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T e Carolinian Vo|./£np.# News 1-5/Opinions 6 Sports 7-8 / Calendar 7 ^^^^^^r The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Telephone- (910) 334-5752 Fax-(910) 334-3518 Online-hup://carolinian. uncg.edu/ Tuesday, November 19,1996 Women's Basketball: See the Story, Page 7 Calendar: See the Events, Page 9 Issue 22, Volume 76 Number 2 Spartans to face Notre Dame in NCAA •UNCG named one of top four seeds, gain homefield advantage Kim McKiidden/THK CAROLINIAN The I N( I. Soccer Stadium will be the site of the first round men's soccer tournament match between second-ranked UNCG and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. The Spartans are 21-1 on the year including a 7-1 drubbing of llth-ranked Furman on Saturday night in an NCAA play-in game. Steven Huntley Managing Editor UNCG men's soccer team made school history on Monday night, becoming one of the four seeded teams in the NCAA Soccer tour-nament and earning a first round game against Notre Dame. The announcement came in a 6 p.m. televised unveiling of the brackets on Home Team Sports (HTS). The Spartans will enjoy a rather light bracket and home field advantage throughout the play-offs. UNCG joins Washington, Florida International and William and Mary as the four seeded teams in the tournament. "We're very surprised with the draw," UNCG head coach Michael Parker said. "We figured maybe College of Charleston, Duke or Wake; but no one out of the region." UNCG ranked second in this week's National Soccer Coaches Association ofAmerica Poll boast a 21-1 record, including a recent 7-1 drubbing of llth ranked Furman in an NCAA playin con-test Saturday evening at UNCG. The Irish are are 13-6-2 and re-ceived an automatic bid by virtue of their recent Big East conference tournament championship. The last and only meeting be-tween the two teams was in 1982 when the Division III Spartans hosted the Irish in a homecoming game at Grimsley Soccer Stadium. Five thousand UNCG fans wit-nessed the Spartans fall 3-1 in overtime their Division I foe. The Irish got by Georgetown and Connecticut to get to the championship where they de- See Tournament, Page 8 Is GOP a lock in House for rest of century? Thomas B. Edsall Times/Post News Senice WASHINGTON-The House Re-publicans' success in maintaining a majority in the face of a con-certed challenge by the Demo-cratic Party and its allies suggests the GOP is better equipped to maintain control of this key branch of government than at any time since the start of the 1930s, ac-cording to a number of political scientists. "It was a really big win (for the House GOP) in '96," said Everett Carll Ladd of the University of Connecticut and the Roper Cen-ter for Public Opinion Research there. "The Democrats made a strong and effective effort to re-gain control so. in that general en-vironment" with a Democratic president winning easily, "if they couldn't do it ... they will have some real problems in 1998 and beyond." Republicans will have "an al-most insurmountable lead" in the House in 2000, University of Cali-fornia- Irvine political scientist Martin Wattenberg said. "It's hard to see how the Democrats could, make up that deficit (in 2000) if they couldn't do it this time." Alan Abramowitz of Emory University said, "The fact that the Republicans could hold the House I lake as another indication that what happened in 1994 was not purely a fluke and short-term is-sue, just a negative reaction to Clinton. There are some longer-term trends working in the same direction." The 1996 results, he said, point to a "realignment in American politics that puts the parties at basically equal footing." All the scholars interviewed See GOP, Page 4 Weather Outlook Tuesday: Partly sunny High in the 60's Wednesday: Partly cloudy Low in the 40's High in the 60's Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Money leads election, according to round table Paula Nelson News Editor State and local media, political and communications experts par-ticipated in a Round Table Discus-sion which focused on issues in the 1996 elections. As part of the Harriet Elliott Social Science Fo-rum, five panelists followed up Kathleen Hall Jamieson's "Les-sons of the '96 Campaign" lecture with a forum on Tuesday, Nov. 12 entitled "The '96 Campaign: State and Local Perspectives." A mixed crowd of UNCG stu-dents and faculty as well as mem-bers of the Greensboro commu-nity gathered in the Virginia Dare room in the Alumni house to en-gage in discussions with U.S. Congressman Mel Watt (D-12); Ned Cline, associate editor of the Greensboro News and Record; Dr. Craig Smith, professor in the UNCG Department of Communi-cations; Michael Pulitzer, Station Manager at WXII-TV, and: Ann Q. Duncan, 1996 Republican Can-didate for State Treasurer and former member of the N.C. Leg-islature. Dr. David Meyers, moderator of the Round Table, opened the dis-cussion by introducing the panel-ists and explaining that the Harriet Elliott Social Science Forum Committee "thought it would be a good idea to look at the elections from a state and local perspec-tive." Ann Duncan was the first to share her observations, which she called an "insider's point of view." Duncan outlined