The Daily Tar HeelTuesday, September 8, 19923
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In the name of
grass; U2 won't
play at Kenan
' UNC athletic officials denied the
rock group U2 a fall concert date at
Kenan Stadium when contacted by pro
moters early this spring.
'. Associate Athletic Director Jeff
Elliott said the date requested by the
Irish band conflicted with football sea
son. NCSU also turned down the group,
which instead will play in an AstroTurf
stadium in Knoxville, Tenn.
! Under campus policy, the athletic
department cannot schedule events in
late summer or early fall to help pre
serve the quality of the football field.
! Student Body President John Moody
talked to Athletics Director John
Swofford during the summer and en
dorsed outdoor concerts. "I indicated
iny support the student body would
love to have events like U2," Moody
said.
I Elliott said: "The policy is to exam
ine each request on a case-to-case basis.
The stadium is primarily for football
use. We must consider when the con
cert is, what it is, expense and what
adverse effects it might have on the
field."
Campus groups to hold
nighttime safety rally
The Carolina Gay and Lesbian Asso
ciation and the UNC Feminist Alliance
will hold a 'Take Back the Campus,
Take Back the Night" march Thursday.
The rally will begin in the Pit at 7:30
p.m. and will culminate in a march
through South Campus. The march is a
response to the recent surge in sexual
assaults in and around campus, includ
ing two assaults last week and a rape
Aug. 29 in Granville Towers.
UNC sponsors women's
self-defense training
In the wake of the recent onslaught of
campus assaults and heightened appre
hension of the University community,
the UNC training and development of
fice is offering two emergency sessions
if a women's self-defense course.
J Two sessions of the course, which
was to be offered later this fall, will be
lun today from 8:30 a.m: to 12:30 p.nv
and from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at 725 Airport
Road.
The sessions are open to all female
Students, faculty and staff members and
die dependents of UNC employees. The
Course costs $25 per person, but indi
vidual UNC departments may choose
to pay for their respective employees to
attend the program.
The course is run by Safe Skills of
Durham. Interested parties should con
tact Mike Lewis of the training and
development office at 962-2550 for
more information.
CGLA to discuss joining
Coalition for new BCC
': Members of the Carolina Gay and
Lesbian Association will vote in two
weeks about whether to join the coali
tion for a free-standing black cultural
center.
" CGLA members will hear from a
member of the BCC coalition at their
Sept. 21 meeting and then will vote on
whether to join the movement, which
includes the Black Student Movement,
(he Black Greek Council, the Black
Awareness Council, the Campus Y, the
Sonja H. Stone Task Force, the Alliance
6f Black Graduate and Professional Stu
dents, and the Collegiate Black Caucus.
Nursing grads post
97-percent pass rate
;' 1992 graduates of the UNC School
of Nursing posted a 97-percent passing
rate on the national licensing examina
tion for nurses.
The exam, which wasgiven in July,
is administered by state boards of nurs
ing. Ninety-one of the 94 UNC gradu
ates taking the N.C. exam passed. In the
school's 40-year history, 99.6 percent
of its graduates have passed.
' "There is still a shortage of nurses in
the state, although it is not as severe,
and it has moved outside of hospitals
into other area whether it is less notice
able to the general public," said Cynthia
Freund, dean of the nursing school.
iWe are preparing students to continue
to help ease those shortages in rural,
(ong-term and home health care."
Volunteers needed for
paper recycling drive
; The Orange Regional Recycling Pro
gram is looking for student volunteers
to help at its University Mall recycling
site this weekend. Students are needed
to help sort mixed paper into proper
categories and to oversee the recycling
effort.
: Volunteers are needed to work dur
ing five two-hour shifts Friday, Satur
day and Sunday. For more information,
contact Wendy McGee, recycling coor
dinator for the regional program, at 967-2788.
Recyclimg program greets Greeks
ByAmySeeley
Senior Writer
University Greeks finally might have
something to do with all those beer
cans.
That is, they will if they take part in
a new recycling program offered by the
town of Chapel Hill and the Landfill
Owners' Group.
Sponsors of the program hope UNC's
fraternities and sororities will take ad
vantage of the service, created during
the summer after the town council and
the LOG approved an allocation of about
$20,000 to add Greek organizations to
the regional multi-family housing recy
cling program for the 1992-93 fiscal
year.
