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Volume 97, Issue 68
Wednesday, October 11, 1989
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By AMY WAJDA
Assistant University Editor
A female UNC student was raped
at knife point at 4 a.m. Saturday on
the upper level of the Craige parking
lot, according to University police.
The assailant came up behind the
woman as she was walking to her car,
held a hunting knife to her throat and
raped her, police said.
The victim suffered no severe in
juries; she was treated at and released
from a hospital police will not iden
tify, said Sgt. Ned Comar of the
University police.
According to police, the assailant
was a dark-skinned black male be
tween the ages of 21 and 23, 6-feet-2
to 6-feet-4 tall, with short hair and no
facial hair. He had a very big build
and was wide across the shoulders.
The attacker was wearing blue
jeans and a blue-jean jacket buttoned
all the way up and was not wearing
Graduate
By SARAH CAGLE
Staff Writer
The Graduate Student Court has
rescheduled CIA Action Committee
(CIAAC) member Dale McKinley's
Oct. 16 hearing after fellow member
Jerry Jones told the Undergraduate
Court that he would not participate in
his hearing on the same day because he
wanted to be present for McKinley's
Poll of college students
spurs call for changes
By WENDY BOUNDS
Staff Writer
A recent Gallup Poll survey con
cluding that too many college students
are graduating ignorant of "basic land
marks of history and thought" has
prompted a proposal for a core curricu
lum program in all colleges and univer
sities. In April the National Endowment
for the Humanities (NEH) commis-
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Call in to a television program
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Take a look at UNC from the
early days to today 5
City and campus 3
State and national 4
Focus 5
Arts 6
Sports ...7
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Keith Edwards, left, and her attorney, Alan McSurely
victim of rape
carry ing knife
jewelry. He carried a hunting knife and
spoke rapidly in a distinctively low
voice.
Comar said police have conducted
interviews relating to the case, but he
said he doubted that any of the people
interviewed were suspects.
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor and
dean of student affairs, sent a letter
Tuesday to residence hall staff mem
bers, student government, Rape Aware
ness Committee members and The
Daily Tar Heel to alert the University
community.
The letter contains the assailant's
description and phone numbers com
munity members can call if they have
tips for investigators. The letter also
encourages people to report suspicious
behavior and advises community
members to minimize opportunities
when they could be assaulted.
"It was a statement to students to
alert them to the fact that it was an
Student Court chaoses date
hearing.
Late Tuesday night Graduate Attor
ney General Todd Harrell moved
McKinley's hearing to Oct. 17 so there
would not be a conflict, McKinley said.
The schedule change was a logical
one, McKinley said, probably a result
of his and Jones's inability to attend
under the original circumstances.
"Otherwise they wouldn't have had a
sioned the testing of college seniors
from 67 universities across the United
States. The test consisted of 87 ques
tions quizzing students on a variety of
concepts and landmarks assumed to be
basic knowledge.
Many of the results provide dismay
ing evidence that students are not learn
ing much of what an educated person
should know, according to Noel Milan,
spokesman for the NEH. Examples of
the results are:
40 percent of the students could not
distinguish Karl Marx's works from
the U.S. Constitution;
45 percent did not know Charles
Dickens was the author of "David
Copperfield";
24 percent of the students did not
know that Columbus first landed in the
Western Hemisphere before the year
1500;
30 percent could not identify Italy
and Japan as allies of Germany in World
War U; and
More than 40 percent could not
place the Civil War in the correct half
century. In response to these statistics, Lynne
Cheney, chairman of the NEH, has
proposed a set of courses she says should
be required for all students. The pro
posal, known as "50 Hours," consists
of a curriculum that should help pre
vent students from leaving college with
See CHANGES, page 4
assault, and to encourage people to
use safety procedures," said Kath
leen Benzaquin, associate dean of
students. "They (UNC administra
tors) really wanted a quick response
so the community is aware of it."
Comar said community members
could help with the investigation by
reporting suspicious persons, activi
ties and vehicles, especially some
one who fits the description and can
be traced to the time and place of the
rape.
Anyone with information that
would help the investigation should
call University police at 962-2120 or
the Orange County Crime Stoppers
at 1 -800-85 1 -7867. People can make
reports anonymously.
Meanwhile, community members
should be on the lookout, said Boul
ton. 'Take care of yourself. The best
defense rests with the individual."
defendant in both cases, and that
wouldn't have looked very good for
them."
In an interview Tuesday afternoon,
McKinley said he supported Jones'
objection to the original schedule and
said he would not participate in his
hearing if one of the dates were not
changed. "If they want to push this
through quickly, I don't want to be a
3 refeirendumis pass
By MARCIE BAILEY
Staff Writer
Students voted Tuesday to pass
three referendums and elected Stu
dent Congress representatives for
districts 16 and 18.
The first referendum, proposed by
congress representative Jeffrey Beall
(Dist. 7), requested change of in
stances of "he" to "he or she" in the
Student Constitution and was passed
with 213 favorable votes and 90
opposed votes.
"I'm happy that the referendum
passed," Beall said. "I think it is a
positive change for the Student
Constitution. There is still some sexist
language in the Student Constitution,
but the congress is going to have to
work on changing that."
A referendum proposed by con
gress representative Jurgen B uchenau
(Dist. 3), passed with a 274-35 vote.
The referendum will separate indi
vidual fees for graduate and under
graduate students.
"I am obviously exhilarated that
90 percent of students agreed to par
tial autonomy in new fee increases,"
B uchenau said. "This will allow
graduate and undergraduate students
to work together for better campus
and better living and working condi
tions at UNC. At the same time it will
protect the rights of graduate and
undergraduate constituency to pro
See ELECTION, page 4
it's never as bad
By MIKE SUTTON
Staff Writer
A state judge overruled a motion by
UNC's attorney at a pre-hearing con
ference Tuesday to dismiss the griev
ance of the University's only black
female police officer, who accused the
department of racist hiring and promo
tion practices.
