VOLUME 112, ISSUE 47
Research center debate to hit climax
DIFFERENCES AMONG BILLS,
BOG’S POWER IN QUESTION
BY CHRIS COLETTA
STATE & NATIONAL EDITOR
The N.C. House approved $338
million in funding last week for
research centers across the UNC
system, but the move likely will
bring about more questions than
answers.
School of
Journalism
to add post
Position to be created from
anonymous S3M donation
BY LIZZIE STEWART
STAFF WRITER
After an anonymous $3 million donation to UNC’s
School of Journalism and Mass Communication, the
school will use the money to create one of the largest
professorships in the University.
“It’s a splendid thing for the school,” said Richard
Cole, dean of the journalism school and namesake for
the professorship.
The endowment is the largest
in the school’s history, Cole said,
and UNC now has the nation’s
only journalism school with a $3
million professorship.
The Richard Cole Eminent
Professorship will allow the jour
nalism school to spend 5 percent
of the donation or $150,000
toward rewarding faculty mem
bers or recruiting other distin
guished professors.
Thomas Bowers, associate dean
for the journalism school, said as
the donation generates interest it
J-School Dean
Richard Cole
will have a
professorship
named for him.
will allow the school to supplement a professor’s
salary or pay for research expenses.
The journalism school will be able to glean from
the endowment for years to come, he said.
“The professorship will stay in the school forever,”
Cole said.
Bowers said that since Cole is stepping down as
dean in 2005 after holding the position 26 years
it was appropriate to name the professorship after
him.
“I think it’s wonderful that he’s being honored that
way” he said.
Since Cole has been dean, the journalism school
has seen enrollment grow from 265 juniors and sen
iors to more than 1,000.
In addition, the number of faculty members in the
school has increased from 12 to 44.
Under his tenure as dean, the school also started
three new sequences in which students can focus
their studies: electronic communication, visual com
munication and public relations.
The donor, who chose to remain anonymous,
wanted to honor what Cole has done for the journal
ism school at the University.
“I am humbled and honored at what the donor
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Council approves Master Plan changes
Little debate on proposed alterations
BY BRIAN HUDSON
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
UNC officials received unani
mous approval June 14 from the
Chapel Hill Town Council to make
changes to the University’s devel
opment plan.
Town Council members gave
the go-ahead for the modifications
last week. They will allow for sev
eral new projects, including the
construction of a 10,000-square
foot addition to Morehead
Planetarium, a 600-space addition
to the Bell Tower parking deck and
a 28,000-square-foot expansion of
Fetzer Gymnasium.
Kevin MacNaughton, special
assistant for capital projects, said
UNC officials are glad the propos
als were approved.
“Well, we were certainly
pleased, although it didn’t come as
a big surprise because we had
come through all the town’s com
mittees,” he said, explaining that
officials had received positive reac
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House greenlighted plans June 17
to allot money to five projects. But
only two of those plans have been
approved by the system’s Board of
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Terrell's Creek Missionary Baptist Church overflowed with the friends and family of murdered 24-year-old DeMarcus Smith on Tuesday afternoon. Smith died the
evening of June 17 from a single gunshot to the chest. After exhaustive investigations, Jimmy Ray Goldston Jr. was arrested and charged with first-degree murder.
FAMILY, FRIENDS
MOURN MURDERED SON
Officer’s son Ist murder victim since 2002
BY MICHAEL PUCCI
AND JOSEPH R. SCWHARTZ
SENIOR WRITERS
By the time DeMarcus Smith’s
funeral service began Tuesday after
noon, mourners already had filled
Terrell’s Creek Missionary Baptist
Church to capacity.
Hundreds of friends and family
members formed a line extending well
beyond the church doors to pay respects
to a promising young life that ended
abruptly last week.
tions from those committees.
Council members also
approved the construction of an
N.C. Clinical Cancer Center
Physicians Office Building on
Manning Drive, an addition to the
Center for the Study of the
American South at 410 E.
Franklin St., and a proposal to
scrap plans for a 600-space park
ing deck and air-conditioning
chiller plant to be located in the
Science Complex.
The Council members’ decision
came with little debate, which con
trasts with similar discussions last
year to modify the University’s
Development Plan.
Proposals to erect a parking
deck and chiller plant near the Old
Chapel Hill Cemetery and
Gimghoul Road neighborhood led
to contention among Town
Council members and the
University last year.
The plans were accepted by the
Town Council in a 6-2 vote in
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showdown as the chambers try to
reconcile their differences.
“They haven’t even started nego
tiating,” said Amy Fulk, spokes
woman for Senate leader Marc
Basnight, D-Dare.
