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Thursday, July 7,1994
Man Gives Formal Evidence in Doctor Case
BYVTOAFOUBISTER
STAFF WRITER
A man who disputed charges against a
UNC Hospitals pediatrics resident who
pleaded no contest to a sexual assault charge
last month made a formal statement to a
Chapel Hill lawyer last week.
On Friday, the accuser’s boyfriend,
Darin Reinolds, filed an affidavit that might
bring the case against former UNC doctor
Jose Diaz back to court.
“Reinolds has come to town and has
provided me with a sworn statement, ” said
Syd Alexander, Diaz’s attorney.
Reinolds claims his girlfriend, Stephanie
West Brown of Asheboro, told him she
had made up the charges against Diaz. He
believes Brown most likely fabricated the
Youth Offenders Need Group Support
BYLYNNHOUSER
CITY EDITOR
The bullets that killed Kevin Nickens,
the teen George Holman Jr. killed last
June after Nickens repeatedly threatened
his son, were the last straw in a legal system
that couldn’t help him.
“It’s my personal opinion that the sys
tem is what failed, ’’ said a female juror who
served on the Holman trial and asked to
remain anonymous. “It failed the young
man who was killed by not saving him...
and it failed GJ (Holman’s son) when he
was threatened.”
But teens in trouble with the law have
plenty of counseling resources available to
them the problem is getting the youths
to follow through, says Donnie Phillips,
intensive services counselor with Orange-
Chatham Juvenile Services.
Phillips said it was important for par
ents to form ties with other parents. “It’s
important for parents to find someone to
identify with and get support from a group,
church, club or whatever and to form ties,”
he said. “Treatment to me is a whole lot
more than sitting in a psychiatrist’s office a
couple of times a week.”
Orange County court records show that
Nickens, 19, had more than 40 charges
against him, including drug charges, sec
ond-degree kidnapping and common-law
robbery.
A 16-year-old enters the court system
and is tried and sentenced as an adult.
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story for the money she stood to gain from
a court settlement.
Alexander said he would decide late
this week whether to file a motion to have
the charges against Diaz dismissed. “We
are going to look at Reinolds’ sworn state
ment and evaluate it and decide where to
go from here,” Alexander said.
A decision had not been made before
presstime Wednesday.
Brown has spoken to Assistant District
Attorney James Woodall, who originally
prosecuted the case. “I’ve talked to her,”
Woodall said. “She said she’d be glad to
come back to court if need be.”
Despite Reinolds’ allegations, Woodall
says, Brown still stands behind her charges
and the district attorney’s office is not con
sidering dropping charges at this point.
When youths reach that age, the court no
longer intervenes and provides counsel
ing. Phillips said, “District Court is not
social services.”
But the court still provides information
about counseling and rehabilitation ser
vices to anyone who asks. What is lacking
is a person to coordinate these services,
Phillips said. “There needs to be a youth
coordinator, maybe in the county
manager’s office, to say ‘This is what exists
in Orange County for you.’”
A coordinator would also allow agen
cies to connect and find out what the
county’s needs are, Phillips said. “A lot of
committees start and come up with good
ideas and then kind of die.”
North Carolina statutes state that once
children turn 16, parents cannot tell them
what to do, but parents are still legally and
financially responsible for whatever the
children do until they turn 18.
The juror said programs were needed to
recognize when teens like Nickens were
heading down a road toward disaster.
“We’ve lost the rehabilitation part of pun
ishment,” she said.
Phillips said this area was actually rich
in counseling resources.
“The problem I’ve observed is not find
ing information, it’s following through,”
Phillips said. “Parents will take their child
to one counseling session, and if they don’t
like it, they say, ‘We’ve tried counseling.’
“There are some inadequate people in
some places who don’t get the job done,
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Diaz was accused of entering Brown’s
hospital room, where she was recovering
from a hysterectomy, fondling her breasts
and trying to kiss her.
