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hard . . . Well, the forecast for
today is pretty iffy. Supposedly
the skies will clear after
overnight showers, and our high
will be near 68. Frankly, it's sort
of a letdown after the weekend.
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Volume 93, Issue 25
Monday, April 1, 1985
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Davidson ends NCMH
following KD-week stay
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By LORRY WILLIAMS
Staff Writer
How does a family thrown into
distress by a fluke accident react to a
medical miracle? For the family of
cheerleader Robin Davidson, the imme
diate reaction is simple relief.
"It's great to have her home and to
be a family again, said Robin's father,
Billy Davidson.
Following a 10-week stay in N.C.
Memorial Hospital, Robin Davidson
was released Friday afternoon.
Davidson, 20, of Rocky Mount, fell
Jan. 15 while dismounting from the top
of a pyramid stunt prior to a women's
basketball game. The sophomore junior
varsity cheerleader suffered a fractured
skull.
During her stay in the hospital,
Davidson's condition was upgraded
from critical to fair. In a telephone
interview Sunday, her father said she
was doing well.
Dr. Michael Rosner, director of
neurosurgery intensive care at NCMH,
said in a report Friday: "Not many
people who sustain the kind of injury
she had even survive. Her improvement
has been spectacular."
Davidson will spend a week at her
Rocky Mount home before entering the
rehabilitation center at Pitt County
Memorial Hospital in Greenville. Mr.
Davidson said there was no way to
determine how long she would stay in
Greenville. Doctors will evaluate David
son's condition to determine the extent
of therapy she will need, he said.
While at NCMH, Davidson began
physical therapy, occupational therapy
'Not many people who
sustain the kind of injury
she had even survive . . .
Her improvement has been
spectacular9 Dr. Michael
Rosner, director of
neurosurgery intensive care
and speech therapy. In the hospital
report, Rosner said Davidson would
receive more intense therapy in Green
ville in those three fields.
Davidson is bothered by headaches
and experiences some problems with
memory and concentration, the report
said. Mr. Davidson said his daughter's
vision was blurry and she was wearing
glasses. He said one eye was stronger
than the other and she was wearing a
patch over one eye. He said she could
see out of both eyes, but when she didn't
wear the patch she experienced
headaches.
Mr. Davidson said she was also
having some problems with her balance.
"She doesn't use a walker or a cane to
get around with, but shell still stumble
every once in a while," he said.
Rosner said Davidson's symptoms
were normal given the severity of her
injury. He added that she was "getting
better quite rapidly."
Mr. Davidson said that whether or
not his daughter would return to school
in the fall would depend on how well
she responded to therapy. "She's
already asking when she can come
back."
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off an East Franklin Street curve and hit a tree at Roosevelt Drive with cuts and bruises. Police said the car was traveling at a high rate
around 6 p.m., Chapel Hill police said. Dead are driver Jon Darrelle of speed and that alcohol was involved.
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Umdergirad Momoir Court's closed meeting policy debate
By JOY THOMPSON
Staff Writer
The UNC Undergraduate Honor Court
recently allowed an exception to its longstanding
policy of keeping hearings closed, but controv
ersy remains as to whether hearings should as
a rule be closed or open.
The hearings, which can determine the
academic future of a student, are usually kept
closed to ensure student privacy, but a highly
publicized Case involving senior Frank Winstead
was heard openly at Winstead's request.
James O. Gansler, associate vice chancellor
and dean of student affairs, said he preferred
open hearings so the public would know what
happened in the Honor Court.
"The closed hearing puts the judicial system
at a disadvantage in that it permits or requires
the system to function under a veil of secrecy,"
Cansler said.
The University community has no evidence
that the system is functioning when the hearings
were closed, he said.
But Suzy Adler, newly-elected head of the
Honor Court, said the hearings had to be closed
to give the defendant the right to confidentiality
and privacy. "The whole system is oriented
toward the defendant," she said.
"I think the defendant has a right to his or
her privacy, and coming before the Honor Court
is a personal matter," Adler said.
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By KAREN YOUNGBLOOD
Staff Writer
Students opposed to the mandatory
meal plan have formed CAMP, the
Committee Against Meal Plan, a group
organizing students against the manda
tory meal plan due to go into effect in
the fall.
Mark Stafford, former Residence
Hall Association president and one of
the founders of CAMP, said the group
was formed after he read the "Report
to Patricia Wallace, Student Body
President, on the Mandatory Meal
Plan."
"I was approached after the news of
the report hit the paper," he said. "Both
Fetzer (Mills) and Tom (Terrell)
approached me about my opinion on
it (the report), and asked if I'd be willing
to vocalize my opinion in a letter to
the editor.
"By the time I finished the report,
( I knew I wanted to do more than write
' a letter."
Stafford said the purpose of the
group was to organize students against
the meal plan and to inform other
students about the plan.
"As more people read the report,
more people would want to take
action," he said. "We didn't want
student actions to go off in all different
directions. We had to form centrally.
