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6 Wednesday, November 6, 1996 Committee talks about changing Honor Court testimony policies BY LEAH HANEY STAFF WRITER The Committee on Student Conduct discussed implementing a policy to keep complainants who testify in Honor Court hearings on call throughout the hearing at their Tuesday meeting. According to the Instrument of Stu dent Judicial Governance, Honor Court cases are closed, which means the com plainant is not allowed to remain in the room after giving testimony. The proposed policy would allow com plainants to counter testimony that comes up later in the trial. Meg Bennett, associate attorney gen eral of the Student Judicial System, said the defendant in a case could undercut the complainant’s testimony and the com plainant, often a professor, could not respond to the information. 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To find out more about the work that we do and career opportunities at Sibson & Company, please join us on: Date: Thursday, November 14 Time: 6:30 p.m. Place:2lo Hanes Hall On Campus Interviews Date: Thursday, November 21,1996 If interested, please drop your resume at University Career Services by November 8. Visit our Website at www.sibson.com “(Informing the complainant) is really necessary and worth delaying the hear ing to ensure it is fair, and all accurate information is broughtup,’’Bennett said. A subcommittee that reported on the proposal suggested keeping the professor or complainant “on call” by having a number at which they could be reached during the hearing. If the complainant wished to present another testimony, the court would delay and reconvene. Margaret Barrett, judicial programs officer, said the complainant call-back policy would apply to complainants who have technical knowledge or useful in formation that applies to the defendant’s testimony. Complainants are currently allowed to refute a defendant’s testimony, but they are rarely informed of the content of the testimony. Therefore, they do not always include everything they know Lafferty was named the executor of an estate now valued at $1.5 billion when Duke, the only child of American To bacco Cos. founder James Buchanan Duke, died in 1993 at age 80. Her will also gave him a central role in the chari table foundation formed to dispense most of the fortune. The estate was thrown into turmoil when Duke’s deathbed nurse, Tammy Payette, charged that Lafferty and a doc tor killed the heiress with an overdose of morphine and Demerol at her home above Beverly Hills. In July, the county district attorney’s office said there was “no credible evi dence” Duke was killed. “Those who have attempted to reduce Miss Duke’s life to sordid events have about a situation that could be necessary to convict a student. “I think we all have a tendency to give people a minimum amount of informa tion, but I think we need to make sure faculty get all the information they need, ” Barrett said. Bennett said faculty do not always present technical knowledge in their tes timony because they think that knowl edge is not necessary to get a conviction. When the student is acquitted, faculty sometimes become angry. Stephen Weiss, chairman of the De partment of Computer Science, said be ing informed of a defendant’s testimony would make him feel less adversarial in cases where the outcome surprised him. Barrett said it was important to encour age communication between the partici pants and the facilitators of the judicial process. found dead not prevailed,” Lafferty said at the time. “It is time to honor her memory by con tinuing her good works.” Payette was later sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing jewelry and other valuables from homes of her wealthy patients, including Duke. Lafferty was branded a spendthrift and an alcoholic as the battle over Duke’s death continued, and he finally agreed in May to resign as executor of the estate and play no role in the Doris Duke Chari table Foundation. In return, he received $4.5 million in executor’s fees and a $500,000 yearly bequest. Lafferty had received about half of the executor’s fees; the other half will go to his estate. But the settlementremains in question while a New York judge determines whether she was misled during negotia tions. Lafferty was an only child whose parents died by the time he was 17. He moved from Ireland to Philadelphia, where an aunt lived; and worked at a hotel as a waiter and then maitre d’. Singer Peggy Lee hired him as a butler, and in 1986 he went to work for Duke. Fa//F/ights to EUROPE London $209 Paris $249 Madrid $249 Frankfurt $249 Munich $249 Rome $289 Milan $279 Prague $329 Fares are each way from Raleigh/Durham based on a roundtrip purchase. Fares do not include federal taxes or PFCs totalling between $3 and S6O, depending on destination or departure charges paid directly to foreign governments. Cau (or a FREE Student Travels magazine! Travel - 137 E. Franklin St. Sufte 106 CHAPaHia, NC 27514 (914) 942-2334 http://www.cice.org/trael.htm NEWS SKETCHY CHARACTER DTH/AMY CAPPIELLO Nationally syndicated political cartoonist Doug Marlette marks the end of the presidential campaign Tuesday afternoon by satirizing Republican candidate Bob Dole at Bull’s Head Bookshop. Doctors