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POLICE
ROUNDUP
University
WedßMday, Oct .22
■ Someone stole a print worth S3OO
from Hanes Art Center, reports state.
The print of a man with a trombone
was discovered missing when the print’s
owner asked an employee if someone
borrowed the painting, reports ct^te
The print was on display in front of
101 Hanes Art Center, reports state.
■ A Physical Plant employee report
ed three microwaves stolen from the
snack bar at the School of Law.
Employees told their supervisor the
microwaves were missing when the
supervisor reported to work, reports
state.
The snack bar is open all night.
The supervisor told police she could
not estimate the value of the
microwaves because they had all been
donated, reports state.
■ A car was stolen from the lower
level of Craige Parking Deck, police
reports state.
An employee of the George Watts
Hill Alumni Center who lives in
Durham reported his white 1992
Honda Accord missing from the deck.
The car was valued at $9,000.
The four-door car had N.C. license
plate JN57545, reports state.
■ Someone reported smelling mari
juana on the sixth floor of Craige
Residence Hall.
An officer smelled the marijuana
when he responded to the call at 12:53
a.m., and he asked the room’s occupant
to allow him to search, reports state.
The occupant refused, and the officer
asked a magistrate for a warrant to
search the room, reports state.
The incident is under investigation.
■ An employee of UNC Physicians
& Associates complained to police
about verbal threats from another
employee.
She told police the office has had
problems with the employee before,
according to police reports.
Tires have been slashed on an
employee’s car, and someone has called
the office and hung up several times,
reports state.
The employee who filed the report
also found a strange package in the hall
way, reports state.
■ A student living in Carmichael
Residence Hall reported that someone
had broken into her car.
The 21-year-old student said her car,
parked in die lot by Morrison Residence
Hall, had mud inside that was not there
before, and she said all of her windows
were unlocked, reports state.
City
Wadiwsday, 0ct.22
■ Charles Cornelius Alston, 20, of
Route 9 Box 37 Bogwoods in Chapel
Hill, and Jerry Mauriat Baldwin, 22, of
409 Broad St. in Carrboro, were both
arrested for second-degree trespassing
and possession of drugs, reports state.
According to police reports, officer
A.W. Philley found Alston, Baldwin
and another subject in front of the B
Building in Trinity Court.
According to reports, upon searching
Alston 1.5 grams of marijuana was
found, and he was transported to
Orange County Jail.
He was being held under a S2OO
secured bond, reports state.
Philley also found 5 rocks of crack
cocaine under Baldwin’s tongue, and
Baldwin was charged with possession
with intent to sell and deliver.
Baldwin was transported to Orange
County Jail and was being held under a
$3,500 secured bond.
■ A 1994 Lexus GS3OO was report
ed stolen from a parking lot at the inter
section of Franklin and Church streets.
The vehicle belonged to Anthony
Taylor of 802 Englewood St., Apt .15,
in Durham.
Taesday, 0ct.21
■ Mark Lindsey Wallace Jr. of 935
Oaklawn Ave. in Winston-Salem was
arrested at a Holiday Inn shortly after
midnight.
Wallace was charged with attempted
second-degree rape and kidnapping and
was being held under $15,000 secured
bond at the Orange County jail.
Monday. 0ct.20
■ Jose Cristian Cruz Ventura of
4216 Garrett Road B-16 in Durham was
arrested for possession of a stolen vehi
cle.
Reports state Ventura was stopped
for swerving in and out of his lane.
The vehicle was later reported as
stolen, according to reports.
Ventura had a learner’s permit and
was charged with no operator's license.
He was being held at the Orange
County Jail under a $2,500 secured
bond.
■ Anthony Curtis Russel of 1403
Duke University Road in Durham was
arrested for larceny.
I Security at Dillards in University
Mall saw Russel run from the store with
Several shirts. Russel was transported to
Orange County Jail and was being held
under a SSOO secured bond.
Elections to fill Student Congress vacancies
■ The University will hold
a special election Nov. 11 to
fill the five vacant positions.
BY KERRY OSSI
STAFF WRITER
Some student leaders have doubts
about whether the special election set for
Nov. 11 will fill the five empty seats in
Student Congress.
Four of the vacancies are in graduate
school districts and the final one is in an
undergraduate off-campus district.
Three members resigned this semes
ter after Student Congress tried to expel
them because they stopped attending
meetings. Speaker James Hoffman had
changed the meeting days from
Wednesdays to Mondays.
Joe Kledis, chairman of the Elections
Board, said even under normal circum
AIDS patient believes
God keeps him living
■ Steve Sawyer said he has
outlived the expectations
and predictions of doctors.
BY KENYA ELDRIDGE
STAFF WRITER
AIDS patient Steve Sawyer avoided
the subjects of death and pain in his
speech at UNC on Thursday and
instead spoke about hope, peace and
strength.
Doctors expected Sawyer to die from
AIDS two years and three days ago.
Now at 22, he still lives to share his
experiences and his hopes for the future.
Sawyer, who was bom with hemo
philia, contracted the HIV virus in the
early 1980s after his blood became
infected with the virus.
