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ELECTION VRAP-U?
President-elect Clinton looks toward his first 100 days in office as
final vote tallies are recorded
ELECTED: As a first-team AII-ACC
performer, North Carolina sophomore
soccer player Gregg Berhalter. A de
fender for UNC's 9-6-3 men's soccer
team, Berhalter was the only Tar Heel
selected to the ACC's first team.
Three Tar Heels midfielders were
tabbed for second-team status: senior
Marco Ferruzzi, freshman Kerry
Zavagnin and junior Derek Kepner.
N.C. State's Scott Schweitzer was
named ACC player of the year.
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Volume 100, Issue 96
Thursday, November 4, 1992
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By Holly Stepp
Staff Writer
The Black Cultural Center working
group met Wednesday to discuss a full
agenda, including reports on meetings
with members of the BCC Advisory
Board, the possible inclusion of aca
demic departments in the center and a
recent Daily Tar Heel student-opinion
poll on the BCC issue.
Members of the working group
charged with creating a concrete plan
for a new or expanded BCC have met
several times with the BCC Advisory
Board since they pledged support for a
free-standing center two weeks ago.
Provost Richard McConnick, head
of the working group, told panel mem
bers Wednesday that he and four other
group members had held very positive
meetings with the advisory board on
both Oct. 28 and last Friday.
McConnick said that he thought the
meetings had gone very well and that
the spirit of the meeting was empha
sized by Harold Wallace, vice chancel
lor for University affairs.
Democratic supporters
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state, national victories
By Jerry McElreath
Staff Writer
While basking in the afterglow of
President-elect Bill Clinton's victory.
North Carolina Democrats also were
ecstatic Wednesday after their party
won every Council of State seat in
Tuesday's elections.
Democrats are very, very pleased
with the overall victory," said Richard
Carlton, N.C. chief deputy secretary
of state and spokesman for Democrat
Rufus Edmisten's campaign. Edmisten
was re-elected to his secretary of state
post Tuesday.
The only blemish cited by the
Democrats was Republican Lauch
Faircloth's victory over incumbent
U.S. Sen. Terry Sanford, D-N.C.
Carlton attributed Santord s loss to
Faircloth's negative campaigning.
Sanford s loss shows that nega
tive and false advertising works," he
said.
Bob Phillips, campaign press sec
retary for N.C. Rep. Dennis Wicker,
Police delay
By Dale Castle
Staff Writer
Police officials have delayed investi
gating Sunday's reported rape that oc
curred at Town House Apartments be
cause they have been swamped with
several other cases, Chapel Hill police
Capt. Barry Thompson said Wednes
day. Democracy is the
comiider mew
"In effect, (Wallace) said that we
were here around this table to come to
some sort of agreement, and we wouldn' t
leave until that came about,"
McCormick said.
The topics of discussion at the two
joint advisory board meetings were the
1 989 Feasibility Study , which suggested
a new BCC would require about 25,000
square feet of space, the types of pro
grams which would be held in the new
center and the possible placement of
academic departments in the center,
McCormick said.
The working group was represented
at the two meetings by McCormick;
James Peacock, chairman of the Fac
ulty Council; Patrick Rivers, a UNC
graduate student; Robert Eubanks,
former chairman of the UNC Board of
Trustees; and Deloris Jordan, mother of
former UNC basketball star Michael
Jordan and head of the Michael Jordan
Foundation.
The discussion at Friday's meeting
also covered what facilities should be
included in the center and a group of
suggestions for possible facilities writ
dance the night away at the North Raleigh
D-Lee, who was elected North
Carolina's next lieutenant governor,
echoed Carlton's statement. "Negative
campaigning took its toll against
Sanford, coupled with this year's anti
incumbency theme," Phillips said.
The Democrats pointed to the
electorate's desire for change and over
all dissatisfaction with Republican stew
ardship as reasons for their overwhelm
ing victories in both state and presiden
tial elections.
"I think people really voted for
change. When you defeat an incumbent
president, it's a true mandate from the
people for change," said Dave Leavy,
assistant press secretary at Clinton's
national campaign headquarters.
North Carolina traditionally votes
Republican in national elections. This
year, althougTi the electoral votes went
to Bush, the state's popular vote was
split in its presidential selection, allo
cating an equal 43 percent of the vote to
President Bush and Clinton.
Dave Horn, campaign coordinator
for Democrat Mike Easlcy's campaign
investigation into rape
The sexual assault occurred at 1 1 : 14
p.m. Sunday at the woman's home in
Town House Apartments on
Hillsborough Street, according to
Chapel Hill police reports.
The victim and the suspect, both 20-year-old
University students, knew each
other by name, Thompson said.
"They ran into each other at a Hal
loween festivity," he added.
worst system devised by the wit of
ten by Black Student Movement Presi
dent Michelle Thomas in a letter to the
BCC Advisory Board.
Thomas' letter detailed some sug
gestions "for the proposed center that
were a result of discussion at the Oct. 28
BSM general-body meeting. The sug
gestions include: an art gallery, a li
brary with video and music collections
and listening room, a 1,000-person ca
pacity auditorium, classrooms, a multi
purpose room, offices for black culture
groups, a kitchen, a chapel, a barber
beauty shop and a statue of Sonja H.