Permanent 65-gallon carts for glass,
newspaper and aluminum will replace
curbside pickup at more than 30 sorori
ties and fraternities Sept. 15, if mem
bers agree to participate. The LOG will
pay for pickup of the materials by BFI,
the company that provides recycling
bins and picks up and markets recy
clable materials for the Orange Regional
Recycling Program.
"The fraternities especially required
additional bins beyond what the town
provided for aluminum, newspaper and
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Dog days
Beth Johnson, a senior journalism major, enjoys the hot Labor were eating ice cream
Day sun with her dogs, Shadow and Shellbe. The cocker spaniels hockey game against
On your honor: Attorney
general enforces the code
By Aulica Lin Rutland
Staff Writer
Perhaps on your way to your first
geography quiz, you strolled past an
other seemingly average student. He
did not notice you, and your eyes did not
even focus on his face.
But if you cheated on that quiz, you
might see that "average" student again.
This time he'll notice you, and once
you've met Ian Fay, you're not likely to
forget him.
Though Fay holds a powerful posi
tion within the University, few students
are able to match his name to his title.
Fay, a senior English major, is the UNC
student attorney general, and he and his
40-member staff are the first to know
when a student breaks the Honor Code.
But Fay makes it clear that his job is
not to "ruin people's lives.
"The system is set up for the reputa
tion of the University," he said. The
more honorable the reputation of the
school, the more desirable that school
becomes, he said. If the University has
a more relaxed honor system, its de
grees would not mean as much as those
from a school with a strict honor code.
Undergraduate Honor Court Chair
woman Jennifer Backes works closely
with Fay on cases that come before the
Honor Court. "He takes the job very
seriously," she said. "Ian really works
with the students."
Fay is intellectual and insightful, at
tributes needed to perform the job of
attorney general, Backes said. He is
warm and personable important char
acteristics for the sensitive nature of his
task, she said.
Fay, who is interested in becoming a
lawyer, is the only person with the au
thority to charge students with an Honor
Code violation.
First, he investigates the cases him
self, finds the witnesses and interviews
them. If he finds sufficient evidence, he
then charges the accused student with a
violation and assigns the case to one of
his assistants.
The assistants to the attorney general
help students obtain legal representa
tion but don't actually defend them.
Instead, they prosecute cases in front of
the Honor Court.
Fay's job is often not over until the
glass," said Josh Busby, co-chairman of
Greek Recycling and Environmental
Action Committee and a member of Chi
Psi fraternity.
Members of GREAC successfully
lobbied in the spring for permanent
recycling bins through a letter-writing
campaign and by speaking at town coun
cil budget meetings.
"The fraternities and sororities did
an excellent job of describing their need
to be added to the multi-family housing
program," said Wendy McGee, Orange
Regional Recycling Program's recy
cling coordinator.
Chapel Hill and Carrboro already
had established recycling sites at many
multi-family housing units, and GREAC
members convinced the town council
and the LOG that fraternity and sorority
houses should be considered multi-family
housing, Busby said.
Because of the volume of recyclable
materials consumed by fraternities and
sororities, it was impractical to trans
port them to town drop-off sites or to
leave them at the curb for pickup, he
said.
. "We also saw that there were incred
ible amounts of cardboard stacking up
behind fraternities and sororities be
cause of the kitchen purchases," Busby
DTHEiin Randall
Ian Fay carries the sole responsibility of charging students with Honor Code violations
case has been appealed to the hearings
board and to Chancellor Paul Hardin.
Many students who come through
Fay's office may be angry, worried and
confused. It's Fay's job to introduce
them to the system. "I need to make sure
everybody feels OK," he said. "You're
dealing with people's lives."
The greatest responsibility is to be
totally unbiased, to be fair and impar
tial, he said.
said.
Permanent bins also will be placed at
Greek houses for corrugated cardboard.
LOG will rent a truck from the town and
will pay Chapel Hill workers to make
weekly pickups of the cardboard.
"We needed a better method that
provided better service," said Blair Pol
lock, Chapel Hill's solid waste planner.
"Our job is to keep as much stuff out of
the landfill as we can, as efficiently as
we can."
Each sorority and fraternity must sign
a contract before receiving the bins.
