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Thursday, May 18,1995
Two UNC Students Assaulted Over Weekend
BY WENDY GOODMAN
CITY EDITOR
Over the weekend of graduation, police
responded to two different incidents of
assault, each involving University ofNorth
Carolina at Chapel Hill students.
The two incidents occurred early Satur
day morning within an hour of each other
on North Street, according to Jane Cous
ins, spokeswoman for the Chapel Hill Po
lice Department.
“There were two separate incidences,
both on North Street, within an hour of
each other,” Cousins said. “We are unsure
as to why they occurred.”
According to Cousins, the first incident
occurred early Saturday morning as a group
of four people walked along North Street
and passed a group of approximately 20
people. The large group began yelling at
those who passed and then assaulted them
with their fists and threw beer bottles. Po
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GRADUATION
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contributions to the University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill,” Spangler said.
“Your last four years have been special
years. This day represents an achievement
as well as a beginning, the best years lie
ahead.
“I trust you will continue to be a part of
‘ this university, the university depends on
; your support.”
After taking a picture of the 2,643 gradu
ating seniorsforhis scrapbook, Mike Crisp,
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late themselves on their achievements but
encouraged them to use their eddCatibnto
help those less fortunate than themselves.
“As you graduate today, and dream
about your futures, I trust those dreams are
about more than a closet full of fine clothes
and a garage with a fancy car or two,”
she said.
“I hope you also dream of the sheer joy
of spending Saturday afternoons at a com
munity center tutoring little girls and boys.
Or helping out in a homeless shelter. Or
bringing comfort to women in a rape crisis
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lice were called to the scene at 1:14 a.m.
One member of the group, William
Speri, a UNC student, was transported to
student health and treated for a head in
jury.
The second incident took place only an
hour after the first at 2:33 a.m. Saturday in
front of 105 North St.
Cousins said this incident was similar to
the first in that a small group of people
passed a larger group and were then as
saulted. Six people walked by a group of
approximately 20people before being con
fronted.
The larger group began taunting the
other group and as the six walked to their
car, the larger group followed.
Cousins said Gaven Langley, a member
of the smaller group was accosted after
getting into his car. The car window near
est to him was kicked out and he was
apparently struck in the face by a fist.
Brian Cantwell Duffy, a UNC graduat
gain that will particularly help entering
students and students living far away,”
said Student Body President Calvin
Cunningham. “This fee will cover the
whole package it will cover the start-up
fee and the cost of maintenance, and there’s
room in this amount for cost increases, ” he
said.
The 50-cent student fee increase was
approved by the SBP in May, and will go
into effect with the fall fees.
Associate Registrar Thomas Black said
Tuesday that the grade report feature would
be especially helpful to students, and that
carefal measures would be taken to ensure
security for student records and registra
tion. “We’ve done a test of the process,
which required the same security that we
use here on campus,” Black said. “We’re
not compromising any security issues. As
president of the senior class, spoke of the
spirit of Carolina and extended thanks to
parents for giving his class the opportunity
to attend UNC.
“To parents, today I say thank you for
sending us to UNC. Thank you for not
sending us to some second-rate school
down the road, ” he said. “There’s so much
that is good about this place. Chapel Hill
has become a part of us.”
The rain, which had been threatening
all morning, held off long enough for
Johnetta Cole to deliver her keynote ad
dress and for the presentation of honorary
center.”
Cole said she believed that, although
the graduates faced a world filled with
strife, from Northern Ireland to Rwanda to
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son for them to abandon hope.
“And yet ours is a world that is not only
filled with change, but with the most pre
cious of all human emotions: hope,” she
said.
Cole said she believed it was hope which
made possible the incredible events of the
last 30 years, from the collapse of the So
viet Union and the fall of communism to
the end of legal racial segregation.
“Thelessonfromallofthisisclear. That
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ing senior, attempted to help his friend and
was also assaulted, Cousins said.
Duffy was hit in the back of the head
with an object and then fell to the ground
where he was kicked in the head several
times. Duffy was transported to UNC
Hospitals and was treated for severe head
injuries.
According to Cousins, the description
the police department had was of a “white
male, about 6’2”, thin, vety short hair
which is described as ‘stubble’, and from
his late teens to early twenties.”
Mayor Ken Broun and Town Manager
Cal Horton opened the Town Council
meeting on Monday night by expressing
their concern over the violence that took
place.
“I want to express my own shock and
outrage for the brutal beating of one of our
own UNC graduates over the weekend,
apparently by agroupofskinheads,"Broun
said.
far as security for the students, I don’t see
that as being a problem,” he said.
A 60-second commercial advertisement
would be played at the beginning of each
call to the new system, and would help
defray the cost of its operation and mainte
nance. “This is the key issue that we put to
the students,” Black said.
