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Chancellor Michael Hooker holdsa question-and-answer session with leaders of many student organizations Friday in the Student Union. Joining Hooker'wertT
Interim Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs Edith Wiggins, Interim Provost Dick Richardson, and Chief of Staff Elson Floyd.
Hooker Addresses Student Concerns
■ In a Friday meeting,
Chancellor Michael Hooker
promises to make his office
accessible and open.
BYBRONWEN CLARK
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Chancellor Michael Hooker will make
every effort to address student concerns
and to be accessible to student groups, he
said Friday.
In an event organized by student gov
ernment, Hooker, Interim Provost Rich
ard Richardson, Interim Vice Chancellor
for Student Affairs Edith Wiggins and the
new Chief of Staff Elson Floyd met with
approximately 40 student leaders to dis
cuss everything from the lack of cable tele
vision on campus to the possible hike in
tuition.
Hooker said he would keep the lines of
communication between students and the
chancellor open.
“The Student Advisory Committee to
the Chancellor is the ideal vehicle and will
take input from anybody, ” Hooker said. “I
do expect to include students at social
DEA Assists in Carrboro Drug Bust
BYSUZANNEWOOD
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
After four drug-related arrests Thurs
day night, one neighborhood in Carrboro
is closer to having drug-free streets,
Carrboro Mayor Eleanor Kinnaird said
Monday.
After a twelve-month investigation by
Carrboro police, a search warrant was
served and four residents of 1 lOEugene St.
were arrested as part of an ongoing inves
Tuition Hike To Aid Declining Library Holdings
BY JAMES LEWIS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
While much ofthe debate over the issue
of a possible S4OO tuition increase has cen
tered on questions of financial aid and
faculty salaries, the
UNC library sys
tem would benefit
should the hike be
approved.
According to
the proposal
passed by the Gen-
eral Assembly this summer, 35 percent of
the revenue generated from the tuition
increase must go toward student aid. The
other 65 percent would be divided between
faculty salary increases and library fund
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events at my house. I am as accessible a
person as you can find.”
While many special interests were rep
resented at the meeting, race-related issues
and the possible S4OO tuition increase un
der consideration by the Board of Trustees
garnered the most interest.
Hooker said he was still wavering on the
tuition issue and compared himself to a
fabled donkey who stood indecisively be
tween two hay piles. Because of its indeci
sion, the donkey died of starvation, he
said.
“I feel like Buridan’s ass,” Hooker said.
“I find equally compelling arguments for
the proposal and against it. The legislature
has given us this vehicle to increase faculty
salaries, and we desperately need it. The
quality of UNC is a firaction of the quality
of our faculty."
Hooker, however, said the benefits of
the proposed tuition increase were not with
out costs.
‘'The down side is that we are the sixth
best buy... not just because of the quality
of our faculty but also because of our cost, ”
he said. “(This increase) flies in the face of
a2OO-year tradition. It’sthe precedent that
scares the dickens out of me.”
Hooker said he was sympathetic to those
tigation, Canboro police reports stated.
The Federal Drug Enforcement Admin
istration collaborated on the bust, marking
the first time that the DEA had partici
pated in a drug crackdown in Canboro.
Elizabeth Grady, 53; Thomas Elmore
Harris, 34; and Robert Allen Merritt, 35,
all of 110 Eugene St.; and Eddie Green
Atwater, 41, of 105 Wesley St., were ar
rested for possession with the intent to
distribute in excess of 50 grams of crack
cocaine from August 1994 to Thursday.
Spending Moving on Up
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/ research university libraries.
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J Volumes in library 20 20 21
Volumes added 25 26 28
Salary and wage expenditures 27 26 22
Expenditures for books 48 29 20
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Interim Provost Richard Richardson
said libraries had been designated to re
ceive the possible supplemental income
because University officials had made such
an important issue of their decline in na
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find equally compelling argu
mentsfor the proposal and
against it. The legislature has
given us this vehicle to in
crease faculty salaries, and
we desperately need it. The
quality of UNC is a function of
the quality of our f acuity. ”
MICHAEL HOOKES
Chancellor
with concerns about accessibility to the
University.
“I couldn’t have gone to a high-priced
private university,” Hooker said. “If we
did implement a S4OO increase, we’d still
be the lowest priced flagship university.”
Tuition was not the only topic which
addressed the issue of exclusion in the
campus community.
Ladell Robbins, president of the Black
Student Movement, said he was concerned
that the feeling on campus was to disregard
The fourface the maximum penalties of 10
years to life in prison, Kinnaird said.
