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The University and Towns
In Brief
Union Activities Board
Needs New Chairmen
The Carolina Union Activities Board
is looking to fill chairman positions
within the organization.
CUAB is responsible for organizing
many University programs and activi
ties. In the past, it has sponsored the Art
Mural Contest and brought in well
known figures such as Julian Bond, the
president of the National Association
for the Advancement of Colored
People, and the band Vertical Horizon.
There are also open positions for
* information technology, graphic
design/advertising and public relations.
Applications are available at the
Union desk for any interested full-time
students and are due March 29. No
experience is necessary. For more infor
mation, go to Union 200.
Spring Break Kicks Off
With Thursday Party
The Domestic Violence Advocacy
, Project is sponsoring a Spring Break
Kickoff Party on Thursday.
The party will be held at 10 p.m. at
Pantana Bob’s on Rosemary Street and
will feature live jazz and funk music by
Corduroy Deville.
There is a $4 cover charge. For more
information, e-mail Erin Baker at
sprite 156@mindspring.com.
Student Government
Looks to Fill Vacancies
Student Government is taking appli
cations for various student body officer
positions. These include student body
vice president, secretary and treasurer.
The applications are available in
Suite C of the Student Union and are
due at 5 p.m. Friday.
Former Student Runs
Marathon for Hooker
A UNC graduate will run a
“Leukemia Society of America marathon
in memory of the late Chancellor
Michael Hooker.
Ange-Marie Hancock, formerly a
coordinator for the Sonja H. Stone
Black Cultural Center, plans to use the
event to raise money for further
research in Hooker’s diagnosed disease,
non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
The marathon will take place in Big
Sur, Calif., on April 30. Hancock hopes
to raise $1,900.
Church Holds Seminar
To Teach Dream Recall
The Unity Church of Durham will
hold a seminar on dream interpretation
and recall at 1 p.m. Sunday at 2604
Carver St. in Durham.
The Dream Interpretation Seminar
with Michael French will teach tech
niques for identifying recurring themes,
dream recall and common symbols.
The suggested offering is S2O.
■J The church will also host Mark
JSmith, a musician, guitarist and
' humorist, at 11 a.m.
Call Rev. Geri Glinski at 471-3504.
Local Church to Hold
Food Drive Saturday
Mt. Zion Christian Church will spon
sor a food drive from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m.
March 18 at four local Food Lion gro
cery stores. For more information about
specific locations, call Elder James
Rascoe at 688-4245, ext. 231.
County Needs Variety
Of Local Volunteers
Volunteer Orange!, a Triangle United
Way organization needs tutors and
mentors for school-aged children.
Volunteers are needed to assist as timers
and referees during swimming, basket
ball and horseshoes. The games occur
at various locations in Orange County
in late April.
Learn how to produce television pro
grams. A local public access channel
needs volunteers interested in working
with equipment, updating Web sites and
editing.
Runners, walkers and volunteers are
needed for a 5K Run/Walk to benefit
-breast cancer research April 1.
Volunteers are needed to staff food
tables and cheer for participants.
Registration, which is $lO for runners
and walkers, includes a T-shirt and
.refreshments.
Volunteers will provide companion
ship to individuals with mental illness
by participating in activities with them
-for three to six hours each week.
Contact Betsy Alley at 929-9837,
between 9 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Monday
through Thursday and between 9 a.m.
.and 1 p.m. Fridays.
From Staff Reports
Bush, Gore Top Super Tuesday
Associated Press
Cruising across the country, George
W. Bush won five Super Tuesday pri
maries in an accelerating drive to van
quish John McCain’s political insur
gency. “It’s a huge step toward the nom
ination,” the Republican presidential
candidate said
as McCain
struggled to
broaden his
threat beyond
independent
minded New
England states.
Arizona Voters
To Hit Internet
For Primary
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Bush won in Ohio, Georgia, Missouri
and Maryland by double-digit margins
-and broke McCain’s hold on the
Northeast with a narrow victory in
Maine. McCain won in Massachusetts,
Connecticut, Rhode Island and
Vermont as voters in 13 states partici
pated in the year’s largest day of
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Leaders Gear Up
For Another Round
With Legislature
Bv Litas Fenske
Assistant State & National Editor
Deja vu strikes at the P*
strangest of times - waiting Vf
in an airport, shopping at the 1
mall and sometimes walking in '
the hallways of the N.C.
General Assembly.
Last summer, student leaders
and UNC-system administrators
petitioned the legislature to
approve a multibillion dollar
bond package for capital needs.
While the package ultimately
died in the House, leaders could
still celebrate their lobbying efforts
that helped defeat a proposed SSOO
tuition increase.
This spring, student leaders and
system administrators are making the
rounds once more in the state legisla
ture for very similar reasons.
Riding on their success or failure
this year are $36.8 million for finan
cial aid, a S6OO tuition increase at
both UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C.
State University and a systemwide
pay raise for facul
ty, funded through
state allocations.