four topics which she found were important to state elections this year: the role of money; the role of coattails, or negative campaigning; the role played by single-issue groups; and the need for constitutional changes in state elections. According to Duncan, "money played a big role" in the 1996 elec-tion. The major money impact in North Carolina was from enor-mous funding for Governor Jim Hunt, who spent part of that money on races other than his own. Aimed at getting out the straight Democratic vote and the black vote, N.C. Democrats, said Duncan, found it necessary to es-calate campaign money signifi-cantly. In N.C. Senate races Democrats outspent Republicans seven to one, which provided for an obvi-ous coattail effect. According lo Duncan, the combination of enor-mous economic disparity in cam-paign spending and negative cam-paigning caused problems for N.C. Republican candidates this election Single issue groups also had a big influence this election. Duncan pointed out that women's groups tend to vote for women's issues regardless of other issues or the qualifications of the candi-dates, while "black" groups fo-cused on affirmative action, and the Christian Coalition focused solely on abortion. As for constitutional changes, Duncan believes that certain state agencies, like the office of State Treasurer, are not taken seriously, and indeed may be hurt, in prima-ries and general elections. She suggests that these agencies should be changed so that they are appointed by the governor, which would thus "avert disaster" by placing people in agencies accord-ing to qualifications rather than the endorsements of narrow issue PACs. Duncan expressed a regret for running in the state election, stat-ing that this was "the worst Re-publican year the state has ever had." Mel Watt followed Duncan, agreeing that money, negative campaigning, and race were im-portant factors in the 1996 elec-tions. Watt kept his statements brief and admitted that he was speaking from an intuitive rather than a fact-based perspective. Watt began by stating that "money is still important." As long as the Supreme Court holds that the individual can put as much money into a campaign as he wants to, allowing candidates to "buy an election," it will always be very difficult to deal with cam-paign finance reform. As for nega-tive campaigning. Watt believes that it is still ef-fective and candidates will con-tinue to use it. He explained that coattails are effective because they turn voters off from both candi-dates involved in negative cam-paigning and therefore cause more apathy in elections. However the Congressman, who is entering his third term in the House of Representatives, believes that "the black turnout was a lot more instrumental in this election than...coattails." Next, Dr. Craig Smith offered an academic perspective on the elections. The author of The White House Speaks. Smith de- See Round Table, Page 5 Kim McFadden/THE CAROLINIAN Members of the panel at The '96 Campaign: State and Local Perspectives" round table discussion pause to catch their breath. The discussion was held as a follow up to Kathleen Hall Jamison's "Lessons of the '96 Campaign" lecture. Graduate students at UNCG take trip to Berlin From Staff Reports Graduate students in business and Triad area businessmen trav-eled to Berlin, Germany, on Nov. 16 on an educational and cross-cultural experience sponsored by the Center for Global Business Education and Research at UNCG. The study tour, which runs through Nov. 24, is among the first major offerings for the UNCG center, which is part of the Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics. The center was announced last spring. Dr. Riad Ajami, who is the Charles A. Hayes Distinguished Professor of Business, serves as director for the center. The tour is being offered in co-operation with the Academy for International Education in Berlin. During their trip, participants will visit multinational companies and meet with executives; attend daily seminars n the economics, industrial base, politics and culture of Germany; and take cultural tours in the cities of Berlin and Potsdam. There will also be a one-day visit to the Polish Academy for International Education. Taking the study tour include several students in the Master of Business Administration Program at UNCG: Serdar Isik, Michael Ladd, Joy May, Will Stevens, Ruth H. Strong of Greensboro: Mary Margaret Severton of Winston- Salem: and Don Shegog of Kernersville. Three other MBA students will be attending from the Rochester Institute ofTechnology. Others taking the trip are attor-ney Brooks Westwater of Greens-boro; Toby Hammer of Sherrard McGee and Company in Greens-boro; Wayne Loots, director of the Small Business Center at Wake Technical Institute; Ajami; and Dr. Martha McEnally, a member of the Bryan School's faculty. The Cold War may be over, but espionage lives on Norman Kempster Times/Post News Service WASHINGTON-The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union and its feared KGB have disappeared, and American and Russian troops are serving side by side in Bosnia. But in the shadowy world of es-pionage, nothing much has changed. As the charges filed Monday against CIA officer Harold