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IN THE NEWS
Top stones from the state; nation and world
U.S., South Korea to Hold
Joint Military Exercises
SEOUL, South Korea The political
situation on the Korean Peninsula contin
ued to deteriorate Monday under a wave of
threats, canceled talks and revived plans
for war games and Patriot missile deploy
ment in South Korea.
North Korea issued a strong warning
that it would follow through on its threat
last year to pull out of an international
nuclear controls treaty. Hours later, South
Korean President Kim Young-sam an
nounced that joint military exercises with
the U.S. would be held this year after all.
The maneuver had been canceled as part
of an attempt to coax the North into coop
erating with inspections to determine if it
was building nuclear weapons.
North Korea refused inspectors access
to a critical laboratory this month. That
prompted the International Atomic En
ergy Agency to refer the issue Monday to
the U.N. Security Council, which could
impose sanctions on North Korea.
The United States meanwhile canceled
talks with North Korea that were to have
opened Monday in Geneva. The talks were
sought by the Pyongyang government but
were canceled because North and South
Korea failed during the weekend to ex
change envoys on the nuclear issues.
Kim also said Patriot anti-missile bat
teries would be deployed—a measure that
had been postponed in an attempt to ap
pease the North, according to spokesman
Choo Don-shik.
In a letter passed through U.S. Ambas
sador James Laney to Kim, Clinton said
any North Korean invasion of South Ko
rea would be considered an invasion of the
United States, the spokesman said.
Judge Trades Whitewater
Testimony for Leniency
WASHINGTON ln the first major
development of Whitewater prosecutor
Robert Fiske’s investigation, an indicted
former judge who has linked President
Clinton to a questionable loan has reached
a plea agreement, a lawyer said Monday.
David Hale already has begun assisting
investigators and will plead guilty to two
charges at a federal court hearing Tuesday
in Little Rock, Ark.
Hale has alleged that he was pressured
eight years ago by Clinton to make a
$300,000 loan to Susan McDougal, a busi
ness partner of the Clintons in the
Whitewater real estate venture. The feder
ally backed loan went to McDougal’s pub
lic relations company, and Hale says some
of the proceeds wound up in Whitewater.
Somali Warlords to Agree
On Plan for Government
NAIROBI, Kenya After a week of
meetings and several postponements,
Somalia’s factions are expected to an
nounce an agreement Tuesday for a cease
fire and for choosing the next leaders of the
lawless, war-tom country.
U.N. spokesman George Bennett said
Monday that he was relatively confident
the agreement would be announced by
Somalia’s principal warlords, Ali Mahdi
Mohammed and Gen. Mohamed Farrah
Aidid, and the leaders of 13 other factions.
The international community has feared
that the country will revert to chaos after
most Western forces withdraw from So
malia in the coming days. Aidid and Ali
Mahdi previously have announced sepa
rate plans to set up a transitional govern
ment after foreign troops leave.
Fatal Shelling of Lebanon
Follows Killing of Soldiers
NABATIYEH, Lebanon lsraeli ar
tillery pounded southern Lebanon on
Monday, showering a school bus with
shrapnel that killed a 12-year-old girl and
wounded 22 other children, security sources
said. The shelling was in reaction to guer
rilla bombings earlier in the day that killed
two Israeli soldiers and three militiamen.
In addition to the schoolchildren, three
other civilians were wounded in the Israeli
response to the bombings, which also
wounded five pro-Israeli militiamen. Ira
nian-backed Shiite Muslim guerrillas
claimed responsibility for the bombings.
The flareup occurred as Israel and its
main Arab adversaries Syria, Lebanon
and Jordan prepared to resume the
stalled Middle East peace talks in Wash
ington next month.
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Jury to Begin Deliberating Murder Suspect’s Fate
BYLYNNHOUSER
STAFF WRITER
HILLSBOROUGH Jurors begin
deliberations today in the trial of David
Allen Sokolowski, the man accused of
murdering and dismembering his friend at
a rural Hillsborough farmhouse.
Sokolowski, 36, is pleading not guilty to
the first-degree murder of Rubel “Little
Man" Hill in March 1992. Sokolowski
said he shot Hill in self-defense.
After witnesses notified police March 9,
1992, that Sokolowski was burning body
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Paul Fearrington, a worker at Horace Williams Airport, assists Marshall Rhode in moving his Moonie single-engine
airplane. Rhode, a member of the Chapel Hill Flying Club, was preparing the club's plane for a trip to Washington.