"CAMP is going to put out an
information leaflet (about the plan)
soon. ItH be purely facts documented
facts."
Stafford said the group was also
concerned with the way the adminis
tration had handled the mandatory
The Honor Court guidelines are laid out in
The Instrument of Student Judicial Governance,
which became effective when the judicial reform
movement started at the University in 1979.
Cansler said the first five drafts of the Instrument
called for mandatory open hearings in the
Undergraduate Court. But since then, there have
been a number of draft revisions, a principal
one calling for the elimination of mandatory
open hearings.
The Instrument does not prevent open
hearings, however. "If a defendant feels he or
she wants an open hearing, he or she has a right
to request one," Adler said. "But we rarely have
requests for open hearings.
"Philosophically, I am not opposed to
' granting an open hearing," she said.
According to the Instrument, the Honor
Court chairman could close the hearing if he
felt observers were disturbing the proceedings.
"Our objective is to conduct a hearing as
smoothly and fairly as possible," Adler said.
"The chairman has the authority to limit
evidence, review motions and conduct proceed
ings in a manner that is fair to the defendant.
The whole hearing focuses around the defendant
and his charge, and we have to be sensitive to
the defendant."
Cansler said he understood the argument for
closing Honor Court hearings, even though there
was much to be said for having open hearings.
He said the principal argument for closing
hearings was that closing the trial protected the
defendant from the spotlight and permitted the
sanction to be carried out without adverse
publicity.
With a closed hearing, court members would
also be free from the pressure of a packed
courtroom and from the press, Cansler said.
Despite these, arguments, Cansler said he
thought the Honor Court system and the
University would be better off in many ways
if there were mandatory open hearings.
"I think you could make the case that (if the
hearings were open), the court itself would have
an added incentive to do well," Cansler said.
"It would be more apparent to the (University)
community if (the court) does or does not do
well.
"Secondly, I think it would cause the
community at large to be more aware of how
the court was functioning." He said this would
assure people that justice was being done.
"(Thirdly), it would make it impossible for
people to assert or assume that the court does
not give due process or fair hearings," Cansler
said.
The question of the court's objectivity can be
raised since last year's removal of the quota of
minorities required to sit on the Honor Court.
But Adler said that, ideally, the Honor Court
represented all races and sexes of the student
body.
To become an Honor Court member, a
.student must be an undergraduate with a quality
point average of at least 2.0. The student must
also be open-minded, unbiased, objective and
able to reason logically, Adler said. Each
prospective Honor Court member is given an
application designed to test those abilities and
must also be interviewed.
An Honor Court member who wishes to serve
another year must reapply for the position,
though the application is shorter and less
probing than the initial application.
Regardless of whether the hearings are open,
the court members are bound by the rules of
confidentiality outlined in the Instrument.
Cansler said the secrecy of the closed hearings
opened the court to charges that it was a
"kangaroo court" or was corrupt. "For one thing,
it is almost impossible to know what is going
on in a judicial hearing with the closed hearings."
Having open hearings could be a check on the
court, he said.
But Adler disagreed. "I don't think (open
hearings) have anything to do with consistency
and checks and balances," she said. "I don't think
(the court) has a problem with objectivity."
Anne Bowden, associate dean of student life
and adviser to the Honor Court, pointed out
that the hearings were not criminal prosecutions,
yet publicizing the hearings would label th;
student as a criminal even if he was found not
guilty.
"We're talking about an environment that has
a very large social component . . . and I think
one idea of college is that the student can make
mistakes and be able to deal with that without
having to deal with public scars on his
reputation," Bowden said.
She said the concept of closed hearings tied
into the respect and privacy of the individual.
"If a student pleading innocent is found guiity,
or if a student is found not guilty, I feel nothing
is gained by making that open lor public
consumption," she said.
The fact that there were so few requests for
open hearings, Bowden said, reflected the
preference of 99 percent of the students who
went through the judicial system.
Usually, a student requested an open hearing
for political reasons or so that his family might
attend, Cansler said.
There haven't been many complaints about
this specific policy, Adler said, but she thought
if the University community felt this policy
should be revised, it should be reassessed.
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Mark Stafford
meal plan.
"There are two issues at hand," he
said. "The first is whether the manda
tory meal plan is proper for this campus.
The other issue is that the administra
tion is misleading us."
Jennifer McCray, a freshman from
Atlantic Beach, Fla., and a member of
CAMP, agreed with Stafford.
"I'm not sure the mandatory meal
plan is a bad thing, but I didn't like
how the administration dealt with the
problem," she said.
McCray added that students needed
to be involved in the issue of a
mandatory meal plan.
"I think a group needs to be formed,"
she said. "I think people need to do
something.
"People need to be aware just
being concerned is really important."
Stafford said a student group pro
testing actions of the administration was
normally not effective, but that CAMP
might break the rules.
