Newspapers / Daily Tar Heel (Chapel … / Aug. 22, 1991, edition 1 / Page 1
Part of Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.) / About this page
This page has errors
The date, title, or page description is wrong
This page has harmful content
This page contains sensitive or offensive material
PUMP IT DOWN: Town lowers permitted noise level TAKE ME OUT . ... : Fall UNC sports events on tap CITY, page 5A SPORTS, page 8B ON CAMPUS Paint and Wood, an exhibition of works by Michele Powers and Paul Cush at Morehead Planetarium, North Gallery fiiir Iff 1 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 C1991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 58 Thursday, August 22, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSporuArts 9624245 Business Advertising 962-1163 WEATHER TODAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-80s FRIDAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-80s Stone's loss of By Natarsha Witherspoon Staff Writer Sonja Stone, a popular associate pro fessor of African and Afro-American Studies and an advocate of black inter ests at UNC, died Aug. 10 after having a stroke. Stone, 52, came to the University in 1974 to lead the Afro-American Stud ies curriculum. She served as director of the curriculum for five years. Harold Woodard, assistant dean and lecturer in the curriculum of African and Afro-American Studies, said he was one of Stone's first students. "I knew I wanted to one day teach the black experience at the university level, and the fact that I ' ve been able to do that is in large part due to the impact she had on me as a student," Woodard said. "I feel strongly that her death is such a loss for this campus and for her col leagues in AFAM studies across the country. Her commitment to black stu dents and to black studies since 1 974 on this campus has been unequaled, and I think she was a giant that can't be re placed." Margo Crawford, Black Cultural Center director, compared Stone to Malcolm X. D epartments add tohelp fulfill perspectives By Matthew Mielke StaffWriter Class sections added earlier this month will allow most freshmen and sophomores to register for classes that meet their General College require ments, although the classes may not be what they want. David Lanier, University registrar, said 84 percent of freshmen had com plete schedules as of last week. Ninety four percent of freshmen had complete schedules as of Wednesday. "We are back to the point we've been in previous years," Lanier said. Academic departments have been adding freshman and sophomore-level class sections to accommodate the de Gorbachev The Associated Press MOSCOW In a dramatic turn of events, Mikhail Gorbachev reclaimed control of the Soviet Union and re turned home to Moscow early Thurs day, arriving only 70 hours after hard liners in the Communist Party, KGB and military ousted him from power. The coup leaders dropped from pub lic view, with at least five expected to have fled the capital city. Tens of thousands of anti-coup dem onstrators outside the Russian Parlia ment building, Russian President Boris Yeltsin's stronghold since the coup began Monday, waved red, white and blue Russian flags and roared with approval at the hard-liners' retreat. At Hector's has remained closed from ' "" i ' M;j. ."" ' iiiimipj'iiiWMffwwsiv . . . Jj. ) j II - i I - - : 1 The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of death Hack leader V' " v HSI HIM Mitts' WMWmmmmm Sonja Stone "Sonja had that kind of aura one had to relate to her she was a very sweet and loving person with not an ounce of weakness," Crawford said. "Sonja Stone was an experience in and of herself, full of her blackness with such dignity." Stone helped to write the most recent proposal to make the curriculum in Af mand for classes to fulfill perspectives. "These basic courses have been in creasing since the beginning of last week," Lanier said. Thirty-six English sections have been added since Aug. 6, he said. Ancel Mewborn, director of Under graduate Studies for the mathematics department, said his department had added seven sections since freshmen began registration. Lanier said although telephonic reg istration for freshmen began Aug. 1, academic departments did not add the sections until Aug. 6 because they were waitingfor the N.C. General Assembly's finalized education budget. The depart ments needed to know how many gradu ate students they could hire to teach the regains control of Soviet Union Soviet SEke-up least four people were killed earlier nearby in overnight clashes with Soviet soldiers. "We've stopped the attempts to seize our building and takeour legally elected president," Gen. Konstantin Kobets, chairman of the Parliament Defense Committee, told the elatedcrowd. "This, 1 OTHBnanjona fire damage for six months marks rican and Afro-American Studies a de partment. She also served on the Black Cultural Center Planning Committee, the Committee on Recruitment of Black Faculty and the Campus Y Advisory Board. She was the adviser for the UNC Collegiate Black Caucus, the African American Studies Club and the Black Student Movement from 1974 to 1980. Stone founded the Southeastern Black Press Institute in 1 977 and served as the institute's director until 1979. The Class of 1990 chose her for the Favorite Faculty Award, and the UNC Alumni Association named her the first recipient of the Outstanding Black Fac- ulty Award in 1990. Harold Wallace, vice chancellor for University affairs, said, "She was a dy namic, caring, committed person committed to teaching." Some students who studied under Stone said her teaching changed their lives. Donee" Thomas, a 1990 UNC gradu ate, said Stone pushed students to do well. Teresa Gordon, a senior from Char lotte, said she would remember Stone's See STONE, page 11A sections sections. "Around the first of August, we were able to tell departments to go