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Rushing to success
Versatile UNC tailback Ethan
Horton captures ACC's player of
the year award. See the
former quarterback's story on
page 5.
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Volume 92, Issue 92
Wednesday, November 28, 1984
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By DAN TILLMAN
Staff Writer
GREENSBORO A former Greens
boro police officer said she was told to
"clear the area" just 28 minutes prior
to the Klan-Nazi shootout in a black
neighborhood on Nov. 3, 1979.
April Wise testified in a deposition
released Monday that she and another
officer responded to a domestic distur
bance near the site of the shootings
shortly before the shots were fired.
Five demonstrators were killed when
Klansmen and Nazis opened fire on the
Communist Workers Party's "Death to
the Klan" rally in the Morningside
Homes community in Greensboro.
The Ku Klux Klansmen and Nazis
have been acquitted of state murder
charges and of federal civil rights
violation charges in the five years since
the shootings.
The Greensboro Civil Rights Fund
is now bringing suit against Greensboro
city officials, including the police
department, claiming they violated the
civil rights of the demonstrators. The
civil suit will be heard on behalf of the
families of the slain marchers in federal
court in Greensboro next year. The
Fund claims that Greensboro police
knew the Nazis and Klansmen intended
to disrupt the rally and were carrying
firearms to the demonstration.
According to Wise's testimony, she
and another officer responded to a call
at 10:30 a.m. at an apartment complex
on Dunbar Street, 1 xi blocks from the
Carver-Everitt intersection where the
shootings occurred. At 10:51, Wise said,
a dispatcher from the police commun-
Banks criticizes integration plan
By RUTHIE PIPKIN
Stiff Writer
Sherrod Banks, president of the
Black Student Movement, expressed
doubts Monday about Student Govern
ment's plans to integrate a North
Campus dorm as a pilot project.
Banks, who served on a Chancellor's
committee considering the project last
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designed as a step
ping stone from
segregation to ran
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would mix stu
dents by not offer
ing them a choice
of their residence.
"That would be
devastating to
Sherrod Banks
black students in particular," Banks
said. "If you have (less than) 10 percent
of the student body to be black (and
you separate them), you would not have
a black cultural presence on campus,
or a black community mixing with a
white community."
Although he endorsed the sentiments
behind it, Banks said he could not
endorse the project because it might be
used politically.
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up on their studying or their sleeping. Which are you doing, Duke Buchan?
'What about the police tape? Are we looking here again at
a Watergate scenario? Why are there no references on that
police tape of the call from headquarters for them to clear
the area? Lewis Pitts
ications center asked, "How soon do
you clear the area? Wise said she told
the dispatcher she and the other officer
would clear the area as soon as possible.
The dispatcher again advised Wise and
the other officer to "clear the area as
soon as possible," Wise said in her
deposition.
Communications between police
dispatchers and line officers released
during the investigation do not contain
the alleged conversation between Wise
and the dispatcher even though the tape
made public by police began at 10:50
a.m., Fund attorney Lewis Pitts charged
at a Greensboro press conference
yesterday. Pitts made public Wise's
deposition and charged Greensboro
police with conspiring to cover up their
knowledge of the impending violence
between Klansmen, Nazis and the
Communist Party demonstrators.
"What about the police tape?" said
Pitts. "Are we looking here again at a
Watergate scenario? Why are there no
references on that police tape of the call
from headquarters for them to clear the
area?
"It's a major new piece of evidence
in our charges against the city police,"
said Pitts. "The zone in which the
incident was occurring had no routine
officers on duty. That's another indi
"You take a floor of a dorm in which
50 percent of the occupancy is black,
and 50 percent of the occupancy is
white," Banks said. "The obvious
question is, what do you hope to gain?
You expect to see whether or not blacks
and whites can live together in a totally
integrated project, -and see if it will
work."
Banks said he would not endorse the
project, which proposes placing each
white student participating in the
project with a minority roommate, until
he felt certain it would never lead to
random housing.
Director of Housing Wayne Kuncl
said many details needed to be worked
out before a decision could be made
on the project. "It's hard to say yes or
no," Kuncl said. "We've had some
discussions about the dynamics, intent
and purposes. It's not a simple
question."
