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By GRANT PARSONS
Staff Wrter
Student body president candidate Jack Zemp was
disqualified Thursday because the value of inserting
fliers into election-day copies of The Daily Tar Heel
pushed his total campaign expenditures over the $420
maximum.
Also Thursday, Elections Board Chairman Bruce
Lillie reaffirmed an earlier ruling that SBP candidate
David Brady would not have to list the cost of
personalized shirts worn by his fraternity brothers since
Brady did not know about them until after they had
been printed.
The reaffirmation came after an investigation of a
claim that Brady was seen on Franklin Street wearing
a "David Brady for SBP" T-shirt. Brady was cleared
by the board.
Lillie disqualified Zemp after receiving a letter from
DTH co-editors Arne Rickert and Dave Schmidt,
saying the paper normally charges advertisers an
insertion charge of $40 dollars per 1,000 inserts. Since
$40 is the minimum charge, the letter said, Zemp should
include $40 more on his financial statement.
"The space between the fold is considered advertising
space just as the space on the pages because
it uses our medium to circulate and promote
information," the letter says.
"It also makes it seem as if the DTH accepted his
political advertisement, adding our credibility : as a
distributor of information to the leaflets," the letter
says. : v'
The letter also said that if a business had inserted
advertisements into the paper, legal action would have
been sought.
According to Zemp's financial report, he spent
$392.85 for his campaign, without the insertion charge.
When the $40 is added, Zemp's total is $432.85, $12.85
over the limit.
The election laws set the amount of money an SBP
candidate can spend at $400. If more than $400 but
less than $420 is spent, the candidate must pay a 15
percent fine. If a candidate spends more than $420,
he must be disqualified.
Lillie said Zemp's case was fairly clear-cut.
"Objectively, hef did put the fliers into the DTH, and
he did know about it," he said. Since the DTH always
charges for insertion, Zemp should be assessed the extra
$40. -
"It's not so much the law," Lillie said. "But he should
have checked with the DTH"
Zemp said he was not trying to do anything devious
or malicious by inserting the fliers.
"We did not want to violate the . . . (Residence Hall
Association's) policy of slipping literature under the
doors," he said. "We wanted to be safely protected
in case that came up."
Also, students were getting tired of having literature
put under their doors, and by putting the fliers with
copies of the paper, people wouldn't be offended, he
said. "We were just trying to respect people's sensitivity.
"We felt that since the newspaper boxes had been
violated before, and because it was a student
newspaper, that would be the easiest way to get to
the most people," Zemp said. . .
Zemp could challenge the ruling, but he said that
since he could not know how many fliers were actually
inserted, he would not seek an appeal.
Lillie said Thursday that someone had told him that
Brady had been on Franklin Street before the game
Saturday wearing a personalized T-shirt. Lillie would
not say who the person was.
After talking with Brady, Lillie reaffirmed his earlier
ruling that Brady should not be required to declare
the shirts as a campaign expense.
"David was not near the place he was supposed to
be at when he was seen in the shirt," Lillie said. "It
turned out to be a lot of people with a lot of hearsay.
Somebody probably said, 'I think that's David Brady,'
and that got turned into 'That is David Brady.' "
Brady said Thursday that he had not been with the
people wearing the T-shirts. "Evidently, my fraternity
brothers had worn them down to Franklin Street to
get something to eat or something," he said. "Someone
must have thought one of them was me.
"I was campaigning at (Hinton) James (dormitory)
with one of my campaign workers," he said. "I didn't
see the shirts until I saw them at the game."
The elections law that says a candidate is not
responsible for costs incurred without the candidates
consent does have its merits, Brady said. "Say if
candidate X wanted to get rid of David, he could have
$2,000 worth of posters printed up," he said. "All he
would have to to is say that he supported me, and
I would be disqualified."
"If you make . . . (the law) more stringent, it's going
to hurt somebody," he said.
