®lir Daily Star Hrrl J? Volume 103, Issue 94 102 years of editorial freedom Serving the students and the University community since 1893 Opening Statements Begin Today in Williamson Trial BY WENDY GOODMAN CITY EDITOR AND LAURA GODWIN ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR HILLSBOROUGH - Attorneys in double-murder suspect Wendell Williamson’s trial will issue opening state ments beginning at 2 p.m. in the Orange County Superior Court House today. A submission hearing for evidence in the case will begin at 9:30 a.m., and the six jurors and two alternates selected Tuesday will join the six chosen Monday in return ing to the courtroom in the afternoon for opening statements. As the day progressed, with attorneys planning opposing strategies for selecting the jury, Williamson who was seated next to his attorney stared blankly to wards the jury box. Defense attorneys James Williams and Kirk Osborn continued along the same line of questioning they had begun Monday in the selection of the first group of jurors. The defense questioned potential jurors regarding their ability to understand the difference between the prosecution’s bur den of proof and the burden ofproofforthe defense. “Our burden of proof under the law is a lower standard,” Osborn told the jury. Limited parking spaces and impending cuts in federal funding for public transportation mean area residents may have a harder time Transportation Important to UHC Heel survey respondents rated how I ■ important public transportation and parking should I W be to the next mayor. Town Council or Board of | DTH/LARURIE PERKIS AND HEAD IERIJ-WIS _ , ...... , . DTH/STEFAN NIKLES Sophomores Leslie Matthews and Sara Armstrong get off the P-bus Tuesday in the PR lot off Estes Drive. Chapel Hill Transit buses run in and between Chapel Hill and Carrboro, helping to alleviate the need for parking in the area. U.N. Still Important After 50 Years ■ Although the U.N. is too big and in debt, it does a job no other organization could do, local experts say. BYERICA BESHEARS ASSISTANT STATE 6 NATIONAL EDITOR Local United Nations experts defended the U.N. against accusations ofinefficiency and incompetence, saying that the organi zation, now celebrating its 50th anniver sary, needed reform but that it performed essential duties. The U.N. has faced accusations of be ing bloated and disorganized. Julia Henderson, a Chapel Hill resident who was a member of the committee that orga nized the United Nations, and who was at one point the highest-ranking woman in the U.N. Secretariat, said the excess was a result of growth over the last 50 years. “Every bureaucracy grows,” she said. “It started with 51 nations; now there are 185.” Osborn said he was concerned that the jury might have the idea that the defense had to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that Williamson was insane. Williams also told the potential jurors during questioning that it was not die re sponsibility of the defense to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the defendant was insane. Williams told the jury that while the defense conceded that Williamson had shot and killed two men, the defense con tended it was a “result of severe mental illness.” “ It will be our burden to prove simply to your satisfaction that Mr. Williamson was insane at the time of these actions,” Will iams told prospective jurors. The defense continued to question po tential jurors as to whether or not they would be able to put aside preconceived notions of the insanity defense. “The law does not require that Mr. Williamson be insane in all aspects of his life,” Williams said. The defense hinted to the potential ju rors during questioning that their client would not take the stand to defend himself Both members of the defense team asked the potential jurors if their impartiality would be affected should Williamson See WILLIAMSON, Page 5 Eric Mlyn, assistant professor of politi cal science, said he agreed. “Every large institution needs reform, and the U.N. probably needs reform,” he said. “The member states should do that. “It’s incredibly inefficient. There’s of fices in Geneva, and the people in Geneva don’t know what the people in New York are doing. Let’s fix those inefficiencies.” The United Nations is working on re form. Helaine Plaut, a Fearrington Village resident who worked with United Nations Children’s Fund, said the U.N. had hired an inspector general, who would work to cut out inefficiencies. “No question, the U.N. needs to be reformed, needs to be made leaner, restructured,” Plaut said. Henderson suggested that smaller coun tries and other nations that had gained power since the United Nations was cre ated should have more representation. “Changes need to be made,” she said. “More representation is needed in the Se curity Council. Japan and Germany need to be there and more African countries.” Henderson said the United Nations did not always run smoothly because it was an Chapel Hill, North