31ip latlu (Ear Ifrpl J? Volume 102, Issue 99 101 yam of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1193 INTMWS Top stories from the state, nation and world Officials Investigate White House Shooting Incident WASHINGTON, D.C.—A Colorado man who left a cryptic note about death faced arraignment Monday on property damage and firearms violations following his frightening White House shooting spree. The possibility of additional charges, in cluding attempted assassination, was left open. On Sunday, the day after the unsettling attack, yellow police tape stretched across the White House lawn and FBI agents armed with laser equipment conducted an inch-by-inch search for bullets around the pockmarked mansion. The gunman, 26-year-old Francisco Martin Duran, remained silent at D.C.’s central cellblock, his motives a mystery, his demeanor described by the Secret Ser vice as “completely flat.” Duran, who spent two years in a mili tary prison for felony assault, left a note outlining how he would want his affairs handled if he died, a document that one administration official called “closer to a will than a suicide note.” Duran, scheduled to be formally ar raigned before a U.S. Magistrate on Mon day, was charged early Sunday with will fully damaging federal property and pos sessing a firearm as a convicted felon. The shooting spree left pockmarks scat tered across the White House facade, five visible around the press area in the West Wing. One shot struck just below a second floor window to the Queen’s Bedroom, not used on a day-to-day basis; another hit in front of the Old Family Dining Room on the first floor, a third struck waist-high on a low wall in front of the central doorway. Christopher: IsraekSyria Talks Making Progress CASABLANCA, Morocco Reject ing Israeli accounts, Secretary of State Warren Christopher said Sunday that peace talks between Israel and Syria were mak ing progress. He suggested both sides were making concessions. Attending a first-ever Middle East-North Africa Economic Summit meeting in Mo rocco, Christopher took issue with sugges tions by Israeli officials that President Clinton extracted very little from Syrian President Hafez Assad in Damascus on Thursday. The negotiations, which opened in Madrid, Spain, three years ago, are bogged down in debate over security measures and peace terms. Paramilitary Groups Still Evoke Fear in Rural Haiti PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti Despite the thousands of U.S. soldiers in Haiti, armed thugs still hold sway in some rural areas and many supporters of President Jean-Bertrand Aristide are afraid to go home, aid workers said Sunday. The arrival last month of 16,000 U.S. soldiers on a mission to restore democracy has greatly improved security, especially in Port-au-Prince, where the troops are concentrated. Aristide supporters who were in hiding under military rule now walk the streets of the capital without fear. Members ofparamilitary groups are still believed to have hundreds of weapons, and there are reports of violence in the countryside where local authority is virtu ally nonexistent. Bosnian Soldiers Continue Offensive, Seize Positions SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina Bosnian Serbs evacuated civilians from a northwestern town and fought Sunday to hold off Muslim-led government troops who are on their most successful offensive of the war. Government forces also captured Serb positions for a second straight day in the mountains near Sarajevo. During Saturday’s combat, government artillery fire landed near a U.N. observer post, pompting warnings of a NATO airetrike if it happened again. Civil defense officials went door to door in the besieged Bosnian capital, advising residents to stay indoors because of fears that Serbs after a nine-month lull would renew bombardment of the city in retaliation. TOE ASSOCIATED PRESS Weather TODAY: Chance of rain; high mid 70s. TUESDAY: Partly cloudy; high mid 70s. University Administrators Return After Evaluating LSU McCormick, Moran Bring Back Reaccreditation Tips After Serving on Committee BYNANCY FONTI STAFF WRITER Last week, two UNC administrators got a first-hand look at reaccreditation, a process UNC will undergo in the spring. Provost Richard McCormick and Dean of Information and Library Science Bar bara Moran served on a visiting committee at Louisiana State University (LSU). Visiting committees usually consist of 29 administrators from other members of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) who spend three days STATEMENT Tar Heels Ram the Wolf pack 31 -17 UNC Steps Back On the Right Track By Running Over N.C. State BYJACSONLOWE SENIOR WRITER North Carolina State charged onto the Kenan Stadium field Saturday and literally ran over cheerleaders, band members and anyone else who stood in its way. By halftime however, it was the Wolfpack’s, counterparts in blue doing the running over, and it was the N.C. State defense feeling the effects of the stampede. No. 19 North Carolina (6-2,3-2 in the ACC) used a punishing running attack to explode for 21 first-half points and eventually toppled N.C. State 31-17 in front of a Football UNC 31 N.C. State 17 record-breaking crowd of 54,300. The victory assured UNC of its fifth consecutive winning sea son, a feat that has not happened since the 1979- 1983 campaigns under Dick Crum. “We were very pleased that we came out and were able to run the ball as well as we did because we were running it against one of the best run defenses in the country," said UNC head coach