The Daily Tar HeelFriday, October 1 1, 19913
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WORLD BRIEFS
Witnesses to testify
on Thomas allegations
WASHINGTON Two witnesses
are expected to testify that Anita Hill
confided in them with allegations of
sexual harassment when the Senate Ju
diciary Committee opens new hearings
on the Supreme Court nomination of
Clarence Thomas, sources familiar with
the allegations said Thursday.
Both Thomas and Hill, now a Uni
versity of Oklahoma law professor, will
testify before the committee when it
meets Friday and possibly through the
weekend to assess the allegations that
forced a week's delay in the Senate
confirmation vote.
On Thursday, Bush urged the Senate
to "get on with this business in a fair
fashion, get this matter resolved. But
he said he did not intend "to inject
myself into what's going on in the Sen
ate."
"I am absolutely convinced he will
be confirmed," Bush told reporters after
a meeting with the president ot Costa
Rica. I support him 100 percent.
One of the two pro-Hill witnesses is
a former Yale Law School classmate
Susan Hoerchner, an administrative law
judge for the California Workers Com
; pensation Appeals Board, sources said.
The other is Joel Paul, an American
University law professor who has said
that Hill told him during a job interview
; that she had been sexually harassed by
an unnamed supervisor when she
worked for the EEOC, which Thomas
chaired for eight years.
Yugoslav army to leave
Croatia within a month
THE HAGUE, Netherlands -
Yugoslavia's army agreed in principle
Thursday to withdraw from Croatia
within a month, and Croat militants
pledged to lift their blockades of army
barracks in the secessionist republic.
The combatants agreed to negotiate a
political settlement to the civil war that
would address the grievances of the
Serb minority in Croatia, said Dutch
Foreign Minister Hans van den Broek,
who announced the agreement.
Van den Broek spoke after five hours
of talks with the leaders of Croatia,
Serbia and the federal military at a Eu
ropean Community-led peace confer
ence in The Hague.
The accord appeared to offer the best
chance yet for halting the three-month-old
civil war in Croatia, which has pit
ted Croat militants against ethnic Serb
guerrillas supported by Serbia and the
Serb-dominated federal army.
But it was unclear whether the latest
peace agreement would be observed by
fighters in the battlefield, who have
ignored eight previous, c, ease-fires.
More than 600 people are known to
have died since June 25, when Croatia
declared independence along with
neighboring Slovenia.
Baker warns of rising
violence in Middle East
WASHINGTON Secretary of
State James Baker said Thursday he
expected terrorists and extremists to
attempt to disrupt his drive to set up a
Middle East peace conference this
month.
Baker said "highly classified infor
mation" led him to the conclusion, but
he provided no details in his remarks to
reporters before a meeting with four
Palestinian Arabs.
Baker is scheduled to fly to the Middle
East Saturday night to try to arrange an
October peace conference.
"As we get closer and closer to the
end of October," he said, "I think that
there will be ... a tendency on the part of
rejectionists and extremists across the
region to take actions designed to dis
rupt the possibility of peace."
Depending on how his trip works
out. Baker said the United States and
the Soviet Union, as co-sponsors, might
issue invitations for a peace conference
later in the month even if all the parties
have not agreed to attend.
Fired postal worker
rampages, kills 4
RIDGEWOOD, N.J. A fired postal
worker armed with a machine gun, gre
nades and a samurai sword went on a
rampage Thursday, killing four people,
including a former supervisor who had
accused him of harassment, police said.
Joseph Harris killed the woman and
her boyfriend at their home in Wayne,
then went to the Ridgewood post office
where he killed two mail handlers as
they arrived for work, authorities said.
He surrendered there after a four
hour standoff during which he set off
two small explosives, police said.
An explosive booby-trap was found
at his rented room in Paterson in north
ern New Jersey west of New York City.
The Associated Press
Minority Career Fair - October 1 5 and
Carolina Career Fair - October 16 in the Great Hall
ihortfalls hinder capital improvement
By Shea Riggsbee
Staff Writer
New campus construction plans have
ground to a standstill as capital im
provement projects have become a ca
sualty of recent state budget shortfalls.
