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4The Daily Tar HeelWednesday, December 6, 1989 College press denied public information By WENDY BOUNDS Staff Writer College newspaper staff members aic uuMiaicu auuui me intuitu imvji- mation they are receiving from Univer sity police and administrators due to a federal student privacy law. Campus police and other adminis trative officials are withholding infor mation regarding student-involved crimes with the excuse that this infor mation would be in violation of the 1974 Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act, according to student newspaper staff members. The Privacy Act, more commonly recognized as the Buckley Amendment, named after its sponsor, former Sen. Mm to Ca Your Own Apartment. 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This addition was written in response to law enforcement protests that they were not able to conduct their jobs properly because they could not trans fer information around within the sepa rate law enforcement agencies. Theoretically, if the law enforce ment agencies try to release this infor mation, then it can consequently be come protected under the first section of the Buckley Amendment. If the University is found guilty of violating the Buckley Amendment, then it risks losing federal aid. This interpretation is too broad for a public university operating under pub lic funds, said Dwuan June, editor of The Technician at N.C. State Univer sity. "It is censoring the press to withhold information that the students are pay ing to know about," June said. There was one incident at NCSU in which a university official cited the Buckley Amendment in attempts to persuade members of The Technician not to publish information regarding a disciplinary hearing being conducted for NCSU wrestlers charged with at tacking a West Raleigh man. "We didn't print the story, because we thought we might be held liable," said Paul Woolverton, executive news editor of the Technician. Assuming that the Buckley Amend- W S eg Ozz w g XJ2f TBONUS : WEN WWEE TIKOY OUNCE OIF GOLP I I I M I I 1 1 1 1 1 Y I fllf II I 1 V I I I V I 1 I 1 I 1 i I II II i I I 1 fif f W 1 V 1 II II Order your college ring NOW OSTENS AMERICA'S COLLEGE RIN G December 6, 7 & 8 Wed., Thurs. & Fri. Stmideiiat Stores 9 a.m. -3 p.m. $20 Deposit Payment Plans Available VISA. ment covers activities that are not aca demically or normally student related is taking the Buckley Amendment too far, said Katherine White, assistant general counsel for the North Carolina Press Association. "Robbery and stealing are not sup posed normal activity for a student and should therefore not be included," she said. Students forfeit their privacy rights by committing such crimes, White said. "At that point, I think their crimes should become public information," White said. The UNC Police Department does not turn down requests for information regarding investigations as long as a warrant has actually been issued for the arrest of an assailant, said Sgt. Ned Comar, of the UNC police department. "We cannot release the name of a suspect simply because if he or she turned out to be innocent then we would be in a real civil bind," Comar said. "However, once a warrant has been issued then we will absolutely release the information to the press. We may ask that they not print it so that we can get our hands on him (the assailant) before he flees, but we will not with hold this information from the press." Although the Buckley Amendment still protects students who have war rants for their arrests, once a warrant is issued, newspaper staff members can go to the city law enforcement agency to get any information denied to them by school agencies. The East Carolinian, the student newspaper for East Carolina Univer sity, was told by the administration that they could not release information regarding one case about rape and another on assault because it would be a violation of the Buckley Amendment, said Stephanie Folsom, East Carolin ian editor. BOT State collects $2 Omalliomi from' back taxpayers ; By SANDY WALL Staff Writer Revenue collections from the re cently completed Tax Amnesty pro gram have surpassed the $20 million mark with more than 6,400 delin quent taxpayers filing returns before the Dec. 1 deadline, state officials said Tuesday. North Carolina's Tax Amnesty program allowed any taxpayer ow ing back taxes to pay the state with out penalty. As of Dec. 2, tax evasion in North Carolina became a felony punishable with sentences up to five years, a $25,000 fine or both. Final revenue collection figures from the Tax Amnesty program will not be released until Friday, Dec. 8, but officials with the N.C. Depart ment of Revenue said that as of noon last Friday collections surpassed the amnesty program's $20 million goal. "We're still processing mail, es pecially mail that was sent in from out-of-state," said Charles Collins, communications manager for the Tax Amnesty program. "We will not have any numbers until Friday (but) we've had a real good volume of mail." The majority of applications that the revenue department has received were from individuals, but businesses accounted for most of the program's revenue so far, he said. Officials with the Tax Amnesty program said there had been a huge, rush to beat the deadline, but they were prepared for it. "We anticipated and predicted, that," said Dewey Sanders, Tax Amnesty program manager. He added that other states that have instituted similar tax amnesty programs had, also experienced a last-minute rush!i Sanders said he was pleased with, the outcome of the program and called, it "very successful." . . An official with the State Office of. Budget and Management said he was pleased the amnesty program had surpassed its goal, but that any reve nue over the $20 million goal was not enough to offset a possible budget' crunch currently facing the state. '! "It's not enough to prevent a prob lem," said Paul Zipin, an economist with the State Budget Office. "(But) the Tax Amnesty program coming in above their projections is good." ( The 90-day Tax Amnesty program was part of a bill that increased tax evasion penalties, passed during the last session of the General Assembly, Sanders said. The bill also called for hiring 135 additional staff members for the Department of Revenue. These newly hired workers will be in charge of monitoring tax collec tions and catching tax cheats, he said, and they have been assigned to dif ferent divisions of the revenue de-; partment. from page 1 prove situations such as the small per centage of black faculty, Hardin said. "We are sensitive to, and understand as well as we can, the justified concerns of black students and faculty and others who worry about the relatively small number of black faculty at our univer sity. We will do all we can to improve the situation." Representatives from the NCBC were disappointed, but not surprised, that the reappointment was approved. "The decision is not a surprising one, it's not a shocking one," Ards said. "We've been expecting this all along. "It shows the lack of commitment (by the BOT) to truly explore all the issues. They wanted to very mechani- Meet with your Jostens representative for full details. See our complete ring selection on display in your college bookstore. Office of International Programs presents Study Abroad University of North Carolina - ChapelHill Calendar of Events Honors Semester in London Wednesday, Dec.6th 100 Murphey Hall 4:30 pm SemesterYear in Scotland & England Thursday, Dec. 7th Basement of Caldwell Hall 4:00 pm (UNC Programs & UNC Credit) cally rubber-stamp her reappointment." The fact that the BOT released a press release approving her reappoint ment before the meeting was even held shows that lack of commitment by the board, Ards said. "I really feel we have been deferred or ignored the whole semester." The administration has been unwilling to listen to the concerns of minority stu dents, she said. NCBC members have not spoken with Cell since protests began, but Ards said she hoped to speak with Cell if not before the beginning of final exams, then by the beginning of next semester. "We want to start next semester off right, and the next five years of her tenure." While Ards said she thought the protests had very little chance of stopping the reappointment, she said she hoped they would lead to the estab lishment of at least two committees aimed at solving the problems that exist. Part of the NCBC's demand is that a student advisory committee meet on a regular basis with the dean in order to sensitize her to minority concerns and tliat a council of administrators, faculty and students be established to address seriously the issues minority student leaders have discussed. 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