Administrative Trial Judge Delores
Nesnow said she felt it was necessary to
establish precisely what happened
during the controversial 1987 Univer
sity police department reorganization
that sparked the grievance, and she
tentatively rescheduled the grievance
hearing of Officer Keith Edwards for
Oct. 30 to Nov. 1.
N.C. Assistant Attorney General Lars
Nance, representing the University, had
argued that because Edwards had failed
to reapply for a promotion after the
1987 reorganization, she had forfeited
her right to file a grievance.
Edwards was one of eight UNC
police officers who said discrimination
played a part in a decision to promote
13 white officers during the reorgani
zation. She claimed that she was passed
over for promotion in favor of less
qualified white males, and she said she
had not applied for one of the new
positions because she was already in
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By MYRON B. PITTS
Staff Writer
A student animals' rights group filed
a suit Monday calling for a University
committee in charge of handling ani
mal research documents to disclose
certain withheld records.
Students for the Ethical Treatment
of Animals (SETA), a 25-member
group, filed the suit in Wake County
Superior Court against' William
Huffines, chairman of UNC's Institu
tional Animal Care and Use Commit
tee (IACUC). The first hearing will be
on Dec. 15.
In January, IACUC denied SETA
access to nine of 16 requested animal
research protocols. SETA was allowed
to view seven of the documents.
The lawsuit also calls for access to
the minutes of IACUC meetings and
permanent access to all animal research
protocols. Animal research protocols
are detailed descriptions of how labo
part of it. There is no other recourse
other than not to participate in it."
Also in an afternoon interview, Jones
said: "They (the student courts) have
got good reason for having these trials
at the same time. They're trying to
squelch dissent."
Jeffrey Cannon, assistant dean of
students and judicial programs adviser,
said Jones' and McKinley's hearings
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the process of filing a grievance.
Nance and Alan McSurely, Edwards'
attorney, disagreed sharply during the
proceedings over whether racial and
sexual discrimination were the central
issues at stake in the case, and if the
reorganization could actually be classi
fied as a series of "promotions."
Because no direct raises were imme
diately involved, Nance argued, the
position changes were "not promotions
and (not) grievable under the state
personnel act."
McSurely countered that although
there was no change in state pay grade,
the changes constituted promotions
because of the additional responsibili
ties assumed by some of the officers
involved. He added that raises were
tentatively promised "six months down
the road."
"What bothers me about Lars' pres
entation is that he leaves out the main
issue in this case, and that's discrimina
tion," McSurely said. "He acts as if it
was all white people involved in this."
McSurely said that racial and gender
discrimination, and retaliatory actions
taken against Edwards by her superiors
for protesting departmental racism,
were the key areas to be addressed.
Nance argued against viewing
Edwards' grievance as a Title 7 issue.
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ratory animals are to be treated during
and after experiments.
According to SETA President Chris
Brannon, these protocols also record
any variance from the normal methods
of putting to death laboratory animals
after experiments are completed.
Every year, animal researchers sub
mit hundreds of applications to IACUC
for approval of laboratory animal proto
cols. IACUC reviews these documents
and makes sure they comply with fed
eral standards described in the Public
Health Service Policy on Humane Care
and Use of Laboratory Animals.
In accordance with a 1985 amend
ment to the animal welfare act, every
institute receiving government funding
for research must have a committee
similar to IACUC.
SETA wants access to the minutes of
IACUC because it feels the University
has not shown its professed concern for
animals, Brannon said.
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were scheduled at the same time for the
convenience of the prosecution wit
nesses. Some witnesses need to be
present at both hearings, so the hear
ings were structured so they could give
testimony at each.
Jones' hearing will be open to the
public. McKinley has requested an open
hearing, but court officials have not
announced whether it would be.
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Title 7 is the federal Equal Employ
ment Opportunity act, which outlaws
discrimination in employment and re
taliation against employees who pro
test it.
He said that he was unsure if Nesnow
had the authority to take legal action on
Edwards protests.
Nesnow said she was also uncertain
how far her authority extended in the
area of addressing discrimination is
sues. "I think the distinction is not
whether it is discrimination, or whether
you can take legal action, but whether
you're in the right place for it. (The
issue) is whether I have jurisdiction."
She said to McSurely, "You can't
speak out on all the wrongs of the world
at my forum if there's nothing I can do
about it."
Nance asserted that tokenism was
not a factor in Edwards' hiring. "She
was not hired as a token. She was hired
because she was qualified."
Both attorneys haggled over
McSurely's list of witnesses to be sub
poenaed. Nesnow said that McSurely
threw "monkey wrenches into the
works" by getting his list of witnesses
to Nance only four days before the
original date of the hearing. Nance said
See GRIEVANCE, page 4
"The University has not shown to us
that they are as concerned for animals'
rights as they claim. We feel if the
University doesn't have anything to
hide, they should give us those min
utes." In a statement released Monday,
SETA said animal research protocols
should be made available to the public,
claiming that millions of dollars of
taxpayers' money are spent towards
this research.
"The primary reason we believe
students should have access to them
(research protocols) is because we be
lieve they fall into the public records
act," Brannon said.
The question of whether the docu
ments are public record will be the
focal point of argument, said Douglas
Ruley, the attorney representing SETA.
"I certainly wouldn't characterize
See SETA, page 2
Jones said if the hearings had coin
cided, it would have prevented him
from attending McKinley's hearing as
a CIAAC member and possibly as a
defense witness.
Police arrested Jones, McKinley and
six other CIAAC members April 15,
1988, during a protest of CIA recruit
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