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By JAMES BENTON
Staff Writer
At age 22, David Mantey had a
full scholarship to one of the nation's
most prestigious medical schools and
was about to be inducted into Phi
Beta Kappa. But his future came to
a sudden and tragic end Saturday
night.
Mantey, a senior math major from
Wilmington, fell to his death from
a window in a lounge on the ninth
floor of Granville Towers West.
Mantey landed in a trash dumpster
located in a maintenance area
between Granville West and the
complex's cafeteria, according to the
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By SONYA JACKSON
Salt Writer
Nearly 40 faculty and staff
members gathered in Hanes Art
Center on Friday to offer responses
and alternatives to parking proposals.
The department is looking into an
expanded transit service, a park and
ride service where people would
park outside campus and shuttle in
and share-a-ride arrangements,
where people could arrive in 15- to
40-person capacity vehicles, said
Mary Clayton, director of the Park-
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From staff and wire reports
Superior Court candidate and
prominent Lumbee Indian Julian
Pierce died Saturday of shotgun
wounds, escalating tensions in
racially-torn Robeson County.
; Pierce, founder of the Lumbee
River Legal Services, would have
been the first Indian to hold such a
position were he elected to the newly
created seat. His opponent, Joe
Freeman Britt, has been district
attorney in the county for 14 years.
Robert Morgan, director of the
State Bureau of Investigation, said
that Pierce's death early Saturday
from three shotgun blasts at point
blank range appeared to be the first
time in the state that a candidate for
political office had been murdered.
No one has been arrested in the
shooting, which Robeson County
Sheriff Hubert Stone said occurred
between midnight and 6 a.m. Satur
day. Pierce, 42, had been alone in his
brick ranch house, which is flanked
by farmland and another small house.
"Someone was at the (kitchen)
door and when he went to the door,
they were waiting for him," Stone
said. He declined to name a motive
for the killing, but he labelled it an
assassination.
"It just looked like he was actually
assassinated," Stone said Saturday.
In response to the murder, Gov.
Jim Martin announced a $5,000
He has a dream: philanthropist
By R.L INGLE
Staff Writer
The U.S. education system has not
yet adapted itself to serve a changing
constituency that is 40 percent minor
ity and poor students, Eugene Lang,
a New York millionaire philanthro
pist said Friday night during a speech
in Hill Hall.
Lang's Friday night speech, titled
"It Wasnt Just the Money," was part
of Carolina Symposium
At a sixth-grade graduation cerem
ony at Harlem's Public School 121
in 1981, Lang told 61 sixth-graders
he would pay their college tuition if
they would stay in school until high
school graduation. Two-thirds of the
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South Orange Rescue Squad.
Dr. William Oliver, a medical
examiner for Orange County, said
Mantey died from "blunt trauma due
to a fall from a height" and estimated
the time of death at between 8 p.m.
and 9 p.m. Saturday.
Mantey's body was not discovered
for more than an hour. Chapel Hill
police were not called until 10 p.m.
and arrived on the scene at about 10:15
p.m. The South Orange Rescue
Squad also responded.
Oliver said toxicology tests were
being run on Mantey's body to
determine whether he was under the
influence of drugs or alcohol at the
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ing and Transportation Services.
Several people expressed concern
about their safety and the safety of
their cars in the fringe lots. Eugene
Swecker, associate vice chancellor for
facilities management, said these lots
will be patrolled by officers.
The Craige parking deck has been
approved by authorities, and a good
financial plan to fund it is the main
problem standing in its way, Swecker
said.
UNC Chancellor Christopher
Fordham decided not to forward the
Julian Pierce
reward Saturday for information
leading to the arrest and conviction
of Pierce's killer.
Robeson County, which borders
on South Carolina, is 37 percent
white, 37 percent Indian and 26
percent black. It is one of the state's
poorest counties and has long been
torn by racial animosity.
Activism, particularly by Lumbees,
has thrived since November 1986,
when an unarmed Lumbee was shot
and killed by a sheriffs deputy.
Anger at what the Indians call
students are either now in college or
are expected to be by September.
"Public education systems and
institutional programs cannot by
themselves satisfy the educational
needs of our disadvantaged youth,"
Lang said. "Institutions just cannot
focus their resources to deal effec
tively with the human condition that
requires sensitive and sustained
individual attention. They cannot
inspire or reciprocate love and
respect."
The I Have a Dream Foundation,
which Lang established in 198 1 , offers
businesses and individuals the chance
to sponsor an inner-city graduating
sixth-grade class until college gradua
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Monday, March 28, 1988
time of his death. Oliver said results
were pending and would be available
Monday morning.
Mary McFarland, area director of
Granville Towers, declined to com
ment on the incident. She said she
would comment on the situation later
in the week.
According to senior Norman
Grose, Mantey's roommate, Mantey
had just been accepted to the Bow
man Gray School of Medicine at
Wake Forest University and planned
to attend on a full academic schol
arship. He was also to be inducted
into Phi Beta Kappa later this
semester.
plans for the Craige deck to the Board
of Trustees for final approval until
a new funding plan was devised. The
original plan would have transferred
the cost of the deck to students and
employees by raising parking permit
prices substantially.
A number of choices are available
to the transportation department for
funding of the deck, Swecker said.
The transportation department could
receive financial assistance from
See PARKING page 5
corrupt local government and
entrenched racism boiled over most
recently Feb. 1 when two Lumbees
took hostages at The Robesonian
newspaper in Lumberton, the county
seat.
About 100 people stood quietly
outside Pierce's home Saturday
outside of the plastic tape law
enforcement officers used to seal off
the house where Pierce still lay. Many
spoke of the need for action.
"It makes me think there's no hope
for the Indians," said Janice Locklear
of Maxton. "I'm so mad I could
fight."
