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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Attack on Sarajevo Leads
U.N. to Call for Air Strikes
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-
Ghali asked NATO on Sunday to approve
air strikes on mortar positions around
Sarajevo, one day after the deadliest attack
in the 22-month siege by Bosnian Serbs.
The death toll from Saturday’s shelling
of a busy marketplace rose to 68, while
three U.S. cargo planes arrived to evacuate
victims of the massacre.
A senior U.N. official in New York,
speaking on condition of anonymity, said
Boutros-Ghali sent a letter Sunday night to
NATO Secretary General Manfred
Woemer asking him to seek authorization
from NATO members for air strikes.
The strikes would be targeted “against
artillery or mortar positions in or around
Sarajevo which are responsible for attacks
on civilian targets,” the official said.
White Supremacist Found
Guilty of Murdering Evers
JACKSON, Miss. Byron De La
Beckwith, the bombastic racist who eluded
justice for 30 years, was convicted Satur
day ofmurderingcivil-rightsleaderMedgar
Evers in 1963. He was immediately sen
tenced to life in prison.
Beckwith, who escaped conviction by
two all-white juries in 1964, appeared to
smile slightly as he was booked following
his conviction by a jury of eight blacks and
four whites.
The verdict sent up a cheer among the
mostly black crowd attending the trial and
brought to a close one of the longest and
most painful sagas of the 1960s civil-rights
movement.
Sen. Hutchison of Texas
Indicted on Fraud Charges
FORT WORTH, Texas—Just months
after a landslide victory, U.S. Sen. Kay
Bailey Hutchison will stand trial Monday
on criminal charges of misusing her former
office of state treasurer and then trying to
cover it up.
Facing the possibility of conviction and
imprisonment, Hutchison, a rising Repub
lican star, has denied doing anything wrong
“legally, morally, or ethically.”
In four indictments, however, prosecu
tors from the Travis County district
attorney’s office say the real victims are
state taxpayers cheated by Hutchison.
Hutchison has been charged with using
tax dollars for her personal and political
gain when she was treasurer, a position she
held from January 1991 to June 1993.
Prosecutors say she ran political opera
tions out of the treasury, using state em
ployees and state computers on state time.
Panel Orders Disciplinary
Hearing for Tonya Harding
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.
Tonya Harding’s plea to remain on the
Olympic team took on heightened des
peration Saturday when a U.S. figure skat
ing panel unanimously found “reasonable
grounds” to believe she was involved with
the attack on Nancy Kerrigan.
The U.S. Figure Skating Association
called for a disciplinary hearing against
Harding, but stopped short of kicking her
off the Olympic team.
In Lillehammer, Norway, where the
Olympics begin Saturday, the USOC said
it was considering convening its Games
Administration Board within two weeks to
determine Harding’s status on the team.
N o changes canbemadetothewomen’s
figure skating team after Feb. 21, two days
before the start of the event.
Central European States
Agree to Free Trade lone
PRAGUE, Czech Republic—Poland,
Hungary, the Czech Republic and Slovakia
agreed Friday to form a Central European
Free Trade Zone within five years.
The agreement, known as CEFTA, was
signed in 1992, but trade ministers from
the four countries decided to speed up the
liberalization process, which had been set
at eight years.
The four nations are among the most
economically advanced of the former So
viet satellites. CEFTA, which include 65
million consumers, is seen as a preliminary
step to possible admission into the Euro
pean Union, the economic and political
association of industrialized states.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Mostly sunny; high near 60.
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50s.
ASU Student Charged in Shooting at Chi Psi
BY KRISTEN LANEY
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill police arrested and charged
an Appalachian State University student
with involuntary manslaughter Friday, a
little more than a week after his gun killed
his roommate at the Chi Psi fraternity
lodge.
William Scott Barnes, 21, of
Rockingham, turned himself in to Chapel
Hill police headquarters at 10 a.m. Friday,
said Chapel Hill police spokeswoman Jane
Cousins.
Police had waited to charge anyone in
what they had called a “suspicious” death
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5 Referendum* on Ballot
Up for Student Approval
* BYALIBEASON
STAFF WRITER
UNC students will vote on five different
referendums Tuesday as well as select a
new student body president and various
other campus officers.
Students will vote on whether to ap
prove a $3 decrease in student fees, to
indicate their pref
erence on three visi
tation policies, and
on whether to stop
requiring The
Daily Tar Heel to
have three mem
bers of its Board of
Directors ap
pointed by student
government.
They also will
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vote to amend the student constitution to
prevent members of student government
from receiving salaries or stipends, and to
formally prevent the DTH from receiving
student fees.
