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UNC Copes
With Loss
Of Leader
Friends and colleagues of
Chancellor Michael Hooker
shared their remembrances
of a man who loved UNC
By Katie Abel
and Rachel Carter
Staff Writers
JULY 8 - Katherine Schafer met
Chancellor Michael Hooker only once.
She never walked across campus
with him or discussed UNC’s role in the
community.
She never sent him a list of demands
or protested a policy he enacted.
But she still sat with family, friends
and colleagues in Memorial Hall to
.mourn the loss of UNC’s leader.
The junior from Greensboro had a
; connection to Hooker that rivaled any
athlete for which he cheered or state
~ legislator he lobbied. The pain of cancer
- struck a familiar chord for Schafer.
Her father also has non-Hodgkins
lymphoma - the incurable disease that
caused Hooker’s death.
“I have a personal connection on a
personal level,” Schafer said. “It’s dev
astating to see (the cancer) take so many
from our lives.”
Schafer was one of many students,
friends and colleagues who lingered on
the steps of Memorial Hall coping with
remembrances of a chancellor who
fought to change UNC for the better.
The service featured speeches from
Gov. Jim Hunt and UNC-system
Suspect Surrenders to FBI
After Los Angeles Shooting
Buford Furrow turned
himself into the FBI
Wednesday, admitting to
opening fire on children.
Associated Press
LOS ANGELES, Calif. -The man
who allegedly wounded five people at a
Jewish community center in Los
Angeles turned himself in Wednesday
after eluding a manhunt and taking a
vtab across the desert. A source said he
Authorities said Buford O. Furrow,
IST, also would be charged in the slaying
lot a postal worker who was shot
'Tuesday near the community center.
'*■■ FBI spokeswoman Julie Miller in
Washington confirmed Furrow's surren
der.
The man who identified himself as
Furrow said he took a cab from Los
Angeles, an FBI source said, speaking
on condition of anonymity.
He told investigators “he wanted this
to be a wake-up call to America to kill
Jews,” the source said.
He walked into the office and said,
“You're looking for me, I killed the kids
in Los Angeles.” The source said
Furrow assumed he had killed some
children there.
The FBI said further details would be
provided at a news conference this
afternoon by the Los Angeles police
department.
Thom Mrozek, spokesman for the
U.S. attorney’s office in Los Angeles,
said federal prosecutors intend to file
charges against Furrow today the slay
ing of Joseph Ileto, 39, a postal worker
who was killed Tuesday.
“It now appears that is related,”
Mrozek said. Ileto had just delivered
some mail to a home and was returning
to his truck when he was shot multiple
times. He was found dead in a drive
way. There was no indication of a theft,
according to Postal Service officials.
Earlier, the hunt for Furrow had
spread across the West amid reports the
suspect had ties to white supremacist
groups.
The gunman gave the slip to police
who arrived a the center within four
minutes of the shootings Tuesday. He
allegedly carjacked a Toyota at gunpoint
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As the UNC Gospel Choir sang "Amazing Grace," Student Body President Nic Heinke, UNC-system President
Molly Broad, Gov. Jim Hunt and Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf honored Chancellor Hooker.
President Molly Broad.
Provost Dick Richardson closed with
a humorous story of a University Day
when Hooker leaned over to him and
threatened to walk out because of the
ceremony’s length.
“The stories just evoked Michael for
me,” Vice Chancellor for Student
Affairs Sue Kitchen said. “We all have
Michael stories, so I felt like he was with
us.”
In addition to UNC speakers, the ser
vice also featured Hooker’s colleagues
from Massachusetts and Maryland,
where he worked before returning to
UNC.
Peter Cressy of the University of
Massachusetts at Dartmouth and
Freeman Hrabowski of the University of
Maryland at Baltimore County pointed
to Hooker as a big influence on them
throughout their careers.
“What impressed me most was the
about 20 minutes later - leaving behind
a van full of ammunition, survival para
phernalia, and a book some link to
white supremacist thought -then
dumped the car at a motel and disap
peared.
“There is no doubt about it that this is
now a hate crime,” said Rabbi Marvin
Hier, dean of the Simon Wiesenthal
Center in Los Angeles. He spoke before
the arrest of Furrow was announced.
The Southern Poverty Law Center,
which maintains a database of white
supremacists, has information that
Furrow belonged to Aryan Nations in
1995, including a photo, said Mark
Potok of the Montgomery, Ala.-based
center.
“I have a picture of him, Furrow, in
a Nazi outfit,” Potok said today.
Furrow lived at times in Metaline
Falls, Wash., once a haven for the
supremacist group the Order, The
Spokesman-Review reported in
Spokane.
He served as a security guard at a
white supremacist meeting in the 1990s
and had a relationship with Debbie
Mathews, widow of Order founder
Robert J. Mathews, the paper said.
