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Volume 100, Issue 14 Thursday, March 26, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NewiSportoArts BurincMAdwrtiling 9624245 962-1 16 J Residents lobby By Jennifer Mueller Staff Writer Despite assurances that it is for their own good, third-floor Joyner residents are protesting the University 's policy of locking the bathroom doors in all-female residence halls. "I don't think that women should have to live their lives in fear," said Dawn Morgado, head resident assis tant. "This is making women cooperate in their own oppression." Bathroom doors on all-male and coed floors are not locked, she said. All female floors in coed resident halls also do not have locked bathrooms. Morgado's residents have been told not to interfere with the locking mecha- Education program gets axed By Steve Politi University Editor School of Education officials have decided to stop offering undergraduate teaching degrees in high-school-level social studies, one of the school's highly demanded programs. Shortages of faculty members and of jobopenings for high school social stud ies teachers prompted education school officials to halt the program, Dean Donald Stedman said Wednesday. "We're trying to get a much better handle on our operations," Stedman said. "We have too many programs for the faculty we have. Some have to go. "We just don't have the horses. Until we have the horses, we can't have the programs." Dixie Spiegel, assistant dean of stu dents in the school, said 30 percent of the program's graduates did not And jobs. "We would be remiss in preparing folks for a marketplace that doesn't have any jobs." Stedman emphasized that the mora torium would affect only freshmen, who have not declared their major. But Mark Kleinschmidt, a senior social studies education major, disagreed. "There's no way, no matter what the dean says, that it's not going to reflect on me," Kleinschmidt said. "I'm going to have to spend special time in job interviews explaining why my credibil ity hasn't been tarnished because the program doesn't exist any more." Mamie Broadhurst, an N.C. Teach ing Fellow, said 16 of the 60 freshman N.C. fellows were planning to study social studies. Teaching Fellows are awarded full scholarships for attending the educa tion school and spending their first four years after graduation teaching in North Carolina. "This is messing around with our lives," Broadhurst said, adding that fel lows had agreed to dedicate eight years of their lives to the program. "We've already committed ourselves to some thing as we thought they did." She added that several students were willing to drop their scholarships if school officials didn't agree to allow freshmen to major in the program. Allan Brandhorst, the school's pro fessor who teaches social studies, said whether he would keep hisjob was "still an open question." "I haven't had any direct conversa tion with the dean at this point," Brandhorst said. "It's my understand ing that this is a decision he made on his own. I really don't know." See EDUCATION, page 5 BGC president: will suffer from By Marida Moye Staff Writer A ban on parties in the Great Hall might have a disproportionate impact on black campus organizations be cause they lack the financial backing of their white counterparts, said the president of the Black Greek Council. "Great Hall has served as the pri mary source of revenue for many of the black organizations for a long time," William Hawkins said. "If you close that facility, those organizations will have to cut back on University and campus service nism on bathroom doors to keep them open. "This is protectionism of women," she said. "(The residents of my hall) are adults and have the ability to make their own choices." But University Housing Director Wayne Kuncl said, "It's not a matter of choice it's a matter of liability and risk management." The residents of third-floor Joyner have used tacks and tissue paper to keep their bathroom doors open all year, Morgado said. She was first informed that they were not allowed to do so earlier this semester. "This is not a written policy," she said. "There is nothing (the residents) signed their names to." Springfest fashion Laura Allen, the Henderson Residence College governor and a sophomore from Winston-Salem, shows off the HRC Springfest T- Committee approves drilling on proposed landfill locations By Jennifer Brett Staff Writer Members of the Landfill Search Com mittee voted 6-5 Wednesday night to drill on four potential landfill sites as the initial phase of geotechnical site evaluation. Locations to be evaluated are Site 2, located near the Cane Creek reservoir. Sites 9 and 11, located near the Eno River State Park, and Site 17, located near Duke Forest. Although the LSC meeting was not a public hearing, about 300 peoplepacked the Chapel Hill High School audito rium to voice their concerns regarding individual sites and the site selection process. "You have no process" and "Dis band the LSC" were among the com ments crowd hecklers shouted during the two-hour meeting. In response to crowd comments re garding Site 1 1, located near farmland, LSC member Thomas Warren said farms near the proposed site generated more pollution than a landfill would. "If Site 1 1 is picked, a state-approved erosion control plan would be imple mented," Warren said. "A landfill would be a better neighbor than the farms for Black groups Great Hall ban projects." Rioting in the Student Union during late-night events has erupted as re cently as Sunday morning when a fight broke out during a BSM-sponsored