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Forte Enters Draft,
Plans to Leave UNC
Staff Report
Joseph Forte took the final exam of
his sophomore year on May 11 and left
Chapel Hill later that day to head home
to Maryland.
In between, he announced his inten
tions to head to the NBA and in effect
bring an end to his playing days at
North Carolina.
Forte entered his name into the NBA
Draft and will forego his final seasons of
college eligibility. He is one of a record
58 underclassmen to declare for the
draft.
“It has been a goal of mine to be an
NBA player, and it appears I will be
drafted in the first round with a guar
anteed four-year contract,” Forte said
in a statement. “Therefore, I’ll have the
opportunity to fulfill this lifetime
dream.
“I’ve had two great years at
Carolina, as a student and as an athlete.
I’m grateful to my teammates and to
the two coaching staffs under whom I
played which helped me improve as a
player.”
Forte, a first-team All-American, led
the Tar Heels during the 2000-2001 sea
son by averaging 20.9 points a game.
The 6-foot-4 guard led all ACC players
at his position with an average of 6.1
rebounds a contest.
Forte said in the statement that he
Bill to Stop Adultery Claims in Debate
The Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. - Questions of
what's good or bad for family converged
in a Senate committee debate Tuesday
over a bill that would eliminate adultery
and alienation of affection claims in civil
court.
More than 40 states have eliminated
or limited the use of these English com
mon law torts, or civil actions.
The House last month passed the
measure after proponents said the torts
are outdated and recall a time when
wives were treated as property.
"The law allowed the husband to
recover for his loss when his property
had been interfered with," bill sponsor,
Rep. Joe Hackney, D-Orange, told a
Helms Will Announce
Senate Plans by Sept.
Sen. Jesse Helms says he
will consult with his wife
before deciding to run for a
sixth term as N.C. Senator.
The Associated Press
RALEIGH, N.C. - Sen. Jesse Helms
said Saturday he will announce by
September whether he will run for re
election next year.
The Republican told about 400 peo
ple attending the state Republican Party
convention that he and his wife, Dot,
will make decide together whether he'll
run again in 2002. An announcement
by fall should give fellow Republicans
enough time to put together a campaign
if he decides against trying for a sixth
term, he said.
But “I ain't saying I ain't running yet,”
Helms said after the audience clapped
for several minutes, chanting “Run,
Jesse, run.”
Helms, 79, has served in the Senate
since 1973. He has been battling ail
ments that have raised questions about
whether he will be able to run again
next year.
He sat in a leather armchair during a
question-and-answer session Saturday
and appeared to walk surely, if slowly,
with a cane.
Helms often uses a motorized scoot
er on Capitol Hill. He hid knee
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plans to return to school for the second
summer session so he can continue
working towards earning his degree.
“Coach (Dean) Smith, Coach (Bill)
Guthridge and I certainly wish Joseph
the best,” UNC coach Matt Doherty
said in a statement.
“He has been an excellent student
athlete, and he will continue to be a part
of the Carolina basketball family. We do
feel he will have a great NBA career.”
Forte’s departure mean? the Tar
Heels will probably be without five of
their top seven players from last sea
son’s team.
Center Brendan Haywood and
reserve guard Max Owens graduated,
and Ronald Cuny and Julius Peppers
will likely focus on their professional
football prospects next spring.
A mock draft at ESPN.com projects
that the Charlotte Hornets will select
Forte with the 16th overall pick.
The mock draft has the Orlando
Magic selecting Haywood one pick ear
lier.
“As has been the history at Carolina,
we seek to find out approximately
where a young man stands in the draft,”
Doherty said. “We then present our
findings to him and his family, and they
make the final decision. Although we
are disappointed for next year’s team,
we support Joseph and his family in
their decision.”
Senate judiciary panel. "It simply is time
for us to do away with these causes of
action," he said.
Jilted wives and husbands can seek
damages for alienation of affection
against their spouse's lover or com
panion, citing a loss of intimacy and
happy married relationship. Jurors
must determine the lover performed
wrongful acts that brought about the
lost relationship.
Damages for adultery, known in
common law as "criminal conversation,"
can be made if a plaintiff can prove the
defendant had sexual intercourse with
the plaintiff s spouse.
Attorneys opposing the ban say the
alienation of affection tort serves a use
ful purpose in cases where a third party
replacement surgery in 1998.
His staff released a doctor's letter in
February that said Helms was in good
health.
Dr. John Eisold, the attending physi
cian to Congress, said Helms' heart is
“sound” and his blood pressure “excel
lent.” Helms appeared to have recov
ered from pneumonia that hospitalized
him last year.
On Saturday, Helms repeated famil
iar themes - such as urging politicians to
•ibe more mindful of God -and sized up
personalities from new Mexican
President Vicente Fox to Secretary of
State Colin Powell.
Helms met Fox, whom he called “a
perfectly charming man,” in April when
the chairman of the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee traveled to
Mexico with other committee members.
Helms held what were described as
cordial meetings with Fox and other
Mexican politicians after years of casti
gating the country and opposing the
North American Free Trade Agreement
Powell will “do what the president
tells him to do. He's not as conservative
as I am, but who is?”
Helms said he and Sen. Hillary
Clinton, D-N.Y., have cordial relations.
But not as cordial, Helms said, as Sen.
Strom Thurmond, R-S.C., who called
for Mrs. Clinton to give him a hug after
their first meeting in the Senate.
“Jesse Helms did not get up and say,
'Lady, I want to hug you,'” Helms said.
