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(31]d iatltt ®ctr Hrcl Volume ,03, Issue 154 102 years of editorialfreedom Serving the students and the University community since 1593 INSIDE MONDAY Review Withdraws Request for Student Fees ■ The controversial publication removed itself from the budget process. BY JAMIE GRISWOLD ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR The Carolina Review withdrew from the Student Congress Finance Committee’s spring budget hearings Friday because stu dent government did not respect First Amendment privileges, Carolina Review Publisher Charlton Allen said Sunday. “We feel that student government and Student Congress are antagonistic to First Amendment principles,” Allen said. In an e-mail message sent Friday to Student Body Treasurer Nathan Darling, Congress Speaker Roy Granato, Finance Committee Chairwoman Julie Gasperini and Speaker Pro-tem James Kilboume, Allen stated that the Review was with drawing immediately frombudget proceed ings. V : Last semester, congress allocated $4, 289 of student activities fees to the publica tion. An issue can cost anywhere from Cunningham Presses for Stipends For Next Year’s Student Leaders BY SHARIF DURHAMS STAFF WRITER After a failed attempt to establish a stipend for the speaker of Student Con gress last semester, the executive branch of student government will propose a stipend for the speaker, student body treasurer and student body president. Student Body President Calvin Cunningham said he would try to establish a $2,400 annual stipend for the student body president when he submitted his an nual budget request March 16. A $1,200 per year stipend for the speaker of congress and the treasurer will also be in the budget. The stipends, if passed, would go into effect next year. Cunningham said the stipends were CAA Fails to Turn In Request for Funds BY BRONWEN CLARK UNIVERSITY EDITOR After coming under fire last semester for discrepancies in its financial records, the Carolina Athletic Association failed to submit a budget to the Student Congress Finance Committee for its annual budget process, committee chairwoman Julie Gasperini said Sunday. “The CAA turned in nothing,” Gasperini said. “They will be at an ex treme disadvantage during subsequent funding.” Because of changes to the way Student Congress allocates student activity fee DTH/RYAN MATTHES Students participate in the Dance for Heart benefit held Saturday in the Student Recreation Center. The aerobic session demonstrated easy, low-impact ways for students to stay healthy. See story, page 4. Free Speech on Free Speech ACLU President Nadine Strossen speaks on campus tonight days after a court victory over Internet censorship. Page 3 $450t0 s9ooto pub lish, Allen said. “We have deter mined that we have the financial re sources to see us through until there is in place a student government or other student fee funding authority that respects free dom of speech, press, and associa tion,” Allen’s mes sage stated. “Do not fear, our magazine will continue to pub- Publisher CHARLTON ALLEN said the Review would solicit funds from conservative leaders in the state. lish for years to come.” Allen said he would lobby conservative political leadinthe state forthepublication’s funding. Student government officials announced Wednesday that student fees would not be used to pay for the latest edition of the Review, which depicts Student Body Presi dent-Elect Aaron Nelson with horns and a pitchfork on its cover. The issue has drawn fire from student and Jewish leaders, who necessary because of the time student government officers commit to their jobs. “We’resobusy with our positions that it’s hard for us to take on another job,” he said. Expenses such as parking when meet ing with members of the General Assem bly and purchasing suitable clothing necessitate a sti- Student Body President-Elect AARON NELSON could make $2,400. pend, Cunningham sqid. “The largest expense is you cannot take asummerjob,”Cunninghamsaid. “You’re money, 80 percent of congress’ budget will be distributed through the annual spring budget process. Congress may allocate up to 10 percent of the remaining money in the fall and the remaining 10 percent in the spring. Gasperini said if the CAA, which normally requests around $20,000 per aca demic year, were to tty to obtain subse quent finding in the fall they would likely not receive such a large amount. “There is a much smaller pot in the fall,” she said. “If they want their whole budget, SIO,OOO per semester, if they come to us in the fa 11... that ($ 10,000) is between one-third.and one-half of our budget.” Gasperini said she had