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4 f Sunny Mostly sunny. Highs in the mid-60s. " Lows in the mid-40s. Fair tonight. Women's b-ball The Lady Cagers waited un til the last seconds of over time to win first-round regionals. For Robyn Nor wood's story, see page 7. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Copyright 1984 The Daily Tar Heel. All rights reserved. Volume 92, Issue 1 Monday. March 19, 1984 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSports Arts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 Bush visits Asheville, opens NC. campaign By WAYNE THOMPSON Staff Writer ASHEVILLE Vice President George Bush said Friday that the re election of Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C. was an "absolute priority" of the White House in 1984, and he added that the state's Republicans who are up for re election will get special attention from the Reagan-Bush election committee. "The president and I have two goals in 1984 to re-elect the presi dent and keep con trol of the U.S. Senate," Bush said. "Jesse (Helms) is one of the most commendable figures in the U.S: George Bush Senate, a man who sticks with principle. We must see him re-elected. ..or the Senate will swing into a (House Speaker) Tip O'Neill kind of body.. .tax and spend, tax and spend." Bush said that Reagan might visit North Carolina during the campaign. "We take nothing for granted," he said. "North Carolina is the 10th largest state and is very, very important." When asked about the Democratic Party's statewide registration blitz, Bush said, "It's like Custer at the Little Big Horn. There's more of them (Democrats) that there's of us, and yet, Senator Helms has a way of picking up Democratic votes. "The Reagan-Bush ticket did that in '80 in North Carolina. We hope to do well here." Bush chided the Democrats for "tak ing a turn to the left" by forcing Sen. John Glenn to withdraw from the presidential race and asked for support from Glenn's Democratic backers. "I'm here to welcome the North Carolina Democrats to join us with those North Carolina family values." In addition to the 20-minute news con ference at the West Asheville Ramada Inn, Bush attended a private reception before addressing a crowd of 1,200 at a rally at T.C. Roberson High School near Skyland. "We don't need people telling us I CGC changes Honor Code to recognize problems By BEN PERKOWSKI Staff Writer The Campus Governing Council's decision last Wednesday to amend an ar ticle of the Instrument of Student Judicial Governance so that it is now an offense of the Honor Code to repeatedly abuse someone verbally with the intent to cause severe mental or emotional distress pro bably will not have a significant effect on the number of cases in the Undergraduate Honor Court, according to former Stu dent Body Attorney General Hunter Hoover. Before the amendment, it was an of fense only if the abuse involved physical contact or direct threats. It is now an of fense, as the amendment reads, to "inten tionally inflict severe mental or emotional distress upon a person through a course of conduct involving repreated abuse or disparagement of t that person's race, religion, creed, sex, sexual preference, age, national origin or disability." As last year's Attorney General, Hoover was responsible for bringing possible cases of Honor Code violations before the Undergraduate Court. Last Wednesday the CGC approved Keith Johnson as the new Attorney General. "I think I had only one cause last year that, if there had been the amendment then, I could have continued my in vestigation into the situation," Hoover said. "In that case I couldn't do anything because the accused did not touch or threaten the person." Hoover said it would be difficult to convict someone under this amendment for two reasons. "It has to be shown that the accused had intentions to cause distress; in other words, it has to be shown that the person wasn't just joking around," he said. "Also, it has to be shown that there was an intention to cause (severe) distress and the abuse has to be done again and again. "What this means is that the abuse has to be fairly flagrant just to meet the pro visions of the amendment," Hoover said. He said the real difficulty would be in trying to prove someone's intent. "What you have to do is determine someone's state of mind and no one knows that," he explained. "To convict someone you have to deal with extraneous factors such as witnesses.! Hoover said that for a successful trial in such cases everybody would have to be honest. He said the problem would be that "the accused will probably say they were just kidding and, as I've said, it is very difficult to prove intent. what's wrong about this country," Bush said of leading Democratic contenders Gary Hart and Walter Mondale. "We need people telling us what's right about this country: America is back and Ronald Reagan has brought us back. "In two years we got it (the economy) turned around," he said. "We created 700,000 jobs last month. "In 1982, the Democrats were going to create 300,000 jobs by spending $3.5 billion. "I can see the misery now . of Democratic strategists, raying, 'What if these deficits drop?' It's fantastic." Bush credited Reagan for the low infla tion rate. "If inflation had kept up at the Jimmy Carter pace, you'd be paying $3.60 a pound for hamburger." The president's defense policy has made America safer, he said. "The presi dent's firmness and decisiveness has made our adversaries come to the understan ding, whether they like him or not, that he is a president they can respect. The way you deter agression is to keep the United States of America strong." Conspicuously absent from Bush's remarks during the day was gubernatorial