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Montross Taken Ninth Overall,
Looks to Revive Boston Celtics
BY JAMES D. WHITFIELD
SPORTS EDITOR
UNC center Eric Montross seemed to
be a lock to go to Sacramento when NBA
commissioner David Stem approached the
podium to announce the eighth pick in this
year’s draft.
But when the Kings passed on the 7-
foot, 275-pound Tar Heel, the Boston
Celtics took full advantage of the opportu
nity.
Boston, with the very next pick, took
Montross and hailed the Indianapolis na
tive as the right man in the right place to
don the famed kelly green uniform of the
Celtics.
“We did get our man,” Celtics head
coach Chris Ford said. “I think fans are
going to like him.”
Boston, who likely will lose longtime
center Robert Parish this Friday to free
agency, needed help in the front court
desperately.
“He filled a need,” Boston head scout
Rick Weitzman said. “We had a glaring
Holman Convicted of Manslaughter for Defending Son
BYLYNN HOUSER
CITY EDITOR
HILLSBOROUGH —Jurors delivered
a verdict of voluntary manslaughter last
week in the trial of George Holman Jr.,
who killed 19-year-old Kevin “Buck”
Nickens last June after Nickens repeatedly
threatened his son.
The verdict came late Friday after less
than four hours of deliberation. Jurors could
have chosen first-degree murder, second
degree murder, voluntary manslaughter or
not guilty.
Orange County Superior Court Judge
Gordon Battle sentenced Holman to the
minimum sentence of six years in prison
and said he would recommend him for
work release. Holman could be eligible for
parole in 12 to 18 months.
Voluntary manslaughter carries a sen
tence of six to 20 years.
Holman, 43, testified that he thought
Nickens was going for a gun when he
begged Nickens outside the Carrboro
Burger King to leave his son alone. The
threats had started several months earlier
when Holman’s son, GJ, then 17, dated
Nickens’ former girlfriend while Nickens
was in prison on drug charges.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl
need at the center position and we filled it
with a quality player.”
In Montross, the Celtics get an extremely
strong and physical player to bolster the
front court.
“I feel my strengths are: I have a good
low-post game and I am strong enough to
go against the top centers in the league,”
Montross said.
However, what may have caught the
Celtics’ eye is an unexpected jump shot.
“He surprised me (at his workout),”
Ford said. “One of the things he wanted to
do was to demonstrate to us that he could
hit the 15-foot jump shot. We asked every
one when they came in if there was some
thing they wanted to showusandheshowed
us that. He also has the Jack Sikma turn
around shot.”
Even UNC head coach Dean Smith
praised Montross’ shooting ability.
“He can shoot the ball very well, ” Smith
said, “which is something that may not be
as well-known because we (UNC) wanted
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Fox tried to convince the jury that Holman
had overreacted to a squabble between the
two young men and had taken the law into
his own hands.
“Lots of young people talk a big game, ”
Fox said. “He carried a gun, sure. But you
never heard, in all the bad stuff you heard
about Kevin Nickens, that he ever shot
anyone or killed anyone.”
Fox questioned Holman intensely about
points that suggested premeditation.
“You placed three guns in the front seat
of your car and didn’t anticipate using
those weapons?” Fox asked incredulously.
“Do you deny that at the time you saw
Kevin Nickens at Burger King, in your
mind, either you were going to have to
bury your son or you were going to bury
Kevin Nickens?”
But public defenders James Williams
and Robert Trenkle built their case around
Nickens’ barrage of threats that turned a
devoted father into a terrified man who
acted upon his basic instinct of survival to
protect his family.
The defense presented several witnesses
to testily about Nickens’ history of violent
behavior and Holman’s easy-going char
acter and devotion toward his son.
One male juror, who asked to remain
anonymous, said the feet that no one had
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THURSDAY, JULY 7,1994
Freshman Overflow Expected in Fall
BYRACHAEL LANDAU
STAFF WRITER
More than2ooincoming freshmen have
no clue where they will be living in the fall
or who their roommates will be.
This year’s freshman class enrollment
exceeds last year’s enrollment by more
than 200 and, for the second year in a row,
not all of the incoming freshmen have
University Housing assignments.
About 240 students who did not get
their contracts in by the May 2 deadline do
not have housing assignments as of last
Thursday, said A1 Calarco, assistant hous
ing director.
The housing department plans to assign
those freshmen to temporary rooms in 20
ofthe 29 campus residence halls. The hous
ing department plans to convert study
rooms, TV rooms and lounges into tempo
rary rooms rather than assign students to
triples and quadruples as they did last year.
“It’s easier to accommodate students in
common space, and it’s less of a hassle for
all students than putting them in triples
Brown Brings Activist Past to High Faculty Post
BYKELLYRYAN
EDITOR
In the 19705, as a University of Ken
tucky undergraduate, Jane Brown was as
signed to cover the school’s faculty coun
cil.
What she recalls of the experience is
that it was different from everything she
knew and understood —so different that it
drew her away from a career in news re
porting.
Now, the UNC journalism professor
has again found herself sitting through
faculty council meetings. This time, not as
a reporter, but as the boss.
