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"Violet," a film based on a
short story by English pro
fessor Doris Betts will be
shown tonight in the Union.
See story on page 4.
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By JEFF SLAGLE
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AFTON "It's martial law. We're at war with the
state. We're at war with the state.'.
Those were the early morning words of Ken Ferruccio,
co-leader of more than 100 demonstrators who attempted
to block the dumping of PCB-tainted soil in a Warren
County landfill Wednesday.
By noon about.55 i protestors had . nr.arrest.a9nd
' taken to jail mpnson buses so that 10 truckloads of the
contaminated soil could be delivered to the site.
Heman R. Clark, secretary of the Department of Crime
Control and Public Safety, said, "The trucks will run
every day until it's (the dumping) over and we'll do
everything necessary to do the job the Environmental Pro
tection Agency required to protect people from PCB."
Gov. Jim Hunt has claimed throughout the controversy
that removing the illegally dumped PCBs from the NC 58
More than 100 protestors participated in a
demonstration Wednesday against PCB
dumping in Warren County. Above, from left
to right, Donald Jarboe, the Rev. Leon White
and Ken Ferruccio lead the march to the
dump site. At left, White argues with a state
patrolman. Photos by Matt Cooper.
roadside was "the finest manner possible" to protect the
health of North Carolinians. Warren County was chosen
as the dumpsite, he said, because it "emerged in every
analysis as the best overall choice."
Warren County citizens see the choice of landfill sites
differently. The Rev. Leon White of the United Church of
Christ's Commission for Racial Justice told reporters that
the problem was a racial one. "Mr. Hunt decided to put
the landfill in Warren County because the black people
are poor people and he thought the black people and the
"white people could not get together '"here : to stoplt."
'About 400 people turned out last Sunday in a Warren
County anti-PCB demonstration. Victoria Lehman, an
art teacher at the same high school where Ferruccio
teaches . English, said that the turn
out was smaller on Wednesday because the county
manager threatened workers with termination should they
miss work for the march. "It's a poor county. Everyone
needs fifty dollars. It all counts," she said, i
Lehman claimed that part of the group's purpose was
to ruin Hunt's political career. She said Hunt established a
landfill in North Carolina in order to reassure microelec
tronic plants that they can locate in the state and thereby
guarantee big business backing for his 1984 senatorial
campaign.
Another protestor, Von Ward, hinted at the pressure
from state authorities, claiming that they had convinced
the Warren County Board of Commissioners to allow
landfill construction to continue behind the citizens'
backs. Ward said she thought that the state was controll
ing the county commissioners from the beginning of the
dispute in 1978 when the toxic PCBs were dumped along
some 210 miles of North Carolina roads.
Ferruccio said that the protestors sent a message to the
state which said, "We consider this a blatant act of toxic
aggression against the people of Warren County and a
blatant violation of the United Nations Charter of Human
Rights."
Both leaders of the demonstration, White and Ferruc
cio, along with Ward and Lehman were later arrested at
the entrance to the PCB dumpsite. The marchers were
allowed to walk along three miles of highway that led to
the dump, but were cordoned off .at the entrance.
7 At that point White said that "the group would wait for
the "spirit" to tell them what to do. "We will not be test
animals for those who would make us such for greed or
out of insensitivity," he said. After some pushing and
shoving but no real violence, about 55 of the protestors
were charged with impeding traffic and removed to a
chain-link compound in Warrenton.
Among those arrested were several minors. Kimberly
Burwell, a sixth grade student, was taken away in tears.
High school students had been granted the day off in
order to participate in the protest. One high school stu
dent pleaded for an end to the dumping with state
patrolmen as he was pushed back before a wall of billy
clubs. The patrolmen said that they were only carrying out
orders, but that they sympathized with the protestors.
There was little violence at the site of the protest.
