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The News 1-5/Features 6-7 Sports 8-9/Classifieds 10 Girolinia The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Telephone- (910) 334-5752 F«- (910) 334-3518 Online-hup://c«rolini»n.uncj.edu/ Thursday September 26,1996 Jets Going Nowhere See the story page 8 • *, Men's Soccer: Zj* Spartan's defeat Davidson, page 8 Issue 9, Volume 76 Report endorsed by House Republicans George Lardner Jr. Tunes/Post News Service WASHINGTON - Brushing aside a hurried swarm of Democratic protests, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee's Republican majority voted Tuesday night to approve an interim report accusing the Clinton White House of trying to politicize the FBI and demonstrating a "cavalier approach" toward sensi-tive security matters. The 205 -page report said further investigation is needed before it can be determined who was re-sponsible for putting two political operatives with "checkered pasts" - Craig Livingstone and Anthony Marceca - in charge of an office that collected confidential FBI re-ports on hundreds of Republicans from the Reagan and Bush admin-istrations. But the GOP majority said it would aggressively pursue the answers despite a lack of co-operation from the White House. "Whether or not these events are shown to be a blunder, the result of colossal incompetence, or whether they arc established to be more serious or even criminal, the casualness with which this White House has approached many areas of security and access provided a climate for either of these trou-bling alternatives," the report said. Democrats assailed the report as a "series of unfounded accusa-tions" and made plain the inquiry would go no farther if they regain control of the House in Novem-ber. Rep. Cardiss Collins, DM., the ranking minority member, said the committee had "found abso-lutely no evidence that anyone (at the White House) was told to com-pile an enemies list" and nothing to refute the White House expla-nation that the improper acquisi-tions were a mistake based on an outdated list. Drafted without input from the Democrats, the report "has no credibility" and is "nothing more See Security, Page 3 'X' Marks The Spot... The 94.5 Rock the Vote registration drive was so successful that they are hack again. Come out and Rock the Vote with UNCO and 94.5, The Rock Alterna-tive, today at the Fountain from 11:30 to 1:00. New V.P., freshman delegates sworn in Natalie Watson Senior News Writer The new Vice President and freshman delegates were ap-pointed and sworn in during the weekly Student Government As-sociation meeting on Tuesday night. James L. Howard was recog-nized as the new Vice Presidents. Kelly Benston, Dwain Cherry, Kevin Doar, Misou Hood, Shelby Scheib and Emily Dobbins were introduced as freshman delegates. Two more delegates are scheduled to be appointed by Howard. During the meeting, SGA Presi-dent Brandon Mathis conducted a brief workshop to orient members of the assembly with Parliamen-tary Procedure. The set of rules for conduct of meetings allows for decisions to be made without con-fusion after opinions have been voiced. Mathis commented on the out-come of his recent "safety walk". Mathis, along with several Univer-sity officials, recently walked through campus at night in an ef-fort to identify dangerous and un-safe situations. The group deter-mined that the campus is safe on the whole. "We have a few lights that are burnt out and need to be replaced, and a few areas that are not lighted at all, but that really was it. The big areas were the un-lighted path near Phillips- See SGA, Page 3 Mexican Doctor Abducted by U.S. Agents has right to sue Henry VVeinstein Tunes/Post News Service A federal appeals court in San Francisco Tuesday ruled that a Mexican doctor who was kid-napped by U.S. drug agents can sue the U.S. government and the law enforcement officers involved in the abduction. Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain was spirited out of Mexico on Weatier Outlook Thursday: Partly Sunny High in the upper 70's Friday: Partly Cloudy High 70's to lower 80's Low 50's to lower 60's Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration April 2,1990, by men working for the Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration. He was turned over to DEA agents in the United States, who suspected him of participat-ing in the 1985 murder of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena. The doctor, who was acquitted of murder charges in 1992, alleged in a lawsuit that he was tortured by his abductors for several hours in Mexico before being brought to the United States. Once in the United States, Alvarez claims that DEA agents threatened him, de-nied him food and medicine and processed him under a false name to frustrate efforts of his family and the Mexican government to locale him. After his acquittal, Alvarez sued the U.S. government four officials of the DEA and the two Mexican national kidnappers. A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that much of the case could go for-ward, but the government ap-pealed. The DEA agents contended that charges against them should be dismissed on grounds that they had qualified immunity. