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Volume 98, Issue 32
Wednesday, April 18, 1990
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Lithuania fears Soviet
embargo on oil and gas
- MOSCOW The Soviet govern
ment said it was tightening the tap on
Lithuania's natural gas supply Tues
day and may cut oil and gasoline to the
republic for its refusal to rescind inde
pendence laws, Lithuanian leaders said.
There was no immediate noticeable
change in the amount of natural gas
used to heat homes and fuel kitchens in
Lithuania. But word that supplies were
being cut caused concern among Lithu
anians, who flooded the Lithuanian
government with phone calls.
! 'Officials in Lithuania said they were
told of the reduction in a telegram from
the, Soviet Union's gas network. There
was no official announcement from
Moscow.
President Mikhail Gorbachev on
Friday gave Lithuania 48 hours to re
peal several laws backing its March 1 1
declaration of independence. He said if
Lithuania refused, the Kremlin would
impose an embargo of goods that it
exports for hard currency.
Lithuania depends on Moscow for
oil and gas, which are the Soviet Union's
biggest earners of hard currency.
Wisconsin governor
vetoes date rape bill
MADISON, Wis. Gov. Tommy
Thompson defended his veto of a bill
requiring public schools to teach stu
dents about date rape, saying younger
pupils didn't need exposure to such
lessons.
The bill, passed during the
legislature's winter session, called for
instruction three times between the first
and 12th grades on how to recognize
and prevent sexual assaults, particu
larly those that can happen with an
acquaintance on a date.
In vetoing the bill Monday, the
governor said he feared it could force
teachers to talk about date rape to chil
dren between grades one and three. "I
didn't know these students iated," he
said.
Thompson said he also believed the
bill duplicated a state law that "already
requires school districts to provide
instruction in preventing sexual abuse,
of which sex ual assault could be argued
to be a subcategory."
Third World adds nuclear
weapons capabilities
WASHINGTON Pakistan, India,
Brazil, Argentina and Iraq have been
able to build or expand nuclear weap
ons capabilities by smuggling materi
als from supplier countries, according
to a private study released Tuesday.
.To counter these activities, the re
port recommended that the United
States and other suppliers threaten
-military and economic sanctions against
countries engaging in such operations.
' Titled "Nuclear Exports: The Chal
lenge of Control," the report was pre
pared by the Carnegie Endowment for
international Peace, a private research
'group. It was written by Leonard Spec
tor, a veteran expert on nuclear prolif
eration, with assistance from Jacquel ine
Smith.
The report said West Germany had
been the "weak link" in the interna
tional export control system and must
tighten its export laws. Both India and
Pakistan have relied on West German
suppliers for their nuclear programs,
the report said.
From Associated Press reports
Showtime! (almost)
Ackland Art Muesum officials predict
reopening in December 3
Acting locally
Insight on recycling and student in
volvement in the environment 5
Making twerps of the Terps
NCAA reacted with too-tough sanc
tions against Maryland 6
Campus and city : 3
State 4
Features 5
Sports 6
Comics 7
Classified 8
The
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ack Greek pled.
By JENNIFER PILLA
Staff Writer
Students who join black Greek or
ganizations on campus may no longer
be required to go through the pledge
process after Sept. 1 because of pledge
related hazing incidents.
Leaders of the eight national black
Greek fraternities and sororities voted
in February at the national Black Greek
Panhellenic Council to eliminate pledg
ing for their organizations and imple
ment a new "membership intake selec
tion process," said Darryl Matthews,
national director of marketing and
membership for Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Rauo CMb Hieeds
stadeiit rejection
of padding deck
By MYRON B. PITTS
Assistant University Editor
Tentative plans by the Educational
Foundation (Rams Club) to build a
parking deck behind Hinton James
Residence Hall have been aborted
because of negative student reaction,
student leaders said Tuesday.
