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4 II II I X till 1 f Mill cy Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 99, Issue 13 Wednesday, March 6, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0245 BusinessAdvertising 962-1163 CD id dtamafeol By Shannon O'Grady Staff Writer The romance language department plans to eliminate 45 class sections next year in preparation for budget reduc tions, Department Chairman Stirling Haig said Tuesday. The department already has elimi nated 26 sections of fall semester French, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese classes, he said. ig .sl. z. i5vt' II I $ - 1 ; pas: .ss-r I I r .V MOtcWMHaLwiHWi""" '' in, 1 llllMWi -HmumMW n.iiiml mn ' Tl" ( v; SB: I mcrow ;, , ,,, & ,::;:-:-:-: : . :v:-:::v.:ix::S'X- - : : -iwii--. .::::::::'" -S-i-K .; :-:-w,. 0Mit i f f Tox V ffffIlli< t. )77v' . 1 - --iftiiin ffJi- i fcmir anii m m fn . ....,. , ., ,, .,.., , ., Free parking? Mieke Sinnett a senior sociology major from Charlotte, gives a map of campus parking toMichaelFulcher,aseniorpsychologymajorfromCapeCarteret,inthevisitors'parking English students to take complaint to Graduate School dean By Soyia Ellison Staff Writer English department graduate students who were dissatisfied with a Tuesday faculty-student meeting have decided to take their complaints outside the department. Ways to end housing By Sarah Suiter Staff Writer About 30 students discussed ways to end segregation between North and South campus residencehalls at aforum Tuesday night in Manning Hall. Residence Hall Association co-presidents-elect Scott Peeler and Christy Pons, Associate Housing Director Al Calarco and Shawna Pinckney, liaison from the Black Student Movement to H ousing open to forum on cut of EA meal plan By Jennifer Dunlap and Matthew Eisley Assistant University Editor and University Editor Resident assistants who wrote a memorandum Saturday criticizing a cut in compensation for newly accepted RAs said they wrote it because they believed University housing officials did not want them to discuss the issue with new RAs. But housing officials said they welcomed the open input from all RAs about the cut of a $400-a-year meal plan for new RAs. The benefit, which was included in the package offered to prospective RAs, was cut last week to help balance the housing department's budget. Four of the memo's eight authors, all Scott Residence College (SRC) RAs, said they wanted to meet with new RAs to suggest questions they should ask about the compensation Level 1 through 4 romance language classes will be the most severely af fected, he said. The department has a maximum class size of 27 students per section. The course reduction potentially could affect over 1,000 students next year, he said. "These are classes some people are going to need to fill language require ments," Haig said. The department tried to reduce sec tions in areas that students could work Paul Crumbley, president of the As sociation of English Graduate Students, said he called the meeting so students could question faculty members about their decision not to hire a chairman or chairwoman for the critical theory program. The English department's search the Housing Advisory Board, presented possible solutions to the problem. Pons said 800 of the 1,200 minority students who live on campus live in South campus residence halls. Pinckney said many African American students believe they wouldn't feel comfortable on North Campus. Pons said she knew that many African-Americans chose to live on South campus because others had told them cut. They said their request for an open forum between all RAs and high level housing department adminis trators was denied by Al Calarco, associate housing director. The four RAs are Ronda Swaney, an R A in Teague Residence Hall, and Pete Corson, Fitzgerald Edwards and Frank Sutton, RAs in Carmichael Residence Hall. Sutton said Calarco refused to meet with SRC staff members in a large group, but said he would meet with them individually or in small groups. "We didn't find that very agreeable," Sutton said. Corson said they wanted to talk with the new RAs in an open forum. "We're very frustrated we can't get to them." Calarco said Tuesday night that he had not received any formal requests for a discussion forum, but that he See RA, page 2 Brains are around, he said. "We cut where there were multiple sections taught at the same hour." Romance language graduate students also will be affected by the budget shortfalls, Haig said. Graduate teaching assignments will be reduced from three courses per year to two courses, he said. Teaching assistants receive $3,700 for each course they teach. The