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Courage Ready to Make History
By Rachel Carter
Sports Editor
When Meredith Florance steps onto
Fetzer Field on Saturday night, it won’t
be like all the times before.
There will still be screaming fans in
the seats -but there will be more of
them. There will still be media attention
-but on a much larger scale.
This time, there will be no tradition.
No storied North Carolina women’s soc
cer dynasty to live up to. No 17 nation
al titles. No Carolina blue jerseys.
As Florance walks on the same Fetzer
Field that she found glory on for four
years as one of UNC’s dominant for
wards, she and her Carolina Courage
UNC Funds
May Be Cut
By £2SM
UNC-system President Molly
Broad said the governor's
budget cuts were higher
than initially proposed.
By Aeex Kaplun
and Kim Minugh
Senior Writers
After several months of speculation
about the state’s financial woes, the fears
of many University administrators
might soon be realized.
Legislature’s Joint Appropriations
Subcommittee on Education formally
requested earlier this week that UNC-sys
tem officials present a plan to the com
mittee to cut 7 percent from its recurring
budget -a total of about $125 million.
UNC’s share of the cuts would total
close to $25 million.
In a Board of Governors meeting last
week, UNC-system President Molly
Broad hinted the University might have
to contend with serious budget reduc
tions, but Broad said Thursday she was
surprised by the extent of the cuts pro
posed by the committee. “This is a major
difference that seems disproportionate to
the state’s fiscal circumstance,” Broad
said. “It’s completely inconsistent with
the social contract the university has with
the people of the state, who overwhelm
ingly made a commitment to improving
higher education last November.”
And UNC officials have expressed
concern that students could increasing
ly be asked to shoulder the burden in
die form of increased tuition.
Broad said her office has charged the
chancellors of all 16 UNC-system cam
puses with identifying ways by Monday
in which each campus could handle
their share of the budget cuts. “I have
asked the chancellors to protect instruc
tion, especially undergraduate instruc
tion,” Broad said. “The message I have
gotten back is that with cuts of this mag
nitude, it may be difficult to do that."
UNC Chancellor James Moeser said
See BUDGET, Page 4
For the Record
In the April 19 Police Roundup, a
listing under Monday, April 16,
incorrectly named Sean Simone as
the subject arrested for possession
of a firearm on campus.
Simone reported to police that
Samuel Thomas Tyndall Parham had
a 9 mm handgun in his unlocked
vehicle.
Parham was arrested Monday.
In the same Police Roundup,
Barry Horton was incorrectly
named as a suspect in a larceny that
occurred at the Shepherd House
restaurant.
Carrboro police have no suspects
in the larceny.
The Daily Tar Heel deeply regrets
the errors.
teammates will be walking into the his
tory books for the Women’s United
Soccer Association, the WUSA.
“Everything about this league has
exceeded our wildest dreams,” said
UNC coach Anson Dorrance, citing the
league’s television deal with TNT as an
example.
Six of Dorrance’s former players will
suit up for the Courage, including
Florance, who is a senior communica
tion studies major at UNC.
The team also is coached by a North
Carolina alumna, Marcia McDermott.
The league has a decidedly UNC fla
vor to it - only one of the eight teams does
not have at least one former Tar Heel.
Although most of the league has N.C.
Unsolved Mysteries
By Rachel Clarke
Staff Writer
When several construction workers
showed up for work New Year’s Day
2000, they found something unusual
- the gate to the Orange Water and
Sewer Authority Plant was unlocked.
But that paled in comparison to the
shocking discovery they made next.
Near the gravel driveway, the workers
found the lifeless body of 21-year-old
Michael Crosby, who
had been shot four times
in his head and face with
a small-caliber handgun.
Lt. Marvin Clark of
the Chapel Hill Police
Department said he
remembers vividly the
day Crosby was found.
“We worked for seven
or eight hours at first,” he
said. But Crosby had no
connection to the water
treatment plant and no
identification, so the
police officers had to wait
almost two days until a
friend of Crosby’s report
ed him missing.
After discerning his
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system.
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Offenders
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Today: Unsolved Crimes
identity, Clark said die 14 investigators
assigned to the case worked tirelessly to
solve it, logging nearly 16 to 20 hours
each day for more than two weeks.
