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Volume 103, Issue 47
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Hot Celebration Sizzles Crowd
Fireworks Draw
Better Reviews
Than Last Year's
BY WENDY GOODMAN
CITY EDITOR
Fun was had by all ages at Kenan
Stadium Tuesday night as an array of
fireworks brightened the nighttime sky.
Members of the crowd “oohed” and
“aahed” as the skyline was filled with
vibrant colors from the show.
Crowd members were heard say
ing “it already beats last year’s show”
only minutes into the fireworks.
Last year some members of the
crowd said they left disappointed be
cause of the quality of the fireworks as
well as their visibility. The crowd was
more receptive this year to the show
that cost nearly $24,000.
Spectators applauded and yelled as
the fights at Kenan Stadium were
turned off and the fireworks began.
The whistling and booming kept the
crowd cheering for more of the red,
purple, green, orange, and blue fire
works.
“They were super and there were
more fireworks than I remembered
from last year,” one Chapel Hill resi
dent said as she was leaving the sta
dium.
The show, which lasted nearly 30
minutes, had its lulls, but audience
was excited not only by the colors and
explosions, but by a small plane that
circled the area, appearing to fly
See JULY 4, Page 2
Hooker Returns to Chapel Hill With Bang
BY BRONWEN CLARK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
In his first public appearance as UNC’s chancellor,
Michael Hooker made a brief speech expressing hope
that the University and local communities would con
tinue to work as well together in the future as they had
in planning and putting on the July 4 extravaganza.
“I am glad that this July Fourth celebration is a
partnership with the towns of Carrboro and Chapel
Hill, ” Hooker said. “The University is an intimate part
of both communities.”
Hooker said he looked forward to working closely
with town officials to assure good town-gown relations.
“The University’s well-being is intimately tied to the
town’s and vice versa,” he said. “It is foolish to adopt
the view that there can be a tension between the town
and the gown.”
ACC Allows Partial Qualifiers;
School Decides Who Gets In
BYROBBIPICKERAL
SPORTS EDITOR
After holding out as one of the few
leagues not to accept any athletes who
don’t meet all of the NCAA’s minimum
academic standards for eligibility, repre
sentatives from the nine ACC schools voted
last week to al
low scholarships
for partial quali
fiers.
Starting in
1996-97, each
Tar Heel recruits
lowest in league in
GPA, SAT scores
See Page 3.
league school will be allowed four partial
qualifiers per year two in men’s sports,
two in women’s sports. No more than one
partial qualifier per year per sport will be
admitted.
Partial qualifiers cannot compete as
freshmen, but they can accept scholarships
and practice with their teams.
“I really wasn’t
for this, and I’m not
really sure that the
University was for
this,” UNC basket
ball coach Dean
Smith said Mon
day. “It’s been
passed that the ACC
can now let in par
tial qualifiers, but...
it’s now the
University’s deci
sion.”
Prior to Friday’s
vote, the ACC had
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UNC coach DEAN
SMITH said he did not
support the league's
decision.
never admitted athletes who didn’t meet
NCAA standards.
UNC Director of Athletics John
Swofford said Wednesday that league
schools were divided on the issue. Some
wanted to go strictly by NCAA standards
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ABOVE: Fireworks light up the sky over Kenan Stadium during the July 4 celebration. The display lasted approxi
mately half an hour. BELOW: Chancellor Michael Hooker and his wife. Carmen, welcome guests to the July 4
festivities. Hooker's speech marked his first public appearance since becoming chancellor July 1.
PHOTOS BY ERIK PEREL & DAVID WALKS
Celebrating July Fourth on a university campus
was particularly meaningful, Hooker said. “It is appro
priate to celebrate July Fourth on a university campus.
Thomas Jefferson, who founded our sister institution
to the north, in founding the University of Virginia
recognized that in order for a democracy to survive
and thrive, the citizens must be educated."
After making his speech, Hooker said he had spent
his first few days on the job attending meetings and
settling in, but that he did not feel overwhelmed by the
new responsibilities. “When this is your fourth time
assuming a presidency or a chancellorship, you leant
what you need to do to break yourself in," he said.
“There have been no surprises, no real problems.”
Despite facing problems typically involved in mov
ing, such as delayed furniture, Hooker said he was
delighted to be back in Chapel Hill.