party. A stampede of about 1 ,000 students flooded into the parking lot, and 16 police officers from the town and the University were needed to break up the fight on South Road. "I am an advocate of the safety of students we must take the neces sary precautions to prevent such inci- See PARTIES, page 6 Men who never get carried away to keep bathroom doors unlocked Most women on the third floor of Joyner maintain that the rule discrimi nates against women, and many said they would continue to tack the doors open despite orders not to. In a meeting last week with Area Director Suzie Orr and Assistant Direc tor of Housing Mary Crotty, residents of Morgado's hall discussed the policy of keeping their bathroom doors locked. A primary complaint from the resi dents was the awkwardness the lock on the door presented for anyone carrying shower items. The lock requires two hand manipulation to leave the bath room. Orr said, "This is not an issue of convenience versus safety, but an issue of safety." the (Eno River) park." LSC member Valerie Kubacki asked thecomrnitteetoconsiderreturningfour more sites to the active consideration list. "I don't think we're ever going to reach a consensus," Kubacki said. "No one seems willing to compromise. Until we have additional data, what are we going to base our decision on?" Each site has advantages and disad vantages, and the LSC should not make a final decision until it receives objec tive information about each site, she said. LSC member Nina Baird echoed Kubacki's sentiments, adding that the committee could add additional sites if all four sites under active consideration proved unsuitable. "Idon'thave any geotechnical data," Baird said. "I feel like we're short circuiting the process if we proceed without more objective information." Because of the potentially intrusive nature of drilling, residents around each site should be contacted and should grant permission before testing begins, she said. Gayle Wilson, LSC member and Orange County solid waste administra tor, said people living on or around sites iff jff' -viS BISA encourages students to Editor's note: This is the fourth in a five-part series dealing with black reli gious issues. By Kristin Leight Staff Writer Gregory McLeod came to Carolina two years ago, and like all freshmen, he left much behind. Christian worship was one of those things. "I wasn't involved in any religious group, and I lost part of my identity," McLeod said. "Part of my identity is being a Christian." Now, McLeod serves as president of the newly formed Black Interdenomi national Student Association, and he worships regularly. "Being in this Christian group allows Crotty said the housing department decided to install locks on the bath rooms of all-female residence halls about three years ago. A series of inci dents, which included a man pulling a curtain aside as a woman was shower ing and another man attempting to touch a woman in a shower, prompted the change, she said. "Unfortunately, you've been think ing that you had a choice," Crotty told the residents. "The level of risk is not based on how you feel, but on statis tics." Lynn Ritchie, a third-floor Joyner resident, pointed out that the current locks would make it much harder for a woman being attacked in the bathroom to get out and for rescuers to get in to OTHErin Randall shirts Wednesday to Cassaundra Sledge, also a sophomore from Winston-Salem. Cat's Cradle will host Springfest Saturday. would be contacted by letters request ing permission to drill. If denied access to site areas, the LSC could obtain state permission to proceed, he said. Some members disputed the LSC decision to remove Site 3, located near Duke Forest, from the list of active candidate sites. The LSC several weeks ago presented Sites 3 and 17 to the Landfill Owners Group for final consideration, but Site 3 later was dropped from consideration. State regulations mandated removal of Site 3 because of its proximity to Horace Williams Airport and the poten tial hazards it would pose to area wild life. "It's absolutely fascinating to me that birds seem to be more important than water," said LSC member Walter Faribault. The committee should consider ask ing the state for a waiver that would allow them to return Site 3 to the active candidate list, he said. Don Willhoit, LOG member and Orange County commissioner, com mended LSC members for the selection process they had adopted. The LOG would like to evaluate ex tensively at least three potential sites, Willhoit said. V rvx3 any 1 me to learn about God and keep myself close to religion." BISA provides different avenues of worship and devotion in the Christian community for students, said Lisa McNeill, a freshman from Lillington and BISA's first vice president. BISA has helped McNeill avoid the loss of religious involvement McLeod had as a freshman. "It's easy to lose your religious iden tity here," she said. "BISA has made it very much easier to keep my Christian should be. Malcolm Forbes help her. Other residents said that a woman screaming or sounds of a scuffle in the bathroom would alert the whole hall. "We realize that we are women and we are at greater risk for some things, and we tend to look out for each other more," a Joyner resident said. But Joyner resident Tonia Lea said: "I would feel much better if the doors were locked. I really believe that some thing could happen." Ritchie said, "I think we're old enough and mature enough to make our own decision, and I think we're old enough and mature enough to accept the consequences." Crotty said: "No one wants to accept the consequences