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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
PLO, Israel Reopen Peace
Talks in Egypt After Delay
CAIRO, Egypt The PLO and Israel
reopened talks Tuesday on expanding Pal
estinian self-rule. Israel had broken off the
negotiations last week after Muslim mili
tants kidnapped an Israeli soldier.
The session ended after three hours, and
both sides said the discussions were posi
tive. One Israeli official, speaking on con
dition of anonymity, said the PLO had
presented new ideas but he would not give
details.
The talks, intended to work out the
details of Palestinian elections, have made
little progress since they began in Cairo
early this month.
Before the session convened Tuesday, a
source close to the talks said the Palestin
ians would offer to bar opponents of the
peace process from the council.
Serbian Soldiers Kill U.N.
Convoy Driver in Sarajevo
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Serb soldiers shot to death a food convoy
driver Tuesday, a day after comrades hi
jacked a medical supply convoy in some of
the worst back-to-back blows to this year’s
U.N. relief effort.
The two actions underscore the Bosnian
Serbs’ determination to make their Mus
lim foes on government-held territory share
their suffering.
Bosnian Serbs are increasingly short of
supplies since being cut off by their former
patrons in Serb-led Yugoslavia for reject
ing a peace plan that would reduce their
war-won holdings in Bosnia by one-third.
Adding to the tension, the Muslim-led
government refused to give in to U.N. and
Serb demands to withdraw its soldiers from
a demilitarized zone.
Palestinian Leader Decries
Jordan, Israel Peace Plan
JERUSALEM PLO chief Yasser
Arafat condemned the Israel-Jordan peace
accord Tuesday, calling it an “outrageous
infringement” of the PLO’s peace agree
ment with Israel and a betrayal of Palestin
ian interests.
The Jordanian prime minister, mean
while, said his country made a separate
peace with Israel because it could not wait
for other Arab states to move.
Arafat was outraged that Jordanian ne
gotiators did not consult with the PLO
before the accord was initialed in Amman
on Monday. He was especially upset by a
provision giving Jordan a “special role” in
the disputed city of Jerusalem.
Meanwhile, Syrian President Hafez
Assad said Tuesday that the formula used
to resolve the land dispute between Jordan
and Israel would never work.
Simpson Judge Refuses to
Throw Out DNA Evidence
LOS ANGELES The judge in the
O.J. Simpson case suspended jury selec
tion Tuesday so he could review a sensa
tional new book that could change the
ground rules for picking a jury.
Earlier, Superior Court Judge Lance Ito
handed the prosecution a major victory in
refusing to throw out DNA tests on a
bloody glove and other key evidence.
In his DNA ruling, Ito said he could
find no proof that prosecutors acted in bad
faith, and no law that would allow him to
punish them for waiting to begin some
genetic tests until three months after the
slayings.
Simpson’s lawyers had asked that the
DNA results be thrown out, arguing that
prosecutors dragged their feet in order to
ambush them with late test results.
Iraq Opens Missile Testing
Sites to Ease Sanctions
MUSAYYIB, Iraq—Desperate to have
international sanctions lifted, Iraq opened
a missile test site and an explosives factory
for a limited tour by the press Tuesday.
The tour of two munitions plants run by
the secretive Military Industrialization
Corp. is part oflraq’s campaign to press the
U.N. Security Council to begin testing the
U.N. surveillance system in Baghdad and
other Iraqi sites.
Once the Security Council determines
that the weapons-monitoring system works,
Baghdad wants the United Nations to re
scind the debilitative economic sanctions
it imposed on Iraq for invading Kuwait in
August 1990.
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Jury Seated in Sokolowski’s 2nd Trial
BY CHRIS NICHOLS
CITY EDITOR
HILLSBOROUGH A jury of seven
women and five men will start hearing
testimony today in the first day of David
Allen Sokolowski’s second murder trial.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl
Fox and defense attorney William Sheffield
seated the entire jury from a pool of 100 by
late afternoon Tuesday.
Attorneys screened possible jurors on
their personal lives, including marital sta
tus, employment and where they lived in
efforts to weed out biased jurors.
