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Stiff laxly Star Hrrl J? Volume 102, Issue 57 101 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 IN THE NEWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Rockets Kill 12 Civilians Near Frontline Fighting KABUL, Afghanistan Dozens of rockets slammed into a Kabul neighbor hood on Sunday, killing at least 12 civil ians and wounding more than 50, hospi tals said. All the victims were in the Khairkhana section of northwest Kabul, where resi dents have taken refuge from front-line fighting along the south and eastern edges of the city. But Khairkhana is well within rocket range of renegade Prime Minister Gulbuddin Hekmatyar and his ally, war lord Rashid Dostum, whose forces are en trenched on the city’s outskirts. The city’s three main hospitals reported 12 dead and 52 wounded, but the actual casualty toll was almost certainly higher. Many victims never make it to a hospital. Talks to Focus On Curbing Refugee Flow WASHINGTON, D.C. The United States will only discuss curbing the grow ing exodus of refugees in its talks with Cuba, Secretary of State Warren Christo pher said Sunday, despite calls in Congress to broaden the agenda and ease the eco nomic embargo. Christopher, appearing on CBS-TV’s “Face the Nation,” said the talks, to begin later this week in New York would be limited to “the one subject where we’ve got something to talk about” the migration of Cubans to the United States. But if Cuban leader Fidel Castro is will ing to make democratic reforms, such as holding free elections, the United States would respond in a "carefully calibrated way,” the secretary added. He declined to be more specific. Former NAACP President To Unite With Farrakhan WASHINGTON, D.C. Fired NAACP leader Benjamin Chavis Jr. af firmed solidarity with Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan at a rousing Sun day service of the breakaway African- American Catholic church. Chavis also denounced the Clinton administration’s policy of intercepting Haitian and Cuban refugees at sea to pre vent them from reaching the United States. The Chavis-brokered alliance with Farrakhan was one of the issues involved in his dismissal eight days ago as executive director of the National Association for Advancement of Colored People. Chavis preached the main sermon and received a standing ovation from worship pers at the recently opened Capitol Hill Imani Temple of the African-American Catholic Congregation. Tornadoes Ravage Central Wisconsin Towns, Kill 4 BIG FLATS, Wis.—Four people were killed as tornadoes tore across Wisconsin during the night Saturday, rippingup small communities and farms. One tornado gouged a 13-mile-long swath through central Wisconsin and turned this small town’s main street into a tangle of metal, lumber and trees. Damage from the tornado in Adams County, where Big Flats is located, was estimated at $4.5 million, Sheriff Robert Father said. Twenty-two people were injured and fiveremainedhospitalizedSunday, Father said. A tornado in Eau Claire County in western Wisconsin killed a 3-year-old girl when a trailer home was blown into a ditch. Teens Accused of Jordan Murder to Appear in Court LUMBERTON The two teenagers charged with robbing and killing the father of former NBA superstar Michael Jordan could learn this week if their lives will be at stake when they go to trial. Lany Martin Demery and Daniel Andre Green, both 19, will be inßobeson County Superior Court on Monday for a hearing before Judge Gregory Weeks. Both are accused of having killed James Jordan while he napped in his car on a Lumberton roadside last July. During the hearing, Weeks is expected to set rules governing how the media cov ers the case and to set tentative trial dates, among other things. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Partly cloudy; high 92. TUESDAY: Partly cloudy; high 88. Investigation: Auditor Failed to File Reports . j' ~ W..MM. ----- ••; ■-■ Chalking in Circles Laura LaChina completes her work on lyrics from Paul Simon's 'Flowers Never Bend With the Rainfall' Friday in the Pit. LaChina said she was bored between classes and enjoyed watching people trying to figure out what she was doing. DIH/KATIE CANNON Old Scapegoat Replaced By New Computer System BYVIDAFOUBISTER STAFF WRITER Scapegoat, the old desktop publishing system provided by student government for use by several student groups, has been completely replaced and renamed. The new system, called the Student Government Desktop Publishing System, was purchased and installed by the Office of Information Technology in early sum mer. In addition to owning the equipment, OIT will be responsible for the mainte nance of the new system. “Our purpose was to provide a service to student government and groups affili ated with studentgovemmentthatrequired desktop publishing, ” said Jim Barnett, com puter consultant at OIT. Student government is responsible for allocating access to the student groups who use the system and forprovidinga location for the system. The failures of the old system, which was nonfunctional for most of last year, limited the number of publications put out by the student groups who depended on it. “The Lambda and Black Ink only pub lished once or twice last year because of the old system’s failures and the fact that the system was constantly broken do wn, ” said Wayne Rash, student government trea surer. These problems prompted student gov ernment to look for a solution, Rash said. “We offered to give OIT the old system and let them maintain it,” he said. “It was Michigan Man Files Missing Body Paris Suit Against Hospital BY MICHELLE LAMBETH ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR The death of Bruce Franklin Cox was shrouded in mystery. In fact, three years later, his brother, James Cox, still isn’t sure what happened. On Aug. 20, 1991, Bruce Cox of Fayetteville underwent a surgical proce dure to replace a heart valve at N.C. Me