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1 , niMEiii TODAY: Partly cloudy; high 70-75 ENVCKSNTAL RAQSfl Student Environmental Action Coalition takes up the fight against a proposed low-level nuclear waste dump in poor, rural areas GOOD NEWS, HAD NEWS North Carolina's men's basketball team wins and loses this weekend in the annual Blue-White exhibition game NBA leaders Scoring Michael Jordan, Chi. 33.1 ppg Dominique Wilkins, Atl. 30.6 Karl Malone, Utah 30.0 Rebounding Shaquille O'Neal, Orl. 16.8 rpg Hakeem Olaiuwon, Hou. 15.1 Charles Barkley, Phoe. 14.1 Assists John Stockton, Utah '1 2.4 apg Tim Hardaway, C.S. 9.9 TUESDAY: Partly cloudy, cooler; high 60-65 a itfrlaifa fcl Sibby Andefson-Thompkins orJ r,,, ,..u...,i uL. 1 Essential Understanding," at 7 p.m. in 101 Greenlaw. IS) 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 108 Monday, November 23, 1992 Chapel Hill, North Carolina NnnfipoftiAiti 962-0245 BuunCM Advcfftuinff 962. 1 1 63 J ..:......,.. .:::,:,,,:.. JJL.,tIMmA. .yimnM : . Danielle Egan and Roz Santana celebrate UNC's seventh-straight women's soccer .Ferguson appeal to coottone By James Lewis Staff Writer No decision was reached on Assis tant Professor Paul Ferguson's tenure denial appeal at a two-hour Sunday morning meeting of the Faculty Hear ings Committee. After Ferguson presented his case to the committee, the committee met in executive session to decide whether to continue the hearings. "It' s a three-stage process: This morn ing I presented my case, the committee listened, and now they're in executive session to decide if the hearing will continue," Ferguson said. Laurel Files, chairwoman of the com mittee, said the hearing would continue at a later date. The Sunday morning meeting was not unusual because committee mem bers had different schedules and they often met at nights and on weekends, Files said. The committee could decide either to continue or to terminate the tenure pro ceedings, she said. Commjttee mem bers have not decided when they will make a final decision or when they will meet again, Files said. Ferguson, the recipient of the 1992 Undergraduate Teaching A ward and the 1989 and 1992 Senior Class Favorite Teacher awards, is appealing a Septem ber decision from the Speech Commu nication Advisory Committee, which recommended that Ferguson not be granted promotion or tenure. Ferguson's contract will expire June 30 if he is not granted tenure. The fac ulty committee appeal is the last step in the tenure process. After the meeting, Ferguson said he was still hopeful that the committee would recommend tenure. Ferguson said he had not decided what measures he would take if the committee did not Employee group to study UNC grievance procedure By Anna Griffin University Editor : The State Employees Association of North Carolina's local chapter will conduct an in-depth analysis of the University grievance procedure, SEANC officials said this week. The study, which will be led by former UNC personnel official Jack Gunnells, will involve interviews with employees and supervisors and evalu ations of past cases at the University. Upon completion, the evaluation will be presented to the local SEANC dis trict and, pending local approval, to SEANC state leaders. Gunnells and other District 35 SEANC officials will begin the study in December. They hope the report will form the basis for SEANC-pro-posed changes to the state and Univer sity grievance procedures, he said. "We would uke the study to be viewed in the context in which we are Hey, Duke, one more recommend that Chancellor Paul Hardin grant him tenure. "Ihaven'treally thought past the appeals process, yet. That's still going on, and I still have faith in the appeals process," he said. "I'm still confident that Paul Ferguson they're going to rule favorably." Valerie Halman, a leader of Students for Dr. Paul Ferguson and senior from Montreal, said she shared Ferguson's optimism. Students for Dr. Paul Ferguson recently was formed to pro test Ferguson's tenure denial. "We really have confidence that the committee will decide to give him ten ure and a promotion," Halman said. Last week, Halman and Martin Strobel, a second-year graduate student from Charlotte, presented Hardin and the Board of Trustees a petition of 3,757 signatures of students, faculty, staff members and alumni in support of Ferguson. Halman said that until the committee reached a decision, her group would continue to support Ferguson. "Cer tainly the support for Paul is still here, but at this point, there's