A referendum to reduce both graduate
and undergraduate student fees by $3 was
sponsored by Student Body President Jim
The trouble with dawn is that it comes too early in the day.
Susan Richman
Chapel Hill, North Carolina
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 7,1994
until officials received laboratory results
from the N.C. Medical Examiner’s office.
Christopher Todd Stewart, 20, of Char
lotte, was killed by Barnes’ Glock 40-cali
ber, semi-automatic weapon early Jan. 27
during a Chi Psi fraternity mixer. Bames
had purchased the gun the day before in
Boone.
Stewart and Bames were passing the
gun back and forth in a third-floor room at
the lodge, located at 321 W. Cameron
Ave., when the weapon accidentally fired,
hitting Stewart point-blank in the chest.
Bames notified police that night that
Stewart had shot himself.
Police believe that neither knew the gun
Copland. Along with the fees decrease,
students will also vote to allow Graduate
and Professional Students Federation to
receive 25 percent of student fees collected
from graduate students, an increase from
the 15 percent GPSF currently receives.
Another referendum will allow students
who live in dorms to let the housing depart
ment know which of the three visitation
policy options they would prefer to have in
their residence halls next year. The referen
dum was cosponsored by Spencer-Triad-
Old Well residence Area Governor Jody
Davis and Student Congress Rep. Andrew
Ballen, Dist. 15.
The outcome of this referendum is non
binding and will help the University hous
ing department know how much demand
there is for each option, Davis said.
Students will vote on whether they
would prefer to live in a dorm that allows
guests of the opposite sex until 1 a.m. on
weekdays and 24 hours on weekends; a
policy that allows 24-hour visitation, seven
days a week with a 72-hour cap on visita
tion; or the current policy that allows guests
of the opposite sex until 1 a.m. on week-
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was loaded because the magazine, which
holds the bullets, was not in the weapon.
Stewart and Bames haddriven to Chapel
Hill to visit some Chi Psi friends, one of
whom was present at the time of the shoot
ing. The fraternity was hosting a “bring
your own” band mixer with Phi Mu soror
ity two floors below when the accident
occurred.
Although Stewart and Bames had not
attended the party on the first floor, lab
results showed that Bames and Stewart
had been drinking the night of the shoot
ing.
“From what I understand, the person
that killed (Stewart) had a .20 alcohol level, ”
Concert Cancellations Stir Debate
BY JUDYROYAL
STAFF WRITER
After a weekend rally by local Grateful
Dead fans over the cancellation of a return
concert by the band, University and town
officials are speculating on the financial
losses and the future of the Smith Center as
a national concert venue.
The recent loss of two major concert
acts at the Smith Center hurt the local
business economy and could damage the
facility’s reputation as a national concert
venue, said Jeff
Elliott, director weal Deadheads
of the Smith Rally in Chapel Hill
Center. See Page 3
On Dec. 10,
Chancellor Paul Hardin rejected a request
for a return two-day engagement by the
Grateful Dead in March, citing conflicting
interests with a Bicentennial event planned
in early April.
The band played in the Smith Center
last spring, and Chapel Hill residents and
University students complained about the
traffic and the crowds caused by more than
1,000 Grateful Dead followers, commonly
known as Deadheads.
The following week, the Orange County
Board of Commissioners voted 3-2 to deny
a pyrotechnics permit allowing fireworks
at a planned Jan. 8 concert by Janet Jack-
Chapel Hill police Lt. Robert Frick said. “I
assume they were drinking a considerable
amount.”
Bames was released this weekend on a
$5,000 unsecured bond, Cousins said.
Bames will first appear Monday in Chapel
Hill District Court, where the date for his
probable-cause hearing will be set.
Cousins said involuntary manslaughter
constitutes engaging in actions “in such a
reckless and careless manner as to show a
thoughtless disregard for consequences or
a heedless indifference to the rights and
safety of others.”
The charge is a felony and is punishable
by up to 10 years in prison.
UNC Football Player
Arrested for Assault
BYMICHELLE LAMBETH
STAFF WRITER
A UNC football player was arrested
and charged with the assault of two other
University students Thursday night fol
lowing the UNC-Duke basketball game.
According to Chapel Hill police reports,
several witnesses saw a “black male in a
black jacket” assaulting people on East
Franklin Street during the celebration of
UNC’s 89-78 win over Duke. The suspect
was identified as Sean Lefell Boyd, 21, of
634 Carmichael Residence Hall.
Chapel Hill po
lice officer Jack
Waddell, who was
on Franklin Street
at the time, arrested
Boyd afterwitnesses
pointed him out.