With or without the project, Kuncl
said he had no plans for random
housing. "We have not thought of doing
that," he said. "The system we have now
works so well, we have no need to
change."
Student Body President Paul Parker
said Student Government would spon
sor a survey asking dorm residents to
respond to the project.
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cation that the entire zone had been
cleared of police."
Pitts said a tactical police unit
assigned to the Morningside area was
sent to lunch shortly before the shoot
ings. Regular officers, however, were
told to take no breaks during the
morning, he said.
"I don't think some dispatcher made
that unique decision to clear the area,"
said Pitts. Pitts said William E. Swing,
chief of Greensboro police at the time,
claimed he didnt arrive at the commun
ications center until 11:15 a.m., "but he
also told us he didnt have any prior
knowledge that the Klan was attending
(the demonstration)."
According to Pitts, Wise resigned the
force in May 1980 following an injury
sustained in the line of duty. She is now
attending school in Pennsylvania and
was unavailable for comment yesterday.
Pitts said he did not know if Wise
would return to Greensboro to testify
in the trial because she fears for her
safety. "She is somewhat apprehensive
about riding back into town knowing
what can happen," said Pitts.
Greensboro police chief Conrad
Wade said he could not comment on
the case because of the ongoing civil
suit.
"11 no one wants to do it, we won't
do it," Parker said. "There's often a lot
of controversy. People say, 'It sounds
like forced integration to me.' But it's
not. It's a total voluntary program."
Segregation affects everyone, Parker
said. "It's not just a black problem. It's
not just a white problem," he said. "It's
a university and community problem.
We really want to see people living
together, working together, until we
don't see each other as black and white."
But Banks said he felt black identity
and culture needed to be preserved.
"Black students flock to South Cam
pus," Banks said. "Together we can
project the black culture on campus and
serve the community." .
Banks said he felt North Campus
represented a segregation problem but
South Campus exemplified integration
at its best.
"South Campus is the most beautiful
thing as far as segregation is concerned
on this campus," he said, adding that
South Campus is composed of 30
percent blacks and 70 percent whites.
"Whites can go to Upendo Lounge
and experience black culture, and
blacks can go to dorm functions and
experience integrated activities," Banks
said.
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Diabetic students adjust
By LIZ SAYLOR
Staff Writer
"When you tell someone you're a
diabetic, they don't understand. If they
did, they wouldn't react the way they
do." Four UNC students talked about
how they deal with the extra pressures
they face daily because they are diabetic.
They are part of a seven-member
student diabetic support group begun
last spring by Dr. Rose Shalom of
Student Health Services. Janice Ryan,
a social worker who deals with the
emotional impact of having a chronic
illness, is co-leader of the group, which
meets Monday nights.
"There's a danger when they come
to college and want so much to conform
to everybody around them that their
diabetes gets forgotten," Shalom said.
She said she estimated about 100
diabetic students are at UNC.
The support group was designed to
educate student diabetics about man
aging their diabetes and to let them meet
other student diabetics. The group
receives no funding but has applied for
a grant from a diabetes education
research foundation, Shalom said.
Angela McNatt, 21, a senior from
Charlotte, said she knew no other
diabetics before joining the group.
"One of my roommates has been close
all four years and knows what I need,"
she said. "The other two sometimes
dont understand as well. It's so com
plicated for me, I dont know where to
begin explaining."
Group meetings begin with a pres
entation of a diabetes-related topic,
Shalom said. "The rest of the time they
talk about how it feels to have an illness
where their roommate can have a cold
and not potentially die from it, and they
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Derek Pearson, 18, is a freshman
from Raleigh. "If you're in good
control, you're not any different than
anyone else," he said. "I want to be
considered like all the guys in the dorm.
I don't want anyone to feel sorry for
me if I take two shots a day. But I do
let them know what to do if something
happens to me."
Two types of diabetes exist, Shalom
said. Type II diabetes begins later in
life, mostly among overweight people,
and is treated mainly by losing weight.
Type I, or juvenile, diabetes usually
happens early in life and is treated with
insulin injections.
"Insulin is a hormone," Shalom said.
