The Daily Tar HeelFriday, October 13 , 19893 City and .Campus ". P! ou oromnieDnt to aocil OD'albettes assocoattDOin) Group aids African students UNC's South African Scholar ship Fund, a Campus Y group, or ganized in the Pit Monday to ask students, faculty and staff to put spare change to good use. The group began raising money three years ago to fund the college educations of four South Africans, said co-chairwoman Natasha McConnachie. The Institute of Race Relations at Johannesburg will dis pense the scholarship money, she said. The scholarships will be ap plied to South African universities, like the University of Cape Town and Wits University. The group began with a goal of $100,000 and has raised about $50,000, McConnachie said. "We want people to know we need their support. It's a way of direct interac tion with South Africa." While it is necessary for black students to be concerned about the welfare of South Africans, it is equally as important for other stu dents to show concern, said Mich elle Reid, a member of the group. 7 "It' snot a problem just for blacks. .We need everyone to get together for the cause." CIAAC may seek support The CIA Action Committee (CIAAC) may enlist the Student Congress in its effort to conduct an on-campus debate with a CIA repre sentative, CIAAC member Joey Templeton said Wednesday. The CIAAC may ask the congress to pass a resolution in support of the group's request for a debate, she said. Jordan to come home . Michael Jordan will return to Chapel Hill Oct. 21 when he and the Chicago Bulls take on the Miami Heat in an exhibition game at 7:30 p.m. in the Smith Center. Tickets are i $13 and can be purchased from the Smith Center box office or Ticket- jon outlets. Oct. 19 to be alcohol-free Chancellor Paul Hardin Wednes day declared Oct. 19 an "alcohol free day" as part of National Alco hol Awareness Week. ... "I'm asking every person to ledge total abstinence for a 24-hour eriod," he said. Students, faculty uid staff will be asked to sign a sledge for next Thursday. Hardin signed the pledge immediately after addressing the crowd in the Pit. "I will sign the pledge and ob serve it," he said. "It won't be a purden for me; I'm abstemious anyway, but I'm not a stuffed shirt about it." The declaration was in response to a request from Delta Force, a student organization helping to or ganize National Alcohol Awareness Week at UNC. RAs come to Chapel Hill ; This weekend, the University will host a Resident Assistant (RA) Driverin. Conference. About 90 to 100 RAs from around the state will meet to discuss ideas and skills. Trivia people wanted The Carolina Union Advisory Board College Bowl Committee will sponsor the 1989 annual college bowl and will accept sign-ups through Oct. 20. The bowl is a question-and-an-swer game played between two teams of four players each. All full time undergraduate and graduate students are eligible. Team and indi vidual applications are accepted. Diabetes target of fundraiser The first JDF Walk of the Central Carolina Chapter of the Juvenile Diabetes Foundation is scheduled for 10 a.m. Oct. 21. The walk will cover about 10 kilometers at Shelley Lake in Raleigh. To obtain an entry form or more information, call Mike Tudeeri at ,876-3185. compiled by Will Spears Friday By STACEY KAPLAN Staff Writer Phi Kappa Sigma fraternity will sponsor the fifth annual Skull Bowl, an all-night flag football tournament, on Ehringhaus Field beginning at 5 p.m. today. The American Diabetes Association will receive proceeds from the tournament. Officials report few losses from New Carroll fire By MYRON B. PITTS Staff Writer A fire on the roof of New Carroll Hall at 8 p.m. Tuesday caused little damage to the building, and interrupted classes were resumed that night, said an administrator on the scene. Executive MBA program classes were in progress when a faculty mem ber pulled a fire alarm, said Barbara Levine, director of administrative op erations for the school of business administration. That faculty member, with the aid of campus police, cleared the building of personnel. People re-entered the building at about 10 p.m., she said. Chapel Hill deputy fire chief Rob Williams said the blaze covered an area of about five to 10 square feet and only damaged construction materials for roof repair. Fifteen firefighters, with the aid Task force By MARCIE BAILEY Staff Writer Students, faculty, administrators and directors of many campus organiza tions Tuesday will attend a day-long Financial Aid Task Force meeting to examine UNC's aid policies and pro grams and to make recommendations to the chancellor. The idea for the meeting was created last July by Student Body President Brien Lewis, who will chair the meet ing. , .Many tuition and financial aid issues concern widespread aspects of the University, Lewis said. "I thought we needed a group of student leaders and chancellors to identify problems, what Coptic patriarch to visit Raleigh By CRYSTAL BERNSTEIN Staff Writer The patriarch of the Coptic Ortho dox Church, His Holiness Pope She nouda HI, "will arrive in Raleigh today to give religious services and to meet Coptic families from North and South Carolina. The pope, who has been the patri arch of the church for 18 years, is visiting Raleigh during his three month tour of the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States and Aus tralia. His last visit to the United States was in 1977. The pope is the spiritual leader of the Coptic Church, an Egyptian church established in Alexandria by St. Mark in 56 A.D. It is a minority religion in Egypt with tenets that parallel those (Groups reveal town council choices By TRACY LAWSON Staff Writer The Alliance of Neighborhoods and the Cat's Cradle recently announced their endorsements for the 1 989 Chapel Hill Town Council race. The Alliance will back incumbents Julie Andresen, David Pasquini and Art Werner and new-comer Joyce Brown. Art Werner started the Alliance of Neighborhoods in the early 1980s as a forum to hear concerns of local resi dents. Representatives from Chapel Hill neighborhoods