Passage of the
three proposals is
important for the
system’s future, but
it would be a chal
lenging task to see
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them through the legislature, said
Clifton Metcalf, associate vice presi
dent for state governmental affairs
and the only professional lobbyist in
the UNC system’s comer.
“Seeking passage is a long process
beginning ahead of session and con
tinuing until the budget is adapted,”
he said. “Until then, we’ll be working
long and hard to secure passage.”
This commitment to working with
legislators was emphasized this sum
mer as both administrators and stu
dents pleaded their cause in Raleigh.
Sophomore Still Awaits
Trial for Morrison Fire
Bv Geoff Wessel
Staff Writer
The student accused of starting a fire
in Morrison Residence Hall last semester
is still awaiting trial, while police contin
ue to investigate four other blazes.
The Orange County Superior Court
has postponed an administrative hear
ing until April 11 for UNC sophomore
Daniel Sarrell, who was charged with
one count of first-degree arson in con
nection with a Nov. 22 fire.
The hearing, at which the defendant’s
lawyers can make motions to the court,
was originally scheduled for Tuesday,
Prosecutor Jim Woodall said.
University Police arrested Sarrell on
Nov. 22 after calling the circumstances
of several nighttime fires in Morrison
suspicious.
Sarrell, a Morrison resident and
political science major from Arden,
N.C., was arrested in connection with
the last of four fires that occurred in a
five-day period.
With no previous criminal or disci
Republican presi
dential contests.
New York and
California were
yet to be counted.
Bush said he
did not consider
himself the certain
nominee.
“My frame of
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mind is to keep moving,” Bush told The
Associated Press as the campaign
moved swiftly to nine primaries over the
course of the next seven days.
Forging familiar coalitions, Bush
relied on party faithful while McCain
drew from independents and moderate
Republicans.
McCain’s gamble of criticizing con
servative Christian leaders may have
backfired in key states, while Bush’s visit
to an S.C. university with a history of
anti-Catholic views seemed to be a ben
eficial campaign issue for McCain in
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Graduate and Professional Student
Federation President Lee Conner was
one of those student lobbyists.
He said students passed out infor
mation pamphlets in the halls of the
dents opposed to the tuition increase
sent so many e-mail messages to leg
islators that the General Assembly’s
server crashed several times.
Conner said personal lobbying
done by students, BOG members and
system administrators defeated the
tuition increase but that politics
doomed the bond proposal.
He said lobbyists this year would
focus more on technolog)’ such as e
mail petitions than they did last year
but would still rely on many of the
same techniques already used, such as
plinary record, Sarrell is now being held
at a secure facility under a $250,000
unsecured bond.
Police responded to the first of the
series of fires, a seventh-floor trash can
blaze, early on the morning of Nov. 18.
Only two hours after returning to
their rooms that morning, Morrison
residents were evacuated again when a
fire was discovered in a fourth-floor
lounge.
A third fire brought the State Bureau
of Investigation into the case, and the
fourth, started in the sixth-floor televi
sion lounge at 4:15 a.m. on Nov. 22, led
to Sarrell’s arrest.
At the time of the arrest, University
Police Chief Derek Poarch said the
other fires were still being investigated.
He said the use of several surveil
lance techniques led to the arrest but
could not comment further on how
Sarrell became a suspect.
“There has been no change in
(Sarrell’s) case,” Poarch said Tuesday.
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some states.
With Super Tuesday voting, the gen
eral election began to take shape: Vice
President A1 Gore bid to sweep 16
Democratic contests, pushing Sen. Bill
Bradley to the brink of withdrawal.
McCain’s situation was not as dire, but
his candidacy was flagging with a tough
week of Bush-friendly contests lying just
ahead.
Looking past McCain to a potential
fight with Gore, Bush congratulated the
vice president for his Super Tuesday vic
tory, but said, “He is the candidate of the
status quo in Washington, D.C., and he
has a tough case to make in the general
election.”
Several McCain advisers, speaking
on condition of anonymity, said the
Ariz. senator would take stock of his
campaign Wednesday when he travels
to his retreat in Sedona.
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petitions, rallies and personal contact.
“These are tried-and-true lobbying
methods,” Conner said. “They’ll
probably never change.”
But even those lobbying tech
niques require a little tweaking.
“We’ll try for a more unified stu
dent presence (this year),” said
Association of Student Governments
President Jeff Nieman, one of last
summer’s lobbyists. “Last year’s
(bond) proposal was submitted in the
last 10 days of the session. It was hard
to organize a student response.”
This time around offers lobbyists
new chances and challenges.
While officials from the General
Administration and student leaders
have not made concrete plans for
working together in the spring, both
groups support additional financial
aid, increased faculty salaries and
funding for capital needs.
But after a year filled with differing
views about proposed tuition increas
es across the system, a split exists
between students hesitant to pay a
larger bill and administrators unable
General
Assembly while
others unable to
go to Raleigh
wrote personal
letters to legisla
tors explaining
their concerns.
