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Volume 99, Issue 118
Tuesday, November 19, 1991
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Human subjects participate
in studies for better or worse
ByPritiChitnis
Staff Writer
Whether the ad is bold or unobtrusive "Earn $$$$" or
"Paid Volunteers Needed" it usually arouses a certain
amount of curiosity and even wariness in readers. To some it
looks like a simple way to earn some money, but many may
wonder what occurs in research studies involving human
subjects and why people choose to participate in them.
Douglas Long, a philosophy professor who teaches a
bioethics class at the University, said the world began to
focus on the negative aspects of using human subjects in
research after World War II because of the dramatic case of
the Nazis.
The Nuremburg Codes, established after the war, required
human subjects to provide informed consent before partici
pating in research, Long said.
He added that before public outcry rose against practices
in the United States, "there was a time when drug companies
would use (prisoners) as a stock population for tests."
Modern researchers are limited by stricter requirements.
Researchers must meet federal regulations as well as Food
and Drug Administration guidelines in order to receive
approval for theirprojects, said John Herion, chairman of the
committee on the protection or the rights of human subjects,
an institutional review board that serves the faculty and
students of the UNC medical school.
Susan Bauer, the committee coordinator, said there were
1,470 active studies this year at UNC alone."Any research
that involves human subjects has to come before the commit
tee," she said.
Each study has to be looked at on its own merit, but factors
like the money offered and the risk-benefit ratio involved are
also considered in the evaluation process, she said.
Myron Cohen, professor of microbiology and immunol
ogy and director of the division of infectious diseases in the
medical department, is currently conducting a study to de
velop a vaccine for a common bacterial infection.
The six-day study involves creating a mild, bacterial
infection in the human subject and at first sign of the infection's
success, curing it, Cohen said.
'The treatment we have is 100 percent effective and works
very fast to eliminate the infection," he said.
Cohen explained that the bacteria take on important char
acteristics while growing in humans. The characteristics
need to be understood to create an effective vaccine, he said.
"If there was a reasonable animal model, we would use it."
Cohen emphasized that extreme caution was being used
because the study involved human subjects.
'The number one priority has to be the health and safety of
the subjects," Cohen said. "The study is organized so that the
chance of complications is rare."
He said the study paid subjects only enough so that, "if they
worked for six days, they would earn the same amount of
money. In any human experiment, you don't want the money
to be so much that it clouds the judgments of the subjects."
Remuneration, or monetary payment, for subjects is a
major ethical concern in the research community today.
"Fifty dollars is much more coercive to poor people than
the wealthy," Long said. "The burden of research may fall on
those who are more needy.
'The main thing is don't offer sums which to an average
person would look like an offer he couldn't refuse."
But most researchers and subjects admit money is the main
reason people participate in studies.
Herion said, 'These are individuals who have nothing as
an incentive to participate, yet it's terribly important that
some people do."
David Dolan, project manager for the Bionetics Corpora
tion, is working with the Environmental Protection Agency
and the University to conduct various studies in air pollution
See EXPERIMENTS, page 3
Gunshot, assaults mar dorm party
By Adam Ford
Staff Writer
An unknown person fired a gunshot into the ceiling at
Morrison Residence Hall about 1 a.m. Sunday morning after
a fight erupted in the dormitory lobby.
The incident occurred after a dance in the Morrison Rec
reation Room on the first floor. The dance was sponsored by
Phi Beta Sigma fraternity. No security guards were present at
the event.
Michelle Reid, a Morrison resident assistant, and GeWana
Heath, a sophomore from Charlotte, said they were in the
lobby when the fight started.
Reid said the fighting started about 1 a.m. "There was a big
crowd in between the glass doors (of the back exit) and we
realized that someone was about to start fighting."
According to the University police report, about 80 people
were in the lobby at the time of the shooting, but no one was
injured from the gunshot.
Witnesses said the man who fired the shot was not a UNC
student.
Lt. Walter Dunn, the chief investigator in the case, said
University police recovered physical evidence and had some
leads in the case.
"The bullet was recovered and it appears to be from a .25
caliber, possibly a .32," he said.
A female UNC student said she was assaulted by a group
of six to eight black males during the fight. She said the fight
occurred after an argument between the group and her boy
friend, who is also a UNC student.
The student said one member of the group began to talk to
her and then discovered she had a boyfriend. His friends then
began harassing her and her boyfriend, she said.
The woman and her boyfriend attempted to leave the lobby
by an elevator, but the doors would not close, she said. "One
of (the group of attackers) was in the doorway and three or
four of them had run to the car and gotten guns and came
back."
The victim said a short dark-skinned male came into the
elevator, hit her boyfriend and pulled her into the lobby.
