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Volume 92, Issue 123
Monday, February 11, 1985
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By JANET OLSON
Staff Writer
Student body president candidates
Doug Berger and Patricia Wallace
squared off in their first debate last
night, and they took the issues home.
The debate, sponsored by Henderson
Residence College, lacked the "there-you-go-again"
attack tactics of the
Hunt-Helms debates, but it showed
students where the candidates stood on
campus issues.
The candidates responded to ques
tions from three panelists: Ron Everett,
former Campus Governing Council
member; Jackie Jarvis, social chairman
of Winston dormitory; and Mike
Phillips, a senator for HRC and a
member of the University debate team.
Without surprise, the mandatory
meal plan emerged as one of the
immediate campus concerns facing
either candidate if elected.
Wallace said students should accept
the mandatory meal plan because it had
been established already. "It is some
thing the administration is doing so we
can have a food service here on
campus," she said.
Student Government can negotiate
the future of the meal plan, Wallace
added, by seeing it doesn't increase and
by ensuring that ARA improves its
services. In addition, Wallace said
Student Government could set up a
system which would allow a student
who didn't want his $100 meal plan to
sell it to another student who wanted
a more expensive plan.
Berger took the opposite approach
to the meal plan, saying students should
fight the meal plan because it was
imposed by the administration's author
itarian control without students' demo
cratic input. Berger said he would make
the repeal of the mandatory meal plan
his first concern if elected.
But Wallace said the student body
president instead should make his or
her initial concern gaining credibility for
Student Government in both the stu
dents and the University administra
tion's eyes. "Then we can present the
Board of Trustees logical, rational
solutions to issues we're concerned
about," she said.
Addressing the University's recent
decision to divest in all companies not
abiding by the Sullivan Principles,
Berger said the University's action was
not extensive enough.
"The students, in 1982, demanded the
University take its money out of
companies operating in South Africa,
not out of those not adopting the
Sullivan Principles," Berger said. "The
Sullivan Principles are fine, but in no
way do they address the most funda
mental human principles like the right
to vote and the right to travel around
the country."
Wallace stressed that divestment
should remain a campus issue. "If we're
for divestment, it's a moral issue," she
said. "It's because we want to improve
racial relations here on campus."
The candidates also discussed improv
ing the campus for off-campus students.
Berger said he would work to convert
the area in the Carolina Union formerly
occupied by the Fast Break into a
AIDS remains mystery, cure still sought
By AMY STYERS
Staff Writer
Creating panic in . the homosexual
community and concern among medical
scientists, Acquired Immunodeficiency
Syndrome, or AIDS, remains some
what of a mystery to a world which
has zealously studied it for more than
three years.
A task force at Duke University is
working to develop preventive and
interventive measures for the disease
which has no known cure.
Recognized as a disease in 1981,
AIDS breaks down the body's immune
system, leaving the victim defenseless
Reaction to AIDS by local gay
community stresses education
By AMY STYERS
Staff Writer
The first wave of shoek over AIDS
flowed through the homosexual com
munity more than three years ago.
Today, doctors are still probing for a
cure for the disease that finds 73 percent
of its victims among homosexual males.
What effect has AIDS, or Acquired
Immunodeficiency Syndrome, had on
the gay population? What are local
organizations doing to educate the
public about the disease? Can a homo
sexual be active and still feel safe?
Robert Pharr, co-chairman of UNC's
Carolina Gay Association, said homo
sexuals, along with the general popu
lation, were more concerned with public
health.
AIDS, which tears down the body's
immunity system and is usually fatal,
has raised everyone's health conscious
ness, he said.
Male homosexual activity has slowed
its pace somewhat within the Raleigh-
lounge for off-campus students.
Wallace said she planned to turn that
area into a coffee house with live student
entertainment, but Berger said plans
already existed to turn the Union's
billiards room into a coffee house and
to move the pool tables to a space next
to the bowling alley.
Berger said other ways to help off
campus students included extending the
hours of Davis Library and registering
students to vote in town elections.
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Candidates
for SBP for
CGA funds
By JANET OLSON
Staff Writer
SBP candidates Doug Berger and
Patricia Wallace met yesterday after
noon to reiterate tfieir support for the
Carolina Gay Association and to
denounce negative campaign literature
centered on gay rights.
