jTd)'- '-if Chance of snow this morning Rainy and 40 Tuesday Volume 97, Issue 1 i ' ' ' X'vP - v , .- v. :'. T,-.v - .: :or . - V .v. -s;.v.v-v.: . -.-. viww1 : : .-: : . . :. :-v- --x .: . i Tatjana Rybjanets, Marina Seredina and Aleksander Nagornij, Date rape may Faculty Council votes to amend Instrument By AMY VAJDA Staff Writer The UNC Faculty Council voted Friday to make date rape and sexual and racial harassment punishable offenses under the Instrument of Student Judicial Governance. The changes, amendments that originated in Student Congress, were presented to the council by Robert Byrd," chairman of the Faculty Com mittee on Student Conduct. The amendments have already' been approved by Student Congress and jnust, now be, approved by the chancellor. Congress, the Faculty Council and PauestiiniDaini sympatlhiizefs stage iralDy for syeport By HELLE NIELSEN Staff Writer About 50 people asked Sen. Terry Sanford to increase his support for Palestinians at a rally outside the Omni Europa Hotel, where he received an award by the Jewish National Fund of America (JNF) Sunday. With signs saying "Senator San ford, the Palestinians need your friendship, too," Palestinian Americans and supporters handed Sanford a statement which asked the senator to urge Israel's recognition of the Palestinians right to self deter mination and statehood. The group also asked that the U.S. government use all leverage including financial aid Board of Governors seats to be decided ....3 N.C. State reacts to 'Personal Fouls 4 RDU weather radar evaluated 5 Chapel Hill-Carrboro school news 6 Campus Y co presidents elected 8 UNC's Western culture curriculum unlikely to change 8 Lab Theatre's'Tempest' review 9 Meet the new DTH ..editors 12 UNC swims to ACC championship 14 r the chancellor are responsible for writing and amending the Instru ment, which contains the Code of Student Conduct and all rules for the judicial branch of student government. "We must never be complacent about issues of personal safety on or near the University campus," Chan cellor Paul Hardin said at the opening of the meeting. "I want to focus all of our attention on this vexing problem." Lighting and emergency phones will be evaluated as part of the University's security improvements, Hardin said. to promote "a just solution to the conflict." The rally was organized by the . Carolina Association for Palestinian Human Rights and the N.C. Chapter of Arab-Americans Anti Discrimination Committee. "Now that (Sen. Sanford) has earned the title of 'Friend of Israel' we want him to use his influence to stop the rampages of Israel," the group's representative Burhan Gha nayem said." "Sanford could use his stature in the political arena to pressure Israel to stop its human rights violations," Ghanayem said. Sanford received the Tree of Life Award from the JNF in recognition oinme congress seats to be filled By BRENDA CAMPBELL Staff Writer Races for two Student Congress seats will be settled Tuesday with a runoff election in District 10 and a re-election in District 6. Also, congress will have three empty seats when the 71st Congress convenes in April because winners in several districts were disqualified for turning in financial forms too late. ' The District 10 runoff is between candidates Donnie Esposito and Deanna Ramey because neither candidate received the necessary 50 percent of the votes cast in the Feb. 21 election. Tom Elliott and Ram Ramachan dran will face each other in the District 6 re-election because of a problem with the Health Sciences Library poll site. Because of miscommunication, the poll site was not opened until 1 p.m., three hours late. "Both candidates stated that several people went to vote and couldn't," said Wilborn Rober son, Elections Board chairman. Votes cast at this site were not substantial enough to affect races for positions other than the congres sional seat, Roberson said. It's the beginning of a new age. The Velvet Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Monday, February 27, 1939 DTHDave Surowiecki all visiting Soviet students V v f :; ' : :! 4 . . be a Sftudeont Code offeree The University should also take advantage of safety awareness among students, Hardin said. Recent assaults at Duke University could raise student security consciousness, he said. "Young people seem to have this idea that 'It can never happen to me,' " he said. Hardin described the offenses defined in the amendments as "unac ceptable interferences with personal freedom and dignity" and urged the council to approve the amendments. The first addition to Section II.D. 1 . of the Instrument defines engaging in sexual intercourse without one par ty's consent as an offense. of his "outstanding . . . leadership in service to the people of North Carolina," JNF executive director Peggy Schulman-Blitz said. "(The award) also serves to recog nize Senator Sanford's concern and support for - the betterment of American-Israeli relations," Schulman-Blitz said. The JNF is the agency responsible for reclamation of desert land and afforestation projects in Israel, Schulman-Blitz said. She declined to say whether the organization works in the occupied territories, where a Jewish settler movement has been active in recent years. See RALLY page 9 Tuesday Elections 39 "This did not affect any of the other races because none of the other races were unusually close," he said. "It would have had to be under extreme circumstances to affect the other races, but we felt it did affect this one race to some extent." The Elections Board disqualified Bill Brown (Dist. 2), Jim Taylor (Dist. 5), Peter Hans (Dist. 15) and Sonia Abecassis (Dist. 7), because the candidates did not turn in finance forms before the 5 p.m. Wednesday deadline. "The election laws state that the finance forms are due the day after the election at 5 p.m. unless they (the candidates) talk to the elections board chairman before the time the forms are due," said Roberson. The finance forms list all of the candidates' expenditures for the campaign, he said. The forms should include the price of each item, a copy of each article or poster, and all receipts. See ELECTIONS page 4 Chapel Hill, North Carolina cdme By JAMES BURROUGHS Staff Writer From the New York skyline and Broadway to the quiet streets and homes of Chapel Hill, 12 Soviet students and two professors con tinued their American tour Sunday with feelings of excitement, anticipa tion and disbelief. The 14 students and faculty from Rostov State University arrived in Chapel Hill Sunday afternoon and met with UNC students Sunday evening at Cafe Giorgio's in Univer