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Pretrial Hearing Begin Today
BY WENDY GOODMAN
CITY EDITOR
The pretrial hearings for accused gun
man Wendell Williamson are scheduled to
begin today in Orange County Superior
Court at 9:30 a.m.
Judge Gordon Battle will preside over
the hearings during which a group of mo
tions presented over the summer will be
discussed and a decision will be rendered.
“There are some important decisions
that will come out of this, and it could
change the course of the trial,” said Kirk
Osborn, attorney for Williamson. “He’ll
be deciding about bifurcating the trial, dis
covery, jury selection and several other
motions.”
The most recent motion which will be
Financial
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BYBRONWEN CLARK
AND JAMES LEWIS
UNIVERSITY EDITORS
Most of the furor of the debate regard
ing the possible S4OO tuition increase cen
ters on the ability of students to finance the
additional cost.
While 35 percent of the revenue from
the proposed tuition increase would be
earmarked for financial aid, many, includ-
ing UNC System
President C.D.
Spangler, have
questioned the
ability of UNC
students to handle
the increase.
Eleanor
Morris, director of
student aid, said projections showed that
the 35 percent allocation would coverthose
7,soostudents already receiving need-based
financial aid.
However, she said she could not predict
the number of additional students who
would apply and be accepted for need
based aid should the S4OO increase be
passed.
“I think everybody has said it’s impos
sible to project,” she said. “There are no
demographics for those who have not ap
plied.”
Interim Provost Richard Richardson
said he had not seen any projections as to
the number of students who would seek
financial aid, should the Board of Trustees
approve the S4OO increase.
Student Body President Calvin
Cunningham said those students who
would apply for aid for the first time were
a major concern in the debate. “Those are
the students of primary concern,” he said.
“We are trying to find out how many come
into the system as a result.”
Morris, who will be present at the spe
cial board meeting Thursday, said that
there were many problems with compiling
figures for the possible increase and that no
specifics had been forthcoming. “Every
time we run the numbers we get another
wrinkle,” she said.
Cunningham said although he was not
sure that the revenue earmarked for finan
cial aid was enough to cover new need, the
percentage was not set in stone. “The Board
of Trustees is bound to at least 35 percent,
but we can propose higher," he said.
Richardson said the proposal also of
fered the flexibility to provide for students
who would be forced to apply for need
based aid because of a tuition increase. “It
is our hope that the 35 percent would cover
need-based aid,” Richardson said. “In the
event that it is not sufficient, we will re
serve some portion of the faculty monies.”
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the first heard and
decided on was
made by defense at
torneys last Thurs
day. The motion
asks “to exclude
press and electronic
media” from the
hearings, which will
be held today and
Friday. Defense at
torneys contend
that by excluding
media, their client
will be ensured a fair
trial.
Accused gunman
WENDELL
WILLIAMSON will
appear in court today.
The motion stated that exclusion of the
press would assure the selection of a fair
and impartial jury because it would pre-
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Shanta Hinton, a senior biology major, and Sherrece Cousar, a senior sociology major, look at the world from a
different perspective as they try to complete their art projects Tuesday afternoon in front of Hanes Art Center.
NATO Launches Second
Round of Strikes on Serbs
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina
Its patience exhausted by shifting Serb sig
nals,NATO launchednewairattacksTues
day meant to force the rebels to pull their
big guns out of range of Sarajevo.
The airstrikes appeared to end about an
hour after they started, at least around
Sarajevo. But U.N. and NATO officials
said they were open-ended.
“The attacks will go on until the Serbs
comply with our demands,” said U.N.
spokesman Chris Gunness. “We hope that
a strong signal being sent to the Bosnian
Seibs will make them realize that the inter
national community is serious.”
However, heavy rain that began Tues
day night around Sarajevo limited the
chances of new NATO attacks until the
weather improved.