not much we can do," she said. "We've made our voice heard." Strobel said that if the committee did not recommend tenure and promotion or the committee voted for a full recon sideration, the group would urge Ferguson to take his case to federal court. "I think that for any reasonable per son, enough is enough," Strobel said. "That's why I think the federal courts could act more efficiently and more objectively than the administration." viewing it," Gunnells said. "We are not out to jump on people. We are not out to criticize anybody. "We want to come up with some fundamental principles about what would be a model set of principles for a good grievance procedure, a viable grievance procedure, a workable griev ance procedure." Gunnells said the SEANC subcom mittee conducting the study, the Sub committee for the Impartial Study of Grievance and Appeals Procedure, would interview UNC staff, faculty and administrators. He said the sub committee members hoped to talk to Chancellor Paul Hardin and Wayne Jones, UNC vice chancellor for busi ness and finance. "Wed Uke to talk to (Hardin)," Gunnells said. "We'd like to see how he feels about the whole thing." The study will include four phases: See GRIEVANCE, page 5 touchdown and you're right back in this DTHlim Farrugu national title Sunday at Fetzer Field Students deliver By Anna Griffin University Editor Student supporters of speech com munication assistant professor Paul Ferguson interrupted the monthly Board of Trustees meeting Friday to present members with the signatures of more than 3,700 of his supporters. Valerie Halman and Martin Strobel, the two students leading the fight for Ferguson, interrupted the meeting at about 10:45 a.m. Friday and asked that the BOT accept the petitions, which were collected during a period of a week and a half. Chancellor Paul Hardin, who ac cepted petitions from the group Thurs day, had just given a short speech focus ing on the tenure issue and explaining that it was a controversial subject across the country, not just at UNC. "We hate to interrupt his meeting, but Chancellor Hardin has presented us with an appropriate moment to deliver these signatures," Halman, a senior from Montreal, told the group. "We believe Dr. Paul Ferguson has demonstrated a balance of research and teaching that warrants tenure and promotion." At the suggestion of BOT Vice Chair man David Ward, the board went into executive session for about 20 minutes to discuss the matter. Upon reopening the meeting, BOT Chairman Robert Strickland announced that while the students' interruption was out of order, he would accept the petitions without comment after the meeting. Ferguson, winner of three campus teaching awards, was denied tenure this September, the fourth time his case was heard. The professor and his student supporters believe Ferguson was de nied tenure because of the emphasis he Gay officials call for Colorado By Richard J. Dalton Jr. Staff Writer The National Network of Lesbian and Gay Officials passed a resolution Sunday in Chapel Hill calling for an economic boycott of Colorado in re sponse to a law banning legislation to protect gays and lesbians from discrimi nation. More than 60 openly gay and lesbian officials met this weekend for the Eighth Annual International Conference of Gay and Lesbian Elected and Appointed Officials. The resolution said the Colorado measure and similar initiatives encour aged discrimination, prejudice and vio lence against gays and lesbians. It called for a boycott not only of Colorado, but also other areas that pass similar mea sures. The NNLGO is a member of several other organizations, such as the Na tional League of Cities and the National Association of State Legislators, and will encourage those groups to adopt Women's soccer continues dynasty; Duke dies nasty in championship By Carter Toole Staff Writer After 24 games, 2,160 minutes, and road trips spanning from Connecticut to Texas to California, the final test for the UNC women' s soccer team was its hated next-door neighbor. The bus ride to Chapel Hill Sunday for the Duke Blue Devils was a short one the ride home, thanks to the Tar Heels, could not have seemed longer. North Carolina capped the greatest season in women's soccer history with a 9-1 pasting of Duke in the NCAA Championshipbefore 3,573 soaked fans at Fetzer Field. It was the Tar Heels' seventh-straight NCAA title, and its 1 1 th national crown overall. UNC finished the season a perfect 25-0, setting an NCAA record for most wins in a season. The