Granville Resident to Turn In Recall Petition Wednesday
BY KIM GOINES
STAFF WRITER
Students who were petitioning last week
to recall a Student Congress representative
plan to submit the petition Wednesday to
Student Body President Jim Copland, said
Steven Sciame, leader of the effort.
Sciame, a freshman from Charlotte,
organized the effort to recall Rep. Thad
Woody, who represents Dist. 11 the
Granville Towers district.
Fraternity Men Dominate SBP Office
BY JAMES LEWIS
SENIOR WRITER
The UNC Student Code lists few quali
fications for student body president candi
dates.
You must be an undergraduate. You
must turn in a petition on time.
But statistics indicate that another quali
fication might exist for winning the cov
eted office.
Accordingto Donald Beeson, UNC Chi
Psi fraternity
alumni adviser
who recently re
signed from the
SPECIAL
ASSIGNMENTS
UNC Alumni Association, 91 percent of
the past 65 student body presidents have
been affiliated with a fraternity or sorority.
Current Student Body President Jim
Copland is a member of Chi Psi, and Stu
dent Body President-elect George Battle is
a member of Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
Since 1969, 20 out of 25 student body
presidents have been members of fraterni
ties or sororities, according to Alumni As
sociation records.
These numbers would seem to defy the
odds. In the spring of 1993, about 20 per
cent ofUNC’s 14,562 undergraduates were
affiliated with a Greek organization, ac
cording to the Office of Student Affairs.
“That percentage has remained con
stant through the years,” Beeson said.
Former student body president candi
dates say the success of candidates belong
ing to Greek organizations was due to a
number of factors.
Copland said the Greek vote was ablock
that was easy to address and mobilize.
“I wouldn’t say it’s uniquely the Greek
system,’’he said. “But it’s an easy group to
target because it is a sizable part of the
eligible voting population.”
Copland said all candidates often knew
members of fraternities and sororities who
could help them get support from Greeks.
Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.
Michelangelo Antonioni
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TUESDAY, MARCH 22,1994
parts in his yard, police searched the farm
house on Mincey Road. Officers testified
last week that they found body parts scat
tered inside and outside the house.
Before resting the prosecution’s case
Monday, Orange-Chatham District Attor
ney Carl Fox called two law enforcement
officers and an expert witness from the
State Bureau of Investigation to testify.
Fox called Maj. Donald Truelove of the
Orange County Sheriffs Department to
describe the procedures that officers used
to search for evidence in the yard and
pasture near Sokolowski’s house.
“I think he won as a joke. People voted
for him as a joke,” Sciame said.
He said he wanted to know what Woody
had actually done as a representative for
congress. It’s possible he is there just to
cancel out the votes of Joey Stansbury,
who also represents Dist. 11, Sciame said.
“All he’s there for is to vote. He’s a
puppet. And I’d like to know who’s con
trolling him,” he said. “He doesn’t say
anything in meetings, and he’s never pro
posed any amendments.”
“I think it’s common to try to have a
contact within each fraternity or sorority.”
Copland said that during the campaign,
he had contacts within most of the Greek
organizations to help raise support for his
candidacy.
But Tommy Koonce, a member of Chi
Psi and runner-up in this spring’s student
body president race, said getting the Greek
vote was no more important than getting
the votes of the other student groups on
campus.
“I don’t think it’s the fact that they’re
Greek; it’s just be
ing able to address a
large group and be
ing seen,” he said.
Bill Hildebolt,
who served as stu
dent body president
in 1990-91 and also
was a member of
Chi Psi, said candi
dates could not ne
glect the Greek
population.
“Being Greek
was not an issue in
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COPLAND is a
member of Chi Psi.
my campaign, ”he said. “But I will say that
anyone who runs an anti-Greek campaign
can’t win. I don’t think you can win an
election without the Greek vote.”
Hildebolt said he thought most voters
either were freshmen or sophomores or
were affiliated with a fraternity or sorority.
“(The freshmen and sophomores) are not
anti-Greek. And the Greeks are going to
vote against you (if you are anti-Greek).”
Melinda Manning, 1993-94 elections
board chairwoman, said that in her three
years of experience with campus elections,
she had seen a heavy turnout of Greek
voters in every election.
She added that the voters who were in
fraternities or sororities were easier to reach
than those who were not affiliated with
Greek organizations. “The candidates usu
Neither search turned up the gun that
Sokolowski said Hill tried to shoot him
with, Fox said later.
