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Ron Daniels to Speak at
UNC Housekeepers Lunch
The University community is invited to
hear veteran social and political activist
Ron Daniels speak at noon today in Room
205 of the Student Union. Lunch and re
freshments will be served.
Daniels, executive director of the Cen
ter for Constitutional Rights, will speak on
“The Housekeepers Case and the Struggle
for Economic and Social Rights.”
A non-party-affiliated candidate for
president in 1992, Daniels is the former
head of the National Rainbow Coalition
and deputy director of the 1988 Jesse Jack
son Campaign.
He writes a weekly column, “Vantage
Point," that appears in more than 100
African-American and progressive news
papers nationwide.
UNC Alumni to Address
Chancellor Search Group
The UNC chancellor search committee
will meet at 10 a.m. today in the Faculty
Lounge of the Morehead Building for an
informal presentation by current and past
leaders of the General Alumni Associa
tion.
The search committee has held open
hearings on campus for students, faculty
and staff.
But the search committee’s efforts to
hold similar statewide sessions for alumni
and interested residents have been unsuc
cessful.
Most of the business conducted after the
lunch break probably will be conducted in
a closed session.
The committee is searching for a succes
sor to Paul Hardin, who announced in
January that he planned to step down as
chancellor by June 30,1995.
Seven Faculty Members
Named Kenan Professors
Seven UNC faculty members have been
named to William Kenan Jr. professor
ships.
They are Michela Gallagher, psychol
ogy; Thomas Hill, philosophy; Arne
Kalleberg, sociology; David Lawrence,
Institute ofGovemment; Madeline Levine,
Slavic languages; Hans Paerl, marine sci
ences; and Kenneth Reckford, classics.
New Advertising Director
Selected for Student Daily
The Daily Tar Heel has hired UNC
graduate Chrissy Mennitt as advertising
director. She will begin work Monday.
Mennitt, 28, of Charlotte graduated in
1989 with a degree in journalism and mass
communication and worked at the DTH as
a student account executive and sales man
ager.
Mennitt served as acting advertising di
rector the summer after she graduated from
UNC.
Mennitt succeeds Bob Bates, who left
the DTH to join the (Greensboro) News
and Record’s advertising department last
month.
Public Health Program
Wins National Award
The UNC School of Public Health’s
executive program in health and popula
tion for developing countries recently won
the National University Continuing Edu
cation Association 1993 Certificate of Ex
cellence.
The program focused on South Asia
during its first year and attracted 13 stu
dents from four countries.
Students spent two academic terms in
India, two terms in their home countries
on field projects and a six-week summer
session at UNC.
Aimed at providing midcareer health
professionals with high-quality continuing
education in public policy analysis and
management, the program leads to master’s
degrees in pufc ,; c health or health adminis
tration.
Graduate Student Finishes
Environmental Handbook
Anyone needing environmental infor
mation can refer to a booklet entitled “A
Citizen’s Handbook of North Carolina’s
Environmental Information Sources,”
compiled by Susan Hass, a UNC graduate
student in city and regional planning.
The 87-page guide covers topics such as
river water quality, bicycle routes, wildlife,
wetlands, toxic emissions, land use, agri
culture, coastal resources, hazardous sub
stances and recycling.
The handbook costs $lO for individuals
and citizen organizations and S2O for insti
tutions, libraries and businesses.
The book can be ordered from the UNC
Environmental Resource Program and is
also available on the Internet at
sunsite.unc.edu.
14th Crape Myrtle Festival
Promotes AIDS Education
The 14th annual Crape Myrtle Festival,
a benefit for persons living with HIV/
AIDS, will hold an educational sympo
sium for the public from 7:30 p.m. until
8:30 p.m. Tuesday at the Friday Center off
N.C. 54 east of Chapel Hill.
This year’s topics will be HIV/ AIDS as
a family disease, the benefits of prevention
and the early detection of HIV in targeted
populations, and current trends in vaccine
trials.
FROM STAFF REPORTS
Rapes Make Week One of Carrboro’s Worst
BY JAMIE KRITZER
CITY EDITOR
CARRBORO A number of rapes
and other strange recent occurrences have
Carrboro police searching for a link in at
least two of the incidents and wondering
why this has happened.
“It’s definitely uncommon,” police
Capt. Carolyn Hutchison said. “I don’t
think that I’ve ever seen it this bad.”
Hutchison, who has worked at the
Carrboro police for nearly 10 years, said
last week probably had been one of the
worst statistically because of the rapes.
In the most recent incident, a 21-year
old man was arrested and charged with
two counts of first-degree statutory sexual
assault and one count of first-degree statu
tory rape early Sunday morning.
