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Move for Dismissal Denied in RHA President Suit
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
Elections Board Chairwoman
Heather Faulk and Residence Hall
Association President-elect Murray
Coleman will spend Saturday in Student
Supreme Court after two motions for
dismissal were refused by the court at a
Blue Devils
Aiming for
Perfection
With a win Saturday, Duke
will become the first team
t<r go unbeaten in ACC play
since the 1987 Tar Heels.
Bt Dave Alexander
Senior Writer
Dave Popson could be tom between
his basketball past and his basketball
present this weekend.
He plans to watch his alma mater,
North Carolina, square off against top
ranked Duke on Saturday.
But he’d also like to be on the side
lines, drawing up plays for the Bishop
O’Reilly High School boy’s basketball
team he coaches in Ashley, Pa.
Popson’s team participated in the
first round of the state tournament
Thursday night, facing G.A.R. High
School, the region’s top seed.
“If we win, I think the next game will
be Saturday evening,” Popson said prior
to Thursday’s game.
A win would also mean Popson, who
played for the Tar Heels from 1983-87,
won’t have the opportunity to watch the
Blue Devils face UNC at 8 p.m.
Saturday in the Smith Center.
And that he might miss a chance to
see Duke (28-1, 15-0 in the ACC) close
out the first perfect ACC season since
the Tar Heels -with Popson as the start
ing center - finished 14-0 in the 1986-87
campaign.
Popson has fond memories of that
team, which, much like the Blue Devils
this season, tore through the conference
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Chancellor's Policy Ends Student's Crusade for Mother in Pit
By Melissa Williams
Staff Writer
UNC administrators stifled senior
Chris Crotty’s efforts to raise money for
his cancer-stricken mother when he
unknowingly violated a University pol
icy.
Crotty was in the Pit during the week
soliciting credit card applications in an
attempt to raise SIO,OOO for his mother
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Student Body President Reyna Walters struts her stuff at the first Masala
Charity Date Auction. A date with Walters went for S2O, with all the
proceeds going to the UNC Children's Hospital. See Story, Page 2.
pretrial hearing Wednesday.
The trial is based on former RHA
presidential candidate Jermaine Reeves’
lawsuit that was filed Sunday against
Faulk and Coleman, citing improper
conduct concerning the RHA election.
The first motion for dismissal, which
requested complete dismissal of the trial,
was refused by the Student Supreme
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North Carolina forward J.R. Reid, shown here in a 1987 game against Duke, helped UNC attain a 14-0 record
in ACC play that season. The 'B7 Tar Heels are the last team to finish the regular season unbeaten.
when problems arose and he was
removed from the Pit
The Chancellor’s Facilities Use Policy
stipulates that Crotty is not allowed to be
in the Pit, said Scott Hudson, assistant
director of operations at the Student
Union. This is the second time this
semester that the Chancellor’s Facilities
Use Policy has been enforced. In
January, representatives from online
bookseller Varsitybooks.com were
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw
Friday, February 26, 1999
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Court. The decision on the second dis
missal, which would drop accusations of
election violations against Coleman, will
be announced immediately before the
trial at 10 a.m. Saturday in the Frank
Porter Graham Lounge.
Reeves’ suit states that Faulk incor
rectly counted RHA votes after she
removed the votes of graduate students.
asked to leave the Pit after attempts to
advertise their prices and scholarship
prizes to students.
The Department of Auxiliary
Services has a contract that states solici
tation of credit cards can only be done
through them, Hudson said.
Since Crotty was not affiliated with a
student group, raising money for a per
sonal cause on state property is against
policy regulations, Hudson said.
Law Guild Opposes Speaker
By Patricia D. Wright
Staff Writer
Supreme Court Justice Antonin
Scalia will speak at UNC’s School of
Law in March, but members of the
National Lawyers Guild said they will
protest the lecture to show their disap-
proval of the guest
speaker’s conserv
ative views.
Scalia, who was
appointed to the
Supreme Court in
1986 by former
President Ronald
Reagan, is sched-
William T. Joyner
Lecture on
Constitutional taw
March 16
4 p.m.
Memorial Hall
uled to speak at
the law school’s William T. Joyner
Lecture on Constitutional Law on
March 16, said Dean Judith Wegner.
Wegner said this year’s lecture topic,
“On Interpreting the Constitution,”
Graduate students must live on cam
pus and pay RHA a $9.25 fee per
semester to vote in the RHA election.
Reeves’ complaint states there are
approximately 100 graduate students
who live in Craige Residence Hall and
pay this fee, but Faulk said she had dif
ficulty in determining the residency of
these students. “By eliminating graduate
Hudson said the policy allowed for
only student groups to raise money for
charitable causes, not just one person.
“His mother isn’t technically a chari
table organization,” he said. “There are
rules set up; we just made Chris aware
(of them). I think that the key is that we
brought the policy to Chris’ attention
and we really want to find a way he can
continue his fund raising.”
