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J Mr J mi C TODAY: Partly cloudy; high near 60 SATURDAY: Mostly sunny; high upper 40s CONTINUING THE LEGACY SOCCER SEVEN-PEAT? REINSTATED: Relief pitcher Steve Howe, to major league baseball under theordersof arbitrator George Nicolau. Howe had been given a lifetime sus pension from baseball )une 8 by then commissioner Fay Vincent. The suspension followed Howe's guilty plea to a misdemeanor charge for trying to buy a gram of cocaine. The incidentwasHowe'sseventh related to drugs or alcohol. Howe played for the New York Yankees in 1992. Applications for the 1993 Martin Luther King )r. Scholarship, worth $500 to a person who exemplifies King's ideals, are due Monday UNC women's soccer team begins its charge for a seventh-straight NCAA title Saturday at Fetzer Field Josh White Jr. will give an wqp stent) mwc Serving the students and the University community since 1893 acoustic concert at 8 p.m. in the Union Cabaret. Tickets, $2 students, $4 public. 100th Year of Editorial Freedom Est. 1893 1992 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Volume 100, Issue 102 Friday, November 13, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NcwiSSportaAitl 962-0245 BuiincMAdvcfliiing 962-1 163 Water By Jennifer Talhelm Assistant University Editor U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., said the U.S. government should not have been surprised by the Los Angeles riots. Waters, who delivered the fourth keynote address of Human Rights Week 1 992 Thursday night, said the riots hap pened because the government had ignored the needs of poor Ameri cans. "Increasingly we're seeing young men and women, espe cially African Americans and Latinos, who are being dropped off the American agenda," she told about ISO students and community members who gathered to hear her speak in Memorial Hall. "(These young Americans) don't show up in anyone's statistics," she said. "America has pretended they're not there, yet the selling of drugs and crack has gone up, and it's dividing America." Waters said many poor young people in America grew up seeing a disparity between their lifestyles and those of middle-class Americans. "The legislatures are broke, cities are bcoke the money's been in the de fense budget," she said. "When Los Angeles exploded, none of us should have been surprised." But Waters said further riots could be avoided by improved academic and cultural education and by improving and expanding social programs. "It is time for us to look inward," she said. "The rage is" stilTTxillng underneath where problems continue to multiply. "We have some very, very angry people who don't feel a part of any thing." Waters commended the UNC stu dents fighting for a free-standing black J.T. on the move James Taylor solemnly sings 'Something in the Way She Moves" at the Dean E. Smith Center Wednesday night. Taylor charmed Panel discusses By James Lewis Staff Writer Experts on environmental racism dis cussed waste dumping in communities with large minority populations, and student environmentalists blasted Governor-elect Jim Hunt's environmental record during a panel meeting at Gerrard Hall Thursday night. The discussion, titled "A Healthy Environment is a Human Right," was sponsored by the Student Environmen tal Action Coalition and was part of the Campus Y's Human Rights Week. Before the formal meeting, Josh Busby, SEAC co-chairman, read a state ment written by SEAC members criti cizing Hunt. "Jim Hunt has ... shown extremely poorjudgment in dealing with environ J want mree federal :,, & u ' r ; V . t ' - it i ? -u i ! ; DTHMissy Bello U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., speaks at Memorial Hall Thursday night cultural center. . "I'm here to say to you that the struggle has been an honest one," she said. "We've got to talk about what's hurting us. We've got to confront each other and cry when we don't under stand. When we do this, we will do an enthusiastic home crowd by shaking hands with audience members in between tunes for an upcoming live album. environmental racism, Gov. mental hazards that threaten the health of North Carolinians," the statement reads. The statement includes criticism ofHunt'slawfirm and also accuses him of mishan dling a 1981 War ren County land fill proposal. As the panel discussion began, Therese Vick, a representative from Northampton Citizens Against Pollu tion, spoke on behalf of the citizens of Northampton County, which is the pro posed site of a solid-waste incinerator. "(We) challenge the new administra tion to stop using rural North Carolina to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law. something about the rage." Waters said she supported a free standing BCC because the center would help to educate black students about themselves and would teach white stu- See WATERS, page 4 )IH)ayson Singe as the toilet for the state," Vick said. Northampton is "tailor-fit" for the waste site because the county is pre dominantly black, has the third-highest percentage of children in poverty in the state and is "educationally and eco