"They pushed me on the ground, pulled my hair and hit
me," she said. "That's when the shot went off."
At least three of the attackers had guns, she said. "I saw two
guns and the other one that the person shot in the air."
The man who fired the gun was a black male wearing a red
cap and a red sweatshirt, she said.
An eyewitness said the gunshot was not directed at anyone
but was fired at the ceiling to scare people so the attackers
could leave.
The victim said that after the shot was fired, one of the
attackers pulled her outside and tripped her.
Conseula Thompson, a Morrison resident, said she was hit
in the face while trying to help the victim after she was pulled
outside.
"He hit me with his fist and I had to get three stitches in my
lip," Thompson said. "One of my teeth went through my lip,
and I have two knuckle marks."
The victim said fraternity members should have hired
security guards for the dance.
Andre Tippens, the fraternity president, said the party
ended at 1 2:30 a.m. and most fraternity members already had
left by then.
"Most of the party crowd had already left," he said.
"Usually on Morrison nights at that particular time there are
a lot of people in the lobby anyways."
Rick Bradley, Morrison area director, said the policy for
reserving lounge and common areas such as the recreation
room would be reviewed as a result of the incident.
"Any time there is an incident as serious as gunfire in a
residential lobby, there is naturally going to be a look at the
policy," he said.
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Adam Duggan, a senior from Durham, tries for a strike during his beginning bowling class Monday in the Student
Union. Joe Angus teaches the class, which Dugan said is entertaining and stress-relieving.
Sophomore finds
basketball stolen
from Duke arena
Student a suspect in theft, police say
By Steve Politi
University Editor
and Heather Harreld
Staff Writer
Duke University's missing basket
ball is no longer missing.
UNC sophomore William
Holshouser said he found the ball Sun
day night in a bush near a parking lot
between Fraternity Court and Granville
Towers.
The ball was stolen early Friday
morning with several trophies and other
memorabilia from Duke's 1991 national
basketball championship. The basket
ball was the only stolen item that was
not found by UNC police Saturday
morning in front of the Old Well.
Holshouser and his fraternity brother
Sam King took the basketball to WCHL
radio Monday morning. King, who is a
reporter for the station, said, "We fig
ured it would make a decent news story."
The basketball was returned to
Duke's athletic department by Barry
Jacobs, author of the Atlantic Coast
Conference Handbook, who was ap
pearing on WCHL's morning show.
The ball was not actually used in the
Final Four, but the score of the champi
onship game is painted on it.
Det. Charles Nordan of Duke police
said Holshouser is a suspect, despite the
fact he returned the ball. "But on a scale
of one to 10, he's on the low end of the
scale because he turned the basketball
Nordan said he could not reach
Holshouser Monday afternoon by tele
phone. "We're going to talk with him
and get further information on how he
got the basketball."
Duke police will continue to investi
gate the incident, Nordan said. "It's like
a bank robbery the FBI wouldn't
stop the investigation because all of the
money was returned," he said.
Holshouser said he wasn't sure if he
would receive a reward and he didn't
know who took the trophies from Duke's
Cameron Indoor Stadium.
Nordan said a reward stilt was of
fered, but it was for information leading
to the apprehension of the robber or
robbers.
Richard Kilwien, Duke assistant
sports information director, said most
of the recovered memorabi I ia was dam
aged. "Everything is pretty scratched up
and some of the trophies are broken," he
said. "We're taking steps to repair or
replace them."
The 1991 ACC championship tro
phy and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski 's
coach of the year trophy were damaged.
This is the first time Duke officials
have had problems with people tamper
ing with the trophies, Kilwien said.
Officials may install security alarms
and cameras, but "these security mea
sures are still in the developmental
stages," he said.
Room assignment process to be
changed for first-year students
By Michael Workman
Staff Writer
First-year students applying for on
campus housing now will indicate only
a preference for South, Mid or North
Campus instead of specific residence
halls.
Housing officialsdeveloped the plan
in an effort to simplify the process of
assigning rooms, said Larry Hicks, as
sociate housing director of administra
tive services.
Under the new plan, the housing de
partment will reserve at least 25 percent
of each residence area for first-year
students instead of the 50 percent now
set aside, he said.
"Not holding each building to 50
percent gives us greater flexibility for
returning upperclassmen and the (Resi
dence Hall Association) diversity pro
posal," Hicks said.
RHA members have proposed set
ting aside 15 spaces in each Mid or
North Campus dorm for black students.
Michael Barnes, RHA minority af
fairs executive assistant, said changing
the way rooms were reserved for first
year students would help RHA's pro
posal work.
