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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 2004
HISTORY
FROM PAGE 1
These allegations against
Hildebolt delayed a runoff election
four weeks and resulted in
Hildebolt facing an Undergraduate
Hearings Board, the first appellate
court of the UNC honor system.
The night before the Feb. 21,
1990, general election, Hildebolt
washed a chalked campaign sign
off a campus sidewalk. Members of
his campaign also committed sim
ilar actions without his knowledge.
The actions, to which Hildebolt
admitted, became public knowl
edge a few days before he and can
didate Mark Bibbs were scheduled
to face off in a runoff; questions
were raised about whether the
actions broke election rules.
Although the Board of Elections
voted to hold a general re-election
with all the original candidates, the
Student Supreme Court overruled
the decision and said that the
results were valid despite the alle
gations.
Hildebolt won the March 27,
1990, runoff election, held almost
a month after the original runoff
was scheduled.
Allegations also were made sev
eral years later in 1993, when
alleged violations were brought to
attention late in the campaign sea
son. Former candidates Carl Clark
and David Cox contended that Jim
SUGUIYAMA
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A smile creeps across
Suguiyama’s face when he remem
bers the race. Though it was only
four years ago, he said it feels like
more.
“That was fun. It was my fresh
man year,” Suguiyama said. “I was
just excited. It was great. It was in
a big dual meet, we got a big win
and the guys were all excited. It
was fun to come in and make that
statement my freshman year.”
Since then, Suguiyama has been
making statements throughout his
collegiate career.
During the past four years, he’s
emerged as one of North Carolina’s
strongest swimmers and this year
was chosen to be a team co-cap
tain. Not only does he hold the
school record in the 1,000 free but
also holds the mark in 1,650 free.
And Suguiyama has finished with
consistently impressive times in
the ACCs and the NCAAs.
But Suguiyama does confess
that thinking about the end of his
swimming career elicits conflicting
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Copland, one of the two candidates
slated to appear in a runoff, violat
ed the election code by distributing
campaign literature within 50 feet
of a poll site during the general
election.
Clark and Cox made the allega
tions before the runoff election was
held, although a Student Supreme
Court ruling allowed the election
to proceed. Copland won the
runoff, and the charge against him
was dismissed because it could not
be proven that the person who was
passing out the campaign material
was a Copland campaign worker
nor that he knew of her actions.
“At least in my instance, I had
won such a substantial plurality,”
Copland said Wednesday. “If 100
percent of the results of that
polling place had gone to my oppo
nents, I still would have led the
election.”
But Copland admitted that if the
1993 general election was as close
as this year’s run-off, the election’s
validity would have been put in
jeopardy by the allegation.
“The margin of victory is less
than the margin of error,” Copland
said of this year’s race.
Hildebolt said the ordeal in
1990 put a strain on his presiden
cy.
“It put a lot of pressure on stu
dent government,” he said. “It,
quite honestly, strained all facets of
the student government.”
emotions.
He said that swimming his last
competitive swimming race at the
Olympic trials will be a sad expe
rience, but added that he’s glad
he’ll be swimming his last race in
such a unique atmosphere.
“If you have done something as
long as a lot of us have, of course
it’s going to be sad because it has
become a part of who you are and
what you do on a daily basis,”
Suguiyama said. “Losing that in a
sense is going to be sad, but at the
same time, I’m excited about the
other opportunities I’ll have after
swimming.”
Because there is nothing beyond
college swimming for him besides
the Olympics, he wants to try to
pursue his other goals of graduate
school, law school or traveling.
Suguiyama excels not only in the
pool, but also in the classroom. He
has been on the Dean’s List every
year, making him the poster child
of a student-athlete.
Just getting invited to the
Olympic trials was no easy process,
and going to Athens requires plac
ing in the top two of a race at the
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In early April 1990, Hildebolt
faced the Undergraduate Hearings
Board for violations to the Code of
Student Conduct. At the time of
the trial, a source who wished to
remain unnamed because of prox
imity to student government said
the board found Hildebolt guilty
and censured him.
Hildebolt was able to take office
and serve his term, although he
admits that “chalkgate” affected his
credibility.
Hildebolt said that during his
term the executive branch was
forced to make concerted efforts to
improve relations with the student
body. “I think over time we rebuilt
that credibility, and we did it by
following through on campaign
promises and being very aggres
sive,” he said. “We lost warm bod
ies in the executive branch. We
went from an army to a division,
and that was a real shame.”
Hildebolt said it is important
that student government officials
remain aware of student interests
during the investigation.
