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IN THE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Texas Gas Line Cleanup
Slowed by Flood Currents
HOUSTON The Coast Guard
worked against a strong current Sunday to
clean up more than a million gallons of oil
and gasoline that gushed from pipelines
ruptured by floodwaters.
One of the nation’s busiest ports could
remain closed through the week to nearly
all traffic while crews work on the gooey
mess.
Flooding that began Oct. 16 has killed
at least 19 people. Rushing water from the
swollen San Jacinto River is believed re
sponsible for at least four pipeline breaks
that sent at least 1.2 million gallons of
gasoline and crude oil into the river Thurs
day, igniting fires.
A blotchy ribbon of black crude, some
patches still burning, floated from the river’s
mouth through the channel and into the
Gulf of Mexico.
Bosnian Army Accused of
Violating U.N. Agreement
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Bosnian army forces were accused Sunday
of expanding their front lines around
Sarajevo in violation of a U.N.-brokered
agreement with Bosnia’s Serbian rebel
forces.
U.N. peacekeepers said the government
move endangered civilians in Sarajevo and
could provoke retaliation by the Serbs.
It was the latest in a series of accusations
leveled at the Muslim-led Bosnian army by
the peacekeeping force.
The Bosnians, angry that Sarajevo re
mains besieged after more than three years
of war, contend that infractions by their
Serb enemies are being played down by the
United Nations.
American Translator Dies
Of Electrocution in Haiti
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti A Mi
ami man working as a translator for the
international police force in Haiti was elec
trocuted Sunday, the first accidental death
in the multinational effort to restore Haiti’s
elected government.
In the National Palace, meanwhile,
President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was
choosing anew prime minister.
His top candidate, interim Foreign Min
ister Claudette Werleigh, was ruled out
because ofher leftist bent, and Aristide was
leaning toward a prominent businessman
to replace caretaker Prime Minister Robert
Malval, a source close to the government
said. The only previous deaths since U.S.-
led forces arrived in Haiti on Sept. 19 have
been three American servicemen who took
their own lives.
Israeli Leader Announces
Policy to Seek Terrorists
JERUSALEM—IsraeI is approaching
peace with a palm branch in one hand and
a gun in the other.
Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin gave se
curity forces the green light to hunt down
and kill military leaders of the Muslim
movement waging a war of terror against
Israelis, officials said Sunday.
But the policy, a response to public
anger at the bombing of a Tel Aviv bus, is
matched by official approval of a peace
treaty with Jordan and renewal of talks
with Palestinians on self-rule.
Security officials reported to the Cabi
net on Sunday that they had rounded up
dozens of activists from the fundamental
ist Muslim group Hamas since the bus
attack Wednesday.
British Tourists Attacked
By Extremists in Egypt
CAIRO, Egypt Suspected Muslim
extremists opened fire on a bus carrying
four British tourists in southern Egypt on
Sunday, killing one and wounding the oth
ers and the Egyptian driver, security offi
cials said.
The British man was the seventh foreign
tourist to be killed since extremists began a
violent campaign two years ago to over
throw Egypt’s secular government and
impose strict Islamic rule.
There was no immediate claim of re
sponsibility, but the militant al-Gamaa al-
Islamiya, or the Islamic Group, was sus
pected. Al-Gamaa has been the main force
behind the radicals' campaign and claimed
responsibility for the slaying of a Spanish
teenager in the same area Aug. 26.
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Weather
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TUESDAY: Sunny; high upper 60s.
3 Weekend Fires Prompt Students to Evacuate
BY BRIAN VANN
STAFF WRITER
Three fires occurred in University resi
dence halls this weekend, causing annoyed
residents to evacuate their buildings and
starting a campuswide investigation into
their possible causes.
The two fires that occurred Saturday,
one in Ehringhaus Residence Hall and one
inMorrison Residence Hall, causedacom
bined $25,100 in damage. No injuries were
reported in either blaze.
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Linebacker James Hamilton cannot bear to watch the final moments of North Carolina's 34-10 loss to Virginia in Charlottesville, Va. After
the game, Wahoo fans tore down one of Scott Stadium's goalposts to celebrate. See story on page 12.
University Faculty Members Debate Student-Teacher Relationships Policy
BYJUUE CORBIN
STAFF WRITER
A proposed policy banning amorous
relationships between students and faculty
at UNC provoked a spirited debate at
Friday’s Faculty Council meeting.
