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JANUARY
2 The UNC football team, in its first trip
to a postseason game in six years, de
feats Mississippi State 21-17 in the Peach
Bowl before 69,125 fans in Atlanta.
3 President George Bush and Russian
President Boris Yeltsin sign START 11,
a nuclear proliferation pact that will re
duce both countries’ strategic nuclear arse
nals by 75 percent.
7 The Chapel Hill-Carrboro City Schools
are named the top district in the state
for the second consecutive year.
W Iraqi troops enter a border zone in
Kuwait and seize arms. The U.S.
threatens military action against Iraq.
N.C. Gov. Jim Hunt is inaugurated for
his second term as governor.
Allied forces launch an air strike
w against Iraq for violations of peace
terms of the Gulf War. President Bush
sends 1,200 troops to Kuwait.
M During Senate confirmation hear
1# ings,Clinton’sfirstnomineeforU.S.
Attorney General, Zoe Baird, admits to
employing Peruvian immigrants and fail
ing to pay social security taxes on their
salaries. Baird withdraws herself from con
sideration for the position three days later.
Bill Clinton is inaugurated as the
ftsl# 42nd president ofthe United States.
TheUNCwomen’sbasketballteam
fcw shocks No. 5 Maryland 85-80 in
Carmichael Auditorium. It is UNC’s first
win against a top-10 team since 1986.
SIJB Retired Supreme Court Justice
As®# Thurgood Marshall dies at age 84.
M Clinton doubles back on his cam
paign promise to lift the ban on gays
in the military by announcing his “Don’t
ask, don’t tell” policy.
Campus election campaign season be
gins with six candidates running for stu
dent body president.
M The Dallas Cowboys, four years
W 1 removed from a 1-15 campaign,
pummel the Buffalo Bills 52-17 to win
Super Bowl XXVII in Pasadena, Calif.
FEBRUARY
ICarrboro-based sex-materials distribu
tor PHE Inc.—also known as Adam &
Eve first announces its plans to expand
and relocate to Meadowlands Office Park
in Hillsborough.
4 Clinton’s second nominee for U.S. At
torney General, Federal District Judge
Kimba Wood, withdraws from confirma
tion proceedings after background checks
reveal that she hired an undocumented
Trinidadian baby sitter.
6 Tennis legend Arthur Ashe dies from
AIDS-related pneumonia. He was 49.
Ashe contracted the HJV virus from a
blood transfusion in 1983. He was the only
black man to ever win the U.S. Open and
Wimbledon.
7 UNC senior Roland Thomqvist defeats
Mike Sell of Georgia to win the ITA
Rolex National Indoor Temps Champion
ships, the third leg of the Collegiate Grand
Slam. He becomes the first Tar Heel to
capture a Grand Slam event.
9 Former Student Congress Speaker Jen
Lloyd and Jim Copland earn enough
votes to gain spots in a runoff election for
student body president.
Chapel Hill is ranked the fifth-best town
inthenationinaNormanFordbook, “The
50 Healthiest Places to Live and Retire in
the United States. ” The ranking was based
on a survey that looked at air quality, crime
and climate.
M Clinton nominates Janet Reno to
be U.S. Attorney General. She was
Clinton’s third nominee.
j|J? The chancellor’s working group
13 endorses a free-standing Sonja
Haynes Stone Black Cultural Center,
if ft Copland wins the student body
1V president race.
s® Clinton delivers his economic plan
1 i during a televised address. He says
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Euphoric fans celebrate after the UNC men's basketball team wins the national championship April fi.
the plan will trim the budget deficit by $5OO
billion over a five-year period.
Five hundred people protest PHE
m 1 Inc.’s proposed relocation to an of
fice park in Hillsborough, saying that al
though the company would bring jobs and
tax revenue to the northern Orange County
to wn, it would have a negative effect on the
community.
Students in the radio, television and
mV motion pictures department chal
lenge a proposal to combine the RTVMP
department with the speech communica
tion department for anew communication
studies department.