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UNC guard Joseph Forte fights for the ball against Geogia Tech forward Jon Babul during the 2001 Atlantic Coast Conference Tournament. Forte
decided.to forego his remaining two years at UNC to enter the NBA draft.
has destroyed a marriage.
"This is a tort that's not for every sit
uation. It's a rare tort but that needs to
be there," said Jim Walker, a Burlington
attorney who represented a woman in a
high-profile alienation case. .
His client, Dorothy Hutelmyer,
received $ 1 million for another woman's
involvement in breaking up
Hutelmyer's marriage.
"These two torts are pro-family, pro
marriage and pro-children," said Ed
Parker, a Winston-Salem attorney who
has handled similar cases. "To abolish
these torts is to say that adultery is OK."
Hackney, a family law attorney for
nearly 30 years, said he's never seen the
torts used to help a family stay together.
Rather, it's used by jilted spouses as
Vatican Revisits Directives
The Associated Press
VATICAN CITY - Discussing the
future of the Roman Catholic church,
Cardinals have raised the issue of the
gulf between Vatican directives on sex
and other sensitive issues and the reali
ty back at the parish.
Some cardinals pointed to problems
of "communication" between the
Vatican and its worldwide dioceses at a
closed-door meeting Tuesday, Vatican
spokesman Joaquin Navarro-Valls said.
Pope John Paul II summoned the car
dinals for of talks on challenges
facing the church in the third millennium.
The gathering also gives the princes of the
church, as cardinals are known, an oppor
tunity to get to know one another for the
time when they will have to vote for a suc
cessor to the 81-year-old John Paul.
Speeches from several of the 153 car
dinals present Tuesday touched on the
Vatican policy stressing the traditional
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revenge or leverage in child custody or
alimony cases.
"There's no evidence showing that
this tort preserves the family," said
Suzanne Reynolds, a family law profes
sor at Wake Forest University law
school. "... It is the pro-family, family
friendly position to take."
Jim Maxwell with the North Carolina
Bar Association, which supports the bill,
said the spouses could still sue in civil
court for intentional infliction of emo
tional distress should the torts be elimi
nated.
No vote was taken on the bill and
likely won't until early June after the
Senate passes its budget, said Sen. Kay
Hagan, the chairwoman of the judiciary
committee.
family of husband and wife.
In addressing his fellow cardinals,
Archbishop Anthony Bevilacqua of
Philadelphia cited U.S. Census Bureau
statistics showing the increasing number
of Americans living together but not
marrying and the number of children
bom out of wedlock.
The head of the Vatican's office on
the family, Cardinal Alfonso Lopez
Trujillo of Colombia, announced his
office was putting together a dictionary
of sexual terms. The spokesman said it
would reflect "new usages such as sexu
al health and gender."
John Paul has made improving rela
tions with non-Catholics a major goal of
his papacy. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-
O'Connor of England suggested the
Vatican organize a major meeting of lead
ers of various Christian denominations.
Today, John Paul will celebrate Mass
with the cardinals and join them for
lunch.
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Democrats Might Get
Control of U.S. Senate
The Republican party could
lose its Senate majority if
Senator Jim Jeffords leaves
the GOP after 13 years.
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - President Bush
and Vice President Dick Cheney
worked urgently Tuesday to prevent vet
eran Sen. Jim Jeffords from leaving the
Republican party and delivering control
of the Senate to the Democrats. "I'm
considering a lot of things," said the
Vermont lawmaker.
Jeffords, a committee chairman who
frequently crosses party lines on high
profile issues, has had strained relations
with the White House. Officials said he
met during the day first with Cheney
and later with Bush at the White House.
Senior Republican officials said on
condition of anonymity that the presi
dent urged Jeffords to remain a
Republican, but the senator refused to
commit either way.
A switch - whether to the Democrats
or to become an independent - could
have profound implications for the
Senate, currendy divided 50-50 along
party fines, as well as for Bush's legisla
tive agenda. The party with a majority
controls the flow of legislation in com
mittees and on the Senate floor, and
holds all the committee chairmanships.
”1 very much want him to stay. I
expect that he will," said Senate GOP
Whip Don Nickles. "He's a very, very
valuable member of our caucus. I hope
and expect he will stay in our caucus."
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influence in the current Senate, divided
50-50 along party lines. In addition to
his chairmanship of the committee with
jurisdiction over health and education
legislation, he holds a seat on the
Finance Committee, with its sway over
tax and trade policy. Asa Republican
who sometimes votes with Democrats,
he also is in a position to exert leverage
on the White House and GOP leadership.
Asked about-his plans, Jeffords said,
"Lots of people are trying to get me to
do different things."
It was unclear whether Jeffords
intended to bolt from the party that has
been his home for nearly a quarter-cen
tury in Congress, or was publicly vent
ing his irritation with his treatment at the
hands of the White House and GOP
majority in the Senate.
Jeffords angered the White House
this spring when he refused to support
Bush's budget with its $1.6 trillion, 10-
year tax cut. Instead, he sided with a
bipartisan group of lawmakers who
forced changes on the Senate floor. The
result was the first high-profile defeat for
the new administration.
Shortly after that, Jeffords was not
invited to the White House for a
National Teacher of the Year award cer
emony honoring a Vermont high school
educator, a move widely viewed as
political payback.
Former Sen. Robert Stafford, R-Vt,
whom Jeffords replaced in the Senate in
1989, said Tuesday his successor called
him this week to seek his advice.
"I think he is very seriously consid
ering what would be the wisest thing for
him and for Vermont," said Stafford. "I
have no idea from that conversation
what he intends to do."
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