made every ef Dance Your Heart Out Nothing comes from violence and nothing ever could. Sting Chapel Hill, North Carolioi MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19,1996 & have called the drawing and cover story anti-Semitic. Darling, who made the decision to deny student fee funding for the issue after con sulting with Student Body President Calvin Cunningham, Gasperini, and Student Ac tivities Fund Office Director and former Review Adviser Harold Brubaker, said he was not surprised that the Review had withdrawn from budget proceedings. “It’s a decision they’ve made within their group,” Darling said. “I won’t say I’m surprised with the way events have been as of late.” Granato said he was baffled by the Review’s decision but was glad the publi cation had withdrawn from budget pro ceedings. “It was a very pompous e-mail mes sage," hesaid. “Groups like (The Carolina Review) should not get student fees.” Gasperini said she was pleased that the Review had been able to withdraw its fund ing request because the Finance Commit tee has been encouraging student groups to take responsibility for their own funding. “It’s good to hear that groups are now See REVIEW, Page 6 expected to be here working for the stu dents." UNC-CH is the only school in the UNC system that does not pay its student body president a stipend. John O’Quinn, stu dent body president at N.C. State Univer sity, said he received a stipend of $2,400 per year and the student senate president and student body treasurer both received $2,200. “The stipends are reasonable,” O’Quinn said. “The student body is getting a bar gain.” Student Body President-Elect Aaron Nelson said he would need a stipend be cause he could not continue his job as a resident assistant for Mangum Residence See STIPEND, Page 2 fort to keep deadlines flexible and to ac commodate groups who had submitted only partial applications for funding. How ever, Gasperini said she had received noth ing from the CAA. Gasperini, who has served on the fi nance committee for three years, said the CAA had always participated in the spring budget process. "It is especially bad with a group that big if they don’t go through the budget process, ” she said. “It really surprised me.” Neither lan Walsh, the current CAA treasurer and a candidate for CAA presi dent, nor CAA President Anthony Reid could be reached for comment. Campaign Costs Campaign finance reform is a hot topic with legislators as they hit the campaign trail. Page 5 Lack of Hate Clause in Code Prevents Honor Court Case BY JAMIE GRISWOLD ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR Several students have approached Student Attorney General George Oliver to express their concern about the latest edition of the Carolina Re view, but Oliver said on Sunday that the Honor Court could not take action against the Review or its publisher. The cover of the Review, which de picts Student Body President-Elect Aaron Nelson with horns and a pitch fork, has drawn fire from student and Jewish leaders, who have called the drawing and its accompanying article anti-Semitic. “We don’t have a hate speech clause (in the Student Code),” Oliver said. “What (the Review has) done is pro tected as free speech.” Here Today... Gone Tomorrow DTH/RYAN MATTHES The snowy weather Friday brought unexpected visitors to UNC. This snowman near Cobb Residence Hall enjoys the cooler temperatures. Screwdriver-Wielding Assailant Holds Up Student on Campus ■ Police are investigating two muggings, one at Cobb Residence Hall and one at Fraternity Court. BY NICK DONOVAN STAFF WRITER Two armed assaults and attempted robberies took place on campus this weekend, according to Univer sity police reports. However, police said they did not know whether the crimes were related. A 20-year-old female resident of Cobb Residence Hall was assaulted and had her purse wrestled from her at 2:21 a.m. on Saturday before police officers apprehended two suspects who were later charged with the crime. Approximately 25 hours later at 3:25 a.m. on Sunday, six people were robbed at gunpoint and one was seriously injured near Fraternity Court on South Columbia Street. “We don’t know that these crimes are related, and, although they are under fur ther investigation, I don’t bet that they were,” Univer sity Chief of Police Donald Gold said. Police arrested two students from Hillside High School in Durham for the assault near Cobb. A 17- year-old male was charged with common law robbery and with possessing a weapon on campus, police reports state. Juamane Rashod Parker, 18, was also Sweeping Changes? UNC housekeepers are fighting for better wages and improved working