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Volume 100, Issue 97 Friday, November 6, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcwtSporuArU 962-0241 BiuincMAdvct1uing 962-1163 ! hJ " f. .Li- ......I- i..,.,.,.lii.l.,,.j.ili...iIM.l ...lii,; wji, U.S. Sen. Terry Sanford addresses a press conference at the Washington Sanford blames negative ads for By Allison Taylor Staff Writer DURHAM Democratic U.S. Sen. Terry Sanford said negative campaign ing and his recent illness were the rea sons for his loss to Republican Lauch Faircloth in Tuesday's election. Sanford, D-N.C, spoke at a press conference at the Washington Duke Inn in Durham Thursday morning, two days after Faircloth earned 52 percent of the vote to oust him. Sanford, 75, was elected to the Senate in 1986. The Durham resident and UNC alum nus developed an infected heart valve in June 1991, but it was treated rapidly, and he returned to the campaign trail. Later, due to another bacterial infec tion, Sanford developed an abscess on the heart valve that required an opera tion. Police say By Dale Castle Staff Writer Chapel Hill police would not say Thursday what priority they were giv ing the acquaintance rape that occurred Police investigating bomb threats at 3 campus sites Staff Report Officials at Davis Library, Berryhill Hall and Canington Hall reported re ceiving bomb threats Monday after noon, University Police said Thursday. The three buildings were searched by University Police, who decided against evacuating occupants. The bomb threats at the library and the two health affairs buildings were reported to University Police by a "cred ible source," said Maj. Donald Gold. FDA-approved By LeAnn Spradling Staff Writer ; Afraid of shots? Now a simple shot every three months has become the newest form of birth control available to women in the United States. ; The Federal Drug Administration recently approved the use of the drug DepoProvera as the first injectable con traceptive. Each injection is effective for about three months. The drug is injected into the arm or buttock. . Like the contraceptive Norplant, Depo Provera uses a synthetic form of the female hormone progesterone. Norplant consists of five polymer tubes, inserted in the arm, that gradually re leases the hormone over a period of five J am "It was a very bad political break for me," Sanford said. "There wasn't any thing to do but do it." Following the operation, Sanford was instructed not to exceed more than two hours of activity per day. "The first day out, I campaigned for 14 hours," Sanford said. "Then I real ized what the doctor meant. It would' ve been stupid not to follow'his advice." The Sanford campaign also had or ganized numerous groups of student supporters in North Carolina, but he said he was unable to visit campuses because of his illness. Sanford also criticized the Faircloth campaign's use of negative advertise ments. "The clever thing about the Congres sional Club is that they don't run their candidate; they attempted ... to make me be running against myself," he said. all cases given equal priority Sunday at Town House Apartments but insisted that all cases received an equal amount of attention, although not si multaneously. Chapel Hill police Detective Barry Thompson said the investigation of the Cursory searches of the buildings revealed nothing unusual, he said. Bomb threats occur relatively fre quently at colleges and universities, Gold said. "(There are) some who attempt to disrupt services (at universities)," he said, adding that universities on aver age receive more bomb threats than other public buildings. Police are continuing to investigate the case, Gold said. shot debuts as new form of years. "(Depo Provera) works by suppress ing the release of eggs," said Dr. Charles Harris, a Durham gynecologist. The injections are simpler and more reversible than Norplant, Harris said. "It's a big deal to have a Norplant in serted and to have it removed. It's a minor surgical procedure." The drug is a good choice for women who cannot tolerate the hormone estro gen in birth-control pills, such as dia betics or women with high blood pres sure, Harris said. Patients who have a basic problem with daily compliance, such as taking the pill, also would ben efit from the injections. But Depo Provera might not be ap propriate for some, said Dr. Jaroslav Hulka, a gynecologist at UNC Hospi the inferior of any DTHflustin Williams Duke Inn in Durham Thursday illness, defeat The Democrat said that he had run a clean campaign and that he had "no vote, no trip that I would change." "I don't need to tell you we had reams of negative material and didn't use it," Sanford said. "I didn't want to go out that way." Sanford said the amount of money spent on campaigning was "obscene." He then discussed a piece of legislation he had presented in U.S. Congress that would establish