r i Allegations continue to mount against Schexnider XfcfiknMiMt? New allegations have turf seed at Winston Salem State regarding the misuse of Mate funds by Chancellor AJvin Tschexnider Last week. The Chronicle reported that wveral university employees and others connected to the university had reported to the state fraud hot line an incident in which Schexnider ordered state employees to transport and set up personal work out equipment in his home on April 15. - / Schexnider has since admitted that he autho rized the employees to deliver the eouipment because be lives rent-free in a S565,000 home owned by the state. He agreed to reimburse the state for the coat of the mileage, according to Aaron Singleton, director of media relations at WSSU. The chancellor ie not under investigation," Singleton said. "He never was under investigation The chancellor had Nordic Track equipment moved to a state-owned building (his residence), using state-owned trucks, He was not aware of any state policy violations, His office was informed of the complaint and he quickly addressed the com ?nt To our knowledge the issue was resolved. re is no investigation planned." However, sources told The Chronicle that Schexnidcr has committed other discretions in the past and not followed proper protocol on many different issues during his tenure at WSSU. State policy prohibit* the uac of Mate funds, Mate equipment or employees for private gain. Sev eral recent incidents could be violations of that policy. According to sources close to the university, Schexnider put in a requisition to be reimbursed for the purchase of an $1,161.75 television set for bis home that he bought from Circuit City on March 7. He received a check for it on March 8, According to state policy, any equipment pur chased by the state has to be delivered to central stores for an identification number. But in this case; it was not followed. Schexnider requisitioned S90.60 to reimburse SreWgfUonAS 4 ^ 73 c#ntf Winston-Salem Greensboro High Point vol. xxiv no. 37 z The Chronicle for s yt^cnty pub lib 7v?f Choice for African-American News and Information .-mail address: wichronOnetunlimit?d.n?t; 660 w ' ? . ?*. Reno sets stage for ' & Herman investigation By ROBERTO SURO The Waihington Pom | Attorney General Janet Reno Monday requested the appointment of an indepen dent counsel to investigate allegations that Labor Secre tary Alexis M. Herman took part in an influence-ped dling scheme while she served as a White House aide during President Clin ton's first term. The decision followed what senior officials charac terized as an agonized week- ! "one dabalc within the huHiy 4iui# M. Hwihii r Department about whether to recommend an outside pros ecutor. A preliminary inquiry found some corroboration for the allegations but, as Reno put it yesterday, "no evidence clearly demonstrating Secretary Herman's involvement.H The move by Reno, which came only minutes before the attorney general's deadline to make her recommendation to the special three-judge panel that oversees independent counsels, marks the seventh time Reno has sought an out side counsel to investigate alleged wrongdoing by Clinton or a senior administration official. Laurent Yene, an African businessman, set the inquiry in motion by claiming that Herman accepted cash and con sulting fees in exchange for arranging access to the White House and doina other favors for businessmen needing help >om the federal government. Yene also alleged that Her ,# in sought illegal campaign contributions from those busi ! gsmen to assure favorable treatment. Herman called the ! legations "false from the very beginnin" and told reporters 1/outside the Labor Department, "I am very disappointed " and extremely baffled by this decision today" In a statement, Clinton said, "I am confident that in the end. investigators will also conclude that Ma Herman did nothing wrong." During a probe lasting ISO days, the maximum permit ted by law, Justice officials were unable to resolve the credi bility of Yene's allegations but Reno decided that she was obliged to seek an outside investigation and noted that cer tain aspects of Yene's story have been corroborated. Reno's doubts about how to proceed resound through out the eight-page document she sent yesterday to the three judge panel that will now choose an independent counsel. "In the course of this investigation, we have spent signif icant time exploring the issue of Yene's credibility," Reno wrote. "While I cannot conclusively determine at this time k that Yene's allegations are credible, much of the detail of the * Ser Herman lege will be eligible for the program, which is slated to! begin in the fall of 1999. While free community-college tuition has been debate ed off the record by state politicians and educators, WickC . er's proposal marks the nrst time the program has bee re 11 given a wide audience in North Carolina. Similar plane are in place in several states including California, which,; after several years of free tuition, recently re-instituted; nominal tuition for community-college students. "A new education standard must be adopted," Wicked ? said. "One that is geared from kindergarten through af! least 14 years:;of education. Today's standard of fc! through 12 is obsolete." The additional two yean will cost an estimated Sl(h million and add more than 6,000 students to overflowing! community-college campuses throughout the state. But Wicker says, the cost is worth it. 3 . See Collages