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Volume 103, Issue 76
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BC IVnudi on Clarke-Pearson
■ The Chapel Hill High
graduate had academic
problems his freshman year.
BY GREG KAHN
STAFF WRITER
While Donald Clarke-Pearson, the
Chapel Hill High School graduate accused
of raping a woman in Duke Forest Sept.
15, remains under house arrest in Chapel
Hill, his friends from his first year at Bos
ton College describe a much less well
adjusted man than the wholesome over
achiever his classmates from CHHS re
member.
Clarke-Pearson has been charged with
first-degree rape, first-degree kidnapping,
three counts of robbery with a dangerous
weapon and two counts of second-degree
kidnapping in connection with the inci
dent.
Friends of Clarke-Pearson from CHHS
have described him as a quiet, good-na
tured, well-adjusted student-athlete who
was dedicated to his studies and the CHHS
cross-country team that he co-captained.
“ThisistotallyuncharacteristicofDon,”
said Brian McNamara, a friend of Clarke-
Pearson’s since the sixth grade who shared
the co-captain position at CHHS.
Clarke-Pearson’s year at BC was not as
successful as those spent at CHHS.
After failing to qualify to compete for
the BC track team because of a technical
ity, his academics began to suffer because
of “too many distractions. Without the
structure of the track team, he lost the
discipline he had in high school,”
McNamara said.
“While Don was upset about the track
stuff,hewas happy to have the opportunity
Housekeepers Work
With Hooker to Address
Pay, Training Grievances
BY STEPHEN LEE
STAFF WRITER
Chancellor Michael Hooker and Chief
of Staff Elson Floyd have been holding
meetings with UNC housekeeping staff
over the past month as part of an effort to
address the housekeepers’ concerns.
“I’m just trying to understand the is
sues," Hooker said Tuesday.
Hooker said the three main concerns
were pay, quality of supervision and job
advancement opportunities. In 1991, 35
housekeepers sued the University, alleging
low pay and poor treatment by supervi
sors, among other grievances.
“With respect to pay there is not much
we can do except maybe lobby the legisla
ture,” Hooker said.
Hooker said programs were being de
signed to provide better training of supervi
sors. Programs that would provide job ad
vancement were also being planned, he
said. “We are working to improve pro
grams that give skills and enable them to be
qualified for other jobs,” he said.
Marsha Tinnen, a member of the UNC
Housekeepers’ Association who has at
tended the meetings, said she was optimis
tic that the housekeepers’ situation would
improve.
“(Hooker) said we would see changes
within the next six months,” she said. “I
feel that he really wants to work on the
issue.”
Housekeeper Barbara Prear said she
thought the meetings had been going well.
Issues such as higher wages, better work
ing conditions and training have been dis
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for a social life.”
Sources from BC, however, talk about a
different side of Clarke-Pearson. Joseph
Quintanilla, a BC track team member who
trained with Clarke-Pearson, described him
as an “oddball.”
According to Quintanilla, Clarke-
Pearson became, “a lot rowdier during the
year. He screamed like a wild man at the
football games.”
Peter Simmons, another member of the
BC track team, described Qarke-Pearson
as, “very eccentric, and kind of weird.”
InSimmons’ opinion, Clarke-Pearson’s
early positionas front runner for the “Chery
Miller Award”, an award given to the
“craziest new (track team) member,” was
the result of a widespread view of Clarke-
Pearson as being, “a little different.”
In response to questions about changes
in Clarke-Pearson’s character during his
year at Boston College, McNamara said,
“he is the same as he was when he left.”
At the end ofhis freshman year, Qarke-
Pearson was not asked to return to BC.
Qarke-Pearson’s former roommate re
fused to talk about Qarke-Pearson. His
coach from BC could not be reached by
press time.
A motion to provide the defense with
some of the tissue samples from the scene
of the crime was denied Monday, said
Clarke-Peareon’s attorney, Kirk Osborn.
He said the motion was filed so the defense
could exonerate Clarke-Pearson without
waiting the three to six months state testing
usually takes.
