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Legal expectations
differ, study shows
What Americans expect of their le
gal system and how the courts actually
work are very different, two University
law professors concluded in a new study.
Americans look to the law to solve a
wide variety of personal and social
problems, but the law has become a
limited-purpose institution based on
rules, according to a study titled "Rules
versus Relationships." The study's au
thors were professor John Conley and
adjunct professor William O'Barr.
Conley and O'Barr based their study
on 446 small claims cases in North
Carolina, Pennsylvania and Colorado.
The study found that people who
often expect the law to correct broader
social problems than it is designed to
address are disappointed by the techni
cality of the legal system, do not un
derstand differences between criminal
and civil proceedings, and consider their
cases to be self-evident without requiring
much debate, among other findings.
Seminar to assess
Frank Porter Graham
Columnist Ed Yoder wjll be a featured
speaker at a Dec. 8 day-long seminar
here on former UNC President and U.S.
Senator Frank Porter Graham. Yoder
will discuss Graham and his role in
Southern politics.
Other scheduled speakers at the
seminar, which will be 9 a.m.-4 p.m.,
are: Gus Burns and Julian Pleasants of
the University of Florida, co-authors of
a new history of Graham's 1950 sena
torial race; William Friday, president
emeritus of the UNC system; William
Leuchtenburg, William R. Kenan pro
fessor of history at UNC; and William
Snider, former editor of the Greensboro
Daily News.
The seminar, "Frank Porter Graham:
A Reassessment," is the last in an
"Adventures in Ideas" series sponsored
by the Program in the Humanities and
Human Values of the College of Arts
and Sciences in conjunction with the
UNC General Alumni Association.
Classes about AIDS
scheduled for spring
The University's Health Affairs Di
vision will offer one-, two- and three
hour classes of an AIDS course to stu
dents of all fields of study next spring.
The course, "AIDS: Principles,
Practices and Politics," will feature four
UNC professors and guest speakers in
its exploration of the fatal disease and
its ramifications. A patient panel,
composed of AIDS sufferers, will de
scribe personal experiences with the
immune system disease.
The class, which will meet on Mon
day at 3 p.m., is being offered for the
third year. It is supported by Pew
Rockefeller of the Public Health Pro
gram. Interested people should contact
Dr. Inge Corless, assistant nursing
professor.
Professor publishes
book about bishop
UNC history Professor Robert Miller
has published a biography of Garfield
Bromley Oxnam, a prominent former
bishop of the U.S. Methodist Church.
The book, "Bishop G. Bromley
Oxnam: Paladim of Liberal Protestant
ism," describes Oxnam's involvement
in political, diplomatic, economic and
social issues. The book is published by
Abingdon Press of Nashville, Tenn.,
and was commissioned by the United
Methodist Church's Council of Bishops.
Miller presented the book this month
to the Wesley Theological Seminary in
Washington, where Oxnam's remains
are buried.
Ceramic-plaster mix
speeds bone repair
The University's Dentistry School
has developed a new method of replacing
bone tissue lost to disease or illness that
is helping dentists and plastic surgeons
treat patients.
The method involves inserting a
medical grade of plaster of paris as a
temporary framework to hold strong
ceramic particles in damaged areas. Over
time, the plaster dissolves, leaving the
ceramic particles encased in a network
of collagen fibers and, eventually, new
bone.
The procedure has been reported safe
after six years of follow-up.
UNC oral surgeon Bill Terry; Dr.
Cecil Lupton, a former UNC oral sur
geon; Dr. Jacob Hanker, professor of
dental research and biomedical engi
neering; and technician Wallace
Ambrose share a patent on the procedure.
CampM
on hold
By STACEY KAPLAN
Staff Writer
Renovations of the Campus Y origi
nally scheduled to begin in October
have been delayed until spring because
of budget cuts, Ben Tuchi, vice chan
cellor for business and finance, said
Monday.
Some of the money needed to fund
the renovations was shifted to prevent
layoffs in the College of Arts and Sci
ences, he said.
Gene Swecker, associate vice chan
cellor for facilities management, said
original renovation plans were projected
to cost $652,000, but only $493,000
would be available. The plans need to
be changed to conform to the smaller
budget, he said.
Tuchi said he asked several Univer
sity officials to suggest within 30 days
ways to reduce the renovation costs.
Work should begin by spring, he said.
