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Expert Physician
Testifies at Trial
The Wake Forest Medical
School psychiatrist says
Wendell Williamson's doctor
misdiagnosed Williamson.
By Amy Cappiello
and Ashley Stephenson
Senior Writers
HILLSBOROUGH - The lawyer
for Wendell Williamson, the former
UNC law student who killed two people
near campus in 1995, used an expert
witness in an attempt to lay the blame
for the deaths in the lap of Williamson’s
psychiatrist in testimony Thursday.
During the first day of testimony in
the medical malpractice suit against Dr.
Myron Liptzin, former Student Health
Service psychiatrist, Williamson’s attor
ney put a psychiatrist on the stand to
show Liptzin’s alleged negligence.
Dr. Stephen Kramer of Wake Forest
University’s School of Medicine testified
Liptzin failed his responsibility to ensure
that Williamson sought treatment after
Liptzin’s retirement from SHS in May
1994.
Kramer also said Liptzin did not
properly diagnose Williamson as a para
noid schizophrenic, and instead relied
on an earlier diagnosis of delusion dis
order grandiose.
Finally Kramer said Liptzin should
have foreseen that Williamson would
Study: Racial Preferences Work
Anew book argues that
affirmative action measures
in the admissions process at
UNC help black students.
By Bharath Parthasarathy
Staff Writer
Racial preferences in the admissions
processes of the nation’s most selective
universities help black students succeed
after their graduation, said two former
Ivy League presidents in a book that hit
shelves Thursday.
Former Harvard University President
Derek Bok and ex-Princeton University
President William Bowen tracked
45,000 students of all races who entered
25 of the most selective colleges - UNC
included - in either 1976 or 1989 for
their book “The Shape of the River.”
Although Bok and Bowen found that
DTO'LAURA LEICH PACE
Cynthia Wolf Johnson, associate vice chancellor for student affairs, is responsible for many programs,
including the Emerging Leaders and Womentoring programs.
not complete his treatment and that he
might become violent.
The lawsuit contends this negligence
led to Williamson’sjanuary 1995 shoot
ing spree on Henderson Street that
killed UNC lacrosse player Kevin
Reichardt and Chapel Hill resident
Ralph Walker, and wounded police offi
cer Demetrise Stephenson.
Nick Gordon, Williamson’s lawyer,
said he believed proper treatment could
have helped prevent the tragedy.
“What this case is about is how a
young man who was an Eagle Scout,
who was president of his high school
class, who swam on the swim team, who
was an all-around normal, happy indi
vidual, who came to the University of
North Carolina and graduated with hon
ors in English could come to a place like
this,” Gordon said.
But Bruce Berger, Liptzin’s attorney,
said his client wasn’t to blame for
Williamson’s rampage.
At the time of Liptzin’s retirement
Williamson demonstrated a marked
improvement in mental health, Berger
said. So it was appropriate for the law
student to take responsibility for his con
tinuing treatment.
“We believe Dr. Liptzin not only pro
vided adequate care, he provided excel
lent care,” Berger said. “In June 1994,
Mr. Williamson stopped taking his med
icine. His choice. His responsibility.
Keep in mind here, we’re not dealing
with a child. This is an adult who has to
black students were graduating at high
er rates, those students were still not
graduating as often as white students.
The black students also tended to get
lower grades, but did better in post-grad
uate work, Bok and Bowen concluded.
The book arrives in the wake of sev
eral recent court orders and state propo
sitions ending race-based admissions.
Courts forced the universities of
California, Texas and Michigan to end
their affirmative action programs.
Last year, UNC-system President
Molly Broad investigated the use of race
in the UNC system’s policies regarding
admissions and scholarship disburse
ment
Broad sought to protect the universi
ty system from lawsuits that would end
affirmative action and would place the
system with the likes of the Universities
of California and Texas.
The study found that black students
who graduated from the colleges do
Lessons in Leadership
No one gossips about people's secret virtues.
Bertrand Russell
Friday, September 11, 1998
Volume 106, Issue 74
Wendell Williamson is escorted to Orange County Jail on Thursday during a recess in his malpractice suit
against Dr. Myron Liptzin. Lawyers for both parties gave their opening arguments.
make choices.”
In his testimony, Kramer said
Williamson first sought treatment at
SHS in 1990. Shortly after, Williamson
began to hear voices telling him he was
the world’s first telepath.
extremely well in the marketplace and
often command higher salaries than
black students from less selective
schools.
University officials heralded Bok and
Bowen’s findings, saying that they gave
credit to the UNC system’s practices.
Jerry Lucido, director of undergradu
ate admissions, said the book showed
affirmative action programs were suc
cessful.
Universities without these programs
lose these potentially successful black
students, Bok and Bowen suggested.
Affirmative action supporters point to
the decreased number of minority stu
dents at universities that have repealed
race-based admissions.
When the University of Texas at
Austin ended their race-based admis
sions, the entire university felt the
impact. “(We) have been forced to
See AFFIRMATIVE, Page 5
Kramer said violent tendencies did
not emerge, however, until September
1992 when Williamson was seen hitting
himself in the head and screaming at
others while in the Pit
Williamson voluntarily signed him
Balcony Smoking Ban
Ignites Controversy
By Marissa Downs
Staff Writer
A one-man campaign to stomp out a
ban against smoking on South Campus
balconies will soon begin.
