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Volume 98, Issue 68
Tuesday, September 25, 1990
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Envoys thought part
of espionage effort
DHAHRAN, Saudi Arabia Jorda
nian and Yemeni envoys expelled from
Saudi Arabia this week were monitored
photographing strategic oil, military and
governmentinstallations and later
meeting with Iraqi diplomats, diplomatic
sources said Monday.
The sources, speaking oh condition
of anonymity, said Saudi officials be
lieved an attempted break-in at the
kingdom's largest oil company two
weeks ago was part of the alleged es
pionage campaign for which the Riyadh
government expelled most Iraqi,
Yemeni and Jordanian diplomats.
Some of the expelled diplomats had
been seen earlier in the area of the oil
company, Saudi Aramco, and also at
another major Saudi oil field and in
stallation at Safaniya, the sources said.
German unification
leaves future cloudy
EASTBERLIN What is now East
Germany will spin aimlessly in limbo
for weeks after Germany unites, then
slowly emerge from the remains of the
old nation as five distinct lands.
But experts say it could take years of
drastic reform to forge truly effective,
functioning states from the political and
bureaucratic rubble of the former
Communist regime.
Perhaps more important than the Oct.
3 date of German unification is what
happens after Oct. 14, when East Ger
mans elect the first governments of the
new states their nation will become.
Until those governments take office
and begin operating, eastern Germany
essentially will be a territory, with only
inexperienced local governments cho
sen last May and a federal government
far away in the western city of Bonn.
Americans ignorant
of consumer matters
WASHINGTON Many Ameri
cans are ignorant consumers. Some
know little about buying a house, about
compound interest, about unit pricing at
the grocery store or what a used-car
disclosure must contain.
The Consumer Federation of America
said Monday that it tested 1,139 people
in shopping centers in seven states and
found only 54 percent of its questions
were answered correctly.
"Many consumers are not equipped
to function competently in the market
place," said Stephen Brobeck, executive
director of the federation.
Quake prediction
likely to come true
LOS ANGELES Five years and
$15 million ago, the federal govern
ment issued its only official earthquake
prediction: The central California town
of Parkfield would be shaken by 1993.
Recent rumblings suggest the fore
cast soon may come true.
'They definitely elevate my belief
that the earthquake is likely to happen in
the next few months," said Evelyn
Roeloffs, a scientist in charge of the
U.S. Geological Survey's Parkfield
earthquake prediction experiment.
After athree-yearlull, seismic activity ,
increased during the summer and par
ticularly this month near tiny P.Tkfield.
Moderate to strong q 'ake.c measur
ing 5.5 to 6.3 on the Richter scale have
ruptured a 20-mile-long section near
Parkfield roughly every 22 years since
1857. The most recent was in 1966.
From Associated Press reports
Hitting the roo!
Hinton James residents complain
about roofing annoyances 3
Career year
Seniors need to seek jobs to survive
onset of Real World .4
Grisly gridiron
UNC professor surveys majorinjuries
on the football field 5
Campus and city 3
Features 4
Sports.... 5
Classifieds : 6
Comics 7
Opinion 8
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By CARRINGTON WELLS
StaN Writer
A Harvey Gantt campaign poster
defaced with racial slurs in Mangum
Residence Hall last week has led to an
investigation by University adminis
trators. Lt. Walter Dunn of University Police
said racial slurs and the words "We
want Helms" were written on the poster.
Rodney Harris, a Mangum resident
assistant, said racial slurs such as "no
nigger senator" and "KKK" were written
on the poster.
Cutbacks threaten
faculty r etention.,
UNCs reoutatioii
By LEE WEEKS
Staff Writer
A UNC diploma may not carry the
same weight in the future if N.C. leg
islators continue to slash the University's
budget, several UNC administrators
said.
UNC, reputed as one of the top aca
demic institutions in the country, could
become just another place to get a sec
ondary education if cutbacks in UNC
spending continue, University officials
said.
Lawrence Gilbert, chairman of the
biology department, said, "The diploma
from this institution could lose its dis
tinction if this problem continues."
Cutbacks in faculty positions and
teaching materials have had a negative
effect on the morale of many UNC
faculty members, he said.
Sheldon Newhouse, chairman of the
mathematics department, said many of
his senior faculty members were dis
heartened by the reductions in Univer
sity funding.
UNC plans to define
By DIONNE LOY
Staff Writer
Although most professional sports
have policies that allow female sports
writers access to men's locker rooms,
the National Collegiate Athletic Asso
ciation has no specific policy regarding
equal access.
Michelle Himmelberg, president of
the Association for Women in Sports
Media (AWSM), said the National
Hockey League, the National Football
League, the National Basketball Asso
ciation and Major League Baseball all
have equal access policies.
