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imly Star Urrl INSIDE THURSDAY JANUARY 30,1997 Police snag drugs during traffic stop ■ Authorities recovered the largest amount of drugs in Chapel Hill’s history. BY STACEY TURNAGE ASSISTANT CITY EDITOR The Chapel Hill Police Department seized almost 221 grams of crack cocaine with an estimated street value of SBB,OOO during a routine traffic stop Tuesday afternoon. The amount of drugs seized was the largest confiscation in the town’s history. Police arrested Darryl Eugene Williamson, 31, and Anthony Nigel Feaster, 23, both of Rocky Brook Mobile Home Park in Carrboro, police Financial-aid debate to test students, Clinton BY JEFF YOUNG STAFF WRITER The cost to attend college increases nearly as rapidly as the price of new col lege textbooks. Hence, the efforts in Washington by the executive and legislative branches to increase federally funded student aid is crucial to an ever-growing body of needy students. “Without federal aid, this campus would lose some of its best students,” said Corye Barbour, coordinator of national relations for the executive branch of UNC’s student government. Barbour partially relies on federally funded student aid to meet the college dollar demand, as does more than one third of the UNC campus. At a Tuesday news conference, President Bill Clinton announced his plans to help Barbour and other students relying on aid. These include increased student aid Former SBPs reflect about job’s impact ■ Student Body President Aaron Nelson said the office impacted students. BYNAHALTOOSI STAFF WRITER For more than 75 years, UNC stu dents have elected a student body pres ident as their representative to the administration. The Feb. 11 elections provide students with another chance to decide who will be their voice next year. Student Body President Aaron Nelson said what student body presidents and their admin istrations did greatly impacted student life. "The work that we do here can make (students’) lives better, and our failure to do our job can result in their lives to be worse,” Nelson said. “And we have direct oversight of over a million dollars worth of student fees.” Shawn Fraley, a potential candidate for student body president, said he real ized the importance of the position. “The SBP is the one sole representative of the student body,” Fraley said. “He is the voice of the entire student body, both in the University and beyond.” Mohan Nathan, another potential candidate, said students must realize decisions made in student government affected them. “The office of the student body pres ident has a tremendous influence on whether students are included on how things run at this University," Nathan said. The position of student body presi dent was first proposed in 1921, replac- SeeSßP,Page2 We should forgive our enemies, but only after they have been hanged first. Heinrich Heine Remembering a fallen friend A BSM scholarship will honor slain UNC junior Travis Cooper. Page 2 Chapel Hill Mayor ROSEMARY WALDORF said she was pleased with the police's efforts to crack down on drugs. reports state. Williamson and Feaster were both charged with traf ficking of cocaine by possession and trafficking of cocaine by trans port. Williamson was also charged with driving while his license was suspended. Feaster was additionally charged with resisting, delaying and obstructing an officer, police reports state. pSffti ■>— Part two of a five-part series about educational funding expenditures within his budget for 1998- 2002, due Feb. 6. “With this budget, national support for college education in the year 2002 will be more than double what it was on the day I first took office,” Clinton said. The compromise of Clinton’s plan, and a budget from both Democratic and Republican congressmen, will ultimate ly fill in the funding levels for each stu dent-aid category. Before funding the programs, howev er, Congress must work out anew fund ing structure for all federally funded aid programs by tackling the Higher Education Act. Every five years, Congress reworks the law to reflect new Force may have caused doors to open ■ An elevator accident at Granville Towers last week is still under investigation. STAFF REPORT A preliminary investigation by the N.C. Department of Labor shows that significant force caused an elevator door at Granville Towers to pop off of its track early Sunday morning, opening the door from the bottom and allowing a UNC freshman to fall down the shaft. Evelyn Bankov of Wilmington slipped down the elevator shaft in Granville Towers East about 2 a.m. Sunday. Bankov fell from the eighth floor, landing on the elevator car, which was POWtRFUirovWTV DTH / ANDY DREWRY Alean Farrington and Cassandra Durham offer a dramatic presentation of the powerful nature of poverty at Sangam's Hunger Banquet. The dinner was in the Carmichael Ballroom on Wednesday night. See story, page 4. Return of the legend Diversions looks at the return of the Star Wars trilogy. Page 5 .gga Williamson was seen driving a green van around 2:15 p.m. Tuesday on Village Drive near the Estes Drive exten sion. Police reports state that officers recognized him and knew his license was suspended. When Williamson was pulled over, Feaster, jumped out, ran and refused to stop. After a foot chase, Feaster was detained and found to be in possession of 220.8 grams of crack cocaine. Cash was also located and seized, police reports state. Williamson and Feaster were placed under $40,000 secured bond and taken to the Orange County Jail, police reports state. Orange-Chatham District Attorney Carl Fox said the charges against Williamson and Feaster were considered President BILL CLINTON presented ideas on how to reform financial aid at a press conference Tuesday. limits and regula tions for imple menting the feder al grants and loans. A U.S. House of Representatives committee has begun the arduous hearings process that will eventual ly result in anew HEA. “The appropri ations change every year, but the law changes every five,” said Heather Moore, a program analyst for the Department of Education. “The individual programs must be included in the law before they can be funded.” A spokesman for the House commit- *■* u UNC freshman THOMAS SUDDARTH’s trial on a charge of assault inflicting serious injury has been set for March 3. stopped at the sec ond floor. On Monday, Chapel Hill police arrested Bankov’s boyfriend, UNC freshman Thomas Henry Suddarth El of Wilmington, on a charge of assault inflicting serious injury. According to a press