maxi mum salary a teaching student can re lot between Memorial Hall and the Campus togeta map, notto park there. committee found five candidates for the position. The department's full profes sors chose one of the five candidates, but he declined the position. The pro fessors decided last week not to offer the position to any of the other candi dates. Crumbley said he was frustrated with segregation to. Three possibilities to end the racial separation in housing were discussed at the forum: to model one dormitory after the UNITAS multi-cultural program, to require all freshmen to live on South Campus and to reserve a certain number of rooms in each dormitory in the pre liminary random drawing for minority students. Most of the people at the forum agreed that requiring freshmen to live on South Anti-Saddam The Associated Press With rapid-fire prisoner releases and proclamations, Iraq struggled to clear away the fallout of its Persian Gulf War defeat Tuesday. But an anti-Saddam uprising was reported sweeping city after city, in what a dissident spokesman promised would be "a long, violent battle." The Iraqis turned over 35 prisoners of war, including 15 Americans, to the Red Cross in Baghdad and said they were the last allied captives. Bad weather delayed a transfer of the ex-POWs out of Iraq in exchange for Iraqi prisoners. At the same time, the Iraqis formally annulled their "annexation" of Kuwait and pledged to return looted Kuwaiti property necessary steps for meeting United Nations peace demands. But Baghdad had no peace. The Kurdish opposition claimed it seized a major city in the north, just days after violent protests against President Saddam Hussein began spreading through Iraq's southern cities. Ameri can military sources said Iraqi army units were choosing sides in bloody local showdowns. an asset if you ceive will be reduced from $1 1,100 a year to $7,400, Haig said. The department also declared a complete halt in graduate student re cruitment, he said. Judy McComb, a first year graduate student and Spanish instructor, said the entire graduate program could fail if new students did not enter the depart ment. "With any program, you have to have an influx of people and an exodus of DTHJim Holm Y Tuesday evening. Fulcher entered the lot 'the meeting because faculty members did not give an explanation for their decision. "I feel very disappointed right now that no sense of leadership came through," he said. Several English graduate students said their next step would be to meet discussed Campus would be unfair. The University of Maryland and the University of Georgia experienced similar problems in residence halls, and both changed their policies, Calarco said. At Maryland, administrators de cided that student choice was not as important as integrating the campus, he said. Reserving a certain number of rooms See FORUM, page 2 protests increase in Iraq Officials and news organiza tions reported, meanwhile, that 28 Western jour nalists have dis appeared while traveling in Persian Gulf War southern Iraq to report on the civil un rest. Four are newsmen from U.S. or ganizations. Six days after President Bush de clared victory and a cease-fire in the war to rid Kuwait of Iraqi occupation, Pentagon sources said a first wave of returning U.S. troops would arrive at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington on Thursday. The 4,400 soldiers, including mem bers of the 82nd Airborne Division, might be welcomed home by Bush, the sources said, although the White House said such plans had not been made. On Monday, the Iraqis moved quickly to meet the allies' demands for immedi ate prisoner releases, freeing six Ameri cans and four other captives as an initial gesture. On Tuesday, they freed a second hide them. people," she said. "The program will just die if they don't have people enter." If the budget problems continue, the University's reputation could be per manently damaged, McComb said. "We won't be able to attract as many high-quality students," she said. "I al ready go to Duke because they have the books that we don't have." The budget problems have forced her to consider transferring to another school, McComb said. imver MID) If O By Steve Politi Assistant University Editor The University will no longer man age the Carolina Inn after September, and the inn's 71 full-time employees have been offered priority transfer to other UNC departments, Chancellor Paul Hardin announced Tuesday. Carolyn Elfland, acting associate vice chancellor for business and finance, said although University officials have not decided who will manage the inn, it will no longer be state operated. "Whatever we do, employees over there