“I had to start focusing on other
things in my life,” Sawyer said.
“I no longer saw someone who
looked healthy. I saw someone who was
dying.”
Sawyer said he became very angry at
one point in his life and started pushing
away those people in his life that really
cared about him. He said he should have
reacted differently.
“We should never do anything in
anger because anger clouds your
thoughts and hurts those you love in the
process,” Sawyer said.
Throughout his life, Sawyer said his
father served as a pillar of strength and
influenced him to ask God for help.
UNC, DTH
argue honor
court appeal
■ Oral arguments from
both sides were heard by
the N.C. Court of Appeals.
STAFF REPORT
RALEIGH The Daily Tar Heel
and the University met again in court
Thursday in the ongoing fight regarding
the application of the N.C. Open
Meetings Law to Honor Court proceed
ings.
The two sides presented oral argu
ments to the N.C. Court of Appeals.
Both are appealing a December ruling
made by N.C. Superior Judge Gordon
Battle.
Battle ruled that while the Honor
Court is a public body, the University
had the right to keep the proceedings
closed under the Family Educational
Rights and Privacy Act. The act protects
student education records.
In Thursday’s proceedings, the
University argued the members of the
undergraduate Honor Court do not
meet the standards of the open meet
ings law definition of a public body.
“It’s a student process,” said Thomas
Ziko, assistant attorney general. “It is
the University’s point that the student
court is not a public body.
“The student court is not an elected
or a public body.”
According to the open meetings law,
the definition of a public body includes
elected or appointed authorities, board
commissions, committees and councils.
Amanda Martin, attorney for the
DTH, said the Honor Court did meet
the standards of a public body and
asked the court to consider the impact
the Honor Court has on the University
community.
“It’s important to focus on what the
nature of the court is,” she said.
Martin said the Honor Court hears
cases of campus code violations and
therefore has an impact on the entire
University community.
UNIVERSITY & CITY
stances these lands of seats usually gar
nered little candidate interest.
“There are probably some that will go
unfilled out of these five,” Kledis said.
“We usually have a problem with
graduate seats and off-campus seats.”
Congress member Alyson Grine, who
vacated her seat in District 1 to study
abroad next semester, said she worried
students might not want to get involved
in the middle of the semester.
“It’s a busy time of year, and people
are hesitant of making another commit
ment at this point,” she said.
Student Congress member Bryan
Kennedy, a graduate school representa
tive for District 4, said publicity was the
key to finding interested candidates.
“If we can make sure people know
these seats are available, then I think
they can be filled,” he said.
The Elections Board planned to put
an announcement on its web site and
put posters in graduate departments.
“We should never do
anything in anger because
anger clouds thoughts and
hurts those you love in the
process
stew sunn
AIDS patient
Sawyer said that in time after looking
to God for help, his T-cell count, which
drops as the disease gets worse, rose
from about 213 to approximately 365,
and he started to gain weight.
“There’s no reason for me to be
alive,” Sawyer said.
“The only reason I’m here now is
because of my relationship with God.”
Sawyer does not take any medica
tions and his doctor’s are “clueless” as
to why his health improved, he said.
He said he wants people to realize
people cannot control most of their cir
cumstances in life but that they can have
real hope and peace despite any chal
lenge.
Sawyer, who has given speeches at
more than 100 colleges, speaks at about
two campuses a week to share his expe
riences and to reach as many people as
he can.
Campus Crusade for Christ spon
sored Sawyer’s speech.
“I wanted students to gain knowledge
of how they can have hope in the midst
of suffering,” said Robert Webster of
Sporting Su n n S
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BY KAITLIN GURNEY
STAFF WRITER
Don’t be surprised if an extra play
er joins in your next impromptu fris
bee game in the quad.
University Nike representative
Kenya Newman is never without an
extra frisbee and a handful of dog tags
to reward students she encounters
engaging in athletics on campus.
“My job is to promote athletics at
UNC it’s that simple,” said
Newman, a senior journalism major
from Pasadena, Caiif. “I focus on the
non-varsity sports, such as club or
intramural sports, as well as the indi
vidual athlete.”
Newman creates campus activities
to encourage athletics, and organizes
corporate-sponsored initiatives.
She said her favorite task is doing
“random acts of kindness" by distrib
uting Nike paraphernalia at athletic
events. She recently visited the world’s
largest aerobics class at the Student
Recreation Center bearing gifts.
Nike provides Newman with an
inventory for the year that includes T
shirts, towels, stickers, dog tags, water
bottles and flip cards.
Nike expects Newman to come up
with innovative ideas to foster athlet
ics on campus.
Newman said she particularly
enjoyed a contest she sponsored dur
ing a basketball ticket distribution lot
tery last year. She created a “basket
ball backpack” with a megaphone on
the back. Students success fill at throw
ing a basketball into the megaphone
received Nike prizes.
“It was something to do while
standing in line,” Newman said. “I
also brought it into the Undergrad
during exams, and it was a welcome
study break for students.”
Nike also sponsors one club sport a
year, and this year Newman chose
“Its a busy time of year,
and people are hesitant
of making another
commitment
at this point.”