candidate Jirri Martin, who was kept off the state party's strong Reagan delegation in 1976 because he supported Ford. "I sure hope we win the state house with a Republican governor," was Bush's only mention of Martin. Asked about what Helms strategist Tom Ellis' unsuccessful efforts to find a more conservative candidate for governor would do to the unity of the Republican effort in the state, Bush said he couldn't give an answer. "You better ask Mr. Helms or Mr. Martin about that. The last thing I need to do is butt in with what seems a complicated situation. I'm not ducking it, but I don't know anything about it." Helms, who appeared with Bush dur ing the vice president's stopover en route to Washington from Jackson, Miss., said in an interview he did not know that Ellis had looked for a more conservative can didate. "I was out early saying I was in favor of Jim Martin," Helms said. Helms, when asked about his latest campaign ad which blasts Gov. Jim Hunt for visiting New York City to raise funds, replied "The real point is that a U.S. Senator is precisely that." "What's at issue in there cases is the accused, what they were trying to do," he added. "The victim, no matter how emo tional they might become, is almost irrele vant." Hoover explained that despite the dif ficulty, successful trials -were possible. "The situation has to be analyzed really well and someone has to be asking the right questions," he said.- Sarah Raper, chairperson of the Undergraduate Court, said she did not expect many cases to occur under this amendment, but that was not the purpose of its inclusion. "We felt that this type of offense was not covered by the Student Judicial Governance, but should be recognized by the University," she said. When the amendment was brought before the CGC the point was raised that the wording might be too vague. Raper disagreed. "I think the concept itself is hard to pin down in words," she said. "The wording is as specific as it can be, the rest is up to the interpretation of the Attorney General and the Undergraduate Court." Raper said that because the offense would be non-academic the Court has no set sanctions to follow, as with academic offenses. "It would depend on the nature of what occurred and the severity of the victim's reaction," she said. On the same bill the CGC voted that "Disciplinary files and records of cases that resulted in "not guilty" findings will be destroyed immediately after the hear ing that rendered the "not guilty" ver dict." Hoover said the decision would have primarily an administrative impact. "There are files just sitting around with no reason to keep them," he said. "There will be no change in court procedure because of the decision." He said past cases involving a person before the Undergraduate Court could not be referred to during a trial. "Even if a person has been before the Court several times for the same reason but has been found "not guilty" each time, those past cases cannot be used before the Court," he said. This procedure was not affected by the amendment Hoover add ed. The bill the CGC approved also stated that "disciplinary files and records on other adjudicated cases will be maintain ed for 10 years after all appeal rights have expired or have been exhausted, and then destroyed. Files on pending cases will be ' maintained indefinitely." History is the short trudge from BOG By STEVE FERGUSON Assistant University Editor -, David J. Garrow, assistant political: science professor at UNC, was denied his appeal for tenure by the UNC Board of Governors last Friday, confirmed Martha McNair, member of the BOG committee on personnel and tenure. Garrow's term at UNC will expire in December of this year. The BOG took about eight months to render a decision in the case. Garrow was unavailable for comment. 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Integration planned UNC Faculty By STEVE FERGUSON Assistant University Editor The UNC Faculty Council voted unanimously Friday to recommend that University Housing initiate an experimen tal dormitory floor on North Campus having a 5050 minority white racial population, and urged University Hous ing to develop a policy for freshman ap plicants which would encourage integra tion but still allow for freedom of choice. A report, submitted by the committee on the status of , minorities and the disad vantaged, also recommended that the University take immediate steps to hire American Indians, recruit American In dian students and expand American In dian history and culture courses. The new dormitory floor would be ex perimental and completely voluntary, said William T. Small, chairman of the committee. "Given time, it might prove to be beneficial to other parts of the cam pus," he said." According to the report, the sugges tions were made "to ihsure that a pattern of housing segregation is not allowed to be established." Ninety-four percent of Class of 1984 plans to fund building of Visitors Center By RUTH IE PIPKIN Staff Writer The class of 1984 has raised about $112,000 in pledges to build a Visitors Center as a class gift, said .William Massey of Carolina Annual Giving. "It is the largest five year pledge gift ever given by any graduating class of any university, public or private," Massey said. The 702 seniors who agreed to pledge will give $10 in 1984, $20 in 1985, $25 in 1986, $40 in 1987 and $50 in 1988. Carolina Annual Giving will manage the pledges in the class's absence, Massey said. Another 800 of the class's 3,500 members said they might pledge, Massey said, and the total pledge amount will be denies Garrow's appeal A faculty vote of 10-9 against Garrow's reappointment was announced March 21, ..198 J, 'and political science department chairman James W. Prothro denied Gar row's request for reappointment in a let ter on April. 