will not be able to remain state employees," Elfland said. Because of the University's tight budget, UNC officials do not want to wait until specific decisions about the inn's management are made before giving employees an opportunity to find new positions in the University, she said.' Ed Rehkopf, director of hotels and conference centers, said two manage ment plans for the Carolina Inn were being considered. Either an outside management company will control the inn or it will become a non-profit cor poration under the control of the UNC with Henry Dearman, dean of the Graduate School. Dearman asked the students to meet with him before they took their complaints any further, Crumbley said. Graduate students said they would tell Dearman they: Village to be Staff report Members of the Committee for Peace in the Middle East said after 36 days of camping in the Pit they would take down the Peace Village today. Members will take the tents down during a program scheduled from noon to 2 p.m. . During the program, an open mi crophone will be available for people to use to express their opinions about the gulf war and the Middle East. Committee members also will read group: 15 Americans, nine Britons, nine Saudis, one Kuwaiti and one Italian. "Iraq has completed the handing over of all prisoners," an Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman was quoted as saying by Baghdad Radio. That meant 29 military people 28 Americans and one Saudi remained unaccounted for in the war's aftermath. The Pentagon on Tuesday also updated the U.S. casualty toll in the 43-day war to 1 15 dead and 330 wounded. Tens of thousands of Iraqis were bel ieved killed. The Americans freed Monday in Baghdad went to Jordan and then were flown to the Navy hospital ship Mercy, where Air Force Col. Wynn Mabry said, "I'm pleased to report that they are all in good shape and in good spirits." The prisoners freed Tuesday were to have boarded a Red Cross plane for Saudi Arabia, after it flew in 294 Iraqi POWs in an exchange. But the flight from Saudi Arabia was scrubbed because of poor visibi I ity there and high winds in Baghdad, U.S. mili . tary officials said. Weather permitting, the swap will take place Wednesday, they said. Mae West O Thomas Burkholder, a freshmen Spanish 2 student, said the course re ductions detracted from the University ' s reputation. "I came from Colorado to this insti tution because of the high tradition of this school and now I feel like it is being swept away," he said. Summer school is one option he will consider if he cannot enroll in a Spanish See SECTIONS, page 2 o Oil CDMF0)1 Foundation, he said. Carolina Inn losses totaled more than $332,000 in 1990-91, and $72,000 the previous year. In 1984-85 the inn made almost $500,000 in profits. Elfland said two factors have caused the inn's recent financial problems. The aging structure of the building, as well as problems with the heat, windows and old wiring, makes some rooms less desirable than others and increases utility costs. Strict state personnel regulations also have made employee compensation costs nearly twice as high as the national average for hotel employees, she said. 'The inn has been losing money in greater and great amounts," Elfland said. "Revenue strain is not a problem. Ex penses are a problem." An overbuilt market in the Triangle area is another reason for the inn's fi nancial problems, Elfland said. The special transfer assistance pro gram was implemented to avoid layoffs, she said. It will give inn employees who want to stay with the University special consideration over other applicants for open positions, she said. See INN, page 2 D had exhausted every avenue within the department to get an explanation for the failure to appoint someone to the position, a were misled because they were See ENGLISH, page 2 removed today a letter outlining their reasons for tak ing the village down now and the six demands they have made of the U.S. government. Chris Horton, a freshman from Fairview, said the committee will continue to meet on Tuesday nights. The committee does not plan to elect officers because the present structure has worked well. Members want to keep people fo cused on the problems in the Middle East, he said. CAMPUS AND CITY Skylight Exchange to sell textbooks from Internationalist bookstore 3 FEATURES Medical school admission depends on more than grades, author says ..6 SPORTS Lacrosse team crushes 19th-ranked Penn State, 15-3 7 World 4 Classifieds 8 Comics 9 Opinion 10 WEATHER TODAY: Rain; high in the 70s THURSDAY: Rain; high mid-70s 1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. iuy
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