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BREW FROM A BOX: Vending machines to carry beer ....... FEATURES page 2 SOCCER SHUTOUTS: UNC women beat Virginia, Brown....SPORTS, page 10 ON CAMPUS Dancers from the Carolina Hispanic Association will kick off a week-long celebration today at noon in the Pit. fc Mm Serving the students and the University community since 1893 1 991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99, Issue 74 Monday, September 16, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewsSportsArts 962-0249 BuslnessAtlvcnking 962-1163 WEATHER TODAY: Mostly sunny; high mid-90s TUESDAY: Cloudy; high in low 90s .BOG member resigns, UNC president By Marty Minchin Staff Writer Walter Royal Davis resigned from the Board of Governors Friday in pro test of UNC-system President C.D. Spangler's management of the univer sity system. Davis, who was elected to the board in 1981, said he thinks Spangler does not handle all of the system's problems adequately because he is involved in too many personal business ventures. "In my opinion, Spangler cannot serve two masters," Davis said in an interview Sunday. "He cannot be in volved in major financial deals andsuits outside of the university." Spangler is a major stockholder in NationsBank and was listed by Forbes magazine as one of the nation's 400 wealthiest people. Spangler said Sunday that he had little to do with the day-to-day opera tion of his family's business. "It's possible to be a good board member and not be in agreement with everything that's going on," Spangler said. "I told Mr. Davis that I thought he was a fine board member, and he UNC psychology assistant commits By Beverly Klnlaw Staff Writer Frank Bostancic, a UNC psychol ogy graduate student, took his own life Tuesday. Bostancic, 36, died about 2: 1 0 p.m. at a Pinegate Circle apartment from a gunshot wound to the head. He was a doctoral student in clinical psychol ogy and a teaching assistant. The suicide followed a period of depression, according to Chapel Hill police investigators. Bernadette Gray-Little, director of the psychology department's clinical program, said Bostancic was inter ested in pursuing a University position in teaching or administration. Bostancic had entered his third year as a psychology graduate student and was serving as a research assistant in the department of psychiatry. Amos Wolf, a psychology graduate assistant, said Bostancic was very well liked. "Outside of the personal things, I feel real bad about what the world has lost," Wolf said Sunday. "He had that incredible future." Frederic Schroeder, dean of stu dents, said Bostancic attended Ohio State University, Rockland Commu nity College of New York and Xavier University before coming to UNC. "It's a tragic death," Schroeder said. 'The loss of any student is tragic, and this one is a very tragic situation." Bostancic donated his body for medical research. Arrangements are being made for a memorial service. Sworn in Mark Bibbs, left, a UNC-CH senior and president of the UNC-system Association of Student Governments, is sworn in as the Board of Governors' newest member Friday. Never faults shouldn't resign." Davis said several events in recent years showed Spangler's poor manage ment. The 1989 scandal at N.C. State Uni versity, which led to the resignation of the head basketball coach and the school's dean, was handled poorly by Spangler, Davis said. The recent controversy to drop "Chapel Hill" from UNC-CH's official title also caused too much adverse pub licity for the system, he said. Spangler said he only carries out the policies set by the 32-member BOG. Davis said: "Spangler has not served the university well. He had to have his free time to devote to the university , and I could not convince him of that. He is a good, honorable man, but he is in the wrong business." Davis said he would continue to work in the UNC system despite his resigna tion. 'Twill stay involved in the university as long as I live," he said. "I think it's a great institution." Davis served as a member of the See DAVIS, page 7 Psychological Services offers 24-hour help to students with nowhere to turn By Howard Thompson Staff Writer Students considering suicide can find help coping with their feelings through a variety of programs offered at UNC Psychological Services. Clinical psychologist Meredith Mayer said the first priority of the service, adi vision of the Student Health Service, is to be available for people who need help. "We offer psychotherapy and an assessment of help we can give," she said. ' The service has a 24-hour emer gency service as well as regular walk ; in hours. It also offers group and peer counseling. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among college students, ac cording to a study by the Journal of College Student Psychotherapy. Thirty-two percent of students who participated in the study said they had : serious suicidal thoughts, and 4 per cent said they had attempted suicide. A report by the UNC Department of Housing stated that female college stu dents attempt suicide three times as often as males, though males are twice as likely to succeed. Similar numbers were found by the journal's study. The studies also found relationships Contributed by Evan Eile say 'oops' in the operating room. Troy's Law of Local Anesthesia Studious somnambulist Camille Caddy, a sophomore mathematics major from Raleigh, listens to the radio as she caiches upon her Computer Science 14 reading at 1 1 p.m. Friday. Caddy was one of 95 teaching suicide between suicide and depression, psy chosis, introversion, intelligence and alcohol and substance abuse. But Dr. Myron Liptzin, Psycho logical Services director, questions the true meaning of these risk factors. 