“On that particular day, that Sunday, I
even slept in my office,” he said.
Although the department used every
resource it could, it was not enough. A
suspect was arrested, but the charges
against him were later dropped.
Crosby’s murderer is still free today.
Clark has tracked hundreds of
criminals in his 27 years as a Chapel
Hill police officer, but he said Crosby
2 OK After Emergency Landing by Horace Williams
By Ginny Sciabbarrasi
City Editor
Two people walked away unharmed from a sin
gle-engine plane after they were forced to make an
emergency landing on University property
Thursday night.
Pilot Pat Greenwell, a member of the Chapel
Hill Flying Club, was forced to land just after take
off when the lone engine of the plane she was fly
ing failed.
“For reasons we don’t know, the engine sput
tered,” said Bill Sawyer, president of the Flying
Club. “It was at takeoff, and they turned around ...
and landed in the trees at the end of the runway.”
Greenwell and Richard Binkley, who was also
in the plane, were able to climb out of the plane
and return to the Horace Williams Airport on Estes
Drive. Once they returned to the airport, they noti
fied the Federal Aviation Administration and the
National Transportation Safety Board. UNC offi
cials also were informed.
Chapel Hill Fire Deputy Robert Bosworth said
Chapel Hill authorities were not notified of the
Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.
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Stayin' Alive
UNC graduate and "Survivor II"
star Jeff Varner visited campus
Thursday night. See Page 2
Serving the students and the University community since 1893
roots, the state nearly didn’t get a team.
Originally, the Courage was sup
posed to be in Orlando, Fla., but the
WUSA couldn’t work out the deal. So,
the Courage moved north and setded at
UNC’s Fetzer Field.
“I don’t think there’s any doubt that a
team should be here,” Dorrance said.
“We’ve always considered our team
here at North Carolina a pioneer in
women’s soccer, and it’s appropriate
that there’s a team (in Chapel Hill)
where they’re calling the birthplace of
women’s soccer.”
Saturday’s game kicks off at 7:30 p.m.
at Fetzer Field. Tickets are still available
for the game against the Boston
Breakers, which has four former Tar
was one of a few victims whose killers
were never bfought to justice and con-
tinue to haunt his memory.
Crosby. Suellen Evans. Robert
Sheldon.
All three were killed in Chapel
Hill, and their murderers remain at
large. “We’ll always want to solve
these cases,” Clark said.
He said the public needs to be
aware of these unsolved mysteries so
anyone with information about the
case can come forward.
The police will thorough
ly investigate any new
leads, even if the crime
occurred years before.
“Any publicity we can
get on a cold case helps us
get the message out to the
world that we aren’t fin
ished, and we need some
help,” he said. “We now
live in such a mobile soci
ety that a person can
commit a crime, move to
another state and never
be heard from again.”
Unsolved murders are
not anew phenomenon in
Chapel Hill. On July 31,
1965,21-year-old Suellen
Evans was stabbed while walking
through Coker Arboretum in the mid
dle of the day. Evans had recendy
transferred from Catawba College in
Salisbury to UNC-Greensboro. She
was making up the credits she lost
when she transferred by taking sum
mer classes at UNC-Chapel Hill.
Capt. Joel Booker of the Carrboro
Police Department said the murder
was shocking for the Chapel Hill area
because such things were much less
common in the 19605. “I was a little
kid when that happened, and I
accident until around 8:25 p.m.
“The intent was not to dispatch us to a plane
crash - the intent was to dispatch us to a fuel leak
from the plane,” he said. “But we thought we were
responding to a plane crash.”
Bosworth said he saw Greenwell on the train
tracks near the landing and asked if she needed
any medical attention. “We asked if she was hurt,
she said no; we asked her if she wanted an ambu
lance, she said no,” he said. •
Sawyer, who flew the Cherokee Piper Warrior
plane earlier in the day, said there were no obvious
reasons for the forced landing. “There was no water
in the fuel, and there was lots of fuel in the tank," he
said. “For an engine to quit midflight is unusual.”
Sawyer said the club has no plans to ground its
planes for now, but it will be looking into what
might have caused the engine to stop.
