VOLUME 111, ISSUE 75
Victim’s family contests BOT decision
FAMILY: UNC HONOR COURT ASSAULT CASE WAS REMANDED
BY EMILY STEEL
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
The father of an assault victim
will make a final push today to
resolve his daughter’s UNC Honor
Court case, almost one month after
the family learned that the Board
of Trustees remanded the sanc
tions against her assaulter.
Reports state that on Sept. 18,
2002, Carrboro police arrested
UNC senior Peter Johnston and
charged him with one misdemeanor
Bowles
says he’ll
seek seat
in Senate
Democrat aims to snatch
seat vacated by Edwards
BY ELLIOTT DUBE
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
What long has been a virtual certainty that
Erskine Bowles will enter the race for the U.S. Senate
seat left open by John Edwards is now official.
Bowies consultant Mac McCorkle confirmed that
Bowles, a Democrat, will announce his candidacy
today.
“He has a burning desire for public service that
is reflected in his record,” McCorkle said.
Bowies is set to make clear his intention to run in
a press statement, McCorkle added. He also said it
will be very clear that Bowles will run on an “issue
oriented” campaign.
The upcoming campaign will be Bowles’ second
stab at the Senate. In the 2002 race for the seat
SEE BOWLES, PAGE 10
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Charlotte investment banker Erskine Bowles (left)
plans to announce today his intention to run for
Democratic Sen. John Edwards' (right) seat.
UNC selects
official to run
global affairs
BY JENNIFER IMMEL
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Peter Coclanis was announced as associate
provost for international affairs at a UNC Board of
Trustees committee meeting Wednesday.
He will assume the post officially Dec. 1.
Provost Robert Shelton said he chose Coclanis,
who serves as chairman of UNC’s Department of
History, on Monday after a search process that last
ed almost four months and included more than 40
nominees.
Coclanis, who has collaborated with scholars in
Europe and southeast Asia, said the position “is
something that tracks where my interests have been
going."
He has worked at UNC since 1984, serving in a
variety of positions, including associate dean of gen
eral education from 1993-98.
This is the sixth year Coclanis has served as chair
man of the history department.
As Coclanis eases into his position as associate
SEE INTERNATIONAL, PAGE 10
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count of assault inflicting serious
injury after he broke a water glass
on the neck of his ex-girlfriend, for
mer UNC student Jessica Hogan.
The glass opened a wound about
2 inches long and a half-inch deep
on the left side of her chin.
More than one year later, Jessica
Hogan and her family say
Johnston has not received any aca
demic suspension.
Richard “Stick” Williams, chair
man of the BOT, confirmed that
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irst-graders practice Chinese
together Wednesday morning in
Yajie Zhangs (right) class. Zhang,
one of the dual-language teachers
at Glenwood Elementary School in Chapel
Hill, uses reading, listening, guided reading
and computer centers to teach Chinese to
Signage talks on the table
University aims to remedy ailing athletic boosters program
BY MICHELLE MCGRIER
STAFF WRITER
The University Affairs Committee
of the UNC Board of Thistees will rec
ommend today to the full board the
formation of a task force that will
review the recommended process to
consider corporate signage.
The process was outlined by
Director of Athletics Dick Baddour at
Wednesday’s committee meeting.
“Our committee will offer the
motion that was mentioned by Dick
Baddour,” said Rusty Carter, the com
mittee’s chairman. “But if the board
turns it down, the issue will be over.”
The Department of Athletics is
looking for ways to combat its budg
et shortfalls after its booster club
couldn’t cover the costs of its scholar
ship needs last year.
At the start of his presentation,
Baddour made clear that he was not
“advocating signage,” but he present
ed a process to consider an advertis
ing policy if the committee chooses to
take that route.
Corporate signage in athletics ven
ues is a potential new source of rev
enue.
In order to determine the value of
an advertising policy, Baddour said,
there would need to be an evaluation
of peer institutions and a survey of
opinions of their clients.
Challenges in the budget come
from funding scholarships, operating
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members will discuss the case
today in closed session. He said the
case previously was reviewed by a
three-person panel of trustees.
Jessica Hogan said she received
an e-mail Sept. 4 informing her
that the panel remanded
Johnston’s case because of an
undisclosed procedural error.
A remanded decision sends the
case back to the Honor Court,
where it first was tried.
