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POLICE
ROUNDUP
University
Thrnday, April 23
■ According to police reports, a
32mm, metallic gray Contax 2 camera
and a silver Seiko watch was stolen
from a UNC employee in Beard Hall.
The victim noticed the camera was
missing April 1, reports state, and the
victim filed the report April 23. The vic
tim said the watch was stolen April 22,
reports state. .
Saturday, April 22
■ According to police reports,
Charles Paul Sessoms, of 612 Hinton
James Residence Hall, was charged
with possession of a controlled sub
stance and drug paraphernalia. Also
charged were Kenneth Patrick McGee,
612 Hinton James; Eddie W. Lewis, 433
Hinton James; Shannon Best, 1007
Hinton James; and Eyad Cobbard, who
gave a false name and left the scene,
reports state.
Police received a complaint from a
student who said they smelled marijua
na coming from 612 Hinton James,
reports state.
Officers discovered marijuana seeds
and stems in the trash can and in a plas
tic bag inside the couch, reports state.
■ A UNC student reported two
checks missing from her checkbook and
her Discover card stolen while she was
in Mitchell Hall, police reports state.
When the student reported the credit
card theft to the company, they
informed the student that purchases had
been made on her account, reports state.
It was then that the student discov
ered checks missing from the middle of
her checkbook, reports state. Two
checks for S2OO each were cashed,
reports state.
■ A UNC student reported a Visa
card missing from his wallet left in his
book bag outside the racquetball court
at Fetzer Gymnasium on Sunday, police
reports state.
According to the report, the credit
card company reported two purchases
made on the incident date, $96 at
Burlington Shoes and $32 at
Blockbuster Music.
■ A UNC employee observed an
unknown subject looking in several labs
in Fordfaam Hall, police reports state.
The victim said that when he
approached the suspect and asked him
if he needed assistance, the subject said
he was looking for a girlfriend in Wilson
Hall. The employee described the sub
ject as a man with brown hair, 6 feet 2
inches tall and about 210 pounds,
reports state.
Reports state that the description of
the suspect at Fordham Hall matched
that of another trespassing incident.
City
April 22
■ Patience Dawn Michael, 31, of
220 Williamson St. in Burlington was
arrested for one misdemeanor count of
trespassing, one misdemeanor count of
stalking, one misdemeanor count of
simple possession of marijuana, one
misdemeanor count of drug parapher
nalia and one misdemeanor count of
driving while impaired with an open
container.
According to police reports, Michael
was found with 2.5 grams of marijuana
that was seized upon her arrest. Michael
was confined to the Chapel Hill Police
Department and was later transferred to
Orange County Jail, police reports state.
Michael was issued a secured bond of
$1,500 and a court date of May 18 in
Chapel Hill District Court.
■ Ricky Jose McCauley, 21, of 500
S. Greensboro St., Lot 44 in Carrboro
was arrested for one misdemeanor
count of second-degree trespassing.
According to police reports, Drug
Task Force officers saw McCauley loi
tering in front of the B-Building in
Trinity Court, where he fled when
approached by officers. McCauley was
taken into custody and confined to the
Orange County Jail, police reports state.
McCauley was issued a secured bond of
$l5O and a court date of May 18 in
Chapel Hill District Court.
April 21
■ Jesse Lee Moore, Jr., 27, of 5505
Kenmont Drive in Durham was arrest
ed for one misdemeanor count of
assault by pointing a gun, one misde
meanor count of possession of a
firearm on town property and one mis
demeanor count of second-degree tres
passing.
According to police reports, officers
responded to an alleged incident of a
disturbance involving an individual
armed with a handgun. Officers took
Moore into custody and confined him
to Orange County Jail with a secured
bond of SSOO and a trial date of May 18
in Chapel Hill District Court.
■ James Patrick Murphy, 20, of 705
N. Columbia St. and Eric Andrew
Danser, 18, of 318 Morrison Residence
Hall in Chapel Hill were arrested for
one misdemeanor count each of tres
passing. The two were cited and given a
trial date of June 1 in Chapel Hill
District Court.
Spangler’s candidacy still under scrutiny
■ Former UNC-system
President C.D. Spangler is
up for a Harvard position.
BY KELLI BOUTIN
STAFF WRITER
A Boston lawyer who is running for a
position on Harvard’s Board of
Overseers against former UNC-system
President C.D. Spangler is calling on
Spangler to relinquish his candidacy.
Stephen Hrones, a petition candidate
for the board, said Spangler had an
unfair advantage over the other candi
dates because his alma mater, Harvard
Business School, had mailed 50,000
fliers promoting his candidacy.
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■ Charles and Shirley
Weiss, retired professors,
still contribute to UNC.
BY MELANIE FLOYD
STAFF WRITER
Most people’s lives start to wind
down when they retire, but that’s just
when Charles and Shirley Weiss got
started, and UNC is reaping the bene
fits.
When the Weisses arrived at the
mandatory retirement age, they still
managed to find
away to help stu
dents even
though they were
no longer teach
ing.
Charles explained, “When the peri
od came due, we looked forward to it
because we realized young people
should be filling in and generating new
ideas.”