Boyd was charged
with two counts of
simple assault just
after midnight and
was later released
on a s2oounsecured
bond, reports state.
He was arrested
for hitting UNC
UNC strong safety
SEAN BOYD was
arrested Thursday on
Franklin Street.
sophomores Brent Cooper and Michael
“Miki” Johnson in the face and head with
his fists during the celebration, according
to police reports. Both Cooperand Johnson
were treated and released at UNC Hospi
tals. Johnson suffered a broken nose.
Boyd, a sophomore from Gastonia,
plays strong safety for the UNC football
team and led the team in interceptions last
season. UNC head football coach Mack
Brown issued a statement Friday.
“I am aware that Sean Boyd has been
charged with hitting another person on
Franklin Street Thursday night,” the state
ment says. “Sean has informed me of this,
but strongly maintains his innocence.
“He has indicated that he was not only
falsely accused, but that the person respon
sible has turned himself in to the police.”
In his statement, Brown also said he
would not take any action against Boyd
until a court decision was made.
Chapel Hill police received information
Friday afternoon that someone other than
Boyd might be responsible for the assaults,
police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said.
She said police still are investigating the
incident but added that she did not know if
the charges against Boyd would be dropped.
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son, which was canceled as a result.
Elliott said the Smith Center had re
ceived criticism by national publications
that questioned whether or not it was really
serious about bringing in concert revenue.
“We’re perceived right now as tough to do
business with,” he said, adding that many
future performers might decide to hold
their concerts elsewhere.
Falling Revenue for the Smith
Center and Chapel Hill
The Smith Center lost between $ 175,000
and $200,000 total for the two Dead per
formances, Elliott said. He said estimates
showed that the Smith Center lost between
$60,000 and $70,000 on the Jackson con
cert. These figures only represent ticket
sales and concession and merchandise rev
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Police officials would not comment on
whether Bames was holding or fired the
gun because the case is still under investi
gation.
“The charges have to do with not only
the holding of the gun but also with the
circumstances surrounding the incident,”
Frick said. “His arrest doesn’t necessarily
mean he was holding the gun, and it doesn’t
mean he wasn’t holding the gun.”
Capt. Barry Thompson said the police
first reviewed evidence and witness inter
views and met with police legal adviser
Terrie Gale and Orange-Chatham District
Attorney Carl Fox before deciding to ar
rest Bames.
Students, Bars
Celebrate UNC
Win Over Duke
BYMICHELLE LAMBETH
STAFF WRITER
Another Duke game has come and
gone, and loyal Tar Heel fans are not
the only ones with cause to celebrate.
Not only did the men in Carolina
blue capture a victory against their arch
rival Thursday night, but local restau
rants and bars also enjoyed booming
business.
“This is probably the best night we’ve
had since (the national) championship,”
said Don Eason, owner of the North
Carolina Original Sports Bar.
Eason said his sales last Thursday
night, when fans piled in to watch the
biggame, were doublethetypical Thurs
day night business.
Other Franklin Street businesses
served large crowds eager to eat and
drink during the matchup if they
could get a table.
“We started seating people inside at
4 p.m., and at 7 p.m. we had a line
forming,” said Pete Mendenhall, gen
eral manager of Ham’s. Mendenhall
said Ham’s was so crowded that some
people were turned away.
Although no fans were turned away
fromSpanky’s, many still waited a long
time for a table, manager Kevin Brooks
said.
“We didn’t turn people away, but
we also had a reasonable wait for din
ner,” said Brooks, who said a typical
wait was about 45 minutes.
Local stores also reported an increase
in sales because of the game. Shelton
Henderson, owner of The Shrunken
Head, said eager customers were wait
ing outside his store Friday morning.
“Before we even got opened they
were all waiting outside in a line for
‘Beat Duke’ buttons,” he said.
Because the Duke game is one ofthe
most emotional ofthe season, some bar
owners took extra precautions to re
duce the risk of damage to their estab
lishments.
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enue at the Smith Center, Elliott said, and
they did not account for local business
profits from hotels and restaurants.
Sean Wilkinson, community relations
coordinator for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
ChamberofCommerce, said the Chamber
estimated that more than SBOO,OOO was
lost within the local economy as a result of
the Jackson cancellation, and the Dead
total was estimated to be two or three times
that amount.
These amounts represent spending in
restaurants, hotels and the Smith Center,
and transportation and parking, Wilkinson
said, and were based on a study by a former
UNC student Michael Applegate for his
master’s thesis in sports administration.
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