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Charges Dropped in Carrboro Death Case
Investigators now believe
the dead man fell from a
third-story window at
Old Well Apartments.
By Jon Ostendorff
City Editor
Charges were dismissed Wednesday
against a Durham man who, along with
authorities, thought he had killed his
friend.
Alvaro Dominquez Martinez, 21, of
103 Riceland Drive in Durham, was
arrested Sunday, held on $250,000 bond
and charged with second-degree murder
in the death of his friend, Antonio
Castro Barbadillo of Old Well
Officers Search
For Carjackers
Two men were forced from
their car at gunpoint in a
Lakeview Street carjacking
early Wednesday morning.
By Jon Ostendorff
City Editor
An early-morning armed caijacking
on East Lakeview Street left two men
injured Wednesday.
Larry C. Shuemacher of New Jersey
and Jerry Jay Jones of Pennsylvania
were injured when the tan four-door
sedan they borrowed from a Durham
friend was taken by force, Chapel Hill
Police Lt. Marvin Clark said.
Clark said both victims were bleed
ing when the police arrived.
Shuemacher was treated at UNC
Hospitals for minor abrasions and
released.
Jones was treated at the scene for a
laceration to the elbow and released by
emergency management service work
ers.
Clark said the police were currently
looking for a group of people in con
nection with the crime.
“There were several people involved
in this,” Clark said.
Students Want Advising Answers
By DeVona A. Brown
University Editor
Exasperated students carried on the
annual ritual of crowding into Steele
Building during the first few days of
classes as improvement plans for advis
ing in the General College and Arts and
Sciences remain in the works.
A rotating number of 20 students sat
or stood in Steele Building Wednesday,
waiting to talk to any adviser who
would listen to them. While some com
plained of having less than 12 course
hours, others simply complained.
“The problem with the whole school
is that the departments don’t communi
cate,” said sophomore Deidre Stokes, a
political science major. “The General
College advisers -1 don’t know what’s
up with them - they just aren’t very
helpful.”
Sophomore Janie Smith sat quietly
criticizing advisers. “They don’t know
enough about majors to help students
out,” she said.
“They don’t give the proper direc
tion to pursue your major. They just
don’t do it.
“It’s also hard to see the advisers
between (going to) classes and the time
(advisers’ offices) close,” Smith said.
As for actual advising, an interna
tional studies major waiting on the third
floor of Steele Building in die College of
Arts and Sciences said advising was
nonexistent.
“Actually, we have a phantom
department,” senior Krisshawn Stanley
said.
Change is not made without inconvenience, even from worse to better.
Richard Hooker
Apartments.
The two men had apparendy gotten
into a drunken scuffle, which ended
when Martinez punched Barbadillo in
the face, leaving him face down on the
ground.
Martinez, unaware of his friend’s con
dition, left the scene.
He was arrested by Carrboro police
Sunday afternoon and, after being ques
tioned in Spanish, quickly confessed to
the crime.
Police then held Martinez in Orange
County Jail.
But new details uncovered
Wednesday revealed that Martinez did
not commit the murder.
Authorities now believe that
Barbadillo died after falling from a third
story window of the Old Well apartment
“Possibly 10 involved with two per
petrators.”
The victims were in Durham on
Tuesday when they met a man on a red
Yahama motorcycle, Clark said. The
two then followed the man to the area
near BW3’s and the Gotham night club
in Chapel Hill.
Clark said Shuemacher and Jones
decided to follow the man on the motor
cycle, and several other cars, back to
Durham early Wednesday morning.
But around 1 a.m. the caravan of cars
pulled onto Lakeview Street and the
men were removed from their car.
“One victim remembers hearing gun
shots, but the other doesn’t,” Clark said.
“One of the suspects did display a nick
el plated revolver.”
Clark said the other automobiles
involved were a gold BMW, a bur
gundy Honda and a white Pontiac mini
van.
He said the victims were not
acquainted with the group of suspects
and had probably just met them that
night
Investigator J.D. Parks, who is han
dling the case, was not available for
comment.
The City Editor can be reached at
citydesk@unc.edu.
“We don’t have an advising program.
Every time I come in here, I see some
body different. It’s like ‘create-a
degree.’”
