VOLUME 114, ISSUE 7
Duke professor declines deanship
SEARCH COMMITTEE TO RECONVENE SOON AFTER CHEMERINSKY SAYS ‘NO’
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BY BRIAN HUDSON
NEWS EDITOR
Erwin Chemerinsky refused
Thursday the University’s offer to be
the next dean of the School of Law,
sending the search process back to the
drawing board.
The Duke University law professor
had been in negotiations with admin
istrators this week, but he declined the
position, citing the University’s inability
to offer the resources he was seeking,
said Provost Robert Shelton.
The offer was not official and
Duke professor
Erwin
Chemerinsky
turned down an
unofficial offer.
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Family members of Keith Shawn Smith watch on during a candlelight vigil Thursday evening outside of Stacy Residence Hall, where Smith fell to his death last Friday.
LIVING ON THROUGH MEMORY
BY STEPHANIE NEWTON
ASSISTANT UNIVERSITY EDITOR
A death so sudden, so unexpected and
with nowhere to assign blame is a dif
ficult thing to make peace with.
Despite the more than 400 observers
clad in red for the memory of sopho
more Keith Shawn Smith at a sprawling
memorial tribute Thursday, many said
the outpouring was but a Band-aid on a
deep wound that would not soon heal.
“None of us can fill the void,” said junior
Sherea Burnett, a resident adviser on the
first floor of Aycock Residence Hall.
The University community and
Greensboro residents came together
Thursday night for a candlelight vigil to
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BY JACOB KARABELL
SENIOR WRITER
Long after the fans had filed
out of Carmichael Auditorium
after North
Carolina’s win
against Duke on
Saturday, Coach
Sylvia Hatchell
entered her
team’s seemingly
desolate locker
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room and found the big-screen
television on.
“Anybody here?” she called.
“I am,” someone replied.
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was not yet drawn up on paper, said
Shelton, who is charged with selecting
the dean.
“I think he didn’t feel he would have
the resources he wanted to realize his
vision for the law school,” said Mike
Smith, chairman of the dean search
committee.
Smith, who is dean of the School of
Government, said it is reasonable to
assume that Chemerinsky’s background
in private universities might have con
tributed to his decision, though he said
he believes it is a more complex issue.
honor Smith, the resident adviser who
died last week after falling from a third
story window in Stacy Residence Hall.
“It’s just sad to see somebody with all
these goals die,” said junior Dewhitney
Upchurch, a friend of Smith’s girlfriend,
Tiffani Neal.
“You don’t expect it to be one of your
own,” she continued. “It makes you real
ize your mortality real quick.”
While many came with ties to either
Smith or Neal, others participated with
out ever having known Smith.
“I’m just paying my respects,” fresh
man Orrin Carter said before the vigil.
Sophomore Kierson Robinson tied a
red ribbon around her candle on behalf
That voice came from junior
Camille Little, doing homework
and watching former UNC men’s
player —and boyfriend Marvin
Williams as his Atlanta Hawks
battled the Milwaukee Bucks.
Maybe Little has taken some tips
from the No. 2 pick in last June’s
NBA Draft. It might be as good a
reason as any for why the forward
has increased her scoring, since
neither Little nor Hatchell claim to
know the reason for the upsurge.
“Maybe (my shots are) falling
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“I felt the provost made a really gen
erous ... unprecedented offer. It didn’t
match up with Erwin Chemerinsky,”
he said.
“I respect his decision, that’s his
own judgment about what he felt was
necessary.”
Attempts to contact Chemerinsky
on Thursday were unsuccessful.
Shelton received a fax with news of
the decision about noon, and he sent
an e-mail to the law school faculty at
2:14 p.m. notifying them of the turn
of events.
of a friend grieving in Greensboro who
could not attend.
Some participated in the vigil because
of what they had learned about Smith’s
religious commitment.
“He was very grounded in his faith
from what I saw,” said junior Erica
Pigford, who read about Smith on face
book.com. “I thought that was very admi
rable, and I didn’t even know him.”
