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TUESDAY
MARCH 19,1996
Court Calls for Re-election
In Senior Class Competition
BY MARVA HINTON
STAFF WRITER
The Student Supreme Court ruled Mon
day in favor ofKatie McNemey and Minesh
Mis try’s request for another election for
president and vice president of the Senior
Class. The court ruled the certification of
the Feb. 20 run-off
election invalid and
scheduled a re-elec
tion for March 26.
Re-election for
Senior Class
Officers
“By winning to- T ues ., March 26
day, we have
brought the choice back to the students,”
McNemey said. “We could have easily
given up, but in the interest of fairness td
justice, our only choice was to continue.”
McNemeyand Mistry filed a suit against
the Elections Board and Ladell Robbins
and his running mate Amelia Brace after
the board declared Robbins and Brace the
winners of the run-off election.
Robbins said it upset him that the trial
took attention away from the Senior Class.
“The disappointing thing for us has been
that the focus has been taken off the Senior
Class and put on the race,” Robbins said.
“The people who have been hurt the most
are our class.”
Both sets of candidates said they had no
Marathon Congress Session Yields Funds for Student Groups
■ The BSM will receive
nearly $20,000 in student
activity fees next year.
STAFF REPORT
After a 25-hour marathon Student Con
gress meeting this weekend, the body allo
cated $176,246.51 to eager student groups
and recessed with a $8,553.47 surplus,
which will be applied to the fall subsequent
budget process.
But congress members remain divided
about the effects of last summer’s
Rosenberger de
cision on then
budget process.
The decision
Panel Discusses
Religious Funding
See Page 3
states that religious and politically partisan
poups cannot be denied student fee fund
ing at a public university.
“It allowed us to consider groups we
had never considered,” said Rep. Aaron
Nelson, Dist. 13, student body president
elect. “So often in years past, the debate
was focused around whether a group is
politically partisan. There was no debate of
that sort.”
Rep. Julie Gasperini, Dist. 22, said that
since few religious groups requested fund
ing for religious activities, the court deci
sion had little effect on the process.
“The only thing we have in our code
anymore that remotely resembles the
Rosenberger decision is a clause that (Rep.)
Jamie Kilboume (Dist. 1) authored," said
Gasperini, chairwoman of the Student
Congress Finance Committee. “(Rep.)
Terry Milner(Dist. 1) addressed that clause
with every religious group.”
When Nelson presented his budget for
Court Says Players
Must Clean Up Act;
Bar to Appeal Decision
BY WENDY GOODMAN
CITY EDITOR
HILLSBOROUGH An Orange County judge issued a
preliminary injunction against a Franklin Street bar, requiring its
owners to take action to stop beer and other liquids from leaking
into the coffee shop below.
The injunction will provide temporary relief for Judges Coffee
Roastery, located at 161 East Franklin St., from a “liquid inva
sion” from Players, housed above the coffee shop, said Gordon
Brown, attorney for Judges owner Ed Donegan.
“The injunction is not permanent and is only for interim relief
until a trial," Brown said. “I expect (Players) to do what is
necessary to make sure that no beer is going from one place to
another.”
Players co-owner Marty Hensley, a former UNC basketball
player, said he would try to meet the injunction’s orders but
planned to appeal the decision.
“Players is a wet place with college kids, and beer is always
being spilled there, ” he said. “How I can personally stop that from
happening is totally beyond me.”
Donegan said he hoped Players would rectify the leakage
See JUDGES, Page 5
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LADELL ROBBINS and AMELIA BRUCE will face
KATIE MCNERNEY and MINESH MISTRY in a re-election March 26.
regrets about running.
“I still feel the same way about serving
the Senior Class,” Brace said.
The court cited the fact that the Elec
tions Board did not tabulate the votes ac
cording to pollsite as their reason for de
claring the certification invalid.
Elections Board Chairwoman Annie
Shuart said she was personally and profes
sionally upset by the trial.
“In certain respects, I feel like I was
personally attacked despite whether they
meant to during the trial,” Shuart said. “I
had to defend my actions and the actions of
the executive branch, which included ap
proximately $6,000 for minority recruit
ment, $2,400 for the student body presi
dent stipend and $1,200 for the student
body treasurer stipend, congress approved
all the requests.
Nelson’s budget, however, was one of
several that sparked debate on the floor of
congress.
■ After about an hour of debate Satur
day morning, Student Congress voted to
give the Black Student Movement $ 16,366
as recommended by the finance commit
tee. The group’s original request totaled
more than $40,000.
After all groups were funded late Sun
day night, congress reconsidered the BSM
budget and allotted to it about $3,000 dol
lars more.
Nelson motioned to reconsider BSM’s
budget, and Gasperini questioned his in
tentions.
“I just don’t like to see any hint of
preferential treatment,” she said Monday.
“That’s why I asked the question. It’s noth
ing against Aaron I looked at it in a
fiscally responsible point of view.”
Nelson defended his move, claiming
that many members of congress expressed
to him they they were not comfortable
giving a single group nearly $20,000 until
all the rest of the funds had been appropri
ated.
■ Congress approved $3,530 in lecture
fees for Great Decisions, a lecture series
about international issues attended by more
than 400 people each week, after the fi
nance committee recommended $l3O to
the group.
“My personal voting was based on the
See BUDGET, Page 2
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the board. I had to defend my interpreta
tion of the (Student) Code. Everybody says
that this is a thankless job, but it should not
be a position without respect.”
Shuart, who will graduate in May, said
she would delegate re-election duties to the
board and supervise the process to let them
get experience handling an election.
