The Daily Tar HeelMonday, February 25, 19913
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Parks department
needs swim volunteers
j The Chapel Hill Parks and Recre
ation Department is looking for swim
ming volunteers for a Saturday morning
Adapted Aquatics class.
The class is for people of all ages
w(ith physical andor mental impair
ments. Interested people must have
swimming skills, but certification is not
required.
.Volunteers will work under the su
pervision of two Red Cross certified
Adapted Aquatics instructors. The class
requires one volunteer to one participant
and will be taught on an individual
basis.
Classes will begin March 16 and run
until April 20, but there will not be class
March 30.
'Adult classes will be held from 9:20
a.lrn. to 10:05 a.m. and youth classes
will be from 10:30 a.m. to 11:15 a.m.
Both sessions will take place at the
Chapel Hill Community Center Pool.
"interested persons should call Wendy
Tnieblood at the Chapel Hill Parks and
Recreation Department at 968-2784 for
more information, Monday through
Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Study shows increase in
local recycling efforts
I The Orange County Regional Recy
cling Program conducted a study that
revealed that recycling efforts for the
frst six months of 1990-1991 were up
lft percent from 1 989-1 990.
I The study reported that 2,730 tons of
paper, glass bottles, plastic bottles and
aluminum cans were recycled through
all programs operating in Orange County
from July 1 through Dec. 31,1 990.
' The amount was up 16 percent from
the 2,340 tons that were recycled during
the same period the previous year. The
2,730 tons represented 5.4 percent of
the total waste brought to the landfill
from July through December.
Although more than 450 tons of pa
per, glass, plastic and metal have been
recycled every month this year, the re
cently completed study of waste showed
that more than 17 percent of what
households continue to throw away is
recyclable.
Officials said they had a high goal for
the fiscal year. Solid waste planner Blair
Pollock said he wanted to see a 6 percent
monthly recycling rate by June 1991.
More use of the new multi-family
pilot program, and.increased participa
tion in curbside recycling and drop-off-
site recycling would helpthe town reach
its goat, officials said.
-Newspaper makes up more than 7
percent of residential waste, glass bottles
are 7 percent, plastic soda and milk
bottles are 2 percent and almost 1 per
cent is aluminum cans.
f Another 520 tons per month, or 6.5
percent of waste, could be recycled in
current programs.
Women's Center to
sponsor events
-.-HThe Orange County Women's
Center will hold a workshop on power
arid control in relationships tonight at 7
p.m.
The sessions will explore how power.
in the sense of energy, can empower
people m relationships, and how power.
ia the sense of control, can oppress
people.
Interested persons should come and
explore the power dimension in rela
tionships with Orange County Domes
tic Violence Project coordinator Jan
Stone and therapist Alice Calton.
' The fee is $4 and preregistration is
required.
" The Women's Center will sponsor
aii evening of music and entertainment
at the Columbia Street Bakery and Cof
fee House Wednesday at 8:30 p.m.
7The event will feature the creative
talents of women musicians, story
tellers and poets. Interested performers
and viewers are welcome to attend.
h There is no fee for the event, but a hat
will be passed around for donations to
benefit the Women s Center.
'-For more information about either
eyent call Liz Stiles or Mary Linker at
968-4610.
Ghapel Hill Town
Council meets tonight
, The town council will meet tonight at
7:30 p.m. in the Municipal Building.
' Items on tonight's agenda include:
discussion on the mixed use and
master plan regulations in reference to
sign regulations, setback and buffer
regulations and parcels ot land next to
mixed use developments,
. discussion on the location of street
fairs, including resolutions regarding
thecontinued use of West Franklin Street
for Festifall and an ordinance autho
rizing the closing of and prohibiting
parking on portions of East Franklin
and Henderson Streets for Apple Chill
1991,
a resolution endorsing the concept
of , sharing publicly owned sites and
facilities with the city schools (see re
lated story, page 2),
consideration of resolutions and
ordinances concerning Chapel Hill
Classic and Chapel Hill Criterium bi
cycle races
Orange Coimlly second in reported hate 'crimes ;
By Amber Nimocks
Staff Writer
North Carolinians Against Racist and
Religious Violence released a report
last week that ranked Orange County
second in the state in the number of
reported hate crimes.
