Anjea eateries ccokio Senior class ticket distribution for Duke game Friday, 2-5 p.m. woutm live enierannETien' Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 96, Issue 121 Thursday, February 16, 1989 Chapel Hill,' North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 Tcday: h:li near 70 30 chance of rain Friday; mid 40s 50 chance of rain (f J la! Ig Corfu Sett? BOG examines By NANCY WYKLE Staff Writer The UNC Board of Governors (BOG) discussed UNC-system Pres ident CD. Spangler's corporate dealings in a closed-session meeting on Friday. Ross Johnson, former RJR Nabisco Inc. president, said in court documents made public in January that in early 1988 Spangler had proposed a buyout of the company. The suggestion never developed into anything more than a conceptual idea, Spangler said, and the proposal was rejected. Spangler also sits on the boards of Jefferson Pilot Corporation and BellSouth Corporation. Many uni Pofloce officer's to By JUSTIN McGUIRE Assistant University Editor UNC's only black female police officer will take her charge of discrim ination in the University Police Department to the State Personnel Commission, an administrative judge ruled Feb. 7, denying the N.C. attorney general's motion to dismiss the case. Judge Dolores Nesnow ruled that Officer Keith Edwards filed her step- four grievance on Sept. 1, 1988, just within the 30-daylimit. The attorney general's" office made a motion " claiming Edwards had filed the grievance on Oct. 31, almost two months after the Sept. 1 deadline. Nesnow ruled that the University has until Feb. 24 to file its pre-hearing statement. "I'm excited, but I'm also tired of their tactics," Edwards said Wednes day. "These are the kind of stumbling blocks you have to deal with when you file a grievance." Edwards is one of eight UNC police officers who charged that discrimina tion had played a part in the decision to promote 1 3 white officers in June 1987. A step-one grievance by the officers to their immediate supervisor was denied. The officers then filed a grievance with the UNC personnel office, and that step-two grievance was also denied, prompting the officers to file "x x Lisa Frye, Robert D'Arruda and get ' Si if ' - ' f V j y, - ax r " f f " J ' ' 7 J" Gaododates doscyss relatione By WILL SPEARS and JENNIFER WING Staff Writers Candidates for student body pres ident, The Daily Tar Heel (DTH) editor and Residence Hall Associa tion (RHA) president met Wednes day night to discuss issues at a forum sponsored by RHA. Kevin Sisson, Brien Lewis, Rod Bell and Trey Loughran, the student body president candidates present at the forum, addressed the issue of improving student government's communication with the UNC administration. Spangler's business interests versity presidents serve on such boards, he said. The BOG holds a wide range of opinions on whether there should be rules governing corporate dealings for system presidents, chancellors and system university officials, said Robert Jones, BOG chairman. Some BOG members had expressed concern about Spangler's proposal to RJR-Nabisco and other corporate involvement, Jones said. They are also concerned about other the corporate dealings of other university officials, Jones said. "Other members see it as an asset, including myself," Jones said. "It broadens their (the officials1) perspec tive of what's going on." state Gu ear ion a step-three grievance with Chancel lor Paul Hardin. The officers' grievances were denied by Hardin in the step-three process on Aug. 2, 1988. Edwards was the only officer who decided to go to step four, the State Personnel Commission. In his letter denying the grievance, Hardin wrote, "the (step-four) request should be made within 30 calendar days and may be filed through either the Office of the University Assistant Personnel Director Employee Relations or the Office of the Chancellor." On Sept. 1, 1988, within the 30 day limit, she sent a request for a step four hearing to the chancellor's office. The request was then sent to the UNC employee relations office on Sept. 6 to be forwarded to the Office of State Personnel . On Sept. 12, Michael Lewis, a UNC employee relations'officer, sent the request to the state personnel office. In the letter with the request, Lewis said Edwards "submitted this timely appeal directly to the Office of the Chancellor here at the University." Linda King of the state personnel office sent a letter on Sept. 20 requesting that Edwards fill out and sign a form including several ques tions about her appeal. Edwards returned the form in DTH Brian Foley Suzle Said! field questions at a candidates' forum Wednesday night Elections 9 Sisson said students must be willing to give and take to improve commun ication with the administration. When the student body president presents his ideas to administrative officials, he must be sure his ideas are beneficial to all concerned, including students, faculty, staff and administrators, Sisson said. "The key in working with the administration is trying to find equitable solutions," he said. Forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much. Oscar Wilde Being involved with business has often been an asset, rather than causing a conflict of interest, Spangler said. "These companies have been the largest benefactors of education in the South," he said. "They donate to universities on a regular basis." UNC benefits from his involve ment with businesses, Spangler said. "I don't know of any problems that exist," he said. The board is very positive about the job Spangler is doing as president, Jones said. The BOG meeting was not necessarily to discuss a possible conflict of interest, but how personnel matters would be handled in such a situation, Jones said. case October and was informed by King on Nov. 1 that the information had been received and her grievance would be processed. On Jan. II, Kaye Webb, an assist ant N.C. attorney general, informed Alan McSurely, Edwards' lawyer, that the attorney general's office was See POLICE page 3 each e r By KATIE WOLFE Staff Writer More than 5,000 N.C. teachers marched Tuesday in Raleigh to protest their salaries, which are 11 percent below the national average, and Gov. Jim Martin's proposals