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latltf ®ar UM W News/Features// Business/Advert f 106 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Continuing the Campaign On the seventh day of airstrikes against Yugoslavia, President Clinton urged the countries of NATO to remain steadfast in their opposition to slaughter of ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. ■ The Pentagon is struggling to avoid a cruise missile shortage, the weapon most often used to attack heavily defended targets in Iraq and Yugoslavia ■ NATO rejected Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic's offer to resume peace talks if the allies agreed to stop their attacks. ■ The Pentagon reported success in destroying a large proportion of Serb air defense but officials warned against expecting a quick end to the conflict abroad. SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS Coleman's Win Ends Wait for RHA Head By Katie Abei Staff Writer Junior Murray Coleman nabbed the most votes for Resident Hall Association president in Tuesday’s special election after a race surrounded by turmoil and confusion finally came to an end. Coleman, who was a write-in can didate, garnered 270 votes while opponent Jennain Reeves got 55 of the votes that were cast in the re-election, according to unofficial results. The special election was held after the Student Supreme Court decided that the Elections Board, led by former Chairwoman Heather Faulk, unfairly eliminated more than 100 graduate stu dent votes and compromised the valid ity of the Feb. 9 election results. Elections Board Chairwoman Whitney Wright said board members counted all votes by hand Tuesday. FOCUS ON: THE MASTER PLAN Plan Says High-Rises Must Go University officials say the Master Plan will make South Campus a more appealing place to live. By Katie Abei. Staff Writer Take a peek into South Campus in 10 years and it might look more like a neighborhood community than a hodgepodge of high-rises. Now that the architects have been hired and students have an idea of what they want new housing to look like, more definite plans should begin to take shape during the next few weeks. The construction of these new resi dence halls, which will provide some of the 1,000 new beds that must be put in place by fall 2001, is part of the first building phase of the Master Plan. The Master Plan also calls for resi dence halls to be added to South Campus in upcoming years, although the question still remains just how many students will need housing spaces. The planners want to gain that sense of community by constructing all new housing that is small enough for stu dents to be able to call their residence halls home. Each residence hall could blend stu dent rooms, academic classrooms and food services into one environment that allows for closer interaction and more convenience. “Students could go to class without even putting their shoes on,” said Dean See HOUSING, Page 5 ■ Officials said international support for the Serbian claim to Kosovo was dwindling in response to Milosevic's actions. ■ State Department spokesman James Rubin said only a halt to the attacks against the Kosovar Albanians would persuade NATO to stop its campaign. ■ Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon said Serbian forces were having difficulty communicating because of NATO attacks on command-and-controi facilities. Rtsiikiiu’ Hall \s\oi i.ilion I’lTsidinl Coleman said he was eager to take office as RHA president and wanted to make up for the time that had been lost because of the re-election period. “I am just ready to start,” he said. “But right now I am just going to cele brate.” Coleman said he wanted to unoftaai Results Jermain Reeves 55 Votes 17 percent Murray Coleman 270 Votes 83 percent select the members of his cabinet as soon as possible and hoped to make applications available to students by Thursday. His platform includes promoting greater diversity in residence halls and pushing for more improvements in housing facilities. See ELECTIONS, Page 2 UNC Scientists Find Gene, Advance Cancer Research By Shannon Snypp Staff Writer The discovery of a gene that shrinks cancerous human tumors in lab rats has brought UNC researchers one step clos er to treating cancer patients who receive chemotherapy. But before the gene therapy is mar Center Offers Skills For Job Placement By Robin Cli mow Staff Writer Ten students, from a single mom to an eager 18-year-old, sit in a brightly-lit classroom preparing for the Graduate Equivalence Degree exam, while 15 people next door are training to become nurse’s aids. These students are participating in an educational oppor tunity offered by the Orange County Skills Development Center, which opened this year at 503 W. Franklin working A four-part series on new developments in government aid to the N.C underprivileged. St. Seven different agencies are housed in the center and offer help to those who want to move up, through or into the work force. Classes are already under way, and an open house April 25 will officially introduce the center to the community and help bring in more students for the summer. The center’s goal is to promote job placement and increase self-sufficiency within the community, center coordina tor Gwen Price said. “It’s really good to see the county committed to help citi Wednesday, March 31,1999 Volume 107, Issue 22 Allies Deny Milosevic's Offer Associated Press WASHINGTON - Slobodan Milosevic could lose international recog nition for his territorial claim on Kosovo if the Serbs don’t stop killing the region’s