J. Nicholson indicate, the secret ser-vice of Russia's new democratic government is targeting the United States in much the same way the old KGB used to do-and with some success. And, as court papers make clear, the CIA continues to probe Russia's secrets as well. According to an affidavit filed by the FBI, Nicholson's first con-tact with Russian intelligence op-eratives came when the CIA as-signed him to try to recruit them to work for the United States. "I think that this case illustrates that the Soviet, er, the Russian, intelligence services remain very active in targeting not only the CIA, but other U.S. national se-curity organizations," said CIA Director John Deutch, his Freud-ian slip showing justbow little has changed in the spy business since the Soviet Union collapsed. "We've seen no reduction in the efforts of the (Russian) external security service to penetrate the security services and the national security of the United States," FBI Director Louis J. Freeh added at a joint news conference with Deutch Monday. Unlike Aldrich Ames, a CIA officer who pleaded guilty in 1994 to spying first for the Soviet Union and then for Russia, Nicholson was described in court papers as having been recruited by and hav-ing worked for only post-Cold War Russia. Judged from the secrets the FBI accused Nicholson of passing to Moscow, the Russians are prima-rily interested in finding out what the U.S. government knows about them. According to court papers, Nicholson gave his Russian han-dlers the names and biographies of CIA officers scheduled to be assigned to the Moscow station. He also turned over CIA docu-ments concerning Russia, Chechnya, U.S. knowledge of Russia's defense plans and a sum-mary of information the CIA ob-tained from interrogating Ames. Although intelligence experts say the Russians are almost cer-tainly also interested in U.S. tech-nology and industrial secrets, the Nicholson court papers show a Russian preoccupation with U.S. intelligence capabilities and with Washington's intentions in its re-lationship with Moscow. "What they are after is sources and methods of our intelligence activities," said retired Maj. Gen. Edward B. Atkeson, former deputy chief of staff for intelli-gence of the U.S. Army in Europe. "They really want to know how we are pursuing them. The old hands from the KGB and the GRU, especially, still suffer from a degree of paranoia, that the United States is out to do them in." "They really feel that they have to root out any weakness in their own system," he said. y«»l»laWW»HaAIIA W i Milllll' ill1 II'
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Title | The Carolinian [November 19, 1996] |
Date | 1996-11-19 |
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Full text | T e Carolinian Vo|./£np.# News 1-5/Opinions 6 Sports 7-8 / Calendar 7 ^^^^^^r The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Telephone- (910) 334-5752 Fax-(910) 334-3518 Online-hup://carolinian. uncg.edu/ Tuesday, November 19,1996 Women's Basketball: See the Story, Page 7 Calendar: See the Events, Page 9 Issue 22, Volume 76 Number 2 Spartans to face Notre Dame in NCAA •UNCG named one of top four seeds, gain homefield advantage Kim McKiidden/THK CAROLINIAN The I N( I. Soccer Stadium will be the site of the first round men's soccer tournament match between second-ranked UNCG and the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. The Spartans are 21-1 on the year including a 7-1 drubbing of llth-ranked Furman on Saturday night in an NCAA play-in game. Steven Huntley Managing Editor UNCG men's soccer team made school history on Monday night, becoming one of the four seeded teams in the NCAA Soccer tour-nament and earning a first round game against Notre Dame. The announcement came in a 6 p.m. televised unveiling of the brackets on Home Team Sports (HTS). The Spartans will enjoy a rather light bracket and home field advantage throughout the play-offs. UNCG joins Washington, Florida International and William and Mary as the four seeded teams in the tournament. "We're very surprised with the draw," UNCG head coach Michael Parker said. "We figured maybe College of Charleston, Duke or Wake; but no one out of the region." UNCG ranked second in this week's National Soccer Coaches Association ofAmerica Poll boast a 21-1 record, including a recent 7-1 drubbing of llth ranked Furman in an NCAA playin con-test Saturday evening at UNCG. The Irish are are 13-6-2 and re-ceived an automatic bid by virtue of their recent Big East conference tournament championship. The last and only meeting be-tween the two teams was in 1982 when the Division III Spartans hosted the Irish in a homecoming game at Grimsley Soccer Stadium. Five thousand UNCG fans wit-nessed the Spartans fall 3-1 in overtime their Division I foe. The Irish got by Georgetown and Connecticut to get to the championship where they de- See Tournament, Page 8 Is GOP a lock in House for rest of century? Thomas B. Edsall Times/Post News Senice WASHINGTON-The House Re-publicans' success in maintaining a majority in the face of a con-certed challenge by the Demo-cratic Party and its allies suggests the GOP is better equipped to maintain control of this key branch of government than at any time since the