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WEATHER TODAY: Sunny; high mid-50s THURSDAY: Sunny; high near 70 NOT JUST A TA: Grad students combine teaching, study FOCUS, page 5 MAGIC MEMORIES: Students recall Laker great's career .......SPORTS, page 6 ON CAMPUS Students for the Advancement of Race Relations will support University housekeepers at 11 a.m. in the Pit. iar JIM 0 1 991 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Volume 99, Issue 114 Wednesday, November 13, 1991 Chapel Hill, North Carolina rl ' "'''t'l''TVv ' i i ' i FT i l&yt-P --sail u Corn checks Pat Bedinger, UNC assistant professor of biology for four years, attempts to determine whether her corn plants are fertile or DTHErin Randall sterile by checking the pollen on each ear early Tuesday afternoon in the greenhouse behind Wilson Hall. DTH directors approve plan for editor selection process By Soyia Ellison Staff Writer The Daily Tar Heel Board of Direc tors took the first step Tuesday night toward taking the candidates for editor off the student ballot and putting them in front of a selection committee. The board passed unanimously with one abstention a proposal that would change theeditorselection process. Stu dent Congress Speaker Tim Moore ab stained from the vote. Congress members probably will vote on the proposal at their Nov. 26 meet ing. If it passes, students will vote on it in a spring referendum. Under the proposal, the board of di rectors would choose an 11 -member selection board. Three positions would be filled by DTH staff members, and the remaining eight positions would be filled by students chosen by the BOD. Students would be selected to fill the at-large seats on the basis of leadership, experience, views about the paper, aca demics and extracurricular activities. The outgoing DTH editor and the DTH general manager would serve as non-voting "on-call" members and would provide information on techni cal questions. BOD members said they hope that under the new process the editor would be chosen based on editorial qualifica tions ratherthan political positions. The DTH then would operate as a truly free press, the proposal states. The selection board would interview candidates and choose one to be editor based on experience, innovative plat forms and qualifications. The selection process would be held about one month before spring final exams and would be completed in about one weekend. Members made several changes to the original proposal before passing it. Jennifer Wing, DTH editor and a non-voting BOD member, opposed the proposal's original designation of two student government members as voting members of the selection board. Wing See DTH, page 3 Planetarium will hang 6-pointed star despite Jewish coimnunity's concerns By Shea Riggsbee Staff Writer ; Morehead Planetarium officials plan to hang a six-pointed star atop the build ing to advertise a holiday show despite past complaints from the Jewish com munity that the star is a Christmas deco ration. ; " Lee Shapiro, planetarium director, said the "stylized star" was a way of advertising for "Star of Bethlehem," one of the planetarium's most popular shows. . But Leonard Rogoff, an active mem ber of the Chapel Hill Jewish commu nity, said the star made some Jewish people uncomfortable. "It's obviously not a cross, and it's obviously not a star of David," Rogoff said. But the star still is viewed as a religious symbol celebrating Christmas, he said. No one in the Jewish community feels strongly enough to file a lawsuit about the star, but most area Jewish people "would prefer that it wasn't there," Rogoff said. Shapiro said the star was no more of a religious symbol than a Professor Photon figurine that was poised on the building's roof a few years ago to ad vertise another program. The star has been the center of con troversy in the past. After complaints from Barry Nakell, a University profes sor of law, the star was removed during the last two weeks of the 1982 holiday season. It was left in storage for the 1983 season but was put up again in May 1984 for the planetarium's 35th anni versary celebration. It has been used to advertise for the "Star of Bethlehem" program every year since then, Shapiro said. Some people objected to the content of the holiday feature before he became director, but Nakell only complained about the star, Shapiro said. The presentation's purpose is to look at possible astronomical explanations See STAR, page 3 NewaSportsAru 962 0245 Business Advertising 962-1163 Student campus sexual assault charged with By Ashley Fogle Assistant University Editor A University student was charged Oct. 31 with sexual assault against a fellow student, according to University police reports. Robert Joseph Steele, 20, of 618 Craige Residence Hall was arrested at 9:46 a.m. Oct. 3 1 and charged with one count of second-degree sexual assault. Second-degree sexual assault is de fined as forced sexual activity without the use of a weapon. Steele, a junior from Stony Point, could not be reached for comment. Student Health Service counselors reported the incident to University Po lice Sept. 24 at the victim's request. The woman told police that at 12:30 a.m. Sept. 14 an attacker "forced her to engage in sex acts against her will by using physical force," the police report stated. The attack took place in a Craige dormitory room. University Police Maj. Bob Porreca said the case originally was taken as a blind report Sept. 24. "A blind report is taken when a wit ness or a victim wants to give informa tion about a serious crime but wants no action taken at the time," he said. "It's usually from the victim, and it's usually related to a sex offense due to the seri ous nature of the crime." Porreca said the victim gave police information then, but no complaint was filed, and no official police report was taken. Investigators kept in touch with the woman to monitor her case but didn't take any action because she did