However, all schools in the NCAA
must vote on an issue before it can be
made policy, so a uniform policy for
colleges has not been enacted, she said.
"Colleges have really never thought
about creating a (equal access) policy,"
she said. "They've always just been
able to escape the issue by saying that
professional athletes get paid to deal
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If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. Derek Bok
Housing Director Wayne Kuncl sent
a memo to Mangum residents Sept. 19
about the incident. "We will not tolerate
this or any act of blatant racism on this
campus," he stated in the memo. "If you
have any knowledge of who may have
been responsible for this act, I encour
age you to share the information with
my office, the dean of students or the
Campus Police."
The vandalized poster was found by
housing department staff members at 7
a.m. on Sept. 16, Kuncl said.
"The fact that it was discovered
"I would bet that nowadays any pro
fessor at this University getting a com
parable or better offer from another
school will take them seriously," he
said.
Richard Cole, dean of the School of
Journalism, said if budget cuts contin
ued, the University would stand to lose
a lot more than money.
"I believe that if budget cuts go be
yond two years, we will lose a lot of
good faculty," he said. "Students hav
ing to pay for test materials at the end of
last semester was nothing short of ri
diculous." However, David Lowery, chairman
of the political science department, said
morale in his department has not suffered
because of the budget cuts.
"Things are very grave right now,
but there is reason to be optimistic," he
said. "I think that faculty need to hear
that it's going to get better."
Several officials said UNC has built
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with the press, whereas college athletes
shouldn't have to deal with that kind of
thing."
The University plans to change its
policy to allow female sportswriters
equal post-game coverage, but women
will be prohibited still from interview
ing in the men's locker room, Richard
Brewer, sports information assistant
athletic director, said Sunday.
UNC officials are reconsidering the
policy after female Daily Tar Heel
sportswriter A.J. Brown was ejected
from the men's locker room after the
Sept. 15 University of Connecticut
varsity football game.
Jaqueline Berrien, staff attorney of
the American Civil Liberties Union,
said college and professional athletic
teams handle the press differently. But
a stronger case may exist for admitting
female reporters into men's locker
rooms on the university level than on
the professional level, she said.
DrugAlert offers parents solution to confronting problem
Editor's note: This is the second in a
series of articles examining the issues
of drug abuse on campus and across the
nation.
By WENDY BOUNDS
Staff Writer
Armed with a toll-free number and
$49.95, parents can now purchase a
three-can spray-on weapon to fight the
war against drugs on the home front.
Sher Test Corporation of Yonkers,
N. Y., began selling DrugAlert, a spray
on drug detection kit, to consumers in
late August. Through direct-response
television commercials and advertise
ments in parent-oriented media, the
corporation is gearing their marketing
towards parent who suspect drug-use of
their children.
"The way the system works is both
simple and non-confrontation," said
Sidney Klein, vice president of Sher
Test. "We do not test people, we test
objects."
DrugAlert tests for marijuana, hash
ish, cocaine, crack and PCP and works
as follows: any surface (door knob,
dresser, skin etc.) is wiped with any
type of white paper. The paper is then
sprayed with the appropriate DrugAlert
agent. If there is a presence of drugs on
the paper, within two to three seconds a
color will appear: turquoise for cocaine,
crack and PCP, reddish brown for
Sunday morning, after the building had
been locked for the evening, leads me to
believe the act was committed by a
Mangum resident(s) andor invited
guests," Kuncl stated in the memo.
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor of
student affairs, said he was disturbed by
the racial tension reflected in the act.
"It not only saddens me, but also
angers me that this kind of thing would
go on in our community," he said. "If
someone in the University family has
done this, I think he ought to find another
family, because this sort of behavior is
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equal access policy
Title 7 of the Civil Rights Act es
tablishes equal opportunity between
males and females, she said. Title 9 of
the Education Act of 1972 also states
that access to educational opportunities
cannot be denied on the basis of sex, so
the University reporter may have an
additional legal protection, Berrien said.
"Unless the University is able to take
the position that the campus newspaper
is not a program within the school, then
the University has an even stronger
basis for dial lenging a v iolation of equal
access," she said.
A 1978 U.S. District Court decision
stated that barring a female reporter
from entering a locker room is in vio
lation of her constitutional and civil
rights," Berrien said. The case, which
involved Sports Illustrated writer Mel
issa Ludtke's expulsion from the New
York Yankee locker room, determined
that a reporter's work depended greatly
on fresh-off-the-field interviews.
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The kit comes with three cans, two of
which are used to test marijuana and
hashish. The other is used to test for
cocaine, crack or PCP. There are ap
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kit has a shelf-life of up to two years,
said Christine Hysler, Sher Test
spokeswoman.