for being hurt. Ethi Judge on dismissal of rape -trial. By Warren Hynes Sports Editor HILLSBOROUGH After almost two full days of trial, the defense intro duced a motion Wednesday to dismiss the case against a University student charged with first-degree rape. Orange County Superior Court Judge F. Gordon Battle will decide at 9:30 a.m. today whether to terminate the case against Carmen Edward Catullo. The motion for dismissal was intro duced at 4 p.m. after a day in which all eight of the prosecution's witnesses had taken the stand, including the accuser and an expert witness from UNC's Stu dent Psychological Services. Catullo, 22, of 1-3 Kingswood Apart ments is a UNC student and a former member of the school's wrestling team. He was suspended from the team after he was charged Sept. 25. Because decisions concerning dis missals are made by the judge, jury members were released when the mo tion for dismissal was made. Marilyn Ozer, an assistant to Barry Winston, Catullo's attorney, told Battle: "As the state has failed to present sub stantial evidence of force, has failed to present substantial evidence of clearly expressed non-consent and has failed to present evidence of serious physical injury, the charges against the defen dant should be dismissed." Battle told Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox and Winston that he wouldconsiderthe motion for dismissal during the overnight recess. "I do find it a troublesome matter," Battle said. Wednesday morning, the defense cross-examined the accuser, a 19-year-old UNC student who left school last month on a medical withdrawal. Win ston questioned her about apparent in consistencies in information she had given to a doctor, a social worker and police officials. For most of the ques tions, the accuser said she was not cer tain of what information she provided. "For the past seven months, I've met a lot of people," she said. "I don't really remember exact statements." Winston asked the accuser if, on the night of the reported rape, she ever used the words "Carmen, I do not want to have sex with you" or "Carmen, I will not have sex with you." The accuser said she did not use those words. She said she continually told Catullo she keep the faith ity." Founded in 1981, BISA began as a basic campus ministry, like the Baptist Student Union or the Newman Center. The following year, when the leader ship graduated, BISA dissolved. This fall, Jo Watson, one of the founding members of BISA 1 1 years ago, initi ated the reestablishment of the organi zation. Watson, an ordained minister in the Eastern North Carolina Associa tion, Southern Conference United Church of Christ, serves as BISA's co ordinator and chaplain, leading BISA's religious services. Watson described today's BISA as a chaplaincy program that takes into spe- See BISA, page 2 cally, it's a painful thing for me to deal with the possibility that someone might be victimized." Joyner resident Kasi Jackson said, "I don't feel that you're responsible for me, and I don't want you to feel respon sible for me." Many residents questioned why the bathroom doors in coed and all-male halls did not have locks. Joyner resident Jen Morgan said, "I feel like they're saying that women can't take care of themselves unless there are men around." Kuncl said: "My experience leads me to believe that women have a greater level of risk than men. We were not See BATHROOM, page 9 to role wanted to go home. Winston asked the accuser about the time she spent sitting on the apartment steps after the reported incident. She said she remembered a man named Todd whom she had seen earlier in the night approach her on the apartment steps. After asking if she was OK, Todd offered her use of his phone, and she accepted, she said. Todd was identified as Todd Hartung, also a UNC student and a member of the school's wrestling team. The accuser said that while in Hartung's apartment, he made amorous advances on her and tried to kiss her. She said she used Hartung's phone and rested on his bed. She said that when Hartung said he was going to sleep, she got up from his bed and left because she did not want to lie next to him. Hartung was the next to testify for the prosecution and said in cross-examination that the accuser never had lain down on his bed and that he never had invited her to spend the night with him. Also testifying in the trial was Elaine Barney, acertifiedclinical social worker at UNC's Student Psychological Ser vices. Barney counseled the accuser for about five months after the reported rape. When Barney testified that the ac cuser was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, the defense objected on the grounds that Barney had not been informed enough about the accuser's life to make a PTSD diagnosis. Battle ruled that Barney could testify only on the symptoms consistent with PTSD. "I'm not going to let her testify that she made the diagnosis of PTSD," Battle said. Winston questioned Barney about her notes, which on at least three occasions mentioned that the ac cuser had been raped and assaulted by more than one man. Barney said the notes she kept had been dictated at first and then typed, and that mistakes were made on occasion. But Barney said her notes were cor rect in stating that there were multiple assailants. The men who reportedly watched the rape committed sexual as sault, Barney said. "Rape is a form of sexual assault," she said. "But another form of sexual assault is being present when your team member rapes another person, and you do nothing about it." 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