The prosecution ended by calling SBI
Special Agent Josephßeavisto testify about
his analysis of hairs taken from the scene.
Reavis said hairs taken from Hill’s head,
Hill’s hairbrush and Sokolowski’s yard
were identical.
As soon as the defense began its case,
Sokolowski stopped reading the Bible in
front of him and turned his attention to the
proceedings. Defense Attorney William
Sheffield called only one witness and read
Sciame said he wanted to make it clear
that he had no connection to Dan Dzara,
who ran unsuccessfully for the Dist. 11
congressional seat this year. The whole
effort Was giving the impression that Dzara
was a poor loser, he said. “I’mtheonewho
organized this whole thing. It was my idea,
and I spoke to Dan after I started this. He
collected a few signatures, but this has
nothingtodowithDanDzara’scampaign,”
Sciame said.
The petition had to have the signatures
ally speak at the dinner of the fraternities
and sororities,” she said. “They are very
easy to rally.”
John Moody, 1992-93 student body
president, said that if a candidate could
reach a 200-member sorority or a 50-mem
ber fraternity, that candidate had gone a
long way toward reaching the 700 or 800
votes needed to win a student body elec
tion. “My strategy was to focus more in
tensely on a small handful of houses.”
Moody said he thought it was possible
to win without being affiliated with a so
rority or fraternity,
but tapping the
Greek vote was an
easy way to get
needed votes.
“Very few issues
deal with the Greek
system,” he said.
“But a lot of times,
it’s a good mecha
nism for reaching a
lot of people.”
Hildebolt said
getting the Greek
vote was a must for
1990-91 SBP BILL
HILDEBOLT also was
a Chi Psi member.
studentbodypresidentcandidates. “Know
ing how to work that segment of the popu
lation is key because the Greeks are so well
organized,” he said. “I don’t necessarily
think you have to be one of them, but I
think you have to have them on your side
to win.”
Wayne Rash, who finished last place in
this year’s student body president election,
also was the only candidate who was not
affiliated with a Greek organization. The
last non-Greek student body president was
Rob Saunders, who served in the 1981-82
school year.
“It’s almost impossible to be non-Greek
and win,” he said. “When you’re Greek,
you’ve got such a base to work with. If you
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excerpts from Hill’s criminal record before
resting his case.
Although Sokolowski had been expected
to take the stand in his own defense,
Sheffield said the defendant had decided
against it. “I would have preferred that he
testified,” Sheffield said after Monday’s
proceedings. “But he felt he would be
tricked and confused by the district attor
ney. He didn’t feel confident that he could
tell his side of the story the way it
happened in his mind.”
The sole witness called by the defense
was Hill’s widow, Leann Hill, to verify
1994 Budget Process
Draws Mixed Responses
BYMARISSA JONES
STAFF WRITER
Congress’s allocation of student fees
Saturday and Sunday left some groups
without funds and disappointed by fund
ing processes.
Lambda, the publication of Bisexuals,
Gay men, Lesbians and Allies for Diver
sity, was entirely defunded, and members
said they thought the decision was dis
criminatory.
Dawn Prince, co-chairwoman-elect of
B-GLAD, said Student Congress mem
bersquestionedthegroup’s validity. “I just
felt from the very beginning that they were
defunding us because of who we were and
not because of how much money we were
asking for,” she said.
Prince said B-GLAD would try to pub
lish Lambda as a newsletter, but that find
ing it would be difficult.
B-GLAD itself also received less money
than representatives had requested. Con
gress allocated sß3oto the group and loaned
itsl2s forfund-raisingpurposes. B-GLAD
originally had requested $3,082.
Prince said the decreased funds would
make operating the organization more dif
ficult. She said B-GLAD would be unable
to pay for long-distance calls to groups in
of 15 percent of the district’s eligible voting
population to be valid. Sciame said they
only needed 180 signatures, but they set
their goal higher just to be safe. They got
more than 200 signatures, he said.
Woody said he wasn’t surprised that the
required number of signatures was ob
tained. “The way they presented the peti
tion to people wasn’t clear. I don’t think it
was really worded correctly. ” People didn’t
know they were signing for a recall, he
said. “Things have a way of working them-
School Board Members
Delay Action on Recall
BY KRISTEN IANEY
STAFF WRITER
Final action on the proposed recall pro
vision for the Chapel Hill-Canboro Board
of Education will be delayed until the mat
ter is further discussed between the com
munity and the board.
