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Volume 98, Issue 9
Thursday, March 8, 1990
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S.C. asks Martin to drop
site from consideration
WASHINGTON South Carolina's
congressional delegation has asked
North Carolina Gov. Jim Martin to
eliminate from consideration a site
along the border as a location for a low
level radioactive waste facility.
The 2,000-acre site the South Caro
lina lawmakers want eliminated from
consideration is in Richmond County,
N.C., which is located three miles from
the S.C.
XThe only other North Carolina site
under consideration is a 750-acre tract
that straddles the Wake-Chatham
county line, near Carolina Power &
Light Co.'s Shearon Harris nuclear
power plant.
', The sites were chosen last month by
Chem-Nuclear Systems Inc. as final
ists for a $40 million low-level radioac
tive waste repository that will eventu
ally accept up to 32 million cubic feet
of waste from eight Southeastern states
for 20 years.
: See related story, page 4.
NAACP wants mayor's
shooting investigated
BOLTON, N.C. The NAACP has
called for investigations into the shoot
ing death of a black former mayor by a
white state trooper who said he was
trying to make a drunken driving arrest.
Sidney Bowen, 42, the first black
mayor of Bolton, about 30 miles west
of Wilmington in Columbus County,
was shot in his front yard about 1 0 p.m.
Feb. 27 as a trooper was trying to arrest
him.
"An open airing of the circumstances
surrounding Mayor Bowen's death is
necessary to assuage the fears of the
African-American community that an
execution has taken place," said Kelly
Alexander Jr., state president of the
National Association for the Advance
ment of Colored People.
An autopsy by the state medical
examiner found that Bowen was shot at
least four times and at the most five
times, Renee Hoffman, with the state
Department of Crime Control and
Public Safety, said Wednesday.
A doctor and friend of the family
have said Bowen's body had seven
' bullet wounds two in the chest, two
in the back, one in each side and one
' above and behind the right ear.
The Highway Patrol said Trooper
A.E. Morris fired his 9mm semi-automatic
pistol in self-defense after Bowen
grabbed the officer's flashlight and beat
him on the head with it. The patrol said
the trooper acted reasonably.
Libya back in production
of chemical weapons
WASHINGTON The White
House said Wednesday that Libya has
renewed production of chemical weap
ons, posing "a major threat" and requir
ing "vigorous action" to shut down the
plant.
White House press secretary Marlin
Fitzwater refused to exclude the possi
bility of a military strike to knock out
the poison-gas plant.
"We don't rule out anything," he
said.
However, Fitzwater also suggested
"the plant could be closed if foreign
suppliers denied it the raw materials
needed to produce chemical weapons.
From Associated Press reports
Playing the numbers
Chapel Hill boy aces nationwide math
tests 3
Around the world in a semester
Study Abroad Program allows inde
pendent travel 4
Beware the ides of April
At ew helpful tips on filing income tax
returns 4
Campus and city 3
Features 4
Sports 5
Classified 6
Comics 7
Omnibus insert
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Comgress alters budget process
By KENNY M0NTEITH
and TOM PARKS
Staff Writers
Student Congress voted Wednesday
night to give itself more control over
the allocation of student fees and their
use within student organizations in the
1 991-92 fiscal year.
Jody Beasley, chairman of the audit
board, sponsored the bill.
Black Student Movement
Presidential candidates state
By SUSIE KATZ
Staff Writer
Candidates for Black Student Move
ment (BSM) president presented their
platforms in a forum in Upendo lounge
Wednesday night.
Candidates for the other offices up
for election today are running unop
posed. The presidential candidates are
Sabrina Evans, a junior communica
tion and speech major from Brooklyn,
N.Y., and Dana Lumsden, a sopho
more political science and English
major from Boston, Mass.
Evans addressed the main points of
her platform in her opening address,
saying she would like the BSM to push
for political, cultural and educational
equality for blacks on campus.
She said the BSM should fight for
physical space for the Black Cultural
Center (BCC), mobilizing to obtain
public and private funds for the BCC.
In his opening remarks, Lumsden
said he v anted to give the leadership
skills he had gained in Student Con
gress and as a member of the BSM
Freshman Class Committee back to the
African-American community.
