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COLLEGE CAMPAIGNS: 2 students run for state offices ......STATE, page 4 ON THE BEAM: Gymnasts set school record in dual meet SPORTS, page 5 ON CAMPUS Orientation interest sessions in Craige Green Room and the fourth-floor lounge of Hinton ames at 6 p.m. 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Est. 1893 1992 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 99. Issue 161 Monday, February 24, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcwsSporwAru 9620245 Business Advertising 962-1163 WEATHER TODAY: Cloudy; high mid-60s TUESDAY: Rain; high upper 50s CGLA budget passes congress by slight margin By Marcy J.Walsh Staff Writer Student Congress passed the Caro lina Gay and Lesbian Association's budget with a 14-13 vote Sunday but restricted the group's power by requir ing the organization to subm it copies of its publication for a congressional committee's approval. As the hearing drew to a close , some members attempted to rescind the vote by passing a separate motion after CGLA supporters left the meeting, but that motion was defeated narrowly. Svati Shodhan, CGLA co-chairwoman, said: "I'm joyous that our bud get passed. That was our main concern. I'd like to think of Student Congress as people we can work with, not as par ents." But Shodhan said a rider attached to the budget that required the group to submit its publications for review would hurt the group. ; "Unfortunately this rider, despite what (Speaker) Tim Moore said, does put a bottleneck on our fees because it equates being politically partisan with being political, and that is clearly not within the Student Code at this time." The rider, authored by Moore and amended by Rep. Andrew Cohen, Dist. 6, stated that publications must be sub ' mitted to the congress administrative committee. "The CGLA cannot use stu dent government funds in advocating, endorsing or opposing legislation, gov ernmental actions, candidates for po litical office or political action commit tees." Cohen said members would have dif ficulty making the distinction of what was permissible within publications. "Now instead of there being a CGLA, there's going to be a CGLA with con gress breathing down its neck." Shodhan said: "Basically, it's like a gag law. With the rider, it would mean Uinois man arrested for assault after naked Everett spree By Steve Polltl University Editor A University of Illinois student who frightened residents while running na ked through Everett dormitory was ar rested Saturday and charged with as saulting a resident and two University police officers. Officer Keith Edwards said the stu dent, Michael David Kubal, was using hallucinogens at the time. Kubal as saulted Edwards and Capt. Paul Caldwell during a scuffle while the two tried to arrest him, Edwards said. March, candlelight vigil honor local slain activist By Maile Carpenter Staff Writer Friends and family of former Inter nationalist Books owner Bob Sheldon held a march and vigil in his memory Friday night, honoring Sheldon's role as a local businessman and as a politi cal activist. Friday was the one-year anniver sary of Sheldon's murder at his Rose mary Street store. Marchers assembled at the Chapel Hill post office at 7:30 p.m. with candles and flowers and marched to International ist Books at 408 W. Rose mary Street. Sheldon and his peace efforts dur ing last year's gulf crisis were remem bered by speakers at the service. Donna Sutherland, a ten-year friend of Sheldon, said she and Sheldon had much in common. "Bob and I shared a passion for politics and social justice," she said. "He would applaud our efforts to un derstand his death." Other friends of Sheldon talked See MARCH, page 7 You are all a bunch of faggots. that we would not be able to comment on HIV legislation. We would not be able to comment on the homophobic views of a candidate running for office on the state or national level, and these things affect the gay and lesbian com munity, and it directly impacts us on this campus." Moore, who stepped down from his position as speaker during the CGLA budget hearing, said it was against the Student Government Code to use stu dent fees to fund any group associated with political parties. He quoted passages from newspaper articles linking the CGLA to politically active groups across the state. Congress must evaluate each group according to this criterion, Moore said. Political activism is not appropriate, he said. "We have to spend the students' money wisely, and we have to adhere to the code." Rep. Michael Kolb, Dist. I, said Moore did not make the distinction be tween CGLA and the individuals who might participate separately in politi cally active groups. Rep. Ron Swift, Dist. 7, said scruti nizing the CGLA's political activity is a means of changing a moral argument into an argument about the code. Shodhan said, "It's clearly discrimi nating, and if they legislate that this is how we have to behave, then they must legislate that is how everyone has to behave." The CGLA does not support any political candidate or party and has not endorsed candidates, she said. But Rep. Doren Fredrickson argued that funding the CGLA might affect adversely the amount of money given to the school. The same voters who elect U.S. Sen. Jesse Helms, whom the CGLA publicly denounces, elect the state leg islators who decide how much money See HEARING, page 7 "At times I considered drawing my weapon to get him under control," she said. "Our priority was to get him out of the dorm and the presence of the women in the dorm." Shelley Hilton, a freshman from Greenville, said she encountered Kubal inthethird-floorhallway.ShesaidKubal grabbed her wrist when she refused to go near him. She pushed him away, ran down the hall and hid in a friend's room, she said. Hilton called University Police from the room, she said. Holly Derr, another resident, said she also called campus DTHCianl Halverson Diana McDuffee remembers activist Bob Sheldon at a vigil Friday night j ; y t ' 1 1 Students meet on battle field of Jell-0 nin.iii. .piiimuiiii, ......... mtv" 1 wig..!'