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% 00% (Tar Hpri trial , From Page 1 Orange County Assistant District Attorney Randy Griffin said Capel and Boden were not offered deferred pros ecution because they had criminal records, unlike Cota and Newby. Capel and Bolden face six months probation and other penalties. Griffin said all defendants would have to pay the medical bills by May 5, and Cota and Newby had written state ments which would be filed in Orange District Court within the next week. He said the statements expressed their regret that the incident occurred and that people were injured. Cota and Newby each were charged with three counts of assault, inflicting serious injury and two counts of simple assault. The trial was the fourth court date in a case that has been delayed several times. The court dates were extended three times previously because of exams, the NCAA tournament game and other circumstances. The brawl on Franklin Street occurred in the early morning of Nov. 1. Police had broken up a fight on Franklin Street, but the two sides con tinued the brawl near the Silent Sam statue on the UNC campus. Cota said he was relieved the issue was resolved and was ready to move on. “Fm just glad we got an agreement, and I’m over with it,” he said. “Fm com fortable with paying for the (victims’ medical) fees.” Cota and Newby both said they were innocent and their only role in the brawl was trying to break up a fight. “Fm not admitting guilt to anything,” Newby said. “I was trying to break up the fight. I was just pulling everybody out.” Godwin Ogunmefun, a UNC junior who had 19 stitches and lost a tooth in the fight, said he was pleased the trial was behind him. “The last six months, we (the victims) went through hell,” he said. “Our peers saw us as liars. We couldn’t leave our rooms.” Victim Tracy Monroe, a UNC junior : who suffered a mild concussion, said he ; and the other victims were harassed by j people who worried they were keeping : Cota and Newby from focusing on bas j ketball. “The basketball program is such } a machine that any distraction to them [ is seen as our fault.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. | CONGRESS |, From Page 1 must propose a'vote to contest the rul ing. Two-thirds of Student Congress must then vote in favor of the removal. Then, a simple majority vote in favor of Downs’ appointment would be required for her to become the new chairwoman. Matthew Fisher, Dist. 1 said the pos sible rejection of the appointment would be a precautionary measure. “There’s an instrumental value in that it’s better to protect people from using a position in an unpermissible manner,” he said. “Fm not saying (Downs) did anything wrong, but there’s a value whether or not a viola tion actually occurred.” Michael Harris, Dist. 21, said Downs’ post on the Elections Board during Matthew’s February election posed a question of ethics, but he said those events were in the past. “There’s an obvious difference in that Brad isn’t going to be running for anything,” he said. “The bigger question is why she didn’t step down (during the election).” Cooper said the committee’s ruling was also partly justified by this year’s record of mismanagement by the Elections Board. He said two-thirds of Congress would most likely not favor the removal because of the body’s composition. “(The chance for the two-thirds vote) is very, very slim." The University Editor can be reached at udesk@unc.edu. If^HEBAN^O^M^IC^IJIR>ING7CHAPEO?IIT SCREAM 3 Daily 7:10. 9:50 Sat/Sun 1:45, 4:20. 7:10, 9:50 WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH (PGI3) Daily 7:00. 9:40 Sat/Sun 1:30, 4:10, 7:00, 9:40 NEXT FRIDAY (R) Daily 7:20 Sat/Sun 2:00, 7:20 WHOLE NINE YARDS (R) Join us Lfor or hi ter tU MV(<! ... ... ml SfcHJwicloti All Dfcy DiKMrV.iJ* ™ AM ABC P * r * ,U Tit*lrlyM C*tr Wfcvr Dkiiy RJ, CUf'l Hill. Nttr TitnWlyM i CUlitt Tlutrs 9H2-6&24 JORDAN From Page 1 “I wrote this article about how he’s a role model and a hero,” she said. “I think he’s great.” Jordan even drew an N.C. State University fan to Franklin Street Happi Blackwood, an N.C. State graduate and student in the UNC speech pathology graduate program, was wearing an N.C. State sweatshirt as she waited for Jordan. “I think he’s a great guy,” she said. “Society needs a great role model.” She was there with her aunt, Tommi Blackwood, who was wearing a UNC shirt She said she had been ajordan fan since he played for the Tar Heels. Charles Wright 111 of 153 Chatham Drive in Chapel Hill stood outside with his father after Jordan went back in. He could hardly contain his excitement after seeing Jordan but he managed to sum it up in three words. “He’s the bomb.” The City Editor can be reached at citydesk@unc.edu. BROAD From Page 1 North Carolina’s higher education sys tem was to remain competitive. Broad recently explained several ways in which the system, under her leadership, had promoted access. She cited the development of the state’s first large need-based financial aid program, the expansion of distance learning opportunities and an increase in high-school outreach programs. Broad denied that her recent support of a tuition increase at UNC-Chapel Hill