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3Jtje Satly (Ear HM Police Roundup Carrboro Police Seek 3 Armed Robbers A 35-year-old Carrboro man was robbed at gunpoint by three unidenti fied men at 10:15 p.m. Sunday, police reports state. The victim was walking home with a friend from a grocery store on N.C. 54 to Arbor Meadows Apartments. The victim and his friend took a path behind the T and U buildings of the complex when they were approached by three men. One of the robbers asked the victim for a cigarette, and while the victim was reaching for them, he pulled out a black semiautomatic handgun, reports state. The victim and his friend were ordered to lay on the ground, and the robbers took the victim’s wallet, which contained his driver’s license and $l3O in cash. When police officers arrived on the scene, they tried to follow the robbers’ tracks in the ice, but were unable to do so because of multiple tire tracks in the parking lot, reports state. The three men are still at large, and Carrboro police are continuing to inves tigate. Police Arrest 4 Teens On Drug Charges Chapel Hill police arrested four men, Nathaniel Maurice Bennett, 19, of 107 Brighton Place Apt. B; Thomas Dean Graham, 18, of 738 Log Barn Road in Pittsboro; Adam Capen Holloway, 18, of 101 Quail Roost Road in Carrboro; and Sergio Darrell Calhoun, 18, of 901 N.C. 54 West on drug possession and paraphernalia charges, reports state. A Chapel Hill officer pulled over a black 2001 Nissan Pathfinder at on the 100 block of West Franklin Street for speeding at 12:17 a.m. Saturday. When the officer approached the car, he smelled a strong odor of marijuana, reports state. Graham was the driver of the car, and the three others were pas sengers. A search of the car found that Bennett was in possession of 5.5 grams of mari juana. He also had a 40-ounce botde of King Cobra between his feet. He was charged with possession of marijuana and underage possession of a malt beverage. Graham, a student at N.C. Central University, was charged with possession of drug paraphernalia because there was a rolling machine and rolling papers on the console. He also was charged with speeding. Holloway and Calhoun, both Chape! Hill High School students, were charged with possession of drug para phernalia. Holloway had a box of cigars, and Calhoun had a small plastic jar that had traces of marijuana in it. The four men were released to appear March 24 in Orange County District Court in Hillsborough. Manning Parking Lot Suffers Rash of Thefts Four cars parked in the upper Manning lot have been broken into in the past week, and there have been five break-ins in the past two months, police reports state. Capt. Mark Mclntyre said the break ins probably are related because all of the vehicles were Hondas and they were all in the same general area. “It’s the same locations that keep get ting hit several times,” Mclntyre said. “We’re working on it and trying to fol low up on leads.” Mclntyre said three officers are on the case, and he suggests that students park in well-populated areas where there are great deals of pedestrian traf fic. He also said students should store their valuables out of sight to prevent them from tempting thieves. The robbers have targeted stereos and other technological equipment, including Palm Pilots, Mclntyre said. He said there are no suspects at this time. Student Drug Case Continued to March 13 Sophomore Charles Bryan Corey, who was arrested Oct. 12 on drug-relat ed charges, has had his hearing post poned for a third time. Corey now is scheduled to appear at Orange County District Court in Hillsborough on March 13. Corey was charged with possession with intent to sell and deliver marijua na, possession of drug paraphernalia, manufacturing a controlled substance and maintaining a dwelling for con trolled substance sales. Corey also was charged with possession of Darvocet, Vicodin and Adderall. He is a pre-med icine chemistry major and a UNC Laboratories employee. Compiled by Staff Writers Sumner James Phillips and Rachel Hodges Accusations Against Walters Supported, Refuted APS director accused of mismanagement By Jack Kimball Assistant City Editor Recent findings on Animal Protection Society Executive Director Laura Walters’ past animal shelter experience show a his tory of mismanagement, but some say the problems do not stop with her position. One of the APS’s most vocal critics said the board of directors also is at fault for conducting business in a secretive manner. Inquiry into the board initially was started by Elliot Cramer, a retired UNC , —— iy—T "—I"--" ;. , .... - DTH 'SARAH WHITMEYER N.C. Central University is one of five historically black colleges and universities in the UNC system. All five HBCUs have a student body that is at least 77 percent black. Historically Black Colleges Rich in History, Opportunity By Adam Cardais Staff Writer Long an underrepresented group in U.S. universities and colleges, many black students continue to seek their educations from historically black col leges and universities, which have serv ed black students’ needs since the mid-18()0s. Funded by various abolitionist insti- tutions, including the Quakers, the first FIBCUs were founded in the 1850s in Northern states. Lincoln University in Pennsylvania was the first in 1854, and Wilberforce and Fisk universities