The recommendations will be made
by Swecker; Donald Boulton, vice
chancellor for student affairs; Gordon
Rutherford, director of facilities plan
U.S. Circuit judge attacks federal
By BRIAN GOLSON
Staff Writer
U.S. Circuit Court Judge David
Sentelle humorously attacked RICO,
the federal fraud and racketeering act
that was created to prosecute Mafiosi
figures, at the UNC School of Law
Monday.
A group of about 100 students and
faculty attended Sentelle's speech
"RICO: Its Use and Abuse in Civil
Litigation".
"RICO is like the monster in a low
budget horror film who was created by
a well-meaning, but bunglin, scientist,"
he said.
By attempting to get the Mafia out of
legitimate business, the U.S. Congress
became the bungling scientist that cre
$1.50 fee increase sent
to student
By JENNIFER MUELLER
Staff Writer
Student Congress members voted
Monday night to put a referendum on
the spring ballot to raise undergraduate
student fees by $1.50 to benefit intra
mural sports teams.
The money raised would go to the
Sports Club Council, which funds club
sports at the University. Rick Satterlee,
assistant director for the Sports Club,
said he anticipated the club soon would
be supporting 32 activities. The Sports
Club needs more money to support the
teams, he said.
"(The clubs) are competitive sport
teams that represent the University,
much as the varsity clubs do," Satterlee
said. "They do not, however, have the
support that these clubs do."
Satterlee said that the estimated
$7 1 ,000 the Sports Club Council would
have to work with, including money
from the fee increase, would go toward
catastrophe injury insurance and athletic
training, as well as equipment.
Some congress members expressed
concern that the increase in IM-REC
funds would replace independent fund
raising by the individual clubs. But
membership fees would still be required
from all members of club sports,
Satterlee said.
Also, Congress failed by one vote to
pass a bill that would make residency
requirements for election candidates less
stringent. Under the proposed bill, stu
dents would have been able to run for
Student Congress seats in districts in
which they were not presently living
but planned to move into the following
semester.
Deer smashes through Davie Hall
window, dies after being hit by bus
By APRIL DRAUGHN
Staff Writer
A young buck jumped through a glass
window in the north section of Davie
Hall and then ran onto Cameron Avenue
where a chartered bus hit it, according
to Chapel Hill police reports.
Mark Hollins, a professor in the
psychology department, said he was in
the Davie Hall lobby Nov. 16 about 5
p.m. when the buck jumped through the
plate glass window.
"I heard the noise, and then I turned
around and then saw it sort of scrambling
to its feet," Hollins said.
Hollins then went out the Davie Hall
entrance and let the deer pass through,
he said. "It took the deer several seconds
to get across the floor," he said. "I heard
the noise and turned around and here
came the deer."
After Hollins let the deer out of the
building, the animal ran onto Cameron
Avenue and was hit by a chartered bus.
After the accident, the deer lay in the
street for a few minutes and then nobbled
to Caldwell Hall and died, Hollins said.
"It was limping and clearly badly hurt."
No damage to the bus was reported.
Y renovations put
due to budget cuts
ning and design; and Rutledge Tufts,
director of auxiliary services.
Boulton said that the building had
been condemned since 1949, but that
occupants of the building were not in
danger.
Improvements required by the state
insurance commission will be incorpo
rated into the renovation plans to add
safety features to the building, he said.
Tuchi said the windows and roof
badly needed to be replaced, and spring
and summer were ideal seasons for such
renovations.
"Because it is an historical building,
it leaves us with a greater renovation
bill than if it was a modern building," he
said.
Zenobia Hatcher-Wilson, director of
the Campus Y, said the offices would
move to the game room adjacent to the
Upendo Lounge in Chase Hall while the
renovations were being made. The or
ganization had made plans to move to
the South Campus location last summer
before renovation plans were canceled.
"We had concrete plans to maximize
ated the RICO monster. RICO destroys
American law ideals, such as federalism
and individual liberties, he said.
The act rarely is used to prosecute
Mafia figures, but is used in civil suits
against groups such as labor unions and
pro-life activists, he said. RICO is a
dangerous law because it infringes upon
group civil liberties. For example, RICO
could have been used in the 1960s to
stop Martin Luther King Jr.'s demon
strations, Sentelle said.
Sentelle is considered by many to be
on President George Bush's list of
possible Supreme Court nominees. He
is most famous for writing the majority
opinion in the Oliver North appeal,
which reduced North's sentence from
felony to misdemeanor.
y vote
Mark Shelburne, Dist. 8, who voted
in favor of the bill, said, "This opens up
congress to anyone. Denying access to
congress because they can't move is an
unfair and unnecessary stipulation."