Earl Moore, who had known
Pierce for 15 years, said the candidate
"knew that something could happen"
to him. Moore said he knew of a
threat against Pierce, but he would
not elaborate. He said he would talk
only to federal officials in Washing
ton, not to county, local or federal
officials in North Carolina.
"They're all tied up together," said
Moore, who spent several hours with
Pierce the day before he was killed,
assembling campaign signs in
Moore's cabinet shop outside of
Maxton.
Pierce wanted to counteract the
lack of Indian representation in the
Robeson County judicial system. In
a speech at UNC Tuesday, Pierce said
See PIERCE page 3
tion. Sponsorship involves providing
friendship and guidance to the
students, as well as college tuition.
The program has grown from
Lang's sponsorship of Harlem's P.S.
121 class to 125 sponsorships in 19
U.S. cities, involving over 6,000
students.
"The program cultivates self
esteem provides individual mot
ivation, a reason to work, a reason
to stay in school," Lang said. Tt
personally associates disadvantaged
children probably for the first time
in their lives with an individual,
a sponsor, who combines the powers
of resources with affection and
concern."
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By JAMES SUROWIECKI
Senior Writer
SEATTLE It aint braggin'
if you can back it up, and Sunday
afternoon the Arizona Wildcats
proved they can.
The second-ranked Wildcats,
who had earned a reputation for
cockiness with their brash com
ments about their own ability,
brought seventh-ranked North
Carolina to a screeching halt on
the road to the Final Four.
Before a Kingdome crowd of
22,470, Arizona turned in a flawless
second-half performance that gave
the Wildcats a 70-52 win and the
NCAA Tournament's West
Regional title.
Arizona will join Oklahoma,
Duke and Kansas in the Final
Four, which will be played this
weekend in Kansas City. The Pac
10 champion Wildcats improved
their record to 35-2, while UNC,
the ACC's regular-season cham
pions, finished the year with a 27
7 mark.
The big men for Arizona were
its big men center Tom Tolbert
and All-American swingman Sean
Elliott. Tolbert had seven field
goals and 18 points in the final 20
sends poor children
The program affects the students,
who are called dreamers, personally
as well as educationally, Lang said.
"For dreamers, the personal ele
ments and their impact have far
overshadowed the scholarship incen
tive," he said. "Over the past six years,
IVe had to respond to questions such
as: 'Mr. Lang, my mother's boyfriend
threw me out of the house. Where
can I live?'; 'Mr. Lang, I'm pregnant.
What do I do?'; 'Mr. Lang, how can
I get into computers or be a lawyer?';
'Mr. Lang, my mother and sister go
out and I got to stay home and mind
my sister's baby. What about
school?'; 'Mr. Lang, my father comes
around and beats my mother and
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who had 24 points, beats UNC's
minutes, including a pair of three
point plays and a reverse layup that
left everyone wondering if he had
been possessed by the spirit of Isiah
Thomas.
Elliott was, well, Elliott. Though
UNC's Steve Bucknall did a good
job on him early, Elliott's combi
nation of size, speed and shooting
triumphed. In the second half, the
6-foot-8 Elliott was Arizona's floor
leader, handling the ball against the
pressure and constantly creating
offensive opportunities with his
drives to the basket.
Elliott had 14 second-half points
to finish with 24, and also dished
off three assists after intermission.
"In the first half we didnt play
like we wanted to," said Elliott, a
junior. "In the second half, when
we came out in the pressure
defense, instead of being tentative
we took it right at them and were
aggressive."
Arizona's offensive aggressive
ness, though clearly a response to
its lackadaisical first-half showing,
also fed off its defensive aggressive
ness. The Wildcats switched from
a zone to a man-to-man after
halftime.
They played tough on the ball
takes her welfare money. Can you do
something?'; and even a phone call:
'Mr. Lang, it's no use. I'm calling to
say I love you and to say goodbye.
I'm going to jump out the window.' "
Without the program, 75 percent
of inner-city minority students drop
out of school, Lang said. He esti
mated that with the program, 90
percent earn high school diplomas.
"This is an incredible consequence
of caring," he said.
Corporate sponsors hire or appoint
a full-time project coordinator to
work with the students by tutoring
them, counseling them, and planning
social, cultural and recreational
activities.
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Steve Bucknall on a Sunday drive
and soft away from it, picking up
the tempo while maintaining a
presence in the lane to slow UNC's
J.R. Reid and Scott Williams, who
finished with just 10 and 13 points,
respectively.
The Tar Heels responded by
going cold from the field. UNC did
a reasonable job of working for the
open shot, but could get nothing
to drop. UNC finished the second
half 9-for-29 from the field, and
after Reid followed his own miss
to put UNC up 4443 at the 13:37
mark, UNC hit just two field goals
the rest of the way.
"We all had some very good
shots that normally drop for us,
but they just didn't," said UNC
guard Jeff Lebo, who was 3-of-9
from the field, including O-of-4 in
the second half. "I thought we
could have moved without the ball
better in the second half against the
man."
And while the Tar Heels were
playing a discordant tune, on the
clanging rim, the Wildcats began
hearing nothing but the sweet swish
of nylon.
Reid's hoop gaye'UNC its last
See ARIZONA page 7
to college
"To each child the sponsor brings
a stable and caring relationship,
committed for at least the next 10
critical years," he said.
The project coordinator guides the
student in achieving his dream, which
is defined at the beginning of the
project.
"The sponsor takes it seriously and
encourages the dreamer to take it
seriously and is there as a continuing
cheerleader," Lang said. "With time,
our dreamers begin to see themselves
not as outcasts, but as members of
the total community."
The I Have a Dream program is
See DREAM page 3
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