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I !r.i S!!:c!y, just possible Cloudy. High 87. Copyright 1987 The Daily Tar Heel Vc'.uma 95, Issue 56 : Tower of power T. . ... v.. w. : , . .v. Clouds drift over Carrboro on Wednesday afternoon, as seen through the framework of a Duke Power electric line tower ells to anniversary of Constitution By MICHAEL JACKSON Staff Writer The Morehead-Patterson Memorial Bell Tower will ring today for 200 seconds to honor the bicentennial celebration of the signing of the U.S. Constitution on Sept. 17, 1787. The bells will be played at 4 p.m. by Maj. John Yesulaitis, director . of the Marching Tar Heels. Yesu laitis will play a medley of patriotic songs including "America the Beautiful," "This is My Country," "America" and "God Bless America." Lastly, he will play "Hark the Sound" to tie in the celebration with the University, he said. "It's a great privilege for me (to play the bells)," Yesulaitis said. "It's wonderful to be a part of such a great country and to celebrate with the rest of the United States to show our joy." QNC pffoffeoff to m Boirk committee By SHEILA SIMMONS Staff Writer A UNC history professor will testify Friday before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee during hearings on Judge Robert Bork's nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court. William Leuchtenburg, a William Rand Kenan professor and one of the nation's leading authorities on 20th century American history, will testify on the importance of the legacy of civil rights to the nation over the past 60 years. But the 64-year-old professor said Wednesday he's reserving the end of his testimony for a personal denouncement of Bork's nomination. "A good Supreme Court justice should be open-minded to the sense of history of the court and sensitive to the claims of a number of minority groups," he said. According to Leuchtenburg, Bork does not possess these qualities. "This is a man who has his attitudes turned backwards," he said. "His Sometimes I've t ))Y sir ring in The UNC Department of Bus iness and Finance arranged for Yesulaitis to play the bells, follow ing a request from Chancellor Christopher Fordham to com memorate the signing of the Constitution. "Everyone has to learn about liberty and the precious freedom we enjoy," Fordham said Wednes day. "I'm glad the University is a part of this great national celebra tion of our Constitution." The bells in the 77-year-old tower have not been played for such an occasion since the Olym pic Torch was carried through Chapel Hill for the U.S. Olympic Festival this summer. At that time, Yesulaitis played the bells for two hours. Churches and institutions across the nation have planned similar events to recognize the Constitution's bicentennial. opinion of the court stands outside the expansion of civil liberties we have accomplished over the past 60 years. It would be an unfortunate appointment." Some liberals consider Bork, a conservative, to be a threat to civil liberties and to the progress blacks and women have made during the past three decades. A former Yale Law School pro fessor, Leuchtenburg has worked for a prestigious private law firm and served on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia since 1982. Leuchtenburg, who has been teach ing at the University for the past five years, was invited to speak by Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., committee chairman and presidential contender. A former Duke University and Columbia University professor of constitutional law and history, Leuchtenburg has testified before the committee on other occasions. He was part of a 17-member committee believed as many as six impohible things bejbre br Sf's is a way of Me fe" &s3 sdeoits Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Thursday, September 17 , 1987 5x standing near the Old Well apartments. Today should be partly cloudy, with a high of 87 degrees. UppaM time arageacs campiuis police By KRISTEN GARDNER Staff Writer Five of the campus police officers who attended a grievance hearing last Wednesday said they thought they would be paid for their time spent there, even though they were off-duty. They were especially upset after discovering that the 12 officers whose promotions they were protesting would be paid for time spent in a meeting about the matter earlier the same day. But the officers, who have charged s oeakerte By LAURIE DUNCAN - Staff Writer The Soviet Union is on the brink of radical economic reform that would take decision-making from the hands of government managers and put it into the hands of workers, said Vassili Presnyako, part of a three man delegation from the Soviet Academy of Sciences. Presnyako spoke Wednesday to more than 60 students and professors in Carroll Hall about "Perestroika: Radical Economic Reform in the USSR," a plan to improve produc tivity in the Soviet economy. -testify hearings appointed in the early 1970s to decide if certain papers of U.S. senators should be made public. His writings about the Supreme Court have appeared in several law journals. "I'm not going to speak directly about Robert Bork," Leuchentburg said. "I'm going to speak about the role the Supreme Court has played in extending the Bill of Rights." Most Americans, even lawyers, do not realize that as late as the 1920s, the Bill of Rights did not guarantee various freedoms such as freedom of speech and the press, he said. In 1931 the Supreme Court began striking down