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Wm War 31 MP Chance of t-storms High in mid-80s Friday: Cloudy High in mid-80s Last day to drop a class for financial credit Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 98, Issue 60 Thursday, September 13, 1990 Chapel Hill, North Carolina HewsSportsArts BusinessAdvertising 962-0245 962-11 S3 e dMite oectioiri ioiliae LJy P L V 1WM 0 0 Q If Q W U.S. regains lead in world trade volume WASHINGTON The United States regained its leadership in world trade volume last year with a larger increase in exports than any other major industrial country, the International Monetary Fund said Wednesday. But the United States may not hold the lead long against competition from a united Germany. West Germany's share of world trade has held steady, dropping by only half a percentage point to 1 3 percent since its 1986 peak. The fund does not report on East Germany, which is not a member. After the scheduled Oct. 3 German unification, the numbers will be com bined. Some West German exports may be diverted for a time to help build up the eastern part of the country, but a united Germany could take the lead again. U.S. traders boosted their exports by 10.5 percent in 1989, accounting for 13.5 percent of the volume of goods bought and sold internationally. That excludes oil, which is considered sepa rately. The U.S. share of world trade rose from the 1 1.5 percent low of 1987, but was still under the 1 5 percent average of the 1970s, according to the fund's an nual report. "By contrast, the share of Japanese exports in world trade declined from a peak of 11.5 percent in 1986 to 10 percent in 1989," the report said. Soviet Union suffers printer's-ink shortage MOSCOW Consumer shortages caused by printing too many rubles are coming home to the Soviet government. It's running out of ink. The national newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda reported Wednesday that the country is down to just two or three weeks' supply of printer's ink. "It's entirely possible that in a short time, presses for newspapers, passports and rubles will come to a halt," the article said. The Soviet Union is plagued by shortages, including bread, cigarettes and recently, five-kopeck coins for the Moscow subway system. Economists blame the government policy of print ing excess rubles to pay workers more than the value of their production. As a result, the ruble is losing value, citizens are resisting working for noth ing, and production is falling. Adding to the embarrassment, the Soviets need dollars to print more rubles. Senate committee passes NEA extension ": WASHINGTON A Senate com mittee today overwhelmingly approved a five-year extension of the beleaguered National Endowment for the Arts and proposed recouping federal funds from any grant recipient convicted of violat ing obscenity or child pornography laws. The 15-1 vote by the Senate Labor and Human Resources Committee sent the bipartisan compromise to the Sen ate floor for action. The Senate bill, which supports the White House request for $175 million for the federal arts agency next year, was supported by committee liberals and conservatives on both sides of the NEA controversy. From Associated Press reports Service with a smile UNC Student Agencies offer services to the campus-bound , 3 State of stock How the budget crunch hurts the rest of North Carolina's economy 3 Soccerficing nothing Men's soccer team beats eighth ranked Wake Forest in overtime ...5 National - .2 State and Local 3 International 4 Sports - 5 Comics 7 1990DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. never forget a face, but in By JENNIFER DUNLAP Staff Writer Student Congress approved election reforms and discussed campaign sub sidies Wednesday night to clarify issues that occurred in last year's student body president election. The laws congress passed included defining terms for dismissal of a can didate from a campus election and penalties candidates could face for violations. Problems with clarification of these Vote on alotmem for student body meeting By MICHELLE SMITH Staff Writer A Student Congress vote to allot the executive branch $400 to help cover Monday's student body meeting was canceled from congress' agenda because of confusion over its funding policy. Student Congress member Jiirgen Buchenau (Dist. 4), Finance Committee chairman, said congress policy dis couraged funding events after they have occurred. He cited this "subsequent appropriations" clause as his reason for not supporting the bill. Student Body President B il 1 Hildebolt said congress' first full-body meeting was not scheduled until after Monday's student body meeting, preventing him from making a funding request. Al though it was an exception to normal budget procedure, Hildebolt said he had no choice. 