi
tioned Swain in
his lawsuit against
UNC last year.
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Lt.
C.E. Swain
was suspended for
allegedly falsifying
his time sheet.
Swain alleges the University retaliat
ed against him when he issued an cita
tion for underage drinking to Caroline
Hancock, currently a UNC sophomore
and the daughter of Board of Trustees
member Billy Armfield. Swain was then
fired by Chancellor Michael Hooker for
allegedly falsifying his time sheet.
Swain said he was not surprised with
the division’s actions. “This is some
thing that we pretty much suspected -
that something like this would happen.”
The division’s first charge alleged
that Swain lied when he did not indicate
he had previously faced military
charges, McSurely verified. He said
Swain had been disciplined by the army
in 1982 because a check he paid to the
post exchange had bounced.
McSurely said Swain received an
article 15, a non-judicial punishment
and had to forfeit one week’s pay.
The division also alleged that Swain
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Thursday
Writers, Get Your Pens
UNC’s creative writing program pairs
students who aspire to start writing
with established faculty members like
Doris Betts. See Page 5.
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LSD on Campus
Two UNC students were arrested on
drug charges Wednesday after other
students tipped police officers about
LSD transactions. See Page 9.
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