At their Monday night meeting, school
board members decided that because the
board would meet three more times before
the N.C. General Assembly meets May 24
for its short legislative session, there was
no reason to take immediate action.
John McCormick, Chapel Hill-Carrboro
City Schools attorney, presented the board
with a copy of the draft of the recall legis
lation. For the legislation to be considered
in the short session, local legislators must
find the draft to be noncontroversial.
The proposal states that any citizen in
Chapel Hill or Carrboro can start a petition
to initiate a recall by collecting 8 percent of
the registered voters' signatures, which is
more than 3,000 signatures.
The recall provision was proposed to
remedy the controversy that started after it
was discovered in December that board
member LaVonda Burnette was not a prod
uct of the local school system and a UNC
student as she had billed herself during the
November 1993 campaign.
School board members decided to pur
sue a recall petition so the power to remove
members would fall into voters’ hands.
Burnette said Monday night that she
was concerned that3,ooo signatures would
be too easy to get and that any disgruntled
resident could try to remove any board
member. “There’s a national movement to
take over school boards,” Burnette said.
“Every decision we make will be scruti
nized, notthatit shouldn’t. This isn’t some-
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statements she previously had made to
police officers about her husband’s violent
nature.
She told the court that she never had
heard the men argue. “Half the county
couldn’t stand (Sokolowski), but Little Man
did,” she said.
Hill testified that she and her husband
were convicted of drug charges when they
lived in Winston-Salem. “It was posses
sion of quaaludes and possession of LSD,”
she said. “He got five years. I got six
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other cities, which constitute a large por
tion of their activities.
Prince said the funds were limited fur
ther by a rider stating that money must be
used specifically for the purpose for which
it was allocated. She said that although the
postage allocation was greater than neces
sary, the group would not be able to supple
ment their insufficient office supplies ftinds
with the extra money.
Prince said outgoing B-GLAD Co-chair
man Trey Harris had met Sunday night
with Co-chairman-elect Patrick Willard,
Treasurer-elect Dave Dombrosky and her
self to discuss the insufficient funding. She
said they would meet again tonight to
address the problem.
Congress Speaker Wendy Sarratt said
some members voted to defiind Lambda
because they were concerned that the
publication’s content served group mem
bers rather than the University community
as a whole.
She said the fact that Lambda did not
publish issues during the past year also
decreased theirsupportincongress. “When
we review budgets, if someone hasn’t used
money for something they were allocated
it for in the past, their case is not as strong. ”
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selves out, or at least I hope. But I admire
them for their persistence."
Sciame said he arranged to submit the
petitions Wednesday to Copland.
Copland said he wasn’t sure yet exactly
what the next step in the process would be
and he has not set a date for thevote. “Tobe
honest, I haven't even looked at that sec
tion of the code yet, and I’m not going to
until I get the petitions,” he said.
Sciame said he would run in the recall
election if no one ran against Woody.
thing that will just wash over after tonight.
It will continue.”
Because the school board’s decision will
have a lasting impact, the board needs to
very carefully consider all aspects of the
provision, including the 8-percent figure
and the state school board’s opinion, said
school board member Sue Baker.
The Rev. Gene Hatley, president of the
Chapel Hill-Carrboro branch of the
NAACP, said, “Although this bill may, at
first glance, appear to extend democracy,
on closer analysis it concentrates power in
the hands of a small group.”
Burnette, a vice president of the local
branch of the NAACP, also urged the
board to consider the long-term results of a
recall provision. “Please just don't see this
as a ‘get-rid-of-LaVonda-Bumette’ deal.
This is too crucial of an issue to be looking
through tunnel vision.”
School board member Judith Ortiz said
the board would have to justify spending
tax dollars for recall elections brought about
by suchdisgruntledresidents. But she added
that she thought Chapel Hill-Carrboro
voters were more astute and trustworthy
than to start unnecessary petitions.
Community activist Alan Belch said the
school board should drop the proposed
recall legislation to avoid extra costs to the
community. “The school board should use
existing state law to remove LaVonda
Burnette.”
Existing state law gives local school
boards the power to investigate and re
move members they deem to have acted
with “immoral or disreputable" conduct.
In other business Monday night, school
board member Ruth Royster announced
that she would not be able to complete her
second term because she was relocating to
Connecticut.