fol lowed in 1856 and 1866, respectively. The first HBCU in North Carolina, Fayetteville State University, opened its doors in 1867. In the 19th-century United States, a time and place fraught with racism and Town to Look at Police Agreement Council member has concerns about FBI By Sumner James Phillips Staff Writer Chapel Hill Town Council member Mark Kleinschmidt introduced a peti tion at last week’s council meeting that would re-evaluate University police offi cers’ jurisdictional agreement with the Chapel Hill Police Department. Under the arrangement, University officers can pursue incidents that occurred on campus into the town. They also can go unaccompanied into Chapel Hill to investigate their cases. Kleinschmidt’s petition stems from his concerns about ajan. 9 article in The Boston Globe that reported, “The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has an FBI liaison who devotes two days a month to anti-terrorism work, a spokeswoman said.” But University Police Chief Derek Poarch said there is no FBI agent who works on campus or who specifically is assigned to campus. “We have a detec tive that works for us, the Department of Public Safety, who attends a biweekly meeting in Raleigh at the FBI office professor and APS member. Cramer said he became concerned with the board after a family friend, Robert Schopler, essentially was fired from his position as wildlife rehabilita tion director of the APS. Cramer and a group of concerned members later submitted petitions to the APS board of directors, nominating a few members for the board elections last fall. But in an open meeting in November, the board changed the bylaws concerning the method through which its members are elected, along with a few other issues. The board modified Article IV, para graph C of the APS bylaws to read, “Election to the Board shall be by a sim im |m \ 1861- 1862 I 1867 I 1896 1*54 [W ] Abolitionist! Lincoln i 1865 Imancipatioi|Fayetteville Plessyv. Brown v. I UNC-CH I Movement j University J rivil War roc ’ am < i,lo 4 State J Ferguson :Board of TAdmits First Be 9 ins ft first L„,J; On Sept. 22,1 University Jjj s Supreme j j Education * Black The Americanj HBCU opens; fz an ~ j Lincoln says § The fust I Court rules | The court T ftwnnwn . Ant-Slavery j, its doors in >. ~ '.(V. ’ ‘Slaves will be| HBCU in “separate but reverses Three black ; Society formsf Pennsylvania! L ,L Lj freed as of T North if equal" I Plessyv. j students In December* ’ January 1863} Carolina is constitutional | Ferguson lenrollforthe m 1 ue j i founded ___ J M semester SOURCE; DTH RESEARCH DTH/STAFF discrimination, these institutions were created to give black students an outlet to pursue their educations. “Blacks had to have their own insti tutions to get adequate education,” said Murray Percy, professor of history at N.C. Central University. HBCUs became most significant dur ing Reconstruction and the period of segregation that followed the Supreme Court’s landmark Plessy v. Ferguson decision in 1896, said Thomas Battle, the director of Moorland-Spingam Research Center at Howard University in Washington, D.C. -one of the world’s leading research centers of black history and culture. The court’s ruling in Plessy v. xsm where they distribute nationally relevant information," Poarch said. Kleinschmidt said he wants to clarify how University police and the FBI are involved. “I don’t think (University police) has been commandeered by the FBI," he said. He said his petition has two parts. It asks Chapel Hill police to assess the rela tionship between the FBI and University police. It also asks town staff to examine Chapel Hill withdrawing from its jurisdic tional agreement with University police. “(The petition) is not an accusation that anyone is doing anything wrong,” he said. “This is the appropriate way to protect the rights of the townspeople.” The jurisdictional arrangement, which Kleinschmidt did not favor, was passed by the Town Council in May. “I don’t like the idea of having a police officer not responsible to the Town Council going out and knocking on doors,” he said. Kleinschmidt said he thought a Chapel Hill police officer should accom pany a University police officer for any investigation in town. News pie majority of Directors present at said meeting, a quorum being present.” This addition effectively changed the bylaws so that the board, rather than APS members, elects future board members. Board attorney Ronald Merritt said that the change was not unusual and that many other organizations have similar practices. When questioned as to whether board members had discussed allegations against APS, Merritt said they had spoken about them. He said he could not comment on whether the board has discussed allega tions against Walters that stem from mis management of an animal shelter in Greenwood, Ark., because it was a per sonnel matter. He would not disclose Ferguson made segregation a legal prac tice with the now-infamous “separate but equal” doctrine in its ruling. William Cobb, professor of history at Spelman College in Atlanta, said that the court case did not have much prac tical consequence because segregation was common practice before “separate but equal” but that it was received by some as “an additional outrage on top of the social custom.” And while it is impossible to quantify Plessy