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Volume 97, Issue 108
Wednesday, Janaury 17, 1990
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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By MYRON B. PITTS
Staff Writer
Six members of the UNC-CH com
munity were charged with violating a
new drug policy implemented by the
UNC-system Board of Governors
(BOG), according to a Jan. 12 report
detailing the policy's progress at the 16
member institutions.
One student w ho was expelled from
the University on cocaine trafficking
charges dealt w ith "a substantial quan
tity" of the drug, said Frederic Schroe
der, dean of students. That student was
the only one punished by the Univer
sity because the other cases were either
prosecuted outside of University af
fairs or were found not punishable by
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Student Congress prepares to dole out dollars
By STACEY KAPLAN
Staff Writer
The annual Student Congress budget
process to allocate student fees for the
next academic year has begun, accord
ing to Donnie Esposito. chairman of
the Finance Committee.
Budget Request Forms are now
available in Suite C of the Student
Union and must be returned no later
than 5 p.m. on Feb. 2, Esposito said.
Congress will be working with a
budgefof $198,000 for the fiscal year
of May 16. 1990 through May 15, 1991,
he said.
"It's important that groups come now
and do not get excluded from the proc
ess," he said. The deadline is very
important to meet because there is no
guarantee that groups will receive
ciwards
By AMY WAJDA
Assistant University Editor
University police Officer Keith
Edwards will protest a motion that
would delay her grievance hearing for
six months because of the illness of a
key witness.
Edwards said in a telephone inter
view Monday that she will take action
to oppose a motion filed Jan. 3 by
rhreat increases security on Kin
By CHRISTINE THOMAS
Staff Writer
A letter received Friday by Chapel
Hill radio station WCHL prompted local
law enforcement agencies to take extra
security measures to protect partici
pants in Martin Luther King Jr. Day
celebrations.
Jane Cousins, police planner for the
Chapel Hill police department, said the
letter threatened to "make examples
of" Rev. Roosevelt Wilkerson, a
member of the Chapel Hill Town
Council; Hilliard Caldwell, a member
of the Carrboro Board of Alderman;
and Moses Carey, chairman of the
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The six violators were most likely
UNC students and not state employees.
Both Schroeder and Jeff Cannon,
assistant dean of students, said they
assumed the violators were students.
'The (names) I reported to the dean
of students and those he reported to the
chancellor were students," Cannon said.
The BOG drug policy was instituted
on January 1 5, 1 988, and schools in the
system have just reported their findings
from individual investigations.
According to the Jan. 12 report, the
plan called for the boards of trustees at
each university to set up programs that
work towards drug "education, preven
tion, (and) rehabilitation," and also to
D)iroce
money in the future, he said.
Any student groups that want to
receive money need to have official
recognition from both the University
and Student Government in order to be
eligible, Esposito said. Student Gov
ernment recognition forms are due to
the Rules and Judiciary Committee in
Suite C by 5 p.m. on Jan. 26.
Starting on Feb. 8, the Finance
Committee will hold hearings to deter
mine the recommendations that will be
made to Congress. Representatives
from each organization will be present
when their budget is discussed, he said.
On Feb. 24, the final budget hearing,
in which the Finance Committee's
recommendations will be presented,
will be held before Student Congress
and the final decisions will be made.
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University attorney Lars Nance to
postpone the hearing until University
police Chief Charles Mauer can un
dergo cross-examination.
Edwards also said she would protest
employee relations officer Dan
Burleson's claim that he would not be
well enough to testify after reportedly
suffering a heart attack last November.
"I'm not going to have my hearing
Orange County Board of Commission
ers. Ben Chavis, a New York lawyer,
was also mentioned in the letter.
The State Bureau of Investigation,
as well as all the local law enforcement
agencies, was involved in taking action
to protect the people mentioned in the
letter. Cousins said.
The letter referred to the Martin
Luther King Jr. birthday celebration
held Sunday evening at the Carolina
Inn. Because the Carolina Inn is under
University jurisdiction, Cousins said,
the University police were involved
with the protection measures at Sunday
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allow for schools to impose sanctions
against users.
Schroeder said the BOG drug policy
replaced a similar University policy
that began in the late 1960s. He noted
that the new systemwide measure was
more stringent in meting out punish
ment. "There has been a policy on the
campus since about 68 or '69, when
drugs first appeared in the general cul
ture. The difference (between the two
policies) is one of severity of penalty,"
Schroeder said.
According to Cannon, if a student is
guilty of a drug offense involving hard
See DRUGS, page 4
Esposito said. Representatives from
each student group will also be present
on this day.
The Student Activity Fund Office is
then responsible forgiving the approved
funds to each organization, he said.
Esposito said that because the
members of Student Congress are near
ing the end of their terms, they have the
experience necessary to make these
budget decisions.