These two retired UNC professors
decided to give back to the communi
ty when they founded the Urban
Livability Program in 1993, which
focuses on bettering the quality of life
in urban areas, especially through arts
and entertainment.
The Weisses fund several programs
for University students, including 10
yearly fellowships awarded to graduate
students in many disciplines who are
interested in the idea of urban livabili
ty and an annual Urban Livability
Symposium, which the Department of
Music will present this weekend.
“We are both used to getting grants
for our research so this is the reverse,”
Shirley said. “We wanted to give back
to the University for what it has given
us in the some 40 years we’ve been
here.”
The Weisses came to UNC in 1956
when Charles accepted a temporary
position in the Department of
Environmental Sciences &
Vigil honors
victims of
Holocaust
■ It would take one year to
read the names of all 6
million Holocaust victims.
BY BIANCA D’SOUZA
STAFF WRITER
Those who walked by the Pit
Thursday afternoon might have won
dered why students put down their bags
and quietly sat as names were read
aloud over a microphone.
The 24-hour “Reading of Names” is
part of the second annual UNC
Holocaust Memorial Vigil and is spon
sored by N.C. Hillel and the Carolina
Union Activities Board. The reading
will continue until 2 p.m. today.
Participants who read names at the
event Thursday included UNC men’s
basketball coach Bill Guthridge and
members of various sororities, fraterni
ties, campus ministries and campus
organizations.
Mike Scheinberg, Hillel program
director and member of the Holocaust
Awareness Committee, said the vigil
coincided with the Jewish tradition of
Holocaust remembrance, called Yom
HaShoah. “Only about 30,000 names
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“If (Spangler) had any integrity, he
would withdraw,” Hrones said. “His
cronies at Harvard Business School are
using Harvard money and the Harvard
name to promote his candidacy.”
The Board of Governors, one of
Harvard’s two governing boards, advis
es the university president on academic
and research issues and makes policy
recommendations.
Most candidates, including Spangler,
are nominated by members of the alum
ni association and are reviewed by the
nominating committee of the alumni
association. Petition candidates such as
Hrones bypass the nominating process
by collecting the signatures of 1 percent
of the Harvard Alumni Association.
Hrones said any letter that went out
should have encouraged alumni to vote
Engineering. Shirley received her bach
elor’s and master’s degrees in the
Department of City & Regional
Planning at UNC before becoming a
professor in that department.
“We came here for just two years,
but we’re in our 43rd year now. We
wouldn’t choose any other place to
live,” Shirley Weiss said.
However, the Weisses are seldom
home. In one coat pocket Charles
keeps a log book to record his travels,
and in the other is a calendar for mak
ing appointments on the go.
“We always leave an itinerary for
people so they can find us because we
are rarely here,”
Shirley said.
Taking a look
at their schedule
one would think
it held their life-
time plans, not just a few months.
Travel is necessary for the Weisses to
keep their research going on the quali
ty of life in cities around the world.
“Over the years, we have followed a
tremendous number of cities in the
U.S. and overseas also,” Charles said.
The Weisses counted about 175 cities
they have kept their eyes on.
Their travels are certainly not all
work and no play. A good deal of what
they track is the quality of entertain
ment in urban areas. The Weisses
almost always
have plans to
attend an opera,
museum or pro
duction of some
sort.
“It comes
from our own
love for the arts
and humanities,”
Shirley said.
Charles added,
“They’ve always
“We wanted to give back to
the University for what it has
given us in the some 40 years
we’ve been here.”
SHIRLEY WEISS
Retired professor of city
& regional planning
been an interest of ours and an impor
tant part of our lifestyle from the very
beginning.”
The Weisses always make a point to
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and evaluate can
didates without
paying special
attention to any
one.
Spangler would
not comment
Thursday, but said
in a Tuesday inter
view with The
Daily Tar Heel
that he saw no
problems with the
mailings and was
not aware that the
business school’s
alumni association
was sending them.
Business school
Former UNC-system
President
C.D. SPANGLER
said he saw nothing
wrong with the
mailings promoting
his candidacy.
officials said fliers were sent to increase
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Charles and Shirley Weiss, both retired professors, founded the Urban
Livability Program. The program provides fellowships for any graduate
students interested in improving the quality of life in urban areas.
explore Chapel Hill when they are in
town, including attending the events
they sponsor.
“We’ve taken
advantage of all
the opportunities
here,” Shirley said.
“It’s a matter of
sharing with others
what we’ve
enjoyed so much.”
Between
planned trips to
Houston and
Denver, the
Weisses made sure they were home this
weekend for the Music and Urban
Livability Conference they are funding.
“They have given a substantial
alumni awareness of the election.
“The purpose of the letter... was to
let (the alumni) know that there was a
‘local angle’ in that three MBA gradu
ates were running for office ... and to
urge them to get out and vote for
whomever they wanted,” said Jim
Aisner, associate director of communi
cations for the business school.
Laurence McKinney, a business
school alumnus, has also criticized the
business school’s actions. But he said
Spangler should not withdraw from the
election because he did not request that
the mailings be sent.
