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By Stephanie Johnston
University Editor
UNC student leaders will meet with
Gov. Jim Martin on Friday morning to
discuss their concerns about state bud
get cuts.
Matthew Heyd, student body presi
dent; Meridith Rentz, vice president;
Bill Hildebolt, former student body
president; Grant Vinik, former vice
president; Ruffin Hall and David
Henderson, student government coor
dinators of budget crisis management;
and Jennifer Wing, Daily Tar Heel edi
tor, were invited to attend the meeting.
The meeting was scheduled in re
sponse to a letter sent to Martin by
Hildebolt when he was president asking
for a conference about the budget crisis.
But Hildebolt said he had not de
cided if he would attend the meeting. "I
have heard some rumblings that he
(Martin) might not be taking this meet
ing as serious as he should."
If he continues to hear that Martin is
not taking the meeting seriously, he will
not attend it, as a symbolic gesture,
Hildebolt said. "But I'm hopeful that he
is taking it seriously," he said.
Although Martin cannot veto any
bills passed by the General Assembly,
even if he agrees with the students, he
can give them valuable tips about lob
omltons
Editor's Note: This is the second
article in a three-part series examining
the UNC residence hall visitation policy.
By Steve Politi
Assistant University Editor
The University's Board of Trustees
might respond to any attempt to elimi
nate or alter the present residence hall
visitation policy by drafting a stricter
one, a UNC administrator said.
"I don ' t fear it, it ' s a fact," said Donald
Boulton, vice chancellor for student
ocal state
By JoAnn Rodak
Staff Writer
Some members of the local chapter
of the State Employees Association of
North Carolina disagree with a manda
tory drug testing policy for prospective
state employees that will be proposed to
their parent group Saturday.
jack of reporting methods hides true amount of homophobic violence
County atmosphere
By Nicole Peradotto
Staff Writer
Four incidents of homophobic ha
rassment in Orange County were re
ported last year, all of which occurred in
Chapel Hill, according to a 1991 report
compiled by the North Carolina Coali
tion for Gay and Lesbian Equality
(NCCGLE).
But the figure may not represent the
true degree of violence against homo
sexuals because no local crisis phone
lines or organizations existed in 1990 to
document cases, said Jim Duley, former
co-chairman of NCCGLE and a UNC
clinical psychology graduate student.
"The statistics are underrepresented
in the Triangle in particular," he said.
1990 N.C. Homophobic Violence
Harassment 1191
AssaultRobbery 70
s. ' U Discrimination 46
rv 1 D Threats 213
Not shown on graph:
j Vandalism 8
Homicides 2
Family violence against
children or parents 376
. ' i jr Source N.C. Coalition for Gay and Lesbian Equality
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leaders
bying the legislators, Hildebolt said.
Martin has managed to get several of his
programs passed in the legislature de
spite his lack of veto power.
Heyd said it was too late for students
to fight against the cuts because the
subcommittees already were present
ing their proposals to committees. But
he said students could ask Martin to
oppose any further cuts, which some
legislators have said may be needed.
The student leaders also want to ask
Martin about his proposal for tuition
flexibility, Heyd said. The tuition
charges from all 1 6 UNC-system schools
now go into the general fund of the
General Assembly, and legislators must
agree to any tuition increases. Martin
has proposed allowing schools to raise
their tuition, within state-imposed lim
its, and then control the generated money
to offset the budget crisis.
"If anything substantial comes of it,
we will try to report back to the stu
dents," Heyd said.
Hall said he thought the meeting
would go well. "It's a very positive sign
that Gov. Martin is interested in talking
with us about these issues."
Martin can help students by putting
pressure on legislators riot to make se
vere cuts, Hall said. "Whether or not it
will make a dramatic impact on the
situation is questionable,"
BOT may tighten visitation
affairs.
"I don't think we should be blind to
that, that's a fact of life," he said. "We
are more capable of running our own
lives here than someone who isn't here
and doesn't live with us."
Members of the General Assembly
often present bills proposing even
stricter visitation policies for the entire
UNC system, Boulton said.
