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Teen Charged in Bloody Assault
By Jason Owens
Assistant City Editor
A dispute over one month’s rent led
to the brutal beating of a Carrboro resi
dent early Monday morning, landing
one man in jail and another in the hos
pital.
Benoit “BJ.” St. Clair Jr., 17, of Old
Well Apartments, Apt CC-7, was arrest
ed and charged with one felony count of
Spangler
145th on
Forbes' List
Billionaire and native North
Carolinian C.D. Spangler
refused his salary while he
was UNC-system president.
By Cheri Melfi
Staff Writer
Forbes Magazine has named C.D.
Spangler, who has a net worth of $1.6
billion, the 145th richest American.
The annual rankings, released in the
Oct. 8 issue, listed Spangler at 145th
place, tied with financial mogul Donald
Trump.
But to some UNC-Chapel Hill alum
ni, that billionaire is the former UNC
system president who ate lunch in
Lenoir Dining Hall every day.
“He is the most class-conscious bil
lionaire this society has ever seen,” said
former UNC Association of Student
Governments President John Dervin.
“He is still in touch with what it is like to
live in a small town in North Carolina.”
His under
standing of real
life in North
Carolina led
Spangler, who
served UNC for
more than 11
years without pay,
to fight for low
tuition during his
presidency.
“Raises in
tuition would
change UNC to
an elitist school,”
he said.
Spangler also
said UNC should
Former UNC-system
President
C.D. Spangler
said UNC's next
leader should have
ties to the state.
not raise tuition to pay faculty salaries,
an issue which has been a topic of con
cern among UNC administrators.
Instead, the money should be taken out
of the legislature’s tax receipts, as it had
been in the past, he said.
Increasing tuition would limit educa
tional access to wealthy students, rather
than opening doors for students from all
financial backgrounds, Spangler said.
Spangler attended UNC-CH for his
undergraduate years and received his
masters degree in business from
Harvard University.
He began his career reconstructing
his father’s bank, which merged with
N.C. Nations Bank in 1982, forming
Nationsßank. Nationsßank has since
become part of Bank of America.
Spangler also leads a Baltimore con
struction business.
Spangler said his success resulted
from inheriting a strong family business,
and growing up in North Carolina with
a booming economy.
“If I had been bom in western
Massachusetts, I would probably be an
unemployed drill-press operator,” he
said.
“Good fortune is an important
attribute to have.”
Current UNC-system President
Molly Broad said Spangler’s devotion to
the system and state was apparent.
“He spent all of his life in North
Carolina and has a deep affection for
the University,” Broad said.
Spangler is no longer an official
leader in the system, but he remains
passionate about issues such as UNC-
See SPANGLER, Page 9
assault with a deadly weapon inflicting
serious injury with intent to kill after
police found him at his apartment about
12:30 a.m.
Police reports stated that Capt.
Timothy Rigsbee of UNC Hospitals
police contacted Carrboro police after
the victim was brought in for treatment.
“The victim was attacked with brass
knuckles and very badly injured,”
reports stated. “The victim was bleeding
“It is a war against all nations. ... The challenge is to all mankind.
Each nation must decide for itself how it will meet it.”
President Woodrow Wilson's War Message, April 1917
NORTH CAROLINA COLLECTION, UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA LIBRARY AT CHAPEL HILL
A Liberty Loan parade makes its way down an unpaved Franklin Street during World War I. The goal of such events was to rally
support behind Liberty Bonds, which the federal government sold to raise money tor the war effort.
MARCHING
°the WORLD STAGE
By Robin Clemow
Arts & Entertainment Editor
The second decade of this century was a time
for those who had been pushed into the unheard
and unseen cracks of society to emerge fearlessly.
It happened first on campus. After more than
a century of lying breathless under the feet of the
administration, students took a stand.
In 1910, the student council resigned to protest
the suspension of a supposedly innocent student.
Only a few days later, the faculty reinstated
him, and the event kicked off a movement of stu
dent activism at UNC that continues today.
Meanwhile, women activists were picking up
speed at the University and across the country.
UNC’s School of Law accepted its first female
student in 1911. The N.C. Suffrage League was
founded in 1914 to gain the right to vote through
“reason and fair play.” In 1916, the Montana elect
ed Jeanette Rankin as the first congresswoman.
Minorities also demanded a voice, publishing
“The Crisis” as the official magazine for the
Relocation of ATMs in the Works
By Will Foushee
Staff Writer
The roar of a chain saw behind Davis
Library marks the beginning of another
round of renovations at UNC this fall.
Construction started this weekend to
relocate the automatic teller machines
from Union Circle to a grassy area
behind Davis Library.
The ATMs will be stationed in the
area adjoining Lenoir Drive, the library
and Upper Olde Campus residence
halls, said Carolyn Elfland, associate
vice chancellor for auxiliary services.
“We want to relocate the ATMs now
before (Student) Union construction
starts so that we don’t inconvenience
students who depend on the ATMs’ ser
vices,” she said.
History is philosophy learned from examples.
Dionysius of Halicarnassus
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profusely from the head."
The assault occurred after the victim,
who was living with St. Clair’s mother,
failed to pay rent for the month.
Reports stated that the victim was
upset with St. Clair’s mother because
she wouldn’t return his belongings as a
result of his failure to pay the rent.
