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Soviets say Gorbachev is
a good compromise
MOSCOW Mikhail S.Gorbachev
is drawing unprecedented attacks from
all shades of reds at a turbulent Commu
nist Party congress, but even his critics
say they w ill vote to keep him in the top
party job.
The 28th Congress of the Soviet
Communist Party is expected to elect
the party general secretary before it
adjourns sometime next week, and the
smart rubles are riding on Gorbachev,
who first won the job five years ago.
Hard-liners and radical reformers are
gravitating toward Gorbachev because
both sides believe only he can prevent
the disintegration of the party.
Some more philosophical delegates
also say that despite Gorbachev's re
forms, the party seems to have room at
the top for just one major figure.
Colombian assault rifle
traced to Israeli dealer
NEW YORK An assault rifle
seized in the arrest of four suspected
assassins of a Colombian presidential
candidate has been traced by U.S. au
thorities to an Israeli arms shipment,
New York Newsday reported Wednes
day. The Galil rifle is not believed to be
the actual murder weapon in the Aug.
18 assassination, allegedly by drug
traffickers, of Luis Carlos Galan, the
newspaper said.
Israel has maintained it does not know
how the weapons from the shipment of
500 Galil rifles and Uzi machine pistols
ended up in the hands of the late Co
lombian drug boss Jose Rodriguez
Gacha.
Bush proposes only using
nuclear arms as last resort
KENNEBUNKPORT, Maine
President Bush left last night for the
NATO summit in London with a
package of proposals, including one on
revamping nuclear strategy, that he says
are being favorably received by the
allies.
The president is taking to London a
series of proposals dealing with how to
restructure the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization in the face of the declin
ing threat from the Soviet Union and its
Eastern European allies.
Officials have said Bush is propos
ing use of nuclear weapons only as a last
resort, contrary to NATO's basic doc
trine since 1967 holding that nuclear
weapons use would not be ruled out if
the allies were confronted with an in
vasion by superior conventional forces.
South Africans suspend
plans to kill 80,000 seals
JOHANNESBURG, South Africa
The government said today it was
temporarily suspending plans to kill
30,000 seals to produce dog food and
aphrodisiacs after protests from envi
ronmentalists around the world.
Environment Minister Gert Kotze
said he was suspending the culling to
study public reaction to plans to kill
25,000 seal cubs and 5,000 adult male
seals on the northwest coast.
from Associated Press reports
For the whole family
Family Practice Center opens on
Manning Drive 3
Storm warning
A review of the new Tom Cruise movie
'Days of Thunder .. 4
Intramural ideas
Even if you have classes and home
work, there's intramural sports ...6
World and Nation 2
City and Campus 3
Arts and Features 4
Sports 6
Classifieds: 6
Comics 7
Opinion 8
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By KELLY THOMPSON
Editor
Members of Graduate Students
United prepared a plan to fight proposed
state budget cuts, including a major
campaign in the General Assembly next
year, at an emergency meeting June 28.
"The only way out.. .is a tax increase,
and that won't happen this year. In this
legislative session, no claim, no matter
how good it is, will be filled," GSU Co
chairman Joel Sipress told about 20
students.
"Talking to the legislature this session
is primarily an exercise in damage re
duction. But there is some hope for next
year," he said.
GSU estimates up to 150 teaching
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By KELLY THOMPSON
Editor
Although they will not know the exact
amount for several weeks, University
administrators agreed budget cuts pro
posed by the General Assembly will
have a "significant negative impact" on
support services, facilities and teaching
materials as well as class size and of
ferings. "They keep telling us to cut the fat,
but the fat was gone three years ago.
Now they're cutting muscle, bone and
we're bleeding fast," said Donald
Boulton, vice chancellor for student
affairs. "Everyone is bleeding, but no
body can yell. It's hard to make a dra
matic case."
Boulton predicted the full impact of
the cuts would not be felt until students
UNC
literacy pro
By CHIP SUDDERTH
Staff Writer
Student Coalition for Action in Lit
eracy Education, a new inter-campus
organization founded by UNC students,
formed a plan of action during its first
Board of Directors' meeting last
weekend, according to SCALE leaders.
"What came from the meeting was
concrete direction, a broadening of our
vision for SCALE," said Lisa Madry.