v. Ferguson’s effect, the case did add to the already übiquitous strength of segregation, which forced black students to attend HBCUs if they wanted to get See HBCUS, Page 6 Poarch said University police officers only have had to go into town to inves tigate about one case a month. “We keep a record of all instances that we give to the town each month,” Poarch said. “There have only been seven occur rences where DPS has had to exercise extrajurisdictional powers,” said Chapel Hill Police Chief Greggjarvies. “In each instance, the agreement was followed.” Jarvies said University police and Chapel Hill police have an excellent working relationship. “Officers know each other, we share boundaries, and we often work together." He said the purpose of the petition was to see what role, if any, campus police and the FBI play in monitoring foreign students in Chapel Hill. Kleinschmidt said the petition would help to make sure foreign students’ rights are protected. “I have seen through report ing in (The Daily Tar Heel) that the stu dent body wants the rights of their foreign students protected, and ... this is one way I think we can help,” Kleinschmidt said. Jarvies said he will report to the coun cil March 3 in response to the petition. The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. APS hiring practices. Merritt said he had not read the entire article in Monday’s Daily Tar Heel about Walters. But after someone read him portions of the article, he said he thought the allegations being made against Walters were “unfair and untrue." Former board lawyer Rick Snider hired Walters and also was one of her most vocal critics, Merritt said. Snider could not be reached for comment Monday. The reports of mismanagement, including lax disease management, at the Arkansas shelter are similar to com plaints that have been leveled at Walters by concerned Chapel Hill residents and APS members such as Cramer. Accusations against Walters in both Operations Stay Normal at UNC Despite Alert Feb. 11 high terror alert warned that universities could be targets By Amanda Jepsen Staff Writer Though universities were mentioned specifically in a Feb. 11 FBI terror warning as possible terrorist targets, UNC- Chapel Hill is not moving to take any additional precautions. The nation has been on a code orange, or high, terror alert since Feb. 7, when several intelligence reports indicated a heightened possibility for terrorist attacks toward the end of a religious period in the Muslim year. FBI Director Robert Mueller indicated in the warning that soft targets, such as universities, were at a greater risk because small-scale attacks would be easy to execute. Last week, police chiefs from all 16 UNC-system universi ties met in Asheville, said FBI special agent Eric Blowers. There, the chiefs received all of the information the FBI had to offer regarding terrorist activity on college campuses. Jeff McCracken, deputy director of UNC-CH’s Department of Public Safety, said the department also has received information that has been sent to local police centers. “There has been no information yet that UNC or North See PREPARATION, Page 6 UNC Selects Newsom To Fill New Position Of Diversity Director By Eshanthi Ranasinghe Staff Writer After a full year of shuffling resumes and hosting interviews, the 50-person applicant pool for the position of UNC’s direc tor of diversity has been narrowed to one. Melva “Cookie” Newsom officially was invited to take the post in late December, accepting the offer about a week later, officials said. She will begin working at the Office for Minority Affairs on April 1. Newsom said she is excited to have a chance to incorporate diversity issues into her career. “I’ve been interested in the diversity issue for a very long time,” she said. “That’s something that’s been my passion, actually, more than my livelihood. I’m very excited to be able to blend them. ... That’s a very good opportunity to be able to get paid for something you love doing.” Newsom is a faculty member at Clark State Community College in Springfield, Ohio, where she teaches American his tory, Western civilization and African-American history. Newsom received a doctorate from the School of Education and Allied Professions at the University of Dayton in 2000. She earned a master’s at Wright State University and gradu ated with a bachelor’s degree from Central State University. See DIVERSITY DIRECTOR, Page 6 WHOA, NELLIE ps-Z "~ m S"iii—'Vfit DTH/BETH FLOYD Sophomores Tom Helmer (left) and Zach Hayes slide out of control down a hill at Kenan-Flager Business School on Monday afternoon. Students braved the cold to go sledding all over campus. Tuesday, February 18, 2003 Greenwood and Chapel Hill have included borderline cruelty to animals, poor business practices and mismanage ment of the shelter. A report by Ann Clark - Arkansas’ deputy sheriff and animal warden in South Sebastian County, where Walters man aged a shelter from 1999-2001 - expressed similar concern about diseased animals. “Upon recognizing this problem I spoke with Walters about housing sick animals with those that appeared healthy,” Clark stated in the report. “Walters advised this Deputy she would run the shelter as she thought proper.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. 3
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