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®ljp Saily (Ear Mrrl Top Stories From the State, Nation and World In The News State to Disseminate Millions in Floyd Aid ■RALEIGH - More than sl9 million frsm the state’s $836 million Hurricane I'lpyd relief package will be awarded to assist 748 families in seven communities and five counties, Commerce Secretary Rick Carlisle said Tuesday. He said the awards will help families repair or rebuild their homes, or relo cate. “Each grant award helps communi ties move closer and closer to complete recovery,” Carlisle said. Homeowners who did not have ade quate insurance or qualify for Small Business Administration loans will get replacement and rehabilitation grants. Renters also will receive some of the money. Beaufort County will get $1 million; Craven County, $1.09 million; Duplin County, $2.23 million; Greene County, sklß million; Jones County, $200,000; Pamlico County, $558,000; Pender County, $4.94 million; Greenville, $3.17 million; Belhaven, sl.lß million; Grifton, sl.Bl million; Seven Springs, $777,000; and Windsor, $828,000. Officials to Make Videos Of Columbine Public - Videotapes of the Columbine shootings will be made pub- NIKE From Page 1 University of Illinois in Urbana- Champaign, said increased resources could include an online database. Marissa Fugate, a University of Kentucky student, said one of the mon itoring teams was not as well-trained as thg others. “There should be a world wide standard,” she said. Duke student Edmund Malesky said the students’ fourth recommendation was for Nike to have a certain percent age of unannounced visits to provide information not uncovered by those that were publicized. “(Unannounced visits) are the only way to see if forced or child labor is occurring,” Malesky said. The final three student recommenda tions were for more culturally sensitive worker questionnaires, on- and off-site worker interviews and participation by nongovernmental organizations. Shubha Chakravaty, a student at Stanford University, said the confiden tiality of workers interviewed at each factory was not safe, making them hesi tant to speak freely. “Management can trace their complaints,” she said. “This laclf of a relationship inhibited (workers’ responses).” Todd Pugatch, a member of UNC Students for Economic Justice, was not Dilbert© | S THE PP>O JECT WILL j fl\.L JUST fAE YOUR ! NEVER BE COMPLETED J SAY YOU'RE PROJECT STATUS AND f BECAUSE OUR IDIOT 1 1 DRUNK. 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The families want the videotapes to support their lawsuit that alleges the sheriff mishandled the response to the deadly school shooting. “As of yesterday, they didn’t want to give it to us," said James Rouse, the fam ilies’ lawyer. “Now they want to give it to the whole world for $25.” The tapes will be released to the pub lic on request Wednesday for a $25 fee. Rouse said his clients had planned to consult with other victims’ families before deciding whether to release any thing to the public. On Monday, a judge ordered the sheriff s department to hand over copies of the tapes, which include footage from school surveillance cameras showing the two student gunmen opening fire in the cafeteria on April 20, 1999. It also includes two to three hours of helicopter footage, Rouse said. Charlotte Officials Ask For Hornets’ Arena Bid CHARLOTTE - After waiting for months to see a financing plan for anew downtown arena from the Charlotte Hornets’ owners, city officials say they want to see the team’s numbers by early next month. Hornets co-owner Ray Wooldridge last month floated a proposal for a $220 million arena funded totally with public money. The idea infuriated city leaders who said they had told Wooldridge the arena should be built mostly with pri vate money. Wooldridge has not yet presented a formal financing plan to the city. Council member Don Lochman heard Wooldridge talk this winter about breaking ground on anew uptown arena this summer. Since then, Wooldridge has broken two dates to part of the teleconference but said inter views with people the workers knew were crucial to compile an accurate report. “The most important element is trust - if you don’t have trust, you’re not going to get the truth.” Pugatch, who applied to be one of Nike’s student monitors but was not selected, said he was skeptical of PwC’s interviewing methods and ties to Nike. “I question (PwC’s) independence (from Nike),” he said. “The visits took place without the input of local, nongovern mental organizations.” Local groups are able to establish closer ties with workers, Pugatch said, bringing to light labor violations and allowing monitoring groups such as the Worker Rights Consortium to more striedy enforce their labor standards. UNC recently joined the WRC, in which companies like Nike have less input on labor codes. UNC is also part of the Fair Labor Association, which stu dents have protested for giving the cor porations too much control. “Nike is willing to publicly release some aspects, if favorable, but they are truly afraid of independent monitors that know the community and have the trust of the workers,” Pugatch said. “It suggests they have something to hide." The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. urbanite 5 Patriotic org. 6 One Gershwin 7 Having pluck 8 Skeptic's com ment 9 "Honor Thy Father” author Gay 10 Over the hill 11 "Your Show ot Shows" co-star 12 Stalk of asparagus 13 Principal artery 18 Crew's tools 19 Stop sleeping 24 Farm wagon 25 Sydney citizen, informally 27 Tim or Victoria 29 Lickety-split 30 Sympathetic exclamations 31 Utter sharply 32 Licorice sticks 34 Morning hrs. 36 X - VII 37 Finale 39 At that time 40 Boxer's combo 41 Jazz state? 