- 'ww iimwum n v - - ' 't' l .y ' " V II V 1 Gary Drumheller, a drum major for the UNC Marching Band, is slammed into lime Jell-0 by lonathan Anderson from Carolina Fever. The two battled Friday night in Woollen Gym in a Jell-0 wres tling competition sponsored by the UNC-. Rostov Exchange to raise money for the group'sMaytriptotheformer Soviet Union. Contestants included members of the Clef Hangers, Student Environmental Action Coalition, the fencing and football teams and Mr. UNC. The program will send 1 2 University students and two faculty mem bers to Rostov-on-Don and will sponsor the Chapel Hill visits of students and fac ulty members from Rostov State University in October. DTH photos by Florian Hanig police when Kubal opened the door to the room in which she was watching a movie. "In the middle of the movie the door opened," Derr said. "Theguyjust walked in, playing with himself, totally naked." The students in the room managed to get Kubal out of the room and to lock the door, she said. Derr said Kubal left but continued to walk up and down the halls, knocking on doors and turning door knobs. "If there was anybody home in their room, he pretty much just walked in." Police finally caught up with Kubal aREE . ACADEMICS ROLE OF GOV'T "UNC students need at least three reading days." She introduced the Peer Advising Program to provide a new perspective to the advising process. J Q Rashmi Airan Will logically reschedule exam times, establish a target grade option with the passDfail policy and move Reading Day off Saturday. I John Moody SBP platform ideas draw mixed ByJ. Michael Bradley Staff Writer University officials have expressed mixed reactions to the platform propos als of student body president candidates Rashmi Airan and John Moody. Voters will choose between the two candidates in a run-off election Tues day. Both Airan and Moody support changing Reading Day from a Saturday Rep. Eric Pratt to I ' m vxw w"1 in an empty second-floor room. "It took several police officers," Derr said. 'They had trouble getting him cuffed." . Three of the residents went to Chapel Hill police tofilecomplaints, but Hilton said she was the only student who filed. Den- said she and another resident, Dawn Zientek, were going to file charges of indecent exposure. Hilton said: "They didn't think those charges would weigh enough. But those charges affect most people in this dorm." Edwards said Kubal apologized to police officers for his behavior. Hilton Government must light for a free-standing black cultural center, departmental status for the African and Arronerican curriculum, recruitment of Native-American faculty and for a.p.p.I.e.s. Government should coordinate grassroots political involvement in state and national campaigns. Government should aid in the founding of a multicultural center to alleviate racial tensions, establish an AfricanAmerican department, increase the number of bike racks on campus and work to increase the number of business hours at Union Station. to a weekday, but University Registrar David Lanier said such a change was unlikely. "Keeping Reading Day off the week ends never made any sense to me," Lanier said. Airan supports the addition of at least three Reading Days, an idea Lanier also found unrealistic. "We have to consider what happens when you add days on to a semester," Lanier said. "It's a nice idea to say that. Student Congress i - if said he also came to her room to apolo gize, but she wasn't there. She said she would not drop the charges. Hilton said resident assistants and housing officials would want to hold a meeting about the incident because Kubal was a resident's guest. Katherine Woodson, a sophomore from Deerfield, III., said Kubal was in her room because he was a friend of her brother, who was visiting fellow frater nity members this weekend. Woodson said the incident was out of her control. "I feel I should have been respon STUDENT FEES ENVIRONMENT WHY RUNNING An appointed development officer will research alternative funding resources for student projects. Will fight for the total environment, citing the South Loop Road as a primary battle. Congress should allocate more money to graduate student programs, and student government salaries should be discontinued. More recycling needed and them himself if but (candidates) need to be rational and sit down and see what that does to the entire calendar." Extending the semester would make it difficult to send out grades and con sider appeals promptly, Lanier said. Dietrich Schroeer, Educational Policy Committee chairman.questioned Moody's proposal of a target-grade option linked to the passDfail option. The Faculty Council reviewed and rejected a similar proposal last aca after CGLA budget was approved Black faculty ratio too low, official says By Jennifer Talhelm Staff Writer The number of black University fac ulty members has increased by only two in the last five years, a committee chair man reported to the Faculty Council Friday. George Noblit, chairman of the Com mittee on Black Faculty, said the total number of black faculty members in creased to 49 between 1986 and 1991, while the total number of faculty mem bers increased by 76 to a total of 1 ,748. Blacks make up about 3 percent of the faculty. "The percentage of black faculty re mains constant over the last five years," Noblit said. "That's a shame." The report stated that black faculty members stayed at UNC because of its academic rank but cited negative fac tors such as a limited benefits package and the lack of ethnic and racial diver sity within the faculty. The report mirrored a report by the Chancellor's Committee on Commu nity and Diversity. That report said black faculty members were "at the risk of being asked to do 'double duty'" be cause they often were asked to assist with minority affairs activities as well as academic activities. The report also stated that "minority faculty are 'frequently left out of oppor tunities to head projects or participate in research efforts.'" Nobl it said: "This part of the report is constant: 'Ain't it awful, ain't it awful, ain't it awful.' We think it ought to not be awful any more." Noblit outlined some possible rem edies suggested in the report. "First is to embrace diversity as part of our mission," he said. University officials need to be clear in their standards for recruiting minor ity faculty and in expectations of the faculty, Noblit said. A second suggestion was the expan sion of the pool of minority doctorate holders in the country. "We think that if we ever want to be See FACULTY, page 7 sible since he was in my room, but I was unaware of the action," she said. "We couldn't handle it. We tried the best we could." Kubal could not be reached for com ment. Derr said residents were concerned about security. "We were kind of con cerned already with all the stuff going around on campus," she said. A recent report said reported assaults on campus had increased by 50 percent. Sally Bright, Derr's roommate, said See EVERETT, page 7 3 To open up student politics to ensure accessibility and the production of tangible solutions by working with all students. stations are he will empty necessary. To address the daytoday problems facing all students in a logical, straightforward manner in the form of a student who wants to serve. reactions demic year, Schroeer said. The council also agreed not to consider any addi tional changes to the passfail system for the next three years. Donald Jicha, associate dean of the General College, added: "That (idea) is a resurrection. That's nothing new." Development office officials were confused by Airan's proposal to pres sure Chancellor Paul Hard in for a newly See SBP, page 7
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