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Volume 102, Issue 157
101 years of editorial freedom
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
IN TIE NEWS
Top stories from the state, nation and world
Murders of Three Children
Upset Coastal Community
KILL DEVIL HILLS Authorities
investigating the murders of three children
from Delaware and the suicide of their
father have answers to a few questions.
But they don’t have an answer to the
most pressing one: Why?
Tests show that the same gun was used
to fire the shots that killed Douglas Mont,
35, who committed suicide, and his three
children, who were murdered, Kill Devil
Hills police Chief James Gradeless said at
a news conference Monday.
And autopsies show that the children
were shot in the head before the van they
were in was set on fire, the chief said.
But investigators don’t even know why
Mont and his children were in North Caro
lina, much less why the children were
killed.
Susan Smith's Stepfather
Admits to Molesting Her
UNION, S.C.— The stepfather of the
woman accused ofdrowninghertwo young
sons admitted seven yean ago that he
molested her, according to court records
unsealed this morning.
The four-page report says Beverly
Russell admitted fondling Susan Smith’s
breasts, kissing her and putting her hand in
his genital area when she was 16 years old.
The reports does not indicate how often
Smith was molested or for how long a
period.
Smith, now 23, faces murder charges in
the Oct. 25 drowning deaths of her sons, 3-
year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex.
She is being held in a Columbia prison
awaiting a trial scheduled for July.
Chechen Peace Talks Fail;
Fighting Breaks Out Again
GROZNY, Russia Russia’s defense
minister said Monday that no peace could
come from negotiations with Chechen
rebels, declaring that Moscow would only
settle for their surrender.
Coming a day after a tentative truce
expired, the comments by Defense Minis
ter Pavel Grachev further dimmed any
hopes that the war he once said could be
settled in two hours would end any time
soon.
Sporadic shelling and small-arms fire
erupted in Grozny, the Chechen capital,
and Chechen President Dzhokhar
Dudayev said the war would “last for an
other 50 years.”
Grachev, visiting an armor testing range
outside Moscow, said Chechen military
commanders “are willing to talk about a
cease-fire.”
Rebel Serbs Hold Session
To Plan War Cooperation
BELGRADE, Yugoslavia Rebel
Serbs from Croatia and Bosnia plotted
military strategy together Monday for the
first time, a sign that conflicts in the neigh
boring states could escalate into a single
war.
SRNA, the Bosnian Serb news agency,
reported that a military council of Bosnian
and Croatian Serbs had discussed coopera
tion if Croatian Serbs were attacked by
Croatian government forces.
The meeting, in the Serb stronghold of
Banja Luka in northern Bosnia, included
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic
and Croatian Serb leader Milan Martic. A
joint military command also was on the
agenda, sources said.
Mexican Bishop Works to
Mediate Chiapas Conflict
SAN CRISTOBAL DE LAS CASAS,
Mexico As opponents demand his re
moval, Bishop Samuel Ruiz struggles to
hold together an increasingly polarized
Chiapas state and mediate a yearlong In
dian uprising.
The job is getting tougher by the day.
The 70-year-old diabetic monsignor faces
protests by dissenters who want him to
resign and pressure from Mexico City to
quit his role as mediator.
The toll shows on his ashen face and the
unusual silences at ever-rarer public ap
pearances.
At the brightly painted 16th-century
Roman Catholic cathedral, parishioners
stacked blankets and firewood in front of
the diocese doors on Monday after a riot
Sunday left four people injured.
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Weather
TODAY: Windy, 30 percent chance of
rain; high near 50.
WEDNESDAY: Mostly sunny; high
low 50s.
/ discovered my wife in bed with another man, and I was crushed. So I said, “Get offme, you two!”
Emo Phillips
Two Women Assaulted Over Weekend
BY UURA GODWIN
STAFF WRITER
A Chapel Hill woman was sexually
assaulted in her Laurel Ridge apartment
on N.C. 54 Bypass on Sunday morning,
according to Chapel Hill police reports.
A man forced his way into the victim’s
apartment at 4:30 a.m. through a glass
door in the back of the apartment, the
report states. Police spokeswoman Jane
Cousins said that police were not sure how
the man had broken into the apartment but
that he had not broken the glass.
Blowing an Afternoon
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Stacey Cutbush takes a break between classes to blow bubbles Monday afternoon. She and her new bottle of bubbles
were enjoying the sunshine that returned Monday.
Graduation Rate of Athletes Declining
BY KATHRYN TAYLOR
STAFF WRITER
In the seven years that the UNC-system
Board of Governors has kept records on
athletes’ graduation rates, the University
has consistently led other system schools
in the percent of graduated athletes.
This year, however, the tables have
turned.
The percentage of student athletes that
graduated within five years fell about 10
percent in 1994, according to the BOG’s
annual Intercollegiate Athletic Report.
