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Volume 93, Issue 16
Monday, March 26, 1990
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Secretary urges caution
for Soviet crackdown
WASHINGTON Defense Secre
tary Dick Cheney said Sunday that a
Soviet military crackdown in Lithu
ania would have "significant negative
consequences" on arms control and
other U.S.-Soviet relations.
Cheney, adding his voice to a chorus
of caution for the Kremlin from top
Bush administration officials, said the
use of force to crush Lithuania's inde
pendence movement "obviously would
undermine a lot of the good work that's
been done in recent years."
"We'd like to see the Lithuanians ...
granted the same prerogative that the
East Germans were: self-determination,"
Cheney said on CBS-TV's "Face
the Nation." Cheney said, "an overt use
of Soviet military force to crush the
Lithuanians would ... have significant
negative consequences in terms of U.S.
Soviet relations."
Bush's national security adviser,
Brent Scowcroft, said Saturday that
any Soviet use of force "would be
counterproductive" and that the United
States "would not ignore it."
Mandela calls for end to
boycotts against schools
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
Nelson Mandela on Sunday urged black
students to return to class and call off
anti-apartheid boycotts that have dis
rupted schools for the past several years.
"Without education, you can forget
about liberation," Mandela told an esti
mated 30,000 blacks in the northern
town of Pietersburg.
The statement appeared directed at
young, militant blacks who 1iave led
the school boycotts under the slogan,
"Liberation before education."
'The tactic of the boycott cannot
hope to win our battles in the educa
tional arena," said Mandela, who is
deputy president of the African Na
tional Congress, the nation's leading
anti-apartheid group. "Our stayaways
and boycotts are giving the education
departments one long holiday."
Waste management firm
found to have violations
CHARLOTTE The parent firm of
a company selected to find a place for
and design North Carolina's largest,
most expensive and potentially most
dangerous waste disposal facility has a
long record of environmental viola
tions. Some officials said the violations
were a result of Waste Management
Inc. (WMI) being the largest waste
management firm in the country and
that the violations should not prevent
the company from working on the fa
cility. In all, Waste Management facilities
and its subsidiaries across the nation
have paid at least $17 million in state
and federal fines for environmental
violations in at least nine states since
1983, The Charlotte Observer reported
in Sunday's editions.
In 1993, the North Carolina facility
will begin storing radioactive debris
from nuclear power plants, hospitals
and research institutions from eight
Southeastern states. It's almost certain
a WMI subsidiary, Chem-Nuclear
Systems Inc., will build and run the $6 1
million facility.
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Library Awareness Week to address
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All that jazz
Vibraphonist Lionel Hampton ham
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Clean sweep
Baseball team takes Maryland, con
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Campus and city 3
Arts 4
Classified 6
Comics 7
Opinion 8
Sports Monday 10
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By STEPHEN P00LE
Staff Writer
Put away the coolers. Send back the
kegs. Cancel the beer runs. This year's
Springfest is officially dry.
The UNC Housing Department has
decided to prohibit all alcoholic bever
ages at the April 7 event, citing Univer
sity liability as a concern.
Springfest, an annual band concert
sponsored by Henderson Residence
College (HRC) and heldon Connor
Beach, has led to vandalism, personal
injury, excessive consumption and
underage drinking in past years, Wayne
Kuncl, housing director, said.
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By JASON KELLY
University Editor
The Elections Board made a legal
mistake when it invalidated the Feb. 20
student body president elections, the
Student Supreme Court said in its opin
ion issued Sunday.
The Elections Board had decided to
nullify the Feb. 20 student body presi
dent election results and had called for
a new election after finding candidate
Bill Hildebolt guilty of violating an
elections law by pouring water on
candidate John Lomax's chalked cam
paign signs on the sidewalk outside the
Undergraduate Library.
Student Supreme Court Chief Jus
tice Asa Bell, in his majority opinion,
said the court had decided by a 4-1 vote
that chalk was not a campaign material
and therefore the first student body
presidential election results were valid.
"We further hold that since it was
this determination which mandated the
re-election, that the original election
results be reinstated and that a runoff
election be held between candidates
(Bill) Hildebolt and (Mark) Bibbs on
Tuesday, March 27, 1990."
