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latlg (Tar Uwl Senators Look to Future After Clinton Debacle By Jonathan Cox Special Assignments Editor WASHINGTON, FEB. 15 - After standing in the spotlight of America for more than a month during the trial of William Jefferson Clinton, senators say they will step back into the shadows of mundane legislative duties next week without fear of political repercussions. Senators will take this week off after acquitting President Clinton on both articles of impeachment Friday. When session resumes next Monday, fresh man Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., said he and his colleagues would work together with a better understanding for each other’s perspectives. “I think there is more respect inside that Senate chamber than when we went in,” he said Friday as he walked down the Capitol steps. Because of that unity, and the drive to move forward, the Republican party will not suffer any ill consequences from this defining point on the political land scape, senior Sen. Jesse Helms, R-N.C., said from his office Friday. Analysts have predicted that citizens will turn against the GOP during the 2000 elec tions because its members pushed the trial. “This is today and next year is next year,” Helms said. “I don’t think it will have any lingering effects.” Citing one of his colleagues, Helms said Clinton might not be so lucky dur ing the last two years of his term. “Billy’s going to be Billy, and he’s going to fall into another hole,” he said. 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Standing with the other 44 represen tatives from his party, Edwards found the president not guilty on both articles of impeachment. The former Raleigh attorney tapped his knowledge of the judicial system and justified his vote with a legal explanation rather than a substantive evaluation. “I think the prosecution failed to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the president was guilty of these charges,” he said. “You cannot convict and remove a president from office based on speculation.” Edwards said Lewinsky’s testimony and that of White House aide Sidney Blumenthal, whose depositions he wit Winter Specials Discount Muff lor s and Brakas 407 E. Main Street • Carrboro 933-6888 Ask How To Rocoive A FREE T-Shirt Year in Review North Carolina nessed, along with the viewpoints of his colleagues caused him to constantly reevaluate his ow n opinion. “All of it had an influence, but none of it ever really changed my mind,” he said. Helms also stood by his first impres sions, saying he knew Clinton was “guilty as sin” from the beginning. Calling the process a “political gambit,” Helms said he told other Republicans in their first conference that they should do nothing. “I knew exactly how it was going to turn out,” the 27-year veteran of the Senate said. “We were destined to lose from the very start.” SHOCKS Buy 3 and Get One FREE (right rear) or 25 % OFF the second shock with purchase of 2 EXPIRES 1/31/00 OIL CHARGE $19.95 Oil Change OR $9.95 with any Brake, Shock or Exhaust Service EXPIRES 1/31/00 BOG Hears Financial Aid Proposal If approved, the $32 million need-based financial aid plan would be the largest of its kind in N.C. history. By Matthew B. Dees State & National Editor BOONE, OCT. 10 - UNC-system advisors pitched their proposal for a large-scale need-based financial aid pro gram to the full Board of Governors for the first time Oct. 7. The $32 million program would be the first state-funded need-based initia tive of this magnitude. Officials cited the rising cost of high er education, increased demand for a college degree and the inadequacies of need-based aid in North Carolina as major reasons to implement the pro gram. Jane Wellman, a consultant hired by the UNC-system General Administration, pointed to federal sta tistics that indicate the total cost of attending a public institution has risen 265 percent since 1976, while the mean family income for middle and lower class families has remained relatively stagnant. UNC-system President Molly Broad also said that many state schools, includ- rTHECIDER HOIJSE RULES : $5 off: Good on any tanning package of 10 I or more visits with this coupon. Good until February 29, 2000 • l j .. TANNERY Open Til Midnite Mon-Thur; ‘til 10pm Fri-Sun I 169 E Franklin Street • Near the Post Office ' L 967-6633 J ing UNC-Chapel Hill, N.C. State and UNC-Charlotte, would face tuition increases as several institutions tried to raise faculty pay. She said a financial aid program was needed to offset the increase. Financial aid and faculty salaries will go hand in hand, not compete with one another, when the BOG requests fund ing from the state legislature in May, Broad said. “It really has to be a balanced strate gy,” said Broad, who recently announced that financial aid, faculty salaries and a proposal to improve facil ities would be presented en masse next year to the N.C. General Assembly. “We can’t go for one without the other.” Wellman outlined the financial aid plan for BOG members at their month ly meeting. She estimated the average annual cost of education at UNC-system schools was tuition and required fees plus $6,750. Students who qualified for the pro gram would have to make a contribu tion based on their families’ income and support themselves either through grants or by working. 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