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Wtit cr w Chance of rain High in upper 40s Wednesday: Sunny High in upper 50s Sweet Sixteen Sendoff D Entry, Smith Center 5:30 p.m. Serving the students and the University community sinc e 1893 Volume 98, Issue 12 Tuesday, March 20, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewSportsArts BusinessAdvertising 962 0245 962-1163 Cowt reinstates ranioff decisioin I ! l f II in i! 1 If (I VV l Supreme Court upholds fines against Puerto Rico WASHINGTON The Supreme Court rejected the advice of 31 states Monday as it left intact $30 million in fines against Puerto Rico for failing to relieve prison overcrowding. The justices, without comment, re fused to disturb rulings that the govern ment of the island commonwealth failed to respond fast enough to a federal judge's order to cease overcrowding. .-Most states are under similar court orders to improve prison conditions. Officials for 31 states, including North Carolina, told the high court that such strict enforcement of federal court penalties could delay voluntary prison reforms. Prime minister seeking U.S. support for Poland WARSAW, Poland Prime Minis ter Tadeusz Mazowiecki is coming to the United States to seek support for the Solidarity-led government's demand that a treaty guaranteeing Poland's western border be signed before Ger many unifies. The former Solidarity editor and political prisoner leaves Warsaw on Tuesday for a six-day visit to the United States, with a one-day stop in Canada. It will be Mazowiecki's longest trip abroad since he was elected in August to lead the first non-Communist gov ernment in the Eastern bloc. Mazowiecki achieved one aim of his trip when the four victorious World War II allies and the two Germanys last week decided to allow Poland to take part in sessions of "two-plus-four" talks that concern Poland's security. Factional mob fighting leaves 26 blacks dead JOHANNESBURG, South Africa At least 26 people died in black fac tional fighting and clashes with police, including 15 men killed when a mob destroyed a Zulu tribal chief's com pound, police said Monday. A mob on Sunday attacked the chief's kraal or homestead at Njobokazi near Hammersdale in Natal, slaugh tered most of the inhabitants and in jured nine others, police said. Two black police officers assigned to guard the chief were among the dead, they said. Police reported 1 1 other people were killed Sunday and Monday, most in factional fighting in Natal. Police firing shotguns killed two men in sepaiate incidents Monday while breaking up protests in black townships, they said. Gorbachev announces Soviet economic reform MOSCOW President Mikhail S. Gorbachev is preparing a package of 1 7 drastic reforms that will hit Soviet consumers hard and fast, in hopes of saving the failing economy, the Inter fax news agency reported Monday. The package, due to take effect July 1, includes desperately needed price reforms, according to Interfax. Soviet prices are set by bureaucrats without regard to costs. The proposed bills and executive orders are expected to be painful and unpopular, Interfax said. Gorbachev said Thursday that he was planning drastic economic reform. From Associated Press reports Their sperm counts Student donors 'just doing a job' to help infertile couples .....4 Mark your calendars Long-awaited Club Sports box make its debut today 4 Maddening development Knee injury leaves senior forward out for remainder of tourney 5 Campus and city 3 Features 4 Sports 4 Classified . 6 Comics 7 yM , H gtUki Til" 1 ill' MUM i i ' MMItti fi flMEB By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON Assistant University Editor The Student Supreme Court decided Monday night to reinstate the results of the first student body president (SBP) election and hold a runoff March 27 between Mark Bibbs and Bill Hilde- bolt, overturning a previous Elections Board decision. On Feb. 26 the Elections Board declared the Feb. 20 SBP election re sults invalid after finding Hildebolt guilty of violating an elections law. He had washed candidate John Lomax's chalked campaign slogans off the side walk in front of the Undergraduate Library in the early hours of Feb. 20. The board had ordered a new elec tion to be held March 6, but on March 5, the court placed a temporary injunc tion on the second election until a complaint filed by Christopher Bran- oram focuses on drags By ELIZABETH BYRD Staff Writer Because of economic and political conflicts caused by drug production and trafficking, President George Bush's drug war has far to go, agreed panelists at Monday night's forum, "U.S. Demand and Latin American Society." Participants in the forum were: Maria Jimena Du.an, a Colombian journalist who fled the country following her sister's death at the hands of the Medellin drug cartel; Raul Gonzales, who has studied the effect of DEA efforts to eradicate drug production on fanners in Peru; and Lenn Murrelle, who conducted Colombia's first na tional household drug survey. Profes sor Jonathan Hartlyn of the Institue of Latin American Studies moderated the discussion and acted as interpreter for Raul Gonzales, who spoke in Spanish. "North Americans have no real idea of what is going on in Latin America," Murrelle said. "Domestic cocaine use and domestic violence in Colombiahave increased with the increase of cocaine use in the United States," he said. In 1986, homicide ranked as the second-highest cause of death in Co lombia. By 1 985, in the city of Medellin, homicide ranked number one. "Numbers like that are unheard of in a nonwarring country," Murrelle said. In 1985, more than half the deaths in the 15- to 44-year-old age group were at .V.