The proceedings began with Superior
Court Judge Cy Grant explaining the
charges against Sokolowski to the poten
tial jurors. Grant also asked them if they
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Asian Students’ Resource Center Will Expand Existing Services
BY ANDREW RUSSELL
STAFF WRITER
The development of an Asian-Ameri
can resource center is in its preliminary
stages and should be instituted by the
middle of next semester, resource center
coordinator Jeff Huang said Tuesday.
The resource center will not have a
physical location, such as the planned free
standing Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural
Center (BCC), but will act as an expansion
of existing resources already available to
students of the University, Huang said.
“We are not trying to create anything
that does not already exist," Huang said.
School Board Considering
Ways to Replace Burnette
BY SARAH CORBITT
STAFF WRITER
The vacancy left by LaVonda Burnette’s
resignation from the Chapel Hill-Carrboro
Board of Education on Friday has caused
a lot of speculation concerning her succes
sor.
On Nov. 3, the school board will meet
in an open forum to discuss Burnette’s
successor.
But first, the board has to build consen
sus on how to replace her.
School board Chairman Ken Touw
outlined three processes by which the va
cancy might be filled. Touw said Burnette’s
successor might be chosen by taking the
person with the next highest vote count in
last November’s election in which Burnette
won a seat. That person is Bea Hughes-
Wemer, who lost to Burnette by 112 votes.
Touw said another option was to choose
someone who ran for the seat that opened
when Ruth Royster resigned earlier this
year. The third and least favored option
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had any prior knowledge of the case, and if
so, the nature of that knowledge.
Sokolowski is standing trial for first
degree murder in the February 1992 mur
der of his live-in girlfriend, Pamela Owens
Ellwood.
Sheffield said after the proceedings that
Sokolowski seemed to be in relatively good
spirits.
“He seems to be in pretty good shape,”
Sheffield said. “He’s gained some weight
since the last time he was in court. Clearly
this is a stressful situation for anyone, and
he doesn’t take it lightly. And he has en
tered a plea of not guilty which puts the
burden of proof on the state.”
This is the second murder trial in the last
year in which Sokolowski has been the
defendant. He was convicted of firet-de
“We are urging the expansion and diversi
fication of current resources.”
The resource center is designed to serve
the campus community as a whole with
special attention being paid to Asian-
American students.
The center will provide a career coun
seling program, an alumni program, coun
seling services and the creation of a data
base containing information about Asian-
American affairs.
Huang said that he had discussed the
resource center with various administra
tors and that they were very supportive of
the project.
Provost Richard McCormick said he
would be to open up the process and start
over, Touw said.
Hughes-Werner and local attorney
Grainger Barrett applied for seats in both
the Burnette election and the Ruth Royster
replacement. Touw indicated that one of
these two might replace Burnette.
Hughes-Wemer is a Chapel Hill resi
dent, mother, acting president of the League
of Women Voters, Parent Teacher Asso
ciation member, volunteer with the Inter-
Faith Council Community Shelter and
holds a doctorate in genetics.
The board would choose from the most
qualified people, but would still consider
the person that the residents indicate they
want, Touw said.
“I don’t think we would want to go
through the process we went through to
replace Ruth Royster,” school board
spokeswoman Kim Hoke said. “I think
people should remember it’s for a year.
Then the electorate will have a chance.”
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gree murder last spring in the shooting
death of his neighbor and friend Rubel
“Little Man” Hill.
After shooting Hill, Sokolowski, 36,
then chopped up Hill’s body, put the parts
in a cooler and built a bonfire tcf try to bum
them.
Sokolowski’s defense contended that a
fight broke out between the two over
money, that Hill was first to draw a gun
and that Sokolowski killed Hill in self
defense.
Investigators found several bullets in
Hill’s body, and Fox said during the first
trial that the self-defense claim lacked evi
dence.
The gun which Hill supposedly drew on
Sokolowski was never found.
Sokolowski was sentenced to life in
150 Employees of Carolina Inn
To Start Looking at Job Market
BYNANCY FONTI
STAFF WRITER
When the Carolina Inn closes for reno
vation on Nov. 20, its 150 employees will
have to find employment elsewhere.
To aid the staff in their search, the inn
will hold a job fair today and Thursday
from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. at the inn.
Only a core group of employees will
remain at the inn to handle sales areas and
client relations, said Dorian Oliphant, Di
rector of Human Resources.
