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MARCH 20,1996
Former Attorney General Knew Details of Theft
BYTHANASSISCAMBANIS
EDITOR
George Oliver, who was student attor
ney general at the time 1,500 copies of The
Carolina Review were stolen and then
found outside his office, said he knew two
of the people involved in returning the
issues and that he was asked by one of
them “how to get rid of’ the stolen issues.
Oliver said that on Feb. 13, the day
Aaron Nelson was elected student body
president, Oliver spoke with a person who
said he was in possession of the stolen
issues.
That person told Oliver he “had to get
the issues back somehow.”
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Josh Williams, a junior from Candler, spends part of his Tuesday evening
playing video games in the Student Union.
Congress Ignores Legal Counsel’s Advice
BY SUZANNE JACOVEC
STAFF WRITER
Student Congress acted against the advisory
opinion of the University’s senior legal counsel
last weekend by deciding not to fund speakers for
a seminar because the event would have included
a religious exercise, legal counsel Mary Sechriest
confirmed Tuesday.
The group Overcomers of America had planned
a two-day seminar to discuss ways to achieve
racial harmony, said Student Congress Finance
Committee Chairwoman Julie Gasperini.
“The president of the group said there would
probably bean altar call at the end of the speeches
and he considered it a religious experience, so we
cut speaker fees from the group’s allocation,” she
said.
The decision highlights an ongoing debate in
congress about whether or not student fees should
pay for speech without regard to its content, but
not support the actual practice of religion.
In more practical terms, the debate is over
whether to follow a clause in the Student Code
stating that student government cannot spend
money for "spiritual or religious exercises" or to
follow the advice of the legal counsel and remove
the clause.
Rep. Jamie Kilboume, Dist. 1, wrote the clause
in September m the wake of Rosenberger vs. The
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“I don’t think I know everybody who
took the Review,” Oliver said, but he said
he definitely knew the identities of two of
those involved.
As elections returns were being an
nounced in the Union Auditorium, a crowd
of close to 50 Nelson supporters was circu
lating a copy of the Review issue that
pictured Nelson on the cover with devil
horns and accused him of not funding
Christian groups because he was Jewish.
In his one term as a member of Student
Congress, Nelson has voted to fund a num
ber of Christian groups, and many of his
supporters said they felt the Review article
misrepresented Nelson’s record and was
anti-Semitic.
University of Virginia
Board of Visitors. In the
Rosenberger case, the U.S.
Supreme Court ruled that
religious and politically par
tisan groups could not be
denied student fee funding
at a public university.
Ehringhaus and
Sechriest advised the fi
nance committee to remove
the clause in February,
Gasperini said.
“The original intent of
the clause was that we don’t
want to be funding things
such as communion or
crosses and candles for altars because these are
religious exercises with no secular connotations,”
Gasperini said.
“This should be differentiated from exercises of
educational, secular value.”
Kilboume, a law student, said the clause origi
nated after Kallisti, a campus pagan organization,
requested funds in September for religious exer
cises. Kallisti was the first religious group to ap
proach congress after the Rosenberger decision.
“We realized the danger of ... opening our
selves to lawsuits from people not wanting then
student fees to go to religious exercises for consti-
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Oliver said that on election night he
talked to a person who had the more than
1,500 stolen copies of the Review in his
possession.
“The person was definitely interested in
getting thembacktowhom they belonged, ’ ’
Oliver said. “I said, ‘lf they end up in my
office, I could make sure they get back to
whom they belong.’”
Calvin Cunningham, the current stu
dent body president, said he was “ap
proached and asked about access to the
Union with regard to The Carolina Re
view” on election night.
“I was asked to open the Union. I was
asked to open Suite C and declined. I left
the Union shortly thereafter.”
Complaints Nix Night Parking Proposal
■ An advisory committee
decided not to require
students and employees to
purchase night permits.
BY MOLLY FELMET
STAFF WRITER
A night parking plan that would restrict
access to North Campus lots will not go
into effect next semester, officials an
nounced after a Tuesday meeting with
concerned students and employees. A plan
to improve safety and access to the Bell
To wer lot will proceed as planned, officials
said.