-Y it ' Making a point j a - v Professor Dwight Allen of Old Dominion University lambasts the Ameri can education system in a lecture Monday night. See story, page 3. UNC budget control subject to N.C. Assembly approva By KENNY M0NTEITH Staff Writer If the N.C. General Assembly ap proves the March 9 recommendations from the UNC-system Board of Gover nors (BOG), UNC could soon have more control over its budget, Univer sity officials said Monday. The BOG voted unanimously to recommend six budget proposals to the N.C. General Assembly. The proposals would give the UNC-system universi ties more control over the funds they receive from the state. The first recommendation would give UNC more control over its budget and provide more incentives for adminis trative efficiency. Any fool non, a sophomore from Charlotte, could be heard. Brannon said that because chalk was not a campaign material the elections board had erred in its decision to nullify the first race and should hold the origi nally scheduled runoff between Hilde bolt and Bibbs. The original group of defendants included Elections Board Chairman David Smith, the rest of the board and all SBP candidates. The defense re quested that Hildebolt and Bibbs be removed from the list.The court agreed. The two candidates then entered a motion for intervention status. The court granted the motion, making them plain tiffs along with Brannon. Arguments in the case focused on the question of whether chalk was a campaign material and the possibility that the area the chalked slogan was in tributed to homicide. "Almost half a million years of life were lost due to homicide in the 1980's decade," he said. Basuca, or raw cocaine, is the most popular drug in Colombia, Murrelle said. The number of users has grown since it first was introduced in the 1970's, and in 1989, 98.4 percent of those treated for drug use were treated for basuca addiction. One side effect of basuca use is depression, and, as a consequence, suicide. "Just being a basuca addict raises your chance of a suicide attempt seven times," he said. Gonzalez discussed the effect of cocaine production and consumption on Peru, where the coca plant is grown. The government of Peru is attempting to dominate the Shining Path Guerilla movement, which manipulates the cul tivation and sale of the coca plant out side the country. The Shining Path gained control of the coca-producing area of Northern Peru in 1988, attack ing the already existing drug cartels. The guerilla movement has governed with the support of the people since then, effectively negating the state's influence in the area. Peru faces two major problems, Gonzalez said. "The Shining Path's control has caused political destabilization within the state, and Peru's economic prob lems have isolated it from the rest of the DTHJoseph Muhl Chancellor Paul Hardin said the present system is inconvenient because budget decisions are made in Raleigh. "It isn't realistic for the budgeting to be done by the legislature," he said. "We would have more flexibility in using the resources that we have (at UNC)." The BOG also recommended that the state refund sales and taxes paid by state universities and colleges on pur chases from contract and grant funds. Presently, only private colleges and universities can apply for refunds. Private institutions qualify for these refunds because they are often church related, Hardin said. "We don't have the privileges that can make a rule. S was off-limits to candidates. Brad Torgan, Biannon's counsel, said the plaintiffs had to show that the Elections Board's actions were invalid according to student law. "If the court finds the Elections Board violated the law, it must over-turn their action." Torgan argued that in sections two and three of the-elections laws, posters and broadsides were listed as examples of campaign materials, while inscrip tions were listed independently. He said that in section five of the laws, posters and broadsides wete listed, but inscrip tions were not. "Section five is what the Elections Board used to throw out the election," Torgan said. "We believe section five implies campaign materials are per sonal property, which is something that is movable. "A piece of chalk may be personal " DTHT odd Diggs Jonathan Hartlyn moderates the discussion as Raul Gonzalez, Maria Jimena Duzan and Lenn Murrelle listen world," he said. The economy of the state depends somewhat on the money that comes from production of the coca plant, he said. "Peru must take a position on drug trafficking befoie it's loo late, but for that to happen, the consuming coun tries, the United States and European Computerized classes Phone registration system coming on-line By LEE WEEKS Staff Writer UNC students will have to endure drop-add hysteria in Woollen Gym only one last time befoie a computer named Caroline will take over the job of pre registering students by phone for the Spring 1991 semester. Caroline is a computerized voice that will direct students through UNC's new, 32-line telephone registration system, said Ruffin Hall, Director of Academic Affairs for student government's ex ecutive branch. The new system will begin operat ing at UNC two weeks after the 1991 spring semester course manuals have been released. The registration process will take place over a four-month pe riod. The first phase will be open regis tration lines to callers from Oct. 27 to Nov. 28, 1990. Each class will be given a week, beginning with seniors and ending with freshmen during the fourth week, Hall said. Upperclassmen can call at any time after