"The UNC system hasn't started a
new building in the last three years,"
said Sam Poole, Board of Governors
chairman.
Wayne Jones, associate vice chan
cellor for finance, said state legislators
used surplus money to fund capital
projects in the past, but no such funds
are available now.
Money might be available for such
projects in next year's budget, but the
state also might choose to replenish its
emptied reserves before allocating
money for capital projects, he said.
New School
of Business
dean sought
Committee formed
to fill Rizzo's post
By Peter B. Smith
Staff Writer
The search for a new dean of the
Kenan-Flagler Business School has
begun as the present dean finishes his
fourth year at the school.
The search committee formed to find
a new dean is now advertising for the
position nationally.
Their task is to find a replacement
for Paul Rizzo, whose term ends June
30, 1 992. Rizzo has decided not to seek
another term.
Audreye Johnson, associate profes
sor of social work and a member of the
search committee, said advertisements
were being placed in publications such
as The Wall Street Journal and the
Chronicle of Higher Education.
"I would hope that we would get a
large amount of well-qualified appli
cants because of our reputation as a
good school," she said.
Julie Ketner, associate director of
development and a search committee
member, said, "We want someone with
strong leadership abilities and who
works well with people. ... Relation
ships with national businesses are help
ful, but they are not the only thing we go
by."
Richard Cole, dean of the School of
Journalism and Mass Communication
and chairman of the search committee,
said in a press release that the members
were looking for someone "who can
continue the momentum the business
school has built up over the years."
Cole was out of town Thursday and
could not be reached for comment on
the search.
The search committee is composed
of 16 members who represent faculty,
students and outside businesses.
Five North Carolina businessmen
who are University alumni also will
help select the new dean.
They serve as special resource people
who suggest candidates and talk with
the nominees.
All the applications will be screened
beginning Nov. 15. Committee mem
bers hope to narrow the list of possible
candidates to three and present them to
Chancellor Paul Hardin by Feb. 28,
1992.
Hardin will select one applicant and
present the nominee to the UNC Board
of Trustees.
If the BOT approves the nominee, it
will forward the application to the Board
of Governors, which will make the final
decision.
The new dean probably would take
over the position July 1, 1992.
Students urged
By John Broadfoot
Staff Writer
Students may want to consider leav
ing their six-packs behind Thursday.
Zero Proof Day, a 24-hour period
when University community members
are urged to abstain from drugs and
alcohol, will be observed Thursday on
campus.
Donald Boulton, vice chancellor for
student affairs, discussed with students
in the Pit on Thursday the reasons for
next week's Zero Proof Day.
It is no secret that in our society
alcohol and drug problems abound," he
said. "We hope that we can have higher
expectations on campus rather than so
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"Realistically, we're not expecting very
much."
The lack of funds for construction
puts the University in a "status quo
situation," Jones said.
"What it does is put on hold the
changes in the programs that otherwise
would have been implemented or ex
panded." Problems began in 1989 when bud
geted money for capital projects was
frozen due to a budget shortfall, Jones
said. The 1990-91 budget allocated no
money for capital projects.
Projects were not canceled, but were
put on hold until sufficient cash was
allotted, he said.
Herbert Paul, UNC physical plant
director, said the reduction in appropri
ated funds for maintenance and repair
was leading to an "accelerated deterio
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Garrett Tripp, age 2, gets his hair cut by Crady Sturdivant at Friendly Barber Shop in
Carrboro. Garrett's good behavior during this second haircut won him a lollipop.
Residents:
By Grant Holland
Staff Writer
Residents close to a new subdivision
near North Street said the development 's
construction is ruining the environment
and killing wildlife.
Barbara Roth, who lives near the
development, said trees would have to
be destroyed by the construction.
"They (the developers) are going to
have to cut a large number of trees
down," Roth said. "Trees provide oxy
gen to help protect the ozone layer and
are absolutely essential to saving our
green space. I don't think the town is
considering their green space."
The Chapel Hill Planning Board rec
ommended the council approve the next
phase of the North Street subdivision
despite limited residential opposition.