Carolina WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 25,1995 Hooker to Help H ousekeepers Marsha Tinnen, a UNC housekeeper, expresses her opinion on newly-announced initiatives to improve conditionTfor* 1 housekeepers as Chancellor Michael Hooker listens, at a press conference held in South Building Tuesday. Getting Around Town The Daily Tar Heel polled members of the University community to find out what they considered the five most important issues facing Chapel Hill and Carrboro. The DTH is running a series of articles examining these topics and the proposals for addressing them suggested by candidates running in the Nov. 7 town elections. Today we examine the No. 2 and No. 3 issues: parking and public transportation. organization of sovereign nations that would ultimately do what they wanted. Critics have charged that a main ineffi ciency within the United Nations is an overlap in the services performed by vari ous commissions and agencies of the alli ance. Henderson agreed that there was over lap in many of the commissions created by individual countries. “There are a lot of commissions that could be consolidated,” she said. Henderson explained that mem ber nations wanted to have something they had created, comparing it to congressmen who wanted to pass bills they had intro duced. Henderson denied there was overlap between agencies like the World Health Organization and UNICEF, while assert ing that there was a team effort. She said she worked closely with these agencies when she was director of the Bureau for Social Development. “You have a great family of agencies doing specific tasks —1 don’t think there’s SeeU.N.,Page4 Status quo. Latin for the mess we’re in. Jeve Moorman BYKARI COHEN STAFF WR(TER An increasing lack of space in the Chapel Hill and Carrboro downtown areas and transit system finding woes have the many community members who commute to work and school concerned about the future of parking and public transportation. Eighty-nine percent of Daily Tar Heel survey respon dents said parking should be a somewhat or very important issue for die next mayors, Town Council and Board of Aldermen. Eighty-eight percent said public transportation was an important issue. Chapel Hill Town Council member and candidate Jim Protzman said there was a strong connection between the two is sues. “The best way to improve parking is to improve mass tran sit . We need to make public trans portation convenient as an alter- native to the convenience of cars.” But the future of mass transit in Chapel Hill and Carrboro as an alternative to endless asphalt construction is up in the air. With a Republican Congress slashing funding and reducing federal investment in a variety of programs, cuts loom in federal operating assistance that could affect the daily lives of Chapel Hill and Canboro residents. David King, deputy secretary for Transit, Rail and Aviation for the North Carolina Department of Transpor tation, said the expected cuts from Congress will have a strong impact on the local system. “Congress is yet to act. The Senate and House differ on h ow much they want to cut.lt’s going to be somewhere on the order of 25 to 30 percent, and it will be felt in the Chapel Hill/Canboro transit system this fiscal year.” Federal operating assistance currently makes up ap proximately 30 percent of the transportation budget. With the approaching Nov. 7 town elections, candi dates for office in both towns are considering their positions on the issues of public transportation and parking in Chapel Hill and Carrboro. CongnssiMal Cats Despite great potential impact on the area transit sys tem, fhe district’s congressional representative stands be- See TRANSPORTATION, Page 2 CAA Funds Frozen by Treasurer Because Of Unexplained Money in SAFO Accounts BYNANCYfONTI assistant university editor The student body treasurer Tuesday, acting on a recommendation from the Stu dent Congress Finance Committee, froze fhe Carolina Athletic Association’s funds pending an explanation for more than $27,000 in the group's account. On Monday, Finance Committee Chair woman Julie Gasperini and Student Body Treasurer Nathan Darling requested the CAA’s financial records from the Student Activities Fund Office because members of the committee had questioned the CAA’s financial status. In October, CAA President Anthony Reid told congress and the finance com mittee that unless congress allocated $4,000 to the CAA, there would be no Homecom ing or ticket distribution. SAFO’s financial reports stated that throughout September and October, CAA’s. balance of generated funds fluctuated be- Meadowmont’s Approval Gets Mixed Reactions BYALEXPODLOGAR STAFF WRITER The Chapel. Hill Town Council voted 6-3 in favor of the Controversial Meadowmont development Monday night. Coun cil members Joyce Brown, Mark Chiltcm and Xoe-Capowski voted against the plan, citing the lack of guarantees that the plan would be beneficial to the town of Chapel Hill. “My main concerns