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A Century of Editorial Freedom
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Volume 101, Issue 53
BOT approves BCC on Coker site
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
BCC supporters have remained quiet
in the week following the UNC Board
of Trustees’ decision to build a free
standing Sonja Haynes Stone Black
Cultural Center on what has come to be
known as the Coker site.
After more than a year of turmoil
over the center, trustees on Friday ap
proved the plan for a BCC to be built on
the plot of land between Coker Hall and
the Bell Tower.
Two student BCC supporters stormed
out of the meeting, calling the decision
a “racist” act.
The BCC Advisory Board and other
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Student fees could rise sllß
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
Students could see their tuition bills
increase by 10.7 percent or more this
fall.
The UNC Board of Trustees passed a
student-fee proposal Friday that would
raise student fees by 23 percent, or
SIIB.BO, for the 1993-94 school year.
Students, who now annually pay
$515.20 for fees, would have to pay
$634.
The N.C. General Assembly passed
a budget in July that included a 3-per
cent tuition increase for in-state resi
dents and a 6.5-percent hike for non
residents.
Add the proposed student-fee hike to
the systemwide tuition increases, and
in-state students would have a total an
nual bill of $1,480, or $142.80 more
than before. Out-of-state students would
have to pay $8,522, or $610.80 more.
Student Body President Jim Copland,
a voting, ex-officio BOT member, said
the overall fee increase was too large.
Waldorf enters town council race
By Rochelle Klaskin
Staff Writer
Former mayoral candidate Rosemary
Waldorf, who placed second in the 1991
race, announced Tuesday that she
planned to vie for one of five open seats
on the Chapel Hill Town Council.
Waldorf, who has lived in Chapel
Hill since 1970, said that controlling the
town’s crime rate was one of the most
important issues for her campaign.
“I think this is everyone ’ s major con
cern. There is a growing sense of un
ease. I can’t believe that there’s nothing
we can do about it,” she said.
Since August 1992, Waldorf has
served as chairwoman on the Law En-
WEEKLY SUMMER EDITION
Thursday, July 29,1993
BCC advocates wanted the BCC to be
built on the Wilson-Dey site, the area
next to Wilson Library and Dey Hall on
the main quad of campus, not on the
Coker site, located across the street.
But science department officials also
have argued that the Wilson-Dey site is
the best location for a physical-sciences
library.
Student Body President Jim Copland,
a voting, ex-officio BOT member, said
after the meeting that he was not sur
prised by the board’s decision.
“I’m obviously disappointed. I think
the Wilson-Dey site was the best site,”
Copland said. “(But) I’m very glad that
the board confirmed its support for the
center.”
“I really feel that the administration
has jammed this down the throat of
students,” he said. “I’m not supporting
any fees that were not approved by the
students.”
At N.C. State University, students
must approve any student-fee increases,
Copland said. “The students (at N.C.
State) have been effective on policing
their own fees.”
Copland unsuccessfully tried to re
duce the proposed student-fee increases
at the BOT meeting Friday. “It’s not fair
for the students to pay for general-ad
ministration costs,” he said.
Provost Richard McCormick said the
fee increases were necessary, particu
larly after a two-year moratorium on
student fees.
“If we’re going to stay a distinguished
institution, we better bear these costs,”
he said.
But Copland said the proposed in
creases could not be justified by the
two-year moratorium of fees. “It’s like
saying you have a pay freeze for two
years, and then you’re going to have a
forcement and
Support Commit
tee. This commit
tee has consid
ered many issues,
including hiring
two additional
drug enforce
ment officers,
adding down
town lighting, se
curing rental
Town Council
properties and busting drug houses.
“I think I can help make some con
crete suggestions to the police depart
ment which would then benefit the
town,” she said.
Waldorf said she wanted to push for
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Serving the students and the University community since 1893
Trustee member Billy Armfield of
Greensboro said after the meeting Fri
day that it would have been easier for
the board to choose the Wilson-Dey
site. “The easiest decision for this board
would’ve been the Wilson-Dey site, but
it would not have been in the best inter
est of the University,” he said.
While the proposed BCC is a50,000-
square-foot building, the science de
partments could better utilize the Wil
son-Dey site, which can support a
100,000-square-foot building, Armfield
said.