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals re-jected that argument, saying that "pretrial detainees have a clearly established right to be free from punishment," Circuit Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote in the 3-0 deci-sion. The 9th Circuit also rebuffed claims of the two Mexican na-tional DEA operatives that Alvarez improperly invoked the federal Torture Victim Protection Act against them because it was enacted in 1992, after the incident The judges acknowledged that in most instances there is a pre-sumption against applying statutes retroactively. However, Goodwin and the other two judges - Mary M. Schroeder and Samuel P. King - said that there was a good rea-son to make an exception. "The Torture Victim Protection Act does not impose new duties See Doctor, Page 3 Loitering drives shops away from Tate Street •Merchants complain about loss of business Paula Nelson News Editor UNCG is bound on the East by that entity known as Tate Street. Long popular with college stu-dents for its restaurants, coffee houses, unique shopping, and an atmosphere conducive to "hang-ing out", recently it has become the street of choice for a large population of vagrants and loiter-ing teenagers. This has become such a prob-lem in recent months that at least two businesses arc rumored to be leaving. Merchants are losing custom-ers and students have started avoiding the area at night. Complaints handled by the po-lice from both Manhattan Bagels and Ben & Jerrys state that these businesses arc bothered by both young kids, labeled "Punks" on official police reports, who con-gregate usually between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.. and by older "Winos" who arc usually hanging around during the day. A small group of teenagers who claim to be vampires can also be found loitering after dark. Students and the public arc tired of being accosted as they walk down the street. Some of the panhandlers seem to be aggressive and refuse to leave patrons alone until they are given money. Tate Street has developed a trash problem as well. When Manhattan Bagels opens at 6 ev-ery morning the manager is faced with a large pile of cups and gar-bage directly in front of his store. At the same time he is usually greeted by vagrants who have passed out on the sidewalk, and who immediately begin begging for small change as soon as they arc fully awake. People have started to avoid Tate Street because they are scared to walk or hang out amongst the loiterers who and tend to make them feel unwelcome. This is what most of the busi-nesses identify as their biggest problem. Store owners echo each other. "Tate Street has a bad im-age." "Tate Street has a bad reputa-tion." Why is Tate Street so popular with these unpopular crowds? Everyone has a different opinion. Some say the accessibility of drugs and alcohol draws them. Others claim that UNCG supports the panhandling because the heavy foot traffic means more opportunities to solicit spare change. Or perhaps the late hours of several businesses in a small area as well as the late hours kept by university students provides a social atmosphere that is not found in other parts of the city. What is interesting is that the problem only affects the eastern half ofTate Street, from the Handy Pantry to Sub-way. ——— Other areas of "They have tO the street seem to . .... attract different be Willing tO ZSLSi take the time to come and go in- follow thrOUSh with their com-plaints and not get discour-aged. " stead of lingering in the same spots for hours. So what can be done about the Tate Street prob-lem? Already businesses are turning cold shoulders to the problematic ' groups. They have put locks on their bathrooms and refuse to give away even cups of ice, which they sus-pect are being filled with alcohol. Signs prohibiting loitering have been put up on private lots, and store owners have been given the authority to order loiterers to leave the sidewalk and benches in front of their stores, or face trespassing charges. Many business owners, however, feel that they are unable to do anything to really get rid of the problem. The situation is complicated by the fact that the sidewalk and benches on Tate Street arc public property, which means that the police and merchants really have no right to tell people to leave. Only those people violating the 'No Loitering' signs on private property can be charged with any-thing. As for panhandling, state law was recently modified to provide for more leniency. For panhandling to be consid-ered a crime, it must involve bodily harm or the threat of bodily harm. The police can get involved if an individual or a store owner files a complaint, which many have done. However, most people are un-willing to go further which would involve pressing charges and tes-tifying in court Whether they lack the time or if they are scared to get too in-volved, almost all of the com- ^^^^^_ plaints handled by the University and Greensboro police departments do not go anywhere to-wards solving the problem. University police are particularly concerned with Tate Street. They have stepped up patrols around the area and admit that this has led to a slight im-provement in the _ situatioa But com-munity involve-ment is needed if the problem is to be completely eradicated. UNCG Policeman Paul Lester had several suggestions that could help to solve these problems. "Police could be more effective if people would get more in-volved," Lester said. "They have to be willing to take the time to follow through with their com-plaints and not get discouraged." Lester also said that local par-ents should keep a closer eye on their teenagers since many of the younger Tate Street regulars are from area high schools. "They have just as much of a right to be there as anyone else," Lester said, "Unless they are doing something wrong. Courts have tried to shoo some away But eventually they return and it's the same process over again." Paul Lester, UNCG Police Kim Mr K«dd«v-rH E CAROLINIAN The amount of people hanging out on Tate St. has become a problem for local businesses and their patrons.