The Daily Tar Heel celebrates its 100th
birthday with a special centennial edition
of the paper.
<*§ll Hillsborough Board of Adjustment
officials deny PHE Inc. a permit to
relocate to the town, saying that the pro
posed office would be too close to residen
tial neighborhoods.
MA noon explosion rocks the World
Trade Center in New York, killing
six people.
The North Carolina swimming
ml squads sweep the ACC Champion
ships at Koury Natatorium.
Officers from the U.S. Bureau of
Alcohol,TobaccoandFirearmsraid
cult leader David Koresh’s Branch
Davidian compound near Waco, Texas.
Four agents are killed and 16are wounded.
MARCH
IThe Chapel Hill Town Council unani
mously approves a recall bill, asking
N.C. General Assembly officials to allow
local residents to remove elected officials
from office.
2 The BCC working group recommends
two sites —Coker Woods, between the
Bell Tower and Coker Hall, and the Wil
son-Dey site, between Wilson Library and
Dey Hall—to Chancellor Paul Hardin for
a free-standing BCC.
3 A faculty committee begins to formu
late a restructuring report for the
RTVMP department in accordance to sug
gestions in a non-University study.
4 Investigators make the first key arrest
in the World Trade Center bombing:
Mohammed Salameh, a devotee of Mus
lim fundamentalist Sheik Omar Abdel-
Rahman. Salameh was arrested after at
tempting to get the $4OO refund for the van
he rented to cany the bomb into the Trade
Center.
WDr. David Gunn is shot and killed
by a pro-life activist demonstrating
outside of his Pensacola, Fla., abortion
clinic. The alleged murderer was a mem
ber of the pro-life group Rescue America.
I|A fil The “Storm of the Century”
■■“ l"f ravages the northeastern
United States, leaving as much as 50 inches
of snow and making it difficult for UNC
students to get back for classes March 15.
MLaVonda Burnette, a 22-year-old
single mother, announces her can
didacy for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board
of Education, citing graduation from
Chapel Hill High School and her status as
a UNC student as her main strengths.
6*9 The AIDS Service Agency of Or-
I# ange County is denied federal fund
ing to build a six-person group home in
Carrboro. The agency istolditcanreapply
for a grant in June.
Michael Seagroves shoots and kills
15-year old Jamal Elliot, whom
Seagroves found attempting to steal a mo
torcycle from his garage, sparking a debate
over how much force is appropriate to
defend one’s property.
MT.J. Jaworsky becomes UNC’sthird
NCAA individual champion by
beating Penn State’s Cary Kolat in the 134-
pound division in Ames, lowa.
Jkjl Stephanie Lawrence hits a 3-pointer
m I with 5.6 seconds remaining in over
time to lift the UNC women’s basketball
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team to a 74-73 win against Alabama in the
second round of the NCAA Tournament.
The TarHeelslaterlosetoTennessee in the
Sweet 16.
Duke loses. Bobby Hurley’s career ends.
Mike Krzyzewski cries. But somehow,
someway, life manages to go on.
The Russian legislature votes to strip
Boris Yeltsin of his power, sending a clear
message that Parliament, not a president,
should have control over the country.
3/LIE Deadheads descend on
mrrmv Chapel Hill to see the Grate
ful Dead play a two-night stint at the Smith
Center.
*}A The Academy Awards ceremony
mV provides some surprises. Clint
Eastwood wins best director, and his
“Unforgiven” wins best film. A1 Pacino
finally picks up a best actor award for
“Scent of a Woman,” and Emma Thomp
son wins another first with her best actress
statue for “Howards End.”
APRIL
2 Students supporting a free-standing
BCC begin a sit-in in South Building
demanding that Hardin speed along the
deliberations.
5 UNC beats Michigan 77-71 at the
Superdome in New Orleans to win its
third NCAA Championship, and second
under Dean Smith. Donald Williams is
named the Final Four MVP after scoring
25 points against both the Wolverines and
Kansas.
