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Thursday,
March 13,1997
UNCG Women s Basketball Finishes 2nd:
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Upcoming Events:
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Issue 38,
Volume 76
UNCG police target recent break-ins
Paula Nelson
Ai'n.i lulitor
The UN('(i Police Department
has launched a random surveil-lance
program in an attempt to
catch inili\ iiluuls breaking into
cars 00 campus.
Since February 27, eight indi-viduals,
all non-students, have
been caught .is a result of this cl
fort by officers to protect the prop-erty
of UNCG students
Six individuals were caught on
leb 11, the first night of the sur-veillance
effort. According to Uni-versity
Police Chief Ted
Rivenlui k. officers recovered
seven 01 eight portable CD play-ers,
radar detectors, cellular
phones and CDs. all ol which can
be sold 01 traded for various
things
The amount ol items recovered
from the first night indicated that
the thieves had most likely been
operating over a period of several
days, breaking into a total of about
20 cars The thieves obviously
knew what they were doing. Ac-cording
to Rivenbark, what struck
the observing officers was the
"fast and quick entry" that was
gained to the vehicles The sus-pects
used a tool designed to crack
windows in a fraction of a second
"Portable CD players, as well
as CDs and car phones in view,
make your car a target." says
Rivenbark. He suggests either
locking valuable items in the trunk
of the car or hiding them under a
seat.
Rivenbark associates the recent
rash of break-ins with milder tem-peratures,
although he says that a
car break-in is "a random thing"
and cannot be attributed to one cir-cumstance
or another.
Officers are continuing the ran
dom surveillance efforts in
UNCG's problem areas, such as '
the Walker Aycock parking lot,
which was the scene of all the re-cent
crimes and arrests
Other areas of concern are the
parking lots near the railroad
tracks, which provide good hiding
Geoffrey Gartner/THE CAROLINIAN
The items above were recoveredby UNCG Police on February 27 due to a random suneillance program. Items such as CD
players, cellular phones and radar detectors.
places and are not surrounded by
houses.
The peak times for the break-ins
have been from 9 p.m. to 3 a.m.
Rivenbark views the surveil-lance
program as a "positive state-
Kicking Back For Some R & R in the Sun
ment to UNCG students that we
are trying to protect their prop-erty^
White House, Justice Dept.
try to resolve flap in China
Peter Baker and
Bob Woodward
UNCG students have been taken advantage of the warm weather for a change, but rain s in the forecast
Thursday:
30% Chance of Rain
High 55-60
Friday:
70/r Chance of Rain
High in mid
Source: National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration
Tina t/Posl Ntw s Service
WASHINGTON The White
House and Justice Department
Hied Tuesday to defuse their dis-pute
over whether President
Clinton was adequately warned
about alleged Chinese attempts to
influence last year's U.S. congres-sional
elections, dismissing the
episode as a misunderstanding
among busy mid-level aides
After an extraordinary public
standoff that embarrassed both
snk's, high-ranking officials spent
much ol Tuesday carefully revis-ing
their explanations of why
Clinton was not told of the FBI's
suspicions that China planned to
funnel illegal campaign contribu-tions
to Congress until last month,
eight months after While House
officials were first informed
Clinton and his top aides com-plained
Monday that the FBI in-structed
two National Security
Council (NSC) officials not to
pass warnings about the China
matter up the chain of command,
prompting a rare, direct rebuttal
from the bureau, which main-tained
that no such restrictions
were imposed.
By Tuesday night, officials all
around were saying the NSC aides
apparently misconstrued a more
general admonition to guard the
FBI's confidential sources.
"At the end of the day," said one
senior official involved in trying
to sort out the flap, "it will turn
out that the FBI said one thing and
thought it meant 'no wider dis-semination'
meant to protect
sources, and it was interpreted an-other
way by the NSC staffers. It
is no great dark episode."
Even as the two sides effec-tively
ordered a cease-fire, the
administration was working to
ensure that such a conflict does not
recur.
Several officials said they ex-pect
new procedures will be put
into place to guarantee that sensi-tive
intelligence matters are re-ported
to senior policy-makers at
the White House, including the
president.
Officials also disclosed Tuesday
that one of the NSC staff mem-bers
who did not convey informa-tion
about the China situation to
his superiors is retiring.
Edward J. Appel. an FBI spe-cial
agent assigned to the NSC.
announced his retirement Monday
just hours after Clinton said on
national television that he should
have been alerted.
