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2 Friday, January 6,1995 CALENDAR FROM PAGE 1 tee to seek the input of students and the UNC community by holding public meetings. 26-The women’s basketball team ad vances to the program’s first final four with an 81-69 win over Connecticut in Piscataway, N.J. SeniorTonyaSampson paced the Tar Heels with 30 points vs. the Huskies. APRIL 1 - UNC head wrestling coach Bill Lam is arrested and charged with driving while impaired and exceeding a safe speed after driving home from a party. 3- Charlotte Smith was named the final Buy Used Textbooks At <o3hell\\ Corner of I Mallette & Franklin 929-5228 •Free Parking at the Door •Official UNC Textbooks •School Supplies *No Long Lines We Buy Back Books Year Round!! “Your Used Textbook Headquarters” EXTEIHIBB HOl ltS; Open Late Each Weekday! 10.00 am-6:00 pm Saturday 12:00 pm-6:00 pm Sunday \v7sa four MVP as UNC won its first national championship 60-59 over Louisiana Tech in Richmond, Va. Smith scored 20 points and 23 rebounds in the final. See story, page 7. 13 - A disgruntled former employee kills two workers workers at the Sumitomo plant in Research Triangle Park before turning his gun on himself. 18 - Former President Richard Nixon suf fers a major stroke, from which he dies later in the month. 23 - Both the men’s and women’s outdoor track teams win ACC championships. The women cruised to a 132-point vic tory, led by freshman Marion Jones’ three first-place and one second-place finishes. 24 - The North Carolina lacrosse team, led CALENDAR by MVP goalkeeper Rocco D’Andraia, upsets Virginia 15-7 in Charlottesville to win its seventh straight ACC title. MAY 13 - Michael Simmons becomes the new medical school dean. 15 Geneticist Francis Collins speaks at UNC’s 192nd Commencement cer emony, helping two graduating seniors to get engaged during his speech. The ceremony marked the official end to the Bicentennial celebration. 16 - The University announces that women’s lacrosse will begin play at the varsity level in the spring of 1996. It is the 27th varsity sport at UNC and the first to be added since 1979. 21 - For the first time since 1988, lacrosse fails to advance to the NCAA final four. Fifth-seeded Virginia beat the fourth seeded Tar Heels 12-10 Kenan Stadium to advance to the national semifinals in College Park, Md. 25 - After more than three days of delib eration, at least five motions by the de fense for a mistrial and an unusual trip to the scene of a July 15 shooting of Kristin Lodge-Miller, jurors found Anthony Georg Simpson guilty of second-degree murder. See story, page 3. 29 - UNC center Eric Montross is taken by the Boston Celtics as the eight-overall pick in the NBA draft.. JUNE 8 - Keith Edwards, a black female police officer who had pursued a grievance against the University for seven years, claimed in a hearing that her constitu tional rights has been violated by the state’s grievance process. 16 - LaVonda Burnette filed a lawsuit to delay a July 7 hearing that could have resulted in her removal from the Chapel Hill-CatTboro Board of Education. Burnette dropped the suit later in the month JULY 2 - Jurors delivered a verdict of voluntary manslaughter in the trial of George Holman Jr., who killed 19-year-old Kevin “Buck” Nickens last June after Nickens repeatedly threatened his son. 6 - Police arrested Stephanie Brown, the woman who claimed that UNC Hospi- She laxly Star Heel tals resident Jose Genaro Diaz had sexu ally assaulted her, as a fugitive from justice on charges of stealing from a former employer and from her former boyfriend. The boyfriend, Darin Reinolds, filed an affidavit stating that Brown confessed to making up the charges against Diaz. 17 - The N.C. General Assembly signifi cantly fattened state employee paychecks with raises that amount to 5 percent for state employees and slightly more than 6 percent for teaching faculty. AUGUST 23 - District Judge Lowry Betts reopens the case against Jose Diaz. The case was reopened after questions arose about the credibility of die prosecution’s main witness. 24- As of the first day of classes, 126 male students still were waiting to be assigned to permanent rooms on campus. 