to bridge that gap. "Our purpose was to get the attention of the governor and to keep the issue in front of the legislators and public, ' said Tom Houston, executive director of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE). , "We are protesting the freeze on the teachers pay schedule, the pro- posed pay raise and the proposed cut on the Basic Education Plan (BEP)," he said Wednesday in a telephone interview. Under a frozen salary schedule, a J Lewis said that bringing the admin istration to the students is an impor tant step in improving communica tion. By utilizing all student government's elected officals, such as the advisory council and Student Congress, the student body president would be better able to pommunicate with the administration, Lewis said. "We need to make sure that we submit strongly researched proposals (to the administration) for our proposals to be taken seriously," he said. Bell said that improving commun ication with the administration t X ''. ' - : -WW , I " u.my J - V --'"' X - ; - - HI Ill 'II II II .Iimi IIMI.I,IIII.,IIII..I.II....,.., J Camp Day Lisa Nickerson and Susan Smiley of Blue Star Camps man their table in Great Hall Wednesday. p .rot e$ "Our purpose was to get the attention of the governor and to keep the issue in front of the legislators and public." Tom Houston of the NC AE first-year teacher now receives the same pay as a tourtn- or mth-year teacher, with no adjustment for experience or performance. "The teachers' frustration comes not only from a lack of adequate pay but from the schedule," said Tony Copeland, counsel to the N.C. Super- intendent of Public Instruction, "Entry level is not as much of a problem. It's that once in, you are locked into an equitable salary Caimdidlates for CAA ;ive. views By JAMES BURROUGHS Staff Writer Candidates for Carolina Athletic Association (CAA) president pre sented their platforms and answered questions at a forum at Carmichael Residence Hall Wednesday night. In her opening statement, Suzie Saldi said homecoming would be her priority as president, but also said support for non-revenue sports and increased intramural competition with other schools are important issues. Student buses for away foot ball games would be a viable idea, she said. "I'm looking at all aspects of the CAA, not just one or two," she said. Bob D'Arruda said a non-revenue to administration should be a primary concern of the student body president. By sending administrators a formal biweekly letter outlining student government's long- and short-range goals, the student body president could improve communication, he said. "We need to make the administra tion feel safer about bringing the issues to us," he said. Loughran said the student body president could improve communica tion if he becomes more aware that dealing with the administration is a two-way street. The student body president must prove to the admin Blue Star and campus to offer Ma oil mi schedule," he said. The pay raise controversy involves the difference in proposed increases. While Martin has suggested a 4.5 percent raise, the teachers have said it will take an 8 to 9 percent increase to bring salaries up to the national average, which is $3,000 more than the present rate. v Each one percent increase would cost $20 million per year, forcing the N.C. General Assembly to find on cammpos athletics Elections 9 sports hotline has been successful at other schools and should be imple mented to increase student awareness of scores and schedules at UNC. Smith Center seats assigned to Carolina Fever and athletic recruits could be rotated to increase student seats, and unused alumni seats could also go to students, he said. "If alumni don't show up for the game, let a student sit in his or her seat," he said. Lisa Frye said her main focus would be to increase support for non revenue sports, beginning with a istration that he is an advocate of all students, he said. "When the student body president goes to the administration, he or she has to give the knowledge that the whole student body is behind him," he said. . Liz Jackson and David Smith, candidates for RHA president, said the RHA's primary responsibility is to on-campus students, although the RHA can help off-campus students and students needing advice about off-campus housing. See FORUMS page 2 . DTH Brian Foley about 20 other camps came to summer staff positions to students. pa. plao sufficient revenue for the plan. ' - To finance ; his proposed raise, Martin has recommended a BEP budget cut from $113 million to $47 million. The state now provides each county with a base salary which counties supplement with their own funds. Schools in poorer counties benefit most from the BEP because, unlike richer counties, they cannot afford to allot as much of their own funds for additional educational programs which the BEP supports - 7 . "With a cost of $1 billion over eight years, the plan is expensive, thus competing with the teachers' salaries in allocation from legislators," Hous ton said. See TEACHERS page 4 , presidemit semester calendar of schedules for non-revenue teams. Her experience with the CAA and ability to imple ment workable ideas are qualities , which set her apart, she said. Wtthope youH consider whether these (the other candidates') ideas seem feasible to you," she said. After junior Vyvyan Hwang ques tioned D'Arruda about a rumor that he had scalped student tickets for a UNC basketball game,. he replied, "I don't know what you're talking about." "IVe never scalped any Carolina tickets for any games," he said. D'Arruda did sell two of his See CAA page 4 Late-night lineup for Duke tickets Planning to camp out for tickets for the Duke basketball game Saturday night? Well, because of the Saturday night concert by hip monster rockers Bon Jovi, stu dents will not be allowed on Smith Center grounds , to ' line up for Duke . tickets until Saturday at midnight. Up to that time, stu dents will be allowed to -wait in F-lot, just below the Kenan Cen ter, but there will be no line priority until midnight. Also, seniors get lower-level seating Friday, so there will be no lower level seats left on Sunday.

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