Christopher Brannon, a sophomore
from Charlotte, brought the case before
the court on the grounds that the Elec
tions Board had taken away his right to
See COURT, page 4
Resolution! passed to study minority recmitmeint
By ELIZABETH BYRD
Staff Writer
Chancellor Paul Hardin said he
would establish a task force to study the
recruitment and hiring of minority fac
ulty members, as the result of resolu
tions passed by the Faculty Council in
its regular monthly meeting Friday.
The resolutions aim to improve
minority status on campus, requesting
that the University set forth goals for
recruiting and retaining African-American
and Native American faculty,
administrators, and students.
The University's previous efforts in
this area have failed, said David Ecker
man, chairman of the Chancellor's
Committee on the Status of Minorities
and the Disadvantaged. "We are losing
ground," he said.
The committee's report notes that in
the last two years, UNC has hired nine
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"Although this decision departs from
past tradition, we believe that concerns
about safety of University students and
the security of property tip the scales in
favor of a dry event," he said.
Behavior of people attending the
concert has been difficult to control,
Kuncl said. "If we permit the wide
spread abuse of alcohol that occurs at
Springfest to continue, then we are not
effectively managing our risks."
University policy mandates that
student groups that wish to serve alco
hol on residence hall property must
submit a request for a permit to the
housing director for approval. Since
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Lumbee Tribe, performs at the Native American Festival Saturday.
minority faculty members, but has lost
10. The University now has 54 black
faculty members 2.5 percent of the
total faculty. No Native Americans are
employed in permanent faculty posi
tions, although one Native American is
a visiting lecturer this semester.
UNC needs to be more creative in its
attempts to increase the diversity of its
campus, Eckerman said. "Other uni
versities are finding ways to do it, and
we need to keep up," he said.
Some council members disagreed
with what they saw as the report's
suggestion that the University hasn't
been doing its job. John Carroll, psy
chology professor emeritus, said, "The
implication is that we are not trying
hard enough to find minority faculty,
but the pool from which we have to
draw is quite, quite small."
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1983, Kuncl has given his approval to
Springfest organizers with reservations..
"It was my feeling that we would
have a substantial risk to the Univer
sity, the student groups, as well as to
me, as the Director of Housing, for
signing the permission."
The decision was made one month
before the scheduled event. Gret Dif
fendal, Residence Hall Association
president, said the timing of the deci
sion gave organizers little notice.
Kuncl's decision has interfered with
months of planning, she said. "A deci
sion of this magnitude should have
been made a long time ago."
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ulty Council, agreed with Carroll.
'There is simply a lack of availability
of minority candidates," he said. "We
just don't receive many applications
from minorities. Minority students are
not considering teaching as a profes
sion." Several council members said quali
fied minorities are looking outside the
field of academics because of the higher
salaries available in other jobs.
Robert Bain, English professor, said
the University must make an effort to
attract minority students to the teach
ing field. "If we are in fact going to be
serious about our commitment, we must
take the time to work closely with stu
dents, a sort of resocialization proc
ess," he said.
Joel Schwartz, political science pro
fessor, said, "I don't think we do a hell
of a good job with white students ei
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also sponsored the race.
Enforcing the policy at Springfest
will be difficult, she said. "Not only
Chapel Hill residents and students are
expecting to come and drink, but so are
people from other schools."
University officials estimate that
5,000 to 7,000 people will attend this
year's festivities.
Bo Somers, HRC governor, said he
didn't think the absence of alcohol
would hurt the event's turnout. "A lot
of people are going to come with the
expectation to drink and be disappointed
when they get here," he said. "He
(Kuncl) made the decision so now we're
going to have to work with it. I don't see
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By VICTOR BLUE
Staff Writer
Recent state budget cuts will drasti
cally hamper pre-registration, the col
lection and publication of semester
grades and Commencement, Univer
sity registrar David Lanier said.
"We tried to keep this from having
an impact on students," Lanier said.
"The most obvious effect is on spring
pre-registration. It affects our tempo
rary wages and limits the number of
things that we are able to print out."
The cutbacks will especially cause
problems during the week of April 2-6
because many students wait until the
last minute to turn in their forms, he
said.
'Try not to wait until the last two
days to turn in pre-registration forms,"
he said. "If there is any way you can get
it in before then, do that or you might
find yourself standing in a very long
line."
Students willing to stand in those
long lines may be in for yet another
unpleasant surprise, Lanier said. "Since
I am unable to pay overtime to any of
my employees, you might not be able to
get in because we will have to close the
doors at 5 p.m.," he said.
