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Friday, January 6,1995
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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
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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
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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
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