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2 Wednesday, April 7, 1999 Clinton Proposes Expanding Hate Crime Law Tuesday the president asked Congress to include crimes based on sexual orientation in the federal statute. Staff and Wire Report WASHINGTON - Decrying “the persistence of old, even primitive hatreds,” President Clinton on Tuesday asked Congress to expand federal hate crime laws to include offenses based on sexual orientation. Mary Smith, spokeswoman for the president, said the directive also sought to include gender and disability as crite ria for federal protection. The president also directed the departments of Education andjustice to collect and periodically publish data on hate crimes at colleges, including crime Tax Season Boosts Work Load Area tax services say they expect business to increase as the April 15 deadline to file taxes nears. Bv Joe Margolis Staff Writer Local tax preparers are bracing them selves for a rush of last-minute tax filers who have just 8 more days until the April 15 deadline. Harvey Sapir, a tax preparer for Jackson Hewitt Tax Service in Carrboro said business had increased from filers trying to beat the deadline. “It’s been busy,” Sapir said. “This is the time a lot of people come in. It’s starting to pick up.” He said his company offered semi nars on taxes earlier in the year. “We offer a tax school that teaches people to file their own taxes. At this time our emphasis is helping clients file their own tax returns.” Sapir said his office had done 1,400 returns and expected to file 2,000 by the August extension deadline. Prices range from $35 to SI,OOO $ Spring Job Fair ♦ Seniors & Graduate Students Graduating this Spring or Summer V'ns'MvJ In lM\ I RSII V t’AKI I R Sl'KVk TS Mount Student Affairs • UNt'-C'h,i|\l I till statistics as well as surveys on students’ racial attitudes. Smith said this information would provide colleges with new insight on the beliefs and experiences of students, but she doubted the data would become available before the year 2000. Clinton linked his announcement to the crisis currendy going on in Kosovo, where hundreds-of-thousands of people are being killed or forced out by Serb authorities simply because they are eth nic Albanians. He said all Americans should resist such destructive, biased attitudes because they imperil the coun try’s future. “We have to be, in the United States,- absolutely resolute about this,” Clinton said. “Our diversity is a godsend for us. ... The number one security threat to that is the persistence of old, even prim itive hatreds.” Clinton also endorsed a public-pri- depending on the size of the return, he said. But Sapir said Jackson Hewitt was not for everybody. He said he often sent clients to volunteer groups when using Jackson Hewitt was not cost effective. Volunteer Income Tax Assistance, a tax-filing service of Orange County run by senior citizens, offers free services to those who need help with their taxes. “(VITA) is provided by the IRS for people with low to middle incomes,” said Cathy Porter, Orange County director of Retirement and Senior Volunteer Programs. “We do try to make sure people with special needs receive help.” Porter said VITA operated out “At this time our emphasis is helping clients file their own tax returns. ” Harvey Sapir Jackson Hewitt Tax Service of five locations in Orange County with two that specifically served employees of the county and UNC Hospitals. The other three offices in Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough are free to the public. Porter said she had some traffic from TODAY! April 7,1999 11:00-3:30 GREAT HALL STUDENT UNION Discuss Current Job Openings with: • Abbott Laboratories • Maxim Healthcare • Abercrombie & Fitch • Merck • Aerotek, Inc. • Merisel • American Airlines • The MONY Group • American Express • NBC Bank • Annas Resources • New England • Atcom Research Institutes • B. Moss Clothing • Norwest Financial Company • Office of Program • Black a Decker Policy Analysis • Blue Cross/Blue Shield • Olde Discount • Bright Horizons Family Corporation Solutions • Peace Corps • Capital Area YMCA • Piedmont Behavlora • Capital One Healthcare • Crown Honda-Volvo • Prudential Preferred • Delta Airlines Financial • Disability • Ralston Purina Determination Services * Regent Lighting • Eckerd Youth * Research Triangle Alternatives Institute • EAJ Gallo Winery * Rice Enterprises • Enterprise Rent-A-Car * Roadway Express • Fastenal Company * SCANA Corporation • Federal Bureau of * Standard Register Prisons * Sun Trust Bank • FootActlon * The Financial Group • Hendrick Automotive • Transtar Autobody . ibm Technologies • Interim Technology * Triangle Laboratories • Kotts