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Cavalier linebacker Jamie Sharper (33) sacks UNC quarterback Chris Keldorf (15) in the Tar Heels' 20-17 loss
at Virginia. Keldorf was sacked seven times Saturday; Sharper hauled him to the ground four times.
Williamson civil lawsuit settled
■ The wrongful death suit
against Wendell Williamson
will not go to trial.
BY ANGELA MOORE
ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR
The parents of a UNC lacrosse player
killed in a January 1995 Henderson Street
shooting spree have reached a setdement
in the wrongful-death lawsuit they filed
against the killer’s parents.
Kevin Reichardt, a 20-year-old UNC
student at the time of his death, was shot
and killed by Wendell Williamson al
most two years ago during Williamson’s
infamous midday rampage in downtown
UNC reacts
to extended
Bosnia stay
■ Students and professors
say Clinton did not state the
mission clearly last year.
BY ERICA BESHEARS
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
When President Bill Clinton an
nounced Friday that he planned to ex
pand U.S. presence in Bosnia and central
Africa, he rekindled the debate about the
roleoftheU.S. military in regions tomby
civil and ethnic war.
At UNC, students and professors said
they didn’t think Clinton handled the
Bosnian situation properly.
“The missions may be noble and in
the United States’ interests, but the
Clinton administration hasn’t had the
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Chapel Hill. In the ensuing criminal trial,
Williamson was found not guilty by rea
son of insanity. To date, Williamson has
been held in Dorothea Dix Hospital,
where he is receiving treatment.
In December 1995, Karl and Carol
Reichardt, Kevin Reichardt’s parents,
filed suit against Dee and Fonda
Williamson, Wendell Williamson’s par
ents. In the lawsuit, the Reichardts
charged that the Williamsons were neg
ligent because they did not pay attention
to signs that their son was mentally ill
and did not stop him from owning a gun,
the M-l rifle he used in his January ram
page.
G. Jona Poe Jr., attorney for the
Reichardts, said the terms of the settle
ment were confidential and could not be
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President Bill Clinton announced Friday plans to extend America's military
presence around the globe.
■ About 8,500 servicemen and women will take part in an extended peacekeep
ing mission in Bosnia. Last year, Clinton said America's presence in Bosnia would
end last month. Friday, Clinton said the U.S. military presence had helped
establish a fragile peace that continued involvement would make more perma
nently. 14,000 servicemen and women serve in Bosnia right now, down from a
peak of 20,000. The new mission will keep U.S. troops in Bosnia until 1998.
I Clinton also said he was ready to dispatch about 4,000 U.S. servicemen and
women to Zaire. The Canadian-led peacekeeping mission hopes to ease central
Africa's refugee crisis. The troops would help food and medicine reach the 1
million refugees in eastern Zaire, mostly Hutus from Rwanda and Burundi. The
operation should end March 31. White House officials announced $25 million in
humanitarian assistance to help the refugees.
SOURCE: THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
proper national debate, ” said Eric Mlyn,
professor of political science.
When the United States first entered
Bosnia last November, Ginton prom
ised that the troops would leave the eth
nic conflict by next month. He said Fri
day the troops had helped to establish a
fragile peace that would not last if U.S.
troops left.
Mlyn said most military observers
knew at the time that one year of U.S.
intervention couldn’t sustain peace in
I am absolutely sick. It is a miserable feeling to lose this football game.
UNC football coach Mack Brown
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disclosed but added that all issues be
tween the Reichardts and the
Williamsons had been concluded.
When asked about the settlement
amount, Poe said the civil lawsuit had
“never been a monetary concern” for the
Reichardts.
“The primary concerns of the
Reichardt family in the civil lawsuit have
always been bringing issues to the public
and getting funds for the Kevin Reichardt
Foundation,’’ Poe said.
The issues that the Reichardts wanted
to bring to the public eye, Poe said, were
better ways of dealing with mental illness
and reforming the court system to in
clude punishments for mentally ill of-
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the nation destroyed by years of civil
war. By saying troops would intervene
for a limited time only, Ginton cut short
the debate over whether Bosnia fell within
U.S. interests, Mlyn said.
James Hoffman, a sophomore in Air
Force ROTC, agreed, saying Ginton
weakened the mission by not saying U.S.
forces would stay until the job was done.
“This is a mission,” he said. “He makes
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New way to lose
Duke solidified itself as the
worst football team in ACC
history as it moved to 0-10
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BYROBBIPICKERAL
SPORTS EDITOR
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. For
10 minutes Saturday, North Carolina’s
football team had it all; Alliance Bowl
consideration, a probable 10-win regular
season and finally, finally, an end to a
seven-game losing streak at Virginia.
Problem is, they didn’t have the win.