Mathews was killed in 1984 when his
hideout caught fire during a shootout
with federal agents on Whidbey Island
in Washington state.
Police so far have declined to call the
shootings at the North Valley Jewish
Community in suburban Granada Hills
a hate crime, but have said the choice of
targets makes that a possibility.
The attacker strode into the commu
nity center's lobby and opened fire with
a semiautomatic gun resembling an Uzi,
peppering the building with some 70
shots.
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fact that so many of his friends and col
leagues called him a mentor - even peo
ple who were older than he was,” senior
Jennifer Clark said.
Christopher Martens, William
Aycock professor of marine science, said
the personal connections between
Hooker and the speakers impressed him
most.
“The thing that reached the deepest
for me is how the people who were
speaking really knew him on a very per
sonal level,” Martens said.
“And interestingly enough they were
talking about what his leadership meant
for the future.”
The Hooker stories and anecdotes
kept flowing long after the service
ended. Several employees from
Administrative Information Services
said they remembered Hooker’s dedi
cation to improving campus technology.
“He was a very strong supporter of it,”
his body over an injured teen, while
teachers and other workers led children
to safety.
“There was nothing said by the sus
pect before the shooting,” Police Chief
Bernard Parks said. “It was indiscrimi
nate.”
The wounded include a 5-year-old
boy who was hit in the abdomen and
leg. He was in critical condition today
after undergoing six hours of surgery
and was given a fair chance of recovery.
Also hurt were center receptionist,
68-year-old Isabelle Shalometh, two 6-
year-old boys and a 16-year-old girl who
was a counselor at the center's summer
camp that began Monday.
The boys and the counselor were in
stable condition today and Mrs.
Shalometh, grazed on the arm and back
as she dove for cover, was released from
the hospital Tuesday night.
The violence was the latest shooting
at workplaces and schools across the
country, and brought immediate calls
for stricter gun control and measures to
protect children. “Once again, our
nation has been shaken and our hearts
tom by gun violence,” President Clinton
said in Washington. “It calls on all of us
not only to give our thoughts and
prayers to the victims and their families,
but intensify our resolve to make
America a safer place.”
The organization that mns the com
munity center posted armed guards at
its several other operations in the
region, and security was stepped up at
children's programs in other states, said
Nina Lieberman Giladi, an associate
vice president. She said children, includ
ing her son who saw two bleeding vic
tims, wanted to get together with the
other children to reassure themselves
they were safe.
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said Joe Bray, applications development
project supervisor for AIS. “It wouldn’t
be near where it is now without him.”
Jameel Freeman, a senior from
Clinton, said the memorial service
embraced Hooker’s zest for fife.
“The fact that he did his best in the
short time he had was what impressed
me most,” he said.
Some students said their most vivid
memories of Hooker were having con
versations with him in the Pit or running
next to him on the treadmill in the
Student Recreation Center.
“He was somebody easily accessible,
a man you could look up to to lead
you,” Freeman said.
Broad said, “It was a grand tribute to
Michael Hooker and to UNC-Chapel
Hill.”
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at udesk@unc.edu.
Eclipse Enthralls Thousands
The last solar eclipse of the
millenium was exciting for
both scientific researchers
and spiritual onlookers.
Associated Press
LAND'S END, England - The
moon smothered the light of the sun
Wednesday as the last total solar eclipse
of the millennium swept across Europe
toward the Bay of Bengal.
In Cornwall, at the southwest tip of
England, heavy clouds made the two
minute spectacle invisible to hundreds
of thousands who had come to watch.
Millions watched live TV broadcasts
around the world.
As the eclipse reached totality in
western England at 11:10 a.m. (6:10
EDT), the temperature dropped notice
ably but rain held off.
“I missed an eclipse in Hawaii in
1991 when a cloud moved in front of
the sun at the last minute, but we'll feel
the atmosphere of it all,” said Mary
Fehner of Urbana, 111.
But Carolyn Willard, from Kent,
Wash., was unhappy. “This is our first
eclipse and we are kind of disappointed
not to be seeing anything,” she said.
Darkness fell on London, where the
eclipse was 96.5 percent of totality.
Trials were adjourned briefly at the Old
Baity criminal court to allow jurors and
lawyers -but not defendants -to go out
to watch.
Thousands of people poured into
Stuttgart, Germany, despite rainy
weather. People crowded rest stops on
the AB, the so-called “Eclipse
Autobahn,” because it follows the path
of the eclipse.
Luca Bottino, 28, of Verona, Italy,
and his wife, Christina, got up at 4 a.m.
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McCoy Called Best
Choice for Interim
UNC-system President
Molly Broad said McCoy's
financial acumen would
serve UNC well.
By Will Foushee
Staff Writer
JULY 15 - UNC-system President
Molly Broad said when she was con
suiting with members of the community
about who to appoint as acting chancel
lor for UNC, William McCoy’s name
kept coming up.
