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'BOLO' Suspect Faces Rape Charges
Bv Katie Abel
University Editor
The man arrested in connection with
an Aug. 17 campus assault will stand trial
for attempted first-degree rape in
Orange County Superior Court.
Visiting District Court Judge Claude
Allen found probable cause for the rape
charge againstjesus Alvarez Ramos, 23,
in a hearing Friday.
After a separate Sept. 9 hearing, a dis
trict judge ruled that there was not suf
ficient evidence to charge Alvarez
Ramos with second-degree rape in a
Fighting for Life
Convicted murderer
Harvey Green is set
to die early Friday.
By Sarah Brier
Staff Writer
While most people on Franklin Street spent
Saturday morning shopping and sipping coffee,
UNC students decorated the Franklin Street post
office with banners and electric chairs to protest the
execution of Harvey Lee Green, scheduled for early
Friday morning.
Though the protest rally was scheduled to begin
at noon, by 11:20 a.m. shouts of counter-protest
poured from passing cars. But
the opposition did not seem to
hinder anti-death penalty stu
dents with the Campaign to
End the Death Penalty as they
shouted, “They say death row,
we say hell no.”
Proudly displaying black
armbands and pictures of
Green with his Bible, protesters
said the urgency of saving lives
was the only thing on their minds.
“The sooner we get out in public, the sooner peo
ple know we are fighting,” said Jon Wexler, a mem
ber of the campaign. “If we don’t save his life, there
are others in October scheduled to be executed.”
Harvey Lee Green, a 38-year-old convicted of
double homicide, would be the first black man exe
cuted in North Carolina since 1961. The death penal
ty was nationally reinstated as a punishment for cer
tain crimes in 1976, after being found unconstitu
tional in 1972.
In December 1983, Green entered Young’s Dry
Cleaners in Bethel and attempted to rob the store,
ultimately clubbing two people to death with a pipe.
He was sentenced to death after his conviction.
The rally to stop his execution drew supporters
from all corners of Chapel Hill. The co-founder of
the Civil Rights Club at Chapel Hill High School,
Fabio Ortiz, was at the protest. “I think it is good to
stand up for things you believe in,” he said. “You
can’t just sit there while injustice is being done.”
The cost of an execution is more than the cost of
imprisonment for life, protest posters claimed. More
See RALLY, Page 6
4,000 FSU Tickets Available
Students can get tickets for
the Florida State football
game from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
today at the Smith Center.
By Karev Wutkowski
Staff Writer
The Carolina Athletic Association
still has 4,000 tickets up for grabs for the
upcoming Florida State University foot
ball game Sept. 25.
Students picked up only 8,000 of the
total 12,000 tickets during the three-hour
distribution period Saturday morning,
said CAA President Tee Pruitt.
Beginning today, students can get the
remaining tickets at the Smith Center
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. They will be dis
tributed during the rest of the week at
Aug. 15 campus assault.
In that case, he will face first-degree
kidnapping charges.
The victim of the second attack, a 19-
year-old UNC sophomore, spent much
of Friday’s hearing recalling details of
the encounter, which occurred in an
alley near Hanes Art Center about 8:30
p.m. Aug. 17.
She testified that she was walking
from Davis Library to Franklin Street
while it was still light outside when she
felt someone tugging at the back pocket
of her black jeans. “As I was turning
around, I heard a ripping noise, and I
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A weeklong series
exploring the death
penalty in N.C.
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Gretchen Engel, lawyer for death row inmate Harvey Lee Green, speaks out against the death penalty at a rally on Franklin Street
on Saturday afternoon.
Facing Death, Inmates Reach Out for New Life
By Lucas Fenske
Staff Writer
Betsy Wolfenden looks at a death row inmate
and sees a talented human being, not a con
victed killer or rapist.
“I feel strongly that all the men and women
on death row have talents, gifts and skills that
can be used for giving back,” said Wolfenden,
the same time until the tickets run out,
Pruitt said. He said the excess of
unclaimed tickets probably stemmed
from the Thursday closing of the
University due to Hurricane Floyd.
CAA gave students an extra day to
pick up bracelets for the ticket lottery
because the Smith Center Ticket Office
was closed because of the weather.
“The hurricane didn’t help out,” he
said. “Some students went home, and
some didn’t have the information."
Students who got bracelets picked up
tickets at the Smith Center at 5:45 a.m.
Saturday. They could claim up to six
tickets with one bracelet if they had six
UNC ONE Cards.
Sophomore Jonathan Williams, who
picked up his bracelet Friday, said he
did not expect a large turnout for the
game. “The rivalry is not there this
year,” he said.
The only truly dead are those who have been forgotten.
Jewish saying
Monday, September 20, 1999
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realized my back
pocket had been
tom off,” she said.
She said the
man behind her -
wearing a dingy
red T-shirt and
worn blue jeans -
tried to pull her
between two
parked cars when
she fell backward
onto a concrete
wall.
