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2 Tuesday, April 16, 2002 Top Stories From the State, Nation and World In The News Sharon: Israeli Troops Will Leave Nearly All Of West Bank in Week JERUSALEM - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said Monday that troops will be out of all West Bank cities except Ramallah and Bethlehem within a week. “Altogether, we are on our way out,” Sharon said in an interview with CNN. Israel, he said, has no intention to stay in “cities of terror.” In the interview, Sharon also spoke of his desire for peace but reiterated his view that Yasser Arafat is not a partner in peace and that Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is in the region, should not have met with the Palestinian leader Sunday. The United States has called on High Court Denies Appeal in Charlotte Busing Case The Associated Press CHARLOTTE - The fight over one of the nation’s longest-running school busing programs ended Monday when the U.S. Supreme Court turned away a appeal to keep Charlotte’s schools attention Undergraduates! Check jour e-mail! Share jour thoughts concerning the Carolina experience so me can improoe student life both in and outside the classroom, till it takes is 20-25 minutes to complete the CSfQ. [College Student Experience Questionnaire), a web survey hosted bj Jndiana Llnioersity, Completion mill enter jou in a draining forjift certificates to Circuit City, One SSOO and fine SIOO certificates to be awarded. Do it now! Jour input is important to us, Division of Student Affairs imC-Chapel Tfiil Carolina Union Activities Board ' * Upcoming Events Tuesday. April 16 Sunday, .April 21 MI and Fred Hampton Jr. Concert: Carla Bozulich with Nets Cline Singers Dare 2 Struggle* Dare 2 Win: Get Free Gerrard Hall, Bpm, FREE Hip Hop & Power workshop Gatdner 08.6:45 Tuesday. April 23 Student Film Showcase Tom Deluca ■ Hypnotist Union Auditorium. 7pm Memorial Hall, Bpm FREE Wednesday April 24 Thursday April IS Woman Make Music: Isa Kroner: The People's Diva Robert Zubrin with Space Talk Toy Lounge, 7pm “The Case for Mars' Morehead Planetarium Star Theatre, 7pm Thursday April 25 Photojournalism Student Exhibit Reception CUAB 2002-2005 Interest Meeting Union Art Gallery, 6-Bpm 200 Student Union, Bpm TO/, FREE w/UNC One Card Ruud hip, FREE w/UNC One Card OCUQ 9pm OC, IQ, 9pm Rain date • Friday, April 26,9 pm Rain date - Friday, April 19,9 pm Iriday April 26 April IS-21 spm: 26-2S 2pm and Hpm Bpm; „ onam , m FREK w/IJNC onc Is it a Human Being or a Girl: A Performance ]o pm: The Others, FREE w/UNC One Card Swain Hall Studio Six Union Auditorium $5 admission fee/Union Box Office 962-1449 Saturday April 27 Iriday April 1 9 Bpm: Or/bt-rv, FREE w/UNC One Card Soul Talent Showcase 10pm: , nc FR£I : w/I)NC one Card Doors open at 7 50pm Great Hall, FREE I riday Way 1 Reception & Open Mic following in West lounge Jump Arts Great American Road Tour ~ .. „ „ , Featuring avant-garde jazz! Gold Sparkle Band, the 7:3opm: StulhntlandDrire, FREE w/UNC One Card T , . , , p , „, . . , , Transcendentalisis. dance, spoken word and lOAOpm. Hedwtp and the Anm'nch, FREEw/UNC , 1 ... - 1 . 1 performance art! Sight & Sound Constructions One Card . . „„„ V „ , , ~ . featuring OKKyungLeeon Cello, UmonAuditorium „ Hill Hall Auditorium, Bpm Saturday April 20 Tickets on Sale Union Box Office 962-1449 Bpm: Heduip and the Angry Inch, FREEw/UNC 52 students/15 general public One Card 10pm: MulhnllandDrive, FREE w/UNC One Caid Union Auditorium Visit: www.unc.edu/cuab ~ call: 962-1157 ~ stop by: Union 200 Israel to withdraw immediately from the West Bank to end a massive military campaign that began March 29 with the aim of crushing the Palestinian militias behind deadly attacks on Israelis. Israel consistently has said it cannot leave until the job is done but previously had n’t indicated when that might be. Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat angrily rejected Sharon’s statements. Erekat told CNN, “When he says he will pull out from built-up areas, it means he is turning our towns into big prisons,” deny ing Palestinians the right to move freely around the West Bank and even prevent ing people from reaching hospitals. The announcement came the same day as U.S. Secretary of State Colin PoweU embraced the idea of an inter national conference aimed at stopping Middle East violence and restarting IsraeU-Palesdnian peace negotiations. Exploding Rockets Kill At Least 4 U.S. Soldiers; Incident Accidental KANDAHAR, Afghanistan - At least four U.S. soldiers were killed Monday and a fifth was injured when rockets they were trying to destroy accidentally blew up. The casualty toll could rise because some soldiers were missing after the noontime explosion, U.S. officials said. The accident, coming at a time of increased combat activity, highlights the dangers troops face even when not under federal oversight. The Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system became in 1970 the first