Inn employees who remain committed
to the inn until Nov. 20 and who are in
good standing with their new employer
will be on the list of preferred job candi
dates after the inn reopens in September
1995, Oliphant said.
Brenda Anderson, a housekeeping su
pervisor who has been with the inn for two
years, said she was not worried when the
staff was informed in March that the inn
would close for renovations.
“It’s domestic work,” Anderson said.
“It’s easy to find a job. I can always go to
another hotel, or go to a restaurant and flip
burgers or go scan groceries.”
Anderson said she did not think her
fellow employ ees were worried about find
ing other jobs, either.
“We have some with children, and they
might be worried, but I haven’t heard any
body break down and cry,” she said.
“People don’t stay on with domestic work.
If you find someone who has stayed on the
job for six months, you’ve found a good
worker who is dedicated to the job.”
Though the inn will be closed until next
September, Anderson said she plans to
supported the resource center and would
do anything to meet the needs of students.
“I believe each program that the center
wants to institute could be very valuable to
the University,” McCormick said.
The circumstances surrounding the
Asian-American resource center are not at
all related to the BCC, he said.
“They are about as different as they
could be,” McCormick said.
“No one suggested a separate building
for the center. They will be using existing
resources.”
The resources being expanded will be
the career counseling program, the alumni
program, counseling services and the in
Battle Cabinet Members Asked to Resign
Involvement in Posting of
Anti-Homosexual Fliers
Prompts Personnel Change
BY SARAH BAHNSON
STAFF WRITER
Student Body President George Battle
and Chief of Staff Philip Charles-Pierre
called for the resignation of one cabinet
member Monday night and will possibly
call for another because of their involve
ment in the posting of anti-gay fliers before
National Coming Out Day, Charles-Pierre
said.
The two cabinet members were involved
in posting the Young Republicans’ (YR)
fliers in opposition to the Oct. 11 celebra
tion.
The fliers posted by YR expressed sen
timents such as “God created Adam and
Eve, not Adam and Steve.” YR was also
accused of defacing chalk messages which
publicized National Coming Out Day
around campus, but members deny that
allegation.
prison for the conviction. He will be eli
gible for parole in 20 years.
Ellwood’s body was also found on
Sokolowski’s Hillsborough farm.
Sheffield said after the jury was seated
that Fox might try to bring in evidence
from the previous trial to help the state
establish motive or intent.
In order for that to happen, Sokolowski
will have to take the witness stand
something he didn’t do in the trial for Hill’s
murder.
After the first trial, Sheffield said he
regretted that his client hadn’t testified,
adding that Sokolowski had feared the
prosecution might “twist” his words.
Some of the evidence Fox might refer to
includes DNA testing on a piece of evi
dence, but Sheffield would not elaborate
“This is a time when people
tend to be fragile ... but it is
remarkable what these people
can do. They have really come
together and astounded us
with their talents. ”
DORIAN OLIPHANT
Director of Human Resources
return for its reopening.
“The manager and the assistant man
ager know we get really tired because we’re
busy, but if you have a problem, they are
willing to listen,” Anderson said. “They
never sweep anything under the rug.”
Charles Flembester, who also works in
housekeeping, said he was not upset with
the inn’s closing. “It is something that has
to be done,” he said
Jennifer Farris, banquet manager for
Carolina Inn, said she has worked at the
inn, which is located on West Cameron
Avenue, for five years.
When the inn closes in November, she
plans to work for another hotel within the
Doubletree company.
“I have been in Chapel Hill for several
years now. I started out as a part-time
waiter, and I kind of stayed on,” she said.
“This will force me to make the big move
away from Chapel Hill.”
Farris said most of the waiters she su
pervises are not concerned with the inn’s
closing.
“Most of them are part-time, and this is
a good time for the hotel to close, with
formation database. They will become spe
cialized and concentrate on assisting Asian-
American students.
“This is a center for Asian-Americans
as well as all students,” said Huang, a
member of the Asian Students Association
(ASA). “Youdon’thavetobeamemberof
organizations such as the Asian Students
Association, the Korean-American Stu
dents Association or Sangam to utilize
these resources.”
Huang said he hoped the center would
follow in the BCC’s footsteps and become
something larger in the future.
