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Qfe Daily (Tar Urcl www.dailytarheel.com fMM JBa* Price discusses affirmative action * Dispute Center to celebrate 25 years A Look for more stories online. Volume 110, Issue 153 Professor Resigns Over Comments By Nikki Werking Assistant University Editor Martha Lamb, a contracted professor at the School of Social Work who was accused of making racist comments in her master’s class, resigned from her position Friday afternoon. In a town meeting last week, more than 250 stu dents, alumni and faculty members gathered to discuss comments Lamb allegedly made during a Jan. 13 class, “Social Work and Practice With Couples.” Students in the class said Lamb told stories of supervisors who said couples therapy doesn’t work r DTH FILE PHOTO These signs were discarded by people who gathered at the Capitol Building on Jan. 19, 1991, in Washington, D.C., to protest President George Bush and the Persian Gulf War. War With Iraq Prompts Revival of Protests By Patrick Winn Staff Writer As Chapel Hill protesters mailed tiny plas tic canisters symbolizing oil barrels to the White House, President George Bush readied the United DTH FILE PHOTO Protesters gather at Crabtree Valley Mall in 2002 to show opposition to a U.S. war with Iraq. passers-by. Though mirroring Chapel Hill in past months, this describes January of 1991, when most of today’s UNC students were learning how to multiply. More than a dozen demonstrations sprung up locally in the months precipitating the Persian Gulf War. But many locals who ral lied against that conflict said recent protests against the potential war in Iraq have been Up for Discussion At a meeting tonight the Chapel Hill Town Council will discuss the following proposed items as it finalizes its requests to the N.C. General Assembly. The legislative agenda will be presented to the Orange County legislative delegation later this month. • Tax on tickets to University athletic events • Vehicle license requirement for University students • Protection of town revenues • Beer and wine tax • Real estate transfer tax • Mandatory program for recycling of bottles and cans • Investment tax credit for developers who build affordable housing • Increased state staffing for sedimentation and erosion control enforcement SOURCE: AGENDA FOR COUNCIL MEETING DTH/STAFF Open Space Bank merger results in closing of First Union's Franklin Street branch. See Page 6 for black couples and that NAACP stands for “Niggers Ain’t Acting Like Colored People.” Students said that the comments were made out of context and that no explanation was given for them. When students confronted Lamb, she reported ly told them that she hadn’t meant to offend anyone and that she wanted to share her heritage with them. “It’s a disheartening and disquieting event at the school,” Jack Richman, dean of the school, said Sunday. “But I think we’re taking the appropriate steps to deal with the situation.” In the meeting, participants called for Lamb to make a public apology, which she did via a tele WAR PROTESTS THEN AND NOW better-executed. “This time, the strength and organization is a lot better, which is very encouraging,” said nonprofit worker Jim Warren, a chief organiz er of a 1991 anti-war march that drew more than 1,000 people. “The climate was very sim ilar, but opposition was not as strong,” he said. Injanuary 1991, six busloads of Orange County protesters arrived in Washington, D.C., to join about 70,000 others in a peace march. Likewise, UNC students took buses to Washington injanuary to participate in the largest anti-war demonstration since Vietnam, netting about 200,000 marchers. On one of those buses was freshman Anna Carson-Dewitt, a member of the Campaign to End the Cycle of Violence and co-orchestrator of ajanuary peace encampment in Polk Place. Though only 6 years old when she heard about the first U.S. strike on Iraq, Carson-Dewitt said it was a formative experience. “I was afraid, knowing people were killing each other,” she said. “Children have an intrinsic sense of how bad that is.” Now politically active, Carson-Dewitt put in a week at the encampment to act as a sounding board for concerned students. Discussions often lasted until 2 a.m. Injanuary of 1991, her predecessors raised tents in the Pit to create a “Peace Village” that stayed active for 36 days. Activists were made to feel unwelcome by College States for war. On the UNC cam pus, throngs of students rallied and anti-war groups camped out in protest, shaking off January chills to dis cuss ensuing war with Town to Ask State for Taxes, Funding By Jordan Woodard Staff Writer The Chapel Hill Town Council will discuss numer ous issues on its legislative agenda that could directly impact students if taken up by the state legislature. The council will consider legislation it would like to see enacted by the N.C. General Assembly, includ ing a tax on UNC football and basketball tickets and a registration fee for students who have vehicles in Orange County. The idea of a tax on tickets for UNC athletic events has floated around the town for several years but has Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen. Warren Burger Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Monday, February 10, 2003 phone interview with ABC News 11 on Tuesday. Lamb declined to comment Sunday night on her resignation or her public apology. After last week’s meeting, Richman said offi cials in the school formulated a plan to move stu dents in Lamb’s class to another section of the course at the same time. Richman said that those plans were finalized Thursday and that the University will reopen the drop/add period