The plan would have restricted 10 North
Campus lots from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m. to
students and staff with daytime passes or a
$64 night parking pass.
“They are not implementing the $64
night permit at this time, or (nighttime)
restricted access plan,” said Student Body
President Calvin Cunningham.
“I think that I have clearly expressed
that I don’t support a policy that raises
costs on students.”
Michael Klein, director of the Depart
ment of Transportation and Parking, said
the night parking plan would not be used
next semester, after a Tuesday discussion
among members of an advisory committee
to the DTP.
“Based on discussion here and the past
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tutional reasons,” Kilboume said. “Both sides
have an interest in the situation, so it’s safest to
play as close to the middle as we can.”
Kilboume said a separation of church and state
must exist in some form, but he understood the
legal counsel’s concern about congress becoming
embroiled in debate about funding religious groups.
If the committee acted against the advice of
University legal counsel, it would have to seek
outside counsel in the event of a lawsuit or other
conflict, Gasperini said.
For the most part, congress has been able to
balance the legal counsel ’ s advice with the existing
code because groups have not asked for money for
religious exercises, Gasperini said. “The clause
had very little effect on allocations this past week
end because religious groups have been very re
sponsible within their own budgets to fund reli
gious exercises,” she said.
Sechriest said she and Ehringhaus based their
opinion on the three-pronged “Lemon Test,” es
tablished by Lemon vs. Kurtzman, a 1971 U.S.
Supreme Court case involving issues of church
and state.
“The reason we advised Student Congress not
to use the clause was because in order to determine
if something is a religious exercise, they would
have to analyze and investigate so deeply that they
would become entangled in religion,” Sechriest
said.
JUUE GASPERINI
said the Student
Congress denied
funding for a
religious seminar.
Dole Sweeps Steel Belt States, Clinches Republican Nomination
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Sen. Bob Dole clinched the Republican
presidential nomination Tuesday with a
Midwest primary sweep that set the stage
for a generational battle in November pit
ting the World War II hero against the
Baby Boom Democratic incumbent.
“The fall campaign is underway,” Dole
said triumphantly. “Itis23odaystodefeat
ing Bill Clinton.”
Republican leaders said Dole’s chances
against Clinton would only be boosted by
the early end of the nomination fight, made
possible by an early primary calendar and
Dole’s roaring comeback after early
stumbles. Even so, Ross Perot began ma
neuvering into the race and GOP officials
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and
people involved with the return of the Re
view. But Cunningham said he preferred
to protect the sanctity of the Honor Court
by not revealing any names.
“I have full confidence that the attorney
general will conduct a thorough investiga
tion,” Cunningham said.
At 9 a.m. on the morning of Wednes
day, Feb. 14, less than ten hours after
elections returns were announced, Oliver
said he unlocked the door of Suite D,
which houses the attorney general’s office,
and found the stolen issues on the floor.
“My involvement was exclusively in
getting (the stolen issues) back,” Oliver
said. “I did not let them into Suite D. It’s
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Lots that would have V
required night permit
261 spaces - Swain (NGI)
151 spaces - Sitterson (NG2)
91 spaces - Caldwell, Steele (NG3)
219 spaces - Peabody, Old East
Bynum Circle, Emerson, Davis Dr.
81 spaces - Undergraduate,
Wilson Libraries (N8)
64 spaces-Hanes Visitor Lot
867 total spaces
Lots that would not have
required night permit
697 spaces - Bell Tower Gated (BG)
187 spaces - Morehead, Porthole (N2)
410 spaces - Cobb, Conner, PGT (N4)
145 spaces - Boundary Street Forest
Theatre, Park Place (N5)
280 spaces - Statftum Drive (S4)
1,896 total spaces
week, we have decided not to implement
the (entire) night time package,” Klein
said.
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A UNC student studies Tuesday afternoon in the Student Union. With the rainy weather, many
students used their free time to catch up on their homework.
worried a three-way race would hurt Dole’s
chances.
Dole defeated persistent rival Pat
Buchanan by lopsided margins in Ohio,
Michigan, Illinois and Wisconsin and wel
comed delegates picked up earlier by his
defeated rivals. Asa result, Dole gained
more than 200 delegates and crossed the
996 mark needed to mathematically clinch
the GOP nomination, according to The
Associated Press count.