Both candidates said they would
support Student Government funding
for the CGA and would oppose any
efforts to defund the organization
during the Campus Governing Coun
cil's budget hearings.
"I reiterate my denunciation of the
DeBusk staff pamphlet," Wallace said.
"I agree with Doug that the gay baiting
is hurting his campaign."
Wallace said her Student Govern
ment would not discriminate on the
basis of sex, race, ethnic background,
religion, sexual preference, age or any
other affiliation.
"As student body president, I would
encourage the education of students,
and particularly of CGC members, on
minority issues," she said.
Berger said his and Wallace's open
support for CGA funding was a step
forward for the campus. -. ....
"Those persons who may seek lo use
negative - campaigning against me the
night before the election have already
lost their battle," Berger said. "The new
student body president, whether it is Pat
or I, will be the strongest advocates for
gay rights that UNC has ever had."
But Wallace said she wasn't qualified
to call herself the strongest candidate
ever for gay rights. "I don't want it
stated that I'm catering to special
interests," she said. "I'm addressing the
campus as a whole."
Both Wallace and Berger have
agreed, if elected, to speak at the
Southeastern Conference for Lesbians
and Gay men during their term in office.
Robert Pharr, co-chairman of the
CGA, said the candidates' support for
gay rights was a step forward for the
campus as a whole. "I'm particularly
excited that both candidates had the
guts and the morality to address the
issue before Tuesday's election," he said.
against severe infections, most com
monly pneumonia and Kaposi's sar
coma, a rare cancer.
It most often occurs in homosexual
males, intravenous drug abusers, Hai
tians and hemophiliacs. AIDS has,
however, become so widespread that
cases outside these risk groups are not
uncommon any more.
"It isn't just a homosexual problem
it's spreading through the heterosex
ual community as well," said Dr. Dani
P. Bolognesi, a professor of surgery in .
Duke's department of medicine and a
member of the Duke task force.
According to the national Centers for
Durham-Chapel Hill area, according to
Daniel Leonard, a UNC Medical
School lab supervisor, who is gay.
Leonard, 41, calls himself an unofficial
health educator for gay men in the area.
The homosexual community often
turns to , him for advice on avoiding
AIDS, he said.
"We've gotten back to the old
fashioned notion of courting," Leonard
said. "Most people aren't willing to take
the calculated risk of finding a partner
on a whim. They're looking at other
gav men as persons rather than sexual
objects."
Leonard said he could see more
caution used at parties. People casually
bring up health histories in conversation
in an attempt to find out if someone
might have AIDS, he said.
Several organizations in this area
have made efforts to educate the public
about AIDS.
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Tar Heels
By FRANK KENNEDY
Sports Editor
BATON ROUGE, La. The North
Carolina Tar Heels took a cue from
Louisiana State's overzealous Tiger fans
yesterday, and did them one better.
Just prior to tip-off, LSU's student
fans symbolically tossed shredded
newspaper randomly about Assembly
Center. Yet it was the Tar Heels who,
quite literally, shredded a tenacious
LSU 2-3 zone an accomplishment
that proved to be the difference as the
Tar Heels "pulled away in the final
seconds for a 75-70 victory.
The Tar Heels encountered their
tallest opposition this year only one
LSU starter checked in at less than 6-
Leaky Morrison roof to
By RANDY FARMER
Staff Writer
Eight to ten residents of tenth floor
Morrison dormitory will be relocated
into other housing beginning today due
to water leaks in the roof structure,
according to Collin Rustin, assistant
director of housing.
"The cracking is due to the expansion
and contraction of the concrete slabs
in the roof from freezing and thawing
over the years," said Wayne Kuncl,
director of housing. "Then once the
cracks have formed, the rain gets in the
cracks and seeps down."
The leaks have been temporarily
Disease Control, homosexual males
make up 73 percent of reported cases
in the United States, followed by
intravenous drug abusers (17 percent),
Haitian immigrants (4 percent) and I
percent each have occurred in hemo
philia patients, recipients of blood
transfusions and heterosexual contacts
of AIDS victims. The remaining 4
percent fall outside thdse risk groups.
