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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
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Volume 99, Issue 68
Friday, September 6, 1991
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
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Court
By Soyia Ellison
Staff Writer
After months of waiting, the Student
Supreme Court decided Thursday not
to find in favor of either the Student
Congress speaker or congress members
who Filed a lawsuit about summer con
gress appointments.
The three justices, Mark Bibbs,
Eleanor Stokes and Anna Danegger,
deliberated for more than two hours
before making their decision.
Thecourt also criticized Student Body
President Matt Heyd for not appointing
supreme court justices in the spring.
GPSF wants vice president post
By Amy Eslinger
Staff Writer
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation members unanimously ap
proved a proposal to create a graduate
vice president position in student gov
ernment at a recent meeting.
Student Congress members must
approve the additional position before
it can be created.
Graduate students need more repre
sentation in student government, GPSF
President Jane Roper said Thursday.
Mail clerk
By Bonnie Rochman
Assistant University Editor
A UNC employee has filed two griev
ances alleging racial discrimination
against her director.
Sylvia Cameron, a UNC mail clerk,
said she filed the first grievance in De
cember 1990 because administrative
manager Thomas Brickhouse was ver
bally harassing her. But Cameron said
she now is concentrating on the second
charge.
She filed the second grievance in
July after Brickhouse asked her to re
port to work during her vacation and
made a rude comment about her.
Cameron contends that the actions were
racially motivated. "There ain't no ifs,
ands or buts about it."
Chancellor Paul Hardin distributed a
memo in August stating that the Uni
University ranked
9th best college buy
by Money magazine
By Cathy Oberle
Staff Writer
: Students upset about the recent tu
ition increase may be reassured by
Money magazine's 1992 College
Guide that they are still getting a good
education for their money.
The article, which hits newsstands
Monday, ranks the University ninth
out of 1,011 accredited public and
private colleges for providing quality
education at reasonable prices.
y Donald Boulton, vice chancellor of
Student affairs, said UNC students
Contribute only 7 cents of every $1
spent by the University on education.
"I think that all of these rankings
speak well of ourUniversity,"he said.
"Even with ... the (budget) short
fall, it says this state has always in
vested here in the University."
Frederic Schroeder, dean of stu
dents, said UNC was a great value for
in-state and out-of-state students.
"Even with the tuition increases ...
the University still is an excellent bar
gain and a great opportunity," he said.
; - The survey narrowed the list from
1 ,0 1 1 to 1 00 schools by examining 12
factors.
The factors includedtuition, the student-faculty
ratio, library resources,
acceptance rates, freshman retention
rates and graduation rates.
; Money magazine used out-of-state
Wine
faults
'This case could have been resolved
at a more appropriate time ... had emer
gency justices to this court existed to be
called upon," the three presiding jus
tices stated in their opinion.
Congress members Andrew Cohen,
Dist. 6, and Michael Kolb, Dist. 1 , filed
the lawsuit in May against Speaker Tim
Moore and Elliott Zenick, summer
speaker pro tempore.
Cohen and Kolb contended that
Moore violated the Student Constitu
tion by appointing 11 summer congress
members,
Wayne Goodwin, counsel for the
plaintiffs, said in hisopening arguments,
The GPSF president will serve as the
additional vice president if the proposal
passes in congress, she said. But the
position would not be filled until an
other GPSF president is elected in the
spring.
Roper said she has only briefed mem
bers of congress on the idea.
But Matt Heyd, student body presi
dent, "seemed to like the idea," she said.
"We want to formalize a link of rep
resentation," Roper said. "GPSF has
not been recognized by the administration."
charges director with racism
versity would not tolerate racial or sexual
discrimination.
"If everyone would pay attention to
that, I wouldn't be in this situation,"
Cameron said.
The University recently ruled against
her second grievance at Step 2, but she
is appealing the decision to Step 3.
At Step 1 of the grievance process,
the complaint is handled by the em
ployee and his or her immediate super
visor. The supervisor at the next level
investigates the complaint at Step 2,
and a three-person panel reviews it at
Step 3. If the employee pursues the
complaint to Step 4, it is heard outside
the University by an administrative law
judge.
Cameron said when she expressed
interest in an upgraded position, a co
worker told her Brickhouse had said, "I
hope that the bitch gets the job and gets
tuition and fees to compare the costs
at each school. UNC's out-of-state
tuition and fees are $5,75 1 . according
to the UNC Undergraduate Bulletin.
The College Handbook 1991, a
publication with extensive informa
tion about colleges around the coun
: try, stated that UNC accepts 33 per
cent of undergraduate applicants.
Ninety-two percent of freshmen re
turn for their sophomore year, and 72
percent graduate.
Other N.C. schools in the top 100
were Wake Forest University, ranked
39th; N.C. State University, 41st;
Lenoir Rhyne College, 79th, and
Davidson College, 82nd.