"Every year someone from the legis
lature puts something in the hopper, and
it's killed because we all kind of protest
and say, 'Let us be in charge of our lives
employees oppose drag testm
Paula Schubert, chairwoman of the
local SEANC chapter, said the SEANC
substance abuse study committee pre
sented the proposal last week to the
N.C. Drug Cabinet without introducing
it to the SEANC Board of Governors.
"The committee made it public that
those were our recommendations," said
Schubert, a board member. "At that
tolerant despite 4 Chapel Hill incidents
The recently formed Triangle Project
against Homophobic Violence and Dis
crimination, which will be using the
phone lines at Durham's Lesbian and
Gay Health Project to document vio
lence against homosexuals, will increase
the number of reported cases in Orange
County this year, he said.
Duley said he and other people in
volved in the coalition filed the four
reported cases in Chapel Hill.
In July when Duley returned to his
office in Davie Hall following a Les
bian and Gay Pride March that he had
organized, he found his door covered
with a blown-up copy of an anti-gay
lesbian letter to the editor from the
Chapel Hill Herald titled, "32 ways the
Bible speaks against homosexuality."
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Becky Reed, a junior from Richmond, Va.,
Andy Bills Wednesday afternoon in the
here,'" he said.
The present visitation policy prohib
its residents from having members of
the opposite sex in their room after 1
a.m. Sunday through Thursday and af
ter 2 a.m. Friday and Saturday.
But Joe Mosnier, an assistant area
director for Scott College, said he
thought the visitation policy wouldn't
be made stricter if it was brought to the
attention of the BOT.
"They're afraid to make any changes
for fear the trustees would make a more
draconian policy still," Mosnier said.
time, the Board of Governors had not
even seen the legislation."
Members of SEANC's governing
board will vote on the proposal Satur
day. Schubert said several board mem
bers told her they were not in favor of
the mandatory testing proposal.
"It's expensive, it could be poten
The three other reports in Chapel Hill
involve:
B anti-gay and lesbian epithets
scratched into a painted sign advertis
ing a program sponsored by the Caro
lina Gay and Lesbian Association in
September;
D the placement of a poster in a UNC
residence hall in September ridiculing
gays and lesbians saying, "Freaks R
Us";
D patients in the HIV clinic waiting
room at UNC Hospitals overhearing
two male maintenance workers joking
about being in "Fairy Land."
But the general attitude toward gays
and lesbians in Chapel Hill is "excel
' lent," said Chapel Hill Town Council
Member Joe Herzenberg, who was the
first openly gay elected official in North
Carolina.
"I don't know a single person in
Chapel Hill or Carrboro who has, at
least in public, said any anti-gay rheto
ric," he said.
The town's police department adds
to the tolerant atmosphere, Herzenberg
said. In 1989 it participated in a two
hour gay and lesbian conscious training
session designed to show what miscon
ceptions existed in the heterosexual and
homosexual communities.
Last year, the Carrboro Board of Al
derman voted to add sexual orientation
to the list of protected groups in the
town's anti-discrimination ordinance.
The vote typified the tolerance level
in the area, .Herzenberg said, adding
that a similar ordinance was passed in
Chapel Hill in 1975.
Silence equals
has her finger sized by Jostens representative
Pit. Reed and her friend Sharon Causa, a
"Hell, I don't know where you can go
from here forbid visitation alto
gether?" The Board of Trustees makes deci
sions concerning most policy matters
on campus, but BOT chairman Earl
Phillips said he didn't know whether
this issue would be under the BOT's
jurisdiction. "It seems like more of a
policy the administration would decide
on," he said. .
Phillips said he had never discussed
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tially illegal, and it could be a big disser
vice to state employees if the State
Employees Association endorsed it,"
she said. "It's a waste of time, money
and energy."
Charles Jeffress, assistant commis
sioner of the N.C. Department of Labor,
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Superior documentation puts N.C. 1st
By Nicole Peradotto
StaffWriter
North Carolina had the most reported
cases of homophobic violence in the
nation last year, according to a March
report filed by the North Carolina Coa
lition for Gay and Lesbian Equality
(NCCGLE).