major urban district in the nation to use court ordered busing to achieve racial balance. The high court upheld the plan in 1971. The high court’s refusal to hear the under hostile fire, Pentagon officials said. The blast occurred at a demolition range next to the compound that once housed former Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar, according to local government spokesman Yusuf Pashtun. An Afghan guard, who gave his name only as Ramatullah, said U.S. troops had been collecting confiscated weapons and ammunition and storing them at the compound for disposal. He said he heard a series of six explosions about noon Monday. Bush Pushes Congress To Make Last Year’s Tax Cut Permanent WASHINGTON - Using Monday’s tax filing deadline as a backdrop, President Bush and his Republican con gressional allies sought to build support for legislation making permanent the 10-year, $1.35 trillion tax cut enacted last year. Because of an arcane Senate budget rule, the entire package of cuts will expire, or “sunset,” at the end of 2010. That could trigger tax chaos in 2011 - and would be seen as a big tax increase - when old income tax rates would go back into effect and the supposedly repealed estate tax would be resurrected full force. The tax deadline also brought anew tax simplification proposal from Bush’s Treasury Department aimed at remov ing confusion over the definition of a dispute this time marked the official end of the program that bused inner-city stu dents to mostly white suburban schools and suburban students to the inner city. A lower court ruled in September that the 109,000-student school system no longer practices discrimination and can go forward with anew student-assignment plan that does not use race as a factor. Though they greeted the end of the saga with pleasure, Charlotte school offi cials said they are still working to give all students an equitable education. “This is the final chapter in pupil assignment, not the end of the work we need to do in our schools,” said school board Chairman Arthur Griffin, who is black and attend ed segregated schools in Charlotte. Charlotte’s plan was the result of a lawsuit by black parents who claimed the school district had not done enough eusmstamssuti j T 1 " □□onp : | e n J 1 c Q: C h r: ' ! ' ("?-'! vp -a pi:!/, j n A.w i v n ri: . j § All store credit and gift certificates must be redeemed - <—B ' " by April 30th! f O 1 sth e. Franklin St., Chapel Hill ©pp Hypnotist TOM DELUCA Tuesday, April 16 8 pm Memorial Hall presented by Carolina Union Activities Board Pop Culture Committee News child for tax purposes and a House hear ing on the performance of the Internal Revenue Service. House leaden plan to bring the bill that would make the cuts permanent to a vote Thunday. Pope, U.S. Cardinals ’ Plan Meeting to Discuss Recent Sexual Scandals ROME - Pope John Paul II has sum moned American cardinals to the Vatican for an extraordinary meeting to talk about sex abuse scandals in the U.S. church. The talks will take place early next week, a senior Vatican official said Monday. The official said the cardinals would meet with some Vatican officials as well as the pope. A source close to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops said the meeting has been scheduled for April 23-24. The source spoke on condition of anonymity. The Vatican official said only the eight American cardinals in charge of an archdiocese will be involved in next week’s talks. They are Cardinal William Keeler of Baltimore, Cardinal Bernard Law of Boston, Cardinal Francis George of Chicago, Cardinal Adam Maida of Detroit, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles, Cardinal Edward Egan of New York, Cardinal Anthony Bevilacqua of Philadelphia and Cardinal Theodore McCarrick of Washington, D.C. —The Associated Press to comply with the Supreme Court’s 1954 Brown v. Board of Education rul ing that desegregated public schools. White parents sued to end busing in 1997, arguing that it harmed white stu dents and failed to help most black stu dents. U.S. District Judge Robert Potter agreed, ruling that the school system had achieved the goals of racial balance. The Supreme Court did not com ment in turning away the appeal from black parents, who argued that vestiges of segregation remained. In their appeal, the black parents argued that the schools have become re segregated, with black students concen trated in a few schools. The district built schools in largely white neighborhoods - making it hard to integrate them - and ignored the condition of schools in black neighborhoods, the appeal said. Officials Downplay Visa Policy's Effects By Brook Corwin Staff Writer University officials say anew policy imposing stricter regulations on students with foreign citizenship will not deter international students from applying to or attending UNC. The new policy, announced last week by the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, stipulates that foreign