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Thursday, January 16, 2003
Campus Bond Construction Far From Finished
By Alexandra Dodson
Staff Writef
Alternate routes to classrooms and
early morning jackhammers will remain
staples of life at UNC-Chapel Hill and
the 15 other UNC-system campuses as
projects begun under the $3.1 billion
higher education bond referendum con
tinue as scheduled.
Seventy-four percent of anticipated
projects are in the design phase, under
construction or completed, said Kevin
MacNaughton, UNC-system university
property officer. “We’re actually a little
bit ahead of schedule,” he said. “We’ve
kept pace with the funding available.”
The bond was approved in the 2000
election by a statewide referendum.
MacNaughton said projects at all 16
system campuses are making good
progress and acting within budgetary
Judge Rules Sniper Suspect Can Be Tried as Adult
The Associated Press
FAIRFAX, Va. - Citing what he
called strong circumstantial evidence, a
judge said Wednesday that 17-year-old
sniper suspect John Lee Malvo can be
tried as an adult, making him eligible for
the death penalty.
Juvenile Court Judge Charles
Maxfield ruled after a hearing in which
prosecutors said that Malvo tauntingly
tried to extort $lO million from author
ities during the killing spree and that fin
gerprints on the murder weapon and
other evidence tied the teenager to four
attacks - three of them fatal.
“There is no eyewitness at any of the
four crime scenes, but the circumstantial
evidence is quite strong,” the judge said.
Malvo, as well as John Allen
Muhammad, 42, are accused of killing
13 people and wounding five others in
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restraints, especially at Fayetteville State
University and UNC-Pembroke. “We’ve
had 137 projects bid (in the UNC system),
and all but two have been in budget”
Fifty total construction projects are
planned for UNC-CH, which received
$5lO million from the bond - more than
any other system school.
Bruce Runberg, UNC-CH associate
vice chancellor for planning and con
struction, said there is still much progress
to be made. About six of the projected
50 projects are under construction, and
four are completed, Runberg said.
“Even though we’re doing well, we’ve
still got the largest part of the projects to
contract in the next two years," he said.
The struggling economy has been ben
eficial to the timely completion of projects,
as contracting can be less expensive with
lower interest rates, MacNaughton said.
UNC-system officials also are work
Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana,
Maryland, Virginia and Washington,
D.C., last year. They are being tried first
in Virginia in separate trials.
The-extortion allegation is a key ele
ment of a Virginia anti-terrorism law
that allows the death penalty for killers
convicted of trying to intimidate the
public or coerce the government. Malvo
also is charged under a statute allowing
a death sentence for multiple murders.
“They wanted to negotiate for
money,” prosecutor Robert F. Horan
said. “They said, ‘lf you want us to stop
killing people, give us the money.’ If that
is not intent to intimidate government, I
don’t know what is.”
Defense lawyers argued that the evi
dence was insufficient because no eye
witnesses placed Malvo at any of the
crime scenes. They also said the
demand for money does not qualify as
U.S. to Use Spy Planes in
Iraqi Weapons Inspections
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON - Iraq has com
plained to the United Nations about a
plan to use American spy planes to aid
inspectors’ search for illicit weapons, fhe
top U.S. military officer said
Wednesday.
Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a Pentagon
news conference that the Bush adminis
tration had offered U-2s, which provide
high-altitude surveillance, and Predator
unmanned aircraft, which fly low and
send live television images of surveil
lance targets to command posts on the
ground.
So far, the U.N.’s inspection arm has
accepted only the offer of U-2s, Myers
said, although none have flown yet.
“We’re ready to go whenever they’re
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ing with the State Construction Office to
ensure projects are contracted properly.
SCO Director Speros Fleggas said he
is generally pleased with the progress of
the bond projects. “It’s been very, very
exciting. It’s very exciting to see the
progress that’s being made,” he said.“ You
always hunt for improvement in anything
you do. You’d like to do more for each
project, but you just can’t do it all.”
Officials say that for the contracting
process, an effort was made to hire more
firms small in size and headed by
minorities.
MacNaughton said the N.C. General
Assembly allowed the system more lee
way in the bidding process, which attract
ed more contractors from within the state.
“We’re exceeding the state’s goal by
about 30 percent,” he said. “We’ve tried
very hard to be proactive. Because the
General Assembly gave us more options,
terrorism and questioned whether it
should be interpreted as a motive for
any alleged crime.
“This is not intimidation if you look
at it. If you look at it in the broadest
sense, it’s blackmail,” defense lawyer
Michael Arif said.