According to the draft of the policy,
“faculty members or other instructional
staff should avoid amorous relationships,
consensual or otherwise, with a student
who is enrolled in a course being taught by
that individual or whose academic work,
Police Receive Reports of 2 Sexual Assaults;
Arrests Made Same Day in Both Incidents
BY CHRIS NICHOLS
CITY EDITOR
In two unrelated incidents early Friday,
Chapel Hill police received reports of two
sexual assaults and made arrests in both
cases.
In the first incident, a woman was walk
ing down West Cameron Avenue in the
early morning hours when a man came up
behind her and knocked her to the ground,
Chapel Hill police Sgt. Stephen Riddle
said. The woman sustained minor injuries
when she hit the ground, Riddle said.
The woman struggled with her assail
ant, and someone who heard the struggle
ran to the area, he said. The suspect was
subdued until police arrived and appre
hended the man near the scene of the
attack, he said.
Estimated $35,000 Gone From Town Parking Services
BY CHRIS NICHOLS
CITY EDITOR
An internal audit of Chapel Hill’s Park
ing Services Department has revealed that
roughly 75 percent of the investigated
records were incomplete.
Of 410 days of records and receipts that
were checked during the audit, 307 days
had incomplete reports for one or more
lots, town Finance Director Jim Baker said
Friday.
“We’ve concluded our initial audit find
ings, and the result of our finding is that an
estimated $35,000 is missing, ” Baker said.
The discrepancy lies in funds generated
from the town-maintained parking lots,
such as Municipal Lot No. 5 at the comer
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A third fire occurred at 4:28 p.m. Sun
day in a resident’s room on the fifth floor of
Hinton James Residence Hall. The fire
began when a toaster oven overheated and
ignited a bag of groceries. Damage to the
room was minimal, and no injuries were
reported.
The first and most damaging fire oc
curred at 2:54 a.m. Saturday in the fifth
floor lounge of Ehringhaus. Students were
forced to evacuate the residence hall for
more than three hours, forcing many to
take up residence in either Hinton James
Dejection Revisited
including work as a teaching assistant, is
being supervised or evaluated by that indi
vidual."
The policy would not prohibit friend
ships or mentoring relationships between
faculty and students.
Judith Scott, University sexual harass
ment officer, said the policy’s purpose is to
prevent the abuse of power. “This is not an
attempt to legislate against feelings,” she
said.
Most speakers at the meeting supported
the idea of such a policy, although many
The victim was taken to UNC Hospi
tals, where she was treated and released
the same day, Riddle said.
The suspect, Jesus Orlando Pena, was
arrested and charged with a fust-degree
sex offense, Riddle said. He said Pena was
in his late 30s.
Pena told police he lived at the Inter-
Faith Council shelter, but police checked
his address and found Pena had not lived
there in a while and had been barred from
thelFC.
Pena was being held in Orange County
Jail on a $200,000 sectued bond, Riddle
said.
In an unrelated incident, at 4:10 a.m.
Friday, police arrested Michael Brown,
43, of 100-A Louis Armstrong Court in
Chapel Hill and charged him with one
felony count of first-degree burglary and
of Church and Rosemary streets and the
Rosemary Street Parking Deck, he said.
“There is information in the computer
that indicates what should be the correct
amount of revenue and what we believe
should be the correct amount of revenue,”
Baker said.
The investigation has been under way
since Sept. 26, when a discrepancy in the
parking services’ receipts was discovered
in a routine internal audit of the town’s
cash-handling services.
The audit was ordered by Town Man
ager Cal Horton’s office, and parking ser
vices was chosen to be examined first be
cause it’s a major source of the town’s cash
transactions.
Asa result of early findings, town Park
or Morrison lounges. “Sure it’s a pain to
have to get out of bed at 3 o’clock in the
morning, but they were just looking out for
us, ” freshman Brad Myers of Ahoskie said.
“It wasn’t that bad though, because we
could go talk to friends who were camping
out or sleep in James or Morrison.”
Sandra Badrock, a fifth-floor Ehringhaus
resident from Durham, had a slightly dif
ferent experience. “I really didn’t want to
get out of bed when I heard the alarm,”
Badrock said. “But when I walked out of
my room, the entire suite was filled with
emphasized the point that the policy only
bans sexual relationships between students
and faculty in an instructional context.
Debra Shapiro, an assistant professor in
the Kenan-Flagler Business School, said
one person in a relationship should not be
in an evaluating role over the other.
“While people can consent and fall in
love, one patty in the relationship should
not be evaluating the other,” she said.
Bernadette Gray-Little, chairwoman of
the psychology department, also said evalu
ation had no place in a relationship. “We
one felony count of first-degree rape, re
ports state.
Brown and the victim of the attack knew
each other, Riddle said.
“At this time, they were not boyfriend
and girlfriend,” he said. “I do not know
their relationship prior to that.”