“The one thing I would caution
people today as you go through this
process is to try to keep this in per
spective, to keep this in interest of
students,” he said. “Whatever hap
pens, the only damage done is the
damage done to themselves.”
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trials. In the 2000 trials, he fin
ished 34th in the 1,500 free and
48th in the 400 free.
With the amount of talent that
will be present in Long Beach,
Calif., during the Olympic trials,
it’s possible Suguiyama might not
make the cut to represent the
United States in Athens.
If so, he said he doesn’t antici
pate trying again for the 2008
games.
Not only might the Olympic tri
als be the last competitive swim
ming race of Suguiyama’s career
they also might end a chapter in
his life that has lasted for 15 years.
“I just look at it as my last go
around the block,” Suguiyama said.
“I've been swimming for so long,
and it’s something I love to do. I’m
not necessarily ready to give it up
but I do know that my career is
over here at Carolina.
“I’m just looking at it as a last
chance opportunity for me to swim
my best times and to swim as fast
as I think I can be.”
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INVESTIGATION
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on the proceedings.
“Our first priority is ensuring a
fair election,” board member
Megan Mitchell said. “It’s not the
public’s knowledge of what’s going
on. Basically I’m saying to back off”
Calabria and West both said
they were kept in the dark
Wednesday about the timetable
for the investigation and about
many aspects of the allegations
with which their respective cam
paigns are being charged.
The board refused Wednesday
to release both candidates’ finan
cial statements, even though
Anderson and other members
acknowledged that they are public
documents.
A candidate is disqualified auto
matically if his or her campaign
spending exceeds by 5 percent the
S4OO cap for the general election
or the SIOO cap for the runoff elec
tion. The campaign expenditures
include any fines levied as a result
of campaign violations.
Anderson said she was too busy
to make copies of the statements
and refused to let a reporter make
the copies.
Several former student body
president candidates said the
AUDIT
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system’s budget
He said the department now
completes internal studies and has
hired Kroll Inc., a risk consulting
company, to assess crisis and emer
gency plans.
“As time passes we can identify
funds if we think it becomes so
important,” Jarrell said. “But I
think we have more critical funding
issues at the moment than that”
Jarrell said most of the prob
lems identified with the accessing
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board’s inconsistent rulings and
vague sections of the Student Code
have made it difficult for candidates
to interpret and abide by election
laws throughout the campaign.
“I felt like there were a lot of
times where situations weren’t
made clear to us,” said former can
didate Matt Compton.“lt’s easy to
get confused, and I don’t think they
did very well reaching out to us.”
But Compton and other former
candidates noted that the sizable
campaign field and last minute
developments have presented
unprecedented challenges for the
board.
Both Calabria and West
expressed a strong desire for the
RESULTS
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ing is very dangerous,” he said. “If
you saw 1,000 students turnout,
I’d be surprised.”
But West said she hopes a re
election is not needed and
expressed a desire to have all alle
gations resolved in as timely a
manner as possible. West said that
she was disappointed and dis
heartened by rumors surrounding
the allegations but that she was not
entirely surprised that the final
result was so heated. “I knew going
of the system and the documenta
tion of software have been solved.
“There were just individual
items that have been somehow
overlooked,” he said. “In a place
that is big and complicated, that
would happen somewhere.”
Patterson said each of the find
ings auditors made pinpoint con
cerns with the security of the sys
tem. “If it wasn’t significant we sure
wouldn’t put it in there,” he said.
The report considered the five
other conditions, such as the phys
ical security and disaster recovery
plan, to be sufficient.
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election to end with a sound ruling
and an accurate and open account
ing of all the allegations.
“I hope this is cleared up pub
licly” West said. “This mess has
reinforced some of the negative
perceptions people have about stu
dent government.”
Calabria’s statements echoed
West’s comments. “There’s a dan
ger that in the absence of substan
tive information, the rumor mill is
ruling public opinion,” he said. “If
a special election is in the cards, a
vacuum of information could be
very dangerous.”
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in that I was dealing with people
who have have been on campaigns
before,” she said. “I knew a victory
would not go down easily and
would be contested.”
Both candidates chalked up the
extremely slim elections margin to
strong efforts from their staffs.
“It was a testament to both sides
that we both ran very hard and
very efficient campaigns,” Calabria
said. “It’s been a very close race and
very evenly matched.”
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Jarrell said he was pleased with
the results of the audit report and
did not find any disturbing items.
He said security standards are
being raised constantly in the
information systems field, and it is
a challenge to keep up.
“Anytime we find a defect, we
don’t just look at the defect, we
look at how it came to be,” he said.
“We try to put into action a process
that will prevent that happening in
the fixture.”
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