The other Atlantic Coast Confer
ence schools ranked in the top 100
were the University of Virginia,
ranked 4th; Georgia Institute of Tech
nology, 30th; Clemson University,
73th, and the University of Maryland,
100th.
U.S. News and World Report
ranked UNC as the best buy among
national universities in its 1989 and
1990 polls.
The magazine ranked UNC the
fourth best public university in the
nation, and 20th in the top 25 public
and private universities in 1990.
U.S. News and World Report based
itsnationalrankingson academic repu
tation, selectivity, student retention,
faculty and financial resources.
The 1991 survey has not been pub
lished yet.
... an excuse for deeds otherwise unforgivable. Elbert Hubbard
code in suit against
"If the supreme court does not find in
favor of the plaintiffs ... it will have
sounded the death knell for representa
tive democracy at the University of
North Carolina."
Moore and Zenick countered that the
student code and the constitution were
ambiguous about summer congress ap
pointees and that Moore followed the
precedent established by last year's
Speaker Matt Heyd when he made his
appointments.
Moore said no written procedure ex
isted for appointing summer congress
members, and he had followed verbal
instructions from Heyd.
Heyd said communication between
graduate students and student govern
ment is important. "I absolutely agree
that (government) needs more graduate
presence."
A congress member must sponsor a
resolution calling for the new position
before members can vote on the idea.
Roper said the GPSF had not for
mally approached any congress mem
bers about sponsoring the proposal.
Mark Shelburne, Dist. 19, said he
believed the proposal was "a very good
the hell from down here."
Brickhouse said he could not com
ment on the case because it was a per
sonnel matter.
Ben Tuchi, vice chancellor for busi
ness and finance, suggested in a Sept. 4
letter that Cameron be relocated to the
Health Affairs Mail Center in MacNider
Hall, under the immediate supervision
of Sylvester Brooks. She now works in
the Hamilton Hall mail area.
Tuchi stated that although she would
stillbe under the directionof Brickhouse,
she would not be in his work station.
But Cameron said she objects to this
solution because she would still be in
Brickhouse's chain of command.
"I want to stay at the same pay rate
and be relocated," she said. "But I don't
want to be under Tommy's direction."
Tuchi also said he could not com
ment on the matter.
Outside funding needed to endow chair
By Adam Ford
Staff Writer
Student groups trying to establish an
endowed chair in the name of Sonja
Stone may have to use outside funding
to achieve their goal.
Students marched to South Building
Tuesday with a letter demanding that
Chancellor Paul Hardin establish the
chair, which would bear the name of the
African and Afro-American studies pro
fessor who died Aug. 10.
Ben Tuchi, vice chancellor for busi
ness and finance, said although an en
dowed chair could be established with
Soviet Union reorganizes
The Associated Press
MOSCOW In a dramatic break
with seven decades of iron-fisted Krem
lin rule, lawmakers on Thursday ap
proved the creation of an interim gov
ernment to usher in a new confederation
of sovereign states and put a graceful
end to the disintegrating Soviet Union.
After three days of stormy debate
and intense back-room negotiating, the
1,900-member Congress of People's
Deputies declared a transition period to
a "new system of state relations."
The measure they approved envi
sions a voluntary union based on inde
pendence and territorial integrity for
the republics, and it enshrines democ
racy and human rights. Under the in
terim government. President Mikhail
Gorbachev remains in control of for
eign policy and the country's nuclear
arsenal.
Gorbachev, who rammed the bill
through a recalcitrant Congress, praised
the lawmakers, saying they "rose to the
occasion" at a crucial juncture in Soviet
history.
Goodwin argued that Heyd's actions
last summer were also unconstitutional.
The court agreed with Moore that the
Student Code was ambiguous and that
there was no written procedure govern
ing summer congress appointments, but
said he was not empowered to make the
appointments.
The court then directed congress
members to amend the code to create
new laws for summer appointees before
the close of the 1991 fall semester.
Moore said he was happy with the
court's decision. "I'm very pleased to
be found free of any wrongdoing, and
I'm glad that the court saw in favor of
idea," and he would consider sponsor
ing it.
Carl Clark, Dist. 1 8, said more gradu
ate students should be included in the
judicial and legislative branches as well
as the executive branch.
'The gap needs to be closed between
undergraduate students and graduate
students in student government," he said.
But he questioned whether the addi
tion of a second vice president would
give graduate students enough repre
sentation. Cameron said the position offered to
her in MacNider Hall is one level below
her present job. She said she would not
have any opportunities for advance
ment if she accepted it. Cameron also
would receive less pay, she said.
But Tuchi told Cameron in his letter
that she would keep her present salary if
she accepted the new job.
Cameron said the new job would not
be advantageous for her. "By them of
fering me the Health Affairs position,
they're not helping me," she said. "I'm
still under the same director."
InNovember, Cameron filed a sexual
harassment charge against Carl Purefoy,
former supervisor of the mail center.