The victim was in her residence on the
200 block of North Roberson Street when
Brown broke down the front door, Riddle
said. The victim called 911 and hung up
while Brown was breaking down the door.
Officers were then dispatched to the
address, and when they arrived, the victim
ran out the front door, Riddle said. The
victim was taken to UNC Hospitals and
released the same day.
Any time someone dials 911 and a con-
See SEXUAL ASSAULTS, Page 2
ing Services Superintendent Erik Luther
was taken off the town’s payroll Sept. 26.
Although Luther was suspended, he
personally is not being investigated, Chapel
Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins
said.
“We’re investigating to see if a crime
occurred,” Cousins said. “We’re still in
vestigating to see what happened to the
missing money.”
Cousins said she could not comment on
who, if anyone, was being investigated.
She also said that since the police were still
conducting an investigation, she was pro
hibited from commenting on what the in
vestigation had uncovered or where the
See LUTHER, Page 4
smoke, so we ran out. When we got out
side, we saw the huge flames coming from
the lounge window. My room is right next
to the lounge, so it was a little scary.”
The evacuation of the building went
smoothly, said Wayne Kuncl, director of
housing and residential education. “The
evacuation in Ehringhaus went extremely
well,” Kuncl said. “Area Director Mark
Rank sent out fliers to students about evacu
ation policies following last week's fires,
and I think that worked very well.”
According to reports, the fire resulted
Employee Arrested
For Sexual Offense
BYAMYPINIAK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
An assistant registrar at UNC was chaiged Friday morning with
one felony count of second-degree sexual assault.
Robert Grant Wolslagel, 47, was arrested at 10:20 a.m. at the
Orange County magistrate’s office in Hillsborough.
Wolslagel, who lives at 2307 Stansbury Road in Chapel Hill
was accompanied by one of his attorneys, Bill Massengale, to the
magistrate’s office, where he turned himself in.
Wolslagel was released a short time later on SIO,OOO unsecured
bond and made his first appearance in Hillsborough District Court
on Friday. His probable cause hearing is scheduled for Nov. 4,
Wolslagel’s attorney Marilyn Ozer said Friday.
“At that hearing, the state has to present its evidence, and we’ll
have our first chance to refute the accusations,” she said.
Ozer declined to comment further on Wolslagel’s arrest, and
the DTH was unable to reach Massengale for comment.
The probable cause hearing will determine whether there is
enough evidence for Wolslagel to have to go to trial.
Wolslagel has been a UNC employee since February 1983,
according to Connie Boyce, manager of employee records. His
current annual salary is $32,149, Boyce said.
The warrant for Wolslagel’s arrest, issued Tuesday, states that
there is probable cause that Wolslagel “unlawfully, willfully and
feloniously did engage in a sex offense by force and against that
victim’s will.”
Orange County Sheriff Lindy Pendergrass said the victim filed
a report with the sheriff’s department Oct. 12. The report, which
was filed at 11:32 p.m., did not reveal the victim's name, the
location and time of the alleged Sept. 3 assault or details about
what had occurred.
Authorities and University officials are tight-lipped about the
case. Authorities have said the woman who filed the complaint
charged that Wolslagel assaulted her at a house in the southwest-
See WOLSLAGEL, Page 2
should not evaluate someone we are amo
rously involved with,” she said.
Several speakers suggested that stron
ger sanctions be added to the policy, saying
that it only advises faculty to avoid an amo
rous relationship.
Bob Adler, an associate professor in the
business school, said the terminology of
the proposed policy should be modified to
demand stricter sanctions.
“All it says is ‘faculty should avoid’ an
amorous relationship. It should be ‘faculty
shall avoid’ (these relationships),” he said.
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from a cigarette left unattended on an up
holstered couch in the study lounge. The
fire, which was extinguished in less than 1Q
minutes, was contained to the study lounge;
Damage to the kitchen, the dining area and
a nearby elevator resulted from smoke and
water. Damage was estimated at $25,000.
The second fire occurred at 3:58 p.m.
Saturday in the third-floor lounge of nearby
Morrison. The blaze broke out in a stack of
newspapers left on an upholstered couch
See FIRES, Page 2
“I’m not endorsing a bedroom patrol—
but if it does come out, there should be a
strong sanction,” Adler said.
Representatives of undergraduate and
graduate students spoke in favor of a policy
banning amorous relationships.
Steve Hoffinan, vice president of the
Graduate and Professional Student Fed
eration, said a relationship between an
instructor and a student ruined the whole
atmosphere of trust in the classroom or lab.
See FACULTY, Page 6