"The spaces freed up in each resi
dence hall opened spaces for the pro
posal," he said.
Hicks said first-year students also
would receive a brochure with general
information about University housing
instead of the traditional Hallways and
Highrises booklet with their acceptance
notices.
"Hallways and Highrises is officially
no longer," he said. "In the past, we
tried to put a lot of information in a little
space."
The new brochure will contain more
general information about each area of
campus instead of specific facts and
figures.
"What we wanted to do is give them
an idea about the flavor of each area,"
he said. "The first brochure will give
them a general feel for campus hous
ing." Instead of providing information
about all housing programs, the new
brochure will ask students to request
information and the department will
send them the information later.hesaid.
Returning students will benefit from
other changes in the way rooms are
assigned. Hicks said.
"We are trying to eliminate the com
plexity in the process," he said. "Our
catch phrase has been simplicity."
Students who want to return to cam
pus will receive assignments through a
four-option process.
The first option, commonly known
as "squatter's rights," allows students
who are happy with their present rooms
to return to them the next year.
Under the second option, students
can pull friends who live on campus or
are first-year students into their rooms
if their present roommates don't want to
stay in the rooms.
The third and fourth options apply to
students who want to move to a differ
ent room within their area or a different
area. A random four-digit number will
be used to place these students in rooms
based on the last four digits of their
social security numbers.
Housing Director Wayne Kuncl said
he was pleased with the new plan.
"I feel very good about it," he said.
"Overall, I feel like we're moving in the
right direction in terms of responding to
student needs."
Scott Peeler, RHA co-president, said,
"They are trying to get more customer,
or student, service. On the whole, we
think it's a really good process."
Top of the Hill plan backed at council hearing
By Dana Pope
Staff Writer
A proposed development on the
corner of East Franklin and South
Columbia streets received enthusias
tic support from neighboring busi
nessmen and town council members
at a public hearing Monday night.
The development, which would
replace the Top of the Hill conve
nience store, would house retail, of
fice and restaurant space spread out
over three floors.
Chapel HillMayorJonathanHowes
said he was "wildly enthusiastic" about
the project and the development pos
sibilities it presented to downtown.
"I am delighted the owners have
brought forth this proposal," he said.
"It is the most exciting project in the
100 block in recent memory."
Council member Nancy Preston
asked whether the University had been
considered in the planning, because
the town now requests more input on
University development proposals.
Roger Waldon, town planning di
rector, said the University had been
notified in a formal letter, because
Ackland Art Museum, a University
building, is adjacent to the property.
He also said the town and the Univer
sity had communicated in staff-to-staff
meetings about the proposed development.
The proposal complies with required
regulations and standards of the devel
opment ordinance with the exceptions
of parking, floor area and height limits,
the town manager's report states.
Riddle Commercial Properties, the
Fayetteville-baseddeveloper.requested
that the parking requirement be waived.
Under town ordinance, the building
would require about 83 parking spaces.
Mickey Ewell, the owner of
Spanky's, which is across the street
from the proposed site, said that he was
pleased with the council's enthusiasm
on the project, and that the only concern
he had heard from other merchants was
parking problems.
"As it stands now, lack of parking
discourages downtown development,"
he said. "We would like to encourage
such development in our neighbor
hood." The two driveway connections at Top
of the Hill would be closed under the
new plan because no parking would be
available.
Waldon said he supported waiving
the parking regulations to eliminate
most traffic problems on the site.
Town council member Joyce Brown
said she would like to see a move to
ward more transportation planning. The
proposal had included the possibility of
giving the building employees bus
passes so they wouldn't drive to work.
"1 would like to see us have some
thing really strong," she said. "I'm not
sure that bus passes do that. I'm not in
favor of bui lding more park ing spaces,
but we should look at more transporta
tion planning."
Town council member Art Wemer
agreed that waiving the parking re
quirement was a step in the right direc
tion toward efficient transportation.
"We are trading inappropriate park
ing for more square footage, which we
need in this area," he said.
The report states that present town
ordinance allows only 20,645 square
feet of space on the site, but Riddle
contends that the 33,000 square feet is
necessary to make the project eco
nomically and financially feasible.
Waldon said the building almost
would fill the lot and suggested the
floor space requirement also be waived.
"The building on this site makes a
lot of sense," he said.
Waldon added that the height limit
would also be waived.
Mark Zack, an architect for Hakan,
Corley & Associates, who drew the
plans for the project, said the residents
of Chapel Hill were considered in the
development plans.
Howes said the new building would
be something that UNC alumni could
appreciate when they returned.
"Alumni will find this to be fully com
patible to the 100 block they knew
when they were students here."
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