The victim,
Suspect
Jesus Alvarez
Ramos
will stand trial for
attempted rape.
co-president of Restitution Inc. “I want to find
out what those are and help them use them. I
don’t see the bars as that big of an obstacle.”
Wolfenden started the organization after
watching the healing process between her hus
band, Michael Fullwood, and his daughter,
Michelle. Fullwood is currently on death row
for the murder of Michelle’s mother.
Michelle contacted her father after she found
Freshman Naadia Bhatti said many
students were interested in attending
the game. “I think there’s a pretty big
demand for tickets,” she said. “FSU is
really good, and until basketball comes,
there’s nothing else to do.”
Interest in the football matchup
against FSU has been especially high in
recent years. Large crowds rushed sta
dium gates in 1997, resulting in several
injuries. Pruitt said he had safety in mind
when he made the decision to institute
the lottery system of ticket distribution
for this game.
To gain admission to other home
football games, students swipe their
UNC ONE Cards at the gate.
Freshman Angela Rigg said she did
not find the distribution process an
inconvenience. “The lines were moving
See CAA, Page 6
who was visibly nervous during the tes
timony, said the man, who was wearing
black leather gloves, pulled out a knife
with.a 12- to 14-inch blade. “He showed
it (the knife) to me and said ‘Don’t
scream, or I will kill you.’”
She testified that although the man
clearly had a foreign accent, he spoke to
her in English. The victim said a near
by noise caught the assailant off-guard.
She said she grabbed her key chain
and sprayed the man with Mace.
The victim, who has asthma, said she
struggled to run back toward campus
until she got to her Hinton James
out he was starting a college fund for her.
Money for the fund comes from the sale of
notecards decorated with Fullwood’s art.
Wolfenden said she was not sure if Michelle
had forgiven her father but said she was pleased
that at least Michelle knew he loved her. “We’re
concerned with promoting healing between the
See GROUPS, Page 6
A DAY OF CULTURE
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DTH I-AURA GIOVANELL!
A family enjoys a spin Sunday evening during La Fiesta del Pueblo, a
celebration of Latin American culture. The festivities, held at Chapel Hill
High School, attracted people from across the state.
Residence Hall room. “I was tired, my
heart was beating fast, and I just started
crying,” she said.
She said she realized her clothes had
become tom during her encounter with
the assailant. “I just know my zipper was
ripped and my blouse was ripped as
well,” she said. During the hearing, the
victim pointed to Alvarez Ramos as the
man who attacked her.
University Police Capt. Mark
Mclntyre testified that Larry Riggsbee,
a security guard who was on campus
See BOLO, Page 6
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Flooding
Worsens on
N.C. Plains
At least 21 people have
died and thousands are still
homeless due to torrential
rainfall caused by Floyd.
Associated Press
GREENVILLE - The power is
intermittent, much of the county is com
pletely under water, roads are closed,
grocery store shelves are empty and
there’s litde gasoline available.
Can it get worse? Yes.
Greenville, a city of 44,000, faces still
worse flooding when the Tar River
crests Monday. And more rain could
come Monday and Tuesday.
“Everyone is
figuring out
their own sur
vival,” Carl
Campbell said
Sunday as the
Tar River
UNC-System
Schools Grapple
With Floyd
See Page 5
inched closer to his home and neigh
bors tried to save their belongings from
their flooded homes.
Hurricane Floyd saturated eastern
North Carolina with 20 inches of rain
last week. Floodwaters have virtually
shut down the coastal plain east of
Raleigh. National Guard helicopters are
shuttling food to stricken towns whose
grocery shelves are bare, and drinkable
water is being rushed to several counties
where wastewater treatment systems
failed and tap water became undrink
able.
About 300 roads, including parts of
Interstates 95 and 40, remained closed
Sunday, and 6,400 people remain in
shelters. Military helicopters buzzed
around the skies looking for stranded
people.
At least 21 people are confirmed
dead, including a Pinetops family lost
when they tried to escape their flooded
home in a boat early Thursday. Others
are unaccounted for.
State officials said it would be days
before they could begin to estimate how
much damage was caused by the storm.
“It’s difficult to get damage estimates
in a normal hurricane situation,” said
Rene Hoffman, a spokeswoman for the
State Emergency Response Team. “In
this kind of situation, we can’t even get
in to begin damage assessment, and I
don’t expect we will have firm numbers
for quite a while.”
See FLOOD, Page 6
Monday
Taking a Stand
Students at the University of
Wisconsin-Madison recently staged a
walkout protesting years of tuition
increases. See Page 5.
Bringing It Home
Though Hurricane Floyd caused little
damage to Chapel Hill, the storm
ravaged other parts of the state. The
Daily Tar Heel wants to hear from any
UNC student with family or friends in
eastern North Carolina who are strug
gling to recoup after the storm. Contact
Editor Rob Nelson at 962-4086 or at
rnelson@email.unc.edu.
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Today’s Weather
Rain;
Low 70s.
Tuesday: Rain;
High 60s.
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