“We still have to do the floor vote
on the Senate side for the budget,
and then we’re going to need to get
together with the House ... and
work out our differences.”
The plans passed by the House
include SIBO million for anew
The 24-year-old, known affectionate
ly as “D,” was murdered the evening of
June 17 outside an apartment building
at 1105 N.C. 54. He was not a resident of
the apartment complex.
Smith’s murder was the first in
Chapel Hill in more than two years. The
victim of a single gunshot to the chest,
he was pronounced dead on arrival at
UNC Hospitals.
“I want to say to the young people,
‘Put the guns down,’” said the Rev. Brian
E. Wright during his eulogy. “Put them
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Chapel Hill Town Council unanimously approved a 10,000-square-foot
addition to the Franklin Street side of Morehead Planetarium on June 14.
August after months of debate.
Some council members character
ized the University as bullying the
town.
“A gun is being held over our
head,” Council member Ed
Harrison said in August.
cancer center at UNC-Chapel Hill;
S6O million for a heart and stroke
center at East Carolina University;
$35 million each for a bioinfor
matics center at UNC-Charlotte
and a center on health and well
ness at UNC-Asheville; and S2B
million for a pharmacy school at
Elizabeth City State University.
The Senate’s plan, on the other
hand, approved the UNC-CH and
ECU centers, which were the two
approved by the BOG last school
down.... Kick the drugs out.”
Among those in attendance at the
funeral service were members of Smith’s
1998 Chapel Hill High School graduat
ing class, who served as pallbearers, as
well as a multitude of religious leaders,
prompting Wright to muse, “You would
think a preacher had died, the number
of ministers who are here.”
Following an exhaustive investiga
tion during which numerous residents
of the apartment and witnesses were
interviewed, police arrested Jimmy Ray
Goldston Jr. on Friday morning and
charged him with first-degree murder.
Officers obtained a gun, thought to
MacNaughton said these issues
caused much less disagreement.
“Last time there were issues that
were more controversial in nature,”
MacNaughton said.
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year. Basnight has been reluctant
to agree to any new plans for fears
that the legislature’s advance
approval would take away from the
BOG’s decision-making powers.
“If you just add projects at the
legislative level, regardless of how
worthwhile they are, you threaten
the process that has been put in
place for the leaders of the univer
sity system to review and scrutinize
these projects,” Fulk said.
But Black, the Democratic co
UNC subcontractor
files for bankruptcy
BY BRIAN HUDSON
UNIVERSITY EDITOR
Southern Site Environmental,
a subcontractor hired for the
demolition of UNC’s Medical
Sciences Research Building, filed
for bankruptcy protection after
not receiving full payment for
their services, company officials
claim.
Tim Gabriel, the company’s
project manager for the endeav
or, said that later this week the
company will be filing at least a
$1 million lawsuit related to both
the payment disputes and allega
tions that the work site was haz
ardous to the workers.
“The lawsuit is based on failure
of the University to provide a
clean building based on the con
tract,” Gabriel said, “delays in the
performance of our job because of
the state of the building, and the
hazardous materials in place.”
He said, according to its con
tract SSE workers were not to be
exposed to hazardous materials.
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speaker from Mecklenburg
County, has insisted from the
beginning on a bill that would
include all five plans. His spokes
woman, Julie Robinson, said that’s
still the case.
“We remain hopeful that we
can work out the differences and
we can pass a bill that includes
funding for all five,” she said.
She added that Black believes the
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be the murder weapon, but have yet to
determine a motive.
Goldston, 24, is being held at Orange
County Jail without bond. A prelimi
nary hearing is slated for Monday.
“Anytime we have a honjicide, it
being a smaller community, it has a
great impact on everyone,” said Chapel
Hill police spokeswoman Jane Cousins.
Smith is survived by his parents,
Bobby and Deborah, and two children,
DeMarcus Jr. and Tyiiyah.
“I watched DeMarcus grow up, and I
certainly knew him as one who knows
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Gabriel also said the University
failed to account for the compa
ny’s conditional costs incurred
because of delays, which amount
to several hundred thousand dol
lars.
He said company officials want
to sue both the University and
TA. Loving, the University’s con
tractor because, Gabriel said, “in
our opinion there was a conspir
acy and a violation of federal law
and a violation of state law.”
Peter Reinhardt, UNC’s direc
tor of environment, health and
safety said he is confident that
UNC took all appropriate steps to
provide a safe environment.
“All that work was done prior
to the interior demolition by
SSE,” he said. “Furthermore, they
were specifically told not to go
near those containers.
“They should not have been
exposed to any hazardous waste.”
SSE came under scrutiny
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