Lumsden said he would like to see
the BSM as a support group, stressing
academics, social activities, and cul
tural and ethnic programs.
Evans said she had gained insight
into the problems of the BSM in her
years of experience there. She said she
was concerned about the estrangement
of the Central Committee from the
General Body of the BSM. She advo
cated the election of Central Commit
tee members, saying the committee
needs to be held accountable to the
General Body. Evans stressed that the
committee members are servants of the
General Body, not the reverse.
Lumsden said that he did not want to
attack the Central Committee, but that
he thought electing its members rather
than appointing them would give BSM
members a more democratic role in
deciding what happens in the organiza
tion. Lack of interest and participation in
the BSM was a major topic of discus
sion. Both candidates agreed that ac
tion would have to be taken to dispel
Complaint spurs injiuiction
against bar association vote
By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON
Assistant University Editor
The Student Supreme Court issued a
temporary injuction Tuesday against
both the release and the certification of
Tuesday's Student Bar Association
(SBA) election results because of a
complaint by a candidate.
Asa Bell, Student Supreme Court
chief justice, said he issued the injunc
tion to prevent the release of the infor
mation until the SBA attorney general
had time to investigate the complaint
filed by SBA presidential candidate
Ernest Yarborough.
"I was contacted by a candidate
eview of death sentences needed
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By ERIC LUSK
Staff Writer
The recent decision by the the U.S.
Supreme Court to kill North Carolina's
death penalty sentencing procedure may
affect a majority of the inmates pres
ently sitting on death row.
In a 6-3 decision Monday, the Su
preme Court threw out the death sen
tence of Dock McKoy , convicted killer
of a N.C. deputy sheriff, and struck
down North Carolina's present sen
tencing procedure.
Justice Thurgood Marshall, who
wrote the majority opinion, stated North
Carolina's present procedure of asking
all jurors to agree unanimously on
mitigating evidence is unconstitutional.
Mitigating evidence, such as a clean
criminal record or mental illness, is
There's never enough time to do all the nothing you want. Calvin
Congress will allocate student fees
to campus groups by category instead
of in one lump sum, as it does now.
Student groups can spend that money
only in the category, such as stipends or
publicity, to which it was allocated.
Student groups can transfer money
from category to category if the student
body treasurer and the finance commit
tee chairman approve the transfer.
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the image of the BSM on campus in
order to increase the number of active
members and create a better under
standing of its purpose.
Evans said she would like to hold a
mini-summit with leaders from other
campus organizations so those groups
could present their functions to stu
dents and create a better understanding
of what they stand for.
"I don't think we should wait for
freshmen to get here. As soon as they're
accepted, we should let them know
BSM is there for them."
Lumsden said he favored activities
such as IM-Rec teams and field trips in
additions to programs that the BSM
currently sponsors. "My stock answer
saying some gross violations of elec
tion laws had occurred," Bell said. "The
attorney general in the law school had
directed him my way.
"The Supreme Court does have ju
risdiction over all elections," he said.
"In the past, we've given the jurisdic
tion to the school. The candidate said
he would suffer irreparable damage if
the results were counted or published.
The reason for the initial injunction
was just to preserve the status quo until
an investigation could occur."
Barron Stroud, SBA attorney gen
eral, could not be reached for comment
Wednesday.
anything that might dissuade jurors from
handing down a death sentence.
Presently in a death penalty case in
North Carolina, all 1 2 jurors must agree
certain evidence is mitigating for it to
be considered. Any evidence not
deemed mitigating must be ignored.
The court's decision could grant
about 70 inmates in North Carolina
new sentencing trials, said John Sim
mons, a spokesperson for N.C. Attor
ney General Lacy Thornburg. North
Carolina has 85 inmates awaiting the
death penalty, but none of the inmates
receiving a new sentencing trial will be
set free.
Most of the inmates expected to
receive a new trial were convicted after
1985, when the present sentencing
procedure went into effect.
Also, the bill restricts congress'
power to amend groups' submitted
budgets. Beasley said the bill would
make it more likely that congress would
approve groups' budgets as they are
submitted.
Congress members said the bill was
created so student organizations would
have a better knowledge of the amount
of money allocated to them, and how
campaign platforms at forum
candidates Dana Lumsden and Sabrina
is to make the BSM something you
can't miss. If your membership works
for you, you'll want to get involved."