McKinney said the alumni associa
tion could level the playing field by let
ting other candidates send out mailings
Paul Hobson contributed to this article.
amount to allow graduate students to
come in and explore the idea of urban
livability,” said Carol Muller, a visiting
professor of music who is helping with
the music conference. “They are truly
really amazing people.”
The Urban Livability Program was
originally supposed to be a five-year
program, but last year they extended
the project for another three years, giv
ing more graduate students an oppor
tunity to receive the fellowships.
Shirley said she keeps pictures of all
the fellowship recipients on her office
bulletin board.
“We get letters sometimes from the
fellows thanking us for our help, saying
that they couldn’t have made it without
our help.”
Officials: farm annex
will benefit University
BY HUGH PRESSLEY
STAFF WRITER
Chapel Hill Town Council members
added yet another chapter to the Horace
Williams saga Monday night, leaving
Orange County officials, residents and
University leaders waiting for the next
plot twist.
At Monday’s
meeting, the council
delayed its decision
on the proposed
annexation of a
538-acre tract locat
ed northwest of the
town limits The
land includes a por
tion of the Horace
Williams plot, the
Homestead Village
subdivision and
“The University has not been
particularly involved in the
process , but they did express
their support for the plan at
the meeting (Monday).”
JUUEJUINESa
Chapel Hill Town Council member
some private properties near Link and
Homestead roads.
“Action was postponed because the
council wanted to get some input from
the (Orange) County commissioners,”
Council member Lee Pavao said. “We
plan on meeting with them within 30
days.”
Annexation is the process by which
municipalities expand their corporate
limits to provide infrastructure and
urban services, including police and fire
coverage, Pavao said.
The struggle to annex the Horace
Williams property began in December
Friday, April 24, 1998
Employment
option divides
athletic world
■ Players like the option,
but some coaches fear it
might result in burn out.
BY SCOTT HICKS
STAFF WRITER
Coaches and players seem to be
divided over the NCAA’s recent deci
sion to allow student-athletes to work
part-time jobs during school.
Coaches worry that their players will
not be able to play sports, keep up their
grades and work without burning out.
Players, on the other hand, welcome
the new policy. Though many of them
have athletic scholarships, they still
need money for going out and shopping
—just like other students.
But both players and coaches fear
that allowing full-scholarship players to
work will lead to corruption, as athlet
ics boosters groups might create special
jobs for star athletes or large universities
might offer key recruits plush jobs to
lure them from other schools.
Still, student-athletes should be able
to choose for themselves, said Ryan
Beard, a UNC lacrosse player from
Baltimore. “I think student-athletes
should be able to get a job just as any
one else,” he said.
Deon Wingfield, a senior basketball
player for St. Andrews Presbyterian
College in Laurinburg, agreed that
being able to have part-time jobs would
benefit athletes.
“I think it’ll be great to give them
more income,” Wingfield said. “A lot of
athletes are miles and miles away from
home and need income.”
Also, job experience can help stu
dent-athletes find careers after they play
sports, Beard said.
The new policy pertains only to full
scholarship student-athletes and sets a
$2,000-eamings limit, said Larry
Gallow, UNC senior associate athletic
director. A student-athlete cannot get a
job until after the athlete's first year
playing and must meet academic eligi
bility standards.
But most student-athletes do not
have the time to juggle work, school and
sports, said Eddie Biedenbach, UNC-
Asheville head basketball coach.
“We feel the athletics they’re doing
and the amount of time they need for
academics overrides their need for
work,” Biedenbach said. “We’re trying
to get them to graduate in four years.”
The extra income should help more
players stay in school all four years,
Wingfield said. “It’D keep a lot of ath
letes in school, from going pro early.”
Still, monitoring the policy wiD be a
major expense for athletics depart
ments.
“Most of the coaches feel there’U be
some abuses,” Biedenbach said. “You’re
going to have a problem with getting the
alumni involved with the players.”
Also, many smaU schools fear that
large universities with more money and
job opportunities for recruits wiD have
an advantage over smafter schools, he
said.
But for the students who play sports,
the new poUcy is a good step in helping
them make it through coflege, Wingfield
said. “It’s a start,” he said. “You can’t
reaUy complain because a lot of people
don’t have $2,000 in their pockets.”
1995, when Chapel HiH Mayor
Rosemary Waldorf submitted a request
to the University asking permission to
annex the eastern portion of the tract.
But in 1996, UNC announced its
plans to use the tract for satellite cam
puses, putting a hold on the annexation
process. On Jan. 26, 1998 two years
after the town’s
original request
the town council
again proposed the
annexation idea at
a council meeting.
But council
member Julie
Andresen said the
University did not
strongly consider
the vague details of
the proposal.
“We don’t have a plan for the Horace
WiUiams tract,” she said. “The
University has not been particularly
involved in the process, but they did
express their support for the plan at the
meeting (Monday).”
ChanceUor Michael Hooker said he
supported the proposed annexation,
adding that town-gown relations had
been promising throughout the process.
“My understanding is that (the
annexation) would benefit the
University,” he said. “There aren’t any
real issues of contention between us and
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