state laws for violating rights mentioned in the Bill of Rights, Leuchtenburg said. Since then, the court has taken an increasingly active role in protecting and extending individual freedoms of the American people. "The real question about Bork's See PROFESSOR page 4 Mm A Chapel Hi:!, North Carolina Ill i ;x ., DTH David Minton the campus police" department with racism and favoritism in granting the promotions, were told they would not be paid because their attendance was not mandatory, one of the protesting officers said Wednesday. "Why shouldn't we get paid for it?" asked Officer Keith Edwards. "It involves the job." Edwards said she logged the two hours she spent in the meeting on her time sheet, but it was returned to her with a note saying that she could not be paid for those hours because the "The main changes in our country deal with the private, individual activities of our people," Presnyako said. By initiating a system of inde pendent enterprises, people who work hard can make a profit and will have money to spend, he said. The plan, announced by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev in June 1987, is not a free-enterprise system like that of the United States. These businesses must follow strict regula tions set by the government, said Joel Schwartz, UNC professor of political science, after the speech. "What you're talking about is a "5 4 A i s.ofS ITT ri & to boycott ompnjis stoiri By MARK FOLK Staff Writer Concerned with high textbook prices, members of the Black Student Movement voted at their meeting Wednesday night to boycott the Student Stores during the week of Oct. 2 to 9. ' "The Student Stores are ripping us off," BSM President Kenneth Perry said. "Students pay $40 for a $20 book, get $15 back at the end of the semester, then the stores sell it for $20 again." The reason textbook prices are so high, Perry said, is to allow the Student Stores to make a profit. After the profit is made, he said most of it goes into the University's scholar ship fund. "Now, I don't want to do anything to hurt anybody's scholarship money," Perry said. "But the Student Stores are using our money for someone else's scholarship." Rutledge Tufts, Student Stores' general manager, said the store usually gives $503,000 to the Univer sity's scholarship fund each year. This figure, Tufts said; is about half of the University's Staff Personnel Admin istration Guides (SPAG Manual) did not authorize payment. The manual states that employees cannot be paid for time spent at training sessions or other voluntary meetings, whether they are on- or off duty. ' But the manual also says "attend ance is considered required when an employee is led to believe his or her working conditions or continued employment would be adversely affected" by missing the meeting. oviet economic Fefform half-baked free-enterprise system," he said. A law was passed that allows people to form cooperatives and go into business, giving other citizens something to spend their profits on, Presnyako said. Cafes are a popular private bus iness that are attractive to consumers because their quality is higher than state cafes, he said. "(The Soviet Union) is trying to give more independence to enter prises," Presnyako said. "As a result we would like to see more productivity." . . ..-XlWiV."v-Vi-.' .MVS J in i 1 ;- v? f Professor Leuchtenburg In his Hamilton Today is the 200lh birthday of the Constitution Sing along with the chimes News Sports Arts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 store's yearly earnings. The rest of the; profits are retained by the store. "The University expects us to. perform three jobs: pay our way; provide textbooks and provide scho-I larship funds," Tufts said. "We try to be as reasonable as we can about our book prices." v Textbook prices are high, . Tufts said, because book sales make up the store's only income. He said -he; thought BSM members should; explore the issue more fully before, boycotting the stores. ... I "I can imagine how they can have a good grasp on the issue, since they: haven't done much research on it," Tufts said. "There are definitely other: channels they could go through before boycotting." ; He said the BSM should consult him, or meet with the Student Stores; Advisory Committee or other cam-: pus organizations, before implement ing a boycott. "We are definitely willing to sit down with the BSM or any other jroup and talk to them about this See BOYCOTT page 7 Although she was told attendance at the meeting was voluntary, Edwards said she considered attend ance to be required because it was the only way she and the other officers could hear the University's response to their grievances. Robert Sherman, UNC director of security services, said Tuesday he was aware that the 12 "appointees" the officers who received promotions were being paid for time spent See POLICE page 4 Under the current Soviet system, Gosplan the top level of the tiered government issues directives to enterprises, which comprise the lower level of government, said Steven Rosefielde, UNC professor of eco nomics, who helped interpret por tions of Presnyako's speech. The upper tier issues market decisions through the directives, such as pricing and production quotas for the enterprises, he said. Under the reforms, Gosplan direc tors would make suggestions to the See SPEAKER page 4 ""iCTf-. mm rr Is mi DTHCharlotte Cannon Hall office Queen ft
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