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Police officer claims citation double standard exists
■ A University police
officer said students receive
more alcohol citations.
BY LAURA GODWIN
MANAGING EDITOR
A University Police officer claims his
department targets students and turns a
blind eye to alumni and adults violating
state alcohol regulations following an
incident at a recent football game.
University Police Lt. C.E. Swain said
a Sept. 27 incident is representative of a
larger problem —a double standard
regarding who receives alcohol-related
citations from University Police.
“You ask other officers, and they will
probably tell you the same thing,” Swain
said. “It is a double standard, and it
shouldn’t be.”
Swain cited Caroline Hancock, 18,
daughter of Board of Trustees member
Billy Armfield, for underage possession
of alcohol. She was holding a beer in the
Ramshead parking lot after the UNC-
Virginia football game, University police
Housing board approves
deposit amount increase
■ The proposed $125 hike
was made partly because of
this fall’s housing crunch.
BY PHILLIP GARDNER
STAFF WRITER
Students wanting to reserve on-cam
pus housing might be digging deeper in
their pockets this spring if anew pro
posal becomes reality.
Among other housing assignment
changes, the Housing Advisory Board
has approved a proposal to raise the
housing pre-payment for returning stu
dents from $75 to S2OO.
Tim Schwarzen, student government
housing coordinator and board member,
said the board approved the housing
department’s proposal Wednesday.
“We all agreed that it’s a great
option,” he said, adding that this fall’s
housing crunch
played a major
role in proposing
the increase.
Wayne Kuncl,
director of
University
Housing, said the
new policy must
be reviewed and
approved by Sue
Kitchen, vice
chancellor for stu
dent affairs, before
it can take effect.
He said he hoped
the policy could
be implemented
by next semester.
The increase’s
Vice Chancellor for
Student Affairs
SUSAN KITCHEN
must approve the
proposal before the
housing deposit hike
can take effect.
purpose was to ensure that students who
register for University housing are seri
ous about returning, Schwarzen said.
He said the change would cause stu
dents to avoid using University housing
as a fail-back position while looking at
off-campus housing options, thus clear
ing space for other students.
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Members of Alpha Delta Pi sorority cheer after scoring during a kickball
game Sunday. They played to raise money for children.
reports state.
Swain accused the police department
of pressuring him to drop Hancock’s
citation because of her father’s position
with the University. Armfield called
Swain’s allegations “totally incorrect,”
and University Police Chief Don Gold
said Swain was in no way pressured to
drop the citation. Gold said he had not
even talked to Armfield.
After an investigation into the inci
dent, Hancock’s citation was filed with
the magistrate’s office.
Swain contends that students, more
than alumni or other adults, receive the
brunt of police efforts to crack down on
alcohol-related violations.
Students do receive more citations
than alumni or other adults, but for prac
tical reasons, said David Collins, man
ager of the University Police profession
al standard training section.
More alcohol infractions pinpoint
students than adults. The only infraction
applicable to adults is public display of
alcohol. Students can also be cited for
underage possession of alcohol, he said.
He added the large population of stu
dents also leads to more citations. “The
“That sounds like a big raise
just for something like that,
lfl wasn't sure, I'd pay $75.
But if it was S2OO, I'd make a
decision quicker. ”
MIMIDEVOE
Sophomore from Greenville
While the proposal raises the housing
pre-payment, also known as a housing
deposit, it doesn’t raise overall housing
costs, Schwarzen said.
According to a draft of the proposal,
the housing department also proposed a
grace period of two weeks for students
to change their minds about living on
campus and withdraw from the upper
classmen sign-up process.
Students would be able to cancel for
a full refund within these two weeks.
A July 1 cancellation date, after
which an upperclassman would become
responsible for liquidated damages, was
also established in the proposal.
According to the proposal, this earlier
cancellation date would encourage early
decision-making.
Schwarzen said the proposal repre
sented a significant change from the sta
tus quo. “With the current housing pol
icy, students can basically go until resi
dence halls open up,” he said.