Graduate stu-
Duke Drops Clothing Contracts
Bv Matthew B. Dees
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State & National Editors
Duke University this week became
the first school in the country to cut ties
with university apparel manufacturers
that refused to disclose their overseas
factory locations.
After extending its deadline for full
factory location disclosure to March 3,
Duke officials sent letters Monday noti
fying 28 noncompliant companies that
their contracts hud been terminated.
Duke student activists said the deci
sion was an important first step in the
workers’ rights movement, and activists
at UNC said they hoped University
administrators would follow suit.
“This is the first time retailers have
ever been forced to disclose the loca
tions of any factory where they manu
facture goods,” said Casey Harrell, a
Duke senior and member of Students
Against Sweatshops.
“This is a day that will hopefully go
down as a day that marks the first step
toward improving workers' lives.”
Harrell said human rights organiza
tions could now r travel to factory loca-
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to find another solution.
Emphasizing the divide, UNC-CH
Student Body President-Elect Brad
Matthews, who also gained experi
ence ’last summer lobbying the legis
lators, said he would work with
administrators in the upcoming ses
sion -but only on a limited basis.
“We’ll work with the General
Administration where we can,”
Matthews said. “The important thing
right now is defeating the proposed
tuition increase. It’s our legislative pri
ority number one.”
Others, however, think the priori
ties should change.
Nieman said it was time for stu
dents to shift their efforts. He said
resistance to the increases would con
tinue, but the best time to defeat the
tuition increases - the Feb. 11 Board
of Governors meeting - had passed.
During the meeting, Nieman pro
posed an alternative plan limiting the
tuition increase to S2OO. An unchar
acteristically divided board rejected
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tions and talk to workers themselves
about factory conditions, wages and
other employment issues. He said SAS
and other student protesters were influ
ential in expediting the process.
But Duke Executive Vice President
Tallman Trask said the recent student
protests did not have an impact because
the plan was already in place.
He said Duke administrators had dis
cussed the issue with students last year
and decided that the companies must
provide full disclosure by the end ofjan.
2000. But in mid-February, when some
companies had still not complied,
administrators sent letters to those com
panies informing them they had until
March 3 to disclose factory locations.
“We had explained (to these compa
nies) last year what we were doing, so it
was simply a matter of whether or not
they complied,” Trask said.
Trask said the university could lose
tens of thousands of dollars from the
decision but said Duke’s administrators
were not concerned. “Everyone knew
where we were headed, so this didn’t
come as a big surprise.”
Although Harrell insisted that stu
dents had played a pivotal role in the
Wednesday, March 8, 2000
Suspect
Cleared
In Murder
District Attorney Carl Fox
says the only evidence in
the Michael Crosby murder
trial is circumstantial.
Bv Kathryn McLamb
Staff Writer
Investigation into a New Year’s Day
murder continues this week after
District Attorney Carl Fox dismissed
charges against a previously arrested
suspect.
Michael Jordan Cruz, 23, of 2738
New Bold Drive in Raleigh, was cleared
of all charges Monday in the murder of
Michael Gregor)' Crosby, 21, of
Raleigh. Fox
determined the
evidence against
Cruz in the mur
der case was cir
cumstantial and
unsuitable for
trial.
Fox said he
could not press
charges in good
faith, because evi
dence against
Cruz could not
positively indicate
Murder suspect
Michael
Jordan Cruz
was released
and cleared
of murder charges.
the way the crime
occurred.
“The evidence
as I reviewed it indicated he had an
opportunity to commit this crime,” Fox
said. “The state requires us to prove
more than just opportunity.”
Fox said no one w as at fault for the
inadequacy of the evidence but that it
was his duty to dismiss the charges
because of the inconclusive nature of
the evidence.
“The police got some leads, but they
did not get any breaks,” he said. “They
still haven’t gotten the evidence to get
beyond mere speculation, and we have
to get beyond that threshold.
“There is still someone else out there
that could have committed this crime,”
Fox said. “You have to close that loop
hole before pressing charges.”
Fox also said that if police were able
to positively prove Cruz as the murder
er, he would be willing to reconsider fil-
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landmark decision, he conceded that
administrators had been much more
cooperative than officials at other
schools where students are w aging bat
tles against sweatshops.
The Duke decision follows numerous
sit-ins and protests for labor rights on
college campuses across the country.
Students at the University of
Pennsylvania and the University of
Wisconsin-Madison faced arrests and
pepper spray from police during their
recent protests.
Todd Pugatch, a member of Students
for Economic Justice at UNC. said he
hoped UNC student demands also
would be met by cooperative adminis
trators. Activists have set an April 3
deadline for the University to leave the
Fair Labor Association and join the
Workers’ Rights Consortium, a group
students claim is a more effective moni
tor of labor practices. “Duke certainly
has set a strong example,” Pugatch said.
“I hope this w ill spur our administrators
to take similar steps so we can know
where our products are being made.”
The State & National Editor can be
reached at stntdesk@unc.edu.
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