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The Harvard graduate says
he will make his decision
some time this week.
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Nearly ending the search for anew
School of Law dean, the University
offered the position to Joel Seligman,
dean of the University of Arizona
Rally Celebrates King's Legacy
More than 500 participants came
to Monday's march and rally held
in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.
By Matt Leclercq
Assistant City Editor
Dreary weather did not dampen the spirits of
more than 500 people Monday as they rallied
and marched downtown to renew the legacy
left by Martin Luther Kingjr.
The slain civil rights leader was remembered
through song, speeches and prayer at an 11
a.m. rally in front of the Franklin Street post
office, followed by a march to the traditionally
black Northside neighborhood. It was Chapel
Hill’s 17th annual celebration for the leader,
who was shot in 1968.
“We’re still fighting for some of the basic
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Marchers prepare to carry the leading sign during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day parade through downtown Chapel Hill.
Participants marched from Silent Sam in McCorkle Place to the Hargraves Center.
King Coalition Uses Rally to Address Housing Issue
The Martin Luther King Coalition
introduced its concerns about
affordable housing at the march.
By Jenny Beaver
Staff Writer
Local activists prepared for Monday’s march
not only in an effort to honor Martin Luther
Kingjr., but also to peacefully bring attention
to a social issue close to home.
Organizers described the problem of afford
able housing, the theme of the festivities, as an
urgent need that affects the entire community.
The Martin Luther King Coalition, made up
of individuals and members of local organiza
tions, worked with the area chapter of the
National Association for the Advancement of
Colored People and the Orange County Black
Clinton Address to Avoid Trial, Focus on Country
President Clinton will give
his State of the Union
address tonight at 9 p.m.
in the House chambers..
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Clinton
rehearsed a State of the Union address
brimming with ideas on education,
health care and other initiatives likely to
get a chilly reception from a Congress
bitterly divided by impeachment.
As Clinton’s lawyers reviewed the
legal defense they will begin presenting
on his behalf Tuesday, Education
There is much pleasure to be gained from useless knowledge.
Bertrand Russell
College of Law.
“I’ll make a decision very, very
soon,” Seligman said. “What I wanted to
do was present it to the search commit
tee.” He said he would announce his
decision in the next couple of days.
Seligman is one of six dean candi
dates chosen by a search committee as
finalists for the position held by outgo
ing law school dean Judith Wegner. But
Seligman got the highest recommenda
tion from the committee, said Student
Bar Association President Steven
principals he fought for,” said Fred Battle, pres
ident of the Chapel Hill/Carrboro chapter of
the National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People. “The barriers might be
down, but the struggle is still here.”
Speakers, standing before a diverse crowd
that included banner-flanked representatives of
local activist organizations, said King’s peaceful
battle against injustice in all its guises should
move forward to combat housing issues in
Chapel Hill.
“In North Carolina, 500,000 people pay
more than 50 percent of their income in rent,”
Rep. Verla Insko, D-Orange, said. “We’re not
putting enough money into state housing.”
David Rankin, a member of the Northside
Community Association, spoke of choosing a
battle and becoming involved.
“King showed what one highly motivated
person can do,” he said. “He and others like
him changed the heart of the nation.”
Caucus to plan events surrounding the holiday.
“Whether it’s social justice, affordable hous
ing or day care, we provide a unit to help find
a positive solution in a nonviolent way,” said
Robert Campbell, a coalition member and
Monday’s Master of Ceremonies.
The coalition’s mission this year is to make
Chapel Hill property affordable for city, town
and University employees.
“The issue of greatest importance for Chapel
Hill and Orange County is that groundspeople
of UNC and city employees can’t afford to live
in Chapel Hill because property is so expen
sive,” Campbell said.
“These people are being forced to live out of
the area because property is being turned into
condos for college students or middle-income
families.”
The coalition will meet Feb. 4 to form a plan
of action to work for affordable housing this
year, rally coordinator Ruby Steinreich said.
Secretary
Richard Riley
previewed one
of the presi
dent’s top edu
cation priori
ties: to hold
states and
school districts
accountable for
the achieve-
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ments of students and teachers.
States that fail to end social promo
tions and set standards could lose some
federal education aid. “Most of our
schools are doing very well and are
involved in this standards movement in
a very exciting way,” Riley said. “Yet
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(Seligman) was the
No. 1 choice,”
Gebeaux, who
met with Seligman
several times, said.