form the Alliance and work to protect area neighborhoods from problems incurred by extended development. About 40 representatives from the Alliance met Tuesday night and announced their choices for the town council. Brown, the only challenger to be backed by the Alliance, said she thought she received the group's endorsement because she held many of the same beliefs. Saturday, October 1 2 Over 24 product exhibits Seminars Interactive Sessions About 10 teams of 15 people each are expected to participate in the tour nament, said Evan Kluttz, game coor dinator. Many of the teams have played in tramurals and want to continue their season, he said. Also, Air Force ROTC and some fraternities have entered teams. The rules for the Skull Bowl are the of three fire trucks, extinguished the blaze without injuries or complications. "I think it was under control in the first 10 or 15 minutes," Williams said. Inside the building, a small amount of smoke was found and dispersed, Williams said. Firefighters patrolled the corridors of New Carroll and reset all triggered fire alarms. "In terms of the building, it is fine," Levine said. Some of the ceiling tiles may have to be replaced, but no major repairs were needed, she said. "We are working on it," Williams said of the Chapel Hill Fire Department's efforts to ascertain a cause for the blaze. The fire apparently was initiated near the roofing materials, Wil liams said. Damaged materials included stacks of two-by-three insulation boards and several rolls of felt paper. to address UNC financial aid policies has been done about existing problems and ways to solve them. "We have a consensus on a number of issues that will be addressed. We're going to present a concise list of goals and make recommendations that we can submit to the chancellor. That way we will have the weight of the Univer sity committees behind us." Issues to be discussed at the meeting include inefficiency in the Financial Aid Office, ways to ease paperwork and staff shortages in the office, ways for Student Stores to provide money for scholarships now that the Pit Stop is closed and ways to make the work study program more effective, student government officials said Thursday. of the Eastern Orthodox Church, said Patrick Rothwell, a junior religious studies major who is helping to organ ize the pope's reception at the airport. The Coptic community in the United States includes close to 300,000 people, with about 100 families in the Raleigh area, said Anis Khalil, an engineer with VNR, the research arm of Northern Telecom. There are Coptic churches in Raleigh, Charlotte and Greenville, S.C. The pope, who lives in Cairo, is the patriarch of the Sea of St. Mark and has jurisdiction over Egypt, Nubia, Ethio pia, Western Pentapolis, Jerusalem, the Middle East, Europe, Canada, the United States and Australia. "Pope Shenouda is probably one of the most important Christian figures nationally," "I am active in my own neighbor hood, and I support the protection of the interests of neighborhood residents," she said. B rown has also received the endorse ment of the Greens, an environmental awareness organization, of which she is an active member. "I believe I re ceived the backing by the Greens and the Alliance of Neighborhoods because of my interest in protecting the envi ronment" Pasquini said he thought he received the Alliance's support because he also shared many of the same concerns. "I think I gained the Alliance's support because we share the same concerns and we view the same issues the same way." Any endorsement helps a campaign, Pasquini said. "It confirms that I am on the right track, and the issues I am stressing are also important to the Alli ance.'" Werner and Andresen also received endorsements from the Alliance but they could not be reached for comment. CONTINUES TODAY AT W same as those for intramural football except flags are used. Each game consists of 18-minute halves. "It's a combination of soccer, hockey, football and some other sports," said Jim Muse, promotions chairman. 'The flags make it easier to know where the person went down." Most of the proceeds come from the ! ; ' . if fp y ? V' f w ' ) I 1 Fashionably distinguished Alexander Julian II, fashion designer and recipi ent of a Distinguished Alumnus Award at Wednes- Stephanie Ahlschwede, student government communications director, will discuss ideas for the work study program. "We need to find a way of using students' resources, some way students can use their talents in their majors instead of doing something like clerical jobs," she said. "There are some prob lems with this: productivity is much harder to measure this way, so it must be carefully planned. Students doing creative types of work would be a greater value to the University." ( . ...... Lewis said, "The whole meeting will be an opportunity for existing prob lems to be discussed, and a chance for those brainstorming to put ideas on the Rothwell said. His Holiness will be met at the Raleigh-Durham Airport at 6 p.m. by former North Carolina first lady Mrs. Dan Moore, the mayor pro tempore of Raleigh, the mayor of Morrisville and representatives from several churches, Rothwell said. After his reception, the pope will go to the Holy Trinity Greek Ortho dox Church in Raleigh to give a ves pers service and to hold a question-and-answer session with the audi ence, said Father Shenouda Ghattas of the St. Mary Coptic Church. The pope will celebrate holy Mass on Saturday morning and leave Raleigh at 3 p.m. Coptic families from North and South Carolina are expected to attend the religious ceremonies. The Cat' s Cradle has also announced its endorsement of Werner. The Cradle is planning an Oct. 19 benefit concert for his campaign. The concert will feature the Popes, Nikki Meets the Hibachi and Statues of Pink. Frank Heath, the manager of the Cat's Cradle, said they decided to sup port Werner because of his aid in find ing the Cradle's present location and his views on environmental issues. Last spring the Cat's Cradle reo pened in a new location after losing