hire some graduate students," Lanier said. Some departments also increased enrollment within certain sections in time for the second telephonic registra tion period, Lanier said. Many freshmen who have schedul ing problems are having difficulty get ting into mathematics or foreign-language classes. John Anderson, a freshman from Charlotte, said he was able to register for a math class but could not get into a Spanish class. "I'm delighted that I was able toeven get 12 hours," he said. Soviet civilians celebrate 6A World leaders react 6A U.S. market stabilizes 7A comrades, is your victory!" As the coup collapsed, tanks with drew from Moscow, and national legis lative leaders invalidated the coup lead ers' decrees, including press restric tions. Even the Communist Party de nounced the coup. A prosecutor an nounced he would open a criminal in vestigation into the actions of the men who ousted Gorbachev. The plane carrying the Soviet leader landed at 2: 1 5 a.m. Thursday (7:15 p.m. EDT Wednesday) at Moscow's Hector's, building owner told to settle By Amber Nimocks StaffWriter HILLSBOROUGH The owner of Hector's and the landlord of the down town building that burned last February should try settling a $3.5 million law suit out of court, Superior Court Judge Donald Stephens said this week. The lawsuit, filed Aug. 8 by Hector's owner Bob Spear, alleged that Paliouras Enterprises Inc. attempted to lease Hector's space to another restaurant, which would be a violation of the lease signed last year. Spear sought a tempo rary restraining order to prevent Paliouras Enterprises, owned by James and John Paliouras, from negotiating with other prospective tenants. Lee Corum, attorney for the I v. ' Pr --it r '! t if- j W ' r Hog Heaven The father and son team of Tim and Jimmy Davis fine tune a 1985 dealership in Durham. Jimmy Davis, better known as the hog sportster Wednesday morning at Hog Heaven, a Harley Davidson doctor, has been perfecting his mechanical art work since 1 950. Vnukovo-2 Airport, which was guarded by 200 troops, including 130 from the Russian republic's Interior Ministry. Normally, the Soviet presi dent is guarded by the KGB, whose leader was involved in the coup. . He was greeted by deputy Moscow Mayor Sergei Stankevich and other Russian officials, then rushed off in a motorcade that the Interfax news agency said took him directly to his dacha, or country home, in suburban Moscow. Gorbachev told President Bush in a telephone callat7:19p.m.(12:19p.m. EDT) that the coup was over; it began See SOVIET, page 7A out of court Paliourases, denied that his clients at tempted to lease the property to another tenant. Spear's suit also alleged that the Paliourases violated the lease agree ment by not repairing the premises "as speedily as possible." Stephens dissolved the temporary restraining order and urged both parties to settle the matter out of court. Spear said he would meet soon with representatives from Paliouras Enter prises to discuss the suit. Hector's and other restaurants in the building, located on the corner of East Franklin and Henderson Streets, have been closed since the fire that destroyed them in February. See HECTOR'S, pageA New business school plans continue despite lack of state funding By Steve Politl Assistant University Editor Plans for the construction of a new $30 million building for the Kenan Flagler School of Business will con tinue on schedule, despite the failure of a proposal to sell bonds to help pay for the project. About half of the building's financ ing was to be part of a $600 million bond issue for statewide capital im provements that the General Assembly did not approve. About $ 1 8.5 m illion in private money has been raised for the building's con struction through endowments and do nations, said Gail Gilbert, director of development for the school. The Wil liam R. Kenan Charitable Trust donated $10 million to the project. "We're still working according to plan," Gilbert said. "We're very much hoping the state legislature will recon sider the bond issue this winter." The design of the new building is being refined, he said. The four-story, 160,000-square-foot building is sched uled for completion by 1994. It will be located near the southwest corner of the Kenan Center on Bowles Drive. Don Sibly, contracts coordinator for the state construction office, said the business school shouldn't expect fund ing from the state. "If the economy should improve, they still couldn't expect it until next May," Sibly said. The school would need to ideas. George Santayana DTHS. Exum raise the remaining funds through do nations and endowments, he said. "The business school is not sitting dead in the water," Sibly said. "It has sufficient funds to take it through de sign." The $600 million bond issue was reduced to $45 million by the General Assembly, Sibly said. About $14.3 million of the $45 mil lion was allocated for UNC-system schools to make general repairs on ex See BUSINESS, page 4A Join the DTH If waiting in lines to buy books has become a drag, why not try some thing exciting? Join The Daily Tar Heel staff. We need writers for Uni versity, city, state and national, arts and features, plus photographers, copy editors and people to lay out the pages. No experience necessary. To find out what the DTH is all about, stop by our table in the Pit between 1 1 a.m. and 2 p.m. from now until next Thursday or come by the office. Union Suite 104, to pick up an application. The DTH will have two interest meetings next week: 4:30 p.m. Tues day, Aug. 27, and 7 p.m. Wednes day, Aug. 28. A copy editing test will be given at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 29.
Daily Tar Heel (Chapel Hill, N.C.)
Standardized title groups preceding, succeeding, and alternate titles together.
Aug. 22, 1991, edition 1
1
Click "Submit" to request a review of this page. NCDHC staff will check .
0 / 75