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(Tlu> iatlu (Tar MM J News/F Riisinn J? MB 106: 1106 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Former RHA Candidate Reeves Files Lawsuit RHA President-elect Murray Coleman and Elections Board Chairwoman Heather Faulk were cited in the suit. By Angela Mers Staff Writer The Student Supreme Court will hold a public pre-trial hearing Thursday over former RHA presidential candidate Jerimain Reeves’ complaint about how the Elections Board counted votes in his race. The lawsuit could change the scope Senator, Students Debate Lobbying, Tuition Increases N.C. Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird warned students that state tax cuts would affect the funding available for the University. By Andrew Meehan Staff Writer The lone senator to show up at the student government Legislative Day sparked debate when she warned students that tuition increases and funding cuts might be in the University’s future. N.C. Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird, D- Orange, attended the forum Tuesday night with students and administrators even though an unexpected N.C. General Assembly session kept six other legislators away. Kinnaird told students that recent state tax cuts would affect University funding. See LEGISLATIVE, Page 4 Department Develops With Time The increasing numbers of professors, available majors and number of students taking African and Afro-American studies classes track the development of the proyam at UNC. Number of full-time Professors m the Number of Students Taking African Curriculum in African and and Afro-American Studies Gasses Afro-American Studies Years Showing Significant Change: fall Semester 1998 1 ,332 Spring Semester 1999 1,516 I*9-1370 1 Tote! 2,848 1975 2 1984 4 Total African-American Enrollment 1992 7 at UNC 1999 12 Years Showing Significant Change: Number of Majors in the Curriculum 1969-1970 237 in African and Afro-American Studies 1970-1971 420 Years Showing Significant Change: 1998-1999 2 402 1970 3 1984 4 1992 17 Departments in Other Schools: University of Kansas: Department was created in 1971 - in 1971, there were 2 full-time professors - in 1999, there are 10 full-time professors and 900 students University of Virginia: Founded in 1981, but not as a department - had trouble getting professors because they were already in other departments - it currently has 32 majors and 10 minors SOURCE: DEPARTMENT OF AFRICAN .AND AFRO-AMERICAN STUDIES AT UNC UVA. UK .AND UNIVERSITY REGISTRAR Students Give Cyber-Finger To Chaotic E-mail By Ben Brazil Staff Writer Call it virtual honking or road rage online, but an out-of-control e-mail list has several student leaders and faculty members giving the cyber (middle) fin ger to other motorists on the informa tion superhighway. Ironically, it all began with an e mail message promoting today’s Carolina Technology Expo as “your chance to find out ways the Internet can improve your life.” The virtual traffic jam began Feb. 9, when a representative of the Expo, a technology fair in the Great Hall of the Student Union, sent an e-mail message of what races graduate students who live on campus can vote in. The hearing will start at 5:30 p.m. Thursday in Union 208. Reeves’ suit was filed on Sunday against Elections Board Chairwoman Heather Faulk and RHA President-elect Murray Coleman. The lawsuit critiques the results in the RHA race since the hand-counted votes in Coleman’s write-in campaign were originally tallied differently than the votes for Reeves, which were counted by computer. Faulk unofficially declared Reeves the RHA president Feb. 10, when Reeves secured 810 votes and write-in ,$% aft A V W"?wk, v '^&sMffi > Z'%& '* Tfflßk '; % SBS 1 1 *2g & wstetem &g&8& >^WB ■'. j^a^nfStl^L. 'zfln A gp& ; . _4|L DTHKATY PORTIER N.C. Sen. Eleanor Kinnaird and Student Body President Reyna Walters participated in a round table discussion with representatives from student groups on Tuesday night as part of Legislative Day. plugging the event to more than 400 student leaders, faculty members and prominent area residents. But the message didn’t stop there. Other student leaders saw the list - which required 21 taps on the space bar just to get through the addresses and to the message -as a way to advertise their own groups. On the same day the Carolina Technology Expo message went out. Baptist Student Union President Todd Batts, a recipient of the first mass mail ing, used the list to publicize two Baptist Student Union events. The Association of International See E-MAIL, Page 4 They sicken of the calm who know the storm. Dorothy Parker Wednesday, February 24, 1999 Volume 107, Issue 2 candidate Coleman won only 743. But on Feb. 12, Faulk recounted the votes and elim inated all graduate student votes, leaving Reeves with 703 votes and Coleman with 743. Faulk said the votes were recounted because she could not determine where RHA President-elect Murray Coleman said the allegations presented in the lawsuit were unsubstantiated. Black Studies Finds Followers By Angela Mers Staff Writer In 1969, students marched to South Building and took over classrooms demanding that the University develop a Curriculum in African and Afro- American Studies. Adding African and Afro-American studies was one component of the civil rights move ment at the University in the 1960s in efforts to increase the rights of blacks. Abdulah Salim, formerly known as Reginald Hawkins, was a History/ \ Monmj ) series highlighting historical landmarks and contemporary achievements of African-Americans. | co-founder of the Black Student Movement and a member of a commit tee started by Chancellor J. Carlyle Sitterson to design the Afro-American and African studies curriculum. He said the students focused on Extreme E-mail: To Sendjprjjßft to Send? \\ An e-mail message sent to 400 people promoting today’s Carolina \\ Computing Expo went spiraling out of contain cyberspace last \\ week as student leaders began to use the ready-made list to -M _ - g. promote their own activities. Angry list metn *** -—bers fired back indignant messages requesting *• i '*"* an end to the mass mailings, in turn sending ° - V u e-mail to all 400 people. The problem was , ... 