the amount of money and type of advertisements that could be used for campaigning. "I had drawn legislation that I thought was the best way to ..: control cam paigns. I just want to make it a matter of ethics," he said. "I wanted to lay out that the Congress . . . ought to be able to lay out terms of campaigning. See SANFORD, page 2 rape had been delayed a day because Chapel Hill police Detective Becky Wilson spent 12 hours Wednesday at tending mandatory job training. Wilson is in charge of the investigation for the Town House Apartments case. Kit Gruelle, director of the Orange Durham Coalition for Battered Women, said putting the acquaintance rape case on the back burner sent the wrong mes sage. "It's a crime, and it deserves the same amount of concern and energy as any crime," Gruelle said. Thompson said the process of priori tizing cases was too lengthy to discuss but added that a sexual assault case carried more weight than, for example, someone slashing a tire. "I don't think we should justify how we prioritize each case," Thompson said. "The lowest priority case is going to get the same treatment as the case with the highest priority." Thompson added that Wilson was tals. "A lot of women like to maintain control over their fertility. Some women don't want to interrupt the natural rhythms of their bodies they would rather use a condom and foam and so forth." Some side effects reported by users of Depo Provera are weight gain, fa tigue, irregular bleeding, depression and loss of interest in sex. According to the June 26 issue of Science magazine, a New Zealand study has also linked the drug to osteoporosis, and there are con cerns about me lack of information about long-term effects. "I don't think (the findings) are sta tistically significant," Harris said. "I think Depo Provera is safe. It's cer tainly cost-effective." He estimated that one month's supply of birth-control pills man whose rights roil Jiiow womee9 men plit on lockuro By Marty Minchin Assistant University Editor Male and female students have op posing views on the recently installed 24-hour lockup of campus residence halls, according to the results of a poll conducted for The Daily Tar Heel. The random-sample telephone poll included 303 student responses from a target population of 400, for a total response rate of 76 percent Pollsters interviewed students by telephone be tween Oct. 25 and Oct. 28. Sociology graduate student Richard Miech conducted the random-sample telephone poll for the DTH. Out of the 163 students polled who lived in campus residence halls, 44.8 percent said they were in favor of the lockup, while 55.2 percent said they were opposed to it. Off-campus residents were more evenly divided in their views on the lockup. Out of the 140 students polled who live off campus, 45.7 percent said they supported the lockup, while 43.6 percent said they were against it. When the results were broken down by gender, a majority of women polled were in favor of the lockup, while more men were opposed to it. Almost 60 percent of women polled who live on campus and 60 percent of women who live off campus were in favor of the lockup. Only 42.3 percent of women living in dormitories and 30.3 percent of women Li ving off campus said they were opposed to the lockup. Of the men polled, 22.4 percent who live on campus and 26.2 percent who live off campus supported the lockup. But 37.8 percent of men who live on campus and 31 percent who live off campus said they did not agree with the lockup. University Police Maj. Donald Gold said he thought one reason more women supported the lockup and more men opposed it was that women had been the victims of recent assaults on campus. "The population that was most af fected by the assaults happened to be women," he said. "They feel a little more vulnerable having been in prox imity to these assaults." Gold said students should take the not working on a case in which two men jumped a Chapel Hill resident and slashed his face with a box cutter, as previously reported. But she is continu ing work on the red-car rapist case, which involved two men who were ar rested and charged with kidnapping and raping four women in separate inci dents this summer, he said. Wilson said that when she was work ing on multiple cases, she prioritized them by the seriousness of the offense and by the potential danger the suspect posed to the victim and society. "(The rape in Town House Apart ments) has been worked on more than some of the other cases," Wilson said. Thompson said someone who had committed a stranger rape posed more of a threat than someone who had com mitted an acquaintance rape. Gruelle said an acquaintance rape could be even worse than being raped by a stranger because it was a breach of trust. birth control cost between $ 1 5 and $20, while a three month injection of Depo Provera costs around $25. Depo