'They are not very good indica tors," he said. "Ninety-three percent of the campus drinks, but we don't have 23,000 suicides a year." Liptzin instead relates suicide to a complicated series of causes and ef fects, defining it as "a reduced level of calm to a moment of hopelessness and arbitrary irrationality." A big difference exists between suicide and depression-related suicidal thoughts, Liptzin said. Fleeting feelings of helplessness and despondency are common, often caused by relationships, distress or a loss of self-esteem. "Suicide is always looked upon as the ubiquitous out. T can always kill myself,'" he said. The housing department report cited personal and academic adjust ment difficulties as the most common complaint from troubled students. Suicidal feelings rarely lead to actual suicide attempts, Liptzin said. But Psychological Services considers suicidal thoughts and feelings very seriously, he said. Hardin to discuss By Michael Workman Staff Writer Heeeeeere's Paul! UNC Chancellor Paul Hardin will discuss the future of the University on a local television program tonight at 7:30 p.m. on N.C. Public Television, Chan nel 4. Hardin's interview on North Caro lina People," a weekly program, cov ered a wide range of topics, said UNC President Emeritus William Friday, the show's host. Hardin talked about the Bicentennial Campaign and the upcoming celebra tion at UNC as well as the state of publ ic schools and universities in general, Fri day said. Hardin said the main focus of the interview, which was taped last week, was the University itself. "I talked about my vision of the fu Proposal for new executive committee up for discussion Faculty to analyze possible By Jennifer Talhelm Staff Writer Faculty Council members voted Fri day to refer a proposal calling for the creation of an Executive Committee of the Faculty to another committee for study. The Committee on University Gov ernment will study the proposal and make recommendations to the full coun cil at a later date. The proposed ECF would serve as an advisory body for the faculty chairman or chairwoman. It would facilitate fac ulty involvement in University plan ning, priority setting and policy mak ing. The ECF also would be able to act when decisions needed to be made quickly and the Faculty Council was not scheduled to meet. "It will bring to bear on this campus what is really its most precious resource, and that is ourselves," said Thomas Meyer, chairman of the committee that proposed the ECF. An ECF was first proposed in April when it became apparent that an execu tive committee would serve a very use ful function, he said. 'The Chancellor turned to the fac ulty and brought together administra tors and faculty members to consider budget problems that we face," Meyer said. An ECF would have made it easier for such a group to be formed, he said. University's future ture of the University," he said. "It was a pretty comprehensive discussion of the University." Friday said Hardin also discussed intercollegiate sports and talked about his family. "It was a full 28 and a half minutes," Friday said. Hardin said: "It was very upbeat. It was quite a pleasant experience. I hope everyone enjoys it." Friday said Hardin's involvement in the bicentennial celebration was the rea son the chancellor was interviewed on the show. "He has just finished his third year as chancellor, and he is getting ready to launch into the Bicentennial Campaign and observance," Friday said. A North Carolina native, Hardin was named the seventh chancellor of the University in July 1988 after serving 13 participants who helped raise money for the Inter-Faith Council's during Alpha Phi Alpha's Second Annual Morrison Sleep-out for the "There is a need for a continuing body to associate with the legislature." Harry Gooder former Faculty Council chairman Harry Gooder, former chairman of the faculty, created an ad hoc commit tee in April to study the possibility of creating an executive body. The com mittee met weekly during the summer. At the council meeting, Gooder summed up the reasons the ad hoc com mittee thought an executive branch was needed. The ECF would concentrate on long range planning, something for which the council's code doesn't provide, he said. If noone oversees long-range plan ning, plans may be lost. Faculty members also need to be more involved in the development of budgets, Gooder said. Members of the ECF would represent the faculty while helping administrators plan budgets. tonight on public years as president of Drew University in Madison, N.J. He is a former president of Southern Methodist University and Wofford Col lege and was also a Duke University law professor. Although h is roots are in the Tar Heel state, Hardin said during the show's interview that education must reach beyond North Carolina. "We're really not serving our state as educators if our emphasis is only on North Carolina," Hardin said. "We need to know and learn about other cultures because our future is bound to nations in Africa, Asia and Europe." Hardin's interview will be rebroad cast Sunday at 5:30 p.m. Friday said the weekly show had been on the air for more than 15 years. It features "everything from blacksmiths to recent authors," he said. DTHBrian lories. homeless shelter Homeless. advisory body "We are no longer a state-supported institution; we are a state-assisted insti tution," he said. "The faculty has raised much of the money and uses much of it." The executive branch would address and educate the general public on the relationship between faculty and re search as well as interact with legisla tors. 'There is a need for a continuing body to associate with the legislature," Gooder said. "Some of our friends are badly misinformed." The proposal was presented Friday to the faculty to be approved in prin ciple. B ut many faculty members expressed concern that the proposal did not en tirely meet the needs of the faculty. John Sanders, director of the Insti tute of Government, suggested sending the proposal to committee. "It is not to be looked at in principle and then to be referred and studied," he said. "The amended motion calls for it to be referred to the Committee on Uni versity Government and studied." Joseph Ferrel I, chairman of the Com m ittee on University Government, said the committee had many options. "The government committee may view nothing needs to be done," he said. "It may agree it is sound. Or it may make perfecting changes to it, or come up with something completely differ ent." ; television program Paul Hardin tee f4
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