The candidates had different opin
ions of the qualifications necessary in a
good BSM president.
Evans said the president was an in
strument of the BSM body. "The BSM
needs a president who is merely an
executor of the members' wishes, (who
shows) insight into the unique prob
lems and role on campus of the BSM
(as well as) dedication to the organiza
tion and the objectives of the Afro
American community."
Lumsden stressed that the president
does not have to have had past experi
ence as a member of the BSM Central
Mark Maxwell, SBA election chair
man, said he wanted the elections to be
fair and for everyone to have sufficient
notice of what was going to occur.
"I had not heard of anything happen
ing until I got the injunction on my desk
at three o'clock on election day (Tues
day)," he said. 'The votes were not
counted, nor will they be."
Yarborough said he filed the com
plaint because the election had not fol
lowed time guidelines established in
the SBA by-laws.
"My first complaint is the SBA failed
See SBA, page 7
"The decision should mainly be
confined to North Carolina," said
Malcome Hunter, an appellate defender
who represented McKoy in the Su
preme Court hearings. "I don't know if
it will affect other states."
Plans for re-examining the state's
sentencing procedure are unclear at this
time, Hunter said.
"I guess the legislature and the courts
will have to decide how to change the
process," he said.
Some observers suggest doing away
with the death penalty.
"It's an enormous waste of very
valuable state resources," said Barry
Nakell, UNC law professor. "Running
a system with the death penalty is much
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much they have to spend.
"Accountability (of the student
groups) is the bottom line in terms of
the budget process.
"Student government and Student
Congress do not know the organization
as well as the organizations know them
selves," Beasley said.
"What is going to be taken from the
organizations, on the other hand, is the
elections today
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Evans
Committee, but that the president should
be someone who has influenced the
UNC African-American community in
a number of different organizations.
"I'm going to hand over leadership
skills and a fresh perspective."
Segregation in campus housing was
an important issue. Both candidates
agreed that the black population is
concentrated on South Campus, but
their ideas on how to deal with the
problem differ.
Evans said that when freshmen, black
and white, ask friends where to apply to
live, they are told that South Campus is
where all the black students live and
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Softballers Tracey Narwid, Tracy Brower and Lisa McGloin seek warmth on
the way to victory over Assumption College. See story, page 5.
fact that their cash will now be put in
specific places according to the priori
ties that they delineate."
Student organizations will have their
own prerogative if they want money for
activities through fund-raisers or if they
you do not want money at all, Beasley
said.
Other business concluded too late to
be included in this issue.
Voters will
pick officers
for 1990-91
From staff reports
Elections for Black Student Move
ment (BSM) officers will be held to
day. Pollsites will be open from 8 a.m. to
7 p.m. at the Student Union outside the
Black Cultural Center and at Chase
Dining Hall. BSM members are re
minded to bring their valid UNC I.D.
and registration cards and their BSM
membership cards when they come to
vote today.
Election results will be announced at
9 p.m. at the BSM office in the Student
Union. A post-election party will be
held in the Morrison Residence Hall
recreation room from 9:30 p.m. to
midnight.
The presidential candidates are Dana
Lumsden, a sophomore from Boston,
Mass., and SabrinaEvans, a junior from
Brooklyn, N.Y.
Candidates for BSM vice president,
treasurer and secretary are running
unopposed.
For vice president, the candidate is
Toija Riggins, a sophomore from Sil
ver Spring, Md. Riggins has been in
volved in the BSM Freshman Class
Committee and has served on a com
mittee on the status of minorities and
the disadvantaged. She said she hoped
to get people involved through example.
Nicole Lewis is running for treas
urer. A sophomore from Richmond,
Va., Lewis was also a member of the
Freshman Class Committee, as well as
an executive assistant to the BSM presi
dent, a minority adviser and a big buddy
with the Campus Y. She is planning to
make the treasurer's report readily
available to BSM members upon re
quest. Candidate for secretary Ediedra
Coble, a sophomore from Atlanta, Ga.,
said she had participated in the Health
Sciences LivingLearning Program in
Carmichael Residence Hall. She said
she would like to make BSM officers
more accessible to members.
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