Christina Davis-McCoy, executive
director of the organization, said the
rise in the number of incidents reported
could be attributed to increased sensi
tivity to hate activity as well as improved
monitoring networks.
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It won't hurt a bit
Patricia Sutton watches as her six-year-old son, Avell Lipscomb,
has his fingerprints made at South Square Mall in Durham
Hfldebolt defends UNC
By Steve Politi
Assistant University Editor
Student Body President B ill Hildebolt
defended the College Republicans' Feb.
2 water balloon attack on Pit peace
campers in a report sent to Board of
Trustees members Feb. 10.
The report, which 'was submitted at
Friday's BOT meeting, said the.CbJiege
Republicans used distasteful tactics but
should not be charged with Honor Code
violations.
"I am appalled at even the thought
that our Honor Code would be invoked
in an issue that is so obviously and
clearly a matter of partisan politics,"
Hildebolt's report said.
Charlton Allen, president of the
College Republicans, said Hildebolt's
report represented the views of a ma
jority of UNC students.
"I am pleased that we have an open-
minded student body president," Allen
said. "I believe it further demonstrates
our actions were indeed a form of po
U.S. controlled
By Matthew Mielke
Staff Writer
The United Nations' role in approv
ing the Persian Gulf War marked the
last time a single country would shape
the will of the multinational body, a
U.N. representative told a UNC audience
Sunday.
Juergen Dedring said the U.N. con
demnation of Iraq's Aug. 2 invasion of
Kuwait represented a new multilateral
approach to world conflicts.
"Then something went very wrong,"
he said.
On Nov. 29 the U.N. Security Council
passed Resolution 678, which set the
Jan. 1 5 deadline for Iraq to withdraw its
forces from Kuwait and authorized the
allies' use of force if Iraq violated the
order. The resolution passed because of
the influence and intense international
campaigning of James Baker, U.S.
Secretary of State, Dedring said.
Baker took steps to ensure that China,
one of the five permanent members of
the Security Council, did not veto the
resolution, he said. China abstained from
the council's vote.
"It was an ail-American draft reso
lution and left no accountability nor
responsibility to the United Nations,"
he said. "The only thing we (the United
Nations) get from the war are occasional
reports."
The U.N. should have waited to see
whether economic sanctions imposed
on Aug. 6 would have worked before
using force, he said. "Iraq was suffering
Literacy workers from 15 schools meet at UNC
By Adam Ford
Staff Writer
Representatives from literacy pro
grams at 15 eastern U.S. universities
attended a Peer Consulting Summit last
weekend at UNC sponsored by the
Student Coalition for Action in Literacy
Education, a national literacy network
founded by UNC students.
The summit was organized and di
"It also comes from racist response
to the Harvey Gantt candidacy, the ten
sions in the Persian Gulf, continuing
tension between black and white youth
and police violence in African-American
communities," Davis-McCoy said.
Hate crimes are "any act to cause
physical injury, emotional suffering or
property damage, which appears to be
motivated, all or in part, by race,
ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation,"
according to the report.
Davis-McCoy said high levels of
reported incidents in urban areas, such
litical expression. It's important that we
have a student government that can
defend political action."
Members of the UNC Committee for
Peace in the Middle East said they were
surprised by the report.
"I think he has a perfect right to
express his opinion, biit l think he is
abusing his privilege as student body
president," said member Beth Cantrell.
"He is misrepresenting a part of the
student body and over-representing
another part."
Members of the committee, accord
ing to Hildebolt's report, are violating
the honor code.
"If we are to follow a strict interpre
tation of the Code, then the protesters
themselves need to be tried and con
victed of a violation (they are inter
rupting the normal operations of the
University in a way that their right to
free speech does not protect)," the report
reads.