release from Chapel Hill police, Bankov and Suddarth were drinking early Sunday morning. The report stated that Suddarth class F felonies. The large amount of drugs seized also made the charge a traf ficking level 2 charge. The special classi fications of the charges would determine the severity of the sentences. Fox said if Williamson and Feaster were convicted at level 2, they would be sentenced to a mandatory minimum of 70 months or a maximum of 84 months. The mandatory fine assigned to level 2 is SIOO,OOO. Chapel Hill Mayor Rosemary Waldorf said she was pleased with the police department’s efforts to rid the town of illegal drugs. Waldorf said, “In the past five years, the police department has done a real good job beefing up its investigative unit to keep the drug activity from settling in vulnerable areas of the community.” tee said the president’s initiatives were just one factor of many that would influ ence the HEA re-authorizing process. “We’ve got our priorities, and he’s got his,” said Kevin MacMillan, a media assistant for the Committee on Education and Workforce. Clinton’s priorities include strength ening student programs that are consis tently deemed essential by students and student-interest groups. Pell Grants would get a 25 percent increase, raising the maximum for each qualifying student to $3,000 per school year and making another 130,000 stu dents eligible for the grant. “We are very pleased with the Pell Grant provisions of the president’s pro posals," said Erica Adelsheimer, a leg islative director for the United States Student Association, a student lobbying group. “We’re happy that education is a priority in his budget.” See FINANCIAL AID, Page 10 pushed Bankov into the elevator doors, causing them to open. Bankov then fell five stories to the ele vator car below. She suffered severe lac erations, as well as internal and other serious injuries in the accident. She remained hospitalized Wednesday night, according to a repre sentative of UNC Hospitals. Suddarth was also charged with giv ing malt beverage to an underage person and aiding and abetting underage pos session of alcohol in connection with the accident. Suddarth was released on SSOO unse cured bond. His trial date has been set for March 3. A final report on the incident is expected from the Labor Department in about a week. Duke: still the best Lies, horrendous lies. But we still have to run it. See editor's note ■t , ♦SB* DTH/AMY CAPPIELLO North Carolina forward Ademola Okulaja (13), shown here against Virginia, turned in a double-double vs. Duke with 13 points and 12 rebounds. Devils break streak with 2nd-half spurt BYROBBIPICKERAL SENIOR WRITER DURHAM Duke center Greg Newton waited almost 39 minutes Wednesday night to score his first points of the game. It turned into a three-point play that put the Blue Devils ahead by four with 1:01 remain ing. Nice timing. A minute later, Blue Devil guard Trajan Men's basketball UNC 73 Duke 80 Langdon buried his career-high 28th point on his seventh trey of the night. Perfect timing. In the annual classic at Cameron Indoor Stadium, No. 19 North Carolina fell to 12th-ranked Duke for the first time since in nearly four years, with an 80-73 victory in front of 9,314 Cameron Crazies. With the win, Duke (16-5,4-4 in the ACC) snapped a seven game losing streak to UNC UNC guard ED COTA scored 10 points on 4-of-6 shooting vs. Duke. (12-6, 3-5) that dated back to Feb. 3, 1993. The postgame excitement sent fans scrambling and press row tum bling. It left UNC tired and stunned. ‘T’ve never lost to Duke,” said UNC center Serge Zwikker, head in his hands, after UNC's loss. “I think they came out ready to play us.” The game Duke ’V slams door on Jamison See Page 11 was everything history foretold —very, very close. Until Newton’s lay-in, neither team led by more than six in the second half. With the Blue Devils ahead 33-31 at halftime, the score swapped back and forth as each team went on mini-runs before succumbing to the other’s rau cous defense. At the 2:28 mark, UNC forward Antawn Jamison rolled in a transition lay-up from Shammond Williams to cut Duke’s lead to one before a Blue Devil timeout. 103 yean of editorial freedom Serving the student* and the University community since 1893 News/Features/Aits/Sports 962-0245 Business/Advertising: 962-1163 Volume 104, Issue 141 Chapel Hilly North Carolina C 1997 DTH Publishing Corp. All rights reserved. Today's Weather Mostly cloudy; upper 30s. Friday: Party sunny low 50s. Coming out of the huddle, Duke guard Steve Wojciechowski, playing with four fouls, fed Newton under the basket to convert his first points of the game. Tar Heel guard Vince Carter grabbed him on the way up, accounting for the three-point play. “(That shot) was pretty big,” Zwikker said. “He hit that shot in the last three minutes, they got momentum going, they got the free throw. Stuff like that hurts us.” Seconds later, UNC point guard Ed Cota hit a jumper from the foul line to cut it to 2. But coming out of Duke’s second timeout, Langdon, a sopho more who sat out 14 months with a knee injury prior to this season, hit his seventh of 12 trifecta attempts with 42 seconds remaining to put the Blue Devils back up by 5. “It’s one of those shots that people will talk about,” Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski said. ”... He wanted it.” From then on, it was foul-and-free bie time as Wojciechowski hit three of four free throws and junior Roshown McLeod hit an exclamation-point jam to make UNC’s final deficit 7, match ing Duke’s largest lead of the game. “We’re disappointed, obviously,” UNC coach Dean Smith said. “But for this young team it’s a good experience to come over here.” Duke opened the game on a tear, forcing three of UNC’s 13 first-half turnovers to open a 5-0 run before Ademola Okulaja finally scored on the second of two free throws. The Blue Devils netted their largest lead of the half on a three-point play by Chris Carrawell before Carter and Williams hit consecutive 3s. That chipped Duke’s lead back to one. UNC combatted Duke’s quickness and depth with poise and height as the teams traded baskets for the next four minutes, with Zwikker hitting four of his team-high 14 total points in that span. Feel a bit queasy^ The Daily Tar Heel apologizes for the dis gusting blue adorning the masthead. The DTH and The Chronicle, Duke's stu dent newspaper, made a wager that the loser of Wednesday's game had to print its masthead in the victor's school color.
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