their designated week. Priority will be given to students within their classes as well. "Each class is divided up into thirds," Hall said. "Seniors and juniors are divided up by the number of hours passed. The more "It isn't realistic for the budgeting to be done by the legislature." Paul Hardin private institutions have," he said. "This makes us very competitive in research with private institutions." Another recommendation would to allow campuses to keep tuition and fees income that surpasses projected levels. Henry David property, but once it's on a building it's not. You can't remove the chalk dust. A chalk slogan on the sidewalk is an in scription, removal of which without the candidate's permission would not vio late elections law." Smith said the chalk was considered to be a campaign material because it was used to convey a message from a candidate to students. "The intent of this law is to prevent an individual from interfering with the transmission of a message," he said. "I found that a candidate and his cam paign workers went out with the intent to erase the (slogans). I find that to be a material violation." Smith said a material violation was defined as one which was malicious and intentional. Torgan also said the place where the slogan was chalked was a non-public in Latin nations, have to understand the details of the problem," Gonzalez said. Gonzalez questioned President Bush's plans for ending drug traffick ing. "When it's the U.S.'s plan to re duce consumption of cocaine by 5 percent next year, why should the pro ducing countries be expected to elimi "More people will be getting the classes they want, rather than the classes they've been put into" Ruffin Hall hours you've passed, the earlier you get booked." Sophomores and freshmen will be divided according to their Social Secu rity numbers. Students can also call between Dec. 3-20, 1990 and Jan. 8-25, 1991. This extended time period should provide students with a greater opportunity to get the classes they want, Hall said. "More people will be getting the classes they want, rather than the classes they've been put into," he said. N.C. State University (NCSU) stu dents have been using a similar system to register since spring semester of last If universities receive more money than expected, they presently must return the money to the General Fund. "This (recommendation) gives us the opportunity to keep the money that we generate by our own fees," Hardin said. The governors also recommended that money granted by state and federal agencies for the overhead costs of re search be kept by the universities. Provost Dennis O'Connor said the money would not necessarily go to ward improvements in the quality or quantity of research, but would go toward the overhead costs, which pay for laboratories' technical aspects. The board's proposals are a step in the right direction because the propos Thoreau . . - s$3$ forum. "Because it is a non-public fo rum, there are restrictions on free speech," he said. "The right to free expression can be restricted in an area that is not traditionally a public forum. The chalk inscription is a damage to University property. It is aesthetically damaging. We believe actual physical damage is not required." Philip Floyd, Smith's defense coun selor, said the Elections Board does have the right to declare areas restricted. "Sidewalks are not legally restricted areas," he said. "Chalk is easily re; moved from property. Aesthetic dam age is not defined by the code." ; t . Floyd said the campaigns would then be under the Facility Usage Plan, but. according to Dean Donald Boulton, the regulations are suspended during cam-' paigns. America nate their problems entirely within only one or two years? We need to coordi nate our objectives." Duzan told a similar story about Colombia. The production of cocaine has brought areas of Colombia out of .See DRUGS, page 7 year, and the NCSU registrar's office has helped UNC establish its telephone system. But UNC's system will be more advanced than NCSU's, said Assistant Registrar Donna Redmon. "We are bridging previous stored information into a new database package," she said. "This should greatly increase the capa bilities and functions of the telephonic system." v UNC and NCSU are employingJhe same kind of equipment in their sys tems. They purchased the same com puter, but have adopted different pro graming concepts, said Leonard Strobel, administrative data processing direc tor. Students will give Caroline their Social Security number and then a four digit number called a PIN (Personal Identification Number). A student's PIN must be picked up from the student's academic adviser. "This process guarantees that a student will have some contact with an aca demic advisor before pre-registering," said NCSU Registrar James Bundy.. The UNC Registrar's Office plans to develop a code card that students may use in the future when registering for classes by phone, Hall said. , als will give UNC more variety in the ways money would be spent, O'Connor said. Hardin said the proposals have been debated by the governors for many years. "This has been the fruit of a long conversation, and it's an important step for the University," he said. "The prp posals may not be immediately imple-. mented, but they could happen over the next two or three years." Garland Hershey, vice chancellor for health affairs, said the proposals would be an asset to his office. "Any policy or program that pro vides additional flexibility to our man agers will be a positive addition to our programs," he said.
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