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2 Friday, January 7,1994 Burnette Misrepresents School Background Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the Dec. 9 edition of The Daily Tar Heel. BYKELLYRYAN CITY EDITOR ANDAMYPINIAK STAFF WRITER Chapel Hill-Carrboro Board of Educa tion member LaVonda Burnette, who billed herself as a UNC student during the No vember campaign, said Dec. 8 that she had not enrolled in a UNC class this semester. After receiving a tip from a local resi dent that Burnette, 23, was not a UNC student, the University Registrar’s Office confirmed Dec. 8 that no record of Burnette’s enrollment existed in UNC’s computer files, which date back to 1968. Burnette said she had called UNC and Chapel Hill High School to request that her records be restricted after she discov ered that members of Putting Children First, a parents’ watchdog group, had been asking for her high school records. Assistant University Registrar Kathy Allen said any student or former student had the right co restrict the release of data, which was normally public information. But if someone sought restricted infor mation, the registrar’s office would not say that no file existed, Allen said. “(Instead,) the caller is told that the information is restricted and cannot be released without the student’s permission.” Preview summer course offerings in the Summer School 200 Pettigrew • 966-4364 Each academic school/department has a listing of its own summer courses. Come Watch CAROLINA BASKETBALL* at 11 t SOUTH SQUARE MALL $ 2.00 23 oz. 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After talking to folks, they recommended that I start sitting in, and I bought the bocks, and I participated and what not.” In an earlier interview Dec. 8, Burnette said the name of her teaching assistant was Jeff Jones, whom The Daily Tar Heel con tacted. Jones, who was not listed in the UNC phone book, said he taught an En glish 12 section Burnette was taking. Although Jones would not give the course section number or his supervising professor’s name, he said Burnette was an excellent student. “She is an excellent stu dent —very opinionated and outspoken in class,” Jones said. But Susan Stedman, program assistant for the composition program in the En glish department, said there was no Jeff Jones teaching any section of English 12. “I’m the one who puts them on the payroll,” Stedman said. “There is no Jeff Jones on the payroll.” Burnette said in a later interview that YEAR IN REVIEW ■L School board member LaVONDA BURNETTE has not enrolled at UNC. she was willing to accept her mistake for providing false information about her class but added that she planned to enroll in a history class for the spring semester. “I do know I shouldn’t have done what I did,” she said. “It wasn’t as though I was trying to mislead the public. It took a lot of hard work to get where I am. “I haven’t done anything. It was poor Peppers Pizza A Sunny Place jI \ for Shady People ' 127-129 E. Franklin St. Downtown Chapel Hill Next to the Varsity Theater 967-7766 /)) Goldstein, M.D. announces the opening of her practice of Dermatology & Dermatologic Surgery 104 S. Estes Drive, Suite 101 f n i Call now for an appointment WHERE ARE YOU THISM^TER? Most communications from the Registrar & other campus offices come to you via the U.S. Mail. For this reason and FOR YOUR BENEFIT, PLEASE KEEP THE REGISTRAR (address and student data input office) UPDATED before, during, and after each term regarding changes to your Local, Grade/Billing, Parent/ Next of Kin Address, or other student data. Submit changes by Friday, January 14, to the University Registrar's Office, 10S Hanes Hall, Campus Box 2100, UNC-CH, 27599. Service Hours: Bam-4pm, Monday-Friday. Closed Thursdays 9-11 am. Thank you for helping us serve you better. judgment on my part. This is something that will ruin me die rest of my life.” Although the registrar’s office had no record of her, Burnette said she had taken classes through the evening college and through the Continuing Education Pro gram. She added that she had not planned to enroll in a class next semester in order to find a job, buy a car and provide some income for her child. “But right now, I feel obligated to go ahead and take a class.” Burnette denied that she had run her campaign stressing her status as a UNC student. “Running for school board and being a part of UNC has never been a part of my platform of mine,” she said Dec. 8. “It never came up during the campaign.” But one of her campaign fliers states, “(LaVonda Burnette) is a lifelong member of First Baptist Church, Chapel Hill, and she takes classes through the evening col lege at UNC-Chapel Hill.” Burnette said she had told local voters that she was enrolled part-time. She said that she gave the wrong information con cerning her TA’s name because she had been receiving prank phone calls. “I didn’t want to get anyone in trouble,” she said. “Jeff Jones does not exist. The information I gave you—l made a mistake, and I never should have given you the wrong name.” Yi-Hsin Chang and Justin Williams contributed to this article. Nike, UNC Officials Sign $4.7 Million Contract Editor's note: This article originally appeared in the Oct. 4 edition of The Daily Tar Heel. BYMICHAEL WORKMAN UNIVERSITY EDITOR UNC head basketball coach Dean Smith and University officials signed a four-year contract Saturday with Nike Inc. that calls for UNC’s athletic teams to wear the company’s shoes and apparel. Smith and the University will receive $44.7 million in cash and athletic supplies, and 24 ofUNC’ s 26 varsity teams will wear Nike gear, which will be provided free of charge. The men’s and women’s soccer teams have chosen to wear Adidas prod ucts. Nike officials have told University offi cials that the contract is the most lucrative in college sports. Athletic Director John Swofford originally had announced the agreement July 20, but the contract hit a snag when UNC-system President C.D. Spangler called for public disclosure of the pact shortly after Swofford’s announce ment. At the UNC Faculty Council meeting Sept. 10, Chancellor Paul Hardin said Smith had made a mistake by negotiating the contract without conferring with Uni MCAT LSAT Get Results With Schedules . ■ .■ You name it' We have it! For your fllll review, skilFbuild‘ng. convenience our courses meet either once practice tests and test- or twice/week. Call for exact dates. taking strategies small classes LOCGtiOtIS W&f? (5-8 students) Courses are available in Chapel Hill, * mSjg&y expert, grad level Raleigh and Greensboro Other locations instructors as demand merits! m* extr free FREE im' help Preliminary Diagnostic! curriculum 9 ized MENTION THIS AD & GET SSO OFF - continual diagnostic OF ANY COURSE OR SERVICE cTvTC™,. 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Call today and ask for dates and times a Page Net rep will be at UNC. PAGEOUT America’s Largest Paging Company 942-9115 uJl|p Saily alar versity administrators. Smith said Saturday that he had fol lowed the rules in negotiating the contract. “Paul (Hardin) made a mistake in thinking I couldn’t negotiate,” Snr h said. “I can negotiate it’s been in my contract since ’81.” Smith also said he had not wanted to make the terms of the contract public. “I don’t think it’s fair to Nike. Every contract has always been confidential,” he said. “(Other coaches) see what Carolina’s mak ing, and they want more.” The disclosure also embarrasses coaches who receive a portion of the contract, he said. Smith said he would distribute his an nual s3oo,oooNike salary among assistant coaches and staff and a fund that helps former UNC players. Nike also will make a one-time pay ment of $500,000 to Smith. Smith said he would donate the money to various chari ties but would not say which ones. Swofford said money received from the contract would go to women’s teams and academic support programs for athletes., The 24 varsity teams will receive at least _ 1,908 shoes in the first season of the con tract.
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