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Justice to Face Both
Support, Criticism
By Shannon Snypp
Staff Writer
Some UNC students plan to counter
criticism of Supreme Court Justice
Antonin Scalia by appearing in large
numbers today at the judge’s lecture
“On Interpreting the Constitution.”
Members of Students for Life and
Liberty, a conservative group on cam
pus, will show their respect for Scalia by
standing outside Memorial Hall during
his 4 p.m. lecture, president of the group
Stephen Myers said.
Scalia was appointed to the Supreme
Court in 1986 by former President
Ronald Reagan.
Law students from the National
Lawyers Guild said last month that they
opposed Scalia’s conservative interpre
tation of the law.
National Lawyers Guild members
released a state
ment and wrote
letters to media
outlets expressing
their opinions.
Meyers said
Students for Life
and Liberty did
not plan to wage
an actual counter
protest against the
guild.
“We do intend to farther
educate the public to prove that
(he) is not the innocuous judge
that people think that he is.”
Milan Pham
National Lawyers Guild President
“We are not saying the other groups
are wrong, but we do not want it to be
the case that no one on campus supports
Scalia,” he said.
Due to a large turnout expected by
the School of Law, members of Students
for Life and Liberty will have to show
their support from outside Memorial
Hall.
“Almost all of the students in the
school have picked up tickets, and we
are also expecting all of the people who
received invitations to attend the
speech,” said Audrey Ward, acting
director of communication for the law
Local Thieves Hit Student Homes During Spring Break
By Shelley Levine
Staff Writer
Some UNC students came back to
Chapel Hill after Spring Break to find
smashed windows, missing cars and
even a pet locked in the basement.
Five students living in a townhouse at
113-G Stephens St. returned from vaca
tion at different times during the week
end to find their home broken into and
their possessions missing, reports state.
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Sophomore Reynolds Richter, a journalism and mass communication and international studies major, carefully
paints an advertisement for WXYC on one of the cubes located by the Pit. The radio station is hosting
an 'Bos party from 9 p.m. to 2 a.m. Friday at the Cat's Cradle in Carrboro.
Justice is too good for some people, and not good enough for the rest.
Norman Douglas
school.
Ed Hanes, president-elect of the
Student Bar Association, said that
because the lecture was an excellent
opportunity for the law school, neither
the guild nor any other group should
protest the speaker.
“People need to set aside their con
cerns and lend an ear to a man who has
climbed an incredible ladder to attain
the position that he holds,” Hanes said.
However, guild President Milan
Pham said the organization was not
opposed to Scalia’s presence on campus
but to his conservative views on affir
mative action, abortion, immigrant
rights and accessibility to federal courts.
“We have spoken to the media, writ
ten an editorial and spoken to the law
school, but we do not intend to picket, if
that is what people are wondering,”
Pham said.
“We do intend
to further educate
the public to prove
that Scalia is not
the innocuous
judge that people
think that he is.”
She said some
members of the
guild would attend
the speech.
Stephen
Gebeaux, current president of the
Student Bar Association, said he urged
guild members to exercise their rights of
free speech to promote discussion rather
than disrupting Scalia’s lecture.
“I encourage them to speak their
mind on Scalia’s decisions on the
Supreme Court, but I hope that they are
not protesting his presence on campus,”
he said.
“The law school has a history of hear
ing both sides speak.”
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reported stolen to Chapel Hill police by
one resident of the townhouse at
approximately 4:25 p.m. Sunday.
On Friday, three other residents of
the same address reported breaking and
entering, larceny of an automobile and
larceny, reports state.
A black 1995 Chevrolet Tahoe
belonging to one of the students was
stolen but recovered Saturday morning
by Carrboro police in the parking lot of
Old Well Apartments, Chapel Hill
police spokeswoman Jane Cousins said.
ARTIST RENDITION
Tuesday, March 16, 1999
Volume 107, Issue 11
Professors:
Textualism
Marks Judge
By Mait Dees
Assistant State & National Editor
As the University community braces
for a potentially hostile welcome for
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia,
law scholars sound off on the man and
his judicial record.
His speech today in Memorial Hall is
expected to draw protests from liberal
groups on campus.
Arnold Loewy, Sarah Graham
Kenan professor at the UNC School of
Law, said Scalia’s reputation as a con
servative came more from his strict
interpretations of the U.S. Constitution
than from his politics.
“I’m not sure that conservative in the
sense of political conservatism quite gets
it,” Loewy said.
“But I do think that he believes in
taking the text of the Constitution seri
ously and somewhat literally.”
Loewy said Scalia was usually insis
tent on textual interpretations of the
Constitution. This adherence to the
express powers outlined by the framers
of the Constitution is what spurs the jus
tice’s somewhat unpopular decisions on
issues such as gay rights, abortion and
affirmative action, he said.
“In his view they are just made up
judicial rights,” Loewy said.