Mack Brown. N.C. State (5-3,3-1 ACC) was ranked seventh in the country against the rush (81.3 yards per game) coming into the game and fourth in total defense (241.3 ypg). It was a different story Satur day, though, as the Pack gave up 280 yards on the ground and 375 total yards. Credit much of UNC’s offensive success to sophomore tailback Leon Johnson. The Morganton native finished the game with 133 yards rushing and 46 receiving. He also scored all three first-half touchdowns. For the Tar Heels, Saturday’s win was more Chapel Hill Police Arrest 3 Men for Armed Robbery STAFF REPORT Chapel Hill police responded Saturday morning to a report of an armed robbery on the 100 block of Rosemary Street near the parking deck. Three men have been arrested in con nection with the robbery, according to Chapel Hill police reports. At about 2:30 a.m., police arrested the three suspects on Airport Road near the Estes Drive intersection. Paul Alan Murphy, 21, of 1835 Cheek Road, Apt. 1-A in Durham was arrested and charged with two felony counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, police reports state. Murphy was being held in Orange County Jail under a $25,000 secured bond, reports state. He will have his first appear ance in court today in Hillsborough. Alexander Melendez, 25, of 901 Chalk Level Road, Apt. Y-12 in Durham was arrested and charged with two felony counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, re ports state. Melendez was being confined in Orange County Jail on a $25,000 se cured bond and will make his first appear ance today in district court in Chapel Hill, according to reports. analyzing the programs and self-study re port of the university being evaluated. All universities must be reaccredited every 10 years to receive federal funds. UNC, which will be evaluated by a visiting committee in May, has self-study reports available in Wilson, Health Affairs, Law, Davis and Undergraduate libraries. “We have to be ready to have every thing we do looked over,” McCormick said. “Asa visiting committee, we worked very hard. We spent three and a half days studying every aspect of LSU.” McCormick said UNC must complete the self-study reports for the committee’s visit this spring. “We have to fully prepare our self-study report,” he said. “This is the most important part of reaccreditation be fore the committee gets here.” Although the SACS establishes 500 cri- '*■ W K a(| A pack of N.C. State defenders appear to have Leon Johnson trapped on North Carolina's first scoring drive, but Johnson ' ° did manage to scoot for a 16-yard gain. Johnson scored the Tar Heels’ first three touchdowns in the far Heels' 31-17 win. than needed following a 34-10 pounding at the hands of Virginia on the road a week ago. “I think it’s really satisfying because I think I had one of the worst weeks of my life, quite honestly,” Brown said. “I was miserable (a week ago) Saturday night, and I was miserable (a week ago) on Sunday. I felt like I had let our team down. I felt like I let our assistant coaches down and all the Carolina fans because we were at a point where whatever this proverbial ‘next step’ means we were somewhere around it, and we took a step back.” Saturday, Brown’s charges started going back in the right direction by playing near-flawless football in the first half. The game looked as though it might be a defen sive straggle early, with both teams exchanging Edward Santiago, 24, of 1426 B-l Wydlewood Road in Durham was arrested and charged with two felony counts of robbery with a dangerous weapon, accord ing to reports. He was being confined in Orange County Jail on a $25,000 secured bond. He will make his first appearance today in district court in Hillsborough, reports state. At 2:15 a.m. Saturday, two men were walking along Rosemary Street near the parking deck when three men in a white 1987 Pontiac Firebird stopped along the road. The driver pulled the car over and at least one of the car’s occupants got out and pointed a handgun at the men walking down the street, according to reports. The men were robbed of $96 in cash, two Nationsßank ATM cards, a credit card, a Blockbuster video card and a Co lumbia House card, reports state. The two wallets, each valued at S2O, were also stolen. All of the stolen items were recovered, reports state. Shortly after the robbery, police stopped the car on Airport Road, according to master officer Carl Moraven of the Chapel Hill Police Department. It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown! Linus Van Pelt Cfcapal HR, Narth fwiißai MONDAY, OCTOBER 31,1994 teria to be met for reaccreditation, McCormick said UNC’s self-study should address im provements which go beyond the cri teria. He said that in addition to evalu ating the self-study, visiting commit tees also make rec ommendations for improving the Un iversity. “At LSU, we found they were completely in com- pliance withsoocriteria,”McCormicksaid. “There were no glaring problems. But we SHS Hopes Coordinating Office Will Combat Substance Abuse BY JULIE CORBIN STAFF WRITER In response to substance abuse at UNC, Student Health Services (SHS) hopes to create an office that would coordinate the many services already available. The office would provide a full time employee who could coordinate all the treatment and prevention programs avail able at UNC, said Deirdre Laurilliard, a counselor at SHS. This employee would serve as a sub stance abuse officer who works for cam pus-wide educational and prevention pro grams, much like the sexual harassment and racial