“I’m a pig in high truffles.”
and allow no partial qualifiers, while oth
ers wanted the prohibition to be lifted.
“What we had to do as a league is try to
find a ground that would be acceptable to
the majority, ” he said. “We needed to have
enough votes where something would
work.”
As it is, each school will make its own
decision, although the conference will con
tinue its policy of turning away non-quali
fiers.
Swofford said that the decision of
whether to admit partial qualifiers will be
left to the Admissions Office. The faculty
committee that deals with athletic admis
sions will judge each student-athlete on an
individual basis, he said, to determine how
they will fit into both the athletic and
academic life of the university.
“The bottom line in my mind shouldn’t
be about GPAs or test scores, but whether
they have opportunity to be successful in
an academic setting,” he said.
“The key is making good admissions
decisions.”
Other leagues already accept partial
qualifiers. The SEC, for example, recently
voted to allow eight partial qualifiers per
school— twice as many as the ACC.
“What’s important to remember is that
this regulation still gives the ACC the most
restrictive standard in the country of any
major conference,” Swofford said. “The
ACC again adopted a rule more stringent
than any other conference and the South
east Conference.”
The vote became necessary for the league
when the NCAA implemented tougher
eligibility standards for incoming recruits.
Proposition 16 created a sliding scale
for incoming freshmen. Athletes with a 2.0
grade point average need a 900 on the
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David Lewis is remanded to custody July 2 after being sentenced to life in
prison for the slaying of his former employer, James Copeland. Lewis will be
eligible for parole in the year 2015.
Crab life by the beans.
Don Juan Valdez
Court Ruling Forces
UNC to Fund Review
Student Congress Can No Longer Deny Funds
To Politically Partisan, Religious Groups
BY ROBYN TOMLIN HACKLEY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
In his last action as chancellor, Paul
Hardin responded to a recent U.S. Su
preme Court decision by clearing the way
for The Carolina Review to receive fund
ing from student fees in the fall.
On Friday, Hardin reversed his June 28
decision to uphold Student Congress’ con
troversial choice to exclude The Carolina
Review, New Generation Campus Minis
try and The Catalyst from receiving stu
dent activities funds.
Charlton Allen, publisher of The Caro
lina Review, said the chancellor’s decision
gave his magazine lukewarm support.
“I think he wimped out. His decision
doesn’t mean any
thing,” Allen said.
“If he really wanted
to make a change,
he would have over
turned the Student
Congress’s decision
completely and
forced them to fund
us completely.”
Student Con
gress made its deci
sion based on
clauses in the Stu
dent Constitution
and in the Student
Government Code
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In his last act as
chancellor, PAUL
HARDIN overturned a
Student Congress
decision.
that prohibit funding religious or politi
cally partisan groups.
The Supreme Court ruled 54 on June
29 in Rosenberger v. UVA that the univer
sity was constitutionally obligated to fund
a student religious publication. The school
subsidizes other, secular publications and
the court said it could not discriminate
against the publication simply because of
its religious content.
In a letter to Allen, Hardin said he had
reviewed the Court’s ruling and was forced
to reconsider his position on UNC’s fund
ing situation. The University’s legal coun
sel advised Hardin that clauses in UNC’s
Student Government Code and Student
Constitution that limit funding were now
unconstitutional.
Hardin asked University Legal Counsel
Susan Ehringhaus and Legal Adviser Mary
Sechriest to help Student Government bring
the codes into conformity with the Court’s
ruling. “Every attempt has been made to
preserve the prerogative of self governance
atthe University, ’’Ehringhaus said. “How
ever, when the Court requires a change, a
change has to be made."
Lewis Gets Life Sentence
For Murder in McDonald’s
Jury Deliberates 2 Days
Before Returning First
Degree Murder Verdicdt
BY WENDY GOODMAN
CITY EDITOR
HILLSBOROUGH The man who
shot and killed his former boss at the
McDonald’s on West Franklin Street last
September was convicted of first-degree
murder Monday morning by an Orange
County jury after nearly two days of delib
eration.
Judge Gordon Battle gave David Alton
Lewis the mandatory sentence of life in
prison. Lewis will be eligible for parole in
20 years. Lewis, 26, was charged in the
shooting death of his former boss, James
“Buck” Copeland.
