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1 Mostly sunny High in mid-60s Friday: Cloudy High in mid-60s Spring Sports Club Day 10a.m.-2 p.m. in the Pit i i Serving, the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 97, Issue 119 Thursday, February 1, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts Business Advertising 9620245 962-1163 will comittDinnLiie i n w 3 n rni cpj 2 to testify at By CHRIS HELMS Staff Writer Despite poor health. University po lice Chief Charles Mauer and Assistant Personnel Director Dan Burleson will testify when the grievance hearing of University police Officer Keith Ed wards continues on Feb. 9, according to Judse Delores Nesnow. Edwards' attorney, Alan McSurely, said both witnesses would be important to the case. Mauer was police chief when Edwards filed her discrimination grievance in July 1987, and Burleson is important because of his position in the personnel office, McSurely said. "He Lewi of imoimors dud By SARAH CAGLE Assistant University Editor and JENNIFER PILLA Staff Writer Student Body President Brien Lewis said Wednesday he was encouraging University officials to review alterna tives to a proposed honors program building after a meeting Tuesday with Robert Allen, dean of the honors pro- "I've got some severe reservations as it is now," Lewis said. "I'd like to see some other alternatives explored first." " Lewis said Allen was caught off guard when he was notified of the pro posal, which was brought up at a meet ing of the Building and Grounds Com mittee, a chancellor's advisory com mittee. Neither Allen nor any representative of the honors department was present at the meeting. "This seems to be a case of facilities planning very much jumping the gun on something that's just an idea," Lewis President By KYLE YORK SPENCER Staff Writer President George Bush will visit the superconductivity capital of the coun try Friday, otherwise known as Re search Triangle Park. The trip will underscore the president's State of the Union Address made Wednesday evening, which stressed concern for the nation's edu cational and research competitiveness, said David Prather. deputy director of communications for Gov. Jim Martin. Bush w ill be greeted at the airport by 2- v. i - ' f :' v ; M H & sii'l- f ; 'trjr: . '4 r W Afternoon rap Paul Giragos, a sophomorefrom freshman from Chapel Hill, sit in 11' u l ' II t .-If I , :f :! ill I f Milium. The more complex the mind, Edwards hearing despite (Burleson) was a key witness to show how the University grievance proce dure was used to cover up the unfair ness of the assignments in the police department." The hearing will be open to the public, despite speculation that further testi mony would be held in closed session, McSurely said. Nesnow had said earlier Wednesday there was concern that the stress of an open hearing might be detrimental to the health of the witnesses. Both Mauer and Burleson have doctors' notes excusing them from testifying, but the validity of the notes d e said. The committee rejected a proposal to place the building between Manly and Grimes residence halls because of a lack of space. "There is only about 130 feet between those dorms," com mittee Chairman John Sanders said. "The building would crowd that area." One site proposed at the building and grounds committee meeting was between Grimes and Ruffin residence halls. Gillian Cell, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, said the proposed honors building was part of a plan to increase space for the entire College of Arts and Sciences. "This (the honors building proposal) is not a separate thing," Cell said. "This is part of a package of needs which would mean more and better space and more and better advising." Moving the honors department from its office with the general education department would free more space on the third floor of Steele Building for the n Bosh to visit Research Trian Martin, who will host the daylong visit. Accompanied by the governor, Bush is scheduled to visit physics labs at N.C. State University and will hold a roundtable meeting with business lead ers in the area, Prather said. The president's interest in develop ing American technology by combin ing research, education and business will be the main focus of the trip, said Rosalind Reid, NCSU assistant news director. "It is these ventures that will allow American industry to better compete it J V 9 V - jit fw A- .if . . DTHJoseph Muhl Durham, and Lisa Cunningham, a Polk Place Wednedsday. t is. f -i - i' Ml Ot?