The report said 67.8 percent of the ath
letes who began attending UNC in 1989
had graduated by 1994, as opposed to the
more than 77 percent who began attending
in 1988 and graduated by 1993.
This year was the first time in the report’s
history that the graduation statistic had
dipped below 70 percent.
Taking Steps for Minority Retention
Programs Make
Strides Toward Higher
Graduation Rates
BYBETH GLENN
STAFF WRITER
Battling homesickness, new aca
demic challenges and greater personal
freedom are just some of the challenges
faced by al
most every
freshman.
African-
American and
Native Ameri
can students
face additional
obstacles that
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could mean the difference between earn
ing a degree and dropping out.
To overcome some of these hurdles,
they need a vast and vital support net
work.
Many find that support in the Office
for Student Counseling, a division that
works with the College of Arts and
Sciences and the General College to
guide minority students through what
can be a rocky road to graduation.
“I see talented, vivacious energetic
Chapel Hill. North CarofiM
TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 21,1995
The 20-year-old victim was by herself in
her apartment when she woke up to find
the man in her room, Cousins said. “He
threatened her with a knife, but she did not
see the knife," she said.
After the victim was threatened, a
struggle with her assailant followed, Cous
ins said. Both the victim and the man fell
down the steps inside the woman’s apart
ment. The man raped the victim and then
left, she said.
The woman called police immediately
after the incident and officers responded.,
Cousins said.
Percent of Freshmen Who Graduate
The percent of freshmen athletes who graduate within 5 years has been lower in
the past compared to the graduation rate among all freshmen students:
85
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SOURCE; INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLEHC REPORT DTH/MATT LEOERCQ
The new figures dropped UNC to third
place among the 15 UNC-system institu
tions with athletic programs. Elizabeth City
State University and UNC-Wilmington
had higher athlete graduation rates last
year, according to the report, which was
released last week.
Richard Baddour, senior associate di
Distribution of Nonwhite UNC Students
Minorities make up about 18 percent of the student body. Of this 18 percent,
half are African Americans or Native Americans. The increasing minority
enrollment requires the expansion of existing support services.
SOURCE UNIVERSITY REGISTRAR DTH/CHRIS ANDERSON
students get here and get hit by brick walls, ”
said Sibby Anderson-Thompkins, assistant
dean ofOSC. “They encounter instructors
that diminish or disregard their ability and
don’t support them. No one seems to un
derstand their perspective, and day after
day they read articles that deny the exist
ence of racism and say they are using it as
a crutch.”
The counseling center provides about
1,500 students with a host of programs
Asa result of the attack, the victim
received minor bruises. She was treated at
and released from UNC Hospitals on Sun
day.
The victim was not able to identify her
attacker but was able to give police a de
tailed description, Cousins said. The at
tacker was described as a black male, 30 to
40yearsold, 5 feet 7 inches tall, 175 pounds,
with a broad build and small hair growth
on his chin, she said.
The police would not identify the victim
as a student or a permanent resident of
Chape! Hill. Cousins said the police were
rector of athletics, said the athletic depart
ment was not worried about the new statis
tics.
“1 don’t think this year is any indication
of anything,” he said. “This may be a little
slip, but we do not see it as a trend.
See ATHLETES, Page 2
tailored to their needs at different stages
of their undergraduate careers.
“The OSC believes strongly that pro
viding specialized programs for each
year of undergraduate study is the most
effective approach to improving reten
tion and enhancing academic excellence
among minority students, ” said Harold
Woodard, interim associate dean of
See RETAINMENT, page 5
continuing their investigation of the mat
ter.
Joy Isom, manager of Laurel Ridge
Apartments, said she did not want to com
ment on the matter because, she said, she
was not aware of the details of the incident.
The staff of the apartment complex is co
operating with the police in trying to find
out more about the incident, Isom said.
Cousins said Sunday’s incident was not
related to a sexual assault reported Feb. 18
that occurred on Caldwell Street in Chapel
Hill when a woman was sexually assaulted
by two men at gunpoint.
Yet Again, Galho, Reid
Face Off for CAA Post
BY JILL DUNCAN
STAFF WRITER
The Elections Board announced Mon
day after it had checked the legitimacy of
write-in candidates that there would be a
runoff between Wes Galbo and Anthony
Reid for Carolina Athletic Association
president.
Elections Board Chairwoman Erin
Lewis said the board would continue try
ing to telephone write-in candidates to see
if any of the votes could be voided. The
board set the deadline at 7 p.m., sayingthat
all votes for write-in candidates they were
unable to reach would be considered valid.
Galbo needed 19 ofthe write-in votes to
be voided to win. After the phone calls,
Galbo had only 49.8 percent of the vote.
He would have needed 50 percent of the
votes plus one vote to win.