Properties * University Directories •Kraft Foods *Vblvo • Lab Corp of America * Wallace • Überty Mutual * Yoh SctenfMlc Professional Dress Recommended! BRING RESUMES! vate partnership designed to edu cate middle school students against intolerance. The partnership will involve AT&T, Court TV, Cable in the Classroom, the National Middle Schools Association and the Anti- Defamation League working with the Justice and Education In a speech to religious and political leaders Tuesday, President Clinton pushed for greater tolerance in America. departments to develop curricula to combat intolerance. Clinton announced the initiatives Tuesday in a Roosevelt Room ceremony with religious, education and law enforcement leaders who said the students. “We advertise our programs in the papers,” she said. “We do work with anybody of any age.” One client said he preferred VITA to a professional tax preparer. “I was doing my taxes up until three years ago when things got complicated,” said George Eberly, a computer consul tant for Orange County. “I went to H&R Block and paid SIOO to do my taxes. “Last year I tried the VITA program and was surprised to find out it was VITA is fully computerized, which drastically decreases the chance of errors, said VITA Volunteer Director Charles Paddock. “We operate off of 25 donated 386 (personal comput- ers),” he said. Paddock said business was going well. “We started on the first February and it’s been busy.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu News United States could not get so caught up in fighting the crisis in Kosovo that it neglected prejudice in this country. “While we watch what is unfolding in Kosovo with ever increasing horror, we must not let those distant hate crimes distract us from the hate crimes here on our own soil,” said the Rev. Jane Holmes Dixon, suffragan bishop of Washington. Clinton issued an appeal for greater acceptance of gay people, saying it was wrong to refuse them a normal life based on attitudes “where you always get to think a little better of yourself because you’ve got someone you can dehumanize.” “That’s really what this whole issue with gays is today in America,” Clinton said. “We’re talking about whether people have a right, if they show up and work hard and obey the law and are good cit izens, to pursue their lives in dignity, Talk Examines Attitude Toward Mental Health Mental health professionals spoke about the need for mental illness education at a forum Tuesday night. By Katie Abel Staff Writer Although students have increased their overall awareness of mental health issues in recent years, they still attach negativity to mental illnesses, a panel of professionals said Tuesday. Representatives from the Department of Psychiatry, Disability Services and Umstead Psychiatric Hospital addressed the topic of mental health at a forum sponsored by the Campus Y Special Populations Committee. “I think the stigma associ ated with mental illnesses still prevails but 1 don’t think it is what it used to be,” said James Kessler, director of disabili ty services. Mental illness came to the fore front of University concerns after for mer UNC law stu dent Wendell Williamson shot and killed a UNC lacrosse player and “I think the stigma associated with mental illnesses still prevails, but I don’t think it is what it used to be. ” James Kessler Director of Disability Services Chapel Hill resident in 1995. A grand jury found Williamson not guilty by reason of insanity and con fined him to a psychiatric hospital. Then last fall, Williamson won a $500,000 monetary award in a civil law suit that he brought against Dr. Myron Liptzin, the Student Health Service psy- tue ‘Hand 40S E. 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Alter hours please leave a message. free of fear.” The idea for the middle schools pro gram grew in part from a White House conference on hate crimes that generat ed a lot of anecdotal information about ethnic and racial insensitivities among school children. The aim, said a White House official who spoke on condition of anonymity, was to “nip intolerance in the bud” by educating children about its conse quences. Clinton directed the Justice and Education departments to require that college campuses provide specific infor mation about hate crimes in the campus crime statistics they provided to law enforcement each year. The information will be used to gen erate data on how violent crimes relate to intolerance on college campuses. Smith said Clinton’s proposal had been in the works for some time now. chiatrist who treated him for mental health problems prior to the time Williamson committed the crime. The jury found that the psychiatrist had been negligent