nomically deprived," she said. Vick cited the effort to put a solid waste landfill on a Cherokee Indian reservation in Western North Carolina and proposals to put low-level radioac tive dumps in Richmond County, on the border of Chatham and Wake counties and in Northampton County as examples of environmental injustice. Vick said that in all the proposed sites, minorities would be most affected by the dumps. "Environmental racism is alive and well in North Carolina," she said. Robert Bullard, author of "Dumping reform Representative drawn to UNC by BCC issue By Mkliael Workman Assistant University rditnr U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Ca-5' lif., arrived late for the dinner in her honor at the Sonja H. Stone Black . Cultural Center Thursday night, but ; ; a boisterous audience of 35 children and 25 adults waited for her anv sway. The dinner preceded a speech by : Waters in Memorial Hall, which was part of Human Rights Week. Waters represents California's s 29th Congressional District, which is located in South-Central Los An geles, an area hard-hit by the riots after the acquittal of four white po lice officers accu sed of beating mo- torist Rodney King last spri ng. The congresswoman addressed 5 theBCCaudiencefbraboutlOnun s utes, and she answered questions : from the children afterward. During her remarks in the BCC, which were clearly targeted toward tlie children, Waters compared UNC ii students' struggle for a free-standing black cultural center will) the children's struggle for self-esteem. The triumph of free-standing BCC supporters, signified by Chancellor Paul Hardin' 8 support of a new cen ter several weeks ago, was a major reason for her visit, Waters said. "The reason I came is I heard " about some young people who wanted to get something done and were willing to fight for it," she said Waters urged the children to stand up for what they thought was right. See BCC, page 7 Tenure issue hits grad students By Justin Scheef Staff Writer The University might be losing more than just award-winning professors if the administration continues to deny tenure to assistant professors who are said to emphasize classroom perfor mance more than research, some stu dents said. Kevin Stewart, an assistant geology professor, said he soon would receive a final decision in his tenure case and added that he expected to be denied tenure because of insufficient research. If Stewart is denied tenure, he will leave UNC after his contract expires in 1993. But the decision would not affect just Stewart. Ruben Giral, a graduate student whom Stewart is advising on his master's thesis in the field of structural geology, said it was likely that he also would leave the University if Stewart did not receive tenure. "It's a terrible shame," Giral said. "Some of Kevin's projects are going to come into fruition in the next 18 months." If denied tenure, Stewart will not be employed at UNC when those projects are completed, Giral said. Since Stewart is the only structural geologist in the department, Giral said he would look for an adviser at another university or would work where Stewart was employed. Hunt's record in Dixie," said that students were the catalysts for change in America and that they must work to solve environmental problems. "Students have to come together," he said. "They have to get out of the ivory towers and get involved in environmen tal justice organizations." Members of the Halifax Environ mental Loss Prevention of Tillery also attended the meeting but did not partici pate in the discussion. Group members said they were involved in a fight of their own against corporations involved in large hog farm operations that pro duced air and water pollution. They cited a 1987 United Church of Christ study that stated that "3 out of 5 Black and Hispanic Americans live in See SEAC, page 4 Ban supporters, opponents split on Clinton order Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on President-elect Bill Clinton 's proposal to end the ban on homosexuals in the military. Monday 's edition will explore the local implica tions of such a change. By Andrea Jones Staff Writer The possible lifting of the ban that prevents openly homosexual men and women from serving in the U.S. armed forces has provoked controversy be tween conservative and liberal groups across the nation and within the mili tary. President-elect Bill Clinton plans to issue an executive order early in his administration that would repeal the U.S. Department of Defense directive that bans homosexuals from the mili tary. David Leavy, Clinton's assistant press secretary, said a specific date had riot been set as to when the order would be issued, but he affirmed Clinton's stance on gay and lesbian rights. "We have not started prioritizing issues at this point," Leavy said. "(Clinton) supports lifting the ban on homosexuals in the military. He feels we should end all discrimination and bias in society." Harold Jordan, coordinator of the National Youth and Militarism Pro gram with the American Friends Ser vice Committee, a Quaker organiza tion based in