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Partly sunny High in low 50s Wednesday: Cloudy High in 50s GreatDeclsions lectureMOVED to Hamilton 100 at7p.m. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume S3, Issue 2 Tuesday, February 27, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BnsintnAtfvwtlslng 962-1 1 63 BP election! declared void. nnn """"" 1 " '" -s - l ftfc i -S? fifty (B !i i! fr l 7 Ortega ousted from post by Chamorro MANAGUA. Nicaragua Oppo sition leader Violeta Barrios de Chamorro defeated President Daniel Orteea in a stunning rebuke to 10 years of Sandinista rule, election returns showed Monday. Sunday's peaceful balloting the freest elections in Nicaraguan history was closely watched by thousands of international observers and, with more than three-fourths of the vote in, Chamorro was winning just over 55 percent. "I want to tell all Nicaraguans and all the nations of the w orld, that the presi dent of Nicaragua, and the government, will respect and accept the popular mandate." Ortega said. The Sandinistas remain by far the largest single party the United Na tionalist Opposition that Chamorro heads is a fractious alliance of 14 par ties ranging from far right to far left and it was unclear how power would be transferred. NASA plans Wednesday launch for Atlantis CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. NASA will wait until Wednesday for the sixth attempt to launch the shuttle Atlantis on a military mission, but weather may again interfere. Forecasters said there was only a 20 percent chance the weather would be f avorable at launch time, expected about 1 2:45 a.m. They said the problem would be high winds and clouds, the forces that combined early Monday to halt the latest effort to put what sources said was a $500 million spy satellite in orbit. The weather outlook Thursday im proves to 40 percent. After Monday's scrub, the fifth in five days, shuttle managers decided to wait two days so the five military astro nauts and launch team could rest. Bulgarians rally against Communists peacefully SOFIA, Bulgaria More than 20,000 people chanting "Democracy!" and "Liberty!" massed in the capital Monday in a rally against the ruling Communist Party. The peaceful demonstration was the second in two days. At least 150,000 people gathered Sunday in Sofia chant tng,"Down with the Communist Party!" in the largest rally since the toppling of hard-line leader Todor Zhivkov in November. Republics denounce Kremlin intervention MOSCOW Legislators from the Baltics and other independent-minded republics Monday denounced a draft law that would allow the Kremlin to take over their governments by declar ing a state of emergency. Several deputies said the proposal was more dangerous because a sepa rate bill to strengthen the presidency would permit the nation's leader to de clare a state of emergency on his own. President Mikhail Gorbachev is seeking a law that would give him more power to push through his program and to halt riots and ethnic strife that have been threatening his reforms. From Associated Press reports Pollar expedition Runoff elections today will fill senior class, congress posts ....3 Baby burden Rising costs of child care may cut quality, availability of service ....4 Sing and a prayer Heels to Heaven make divine music with a message..... 5 Campus and city ..3 Features 5 Sports 5 Classified 6 Comics 7 OMIIJj -, , n - -- By JENNY CL0NINGER and JASON KELLY University Editors Student Body President candidate Bill Hildebolt testified before the Elec tions Board Monday night in defense of campaign violations he and members of his staff committed last Tuesday morning, but he was unable to dissuade the board from upholding board chair man David Smith's decision to hold a re-election in a 3-2 vote. After issuing a warning to Hildebolt and his campaign for violating elec tions laws, the board declared last Tuesday's presidential election void, 1 ; S. African policy criticised By ELIZABETH BYRD Staff Writer Keyan Tomaselli, South African filmmaker and visiting scholar in UNC's Department of Radio, Televi sion and Motion Pictures, compared the South African government to Lewis Carroll's "Alice in Wonder land" in a lecture Monday night. "The state simply does the oppo site of what it says," he said. "The government called the exclusion of blacks from public universities an extension of the universities' educa tional policy." Stadeints marcHi for racial lunnity By JENNIFER PILLA Staff Writer About 150 students marched from the Pit to the steps of South Building Tuesday and made a statement to Chan cellor Hardin concerning the need for racial understanding. In the statement, Jennifer Bielstein, Race Relations Week chairwoman and Students for the Advancement of Race Relations (SAAR) tri-chairwoman, outlined the purpose for Race Rela tions Week. "The week is designed to create an understanding of other races, cultures, and of the causes of prejudice, with the hope of promoting and im proving interaction between the differ ent cultures." Members of the Black Student Movement Gospel Choir led the march Raleigh SEAC rally By WENDY BOUNDS Staff Writer Concerned UNC-CH members of the Student Environmental Action Coali tion (SEAC) marched Monday in Raleigh with other