Joseph “Grandpa” Zephaniah
First Part of Streetscape
Receives Mixed Reviews
BY JAMIE KRITZER
CFTY EDITOR
As the first phase of a pilot project de
signed to replace the sidewalks and light
ing along a stretch of West Franklin Street
nears completion, business owners are giv
ing off both positive and negative vibes
about the construction.
Streetscape, a project to try to beautify
the sidewalks and make them safer for
pedestrians, was given the go-ahead by the
Chapel Hill Town Council on July 5 after
some debate.
Several merchants had hired
Hillsborough attorney Alonzo Coleman
to advise them about possible actions they
could take to halt construction in front of
their stores. One of the merchants who
hired Coleman, Lisa Marcusson, owner of
Modem Times, said they would wait to see
how the project went before deciding
whether any action would be necessary.
The first phase of the project began with
the removal of a tree in front of Ham’s
Restaurant July 8. It took place in front of
the restaurant and an abandoned building
and was due to be finished by Friday, said
Curtis Brooks, the project’s landscape su
perintendent.
In late May, town planners temporarily
postponed the project after about a dozen
merchants voiced opposition to it. Most of
those concerned were worried that it would
take too much time to complete and would
hurt their business.
Since July 8, the eight-man construc
tion crew has demolished about 100 feet of
sidewalk in front of the restaurant and has
started to move into the final stages of the
first phase.
“Demolition is going faster than we
thought because we didn’t run into any
snags,” Brooks said. “By the end of this
week, we expect to have some (pedestrian)
response as people see what the first phase
will look like.”
Stacy Franklin, manager of Ham’s Res
taurant at 310 W. Franklin St., said she had
been impressed with the construction thus
far.
“We’ve had the best lunches, saleswise,
UNC Plans to Give Millions to Campus Projects
BYROBIN SUKHADIA
STAFF WRITER
Some University programs and projects
are due to get a financial boost at the end of
the month when UNC allocates more than
$6.4 million
The money comes from state appro
priations and overhead funds and goes into
the University’s allocation fund.
“The allocations pay for those kinds of
things which benefit the entire institution
but possess no other major sources of
money,” said Wayne Jones, vice chancel
lor for business and finance. Jones serves
on the University’s allocation committee.
Under the committee’s proposal, about
$2 million would go to the Office of Infor
mation Technology.
UNC’s Point-2-Point Transportation
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Amanda Ruff reads and eats her lunch Wednesday in the Pit. Ruff is enrolled in summer school in an effort to catch up
on studies that were put on hold while she spent last year traveling.
UNIVERSITY & CITY
Bradshaw ofN-5 The Villages was accused
of raping a 7-year-old girl in an area on
Smith Level Road. The Villages are lo
cated at 1000 Smith Level Road.
Bradshaw, a cook at Hardee’s, was lo
cated and arrested without incident four
hours after the incident allegedly occurred,
according to police reports. He is being
held in Orange County Jail on SIOO,OOO
secured bond.
First-degree statutory sexual offense has
several elements. The person is guilty if the
assailant engagesinasexualactotherthan
vaginal intercouise, if it is with a child
under age 13 who is at least four years
younger than the defendant and if the de
fendant is at least 12 years old.
A person is guilty of first-degree statu
tory rape if the accused has vaginal inter
course with a child under the age 13 who is
at least four years younger than the defen
than we had before Streetscape,” Franklin
said. “The one thing I’ve learned about
Chapel Hill is that you can’t venture a
guess as to when you’re going to get busi
ness.”
Franklin said she thought the orange
netting around the area of construction in
front of the eatery pushed customers closer
to her establishment.
“People paid attention to what they are
walking by,” she added. “I’ve noticed a lot
of foot traffic.”
Some merchants without any construc
tion in front of their stores still said they
were worried about what it could do to
business.
“I personally feel like it’s just going too
slow,” said JosiahKurgat, owner ofTaxco
Silver Cos. “I believe that it will have an
effect on the number of customers who
come down here.”
Kurgat said construction would be bet
ter if it took place in the winter months of
January and February when business was
slowest.
Both Kurgat and Evy Deßenedettis,
manager of Splash Creations at 410 W.
Franklin St., said regular customers might
still come by, but that tourists would prob
ably pass them by during their construc
tion phase.
“If the sidewalk is ripped up, I’m sure it
would mess up business,” Deßenedettis
said.
The project possibly could continue into
its next two phases, barring any unfore
seen obstacles, before the first part is com
pleted, Brooks said.
“It appears now that we may do laiger
pieces,” he said. “We’re interested in com
bining the next two sections.”