Sher Test said Drug Alert :11 dect
the presence of even less than 0.00003
ounces of marijuana, hashish or cocaine.
The company warns parents that
DrugAlert only indicates the presence
of drugs, not their use, and recommends
that any positive results be confirmed
with a drug-testing laboratory.
An instruction booklet along with a
parent support book titled "Not My
Kid" are included in the DrugAlert
package.
Anna Fox, a sophomore broadcast
journalism major, said she would be
very offended if her parents used
DrugAlert to test her or her brothers.
"We have a trust that is not to be
unacceptable and is to be condemned. I
intend to speak out against it whenever
I can because the University just does
not need this.
"We must all learn to be brothers and
sisters. We care about each other
let's show it."
Jeff Cannon, assistant dean of stu
dents, said the University would take
action if the offender(s) was found.
"It is uncertain exactly what would
happen, but there will by some follow
up by the University," he said. "A po
lice report has been filed because we
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"Though there may be a more recent
court decision which may affect this
issue, in this case, the court decided that
refusing a female reporter access to the
locker room was denial to her pursuit of
her job as a reporter," she said.
Christine Brennan, AWSM media
press chairwoman, said equal access is
a must for women in sports media.
"This is the 1990s, and it's time to
wake up and face the issue," she said.
"You cannot prevent anyone from do
ing his or her job, and as a sports reporter,
your job is to do interviews in the locker
room."
Brennan said there were 40 women
involved in AWSM 10 years ago, and
now the number has multiplied to 400.
"It's evident we're (female sports re
porters) not going away," she said. "If
UNC doesn't deal with it now, there
will eventually be more reporters
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broken " Fox said. "I trust them and
they trust me. The only testing I believe
in is for government and civil labor
jobs."
Asked if she would ever consider
using a product like DrugAlert in the
future to test her children, Fox said she
could not rule out the possibility.
"Although I'd like to say at this point,
'no way,' I can't sit here and say I
wouldn't." she said. "But I would try
everything else first."
OrugAlert should be a last resort, to
be used only after a suspicious parent
questions their children, received denial
and then still finds warning signs, said
Angie Poteat, a sophomore psychology
major.
"If I were a parent and I thought my
child had (drug) problems evident
through his actions ... and he denied
that, never confessed and things kept
going on, then I would do it (use
DrugAlert) for his own good," Poteat
said.
"I would test him, and if the test was
positive, ask him again. If he still said
no, I would present the evidence," she
said. 'Then I would give him the deci
sion whether or not I would h1r ir."
Poteat's stepsister, Amy Hicks, a 1 9-year-old
international studies major, said
she would feel betrayed if her parents
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felt we had to take steps to cover all
bases for such a serious violation."
Dunn said vandalism was a misde
meanor. Sharon Sentelle, a College Republi
cans officer, said despite the pro-Helms
slogan written on the poster, the orga
nization was not involved in defacing
the poster.
"The College Republicans had
nothing to do with it," she said. "In my
. opinion, when posters are defaced, it is
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Freshmen
to choose
chairmen
By STEVE P0LITI
Staff Writer
UNC freshmen will have .iic'
first taste of campus politics today
when they vote for chairman of the
Bicentennial Class.
Seven freshman submitted peti
tions and are runni ng for the position.
The candidate who receives the most
votes will become chairman, and
the second highest vote-getter will
become vice chairman.
Student government created the
positions to give freshmen an op
portunity to participate in the plan
ning of the 1994 Bicentennial cel
ebration. The present freshmen class
will graduate in the year of the Bi
centennial. "A Bicentennial is a once-in-a-lifetime
thing, and the freshmen will
be the only people here when it
comes," said Elizabeth Kolb, sec
retary of the student body and
chairman of the Bicentennial Class
voting committee. "We want their
input from the beginning."
Bill Hildebolt, student body
president, said student government
was using this election as an ex
periment to see if the idea of class
officers would be effective in the
future.
"People have been talking about
having class officers for many, many
years," Hildebolt said. "It sounded
like a good idea but nobody could
think of what they could do. The
freshman class is in a different
situ ? Lion than before, and we wanted
to uo something that would allow
the freshmen to start preparing for
ther .enior year and the Bicenten
nial now."
Freshmen can vote between 10
a.m. and 7 p.m. at the Student Union,
Chase Dining Hall or Magnum
Residence Hall.
The entire student body also will
elect people to fill vacant Student
Congress seats. Six seats need to be
filled, although only on person is
running.
The new Bicentennial chairman
and vice chairman will work with a
committee of freshmen in the plan
ning of the celebration. Applications
See ELECTION, page 2