Another section of the proposal rec
ommended the delay of freshman
assignment notification until July 16.
This delay, according to the draft, would
provide the assignments office with
greater flexibility in moving residents
and accommodating medical needs.
The possible increase in pre-payment
got some students thinking.
Mimi Devoe, a sophomore from
Greenville, said she was surprised by the
increase. “That sounds like a big raise
just for something like that.
“If I wasn’t sure, I’d pay $75,” she
said. “But if it was S2OO, I’d make a
decision quicker.”
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Tuesday, October 7,1997
Volume 105, Issue 85
vast majority of our people in our juris
diction are students,” Collins said. "It
just stands to reason that more students
are going to be cited.”
Swain said when he saw a violation,
he issued a citation regardless of the
offender’s age or status. “A lot of (offi
cers) have said that they don’t want to
hear the complaints,” Swain said. “I
have gotten to the point that I really
don’t care (about receiving complaints).”
Gold denied the existence of a double
standard. “No one is targeted,” Gold
said. “We respond to and enforce the
law according to what we encounter.”
Collins, a seven-year police veteran,
said he had never witnessed any officer
specifically target students. He did say
the combination of students and alcohol
causes more problems for police.
He said, “Let’s face it at football
games, how many times have we had to
break up a fight between alumni? How
many times have we had alumni throw
up? You don’t see a 63-year-old man and
his wife who may have had a couple of
Bloody Marys at 10 in the morning at
the Bell Tower parking lot causing prob
lems.”
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Hear them roar: voters league
gears up for upcoming elections
BY BETSY LEE
STAFF WRITER
The local League of Women Voters
registered more than 50 voters at
Festifall on Sunday.
In keeping with its mission to register
and educate voters, the group made its
presence known.
The Nov. 4 elec
tions have kept
members busy, as
they have made
widespread efforts
to register as many
eligible voters as
possible and to
Qmmunity
inform residents about each of the can
didates.
LWV President Diana Phillips said
attracting people to register at Festifall
was not difficult with so many residents
there.
“We registered between 50 to 60 vot
ers,"she said.
At the booth, the league sold stamps
so those who completed the registration
forms could send them immediately,
Phillips said.
At Festifall, the league also provided
1997 citizens’ guides of the Chapel Hill
area. The guides contained phone num
bers of local, state and national officials
and tax and voting information that
league members had gathered.
With the Chapel Hill Area League’s
50th birthday approaching, members
continued in their mission to educate
voters as a non-partisan organization.
“Much of the reason why people
don’t vote is because they don’t feel that
they know enough about the issues,”
Phillips said.
“One of the most important jobs is
helping people learn what the issues
Armfield’s daughter cited for violation
BY LAURA GODWIN
MANAGING EDITOR
A University Police officer who cited
a prominent University official’s daugh
ter for an alcohol violation claims he
was pressured to tear up the citation.
Caroline Hancock, 18, daughter of
Board of Trustees member Billy
Armfield, received a citation for under
age possession of a malt beverage on
Sept. 27 following the UNC-Virginia
football game, UNC Police reports state.
Hancock was released and the case
was cleared by arrest, the report states.
But the officer who cited Hancock
said the case was not closed when he
turned in his copy of the citation.
University Police Lt. C.E. Swain said
when he began to write Hancock the
citation, Armfield asked him to “give
him a break.”
Swain said he declined, completed
writing the citation, and returned to the
police station where he mentioned the
WHERE THE SIDEWALK ENDS
are.”
Voter Registration Chairwoman
Rieka Samulski said the group planned
a Chapel Hill Town Council candidates’
forum Oct. 20 and a bond referendum
and Board of Education candidates’
forum Oct. 29.
Samulski said a Carrboro mayoral
and Board of Alderman candidates’
forum would also take place Oct. 30 in
Carrboro Town Hall.
The LWV also compiled a voter’s
guide that contained information on
each office member’s education, back
ground and responses to specific ques
tions and issues, Samulski said.