“(The Coker site) is a beautiful site,”
he said. “I don’t see how anyone can
construe this as a racist decision.”
Juniors Loma Haughton and Staci
ABA: Law school finances
‘starved 5 by budget cuts
By Yi-Hsin Chang
Editor
The UNC law school is not in com
pliance with American Bar Association
standards in regards to faculty salaries
and its library and facilities, according
to a confidential letter earlier this month
from the ABA to UNC administrators.
The letter, dated July 7, was released
to The Daily Tar Heel by a confidential
source.
The letter states that the N.C. Gen
eral Assembly has “ruthlessly cut back
the budget, resulting in a substantial
erosion of the School of Law’s financial
position.”
The law school’s faculty salaries and
benefits are noncompetitive and sub
stantially below the market for compa
rable schools, the letter states.
In comparison with its peer state
supported institutions, UNC’s law li
brary ranks last in terms of collection
expenditures, according to the letter.
And the law school needs additional
space for the library as well as class
rooms and offices.
“We’re very concerned in that you
have a nationally outstanding law school
that is being starved,” said James White,
consultant on legal education to the
ABA, in a interview Tuesday.
“I hope that it’s something that the
University and the state seriously ad
dress,” he said.
White wrote the letter on behalf of
the ABA’s Accreditation Committee,
which expects a response from the Uni
versity by Oct. 1.
Law school Dean Judith Wegner said
Tuesday that the ABA was conducting
an on-going review of the law school
23-percent raise. That doesn’t make
sense. That just doesn’t happen.”
According to a May Board of Gover
nors report, UNC-CH’s current fees are
the third lowest in the 16-campus UNC
system only Fayetteville State Uni
versity and Pembroke State University
charge less for student fees.
UNC-CH also has the lowest athletic
fee at S6O per academic year and the
lowest undergraduate student-activity
fee at $112.70. At N.C. State, students
pay a SIOO athletic fee and a $172
undergraduate student-activity fee.
“Overall, our fees have been reason
able compared to other schools in the
system,” said Neal Berryman, associate
vice chancellor for finance. “(UNC
CH) is still a good value, and we’re
trying to keep it that way.”
Under the 1993-94 student-fees pro
posal:
■ The athletic fee would increase
$lO, from S6O to S7O.
■ Undergraduates would pay $6 more
See FEES, page 4
a greater police presence downtown in
Chapel Hill’s central business district,
which includes Franklin and Rosemary
streets from Henderson Street to
Carrboro.
She said she would like residents
who were walking around town to run
into a police officer on foot or bike once
or twice. “Bike patrol is super. It gives
them incredible mobility. I think it has
been a real success.”
Police officers also should be more
concentrated in problem areas of town
to deter people from committing crimes,
Waldorf said. She added that she was
concerned with the elderly and kids
See WALDORF, page 9
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Hill called the decision “institutional
racism” after they abruptly left the meet
ing after the votes were taken.
“They totally disrespected students,”
Hill said, crying. ‘No student wanted
the center to be built on the Coker
Woods site.”
Haughton added, “They still refuse
to grant that piece of land to an African-
American. That’s making me sick.”
Black Student Movement President
John Bradley said Monday that he had
mixed feelings about the decision.
“Of course, we’re happy about it,” he
said. “(But) the Board of Trustees basi
cally decided to put the BCC on a site
that no one wanted even after the
Buildings and Grounds Committee rec
for reaccreditation, a process that oc
curs at all 176 ABA-accredited schools
every seven years.
She said the UNC law school was not
in danger of losing its accreditation.
“We’ve known that these are our weak
nesses,” she said. “I’m working with
other people at the University in trying
to address them.
“I expect we’re going to get through
this fine.”
Provost Richard McCormick said
Tuesday that progress already had been
made in these problem areas through
reallocation of University funds for the
law school’s faculty salaries and librar
ies.
“We have already taken important
steps, and I think (the ABA) will be
impressed by our steps,” he said.
Wegner said that the accreditation
committee was not aware of the re
cently approved state budget that pro
vides $7.1 million for faculty salaries in
the UNC system and sll million for its
libraries.
She added that she would be trying to
obtain additional funding for the school
through the state budget, the Bicenten
nial Campaign and raising student fees.
