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Williams Draws UNC
Salary Despite Move
■ The English professor who
resigned after statewide
outrage over his sexual
conduct has taken anew job.
BY ROBYN TOMLIN HACKLEY
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The former UNC English professor who
resigned after spending the summer em
broiled in scandal over past affairs with
students has accepted a job at a Chicago
area university.
According to Roger Oden, dean of arts
and sciences at Governor’s State Univer
sity in University Park, 111., James Will
iams accepted the position as director of
the school’s Writing Across the Curricu
lum program.
Even though he has taken anew job,
Williams will continue to draw his $64,000
salary from UNC until the end of Novem
ber, said University Legal Counsel Susan
Ehringhaus. Williams resigned from UNC
effective Nov. 30, after Chancellor Michael
Hooker initiated dismissal proceedings
against the former director of UNC’s com
position program.
Williams and his wife, former UNC
journalism student, Ako Shimada Will
iams, havepackedtheirbags andleft Chapel
Hill. Williams’newjob will begin Sept. 18.
The couple took Williams’ 10-year-old
son, Austin, with them. Orange County
District Judge Lowry Betts will rale today
at a 9 a.m. hearing on whether Williams is
in violation of his court-ordered joint-cus
Will Decries
Status of
Welfare State
■ In an address at the
Alumni Center, columnist
criticizes state-run health
care, education and the
urban crisis in America.
BYROBYN TOMLIN HACKLEY
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
Showing irreverence for both conserva
tives and liberals alike, George Will, a
columnist for both Newsweek and The
Washington Post, addressed an audience
of approximately 300 at the George Watts
Hill Alumni Center Tuesday evening.
“1995 is the most interesting political
year in Washington since the 1933 New
Deal,” Will said. “It’s not (the Demo
crats’) fault, what happened in the 1994
elections. Somethingisdramatically wrong
when the government that cannot deliver
the mail, cannot stop people from deliver
ing condoms to Bth graders.”
In the second annual Weatherspoon
Distinguished Faculty Scholar Lecture,
sponsored by the Kenan-Flagler Business
School, Will scrutinized the welfare state,
American faith in government and the
state of health care.
Will spoke to the crowd which included
both the current and former presidents of
the UNC-system, William Friday and C.D.
Spangler.
“The welfare state has swallowed up
the national budget,” Will said. “It will
only increase. Welfare can be defined as
the core paradox afflicting government for
the foreseeable future."
Will said President Clinton had assumed
office at a time when Americans were
questioning government and the manner
in which it acted. The problems most alarm
ing and vexing to the American people,
Will said, were the morals and values of
the times.
“Clinton comes to government at a time
when prestige of the government at all time
low,” Will said. “Bill Clinton, through no
fault of his own, is the least consequential
president since Calvin Coolidge."
The Democratic Party’s attempt to pass
a comprehensive health care package was
an attempt, according to Will, to restore
faith in a welfare system that has largely
failed.
“Health care was the attempt by the
Democratic Party to restore their reputa
tion as an indispensable deliverer of an
indispensable commodity,” Will said. “I
do not think that there is ever a propitious
moment to propose disabling the the most
successful health care system in the indus
trial world.”
Will said many of the crises in health
care today were the result of moral decay
and were not truly health problems.
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Ashley Williams
Williams came under fire after a lengthy
divorce battle with his ex-wife exposed the
Williams relationship with Shimada and
other alleged charges of sexual miscon
duct. Hooker initiated the dismissal pro
ceedings in July, citing discrepancies in a
travel voucher from a 1992 trip to Charles
ton, S.C.
Connie Zonka, public relations director
at GSU, said Tuesday that Williams had
informed GSU’s search committee of some
of the controversy that he faced at UNC.
“They knew very little about the situa
tion during the search process,” Zonka
said. “We knew that he had a troublesome
divorce, and had had an affair with Ako
Shimada before the divorce.”
Oden, who was on the search commit
tee for the position, defended their choice
saying, “We went through a nationwide
search process, and reviewed all aspects of
their qualifications.”
Zonka said GSU focused on Williams’
professional qualifications.
“Everyone we talked to in his area of
expertise was well-aware of his reputa
tion,” said Zonka. “His talent impressed
us. We did leam at least part of his story.
The provost (here) spoke to UNC’s law
yer, the provost and the chancellor, Hooker.
Basically they all said that he had resigned
and was not fired.”
Officials on the GSU search committee
learned about the publicity surrounding
Williams after they had already offered
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Watts Hill Alumni Center Tuesday. Will was part of the Weatherspoon Distinguished Faculty Scholar Lecture series.
“Infant mortality is at Third World lev
els in some cities," Will said. “That is a
crisis in cultural values.”
Will said with the graying of the popu
lation, caring for the needs of the elderly
would become increasingly more complex
and draining."l am not attacking the eld
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Chanal Hill North Carolina
WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 13,1995
First Forum Kicks Off Season
Chapel Hill Town Elections
BY JENNIFER ZAHREN
STAFF WRITER
Candidates for Chapel Hill municipal
offices received the first of many opportu
nities to express their views Tuesday night
at a public forum sponsored by Tax Watch.