Tar Heels beat Santa Clara 3-0 in Saturday 's semifinal. "This championship was an incred ibly warm one and a satisfying one for me," said UNC coach Anson Dorrance. "In non-revenue athletics, you rarely expect the sort of support we got out there. It's a very special feeling for me." Dorrance missed last year's NCAA title game because he was in China petition to BOT places on teaching rather than research. Ferguson appealed his case Nov. 9 and Thursday, the Committee on Fac ulty Hearings agreed to consider the appeal. The committee heard the case Sunday and will rule later this week. . The tenure issue has triggered some student protest in recent weeks, with the denial of tenure to Ferguson and Kevin Stewart, a popular assistant geology professor who last week learned he was the recipient of a $50,000 research grant. Stewart's case also is pending ap peal. His supporters have launched a letter-writing campaign to Stephen Birdsall, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences; Hardin; UNC-system Presi dent CD. Spangler; and U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder, D-Colo., chair woman of the House Select Committee on Children, Youth and Families. Schroeder' s committee held a hearing in September to discuss the state of college education nationwide. Under the UNC tenure policy, pro fessors whoare denied tenure are forced to leave the University when their con tracts expire. The policy came under fire last year when Michael Folio, an other award-winning assistant geology professor, was denied tenure. Folio will leave the University in the spring. Birdsall discussed the tenure issue with BOT members Friday. While re search does play a key role in tenure decisions, despite what critics might say, it is not the only criteria, he said. "Teaching, research and service are three parts of the same activity," Birdsall said. "That activity is the improvement of understanding." At its meeting last week, Board of Governors Chairman Samuel Poole called for a BOG review of tenure poli cies at all 1 6 UNC-system campuses. Conference attendees hail Clinton 3 similar resolutions, according to West Hollywood Mayor John Heilman, who drafted the resolution. Heilman said the resolution sent a signal to gays and lesbians. "I want to encourage members of the gay and lesbian community not to go to Colorado until this discrimination ends," he said. Many supporters of the resolution referred to the boycott of Arizona for its refusal to designate a Martin Luther King holiday. Opponents of the resolution said gay people from Colorado should decide whether their state should be boycotted. Some people also said the group should not boycott areas in Colorado that had laws to protect gay rights before the referendum was passed. But others said failure to fight this measure could stymie the response to future referendums and bolster the op position. David Scondras, a city council mem-. thing. UNC fan at women's soccer finals "IT coaching the U.S. National Team. Duke actually scored the game's first goal at 17:16. Senior Caitlin Connolly booted a free kick into the penalty box, which senior Jennifer Lewis headed past UNC goalkeeper Shelley Finger. Then the dam broke. UNC went on a scoring tear, tallying four goals in 10 minutes. Mia Hamm fired a shot past Blue Devil goalkeeper Melissa Carr at 28:26. Keri Sanchez lofted a corner kick over Carr's head at 33:59 to give the Tar Heels a 2-1 lead. On the ensuing kickoff , Kristine Lilly stole the ball and passed to Hamm, who converted the breakaway. Angela Kelly headed in a corner at 38:27 for a 4-1 lead. The wet field conditions hampered UNC's quick, slashing style of play, but the Tar Heels were able to consistently swarm an exhausted Duke defense. After their initial goal, the Blue Devils man aged one more shot. UNC took 27 shots. Hamm had three goals, her fourth hat trick of the season, and 1 0 shots on the day. Her 97 total points led the nation, Dean: Professors teach majority of UNC students By Anna Griffin University Editor Despite widespread belief to the contrary, UNC students receive most of their classroom instruction from faculty members, the dean of the Col lege of Arts and Sciences said Friday. "Assertions have been made that the University faculty do not teach undergraduates and that undergradu ates can spend their entire four years here without taking a course from a tenured professor," Dean Stephen Birdsall said at the Friday Board of Trustees meeting. "But the figures used to support such assertions