gunnel m it' mtg, u"'wiri'llfl'T'''l r iy Vcnlhcr A wair is on ovev ii Is yt in Today: Mosty sunny and warmer. High 50. Lows 25. Wednesday Partly cloudy and cool; High in the 50s. Low in the 20s. Valentino DTH Valentine deadline today at noon 'Light f Day' Page 4 iL 4 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Copyright 1987 The Daily Tar Heel Volume 94, Issue 136 Tuesday, February 10, 1987 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 Business Advertising 962-1163 (far Corooratfoinis may withhold graete iff omversMes divest By JEANNIE FARIS Assistant State & National Editor While the federal government slashes education funding, U.S. corporations are filling in the gaps with more grant money to universities. But campus activism threatens to put extra holes in university finances. Some corporations that continue to do business in South Africa warn that they will withhold grants if the universities divest, while others claim to separate stockholding from educational support. UNC has invested a total of $4,679,375, or 4 percent of its endowment fund, in U.S. corporations in South Africa. Of these corporations, four "have given grants totaling more than $2 million to the University over the past nine years. Representatives of all four corporations said they probably would not withhold grants to UNC if the Endowment Board divested their stock. They each said a specific policy had not been formulated. UNC Endowment Board member Robert Eubanks said the University does not receive much corporate money, and divest ing would only make matters worse now that government grants are dwindling. "Why should we be willing to take their money and spend it, but not be willing to let them earn it?" Eubanks said. "The University is not owned by students, the faculty or the trustees, but by the people of North Carolina. We should keep consistent with the interests of the North Carolina people." RJR Nabisco has given the University its largest grant, a total of $2 million since 1978, for the Carolina Challenge, an unrestricted endowment fund of the UNC Foundation for Education. "We make educational grants in areas of interest to us and for supporting the community," said Jan Cousart, senior public relations representative for RJR Nabisco. "Grants are not related to whether or not (universities) choose to hold stock in our company." CIGNA has given $10,000 over three years for minority students in the School of Business. Hewlet Packard has given a total of $12,000 since 1985 for chemistry research. The Westinghouse plant in Raleigh gave $3,000 in 1986 for the School of Business' operational costs. Westinghouse headquarters in Pitts burgh, Pa., has no impact on the grants policy of the Raleigh plant, said Ray Nichols, manager of the human relations division. He said the Raleigh plant would make its own decisions concerning grants if UNC divested. UNC reported a total of $24 million in U.S. corporate grants in the 1985-86 school year, said Paul Miller, vice president of the Council on Financial Aid to Higher Education. Between 1984 and 1985, the total gift support to universities and colleges was $1.57 billion, and corporate gifts have increased 126 percent over the past five years, Miller said. "That's a lot of money and it's increasing very rapidly," Miller said. "There has been a very large increase in corporate gifts and grants." Miller said corporations as well as universities have a great deal at stake in giving grants to higher education. "Colleges and universities are important in terms of recruiting efforts and research at the univeristy," Miller said. "A lot of money is flowing to support research and education, and a great deal of momentum has built up behind it." Because there is such an interdependence between the schools and corporations, it is unlikely that the policies of stock investment and grants will become linked. Miller said. , "We can find very, very little evidence they're withholding grant money," Miller said. "They're trying to keep quiet ... to maintain a hands-off attitude." He said he thought universities were acting hypocritically when asking corpora tions for grant money while refusing to invest in their stock because they do business in South Africa. "Why should they take companies money we give them in grants? That's been tainted with the blood of South Africa," See DIVEST page 2 Election runoffs to be held By JUSTIN McGUIRE Staff Writer Runoff elections for student body president, senior class treasurer and District 13 student congress repre sentative will be held today, accord ing to the Elections Board. Because no candidate for those offices received 50 percent of the vote, the two top finishers in each race will compete in today's runoff. Elections 1907 D BSM endorses Sitton 3 In the SBP election, Jaye Sitton will run against Brian Bailey. Sitton received 1,532 votes to Bailey's 1,250 in last Tuesday's election. Jennifer Cohen will be pitted against Mike Tester in the senior class treasurer's race. Cohen received 498 votes to Tester's 303. Third-place finisher Zanna Worsham pulled 285 votes in the first election. In the election for District 13 representative, Brock Dickinson will run against James Draughn. Dick inson received 144 votes, Draughn 95 votes and Donald Taylor 62 votes in the election last Tuesday. There will also be a re-election for repre sentative in District 19 with all the original candidates running again, said Julie Miller, Elections Board member. The re-election will be held because candidate Wayne Goodwin was incorrectly listed as being a candidate for District 18 in last See RUNOFF page 2 i '' IIM DTH Charlotte Cannon James Leutze will be leaving his UNC office to assume the presidency of Hampden-Sydney College The final days Leutze looks back on years at UNC By SUZANNE JEFFRIES Staff Writer "Hitler was a lucky anarchist who knew a little bit about a lot of things," says Dowd professor James Leutze, standing in front of a huge black-and-white projec tion of the Nazi leader. For Leutze, professor and chairman of the University's peace, war and defense curricu lum, this course is one of the last he will teach at the University before officially becoming the president of Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia on July 1. "I think it is very dangerous for us to lull ourselves into a sense that Hitler is so odd and unusual that no one like him can come again," he tells more than 200 History . 