surrounding the feet that there were not sufficient guarantees in the master land-use plan, that what was built would look like, what Roger (Perry, the developer of MeadOwmont) had presented to us,” Chilton said. “Everything can look good on paper, but what is actually put on the ground could be remarkably different than the ‘substantially similar’ that Roger presented to us.” Joyce Brown was more concerned that the Meadowmont project did not fit in the town’s original plans. “I think that the Town Council passed goals this past spring regarding the east entranceway, ” she said. “We had language that the developed neighborhood should have a variety of housing types, and I didn’t feel that this plan followed what die town had decided was fit for the town’s Comprehensive Plan.” Chilton was not so upset with what was in the plan, but with what was left out. “It is possible that something Well designed could be built in this area, there just weren’t any guarantees,” he said. Brown was also upset with the type of development that was planned for the area. “To have large-scale office and retail development comparable with the size of South Square Mall, it’s not in keeping to having office and retail development with that kind of neighborhood,” she said. “We had spiecified not to have large separate zones of housing types, but over half of the acreage in the development is for upper-class housing. The commercial and retail development should be developed to serve the neighborhood.” The plan was presented with a revision concerning the number of acres allotted to the town for the construction of anew school. Perry, ofEast West Partners, had planned to donate lOacresatthe last council meeting. However, council member Rosemary Waldorf added a stipulation calling for the donation of 18 acres for the school development. Perry returned with an offer of 16 acres when the plan passed Monday'. The revision had no influence on See MEADOWMONT, Page 2 tween $27,000 and $28,000. “The members of tire finance commit tee had real problems with this because they felt they were misguided with the information presented by the CAA in Oc tober,” Gasperini said. “They said they had no money, and Homecoming would not happen if they did not get these funds.” Reid, CAA Treasurer lan Walsh and CAA Vice President Brian Whitley could notbe reached forcommentMondaynight. The finance committee will meet at 7:30 p.m. Monday to discuss the financial re port with Reid and other CAA officers. Gasperini said she did not know where the committee would meet. The freeze is in effect until Monday evening, meaning that the CAA will be unable to spend any funds in SAFO until after the meeting, Congress requested in the bill allocating $4,000 for Homecoming activities that the money be channeled through the execu tive branch of student government because the CAA had handled the $19,000 alio News/Features/ Arts/Sports Business/Advertising O 1995 DTH Publishing Corp. AH rights reserved. BYSUZANNEJACOVEC STAFF WRITER Chancellor Michael Hook®- announced Tuesday at a press conference in South Building initiatives to improve working conditions, training opportunities and management for University housekeepers within six months. Although Hooker said UNC could do nothing to increase housekeepers’ salaries because they are employees of the state, leaders in the housekeepers movement said they were pleased with the Hooker’s plans. The initiatives come from focus group* that Hooker and Chiefof StaffElson Floyd conducted for the past three months. The groups, made up of housekeepers and ad ministrators, targeted the three main con cerns of University housekeepers: train ing, management and working conditions. “We’re not dealing with short term ho rizons here,” Hooker said. “We are com mitted to making it work. It will be a process of fine tuning the initiatives we’ve undertaken'and adding new ones as we go along. "We’re going to keep coming back to the front-line workers in housekeeping to make sure management is getting better,” Hooker said. “We’re going to see signifi cant results in six months.” See HOUSEKEEPERS, Page 2 cated by congress last spiring irresponsibly. At the time the bill passed, the CAA had other funds in their account, such as $2,000 allocated to speakers’ fees and SSOO allo cated to computer supplies, according to the CAA’s budget of student fees alloca tions presented to congress. Congress allo cated more money to the CAA, rather than transferring money in the budget. Additionally, no member of congress requested that the CAA’s SAFO financial report be checked before congress passed the bill channeling $4,000 to the CAA through the executive branch, Darling said. “This does point to a problem, and we will try to be more care fill in the future,” Darling said. “There are ways for things to fell through the cracks.” Weather TODAY: Partly sunny; high 70. THURSDAY: Partly cloudy; high 70. 962-0245 962-1163

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