Madry and Clay Thorp are SCALE'S
co-directors, and have also served as
co-chairs of UNC's Project Literacy.
Thorp said Project Literacy 's success
inspired them to investigate literacy
programs on other campuses.
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IMikki Angeli, 4-year-old resident of Chapel Hill, plays on the jungle gym at
Umstead Park. Angeli is a participant in the city's day camp.
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assistants could be laid off if the Gen
eral Assembly cuts 3 percent of the
University's funding. That percentage
would take about $ 1 .3 million out of the
College of Arts and Sciences budget.
Jerry Bradshaw, Sipress' co-chairman,
said the group should work this
summer to draw publicity to the cuts,
network with other campuses, lobby
primary and secondary educators, in
form undergraduates and improve the
dialogue between the GSU and the
General Administration of the UNC
system.
"We have gone through the channels
on this campus, and we have gone to
See GSU, page 2
say cotis
return for fall semester. "We will have
to hang up signs saying 'Welcome back,
but the following courses and services
will not be offered due to circumstances
beyond our control.'
"When students come back and read
the headlines saying 'these classes are
canceled,' they'll get the message, but it
will be too late," he said.
James Govan, University librarian,
said any reduction would cause serious
damage because the library system has
been losing buying power for several
years.
"Given the inflation in book prices
and rise in the minimum wage for stu
dents, any cuts would have a serious
effect." he said. "I think it's clear we're
going to have to cut hours. It' s also clear
that acquisitions of books and journals
"Literacy is a means to social jus
tice," Thorp said. "Back in spring '89,
Lisa and I thought, 'we've done this and
been successful; are there other stu
dents experiencing this?'"
They sent out 981 surveys in con
junction with the Campus Outreach
Opportunity League (COOL). The 150
surveys returned indicated students who
tried to work with community education
programs were often unable to adjust
their schedules to their literacy
program's needs.
Madry and Thorp attended the In
ternational Reading Association's North
American Conference on Adult and
Adolescent Literacy in January. Then
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will 'Heed' UNC
will be down as it was last year."
Budget related hiring freezes could
be as damaging as direct cuts, accord
ing to Ben Tuchi, vice vhancellor of
business and finance.
"The number of positions unfilled
within the institution is growing very
rapidly, but the number of exceptions
(from hiring freezes) granted to fill those
positions remains very small," said
Tuchi, who oversees the physical plant,
housekeeping and other services.
"You can stand it (freezes) for a
week, or maybe for months, but then the
long-term effects hit hard."
Tuchi said it was easy to cut back on
groundskeeping or building repairs on
the surface, but they couldn't be post
poned forever. "It's easy to say, except
we've been putting off some roof re
forms
their plans for SCALE crystallized.
"Based on our exposure there and the
interest they expressed in what we were
all about, that was what gave us the idea
that it would take off. We saw that there
would be a need for a group like
SCALE," Madry said.
Thorp said that SCALE'S role is to
increase literacy by enhancing student
involvement in college literacy educa
tion. SCALE seeks to network and share
information with college students, and
provide startup information for fledg
ling groups on other campuses.
Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson, director of
the Campus Y and an ex-officio mem
Area focuses on gay ri
Gay and Lesbian
By CAMERON TEW
Assistant editor
Approximately 2,000 gay rights ad
vocates from across North Carolina
marched down Franklin Street through
Chapel Hill and Carrboro calling for
equal rights for homosexuals June 30.
The lesbians, gay men, their families
and supporters were participating in the
Fifth Annual North Carolina Lesbian
and Gay Pride March. This was the first
time the march was held in Chapel Hill,
and organizers said it was the largest
and most vocal of the state's pride
marches yet.
Attitudes and feelings toward homosexuals improve
By CAMERON TEW
Assistant editor
Homosexuality is a more open and
discussed subject than 10 years ago,
and this has helped to ease some of the
tension and mistrust against gays and
lesbians, according to local homosexu
als. The chronic acquired immune defi
ciency syndrome, more commonly
known as AIDS, has made it easier for
heterosexuals to talk about and attempt
to understand homosexuals' lifestyles,
said Pippa Holloway, a 1990 UNC
graduate and former co-chairwoman of
the Carolina Gay and Lesbian Asso
ciation (CGLA).