Chapel Hill Mayor Ken Broun bets
Ann Arbor Mayor Liz Brater that the Tar
Heels will win the national championship.
Because Brater loses the bet, she is forced
to wear a UNC T-shirt to the next Ann
Arbor City Council meeting.
Chapel Hill police begin searching for a
suspect in a hit-and-run accident that oc
curred after the Tar Heels’ championship
win. Greensboro resident Navdeep Singh
Dhesi is seriously injured in the late-night
incident on Church Street.
MRev. Jesse Jackson visits UNC and
shows support for the BCC struggle.
Jackson encourages students to continue
the protests.
The Hillsborough Board of Adjustment
again denies PHE Inc. a site-plan applica
tion to relocate in Hillsborough,
it ■* Sixteen students are arrested in
13 Hardin’s South Building office dur
ing a BCC rally. A Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City School teacher also is arrested.
WL.A. police officers Stacey Koon
and Laurence Powell are convicted
on federal charges that they violated the
civil rights ofblack motorist Rodney King.
MAt least two people are shot in a
small riot on West Franklin Street
while about 2,000 look on. The shootings
occurred at about 7 p.m. and involved
automatic weapons.
WThe Waco Branch Davidian com
pound begins to bum after ATF
officials bombard the compound with tear
gas and punch holes in the walls. The fire
eventually kills more than 80 cult mem
bers, including leader David Koresh.
Jill Rev. Leon White, pastor for United
m I Church of Christ in Vance County,
anoints the Wilson-Dey site as a “holy”
site and claims it for the BCC.
Chapel Hill police arrest Durham
mv resident Theodore Edward Mosier
in connection with a hit-and-run accident
that occurred April 5 after the Tar Heels
won the national championship.
More than 300,000 rally in Washing
ton to demand equal rights for homosexu
als. It is one of the largest demonstrations
ever held in the nation’s capital.
M Former N.C. State men’s basket
ball coach Jim Valvano dies ofbone
cancer. He was 47. Valvano led the
Wolfpack to the NCAA title in 1983. He
resigned in 1990 and became an ESPN
color commentator. Valvano continued
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Chancellor Paul Hardin awards President Clinton with an honorary doctorate of law on University Day, Oct. 12.
working for the network until a few weeks
before his death.
sl|| Clinton nominates Lani Guinier to
few bechiefoftheJusticeDepartment’s
civil-rights division. A month later, Clinton
withdraws the nomination after a national
uproar over Guinier’s unconventional
views on minorities.
Tennis star Monica Seles, the
world’stop-rankedwomen’stennis
player, is stabbed during a changeover in
her quarterfinal match against Magdalena
Maleeva at the Berlin Open.
MAY
6 At Hardin’s request, Orange-Chatham
District Attorney CarlFoxrecommends
that charges be dropped against the 17
BCC supporters arrested in South Build
ing.
ti(| The Cat’s Cradle closes its doors on
13 West Franklin Street.
AA The 275th and final “Cheers” epi
mat sode airs after 11 seasons and quite
a few beers.
AC The Seawell Elementary School
m 3 Head Start program is issued a pro
visional license and a $450 fine for charges
of child neglect.
All Syracuse’s Matt Riter scores the
w I game-winning goal with eight sec
onds left to give the Orangemen a 13-12
victory against the UNC lacrosse team in
the NCAA Championship at College Park,
Md.
JUNE
3 A man was fatally shot in the Carrboro
Burger King parking lot in Carrboro’s
first homicide in 18 months.
The season of summer blockbusters
begins with the opening of Steven
Spielberg’s “Jurassic Park.” Dino-mania
makes the film the highest-grossing of all
time.
AA John Paxson’s 3-pointer with just a
■Sill few ticks on the clock lifts the Chi
cago Bulls to their third-straightNßAcham
pionship. The Bulls, led by playoff MVP
Michael Jordan, beat the Phoenix Suns in
six games.