Stone, the former UNC professor for
whom the present center is named.
At the Wednesday working-group
meeting, panel member Allen Mask, a
1974 UNC graduate, stressed the im
portance of maintaining realistic goals
for the proposed center.
Gordon Rutherford, University di
rector of facilities planning and design,
outlined his plan for determining the
size of the new center at the Wednesday
gathering.
See PANEL, page 5
DTHflayson Singe
Hilton Tuesday night
for N.C. attorney general, said
Clinton's success in North Carolina
"illustrates his appeal as a 'new Demo
crat.'" Horn defined a "new Demo
crat" as someone who believed in the
necessity of economic growth and "the
importance of job creation and keep
ing the country strong."
Tom Campbell, campaign coordi
nator for N.C. State Treasurer Harlan
Boyles's re-election campaign, said
that North Carolina's favoring of Re
publican national candidates "reflects
the conservative nature of North Caro
linians. "The reason Clinton did so well
here was that North Carolinians per
ceived that Bill Clinton was one of
them, a person of a more moderate to
conservative tone," Campbell said.
Richard Barnes, statewide cam
paign directorforNC. Insurance Com
missioner Jim Long's campaign for
re-election, said popular dissatisfac
tion with the Republicans was also
See DEMOCRATS, page 5
Chapel Hill Detective Becky Wil
son, who is working on the case, has
spent more time on other cases that
needed more investigation, Thompson
said.
"(Wilson) hasn't had much time to
devote to (the rape case)," Thompson
said. "She knows who the individuals
are. It's just a matter of interviewing
them."
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'Sierte letters
: By Jennifer Talhelm .
;. Aaristaat University Editor
! Members of the University com-
munity on both sides of the fight for a
I free-standing black cultural center
t have been the recipients of hostile
letters from an unidentified source
'. calling itself only "The Brothers of
the Sierte."
Chancellor Paul Hardin, Provost
Richard McCormick, journalism Pro
' fessor Chuck Stone, BCC Director
Margo Crawford and others have re
ceived letters signed "Brothers of die
, Sierte" or "1992, the Sierte." '
i McCormick said he and Hardin re
ceived their letters about three weeks
! ago. He described the letters he had
: seen as "mean-centered and unpleas
ant," but not threatening. The letter
j delivered to him said "unpleasant
s things about the BCC working group
and the BCC Advisory Board," he
Republicans cheer
Faircloth's triumph
By Allison Taylor
Staff Writer
After the defeat of incumbent Presi
dent George Bush and the failure of
every Republican candidate running in
North Carolina's Council of State, Re
publicans across the state are disap
pointed but expressing optimism for
future elections.
Rep. Art Pope, R-Wake, who was the
Republican candidate for N.C. lieuten
ant governor, said the fact that Bush
won North Carolina's electoral college
votes, in addition to Lauch Faircloth's
victory over incumbent N.C. Sen. Terry
Sanford, showed that the state Republi
can Party still was going strong.
"Lauch Faircloth's victory shows that
North Carolina is still a two-party state,"
he said. "I believe because Faircloth
won, and George Bush won the state,
there's still a bright future for the Re
publican Party in North Carolina."
Pope stated that many Democratic
candidates adopted Republican policies
to win offices in this election, citing
County voter turnout more
than expected, officials say
By Paul Bredderman
Staff Writer
Orange County election officials ex
pected voter turnout to be high Tues
day, but some were surprised at steady
lines that represented an increase of
about 9,000 voters more than in the
1988 presidential election.
The high turnout and problems with
ballot-counting machines put some
strain on election officials, and Orange
County voters had to wait until after
midnight before they could hear official
vote tallies.
The unofficial results showed that
Armed suspect
Staff report
University Police were searching
South Campus for an armed suspect late
Wednesday night in the wake of an
attempted robbery on a path behind
Kenan Field House.
A man reported being attacked by an
armed suspect at about 8 p.m. Wednes
day while walking along the path to
ward Morrison Residence Hall behind
the field house, said Police Chief Alana
Ennis. "The victim was not a student,"
Ennis said.
The victim told police that he was
of University student
Thompson added that the detectives
and the victim would have to check with
a legal adviser to find out what legal
action the victim wanted to pursue.
"Our first priority in a sexual assault
is the victim," Thompson said.
Thompson mentioned the three other
cases that Wilson still was investigat
ing. At 12:04 a.m. Sunday, a University
man, except for all
ize5 facilities
sent to both sides
said.
"(The letters) basically said, 'When
are you going to do anything?'"
McCormick said.
Clifford Charles, chairman of the
Black Facul ry-Staff Caucus, said he had
investigated about five letters, but he
did not know who had sent them or what
"Sierte" meant.
Alan McSurely, a local civil rights
attorney who represented University
: Police officer Keith Edwards in hersix
year grievance case against the Uni ve r
sity, said Crawford and two student
leaders also had received letters from
the Sierte.