The percentages among these risk
groups remain fairly constant. "The
cases have continued to increase in all
groups," said Dr. James Curran,
director of the AIDS task force at CDC.
"But their relationship to each other has
stayed the same."
The Atlanta-based CDC has received
reports of 7,270 cases of AIDS in the
U.S. Of those victims, 3,449 have died.
In North Carolina, there have been 25
documented cases.
Although no cure has been found,
scientists have isolated a virus as the
source of the disease.
The U.S. Health and Human Services
Department announced in May that the
Human T-Cell Leukemia Virus III had
been identified by Dr. Robert Gallo at
the U.S. National Cancer Institute in
Bethesda, Md., as the cause of AIDS.
Doctors at UNC hope to begin
research on AIDS soon, said Dr. Joseph
S. Pagano, a UNC professor of med
icine. They are seeking funding from
the National Institute of Health and are
planning to begin within the next two
months, Pagano said.
Bolognesi, who began his AIDS work
at Duke in August when he received
a grant from the National Cancer
Institute, is trying to develop a vaccine
to be used as a preventive measure in
high risk groups. He and other members
of the task force are also researching
treatments for AIDS, including several
types of anti-viral drugs.
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pull past LSU for 75-70
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the zone, control the boards, shoot
almost 60 percent from the floor and
raise their season record to 18-5.
Despite those successes, which led
coach Dean Smith to call this his team's
best effort of the season, UNC actually
was forced to rally from a 10-point first
half deficit, then pull it out in the clutch
as guard Kenny Smith was perfect on
five free throws in the final 24 seconds.
UNC had broken a 66-all game with
1 :09 remaining when Warren Martin
found center Brad Daugherty in the
paint for a layup. Seconds later, LSU
guard Derrick Taylor, who had been
deadly from the perimeter all day,
missed a 15-footer and fouled Smith
patched so the leaking has stopped. But
major repairs will have to be made.
According to Rustin, the students will
have to be moved for two reasons: First,
for precautionary measures to insure
that there is no damage to the students
or their belongings; Second, to allow
the construction workers into the rooms
to repair the leaks.
Other students on the floor may be
relocated as well pending an inspection
of those rooms today.
"The choice of where to move is up
to the students," Rustin said. "There is
room im Morrison, but they have the
choice on what arrangements they
want."
The relocation of the students will be
handled by Morrison Area Director Ed
Dennis. Dennis would not comment on
the situation.
The residents' original housing con
tracts are still valid as long as they
remain in Morrison or a dorm with the
RH A election
Candidates disagree on effect
By LISA SWICEGOOD
Staff Writer
The two candidates for Residence
Hall Assocation President disagree on
whether the runoff has come down to
a race between North and South
Campus.
"You can't ignore that our individual
strongholdings are from our areas," said
candidate Shannon Friend, who lives
in Ehringhaus. "There are more resi
dents on South Campus. I don't know
if that will have anything to do with
it."
Candidate Tim Cobb, who lives in
Everett, however, disagrees. He said he
felt it was too big of a tendency on this
campus to divide North and South
Campus.
"That's been a big problem of RHA
in the past," he said. "North and South
Campus have more in common than
most people realize. It's foolish to vote
for someone just because they live in
your area."
Although she felt they would pull the
most votes from their areas. Friend said
Granville would play a major role
because of its neutrality.
"There is nothing wrong with a
healthy North-South rivalry," Cobb
said. "But it's almost been antagonist
in the past."
Since the campus elections Tuesday
when Cobb received 1 ,007 votes against
Friend's 671, both candidates said they
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after the subsequent UNC rebound.
Smith was admittedly playing with
some degree of revenge. Last year, LSU
guard John Tudor crashed into Smith
on a breakaway, causing Smith to break
a wrist. This time, Smith relished his
role.
"I pretty much wanted to be the one
on the line," Smith said. "It looked lilfce
they were going for the fouls, so I tried
to keep the ball in my hand a little
longer. During that situation we need
someone who's used to handling the
balCantf Steve ( Hale) arid myself were
really going after it pretty hard."
Smith, who scored 15 points while
adding seven assists and three rebounds
to his tally, admitted that the 1984 game
force residents to move
same room fee, Rustin said. "There are
rooms available in Morrison and dorms
of the same price range," Rustin said.
