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Wm lailM ttfeit Dr. Robert C. Johansen, Spotlight on the U.N. World in Transition 3:45 p.m., Hanes Auditorium Clear and cold High in 40s Thursday: Sunny High 55-60 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 83, Issue 114 Wednesday, December 5, 19S0 A o No amret vet mm Jiocali Mamappimgs ft a II- hi . . " " 7! .. .. ., ' NswsSoortsAfts 962-8245 unapei tun, nonn uaronna BusiMoA4tMni 962-1 1 63 m m (n n g r? q Defendants not guilty I of racial murder NEW YORK A jury took just four hours Tuesday to clear two whites of murder and other major charges in the racial slaying last year of a black teen ager in the Bensonhurst section. James Patino and Joseph Serrano had been accused of murder, manslaughter, riot, discrimination and other charges in the attack that resulted in the death of Yusuf Hawkins, who was shot in the mostly white Brooklyn neighborhood on Aug. 23, 1989. Patino was acquited of all the crimes. Serrano was convicted of amisdemeanor weapons possession charge. Patino became the first defendant in the case to be cleared of all charges. The killing was the most serious ra cial incident in the city since the 1986 killing of a 23-year-old black man in Howard Beach. In that confrontation, the victim was struck and killed by a car after a mob of whites chased him onto a highway. Hawkins, 1 6, was slain when he and three friends all black teen-agers went to Bensonhurst to look at a used car. The unarmed youths attracted the attention of a mob of as many as 30 bat wielding whites looking for a fight. One of the whites Joseph Fama, since convicted of murder pulled a pistol and fired several shots through Hawkins chest. The mob scattered without pausing to aid their victim or telephone the police. Bush .calls for unity of American nations MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay Presi dent Bush, arriving in Uruguay today, called for a "permanent partnership among all nations of the Americas," but aides looked with some anxiety toward his visit to strife-torn Argentina. After an airport welcoming cer emony, Bush, the first American presi dent to visit Uruguay since Lyndon Johnson in 1967, proceeded to talks with President Luis Alberto Lacalle. "I look forward to talking with the president about the exciting future that lies ahead. We in the Americas are on the brink of something unprecedented in world history the first wholly democratic hemisphere," Bush said. Bush said he believes the new de mocracies in South America are stable, notwithstanding Monday's military re bellion in Argentina. Bush said that incident, which was quashed, was "military versus military,' not an attempt to overthrow the gov ernment of President Carlos Menem and said he was "verv pleased" to be - A going to Argentina. Hussein offers to free 3,3oo Soviet hostages In another attempt to divide the world alliance arrayed against Iraq, Saddam Hussein on Tuesday backed away from his confrontation with the Kremlin, promising to release the almost 3,300 Soviets he was holding. Moscow last week warned it would use military force against Iraq if Soviets there were harmed. Before the Persian Gulf crisis began four months ago, Moscow was Iraq's chief weapons sup plier and main ally. The Kremlin has not sent troops to 10m the U.S.-led mul tinational force stationed in Saudi Arabia. From Associated Press reports Budget Break Student lobbyists to contact legisla tors over break 3 Singing out with pride Works of Native and Latin American women writers to be performed ...4 Crime and nonpunishment NCAA alters Runnin- Rebels' pun ishment due to public pressure '.5 Campus and City 3 Sports - 5 Classified a,., 6 Comics 7 Opinion : 8 .1990 DTH Publshlng Corp. Alt rights reserved. (EHQB What history teaches us is that By CULLEN D. FERGUSON City Editor No arrests have been made in a kid napping and rape incident that occurred in downtown Carrboro Saturday night, and Chapel Hill police are investigating a kidnapping incident which took place Monday afternoon. Althoueh police officials said they did not think the incidents were related. they have not ruled out that possibility. According to Carrboro police uapt. Ben Callahan, police have several leads in the Carrboro case but have issuea no warrants. Callahan said a 31 -year-old female was stopped at a stop sign at the inter Strike a pose v, , .aw, Mocoooooow ywOWCvWfifif . sjfipw ar-ai I I'm tJ I 4 David Rusak, a sophomore chemistry major from Charlotte, throws a baseball with friends outside Lewis Residence Hall Tuesday afternoon. Racial grievance hearing pending departmental investigation By MARCIE BAILEY Staff Writer A Physical Plant employee's racial discrimination grievance, which was scheduled to be heard Tuesday at btep J in the grievance process, has been postponed because an investigation was not done at Step 2. On Sept. 7, Bennie Griffin, a main tenance supervisor, filed a grievance against the University that said he had been stripped of his supervisory powers because he was an African-American. The Employee Relations Department should have investigated the case and submitted the results at Step 2 of the procedure to Michael Smith at the In stitute of Government, said Alan McSurely, Griffin's