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Title | The Carolinian [September 26, 1996] |
Date | 1996-09-26 |
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Description | The September 26, 1996, issue of The Carolinian, the student newspaper of The University of North Carolina at Greensboro. |
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Full text | The News 1-5/Features 6-7 Sports 8-9/Classifieds 10 Girolinia The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Telephone- (910) 334-5752 F«- (910) 334-3518 Online-hup://c«rolini»n.uncj.edu/ Thursday September 26,1996 Jets Going Nowhere See the story page 8 • *, Men's Soccer: Zj* Spartan's defeat Davidson, page 8 Issue 9, Volume 76 Report endorsed by House Republicans George Lardner Jr. Tunes/Post News Service WASHINGTON - Brushing aside a hurried swarm of Democratic protests, the House Government Reform and Oversight Committee's Republican majority voted Tuesday night to approve an interim report accusing the Clinton White House of trying to politicize the FBI and demonstrating a "cavalier approach" toward sensi-tive security matters. The 205 -page report said further investigation is needed before it can be determined who was re-sponsible for putting two political operatives with "checkered pasts" - Craig Livingstone and Anthony Marceca - in charge of an office that collected confidential FBI re-ports on hundreds of Republicans from the Reagan and Bush admin-istrations. But the GOP majority said it would aggressively pursue the answers despite a lack of co-operation from the White House. "Whether or not these events are shown to be a blunder, the result of colossal incompetence, or whether they arc established to be more serious or even criminal, the casualness with which this White House has approached many areas of security and access provided a climate for either of these trou-bling alternatives," the report said. Democrats assailed the report as a "series of unfounded accusa-tions" and made plain the inquiry would go no farther if they regain control of the House in Novem-ber. Rep. Cardiss Collins, DM., the ranking minority member, said the committee had "found abso-lutely no evidence that anyone (at the White House) was told to com-pile an enemies list" and nothing to refute the White House expla-nation that the improper acquisi-tions were a mistake based on an outdated list. Drafted without input from the Democrats, the report "has no credibility" and is "nothing more See Security, Page 3 'X' Marks The Spot... The 94.5 Rock the Vote registration drive was so successful that they are hack again. Come out and Rock the Vote with UNCO and 94.5, The Rock Alterna-tive, today at the Fountain from 11:30 to 1:00. New V.P., freshman delegates sworn in Natalie Watson Senior News Writer The new Vice President and freshman delegates were ap-pointed and sworn in during the weekly Student Government As-sociation meeting on Tuesday night. James L. Howard was recog-nized as the new Vice Presidents. Kelly Benston, Dwain Cherry, Kevin Doar, Misou Hood, Shelby Scheib and Emily Dobbins were introduced as freshman delegates. Two more delegates are scheduled to be appointed by Howard. During the meeting, SGA Presi-dent Brandon Mathis conducted a brief workshop to orient members of the assembly with Parliamen-tary Procedure. The set of rules for conduct of meetings allows for decisions to be made without con-fusion after opinions have been voiced. Mathis commented on the out-come of his recent "safety walk". Mathis, along with several Univer-sity officials, recently walked through campus at night in an ef-fort to identify dangerous and un-safe situations. The group deter-mined that the campus is safe on the whole. "We have a few lights that are burnt out and need to be replaced, and a few areas that are not lighted at all, but that really was it. The big areas were the un-lighted path near Phillips- See SGA, Page 3 Mexican Doctor Abducted by U.S. Agents has right to sue Henry VVeinstein Tunes/Post News Service A federal appeals court in San Francisco Tuesday ruled that a Mexican doctor who was kid-napped by U.S. drug agents can sue the U.S. government and the law enforcement officers involved in the abduction. Dr. Humberto Alvarez Machain was spirited out of Mexico on Weatier Outlook Thursday: Partly Sunny High in the upper 70's Friday: Partly Cloudy High 70's to lower 80's Low 50's to lower 60's Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration April 2,1990, by men working for the Drug Enforcement Adminis-tration. He was turned over to DEA agents in the United States, who suspected him of participat-ing in the 1985 murder of U.S. drug agent Enrique Camarena. The doctor, who was acquitted of murder charges in 1992, alleged in a lawsuit that he was tortured by his abductors for several hours in Mexico before being brought to the United States. Once in the United States, Alvarez claims that DEA agents threatened him, de-nied him food and medicine and processed him under a false name to frustrate efforts of his family and the Mexican government to locale him. After his acquittal, Alvarez sued the U.S. government four officials of the DEA and the two Mexican national kidnappers. A federal judge in Los Angeles ruled that much of the case could go for-ward, but the government ap-pealed. The DEA agents contended that charges against them should be dismissed on grounds that they had qualified immunity. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals re-jected that argument, saying that "pretrial detainees have a clearly established right to be free from punishment," Circuit Judge Alfred T. Goodwin wrote in the 3-0 deci-sion. The 9th Circuit also rebuffed claims of the two Mexican na-tional DEA operatives that Alvarez improperly invoked the federal Torture Victim Protection Act against them because it was enacted in 1992, after the incident The judges acknowledged that in most instances there is a pre-sumption against applying statutes retroactively. However, Goodwin and the other two judges - Mary M. Schroeder and Samuel P. King - said that there was a good rea-son to make an exception. "The Torture Victim Protection Act does not impose new duties See Doctor, Page 3 Loitering drives shops away from Tate Street •Merchants complain about loss of business Paula Nelson News Editor UNCG is bound on the East by that entity known as Tate Street. Long popular with college stu-dents for its restaurants, coffee houses, unique shopping, and an atmosphere conducive to "hang-ing out", recently it has become the street of choice for a large population of vagrants and loiter-ing teenagers. This has become such a prob-lem in recent months that at least two businesses arc rumored to be leaving. Merchants are losing custom-ers and students have started avoiding the area at night. Complaints handled by the po-lice from both Manhattan Bagels and Ben & Jerrys state that these businesses arc bothered by both young kids, labeled "Punks" on official police reports, who con-gregate usually between the hours of 8 p.m. and 6 a.m.. and by older "Winos" who arc usually hanging around during the day. A small group of teenagers who claim to be vampires can also be found loitering after dark. Students and the public arc tired of being accosted as they walk down the street. Some of the panhandlers seem to be aggressive and refuse to leave patrons alone until they are given money. Tate Street has developed a trash problem as well. When Manhattan Bagels opens at 6 ev-ery morning the manager is faced with a large pile of cups and gar-bage directly in front of his store. At the same time he is usually greeted by vagrants who have passed out on the sidewalk, and who immediately begin begging for small change as soon as they arc fully awake. People have started to avoid Tate Street because they are scared to walk or hang out amongst the loiterers who and tend to make them feel unwelcome. This is what most of the busi-nesses identify as their biggest problem. Store owners echo each other. "Tate Street has a bad im-age." "Tate Street has a bad reputa-tion." Why is Tate Street so popular with these unpopular crowds? Everyone has a different opinion. Some say the accessibility of drugs and alcohol draws them. Others claim that UNCG supports the panhandling because the heavy foot traffic means more opportunities to solicit spare change. Or perhaps the late hours of several businesses in a small area as well as the late hours kept by university students provides a social atmosphere that is not found in other parts of the city. What is interesting is that the problem only affects the eastern half ofTate Street, from the Handy Pantry to Sub-way. ——— Other areas of "They have tO the street seem to . .... attract different be Willing tO ZSLSi take the time to come and go in- follow thrOUSh with their com-plaints and not get discour-aged. " stead of lingering in the same spots for hours. So what can be done about the Tate Street prob-lem? Already businesses are turning cold shoulders to the problematic ' groups. They have put locks on their bathrooms and refuse to give away even cups of ice, which they sus-pect are being filled with alcohol. Signs prohibiting loitering have been put up on private lots, and store owners have been given the authority to order loiterers to leave the sidewalk and benches in front of their stores, or face trespassing charges. Many business owners, however, feel that they are unable to do anything to really get rid of the problem. The situation is complicated by the fact that the sidewalk and benches on Tate Street arc public property, which means that the police and merchants really have no right to tell people to leave. Only those people violating the 'No Loitering' signs on private property can be charged with any-thing. As for panhandling, state law was recently modified to provide for more leniency. For panhandling to be consid-ered a crime, it must involve bodily harm or the threat of bodily harm. The police can get involved if an individual or a store owner files a complaint, which many have done. However, most people are un-willing to go further which would involve pressing charges and tes-tifying in court Whether they lack the time or if they are scared to get too in-volved, almost all of the com- ^^^^^_ plaints handled by the University and Greensboro police departments do not go anywhere to-wards solving the problem. University police are particularly concerned with Tate Street. They have stepped up patrols around the area and admit that this has led to a slight im-provement in the _ situatioa But com-munity involve-ment is needed if the problem is to be completely eradicated. UNCG Policeman Paul Lester had several suggestions that could help to solve these problems. "Police could be more effective if people would get more in-volved," Lester said. "They have to be willing to take the time to follow through with their com-plaints and not get discouraged." Lester also said that local par-ents should keep a closer eye on their teenagers since many of the younger Tate Street regulars are from area high schools. "They have just as much of a right to be there as anyone else," Lester said, "Unless they are doing something wrong. Courts have tried to shoo some away But eventually they return and it's the same process over again." Paul Lester, UNCG Police Kim Mr K«dd«v-rH E CAROLINIAN The amount of people hanging out on Tate St. has become a problem for local businesses and their patrons. |
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