morial Hospital an operation James Cox said had been described by Dr. Rich ard Sessions as “routine” and “99.9 per cent safe.” The next day, Bruce Cox died / was in the right place, but it must have been the wrong time. Dr. John Chapel Nil, North CaroGu MONDAY, AUGUST 29,1994 BYAMYPINIAK UNIVERSITY EDITOR A state investigation has found the Uni versity auditor negligent in his duties, say ing he regularly failed to make audit results public. University Internal Audit Director Edwin Capel, who is responsible forUNC’s fiscal accountability, regularly neglected to issue reports of financial irregularities, a state investigation found. Chancellor Paul Hardin has already acted on recommendations from the State Auditor’s Office to change the auditing process at UNC, including having the au ditors answer directly to him effective Sept. Hardin’s July 28 response to the inves tigation, headed by State Auditor Ralph Campbell Jr., did not contest any of the investigation’s findings. “We take these allegations seriously,” the response stated. Scape-what? Inside the computer system RRRRkwAZ!!^!T<T!fc!rr!!II4RRRR Scapegoat is an old desktop publishing system owned by student government that was available for students'use. Sarc , student groups and student government used it for publications including Black Ink, the Lambda, the Phoenix, the Catalyst Carolina Review and the Carolina Course Review. had virtuafly^ost^jseMness. new system, the Student Government Desktop Publishing System, made up of three computers, a laserwriter and a scanner, located in Suite C of the Union, student government's office. in such bad shape that they just wanted to replace it.” After the ordered computer equipment arrived in late spring, OIT had to wait several months before installing the new system. “We had the equipment for several months, waiting for student government to find a place to locate it,” Barnett said. Please See SCAPEGOAT, Page 2 as a result of the operation. After Cox’s death, his wife, Dorothy, requested an investigation into his death but asked that the body not be cut any further. After examining the autopsy re port, she and her brother-in-law believed that an autopsy was never performed on Cox but on someone else who had died in a similar manner. That was enough to raise suspicion, but it’s not the end of the story. Dorothy Cox had also specified that she did not want any ofherhusband’sorgans donated and never signed any donation papers, James Cox The investigation report, dated July 18, stated that although Capel’s office had spent about 5,277 hours—more than two years of labor on audits over the past eight years, the reports had not been re leased. Audits were performed, but not reported, on UNC Student Stores, the School of Business, the Property Office, the Devel opment Office, the Investments Office, and the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid. “A preliminary review revealed that a sufficient amount of time had been spent on six different audits over the past eight years, but the audit reports were never released,” the state auditor’s report states. In anauditoftheßusiness School, Capel said he “felt it reasonable not to continue the school’s ‘bad press’ by releasing a re port since they were working hard to make necessary changes in their operation,” the report states. UNC Self-Study Nears Completion Committee Hopes Two-Year Process Will Lead UNC to Improve Education Quality BYMARISSA JONES ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR UNC is nearing completion of a two year project to achieve reaccreditation and to target areas of the University that need improvement. In the next few weeks, UNC’s Reaccreditation Office will publish a draft of a comprehensive self-study, which will be reviewed and discussed by the Univer sity community during the next month. The Reaccreditation Steering Commit tee decided in September 1993 to focus on the nature and quality of teaching at UNC in addition to compiling a comprehensive report on all UNC services and programs. UNC was last reaccredited in 1985, when the focus of its self-study was research. Darryl Gless, chairman of the commit tee, said schools had to be accredited in order to receive government funding. “That’s the crowbar that ensures that everyone take reaccreditation seriously,” hesaid. “(Withoutaccreditation,)students couldn’tgetfederalaid, researchers couldn’t get grants it would be a total disaster.” The reaccreditation office has been col lecting information since November 1993 fora self-study to be submitted to the South ern Association of Colleges and Schools. The self-study will compile reports on ar eas including undergraduate programs, faculty, intercollegiate athletics, adminis- said. A funeral home representative informed the Cox family, according to a complaint filed by James Cox, that all of Bruce Cox’s “internal organs, including the brain and eyes, had been removed from the body and that these body parts were not delivered to the funeral home with the body; and that the location of the aforementioned body parts were not known.” “Dr. Sessions knew it before he (Cox) died,” said James Cox, who lives in Port Huron, Mich. “The original plan was to have the body cremated, but at the last Wayne Jones, vice chancellor for busi ness and finance, asked Campbell’s office in May to investigate allegations that Capel had not properly pursued information that 16 personal computers had disappeared from the Frank Porter Graham Child De velopment Center, that a FPGCDC em ployee had been paid for five to six weeks before she ever went to work and that UNC’s computer division had failed to make deposits to the Cashier’s Office for 10 months, according to the state report. Capel and Hardin were unavailable for comment. Jones said he would meet with the Internal Audit Department to review the state’s report. Campbell found that in the instances of the missing computers and of the 10-month deposit