Hudson said he suggested to Crotty
.MM
would allow Scalia
to display his par
ticular point of
view and challeng
ing ideas.
But some mem
bers of the
National Lawyers
Guild said Scalia’s
literal interpreta
tion of the
Constitution is
outdated because
it is similar to the
interpretations of
the framers,
National Lawyers
Supreme Court
Justice
Antonin Scalia
will discuss his views
of the Constitution
at the School of Law.
Guild President Milan Pham said.
“When the Constitution was written
African Americans were not considered
human, and women were considered
property,” she said. “Through his deci
sions, he is calling for us to revert to the
votes, Defendant Faulk denied graduate
students the right to choose their repre
sentative,” Reeves’ complaint states.
The suit also states that Coleman vio
lated election rules by hanging cam
paign posters in undesignated areas. He
also allegedly allowed the Black Student
Movement to send a mass voice mail to
all BSM members endorsing him.
Jasper Jury Gives
Death Sentence
To Supremacist
Associated Press
JASPER, Texas - Jurors decided
Thursday that John William King
should be executed for dragging a black
man to his death behind a pickup truck,
rejecting tearful pleas from the white
racist’s sickly father to spare his life.
He will become the only white on
Texas’ death row
condemned for
killing a black per
son.
The 11 white
jurors and their
elected black fore
man took just
under three hours
to render the deci
sion, about the
same time as they
took to find King
guilty. They
offered a few.
clues to their
deliberations,
c|
Convicted murderer
John William King
faces death row and
lethal injection
for the June murder
of James Byrd Jr.
sending out notes asking to see an 8-inch
homemade knife found in King’s cell as
well as racist letters he sent from prison.
“Asa group, we all agree that we are
just common citizens who felt that serv
ing on this jury was an obligation and
not a privilege,” foreman Joe Collins
read from a statement. “Each of us
believes that justice has been served.”
Jurors convicted the 24-year-old King
of capital murder Tuesday in the death
ofjames Byrd Jr. lastjune. After the sen
tencing decision was read today, Byrd’s
that he ask a local organization to spon
sor his cause.
Don Luse, director of operations for
the Carolina Union, said administrators
were trying to protect the student body
from solicitation by enforcing the policy.
“We’ve got compassion and want to
help,” Luse said. “I wish I could go
down, write him a check and help him
See VIOLATION, Page 6
way things used to be. We vehemently
oppose him being the first justice to
speak at the School of Law.”
To make the guild’s disapproval of
the lecture known, Pham said the mem
bers constructed a letter of protest to the
administration. This letter will be circu
lated to get people of color, such as the
Black Student Movement and the Sonja
H. Stone Black Cultural Center, to sign
on to help protest, she said.
However, Pham said the guild had
not yet decided whether they would do
sit-ins or other forms of protest as well.
Pham said most of Scalia’s decisions
seem to be against people of color and
women, which went against the Guild’s
mission of human rights for all people.
“The guild disapproves of his opposition
to affirmative action and abortion and
his reluctance toward desegregation
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Coleman’s motion for dismissal
addressed Reeves’ allegations concern
ing the poster and voice mail violations.
Counsel Shawn Fraley said Coleman
had no prior knowledge of the voice
mail that was sent out by the BSM.
Regarding the poster violations,
See HEARING, Page 6
family members wiped their eyes but
declined state District Judge Joe Bob
Golden’s offer to address King.
Renee Mullins, Byrd’s daughter, said
later that she was “very satisfied” with
the decision. Nephew Darrell Verrett
held up his fingers in the peace sign and
said, “Everything’s OK.”
As King was led from the courthouse,
spectators outside taunted him, yelling,
“Bye!” When asked if he had anything
to say to the Byrd family, he responded
with an obscenity.
King’s father, who had pleaded for
his son’s life, was not in the courtroom
when the punishment was announced.
“He just couldn’t,” said the Rev. Ron
Forsage, a family supporter. “He had to
go home. He knew he couldn’t take
this.”
Prosecutors asked for the maximum
punishment, saying King would be a
menace even behind bars. “By giving
Mr, King-adife sentence, you’re giving
him at least 40 years to catch a black
guard, a black nurse, a black doctor, a
Jewish guard, ajewish nurse, ajewish
doctor, or anybody else,” said prosecu
tor Pat Hardy. “You’re giving him a
chance to catch anybody ... who does
n’t believe in his satanic, racist views.”
In deciding the sentence, jurors had
to decide whether the murder was inten
tional, whether King was a continuing
threat to society and if any mitigating
factor in King’s background merited the
lesser punishment of life in prison. They
answered yes to the first two questions;
no to the third.
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Family and friends of UNC alumnus
Charles Kuralt gathered in Wilson
Library on Thursday night to view the
new exhibit created to preserve his
memory. The Charles Kuralt Collection
features 353 boxes worth of his
letters and fan mail. See Page 5.
Today’s Weather
Mostly sunny;
Lower 50s.
Weekend; Increasing clouds.
Chance of rain; Mid 60s.
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