All The Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of
m 1 Education supports a proposal to
distribute condoms at Chapel Hill High
School as part of an AIDS-prevention plan.
A A Lorena Bobbitt, a Manassas, Va.,
(6© manicurist, chopsoffherhusband’s
penis with a kitchen knife. Bobbitt accuses
her husband of submitting her to years of
physical abuse.
A A U.S. cruise missiles hit Baghdad in
■ill retaliationforwhattheUnitedStates
claims was a Hussein-backed plot to mur
der former President Bush.
Min a report to Hardin, the Buildings
and Grounds Committee recom
mends the Wilson-Dey site as a more ac
ceptable site than Coker Woods for the
BCC.
4A The Los Angeles Lakers draft former
%rlr UNC forward George Lynch with
the 11 th pick in the first round of the NBA
draft.
JULY
6 PHE Inc. is granted an appeal to move
to Hillsborough.
8 New Jersey’s attorney general names
Hardin in a mismanagement suit in
volving Mutual Benefit Life Insurance Cos.
Hardin was a member of the company’s
board of directors.
9 The N.C. General Assembly approves
a 3-percent tuition increase for in-state
students and a 6.5-percent increase for out
of-state students.
NASCAR driver Davey Allison
crashes in his helicopter while try
ing to \h dat the Talladega (Ala.) Speed
way . He dies the next day. Allison’sbrother,
Clifford, passed away after a fatal crash at
Michigan International Speedway.
W Early morning jogger Kristin Lodge-
Miller is shot and killed on Estes
Drive after an attempted sexual assault.
Chapel Hill High School student Anthony
Georg Simpson, 18,isarrestedandcharged
with first-degree murder and first-degree
attempted rape. Orange-Chatham District
Attorney Carl Fox later decides to seek the
death penalty for Simpson.
MThe AIDS Service Agency of Or
ange County reapplies for a federal
grant to build a six-person group home at
the intersection of Robert Hunt Drive and
Greensboro Street.
A A Deputy White House Counsel
■V VincentFosterJr.isfounddeadina
Virginia park after apparently committing
suicide.
A A The UNC Board of Trustees ap
■'*! proves the construction of a free
standing BCC on the Coker Woods site
after two hours of discussion behind closed
doors.
AUGUST
3 The body of James Jordan, father of
basketball star and UNC graduate
Michael Jordan, is found floating in a
swamp near Bennettsville, S.C. Two N.C.
men later are charged with James Jordan’s
murder.
6 Congress passes President Clinton’s
$496 billion deficit reduction bill.
The UNC-system Board of Governors ap
proves an increase of $92.80 in student fees
for UNC-CH after a two-year moratorium
on fees.
9 Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss is ar
raigned in Los Angeles on pandering
and drug charges. She claims that she will
reveal the names of some of her big-shot
clients.
WThe Senate confirms Clinton’s
nomination ofßuth Bader Ginsburg
for the Supreme Court. Ginsburg becomes
the second woman to serve on the nation’s
highest court.
MUNC graduate student Charles
Tyndall Herring Jr. is arrested and
charged with shooting a Carrboro man
Herring says tried to steal his bicycle.
A A California police search pop star
mm Michael Jackson’s Neverland Val
ley Ranch for evidence after a young boy
accuses Jackson of sexually abusing him.
A A Stephen Birdsall, dean of the Col
mv lege of Arts and Sciences, dissolves
the RTVMP and speech communication
departments and creates anew communi
cation studies department.
AE The freshman class of 3,500 breaks
mV UNC enrollment records. About
120 female residents are placed in triple
occupancy rooms originally designed for
only two people.
All Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Uni
*© versify police start a Chapel Hill-
Carrboro Crimestoppers hot line to in
volve local residents in stopping the up
ward spiral of violent crime.
AA The UNC football team defies
■w tradition by downing Southern Cal
31-9 in the Disneyland Pigskin Classic in
Anaheim, Calif. In the process, the Tar
Heels unveil two new faces in the faces in
the backfield, Curtis and Leon Johnson,
who trudge on to 1,000-yard seasons.