Despite students’ criticisms of the cur
rent advising system, actions by this
year’s Academic Affairs Committee will
not change anything for students’ advis
ing woes now.
Monday, members of the Advising
Steering Committee forwarded its report
for changing the advising system to
Chancellor Michael Hooker, urging him
to find $296,000 more in funds to “pro
pmuvtruKt
Freshman Cason Caudle discusses admissions requirements for the Kenan-Flagler Business School with adviser
Michelle Hunt.
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Alvaro Dominquez
Martinez
was cleared of a
second-degree
murder charge in
court Wednesday.
building.
Capt. Carolyn
Hutchison said
Barbadillo must
have gotten up
eventually after
being knocked out
by Martinez and
returned to the
building.
“Martinez did
in fact strike
Barbadillo in the
face and left him
lying on the
ground,”
Hutchinson said.
“What Martinez didn’t know and
what we didn’t know was that Barbadillo
was up and walking around after the
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vide an optimal level of high-quality
advising services.” The University now
invests about $825,000 for undergradu
ate advising.
Committee recommendations
include encouragement of interaction
between advising staff and other depart
ments and enforcing high standards for
advising.
Lacey Hawthorne, senior adviser for
the executive branch, said recommen
dation from the committee focused on
long-term goals of anew advising sys
tem and would have to be implemented
fight"
Police are still investigating the details
of Barbadillo’s fall.
Hutchison said witnesses who were
reluctant to speak out at the time of the
incident contacted police late Tuesday
and offered the new information on the
case.
Although the state medical examin
er’s office did not release an official
cause or time of death as of press time,
Hutchison said she had been informed
late Tuesday night that Barbadillo’s
injuries were more consistent with a fall
than a fight.
The eyewitness accounts and the
medical examiner’s early opinion on the
cause of death were enough to convince
the Orange County District Attorney’s
Office to drop the all the charges filed
SOMETHING'S BREWING
slowly to avoid creating more problems.
“(These changes) are going to have to
be made through increasing the time
advisers have to talk with students, by
providing better training for new advis
ers and by increasing access to technol
ogy for the advising system,” she said.
“This is not an ending point; it’s a
beginning,” Hawthorne said. “It’s a
foundation for making changes for years
to come.”
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
against Martinez.
With this new evidence on the table,
police officials no longer suspect foul
play in Barbadillo’s death, Hutchison
said.
“The circumstances surrounding the
fall are not suspicious,” she said. “We do
not believe he went out the window
involuntarily. Eyewitnesses said he went
out the window but they did not know
why.”
According to the district attorney’s
office, the names of the witness are
being withheld because the cause of
Barbadillo’s death is still under investi
gation.
Although Martinez spent three days
in jail for a murder he didn’t commit,
Hutchison said investigators John Lau
and J.G. Booker followed official police
Laptop
Checkouts
Available
Students can now borrow
20 laptop computers while
in Davis Library for up
to three hours at a time.
By Andrew Meehan
Staff Writer
Anew program at Davis Library
allows students and faculty to spend
more time using print and electronic
resources and less time doing leg work.
On Aug. 7, Davis Library made 20
laptop computers available for three
hour checkouts.
Network connections on the third
through eighth floors of the library will
allow laptop users to access the internet,
e-mail and the first-floor printers in the
information commons, said Shad
Friday, a library assistant.
“We think its important to integrate
the electronic access with the print
materials,” said Larry Alford, the senior
associate University librarian.
The computers have all the features
of the desktop computers that are avail
able in the labs across campus, includ
ing Windows 95, Microsoft Word,
Microsoft Internet Explorer 3.02 and
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procedure while interviewing the sus
pect and obtaining the arrest.
“I don’t think they were inappropri
ate in making the arrest,” she said.
“The investigators developed proba
ble cause and the statement that
Martinez gave was part of the probable
cause.”
Hutchison said Carrboro police
worked with the district attorney’s office
to free Martinez as soon as they found
the new information.
“In any investigation we continue to
follow up on new information,” she said.
“We’re positive that Martinez is not
responsible and were happy he has been
freed.”
The City Editor can be reached at
citydesk@unc.edu.
Thursday
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Tuition Task
Force met to
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and fee
schedules for both undergraduate and
graduate programs across the UNC
system. See Page 2.
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The School of Americas, operated by
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