Philadelphia, said Clinton appeared to consider the issue impor tant. "(Clinton's) transition team seems serious about this," Jordan said. Leslie Alexander, head of the Eagle Forum Collegians, said Clinton's "It' s going to affect me dramatically," Giral said. "It's hard to find someone to advise you on the nuances of your field. "If he were to stay, I would be work ing with one of the pre-eminent struc tural geologists of our time. ... His research is one of the two major reasons I decided to come here." Paul Ferguson, an assistant speech communication professor, also is close to being denied tenure because of a lack of traditional research. Students who have worked with Ferguson on various productions said that if Ferguson did not receive tenure, they would lose one of their most valu able resources. Students who ha ve been rallying sup port for Ferguson have collected 1,700 signatures on a petition this week, speech communication graduate student Mar tin Strobel said. The students are hop ing to collect 5,000 signatures, he said. "It's pretty damn exciting," Strobel , said of the efforts, which included ap proaching students outside the Dean E. Smith Center Wednesday night before the James Taylor concert. Strobel said Ferguson supporters would be meeting Thursday with Stephen Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. Students also have been rallying be hind Stewart by writing letters to vari ous politicians and campus administra tors citing the amount of the research Chapel Hill buses safe, inspected, director says ByShaktiRoutray Staff Writer Chapel Hill Transit never has been involved in a fatal accident like the one that occurred at Duke University Tuesday, according to town transpor tation director Bob Godding. Amy Elizabeth Geissinger, a fresh man at Duke University, was killed Tuesday when she slipped off the bus she was riding as it made a turn. Gelding said Thursday that Chapel Hill Transit had an outstanding in spection and safety record. "My knowledge of (the Chapel Hill Martin Luther King Jr. stance on the is sue was a clear cut statement of what she thought were misplaced priorities. The Eagle Forum is a con servative think tank based in Washington, DC. "It'sclearthat i ' It" Bill Clinton the president-elect is not willing to listen to information that it will be endangering military security by low ering morale (to admit homosexuals into the service)," Alexander said. "It' s clear that he doesn't value military security as much as he values the support of the gay community." Alexander referred to "documenta tion and age-old wisdom" to support her view and said many military em ployees agreed with her. "Experienced, older, lifelong men and women members of the military . . . will testify that that lifestyle has an ill effect on morale," Alexander said. She said the military should not admit professed gays or lesbians be cause "heterosexual men are very threatened by that," and explained that "close quarters and very little privacy " in the armed forces made for tension between homosexuals and heterosexu als. Alexander also said that she thought her views were not prejudicial and that open homosexuality was an ob stacle to military unity. "I don 't mean it as persecution or as bashing," she said. "We're not talking See MILITARY, page 2 Stewart has done and the positive ef fects he has had on his students. A poster presentation authored by doctoral student Steven Lundblad, Stewart and assistant geology professor Michael Folio received a "Best-Poster-in-Session Award" at the national meet ing of the Geological Society of America last month. Folio was denied tenure this spring for reasons similar to those in Stewart's case. Stewart and Folio are co-advisers to Lundblad, who said he expected to fin ish his work this spring before Folio's contract expired. Folio said that he felt good about the award but that Lundblad deserved most of the credit. "One thing I don't want to do is take too much credit for that award," Folio said. Stewart agreed that the credit for the award should go to Lundblad. "I think it is really nice that Steve is getting some credit for his work," he said. A research grant is pending for Lundblad's work, Stewart said. Folio said news of the award was not widespread in the geology department. "I'm not convinced that is completely coincidental," he said. Folio added that very few colleagues had congratulated him on the award. Lundblad said Folio and Stewart had helped him immensely with the award winning poster, but that his research was in a different field. Transit) system is that we have every thing working exactly the way that the manufacturers say that they should work," Godding said. "There is no way that I am aware of that that could happen," Godding added, referring to Tuesday's acci dent at Duke. Al Rossiter, director of Duke News Service, said the accident was being investigated by the Durham police. In addition, Duke University Presi dent H. Keith Brodie directed Duke's safety task force Wednesday to con See BUS, page 7
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