t I WEATHER TAX TIME: Postal officials prepare for filing push CITY, page 3 RACIAL TENSIONS: Mich, college divided after brawl. NATION, page 4 SportsLine MAJOR LEAGUES TODAY: Sunny; high upper 60s WEDNESDAY: Partly cloudy; high mld-70s ON CAMPUS Society for Out-Of-State Stu Baltimore 8, Boston 6 Chi. White Sox 1, Seattle 0 Detroit 7, Cleveland 5 Montreal 3, St Louis 2 COLLEGE BASKETBALL laito Sar 1 dents to meet at 5 p.m. in 211 Union. Human Rights Week "92 Committee to meet at 7:30 p.m. In Campus Y. RETIRED: Lou Camesecca, as head coach of St. John 's, after 24 years and a 526-200 record. 0 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Est. 1893 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 0 1992 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 100, Issue 27 Tuesday, April 14, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcwiSporttAfU 9624245 BiuiiKMAdvulUng 962-1 16J fori. WW Homecomiog selection may By John Broadfoot Staff Writer The Carolina Athletic Association will remove itself from the Homecom ing Court selection process because of conflict during the selection last fall, said CAA president Tracy Kirincich. "The CAA is not going to have any one (in the group) reading applications or reviewing candidates," she said. When CAA officials narrowed down the field last fall, some members of the Black Student Movement criticized the group for eliminating its candidate, Cherie Smith. BSM leaders contended the CAA did not have enough knowl Dorrance joins effort to put women's soccer in Olympics By Michael Workman Staff Writer Advocates working to establish women's soccer in the 1996 Olympics have asked UNC women's soccer head coach Anson Dorrance for help. Jim Cromwell, congressional liaison for the Women's Soccer Foundation, sent Dorrance a copy of a proposed congressional resolution Monday and asked him to review the draft. The resolution would support mak ing women's soccer an Olympic sport. "He just sent it to me to see if I have any suggestions,"Dorrance said. 'They did a pretty good job covering it." Cromwell said he was pleased with Dorrance's work as an advocate for women's soccer and was grateful that Cat's Cradle for Pavilion By Jackie Hershkowltz Staff Writer If plans for a downtown develop ment remainon schedule. Cat 'sCradle will be forced to relocate this summer, an agent for the project's planners said Monday. Construction is to begin by August on an $11 million commercial and residential center that will be located on the comer of West Franklin, Rose mary and Church streets, where Cat's Cradle and its adjoining parking lot now exist, according to Joe Hakan, who is working with West Franklin Preservation Partners. The partners, who own the prop erty, will terminate Cat's Cradle's lease in June or July, Hakan said. "They're on a month-by-month lease," he said. "When we're ready to move on with the project, we'll give them 30 or 60 days notice." Antoine Peuch, president of West Franklin Preservation Partners, said he intended to work with Cat's Cradle to find an acceptable new location for the popular downtown night spot. "There are several locations around Franklin Street and around town that Basketball walk-ons fulfill every. kid's dream of playing in Carolina blue By Yl-Hsin Chang Assistant Features Editor If you're not an All-American, you can forget about playing for Dean Smith. Well, unless you are one of the lucky two or three selected to walk on the team each October. For those few, the dream of playing in Carolina blue becomes a reality when they make the cuts to become members of the famed UNC basketball team. . This year, only eight players were invited to try out for the walk-on spots, and three Jason Burgess, Travis Stephenson and Larry Smith made the final cuts. There is usually only one walk-on per year at UNC, but the three walk-ons had better chances this year because Clifford Rozier and Kenny Harris trans ferred last year. Flowers are the sweetest things edge of Smith's campus activities. Smith was allowed back into the pro cess, was selected by judges to be part of the Homecoming Court and was cho sen by students as the Homecoming queen. Adam Beck, CAA Homecoming committee co-chairman, said all candi dates may be interviewed next fall. "What we are thinking about doing is not selecting the people who go to inter view ourselves, but letting everyone be interviewed," Beck said. "And having the decision of who gets on the ballot left entirely up to the judges." But Catherine Boney, a member of the 1991 Homecoming Court, said in Dorrance was looking at the proposal. "He's been kind of an adviser, and he certainly (will) play a key role in the continuing development of the U.S. women's national team," Cromwell said. "I've always kept Anson advised of what's going on and (sought) his counsel." Dorrance coached the 1991 U.S. women's team to a World Cup title and the UNC team to nine national champi onships in 1 0 years. He said he tried to work to advance women's soccer when ever he gave speeches or conducted clinics. "Every time I do a clinic or speech somewhere, I push the fact that the thing that would help women's soccer the most in this country is if it became an Olympic sport," Dorrance said. "A may move in summer development project could be possible sites," Peuch said. "We are certainly amenable to helping them find another location." Pavilion on Franklin, a five-story, 70,000-square-foot project that will re place Cat's Cradle, will feature upscale restaurants and retail shops. . Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun said the Pavilion was a welcome addition to Chapel Hill that would add commercial diversity to the town. Although the project has been on the drawing board for nearly two years, : construction was delayed because of town parking requirements, which were recently reformed. "Our biggest obstacle was the high cost imposed by town requirements for parking," Peuch said. "When we tried to recover money through rents, the rents were too high. It really put a crimp in our progress." Until recently, town ordinances re quired the Pavilion to provide on-site parking, which would have cost West Franklin Preservation Partners $2.25 million, Peuch said. The revised parking ordinance per mits businesses to petition for alterna tive transportation management plans instead of providing parking spaces for Once the walk-ons make the team, they are treated like the rest of the players and are placed on scholarships, said men's basketball coach Dean Smith. "We want our students who go through the J V program to have a chance to play on varsity," he said. "Jason, Larry and Travis knew where they could help best was playing hard at prac tices." Coach Smith said their enthusi asm on the bench also helped the team. The man of steals Burgess, a 6-foot-3-inch senior biol ogy major, said playing for Dean Smith was like a dream come true. "Playing for Carolina is every kid's dream," he said. "It's really special that a regular rrr m Tuesday Court change terviewing all of the candidates may cause problems for the CAA. "I didn't have a problem with any thing that happened last year," Boney said. "I think if they could interview all the candidates, that would be great. That may not be feasible if they have 30 applicants." Last year, candidates turned in appli cations to the CAA, who then selected 12 people to be interviewed by Home coming Court judges. The judges, usu ally professors or members of the Uni versity community, then narrowed the field to the eight who competed for the See CAA, page 2 lot of the people I end up speaking to are people that are working in Atlanta on the Olympics. All we're trying to do is touch the people that can influence the Olympic committee right now." Cromwell said that Rep. James Moran, D-Va., eventually would spon sor the resolution. The draft Cromwell is working on will be submitted to Moran, and Moran's staff will use that draft to formulate a formal House reso lution, Cromwell said. John Burr, Moran's legislative assis tant, said the representative needed to find co-sponsors before introducing the bill. "We're definitely going to do (the bill),"Burrsaid. 'The thing is we haven't See SOCCER, page 7 customers and employees. : "The ordinance change will allow our project to proceed," Peuch told Chapel Hill Town Council members at a Monday night meeting. "We want to develop a traffic man agement plan which could be accept able to the town and perhaps set a precedent for other development projects in town." The plan Peuch proposed would provide free bus passes for 120-150 full-time employees, private van ser vice to and from parking lot and ample bicycle racks. Shopping discounts would be avai I able to ride sharers and bicycle riders as an incentive to reduce traffic, Peuch said. "Our goal is to reduce parking re quirements for Pavilion employees by about 30 percent," he said. The Pavilion, which is expected to open in August 1993, will be com pleted in two phases. After the com mercial construction is completed, 75 residential units will be built. The council will hold a hearing in June to discuss the viability of West Franklin Preservation Partners' traffic management plan. person playing in Woollen can play for Dean Smith. It only happens to twoor three people a year. I was real lucky," Burgess said he had played basket ball and soccer at Myers Bark High School in Char lotte. "I was a bet- Jason Burgess ter soccer player, I think." Passing on a chance to play soccer at Davidson, Burgess decided to follow his brother's footsteps andcome to UNC because he didn't want to go to a small school and make his parents spend a lot of money, he said. When he got to the University, Bur gess said he talked to the men's soccer God ever made and Via eV si- -(i jUi li mm I r - -pre 0' "MxMASm ' MSM . Ml: -rlSiilBilp lll pKilll ill- .