Pentagon spokesman Kenneth Bacon
said U.S. warplanes flying from Aviano,
Italy, and the aircraft carrier US S Theodore
Roosevelt in the Adriatic Sea made up
more than half the NATO strike force. A
Western military source, who spoke on
condition of anonymity, said about 80 U.S.
warplanes were involved.
Tuesday’s targets similar to those
attacked last week included ammuni
tion depots and communications facilities,
Bacon said.
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vent information leaks. With this motion,
the defense is hopingto prevent a change of
venue of the trial.
The North Carolina Press Association
plans to contest this motion, according to
Amanda Martin, anattomey for theNCPA.
Martin said several media entities within
the local area and The Associated Press
had signed on to the suit.
“We wrote a letter to the judge to notify
him we would be filing a motion to inter
vene in order to oppose the motion to close
the pretrial proceedings,” she said. “It is
fairly clearly mandated under the N.C. and
U.S. constitutions that criminal hearings
be held in open court."
Osborn said he could not comment on
the suit that the NCPA intended to file.
Another motion to be presented today
In the Eyes of the Beholder
The primary aim of the bombardment
was to stop the shelling of civilians by
forcing the Serbs to pull some 300 heavy
weapons at least 12 miles away from be
sieged Sarajevo. But the NATO planes
were not always able to get at Serb artillery
emplacements because of their proximity
to populated areas.
U.N. forces, which backed up NATO
planes last week, helped out again Tues
day, destroying a Serb mortar south of the
city as it was preparing to fire, U.N. offi
cials said.
The Bosnian Serb military leader, Gen.
Ratko Mladic, offered Monday to call a
unilateral cease-fire around Sarajevo. But
he refused to pull back the guns, defying a
pledge to do so by Bosnian Serb political
leaders.
NATO airstrikes resumed about 12
hours after the deadline for the Serbs to
comply had expired.
The Bosnian Serb military said
Tuesday’s raids caused extensive damage
and civilian casualties.
Bosnian Serb television showed several
demolished houses, a crying woman
dressed in black and a man almost cut in
half lying in a coffin. It said one civilian
was killed and a woman and two children
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deals with the seizure of evidence follow
ing the Jan. 26 shooting spree on Henderson
Street.
Defense attorneys contend that state
ments Williamson made following the
shooting and items found in his apartment
should not be allowed in court because
they were obtained through illegal search.
Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl
Fox also is asking that the former UNC law
student’s class transcripts and medical
records, which include psychiatric treat
ment, be turned over.
Fox has requested that the dean ofUN C
law school be ordered to turn over these
records to substantiate the defense’s claim
that Williamson was suffering from an
unstable mental state at the time of the
shooting.
Code Change, Funding Top Congress Agenda
BY NANCY FONTI
SENIOR WRITER
Student Congress today will consider a
bill to change the Student Code to accom
modate a U.S. Supreme Court decision
forbidding public universities from deny
ing student fee funding for groups based on
their political or religious affiliation.
At its meeting tonight, Congress will
also reconsider funding for three groups
that were denied it in the spring because of
the “politically partisan” clause in the code.
Funding for The Catalyst and The Caro
lina Review, two student opinion maga
zines, and New Generation Campus Min
istries will be reconsidered.
The Rules and Judiciary Committee
made changes to the code last Tuesday,
and University attorney Mary Sechriest
approved the changes Tuesday.
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Campus Break-Ins
Down From Last Year
■ But forcible sex offenses
continued to rise, with 21
offenses reported in 1994.
BY JAMES LEWIS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The number of burglaries and breaking
and enterings reported to University Po
lice dropped by almost half in 1994, ac
cording to the annual UNC Security Re
port released Friday. And continuing a
trend, reported forcible sex offenses in
creased slightly.
The number of burglaries and breaking
and enterings reported dropped to 60, nearly
half of the 117 cases reported in 1993.
Interim Police Chief Don Gold said a
greater focus on crime prevention contrib
uted to the drop in reported incidents.