29 - It is reported that a state investigation determined that the University auditor regularly failed to make audit results public. Chancellor Paul Hardin re sponded to the allegations July 28, and did not contest any of the findings. 30 The Orange County Board of Elec tions verifies more than 6,000 signa tures to force embattled school board member to face a recall election in No vember. 31 - A N.C. Superior Court judge halts the state health department’s plan to dis continue anonymous AIDS testing. The state had planned to replace anonymous testing with confidential testing, which requires people taking the HIV test to reveal their names. SEPTEMBER 1 - It is first reported that Edwin Capel, who is the University’s main financial watchdog, temporarily served as the in terim head of purchasing in 1991. 2 - Chancellor Paul Hardin announces that Capel, the auditor charged with failing to make audit results public, re quests anew job within the University. Although Hardin honored the request, he failed to explain just where Capel would be working. 7 - The senior class kicks off its gift cam paign in the Pit. the seniors chose to raise funds to buy a Career Search data base to allow students to search more than 260,000 potential employers. 8 - A USAir jetliner nosedives into a field just outside Pittsburgh, killing all 131 passengers on board The crash was the deadliest in the United States in seven years. UNC alumna Maria Renee, who graduated in August 1991 withaß.A.in psychology, was among the crash vic tims. 11 - CAA votes to keep the Homecoming selection process to same -with the ap plication counting 16.6 percent, the in terview worth 16.6 percent, andthecam pus vote making up the remaining two tjiirds. 12 - A Maryland man crashes into the White House lawn and dies after steal ing a light plane. The pilot crashed into the side of the Washington, D.C., man sion. and officials later discovered that traces of cocaine were found in the pilot’s blood. 14- James Copeland, acting president and general manager of Yates Motor Com pany, is shot and killed while drinking coffee in the West Franklin Street McDonald’s. The 34th day of the baseball strike ends the 1994 season prematurely, with players and owners at an impasse over $2 million. 19 - William Scott Bames, the Appala chian State University student charged with the involuntary shooting death of his college roommate, was sentenced to a three-year suspended sentence after pleading guilty. 22 - Chancellor search committee chair man Johnny Harris told the public that the group has received more than 147 applications for chancellor. 23 - Hardin announces to the Board of Trustees that Nationsßank has pledged $500,000 to the $7 million construction of the Sonja H. Stone Black Cultural Center. 25 - The men’s soccer team shocks No. 1 Virginia with a 5-1 win, putting the UNC team over the Cavaliers for the first time in 12 games. 26 - Chapel Hill officials remove parking services superintendent Eric Luther from the payroll, while local police still were investigatingmissing funds in thetown’s parking services. 27 - Two UNC seniors make public for the first time that they have made a land mark finding near RTP —Marco Brewer andßrian Coffey uncoveredacomplete, 7-foot phytosaur skeleton, the largest and most complete ever found in North Carolina. See story, page 5. 28 - The University hires Bruce Thomas, former executive assistant to N.C. Cen tral University Chancellor Julius Cham bers, to replace Capel as head of the internal auditing department. Capel is reassigned to the University Department of Systems and Procedures. See story, 2$- A Durham man is arrested in connec tion with stealing more than 400 UNC ONE cards in January, a theft which evolved into a multi-state fraud ring. The former University of Virginia student’s theft was connected to the lar ceny of checkbooks from Davis Library. 30 - Former medical school employee Kirk Aune appeals a decision by an Orange County judge that had ended his civil suit against UNC on the basis that it involved no disputable facts. OCTOBER 2 - UNC’s top-ranked women’s soccer team’s winning streak ends at 92 with a tie to No. 3 Notre Dame in the Colle giate America Cup in St. Louis. The game went into two I‘s-minute overtimes before it ended with a final See CALENDAR, Page 7
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