"Normally. when you or I eat.food, our
pancreas secretes insulin, which allows
your blood sugar to go into muscles
and cells in your body to be used as
energy for everyday life. In diabetes the
insulin is not being manufactured. So
a diabetic can eat a lot, and the sugar
from the food stays in their blood
stream. It makes them feel sick, and it
goes out in the urine. It never goes into
their muscles, heart, brain or eyes to
allow them to function."
Type I diabetics are less common
than Type II, Shalom said.
Possible symptoms of diabetes
include frequently being very sleepy and
hungry, eating a lot but still losing
weight, and needing to urinate often.
"It was a big adjustment leaving
home, where my family was always
around and knew what to do," said
Christy Morgan, a freshman from
Greensboro. "It's hard to fit in time to
exercise, and a stressful situation can
put your blood sugar totally out of
whack. It's a vicious circle: pressure, too
Campus groups receive
leftover campaign money
By GUY LUCAS
SUfT Writer
The UNC Students for Mondale
Ferraro will donate $240 in excess
campaign funds to four campus organ
izations, according to group co
chairman Doug Berger.
Berger said the group had been able
to raise more money at the end of the
campaign than it was able to spend and
then decided to share the excess with
other campus groups.
He added that the group spent most
of the money raised in the last weeks
of the campaign on leaflets and other
informative literature.
Berger said the money would be
donated in the following ways: $40 to
"It's time to eat" (a UNC fund for
hunger relief in Ethiopia), $40 toward
the formation of an anti-apartheid
coalition with money in the trust of the
BSM, $80 to the Young Democrats and
$80 to Black Ink.
"We want to challenge the College
Republicans (and the Students for
America) to match us" with donations
to It's time to eat, Berger said.
Berger said the group chose to donate
to the Young Democrats "to give the
local party organization some funds . . .
(so it can) begin to build for a large
voter output in 1986."
Black Ink received money because "it
was one of the few progressive voices
on this campus" during the election,
Berger said, adding the Mondale
Ferraro group did not want to see it
in financial trouble.
Berger said the anti-apartheid coali
tion received a donation because it was
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beneficial effects of exercise.
to college life
much exercise and you have to adjust
your insulin intake accordingly. It
involves a lot of patience and time."
The major complaint of diabetic
students, Shalom said, is that they
become tired and unable to concentrate
because high blood sugar or not enough
insulin has temporarily dehydrated their
brains.
Low blood sugar occurs when dia
betics take in too much insulin or do
not eat enough, Shalom said. This
results in an insulin reaction.
"It's frustrating to have an insulin
reaction in lecture," said Katherine
Fidalgo, a senior from Morehead City.
"I leave, come back with food and can
tell people are thinking, 'Looks like she
couldn't wait till after class to eat.'
"Aii insulin reaction is so uncomfor
table," she continued. "I wish everyone
could know what it feels like . . . my
hand shakes so much I can't take notes.
Most of my teachers don't know that
I'm a diabetic. Ive never passed out
from a reaction ... it may be a good
idea to let my teachers know I'm a
diabetic, but I hate to draw attention
to myself."
Shalom said, "Instructors should
know that they have a diabetic student,
and that it's okay for them to get up
and get a Coke or something. Otherwise
they'll have someone whoU faint or go
into a coma in five minutes. I think the
University at large doesn't know much
about this.
"Non-diabetics on campus should
know more about diabetes, so if they
meet somebody who has it they don't
freak out," Shalom said.
"Normal students can wake up one
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the College Republi
cans (and the Students
for America) to match
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"the most viable coalition of the various
interest groups that backed Mondale
. . . and it best (reflected) that basis of
support."
Allan Rosen, the group's treasurer,
said about $800 total was raised for the
Mondale-Ferraro campaign.
About $400 was spent to buy cam
paign materials such as buttons and
stickers from the Orange County
Democratic Party, he said.
The group sold the materials at cost
or a at little more than what was paid
for them to raise money, Rosen said.
The group also sold at regular costs
some materials they received free, he
said.
Berger said the group sold a lot of
campaign material at the speech by
Gov. Jim Hunt on University Day and
at the Weil Lecture delivered by former
President Jimmy Carter.
He said most of the money not spent
on campaign materials was spent for
newspaper advertisements and for the
cost of campaigning door-to-door.