Provera first was recommended for contraceptive use in the United States in the mid-1970s, but studies linking the drug to breast, cervical and endome trial cancers prevented its approval, according to the June 29 issue of Newsweek magazine. The drug has been used as a contra ceptive in more than 90 countries while it remained unapproved in the United States, Hulka said. It finally was ap proved partially because of the results of a study done by the World Health Organization. According to Science magazine, the See CONTRACEPTIVE, page 7 I trample underfoot. Horace Greeley 24-noun LOCKUP I AH Students QFemales pj Males ON-CAMPUS RESIDENTS 80 70 60 50 577 40 - 30 44.8 20 10 r 0 FOR LOCKUP OFF-CAMPUS 70 T 60 0 40 30 20 tO.8 45.7 10 f OR LOCKUP DTH GraphicJohn Caserta same protective measures in the dorms that they would at their homes or apart ments. "I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to secure their doors and the general access doors to the building, although I do understand it may be inconvenient for people," he said. "I don't think it's unreasonable to expect people to take some precautions." University Housing Director Wayne Kuncl said he thought the results of the poll showed that men felt safer on cam pus than women did. UNC libraries still plagued by budget woes, rising costs By Melissa Dewey Staff liter University Library holdings rose only slightly in 1991-92 because of a low budget, state taxes and the rising cost of serials,and University officials say they are taking steps to prevent the current situation from getting worse. The Annual Report of the Univer sity Library, issued Sunday by Uni versity Librarian James Govan, re vealed that appropriated funds for the library system were up only 8. 13 per cent this year since fiscal year 1990 91. Undergraduate Librarian David Taylor said the small increase prob ably was negated by other costs asso ciated with running such a large li brary system. State taxes also have cut into the library budget, said Jaroslav Folda, chairman of the Library Administra tiveBoard, afaculty committee formed to deal with such issues. UNC-system schools must pay a "use tax" on book purchases, and even though the budget has stayed the same, the tax has increased, Folda said. Pri vateumversiuesin North Carolina and schools in other states don't have to pay such a tax, he said. The price of serials also has in creased to a "ridiculously high rate," Folda said. In 1978-79, the net book budget for the library system was $750,000, and tlienetbudgetforscrialswas$437,000. . In 1992, the net book budget is $542,101. The budget for aerials is $1,570,740, nearly three times the budget for books. Foreign publishers charging out landish subscription rates have caused this surge in serial prices, Folda said. "I'm hoping (President-elect Bill) : '3 AGAINST lOCKUP RESIDENTS AGAINST LOCKUP "My perception would be men don't feel at risk," he said. "Women feel more at risk than men do." Kris Brockmann, Ehringhaus area director, said the results of the survey did not surprise her because she had conducted a similar survey in her resi dence hall. "There's a quote that says 'a woman can do anything a man can do except walk alone at night,'" Brockmann said. "Women tend to be the victims of as- See POLL, page 7 Clinton's administration will be more active. America's libraries need more help," he said. Joe Hewitt, associate University librarian for technical services, said thatmostundergraduateroateriaLsstill were available but that graduate stu dents and faculty had experienced dif ficulty researching because of the bud get. "Graduate students and faculty have very definitely felt the effects," he said. "We haven't been able to sub scribe to new journals in the last six or seven years." The Academic Affairs Library, which includes all libraries except the Law and Health Sciences libraries, has compiled a list of the most impor tant journals they have not been able topurchase,mcludingperiodicalsfrom more than 30 departments on campus. Concern about the economic status of the UNC library system came to the general public's attention because of UNC's recent slip in national rankings of colleges and universities. In the most recent "U.S. News and World Report" rankings, UNC fell from 25th to 28th in the nation, a drop due in large part to inadequate fund ing of campus libraries. Govan said that in recent years, UNC's status as a national research library bad dropped from 10th to 48th because of budget shortages. But the budget problems are not a local phenomenon, Govan said. "Nationwide, we' ve had to cut," he said. "It's a research problem." While most of the library budget remained the same during 1991-92, one area that increased was the "Other Funds" category, which increased about 10 percent This increase was See LIBRARIES, page 7 "WW 55.2 42.3 i ' imriiiiini-im 43.6 I 30.4