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“Me was
awry
nice guy,
the kind you would want to take
home to meet your family,” Mollie
said of her rapist.
“Mollie,” a UNC student whose name has been
changed, dated him for about two months, then
decided she wanted to be friends.
“He would try to make me feel bad or make me
feel guilty about breaking everything off. He would
cry. I’m a sucker for criers."
Out of his professed love for Mollie, he began to
bring her gifts.
Once, he pulled a weapon on her and said he
would use it if she didn’t stay with him.
The incident made her
trust falter, but it did
remain. She never
believed she would have
to fight him off her body
or fight the consequences
of rape.
I don’t know why he
made me feel so bad Stupid me, I guess.
He came in her room one night, while she was
getting ready for bed.
“I was on the bed. We were talking. He tried kiss
ing me. At first I kissed him. He tried kissing again
and I was like, ‘No, no, no, we can’t do this. Stop.’
“He keeps on trying to lay me down onto the bed,
and I’m trying to push him away. ‘l’m serious, I’m
serious. Stop.”’
He pulled down her pants.
I'm the type of person where I’m the one to say that if
somebody was ever to do something like this to me, I’m
gonna beat their ass
“I don’t know why I did not fight back like I
should have.”
He got off to get a condom, and she tried to pull
her pants up, but he pulled them down again.
“I’m pushing on him saying ‘stop, stop,’ and he
penetrates. After that, I didn’t say nothing else; I
started crying.
“(But) I did say 'stop, I’m serious. Please stop.’ He
told me, ‘I can’t stop.’
“Then I just turned my head and pretended like
it’s not happening. It got to the point that it didn’t
even matter. I wasn’t feeling what was going on. I
just wanted him to stop.
“Then he looks down at me and acts like he’s
finally come to his senses and said he was sorry he
almost raped me.
“He lays there on top of me and would not get off.
Finally, it seemed like hours, which could have been
a couple of seconds, before he got off me.”
“I pulled my pants up and turned over. I actually
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BY LAURA
STOEHR
STAFF WRITER
Date rape: tough to figure
BY KERITARLTON
STAFF WRITER
One in six women will be the vic
tim of rape or attempted rape
while enrolled as undergraduate
students at a college or university.
University sexual harassment officer
Judith Scott said
studies estimate
that between 85
percent and 95
percent of the
rapes would be
rapes in which
the assailant was
someone the vic
tim knew.
Although N.C.
law breaks sexual
assault into differ
ent degrees based
on the nature of
the assault and
whether or not a
weapon was used, no offense titled
“date rape” exists for a victim to report.
As Michelle Cofield, assistant dean
of students and chairwoman for the
Rape Awareness Committee, expressed,
“Rape is rape."
But Cofield said she saw rape as
divided into three categories: stranger
rape, acquaintance rape and date rape.
“People often break down the defini
tion of rape to better understand the
issues,” she said.
In simple terms, Cofield described
stranger rape as a situation in which a
victim’s assailant was someone
unknown, "who jumps out of the dark
of the night and then runs away.”
To define acquaintance rape, Cofield
said: “This is more someone you may
see everyday walking to class or some
one in one of your classes. You might
know them, but there is not a defined
relationship.”
In the situation of date rape, Cofield
said there is an official type of relation
ship in existence between the victim and
the attacker.
“Perhaps they were set up by a friend
or they met at a party,” Cofield said.
"Some type of relationship exists
between the two.”
Many say this existing relationship
keeps victims of date rape from report
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A weeklong series
shedding light on
the problem of date
rape on college
campuses.
Student leaders, administrators
disagree on who should pay fee
■ Some administrators say
students should share the
cost of better technology.
BY MONIKA ELUS
STAFF WRITER
E-mail’s huge campus popularity has
led to a need for more technology bind
ing and a debate between student lead-
ers and adminis
trators over the
purpose of the
education and
technology fee.
According to
information pro
vided by the
Chancellor’s
Committee on
Student Fees, the
intent of the tech
nology fee was to
purchase comput
ing and network
ing hardware for
student labs.
It was also
intended to fund
classroom renova-
tions and equipment and salaries for
support staff. The fee has increased each
year during the past five years.
Members of the Student Fee Audit
Committee refused Thursday to recom
mend Executive Director of Academic
Technology & Networks John Oberlin’s
Never go to bed mad. Stay up and fight.