But the victim’s father, John
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Hogan, said the family won’t retry
the case in the Honor Court. He said
his meetings with BOT members
today will be his last efforts to bring
closure to the case. “If this stays
shielded in secrecy any longer, they
will never make a decision,” he said.
After his arrest, Johnston
who Jessica Hogan claims is a for
mer Honor Court judge was
released on a written promise to
appear in Orange County District
Court in Hillsborough on Dec. 2.
DUAL LANGUAGE
the students in the Dual Language
Emergence Program. The experimental pro
gram, in its second year in Chapel Hill-
Carrboro City Schools, also is in existence at
Carrboro Elementary School, where stu
dents are taught both English and Spanish.
The students learn English for half the day
expenses, fulfilling Title IX, Olympic
sport coaches’ salaries and facilities.
This year, the athletic department s
net revenue will be a surplus of about
$200,000. Based on current figures,
by 2006-07 the projected deficit will
be $296,789 and could grow to
$445,060 by 2007-08.
Scholarships pose one of the largest
challenges to balancing the budget.
Scholarship expenses now consti
tute 18.91 percent of the athletic
budget, making them one of the top
three expenses behind salary benefits
and direct sport expenses.
This year’s scholarships total about
$6.6 million. By 2004, the amount
projected to be spent on them is about
$7-3 million.
“Scholarships remain the heart and
soul of our athletic program,”
Baddour said.
If corporate signage were to be
added to venues, Baddour said, the
athletic department’s contract with
Learfield Communications, the
department’s multimedia rights hold
er, would have to be examined.
By granting the right to sell UNC’s
advertisements to Learfield. the ath
letic department is guaranteed $2.5
million per year.
If the BOT decides to take the
route of advertising, the athletic
department will decide what loca
tions in Kenan Stadium and the
Smith Center to sell and will negoti-
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When a student’s behavior poses
a serious threat of continuing to
endanger members of the
University community, UNC’s
Emergency Action Committee has
the jurisdiction to suspend the stu
dent indefinitely.
Because Johnston told the EAC
that the assault was an accident,
the committee allowed him to
remain in school, said John Hogan.
He said Johnston post-poned his
case in the Honor Court until the
completion of his criminal case,
which is a normal procedure.
Johnston declined to comment
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Director of Athletics Dick Baddour
speaks Wednesday afternoon to the
University Affairs Committee of the
Board of Trustees in Carroll Hall.
ate Learfield’s commission.
“(Learfield) would love to see us go
this direction," Baddour said. “I
wouldn't do this if w r e didn’t get the
lion's share of it.”
After the presentation, Carter said,
“All I can say is that (corporate sig
nage) is worthy of study."
Contact the University Editor
at udesk@unc.edu.
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 2003
on the case.
Johnston later pled no contest to
the count of misdemeanor assault
inflicting serious injury and
received a prayer for judgment
Dec. 2, 2002, court records state.
It wasn’t until April that
Johnston pleaded guilty in the case
that appeared before the Honor
Court, Jessica Hogan said. She said
she was present and made a state
ment at the nine-hour hearing.
Under federal law, UNC and
Honor Court officials cannot com-
SEE HOGAN, PAGE 10
and the foreign language for the other half.
The program targets bilingual children with
the goal of promoting fluency and diversi
ty’. Both teachers and officials have been
pleased with the program and expect it to
expand in the next few years. For the full
story, see page 4.
University
volunteers
reach out
ECSU gets help from
system after Isabel
BY ADAM ZELSDORF
STAFF WRITER
UNC-Chapel Hill groundskeepers and
electricians left campus Monday to pro
vide aid to Elizabeth City State
University after damage caused by
Hurricane Isabel forced the school to
shut down.
University groundskeepers and elec
tricians are teaming up with other work
ers from N.C. State University, East
Carolina University and Appalachian
State University to help ECSU reopen its
classrooms.
ECSU stopped operating as Isabel rav
aged eastern North Carolina last week.
The university lost power, and students
were forced to evacuate its residence
halls.
“It looked like our campus after
Hurricane Fran,” said Stanley Young, an
electrician for the UNC-CH Division of
Facilities Services who volunteered to
help ECSU.
A request was issued by the office of
Molly Broad, president of the UNC sys
tem, looking for university workers will
ing to volunteer assistance for cleanup at
SEE RELIEF, PAGE 10
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