Brady stressed that he had not seen anyone
complaining about the shirts until after they had
realized that he might win the election.
DTHJamie Cobb
A couple strolling down Franklin Street in Thursday's rain, inspiring
thoughts of yet another movie: "Singing in the Rain."
By NANCY HARRINGTON
Staff Writer
Voter turnout in Tuesday's general
elections dropped from 25 to 20 percent :
of the student body compared with the
past few years, according to Elections
Board records.
About 4,300 students voted Tuesday,
said Elections Board Treasurer Chris
Shearer. Voter turnout in the last three
years averaged about 5,400.
Elections Board Chairman Bruce
Lillie said he had expected about 5,000
students to vote this year.
Student Body President Patricia
Wallace attributed the lower turnout to
less elections publicity this year. "I think
that y . . the student,, body president
campaign was less controversial than
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paign controversy centered on then
student body president candidate Doug
Berger, an aggressive campaigner.
Ryke Longest, who ran for SBP this
year, said turnout might have been
lower beca.use students had seen little
difference among the candidates. Also,
some students lack knowledge of what
goes on in an election and dont fully
understand the candidates' platforms,
he said. Some students gloss over the
platforms in The Daily Tar Heel to read
Bloom County, he said.
The low turnout also could have been
3ue to convenience, Longesf sald.:
"The polling sites closed two hours
earlier this year than last, and that can
make a difference," he said. "Because
of the number of referendums on the
ballots, the voting process took longer,
and the lines were longer, and this
caused an inconvenience. People don't
like standing in line."
Jimmy Greene, who also ran for SBP,
agreed. Most people don't vote until
dinner time, he said, and if the polls
had been open an hour longer, 500 to
1,000 more students could have voted.
' Lillie said there weren't enough
&ebpTeorking' af the "poll sites td keep
them open longer. ,
"In some places, we could have kept
the polls open until 7 p.m., but in order
to be fair, you have to keep all the polls
open until one uniform time," he said.
Voter turnout was greatest at the
three all-campus sites: the Student
Union, the Campus Y and Davis
Library. Granville Towers and Morri
son and Hinton James dormitories also
had a large turnout.
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By RACHEL STIFFLER
Staff Writer .
Americans cannot truly celebrate the 1987 bicentennial
of the U.S. Constitution until they correct today's racial
inequalities, Philadelphia Mayor W. Wilson Goode said
during the 1985-86 Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture
in Hill Hall Thursday night.
Goode told an audience of about 120 people that although
King would be proud of the advances black Americans have
made in the arts and sciences and in government, he would
be unhappy that poverty and unemployment among blacks
have worsened since his historic 1963 March on Washington.
"Today, less than 12 percent of all white Americans live
in poverty, while 34 percent of all black Americans are poor,"
he said. "And less than 17 percent of the nation's white
children live in poverty, while nearly 47 percent, of all black
children live in poverty."
Goode said Americans had an obligation to see that the
words, "We the people of the United States, in order to
form a more perfect union ..." that begin the Constitution
applied to all Americans, including minorities.
"As we prepare for that celebration, all of us have a special
obligation to ensure that the words written and adopted in
Philadelphia nearly 200 years ago are not empty promises
of justice, fairness and liberty for all," he said. "AH of us
have a unique opportunity to live up to Dr. King's challenge
by reminding America that the time to act is now."
Goode was elected the first black mayor of Philadelphia
in 1983 after serving as city managing director and public
utility chairman of the city. While public utility chairman,
he received national attention for his handling of the Three
Mile Island crisis in 1978.
He said the disparities between black and white income
and education levels are not caused by the blacks but by
a system allowing discrimnation. Blacks have suffered from
segregation and unequal employment opportunities for
decades, he said.
Although those laws no longer exist, the Reagan
administration has eroded some of the progress blacks have
made, he said. Actions such as giving tax-exempt status to
a racially segregated southern school and blocking passage
of a national holiday to honor King show the halt of progress,
he said.
