The Carolinian [November 19, 1996]

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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.
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