harassment officers already at UNC, said Edith Wiggins, interim vice chancellor for student affairs. The office would also research substance and alcohol abuse at UNC and create a database of resources, statistics and poten tial solutions, Laurilliard said. The office would not provide treatment, which is already offered at SHS, or law enforcement, which is provided by the University and city police, said Judith McCORMICK said the self-study was the most important part of the reaccreditation process. did recommend they add to the sections available for the general education require ments.” Moran and McCormick spent time with faculty, staff, students, members of LSU student government and other student lead ers. “It’s interesting to see how things are done at other schools,” Moran said. Although she would not discuss specific recommendations made by the commit tee, Moran said she evaluated graduate instruction and the School of Library and Information Science at LSU. “(LSU) had prepared a good self-study report and an incredibly thoughtful program. They worked very hard to have every moment of the committee scheduled.” She said LSU made people on campus very accessible to the visiting committee. “Anybody we wanted to talk to was avail three-and-outs to start things off. The Tar Heels started at their own 25 on the next possession though and didn’t stop until they reached the end zone, 11 running plays later. Johnson sparked the drive with a 16-yard scam per up the left side on a second-and-9 from the UNC 26 and capped things offwith a 3-yard ran up the middle for the first score of the game. Tripp Pignetti connected on the point after, and North Carolina led 7-0 with just under five minutes left in the first quarter. “They weren’t doing anything special, it was just straight power football,” said NCSU line backer Damien Covington, who finished the game with 16 tackles. “We just weren’t winning our individual battles, and things got out ofhand in the first half.” Cowan, director of SHS. In researching substance abuse at UNC, the office would look at ways to intervene that would center on how students feel about drinking and potential options for entertainment besides drinking, Laurilliard said. It would try to find “the pulse of the campus,” Laurilliard said. The office would be housed in the dean of students’ office or in health education, Laurilliard said. Many services currently available to stu dents are not well known or coordinated, Laurilliard said. “We have a lot of groups, but right now many groups don't know about each other, ” Laurilliard said. SHS has applied for a grant to hire a consultant who would look at the issue of alcohol and substance abuse at UNC and identify the services that are available, Laurilliard said. Currently, SHS provides many preven tative and treatment services, according to a report on substance abuse programming submitted to the Board of Trustees Sub committee on Student Affairs. News/Feaiures/Aits/Sports Business/ Advertising C 1994 DTH Publishing Coip. AD rights reserved. able,” said Moran, who has also helped evaluate Mississippi State and Texas Chris tian University. McCormick said he evaluated the un dergraduate curriculum and the quality of the faculty at LSU, making two major recommendations. McCormick said LSU should make sure there was enough room for undergradu ates in required general education courses. He also said the qualifications of LSU faculty should be available on file. The visiting committee commended LSU on the access of faculty and adminis trators to the students. McCormick said, “Apparently, the chancellor sees any student who wants to see him within a three-day turnaround, and the provost meets with student groups every two weeks.” UNC’s offense gave the team a lead, but it was the defense setting the tone early in the game. Defensive end Marcus Jones broke up a third-and -3 pass offering from State quarterback Terry Harvey with 3:35 left in the first quarter and forced the Pack into its third consecutive three-and-out situ ation. “I think our defense came out and got N.C. State’s offense a little frustrated early in the ballgame, and it was hard for them to get into a rhythm until late in the third quarter, ” Brown said. North Carolina continued to take advantage of the ground game on its next possession, taking the ball 64 yards on 12 plays forthe second touchdown of the day. Curtis Johnson, who finished the day See FOOTBALL, Page 7 SHS offers primary prevention pro grams, inpatient detoxification, several programs for treatment and evaluation and outside referrals when necessary, the re port states. An office to coordinate these programs is needed on UNC's campus, because sub stance abuse, particularly alcohol, is a seri ous problem here, Cowan said. “Alcohol remains our biggest substance abuse problem,” Cowan said. Alcohol abuse on UNC’s campus brings a host of problems, Wiggins said Sunday. “Students are having a lot of problems with not being able to perform well in classes because they were out drinking the night before,” Wiggins said. According to a report by the Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Colum bia University, alcohol is implicated in more than 40 percent of academic prob lems and 28 percent of dropouts. Further more, 95 percent of all violent crime on campus is alcohol-related, 90 percent of all reported campus rapes involve alcohol and 80 percent of all campus vandalism is alco hol-related, the report states. 962-0245 962-1163

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