'There's no way we could have done it any other way," he said. "We came to them as soon as we could. The student body meeting took place before the first session of Student Congress." The executive branch used money Forecasters disagree on budget prognosis By LEE WEEKS Staff Writer University and state officials are re ceiving conflicting messages about fu ture budget cuts. Ben Tuchi, vice chancellor of busi ness and finance, said he predicted that cutbacks in the University's budget would continue in the near future, but a state budget analyst said Wednesday further reductions in University spend ing had not been projected. Kennon Briggs, state budget analyst, said he would not guarantee that the University would not experience any more budget cuts, but he was not aware of any cuts being considered. "Nothing official has gone forth from the state budget office indicating addi tional 3 percent cuts from the '90-'91 academic budget," Briggs said. Tuchi said he could not predict when further reductions in University spend ing would occur, but he said time was not on the University's side. "I really don't know when the cuts i ir fmC 4IWL Electing to register Erik use, a sophomore from Bristol, R.I., swears in new voters LaSonya Goode, a junior from Woodland, and issues caused controversy and almost forced a re-election in the student body president race last year. In future elections, campaign law violations could result in fines, removal of campaign workers, warnings, re elections or disqualification of candi dates, according to the new laws. Candidates will not be allowed to spend campaign money until the end of the fall semester. Candidates now could be disqualified for using a restricted area, falsifying canceled. from its own budget to pay for the meeting, which cost a total of $700. The executive branch originally planned to pay $300 from its budget and request the remaining $400 from congress. Buchenau said additional money would be available to the executive branch if needed next semester. He said he wanted to wait until then to appro priate funds so he would know exactly how much would be needed. Hildebolt and Matt Heyd, Student Congress speaker, said they pulled the bill from congress' agenda Wednesday night before it went to a full-body vote for several reasons. Heyd said, "It was withdrawn because the finance chairman promised that money would be available later, and there is a general principle that we shouldn't fund things after they happen. "There are moves to rectify the rules to avoid this from happening again," he added. Hildebolt's reasons were more complicated. He said if the bill had gone See FUNDING, page 2 will become a reality," he said. "Six to eight to ten days appears to be quite indecisive, but I would rather appear indecisive because a reduction of this size (3 percent) can affect a lot of pro grams and people." Donald Boulton, vice chancellor of student affairs, said at a Tuesday forum the University could expect an additional 3.2 percent funding cut before next se mester if the state revenue shortfall continued. He said the reduction could amount to $8 million. Tuchi said decisions affecting Uni versity spending should have been fi nalized before the fall semester began. "With every passing week we lose time to act properly." University administrators must de cide whether to wait until further cuts are officially verified, or begin acting in anticipation of more budget cuts, Tuchi said. "Do you act on information believed See CUTS, page 2 your case Til be financial statements, exceeding spend ing limitations by 5 percent and any other violations that the Elections Board may see as terms for dismissal accord ing to election laws. Congress passed other election re forms in April that included definitions of what constitutes campaign materials and the elimination of write-in votes in a run-off. The Rules and Judiciary Committee subm itted an amendment to the new bill Wednesday that would have eliminated Having a stroke Elizabeth Jay, a first-year graduate student in environ mental biology from Ann Arbor, Mich., finds relief from Organizers of Save UNC Day, student meetin By LAURA WILLIAMS Staff Writer Save UNC Day may not have sal vaged the University from drastic budget cuts, but campus and state officials agree that it gave the UNC community a chance to speak out. "We gave the students something they demanded last year a voice," said Bill Hildebolt, student body presi dent. "I was amazed we got as many people out as we did. I was kind of all choked up we got so many people out." Some University administrators and state representatives attended the student body meeting Monday, and the forum and rally on Tuesday. It was important that legislators at tended the events, because they were available to answer students' questions, Hildebolt said. "Students got to say what they wanted to say to those people," he said. One N.C. representative at the forum, Arlie Culp, R-Randolph, was invited to speak because of his stand against moving funds from other projects to help education. Culp said he did not support taking money for education out of the Highway Trust Fund because the money is needed to maintain N.C. roads. Some students responded to Culp by saying roads would not be needed if budget cuts continued to have such an adverse effect on education, research and commerce in the Research Triangle DTHJim Holm Susan James, a Ph.D. graduate student from Irvine, Calif. Registration will continue in the Pit all week. glad to make an campaign subsidies for candidates run ning for student body president. After lengthy debate, the amendment was defeated by a vote of six in favor, eight