"However, if a student chooses to move
into a dorm of greater or less rent, then
the difference will be credited to their
account."
The leaks have caused some incon
veniences to the tenth floor residents.
One of the residents, Tera Ray, a
sophomore from Greensboro, said she
had to sleep last Sunday night with her
door open because buckets were in the
doorway to collect the water.
Ray also said, "I had to take down
my loft and move some of my clothes
because of the leaks."
Another one of the tenth floor
residents, Jill Gerber, a freshman from
Charlotte, said the leaks were an
inconvenience because, not only was her
room filled with buckets to collect the
water, but she had to move her bed into
the middle of the room because of a
had been busy looking at what their
weak areas were.
"1 ran weak on South Campus,"
Cobb said. However, Cobb received
over 50 percent of the votes from Scott
College and Henderson Residence
College.
Friend placed third in Olde Campus
and Stow. "I didn't do as well there as
I had wished." Friend said she had been
concentrating on these areas.
According to Friend, she has been
putting up posters in key places where
they had been torn down. She has also
made fliers to distribute to students
door-to-door encouraging them to vote.
"That's the biggest problem; time is
almost impossible."
Cobb said he had been putting up
posters also and had made fliers telling
residents to come out and vote again.
"I had the least amount of name
recognition," he said. According to
Cobb, he did a lot of door-to-door
campaigning for the election as well as
the runoff. Now he is concentrating on
getting students who voted for other
candidates to vote for him as well as
getting people to vote for him again.
"I need them to come out again and
vote for me. I can't accomplish what
the residents want without them."
Friend said she didn't do enough
door-to-door campaigning for the
election. "I relied too much on areas
I knew 1 would come out strong." She
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was on his mind. "I don't think I could
help but think about it because of all
the people who had been asking me the
question about it," he said. "I was a
little nervous about it, but I was ready
to play."
Also ready to play were UNC's big
men, who allowed few easy baskets
from the Tigers, while outmuscling LSU
on the boards. UNC edged the Tigers,
28-20, in rebounding, and were espe
cially helped by Daugherty 's 19 points
and 10 boards.,, ,
The Tar Heels never settled into a
specific defense during the first half, as
LSU shot a sizzling 69 percent from
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leak over her bed.
In repairing the roof, the University
has already begun the bidding process
to reconstruct the entire Morrison roof.
The bidding process begins with con
struction companies estimating the cost
for repair and then submitting a bid to
the University. The University will
choose the lowest bidder.
The University appraised the cost for
repair at approximately $34,000.
Associate Director of Operations
Russ Perry said, "The reconstruction of
the roof is not unusual, and University
Housing had set aside money in their
budget for the repair."
Kuncl said, "The roof repair is
normal. The average life expectancy for
the type of roof at Morrison dorm is
about 20 years, and it's about due."
Similarly, Hinton James dormitory
roof had to be repaired last year. It cost
$28,000 and took about six months.
of area rivalries
said she also underestimated her oppo
nents, especially Cobb.
"It's pretty weird being in a runoff,"
Cobb said. "You only have one person
to contrast yourself against." He said
he thought he did everything humanly
possible for the election.
RHA candidate Mike Deimler said
he hadn't decided yet who he was going
to endorse. "I'm not really enthused
about their ideas." According to
Deimler, he doesn't think either can
didate is addressing the problems of the
programming board. "Neither one of
them is offering a solution."
Mike Rogers, the other RHA can
didate, said he was leaning towards
Cobb. "He will fight housing more than
Shannon," he said. Rogers said he felt
Friend would be in "housing's right
hand backpocket.
"She will do what they tell her." He
also likes Cobb because he has promised
equal programming for North and
South Campus, Rogers said. "I think
he will live up to this."
A debate between student body
president candidates Doug Berger and
Patricia Wallace will be held tonight in
the Union Auditorium at 7 p.m.
Sponsored by the Phoenix, panelists
include Kevin Washington, from The
Daily Tar Heel and the Black Ink; Chris
Simmons, from the Phoenix; Jennifer
Ayer, from the Campus Y: and Harold
Washington, vice chancellor ,