The confrontation exposed in
full view the uneasy relationship
the Clinton White House has had
with the nation's premier law en-forcement
agency and illustrated
the highly charged atmosphere
brought on by ongoing investiga-tions
into campaign fund-raising
practices.
Many of those involved in the
clash, as well as those who
watched it from the outside, con-cluded
Tuesday that it was self-destructive
and highly avoidable,
serving only to further sour White
House relations with the FBI.
"The relationship between the
bureau and the White House needs
to be rebuilt and it's going to be
difficult to repair it during (his
See Flap, Page 4
Judges await
ruling on new
deportation law
Mae M. Cheng
Times/Post News Service
Almost a month after immigra-tion
judges were ordered to hold
off issuing decisions that would
allow those in deportation pro-ceedings
to remain legally in the
United States, it has not been de-termined
how those cases will be
handled.
The order, given in two memos
dated Feb. 13, comes from the Ex-ecutive
Office of Immigration
Review, which oversees the
judges, and stems from the over-whelming
number of people who
already have been granted suspen-sion
of deportation this fiscal year,
according to the office's spokes-woman,
Fran Mooney.
Under the new immigration law
signed last year, Congress set a
4.000 cap on the number of people
undergoing deportation proceed-ings
who would be allowed to stay
in the country and receive perma-nent
legal status every fiscal year.
Immigration advocates fear that
all other applicants, regardless of
the merits of their cases, will be
deported, said Jeanne Butterfield,
the executive director of the
American Immigration Lawyers
Association based in Washington,
DC
As of Feb. 13. more than 3,900
applications had been granted this
fiscal year, which began in Octo-ber,
Paul Schmidt, the chairman
of the Executive Office of Immi-gration
Review's Board of Immi-gration
Appeals, noted in his
memo to board members.
Chief Immigration Judge
Michael Creppy distributed a
similar memo to justices.
The U.S. attorney general is in
discussions with legislators to see
"if there's anything that can be
worked out." said Justice Depart-ment
spokeswoman Carole
Florman.
However, no deadline has been
set to resolve the issue.
A cap on the number ofsuspen
sion of deportation cases granted
had never been set before, immi
gration officials said.
In fiscal year 1995,3,752 peti-tions
were granted and in fiscal
year 1996. the number was 7,469.
Legislators probably thought
that with the tougher provisions
under the new immigration legis-lation,
there would be fewer
people eligible to have their ap-plications
approved, Butterfield
said.
However, it is because of these
tougher restrictions that many
people have come forward in re-cent
months to start their immigra-tion
proceedings before the new
legislation takes effect April l.she
said
UNCG Women s Studies program to hold annual conference March 14-15
from Staff Reports
"Transformations and Tensions
Reflections on Women's Studies"
is the title of this year's annual
women's studies symposium, to
be held Friday and Saturday.
March 14-15
The event will mark the 25th
anniversary of women's studies on
campus.
Keynote speakers will be Dr.
Evelyn Fox Keller, author of "A
Feeling for the Organism," a bi-ography
of Nobel Pn/e-winning
geneticist Barbara McClintock.
and Dr. Katie Cannon, author of
"Black Womanist Ethics."
Keller's topic at 7:30 p.m. Fri-day
will be "From Gender and Sci-ence
to Language and Science."
The evening also will include
opening remarks by Chancellor
Patricia A Sullivan and a recep-tion
celebrating the program s an-niversary
Cannon's keynote address at 9
a.m. on Saturday will be titled
"Catching Our Moral Breath:
Womanist Methodology as a
Mode of Transformative Action."
Registration will begin at 6:30
p.m. Friday in the Cone Ballroom
of the Elliott University Center.
The Friday evening program
will run from 7:30p.m. to 10p.m.
and Saturday's activities will be-gin
w ith registration at 8 a.m. and
end at 3 p.m
Most of the events will be held
in Elliott Center locations.
Saturday events include a
roundtable discussion featuring
Cannon and Keller entitled "Ten
sions and Transformations in the
Academy:
What Has Women's Studies
Brought Us?" Also featured in the
roundtable will be Dr. Rosemarie
Tong, Thatcher Professor of Phi-losophy
and Medical Humanities
at Davidson College and author of
• Feminist Thought: A Compre-hensive
Introduction."
Four concurrent sessions Satur-day
w ill address the following top-ics:
Transforming Communities of
Women; Negotiating Change:
American Association of Univer-sity
Women's Initiatives for Girls;
Feminism and Spirit in the Acad-emy;
and Gender and Science:
Theory and Practice.
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