“I was an activist, and we were involved
in political organization,” Brown said of
her college days. “We were trying to make
a difference in anti-war activities. The fac
ulty council had different tactics than did
activists. Icouldn’ttell if anything was ever
getting done.”
Brown, whose term as chairwoman of
the Faculty Council began Friday, is re
placing anthropology Professor Jim Pea
cock in the three-year post.
About 75 people serve on the council,
which means that every member repre
sents about 25 faculty members. Brown,
who also directs graduate studies in the
School of Journalism and Mass Commu
nication, was selected as chairwoman April
22 over English Professor Townsend
Ludington and Frank Wilson, professor of
surgery and division chief of the depart
ment of surgery in the School of Medicine.
The Faculty Council is a self-governing
representative body of the faculty. To be
most effective, Brown says, the group must
take on a more expansive role to effect
change in the state rather than just within
the UNC community.
For example, the council has been ac
tive in Raleigh during the General
Assembly’s short session to lobby for com
petitive salary hikes for all state employ
ees.
Brown credited her predecessor with
having freed up faculty to speak out about
their concerns, adding that she hoped to
build on the tradition of open communica
tion. “I’d much rather work with other
people,” said Brown, who does all of her
contradicted testimony about Holman’s
peaceful nature probably had had the most
influence on the jury ’ s decision. “He wasn’t
a mean, vicious or violent person and had
been leading a pretty decent life,” the juror
said after the verdict.
He said a few jurors had been skeptical
that Holman had fired the shots in self
defense, but they had ruled out first- and
second-degree murder because the state’s
evidence failed to convince them other
wise.
Instead, they all agreed on voluntary
manslaughter, which involves either act
ing in the heat of passion with adequate
provocation or using excessive force in
self-defense.
One female juror, who also asked to
remain anonymous, said she saw no over
riding factor in the decision. “Several dif
ferent things made that decision reason
able, not just self-defense,” she said.
Holman worked 14yearsasabus driver,
except during Chapel Hill Transit’s slow
summer months, when he worked as a
brick mason and taught his son, GJ, the
trade.
The murder occurred during a week of
vacation he took between his bus-driving
and bricklaying jobs. He testified that after
drinking at several relatives’ houses, he ran
and quadruples,” Calarco said.
The housing department was able to
accommodate last year’s overflow with
permanent housing by the end of Septem
ber.
Both Calarco and Jim Walters, director
of Undergraduate Admissions, said they
expected the freshman class to shrink be
fore the fall.
Last year, about 240 students who had
paidtheir enrollment deposits changed their
minds about comingto UNCbetween June
1 and the beginning of classes.
The overflow shouldn’t amount to a
significant problem, Calarco said, because
137 students have canceled in the last three
weeks, which brings the number of
roomless students to the current total.
This freshman class size decrease is the
result of several factors. Many students
pay deposits for more than one school
while they are still deciding where they
want to go, said Sha-Ron Jones, assistant
director of Undergraduate Admissions.
Another reason the class size is subject
to change is the cancellation of housing
research with a team of colleagues. “Two
heads are better than one. There are so
many great heads around here.”
Part of Brown’s job is to make council
meetings as productive as possible. She
also is in charge of the executive commit
tee.
But her most important job responsibil
ity is a symbolic one— representing all
faculty members’ interests. She plans to
use her lunch times over the next three
years to meet with faculty members.
“One of the things the University is
faced with now is how we present our
selves to the public,” she said. “As the new
chancellor comes in, we need to look again
at who we are and who we need to be."
Brown is only the second woman to
head the council. The first was English
Professor Doris Betts. Brown has a num
ber of commitments at the University and
thinks of her new job as embodying one of
the three responsibilities she has as a pro
fessor teaching, research and public
service. “It’s an important part of public
service,” she said. “The faculty are instru
mental in how the University runs.”
About three years ago, the council
formed an executive committee to make
the council more action-oriented. Brown
wants to continue this tradition so that the
council is accountable to the faculty it
represents.
A lot of business is accomplished be
hind the scenes, which should leave more
time for interesting business at each of the
eight meetings during the year. Faculty
become council members by being nomi
nated and then voted into office by the
whole faculty.
Someofthecouncil’spriorities this year
include improving communication about
interdisciplinary work, ensuring an intel
lectual climate for the entire UNC commu
nity and promoting diversity for students
and nonfaculty in a nonthreatening way.
“It’s about learning to live in a diverse
culture,” she said. “We can’t keep our
heads in the sand. We are many different
cultures, and we need to learn how to live
together.”
Brown has been with UNC for 17 years.
Brown was 27 when she was first inter
viewed for a job at UNC. After the inter-
into Nickens when he went to play pool on
North Graham Street.
When he asked Nickens to drop the
feud with his son, Nickens blatantly threat
ened within earshot of police officers to kill
his whole family, Holman testified.
This left Holman terrified. He already
had spent months trying every way he
knew to protect his son. He had changed
his son’s routine, asked others to talk to
Nickens and even taken out a warrant on
him after he shot at the younger Holman’s
car.