students from across the state to attract media attention for their struggle to protect remaining U.S. native virgin forests. About 300 students from N.C. uni versities, colleges and high schools gathered at the Civic Center in Raleigh at 2 p.m. The group listened to music by Nikki Meets the Habachi and a jazz duo and chanted for television cameras campus) nn fa I jf -ft ie -je returning all five candidates to the bal lot for a March 6 election. "The first election never happened," Smith said. Hildebolt said that he did erase a chalked John Lomax sign from the sidewalk in front of the Undergraduate Library early Tuesday morning, but that he had misunderstood elections laws and didn't realize chalk was con , if fh Keyan Tomaselli speaks about South Alrica Monday night Tomaselli said the Third World's perception of communication differed from Americans' perception of the word. "Members of the First World con sider communication a benevolent exchange of information," he said. "In fact, it's quite different. Communica tion is the articulation of power, a so cial relationship. Communication de fines the relationships between people." The South African government's fight is twofold, Tomaselli said. Exter nally South Africa must defend against w hat it perceives as a communist threat. by singing "Reach Out and Touch Somebody's Hand." Hardin met the students on the steps of South Building, listened to Bielstein read the statement of purpose and re sponded with a brief statement. In his statement, Hardin said he concurred completely with the goals of Race Relations Week and expressed regret over a recent incident in which a poster promoting the recruitment of American Indian faculty members was defaced. "We live in a time where we must be aware of the feelings of minorities on our campus." After the march, Hardin said he thought he needed to apologize for the See MARCH, page 7 before beginning the march to the Archdale Building. The march was led by UNC-CH student Paul Giragos. The group's efforts were matched in about forty states across the nation, said David Ball, UNC-CH co-chairman of the national SEAC. "What our march is about is to try and get the The National and Native Forest Protection Act of 1 990 (NNFPA) introduced into Congress and gener ally to stop a lot of the worst excesses of the U.S. forest services," Ball said. The NNFPA would ban logging in all remaining native virgin forests in sidered a campaign material. "I was not out to get John Lomax. Ignorance is not an excuse for commit ting any crime, but with the elections laws the way they are, I think it makes it more understandable." Mary Jo Harris, an Elections Board member, said Hildebolt's and his cam paign workers' actions were violations of an elections law. "The chalk was bought just as posters were bought. Posters going on the wall is the equiva lent of chalk on pavement." Members of Hildebolt's staff washed off more Lomax chalk signs later Tues day morning. Hildebolt said they did t WSJ11L? fit DTHJoseph Muhl At the same time, the government must attempt to maintain control of the resistance within the country's borders. "For years the government has seen the ANC (African National Congress) as the enemy. In South Africa today we're seeing the ascen dance of an alternative state which is powerful enough to put the government's back against the wall." The South African government is fighting this alternative state through See TOMASELLI, page 7 Race Relations Week Feb. 26 - March 2 - - in TTr-f -mnrri - t r" - : East Indian Culture Discussion 5:30 p.m. Student Union 209 Spike Lee's 'Do the Right Thing 6:30 p.m. Hanes Art Center Workshop on Racism Within Student Organizations 4 p.m. Student Union 211-212 An Afternoon With Louise Rose 4 p.m. Union Cabaret Cross-Cultural Entertainment Night 8 p.m. Union Cabaret "I.I IIJMmi.1 ' " IP' UllllHIHUI ' IH-IIIIIIIIIHIIlUJllllllLIIU II I II I II I II, .1111.1 llHllUlllMnlLJIUIIHIIlllMlll I.ll III III 1 1 IIIIHIl) 111 Party at He's Not Here 9 p.m. -1 a.m. 11212 W. Franklin St. : urges protection the United States, ban exporting un processed timber products and ban clear-cutting on public lands. With less than five percent of the nation's native forest land left, it is imperative that these forests receive protection, said Grant Thompson, UNC CH SEAC member. "This issue doesn't just appeal to environmentalists," Thompson said. "We are losing American tax dollars and jobs and there is no basis for it." Once the marchers reached the Archdale Building, they were addressed by state Sen. Bo Thomas, a Democrat this without his knowledge or permis sion. The board ordered the removal of Meg Gibbs and Ransom Langford from the campaign staff for participation in the incident. 