Committee member Al Krall said, "I
can't agree with that charge. Everything
U.N. war vote
considerable damage from the sanc
tions." In the future, the multilateral coop
eration that was characteristic of the
U.N. as of August 1990 will continue,
he said. "I think that we have seen the
last performance of unilateral will."
Dedring, whose lecture topic was
"Conflict Resolution: peaceful solutions
to global problems," said world history
in the past few years has been filled with
conflict.
"The main characteristic of the in
ternational environment as it occurs
before us is turbulence," he said.
"While we are looking at the meaning
of the new world order, we are met with
a new disorder."
But multinational cooperation has
increased, he said. The Security Coun
cil, the Secretary General, the General
Assembly and the International Court
of Justice have become the basis of
international conflict resolution, he said.
The Cold War between the United
States and the Soviet Union blocked the
effectiveness of the Security Council,
he said. Recent improvements in U.S.
Soviet relations have made the council
stronger, he said.
The power of the Secretary General
to resolve conflicts has grown since the
U.N. was founded, he said.
The role of the General Assembly in
conflict resolution has been to clarify
nations' viewpoints, he said.
Dedring has served in the U.N. since
1972 and now teaches in New York.
rected by Clay Thorp and Lisa Madry,
founders and co-directors of SCALE.
The coalition, which began in Novem
ber 1989, is an information and assis
tance network for students, faculty and
administrators involved in literacy work.
Madry and Thorp said they were
pleased with the conference. "It went
amazingly well. The level of thinking
and planning for the weekend exceeded
expectations," Madry said.
as Orange County, indicated disturbing
activity but good monitoring.
"Counties that report no incidents
are more likely to have ineffective
monitoring systems than to have an
absence of hate activity," she said.
Among the eight incidents reported
in Orange County in 1990, one was a
case in which a threatening letter was
sent to a local television station.
The anonymous letter was directed
toward black community leaders in fa
vor of the Martin Luther King Jr.
birthday celebration, said town council
DTHKathy Michel
Saturday. Senior Kevin Davis helps out with this annual event,
sponsored by the Orange County Sheriff's Department.
Republicans
we've done out here we've asked for
permission beforehand."
Hildebolt also questioned calling the
water balloon demonstration an assault.
"The thought that the CRs were in
volved in an 'assault' on the protesters
personally is absurd," he said. "The m
balloons were not thrown at the pro-.
testers, they were thrown, (Uteralfyat, -the
ground) figuratively, at the ideology'
represented."
Greg Gangi, a committee member,
said he did not understand why Hildebolt
and others viewed the attack as a con
structive demonstration.
"I'm surprised at this interpretation
of the College Republicans' action," he
said. "It had nothing to do with rational
discourse. It's just trying to get people
to take issue, that we're the right side
and they 're wrong. I think B ill Hildebolt
is equally a culprit in this way."
"Their act was done to bring this
down to an absurd level, not to educate
people, but to make us look absurd,"
Gangi said.
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Peer consultants were selected last
fall from applicants attending schools
east of the Mississippi that had strong
literacy programs. Selection criteria
were based on several factors, including
experience in literacy education and
sensitivity to multicultural backgrounds,
Madry said.
The conference lasted from Friday
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member Roosevelt Wilkerson, one of
the leaders threatened in the letter.
Carrboro Alderman Hilliard
Caldwell, who also was threatened in
the letter, said Orange County's ranking
did not surprise him. "There is a lot of
built-in racism here that the average
non-minority would not even recog
nize." Some of the incidents reported in
Orange County occurred on the UNC
campus, the report said.
Donald Boulton, UNC vice chan
cellor of Student Affairs, said it was
faculty; chairmaii
SMdmg library rank
will bort University
By Gillian Murphy
Staff Writer
Funding must be restored to the
University's ailing library system to
prevent a further drop in the libraries'
prestige, the chairman of the adminis
trative board of the libraries said Friday.
