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2The Daily Tar HeelFriday, December 4, 1992 Tanker crashes, spills oil off Spanish coast LA CORUNA, Spain A tanker crashed onto rocks outside a fog shrouded harbor entrance Thursday, breaking apart in heavy seas and spill ing millions of gallons of crude oil that threatened the area's rich fishing grounds. Hundreds of people fled their homes after an explosion tore the stern loose and set off an inferno only a few yards offshore five hours after the ship ran aground. All 29 crew members were rescued from the Greek ship, officials said. Authorities said an oil slick as wide as a mile stretched 12 miles northeastward up the coast of Galicia, as the region is known, Environmentalists expressed fears for fishing grounds. Fishing is Galicia's most important industry. The tanker, the "Aegean Sea," was carrying an estimated 23 million gal lons of crude from Britain's main North Sea oil-loading terminal at Sullom Voe to a refinery in La Corona when it ran aground about 5 a.m. Antonio Gomis, a spokesman for Spain's Repsol oil company, which chartered the tanker, said two or three of the ship's nine tanks had ruptured. He said each tank held an average of 2.7 million gallons of crude oil. "We believe about two-thirds of the oil is on the ship, and oil from two or three tanks has gone into the sea," Gomis said. U.N. inspectors entered one of Hussein's palaces . MANAMA, Bahrain U.N. arms inspectors entered one of Saddam Hussein's presidential palaces while hunting for weapons of mass destruc tion, a team leader said Thursday. Iraq's previous refusal to allow U.N. teams into government ministries, let alone Saddam's palaces, has sparked confrontations between Iraq and the U.N. inspectors. : Maurizio Zifferero, an International Atomic Energy Agency official, told Ferguson before the same jury ... a tainted jury," Ferguson said. ' Neither Balthrop nor Long returned repeated calls to their homes and offices Thursday night. James Pence, assistant chairman for graduate studies under both Balthrop and Long, also refused to comment on the case and quickly hung up the phone. B irdsall, who refused to comment on the Ferguson case, did say he tried to address problems in the system by find ing the most practical solution. "Any time an irregularity of some sort comes to my attention, then I move to correct it," B irdsall said. "Basically if Wouldn't it be great to get your holiday shopping started before exams, and saveaiotof money? BarrEE Station thinks so! RARR'EE Downtown 149 E. Franklin MIIM Okcomit 9m! reporters the inspectors were not nuclear experts. He refused to say more about the palace visit and refused to say when it occurred. There have been unconfirmed re ports the Iraqis were prepared to let U.N. inspectors enter government min istries as long as the visits were not made public. Zifferero, an Italian, leaves for Baghdad Saturday to head an eight member team of nuclear experts. Also traveling to Baghdad will be a 28-mem-ber squad of chemical and biological weapons experts. Zifferero said among other tasks, he would try to pressure Baghdad into pro viding data on the network of foreign suppliers and experts that helped Iraq develop nuclear arms and other weap ons of mass destruction. Russian lawmakers twist and shout MOSCOW Lawmakers plunged into a shouting and shoving match over President Boris Yeltsin' s reforms Thurs day, halting work on economic reform plans and debate on proposals to have Yeltsin relinquish some powers. A leader of a hard-line group in the Congress of People's Deputies predicted there would be more chaos today. The upheaval caused a committee drawing up a resolution on Yeltsin's economic plans to suspend its work. The outburst came during debate on constitutional amendments that would shift power from Yeltsin and his Cabi net to the Congress and the smaller Supreme Soviet. The fracas was the culmination of two days of bitter debate in which Yeltsin and Acting Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar pushed their most controversial reforms on the unfriendly parliament, dominated by former Communists elected long before the collapse of the Soviet Union last year. Speaker Ruslan Khasbulatov, siding with the conservatives, pushed through a motion for secret-ballot voting on the amendments. The Associated Press there's a problem that appears, I move to address it in a way I feel is correct." After his second hearing, the com mittee recommended 7-0 to grant Ferguson tenure without promotion, almost a total turnaround from the first vote. But Birdsall rejected the recom mendation, calling on the committee to turn in either a recommendation for tenure with promotion or a denial of tenure. He then ordered another hearing with the same panel. "In order to be awarded tenure with out promotion at the University, the Trustees' policy specifies that there must be truly 'exceptional circumstances,'" STATION Receive 10 OFF your Entire Purchase with current student ID. Saturday& Sunday December 5 &6 Chapel Hill St. Open Daily East meets West in By L Scott Tilktt Suff Writer Building a bridge out of paper is tricky. And the task becomes even trickier when the bridge must stretch from Asia to America. But Kiduk Yang is trying to build such a bridge. Dong H. Kim started building the bridge between East and West last year when he founded the Carolina Asian News in an attempt to keep the Asian and Asian-American community in North Carolina informed about what was going on in Asia. As news editor and publisher of the paper, a publication in English with a circulation of 4,000, Yang is picking up where Kim left off when he moved to Atlanta. But Yang, a computer programmer at the University, wants to go further with the Carolina Asian News. He also wants the paper to be a tool for racial understanding a way to bridge the gap between Eastern and