sity Square. The Soviets will remain with host students and professors in Chapel Hill until March 7. Thirteen UNC students will depart on March 9 for the Soviet Union, where they will spend a week and a half in Rostov-on-Don, site of Rostov State. Some of the Soviet students expressed their reaction last night to what they have seen of the United States so far. One Soviet student, Sergej Kuprij, of Student Judicial Governance The second and third additions to Section II.D.i. concern sexual and racial harassment of students by other students. There are no specific provisions in the Instrument for either sexual or racial harassment, Byrd said. These offenses now are grouped, with provisions concerning physical assault and infliction of mental anguish, he said. The date rape amendment would communicate concern about the issue to the University community, Byrd said. It would also enable the student attorney general's office" and " the student courts to deal with cases more Actress tfollmni WDtlh vosntag By BILL YARDLEY Staff Writer What began as a question-and-answer session with actress Eva Marie Saint Sunday night in Hanes Art Center became a forum on international relations. Saint, appearing as part of this year's Fine Arts Festival, spoke briefly to introduce the 1966 comedy film in which she appeared, "The Russians Are Coming, The Russians Are Coming." The Soviets, not the Russians; had come indeed. Six of the 12 Soviet students visiting UNC this week as part of the UNC Soviet Exchange attended the film and were the center of the discussion that Saint led after the film. The film, set in a small New England port during the Cold War, tells the story of Soviet seamen whose submarine has run aground in U.S. seas. The comedy starts when the seamen are forced to enter town to find help. The frightened towns people, convinced they are the first victims of a full "Russian" invasion, take to arms and prepare to begin World War III. When the two sides finally confront each other, and destruc tion seems inevitable, a small boy falls from a church steeple to a precarious perch. The Soviets and New Englanders come together to rescue the boy and reach a common ground at the same time. The sub makes its way back to sea with the floating escort of the townspeople and all ends well. After the film, Saint and her husband, producerdirector Jef frey Hayden, asked the Soviet students to come to the front of the auditorium to serve as a panel for discussion. Asked what her critique of the. film would be, Soviet student Masha Bondarenko, a 22-year-old from Rostov-on-Don, alluded to a scene in the film where a Soviet seaman (Alan Arkin) speaks to an American writer (Carl Reiner) on vacation at the shore. The two could not understand each other n to said that America had always seemed very distant from his life in the Soviet Union, but that the sights he had encountered on the trip had made America real. "America was something abstrac tive, like a moon," he said. "I understand I am in America when I come to the window and it is a very nice picture." Kuprij said his first impression of the United States came with the group's visit to New York and Broadway, where they saw the mus ical "Cats." But Chapel Hill repres ents a different America, he said. "New York is a very nice city, a very magical city, but a nicer impres sion on me was the shows on Broad way," he said. "IVe been thinking about America at home, and America to me was New York skyscrapers But today when we arrived in Chapel Hill, it was like a Russian orchard. This is America to me." Another student, Robert Rudenko, said the group has pre- effectively, he said. The provision for the infliction of mental anguish used now would not cover all cases of racial and sexual harassment, Byrd said. "We had no provision in the Instrument which we felt was adequate," he said. Byrd said the committee had tried to avoid infringing on students' free speech by limiting the situations to which the amendments apply. "We attempted to deal with that by saying that the activity, has to be one that interferes with the student's (Univer sity) employment, academic pursuits or participation in University activ ities," he said. ciloscysses Fine Arts Festival clearly because they were speaking through a glass door, said Bondarenko. "The glass doors have been there a long time," Bondarenko said, referring to U.S.-Soviet relations. "I'm so glad they are open now. 5S. "M" , x - i y V v - vv $ ' : f I io j 1 . . . - K I w.v.v.v.-.v.-.-.v, :,v.;.v.v.".v .'.v.;. yyyyy.- DTHDave Surowiecki Eva Marie Saint and visiting Soviet student Bondarenko Masha Underground ACC Tournament Ticket Lottery numbers: 18-7-12-8, Alternates: 3-13-11 NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 pared for the trip for more than a year, and now he finds it hard to believe he is actually in America. "I can't believe that we are in the United States really," he said. Rudenko, who writes for his university newspaper, called For the Soviet Science, said he saw different ces between the two countries. Broad-: way is very bright and "intensive" in comparison to the main streets in Moscow, and American television i& quite a change from the four-channel Soviet television, he said. : A third student, Masha Bonda-! renko, called her first impression ot America "delicious," and said the! slower pace of Chapel Hill and the! opportunity to talk to its people have! made the town her favorite so far. ', "I like Chapel Hill more than New; York, and my staying here in Chapel; Hill is more interesting," she said.; "(Chapel Hill) is the main part of our; interest here (in the United States)." ; See SOVIETS page 5 i "We didn't want (just) any encoun--ter between two individuals to become an offense," he said. Double jeopardy would not be a problem, Byrd said. "The fact that the individual may be tried in the courts for crime does not remove the University and the student courts system from taking action on that when the University's interest is involved," he said. The student attorney general and the vice chancellor of student affairs would determine whether those .interests had. been adequately dealt See AMENDMENTS page 3 poiotocs, Sovnefe We should all be riding in the same car just like they were at the end of the movie." Vasily Gladkitch, a 25-year-old student from Taganrog, also had strong feelings about the movie. "Our (the exchange students1) task is to ruin the stereotypes we have about each other so one day we See ACTRESS page 6 N C ' If . ' ' r , -a, a t .A V Y V A I ft

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