Winston Crisp, assistant vice chancellor
for student affairs, said he wished such a
profound student outpouring didn’t have
to find fruition at a time like this.
“To see all these people, to see all this
red and think first and foremost it’s a tes
tament to him,” he said.
UNC scholars go behind enemy lines
BY BETHANY BLACK
STAFF WRITER
Move over Dookies there’s a
new blue in Krzyzewskiville.
Surrounded by die-hard fans
at the famous Duke University
tent city, more than a dozen
UNC students are camping
out for admission to Saturday’s
Duke-UNC basketball game at
Cameron Indoor Stadium.
All of the students are mem
bers of the Robertson Scholars
Program, which grants full rights
and privileges at both Duke and
UNC. Although the students pri
marily attend one of the two uni
versities, they switch campuses
for the second semester of their
sophomore year.
“I’m really trying to get the
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In the e-mail he stated that he had
contacted Smith and asked him to
reconvene the search committee, so it
could offer advice on how to proceed.
The committee will meet next week,
Smith said, and one of the first steps will
be to reconsider the other two finalists.
Chemerinsky competed with Davison
Douglas, a professor at the College
of William and Mary, and Teresa
Roseborough, a partner at Sutherland,
Asbill & Brennan law firm in Atlanta.
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“It’s times like these that make you
realize why you wanted to be here in the
first place,” he added.
The vigil moved from the Pit, stretched
more than the length of Davis Library
and moved to the quad-facing entrance
of Stacy Residence Hall.
Smith’s supporters formed a horseshoe
around his family and took in the sights
and sounds of his life, exemplified by slide
shows, personal poetry readings, song,
spoken letters and humorous recollec
tions from Smith’s “Dictionary for Cool
People” to his insistence upon formulating
a business plan for political science major
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Duke experience while I’m here,
and this is sort of the epitome of
the Duke experience,” said Katie
Macpherson, a sophomore jour
nalism major from Rochester,
N.Y.
They are attending the game
technically as Duke students, but
these students plan on cheering
the Tar Heel boys.
“I’ll get to see what being a
Cameron Crazy is all about, but
of course I’ll be cheering for
Carolina.”
The Robertson scholars are
camping out" in two tents in
Krzyzewskiville, which Duke
students create each spring
to gain admission to the UNC
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MARCH 3,1961 ...
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Towns,
gown
gather
to talk
Carolina North
group convened
BY BRIANNA BISHOP
CIJY EDITOR
Before it can guide the University
in its future development, the
leadership advisory committee for
Carolina North decided that it first
needs some guidelines of its own.
At the first meeting of the
University’s newest planning entity
Thursday, the 25 group members
present outlined exactly how they
would approach the next year.
In an address from Chancellor
James Moeser, the committee
received its charge to be a body
that drafts guiding design prin
ciples for the satellite campus.
“The question for this
committee is not whether ... but
how,” Moeser said.
“Having guiding principles can
be a steppingstone for ideas that
unite us,” he added.
Member Douglas Crawford-
Brown, director of the Carolina
Environmental Program, asked
whether the group could be recon
vened after the final designs are
made to see if its principles are
properly integrated.
Moeser replied that he was not
ready to answer that at this time.
The chancellor briefly talked
about the Horace Williams air
port, which sits on the site and
has largely held up planning dis
cussions to this point.
Officials plan to close the air
port when beginning site work,
relocating the N.C. Area Health
Education Centers to the Raleigh-
Durham International Airport.
His statements drew questions
from committee members as to
whether the University had clear
ance from the General Assembly
and if officials had been in conver
sation with RDU authority.
“That’s our problem to solve,”
Moeser said. “Assume that the air
port is not an issue, and we have
this land mass to deal with.”
The N.C. General Assembly has
been unable to reach a consensus
on the airport —with last session’s
budget bills differing on UNC’s
request for closure.
Other discussion Thursday
centered on fixing rules for future
meetings.
The council decided that it
would not hold formal votes.
Rather, group members will try to
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