"We really cannot afford any further
cuts, and the cuts that have come about
need to be restored," Chairman Robert
Gwyn told the University's Faculty
Council.
An annual report released by the li
braries' administrative board Thursday
blamed state budget cuts, increasing
subscription costs and staffing shortages
for the libraries recent drops in national
rankings.
The University's libraries dropped
from 17th to 20th in a national ranking
released recently by the Association of
Research Libraries. Five years ago the
libraries' national ranking was 13th.
The rating included all libraries on
campus.
"If we stay on the road we are on, (the
rating) will slip further faster," Gwyn
said.
Harry Gooder, chairman of the Fac
ulty Council, said the loss of library
Jewish group
By Karen Schwartz
Staff Writer
Members of the African-American
and Jewish communities will discuss
such topics as Public Enemy, Minister
Louis Farakhan, and Israeli involve
ment in South Africa in the Black
Cultural Center today at 4:30 p.m.
The dialogue will provide an op
portunity for members to discuss issues
that often are addressed in the media
but not between the two groups, said
Hal Greenwold, the program's coor
dinator and the director of student
activities at the Hillel Foundation, a
student Jewish organization.
"We hope by talking directly to
one another that we can confront some
of these misconceptions," he said.
Jackie Hershkowitz, coordinator of
Chai week, a program dedicated to
raising awareness of the Jewish reli
Dedring speaks on the U.N.'s role in conflict
Accident victim remains unidentified
Staff report
The man thought to have been the
son of the unidentified victim of an
alleged hit-and-run accident said the
deceased was not his father.
An employee of the state prison
system recognized the victim's name
Wednesday as being the same as a
prisoner in the North Carolina Cor
rectional Facility.
The medical examiner's office sent
difficult to say if Orange County s
ranking was a true reflection of the
community 's attitudes. "We have prob
lems with race relations everywhere." ;
Orange County has a good reporting '
system, Boulton said. But hiding behind'
the fact that we have a good reporting
system is not the answer to the statistics,;
because more incidents go unreported r
than reported.
"There's -no question we have a1
problem and we should let everyone
know," Boulton said. "Calling atten-'
tion to it is the best way to deal with it.";'
O
funding would hurt the University in
other ways.
"These cuts, and any further ones,;,
will only cause creative faculty to look
elsewhere for positions where they can
fully express their potential," he said.
"This is neither a sound economic or
educational policy."
Gooder reported the University re--ceived
a 7 percent increase in the amount
of grant money awarded last year.
"Our continuing success in generat
ing these outside funds demands that
we maintain an adequate level of sup
port services," he said.
Ben Tuchi, vice chancellor for busi
ness and finance, said state laws gov
erning the distribution of grants were
partially responsible for the UNC li-.
braries financial problems.
State law requires that 30 percent of,
each grant be distributed to the general
fund of the state and 5 percent to the.
N.C. general administration. The Uni-,
versity requires that 15 percent be dis-,
tributed to deans and department,
chairmen.
"We are working with 50 percent to,
be distributed back to a pool which
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sponsors forum
gion and the Jewish community, said
Hillel was sponsoring the dialogue as
part of Chai week activities. "Chai" is
Hebrew for "life."
s , Hershkowitz said she and Black
Student Movement member Dana
Lumsden chose the discussion topics
by considering issues that often come
up between the two groups.
There are a lot of barriers between
the two groups, like anti-Semitic rap
groups and Israeli involvement in
South Africa, and that decided our
choice of topics," Hershkowitz said.
Elliott Zenick, a Hillel member,
said organizers hoped the discussion
would foster a greater understanding
between the two groups. "We experi
ence some of the same problems, like
discrimination from the same groups,
like the KKK and the skinheads. We're
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resolution
the victim's photograph to the prison
unit, but the man thought to be the
victim's son did not identify the de
ceased as his father, said an investi
gator with the state medical examiner's
office.
"The man was asked to look at the
photograph, and he said the photo
graph was not his father," said in-
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