77 students packed into the lecture hall listening attentively. Leutze said his decision to leave the University was not easy. "I like what I'm doing, and I like my students and teaching," he said. "The University has been good to me." Hampden-Sydney College, an arts and sciences liberal arts college, would give him a chance to explore new educational expe riences, he said. "I have a lot of educational ideas and concepts I'd like to try out," he said. "I can have some influence over the choice of faculty and courses, and have a chance to play a larger role See LEUTZE page 6 CohmoI. O O mm dowini the voMmme By MICHELLE EFIRD Staff Writer Charging that fraternities are "trash piles and public nuisances," Mayor James C. Wallace led the Chapel Hill Town Council Monday night in unanimously tightening up Chapel Hill's noise ordinance, reduc ing the maximum allowable sound level from 85 to 75 decibels. The amendment also reduces the number of hours noise permits are valid. Previously, permits were valid from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. on Fridays and 10 a.m. to 1 a.m. on Saturdays. Now permits are only valid until midnight on these nights. Wallace said, "The measure has nothing to do with students; it has to do with simple civility." The students have a responsibility to the town since they are "furnished with an $8,000 a year subsidy to be here (at the University)," he said. When asked to explain that figure after the meeting, Wallace said, "The General Assembly of North Carolina subsidizes educational institutions in the state . . . but I'm not sure of the exact figure, only that it is a very substantial one." Wallace spearheaded the action after two other council members suggested adopting the new amend ment only temporarily. Council member R.D. Smith suggested enforcing the new regula tion while council members checked into the complaints, and council member Nancy Preston suggested adopting it for one year, forming in the meantime a study panel of students, citizens and town staff. - Although the measure passed unanimously, a majority of the press did not hear the motion for a vote, nor for the second to the motion, which have to be publically announced before the vote can take place. Town clerk Nancy Wells said after the meeting that Smith introduced the motion and Preston seconded it. Four members of the University's fraternities attended the meeting. "I think we should work with setting up a special zone ordinance for fraternities," Interfraternity Council President and Sigma Nu fraternity member John Parham said. Parham said Raleigh has such zoning for N.C. State University fraternities and it works well. Since the Beat State party in October, a citizens group known as the Delta Upsilon Neighborhood Environmental Society (DUNES) has been "harassing the police" to get Delta Upsilon shut down, Delta See COUNCIL page 6 Lack off financial report keeps candidates from taking seats By ERIC BRADLEY Staff Writer Two newly elected members of the Student Congress and a runoff candidate won't take their seats because they didn't file a financial report telling the Elections Board how much money they spent on their campaigns, Elections Board officials said Monday. Disqualified are Tripp Doepner, who had been elected in District 2, and Kathleen Sowa, from District 8. Both had won as write-in candidates. A third student, Grady Ingle, who had won a place in Tuesday's runoff against Cindy Hatfield in District 1, has also been disqualified for the same reason. Hatfield is now auto matically elected, said Steve Lisk, Elections Board Chairman. The General Election Laws of Student Government say that all candidates, including write-ins, must submit financial statements detailing their campaign expenses by 5 p.m. the day after an election even if they spend no money. That would have been last Wednesday at 5 p.m. Sowa said she may appeal the decision that disqualifed her. "I was given the wrong deadline," she said. "I was told (by the Elections Board) that I had until Friday." Elections 1987 Lisk said that it was possible some write-in candidates didn't know about the rules, but that it didn't justify their not filing the financial statements. "With them running, they should have shown the interest and initiative to find out about this," he said. The board tried to call Sowa shortly after her victory to tell her to file a statement but could not reach her, he said. The two candidates for student body president, for their part, said the rules should be enforced. "I think they should be disqual ified," said Brian Bailey, who faces Jaye Sitton in Tuesday's runoff. "1 think if you're going to run, you should know your responsibilities." Sitton agreed. "Obviously 1 think the election laws have to be obeyed," she said. But she said the Elections Board should do a better job of informing candidates, particularly write-ins, of the rules. The board should notify winning candidates within 24 hours that they must file a financial statement, Sitton said. Also, candidates should have 24 hours to file their reports after being notified. A special election will be held next fall to fill the two vacant Congress seats, said Julie Miller, Elections Board treasurer. Meanwhile, the seats will be empty. While student congress candidates were being disqualified for violating financial statement rules, Sitton and Bailey said they supported the rules limiting campaign expenditures. "If there were a candidate who had a lot to spend, he or she could easily defeat someone who had less," Sitton said. "The spending limits don't completely eliminate that possiblity, but they make it less likely." "I definitely want to keep some spending limits," she said. Candidates for student body president are allowed to spend up to $400 in the first election and $200 in the runoff. "Four hundred dollars is a lot of money, and it buys a lot of posters," Sitton said. "It's sufficient to make a relatively unknown person well known." But she said money "doesn't make or break a candidate. Talking to people is more important." Bailey agreed that the $600 overall See DISQUALIFIED page 4 -1 i I u r DTH Charlotte Cannon Riveting weather Construction workers brave the bitter cold and icy winds Monday as they rivet steel beams that will structure a new research laboratory for N.C. Memorial Hospital. Hey everybody, hear the song that we're singing, come on get happy. 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