for those students. Lamb’s class now will be taught by Anne Jones, a professor at the school. “It’s important for students to get a teacher that they can learn from,” Richman said. P jLJ- mmmL ITTH FILE PHOTO An estimated 200,000 protesters marched on the National Mall in Washington, D.C, on Jan. 18 to protest President Bush and a potential U.S. war with Iraq. Republicans. Rather than brownies, members of the group prepared water balloons with the letters SCUD, donned Arabic headdress es and barraged the encampment. “We’re not going to water balloon any body,” said Michael McKnight, UNC College Republicans chairman, of the current membership. “It’s America-bashing,” said McKnight of recent protests. “We feel it’s time to unite behind the president and the military as they perform difficult tasks.” Though Chapel Hill was host to numerous rallies during the winter of 1991, not all of them denounced strikes against Iraq. Signs marked with “UNC Students for Peace” bobbed above crowds some days - other days they read “Go Get ’Em George!” “The current situation is far more ambigu ous," said Professor Tim McKeown, who was teaching political science on campus in 1991. Student opinion was more visibly divided over the Persian Gulf War, he said. “People who have an easy time under standing why we would attack Iraq for invad ing Kuwait might have a difficult time under standing why we would attack Iraq for violat ing a U.N. resolution,” McKeown said. Longtime local activist Francis Coyle, 76, described the organizafion of Persian Gulf See IRAQ PROTESTS, Page 4 never been considered seriously by the state legislature. The vehicle license requirement for students also is not anew concept, said Bill Stockard, assistant to the town manager. The proposal calls for on- and off-campus students to pay a $25 registration fee if they live in Orange County but their vehicle is not registered with the county. The foremost request in the town’s legislative agen da is further protection of the town revenues con trolled by the state, such as a handful of local taxes. Last year, local revenues were in jeopardy when Gov. Mike Easley decided to withhold some of those taxes as a way to cope with the state’s budget crisis. T Back on Track Tar Heels end five-game skid with win over FSU. See Page 12 Jerry Covington, a graduate student in the School of Social Work who was enrolled in Lamb’s class, said while there were alternatives to a resig nation, he was not sure about what other options were available to Lamb. “I’m saddened that it had to come to an extreme event like a resignation,” he said. “But at the same time, I’m at a loss as to how the class could possibly go on under her instruction." In response to allegations that this wasn’t an iso lated incident of racism at the school, Richman also has decided to form a committee to investigate the See RESIGNATION, Page 4 -i * f * . DTH FILE PHOTO Area residents protest on Franklin Street military action against Iraq in 1991. North Carolina again faces a deficit - potentially as much as $2 billion -and local municipalities will once again have to fight to keep their tax money. Each year the town presents legislative requests in March to local N.C. representatives and senators for new programs or taxes. Last May the town developed the requests, which also include an increase in the beer and wine tax and a mandatory recycling program for bottles and cans. This year's requests mirror past issues raised by the council in its legislative agenda. See LEGISLATION, Page 4 Weather Today: A.M. Light Rain; H 49, L 26 Tuesday: Mostly Sunny; H 48, L 26 Wednesday: Cloudy; H 47, L 26 www.dailytarheel.com Republican Legislators Upset Over Power Deal Democrat to chair Rules Committee By Elyse Ashblrn and Joe Rauch Staff Writers Details of the historic agreement House Co-speakers Democrat Jim Black and Republican Richard Morgan struck Wednesday are beginning to surface, and many outraged Republican legisla tors say their party’s influence has been severely undermined. Though full details of the Black- Morgan agreement have not been released, the House rippled Thursday with news that the power-sharing arrangement makes Democrat Bill Culpepper of Chowan County the sole Rules Committee chairman. Republicans were incensed. “Pardon my language - it screws the Republican party,” Rep. Billy Creech, R-Johnston, said in an interview See SPEAKER, Page 4 Factions Gain Influence in Split House By Matt Hanson Assistant State & National Editor In an N.C. House divided evenly between Democrats and Republicans, every vote will count when big-ticket legislation reaches the floor in the next two years, increasing smaller coalitions’ abilities to dictate which bills get passed. In most cases coalitions form only for a single issue, said Brenda Erickson, an expert on deadlocked legislatures at the National Conference of State Legislatures. “These coalitions can come together for an issue and then dissolve for other issues,” she said. But North Carolina might be in a unique situation with at least one lasting minority coalition that might “spill into legislation,” said Thad Beyle, UNC political science professor. A group of five Democrats, who orig inally organized to support former House Speaker Dan Blue’s run for speaker in 1999, will be a coalition for the next two years, said Rep. Mickey Michaux, D-Durham. Michaux said the group plans to pur- See INFLUENCE, Page 4 I , wjjp, \ WbH HH& Warn DTH FIUE PHOTO Reps. Leo Daughtry, R-Johnston, (left) and Mickey Michaux, D- Durham, lead groups that will be at odds with House leadership. # ft * * " ' ' * t * 4 *
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