VOLUME 112, ISSUE 18
Dorrance, Keller resolve lawsuit
UNIVERSITY SETTLES FOR $70,000;
JENNINGS CASE STILL PENDING
BY BRIAN MACPHERSON
SPORTS EDITOR
The University settled a sexual
harassment lawsuit against women’s
soccer coach Anson Dorrance on
Friday, partially resolving allegations
brought six years ago by two former
players.
A second lawsuit, however, likely
Report:
nuclear
plants
not safe
Officials say area
plants are secure
BY MARGAUX ESCUTIN
STAFF WRITER
U.S. nuclear power plants are
vulnerable to terrorist attacks,
government investigators and a
public watchdog group said last
week, although officials at the
state’s plants assert they are as safe
as they can be.
The Project on Government
Oversight, a Washington, D.C
based group that investigates pro
cedure at federal agencies, came
out with the report suggesting var
ious ways in which the plants can
improve safety and security.
North Carolina has three
nuclear power plants within its
borders, including Shearon-Harris
Nuclear Power Plant, 30 miles
southeast of Chapel Hill.
“Unfortunately, the standards
set by the (U.S.) Nuclear
Regulatory Commission are
abysmal,” said Beth Daley, the
project’s director of communica
tion.
But Rose Cummings, nuclear
public affairs manager for Duke
Power in Charlotte, the biggest
plant in the state, said all U.S.
nuclear power plants are classified
as hardened targets, meaning they
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University
strained
by viruses
BY LAURA BOST
AND LIZZIE STEWART
STAFF WRITERS
A series of computer worms and
viruses have attacked college cam
puses nationwide this year putting
an enormous strain on resources,
and UNC is no exception.
Though computer viruses are
common on college campuses, the
ones seen this year have had
incredibly devastating effects.
“There are always viruses,” said
Bruce Egan, associate director of
UNC Academic Technology
Networks. “But the ones we have
seen this year have been huge.”
A recent survey of 19 universi
ties revealed that schools on aver
age spent $299,579 repairing
computers infected with August’s
MSBlast.exe worm, or the blaster
virus.
Gregory Jackson, the chief
information officer at the
University of Chicago who led the
study, said the results were based
on conservative estimates.
The Chronicle of Higher
Education reported that expendi
tures such as those Jackson noted
have led universities to focus
increasingly on prevention meas
ures and to pressure software
companies mainly Microsoft,
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will not reach a settlement and will
come to trial in October as anticipated.
Debbie Keller, a national player of
the year in 1995 and 1996, agreed to
drop her claim that Dorrance made
uninvited sexual advances while she
was on the UNC women’s soccer team.
In exchange, the University will pay
Keller $70,000 and initiate several
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Freshmen Andrea Jahan (left), Cody Foster
(center) and Amber Ford browse through a
collection of books Tuesday evening outside
Wilson Library. The books were left for students to
take for free after a book sale organized by the
“Friends of the Library,” a group that supports the
Historic order celebrates TOO years
Golden Fleece marks UNC excellence
BY GREG PARKER
STAFF WRITER
This April the Order of the
Golden Fleece, a secret honorary
society, will celebrate the 100th
year of its storied existence at
UNC.
As part of the
celebration, the
order has released
previously unknown
information outlin
ing what the group
has achieved and
how it has shaped
University history.
A three-part
series on The
Order of the
Golden Fleece
Today: History
The idea for the founding of the
order came about as a way to com
bat “the pervasive strife and fac
tionalism that plagued the campus
community,” said order member
Nick Herman, who is writing a
book to be published next year on
the history of the Golden Fleece.
At the time of the Golden
Fleece’s founding, UNC was strug
gling to unify a divided student
body competing for prestige and
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mandated programs, including
required instruction for varsity ath
letes on their rights and obligations
under the school’s existing sexual
harassment policy.
Keller and former goalkeeper
Melissa Jennings originally had sought
$1 million each in damages and $lO
million in punitive damages.
The settlement also mandates that
Dorrance participate in an annual sen
sitivity program selected by the
University and that he pay Keller
SIO,OOO in damages if he fails to par
YARD SALE
University libraries which include Wilson, the
Undergraduate Library, Davis Library and several
others. The annual book sale, which generally
attracts local book dealers and the Chapel Hill
community, took place in Wilson Library last week
from Thursday to Saturday.