Janet Ward Black, Brown’s attorney,
would not return calls Tuesday.
Reinolds said his girlfriend had left their
apartment in the middle of the night with
all his possessions in a truck rented under
false pretenses. The rental truck Brown
used to remove Reinolds’ possessions has
now been returned. The truck was not
returned to the proper rental agency, but
was recovered in Kentucky.
Because the rental truck was returned
and the bill was paid, the Randolph County
sheriffs office is no longer involved with
Brown’s case.
“We’ve got no reason to be looking for
but by and large, there’s a lot out there.”
Forchildren under 16 who commit mis
demeanors, Phillips’ office looks at the
factual basis of the charges and whether
the case should go to court. Roughly half
these youths are referred to other resources
for counseling instead of going to court.
For children who do go to court, a
heavily used resource is Volunteers for
Youth, which provides volunteers to work
with teens who have been assigned com
munity service as part of their probation.
“Our job is to get kids out of situations
or change their behavior so they can live in
the community,” Phillips said.
Most problems occur when kids turn
16, said Sabrina Garcia, crisis counselor
with the Chapel Hill Police Department.
“After the magical age of 16, it’s diffi
cult to find resources,” Garcia said.
Garcia said the Chapel Hill Police De
partment Crisis Unit helped direct families
to available resources. “We respond to the
initial crisis and assess the situation and
then make referrals to appropriate agen
cies.”
She agreed that it would be wonderful if
the county had someone to keep track of all
the available resources.
Phillips said the school system had guid
ance counselors, social workers and men
tal health workers available to help troubled
teens.
Both Phillips and Garcia praised a par
ents’ support group called Tough Love.
“ It’s based on the philosophy to hold people
1 accountable,” Garcia said. “That’s diffi
cult to do because of the parent-child bond.
Parents usually deny that their child has a
problem until it’s too late.”
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her,” said Captain Richard Hughes of the
Randolph County Sheriffs Department.
“That’s all we ever had on her.”
Despite Reinolds’ claims, Hughes said
his department did not have a warrant out
for Brown’s arrest. The Asheboro Police
Department is handling the boyfriend’s
dispute regarding his possessions, Hughes
added. “I understand she was to return
some property to him .”
No one has been charged with the theft
of $50,000 worth of jewelry from Gordon’s
Jewelry Store in Asheboro, where Brown
worked for three months.
“It is being investigated by the Asheboro
Police Department,” said Tim Callahan,
manager of the store. Asheboro police Det.
Mark Tolbert, who is investigating the
case, could not be reached for comment.
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GEORGE HOLMAN will begin
serving his sentence immediately.
HOLMAN
FROM PAGE 1
When Holman pulled up beside
Nickens, the teen leaned down to the pas
senger side window and threatened to kill
his whole family, Holman said. Then
Nickens, who was known to carry con
cealed weapons, stood up and reached
under his shirt, Holman said. That’s when
Holman said he had begun firing. But no
weapon was found on Nickens.
Holman said he had thrown his guns
into University Lake on the way home.
At home, Holman kept repeating, “It
wasn’t supposed to go down like that. I just
wanted to talk to him,” testified Holman’s
wife, Delia. Holman then called the police
and waited there until they came for him,
she said.
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UNC Earns High Honors on
Prestigious ‘Who’s Who’ List
BYCHRIS NICHOLS
SENIOR WRITER
Forget what you’ve heard about ratings
slips. Forget what you’ve heard about our
fair University’s failure to purchase books.
Forget about teachers’ salary debates.
There’s one demographic group that’s
perfectly happy with what’s being done in
Chapel Hill. UNC placed fifth on the top
ten list when upper-echelon high school
students named their preferred college.
In the “Who’s Who Among American
High School Students" annual college re
ferral service, Harvard University claimed
the top spot, dethroning Duke University,
which had garnered top honorseachofthe
last two years. Duke placed second, fol
lowed by Stanford University and the Uni
versity of California at Los Angeles.