Law students approved a $l2O an
nual fee that would go toward the li
brary two years ago that was not put into
effect because of the moratorium on
student-fee increases, Wegnersaid. “It’s
definitely something we’ re going to have
to pursue.”
The ABA establishes standards for
legal education across the country. The
lengthy accreditation process involves
a self-study by the school, visitation of
the school by a team of legal educators
and practicing lawyers, review of rel
Legislators approve
bonds bill projects
for November ballot
By Jennifer Talhelm
Associate Editor
When the voters go to the polls in
November, they will decide the fate of
state universities, community colleges,
parks and municipal water systems all
in one blow.
After two years and six months, many
arguments and some compromises, N.C.
legislators agreed on a bond referen
dum that would provide money for capi
tal construction projects for the UNC
system universities and community col
leges, loans to local governments for
water systems and improvements for
state parks.
Legislators agreed on the bonds bill
in the wee hours of the Long Session
that ended this weekend. But although
many legislators left soon afterward for
a state lawmakers’ convention in San
Diego, the issue is far from finalized.
N.C. residents will decide Nov. 2
whether the state can borrow the money
to pay for the projects.
“I believe very strongly the people
will vote for it,” UNC-system President
C.D. Spangler said.
Voters would allow the state to use
the proceeds from the sale of bonds to
allocate $3lO million for construction
projects at the 16 UNC schools as well
as $250 million to provide grants for
construction projects at community col
leges, $145 million for local govern
ments to upgrade water systems and
$35 million for state parks.
If voters approve the bonds, it would
mean millions of dollars in critical con
struction projects for UNC-CH. The
name, thought Caw. —Jack Handey
ommended the Wilson-Dey site.”
Chancellor Paul Hardin said that he
understood the frustration felt by stu
dents who wanted the BCC to be built
on the Wilson-Dey site. “I understand
young people, and I understand their
sincerity. (Hut) in time, they’ll be so
proud of (the BCC) that they’ll forget
why they were so against this in the first
place.
“I think we did the best we can do to
improve and protect this campus,”
Hardin said. “We’re not only creating a
new strength in the Sonja Haynes Stone
Black Cultural Center, we’re strength
ening the sciences.”
See BCC, page 4
evant documents and reports and on
going correspondence between the ac
creditation committee and the school.
This letter was the first of many ABA
letters and responses from the law school
that will occur as part of the
reaccreditation process.
“It’s a very deliberate due process,”
White said. “Only as a last resort do you
go to probation or pulling a school’s
accreditation.”
Very few schools are unable to re
solve concerns raised by the ABA, and
it is extremely rare for law schools to
lose their accreditation, Wegner said in
an issued statement.
Compared to peer state schools for
the 1991-92 academic year, the law
school’s median salary for assistant pro
fessors ranked 10th out of 10 schools,
the letter states. Median salaries at the
associate professor level placed 10th
out of 12, and pay for full professors
ranked ninth out of 14.
According to the letter, the school
also is at a competitive disadvantage
compared to other schools in North
Carolina. “For 1992-93, its median sal
ary for assistant professors ranks third
out of the five law schools in the state,
and its median salary for associate pro
fessors ranks fourth out of five.
“Only its median salary for full pro
fessors places within the top two in the
state, and there it lags behind the top
school by almost $21,000.”
The library suffers from inadequate
operating budgets, the letter states.
“Since the last site evaluation, law li
brary budgetary support at North Caro
lina has slipped from an unfavorable
See LAW, page 9
bill identifies five projects for the Uni
versity:
■ $13,490,900 toward anew build
ing for the Kenan-Flagler School of
Business.
■ $8,887,100 for an addition to the
School of Dentistry.
■ $8,119,900 for an addition to the
Lineberger Cancer Research Center.
■ $3,370,800f0r construction grants
to the Area Health Education Centers.
■ $1,190,400f0r phase Hof the Caro
lina Living and Learning Center for
Autistic Adults.
“This bond issue represents the fu
ture of this University,” Provost Rich
ard McCormick said. “This wasn’t a list
we dreamed up overnight.”
The bonds bill originated as a capi
tal-construction bill for the university
system. It passed through the N.C. Sen
ate last year, but the short session ended
before representatives got to it. This
year, the bonds were proposed as sepa
rate bills in the House and Senate.