Identity was not an issue in the case
because Lewis admitted to Chapel Hill
Police shortly after the shooting that he
killed Copeland. The prosecution and de
fense sparred over whether the murder was
premeditated or due to Lewis’ state of
mind. The defense was seeking a second
degree murder conviction because ofLewis’
alleged mental illness.
Defense attorneys contended that Lewis
was suffering from “residual schizophre
nia, ” an illness that caused him to snap the
morning of the murder. A psychologist
testified Thursday that Lewis was unable
to think rationally because of his illness
and therefore could not have planned it.
“His image of Mr. Copeland had taken
unreal and psychotic proportions,” said
Public Defender James Williams in his
opening statement. “(The murder) was an
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Ehringhaus said she discussed the situ
ation with student government representa
tives.
Student Body President Calvin
Cunningham, Speaker of Student Con
gress Roy Granato and Student Body Trea
surer Nathan Darling met Monday and
formulated a plan to deal with the
chancellor’s request.
Granato said Student Congress would
come up with a resolution at its July 10
meeting encouraging Cunningham to ask
the Board of Trustees to remove the prob
lematic funding clause from the Student
Constitution.
“The only way to change the code is
through a campus referendum, except in
the case when the chancellor has pointed
out that a part of the (Student) Constitu
tion is unconstitutional,” Cunningham
said. “Now we are going to ask the chan
cellor and the BOT to strike those clauses
which the U.S Supreme Court has deemed
to be against the law.”
Once this is accomplished, Granato said
a bill asking that the clause also be struck
from the Student Government Code would
be introduced at the first full meeting of
Student Congress this fall. Once these
clauses have been removed, Congress
would be in a position to reconsider the
three groups denied funding in the spring.
“The Rosenberger decision has given us
the freedom to do something that we’ve
been wanting to do for a long time,”
Cunningham said. “The clauses were anti
quated provisions which have hurt the at
mosphere on campus. They were the tools
used to de-fund B-GLAD, the BSM and
the Carolina Review.”
Granato said Student Congress would
still have to reconsider funding the three
controversial groups.
“The bottom line is that the Carolina
Review, The Catalyst and The New Gen
eration Campus Ministry have to be given
the opportunity to be fiinded,” Granato
said. “But there are no guarantees.”
Darling and Granato said that money
not given out during the spring appropria
tion hearings was held for subsequent ap
propriations during the fiscal year.
“If Congress cannot give all the money
that a group needs in the spring, they can
come back in the fall,” Darling said. “It
tends to be easier to get money then be
cause each group is considered individu
ally instead of all at once in one, big bill.
“Everyone deserves a fair shake at get
ting their share of Student Activities Fees.
This change should get us all on equal
footing.”
act committed due to a sudden arousal of
violent passion based on his illness.”
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl
Fox said Lewis had planned the action
with malice against Copeland which war
ranted a first-degree murder conviction in
this case. Lewis entered the McDonald’s
restaurant and waited for Copeland to ar
rive when Lewis then killed him
“The defendant walked right up to Mr.
Copeland and asked ‘Do you remember
me?’, then shot him at point-blank range in
theheadwithashotgun,”Foxsaid. “Itwas
premeditated, it was deliberate, it was in
tentional. Why does that have to be so
complicated?”
The defense attempted to use his his
tory to build a case around Lewis’ mental
problems although he was not diagnosed
until after the shooting occurred.
“This is not a case of cool reflection.
Rather it is a case where killing occurred
because of mental illness,” said Robert
Trenkle, Lewis’s defense attorney.
Witnesses described Lewis as “not act
ing himself’ the day of the shooting and
being withdrawn and depressed. “It didn’t
seem like an aggravated kind of thing,”
said Kirk Schablick, a customer at
Mcdonald’s that morning.
Officials from the Chapel Hill Police
Department, where Lewis confessed qui
etly and without emotion, also testified
about Lewis’ behavior.
The verdict in the trial came after nearly
eight hours of deliberation over whether
the murder warranted a first-degree, pre
meditated murder, or second-degree con
viction.
Both Fox and Williams were unavail
able for comment on the case at press time
due to the holiday.