46 Changes gears 5 p la L p p ii 2 1 13 ~ ffi - ■Ht’ 73 m ■VT ?7 36 ■■44 53 54 55 66 69 present a financing proposal. “In December, this gendeman walked into the economic development committee and said ‘I will have this for you,’ and I haven’t seen the guy since," Lochman said. Two council members went further: Since most on the council agree an uptown arena would boost the city’s economy and image, why wait on Wooldridge? The council will make the final deci sion on whether any public money is used to replace the Charlotte Coliseum in southwest Charlotte, a 12-year-old building that the Hornets say is too out dated for the team to survive financially. While the financing numbers remain up in the air, attendance at Hornets games is going down. On Saturday, the Hornets sold 15,023 seats at the Coliseum for a first round NBA playoff game against Philadelphia. Only 11,766 showed. It was the least-attended home playoff game for the Hornets. U.S. Prosecutors Brief Clinton on Microsoft Suit WASHINGTON - Justice Department antitrust lawyers were sum moned to the White House today to brief President Clinton’s legal and eco nomic advisers about a range of options for dealing with Microsoft Corp., includ ing splitting up the software giant. Gene Sperling, head of the presi dent’s National Economics Council, said, “This is striedy an informational briefing.” He said Clinton would not take part. Sperling refused to say whether Clinton’s advisers would make recommendations on how Justice should proceed in the case. “We are not going to answer hypothetical questions.” Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers said it was appropriate to have a briefing on issues that have important economic ramifications. Attorneys for the Justice Department and the 19 states that successfully sued Microsoft for antitrust violations are COMMITTEE From Page 1 said. Concerns involving Downs’ tenure as this year’s vice chairwoman of the Elections Board then began dominating the committee’s discussion. Following the discussion, members of the committee were evenly split on Downs’ appointment. As committee chairwoman, Sarah Tully Miller, was able to break the tie and voted against Downs* appointment. Downs questioned the process lead ing up to the decision. “I felt the meeting wasn’t run fairly at all,” she said. “I wasn’t given an oppor tunity to refute or confirm any of the assumptions made about me.” Downs said she was concerned for the future of the student elections process. “This decision sets a negative prece dent in that it brings into question who ones’ friends are,” she said. In an early-morning interview, Matthews said Downs was the most qualified candidate for the job and that he wasn’t surprised by the “unfair” way the committee reached its decision. The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. (C)2000 Tribune Media Services, Inc All rights reserved 61 Switchback turn 62 Giant Mel 63 Director Craven 48 Virginia dance 49 Light in the extreme 50 Flower element 51 "_ Doone" 52 Past perfect, e-9 53 MTV play 54 Outer limits 55 Has to have 58 Card game for three News considering ways to break up the com pany as a method to curb anticompeti tive practices. One reported option would be to split the company into two or three parts, each selling separate products, such as the Windows operat ing system and Internet content. Another alternative would be for Microsoft to divest its popular Office software. Any kind of divestiture is part of a “full array of options” being discussed, a source close to the talks said Monday. The news of a possible breakup con tributed Monday to a 16 percent plunge in Microsoft shares, by $12.31\ a share to $66.62, in trading on the Nasdaq stock market. McCain Returns to Site Of Capture in Vietnam HANOI, Vietnam - Shaking hands with crowds of Vietnamese, a nostalgic John McCain returned Tuesday to the Hanoi lake where in 1967 he was dragged ashore and beaten after para chuting from his downed warplane. The bitter war has yielded to recon ciliation, and the Arizona senator strolled with his family around the busy shorefront of the capital’s True Bach lake, stopping at a sidewalk memorial marking his rescue. “I put the Vietnam War behind me a long time ago,” McCain said upon arriv ing in Vietnam on Tuesday. “I harbor no anger, no rancor.” MASTERPLAN From Page 1 ly be replaced by new residence halls. “There are some things that I think need to be changed,” Rentas said. “But the only way things are going to change is if students come out to the Pit and voice their opinions.” The plan also would alter current stu dent parking options on campus. The Ramshead Parking Lot and the Bell Tower Lot would be replaced with new campus buildings, and under ground parking lots would be added. Convissor said students would actu ally gain parking spaces. “The number of people on campus will also go up, so the ratio of people per parking space will actually go down even though there will be more spaces.” But Rentas said she was skeptical about the implementation of subter ranean parking decks because there would be such high