VOLUME 111, ISSUE 92
Praise
marks
Helms’
82nd
BY ELLIOTT DUBE
ASSISTANT STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
GREENSBORO - Jesse
Helms’ elaborate 82nd birthday
celebration at the Grandover
Resort and Conference Center on
Saturday was appropriate for a
man who had just completed a 30-
year tenure in the U.S. Senate.
For one, he had a particularly
distinguished guest of honor, U.S.
Defense Secretary Donald
Rumsfeld, who received the inau
gural Admiral James W. Nance
Medal of Freedom.
The award is named after
Helms’ boyhood friend, who was a
former battleship commander and
chief of staff for the Senate Foreign
Relations Committee, of which
Helms was chairman from 1995
until his retirement.
Nance’s nickname among those
who worked with him was “The
Admiral.” But, Helms said, “To
those of us who knew and loved
him all those years, he was good
old ‘Bud.’”
The former senator said Nance
made the U.S. government better
by being an “architect” of the
revival of the Foreign Relations
Committee.
He had kind words for the
defense secretary as well.
“Don Rumsfeld is a patriot like
few others,” Helms said.
“Like the Energizer Bunny, he
keeps going and going and going.”
After being presented with the
medal, Rumsfeld commended
Nance for recruiting and mentor
ing talented Foreign Relations
Committee staff members, many
of whom now are serving in the
Bush administration.
“Bud” died in 1999 while still
heading the committee’s staff,
Rumsfeld noted. “He served his
country to his last breath.”
Rumsfeld also said Helms' brand
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Jesse Helms celebrates his 82nd
birthday at the Grandover Resort
and Conference Center in
Greensboro on Saturday evening.
Faculty, staff question
new coach’s contract
Say Williams’ deal misplaces funds
BY NIKKI WERKING
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Some members of the University
community are scrutinizing the
lucrative contract signed Friday by
men’s basketball coach Roy
Williams, saying the size of his com
pensation package raises questions
about the University’s priorities.
Williams signed an eight-year
contract which was approved
unanimously by the UNC Board of
Trustees that will offer him a
financial package that matches the
one he received while coaching at
the University of Kansas.
Williams will be paid almost
$3.9 million through a deferred
income plan during the next five
years in addition to an annual base
salary of $260,000. The deferred
income plan will be funded by pri
vate donations.
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Charlie "Choo-Choo" Justice died Friday morning at his home in Cherryville. Justice, a two-time All-American and two-time Heisman
Trophy runner-up, is known as perhaps the greatest athlete in UNC history and led the Tar Heels to three major bowl games in four years.
Tar Heel legend
Justice dies at 79
BY AARON Fin SENIOR WRITER
Charlie “Choo-Choo" Justice, perhaps the great
est athlete in North Carolina history, died
Friday at his home in Cherryville. He was 79.
Justice was a two-time All-American and
two-time Heisman Trophy runner-up in the late 19405.
He became a UNC icon, leading the Tar Heels to three
major bowl games in four years.
“It’s a sad day, but we will be celebrating the fact that
he w as the greatest Tar Heel of all time,” said UNC coach
John Bunting.
In an era before mass media brought football games
into U.S. households, Justice became a national super
star. He was so popular, in fact, that a song titled “All the
Way, Choo Choo” was wnitten about him. The North
Carolina marching band played part of the song after a
moment of silence honoring Justice at Saturday’s
Williams also has a personal
consulting contract with Nike that
he signed while at Kansas and will
receive $347,300 per year for
responsibilities with Learfield
Communications Inc.
Although Williams’ contract
with the exception of the deferred
income plan is comparable to
those of previous UNC men’s bas
ketball coaches, UNC-system
President Emeritus Bill Friday said
that in general, coaches’ large
salaries have become a recurring
problem in college athletics.
“(The situation of coaches’
salaries) is out of control,” Friday,
co-chairman of the Knight
Foundation Commission on
Intercollegiate Athletics, said in an
interview Sunday. “It’s something
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CHARLIE JUSTICE (1924-2003)
Cost, crowds don’t deter fairgoers
BY ALESIA DICOSOLA
STAFF WRITER
RALEIGH The sweet smell
of cotton candy and the echo of
excited screams filled the air
Sunday as crowds of families
enjoyed the diverse festivities dur
ing the first weekend of the 150th
N.C. State Fair.