“It’s a ‘too-good-to-be-true’ kind of
thing, except that you have this commer
cial element. We asked the students if they
had a problem with this, and the ones who
we talked to said ‘no.’
“Our home system is still going to be in
operation, and we will allow and set up for
people who might be offended by the pres
ence of advertising,” Black said.
Dr. Charles Dowburd, director of tele
phone registration networks for Voice FX,
the Pennsylvania-based company that
degrees to get underway. Midway through
that ceremony, Chancellor Hardin received
word from Professor Ron Hyatt, the fac
ulty marshal, that thunderstorms were in
the area.
While the rain itself was no surprise,
Provost Richard McCormick said he had
never seen anything like the intensity of
Sunday morning’s storm.
“The lore here is that it hasn’t rained on
commencement in 32 years,” he said.
With the presentation of honorary de
grees complete, it began to pour. Hardin
was forced to move the presentation of
it may be slow at times, rapid at others, but
change really is a constant.”
University officials said Cole’s message
was exactly what they had sought in a
comriieficement speaker.
“I thought that she was just excellent,”
said Provost Richard L. McCormick. “I
thought she spoke wonderfully, eloquently
and with passion. If I were a graduate, I
think I would have felt that she was speak
ing to me more so than other graduation
speakers.”
Chancellor Paul Hardin, presiding over
his last commencement at UNC, said. “She
has a way with words. I think she was
extremely well-received.”
Cole offered graduates five pieces of
advice. She first encouraged graduates to
become passionate about whatever they
choose to do in the future and to work to be
their best.
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Horton, like Cousins, said the two
assaults left one of the men, Duffy, hospi
talized with severe injuries but that Duffy’s
condition was improving. Duffy gradu
ated with highest honors and was awarded
a scholarship to Vanderbilt for the fall.
Horton also said the town would work
to bring the group who committed the
crime to justice. “We will do everything in
our power to track down the people who
committed these crimes and bring them to
court, where they belong,” he said.
Horton said the town had the resources
and time available to commit to the effort
and intended to do that.
Cousins said the police were investigat
ing the matter further, but that at this point
in time they had no leads other than the
description.
“We would appreciate any help,” she
said. “Any information from anybody who
may have been in the area or have seen
anything should contact us.”
would operate the system, said Tuesday
that the University will have the final say in
who will advertise through the system and
who will approve the advertising scripts
before they are put on the system.
“It should be the University’s call on
who the advertisers will be,” Dowburd
said. “We are going to be acting as an agent
of the University, and so we will act solely
to benefit the University and its students.”
He added that the advertising would
most likely be from high-profile compa
nies, such as auto manufacturers.
If the contract is approved this summer,
students may begin to access the system to
receive grade reports as early as Novem
ber, Black said. He said students would
probably not be able to register for classes
through the system until the Spring 1996
semester.
doctoral degrees into Kenan Field House,
while other graduates received their de
grees in an abbreviated ceremony.
“By a wave of his hand he (Hardin)
confened all the degrees without the cer
emonial actions,” McCormick said.
Hardin said he was disappointed that
the ceremony had to be cut short due to the
storm. “I’ve had one time before in 27
years, but we moved the ceremony inside
before the rain started,” he said. “It was
disappointing, especially for the students
who only do it once. But I didn’t hear much
grumbling.”
about go for it,” she said. “If it is your
passion to be a musician, or a chemist, or
a philosopher, or a poet, do so.”
She also encouraged them, as Hardin
had earlier, to continue to be students.
“Please don’t ever grow up. I want to
askyou, in the spirit of Chancellor Hardin’s
words, to be a student for the rest of your
life,” she said. “A full life, a rich life, a
complete life really does require life-long
learning. It also requires some of those
attributes that are so closely associated
with you as young folk: inquisitiveness,
enthusiasm and idealism.”
As her third piece of advice, Cole en
couraged students to learn to care not only
for themselves, but for others as well.
“Please don’t end up being able to take
care of yourself—l mean, only yourself,”
she said. “There is nothing wrong with
wanting nice things. I know I do. But my
young sisters and brothers, I beg you to
N.C. Legislature May Gain
Power to Appoint Trustees
BY BRONWEN CLARK
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
The North Carolina House of Repre
sentatives passed legislation March 10
which would enable the General Assem
bly to appoint members to the boards of
trusteesateachoftheUNCsystem schools.
The bill still needs Senate approval to be
come law.
Currently, each school’s Board ofTrust
ees is comprised of 13 members. Eight of
these members are appointed by the Board
of Governors, four by the governor and
each school’s student body president fills
the last seat. The proposal would add four
members to each uni versify ’ s board of trust
ees, all of them appointed by the General
Assembly.