“The plane is one of the safer of the single
engine, low-wing planes,” he said.
“This has never happened before.”
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
Heels on its roster, including Kristine
Lilly and Tracy Ducar.
Jim Houghton, public relations man
ager for Carolina, said everything is
almost ready for Saturday’s game.
“The place we’re trailing behind is in
the front office,” Houghton said.
“Marcia’s got the team ready, and
they’re ready to take the field.”
Preparations for Saturday’s game con
tinued this week with the painting of
Fetzer Field and the erection of bleachers.
While workers prepared Fetzer, the
team spent its waning days before the
season’s start getting to know its fans.
Thursday night, the Courage met
See COURAGE, Page 4
Chapel Hill and Carrboro police say unsolved crimes weigh heavily on their
minds. Below are just five of the most memorable crimes that local police
say they would most like to see solved.
July 1,1965 Suellen Evans, 21, is
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—J Coker Arboretum.
V / \ Feb. 21,1991 -Robert Sheldon, 40,
owner of Internationalist Books, is shot
and killed in the store.
1 Dec. 1,1997 -Deborah Key, 35,
disappears from a Carrboro pool hall
and is later presumed dead.
March 6, 1999 - Wilbert L. Jones, 74, is
O. kitted in his Carrboro home by a gunshot
q- to the chest.
Jan. 1,2000 Michael Crosby, 21, is
found dead at the Orange Water and Sewer
Authority Plant, shot four times in the head.
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remember it,” said Booker, who grew
up in Orange County.
The Evans case also was unusual
because after being inactive for more
than 20 years, it was reactivated about
10 years ago when the department got
anew lead.
“I was very hopeful that it would be
the tip that they needed,” Clark said.
He said he was disappointed when
the lead did not pan out but that he
reviewed the case again three years
ago to see if modem technology could
help him find any new leads.
This is a common procedure, Clark
said. “We review cases periodically to
see if there is anything that could be
done or hasn’t been done.”
He said the new developments in
DNA testing and fingerprinting tech
niques might allow for new informa
tion to be found in old cases.
Booker said technology has vastly
improved the Carrboro Police
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Department’s ability to fight crime
over the past few years. “With the
forensics now, your chances of success
are probably increased, but you’ll still
have to do the legwork," he said.
Clark said another fingering mys
tery he would love to get some help
with is the homicide at Internationalist
Books. The owner of the store, Robert
Sheldon, 40, was murdered on Feb.
21, 1991. “He was shot and killed at
the store, which at the time was just
next to where Mama Dip’s is now on
Rosemary Street,” Clark said. The
bookstore has since moved its opera
tion to 405 W. Franklin St.
Clark said the officers who work
these cases never forget them, and
leaving them unsolved is very diffi
cult, but it is something the police
must learn to do.
“I think you feel disappointed that
See UNSOLVED, Page 4
Mahvelous
Today: Sunny, 73
Saturday: Sunny, 83
Sunday: Sunny, 85
Friday, April 20, 2001
Town, UNC
Examine
Noise Rules
The Town Council held a
public meeting to discuss
proposed changes to the
local noise ordinance.
By Geoff Wessel
Staff Writer
Students and residents gathered
Wednesday night to question local offi
cials about the validity of proposed
changes to Chapel Hill’s noise ordi
nance, which could potentially fine loud
Thursday night partygoers.
The Chapel Hill Town Council held
a public hearing to gather feedback
from residents on the proposed
changes, which included reducing the
acceptable sound level in residential dis
tricts from 60 to 50 decibels during the
day and from 50 to 45 decibels at night.
The proposal would limit noise from
boomboxes and car radios to a 50-foot
radius and would also reduce the avail
ability of permits to exceed noise levels
for special events. The council plans to
vote on the proposal in the fall.
At the hearing, Larry Royster of
Environmental Noise Consultants Inc.,
presented the council .ith ENC’s rec
ommended revision of the town’s noise
ordinance. The town contracted with
ENC in September 1999.
Local police are responsible for
enforcing the ordinance with special
ized noise meters.
Royster said the ordinance needed to
be strengthened to preserve Chapel
Hill’s peaceful environment.
See PUBLIC HEARING, Page 4