A A David Letterman returns to late-
WV night television with a $42 million
contract from CBS. The most notable
change is the renaming of Larry “Bud"
Melman to his original moniker, Calvert
DeForest.
Aji Hurricane Emily brushes by the
© I N. C. coast and veers northward af
ter causing a fair amount of damage to the
Outer Banks and beaches.
The local Head Start program, located
at Seawell Elementary School, meets the
highest state standards and is issued anew
license after facing charges of child neglect
and operating with a provisional license.
SEPTEMRER
7 Chapel Hill, Carrboro and Hillsborough
residents pack the Chapel Hill Town
Council chambers at a public hearing on
gun-control laws that would make the
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town’s the strictest in the state. The pro
posal arose after a morning jogger was
murdered in July and other incidents of
violent crime skyrocketed.
Arkansas pediatrician Joycelyn Elders
is confirmed as U.S. Surgeon General.
M Administrative Law Judge Brenda
Becton rules that UNC housekeep
ers may sue the University as a group. The
ruling comes 21/2 years after the house
keepers first filed a grievance.
l|A Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
•V Rabin and Yasser Arafat, leader of
the Palestine Liberation Organization, sign
a historic peace treaty during a meeting at
the White House.
BCC Advisory Board members ask the
UNC Board of Trustees to reconsider their
site decision at their next meeting.
M A grand jury drops attempted
murder charges levied against UNC
pharmacy student Charles Tyndall Her
ring Jr., who says he was defending him
self when he shot a Carrboro man trying to
steal his bicycle.
WMTV’s Kennedy comes to UNC
and hosts a variety of intellectual
pursuits such as “spew art.”
l|E Chapel Hill resident James
IV McEnery hands in 2,694 signatures
supporting the recall of Chapel Hill Town
Council member Joe Herzenberg for will
fully failing to pay state taxes. McEnery
just makes the 30-day deadline for initiat
ing a special election when he hands in
about 80 petitions to the Orange County
Board of Elections.
Maurice Julian, the longtime down
town businessman who owned Julian’s
College Shop on East Franklin Street, dies
of heart failure at age 77.
A A The new $4.5 million Student
mat Recreation Center opens. About
1,200 students visit the center on opening
day.
All Residents in six dorms vote to
m E allow 24-hour visitation of guests of
the opposite sex in their dorms. The policy,
part of a pilot program, emphasizes room
mate rights and requires residents to escort
guests to and from the residents’ rooms.
Complaints from parents, concerned citi
zens and local newspapers on the morality
of the pilot program soon follow.
A A President Clinton unveils his plan
mm for universal health care in a tele
vised address.
Forty-seven die when an Amtrak train
wrecks outside of Mobile, Ala. It is the
worst train wreck in Amtrak history.
A A Chapel Hill Town Council mem
mv berJoe Herzenberg, the only openly
gay elected official in the state, resigns his
council post after months of controversy
over his willful failure to pay state taxes
and a resident’s effort to recall him from
office.
South Africa’s parliament votes to al
low blacks to participate in the national
government and approves the creation of a
multiracial council to oversee the country’s
first universal election.
A A The UNC Board of Trustees de
mV cides not to revote on the site of the
BCC and sticks with the Coker Woods site.
The Rosemary Street Parking Deck
opens to the delight of downtown mer
chants who said the lack of parking af
fected their business. The facility offers 315
spaces and was under construction for about
four years.
AE The UNC football team breaks a
mV five-year drought against its most
heated pigskin rival, spanking N.C. State
in Raleigh 35-14. It is the first win for the
Tar Heels against the Wollpack since Mack
Brown became head coach.
A A The state drops charges against the
wlr Carrboro man a UNC pharmacy
student shot after determining the Carrboro
resident was trying to steal his bicycle.
James Earl Holeman Jr. was shot by
Charles Tyndall Herring Jr. on Aug. 11
and later arrested and charged with two
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