And that 10-minute fourth quarter
exuberation—a span in which the No. 6
Tar Heels glimpsed just how good they
were and what a win at Scott Stadium
would mean
turned to
frustration,
desperation
Football
UNC 17
Virginia 20
and shocked depression as the No. 24
Cavaliers rallied from a 14-point hole to
beat the stunned Tar Heels 20-17 in front
of a crowd 0f42,500.
“I am absolutely sick,” said Tar Heel
coach Mack Brown, whose team has not
won in Charlottesville since 1981. “It is a
miserable feeling to lose this football
game.”
And even more miserable to be stam
peded by the thousands of hyper,
goalpost-rocking Virginia fans, because
the Tar Heels’ goals were trampled just
as soundly as Scott Stadium’s on Satur
day.
The loss ousted UNC from Alliance
Bowl consideration. And although the
Tar Heels will still almost definitely be
invited to the Jan. 1 Gator Bowl, it is a
major letdown to the talent that has
vaulted the Tar Heels to near the top of
the AP poll and the hype that might have
given UNC its first major bowl berth
since Jan. 1,1950, when it lost to Rice in
the Cotton Bowl.
“It’s very disappointing,” said UNC
quarterback Chris Keldorf, who blamed
himself for everything from a fourth
quarter interception, to poor pass protec
tion, to umteen dropped passes. “We
definitely have the talent, teamwise,botb
offensively and defensively, to play with
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Changes in the air
Before UNC improves
its intellectual climate,
it must define the term.
BY JOHN SWEENEY
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Ask any 10 people at UNC what
the term “intellectual climate” means,
and you’re likely to get just as many
different an
swers.
For some, the
phrase conjures
up images of po
etry readings in
poorly lit coffee
houses. For oth
ers, it is some-
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Part one of a fire-part series
about tbe intellectual climate
thing as simple as a professor and a
student discussing academic topics in
a walk across campus.
Introduced in the University’s Self-
Study Report in 1995, the concept of
an intellectual climate has become an
all-encompassing catch phrase, over
shadowing every aspect oflife at UNC
in its own ambiguous way.
“It’s elusive,” said Pam Conover, a
professor in the Department of Politi
cal Science and chairwoman of the
Chancellor’s Task Force on the Intel
lectual Climate. “It’s the intellectual
excitement that is generated when fac
ulty are engaged in research that ex
cites them, and they communicate
that to students, and it be
gins to spill outside the class
room.”
Student Body President
Aaron Nelson took it one
step further, saying, "Hav
ing a healthy intellectual cli
mate means demanding
more from an education
than what is required.”
Given those definitions,
opinions vary onhowUNC’sintellec
tual climate measures up to everyone’s
individual ideal.
“We have pockets of what (the task
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Jubilant Virginia students attempt to tear down the goalposts
at Scott Stadium on Saturday after the Cavaliers upset the Tar Heels.
Cavaliers propelled by desire
during 4th-quarter comeback
BY ALEC MORRISON
ASSISTANT SPORTS EDITOR
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. - If
North Carolina
needed someplace
to look for a lesson
on dealing with
pressure Saturday,
theTarHeels could
have turned to Vir
ginia.
UNC coach
Mack Brown
brought his team
into Scott Stadium
with one loss, a co-
No. 6 ranking and
on the line. It all
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force is) trying to capture, but we’d
like to see them spread,” Conover
said.
Nelson said he believed the intel
lectual climate was healthy, citing
large turnouts for events like Lakota
Indian elder Doris Leader Charge’s
Nov. 4 lecture.
Ultimately, any judge
ment of the intensity of in
tellectual life may depend
on how it is defined. Re
gardless of this judgement,
the University wants the
current climate improved.
That is why the task force
was formed and why it has
spent the past several months
holding 8 forum on
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ence in UNC’s situation and that of Vir
ginia.
“These are hard games when you get
to this point in the year,” Brown said.
“There’s a lot of pressure. Virginia didn’t
have that pressure. We had a lot of pres
sure on us.”
But the 24th-ranked Cavaliers expected
plenty, needing a win to stay in the bowl
chase and end a streak in which Virginia
had lost its last home game each year
since 1991. Under the pressure of those
expectations, the Wahoos showed an
ability to win on sheer desire that the Tar
Heels just couldn’t produce in Virginia’s
20-17 upset of North Carolina.
“I told (the Cavalier players) I was
very proud of them,” Virginia coach
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and they deserved a break. They finally
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there has been plenty of finger-point
ing. The study identified the Greek
system, the University’s emphasis on
“big-time athletics” and Chapel Hill’s
party atmosphere as factors with ad
verse effects on the intellectual cli
mate.
But Conover said the committee
should focus on improving the intel
lectual climate rather than attacking
aspects of University life sometimes
seen in a negative light. First and
foremost in this plan would be mak
ing sure faculty and students realize
they are working toward the same
goi: an exciting educational experi
ence.
“It’s clear that we are all in this
together,” said Laurie McNeil, a pro
fessor in the Department of Microbi-
See CLIMATE, Page 4