Many of the normal safety features
of pre-registration will have to be
omitted, Lanier said. "When you turn
in your pre-registration forms, we usu
ally have staff to double-check," he
said. 'This time students will get ex
actly what they bubble in."
ther."
Biomedical engineering professor
Carol Lucas said she thought the Uni
versity was missing opportunities to
employ exceptionally qualified faculty,
minority or not, by being restrictive
with its resources. "I feel we need some
kind of flexible pool of funds to grab an
opportunity when it arises, even if we
don't have an 'opening' at that time,"
she said.
Hardin said the primary obstacle the
University faces in achieving these
goals was a lack of available money. "I
think we have a tremendous challenge
before us," he said. "The scarcity of
human and financial resources make
this a call for creativity."
The creation of new faculty posi
tions is unlikely, he said. "Would you
like to tell me where we are going to get
them?"
Ethics addressed by
Carolina Symposium
By DEBBIE BAKER
Staff Writer
Ethics in different fields, including
collegiate athletics, affirmative action
and animal rights, will be the focus of
the 1990 Carolina Symposium, March
26-April 6.
"A lot of people look at ethics as a
branch of philosophy and don't really
apply it to everyday issues and prob
lems," said Thomas Williams, sympo
sium co-chairman. "Ethics is not just
some vague field," he said. "It's a very
vital issue in our society and must be
considered in making decisions on
social issues."
Carolina Symposium, which began
in 1927, provides members of the Uni
versity community with a forum to
discuss and explore issues. The sympo
sium sponsors an event that focuses on
a particular theme every two years.
"We were looking for a topic
something that was broad so that we
could include as many things as pos
sible," Williams said. "We were look-
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why it still can't be a successful event."
Springfest organizers are planning
enforcement measures. Barricades will
be posted at each end of Raleigh Street,
limiting access to the event to two en
trances. Police officers and student
monitors will patrol the event and ask
those with alcohol to leave, he said.
Kuncl made his decision based on a
combination of factors:
n Underaged drinkers have tradition
ally attended Springfest and illegally
consumed alcohol, which would con
tinue this year if alcohol were permit
See DRY, page 3
The importance of the registrar's
office is often overlooked, Lanier said.
"We normally serve about 3,000 stu
dents per month even though people
don't realize it," he said. "During pre
registration we see more than 16,000
students per month," he said.
Students who need transcripts for
jobs and schools should try to avoid
coming in during pre-registration week,
Lanier said. "Services in 105 Hanes
will be behind because the clerks who
usually process the transcript requests
will be downstairs helping with pre
registration," he said. The transcript
office will be closed April 5 and 6, and
on the first day of Summer School
registration, May 21.
Lanier said faculty members would
also be affected because the budget
crunch would limit the number of
mailings from the Registrar's Office.
"We won't be able to send instruction
letters to teachers on when to turn in
grades, so we hope the departments
will tell their instructors when to return
grade rolls," he said.
This could cause problems for new
faculty members who are unfamiliar
with UNC's grading system, Lanier
said. "We have a complex grading
system with several grade possibilities
and the memo would have explained
the procedure," he said. "We will send
out a cover letter, but it won't be as
detailed as before."
See PRE-REGISTRATION, page 5
Hiring minority faculty is difficult,'
not only because of the scarcity of
applicants, but also because of having'
to pay different salaries, Hardin said.
"You can hire a comparatively quali
fied white male cheaper than you can a
black one," he said.
These are problems that will.be
addressed by the task force, Hardin
said. Under the resolution, the task force"
will be made up of faculty, administra
tors and students. About half of .the
members will represent minorities.';!
Other resolutions passed by the
council requested the commitment of
funds for the construction of a new
facility for the Black Cultural Center
(BCC) and the changing of the name of
the Office of Student Counseling to
more accurately reflect its role in sup-
See FACULTY, page 4
Carolina Symposium
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Today's Event
8 p.m., 100 Hamilton Hall
Panel on the ethics of affirmative
action policies
ing for an issue that people discuss; but
not necessarily from an ethical stand
point." Burton Davis, who is in charge of
symposium publicity, said ethical is
sues have generated a great deal of
discussion. "I think it is a really good
topic that's come up in the news lately ,''
he said.
The symposium will hold speeches
and panel discussions about ethics
during the next two weeks.
Williams said the organization lias
difficulty publicizing the event because
while participants are experts in their
See ETHICS, page 4
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