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1 9 Ml TODAY: Sunny, breezy; high near 70 FRIDAY: Sunny, breezy; high i:ur;G u? Local residents criticize proposal that would allow Chapel Hill Town Council members to participate in meetings and vote by telephone NEAR-MISS NO-NO: Frank VkOrrjf the Boston Red Sox failed in his bid to become the second major leaguer to throw a no-hitter this season when Devon White of the Toronto Blue lays lined his 2-2 pitch into center held to lead off the bottom of the ninth. Boston held on to win the game on Viola's 1 miovos M Mudents Against Drunk Driving will hold its first meeting of the year at 5 p.m. in 206 Union. one-hitter, 1 -0. Kevin Gross of the Los Angeles Dodgers threw the big league's only no-hitter of 1 992, after a record setting nine were hurled in '91. 0 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Est 1893 Serving the students and the University community since 1893 1992 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 100, Issue 73 Thursday, October 1, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NtwiiSpoftVArtt 962-0241 BuuneatAdvertiUfkf 962-1163 1 "M1 wi'HHyi tfasn;""'! roaTisrasr irMI Literature, books easy targets in ongoing debate i ml ' nhiffimn'Mil ' about First Amendment rights s: loydl faces added impeaclimeet charges By Anna Griffin Unlwrsity Editor Five Student Congress members have added two additional charges to a bill of impeachment against Speaker Jennifer Lloyd. The impeachment bill against Lloyd, which was introduced to Student Con gress Wednesday night, now also charges the speaker with violating the Student Government Code by signing requisition forms, a responsibility of the organizational treasurer, and with using student government telephones to make personal long-distance phone calls. "The Speaker willfully and blatantly Student Congress approves $77,396 Yackety Yack loan By Marty Minchin Assistant University Editor Student Congress members voted Wednesday night to loan $77,396.65 to the Yackety Yack, the financially troubled campus yearbook, to pay a debt owed to its publishing company. Tracy Keene, former Yack business manager, was found guilty last summer of embezzling about $77,000 from the yearbook, leaving the annual in a posi tion where Delmar Corp., a Charlotte based publishing company, could sue the book and possibly student govern ment. The bill requires Yack officials to repay the loan at a rate of $500 per month, the same amount Keene is re quired to pay back to the yearbook each month. Shea Tisdale, Yack editor, said he would use that money to pay back the congress loan if Keene came through with the payments. Tisdale said he thought that the lead ership of congress showed maturity in handling the situation. "I'm very, very pleased," he said. "This has turned a short-term emer gency into a long-term problem we can deal with. I think this is a great step by m By Jennifer Talhclxn Anfetam Ushmity Edhor :' The issue of a free-standing BCC hit the national media again ' h wwk after The Wall Street Journal pub lished an editorial Tuesday praising Chancellor Paul Hardin for hesitating to support a free-standing BCC. -:! The Journal contends a stand-alone BCC might separate students by res urrecting the '"separate but equal' standard of 'Plessy vs. Ferguson," according to the editorial entitled "They Call It Diversity," '., The editorial criririxw the idea of having a free-standing building, , , ; i ; "All tliose students who ha ve been targeted by faculty for inculcation in (he diversity movement blocks, Hispanics, homosexuals, women are taughttorecognize and value their distinctness,' Has editorial states, "Can anyone seriously be surprised when they take the logic of tills terri bly unbalanced argument into epa ratene&i? . ; , With a bicetiteniiifd fund raising near, North Carolina's Chan cellor, Paul Ilardin, has now taken. ue position that he might conceivably issue h I backauchaccntcr-if itagreesnot to The Wall Street Journal adds iteelf to MLUlA,page) jn wraDran anu uamagmj Congress approves student fee appropriations for 4 groups Rw T ha HnllaHav 'ne orSanizauon's president, Dina dents about African culture and pro- efforts of the group would not be ben DJ nuilmwj riflinni tnM ronorpQK that while ihft vidpfiintf.rftstp.rt students with the on- efirial enniiph for it in receive fiindino Staff Writer Student Congress appropriated $3,490 in student funds Wednesday night, allocating money to the Arab American Anti-Discrimination Com mittee, IROKO, UNC Best Buddies and the UNC-CH Model United Nations. Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee The Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee received $1,300 in student-government funds after a heated debate by congress members concern ing whether the group is political in nature. The bill passed by a vote of 13-12. committed a malfeasance of duty ... by affixing her signature on official requi sition forms," the bill states. "Such forms ... must be signed by the certified orga nizational treasurer." According to the bill, former organi zational treasurer Pam Sanders was not notified of the financial transactions. Sanders resigned as organizational trea surer last week, explaining in her letter of resignation that she did not have time for the job and that she no longer had an effective working relationship with Lloyd. "The office of Organizational Trea surer requires an open, communicating relationship with the Speaker of Con gress," Sanders says in the letter. "At the congress, and it illustrates their ca pacity to deal with monumental prob lems." Congress members proposed four amendments to the bill, all of which passed. The first amendment gives Yack of ficials one year to settle their debt to Delmar before they have to begin to repay the Student Congress loan. "It gives us a year to get things to gether," said Scott Peeler, chairman of the Yackety YackPublishing Inc. board of directors. Congress voted to