Both candidates for mayor of Chapel
Hill, resident Kevin C. Foy and town coun
cil member Rosemary Waldorf, as well as
the eight candidates up for election to the
town council, focused on the leadership
roles of their desired positions. They ad
dressed issues including town-gown rela
tions and mass transit.
“I don’t need to be the smartest person
in the room, but I do need to recognize
good ideas," Waldorf said. She said the
future of the Chapel Hill area must be
based upon good communication within
town government, especially with the town
manager, as well as external cooperation
with surrounding communities.
As an area attorney and small business
man, Foy said that sound management,
specifically maintaininglow operating costs
and a tight rein on the budget, would help
Chapel Hill retain its character and integ
rity in the face of unprecedented growth.
Foy stressed that progress should not be
bought at the cost of the environment. If it
becomes necessary to protect Chapel Hill’s
open and public spaces, the town should be
forced to purchase these lands, Foy said.
Although he said he was in favor of changes
within the community, he said they should
only be made directly in line with the
wishes of the community.
erly are not doing their civic duty and
passing on,” joked Will. “Since 1960, the
population of the United States has in
creased 30 percent," he said. “Since 1960,
the population of people 85 and over has
increased 230 percent.”
Education in the United States also has
reached a state of crisis largely because of
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Pat Evans, a candidate for re-election to the Chapel Hill Town Council, explains her position at a candidates' forum in
the Town Council Chambers Tuesday evening. The forum allowed the candidates to speak publicly about the issues.
Candidates for town council also got a
chance to speak out at the forum on issues
that concerned them.
Much of Tuesday’s forum focused on
town relations with the University. Incum
bent council member Joe Capowski said
the relationship was symbiotic. “We have
grown up together totally intertwined,” he
said. “I don’t think you could separate the
two.”
Both Herschel Slater and Scott Radway
said they agreed that a study, possibly
a lack of family involvement in education,
a lack of focus on a core curriculum and the
distracting influence oftelevision, Will said.
Will also decried the urban crisis in
America, stating that more people died
from gunshot wounds in the six states
around Washington, D.C. last year than in
vehicular accidents.
funded by the General Assembly, could
help determine how the town and Univer
sity can mutually benefit each other. They
also suggested exploring whether the Uni
versity should be responsible for reimburs
ing the town for services the town pro
vides.
On the issue of mass transit, former
town council member Julie Andresen re
minded candidates that a greater amount
of bus riders was the equivalent of less
traffic and fewer auto admissions.
State Court of Appeals
Hears Kirk Auue Case
■ The former associate dean
says the University punished
him for whistleblowing.
BY JAMES LEWIS
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
RALEIGH Former associate dean
of the UNC Medical School Kirk Aune
came back to North Carolina on Tuesday
to hear his case against the University
argued before the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Aune, who had a contract with the
University as director of the medical
school’s computer system, filed a lawsuit
suit three years ago alleging he was wrongly
dismissed because he blew the whistle on
unethical and illegal practices within the
school.
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Lecturers Secure Right
To Win Teaching Awards
BY STEPHEN LEE
STAFF WRITER
Lecturers who have served five continu
ous years at the University are now eligible
to receive prestigious teaching awards.
“I wanted the University to recognize
them for their achievements, ” said Interim
Provost Richard Richardson. “They do an
enormous amount of instruction.”
The awards lecturers can now receive
are the Tanner Award for Excellence in
Undergraduate Teaching and the Johnston
Teaching Excellence Award. Lecturers
who teach graduate students are eligible
for the Distinguished Teaching Award for
Post Baccalaureate Instruction.
Richardson said Tuesday that the ded-
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Richard Franck advocated the idea that
if a bus fare increase was to be seen in
Chapel Hill’s future, it must coincide with
an increase in the tax base.
In accordance with legislation pending
in the General Assembly, Franck also said
the town's primary transportation goal
should be to greatly reduce single occu
pancy driving, and that recovery funds for
mass transit should in part be garnered
from those choosing to pay the price of
driving a car.
ney, argued that Aune’s report to the
University’s internal auditor of possible
conflicts of interest for UNC employees
directly contributed to his contract termi
nation.
He said he was basing the case on fed
eral legislation protecting whistleblowers,
which protects them from discrimination
or termination.
“Ifthe Whistleblower Act has any mean
ing at all, it must apply to (Aune), ” he said.
“He must have his day in court.”
Aune was hired on a five-year contract
in 1986, and his contract was renewed for
an additional two years in 1991. In the
spring of 1993, Aune’s contract was not
recommended for an extension by a six
member committee within the Medical
School, and subsequently his contract was
not renewed.
He has been associate chancellor for
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when Donna
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turer in the political
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that a year ago said he was pleased,
members of the as
sociation began to discuss the issue.
“What we were concerned about, no
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