"A lot more people know about gays
because of AIDS, but this could have
brought more hatred," she said.
bounty. Homer Simpson
North Carolina
police officer
pairs for years."
Overall, Tuchi said, it was the long
term effects of budget reductions that
worried him.
"The cumulative effect could be se
vere." Kathryn Conway, director of the
Classroom Technologies Service Cen
ter, said her department had already
begun to cut back on the services they
offered faculty and the whole Univer
sity. "We will have to cut back on the
services we offer to academic affairs. It
will affect our teaching support and
student personnel," she said. About 40
percent of her staff is students.
"We've had to suspend all direct
classroom support during the summer,"
Conway said. Her staff can only check
national
ber of the SCALE Board of Directors,
said, "I think that the board meeting was
a very good thing in helping us to focus
on the immediate future of SCALE."
She also praised the Board of Direc
tors' membership. "I was impressed by
the diversity in composition of the board,
so their work will be truly representa
tive of the population at large. It was
good to see that the co-directors will be
more representative of the literacy
community."
A key component of SCALE will be
a Peer Consulting Network. By Febru
ary 1991, SCALE seeks to hire 15 re
gional Peer Consultants, each of them
Pride March draws
Mandy Carter, a co-coordinator of
the rally "Marching into the Gay 90s",
said she was pleased with the outcome
of the rally.
"We had a large turnout, and more
importantly we had a lot of support
from the non-gay and lesbian popula
tion," she said. "I think people are less
nervous and are willing to be more
supportive. This contributed to the
success of the rally."
Carter said the march helped focus
on needs and rights of homosexuals and
could be compared to civil and women's
rights movements. "We get one day a
Joe Herzenberg, Chapel Hill council
member, said there had been a backlash
against gays by right-wing politicians
and people because of AIDS, but "by
and large people are more open than
years ago."
He said events like the 1990 Lesbian
and Gay Pride March have been helpful
in getting the issue out in the public's
eye. "The local newspapers were com
peting to see who could get the best
front-page story," he said, referring to
the march. "A few years ago things like
this were confined to the back pages."
Holloway said the approval of a hate
crimes bill by the U.S. Congress is also
bringing the subject out in the open. She
said this is the first time lesbians and
gays have ever been mentioned. The
bill allows for the individual counting
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services
out equipment, and will not operate or
fix it if faculty members have problems
because they don't have the necessary
personnel, she said.
Conway predicted the Classroom
Hotline, which was set up to help fac
ulty who had problems with equipment,
would be cut if her student workforce
was slashed.
"We can't take calls or go out and
correct problems," she said.
Her department has also begun to
charge faculty and other University
employees for video and audio produc
tion services, she said.
"Staff is stretched to the point we
can't meet demand. We're having to
increase the cost of services we usually
See BUDGET, page 2
coalition
either enrolled students or recent gradu
ates. "In February, we'll train them here in
general ideas about literacy and what it
is, share experiences.. .try to educate
them on who the players key literacy
educators are in each community,"
Thorp said.
A statewide literacy coalition is also
in the works. "It's a project we're devel
oping over the next semester," Madry
said. "We're going to examine ways of
building a coalition of groups across the
state."
"We'll probably have a statewide
See SCALE, page 7
2,000 participants
year to do that," she said, emphasizing
the march took place in June, Interna
tional Gay and Lesbian Pride Month.
She added that another aim of the
march was to gather support to defeat
Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., in the up
coming election. "He is probably one of
the most outspoken politicians against
gay and lesbian rights in the nation, and
this election year is important for gay
and lesbian rights in the state."
Carter is the director of Senate Vote
'90, a political action committee dedi-
See MARCH, page 7
of crimes involving gay violence, as
well as racial and religious crimes.
"This is recognition on a national
level and people will talk about us and
not always be negative and that is a
good sign," she said.
David Jones of the N.C. AIDS Ser
vice Coalition, a support group for AIDS
patients, said the gay community's ef
fective response to AIDS helped change
political attitudes toward the gay com
munity. "Early on, politicians held back be
cause they disapproved of homosexuals
and IV drug users, but this is changing
because the gay community has done a
tremendous service in bringing people
together," he said.
See ATTITUDES, page 7