Adding to the problems of the Elections
Board, Jonathan Jordan, a law student and
former Student Congress speaker pro tem,
filed a case against the board regarding the
write-in election of a Student Congress
representative from Dist. 1, Terry Milner.
Jordan filed a complaint to the board
alleging that there had been political solici
tation and commercialization at the
pollsite. He said in the complaint that,
according to the Student Government
Code, there was to be no solicitation or
commercialization for or against any can
didate within 50 feet of the voting site.
Jordan said in the complaint that there had
been campaign signs on a bulletin board
within this range during the voting period.
Jordan said in the complaint that a girl
had been overheard telling someone to
vote for Milner. Jordan also said in his
complaint that it had been his understand
ing that the board chairwoman had been
made aware of the activities but had “re
sponded that it was no violation.”
Lewis responded to the allegations in an
administrative decision issued Friday. She
said the conversation between the two in
dividuals discussing candidates within 50
feet of the Law School pollsite had not
been a political solicitation. “The Elec
tions Board is not in the position to regu
late what two individuals say to each other
in context of a private conversation. The
Elections Board has no jurisdiction here.”
Lewis also said that there had been
political commercialization in that signs
had been posted within 50 feet of the
pollsite. All four candidates were fined $1
each.
Jury Indicts Williamson;
No Other Charges Filed
FROM STAFF REPORTS
An Orange County grand jury Monday
handed down two indictments of first-de
gree murder against former UNC law stu
dent Wendell Justin Williamson, 26, of
Carrboro.
Williamson is charged with killing UNC
student Kevin Reichardt and Chapel Hill
resident Ralph
Walker during a
shooting spree in
which Chapel Hill
police officer
Demetrise
Stephenson was
also shot in her
hand.
The spree began
just before 2 p.m.
when a gunman be
gan firing a semi
automatic rifle be
tween 40 and 50
times at passers-by.
Walker was the first
WENDELL
WILLIAMSON was
indicted on two counts
of first-degree murder.
victim as he was shot dead on the steps of
the house where he was living.
Reichardt, a sophomore lacrosse player,
was shot twice and died in the street in
front of the Phi Mu sorority house annex.
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Margaret Henderson, director of the
Orange County Rape Crisis Center said
two rapes in one weekend was not neces
sarily high for Chapel Hill. “People say
violence runs in spurts,” Henderson said.
Because incidents of sexual violence
often go unreported, judging whether or
not the number of sexual assaults this week
end is unusually high for Chapel Hill is
difficult, she said.
Henderson said that sometimes the only
thing that affected public awareness of
crimes was whether they made it into the
newspapers.
Candidates
Prepare for
Final Vote
BY HEATHER N. ROBINSON
STAFF WRITER
With an extra week of campaigning
behind them, candidates in four races will
have their last test of how well they’ve sold
themselves to the student body, with the
official end to the campus election season
culminating in today’s runoff elections.
Student body
president candidate
Stacey
Brandenburg said
her team was hop
ing for the best.
“Elections are
inherently unpre-
Studeni
Govemaent
a
dictable,” Brandenburg said. “We have
planned for all possibilities.”
SBP candidate Calvin Cunningham said
he thought he was in a good position to win
Tuesday.
“We’re down a significant number of
See RUNOFF, Page 2
Campus Elections
Runoffs will be held today for four
student government offices.
Student Body President
Stacey Brandenburg
Calvin Cunningham
Senior Class President/VP
Nick Johnston and Made Marin
Thad Woody and Tertus Dolby
Carolina Athletic Association
Wes Galbo
Anthony Reid
Student Congress, Dist. 21
Charles Walters
Adrienne Wiikerson
Poll Sites
• Law School 10 am.-5 pm.
{Law students only)
* Hanes Art Center 10 arn-5 pm
* Student Union 10am.-7p.rn.
Rooms 211-212
♦ Health Sciences Library 10 a.m.-7 pm.
* Granville Towers 10 am.-? pm
♦ Chase Hall 10 am-7 pm.
police who were in the district courthouse
in the post office building returned fire on
the gunman, wounding him once in each
leg.
Bill Leone, a bartender at Tammany
Hall, was also shot in the shoulder as he
tackled the gunman.
Williamson was not indicted on any
other charges in connection with the shoot
ing spree during Monday’s grand jury pro
ceedings in Hillsborough.
The case will now go to N.C. Superior
Court, where it is expected to be heard
sometime this fall.
Williamson, who is in custody at the
mental health ward of Central Prison in
Raleigh, could face the death penalty if
convicted. According to N.C. law, aggra
vating circumstances in the case must be
found before the death penalty can be con
sidered.
The killing of more than one person
qualifies as an aggravating circumstance in
N.C. law.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl
Fox is now be required to make a request
within 10 days to the Supreme Court judge
handling the case to schedule a pretrial
conference. The pretrial conference must
be held within 45 days after the request is
made, according to state law.
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