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lailu (bar MM J News / Businc J? *■llos years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Endorsing Rumors Dispelled Ex-SBP Candiate Amanda Greene said she had not decided who she would endorse for the runoff. By Katie Abel Staff Writer Despite rumors circulating Thursday that Amanda Greene planned to back Brad Morrison in the runoff race for stu dent body president, the candidate said she and her campaign would not sup port either Morrison or Nic Heinke. “My campaign has not endorsed any- one and most like ly will not,” Greene said. “I and my campaign have not endorsed anyone at all.” Greene out- wardly denied that she would support Morrison even after other student body president candidates and members of several campus organizations said they had heard she would endorse him. Even mem bers of Greene’s cam paign staff said Greene had sent them e- Ex-Candidates for SBP Say They Still Want a Voice See Page 5 mail messages suggesting that she might support Morrison. “I sent an e-mail to members of my campaign staff discussing who I might possibly support, but no decision had been made whatsoever,” she said. Members of , some student ■ groups said they hud heard the •• ■ s4 but aid JHHflpflHL that thc\ wen-not A jWjf planning to endorse Morrison j regardless of -Mfim |9hH whether Greene jV IHRF 1 showed support ■ . ■ 1 for him. Ex-student body Groups that president candidate endorsed Green Amanda Greene included the said her campaign Alliance for was not backing Creating Campus Brad Morrison. Equity and Seeking Social Justice, the Residence Hall Association and Sangam, the cam pus South Asian awareness organiza tion. Members of ACCESS said they had no plans to endorse Morrison, but instead would now support Heinke. “Nic was the candidate we had voted as our next-best candidate after Mandy,” said Eboni Staton, ACCESS co-chairwoman. RHA President David Jemigan said RHA was not endorsing either candi date. Student Environmental Action Coalition and Sangam members also said they were not supporting a candi date. See GREENE, Page 5 More Blacks Finding Friends in Grand Old Party By Matt Dees Assistant State & National Editor Henry McKoy could be described as a political Darwinist. Elected in 1994 as the first black Republican to serve in the state Senate since Reconstruction, McKoy said he evolved from a liberal protester in Greensboro in the tumultuous 1960s to a Republican legislator in the 19905. McKoy said his role as a husband and father caused him to reconsider his values and his politics. “I see this simply as an evolution in my life,” he said of his political rebirth. “When I became a father, it caused me to look at the world very differently. My personal evolution led me here, not a disillusionment with the Democratic Party.” McKoy began his political career as the vice president of the student body at N.C. Agricultural & Technical State BOG Lays Out Plan to Handle Enrollment Growth By Kathleen Hunter Staff Writer The UNC Board of Governors braced for the next millennium with a discussion of potential solutions to pro jected systemwide enrollment growth at its meeting Thursday on the Winston- Salem State University campus. The proposal, which entailed two A Senate vote on the two articles of impeachment is planned for around noon. Associated Press WASHINGTON - With acquittal assured, the Senate talked its way through a final full day of closed-door deliber ations Thursday at President Clinton’s impeachment trial, set for climactic noontime votes Friday in the case that one Democrat called “this sordid saga.” Sen. Olympia Snowe of Maine became the fourth Republican to declare her intention to vote to acquit on both charges, following the lead of other moderates who broke party ranks a day earlier. “In my heart and in my mind, I believe to a moral certainty that my verdict is just,” she declared in a written statement Inside the chamber, where Chiefjustice William Rehnquist presided, the talk was blunt at times. “Over and over and over again, from both sides of the aisle,” senators denounced the president as a liar, GOP Sen. Bob Bennett of Utah said later. A two-thirds vote is required to convict the president and remove him from office, and there is no chance of that hap pening. Instead, whatever suspense lingered at the end of the five-week trial was whether either article of impeachment would attain a bare majority -a psychological threshold that had no bearing on Clinton’s fate. Republicans have a 55-45 majority in the Senate. A steady stream of lawmakers came forward Thursday to announce their intentions for the roll calls on perjury and obstruction of justice, dividing largely along party lines on presidential guilt or innocence but offering nonpartisan con demnations of Clinton’s behavior with Monica Lewinsky. “There can be no doubt that President Clinton’s conduct has made a mockery of most of his words, or that his example has been corrosive beyond calculation to our culture and to our children,” said Oregon Republican Gordon Smith, who said he would vote to convict. “No one, not any senator in this chamber nor any person in this country, will look at this president in the same way again,” said Democrat Dick Durbin of Illinois, who said he would vote for acquittal on both chafes. Sen. Joseph Lieberman said he had concluded that Clinton’s “wrongdoing in this sordid saga does not justify making him the first president to be ousted from office in our history.” The Connecticut Democrat had commanded nation wide attention last September with highly critical words about Clinton’s behavior at a time the White House still hoped to avoid congressional action. For all the expressions of disgust, a formal effort to censure the president appeared all but dead, a victim of Republican opposition. Democrats said they would make an effort to force a post-trial vote on the Senate floor, and failing passage, would draft a statement of condemnation. Three Republicans, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, John Chafee of Rhode Island and James Jeffords of Vermont, announced Wednesday they would not vote for conviction on either article. UlatfcVvn History / \ Month[ ) University in the mid-19605, lead ing demonstra tions at an institu tion that was a hotbed of civil rights activism. He later became head of the