Osborn also discussed the accuracy of
the “show-up” identification used to charge
hisclient. “Show-up” identification, which
occurs when the accused is taken back to
the scene ofthe crime to be identified by the
victim(s), provides the victim with only
one possible suspect while the victim is still
cussed, she said.
Laurie Charest, associate vice chancel
lor ofhuman resources, said the University
had not solved all the problems.
“We’re not at that point yet," she said.
“The chancellor is continuing to meet with
groups from the housekeeping department.
They want to listen and hear their con
cerns.”
Bruce Runberg, associate vice chancel
lor of facilities and management, said the
groups that had been meeting with Hooker
and Floyd included the housekeeper’s
movement, supervisors and members of
the Employee’s Forum.
The housekeepers’ lawsuit was origi
nally dismissed, thenappealedby thehouse
keepers. The University tried to dismiss
the case several times on appeal, but failed.
Attorney Alan McSurely, who represents
the housekeepers, said die case would be
heard this winter at the Office of Adminis
trative Hearings. “We are presently pre
paring forthat right now,” McSurely said.
While University housekeeper pay rates
are established by die state, a recent study
of housekeeper pay rates in the area con
cluded that UNC was paying housekeep
ers at or slighdy above the average rate.
McSurely said he thought it was unfair
of the University to pay the prevailing
market rate to housekeepers.
“It is particularly repugnant that the
University is the driving force in the out
landishcostofliving,”hesaid. “Iftheseare
the kinds of values at UNC, my alma
mater, that you pay people the prevailing
market rate, then I find it repugnant and
immoral.”
BYJ.C. JOHNSON II
STAFF WRITER
With the UNC football team rampag
ing opponents with a record almost identi
cal to that of the Carolina Panthers, stu
dents are left with one thing to look for
ward to basketball season.
Tickets for the 1995-96 regular-season
men’s basketball games will be available
through the Carolina Athletic Association
starting Saturday, Oct. 14from8a.m.tol2
p.m. Exhibition ticket distribution started
Sept. 20.
Students can get tickets from the will
call window on the north side of the Smith
Center on listed distribution dates. Stu
dents must present their UNC ONE Cards
to get tickets. Students who want two tick
ets must present another student ID.
Groups of students will be able to get up to
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In a high
school
yearbook
photograph,
Donald Clarke-
Pearson dashes
for the finish line
at a
cross-country
meet. The 1994
CHHS graduate,
who was
co-captain of the
team,
is accused of a
Sept. 15 rape
and assault in
Duke Forest. He
is currently at
his parents'
home after
being placed
under electronic
house arrest by
the Orange
County District
Court.
in a frightened state, Osborn said.
He said “show-up” identifications were
“slanted towards positive identification,”
because of the lack of options. Orange-
Chatham County District Attorney Carl
Fox was unavailable for comment.
Priortohishouse arrest, Clarke-Pearson
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The famed children’s show host came to the Research Triangle Park
Tuesday to pitch a different approach to child care and children’s issues
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Fred Rogers, famous for his 30 years of welcoming children to his neighborhood, is helped out of his
chair after giving a speech at UNC-TV Tuesday. Rogers tore ligaments in his right leg three weeks ago.
six seats together as long as they have three
people in line with six IDs.
Lower level seating will be distributed
randomly, followed by upper level seating.
The remaining tickets will be distributed
on the following Monday.
“Camping out will be the same as in
years past,” said CAA President Anthony
Reid. “Students will be able to camp out in
the Dean Dome when the weather gets
cold.”
The CAA will use the line/roll call
system. Students will line up in the F West
parking lot 24 hours before distribution.
Numbers will be given out, and students
must stay in numerical order.
“The 24-hour time limit (on when stu
dents can place themselves in line) was
established for student safety," Reid said.
In the past, students would stampede to the
doors of the Smith Center because of a
0 Lord, help me to he pure, but not yet.
St. Augustine
was attending classes through the continu
ing education center at N.C. State Univer
sity and working part-time at the Duke
Medical Center. He did not have part-time
student status at NCSU.
No one from the Clarke-Pearson house
hold could be reached at press time.
five-hour time limit.
After numbers are handed out, the CAA
might conduct line checks. “If we have a
line check and you’re not there, you’re
withdrawn and you lose your place in
line,” said CAA vice president Brian
Whitley.