“ITie company in there is very interest
ing,” said James Walters, associate pro
vost and director of Undergraduate Ad
missions. “But notice that five of the 10 are
state universities, and I would call them for
the most part flagship universities.”
“Who’s Who” honors more than
700,000 American high school students
each year. Tobe included in “Who’s Who,”
students must have a B average or better
and demonstrate leadership in academic
areas and in extracurricularactivities. They
are nominated by teachers or civic organi
zations. “When they surveyed the students
about what are the most important factors,
SCHOLARS
FROM PAGE 1
Schopler said the NAS sought to re
move politics from academia and ensure
freedom of discussion. Current trends in
higher education resemble trends toward
conformity and suppression of dissenting
opinion in Nazi Germany, the Stalinist
Soviet Union and China during the Cul
tural Revolution, he added. “Universities
decline when politics take over.”
Although he supports increased hiring
of women and minority faculty, Schopler
said hiring standards had been compro
mised in recent years in the University’s
effort to diversify its faculty.
Provost Richard McCormick, who has
worked on various minority faculty re
cruitment drives, said the NAS could con
tribute to discussion that was occurring on
campus already.
“I’msurprisedandkindofdisappointed
that some of our colleagues would agree
that the standards for minorities are lower, ”
McCormick said. “It doesn’t exactly con
tribute to a warm welcome to our new
colleagues.”
Jane Brown, chairwoman of the Fac
ulty Council, said multiculturaiism didn’t
undermine the rigors of higher education,
but enhanced them.
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48 percent said quality of academics and
reputation,” Walters said.
Thirty-seven percent said cost, loans or
scholarships were the most important con- 1
siderations.
Walters said UNC’s affordability rela? J
tive to otherinstitutions likely hadfactored *
into the large number naming the Univer
sity,as their first choice. “I think that’s key t
in our situation here in Chapel Hill. I think
the value of an education here at Carolina >
given the cost is remarkable. ” s
Student respondents came from all!
across the country, even though UNC’s 1
out-of-state population forms a relatively [
small presence on campus.
“In-state, of course, we do extensive t
recruiting. Our recruitment out-of-state is t
modest. We do not travel a great deal.” i
Although athletic success offers UNC a r
great deal of name recognition and adver- \
rising, Walters said respondents didn’t con
sider sports programs a high priority when i
choosing their college. “Wien students i
are asked to list the primary factors in them
determining where to go to college, athlet-)
ics ends up way down the list. ” ]
About 98 percent of “Who’s Who” stu- j
dents go on to a college or university after <
graduating from high school. >
TexasA&MUniversity,the University t
ofMichigan, the University of Texas, Yale
University and Florida State University >
make up the second tier in the “Who’s ->
Who” rankings.
the ’9os without many voices,” she said.
National NAS President Stephen Balch j
said in an interview from New Jersey on
Tuesday that the seven-year-old group saw
itself as an academic reform organization.
“There are a great many things on cam
puses that should be debated and aren’t,”
said Balch, a former political science pro
fessor.
Many of the group’s 3,ooomembers are
quickly stigmatized as racist or sexist be
fore the issues they raise are even consid
ered, Balch said. “But on the other hand,
there has been a great deal of support.”
Lisa Broome, associate deanofthe UNC
law school, said publicity about the NAS
had spurred discussion within the school.
“It’s a group of people entitled to form
their group,” she said.
Broome said the NAS’ reputation had i
preceded the formation of the Chapel Hill
branch because of the organization’s high
profile role at neighboring Duke Univer
sity. She said there had been no surprise
among members of the law school faculty
over the formation of the group.
“I think it’s important that issues they’re
discussing be debated. The point of view .
represented by the group needs to be heard, ”
Broome said. , %
“Everyone here respects Professor
Haskell’s right to be involved in a group
that discusses these issues.” C