students must obtain a student visa before they can begin their course work in the United States. In the past, foreign students could start school with only a tourist or busi ness visa, as long as they already had applied for a student visa. Once they enrolled at a U.S. univer sity, they could obtain a visa. But University officials maintain that because the admissions process for international students follows the same timeline as the normal admissions process, these students will have plenty of time to file for a student visa under the new regulations before they come to Chapel Hill. “I don’t expect that the law is going to affect us at all,” said Jean Hughes, associate director of the International Center. “So far, we do not see fewer students applying.” Hughes said UNC graduate school departments also have pushed back their admissions deadlines to give appli cants more time to work on obtaining a student visa. She said each department was advised to send acceptance letters by April 1. Jane Gabin, senior assistant director of undergraduate admissions, said acceptance letters for undergraduate international students were sent out at the beginning of April, in accordance with a timeline that gives each student the entire summer to apply for a student visa. Gabin said her office typically receives about 500 applications a year for 50 open spots, a number she said has Campus Calendar Today 10 a.m. - Campus Y is holding a Relay for Life 50-cent Bake Sale in the Pit until 2 p.m. Cake, brownies and cookies will be 50 cents. 5 p.m. - Have you stretched your dollar as far as it will go? Worried about saving for the future? Do you want to see your money grow? Come to the Alpha Epsilon Omega Christian Sisterhood’s Money Management • Seminar in 309 Gardner Hall. 5 p.m. - Masala’s last general body meeting of the semester will be co-spon sored by the Arab Club and will include a discussion about current issues in the Middle East, as well as a video. It will be held in Union 218. 5:30 p.m. - Noted author and ethics expert Rushworth M. Kidder will speak IlFeTakESGuk Wednesday, April 17 10am-4pm in the Pit Guest Speakers and Student Groups Performing Guest Speakers Chris Klug Olympic Snowboarder Anson Dorrance Women's Soccer Coach Sylvia Hatchell Women's Basketball Coach Free Food Door Prizes Sponsored by Carolina Donor Services A.P.P.L.E.S Kenan-Flagler Business School L'FeTakESGuFs Sty? Daily (Far Hrrl not decreased this year. Hughes said the overall wait to obtain a student visa can vary from a few days to a few months depending on the nationality of the applicant because each consul sets its own visa policy. But Gabin, who works as the director of international admissions, said many international students apply for early decision in the fall, giving them addi tional time to make student visa requests. “Many of these students come from international prep schools,” Gabin said. “They have guidance counselors encouraging them to get their applica tions out early.” The new regulations were prompted by growing concerns from federal offi cials that potential terrorists could enter the country on tourist visas - which are easier to obtain than most other types of visas -and extend their stay by apply ing for a student visa. In addition to providing assistance to students contending with the new visa policy, Gabin said the International Center has taken extra measures to ensure that international students at UNC do not feel threatened while at school. She said she has already spoken at length with one Middle Eastern appli cant who was concerned about her safe ty while attending school in the United States. Gabin said the student decided to attend UNC after learning of the sup port available through the International Center, which she said offers a summer orientation session to make internation al students Teel welcome and can also help those students apply for student visas. “The international center is already helping them file their visa requests,” Gabin said. “The whole international team at UNC is working very hard to make sure these students are taken care of.” The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. today as part of Integrity Week at the Kenan-Flagler Business School. Kidder brings more than 30 years of insight to his discussions of corporate and global ethics. The lecture, which will be held in the Maurice J. Koury Auditorium, is free and open to the pub lic. 8 p.m. - Campaign to End the Death Penalty will host speaker David Kaczynski, brother of “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, in the Union Auditorium. Admission is free. tTltr Satin ear Urrl PO. Box 3257, Chapel Hill, NC 27515 Katie Hunter, Editor, 962-4086 Advertising & Business. 962-1163 News, Features, Sports, 962-0245 One copy per person; additional copies may be purchased at The Daily Tar Heel for $.25 each. © 2002 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved
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