“Having a building, along with diversi
fying the curriculum, are some things that
John Phillippe, co-secretary of campus
security, and Charlton Allen, adviser to
the student body president, both YR offic
ers, were seen posting the fliers late the
night before Bisexuals, Gay men, Lesbians
and Allies for Diversity (B-GLAD) held its
National Coming Out Day celebration in
the Pit.
According to Charles-Pierre, the Office
of the SBP asked Phillippe to hand in his
resignation, but he had not done so by
Tuesday afternoon. Allen had not been
asked to resign yet, but he probably would
be, Charles-Pien-e said.
Allen said no one had talked to him
personally but he had heard rumors about
the possible request of his resignation.
“I exercised my religious and political
beliefs, and that in no way impairs my
ability to serve in the cabinet," Allen said.
“I will not resign, they will have to fire
me!”
Allen, YR state treasurer, said he was
well within his right to free speech to post
thefliers. “Itwasclearlyanexampleoffree
speech, and any activity to tear down the
fliers is destruction of our property,” he
said.
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on what piece of evidence that might be.
“We’ll see what the test shows,”
Sheffield said. “You can’t bootstrap every
thing that you might find in one area. They
did a DNA test on one piece of evidence,
and they may try to reach out and encom
pass everything they’ve found.”
During the proceedings, Sokolowski,
clad in a white shirt, gray pants and black
shoes, sat quietly, reading from a series of
court cases.
“It’s the state’s burden of proof in this
case to prove beyond a reasonable doubt
the defendent’s guilt,” Fox said during the
proceedings.
The case is not a capital murder trial, so
the jury will not be involved in sentencing
at all. That responsibility will rest with
Judge Grant.
(Winter) Break and fall exams.
“This is not a permanent job, and for
most of the waiters it is not a career,” she
said. “Most of the waiters I hire are very
transient and usually last about a semes
ter.”
Although Farris still wants to transfer
within the Doubletree company, she said
she will attend the job fair offered by the
inn.
Though employees have one month left
to find other employment, Oliphant said
they still remain faithful to the inn.
“This is a time when people tend to be
fragile ... but it is remarkable what these
people can do. They have really come
together and astounded us with their tal
ents,” she said.
“At first people were full of a lot of
questions, but we’ve kept a sense of open
communication with the staff every step of
the way,” Oliphant added.
General Manager Terry Murphy agreed
that the staffs morale has not suffered
greatly. “The attitude is as positive as it can
be, given the fact as of the 20th of Novem
ber they will have to find other employ
ment,” Mutphy said.
“There is a high demand for hotel work
era, and a shortage especially of skilled
workers.”
Oliphant said 13 companies from
Chapel Hill, Raleigh and Durham will
visit the inn on Wednesday and Thursday.
Some of the hospitality employers that
will visit Carolina Inn for the the job fair
are Holiday Inn of Chapel Hill, Red Roof
Inn, Capitol City Club, Seven Seasons and
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we would like to see come about five or ten
years down the line but are not in our plans
at the moment,” Huang said.
Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs
Edith Wiggins said she was enthusiastic
about the resource center.
“The ASA has some exciting propos
als,” Wiggins said. “We need to discuss
what programs and services are needed
and can be incorporated. It has a lot of
potential.”
ASA President David Liu said he
thought the center had a promising future.
“Down the road, I believe this center
has a lot of potential,” Liu said. “We are
now just building the foundation.”
Phillippe, YR president, said the club
wanted to voice its opinion on National
Coming Out Day.
He said posting the fliers was a club
activity approved by its executive board.
The fliers were a form of silent opposition,
he said.
“The radical homosexual agenda over
all is more important (than the symbolic
gesture of National Coming Out Day),”
Phillippe said. “They are trying to corrupt
the moral values of our society, and we
wanted to counter that.”
Charles-Pierre said the Office of the
SBP was disappointed in the members’
behavior, not in their opinions of the com
ing out celebration.
“It’s a bad reflection that (the student
government cabinet) can’t allow others to
first voice their opinion freely and then
haveopposition,” Charles-Pierre said. “The
way they interfered makes a difference,
too.
“One can be in cabinet and express their
position, but to do so negligently is in poor
taste.”
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