Jim Eder, a North Street resident,
said he and his neighbors have been
following the development closely. The
development was originally planned to
be kept in one piece but is now being
divided into 1 1 lots, he said. This raised
concerns about "too many houses and
too many cars" being brought into the
area, Eder said.
But Gerry Barrett, spokesman for the
to keep bottles
ciety at large.'
Bill Riddick, Student Health Services
drugs and alcohol program coordinator,
developed the idea for Zero Proof Day
in 1988 to raise awareness about drug
and alcohol use on campus. This day is
observed as part of National Collegiate
Alcohol Awareness Week Oct. 14-19.
Boulton emphasized the importance
of Zero Proof Day. 'These are choices
of life and death, the most important
choices," he said. "We hope students
will exercise this choice their choice
not to drink."
Riddick said almost 85 percent of
college students have at least one alco
holic drink a week.
Drugs are not as prevalent among
ration" of campus buildings.
"We're talking about needing $8 to
$ 10 million dollars," he said. The physi
cal plant has received almost no funds
in the last several years, he said.
Paul said the plant's biggest concern
was system failures.
"You can only patch a roof so long,"
he said. Roofs that had been patched
and repatched would develop leaks
which would deteriorate the insides of
buildings, he said.
'The systems have the potential of
unscheduled, unplanned interruption,"
Paul said.
Many campus buildings also need to
be repainted, he said. If wood construc
tions are left with worn coats of paint,
they absorb moisture that is difficult to
paint over.
Metal surfaces corrode and masonry
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Subdivision
Raccoons are endangered by construction
of a new development, one resident says.
Little Creek Company, which is devel
oping the North Street subdivision, said
he was not aware of much opposition to
the development.
"I don 't feel there is any resentment,"
Barrett said. "There is concern and right
fully so. ... Whenever you take apiece
of land and develop it, there will always
be environmental and residential con
cerns." Andrew Peterson, a member of the
planning board, said "there really was
not much opposition."
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college students as alcohol, but for ev
ery 20 college students who use alco
hol, one uses an illegal drug, a press
release about Zero Proof Day stated.
The Drug Education Leads to Alter
natives Squad will help educate stu
dents about the dangers of drug and
alcohol abuse by publicizing Zero Proof
Day through flyers and a sign-up sheet
in the Pit.
Fredrick Bryant, a DELTA Squad
member, said the group informs stu
dents about the dangers of drug and
alcohol abuse.
After Boulton's announcement
Thursday, the DELTA Squad presented
him and Chancellor Paul Hardin
DELTA Squad T-shirts in appreciation
starts to seep through when wood is not
repainted as often as it should be, he
said.
"We have never had the amount of
money we felt we need to accomplish
necessary maintenance repair," he said,
adding that the problem had worsened
in recent years.
"I see a big problem in academic,
health affairs, and administration build
ings," Paul said.
Matt Drake, director of the office of
institutional development at the School
of Dentistry,said, "We continue toteach
and treat patients in a 40-year-old facil
ity." Brauer Hall's proposed addition, a
$13 million clinical facilities building
whose construction has been delayed
due to lack of funds, is at the top of the
University's capital project list, Drake
Committee to call
seniors about gift
By Amy Eslinger
Staff Writer
The Senior Class Gifts Committee is
considering six proposals for the gift
the Class of 1 992 will give to a Univer
sity department.
The Senior Class usually gives two
types of gifts to the University a
monetary gift to a department and a
physical gift for the campus. The com
mittee has not made definite plans for a
physical gift yet.
"Around the first of September we
solicited different departments across
campus for proposals for senior class
gifts," said Ruffin Hall, a committee
member. Six departments submitted
written proposals by the Oct. 1 dead
line, he said.
Committee members plan to ask stu
dents to help select the group that re
ceives the gift. "We will solicit senior
opinion through a phone-a-thon," Hall
said.
The Ackland Art Museum submitted
a proposal stating they would like to
hire a director to generate interest in the
museum among undergraduates.
Administrators in the Center for
Teaching and Learning would use the
money "to increase the quality of teach
ing among teaching assistants and pro
fessors," Hall said.