start of the 1930s, ac-cording to a number of political scientists. "It was a really big win (for the House GOP) in '96," said Everett Carll Ladd of the University of Connecticut and the Roper Cen-ter for Public Opinion Research there. "The Democrats made a strong and effective effort to re-gain control so. in that general en-vironment" with a Democratic president winning easily, "if they couldn't do it ... they will have some real problems in 1998 and beyond." Republicans will have "an al-most insurmountable lead" in the House in 2000, University of Cali-fornia- Irvine political scientist Martin Wattenberg said. "It's hard to see how the Democrats could, make up that deficit (in 2000) if they couldn't do it this time." Alan Abramowitz of Emory University said, "The fact that the Republicans could hold the House I lake as another indication that what happened in 1994 was not purely a fluke and short-term is-sue, just a negative reaction to Clinton. There are some longer-term trends working in the same direction." The 1996 results, he said, point to a "realignment in American politics that puts the parties at basically equal footing." All the scholars interviewed See GOP, Page 4 Weather Outlook Tuesday: Partly sunny High in the 60's Wednesday: Partly cloudy Low in the 40's High in the 60's Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Money leads election, according to round table Paula Nelson News Editor State and local media, political and communications experts par-ticipated in a Round Table Discus-sion which focused on issues in the 1996 elections. As part of the Harriet Elliott Social Science Fo-rum, five panelists followed up Kathleen Hall Jamieson's "Les-sons of the '96 Campaign" lecture with a forum on Tuesday, Nov. 12 entitled "The '96 Campaign: State and Local Perspectives." A mixed crowd of UNCG stu-dents and faculty as well as mem-bers of the Greensboro commu-nity gathered in the Virginia Dare room in the Alumni house to en-gage in discussions with U.S. Congressman Mel Watt (D-12); Ned Cline, associate editor of the Greensboro News and Record; Dr. Craig Smith, professor in the UNCG Department of Communi-cations; Michael Pulitzer, Station Manager at WXII-TV, and: Ann Q. Duncan, 1996 Republican Can-didate for State Treasurer and former member of the N.C. Leg-islature. Dr. David Meyers, moderator of the Round Table, opened the dis-cussion by introducing the panel-ists and explaining that the Harriet Elliott Social Science Forum Committee "thought it would be a good idea to look at the elections from a state and local perspec-tive." Ann Duncan was the first to share her observations, which she called an "insider's point of view." Duncan outlined four topics which she found were important to state elections this year: the role of money; the role of coattails, or negative campaigning; the role played by single-issue groups; and the need for constitutional changes in state elections. According to Duncan, "money played a big role" in the 1996 elec-tion. The major money impact in North Carolina was from enor-mous funding for Governor Jim Hunt, who spent part of that money on races other than his own. Aimed at getting out the straight Democratic vote and the black vote, N.C. Democrats, said Duncan, found it necessary to es-calate campaign money signifi-cantly. In N.C. Senate races Democrats outspent Republicans seven to one, which provided for an obvi-ous coattail effect. According lo Duncan, the combination of enor-mous economic disparity in cam-paign spending and negative cam-paigning caused problems for N.C. Republican candidates this election Single issue groups also had a big influence this election. Duncan pointed out that women's groups tend to vote for women's issues regardless of other issues or the qualifications of the candi-dates, while "black" groups fo-cused on affirmative action, and the Christian Coalition focused solely on abortion. As for constitutional changes, Duncan believes that certain state agencies, like the office of State Treasurer, are not taken seriously, and indeed may be hurt, in prima-ries and general elections. She suggests that these agencies should be changed so that they are appointed by the governor, which would thus "avert disaster" by placing people in agencies accord-ing to qualifications rather than the endorsements of narrow issue PACs. Duncan expressed a regret for running in the state election, stat-ing that this was "the worst Re-publican year the state has ever had." Mel Watt followed Duncan, agreeing that money, negative campaigning, and race were im-portant factors in the 1996 elec-tions. Watt kept his statements brief and admitted that he was speaking from an intuitive rather than a fact-based perspective. Watt began by stating that "money is still important." As long as the Supreme Court holds that the individual can put as much money into a campaign as he wants to, allowing candidates to "buy an election," it will always be very difficult to deal with cam-paign finance reform. As for nega-tive campaigning. Watt believes that it is still ef-fective and candidates will con-tinue to use it. He explained that coattails are effective because they turn voters off from both candi-dates involved in negative