University honors through numer
ous student organizations.
Headlining the fractured
nature of University life was the
rivalry that existed between mem
bers of 10 social fraternities and
individuals who associated with
other organizations and were
called “nonfrats.”
“The otherwise intimate cam
pus environment was fractured by
a pervasive atmosphere of divi
sion, factionalism and disharmo
ny,” Herman said.
Recognizing the need to restore
the unity of the student body, two
first-year law students, Roach
Stewart and Robert Herring,
approached their now-legendary
philosophy professor, Horace
Williams, and expressed their
desire to end the schism.
From this meeting, the two
emerged with the idea to organize
a meeting of student leaders.
“The plan was to bring together
in one setting those students who
best represented the eight
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ticipate in any academic year.
“I acknowledge that, prior to June
1998,1 participated with members of
the UNC-CH women’s soccer team in
group discussions of those team mem
bers’ sexual activities or relationships
with men,” Dorrance wrote in the set
tlement. “While my participation in
such discussions was in a jesting or
teasing nature and was not intended to
be offensive, I now realize that my
comments offended Debbie Keller.
“I understand that my participation
in those discussions was altogether
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Fred Hashagen leads an induction for new members of the Order of the Golden Fleece in the Pit in March
2003. The Golden Fleece, a secret honor society, is celebrating its hundredth year of existence at UNC.
principal branches of University
life: debating, scholarship, publi
cations, writing, athletics, ‘typical
University man,’ religious life and
professional and graduate student
life,” Herman said.
On April 11, 1904, Stewart,
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inappropriate and unacceptable.”
The settlement allows UNC to put
behind it a part of the legal saga.
“We have been defending coach
Dorrance for six years,” UNC Athletic
Director Dick Baddour said. “But we
felt like it has gotten to a point where
if we could move on, if we could move
forward, if we could settle it to every
one’s satisfaction, then that would be
the prudent course of action.”
Keller’s mother, Judy Keller, said
SEE DORRANCE, PAGE 6
Calabria
to focus on
town ties
BY SARAH RABIL
STAFF WRITER
After a successful but highly contested election,
Student Body President-elect Matt Calabria is
working hard to ensure he can implement one of
his most important campaign promises:
increased student representation in town rela
tions.
The University and the town of Chapel Hill
have a long-standing history of competing inter
ests and compromise. In the last several years,
student government has evolved into a more inte
gral player in town-gown relations.
Student Body President Matt Tepper got off to
a late start with his goals for town relations. But
his administration was successful eventually in
petitioning the Chapel Hill Town Council to
investigate ways to increase student involvement
on town committees and boards.
“Each year, the relationship seems to get a lit
tle bit stronger, building on previous presidents
and their administrations,” said Linda Convissor,
UNC director of local relations.
During his campaign, Calabria publicized an
extensive external relations platform, including
plans to increase student participation with town
government.
Intending to build on Tepper’s foundation,
Calabria said that foremost, he wants to become
as acquainted with town-gown issues as possible.
Calabria said the key to his approach will be a
close working relationship with council members,
collaboration to meet student priorities and
increased student involvement.
“If you take the bullhorn approach, you really
start to bum bridges with people,” he said. “Our
tendency ought to be as collaborative as possible.”
Next year, Carolina North, the University’s pro
posed satellite campus, will be a major source of
contention as officials from both sides attempt to
reach a compromise.
Calabria said he intends to be a strong repre
sentative of a third party, University students, in
the evolving plans for Carolina North.
“We have to remind the town of our student
interest but also the University of our student
interest,” he said.
Previously, student apathy has played a large
role in the lack of student participation in town
government, and Calabria said he hopes to turn
that around.
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Herring, two faculty advisers and
six seniors met to discuss the for
mation and purpose of what
would soon become the Order of
the Golden Fleece.
The group discussed how to
organize a senior class society to
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UNC soccer
coach Anson
Dorrance
settled a former
player's lawsuit.
subordinate local interests to the
welfare of the University and join
together in closer harmony the
different branches of campus life.
In the weeks that followed, the
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