The Kansas senator refused to declare
victory in the nomination chase, eager to
maintain some meaning for next week’s
California primary. Still, he knew the prize
that eluded him in two prior White House
bids was his.
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not against the code of ethics to return
something that’s been taken.”
Oliver’s term as attorney general ended
on the last day of February. David
Huneycut is now the attorney general.
Charlton Allen, publisher of the Carolina
Review, called for an Honor Court investi
gation last week.
If an investigation of the Review theft
had been requested while he was still attor
ney general, Oliver said that he would have
delegated the investigation to someone else
because he knew “the key players involved”
in the theft and return of the free magazine.
Huneycut, who took over as attorney
general in March, said he wanted to re
solve the case as quickly as possible.
Students, Employees Lash Out
Against Plan at Committee Meeting
BYDAVE SNELL
STAFF WRITER
Genetics graduate student Mike
Nicholls works in his lab about 15 hours
a day, sometime until the early morning
hours. Under the Department of Trans-
portation and
Parking’s original
night parking
plan, Nicholls
would have had
to pay $64 a se
mester to park
near his lab.
“Parking is
bad enough dur
ing the day,-and.,
now we’re going
to mess it up at
night,” Nicholls
told the Depart
ment of Trans
portation and
CALVIN
CUNNINGHAM said
students saw the
parking plan as
another fee increase.
Parking Advisory Committee at a meet
ing Tuesday. “I can’t believe that you
suggest charging employees and staff for
coming in to work.”
Rainy Pay Beading
“The first time I came up empty. The
last time I came up short,” Dole told AP.
“This time I’m coming up full.”
Dole said he would soon begin the pro
cess of picking a running mate and prepar
ing for the August GOP convention in San
Diego. He sounded a bit irritated with
Buchanan’s daily demands that his views
be written into the party platform. “Last
time I checked I was the one winning,"
Dole said. “He has to decide if he is a good
Republican.”
Anew national poll showed Dole mov
ing to within eight points of Clinton in a
head-to-head match-up.
“Now that we have a clear candidate
that will tighten up even more,” Dole told
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“I’m going into this with the intent of
finding who is responsible for this theft,”
Huneycutsaid. “There are many witnesses
and many suspects. I do expect people not
to lie to me.”
Whoever took the Review could possi
bly be charged in the Honor Court with
theft or impeding another student’s free
speech, Huneycut said.
Based on the definition of the charges of
theft and impeding free speech in the code,
Oliver said he wasn’t sure the actions of the
people who took the Review were viola
tions of the Honor Code.
UNC’s Instrument of Judicial Gover-
See REVIEW, Page 5
Nicholls joined about 25 other stu
dents and employees at the meeting, in
which DTP officials decided against
making students and employees pur
chase permits to park in selected North
Campus lots from 5 p.m. to 9 p.m.
More students turned out for the
Tuesday meeting than for the tuition
increase meetings last semester, Stu
dent Body President Calvin
Cunningham said.
“We’ve hit a sensitive nerve here,”
Cunningham said. “Students view this
as another tax, another fee increase,
another tuition.”
However, parking officials said many
students and staff needed guaranteed
nighttime access to-lots near campus
buildings.
“Certain parts of campus are anar
chy after five o’clock,” DTP Director
Michael Klein said. “Permit holders
need to access facilities and are being
crowded out.”
Sarah Shields, a history professor
and DTP advisory subcommittee chair-
See MEETING, Page 11
AP. “We’re going to be hard at work con
vincing the American people we have the
right agenda for the next generation and
the next century.”
But the prospect of another three-way
race had some Republicans openly worry
ing about another Clinton victory.
“Bill Clinton is going to be defeated if
it’s a two-man race,” Wisconsin Gov.
Tommy Thompson said on CNN. “I think
there’s always a problem if Ross Perot or
someone else gets in.”
Dole said he would likely make an ef
fort to dissuade Perot.
“Go up and down his issues list —if we
just had Bob Dole in there we would get it
done,” Dole said.