“We really have placed a lot of empha
sis on crime prevention,” Gold said in a
press release Friday. “We’ve had a lot of
officers give programs to groups—student
orientation, employee orientation and other
groups. I’d like to think that’s part of it.”
Lt. Angela Cannon, crime prevention
officer, said the programs were designed to
teach people to do the simple things which
can prevent crime later.
“Our programs are about getting back
into the dorms and the offices and letting
everyone know that we are all responsible
for our belongings,” she said. “Until we
understand that, we will all continue to be
the victims of crime.”
She said simply locking the door when
leaving personal property or University
property unattended was a key to preven
tion.
Despite the sharp drop in reported bur
glaries and break-ins, the incidents of ve
hicle thefts and forcible sex offenses re
ported increased during 1994.
Twenty-one cases of forcible sex of
fenses were reported in 1994, compared to
18 cases in 1993 and 11 cases in 1992.
No non-forcible sex offenses, described
as incest or statutory rape, have been re
ported at UNC for the past three years.
Cannon said that sex offense was one
category in which more offenses probably
occurred than were reported.
“From 1992 to 1994 as far as sex of
fenses reported, for the largest part the
clause allowing stu
dent groups to en
dorse candidates,”
said rules and judi
ciary chairman
Terry Milner. “That
is a free speech is
sue, and we can’t
prohibit them from
doing it.”
The revised code
will allow groups to
endorse candidates
in any campus, lo
cal, state ornational
election, but student
fee money cannot be
Speaker of Student
Congress ROY
GRANATO will
preside over tonight's
session.
used to support a campaign.
In June, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled
in Rosenburger vs. the Board of Regents of
the University of Virginia that denying
groups funding from student activity fees
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Offenses Reported to
University Police
1992 1993 1994
Murder 0 0 0
Sex Offense 11 18 21
(forcible}
Sax Offense 0 0 0
(non-forcible)
Robbery 33 13
Aggravated 34 41 33
Assault j
Burglary/Breaking 286 117 60
and Entering ■■■■■
Motor 17 11 281
Vehicle Theft
SOURCE: 1995 UNC SECURITY REPORT
numbers are fairly close,” she said. “A
number of those are reported acquaintance
type tape. (Some cases are not reported
because) the victim feels like their report
won’t be taken seriously or that she or he
will be looked down upon for filing a report
against someone they know."
According to the report, 17 sex offenses
were reported to the Dean of Students
office in 1994 but were not reported to the
University Police.
The number of vehicle thefts reported in
1994 was 28, up from 11 in 1993.
Reported vehicle thefts in the town of
Chapel Hill also increased by nearly one
third, from 77 cases in 1993 to 101 last
year.
Cannon said the increases in the town
and campus figures were related.
“Pretty much if there is a trend within
the community at large, chances are crime
rates on campus will be affected, ” she said.
She said the high number of vehicle
thefts was due in part to the number of
large parking lots on campus. She said the
numbers included several cases of cars
being loaned but not returned.
“A couple of the reports that have come
in involved a person who reported their car
stolen but had actually had their car bor
rowed by someone they knew, and they
did not get it back at an agreed upon time,”
Caimon said.
Gold said in the press release that it was
difficult to detect any overall trends in the
data. “We’ll look at these figures in their
totality and address the problems," he said.
for religious publications violated the free
speech clause in the First Amendment
If student government does not change
the code to allow funding for politically
partisan and religious groups, the UNC
administration will have to override the
Student Code and alter it
In February, the student body will vote
on a referendum to revise the Student Con
stitution, making it concur with the U.S.
Supreme Court decision and the Student
Code.
The only way to change the Student
Constitution is by student referendum. It
must pass by atwo-thirds majority, and2.s
percent of the students must vote.
Congress also will consider several reso
lutions, including those to approve the
Student Body Treasurer, Elections Board,
Student Supreme Court, Undergraduate
Honor Court and the leader of the
Chancellor’s Task Force on AIDS.