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Panel Links Tuition Hike, Salaries
A tuition hike could help
boost paychecks since UNC
pays the least compared to
its peer universities.
By Lauren Shouse
Staff Writer
Students could face a tuition hike
from officials eager to solve faculty
salary deficits, student leaders said
WCW Finds
Fewer Fans
For Encore
A less-than-capacity crowd
greeted Monday Nitro
on its second trip of the
year to the Smith Center.
By Hugh Pressley
Senior Writer
Fifteen-year-old Brian Declue had
seen it all live once before and had
caught it on television countless other
times. You know, the metallic silver
World Wrestling Championship logo,
the meandering, multicolored spot
lights, the hilarious signs (i.e. “Got
Nookie?” and “Hogan for President”)
and the voluptuous Nitro Girls.
But when “The Nature Boy” Ric
Flair walked in with his patented,
Southern swagger down the Smith
Center’s jet-black runway Monday
night at WCW’s Monday Nitro, Declue
couldn’t help but cock back his blond
head, yelp out a high-pitched
“Woooooooh!” and deliver a four-fin
gered salute.
“It’s wild,” said Declue, who lives in
Creedmoor and made the trip with his
See WRESTLING, Page 9
Effects of Landmark Busing Case Still Hazy
By Mike Jones
Staff Writer
An appeal in a recent Charlotte bus
ing court case could force educators in
four states to rethink educational poli
cies.
The full effects of the Friday decision,
which ended race-based busing in the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system,
hinge on the system’s decision to appeal.
John Deem, spokesman for the
Charlotte-Mecklenburg school system,
said the Board of Education had not
made that decision. By law, the board
has 30 days to file an appeal.
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Anew panel, led by Provost Dick
Richardson, is examining proposals that
would beef up UNC faculty paychecks
to compete with peer universities. The
group proposes tuition increases or state
support to acquire the proper funding.
The proposal and creation of the
panel comes after UNC’s recent drop in
national polls from the third to fifth
among top public universities and the
loss of top professors due to low faculty
salaries.
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Thousands of fans flocked to the Smith Center on Monday night to watch wrestlers duke it out at World Championship Wrestling's Monday Nitro.
The event, which rolled through Chapel Hill for the second time this year, attracted fewer fans than the Nitro that came to the University on March 1.
Plaintiffs from the 1969 Swann v.
Board of Education lawsuit that ushered
in race-based busing have indicated they
would file an appeal if the board failed
to do so, Deem said.
He said the appeal could target two
parts of the ruling, which claimed
Charlotte-Mecklenburg used race as the
basis for busing and that the system was
sufficiendy integrated.
In addition to upholding the ruling
against Charlotte-Mecklenburg’s busing,
an unsuccessful appeal would bind
North Carolina, South Carolina,
Virginia and Maryland to the ruling.
“The judge, in effect, returned control
Tuesday, September 14, 1999
Volume 107, Issue 73
UNC lags
behind all four of
its traditional
peers, the
Universities of
Virginia,
Michigan,
California-
Berkeley, and
California-Los
Angeles, in aver
age salary and
benefits offered to
Provost
Dick Richardson
of the schools back to the board,” Deem
said. “This is a landmark case in the
country ... (it sets) anew direction in
education.”
Under the terms of the decision, nec
essary changes must be made before the
start of the 2000 school year.
Julius Chambers, chancellor of N. C.
Central University and a former civil
rights lawyer, said that although the rul
ing set a precedent in the Charlotte area,
it did not ban attempts at desegregation.
“This decision is disappointing, but I
am not overly pessimistic about the
eventual outcome,” he said.
Chambers said an appeal to the 4th
Woman Files Suit vs. County
By Kate Turgeon
Staff Writer
Maybe “Jane Doe” can succeed
where “Publius Heterodoxus” failed.
“Doe,” the alias of the 23-year-old
woman who was raped in a bathroom at
the Orange County Courthouse one
year ago, filed a civil lawsuit Friday
against the county, claiming that it failed
to provide adequate courthouse securi
ty. “Doe’s" attorneys are seeking dam
ages in excess of SIO,OOO.
Rodney Jenkins, who pled guilty to
the rape, assault and battery, is also
named as a defendant in the lawsuit.
Carl Fox, Orange County district
attorney, said it was rare for a person to
file a case using a pseudonym.
The most recent attempt failed in
1998 when Judge Catherine Eagles
ruled that “Publius Heterodoxus,” filed
by jack Daly of the N.C. Foundation for
Individual Rights of Raleigh, could not
professors, according to an Office of
Institutional Research report.
Lee Conner, president of the
Graduate and Professional Student
Federation, and- Nic Heinke, student
body president, said they opposed any
tuition increases and favored state sup
port to provide funds.
Interim Chancellor Bill McCoy
appointed the 16-member panel, the
Committee on Faculty Salaries and
Benefits, to develop a proposal that
would allow UNC to remain competi
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ could
have far-reaching effects on other school
districts, but the U.S. Supreme Court
would make a final decision.
“The motivation to appeal is the pos
sibility that the decision would be over
turned,” Chambers said. “There is noth
ing to lose in appealing.”
