'"I'llnihhl,,,,||,|,,|,„111 WILS 06/20/95 WILSON LIBRARY N C COLLECTION UNC-CH CHAPEL HILL **CHWIL NC 27514 Chi’ Cawia Cimes JLUME 94 - NUMBER 2 DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA - SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 2015 TELEPHONE (919) 682-2913 PRICE: 30 CENTS White House: Scalise as No. 3 says a lot about who GOP is “I’m (KKK Leader) David Duke without the baggage’” Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday events on page 2. ( Republican Congressman Steve Scalise By Nedra Pickier |WASHINGTON (AP) - The White House on Jan. 5 ided into a controversy over revelations that the House’s ). 3 Republican spoke to a white supremacist group 12 ars ago, saying who the GOP has in leadership “says a t about who they are.” White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest repeatedly id Scalise once described himself as “David Duke with- it the baggage.” A reporter for the New Orleans Advo- te newspaper said Scalise made the remark to her as he as starting out in the Louisiana Legislature nearly 20 ars ago. Scalise’s office did not immediately respond to Ils for comment. Earnest said it’s up to Republicans to decide whether : retains his position. “There is no arguing that who Re- iblicans decide to elevate into a leadership position says lot about what the conference’s priorities and values e,” Earnest said. “We’ve also heard a lot from Republicans particularly /er the last few years, including the chairman of the Re- iblican Party, about how Republicans need to broaden eir appeal to young people and to women, to gays and i minorities, that the success of their party will depend 1 their ability to broaden that outreach,” Earnest said. >0 it ultimately will be up to individual Republicans in ongress to decide whether or not elevating Mr. Scalise to leadership will effectively reinforce that strategy.” The Democratic National Committee and the Demo- atic Congressional Campaign Committee also issued atements attacking Scalise as Democrats sought to fan ie controversy a day before Republicans formally as- imed control of Congress. “As the new Congress be ns, nothing discredits Republican claims of outreach id bringing people together more than their decision to :ep Steve Scalise at the top tier of the elected leadership f their caucus,” said DNC Chair Rep. Debbie Wasser- Number of those fired in UNC grades scandal remains fuzzy By Emery P. Dalesio RALEIGH (AP) - Officials at North Carolina’s flagship university may fire fewer staffers for their role in an academic fraud scandal than University of North Carolina at Chapel Hi 11 Chancellor Carol Folt previously described. University officials last week named three UNC-CH professors or academic counselors who were dismissed, in line for firing, or resigning since Oct. 22, the day that a scathing report into the long-running cheating scandal was released. Folt previously said hours after the report was released that four were slated for termination. School officials have refused to clarify the discrepancy. “Someone may have misspoken at some point. That is a possibility,” UNC-CH spokesman Rich White said. The report by former U.S. Justice Department official Kenneth Wainstein described a pattern of fake classes, which allowed 3,100 athletes and other students to earn artificially high grades from 1993 to 2011. , “We have terminated or commenced disciplinary actions against nine university employees,” Folt said Oct. 22 in describing her reaction to the report’s findings. Asked by The Associated Press how many of the nine were being fired, Folt said: “four at this point... we’re proceeding with severing, with separation.” . . . Minutes earlier, Tom Ross, president of the 16-campus University of North Carolina system, said: “I will take steps to initiate one addi tional personnel action involving an individual formerly employed on this campus, now employed at another UNC campus. Ross was referring to Beth Bridger, one of the UNC-Chapel Hill football counselors named in the report as steering players toward the bogus classes, who lost her job at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington the day the report was published, spokeswoman Joni Worthington said this week. It’s not clear whether Folt was thinking of Bridger when she said four “university” employees were slated for dismissal, or if there were moves to fire one of the six other UNC-CH employees being reviewed for possible disciplinary action. “Of the employees referred to by the Chancellor during the October 22 news conference, six were designated to undergo a review for consideration of any disciplinary action,” campus lawyer David Parker said in a statement released last week seeking to settle a lawsuit by The Associated Press and nine other media organizations. The litigation came after UNC-Chapel Hill officials said they weren’t required to produce records of dismissed or demoted employees until staffers finished appealing the decision, a process that could take years in some cases. Parker this week referred questions about the discrepancy to White, the school’s associate vice chancellor for communications. The campus last week promised to quickly disclose decisions on whether or not to impose penalties on the six unnamed UNC-CH employ ees as those decisions are made, Parker’s statement said. The media groups filed their lawsuit because North Carolina’s public records law requires state agencies, including public universities, to make employee records available. That includes dismissal, suspension or demotion records. Court-ordered mediation of the lawsuit led to statements last week by Parker and Folt, who identified philosophy professor and former fac ulty leader Jeanette Boxill as one of those slated for firing. Boxill is appealing Folt’s decision and has not responded to requests for comment. Boxill directed women’s basketball players she advised into the fake courses, at least twice sought to influence the grades given to students, and acknowledged sometimes editing student papers, the Wainstein report said. Parker also disclosed that Timothy McMillan resigned. He was a senior lecturer in the Department of African, African American and Diaspora Studies, the renamed department where a retired administrator orchestrated and a retired chairman allowed the pattern of no-show classes and generous grades. Parker also said UNC-CH academic counselor Jaimie Lee was terminated, which was previously reported. an Schultz. The controversy was sparked last week when a liberal ouisiana blogger uncovered Scalise’s speech to a 2002 ouisiana convention of the European-American Unity id Rights Organization, which called itself EURO. For- ler Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke founded the group, hich the Southern Poverty Law Center has classified as hate group. Scalise moved quickly to distance himself from the roup, saying he opposes its views. As a state legislator tthe time, Scalise said, he didn’t have much staffing and idn’t always know details ofthe groups he was invited to idress. He said the speech was a mistake he now regrets, nd party leaders have backed him. Louisiana’s Republican governor, Bobby Jindal, de luded the congressman in response to the White House 'iticism. “I don’t think it would be smart for the Republican inference to take advice from this White House,” Jindal aid in an interview with The Associated Press. “Steve’s good, decent man. I continue to support him. I know his eart. He’s not a racist.” The North Carolina NAACP, Forward Together Moral Movement, and Clergy Representing Many Faiths Will Gather at the N.C. General Assembly RALEIGH, NC: The North Carolina NAACP, Forward Together Moral Movement, and religious leaders representing the diversity of the Movement will gather in the General Assembly on Wednesday, January 14th, the eve of Dr. King’s birthday. They will call on members of the North Carolina Senate and House of Representatives to pursue a moral agenda in the 2015 legislative session. Although the NC NAACP’s request for talks with government leaders was ignored last year, the NC NAACP, Forward Together Moral Movement, and religious leaders will try again to meet with leaders of the government in person. They will hand-deliver their moral agenda, to be announced on Monday, January 12th, to each representative’s office and a delegation will seek to meet with leaders of both parties to discuss the agenda. The NC NAACP, Forward Together Moral Movement, and religious leaders will hold a news conference at 10:00 a.m. at First Baptist Church; then march to the General Assembly, and begin their preach-in and pray- in at 11:00 in the rotunda. When this service is complete, the clergy will visit the offices of representatives.

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