cost involved. With UNC’s ambitious plans to increase enrollment significantly during the next several years, parking spaces Erin Niebling The University of North Carolina and Wachovia would like to congratulate Enn Niebling, the Wachovia Woman of the Week A junior from Bay Head, New Jersey, Erin is desenbed by her coach as one < f the most talented players he’s ever been around, with a unique ability to learn new shots and strategies in a short amount of time. Erin is a highly motivated student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Carolina; last year she was a member of the AO honor roll. She is also active in the ACC Outreach program and has served as a volunteer at the Ronald McDonald House and as a member of the Carolina Advertising Club Wachovia is committed to supporting achievements by women and is proud to celebrate Erin Niebling’s accomplishments. WACHOVIA ■"SiSVi. ; Wachovia Bank is a mam bee FDIC. WOMANOF THE W E E K WACH OV I A WOR LD 6 P WO MEN'S SPORTS AT UNC VlSlt W.WW. G.O.H EELS-.GOM/WOME NSWORLD People on the street seemed to feel the same. A crowd of Vietnamese gath ered around McCain as he walked, greeting him as a friend and shaking his hand. McCain, who spent more than five years as a prisoner of war here, is now a leading proponent of rebuilding relations with the impoverished com munist nation. Vietnam celebrates the 25th anniver sary of the end of the war on Sunday, and the former presidential candidate is the most prominent of the numerous returning U.S. veterans. “My job here is to commemorate the beginning and continuation of anew relationship between the United States and Vietnam,” said McCain, who was instrumental in restoring formal ties five years ago. His schedule was filled with war reminders. Shortly after he arrived, McCain attended a solemn airport repatriation ceremony in which an 11-person mili tary honor guard placed six small boxes of remains, believed to be from U.S. ser vicemen, into silver metal coffins. About 50 U.S. civilians and military personnel watched as the containers were draped with American flags and carried into the hold of a C-17 cargo plane heading to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii for forensic analysis. Hawaii Senate Approves Medical Marijuana Bill HONOLULU - The state Senate will become even more coveted. Convissor said one of the goals of the plan was to encourage students to get to campus by using Triangle Transit Authority and Chapel Hill Transit. She said she was excited to see that students had been so interested in what the Master Plan would mean for the campus’ future. “The University is for the students, and it is very gratifying to see the care and concern they have for the future of the University, whether or not they will be here to experience it,” Convissor said. Faculty and staff will also have the opportunity to view the Master Plan this week. Faculty will be able to see the plan at 3 p.m. today in the Design Studio, locat ed in Morehead Planetarium Design Studio. Employees will be updated at the Employee Forum Community Meeting at 10 a.m. Thursday in the Pleasant Room in Wilson Library. The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. jKr I 'T jßgMflyßpf,- Wednesday, April 26, 2000 approved a bill Tuesday allowing people with certain debilitating illnesses, includ ing AIDS and cancer, to legally smoke marijuana to alleviate pain. The bill now goes to Gov Ben Cayetano, who has said he’ll sign the measure into law. That would make Hawaii the eighth state to approve the medicinal use of marijuana but the first to do so through legislation instead of a voter referendum. Patients who want to smoke marijua na to alleviate pain, combat chemother apy treatments and stimulate appetite would require written certification from a doctor and would have to register annually with the state public safety department. The measure, already approved by the House, was approved bv the Senate through a 15-10 vote. “This bill will protect from arrest both the patient who might find a use for marijuana and the doctor who might recommend its use," said Democratic Sen. Suzanne Chun Oakland, the chair woman of the Health and Human Services Committee. Sen. Norman Sakamoto, also a Democrat, opposed the bill, saying, “We’re approving something that the federal government says is illegal.” Alaska, Washington, California. Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Maine and the District of Columbia have approved laws allowing doctors to recommend marijuana use by patients suffering from cancer, glaucoma and other conditions. FIRE From Page 1 “A lot of (victims) aren’t comfortab! here,” said Billy Wood, a representati * for Foxcroft’s management firm. “We understand that, and we are doing everything we can to accommodate them and make sure thev have a roof over their heads.” Timberlyne managers have followed similar procedures, offering the option of automatic lease termination to vic tims. Timberlyne victims moved into vacant apartments within the complex until other arrangements can be made for permanent residencies. Heather Viscusi, leasing consultant at Timberlyne, said officials at the apat t ment complex had tried to provide accomodations for victims of Frida' - fire. “The apartments we had available, we put people in.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc,ea.. 9
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