Water, parks and community college
projects were added to the proposals to
make the issue more appealing to vot
ers. The House bill passed easily, but
senators disagreed about whether the
bill gave enough attention to histori
cally black universities and the commu
nity colleges.
The issue was debated until the last
days of the session when legislators
ended up compromising to wrap up in
time to leave for San Diego.
D.G. Martin, a lobbyist for the UNC
system, said legislators took the needs
See BONDS, pap 9
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D.A. to seek
death for
Simpson
By Jennifer Talhelm
Associate Editor
HILLSBOROUGH When An
thony Simpson passed Kristin Lodge-
Miller while riding his bike at dawn
July 15, he thought the young jogger
was attractive.
He looked at her, she looked at him.
Then he lunged at her, he told investi
gating officer J.D. Parks of the Chapel
Hill Police Department.
Simpson wanted “to make love to
her,” he told Parks. But she misunder
stood, Simpson said. She reached for
her mace, got free from his grip and ran.
Town mourns jogger's death 2
“I said, ‘There won’t be any trouble
unless you spray me with that mace,’”
Parks said Simpson told him the morn
ing he was arrested.
Then Simpson shot her five times,
Parks said. Wounds to the head and
chest were fatal.
And now the 18-year-old Chapel Hill
High School student, of 127 Essex Drive,
might face the death penalty.
Parks and two other Chapel Hill po
lice officers who were involved in
Simpson’s arrest and the investigation
of Lodge-Miller’s death testified at
Simpson’s probable cause hearing in
Orange County District Court Friday.
District Judge Patricia Love found
probable cause in Simpson’s case, and
he will be tried for first-degree murder
and first-degree attempted rape.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney
Carl Fox said he planned to seek the
death penalty for Simpson, who is be
ing represented by two public defend
ers. Fox said he would seek Simpson’s
indictment when the Grand Jury met
Aug. 9. Simpson’s trial most likely will
be in January or February.
Parks and other witnesses told die
grim story ofLodge-Miller’s death from
die witness stand Friday morning. The
26-year-old speech therapist was shot
dead while jogging on Estes Drive at
about 6 a.m. July 15.
Passengers in at least three cars wit
nessed Lodge-Miller’s killing that morn
ing. At die hearing, three witnesses gave
detailed accounts of the shooting.
“I was driving down the road ....
Ahead I saw a black man and a white
woman, and they appeared to be strug
gling,” said Valerie Taylor, who was
the first to witness the incident. Another
car was close behind hers.
Taylor said she realized the woman
was struggling to get free from the man’s
grip. She charged at them with her car,
holding down the hom. Taylor unlocked
the door, hoping the woman would hop
in the car.
“She was twisting and struggling,
apparendy trying to get free,” she said.
“She made a motion toward my car.”
But she didn’t get in. “I thought she
was running toward the other car,” Tay
lor said.
Anthony Brooks saw the man fire.
“There were at least four shots, I
could see the flashes,” said Brooks,
who saw the struggle with his girlfriend
from the driveway of a nearby house.
“When I heard the first shot I said to
my girlfriend: ‘Oh my God, he shot her.
He shot her.’ I could see him running
down the street firing the gun.”
Brooks watched as the man ran into
the woods and came back out again on
a black and red mountain bike. Lodge-
Miller’s body lay on the grass between
the street and the sidewalk. Blood seeped
from the wound behind her ear.
“I could tell she was bleeding very
badly from the head area,” Brooks tes
tified. “I was really a nervous wreck..”
Police arrived on the scene shortly
afterward. Off-duty Chapel Hill police
officer Carl Moraven arrested Simpson
at a church located off Elliott Road.
Moraven, who still had his police
radio on even though he was on his way
home, realized he had passed both
Lodge-Miller and Simpson on Estes
Drive earlier that morning. He returned
to the area and recognized Simpson
pedaling hard down Elliott Road.
Moraven chased him to the Church
of the Reconciliation where he found
him trying to hide his bike behind an
See HEARING, page 9
Editor’s note:
This is our last issue for the sum
mer. We’ll be back Aug. 23 with the
registration issue and begin daily
publication Aug. 25.
Ads for the registration issue are
due by 5 p.m. this Friday. The dead
line for the Aug. 25 edition is due by
3 p.m. Aug. 23.
Enjoy the rest of your summer.
Adieu.
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