The drag ring at the Eugene Street house
was just one of many that the Carrboro
Police Department is targeting, Kinnaird
said.
“There are plenty of them around, but
we cleaned it up (the Eugene Street house)
very well,” she said. “We are very pleased
with what happened. Our residents (on
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tional rankings.
“There was no question that serials and
acquisitions had been under considerable
assault over the past 10 years,” he said.
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the black leadership and that minority in
terests were not being adequately commu
nicated to South Building.
“My position and posture is to make
myself and my office accessible to every
body,” Hookersaid. “One of those groups
is the black student leadership and another
is the black faculty leadership.”
Although he had earlier deferred com
ment on the issue of the housekeepers at
UNC, Hooker said Friday that he had been
looking into satisfying their concerns about
supervision, training and wages.
“The housekeepers are the lowest paid
people on campus. Their wages are abys
mal,"Hookersaid. “By any standard, they
do not have an acceptable quality of life.”
Relative to the competition in the area,
however, the UNC housekeepers, whose
wages can only be raised by the state legis
lature, were paid relatively well, Hooker
said.
“They are now over the market; that is,
over the average (salary) for housekeepers
in the area,” Hooker said. “While they are
low paid, they are highly paid relative to
their competition.
“That makes it difficult to go to the
legislature and get a raise. I don’t want to
hold out false hope.”
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Stadium. Edwards says she attends all UNC home football games.
Lawyers Attempting
To Keep Media Out
■ The North Carolina Press
Association will fight a
motion made by Wendell
Williamson’s attorneys to
close pretrial hearings.
BY WENDY GOODMAN
CITY EDITOR
Attorneys for double-murder suspect
Wendell Williamson filed a motion Thurs
day in Orange County Superior Court to
keep the media out ofthe pretrial hearings
scheduled for later this week.
Lawyers from the North Carolina Press
Association have already prepared a suit
against the defense team and plan to fight
the motion in court today.
Superior Court Judge Gordon Battle
will rale on the mo
tion Wednesday,
when the pretrial
hearings are slated
to begin.
Public defender
James Williams and
defense attorney
Kirk Osborn filed
the motion, stating
the need “to exclude
press and electronic
media” from the
pretrial hearings to
assure the selection
of a fair and impar
tial jury.
——
Accused gunman
WENDELL
WILLIAMSON'S
pretrial hearings begin
Wednesday.
Defense attorneys want to block any
information leak from the pretrial hearings
to avoid a change of venue, or moving the
trial to another area.
The News & Observer, The Chapel Hill
Herald, The Chapel Hill News, The Daily
Tar Heel and the NCPA had signed onto a
suit to contest the closed pretrial hearings
as of Friday afternoon.
“There are a number of members of the
press association trying to prevent closure,”
said Hugh Stevens, an attorney for the
N.C. Press Association. “UnderN.C. court
ruling you can’t close pretrial hearings,” he
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said.
Stevens said the technical way to op
pose the blockade ofthe press was to file a
motion to intervene with the court. The
NCPA plans to formally notify the court
today of the intention.
“The usual way to go about this is to
simply notify the court we want to be
heard, ” he said. “This requires the court to
hear persons opposing the closure pro
ceedings.”
The defense could request a change of
venue in order to have an unbiased jury
pool, but Williamson’s lawyers want to
keep the trial in Orange County. The mo
tion stated “the defendant strenuously...
objects to a transfer of venue and asserts
upon information and belief that a fair and
impartial jury can be selected from citizens
of Orange County to try these matters.”
A change of venue means the
Williamson case would be tried in another
location, and jurors wouldbe selected there
instead of from Orange County, where the
Jan. 26 shootings occurred.
Defense for the accused gunman con
tend that keeping the media and the in
tense publicity from surrounding the pre
trial hearings would help ensure a fair trial
for their client. The defense claims that the
widespread publicity that pretrial hearings
will attract will jeopardize the jury selec
tion due to details and evidence in the case
which will be presented.
Stevens said there had been a number of
similar situations in the past, the most
recent one being the James Jordan murder
case, in which the defense attempted to
close pretrial hearings. The judge in that
case ruled the pretrial hearings could not
be closed, he said.
According to past cases heard by die
U.S. Supreme Court, the judge can close
pretrial hearings to the media. Trials, how
ever, cannot be closed.
Williamson is charged with two counts
of first-degree murder in the shootings of
UNC lacrosse player Kevin Reichardt and
Chapel Hill resident Ralph Walker.
Williamson is also charged with 13 counts
of assault with a deadly weapon with in
tent to kill. The trial is slated to begin in late
October.
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