1 stopped by the weekend, but some students are stlll an 9T about The intrusive Y \ e-mails I. Jr the graduate students who voted lived and whether they were eligible to vote for RHA president. Graduate student voting districts are classified by the stu dents’ academic departments and not where they live. In order to vote for RHA president, the graduate students must live on campus and pay the $9.25 RHA fee each semester. Laura Killinger, a former Student Supreme Court justice and counsel for Reeves, said Faulk discounted 107 grad uate votes for Reeves while there were about 100 graduate students living on campus who are eligible to vote. She said Reeves alleged that the results from the recount were not certified because adding the curriculum in 1968 because they felt courses in African studies gave blacks a sense of identity. “We are truly the lost tribe of man; we do not know our true ancestry,” Salim said. Salim said he felt blacks did not know their history by losing the knowledge of their origins through slavery. Establishing a curriculum in African and Afro-American studies was one of the original 23 demands of the BSM that members gave to the chancellor in December 1968. The BSM was founded in 1967. The 23 demands were designed to make changes in the University and address minority issues such as giving fairer treatment to black non-academic employees, hiring a dean of black stu dents and eliminating the use of Scholastic Aptitude Test scores when considering blacks for admission. The BSM resubmitted a list of 22 demands in 1997 to Chancellor Michael Hooker. After submitting the 23 demands to Faulk discounted eligible votes. The suit also states that Coleman vio lated election rules by hanging cam paign posters in undesignated areas and allowing Black Student Movement President Tamara Bailey to send out a mass voice mail endorsing Coleman. Coleman said he did not believe he violated any rules. “I think their allega tions are unsubstantiated,” he said. At the pre-trial hearing, Reeves will receive Faulk’s and Coleman’s answers to his allegations and each side will sub mit a list of witnesses, Killinger said. The University Editors can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. Chancellor Sitterson, the BSM and other students protested and camped out in South Building, classrooms and Lenoir Dining Hall. Salim said the students used protests and demonstrations to make the admin istrators pay attention to their demands. “We had demonstrations on a daily basis,” he said. “It took protests to get things under way.” In February 1969, the chancellor addressed the BSM’s demand for a cur riculum and formed the Afro-American and African Studies Curricula commit tee. The committee came up with a pro posal for the program in April 1969. The University created the curricu lum as a part of the College of Arts and Sciences in the fall of 1969. Students were able to major or minor in African and Afro-American studies since the program’s beginning. The curriculum consisted of only one full-time position in 1969. Most courses were taught by professors in other acad- See CURRICULUM, Page 4 News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 Chapel Hill, North Carolina C 1999 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Jasper Suspect 'Guilt/ The jury must now decide if the white supremacist will get the death penalty or spend his life in prison. Associated Press JASPER, Texas - A white suprema cist was convicted of murder Tuesday and could get the death penalty for chaining a black man to a pickup truck and dragging him until his body was torn to pieces in a crime that shocked the nation with its savagery. The jury of 11 whites and one black took less than 2 hours to reach a verdict against John William King in the slaying lastjune of James Byrd Jr. Courtroom spectators applauded and the victim’s relatives broke into tears. r> The jury then heard evidence on whether the 24- year-old laborer should get the death penalty or life in prison for one of the grisliest racial crimes in the United States since the civil rights era. The penalty phase was expect ed to continue Wednesday morn- The jury returned a guilty verdict against John William King for the brutal death of a black man last June in Texas. ing. “I am relieved,” said Stella Brumley, Byrd’s sister. “That’s all we wanted, was justice.” His son, Ross Byrd, said, “All I know is that there’s one down and two to go.” King was the first of three white men to go on trial in the slaying, which pros ecutors said he carried out because he wanted “something dramatic” to gain credibility for a racist group he was organizing. King leaned forward when the ver dict was read, shielding himself from cameras, then sat back in his chair with his fingers on his chin. One of his lawyers said King was not surprised by the verdict and considered himself the victim of a broad-based con spiracy. “I hope he receives life without parole,” the Rev. Jesse Jackson said from New York. “If these three men saw killing as a See JASPER, Page 4 Another Close Call North Carolina's men's basketball team survived an overtime thriller with Wake Forest Tuesday night. Jason Capel's late free throws sealed UNC’s 68-65 win. See Page 7. No Place Like a Home i 1 This week's Focus examines the plight of the McGraws, a Beckley, W.Va., family struggling to survive in Chapel Hill without a home. See Page 5. Give Peace a Chance Though 17 hours of negotiations failed to produce a binding deal Tuesday, the Serbs agreed in principle to grant limited self-rule to the ethnic majority Albanians in Kosovo. See Page 2. Today’s Weather Partly cloudy; Lower 40s. Thursday: Partly cloudy; lower 50s.
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