If constructed, the 200-space park
ing deck would have been built on the
tennis courts behind Hinton James, and
new tennis and basketball courts would
have been built on top of the deck.
Student leaders and Moyer Smith,
Rams Club executive vice president,
have discussed various ideas about the
proposed parking deck. Although Smith
was out of town Tuesday, his secretary
confirmed that the plans have been
canceled.
Carolina Athletic Association presi
dent Lisa Frye and Liz Jackson, former
Residence Hall Association president,
said students they talked to were against
building a parking deck in the proposed
area. They received student opinions
through telephone calls from students,
contact with area governors and elec
tions forums.
Frye said that although no definite
plans were ever made about the parking
deck, student response to the deck was
"overwhelmingly" negative.
"It was not like plans were canceled,"
Frye said. "They (the Rams Club) only
wanted to proceed with this if students
supported it completely. They're not
pressuring us at all."
Jackson said the Rams Club wanted
to build the deck to fulfill an obligation
they have to alumni season ticket-holders.
If an alumnus donates a certain
amount of money to the University, the
Rams Club guarantees him or her a
season ticket to basketball games and
parking located near the Smith Center,
Jackson said.
Students not aware of
SHS program offerings
By LEE WEEKS
Staff Writer
UNC students are unaware of many
outpatient services Student Health
Services (SHS) offer, according to a
recent SHS Outpatient Subcommittee
survey that was designed to improve
communication between SHS and stu
dents. Mary Emma Holleman, founder of
the Outpatient Subcommittee, said the
group was trying to establish better
communication lines between SHS
administrators and students to make
students more aware of the programs
available to them.
A group of 360 students was sur
veyed in the Pit April 4-6 about their
awareness of the five support groups
SHS offers, Liz Jackson, Outpatient
Subcommittee co-chairwoman, said.
Anonymous AIDS-Testing Support
Group was the most widely recognized
support group. Out of the 360 students
surveyed, 29.4 percent were aware of
this service, she said.
The other four groups were ranked
as follows on the basis of recognition:
Substance Abuse Support Group Ther
apy (27.5 percent), Adult Children of
Alcoholics (24.7 percent), Diabetic
Support Group (6. 1 percent) and Fam
ily Incest Survivors (4.7 percent),
Jackson said.
"The results of the survey indicate
that students aren't really aware of what
Student Health has to offer. It's a shame
to have. these services and students not
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The decision was based on a number
of hazing incidents which have oc
curred during pledging, Matthews said.
"The brutality and extreme hazing that
has arisen out of the pledging process is
the problem," he said. "There has not
been a problem with all pledging, but
every time we see a hazing incident, it
has stemmed from pledging. We need
to take away those windows of oppor
tunity." The concern was not necessarily with
the pledge process itself, Matthews said.
"It's the brutality and the humiliation
of peer equals all under the guise of
making someone a brother or a sister
that we have a problem with," he said.
Frye said that some students had the
misconception that the parking deck
would accommodate more resident
parking, but it actually would have been
used for commuter parking. The park
ing deck received little student support
because the area behind Hinton James
Residence Hall had the potential for
student development instead of alumni
projects, she said.
Jackson and Frye said the Rams Club
cooperated fully with students on the
issue. Jackson said the Rams Club
decision not to build the deck showed
that they respected students' opinions.
"It says that the Educational Foun
dation specifically respects student
opinions. I think that says a lot."
Residents of Hinton James Residence
Hall said they were glad the tentative
parking deck plans were dropped.
Jason Kilar, a freshman from Boca
Raton, Fla., said the decision indicated
that alumni were starting to listen to
students.
"I'm glad they're not doing it," he
said. "It shows that students are finally
getting some respect around here."
Kilar, who plays on the Hinton James
tennis courts, said the prospect of play
ing on the top deck of a multi-level
parking lot would not be advantageous.
Students were the ones who used the
tennis courts, and alumni "just want a
place to park", he said. "It makes it kind
of hard when you have to go chase
(tennis) balls four stories up."