'The Tuesday events (the campaign workers' actions) were the much more serious events my workers going out and erasing legible signs," Hildebolt said. "It was definitely dirty politics, and we were very ashamed and embar rassed about what had occurred." Lomax said Sunday that members of Hildebolt's campaign staff apologized to his staff members Wednesday for the later incidents but that he did not learn Cuts im budget Tiajpset irrarsiirig scBiool testing By KENNY M0NTEITH Start Writer More than 85 nursing students gath ered Monday in Carrington Hall to protest the budget cuts implemented by the North Carolina General Assembly and the cuts' direct effects on the School of Nursing. The protest stemmed from a Nursing 87 class that was forced to take an exam from an overhead projector because budget shortages kept the school from making copies of exams, said Dawn Hurst, president of the Association of Nursing Students. "We sat outside the room and did not take the exam," she said. "Then we met with the instructor and decided to re schedule the test for next Monday." The class will pay for the copies of this test, which will be copied at Kinko's, Hurst said. She said the nursing department may ask other departments for help with the cost of copying tests. "It (a test given from an overhead projector) negates all the test-taking skills we've learned," she said. "It's very distracting to look up on the wall and then look back down to your test in order to answer the questions." Most nursing tests are geared toward preparing students for the state board nursing tests in July, Hurst said. "We were concerned with changing the test taking strategy in the last semester of our senior year, before taking the state boards," she said. The effect of the budget cuts has caused a lot of anxiety for students, Hurst said. "It's not ethical for us to suffer because the North Carolina as sembly can't balance its budget," she said. Linda Brown, who teaches the Nurs ing 87 class, said the students needed to who is seeking Jesse Helms' U.S. Senate seat in the November elections. "It is unfortunate that our leadership has chosen to sell timber at below cost and it's unfortunate they have not implemented our intent for multiple use of the forest," said Thomas. "Eve rybody doesn't cut logs, but the forest belongs to everyone." Rally participants wearing cardboard signs resembling trees around their necks participated in a simulation of forest destruction by lumberjacks. Stu dents dressed as lumberjacks with chainsaws pretended to cut down those of Hildebolt's involvement until Thurs day. "My feeling was that it was forgiven and forgotten when I thought Bill Hil debolt was not directly involved. J'm extremely surprised and a little disap pointed in the course of events." The board also heard testimony from Kristi Lee, Jonathan Martin's campaign manager. Lee was present at the Under grad last Tuesday night, and said she witnessed not only Hildebolt, but also Student Congress Speaker Gene Davis, a campaign worker for Mark Bibbs at See ELECTION, page 7 respond to what they felt was impor tant. "The students needed to be heard, and they did it very well," she said. "But we must look at other options in the future." Other departments are curbing ex penditures because of the cuts, and some will directly affect instruction. A life drawing class in the art depart ment does not have enough money to hire models for its projects, professor Richard Kinnaird said. The class is hoping to receive sup port from a former Board of Trustees member who was contacted by a rela tive in the class, he said. He also said student contributions would be needed. If these funds are inadequate to hire more models, the class will use slides of subjects or volunteer models from the class, Kinnaird said. Catherine Stribling, administration manager in the art department, said the art department is now requiring stu dents to buy their own supplies. "If they want the supplies, they have to go and buy them themselves," she . said. "We used to buy them (supplies) for them (students) before the budget cuts, but not now." Kim Donehower, a senior English major from Asheville, said she took the class for enjoyment, but did not expect to have to pay so much money for it. "I feel it's unfair to schedule the class in the first place if they knew they weren't going to able to pay for it," she said. Ashley Gruber, a senior English and art major from Raleigh, said slides would be a poor substitute for live models. "It's just not right because if you are drawing from the slide, you are taking an artist's perception instead of your own (perception)," she said. DTH now recruiting staffers So you're pretty excited about the new DTH, eh? Care to be a part of this creative explosion? Come prove yourseif worthy at the new writers' meeting. The time and place will be announced in tomorrow's DTH. We need writers for most desks: Univer sity, state and nation, city and features. A special request from the Omnibus staff goes out to non-journalism types who spe cialize in art exhibits and theater. Writers will be required to write a news story and meet a deadline. Those interested in copy editing should plan to spend 45 minutes after the meeting taking a copy editing test. of forests students dressed as trees, with the latter collapsing in a heap on the ground. Other speakers at the rally included John O'Conner, director of the Na tional Toxic Campaign, Mary Kelly of the Western N.C. Forest Alliance, and three UNC-CH students. O'Conner stressed the need for people to get directly involved in de fending the forests. "If it takes defiance, we will give them defiance," O'Conner said. "If it takes civil disobedience, we will give See SEAC, page 7 Get over yourself! 7 When
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