'The 1990 Report on Violence, Dis
crimination, Threats & Harassment
Against Gay Men, Lesbians and AIDS
Affected People in North Carolina" cites
1 ,530 incidents of violence against ho
mosexuals in the state, an increase from
last year's 1,204 reported cases.
The figure tends to reflect superior
methods of documenting homophobic
violence in North Carolina, said Jim
Duley, former co-chairman of the
NCCGLE and a graduate student in
clinical psychology at UNC.
Documentation organizations include
switchboards and hotlines in
Wilmington, Greensboro, Winston-Salem,
Asheville and Charlotte. Not coin-,
cidentally, the greatest percentage of
reported homophobic violence occurred
in these areas, Duley said.
The growing gay community in the
south, North Carolina's history of hate
crimes and N.C. Senator Jesse Helms'
political campaigns have also contrib
uted to the increased total, Duley said.
"I don't think (the statistic) is any
coincidence," he said. "Senator Helms'
entire campaign has been based on the
hatred of minorities."
The "mental state" responsible for
Helms' re-election contributed to the
death ACT UP
sophomore from Greenville, were shopping for class rings, although Causa could not
purchase one because she had not completed the 60 credit hours Jostens requires.
IFC bans shared alcohol
containers during rash
By Soyia Ellison
Staff Writer
The Inter-Fraternity Council voted
Tuesday to ban the use of shared con
tainers such as kegs and the collection
of funds to buy alcohol during rush,
even if the fraternities' national orga
nizations allow it
The rule, approved in the council's
first closed meeting of Tim Taylor's
presidencyj will be in effect from Aug.
21 to Sept. 17 this year.
"It's a decision that comes as a re
sult of our risk management policy,"
Taylor said.
Under the IFC's revised alcohol
control policy, the five UNC fraterni
ties whose national organizations al
low shared containers and collective
funds still may have them except dur
ing rush.
Lee Hark, IFC vice president, said
the amendment was "an attempt to
mistreatment of gays, he said.
"The rate of discrimination is wors
ening," Duley said. "We are in a time of
limited social tolerance."
Chapel Hill Town Council member
Joe Herzenberg, the first openly gay
elected politician in the state, agreed
with Duley's statements about Helms.
"The campaigns of Senator Helms
are excellent examples of (anti-gay
rhetoric)," Herzenberg said.
The report also states that the num
bers of reported incidents peaked dur
ing the months of the U.S. Senate pri
mary and general elections. These
"spikes" correlate with Helms ' "attacks"
on homosexuals and other minorities,
according to the report.
Homophobic violence, according to
the report, includes homicides, physi
cal assaultrobbery, threats, vandalism,
harassment and discrimination.
Charlotte attorney Chris Werte, co
chairman of the NCCGLE, said that his
open homosexuality resulted in dis
crimination in the workplace.
"I'm treated differently by my super
visor for being gay," he said. "He be
lieves that all gays are manic
depressives, so if I'm in a bad mood, (he
thinks) it's because I'm psychologi
cally imbalanced."
The report also recommends improv
ing documentation methods in order to
compile statistics that better represent
the violence directed at lesbians.
"Lesbians are the most forgotten
minority because most people don't
think of women as gay," Werte said.
"When you mention 'gay' to someone,
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level the playing field as far as rush
goes." .
The vote passed unanimously with
one abstention, Hark said. He and
Taylor declined to identify the frater
nity that abstained from the vote.
Cullen Morris, president of Sigma
Chi, said, "I think it's a very intelli
gent decision by those fraternities who
can have kegs and those who can't to
get together and make one decision
for rush'
Sigma Chis national insurance
policy bans kegs only in certain cases,
usually open parties, he said.
IFC members also decided to use
some of their dues money to help Judi
Barter, the University's new frater
nity and sorority liaison, move to
Chapel Hill from Pennsylvania.
Frederic Schroeder, dean of stu
dents, said he asked the IFC, the
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in reported cases
they think of a man."
Martha Wilson, co-chairwoman of
the NCCGLE and a research associate
at the Bowman Gray School of Medi
cine at Wake Forest University, said
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