lawyer. The hearing will be postponed for several weeks until Herbert Faul, Physical Plant director, can conduct the SHS says rape By ELIZABETH BYRD Senior Writer Women seeking help , after a rape often encounter difficult circumstances. Sara Townsend, a former University student who was raped last year, said she had difficulty getting help from Student Health Service (SHS) after her experience. SHS officials said Townsend's alle gation that she was denied help fol lowing the rape from SHS's Student Psychological Services is unfounded. Townsend, a former UNC graduate student who was raped at knifepoint at her Chapel Hill apartment last year beforeThanksgiving Break, wrote about her experience in a Nov. 30 USA Today article. "When I called Student Health ... to say I needed help that I had been raped the day before and was calling from the police station one of the section of Carr Street and South Greensboro Street around 8:30 p.m. when two males forced their way into her car. The abductors made the woman drive to another location in Carrboro, where she was forced out of the car. The abductors raped and assaulted the woman and held her for about five hours before releasing her. The woman drove to UNC Hospitals, where she was treated for external injuries. Callahan said the woman had been beaten seriously. She had several bruises and had been repeatedly slapped or struck, he said. The woman called the police from the hospital, Callahan said. She gave a 1 1 1 1 j 1 1 1 w 1 1 DTHKevin Burgess Step 2 investigation, McSurely said. The postponement is also necessary because Employee Relations refused to allow Smith to review documents con cerning Griffin's grievance. "This is a problem," McSurely said. "It is a rule that the hearing chairperson has a right to all documents having to do with grievances. Smith asked for them, and the Employee Relation Department refused. This is a very critical issue." Mike Lewis of the Employee Rela tions Department said he was not pre pared to comment about the grievance. McSurely said the grievance should have been investigated thoroughly by the Employee Relations Department so facts could have been reviewed to help determine the cause for discrimination and to try to resolve the grievance. It was not until the pre-heanng witn victim was not refused help psychologists told me they 'closed up shop at 5 p.m., she wrote in the article. "I went over anyway. Student Health had two offerings when I walked in at 4:45 p.m. the Wednesday before Thanksgiving: sleeping pills and an appointment for me to see someone after the holidays, five days later. I couldn't wait that long." SHS Director Judith Cowan said she thought Townsend's claims were un warranted. SHS officials have reviewed the case and found Townsend was not treated improperly, she said. , "We have been aware of this particu lar student's case, her feeling that she did not get what she needed," she said. "But our review would indicate that she was seen and she was treated properly on her visit here." SHS is equipped 24 hours a day to perform examinations of rape victims and to provide emergency care and hos men have never description of her abductors, and an investigation is underway, he said. According to Carrboro police reports, the abductors were both black males. One was between 5 feet 7 inches and 5 feet 8 inches tall, and may have had Hispanic origins. He weighed about 1 50 pounds and had a mustache and goatee. He was wearing a flannel shirt and blue jeans. The other abductor was described as being between 6 feet 2 and 6 feet 4 inches tall. He weighed about 250 pounds and had dark skin. He was wearing a sleeveless khaki vest and dark pants. Neither man was armed, Callahan said. Suss to fee given to chancellor By LEE WEEKS Staff Writer Chancellor Paul Hardin will receive a recommendation today from the Buildings and Grounds Committee for an alternate site for "The Student Body," the sculpture now located in front of Davis Library. The Buildings and Grounds Com mittee and a student advisory commit tee chose the alternate site Tuesday in a closed meeting. Administrators and students attending the meeting would not comment on any decisions the committee made. "We will be making some recom mendations to him (Hardin)," said John Sanders, chairman of the Buildings and Grounds Committee. "I am not at liberty to say what they are because I think he ought to get them by letter before they're published." Majority off Uiiiversity facility members earn tenured states By STEPHANIE JOHNSTON Assistant University Editor The tenure process at UNC is ex tensive, but most faculty members eventually achieve tenured status at the University. About 80 percent to 85 percent of the faculty members in the College of Arts and Sciences are tenured, said Gillian Cell, dean of the College of Arts and postponed Smith that parties involved realized the investigation had not taken place, McSurely said. "The problem is that they (Employee Relations) probably don't have any documents yet," he said. At Step 2 it was determined that Griffin was stripped of his supervisory powers and was discriminated against. McSurely said the Physical Plant is now looking for the reasons behind the dis crimination. It has not yet been deter mined