Western views. "You've got all these racial things going on, and the first step should be getting to know each other," he said. The paper, targeted primarily at UNC housekeepers to benefit from performances By Rahul Mehta Arts Coordinator Tonight is buffet night for anyone interested in student performance groups. For $3, students can get a flavor of. the school's performance groups at 8 p.m. tonight in Hanes Arts Auditorium. Sponsored by Students for the Advance ment of Race Relations, the concert is a benefit for the UNC housekeepers. The BSM Gospel Choir, Tar Heel Voices, Ebony Readers, Unheard Voices, Modem Extension, Opeyo! Dancers and Afro II are among the groups scheduled to appear. A lot of people want to see all these groups but can't go to 50 different con certs," said sophomore S ARR Co-chairman Fred Wherry. "This is a great op portunity to see several different groups Ferguson said. "Birdsall didn't find that there were exceptional circumstances in my case." After the third hearing, the commit tee voted 7-0 to grant tenure without promotion. Again, Birdsall denied the recommendation and ordered yet an other hearing to decide Ferguson' s fate. During the summer after his third hearing, Ferguson received a letter from Birdsall informing him that he was be ing given 12 months notice of termina tion, conditional on the results of the fourth hearing. "The letter said that Birdsall has de cided to hold me to the original decision reached in December, and therefore he was giving me 1 2 months notice, just in case the decision went against me," Ferguson said. In September after a summer in which Ferguson won two teaching awards the committee met again and this timfe voted 3-2 against granting Ferguson tenure. Ferguson appealed the case to the 1GET THE EDGE Kaw ctu iiitt f fJj f ( ifit cm ittu, ."ur ismzr.r:irz .she:. ' . nrz.pz. Going to MEDICAL SCHOOL? The average cost of medical school is approximately $ 15,000 per year. If you qualify, the AFROTC has a scholarship that will pay: Two or more years of undergraduate studies Tuition, lab fees, and supplies at any medical school for four years An allowance of $794 per month while in medical school Yes, you do incur a commitment to the Air Force, but what better environment in which to gain experience or make a career. Freshmen or Sopho mores, if you're interested, call 962-20748035. Asians and Asian Americans in the state, is a source of news about China, South Korea, Japan, India and Southeast Asia. Yang gets the news from a network of Asians and Asian Americans across the nation and across the state. About five people, including Yang's wife, Heejeoung Yang, gather local news for the Chapel Hill-based publica tion, sell ads and put the paper together. Heejeoung Yang works as advertis ing director for the paper. None of the staff members are paid. Papers are distributed primarily at UNC, N.C. State University and Duke University. Kiduk Yang also has begun distributing papers at UNC-Charlotte and East Carolina University, keeping in line with the paper's goal of serving the N.C. Asian-American community. Yu-Yee Wu, a senior journalism major who has been writing for the paper for nearly a year, said, "I think we need to have something like Carolina Asian News because most of the news papers and the mainstream media around here don't cover Asian news at all. "It's a shame that more people don't read it because it has a lot of informa tion." The Carolina Asian News staff places copies of the paper at Asian grocery at once." "It's really a fantastic line-up," he said. "Whetheryou're into dance, drama or song, there's something for every one." More than that. Wherry stressed that the concert was a benefit. He said it was important for student groups to come out and show their support for the house keepers. "We must look at the community as a whole and see that not everyone is being treated equitably," he said. "We should come together as one and show our collective support and commitment to people being treated decently and with respect." "With all the other issues going on this semester, it's easy for the house keepers to become invisible," Wherry said. He said the benefit concert was a Faculty Hearings Committee, asking the group to rule that because of the removed file and other questionable procedural decisions by Birdsall, his case should be argued again with a new Speech Communication Advisory Com mittee. On Thursday, Ferguson received a letter from Faculty Hearings Commit tee Chairwoman Lauren Files denying this request. "While the panel finds that the exclu sion of the external review by Dr. Paul Edwards from the initial consideration of Dr. Ferguson for promotion and ten ure was a procedural irregularity ... this procedural irregularity did not materi ally affect the final outcome of the re view," Files writes in the letter, dated Wednesday. The committee decision leaves Ferguson with two options go qui etly or take it to the Board of Trustees. He has decided to appeal the case to the Board of Trustees and communicate his complaints to the rest of the University ON YOUR EXflMSj Carolina Asian News! stores, restaurants and other businesses throughout the Triangle, which are the paper's primary advertisers. Yang said publishing Carolina Asian News was like having a second full time job. But he still wants to increase the circulation of the paper when he gets more advertising and more people to help write. "Next year, I'm trying to change the format," Yang said. He plans to add sections on health, business, and East em religion and philosophy the foun dation of Eastern culture, Yang said. The next issue of the Carolina Asian News, scheduled to come off the presses Monday, will include an article by a correspondent in California on the anti Korean sentiment during the Los Ange les riots following the Rodney King trial. Another article will report