According to the Student Code, the
ballots in an election should be broken
down according to the polling place in
which the votes were cast in addition to a
See SENIOR CLASS, Page 2
1996*97 Student Activity Fee Appropriations
Organization
Elections Board
American Society for Library Science
Lab! Theatre
Alliance of Blade Grad 8 Professional Students
NAACP
UNC-Japan Club
Newman Catholic Club
Unitas
Arnold Air Society
Great Decisions
The Catalyst
Asian Student Association
Haverim
Student Congress
Health Sciences Living and Learning
Executive Branch
Association of International Students
Students for America
Overcomers of UNC
Student Supreme Court
Pauper Players
Women's Issues Network
Inter Varsity Christian Fellowship
Vietnamese Student Association
African Student Association
The Zeitgeist
Kallisti
Concept of Colors
Carolina Production Guild
SEAC
Carolina Quarterly
Sangam
American Arab Anti-Discrimination League
HiHef
Yakety-Yack
Campus Clowns
Carolina Academic Team
N.C. Student Legislature
Carolina Teaching Fellows
CHispA
UNC-CH Classics Club
Black Student Movement
B-GLAD
Judicial Branch
Students for Children
CARES.
Totals
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ASU Students Upset; Campus Police
Can Search Rooms Without Warrant
BY DAWN PRINCE
STAFF WRITER
Angry Appalachian State University
students say their constitutional rights are
being violated by anew policy that allows
officials to conduct surprise searches of
their residence hall rooms.
The new policy, which began in Janu
ary, allows campus
police and other
university officials
to search any resi
dence hall room
without a search
warrant and with
out the student’s
permission.
Rick Geis, director of residence life,
said the new policy was intended to curb
campus drag use. “What we’re saying is, if
you use drags at Appalachian and we lo
cate it, we’re going to send you home,” he
said.
“We don’t feel like we’re violating
anybody’s rights.”
Maggie James, a freshman majoring in
education had two violations both for
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Recruitment
Approved
With Ease
BY JOE MILLER
STAFF WRITER
In a history-making move, Student
Congress passed a bill funding minor
ity student recruitment upon its first
introduction to that body.
Traditionally, the proposal has en
countered fierce criticism in congress
and has been forced to reappear for
subsequent funding.
“It has been a victory for the execu
tive branch," said Julie Gasperini,
chairwoman of the Student Congress
Finance Committee.
"There’s no more of the use of tac
tics from proponents or opponents,”
Gasperini said.
The plan to allot $6,000 to minority
recruitment was presented as part of
President-Elect Aaron Nelson’s execu
tive branch budget plan for 1996-97.
While debate on the bill focused on
whether congress could fund a pro
gram whose benefit would be realized
in the following fiscal year, the debate
was much less ferocious and met with
much less opposition than in the past,
Nelson said.
See RECRUITMENT, Page 2
marijuana within 24 hours under the
new policy. For the violations, she has to
go through counseling, do community ser
vice, pay a fine and will remain on proba
tion for four months.
“It has lessened drag use in the dorm, ”
James said. “They are doing their job, but
they’re also violating your rights.”
For the three to five years leading up to
the new policy, ASU officials had a hard
time catching students with drags because
of the delay in obtaining warrants from a
Watauga County magistrate, Geis said.
“By the time we’d get back to the hall
after securing the warrant, the moment
was lost,” Geis said, explaining that stu
dents either swallowed orflushedthe drags
down the toilet before officials returned.
Geis said the cases on campus mostly
involved marijuana. Director of Campus
Police Roy Tugman estimated that 1 per
cent of all cases involved drugs other than
marijuana.
Tugman said the policy was for admin
istrative searches, not criminal searches,
and was therefore permissible under state
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Confessed
Killer Pleads
Not Guilty
■ Alleged interstate serial
killer Sean Patrick Goble will
be tried Aug. 12.
BY SUZANNE WOOD
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
HILLSBOROUGH Alleged inter
state serial killer Sean Patrick Goble pleaded
not guilty Monday to charges of strangling
a woman near Hillsborough last year, al
though he had confessed to the murder
when he was arrested.
Prosecutors have based much of then
case on Goble’s confession, in which he
told North Carolina
investigators that he
killed 34-year-old
Sherry Tew Mansur
of Clearwater, Fla.
in February i995.
Goble told investi
gators he killed
Mansur close to
where Interstates 40
and 85 merge near
Hillsborough and
dumped her body in
Guilford County.
Orange-
Chatham District
Attorney Carl Fox
has said he intended to seek the death
penalty in the case.
Goble’s attorney, Public Defender
James Williams, asked the Orange County
Superior Court to delay hearing the case
until further evidence could be collected.
“There are evidential matters that have
not been resolved,” Williams said Mon
day. “DNAtestingandhairtestingarestill
being done. I think there is information
that is related to this case that will be
coming available (in the future). I suspect
there is more evidence out there that is
relevant to the this case (that the FBI,
Virginia and Tennessee authorities are still
examining).’’
Superior Court Judge Gordon Battle
said he did not want to delay the trial any
longer than necessary. “This matter has
not moved along speedily (so far) because
Guilford County was the first venue and
because of delays with the Tennessee au
thorities.”
The trial is set set to begin Aug. 12 in
Orange County Superior Court.
Although Mansur’s body was found in
Guilford County, the case will be tried in
Orange County, where Goble told the au
thorities he had strangled the woman last
year.
Williams said he thought the exact loca
tion of the alleged murder should be deter
mined before the trial began. He made a
motion to have the venue changed from
See GOBLE, Page 2
SEAN PATRICK
GOBLE is serving
consecutive life
sentences in
Tennessee.