"America's agenda for the future must be one of bringing
about true equality for blacks and other minorities," he told
the audience. "Part of that agenda must include programs
to ensure equality of economic opportunity and affirmative
action to ensure equal access to educational and employment
opportunities."
Americans must remember that black South Africans are
facing a much more severe struggle for their basic human
rights, he said.
. "I believe that their struggle is all our struggle," he said.
"I urge you to join in that struggle."
In a press conference Thursday afternoon, Goode told
reporters that the problems blacks face have not received
enough attention because many civil rights movement leaders
have now achieved positions of status. They are no longer
passionately seeking equality for blacks, he said.
Another reason for the apathy toward the plight of blacks
is the reduction of assistance for housing and medical care
by the federal government, he said.
Goode, who was born in Seaboard, N.C., and raised on
a tobacco and cotton farm, said he experienced discrim-
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By MARK DAVIS
Staff Writer .
The Official Story is a horror story,
and, unlike most horror stories, it is
true.
The movie is about an Argentinian
woman named Alicia (Norma Alean
dro), whose life is turned upside-down
when she finds out that her adopted
5-year-old daughter could be one of
thousands of babies seized from
mothers who were being tortured by
the government as "enemies of the
state." The characters aren't real, but
the situation is all too real. Rolando
Epstein, producer of The Official
Story, knows this better than anyone.
"That was the way Argentina really
was at the time the movie was shot
a few years ago," Epstein said. "But
it's getting much better since the new
government came. Some of the prob
lems have been solved. Some of the
children have been found."
Argentina has a long, troubled
history, and The Official Story starkly
depicts the anguish its people have
faced. Throughout the film, people are
shown demonstrating for their child
ren to be returned to them. An account
is given of the torture faced by one
woman exiled for an affair with a
suspected revolutionary. It's a movie
without happy endings or easy
answers both of which are in short
supply in Argentina. Without trying
to sensationalize any of the events
portrayed, the movie grabs the
audience by the throat as it illuminates
one of the darkest stories on the globe.
"The movie tries to tell the story
from an original point of view,"
Epstein explained. "Not from the
missing person's family or from the
side of the torturers. Alicia is a
metaphor for the people in society
who don't want to know what's
happening. Then later they realize
everything they've heard is true."
The response to the film has been
impressive. Critics everywhere have
raved over it, praising the realism. It
won a host of awards at the Cannes
Film Festival including Best Foreign
Film and Best Actress for Aleandro.
The claissic role of a producer is to
put together the whole movie. That
includes buying the property, hiring
the director and cast, and arranging
for the financing. It was a little
different for Epstein. Most of the
arrangements were made by another
production company that ran out of
money and was forced to abort the
project. Epstein's production com
pany bought the rights to the movie,
which was filmed in Argentina. To
Epstein's surprise, the government was
very supportive. After 12 weeks of
shooting, the movie was finished.
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By KERSTIN COYLE
Staff Writer
A UNC student has reported that she
was accosted by two white men Wed
nesday near University Presbyterian
Church, where an hour later an uni
dentified woman was kidnapped at
gunpoint and sexually assaulted within
Chapel Hill limits before being released,
according to a Chapel Hill Police.
The two incidents, which occurred
between noon and 1:15 p.m., appeared
unrelated but are still under investiga
tion, police said.
Police would not identify the student.
The woman who was kidnapped also
remained unidentified Thursday, but
police said she was not a UNC student.
Regarding the kidnapping case,
police are searching for a white man
of medium build in his 30s, who is about
six feet tall with brown hair and a small
mustache. He was last seen wearing a
dark suit and tie.
The man reportedly was driving a red,
two-door hatchback that had a cut on
the front seat. The car may have been
a Toyota, police said.
The kidnapped woman was treated
and released from N.C. Memorial
Hospital Wednesday night.
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