After the hearing, he added, "The
request for $lO million sounds like
something out of an Austin Powers
movie."
Malvo is charged in Fairfax County
with the Oct. 14 slaying of FBI analyst
Linda Franklin outside a Home Depot
store in Falls Church. But Horan said
ballistics evidence, the notes and the
phone calls link Malvo to two other fatal
attacks and a shooting outside an
Ashland restaurant that left a patron crit
ically wounded.
A fingerprint expert also said the only
identifiable prints found on the murder
ready to go,” Myers said.
Myers said the Iraqi government has
sent a letter to Hans Blix, the chief U.N.
weapons inspector, complaining about
the U-2 arrangement.
The Iraqis told Blix they “have a real
problem with U-2s flying over central
Iraq” because it would complicate the
Iraqi air defense forces’ mission of
defending against U.S. and British fight
er jets that periodically attack Iraqi mil
itary sites in the southern and northern
no-fly zones, which do not include the
Baghdad area.
Defense Secretary Donald H.
Rumsfeld, appearing with Myers, said
that was a poor argument because the
U.N. Security Council resolution under
which the weapons inspections are
authorized says the Iraqis may not inter
fere with patrols over the no-fly zones.
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we’ve got more contractors bidding.”
The SCO has overseen much of the
contracting, Fleggas said.
But some critics have complained
about inconveniences to students and
faculty as their campuses are filled with
detours, dust and noise. “We’ve heard
good and bad comments,” Runberg said.
MacNaughton said the temporary
disturbances are worth the final product.
“Clearly the price you pay is well worth
what you get,” he said.
The expected completion date for the
various projects is during the 2007-08
academic year, MacNaughton said.
But Runberg said a lot of work has to
be accomplished before then. “We’ve
really been turning and burning, but
we’ve got a long way to go.”
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weapon, a Bushmaster rifle, belonged to
Malvo. The print was found on the
rifle’s pistol grip.
Earlier, a detective who interviewed
Malvo for six hours after his arrest last
fall identified his voice on tape record
ings of two threatening phone calls
made to authorities during the attacks.
Both tapes were played in court.
“I talked to him long enough to know
he’s very smooth and well-spoken. I’d
know that voice immediately,” Fairfax
County police Detective June Boyle tes
tified. She described Malvo as calm,
relaxed and even “jovial on occasion”
during their interview last year.
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To Be Rejuvenated
By Ryan C. Tuck
Staff Writer
In September 2001, the Durham
shopping community was shocked
when J.C. Penney and Hudson Belk
announced their intentions to leave
South Square Mall and join the new
Streets at South Point across town.
The following January, South Square
shut its doors and left the 790,000-
square-foot property vacant. South Point
opened its doors a short while later, and
the former South Square property was
abandoned for some time.
But Charlotte-based retail firm Faison
and Associates has decided to reopen
the property with open-air sale stores in
spring 2004.
The new complex is still in prelimi
nary development, but Target already
has been signed to the property and will
open in 2004.
Other stand-alone retailers such as
Sam’s Club, as well as smaller chain
stores, might join Target to replace the
property off U.S. 15-501.
But officials said no plans have been
finalized for other retailers to comple
ment Firestone, Office Depot and
Chick-fil-A, which will remain in their
original locations.
Although South Square was put out
of business with South Point’s opening,
officials say the new plans for the loca
tion will not compete with the mall
across town.
“(The new complex) and South Point
will not compete because they are two
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senior managing director for Faison.
Durham City Council member and
Mayor Pro Tern Lewis A. Cheek echoes
this sentiment.
“It is not intended to compete with
South Point, which is the point,” he said.
“That was one of the problems with
South Square.... It offered similar stores
to South Point, and the new mall took all
the business.”
When the project was first brought
before the Durham City Council, transit
to and from the mall was the focal issue.
Cheek said the transit routes had to
be redrawn for the new shopping center.
“There were issues of a transit corri
dor, a potential rail line through Chapel
Hill into Durham,” he said.
“It was initially agreed that the corri
dor would run through the South Square
property, but this had to be realigned.
Asa City Council, we agreed to move
the transit corridor to go around the
property instead of through it.”
Although 2004 is still a year away,
there is still much for both Faison and
the Durham City Council to accom
plish.
The council might approve the final
redevelopment plan at its meeting next
month.
Faison and Associates feel confident
that the plan will be approved and the
new complex will thrive where South
Square could not.
The City Editor can be reached
at citydesk@unc.edu.
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