whether the discrimination was racial, he said. Griffin said the ruling at Step 2 was in his favor, and he would continue with his grievance if nothing was solved. "I'm trying to solve (grievance problems) not just for blacks or whites, See GRIEVANCE, page 7 pitalization if necessary. Counseling is available on a 24-hour basis to rape victims through SHS's Student Psy chological Services. Student Psychological Services em ploys eight staff members, all trained psychiatrists, clinical psychologists or clinical social workers, she said. Also, the University provides a fund to hospitalize rape and sexual assault victims at Student Health. Most rape victims do not come to Student Health for immediate assistance, Cowan said. "The vast majority are people who come in after the fact, not at the time of the rape." Kathleen Benzaquin, assistant dean of students and chairwoman of the Rape Awareness Committee, said there were more than 50 reports of sexual assault or harassment on campus last year, 13 of See RAPE, page 7 learned anything The Carrboro incident is probably unrelated to a kidnapping that occurred Monday in front of University Mall, Callahan said. Descriptions of the ab ductors differ, he said. According to Chapel Hill police re ports, sometime after 4 p.m. a woman was leaving the parking lot of Univer sity Mall when she was approached by a black male with a gun. The woman was forced to drive her abductor to a vacant house somewhere in Chatham County. Details concerning what happened at the house are sketchy, but police reports said that the woman was able to escape unharmed after the man fell asleep. estedl statue Ed Teague, student advisory com mittee chairman, agreed it was impor tant that Hardin see the recommendation first in a personal letter rather than in the media. "If you advise someone, but you put it in the paper (first), then we would actually, rather than making his (Hardin's) life easier by giving him advice, we would be making it more difficult by putting our opinions in the paper," Teague said. At the meeting, committee members compared the advantages of alternate sites suggested by the Community Against Offensive Statues. The sites included Hanes Art Center, the Paul Green Theatre and the north vestibule of Person Hall, a site suggested Monday night at a CAOS meeting. "We took into account what the members of CAOS and other members Sciences. Harry Gooder, chairman of the fac ulty, said tenure does not affect salary. Tenure guarantees faculty members that they will not be fired for disagreeing with their department chairmen or chairwomen, the chancellor or their deans, he said. But tenure does not protect them from being fired for in competence, immoral actions or breaking laws, he said. Opinions on the tenure process and on the difficulty of achieving tenure differ, Gooder said. "If you asked an assistant professor, they would say it wasn't easy," he said. However, "Ultimately, a very high percentage of professors become ten mmmmmm Turning car wheels dt&WsM 1 H f v 11 ZrT' 1 1 S V;r4 , I P - I ' 1 lf ' I S I 1 It xjj&ffr. jp' -'-'-'-''St - Tt 1 t Vs "V 1 ?' r ...1 Jason Bogart and Adam Carmines, both sophomores from Siler City, play with a remote-controlled car Tuesday afternoon. from it. Georg The abductor was described as being about 6 feet tall and between 30 and 35 years old. Chapel Hill police planner Jane Cousins said that abductions in broad daylight were not unusual. Parking lots can be dangerous places, she said. "In a parking lot, it's real easy (for an abductor) to hide between cars," Cousins said. Investigators in both Chapel Hill and Carrboro are comparing notes on the two incidents. Cousins said. She said it was standard procedure for investigators from the two departments to cooperate on incidents that could possibly be related. location! 4 of the community, both for and against the current site, said in the forum (held Thursday night)," Teague said. Buildings and Grounds Committee members said other possible sites for the statues included the east side of Davis Library, between Peabody and Phillips Halls, in front of Morehead Planetarium and the wall garden near Hamilton Hall. Sanders said it would cost $ 1 0,000 to $20,000 to relocate the statues. The statues are mounted on steel shafts and secured by concrete blocks buried under the ground, Sanders said. Teague said that if the statues were relocated, the cost of moving them could vary according to the site chosen. "In our decision on advising him (Hardin) whether or not there were al ternative sites, we did not really con sider cost," he said. ured." Cell said each University department has a written set of criteria it uses when evaluating faculty members for tenure. The criteria center on the faculty members' principal responsibilities of research and publication, teaching and service to the University. Publication, or in some departments performance or exhibition, is included in the expectations the departments have for tenured professors, Cell said. "We don't ever say if you publish so many books or so many pages you will get tenured," she said. Faculty members are appointed as See TENURE, page 4 rin DTHKevin Burgess Wilhelm Hegel
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