Richard Harris, a freshman from
Asheville, said the Craige parking deck
now under construction lessened the
need for another deck.
"The alumni's already taken over
the Big Woods," he said. "Building
stuff to satisfy their needs is not in the
interest of students."
The Craige deck will have 1,640
parking spaces when completed.
aware of them."
The Outpatient Subcommittee plans
to present the survey results to SHS
administrators by the end of this semes
ter so changes at SHS stemming from
the survey results cou Id be implemented
by fall 1990, Jackson said.
Other results from the survey re
vealed that students did not have a
distinct preference between the exist
ing sexuality hot line and private ap
pointments with counselors when seek
ing advice about sexually transmitted
diseases, AIDS, contraception and rape.
A sexuality hot line was preferred by
46. 1 percent of the students surveyed,
and 39.7 percent favored private ap
pointments for advice about sexual
matters, Jackson said.
One complaint many students voiced
in the survey was the need for a week
end physician at SHS, Jackson said. A
doctor does not work at SHS on week
ends because no funds were allocated
in the budget to finance the position,
she said.
Jackson said SHS administrators
conduct a survey of students who have
used some of the services there every
two years by mail, but this is the first
SHS survey formulated and conducted
by students.
In fall 1990, SHS suggestion boxes
will be set up at the Student Union desk
and in Lenoir Dining Hall for students
to express concerns and questions about
SHS programs, Holleman said.
Alpha Phi Alpha, Kappa Alpha Psi
and Omega Psi Phi fraternities have
decided to stop using the traditional
pledge system. But some other fraterni
ties and sororities will wait until their
annual national conventions to decide
whether to drop pledging from their
official policies.
Although national Greek organiza
tions are recommending a change in the
pledge process, it is unclear to UNC
fraternity, and sorority members what
the membership intake selection proc
ess would entail.
Kenny Pugh, a member of UNC
Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity, said he
thought putting people "on line" in
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Distort attorney to cancel
tovestigatiom off developer
By CAMERON TEW
City Editor
Orange-Chatham County District
Attorney Carl Fox decided Tuesday to
discontinue the investigation of J.P.
Goforth, the deceased Chapel Hill
developer, one day after he planned to
move forward with a request to the
State Bureau of Investigation (SBI).
"I have decided to withdraw my
request for an investigation," Fox said
in a telephone interview from Pittsboro.
An SBI spokesperson said he did not
think Fox would seek an investigation
now because Goforth is dead.
The investigation was expected to
deal with allegations of financial fraud
involving homeowners, employees and
businessmen in the area. Goforth had
been accused of not providing property
deeds to customers, not providing home
warranty insurance for customers as
promised, not paying health insurance
SBP's leadership stems from childhood
By DEVON HYDE
Staff Writer
As a child, Bill Hildebolt, the new
student body president (SBP) was pre
cocious, organized and full of ideas, his
mother Sandy said. He was a nice boy
who was always planning and thinking
of ways to amuse himself and his
friends, she said.
"Our backyard was where everyone
hung out," she said. "Bill was always
on the phone planning things for them
to do ... in that way he was a leader. He
was always the one everyone else fol
lowed." William Hildebolt Jr. was born in
Columbus, Ohio and moved to Mickle
ton, a small town in southern New
Jersey. He lived there for 12 years and
attended kindergarten through 10th
grade in Mickleton. When Bill Hilde
bolt Sr. changed jobs, the family moved
to Winston-Salem. Because Mickleton
is in a rural area of New Jersey and the
school system was not very strong, the
family's move to Winston-Salem was a
benefit to Hildebolt. "Bill adjusted very
quickly because it was where he be
longed," his mother said.
Meg Gibbs, Hildebolt's girlfriend,
attended high school with him in Winston-Salem.