- iNf" KXMSMk 41 7 'Mmmm Is Floored workers Mary Carswell (left), a sophomore from Valdese, works with Browning, a junior Stephanie Hutcherson, a junior from Salisbury, and Ashley 'Twelfth Night' in Women garner highest offices in UNC alumni organizations By Many J. Walsh Staff Writer Ann Cates and Elizabeth "Pepper" Dowd were named Saturday to two top alumni leadership positions, marking the first time women will hold the posi tions simultaneously. Cates will begin a yearlong term in June as the first woman to serve as chairman of the Educational Founda tion Board. Dowd, a former vice president of the Board of Trustees, will become the sec ond woman to lead the General Alumni Association in June. Rush Henry held the position in 1976. Cates and Dowd, both alumni from the class of 1 953 and members of Delta Delta Delta sorority, will work together next year for strong female leadership, Cates said. Ernest Williamson, Educational Foundation director of endowment, said Cates would benefit the Rams Club. "She is involved in just about every thing in Chapel Hill," Williamson said. "She has a great love for the University and is very active in athletics." Cates said she had served as GAA associate treasurer, vice chancellor of coach and was told he could try out for the team, but no one showed up to meet him on the appointed day. "I was really gung ho about (playing soccer) until the coach told me to go somewhere and didn't show up." So instead, he Larry Smith played club soccer and tried out for the juniorvarsity basketball team. Unfortu nately, he didn't make the team. But the disappointments did not phase him. Burgess played intramural basket ball his freshman year and tried out for the JV team again as a sophomore. This time, he made the team as a shooting guard. r 1 t mtmtmwW ' i forgot to put a soul into. Henry the Board of Visitors, chairwoman of the National Development Council in Orange County, chairwoman of the Bi centennial Campaign kick-off and mem ber of the Steering Committee of the Bicentennial Campaign. Cates also served on the boards of the Arts and Sciences Foundation and the School of Education, she said. "The thing that interests me the most is the University," she said. "You just sort of get drawn into its splendor." Cates said that she had experienced being the only woman on committees and boards but that she never had been made to feel uncomfortable. "We did not get these positions with signs and picketing," she said. "I just think women have to work harder to get positions, but I love what I'm doing." Dowd said she had been named to her position after a general election by alumni association members. "I'd like to think my record speaks for itself," she said. "Perhaps they thought I wasqualified even though I'm a female." Dowd served on the Carolina Annual Giving Board, General Alumni Asso ciation Board, the Board of Visitors, Board of Arts and Sciences Foundation, At the begin ning of that year, Burgess didn't get a lot of playing time. But by his junior year, he started for most of the season on the JV team. "I love to play the game," he said. "But even when I Travis Stephenson was playing JV, I never thought of playing varsity. I was great defensively, but I wasn't too great offensively." Much to his surprise. Burgess was invited to try out for the varsity team last October. "I just worked as hard as I could throughout tryouts," he said. 'The players I was playing weren't used to my kind of defense of playing in their iiY tM DTHTodd Bart from Sm ithfield, to bui Id sets for Shakespeare's the Paul Green Theatre Monday. Morehead Scholarship program, Cen tral Committee for Morehead Selection and Steering Committee of the Bicen tennial Campaign and is a member of the National Development Council, she said. She was appointed vice president of the Board of Trustees in 1989 but stepped down from the position last June be cause the trustees were not ready for a female vice president and because she was not aggressive enough for them, she said. Dowd said that men tended to be more political but that her style was different. "I hope people feel confident that I bring background to the job," she said. "I'd like to think our alumni are now accepting of female leadership. I think they are." Dowd said she had not planned any changes for the alumni association be cause she believed the GAA was an outstanding, efficient organization. But she said she thought her presence might change the atmosphere. "I'm not a political animal, and some times people are short-sighted in dig ging in and finding out what a person brings to the table." face. I stole it from Hubert (Davis) once and from Brian (Reese) once. The coach was pretty surprised by that." Burgess made the cuts and became part of the Dean Smith basketball pro grain. "Being on the team is great. (The recruited players) treat us like part of the team, not like scrubs, even though we were," he said. "It's been great get ting to know them all. They're all really down-to-earth. We're all real close. "When we went on trips, we always did everything together. We know ev erything about each other." to play tough defense during practices to prepare the other players for the games. "Every practice was my game. You know Dean Smith is watching, so you work as hard as you can. Smith said" Burgess did a good job See WALK-ONS, page 2 Ward Beecher

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