Brooks added that the work crew might
split into two groups. Four workers would
complete the first phase and four would
begin work on the second, he said. But
before any of the new actions are decided
upon, town planners would confer with
merchants, he said.
Franklin said the workmen had in
formed her of what they were doing during
the two-week phase.
Marcusson said she was unhappy that
System is due to receive $525,000. UNC
libraries have been given $500,000 from
the fund pool.
Provost Richard McCormick leads the
allocation committee. Other committee
members include Garland Hershey, vice
chancellor for health affairs; Tom Meyer,
vice chancellor for graduate studies and
research; and four deans.
“The committee was appointed by the
chancellor to propose allocation,” Jones
said. “We review requests to come up with
an allocations list. The final allocations
proposal will be screened and hopefully
approved by the chancellor.”
Other allocations would include:
■ $208,000 for health and safety needs;
■ $200,000 for handicapped access
projects;
■ SIBB,OOO to the Center of Interna
dant and the defendant is at least 12 years
old. Little information could be released
because of the nature of the offense and age
of the victim, Hutchison said.
Police are continuing to investigate the
possibility that another rape and a strange
encounter that happened about two hours
apart could be related to each other.
A 22-year-old May UNC graduate re
ported that she had been lying on the couch
in the living room ofher apartment on Bim
Street around 2:30 a.m. on July 9 when she
awoke to find a black male standing near
her, police reports stated. A friend said the
front door had been left open.
The woman described the suspect as
being in his late 20s to early 30s, 5 feet 6
inches tall, with a medium build, short
hair, and wearing a light-colored T-shirt
and pants.
The man seemed surprised when the
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Van Burnett steadies a support while Cary Degraffenreidt hammers it into
place Tuesday on West Franklin Street. The crew's work is part of the first
phase of Streetscape.
the street was losing its flavor because of
the tree removal.
Marcusson said the first tree removal in
front of Ham’s had created a very hot,
bright and searing light on the stores near
the area of construction. “The disruption
(to business) has been less than we ex
pected due to the fact that there has been no
bad weather,” she said. “But the block
tional Studies;
■ SIBO,OOO to the Office of Scholar
ships and Student Aid;
■ $175,000 to the Office of Research
Services;
■ $172,000 for a campuswide
reaccreditation study;
■ $157,500 to the Center for Teaching
and Learning;
■ $146,000 to HEELs for Health
Wellness Program;
■ $117,235 to help learning disabled
students; and
■ $105,000 to the Federation of Envi
ronmental Programs.
The University took an average of 1
percent of state appropriations to contrib
ute to the fund, Jones said.
In addition, about 7 percent of overhead
receipts contributed to the allocation pool.
woman asked him to leave, the report
stated. According to the report, the woman
yelled for her roommate who was also in
the apartment, but the roommate didn’t
respond. The man turned and left without
incident, the report stated.
The woman reported the incident three
days later when she heard a similar de
scription given for the assailant in a rape
that occurred two hours later.
“It was real weird, ” the woman said in
a Tuesday interview. “I don’t know why I
didn’t come forward at first. At first, it just
seemed like a big fuss over nothing.”
The rape that might be related to that
incident occurred at 4:29 a.m. in a house
on Ntirth Greensboro Street. “He fit the
general description the victim gave in the
sexualassault,”Hutchisonsaid. “Andboth
occurred early in the morning.”
The rape victim reported that she awoke
doesn’t have the unity now that the tree is
gone.”
She said some customers had pointed
out some of the disruptions due to
Streetscape.
“To quote one of my customers, she
said that light is different since Streetscape
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One percent of the state appropriations
yielded $3.15 million and 7 percent of
overhead receipts raised $3.3 million, for a
total of about $6.4 million Jones added
that the total amount of appropriation
money roughly equaled that of last year.
Bill Graves, associate provost for infor
mation technology, said receiving $2 mil
lion was a good signal.
Most of the $2 million appropriation
would go toward the sls million task of
replacing the University’s communication
cables with a fiberoptic communications
network, he said.
The project is designed to phase out
UNC’s inefficient communications system.
Graves said, “It shows that the Univer
sity administration understands the need
to carry UNC into the next century on
technology.”
Proposed Downtown Building
Could House New Bookstore
BY JAMIE KRITZER
CITY EDITOR
Anew bookstore and several national
chain retail stores are eyeing the site of a
proposed 40,000-square-foot building on
Franklin Street.
Plans for the building—to be located at
the comer of Church and Franklin streets
where a parking lot now exists began
last October.
