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Negotiating Nichol Holds Out for Dean Deal
By Lindsay Kim
Staff Writer
Because of concern about the amount
of funding UNC will appropriate to the
School of Law, University of Colorado
Professor Gene Nichol has delayed his
decision to take the helm of the school.
Nichol said Wednesday he hoped to
reach a final decision by the end of the
week after more discussions with acting
Chancellor William McCoy, who
stepped in April 12 after Chancellor
Michael Hooker took a medical leave.
Aside from discussions between
McCoy and Nichol, School of
Journalism and Mass Communication
Dean Richard Cole said the law school
Protesters Hit Web,
Weave Future Plans
Another meeting between
protesters and acting
Chancellor William McCoy
will take place today.
By Alexandra Molaire
Staff Writer
When UNC freshman Alana Glaser
walked up the steps of South Building
on Tuesday afternoon, she knew she
wouldn’t leave until her demands were
met, but she didn’t know how long that
would be.
Glaser and about 25 students camped
out in the South Building lobby Tuesday
and Wednesday nights because acting
Chancellor William McCoy had not
backed their requests for UNC to have
the companies that produce University
apparel to disclose the location of their
overseas factories.
Glaser, who supported the cause with
Students for Economic Justice and
members of other campus organiza
tions, said the groups also wanted facto
ry workers to be paid above the pover
ty line for their particular country.
After a disappointing meeting with
McCoy on Wednesday morning, stu
Students
Battle
Cheaters
The Honor Code at UNC, a
student-run operation, is a
highly successful system,
U.S. cheating experts say.
By Umiir Tlncer
Staff Writer
In response to rising cheating rates,
universities around the nation are
scrambling to implement honor systems
to curtail their growth.
Donald McCabe, provost of Rutgers
The State University of Newjersev and
a leading expert on the topic, advocates
the use of justice systems that allow stu
dents to take an active role in handling
CHEAT
Sheet
A three-part series
examining the rise of
cheating on campuses
academic cheat
ing cases.
“The open
ended comments
students provided
to me have led me
to believe that
only when stu-
dents feel they have primary responsi
bility for a system will they take it seri
ously,” McCabe said.
Triangle universities allow varying
degrees of student involvement in their
justice systems.
McCabe indicated that UNC’s
Honor Court is a successful student-run
system. At UNC, Honor Code viola
tions are first sent to the student attor
ney general, who decides if there is
enough evidence for a case. If the attor-
Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten.
B. F. Skinner
faculty voted unanimously last week to
approve Nichol.
He said faculty members also voted
to offer Nichol’s wife, UNC graduate B.
Glenn George, a tenured position. But
Nichol said his primary’ concern before
accepting the position was the amount
of financial support the University
would give the law school.
“Deans always negotiate for support
from the college, and that’s what (deans
in general) are trying to do,” he said.
“Chancellor Hooker has demonstrated a
real desire to support the law school,
and that’s why I feel optimistic that we’ll
reach an agreement.”
Although he would not disclose the
specific amount of money he was asking
dents spent their time working through
the night to set up a Web page and plan
for another meeting with McCoy today,
Glaser said. “We scheduled a planning
meeting late in the evening to decide
what our action would be.”
Late Wednesday, about 50 students
listened to a Mexican worker speak on
behalf of the Farm Labor Organizing
Committee in protest of what he said
was the lack of farmers’ rights.
After his speech, students began their
strategy for meetings with McCoy and
the Licensing Labor Code Advisory
Committee, which advises administra
tors on UNC’s sweatshop policies.
Both days, Glaser and other students
did homework, attended afternoon
classes and went back to their rooms for
supplies. In addition to books for class
es, protesters equipped themselves with
laptop computers and a digital camera
to show their activities on the Web.
Tuesday night’s activities were
spawned by officials’ slow reaction to
their demands, Glaser said.
“The primary thing is that it’s not
moving fast enough, and we need to get
this done this week."
She said protesters worried that
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On Your Honor
The honor code systems at schools across North Carolina use various forms of enforcement,
including an Honor Court and mixed panels of faculty and students to pass judgement.