cam-paigning and therefore cause more apathy in elections. However the Congressman, who is entering his third term in the House of Representatives, believes that "the black turnout was a lot more instrumental in this election than...coattails." Next, Dr. Craig Smith offered an academic perspective on the elections. The author of The White House Speaks. Smith de- See Round Table, Page 5 Kim McFadden/THE CAROLINIAN Members of the panel at The '96 Campaign: State and Local Perspectives" round table discussion pause to catch their breath. The discussion was held as a follow up to Kathleen Hall Jamison's "Lessons of the '96 Campaign" lecture. Graduate students at UNCG take trip to Berlin From Staff Reports Graduate students in business and Triad area businessmen trav-eled to Berlin, Germany, on Nov. 16 on an educational and cross-cultural experience sponsored by the Center for Global Business Education and Research at UNCG. The study tour, which runs through Nov. 24, is among the first major offerings for the UNCG center, which is part of the Joseph M. Bryan School of Business and Economics. The center was announced last spring. Dr. Riad Ajami, who is the Charles A. Hayes Distinguished Professor of Business, serves as director for the center. The tour is being offered in co-operation with the Academy for International Education in Berlin. During their trip, participants will visit multinational companies and meet with executives; attend daily seminars n the economics, industrial base, politics and culture of Germany; and take cultural tours in the cities of Berlin and Potsdam. There will also be a one-day visit to the Polish Academy for International Education. Taking the study tour include several students in the Master of Business Administration Program at UNCG: Serdar Isik, Michael Ladd, Joy May, Will Stevens, Ruth H. Strong of Greensboro: Mary Margaret Severton of Winston- Salem: and Don Shegog of Kernersville. Three other MBA students will be attending from the Rochester Institute ofTechnology. Others taking the trip are attor-ney Brooks Westwater of Greens-boro; Toby Hammer of Sherrard McGee and Company in Greens-boro; Wayne Loots, director of the Small Business Center at Wake Technical Institute; Ajami; and Dr. Martha McEnally, a member of the Bryan School's faculty. The Cold War may be over, but espionage lives on Norman Kempster Times/Post News Service WASHINGTON-The Cold War is over, the Soviet Union and its feared KGB have disappeared, and American and Russian troops are serving side by side in Bosnia. But in the shadowy world of es-pionage, nothing much has changed. As the charges filed Monday against CIA officer Harold J. Nicholson indicate, the secret ser-vice of Russia's new democratic government is targeting the United States in much the same way the old KGB used to do-and with some success. And, as court papers make clear, the CIA continues to probe Russia's secrets as well. According to an affidavit filed by the FBI, Nicholson's first con-tact with Russian intelligence op-eratives came when the CIA as-signed him to try to recruit them to work for the United States. "I think that this case illustrates that the Soviet, er, the Russian, intelligence services remain very active in targeting not only the CIA, but other U.S. national se-curity organizations," said CIA Director John Deutch, his Freud-ian slip showing justbow little has changed in the spy business since the Soviet Union collapsed. "We've seen no reduction in the efforts of the (Russian) external security service to penetrate the security services and the national security of the United States," FBI Director Louis J. Freeh added at a joint news conference with Deutch Monday. Unlike Aldrich Ames, a CIA officer who pleaded guilty in 1994 to spying first for the Soviet Union and then for Russia, Nicholson was described in court papers as having been recruited by and hav-ing worked for only post-Cold War Russia. Judged from the secrets the FBI accused Nicholson of passing to Moscow, the Russians are prima-rily interested in finding out what the U.S. government knows about them. According to court papers, Nicholson gave his Russian han-dlers the names and biographies of CIA officers scheduled to be assigned to the Moscow station. He also turned over CIA docu-ments concerning Russia, Chechnya, U.S. knowledge of Russia's defense plans and a sum-mary of information the CIA ob-tained from interrogating Ames. Although intelligence experts say the Russians are almost cer-tainly also interested in U.S. tech-nology and industrial secrets, the Nicholson court papers show a Russian preoccupation with U.S. intelligence capabilities and with Washington's intentions in its re-lationship with Moscow. "What they are after is sources and methods of our intelligence activities," said retired Maj. Gen. Edward B. Atkeson, former deputy chief of staff for intelli-gence of the U.S. Army in Europe. "They really want to know how we are pursuing them. The old hands from the KGB and the GRU, especially, still suffer from a degree of paranoia, that the United States is out to do them in." "They really feel that they have to root out any weakness in their own system," he said. y«»l»laWW»HaAIIA W i Milllll' ill1 II' |