conditions. Page 13 However, Elections Board Chair woman Annie Shuart said the Review may have violated elections laws if the picture of Nelson on the cover was sto len. Nelson said he thought the cover picture was copied from one of his cam paign posters. “It’s a scan-in from the picture poster we made,” Nelson said. Shuart said she did not know how the Review had obtained a photograph of Nelson unless it had stolen one of his campaign posters. She said it was a violation of elections laws to take down a candidate’s posters without his or her permission because the posters were the candidate’s per sonal property. But she said the law only applied to posters hung on campus. Nelson said he was not currently tak ing any action against the Review. News/Features/Atts/Sports 9624)245 Business/Advertising 962-1163 C 1996 DTH Publishing Cotp AD rights reserved. Today's Weather Cloudy; high mid-40s. Tuesday: Windy, chance of rain; high mid-50s. Autopsy Confirms Homicide ■ An MBA student was charged with the first-degree murder of his pregnant wife. BYANDREWPARK STAFF WRITER After six weeks of investigation, the state’s chief medical examiner ruled Thurs day that Karen Boychuk’s death was a homicide. In an autopsy released Friday, Dr. John D. Butts stated that Boychuk died of head trauma caused by repeated blows to her skull with a blunt object. Boychuk also sustained a fractured pelvis, fractured ver tebrae, a broken nose, and cuts and braises to her face, legs and groin, all the result of a fall from a Cary Parkway overpass Dec. 31, thereport states. Butts said Sun day that he did not know whether Boychuk, 31, was beaten before or af ter she fell 45 feet to a grassy embank ment under the bridge. She was 18 weeks pregnant when she died. William J. Boychuk, 33, a sec ond-year student in the Kenan-Flagler Business School, 1,1 was arrested and charged with his wife’s murder Jan. 23. The University suspended Boychuk following his arrest. He is being held without bond in the Wake County Jail. District Attorney Thomas Ford has been awaiting the results of the autopsy to determine if the state will seek the death penalty. Boychuk told Cary police that he and his wife were victims of a hit-and-run acci dent New Year’s Eve, clipped from behind while walking on the bridge around 7 p.m. Boychuk said he was knocked unconscious, police reports state. When he came to, he said, he found his wife dead under the bridge. Frantic, he tan to their nearby apartment complex for help, he told police. Early in their investigation, though, Cary police suspected William Boychuk mur dered his wife, according to the medical examiner’s report. After an initial autopsy, Wake County pathologist Dr. Gordon LeGrand summarized the investigators’ theory, stating that, “the couple likely had an argument on the bridge that resulted in the wife’s falling face forward.” LeGrand indicated in the report that police did not believe the hit-and-run story. “The most likely scenario at this time is that the husband struck her several times in See BOYCHUK, Page 6 charged with common law robbery and with obstruc tion, resistance and delay of arrest after he was found hiding in a drainage ditch near Mclver Residence Hall. According to reports, Parker had fled when the initial arresting officer called for backup. Police recov ered a shotgun from the suspect’s car and a screwdriver from the scene of the crime. According to Gold, one or both of the weapons may have been used in the assault. University Police arrested three suspects for the assault near Fraternity Court. “There may be a fourth suspect that has not yet been apprehended, but as of now we’re not sure,” Gold said. Fletcher Ray Barbee, 27, of Chapel Hill, 20-year-old Joseph Corbett of Chapel Hill, and a 17-year-old male of Pittsboro were arrested and charged with armed robbery and assault with a deadly weapon causing injury. Merritt was also charged with possession of a stolen handgun, reports state. The suspects allegedly attempted to rob six victims, inflicting severe lacera tions on one, whom police report was under the influ ence of drugs or alcohol at the time. None of the victims were students, according to reports. “We are fortunate that officers responded as quickly as they did, and although arrests were made, people in this community should realize that they can’t take their safety for granted,” Gold said. “The fact is that there are people who come to this community looking for anyone vulnerable to victimize, and we should all be aware of that.” Graduate student WILLIAM BOYCHUK will be held until a court date is set
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