do not ring true." Birdsall was responding to remarks made at the September BOT meeting by board member John Pope. At the previous meeting, Pope had questioned the quality of teaching at UNC-CH and had asserted that most University courses were taught by teaching assis tants. But College of Arts and Sciences statistics from last semester reveal that 66 percent of University lecture courses were taught by faculty members, Birdsall said. The data also show that 82 percent of tenured or tenure-track professors taught undergraduates last spring, Birdsall said. "Faculty teach most undergraduate courses and most undergraduates," he said. The issue of the value of teaching at UNC-CH was raised recently when ber in Boston, said no one would ques tion a boycott if a measure eliminated laws protecting blacks or Jews. Minnesota Sen. Allan Spear, D Hennepin, who supported the resolu tion, recalled the 1991 Louisiana elec tion in which David Duke, an ex Klansman and Nazi sympathizer, ran for governor. "Every organization I know of threat ened to boycott Louisiana if he were elected governor," he said. "I don't see why we shouldn't try to get that kind of support, too." The conference attendees also passed a resolution calling for an end to the ban on gays and lesbians in the military. President-elect Bill Clinton has prom ised an executive order to repeal the ban, but U.S. Rep. Barney Frank, D Mass., said, "I think we'll win, but let's not leave that to chance." Barney, who is a member of the NNLGO, said gays and lesbians had become complacent about fighting the ban and had allowed opponents to domi nate the public debate. tm m htm iil and she outshot UNC's entire opposi tion 117-113. "After (Duke) scored today, it was a total team commitment on our part," Hamm said. "But right now, Duke shouldn't hang their heads to me they were beaten by a very good North Carolina team." No kidding. UNC's dominance against the Blue Devils provided a fit ting end to perhaps the greatest single season by a team in any collegiate sport. Sunday's win was the Tar Heel's 58th straight. UNC trailed in only two games against N.C. State and Duke and only one squad (Brown) man aged to score more than once in a game versus the UNC. And the most frightening statistic to other coaches is this: UNC loses just one starter to graduation. But that one starter is Lilly, a two time National Player of the Year. "The one we're losing is such a major player, it' s not gonna be the same team," See SOCCER, page 5 assistant profes sors Paul Ferguson and Kevin Stewart were denied ten ure. Critics of the tenure policy and supporters of Ferguson and Stewart say the two were penal ized for overem phasizing class Stephen Birdsall room teaching. But in his remarks to the BOT, Birdsall said instructors in the College of Arts and Sciences were evaluated on three levels: teaching, research and public service. "In the College of Arts and Sci ences at the University of North Caro lina at Chapel Hill, we have chosen the most challenging path to higher aspirations," Birdsall said. "We ex pect our faculty to aspire to and show evidence of continuing evidence in all three responsibilities." Birdsall said students and critics of the current tenure policy did not fully understand the importance of research. 'To create knowledge, through re search or other creative effort, is as time consuming as and even more demanding of resources than the effective transmission of knowledge through teaching," he said. At the UNC Board of Governors meeting Nov. 13, Chairman Samuel Poole called for a review of tenure policies at all 1 6 UNC-system schools. boycott He said removing the ban would not have the far-reaching effects that oppo nents foresaw. He said some people believed most gay and lesbian soldiers would come out of the closet as a result of the executive order. But Barney said, "There still, unfor tunately, will be many constraints against it." He said several states prohibited dis crimination against gays, but discrimi nation still existed. "(Prohibiting discrimination) has not meant that every gay man and lesbian in that state has felt free to come out," he said. Opponents have threatened that many members of the armed services will leave if the ban is lifted, Barney said. But he pointed out that the forces needed to be reduced anyway. Barney said open homosexuality might diminish chances for promotions. "(Being gay or lesbian) will still not be the best way to make colonel," he said. See CONFERENCE, page 5 when score was 7-1 ' S