Although many educators paid close
attention to the Charlotte case, local offi
cials said its ultimate outcome should
not affect local schools. “Our schools are
pretty well-balanced,” said Randy
Bridgers, superintendent of Orange
County Schools. “Except for a couple of
cases, they don’t require any busing.”
anonymously sue the town of Chapel
Hill.
“Heterodoxus,” the Chapel Hill resi
dent who challenged a town policy that
extends health benefits to partners of
homosexual town employees, dropped
his suit rather than proceed using his
name. Daly has since filed another suit
against Chapel Hill and Carrboro, in
which 12 plaintiffs have identified them
selves.
The sensitive nature of “Doe’s” case
led the 23-year-old paralegal, who was
stabbed in the head and beaten after she
was raped, to pursue the lawsuit anony
mously.
In an affidavit, “Doe” said she felt
that going public might affect her fami
ly in a negative manner.
She also said that if her name became
public, she might receive unwanted
phone calls.
“If my name is used, all of my per
sonal choices about who to tell and who
five with its peer institutions.
In Monday’s meeting, the committee
debated how to increase average faculty
salaries. Tuition increase and state sup
port dominated the discussion.
But Conner and Heinke said tuition
increases would not be feasible for the
University without legislative backing.
“Tuition by itself is not a long term
solution,” Conner said. He pointed to a
S4OO tuition increase in 1995 and sug-
See SALARIES, Page 7
Stella Shelton, spokeswoman for
Wake County Schools, also said the case
held little relevance for the Wake
County system.
Wake County’s system of magnet
schools voluntarily desegregate students,
she said. “The application process is
based on socioeconomics, not race.”
Bridgers said, despite the ruling, eth
nic balancing was still important.
“I certainly hope they (the court)
aren’t saying that diverse schools aren’t
significant in education.”
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not to tell, and my road to recovery,
would be undermined,” she stated in the
petition.
Her lawyers from the firm Pulley,
Watson, King and Lischer also made a
motion for a protective order, which is a
gag order, making it illegal for anyone
involved in the case to reveal her name.
Fox said it was “Doe’s” responsibili
ty to demonstrate a need to keep her
name a secret.
“I read (“Doe’s”) reasons,” Fox said.
“They are understandable. But are they
any more compelling than the reasons
someone else might give to not have
their name in litigation? I don’t know.
“It certainly will be interesting to see
if the reasons will withstand the test,"
Fox said.
Fox said the situation was delicate
because the defendant’s name was pub
lic, and some people believed that if he
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Suspected
Dealer Gets
Defender
A woman accused of selling
crack cocaine in Carrboro
will have her next court
appearance Oct. 11.
By Jason Owens
Assistant City Editor
A Carrboro woman arrested for deal
ing crack this weekend was assigned a
public defender at her first court
appearance Monday in Orange County
District Court in Hillsborough.
Rochonda Garshera Blackwell, 25, of
Old Well Apt. W-6 at 501 Jones Ferry
Road in Carrboro was arrested Friday
shortly after 10 p.m. after police had to
force their way into her apartment, said
Carrboro police officer Ron Holmes.
“We knocked and she didn’t answer,”
Holmes said. “We entered the door with
our tools.”
Police reports stated that Blackwell
had 6.3 grams of crack cocaine, a small
amount of marijuana and drug para
phernalia when police found her.
Carrboro police charged Blackwell
with one felony count of manufacturing
drugs, one felony count of possession
with intent to sell and deliver drugs and
one felony count of maintaining a
dwelling. Police CapL J. G. Booker
explained the latter charge as the sus
pect maintaining a structure for the use
and sale of drugs.
Booker said police had made sever
al undercover and controlled buys from
Blackwell in order to build a case.
When police made the purchases
they said they had often seen a child
present in the apartment
“(The investigation) has been off and
on for six months,” hg sittd, “There was
known (oTe a M there. That
evening, no children were present. I
don’t believe (Blackwell) has any kids. It
was one of the other females’ that fre
quents the house.”
Booker said police made sure there
were no children present during the
See CRACKHOUSE, Page 7
Tuesday
Get Your Tickets
Wristbands for the Florida State
football game will be out Wednesday
and Thursday. Students can bring extra
ONE Cards for a total of six tickets.
The Carolina Athletic Association will
pick a random number Friday and
tickets will be distributed Saturday.
Fuming Floyd
Hurricane Floyd barreled toward
Florida on Monday, bringing 155 mph
winds and destructive powers
comparable to those of historic
Hurricane Camille. See Page 5.
Don't Miss the Bus
Town bus
drivers say
they are
already
working long
hours to
make up for driver shortages and high
passenger volumes. But some students
are still being left waiting at local bus
stops. See Page 11.
Leaving a Legacy
Until Thursday, seniors can offer their
input on the class gift at the DTH’s
online site at the following address
www.unc.edu/dth. The results will be
published Friday. Ballots are alsc
available at the DTH front desk in Suite
104 of the Student Union.
Today’s Weather
Sunny;
Low 80s.
Wednesday: Rain;
Mid 70s.