Scalia composed a dissenting opinion
for Romer v. Evans that refuted the
See SCALIA, Page 6
Stereo equipment was missing when
senior Brandon Ward, who has lived in
the townhouse since May, came home
and found a window partially open.
He said spare keys to the two cars
had probably been left in drawers or on
countertops, which robbers had found.
“I guess they knew it was Spring
Break and we were students,” Ward
said. “There’s not much we can do.”
Carrboro police were called to 308
W. Poplar St. on Saturday after one of
the home’s five occupants returned from
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Freshman Adam March climbs one of the new routes set during Spring
Break on the rock-climbing wall at Fetzer Gym. March, a member of the
UNC rock-climbing club, has been a climber since September.
a vacation to Ohio and found a large
knife stuck in the wooden kitchen floor,
reports state. One of the occupants, a
UNC senior, also told police that one of
the cats had been put in the basement
and the door locked, reports state.
A rear bedroom window of the resi
dence had been unlocked and opened,
and police found three more windows
unlocked in the living room.
Two apartments on Church Street
were probably the victims of related
crimes, Chapel Hill police Lt. Marvin
Legislators Granted
Time to Divvy Fund
By Umur Tuncer
Staff Writer
N.C. legislators garnered more time
Monday to decide upon distributions of
funds allotted to the state in the tobac
co settlement, as the House of
Representatives tentatively passed a bill
giving lawmakers control over a foun
dation to help tobacco-dependent areas.
The issue at stake now is allocation of
the $4.6 billion North Carolina expects
to collect from cigarette manufacturers
over the next 25 years. The plan in
deliberation would designate half for a
non-profit foundation that would deliv
er aid to tobacco-dependent communi
ties and split the other half between
those working in tobacco-related busi
nesses and health interests.
But House Republicans and tobacco
fanners have challenged the plan,
demanding instead that die full funds be
given direcdy to the growers and health
care interests. House Minority Leader
Leo Daughtry, R-Johnston, recom
mended that the House forget the foun-
Clark said.
A law student’s champagne-colored
1992 Mazda Protege and its contents
were reported stolen around noon at
307-B Church St. on Friday, reports
state.
The car and its contents, inchding a
keychain, an umbrella, an ice sc aper,
cassettes and gloves, were valued at a
total of $15,203.
Nearby, at 211 Church St Apt. A-9, a
See BREAK, Page 6
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dation and instead
focus on helping
the farmers and
health care.
Lawmakers
had faced a
Monday deadline
to decide how to
set up the charita
ble foundation, or
the money would
be •directly distrib
uted by legislators.
But Attorney
General Mike
Easley requested
the extension after
Attorney General
Mike Easley
requested more time
to discuss allocations
for the $4.6 billion
tobacco settlement.
N.C. House Speaker Jim Black, D-
Mecklenburg, and Senate President Pro
Tern Marc Basnight, D-Dare, asked for
more time.
The House awaits the results of the
third hearing to be held today before the
bill is passed again to the Senate for a
final vote. The bill allocated $2.3 billion
See TOBACCO, Page 6
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N.C. Judge:
Reinstate
Employee
Former UNC employee
Diane Riggsbee-Raynor was
fired in 1995 because she
didn't log overtime hours.
By Paul Hobson
Staff Writer
A Wake County Superior Court
judge ruled Monday that the University
must reinstate a former employee and
pay her back wages and lawyers’ fees.
The decision comes after the
University appealed last April the State
Personnel Commission’s order to rehire
and reimburse Diane Riggsbee-Raynor,
who was fired from the UNC School of
Medicine in 1995.
Chapel Hill attorney Alan McSurely,
counsel for Riggsbee-Raynor, said he
received confirmation from a court
clerk that the court would uphold the
State Personnel Commission’s ordering
UNC to reinstate Riggsbee-Raynor.
The ruling was not filed with the
clerk on Monday, but Ashley Osment,
counsel for Riggsbee-Raynor, said she
expected it as early as today.
That ruling denies UNC’s argu
ments, which state that the commis
sion’s ruling was “unsupported by sub
stantial evidence” and “affected by error
of law,” according to documents
Osment and McSurely submitted to the
court last July.
“Diane’s ready to come back to
work,” Osment said. “Three years is a
long time to be deprived of the oppor
tunity to advance your career.”
Osment said the court considered
two issujs in its ruling - whether the
commission followed the law in its deci
sion and whether there was substantial
evidence to support that decision.
University counsel Tom Ziko would
not say whether UNC would appeal the
See RIGGSBEE-RAYNOR, Page 6
INSIDE
Forward March
f'iigl Wir
UNC forward LaQuanda Barksdale
(left) and her teammates are headed
to the Sweet 16, and they've taken a
familiar path straight through
Carmichael Auditorium. See Page 9.
You Can Call Me A1
Vice President Al Gore
gained endorsements
from House Minority
Leader Dick Gephardt
and others as his bid
for the White House in
2000 begins to pick up
steam. Gephardt was
once pegged as a potential candidate
himself. See Page 5.
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