“I do not know
what happened
this weekend.”
Seligman
returned UNC on
Friday, after cam
pus interviews on
Law dean candidate
Joel Seligman
Many residents of Northside, which is north
of West Rosemary Street, have gone before
town officials with complaints of being
squeezed out of the area by students who can
afford the rising cost of rent by living with sev
eral students in one house.
“It takes people to change things,” Rankin
said, encouraging participation on local boards,
committees and community watch groups.
After the rally, marchers circled Silent Sam
in McCorkle Place to acknowledge the statue,
built in 1913 on the 50th anniversary of the
Emancipation Proclamation.
Marchers then headed east, at one point
spanning nearly the entire 100 blocks of East
Franklin Street. The march ended at the
Hargraves Center.
“It’s beautiful,” said native Chapel Hill resi
dent Shannon French of the singing and chant-
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Maxecine Mitchell, community develop
ment specialist for EmPOWEßment Inc.,
spoke at the rally about different steps people
need to take to afford their own homes.
“We want to educate people early about
maintaining good credit,” Mitchell said.
She encouraged families to join home-buy
ers’ clubs to learn about the importance of good
credit and how to climb out of debt safely.
Kea Parker, a sophomore and co-chair
woman of the Hunger and Homelessness
Outreach Program, said the annual march is
about getting in touch with other activists.
“The goal here is to unite similar-minded
people with the same goals,” she said.
Steinreich said the diversity of the coalition’s
participants and goals made it effective.
“I think the Martin Luther King Coalition
meets an important need in the community by
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there are places
out there that
things aren’t hap
pening.”
In another pre
view Monday, the
administration said
Clinton would
propose a tax
credit of up to
$5OO per child,
age 1 or
younger, to off- j s
set costs for
parents who (
choose to stay
home to care
In his speech today,
President Clinton
is expected to address
issues such as
education and social
security.
for their kids. The proposal is part of a
Dec. 1 and Dec. 2., to talk with law
school students and meet with
Chancellor Michael Hooker Saturday.
“He got together with the chancellor,
Sen. Tony Rand (D-Cumberland) and
(Board of Trustees Chairman) Dick
Stevens,” he said. “My expectation was
that an offer was made this weekend and
Joel and the chancellor sat down and
said, ‘Here’s what I want’ and ‘Here’s
what I want.’”
Although he would not be specific
about details of Seligman’s meeting with
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Dorothy Elaine Massey protests Silent Sam, seen by some as a racist representative of
students who fought in the Civil War, during the Martin Luther King Jr. Day march Monday.
larger child-care package that seeks $lB
billion over five years to aid working
poor and middle-class families.
The administration also floated a pro
posal for $1 billion over five years to
improve health care for many of the
nation’s 32 million uninsured adults.
The money would be used to encourage
community clinics and hospitals to work
together to keep track of patients and
make sure they get needed treatment.
Before a prime-time television audi
ence, Clinton will deliver his State of the
Union address at 9 p.m. Tuesday in the
House chamber.
It was in that same chamber one
month ago Tuesday that the House
voted for only the second time in histo
Hooker, search committee chairman
and School of Journalism and Mass
Communication Dean Richard Cole
confirmed Gebeaux’s suspicion. “An
offer has been made to him.” He would
not say whether Seligman would take
the position. “It’s premature to say any
thing at this point.”
But Rand, also on the search com
mittee, expressed reasons why Seligman
was the committee’s top choice. “I was
impressed with him as a person; I was
impressed with his background,” he
ry to impeach the president. The only
other time was when Andrew Johnson
was impeached in 1868 and went on to
survive as president by one vote in a
Senate impeachment trial.
To build support, the White House
Office of Public Liaison sent out faxes
urging supporters to hold State of the
Union watch parties at club and union
halls -and to tell news outlets about the
gatherings. Anew poll from the Pew
Research Center said the Senate trial has
not changed Americans’ minds about
turning Clinton out of office, and that
two-thirds of the public wants him to
stay. The survey indicated 53 percent of
Americans are satisfied with the way
things are going in the country.
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said. “He’s a well-known scholar.”
Seligman graduated Magna Cum
Laude from the University of California
at Los Angeles, where he was a member
of the Phi Beta Kappa Society. In addi
tion to being the law school dean and
the Samuel M. Fegtly Professor of Law
at the University of Arizona, Seligman
has been a law professor since 1983
when he served at Northeastern
University Law School.
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