Unlike past years, Gross said no
UNC students served as LWV members,
adding that this was mainly because
meetings took place off campus in mem
bers’ homes.
Gross said the meetings had previ
ously been held at Chapel of the Cross
Episcopal Church on Franklin Street.
However, the league encountered a
scarcity in parking when the University
converted part of the church parking lot
into a University one.
Asa result, the league decided to
hold its meetings elsewhere.
Another reason the league has no
UNC student members is because it no
longer has anyone to actively recruit
them, Gross said.
Since the league is so busy, it did not
make this a top priority, she said.
“We try to do too much. We just have
so many things to try to accomplish.”
Phillips agreed and added that many
members had less time to devote to the
league since they worked full time.
“The league used to be composed of
a lot of women who didn’t work outside
the home," Phillips said. “They had a
lot of time to give.
citation to others.
“When I got
home there was a
message on my
answering
machine from my
major. He wanted
me to page him,"
Swain said. “He
asked me again
about the cita
tion.”
Swain said
when he asked his
major, Jeff
McCracken, why
he was interested
in the incident,
McCracken told
Board of Trustees
member
BILLY ARMFIELD
said the incident
occurred because of
negligence on his
part.
him Hancock was Armfield’s daughter.
“The next thing (McCracken) said
was he was a BOT member,” Swain
said. “I told him ‘I don’t give a damn.’
“They made sure they told me who
her father was.”
“Much of the reason why
people don't vote is because
they don't feel that they know
enough about the issues. ”
DIANA PHILLIPS
President of the local
League of Women Voters
“It’s only in the past 10 years that
we’ve come across members working
full time and members who are single
mothers working full time, in a big way.”
Phillips said in the past the University
had a student League of Women Voters.
However, she added that the student
league no longer existed since it lacked
an advisor.
“If there were to be a student League
of Women Voters, it would need a fac
ulty sponsor,” Phillips said.
She said she was currently seeking an
advisor to revive the student league.
The league also made other attempts
to expand its membership. Member
Gwen Griswold said the league now
included members living in areas other
than Chapel Hill.
“One of the things we have just done
is to widen our umbrella because we
have some members living in Chatham
(County), Hillsborough and Durham,”
Griswold said.
“We are reaching out beyond Chapel
Hill.”
Although the league began as a
female organization, Phillips said men
could also join.
“It came into being from the suffrag
ist movement," she said.
“(But) men are welcomed as mem
bers.”
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“This is something that I
wished had not happened,
and 1 am certainly not
proud of it. I should have
known better.''
BILLY ARMFIELD
Board of Trustees member
McCracken was not available
Monday for comment.
Swain said his commanding officers
told him the citation should be erased
because it would be difficult to prove.
The citation and the arrest report
were removed from computer files, but
only while the incident was under inves
tigation, University Police Chief Don
Gold said. “We were aware of a com
plaint with regards to the way the cita-
See ARMFIELD, Page 2
Professor:
allegations of
abuse wrong
■ Six students accused
Professor David Hammond
of sexual harassment.
STAFF REPORT
Drama Professor David Hammond
issued a response Monday to allegations
from six graduate students that he had
sexually harassed and abused them.
Hammond, who is being represented
by Chapel Hill Attorney Jay Bryan, stat
ed in a press release that he was
“shocked and upset” about the allega
tions and that he was cooperating with
the University’s investigation.
“I believe that I have not done or said
anything in classes or rehearsals that
can be construed as sexual harassment,”
he stated.
Hammond said that although he had
not seen all of the allegations, what he
had seen were “out-of-context misrep
resentations of events” and that others
were “simply untrue.”
He further stated that he had wit
nesses to support responses to all alle
gations.
Six graduate students who had
See RESPONSE, Page 2
INSKL
Giving freshmen a voice
Student Body
President Mo
Nathan and student
government
approved anew
council to involve
more freshmen.
Page 2
Klein’s leaving UNC
The director of Point-2-Point Campus
Shuttle Services announced his
resignation, effective Friday. Page 4
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