its previous lease. Werner successfully passed a recommendation by the coun cil to help them find this location. "He (Werner) was the main person to help us get our current location," Heath said. "He was one of the few in the government to understand that the Cradle is an important part of Chapel Hill." The Cradle agrees with the issues that Werner supports, he said. Other candidates for the four open town council seats are Alan Rimer, Bill Thorpe and Helen Urquhart. -14 in Great sale of 600 T-shirts. Also, many local sponsors and a $30 entry fee for each team will contribute to the fraternity's goal of $3,000, Muse said. "We are trying to make the Skull Bowl a major campus event and create more name awareness for our frater nity," he said. "We've been struggling without a house since we were re-chartered in 1984." day's University employee David table to be heard at once." Meridith Rentz, a special student assistant for the meeting, said investi gating creative new ways to get money for financial aid was one of the main reasons for the task force meeting. "We're going to go in there with our homework done and have a package of ideas ready when we come out." Ahlschwede said, "It really is a wonderful format. There will be 16 people there so we can interact without going out on tangents. It is a great talking size group." Rentz said that the group would try to work on as many issues as they could and that the set agenda would not be limiting. Supreme Court stalls DTH vote certification By JENNY CLONINGER. ,: University Editor The Student Supreme Court, acting on Student Congress representative Jeffrey Beall's (Dist. 7) initiative, filed an injunction Thursday that temporar ily will prevent the verification of a student vote. "Some student laws have been vio lated, and I'm not going to overlook that," Beall said. He declined to say which points he planned to address in his formal complaint. "I don't want to be specific at this point." The congress, in a special meeting Sunday, voted to suspend laws requir ing a six-day prior notice to place a referendum on a ballot. The referen dum, which was on Tuesday's ballot, had been overlooked in an earlier committee meeting. The referendum, which changed the bylaws of the DTH so they agreed with the makeup of its Board of Directors, was passed by stu dents in the campus election. The complaint revolves around whether the suspension of the public notice requirement is a violation of the Student Constitution, said Asa Bell, Student Supreme Court chief justice. Beall said he abstained in the con gress vote Sunday. "Because it was a special meeting, I didn't have time to, research it," he said. , ' Bell met with Beall and other mem-' bers of Student Congress Thursday to hear information about the complaint. A pre-trial hearing Sunday will decide whether the case will appear before the full court. ' ' "The injunction is just for the pur pose of keeping the Elections Board from going through the certification process on that particular referendum," Bell said. The delay in verification will keep the case within the constitutional time limit for Student Supreme Court cases, Bell said. "I'm not going to say that Hall, Carolina Union AMI Vendor Presentations The name, Skull Bowl, is connected with Phi Kappa Sigma's nickname, the "silver skulls," Muse said. Rich Fletcher, president of Phi Kappa Sigma, is optimistic that this year's Skull Bowl proceeds will top last year's total of $ 1 ,600 which also was given to the American Diabetes Association. "Every year the amount of money that we make exceeds the year before." DTHKathy Michel Day ceremony, speaks to WBTV Daly at Julian's on Franklin Street. "I'm excited that people have com mitted to setting aside a day to discuss these issues and to go in with open minds," she said. "Hopefully they will go away with ideas they themselves can work on to help financial aid at UNC." Lewis said he thought the fact that students and administrators would be working together on these issues was a great improvement from a couple of years ago when student-administration relations were not so strong. ? "It is an excellent sign of administra tive responsiveness. $ "I think we will come out with a strong consensus and a lot of creativ ity." . there is a constitutional issue here," he said. "I wanted the court to have juris diction over this case. "There is a possibility (of a constitu tional issue), but I'm not making that kind of determination. This is just to give all interested parties time to pre pare a case for .the court." If the case reaches the Supreme Court and the court decides a constitutional violation was committed, a revote would be called, Bell said. If the court rules against the complaint, the injunc tion would be removed and the Elec tions Board would certify the vote. The Student Supreme Court, is the highest level in the UNC judicial system. David Smith, Elections Board chair man, said he didn't understand the reasoning behind Beall's complaint. "We (the congress) had pretty carefully found a way that we would do this (put the referendum on the ballot)," he said. "I think it's something he (Beall) sim ply doesn't want to happen, and he's taking action to slow it down and, at this point, to frustrate as many people as he can." Gene Davis, speaker of Student Congress and member of the DTH Board of Directors, said rules previ ously have been suspended when time was limited. The last incident was dur ing campus elections in February, when three new members of the Elections Board had to be appointed quickly to keep election certification valid, he said. y. "I don't understand what Jeffrey's trying to prove," Davis said. "I don't understand why he's dragging Student Congress and student government down, and subsequently dragging down the student body. "I really think this is a personal vendetta against The Daily Tar Heel and us (the congress). I think Jeffrey Beall needs to go back and re-evaluate all he's done this semester and see what his motive was."

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