Responsibilities of the members include:
Keeping the bins locked up with
locks and chains provided by BFI;
Sorting the materials into proper
bins;
Rinsing the bins to keep them clean;
and
Replacing damaged bins. BFI will
replace the bins once.
"It's very important that materials be
properly sorted," Pollock said. Buyers
of recyclable materials could reject ship
ments that were not sorted perfectly, he
said.
Pollock also said sorority and frater
nity members were responsible for des
ignating a site for the carts that would be
accessible for BFI.
out of Johnson's hand during UNC's field
Old Dominion University.
While attending R.J. Reynolds High
School in Winston-Salem, Fay was ac
tive at school. He played on the tennis
team and served as student body vice
president. He decided to come to UNC
largely because he won the Morehead
Scholarship.
During the fall of his sophomore
year, Fay began his job as a "staffer."
See FAY, page 5
The contract will bind the fraternity
or sorority each year unless they with
draw May 30, 30 days before the end of
the fiscal year, she said.
The funds for the permanent recy
cling sites at Greek houses will be raised
through a tip-fee increase of 50 cents
per ton. Other multi-family housing units
also were added through the plan.
The LOG approved the funding May
27 as part of a $128,000 increase in
funding for recycling programs from
the landfill fund.
A pilot program for curbside pickup
of some plastics also will be expanded
in February to include tin and to cover
all of the Orange region.
Busby said fraternity and sorority
members had been supportive of the
plan. "There have been a lot of dedi
cated people who have worked with us
and who have been enthusiastic in edu
cating their own houses, so it's not like
this is a one- or two-person effort," he
said.
Busby said GREAC's main purpose
now that the plan was being installed
was to educate Greeks about the pro
gram and make sure all the houses were
participating.
Laura Gaines, GREAC co-chairwoman
and a member of Kappa Kappa
Area researchers
look for AIDS cure
By Kelly Ryan
Staff Writer
Research Triangle medical experts
agree that while the area has been at the
forefront of AIDS research, researchers
probably are at least several years away
from developing a cure or non-toxic
preventive drugs to treat AIDS patients.
Trish Bartlett, a social worker from
Duke University's infectious disease
clinic, praised the extensive research in
the Triangle, explaining that local insti
tutions wanted to plan for the future and
the growing number of AIDS patients.
"(The Triangle) is at the forefront of
AIDS research," Bartlett said. "In the
country, there are 50 or 60 research
centers on the cutting edge, and cer
tainly Duke and UNC are right there."
According to the Center for Disease
Control's AIDS Clearing House, the
number of AIDS cases in Raleigh
Durham reported to the U.S. Depart
ment of Health and Human Services has
risen dramatically since 1981.
Between 1981 and 1992, 541 cases
were reported, with 1 17 of those being
reported between June of 1 990 and June
of 1 99 1 . Between July 1 99 1 and June of
1 992, 1 09 cases were reported,according
to the AIDS Clearing House.
According to Dr. Charles van der
Horst, an assistant professor in the UNC
school of medicine, UNC can research
competitively because it receives mil
lions of dollars in government grants.
"You couldn't go to another place in
the country that's doing more than (the
Triangle is) doing," van der Horst said.
But UNC retrovirology lab director
Dr. Susan Fiscus said that although Duke
and UNC were contributing to the AIDS
research effort, scientists had a long
way to go.
"There is a desperate need for new
and better drugs," Fiscus said. "We
don't have any really good drugs right
now. AZT is pretty toxic."
Bartlett said that AZT, the most
widely known AIDS drug designed to
slow the virus's growth, was approved
by the FDA about four years ago.
Van der Horst said he was optimistic
because effective treatments already
have been developed to prolong and
improve the lives of AIDS patients.
"The virus is a formidable enemy,"
he said. "Research is slow. The bottom
line is, 'are our patients living longer
and living better?' and the answer to
both of those questions is yes."
UNC Hospitals' AIDS research in
volves a promising experimental drug
designed to prolong the asymptomatic
period of HIV, according to Dr. Joe
Eron, director of the outpatient HIV
clinic and an associate of the AIDS
Clinical Trial Group.
Asymptomatic HIV refers to the
"waiting" period when a patient does
not exhibit any of the physical symp
toms of the disease, before a patient
develops full-blown AIDS.
Eron said the drug did not appear to
cause any side effects, but the use had
been limited to seven patients in the past
two months. He added that he thought
the drug was promising and praised van
der Horst's role in its development.