Mark Chilton, Dist. 18, said he was
concerned someone might exploit the
system by winning a congress seat so he
or she could vote for a new Student
Congress speaker, but did not have plans
to fulfill his or her residency require
ment. Andrew Cohen, Dist. 7, said he ob
jected to the bill for different reasons.
"We are supposed to be a representative
body," he said. "This is a mockery of
the representative system."
Corey Corn well, Dist. 17, said, "If
you don't live in the district you're
running for, you can't know its issues
and concerns."
Congress also failed to approve a bill
to appropriate $200 for members of the
N.C. Student Legislator to attend the
upcoming state session in Raleigh. At
the session, delegates plan to introduce
an act to revise the budget process for
UNC-system schools.
Ginny Hewitt, NCSL delegation
chairwoman, said $200 was appropri
ated to the same number of nursing
students in a similar situation last year.
Cohen, who opposed the bill, said, "I
have a great deal of reservation about
spending students' money , on some
thing that benefits only 16 people."
Hewitt said the organization had
sponsored campus events to raise
awareness of political issues. Members
pay about $50 each month to attend
state meetings at other schools, she said.
Maureen Bronson, a post doctoral
fellow in the psychology department,
said she was in her office when the deer
was hit by the bus. "I heard this girl
scream and then I heard this big thud,"
she said.
A man jumped off of the bus and
asked her to call the police, Bronson
said. She thought the deer had been
injured before it jumped through the
window because there was a trail of
blood leading from the direction of
Franklin Street, Bronson said.
Anuradha Mannar, a junior and a
passenger on the bus that hit the deer,
said the chartered bus was returning
from an honors field trip in Durham.
Jane Cousins, Chapel Hill Police
planner, said the deer died before the
Animal Protection Society arrived.
Chapel Hill police removed the deer.
Richard King, a psychology profes
sor, said the deer did not seem to have
any injuries after jumping through the
window, but the it had broken one of its
antlers. The deer may have come to the
building through the arboretum, he said.
Bronson said, "The city police told
me they had reports of deer all day."
bod
visibility on South Campus," she said.
"We saw it as an opportunity."
Student Affairs never gave the Cam
pus Y permission to make the move
over the summer because renovation
plans were behind schedule, she said.
Moving during the middle of the
semester will not be a problem as long
as the programs and services of the
Campus Y are not disrupted, she said.
"We are not in any imminent danger
right now," she said.
Tuchi said construction companies
would bid on the project after plans
were finalized, and the Office of Busi
ness and Finance would award the
contract.
Shilpi Somaya, co-president of the
Campus Y, said she had expected to
hear a decision about the renovations
during the last few weeks.
"The board that decides has trouble
justifying spending money on a build
ing when the University has other urgent
needs," she said.
"RICO (the federal fraud and racketeer
ing act) is like the monster in a low-budget
horror film who was created by a
well-meaning, but bungling, scientist"
U.S. Circuit Court Judge David Sentelle
After graduating from the UNC
School of Law with honors in-1968,
Sentelle practiced law in Asheville for
two years. He also has served as As
sistant U.S. Attorney, State District
judge and Western District judge of
North Carolina. In October of 1987,
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Chapel Hill resident feeds dog food, goodies
to 30 masked visitors nightly from her porch
By LAURA YOUNG
StaH Writer
It is early evening and 30 pairs of
masked eyes peer anxiously into the
cozy living room of a Chapel Hill home.
Under usual circumstances, this
scenario would frighten the residents of
the house, but for Barbara Roth, a retired
chemist from Burroughs-Wellcome, this
is a daily experience. The eyes do not
belong to a gang of ruthless thieves, but
to a band of harmless raccoons she
feeds every evening.
Roth said she began feeding the
animals about 10 years ago when her
dog found two orphaned baby raccoons.
She nursed the babies and reintroduced
them to the wild and began putting food
out for the few raccoons she saw at
night.
"Gradually, the number of raccoons
that arrived on my doorstep each night
increased," Roth said. "Now I feed over
30 raccoons each evening."
Roth said she fed the raccoons large
quantities of dog food each evening.