After the marchers were removed and the trucks had
begun to roll onto the dump site, one man unexpectedly
jumped in front of a truck in a final attempt to stop the
dumpings. He was not seriously injured as the truck stop
ped immediately. The protestor, Donald J. Jarboe, said
See PCB on page 3
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By STEVE GRIFFIN
Staff Writer
A UNC football player was arrested and released
Tuesday afternoon on charges of assault stemming
from an incident in Granville Towers last weekend.
Thomas Edmond Fahey, a freshman from Glen
Cove, N.Y., was charged by the Chapel Hill Police
Department with assault inflicting serious injury.
He was released on an unsecured $500 bond Tues
day afternoon.
The incident occurred in the eighth-floor lounge
of Granville West early Saturday morning.
The complainant, Steven Lee Suddreth, a senior
from Lenoir, is the Resident Assistant on the ninth
floor of Granville West. Suddreth's floor was co
hosting a party with eighth-floor West that night.
The warrant issued for Fahey' s arrest states that
Fahey, who lives in Teague Residence Hall,
assaulted Suddreth "by striking him with his fist
and knocking his top front tooth loose to the point
(that) it was barely hanging in his gum." .
Witnesses to the incident said that the trouble
began with a disagreement over whether Fahey
should be served beer from the keg or not. Fahey
became angry and then allegedly hit Suddreth in the
face, witnesses said.
Suddreth was admitted to the North Carolina
Memorial Hospital Dental Clinic for emergency
treatment later that evening, according to the war
rant. Both the Honor Court and the department of
University Housing are conducting separate in
quiries into the matter to determine if other sanc
tions are to be imposed.
Fahey is listed in the UNC media guide as an of
fensive and defensive tackle on the football team. It
See GRANVILLE on page 3
R
eagan9s anti-abortion
stance stirs controversy
By SUSAN SULLIVAN
Staff Writer
President Reagan's announcement Sept. 8
that he will actively support anti-abortion
legislation sponsored by North Carolina Sen.
Jesse Helms has set off a flurry of political ac
tion and reaction. The anti-abortion measure
would prohibit federal funding for abortions
and abortion research, and training, among
other provisions.
Tom Ashcraft, legislative assistant to Helms,
said the senator was "quite pleased with the ex
tent of the president's activity in making phone
calls, writing letters and making more calls."
At the present time, the measure is attached
to the "must pass" bill which would raise the
federal debt limit. Gary Curran, representative
of the American Life Lobby, said that if the
pro-life rider were uncoupled from the debt
budget, pro-lifers could then filibuster the debt
bill. "We could play a game of legislative
chicken," he said.
The legislation is presently being delayed in
Congress by a filibuster. In response to the
failure of the cloture vote to end the debate,
Nanette Falkenberg, of the National Abortion
Rights Action League, said, "We are obviously
pleased at the cloture vote. We are very confi
dent of the power of the pro-choice vote. This
power is stronger than the power of the presi
dent in making a few phone calls."
According to Ashcraft, Helms legislation
would perform three major actions. It would
make permanent a law eliminating federal
funds for abortion, as well as "extending this
defunding principle to teaching techniques of
abortion." Secondly, it would lay a congres
sional basis for state anti-abortion laws and
establish the right to life of a fetus under law.
The third important consequence would be a
provision of expedited Supreme Court review
of Roe v. Wade, the 1973 Supreme Court case
legalizing abortion, Ashcraft said.
Under present law, there are only two outlets
for federal abortion money. Peggy Vincent, of
the Orange County. Social Services, said
Medicaid and Tide XX provide funds for abor
tion only in case of danger to the mother's life.
There is a North Carolina State Abortion fund,
Vincent said, that provides money for abortions
on demand to low-income North Carolina
women. A single woman must have a monthly
income of less than $352 to qualify.