He said that after driving home in shock,
he had decided to go back and try to reason
with Nickens again. He said he had placed
a .22-caliber pistol, a .380-caliber pistol
and a 12-gauge shotgun on his front seat.
“Something said I’d better take my guns
because you never know what his friends
might do,” Holman said.
But when Holman saw his son at The
Pantry on Jones Ferry Road, his son talked
him into going back home. The drive to
their home on Old School Road took him
directly by the Burger King, where he saw
Nickens in the parking lot.
Holman said he had thought he’d try
talking to him one more time.
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contracts because students move to apart
ments or Greek organizations or drop out
of school.
The size of the freshman class might
also affect class registration, but Donald
Jicha, associate dean of the General Col
lege, said he would not know definitely
until the final number of freshmen came in.
“I’m sure we’ll have to add sections,”
Jicha said. “The question is where and
when.”
The General College office is currently
waiting to hear from all of the freshmen
who said they were coming to the Univer
sity.
“We don’t really look at the importance
of the numbers, though, until preregistra
tion in late July, early August,” Jicha said.
After the final numbers are in, Jicha
said, the General College office will take a
look at the demand for classes, especially
foreign language, math and English classes.
If there is more demand than available
sections, Jicha will add more sections, de
pending on funding and professor avail
ability.
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Journalism professor Jane Brown focuses much of her research on media
effects and is the second woman to head the Faculty Council. Her new job on
the council will force her to reduce her teaching load.
view, she remembers thinking she would
be willing to come to UNC regardless of
what the University could pay her.
One of the most pressing issues the
University faces is the two-year
reaccreditation process. UNC is reaccred
ited every decade, a process that allows the
University to examine itself critically and
raise issues about its intellectual climate.
Although the Faculty Council isn’t in
volved in an official capacity, it might co
sponsor a fall retreat to discuss the report
UNC professors have prepared for the
Southern Association of Colleges and
Schools, a national accreditation agency.
The council also is looking at an inter
nal assessment of faculty salaries and how
money gets distributed internally. Most
University salary increases are atleast partly
merit-based, which means that departmen
Anti-PC Faculty Group Hopes
To Provoke Campus Debate
BYTHANASSISCAMBANIS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
A newly formed faculty group plans to
rekindle campus debate over issues of affir
mative action, minority recruitment, aca
demic integrity and “political correctness. ”
A small group of professors has formed
a UNC chapter of the National Associa
tion of Scholars, a national academic group
based in Princeton, N.J., that fights politi
cal correctness movements on campuses
across the country.
“I would like to see policies that give
priority to political ends changed.... The
bureaucrats, all they care about is being
politically right. Half the time, they don’t
care which direction it is,” said Eric
Schopler, an award-winning psychology
professor and a charter member of the
UNC scholars group.
According to Schopler and other mem
bers of NAS, the group strives to keep
academic debate on campuses thriving and
free from intimidation.
The group opposes quotas for hiring
minorities and admitting students, but
members said they supported other mea-
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Foreign language class sections are most
often added because most students try to
complete their language requirements in
their first semester at UNC. The General
College is reluctant to add a class unless
enough students have requested it to en
sure the section will be filled.
The number of class sections the Gen
eral College plans for is based on the pro
jected numbers of students the Undergradu
ate Admissions office determines.
Walters said the admissions office sets
out each year to enroll 3,300 students, but
not fewer. The University Enrollment
Management Commission, which studies
the University’s enrollment and enrollment
trends, established this number.
“It’s a struggle any admissions officer
faces, to estimate numbers and bring them
in as close as we can,” he said.
The increase in the class size comes
from the 4 percent increase in the number
of students who took the offer to come to
UNC and paid their deposit. Walters said
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tal discretion determines who gets what
money.
Brown hopes that the next three years
will mean continued student involvement
via student government reports to the coun
cil. Students brought concerns to the coun
cil about the faculty advising program,
which is being changed in the fall.
Brown said she would like to see more
faculty involved in the continuing discus
sion about the Sonja H. Stone Black Cul
tural Center.
Brown’s role in the community is not
limited to her own. Her husband, Jim
Protzman, was elected to the Chapel Hill
Town Council in November after a suc
cessful campaign Brown worked on.
Brown lives in Chapel Hill with
Protzman; his son Alex, 17; and their
daughter Lily, 4.
sures to increase diversity on campuses.
“We are not against exceptions for mi
norities that have been underrepresented, ”
said Robert Young, an English professor at
N.C. State University and vice president of
the statewide NAS affiliate.
The state chapter was organized earlier
this year. The UNC chapter elected its
officials in April at its first official meeting.
At the University, about 15 faculty mem
bers have joined the group, including
Schopler and John Shelton Reed, the well
known director of the Institute for Re
search in Social Science.
Paul Haskell, a law professor and chair
man of the UNC chapter, refused this
month and last month to speak to the press
or discuss specific plans and goals for the
UNC scholars.
A series of articles in The Raleigh News
& Observer in June, including a June 16
Barry Saunders column personally accus
ing Haskell of being a “fascist,” have
prompted several letters to the editor and
have formed the sole publicity the group
has received so far.
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