Carrboro man shot
by unknown suspect
Staff Report
An unknown suspect shot a Carrboro
man in his right foot early Monday
morning, according to Chapel Hill po
lice reports.
Kenny Farrington of Rocky Brook
Trailer Park in Carrboro was shot while
standing at the comer of Sykes and
Gomains streets at about 5:30 a.m., po
lice reports stated.
Farrington told police that he and a
friend were approached by several sus
pects in an old model blue car, reports
Gamma sorority, said, "The more people
know, the more they'll go ahead and
do."
GREAC will hold a meeting at 8 p.m.
today in the Campus Y. Each sorority
and fraternity is encouraged to send a
representative to join GREAC and help
educate Greeks about the environmen
tal issues.
Busby said GREAC members also
hoped to establish recycling-coordinator
posts on the Inter-Fraternity and the
Panhellenic councils, so that the envi
ronmental efforts would be continued.
"It's tough to provide any kind of
continuity," he said. "If it's not institu
tionalized in the town and if it's not
convenient, then someone who doesn't
have the same amount of dedication or
time to do it, just won't."
GREAC also publishes The Greek
Guide, a pamphlet that is distributed to
all fraternity and sorority houses to make
them more aware of environmental is
sues The guide emphasizes water and en
ergy conservation as well as recycling,
Busby said.
Copies of the guide are available for
$3 by writing to Greek Guide SEAC
UNC, co Josh Busby or Laura Gaines,
Campus Y, UNC Campus.
Van der Horst explained that the drug
combined a protein to target and bind to
the CD4 cells, which carry the virus,
and a toxin to kill the virus. Since pro
teins are involved in the complex regu
lations of the immune system, van der
Horst said he hoped the drug would
"jump start" it.
Eron added, "(The drug) uses some
of the things that basic research scien
tists have learned about the virus as
opposed to the shotgun approach, when
you try anything that works."
The drug is used for patients who
already are infected to prolong and im
prove their lives, Eron said.
Van der Horst said the drug had
caused marked increases in patients'
immunity.
Bartlett called Duke the immunol
ogy center for vaccine research, ex
plaining why Duke's Medical Center
clinics often were asked to participate
in patient drug experiments.
"Our clinic was one of the first to
participate in the AZT trials," Bartlett
said. "We then went on to participate in
the first large study of asymptomatic
HTV."
A T4 count is the scientific term for
measuring the immune system and an
important indicator of a drug's effec
tiveness, Bartlett said. Healthy adults
usually would have a T4 count between
800 and 1200.
Typical AIDS patients have signifi
cantly lower counts even when they
exhibit no AIDS symptoms, she said.
A number of doctors and researchers
discovered that if AZT was adminis
tered to patients while their T4 counts
were above 500, their immune systems
tended to remain intact, Bartlett said.
If patients first received AZT after
their T4 counts fell below 500, the drug
prolonged their lives and the period
before full-blown AIDS developed.
AZT was ineffective in saving the
immune system because the body be
gan to resist it, Bartlett said.
Researchers have experimented with
combinations of AZT-like drugs in
hopes that by alternating AZT with a
similar drug, the body would not resist
the treatment so quickly, she said.
Bartlett explained that Duke research
ers were involved in developing a first
of its kind vaccine, but added it was
unethical to test a possible AIDS vac
cine on an HIV-negative individual.
She said a vaccine would be tested
on an HIV-positive patient to observe
whether the virus would stabilize or
decrease.
"I think the feeling at the interna
tional conference is that we're sitting on
the edge," Bartlett said. "We're very
close."
Burroughs-Wellcome spokeswoman
Kathy Bartlett said the research-based
pharmaceutical company focused on
developing compounds, such as combi
nations of AZT and other similar drugs,
which were active against the virus. She
added that it was important to discover
treatments against the opportunistic in
fections, such as pneumonia, which are
more common and serious in AIDS
See AIDS, page 5
state'd.
Thedriverof the car asked Farrington
and his friend where they were going,
according to police reports.
The driver then pulled out a small
caliber handgun and shot Farrington in
the right foot, reports stated.
The suspects left the intersection and
were not located, police reports stated.
The police report stated that four
suspects were involved in the incident
Farrington was treated at UNC Hospitals.