“I think it will further politicize our
Board of Trustees,” said Student Body
President Calvin Cunningham, an ex officio
trustee. “But we’ll be willing to work with
whatever the legislature’s wishes are.”
C.D. Spangler, president of the UNC
system, said he did not believe the bill was
necessary, but that he had no problem with
the proposal if the General Assembly ap
pointed qualified trustees.
“The General Assembly appoints all
members of the Board of Governors,”
Spangler said. “As such, the General As
sembly already has a say-so over the affairs
of the UNC system and our sixteen cam
puses. It won’t increase the General
Assembly’s influence by appointing three
more members because they already have
a substantial amount of influence.”
However, N.C. Rep. Robert Grady, R-
Onslow, a supporter of the proposal, said
he did not believe such legislation was
intended to increase the General
Assembly’s influence over the boards of
trustees. Instead, he said he thought the
“I think one thing folks will remember is
that it rained on them,” Crisp said. “The
speakers were exciting, but it is the rain
that people will remember.”
Hardin said despite the fact that this was
his last commencement as chancellor, he
did not feel a sense of sadness.
“(Commencement) was a lot of fan re
ally,” he said. “I don’t have much sense of
sadness because I am not leaving Chapel
Hill. I am going to serve on the faculty of
the law school. I love commencements. I
love seeing young people celebrate their
achievements.”
keep things in their proper place. Never
become accustomed to a lifestyle you would
have to sell your soul to maintain.”
She asked graduates to respect and ad
mire not only those who looked and acted
like them, but also those of different
ethnicities, races and genders.
“Our nation will never reach its fall
potential until we learn to draw on the
range of voices, perspectives, talents and
realities of all of our people,” she said.
“After all, one flowernevermakesaspring.”
Lastly, Cole encouraged graduates leav
ing Chapel Hill to head straight for a beach
in search of starfish, a suggestion which
met with the approval of much of the
crowd.
However, Cole used the beach and the
starfish as a metaphor, encouraging gradu
ates to continue to help those in need, no
matter how daunting the odds.
Mike Crisp, president ofthe senior class,
said he was pleased with Cole’s speech.
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“I think it willfurther politi
cize our Board of Trustees
CALVIN CUNNINGHAM
Student Body President
legislation sought to increase the diversity
of the boards.
“We were approachedby alumni groups
at the respective branches of the university
system who felt not enough diversity was
ontheboard,”Gradysaid. “Withonlytwo
appointing authorities, there needs to be
diversity.
“The governor appoints people who
contribute to his campaign and the Board
of Governors comes largely from the same
background.”
Vice chairman of the UNC Board of
Trustees William Armfield said he agreed
with Spangler.
He said he did not believe the proposal
would have a negative impact on the UNC
Board of Trustees if it became law, but that
he did not see a need for it.
“I haven’t seen anything about the need
to increase the board of trustees at cam
puses,” he said. “If it’s just to give the
legislature more influence on the campuses,
it’s fine with me.”
However, N.C. Sen. Tony Rand, D-
Cumberland, and chairman-elect of the
General Alumni Association at UNC said
he did not favor increasing the General
Assembly’s interference in university af
fairs.
“The General Assembly already elects
the Board of Governors. I don’t think it
would be a good idea for us to interfere
further,” he said. “It is just another oppor
tunity for us to become involved in the day
to-day activities of the university.”
Crisp, who will attend law school at
UNC next year, said he had mixed feelings
as he completed his undergraduate career.
“I feel so tired. It’s still catching up with
me,” he said. “It feels really good yet mel
ancholy at the same time. It has been the
best year of my life and I’m sorry to see it
end. But at the same time, it’s great.”
Despite the weather, McCormick said
he thought the ceremony went well. “I
think it was great. I think the spirit was
good. There was a kind of comraderie, a
“we were there” type of thing. But I’m not
wishing for rain next year.”
“Johnetta Cole lived up to her reputa
tion as a sterling character and exciting
speaker,” he said.
Scott Haenni, a graduate from South
Carolina, said he thought Cole had deliv
ered an excellent address. “I thought the
speaker was excellent. I’ve been to a few
graduations and she was the best by far,”
hesaid. “All that controversy was a crock.”
Cole is a well-known and respected
scholar. In 1987, she became the first Afri
can-American woman to head Spelman
and in her tenure has increased the prestige
and quality of the college.
She began her academic career at Fisk
University, enteringattheageoflsthrough
an early admissions program. She com
pleted her undergraduate degree at Oberlin
College and went on to receive both her
master’s and doctoral degrees from North
western University. She has received hon
orary degrees from 31 colleges and univer
sities.