case, Capel either had not filed misuse reports or had not followed correct disclosure procedures. Although Capel, who has been UNC’s internal audit director since 1981, did re trative processes and student devel opment services. The report will show that UNC meets standards set by SACS, estab lished in some 495 statements set forth by the organization. But Gless said the report also was intended to provide a comprehensive look at UNC’s pro grams and services, identifying both DARRYL GLESS heads the self-study committee that is preparing UNC's reaccreditation report. weaknesses and areas of excellence. “It will try to point out what is good and it will try to, very frankly and honestly, point out what we need to do better at," he said. “It’s unlikely that such a place would lose its accreditation,” he said. “It’s very important, though, that we exemplify very high standards, and we could be very em barrassed if we don’t. “(Representatives of SACS) get upset if we give an optimistic view of something they find less positive,” he said. The self-study will be examined by SACS in conjunction with a report by a 28-mem ber visiting committee, Gless said. The committee comprises representatives from various departments of other accredited schools and will examine all areas of UNC during a four-day visit in May, he said. Kelly Gallagher, office assistant at the reaccreditation office, said the self-study’s accuracy would reflect UNC’s ability to minute she decided to have a memorial service. In order for people to view the body, she had to have it embalmed.” On Friday, Aug. 19, of this year, just two days shy of the third anniversary ofhis brother’s death, James Cox filed a com plaint on behalf ofhis sister-in-law against UNC and Sessions. He is suing for the mishandling ofbody parts and is asking for $lO million “She (Dorothy Cox) has had counsel since a week after the death,” Cox said. Please See HOSPITAL Page 4 News/Features/Aits/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 O 1994 DTH Publishing Coip. AH rights reserved. port the missing computers to University Police, he failed to file reports of misuse of property to UNC Legal Counsel Susan Ehringhaus, who is required by law to report to the State Bureau of Investigation. According to the state’s report, Capel also failed to file a report of misuse con cerning an audit report in 1993 of the Division of Computing Services. An audi torintheUNC department discovered that the division’s deposits to the Cashier’s Office had stopped for 10 months and then resumed. Capel said that when the auditor approached him about needing additional staff to conduct the audit, Capel told him that he had done enough work to docu ment the problem adequately. “(Capel) said he did not report the inci dent as misuse because he believed it was a bookkeeping problem,” Campbell's report states. “We found enough evidence ex- Please See AUDIT, Page 2 Employee Grievance Back in Court BY BILL BLOCKER STAFF WRITER Legal efforts by the University to derail a lawsuit filed by former Associate Dean Kirk Aune will come before the Orange County Superior Court today in Hillsborough. “Big day tomorrow; the motion for dis missal (by the University) is being heard tomorrow in Hillsborough," Aune said Sunday night. Aune said he was confident the motion by the state would not be successful and the case would begin as scheduled in October. University officials are trying to prove in court that there is not a case that there are no facts to be disputed. UNC attorneys filed for the summary judgment in the case Aune filed July 7,1993. Formerly the associate dean for infor mation systems at the School ofMedicine, Aune claimed his contract had not been renewed in April 1993 because he had reported to University officials that an- Please See AUNE, Page 2 recognize and address problems and to identify areas of excellence. During UNC’s 1985 reaccreditation process, SACS allowed the University to focus on research programs rather than presenting a comprehensive view of all its programs. Since then, SACS had changed its policy, Gless said. “They were finding that every decade or so even the best places need to review themselves,” he said. “So we’re going to have to do a comprehensive report like everyone else is.” But the self-study would additionally focus on teaching at UNC, Gless said. “We decided it would make sense to make this study, in so far as we can give it focus, focus on teaching to make it a sequel to the research mission,” he said. “Our goal is to broaden public conver sation about the variety of things it means to teach and learn in a research-intensive institution, where all faculty are engaged in new learning and new discovery.” The self-study would include results of a survey of more than 1,000 UNC faculty members covering issues such as satisfac tion with pay benefits, reward structures and the general quality of education at UNC, Gless said. It also would explore how to improve the conditions of students and faculty work ing in interdisciplinary areas, he said. Gless said the basic draft of the report was close to completion and would be made available, in part, on-line during the next few weeks. Additionally, copies of the report will be placed in UNC libraries for Please See SACS, Page 2 Editor's Note The DTH is looking for enthusiastic, moti vated students to take part in its daily produc tion. Desk editors need editorial writers, re porters, photographers, copy editors, graphic artists, cartoonists and design/layout artists. DTH interest sessions will be held tonight and Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Union Audito rium. Applications are available in the DTH office, Union Suite 104. Applications for editorial writers are due by 5 p.m. Wednes day. All other staff applications are due by 5 p.m. Friday, Sept. 2. Please call the DTH newsroom at 962- 0245 with any questions.
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