The charge is still pending, she said.
Purefoy, now retired, said Cameron's
claims were not true. "It's a bunch of
lies," he said. "All the accusations are
untrue."
University funds, they have never been
used to create one.
It also would be difficult for the Uni
versity to finance because no money is
available, he said.
Money from University trust funds
are the only sources that could be used
to establish an endowed chair, and bud
get problems have eliminated incoming
reserves for several years, Tuchi said.
"Funds would only become avail
able if something else were el iminated,"
he said.
Student Body President Matt Heyd
said that because it would take $500,000
to establish an endowed chair, funding
"Tremendous renewal has certainly
taken place," he told the Tass news
agency.
Reformist lawmaker Arkady
Murashov, grinning happily, put it dif
ferently. "The Soviet Union is finished,"
he told reporters.
The upheaval even threatened to
sweep away the embalmed remains of
Vladimir Lenin, founder of the Soviet
state and communism's most sacred
symbol. Before the Congress adjourned,
Leningrad's reformist mayor, Anatoly
Sobchak, proposed removing Lenin's
body from its stately mausoleum in Red
Square.
The Congress effectively put itself
out of business by approving the re
structuring plan. The Congress, which
had been the Soviet Union's highest
legislative body, agreed to transfer its
power to a smaller, reconstituted ver
sion. Under the restructuring, a new ex
ecutive body will run the country, led
by the Soviet president and consisting
of the leaders of all the republics.
the defense."
Congress will amend the code to
accommodate summerappointments"in
a timely fashion," Moore said.
Kolb also said he was happy with the
decision.
'The court clearly did not desire to
attach blame to the speaker, and that
was fine with us," he said. 'This was
never a lawsuit based on personal con
flict." The court granted most of the plain
tiffs' demands, Kolb said.
After the suit was filed. Bibbs had
issued an injunction forbidding sum
Memorial service
A sympathetic crowd mourns at Sonja Stone's memorial service Thursday afternoon in
Memorial Hall. The late professor was remembered by friends, relatives and colleagues.
outside the University would be neces
sary. "One of the goals of the Bicentennial
Campaign is to establish some chairs,"
Heyd said. "I think this one would be
one of the most difficult to achieve but
the most worthwhile."
The money would be raised from
sources inside and outside the Univer
sity, he said.
"I think (raising money for the chair)
would be a good way for groups on
campus who have not been involved to
get involved," he said.
June Steel, director of planned gifts
disintegrating republics
The body, the State Council, will run
defense, security, law enforcement and
foreign affairs. Another body, the inter
republic economic committee, was to
coordinate the national economy and
implementation of the economic re
forms. Its chairman will be named by
the president, with the agreement of the
State Council.
The lawmakers' overwhelming en
dorsement of Gorbachev's restructur
ing plan capped three weeks of dizzy ing
change that began with a coup by hard
liners and triggered the collapse of cen
tral authority and the Communist Party.
All but five ofthe 15 Soviet republics
have declared independence, and
Gorbachev was poised to formally rec
ognize the three Baltic states. He said he
and his new State Council would act
Friday on Baltic independence.
The passage of the measure marked a
return to Gorbachev's old leadership
style finding the wave of reform and
leaping to the head of it. He did not
hesitate to use strong-arm tactics to win
approval for his plan.
Moore
mer congress from meeting before the
case was settled. But the case could noi
be heard during the summer because
only two justices were in town.
Heyd said he did not appoint the new
justices in the spring because they tradi
tionally had been named in the fall. But
the Student Code states that the justices
should be appointed within five weeks
of the student body president's inaugu
ration. Heyd could not appoint emergency
justices this summer because the in
junction prohibited summer congress
from approving Heyd's appointments.
DTHS. Exum
for the University's Office of Develop
ment, said students did not usually re
quest an endowed chair.
Usually the development office
matches private donors with areas of
study that need professorships, build
ings and other things, he said.
Robert Temple, assistant director of
the Arts and Sciences Foundation, said
chairs generally are endowed in the
name of a parent, friend or family mem
ber. "It is much harder to raise money for
something in someone else's name."
Temple said.
Gorbachev dominated the huge and
raucous parliament, squelching debate
and refusing to accept proposals from
the chamber.
"I will not yield the microphone to
anyone from the floor!" he said as some
deputies tried to speak. "Either make a
decision or not. That's all!" Hard-line
lawmakers had mounted heavy resis
tance to Gorbachev 's plan a day earlier,
but he battered them down. After
Wednesday's session, he sent lawmak
ers into caucuses, where they were sub
jected to arm-twisting by republic lead
ers who had helped put together the
plan.
Many lawmakers bel ieved that if they
had not approved the measures,
Gorbachev would simply have imple
mented them by decree.
Also, many believed they had to act
swiftly to stave off the possibility of a
chaotic breakup that could even lead to
civil war.
The measures were not formally pie
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