ALYSON GRINE
former Student Congress member
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Katherine Kraft
said graduate students should care about
having representation since Congress
allocated student activity fees, of which
approximately SIOO,OOO came from
graduate student fees.
“If graduate students don’t partici
pate in Congress, there’s no way we can
take advantage of the money we pay,”
she said.
Kledis said students interested in run
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DTH/SEAN BUSHES
Students filled Great Hall to hear Steve Sawyer speak about the impact AIDS
has had on his life and the ways he has found to deal with the condition.
Campus Crusade.
Webster said that the mission of
Campus Crusade was to see students
come to acknowledge Jesus Christ, and
Steve Sawyer is an integral part of their
mission.
Several students said Sawyer’s speech
inspired them, and he made them real
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DTH /MATT KDHUT
Kenya Newman, UNCs Nike representative, is head of a 10-member Swoosh Team that attends various campus
events to promote Nike products. She promotes athletics both at the team and the individual level.
women’s rugby.
One of the corporate initiatives
Newman administrates is Participate
in the Lives of
America’s
Youth CORPS.
College stu
dents are given
money toward
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college tuition in return for coaching a
youth sport for 80 to 100 hours.
Sam Taylor, a sophomore journal
ism major from Whitesburg, Tenn., is
coaching an 8- and 9-year-old Chapel
ning for the vacant seats should pick up
campaign packets in Suite C on
Monday.
Candidates who want their names on
the ballot must return their petitions by
Oct. 31, but write-ins will be counted.
Vacant seats for the graduate districts
are in District 1 the law school and
the Kenan-Flagler Business School;
District 5 lnformation and Library
Sciences, Anthropology, Art, Drama,
Operational Research, Classics, Music,
Philosophy and Religion; District 7
Biochemistry, Cellular Biology,
Biomedical Engineering, Genetics,
Microbiology/Immunology, Pathology,
Pharmacology, Toxicology, Physiology,
Physical Education and Psychology;
and District 9 Dental, Medicine,
Pharmacy and Neurobiology.
The undergraduate off-campus
District 23 includes Shadowood, Ashley
Forest, Timberlyne, Kensington Trace
and Foxcroft apartment complexes.
ize how important life is.
“A lot of people get away from focus
ing on God, but (Sawyer) shows that
(God) should be the center focus of your
life,” said Josh Burris, a junior from
Davidson.
“(It) makes you think about how
important life after death is going to be.”
Hill boys’ basketball team through
P.L.A.Y.CORPS. He became involved
in the program after encouragement
from Newman,
who is his resi
dent assistant in
Granville
Towers West.
“I love it,”
Taylor said. “It’s definitely a chal
lenge, but it’s a worthwhile experi
ence.”
Newman became UNC’s Nike rep
resentative, a paid position, last fall
Friday, October 24, 1997
School Board
hopefuls talk
at bag lunch
■ Four of the candidates
for Town Council appeared
at the on-campus luncheon.
BY ANGELA LEA
STAFF WRITER
Faculty, graduate students and
undergraduates of the School of
Education made their way Thursday
afternoon to a brown-bag lunch forum
for the Chapel Hill-Carrboro City
School Board candidates.
The forum, which was sponsored by
the Graduate Association of the School
of Education, was intended to provide
information about the candidates and
their platforms, said William Ware, a
professor in the School of Education
and faculty adviser to the Graduate
Association.
“It was like any other forum where
people go and hear what the candidates
have to say,” Ware said. “It’s just that in
this case it happened to be sponsored by
the Graduate Association of the School
of Education.”
But Ware said the knowledge of the
attendees enabled them to discuss issues
more in-depth.
“We talked about substance instead
of smoke in mirrors,” he said.
Four of the seven candidates were
present Roger Waldon, Maria
Palmer, Runyon Woods and Nick
Didow —and each presented his basic
platform.
Waldon, Chapel Hill’s Planning
director, said he was concerned with the
“uneven pattern of achievement in
schools,” especially Chapel Hill High
School.
As chairman of school governance at
CHHS, Waldon said he’d noticed that
despite having the highest SAT scores of
North Carolina’s public schools, CHHS
had its share of inequality in scores and
grades.
“By trying some innovative things,
we can accomplish great things for kids
who aren’t achieving at such high lev
els," he said.
Palmer, a pastor and doctoral student
in the School of Education, said she
was similarly concerned with issues of
inequality in performance but that her
platform focused on providing more
support services for Latino students.
“I’m running because of the quote
unquote ‘problem’ Chapel Hill-
Carrboro schools are having with
Latino children,” she said.
“Our schools don’t have bilingual
counselors or any way to communicate
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after responding to a newspaper adver
tisement and attending a series of
interviews. Nike then flew her to com
pany headquarters in Beaverton, Ore.
“The visit enabled me to absorb the
whole feel of Nike to carry back to
campus,” Newman said.
Newman’s efforts are supported by
a 10-member Swoosh Team, a group
of students who help her plan and
carry out Nike activities.
“They are my eyes and ears in other
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