Crawford recently hired McSurely
to represent her in a grievance she said
she planned to file against the Univer
sity. McSurely said he would not com
menton Crawford's grievance butadded
that the letters from the Sierte were
involved.
"I believe it's in violation of criminal
Local legislative delegation wins 3
such areas as education reforms, the
building of new prisons and lower taxes.
"I believe having a Democratic presi
dent and Congress will have a huge
effect on the United States. I wish (President-elect
Bill Clinton) well, for the
sake of the country, but I fear it' s going
to be like we were under Carter which
means runaway taxes . . . runaway infla
tion," Pope said.
Pope indicated that he hoped to work
in North Carolina's government in the
future.
"I really enjoyed campaigning and
meeting people, ... I look forward to
serving in the future," Pope said.
Leo Tew, who was defeated by
Democratic incumbent Jim Graham for
the office of commissioner of agricul
ture, said he hoped to continue to work
with the Democrat-controlled N.C.
General Assembly, especially in the
promotion of alternate health practices,
See REPUBLICANS, page 4
out of 67,46 1 registered Orange County
voters, 45,748 or 67.8 percent
came to the polls and voted.
In the 1988 presidential election,
about 66 percent voted countywide. In
1984, 69 percent of the county's resi
dents voted, according to county elec
tion officials.
"I'm pleased, not surprised (about
Tuesday's high turnout)," said Barbara
Faust, chairwoman of the Orange
County Board of Elections. "We (knew)
we'd registered about 9,000 voters since
August countywide."
See VOTE, page 4
eludes police
approached from behind and that the
assailant pressed a gun into his back,
Ennis said. The suspect fled before tak
ing anything from the victim, she said.
"The victim did not see the weapon
but felt it against him," Ennis said.
"That's about as much as we know right
now."
Ennis said the victim described his
assailant as a black man about 6 feet tall,
wearing a T-shirt, a dark baseball cap
and tennis shoes.
At press time, police had not caught
the suspect.
woman was pushed and grabbed at the
intersection of Church and West Rose
mary streets.
The suspect, who was described as a
20-year-old Mexican man standing five
feet 10 inches tall, fled the scene after
the victim screamed, according to po
lice reports.
See RAPE, page 4
the others. Winston Churchill
of BCC debate
law (to send the letters), and we will
be talking to the district attorney," he ':
said. ' : ;
McSurely said that he did not know
whosent the lettersbutthathe thought
it was someone within the University ;
community who wanted to cause
trouble within the BCC movement.
'The form that (the letters) take and
the sophistication of the short notes of s
these letters that were being delivered -a ;
to the key people in the BCC struggle
are clearly designed to exacerbate and ;
aggravate what were minor personal
problems into major ones,' he said.
"(The letters) are part of a massive
force to try to subvert tremendous
unity people worked day and night for I
since Sonja Stone's death."
The current BCC is named after--
Stone, the late African and Afro--American
studies professor. Advo-
See LETTERS, page 5
Bond vote
gets mixed
reactions
By John P. Ashley
Staff Writer
After the passage of the $52 mil
lion school btind in Tuesday's elec
tion, both supporters and members
of its opposition voiced mixed emo
tions and concerns for the future of
Orange County students and schools.
Supporters of the school bond said
'they.. were delighted that the bond
passed, adding that they were hoping
its passage would solve the over
crowding problems or the Chapel
Hill-Carrboro schools.
The League of Womeri Voters,
which endorsed the bond, was "very
pleased and glad to see voters decide
to support it," according to Kay
Wijnberg, president ot the group.
Citizens in Orange County take
pnde in their schools, and the citi
zens are interested in whatever needs
to be done, even if it means raising
taxes," Wijnberg said.
But two local fiscal watchdog
groups did not agree with the bond
nor the approach it took to improve
Chapel Hill and Carrboro schools;
Both UmTax and TaxWatch
worked for weeks prior to the elec
tion to inform voters that the struct
hire of the bond would not serve the
needs of the schools in the best way.
TaxWatch member Tommy
Gardner said better tilings, besides a
bond, could have been done for the
schools.
'(TaxWatch) did what we could
with volunteers, some of who have
been involved with education all of
their lives," Gardner said. "We don ' t.
need to spend as much money." : :
Gardner said he believed that the
county education officials needed to
re-evaluate the school bond. Gardner
also said the county should consider
the plans of other school systems
that have built new schools and ex
panded before it makes a final deci
sion.
TaxWatch member Bill Oppold
said: "The school board has no con
crete plans made for a new school.
The voters are trusting the school
board to build a $22 milkon school."
Peter Topping, a representative of
Citizens Advocating and Supporting
Education, which also endorsed the
bond, said bond supporters thought
the $52 million for the new schools
and improved technology was a con
servative amount.
"The bond passed with a wider
margin than I thought it would, and
the (University) students had some
thing to do with that," Topping said.
Topping added that he also was
glad that residents had realized the
bond's passage was Important for
the future.
Wijnberg said the League of
Women Voters believed the bond
was a good start in light of the cur
rent rough economic times.
If the community continues to
grow from people moving in, enroll
ments will continue to grow, which
will force problems of needing new ;
See BOND, page 4