against and two abstentions. Jurgen Buchenau (Dist. 3) said he supported the amendment because it was unfair to reimburse only SBP can didates. "You earn money for the privilege of running for student body president," he said. It is unfair if a candidate uses his or her parents' money to run and is then the heat in the afternoon. pleased with results Area. Joel Sipress, Graduate Students United co-chairman, said Culp's will ingness to come to the forum demon strated his interest in student concerns. "Next we must convince him to change his mind." Dean McCord, Graduate and Pro fessional Student Federation president, said that he was disappointed in Culp's views, but that many legislators think their constituents are more concerned with better roads than with education. "(Culp) is a general representation of what state legislators are like," he said. "It's a shame." Culp could not be reached for com ment. N.C. Rep. Sharron Thompson, D Durham, commended Save UNC Day, although she was unable to attend any of the events. UNC's activities will have an effect on legislators' voting practices, Thompson said. "Legislators are affected by public sentiment," she said. The public needs to demonstrate how strongly it feels about these issues." Thompson and fellow legislator Mickey Michaux, D-Durham, said they felt the students were justified in their protests. The state legislature has not done enough for education, Thompson said. Michaux and Thompson agreed that the only way the General Assembly could meet the growing needs of the Colorado sister city mayor pilgrimages to Chapel Hill By PETER WALLSTEN Staff Writer Cooperation and learning were the key words spoken by community leaders Wednesday night when the Chapel Hill Carrboro Public-Private Partnership hosted a meeting at the ArtsCenter with representatives from Boulder, Colo. "As we began to see our city through the eyes of the people of Chapel Hill and Carrboro, we began to look at it with a different perspective," said Boulder Mayor Leslie Durgin. The meeting was a culmination of the events surrounding PPP members trips last spring to four communities similar to Chapel Hill. The local private and civic leaders visited Lexington, Ky ., Princeton, N.J., and Champagne Urbana, 111., in addition to Boulder. The purpose of the PPP is to bring together businesses, local government and the University to work toward common goals, officials said. But most people involved with the trips agreed the Boulder mission was the most successful. "One reason the Boulder trip was exception. Groucho Marx reimbursed by the congress, he said. Todd Wyatt (Dist. 4) said the UNC budget problems should be considered when members voted on the amendment. "If we give campaign subsidies, we're giving a big chunk of money to a very small amount of people." Other members argued that a lack of subsidies favored candidates with more money. Mark Chilton (Dist. 1 8) said, "Student See CONGRESS, page 3 u Heun roe son Navy swimming pool Wednesday state was to increase revenue. Michaux said, "Rather than seeing what we can cut, why don't we see what new avenues we can take?" He said he favors a lottery to help raise revenue for education. The November elections make poli ticians afraid of mentioning taxes, Thompson and Michaux said. But, Michaux said, "It's absurd. What's the difference in raising taxes on an election year than a non-election year?" Hildebolt said he believed the days' activities would have a significant im pact in the General Assembly. "I've never seen so much press for something on this campus," he said. Because UNC's activities were cov ered on the front page of the News and Observer, all the legislators could read about them, Hildebolt said. "It's going to stick in everybody's mind." Sipress said the two days of events were a success. "The gathering at Carmichael was the largest political gathering at UNC in 20 years." The rally brought people together who are dedicated to the University, he said. "The forum communicated to legislators just how drastic the crisis is," he said. "Most of the legislators at the forum were our friends." Chancellor Paul Hardin said the re sponse at the student body meeting was remarkable. "It's obvious the students See EVENTS, page 2 better was because it was the most rep resentative trip," said Chancellor Paul Hardin, who serves as vice president of the PPP. "It's inordinately useful to see how other universities do things. To compare notes with other people who experience the same problems is ex tremely useful." One reason the PPP chose to visit Boulder was because a major state university lies within its borders and it encounters many of the same difficul ties as Chapel Hill, officials said. '. "Boulder is the home to the Univer sity of Colorado," said Chapel Hill Mayor Jonathan Howes while narrating a short video about the mountain city. "That's why we went there. It's a col lege town, just like we are." The university there is also an inte gral part of the Boulder community, Durgin said. "Students and faculty members walk to work and walk to classes and are part of the business community," she said! One of the main projects Boulder and See BOULDER, page 7 :
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