UNC-Chapel NHI
■ Violations are first sent to the student attorney general, who decides if there is enough
evidence for a case.
■ If there is adequate evidence for a case, the case then goes to the Honor Court.
I A nonstudent becomes involved in the incident only if the defendant wants to appeal tire
How Court's decision.
N.C. State University
• The university’s Academic Integrity Review Board has a five-person panel comprised of two
faculty members, two voting students and one presiing officer who is usually either a student
or the student chief justice
Duke University
■ Duke's honor system consists of two sections The Honor Council takes care of educating
the university about the honor code. The Undergraduate and Judicial Board actually carries out
the hearings for cases.
■ This system uses a mixed panel of students, faculty ami achnintstrators to pass judgment on
cases
SOURCE: UNCCH. N.C. STATE UNIVERSITY AND DUKE UNIVERSITY
ney general decides there is a case, it
goes to the Honor Court.
A non-student only becomes
involved in the case if the defendant
wants to appeal the Honor Court’s deci
sion.
An honor system has been present at
UNC since the University’s inception in
1795. But the system was officially hand
ed over to the students in 1904.
“We have a tradition of students who
want to be empowered, and holding
other students accountable is a part of
that,” said Margaret Barrett, the judicial
programs officer at UNC.
Although students play an essential
role in UNC’s system, other schools,
such as N.C. State University, have
maintained faculty influence over the
process.
The university’s Academic Integrity
Review Board has a five-person panel
composed of two faculty members, two
voting students and one presiding offi
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Volume 107, Issue 37
the law school to
receive, Nichol
said it was substan
tial.
With more
funding, Nichol
said he envisioned
hiring more facul
ty and staff mem
bers to create a
lower faculty-to
student ratio than
the current 19.7-
to-1 and increas
ing faculty and
staff salaries.
In an April
University of
Colorado
law Professor
Gene Nichol
said he would soon
make his decision.
1998 report, an external committee
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Senior Caitlin Salemi (left) and Chapel Hill resident Jason Stevens participate in a protest demanding that
UNC require full disclosure of the location of factories that make University apparel.
cer who is usually either a student or the
student chief justice.
Paul Cousins, the director of the N.C.
State Office of Student Conduct, said
the university’ was working to make the
judicial system easier on professors and
students and more comprehensive.
“Since 1990, we’ve had a different
version of the same thing that was more
antagonistic,” Cousins said. “(Nine years
ago) it called upon students to play dif
ferent roles. It was a prosecution. The
titles people had were very different. It
was very confrontational.”
Cousins said N.C. State had trouble
establishing an academic disciplinary
board as a formidable force in the
school because it was not imbedded in
their tradition. But he said officials con
tinued to work toward a more efficient
system.
Though Duke University’s honor
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found faculty salaries to be about
SIO,OOO less than the amount needed to
keep the law school competitive.
Nichol also said he wanted more
financial aid for prospective law stu
dents. “Giving packages for financial aid
for law school students will allow us to
compete with better law schools.”
He said most of the aid would come
from UNC resources. Nichol said he
hoped UNC would consider erecting
one or two buildings to act as addition
al spaces for the law school.
Cole, who also serves as the dean
search committee chairman, said that
despite the extent of Nichol’s requests,
such negotiations are common. “This is
not unusual,” Cole said. “It’s typical with
Refugees to Resettle
Temporarily in U.S.
Officials say attempts will
be made to match refugees
with sponsors once they
reach the East Coast.
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Defense
Secretary William Cohen suggested
Wednesday that plans to widen the
NATO campaign in Yugoslavia with a
ground offensive could be put into place
if necessary.
“It could happen very quickly,”
Cohen said of the possibility of sending
ground troops. However, in testimony
to the House defense appropriations
subcommittee, he reiterated the admin
istration position that neither President
Clinton nor NATO allies are yet con
sidering such a move.
The Clinton Administration also said
Wednesday that the United States will
temporarily admit as many as 20,000
refugees from Kosovo.