Occasionally, she gives them an extra
treat such as a piece of chicken. She said
some raccoons even chased and ate the
moths attracted to the light in her win
dow. Although the raccoons are fairly tame,
Roth said they were skittish in the event
of a loud or sudden noise or movement.
"I have individual names for some of
them," Roth said. "But they are difficult
to tell apart sometimes."
A few of the raccoons allow Roth to
touch them, and she said she had never
been bitten or attacked by a raccoon.
Roth said she discouraged others from
touching raccoons because they could
be rabid. All of the animals differ in
PlayM
arrested for assault
after company ball
From staff reports
A development officer for
PlayMakers Repertory Company has
not worked for the theater company
since Chapel Hill Police charged him
with assault on a female and breaking
and entering Oct. 21.
Justin G. Grimes, 39, of 605 Jones
Ferry Rd., was arrested after his wife
reported that he struck her the night of
the PlayMaker's Ball.
According to police reports.
Grimes' wife said he became hysteri
cal after learning that she had danced
with a man whom Grimes did not get
along with.
Grimes could not be reached for
comment Monday.
William Massengale, Grimes at
torney, is waiting to talk with Milly
Barranger, chairwoman of UNC's
Dramatic Art Department and the ex
ecutive producer of PlayMakers, be
racketeering system
Sentelle received his appointment to
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Dis
trict of Columbia.
Sentelle spoke as part of the "John
M. Olin Speaker Series," which is
sponsored by the UNC Federalist Society.
Raccoons visit Barbara Roth's porch for dinner
"Sometimes they'll come very
close to you. They don't know to be
afraid yet.... I like to watch their
personalities and behaviors.
I like to watch baby raccoons. They
catch on to things almost
immediately."
Barbara Roth
temperament, she said.
"Some are very aggressive, and some
are quite timid," Roth said. "They are
all so different."
Roth said feeding raccoons was
generally a bad idea. The raccoons form
a dependency on the handouts, causing
them to forget how to survive in the
wild.
In addition, the handouts may cause
the raccoons to multiply too quickly in
one area, Roth said, adding that raccoons
need a hollow, dead tree to live in, and
a larger population limits living space.
"I have even seen some raccoons
coming out of storm drains," she said.
A few people have complained about
Roth's feeding the raccoons because
the animals sometimes get into the
neighbors attics or homes.
Robert Peters, a Roth's neighbor for
about 15 years, sometimes feeds the
raccoons when Roth is out of town.
Peters said he enjoyed tending and
watching the raccoons.
"Especially the little ones," Peters
akers officer
fore commenting further about the
case.
Barranger was out of town Mon
day. Gary Gambrell, a volunteer who
works in the company's development
office, said he had been filling in for
Grimes for the past six days.
Grimes was responsible for
fundraising and other duties related to
the development of PlayMakers Rep
ertory Company.
Susan Ehringhaus, the University's
legal counsel, and Sharon Broom,
public relations director for the De
partment of Dramatic Art, have re
ferred questions concerning Grimes'
employment to Gillian Cell, dean of
the College of Arts and Sciences.
Cell was out of town Monday.
PlayMakers was founded by the
University's drama department.
Thomas Goolsby, Federalist Society
president, said, "We were really happy
to get Judge Sentelle. We simply called,
and he was very happy to return to his
alma mater."
Goolsby said the Federalist Society
attempted to promote an awareness of
the principles of freedom through
speeches and symposiums. "The basic
credo of the Federalist Society is that
the state exists to preserve freedom," he
said.
The Federalist Society will present a
debate Thursday at the School of the
Law on the issue of gun control.
Members of Handgun Control Inc., and
the National Rifle Association will de
bate the issue at 10 a.m. in classroom 2
of the law school.
DTHCheryl Kane
said. "Sometimes they'll come very
close to you. They don't know to be
afraid yet."
Roth said that she enjoyed feeding
the raccoons and that she watched them
almost every night.
"I like to watch their personalities
and behaviors," Roth said. "I like to
watch baby raccoons. They catch on to
things almost immediately."
Roth said she enjoyed observing the
raccoons close up. Many of them wade
in the pan of water Roth puts on the
porch for the raccoons to wash their
food.
"They always make sure that their
food is clean," Roth said.
The raccoons take handfuls of the
food and bring it to their mouths, simi
lar to humans. Roth said.
"The raccoons have a thumb, unlike
most other wild animals, and use it
when they grab on to their food," Roth
said. "I really enjoy feeding and
watching the raccoons. They provide
entertainment for me every night."