Antoine Puech, a general partner with
West Franklin Preservation Limited Part
nership, said construction could begin as
early as the fall and be completed by next
summer.
Puech said his firm had been in discus
sions with several people about occupying
the space. “There could be some really big
stores in there,” he said. “There are some
people with a strong interest in it.”
Puech also said a franchise restaurant
was considering moving into an existing
space in the Franklin Street level of the
pink-colored building where FGI is lo
cated. FGI might be connected with the
proposed building by an aerial walkway,
he said.
Although Puech would not reveal all of
Thursday, July 21,1994
to find the man threatening her with a
small, sharp, shiny object, Hutchison said.
She didn’t know the man, Hutchison said.
He was described by the woman as a
black male, 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall,
with short hair and some facial hair.
In another rape, which occurred at
around 1:30 a.m last Thursday in an area
near South Greensboro Street, die victim
said she knew the man who had attacked
her. “She was in the area spending time
outdoors," Hutchison said.
She added that the assailant had had a
knife and had referred to it when he raped
the victim. The victim was taken to UNC
Hospitals, treated and released.
In a fourth incident, which occurred in
the early hours of July 11, police have only
a sexual assault evidence kit, because the
victim, who was treated and released from
UNC Hospitals, has not come forward.
Lawsuit Filed
Against Fake
Psychiatrist
BY JAMIE KRITZER
CITY EDITOR
Lee H. Shoemate’s name has become
synonymous with trouble in the past few
years in the UNC Hospitals community.
But no one at the hospital or in the area
has heard from him since he resigned on
Oct. 1,1990, after officials found out he
had falsified his credentials by saying he
was a certified doctor.
Now, he is being accused again, this
time of having abused his power by ma
nipulating a patient into having forced sex
with him when he posed as a psychiatrist at
the hospital for almost a year in the late
1980s.
Rebecca Dunkley, a Person County
woman with a history of having a multiple
personality disorder, is accusing Shoemate
of having sexually assaulted and battered
her when she was a patient at the hospital.
She is also accusing him of having threat
ened to commit her involuntarily to a psy
chiatric hospital if she told anyone, a law
suit filed in Orange County Superior Court
last week states.
Shoemate, who managed to fool doc
tors and others at UNC Hospitals into
believing he was a Harvard University
Medical School graduate, had been ac
cused of wrongdoing in several other cases.
Shoemateservedonthehospital’shouse
staff as a physician for more than a year
before “the N.C. Board of Medical Exam
iners discovered that his credentials had
been falsified, ” the lawsuit states. Officials
at UNC Hospitals were informed, and
Shoemate resigned.
UNC Hospitals officials refused to com
ment Tuesday on the case.
In the current lawsuit, Dunkley alleges
thatwhile she was being treated for depres
sion and psychological illness sometime
between Oct. 10,1989, and Aug. 14,1990,
UNC Hospitals officials assigned her to
Shoemate.
On Aug. 14, 1990, the lawsuit says,
Shoemate forced Dunkley to have sex with
him against her will. He kept treating her
after the incident and told her that the
sexual intercourse had been necessary for
her rehabilitation. Shoemate also said he
would commit her if she leaked out any of
the information about the sex, the lawsuit
states.
Dunkley is suingfor in excessofslo,ooo
for compensatory and punitive damages.
Glenn Veit, a Chapel Hill attorney rep
resenting Dunkley, said that if authorities
could not locate Shoemate, the hospitals’
insurance might endup having to coverthe
bill.
“They (UNC) have a policy that covers
people who work there, presumably,” Veit
said.
Veit said he could not comment on the
case while it was under litigation, but said
he didn’t believe the case would come to
trial within a year.
The lawsuit also names several hospital
officials as defendants in the case. Among
those are: David Janowsky, chairman of
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the businesses that were looking at the
proposed site, he did confirm that some
were national chain retail stores and that
another was Wills Book Store, a local book
store chain based in Greensboro.
Puech said that in addition to Wills, he
had talked to four other stores that were
interested in a possible move into the pro
posed 40,000-square-foot building. The
building should have about 165 feet of
frontage on Franklin Street and 90 feet
along Church Street, Puech said.
The proposed $3.5 million building will
be three levels, with the first level housing
retail businesses like Wills. But Wills is the
only retail store that will not be a national
chain, Puech said.
Barry Kaiser, president ofWills, said he
was planning a move to Chapel Hill be
cause he said the market was right in the
town for books.
“Chapel Hill is a very literate town,”
Kaiser said. “It has a higher percentage of
readers; it probably has the highest per
centage of avid readers around.”
Kaiser said he had been looking into the
possibility of a Chapel Hill store forthe last
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