The decision to temporarily resettle
refugees in the United States,
announced by Vice President A1 Gore at
Ellis Island, N.Y., replaces an earlier
plan to possibly send them to the U.S.
military base at Guantanamo Bay,
Cuba. Gore said the effort would focus
on “those with close family ties in
America and those who are vulnerable,
and we will have them here until they
are able to return home safely.”
White House deputy chief of staff
Maria Echaveste said officials would trv
to match refugees with relatives or spon
a two-career family."
He said that although medical leaves
by Hooker and Provost Richard
Richardson slowed the negotiating
process, it would progress with McCoy
and acting Provost Ned Brooks. “We are
confident that everything will work out
and work out right.” But Cole said that if
Nichol accepted, the Board of Trustees
and the Board of Governors would still
have give their approval.
Brooks said Nichol would be a capa
ble dean. “If he’s as good a dean as he
is a negotiator, then we may have a won
derful dean."
The University Editors can be reached
at udesk@unc.edu.
sors after the Kosovars arrived at two or
three ports along the East Coast.
“We’re going to be focusing on fami
ly reunification,” she said.
On the military front, while adminis
tration officials said anew that the pres
ident opposed using ground troops at
this point, their statements seemed cal
culated to open the possibility.
Both Cohen and Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright noted in congres
sional testimony that NATO had
worked up plans for a possible ground
offensive last fall - plans that could be
put in operation if necessary.
Cohen said the plans called for some
200,000 NATO ground forces for a full
invasion of Yugoslavia, or 75,000 for a
scaled-back offensive that would just
involve Kosovo.
A White House official, speaking on
condition of anonymity, said the
alliance may soon seek to update its
assessment - made in October - that
the campaign should be limited to air
power.
With NATO missiles striking
Belgrade by night and day, the first
batch of Apache attack helicopters
touched down in Albania on
Wednesday as the Western allies inten
sified their air campaign against
Yugoslavia.
The arrival of the long-awaited U.S.
anti-tank helicopters represents a signif
icant boost in NATO’s capability to
destroy tanks and troops of Yugoslav
forces blamed for atrocities against
Kosovo Albanian civilians. It wasn’t
known when the helicopters would go
into action.
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Police Try
To Secure
Attack Site
SWAT teams swept the Colo,
high school for booby traps
left by two students on a
suicide mission Tuesday.
Associated Press
LITTLETON, Colo. - Working
around bodies still lying where they fell
more than a day earlier, bomb squad
officers checked lockers and backpacks
for booby traps Wednesday as investi
gators tried to piece together one of the
deadliest school
massacres in U.S.
history.
Hurling bombs
and blasting away
with guns, two stu
dents in black
trench coats killed
12 schoolmates
and a teacher
Tuesday at
Columbine High
School, most of
Eric Harris
them in the library. The gunmen, Eric
Harris, 18, and Dylan Klebold, 17, then
apparently killed themselves.
Officials were trying to determine if
others were involved, and they ques-
tioned other mem
bers of the boys’
dark group of out
casts, the
“Trenchcoat
Mafia.”
Authorities on
Wednesday
removed the bod
ies of two victims
who died outside
the building. Also,
more than 24
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Dylan Klebold
hours after the attack, parents finally
received official word of their children’s
fate. Police hoped to remove the other
bodies later in the day.
Investigators left the corpses in place
overnight so they could check for explo
sives and record the details of the crime
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INSIDE
Violet, A Musical
Play Makers Repertory Company brings
a short story by Creative Writing
Professor Doris Betts to life in its last
show of the season. Diversions
presents a sneak peak at the musical.
See Page 5. ,
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Violet, A Musical* 1
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Fighting for Justice
Queer activist and
author Urvashi Vaid will
return to campus
tonight to speak about
gender issues and
political activism.Vaid’s
visit is sponsored by
Sangam. See Page 2.
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In Cold, Young Blood
In the wake of the brutal Colorado
killings that left 15 dead and many
more wounded, experts examine the
causes behind students turning their
guns on their peers. See Page 4.
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