while treating Williamson and that Williamson did not contribute to his own damage. But Allen Hamrick, associate direc tor of student psychological services, said students still depended on University psychiatric services to help them in dealing with mental health problems. “We serve about 3,500 students each semester,” he said. “Students are com ing to us with a wide range of con cerns.” Kessler said Disability Services worked with SHS to help students who faced mental health problems like depression in making adaptations in their daily lives. He said once a student had been diagnosed with a problem like depres- sion, Disabilities Services made his or her professors aware that the stu dent had a medical problem but not specifically a men tal illness. “There are cer tain classroom pressures we can relieve,” he said. Students who came to the forum said it was a good way to make more stu dents aware of mental health issues. “We feel that education about mental health is a good way to promote more interest in the issue,” said Tracy Dobbins, special populations committee co-chairperson of the Campus Y. Junior Ryan Trin said he came to the forum to learn more about mental health in general. “I think more people are opening their eyes to the issue.” The University Editors can be reached atudesk@unc.edu. Goif 1 -^l SJE3 Course Oven to the Public Student & Staff Weekday Specials $lB with cart/ sll walking* Normal RATES: M-Thurs s2l - Frl $23 - Sat/Sun $27 www.southwickgolf.com Call for Tee Times 942 -° 783 l 3136 South wick Drive Graham, NC 27253 4/30/99 * Must present this ad Gbr iatlg (Ear Heri Campus Calendar Wednesday noon - The Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center presents an Around the Circle discussion: “Millions for Mumia: Get on the Bus!” Come find out why and how you can attend a rally in April 24 in Philadelphia. for Mumia Abujamal. 12:15 p.m. - The Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering will present the next install ment in its Environmental Engineering Teleconference Seminar Series. Dr. Carl F. Cerco of the U.S. Army Waterways Experiment Station in Vicksburg, Md., will discuss “Ecosystem Modeling in the Chesapeake Bay ” The presentation will be broadcast from the G. Fred Mayes Telecommunications Center on the sec ond floor of Rosenau Hall. The series is sponsored in cooperation with environ mental programs at Appalachian State, East Carolina, N.C. Agricultural & Technical and N.C. State universities; UNC-Asheville and UNC-Charlotte. 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. - Morrison Residence Hall will be hosting the South Campus Majors Fair for all res idents on South Campus. Department representatives will be available to pro vide information and answer questions about their academic departments in the lobby of Morrision. 3:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. - Dr. Joel Schwartz, associate professor at the Harvard School of Public Health’s envi ronmental epidemiology program, will discuss “ITie Distributed Lag Between Air Pollution, Mortality and Morbidity” in the Ibrahim Seminar Room, 1301 McGavran- Greenberg Hall. 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. - Games with resi dents of Carolina House Retirement Home as part of Senior Service Week. For more information, e-mail Lauren at lthrower@email.unc.edu. 5:30 p.m. - Student Night at the Battlehouse will feature a $2 all-you can-eat dinner followed by a program recognizing Sister Margaret, Items of Interest ■ The Lab! Theatre is accepting directing proposals for the Fall of ’99. Pick up a form at www.unc.edu/stu dent/orgs/lab/direct.html. Any UNC undergrad can direct for the Lab! ■ International student and scholar orientation counselor appli cations are available at the International Center on the main floor of the Student Union. Please apply if you would like to help the International Center welcome newly arrived interna tional students and scholars to UNC before classes begin in August. ■ Davie Hall Psychological Services will hold a relationship sup port group for women of color Wednesday nights. For more informa tion, call 969-7016. ■ Volunteer Orange!, a service of the Triangle United Way, has immedi ate volunteer needs. Volunteer Orange! recruits and refers volunteers to more than 170 nonprofit and public organiza tions. If you are interested in volunteer ing, call 929-9837 For The Record Tuesday's story, “Toppling Light Pole Injures 3,” should have stated that the truck, driven by 27-year-old Peter Weed, was traveling southbound. Diana Campoli should have been identified as 39 years old. The Daily Tar Heel regrets the errors.
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