See CAMP page 2
By CRYSTAL BAITY
Staff Writer
Allard Lowenstein decided he and
others could provide leadership needed
to solve the problems of the postwar
United States, said Otis L. Graham,
keynote speaker for the opening of the
third Allard K. Lowenstein symposium
Friday.
The symposium, which coincided
with the completion of a collection of
Lowenstein's papers at the Southern
Historical Collection in Wilson Library,
opened with welcomes from Fran
Weaver, Lowenstein papers chairman,
and Douglass Hunt, symposium chair
man and special assistant to the chan
cellor at UNC. The symposium was
sponsored by the Southern Historical
Collection, the University Library and
the Lowenstein Foundations.
Lowenstein, a social activist during
the 60s, organized many sit-ins and civil
rights protests. He organized the
"Dump Johnson" movement in 1967,
spoke out against the Vietnam War and
fought South African apartheid.
After the New Deal era of the 1940s,
Graham said, everyone seemed to be
satisfied with their prospects . and
pursuits.
"The New Deal hardly solved the
social problems of the time," said
Graham, distinguished professor in
history at UNC. The New Deal left
issues like desegregation, the Jim Crow
laws and high unemployment undone,
Graham said. People worried about
commuinism, bias against women and
the black movement.
"If I hadn't had these concerns, I
doubt I'd known Al Lowenstein at all,"
Graham said.
Lowenstein once called Graham's
own Class of '56 privileged and anti
septic. "These were the days in which
I met Al," Graham said. "The first time
I actually met him was on the seventh
floor of a gym the wrestling floor.
There he was, pommeling some poor
freshman," Graham said. Graham
described Lowenstein as a man of
medium height and muscular build who
frequently appeared disheveled.
"He didn't wrestle fair either. He was
more than a match for me. He was
memorable from that moment on,"
Graham said.
As the 60s emerged, Graham said,
Lowenstein continued to be everywhere
making a difference. "He took an
interest in who you were and searched
out your interests right away. He was
brilliantly effective and invariably
moving, without the plastic rhetoric of
politicians today.
"After convincing you something
absolutely had to be done, he could then
convince you to go out and do it,"
Graham said. He said he thought
Lowenstein's most valuable asset was
his ability to mobilize people's emotions
without moralizing them. "He was a
combiner and a uniter, not a divider."
About 175 people attended the two
day event. They broke into groups after
Graham's address to discuss domestic
and foreign policy priorities for 1985.
The discussion on domestic issues
focused on the individual's ability to
affect larger social and political issues
like health care, unemployment and
nuclear disarmament by involvement at
the local level. Moderator for the
discussion was former Rep. L. Richard
son Preyor, D-N.C.
"The problem is whether or not we
matter as individuals. We do matter,
you see people not voting in droves,"
said panelist Rep. Doug Walgren, D
Penn. "Allard Lowenstein was very
effective in the process of desegregation,
the Vietnam War, and in sowing seeds
for (the movement against) apartheid
in South Africa without holding public
office."
Walgren was asked how students
could make a difference.
"Al once said that the system doesn't
work but that doesn't mean the system
doesn't make a difference," Walgren
said.
Telling his own experiences, Clinton
Deveaux, a municipal judge from
Atlanta, said it was not necessary to
be a congressman to bring change.
"I stayed in the legislature two years
(before becoming a judge). 1 went
somewhere that I thought I could have
an effect. If we can find our own Kent
State, if we can work to solve our own
county government or small town
problems, if we can succeed there, we
may have a different vision for affecting
(problems at) the national level," said
Deveaux.
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By CRYSTAL BAITY
Staff Writer
The "grass-roots" level was the place where many social
changes began in the 60s, said Nell Painter in a panel
discussion Saturday at the Allard K. Lowenstein symposium
in the Union Auditorium.
"I'm amazed at how much one person can do in a political
campaign," Painter said. "By boycotting, working with the
farmers, or being at Fort Bragg and putting your body on
the line, you can effect change." said Painter, UNC professor
of history.
Assessing the youth of the United States, Painter said she
felt a majority of students were caught up in "knee-jerk
Reaganomics" like her generation was caught up in "knee
jerk liberalism."
"A striking minority of students are outraged by the kind
of things (going on today)," Painter said.
Robyn Hadley, a Rhodes Scholar and UNC student, said
students needed to work together even though the campus
lacked an organization for that purpose. "We need to march
and let South Building know what's happening," Hadley said.
The panelists agreed the local level was a good start for
social change.
"One person can make a difference," said David Hawk,
former executive director of Amnesty International. "Allard
Lowenstein is an exemplary case because more than anyone
else, he did make a difference. He is not a particularly good
case to cite because you don't need to have the remarkable
connections Lowenstein had to make a difference."
"In my own work," Hawk said, "1 saw average people
without great knowledge or expertise making a difference
through letter-writing campaigns. Working in hometowns
certainly demonstrates how one should try to make a
difference. No matter where people are, things can be done.
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