Phyllis Diller
Monday, November 17,1997
Volume 105, Issue 112
It's a fee for all
Student leaflets have criticized a proposal to raise the University s education and technolo')/
fee by $26 next year The education and technology lee has grown during the past five
years to become the second largest component of student fees for niost undergraduates.
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Student Fee Audit
Committee Chairman
MARC MCCOLLUM
sent a letter of the
committee's refusal to
support an increased
technology fee.
request for a $26 annual fee increase.
“Technology is just as important to
our education today as classrooms and
libraries,” said Marc McCollum, chair
man of the Student Fee Audit
Committee and student body treasurer,
in a report to the Chancellor’s
Committee on Student Fees, which rec
ommends fee increases. “With increas
ing demand in technology due to acad
ing incidents.
In fact, Scott said some studies show
that up to 98 percent of victims of rape
or attempted rape by someone they
know will not report the assault to the
police.
Peggy Norton, a Student Health
Service nurse, agreed with the statistics
showing that most date rape victims do
not report the crime.
"No number could be an accurate
one for date rape cases,” she said.
“Many don’t report it. Very few come
in (to Student Health).’’
Susan Kitchen, vice chancellor for
student affairs, agreed.
“I think the numbers are High on
every campus,” Kitchen said. “The
numbers reported are always less than
the actual occurrences, particularly in
the case of acquaintance rape.”
Kitchen cited some of the reasons
that rape or attempted rape victims do
not report date rape.
“Often the first thing (victims) do is
run over and over the incident in their
head. There is an element of holding
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emics, we feel the state should increase
its contribution,” McCollum said.
According to Oberlin’s report to the
SFAC, student fees pay 6.4 percent of
ATN fees. The state pays 15.9 percent.
Roger Patterson, chairman of the
Chancellor’s Committee on Student
Fees, said the subject needed more
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Officer ordered
to appear before
personnel board
BY LAURA GODWIN
MANAGING EDITOR
A University Police officer, already embroiled in contro
versy, has been ordered to appear at a pre-disciplinary hearing
regarding the future of his job.
Lt. C.E. Swain received a letter Sunday evening signed by
Maj. Jeff McCracken stating that Swain must attend a pre-dis
ciplinary conference today at 8 a.m. in Vance Hall.
According to the letter, Swain must answer allegations that
on Oct. 30 he completed personal business during time he
recorded as being on the job. In the letter, McCracken states,
“I had information stating that you were seen at an off-cam
pus location ... in uniform, during your regularly scheduled
work time, without notifying me that you were taking time off
for non-work- related activity.”
Swain said he was told someone saw
him going into The Chapel Hill Herald
office on Franklin Street but was not told
who that person was.
McCracken would not comment on
the letter or the events leading to the pre
disciplinary conference.
Swain denied going to the Herald
office but said he had a phone conversa
tion with someone from there that day.
According to the letter, McCracken
spoke to Swain on Nov. 10 regarding dis
crepancies with his timesheet. Swain
said he did inadvertently report incorrect
hours for training activities he complet
ed. After correcting the hours, Swain
said he resubmitted his timesheet and
told McCracken the hours recorded for
Oct. 30 were correct. Swain said the
issue was not mentioned again until
McCracken gave him the letter Sunday evening.
“It’s the first time in 10 years that I have been questioned
about my timesheet," Swain said. “That tells you something.”
McCracken’s letter follows weeks of controversy sur
rounding Swain and the department. In October, Swain filed
a grievance against the University claiming McCracken
ordered the removal from the record of a citation Swain issued
to Caroline Hancock, 18, the daughter of Board of Trustees
member Billy Armfield. Hancock was cited for underage pos
session of alcohol, but the citation was removed from com
puter records for three days.
Swain claims University officials pressured him to tear up
the citation because of who Hancock’s father was, while
police officials said the citation was removed for investigation
then replaced. Capt. Danny Caldwell filed a separate griev
ance against UNC in regard to the same incident. Caldwell
also filed a grievance against McCracken for harassment. Both
grievances were rejected, and both men have appealed.
Shortly following the grievances, University Police Chief
Don Gold took a personal leave of absence. Associate Vice
Chancellor for Business Carolyn Elfland and McCracken have
assumed Gold’s responsibilities. Elfland said she could not
comment on the matter.
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on campus. Page 13
$1,250 for a basketball?
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UNC men's basketball coach Dean
Smith were auctioned for more than
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University Police Lt.
CX SWAIN
said this is the first
time in 10 years
he has been
questioned about his
timesheets.
Iraqi leader Saddam
Hussein ordered all
non-emergency
patients removed
from hospitals
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