If the bill becomes law, the consequences
would be far reaching in North Carolina. Ac
cording to the Greensboro Daily News, the
abortion rate in North Carolina has more than
doubled since 1973, when abortion was legaliz
ed by the Supreme Court. In 1978, one out of
four women chose to terminate their pregnan
cy, resulting in a statewide abortion rate of
more than 27,000 a year, i
The legislation would greatly affect the area's
various pregnancy clinics. Jaime Combs, co
administrator of the Raleigh Women's Health
Organization, said the amendment would "cut
out the abortion aspect of the clinic for the
most part. We see very few 'medically
necessary' abortions." She said she believed
underground services such as illegal abortion
"clinics" would become available and predicted
that some women might turn to self-induced
abortions. And she condemned Reagan's in
volvement, saying it was "not his place to sway
senators. He can make a statement, make his
view known, but he shouldn't take an active
role," she said.
Various national and campus pro-life groups
have been responding positively to the presi
dent's decision. Curran said, "(Reagan) has
shown himself as a committed pro-lifer." He
said he believed the president's support "gives
us a good shot at enacting Senator Helms'
legislation."
See ABORTION on page 3
Cooking in dormitories
Student Government, MM A
differ in approach to; policy
By PAM DUNCAN
Assistant University Editor
Although Student Government and the
.Residence Hall Association both represent UNC
students in the University's controversial cooking-in-room
policy, the organizations are taking differ
ing approaches to what they say is the same goal.
RHA President Scott Templeton said he was
looking for alternatives to enforcement of the cook
ing policy, while Student Body President Mike
Vandenbergh .said he was investigating alternatives
to the policy itself.
The University's cooking policy, which was in
itiated during the summer, prohibits high heat ap
pliances and cooking with grease in residence hall
rooms. UNC officials have said they will begin en
forcing the policy next semester, but are not sure
how.
Templeton said RHA was working with Student
Government and University housing on the policy,
but would -wait to see if Student Government's
research into the policy "is useful" before actually
joining forces.
"If the information that comes out of Student
Government is useful, we'll be behind them 100 per
cent, as far as trying to use it to allow students on
campus as much freedom as possible in cooking in
the rooms," he said.
Dormitory governors had expressed apprehen
sion that no student opinion would go into the for
mation of the cooking policy's enforcement for next
semester, Templeton said. RHA has been gathering
student opinion through residence area represen
tatives and RHA-sponsored student forums on the
policy.
Although he said he realized students and ad
ministrators would continue the search for cooking
policy alternatives, Templeton said that RHA's first
priority was looking into the enforcement policies.
Student Government, on the other hand, is in
vestigating why the cooking policy was actually
changed and possible alternative plans before con
sidering enforcement, said Vandenbergh.
"The Student Government position is that more
research needs to be done on the policy before it is
enacted as the final policy," he said.
Vandenbergh said Student Government "was
stressing the fact that the administration gave us a
chance this summer to make modification in the
proposal, if they could be suggested."
But no modifications were made in the policy
during its formation this summer. RHA represen
tatives participated in meetings concerning policy
changes this summer, and Student Government
became involved when controversy over student
participation in the policy arose.
"I was willing to allow the RHA to have the
closest voice in developing the policy,"
Vandenbergh said.
"I did not want to spend the majority of my time
examining cooking options, but I was surprised in
July when I discovered that the RHA had endorsed
the program without asking the questions that we're
now asking, or without first calling the insurance
commissioner's office to discuss with the insurance
commissioner possible alternatives," he said.
Vandenbergh said he did not think there was a
"rivalry going on" between the two organizations,
but that there was a disagreement as to what ap
proach to take. 1
"Ours (Student Government's) has been a reac
tion that's developed out, of a need to answer ques
tions which the RHA did not raise," Vandenbergh
said. "They (RHA) did represent the students, but
not in the way Student Government felt like
students needed to be represented.
"From the beginning, RHA did not ask that the
approval of the appliances be investigated before
they were eliminated in the policy suggestion," he
said. "The RHA did not ask that further student
comment be gathered before the policy was enacted
as final this summer.
See RHA on page 3