1 1, 1983. Prothro's letter was official written notice, which is required by the Tenure Document. Prothro also ' ' that Garrow's col leagues felt that Garrow had not made a contribu tion to the "general quality and reputation of the department," and his work "does not repre- Davd Qarrow Council recommends experimental 'I'm hoping the (housi in the past will change thinking Chairman William T. Small blacks living on campus reside in South Campus, the report states. "I'm hoping the (housing) pattern we've seen in the past will change," Small said. "I know that's wishful thinking. "North Campus tends to. be almost void of black students," he said. The committee met with student leaders to discuss housing integration and was given several reasons why blacks preferred South Campus. Among the reasons are the feeling of not being isolated, being in an environment similar to home, and the satisfaction of living in a more modern dormitory, the report said. Regarding the status of American In dians on campus, the report noted that a similar resolution was passed by the council in 1976, but was ineffective. "Current statistics clearly reflect that very little has been done since 1976 to improve announced at graduation by Susan Sparks, senior class president. . Sparks said plans began in October when class officers found that a Visitors Center had been on the University's back project list for some time. Sparks said she felt liberal in hoping to raise $40,000 to initiate the process.- "Right before, we started making phone calls, it really hit me, I had no idea how we'd come out," Sparks said. "I got scared we'd really put our necks on the line with a $40,000 gift. "They when we got $28,000 in pledges in the first four hours, we just sat back and thought, 'this could really go somewhere, " Sparks said. Gerry Battle, senior class vice presi dent, said some students were concerned the unanticipated response would create Adam to atom. sent a sufficiently high level of scholar ship." Garrow was appointed to the faculty in 1980 and recieved his Ph.D. from Duke University in 1981. He has written several works on the subject of civil rights, in cluding two books about Martin Luther King Jr. His book, Protest at Selma: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 won the 1978 Chastain Award of the Southern Political Science Association for the best bbok on politics, government or public administration in the South. Garrow requested in a seven-page memo to Prothro that he reverse his deci sion. "I have reason to believe that some members of the department think that one should not express critical beliefs about the institution to anyone outside of ng) pattern we've seen I know that's wishful this situation and the fact remains that there are presently no American Indian faculty or -staff on the UNC-CH campus," the report said. North Carolina has 65,000 American Indians living in the state, the highest number in any state east of the Mississip pi, the report said. The University has the second largest American Indian popula tion (133) of the 16 UNC universities, Pembroke State (508) having the largest enrollment. Faculty members expressed concern that the resolution could create unrealistic expectations of what the University can do in expanding the role of American In dians here. "While it will be a problem, I don't think it's impossible," Small said. Chancellor Christopher C. Fordham III also expressed his approval for the resolu- These MBA qraduaies of the Class excess funds. "Every bit will definitely go to the Visitors Center, and will probably pay for (it) entirely," Battle said. K&XW-- '"3 ' - ' V ' J ,-;' ' ' ;r ' J tK imtt'.y m nil.nmn.rf itMtwxauiMC. "w-i ..ii . i . i K.in , L.L. Levinson it," he said in the memo. "I believe that my record in teaching, in research, and in 'enhancing the depart ment's reputation during my first two years at UNC clearly merits me for my reappointment to the faculty when my present contract expires in 1984," he stated in the memo. Garrow's appeal went through several adminstrative levels including the depart ment chairman, the acting dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, the UNC Faculty Hearings Committee and the UNC Board of Trustees. The appeal went to the UNC Board of Governors late last summer. In April of last year, a group of UNC students formed to protest the political science teacher's dismissal. The group ex See GARROW on page 4 ""rl1 ' f iitrrlf r. Photo by Peter Krough dormitory floor tion, which passed unanimously. Small said the move would "reinforce the commitment of March 19, 1976." The council also voted for a resolution, passed by the Campus Governing Council last week, that would add the following to the Honor Code as a reason for expul sion, suspension, or other sanction. "In tentionally inflicting severe mental or emotional distress upon a person through a course of conduct involving repeated abuse or disparagement of that person's race, religion, creed, sex, sexual perference, age, national origin or disability," will now be an offense of the Honor Code. ' Harold Wallace, Vice Chancellor for University Affairs, and acting Affir mative Action officer, reported that the Affirmative Action officer search com mittee would recommend someone to fill the position within two to three weeks. The council also heard a letter written by the Residence Hall Association stating they were aware of complaints from the faculty regarding noise from dormitories that were disturbing nearby buildings. DTHJett Neuvtlle of 1983 show who has money at UNC "Now' the center will just be that much nicer," he said. See GENTER on page 4