The campout process is difficult for non
traditional students, such as ones who are
married and/or have children, he said.
Non-traditional students have not been
factored into the distribution plan, he said.
“We have taken them into consider
ation,” Whitley said. “But nothing (has
been done) that is really fair. A lot of tickets
go wasted. I’d rather have the students get
the tickets than have them go to public
use.”
CAA officials plan for ticket distribu
tion updates to be available on-line by
October.
Legislature Draws Fire
On Women’s Issues
BY LAURA GODWIN
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The Orange County Rape Crisis Center
marked the end oftheir 20th year of service
to the community at its annual volunteer
appreciation party Tuesday.
N.C. Sen. Fred Hobbs, D-Orange, the
guest speaker for the evening, used the
night to attack attitudes and actions by the
General Assembly regarding the treatment
of sexual violence.
Hobbs said recent legislative actions by
the General Assembly were counterpro
ductive to the efforts of organizations like
the Orange County Rape Crisis Center.
“I wish I could come here tonight and
tell you things are wonderful, that the Gen
eral Assembly made sweeping changes to
protect you and to protect the survivors of
sexual offenses,” he said.
Hobbs said the General Assembly’s at
titude toward sexual violence was one of a
generation past, when sexual violence was
dealt with quietly, and victims were viewed
as responsible for the violence against them.
“The General Assembly is saying to
victims, at all levels, you are responsible
for the plight at which you find yourself. ”
Hobbs saidlegislation such as therecent
concealed weapons law showed the regres
sion of the General Assembly in dealing
with sexual violence.
“(the concealed weapons law) may not,
as you think about it initially, deal with
rape or sexual violence, but statistically we
know that about 15 or 20 percent of the
population will take permits to carry a
concealed weapon,” he said.
Hobbs said the concealed weapons law
could create even more dangerous situa
tions for victims of date rape. “The poten-
BY JAIME KOWEY
STAFF WRITER
Mr. Rogers came to our neighborhood Tuesday,
and in the same calm way that he speaks to children
on his show, he spoke to adults in the child care
profession at a special luncheon.
Fred Rogers, of “Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood,”
was at the University ofNorth Carolina Center for
Public Television in the Research Triangle Park
discussing anew, innovative child-care outreach
project.
Thanks to a $25,000 grant from Nationsßank,
UNC-TV will offer the project to caregivers across
the state.
Pam McDonald, UNC-TV pre-school coordina
tor for the Mr. Rogers’ project, will travel around
the state providing training sessions for child-care
professionals.
Participants of the program will receive the Mr.
Rogers’ Plan and Play Book which contains activi
ties and topics reinforcing and extending the pro
grams’ lessons.
The Child Care Partnership introduces parents
and child-care providers to anew way of thinking
about the television show.
The new program focuses on the abilities of
children to deal with their feelings and experiences,
to be kinder and less hostile toward one another, to
be more curious about the world, and to be more
imaginative in their play.
“We need to give (children) a whole variety of
ways of expressing who they are," Rogers said.
“The greatest gift we can give anybody is the gift of
our greatest self.”
Rogers commented on his feeling toward today’s
television. “I think we have taken an amazingly
wonderful medium and turned it into a grocery
store, something that is just meant to sell,” Rogers
said. “We still have the chance to enrich the world,
and I have done, and am doing, what I can.”
Nancy Carlson, Head Start Director for the
Kannapolis City Schools, was one of the many
child-care providers invited to the luncheon. She
emphasized the great impact that Rogers has had on
children and the importance of parents watching
the program with their children.
“I know that children are captivated by (Rogers)
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N.C. Sen. FRED HOBBS called for
more action against sexual violence.
rial that exists for an individual to be carry
ing a gun without the knowledge of his
partner creates an even more trying cir
cumstance,” he said.
Hobbs said although the General As
sembly had moved backwards in dealing
with sexual violence, not all actions taken
were in the wrong direction. Bills have
been passed that allow local sheriffs to
register sex offenders that move into their
community, and a bill was passed that
raised the legal age of consent from 13 to
16, Hobbs said.
“We did do some things that I think are
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