N.C. Civil Rights Commission A month-long ■■ series highlighting historical landmarks and contemporary achievements of African-Americans. under Gov. Jim Hunt in the late 1970s and stayed on when Gov. Jim Martin, a Republican, took over in the 1980s. After serving in the Martin administra tion for nearly a decade as a Democrat, McKoy switched parties in 1989. And despite the rarity of his position as a black Republican, the political phe nomenon is becoming both increasing ly common and contentious. Thad Beyle, political science profes sor at UNC, said though the number of The Senate is the last primitive society in the world. Eugene McCarthy five-year phases allowing for gradual enrollment expansion, was discussed in the Committee on Educational Planning, Policy and Programs’ meeting. UNC-system President Molly Broad said the BOG’s goal was to align enroll ment growth with a financial plan that each university was capable of meeting. “The enrollment plan we are trying to build for the next 10 years is an effort to Judgment Day '\'T ' •’ - 1 v yLI ‘cf: ||g| f ' a v , SBEr a jm WPw DTH/VICTORIA ECKENRODE Freshman Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., and Mike Briggs, his press secretary, walk out of the U.S. Capitol on Thursday afternoon. Edwards says he still does not know now he will vote. black Republicans was still relatively small, the conservative trend among blacks was slowly gaining momentum. “The rule of thumb is that if blacks come out to vote, they vote 90 to 95 per cent Democratic,” Beyle said. “But not too long ago that figure would have been 100 percent. There is some growing strength among conserv ative blacks who have moved up the socioeconomic ladder and have started voting Republican,” he said. One example that illustrates the blur ring of the line between blacks and Republicans came in Raleigh last month. The Black Caucus and House Republicans rallied behind a black can didate, Rep. Dan Blue, D-Wake, for the speaker position. He missed upsetting new speaker Rep. Jim Black, D- Mecklenburg, by one vote. This apparent bridging of the gap has • See CONSERVATIVES, Page 4 Friday, February 12, 1999 Volume 106, Issue 160 serve all North Carolinians that will be seeking an education,” Broad said. Broad said the proposal would cost UNC-Chapel Hill sl.l billion in new facilities. Judith Pulley, vice president of plan ning for UNC General Administration, said the committee meeting explored ways to deal with a projected increase of 48,000 students across the system over Opposites Attract Political pundits attribute the rise of black conservatism to everything from family values to political ambitions. But many agree that the trend will continue to gain momentum around the United States. j " . " TSIK j Lh Winston-Salem Alderman Vernon Robinson has been a strong advocate of education reform in his ward. the next 10 years. “We looked at options of how to fill the gap between demand and supply,” she said. Pulley said the proposal divided sys tem schools into two categories depend ing on the size of the campus. Smaller system schools would aim to increase growth by twenty percent by using cur rent facilities more efficiently. “We are looking to provide economies of scale J.C Watts, R-okla., was recently named to the prestigious post of Secretary of the GOP Conference. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas was one of the first black conservatives to receive national attention. News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 Chapel Hill, North Carolina C 1999 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. by setting a target of 5,000 students for most institutions,” Pulley said. This move would help ease financial burdens faced by smaller schools, she said, by supplying more tuition money to cover the fixed costs of operation. According to a press release, leaders at the state’s historically black institu- See ENROLLMENT, Page 5 N.C. Senator Undecided As Vote Nears Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., say he will make his final decision based upon the law, not party politics. By Jonathan Cox Special Assignments Editor WASHINGTON - As Capitol Hill prepares for a possible verdict this morning in the nation’s second-ever impeachment trial, freshman Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., says he is still con templating his vote. “I have to tell you I’m still listening. I haven’t made up my mind,” he said as he took a brief break from the session Thursday on the Capitol lawn. “I want to wait until everyone has spoken before I make my decision.” This hesitation comes from a man in his first political office who recently served as a witness to Monica Lewinsky’s deposition. Just weeks ago, Edwards had only seen the Lewinsky scandal played out on television. Now engulfed in the impeachment trial, Edwards will join other senators making their historic decisions. Edwards said senators of both parties were delivering impassioned arguments inside the guarded chambers to per suade colleagues to join their camps. Following the legal teams’ final argu ments Monday, each senator was given floor time to state his or her case. A few just handed in written briefs, he said, but many more took their allotted 15 minutes to speak to the legislative body. “I’m just seeing if they have some thing I haven’t thought about,” Edwards said of the closed-door proceedings that have “dragged on” for three days. But even with these marathon ses sions that have run late into the evening, Edwards said the senators had maintained decorum and respect for See EDWARDS, Page 5 Recount on RHA Votes Staff Report Votes for the Residence Hall Association presidential race between Jermain Reeves and Murray Coleman will have to be recounted, Elections Board Chairwoman Heather Faulk said Friday morning. Errors creeped into the votes count ed for the race because of complications in determining which graduate students should be counted. Computers counted votes made by graduate students in several districts in which they should not have been count ed, Faulk said. The hand-counted write in votes were counted correctly. “Jermain’s votes were counted differ endy by the computer than they were by the Ejections Board,” she said. Faulk said she will spend the week end recounting the uncertified votes.
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