The victim told police he was sitting
on a staircase at Old Well Apartments
when St. Clair confronted him about the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People to speak out against
violent prejudice. jjfe.
When their voice was ignored, UJtu!
members of the NAACP launched
a silent protest in 1917 in New York SKudf
City against massacres and lynch-
ings in Illinois, Texas and Tennessee. *
Their efforts opened doors that had
long been shut, but war is what finally broke down
the walls for women and blacks.
In 1917, President Woodrow Wilson gave up his
three-year attempt to remain neutral in World
Warl.
The United States declared war on Germany,
thrusting the nation onto the stage of internation
al politics. The war brought opportunity on the
homefront and in the barracks.
When N.C. resident Harriet Morehead Berry’s
boss left for military service in 1918, she was
appointed head of North Carolina’s roads com
mission.
The 1917 Selective Service Act gave blacks,
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The relocation project, which is
scheduled to be completed byjanuary
before the Union expansion starts, was
initially postponed by Hurricane Floyd,
Elfland said.
“It was too wet to begin the construc
tion," she said. “We hope to be finished
in January, barring any huge weather
impediments.”
The Union renovation plans, which
were scheduled to begin in August, had
been held up due to delays in reviewing
plans, said Don Luse, director of the
Union.
The relocation of the ATMs will fea
ture security improvements with the
construction of a courtyard behind
Davis Library, Elfland said.
See DAVIS, Page 9
conflict.
When he got up to walk away, St
Clair hit him in the back of the head
with a set of brass knuckles, reports stat
ed. St. Clair continued to hit him in the
head with the brass knuckles 20 times
before leaving the area.
The victim then knocked on a neigh
bor’s door seeking medical attention.
She took him to UNC Hospitals where
he told police about the incident.
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the country in decades to come.
The road, however, was not easy. Men returned
home from war, pushing women back into the
kitchen and sending blacks back to America’s bot
tom rung.
But they had gotten a taste of freedom they
would not forget. As Theodore Roosevelt said in
1910: “The credit belongs to the man who is actu
ally in the arena ... who strives valiandy ... who,
at the best knows, in the end, the triumph of high
achievement, and who, at the worst, if he fails, at
least he fails while daring gready, so that his place
shall never be with those cold and timid souls who
know neither victory nor defeat.”
DTH/KATE MELLNIK
Construction progresses on what will be new ATM machines behind
Davis Library. Plans to renovate the Union necessitated the move.
After the victim spoke to the police,
the magistrate put out a warrant for St.
Clair’s arrest.
Carrboro police proceeded to Old
Well apartments where they found St.
Clair and served the warrant.
St. Clair is being held on a $ 10,000
secured bond in the Orange County Jail.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
once rejected by the military, the right to
i fight and more than 2 million men enlist
j£u__ ed.
|U Despite the decade’s moments of
Hfl destruction - ihe sinking of the
Titanic, then of the S.S. Lusitania and
jsS* the deaths brought on by war - this
early part of the 20th century fueled a
desire for equality that would revolutionize
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Committee
To Address
Labor Woes
Labor task force members
met twice last week to
develop a complaint system
for sweatshop concerns.
By Jason Arthurs
Staff Writer
With a firm deadline for full disclo
sure of manufacturing sites now in
place, the University’s labor task force
is developing a complaint system to
deal with possible labor concerns.
A subcommittee of seven task force
members met twice last week to discuss
ways to quickly implement the system.
“The plan is basically to find out how
to deal with allegations and how we
would remediate the factory,” said
UNC junior and task force member
Lorrie Bradley. “We’re trying very hard
to get the third-party system up and run
ning.”
Chancellor Bill
McCoy set the
March deadline
for full disclosure
last week based on
a recommenda
tion by the
Licensing Labor
Code Advisory
Committee, which
is composed of
faculty and stu
dents.
In a letter to
the committee, he
also called for a
third-party com
plaint system that
u
Rut Tufts,
co-chairman for the
task force, said UNC
should correlate its
requirements with
other universities.
would address any problems once sites
were disclosed.
“What (McCoy) said is that if we’re
able to get a response mechanism in
place, that’s when disclosure would
occur,” said Rut Tufts, co-chairman of
the task force. Tufts said he projected
the system to be fully defined and ready
for approval by McCoy in November.
Tufts said the committee’s main chal
lenge was corresponding its plans to
those of other universities approaching
full disclosure. Duke and Georgetown
universities and universities in
Michigan, Wisconsin, and Arizona have
all set full disclosure for early next year.
See LABOR, Page 9
INSIDE
Adopting for Relief
UNC is teaming up with towns of
Chapel Hill and Carrboro to adopt
children in eastern North Carolina
who are victims of Hurricane Floyd.
See Page 4.
NCCU In Disrepair
Officials say they
need millions of
dollars to fix the
rampant building
problems across
N.C. Central
University’s campus. See Page S.
Candidates Speak Out
Chapel Hill Town Council and mayoral
candidates discussed expansion and
environmental concerns at town hall in
a round table discussion Monday night.
See Page 9.
Defining a Mission
The Black Student Movement released
a mission statement Monday that
explains their goals for expanding
awareness of minority issues on
campus. See Page 2.
Today’s Weather
Sunny;
High 70s.
Wednesday: Sunny;
Low 70s.