McCoy, who succeeds Chancellor
Hooker who died last week of cancer at
age 53, served during a two-month peri
od as acting chancellor while Hooker
was on medical leave.
Student Body President Nic Heinke
said he and his cabinet took fast action
to meet with Graduate and Professional
Student Federation President Lee
Connor to recommend McCoy as act
ing chancellor to Broad.
“McCoy was the natural choice for
three reasons - he is acclimated with the
University, has an important finance
background that will aid the University,
and he understands the position of chan
cellor and handled it well during
Hooker’s interim,” Heinke said.
Conner agreed with Heinke’s reasons
and said McCoy would make a great
interim chancellor and would be able to
draw on the resources around him.
“He’ll have plenty of help from
Provost Dick Richardson,” Connor said.
Heinke and Conner both said they
had also recommended Chancellor Paul
Hardin and Provost Richardson as pos
and drove nearly 300 miles to reach the
“Eclipse Autobahn." He planned to go
home immediately after the eclipse.
“We must have patience and hope
fully we will see something,” he said,
shrugging his shoulders and looking up
at the sky with his eclipse glasses in
hand. A 12-mile traffic jam built up on
the highway leading into the Swiss bor
der city of Basel as drivers headed
toward viewing areas in Germany and
France.
For some it was a scientific wonder;
for others, a spiritual phenomenon.
Two hundred people boarded a
Concorde flight at Heathrow, making a
supersonic chase of the shadow from a
cloud-free 55,000-foot height.
“I have dreamed of this moment for
over a year,” said Peter Clifford, who
bought a pair of tickets as a 53rd
anniversary present for his wife.
In some villages in northern Gujarat
in India, priests planned to ring temple
bells and take turns beating steel plates
with sticks to ward off evil
From Land’s End, the moon’s shad
ow dashed at 1,522 miles per hour
across parts of France, Germany,
Austria, Italy, Yugoslavia, Hungary,
Romania, Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan,
turning day to night across a path 60
miles wide, before sinking at sunset in
the Bay of Bengal.
The longest totality - 2 minutes, 23
seconds - was in Romania.
In this brief window, scientists gath
ered at remote sites in Turkey, Iran and
Iraq, seeking to learn more about the
corona, the superheated gaseous layer
that surrounds the sun. Seldom visible,
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sible choices, but that McCoy had been
an overwhelming choice.
“The University has had a good
experience with McCoy,” Connor said.
Provost Richardson said he was
delighted McCoy was going to be serv
ing during the interim. “McCoy has a
great love of the University. He is care
ful, thoughtful, he always studies the sit
uations and is very respectful of the fac
ulty and staff,” Richardson said.
Broad said her decision to appoint
McCoy had been met with overwhelm
ing support. “During McCoy’s two
months in the spring, he showed
absolute leadership and gained the
respect of many faculty, staff, trustees,
and Board of Governors,” Broad said.
Faculty Chairman Pete Andrews said
he was pleased with the choice of
McCoy to interim chancellor and felt he
had dealt with University problems
swiftly. Andrews specifically said he was
impressed with the way McCoy handled
the students that sat in South Building
demanding better labor conditions for
factories that make UNC apparel in
May. Andrews said McCoy’s only draw
back was that he was not known to
many students on campus.
“McCoy is a very active alumnus and
knows UNC very well, but right now
people don’t really know him.”
Richardson said McCoy’s presence
would be very helpful and calming.
“McCoy will bring us back on track,
but we must make sure we don’t drop
the ball,” Richardson said. “I feel that
people have gotten pessimistic, but this
still remains a great era for UNC.”
The University Editor can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
it appears as a radiant halo at the time of
totality, when the moon completely
covers the sun.
With the sun at the height of its 11-
year cycle of activity, this is a good
chance to investigate why the corona
sizzles at 3.6 million degrees, despite the
bitter cold of space. The temperature at
the surface of the sun is only about
11,000 degrees, while the sun’s core is
estimated at 27 million degrees.
Scientists also hope to learn more
about giant gas explosions that erupt on
the sun’s surface, causing magnetic
storms that can interfere with radio, TV
and telephone signals on earth and dis
rupt satellite communications.
And because eclipses are the nearest
nature comes to turning off the sun,
they also provide a chance to study the
earth’s atmosphere.
Although there are at least two solar
eclipses a year, most are partial.
Coming at the height of summer and
passing over many heavily populated
areas, this eclipse was expected to be
one of the most watched ever.
A solar eclipse occurs when the
moon crosses between the Earth and
sun, blocking the sun’s light.
The moon is only one-400th the size
of the sun, but the sun is 390 times far
ther away from the Earth, making the
moon’s image almost exactly the same
size as the sun’s when viewed from
Earth.
The next total solar eclipse will be in
2001 over southern Africa.
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