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Senate to Set Rules as Clinton Trial Starts
The Senate took an oath of
impartial justice as it began
the second impeachment
hearing in U.S. history.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - With Chief
Justice William H. Rehnquist presiding,
the Senate somberly placed William
Jefferson Clinton on trial Thursday on
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UNC junior and filmmaker Mike Connor (left front) works on the set of his film "Second Hand" with the film's art director, Kendra Gaeta (right).
Connor finished working on the film in December and said he hoped to hold a preview for the movie in March.
By Ginny Yu
Staff Writer
For UNC junior and filmmaker Mike
Connor, dreams really have come true.
Connor has combined the unsettling
thoughts that
plagued him in his
sleep at night with
his longtime film
making aspirations
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to produce a film titled “Second Hand.”
Connor finished shooting footage for
the movie, filmed in Chapel Hill, in
U.S. Plane
Fires on
Iraqi Site
U.S. officials call Saddam
Hussein's repeated no-fly
zone attacks the acts of a
leader losing control.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - An American
warplane fired a missile at an Iraqi air
defense site that was targeting the jet
Thursday in what the head of the U.S.
forces in the region called a sign of
Saddam Hussein’s desperation.
Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, leader
of U.S. Central Command, said the
Iraqi president’s grip on power appears
to be slipping and he is trying to assert
control by repeatedly challenging “no
fly” zones, executing traitorous military
and civilian leaders and lashing out at
Arab leaders.
Nothing was ever done so systematically as nothing is being done now.
Woodrow Wilson
charges of high crimes and misde
meanors in the first presidential
impeachment in 131 years. The White
House promised a “compelling case” for
acquittal.
The momentous events unfolded as
Senate leaders struggled for an elusive
accord on guidelines for the trial, setting
an extraordinary closed-door meeting of
all senators for Friday.
“I think there is some common
ground,” said the Democratic leader,
Sen. Tom Daschle of South Dakota,
What Dreams May Come
December, and he is in the process of
editing it. He said he hoped to hold a
March screening for the film.
The plot for “Second Hand” springs
direcdy from dreams, Connor said.
“I was having weird dreams,”
Connor said. “I’d
be doing something
and people were
always taking pic
tures of me.”
The film focuses on a psychological
ly disturbed girl, played by senior
Carey Kotsionis, who tapes records
'A Sign of Desperation'
In the past weeks Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has violated U.N. 'no-fly' zone regulations
at least 40 times, U.S. officials said. The latest incident occurred Thursday.
No-Fly Zone ■ An American warplane fired a
■ missile at an Iraqi air defense zone
r that was targeting the jet Thursday.
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/ i northern no-fly zone, 20 miles
; northwest of Mosul.
■ Two Iraqi fighter jets also entered
\ * the southern no-fly zone on Thursday.
Iraq s
L ■ Since 1992, Iraq has moved more
L missile launch sites into no-fly zones
No-Fly Zone j A patrolled by U.S. and British planes
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
“He’s dangerous now. He could
become more dangerous,” said Zinni,
who commanded forces during the Dec.
16-19 airstrikes against Iraq.
Since Operation Desert Fox, Iraq has
moved more surface-to-air missile sites
into no-fly zones patrolled by U.S. and
British planes to protect Kurds in the
north and Shiite Muslims in the south,
the Pentagon said. The zones began in
1991 and 1992 after the Gulf War.
In past weeks, Iraq has violated the
no-fly zones with aircraft incursions at
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although he and
Majority Leader
Trent Lott added
there had been no
bipartisan accord
on whether to per
mit testimony by
witnesses.
After several
hours of behind
the-scenes discus
sions, Lott and
President Clinton
Daschle made a rare joint appearance
people’s conversations and pho
tographs them while they sleep.
“She’s obsessed with a guy because
she thinks he killed someone,” Connor
said. “It’s a story about her surveillance
of him.”
Connor, a communication studies
major, wrote the screenplay in just a
few hours’ time. But it has since been
revised many times, he said.
To make the film, Connor worked
through the Carolina Production
Guild, an organization where he serves
as vice president.
least 40 times, Zinni said, and two Iraqi
fighters entered the southern zone on
Thursday, according to the Pentagon.
Iraqi missile batteries fired at U.S.
and British planes twice last week in no
fly zones and then four U.S. warplanes
fired on —but missed - Iraqi planes on
Tuesday after the Americans were
threatened.
Thursday’s incident occurred in the
northern no-fly zone, 20 miles north-
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before reporters to declare their willing
ness to make one more attempt at a
bipartisan agreement on procedures.
“We think that the best way to keep
calm and cool and dignified is to look at
each other and talk to each other,” said
Lott.
The two sides were expected to
exchange proposals for witnesses and
other issues in advance of the scheduled
Friday meeting.
Hyde and other Republicans have
prepared a list of potential witnesses,
Connor held auditions for “Second
Hand” in September and chose four
students to play the principal roles.
A technical crew of 30 people from
the Carolina Production Guild worked
with Connor to direct the film. The
UNC campus and McCauley and
Greensboro streets are the film’s set.
The production was financed
through grants, private individuals and
the Carolina Production Guild.
Connor said he looked at the movie
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Committee Approves
Student Fee Increase
By Ashley Stephenson
University Editor
The Chancellor’s Committee on
Student Fees approved a $30.50 pro
posed student fee increase during its
meeting Thursday night.