change the word ing of the bill, which had originally called for the loan to include interest payments at a rate equivalent to the previous fiscal year's Consumer Price Index, to attach a strict 3 percent inter est rate. Rep. Charlton Allen, Dist. 20, said the interest rate was necessary because of inflation. "Money, any sum of money, because of inflation it's value decreases over time," Allen said. "In essence, in 25 years $10,000 will be worth something like $6,000." Tisdale said he estimated it would take 1 6 years for the Yack to pay off the be separatist. j "We suspect Chancellor Hardin is acutely sensitive to the possibility that, in a catastrophic irony, this student cen ter would resurrect on his campus the awful and false 'separate but equal' standard of 'Plessy v. Ferguson."" The editorial also referred to Chuck Stone, the journalism professor who has been criticized by Black Student Movement President Michelle Thomas and other coalition leaders for "stand ing in the way of progress." Stone has .-questioned the tnilitarisra of the BCC 'movement At a Sept. 18 rally, Thomas warned Stone and other blacks who questioned the movement "You better be ready because you're next" But Stone said he wasn't happy that The Wall Street Journal defended him in the edi torial. . "It's most disturbing," Stone said, "The Wall Street Journal is an excellent paper, but editorially, they are in the Middle Ages. It's a terrible thing to have happen to you, Thomas said the coalition for a free standing BCC had no comment on the editorial Dajani, told congress that while the goal of the organization was to raise campus awareness of Middle Eastern concerns, her group was not political. "We are a very cultural group," she said. "It' s hard to have a group based on Middle Eastern concerns without some thing political." Rep. Andrew Cohen, Dist. 6, argued that the committee was not politically partisan. "My idea of a group that is politically partisan is a group that is unequivocally political, like the UNC Democrats," he said. IROKO IROKO, the second group to receive funding, is a program that educates stu Don 't play this time, I do not feel that Ms. Lloyd and I have this type of relationship." The bill was brought against Lloyd by Reps. George Battle and Philip Charles Pierre, Dist. 17; Rep. Chris Tuck, Dist. 21; Rep. Charlton Allen, if 4 Jennifer Lloyd Dist. 20; and Rep. Kevin Hunter, Dist. 14. Lloyd, who was not available for comment on the two new charges, said during the Wednesday congress meet loan at the 3 percent interest rate if they paid no more than the minimum $500 per month. Congress also added a section to the bill that stated that the interest rate on the loan was subject to renegotiation by either of the parties at four year inter vals. Tisdale said he hoped future con gresses would not use this section of the bill to upset the loan. "It sounds okay to me," he said. "I just hope it won't be used in the future to call in the loan prematurely." The last amendment clarified that the loan was subject to the laws established in the creation of the congressional dis cretionary fund, the emergency fund set up earlier this fall for student organiza tions in need of immediate funding. Tisdale said he thought the amend ments to the bill would make it easier for the Yack to pay off the loan. "I think the interest rate they require is fair and takes into consideration our fear it would change," he said. "The amendments are helpful to us and en sure and guarantee we will be able to pay it back, and we wouldn't be under See YACK, page 2 the growing list of national press that have covered the BCC controversy. The issue first reached the natiomd media Sept 7, when the controversy was mentioned on ABC's "NiglitliW la the same week, The New York Times published an article in trie sjsitfs : section about black athletes who hiwt become involved in politics. The article referred to the Black Awareness Council, a primary player in the coalition for a free-sumtLng BCC. The B AC was founded this su ro mer by four football players. The Times article drew filnuu-t Spike Lee into the controversy- Lee spoke to an audience of about 5,000 at a Sept 18 rally in the Dean E. Smith Center, pledging his support for ihe black athletes fighting for a free-standing BCC. Since Lee's visit, National Public Radio, as well as state and local me dia, have reported on the issue. On 'Wednesday, ABC News interviewed many principal players that have been involved in the BCC issue, including coalition members, Hardin and Stone for a segment scheduled to air on See MEDIA, page 5 dents about African culture and pro vides interested students with the op portunity to spend a summer in a Gha- nese work camp. Jennifer Hanner, IROKO's treasurer, said the group provided a cultural ex change for the University community, allowing the participants to share knowl edge gained through their service in Africa with the entire campus. The $420 IROKO received from stu dent government will be used for fund raising and office management. Several Student Congress members questioned IROKO's benefit to the en tire University community, citing the fact that only four students traveled to Ghana this past summer. Rep. Kevin Hunter, Dist. 14, said the President you ing that she hoped all sides of the issue would work together to make the pro cess as quick and easy as possible. "It is my hope and belief that con gress will continue to operate the next two weeks," Lloyd said. "It is my complete desire to cooper ate fully in this matter." Lloyd, who invited all members of congress to meet with her about the charges, has said she will not resign the speaker's post. The bill will be considered at a Rules and Judiciary Committee meeting at 4 p.m. Friday and will be brought before the full congress for a vote at congress's Oct. 13 meeting. The bill now includes six articles of Kiddie Kar Kare Takoyo and Tyler Phanhthalath (left) help a car owner wash his in Chapel