ethnic Albanians, President Clinton said Tuesday. He rejected a formula for peace offered by the Yugoslav presi dent. “If there was ever any doubt about what is at stake in Kosovo, Mr. Milosevic is certainly erasing it by his Mm -Mm Jlv jfflHr XBBM K3R lS§p'fl| JMHMHI , ■ Mm&M l# *. : . am -oahre- . • *•. * j SUK DTH/LAURA LEIC.H PAGE Elections Board member Jamie DeMent congratulates Murray Coleman on his victory over Jermaine Reeves in the Residence Hall Association presidential election. The re-election followed a Student Supreme Court decision that ruled the Elections Board mishandled the Feb. 9 election. keted to the consumer population, the scientists must continue research to find a solution for the majority of cancer problems in humans. Dr. James Cusack, a researcher at UNC Hospitals, said the research on cancerous cells had been done in asso ciate professor of biology Dr. Albert Baldwin’s laboratory foT the past five zens in employment,” she said. “It becomes a win-win situation for every one.” Much of the new space is filled by classrooms in which Durham Technical Community College offers instruction in on-the-job computer skills, Spanish, English, muse aid training, early child hood credential license training, small business management, human resources development and adult education. Sara Cooley, interim coordinator for the Orange County program, said that in an area with such low unemployment rates, many of the classes were geared toward helping the underemployed rather than die unemployed. However, she said the center also wanted to serve people who needed help finding steady employment or fin ishing their high school education. “It’s a really hard to reach population,” Cooley said. “That’s why this center is so important." Lucy Lewis, executive director of the Orange County Literacy Council, said about 15 percent of the county’s resi dents did not hold high school degrees. For those at the beginning of the job - training process, the adult education See TRAINING, Page 2 ■ In politics there is no honor. Benjamin Disraeli actions,” Clinton said. “They are the culmination of more than a decade of using ethnic and reli gious hatred as a justification for uproot ing and murdering completely innocent, peaceful civilians to pave Mr. Milosevic’s path to absolute power.” The president urged the allies to remain steadfast in their opposition to Milosevic on Day 7 of NATO’s air cam paign against the Serbs, while the administration promised neighboring nations financial aid for the refugees years Two-and-a-half years ago, the scien tists discovered a protein, NF-kappa B, that was activated by cancerous cells when patients received chemotherapy. When the protein was activated in the lab rats, it protected the cancerous cells against chemotherapy and radiation treatments. When die cancer spread dt** , ; -j pr DTH/JEFF POULAND Jane Woodall, a certified nursing instructor, shows students how to check blood pressure at the Orange County Skills Development Center. streaming across their borders and sup port against Serb threats. Some success was reported in dimin ishing Serb air defenses and strikes against troops stationed just outside Kosovo, but a Pentagon spokesman cau tioned against expecting a quick “knock out punch.” U.S. policy has opposed indepen dence moves in Kosovo and supported Serbia’s claim to the province. During peace talks this month in Rambouillet, France, Clinton supported autonomy - throughout the rat, the chemo-resistant and radio-resistant cells spread as well. Recently, the scientists activated a gene that would counteract the defense mechanism of NF-kappa B in lab rats. Although the cancer team has researched these effects of the cancer treatment in lab rats, there are certain limitations to the treatment in humans, News/Features/Arts/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 Chapel Hill, North Carolina C 1999 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. but not independence - for the majority ethnic Albanians in Kosovo. Milosevic rejected that plan. Administration officials insisted that there had been no policy change, but during a State Department ceremony honoring former Secretary of State Warren Christopher, Clinton signaled that the Serbs’ actions in Kosovo carried a price: the loss of international support for Milosevic’s claim on the region. “Today he faces the mounting cost of his continued aggression,” Clinton said. Cusack said. The research team will examine the safety of the treatment in human patients over the next year, he said. Cusack said the main problem was that the treatment could only be used in a tumor that had not spread cancer See CANCER, Page 2 INSIDE Holy War Catcher Wes Reynolds jacked two home runs and had five RBI as the North Carolina baseball team defeated Elon at home. Centerfielder Jarrett Shearin also set the UNC record for career RBI in the win against the Fightin’ Christians. See Page 9. Campaign Stop Lt Gov. Dennis Wicker, a Democratic candidate in the 2000 governor race, spoke to about 40 students at a Young Democrats meeting Tuesday night in the Union. He called for a lottery, education reform and campaign finance reform. See Page 2. Breaking the Bank The Chapel Hill Town Council held a public hearing Tuesday night to allow residents the chance to present their views on how the town should spend its money next year. Among the concerns were small businesses, roads and law enforcement See Page 2. Today’s Weather Mostly sunny; Lower 70s. Thursday: Rain; lower 70s
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