More need-based and academic
scholarships are proposed by the finan
cial aid office. The Student Opportunity
Fund and University Career Planning
may hurt environment
Peterson said the subdivision would
probably consist of eight or nine houses
when it was completed.
"People really don't want to see an
other big development going in,"
Peterson said, adding that he supported
the overall plans for the development.
But Roth said she is not satisfied with
the planning board's opinion and ap
proval of the continuing development.
"The town has no ordinance requir
ing an environmental impact statement,"
she said.
Roth said an impact statement, com
posed by environmental experts, would
require the planning board to address
environmental issues.
"If they won't listen to me then they
would have to listen to a trained profes
sional," she said.
Some neighbors said they felt that
everything would return to normal after
construction was finished.
"Once the building is over with, I
will have no objections," said Marie
Weiden, also a North Street resident.
"What difference is it going to make if
1 1 new residents have cars?"
But Roth said she doubted every
thing would return to normal. Possible
harm to wildlife is one of her concerns.
of their efforts.
Students who plan to participate in
Zero Proof Day can sign a petition that
will be available from DELTA Squad
members in the Pit. Over 13,000 stu
dents signed the petition last year.
Jonathan Justice, a freshman from
Fort Mill, S.C., said he doubted the
effectiveness of Zero Proof Day.
"It's a great idea, and it can be tried,
but in all honesty it will be difficult
because it's on a mixer night," he said.
Amy Sproull, a freshman from
Weddington, said she thought Zero
Proof Day would test students' com
mitment to sobriety. "It's a refreshing
idea, but I doubt its effectiveness be
cause it's on a Thursday."
said.
Dental research programs have grown
from $35,000 in 1963 to $5 million in
1 990. "Not one square foot of lab space
has been added," he said.
The Dental School is raising private
funds for the project, Drake said. "Our
goal is to raise $3 million."
The school wants to demonstrate to
the state that it could do its part if the
state is willing to fund it, he said.
Poole said a statewide bond issue
would help alleviate the problem.
A bill for the bond was introduced in
the legislators' last session but never
got off the ground, he said. The pro
posal may be introduced again in the
future.
Jones said a statewide bond issue
would enable the state to continue its
building plans.
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Ruffin Hall
and Placement Services both submitted
proposals to use the money for travel.
UNC Microcomputing Services pro
poses "computerizing the classroom"
and improving the technology of Uni
versity computers, he said.
Pat Calhoun, a committee member,
said the six choices would be narrowed
down to four before the phone-a-thon.
"We are in the process of doing further
research," he said.
Hall said volunteers will call about
600 seniors Oct. 28 and ask which pro
posal they like best.
"A lot of birds congregate in migra
tion, particularly thrushes," she said.
"With the (thrush) population already
decreasing, the development will take
away needed trees and it will be one
more thing that's going to stress them."
Roth also is concerned about the fate
of raccoons living in the area.
"Raccoons live in all the trees and if
they're cut down they no longer have a
home or natural food," she said. "I think
the wildlife will be greatly harmed."
Roth also discussed possible prob
lems from excessive noise caused by
the construction. Roth's house is lo
cated down a hill from the subdivision.
'There's no privacy as the steep hills
act as an amphitheater," Roth said. "You
can hear everything said."
Before the development was started,
other uses for the land were proposed,
including building condominiums.
Hazel Underwood, a resident of Lone
Pine Road said, "It's reasonable to ex
pect that (the land) will be developed."
She said she did not have any objec
tions to the subdivision as long as the
lots were large. "I'm not anxious to
have small lots with a lot of houses
because they might decrease the value
of the property around it," she said.
TaxWatch forum
slated for Sunday
Staff report
TaxWatch, a local political watch
dog group, is holding a forum Sun
day afternoon for the Chapel Hill
mayoral and town council candidates.
The forum, which will take place
at the American Legion Hut on Le
gion Road in Chapel Hill, will take
place from 3-4:45 p.m.
The mayoral candidates will be
allowed to present speeches focus
ing only on town revenue and expen
ditures. The council hopefuls will be
allowed two minutes to speak.