Hill. Pleasant weather enveloped the area this week, automobilethisweekendattheWilcogasstationonAirportRoad allowing the kids to get their hands wet. Voter registration a no-go at concert By Leah A. Campbell StaffWriter Orange County election officials said they would not allow voter registration at the Rock the Vote concert tonight at Rosey's Goodtimes. "We established this policy two years ago when we encountered some prob lems at a voter registration drive at the Cat's Cradle and He's Not Here," said Barbara Faust Orange County Board of Elections chairwoman. "We did it to protect the voter. We feel they should Reward offered for arson conviction By Dak Castle SOU Writer The Chapel Hill Fire Department announced Wednesday that a reward will be given for information leading to the arrest and conviction of arsonists responsible for setting fire to The Inti mate Bookshop or the Eastgate Food Lion. Fires burned in the two stores Sept 20, destroying The Intimate Bookshop on East Franklin Street and damaging efforts of the group would not be ben eficial enough for it to receive funding. "It seems to me that what is coming back to the campus is not equivalent to what is going out," he said. The IROKO budget passed by a vote of 17-13. UNC Best Buddies UNC Best Buddies received $960 in student funds, in a unanimous vote. Rep. Jonathan Roberts, Dist. 24, said the group, an organization that provides college big buddies to mentally im paired children, should receive its bud get. "Although we're spending money See CONGRESS, page 2 're not Donald impeachment against Lloyd. The other charges include: That Lloyd blatantly falsified a report of the special audit committee set up to investigate the disappearance of office supplies from Suite C, the main office of Student Congress. That Lloyd attempted to block the appropriation of $645 to the Campus Crusade for Christ after Student Con gress approved the donation after recei veing complaints from law profes sors and students that the donation pos sibly went against the Student Govern ment Code, which prohibits student fees from going to political or religious or ganizations. The donation went to fund AIDS .'i"1 ""' ".w . if f - - laTTTgfciii.f ii Miiiiiiniiririiri ... -Mumj register in an environment free of dis tractions." Faust said the policy states that no voter registration may take place in any bar. But William Simpson, legal director for the Raleigh chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, stated in a letter sent to Faust Monday, "I do not see how any policy that adopts a flat ban on voter registration at a particular kind of event or place complies with state law." Rob Genadio, Rock the Vote orga nizer, said the policy would not keep Chapel Hill Fire Marshal Joe Robertson said the reward would range from $100 to $10,000. "This is the time when things get quiet that we encourage citizens to call," Robertson said. No one is guaranteed a reward, ac cording to a press release. Robertson said that many people had called concerning the fires and that the case was not at a dead end. But Robertson said he suspected a lot of witnesses still were holding back. Robertson said he encouraged any ool of Medicine wins grant Sf Report The UNC School of Medicine's Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center has been designated one of fournational breast cancer specialized programs of research excellence. With the award, the school will receive $6 million during the next three years for breast cancer research and for cancer outreach programs. iJNC researchers will work with the state's Central Cancer Registry to establish a 32-county area for the intensive study of breast cancer. The in vestigators wil I compare the medical histories and symptoms of women with breast can cer and women without the disease. UNCresearchers also will team with Rumsfeld speaker John Harris. That Lloyd has refused to call weekly meetings of the Administrative Committee a group which includes the speaker; Speaker Pro Tempore Michael Kolb, Dist. 1; Finance Com mittee Chairman Tuck; Rules and Judi ciary Committee Chairman Battle; and Student Affairs Committee Chairman Charles-Pierre. The Student Code specifies that the speaker must call weekly meetings of the committee, but the group has not met this year. And that Lloyd has refused to give Student Supreme Court Chief Justice Malcolm Turner copies of the Student Government Code. X , . sc. V-fc. .-.-;-::. Wmi 1 4 Dltlflayson Singe him from organizing the concert "We are going on with the concert on Thurs day," he said. . He added that he thought the board was working against their purpose of registering as many voters as possible. "We are trying to recruit a particular segment of people where they are most likely to be found," Genadio said. Faust said she would not deny the voters the right to vote if they registered at the event. See VOTE, page 2 one who was present when the fires were started to call if they had noticed any suspicious people. The reward will be paid in confi dence by the N.C. Arson Awareness Council. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-662-7610. An informant may receive the re ward without revealing his or her iden tity if he or she "will suffer direct physi cal harm or suffer from acts of retribu tion (from the arsonist)," according to the release. scientists from the Mayo Clinic and will design education programs to help inform women in the state. Scientists will give special atten tion to cancer in minorities. Studies reveal that while 22 percent of white women with breast cancer will die within five years, 37 percent of blacks with cancer will die. Also, 65 percent of white women older than 40 have had mammograms, while 58 percent of black women have been screened. firing 1992, about 180.000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer. About 46,000 women will die from the disease this year. In North Carolina, 1,300 deaths due to breast cancer are expected this year.