on Ger man neo-Nazis and the racial conflicts in Germany. Copies of the next issue will be available in the Undergraduate and Davis libraries and at the Union Desk. Yang estimates that about half of the paper's readers are Asian Americans who don't read the native languages of their parents. People who speak Korean or Chinese as their first language usu good way to remind people of what's going on. "A lot of people won' t come to politi cally charged discussions," he said. "And with the people who do come out, it's like preaching to the choir. (Having a benefit concert) is a different angle to get different kinds of people involved." The fact that these performance .groups took time out to do this benefit this close to finals shows a commitment to the cause, Wherry said. . Afro II will open the concert with a traditional African dance of welcome. The other groups will perform pieces from their repertoire. Each group will perform for about 1 5 minutes. Modem Extension will perform a dance titled "In-Dependence." Junior Amanda Kinzer, who choreographed the dance, said it illustrated the impor community. "I gave my professional life to this department for six whole years," Ferguson said. "I had faith in the sys tem. . . . . , "Now I mean to ensure that this will ' never happen again in my department, - and if I can ha ve a hand in ensuring this doesn't happen again at this University, I'm willing to take whatever profes sional risks are necessary." Ferguson has 10 days to file his ap peal to the BOT. If the trustees reject his appeal, Ferguson can go to the Board of Governors. Should the BOG rule against him, Ferguson said his only remaining option would be through the courts. "I feel much more determined to see Campus Calendar FRIDAY 10 un. UNC NROTC Semper fldelis Society will collect money for Toys For Tots until 2 p.m. in the Pit. Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity and the SHS BCC will sponsor a Black Film Series featuring 'The Jesse Owens Story" and "Paul Robeson: The Tallest Tree In the Forest" in the BCC. NOON: B-GLAD Lesbian Lunch will take place in 218 Union. 1 p.m. UNC Juggling Gub will meet in Carmichael Ballroom. 3:30 p.m. Graduate Arts Students Association will welcome McKay Coble, resident costume de signer of PlayMakers Repertory Company, to speak in 1 17 Hanes Art Center. COLLEGIATE Friday & Saturday Night 9 p.m. s3 cover 405V2 W. Rosemary St. The Dragon s Garden Our beautiful atmosphere and nur dp.lirinut j 1. . food make us the ideal place to bring your special someone -please come and join us! 929143 or 933-1234 407 W. Franklin &l (next to McDonald's) Open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner Take Out Available Tree Delivery . (lunch minimum of $5, dinner minimum of $10) linr, m wttetw ally prefer reading Korean or Chinese newspapers instead of papers in En-;: glish, he said. Yang, who said he's always looking! for contributors, also wants to add more : commentary to the paper in the form of; a "Young Voices" column for high: school and college students. Getting more than one perspective on issues is; what the paper is all about, he said. "When you see something through one person's eye, you may not get all aspects of what happened," he said. The paper also seeks to help its read ers understand their culture better. Yang said he especially wanted to target Asian Americans, who might easily lose touch with their Asian roots. "They're like Asians outside and Americans inside, and they don't really understand the culture they came from," he said. Wu, who was born in Taiwan but grew up in Florida, said she became more in touch with Chinese culture through a personal essay she wrote on her heritage for the Carolina Asian News. "(The paper is) a vehicle to learn more about Asian culture and Asian news," she said. "It keeps you aware of things that are going on." tance of being an individual in the midst' of depending on others. She said the dance was particularly appropriate to the cause of the house keepers because the school was not. giving them the independence they needed in their personal lives. Wherry said S ARR had been involved in the fight for the UNC housekeepers -from the start and will continue their involvement. "S ARR believes that it is difficult to put forth the idea of race relations with out first achieving social justice," he said. He said they hoped to raise more than $700 tonight Tickets are on sale from 1 0 a.m. to 2 p.m. today in the Pit and at Campus Y during office hours. They will also be available at the door. from page 1 this through now," Ferguson said. "I am determined to see this all the way through." Ferguson's fight first attracted the support of his current and former stu-' dents last year after the first hearing, i But Ferguson remained silent and asked them to keep their protests within the department until he got the fourth deci-' sion. During a period of a week in November, the students amassed 3,757 signatures in support of Ferguson, which they then presented to Chancellor Paul Hardin and the Board of Trustees. "I was inspired by what they did," Ferguson said. "That petition made it " possible for me to get through the past ' few weeks." 5 p.m. Alliance of Black Graduate and Profes sional Students will bold a general body meeting in the Union. Check the Union Desk for room number. 7 p -m. MSA will hold a short talk on "The Founda tions of an Islamic State" in 226 Union. 8 p jn. CUAB will present the Red Clay Ramblers Band in Memorial Hall. Tickets are $6 for students and $ 1 2 for the general public. SUNDAY 5 pjn. Interfaith Student Cooperative will have a question-and-answer session on Catholicism at the Newman Center. 7 p.m. Newman Catholic Center will have its student Mass. 7:30 pan. Wesley Foundation will hold a Moravian Love Feast. C0AAEPY 933-5550
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