say Yeltsin’s surgery a success THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW Boris Yeltsin’s heart bypass surgery was pronounced a suc cess Tuesday and surgeons predicted a full recovery, easing anxiety which has hobbled Russia for months. Yeltsin could take back his powers and the nuclear button in two days, but he may not go back to his office until the new year. Yeltsin regained consciousness about fivehoursaftertheoperation, washeavily sedated and was still on a respirator to guard against postoperative complica tions. Doctors said they couldn’t predict when he could leave the hospital. Dr. Renat Akchurin led the 12-man surgical team that conducted the seven hour coronary artery bypass operation. He said the number of bypasses “sig nificantly exceeded” the estimate ofthree or four that previous doctors had specu lated initially might be necessary for his recovery. Yeltsin’s blood circulation had been significantly improved. Akchurin refused to say how many bypasses were done. “I’d tell you immediately if I had his AT THE POLLS FROM PAGE 3 sues. “If it was not a presidential election, I would not have voted,” Anderson said. “I think local elections are important, but they are less publicized. Nobody really knows about the candidate.” Other voters who were eligible to vote in previous elections but had not voted said they decided to vote Tuesday. Sopho Skate through life • Ice skate every afternoon & 4 nights a week k • UNC hockey games, 10:15pm some Fridays & Saturdays * Moonlight skating, 12:30-2am after UNC hockey, $5 * Broomball now forming Triangle Sportsrlex (919)644-0339 NC 86 & Business 70... Just 15 minutes from UNC campus! Student Discounts Available Chancellor linker Will speak to the students at the Student Congress Meeting in Peabody 08 Wednesday, November 6 at 7:3opm The speech will be preceded by a Reception at 7:oopm in Peabody 104 The speech will be broadcast LIVE on Channel 11 For more information call 962-5592 permission,” he said. “It’s his personal business.” Yeltsin’s long illness has left Russia with a part-time leader at best and spawned power straggles among presi dential prospects. Financial markets trembled at rumors about his health, and the government was near paralysis. Dr. Yevgeny Chazov, head of the Moscow Cardiological Center where the operation was performed, said there were no complications during the surgery. Dr. Michael Deßakey, the American heart surgery pioneer who is a consultant on the case and who trained Akchurin, de clared it a success. “I would predict the president to be able to return to his office and perform his duty in perfectly normal fashion,” said Deßakey, who watched the opera tion on a monitor outside the operating room with a team of American and Ger man consultants. It could be a day or two before Yeltsin, 65, is well enough to reclaim the presi dential powers, including control over Russia’s immense nuclear arsenal, that he handed off to Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin before the surgery. more Ryan Jewel of Selma said, “I did not find any pending issue to vote for in the last election.” Most voters said they decided to vote in hopes of improving the government. “I am concerned and feel that this is something that I need to be a part of,” said Kenneth Jones, a sophomore from Roanoke Rapids. “It’s almost a choice between the lesser of two evils, not a vote for the better (presidential) candidate.” Some voters waited in line to vote, still She Daily (Tar Hppl “He is going to decide that for him self,” a weary Akchurin told reporters. “Most probably it will happen tomorrow or the day after.” Akchurin said Yeltsin would likely remain on a respirator overnight to mini mize the chance of complications. The president’s postoperative treatment de pends on how soon Yeltsin is breathing on his own, he said. Apresidential spokesman said Yeltsin regained consciousness but was heavily sedated. Yeltsin was on a heart-lung machine for 68 minutes during surgery, Akchurin said. The president’s illness has tested the frankness of the Kremlin, a hulking for tress which for centuries has hoarded information about Russia’s leaders with an implacable zeal. Yeltsin concealed a heart attack right before he was re-elected in July, then waited until September to tell the nation he needed surgery. That burst of openness, however, was followed by a paucity of information that proved a breeding ground for ugly ru mors and the naked ambition of would be successors. unsure who they would choose. “I’m not even sure who I’m going to vote for yet, ” Anderson said. “It’s hard to choose one person because you have to vote for some things that you don’t be lieve in.” Despite the large voter turnout, not everyone made it to the polls Tuesday. Brooksie Broome, a freshman from Wal nut Cove, said she did not feel well informed on the issues. “The reason I did not vote was be cause I didn’t pay attention and was unsure who to vote for, ” Broome said. “I didn’t want to vote just to say I voted. I didn’t want to make a bad choice, so I didn’t vote at all.” MEXICO WITH AIR PROM RALEI6H Fill Parties [gg FREE Mule FREE Activities Student Express, Inc. i-Boo.sußrs.up I 1 :5< Copies Must present coupon. 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