Rep. Preston Smith, Dist. 16, said he
planned to start a petition against the
policy. “I’m trying to prove this isn’t the
concern of a minority but a majority
‘cross campus,” Smith said.
University Housing Director Wayne
Kuncl said the Housing Advisory Board,
which included four students, approved
the policy last spring. He said the restric
tion against smoking on balconies was a
means to clarify the existing policy that
banned smoking indoors.
Prior to this semester, officials dis
puted whether open-air balconies, such
as the ones on all the South Campus res
Cynthia Wolf Johnson has
created a popular network
of leadership programs in
her time at UNC
By Sharon Liao
Staff Writer
Cynthia Wolf Johnson embodies the
definition of leadership.
Since taking the reins as director of
the N.C. Fellows Program in 1985,
Wolf Johnson has constructed a thriv
ing network of leadership development
programs at UNC.
Recognizing the need for a variety
of leadership pro
grams, Wolf
Johnson created
the umbrella
organization
Carolina Leadership Development,
which includes academic courses, the
Emerging Leaders Program and the
Womentoring program.
A variety of students can take
advantage of these programs. The
Emerging Leaders Program focuses on
exercising skills toward developing a
personal leadership style. Goal-setting
freshman women can enroll in the
Womentoring Program, which pairs
students with professional women.
self into UNC Hospitals after that inci
dent, but later reneged, saying he would
have missed too many classes and had
high hospital bills, Kramer said.
See WILLIAMSON, Page 5
idence halls fell into that category.
After complaints from campus resi
dents last year, the department found
balcony smoking to be a problem.
Kuncl said smoke would enter rooms
through windows and that there were
problems with littered cigarette butts.
The restriction has outraged more
than disgruntled smokers. It has caused
some members of Student Congress,
including non-smokers, to criticize the
housing department
Members of Student Congress and
the Residence Hall Association say the
department erred in adopting the policy
in April with little input from students.
“It’s not so much die decision but the
manner in which the decision was
reached that was upsetting,” said Mark
See SMOKING, Page 5
“The door has opened to a wide
variety of students interested in leader
ship,” Wolf Johnson said. “There are
now far more opportunities.”
A broad range of leadership devel
opment options is vital to Wolf
Johnson, who said she believed each
student had leadership potential.
“I believe leadership is a lot more
than a position, but the developing of
relationships with other people,” she
said. “The students at UNC have
extraordinary potential, and tapping
into this potential is essential.”
While expanding leadership devel
opment opportunities, Wolf Johnson
has also stirred interest in campus
organizations.
Applications to
the N.C. Fellows
Program, a four
year program
designed to pre-
pare effective, creative and service
minded leaders, have doubled from
150 to 300 applications a year since
Wolf Johnson’s arrival at UNC.
“Cindy did a wonderful job in trans
forming the leadership program into a
well-respected organization,” said
Senior Class President Jeremy Cohen,
an N.C. Fellow.
Wolf Johnson’s own interest in lead-
See WOLF JOHNSON, Page 5
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Report Says
Clinton Lied
Under Oath
Senate Democrats warned
the president that he lacked
support in Congress and an
impeachment was possible.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Independent
Counsel Kenneth Starr’s referral to
Congress accuses President Clinton of
perjury and obstruction of justice and
provides a damaging portrayal of his
contacts with Monica Lewinsky and
Betty Currie, Oval Office secretary,
legal sources say.
Starr’s
report accuses
Clinton of
lying in por
tions of his
Aug. 17 grand
Study: Clinton
Controversy
Deters Voters
See Page 5
jury testimony as well as his Jan. 17
sworn testimony in the Paula Jones law
suit, the sources said, speaking only on
condition of anonymity.
The referral Starr sent Wednesday
lays out detailed evidence that prosecu
tors contend shows Clinton committed
perjury, obstruction of justice, witness
tampering and abuse of power, the
sources said.
“The report is a straight narrative”
and it alleges that “the president con
tinued to lie and lie and lie,” one source
said.
One congressional source, speaking
on condition of anonymity, said Clinton
was warned bluntly in a White House
meeting with Democratic senators that
impeachment was a possibility, depend
ing on how the public reacted over the
next several days. One senator was
quoted as telling the president his sup
port in Congress was “very thin.”
House Republicans made plans to
give widest possible distribution to 445
pages of Starr’s report by posting it on
the Internet on Friday, as soon as the
full House votes its formal approval.
“Every American will have access,” said
Speaker Newt Gingrich.
The president assured Senate
Democrats at the White House there
would be no damaging new revelations
when the material about his relationship
with Monica Lewinsky and related mat
ters was made public. But it was a hard
sell to make after his belated admission
last month that he had covered up the
truth since last winter.
One Democrat, Sen. Bob Kerrey of
Nebraska, told a reporter afterward that
See CLINTON, Page 5
Taking Back the Park
Drug
dealers and
litter once
plagued
Baldwin
Park in
Carrboro,
0*
With the Board of Aldermen’s help,
Alvater Burnette and the Lloyd Street
Neighborhood Association are taking
the park back. See Page 2.
Fees Under Fire
Some students at the University of
Wisconsin at Madison are upset after a
court ruling threatens to prevent the
school from using student fees to fund
some campus groups. See Page 4.
Fighting the Irish
In what has become one of the biggest
rivalries in the world of collegiate
women’s soccer. North Carolina will
face off against Notre Dame on Sunday
at Fetzer Field. See Page 7.
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