The committee will put the fee rec
ommendations before the UNC Board
of Trustees Jan. 28 and 29 for approval
and then the N.C. General Assembly in
early February, said Roger Patterson,
committee co-chairman.
If the increase is approved by the
General Assembly, it wifi become effec
tive in fall 1999, Patterson said.
“I anticipate that they will approve it,
but that’s their prerogative,” he said.
The $30.50 increase is comprised of
three different fee increases, Patterson
said. Flight dollars of the money will go
toward an education and technology
fee, which will be used to cover infla
tionary growth costs. Students now pay
$236 for education and technology.
Of the SB, $3 ‘ will go to Career
including Monica Lewinsky, presiden
tial friend Vernon Jordan and White
House secretary Betty Currie, central
figures in the sex-and-cover-up case put
together by Independent Counsel
Kenneth Starr.
In addition, Republican sources who
spoke on condition of anonymity said
GOP lawmakers may also want to have
several current and former White House
officials subpoenaed, including John
Podesta, the chief of staff; Harold Ickes,
a former aide, and adviser Sidney
Fees Would Rise
For Reverse P2P
An additional P2P Xpress
route would require buying
extra buses as well as labor
and maintenance costs.
By Katie Abel
Staff Writer
Students might soon reach their cam
pus destinations a little faster if student
government decides to implement a
route that runs opposite the current P2P
Xpress route, but they won’t be able to
do it without having to dish out a few
extra dollars.
Student gov
ernment officials
said they were try
ing to determine
whether students
would be willing
to pay about $5
more in fees for
the reverse route
in the late-night
campus shuttle.
The new route
requires addition
al funds for new
shuttles, mainte
nance, fuel and
labor costs.
Student Body
Secretary
Minesh Patel
said a reverse P2P
route would reduce
ride time.
Students pay S4O annually for total
transportation fees, $5 of which goes to
the P2P system. “We want to see if the
reverse route would be an advantage for
students or more of a cost burden,” said
Student Body Secretary Minesh Patel.
Student Body Vice President Emily
Williamson said she wanted input from
student groups to see how many stu
dents would support the route.
She said people who lived on campus
would show more support for the
reverse route than those who lived off
campus.
If students show enough support for
the route, Williamson said a referendum
would be introduced to Student
Services to create a computing consul
tant/technological coordinator position.
Career Services has not received an
increase in fees since it was created dur
ing the 1995-96 school year, he said.
Susan Kitchen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, said if the fee increase
were approved, students, Career
Services staff members and someone
with technology expertise would form a
search committee. The Career Services
director would make the final decision.
The remaining $5 of the education
and technology fee will be spent on
computer labs, telecommunication lines
for dialing access, central e-mail and
Internet access, he said.
The second fee increase included in
the $30.50 covers a sl6 debt service fee
to be spent on Student Union renova
tions. Students approved the increase
through a referendum in spring 1998.
The last fee increase comprising the
$30.50 is a $6.50 student activity fee that
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Blumenthal.
Republicans crafted a plan that would
give first the House and then the White
House five days each to present evi
dence, after which senators could submit
questions to lawyers through Rehnquist.
The Senate would then decide whether
to call witnesses.
Democrats generally opposed wit
nesses at the trial, and Daschle told
reporters he favored a vote on the arti
cles after presentation of evidence with
out live testimony.
Congress in February.
But she said even if the referendum
passed, the student fee increase and the
new route would not begin until the
2000-2001 school year.
Talk of the new reverse route began
after Chancellor Michael Hooker
passed along an anonymous student
suggestion to Director of Public Safety
Derek Poarch.
Poarch and his staff then compiled a
cost analysis of the new route to see if it
would be financially feasible for stu
dents.
The cost of the route for the initial
five years would be approximately
$123,530 per year, according to the
findings compiled by the Department of
Public Safety.
Poarch said the University would
lease two new buses for the route. The
buses would be similar to the current
F2P Xpress shuttles, seating about 25
people, with additional standing room
also available.
Patel said the route would probably
have several advantages for students.
Since the new route will go in the
opposite direction of the original route,
it would be a more direct way for stu
dents to travel around campus, Patel
said.
“One of the problems we have with
the current Point-2-Point route is that
students have to stay on the buses for a
longer amount of time than it should
take them to get to various points on
campus,” he said.
Patel said the new route would also
likely decrease the amount of time stu
dents would have to wait for the shut
tles.
Williamson said she thought waiting
time was one of the major concerns stu
dents had with the current system.
“People are walking instead of wait
ing for the shuttles, and this can create
safety hazards.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
On the Job
Melissa Exum, the new dean of
students, gears her attention toward
students by talking with them about
their concerns and even baking them
pies. See Page 6.
Streak Stoppers
The UNC women’s basketball team
had its winning streak halted at 11
games by N.C. State on Thursday night.
Center Summer Erb paced the ’Pack in
the 87-70 win in Raleigh. See Page 7.
Today’s Weather
Chance of rain;
mid 50s.
Saturday: Rain; lower 60s.
Sunday: Clear; upper 30s.
Wanted!
The Daily Tar Heel needs a few good
writers, photographers, online staffers,
copy editors and designers. Stop by
the DTH office in Suite 104 of the
Union for an application. There will be
an interest meeting at 6 p.m.Jan. 12 in
Union 224.