- v."'5vfr.;!V""' had been called into question earlier. A medical consultant with the UNC Health and Safety Office, Patrick Guit eras, wrote Mauer's excuse, raising suspicions because of Guiteras ties with the University. Burleson's excuse was written by his wife, a dermatolo gist, following the advice of other doctors. But Lars Nance, attorney for the University, said Wednesday that Guit eras had been Mauer's personal physi cian for years, and Burleson had been examined by Dr. Rodman, a Raleigh internist. "Charles Mauer is eoing to come n c o on d m e c au o mi do Big rest of the College of Arts and Sci ences, which is also housed on the third floor of Steele. Cell said the entire College of Arts and Sciences office was overcrowded not just the honors program office. "We also have some plans to do some thing about that." One possibility for the expansion of the College of Arts and Sciences is a proposal to add several floors to the Daniels Building, which houses the UNC Student Stores. Cell said there was no time frame for the honors building proposal. "This is something we've been talking about as a need for the past three years or so. We've discussed it with the chancellor, and this is something in the long run we hope we can do." Allen said the proposal was still in the early stages. "It's been very pre liminary. We haven't even consulted any architects yet. "Any plans for addressing space with other nations," she said. American industries are behind Ja pan in semiconductor research, Reid said. This is crucial to American eco nomic growth since semiconductors are essential in the fabrication of comput ers, televisions and videocassette re corders. NCSU officials said they were not surprised Bush chose their school for his visit. The university received a great deal of recognition recently when' the federal government established and funded several research centers there. One of the centers houses the labs Bush will be touring, Reid said. "We are doing some of the cutting edge research in microelectronics and semiconductors," Reid said. From NCSU, the president will head to Research Triangle Park for a roundtable discussion with executives Deficit-cutting federal budget plan waiting for reaction from Congress By WENDY BOUNDS Staff Writer President Bush awaits Congressional response to his proposed $1.23 trillion federal budget aimed at cutting the national deficit almost in half. Predicting the 1990 deficit to be $123.8 billion, Bush looks to cut this number to $63.1 billion for 1991, said Tom Bruce, an official with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Major expenditures allocated in the budget go to: B Social Security, $260.1 billion; Defense, including non-Pentagon spending, $303.3 billion; O Health, Medicaid and Medicare, $162.3 billion; B Net interest, $173 billion; B Transportation, $29.2 billion. B Education, training, employment and social services, $41 billion. Defense Secretary Richard Cheney has proposed closing some military bases and canceling some weapon sys tems to cut back on military spending, Bruce said. Congress already has ex pressed dissatisfaction with some of these proposals. "Congress has difficulty with the base closal programs because they fall within their districts," Bruce said. Bush proposed a Social Security integrity and debt reduction fund aimed at requiring the surplus funds from Social Security taxes to be used to the greater the need for the simplicity of play. poor health forward and tell the truth about what happened," Nance said. McSurely said he was glad to see the men finally testify, but their timing was suspiciously convenient. "We are still upset that they did not testify at the beginning of our case because what they have done is testify at the end after they've heard everything else that has been said. "Since we have to prove discrimina tion or retaliation, we have to prove they are lying. This makes that more difficult because they get to come at the end. We still feel like it's very unfair," he said. needs is a long-term one," Allen said. "There's not a broom closet (available) on campus now." Officials estimate that the proposed building would cost about $1 million. 'The University generally estimates the cost at $ 1 00 per square foot," Sand ers said. "So that would be between $800,000 and $1 million." Allen said funding for the building would probably come from private donors through the bicentennial cam paign. "They may have seen that as an at tractive appeal to private donors," said John Sanders, chairman of the building and grounds committee and director of the Institute of Government. "It's an enticing sort of thing." Some officials said Wednesday that the honors program building would be built more quickly than any planned expansion of the College of Arts and Sciences because it may be funded by private donors. in the area, Prather said. President Bush's decision to visit the Research Triangle is a victory for many companies in the park symboliz ing its national and international repu tation in state-of-the-art electronic re search, Prather said. Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C, will fly down from Washington with Bush, said Eric Lundgren, Helms' special assis tant. Lundgren said that Helms, who is running for re-election in November, appreciated the support of President Bush, but that the trip was not politi cally motivated. None of the events is open to the general public, and due to space con straints only a few reporters will watch Bush visit the NCSU research labs, said Liz Laszlo, press contact for the president. gle "Bush's proposed budget will increase our federal debt by $300 billion in 1991. Yet at the same time Bush will claim to have reduced the deficit to $64 billion" Judy Love, legislative assistant to Sen. Terry Sanford reduce the debt and nothing else. This fund would be activated in 1993. But this program will take the money from those who pay for Social Security and be used for general revenue, said Judy Love, legislative assistant to Sen. Terry Sanford, D-N.C. In November, Sanford declared Bush's 1991 budget to be unaccept able, dishonest and shameful. He be lieves the deficit should be redefined as the increment by which the federal debt increases every year, Love said. "Bush's proposed budget will in crease our federal debt by $300 billion in 1991," Love said. "Yet at the same time Bush will claim to have reduced the deficit to $64 billion." Gov. Jim Martin has not released ( f f. ". "" ' i v 1 ltfS i mwtiiiiM ti in r Tmlf attuual fcirM.-mJj' mm Aioihi m i im mi- - i-nn n r i if Joking around Mac Ingraham, a sophomore from Burlington, entertains a crowd Tuesday night as part of the Certs College Comedy Competition. yBH)e alternative site to committee go By KENNY MONTEITH Staff Writer Ramshead parking lot, F parking lot and the Navy Fields next to the law school are the three alternative sites for the new business school proposed by student government to the committee investigating sites for the school. Ehringhaus Field, Whitehead Resi dence Hall and University-owned land near the Kenan Center are still being considered as sites for the new $25 million, 190,000-square-foot building, but student government officials said Wednesday they created the proposal for the committee looking at viable alternatives for the controversial school site. "I think the students have put for ward a good document, and we'll cer tainly use it as a resource in our deci sions," said UNC Provost Dennis O'Connor, who received the report last week. Student government officials think the Ehringhaus site could be a big issue with students, said Joe Andronaco, student body vice president. "There's any statements regarding the budget's potential effects on North Carolina, said David Prather, deputy director of communications for the governor. "Our research office is digesting the budget right now and the governor will comment within the next day or two," Prather said. The real problem with Bush's budget lies within the question of how the country can continually spend and borrow without paying back the debt, Love said. "College students like the ones at UNC will be paying for these IOUs that are accumulating," Love said. "By the year 2015, students will pay for this budget with high Social Security taxes and high general revenue taxes." DTHS. Exum scooo not much around here to rile students up, and this issue (Ehringhaus site) could garner support and rile up stu dents," he said. The report gave positive and nega tive information to each proposed site, including the lack of recreational space for student if the Ehringhaus site is used. "The intramural fields (next to Carmichael Auditorium) are only used for intramurals," Andronaco said. 'They won't even let students use the field to do things like play football. The provost even got kicked off the intra mural field when he was there one day." The Navy Fields site is controversial because it conflicts with the practice of the football team, Andronaco said. Hie proposal said a training facility could be built for the team on other Univer sity land with the players being bused to the nearby site. Although Andronaco said this site probably would not materialize as a choice, the proposal said the Navy Fie Ids site was prime for development and with the University looking to expand, alternate practice sites for the football team could be explored. O'Connorsaid the University needed architectural insight for the school. "I think there are pluses and minuses to every site," O'Connor said. The University needs to look at the possible loss of greenspace, the distance from the libraries and the playing fields when the decision for the school is made, he said. The University should be concerned See BUSINESS, page 4 Is bowling up your alley? Union prepares to strike up weekly league 3 Labour of love PlayMakers present Shakes pearian comedy 4 Hoopful case In wake of losing streak, women earn year's first ACC win ....7 Campus and city 3 Arts and Features 4 Business 5 Sports 6 Classified 8 Comics 9 Omnibus insert rvu,,:,,,,r Captain Kirk Inside
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