and N.C. State University repre sented a departure from her devotion to access. She said her goal was to ensure that students could attend one of the schools in the system, which is why she opposed tuition increase proposals at three other system campuses. The finan cial aid package and the tuition increas es will both go before the General Assembly this session for approval. But although Broad has made progress toward achieving her initial goals, she also admitted that there were dimensions of her post that she she could not have foreseen two years ago. She said she was surprised at the extent to which state regulation ham pered campuses’ flexibility. “The result is that it is very difficult for university campuses to respond quickly and inno vatively to what I see as rapidly chang ing University considerations,” she said. The system’s proposal to address cap ital improvements is one that has been stalled for nearly nine months now. The General Assembly adjourned in July without approving the system’s multi billion dollar bond proposal to fund building construction and renovation. Broad has been working closely with a legislative committee formed in the fall that will make a recommendation concerning the system’s capital needs to the legislature in May. Rep. George Miller, D-Durham, is co-chairman of the committee and said Broad had done a solid job of illustrat ing the system’s needs to the legislature. “She was an able spokeswoman for presenting the case of the University,” he said. “The fact that the legislature did not pass the higher education bond request was in no way to be attributed to President Broad.” But some state lawmakers have ques tioned Broad’s competence as a leader, blaming her for the proposal’s failure. Sen. Virginia Foxx, R-Alleghany, said she was a strong supporter of higher education, but voted against the bond package because it included superfluous funding requests. Foxx said she recog- Ch.ipcl Mill Columbia jl Franklin 933-8-164 -A sUirtliiiu -nd IMlWfrful I• tin. II Alfred Hitchrork part...red with " J l* Uc>oe> they'd uukr u pie lure like this." 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Nieman said the proposal indicated legislators were ready to talk some sort of action on the system’s capital needs. “I am encouraged to see that some of our state leadership is actually coming out in favor of (the bond proposal).” But Nieman said system advocates still had to wait and see what decision came out of the legislative committee before they would decide on a lobbying strategy. “The game starts once we have nized the system’s capital needs. But she said Broad’s package, which would have funded facilities such as theaters, should go to a referendum in November. “I was quite disappointed that the package given to the General Assembly had a lot of pork-barrel funding in it,” she said. “I think a bond of that magni tude should go to the people for a vote.” Foxx also faulted Broad for failing to persuade legislators that this next round of capital projects would not merely serve as a stop-gap measure. She said campus administrators had failed to address capital needs as they arose, resulting in the need for a massive capital package. “I was also disappoint ed that President Broad did not, or would not, answer the question raised by some people, both Democrats and Republicans, as to what guarantee she could give us that university administra tors would not repeat their performance which had created these abominable sit uations,” she said. Butjeff Nieman, a UNC-Chapel Hill senior who has served on the Board of Governors for two years, said Broad was often mistakenly held responsible for the bond’s failure, as it was the legisla ture’s responsibility to fund the system’s needs. “I don’t think it’s fair to rest all of the factors that went into the failure of last summer’s bond package on her shoulders,” he said. Broad has also been effective at solic iting student opinions before heading to the legislature to lobby, Nieman said. He said Broad had worked to incor porate students’ views into the system’s agenda. “I have never felt that a priority given to her by the student leadership has been ignored,” he said. Broad’s predecessor, C.D. Spangler, who served as system president from 1986 to 1997, also said she had suc ceeded so far at balancing the interests of many different constituencies - stu dents, faculty, alumni and legislators. “Keeping all that balanced has been a very difficult job,” Spangler said. But Broad might have to continue this balancing act for a while. She said she anticipated retaining her current post and helping the system embrace the many changes in higher education she saw on the horizon - hopefully with the aid of legislative funding. “It is my firm conviction that universities 10 years from now will be quite different,” she said. “Those universities that are pre pared to engage the future will be suc cessful, and those universities that sit back and wait for the forces of change to roll over them will not be successful.” The State & National Editor can be reached at stntdesk@unc.edu. n| PLAZA THEATRES \ B■■ Elliott Rd. 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