“A beautiful afternoon is what
brought us out here,” said Donna
Adams of Suwannee, Ga.
Newcomers to the State Fair,
Donna and her daughter, Kelly
Adams, came with a family they
were visiting in Raleigh.
“It was a great way to spend a
Sunday afternoon, although the
crowds are a little much," Donna
Adams said.
Kelly Adams said she especially
enjoyed the variety of rides, includ
ing the swings and the Zipper.
All attendees could purchase
everything from roasted turkey
legs to gator kabobs to the more
traditional candy apples.
Leslie Skinner, an N.C. State
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Homecoming football game.
Coincidentally, many of Justice’s teammates were in
Chapel Hill this weekend for a reunion of “Justice Era"
UNC football teams. They fondly remembered Justice
at Friday’s reunion dinner in Kenan Stadium’s Pope Box.
“He was truly outstanding and a hell of a nice guy,”
said former teammate Sid Varney. “I didn't run in his
circle. He was married, had a family, and I was a kid.
But he never made me feel anything but good.”
Justice made his teammates feel good on the field, too.
“I played blocking back in '49, and Charlie had
mononucleosis,” said another teammate. Bob Cox. “We
had a scrimmage, and God, everybody was just killing
me. I couldn't block anybody, and he came back for the
next scrimmage the next week, and I looked like an All-
SEE JUSTICE, PAGE 4
University sophomore, said the
food and fireworks are her favorite
parts of the fair.
Skinner came to the fair with a
large group of fellow-students, who
munched on caramel apples and
cotton candy as they w aited in line
for the Top Spin.
An experienced fairgoer,
Skinner said this year’s fair is about
the same as she remembers from
years past: “Crowded, expensive,
but always a good time.”
Skinner said she planned to
spend most of the day at the fair
grounds eating, riding amuse
ments, perhaps playing a game or
two and finishing the day watching
the nightly fireworks display.
All the while, children dragged
their parents to the fair’s petting
zoo to feed the goats, lambs, lla
mas and camels as others tried
their luck at the numerous fair
games hoping to win their favorite
stuffed animal.
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here! I hope it goes aroundfour times!”
GARRETT POTTER, YOUNG FERRIS WHEEL RIDER AT THE N.C. STATE FAIR
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Fairgoers ride the Wave Swinger on Sunday afternoon at the 150th
annual N.C. State Fair in Raleigh. The 10-day fair opened Friday.
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Panel:
Keep
cap in
place
ASG group’s vote
proves divisive
BY CLEVE R. WOOTSON JR.
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
PEMBROKE Jonathan
Ducote leaned forward, looked
around at the student body presi
dents gathered before him and
asked the UNC systems student
leaders for some answers.
The question, the UNC
Association of Student
Governments president asserted
Saturday, was being debated in
higher education circles across the
state.
Now it was time for the ASG to
weigh in on whether the 18 per
cent enrollment cap on out-of
state students should be raised.
“(The UNC-system Board of
Governors is) coming to me and
they're saying, ‘Well, what are the
students feeling?’ and I didn’t
want to come to them without
talking to you,” he said to the
Council of Student Body-
Presidents, a committee of the
ASG.
“Don't leave me hanging on
this.”
The arguments for and against
the politically volatile potential
change, which the BOG could
decide to approve Nov. 14, were
essentially the same they just
came out of younger mouths.
In the end, the council, com
posed of the student government
presidents from the 16 UNC-sys
tem schools, decided on a 6-4 with
one abstention to send a resolu
tion to the BOG opposing the
increase.
Not everyone went home happy
with the results.
UNC-Chapel Hill Student
Body President Matt Tepper, the
one abstention in the council’s
vote, said he takes issue with the
fact that the ASG sent forth what
probably will be considered a uni
fied position on the issue even
though there is such a wide range
of opinions about the enrollment
cap.
The issue has many shades of
gray, he said, and sending forth a
codified resolution about the cap
takes away from dissenting opin
ions.
He also said opposing a cap
increase is a slap in the face to out-
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