Gibbs said his easy adjust
ment to his new environment was be-
to dhao.
pledging would be eliminated under
the new membership process. "You
probably won't see people wearing the
same clothing, walking in a straight
line with shaved heads," he said.
W.T. Smith, national executive sec
retary of Kappa Alpha Psi fraternity,
said each fraternity and sorority could
create its own membership process.
"We haven't come to an agreement on
what the process will be exactly."
Joanne Thweat, national member
ship clerk of Zeta Phi Beta sorority,
said her sorority had not yet approved
the new membership policy. "We will
discuss it at our national convention in
July and then decide democratically
from Atlanta, Ga.,
of Davis library
premiums for employees and not pay
ing employees commission on sales.
Goforth was found dead Saturday
afternoon at his home on Mt. Bolus
Road, one day after Fox announced at a
news conference that he planned to ask
the SBI to investigate Goforth' s busi
ness affairs.
The developer's death was ruled a
suicide Monday by William Oliver,
Orange County medical examiner. The
examiner ruled he died of carbon
monoxide poisoning, not of a heart
attack as some acquaintances had specu
lated. His body was found beside an
idling pickup truck in his garage.
Goforth's blood contained 70 percent
carbon monoxide.
John McMillan, one of Goforth's
attorneys, said he had not heard that
Fox had dropped his request to investi
gate Goforth and his businesses. "The
folks at Security Building Co. had
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cause of his self-confidence. "He moved
down right in the middle of high school
and adjusted so well," she said. "He
truly believes in himself and people
have always had a way of attracting to
him."
Gibbs also described Hildebolt as
optimistic and energetic. "Bill has a
really high energy level," she said. "He
got no sleep during the campaign and
he stays in Suite C (the student govern
ment office) until 3 a.m. most nights."
Focused without being intense, thor
ough without being uptight this is
how Gibbs said she perceives Hilde
bolt as a person and a leader.
Hildebolt said he has no spare time,
but when he does he likes to rent mov
ies and eat any Mexican food except
chili. A little-known fact about the new
SBP is that he worked for a while in the
kitchen at Spanky's. He wanted to be a
waiter, Gibbs said, but during his fresh
man year he grew his hair long and they
wouldn't let him wait tables with a
ponytail.
"He's a great cook now because he
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whether to approve it or not," she said.
Officials at Delta Sigma Theta and
Alpha Kappa Alpha sororities said they
also planned to wait until their national
conventions to decide if they would
follow the council's resolution.
Reginald Wilkerson, assistant re
gional vice president of Alpha Phi Alpha
fraternity, said he thought the pledge
system now has negative as well as
positive aspects. "Whether it's a posi
tive or negative experience depends on
what the individual pledge makes it,"
he said. "Since the black Greek pledge
period is so structured, when they
(pledges) get their freedom back, they
sometimes lose their focus."
DTHCatherine Pinckert
as he leads a tour group of potential Tar Heels through
the Pit Tuesdayafternoon.
expressed a willingness to work with
Fox, whether he had intended to inves
tigate or not," McMillan said.
Local residents and some media
organizations called Fox's press con
ference to announce the investigation
"grandstanding," and said he was at
least partly responsible for triggering
Goforth's suicide.
Fox said it was impossible to deter
mine why Goforth committed suicide.
N.C. National Bank took steps in Janu
ary to foreclose on loans of more than
$8 million, and Goforth was experienc
ing health problems resulting from
surgery more than 10 years ago that
kept him from working full-time.
Goforth, 49, a native of Statesville,
graduated from UNC in 1963 with a
degree in industrial relations. In 1966,
he graduated from the UNC School of
Law and began his company, Security
Builders.
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remembers the recipes they used at
Spanky's," she said.
What is the new SBP's specialty in
the kitchen? French onion soup.
"An interesting thing about Bill is
that when you look at his hair, you'd
think he was a raging liberal," Gibbs
said. "But he's a conservative at heart.''
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