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The Daily Tar HeelFriday, March 18, 19883 Veto power n. key ou nou uoeuteoant governor race By KYLE HUDSON Staff Writer Giving N.C.'s governor veto power and implementing a system of merit pay for teachers emerged this week as top issues in the race for lieutenant governor. At a press conference Wednesday, Republican candidate Jim Gardner announced a march on the Legislative Building this summer to demand veto power for the governor. Martin Richmond, political coor dinator for Gardner's campaign, said the march will definitely occur, although no time has been scheduled. "We're not doing this for political reasons," Richmond said. "Jim Gardner has been all around the state, and everyone wants the veto for the governor." North Carolina is the only state in which the governor has no veto. Democratic candidate Parks Helms agrees with a veto but dis agrees with the idea of a march, said Kim Caldwell, Helms' assistant campaign director. Helms sees a march as a useless gimmick, she said. Republican candidate Wendell Sawyer favors the veto. However, he thinks it will take more than a march to change the minds of legislators. "Gardner's march is simply grand standing," Sawyer said. "It's a cute idea, but it won't have any impact." Candidate Harold Hardison, a Democratic senator for the past 16 years, opposes giving veto power to the governor. Mike Mann, Hardison's campaign director, said Hardison thinks the governor's powers of appointment and his role in drafting the budget already give the governor "more than enough" power. Tony Rand, a Democratic senator from Fayetteville, would call for more study and evaluation before support ing the veto. Helms also announced his push for an expansion of the "career ladder" program of merit pay for educators to every school district in the state. Such programs have been in place on an experimental basis in 16 school districts since 1984. Helms, who represented Charlotte in the House from 1974 to 1984, strongly supports the establishment of a career ladder of merit pay for public school teachers by 1990. He is not merely following Martin's lead on the career ladder issue, Caldwell said. "(Helms) was an active supporter of merit pay when he was in the House, before Jim Martin was gov ernor," she said. Gardner said a career ladder program for teachers is a good idea, but Helms is trying to expand the pilot programs too quickly. "I think we should continue the pilot programs," he said, " There are some flaws in the programs now too many gray areas in the grading system for teachers." Hardison opposes expanding the career ladder program at this time, and Rand is calling for further study of it. Rand has a strong record on education and has been endorsed by the North Carolina Association of Educators, press secretary Barlow Herget said. "If you're talking to someone who can't read or write, that's a hell of a lot more important to him than the veto," Herget said. Sawyer does support the idea of merit pay in some form, he said, but he fears a system that would allow teachers to gain rewards they don't deserve. "It's hard to implement a fair system of merit pay," he said. "We want a system that will reward the best teachers, not the best apple polishers." The three other candidates for lieutenant governor, Bill Boyd, a Republican representative from Asheboro, and Democrats Frank Jordan of Rockingham and Robert Hannon of Greensboro were unavail able for comment. Judge says evidence admission roles oof air By CARRIE DOVE Staff Writer American courts are overinterpret ing the Constitution to exclude evidence obtained in an illegal search, but the situation has improved. Judge David Sentelle of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals told about 25 students at the law school Thursday. "The basic flaw of the (exclusion of evidence) rule is that it has been applied as if it were constitutional law, but the Constitution does not require it," said Sentelle, a former UNC undergraduate and law student. The rule cannot be implemented simply because judges say it's morally right, Sentelle said in "Judicial Destruction of Evidence." "Lynch mobs and vigilantes think they are right, too," he said. "An individual does not have the power to become a framer of the Consti tution by putting on robes." When evidence acquired without a search warrant cannot be used in court, the innocent are penalized. "1 am disturbed that the courts can apply something that properly doesn't have constitutional force," Sentelle said. Sentelle, who replaced Judge Antonin Scalia on the D.C. Circuit Court after Scalia was confirmed to the Supreme Court, also said com mon law does not exclude evidence on the basis of faulty procedure, as some claim. And the exclusionary rule does, not act as a deterrent to illegal searches, so it is ironic that those who support this theory often oppose capital punishment, he said. "It is inconsist ent to say that loss of life cannot deter one act, but loss of evidence can deter another." The price paid for an illegal search is too high to balance the loss of the evidence, Sentelle said. "The guilty are the primary bene ficiaries, and the balance of the forfeit that is made for the mistake simply doesn't exist," he said. The Miranda decision mandated that police officers read suspects their rights before questioning them, but the Constitution does not require this, he said. These rules don't function practi cally, Sentelle said. "As judges get higher and higher (in the court system), there is less contact with the real world," he said. But, he said, "We are making great steps toward sanity." As an example, he cited a 1984 Supreme Court decision that evi dence gathered in an illegal search may be used against someone other than the person searched. And the judiciary is swinging back to constitutional conservatism, he said. "The foundation is laid for a Fourth Amendment jurisprudence in which it will be recognized that the Constitution does not contain what judges think it should contain." Sentelle said his conservative views were unpopular in the 1970s. "We touched bottom in the early 1970s, and the change has been for the better," he said. Speaker addresses rape, assault prevention By LACY CHURCHILL Staff Writer Having accurate information about sexual assault and accurate information about ourselves are two important measures of self protection, Tina Groover of the Orange County Rape Crisis Center told about a dozen students in the Student Union Thursday. The discussion was part of Wom en's Awareness Week, sponsored by the Campus Women's Network. Fifty percent of all rapes are date acquaintance rapes, and about 85 percent of reported rapes at UNC are date rapes. Groover said. She added that rape is the most frequently committed violent crime in the United States and the least reported. There are several ways of protect ing yourself, Groover said. Being aware of your environment and thinking ahead about the choices you might make if confronted with an assault are two of the most important, she said. Women must reject the "paralyzing victim mentality" that there isn't much they can do, Groover said. There are three measures a woman can take: precaution, avoidance and resistance. Precautionary methods should be employed before an actual assault occurs. Remembering to lock doors, having emergency numbers posted next to the phone and avoiding isolated areas are a few steps Groover mentioned. Avoiding an assault includes common-sense methods, like going into a public place and running, she said. This is important, Groover said, because often people think they may be threatened but are afraid of embarrassing themselves.' Resistance methods are steps a woman can take once she is threa tened. Physical force is an option, but women must know their capabilities, Groover said. Women are also better negotiators than men, and can some times talk their way out of a poten tially dangerous situation, she said. Groover said that creating a scene is also a good self-protective measure. "The more you interfere with his plan, the better chance you have of getting away," she said. If the assailant has a weapon, giving in may ultimately save a woman's life, but she should not feel as if she has "allowed" herself to be assaulted. Knowing one's own sense of intui tion is especially important, but many people don't trust their intuition, Groover said. "If you have a gut feeling, go with it," she said. She also emphasized self-esteem. 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