not want to prosecute the man. "Our major concern was the well being of the victim," he said. "We try to counsel victims and give them a realis tic picture of the hell they will go through." Between Sept. 24 and Oct. 31 the woman changed her mind and decided to press charges against Steele, he said. Steele was taken before Judge Patricia Hunt for his first appearance in Chapel Hill District Court. He was released on $10,000 bond. Congress' fall semester funds running lower than normal By Adam Ford Staff Writer Student organizations seeking money from Student Congress this semester face an uphill battle to get it. Congress has only $602.20 left in funds designated for use this semester, and campus groups still are requesting money. Congress members will hear a request tonight from the Toronto Stu dent Exchange for $2,175. Darryl Grissom, congress finance committee chairman, said the situation was not a crisis. "We have gotten very close to the deadline, but we are not in an emer gency," Grissom said. "We just need to be more careful on what we spend money on." Josh Siegel, student body treasurer, said that as of Oct. 16, the congress had $3,167.20 left of more than $12,000 designated for this semester. Congress Speaker Tim Moore said members had spent $2,565 since Oct. 1 6 in appropriations to campus groups, leaving a $602.20 balance. Andrew Cohen, congress finance committee member, said the current balance was the lowest he had seen in the fall semester during his three years in the congress. "Frankly, the congress is not being as fiscally responsible as they ought to be, and now they're going to have to pay for it," Cohen said. "Groups who come up with very worthy requests are going to have to be sent on their way." Siegel said that at the end of October, this year's representatives had spent about 6 percent more than last year's congress. Congress had $24,1 15.60 at the be ginning of this year to distribute, he said. That amount was divided equally between the fall and spring semesters. According to the Student Govern ment Code, the congress cannot spend more than the fall allocation without the consent of three-fourths of its members. Siegel said if the members vote to spend more than the designated amount, theextra money would come from spring semester funds. But Cohen said the necessary three fourths of the congress probably would not vote to begin using spring funds now, he said. "Often on funding votes it's fairly close, and that's just with getting a simple majority," he said. "If you need a three-fourths majority, some people are just not going to get the money." Moore said he was opposed to spend ing some of the spring semester's funds. "There's been a lot of talking about fiscal responsibility," he said. "It would be a mistake to deficit spend." Cohen said this was the first year congress members divided the funds between the fall and spring semesters. "Each of the past two years, as we got down toward the spring, we were scrap ing the bottom," he said. Siegel said the division helped con gress members budget theirf unds. "(The division of funds) is to protect our selves, student government or Student Congress, from giving away too much money," he said. The congress usually appropriates money to student organizations during the fall. Grissom said some groups re quested money in the fall because they had missed the deadlines for the spring budget process or had formed recently. UNC soccer players travel to China, chefs follow with pasta Local restaurant owners will cook for U.S. national team By Maile Carpenter Staff Writer The U.S. women's soccer team will be treated to a taste of home when Pete Dorrance and Greg Overbeck, part owners of Chapel Hill's Squid's and 4 11 West restaurants, travel to China Wednesday to cook for the team during the Women's World Cup soccer tournament. Dorrance's brother. Ansnn uill national team in the competition. Anson Dorrance is also l TUT.-. , . me uin women s soccer coacn. Pete Dorrance and Overbeck nlan to conk nast a high-carbohydrate dinners for the 26-member women's team. Pete Dorrance said he already shipped dry pasta and powdered sauces to Hong Kone with the national women's team. "Our main reason for doine this is that the eirls nn the soccer team are really picky eaters," Pete Dorrance said. Pete Dorrance said teams that traveled to China In the past disliked Asian dishes and "lived on M&Ms." Pete t. J , ' I, If it 4 . (I 'i i L, - u See CHINA, page 3 DTHDebbie Stengel Restaurateurs Pete Dorrance, left, and Cree Overbeck Anson's story only begins with the remarkable statistics RvnnimDnivunnK, ii.ii.ipii.iiiii!iiijiwiiiiiii, nineties. Heels have trailer! nnlvO A tvtm By Doug Hoogervorst Staff Writer Anson Dorrance has not even reached 40 vears of aee. and he al ready is the most successful women's soccer coach in the United States, possibly in the world. Don t believe it? Think about these statistics: I Dorrance has coached North Carolina women's soccer all 1 3 vears that it has been recognized as a varsity sport, and his teams have comniled a record of 247 wins, eight losses and : "-VPS K under (not 199I), Anson Dorrance In the past 10 seasons Dorrance countine North Carolina has won nine national titles. During the past seven sea sons, Dorrance's team has played 12,590 minutes (more than a week of constant playing) and trailed for only 52:23. The Tar Heels have trailed onlv 0.4 percent of the time. Dorrance now coaches the U.S. National Women's Team, which will play in the first women's World Cup later this month. The U.S. team, under Dorrance, has become a world power and a favorite to win the Cup. Nine of the team's 18 players played at UNC. Amazed? Wait until you meet Dorrance. He looks modest enough. Behind a mound of paper on his desk, in a Polo See DORRANCE, page 9 To be loved is to be fortunate, but to be hated is to achieve distinction. Minna Antrim
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