Gene Davis, speaker of Student
Congress, said it was important for
groups to become involved with the
budget process because it was meant to
serve the students.
"I encourage all organizations to
consider the budget process as a means
of gaining sufficient funds to better
serve the student body," Davis said.
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delayed. I feel like they're in contempt
of court and should be arrested."
Judge Dolores Nesnow, who is hear
ing the grievance, said Tuesday that
she had ruled on the motion Tuesday
morning, but that she would not reveal
her decision until the parties involved
received the decision.
Any appeal of the motion in superior
court would be difficult to win, Nesnow
night's dinner. Local government offi
cials and plainclothes officers attended
the dinner.
"We took the letter seriously and did
all we thought we needed to do to
protect those involved with the King
Day celebration," Cousins said.
Captain Ben Callahan of the Carrboro
Police Department said the letter, signed
'The Knights," contained racist com
ments toward the people threatened in
the letter. He said the letter suggested
that the people mentioned were respon
sible for the Martin Luther King Jr.
celebrations.
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said. "A continuance is such a benign
sort of thing, it would be very hard to
appeal."
But Alan McSinely, Edwards' attor
ney, said Tuesday that he and Edwards
did not want a major legal battle. "We
want to figure out the best way to the
chief's testimony as quickly as pos
sible." Nance said Friday that he had re-
As he is both a citizen of Carrboro
and a member of the Board of Alder
men, the police department will con
tinue to be available to Caldwell and
will continue to work with him through
out the week.
Caldwell said he was pleased with
the joint actions taken by the law en
forcement agencies of Carrboro, Chapel
Hill and Orange County.
After the letter was turned over to the
local authorities, immediate action was
taken to notify and advise each of the
three local people as to what precau
tionary measures should be taken.
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ceived a note from Mauer's physician.
Dr. Patrick Guiteras, a clinical associ
ate professor in the department of family
medicine. The note did not specify the
nature of the illness but did indicate that
it was a serious illness, Nance said.
Nesnow said she had confirmed
Mauer's illness and the length of its
treatment with his doctor.
According to the Dec. 22 Chapel
Johnson hired in series of
football coaching changes
By BOB McCROSKEY
Staff Writer
In the latest of a series of shakeups
in the UNC football coaching staff,
Bruce Johnson was named the new
defensive secondary coach for the
Tar I leelsTuesday afternoon by North
Carolina athletic director John Swof
ford. Johnson has served as the de
fensive coordinator for the Air Force
Academy for the past six seasons.
A 15-year veteran of the coaching
ranks, Johnson has also coached at
Eastern Europe
much changed
By STACI COX
Assistant Managing Editor
More than 40 years of Communist
domination of Eastern Europe came to
a sudden end in 1989, freeing Poland,
East Germany, Bulgaria, Hungary,
Czechoslovakia and Romania to
struggle with crippled economies, eth
nic hatred, poisoned environments and
superior Western technology.
"It looks gloriously free today, but it
won't look half as free in a month," said
Robert Rupen, UNC professor of po
litical science. "There's going to have
to be some agonizing reappraisals."
Poland experienced the F xst and most
gradual dilution of Communist power
in the Soviet Bloc.
"The total change in Poland was as
great as anywhere, but it didn't happen
in the last six months, so there's a
tendency to undervalue it sometimes,"
Rupen said.
Roundtable discussions between
representatives of the then outlawed
labor union Solidarity and the Polish
government began in Warsaw on Feb.
6. On April 7 the talks proved success
ful, as Solidarity was legalized and free
elections were announced for 35 per
cent of the lower house seats and all of
the upper house seats.
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ducting English departmental dropp-add in Green
law Building Tuesday.
heario
Hill Herald, Mauer's wife had told the
lawyers for both sides that Mauer had
voluntarily checked himself into a
Greensboro hospital earlier that week.
But Mauer's name did not surface in
a survey of the medical records of four
Greensboro hospitals Thursday. Mauer
would not comment when contacted at
Scfj EDWARDS, page 4
Marshall, Furman, the Citadel, North
Carolina State and Louisiana State,
including one season at LSU with
current UNC head coach Mack
Brown.
Brown was out of town Tuesday
and unavailable for comment.
This announcement comes on the
heels of the hiring of Whitey Jordan
by Brown on Monday. Jordan will
coach the offensive guards and cen-
See COACHES, page 6
starts new year
by revolutions
sEast Europe i
Wednesday: The revolution
Thursday: The future
Friday: The Soviets
The June 4 elections decimated the
Communist hold on power, with Soli
darity candidates winning all 1 1 6 avail
able lower house seats d 99 of 100
upper house seats. Tens, negotiations
began among the new government offi-
See REVOLUTION, page 2
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the Eighties failed to make 5
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